Texas Techsan August 1956

EX-STUDENT ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President

RALPH BLODGETT, '41

Vice President HOMER G. MAXEY, '31

2nd Vice President BRAC BIGGERS, 148

Director ROBERT WORK, '37 Director

CULVER HILL, ' 32

Director EARL FUSON, '31

Immediate Past President HART SHOEMAKER, 141

Rep. to Athletic Council ED SMITH, '38

Ex. Secretary L. c. wALKER, I 49

Field Secretary Dennis Bingham, '56

LOYALTY FUND TRUSTEES

Earl Fuson

Dr. Willis Carson Don Wooten

George Langford D. M. McElroy Jack Maddox D. F. Sudduth

Tom Abraham W. G McMillan L. C. Walker

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Vol. 7, No. 4 August, 1956

CONTENTS

FEATURES

The Southwest Conference 2

Educator Returns 5 Aggie's Degree Pays 9 New Coliseum 10

DEPARTMENTS

Observin' Sports 8

The Techsan Salutes 12 Texas Tech Foundation 13 Hitch in' Post 14 Class of 78 16 Bear Our Banners 17 Techsans In Service ' 19

Managing Editor: Nancy Kaisner, '57

THE COVER

As Tech ' s pennant is added to those of the other SWC schools, The Techsan is making an attempt to " grow up" along with the rest of the College In the last several issues, we have been trying to give you longer, more interesting features and have been gradually shifting to a more modern, pleasing style of make up In this number you will notice the change in our cover design and a new head for the Tech Foundation In the months ahead, several other departments will sport a "ne.,;, look." We hope you like what we're doing to your magazine we will appreciate your comments and suggestions.

PHOTO CREDIT

Department of Public Information, Texas Tech Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Jim Dallas

THE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE

To Texas Tech • • Lubhocl

In the last issue of the Techsan, Bill Holmes presented in his column, "Observin' Sports," something of the significance athletic-wise of Tech's recent Southwest Conference bid As a result of the fav orable comment received on that column and the many requests voice d for a more comprehensive analysis of what the Southwest Conference will mean to Tffxas Tech and the surrounding area, The Techsan has asked four of the people we feel should best be in a position to visualize the future just what they foresee. William H. Crenshaw speaks for Tech ; Bill Collins for Lubbock; Fred Husbands for West Texas; and Dr D. M. Wiggins presents a general view.-Ed.

As we of Texas Tech, whether as student, student, faculty or staff, contemplate and savor o new membership in the Southwest Conference, feel sure that we each do so from man y differ!' aspects.

Some contemplate with quickened pulse t thrilling athletic competition to come; others anti pate the academic competition such as forensi drama and the like; others look forward to ing co-operation and interchange of ideas in aa demic fields now that we are "one of the familj

WILLIAM H. CRENSHAW

Tech's Director of Development and executive secretary of the Texas Technological College Foundation for the past two years, Bill Crenshaw is also currently serving as treasurer of the National D evelopment Section of the American College Public Relations Association and a representative to that organization's g overning council from D istrict 10, which encompasses some 40 member institutions in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Mexico.

He holds membership in the American Alumni Council and is on the Lubbock Community Planning Council as well as being treasurer of the Lubbock Family Service Association.

Mr. Crenshaw attended Tech in 1932-33-34 and went on to receive a law degree from SMU in 1942.

As Director of Development, I feel that it is or natural to, in addition to those things mention above, consider our Conference m embership terms of what it can m ean to our developmt program at the College Our development progra at Texas Tech is concerned with laying open degrees and in detail to our ex-stude nts and frien those steps and processes de em ed necessary in a vancing our total College program a reasonal distance ahead each e nsuing year towards an ev higher standard of efficiency and accomplishmel with evolving the fullest possibilities of those stt and processes; with promoting their grow th, a vancement and furtherance towards their most cOl plete attainment; with making active those stt and processes which have become latent; and m akin g both the old and new steps and proceS! more availabl e or usable to th<lse whom they intended to serve.

The development programs of our older Sout west Conference sister institutions reveal a degJ of participation, co-operation and support b?' ex-students, alumni and friends which we will lit wise want to attain.

As we now take pride in our m e mbershiP: b elieve that our ex-students and friends will exhi even greater pride in helping, financially or othl wise, the College achieve its development

AND WHAT IT WILL MEAN

And To All of West Texas

BILL COLLINS

President of the Lubboc k Chamber of Commerce, B ill Collins, BBA in 1932, has been with Hemphill-Wells Co. tor 27 years and is currently merchandising manager and on the firm's board of directors.

He is · active in numerous civic organizations and former president of the Community Chest, American Business Club and Lubbock Toast master's Club.

Conference was a great moment in the history of West Texas. And, as with all major historical events, the greatest benefit to Lubbock and West Texas lies in the future

1, such way that it will contribute the utmost to •e Conference program and attain the utmost from s .membership .

transitions have occurred all over the outhwest during the past quarter of a Century. The outh Plains and Panhandle areas have been more r less in the focus of this upsurge. Multiple factors lO numerous to mention have bee n responsible for te growth of the total area.

The part played by students in the achievement 1 t heir college means much No greater loyalty m be found anywhere than exists on the campus Texas Tech and in the thinking of the thousands ho have attended the college during its brief span existence.

A strong institution of higher learning is measred by the sum total of its many e ducational pro•ams. All such programs are beamed toward the 'oduction of a well-balanced citizeru-Y. Many lases of a properly balance d core of educational cperiences are extra-curricular in nature. To this ·pe of program belong all forms of intercollegiate ;hletic activities.

The entrance 9f Texas Tech into the Southwest onference furnishes another great opportunity for te College and the people of this section of our Juntry. West Texas and the adjacent areas have ng been highly "sports-minded." They have deanded the best in sports of every kind. Bringing )Uthwest Conference competition in sports to Lubx:k will fulfill for the people a long-time dream .

. Not only does membership in the Southwest onference p:omise more in competitive sports, but • also constitutes another step in the recognition the overall strength of the College. Those of us ho _have been so closely associated with Texas Tech •d Its progress, know that she will play the role in 1e Southwest Conference in a manner well fitting :r new position

Wes t T exas, and particularly Lubbock, has grown at a phenomenal yet plann ed a nd steady rate in the past two decades, and th e admission of Texas Tech means that this area and the College achieved a newer, grander stature among the leading cities and colleges of the Southwest. This we have earned; the future lies bright and shining before us.

Tangibly, the be nefits of membership are many Larger crowds will visit our area and will become better acquainted with its friendly people and the advantages it offers to a new industry, business, or resident People will see first-hand the fine institution Texas Tech has become. They will spend money on gas, oil , food, lodging and a myriad of other thifigs. Thousands of dollars will be poured into our economic stream.

But what may be more important a re the in tangible benefits to be derived from Southwest Conference membership Through conference acceptance, Texas Tech is literally in the company of champions. Through this association, the nation's wire services will interest themselves in everything the college does, and such interest will result in nation-wide recognition in many fields besides athletics. Lubbock will perhaps gain more national recognition due to Southwest Confere nce membership than any one single factor in many years.

Admission to the conference means, too, that we must be prepared to cherish and maintain our association with other conference schools. We must continue to be genial hosts to our welcome visitors. We must give greater support to th e Red Raiders of Texas Tech.

We have come a long way and accomplished much by being chosen to join this select company of champions .

We must sincerely accept the challenge membership offers us, and pledge ourselves to diligently work toward encouraging and helping in many ways the future fortunes of Texas Tech, LubbQCk, and the great West Texas area.

The admission of Texas Tech to the Southwest

SOUTHWEST CO NFERENCE

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To me, one of the most important results to be expected from Texas Tech's being admitted to the Southwest Conference is that Texans from other par ts of the state will receive some long-needed education.

By this I mean in economic geography To many persons in the eastern part of Texas who have never traveled in our region, West Texas still means prairie dogs and tumbleweeds .

