Regis College - Ranger Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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TOP LEFT: JOHN: Hey, hey, hey, What can I say, They dig me TOP RIGHT: Now that ' s concentration. BOTTOM LEFT: This is old stuff for us! BOTTOM RIGHT: Hurry up you guys, I ' m sick of standing here. Luau 19

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I T ' S LUAU: RAIN OR SHINE til take more than a little rain to keep Regis students from celebrating Luau - traditionally one of the biggest activities of first semester. The grey skies and chilly weather made Hawaii seem islands away but Hawaiian shirts and leis kept the spirit of the tropics warm in thought, anyway. Luau wouldn ' t be luau without that SAGA picnic, not to mention frisbee and volleyball in the quad. When a few raindrops began to fall, the crowd remained undaunted, and the band played on. But enthusiasm wasn ' t enough to keep the weather at bay. After dark, the slight shower turned into a downpour as everyone rushed for cover. Alas, alas, another Luau leid to rest! Save those hula skirts for next year. Be there, aloha. TOP LEFT: BOB: Lisa, look into my eyes. TOP RIGHT: Who called my name? BOT- TOM: Buds for life! 18 Luau

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-T HE WALL: VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL = he Regis campus was visited this year by a half size replica ol the Vietnam War Memorial Wall. On Friday September 12th the Regis community began to witness the 140 panels of the wall being put into place. These panels would bisect the quadrangle for ten days while thousands of people visited the Regis campus to view the memorial. On Saturday the opening ceremony was marked by the Colorado Air National Guard who performed the missing man flyover. At this ceremony the College and the Regis Community paid tribute and welcome to John Devitt, the force behind the moving wall. The replica of the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial is exactly one half the size of the memorial in Wahington D.C. containing 58,022 names of those who died in the Vietnam War. Of those names 2,433 are officially listed as missing in action, and many donated money to help the POW MIA families while visiting the wall. The presence of The Wall at Regis had pronouced effects thoughout the state. People trav- eled hundreds of miles to view this amazing tribute to the young men and women who fought for their country. A group of about 80 veterans walking 65 miles from Fort Collins arrived at the campus on the opening day of the wall, marching in cadence, carrying the American flag, and holding a torch which represented the fight of those veter- ans who are alive today. As they stood in front of the wall, the pain, the anger, and the suffering were all to apparent. But in spite of these, one could also feel the friendship and love which bonded these people together on their journey. The pledge they made for life brought tears to their tired eyes as they found their way to the names of the friends they had lost. During the stay of the wall, the students of Regis were probably more affected than most of the visitors. For them it was a learning experience, as they not only saw the tears of the mothers and fathers whose boys names appeared on the wall, but were constantly reminded of the thousands of deaths, as the names echoed across the quad from 9:00am to 5:00pm every day . . . James Michael Johnson, James Stewart Johnson, Jim Johnson, John Kenneth Johnson 20 The Wall