Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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Inslruclor Dave Bauman and his daughter Kathleen play some hot icnnis. PulntinK on the Alumni House, Rick Eulcr takes the chance to go shirtless and work on a tan. Klephanis were among the 30 different animals who came to town with the Car- son and Barnes Circus. Summer School 21

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The news hit Maryville during those lazy, crazy da ys of summer making it not such a quiet summer. Summer school enrollment rose almost five percent from 1980, said Linda Girard, registrar. She said the increased enrollment was not com- pletely unexpected. Northwest ' s enrollment has been rising for the past few years. This might be due to the unemploy- ment rate. If students are not able to find summer jobs, they are more likely to come back to school. University students were not the only ones to come to Northwest dur- ing the summer months. Junior high and high school students also invaded the campus for week-long workshops and camps, which included basketball, computers, tennis, volyeball, cheerleading and music. Hundreds of students from Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska came to Northwest for these camps. During the middle of July, Nor- thwest ' s President B.D. Owens at- tended a five-day conference in Costa Rica. Owens was sponsored by the Costa Rican government to attend a worldwide conference of university presidents held in San Jose. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the establishment of a university for peace in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican government pro- posed the idea of a university for peace to the United Nations who ap- proved the idea, Owens was one of 250 university presidents from around the world to be invited to the conference. The Costa Rican government paid for the trip. I feel the university for peace is a remarkable idea, Owens said. Peace is a critical and essential part of our world today. By focus- ing academics on peace, world rela- tions may have a chance to improve. After most of the 1981-82 school year pre-registration had been com- pleted, it was decided last summer to change Franken Hall, normally a women ' s residence hall, to proximi- ty housing. This decision came in early June from Bruce Wake, direc- tor of housing. Wake said that this decision was made after seeing the large numbers of pre-registerd students and to decrease the need for more housing for male students. Also in early June, Northwest ' s practice football fields were the site of the Carson and Barnes Circus, sponsored by the Maryville Jaycees. The circus performed two shows on Northwest ' s campus. The circus, which featured 61 diesel trucks for carrying equipment and 35 motor homes which provided sleeping quarters for the circus employees, showed Northwest students and Maryville citizens near- ly 30 different animals in its five- ring show, along with acts on the flying trapeze. On the international scene. Nor- thwest students making their way through the hot Maryville summer, were able to witness a royal wedding on July 29. It was the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and it took place in St. Paul ' s Cathedral in London. About 2,500 guests, possibly a million onlookers along the route of the royal proces- sion and 750 millions others wat- ching on television at home witness- ed the historical event. Television news coverage covered, on the average, a six-hour time span the morning of the wedding. On the local scene. Northwest students were shocked when the small Northwest Missouri town of Skidmore made national headlines. On July 10, Kenneth Rex McElroy, a 47-year-old Skidmore farmer, was shot while sitting in his pickup on the town ' s main street by a group of vigilantes. -Anne Henry 20 Summer School I,

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The Harlem Globetrotter ' s bench enter- tains the crowd with their version of a Stevie Wonder song. Twiggy Sanders and Tiny Pinder show their basketball skills by out-shooting and out-jumping their opponent. Sweet Lou Dunbar takes time from the game to visit with young fans. Dunbar replaced the popular Meadowlark Lemon on the team. IjTOr ?B? T ■• ' v% ' ;