Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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0x A PRAE-MEDICORUM is an organization for pre-medical majors This Club sponsored a benefit walk for cardiac rehabiliation patients in conjunction with the More- head Clinic. PHOTO BY TIM CONN Prae-Medicorum is, as the name sug- gests, an organization of pre-medical ma- jors, but the club also has some members who are interested in medicine, but haven't fully decided on a major. At least twice a year the club has repre- sentatives from different medical schools speak on the requirements for their schools. Each year the Prae-Medicorum also makes it a point to visit one of the two The Pre-veterinary Medicine Club iPsi Lambda Mul is a pre-professional club that strives to help prepare its members to face a career in veterinary medicine. The club is open to all interested pre-vet students who have a GPA of 2.5 or better. The club has been active since 1979, when it was reacti- vated after a four year absence. Each year, the club holds a practice inter- view board to help students pre are to face the interviews necessary for a mission to vet school. Area vets give talks on their experiences with interview boards and vet school. The club helps active club members pay for their trave expenses to interviews at veterinarian colleges. In order to ay for this and their expenses, the club hol 5 fund rais- ing events. This often includes running a concession stand at special events at the university farm. One event in which the club is active is the Logging Show. Last year, the show was held at the Derrickson Agri- cultural Complex in late September. ? STUDENTS interested in veterinary medicine may join the Pre-veterinary Medicine Club. Carolyn Bratcher works with one of the dogs at the kennel. This club helps active club members pay for their travel ex- penses to interviews at veterinarian colleges. PHOTO BY TIM CONN medical schools in Kentucky. Their visits are alternated between the University of Ken- tucky and the University of Louisville. This year the trip was to Louisville. In early October, several of the members joined efforts with the Morehead Clinic to sponsor a benefit walk for cardiac rehabili- tation patients. This was not a charity event, but a chance for heart patients to show they can still be active. The patients walked for three miles around the football field. ?

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The second floor of Lappin Hall houses one of the many clubs on campus which contributes help to students in their chosen field. Mu Gamma Sigma, the Morehead Geological Society, not only gives its mem- bers a chance to explore earth's past, pre- sent, and future, but is one of the most active organizations. The Geological Society believes in up- holding a professional level of merit through the members' class work, field studies, and orderliness. llAlthough we're undergraduates, we try our best to portray professionalism in the field of Geology, said Dawana Johnson, a senior from Greenup Co. and president of the club. The club is composed of students major- ing or minoring in Geology and Earth Sci- ence, or those who just show an interest in 94 Academics geology. There are many annual events the club sponsors, like a fall banquet which includes a prominent speaker in the field of geology. Last fall the banquet featured Patrick Good- ing, a petroleum geologist with the Ken- tucky Geological Survey. The club also has a spring picnic, local and national field trips to state parks, and weekend retreats. Last se- mester the Morehead Geological Society toured Mammouth Cave National Park. Each summer the club organizes a two- to-three week trip to distant areas of geOe logical interest. in the summer of '86, the club explored states like Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, ldaho, and Montana They visited places such as the Yellowstone National Park and the Great Rocky Moun- tains. This summer, the Geological Society will look at geology in Washington DC, the northern portion of Maryland, and Virginia. Some of the sites they will visit are the Smithsonian Institute and the United States Geological Survey Headquarters. Mu Gamma Sigma holds fundraisers, at- tends meetings of geological societies, sponsors guest speakers, and invites other geology clubs at different colleges to visit Morehead. This year the Geological Society will host a visit from the George Washington Univer- sity Geology Club. Mu Gamma Sigma also participates in a science fair in which an award is given to an elementary, grade school, and high school student in the category of Geology or Earth Science. Charles E. Mason, an assistant professor of Geology is the advisor for the club. BY ERIC HICKMAN ? THE GEOLOGICAL Society believes in upholding a professional level of merit through the members' Class work, field studies, and orderliness. Student Todd Stewart is shown some helpful techniques by the advi- sor of the club, Professor Greens PHOTO BY IACK SIMPSON.

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a e o 6 ti . - owner was willing to help us finance it. visor with Huffman, said it became clear after hat the newly acquired house wouldn't work. y and all you'd have to do was stand there and r you wanted to or hot, the fioors were that ked around and decided, iWe have 22 acres; our own house?' Griffith said. be considered was lack of funds. nWe had to way we could afford a house was through of saving, and doing ail the work we could aid, with enthusiasm by members and they began obs to raise the money. For two summers, the o, donating whatever they couid afford, and om calendar sates and the annual SAiE fund- ding account. With a financial base of $2,400, n to step number two - house pians. e committee made up of aii members meeting e on floor plans. None of us were really sure e looked at various plans and then we added eas. i remember one guy looking at the 17 ft. om and saying, xiHey, i like this, and part of ned, Griffith said. we of planning, it was spring and at last actual e to begin. The fraternity laid out the foundae ging it by hand. The floor plan was 24x48, but mbers were afraid it Wouldn't be large enough they left room for later additions. lem we ran into was the plumbing. We had to f copper fittings to put under concrete and w ightest idea where to find them or even what e finaiiy traced them down in Louisviiie, Grif- it do the wiring ourselves. We had a local nd show us how to run wires and then he fixed ked everything out. We ail learned a bit about 0 i V SAEs put in the floor on the second levei, the and finished the bathrooms before finding gain. But the basic shape of the house was hird year the fraternity put their 22 acres to harvesting green bell peppers which netted ' r . aw. i ,. , . a some problems, said Brent Sparks. iiWe put the blower in bac - wards and instead of sucking the coid air out and blowing in the warm air, it did the opposite. Sparks is a senior government major from Morehead who feels the time spent working on the house had allowed him to get to know his fraternity brothers better. uA lot of fraternity members only see each other in social situations. Here, we have to work together and you really get to know someone when you work along side of the, Sparks said. , Terry niggy White, a junior with a doubie major of construction and government, agrees with Sparks that working on the house is one of the things he likes the most about being an SAE. White said, iiSome of my best memories are of working on this house with my friends, and later tailing iies about whet we've actually done on it. The house today is large and grey, the outside resembling a renovated barn more than the sprawling piantation houses associ- ated with most fraternity houses. Double doors lead into a large panelled room with concrete floors, To the immediate ieft is a telephone booth. Some had added his own brand of humor with a large green street sign welcoming at! to athin St. The walls are cayered with pledge paddles and photos of former classes and there is, of course, a long tiled bar which runs half the length of the original room. A later addition proclaims its use with the predomi' nant setting of the DJ system in front of the fireplace. A step up and the eye is drawn to the vaulted ceiiing inspired by the surrouhding of the early planning committee. A back door ieads to a iarge concrete patio made possible with the financiai backihg of Richard Baxter, former dean of business at MSU and a member of the fraternity before they were the national charter SAE's and were known as the Campus Ciub at MSU. Back inside, two fiights of stairs iead to a tiled foyer which is usually crowded with partiers waiting their tum in the bathroomst Another room, recently renovated with a hardwood floor and paneiled walls, awaits further funding to build sheives and cases that will make it the fraternity trophy room. The memories of working onthis house come easiiy to the SAE members, and it is obvious they are proud of what they have created. xSure its not perfectThings aren't too levei. They start out that way, but you get a bunch of guys and a bunch of beer and they dont end up that way, Sparks explained. nBut the important thing is that it's our house. We did i . BY TERESA HILL ?