Joliet Junior College - Shield Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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1976 in N N'5fs:- ,, .xml LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE GEQRGE wn.LlAMs COLLEGE - LAKEGENEVA Every year at the beginning of the fall semester, members of the Student Govemment Association and representatives from the various clubs on campus gather at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for a leadership conference. The students enjoy a weekend at the George Williams College iNorth Campusl which is located on Lake Geneva. The open-air campus, where most of the classes are held outdoors, provides a setting that enriches feelings of unity among the students and gives them a chance to be in close contact with nature. Conscious use of self, which is one of the many ideas that were taught at the conference, is easily accepted when students are dealing with eating, sleeping and learning as a group. Insight into one's self and the others around you is something that slowly but surely gets imprinted on the minds of each individual that attends the weekend symposium. Led into their efforts by Mr. Del Kinney, Coordinator for the leadership conference and teacher at George Williams College, and helped through the stages of the weekend by the sponsors, Dr. Harold McAnich, Dr. and Mrs. Dwight Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pillard and Ms. Carol McMurray, the students from JJC learned much about leadership and dealing with themselves and the other students they would come into contact with in their year to come as student leaders at JJC. Awareness was taught not only in the formal group sessions but also at the informal gatherings that took place after the daytime discussions ended and life continued on into the night. Attending the sessions taught the students ways of dealing with each other's thoughts and ideas. Students continued to practice this in the late night rap sessions around the fireplace in their dorm, through quiet talks down by the lake and while hiking through the woods. Students shared songs, laughter and quiet moments getting to know each other better and getting to know themselves more in depth. The quiet and serious moments were, of course, broken up by such things as the Friday night songfest around the fireplace, with such highlights as Paula Musich's Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road and Carol McMurray's Okie From Muskogee . Saturday afternoon boating and the volleyball games helped counter- balance the tension of many hours of sitting. The weekend was an enlightening one for the students, as well as their sponsors. It was a time of growth, acceptance, awareness and communication.

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