The HAC Valentines Banquet Let's Hear Some Memories

[Tennessean]

Tonight is the HAC Valentines banquet. It was always a huge affair. My wife of almost 20 years still will not forgive me for not asking her to it. (We started dating a few weeks later)

I worked in the kitchen for 3 of them and went to 3 others.

A funny story.

I was working in the kitchen overseeing the food that went out. Dinner was finished and the plates were being picked up and it was time for dessert. The bakery girls had made about 600 really nice strawberry shortcake desserts. They were being kept on several tall carts in the walk in cooler.

Dr. R (Mark Rasmussen) told me it was time to bring out the desserts. Several older students, (code word for hacker) had volunteered to help us that night. I told 1 of them to help me. In all this fellow's gust for enthusiasm he grabbed a cart and started madly pushing it to the serving line where the girls were ready to take them out. He just didn't see the floor drain that sat 2 inches below the floor. His front wheel hit the drain and his cart of 200 desserts toppled over. Dr. R witnessed the whole thing from afar. He was not happy. His face drew up in a straight line. He screamed my name. Now I hadn't been pushing the cart. But somehow it was my fault.

Credit the industriousness of the bakery girls. They salvaged what they could then miraculously whipped up more. How I don't know but they saved the day.

Years later I saw Dr. R at a convention and we laughed about it.

Good times

How about some other memories

 

[Binaca Chugger]

A sermon against Elvis and rock music.  Then - Dr. Evans croons Elvis.

 

[myeyesareopen]

I can never get over how everything is hyped to the extreme.  When I was new here, I'd come from a fairly well-to-do background and I'd been in formal social circles. So, the first Valentine's Banquet arrives. I ask someone else how to dress. I am told people get "VERY formally dressed". To me, that means something. I still have wardrobe from my pre-salvation days. Very formal evening wear. I arrive, VERY formally dressed. To my embarrassment, I was VERY overdressed.

And they hype the food. Oh, it will be the best food ever! You won't want to miss it! So you look forward to a few courses of exquisite gourmet delicacies. And instead...well, you know. A hard roll, a few leaves of iceberg, and some roasted chicken with chunks of carrots and broccoli...wow!

And they hype that you won't want to miss the production. Very few schools, you are told, are capable of putting on a production of this quality. You watch the play and you think to yourself...really? Really?? Someone thinks this is good? How embarrassing!

And you never again are fooled into wasting the money and attending the Valentine's Banquet!

 

[IFB X-Files]

Very few schools, you are told, are capable of putting on a production of this quality.

The *best* production quality I remember was what they did for Halloween.  Absolutely amazing (and a little scary too).

 

[Tennessean]

Dont know about recent years but in late 80's and early 90'sthe menu was a gourmet salad, 16 oz. T bone,
twice baked potato and some vegetable. The program was pretty good as well. It cost $16 per person. That was a lot back then. Budget cuts must have taken place.

 

[Sherryh]

My first Valentine banquet my future husband asked me to and my mom made my dress. Carolyn Sellers fixed my hair and Phyllis did my nails. I was in heaven and had a wonderful time.I have a picture somewhere that had to be in 1976

 

[prophet]

A sermon against Elvis and rock music.  Then - Dr. Evans croons Elvis.

Or Nat King Cole.  Always bothered me.  That 'approved music' was suspended for V-day. 


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[Pastor Marty]

Daryl Moore serenading couples table to table .... 

 

[Binaca Chugger]

Daryl Moore serenading couples table to table .... 

Oh the humanity! :'(

 

[BALAAM]

A sermon against Elvis and rock music.  Then - Dr. Evans croons Elvis.

Or Nat King Cole.  Always bothered me.  That 'approved music' was suspended for V-day. 


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Yes. I went once back in the late 80's. I was a little older and married and another couple our age was there. They had an absolute fit about the 'worldly' music and created quite a fuss. But alas, it only took a couple of years for him to run off with somebody else. Wonder what kind of music they were listening to in the car?

 

[prophet]

A sermon against Elvis and rock music.  Then - Dr. Evans croons Elvis.

Or Nat King Cole.  Always bothered me.  That 'approved music' was suspended for V-day. 


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Yes. I went once back in the late 80's. I was a little older and married and another couple our age was there. They had an absolute fit about the 'worldly' music and created quite a fuss. But alas, it only took a couple of years for him to run off with somebody else. Wonder what kind of music they were listening to in the car?

Fundamental Difference, I'm sure.  Or maybe Meatloaf?

