Vol. 32, #13 Thursday, March 20, 1980

Westark Community College P.O. Box 3649 Fort Smith, AR 72913

Special Miss Westark preview issue

15 women competing for Miss Westark Fifteen young women will vie

for the title of Miss Westark in the March 22 pageant in the gymnasium.

The pageant is scheduled to begin with the overture at 8:05 p.m. and curtain time at 8:15 p.m.

The third annual Miss Westark pageant will feature Cheryl Prewitt, Miss America of 1980.

Special guest performers at the pageant will be Jill Elmore, Miss Oklahoma, 1979 and Janet Holman, Miss Arkansas, 1979.

The winner of the Miss Westark title will compete in the Miss Arkansas pageant, which is planned for this summer.

The contestants include: Karen Gaye Bettis

She is a graduate of Southside High School, and has been attending Westark since 1978.

At Westark, she is a cheerleader, a member of the Student Activities Council, and a Skills Lab assistant.

Karen has had five years of piano training and 11 years of vocal training.

She will perform an original song, "Only You," for her talent presentation in the pageant.

She is majoring in special education with an emphasis on mental retardation and learning disabilities.

She plans to continue her education at the University of

Central Arkansas at Conway. She has blonde hair, blue-

green eyes, is 5-2 and weighs 108 pounds.

Susan Bolin A graduate of Southside

High School, the 19-year-old Susan is a sophomore at Westark.

Her hobbies include collec-ting depression glass and handbells, geneology, swim-ming and tennis.

She has taken piano for seven years and will peform a piano solo for her talent presentation in the pageant.

She hopes to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in special education.

At Westark, she is a student representative of SNEA.

She has traveled in the United States and in six foreign coun-tries.

She has blonde hair, hazel eyes, is 5-5 and weighs 105 pounds.

Gena Dobbs A graduate of Southside

High School, Gena has attend-ed Westark for one and half years.

She has had nine years of private drawing and oil painting lessons and more than a year of dance instruction.

She will perform a dance rou-tine for her talent presentation in the pageant.

At Westark, she is 1st Lt. for the Felines, the Westark drill

team. A physical education major,

Gena hopes to become a physical therapist and a physical education instructor for handicapped children.

She has dark brown hair, green eyes, is 5-8 and weighs 138 pounds.

Marti Edwards A graduate of Southside

High School, the 19-year-old Marti has attended Westark for one year.

She is a recipient of a music scholarship at Westark.

She will sing "Your Love is Lifting Me Higher" for her talent presentation in the pageant.

At Westark, she is a cheerleader.

Her hobbies include singing, tennis and water skiing.

She is an elementary educa-tion major and plans to attend Hendrix College.

She has brown hair, brown eyes, is 5-5 and weighs 115 pounds.

Margie Hamilton She is a 1977 graduate of

Muldrow High School and is a sophomore at Westark.

At Westark, Margie is the president of the Black Student Alliance, vice president of the Student Activities Council and publicity director for the Spanish Club.

She is in the associate degree nursing program and hopes to specialize in surgery.

She will perform a dance rou-tine for her talent presentation

in the pageant. She has black hair, brown

eyes, is 5-6 and weighs; 125 pounds.

Renee Hamm She is a graduate of Van

Buren High School and a freshman at Westark.

She will sing "The Way We Were" for thetalentcompetition in the pageant

In high school, Renee was an All-Region basketball player.

Her hobbies include painting, writing poetry and dancing.

She hopes to be a dental hygenist.

She has brown hair, brown eyes, is 5-8 and weighs 130 pounds.

Senobia Hughley A graduate of Northside

High School, the 18-year-old Miss Hughley has attended Westark one year.

She will perform an acrobatic routine for her talent presenta-tion in the pageant.

Senobia hopes to be a secretary.

She enjoys basketball, swim-ming and dancing.

She has black hair, black eyes, is 5-3 and weighs 118 pounds.

Debbie Lesley A graduate of Northside

High Schoo1, she has attended Westark for one and a half years.

Debbie will present a cane and hat dance to the song "Ladies Night" for her talent presentation in the pageant.

At Westark she is the Drill

Team Captain. She hopes to obtain a

Bachelor's Degree in Law En-forcement

Her interests include roller-skating, dancing, modeling and hiking.

She has brown hair, green eyes, is 5-4 and weighs 110 pounds.

Carree Lynn Pendleton She is a graduate of Van

Buren High School. Carree has attended Westark

for one year and hopes to obtain an associate degree in nursing.

She hopes to continue her e d u c a t i o n and obtain a Bachlor's Degree in nursing.

She will present a vocal arrangement for her talent presentation in the pageant.

She has brown hair, blue eys, is 5-5 and weighs 120 pounds.

Trolene Pitts A graduate of Southside

High School, the 20-year-old Miss Pitts has attended Westark for approximately two years.

Trolene is a member of the Westark speech team and the president of the Student Ac-tivities Council.

She is on the Dean's List. She hopes to obtain a

Master's Degree in Com-munica t ions and Speech Education.

She will present vocal solo for the talent presentation in the pageant.

She has light brown hair, brown eyes, is 5-6 and weighs

The stage is set Set designer Chuck Gerardy explains the model of the Miss Westark stage to Stacey Jones and student chairman Jeannette Kearney during preparations for the third annual Miss Westark pageant. Tickets are still available in the student activities office.

122 pounds. Jennifer Ragains

A graduate of Northside High School, Jennifer is a freshman at Westark.

She has had eight years of dance instruction and will per-form a jazz dance for her talent presentation in the pageant.

A dance instructor at the Gi r l ' s C lub , she enjoys horseback riding, racketball and tennis.

She has light brown hair, blue eyes, is 5-9 and weighs 120 pounds.

Jacqueline Yvonne Releford The 19-year-old Jacqueline is

a graduate of Northside High School and has attended Westark two years.

She will sing "You Light Up My Life" for her talent presen-tation in the pageant.

At Westark, she is a member of the Westark Felines.

She hopes to obtain a degree in elementary education and specialized education.

She has black hair, brown eyes, is 5-6 and weighs 119 pounds.

Holly Teague A graduate of Sallisaw High

School, Holly is a freshman at Westark.

She has taken five years of piano, six years of saxaphone and has studied dance at Lesia's School of Dance.

She will present a jazz dance for her talent presentation in the pageant.

An associate degree nursing student at Westark, Holly hopes to obtain certification as a nurse practitioner.

She has blond hair, green eyes, is 5-3 1/2 and weighs 108 pounds.

Judith Troy She is a graduate of St.

Mary's Academy and is a sophomore at Westark.

She will peform a humorous monologue for her talent presentation in the pageant.

I Judy is on the Dean's List at Westark.

She hopes to obtain a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

She has brown hair, blue eyes, is 5-7 and weighs 130 pounds.

Cindy Williams A graduate of Lavaca High

School, the 18-year-old Cindy is a freshman at Westark.

She will perform a ven-triloquist comedy for her talent presentation in the pageant.

Cindy was a 1980 homecom-ing maid and she plans to obtain a degree in broadcast jour-nalism.

Her in t e re s t s inc lude horseback riding, waterskiing, volleyball, and swimming.

She has brown hair, brown eyes, is 5-11 and weighs 135 pounds.

Before moving in together, a I couple should think about what

will happen should a split occur. The United States laws do

not provide for co-habitation. In most states it is illegal to

reside at the same address with someone with whom you are not married or related.

The laws in seventeen states outlaw cohabitation.

