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Vol. XXXVII, No. 4

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WILSON BILLBOARD An American Tradition: Wilson’s International Students get a taste of Thanksgiving

Elisa Harding-Hunt demonstrates the art of carving a Thanksgiving turkey.

Photo by Youkyung Jin

By Youkyung Jin As usual at dinner, the Jensen dining hall is filled with people. But today is a little bit different, because it was Thanksgiving dinner. Among these people, there were people who were about to enjoy their first American Thanksgiving.

International students from Trinidad Tobago, South Korean, Ukraine gathered in table 39 and celebrated Thanksgiving.

When Elisa Harding Hunt, assistance dean of international students, brought Turkey for the table, every body welcomed the Thanksgiving turkey. They shared four typical American thanks giving foods; turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pies, and cranberries.

Before dinner, International students take turns to say what they thankful for.

“I’m thankful to have great

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opportunity to study in Wilson and for my life in here”, Aliyah Johnson 09’ a student from Trinidad Tobago said.

After that they talked about Thanksgiving celebration in each country.

“In my country, we don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving Day” Iryna Machkur 09’, guest students from Ukraine said. Min Ah Park 09’, a guest student from South Korea said that it is similar to have a big meal with family members and share rice cake instead of turkey. The way of celebration may be different but the fact that Thanksgiving is a thankful day is everywhere. It was many international students’ 1st American Thanksgiving dinner.

The Holiday Hustle

By Des Arnold Christmas, December 25.

Christmas is the Christian representation of the day that Jesus Christ was born. It is the season of giving and loving one another.

The Christmas season traditionally starts on “Black Friday”, the day after Thanksgiving. This is when Santa Claus comes to the malls and so forth. Normally, Christmas decorations are put in stores after Halloween. This year I noticed something different. This year, Christmas decorations arrived at Wal-Mart before Halloween decor. The store clerks were filling aisles with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween decorations at the same time. Where did autumn go?

Listening to the radio one day, I heard that the Greencastle Christmas Parade will be held on Saturday, November 19th. During this parade Santa Claus will be arriving in town. Santa Claus will also be arriving at the Hanover Mall on Friday November 18th.

However, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will still be held on Thanksgiving. During this parade, Santa comes to town. This is the tradition.

In addition to the broken traditions listed above, Christmas advertisements have started to air on the television. In the course of a one hour show, I saw Christmas commercials for Sears, Target and Kay Jewelers. Are retailers really so concerned with the almighty dollar, that they must start advertising for Christmas weeks in advance?

It seems like every year the Christmas season starts sooner and sooner. I overheard a conversation in which a man was telling a friend that his neighbors already put up their Christmas tree. What’s

sad about this, is that I heard this conversation two weeks before Halloween.

Why is it that the season keeps starting sooner? Is it the fault of the retailers, or are we just so anxious for Christmas to come that we start decorating our homes three months in advance?

Has Christmas turned into a holiday about trees, decorations, and getting your wife the perfect “Leo diamond” pendant and getting your kids the most expensive toys available only at Toys R Us? All of the signs that have been shoved in our faces this year have me confused. What is Christmas really about? Is it about diamonds, toys and decoration, or is it about family, love and giving? Every year at Christmas time, my mother asks me what I am going to give. One year I bought tea, coffee, sugar and flour and gave it to a local homeless shelter. Another year I had 11 ½ inches of my hair cut off and donated it to Locks for Love, an organization that makes wigs out of real hair for cancer patients. Christmas in my house has always been about the look of the receivers face when they open THAT present. It is about seeing family and connecting with old friends. It is about sitting around a table with family and friends and eating a marvelous meal.

I guess that the true meaning of Christmas varies from person to person. I guess that as the years pass, the meaning of Christmas changes. I remember when it was all about the presents; I also remember when that changed.

Enjoy the holiday season this year. Enjoy giving and receiving. Enjoy decorating your houses and trees. And, before long, the Christmas season will be starting in August.

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FEATURES Have a Sustainable Holiday!

A message from the Fulton Center for Sustainable Living by Matt Steiman The holiday season is just about upon us, and the whole campus community is looking forward to a much deserved break. After a long semester of studying, teaching, or working to keep the campus going strong, students, faculty, and staff are all due for some holiday recreation!

Whatever our tradition may be, many of us associate the holiday season with giving and receiving gifts. While the sharing of gifts is a tradition that can bond families and friends together, it has also unfortunately become wrought with unnecessary commercialism and waste. Here are some tips on some steps you can take to make your holiday giving more sustainable!

