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

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Creative decorating makes home, home by- Brian Howell lflf hen thinking of a college to at- tend, many students choose a school a long distance from home. The reasons usually vary from parental problems, course majors, and finan- cial situations. The idea of college life is changed for most when they enter the dorm room for the first time. Students find themselves asking the question, is living away from home good for me? A craving for home-cooked food, spending money, a gas filled car, and dear sweet Mother to wash up the pile of dirty colthes. Other minor details stand in the way of freedom, such as, sickness, haircuts, feeling of security, peace and quiet, parents guidance, and that terrible thought of no allowance. Students living in the Nelson Student Center, Tiger Hall, and apart- ments, find the first month hard to relate to friends, not being around, freedom of high school and missing their parents. Students find ways to mend these feelings by decorating their rooms and apartments to suit their tastes. Plants, bookcases, quilted bed- spread, refrigerators, stereo com- ponent system, a 19 television and a mini-stove for those late night mun- chies all help dorm rooms seem more like home. Students decorate their rooms to suit their tastes with posters, plants, glass end tables or (Continued on page 29) RY PENTHOUSE-Thls is Sigler decorated his room to give i lived-in fooling. He likes it because It creates a good atmosphere for rid leisure. (Photo by Don Shrubshell) i

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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.

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c © by- Rick Nichols ■ he first game ended 15-1 making the Pompon squad the winners by beating the McPub II team. Nearly 100 students gathered for the first in- tramural-type competition of the year and to kick-off Focus on Cowley Week. The tournament was the first in a series of activities held between Oct. 15-20 and the student response, which was later termed en- thusiastic by those in charge of the event, set the scene for the rest of the week. Teams were made up of three women and ihree men and included: McPub I Pompon, Downers, Dolphins, Tiger Booster Club, Socially Unacceptables, McPub II, Untouchables, and the Coaches PRIZE WINNERS-Focus on Cowley Week called for student participation and the door decorating contest and pumpkin carving competition were two that were judged on Parents ' Day. Teresa VanEtten and Susan Lemman placed first in door decorating with a Garfield welcome to the 250 parents who attended the event. Sarah Phillips took first place and Pam Mattingly second with their creative pumpkin carvings. (Photos by Connie Cook and Don Shrubshell)