University of North Alabama - Diorama Yearbook (Florence, AL)

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l l 7 r. . -£ . . ' ' ■ jo THE 540-POUND MASCOT, Leo, poses for the cover of the football media 5 guide. This lion ' s love of eggs was used to the photographer ' s advantage — z raw eggs were placed on the leather football to entice Leo to coddle the ball. | COIN TOSS-Braly Stadium will be the home of the NCAA Division II a playoff game for at least two more years. Florence bid on being the host city for the championship game and, as a result, the Shoals extended its Southern hospitality to North and South Dakota on December 13. North Dakota won 27-7. Introduction n O

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%i% Momm ik m tl It was a year of change, and sometimes we wondered if we could make it through the metamorphosis in one piece. The campus didn ' t even look the same. A beauti- ful old (very old) building was razed to make way for a shiny new SUB. This couldn ' t be progress, could it? And the grounds! The university has always boast- ed beautiful landscaping— but suddenly in the mid- dle of summer the neatly trimmed flower beds and meticulously maintained lawns were torn up, giving way to piles of dirt and frightfully deep ditches for the THE MISS UNA PAGEANT wouldn ' t be as entertaining without the spe- cial arrangements of the popular Jazz Band. The Jazz Band is only one facet of the university band, which includes the marching band, concert band and the pep band. TVA PROVIDED THE CLASSROOM and the teachers for a discovering nature series sponsored by continuing education. Erin Hayne, Florence, enrolled to study ichthyology in the Land and Water Resources class. Cover, endaheet and title page: THE BREAK BETWEEN summer school and fall semester was chosen as the time when the razing of O ' Neal Hall would cause the least disturbance on campus. Completion of the Student Union expansion is slated for the fall of 1988. Photos by John Howard. new telephone system. A new, more complicated sys tern was installed to replace the one we ' d outgrowr Was this, too, progress? Changes in the administration were a big news iten Dr. Eugene Jabker, dean of faculty and instructior resigned his position and left us all wondering, what next? And don ' t forget proration— for the first time in 14

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- AFTER THE UNITED STATES premiere of his complete songs, Rudolfo Halfter, eminent 20th century Spanish-Mexican composer, signs autographs in the Music Building. The concert was sponsored by the Convocations Com- mittee, the Office of Continuing Education and the Department of Music. The premiere featured Dr. Sue Ellen Teat and Dr. Celia Grasty Jones and the Schola Cantorum. DECEMBER COMMENCEMENT draws a large crowd to Flowers Hall, mainly because the speaker is governor-elect Guy Hunt. Mr. Hunt received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the university at the ceremony.