Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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SCOT OLYMPICS, held each year during the spring, is open to any fraternity, sorority or independent team that wishes to participate in the various athletic events of rather unusual sorts. Pictured here are two sorority members competing in the Ride Your Bike the Slowest contest. A good crowd has gathered to cheer them on to victory. Scot Olympics The Kappa Delta girls kicked off the weekend at the Scot ' s Sing held in the gymnasium, Friday night, May 12. Tlie chmax of Scot Olympics came Saturday night when Monmouth College ' s own Sound of Five and Swinging Scots performed for the campus com- munity. 23 t=

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Winter Weekend, Monmouth ' s second holiday, was held over a four day period, February 10 through February 13. Be- ginning Thursday night with an all- school dance in the cafeteria featuring Point Bland, Winter Weekend contin- ued on tlirough the long weekend. Fri- day classes were canceled at the pro- fessor ' s own discretion. That night in the Coffee House, David Craig, an MC stu- dent was billed for folk singing. The higlilight of the weekend was The Win- ter Consort musical group. Consisting of six young men who have developed an original style for instrumental music, the Consort plays classical, African and Eastern influences in jazz free-form man- ner. Following The Winter Consort performance, the cafeteria was trans- formed into a Reno-like atmosphere for aU students. A band, Your Father ' s Moustache played appropriate music to go along with a Roulette wheel, craps, high-lo dice and other casino games at hand. The Student Center Board con- cluded the weekend Sunday night with a film The Learning Tree shown in the auditorium. Winter Weekend 22

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Olympics Prove Amusing Chet Rodenbush displays unique style for catching ... a tossed egg! Mary Fogaity laps up cream pie in the Pie Eating contest. Hf. 24