Texas Techsan November/December 1987

Texas Tech Ex-Students Association

November-December 1987

Electra Waggoner Biggs and ''Will"

Inside Front Cover Editorial

Schools must be judged by their missions

By Wendell Mayes Jr., Chairman, Tech Board of Regents

A debate over the quality of state-supported medical schools is especially appropriate as the state's ability to fund higher education is being tested. A recent argument, however, set forward in a Dallas Morning News editorial left much unsaid.

It is in the public's interest to support medical schools.

But those schools should be measured by their missions and their results. Using these criteria, the Texas Tech School of Medicine is repaying its public investment handsomely.

The Texas Tech School of Medicine has a mission well suited to its location and the public need. just 20 years ago, the region of West Texas-an area larger than most U.S. states and many countries-had severe medical problems. In this region of 135,000 square miles, Texans had the lowest number of physicians per population in the country. The infant mortality rate was the highest in the state. Communities could not get doctors, and people were hours away from lifesaving health services.

The cause of this massive health care problem is as true today as it was then: Health care professionals tend to practice in or near cities where they have received training.

To get health care to people in West Texas, the state needed to provide medical education in West Texas.

In 1969, the Legislature established the Texas Tech School of Medicine. The school opened in 1972 to provide medical education and leadership for 108 counties and more than 2 million Texans. The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center opened a nursing school in 1981 and an allied health school in 1983 to provide comprehensive health care training.

One site could not serve such a sprawling region effectively. Regional campuses were located in Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso and Odessa-Midland. Each serves as a regional academic health center, through which medical residents and other health care professionals rotate.

Operating four health care sites is expensive. It makes the Texas Tech School of Medicine one of the most expensive for the state to operate. But the benefits and measures of excellence justify the expense: • In _1972, there was one physician for every 1,200 people m West Texas. Today the ratio is one physician for every 900 people. Two out of every three physicians completing residency training at Texas Tech have remained in Texas. Two-thirds of that number now practice in West Texas.

• The infant mortality rate in West Texas, the highest in the state in 1972, is now among the lowest.

• The four regional centers have helped citizens reduce medical complications and the expense of treatment by bringing preventative and ambulatory health care closer to ~heir homes. Primary care clinic visits- one of the cheaper mforms of health care-have risen in West Texas from

25,000 in 1972 to 256,000 in 1986.

Sophisticated health care is now available to Texas citizens in this region. Clinics and centers are operated by the Texas Tech School of Medicine to treat Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, kidney disease, cerebral palsy, child abuse, infertility, substance abuse and several other serious disorders.

• Last year, Texas Tech physicians at the four regional centers provided more than $25 million in uncompensated health care to indigent and elderly Texas citizens.

These improvements in health care are strong indirect evidence of the quality of education being provided at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. There is direct evidence as well.

Each year, the medical school accepts 100 students from a pool of about 900 applicants. Since 1972, the school has graduated 771 doctors. Last year, 98 percent of the school's graduates passed the state licensure exam on their first attempt. The year before, the passing rate for Texas Tech graduates was 96 percent, and the performance has been consistently high throughout the school's short history.

Graduates of the Texas Tech School of Nursing last year led the state in scores on the licensing examination. Over 95 percent of the nurses graduated by Texas Tech have passed the licensing exam on their first try. Most now are practicing in West Texas.

The Texas Tech School of Allied Health offers programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy and medical techno!· ogy. It has produced graduates since 1983. Nine out of 10 of them passed their registration or licensure exams on their first try.

Last year, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center attracted more than S8 million in research and training grants. This is a small amount compared with older medical schools, but the work done is well suited to the center's mission. For example, the Kellogg Foundation supports a project that is pioneering ways of using computer and satellite technology to bring health care consultation to rural and isolated communities. The center already is providing the region with a medical library, emergency medical training, pesticide information, continuing education and clinical research.

This record of accomplishment shows that the Texas Tech School of Medicine and the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center have fulfilled their intended mission with excellent results. Examining the need for one medical school by using another's measure of excellence ignores the different missions assigned to each. Texans can point with pride to the accomplishments at the Texas Tech School of Medicine, and Legislators can support it as an investment well made.

(Reprinted with permission from the Dallas Morning News.)

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~~1.~40,~No~.6--------~~=e~c~§Sa~ =n~~----------~ Where To Find It Boooooooo, Pigs (phooey) Annual photo coverage of Homecoming.

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Over the Top Movie promotion by Sylvester Stallone helps Bonneau Company.

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AHero From Way Back Spike Dykes from Ballinger is a downto-earth product of his upbringing.

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And Then There Were 10

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Focus on Dr. Paul Horn

A&S Builds Recognition Garden College turns to lessons of history for modern-day campaign.

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Only One Senior Coach Gerald Myers has just that!

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'New Look' has West Texas Flair

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Two West Texans lend leadership to Coach Marsha Sharp's 1987 team.

Behind the Scenes on Game Day Spotlight on Sports Information Dept.

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DEPARTMENTS

Association News Letters Texas Tech in Retrospect: Winning Tech Enterprise Campaign: 1987 Tech Today Calendar of Events Class Notes Editor's Notebook OFFICERS i'RESIDF.NT

Bob Dyer '60, Houston i'RESIDENHLECT llarJc Noble '76, Tyler IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT ">llWn L (Bill) Adair ' 50. Houston ATHIEilC COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE

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Karolyn Uvely '64, Lubbock Glynda McClure 70, San Antonio llah Merriman '57. Dallas ]esse Pruitt '69. O.llas Jim Ratlilf'6 t , Lubbock Keller Smith '68, Fort Worth jack Swot low 74. Midland ]. Pat Walsh '61. McAllen

John Sims '65. Lubbock EXEC\111VE DIRECTOR Bill D<an '6! , Lubbock

MAGAZINE STAFF

DIRECTORS

EDITOR Marsha Gustafson '76

Rob Brown '58, Throckmorton Junmy Davis '68, Dimmitt

ASSISTANT EDITOR J u ne Gould ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Gale We lls

Bob Fillpot '67. Houston Ktn furman 74 Chicago

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR June Gould '80

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PHOTOGRAPHER

M~t Doherty '73, New Braunfels Ga~e Earls '58, Dallas ~<vt Elliou '67. San Antonio

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~· Hamson '66, San Angelo

lonis Holmes '61. Temple ~ E.Jobnson '62, Houston ""'Law 'S7. Lubbock i<el.oltis '77, Tyler

ABOUT TilE COVEROne of many highlights of Homecoming Oct. 10 was the visit from famed sculptress Electra Waggoner Biggs, who is best known locally for her statue of Will Rogers and his horse Soapsuds, a landmark of Texas Tech. ( Photo by Darrel Thomas)

ASSOCIATION STAFF EXEC!JI1VE DIRECTOR .

Bill Dean '61 ·

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Douglass '69 SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR Peggy E. Pearce 70

ALUMNI SERVICES COORDINATOR Margutt Heling

PUB USHER Bill Dean '61

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Darrc:l Thomas '70 ARTIST Rick Sales 79

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A330CIN"ION NEWS • Summer meettngsgone but not forgotten By jim Douglass

Chapter ~~ivit~es. c~ntinued on through the summer, wmding up JUSt m tune for our pre-game football receptions to begin. On the following pages we offer you another sampling of pictures from our chapter gettogethers in Texas and across the U.S.

Coach spike Dykes addresses the Abilene chapter meeting.

Members of the Houston Texas Tech Mom's Qub hosted a tea this summer in the home of Suzie Eastwood johnson '62 to raise money for a local scholarship. 1be event was a "smashing success," in the words offield rep Cindy Rodriguez, as the Mom's Club was able to give a SJ,OOO scholarship to Lisa M. Cyr, a Houston student attending Tech. Members of this committee of the Mom's Qub are (front row from left) Darlene Staffa, Suzie johnson, Ada Kiatta and Lyn Hamilton; (back row) Rosalie Schwarz, Shirley Beyer and Carolyn Roth.

! jesse Pruitt (right), Association board member, was presented a sutprise birthday cake at the annual Dallas banquet. Looking on are (from left) Liane Locke, Dr. Lauro Cavazos, Susie Duffy and Dr. Bill Dean.

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Part of the large crowd that gathered in Odessa to bear representatives from Tech and to bid on scholarship auction items.

A large crowd gathered at the home of Paul PageJr. for the San Angelo annual summer meeting.

~tball assistant coach Taylor McNeel (left) talks with jim Letto at the Fort Worth gathering.

Helping with registration at the Dallas banquet are Lisa Cromer (left) and Barbara Denny.

Tim Chambers, vice president of the Red Raider Club, models auction items at the Odessa summer gathering.

7be Coastal Bend chapter m et Aug. I at Cotton's Ba.r-B-Q in Robst?wn· Taking a break for the camera are (from left) ~nme Wbeat, Tom Wbeat, past president of the chapter; n Owens, new president; and Dr. and Mrs. Cavazos.

Officers of the Rio Grande Valley chapter are (from left) 7Yler Fryar, vice president; jeny Eichhorst, outgoing president; Delia Torrez, secretary/ treasurer; and Henry Tippie, president.

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Doyle High served as auctioneer for the Rolling Plains chapter meeting as Tech items were sold in order to raise local scholarship money.

Part of the Houston exes enjoy the Beach Party held june 6.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butler (left) and Mr. and Mrs. jon Taylor enjoy themselves during the Rio Grande Valley chapter's Aug. 3 meeting.

Dr. Lauro Cavazos (left) takes time to pose for the camera with Wally Smith (center) and Dr. Wick Alexander at the

Arlington, Texas, meeting.

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A large group turned out for the Wichita Falls chapter meet· ing held at the home ofJeane johnson Ralston '77.

Coach spike Dykes (left) chats with (from left) George Harrison, Association board member, Raymond Pfluger and Robert Pfluger at the summer San Angelo-area party.

Some of the Bell County exes posed for this picture during their chapter meeting May 8.

Dr. Lauro Cavazos (left) joined the terrific turnout at the Rio Grande Valley meeting in the Embassy Suites Hotel in McAllen. With him are Chris Isabell and Andy Hemphill, a retired Methodist minister and oldest Tech-ex in the chapter.

Andy was a member of the class of 1928.

Nancy Price (left) shares a laugh with Peggy Cavazos (center) and Phyllis jones, wife of Tech Director of Athletics r]ones, at the Fort Worth annual meeting.

Former Tech football coach Dewitt Weaver (left) visits with Dr. Ken Talkington (center) and assistant coach Taylor McNeel at the Arlington summer meeting and banquet.

Joining in the fun at the Fort Worth meeting are joe Hennig (left) and Sid Allen.

Tech president Dr. Lauro Cavazos (left) visits with jean Kable and Keller Smith, Association board member, at the Fort Worth banquet. ~ NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

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Recognizing our new members Compiled by june Gould

NEW CENTURY CLUB Dr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams '81 (Lucretia Jester '8 1) Miss M. Kathy Adams '84 Mr. ]. Luis Aguilar '60 Mr. G. Scott Alexander '70 Mr. Theodor W. Alexander '46

1beodor Alexander

Mr. Mike D. Allen '85 Mr. and Mrs. Richard]. Allen '59 (Keith L. Morgan '59) Mr. David G. Allison '87 Mr. David L. Appling '84 Mr. Samuel H. Arant '75 Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Baggerly '73 ( Rebecca K Bean '73) Mr. Woodrow W. Bain '37 Mr. Andrew]. Balcom '70 Dr. Michael G. Bedwell '75 Mr. Jimmy D. Berry '73 Mr. and Mrs. B. Tracy Bonner '8 1 (Alice K Williamson '81) Mr. and Mrs. Cecil I. Brashear '38 (Julia E. Blain '37) Ms. Ann Posey Brigman '74 Mr. Kim M. Brock'76 Mr. Kevin D. Brown '85 Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Bryant '73 ( Margaret A. Good '72) Mr. Paul W. Bryson '75 Mr. R. Curtis Bunting '84 Mr. Gregory]. Byrnes '84

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CENTURY CLUB The Century Club is a division of the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund set aside for $100 and above contributors. Membership in this group entitles the individual to privileges reserved for our special donors, such as the Century Club dinner and program at Homecoming each year.