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[BALAAM]

A sermon against Elvis and rock music.  Then - Dr. Evans croons Elvis.

Or Nat King Cole.  Always bothered me.  That 'approved music' was suspended for V-day. 


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Yes. I went once back in the late 80's. I was a little older and married and another couple our age was there. They had an absolute fit about the 'worldly' music and created quite a fuss. But alas, it only took a couple of years for him to run off with somebody else. Wonder what kind of music they were listening to in the car?

Fundamental Difference, I'm sure.  Or maybe Meatloaf?

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Or the old Barbara Mandrell song, "MARRIED, BUT NOT TO EACH OTHER".

 

[kaba]

My freshman year I went with Tim z., wore a bridesmaid dress from my sisters wedding, second year I went with David Nieves and wore a borrowed cranberry dress, third year future husband had to work but the day before he planned a dinner for two from Tiebels. Fourth year was married.....no clue what we did.

 

[kaba]

i have never been to an actual valentines day banquet... .  did they have those when my dad was there at hac?..  ???.  he never told me anything about it...  :-\ ... ..  my friends and i all had our annual anti-valentines day party again this year ....  it was fun but not quite as big as previous years... . for one.. my sister wasn;t there this year..... a couple of other friends that got married last year were missing too... :-\ .  and we held at it at a different place... .. our usual place got closed down last year....  but there was still tons great food, music, dancing on the tables...(a few drinks, here and there, but not for me.. ) .. and we still went at it all night then ended up on the beach just before day break the next morning, to go surfing as the sun came up.. . . ... it;s called surfing the dawn patrol.... .. ...  it wasn;t the same without my sister there though... even though she is married now she still would have been there if she had been on the island.. .  unless her husband was here too instead of being out at sea where he usually is....  then we would given her a pass to go out with him to celebrate valentines day instead .. ....  we are anti-valentines but we are not that bad.. ;D

i have a copy of the banner we use at these parties and i use to post it when i wrote about this annual party on the old fff..... but i won;t post it here since this is actually a thread about banquets and parties in support of valentines day... .

Your valentines celebration sounds so much better Than an HAC one

 

[patriotic]

Compared to some celebrations, HAC banquets were lame.  That's for certain. 

But for those who had never been to big corporate-organized events or the like, the Valentine Banquet was a nice enough evening for them to enjoy.

I did not attend my freshman year.  I think a few of my friends and I did something similar to aleshanee's Feb. 14 celebrations - minus the dancing on the tables and surfing at dawn - probably due to a dearth of big, curling waves on Lake Hacker.

Sophomore year I attended with a now-former boyfriend.  I borrowed a dress from a roommate.  This was the last year the banquet was held at an off-campus facility.  I believe it was somewhere in Dyer, near where we took the bus kids horseback riding on a big day.

Junior year, sophomore boyfriend and I were no longer dating.  I had no date, but Bro. & Mrs. Godfrey paid for me to go with them.  I sat at the table with them, and since I had loaned out my one formal-type dress, she let me wear the dress her daughter Joyce wore as a bridesmaid in Joy Evans' wedding.  I think the theme that year was something like "Sentimental Journey".  It was the first year the banquet was held in the brand new DeCoster Dining Hall. 

Senior year, I went with my husband and I journeyed back from another state to attend with him again during his senior year.  What a thrill it was to walk through the "cattle chute" with him those two evenings.  ;-) 

 

[A More Sure Word]

I only went to one out of the five I could have attended and don't remember much of went on. I do remember the pressure that Bro. Meister would put on the dorm guys during split chapel prior to the big event. He would have all the guys without a date to stand up, and then rip on them for not asking some lonely dorm girl to the banquet. It was pretty rough. All the while, the married guys would be cheering him on. He was merciless!

I'm sure there were dorm girls who cried about not having a date. And then there was the unfortunate girl who cried after the banquet because she agreed to go with RAIDER!

 

[patriotic]

I only went to one out of the five I could have attended and don't remember much of went on. I do remember the pressure that Bro. Meister would put on the dorm guys during split chapel prior to the big event. He would have all the guys without a date to stand up, and then rip on them for not asking some lonely dorm girl to the banquet. It was pretty rough. All the while, the married guys would be cheering him on. He was merciless!

I'm sure there were dorm girls who cried about not having a date. And then there was the unfortunate girl who cried after the banquet because she agreed to go with RAIDER!

That's for certain. Those girls were on CF's "hit list" until they graduated!

 

[RAIDER]

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