Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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Traditions Baylor family members grow to expect certain events to take place year after year. Each tradition adds a certain flavor to the Baylor experience. Welcome Week, Parents, Weekend, All-University Sing and Diadeloso all have a unique impact on those involved. After four years of college, the activities are for the most part taken for granted. They become a way of life. Freshmen become aware of the Baylor traditions during their first week on campus. As they complete their education, they are able not only to take part in the activities, but to have an active part in their planning. Loyalty to the Alma Mater is a result of these deep-rooted traditions. Monkey costumes formed a humorous part of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sing act. A student performs for a Parents' Weekend audience at After Dark.

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. . . Welromr New student A station wagon with a bumper sticker that says My Money and My Daughter Go to Baylor pulls a U-I-Iaul as it drives up in front of Collins at 7:59 a.m. Bouncing Baylorites in matching t-shirts, ea- ger to assist in the move-in process, attack the boxes, trunks and suitcases. They run off in dif- ferent directions with the items, miraculously end- ing up in the right room. Nowhere else in the world could there be more energy, smiles and long lines than Welcome Week at Baylor. Nick Bertinger, a junior min-con leader from Fort Worth, said that seeing the freshmen's faces and all the excitement of the move-in was the best part of Welcome Week. I was very excited and a little nervous, Glen Griner, a freshman from Houston, said. Welcome Week was the best thing to help me get acquainted with Baylor. It's a great time to find out where you are with God and to get to know other people. The Hrst day could have been intimidating for some freshmen, but soon they found security in their min-con groups. General sessions, full of '27 Wir' .M ef. 'gfij ,f. :,w,: 3 Usa s learn a lor traditions songs and 'Sic 'em Bears,' were alive and inspiring. Bill Tolar, Marge Caldwell, joe White and Dan Yeary colored the week as general session speakers. More concentrated discussion took place within the smaller min-con groups. Almost 500 upper- classmen min-con leaders informed the freshmen about student life at Baylor. Sharon Kirkpatrick, a sophomore min-con leader from Arlington, said, I enjoyed being able to share the things that I love, Baylor and God, with the new freshmen, My most memorable part of Welcome Week, Griner said, was with my min-con group at the end of the week when we passed around a sheet of paper and everyone gave opinions of each other. It was really encouraging. Student life seminar groups, consisting of four min-con groups, discussed Welcome Week topics, played games and got to know each other on a more personal level. My seminar group's winning the Min-Con Olympics capped off the week, Bertinger said. ' Behind the scenes, the support staff worked hard to make the week enjoyable for the freshmen ant transfer students. The support staff sold cokes an. visors, helped with seating in Waco Hall, planner the parties and Min-Con Olympics, worked in th cafeterias and ran the parents' rest station. Robin D'Angelo, a sophomore from Irving, sail she gained personal satisfaction by assisting in th planning of Min-Con Olympics. It helped me a much as the freshmen, she said. It made me fee good because I was doing things and not gettin, the credit for them. Mike Webster, a sophomore from Klein, said h thought the support staff had a huge impact on th freshmen, although they did not have direct contac with the new students. It made me feel goot when people came up to me and said that I wa doing a good job, even though most of them didn' know who I was, he said, The only thing I would change about Welcom Week was all the Good Old Baylor Lines w were forced to sing standing in the cafeteria chairs,5 Griner said. But I guess that's just tradition. l