Domer Survey Feedback Issue #2

Volume 2 No. 9B

February 15 1998

DOMER SURVEY FEEDBACK TO THE FEEDBACK CONTINUES with contributions from the following alumni: Peter Baci, Tom Connors, Carl Hausheer, Bill McMullen, and Dan Winters.

(1986) "I am very familiar with the term and remember being referred to and referring to ourselves as Domers right from indoctrination week on. In fact didn't the school name one of the tugs the "DOMER ?"

That is correct. BILL LINDMAN, Class of 1973 and Director of Small Vessel Operations, confirms that in 1983 the college had a Navy tug, never put into service, which we named DOMER. (Ed.)

(1986) "I never had a problem with it myself and often thought that if I started my own maritime related business that "Domer Marine" would be a good name because it would be recognized by most Fort Schuyler and therefore attract business." (Others have had the same thought. In the 1997 Alumni Directory there is a DOME-TECH ENGINEERING in the company listings)

(1979) "Speaking of domes-- Here in London they are building a millennium dome. Yes, a cruise ship pier will be built nearby that can host domers. Here is the millennium photo opportunity. Imagine for the year 2000 the cruise ship EMPIRE STATE at the Greenwich Millennia dome and domers wandering about the zero meridian on the millennium (or would it be domers crossing the naught longitude.)"

(1967) "The common thread seems to be "post-1970." As a 1967 grad, I never heard of the term until 1973 from DON SEAMAN '71 when he gave me a T-shirt with "Domers" on it. The explanation was "living in an enclosed dome, i.e. separated from the rest of the world."

(1964) " ..I can affirm that I believe that the "Dome" is that of the observatory or planetarium. I was working at Kings Point from 1981- 1995 and early in that time period, MARK HUBER, a Fort Schuyler alum on the faculty at KP, referred to Throgs Neck Tech (another name for the college that I am sure you have heard) graduates as Domers. I recall that moment vividly as the image that flashed into my mind first was a "Conehead" character from Saturday Night Live in uniform - why I first thought that requires additional and perhaps deep analysis. Next, however, I "saw" the dome on the roof in my mind and imagined that Mark had referred to that."

(1964) "Fitting in right between my comrades in the classes of 1963 and 1965, I must agree with them that I never heard the school called the "Dome." It probably was called a lot of things back then, especially by Kings Pointers, but I don't ever recall hearing it called the "Dome." But the etymology of the term is interesting nonetheless."