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Harding University Scholar Works at Harding The iB son Archives and Special Collections 1-17-1969 The iB son, January 17, 1969 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.harding.edu/thebison Recommended Citation The iB son, January 17, 1969. (1969). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.harding.edu/thebison/924 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Scholar Works at Harding. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iB son by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at Harding. For more information, please contact [email protected]. fA Final Exams , Next Bison Beqin Monday January 31 D.' 'I VOLUME 44 NUMBER 10 HARDING COLLEGE, SEARCY, ARKANSAS JANUARY 17, 1969 Holiday Accident Startles Students Five flips in a car with barely m.p.h. and was only 50 miles a scratch? from home on a well-known December 21 will long be re­ road. Suddenly the back end of membered as an unhappy, luckY the car slid around, made two day for Readus Tatum and quarter turns in the road where Babby Henson. it caught itself on a high bank Tatum and Miss Henson w.ere and then started turning over part of a three-car-caravan leav­ four or five times · ("it seemed ing here at 6:15 a.m. Saturday like an eternity!") and finally for home. It was raining and landed on its· top. they were soaked before they Later they found out it had had even finished loading. The been raining for just a short roads seemed fairly safe be­ time there so the roads were cause it had been raining for rather slick. "We had been quite a while and the roads were driving in rain for four hours washed and weren't slick. and were just accustomed to it, I The three cars travelled quite suppose. There was really comfortably together with no nothing I could do about it. If foreseeable problems for the I were caught in an identical first four hours of the five-hour situation again, I don't know trip home. Two of the cars who yet what my reaction would had journeyed together for be," he continued. safety's sake had left Tatum to "We were really luclcy we go their separate ways, so he weren't killed. All we got were and Babby were traveling alone. some scratches and bruises. "It was still raining," Tatum Babby had three stitches in her said, "but there were no prob­ back. The car was completely Rogers, Sims, Mitchell Will Star demolished," he said. lems. I had the situation well in hand and there was 'no big Heartbroken about the car, he sweat.' " Babby had fallen wasn't scared until he saw it In May Day Contest Activities asleep about 35 miles out of later and realized how lucky Decatur, Tenn., when the trouble they'd been. "I'm just thank­ started. By Jerry Flowers production. "I'll get to see the winding of ful to be alive," he said and it's Asked about her reaction to the May Pole without having to Tatum was going about 65 easy to see why. Two Christmas trees and a being selected as a May Queen look over someone's shoulder." bit of moonshine may not ap­ finalist, Miss Mitchell replied, Representing the Zeta Phi pear to be much to choose from "Naturally I was excited, but Zeta social club is Miss Jessie when selecting a beauty queen, the biggest excitement was Jeanette Sims, daughter of ·Mr. but that is exactly what the when my friends found out. The and Mrs. Jesse G. Sims of Para­ Gun do and Helmi Vent choices were when the student roof lifted, and we had to be gould. body was recently asked to calmed down for making too A physical education major select three May Queen finalists. much noise." whose interests include all kinds When the final tallies were in Miss Pamela Diane Rogers of sports and working with Visit Harding Campus and the dust cloud raised in the (her friends call her "Pam" and children, Miss Sims plans to excitement had cleared, a trio several other nicknames) is the teach high school level classes Harding was host to · Gundo D. Major, opp, 137; Dvorak's of juniors remained in the com­ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. after receiving her degree. and Helmi Vent, young German Sonatina in G Major, op. 100; petition for May Queen. They Rogers of Little Rock. She is an Cheerleader for five years at musicians, last weekend. and Franck's Sonata in A Major. are Misses Nancy Mitchell, Pam elementary education major and Crowley's Ridge Academy, year­ The couple performed in the On Monday, the musicians ,ap­ Rogers and Jeanette Sims. plans to secure a double minor book queen, member of the Academy and College