Barton Community College - Spoke Yearbook (Great Bend, KS)

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Student Union Becomes a Gathering Place for Students Union — a bond? More like a place to suggest organic growth. We live and gather. Pronounced “onion,” the way it grow inside an onion, looks from the parking lot. “Onion,” to Sliding down the banister, Doug Tomlin exhibits a unique activity that students have started. Students enjoy themselves at the first dance held One student executes his skill in a pool game, a new activitiy on campus. Elaine Skolaut returns the ping pong ball as her partner, Kim Koenig, awaits his turn to hit the celluloid ball and win an important point. 24

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Besides checking out books to students and faculty. Kathy Collins, library as¬ sistant, performs various duties in the library each day. The College Work-Study Program offers students an oppor¬ tunity for full time study by providing part-time employment. The students must show need for the earnings from the em¬ ployment in order to pursue their college education, and they must maintain good standing in their classes. This year fifty- one students were employed primarily as office, maintenance, and library assistants. Work-Study Program Provides Employment As one of her responsibilities, Margaret Wondra types one of the many tests given by the natural science and math professors on campus.

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in the Union on the portable dance floor. Hoping to win, A1 Lopes tries his luck at one of the pinball machines before he goes to class. Elaine Skolaut, Steve Lewis, and David Claphan, agree that a game of pitch is better than classes. Cindy Scheopner thoroughly agrees that a fresh doughnut and a cup of hot tea is a great improve¬ ment over the vending machine food which stu¬ dents had to eat before the Student Union was built. 25