Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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HOMECOMING 1984 Homecoming ' 84 Go for the Gold featured many exciting and funfilled events. The festivities began on Thursday, November 1 with the Silly Olympics held in the Shuford Gymnasium. Six teams participted in this event. The games included: Food-Eating Contest, Balloon Race, Wheelbarrow Race, Amoeba Race, and Belching Contest. The teams in order of their finish were: the OXEN and the Stay Puffs (tied for first place); Luke ' s Drag-Ins; Mac ' s Musicians; Doozies; and PBL ' ers. The Doozies won the Best Sportmanship award. Activities continued on Friday with the Class of 1 959 Anniversary Dinner at the Lake Hickory Country Club, a pep rally in the Shuford Gymnasium, and a Homecoming Dance in the Cromer Center Entertainment at the dance was provided by the band, A Taste of Honey. Saturday was the busiest day of the Homecoming weekend. The activities included: Class and Student Body Reunions; the tradition- al Homecoming Parade; Hall of Fame Inductions; and a Buffet Luncheon in the L-R Cafeteria. The parade featured the Lenoir-Rhyne Band as well as several local high school bands. Many of the organizations on campus made floats or some other type of entry for the parade. In the float contest, Theta Chi Fraternity won first place honors. Pi Kappa Phi Fraterni- ty won second, and Circle K won third. Julianne McNamara, a member of the 1984 Olympic Gymnastic Team, served as Grand Marshall in the parade. In addition to riding in the parade, she signed autographs, held a news conference, and 28 On Campus

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ANTIGONE Antigone, the Lenoir- Rhyne Playmakers ' first production of the year transformed the Belk Centrum into a modern day Nicaragua. The walls were decorated with graffiti such as Viva Creon. The buildings used as props were quite shabby which lead the viewer to believe that the buildings had been bombed. Armed guards dressed in army fatigues patrolled the area checking passports. This version of the play was successful in giving a Classical Greek Tragedy a relevant meaning in today ' s world. 1 . , . .Jeremy Fisher i . . .Cathy Butler tBeth Westbrook r. . . Richard Eller ■. .James Alwood ,!.... Jeff Walker ... Meg Fleming . . Lucille Mantak . . .Sean Brennan Brinderlyn Johnson Virginia Link Robert Mercatante John McNeil . Larry Hutchinson John Millholland Curtis Ca.skell On Campus 27

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attended the football game while on cam- pus. Another celebrity featured in the pa- rade was Miss Claudia Ward, a 1983 Len- oir-Rhyne graduate. Claudia was crowned Miss Caldwell County during the summer of 1984. The highlight of the day and of the en- tire weekend was the crowning of the Homecoming Queen, Ms. Cyndi Chaney. Cyndi was chosen from a court of 23 lovely young ladies to receive this honor. Cyndi, a senior political science and history ma- jor, represented the Theta Chi Fraternity on the Homecoming Court. Ms. Julie Ac- quino, 1983 Homecoming Queen crowned Cyndi. The first runner-up was Ms. Mindy Rohrbach representing Tau Kappa Epsi- lon Fraternity, and the second runner-up could On Campus 29