University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

Murphree Area backed the Gators with one of its many banners. For the second year in a row, the Student Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (SAHPER) won first place in homecoming decorations for the On-Campus division; SAHPER also received the $100 award from the Alumni Association for the greatest percentage of returning alumni at Homecoming for the second year in a row. Increasing its membership from 125 to some 200-plus members for this year, they held their first annual SAHPER Awards Banquet winter quarter; Coach Doug Dickey was guest speaker for the event. Picnics in the fall and spring highlighted the quarter ' s activities as did Student-Faculty competition in basketball, bowling, handball, golf, tennis and other sports. Interhall Council is the representative body of the residents living on campus. It is composed of the presidents of the respective areas and elected Interhall representatives and acts as a coordinating body for functions and programs held in the nine residence halls. The members of Interhall Council, a co-ed body since 1968, are Broward, Graham, Hume, Jennings, Murphree, Rawlings, Tolbert, Towers, and Yulee Areas. Throughout the year, it has become involved in issues concerning open house, curfew, and improved dorm living. It brought to campus the recently released, once-secret government film " Hiroshima-Nagasaki. " In addition, it sponsored a Playday, open to all dorm residents. Celebrating 100 years in football, Murphree saluted the Gators. 259