Loyalty Fund Member ............. . ........ . ... . ... . ...... $25 to $~9 Century Club Member .. . ....... . .. . ...... . . . . . . . ..... . .. $100 to $249 Bronze Century Club Member ........................... $250 to $499 Old Red Club Member . .. .. . . .. . ... ... ............ . ...... $500 to $999 Golden Century Club Member ........................ $1,000 to $1,499 Ruby Century Club Member ....... . .. . ..... . ......... $1,500 to $1,999 Diamond Century Club Member .. ..................... $2,000 or more

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Caldwell '72 (Jackie Hoffinan '77) Mr. Ralph G. Campbell '59 Mr. Phillip A. Carnes '66 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Carr '73 (Karen L. Auld '73) Mr. Julio Carrillo '85 Mr. Chuck D. Carson '84 Mr. Donald W. Chambers II '85 Mr. Jesse E. Clark Jr. '51 Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Clepper '50 (Mary E. Wood '50) Mr. E. Gregg Collier '80 Mr. and Mrs. Shawn W. Cooper '82 (Mary A. Struwe '81) Mr. and Mrs. Mike]. Cunningham '74 (Alice A. Brown '74) Mr. and Mrs. Bruce]. Curlee '83 (Julann H. Langenegger '83) Mr. Mark D. Damron '85 Mr. David ]. Davis '82 Dr. Kay Summers Davis '87 Mr. Horace C. Dean '33 Mr. Kelvin L. Dobbins '80 Mr. Kirk E. Dooley '78 Mrs. Paula Onofrio Edel '84 Mr. Dwight E. Eisenhauer '65 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Evans '79 (Karen L. Dendy '79) Mr. H. Keith Fabling '70 Mr. Benjamin ]. Ford '70 Mr. Charles E. Francis '75 Mr. James R. Gandy '58 Mr. Timothy R. Gideon '81 Mr. Fred W. Gipson '49 Mr. Gregory D. Gobin '84

Mr. Joe ]. Goodman '73 Mr. Jerry R. Gray '62 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph K Green '82 (Synthia Silliman '82) Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Hackler '83 (Teri C. Weaver '84) Mr. Jack P Hagler '82 Mr. Eberhard E. Hamer '49 Mr. and Mrs. Allen 0. Hammer '52 (M. Jean Elliott '46) Mr. Sammy R. Harper '72 Mr. Robert D. Harris '83 Mr. Mark S. Harrod '79 Mr. George R Harvick '72 Mrs. Donna Belcher Heenan '84 Dr. Todd E. Hegstrom (Friend of Tech) Mr. and Mrs. Keith R Highsmith '85 (Terri N. Edlin '82) Mr. Joe S. Hill '45 Mr. Timothy E. Hill '86 Mr. Jackson W. Holland '52 Mr. Jon W. Holmes '69 Mr. and Mrs. ].B. Holt Jr. '37 (Camille Johnson '37) Mr. and Mrs. Miles M. Hornak '82 (Jennifer L. Cole '82) Mr. David C. Hunt '82 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Y Ingham '58 (Donna Christopher '61) Mr. Russell B. Ingram '73 Ms. Christie L. Jack '83 Mr. Jerry W. Johnson '61 Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Johnson '61 (Suzanne H. Eastwood '62)

Mr. john R. Jones '69 Mr. Douglas E. Karr '84 ~1r. William K. Kelley '83 Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Kirkpatrick '84 (Kimberly R. Clark '84) Mr. Gary W. Knight '86 Mrs. Tara J. Voight Kohlenberg '79 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Krauss '82 (Kimberly R. Clark '82) Mr. and Mrs. W.E. "Dub" Kuykendall '52 (K Joan Bolinger '53) Mr.). Zurick Labrier '85 Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Lackey '83 (Cassie Mote '81) Mr. Gary J. Law '84 Mr. Don E. Ledwig '59 Mr. D. Randy Levens '74 Mr. Richard G. Ligon '58 Mr. Robert S. Macy '60 Mr. Billy D. Martin '54 Mr. Travis W. McClure '85 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. McCormick '86 (Lisa K. Hinton '86) Mr. Brian F. McCoy '74 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. McKim '59 (Atha L. Grice '57) Miss Stacy A. Meadows '86 Mr. John D. Meekma ' 58 Mr. Elton T. Mims '28 Miss Sandra L. Mitchell '81 Mrs. Linnea Tilden Morris '83 Mr. Gary G. Mulloy '86 ~1r. and Mrs. Charles H. Neeley '80 ( Debra J. Totton '74) Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. O'Connor '87 (Colleen A. Handren '82) Mr. David L. Pass '68 Mr. and Mrs. Randall R. Pearson '87 ( Lisa Graham '85) Mr. Jimmy D. Pendergrass '77 Mr. Hugh E. Pettigrew Jr. '65 Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Pettit '72 (Mary L. Rushing '72) Mr. Clay Phennicie III '72 Mr. Robert W. Poole Jr. '81 Mr. and Mrs. F. Wayne Pope '68 (Rhonda L. Smith '70) Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Portwood '75 Mr. and Mrs. A. Duane Preston '53 (L Elouida Thomas '68) Mr. Gary W. Pursley '83 Mrs. G. Joan Jackson Quebe '48 Mr. RobertS. Rawls '50 M~. Robert W. Ray '71 Mtss Toni G. Richerson '73 Mr. Curtis A. Ritchie '58 Mr. Ben F. Robinson '56 Mr. Kirk D. Robinson '85 Mr. C.H. "Buzz" Roman '66 Mr. Eric L. Rozier '85

Mr. H. James Ruther Jr. '76 Mr. and Mrs. Danny C. Scarbrough '67 (Neva S. Koeninger '63) Mr. Gerald F. Scott '52 Mr. Burne! C. Selden Jr. '52 Mr. and Mrs. George c. Sell '64 Qudy B. Scarborough '68)

NEW BRONZE CENTURY CLUB

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Allen '59 (Keith L. Morgan '59) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Armstrong '70 ( Barbara D. Rogers '69) Mr. Woodrow W. Bain '37 Mr. Kelvin L. Dobbins '80 Mr. Robert F. Doviak 11 '82 Mr. Jeff L. Eaton '83 Mr. Jerry R. Gray '62 Mr. Saeed M. Ismail '76 Mr. Jerry W. Johnson '61

George Sell

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Sherry Jr. '84 ( Margaret L. Ruzika '86) Mr. James T. Shelton '83 Dr. Zuhair M. Shihab (Friend ofTech ) Mr. B. Douglas Simpkins Jr. '64 Mr. and Mrs. Bill C. Skinner Jr. '81 (Marlise E. Crow '82) Miss Diane L. Sloan '83 Mrs. E. Barbara Felgate Smith (Friend of Tech) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Smith '52 (DonnaN. Womble '54) Mr. Joseph). Smith Jr. '50 Dr. Hubert 0. Spraberry '52 Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Steel '57 (V. Anne Akers '55) Mr. L.W. Stephens Jr. '73 Mr. Dale A. Stevens '81 Miss Ronda D. Stewart '82 Mr. Clark M. Straw '69 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Thompson '76 (Cathleen Cannon '74) Mr. and Mrs. Troy]. Tompkins '86 (Dana L. Williams '85) Mr. W. Troupe Trice III '83 Mr. Jeffrey L. Valder '80 Mr. Mark A. Warden '83 Mr. and Mrs. L. Cave Wetterau III '83 (Karen A. Payne '85) Mr. Kenneth L. Whitlow '82 Miss Julie L. Wilhelmi '85 Mr. Freddy W. Woodley '69 Mr. David E. Woody '69

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Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Johnson '62 (Suzanne H. Eastwood '62) Mr. John D. Meekma '58 Ms. Patsy L. Middleton '57 Mr. Neal R. Montgomery '50 Mr. Ben F. Robinson '56 Mr. and Mrs. George W. Weiss '43 (Kathleen Webb '4 1) Ms. Harriette M. Whatley '4 1

NEW OLD RED CLUB Mr. Curtis A. Ritchie '58 Mr. M.L. "Budd" Todd (Friend of Tech)

NEW GOLDEN CENTIJRY CLUB Mr. and Mrs. James 0. Gilbreath Jr. '70 (Sue A. Sudduth '71) Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Whitacre Jr. '64 (Linda Lawrence '64)

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Richard Alan Grigg Dicky Grigg '70 of Austin has donated S5,000 to the . endowed scholarship program of the Ex-Students Association.

Grigg, an attorney in the Austin ftrm of Spivey & Gri~, graduated from Texas Tech with a degre~ in ?Iathemaucs, then completed his JD degree at The Uruverstty of Texas Law School in 1973. At Tech, Grigg was a member of the Red Raider football team, Phi Delta Theta social fraternity, Sigma Delta Pi Spanish honorary, and the Student Association.

A longtime member of the Ex-Students Association Century Club, Grigg has served in various capacities on both . the national board and with his local Austin chapter. He ts currently a member of the board of directors of the Association and retains a high profile with his chapter, of which he is a past president. He is also involved in the Red Raider Club and is a former associate director of that group.

Known for his outrageous pranks, Grigg is serious when he talks about his alma mater. "Students at Tech are going to a damn good school," he said. "I think they'll appreciate it more after they have been out a few years. They have the opportunity to obtain a fine education, and they are around some of the greatest people in the world."

Grigg is married to the former Mary Gay Pusard, and he's the father of two children, Lane and Erica.

Donors to the Endowed Scholarship Fund are: Classes of 1949 & 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Malouf Abraham of Canadian Dr. and Mrs. R.G. (Wick) Alexander of Arlington Mr. and Mrs. Edmond A. Anderson of Lubbock Gen. and Mrs. Ross Ayers of Austin Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barnett of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bezner of Sugar Land Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blake of Midland Dr. and Mrs. Clark Bondurant of Wichita Falls Mr. and Mrs. Doug Boren of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Brown of Lamesa Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bryans of Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W Busch of Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Ray Butler of Alice Mr. and Mrs. Solon Clements of Salter Path, N.C. Mr. and Mrs. Alex K Cooke, Sr. of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Tom Craddick of Midland Dallas Chapter, Ex-Students Association Mr. Manuel C. Debusk of Dallas Mr. ;md Mrs. Donald Degen of Houston Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dickey of Lubbock Thomas A. and Grace Wood Ford of Washington Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Foster of Midland Mr. Dicky Grigg of Austin Mr. Roy T. Grimes-LISD Principals Mr. and Mrs. J.L Gulley Jr. of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Haley Sr. of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Tim Hatch of Lubbock Mr. Rollin Herald of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Bob Herd of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. T. Scott Hickman of Midland

Mr. and Mrs. J. Culver Hill of Lubbock Houston Red Raider Club Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Hutcheson of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Arch Lamb of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Dan Law of Lubbock Mr. Robert J. Lewis of Fairfax, Va. Dr. Mary L. Luchsinger of Baltimore, Md. Dr. Vincent P. Luchsinger of Baltimore, Md. Mr. H.J. "Mac" MacKenzie of Lubbock Mr. Don Maddox of Gastonia, N.C. Mr. and Mrs. E.A McCullough of Midland Mr. and Mrs. William E. Miller of Lubbock Mr. Marlin P.J. Minter of Lubbock Mr. jeffery Morris (in memory of Tracey Ellen Morris) of Houston Mrs. Mary Nunnally of Odessa Mr. and Mrs. Mart G. Pederson of El Paso Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Pevehouse of Midland Mr. Raymond Piluger of San Angelo Mr. Jesse K Pruitt of Dallas Mr. James Ratliff of Lubbock Col. Jack Robinson by the 406th Fighter Group Mr. W.B. "Dub" Rushing of Lubbock Mr. James T. Schiermeyer of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. John K Sosnowy of Cameron Dr. and Mrs. Ken Talkington of Arlington Mr. and Mrs. Garland Threadgill of Dallas Mr. and Mrs. John Wheeler of Fayetteville, N.C.

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For information about the Endowment Trust Fund for Scholarships, wnte to Texas Tech Ex-Students' Association Endowment Trust, Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409 8 NOVEMBER·DECEMBER 1987

LEITERS HSC Gets Separate Treatment Throughout its history, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has been able to rely on the strong support of the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association. In the year ahead we will need your backing more than ever as we stress to our supporters and our critics the contributions we have made in health care delivery to our service area and to the state. We greatly appreciate your continued support which manifests itself in many ways, including regulae Texas Techsan coverage of the fine work ongoing at our Health Sciences Center.

I was particularly pleased to see in the September-October Techsan that a new section is being devoted to the Health Sciences Center. The decision to establish an HSC page at the end of the Tech Today section is a positive one ~cause it recognizes our growing matunty as an institution and our contributions to the well-being of our state.

That is a message we want to cacry to the citizens of Texas and especially to our legislators. We have a special mission not only to educate our students and to expand medical knowledge through research, but also to serve the population and provide a special emphasis in rural health, an emphasis no other health sciences center in the state offers. We ace accomplishing that mission, but we will need your help in coming months to tell our story.

We have always been proud to share the same name with the University ~cause "Texas Tech" represents qualIty education. The challenge before us at the Health Sciences Center in the corning months will be to make sure

that all citizens of Texas, not just the Texas . Tech faithful, recognize our matunty and the quality of our health education, our research, our service and, most of all, our contributions to Texas. Thank you for your supportpast, present and future-as we cacry the name of Texas Tech to higher levels of excellence in all fields.

Sincerely, Bernard T. Mittemeyer, M.D. Executive Vice President for the Health Sciences Center

Raw and Wonderful I was very moved by "West TexasRaw and Wonderful" (Nov.-Dec. 1986, pg. 16). It has taken me awhile to get around to writing you, but that article is especially meaningful to those of us who no longer live in West Texas.

Since I was raised in Amarillo, where you can see yesterday and tomorrow, it was particularly heart warming.

I'm going to save copies of the article for my children so they will someday understand the special feeling that we West Texans have. My relatives and friends who have moved away will also receive a copy. I know that they will get teary-eyed just as I did.

Thank you for including this in your magazine. It was a very good choice for those people who have not contributed to the University that gave them their boost. Your magazines ace always so well done. They ace easy to read as well as providing varied subjects. It helps me to feel as though I know what is happening at Tech.

Thank You, llah Coffee Merriman '57 Dallas, Texas

Back From CASE I ~pent the last academic year in W~hington, D.C., working with the editors of CASE Currents, magazine of the Council for Advancement and Sul?port of Education. My favorite asstgnment was perusing the many alumni periodicals that arrived daily.

After one or two issues, The Texas Techsan became one that I particuJacly looked forward to reading.

I'm ~ow back in Logan, Utah, and settled mto my old job as editor of a weekly campus newsletter and contributing writer to Utah State University's alumni magazine, Outlook. And, I have a favor to ask.

Will you please put my name on your mailing list? In the best CASE tradition, I hope to find inspiration among the Texas Techsan's pages with which to entice my readers.