Most, I feel sure, do not realize that West Texas produces over one-half of the oil of the state, over 90 per cent of the wool and mohair, 60 per cent of the cotton that it has six counties which rank among the top 200 counties in the entire nation in gross farm income, three counties which rank within the top 200 in effective buying income, and five among the top 200 in retail sales.

Many football fans who will be traveling to the Tech campus to boost their teams will become boosters for West Texas after seeing something of our region's great progress.

A better knowledge of Tech will be developed among more Texas people with greater recognition of its standing as an outstanding educational instit u tion

FRED HUSBANDS

Mr. Husbands is executive vice president and general manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce with offices located in Abilene, and is currently actively engaged in promoting the new Busi ness ' Research Bureau being established a.t Tech

A graduate of the University of Texas with both his bachelor's and master's degrees, he was formerly long-time manager of the Waco Chamber of Commerce

D . M. WIGGINS

Dr. Wiggins, executive vice president of Citizen's National Bank i n Lubbock, was Texas T ech's fifth president, serving from 1948 to 1952. During his administration, the College began a $5,000,000 expansion program and accomplished numerous campus improvements. The former chairman of the President's Council of StateSupported Institutions of Higher Learning received a BA from Hardin-Simmons in 1919, and the MA and PhD degrees from Yale in subsequent years. H is alma mater awarded him the L L D in 1943.

Dr Wiggins is one of the leading exponents in the S01J,thwest on American individualism. Also former president of Texas College of Mines and Metalurgy (now Texas Western), he is listed in Who's Who in America and the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World.

Mighty transitions have occurred all over th e Southwest during the past quarter of a century. The South P l ains and Panhandle areas ha ve been more or less in the focus of this upsurge. Multiple factors too numerous to mention have been responsible for the growth of the total area.

The part p l ayed by students in the achievement of thei r college means much. No greater loyalty can be found anywhere than exists on the campus of T exas Teclt a nd in the thinking of thousands who have attended the College during its brie f span of existence.

A strong institution of higher learning i s measured by the sum total of its educational programs. All such programs are beamed toward the production of a well balanced citizenry. Many phases of a properly balanced core of educational experiences are extra-curricular in nature. To this type of program belong all forms of intercollegiate athletic activities.

The entrance of Texas Tech into the Southwest Conference furnishes another great opportunity for the College and the people of this section of our country. West Texas and the adjacent areas have long been highly "sports-minded." They have demanded the best in sports of every kind. Bringing Southwest Conference competition in sports to Lubbock will fulfill for the people a long-time dream.

Not only does membership in the Southwest Conference promise more in competitive sports, but it also constitutes another step in the r ecognition of the overall strength of the College. Those of us who have been so closely associated with Texas Tech and its progress , know that she will play the role in the Southwest Conference in a manner well fitting her new position

DECORATED BY GOVERNMENT

-Dr Faye L. Bumpass poses with General de Ia Division Juan Mendoza Rodriquez, Pe ruvian Minister of Edu cation , follo wing a ceremony in which she wa s decorate d with the Order of " Palmas Magisteriales" by the go vernment The sig nal honor, wh ich included pre sentat ion o f a me dal and a sheepskin c e rtificate, was he ld on Teachers Day and came to the educator becaus e of her distingu ishe d record in writing t ex tbooks and methods of teach ing Engl ish that have been used in various schools of the Republic for several ye ars

Educator

Returns From Peru

by MARGARET TURNER

When Dr. Faye L. Bu m pass, BA in 1931 , joins the English facu l ty at her alma m ater this fall after a 12-year-residence in Lima, Peru, she will h ave achieved a m ile post t hat sho u ld p rove satisfying to contemplate.

As a dedicated Pan-American ist, she has devoted h erself with untiring enthusiasm and selfdenial i n helpi ng to solve the probl em of teach i n g English as ·a foreign la n guage. These years are appreciated by hu ndreds of Per u vian t each e r s an d t h ou sands o f stud ents, w h o term Dr. Bumpass the "great North American educ ator."

Their appreciation was manifested just before sh e left Peru earlier this s ummer when she was awarded the Order of " Palmas Magis t erial es" by the S o u t h American country's Minister of Education for her ou tstan ding ed u cational work Such an honor has rare ly, if ever, gone to an American wom an previously Dr. Bump ass, who also h as h er MA fro m T ech and h er Doctor of Letters from the Univer sity of

San Marcos, the oldest educationa l institution in t h is hemisphere, went to Peru i n 1944 as director of courses at the Peruvian-North Ame rican Cultural I ns tit u t e, where she served for six years. During t hat time she developed her method of a f u nctiona l approach to the teaching of Engl ish and wrote a collection of five books to be used in secondary schools.

Sh e a l so wrote " Seven Short Stories" to give La t in Am erican stu dents of t h e interm ed ia t e and advanced level an idea of the development of t h e American short story and an appreciation of representative writers.

Meth od Is Explained

The teacher-author explain s her method of practical approach as being a system by whic h the pupil a c tively partici pates during the development of each lesson and l earns the new terminol ogy for h i s own use. The aim s are und er standing, speaking, reading and writing.

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ABOUT THE

AUTHOR

Margaret T urner, Class of '29, B A in English has been on the editorial staff of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal since her graduation and has been woman's editor 23 years of that time

She recently spen t several weeks in Lima, Peru, as a g uest of D r. Faye Bumpass, on what was intended purely as a va cation. H owever, due, in t he

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JOINS ENGUSH STAFF

Meet The New Field Seeretar y

Dennis Bingham, a 1956 accounting graduate, is new fie ld secretary of the Ex-Students As-

completed degree requireme n ts in January after spending four years in the Air Force. He saw duty in Tripoli , North Africa, and the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph AFB, San Antonio.

He was employed by Stanolind Oil and Gas Co. in Hobbs, N M., before j oi ning the Association's of" fic e to do liaison work among the present 45 chapters and to assist in establishing new ones.

A native of Spur, he is married to the former Ramonda McMillan, also an ex.

Oth er recent changes in office personnel include the replacement of Mrs . Freddye Carnes, secretary, by Mrs Patsy White. Mrs. Carnes moved to Wichita Falls with her husband, Leslie, a senior p etro leum engineering student employed by Conoco during t he summer.

Mrs. White w as formerly with the public information office. Her husband, Gerald W. White, is a graduate student.

EDUCATOR RETURNS-

"First Th irty Yea rs" Still AYailabfe Froin Boo ks tore

" The First Thirty Years," the history of Texas T ech nological College from 1925-1955, writte n by Ruth Horn Andrews, daughter of the College's first president, i s now ready for distribution by the Bookstore

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Already the bookstore has orders on file for a large percent age of this first and limited e di tion, eac h copy of which is autogra phed by the author. They are f illin g t hese on a first-come, firstserved basis W C. Cole, ma nager, wa r ns that the boo ks are going out fast and that those who want cop ies should get th eir orders in immediate ly

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v arious classroom situations. She also edited del uxe editions of her secondary books

sociation named recently to re place Vernon 0. (Buddy) Barron, who resigned to enter private business in Lubbock .

Bingham, who originally attended Tech from 1948 to 1951,

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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author's words, to Dr. Bumpass' "knowledge of Peruvian people, customs, cities, tion, politics, religion and his tory," the stay was "greatly enriched."

"The fact that I was there during the day s leading up to and including the election of the president in the first honest ballot ever held in Peru's his tory, also made it more ex citing," Miss Turner adds

Since her return, she has transmitted to her Lubbock readers much of the flavor ab sorbed from the tiny South American nation in a series of highly interesting articles prepared tor her daily col1!-mn in the A v alanche, " The Woman's Angle ." This feature, which also appeared in the Avalanche, was a sidelight to those articles.

