University of Alabama - Corolla Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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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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2 Taking the Wraps Off Richard Washburr

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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