The penalties are severe in some states, ranging from a warning in court to a three year jail sentence.

Yet, with severe punishment, the unmarried couples still liv-

ing together have increased 100% in the 1970's according to

the U.S. Census Bureau. There are thirteen states with

common-law marriage codes. This states a couple residing

at the same address and presen-ting themselves as husband and wife are legally married even though they haven't been through a wedding ceremony.

If they are to move to another state they are still considered married.

In the case of breaking up, the laws are very unsure.

Splitting up is something almost expected.

In a survey, soiciologists found two out of three split.

There are several publicized

situations where court cases have been fought for settlement terms.

If a roommate should die, the inheritance laws like others do not provide for live-ins.

Unless a will is written, all property goes to the nearest relative.

To solve the problem before it happens, make sure all agreements are in writing, the property is his or hers, and there are no previous debts.

The legal aspects are publish-ed and should be checked out before making a sudden jump.

Miss Westark Sometimes during the course

of a program such as the Miss Westark Pageant, those people that have spent time putting the show together and making it work are not always known.

I would like to take this op-portunity to acquaint you with some of the people, primarily chairmen, that to date have put in a lot of long hours in making your pageant one of the best local pageants in the state.

Also listed will be some organizations that have con-tributed their time and dollars to make our pageant great.

Jeanette Kearny—Student General Chairman, Red Khill-ing and Valta S e x t o n -Production, Chuck Gerardy— Set Design, Tom W a l t o n -Program, Jo Bottoms and Betty K ing — E n t r i e s , Pau l i ne Plummer—Business Manager, Donna Kirkpatrick and Sondra

Waldrop—Media, Ed Brody— Manpower, and members of the Westark Student Activities Council.

Also, special thanks to Fort Smith Jacettes, Fort Smith Jaycees, Members of Westark Faculty Wives, and Dr. Homer Ellis.

Stacey Jones Director of Student Activities

With a new decade still fresh at hand, Westark is faced with continuing challenges to meet the growing needs of its com-munity.

With enrollment growing, there may soon be a need to expand the physical facilities of the campus.

With this in mind, "The Lion's Pride" asked students where they thought projected expansion should occur.

The question asked was: "If a new building were built on cam-pus, what should it house?"

"I feel that the student union is quite inadequate. Everybody seems to be so cramped in there."

"The library here is really pitiful." "There is a need for more classrooms."

"I think we need to find more room for the bookstore, audio-visual, library, and student union facilities."

"Get rid of the technical complex and build a real building." The technical complex is a disgrace. I feel sorry for all the

teachers who have to work there all day." "I would invest in a new student union, then everybody who is

crowded could move in to the old one." "Expand the student union to handle a 4,000 enrollment cam-

pus." "Build a new place for all the non technical people who have

to live in that horrible technical complex." "The obvious observation about the campus is that it has an

inadequate library and student center." "I think the technical complex is an eyesore." "To me, a logical alternative would be to build a new building

that could adequately house a library, bookstore, etc. and then let other crowded areas move into the old library building."

"I don't think they need to build a new building, just better utilize space in the existing ones."

"I think it would be cheaper to reorganize the buildings we already have than go and build a new buidling. A new building would get just as disorganized as what we already have."

"A new building would be too expensive. I think that there is lots of poorly used space already. It could be worked out."

"Westark definitely needs a bigger bookstore, library, and I'm sure there are other things, too."

"We need a new technical complex." These are a representative sampling of the responses we

received. Space did not allow for all to be printed. If you have any input on this or any subject, please contact the

student publications office in BB 109.

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The Lion's Pride, the official student newspaper of Westark Community College, is publish-ed every other Thursday during the regular academic school year except for vacation periods. Offices are located in BB 109.

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Sat., Mar. 22 Miss Westark Pageant, WCC fieldhouse, 8:15 p.m.

Thur., Mar. 27 Baseball, Eastern State, here, 1:30 p.m.

Sat., Mar. 29 Baseball, Northeastern Oklahoma, here, 1:30 p.m.

Tues., Apr. 1 .. Baseball, Northark, there, 1:30 p.m.

Thurs., Apr. 3 Baseball, Oscar Rose, here, 1:30 p.m.

—Air Force Van, Student Union Circle Drive Fri., Apr. 4 Baseball, Carl Albert, here,

1:30 p.m. Sat., Apr. 5 Baseball, Seminole, here,

1:30 p.m. Tues., Apr. 8 .. Baseball, Oklahoma City

Southwest, here, 1:30 p.m. Thurs., Apr. 10 next issue

"The Lions Pride"

puzzle solved on p. 4

this week's category: movies

1. Who starred as "Popeye" Doyle in "The French Connection"? For what movie did John Wayne win the best actor oscar?

3. What was Marilyn Monroe's last com-pleted movie?

4. Who co-starred with her? It was his last movie, also?

5. Who starred in the female lead in the 1954 version of "A Star Is Born"?

6. Who starred in "I Was A Teenage Werewolf'?

7. Who played "Hawkeye" Pierce in the movie "MASH"?

8. When was "King Kong," "Dracula," and "Frankenstein" originally made?

9. Who played Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird"?

10. Who played "Boo" Radley in the same movie? answers on p. 4

THE NEW WESTARK WOMAN

by Stephen Bagley

"My cousin is a part of a new breed of women," said Linda as she and I sat down in the stu-dent union.

"Oh? I asked. "Her name's Macho Mary

and you should meet her ." "Macho Mary?" "That's just a silly nickname

that she got because she had ERA tattooed on her—well, never mind," Linda said hastily.

"What classes does she take here?"

"Oh, Heavy Artillery, Hand-to-hand combat, Weight-lifting— fun things like that."

"Here she comes," Linda said, pointing at a hulk rolling

toward us. The hulk stopped at our

table, sat down, and pointed a finger at me.

"Do you write the Sixth C o l u m n ? " M a c h o Mary growled at me.

"Uh—yes," I said. "Well, I want to talk to you

about how you treat women," Mary said.

"What?" "You don't treat them like

equals," Mary snaried. "Huh?"

"I mean, women don't have to be housewives to be feminine," Mary said, shoving a wad of chewing tobacco under her lower lip.

"I agree," I said as Mary began to spit tobacco on the floor.

"Do you work anywhere?" I asked Mary.

"I'm a crocodile wrestler," she answered, pinching a guy that was going past our table on the rear.

Suddenly, the guy that Mary had pinched sat down at our table and snapped at Mary, "How dare you touch me!"

"I didn't mean—" Mary started to say, but the guy cut her off.

"I'm not that kind of guy; when will you women start respecting us men?!" he yelled.

I motioned to Linda and we left.

As we left the union, I could still hear Mary and the guy shouting.

I looked at Linda. "Well, all I said was that

Mary was a new breed of woman," Linda said defensive-ly, "I didn't say that she was a better breed."

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Music Seven music students com-

peted in the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).

The students included Andy Caperton and Greg Gordey of Greenwood; Clayton French of Van Buren; Lyndol Green of Magazine; Melissa Green of Booneville; and Steve Miller and Terry Whitledge of Fort Smith.

Accompanis t was Lou Maples of Lavaca.

Melissa Green, Steve Miller

and Greg Gordey. advanced to the semi-finals.

In the final competition, Melissa and Steven placed se-cond in their division and Greg placed third.

Each student was required to prepare three selections and to sing one of his choice and one chosen by the panel of three judges.

Competition was based on the level of voice study.

