McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, October 16, 1992 Page: 1 of 12
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Writing Incentive winner
Andrew Stone tells us how
he discovered his own
potential at the keyboard
VOL.LXX NO. 5
Members of the McMuny
Theatre Department bring
"Wiley and the Hairy Man"
to life at Homecomlng.f
Staffers perused old issues
to see If college life is any
different than it was in the
Good Old Days.
Craig Gilbert checks out
the Grace Cultural Center
museum in downtown
Abilene.
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Memories rekindled memories in the making
BY SEAN G.BAKER
Even though the early date may
keep away that crisp chill that we all
associate with Homecoming the ac-
tivities that make up the agenda for
Homecoming 1992promisesawcckcnd
of excitement and tradition. Hundreds
of former students from the school's
seven decades of rich history will be
coming back to the campus to capture
the feeling of being students again.
Current students will be lending their
talents to a brood spectrum of activities
on the football field in the band at
Tepee Village at the dance. Memories
of the post will mingle with memories
in the making.
Thurs. Oct IS students faculty
and alumni will gather together at Wah
Wahtaysee Pork around 5:30 pan. for
the Sunset Ceremony. The Sunset
Ceremony is a long-standing tradition
involving all the campus leaders from
the president of the university to the
football cqaches all the way down to
the freshman class president Accen-
tuating the ceremony our mascot will
shoot an arrow which upon hitting the
ground marks the beginning of
Homecoming. The social clubs work
through the night erecting their tepees
and the alliums spend their time re-
uniting in friendship.
Fri.Oct 16at9ajn. the call "forel"
will alert all within hearing distance as
alumni and friends club away on the
fairways during their annual golf tour-
ney. Also open at 9 a.m. Friday is the
bookstore so all visitors may purchase
mementoes of their favorite organiza-
tion or bumper stickers which denote
where their offspring and their money
have relocated.
The children's play given by the
McMurry Theatre Department in
Radford Auditorium "Willy and the
Hairy Man" will be snowing every
hour on the hour starting at 9 a.m. and
ending at 1 p.m. All children (and
probably some adults and parents too)
will wont to attend this fun spectacle.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending
at 5 p.m. all pedestrians in the area will
want to be especially careful that they
don't get run over by big yellow buses.
At the same time in Tepee Village all
social clubs will be representing their
respective tribes and will be giving short
presentations to each of the children's
classes which will tour the event
The alumni will wont to register in
the Campus Center from 9 ajn. to 6
part so thcycan be sure of their schedule
pf events as well as providing an up
date to the office of alumni's flics.
The Snack Bar in the Campus
Center will be having a "Happy Days"
moltshop where all alumni and students
can get together to talk about how the
more things change the more they stay
the some. The Snack Bar will be ser-
vicing from 9 ajn. until 2 pjn.
For all interested in a smattering of
contemporary and traditional harmo-
nies one may visit the Chanter's con-
cert in the Ryan Fine Arts Center from
2-2:45 pjn. The Chanters this year are
instructed by Mr. Nick White a graduate
of Cambridge University in England.
Come see how his background has
furthered the lyrical precision of
McMurry's finest voices.
The classes of 1942 1950-1952
will gather in the Campus Center lounge
from 5-5:30 p.m. for the 40th and 50th
class reunion reception. Current stu-
dents are encouraged to listen in on
some of the likely incredible stories our
past graduates may tell. While these
students were attending classes the
1940s and 1950s saw transitions from
the uncertainty and hope of World War
II to the jubilant rise of Rock'N'Roll
and the developing international sus-
picion and mistrust that lead to the Cold
War. From 5:30-7:30 p.m. the classes
of 1950 1951 and 1952 will be at-
tending their 40th class reunion dinner
in the Campus Center Mabee Room.
Also at that time the class of 1942 will
attend their 50th class reunion dinner in
the Dining Hall Banquet Room.
Between 8 and 9:30 p.m. the
Homecoming Show and Coronations
will be held in Radford Auditorium.
The show will include various student
organizations performing songs and acts
from the 50s. As well there will be a
slideshowinvolvingclass favorites and
Homecoming Royalty after which the
winners in each category will be an-
nounced. Afterward a guest speaker
from an Indian Nation will address the
audience followed by Native American
Drum Corps. The show concludes with
a convergence of all campus leaders
who will beat the campus drum and
then carry it outside where the pulse
willnotccaseuntilkickoffofthefootbill
gomes the next day. Tradition dictates
that if the beat stops or is interrupted
the team will lose its game.
At 9:40 p.m. all eyes will turn to
the bonfire at Wah Wahtaysee Patk.
The McMurry bonfire is a signuture
tradition dependent upon and upheld
greatly by the freshman class. The
freshman class president absorbs the
duties of tracking down firewood for
the bonfire and coordinating members
of the freshman class to deliver the
firewood to McMurry arranging it in
the pit in accordance with Fire Marshal
regulations. In addition to that the
freshman class president must gather
enough wood for the individual camp-
fires of all the social clubs for two
nights. The moment of truth for fresh-
man occurs when the bonfire is lit and
the efforts of another freshman class go
upinsmokct Immediately following a
pep rally for the football game is directed
by the cheerleaders held under the stars
by the light of the bonfire.
The rest of Friday night includes
social clubs putting finishing touches
on their tepees and planning strategies
for tepee judging the next day while
never relinquishing the ability to have a
good time.
Saturday Oct 17 activities dawn
at 7 ajn. when the McMurry 5000 Road
Race is run around the campus area.
ending at Indian Stadium. It is a 5K or
three mile road race.
For those alumns unable to make
the Friday registration from 8:30 ajn.
to 12:30 pjn. another Alumni registra-
tion will be held in the Campus Center.
The McMurry Women's Club
plans to hold a faculty and alumni coffee
from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Campus
Center lounge. This allows the alums
and the faculty to compare (among other
things) the excuses they used for miss-
ing classes with those used today.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m. andending
at 2 p.m. visitors ore encouraged to use
the maps they received at registration
for a walk around campus in order to
roacquaint themselves with or to intro-
duce new visitors to the McMurry
surroundings. During that time all are
encouraged to visit the art exhibit at
Jay-Rollins Library which includes
works by McMurry faculty and alumni.
Anyone who hasn't heard of Joe
Allen's Barbecue (and even those who
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A NAME OF DISTINCTION- for sixty-nine years McMurry has
stood at the comer of South 14th and Sayles performing Its
mission of value-centered education. Photo by Vann .
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