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

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Focus on Cowley GETTING HIS STRIPES-Reglna Musgrove applies paint to Pam Elliot ' s son during Supermarket Sunday. Elliot also taught a class in CPR. (Photo by Brian Smith) THAT ' S ENTERTAINMENT-The Donnie Huffman band performs during Family Day. FLIPPING OUT-Jim Brown teaches gymnastics during Supermarket Sunday. (Photo by Wayne Gottstine) frequently in the South Central Kansas area, was composed almost entirely of Cowley graduates. Sue, my wife, who plays piano for us, and I both graduated from Cowley, Huff- man said. A demonstration by the girl ' s volleyball squad was at 4:30. The girls played a men ' s team from Arkansas City and soun- dly beat them in all three games. Catherine Craig, freshman volleyball player, enjoyed the match for a special reason. That was. the first time my mom saw me play, she said. From 5-6 p.m. about 25 students entered the Anything Goes Competition. Par- ticipants broke up into groups of five to take part in some hillarious relays. I liked blowing the bubbles in the bub- ble blowing contest. said Mary Dewell. Also, it was great when my mom got in on the games. She was out their jumping around and yelling with everybody else in the pop-the-balloon contest. The life-saver pass at the Anything Goes Competition was cute, said Chad Miner, one of the competition ' s audience enthusiasts. Everyone seemed to be having a blast doing it. Participants in the games worked up quite an appetite, and so had everyone else after exploring the campus with their (Continued on page 25) NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE-Mixing up a brew proved worthwhile for Clint Lawson and Denise Woods. The couple took third place and $15 for their efforts. (Photo by Jeff Dxiedzic) SPOONIN ' -Part of the action during Family Day was the spoon relay during the Anything Goes competition. SKIPPING ROPE-Bob Juden displays his predic- tion for lasso tricks. (Photo by Pat Pruitt)

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Cete uvte Whether you were interested in sports, Cowley history, or music, there was something for everyone Oct. 11 at the Cowley Family Day. Kansas weather being what it is, the hoped for warm weather did not make an appearance. Due to heavy rain, the golf tournament, scheduled for 9 a.m., had to be cancelled. I showed up ready to play, and there was nobody there, said freshman Donnie Huffman. Bob Juden hadn ' t even gotten there yet, he was running behind schedule. When I got there it was raining, so we tyad to call it off, then on my way home, it stop- ped raining, but nobody rescheduled it. The rainy weather did not affect the cheerleading clinic held at the Aud Gym. Nearly 100 grade school and junior high school girls attended the clinics to learn new cheers, basic jumps, and a little tum- bling. It was a lot of fun working with the kids, especially the younger ones, they looked so cute doing their jumps and yelling ' Hey Go Team Go Go Team, ' said sophomore Debbie Hobaugh. The next event for the day was the brun- ch in Nelson Student Center. The meal was set up buffet style for the 120 people who had made reservations, and featured fresh fruit, pancakes, coffee cake, scrambled eggs, hash-browns, bacon, ham, and green beans. Breakfast was OK. ..I thought the beans were out of place but it was still nice, said Kelly Carver, secretary. Door decoration judging took place at 11 a.m. The idea of the contest was to decorate dorm doors in a Halloween or Happy 65th Birthday, Cowley theme. Peaches Harris and Amy Semmler won the contest and the $25 prize money with what was considered by the judges to be goulish Halloween decorations. They completed their mood by having a 45- minute soundtrack of eerie music playing. I really liked the door decorations. Peaches and Amy put a lot into theirs, said Tita Fields, freshman. At 11:30 a.m. a two-mile fun run was a sight to see, if you did not mind getting wet. The Kansas weather reared its ugly head again as the 22 runners started out under gray skies that opened up in a literal downpour. Contestants were determined and finished out the race in spite of nature ' s temper tantrum. I wouldn ' t have minded running if it hadn ' t rained, said Melissa Schwabauer, fresh man. It was hard to see and the cold gave me leg cramps. By the time it was over with, I was 100 percent soaked and my shirt must have weighed 10 pounds. The rain didn ' t dampen Pam Fritz ' s spirits or her running time. The Columbia, S.C., freshman took the 18-25 women ' s category with a 13:25 time. Topeka sophomore Ed Faison took the men ' s category with a 12:47 time. A Welcome to Cowley presentation was made in the Little Theatre a 1 p.m.. The choir performed some soft, gospel music featuring student soloists which the audience seemed to enjoy. Once the stage was cleared, a chant by the Cowley spirit squad opened their performance as they ran down the aisles to the stage. The Cowley Family of the Year can- didates were introduced, and College President Dr. Gwen Nelson personally welcomed the audience. We ' re pretty close here and one of the privileges of the president is that I get to do a lot of hugging, Nelson said. Don ' t, be surprised if, during the day ' s activities, I come up behind you and give you a hug. The Little Theatre was the place to be from 2-2:30 p.m., the Cowley Jazz Band en- tertained a fairly good sized audience with tunes that were easily recognizable to most. Cowley student Shakespeare Davenport said, I liked the music stuff the best, cause it was soft, the trumpets and sax were great. A taste of Cowley history from its alumni followed the jazz band concert. A panel of nine graduates told of life at Cowley dating back to the school ' s opening in 1922 through 1980. The panelists were Audra Stark, 1922; George and Betty Sybrant, 1942; Iris David, 1947; Terry Eaton, 1954; Dennis Shurtz, 1968; Mark Paton, 1971; Tim Flowers, 1980; Jackie Wilson, 1981; and Albert Bacastow, 1965 and chairman of the Board of Trustees. The guest speakers traced the development of the College and its traditions since it was founded in 1922. Freshman Donnie Huffman, was featured in his father ' s band for an hour- long concert following the panel. The band, which has cut two records and performs Focus on Cowley Week at tfacvtei