A total of 113 students entered the competition.

PBL officers

answers to trivia city 1.

Gene Hackman 2. True Grit 3. The Misfits 4. Clark Gable 5. Judy Garland 6. Michael Landon 7. Elliott Gould 8. 1931 9. Gregory Peck

10. Robert Duvall

BSA The Black Student Alliance is

now selling raffle tickets for a ten speed bicycle and fifty gallons of gasoline.

Donations are $1.00 and raf-fle tickets may be purchased

from any BSA member. The Black Student Alliance

will hold a bake sale Monday, March 24 downstairs in the stu-dent union.

Spanish club

The Spanish Club will be par-ticipating in the Old Fort River Festival this year.

They will be having a meeting on Thursday, March 20, at 7:00

p.m. upstairs in the Student Un-ion.

All members interested in helping, please come to this meeting.

For the spring semester, Cathie Jennings was elected secretary and Bonnie Miears reporter of PBL with the other

officers being re-elected. They are President, Cindy

Boyd; Vice President, Darryl Jackson; parliamentarian, Bill

Brown. At a called meeting on March

5, the members of the business club discussed the donation to the smoke alarm system.

The drawing is March 26. With proceeds from the

donation the PBL members plan to go to State Convention April 2 and 3 in Hot Springs.

At State Convention the members of PBL will represent the college as theycompetein the various business contests.

Nursing Nursing personnel will be on

the Westark campus March 24, to talk about employment with the upcoming nurses.

Any interested nursing students are invited upstairs in the student union to meet and talk with them.

Home cooked meals served:

Mon. - Thurs. 7:30 a.m. -7 p.m.

Fri 7:30 a.m. -3 p.m.

Art students are exhibiting their work through March 30 in the Breedlove Gallery.

Gallery hours are 6-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday and 12:30-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Freshmen and sophomore students are exhibiting pain-tings, drawings, lithographs, pots, clay sculpture, design ex-ercises, commercial art projects and serigraphs.

Art classes represented in the exhibit include Ceramics, Print-making, Drawing, Painting, Commercial Art and Introduc-tion to Art.

There is no admission charge to the exhibit.

Park Plaza Shopping Center Ft. Smith, Ar 72903

across from Creekmore Park

Special Miss Westark preview issue

Judges, chaperone announced for 1980 pageant by Valta Sexton

Five judges from various fields of interest will serve on a panel to select the new Miss Westark, Saturday, March 22.

They will tally the points which will determine the winner in the areas of Private Inter-view, Evening Gown, Swimsuit and Talent.

The young lady selected Miss Westark will gain the right to continue a climb toward added honors in the Miss Arkansas Pageant in July.

The winner of Miss Arkansas will carry the state banner to the Miss America Pageant in

Atlantic City, N.J., to seek the crown.

Serving on the five-member panel of judges will be Dr. Russell Riggs, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and Un-iversity of Missouri School of Dentistry who resides in Rogers.

Dr. Riggs has been associated with the Miss Rogers pageant

for six years and judged various pageants throughout the state.

He has served as President of the Rogers Rotary club, City Council, received Outstanding Citizens Award and presently serves as chairman of the board of t h e C e n t r a l Uni ted Methodist Church in Rogers.

Cynthia Johnson is currently the Coordinatory of Human Resources for the Department of High Education in Little Rock.

Before taking this position, Cynthia served as the Affir-mative Action Coordinator at Arkansas State University at Beebe.

She is a graduate of Hender-son State University receiving both her B.A. and M.S. from that college.

Cynthia has judged several local pageants in the State of Arkansas.

Jim Sparks is a graduate of the University of Central Arkansas with a Major in piano and voice and a graduate of

Southern Methodist University with a Master of Music Educa-tion.

He was a Choral Director with the Stuttgart Public Schools and also directed the "Ricelanders", a popular vocal

group that won the Arkansas Youth Talent Contest, Tri-State Music Festival, and the Mid-South Fair Youth Talent Contest.

Jim has worked as a professional singer, dancer and pianist in the Dallas area.

He has worked with such musicians as Rose Marie, Nanette Fabray, and Ken Berry.

He is currently a private voice and piano teacher in Little Rock and serves as Music Director for several Miss A r k a n s a s P r e l i m i n a r y Pageants.

Frances Campbell of Tulsa has been associated with the Miss Oklahoma Pageant since its origination from Tulsa in 1963, having served as Press

Secretary, Patron Membership Chairman, Hostess, and on it's Board of Directors.

She has actively participated in the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City for 14 years as the official state chaperone and traveling companion to Miss Oklahoma.

She has judged a Miss America—Debbie Bryant—at the Miss Kansas Pageant as well as numerous "Top-10" con-testants.

S h e has held Board Memberships in Tulsa Opera Gui ld , Tulsa Psychiatric Center, Mental Health Associa-tion, Arts and Humanities Council, Phil brook Art Center and Philharmonic Society.

Jenny Riggs is from Rogers, Arkansas.

She has been appointed Field Director for Northwest Arkan-sas by the Miss Arkansas Pageant Board.

She has served as Producer Director of the Miss Rogers pageant and Coordinator for

Miss Rogers to the State Pageant.

Jenny is now helping produce the Arkansas Pageant and has been associated with pageants in Missouri and judging throughout the state of Arkan-sas for several years.

The new Miss Westark's chaperone will once again be Marina Tannehill.

Marina is owner and director of Marina's Modeling Studio and Agency.

She is a professional model and has served as director, judge, and chaperone.

Born in Zaire, Africa, she received her B.A. degree from the University of Southern Mis-sissippi.

Marina is married and has one daughter.

She will be chaperoning our Miss Westark to the Miss Arkansas Pageant this July 9 1 0 , 1 1 , 1 2 .

P e o p l e , t i m e , w o r k h e l p m a k e p a g e a n t q u a l i t y by Valta Sexton

The Miss Westark 1980 pageant committee first met in April, 1979.

Since that time they have put together one of the best local pageants in the state of Arkan-

s. The students and staff first

started by critiquing last year's pagent, then setting all dates for Miss Westark 1980.

The next order of business of the committee was the es-tablishment of an operating budget.

This committee had some challenges and opportunities facing them that required some very good decision making.

The biggest decision they had to make was whether to keep the pageant in Breedlove or to move it to the gym.

The feeling was the last two years the pageant sold out at feast a week and one half ahead of time and that by moving to

the gym it could accomodate 1100 people as opoosed to 450

seats in Breedlove. This one decision alone

created many extra man hours of work in planning and fund raising for the student, staff and community people involved.

Items that have been taken for granted for the last two years were no longer there.

Lights had to be rented, ade-quate floor covering had to be found in order to protect the gym floor.

Dressing rooms had to be revamped to meet the needs of contestants.

Scripts had to be prepared. Judges had to be secured. A Master of Ceremonies had

to be confirmed. Money had to be raised in

order to do the show in the gym. The poeple in Fort Smith and

s u r r o u n d i n g communities provided help at every turn.

Money was given, time was given in order to make the Miss

Westark pageant the best pageant possible.

Another decision the com-mittee had to make was what special guests to invite.

The decision was made early to try to get Miss America back to Westark along with Miss Arkansas and Miss Oklahoma.

These personalities at the pageant would be a good draw-ing card in terms of ticket sales and also give the contestants, and espeically Miss Westark who ever that may be, a chance to visit with state and national crown holders before attending the Miss Westark Pageant this summer.

Jeanette Kearney, as student general manager, has put in endless hours in making sure every aspect of the Pageant comes together.

