Tag: Sing Song
Sing Song performances from years past now available online
Editor’s Note: Courtney McGaha is a member of the ACU Class of 2013. In March of 2018, I visited ACU Special Collections in the basement of the Brown Library for the first time. I was just hoping to be able to find a few old, forgotten Sing Song VHS tapes or vinyl records to convert. […]
Learn about changes coming for Sing Song 2019
Editor’s Note: Nick Tatum (’13) is director of student productions at ACU and is an instructor of communication and sociology. As Sing Song is approaching, we’re gearing up for some changes. Below are the five major changes you can expect for Sing Song 2019. This year’s hosts and hostesses will focus more on singing and […]
Tom Craig’s farewell to Sing Song marked by memories
With their blue shirts covered in silver duct tape numbers, a small group scattered from Moody Coliseum back to the newsroom to wrap up the Sing Song issue of The Optimist. The year was 1989. Tom Craig and the other seniors on the newspaper staff participating in the class act, “The Cowboys Are Dead,” sang […]
ACU Remembers: Holly Dunn
Singer-songwriter Holly Suzette Dunn (’79), the only Abilene Christian University graduate to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry, died Nov. 14, 2016, in Albuquerque, N.M., following a short battle with cancer. She was 59. Funeral arrangements are pending. Dunn was born Aug. 22, 1957, in San Antonio. An ACU Sing Song hostess in 1979 and member of the Hilltoppers […]
Women’s hoops stars grace cover of new issue
ACU Today Summer/Fall 2016 Alumni magazine for Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas It’s been 20 years since women’s basketball was the cover story of ACU Today magazine. That’s when the 1995-96 team, led by senior Jennifer Clarkson Frazier and sophomore Shalonda Bowden, went 31-2 and advanced to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. Our newest issue features four student-athletes who are helping the Wildcats […]
Sing Song turns 60: ‘The Lord Bless You’
As a rich tradition since 1956, about one-third of Abilene Christian University’s student body participates in Sing Song each year, during which a top men’s social club, women’s social club and mixed-voices group are crowned for having the best song medley. Over the next few days, we’ll look at highlights from six decades of this popular event. When […]
Sing Song turns 60: The 1990s and 2000s
As a rich tradition since 1956, about one-third of Abilene Christian University’s student body participates in Sing Song each year, during which a top men’s social club, women’s social club and mixed-voices group are crowned for having the best song medley. Over the next few days, we’ll look at highlights from six decades of this popular event. If […]
Sing Song turns 60: The 1980s
As a rich tradition since 1956, about one-third of Abilene Christian University’s student body participates in Sing Song each year, during which a top men’s social club, women’s social club and mixed-voices group are crowned for having the best song medley. Over the next few days, we’ll look at highlights from six decades of this popular event. Pac-Man, […]
Sing Song turns 60: The 1970s
As a rich tradition since 1956, about one-third of Abilene Christian University’s student body participates in Sing Song each year, during which a top men’s social club, women’s social club and mixed-voices group are crowned for having the best song medley. Over the next few days, we’ll look at highlights from six decades of this popular event. ACU […]
Sing Song turns 60: The 1960s
As a rich tradition since 1956, about one-third of Abilene Christian University’s student body participates in Sing Song each year, during which a top men’s social club, women’s social club and mixed-voices group are crowned for having the best song medley. Over the next few days, we’ll look at highlights from six decades of this popular event. Dr. […]
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