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As a guide to teachers of English, Dr. Bumpass wrote a man ual "The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language," in 1951, which was published by the U.S . Department of State and distributed throughout Latin America in three printings

Because of her outstanding s uccess as director of the institute, the State Department waived the five year rule and permitted her an extra year there. Later the U S. Government sent her as technical adviser for Latin America to organize seminars for English teachers in collaboration with various ministers of e ducation.

Having completed the assign ment, she returned to Peru, impelled by her love of the country and her desire to continue the educational w ork in which she had pioneered.

Gave T ech nical Advice

l;)uring the last three years the educator increased her collection by writing six texts for primary grades, "Let's Learn English ," after testing the merits of the series by experimentation in

I n add ition, the untiring teacher gave technical advice to hund red s of teachers, aiding them in organizing their theses a n d thus u nifying t he l earning of English and i n vigor ating the teaching of th e su bject the l ength and breadth of t h e republic.

Dr. Bumpass agrees with th e psychological principle that th e best age for b eginning the st udy of a foreign language is tha t which corresponds to primary studies. I accompanied her on visits to a number of Peruvian schools and saw youngsters , who had spoken Spanish all of the ir li ves, bursting out spontaneousl y with English sentences, also singing delightful little songs Dr. Bumpass had composed.

The books, which are print ed in Lima, have met with wide ac ceptance in other countries, i nclu d i ng Colombia, Brazil, Pa ra guay, Guatemala, Costa Ric a, Santo Domingo, Mexico and even far away Turkey.

Dr. Bumpass says when h er books are sought by e ducat ors in many different countries, she feels she is contributing toward pub li cizing the name of Peru, which she calls her adopted country , the affection for which has cau sed her to adapt h er texts to the national environment

In this manner she gives h e r stu dents an opportunity to cul t ivate a feeling of pride for th ei r n ative land while learning h e r la nguage.

• DENNIS BINGHAM

Theta Sigma Phi Alums Get National Charter

Theta S igma Phi Alumni Club of Lubbock, organized just last December, received its charter as a chapter of the national professional f r aternity for women in journalism at recent ceremon ies in the home of Mrs. James G. Allen, T ech journalism professor. Mrs. Allen sponsors the student chapter of Theta Sigm a Phi, at Tech, Alpha Upsilon.

Mrs. J. E. Gingrich, Director of Region III Theta Sigma Phi, con ducted the installation program. She also installe d A lpha Upsilon on the campus in 1941

The evening 's program began with a buffet supper in the home of chapter treasurer, Mrs Joe Pierce, 3519 45th, who is a T exas T ech ex-student.

After the chartering ceremony the ch apter hosted a reception h onoring husbands of members, local and area al umni, members of Alpha Upsilon, members of the

Tech journalism faculty, Dr. and Mrs . E. N. Jones , local alumni of Sigma Delta C hi, men's journalism fraternity, area n ewspaper editors and publishe r s, and r e presentatives of th e Lubbock press, radio and tel evision.

There are 18 charter members Members w ho were in Alpha Upsilon are : Mrs. Otice Green, Mrs. Travis Hammer, Mrs. Ke nn e th Penrod, Mrs. Don Thompson, Mrs. Kenneth White, and Mrs. Pierce.

Associate members of the chap ter are: Mrs Kenneth Ma y, Mrs William Miller; and Miss Margaret Turner. Other m embers are: Mrs. Allen, Mrs. W. W. Condray, Miss Evelyn Clewell , assistant Tech registrar, Mrs. R. F. DeShazo, Mrs. W. E. Elston , Mrs. Howard Hampton , Mrs. Robert Hess, Miss Ailese Partin , director of public r elations at Wayland College and Mrs. William Wilbanks.

IChapter Chatter I

HEART OF TEXAS

Calvin Hazlewood, '34, is new p resident of the Heart of T exas chapter elected at a Te ch Day barbeque dinner m eeting of the group in the Girl S co u t House at Stephenville. Hazlewood, former secr e tary of the Ex-Students Association is associated with a creamery at Dublin.

Elected to serve with him dur ing the 1956-57 year were J. C Turney, '27, also of Dublin, as vice presiden t; and Mrs. Kenneth Hammit ( Mary Et ta Wardlaw) of Stephenville, who attended Tech in 1939-40, as secretary.

Following the election, Jack Arthur, '31, showed a film of t he Tech-Arizona 1955 Homecoming game. J C. Turney gave an in formal talk on the . history of Tech , and Hazelwood told of some of his duties while holding his Association office.

THETA SIGMA PHI Officers of the Lubbock alumni chapter of Theta S igma Phi, honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism, admire their newly acquired charter They are: Mrs. Joe Pierce (l), tre asurer; Mrs Robert Hess, secretary; Mrs Otice Green, president; Mrs Kenneth May, archivist; Mrs. J E Gingrich of Seguin, who installed the chapter; and Mrs. Kenneth Penrod, vice president.

Other pages in this magazine are devoted to a discussion of the effects of Southwest Conference membership.

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Such effects on the Athletic Department were touched upon in last month' s column. Since then the results have been most noticeable in one of the most vital locations the ticket counter.

At the first of July, only 5,000 tickets remained for sale to the general public to Tech's Nov. 10 game with Texas Christian University

Jimmie Wilson , business manager of athletics, attributes this primarily to Tech's admittance to the Southwest Conference. Admittedly, Tech always has a capacity crowd to games with SWC teams played in Jones Stadium, but never has a sell-out been approached so soon

Season ticket sales have reached the record high of 7,000. Since delivery of single game tickets won't begin until September 1 (although orders to single games are b eing accepted and will be filled in the order received), season ticket holders will get the "better" seats.

It's more than general enthusiasm that's getting the ticket records It's also the opportunity to make sure of having a priority on buying tickets to the 1957 schedule, an even more attractive one than 1956.

But, speaking of 1956, the Raiders have a potent schedule coming up. Here 's a rundown on Tech's schedule , composed mainly of excerpts from the Football Information Booklet that goes to press, radio and TV men as well as to members of the Red Raider Club in August Churchill probably wouldn't use this style, but maybe it will cover some of the facts. And facts are what you want, aren't th ey m'am, or sir, as the case may be?

TEXAS WESTERN

Lubbock, 8 p m ., Sept. 22

Only school to hand a Weavercoached Raider eleven a Border loss, Texas Western looks as po-

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tent as the team that fought to a 27-27 draw last fall. Speedy halfback Don Maynard again haunts Tech. Top-notch tackle Kenneth George now at guard. Replacement for quarterback Jesse Whit tenton big problem. Eighteen lettermen (7 starters) returning

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY Waeo, 2 p m., Sept 29

Bigger, deeper, more experienc e d team than last year greets Baylor ex Sam Boyd upon his debut as head coach. Look for topnotch passing as injury-ridden Doyle Traylor swings into full action with Bobby Jones and Kenneth Helms, two other fine aerialists. Del S h o f n e r, Charlie Dupre , and R e ub en Saage pace the ground attack behind such linemen as Bobby Jack Oliver and Bill Glass. Twenty-three lettermen (6 starters) return. Regionally televised TEXAS A&M Dallas, 8 pm., Oct. 6

Surprise team of th e '55 campaign, the Aggies look again to be rugged in Bear Bryant's third year at the helm. Strongest at fullback with Jack Pardee and Richard Gay and at center with Lloyd Hale and Dee Powell. Guard Dennis Goehring and halfback John Crow among standouts. Tech 's first game in Dallas since '51 contest with Aggies. Twe nty-one · lettermen returning.

WEST TEXAS STATE

Lubbock, 8 p.m ., Oct. 1S

For th e first time in many years, the Buffaloes could go into the Tech game as favorites. A rugged, speedy, experienced outfit apparently stronger than the famed '50 powerhouse Quarterback Bubba Hillman and tackle Phil Wright rank among the region's best. Thirty lettermen (9 starters) r et urn.

