Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Above Left: Ben Palmer gives Caritasstudents the rules for hunting Easter eggs. Above: A UVV student helps bide the eggs. Below: Mr. O.J. MtCowan, SJ, delivers the homilv at the Martin Luther King Memorial Mass. Aegis '73 23

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Above: Rufus Henderson, Carol Brasher and Rita Brute attend a BSU meeting. Below: O.C. Smith's band performs in Pigott Auditorium for the Hungry Child Benefit. Black Student Union SU's Black Student Union was re-established this year after a two-year absence with the hope of serving as a more representative and unified body for black SU students. The Hungry Child Benefit for needy families began the club's fall quarter activities. Black singing artist O.C. Smith gave a benefit performance on campus as a part of the food-drive, which reaped 26 turkey baskets for the families. In an effort to de-emphasize Christmas commercialism, SU's BSU, in conjunction with the BSU's of the University of Washington, Seattle Community College and Bellevue Community College, and Grace Church in the Central Area and Black Arts West put on a three-day celebration, December 15-17. The event emphasized Black talent and personalities. I bird World Colorbration Night, November 18, sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs in an attempt to unify minorities, brought campus involvement for the BSU as its members prepared favorite black dishes, staged a fashion show and presented interpretive dancing. January 31 saw the BSU help the SU Alumni Association and the Black Alumni Association in the premiere Seattle showing of the award-winning film Sounder. Proceeds from the showing benefited SU's Minority Student Scholarship Fund. The BSU sponsored Gangster Night, April 27. Fashion of the 20's and bid whist, a bridge-style card game, were part of the occasion. Springquarter also saw the BSU helping with the annual Easter egg hunt directed by Caritas. Throughout the year BSU members donated some 240 hours of tutoring to Meany Middle School and the Central Area Youth Association. The club also helped sponsor an athletic banquet for the CAYA. Officers this year were Harold Nelson, chairman of the board; Tony Haywood and Belinda Higgins, chairpersons of public, relations; Robert Carhee and Ben Palmer, chairmen of academics; Br. Stanley (Ruffin), chairman of research; Mary Harrison, community liaison; Patricia Randolph, secretary; Winfred Smith, chairman of finance; and Margaret Wallace, chairman of activities. Left: Mark Molina and Charles Mitchell match wits a bid whist.Above: Mark Molina, Charles Mitchell, Marella Sheppard and Belinda Higgins play partners in the bid whist tournament. 22 Aegis '73

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Above: Georgette Smith, Minority Affairs chief counselor, passes out admission information to Filipino high school students. Below: Vivian Luna stresses a point to Bob Flor during a Kapatiran meeting. Kapatiran Kapatiran, the Filipino-American Brotherhood of Seattle University, began the year in a display of solidarity with other third-world organizations at the Minority Affairs Third-World Colorbration Night, November 18. The group sponsored a political symposium, February 22, on Martial Law in the Philippines featuring Dr. Roy L. Prosterman and Fr. Bruno Hicks, OFM. Dr. Prosterman is a University of Washington law professor and leading American authority on landreform. Fr. Hicks is a Franciscan priest deported from the Philippines after having worked with the tenant farmers' movement. Kapatiran's community work included a recruitment drive of local area Filipino high school seniors and participation in the Filipino community's blood drive. Later in May the organization joined with the University of Washington Filipino Student Union and local area high school Asian coalitions under the auspices of the Asian Multi-Media Center in the production of a Filipino folk play. 24 Aegis '73