Born in 1944, Winfield “Chip” Earl Hall III will be remembered first and foremost as a good friend. He was such a good friend that I considered him an older brother.
We first met sometime between the late ’70s and early ’80s when Chip was living at Beta, a unit next door to Devereux Hall. Chip had a feisty character with a larger-than-life personality. He loved John Wayne and Elvis Presley.
Chip and I were a dynamic duo — a pair of rabble-rousers and troublemakers. We would hit the town, going to different restaurants and coffee shops, making friends and leaving impressions wherever we went. Though I would encourage Chip to go somewhere new, he loved going to McDonald’s. There, Chip and I would drink coffee, Chip would smoke a cigarette or two, and we would laugh and reminisce about times past.