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Wednesday,
October 24, 2001
Colby
Hall gears up for trick-or-treaters
By
Aaron Chimbel
Staff Reporter
Radio-TV-film instructor Chuck LaMendola says he has a reputation
for being tough, but students will get to see a different
side of him tonight when he is with his 9- and 5-year-old
daughters at Colby Halloween.
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David
Dunai/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Mara Grove (right) and Mindy Shearer, both freshmen
pre-majors, decorate the hallway of Colby Hall Tuesday
in preparation for ÒColby Haloween.Ó
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The
29th annual trick or treat event kicks off tonight at 6 p.m.
n Colby Hall. Hall Director Naunie Mead said she expects about
600 faculty, staff and their children to participate.
Colby
Resident Assistant Lindsay Misslin is helping with Colby Halloween
tonight and said it has required much preparation.
“It
is a little stressful to get everything ready,” Misslin
said.
The
sophomore theater education major said many of her residents
worked hard to prepare for the trick-or-treaters. Colby residents
work together to decorate their respective wings.
Colby
RA Kyrsten Roberts said all of the RAs were given specific
responsibilities to ensure the event runs smoothly. Roberts,
a sophomore speech communication major, was responsible for
getting students to volunteer for the event. Other RAs will
prepare food and contact faculty and staff, she said. She
said all of her residents are helping out.
Freshman
pre-major Stephanie Southall said she is excited to see the
children of faculty and staff members.
“Seeing
(faculty and staff) with their kids will let me see them out
of the classroom setting,” she said.
LaMendola
says when students see him with his family out of class, they
realize he is not someone who sits at home and reads textbooks
all the time.
“You
don’t think your professors have a life, (so) for them
to see me with my two kids and my wife, I’m seen as a
real person,” he said.
He
said it also helps for his family to feel like a part of TCU.
He has taken his oldest daughter to Colby Halloween for eight
years and both of his kids look forward to coming every year,
he said.
“(My
daughters) love it. It is a safe way for them to get candy,”
LaMendola said. “They don’t have to be out on the
street.”
Children
nine years old or younger of faculty and staff members are
invited.
Aaron
Chimbel
a.a.chimbel@student.tcu.edu
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