Hendrix College - Troubadour Yearbook (Conway, AR)

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M, ws Joe DiPietro and oLhcr faithful volunteers dial with Lheir fingers crossed hoping for even a small donation. Karen Beller reaches out to someone's wallet, Student Life I if H' i' W We up 5 ,ff ,,..m,W.n. ,, lui' .in-M.. if

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A conglomeration of our very own students perform a H1 hit without any practice. Randy Hill and Bob Edwards perform like genuine urban cowboys. Tony Canova charms the women with a solo. Encore! Encore! student Life

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Even freshmen do their share to help raise money. Even after punching all those numbers Hardin Hal1's winning team still had enough strength to devour several pizzas. akini Contributions a SNA . Why did I decide to take part in the sixth annual Student National Alumni Phonathon? Was it an expres- sion of selfless devotion to this great institution? Nope. Was it for the glory and honor of my dorm in the team competition? 'Fraid not. Was it to get free food and drink, a free T-shirt, a free personal long-distance call at the end of the evening, and the chance to win cash or restaurant gift certificates? Yep. The four-day phonathon CFeb. 14-175, held in the Campus Center, was organized by the Development Office to raise S30,000 for the Alumni Loyalty Fund. Eight teams-seven dorm teams plus an off-campus team-were involved. Two teams manned the thirty phones each night, soliciting pledges from Hendrix alumni all over the country. Various team and individual prizes were offered for most pledges and most pledge money. All participants received SNAP T-shirts. Each volunteer was given a stack of cards. Each one had the name, address and phone number of an alum, along with his or her year of graduation and previous donation record. After receiv- ing instructions and watching an asinine training video from AT8cT, we set to work. Within moments, a young lady to my left bubbled, One hundred dollars? Oh, thank you very much, sir! She rang the little bell in front of her Coh, yeah: whenever we got a pledge, we were supposed to ring a little bell in front of usj. I got no answer at the first five num- bers I called. Pledges were pouring in all over the placeg with all the ringing, it sounded like Quasimodo running amok in a bell tower. I finally got an answer from an '84 grad. Hello, sir. I'm a sophomore here at Hendrix and we're in the middle of our national alumni phonathon. Would you . . . Apparently, he was still paying off student loans-he hung up. Bing! The guy next to me got fifty dollars. The next alum I got in touch with counseled troubled youths in Mena. He had less money than most college students, but he pledged ten dollars. A long dry spell set in after that call. I went through a sheaf of Fort Smith addresses and a few from Little Rock. Then came some Star City addresses. Most all of them had graduated before the end of World War II. One of them had al939 graduation date. The address was the Star City Nursing Home. I could just picture it: Could you unhook Mr. Smith from the respirator for a minute so he can make a pledge? I skipped that one. From six o'clock to eight o'clock I hadn't raised enough money to buy two begonias for the Fausett flower beds. Then came the next card: a doctor in Little Rock who had donated S500 yearly for three years running. I called on several deities, asking that he please, please be at home. Ring. Ring. Ring. Hello? There IS a God! Good evening, sir. I'm a sophomore here at Hendrix. We're holding our annual alumni phonathon to raise 330,000 for the Alumni Loyalty Fund. I see you've been very generous in the past Yeah, I'll give five hundred. Bing bing bing bill. That stupid little bell got bashed good. Thank you very much, sir.! I enthused. The next call netted a hundred. Then came a string of pledges from Jonesboro alums. I was working that bell over. By the end of the evening, the two teams had netted quite a chunk of money. Overall, the phonathon surpassed the goal of S30,000 by more than Sl7,000. Everyone was pleased. And we were able to do it without harassing any residents of the Star City Nursing Home. and... Student Life 27