Jo Bottoms is entries chair-man along with Betty King.

Miss Bottoms was charged with the biggest responsibility of all by locating identifying

and contacting the girls that might be interested in being a contestant in our pageant.

Tom Walton has put in hours of work in the layout and coor-dinating of the program book.

Pauline Plummeris in charge of the books, to make sure every aspect of the business end of the pageant is properly handled.

Sandra Waldrop and Donna Kirkpatrick are coordinating the local media in terms of writing stories and securing in-terviews.

Valta Sexton is responsible for the publicity on campus, let-ting students know about the pageant and the opportunities to work on or attend the pageant, and she is also chair-man of production coor-dinating the overall aspects of the pageant as set rehearsals and production of the show.

Chuck Gerardy designed the set and is in charge of all technical aspects of the pageant.

Ed Brody, manpower chair-

man, has been trying to recruit students to assist Chuck and Valta with set construction and Jeanette Kearney with the ushers and Cathy Murphy with c o r o n a t i o n t h e box office.

The list of people who have given hours of work and time to the Miss Westark pageant goes on and one, too lengthy for this publication. "Take advantage of their hard work and see your Miss Westark Pageant and if the opportunity arrises, give Jeanette and company a pat on the back for what has been a job well done," says Stacey Jones, Director of Student Activities.

"If you have any suggestions of ways Miss Westark can be improved please let us know," said Jeanette, "pass your suggestions on to the Student Activities Council in the Stu-dent Union or better yet come and grow with us in one the most exciting events of the year."

Miss Westark pageant grows bigger each year The growth of the Miss

Westark pageant has been a direct result of attendance, scholarship dollars, produc-tion, media reaction and National trends in pageants.

In the first year, the Miss Westark pageant was held in the Breedlove Auditorium that seats 430 persons.

No extra seats were available and was sold out 1 1/2 weeks before pageant day.

The second year, Miss Westark was again in the

Breedlove Auditorium and 100 extra seats were added but sold out again 1 1/2 weeks before pageant day.

This year the pageant has been moved to the WCC gym, which will seat 1100 people.

Two and a half weeks before pageant day ticket sales are go-ing the same as the past two years.

Scholarships monies are showing healthy growth, $1000 the first year, $1500 the second, and $1600 for this year's

pageant. A handful of students and

staff built the first pageant around the 50th Anniversary of Westark.

Styles from the past fifty years were shown by Westark students, faculty and staff.

The contestants were the total stars of the 2nd year's production.

The girls did the opening n u m b e r w h i c h was choreographed for them by Alicia Minden of Minden's

School of Dance. The contestants performed to

various Broadway Show tunes. This year's pageant will

feature live music of the WCC Jazz Ensemble and the talents of the Elaine Baker Dancers and the 15 contestants.

The media reaction has been very good from year to year, consistantly getting more coverage.

Credit for this trend must go to the Southwest Times Record, the three television stations, and

KTCS, KXXI, KFPW and KISR.

In the last few years among college and universities, the trends of pageants have begun to resurface.

The Westark experience with the pageant of higher numbers of students and community people attending cannot be readily explained other than to say it is in keeping with the national trend.

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Miss W e s t a r k con photos by Michael Mar

testants ion

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Miss Westark more than a beauty pageant by Stacey Jones

The adults that will run our count ry , our educational system and make our political judgments of tomorrow, are the young people of today.

For our young people to be adequately trained to take l e a d e r s h i p responsibility, education is of paramount im-portance.

A $2,000,000 scholarship foundation at the local, state, and national pageants material-ly aids thousands of young women in furthering their education and helping them to become our leaders and out-standing citizens of tomorrow.

It has been suggested that many girls that have received pageant scholarships at the local, state, and national levels would have been unable to af-ford a college education without this vehicle for their training.

These scholarships, although a lot of times are not enough to pay the total tuition and educational costs of many young women, is enough to create an opportunity to ex-perience college life and its educational benefits.

There have been a lot of young ladies that have not received scholarships who have benefited from the standpoint of character development.

Winning a title is not of the u tmos t i m p o r t a n c e ; the development of character is.

To quote Dorothy Benham, Miss America of 1977, "While

there can only be one who will win the title at each local, state and finally national pageant level, no one walks away a loser.

The p a r t i c i p a n t s have represented their communities and states the best they can and in doing so have grown as in-dividuals in self-awareness and confidence, gained a tremen-dous amount of experience in the field of competition and made friendships that will last a lifetime."

It is the feeling of the Miss Westark Pageant Committee that if our young ladies gain the right kind of experience, the right kind of fun, have gained some personal development and personal confidence as a contestant in the Miss Westark Pageant, this far exceeds the im-portance of dollars and cents placed on the scholarship program.

Susan Perkins, Miss America of 1978 stated that thousands of women chose to participate each year for various reasons: some of which are the scholarships, exposure of one's talent with the possibility of appearing on national televi-sion, interview experience and in many instances excellent financial benefits.

In addition, participation can evoke self-examination, a valuable aspect of the program which is usually overlooked by those not familiar with it.

T h r o u g h s u c h s e l f -examination, learning and per-sonal growth is bound to occur.

We feel that our contestants on the Westark campus will, through a process of learning and personal growth, benefit in ways that we may not be able to measure but in which the girls participating will never forget.

Phyl l i s George , Miss America, 1971, has this to say about the Miss America Pageant: "It provided me with the opportunity and money to come to New York and study diction and acting.

The year I spent as Miss America was like getting a Ph.D. in human relations.

It taught me a lot about ad-justing, about growing up, I wouldn't have missed it for anything."

Becky King, Miss America 1974, was the first Miss America to earn her law degree and pass the bar examination.

Becky stated that her scholarship money awarded by the Miss America Pageant paid for her studies at the Un-iversity of Denver Law School and thus provided "the stepping stone for the rest of my life."

When interviewed at her home in Denver, Becky said, "I think it's pretty evident that the Pageant is out to help young women as it certainly has helped me."

To quote Ruth McCandliss, Executive Secretary for the Miss America Pageant, "When man ceases to love that which is beautiful and good, when man ceases to dream and bring that dream to a thing of beauty, then

man will cease entirely. The Pageant is built from

dreams and is a thing of beau-ty."

Miss McCandliss went on to sum it up that the Pageant is relevant by listing six items of particular interest:

(1) Being a part of a scholarship program in ex-cess of $2,000,000 annually. (2) Help create through e d u c a t i o n l eaders of tomorrow. (3) Help develop character and good sportsmanship in young people. (4) Enjoy an outlet for creative talents. (5) Bring a smile and some pure joy into your communi-ty live. (6) Dream a thing of beauty and bring that dream to reality.

"If these things aren't rele-vant to today's life—what is."

We hope that providing the Miss Westark pageant to our s t u d e n t s will e n c o u r a g e everyone on campus to take ad-vantage of the program in one of three ways.

First, as a contestant, second, by getting involved and work-ing with the Pageant Com-mittee, and third, by taking the opporunity to attend as an audience participant.

The Miss America Pageant is one in which we are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to participate.

We are an official franchise holder for a local pageant and in

doing so every year it is hoped that we can provide a new op-portunity and experience tor our students.

Chery l P r e w i t t , Miss America of 1980, sums up probably better than anybody I know what the pageant means to the contestants and those of us working on the pageant and those of us in the audience.

"We each hold the key to our future.

We accomplish as much or as little as we want in life.

