Page Six- Highacres Collegian, January 31, 1977 "The thing I like most about my job here with the students is that I am Helping to make constructive citizens out of them," said Boyce. Photo by Dave Kraft VOTING? continued from page 5 Deciding which candidate to vote for posed no problem for some students. Bette Staf fer voted for a particular can didate because, "one name rang a bell." Dave Uhle's.method was also rigorous, "I just vot ed for the first two." Jim Szumlanski had, "no reasons." Stove Zike voted for one of the candidates because, "the one kid has a really. neat name. Many people at the Com mons voted simply, "...for somethin' to do," as an anon ymous person commented. When resident students were asked if they knew the candidate that they had vot ed for as anything more than a name, many responded as Sue Hiehoff, "I hnew one of them." Others knew only two of the candidates on the ballots. When these same students were asked "Why did you vote for the person or people that you voted for?" the responses varied. "'Cause they do a good job," said Jim McMenamin. Brian Trail replied, "'Cause he parties." In some cases votes were swayed by nothing more than the sex of the can didate. Sandy Schall voted for one of the candidates be cause, "she was the only girl." Continued on page 11 COLLEGIAN PERSONALITY Editor's Note; This article is the first in a series of Collegian articles dealing with interesting and color ful students, faculty, and staff members here at High acres . What working person in their right mind would want to live with nearly 2JO resi dent college students here at Highacres? If you could not guess his name, it is Arthur Lee Boyce 111, and he is the Residence Hall Coordinator. Why does Boyce do it? Proba bly because, as Boyce says, "I am helping to make construc tive citizens out of the stu dents." Boyce has a distinctive background. He comes from a family in the poor economic bracket, that lived in the slums of Providence, Rhode Is land. Boyce lived in a hous ing project most of his life, with his two sisters, his fa ther, and his mother. His fa ther was a cook and was very close to him. Boyce said his mother was the type of person who was constantly helping other people. But she became sickly and for a while, Boyce disliked his mother, probably as a result of not understand ing her problems. As his mo ther laid on her deathbed, however Boyce's attitude to ward his mother changed. It was then, that Boyce made a lifelong commitment to help mc. \ SIGN OF Z- ADDRESS: Y / PHONE: 802 SANS \ J||| / ARBA £,° DE SOUCI PAKWY. \ jSSk / 824-7807 WILES-BARRE, \ / ' 7B ° B PA. 18702 \ Q UALITY / -7809 Manufacturer of industrial sawinatl ARTHUR BOYCE By Alfred Wolfe other people and. as Boyce "to serve Christ the best can." At an early age a«l iron ical thing happened to Arthur Boyce. Boyce had been reciev' ing "d" and "c"s as grades is school. But then, Boyce said, "I cracked my head before a swim meet at the Boy's Club. Ever since my accident, good . grades came easily." - ! During high school and college Boyce was a champion swimmer. He held and still holds two nationsl swimming titles. When he was sixteen, however, he broke one of his legs in three places. It took Boyce at least a year to get back into good shape again, but he never was able to match his swimming "times" again al though, he added, he came quite close. Boyce was offered and ac- , cepted a full swimming scholar ship to the University of Rhode Island. He swam competitively for awhile but soon dropped his swimming scholarship. How ever, he was then offered an academic scholarship, which he accepted. Continued on page 11
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