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

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W CBt The clock strikes midnight and the wit- ching hour arrives. The night is filled with demons and witchcraft, ghosts and black director. She ' Rad a rockingirttair -a iro , late at night you could hear ' a rocking M . chair ' s ' sque ' ak, yet there wasD. ' 4 onejQri- - fC - jhfcfj: r sT ■ ■ Workmen in the textbook ' service have heard footsteps, on th JIoof above put my keys in their usual place and went ' f ' thSTir- feUt ?l , •Bwy ' seaj d pg} back to bed. Then my door opened and; bi lding, rjo ojiejlse w reuh4 ' l f g— shut and my keys were Hnhe middle of said . : , ' - r. , -i, III ' Bff III ' M Ill III iIWi I ' ll I |ii ' cats and horror Stories. Although horror the room. Ca . . . - stories are associated with Halloween, Rainwater said she didn ' t know if th? trange phenomena at Hudson. One here at Northwest they filled the air year incident was related to. Roberta, in ny ' ; mmer night while rpaking rounds they . . I :. ..ls. : :J 4., 4.U., U.,„„rt iTr,r. c3ia liohtc nri ir thp hall How PVPr. wfietl ' round . Probably the best known spirit of Nor- thwest is Roberta Steel. On April 2 , 1951, a train car of propane gas exploded ' lacAlthough Maxir aay. Little incidents that happiet ' nd saw lights on in-the.hall. However, whe l Si ' t be explained usually get pinKecton they investigated, water faucets turned ;. themsejyes on and tights flashed on and lerta off,nbut-no one else vyas in the building, ' ave I ' m not generally a superstitious per- oerta. behind the workmen ' s dorm, injuring 30 mchey ' friends or R erta ' s gave I ' m not generally a supersmious per- people Although she was severely burn- minars 6 dispell the rumors, some are son, Long said, but during the summer ed Roberta didn ' t die in the fire. After still convihcfed the spirit walk he halls of - 1 won ' t go dowrvto north first by myself. ' ' ' ■ . -r C i. :«■.. V. ,,fr r- --tlr - l-ii i= tkorr returning to school she died ninemonths later from internal complications her dorm. , The sorority dornfi resulting from the explosion. Rumors of residence hall with an unearthly guest Roberta ' s ghost soon filled the hall nam- Hudson Hall ' s north first floor is home fo ed in her honor. « -. the spirit of a girl who hung herself year i. .. The fr rnity houses also have their thefenit ' -gfiosts- The 33-room Delta Chi house is eu in ner riunur. a- I let someone in at 3 o ' clockj ' the first night Roberta ' s chair was out of the building, R.A. Candy Rainwater id. I residence hall with an unearthly guest. ' where the spirit of .Uiflan Townsend Hudson Hall ' s north first floor is home for ' mares her residence. Although the the spirit of a girl who hung herself years stories of Lillian ' s body disappearing dur- You can hear her most often in the summer, said Terry Long, Hudson Hall ing--fier wake have been discredited, many of the men think she does exist. I believe she ' s here, , Don Sernald

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Patty Ryon puts the finishing touches on her clown head in preparation for the parade. -Photo by D. Shimon Dale DeBourge (40) drove the bail for a Bearcat touchdown in the second quarter. DeBourge won the Don Black Memorial Trophy for his 125-vard rushing performance. -Photo by S. Setley Northwest sees t€ the iticvies dyshack, while clowns from Phi Sigma Epsilon, Hudson Hall and Alpha Sigma Alpha received first place in group clowns. Delta Zeta and the Student Am- bassadors tied for first place in the jalopy competition. Each of our girls was required to put in 35 hours on the float, Alpha Julie Crit- ten said. Building a float is something just a few people can ' t do. Awards were announced at the Homecoming Dance with the Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity winning overall supremacy, but everyone came out win- ners. Speaking of winners, what about that Bearcat football team? A mighty defense that caused eight tur- novers and the running attack of Dale DeBourge paved the way for the Bearcats in their Homecoming victory over the Lincoln Blue Tigers, 30-6. DeBourge put in a 125-yard rushing performance to earn the Don Black Memorial Trophy for most outstanding Bearcat of the game. So, with the game won, the floats and house decs, de-pomped, and everyone recuperating. Homecoming ' 83 came to an end. It was hard work and a lot of fun, Rick Hunt said, but I ' m glad it ' s all over. -Vicki Batterton House decorations can be as time consuming as floats, Sigma Tau Gamma members had to climb high to stretch chicken wire over a wooden frame before pomping could begin. -Photo by S. McMahon