Whenever we buy things for ourselves or others, we are voting with our dollars. Whatever products we buy, we are encouraging the businesses that sell them to continue making more. Thus, if we can spend our holiday budgets on items that follow some guidelines for sustainability, we can help promote good practices into the future. If you are not planning to buy many gifts due to a tight budget, these same guidelines can apply to your requests for gifts from others.

1. Buy locally! When choosing where to buy a gift, why not support a local business?

Small businesses are typically run by people who live in and care

farm in central PA, is selling “Sustainable Gift Baskets” of local farm raised products, including maple syrup, pumpkin butter, roasted peppers, and more!

These baskets can be ordered online at http:// www.taitfarmfoods.com/shop/ pasa.html and shipped to any address around the country. Proceeds benefit the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.

4. Buy simply! Is the product you are buying overly packaged? Will your holiday purchase result in an excessive amount of waste, or is it minimally packaged in recyclable materials?

5. Wrap simply! Remembering that most paper comes from virgin trees, can you think of some creative way to wrap your gifts? Comic pages of the newspaper, or a paper shopping bag colored with holiday designs are some simple ideas to make your own, affordable wrapping paper.

6. Make your own gifts!

Gifts that we make ourselves can be good for relationships and our budgets! An easy gift to make is scented bath salts: mix equal amounts of Epsom salts and baking soda (from the grocery store), then add some essential oils, such as lavender or bergamot (from a nutrition center or the internet) to make a muscle-soothing bath mix. Other nice things to give

about our communities.

Studies have shown that money spent at local businesses stays in the community (the owner of the local pet store will get her hair cut at the local salon), while money spent at big chain stores will often go to distant corporate shareholders. It is tough to run a small business, and any time you choose to buy locally, you help to support your neighbors, keeping the community strong. Examples of local gift ideas include gift certificates to a favorite unique restaurant, goods from the farmers’ market, or tickets to the local theater.

2. Buy hand-made! Compared to mass-produced commercial goods, hand-made gifts have a warm, personal feel that makes them authentic. The skill needed to make handmade crafts keeps people employed in meaningful, interesting work. Examples of hand-made goods include soaps, knitted clothing, artwork, and more.

3. Buy healthy! When giving food related gifts, choose those that will enhance the receiver’s health, not harm it! Does anybody really need more candy or junk food? If you care about someone, give them food that will keep them alive and well for a long time, like fresh fruit, some healthy snacks, or a nice special cheese!

Tait Farm Foods, an organic

THE BILLBOARD STAFF

Features Editor Meg Oldman ‘08

EditorialEditor Patience Cady ‘09 Style Editor Amanda Cochran ‘06

Advisor Peter La Chapelle

Staff Writers/ Photographers

Joanne Bolling ‘08 You kyung Jin ‘05 Darwin Jackson Des Arnold ‘07 Evalina Rodriguez ‘08

Mission Statement

The Wilson Billboard is a tri-weekly student-run newspaper serving the Wilson College community. Its purpose is to relay important information to the campus and provide a forum for democratic discussion. The Billboard strives to encourge communication between student, faculty, staff and administration.

The Billboard is published tri-weekly. Subscriptions are $18 per year, payable to: The Billboard c/o Subscriptions Wilson College 1015 Philadelphia Ave. Chambersburg, PA. 17201

raises and distributes animals with great care and environmental responsibility, “Ending Hunger, Caring for the Earth”.

Other important charities this year are those that are working on disaster relief around the world, in Pakistan, the Gulf Coast, and the Middle East.

Oxfam A m e r i c a (www.oxfamamerica.org) is a reliable organization delivering food aid and resources where they are needed most.

10. Give love! What really matters this holiday season, and all the rest of the year, are the relationships we build and the time that we share with one another.

Try not to get caught up in the “stuff” of the holidays, and focus on spending some relaxing time with friends, family, co-workers, and the people you care about in the community.

Have a good, sustainable break!

Volunteer! The Methodist Church needs volunteer tutors.

One hour/week, MonThurs. Help kids with homework and play games with children in grades 1-5.

Volunteers Make A Difference

WC Editor-in-Chief Heather Layman ‘06 News Editor Caryn Watson ‘08

include works of art, such as a meaningful drawing, sculpture, or recording of your own music.

