Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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Students both cried and laughed as they said their final good-byes to old friends Monday night February 28, many classes and meetings were either cut short or cancelled all together The reason: the staff of 4077 MASH were packing their duffle bags and heading home The well known series of eleven years made its final appearance on the television. Just as If good friends were leaving, we all said our adieus to our favorite members of MASH Dorms and apartments alike threw MASH parties in the honor of the senes' final show The rooms were packed, and all televisions were set on CBS channels. At 8:28 all sets were turned on. and tuned in Many rooms were packed full of people dressed in basic green, crowded around the tiny eight or nine inch screens The countdown began, then the show began with the usual sounds from the musical theme Suicide is Painless' and the sight of the two choppers landing in the center field. For the next two and a half hours, students both cried and laughed as each of their favorite characters prepared to depart As they watched Colonel Potter riding off on his horse and B.J Honeycut boarding the chopper; everyone was really waiting for their best loved character. Hawk-eye. to make his finale When B.J. Honeycut looked down from his chopper and saw Good-bye spelled out with rocks, no one had to look to the comer of the screen to know that they would see Hawk-eye walking away in the distance. The T V set was turned off by someone, but no one could remember who. as they all sat momentarily stunned Thoughts of the past two and a half hours flashed through their minds Corporal Klinger, after spending the past eleven years trying to convince his commanding officers that he was crazy so he could go home, was staying in Korea Love does strange things, even in television The most upsetting of all seemed to be when Hawk-eye cracked-up momentarily over a past experience Rich Yednock said that he felt it was a cheap shot on the viewers' emotions as well as the characters The show was over For two and a half hours everyone's emotions were taken for a ride as the characters they had known since they were children walked off the screen Everyone in the room began to recall past shows better than they could remember the Laws of Relativity they'd learned in science class just hours before Yet things soon looked a little brighter again as student realized that tomorrow at 5:00. 5:30, 7:00. and 7:30 they could once again see all their old friends acting out the old familiar scripts they loved MASH would not die that easily. Susan Seibel B.J., Hawkey , and Hotlips join the rest of the cast. crew, and fans in bidding farewell to one of the longest running television series In history — M A S H Many students grew up with the familiar faces of the characters on the show, and put aside studies and nearly everything else to attend M'A’S'H parties and watch the final episode. — Artwork by Floyd Runkle 28 M A-S H

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A typical sight when Saturday morning dawned on February II. were the mounds of snow piled on motorists' cats.—Photo By Gary Ebcrsole It was not a joke; it really happened. The sidewalks and streets were unpassable. cars were buried, and students were stranded in the twenty-four inch snowfall Snow-covered sidewalks, buried cars, unshoveled steps and students dressed in warm clothes painted the scene at the college on Friday. February 10 The campus was transformed from its normal appearance into a beautiful winter wonderland In a very short time The snow started early in the morning and continued throughout the entire day The roads became very treacherous and sidewalks slippery, however classes were not cancelled until 3:00 p m The snow spoiled the plans of many students who had wanted to travel home for the weekend They were actually stranded at Millersville for a whole weekend' Junior Kim Larson was one of the few students who did make it home Yet once she had made it home she was stranded there instead of being able to take the ski trip to the Poconos that she had planned This was also the weekend of the Mardi Gras Ball held in Gordinier. which forced all the students to eat in Lyle Dining Hall Since the snow had stranded most people on campus, the dining hall became very crowded with the overload of people during meals Students had to wait in long lines for almost an hour before they received their meals Then they had to try to find a place to sit down to eat' Students found many ways to entertain themselves during this snowstorm Many dug out their boots, hats, and mittens from the back of their closets and headed for the snow Snowmen sprung up everywhere and snowball battles raged between the dorms College students became little kids again as they began to play in the snow. Some couples took romantic walks among the falling flakes, but they too had to dodge a snowball now and then Since the sidewalks were not cleared, it was difficult to walk from one place to another Yet soon little paths were made all over campus by many students tramping over the snow to visit friends or pick up a pizza. Every now and then someone got pushed into the snowbank along the side of the path by a Joking friend By Saturday the campus started to wake up again Students began to dig their cars out from the mounds of snow that were buried in the parking lots. Some attacked this major task by themselves. Others begged help from their friends and offered a pizza or trip to Park City In exchange for the help The snow was shoveled with everything from a wastebasket to the traditional snow shovel Eventually, paths were cleared all over campus and students were finally able to make it to the dining hall, library and dorms without climbing through waist high snow. Classes resumed as normal on Monday morning On the way to class, students ex changed many funny stones about how they survived the great 24 inch snowfall that had paralyzed the campus over the weekend l.aura Recce

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