Sincerely, Unda Keith Utah State University

What Its All About I would like to take this time to thank you and your staff for the excellent work you do on the Texas Techsan. I have graduated and am now the pitching and catching coach at Blinn College in Brenham, while also attending graduate school at Prairie View A&M. The magazine keeps us in touch with Tech and our former friends and teammates, which means a lot now that we're all moved away.

Thank you, too, for all the help you and your husband provided me during my student days at Texas Tech. This is what Texas Tech is all about.

Sincerely, Derek Sandoval '87 Brenham, Texas

Magazine's 'ugliest campus' article enrages Tech !!!~~ ~HRAH

~eus Tech students and alumni were not laribty ~used In 1!114 when a Sports Dluslnltd wnter named Douglas Looney branded

lilt!~ ampus the United States' ugUest

Looks as 1C they should cancel classes and CIIIYert the sdlool into a prUorl," hissed Lex>llty,!orkedtongueincheek. ...._Looney didn't appease Tech loyalists much • ...,. be 1re11t on to pnlclaim Austin as "best lftn" and the University of Texas Longhorn band as "best band."

The u&ly-eampus comment trice em! a ~te of nasty responses, ~one them a letter ~ Bill Dun, executive director or Texas •tell's Ex.Students Association.

Dtan wondtml in his letter to Looney If the 'lriter had ever indeed set loot on campus and

sugcested that his accuracy, IC not his anca-

sa1ptlon. caned same and rd'UIId llle above

ruustnted, a magazine ,.,_ say b the Bible ~(the sporting world, Looney struck again.

"Tllree yean aco we said In this space that Texas Tech has llle ugliest campus," be JIW'ftd. "All avalanche of mail disputed this assertlorL So we have looked at the school apJn, recbtdted the pbotos and consulted expens. We are not too proud to admit our mbtakes. ''This bo1rever was not one or them." was the 'Ink dry liefore l.&lbbock cardloloclst Joe Arrincton Jr. fired olr a letter to Sl in which be took fierce exception to Looney'slatesl pn>nOIIIICemenL H.e concluded: "Enccosed is the mailln8 dip from my sub-

lmmediattly."

Ac:russ IDwll, Bill Oeall, still the extcUUve director ~ Tech exes, toot pen ID band to again ciW!mce Looney's accuracy and !airDeSS and to decry repetition or what be called "this slur."

"FFIrtber -· I llltend to wrilt a letter adclressedtoaUti,OOOiflduateso!thisUD!wrsl· ty and stron&ly encounge lhem tocancellhelr subscriptiolls to Sll! tlle7 t~ave one."

The 5r!itember.()ct4ber i,.... olthe Texas Tecbsan CODiains an open letter to Tech eus In whicb Doan carried out his thteaL MUD while, Joe Hornaday, sports infonna!loa clim:tar at Tech, wrote "Campus Evaluatar" Looney In New Yort and, In a "Dear Doug" letter, said: "I Clll't beUeve you did this to me again.

tzy, nseutalnly =peel ne Issue soon cliecl or natunlc:austS. But alas! Writing In a recent Issue of Sports

Hardly

Just •hm t11e7 bad !orgotlal. Nmr It wW bapo pen an over acaln... You cotta help me_" Hornaday invited Looney to came to a Tech !oolhall came, him "a tour ol the campus. Maybe na~ a par3de. Or a picnic ander one or the ugly tna... Maybe a Sports II· Justnted U&ly Man on Campus <on!est_.. 1 micbt be able to even get you an lillY elate."

Ill the muntlme, llonladay cautioned, ''y<IU mleht stay away !rom~ -.tth cowboy boots wbo talk Teu~~-" Last week. Texas Tech's netnpaper, The Unlverslty Daily,tougllt reaction fn>m Tech's more than 23,000 students to the "»cliat cam·pus" dalnL . . , MOlt eveeyoae dfsacreed .;til Looney • »sesstM2II. notlnc that the campus- "vndvttertd" and " spread .out" and !bat Its "openness" •as but one o!tts many charms.

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BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON

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at least a decade of Homecoming weekends, never have all the elements combined as well as they did this year to make Homecoming 1987 a near-total success. In fact, the only thing that kept the weekend from being perfect were the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Chosen in pre-season polls to top the Southwest Conference this year, the Hogs showed what they were made of against the Red Raiders, winning the game 31-0. Even the one-sided game could not totally dampen the spirits of the record crowds who turned out for the weekend's events.

From the bonfire on Friday night to the football game Saturday night, Homecoming 1987 on Oct. 10 offered ex-students and their families a full gamut of activities and numerous opportunities to meet again with old friends at Tech. Although pictorial coverage of the fall's biggest event is not as fun as experiencing it in person, we offer you here our annual "annual" of Homecoming photos.

ToiJP!n~ the bonfire wood pile, some 20 feet in the air, was a mm~ature out~x?.use bearing a sign to "honor" the Amansas Razorbacks- 1/og Heaven."

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7be bonfire, attended by 1,000 Red Raider fans, was spirited despite a faulty sound and lighting system.

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The Saddle Tramps' "buster" held the message "Matador Express" on the outside. But a private message was painted in huge letters on the back of the sign, visible only to the Players. It read, "WINK C0170N." Engineering grad Scott '57 and Gladys Crandall Hickman '57, Midland, were among over 900 people who filled the Coliseum during the Pre-Game Buffet.

Robert '52 (left) and Maxine Boyd McKelvy '52 share a laugh with Ben Lowe '52 and Pat Abernethy Alderson '55 and husband, jack (behind Lowe).

Ex-Students President Bob Dyer '60 (right), Houston, presents Tech President Dr. Lauro Cavazos '49 with an award in his name recognizing outstanding contributions to the exceUence of Texas Tech.

(phooey)

Dr. Lauro Cavazos of Texas Tech and Mayor B. C '"Peck" McMinn of Lubbock welcome Electra Waggoner Biggs to the campus during Homecoming activities Oct. 10. Mrs. Biggs is the creator of "Riding Into the Sunset," the monument to Will Rogers and his horse Soapsuds, which has stood on the campus since being given by the Amon G. Carter Foundation in 1948. Mrs. Biggs executed the bronze because she was a friend of Carter, who wanted a m onument of his good friend Will Rogers to place at the sports arena he was building in Fort Worth. Carter, a regent at Tech during the time, chose Texas Tech as a location f or one of the bronzes, which created quite a stir until the dedsion was made to turn the back side of the horse toward College Station. Mrs. Biggs' visit was sponsored by the College of Arts & Sdences.

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Mr. and Mrs. Bert Huffman were 1987 Homecoming Parade Marshals. 1be beloved former Tech coach and his wife are two of the Raiders' staunchest fans.

Association board members (from left) jim Ratliff '61, Lubbock; Dana Juett '69, Dallas; and jesse Pruitt '69, Dallas, listen to a report.

Kappa Delta sorority was well represented at the Pep Rally and bonfire.

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Among the Alumni Cheerleaders on the sidelines were Pat. Thurman '50 (left) of Lubbock and Charles "Cbocky" Fatr '44 of Dallas. Thurman hosted a pre-game party in his borne for all former Tech cheerleaders.

"Raider Red" was visible almost everywhere one Looked dur· ing Homecoming weekend. Here, be wears the name badge of Cindy Rodriguez '85 of Houston.

During the Coundl Meeting, Dr. Bill Dean "modeled" the Houston chapter's T-shirt promoting the UT-Tech football game- "Spike UT."

Field representatives filled in the Ex-Students Council and chapter presidents on their activities in other parts of the state.

Arts and Sdences Ambassadors Brian Christiansen (left) and Hal Nelson pose with Dr. j im Harper, faculty director of the Honors Program.

Underwriters of the Pre-Game Buffet were Art Rousseau (left) of Avis Rent A Car and Buddy Forbess of Benton Oil Co. Both reside in Lubbock.

Football player-alumnus Calvin Riggs ( right) known for his poetic "rapping" ability, took the 'horn from current Raider Mike McBride to entertain the crowd at the bonfire.

'Ibe expression on head coach spike Dykes' face pretty well ~ms up his feelings about the Arkansas Razorbacks' lopSided victory over the Red Raiders.

Former band members returned in an annual Homecoming tradition to participate in the Alumni Band in the opening ceremonies and throughout the game from the South end zone.

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Taking part in the Alumni Baseball Game Saturday were (front row, from left) Stacy Ragan '87, Tim Moore '86, Kyle Fahrenthold '81, Khris Segrist '87, Bryan Cowan '78, Ronnie Mattson '76, Pat Foster '83, Bubba Nix '78, Ronnie Ayers '64.]ohn Owens '71 and Bobby Martindale '70; (2nd row) Doug Cannon '65, Coach "Skip" Segrist '65, Bill Meurin '80, Steve lbarguen '80, Pat Loter '79, Ernie Helweg '78, Pat Moore '83, jerry Kolander '68, Buddy Hampton '68, Ricki Hall '79, jim Miller '6 7 and Eldon Frost '67; (back row) Todd Howey '86, Keith Wood '83, Nathan Swindle '86, jimmy Zachry '84, Craig Noonan '80, Gary Long '77, Bill Schutt '87, Craig Chapin '86, john Bickley III '74, Dave Allen '60, Bill Dean '61,jim Scbiermeyer '60 and Gary Ashby '78. (Not pictured: Darwin Hilliard '64, Yippy Rankin '63, jerry Haggard '69 and jeff Bass '80, former trainer.)

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Former Raider baseball players (from left) Darwin H~~ '64, Lubbock, and Walter 'Ytppy" Rankin '63, Midland, JOin Director of Athletics T. jones in congratulating former coach Bert Huffman on being the first recipient of the Brooks Wallace Memorial Award.

All-SWC Players (from left) jerry Haggard '69, john OWenS '71 and Gary Ashby '78 got together during the game for.a picture. Haggard and Ashby were also All-Americans dunng their respective careers.

Board members listen to favorite recollections in the. opening moments of the meeting. From left, they are ]antS jones Holmes '61, Temple; Gayle Earls '58, Dallas; Suzie EastwOOd johnson '62, Houston; jack Swallow '74, Midland; llab Co/ fee Merriman '57, Dallas; and Susie Duffy '81, Dallas.

Members of the Alumni Basketball Team played Saturday afternoon in the new Athletic 'Jraining Center. 1bey were (front row, from left) Tim Chambers '81, former manager; Gerald Myers :59, Keith Kitchens '77, Wendell Owens '87, Bubba jennings '85, Tony Benford '86, Mike Nelson '87, Kent Williams '80, jeny Haggard '69 and Brad Haley '8~ former manager; (back row) Dwight Phillips '85, joe Baxter '80, Phil Wallace '85, Ray Irvin '86, joe Washington '82, Mike Edwards '78, Grant Dukes '78, Grady Newton '76, Dewayne Chism '87, Vince Taylor '85 and Ron Vick '82, former manager.

Dean Carl Stem welcomes jerry Freeman Grimes :52 to the College of Business Administration Open House for alumni.

Vince Taylor '85 dribbles the ball as Gary Reed, referee, watches for a foul.

Charla Campbell (left), her son Ryan, and Ryan 's granddad enjoyed the Pre-Game Buffet.

Skip and Sandy Geigling of Lubbock were all decked out in support of the Red Raiders.

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Distinguished Seroice Awards were presented to three prominent Lubbockites (from left) "Big Ed" Wilkes '56 and Tommie Campbell Hatch '51 and husband Tim '51.

Underwriting sponsors of the Red Raider Road Race included First National Bank, represented by Chip '65 and Michele Lamarca Gilmour '66 (left) and Cardinals Sports Center, represented by Beth and Tony Cardinal '77.

Top Techsansfor 1987 are (from left) Darrel Thomas, chief photographer, Student Publications; Oralia Martinez, Custodial Seroices supervisor; Robert 5pruill, cbemicaJ. engineering technician; Margie Salazar, administrative secretary, classical pnd romance languages department; Mary Simon, assistant director, Career Planning and Placement Seroice; and Mildred Smith, administrative assistant, College of Education.

Former Tech cheerleader Cindy Rodriguez '85, Houston, joined other alumni cheerleaders on the sidelines during the Homecoming game.

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Among members of the class of '52 enjoying the program were Charlie joplin (center) and his daughter julia '90, and George Morris (foreground), who was student president of the class.

7be classes of 1982 and 1983 were well represented at the Ag Sciences Breakfast. Among those returning from those years were (standing) Dwight Menefee '82, Artesia, N.M.; fohn Coffman '82, Midland; Mike Blasingame '82, Perryton; Alan Monroe '83, Friona; Kurt Harris '82, Abilene; Perry Church '83, Amarillo; and Randy Sudderth '82, Lubbock; (seated) Donald Ebeling '82, Plainview; and Mark Leach '82, Plainview.

A report on the Endowment 'Trust was given by Glynda Howard McClure '70 and). Steve Elliott '67 (center), both ~!San Antonio, during the board meeting. Members mcluete (from left) Karolyn spafford Lively '64, Lubbock; McClure (who was presented a cake commemorating a milestone birthday by Elliott during the afternoon session); Elliott; Bob Fillpot '67, Houston; andf Patrick Walsh '61, Mission.

Dub Rushing '32, Lubbock, and Mart Pederson '32, El Paso, compared their early Tech experiences at the Friday breakfast for past presiclents of the Association.

