Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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Ridin ' , Ropin ' Rodeo Campus Style MAKING THE RODEO SCENE are members of the campus Ro- deo Club. Upper left, Mona Dugan barrel races in competition. Upper right. Brothers, Jim and Barney Kelly rope a calf. Above, Rodeo Club members include (from left) Jim Penwell, Jackie Schaeffer, Jim Kelly, Barney Kelly, Randell Calvin, Mona Dugan, Jerry Penwell, Mona Whitfield, and sponsor, Daniel Ensz. Left, Judy Strain, counselor, often wears her western style clothes on the campus. 11

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Home, Home On the Campus Yee Ha! Lets hear it for the cowboys. Get out your hat, boots, and belt buckles because the year of the cowboy is back. We have two kinds of cowboys in this world. First we have the real cowboy. His hat is a plain straw hat with no feathers. He does no wear spitshined boots. His faded jeans are set off by a T- shirt or a cotton flannel shirt. In his pant pockets you ' ll almost al- ways find a can of Skoal or a package of Red Man. Also a cow- boy is usually accompanied by a horse. The second kind of cowboy is the dressed up one. This cowboy wears a felt hat with feathers in it, polished boots and a belt buck- le that is twice the belt ' s size. This type of cowboy always has the dream of some day riding the prairie on horseback, but in the meantime, he will ride the me- chanical bull as seen in the night- clubs. Cowboys are joining the rodeo circuit and are making ro- deo the number one sport. Butler County has gained a rodeo club in the last two years and is doing fine. Years ago cowboy and Indian movies were popular and then they died out. Now in the last few years we have movies like Urban Cowboy and The Electric Horse- man. Country Western music is now hitting the top of the charts with stars like Kenny Rogers, Willy Nelson, Tanya Tucker, and Crystal Gale. BCCC has an enlarged ag de- partment, and more cowboys are making the campus scene. Per- haps cowboy boots will replace running shoes as the campus uni- form. 10

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BUMPERSTICKERS NO AUTO SHOULD BE WITHOUT ONE Are your personalities, feel- ings, and views known to people? Butler County students are show- ing theirs by way of bumper stickers of the world. Farmers have bumperstickers such as, I ' m proud to be a farm- er, pigs are beautiful, goat ropers need lovin ' too. Other bumperstickers explain, I ' m a father, I made it, I ' m a sen- ior, ask about my granddaugh- ter, and I found it. Do you want to describe your- self? Stickers say it: easy go- ing, macho man, available, Does your sport group do it bet- ter? Take a look at the cars bumper in front of you and read the mes- sage warning from the bumper sticker like, If you can read this you are too close, do not honk; driver sleeping, caution when passing, driver chewing tobac- co, 55 M.P.H. we can live with it, I may be slow but I ' m ahead of you. Since 1980 was the year to vote we are seeing all types of bum- perstickers naming presidential candidates. Some are the real candidates and some are, any- one can be president. Let ' s all hear a vote for sneaky snake, he ' s smart, when you are getting mad at the way America is living, then remember, If you don ' t like America, leave it, according to the studies. M