Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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Sigma pledges had To do many unusual Things during rush week, and iT wasn'T unusual To walk ouT oT class and Tind a Sigma pledge doing a required num- ber oT push-ups and addressing The ac- Tive as Sirl You could look again and see The Tamiliar red cap on his head and a I2-pound brick in his hand. Also included in Their aTTire Tor The week: wearing Their blue leans inside ouT, burlap under Their cloThes and an onion under Their neck. The main acTiv- iTy was compleTe parTicipaTion in WesTern Week. Sigma pledges are readily idenTiTied by Their red sTocking cap and whiTe I2-pound brick wiTh Sigma TheTa Epsilon on The side. OTTen pledges Took a momenT oT soliTude when and where They could Tind iT. Sigma Pledges Follow TradiTion 'm 1 42 lr' Y V ,gfr w.... , . , .. V .N .. V '+-gh K K Ll . . T :'?i.J?f . s, A .fA.. -w,.3,f,s,X 'Si 'Z W K ,, , ,. - , 1 Sigma l'heTa Epsilon pledges could expecT almosT anyThing during Their pledgeship buT one Thing Tor sure They did plenTy oT push ups Every morning beTore eighT o'clock classes, The enTire pledge class was Tound doing pushups in The parking loT OTTen during The day when an acTive came across a pledge, The TirsT Thing ThaT was said was Gummie Taye 4 N. IQ'

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llelfl Eddie Roberfson, direclor of sludenl aclivilies. paused during Weslern Week aclivifies To check ou? ine unusual dress of Becky Nunn, one of flue Samollwrace pledges. Roberlson was The sponsor ol The Sludenf Affairs Comrnillee, coorclinalors of Weslern Week. Since pleclgeslnip occurred during Wesfern Week, anylliing could be expecfed. -lk I. J .li labovel Mary Lou Dusek and Valana Nix, Samollirace pledges, mel 'rlwe reguirernenfs ol dress for one day of pledgeslwip by wearing llieir clollies wrong side oul. nay- ing no less 'rlwan 'rlwree pony 'rails and carrying a pacilier. llei+lSarnoll'1race pledges enlerlained sludenls in llne SUB willw a chorus line. Mosl ol flue lime pledges accepled llneir lasks as lun, buf some of fliern were accompanied willw a red lace.

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., - 15 1 -wr N si s Gerald Locke, daTa processing insTrucTor. explains The TeaTures oT a new card punch machine To Bernice Whaley while oTher insTrucTors beneTiTed Trom The demonsTraTion, :PB QD-'-A . Second Business ExhibiT Held Nov. 4 A picTure Telephone and a Tele-communica- Tion Terminal Tied in by phone wiTh a compuT- er in Dallas were The highlighTs oT The second business exhibiT held Nov. 4 in The Gym. Ap- proximaTely l,OOO people aTTended The exhib- iT To see The machines Trom T5 companies. Among The companies represenTed were: APECO Brashier OTTice Supply, CanTerbury Sales, DicTaphone, l-laring OTTice EquipmenT and lBTv1.0Thers expecTed To exhibiT were Kil- paTriclc Equipment Monroe, PiTney-Bowes, Singer, Sherman OTTice Supply, SouThwesTern Bell, 3M Company, Vern Erickson OTTice Sup- rira -s T'0 aa'l T ply and Xerox CorporaTion. T The exhibiT raised rnone Tor scholarshi s To ' --ss g be presenTed by The Business Division. Among The displays were a picTure-Telephone courTesy oT The Bell Telephone Co. There were Two picTure phones seT up so Two people could Talk To each oTher as iT some disTance aparT. The picTure phones which will be in use in The TuTure were The hiT oT The exhibiT. in 'dvd fi 'Q X- Barry Ellis, Jessica CarTer and John Harrelson examine one oT The many TypewriTers and calculaTors on display Tor sTudenTs and TaculTy during The one day exhibiT. The exhibiT was aTTended by many oT The area high schools.