McNeese State University - Log Yearbook (Lake Charles, LA)

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experiences of their lives. From the day you first arrive, you'll find yourself learning, stretching your own potential, your perspectives of yourself and the world around you, and challenging ‘ your own abilities, limitations and thoughts. [ The program seeks to involve you with people, places and events that you may have never lJ Up With People is a program that offers young people one of the most unique educational @ experienced, while helping you to evaluate and understand those experiences. Peo e As you develop yourself, you will be enriching those around you, helping to build bridges of understanding and communication among the peoples and cultures of the world. One of Up © With People’s goals is to help you mature and develop yourself so that when you return home | you will be able to better contribute to society. i | Each year over 400 students, aged 17-25, travel in Up with People’s five international casts. During Up With People’s first fourteen years, over 6,000 young men and women from thirty | nations have visited forty-two countries. Many are just out of high school or college. Others | are taking a year from their formal studies to participate in the program. } Each year the average cast member will travel an estimated 32,000 miles, across North, Cen- tral and South America and Europe. In each city of your tour, you will live with a local family | sharing in their interests, lifestyles and customs. By the year’s end, you will be able to call nearly | 80 families around the world your own. Performances around the world include the Royal Albert Hall (London); the 1972 Olympic Games (Munich); Super Bowl XIV (Pasadena); the White Houe; Carnegie Hall; China, Spain, Poland, Mexico, Canada and South America. Up With People was the first multi-national youth group to visit the People’s Republic of China since 1949. Up With People has become known the world over through its two-hour musical produc- tion. The show has a broad appeal to people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities. Whether it is performing in Spanish, French, English or Flemmish, the cast becomes a part of its audience instilling a special spirit that is uniquely Up With People’s. The two-hour performance combines fast-paced choreography with music that varies from traditional to contemporary, thought provoking, to whimsical. A twelve-piece band adds the power that is a trademark of the Up With People show. Events ¢ 37

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Mr. McNeese 198 1-82 Jay Glynn, a senior Psychology major was elected Mr. McNeese, the first in the school’s history. At McNeese, Jay has been actively in- volved in all aspects of campus life. He is a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and serves as this year’s Rush chairman. Also, Jay is head cheerleader and a student director for orientation. Under Student Government, Jay serves as director of Student Affairs and serves as a stu- dent representative on the Discipline and Grade Appeals Committees. Jay, because of his active involvemen in McNeese, has been awarded the Catholic Stu- dent Center Scholarship the past two semesters and has become a member of Blue Key National Honor Society for men. 36 ¢ Fvents

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38 ¢ Events Presents Black History Month AMERICA FOR ALL Speaker's Day Program February 11, 1982 Parra Ballroom Chairpersons Frank Wesley Catherine Blanchard Talent and Fashion Show February 12, 1982 Parra Ballroom Chairpersons Kay Cormier Robert Joubert Soyna LeBlanc Mass Program February 13 Main Auditorium Chairpersons Jimmy Stevens Donna Pharr Moses Jones Gospel Night February 26 Parra Ballroom Chairpersons: Jeffrey Jenkins Michael Lofton College Bow! February 18 Baker Auditorium Chairman Charles Bellard