Multnomah University - Ambassador Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Next, l4 dozen doughnuts, one case of apple cider, 15 bags of chips, and 20-plus batches of popcorn were skarfed down. Following food and fellowship was the films! Donald Duck, Goofy, and Chip and Dale pre- ceeded the main feature, 'fThe Absent-minded Professor. When the show was over, there was more snow Cpopcornj on the floor than at Timberline on Mt. Hood! The measure of success! Feb. 12-Turned tables Who are the masterminds, the artists, the culprits behind these formations? Once again, picnic tables behind the dining hall were rearranged, this time upended and placed in a modern sculpture design. Previous maneuvers arranged the tables in a pyramid or end-to-end in a straight line. lt might be kind of chilly at that altitude, but one could have dined among the stars on top of the pyramid pile. Feb. 13-Sunday dinner devotions The various musical ensembles are tools of public relations as well as spiritual ministries. Patty and Peggy Higer demonstrated their method of advertizing the school's pro- grams: singing If you want Bible, you want Mul-te-no-mah,', to the turn of The Happy Wanderer. Feb. 14-Happy Valentineis Day! Csing to the tune of 'GTry to Remembernj Try to remember to treat grad girls tender For they can't flex like weeping willows Try to defend her from studies that bend her Into a knot, so she can't dswallowi ' ' ' Try to remember, support you must lend her. Don't be a pretender or shallow fellow. Try to remember that if you befriend her she'll mellow CSXJ. Try to remember to treat grad girls tender, So they won't cry upon their pillow. Try to remember her dif- ferent gender, So you don,t treat her like a fellow. Try to remember a greeting I-to lend her, I I I Till we, in the summer part for what follows. Try to remember she needs a kind fellow to follow. By Diana Stuhr Rather than wear hearts on their sleeves, the girls in Donna Stephens' dorm section ex- changed valentine cards, candy, and brownies, placing the goodies in decorated paper bags attached to each girl's door. Feb. 14-Happy Birthday, Oregon! The Wild, Wild West Wing joined Steve Ramp's and Jeff Clark's sections in a study break to celebrate Valentine's Day and the statehood of Oregon. According to Squattie Ueanette Shoopl, this was just an excuse for an occasion to t'pork,ou,t on cake. 5, - i Feb. lf!-Car aflame on driveway Gas from a carburator leak caught on fire as Paul Glazner drove his Nova down the campus driveway to the Post Office. Excitement and uncertainty grew as the danger of the gas tank exploding increased. Several men came to the rescue with fire extinguishers. I Feb. S4154-Ifhea Monopoly..r.Scandal mother always told me nioltgiitoibeat a guy at a game. But I couldnft help it. I knew I was going to win the game because I'd been given a few tips from the World's Best Monopoly player. from the otherside of the Mississippi Cnone other than Woody, of coursel. It was really a hard blow for Woody. He was offering me everything from a weekend use of his car to adate the basketball player of my It was a hard deal to turn down, but I had no choice. My Christian instincts forced me to play fair. I won the game in less than thirty minutes with a measly set of houses. -Christy Jones

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Jan, 30 - Feb. 4-Missionary Conference I fSee article, page IZQJ -Ice Cream Break One afternoon Nostalgia Nook invited over some Jewish missionaries and a fewi guys to make vanilla and blueberry ice cream. The guys did most of the cranking while the missionaries shared about their work and the Passover. The Jewish missionaries showed- they were a hardworking people by doing some of the cranking, even in their business suits. Feb. 5-Exodus to the promise landv Jeff Clark and crew headed out to HaystackWRock and the Oregon coast after solving the minor problems of finding means of transportation and deciding which direction to drive. The dayls activities included playing with seaweed Hbull- whips,', sinking into a deep puddle of miry mud, and riding wave-tossed logs. It must have been Jeff's off day as he was the only one to sink into the mud or fall. off the logs..,Fu1ly drenched, Jeff decided to., remove his wet clothing and alfbw them to dry. It took some persuading, but Jeff finally got two guys to loan him their shirts, which he tied toga- style aroundfhisgvyaist. 