Lee College - Vindauga Yearbook (Cleveland, TN)

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IFiT(§§!hi They were the conquerors. And the year was anything but Whether working their way prepackaged. Whether it was playing through school dressed as restau- a game of intramural football for rant chickens or coping with a an afternoon thrill, attending a difficult roommate, following a class Flames game coached by Randy schedule, attending an obscure Steele ' or en in S Don Bowdle in , . , , a systematic theology exam, it was concert, or learning about the J c , „ ... ., ,. „ , ° a year of challenging the ordinary college s past, students unwrapped tQ fmd a spedal feeling inside the uniqueness of the year with But life wasn t comp i e tely serious. determination, verve, ingenuity, and Going out on the town, playing a the old college try . game of Trivial Pursuit, lunching at For all, the time was one of Jenkins ' or spending a simple after- questioning, decision- making and explor- ing. Career choices, financial concerns, social relationships, political ideals and religious beliefs were all examined as each person grew and made plans for the future. As the year-and-a- half passed, students discovered special faculty, faculty discov- ered special students, and together, the units that comprised the college discovered each other. Randy Johnson entertains friends as he speaks about his latest preaching adven- tures in Great Britian. noon on Church Street smoothed out the edges. And individuality was the key. Whether club member or inde- pendents, black or white, students were unified, but still dis- tinctly distinguished. As students worked together as one giant unit, the goals, pur- suits, thoughts, ac- tions, and feelings of some 1200 individuals comprised a year of unparalleled out- reach and discov- ery — a year of the: 4 TLt RTTLf Of PA66ACX; 4 OPENING

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A KI sw siSimimSimcs It could have been Vanderbilt, or the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, or for that matter any one of a million other schools. Instead, it was Lee, where the stu- dent body returned to Cleveland this year with more pageantry than Media attention was focused on the campus as we inaugurated a new President and as we prayed for Pavel Ignatov, the imprisoned Bulgarian pastor exiled for preach- ing the Gospel. Students became aware of the out- the swallows migrating to Capistrano. The freshman, complete with his side world as Ronald Reagan made new collegiate wardrobe, was com- the first ma J or blunder of his ad- fortable to find his dorm room and a kind word from whoever was available. The upperclassman, on the other hand, was not satisfied with any- thing less than meet- ing each of his old friends and exchang- ing stories of the summer. Each was soon to realize that this year would be unlike any other. Some spent their Sunday afternoons hiking to Benton Falls on top of Chilhowee; the less daring set- tled for the thrill of researching a paper in the newly opened Pentecostal Resource Center. ministration, as AIDS became a wide- spread epidemic in the hetero- sexual community, as the accep- tance and use of President Charles Paul Conn leaves inaugu- COCaine reached epi- ration to face the challenge of the coming year . demic proportions, and as crack be- came a household word. It was a year in which every student was confronted with new challenges. It was a year of out- reach and discovery, a year with surprises that would set it apart. For the students, fac- ulty and administra- tors it was a year of change, change that would be brought about through the: a fit RTfL6 Of PA66A E ' OPENING 3

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EWi Fredda Richmond and Beth Wynkoop enjoy an afternoon stroll on Church Street. Meshelle Morris shows off her new yellow top. ( «•.; » ? FwilTl Sharon Echols, Susan Alford, Sharon Killingsworth, and Laura Roman reinact the opening to the Monkees TV show without singing the song. Graduating senior, Ed Jacox rips the head off of Scot Carter ' s body after Scot told him thirty-two year old peo- ple weren ' t allow to graduate. . BESfl HB OPENING 5