Southwest Mississippi Community College - Whispering Pines Yearbook (Summit, MS)

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The Bear Necessities Hold that line, Ladies, hold that line. ■jit :j Bear Necessities Day, 1978, was one of the most successful and most re¬ membered days of the 1977-1978 Southwest term. Students celebrated the end of the school year and their graduation. Shedding slacks and dresses and donning shorts, everybody met out on the football field for most of the activities, which included a Volkswagon push, a rope pull, a greased pig contest, three-legged races, sack races, and finally, canoe races on Bear Lake. Who could forget Keith Prescott’s big Mickey Mouse ears, or Myrna Rey¬ nold’s winning of the tobacco spitting contest? How about the giant Purina dog chow bags used for the sack race? And exactly who won the three-legged race? Under the direction of David Ball, president of the SGA, eggs were tossed and greased pigs were caught. At noon¬ time, Mrs. Pope provided everyone with a good lunch, and by the end of the day everyone was so tired and sun¬ burned that it was a shame to have to resume classes. Many of the soph¬ omores knew that they might never have fun with some of the people there again. But the freshmen carried on be¬ cause they knew that they still had the next year to look forward to at Southwest. Hopefully, Bear Necessities Day this year will be as much of a success as last year’s was, and maybe many more people will become friends by working together on a team than could be made friends by just going to class. Myrna Reynolds has a chewy decision to make—Should I or should I not? Bear Necessities 11

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Scenes Of The Times ... Continued I wonder if they left the brake on this bug. Ready, Aim, Fire! “What a ham!” David Ball exclaims during the greased pig contest. Above photo: Dr. Burrows Company wonder whether to use intelligence or strength to solve this problem. y. Middle photo: We seem to be all washed up. ’s hard to get ahead when you’re tied down. 10 Bear Necessities

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Scenes Of The Times ... Continued Graduation speakers—Rev. Robert Norman Smith, President Horace Holmes, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, and Rev. B.F. Gerald On Sunday, May 7, in the Holmes Gymnasium, commencement exercises were held for the 1978 graduating class at Southwest. There were 195 candi¬ dates for degrees. University of Southern Mississippi President Dr. Aubrey Lucas spoke on the theme “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The invocation was by Rev. B.F. Ger¬ ald, pastor of the Forest Grove Method¬ ist Protestant Church in Monticello and the benediction by Rev. Robert Norman Smith. SMJC chorus sang “My Faith Looks Up to Thee ’ and Laura Moak presented a medley from “The Sound of Music.” This was the sixtieth annual com¬ mencement for Southwest. If you can imagine it, you can pos¬ sess it. If you can dream it, you can be¬ come it. If you can envision it, you can attain it. If you can picture it, you can achieve it. —William Arthur Ward Education is the process of ascend¬ ing the steps of information, knowl¬ edge, truth, understanding and wisdom. Talents without goals are wasted en¬ ergy; talents with dreams are har¬ nessed power. ’Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. —Pope The past can teach you; the present can test you; the future can reward you. Dr. Aubrey Lucas delivers the graduation address for the Class of 1978. 12 Graduation 1978