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Eastern Today, Fall 1984 Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University DigitalCommons@EMU Alumni News University Archives 1984 Eastern Today, Fall 1984 Eastern Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news Recommended Citation Eastern Michigan University, "Eastern Today, Fall 1984" (1984). Alumni News. 52. http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news/52 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at DigitalCommons@EMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@EMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Jazz It Up at Homecoming '84 with Soupy Sales Volume II, number 1 Eastern Today ispublished four times a year for alumni and friends of Contents Eastern Michigan University. Produced by the Office of Information Services and Publications. Please direct ques­ 4 WEMU and All That tions or comments to the Office for Alumni Relations, Eastern Michigan Jazz University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48/97, (J IJ) 487-01SO. EMU's own public radio station grabbed some national attention as it broadcasted the 1984 Montreux­ Detroit Kool Jazz Festival live, EASTERN TODAY PUBLICATIO S coast to coast. COMMITTEE Sue Mc.Kenzie, editor Chris Kozlowski, student intern Larry Schcfner, graphic designer Lorelle Otis Thomas, graphic designer Dick Schwarze, photographer Catherine Canzonctta, assistant director or alumni relations Kathleen Tinn.cy, director of information services and publications ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OHICERS 9 Jazz It Up With Nick M. Madias, '59, president Normajcan Anderson, '35. Soupy Sales past president The theme of EMU's Homecoming Joan M. Hartsock, '72, secretary-treasurer '84 is "Jazz It Up"-and this year Soupy Sales will be on campus to ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD m- DIRECTORS help you do it! C. Eugene Bcauy, '34 Margarc1 E. Bell, '52, '73 Michael A. Boulus, '74, '15 Andrew J. Chapelle, '72 Judi1h Mansfield Goodman, '62, '71 Charles M. Greig, '44 Hayes w. Jones, '61 Dale R. Leslie, '70 William Mays Jr., 'S4 page 9 Gene E. Mcgiveron, 'S4, 'S9 Nancy J. Mida, '72 Jack D. Minzey, 'SO Departments William P. Morris, '64, '68 Ann O'Bcay Pavelka, '74, '79 1 Campus Commentary Leonard D. Posey, '76 Elsin Goodrich Powell, '40 Claudia B. Wasik, '62, '66 2 Coast to Coast John H. Wood, '71, '74 Ann Marie Foley, student representative 6 Sports 12 Campus News 14 Class Notes page 7 On the Cover TV children of the 1950s will probably never forget Soupy Sales' lunchtime show, and graphic designer Larry Scheffler has captured some of Soupy's zaniness (as well as Pookie the lion) in this month's cover illustration. Alumni and friends of EMU can catch Soupy's antics in person at the Hurley-Burley Burlesque Homecoming Gala Oct. 26-27. You can read about it in the article on page 9. EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS COMMENTARY CAMPUS COMMENTARY• CAMPUS COMMENTARY• CAMPUS CO�MENTARY • CAMPUS COMMENTARY• an exciting 1984-85. community leaders alike and is praised by Wherever alumni gather together, athletics his peers in the coaching profession. seems to be a common thread that binds The Hurons are now ready to move for­ these Ypsilanti loyalists together. They talk ward in football on the gridiron. of Andy Vanyo and the band of gridders The Hurons are planning five fabulous that came up from Toledo in th.e 1930s; of football weekends with all games sched­ the big game against the University of uled on Saturdaynights againstMid-American Michigan in 1930 whic h ended in a 2-0set­ opponents. back for the Normalites, the Ypsi team's Pre-game entertainment will be provid­ only loss of tl)e year. ed during the 5 to 7 p.m. picnic and tailgate They talk of Olympians Hayes Jones and period. The entertainment will range from HaselyCrawford, national champs like Stanley J.C. Heard, Detroit's official representative Vinson and of how Eugene Beatty should to the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Soupy have been in the Olympics. Sales to German bands and dixieland musi­ And now they focus on 20-year-old Earl cians. Stand-up comic David Brenner will Jones, bronze medal winner in the 800-meter stop by for a post-gamecon cert at the stadium run thissummer in LosAn geles.They wonder and a bundle of halftime giveawayswill send if he will be America's next superstar and alumni and friends away with a brand-new, do what the other Jones did in the '(i()s.