Gannon University - Lance Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Greek letters on the front — bet it's a frat house. This caveman knows how to keep his cavewoman in line. Want to join a club? The Gannon swingers imbibe at the Pike House. Evolution will just have to wait. Clad in furs and leopard skins, these students opt for a return to simpler times. Defending truth, justice, and the fraternity way . . . Super Pledge. Mark DiVecchio James Donovan Janet L. Drogus David Dublin Seniors 29

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Pi Kappa Alpha I he Pikes, .is the) arc popularly known, kept a bus schedule on campus as well as off campus Socially, the highlight for PKA was when their candidate Lynn Ruffing was elected 8- Ball Homecoming Queen. The Pikes kept the Queen's crown when their candidate Ann Pyle was voted Winter Car- nival Queen. For their weekends, the Pikes kicked off the year with their Wild West and Caveman parties. Off campus, the brothers helped to raise mone) for MD, Cerebral Palsy, and the American Heart Association. The Pikes are under the leadership of President Rusty Vicinieand Vice-President Jeff Robinson. M== — k — — 1 m- .= ••- 4 — --ft - — B - H u — - Mfta ft 1 PfiUfj] ( iml Jean key Robert Die hi Catherine M Dinardo Vicola C. DiPlacido

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Faculty spotlight — Fr. Casimir Lubiak w hen I r Casimir Lubiak started work at the Gannon College Library, the budget for the library was about S2.000. There were onl about 16.000 volumes. There were five workers in the library and the library was confined to the Old Main An- nex where oil ices and the Student Activi- ties Center is now. That was 32 years ago. in 1949. Fr. Lu- biak had graduated from Erie's Cathedral Prep and Baltimore's St. Mary's Seminary and got a Master of Science in Library Sci- ence from Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He began his work at Gannon under Monsignor Lorei, the library's first director. Lubiak became the second director in 1956, and has been in charge ever since, until October 1 980 when he decided to step down. V ith Lubiak as director the library has grown into a full-fledged learning resource center. The budget has grown to almost $300,000. there are over 161,000 volumes and 3 1 .000 bound periodicals. The salaries for workers cost over $200,000. and the li- brary moved into its new home — the Nash Learning Resource Center — in 1973. Fr. Lubiak was one of those who de- signed the new LRC — with Lorei, a couple consultants, faculty and of course, the stu- dents had some ideas , Lubiak said. Lubiak said he wanted the LRC to have an open-air concept. Since Gannon is smack in the center of downtown E rie, all Gannon buildings are surrounded by ce- ment. With the new LRC we wanted to show a little green . Lubiak said. The designers did that by leaving open spaces b the sides of the building, below street level. This allows people on the base- ment level to see trees and plants instead of concrete and cars. A new library was supposed to be one of the first new buildings for Gannon to add to the campus, but classroom space came first Lubiak said. Then when Gannon decided to expand the library a moratoriam was de- clared on federal grants to libraries and other col lege buildings. While Gannon waited, the price of the complex went up $500,000 in 15 months, Lubiak said. The old library was a nice room but it became so crowded we had to , hael W Dunford Devin H Durand Darlene Marca Durante Gary R. Ebner i mors