Students visit ^‘’Snow Camp’’
Kester honored
by RUTH AKERMAN
All passengers, at least
those who were awake,leaped
from their stopped
automobiles to gaze at an otter
poking his head through the
ice-covered lake below the
bridge.
This was the scene in Three
Lakes, Wisconsin on January
11, when 20 Montreat people
arrived for “Snow Camp”
after a 28 hour journey.
“All I could say was ‘Thank
God we’re here’,”’ Beth
Suarez said as she remem
bered that early morning
arrival at Honeyrock Camp.
Snowstorms plagued the
five-car caravan from nor
thern Indiana on. One car
vanished into Milwaukee for
three-and-a-half hours, and
drivers took that last stretch
with their eyelids heavy,
trying to follow the foot-deep
tire tracks of the cars ahead.
“By the time we got to
Milwaukee where our car lost
the rest of them, we were
sliding so much it was like
riding four ball-bearings down
the highway,” Jeff Baker,
part of the lost party, recalled.
Baker’s car did pull into
Honeyrock Camp just an hour
behind the others and
everyone went to sleep for a
few hours.
Then, at the alarm of Penny
Nickel’s shrill voice, everyone
hopped up in the early af
ternoon to tour the camp and
play in the snow. The tour
ended on an ice rink with an
active introduction to
Broomball.
“I kept catching myself
saying ‘This is me, in my big
boots, slipping and sliding on
the ice with a broom in my
hand’,” Regina Price com
mented.
Tim Downs learned that the
main challenge in Broomball
was standing up on the ice.
After dinner that first er-
vening, a horse-drawn sleigh
pulled up in front of the lodge
and spirited most of the
Montreaters into the night,,
snow flying in their faces as
the sleigh squeezed through
narrow lanes of evergreens.
Unlike the quiet, still set
ting, the sleighriders were
rather noisy. Amongst coos of
delight, people kept taking off
their boots and massaging
their feet, complaining of
numbness from ten-below
temperatures.
As the week progressed
there were more things people
knew how to do. Beth Suarez
likened the “Snow Camp”
experience to being turned
loose in a candy store.
“You weren’t forced to do
anything, but there was so
much you wanted to do it was
hard to decide,” she reflected.
“Even when I was dead tired,
I could easily be talked into
cross-country skiing one more
time before quitting for the
night.”
Events included horseback
riding, ice-skating, downhill
skiing, camping, cross
country skiing and
snowshoeing. Wednesday,
everyone drove to Porcupine
Ridge in Michigan for more
challenging downhill skiing.
Amid sampling so many
new sports, everyone agreed
that'their fellowship with each
other was enhanced.
“I feU a lot,” Susan White
admitted as she remembered
that day at Porcupine Ridge.
“After I met the first slope I
went and sat down in the lodge
for the rest of the day.
“But we all had the same
kind of frustrations and were
forced to communicate with
each other. I got to know
people I wouldn’t ordinarily
know.”
Mary Wetzel (Jake Wetzel’s
sister), one of the staff
members there, shared her
thoughts on defeat with the
group during one of the daily
devotions. She used her skiing
experiences to emphasize the
need for people to admit their
failings and needs to each
other.
“I learned a lot about
humiliation,” Beth Suarez
commented. “There was time
to deal with my defeats and
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The convocation ended with
the Tapping of eligible new
members of the Mu Lambda
chapter of Phi Theta Kappa,
the honorary scholarship
fraternity of American junior
college students. Those tapped
have fulfilled the chapter
requirements of a QPA of 3.5
on 15 academic hours, though
they are not required to join
Phi Theta Kappa.
Scholarship certificates
were also presented to those
sophmores who made the
Dean’s List for both the fall
and spring semesters of the
last academic year, with no
grade lower than a B. The
certificates were being
presented nowlnstead of at the
lopening convocation for the
fall semester because of the
high abscence rate at that
convovation, according to
Dean Akers.