Peggy Pearce (left) of the Ex-Stuclents Association greets Mr. and Mrs. Bob Close '52 of Perryton. Close was class chairman of the group's 35-year reunion. jim Douglass '69 (left) of the Ex-Stuclents Association presents this year's Community Seroice Award to Delta Sigma Phi business fraternity. Robert Graham, president, accepts the award.

David Freriks of Lubbock bad his own statement to make about sports mustrated.

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Tech Regent j.L. Gulley jr. '49, 'J)!ler, talks with Pauline Bean '36, Lubbock, during the Home Economics Brunch.

Director of Athletics T. jones reported on the state of his department during the Friday morning board meeting.

Dr. Mina Wolf Lamb '32, '3 7 and husband Arch '39 (center) meet with B.C. Drinkard '37 of Brownwood.

Lisa Ehrlich, senior zoology major from Follett, was announced as Homecoming Queen during pre-game ceremonies.

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R. Canon Clements '32, '33 and his sister Lizzie Belle Clements Whiteside '32 (center) were among guests at the Home Economics Brunch.

Members of the new executive board for 1988 are (Jr?m left) Bob Dyer '60, Houston; Mark Noble '76, 'J)!ler; BtU Dean '61, Lubbock; and flab Coffee Merriman '57, DallaS. A crowd of over 400 in the Civic Center enjoyed the newformat Century Club Scholarship and Awards DinnerDance, sponsored by the Ex-Students Association.

At the College of Education reception, Dean Richard Ishler

(~ft) welcomed julie Henson '88, Charlene Fulkerson Finkner '56, jan Gummelt Cummings '67 and Marie Meyer of the college's development coundl.

1be Red Raider Road Race has become an annual tradition at Homecoming, with proceeds benefiting the academic scholarship fund.

Association President Bob Dyer recognizes former director 0f University News and Publications Bea Zeeck as a recent refiree during the Coundl Luncheon.

john '68 and Diane King Scovell '6 8 of Dallas brought the family in for Homecoming. Their sons are (from left) King, Dupree and Field.

The halftime ceremony was perhaps the best ever, with the stadium darkened and the band and Masked Rider carrying individual lighting. A fly-over by Reese Air Force jets in tight formation opened the game, which was attended by some 41,000 fans.

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Movie promotion by Sylvester Stallone could put Bonneau Co.

'over the top'

BY KEVIN B. BIACKJSTONE

Edwin V. Bonneau '52 already has it made-in shades.

But the owner and president of Bonneau Co., a Dallas-based sunglass firm that grossed S35 million last year, can't be cool about the company's promotion this year.

A pair of Bonneau glasses ~d a cap bearing the company name are worn by Sylvester Stallone in his new movie, "Over the Top," which opened earlier this year.

"This is a real coup for us," Bonneau said. "We expect to do S50 million this year."

If history repeats itself-and many sunglass market analysts predict it will-motion picture exposure for his business, which he started 22 years ago with door-todoor sales, should boost sales more than the myriad of marketing or merchandising strategies he has used in the past.

And most of those, including sales racks in everything from 24hour convenience stores to highpriced department stores and licensing agreements with firms such as Spaulding Co., have been successful.

"I don't know that any other sunglass company has that (marketing) combination," said an editor for a merchandising trade magazine. Mauri Edwards, a spokesman for the Sunglass Association of 20 NOVEMBER·DECEMBER 1987

America in Connecticut, said: "They're definitely in the top five sunglass companies."

Bonneau, a 55-year-old native of the Texas Panhandle town of Dodson-"population 308," he saidstarted selling sunglasses in 1965 after flopping in the restaurant business and getting fired from the sales force of a fragrance firm.

"The next day, I went down to a store and bumped into a man who told me, 'I know a guy who needs a sunglass salesman,"' Bonneau recalled. Shortly thereafter, Bonneau was off to New York City to buy sunglasses from wholesalers.

He returned to Dallas to pitch them to retailers he knew from his perfume days.

"I went door to door to the retailers," he remembered. "Sunglasses developed more revenue than anything I ever sold." So much so, Bonneau persuaded two friends to secure a bank loan for him for S50,000. He used the capital to lease an 800-square-foot storefront in Old Carrollton Town Square and to purchase more inventory. " It was me and my wife," Bonneau said. "Later on, I had a brother come work for me. And the second year, we added some help and moved on from there."

Moving on took Bonneau around the world in search of sunglasses,

he said. In 1967, he went to France to supply his stock. He also has purchased inventory frames from manufacturers in Italy, Soutll Korea and Tunisia.

"We source from world kets," Bonneau said. "We don't have a machine that pumps out plastic. But we dictate the lens type and color of the frame to the manufacturer."

The company now sells sunglasses from 99-cent "kiddie glasses," Bonneau said, to S250 designer styles in high-end department stores such as · Saks Fifth Avenue. They also have licensing contracts to market sunglasses for Walt Disney and sportswear and equipment manufacturer Spaulding.

Last year, the company also acquired Pennsylvania Optical Co., a magnifying-glass maker, and Renaud International Inc., a department store merchandiser.

Bonneau said, however, that he is not a fashion designer: He is a salesman.

"I don't understand the sunglass business," he said. "But I have a nose for the selling business that comes from experience. You get a feel for what the consumer wants and is looking for."

And what the consumer will be looking for soon, Bonneau has gambled, is the military-style s~n­ glasses that box-office sensatton

mar-

Stallone wears as he again battles evil on the silver screen.

"We acquired the rights from American Optical Inc. to sell this sunglass-a pilot's sunglass only sold in the military," explained Brad MacDonald, chief operating officer at Bonneau. "We were planning to market it in the consumer market in a line we put together called Aces."

Trying to capitalize on America's renewed patriotism and fascination with the military, MacDonald said, the firm first asked Chuck Yeager, the retired test pilot, to wear the glasses. But Yeager declined, Mac-

The agreement between Bonneau and Stallone is not officially an endorsement, but rather an exchange of "mutual merchandising and promotional support ..."

Donald said.

"Then we thought Rambo might wear it, because Stallone is active in Vietnam veteran causes," he said.

Last year, Bonneau approached

Ed Bonneau and "Sly"

Stallone about wearing the sunglasses and the movie star agreed.

The company will donate 20 cents from the sale of each pair of sunglasses to a Vietnam veteran's fund.

"Then he asked for a hat," MacDonald said. "Now he's wearing the hat in 70 percent of the movie."

MacDonald said the agreement between Bonneau and Stallone is not officially an endorsement, but rather an exchange of "mutual merchandising and promotional support."

Either way, however, sunglass market experts said Bonneau will cash in on its coup. "It's a great deal," said Norman Salik, a vice president with Bausch & Lomb, the Rochester, N.Y, maker of Ray Ban sunglasses. "It will increase the sale of his product."

Salik should know. He said Ray Ban had planned in 1982 to discontinue its Wayfarer style- the square, black-framed sunglasses they first made in 1952-because of poor sales. But then Dan Akroyd and the late John Belushi donned them in their movie "The Blues Brothers ," and GQ, a men's fashion magazine, chose them for many of its models.

"By the end of '84, Wayfarers did llO,OOO in (unit) sales," Salik said.

Then Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business," and sales ballooned to 360,000 pairs.

Salik said Ray Ban sold more than 15 million pairs of Wayfarers in 1986, at about $50 each.

"If Bonneau catches on and everyone buys Bonneau, we should have a tremendous increase in sales, too ," MacDonald said.

(Reprinted with permission of The Dallas Morning News) Lr NOVEMBER·DECEMBER 1987

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A Hero From Way Back Nothing fancy. This is a guy who rarely wears a tie a?d drives a 7-year-old Buick with 80,000 miles on it. Spike Dykes is in the business he's in for the simple reason that he loves what he is doing.

EDfi'OR 'S NOTE: 7'1le foUowing story was wrilten by Car/Jon Stowtrs for tAe COllEGE AND PRO FOOTBAll NEWSWEEKLY publicalion.

Coach Spike Dykes

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pleased me to no end when I heard that Spike Dykes, the recently installed head coach at Texas Tech, spent some of his boyhood hours back there in the drybed West Texas community of Ballinger writing fan letters to the immortal Doak Walker. It makes what I have to say easier.

The following admission is twoedged in a sense, inasmuch as it publicly acknowledges the galloping approach of middle age on the part of the author and also finally, after over 30 years, lets a long-kept cat out of the bag.

Without further beating around the bush, let it be known that Spike Dykes was one of my first full-fledged heroes. Best I explain: 22 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

The whistle-stop community of Ballinger, Texas, was no different from most of its Runnels County neighbors in the mid-50's. The major concerns were lack of annual rainfall necessary to yield a bountiful cotton crop, the second lien financial woes of the majority of the 5,000 residents, and, of course, the Friday night fate of the beloved Ballinger High School Bearcats.

It should here be noted that as a burr-haired 15-year-old, I cared not at all about the amount of cotton being ginned. The family finances were the burden of my father, who manned the Santa Fe depot.

My concerns were less complicated-though certainly of major

importance. It was crucial that I managed, during the week, to round up the required nine cents necessary for Saturday admission to the Texas Theater, there to watch whatever double feature the proprietor, Mr. Brown, had secured.

And, as a struggling member of the junior high football team, I wondered if I would ever graduate to the lofty status of a full-fledged, locally idolized Ballinger Bearcat.

Like Spike Dykes.

That particularly memorable year of 1955 was a glorious time. The Bearcats were rolling past such arch rivals as the Coleman Bluecats and the Winters Blizzards, enroute to the Class AA state playoffs. To this day I can remember the names in the same manner in which some old geezers can tell you the starting lineup of the last Brooklyn Dodgers team to win the Series.

Weldon Brevard at halfback, Richard Toliver at fullback-and Spike Dykes over the ball at center.

Spike, in fact, was picked to the All-State squad, an honor that elevated him to sainthood in my neighborhood.

Those of us still several years removed from the high school glories we dreamed for ourselves followed his every move. We emulated his walk and swelled with pride when, in his ever friendly manner, he slung a massive arm over our shoulder and offered encouragement or a warm hello.

Rarely was he seen without that majestic letter jacket we all aspired to: black with a red block B. Ollie North never looked so distin-

guished. Spike was the kind of role model every momma and daddy in Ballinger wholeheartedly endorsed.

Not only did he religiously report for each new sport with the change of season- basketball in the winter, track in the spring-but he tended his academic business well, attended church and Sunday school on a regular basis, worked a summer job, and said "Yes Sir" and "No, Ma'am" to elders.

Which is to say all manner of journalistic objectivity went sailing as I learned that Dykes, after long years of searching, had finally been rewarded with a head coaching job at a major university. What Red Raider followers are getting is a down-to-earth, no foolin'-around kind of guy. No three-piece suits and hair spray. No business man/ coach/politician approach. Nothing fancy. This is a guy who rarely wears a tie and drives a seven-yearold Buick with 80,000 miles on it.

Dykes is in the business he's in

Dykes (left) and T. jones at news conference.

Dykes has been around the coaching block. There were seven different high school jobs before he got his first of three college assistant

Rarely was he seen without that majestic letter jacket we all aspired to: black with a red block B. Ollie North never looked so distinguished.

Spike was the kind of role model every momma and daddy in Ballinger wholeheartedly endorsed. for the simple and refreshing reason that he loves what he is doing.

And he has been doing it for three decades in a lot of places you've never heard of.

Sometimes his duties included driving the school bus every morning, picking up students enroute to such places as Eastland High School, Coahoma High, Belton and Big Spring. Back in Eastland they paid him $4,000 a year to coach, teach, drive a bus route which required his getting up at 5:30 a.m. each day, and launder the uniforms!

Which is to say William Taylor

positions. Then back to high school coaching for another tenure before he was hired by Jerry Moore in 1985 to work as an assistant at Tech. Then, when David McWilliams arrived, Dykes was retained-much to the relief of the lady of the house.

"For years," Spike said, "I kept promising her the next move would be the last. After telling her that so many times, I finally changed my tune. I began telling her never to plant trees in our new yard."

Now, though, he's talking of a long-term stay in Lubbock. "You

know, he says, "I've got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world.

And not just because I'm the head coach at Texas Tech. Just being in this profession has been great. I've been at it for 28 years and I've never had a job I didn't like.

"I've wanted to be a coach for as long as I can remember. I remember how caring my coaches were back there in Ballinger High. They were dedicated to helping us be the best we could be, as athletes and as young men. I just took that philosophy along with me everywhere I've been.

"Sure, I thought about one day being a head coach at the college level- it was a goal-but it wasn't an obsession. The level and place where I was coaching never mattered to me. I just tried to do my job as best I could. I've never really felt I was going to work a day in my life."

Folks in Lubbock, who farm cotton and wear their shirt collars open and don't abide a lot of fancy rhetoric, can relate to that kind of thinking. Spike Dykes just might be the man they've been looking for to lead their beloved Red Raiders to new heights in the troubled Southwest Conference.

Chances are they'll soon view him as the same kind of hero we 15-year-olds did so many football seasons ago. lf NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

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And then there were 10

#1: Dr. Paul Whitfield Horn 1925-1932 BYJAMES G. ALLEN

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first saw Dr. Paul Whitfield Hom on the morning of Aug. 12, 1927, when promptly at 10:30 I was ushered into his office on the second floor south of the Administration Building. This was the largest of the six buildings then standing on the over 2,000-acre campus of Texas Technological College, a month before it was to enter its third year.

He had assumed that the wire my two friends had sent him under my name was inquiry about the headship of the English department. Since I had not taught a day in my life and did not have a Ph.D., I would have expected consideration for no more than an instructorship.

