Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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Right - The guys from First West Wengatz rock the house with their version of Runaround Sue. Above -Sporting spandex and a tutu, Scott Johnson, sophomore, gracefully performs the Bohemian Ballet. Left - Translated from the Swahili as Oh Praise the Lord, Lon Mashburn, freshman and Tad Guyre, junior, jam to the African rhythm of O Sifuni Mungu. 22 Variety Show

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Spiritual Renewal Right -Fall Spiritual Re- newal speaker, Ron Hutchcraft. Below - Bill Gilham, spring Spiritual Renewal speal er, illus- trated his message with earth suits and stuck feelers. Spritual Renewal Week is an uplifting, challenging and sometimes hectic week that is provided for Taylor students in the faU and spring semesters. The week helps students focus on God as well as provide practical advice for common rela- tionship problems. From Monday, Sept. 12 to Friday, Sept. 16, Ron Hutchcraft, current head of Campus Life high school and junior high programs in New Jersey and New York, was the guest speaker. The theme for the week was Beyond Rhetoric to Reality: How to graduate from Christian vocabulary to Christian reality. Throughout the week Hutchcraft gave many practical insights into the Chris- tian hfe and how to apply them in the outside world. Some of his topics included Beyond Casual Character — staying in Mint Condition , Beyond Spectators — The Safety Beyond Security and Beyond Mediocrity. He also spoke on the dedica- tion Christians need for pure Christian life and talked further on this subject in terms of dating and marriage. Hutchcraft has a long history of being involved with Youth for Christ and Campus life and has served as executive vice president for YFCAJSA. He was also area director for the group in the Northeast and was an award-winning contributing editor to Campus Life magazine. The speaker for the 1989 spring session of Spiritual Renewal Week was Dr. Bill Gilham who used his casual appearance and easy going manner to give students a different approach to the week. His theme was Victorious Christian Living. Taylor students learned about earth suits and stuck feelers as Gilham used creative analogies to present his main slogan — God makes no provision for changing YOUR life. He only makes provi- sion for living His life through you. The week centered on the individual and its search for true identity in Christ and how to allow Christ to express His life through us in order that we might do his w ill on earth. Like Hutchcraft, Gilham spoke on relation- ships, specifically, how the influence of our parents affects our personality. Gilham received his doctorate in education from Oklahoma State University and has a long list of occupational experi- ences; he was a public school teacher and administrator, a member of the Oklahoma Education Association Staff and an associate professor of psychology at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Both speakers were brought to Taylor by a grant from the Staley Distin- guished Christian Scholar Lecture Program. Spiritual Renewal 21

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Variety Show Wally Campbell reigned over Variety Show ' 88 as Mizpah (the men of Third Morris) tried to make his princess smile. Campbell did double duty as host of the show and Mizpah ' s king for the evening while trying to make the girl he falls in love with in Taylorland to smile. Wing participation dominated the show at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, as the fifteen-act performance began with First West Wengatz performing Runaround Sue. First South EngUsh got together next to act out the song So Long, Farewell from the musical The Sound Of Music. Third Morris asked that Taylor girls. Don ' t Be Cruel. Although the audience enjoyed Mark Nevil and Stephanie Wilson in their performance of Can t We Try in an effort to make the princess happy, she ob viously did not. Bohemian Ballet was comically performed by three guys as the quest for a smile continued. Even a rendition of Sifuni Mungu and Dirk Rowley and Friends ' performance of The Ugliest Girl In The World could not bring the princess happi- ness. As the first half of the program ended, the audience looked forward to the arrival of Dr. Fred Shulz as the Phantom Of The Opera , and Lance Brookshire along with the core band petitioned the king to Wail for an extraordinary act. Even after Marc Plaslow helped the audience under- stand his Brick Layer skit and Bill Ford belted out Summer of ' 69, the princess ' smile was still not forthcoming. The audience ' s suspicion that perhaps the princess was incapable of smiling was bom out as Ridin ' the Storm Out, and Rindercella were performed much to the princess ' boredom and dislike. Doug Hull ' s performance of You ' re Special To Me, and Trout House ' s rendition oi Bad Case OfLovin ' You rounded out the evening ' s acts. Above - Wally Campbell, junior, during one of his more pensive moods. Variety Show 23