University of Alabama - Corolla Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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' t -«s After a safe landing at the Eutaw airfield. Barbie Clineo waits for her billowing parachute to float to the ground and prepares for another Sunday after- noon jump with the Bama Skydivers. .»l| ♦ f . Richard Washburr Embassy Pictures In a scene from Embassy Pictures ' The Bear. the film biography of the late Coach Paul Bear Bryant. Gary Busey as Bryant dances with Cynthia Leake as Mary Harmon, Bryant ' s wife, in a scene depicting the couple ' s first meeting. Wrapped in fashionable clothes for Seventeen magazine, Jessie Whelan and Julie Andrew model jean mini-skirts and eye-catching accessories for the magazine ' s backtoschool issue. Seventeen chose the University campus as its backdrop after considering the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt. Robin Saidman Taking the Wraps Off 5 J

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Carefully Concealed veryone ' s family gets worried applied for modeling positions, four and starts putting pressure on men and seven women posed for the them to stop jumping, sky- August issue ' s fall fashion preview, diver Jack Alford said. It ' s one As issues of Seventeen hit the new- thing that your parents don ' t stands with the latest fashions from want you to do when they send New York, representatives from Holly- you off to college. wood were making plans to film The On the edge of campus, just down Bear, the life story of the late coach River Road, business boomed at the Paul Bear Bryant. Although early Pure Process ice cream factory and par- plans called for most of the film to be lor. Using only natural ingredients and shot in Tuscaloosa, unresolved conflicts making all the confection by hand made between the Bryant family, the produc- the ice cream heavenly, according to ers of the film and the Alabama Film Julie Watterson, a sophomore from Chat- tanooga, Tenn. And while students were unwrapping hid- den packages, the out- side world also discov- ered the University ' s wealth. In the spring of 1983, Seventeen mag- azine chose the cam- pus to serve as a back- drop for its fall issue because it was the prettiest campus we saw, a spokesman for the magazine said. Of the 200 students who Concealed behind white makeup and brown wig, Kelly Grider, a junior from Huntsville. portrays international superstar Boy George of Culture Club. Grider and his band Street Culture performed in air guitar and look-alike contests across the South. Richard Washburn Commission caused the film to be shot at Agnes Scott College in Georgia. While the nation was discovering the Univer- sity, students were dis- covering themselves. Kelly Grider, a junior art major from Hunts- ville, gained notoriety as a Boy George imper- sonator in air guitar shows and look-alike contests across the South, as well as in competition on the na- tional level in teenage magazines. 4 Taking t he Wraps Off

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--ifels Chip Cooper A deep purple sky frames the law library as the April sun sets on conscientious students pre- paring for a long evening of studying for spring final exams in the modern surroundings of the new build- ing on Bear Bryant Drive. As a new season unfolds, students stroll across the leaf-laden eastern side of the Quad on a November afternoon headed for classes in Bidgood. Carmichael and Graves Halls. With a late autumn, the leaves did not begin to display signs of the season until late in the month. Chip Cooper ' sr£ ' . ,-v- ff V s ; ' (- ' S - -ti : fc-j ' i.-Jr ' t ' ' - • % i : : . y H- : L iSL ' k ' i-A A |4 l ySttU f ' - ' ? ti ' .S?- V- C a -t- ' ' ' -mi - r ' ' ir; M- 4t ?r- :ir ' -v- : ?-. j - ' 6 Taking the Wraps Off