Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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prize heifer. My bathing suit kept “ ' “seleS 8 SUng by SUZanne Higd0 “ ridin g “P- was dreadful, and I was shaking like a leaf. Why did I let myself get talked into this. DEAR DIARY: It ' s over!!! Lisa Rives won. She did a great job on her song- no one would have guessed she had been sick all week. Tm glad it ' s over. I almost tripped over my gown and I smiled so much 111 never be able to smile again. My grades are the pits. Guess HI have to get back to normal now. I wonder if I wore falsies and changed my talent for next year how Td do? Phyllis Robinson plays the piano for her talent.

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■ Keep on smilin ' ... JUDGeS 4RG W4TCH-ING Three of the award winners for the night: Cindy Henry, Miss Congeniality; Lisa Rives, talent win- ner; Beverly Gilder, Scholastic Award. DEAR DIARY: Guess what- today Lakiss Social tribe asked me to represent them in the Miss Mississippi College Pageant. They’re going to pay the thirty bucks and everything. But boy- am I scared! DEAR DIARY: Well, we’re getting organized. Practices after practices after practices. I’m contestant number 18-the very last! I’ve got ten pounds to lose in a month. Why does cafeteria food look so good all of a sudden? DEAR DIARY: I can’t decide what to do for my talent! I want to sing and play the piano and do a dramatic reading. I wonder if there’s anyway to combine all three? DEAR DIARY: Ooops! I overdid it with the sunlamp last night and, ouch, are the back of my legs cooked! We had practice tonight in swimsuits and I was never so shocked-some of the girls are actually going to wear falsies in their swimsuits. DEAR DIARY: Tried on my dress today— I’d thought I was losing weight. No more desserts. I’ll have to start doing my exercises twice a day. I hope the people below me don’t mind my jumping rope. DEAR DIARY: I can’t believe how close the pageant is. I’ve really got to work on my talent. I’ve been working on my song-and-dance routine and it’s still got some rough spots. I’ve really gotten to know some neat girls. Why, Ann isn’t stuck up at all! DEAR DIARY: Today was the interview and swimsuit competition. I felt so sorry for Lisa Rives. Someone stole the dress she was going to wear for the interview and she had to rush out and buy one. One of the judges was late- overdue plane— and we had to sit and be nervous for an hour and a half longer than we were supposed to. By the time of the interview our noses were shiny and our lip stick was gone. I could hardly talk over the lump in my throat. How are you supposed to answer the question, Why do you want to be in the pageant?” By that time I wanted to call the whole thing off. I did better until Mr. Hart asked me about the Panama Canal issue. I told him I’d never been to Panama so I couldn’t say. The swimsuit was worse. I felt like a Singing I Got Love” from Purlie , Lisa Rives presents her award winning talent. Incorporating a song and dance routine to the song Mame”, Cecelia Boyd presents her talents.

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Refrigerator rental went up this year but money is no object when it comes to hunger pains. Jennings resident Kathy Saunders enjoys the use of her refrigerator in keeping good food at hand. Karen Dennis and Cindi Nix prove themselves to be Hederman’s most loving roommates in a scuffle in the Hederman-Gunter lobby. For many people, coming to college creates a form of culture shock , and not the least among these shocks is learning to live with a roommate. The search for the perfect roommate takes as much time as the search for the perfect mate, and partners are changed with a rate as fast or faster as the rising divorce rate. Actually, learning to live with a roommate can be a learning experience: learning how to sleep when she has to type her term paper until three in the morning, or when he has to study for the Big test and the only way he can stay awake is to nibble on popcorn. Guys get a taste of taking care of themselves for perhaps the first time. For many, cleaning up for Parent ' s Day is the only room cleaning of the semester— it ' s amazing what can grow in a dirty glass left unattended for three weeks. Doing the laundry may be a first, and many learn the hard way not to wash their underwear with their new blue jeans in hot water, or not to put half a box of detergent in the machine at a time. Girls have the good fortune of having a hundred sisters, a couple of mothers, and some are even fortunate enough to have a dorm daddy. Sharing is a big part of dorm life, and on any day three of your friends may be wearing a part of your wardrobe. With the addition of phone jacks in all the rooms, many girls take advantage of their time and money to do things besides studying. There have been some changes in the rules on signing out, and all are required to leave their dorm card in the lobby when they leave campus. The girls are still under the protection of having hours to be locked in their dorms. Dorm life is definitely a unique experience in the lives of the individuals who are fortunate enough to experience it. For many, college life wouldn ' t be college life if it weren ' t for the fun, crazy, mundane, trying, frustrating, and growing experiences of having to live with and learn from so many completely different people all at once. Due to the extremely small rooms in Mary Nelson Dorm, girls have to take advantage of any avail- able space for such domestic chores as washing and ironing. 14 Busy at work, sophomore Greg Allday finds bal- ancing his checkbook as hard as balancing his QPA.