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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Needy kids sponsored by campus organizations The 18th annual Presidents' Club Chirstmas Party treated 71 needy Edmond children to gifts Friday.
Twenty nine campus organizations sponsored children who attended the party. The names of the children were given to the
Zachary Price (above) digs in his stocking for Christmas goodies while Nick (above right) accepts a gift from St. Nicholas.
21 honored at festival By Chris Sommer and Monica Kremeier To help usher in the Christmas spirit, the University Center Activities Board held its 20th annual "Hanging of the Green" in the University Center Ballroom Thursday night. The event, first held in 1967, is designed to give an opportunity to campus organizations to show their appreciation to a special person within their organization or a university faculty member. Honored staff and faculty members individually receive wreaths which are displayed during the ceremony. Those honored at the ceremony were: Susan Adair Lipscomb, Alpha Gamma Delta; Mildred Lynn, Sigma Delta Pi; Jimmie F. Thrash, DECA; Robert G. Fields, West Hall; Debbie Wakely, West Hall House Council; Randy Meadors and Robert Fields, University Center Activies Board; Dean Deanna Land and Reba Lucas, honored by both the Association of Woman Students and Panhellenic Club.
Also honored were: Dana Christman, manager of Resident Housing; Barabra Pool, East Hall; Geneva Petrovich and Linda Murphy, Murdaugh Hall; Clara Altaffer, The Wesley Foundation; Margaret Flansburg, Alpha Lambda Delta; Ann Browning, the Mortar Board; Jamie Jacobson, the Kaleidoscope Dancers; Tamee Nagel, TIARAS; Scott Lumry and Marvin Buckman, Thatcher Hall; Dean Dudley Ryan of the Presidents' Club and a special wreath presented to Mildred Lewis, Student Association, in memory of John Buttry. The semi-formal event began as CSU's Brass Quintet preformed a medley of Christmas carols while guests were directed to their tables and invited to enjoy the hors d'oeuvres buffet. The University Choir and the Chamber Singers, costumed in flowing dark blue gowns and black tuxedos, entertained the audience with traditional carols of Chirstmas, such as "Sing We Noel" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas." They were conducted by Lon Dehnert.
Presidents' Club by area teachers. Sponsors took care of the children during the party, and provided the gifts the children
received. Each child received an article of clothing, a toy, and a stocking full of candy.
During the party, the children sang carols, played games and enjoyed a visit from Santa Claus and Buddy Broncho.
Ball cancellation prompts letter By J. Money The East Hall Council has drafted a letter demanding recompensation to a resident for the amount of money spent for the Broncho Ball, which was cancelled when Thatcher Hall backed out of its agreement to participate. The ball had originally been planned as a joint venture between the two halls. Thatcher Hall's council had approved its participation in the event on three separate occasions, according to East Hall Council President Shane Williams. "Thatcher Hall said they could not participate because they didn't have the money," Williams said. "But they had allocated the money for the event when they voted to participate earlier in the semester." "Because they had voted three times to participate," Williams continued, "the East Hall Council felt like it had been left holding the bag, and even though the hall could have afforded to put on the ball by itself, it would have left our funds seriously depleted." That's why the council drafted the letter, Williams said. "We felt we had been slighted," he concluded.
Williams said Peter Montgomery, president of Thatcher Hall's council, told him Thatcher's support for the ball had been pulled by Head Resident Scott Lumry. Lee Allen, resident of East Hall who had arranged contracts for the location of the ball and Tshirts which would have been distributed, said Thatcher Hall's head resident would not give him a decision on the hall's participation in the event until after it was too late to contract for production of the shirts. "Lumry told me there wasn't enough publicity about the event to justify the hall's participation," Allen said. "Of course there wasn't, because it had just been formally announced the day before." The letter (see page three), asks for the repayment of money lost by Allen when he was forced to cancel the order for the shirts, and a formal apology to the East Hall Council. Lumry said he did not cancel Thatcher Hall's participation in the ball. "I was worried, because I found out that Thatcher was
responsible for selling half the tickets for the ball, about $1,000 worth. There had been no publicity and almost no ticket sales," Lumry said. Lumry said he then checked into Thatcher Hall's options, cancellation, postponement or to continue with the ball. "Allen told me when I talked to him on Friday (Nov. 20) that the ball would go on, regardless," Lumry said. Lumry said he then held a meeting with Dana Christman and other head residents to see what kind of input they had gotten from students living in the halls. "The information I gathered at that meeting indicated there was not much support for the ball, so I decided to get together with the Broncho Ball Planning Committee," Lumry said. Lumry said he could only find one member of the committee. "I decided to postpone Thatcher Hall's participation in the ball and try to reschedule it in the spring so that more time could be spent on promotion and ticket sales," Lumry said. Lumry said when he found Allen, he was informed that the ball had been cancelled.