University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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SPRING; Review The Farmhouse bed crew races to a soggy finish in the annual mattress marathon held during Greek Week. The event, sponsored by Phi Kappa Tau, was won by Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Gamma Delta. —Photo by Tom Moran A skit featuring famous female vocalists was one of many presentations in the 1900 Chi Omega Greek Sing. Senior Mona Wilson led Kappa Delta in performing Stop In the Name of Love. —Photo by-Tom Moran Pitcher Denny Knoll rests his eyes during a spring baseball game. Knoll is a business and economics junior —Photo by Tom Moran

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Review The magic in the air called spring fever also carried into the baseball season, as head coach Keith Madison watched attendance rise to third, behind basketball and football. Madison guided the Wildcats to their second win- ning season in his second year as head coach. Madison attributed the successful season to the leadership of seniors Tim Brandenburg and Mark Hredzak. Tim pitched three two-hitters, Madison said. Mark batted .296 and led us in stolen bases. Just a few hundred feet away from Shively Sports Center, home of the baseball Cats, the climax of the Little Kentucky Derby took place. Pilot Bob Kinser, representing General Electric, won the balloon race over 11 opponents, aided by the weekend's good weather. A bluegrass festival pre- luded the race. The race was preceded by a week of activities that included an arts and crafts show, a frisbee demonstra- tion and an auction. All events led up to the state's most famous event, the Kentucky Derby. But the climax of the entire spring for many was graduation. The 1980 graduation ceremony was special not only for those graduating, but also for President Otis Singletary. It was his third and last ceremony as a parent. As his daughter Kendall listened, Singletary's words about the future took on an emotional tone. He told the graduates, What other young Americans have survived, so can you. On that optimistic note, hundreds of college careers ended. And so did spring. 16 SPRING Review Catching the first spring rays, Ronda Trunnell, a biology junior, Tammi Baker, a mining engineering junior, protect herself against burn. —Photo by Burt Ladd

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A freshman from a small Kentucky town tells of his First ressions t was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. The United States of America, the richest country in the world, had slipped into a recession. The misery index (a measurement invented by President Jimmy Carter as a means of combining the rates of inflation and unemploy- ment) hovered above 22 percent. Many students were out of work for an entire summer In Ashland, for example, several hundred college stu- dents who had hoped for summer jobs with the city's larg- est employer, Armco Steel, were out of luck when the company announced massive layoffs due in part to the crippled automobile industry. The beginning of the fall semester, consequently, came as a sort of comic relief after the trying summer of 1980. Nearly 23,000 students, a record number, pushed back into classrooms despite the disheartening facts running through the backs of their minds: 52 Americans were still held hostage in Iran after nearly a year; Russia battled with Afghanistan while Iran fought with Iraq; and on the domestic scene, reluctant American voters were faced with deciding which presidential candidate could best handle the pressing issues of the economy and world peace. But for a college freshman, such issues must take the back seat to the concerns of settling in to college life. Freshman Dwight Ginn came from Milton, an Ohio River town of about 750 people located between Louisville and Cincinnati. I brought the necessities, he said. A TV and a cooler. As with many freshmen, Ginn was faced with the disad- vantage of not knowing anyone on his floor upon moving in. This disadvantage was complicated by the fact thatGinn was assigned one of 168 spaces reserved for freshmen in Kirwan Tower, formerly an upperclass men's dorm. Ginn got a long chance to meet some fellow students in the Student Center Ballroom one day after moving in. Thousands of students waiting to pay fees and receive financial aid formed lines that wound down stairs and spilled onto the patios. It was obvious that the recession had hit hard, as a record number of students received finan- cial aid. The world political scene continued to roar in the back- ground, but Ginn and other first-year students undoubt- edly had little time to concentrate on foreign and domestic policy. There were textbooks to read, ballgames to win and parties to attend. And those were the best of times. -CHRIS CAMERON AND ANDY SAULSBURY Cynthia Ramsey and a friend tote a refrigerator back to their room in Kirwan 111. Ramsey, is a business and economics freshman. —Photo by Tom Moran 18 FALL Moving In