ARIZONA

Tucson, 8 p.m. Oct. 27

Most versatile attack Tech faces. Ralph Hunsaker's passing made more dangerous by running of one of the leading yardage gainers of all-time, Art Luppino,

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and of the swifter Pete Arrigoni. In the line there're all-conference men in center Paul Hatcher and guard-or-end Ed Brown. Arizona Homecoming. Seventeen lettermen (five starters) return.

OKLAHOMA A&M Lubbock, 2 p.m , Nov S

Homecoming Greenest team since '50, paradoxically fastest with best pass ing, receiving, punting, and halfback speed since '48. All of which boils down to a tough opponent by mid-season. Good at ends, thin at tackle; guard Dwaine Underwood, halfback Duane Wood look like standouts. Sixteen l e ttermen (five starters) return.

TEXAS CHRISTIAN Lubbock, 2 p.m , Nov. 10

Potentially the best team in TCU's 60-year history, w hich isn't surprising considering that the Southwest Conference champion s return such players as All-America halfback Jim Swink, tackle Norman Hamilton, and quar ter back Charles Curtis. Twenty five l ettermen (8 starters) return

TULSA Tulsa, 1:80 p.m., Nov. 17

With better depth around such proven performers as g u a r d Chuck Yonkers, halfback Dick Hughes, and cente;r Max Black , the ex-Brownfield star, Coach Bobby Dobbs in his second year is expecting an improved all club Sixteen lettermen (8 starters) return.

HOUSTON

Lubbock, 2 p.m., Nov. 24

Good ground defense, improve d passing Standouts include fullback Curly Johnson, Missouri Valle y back of the year; guard R udy Spitzenb erger, speedy and fast; and quarterback Don Fiynn, bril· liant strategist and runner. Twenty five lettermen (5 starters) r e t urn

HARDIN-SIMMONS

Abilene, 2 pm., Dec. 1

Plenty dangerous with one of the nation's leaders, Ken Ford , passing and such speedsters as Charl es Masseggee and Danny

Villarreal running. Oklahoma U. transfer Buddy Cockre ll of Pampa bolsters an improved line Twenty-two lettermen (5 starters return.

'ROUND RAIDERLAND

This is getting downright com mercial, but a lot have been asking about basketball tickets. There are two season ticket prices -above the concourse, $19.50 (a saving of $6.50 since th e 13 games go for $2 each) ; below the concourse, $26. Orders are b eing taken now, provided a 25-cent mailing charge accompanies mail orders. Tickets will b e mailed after Sept. 1.

Wilson also reports that tickets to the football game in Da llas with A&M are going right well ·at $3.50 each. It's Tech's official student body trip, as well as that of the Aggie Corps, so the Cotton Bowl should seat a good crowd.

The new basketball floor is a thing of beauty. Out-of-bounds area is scarlet. L. C. Walker , your executive secretary, outlined the Double T's that have been painted scarlet and black n ear the center circle.

Fans at the high school all star basketba ll game in the Coliseum Aug. 9 won't see the first basket sunk in the new building At the insistence of fellow staff members, Coach Polk Robison sank a hook just after the paint and varnish were dry That high schooler who scored 72 points in one bask et ball game, Eden's Bill Pfluger , didn't have to be sold on Tech this spring since his father, uncle , and a cousin all graduated from T ec h.

At this writing a resignation from the Border Confe renc e has not been effected, but there's a good chance that this fall's football team and this winter's basketballers will NOT compete for the championship . . . George Beakley, who started Tech's string of fencing successes , has rece ived his doctorate from Oklahoma A&M and will b e a professor of engineering at Arizona State at Tempe .. .. Lt. John Thompson, '51- '53 halfback , has na vigator's wings now and just may be headed toward a reunion with Bobby Cavazos (same years here) in Korea. Bobby was not, as reported elsewhere last month, a "little" All-America , but a second team "big" All-America, as was ta ckle Jerrell Price in '51 With DuWayne Blackshear set upon a teaching-coaching career, Jim Reed and Eugene Carpenter are making trips to various firms interested in their working for them

Aggie's Degree Pays Off

Jim H erring, Class of '48, has been proving what a college education can help a man do in agri culture, believes Dean of Agriculture W. L Stangel. He expressed this belief in a recent letter to W. E . Woodward of Alva, Okla., H erring's employer, congratulating Woodward, who owns Rancho de Paz near Perrin, Tex., and Herring, who manages it, on the out standing record made by the ran ch in a r ecent stocker-feeder sale at Ft Worth.

At the sale, sponsored yearly by the Ft. Worth Market Institute, an organization representing the li ves tock commission companies on the market and the T exas Hereford Association, there were nine prizes and four bltie ribbons offered . H erri ng's entries for Rancho de Paz won eight of the prizes and three of the ribbons.

He showed the champion pens of h eifer calves and steer yearlings and also the reserve champion and playing AAU basketball .. . Tackle Bill Herchman, San F rancisco's third draft choice, plays in th e Chicago Tribune All-Star game Aug. 10 Tech-bound Gene Arrington, the Amarillo Palo Duro all-state eager, will wear No. 58 in the all-star game here Aug. 9.

steer yearlings; took first places in the pens of 10 steer calves, 20 steer calves and 20 heife r calves; and showed the champion and reserve champion steers and the champion yearling.

Success at the stocker-feeder sale, however, is only the most recent evide nce of H erring's success as a rancher. An animal husbandry major and m e mber of Las Camaradas , Block and Bridle and the Aggie Club while at Tech, he joined Rancho de Paz after serving for a time immediately following his graduation as an instructor at the Haskell County Vocational School.

H e started as foreman-manager at a modest salary and a chance to buy an interest in the cattle. At first the ranch was located near Lamesa , but in 1951 part of that land was traded for the Perrin ranch west of Ft Worth, where he and his family have made their home for the past five years.

Last year, H erring placed second on steers and third with heifers at the stocker-feeder show in Ft. Worth Two years ago, he was named master farmer-rancher of Jack County for his range improvement. He now owns an interest in all cattle and equipment on the ranch

FAMILY AFFAIR Displaying the trophies recently won at a Ft Worth stocker-feeder sale by graduate Jim Herring , takes the arms and hands of his whole family-wife Margie, (l), J.im; sons Steve and Mark.

THE

NEW COLISEUM

Pride and joy of Techsans and Lubbockites alike these days is the new coliseum, located on :the northwest corner of the campus . Features of the uniquely attractive· structure include seating sections done in a wide range of different colors and the portable basketball floor seen in this picture . . Ex-students will be officially " introduced" to the ultra-modern building at this year's Homecoming Dance, November 3, which is expected to be the largest such celebration in the history of Texas Tech

THE TECHSAN SALTJTES

• Dr. John R. Bertrand, n ew president of Berry College and Schools, Mt. B erry, Ga., which is widely known for its work program involving the entire student body Dr. Bertrand was previously dean and director of the Max C. Fleishmann College of Agriculture the University of Nevada. A 1940 ag education graduate, he received his MS in ag economics the following year. While at Tech he was president of the Aggie Club and named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. (His propensity toward "Who's Who's has been continued in later years-he 's now listed in Who's Who in Education, Who's Who in America, and American Men of Science.) Dr Bertrand, who holds his PhD from Cornell, was one of two American educators to go to Libya last summer at th e invitation of the International Cooperation Administration and the Libyan government to advise on the establishment of the first higher educational institution in that country. A lieutenant commander in the US Naval Reserve now, he was decorated during World War II with the Silver Star, Gold Star, presidential unit citation and a naval unit citation. His submarine received national recognition when it sank 14 Japanese ships in a lone mission. He is married and has four children

