Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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A, utumn. Act One. The stage is set and the actors take their places for another production at Park College. The faculty, acting as director, and the administrators, acting as producer, give the signal. The curtain rises. The scene is a small campus on a hill overlooking the Missouri. The players fight their way through registration lines which eat summer earnings faster than you can say financial aid. They have the necessary props—books, posters to decorate rooms and enough clothes to keep them from doing laundry for a month. The upperclassmen know their parts well and the freshmen will take their cues from them. Dorm room assign¬ ments and apartment leases assure accomadations for the season. Conversations are heard in various build¬ ings across the campus. In MacKay: We need a list of the students in ... In the Pub: Tm taking eighteen hours. Are you taking . . . ? In Copley and Science Hall: Here are your course outlines. Just be¬ cause you ' re allowed three absences ... And in the dorm: Is there ever any hot water? You ' d think for as much as I ' m paying ... And the play progresses. The plot thick¬ ens and the players become individual characters. There are wild Friday nights and dreary Monday mornings. There is so much to see and so much to do. There are times to be together and times to be alone. And the play has just begun.

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Frosh and campus become acquainted P irate Week, the orientation period for incoming freshmen, “overwhelmed the campus newcomers. Senior Sheila Williams, chairperson, said. “The attitude and spirit of the new students was great, Williams said, “and they were so willing to participate in all the activities such as tug-o-war. Brig dance, Mr. Legs contest and the jump in the pool. New on the list of activities was a trip to Worlds of Fun which Williams said had an excellent turnout. Assisting Williams with the activities were Pirates Mike Kelley, Kathy Ragan, Cheryl Fischer, Quentin Jones, Ray Bayne, Kathy Phillips, Jenyfer Phillips, Kim Rich¬ ardson, Nancy Griggs, Lori MacAtee, Ted Bryant, John Paeth, and Darrell Scott. (4) (1) Parker Pirate takes a rest from the week ' s activities. (2) Freshman Loni McCorrey finds out what ' s happening on campus. (3) Freshmen are treated to an outdoor Bar-B-Q. (4) Frosh King and Queen Richard Shotwell and Lana Timm don their finest.