HUCKLEBERRIES: 'Coeur d'Alene was different back then'
North Idaho College trustees, from left, Jeanne Givens, Betty McLain and Norm Gissel listen to student leaders during the gay alliance controversy.
Photo courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press archives
NIC Student President Christa Manis (Hazel).
At North Idaho College, U.S. Senator Howard Baker fields questions about Watergate.
The Johnston Building is shown to the left of the old Wilma Theater.
Charlie Nipp
Vienna Gutierrez gives her hair to young cancer victims.
Manager John Hunt of First Security Bank, left, and Roger Dedman of the Dream Theater, background, hobnob.
John Brumley, standing, prepares to body-slam Steve Casey.
Sandy Lewis and her birthday surprise on 1979 Valentine’s Day.
Christa Manis Hazel was 19 going on 20 when a community firestorm engulfed her.
The controversy raged for months in winter 1993-94 after a group of North Idaho College students asked to form a sanctioned club: The Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance.
At the time, Christa was the college’s student body president.
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