As we greeted one another, his hand engulfing mine, I had the impression of a man large of frame, portly and just beginning to slump a bit, with the bearing and manner of one who took his job seriously, and who was himself impressed with it and expected you to be, too.

It was the voice that struck me first, deep and resonant, one that would be noticeably out of place at times, for instance when at table he asked for the salt. It was partly the deference he seemed to pay me as a graduate student from Harvard, a sort of respect I neither expected nor invited, and so found out of place. It was all a bit awkward.

His dedication to his assignment became increasingly evident as he talked. All traces of pomposity fell away as he painted the opportunity and challenge that Texas Tech offered. His sincerity struck me immediately and forcefully, and won me completely.

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Paul Hom

In no time I had joined him in seeing the Texas Tech of the future, not the one of half a dozen stark buildings on a campus of cotton stubble without a tree or shrub or, as far as I could see, a yard of pavement. Or of a library to house the several hundred volumes then easily shelved in the west wing of the first floor of the building in which we talked. (The library contained three dozen average-size tables which were adequate for the students who assembled there in the evenings, as much for socializing as for studying.) Dr. Hom made you feel that the reality always for him, as his manifesto says, was the college that was to be.

In a short time, I would learn much that would confirm my initial impression of President Hom. His energy seemingly was inexhaustible. He placed no limit on the right of the college or of the community to call upon him for

his services; saw no justification for refusing any of endless invitations to speak.

None of his three doctoral degrees was earned-all were honorary, from run-of-the-mill universities. It was not surprising, then, that his first priority was effective teaching, with research significant only as it enriched classroom performance. He was aware of those of us who took our teaching assignment seriously.

When I first arrived, faculty small-talk still included references to an incident the preceding spring when a young unmarried woman department head who had attended a dance in a town some 130 miles south of Lubbock (then, you had to extend yourself considerably if you were looking for entertainment) failed to get back for her classes the next day.

Though no details were known of the conference Dr. Horn had with her, conclusions had been drawn from the obviously subdued administrator. Dr. Hom let no slighting of the teaching assignment go unnoticed.

That classes were large and the normal assignment five, and with student assistants as yet not a part of the system, grading could easily become a burden, especially in such departments as English. Only the faculty's sensitivity to the high value the president placed on teaching could possibly have reconciled them to the overwhelming load they were expected to carry.

Dr. Hom made us aware of the special opportunity we were privileged to enjoy with this full challenge.

His relations with faculty were personal and warm, on occasion

almost that of a demanding but indulgent parent. Only his ability to establish a strong personal friendship can explain the exceptionally high quality of the faculty he had been able to assemble-such as Charles Qualia, W.B. Gates, Eunice Joiner Gates, Jimmy Murdough, Clarence Mast and John Granbury, to name only a few. All were excellent teachers, all with a scholarly attitude toward their professional performances.

His generous policy of granting leaves of absence for furt.!_ter graduate study, regularly with the understanding of raises in rank and salary upon return, was a part of his dedication to keeping his faculty.

In 1931-32, the W.B. Gateses and my wife and I were on leave for graduate study with assurances of salary increases upon our return.

The reduced salaries we found waiting for us we knew to be the result of the Depression, and in spite of Dr. Hom's intent. His straightforward meeting of this re-

Dr. Paul W. Horn, Texas Tech's first president, searched nationwide to develop the faculty for the college. Members are pictured during the first meeting of 1926

him. Dr. Horn's demonstrated interest in the welfare of his faculty was one of his strongest attributes as president.

In spite of his close alignment with the community in which Texas Tech was located, Dr. Horn was in no sense willing to allow local meddling in college affairs, as the John Granbury case clearly evidenced.

His pride in enrollment, it seemed to me, needed to be tempered with a push toward an administrative policy that called for admitting only better qualified students. I was inclined to feel that instead of the faculty's meeting the students where they were, the students should have been required to meet the kind of standards set by the faculty. versal with us took away much of its sting.

Dr. Horn actually never turned loose of faculty members he had found to be well qualified. They always knew they could return to Texas Tech, as Dr. Charles Qualia did after a brief stay at the University of Missouri, where both his status and salary had been superior to what Texas Tech could offer

Dr. Granbury was a man of rich academic background and cosmopolitan experience, whom Dr. Hom had brought in to Southwestem and then to Texas Tech as the history and philosophy department head. He was forceful and colorful, and at times in the classroom, flamboyant. He had turned down three college presidencies bec~u~e he preferred teaching to adrrums-

tration. At faculty meetings we found ourselves waiting until Dr. Granbury spoke out with what was usually the final word.

There were occasional rumblings in the community about the views he expressed, quite far-out views they seemed then, their liberalness growing as they were repeated and mulled over. From time to time, Dr. Hom felt it best to warn his good friend to show some restraint lest he be misunderstood. But finally he was denounced by a local preacher for subversiveness, for having encouraged his advanced students to read the Soviet FiveYear Plan.

I shall never forget the backyard dinner at the Granburys' just after this local criticism had been pronounced, with the Paul Horns present and the atmosphere loaded with expectancy. Nothing, only the usual friendly amenities, was said. I do not remember that Dr. Hom at any time made campus recognition of the charge.

But the Oct. 13, 1931, minutes of the Texas Tech board of trustees' meeting in Dallas record the strong and unqualified defense Dr. Hom made of the faculty and by unmistakable implication, Dr. Granbury.

It is pointless to reflect on what might have resulted had not Dr. Hom died the following spring.

As it was, Dr. Granbury's contract for the following year was not renewed, as were not those of 16 other faculty members, purportedly on the basis of economy as dictated by the Depression. But Dr. Hom had supported his faculty NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

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Residents of Lubbock contributed funds to complete the acquisition of land for the Texas Tech campus. 1be farmhouse was located at the southwest corner of Broadway and University and served for a time as President Horn 's first office.

member and friend where it counted. He had not permitted the incident to develop into a town and gown squabble. His administrative finesse never showed better.

Dr. Hom made the president's home available for formal and semiformal faculty and student affairs. Each fall a reception for new faculty was held there. Faculty women's teas were annual events there. Only the larger and more boisterous affairs were delegated to the Stock Judging Pavilion or the so-called Gymnasium, a square temporary wooden building whose floor was a basketball court hipped on three sides with bleachers, beneath which were the offices of the coaches and physical education faculty. Dr. Horn's instinctive, warm reaching-out to both faculty and students made the president's home the setting for many faculty and student affairs.

Trailing my recent Harvard identification, I tended then to see Dr. Horn as too concerned with inconsequentials. His pride in enrollment, it seemed to me, needed to be tempered with a push toward an administrative policy that called for admitting only better qualified students. I was inclined to feel that instead of the faculty's meeting the 26 NOVEMBER·DECEMBER 1987

students where they were, the students should have been required to meet the kind of

plains of West Texas. It was not just his judicious and persuasive choosing and bringing to Texas Tech excellent teachers. It was not just his capacity to reconcile the exceptional faculty he had assembled to the students they were asked to teach, or the oppressive slowness with which the barest physical essentials were being supplied them.

It was the rare skill with which he combined all these three, with an inspirational fervor that left us feeling a bit petty when we remonstrated at any of the limitations under which we were expected to perform well. He convinced us that we were underestimating our ability to overcome such deterrents.

It was the precise combination of his abilities that made Paul Whitfield Horn exactly right for the presidency of Texas Technological College at its beginning. To his administrative successors, he may have seemed too concerned with trivialities. Other faculties, not of his choosing, would have found his

In spite of his close alignment with the community in which Texas Tech was located, Dr. Horn was in no sense willing to allow local meddling in college affairs. standards set by the faculty.

Now I know that Dr. Hom was using well the know-how he had acquired as a long-time high school superintendent in the area of public-supported higher education.

First, he knew the establishment of the quantity need was essential before quality refinement could take place. What is amazing is that he should also have been concerned about quality teaching, and should have exerted untiring effort in luring to our then not-tooattractive assignment so excellent a faculty.

It was not just his patient acceptance of the delays, lacks and limitations in the development of this new college on the barren

willingness to ignore entrance standards intolerable. To later student bodies, his acceptance of endless delays in securing essential equipment and an adequate physical set-up would have been exasperating.

But Paul Whitfield Horn, who spent countless hours in planning. the details of the first buildings at Texas Tech, always had as his goal a future of distinction, to be built on what there was to work with then.

He served well the college that was to be.

(Next issue: Bradford Knapp, 193~ 1938) llJ

A&S builds Recognition Garden Tech college turns to lessons of history for a modem-day campaign.

BY GERRY BUR10N

D uring the Great Depressionwhen standard ways couldn't raise money-a "Give-A-Brick" campaign raised a mountain of building blocks and $50,000 for a West Texas Museum at Texas Technological College.

Today, with economic slumps thwarting regular fundraising again, Texas Tech's College of Arts & Sciences has turned to the lessons of history for a modem brick campaign, this time to raise scholarship monies while creating a landscaped alumni garden.

In the 1930s, Dr. WC. Holden, museum director, rekindled the pioneer spirit by asking that West Texans bring in loose bricks to build a museum. Those who couldn't find bricks were given a special deal-$12,000 for 1,000 face bricks to give the museum a uniform look outside. The museum was on its way and became a forerunner of the multimilliondollar complex at 4th Street and lndiana Avenue.

New, uniform bricks inscribed with the donor's name will be used in the modem project, an Arts & Sciences Alumni Garden around Holden Hall, the original museum building, which still holds bricks given in the 1930s.

The heritage preserved this time will be Texas Tech's as seen in names of alumni, teachers, regents, presidents and friends of Texas Tech on the bricks, plaques, benches, flagpoles and at the base of trees.

In a special ceremony Sept. 19, the Arts & Sciences Garden was dedicated, complete with ground breaking, speeches, flags, assembling of a time capsule and music provided by the Tech music department.

The dedication was part of a special Arts & Sciences Weekend featuring the Distinguished A&S Alumni dinner, faculty art exhibit, tours, departmental receptions and excerpts from a theatre arts and music production of "Rodgers and Hart Celebration."

Highlight of the weekend, though, was the dedication of the A&S Garden. Special recognition was given to founders, those individuals who purchased a brick in time for the ceremony. A founders' area, which will be under construction during the year, will honor those who joined the campaign in its early stages. Those bricks will be included in the annual Carol of Lights display. "The way to begin is small," said alumni steering committee member Betty Wheeler when the Bricks at Tech project was announced. "Anyone can buy a brick for $1 00 or for a down payment of $25 and monthly payments for the balance. This is a chance for everyone to have a place at Texas Tech in a project that not only will beautify the campus but also will give recognition to donors."

As Paula Brashear, director of external affairs for the college, explained, "If the donor is a Texas Tech graduate, the year will be added to the name on the brick.

But everyone, not just Tech alumni, may join the brick campaign as West Texans did for the museum.

"They may buy bricks for past, present or future Techsans or just for friends of Texas Tech," she said.

Clubs, organizations and businesses which sell 60 or more bricks may name a scholarship which will have its own plaque.

Red paving bricks, judged best for withstanding West Texas

A guest of honor at the Arts & Sciences Weekend activities was Dr. William Curry Holden (left), who was introduced by Dean j oe Goodin.

weather, are being used for engraving. Those bricks, arranged with unmarked black ones, will go into the pathways and seating areas. A tiny replica will be given to the donor for a paperweight.

In approving the project, Tech President Dr. Lauro Cavazos said, "Since I returned to Texas Tech, I have wished for settings where students could meet, visit, study or be alone. This is a long overdue addition to an already beautiful campus."

Holden Hall was called the appropriate place to start, he noted, because every student must take arts and sciences courses to earn a degree.

"While establishing scholarships and perpetuating Texas Tech tradition, the program gradually will change the campus from a walkthrough concept to one with places where students may pause and take advantage of seating in an attractive setting, Brashear said.

Further information may be obtained from Bricks at Texas Tech, College of Arts & Sciences, P.O. Box 4379, Lubbock, TX 79409, or by calling (806) 7423834.

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TEXAS TECH IN RETROSPECT

Winning the Tech

BY RICHARD MASON

Winter's cold breath threatened drought and hardship for West Texans in 1917 as disheartened members of the West Texas A&M Campaign Association rekindled efforts to create an institution of higher learning for West Texas.

-•......;.:;;1 1 The promise of summer ended 1be original master plan for Texas Technological College called for an elevated in nightmare when the year-long hall of State in the Science Quadrangle and created the dign~d campus which campaign to create what is now visitors see today.

Texas Tech foundered after Texas When settlers in the western Governor Jim Ferguson ignored the the bill, citing the state's economic regions of the state realized that wishes of the locating committee conditions. old farming practices did not work and arbitrarily chose Abilene as the Angry West Texans gathered in in the state's arid zones, they recipient for the state's newest Sweetwater and discussed secessought an institution of higher school. West Texans asked that the sion from the state. But the West 1917 proposal to create the West learning that would address their Texas Chamber of Commerce Texas A&M be withdrawn. agricultural problems. At the same defused the secessionist sentiment Ferguson became the first Texas and coordinated a third try for time, West Texans discovered that governor to be impeached. Meanthe region contributed more taxes Texas Tech, which, in 1923, prowhile, the dream to create Texas duced the strongest proposal of to state coffers than the region Tech was forgotten in the ensuing any previous attempts. received in state services. The political controversy of impeachThe bill was passed and more movement to gain a new institument. than 36 West Texas towns comtion of higher learning for West Forgotten everywhere, that is, peted for selection as the site for Texas was an outgrowth of both except in West Texas. Few individ- Texas Tech-the Superconducting themes. uals today realize that it took seven Supercollider Proposal of its day. In The creation of Texas Tech has years of hard work and two failed the summer of 1923, the Locating three major significances. First, the attempts to create Texas Tech.

