Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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the fall of 1976, on the site of the old tennis courts and the old Gibson Dining Hall, 10 years after the university applied for a new structure costing 5.2 million dollars. The amount, however, was reduced by the 1975 Kansas legislature to 2.9 million. The building was to be completed in fall of 1978, but due to delays in con- struction, the facility was not completed until the summer of 1979. The new building is two-and-one-half times larger than Porter Library. Its design, according to Stevens Hilyard, library director, is an attempt to match in part the present Gibson Dining Hall and live with the weird eyelashes on Grubbs Hall,” LIGHTNING STRUCK HARTMAN HALL In the summer of 1979, causing damage to the roof of the building.(photo by Alan Ford) STUDENTS, FACULTY, and TOWNSPEOPLE relax on the Oval during a lazy summer evening and listen to one of the scheduled blanket concerts”' sponsored by the Summer Activities Com- mittee.(photo by Bob Benignus)

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Wild wild week Royalty hosts wild week by Catherine Henderson The 1979 Homecoming Queen, Cathy Duffin, was sponsored by the Newman Center and is a junior from Weir majoring in Automotive Technology As Homecoming Queen, Duffin attended many homecoming events with her escort Tom Smiley, Overland Park senior, such as the theater production of Vanities’' and a dance at the Alumni Center, Duffin was also Master of Ceremonies at the “Yell Like Hell” activities. After riding in the parade on Saturday, Duffin and Smiley were guests of honorat an aiumni luncheon at 11:30 am. in the Imperial Ballroom of the Student Union. I started at Pitt State as a business major,” said Duffin, “but I had electives to take and was persuaded to take them in automotive technology. When I decided that I really liked it, I decided to make it my major, with DURING THE PARADE, homecoming queen, Cathy Duffin does her part to raise support for the Gorillas In their upcoming game, {photo by Kyle Cleveland) business administration as my minor.” Duffin is third in a family of seven children. She has four sisters and two brothers. Her mother Is Mary Francis Duffin of Weir. Duffin commuted as a freshman and pledged Sigma Sigma Sigma that year also. She has lived in the sorority house for the last two years. As Membership Rush Director of her sorority, Duffin was voted as Out- standing Member” for 1978-79. Other clubs and organizations that Duffin has been or is presently in- volved in are Newman Club, her sponsor as queen candidate; Student Senate and committees in the Student Senate; SecretaryTreasurer for Epsilon Pi Tau, technology honor society; former Diamond Editor in charge of reporting and the scrap book for Lambda Sigma; charter member of Order of Omega, a newly formed honor society; the Sociey of Automotive Engineers; the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; and Little Sigmas, the Sigma Chi little sister organization. by Catherine Henderson Western Style activities were the order of the week for Homecomeing 1979. Many campus organizations participated, carrying out this year’s theme of the Wild, Wild West. On Tuesday evening, October 23, the last of the queen candidate competition was held in the Imperial Ballroom of the Student Union. Earlier that week, each of the 23 candidates had met with each other and the nine judges and were in- terviewed. The candidates were judged by An- nabelle Loy, Rollie Peters, and Larry Thornburg, of the faculty; Tim Sohl and Linda Lawrence, alumni; Jerri Staton, Girard junior; David French, Pittsburg senior; Marissa Crawford, Wichita junior; and John Barrington, Overland Park sophomore. BURSTING WITH ENTHUSIASM Stephanie Cook, Monica Harrison, graduate, Debbie Price, and Twylla Williams let it all hang out at this year’s Veit Like Hell contest.(photo by Kyle Cleveland)