The Miss America pageant program is a means of ac-complishment for all young women.

Whether a girl enters locally, statewide, or nationally she is setting goals and striving to at-tain those goals.

No other pageant program offers a chance to be yourself before others in selective divisions such as interview, talent, evening gown and swim-suit.

Every young woman should learn that true competition is from within.

We really don't compete or compare with others.

We cultivate our own talents to the maximum.

That's the important part. If we do the best we can in

every area, then we definitely have won, no matter who wears the crown.

This is what the Miss America pageant program offered me and this what it offers you!"

M i s s A m e r i c a p a g e a n t g r o w s b i g g e r e a c h y e a r By Ruth McCandliss Executive Secretary

Miss America Pageant

Back in 1921 the main reason for establishing the "Atlantic City Bathing Beauty Contest" was to extend the summer season and derive publicity for the resort.

Newspapers sent "bathing beautities" to compete for the ti-tle of Miss America.

It was a fun week for everyone, complete with Father Neptune, parades on the Boardwalk and the pretty girls were photographed and judged on beauty alone.

The idea appealed to the na-tion until the depression, when the Bathing Beauty Contest was considered an extravagance that could no longer be af-forded.

It was discontinued in 1928— revived again in 1933, but without success.

The business and civic leaders of Atlantic City felt the contest had merit and undertook to reestablish it in 1935.

Thay began by changing the qualifications for contestants.

In addition to beauty, con-

testants should possess poise, charm, personality and talent.

The Showmen's Variety Jubilee was the new name selected for the competition and showmen across the nation were requested to stage Local and State contests to select con-testants to compete for the title Miss America 1935.

With an interested and hard working Board of Directors, growing nationwide enthusiasm for the program, acceptance by parents over the country—more and more civic leaders began to realize the potentials of the competition and to take an ac-tive part on Committees to help build the event

A major step forward was taken then in 1940 when the event was incorporated as a non-profit civic corporation of the State of New Jersey and its name was chanced to"The Miss America Pageant."

At the end of World War II, young America had a new set of values.

They were seeking higher education in their efforts to help create a finer world.

I t was o b v i o u s t h a t educational scholarships were a

fitting reward for the young women who sought the title, "Miss America."

As a non-profit civic corpora-tion, the Miss America Pageant operated on a very limited budget.

Therefore, they sought and secured scholarship funds from industrialists who believed in the youth of America, and thus the Miss America Pageant Scholarship Foundation was established in 1945, with a $5,-

000 educational scholarship awarded Miss America.

The Foundation grew in 1946 to $25,000 and was shared by Miss America and 16 of the National Finalists.

Meantime the local and state pageants were changed percep-tively, for the national program now appealed to civic and ser-vice clubs as a worthwhile pro-ject for their membership.

It was only natural that these civic leaders would wish to make scholarships available for their own contestants, and in 1947 the state and local pageants began establishing their Scholarship Foundations.

They sought and received their scholarships from in-dividuals, colleges, universities, and industry.

Great stature was added to the entire pageant program.

The young women of America and their parents ap-p roved this civic event, presented on the stages of local communities over the country, with educational scholarships as the ultimate reward.

The entire pageant family on the local, state and national levels joined hands to prepare

and present beautiful produc-tions where the contestants would be the stars of the show.

P a g e a n t audiences ap-preciated and applauded the results achieved in this unique program which was organized and executed by their neighbors and starring their daughters.

Coast-to-coast television brought the national finals into America's living rooms for the first time in 1954.

The entire country then had a better appreciation and un-derstanding of just what the M i s s A m e r i c a P a g e a n t r e p r e s e n t e d f o r y o u n g American women.

And today, with over $2,000,-000 in scholarships awarded an

nually, with continuing nation-wide publicity, through all news media including television—the local, state and national Miss America Pageants are as one a civic undertaking of national proportions—made possible thorugh the members of the Pageant family who work together for the goal of a fine dignified and beautiful way to encourage and foster young America in becoming the leaders of tomorrow.

Page nine Thursday, March 20, 1980

By Jim Cunningham

Do you smoke mari juana? Have you ever stolen money? These kind of questions are often asked on polygraph examinations. Polygraph examinat ions are used in criminal case and job interviews. Polygraphs are machines that are supposed to be able to determine

truth. In j o b interviews the polygraph is used for screening potential

applicants. Westark students may face an employer who wants to use the

polygraph in cases of j o b theft or j o b interviews. The questions used for screening are not relevent to the ability of a

person to pre form a part icular job . Students before you submit to a test take a few precaut ionary steps. Ask to see the questions on the test. Ask to have a copy of the test results. Ask if the examiner has a valid testing license. A recent Arkansas Supreme Court decision involved a polygraph. The court found the examiner in the case did not have a certified

license. The high court overturned the conviction of an alleged rapist because

the test results were determined by an unqualified examiner. In Ft. Smith, the Magic Mart chain requires its employees to take a

polygraph test. Research by leading scientists show an innocent person s tands a

greater chance of being perceived guilty by the polygraph. In the United States, of all known examiners, only 20% are even

qualified. It seems that the just if icat ion for truth-telling devices is derived f rom

the fact that business must protect itself f rom the potential criminal. Students , do not allow businesses to intimidate you. Make them just ify why you should take a test. If an employer must trust a machine to make a decision about truth

for him, How is the employer going to know when the employee is telling the truth?

McDonalds

In today's society with competition seemingly at its peak, success requires a lot of motivation.

It's not enough to wish for something; you must be motivated to work for it.

If your goals are meaningful to you, they will serve as motivators for your efforts.

If, however, your goals mean little to you, it is going to be hard to get enthusiastic about your college work.

If this is the case, a re-evaluation of goals is in order. If you associate with people who are motivated to achieve

their goals, you will find that they reinforce your own motiva-tion.

We often pattern ourselves after our friends. If your friends are negative, then you may have a tendency to

be negative. You can see the importance of choosing friends and groups

that can be of help to you.

There is still time to raise those "not-so-good" mid-term grades.

Students are encouraged to take advantage of the Skills Lab and peer tutoring.

If you are interested in getting special help, please contact Sheri Ward, Vines 211.

5821 Rogers 4800 Towson

by Bob Nelson

What is your opinion? Well your opinion is

something that you as a person can use to your own advantage.

In the world of music a per-son's opinion can make or break a record for the artist.

I was talking to the music director of a local radio station and she gave me this advice, "when chosing a record to play on the air always keep an open mind."

The reason being that the public is very versatile in what they like to hear, and after all it's the public who buys the records not the radio station.

I have noticed the music that people listen to in the student union, and you might be sur-prised how much variety there is in it.

Music to me is kinda like ox-ygen, you have to have it to sur-vive in this world.

In an earlier article I discuss-ed the way music has changed over the years and how it has changed people's lives.

If you think about it for a mo-ment you will see how it has maybe changed your life.

The recent grammy awards are a good example of people's opinion, it takes several opinions to decide who gets what in the way of awards.

So the next time your are out shopping for that special alubm

to add to your collection get several opinions from some of your friends and then make your decision.

You'll be surprised what a difference it will make.

MUSIC TRIVIA Al Green, singer, songwriter,

born 1946, is one of the most popular rhythm and blues singers of our time.

He made his record debut in 1967 titled "Back Up Train" and

that started his flight to stardom and to this day Al is still doing good.

And to think he is from Forest City, Arkansas.

George Harrison, former Beatle, celebrated another birthday on Feb. 25th.

