Oklahoma Baptist University - Yahnseh Yearbook (Shawnee, OK)

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Fea t nd Greener Christmas time comes but once a year. Students decorate their rooms, put lights in their windows, and decorate trees. But, when does Christmas really start for the Shaw- nee community? For many students, faculty, and Shawnee residents, Christmas begins with the Feast of the Boar's Head, and the Hanging of the Green. This is a time for showing Christmas spirit. Students at the Feast of the Boar's Head, ar- rived, dressed in festive attire, awaiting the time of fun, food, and fellow- ship with one another. As the diners waited for the festivities to start, the trumpeters heralded the arrival of the Chorale, who marched in wearing sixteenth Century cos- tuming. Also, the pages and jesters marched in carrying flags. Next, the Chorale entertained the audience with madrigals and Christmas songs. The feasters were also en- tertained by jesters and jugglers. Later the diners toasted each other with hot apple cider to cele- brate the season and the birth of Christ. The feast was served, and the Chorale members walked among the tables playing hosts. When the meal was over, Chorale once again entertained the feasters. After the feast, the Boar's Head guests walked to Raley Chapel, for the Hanging of the Green. This Hanging of the Green marked the fiftieth B ison and Bisonette mem- bers join together to sing Come, Thou Long-Ex- pected Jesus, arranged by associate professor of music, Dr. Michael Cox.- photo by Beth Rowland At the end of the ceremo- ny, honorees Brent Max- well and Jolynn Evanson hang the green along with the other nineteen couples. - photo by Beth Rowland annual ceremony on cam- pus. The ceremony in- cluded the recognition of forty senior honorees, who hung the green . The ceremony was also full of Christmas music by the Bison Glee Club, the Bisonettes, and the Yahnseh Band. Paula Pas- chall also performed two musical pieces on the harp. The Feast of the Boar's Head and the Hanging of the Green are a time of fun and sharing for the entire Shawn ee cmmun- ity. As Jason Isaak, a guest from Baylor, said, I en- joyed the evening be- cause l felt a sense of closeness that was evi- dent in the crowd. The music brought us all to- gether. - Feast jugglers, Shelly Keith and Chris Hoover, entertain Feast guests with their an- tics, Their specialities in- cluded silly acrobatics, jug- gling, and ridiculing the guests, -photo by Brad Shir- ley FeastfHanging

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anuary classes weren't getting freshmen Chris Young and Brian Hazlitt down. They saw the 15 inches of snow on Raley steps as another opportunity to practice their swan dives. photo by Steve Holman ne hand, one heart .. Jay Brown and Darla Barrow, starring as Tony and Maria, pledge their love to each other in the musical West Side Story produced in coo- peration with Shawnee Little The- ater, photo by Brad Shirley The Big -Picture , . .7,,,, .HWLV ,,,,i.-w,,M f ' f , ya 5 2-,., ,HW 1, 9 . f J-term was a great idea, ,iii, yriii especially for seniors. However the schedule was still demanding gm. , -,Zh V , uv 'G -Tonia Foretenberry I ,, friends. l met people through the musical I might never have met. Now they are my good Eric Fox Jterm I...-