Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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Performing a blucgrass number are seniors Roy Peters and Jim Fahs. All Students recognize the significance of the number 84. Even freshmen quickly learn to associate it with the number of convoca- tions required for graduation. Perhaps it is the fact that convos are required which often leaves students with an ambivalent attitude toward convocation programs. However, on an occasional Monday morning at 10:00, stu- dents stretch beyond their ambivalence. Cer- tain convos encourage students to accept the inspiration and the challenge to their values, ideas, and concept of art which the program offers. Jazz livened Manchester ' s campus one fall evening in the form of the James Dapogney ' s Chicago Jazz Band. Dr. Wilfried von Bredow, Manchester ' s Scholar-in-Residence, provided students with a European view of internation- al politics. Reverend Eleanor Morrison ad- dressed the topic of sexuality and values in convocation and discussion day workshops. A sample of Oriental culture arrived in North Manchester via the Chinese Magic Circus and its troupe of acrobats, clowns, and comedians. These programs were among the many con- vocations which succeeded to inspire and challenge students. In her faculty series convocation Dorothy Keller speaks of the aging Senior Mary Halasz entertains the audience with song. ' ■ - population.

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Interrupting narrators Chris Bowser and Diane Rice, the mes- senger {Kim Parker) bears the news of the death of Antigone and her fiance, Haemon. The lower Union parking lot is used to hold events such as the bed race. The team that won first place in the bed race consisted of Dorcas Brewer, Sherry Burkholder, Scott Snodgrass, and Dan Walker. Life jackets on, oars in hand, these canoers are ready for a race down the Kenapocomoco. May Day 27

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Jl 1 IMK. As part of the annual AAFRO Club ' s Reader ' s Theatre, Alfred Wvatt delivers a monologue. Re-enacting an instruction session on the proper way to do laundry arc former student orientation leaders Michelle Kovalow and Jenni- fer Mitchell. Convocations 29