George turned 37. Peter Frampton got started

with a former member of the group called Faces (Rod Stewart's band) vocalist named Steve Marriott.

Together they formed a new band called Humble Pie.

Jesus Christ Superstar open-ed at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York on Oct. 20,1971 and closed July 1, 1973, a total of 720 performances.

Elton John, singer, pianist, songwriter, has a birthday com-ing up on March 25th.

He will be 33 years old. David Gilmour, lead guitarist

for Pink Floyd, had another birthday.

He turned 36 on March 6th, (just another brick in the wall).

opened yesterday against Baltimore CC

Lions competing in national tournament

Hear TRUTH in Fort Smith 7 p.m., April 1

Westark Community College Gym Advance Tickets Available at BSU, Family

Christian Center, Solid Heck, Baptist Churches $1.50 students and $2.50 non-students.

All tickets $2.50 at the door.

by Eric Brooks

Westark's amazing Lions marched over Connors State JC in last week's Region II cham-pionship game to earn a season-climaxing berth in the NJCAA national tournament being held this week in Hutchinson, Kan-sas.

The Lions won the rubber game of a best 2-of-3 set, beating Connors, 56-51, in a game played at Carl Albert JC in Poteau, Okla., a neutral site.

Westark, 32-3 and ranked th i rd na t i ona l ly , played Baltimore (Md.) CC in each t eam ' s f i r s t t ou rnament appearance yesterday at 1 P.M.

Baltimore is ranked 17th in the country.

The winner will play the sur-vivor of the Tyler (Tex.) JC-Westchester JC contest tonight at 7:45 P.M. in the quarter-finals.

A win there would send the team to the Final Four, Friday night at 8:15 P.M. and the championship game would follow Saturday night at 8:15 P.M.

Before WCC could get to Hutchinson, though, a few in-evitable obstacles had to be overcome.

The Lions had to bump off

Phillips County and Southern Arkansas Tech in the Arkansas JuCo tournament at Magnolia, March 4 and 5.

After drawing a bye with the top record (15-1) in the Arkan-sas JuCo conference, Westark whipped Phillips County, 59-38, behind guard Darrell Walker and post Sherman Brown's 13 points each.

S o p h o m o r e Joe Ward followed with 10.

In the championship game the following night, Walker and fellow guard Brian Kelleybrew led WCC to a 61-41 win over Southern Arkansas Tech with

16 and 15 points, respectively. Ward again finished with 10

for the Lions. That win advanced WCC to

the Region II tourney against Connors, the Oklahoma JuCo tournament winner.

It gave Westark its sixth con-secutive Arkansas conference title and avenged a loss to the Varmints 11 days earlier.

In the opening game of region play at Ft. Smith, Saturday, March 8, the Lions came from behind to edge the Cowboys, 58-56, after trailing for over half the game.

Ward paced Westark with 12 points and Kelleybrew flipped in 10.

The tournament shifted to Warner, Okla., home of Con-nors, March 10, and the Lions took it on the chin, losing 74-66, the most points scored this season on Westark's defense which has given up an average of only 51.6 ppg, tops in the NJCAA.

Ward led all scorers in the se-cond contest with 26 and Walker added 15 but those totals were offset by five Con-nors players scoring in double figures.

In the deciding game, WCC was spurred on to its 56-51 vic-tory by Kelleybrew's 15 points while Walker was next with 13 and Sherman Brown with 10.

Ward, who averaged nearly 15 points and 6 rebounds for the

three games as the tournament's MVP, scored but eight in the win, which guaranteed WCC their third Region II title in the last six years.

Walker and Kelleybrew join-ed Ward as members of the all-tournament team.

In earlier game: Westark, which did not lose a

game in an 85-day span, suddenly lost two within six days.

The Lions second loss came at Miami, Okla., versus NEO who played a slowdown game

to nip WCC, 48-45. Westark, which owned an 18-

16 halftime lead, was led by Ward's 27 points.

In the regular season finale, the Lions romped over arch-rival Carl Albert JC, 72-50, Saturday, March 1, in Ft. Smith;

In winning, WCC took the Bi-State Conference title with a

13-1 mark. If CAJC had won, both

teams would have tied for the conference championship.

Walker scored a game-high 26 points and was backed up by Ward with 18 and Kelleybrew with 11.

Main Lioners: The Lions cast off for Hutchinson Monday morning amidst the cheers of well-wishers at the WCC gym.

The Lions were scheduled for a 3 P.M. practice that after-noon...

Because of regional and national tournament rules, only 12 of Westark's 16 players will be allowed to dress out this week.

Those Lions who'll be obser-ving the action in their civvies are guards David Dalke and Tony Sadler and fowards Maurice Hatton and Jimmy Wilborn.

Walker and ex-Lion Ron

Brewer were nominated for the 1979 Arkansas amateur and professional athletes of the year, in that order.

Former Arkansas Razor-backs Sidney Moncrief and Dennis Winston we re given the awards by the Rotary Club in Little Rock last week.

Westark's flashy freshman guard Darrell Walker headed the list of players chosen to the 1979-80 Arkansas JuCo All-Conference team.

Walker was named the loop's most valuable player and was joined on the first team by team-mate Joe Ward, a sophomore forward.

Ward was recently named MVP of the Region II tourna-ment.

Also on the first team were David Little of Southern Arkansas Tech, Roy Allen of Garland County and Tilman Wolf of Phillips County.

Freshman Brian Kelleybrew, the Lions other guard, was tabbed for second team honors along with Terry Burgess of Garland County, Charlie Bateman of Southern Baptist, Kenny Sams of Southern Arkansas Tech and Mark Springer of Southern Baptist.

John Sheehy of Southern Baptist was named Coach of the

The cold-shooting Lions were bombed by Baltimore 66-54 in the first round of the NJCAA finals. Westark will play today at 3:30 p.m. in the losers brackett against the loser of the Tyler vs. Westchester game. The Lions could still finish third in the tourney if they continue to win.

Page ele ven Thursday, March 20, 1980

Baseball Lions open hot by ERIC B R O O K S

Westark's baseballers opened their season with a bang as the Lions surged to an 11-4 mark during the first two weeks of the

1980 season. It may be too early to

speculate whether Coach Bill Crowder 's team is a bunch of d iamond gems but with the type of ball they've been playing, they're headed toward a gold mine, which hopefully will be the Region II crown.

In their inaugural contest, Westark tripped College of the Ozarks, 9-6, Tuesday, March 4,

here. S o p h o m o r e J e f f C r a i g

pumped a grand slam homerun whi le cen te r f i e lde r Darrell Varrelmann, 3 for 6, and first baseman Steve Majors added solo shots.

Surprising righty Doug Jones got the pitching win.

Jones has risen to the top with a 3-0 record to lead all Lion hurlers.

Westark split a doubleheader at Eastern State, Thursday, March 6, winning the opener 12-1 and dropping the nightcap, 8 - 6 .

Jack McKnight was the winner in the first game and also went 3 for 4 with two RBI. Ran-dy Loyd cracked a grand slam and Majors was I for 2 with 2 RBI in the two games.

Mark Kauffman was sacked with the second game loss.

The Lions swept two games" f rom C of O at Clarksville Fri-day, March 7, winning a pair of squeakers, 8-7 and 9-8.

Hitting stars for WCC in the doubleheader were Majors , 3 for 8 including a homer and 3 RBI, second baseman James Wells, 3 for 4 and catcher David Fisher, who was 3 for 4 with an RBI.

