I'm very much looking forward to visiting class tomorrow, and I've enjoyed very much your moving blogs, reflections, poems, mementos.  Your class assignments reminded me of my graduate student days at UNM.  I took an architecture class with Chris Wilson and wrote a reflection on Zimmerman Library.  Here's a small excerpt from that reflection, just to share a small part of my journey to becoming an academic in my home town:

Zimmerman Library continues to set the architectural limits of UNM’s burgeoning campus, and it remains the focal point of student activity.  Its visionary, John Gaw Meem, is the godfather of the state’s revivalist movement, and his work attests to the contradictory production of New Mexican history.  While Meem sought to maintain harmony with the state’s landscape and its indigenous cultures, he also (inadvertently, perhaps) produced a hybrid, modernist architectural movement.  Meem’s masterpiece, Zimmerman, marks a post-modern moment in the 1930s where pre-modern techniques came into contact with the modern industrial era.  The library attempted to erase its own colonial moment by refurbishing the campus look—from red bricks to pueblo revival—and in the process produced a contradictory cultural movement that continues to (re)define the narratives that shape the state’s history.  Indeed, Meem’s success is so pronounced in the state that beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, “developers began copying the most superficial characteristics of Pueblo Revival when turning out tract homes, offices and even airports, thus turning a style that started out as a curiosity into one intrinsically linked with the Southwest” (Eauclaire 28).  Meem’s Zimmerman Library spurred one of the most popular and lasting cultural movements in New Mexico’s architectural history.