Sleuthing Series — Celebrating Spring!

JCCC Archives presents the Sleuthing Series, where every Tuesday, we bring you an image from our past and ask you to help us find out more!

Spring Fever week (April 24-28, 1978) featured a Gong Show. The judging team is pictured here. Details of the show and other activities are recorded in issues of “Add One …” (Student Activities newsletter).

What We Know

  • During the fall term students have Campus Craze, which allows student organizations to introduce themselves to students and invite participation.
    It is a chance to find others with like interests. Spring activities also connect people with like interests, however, it is more recreational and celebratory.  In other words, it’s fun.
  • These spring celebrations have had several different names:  Spring Fling, Spring Fever, Campus Craze (Spring edition?).
  • From 1978 thru 1983, Student Activities partnered with Sword and Shield (a  science fiction and fantasy club), to present Fool-Con.  This was a national convention of sci-fi enthusiasts that drew large numbers of people to campus.  Fool-Con deserves its own story.

What We Don’t Know

  • Were there other names we have not discovered?
  • Look for familiar faces in the photos below, and tell us who you see.
  • Do you remember activities not pictured?
  • Do you have photos of other activities.

If You Know More…

  • Contact  librarians Anita Gordon Gilmore and John Russell, call the JCCC Archives, or comment below!

For More Information…

Spring Fling, April 1973
Spring Fling Volleyball
Spring Fling, April 1973
Sonny Maynard, Spring Fling, April 1973
Wrestling basics, Spring Fling, April 1973
JCCC Jazz Lab Band performing in front of COM, Spring Fling, April 1974
Looking toward campus, baseball action. Game with State Fair Community College, April 1974
Looking North from campus, a very rural scene as backdrop for baseball action. Game with State Fair Community College, April 1974
Spring Fling, April 1974
Walk for Mankind, Spring Fling, April 1974
River Rock playing in front of COM, April 1975, with students viewing from the hill.
River Rock playing in front of COM, April 1975, with students viewing from the hill.
River Rock playing inside COM, April 1976

Chess tournament, April 1976
Joy! April 1977
Foosball, April 1977
Gong show talent (and tomfoolery), Spring Fever, May 1978.
Gong show talent (and tomfoolery), Spring Fever, May 1978.
Gong show talent (and tomfoolery), Spring Fever, May 1978.
Gong show talent (and tomfoolery), Spring Fever, May 1978.
Gong show talent (and tomfoolery), Spring Fever, May 1978.
Jump to Campus Craze, May 1999
Campus Craze, May 1999
JCCC Student Ambassador. Campus Craze, May 1999
Campus Craze, May 1999
Campus Craze, May 1999. Luz Alvarez, Instr. Foreign Language, chats with students.
Campus Craze, May 1999