Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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The 75th Homecoming activities toasted not only the vitality of three- quarters of a century life, but also a record celebration. The activities were kicked off with the robing of Queen Cindy Shi rack and a tug-of-war across Big Creek Friday afternoon. Later that evening, Bob Hope provided a mono- logue for the Homecoming Concert. Saturday morning downs, balloons, floats and a festive spirit accompanied the Diamond Jubilee Historical Parade. Arranged by decades, entries included 20 floats, 19 bands, a mounted cavalry, a full-size covered wagon, buggies, antique cars and several walking entries. The two-mile caravan summed up the largest parade in Hays’ history. Old Hays City, a float sponsored by the Greeks portraying the frontier days of Hays, won the $1 00 Sweepstakes prize, Both students and a large turnout of alumni filled Lewis Field Stadium for the afternoon football game. However, the overflowing stadium and the unu- sually warm day weren’t enough for the Tigers as they lost to Emporia State, 10-0. To help celebrate the Diamond Jubi- lee Homecoming. Mary Maude Moore, a former music instructor, and 25 of her former students reunited their singing group the tmpromptues. The alumni performed after the game and at two alumni-sponsored dances that night. The large return of alumni, the huge 75th Homecoming parade, and the reunion of many people made Home- coming 77 the celebration it was. 1. During ihe band ' s half-time performance at the Homecoming Game, Mike McCleery, Smilh Center freshman, performs for a packed sta- dium. 2. Tug-of-war contests held over Big Creek proved disastrous for Mike Reynolds. Natoma junior, and Tony Beck, Hutchinson sen- ior, as they pull Ihemselves out of the mucky water, 3, A mounted cavalry rides through Main Street in the longest parade in Hays ' history.

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1- A big alumni turnout at the Homecoming Game tilted the stands as they returned to help celebrate the Diamond Jubilee 2, Homecoming Queen Cindy Shi rack. Hutchinson senior, reigns over the queen s float in the Main Street parade 20 Homecoming

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By Michele Meckel 9:26. You have four minutes to race to your first class, It’s pouring rain and there ' s not a place to park . . . anywhere. Quickly, you pull off on a side street, park in the yellow zone and sprint to class. The parking problem on the FHS campus was not a new issue. Even though the campus police issued 3,500 parking tickets during the fall semester, students continued to squeeze into the over-full parking lots. There were parking spots for 832 cars on campus. This appeared to be a large number of spaces except there were 1 .450 parking permits issued first semester, which drastically limited the number of spaces available. In explaining this disparity between number of permits issued and parking spaces available, Traffic Control Chief Don Brown said, There’s plenty of parking if people were willing to walk a reasonable distance. No one’s attuned to walking, though. Everybody’s got a car and everybody wants to park right next to the buildings. ' 1 There was plenty of space on the university ' s 4,1 60 acres tor a huge parking metropolis; however, students already had a parking lot with a 600-car capacity. The parking lot at the HPER complex held 600 cars but was seldom used because nobody liked to park there and walk over the bridge. People just plain didn’t like to walk. Well, Fort Hays Staters should consider themselves lucky. We have more parking space at Fort Hays State than any other campus in the state of Kansas, Brown said. At some places the parking lots are located a couple of blocks away from the campus. In addition to the 832 student parking stalls, there were 312 staff parking spots, as well as 12 places for motorcycles, eight visitor spaces in front of Sheridan Colisium, eleven 1 5- minute stalls and ten 30-minute stalls. The grand total of available parking was 1,193 spaces, Brown reported. The nine full-time officers of the traffic department were responsible for the registration of motor vehicles, parking permits and making sure parked cars had the proper identifi- cation. Brown said most parking tickets were issued near the academic square of the campus because students failed to buy permits for parking in this area. The parking permit could be obtained if one lived outside of the area bounded by 17th and Main Street, and carried 26 hours. Then he was eligible for a parking sticker. Permits were issued by the semester and cost $4. The fee was $2 for the summer session and if a student drove a motorcycle, the fee was S2. If a student was physically handicapped or could justify necessity of a vehicle due to unusual circumstances, exceptions to these rules were made. If students thought $4 was a high price to pay, they felt better after discovering the faculty had a registration fee of $8 per semester and $6 for the spring semester.