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Second chance lab gets students Once they get down here, they ' re hooked. And that ' s always my goal. Terry Eaton, the woman who said that, is the body and soul of the Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, and General Education Diploma atCowley County Community College. Eaton runs a program designed to help people acheive their goals. Some want a high school equivalency diploma, others are working towards American citizen- ship, and some are learning the English language. There are also a number of students who aren ' t working towards any particular goal, but simply want to im- prove themselves. The program was quite small when it originated, but the number of students going through the program has increased ever since. Chris Vollweider, who runs the Learning Skills Lab in the rooms adjoining Eaton ' s program in the Renn Memorial Building, said that the growth of the ABE ESL GED program can largely be attributed to the hard work of Eaton. She ' s one of those people who is kind of behind the scenes, but she does a lot for the colllege. And she doesn ' t really get a lot of recognition. She puts in a lot of additional hours, not only here at school but at home. People are constantly calling her, and she tries to help them in any way that she can, she is a very giving person, she gives a lot of her time to her students, Vollweider said. Eaton would never accept that much credit, but she can ' t help but admit how much the program has grown. It ' s probably at least tripled, or more than that, Eaton said. It was a very small program, we had a little tiny room on the second floor of Galle-Johnson, and that was my classroom the first year. So it had like two tables, and six carrels, and my desk, and one shelf of books. And that ' s what we started with. Now it ' s kind of grown. We started out with one room, and I was here a very limited number of hours. Now I live here, she laughed. Eaton said that the program had ap- proximately 100 people in it ' s first year. It seems like the first year we hit close to 100, and then this year it was 361, Eaton said. Last year the GED lab had 246 students who actually took the equivalency testing. But Eaton explained that she has many more pupils. That ' s not reflective of the total num- ber of people who come here, because not all of them test. I ' m probably seeing at least half again as many as their figures show, at the very least, Eaton said. That ' s because not everyone who enrolls in the program wants to receive a GED diploma. Some people come in because they want to work on spelling or math or reading. And this year, with all the media coverage, they are really coming to work on their reading, because they ' ve found that there is a place to come. Some of them just didn ' t know about it, Eaton said. Adult basic education, in my estimation, is to help people brush up on whatever we can help them with. We try to help them with any thing we have to meet their needs. •• I ' ve never known of any studeni who left because they were frustrated or upset or because they didn ' t get help. -Chris Vollweider 9 Master teacher The reason the program draws mort students than some of the other schools o; its kind is because of the advancec facilities at Cowley, Eaton said. People like to come here because of tht association with the college, and 311 th equipment that we have down here. Being housed in the basement of the library let; us use any thing the library has. So w | have controlled readers and computers! and the people like that. If people go t | other classes, they get a text book, sh | explained. Eaton said that the people who do tes| for their GED are almost equally divided between those who need the certificate t | work, and those who do it for their owi gratification. A lot of them are here for personal satisfaction, because for very valk reasons they missed out on a high schoo diploma, Eaton said. And especially th older ones, because a few years ago diploma wasn ' t neccesary for a job, peopk didn ' t care. But now it ' s almost impossible to ge very much of a job without a diploma. S the GED is more neccesary than it was and I have a lot of unemployed people tha