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

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Shane Hinshaw and Eric Stadelman tleftt recreate the night Thoreau spent In jaii during the annual Communications Dept. play, Lisa Cummings trightJ swept the audience off their feet With a display of flashy fingering in the OPS. Amateur Hour Hate and Wilder tbelowt provided secular entertainment and spi'rituai refreshment when they visited WWC. ages and nationalities. It isn't easy holding the interest of a visually excited, hyperactive video age, and guard- ing against unobtrusive moral slippage at the same time. Recognizing these things can help us appreciate the social opportunities we did have. These various and sundry events we attended to pass the time were wonderfully wide-ranging, and a brief summary might be both informative and nostal- gic. not to mention decidedly tedious. Wetve always assumed, without the benefit of clini- cal research. that the air surrounding WWC contains some special cupidic substance. Men and women tend to cleave one to another with astonishing regularity. and often with matrimonial results. Certain social ac- tivities were carefully designed to encourage this. So this year, we got to Know each other well. thanks in part to events like the ASWWC Handshake, which led into the Fall Banquet. For some, that first Monday of school was the start of a beautiful thing which lasted through the AGA Open House and Banquet. on into springtime with the OPS Banquet, and ended in nuptial bliss. For others, the order was reversed or disrupted. Of course, some braver social extroverts planned some of their own Ohe-Oh-Ohe encounters, often with the same warm and mushy results. But we still ap- preciated a friendly prod how and then, for those of us waiting for that special someone to throw themselves helplessly at our feet. Fortunately. when matrimonial bliss seemed light yea rs away, we could escape the social pressures with a quick trip to the movies, Walla Walla College style. Ghahdi, The Chosen. and The Man from Snowy River highlighted the serious side. while Warren Miller's SKI Time filled the lighthearted gaps. Most of us found the changing emphasis on thought-provoking though con- troversial films to be a pleasant one, replacing the

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Something for iAlmosti Everyone By GARY TETZ Photographs by COLLEGIAN, SCOTT DAVIS, MARK EARL, BRIAN NESS, and DEAN PAULSON Life in 1983-84 was a bed of spikes for WWC activity planners. And for good reason. One of their primary goals has always been to provide social outlets for every person and taste. And to be perfectly fair. they tried. But they were damming Niagra; making the moon stand still; catching sunbeams in eight-ounce jars. In other words, to put the concept in simpler, less metaphorical language, they were trying to do the im- possible. Poor, helpless souls. They did their best. They just didn't understand the issues. For why did we need the Empire Brass when we had a thrilling Michael Jackson? Hale and Wilder had only a small portion of the attraction of Hall and Oates. And who would logically need a ventriloquent Miss Texas when they had Kirk Willard, Jeff and Ted Shan- Kel, or Robert Shaw? What did we do during the 1983-84 school year when we werenit watching television? Activities were plentiful. and the fact that we sometimes tended to ignore them says nothing about their quality, which was sterling in most instances. To be fair, one must realize the difficulty of provid- ing diverse entertainment for a wide cross-section of

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Boys and gx'rIs alike enjoy the occasional opportunlty to don some fancy cIoIhes and flowers for a great socx'aI extravaganza modesIIy caIled a banquet, The food Iler usualIy surpasses normal standards and the entertainment rbelow left; promotes feelings of great emoIIon. amoral pablum of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes genre. In 1983-84, we were required to sIt and think simultaneously. In the same vein. drama arrived in full force. even occupying a semI-major place in religious services. We could safely say that Karl Haffner Injected new dra- matic vitality into the student Week of Prayer and other special events, while Donnie Rigby continued the Communications Departments winning streak with a superb production of The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail. The Lyceum series included the musical adaptation of Dickens A Christmas Carol, and It appeared that drama In 1983-84 finally left the realm ofcIiche, to both entertain and instruct us. Variety programs stIII occupied the major portion of ASWWC programming and still remained suspect In some cases. We couId probably say that game shows died as we Knew them, concluding an on-going decay lasting at Ieast five years. Of course, the 80 or so people who attended Family Feud might disagree wIth that diagnosis, but most of us were willing to throw dirt on the coffin. TaIent programs remaIned relatively popular. The Freshman TaIent night, the Tonight Show, and The Audition gave some ample opportunity to see the finest WWC had to offer. Lisa Cummings took Amateur Hour by storm, as did Monte TorKeIson, Kevin Brusett, and Gary Parks with All the Gold In California. The AGA Hour of Charm and Village Club's Saturday Night Live rounded out the year. Sometimes what we saw was a pleasant surprise. Other times, our hearts were sitting In our living rooms watching Solid Gold and scraping Mountam Ash