In the spring issue of The Shocker, we posed this question: What is the strangest piece of Shocker memorabilia you or someone you know owns? We certainly haven’t been disappointed with your responses. Here are a few of them:
Shannon Littlejohn ’89: “I’m so excited that you’ve discovered my Koozie Wu, a uniquely tacky little fellow I’ve grown to love.”
Cherie Wenderott ’84/88/89: “I have a purse from the 1960s or ’70s, gold and black, with WuShock on it.”
Mardi Hammond ’70/90: “I have one of the diplomas where ‘Fairmount’ College is misspelled as ‘Fairmont.’”
Beverly Klag fs ’01: “It’s been in my campus office for years: a WU beer stein.”
Shockers everywhere, at events long ago to happenings just the other day, always have something interesting to say. Take this sampling as a Shock Talk example:
“What this means is space travel does not belong to government alone.”
- Matt Stinemetze ’98, project engineer on the SpaceShipOne high-altitude rocket developed by Scaled Composites, commenting on the successful flight and landing of the first privately funded trip to space on June 21.
“A busy weekend of activities started for us on April 30 with lunch in Old Town at Oscar’s Sports Bar. Friday evening was girls only at the DG house to reminisce about old times. Saturday morning featured a tour of Koch Arena and a campus tour led by Dr. Jim Rhatigan. A Shocker baseball game filled our afternoon, and the day was capped off with a buffet at Eberly Farm — with plenty of socializing. Our last event was Sunday at the Wichita Country Club, where we enjoyed a wonderful buffet.”
Joyce Allegro, Barbara Anderson, Mickey Armstrong, Elizabeth Bennett, Karen Black, Elaine Brady, Lila Butts, Chris Farha, Marge Faris, Linda Felt, Karla Goewert, Shelli Herman, Carole Jones, Marge Kintas, Ann McCarty (chair), Jane Nohr, Carol Peel, Merry Sue Roarke, Kim Schofield, Carol Siebert, Lynn Stephan, Debbie Subera-Wiggin, Joyce Syme, Cindy Vadakin, Valerie Walker, Judy Webber, Carol Womack: members of Delta Gamma about the sorority’s 45th reunion at WSU.
“The Hugo Wall School has launched a newly redesigned website. Check us out: http://hws.wichita.edu.”
- Jo Turner, associate director of wsu’s Hugo Wall School of Urban & Public Affairs
