Fort Lewis College - Katzima Yearbook (Durango, CO)

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Beginning on a Tuesday morning, art classes splashed yuletide color in seasonal sketches across frosty windows to drape the student center in Christmas trim. In the warm glow of this holiday atmosphere, three freshman women spend an evening in relaxation. Across the room. Westerners ' Club had trimmed a tree to complete the setting for a Christmas show. Bob Krul, Claire Pulliam. John Baughman and Cheto Moreno, along with Barbara Coffman, watched the excitement. At left, Bruce Hesse, Robert Parmenter and Carol McKnight oversee the presents. While the younger set was enchanted by Santa Claus, Fort Lewis students basked in the reflected radiance of Christmas. Ellen Zabel and Karen Miles watched and reminisced.

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Lettermen Set a Star Over Santa Rita Brisk winds pushed last crumbling leaves against fence rows and into concrete corners of the main parking lot; wedged in cold they huddled to rattle an end to autumn. These fallen vestments of vegetation signalled the approach of winter. Dry yet, awaiting a permanent snowfall which would send skiers flying down the slopes of Purgatory, Hesperus and other near-by resorts, the campus withered and cracked and was frozen underfoot. Bright days followed upon gray ones in a game without purpose. But the end of fall trimester, approaching test week, the Yule holiday season, cups of steaming coffee in the cafeteria, along with the many events leading up to the pre-Christmas campus celebrations, turned otherwise dismal days into a period of festive activity Looking forward to the respite of two weeks ' break, a trip home, for most, the Fort Lewis community shared a spirit of convivial gaity among themselves and with others. Joe Wolcott, again after several consecutive years of effort, volunteered to organize and follow through with preparations for Christmas Week events. Organizations and other Fort Lewis groups joined chairman Wolcott in the spirit of the times to transmute a now-barren campus into a wonderland of lights crowned with a Christmas star and to foster an attitude in keeping with the tradition surrounding observance of the day-of-days. Most note- able event in the entire spectrum of colorful weeks was the scheduled arrival of Santa C ' laus to coincide with a special entertainment for the children of Santa Rita. An entire campus, headed by volunteers from among the women of Cooper Hall, joined the sponsoring Lettermens Club to give Santa a helping hand. Each year more students have come to the Lettermen ' s aid with toys and presents for the wide-eyed who otherwise would probably never see Santa. In his perennial role, Letterman Tiny Bender again took the toddlers on his knee and let them bend his ear in confidence while hundreds of helpers kept a long waiting line enter- tained until their big moment. A red letter day for Fort Lewis Letter- men, Saturday, Dec. 11, brought a busload of Santa Rita youngsters to a pre-arranged party at which jolly Tiny Bender was man of the hour in his cool red threads. Barbara Coffman, Joe Fleming, Joanne Turano, Phyllis Cerno and Claire Pulliam lend a hand. Li.-i. ' a ' j ' ' ' ' . - y. ' - ' iM

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A handful of youngsters won the heart of Fort Lewis, Whether Santa Rita children or the philanthropic students enjoyed themselves more is difficult to judge. Below, Mel Smith enters into the fun of a child ' s Christmas; at right, Georgia More- no, Martin Sollars, Joe Evanoski, Jan Valentine, Linda Bick, Candy Hurd, Mel Smith and Mike Wes- brooks cheer Santa ' s work. Arms raised for attention, Director Al Ruland signals the Fort Lewis Choir, joined by a large group of volunteer song- sters, in preparation for a festival of carols outside the president ' s home. This activity moved the Christmas week celebration into its final stages. On hand at the home of President and Mrs. John F. Reed to hear the songs of noel were, from the left, Mrs. Anne Simpson, secretary to the president. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Hart, Dr. and Mrs. John Gee, Dr. and Mrs. John Gill and their daughter Louise, and President and Mrs. John F, Reed. 38