LaGrange College - Quadrangle Yearbook (Lagrange, GA)

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The 1980 Quadrangle A-17 Jimmy Carter A— Learns About . The White House Hostages in Iran Mt. St. Helens Inflation Cuban Immigration The Draft ABSCAM Russian Intervention Olympic Boycott Unemployment SALT Talks

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A- 16 The 1980 Quadrangle Street (Boatwright) dorm assisted thej building maintenance people by paint- ing the walls of the hall for them. This 1 was characteristic of a rash of incidents; unique to 1980 at Broad Street. A high speed chase scene must) have been filmed one night on the! campus as several police cars paraded quickly across the Hill. The reason is still unknown. As a part of their induction into one of the sororities, the pledges stood up at dinner one evening and sang one of their fight songs. Immediately following the chorus, several members of the drama clique stood in their chairs and announced, Who the hell cares!??! Editor ' s note: The drama depart- ment personnel (who are firm in their opinions about Greek organizations) revived the drama faternity Alpha Psi Omega. If it ' s not . . . (continued from p. 6) The Student Government Associa- tion elections were held Winter quarter, and the contest turned into a race to see which candidate could get up the most posters before election day. Candidates also competed to see how large a banner could be hung at nearly any location on the campus. Each candidate chose which office he would like to seek - either directly or indirectly - with the exception of one of the office-seekers. This candidate was not allowed to seek the office he wanted to seek because he did not meet one of the requirements dealing with hours completed at LaGrange College. This same candidate was allowed to run in last year ' s election in lieu of the ineligibility for the office. The SGA serves all the students on the campus, and perhaps candidates should be allowed to run for the offices for which they feel they are qualified. An unknown (to us) candidate entered the race and had a good showing of voters at the ballot box. This candidate was none other than Mr. Ansley Snodgrass, who ran on a platform more solid than most of the other candidates. At one of the dinner hours shortly after the new SGA officers were elected, Stevie Carder announced that he would be making his last announcement in his term of office. The students in the cafeteria exploded with applause. Did you ever return to your dorm room after studying Chinese history for eight hours only to find that two people already occupied one of the beds? The residents of second floor Broad

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A-18 The 1980 Quadrangle Forty-five Years On The Hill Remembered Well By Instructor At the end of spring quarter 1980, Miss Katherine Cline will have com- pleted her forty-fifth year at LaGrange College. Four of those forty-five years were spent as a student at the college when the hill consisted only of the Dobbs, Hawkes, and Smith buildings. Upon graduation from LC, Miss Cline attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Baltimore for 2 years, later returning to LaGrange to take a teaching position at the college. The enrollment at that time was approxima- tely one hundred students, all female. Those were the depression years, when the music department was small and pay was meagre. Miss Cline sup- plemented her teacher ' s salary with fees from private lessons. Over the course of the years Miss Cline has taught music to four blind students. Her first, a girl named Helen, she remembers particularly well. Helen ' s majors, reported Miss Cline, were piano organ and English. She was an excellent student and performed well on recitals. To prevent mishaps, Helen was taught the exact number of steps from a spot off stage to the piano bench. Awed audiences would hold their breaths, amazed, as Helen made her way unfalteringly to the bench to play her pieces on recital. Of course, Miss Cline pointed out, everything Helen played was memorized. She would learn the mechanics of each hand separately, finally combining them to complete the process. Miss Cline learned a great deal from her sightless pupils, even learning M. White LaGrange College music instructor Katherine Cline remembers Dobbs fire, teaching blind students, and a once state-noted music department in which she taught both piano and organ. to understand a little braille. The 1950 ' s and early 1960 ' s herald- ed the peak of the music department at LaGrange College. Included were band, orchestra, and chorus. From poor instruments and out-of-tune pianos Miss Cline, with the help of Dr. Waights Henry, built the music depart- ment to include approximately ten pianos and a fifty thousand dollar pipe organ. The new organ, a Moller which required six weeks for installment, replaced an old organ built in the 1800 ' s and purchased from the Capital Theater. In spite of all this equipment, the music major was dropped from LaGrange College in the spring of 1967. Miss Cline recollected the Dobbs fire of November, 1970, when the oldest building on campus was destroyed. Along with Dobbs went nine pianos and the eleven-year old pipe organ, valued then at seventy thousand dollars. A Steinway Grand piano, previously taken to Dr. Estes ' residence, escaped along with a Baby Grand which was kept in the President ' s house. Today the Steinway Grand resides in Smith Parlor and the smaller piano is in use in Miss Cline ' s studio. These two pianos are all that remain of the early days of the music department at LC. Katherine Cline, however, has wonderful memories of the music department. Proficient on the piano, organ, and violin, she has been an asset to the college in general and to the music department in particular. Asked if she thought the music department would thrive again at LaGrange, Miss Cline replied that, because of the money factor involved, there will probably never be another full fledged music department at LC.