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The Clarion April 19. 1993 Page 4
In New Orleans
PIO Outruns Snowstorm To Help Community Center
Special to The Clarion
by Shelia Tirro
On Friday, March 12 at 3 pm, the
Project Inside-Out van started on a trip
to New Orleans to work at St. Mark’s
Community Center. There were the
usual mandatory meetings and as we left
we tried to outrun the snow storm.
We didn’t quite make it out of the
storm completely. Our PIO group stayed
in Montgomery, Alabama, as planned,
but instead of one night we were forced
to stay two nights and watch the snow
come down. There was some fun,
though. Jon Lambert got to slide on the
icy walkways, and to stave off cabin
fever Sybil Dodson offered to take
anyone interested to a nearby movie
theater. Some went, others decided
warmth was more important. The next
day, however, the only highway open
was the one we wanted to take, so off
we went.
We finally got to St. Marks and
unpacked in a spare room we were to
use as dining and sleeping quarters for
the week. The first couple of days were
full of leaky air mattresses and tours. A
tour by Pablo of the French Quarter,
where we were to live, was followed the
next day by a tour of the buildings our
group were to work in by a woman
named Dot. As this was our first full
day there, the excitement of being there
built slowly but surely as the day grew
older and by night we were ready to
really see this new place.
In the mornings we would wake up
to Pablo getting up to run, then up
again to turn the alarm clocks off. We
all usually made the effort to be dressed
for breakfast and by lunch most of us
were ready for the day. The problem was
though, the day started off soon after
breakfast, and because of the lack of
shower curtains, we had to take a
shower early in the morning or late at
night until we found the pool showers,
which were warm.
While Fran Lynch, James Parker,
Priscilla Martin, and Maggie McGuire
went off to watch the little kids at the
day care center, Chie Ninomiya,
Takumsa Arai, Tomomi Akao, Jon,
Jeremy Gosche, George Carros, Rene
Acevedo, and I waited an hour till the
Maintenance Supervisor was ready to
tell us what to do. During the week the
Girls and Boys bathrooms got scrubbed
and painted, tlie Sanctuary upstairs got
cleaned and polished, and paperwork was
done. Since they had no computer
system, all paperwork was still done by
hand and calculator. At the end of the
day we would wait for dinner and the
day-care people would come back with
tired smiles and stories of how Fran and
Maggie were the center of some
attention with their light-colored hair.
During breaks and at night there
was always a box of snacks left out. At
this time reading was done and many
batteries were used up by walkmans.
We got to go sightseeing after
dinner and we’d come back before wrap-
up with what we’d seen and bought. At
wrap-up with Fran we’d talk about
things we did and saw that day. One
night we talked about our reactions to
the gay/lesbian community and it’s
Center down the street from us.
Wednesday Fran got us all down to
Bourbon Street to watch the Saint
Patrick’s Day Parade. It was running late
so Fran let us go to do our own things
so some of us never got to see it, but
Sybil brought back enough beads which
they’d thrown during the parade for all
of us to have some.
Saturday rolled around and we were
packed to go but things still had to
wait. Pablo ran the Crescent City Race,
and finished fifty-ninth out of some
30,000 while it was raining. We then
split up to do our final hours of
sightseeing and shopping and were to be
back at the van at 4 p.m. After a couple
of hours on the road we stopped for the
night at Sybil’s sister’s home. After
breakfast in Sybil’s mom’s house
(behind the sister’s house) we were back
on the road, breaking for a picnic lunch
and Sybil treated us to dinner at Taco
Bell. That evening Jon started up jokes
and riddles and Maggie pitched in one or
two as well. Sybil even told a raunchy
joke!
We came back to piles of dirty
snow. We got our bags out/off of the
van and finally settled back into school,
but we’ll always remember Mr. Biggies,
Tom’s Toy Box, The Pussycat Club,
Dot, Mr. Mitchell, and all the fun we
had!
James Parker, left, made a couple of new friends during the Project Inside-Out trip to
New Orleans. (Photo special for The Clarion by PIO)
National Library Week Is Here!
by Chris Schauer
Clarion Staff Writer
Attention, attention please!
National Library Week will be April 18-
24. The one place we all use as a source
for information will have a week of it’s
own in April. The library is full of
resources for you to do book reports,
check out books of interest or a place to
study with friends.
I spoke with Ken Chamlee, Brevard
College Associate Professor of English,
on what the use of a good library meant
to him. Chamlee said, “Besides being a
storehouse of information, a good
library is a tool for using all sorts of
other information. “ Chamlee also added
that “having a small library is not really
a disadvantage when it contains so many
indexes, computer searches, and
reference materials as one does.”
Chamlee stated that “finding what you
need is a matter of knowing what your
library can do.”
For all of us with book reviews,
term papers, and research papers due, the
library is the best place to start!
SGA, Commuter Officers
Selected For ’93-’94 Year
by Lorrin Wolf
Clarion Editor
Brevard College SGA recently
elected new officers for the ‘93-’94
school year. The President of SGA is
Paige Tarn The Vice-Presidents are Laura
Hayes (Judicial) and Paisley Tuffile
(Social).
Commuting students elected new
officers for next year as well. The
President of the commuters is Tina
Bone and the \^ce-President is Christie
Barschow.