Board responsible for determining movement to establish Texas Tech From the beginning, the drive to where to place Texas Tech chose created regional self-awareness in establish the college faced obstaLubbock, a dusty community of West Texas. Today, people in the cles of politics and economics. less than 6,000 souls. Perhaps this region think of Texas Tech as Governor Ferguson was only one is why residents of Lubbock lobby "their" school. They are now political barrier. Institutions down- hard against modern-day attempts joined by alumni in Dallas, Houston state lobbied hard to divert the downstate to close the Health and elsewhere.

West Texan desire for a college "of Sciences Center or museum.

Secondly, the Texas Tech "move· the first class."

Texas Tech, after all, is an outment" produced the first con· The 1921 legislative effort-the growth of regional politics in Texas certed political activity on behalf of second attempt to create Texas with roots in the West Texas fronWest Texas. It is interesting to note Tech-was watered down to meet tier. Here, settlers cooperated to that the West Texas Chamber of objections from downstate resicreate schools-generally the first Commerce is an outgrowth of the dents. The ensuing West Texas public buildings in frontier comWest Texas A&M Campaign Associ· A&M bill would have made the munities. Schools became a source ation. school a branch of Texas A&M. of pride and an integral part of the Lastly, and some would say most Bank failures and poor commodity fabric that created "community." importantly, the creation of Texas prices indirectly "saved" Texas Texas Tech represents that princiTech saved many West Texans from Tech when Gov. Pat Neff vetoed ple on a larger scale. becoming Aggies! f~'O""""O O•OOO OO

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1987: Some good, sotne bad

BY FRANCIE LOWE

1987

was certainly a year to remember at Texas Tech.

The good news is that, after three years of cutting back, the new budget provided a little relief, including modest raises for faculty and staff.

The bad news is that the very existence of the Health Sciences Center and the Museum and Ranching Heritage Center were called into question during the special session of the Legislature.

Successful completion of the S60 million Enterprise Campaign seemed assured, and projections are that the goal will be reached by early next year.

Tech planners agree, however, that the end of the campaign cannot mark the end of development efforts. A concerted effort must be made to secure substantial funding from the private sector to supplement legislative appropriations.

Hot Summer In Austin In a move that caught everyone off guard, Governor Clements vetoed the line item for support of the museum and Ranching Heritage Center for the next year. "Nobody expected this to ' happen," Sen. John T. Montford told supporters at a special news conference. "If we had seen it coming, we would have prevented it."

The action precipitated a flurry of activity, as public and private figures pledged support of the museum.

Senator Montford said he would "walk the streets, if necessary," to help raise the funds needed.

And Lubbock Mayor "Peck" McMinn said the governor's action may have been a "blessing in disguise."

"There are a lot of people out the re who love the museum," he said. "lbis is our chance to let them know that we are vulnerable, that we need their help."

Tech President Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, acknowledging there are no "loose dollars" in the budget to fill the gap, said the best solution for the long run would be a substantial endowment. "If the museum and Ranching Heritage Center possessed a comfortable endowment, it would make it possible for us to weather this kind of storm," he said.

There was general agreement that support would be found to keep the museum operating. "Closing the museum is just not an option," Senator Montford said. "We West Texans are a can-do people; we will find a way."

Health Sciences Center Efforts Increase Proponents of the Health Sciences Center are determined to assume a more aggressive stance in promoting the institution, in the wake of a threat on the part of some legislators to cut funding.

Former Governor Preston Smith, who serves as legislative consultant for the HSC, said, "We have not let the people downstate know what we have done."

Among supporters is the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, which promised to help spread the HSC message.

The chamber will work with other regional chambers in an active campaign which will include approaching the media, legislators and individuals throughout the state on behalf of the HSC. ''West Texas has come very far since the operung of the Health Sciences Center," said Dr. Bernhard Mittemeyer, executive vice president, citing the extension of health care facilities to the underserved; improvement in the quality of health care; support for health care professionals in rural areas, and a dramatic increase in the number of professionals.

At an open house for KARENET, a uruque program which provides co~: puter linkage among health care factli-

ties and professionals, funded by AT&T and the Kellogg Foundation, Representative Jim Rudd said there had been "real pressure" on legislators to close some institutions.

"If the right people had not been in the right place at the right time, that might have happened," he said.

Rudd said the HSC must continue to seek funds for research and development to compete successfully with other research institutions. He pledged regional support for the effort and called on the HSC to involve people from throughout West Texas in their planrung. "We believe in the Health Sciences Center, and we want to be part of that effort," he said.

Katpryn Powell, interim executive director for development, reported that the Enterprise Campaign was very close to realizing its goal of S60 million. She said she anticipates that Dr. Cavazos will announce successful completion of the campaign at the annual black-tie President's Council meeting in February.

However, Powell commented, two areas will remain active development efforts- annual giving and endowment.

"The level of annual giving is terribly important to the future of Texas Tech," she said. "Annual giving is a vital source of funds to supplement the operating budget appropriated by the Legislature to maintain the high level of our programs."

Powell said that endowment giving to the Enterprise Campaign on behalf of the University and HSC has been lower than expected. "Tech lags far behind other institutions in the level of endowment funds," she said. "We simply have got to have a substantial increase in our basic endowment, if we are to create the kind of educational institution we know Texas Tech can be." .]';

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TECH TODAY

1987 Distlnguished Alumni of Texas Tech were honored Oct. 9. ~ are (from left) Robert Pfluger '51, Georgia Smith Ericson '36, Dr. Floyd Rector '50 and Gong.

Charles Stenbolm '61.

Budgets for 1988 totaling nearly $216 million were adopted Aug. 20 by the

deleted the museum's and RHC's state funds as he made cuts in the state's 1989 budget.

Texas Tech and Tech Health Sciences Center Board of Regents.

The budgets provide the first increase in operating funds for the two institutions since 1985. The boards adopted a SI 47.8 million budget for the University, a S68.6 million budget for the Health Sciences Center, and S459,000 for the Texas Tech museum.

The budgets also provide the first raises for employees since 1985. Only merit raises were to be given, averaging six percent for University faculty, four percent for University staff, and three percent for Health Sciences faculty and staff. Raises were effective October I. Of the S216 million, Sl23 million are state appropriations, which are used for faculty salaries and support for teaching. Although state funds will increase 5.5 percent over the 1987 budget, they will still fall nearly six percent below their 1985 level of Sl31 million.

The University will replace from 10 to 12 teaching positions of more than 40 that have been cut since 1985. No staff increases are budgeted.

Although the Texas Tech museum and Ranching Heritage Center are funded for 1988, the regents are searching for a method of funding their operations in 1989. Gov. Bill Clements

A new scholarship has

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been established

at Texas Tech as a memorial to a woman whose commitment to education profoundly influenced her children's lives.

The Tomasa Cavazos Scholarship will be used to help promising Hispanic women undergraduates of the University, with preference going to women from the Kingsville area, the home of the Cavazos family.

Mrs. Cavazos, who died in Aprill987, was the mother of Texas Tech's president, Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, and of four other children: Gen. Richard E. Cavazos of Leander; Robert J. "Bobby" Cavazos of Corpus Christi; Joseph A. Cavazos of Bossier City, La., and Sarita Ochoa of Laredo.

Mrs. Cavazos' children made the stipulation that the scholarship bearing their mother's name be used to help a woman of Hispanic heritage, to reflect her belief in the power of education as the doorway to opportunity.

"She was a remarkable, gifted woman," said Dr. Cavazos, ''who appreciated the value of education and insisted that her children have its benefits. I think she would be very proud to be remembered in this way."

Born Tomasa Quintanilla on the famous King Ranch in Southeast Texas,

Mrs. Cavazos married Lauro F. Cavazos Sr., the foreman of the Santa Gertrudis division of the ranch, in 1923.

The Cavazos children began school in a two-room building on the ranch, but later, when the parents built a home in Kingsville, they were able to walk to elementary and high school and to Texas A&I University.

Dr. Cavazos remembers that his mother was devoted to her family, her church, the King Ranch and later to Texas Tech, to which he first came as an undergraduate and to which he returned as president in 1980.

She also found time, he said, to perform many small services to individuals and families in need.

"These two principles, to achieve the best and highest goals of which you are capable, and to serve others, were her legacy to her children," Dr. Cavazos said. "She was a person of great character, great determination. She expected the best of herself and of us, and we wanted to fulfill her expectations."

The Cavazos children agreed that the scholarship named for their mother should be used to help a promising Hispanic woman, as a reflection of their commitment to increasing educational opportunities for minority youth. ''We hope this scholarship will help many gifted young women attend Texas Tech," Dr. Cavazos said. ''We also hope that they will, in tum, inspire other young.people to achieve their educational goals. We share our mother's conviction that education is the doorway to opportunity."

Donations are sought to enrich the scholarship fund. A minimum of S5,000 is necessary to fully endow a "named" scholarship; additional funds will ma_Ice it possible to provide more substantial help to more students.

Contributions may be directed to the Office of Development, P.O. Box 4650, Lubbock, T.X 79409, designated for the "Tomasa Cavazos Scholarship Fund."

Author Leon Metz shot up the stage with Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, John Selmon, Sam Bass and other notorious gunfighters at the banquet and annual meeting of the Friends of the University Ubrary/ Southwest Collection Oct. I. Metz, of El Paso, is a speaker and author of historical non-fiction of the Southwest. Title of his address was

will be cut.

Other museums that will receive no state monies in 1989 are the PanhandlePlains Historical Museum in Canyon and Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville.

exact date of Moyers' arrival has not yet been determined.

Progress is expected anytime a television station stays

Leon Metz

"Chasing Gunfighters Across the Southwest." The occasion was preceded by a reception and exhibit of Metz' books and memorabilia as well as artifacts of famous Southwestern characters.

Metz wrote "Turning Points in El Paso, Texas," an award-winning book.

In 1985, the Western Writers of America gave him the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award for overall contributions to western writing. Metz is author of seven books.

Closing the Museum of Texas Tech University may be the only option facing University officials after Gov. Bill Clements' veto in August of S418,000 in 1989 state funding for the operation.

"I don't see any way we can operate it," said Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, Tech president, in reference to the funding loss. ''We are going to have to have a lot of help from a lot of people if we are going to keep the museum open."

Gary Edson, director of the museum, said that although the future looks dim for the facility, he does not expect the University and Health Sciences Center to come to its rescue.

The Lubbock facility is one of three museums whose funding was red-lined by the governor before he signed the S38.3 billion appropriations bill for the 1988-89 biennium. He used line-item vetoes to cut the bill by S167.4 million.

The loss to the Tech museum will be S418,549, the full amount that the legislature had appropriated for fiscal 1989, the second year of the biennium.

In addition, the S40,497 allocated to the Ranching Heritage Center in 1989

on the air for 25 years. Nevertheless it's a long road from modern chemi;try and physics to "Austin City Limits" and "The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour," and KTXT-TV-Lubbock's only source for public television broadcasting-has cl~ared a lot of financial and programnung hurdles since making its debut in the city marketplace in 1962.

KTXT-1V's signal officially was sent to area viewers for the first time on Oct. 16, 1962. The studio and transmitter rooms were housed in a Texas Tech building previously used as a beef cattle pavilion.

The first station manager was D.M. McElroy, who said the station's budget totaled about $15,000. KTXTs first signal boasted a radius of 4 5 miles.

The station originally broadcast only three hours per day-specifically, three 30-minute programs which were each aired twice daily. Those black-andwhite programs were educational classes in modem chemistry, physics and economics.

Fifteen full-time and 10 part-time employees now work for KTXT-TY. The operating budget has grown to more than $700,000, with two-thirds of the funding dependent upon being supplied by the station's operating grants and community contributions, says Karen Payne, KTXTs director of development.

Public contributions have grown to more than S200,000 per year. The station also received some S3.6 million in equipment and operations g~ts during the past 18 years, Payne said.

KTXT-TV now supplies 108 hours of weekly programming to a radius of 60 miles surrounding Lubbock, a geographical area boasting a population of some 380,000.

The station began celebrating its 25th anniversary in October with "Five By 5," a series of five special events sponsored by Channel 5. It began with an art and wine reception, a visit from a "Sesame Street" star and an appearance by the stars of "The Lawrence Welk Show."

The series will continue in the spring with a personal appearance by political satirist Mark Russell on March 1, and another by Bill Moye.rs. The

Working rancher statue was unveiled this fall at Ranching Heritage Center.

A life-sized statue of a working rancher was dedicated to the "memory and reality of the American rancher ... the soul of this great country'' by Byron Price, director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, at ceremonies launching annual Ranch Day festivities Sept. 19 at the Ranching Heritage Center.

The zest, joy and fun of living the panorama of life on the range, Price said, were the good derived by those using might and imagination to face challenges of a continually tough lifeat its best severe and at its worse disastrous-and "licking her to a standstill."

A sense of place did and still does sustain them, Price said of ranchers working land where their ancestors are buried, where they grew up and where their children were born.

The former Lubbockite and immediate past director of the PanhandlePlains Historical Museum in Canyon, alluding to legislative cuts for both the Lubbock and Canyon museums, noted that while some may consider institutions such as the outdoor ranch museum of low priority, history has proved that they shine the brightest and are the most important when times are hard.

