Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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First week baci became vacant. Most apparently liked their temporary housing, except for the lack of televisions, telephones, ovens, mirrors and other extras. Other lines formed Monday, Aug. 22, at 10:30 a.m., when registration began in Did- dle Arena. The advance registration of 1,658 freshmen in June and July eased reg- istration, registrar Dr. Stephen House said. “When you reduce the numbers, you auto- matically reduce the lines.” Two changes made the fall, 1977, regis- tration easier. First, identification had to be presented before receipt of a registration packet, to make sure “the proper student got the proper packet,” House said. “I was concerned it would take longer, but my observation was that it increased our effi- ciency” by eliminating the clerk’s need to ask a student what his name was and how to spell it. Second, House asked “all departments to place the student’s name on the course cards as they were distributed,” to end the practice of “pulling cards” for a student scheduled to register later. According to House, 13,521 students reg- istered for the fall semester, 135 more than in fall, 1976. The next line started in the College A LARGE TRUNK STRAINS four luggage carriers near East Hall. Dorm directors credited the carriers, here supervised by administrator John Oakes, with making the August move-in one of the easiest. Heights Bookstore. About 9:30 a.m., Thursday, lines at the store’s 11 cash regis- ters began forming. By noon, lines stretched back halfway through the store, and later reached three-quarters of the way back. Waiting in line took 30 to 45 minutes for many, and Childress said the temperature around the registers averaged about 10 de- grees warmer than the rest of the store. Many other lines plagued students the first week. A secretary in financial aid said more than 200 students filed through that office each day. Talisman adviser Roger Loewen said 4,500 students came to the yearbook office that week for their 1977 books. And when the air conditioning in Grise and Cherry Halls went out of opera- tion, classes filed out for relief from the 80- degree-plus heat. But perhaps nothing annoyed Joe and Jane College more than the parking short- age. By Aug. 26, 5,691 cars were registered for about 4,160 spaces. A week later, 6,641 were registered, an increase of about 1,500 from fall, 1976. Roger Stinnett @ FIFTEEN MINUTES OF COAXING BY Dr. Carroll Wells convinced senior Linda Cretella to take math 317 instead of 331. “He said it was harder, but I could do it,’ the math minor said. She agreed to take the course but failed to enjoy it. Ron Hoskins Jim Burton 19 for the first week of school

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Dressed in straw hats, Levis, boots, T- shirts and bandanas, they arrived in Toyo- tas, Datsuns and Pintos to restore a cabin built more than 100 years ago by people who traveled by horses and buggy and wore homespun clothes. More than 30 folklore graduate students and faculty members took their curiosity and inexperience to Woodburn last August on a sunny, humid Saturday morning. There they found the makings of an 1822 four-room log cabin numbered and stacked on an acre behind Dr. Lynwood Montell’s two-story white frame house. Ten hours later, many of the yellow pop- lar logs had been fitted together in a pen and a half (a side and a half), with Montell directing the operation. Architecture is one of Montell’s interests as well as a main topic in the folk art and technology course he teaches. “I’ve read a lot about it and I just thought it would be neat to do something like that myself,” the department head said. Last spring Montell bought the house and barn for $1,500 and began moving the disassembled planks, windows and logs from Monroe County. “T used every chance I had to rip the boards and roof, and I labeled everything and drew a corresponding sketch,” Mon- A SHOWER OF WOOD CHIPS BOMBARD Gary Davis as he notches a yellow poplar log in the restora- tion of an 1822 cabin. The graduate student also raised logs in the all-day project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, the cabin’s owner. ACCOMPANIED BY A GERMAN SHEPHERD NAMED CLEO, Dr. Lynwood Montell and crew pause at 9 a.m. for a group picture before 10 hours of house- tell said. His father and several students also helped strip the lumber and manhandle seven or eight truckloads of logs. Montell laid the concrete foundation and prepared the materials and tools for the late summer house-raising, which also attracted neigh- bors and church friends. Keith Byrd helped Montell begin the project and said the house-raising was eas- ier than the disassembling. AGE DOESN’T MATTER AT A HOUSE-RAISING because everyone contributes. Liz Harzoff photo- graphed much of the day’s work, and Willie Montell (Montell’s father) helped the students with technicali- ties such as chainsaws. raising. The crew included his family, folklore grad- uate students and faculty members, and neighbors from the Woodburn community where Montell lives. “It was a lot harder to take down because it was so dusty and the logs were pegged together,” the senior history and govern- ment major said. Byrd said he cut notches in the logs, helped fit them and worked to keep them straight. “Everyone was enthusiastic and it was a group effort,” he said. “It was a lot of people working together to re-create a house-raising.” Dr. Robert Teske, a new faculty mem- ber, said the house-raising was a good oc- casion to get to know graduate students. “We all got a feeling of pride by putting (continued on page 22)