• . . James W. Turnbow, . 1940 h o nor graduate rece ntly named the most outstanding engineering teacher at the University of Texas. For his efforts in gearing instructional m ethods to fit individuals in his classes, the registered professional m echanical engineer has received a $750 Convair Award, established this year at the University by the Consolidated Vultee Corp., Ft. Worth . In addition to his teaching, Turnbow is doing research for the Army Quartermaster Corps, devising methods for cushioning materials dropped from planes A member of the board of directors of the Soaring Association of Texas, the versatile educator also finds time for his two hobbies , sailboating and glider flying, in which he is often joined by his students. While at Tech, he was vice president of Tau Beta Pi and held membership in Alpha Chi, Engineering Society, ASME, Torch · and Castle, Rifle Team and ROTC. Training received in the latter was utilized when he served as Army Ordinance Dept. captain during World War II. He received his MS degree in engineering mechanics, from the University, where he has been teaching engineering mechanics classes since 1948 He previously worked for North American Aviation Corp. as a design engineer and taught at Oklahoma A&M

. • • David Ansell Thomas, BA in 1937, executive director of the Charles E. Merrill Family Foundation, Inc., in New York City, and also a professor i n the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell University. Dr. Thomas was a featured speaker at the recent French Lick, Ind., conference of the American Alumni Council. He told of the Merrill Foundation's purpose in making a grant to the Council to be used to encourage alumni contributions to the respective colleges. After graduating from Tech, h e worked for the Texas Co. in Pampa , Midland and Ft. Worth and completed work on his MBA at TCU and his PhD . at the University of Michigan . He has written two books on accounting and several articles on the subjects of accounting and philanthropy. As a combat staff intelligence officer in the Air Force, he saw duty in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Smith, a University of Texas graduate, and the couple have one daughter While at Tech, Thomas was a m ember of the Centaur Club.

THE TEXAS TECHNO .LO.GICAL

· FOUNDATION COLLEGE

By William H. Crenshaw Director of Development

In the April and May Issues of the Techsan, this page considered the problem of teacher shortages in higher education and · the factors which create the problem which stand in the way to its solution.

Let us now consider some of the possible solutions to the problem

First, let us look at those positive things which might be done to greatly encourage teachers who have left the teaching field to return to it and students to enter the field of teaching.

1. First, and no doubt most important, bring the salary scale of the teaching profession in line with the salaries accorded by industry and other professions in order that they might at least be competitive with these other fields and consonant with cost of living increase. This may be ac·complished either on a basis of a nine or twelve month's contractual period. To accomplish this insofar as a state-supported institution is concerned, is going to necessitate that you, the public, become soundly informed on the problem, and that you then express your views to your legislator as to why you desire this problem to be met-along with your willingness to share in the cost. You will do this either as the parent of a college student, prospective student or as a prospeCtive employer for the certain opportunity of · obtaining his or her college education by doing all you can to make certain that there is an adequate supply of college teachers to teach your child or prospective employee

·. 2. By doing what you can t.o proper respect for the profession, according to It ·the stature :of other learned professions. Again, an informed look at the teacher's posftion in the school and the community

should bring you a .greater appreciation of his professional value. Keep in mind that those in other learned professions in the vast majority of instances were taught their knowledge by a teacher.

3. Realization of the first two steps above mentioned should stimulate our educational institutions to greater activity in encouraging students to enter the teaching profession Not only that, but you yourself will find it possible to encourage young people to enter the teaching field.

Secondly, let us consider those things which might be done to ease the teacher shortage problem until such time as the problem can be met through positive action. You should be warned, however, to consider these things only temporary measures and not to consider them as the complete answer to the problem.

1. Utilization of older people who have retired from active business life but who have 10 or 15 years of active usefulness remaining. Today, across the nation there are thousands such persons retiring between the ages of 55 and 65 with some small per cent retiring even earlier who are physically and mentally active who could and would teach for five, 10 or 15 years. This would, no doubt, require some adjustment of faculty personnel standards on the part of our institutions of higher education; perhaps some type of "on the job " teacher training for such people and understanding and cooperation from the various institutional accrediting agencies.

2. A broader utilization of the available eight hours per day by educational institutions for the teaching purpose. This woUld necessitate the student's willingness to take his daily class load

at any given hour during the eight-hour day and the teacher's willingness to teach his daily class load at any given hour during the available eight-hour day.

A further alternative to this thought is a 12-months operation as compared to the present nine months operation.

3. Increasing use of mass media teaching aids such as audiovisual equipment film projectors, slide projectors, etc.; closed and open circuit television, utilizing the master lecturer along with demonstrative teaching aids, film strips and kinescopes principally in large multiple section courses. That iS" done, by the way, in the vast majority of our iow level, freshman and sophomore courses

It seems quite apparent that utilization of both the positive and temporary steps will be necessary to enable our institutions of higher education to meet the rising tide of enrollment insofar a$ the teacher shortage problem · is concerned; for certainly even if the positive steps suggested were today an accomplished fact, it would take a number of years to produce the needed number of teachers to catch up with the present shortage and to meet the increasing demands for additional faculty personnel.

Certainly higher education and you the public must not overlook or fail to explore soundly every possibility that appears possible in assuring that our college education processes remain open and available to the young people of our nation.

This teacher shortage problem is not a problem that can be solved by higher education or by the public alone, but requires the fullest cooperation, knowledge ·and understanding of the two together. (To be continued)

The Hitchin' Post

SANDRA MARLENE JOHNSON, a senior, and J. T. WILEY, May finance graduate, May 26 in the Idalou Methodist Church.

JACQUELYN SHEPPARD, TCU graduate who has been teaching in S em i n o 1 e , and CHARLES A WILUAMS, who received a BBA in management with the class of '54, July 21 in Dallas. The couple are making their home in El Paso, where Williams is stationed at Biggs AFB.

VERONA LEE KENNEDY and RAYMOND K. HARRELL in a formal double-ring service solemnized at Garden Oaks Baptist Church of Houston. The bride is employed in the Houston office of Prudential Insurance Co. of America and the bridegroom, a pre-dental graduate and member of Phi Eta Sigma at Tech, has recently graduated from the University of Texas Dental School Following a wedding trip to New Braunfels, San Antonio and San Marcos, the couple were at home in Houston until Harrell entered the army in July

KATHLEEN GREER and JOE DEAN PAYNE, June 10 in Lubbock's Bowman Memorial Chapel. The couple honeymooned in Colo rado and are now at home in Lub bock where he is a teacher at C. N. Hodges Elementary School. Mrs. Payne is a Tech ex and her husband received both his bache lor's and master's degrees here.

JANE illCKS, 1955 business graduate, and J TED MELLINGER, who received a BS in petroleum engineering with the Class of '55, July 14 in St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church of Lubbock. Mrs. M ellinger was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Epsilon Sigma Alpha , and was voted a campus beauty She taught in Iowa Park Elementary School last year. Her husband, a Phi Gamma Delta, is employed with Creole Oil Co. in Tia Juana, Venezuela, where they are at home.

CAROLYN MARIE BEANE, BBA in international trade, Class of '50, and JACK P. BLOMGREN

of Sioux City, Iowa, March 24 in double ring vows recited in the Grandview, Mo., AFB Chapel. Following a wedding trip to Colorado, they are at home in Sioux City. Mrs. Bloombren has been a lieutenant in the WAVEs, working as a recruiting office r in Kansas City, Mo.

PATRICIA ANN E RANDOLPH, a Kappa Alpha Theta while attending Tech, and Lt. VERNON LAWRENCE REED, a graduate of Purdue and an SAE. They are at home in Abilene, where he is stationed with the Air Force, and she is a m edical

technol ogy s tudent at Hend rick Hospital.

ELOIS McFARLAND and L ON RAY ELKINS, BS in zoology i n '56, early this spring in Hollis, Okla. in a informal doubl e-ring service.

GAY CASS, a journalism ex, and GEORGE S. PRICE, who is serving with the Marine Corps a t Camp Pendleton, Calif., early this month in the Friona Methodist Church. Following a weddin g trip, they are residing in Califor nia.