He quoted former National Golden Spur Award winner Fred Dressler of Gardnerville, Nev., as calling museums the snubbing posts to hang onto and NOVEMBER·OECEMBER 1987

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Tech Today Briefs Dr. Tom B. Leamon, former acting dean and chairman of the depart· ment of industrial engineering at Northern Illinois University, has joined the Tech industrial engineering department as chairman. Leamon founded the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology and established the department of industrial engineering at NIU. His academic degrees were earned in England. He replaces Dr. Richard Dudek, who held the department chairmanship for 28 years, and who remains with the college as a professor . .. Dr. J. Wayland Bennett, associate dean of Agricultural Sciences, is serving in three prestigious posts: he's chairman of the Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, director of the Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council in Austin, and trustee of the American Institute of Cooperation in Washington, D.C . . . Dr. Jane 0. Burns has been awarded a S19,800 grant from the Arthur Young Foundation to study how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 will affect corporate leasing and purchasing decisions. Bums is professor of accounting and holds the Frank M. Burke Chair in Taxation ... Dr. Elizabeth Haley, dean of the College of Home Economics, is one of 16 Texans chosen by the Hogg Foundation to recommend improvements in mental health services for children and their families.

The 16-member commission will report its findings in 1990, the year of the foundation's 50th anniversary ... Dr. Shirley McManigal, chair of medical technology, has been named consulting editor and microbiology editor for the new journal, Clinical Laboratory Science, which began operation in October.

She was also named to the President's Honor Roll in the American Society for Medical Technology for outstanding service .. . Dr. Dayton Roberts, director of the Center for Improvement of Teaching Effectiveness, was selected as one of the four major seminar directors for Faculty College '87, conducted in June by the University of Wisconsin System ...

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take bearings for the future, places that "tell us where we were and where we are going."

The program at the ranch museum entrance began with a flag ceremony by a detachment of the 4th Cavalry (Memorial) while a mounted detail saluted with sabers.

The look at history continued with views of the days of open range when the chuck wagon following the herd was the cowboy's home. Throughout the Ranching Heritage Center's 14 acres, cowboy life, skills, music, clothing and crafts filled structures restored from Texas' early days.

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

the final stages of refining what they term the "slant-tube screening technique," a greenhouse technique that entails growing seedlings in acrylic tubes slanted 15 degrees from the vertical for efficient observation and periodic root measurements.

They are now extremely confident their final state of testing will officially confirm the slant-tube technique as a successful method for screening forage legume rooting patterns.

"With our technique in place," Taylor said, "we will have a root system evaluation method that assures efficient germination and yields experimental results within a 30-day period, very important accomplishments when you're working with a limited seed pool and trying to choose promising selections from hundreds of potential species.

Matches added that by comparing their specialties, they have found a way to expedite research into new forage systems for livestock production and, in the process, gained valuable new information on forage legumes in general.

A new department of animal science meats labor-

Arthur Matches

The USDA and Texas Tech are jointly sponsoring research to evaluate a number of different forage legumes for their ability to withstand the cold, dry winters characteristic of this region.

"The rate of seedling root length is a major variable in selecting potential forages for successful cool-season crops," said Thornton Endowed Chair Professor Or. A.G. Matches. "We assume that the legumes with the most rapid root-growth have the most promise for surviving the dryness of our West Texas winters."

To evaluate these legumes, Matches is working with Dr. Howard M. Taylor, Rockwell Professor of Plant & Soil Science, Dr. B.L McMichael of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and Jose Gomez, research associate.

Together, these four scientists are in

atory, to be located on the east side of the livestock Arena, should be completed by the summer of 1988.

"Our present location is right in the center of the campus, making it difficult for trucks to unload the animals and for customers to pick up their purchases," said Dr. Boyd Ramsey, professor of animal science and director of the meats lab.

"Our new place, as part of the livestock Arena complex, will eliminate both of these problems, plus give us expanded and more sophisticated facilities for teaching classes and conducting research."

The new laboratory will be built between the two wings of the Livestock Arena with offices and classrooms on the south wing and more offices, a seminar room, a salesroom and the laboratory on the north wing.

The new construction will also include a 150-person elevated auditorium with a sliding rail for carcasses to be automatically moved from the cooler into the auditorium for evaluation.

"Training students to make quick and thorough carcass evaluations is a very important part of our teaching program," said Ramsey, "and this new elevated classroom is ideal for our purposes."

ARCHITECTURE Measuring the Texas State Capitol to the nearest /i1

Six architecture students from Tech took part in similar summer projects across the United States. "This is the ~ar~est ~roje~t we ~ave ever taken part t~, Whtte satd of hts Austin expenence.

inch was the task of a Texas Tech pro-

fessor and a former Tech student this summer as they took part in a historical project documenting the floor plans of the capitol building.

Professor John White, an associate professor of architecture, and Molly Turpening, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture in May, took part in the project directed by the Historical American Buildings Survey (HABS), a 54-year-old group that documents historical structures.

HABS entered into a cooperative agreement with capitol architect Roy Eugene Graham's office in 1986 to produce measured drawings of the capitol as it was originally built. White has spent the last two summers in Austin with the project.

In 1986, the Texas State Capitol was declared a national landmark, and after a recent fire, it was realized that there were no existing plans of the building for restoration purposes, White said.

The group, comprised of 28 upper level architecture students in the United States, was supervised by White in the project.

White said the group took field measurements of the existing structure to the nearest 111-inch, took field notes and fed the information into a computer which composed plans of the entire building.

Some areas of the capitol, such as those with rough stone surfaces, were not transferable directly into the computer and were drawn by hand, he said. The computer composed 98 percent of the floor plans.

To complete the project, a photographer from Washington, D.C., will be sent to take pictures of the state capitol to be displayed with the floor plans, White said. The plans will be on display in the Archives of the Library of Congress and will be public information. Copies can be obtained from the U.S. Congress.

"This project was made possible by the architect of the state capitol and the State Preservation Board," White said.

The plans will be developed by an architect into a master plan to be used during the $45 million restoration of the Texas State Capitol, he added. The State Legislature plans to sell bonds to finance the restoration.

ARTS & SCIENCES Television as a medium has not quite reached the state of existence called art, but a project at Texas Tech focuses on the use of images and effects to move television into that arena.

The project, "TV on TV: Television Art for the 1980s," is an open-ended series of television works that stress the medium as an art form, says art professor and project originator Dr. Kim Smith.

"Photography didn't become photography until it stopped trying to be painting. And, film or cinema didn't become film until it stopped trying to be theater. Currently, television is used to carry other art forms rather than being an art form itself," Smith said.

The latest in the project series, a production called "heartBEAT," a 24minute video, centers upon a stream of thoughts passing through a young man's mind as he contemplates the end of a day.

"The 'TV on TV' project is an attempt to produce works that employ the idea of viewing what we see on the screen as art itself," Smith said. "When a play, an opera or a concert is put on television, we are watching another art form on television."

The first conscious effort at creating television for television, or video art, came with the new genre of the music video, Smith said.

The TV on TV project emerged from the Electronic Arts Archive and Research Institute, a facility at Texas Tech where scholarly research and creative work is conducted in the elec· tronic arts.

Four outstanding graduates of the College of Arts & Sciences were honored Sept. 18 as Distinguished Alumni of the college. They were: Dr. Faye LaVerne Bumpass '32, '34, Lubbock; G. Wesley Rice '59, '61, Stavanger, Norway; Dr. Jane Gilmore Rushing '44, '45, '57, Lubbock; and Winifred Woods Vigness '42, '43, Lubbock.

Hom Professor of architecture Wtllard Robinson has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Information Agency to work on a project in architectural history, historic preservation and housing with the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Part of the study will examine ways to restore and conserve structures dating from the colonial and Mexican periods. Architecture faculty George T. C. Peng and John P. White are taking part in the pro· ject ... Dr. Jon Rodiek, professor of landscape architecture, chaired a session and presented a paper on landscape and wildlife management at the 18th Congress of the International Union of Game Biologists in Krakow, Poland, in August ... Dr. John Schweitzer, director of graduate studies in the department of mass communications, was one of 15 faculty members in the U.S. selected to attend the Poynter Institute's Media Management Program at St. Petersburg, Fla., in July. The journalism educators studied media management, public image, credibility, ethics, labor relations, and technology ... Anthropology professor Dr. Philip A. Dennis received a Fulbright Grant to teach this fall at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil. He will teach anthropology through the program, which each year exchanges students and professors with foreign countries. He will also teach in Brazil during spring 1988 ... Dr. Billy I. Ross, who recently resigned as chairman of the department of mass communications at Tech, has accepted a visiting professorship at Louisiana State University. He will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the university's Manship School of Journalism ... Texas Tech's theatre department performed Aug. 9-25 at the International Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The cast and crew, under the direction of Richard A. Weaver of Tech's theatre department, staged Texas playwright Del Shores' "Cheatin"' at the Festival Fringe '87.

Theatre Action USA is the company sponsoring the Tech production, in addition to three professional productions from Los Angeles ...

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Mary Jeanne van Appledom of

the Tech music department was recently notified that she was again a recipient of the Standard Panel Award for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). This 1987-88 award is her eighth consecutive one and it ~­ ries a n ,ooo purse ... Assoctate math professor Dr. Harold Dean Victory Jr. spent the summer at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat in Munich, Germany. Victory's research there was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Stipend, an internationally recognized honor . .. The Lubbock chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles has donated $5,000 to the Alzheimer's Center at the Tech Health Sciences Center. The donation will fund ongoing work by Dr. Jeffrey W. Elias of the psychology department, who is conducting research to help families better cope with the difficulties when a relative has Alzheimer's disease ... A name was selected prior to Tech's first home football game for the new horse ridden by the Masked Rider. Based on submitted names from persons all across Texas, the name selected was Midnight Raider ... Dr. Lawrence Schovanec of the math department spent the summer at the Air Force Astronautics Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was a participant in the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Research Program. His studies were in an area important in helping engineers design new solid fuel rocket boosters ... Nancy L. Birdwell '74 has joined the Office of Development as director of corporations and foundations. She will be responsible for increasing donations to the University and the Health Sciences Center from private corporations and foundations, which contributed more than $5 million to the two institutions in 1986 ... Tech law students took second place in the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition held in August in San Francisco. As secondplace team, the group received the Garland Walker trophy and tied to share the national second-place spotlight for Best Brief. Donald Hunt, an attorney with the Lubbock law firm of Carr, Evans, Fouts and Hunt aRd adjunct professor of law, coached the team ... .

Bumpass earned two degrees from Tech, then during a prolonged residence in Peru, she earned a doctorate from the University of San Marcos in Lima. She returned to Tech to teach in what is now the department of classical and romance languages.

In 1969, Bumpass was appointed a Hom Professor, one of the highest honors a Tech faculty member can receive.

It is probable that Bumpass will be remembered as much or more for her contributions as a teacher. She earned a well deserved reputation during her more than 20 years at Texas Tech as a hard taskmaster and a demanding instructor, but a teacher who was able to inspire in her students a desire to perform to the utmost of their ability.

Rice is manager of Exploration Data Systems, Conoco Norway. His previous experience with Conoco includes serving as division director of the Geoscience Systems Division, Conoco Exploration, and both management and technical positions in Exploration Research and Development.

Rice completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in math and geophysics at Tech and has remained active in University affairs. He holds a position on the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council and is an industrial liaison to the vice president of Academic Affairs and Research.

A cooperative research project was initiated by Rice which has resulted in a system that is being used by Conoco in Norway, London, and in several USA

locations. The project has also provided financial assistance to several graduate students since its inception.

Rushing earned her first Tech degree in journalism, and the next two were in English. She taught at the University for several years during the 1960s and again in 1979.

Long a member of Texas' most select group of writers-the Texas Institute of Letters-Rushing is, in the opinion of many, one of two of the state's most accomplished literary novelists. She has earned her international reputation with West Texas material.

Rushing has published both short stories and novels-all seven of the novels have been published by Doubleday, one of the nation's largest and most prestigious commercial publishers.

Vigness has been active in University and community affairs for more than 40 years. She earned degrees in history at Tech, then following service in the navy during World War II, Vigness continued graduate work at the University of Texas.

She returned to Lubbock in 1955 and taught history at Tech and later at South Plains College. Her publications include a chapter in Lawrence Graves' "History of Lubbock" and her joint authorship of "The Chronicles of the Yaqui Expedition."

Vigness combined an academic career with impressive service to the University and community. She is presently executive secretary of the West Texas Museum Association.

Arts & SCiences Distinguished Alumni are (from left) Winifred Woods Vigness, G. Wesley Rice, Faye Laverne Bumpass and jane Gilmore Rushing.

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In the showdown between the cowboy of legend and the sheepherder of fact, the herder is buried under the long shadow cast by America's original folk hero.

But it's time sheepherders and sheepmen got their due, says history professor Dr. Paul H. Carlson, author of "Texas Woollybacks, the Range Sheep and Goat Industry."

"There's an old Texas saying that you raise cattle for prestige and sheep for money," Carlson said. "There was a lot of truth in that. The sheep industry was darn near as big as the cattle industry in the 19th century and was always more stable, due in part because you can raise sheep for both wool and mutton."

Although many similarities characterized both industries-man in close contact with animals and nature, long trail drives, hard work, range diseases-the differences between the occupations and their methods generally favored the cowboy and cattleman in the public's fan<..y Carlson said cowboys were often southerners who came west to escape the Confederacy's lost cause and were generally Anglos, though a large percentage were black or Hispanic.