(Hayes bright red Mercury Cougar, trips to the Jones, you remember, won the bronze four Bahamas, New Orleans, Florida and Nor­ years prior to taking home the gold.) thern Michigan ski resorts, and packages Eastern Michigan University athletics is NBA scoring champion George Gervin, to the Rose, Orange, Fiesta and California alive and well, having survived a recent major league baseball stars Bob Welch, Bob Bowls. challenge from the Mid-AmericanCo nference. Owchinko, Pat Sheridan, John Martin,Gl enn It promises to be great fun in the Huron The MAC Council of Presidents, fear­ Gulliver and professional football players tradition. I sincerely hope that you will make ing that the league would face reduction of like Ron Johnson, Dave Pureifory, John it a point to attend all five games this fall its football classification because five of its Banaszak,Clarence Chapman and Jim Pietr­ if you live within driving distance of Yp­ schools were having problems meeting the zak are all part of us. And the list goes on. silanti and, if not, make plans to come back NCAA Division 1-A minimum attendance But its 's not all in the past.Eastern Michigan for the "Jazz It Up" Homecoming weekend standard of 17,000sp ectators per game, voted athletics is alive and well. In fact, it may of October 27. on July 16 to remove Eastern Michigan from be better than ever. l promise it will be a season to remember. membership unless it dropped football. With President Poner at the helm directing The presidents underestimated the vitality a total university-wide effort, EMU is begin­ of the football program and its band of en­ ning to show the world what total effort thusiastic alumni supporters. Following a is all about. number of open forums on campus, dur­ The football program is in good hands. ing which the program received an overwhelm­ Paul Shoults, who directs the Department ing vote of confidence, the Board of Regents of Intercollegiate Athletics, comes from a voted unanimously to continue to support solid winning football background. He is John Fountain the football program as well as to ask the a Hall of Fame halfback from Miami of Vice President for University Relations Mid-American Conference to rescind its ac­ Ohio who later played professional foot­ tion. The board was prepared to take legal ball for the old New York Bulldogs. action if necessary to accomplish these two He later served with Ara Parseghian dur­ objectives. ing the latter's entire coaching career at The University's legal council arid the Northwestern and Notre Dame. NCAA informed the conference that it had Last season, Shoults brought in Jim acted with misinfonnation because the MAC's Harkema, a proven winner as a head coach status as a Division I-A conference was not at every level, to lead the Hurons and bring at that time threatened. them back to prominence. A former out­ On August 3, the Council of Presidents standingscho lar-athletewho st arredin football voted to rescind its unfortunate action and as a quarterback and in tennis at Kalamazoo EMU is back in the MAC and looking forward College, Harkema has built an enviable record. to football. He has repeatedly established programs from The Huron family is now united like never scratch and turned losers into winners, first before and determined to show the world at the high school level, then on the junior it can win in football. college front and later at Grand Valley State The action, however, gave us an oppor­ Colleges. tunity to look back on the rich heritage of In one year in Ypsilanti, Harkema has EMU athletics as well as to look ahead to earned the respect of players, parents and EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 1 COAST TO COAST COAST TO COAST • COAST TO COAST • COAST TO COAST • COAST TO COAST • COAST TO COAST • CC Alumni Gatherings Eastern alumni have participated in several alumni receptions over the past spring and summer, including: - A wine and cheese reception for Grand Rapids area alumni on April 25 at the home of Sam Eiler, '68. EMU football coach Jim Harkema spoke about the EMU 1984 "Nightwatch" and assistant alumni director Catherine Canzonetta spoke about the Alumni Office's outreach efforts. Approximately 20 alumni attend­ ed the event. - A wine and cheese reception for Jackson area alumni on May 3 at Jackson Community College's Potter Center. Thirty alumni attended and helped plan the annual calendar of events for Jackson Blarney Castle is famous for its stone, which has the traditional power of conferring alumni. Dale Tuckey, '70, '71, and Can­ eloquence on all who kiss it. The Blarney Stone is set into the wall below the battlements zonetta spok� at the reception. and, to kiss it, one has to lean backwards (grasping an iron railing) from the parapet walk of the battlements. - A luncheon for industrial education graduates and Iota Lambda Sigma members on May 4 at the Grand Traverse Travel Opportunities for EMU Alumni Resort Village in Acme, Mich. Many in­ Caribbean Cruise - Sail from sunny Canadian Rockies Adventure - dustrial educators from across the state Miami on the fabulous Song of Norway Experience the grandeur of unspoiled attended as well as EMU faculty members April 6 and return April 13.
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