Walla Walla University - Mountain Ash Yearbook (College Place, WA)

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crowding. . . President Reynolds re- signs; Joseph Smoot of Andrews is named to replace him and resigns; N. Clifford Sorensen is named President of Walla Walla College. . . Helen Evans leaves English department to become academic dean at Southwest- ern Adventist College, the first woman to ever be an academic dean in Adventist colleges. . . Walla Walla College gives College Place $18,000 to help purchase a flre truck. . . WWC students purchase an ambulance launch for mission service in Bangladesh. . . . Around the World The United States withdraws from Vietnam. . Ex-Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa disappears after going out to lunch in Michigan. . . Patricia Hearst is found and arrested. . . Suez Canal is opened for the first time since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. . . former Mansonite Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore both make at- tempts 0n the life of Gerald Ford. . . Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek dies ofa heart attack. . . . 1976-1977 On Campus WWC library begins using Library of Congress filing system. . . Enroll- ment passes 2,000. , . KGTS starts bringing arts and inspiration radio to the air 18 hours a day twas later re- duced to 16 hours a dayi. . . Cafeteria goes electronic with electronic cash registers which use student ID cards. . . Students favor Ford 060710 over Car- ter 0170i. . . IT Complex plans are revealed. . . Women play in in- tramural football for the first time. . . Board approves tuition increase to $2,985 per school year. . . HP 3000 computer is purchased by the college . . . Hot issue on campus is closure of College Avenue. . . Brass Choir tours Romania. . . . Around the World jimmy Carter, 21 dark horse candi- date on the Democrat side ofthings is elected President. . . Congressman Wayne Hayes resigns after accusa- tions that he hired his mistress as his secretary. . . Britain,s Princess Mar- garet and her husband, Lord Snow- don, separate after 16 years of mar- riage. . ,Two U.S. Viking robots that land on Mars detect no life forms. . . The United States celebrates its birth- day with a bang; big ships and can- nons join in the celebration. . . . 1977-1978 On Campus Registration is down to 1,822. . . Malcolm Maxwell is named Theol- ogy Dept. chairman; later in the year, he becomes Academic Vice President . . . OPS club is reborn, the carpet is ripped up in the Sittner lobby to reex- pose the OPS seal . . . SAC cards are upped to $5 a month. . . New nursing dormitory is built in Portland. . . In an arson-related fire, Columbia Au- ditorium blazes to the ground; that sarne night there were two other fires, one in which Dean Loewenis car was burned. . . Van Cliburn donates $2,000 towards the rebuilding ofCo- lumbia an Auditorium. . . ASWWC campaign speeches are held on the roofofthe portico ofthe Administra- tion Building. . . . Around the World Egypt and Israel break down bar- riers in a series of talks between Menaehim Begin and Anwar Sadat, a Mideast settlement is worked on . . . Tokyo Rose is pardoned by Gerald Ford. . . New York is struck by a 24-hour blackout. Leonid Brezhnev becomes head of the Rus- sian state as well as general secretary of the Communist party. . . A 1978-1979 On Campus The Blue Mountain Cup Bike Race has its first and last race down College Avenue. . . New Worship policy re- quires that students attend a minimum of four worships each week. . . School of Engineering is loaned 12 lunar rocks. . . Students are allowed two dairy books a month. . . Canadian money is no longer accepted at par by the Business Office. . . Richard Dawson, 21 television person- ality, takes part in an on-campus tele- thon for a local girl with major birth defects; $20,000 is donated. . .Tuition is raised to $1,195 per quarter . . . IT Complex opens its doors April 22. . . Greg Brothers, 3 theology stu- dent, appears on a national television show tABCis nGood Morning, AmerieaW to debate lowering the drinking age. . . The ASWWC kiosk is completed shortly before gradua- tion. . . . Around the World Reverend jim Jones urges his fol- lowers to commit suicide en masse in Guyana; they agreed, and 914 bodies were found bloating in the sun when investigators came to jonestown. . . The first transatlantic balloon flight was made in the Double Eagle II. . . the first test-tube baby is born in Old- ham, England; her name is Louise Brown. . . Idi Amin escapes when local rebels and Tanzanian troops at- tempt to take over Uganda. . . Ayatolla Khomeini takes over leader- ship of Iran. . . . The President and Non-President of the 705. i 12 - MOUNTAINASH1980

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