university announced.Matt Ripa, a lecturer and operations coordinator for drama and music at the Catholic University of America, was decluttering a space in the Hartke building when he stumbled across the precious “Wizard of Oz” costume.While he was cleaning, Ripa spotted a trash bag on top of a set of mailboxes and was curious as to what was inside. To his surprise, it was a shoebox containing the blue-and-white dress.“I couldn’t believe it,” Ripa said in the blog post.