7. Give ‘em a break!

Maybe what your friend really needs is a night of babysitting, or a home cooked special meal, or even a back massage. All of these can be “given” via a home made gift certificate, to be redeemed at the time of their choosing.

8. Buy useful! Are the gifts you are buying really useful, or will they just be collecting dust in someone’s house for years to come? Our holiday traditions have led to a lot of silly gift giving… these items use valuable resources in their manufacture and transport, and there are plenty of better ways to spend our money!

9. Give a gift of charity!

What do you get for the person who has everything? Maybe nothing! There are some great organizations that offer the opportunity to give important things to the needy in the honor of your friend or loved one. One excellent example is Heifer Project International. Their catalog, found at www.heifer.org, allows you to support the donation of live farm animals to hungry people in developing countries.

Last year my partner and I “gave” her father a goat for his birthday… the goat went to a hungry family to provide milk and income, and he received a nice card describing the donation. Heifer

By Youkyung Jin “Hello, Iryna! I have so many homeworks today!”

“Let’s do this together.

How was last week?”

As soon as Iryna entered the after school program classroom, Caesar, a six year old boy was pleased to see her. Iryna Machkur 09’, a guest student from Ukraine, has been tutoring children in the after school program supported by the Methodist church in downtown Chambersburg since September.

She is not only teaching children but also is learning about American society through this experience even though she began volunteering because of her exchange program’s requirement. According to her, most children coming to the after school program are Hispanic chil-

dren who have working parents.

Some of them have disabilities in English writing and reading, or catching up on classes.

To support these children, the church provides an after school program in corporation with volunteer tutors from various backgrounds such as high school students, college students, and retired people.

“I have been observing various tutors. About 5 years ago, I remember tutors from Wilson, but they were American, not international students. It is the first time to have international students from Wilson, but it seems like they are doing very well- communicating with kids. I assume that they can understand language difficulties the kids have more in a flexible way. In addition, they are also ESL (English as Second Language) students and have a deep

understanding about cultural differences. I’m very appreciative for their coming,” said Deanna Nolder, a director of the Methodist church’s after school program of Methodist Church.

Eva, a 1 st grader of the Kingston school said that she comes here almost every day to study and likes her tutor, Iryna, very much. She played games and did English home work with her. It makes Iryna happy and gets her more involved in volunteering. She said that she is happy to help somebody needing help, and also to enrich her understanding American society.

“I am sociology major. I can observe the Hispanic community, which is one part of American society, through this small volunteer job. Moreover I’m very happy to help children,” said Iryna.

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FEATURES A Government of the Students, for the Students As many of you may already know, WCGA has experienced a very challenging semester. Our efforts to establish a relationship and good communication pathways with Student Development and the Dean of Students in order to work for and represent students and their concerns have, for the most part, not met with success. Coordination and cooperation with this department is critical to allowing WCGA be effective, and is an effort that needs to continue when the new WCGA officers take office for next semester. We want you all to know that WCGA is interested in hearing students’ opinions and that we are doing as much as possible to act on your concerns and suggestions. Involvement of everyone is critical, and we appreciate hearing from you.

The following is a copy of the speech that Beth Adams, the WCGA President, made to the Board of Trustees last month on October 29th. This speech was made with the full support of all WCGA officers: There have been some significant challenges that WCGA has faced this term, namely establishing a positive working re-

lationship with student development and efforts throughout this department to exclude students from decision making. These challenges have not been unique to this semester and we feel that we have definitely made some headway in solving these challenges, but there is much work left to be finished by the new WCGA officers that will be elected in November.

First I would like to address the relationship that students are experiencing with the Student Development Staff, which unfortunately, for the most part is not a positive one. This relationship is of particular concern because it directly affects two things: retention rates and the number of students who leave Wilson on a positive note willing to remain involved as alumnae.

It is the students’ impression that student development does not see the students on this campus as an intelligent counterpart when making policy decision, and in several specific instances, policy changes to the Residence Life policies were made without the notification or agreement of students or faculty. Past practice has included a joint governance system in which all policy changes

made to the Blue Book are agreed upon by students and faculty before they are put into effect. The heart of Wilson College lies with the Honor Principle and the Blue Book, and student development staff has continually asserted their belief in the fact that students should not have a voice in the policies when in fact WCGA financially supports printing and distribution of these policies.

