Collegium Caidis Spring 1981

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Location: Dreiburgen Riverside Community College Date: 05/09-10/1981

Event Staff

• Event Steward: Site Coordinator Eadwynne of Runedun
• Collegium Chancellor: Bjo of Griffin
• Collegium Registrar: Alewaulfe the Red

Memories

I was the site autocrat for this event. We had been having a lot of specialty Collegiums and Prince Adrian was asking for a full spectrum of classes as we had with Ithra. To do this we had to have a location big enough to support it and cheap enough we could afford it. I was a student at Riverside Community College at the time. A group of us, both SCA, Ren Faire folks and other like-minded people put together the "Current Medievalists Club" for which I was the President. We literally got the club together so we could have the Collegium. The ASB President, Tony Wiley, asked us to participate in some on-campus activities in order to gain support for our club and for the Collegium "activity." He asked us to participate in what he had hoped would be a renaissance fair (it ended up being a carnival with a few student booths including ours), and an on-campus fighting demo. Our on-campus faculty sponsor, a librarian, had not been attending our meetings so he didn't know about the on-campus fighting demo. It made the local Press Enterprise but it lost us our faculty sponsor who thought that we were just a "study group." This put our site access on hold, even though we had published in the Crown Prints. At the eleventh hour, one of the Art Teachers (Butchko?) stepped up as our faculty sponsor and we were able to continue with the event planning. And then at the eleven and a half hour, the campus decided that we needed a security guard and a janitor at the event and we had to pay for their salary for the day. I talked to Bjo who was the Collegium Chancellor and she confirmed that there was no such budget. Sooooo, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the Administration waived the fee with the understanding that if we did it again we'd pay for janitorial and security service. The event went smoothly. All I had to do was open and lock the doors, because the Collegium staff did all the heavy lifting. I did get to teach a class in Period Chess. Sadly, I left for another college by the next semester and the club folded. We still had $50 in our account. Never got that back, but we had a good time. ~Eadwynne

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