SALUKI BOWL

About one year after Johnny Rivers and Richard Pryor appeared at the SIU Homecoming Show in the Arena, I took a bowling class. It was held in the Student Union and was an easy credit for PE. Much easier than Physical Fitness with Wayne Arnold at Mt. Vernon Community College or golf at SIU, which I still believe was one of the hardest final exams I ever took.

The previous year the Salukis had pulled off a major upset and defeated nationally ranked Tulsa in the Homecoming football game. I don't remember who we played the following year, but the Homecoming Show that year was in our bowling class.

In an effort to garner more votes, a Homecoming Queen candidate in our class chose to wear a fashionable mini skirt. Not fashionable for bowling, unless she wanted to get out the vote. She didn't win. But she more than likely enjoyed a landslide victory among the young men in our class. Even if some bowling scores that day plummented.