We are students, and yes, we are still learning, but this leadership and learning experience is being taken away from us. Student representation and our place in the decision making process on campus is a unique opportunity for us to grow and learn that not many other colleges offer. Wilson prides itself in producing women that will be leaders in today’s society. How is this possible when administrators will not work with student government?

Those who are meant to serve as mentors and guide and teach us, instead appear to be closeminded and critical of students’ points of view.

One of our greatest challenges throughout the past year has been to get students involved with WCGA and its opportunities

Fooling April Review

By Caryn Watson On Friday, November 18th I had the opportunity to travel to Shippensburg and visit Knutes Bar and Grill to see the band Fooling April. One of the benefits of writing for the Billboard is that I get to go places and experience things that I really don’t have the time, energy, or even desire to do otherwise.

Billboard received an invitation to cover the show free of the $3 cover charge- a journalism perk- through the Knutes production manager, John Rubino of JR Productions.

When I arrived at the bar, located on Main St., I also got a chance to chat with the promoter, John Rubino and of course the band members of “Fooling April.”

Rubino was hired to promote the club and to bring in talent to attract students from Ship, Dickinson, and Wilson. He appeared to be successful because by the time I got there, the club was standing room only.

The scene was a smokey room filled with college students lining the walls, tables, and chairs.

The bar was crowded. It seemed impossible get a drink, but at last the bartender saw me and I managed to find a place to sip my red drink with the little red cherry clinging to the side of my cup.

After talking to John about “Fooling April”, upcoming events at Knutes, and its mission to make the club Ship’s new hot spot, I found that actually finding a seat was not so easy. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I found an empty stool at the front of the club close enough to look in the band members’ eyes.

I met Richard at the club, who was an interesting character and took the initiative to engage me in humorous banter. He queried me about where the “Wilson” girls are and noted that Ship has 3000 eligible bachelors. He and I almost “hooked up” until he read the doodles in my note pad, “He loves me. He loves me not.” I digressed.

At last the band, Fooling April, began to play. They were quite good. The band was flowing with each instrument living and vibrating sound off of each other.

The sound of the symbols was in total contrast to the placid movement of feet and legs moving to the rhythm of the drums. The crowd roared in response to every crescendo. I took it all in.

The last set was played but I wanted the music to continue.

The crowd agreed as it chanted, “Encore! Encore! Encore!”but no encore came. I did have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the band and engage them in a little banter and humor as Richard had done with me earlier. We indulged in the normal interview stuff like how they got together as a group, where their band hails from and how they came up with the name “Fooling April.”

As I was packing my things to leave, one of the band members came over and gave me another journalism perk, their CD “Every Good Boy Does Fine.”

For more info on JR Productions or upcoming events at Knutes Bar and Grill, contact jrubipr@gmail.com. For more info on Fooling April, contact brian@foolingapril.com

for leadership and learning. We have had trouble with this, and still have not been able to grasp why it is that students just don’t seem to want to be involved. At the last senate meeting that was held, the President of the College, the Dean of Students, and the Dean of Enrollment were all absent, and had not sent a representative to update the students on the status of their different departments.

How can we expect students to remain involved and actively participating in their education if it is not clearly a priority for administration to inform them and set an example?

Action must continue to take place to remedy these issues. The Student Affairs Committee has begun writing a proposal for a joint governance system between students and student development for the Residence Life policies.

This system is modeled after the current one in place between faculty and students, and the intention is for it to provide an avenue for both students and student development to participate in the decision making processes. In addition, we have begun to pursue mediation sessions between student development and the members of WCGA. My hope

is that we can begin to rebuild trust between these two groups and begin to work together for students. * * * We all encourage you to respond. We want to know if you have additional concerns that have not been previously brought to us, what you think about our statement to the Board of Trustees, and what you would like to see from your WCGA officers.

We are sincerely making an effort to hear from everyone, and to take your opinions into consideration when we organize activities and consider Blue Book changes. Please put any comments to us through the WCGA mailbox in the post office.

Thank you, Beth Adams Jen Talbot Biva Champagain Nichelle Noll Ashley Vincent Jayna Reggi Shira Horowitz Tiffany Beck Stephanie Harding Michelle Ansel Doretha Lewis Friday Dyar

Wilson in NYC

By EvalinaRodriguez On November 6th, a group of 32 individuals visited New York City. Greeted with the sights of skyscrapers and the smells of local venders, the city is alluring.

Ann Wendle, Wilson Activity Coordinator planned the event accordingly as we all groggily found our way to the charter bus at 4:30 a.m.

