2004

Burkes Named ECCC~EKOF~Oc~\'-\.____ _ _

days . "I remember the commuter room." Burkes said. "It was a lillie, tiny room in Newton HaH. There were a few cha trS and lockers and a bath– room. It was a place for commuter students to\ tsit between classes.·· Burkes also has memories of at– tending chapel. She said, "Each person was as– srgned a seat for the en– tire semester when they registered ·for classes. So you wanted to be in the registration line with someone you didn ' t mind sitting by each day in chapel! Chapel was man– datory and if you missed three times you were sent before the discipline com– mittee... She also has fond memories of her instruc– tors. She said, "I was the ·Sis-A-Boom' in Dr. (Ri– chard) Ethridge 's class. The 'Sis-A-Boom' would have to tell him where he left otT the day before and also was the object of any examples he might gt\e during class." Burkes said she thought the name 'Sis– A-Boom' was selected in an earlier class when the person in that position was also a cheerleader!. "Dur– ing Miss Una Harris' class. I learned to write fast and to outline properly. which helped me to excel in m} classes after 1 went to se– niort:ollege," Burkes said. She said she also remem– bers being asked by Mtss Hams to lr.l\ el to Jacl,son to hear Eudora Welt~ speak. .. "-e too a small

"BURKES" continued from page 3 \Oiunteerjudge for Phi Theta Kappa lntemational. ~mong her honor.; are the 2002 MS, LA Reg10n l\1o•;~ Distin– guished Alumnu" for Phi Theta Kappa. the 2002 Or. Shelb~ Harri.; Phi Theta Kappa .\lumm A''ard and the 2002 Phi Theta Kappa Mo-;al A\\ard f\.1r Leader~.,hip. In :woo. the Ann H. Burkes Phi Theta Kappa EndO\\ed Schol– a•-ship ''a' e-,tabli.;lwd in her honor. One of those nommat– ing Burkes fi.w thi,., pre.;tigJOU<> honor "rote. "\\ uh her pn– mar) re,pon,lbilllle, m the Bunon l1brar~. Ann \\Orked abo' e and be~ L)nd her a., .. '•gned dut1e' to help Ea,t Cemra l beC\.lllle one of the lll(h[ lt''-0,!111Zed CO'llnlUilll\ college, 111 the 0uthea,t.:. -\lll'lth<.'' rnk "I 'lt' er J.ne'' ot h..-r 11\ll alll'mpung to help a 'lude"t. or an~ other libra I'\ p:llll'~n. "h

tral... Burkes said. "As a child, our family acti\ ittes centered around the Col– lege. We would anend ball games and May Day cel– ebrations. I can e\·en re– member roller-skating on the sidewalks of the cam– pus! " I thought everybody spent their Saturday nights watching Denve r Brackeen and others play basketball." she said . "That is what our family did... As a student at De– catur High School, Burkes would often cross the East Centra l campus on her way to school and she re– members well the day tur– nip greens popped up on the front lawn!' "Without the administration's knO\\ l– edge. someone had spread tumtp seeds along the from .atd Burke .. o

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