Abilene Christian College - Prickly Pear Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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GATAs take two divisions By the Light of the Galaxy Moonw the women of Ko Jo Kai portrayed lady astronauts trying to operate the space shuttle Columbia. mShuttle Calling Houston: We are experiencing technical difficulties' or 'How do you Drive This Thing'?' ii was their theme. Delta Theta, dressed as angels, concluded the women's division with The Metamorphosis of Mephistophelesf, With halos and devils, tails, the club sang, The angel in your arms this morning, is going to be the devil in someone elseis arms tonight. The men of Frater Sodalis opened the menis competition dressed as flies, and won first place awards in all three categories A vocals, costume and originality. The Frat flies buzzed through songs like We Don't Need No Fumigation, We Don't Need No Pest Control,', and All the Flys in California are Dead on the Ground in Beverly Hills. Posed as striking air traffic controllers and baseball players, the men of Galaxy sang f'Strike Me, Strike Me. Blaming President Ronald Reagan for their unemployment, they sang, Let's talk salary W let me hear your lawyer talkf, Centurion, in its third Sing Song performance, stuck together as Siamese twins and placed se- cond in vocal. They sang Follow We Where I Go,', then with a costume change separated and sang It's a Miracle. This page: top - Delta Theta performs as devilish angelsg bottom - Dee Dee White and Sally Cole become signal lights for Sigma Theta Chi's performance. Opposite page: top left - Melissa Molina, a chocolate Md'tM, performs with Kappa Delian Shrig top right - Joy Palvado is a GATA girl scouting boys of Americag bottom left - Ready for takeoff the women ofKo Jo Kai command Columbiag bottom right - Zeta Rho Alpha sings about the pro- blems of trash cans. 24 Sing Song xiii Agn? 'S , .t ,QQ if ,X .s fl F ftXgA 'E Ali'

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Sing Songsters take a ard The winter blahs at ACU? No, that problem was cured in 1957 when an activity known as Sing Song was prescribed. Since then Sing Song has become a major production involving thousands of people and man hours. Each person's four-minute participation on stage required many long hours of nightly practices, sear- ches for costume makers, frantic purchases of tickets for parents in the nose bleed section of Moody Coliseum and searches for motel reservations. The theme for the 26th annual Sing Song was Command Performance. Sing Song coordinator John Duty and co-chairmen Roxy Halekakis, senior business education major from Eagle Pass, and Jon Howard, junior bankingffinance major from Tex- arkana, chose the theme in honor of Dr. William J. Teague's inauguration that weekend. Duty, the co- chairmen, the hosts and hostesses produced the Friday night, Saturday afternoon and evening performances Feb. 19 and 20. The three shows resulted in some unusual occurrences. One club was dismissed entirely from the program, another club sang longer than the four-minute limit each nightg one class complained about another class that used a similar special effect from the previous yearg and an audience member fell and was injured. The excitement of Sing Song was dampened somewhat Friday night when a 42-year-old Abilene man fell down several steps in the coliseum. Bill Love, 1535 Oak St., cut his head and broke his elbow in the fall. This page: Nancy Chester and Dita Keesee perform the theme from Fame with the freshmen ushers. Opposite page: top - the hostesses join hosts John Muns and David Baker in the Oak Ridge Boys' hit EIvira ,' bottom left - The hosts and hostesses entertain with the romantic Berkeley Square ,' bottom right - With friends in hand, John Muns and David Baker sing a barbershop quartet. Members of the junior class also claimed they were injured. They filed a complaint with Duty charging the freshman class with taking their finale, a costume change to form a Texas flag, from the juniors' 1981 performance. Duty and the co- chairmen overruled the complaint, and the show went on. Between each groupis four-minute presentation, the hosts and hostesses, provided a variety of musical entertainment. Hosts David Baker, senior public relations major from Dallas, and John Muns, senior marketing major from Plano, combined their talents with those of hostesses Nancy Chester, senior radio-television major from Austin, and Dita Keesee, junior music major from Lubbock, to sing songs from the pop and country charts. From upbeat songs like Fantasy and Boy from New York Cityf, to the more mellow tunes of Sail- ingn and Berkeley Squaref, the foursome proved their musical versatility. Halfway through each perfor- mance the hosts, hostesses, freshman ushers and the jazz ensemble filled the coliseum with balloons and vibrations of the song Fame In the women's social club competition, the women of GATA found their Thrill of ACU Hill as Girls Scout Boys of America. Then the GATA Boy Scouts transformed into brides who always get their man. The club won first in originality and costume and second in vocal. The women of Zeta Rho Alpha performed as a trash can for the count and Can-Cann girls. The black and gray garbage cans sang the importance of trash collectors and the respect due them. The Kappa Delian Shri women melted in the au- dienceis heart, not in its hands, dressed as M8LM candies. Costumed in brown, yellow, green and orange, they sang tribute to the chocolate candies. Not stopping for any red lights in the competition, Sigma Theta Chi dressed as yellow traffic lights and received awards for first place in vocal and second place in costume. Sing Song 23

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