Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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mib acHuittfiS fugWtglcfc jjiAst tmw Screaming Hoyt Axton at the Hallowe ' en Hootenanny. rs i B Last fall the Greeks, in an attempt to present them- selves to the freshmen, and to have some fun doing it, sponsored several fall events. A member of Phi Delta Theta spoke at the Greek Banquet ; they sponsored a Hooten- anny on October 3 1 , featuring Hoyt Axton, composer of Green- back Dollar, and the Gaslight Singers. The Greek Ball found each Greek organization in a section of the dining hall, decorat ing for the successful evening ahead. 17 Greek banquet features guest speaker

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itt lnU)t l M CmJlJ COIM ttV U04UH0ut{( The night of October 14, 1963, will be burned deep into the memory of every Monmouth College student, for on that night three fires were set within a three-hour period. The first alarm was set at 1 1 p.m., the last at 2 a.m. Targets were the Monmouth Lum- ber Company, the Fullerton Lumber Company, and the Metal Culvert Company. College students were aroused from bed and from their studies by the alarms. Soon townspeople came by to pick up students to take them to the sites of the fires and to guard the hospital, nursing home, and other places threatened to be leveled by the mad arsonist. Women students could not help being sucked in by the pandemonium, as the radio station was off the air and they could see several different flames from the upper stories of their dorms. The Green Army was hastily mobilized to guard the Monmouth campus. At 3 :30 in the morning, given special permission, WRAM signed on the air to try to calm the panic-stricken town. Following more threats by the arsonist, owners of businesses hired college students to guard their establishments during the nig ht. The arsonist announced that Wednesday night he was going to set more fires, and the FCC granted station WRAM permission to stay on the air all night. News of the fire spread and was featured on Huntley-Brinkley and most newspapers across the country. Even Monmouth students in Europe heard of the fires !

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Se tUviS gefc | a ct C(xB e JDfi Two Monmouth students, through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, spent a semester at Argonne National Laboratory. Bruce Conard and Dean Peterson, shown at left, made use of the chance to get firsthand experience in their respective fields, under study from ACM faculty members and spending half their time as research assistants. Dean is looking into high temperature vapor analysis equipment which is used to determine the vapor pressures of ferrous chloride at high tem- peratures. Another ACM program avail- able to Monmouth students is the Urban Education Program. Five Monmouth students, Kay Buss, Lumi Crabtree, Barb Danecke, Gail Fitton, and Lisa Nicholas spent first term teaching in a typical and an under- privileged school in the Chicago Public Schools. 18 Barb Danecke taught at Byrd Elementary school, an experimental school in Chicago.