Eastern New Mexico University - Silver Pack Yearbook (Portales, NM)

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asm f 'N ' - gfllld and jeremy Ian Whitcomb provided one of the evenings lighter moments with his rendition of You Know You Really Turn Me On. Britain's famed team of Chad and jeremy had the chance to prove their true showmanship during a tranquil appearance at the University. For the first major entertainment of the year Eastern' students enjoyed a quiet evening with Chad an jeremy. Besides the famed British duo, who headline the program, Ian Whitcomb, The Standells, and th mob provided the remaining portion of music. Wel over 2,000 students packed the student union ballroo only to come away somewhat milled when the soun system mysteriously went dead. For sometime after ward rumor' had it that the amplifier failure had bee the work of saboteurs working for the community con cert association but this was never conclusively proven The mob presented a frantic and well-polished performance. I 4

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if fi ggi M' 1 Dr. B. june West, Professor of English, spoke before a joint assembly of the Leader's Retreat delegates and offered some vivid insights into the workings of Student government. Amr. I

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Khinvwrv ! To conform or not to conform? That was the question predominant in the season's iirst major production, Rhinosceros, presented by Eastern's Department of Drama and directed by Dr. Don Wilmeth. Rhinosceros, written by the French playwright Eugene Ionesco, is an absurd comedy with points of high drama, traversing from the sublime to the ridiculous, left the audience pondering their social values. The play has its setting, at the present, in a small French town. It progresses from the ap- pearance of a single rhinosceros to a point in the drama where all the townspeople except one, believe it fashionable to become Rhino- sceroses. Members of the cast are jeff Cantrell fjeanjg Don Criss flierengerlg Mary Beth Williams fDaisylg Judy Blome fMrs. Boueflg Doug Nancarrow CLogicianJg Ralfanita Overton CGrocer's wifelg Linda Bachicha twaitresslg Walter Giddings f0ld Gentlemanlg Larry Schultz fGrocerlg along with Marcia Mozey, Ronnie Devenport, Timothy Rizzuto, Mark Stanley and Roger Thomas. Rhinos were portrayed by Barbara Farr, Beverly Edwards, Rhonda Morgan, Helen Mueller, and Ernest Sanchez. And she's otf!! Berenger and his fellow workers look on in amazement as Mrs. Bouef rides away on the back of her husband who has changed into a Rhino. As jean changes Berenger exclaims, Why . . . you're a Rhino- scerosll!! Berenger and Daisy console each other as they come to the stark realization that they are the only re- maining humans. Public concem continues to grow about the Transfor- mations and the discussions become more and more heated at Berenger's ofhce.