R i g h t h a n d e r J i m m y Kilpatrick was credited with the win in the opener with Craig

getting the save. Ed Myers was the second

game winner with a save going to f r e s h m a n r ighty Mike-Elmore.

Westark took on Connors State. Saturday. March 8. in Fort Smith and came away with their second straight twinhill sweep. 11-0 and 8-3.

Jones tossed a 5-inning. 2- hit shutout in the opener while Elmore got the win in the next game and Craig, the save.

Blaylock went 4 for 5 in the doubleheader with a single, double, triple and homerun and drove in four runs.

McKnight was 4 for 6.2 RBI; left fielder Jerry Callaway. 3 for 7, 3 RBI; Majors. 3 for 6. 2 RBI and Varrelmann, 2 for 7 with 3 RBI.

The Lions were rained out at Bacone, Tuesday. March 11.

T h a t twin bill has been rescheduled for today, start ing at 1 p.m., there.

WCC won its fifth straight at Oklahoma City SW 7-3.Satur-day, March 15, before losing. 5-4. in the bot tom of the seventh inning in the nightcap.

McKnight and Myers com-bined for a 2-hitter in the opener. McKnight getting win and Myers receiving save, and were backed Blaylock's 3 for 3 hitting, eluding two doubles, and Craig and catcher Mike Gattis, who each went 2 f o r 4 w i t h o n e RBI.

Kauffman was the tough-luck loser in the second game, giving up only two hits and allowing no earned runs.

13th ranked Iowa Western came to town for double headers on S u n d a y and Monday , March 16 and 17. The teams split both days. W C C losing5-3 and winning 7-5, Sunday.

Craig was the openeing game loser, despite going 3 for 3 with a double and homer and 2 RBI at the plate.

Myers won the second game

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in relief of Kilpatrick, pitching 3 2 -3 innings, allowing but one hit and striking out eight.

Majors led WCC in batting, going 2 for 3 with a homer and 3

RBI. Monday. Westark grabbed

the opener. 4-1. behind the hit-ting of Wells who had a single, double and triple in three times at bat plus an RBI.

Jones raised his record to 3-0 with the help of four double plays by the infield.

In the second game, Elmore was handed his first loss.

Tuesday, the Lions swept another doubleheader, this one f rom Rochester (Minn.) CC.

12-1 and 10-6. In the opener, shorts top Dan

Boever finally got untracked with a 3 for 4 day and 2 RBI; McKnight was 2 for 3, 2 RBI; Callaway, two doubles, I RBI and Majors . 2 for 2, 2 RBI.

Righthander Darrell Stan-dridge notched his first win of the year with relief help f rom Blaylock.

Tiny Bruce Morgan had a 3-run roundtripper and 4 RBI while backup shorts top Doug Sagely blasted his first homer over the left-centerfield fence to go along with two walks and 3 RBI.

Designated hitter Ken Clark went 1 for 3 with 2 RBI and Rightfielder David Rampey had two hits in three times.

Diamond Dialogue: After playing at Bacone today, the Lions won'!..play again until next Thursday when they host E a s t e r n S t a t e in a 1:30 doubleheader.

Next comes home dates with NEO, Saturday, March 29, and St. Paul Bible College, Mon-day, March 31.

WCC travels to Harrison to take on Northark Tuesday, April I...

There were several injuries in the past few weeks.

Boever, Loyd and freshman Bob Adams all hadlegai lments .

Boever had to have nine stitches put in his left leg after a spike wound received during the last out of the second game against Eastern State, March 6.

Loyd hurt an ankle sliding into second base against C of O the next day and returned to ac-tion last weekend.

Adams was injured several weeks back in practice when a batted ball bad-hopped and struck his left leg, forming a blood clot; it's healed and Bob even started the second game against Rochester.

Majors injured a knee>sliding into third base in the opener vs. Rochester and his leg was put into a splint.

Steve, now hobbling on crutchcs, will find out today if an operation will be necessary or if he might be able to come back in a few weeks...

Coach Crowder has platoon-ed players at most positions during the first 15 games, preferring to go with "whoever's hot," and it's paid off...

W C C batting avg. leaders: McKnight .500, Craig .395. Ma-

j o r s .361, M o r g a n .360 Blaylock .357.

RBIs: Majors 15. McKnight 10.

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by E R I C B R O O K S

The Iowa flash Way back in my senior year of high school—it's been all of

one year, now—there was one girl who annually would add to her list of achievements and awards .

Homecoming queen, most likely to succeed, most school spirited, best all-around. Eagle Award (the biggie.

And you know that all of us, especially untalented, less for-tunate kids like me, were just a little envious of he rand all of her momentos .

All of them with the exception of homecoming queen. For a while, I thought she had an outside shot at M V P of the

basketball team—the boys' team at t ha t—and retirement would be instamatic if she ever decided to melt down her collection of trophies.

Of course, hers is a record that would be hard to match. Excepting you're a baseball player and were named to the

following teams while in high school: All-Conference, All-District, AII-NW Iowa, All-State

honorable mention as sophomore , All-State 5th team as junior and All-State first team as sneior.

And there's more to tack on the mantel . Team M V P three consecutive years and participant in the

Iowa high school all-star game for seniors. Now, unless you know Willie Mays, you probably haven't met

anyone with credentials like those. Then, if you know Dan Boever, you probably have. Boever (rhymes with Cleaver) has been touted as a big key to

the success of Westark's baseball team this season and with good reason.

Coach Bill Crowder's evaluation of Boever is, "Dan has great ability, his fielding and hitting mechanics have improved.

H e is a major college prospect with good soft hands and out-standing arm."

A lifetime shortstop, Boever migrated south f rom Remsen, Iowa, a town in the northwestern part of the state with a popula-tion of 1300.

While playing at a Catholic high school there, he acquired the aforementioned honors, played on a 34-5 team his senior team and was first given serious attention by the Cincinnati Reds of the National League.

It 's tough enough getting noticed in the big cities and ign i -t ion in Remsen would be as odd as snow in Miami Beach in July.

But it helps when the umpire who does your home games is a scout for Cincinnati.

Bill Clark, the arbiter in mind, also has connections with Coach Crowder and, after speaking with him, and following a letter f r o m Dan to Crowder , it was arranged for Boever to at-tend Westark this season to get a little seasoning.

D a n was selected in January ' s major league draft of high school and college players, the 123rd player taken and one of only four f rom Iowa.

A s o f now, Dan's decision tosign with theR eds is pending the results of his spring performance.

If D a n indeed sign, working his way to Cincinnati will not be quite as easy as taking 1-40 east to Knoxville, Tenn., and then 175 north to Cincy.

First, he would probably start out in a rookie league for the Reds ' team in Billings, M o n t a n a .

F r o m there, if he were to advance a notch up the ladder at a time, D a n would go to Class A Tampa, then AA Nasvhille and finally AAA Indianapolis before playing in the big time.

Page twelve Thursday, March 20, 1980

Apply now for financial aid for next fall Now is the time to apply for

financial aid for next fall. 'June 1 is the last date for

first consideration for students seeking financial aid for the fall semester, said Gabriel Peters, director of financial aid.

•It's important for students to apply as early as possible.

The earlier the student sends in the application, the better chance he will have to receive financial aid."

Peters encourages any student who is taking six hours or more to apply for aid.

Approximately 75 percent of students are eligible for some kind of financial aid.

Peters says that the ACT Family Financial Statement will suffice for all the aid programs offered that are federally funded.

