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To remain ridiculo fall the musical groups on the cam All churches were well pleased with the pus of Ouachita Baptist University, training of their young pastors; revivals were the faculty quartet stood out - always held over for the second week ... 0 some say like a star, others said like and it rained every Friday night. 1 a sore thumb. The occasion was a faculty variety show. Dr. Raymond Coppenger, postmaster and Christmas was approaching and the quartet retired professor of philosophy and religion, was invited . .. ordered, actually, to sing was the bass. The baritone was Dr. Thurman ... The only song we had ever sung was for Watson, professor of education. Dr. Herman the lunch hour of the grave decorating and Sanford, professor of English, was the lead cake walk at the Prince graveyard in Bald singer. Supplying the first tenor voice was Knob on Memorial Day. Dr. Paul Root, formerly the director of AT AC We decided to compromise rather than try and presently the dhector of the Fosler to learn a complete Christmas song. With our Grandparent's Program. students in disbelief, our colleagues gig- ~ How did the faculty quartet originate? The gling, and our President studying our con· best way to answer that is to listen to Cop tracts, we sang: 'Deck the Hall. r " I penger during one of the quartet's many To the delight and amazement of their lis· routines. teners the faculty quartet has kept singing "It was back in the good old days, as I " Deck the Halls" since that faculty variety recall. All students were well behaved and show in 1965. respectful of their professors. They have added a few more songs to their FACULTY Randy G~mer!Admissions Counseling Elmer Goble/Director of Rellgious Activities Glenn Good/Physics RozeUe Goodson/Financial Aid R~y Gunade/History Bob GravettJPhysical Education Tom Greer/Religion, Philosophy, English Raouf Halaby/English Carl Ray Hall/Resident Missionary Jeanne Hamllton/Secretary to Maintenance Jim Hammon/Physical Education Paul Hammond/Music Ann Hanl!ard!Assistant to the Registra.r Dvyne HansenfUniversity Nurse Gretchen Hargis/Graduate Assistant Bill HarkrideTIDirector of Maintenance Oorothy Harlcrid•riT.ihrarian Don.ald Hanington/Military Science 180/People us is only goal repertoire through the years. They report office, the quartet performed what they edly sang "Deck the Halls" to two other tenned, 'The Perfect Development Song." tunes wnen an encore became necessary. As most of the audience guessed, it was sung Other faculty quartet standards included to the tune of "Precious Memories." "The Old Ark's a Movein'," one verse of "Precious memories of our public "Mood Indigo," "The Little Brown School in as they start to fonn a mob. the Vale," an obscure verse of "The Battle Students crying, ATAC's dying, Hymn of the Republic" and their biggest hit, our first tenor needs a job. ''The Perfect Country Song." ''In the reading of our history The idea for the latter came from a hit song we have found a better way. by David Allan Coe. After polishing the As we ponder, hope grows fonder; lyrics the quartet made it "perfect" by, of get us in a will today." course, singing it to the tune of "Precious The fun didn't lie in the lyrics alone. The Memories." fine blend of the quartet was sometimes The faculty quartet sang at several Oua overlooked, but, according to Root, it was chita banquets and made occasional appear the key to their success. "The singing is the ances outside of Ouachita. At each banquet key/' said Root. "If we sing badly, it won't Root wrote lyrics for the particular audience go over no matter what the lyrics are." and always found a place for "Deck the Root said the faculty quartet had only one Halls." goal and that was to remain ridiculous. He For a banquet honoring the development added, "I believe we've made it." Joyce Helms/Sec. to Dean of Students Ltc. Doyle L. Herndon/Military Scien'e Mary Holiman/Business Office Dennis Holt!Drama W. Maurice Hurley/Psychology Joe Jeffers/Chemistry and Biology Harold Johnson/Director of Financial Aid and Admissions Counseling Kathryn Jones/Math George Keck/Music Ouida Keck/Music Walt Kehoe/Director of Food Services Jonathan Kelley/Office Administration Jean KetzschedWest Donn Mom Mel Klinkner!Asst. Business Manager Marvin Lawson/Music Eddith Lewis/0. C. Bailey_Donn Mom John Lippencott/Military Science Ken LockeiDirector of Counseling Service Faculty/181 though a Baptist university, most students did not decide to attend Ouachita as a result of divine reve A lation. Man y probably had other schools to choose from. And all had ques· tions to be answered; "What do I do to ap· ply?", ''Who will my roommate be?", " Ale Sharing the students nice?", " Are the dorms dean?", and so on. The people