Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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During Greek Week, the differ- ent fraternities and sororities spon- sored various events. Members ol the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority sponsored a canned food drive for charity. In a Western Week tradition. Lambda Chi Steve Gram, Joplin junior, brands Kerne Cobb of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority dur- ing the Sorority Sidewalk Coloring Contest. With his pal Gumby at his side, Mark Dor- sey, Kansas City junior, enjoys an evening meal while observing the canned food drive during Lambda Chi Alpha Western Week. Greeks 29

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Greek events held in the spring were planned by members of the sororities and iraternities. Gene Stegeman, Overland Park junior, and Jim Withers, Shawnee junior, dis- cuss events held during Derby Days. He said the TKE house issue was another example of Greeks working together. Lo- cal businessman Ed Roitz want- ed to build a convenient store at the house site but, the Greeks fought the rezoning and won. The TKES were still out of a house because of fi- nancial difficulties, but Shon- rock said he had hope for the chapter because of alumni concern. Overall, Shonrock said, the Greeks build on some strong foundations to improve Greek life last year. There was more of an ap- proach to getting members of Greek organizations to meet obligations. They cleaned house, keeping the members, but getting rid of joiners, Shonrock said. - Trish Hollen- beck 28 Greeks

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One night a year, the gob- lins, witches, skeletons and ghosts come out to parade around towns, scare people, and collect candy. For eleven pre-school chil- dren, six PSU students, and one instructor a hallo ween parade becomes a special event. The students are enrolled in the pre-school child class offered through the home economics department in Chandler Hall. According to Janet Ventor, pre-school child class instruc- tor, the class is designed to help students become aquainted with working with pre-school children. Most Herman, Transformers, ducks and many more make appearance in A Halloween Parade students enrolled in the class are elementary education or home economics majors. Mary Smith, Mulvane ju- nior, said that the class is a way to learn a lot about work- ing with pre-school children and gaining the experience needed to work with four year olds. We learn a lot just by observing, Smith said. One annual event the pre- school offers is the halloween parade. The instructor and students help the children get into their wide variety of costumes, everything from a transformer to a duck, and then they walk around to the various buildings on campus. One of the children, Chris- topher Herlocker, walked in the parade as a transformer. His costume was complete with a toy gun that he used to shoot almost everyone he met. Another child, Jordan Bar- nett, walked in the parade as He-Man. Jordan said that he likes going trick-or-treating. My favorite candy is skit- tles! Jordan exclaimed. After the parade the chil- dren went back to their class- room where they played pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern and other games before go- ing home for the day. - Laura Todd. Halloween brought many scary creatures around campus but there were also the less frightening like this preschool student dressed as a duck. Pumpkins took on humanistic char- acteristics as Theresa Grother used her artistic talent to paint pumpkins lor Halloween. 30 Halloween