"On the statement, the stu-

dent can indidate the types of assistance for which he would like to be considered," he said.

Aid programs covered by the ACT form include the Basic Education Opportunity Grant (BEOG), State Scholarship, College-Work Study, and the Supplemental Education Op-portunity Grant (SEOG).

The Basic Education Oppor-tunity Grant (BEOG) serves a student who demonstrates need in the amount of not less than $200, and not more than $1,800.

The Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant (SEOG) servesi i a s t u d e n t who d e m o n s t r a t e s exceptional financial need and who is un-able, without assistance, to con-tinue education beyond high school.

Any SEOG cannot be less than $200 or more than $1,500

per academic year. The college Work-Study

Program is federally funded and permits the college to arrange a job for students to earn funds required for educa-tion.

These part-time jobs general-ly will not exceed 15 hours per week.

Students usually work on-campus as lab assistants, library aides or typists.

There are also other student worker positions on campus which are not tied to the Work-Study Program.

The college maintains a job placement center with off-campus employment in the community.

Financial need is not a factor in applying for these positions.

T h e A r k a n s a s S t a t e Scholarship Program provides

scholarships to aid Arkansas undergraduate students who are enrolled full time in an ap-proved public or private institu-tion in the state.

Scholarships range from a minimum of $100 to a max-imum of $300.

"We use all the aid programs and aid sources to construct a 'package' to suit the student's needs, his educational goals and his time restraints in obtaining an education," Peters states.

•After a student's need is determined, we try to meet that need through the Basic Grant, College Work-Study, and various scholarships available at Westark."

The government bases each appl icant ' s eligibility for assistance on various factors.

T h e f a c t o r s i n c l u d e biographical data, assets, pre-

sent income, previous year s in-come, dependents, savings, age, taxable and non-taxable in- j comes.

Based on these factors, a stu- ' dent is awarded financial aid.

Peters encourages students to apply for the basic grant, since it is a building block for the other | aid programs.

"And more families are available for the Basic Educa-t ion O p p o r t u n i t y Grant (BEOG)," Peters says.

"The maximum income for those in the middle income bracket has been raised to ap-proximately $25,000.

Some of those who were turn-ed down in the past may not be turned down now.

"The earlier the student sends in the application, the better chance he will have to receive financial aid."

National census serves valuable purpose By Malinda Larey

On Tuesday, April 1, 1980, the Census Bureau will begin gathering and tabulating more than three billion items of infor-mation from the public.

The Census Bureau will attempt to count all resident sef the U.S., Puerto Rico, the V i r g i n I s l a n d s , G u a m , American Samoa and the Trust Territories of the Pacific

| Islands. The census is expected to

count approximately 222 million people and 86 million housing units.

Data will be compiled for 3,200 counties; 20,000 incor-porated villages, towns and cities; 37,000 county sub-divisions; 45,000 census tracts; 300,000 enumeration districts and block groups; and 2,500,-000 city blocks.

The purpose of the census has not changed since 1790: to provide the basis for fair appor-tionment among the states for seats in the House of Represen-tatives.

Census data will also be used to guide the distribution of billions of dollars in Federal funds to State and local

governments and the distribu-tion of additional billions of dollars in State funds.

Every household in the U.S. wi l l r e c e i v e a c e n s u s questionaire in the mail on March 28,1980, and will be ask-ed to answer the questions and r e t u r n t h e c o m p l e t e d questionaire to the Census Bureau.

Four out of five households will receive the short form, con-taining 19 questions to answer.

The remaining households will answer the longer questionaire containing 46 ad-ditional questions.

Any household not mailing their completed questionaire to the Census Bureau will be visited by Census takers who will obtain the required infor-mation.

Federal law (Title 13 of the U.S. Code) requires everyone to answer the census, but it also assures that every pereon's answers are confidential.

The 1980 census will provide more statistical information about more geographical areas than any prior census.

The findings are necessary in addressing the needs of the nation's people, and in the plan-

ning and management of government at the Federal, State and Local levels.

Census data will directly in-fluence decisions on matters of national and local importance such as economics, educations, employment, military man-power potential, Social Securi-ty, business cycles, highway use, the needs for health services, parks, water, energy and inter-national relations.

t h e 1980 census will sketch a new and unique portrait of the Nation, revealing not only the number of Americans, but their location, condition, activities and how they are housed.

for next Tuesday

'Truth' concert slated For nearly nine years a group

of young adults known to their audiences as "Truth" has been travelling all across America entertaining and inspiring audiences, and now they'll be at Westark on April 1.

Their purpose is to com-municate their faith and chris-tian life style.

Their method is in the form of an energetic and highly polished musical performance.

Roger Breland of Mobile, Alabama, is the originator of Truth.

The success of his group has prompted much imitation nationwide by weekend and summer touring groups, but few have celebrated the longevity of truth.

"We have been entrusted with music ministry that has appeal

spanning 50 years of age groups.

It's a tremendous respon-sibility because we are on 'display' nearly 24 hours a day," Breland said.

"A lot of people look at us and the seemingly glamorous life-style of travel, spotlights and attention.

What they don't realize is that the fellow singing the solo is also responsible for rolling and packing the microphone cables after the audience goes home."

The Truth organization con-sists of a vocal line-up of carefully auditioned singers, a brass and woodwind section and an extensive rhythm sec-tion.

The membership is selected for a one to two year commit-ment from more than 1,000 applicants.

This year, they came to Truth's bus from 15 different states across the country.

Before their first year is up, members can expectto perform "live" before one million people in 40 or more states.

A recent tour involved 14 foreign countries.

They'll travel at least 100,000 miles by bus, truck and jet.

They will sleep in 100 different motel rooms and at least 200 beds in as many private homes.

Truth has recorded 19 albums for two of the largest gospel labels in the world.

They have appeared exten-sively on network television programs and as regular guests on syndicated shows in the U. S. and Canada.

On April 1, Truth will present a concert in the gym at 7 p.m.

This appearance is being sponsored by the Baptist Stu-dent Union.

Truth has recorded 19 top-selling albums and has had albums in nomination for final competition for the Grammy and Dove awards.

They have been billed with Ed McMahon, Anita Bryant, several Miss Americas and others.

Tickets are on sale at the BSU, Family Christian Center, the Solid Rock and local Bap-tist churches.

the story of young Helen Keller

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M i r a c l e W o r k e r 11-year-old Angela Bonner

will portray young Helen Keller in the theatre arts dept. production of "The Miracle Worker."

The William Gibson drama tells the true story of the deaf, blind and mute Helen, age six and a half, and her struggle to learn to communicate through the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

Annie will be played byTisha Daniels.

Helen's parents will be played by Randall Statham and Mitty Thompson.

Kelley Sheppard will have t he role of James, Helen's brother.

Other cast members include Dan Mooney as the Doctor,

Delisa Haynes as Martha, Gary Washington as Paercy, Valta j Sexton as Aunt Ev, and Ozie Payne as Viney.

The cast will also feature several children including Jill Blanchfill, Donna Clark, Curtis Knauls, Stephanie Sturgeon, Adena Shibbish, Jennifer Price, Amy Young, Deanne Riggs, Mary Tollison, Lynn Babb, Lean Clark, Heather Brewer, Lisa Francis, and Gail Francis.

The production will be directed and designed by David Young.

Performances are scheduled in the Breed love Auditorium for Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19, at 8:15 p.m. with an afternoon matinee Sunday, April 20, at 2:30 p.m.