responsible for answering these and other questions were found in a small office in Mitchell Hall. They had to our know a little about everything and often, a lot about nothing. They were the admissions counselors. Their job never ended. There were trips to make, tours to conduct, anx· world, ieties to relieve, and parents to please. The office in Mitchell might have been more appropriately called " headquarters." During the fall, especially, cou nselors were gone as much as four days a week informing FACULTY Wilma MaddoxiBusiness Office Francis McB«!thiMusic and Resident Composer Clark McCarty/Chemistry and Physics Clarice McOard!Sec. to Education Betty McCommas!English Betty McGee!Business Linda MdCinney/Business Office Lany McNeese/Military SCience Tony Merriweather/Military Science Joy MilleriFinancial Aid Richard Mills/Sociology w. C. Mims!Education Carolyn Moffatt/Physical Education Joyce Morehead/Home Economics Gilbert Morris/English Bobby Morten!Admissions Counseling Tom Murphree/Physkal Education Tamara Nichols/History 1821People high school students and other prospects of They were responsible for awarding the "World of Ouachita." They travelled in Achievement Scholarships and for making all the neighboring states and had contacts as recommendations to the president for Presi far away as Aorida and Hawaii. As many as dential Scholarships. 225-250 schools were visited. Churches often Every summer the university sponsored called for counselors to come and talk with one or two Contact Teams which travelled their young people. across the state leading revivals and minis In the spring, efforts were turned toward tering in youth camps and rallies. These following up those prospects found in the teams worked out of the Admissions Office. faU. This meant identifying those people m They were able to help in informing people terested in Ouachita, and those that Oua of Ouachita and in finding people already chita was interested in. These students were interested in the school. invited to campus as guests of the university Not everyone who attended Ouachita to get a first-hand look at Ouachita. Lyn came as a direct result of the work done in the Peeples, a 1980 graduate and an admissions Admissions Office either. But without the counselor, said, "Ouachita more or less sells counselors many people would have never itself." So, often there could be seen a coun heard of the "Wonderful World of Ouachita" selor with a prospect and his family conduct and those questions which plagued all new ing a tour of the campus. college students would have never been an But recruiting and counseling were not the swered. only functions of the Admissions Office. Alex Nisb<et. Ch~nustry RmdUI O'Bri~ n-'Rehgion janet f'eeblu'Switch~rd ~rator Lyn f'teples!Admlss•ons Coun~ling G"ne P~tty Religion Virginiz. Qu~en/Mus• c Jane QuicJc/Enghsh Randolph Quick/Soc•ology Henry Rabum/M1htary Science Tonda Ratt~ree 'Graduate ASSIStant ~~=lla R•uch,Lebranan Jem Raybon~Lebl'lnan Dor. Rich.'O•ta Process• ng Htl~n Roarlc.'SKreu.ry to th~ President Michael Rob~ AC'COunhng Facultyl183 Firsthand o discover the customs of the run privately where Japanese, Americans Japanese people, James Edward and Taiwanese aU lived together," he said "Bim" Allison of Siloam Springs "We had one bath in the evenings. That took T spent nine months in Fukuoka, Ja getting used to!" pan, as part of the exchange program be- The dorm cafeteria se[Ved Japanese and tween Ouachita and Seinan Gakuin Univer American food two times a day for breakfast sity in Fukuoka. and dinner. Allison had to eat Japanese food "The biggest reason I wanted to go to exclusively when he moved in with the Japan was to experience living in a different Kiriake family for two months. country," said Allison. "I wanted to see ev "I missed the American food a little but I erything first hand -for the interest and the loved seeing the Japanese way of life first fun of it." hand,'' said Allison. "The home was more Another reason Allison chose to spend traditional than the dorm because we slept nine months far away was to see if he could on mats and alwavs took off our shoes when handle the changes in the customs, in reli entering." ' gion and in education. The family consisted of a 96-year-old Handling the changes between the United grandmother, father, mother and two sons, States and Japan meant living in an in one in college and the other in junior high. ternational dorm in Fukuoka not even lo "In Japan, the father is rarely home during cated on the campus of the university. the week. He leaves early and returns late. "The first seven months I lived in the dorm But it isn't a problem because it is the 'ac· FACULTY Cathryn RogersiFlippen-Perrin Donn Mom Ernie Romero/Asst.

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