ANNE GRAYUM and MICHAEL LEO McGEE, Feb. 3, in

MRS TED MELLINGER

the chapel at Reese AFB, Lubbock. Anne is an ex, and her husband was graduated from the University of Oklahoma before entering the Air Force

JORAINE FOX, a business ad major at Tech, and THOMAS J. KILLIAN Jr., Marquette graduate, Feb. 11, in St. Mary's Catholic Church of Amarillo. Following a wedding trip to Colorado, the couple are at home in Amarillo, where she is employed by Culton, Morgan, Britain and White, attorneys, and.. he is a sales repres entative with Allis-Chalmers.

LUCILLE HV ASS , director of nursing education at Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Lubbock, and WILLIAM C. CLARK, 1942 journalism graduate, Aug. 1 in Bowman Memorial Chapel. The bride, a Baylor alum, served with the Army Nurse Corps during World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Clark, who is associated with the law firm of Carr and Clark in Lubbock , served as a lieute nant commander in the Navy He received his law degree from the University of Texas

FRANCES DEE COPELAND and WENDELL E. HUDDLESTON, who are both Class of '56 and teaching in the Andrews school system, June 29 in the West Side Church of Christ, Lubbock. Following a trip to Kansas and Oklahoma, the two are at home in Lubbock until September. Mrs. Huddleston, BS in elementary education, was a m ember of A WS, Inter-Dorm Council, and Alpha Lambda Delta.

TOMMIE WYNN, BA in Math, Class of '56, and STEPHEN DEARTH, Aug. 7 at the Broadway Church of Christ. The bride was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and a member of Panhellenic, Junior Council and Forum.

MARY ALICE BRASELTON and JOE KIRK FULTON, in a formal double-ring ceremony performed June 29 in Plainview's First Baptist Church. The bride : groom graduated in 1955 an d is associated with his father in t he ranching and contracting business in Lubbock, where the couple are at home. He was a Phi Delt at Tech The bride, Class of '56 , was a Tri-Delt and a Tech beauty. The y honeymooned on the West Coast.

ILA GENE GRIFFIN and BILL HALLA BRYAN, both spring graduates, June 9 in a formal single-ring ceremony perf ormed in Lubbock's Bowman Memorial Chapel. After a wedding trip to

New Me xico and Colorado, the couple are at home in Pecos. Bryan, a two year football l etterman, received a BS in animal husbandry and his bride, a m ember of Alpha Chi , Panhellenic Council and A WS, hold a degree in elem entary education She will teach in the Pecos schools.

MARY TOM TEMPLETON and PAUL R. KING Jr., early this s ummer at Ford Memorial Chapel, Lubbock. Following the double-ring ceremony, the couple honeymooned in Colorado and are now at home in Houston where the bridegroom, a Baylor alum, is a student at the University of Texas Dental School. Mary Tom , BBA in secretarial administration, 1955, is teaching eighth grade math in the Houston schools.

GERALDINE SETZER, who holds a BS fro m Appalachian State College, and RAY O'NEAL, 1952 electrical engineering grad-

uate, June 9 in the Augsburg Lutheran Church of WinstonSalem, N.C., where the bridegroom ·is employed with Western Electric Co The couple made a wedding trip to Florida and are now living in Winston-Salem.

BARBARA ANN BANKS and JOHN WILLIAM BRADFORD, in double-ring vows read June 16 in Lubbock's Ford Memorial Chapel. The bride graduated this spring with aBBA in retailing. They are at home now in Lovington, N.M., where the bridegroom is associated with Halliburton Cementing Co.

GLORIA ANN S T E WART, Lubbock High School student, and EDWIN DENT LANGFORD, BBA in management, 1951; MBA, 1952. The couple recited wedding vows Aug. 3 in the Broadway Church of Christ chapel in Lubbock.

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MRS. JOE KIRK FULTON

BEVERLY LOUISE GARNER, BS in home economics, 1956 , and Lt. NORMAN KEY, animal husbandry graduate , in form a I double-ring vows solemnized June 30 in t he Baptist Church of San Gabrie l , Rockdale. Mrs. Key was a member of Phi Upsilon Omic ron, For um, Student Council, Supreme Court and was name d to Who's Who in American Colleges and Uni versities in both her junior and senior yea rs Her hus band was a member of the band, Block and Bridle and Student R e ligious Council. They are making their home in Big Spring where Key is an instructor at W e bb AFB.

JANICE LAWS and JAMES KENNETH SAGESER, who are at home in Lubboc k following a double-ring candle light ceremony June 16 in the Lockhart First Baptist Church They honeymooned in Gal veston The bride, a m ember of Sigma Tau D e lta , is a junior. H e r husband received his deg ree in ag e ngineering.

CAROLYN TAYLOR, 1955 music education graduate and a Kappa Alpha Theta , and JACK SLOAN BADGETT, 1955 geology alumnus who served as president of SAE his !ie nior ye ar, June 15 in a formal double-ring ceremony performed in St. John's Methodist Church of Lubbock. The couple honeymooned in Galveston a nd Houston and are now at home in Wichita Falls where Badgett is a geologist with Pure Oil Co .

JANET LLOYD, 1956 home economics alum, and WAYNE WEBB, BS in sociology, 1955, Aug 5 in the First Baptist Church of Floydada. W e bb is serving in the armed forces stationed at Ft. Chaffee, Ark. ·

FIRST 30 YEARS(Continued from Page 6 ) facts . She has added accounts · of humorous and human-interest incidents w hich help recapture the s pi rit of those years during w hich the young c ollege was struggling towar d a ttainment of its goal as the outstanding college o f West Texas Many of these accounts were gained first-hand by Mrs. Andrews during h er r esidence with h e r father on the college campus and h e r work as a member of the English staff.

The book is priced at $4 75 if bought at the Bookstore. If it must be maile d the price is $5 postpaid anywhere in the United States. Proceeds fro m the sales go to the College.

In Memoriam

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Mr and Mrs. Leon Hughes and t heir six-year-old son, Mike, died as a result of injuries s u ffered in an automobile accident July 2 near Ft. Stoc kton Another son, Bobby, 8, was seriously injured. Hughes, class of '43, BA in journalism, was classified advertising manage r of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times He w as r ecently name d preside nt of the Ex-Stu dents chapter in Corpus Christi

Miss Murl Ratliff, an early gradua te o f Tech, died June 20 following several weeks' illness. She had been a teacher in Lubbock Public schools since 1939.

James L Amis, who attended Tech in 1935-36, die d after suffering a heart attack June 15 while on his honeymoon in Mexico City. The 39-year-old Lake Charles, La., resident was employ ed by Atlantic Refin ing Co.

Lt Bobby Jennings, a Techsan prior to his enlistment in the Air Force, was drowned off the coast of Iceland in April when he parachuted from a plane and l a nded in the sea.

Mrs. Bud (Eron) Thompson, president of AWS and Forum while at Tech, died of cancer last March The mother of three children, she had been active in Little Theater work in Amarillo and Lubbock for a number of years

A heart attack proved fatal to a member of Tech 's first g raduating class March 5. He was Jack Warre n Camp, 48, rancher and community leader in Pecos.

Ray L Waller, 51, president of Navarro Junior College, died of a heart attack at his home Feb. 11. He was also graduated with Tech's initial senior class, as an education major.

Class of 1978

Mr. and Mrs Bill Calvert are the p a rents of a brown-ha ired , blue-eyed daughter born July 17 in Lubbock 's Methodist Hos pital. Named Carla Jan, she weighed 6 lbs , 11 % ozs Bill is a senior petrol e um engineering s t u d e n t and a PiKA and Carolyn (nee Pope) is a m e mber of the Class of '56. She was preside nt of Kappa Kappa Gamma this past yea r , and also worked part-time in t he ExStuden ts Association office

First Lieute nant and Mrs. L . H. Spellings III have a new son , David Whistler, born Jan 28 in Tokyo, Japan, w here Spellings is stationed with th e Air Force. They also have another son, Leslie H IV, who is 2% Spellin gs r eceived a BS in ag economics in 1951 and his wife , the former Nanette Whistler, is also Class of ' 51 , with a BS in elementary education. ·

Karen Keye is the name chosen by Mr. a nd Mrs. G eorge B elcheff Jr. for their daughter born June 15. Belcheff, now with Grea t Southern Life in Lubbock, is a 1951 animal husbandry graduate and the forme r D e Rose Whittenburg received a BS in home economics with the Cla ss of '52 The couple has two other children Jana Kay, 3, and George III, 14 months .

