Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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NMSU Representative Reigns as Relays Queen Jean Abernathy was chosen queen of the Drake Relays at Dos Moines, Iowa. Jean was selected by a committee to represent NMSU at the April 28 and 29 event. Jean, a junior physical education major, was chosen queen of the Relays by a Drake University alumni committee. A Purple Packer and a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha, WRA, and PEM club. Jean was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 27

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Peace Rally Protests Involvement in Vietnam Nearly 300 students gathered at Stokes Stadium April 25 for a peace rally and march. The rally was organized to get students involved in an effort to stop the bombing in North Vietnam. While waiting for the speakers to present their views, the crowd sang peace songs to the accompaniment of Broken Arrow.” Dr. Meredith Eller, the first speaker, received applause after saying. “Young men and women can end the war when they say to themselves and their God: ‘This is it: I will have no more to do with the war system.' ” Dr. Eller concluded. You don't have to buy war anymore. Professor Terry Moser read highlights of a speech against the war which had been delivered on the United States Senate floor by Senator Thomas Eagleton. Moser end- ed by reading his poem Song for a Soldier. written in 1965 for a similar demonstration. A prayer for peace was delivered by the Reverend Dick Todd, campus minister for Wesley Foundation. Claude Wilson. 1971-72 student senate president, told the audience that involvement in Vietnam is “immoral and is doing a great injustice to people in Vietnam. After the talks. 300 participants marched uptown to send telegrams to President Richard Nixon and Senators Thomas Eagleton and Stuart Symington. Bill Pabst. a student organizer for the rally said the rally would make people more aware. Pabst said he felt the ad- ministration will be more sympathetic toward student causes in the future if they are conducted in a similar and organized peaceful manner. 29