We finally arrived at Central Park, which was filled with the delight of autumn in the air.

The scene was beautiful among a big city of steel and construction. The colorful leaves fluttered in the breeze, and gave the city a quieted essence.

Outside of the park, the shop windows were all displayed with attractions in the windows, which was a contrast to the peacefulness of Central Park. At a fast-paced walk we made our way down the street towards the ice skating park, and I heard one New Yorker say, “This always makes me feel like I am in a movie.”

A small group went to iceskate while the rest of us hurriedly wanted to jam pack and stuff ourselves with all there was to do in the city. Some went to see the Statue of Liberty, or the giant ToysRUs store, while others went shopping at Canal Street or Times Square. There was so much to see and to do, one could hardly explore one street in 7 hours, let alone an entire city.

My group was getting ready to attend the Radio City Music Hall Christmas show. How beautiful and lively the show was with the focus on Santa getting his gifts ready for all the kids for Christmas. There were performances, elves, reindeer, lights and rockets. At last the show ended and tiredly we made our way back to the bus so that we could return home to Chambersburg.

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Editorials

Financial Aid Cuts?

By Patience Cady Currently sneaking their way through Congress are two pieces of legislation, one through the Senate and the other through the House of Representatives, that could significantly hurt millions of students’ chances at obtaining a college education. This piece of legislation provides for the largest cut in the student loan program in history and would cut at least, and quite possibly more than, $34.7 billion in funds for student aid programs.

This “Budget Reconciliation Bill” will result in much higher interest rates, costing students much more to pay back their loans, and making it much more difficult to do so.

Just who would benefit from this? The wealthiest Americans would, as the budget reconciliation will be providing tax cuts of $70 billion for them. Congress is giving the wealthy tax breaks at the expense of their students – giving tax breaks to people who do not need student loans to ob-

tain a college education rather than assisting the millions of middle and lower income students who really need this assistance and already struggle in financing their college education.

If this Budget Reconciliation Bill is passed, it will hurt our country in many ways: economically, socially, civically, and more.

Even our country’s universities would suffer significantly as the student population would decrease vastly if prospective students were not able to receive financial assistance, thus making obtaining a college education even more difficult to obtain as the number of colleges in our country would certainly decrease significantly.

Congress was first to vote on this legislation back in September, but due to calls from so many students, the vote was postponed to November 10th. However Congress did not pass the bill on November 10th and the vote was postponed.

Students have been protesting by calling Congress and voic-

ing their opinions, and lobbying against the bill by wearing shirts that oppose the bill, and holding signs opposing the bill.

Others working to prevent the passage of this bill that would hurt our country’s talented population by preventing them from receiving a college education include lawmakers, economists, and many other leading commentators. However, it is the voices of the constituents that are going to be most persuasive in persuading their congress members to not support this bill.

You can help “Stop the Raid on Student Aid”. You can easily voice your opinion on this matter directly to your congress member by calling 1-800-574-4243.

Enter your zip code and you will soon be connected to your congress member’s office where you can make your thoughts about the Budget Reconciliation Bill known.

Some other good sources to check would be www.studentaidaction.com and www.ussstudents.org.

By Joanne Bolling I am a commuter student and a CCE student, but I am still a Wilson woman, and I would like to be dinked just as other Wilson women before me have been.

I started researching the dink and came across some interesting facts. First, a dink has many names it could be called: a beanie, a skullcap or skully, a whoopee cap, dinky cap or “the dink.”

A dink often sports two or more colors on it. It’s soft, and usually made of wool or a synthetic material, and is brimless.

A skullcap is a tight fitting

By Joanne Bolling The black, shiny, sleek moving Limousine drove through the Wilson pillars and pulled around behind Sarah’s Coffee House.

I was waiting there with in position to snap the perfect photo of Goldie Hawn getting out of the limo. She smiled and waved and of course she looked gorgeous!

Snap, snap, click. I know I got the shot! Wait a minute, what’s that noise? My alarm is going off and I just happened to be dreaming of Goldie. It was that damn poster I saw in the hall at Warfield.

Goldie was looking beautiful, and I read she was coming to Wilson. I loaded my camera with film and wrote the day in my planner.

But something isn’t right.

The night we edited the newspaper I was talking to Darwin and I just mentioned to him “Goldie Hawn is coming to Wilson.”

He looked and me and started to shake his head a little.