Mr and Mrs. William H Hopkins of Ft. Morgan, Col o., announce the birth of a dau ghter, Karen Jore ne, May 20. She weighed 7 lbs.• 2 ozs. Mrs. Hopkins, th e forme r J orene Shinn, r eceive d he r BS in home economics in 1950. Her husband is an ex-student of North Texas State and th e University of Wyoming.

A son, Allan Jay, weighed 8 % lbs., when he was born May 27 to Mr. and Mrs. D e nnis Leac h of 1801 Sam Houston, Sweetwater. The Leaches also have two other children, Cheryl , 6, and Roger, 3 He is a 1950 accoun t ing graduate.

A daughter born June 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Billy C. Chandler of Beaumont was dubbed Lisa Gail. She weighed in at 7 lbs ., 13 ozs. Chandler, a 1951 marketing graduate, is employed with Sun Oil Co. The couple has an old er daughter, Linda Kay, 3.

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Elmer J. Moore, BS in geology, 1930; MA in education, 1939, resigned this spring after serving the past 10 years as superintendent of Shamrock Public Schools. He is married to the former Pearl Brigance, a 1934 education graduate. 32

A member of the Class of '32, Hubert Hopper is serving as the director of the Texas Presbyterian Foundation, an agency of the Synod of Texas, which is next to the highest court of the denomination. The foundation acts as executor of wills or trusts benefiting the church and is also authorized to undergird all synod agencies including educational institutions. Hopper has previously held pastorates in Dallas, Houston, Midland and McAllen.

Walter T. White, head of the Missile Weapon System Engineering Dept. of the Special Missile System Division of Sperry Gyroscope Co., recently delivered a paper before the AIEE-IRE joint student branch at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The paper was on " Systems for Guiding Missiles in Flight." White is an electrical graduate.

Superintendent of Dickens County Public Schools is Robert Williams, Class of '34. 40

Miss Elizabeth Ann Coleman, 1940 business graduate, was awarded an LLB degree at the 124th commencement exercises of New York University held early this summer.

W. J. (Chuck) Roberts graduated from dental school in ·Houston in June. 43

F E. (Red) Hightower, BBA, is public relations director of the General Telephone Co . in San Angelo. He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert W. Knox have recently purchased a new home in Houston and their address is now 7714 Alanwood. Knox is an engineering grad and his wife, the former Evelyn Me-

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Laughlin, · received a BA in English with the Class of '44.

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Recently promoted to the position of production manager for Cosden Petroleum Corp. in Big Spring is Lewis M Thompson, BS in petroleum engineering. He was formerly drilling and production engineer with the company, which is planning expanded operations in West Texas, New Mexico, South Texas and Louisiana under his direction.

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47 The Re v Burgin Watkins recently received his Master of Theology degree from the Iliff School of Theology, Denver, and is now working on his doctorate there. After graduating from Tech with a BA, he obtained his bachelor of divinity from Vanderbilt in 1949. He has held pastorates in Nashville, Tenn., Floydada and Lubbock, and has been director of religious education and youth work at Emmanuel Methodist Church in Denver. He and his wife have two children.

Dr. George B McLeroy, BS in agriculture, and his wife have rec ently arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, where he will be the new h e ad of the Animal Science Division of the American University of Belrut. He has just completed three and one half years as professor and head of the Animal Science Department of the Iraq College of Agriculture. He holds his MS f r om Iowa State and PhD from Oregon State.

Clinton DeWolfe has purchased a new home in Houston, where he recently opened a new office for Texas State Optical Co. ·

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H Behling Jr. are among the Tech exes now living in New Orleans. A civil engineering graduate, he has been working for Humble in that city since 1950.

Gerald Harry Stokes, BA in journalism, recently was graduated from the American Institue ·for Foreign Trade at Thunderbird Field, Phoenix, Ariz. Specializing in Latin America, he took the school's intensive training course in preparation for a

career in American business or government abroad. At Tech he was assistant editor of LaVentana , a member of the Toreador staff, Press Club, · Photography Club and Socii.

Joe W. Luckett has been named division exploration geologist for Pure Oil Co. with headquarters in Ft. Worth. He is supervising Pure's exploratory efforts in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Mississipi, Louisiana and Alabama. A petroleum engineering graduate with a geological option, Luckett was formerly staff and district geologist with the company.

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Mrs. Terry (Dana Gant) Waldron , BA in government, attended graduate classes at Mexico City College for six weeks this summer Her husband, Class of '48, remained at home in Houston.

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Elbert Johnson, 1940 Captain of the Red Raiders, is now assistant football coach at Stephen F Austin High School, Bryan. A four-year letterman and two- time All-Border-Conference team member while at Tech , Johnson played professional football for two years He then coached at Muleshoe and Belton before moving to Bryan this spring.

Harold (Pick) Pickens recently moved to Houston with IBM Corp. to set up and supervise program testing procedures on the elec tronic type 650 computer. An elec trical engineering alumnus, he has been with the company since his graduation.

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Industrial engineer Robert 0 . Duff was awarded his masters degree from the graduate school of business administration of Harvard this summer.

Roy E . German ,' a p r e-med student at Tech, recently received his MD degree from the Galveston Medical Branch of the University of Texas and is now serving a duty tour with the Navy stationed at the Naval Hospital

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in Bremerton, Wash. His wife is the former Betty Maeker.

Bill Arnold has a new Houston address : 4623 Polk, Apt. 2.

James Thomas Johns has recently graduated from Seminary in Ft. Worth. His wife, the former Joy Pharr, is also a Tech ex.

Ronald Bennett, BA i n business m anagement, has ret u rned to L ubbock as vice-president of Ben nett Motor Co. after spendi ng four years in the Air Force. His wife, the former Pat Montgomery, graduates this month with an education major. They have one son, Richard Oran , 23 months old. Pat was a member of Las Chaparitas.

now studying elementary educa tion; and Isabell Knight of Houston, 1954 applied arts grad.

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Charlie Roden, BS in indus trial engineering, is now with Western Concrete Pipe in Mineral Wells. ·

Holding down a position with Hughes Aircraft Research and Development Laboratories in Mar Vista, Calif., Ernest E. Sullivent Jr., electrical engineering grad, is a lso studying for an MS in EE at UCLA.

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New Administrative Associate at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is Robert E. Fore, BBA in management, who received his Master of Hospital Administration degree June 9 from the University of Minnesota. He is married to the former Glyndon Van Horne, an education major while at Tech R. H. Northington is now junior leaseman with P h illips Petroleum Co. in Midland after recently being promoted from t h e position of abstractor in the company's land and geological department at Bartlesville, Okla. An animal husbandry alum, he is married to the former Carolyn Bigby, also an ex, and they have one daughter, Diana, 18 months. Northington is also newly elected vice president of the Ex-Students chapter in Midland.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Caskey and their two children have recently moved to Burbank, Calif., where he is working in the com puting lab of Lockheed Aircraft. Caskey, who received his BS and MS both in math, was an instructor on the campus during the past year. His wife is the former Barbara Webb, also an ex.

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Mrs G lyndon (George Ann Davis) Johnson, Class of '55, is working now as secretary to the principal of Spur High School.

Charles B. Browning, agricu l ture graduate, was awarded an MS from Kansas State College recently. While at Tech he was president of A lpha Zeta, vice president of the Aggie Cl u b, and a member of Block and Bridle.

Barbara Stice, BBA in business education, is now with Humble Oil in Houston.

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Seldon C. Robinson, who will receive his PhD in education thi s month, has been apointed personnel director for Southern Union Gas Co. The forme r D ean of Student Life at Sui Ross h olds his BBA from that college and his masters from TCU.

