Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Up With People cast members fully involve the audience by dancing in the aisles. The Up With Poople chorus members visited with the audience during intermission. They answered questions about being a member.

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An international love song Wha, an opportunity! A year of nationwide singing tours, meeting important people and a few overseas visits, all in celebration of life and its people, must be a dream. Maybe, but for five NMSU students it became a memorable reality. Anne Brown, Diane Kassel, Mary Beth Harrington, Don McCollum and Jan Nelson were selected as members of Up With People, an independent, non-profit educational cooperation known around the world. Up With People programs are designed to establish communication and interaction between all people, develop new skills in the chosen young men and women, and find new approaches to education through experience. In being chosen as a cast member, students must be interviewed by the performing Up With People cast. There is no major interest in talent and no voice audition is necessary. NMSU participant Don McCollum said, You just have to really love people and be a flexible type of person.” Singing tours begin in July and are completed the following June. In just one year an Up With People cast will travel all over the states visiting colleges, orphanages, nursing homes, high schools and community events. In every new town the cast members stay with a host family. Usually up to two or three members stay with each individual family in the town. Although the same show is performed throughout the year, variations are made depending on season and location. Doing basically the same performance time after time may seem a little dull but according to McCollum, Every show you were singing for someone that you cared about whether it be your host family or a friend. Also, minor pranks were pulled to keep things alive.” Prior to the show the cast members gathered for a “green room” session to get psyched for the next performance. As McCollum put it, We are all young at heart in the green room. The Up With People show came to Kirksville on April 20. I thought the response here was super. It really felt good to do the show at home” said McCollum. A year with Up With People was an educational experience in which a real love for people led the way for these five students. — Diane Mennemeier The enthusiastic cast concluded the evening with their ovor popular song Up. Up With People. 20

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 Like You Do” I It takes a lot of hard work and money to put on concert with big bands. said Mike Morris, spring concert committee chairman. Considering the effort and expense that went into arranging the March 31 performances of R.E.O. Speedwagon and Firefall, that may have been the understatement of the year. Although the Student Senate concert committee began planning for the concert in January, the contract was not signed until three days before the concert. Besides a flat fee for both R.E.O. and Firefall, there were other demands to be met. Both bands expected to be provided with hot food, fresh fruits, and several beverages, including milk, 7-UP, Coke, orange juice. Budweiser, Bordeaux and Jack Daniels. Rules prohibiting alcoholic beverages on state property released the concert committee from these last demands, but the others were fulfilled. R.E.O. also required more power than Pershing Arena could provide, so a generator was rented. The generator also increased the sound capacity of the group. Laurie Meyers, sophomore, felt that the extra sound helped enhance the music played. She added that she didn’t notice any echoes in the arena. REO Speedwagon really moves with their mus during the Spring Concert. ■ They are enjoying the spotlight and the crowd's response to the song. Like You Do.”