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

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CAMPUS LIFE . . . Like time, Barton County Communtiy College is ever constant ever changing. The Spoke staff would like to capture a small portion of time to make the 1982-83 school year a bit more memorable. A basketball game, a cross country meet, a concert featuring the Hilltop singers, a visit from the Bloodmobile and events like Homecoming make a school year special. Times when George fixes special meals for no particular reason; the few days that are skipped to take a “road trip” or go hunting: these are the times worth remembering. Time has a way of bringing out the best of people. For instance, the snow storm which held the students, faculty and staff in hibernation seemed like three months, but in reality was only three days. The card parties, quarters games and sleep time probably reached an all-time record high! Most of the students were glad when the snow was cleared from the campus roads and parking lots, but even more so when classes resumed. Three days of doing nothing became awfully boring... cabin fever is what some called it. At BCCC there is an atmosphere of relaxation, and yet the tension of cramming for exams and completing the famous English packets schedules never seems to cease. Also, a big part of the daily routine is the everlasting Kansas wind that blew nearly everything off the face of the earth. If an eight o’clock class was ever included in the student’s schedule, surely, the memory of saying, “Never again! I will never have another eight o’clock class!!” reels in the back of the mind. Remember the research papers (oh! those awful books!) and the chemistry experiments and over-joyous frog disection lab of Biology that seems as endless as those two-hour lectures. Throughout the Spoke, the time has been represented with a few remembrances of the students and the community captured at their best. So ... look, read, and remember. Student Senate sponsors many events like the 1982 Halloween dance where students dress as characters unknown. David LeRoy, Randy Ritchie, and Gary Lee Keffer shows accuracy in pin-pointing the correct spot for the football toss, just one of the many contests during the Coors Intramural Campus Fest. 6

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Participants receive new instuctions on transmissions and fuel injection systems. Robert Heuzel, Jerome Bizer, Bill Hardwick, instructor Jess Judd, Ray Fisher and Daryl Schneider all put forth effort in learning during the two-day General Motors seminar. BCCC provides its campus facilities for agriculture field days of the surrounding high schools. High school students display their knowledge of judging during a FFA contest. 5

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“Bart the Cougar” (Craig Thompson) is often found with children and making 7