chapels on peared on the Vic Ames tele­ Miss Nancy Mitchell (she ih history and English. After chorus and Future Homemakers Friday morning. Dr. Joe vision show in Little Rock and doesn't mind say.ing that her graduation she savs she would of America, and candidate for Pryor made the presentation of performed for the Associated middle name is Ellen) repre­ like to teach the "first, second, May Queen in high school, Miss Arkansas Travelers certificates Women for Harding. sents the Ju Go Ju social club third, fourth, fifth, or sixth Sims is a junior here and is from Governor Rockefeller to They also recorded a pro­ and is the daughter of Mr. and grades." secretary of Zeta Phi. She is Gundo and Helmi in the college gram for KETS, an educational Mrs. J. D. Mitchell of Jackson, Miss Rogers represents the also a Bison cheerleader. assembly. television station in Conway. Miss. She is a junior home eco­ Ko Jo Kai social club and lists Named after her father, the Friday night at 8, the piano­ The Vents, who are accom­ nomics major who lists cooking, teaching physical education to brunette, brown-eyed Miss Sims violin duo presented a lyceum panied by Jack Nadeau, a Har­ sewing, reading, hunting and academy ,girls among her other changed the spelling of her program before an audience of ding alumnus, visited the cam­ fishing among her interests. college activities. She attended name from "Jesse" to "Jessie" about 800. Their performance pus as a part of a 7-week tour Though one might be hard Hall High School in Little Rock because she felt the former included Schubert's Sonatina in in the United States. pressed to get her to admit it, and there wrote for the school spelling too boyish. Miss Mitchell's friends say that newspaper and taught kinder­ Ironically, Miss Sims says she is also quite interested in garten children. Like Miss Mit­ that when she was in the eighth horseback riding. chell, she was also once a grade she was the biggest tom­ When being totally practical, Christmas tree - Miss Optimist boy in her neighborhood. Her the brown-eyed Miss Mitchell Christmas Tree. dad bought her a motor scooter, says that she plans to teach. Exhuberant and witty, the about which she quipped, "I was When in a more idealistic mood, green-eyed Miss Rogers is al­ on that thing every chance I she dreams of being a fashion ways ready with a tart answer got." designer or interior decorator, and often catches the unwitting Feeling that the greatest and remarks concerning that interrogator off guard. When honor in being selected May dream, "I'd just like to go wild querried concerning her hobbies Queen finalist is knowing that creating things." She does make and interests, she retorted, she has so many wonderful most of her own clothes. "making bigger and better friends who made it possible, Salutatorian of her high school banana trees and brushing my Miss Sims says that she stood class, editor .of the yearbook, teetW'." silent, as if she could not speak, President of Student Council When told that she had been with mouth wide, when told of and Future Homemakers of selected as a May Queen final­ her selection. America chapter, and a member ist, Miss Rogers quipped, "My Having played the capricious of the a cappella chorus, Miss Moonshine in an elementary Mitchell attended P 1 e a s a n t morn must have threatened Dr. Ganus." Thereafter she went school production of Shake­ Grove Christian High School in about campus telling her friends speare's A Midsummer Night's Dallas, Tex. Dream, Miss Sims' ambitions in When questioned about her to vote for the other girls in the final voting. life are quit.e determined. She previous beauty queen experi­ says that her one great desire ences, Miss Mitchell replied that For a young lady who played is "to someday have a Chris­ she was once Jelly Bean Queen Tarzan as a child, was once tian home and raise a Christian in elementary school. She con­ cheerleader on Betty's Little family." tinued: "You see, we had a Rascals Program (a local Little The name of the young beauty spelling bee. Every time some­ Rock show), almost drowned in who was chosen by the student one spelled a word right he got Lake Michigan at age three, and body to be Queen, is a secret a jelly bean. The last person who has the same birthday as guarded almost as well as the left got a sack of. jelly beans William Shakespeare, one would gold at Fort Knox. And, it's a and was to be named Jelly Bean think that being May Queen secret which will be revealed King or Queen.

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