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2 Taking the Wraps Off Richard Washburr
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The Gniversity Of Alabama ' s 1984 COROLLA ' Gniversity, Ala. 35486 — Volume 92 h m- £2S ' a mammoth ti i ham. married seniqrs from Mobile, stop to gaze at the balloon ' s colored shell. The balloon «.. of I 1 1 ' participating in th Homecoming balloon race • Quad.
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s Denny Chimes struck 2:45 the monument, struck away the hours. p.m., Jeff Woodward, an ac- counting major from Birming- ham, awoke with a start in the middle of his economics class. Class is almost over, he thought to himself as he smiled and glanced at his watch. The chimes are right on schedule. Farther off campus, Kim Reynolds, a 26-year-old returning student, heard the chimes while she was tanning beside But the real story about Denny Chimes was only one of the campus ' well-kept secrets discovered by some of the 14,563 students from spring 1983 to summer 1984. As the year-and-a-haif passed, stu- dents discovered special faculty, faculty discovered special students, and togeth- er, the units that comprised the Univer- sity discovered each other. And the year was anything but pre- the pool at her apartment complex, packaged. Whether it was jumping from Thanks for reminding me, she said under her breath as she gath- ered up her blanket, suntan oil and keys and ran to her car to pick up her daughter after school. As the campus and the community grew to depend on the 45- year-old timekeeper, few realized that the Denny Chimes, wrapped in a veil of tra- dition, weren ' t chimes at all. An electronic, computerized carillon, amplified by huge speakers at the top of W ith a 90 percent eclipse of the sun on May 30. the sky is clear but Denny Chimes is an eerie shadow. The state of Alabama fell within the path that had a 90 percent or greater blockage of the sun. The next solar eclipse will occur in the year 2017. Richard Washburr airplanes for an after- noon thrill or attending a football game coached by Ray Per- kins, it was a year of taking the wraps off the ordinary to find a special feeling inside. On warm Sunday afternoons, a handful of adventurous stu- dents discovered the joys of plunging 9,000 feet from moving air- planes as the Bama Skydivers practiced their hobby at the air- port in Eutaw, just 30 miles south of the Tus- caloosa campus. Taking the Wraps Off 3
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