1 -s l When one tithe f'bombs gave out on the 'way home, it was Jeff, still clothed in his skirt of shirts, who had to stand out in the cold to fix the car. This awesome sight was recorded on... film, see piasserbys, and endured by iff.. Feb. 6-Happy Birthday, Laurel! Armed with pillows, the girls of the Upper West Wing lined each side of the hall, Laurel Halley was sent down the center for a 19th birthday soft spank- ing. Everyone them partook of one of the many cakes she had received. Feb. 9-Dinner Dandy To illustrate that worth- while accomplishments can be obtained from watching the tele- vision, particularly the Gong Show, Kevin Stone imitated a water sprinkler. Popular demand brought him back to demon- strate bacon frying. Feb., 11-Parked car totals parked car The little red Karman ghia sat innocently where its owner, senior Terry Hayes, always parked it at the bottom of the hill. Suddenly, a car smacked into it from behind. Little Karman lay completely crushed and crumpled, the offending car settling on top of its roof. What had Little Karman done to deserve such a condition, totaled beyond recognition'?iThe offending car had come from further up the hill. Its owner had carelessly set the hand brake and left the clutch in neutral. What a sight-a driverless car hurtling down the....hi1l,, wipingout poor Little Karmanf All was not a total loss, however, for Little Karman's owner. The insurance company's settlement, combined with an offer for what was left of Little Karrnarfs useable parts, left quite a nice lump in Terry's wallet. Feb. 12-During the Valentine's Banquet, Mr. Muir explained that the natural consequence of exchanging 600 letters in one year would be a wedding engage- ment, such as the one between Sheila Oxfzer and Gary Clelland. Feb. 12-Hunky-Dory Party Going on at the same time as the Valentine's banquet was the Second Annual Hunky-dory party in the A-Frame. Credit goes to Dub Newton, Bob Reinsch, and Brent Meeks for pulling it all together. Roughly 135 people attendedi Brent's Banana Olympicsl' challenged participants to a variety of activities: measure the number of end-over-end banana lengths from Sutcliffels front double doors to the flagpole fcounts varied-152, 145, 172, 178, 1685, hijack a plane from the airport using a banana gun,,' return to the A-Frame in 45 .minutes and form a human pyraniid. This finale required the top ' person to eat the banana baton the team had carried around on its activities. Fortun- ately, a new banana was supplied as the banana batons came back mangled, squashed, massacred, munched, mushy, peeled, dirty, grimmy, grungy-not one banana returned edible!

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Feb. 15-GuyfGirl Panels i f A panel of women at the Men'slFellowship meeting and ai panel of men at the Woman's Fellowship Interdorm exchanged throughts and advice,about girl! guy relationships, what and how girls and guys think, their values, their qualities, whatever was on the minds of all involved. The honesty and openness of the panel members allowed new insights to formulate while con- firming old standards of behaviour. Feb. 15-Progressive Room Devotions The Gorp house members moved from room to room. ln the first room, they sang child- ren's songs. Scripture and prayer was shared in the second room. Dessert was served in the third room. In the fourth room a pillow fight ensued. They got so involved with 'the pillow fight that RC Jacque Knuppe forgot to do room check-those sneaks! Feb. l 6-Freshman Student Chapel Through skits, songs, and scripture reading, the freshman class presented the concept of self-love and its negative and positive aspects. Feb. itii ttii I 73uBl'i3ll,,:l joins girls' Study break l fBria1i, Becky Wagner's ventriloquist's dummy, explained to Karen Georgioff's dorm section what he does and who he ministers to. He and his partner present a Gospel-packed lesson to a variety of groups-Sunday school classes, Teen clubs, Chris- tian schools, and adults. His part- ner learned ventriloquism as a hobby three years ago. Feb. 17-Escorts, Girl-style The park is not a safe place to walk past at night. To prevent Marilyn Hurst from getting scared as she walks home from the bus stop, her dorm section obtained a Safeway shopping cart. Labeling the cart 'tMarilyn's Escort Service, the dorm sec- tion picked her up at the 82nd Street bus stop and drove her home in style. Feb. 18-19- Wong Show comes to Parenfs Weekend Over 300 parents joined the campus community for a week- end visit. A highlight of their activities was the Fifth Quarter after Friday's basketball game against Eugene Bible College. Hit of the evening was The Wong Show, a takefoff on TV's Gong Show. Hostesses Grace and Judi Wong Cthey are not relatedlj shuffled out in Chinese garments to announce the evening's hiwawi6us,' enteraimnent and M.C., the most honawable, misawable, wong-windedf' Dr. Joseph Wong. Acts included Tim Killgore's 'fPrinderella and the Cincef, Kathy and Beth Cole's f'Darling Dimples from the south, and Gordon GoatsinH Goertzenis magic show. Gonged out of competition was the piano duet of HHeart and Soul by Chuckie Johnson and Mary Payton. The ,two smallest Congdon kids stole the show at one point by Wandering out in the limelight afteriithe Cole's act. Feb. 18-Goong Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! Feb. 19-While reflecting on the ugood ol, days during the Presi- dentis Brunch, Kevin Stone announced the engagement of iBecky I-fosteigj Craig Knapp. Feb. 24-Kidnapping! Lisa Brandsberg was abduct- ed from the library by two un- known assailants. Blind-folded, but not gagged or handcuffed, Lisa was escorted around campus and back through the library.