March 8, 1973
Work Is The Key
by Randall Blimline
This may seem like a strange
title for an article but to the
person for whom I'm writing
about it's the only way he feels
he can accomplish those tasks
that so many people have told
him that he couldn't do such a
thing.
So often we hear about the
natural athletes, the John
Benches, Rod Lavers, and Willie
Mays. Natural athletes are
people who have talent to do
just about anything and be good
at it. But this article is not about
a natural athlete.-Instead, it's
about a . person who only
through hard work and strong
determination can enjoy success.
Dennis Hlavaty is by no
means a natural athlete. Denny
does not possess any natural
talent. He has to work and work
at everything he does. For years
Denny has been fighting and
working at talents he doesn't
possess. During his high school
years Denny was cut from every
sport he went out for at least
twice.
To be cut is a hard fact to
face (I know). "All through my
years the coaches told me the
same thing, you'll never make it,
he says." After being told this
most people would quit. But
quitting is not Denny's style.
Instead of quitting, he went out
and worked that much harder at
the skills he did not possess.
Denny didn't want any
sympathy from anyone, he just
wanted a chance to prove
himself. Denny finally got his
chance in his first year at Peirce
Junior College. He went out for
and made the baseball team, as a
pitcher no less. Even though he
had no experience he went out
that season and proved that he
could compete.
I remember Denny as a player
at Peirce (I kept score). He
didn't have the style nor the
speed of our other pitchers. He
knew his shortcomings and he
worked on them. By the time
the season ended he was
probably our second most
consistent pitcher. When the
season ended, Denny had the
confidence he needed. Last year,
Denny finished the season as the
number two pitcher with an
ERA of 1.95. But he still wasn't
satisified.
After coming to Capitol,
Denny wanted to try out for the
basketball team. (Denny was cut
four times in high school while
trying to make the basketball
team). He made the team, as last
man. Being first or last man on
the team really didn't matter, it
was just the fact that for the
first time he was competing as a
player for an organized team.
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Denny's biggest asset is
probably his attitude toward
what has happened to him in the
past and what he plans to do in
the future. 'Work is the key, I
had to make up my mind that
the only way I was going to
compete with these guys was to
work at it."
Work at it he does. In the
afternoon he goes to basketball
practice, then after practice is
over he goes to the gym to work
on fundmentals. When the
intramural basketball games start
he has to leave. He goes to the
weight room in the recreation
center to try to "properly fill
out." When he's done with that
he goes back to the dorms to
study for a few hours. Then
around 12 or 1 o'clock he starts
jogging to help him build up his
wind. Day after day he is
constantly working.
Why all this work? "I want to
do my best to fulfill myself
physically, mentally and socially
and the only way to do this is
through hard work, he
explains." But we must also
think that there is a hidden
meaning in working this hard, "I
want to prove to certain people
that I can do the things they said
I couldn't."
I have a lot of faith that
someday Denny will reach his
goals and show his critics. And
when you do Denny, giv'em hell.
Ormont
Wins
Pinball Tournament
There were cries of "fix" and
"huh?" and "wow", but when it
was all over Barry Ormont had
won the Pinball Machine
Championship of Capitol
Campus in a recent tournament.
Barry, who was co-sponsor of
the event with John Domizio,
both of whom are WZAP disc
jockeys, scored over 9,000
points and had another game of
8700. He won a record album as
a prize.
His closest competition saw
several players have 5,000 point
games Barry attributed the low
scores to the "slowness of the
machines." He racked up the
scores on the popular "2001"
machine. In winning the
championship, he takes his
rightful place among such past
pinball greats as Steve
Rosenzweig, Lee Nell and Bob
Bonaker.
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Glamour Girls
Any women interesting in
entering Glamour . Magazine's
"Top Ten College Girls" contest
may contact Rita Girondi at
944-1939, or stop in the SGA
office on Friday, March 9 during
third period.
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Poetry Reading
Today, at 2:00 p.m. in the
auditorium, all of those persons
who submitted a poem for the
contest sponsored by the
Cultural Programs Committee
Shall read their compositions.
Judging will be held for 21
entries, with top prize set at
$25.
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A tutor is`4leeded for a male
third grade student. The pay
scale begins at Tour dollars per
hour. Applicants must be
proficient in all subjects.
For further information,
please contact Kristine Smith at
944-0161.
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Pictured are students who participated in the Model United Nations.
The action took place during a session of the Political and Security
Committee.
Model U.N. Meets
For 'One Peace'
by ROBERT W. BONAKER
The Model United Nations
Conference met on campus last
weekend, calling for "A World in
One Peace."
Students from area secondary
schools represented 15 member
delegations of•the actual U.N.
in the simulated sessions. The
conference was sponsored by the
Harrisburg chapter of the United
Nations Association of Capitol's
Black Student Union and Delta
Tau Kappa. Prof. Clem Gilpin
organized the event with capable
assistance from Bob Hetzel,
Harry Franzreb, Kenard
Kendrick, Irene Turnier, Joe
Terrerio, Carmella Cannone,
Marlowe Blake and Bob
Bonaker.
Three people comprised each
delegation which included the
following nations in the Eastern,
Western and Third World blocs:
the United Arab Republic,
China, Yugoslavia, Japan,
Kenya, U.S.S.R., Thialand,
Canada, the United States,
Albania, Burma, Zaire, France,
Ireland and Israel.
The basic purpose and
philosophy of the Model U.N.
was education. In that respect,
the conference was a colossal
success. Prof. Gilpin, at the close
of the session, remarked that the
students performed in a manner
comparable to mock U.N.s in
which college students have
participated. All procedures and
programs were geared toward
providing an atmosphere in
which delegates learned about
the theories and practices of the
U.N. as seen from the
perspective of a particular
nation.
Hetzel served capably as
President of the General
Assembly. Bonaker and
Franzreb chaired the respective
Political and Security and
Economic and Social
committees. The other students
&POI .Capitol—served as pages,
parliamentarians and secretaries.
Resolutions were introduced,
amended and debated in the
committees. After the General
Assembly had completed its
meetings on Saturday, it had
acted upon 16 resolutions. In
the actual United Nations, there
have been instances when it took
16 days to enact one resolution.
Many pertinent topics
reached the floor of the GA via
resolutions. Member delegates
learned that a basic function of
the U.N. is not to force but to
subteley coerce nations into
compliance with a resolution.
The Capitol Model U.N.
approved of motions calling for:
population control; a
commission of study the
feasibility of the unification of
Ireland; the international control
of drugs; disarmament; the
expansion of a world literacy
program; airline hijacking; the
protection of Olympic athletes,
allowing individual nations to
provide the protection -of their
athletes with their own forces;
the admission of Bangladesh to
the U.N.; and a resolution calling
for Portugal to withdraw all
troops from its colonies in
Angola, Mozambique, and
Bissau.
The Assembly failed to pass
resolutions advocating the
abolition of the veto-power of
the five nations of the Security
Council and one that
condemned the nation of Israel
for its part in the Libyan Air
Liner Incident, citing an attempt
by Israel to hinder peace
agreements in the Middle East.
The last resolution was defeated,
although six nations supported it
and five were against with four
abstentions, because of the
failure to reach the two-thirds
required for an Important
Question.
The Model U.N. was the first
of what is expected to be many
such future conferences.
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