Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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Harry Henderson can't understand why getting up at 6:00 is such a pain inthe neck. In high school, spring practice meant getting up at 6:00, too, but in high school he didn't spend his days as he does at HSU. His roommate pulls the covers off . .. Get up you lazy G4ffCf0t'8tCQ4fl!, or you'll be late for breakfast. CSporty doesn't take kindly to his men missing their morning meal.j 6:05 - a quick cold shower starts the day for Harry Henderson. Harry is probably from a small town in Arkansas, and even more probable he has lived in Arkansas the better part of his twenty years. Harry drives a pick-up truck with a CB antenna on the cab, or the family car which was given him. He probably played lots of sports in high school, and is a FRE. major or Business major with a P.E. minor. Harry listens to Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker when he is with the guys, and Fleetwood Mac or Bob Seeger when he is with a girl. Harry loves pizza, hamburgers, an occasional beer, Amy, girls, the River , fraternity parties, an occasional beer, the Union at noon, cutting classes, and , . . an occasional beer. Harry wouldn't mind taking a girl on a regular date, but discovered as a sophomore that if he calls a girl at 6:45 on a Friday night, chances are she'll go to Hot Springs with him at 7:15. Unless he is hung up on ,a girl at OBU, in which case he calls her the night before. Harry is really impressed if a girl asks him to a sorority function, although he could never let his friends know that tunless his friend is a good friend of the girl.j 6:15 - The razor is dragged haphazardly over the stubble of a beard, and wet hair is half-combed in place. A pair of worn Levi's are dug out of a pile in a corner, and a faded frat jersey is pulled on. 6:30 - Harry and his roommate pick up their books and head for the Caddo, and Sporty's roll list. Breakfast consists of pancakes and syrup, orange juice, toast, eggs ttwo helpingsj bacon, milk, and maybe some cereal. After all, he is a growing boy, and going through spring practice. At breakfast hejdiscusses whom was with whom at Amy the night before, and why he wasn't with so-and-so, how in the world he was going to talk his accounting prof into dropping off a few of the absences piled inthe roll book and spare his grade, and who he wanted to go out with Friday night to the frat party. 7:45 - he grabs his books and heads for class. Classes are as usual . . . same lectures, same notes, same seats by the window. At 1:00 he is finished with the educational aspect of his day . . . that is, class-wise. In an hour Harry has to report to Wells for football spring practice. That leaves time for a quick nap. 5:45 - Practice is over, and it is a tired Harry that trudges to the Caddo with his fleet of fellow jocks. Same goulosh, same soybean burgers, same colas, same group of girls who wait until the last minute to eat so they can sit with the guys 6:15 - back to the dorm to decide what to do the rest of the evening. There is that term paper that is in desperate need of library research. But a trip to Hot Springs proves to be much more exciting and profitable, Tonight it is the Fiesta Club. Good music, quarter beer night, and familiar faces . . . and a date is made for Friday night with a girl he has never seen before but silently declares he loves. . . 12:30 -the road back to Arkadoo seems endless as Harry eagerly awaits the comfort of his bed. 1:15 - Back at the dorm, Harry sees the pile of books which await him, and tosses them out of his mind as easily as he tosses them off his bed. Sleep is too important now, as he sets his alarm for 6:00. 1:50 - The phone rings. It is one of Harry's off-campus friends, with the sound of music, loud voices, and laughter in the background. lt seems that a party has started at his trailer, and could Harry get some of the guys together for a poker game? Harry has no difficulty fulfilling the request. 3:45 -the chips have been counted, the cards laid down, and Harry and comrades et alreturn to campus, once again to go to sleep. This time for good. A Day in the Life!15

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AD Y THE LIFE... Just what does the average Henderson State University student do with his time when he is not in class? From the time the 'ol alarm clock rings until it is wound up again for another night's sleep, his hours are spent in a variety of leisure and working activities. But these activities differ from day to day, and male-female. Herein is a day in retrospect . . . A DAY IN THE LIFE... In the muffled webs of her mind somewhere around a million light years away an irritating ringing keeps sounding through her room. A slowly moving hand with unsteady fingers reaches for the button and releases the insistant bell from its duty. 6:45 - another day has begun in the life of Kathy College at Henderson State University. Chances are Kathy College is from a small town in Arkansas, with a small high school graduating class. She has probably spent most of her life within Arkansas. She likes pizza and Coke, loves to date ialthough she noticed the boys at college are not the dating typej, and drives either the family car or the small economy vehicle given to her for high school graduation. Jeans are her mainstay, although an occasional doubleknit slack and blouse outfit or jumpsuit deck her closet. Today she chooses the doubleknit. With haste the sheets and matching spread are tossed away, and at 6:47, Kathy grabs her shower bucket of supplies, towel, and slippers, and makes her way for the shower jwhich she never did get used to sharing with half the floor of the dorm.j 6:49 - Kathy College finds every shower in use and sits on the wooden bench and waits her turn. 7:00 - with towel around her wet hair, Kathy College sombers back to her room, where her roommate with the ten o'clock class lazily tosses at the sound of the door squeak. The electric rollers are plugged in, and she shifts the sheets and spread up around her pillows, giving the bed a hastily made look ibut, boy, would her mother die if she could see THATj. 7:05 -the blow dryer is pulled through her 14!A Day in the Life shoulder length Farrah Fawcett haircut. 7:10 -the hot rollers go in. Toothbrush, Noxema, contact lens, and Arrid are applied with the everyday ritual, and at 7:15 she sits before the lighted make-up mirror, ready to present the fine art of Flevlon, Maybelline, and Max Factor. 7:25 - a look in the closet and the lack of the doubleknit tells her it's laundry time. The jeans are retrieved from their usual place, and her good ol standby, her sorority jersey, is pulled over her head, loosening rollers along the way. 7:30 -the rollers are out, and in their place are the careless curls of Farrah Fawcett, neatly arranged and insured with Final Net. A quick splash of cologne and at 7:35 she grabs up the Biology, History, and Accounting books from their place on the shelves... a glance at her watch reminds her that the Caddo closes in 15 minutes. She must hurry to have her usual juice and toast. 7:40 - Kathy College sits across from a group of friends in the Caddo, her orange juice and doughnuts quickly consumed as she engages in gossip. Kathy, have you paid that huge sorority bill yet . . . Kathy do you have a date for Panhellenic yet? She passes off the questions with their respective answers, picks up her books, and quickens her pace as she hears the bell ring. 2:00 - Classes are over, and Lake Degray beckons the lazy to her sands. Kathy College piles in a car and spends three hours roasting. 5:15 - Only 45 minutes to change and get to the Caddo . . . Oh, forget dinner, she thinks, the Minute Man will do. After a quick Number 2 with cheese and a Coke, Kathy enters her room to get ready to goto AMY. You know Amy, that hole in the wall past Sparkman . . . it still holds charms for the brave and not so brave. At Amy, the girls watch the guys, and the guys drink beer and listen to Willie Nelson. Then the guys dance with the girls and a good time is had by all, etcetera ..... 12:15 - Kathy College drags herself back in her room tired, remembering the Biology test only ten hours away, which required about twelve hours of steady preparation. A quick glance over the notes will havetto do. The alarm is set, the lights are out, and the soft ticking of the clock fills the room and narrows out the day. n

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