Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Chance makes brothers, hearts make friends. Melanie Bricker James Brown Michael Bruni June Diane Buckler Scniors 25

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Student spotlight — Rona Nesbit At the 1981 Commencement of Gannon I niversity, it wasn't hard to see that Rona Nesbit was a winner. At the ceremony, she w as the recipient of the Gannon University Medal of Honor, the Richard Beyer Memo- rial Award, and the Joe Luckey Service ward. These honors, for character, lead- ership, scholarship, outstanding intercolle- giate athletic participation and outstanding dedication and service to Gannon, were al- most too much for Rona to hold in her hands as she continued to return to the po- dium to accept them. She walked away with an armful of placques, a degree, and a shower of applause. And Rona Nesbit de- served them all. In her four years at Gannon, Rona is probably best known for her participation on the Gannon Women's Basketball Team. I n 1 980-8 1 , she broke the 2,000 mark for a career point total, breaking all season re- cords at Gannon. The 5'5 guard, one of the team captains, set high standards for the Gannon Basketball club, and has been termed to have had the greatest career in Lady Knight history. Tammy I Hl stone Daniel A Harden Robert A Bowser Katherine M Brewer

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V h.it uc cill ProgTCM il the exchjnge oi one Nuisance .mother NutUDOC Hcnr H.incIihA Nils Mary I ColUfU B Syott Craft Gannon — the year in review Nineteen Eighty-Eightyone was a year Gannon spent dealing with campus addi- tions and improvements, institutional gov- ernance changes, and faculty compensation increases. But the really interesting news - the stuff that got students talking — dealt with Gannon not getting a concert and trying to get rid of the Zurn Hall flasher. At the beginning of the school year the Student Government Association (SGA) allocated money for a concert — even though the previous year's Livingston Tay- lor concert attracted less than 500 people and lost over $4,000. The organizers of the T aylor concert said it gave the concert com- mittee a foot in the door. Last September the SGA surveyed students about a concert and received these statistics: - 96% thought a concert should be part of the social calendar. - 94% would support a concert at Gannon. - 95% would be willing to spend $5.00 to see such a concert. The SGA then went about trying to line up a group for a spring concert. One group cancelled, then another, then another. Fi- nally Gannon settled on The Michael Stan- ley Band — and this time Gannon can- celled, reportedly because Stanley raised its price. The SGA decided it wasn't worth it and spent the money elsewhere. Students were forced to look elsewhere for entertainment — and some found it in the story of the flasher in Zurn Hall. One morning during October break, while Dean Halit Kosar's secretary, Lois Spcice, was working in her third floor of- fice, a man came in, exposed himself and masturbated, Speice said. Speice called the switchboard for help and two security people showed up five Rufu i 1 ( ross Janie Culp Patricia Ann Dahlkemper Jane F Dailey