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)on rises over the towers, the Administra- .Uing is transformed into a haunted castle, by K. Miller fe ' s ci; ' THdnTmmd goTngJo theracks (the menV l£ ' eping ' 4.uarters) vyhen -SQtfi ' eone- else ti ' here, ' I5 F-1- wri ' t7gor5dj l Tem when-T m -a I qng, ' t -.I - .-fVCTrtfto u W rY rGgmT-WiTaii ghcjut . jiTfibouse her favorite haunting place sJier.TaGks wi e maffV--Sfahge things- ' ici« i j|»en ,: Srir% n: ijcSi Stiear, t.Vkias-the on ly ' On ' e sleeping - ' ±tieTi|4e racks when ;.tii£,jbeci. started- shaking, Pat Carroll sai ' dn ' Tp ut--rnyr ■ f -handon the ceiling to rriake sure the bed ■ was moving. The rocking stopped and started again. I walked out of the racK aiid ran downstairs. Delta Chi President Chuck Henderson fold- what happened to the Delta Chi president and vice-president before the 1980 Christmas break. Both officers were ■responsible for making a finafchetk and lock-up of the house before leaving on Jareak: After doing this, they were getting i-tnto tlifeir car and noticed thpJights iR the, racks were still on. They went back in and ' shut the lights off; but -when they •ivalked back to the car, tfaey saw the lights ' were on again. Once more they walked up to the racks to shut them off. Fqr the third time they went to the car, ' t the lights in the racks were on again. iiis-1[me the officers went to the base- menf ' and shut off the electrical breaker itQ,:the racks. They ot in the car and 5drd e alound the block only to find the flights ori gain vvhen theyu assed ' the ' house,: ■ : ' ' ' ■ r ' !J Sb£ . -- Foptstep5!:.!..-daopbanging ' -fniss ' m ' g-iSr.3 ' yr 0 are notching f a|. the-Sigma Tau-Camma hou ft ;-- Judje tberfBuilt the h - M TOO years ago and is said tai|@l ung-s himself on the thir|Li|BQ%.yaU: President Dennis Cory said j HB »- The room is t j S BsJ l • s ' cide cor- .. ' Cosy said two dr three other f rnilies ' lived in the house beiforetheTausand ex- perienced the same pi oblems. The members of Delta Sigma Phi Sshare .their bouse with Herman, a former resi- , dent vvho committed suicide in the ' house. ,, Herman is believed to have been seen at least OWce. Alumtjtis Barry Seth and his ' parents were at the house one Parent ' s Day. Seih ' s mother was carrying a box up to his room when an elderly man offered to help her. She went back downstairs and asked who the man was. Seih asked what man. When they went back upstairs to see who he was, the man was gone, and the box was in the middle of the room. Tau Kappa Epsilon also has a ghost. In nthe late ' 60s, fraternity member Slade jac !? lumped into shallow water and trol OTis neck. He was carried to the TKE 3 ouse where he died. Sl e is a very friendly, but c»JschievQua»gna$t. When asked how he is doing: the lights flicker in response. He always .unplugs alarm clocks, too, Brad Thienisaid. He likes to get people in troubliP ' Whether you - Reve in ghosts and the supernatural or pt is up to each in- divkjual. But before rushing to hasty con- clusions and discrediting the spirits of Northwest, 4 yourself this: Wh it is it that goes ' bS? . ' in th ' enight? ' '