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

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TUCKERED OUT-Mark and Adam Davis five after the women ' s volley matches ! during Cowley ' s Family Day events. ito by Julie Reed) j «d M ill 2 1 W - ; JMr ift ' 1 if ' % w ' wflr J ' Wm$w Hs 1 1 ! ita BL l AII r J 2 B m ■j JH t K y B 1 Bl - CS BBBHJnUittBnflB ,40JmP ■•■ LET ' S ALL BAND TOGETHER -Cowley banc director Leonard Barnhill and the Cowley Jazz Band gave a performance in the Little Theater for Cowley Family Day. (Photo by Jeff Krueger) PASS IT ON-Jeanette Sisson bends back- ward to catch a lifesaver as her teammate attempts to transfer it from his toothpick to hers. The lifesaver pass was part of the Anything Goes competition on Family Day. (Photo by John Bernhardt) ll B Three locations to serve you. If s at Home , Home National Bank Main Bank 126 S.Summit Arkansas City 442-4040 Drive-ins 201 9 N.Summit 601 N. Summit CLOSE SHAVE- Randy Scott, Ron Salazar, Julie Ott and Sabrina Lipton attempt to shave a balloon during the Anything Goes competition held on Family Day. (Photo by John Bernhardt) Pulse

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ANYTHING GOES Competition between families and students proved to be a lifesaver when inclement weather threatened to put a damper on Family Day activities If you have ever tried to pass a lifesaver on a toothpick, then you know part of the challenge of the Anything Goes competition during Cowley Family Day. Weather was a determining factor in deciding to hold the games. An oozing game of mud volleyball was cancelled due to unseasonably cold temperatures that dropped the thermometer to near freezing during the night. This sparked the idea of having an Anything Goes competition. We really didn ' t have much choice, said Linda Puntney, director of public relations and coordinator of the day. The mud volleyball pit was ready and the Ark City Fire Department watered it down after Larry Pike Construction donated their time to dig it for us. We had the ' Anything Goes ' competition as an alternate plan but we really didn ' t want to use it. As it turned out, the weather may have been a blessing because the other games were really fun. Shaving balloons with safety razors, whistling after eating a cracker, and trying to blow a bubble were some of the relays that nearly 200 people participated in or watched. But bad weather didn ' t stop the two-mile Fun Run which saw more than 30 runners taking off in a drizzle or the 9 a.m. golf tournament where 13 players donned hats, winter coats and gloves to go nine rounds in a scramble tournament. Also on the agenda for Family Day was a cutting from the play, Jackie Lantern ' s Halloween Revenge, and performances by the CowleyCo Singers and the College Jazz Band. Volleyball was an important part of the day as the Lady Tigers won a triangular tournament against Labette, Butler County, and Hesston. Parents and foster parents of team members were recognized 6 Fall ' 87 at the 2 p.m. game. At the evening presentation of the Crabtree Convocation, Mary McNulty and her father, Patrick, were named the Cowley Family of the Year. The selection was made by a committee of students, faculty and staff members who selected the McNulty family from more than 30 applicaitons. Finalists for the title included the families of Karen Aiken, Eulette Crockett, Julie Ott, and Denise and Becky Woods.

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Toni Gillman CELEBRATES Eleanor Roosevelt in Crabtree Convocation GILLMAN ' S GIFT-Tonl Gillman presents a preview of the Eleanor Crabtree Convo- cation in the Little Theatre during the annual Family Day celebration at Cowley. (Photo by Jeff Krueger) This is fine here, she said as s squatted slightly to sit in an imagina chair on the empty stage. She walk slowly around the as if she had been th( a 1000 times before. I work right across, she said raisii her arm to each bright light shining on t deserted stage that would be transform into Eleanor Roosevelt ' s sitting room. That ' s good, right in here, she said she made sure each light was set exact where it needed to be. It feels lovel; she said. None of her props had been unload yet, but it did not matter. Visualizing I scene was second nature to her. I ' m at my desk here, she said peeri again into the bright lights. That fe lovely. Yes, she said decidedly. The play Eleanor: A Celebration not foreign to Toni Gillman, veter actress. Now, in its fourth season, t play was commissioned in 1984 on r 100th birthday, as a celebration of t great contributions Eleanor Roosevi made to this country. Gillman began her theatrical career the age on four, as to help support 1 family. I didn ' t decide it (to go into acting) all, the Depression did, recalled Gillma I probably would have gone to a fi girl ' s school, been totally spoiled by i mother and father, she imagined. My father was a concert violinist, ur the Depression came. During t Depression, they were not hiring cone violinists, they were closing do 1 symphony orchestras, so my mother a father had two talented little girls w could act at age four and six. We would have lost our home exec for something called HOLC, the Hoi Owner ' s Loan Corporation. We were ch actresses who worked impulsively a because of that work we were able to p off our HOLC, said Gillman. Theatre was not the only medii Gillman and her sister, Lucy, w involved in at a young age. We went into radio. We did so opera ' s and vaudeville and then I went Broadway at the age of 10 from Chicaj Chicago was my home, recalled Gillnru I went to Broadway to do my first pi and that was with Will Geer, gramps Fall ' 87