“She’s not coming”, he said.

“What?” I said, shocked, with my dream shattered.

“She’s not coming here. It’s via satellite,” Darwin said. I couldn’t believe my ears! Via Satellite!

But this was as close to Wilson as Goldie would ever come, right? So I still went to Sarah’s Coffee house to see Goldie even

Readers Respond

To Dink or Not to Dink Simple Pleasures

Photo by Joanne Bolling Joanne Bolling ‘08 finds a way to be dinked, even if it wasn’t by a big sister .

Gaga for Goldie

brimless hat worn in the mid to early 20th century. The beanie was worn by non other than Spanky of the Little Rascals.

Dinks have been around for a while and have become popular within the college communities. At Wilson, when you’re a freshman you get dinked by a big sister, which left me wondering why CCE students don’t receive dinks? Why can’t we have dinks? I want one!

I came to this school as a junior so I believe I have already earned my dink. I don’t think dinks were covered during our orientation. Do we even get one eventually? Will it be in time for graduation?

I believe we should receive our dinks during orientation so I could get used to wearing this fashionable item. While I’m at it, I would like a big sister too, or even a little sister, I’m not picky.

It would be great to be assigned any sister, period. We could explore Wilson together; discuss classes and professors.

Let’s start a new tradition.

Wilson “dinks” should be for all students at Wilson not just traditional freshman students. In fact, I’m just going to dink myself, using my Columbia wool brimless hat. Consider me dinked.

By EvalinaRodriguez Cell phones, I-pod’s, Laptops, planners, Desktops. The urgency of organizing and cramming at the approach of exams, completeing projects and papers, and students nervously, anxiously waiting for this semester to be over.

Whether you’re walking to class with your face in a book, hurridly arriving in pajama bottoms, or rushing with your group of friends to get there on time, I’m sure the deadlines and agendas of these final weeks are catching up to you.

Achieving balance can be somewhat difficult at this busy time. Try to stop and breathe when needed and take a break by doing something fun or relaxing with your friends and family.

As the holidays approach, take the time to turn off the Laptops and Desktops, and take a break from I-pods. Turn off your cell phone to enjoy concentrated time with friends and family. Avoid all of these technologi-

cal distractions and notice something different or out of the ordinary. Learn to appreciate the world around you.

For instance, have you stopped to treasure the beauty of Wilson at autumn with all the colors in the trees?

It’s easy to get caught up in all of the holiday excitement and lose sight of those simple things in life. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with exams, and over burdened with emails, which is why it’s so important to take a few spare moments to enjoy the world around you, however that may be.

Perhaps you could take a ride at dusk with your horse or take a peaceful walk on the interpertuative trail. How about jumping into a pile of leaves or going to the mall with some friends? You could even plan an event with friends and family, whether it be a potluck dinner or a game or movie night.

When I was younger, I used to hear the elderly say that it re-

if it was via satellite.

I walked in and NO ONE was there except one lady who was in the chair beside me. The girl running the tape was rewinding it and Goldie kept appearing on the screen. The lady in the chair looked at me and said, “Oh, she’s not coming?”

I hated to let her down but she had to know the truth, so I told her. A few more people came in and they started the recording.

Before her fame, Goldie Hawn grew up in Washington, D.C. on a dead end street in a Duplex. She became a dancer because she loved to dance. At the age of 17 she moved to New York City. Goldie did Go Go dancing for a few years. She was auditioning for Broadway when an agent wanted to meet with her. The William Morris Agency became her agent and the rest is history.

Goldie gave some advice during her speech, “Don’t be afraid,” and “Don’t fret if you don’t know where you going,” she said. I do like this advice.

Some of her movies include Private Benjamin, Protocal, Overboard, Bird On A Wire, House Sitter, The First Wives Club and The Banger Sisters.

Goldie Hawn gave good advice and she was a good speaker even if via Satellite, even if I didn’t get her photo. ally is the simple things that offer the most memories and beauty.

As I have grown, the impact of these words are becoming so true. Ironically, fun does not come with a price; it’s the emotion and energy felt by the activities enjoyed.

Fun, as I see it, is the internal joy and life within. Fun is externally seeing the biggest heartfelt smiles and hearing tones of laughter.

So turn off and tune out from those hectic things in life and enjoy your dorm mates, friends and family at these times, and notice cheerfully a bit more about them that may teach, amuse, or inspire you. Remember it doesn’t cost a thing, but it is an observation.