Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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in Arkalalah ON A ROLL-Linda and Ed Hargrove participate in the Arkalalah Street Gam . The couple held the egg tots championship title until this year but they have vowed to regain the title next year. (Photo by Connie Cook) and Davis. Few students from the college at- tend the games. When some of them say there isn ' t anything to do in Ark City, then I tell them that to have fun they have to go out and find it, Davis said. Here the city has this really great activity and not many attend. Kids who go home miss out on all the fun. One student, sophomore Lucille Carson, did get involved in the Two Mile Run. Carson placed first in the age group 15 - 24. I ran mainly for fun, said Carson. I also ran to test the strength of my legs because I had stress fractures this summer. The Street Games also included the three-legged race and the toilet paper toss, where women compete to be the first to completely unwind an entire roll of toilet paper. According to Alan Austin, an organizer of the games, the cost is about $200, 20 dozen eggs and 50 rolls of toilet paper but not even that tells the whole story. Street crews and the Park Department are faced with the job of cle aning up after Arkalalah and that ' s a big job totaling more than 50 man hours. But it ' s a clean up that is well worth the money. The crews have the streets in good condition before Sunday night and they do a good job. Sure, there ' s a price tag on Arkalalah but it ' s value to the city in public relations is tremendous, said Bob AAcGehan, executive director of the Arkalalah Committee. iw

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All wrapped up Mike Ennis e will return to claim the crown, ' ' promises Ed Hargrove, direc- tor of financial aids. Hargrove and his wife, Linda, head women ' s basketball coach, were the 1983 egg toss champions at the Arkalalah Street Games Competition but the best they could do this year was fourth place. Hargrove was un- derstandably disappointed with the 1984 finish. I felt bad but Linda felt worse because the egg was all over her, he said. It was a bad throw and the egg just crushed when she caught it. But the couple is not discouraged and they have a game plan for nexl year. Yes, we will train, Hargrove said. This year ' s champions at- tributed winning to practice and next year we ' ll practice, too. But training and practice are definitely out for Debbie Davis, assistant coach in volleyball and women ' s basketball who also par- ticipated in this year ' s egg toss com- petition. It ' s more fun when you don ' t train, Davis said. There ' s an art to egg toss. When the egg comes, you have to give with it, but its nothing I ' m going to practice. I like going to the games because I am able to act like a kid. But apparently Cowley students don ' t share her view. Student par- ticipation in the games has been a disappointment for both Hargrove

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WORKING with Wayne Greenlee by Susan White lrlfhen I took the job at Rindt- Erdman I thought all I was supposed to do was maintenance, but now I assist the mortitions with em- balming, Wayne Greenlee, Cowley County Community College sophomore said. Greenlee graduated from Belle Plaine High School where his music teacher indirectly got him a job with the Arkansas City mortuary firm, now located at Summit and East Kansas Avenue. Greenlee was contacted about the job and went to check on it. He accepted a parMime position maintenance person. Greenlee now has many respon- sibilities at the funeral home in ad- dition to the ma ; ntenance work. He likes his position but finds it deman- ding. They are so picky that the cars are to be spotless and the spokes are to be perfectly shined and spotless, he said. Keeping the facilities in spotless condition isn ' t the only thing that makes his job demanding. He also has the added responsibility of being on call two weekends out of three. When he is called on he rides with the SPOTLESSLY CLEAN-Wayne Greenlee pauses for a moment while washing a family car at the Rindt- Erdman-Oldroyd Funeral Home where he works. Greenlee finds his part-time job interesting and challenging. (Photo by Don Shrubshell) mortician to pick up the deceased. We place the body on the cot in a station wagon and transport it back to be embalmed. I also have the privilege of assisting with that, but actually it isn ' t that bad because I ' m interested in science, Greenlee said. Working at the mortuary has given him first-hand experience at handling grief and he knows that death is something that is always difficult to handle but some cases are worse than others. The worst kind of death to handle is a young child, baby, or a sudden death. You have to listen to the parents. They blame God for taking their baby. You have to hear them out and you can ' t change their minds, Greenlee said. In an older person ' s death you can at least say, they lived a full life. ' Mortuary science isn ' t something Greenlee thinks will be a career for him. At Cowley his is active in the drama and choral departments. He ' s a member of the CowleyCo Singers and the College Choir and has held major roles in last spring ' s production of The Odd Couple, and most recen- tly Little Mary Sunshine. He says he ' s learned to balance his job and his school activities and he enjoys doing both. Even though I enjoy my work, I don ' t think I will go on to major in it. I would major in my fields at school before I would become a mortician, Greenlee said. The hours are long. I ' m on call two weekends out of three. When you are on call you have to stay in town and you ' re on the go all the time, he said. There ' s a lot of planning for funerals.