Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Shampoo and Shakespeare combine when Lipscombs’ cliff dwellers learn to live and work together. Heather Huffard and Dana Gray try coed co-existance. Scientists are not the only ones interested in the moon. “Et Tu Maggie B?” Special Allegiance Divisible By ‘Three The gregarious nature of dorm life, Lipscomb style. Pragmatic, profound, or moon-gazing ac- tivities provided precious storehouses of knowledge and memory. Symbols reminded us; bongos, ukes, diverting activities and cuckoo clocks warred against the desire for excellence. Our reasons for rapt attention to lunar philos- ophy were often not for next day’s Nat. Sci. class. We learned to give, to share, to tolerate, and to love, all the more a part of Lipscomb because we lived with her as our matriarch and constant companion. Sewell, Johnson, or Fanning Hall was our home, and we felt a special allegiance to our particular residence hall. We waited in line for room reservations, anxious to move or remain. During spring quarter we spent every spare moment in tying to outdo a comrade’s Coppertone job. Week-end campuses, demerits, and disapprov- ing looks grew increasingly scarce as we learned time-budgeting and independence. On our own, and yet peculiarly reliant upon one another, our community learned to live for real . . . to live for purpose and to love every minute of life. Page 29

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Elam’s Quadrangle Masculine Retreat “Who used all the hot water?” “Somebody’s got my English Leather!!” Elam’s quadrangle wakes up. Heavy lidded males suffering from last night’s cramming or session of solving international crises begin the day. College home for freshman is Old Elam, but upper-classmen friends in the newer half became increasingly popular as the weather warmed and studying or socializing found a better set in com- fortable air-conditioned rooms. Some experienced independence for the first time. Appreciation grew for the bed-makers and ironers of the past as laundry piled up and room checks found their housekeeping weighed in the balance and found wanting. Time was a problem, too. Trips to Jim Dandy for bologna and bread and automotive seminars seemed less important to Elamintes headed for cal- culus with half-completed assignments. Most de- veloped discipline after grades came out. Water fights, practical jokes, soul-sharing . . . man-style. Much midnight oil is burned in Elam as well as in the women’s dorms as students such as Alpha Tim Walker work late to have that paper in on time. Creative Armstrong storage produces chaos at dawn. Charles Bobo, Nathan Blake, Mel Brown, Winston Pickett, Bob “Happy” Carlton and Johnny Swang coordinate picking and pecking for fellow Elamites. Page 28

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Loading the car for a week-end home or a day of classes is typical procedure for Carol and Eddie Hendrix, and more fun when shared as newly marrieds. Gold Bands Add New Dimension of Sharing No one sets a time table for love, and love and marriage and families come before graduation day for several students. Business and administra- tive offices were staffed by young wives earning grocery money and Ph.T’s (Putting Hubby Through). Matching gold bands were comple- mented with matching black robes as the Hendrix, Forgy, Demonbreun, and Biggs families received bachelor degrees. Half the family got behind in some cases as the Mrs.’s education was postponed by work toward the maternity degree at home. An attic apartment was “our home” and varnish and enthusiasm created lovely pieces of the Early Matrimony period. Ground beef appeared in fifty different dishes, movies became a state oc- casion, curlers changed an illusion, but they were together when other couples parted on dormitory steps. Everything was a greater joy or a lesser disap- pointment because it was shared. Grades improved for most couples; sociologists say this is from the settling effect. Perhaps it is also mutual encourage- ment to excellence that these partners give each other, a “better together than alone.” Marriage means more than the wedding... it also includes everyday things, the commonplace, which take on that special meaning by sharing of interests.