Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Hour between classes . . . lecture notes to be learned . . . Corky Buckley's car becomes a place for concentration. Student Center table, coffee cup, and book . . . home away from home for the day student. Page 24 Void of Conformity Sack lunches and the student center... traffic jams on the bridge... home cooked meals each night and on Sunday . . . late drives home after meetings and rehearsals . . . without umbrellas in unexpected rain . . . termed day students, staying after dark . . . those who commute to college. Breakfast is home cooked, too, but it comes at six thirty . . . trips are timed to meet eight o'clock clasess . . . a book for- gotten must wait until tomorrow ... car trouble is catastrophic . . . classes missed in the mornings require red tape. Some have apartments, but most live at home. A ll have friends in the dorms... .. lockers in the corridor .. . activity cards of a different color ... a representative on the Student Board . .. and a crowd all their own amid student center tables. They com- pose a special segment in the campus cross- section. Caught on campus in an unexpected cloud- burst, Linda Sweeney dashes from car to College Hall.

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Upon Being An Elam Man Jungle sounds on the stereo next door... slow breathing roommate sound asleep on the top bunk... laughter across the hall... . somewhere somebody strums a ukulele . . . the shower almost drowns the sound . . mind wanders from mathematical problem to coed's picture on the desk... door closes on good intentions and scholarly attempts. In the lobby .. . all phones in use . . . walk across campus ... end up at Shoney's with a ''Big Boy and coke .. . back to door of girls’ dorm... short session with boys on second floor . . . midnight long past .. . blackout . . . suddenly the morning after an evening in Elam Hall. 4 | u College life causes Lipscomb males to become an inde- pendent breed. To sleep, study, or shine shoes .. . the decisions made in Elam late at night. A dime and seven dials . . . to make Saturday night's date. Page 23

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| German assignments must wait until Fran and Tom Davis have developed Diapers and Daddy . . . denote new role for Charles Pigg. dishwater hands. Homework Without ear Teeanere) get together as do the Floyd Merritts, and Richard Texts Maturity brings marriage and the married come to college. Mostly they are men. Sometimes the wife comes, too, but usually she works elsewhere toward the Ph.T. (‘'put- ting hubby through'’) degree. Budgets and babies present extra respon- sibilities. Husbands help working wives with dishes and diapers. Wives type term papers and patiently listen to next Sunday's sermon. Meals are a cooperative effort, designed to be edible and economical. To- gether married students are working to- ward a goal. Entertainment need not be expensive to be enjoyable the couples learn by means of television sets and chess boards. Sometimes it is difficult, always it is fun, but in the end a college diploma makes the effort worth the while. Page 25