Mission Accomplished: GLC’s ‘Top Gun’ Takes Gold

It was a night full of laughs and surprises at the Santa Barbara Bowl as Westmont celebrated its 65^th year of Spring Sing, where students from each residence hall produce musical skits to compete for prizes and bragging rights. Spring Sing, the longest running Westmont tradition, involves hundreds of students who use song, dance and faculty/staff appearances to tell a comedic story about this year’s theme, “That’s Classic!”

In the end, the six judges selected the Global Leadership Center’s Top Gun spoof, ‘We Haven’t Peaked Yet,’ as the overall winner. The production featured a cameo by Stu Cleek, vice president for student life.” 

“Nothing is more classic than Top Gun, and the GLC students put together an incredibly cohesive and hilarious storyline complete with flight suits, military caps and aviator sunglasses,” said Addie Oswald, admissions counselor and a Spring Sing judge. 

The first-year student residence halls had a strong showing with Emerson Hall’s performance of “Emerson Night Live” scoring well with the judges. “They showed up,” Oswald said. “The freshmen of Emerson were a small but mighty group that really brought enthusiasm to the stage.”

A fan favorite side act included campus photographer Brad Elliott, who has served as Spring Sing technical director for more than four decades, singing “Just A Song on My Guitar” to the melody of the Beatles classic “Blackbird.” He was continually interrupted by a stream of rockers wanting to play up-tempo songs by The Who or the Doobie Brothers, including staff members Doug Conrad, campus pastor Scott Lisea and Caleb Marll, as well as professors Jesse Covington and Steve Julio on cowbell.