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Finally, to reward its efforts the class is indulging in the Senior Weekend, April 26-27. There are three major events during the weekend and with attention to detail here is a documentation of the places, prices and people involved. Friday night at the Hall of Fame the Senior Bash will start at 8 p.m. The Bash is an infor mal get-together with The De- bonnaires providing the dance music. (You know the Debon- naires, they’ve played for the Class of ’85 before — and they're still as popular as ever.) There will be free beer and mixed drinks until 11 p.m. Tickets are $5 per couple in the pre-sale. Profits from the sale of these tickets will be put into the Class of'85 fund. At the door tickets are S3 for girls and $4 for guys. These profits will not go back to the class. The Bash is over at 1 a.m. and it’s time to rest for Saturday — the biggie. On Saturday evening, April 27, the Senior Banquet will be held at the Aggieland Inn. Cock tail hour begins at 6 p.m. in the Penthouse and Hall of Fame room — cash bar. Dinner begins at 7 p.m. in the Aggieland Inn ballroom. (Chicken Kiev, baby carrots. way. to end the banquet will be the Senior slide show that cap tures the past four years — the highs and lows. Dress for the banquet is formal. Following the banquet the Ring Dance (the event you’ve been waiting for) will be held in Rudder Complex from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be valet parking from the circle service drive in concert contract with HBO. The Ed Gerlach Orchestra, a ballroom style band from Hous ton, is playing in the Exhibit Hall. Ed is a former student himself. Don't panic about the ballroom dancing — nobody else knows how to do it either. Cost of the Ring Dance is $35 per couple. Pictures — how to prove to your parents that you are a senior and vou did do all the proper class functions. Here’s There will be valet parking from the circle service drive in front of Rudder Tower (first come first serve). The cars will be put in Lot 60 and keys turned Into the box office. Parking will be tricky so this is an option to consider. broccoli with cheese sauce, rolls with butter and tea/coffee) Joe Fenton, class of '58, is speaking. He is founder of his own citv, Fenton, LA. and any Aggie with his own city, has to have a lot of leadership quality. Fenton spoke at the MSC Fall Leadership conference and re lates the real world in a fun front of Rudder Tower (first the deal, come first serve.) The cars wall Photos by AR Photography be put in Lot 60 and keys turned will begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday into the box office. Parking wall i n Rudder Auditorium and con- be tricky so this is an option to finue all dav and through the consider. dance. The traditional setting of The Drifters, a Texas gulf the Aggie ring wall be there, coast band, is playing in the Fort he large package vou pav ballroom. It is a pop rock/top 40 $14. That includes two 8x10s\ style band that just signed a two 5x7s and 8 wallet size. For the regular package you pav $8. That includes two 5x7s and 8 wallet size. Steve Stone will be the Party Pic Man for the weekend. The system will be different from what some may be used to be cause it’s done on a coupon basis. The cost is $10 for four coupons in advance and when vou request a picture, you hand over a coupon. The picture will be mailed to you. Or you can ignore the coupons and request the pictures later for S3 each. If now you’re so confused you. wish vou were a freshman again the package deal can make it simpler. For $60 a cou ple can go to the Bash, Banquet and the Ring Dance. Because of seating limitations banquet tickets are available only through the package. Tickets are available in Rud der Box Office. All profits from the weekend go towards the Class of’85 gift to the Universi ty. The class is giving an art col lection featuring Texas artists/^ ‘Brighton Beach 5 evokes memories By LEIGH-ELLEN CLARK Co-editor “The part that puzzles me,” said the old man next to me, “is how they can take this stuff and make it into a play — it’s just life.” Like many of the people in the au dience he remembered life during the Depression and appreciated Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Simon’s play looks at life in 1937 and says that it was funny and poignant and that to have lived it built strength in a person. The Broadway play was sponsored by MSC Town Hall Committee, Monday April 15 in Rudder Au ditorium. In ‘“Brighton Beach Memoirs,” the 15-year-old protagonist, Eugene Morris Jerome, chronicles the changes he, his older brother and his parents go through during the Depression when his widowed aunt moves in with her two daughters — one of which is 16-years-old and inspires frantic lust in Eugene. Patrick Dempsey is en dearing as Eugene from the minute the curtain goes up. Anyone who has ever been 15 can remember the frustra tion of being blamed for ev erything that goes wrong — including WWII. The scene opens with Eugene on the lawn, Mom (Lynn Milgrim) in the kitch en, Aunt Blanche (Rocky Par ker) at the sewing machine, and vounger cousin Laurie (Romv Berk) resting on the couch. You see, Laurie has a flutter in her heart and gets away with murder. Nora, the older, more voluptuous cousin, bounds in with declarations of an opportunity to be on Broad- wav. Brother Stanley (Brian Drillinger) comes home vvith news that he’s lost hisjob un less he apologizes for stand ing up for his principles. Everyone is looking to Jack, the father of the house hold, for a decision. Gathered around the din ner table for liver and cab bage the tension grows. Jack decides that Nora is too young for the stage and although he’s proud of his son’s principles, the family needs the money and Stanley must apologize. In the second act, a week later. Jack has suffered from a mild heart attack and Stan ley gambles his salary away. When Stanley says good bye to Eugene and leaves to join the army because he can’t face his father without any money, the man next to me removed his glasses and wiped away a tear. You see he remembered the threat of no money, the fear of losing a brother to war and families depending on each other. The actors were strong, each developing his charac ter to believable familiarity — because it was “life" is was easy to love these people on stage. And because the man next to me hummed along with the Amos and Andy theme, fidgeted at the radio report of the German’s entry into Poland and cried again when Stanley returned without joining anything— I knew it was authentic. \ A pie contest was held during the annual Messina Hof Spring Gala Rosebushes are used as a warning device for fungus