Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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C ,U ss,, RX W .',9U ' 9997 CliTTon Shearer, alThough no longer a sTudenT aT Grayson, was in charge oT mosT oT The air Time during The summer and is now working aT KSHN PM sTaTion in Sherman. Craig Burnell, whose radio name is Tom Shock, has The aTTernoon and evening Time sloT devoTed To easy lisTening. Shock is - on The air Trom Tour Till six Monday. Wednesday and Friday. The radio sTaTion provides The sTudenTs wiTh acTual on The air Training in preparaTion Tor a proTessional career KGCC-FM Began lTs FourTh Year On The Air KGCC-FM, Grayson CounTy College radio sTaTion, began iTs TourTh year on The air, broadcasTing various caTegories oT music Trom easy lisTening To soul and hard 'roclc aT 89.7 MHZ on The FM band. The sTaTion broadcasTed Trom noon unTil midnighT giving The news every hour and The news headlines every halT hour. Each OT The I4 disc jockeys were responsible Tor The ediTing and announcing OT The news during his pro- gram. KGCC also broadcasTed all oT The home games and some oT The selecTed ouT-oT-Town games. This year There were a varieTy oT courses oTTered in The area oT Radio STa- Tion Technology ranging Trom AdverTising To Programming To STaTion Management The radio sTaTion was designed To give sTudenTs pracTice under acTual broadcasTing condiTions. I4

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,. ATTer The prinT iudging, The winning phoTographs were displayed and The sTudenTs had an opporTuniTy To Tall: To The iudges. Judges Toi The TirsT conTesT held April I8, l97O were: Jaclc Groves, Sherman DemocraT phoTographer7 Bobby Monroe, owner oT Monroe STudio and Bill Norman, ediTor oT The Perrin AFB newspaper. Judges Tor The second conTesT held May l, I97l were: Allen Crenshaw, owner o' Crenshaw STudio7 Jack Groves, Sherman De-mocraT phoTographer: and Bob Campblell, KXll-TX news manager. PhoTo ConTesT Displayed STudenT TaIen+s CaTegories were divided inTo sporTs, news, commer- cial, porTraiT, absTracT, picTo- rial and open. All TirsT place winners won a ribbon and SIO. The prinT judged BesT of Show wenT To Jan Folse The TirsT year, and Sam Chapin The second year. The phoTo conTesT is spon- sored annually by The Press Club. l Winners received ribbons Tor TirsT place, second place, Third place and honorable menTion. 42

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44 llliilll, li i T Several moods were evidenT aT The all day rehearsal in preparaTion Tor The Third annual choral clinic concerT Three imporTanT Tig ures are recognizable. Dr. John Raymond, guesT conducTor lTop leTTl, Dr. Charles McAdams. GCC band direcTor below Dr Ray mondl and David PeTrash, GCC organ and piano insTrucTor, who accompanied The choirs, lrighTl. Dr. John Raymond ConducTed Third Annual Choral Clinic Dr. John Raymond, direcTor oT music aT LaTayeTTe Col- lege, was The guesT conducTor Tor The Third annual cho- ral clinic held in The Fine ArTs AudiTorium OCT. 28. More Than 400 area high school and iunior high sTu- denTs, combined wiTh The GCC choir, aTTended The all- day rehearsal in preparaTion Tor The concerT held The same evening. D-r. Raymond used The Fred Waring Technique oT com- bining music and words in preparing The religious, paTri- oTic and popular music Tor concerT. Only an experienced conducTor could have coordinaTed 400 voices Trom seven diTTerenT schools in one day The way Dr. John Raymond did OcT. 28. An audience oT approximaTely 600 persons waTched The combined eTTorTs oT The choirs aT The concerT held ThaT evening in The AudiTorium. 'Tl :tal