MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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This creatively decorated gingerbread house was displayed in the dining hall during the Christmas season, top right. Ken Runkle and Rich Laren. both seniors, performed their version of the Blues Brothers during Open Stage, center left. Cathy Cramer. Anne Rider. Beth Welty. Liz Simons. Deb Willard. Cheryl Trusler. and Judy Turchi gathered for a picture after Vespers, center right. Dr. Collinwood, Chairman of the Sociology Department, narrated the Madrigal dinners in December, bottom left. Jeanne Harris expressed her satisfaction with a poster of Gregory Harrison in a Kendall Basement room (prior to the flood!), bottom right.

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MICHALSON MONSTER The Michalson Monster for- merly know as the Marker Monster lived on the roof of Marker hall. When Marker hall was torn down, the Monster followed the women, leaving his footprints along the way, down campus to Michalson hall (which had just been complet- ed). The Michalson Monster presently resides on the roof of Michalson. The picture shown here is of the former Marker hall. It has become a tradition for the freshmen to repaint the footprints of the Michalson Monster each year. ' ' AXE MURDER? One of Jeanne Dixon ' s predic- tions has been passed down through the years because all of the details apply to MacMur- ray. She predicted that in a small midwestern town with two small colleges and a state hospital, a murder will take place. This alleged murder will occur on a college campus where two dormitories, (one with pillars), face each other. The dormitory facing east will be the target of an escaped mental patient who, on a rainy Thursday in April, will take an axe and murder half of a floor before being discovered. Fortu- nately this prediction has never been realized. ' ' BLUE LADY A freshman resident of Old Main hall was jilted by her date for Momecoming. She returned to her dorm room to find her date there with her roommate. Sh e killed both of them and then committed suicide by jumping from her window. The Blue Lady is believed to walk the campus wearing the blue gown that she had planned to wear to Momecoming. It is also believed that if she hands a man a black rose ... he will soon die. Ghost Stories 17