Those sophmores recieving
scholarship certificates were
Bruce Angers, Gail Baptista,
Benny Barker, James
Bridgeman, Patti CTaridge,
Gay Cooper, Paula Devries,
Martha Evans, Thomas
Fohner, Norma Hall, Elbert
Hargrave, Robert Heeth,
Thomas Hong, Mary Ann
Jackson, Williams H. John
son, Dicky Lee, Stephen
McConnell, Jeanet Melin,
Mary Jane Motley, Kathy
Pope, Charles Rathbun,
Geormna Roberts, Towner
,Scheffler and Matt Wade.
College to attempt world record
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planners had originally
figured that Davis seemed to
have more spirit than
Howertonians and would be
more Inclined to walk down to
Howerton hall at 3:00 a.m. in
sub-freezing weather than the
Howerton guys who now have
to climb up to Davis under the
same conations.
Since Howerton Hall con
tains the cafeteria and is
hence more centrally located,
Howerton seemed the logical
location for the phone. But
Mary learned that it would
cost far more to string a
telephone line between
Howerton and the girls’ dorms
than between Davis and the
girls’ dorms; having only
limited funds, she chose the
latter option. Howertonians
are encouraged to improve
their lackluster reputation by
full participation in the
telethon.
After several delays, the
telethon had been scheduled to
begin yesterday (Thursday),
but the phones may not be
installed until Monday. The
telethon will work like this:
Students will sign up on the
posters near the phones to talk
a certain hour. If everyone
participates, each of us will
only have to talk on the phone
two hours a week; but since
full participation is unlikely,
everyone should sign up for as
many hours as they can.
You can talk, study, or
read the Bible over the phone,
but you are on your honor
to be at the phone ready to
talk at the time you have
signed for. UNDER NO
circumstances are you
TO HANG UP AT ANY TIME!
If the phone is hung up once
the telethon begins, the whole
deal is off. The person who
hangs up by accident or ab
sent-mindedness will no doubt
be shunned as a social outcast,
and will probably be dunked in
Lake Susan re peatedly until
his skin resembles that of a
prune.
Besides signing up to talk,
we are asked to find sponsors
who will pay the telethon fund
50 cents for every hour we
talk. Students may sponsor
each other for less, but
parents and others are asked
to pay 50 cents.In a poll taken
in convocation Monday, the
students voted to use the
money collected from the
telethon to sponsor a church
imissionary. Providing ice
machines for the dorms came
in second place, and money
will be used for that too if
there is enough. A potential
sum of $8(X) may be raised,
but that full amount is not
expected.
A motion was raised in the
last week’s SGA meeting to
permit students to solicit spon
sors among local businesses .
The motion was tabled by SGA
President Alan Cappa on the
advice of Dean Wilson, who
said that President Vaughn
and the development' com
mittee were against the idea.
The next day President
Vaughn told Marty that we
could not approach businesses
for sponsorships because the
administration felt that this
would take away from the
college’s other fund-raising
activities. “It’s simply a
matter of over-extension,”
commented Dean Wilson.
“You can solicit money for this
and that, but some where
you have to draw the line.”
The Dean said the ad
ministration is not against the
telethon idea, but there are
some worries about the
consequences of bad publicity
if the telethon falls. “Also,
some faculty members
question whether Montreat-
Anderson wants to be known
as ’ the college that talked a
lot’,” added Dean Wilson.
In order to fulfil the Guiness
organization requirments for
authentication, hall coun
selors will be asked to
volunteer to oversee the
telethon. This means that the
hall counselor will have to
initial the poster each hour
that a student begins and
finishes speaking.
It should also be pointed
out that you will not get
chapel credit if you are signed
up for 10 a.m. Mondays and
Wednesdays, nor can you get
off study hall to participate in
the telethon.
Telethon committee
members Marty Monroe and
R.B. Wilkins want to remind
the community of the enor
mous publicity the college will
receive if ^e telethon is
sucessful. It will be sent on the
wire services across the
nation.
“It sounds like a lot of work,
but it will work,” say Marty
and R.B., and “the finale wiU
be rewarding. It will bring
unity to the school as everyone
works for one goal-800 hours.
If this telethon fails it will be a
great embar rassment for the
school. But we must be op
timistic. It will not fail. It vrill
succeed.”
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