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

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Paul Zamarripa contemplates a difficult bank shot while playing pool in the Commons area. Students often get together to compare notes from their classes. Kevin Copple and Becky Jellison study for an upcomming test. As students arrive on campus they contact friends they have not seen over the summer. Many times they help each other move into the rooms. Barry Weisenberger helps ■T im Haller unload the car, as the semester begins. Dorm Life 9

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Students gather in front of the Commons to find out their room assignments and meet friends as the fall semester begins. Dorm life brings new experience The Barton County Community College living centers experienced change in more ways than one this year. BCCC hired a new Housing Director, Bill Murray, who came to us from Harvey, HI., and also Housing Assistants, Gary Howard and Christi Schnoebelen, both of whom are former BCCC students. Along with the change in housing adminis¬ tration Four new trailers were added to the housing complex. Many students had to adapt to life on their own for the first time this year, but help was provided by the returning sophomores on campus. Murray provided a new outlook for the campus and in¬ troduced many activities with the par¬ ticipation of the Residential Housing Association. Many new experiences were brought about by living in the dorms. New relationships were bom the first day on campus. Interaction through the dorms provided a closely knit family for BCCC. With the changes in administration, the addition of more dorms, and the experien¬ ces faced by dorm living BCCC has pro¬ vided the college student a variety of areas in which to grow. Laundry is a dirty job, but it must be done. This is a big adjustment for some students. Clean clothes are no longer taken for granted. Kenny Gaston does his laundry in the Commons. 8 Dorm Life

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As part of her work study job in the office complex in the Science and Math Building, Angie Kern, types a letter. (Photo by Arlene Kennedy) Jobs take time, provide help Work can be an ugly word to some. It is an activity that takes up personal time, study time and party time. However to others who hold jobs while at¬ tending school, work provides a way to help pay for their education or extra spending money. Barton County Community College pro¬ vided many students with the oppurtunity to earn money by working on campus. Students who worked in the maintenance department planted trees, mowed lawns, fer¬ tilized and watered the grounds. Other students working on campus typed, filed and delivered paper work for different office complexes. The college placement service helped students find jobs. The businesses in the area hired students and were willing to work around students’ class schedule. To some the money earned takes away the negative feeling about the word work. After all students are in college to establish careers. Stacking cans of coffee on a shelf is one of the many jobs Larry Milford does at one of the grocery stores in Great Bend. (Photo by Roger Roach.) 10 Jobs