William Carey College - Crusader / Pine Burr Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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BSU MISSIONARIES Susan Ballard, Scott Hummel, and Renee Nash spent their three months off serving stateside and overseas. EVEN CDT HAD its quiet moments. Celena Johj son and Glenn Matthews softly sang to each other whUe audiences enjoyed. ENSEMBLE best described the effort each cast member of CDT exerted to make the seasons shows a success. A COOL SPOT on the levee called New Orleans students together for a beat-the-heat picnic.

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PERFORMERS ALL the way, Lori Parker. Leo Day, and Glen Matthews were a hot sensation in Carey Dinner The- atre. Summertime is Hot at Carey! Despite summer heat, students stayed active by being involved in a wide range of activities, on campus and off, including summer missions, Carey Dinner Theatre, and those traditional heat- oriented activities. Three BSU members volunteered to serve as summer missionaries through the Mississippi Baptist Student Union along with 70 other col- lege students from across the state. Susan Bal- lard, Scott Hummel, Renee Nash were commis- sioned to serve in the Philippines, Louisville, Kentucky, and Maryland where they assisted fuUtime missionaries, led Backyard Bible clubs, personal sharing, and surveying. One of the main highlights of the summer was the performances by the Carey Dinner Theatre troupe. In its eleventh season, CDT continued to provide quality entertainment to local theatre goers. As the only college dinner theatre in the Southeast to operate on a regular basis, they enjoyed a reputation of fine food, good com- pany, and topnotch musical entertainment. This seasons shows include PERFECTLY FRANK and REPRISE, a revue of the very best of CDT. Summer jobs, family, vacations, and travel abroad entertained Crusaders out for summer break while others added up credit hours. Coast students enjoyed swimming, the beach, and var- ious other outdoor activities outside of text- books and lectures and test. Baseball and cheerleader camps kept the cam- pus unusually active as did summer school. Feel- ing a higher calling of baseball, Carey pitcher Steve Benton spent his summer touring the country with the Athletes in Action-USA base- ball team. Mock interviews, gown fittings, and talent rehearsals occupied Miss William Carey College Kym Barnes as she prepared to represent the college at the Miss Mississippi Pageant in Vicksburg. Summer at the School of Nursing was initiat- ed with a Step into Summer Party, where stu- dents, faculty, and staff were treated to hot dogs and trimmings by their own SGA and CSNA. Two students walked off with the door prizes which turned out to be more summer fun — watermelons! Juniors were officially inaugurated into the School of Nursing with their Basic Skills and Human Perspectives courses. Completing the end of their junior year, the Class of 1987 labored through Nursing of the Child bearing Family. In spite of the diligent work, students found the time for some diversionary activities as well. Susan Toups and Dorma Abanda were guests of the US Army on a trek to Washington D.C. Not only were they introduced to our nation ' s capitol, but they were also given a grand tour of Walter Reed Hospital. Another senior, David Lawrence, was the recipient of an educational grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to attend an instructors ' training session on the care of the critically ill child. Several students found the time to volunteer at Southern Baptist Hospital, while others gath- ered their efforts to collect newspapers in sup- port of the Louisianna Special Olympics Eques- trian program. Then there were those who explored the famous New Orleans eateries, toured the French Quarter, or just jogged through Audubon Park. In August, the SGA delegation was welcomed by Hattiesburg students and faculty for an all- day Leadership Conference at the main campus. To close out a long hot summer, students, facul- ty, families, and Hattiesburg guests played and picnicked on the Mississippi levee in uptown New Orleans. Although tempted with all these events, sum- mer seniors kept their priorities in proper per- speaive. While classes of tennis and badmitton. Western Civilization, and English composition occupied the studies of underclassmen, the sum- mer class of 1986 finished up graduation require- ments with those saved-for-the-Iast courses and walked across the stage in August led by honor- ary doaorate recipient Dr. Carolyn Weatherford, executive director of the Southern Baptist Con- vention ' s Women ' s Missionary Union — Shan- non Robert, Claudia Mullen, Sherry Freeman. 20 Student Life

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Crusader Review From the Past MAY COURT maids once appeared around McKinnon Pond as a customary right of spring. May Day Highhghted Sixty Years of Spring Beauties May Day ranks as one of the colleges longest standing celebrations, covering a span of nearly sixty years. Although its history goes back to the medi- eval era and students ot American Literature remember it as one of the follies of colonial New England, at William Carey May Day simply af- forded students an opportunity to have an event of pageantry in the beautiful days of spring. Usually the queen and her court were presented to a waiting audience near McKinnon Pond. The sight of coeds in antebellum gowns, escorted by gentlemen in formals, was a pleasant one for spectators seated in chairs on the front lawn of Johnson Hall. The highlight of the day was the May Pole dance, preceded by other acts and skits. May Day programs ended in the 1970 ' s, pri- marily because of a change in semester calendar. Previously the first semester went from Septem- ber to January, with the second semester starting in late January or February. When the semester calendar changed to August-December for first semester and January to early May for the sec- ond. May Day was too close to final exams! Study comes first, so May Day had to go! But it was fun for sixty years. In 1969 Coach John OKeefe ' s baseball team won the NAIA. CRUSADER REVIEW