The Birds And The Bees

HOMECOMING STUFFING
Jeannie Brandstetter. stuffs the
wire frame of the Alpha Gamma
Rho Homecoming float .
ALUMNI VOICES
Music alumni . including 1986 distinguished alumnus Don Crutchfield of Nashville and Donna Herndon . join together in the traditional
halftime song with current
students.
QUEEN AND HER COURT
The Hommecoming court Tonya
Turner. Valerie Fister. Amy Roser • .
Monica Hobbs and Rochea Perry
pose for a photo after the announcement of the queen . Roser.
of Carmi. III .• was chosen as queen
by popular student vote.
Even though it rained at Homecoming,
the wildlife theme was more than
The Birds And The Bees
By Diana Kingsbury
w
ildlife at MSU"
Even Grand Marshal Ray a positive attitude.
The wildlife artist from Alwas the theme Harm, who had a very good
of the 1986 reason to be very upset, kept buquerque, N.M., a couple of
Homecoming.
Some returning alumnir-------------------------------------------------~
may have thought that it
dealt with social activities of
the campus.
But the theme had nothing
to do with the style of student life. It dealt with something else equally familiar to
most students, faculty, alumni and friends - real wildlife
as in birds, deer, lakes and
trees.
Despite the worries of
some people about possible
bad connotations, Susan
Zimmerman, UeB Homecoming committee chair, said
nothing got out of hand and
people respected what the
theme intended to portray.
Allen Hill
Charles Leroy Eldrid ge makes a
LITTLE RACER SUPPORTERS
"Students and the commupoint about support of lillie
Driving a pony-pulled cart in
nity took everything ver
Racers.
the Homecoming parade .
positively," she said.
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days prior to the parade, lost
his house and most of his
original prints in a fire.
" It was really great that he
came anyway," said Zimmerman.
Donna Herndon, the director of Alumni Affairs, said,
"It said so much about this
man, that even in the light of
such overwhelming personal
tragedy, he came anyway."
Through the sale of a series
of Harm's prints called the
Winter Feeder prints and
through private sources, a
scholarship was set up to
honor the artist. The scholarship will be awarded to art
students.
The one major problem encountered at Murray State
during Homecoming had
nothing to do with the theme
or with the participants, but
was, in fact, nature-related.
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