Range Rider, Volume 32, Number 4, December, 1981 Page: 1
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is an ac'Forties' Focus For February Fling
Crowded Homecoming schedule awaits returneesYou can watch drama, basketball, baseball, musical perfor-
mances, and people. You can eat pastries, barbecue, at a dinner
theatre and cookies or chew the fat. You can see old professors, new
professors, the University Queen, the Coming Home Queen, old ball
layers, new ball players, and ex-students in all shapes and colors.
ou can have good times, fun, enjoyment, a light heart, variety,
quiet conversations, amplified talk-a-thons, and more.
What you can do is come to Homecoming 1982.
The spotlight on Feb. 19-20 will be on everyone who graduated
from HSU in the 1940's (any year in the 1940's) and the classes of
1957 (the 25-year class) and 1972 (10 years already!) -but the rest-
of the stage won't be dark. Any ex-student will find a special spot set
aside to sit and visit with former classmates (the groupings will be bydecades) during the 9-10:30 a.m. slot on Saturday specially
designated for class reunions.
The activities get underway on Friday with registration 1-5 p.m. in
Ellis Center and a dinner theatre production at Van Ellis Theatre
starting at 6 p.m. At 9:30 p.m. the homecoming bonfire will be lit.
Saturday will offer a spectrum of activities from 9 a.m. until 10:30
p.m.
So there are the options-enjoy them all or savor a favorite few.
Make plans now to attend and contact the Alumni Office (Drawer K,
HSU Station, Abilene, 79698 or call 915-677-7281, ext. 317 for
reservations.
We'll miss you if you aren't here-but you'll miss all the fun.To Give Thanks is an act of faith.
To Return Thanks is being polite.
Hardin-Simmons University feels the need to express
thanks both in faith and in good manners at this busy time
between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Isn't it interesting that we have a special emphasis on
our gratitude to God a month before we celebrate his
greatest gift to us-Jesus Christ? But, when you think
about it, that is highly appropriate, not reversed. Because
it is when we are confronted with a gift that overwhelms
and completely outmans our ability to appreciate it
enough that we need to start saying "thank you" even
before the gift is available.
" " HSU is an exciting place these winter days. There is a
feeling that we are standing once again at a point where
the flow of tradition and support from the past is converg-
ing with the flow of bright promise of the years unfolding
in front of us. We sense the electricity of what has already
been done and what will be done.
"God must love Hardin-Simmons," President Jesse C.
Fletcher is fond of saying, "For it to have survived and
thrived through such a perilous history."
And we do feel loved-by God and by God's people.
So we want to say "thanks" for the public and private
prayers in behalf of HSU that were offered in 1981 and
will be offered in 1982. And "thanks" for the contribu-
tions of time, and expertise and financial support that
paid our way in 1981--and will provide for us in 1982.
And "thanks" for having been our friends and for being
our friends.
We have lots of faith that there will be many, many
things to be grateful for in 1982. So we are already saying
thank you. And with a history of support such as we have
enjoyed for more than 90 years, we are experienced at
being polite.
Thank you each and every one.of
faith
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