Ohio Northern University - Northern Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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For the first time ever there was a nightclub atmosphere in the town of Ada. Students no longer needed to travel to the Ohio Theater in Lima to hear a good band, eat hors d’oeuvres and drink mocktails because the Student Planning Committee added a new campus creation — the T.G.I.F. Club. This club was open the first Friday of every month in the White Bear Inn and was a non-alcoholic alternative for weekend entertainment. Students enjoyed the nightclub atmosphere because of the chance to enjoy good entertainment including jazz bands and comedians. To enhance the atmosphere decorations were used, waiters and waitresses wore black and white, menus and glasses were printed with the T.G.I.F. Club logo and name, and the club required proper dress (no shorts, T-shirts or jeans) of all students in attendance. The T.G.I.F. Club gave Ada something it has never had before — a place to eat, drink and socialize at a very cheap price (only .50C a drink) and in a nice atmosphere so the students can truly enjoy the weekend and Thank God that it’s Friday. Above left: Jim Schneider gives the impression of a professional waiter as he serves the mocktails. Working behind the bar, Joyce Riedercr learns the tech¬ nique of mixing mocktails. Waiters and waitresses for the first T.G.I.F. Club: Tony Garifo. Bobby Obernreyer, Tim Snapp, Jennifer Nagy and Wends Sor- vari.

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“How will everything fit into a room that seems smaller than my closet at home? “Where do we want the tiny refrigerator?” “How can we possibly lay carpeting with bunk beds in the room?” “How are we going to cover up the ugly brick walls? Every student has experienced these questions on Moving day”. The very first moving day as a freshman seems to be the worst. Yet after a year the rooms don’t seem as small, all the appliances and posters have been purchased and the dreams of a bigger room for your sophomore year make the dorm room seem bearable. This year on September 5th, the freshmen with the help of their parents hauled in box after box to prepare for life as a college student. Then two days later, fewer parents were present as upperclassmen prepared their rooms for another year. For all students there are a few classic Learning to open a mailbox is a basic skill re¬ quired for freshmen including Amy Smith and Lisa Demarinis. decisions to be made every year. Such as: Should the beds be bunked? If so, who sleeps on the top bunk? And who gets the desk next to the window? These are relatively easy decisions for upperclassmen to make but the freshmen (who only met their roommates an hour ago) may not find them as easy. Meeting your roommate, making friends, saying good-bye to your parents and sharing a bathroom with thirty other people are just a few other things a freshman may not find easy to do. Yet by the following year, during the same moving day, no one seems to remember these same fears again. There is also the opposite day at the end of the year when the students find it takes twice as many boxes to move back home as it did to move in. Maybe it would be easier to live in Ada all year round? Members of U.R.A.C. including Patty Aron and Ed McKell enjoy helping freshmen move into their halls.

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Bobby Obermeyer takes a break with Mike Geiger and Jim Reinheimer. Entertainment at the club includes such bands as Forecast. Mark Buck and Stcpli Hinkle enjoy Ihcir inocktails in a quiet booth. ONU’s Mascot helps Denise Tangncy work as hostess at TGIF.