Evangel University - Lancer Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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Harvest festival emcees Candy Petersoh, junior, and lim Adams, senior, began the evening with a song which captured the theme of the program, Go on Believing. Robert A group of female students under the direction of zany conductor, Gloria Grabill, jun- ior, sing We Are Available - giving up hinting about what they want guys to know. 54 Harvest Festival ttGo On Believingh truth through laughter Game Skit, and We;Aret lntimidation. Taking the Available Women's Chorus i crowd back three decades to C'Great is Our Lonelinessm, One Fine Day was Renee which was a rebuttal to the i Blythe, sophomore, and her dating situation on campus. ' Skit writers were Ken Richmond, junior, Ron Brendel, sophomore, and Angie Munsie, senior. Brendel enjoyed working with Harvest Festival, stating, Harvest Fes- tival helped merget involved in student activities that I'd not had a chance to be in before. It ended up to be a lot of fun . . and rewarding. Actors for the skits were sophomores RoseMarie Jacob, Bruce Stan- ton, Jeff Neal, Nancy Sullivan, Deanna Ramsey, and juniors Linda Pistone, and Joe Sauro. The highlights of the even- ing were, of course, the music groups. Sophomore Dave Lee opened the show as he wooed the audience with You Are the Sunshine of My Life. Tim Bias and company then crazed the crowd with Off the Wall. Debi Parrish, sophomore, fol- lowed with a flute solo of t '505 group. Tracy Zinn and Mike Buell, seniors, topped off the first act with a rendition of I Still Want You. Act Two was a Tribute to the '705. Doug Ream, trumpet soloist for the first song, Rocky, commented, I was impressed with the amount of talent on this campus and really enjoyed being in it tHarvest FestivaD, but I was disappointed that some of the groups that had talent and auditioned weren't chosen because they didn't fit into the theme. Randy Robertson, senior, and Melody Spina, junior, lulled everyone with Bread's Everything I Own. Tom Beard, freshman, followed with an oral essay on the events of 1970's. Then it was the Third Act. The evening had passed quick- 'ly. No major catastrophes, no 'ed major disappointments. Kelly Flaherty, sophomore, was the opening act, and he didn't let the crowd down as he present- the theme for finals, Breakdown Dead Ahead. Sweet Surrender added its harmony to the program with Too Much Heaven. Throughout the show, junior Candy Peterson and senior Jim Adams shared the stage as emcees. Appearing between the groups and skits, they conversed about topics which led into the next perfor- mance. I Go On Believing was appropriately concluded with Home from The Wiz, sung by freshman Dierdre Brown, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, played by Mark Wannenmacher, senior. An important event of the Spinters' Spree weekend, Har- vest Festival again gave students an evening of quality entertainment. 6 -lelINeaI

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Go On Believing truth through laughter, seriousness, and disgust multicolored rainbow A hinted of the promises of things to come. Not an everyday, run-of-the-mill rainbow, but a brightly created arch illustrated the 1980 Har- vest Festival, Go On Believ- ing, an Activities Board Production. On November 25, at 8 p.m., over 1000 students jammed into the Activities Building to view this spec- tacular show. The audience was swept through moments of laughter, moments of serious- ness, and moments of disgust. The show ran smoothly. When one act ended, another was onstage ready to perform. The backstage crew pushed themselves to keep things going. Sophomore Debbie Car- lucci handled the ropes as di- rector while Randy Robert- son, senior, was her right-hand man. Juniors Lon Flippo and Dave Torgeson produced the show with senior Dick Van Huss, executive producer. The backdrop was created by so- phomore Cathie Meeks. Talent and creativity flooded the stage as students expressed themselves through song and skits. Each one pleased different groups of people but the two that received the most applause were junior Les Ray and the X-rays with their version of Rocky, and l'He's So Shy by sophomores Sue Shipman, Kim Norwood, and junior Sandy Turnbull. Controversy sparked over the football-player section of the That's Incredible skit. Members of Krause Second South, in a letter to the Lance, wrote, We feel the latest ridicule, at Harvest Festival, was not only in poor taste las all the football cuts arel, but also unjust since the team had not returned from their game to defend themselves. They were upset about the long- time jokes about the team and coach Denny Duron. Others took it all in fun. Sophomore Phil Walton, commented, I thought it was well-planned, imaginative and well done. Too many people took it tthe football commentsl seriously. That's not its purpose. skits which related to student life: the Library Skit C'Shut up! l, the Evangel College ID. Card Skit C'Don't leave your room without it. l, the Dating r There were several lunior Brenton Reeves and freshman Torey Zilch accompany sophomore Kelly Flaherty as he sings Break Down Dead Ahead. Ken Richmond, junior, is carried off by library policemen, sophomores Ron Brendel and Bruce Stanton under the command of junior Jeff Neal. Photo by Robert Veil. Harvest Festival 53

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