Engineering graduate Betah H. Freeland Jr. is with Stanolind, working in the company 's Saltuther. area Producing Dept in the position of petroleum engineer.

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Recipient of a Rotary Foundation Fellowship for ad vanced study abroad next year i s Bobby Ray Cooke, BS in civil engineering. He will utilize the approximately $2500 grant to study engineering at one of the major universities in the B r itish I s les While at Tech, Cooke was presi dent of ASCE and a member of the Engineering Society. Follow ing his graduation, he spent two years in the Army and did graduate work at the University of Texas.

Mrs. George (Wanda Yar brough) Holland and her husband have returned to Lubbock to make their home after residing for a time in Monroe, La.

Two graduates are studying at the University of H awaii in Hono l ul u this summer. They are C l a u dena Goen, a home economi cs m ajor while at Tech who is

56 Richard Lowery, spring m e c h a n i c a 1 engineering grad, has been awarded a $1,500 research fellowship for graduate study at Oklahoma A&M next year. At Tech he was a member of ASME, Engineering Society, Tech Choir, BSO and mechanical engineering chairman for the Engineering Show During the summer, he is employed in the Levelland office of Stanolind Oil and Gas, whi ch awarded the fellowship.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bietz will li ve in Chicago this coming school year while he works on his mas ters in chemistry at Northwest ern. He is a spring graduate and his wife is a WTSC ex.

Mechanical engineering graduate Rodger S. Gonnellee Jr. has been employed by the Los Alamos N.M. Scientific Laboratory. At Tech he was a member of ASME.

Elvie Turner has been named curator of Marsalis Park Zo6 in Dallas. He will have charge of planning the food and shelter of animals and l ooking after their general welfare.

Alvin Gregg, recent foreign language graduate, plans to do graduate work in English and German here next year. H e is th e new president of the Texas Association of German Students, and the past year served as president of Sigma Tau Delta.

Principal of the elementary school in Seagraves now is W. L. (Sonny) Willingham, who r e ceived his masters this spring. A Texas A&M graduate, he has previously been junior high principal and assistant to t h e high sch ool principal there.

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C. C. Reese has resign e d as zone Iandman of Gulf Oil Corp at Shreveport, La., a position he has held for the past 25 years, and has entered private business there engaging in l eas ing, brokerage and specializing in we ll trades and working out drill ing agreements.

William J. Murphy is manag er of the health, life and accident department o f Travelers Ins ur ance Co. of Hartford with offices in L ubbock.

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Lt. Cmdr. Charles F. Dvoracek, '42, BS in ag education, is serving with Commander Naval Forces Far East with headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. He was trans ferred last month from the staff of Commander Carrier Division Five , where h e spent the greater part of two years with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific.

A 1955 petroleum engineering grad, Lyle T. Shelton, is undergoing preflight training at Pensacola, Fla ., where he is stationed as a US Naval Aviation Cadet.

Lt. Col. Cecil E. Roberts, '49, has been graduated from the Command and General staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan , the Army's senior tactical school. A government major at Tech, he a membe r of Pi Sigma Alpha, International Relations Club and the tennis team.

Stationed with the Air Force at Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, is 2nd Lt Don Smith, '55, BS in m echanical e nginee ring. He has only recently been called to active duty from the res e rve.

Second Lt. Bobby L. Etheridge, 1955 agriculture graduate, rec e ntly arrived at Ft. Riley, Kan., and is now a member of the 1st In- · fantry Division's 26th Regime nt

there. A member of Scabbard & Blade, Aggie Club and Infantry Club at Tech, he was previously stationed at Ft. Benning, Ga.

Capt. John P . (Jack) Giles Jr., Class of '42 , has three more years of a four year assignment to serve at Orly Field, located near Paris, France He was a business major at Tech.

Another Techsan recently arr i ved at Orly Field. He is 1st Lt. Robert J. Salem, 1950 pre-med alum, who has recently finished his medical internship at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, Colo. He entered the Air Force in June of 1955 after graduati ng from Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.

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Joe B. Hansen is a platoon leader in the 53rd Infantry Regiment in Alaska, w here he has be e n sta tioned s ince April, 1955. Recently promoted to first lieutenant, he was graduated fro m Tech in 1954 as a business major.

Army Sgt. James A. Heath is a radar operator in the 64th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion stationed at Irumigawa, Japan.

Now a sergeant, Van N. Baucum, '54 , BBA in retailing, is a specialist with the 49th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion in Sko-

kie, Ill. A gun commander in the battalion's Battery A., h e was a member of P hi Gamma Delta at Tech.

Second lieutenant Joe B. Stroud, class of '55, has completed a n FBI cours e sponsored by the local police department in Killeen, Tex. He is regularly a platoon lea de r in the 720th Military Police Battalion at Ft. Hood, and has been in t he Army since January.·

Pvt · Calvin C. Lawrence, Class of '56, is receiving basic combat training with the 8th Infantry Division at Ft. Carson, Colo., prior to l eaving for Europe early in the fall as part of Op eration Gyroscope

A 1954 graduate, Hallis A. Dixson, is now a specialist third class with the lOth Infantry Division in Germany where he is a clerk. A Phi Delta Th eta, he entered the service in 1954, and has been in Europe for the past year.

Army Pvt. James T. Spencer has completed a field t raining test with the 1st Infantry Division's 18th Regiment at Ft. Riley, Kan. A driver in the regiment's Company H., Spencer received a BBA in accounting in 1955. He was a

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member of Del ta Sigma Pi and Tech Accounting Society

A 1955 grad uate, Pvt Jack C. Hunter, recently completed artillery surveyor training at Ft. Sill, Okla. He is a member of the 617th Field Artillery Obs ervation Battalion.

The United States Air Attache to the Indian Government is Col. Woodrow W. Ramsey, Class of '41. Alon g with his wife, the former Natalie Parker, an education m ajor, and family , the colonel is making his home in New Delhi.

Lt. J. Vic Allen reports from Athens, Ga , where he is stationed at the Navy Suppl y Corps School a s a staff member, that there was "not only rejoicing but comments of 'bout time' when the papers here in Georgia gave word of the news of 12 May " A member of the Cl ass of '47, Allen is Reserve Suppl y Corps Training Officer, teaching classes both at Athens and at the Naval Supply Center at Oakland, Calif.

Lt. and Mrs Pat Ridge are stationed at Camp Zuma, Japan, with the 9459th Signal T echnical Intelligence Team, gathering data on J apanese communications and trans l ating it Ridge, 1954 foreign language graduate, has just compl eted a one-year course in the Japanese language. His wife, the former Erma B. Folley, Class of '55, was employed in the Ex-Student Office prior to her graduation. The couple would like to hear from their friends at the fol-

lowing address: 9459th Tech Ing. Team, APO 343, San Francisco, Calif.

Navy Comm ander Hayden A. Gregory, a former Techsan, has been assigned to duty with the bure au of Naval Personnel in Washington, D C.

Recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, has been compl eted by Frank W. Medley Jr., who attended Tech before entering the service in February.

Pvt James P. Mitchell is serving with the Medical Service after taking an eight-week course of ad vanced trai ning at Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio. H e is an ex student

Pvt Wayne D. Delaney, a former T echsan, has completed the

cable splicing course at t he Army's Sou theastern S i g n a 1 School , Ft Gordan , Ga. The 13week course is designed to teach the installation and maintenance of all types of cables, both above and bel ow the !?lound.

Pvt. A . Tanner, 1955 music graduate, is bowling for Company G of the 7th Divi si on's 31st Infantry R egiment in Korea. A clerk in the company, T a n ne r entered the Army last Septe mber and completed basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif.

Thurman · W Weatherred recently was promote d to speciali s t third class while serving with t he 9th Infantry Division headqua rters in Goeppinger, Germany . A cashier in the di v ision's finan ce section, he is a member of the Class of '54.

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