Cowboys, the ones who did the work as contrasted from cattlemen who were the owners, were quiet, young, usually under 24 and often imbued with a daring that accompanies youth. And, cowboys did their work astride horses, which helped give their job a mythical proportion. Further, they herded longhorns, at best semi-wild animals.

By contrast, sheepherders were seldom southern. Instead, they were often Hispanic or Basque, occasionally yankee and frequently English or Scottish who were unconcerned about the Old West's social stigma of working with sheep. Sheepherders were older, did their job afoot watching over domesticated animals and worked mostly by themselves with possibly a dog for help and companionship. The sheepherder, as a result, was more introspective, Carlson said.

"The sheepherder was a more philosophical, reflective type of man than the cowboy," Carlson said. "By contrast, cowboys were men of action, and Americans are people who love action."

Even though the cowboy received more publicity, the sheepherder quietly gathered his sheep and, in many cases, a fortune.

jerry Hall (left) and jack Bowen, Mass Comm Distinguished Alumni, were treated to a special awards breakfast in the University-City aub.

A pioneer in the crea-

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of a television public service news program, Jack Bowen, and a longtime political consultant, M.Y "Jerry'' Hall, have been named 1987 Outstanding Alumni of the mass communications department.

The two were recognized· at an 8 a.m. breakfast during Homecoming, Oct. 10.

Bowen, who earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications in 1971, works at KOCO-'IV in Oklahoma City and has been recognized nationally for his "Wednesday's Child" program, which focuses on fmding permanent adoptive homes for children with special needs. His television news feature has won nine national awards, including the Scripps-Howard award for public service.

Hall has owned his Austin-based public relations firm since 1974 and focuses on public and press relations, governmental liaison activities and political campaigns. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1950.

Hall travels the state scheduling editorial board meetings, television talk shows and interviews concerning various issues to be voted on by the Texas Legislature.

Texas Tech canceled all classes offered in the bibli-

The department of accounting was the recent recipient of a SS,OOO gift from the firm of Deloitte, Haskins and Sells and its employees. A portion of the gift is designated to support two scholarships to junior accounting students ... Dr. Jay Schrock of the Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management program in the College of Home Economics spent the month of October at the Tianjin University of Commerce in China. He was training students and government officials about computer applications in the hospitality industry. The project was the first in a joint venture between the Chinese government and the Texas Tech RHIM program ... Drs. Ronald A. Anderson and Wayne T. Ford of the math department were Visiting Summer Faculty at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque during the past summer. They were involved in developing data analysis systems ... Construction on the SS.6 million Outpatient Clinical Education Building at the Tech Regional Academic Health Center at El Paso is expected to be completed in about 14 months. Project costs make the new facility the second largest in the history of the Health Sciences Center, which operates Regional Academic Health Centers in El Paso, as well as Amarillo, Lubbock a nd the Permian Basin ... Walter Piluger, 83-yearold San Angelo rancher, farmer and businessman, was honored with the National Golden Spur Award for 1987. The award recognizes annually an individual who has given unselfishly to the livestock industry.

Ptluger said of the honor, "It's a reward for the accomplishments of my life. I always appreciate awards; they make you feel like someone recognizes what you've done" .. . A paper by math professor Dr. Robert L. Foote recently appeared in Mathematische Zeitschrift, a prestigious German journal. Foote, with Dr. Lance D. Drager of the department, also coorganized a special session of the international Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems conference this summer in Phoenix ...

cal literature department this fall in response to a revised opinion released

by Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox's office on May 28.

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Texas textile and fashion industry figures exchanged technical and cultural aspects of the fiber and garment industries with their Ru_ssian counterparts in September m Moscow. From Texas Tech, James Parker, director of the Textile Research Center, was invited to attend as a consultant and representative of the TRC, which is internationally known for its research value to the textile industry . . . David Brown, a master's student in family studies, was awarded a 1987 Graduate Student Research Grant from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy to study task assignments of families of adolescent substance abusers. He will be working with Dr. Marcia BrownStandridge of the College of Home Economics' department .. . Professor Hal Batemen of the Law School recently completed a sixyear term on the State Securities Board ... Dr. Ali R. Amir-Moez of the math department recently was invited to present a 45-minute paper at the national convention of Mu Alpha Theta at the University of Washington in Seattle. The professor also established an annual award for the best undergraduate math research paper at Tech and is, himself, a leading authority in mathematics research at the undergraduate level ... Law professor Thomas Baker has worked fot the past five years as a member of the Health Sciences Center Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects. In addition, for the past several months, he has served as consultant to the Victims Constitutional Amendment Network, a consortium of organizations which advocate victims' rights ... Fall enrollments at Texas Tech and the Health Sciences Center were up this year over last year. For the University, 23,606 students were enrolled, and 800 were attending fall classes at the HSC. Enrollment by college was as follows: Ag Sciences, 1,162; Architecture, 752; Arts & Sciences, 7,639; Business Administration, 4,397; Education, 1,515; Engineering, 2,122; Home Economics, 1,816; Graduate School, 3,260; Law, 562; dual enrollment, 380; and other, I. HSC enrollment by college was: Allied Health, 100; Medicine, 405 seeking medical degrees and 33 seeking graduate degrees; and Nursing, 262.

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"the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state college or university from appointing individuals to a faculty position when the individuals are nominated or salaried by a religious organization. A religious organization cannot participate in the running of state affairs."

The attorney general established three conditions which biblical literature classes must fuJfill to avoid legal problems. The course must be secular, must not primarily advance religion and must not involve "excessive entan· glement" between government and religion.

John Tyson, chairman of the biblical literature department, said he was disappointed but not surprised by the decision. He said that Tech officials made a safe decision to avoid legal problems but that students will be the real losers.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

yields nonassertiveness-a feeling that says, 'Oh, I wish I had said 'no' to that request."'

She said anger produces aggressiveness-an explosion of feelings and words that, once spoken, we often wish we could take back. More harm comes from a scene like this than often can be repaired, Jackson said.

Irrational beliefs are messages we tell ourselves, she explained. Two examples Jackson gave are: "If I say 'no,' they won't like me," or "If I avoid this situation (or person), the problem will go away."

"We must ask ourselves what is the most likely outcome in this situation if I speak up about how I feel?" she said.

"Decide if dealing with the situation is worth the risk, and act accordingly."

Jackson said the best way to begin changing toward more assertive behavior is by starting the conversation with "I" rather than ''you."

"Take responsibility for how you feel rather than pushing it off on the other person," she said. "Set an appropriate time for discussion, without interruptions or distractions, and discuss the problem. Expressing emotion is appropriate when done in a mature, professionat 'manner."

The Texas Tech Beta Delta chapter of Beta Alpha

Denise jackson

Denise Jackson is an expert in communication, assertiveness and public speaking. As director of external relations for the College of Business Administration, those skills come in handy. But she can tell others how to develop assertive behavior.

"There are three reasons why people aren't assertive," she said. "First, let me explain what I mean by assertiveness.

In a nutshell, assertiveness means speaking up about your feelings and rights in a way that doesn't infringe on others' rights.

"Many people aren't assertive because they are 'blocked' by anxiety, anger or irrational beliefs. Anxiety

Psi, the national accounting honorary fraternity, has been selected as one of the Superior Chapters for the third consecutive year.

The Superior Chapter, the highest designation a chapter can receive, was recognized at the national convention held in August in Cincinnati.

"This recognition reflects honor on the Beta Alpha Psi members and the faculty in the area of accounting at Tech," said Dr. Gary E. White, director of the accounting programs at the Uni· versity.

"The students should be better pre· pared for significant accounting careers because of the dedicated and success· ful efforts of this past year."

The national selection process is based on the activities of the local chapters. The Tech group initiated activities during the 1986-87 academic year which included inviting professional speakers to the campus, conducting a field trip to visit accounting organizations in Houston, sponsoring blood drives and donations, food drives, reading for the blind and selection of a distinguished alumnus, plus active leadership in the area of accounting Emphasis Week

EDUCATION The College of Education be2an the fall semester with three key administrative changes, including a new associate

degrees from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La., and a doctoral degree from the University of Arkansas.

Candler has been a Tech professor since 1976. She earned a bachelor's degree at Lamar University, Beaumont, and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Houston.

john Bradford ing and, in general, his popularity with graduates are certainly substantial moti· vating factors in support of an Endowed Chair bearing his name," Wood said.

(From leftj joe Cornett, Ann Candler and Larry Hovey. dean.

Dr. Larry Hovey, formerly director of student field experiences and advising, replaces Dr. Shamus Mehaffie as asso· elate dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services. Mehaffie, who has held the position since 1979, returned to full-time teaching.

Dr. Joe Cornett has been named interim chairman of the department of educational psychology, special educa· tion and instructional technology. He replaces Dr. Paul Dixon who took over as chairman of the department of educational psychology, administration, technology and foundations at Kent State University. Dixon had been at Texas Tech since 1975 and was chairman of the department since 1980.

Dr. Ann Candler was named director of student field experiences and advising, the position vacated by Hovey.

Hovey, a Tech professor since 1970, earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Illinois and a doc· toral degree at the University of Cali· fornia, Berkeley.

A Tech professor since 1968, Cornett re ceived bachelor's and master's

ENGINEERING A $10,000 donation by the Texas Tech Foundation has been initiated to estab· !ish The John R Bradford Chair in Engineering.

The chair, honoring Bradford, who served as Tech's dean of engineering from 1955 till 1982, will be utilized to recruit outstanding engineers as potential faculty members.

Fund-raising efforts toward the structure of the chair formally began May I with a focus on alumni of the College of Engineering. ''We all look forward to the funding of the chair and to its use in support of the continuing excellence in the col· lege," said Dr. Gary B. Wood '75, '77, a member of the committee formed to assist in the establishment of the chair as an outgrowth of the Tech Founda· tion Enterprise Campaign.

Wood is now president of Concorde Financial Corp., Dallas.

"The longstanding respect for Brad's efforts while he was dean of engineer·

Bradford, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Tech in chemical engineering, later earned his doctorate from Case Institute of Technology. After holding the position of dean for 27 years, Bradford served Tech as vice president for development until 1985. Since that time, he has been a professor of chemical engineering.

In 1974, he was named a Distinguished Engineer by the college and a Distinguished Alumnus by the Ex-Students Association.

Genns are healthy for the environment, so say researchers who are using the tiny bugs to fight toxic waste.

Microbes are targeted in the studies by engineering researchers and microbiologists at Tech, who hope to stomp out hazardous waste in the environment by nurturing the minute, subterranean germs, thus prompting them to devour more waste.

As the immediacy of groundwater pollution problems persist, researchers say the pressure is on to exact waste from the ground and expedite cleanup measures. Their concerns, according to Drs. Ken Rainwater, professor of civil engineering, and Caryl Heintz of biological sciences, are focused on heavier, less volatile fuels in the ground, by using laboratory tests to isolate the bacteria which will biodegrade diesel fuel at a rapid rate.

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and which learn to acclimatize to and subsist upon the hydrocarbons, the chemical complex that makes up most motor fuels.

Although scientists for years have realized the nature of the microbes' feeding habits, Heintz says the experiment is unique in its application. The process induces the microbes to consume pollutants at a quicker, more efficient rate.

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Brotherston and Rebecca Berry, are teaching part time in our program."

According to Dr. Elizabeth Haley, dean of the college, the .revised program is a result of cooperative efforts of professionals spanning the design fields at Tech and involvement of practicing professionals. ''We welcome students to the revised program of interior design as well as alliances with former graduates of both programs," she said. ''With the help of these alumni and other professionals in the field, interior design at Texas Tech can become the best program in the nation."

others concerning the U.S. Constitution can now easily be found with the aid of a Constitutional Bibliography compiled by Texas Tech law and history professors and one law student.

As part of the celebration of the bicentennial of the Constitution, the bibliography was compiled as a guide to the original doctrines, letters, statutes and works of historical and political philosophies read by the founding generation that influenced the writing of the document.

"This bibliography is something that hasn't been done before and it's some-

Both sides came out winners in an agreement offering

joAnn Shroyer

This fall, the College of Home Economics became the sole degree granter for students interested in interior design.

Until this semester, the art department under the College of Arts & Sciences also offered a degree program in the discipline.

The reorganization was approved May 26 by the Coordinating Board, following the request of Academic Vice President Donald R Haragan to combine the existing interior design program in A&S with the housing and interior design program offered in the College of Home Economics.

Housed in the merchandising, environmental design and consumer economics department, interior design is being coordinated by Dr. JoAnn Shroyer. ''We're very pleased with the response we've gotten from the students interested in majoring in interior design," Shroyer said. "The faculty and administration in arts and sciences and the faculty and administration in home economics are working together to make the program successful. In fact, two members of the art faculty, Jody 38 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

students in the Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management (RHIM) major "hands-on" experience. Jim Granberry, chairman of the UniversityCity Club board, said the 10-year agreement will bolster his club's service level by putting students in working positions at no cost to him.

Dr. David K Hayes, director of the RHIM program, said the agreement creates a mutually beneficial situation that will give students a more suitable training facility than their previous Wiggins residence hall operation.

"The program just got too big to dovetail with the residence hall," Hayes said, adding that Tech will not incur additional expenses because of the new arrangement. As many as 20 RHIM students will be working at any given time, said Hayes, adding that no student will be at the club without faculty supervision.

The 10-year agreement essentially opens the club to the College of Home Economics for the training of RHIM students with no money changing hands.

What one perceived deficiency of the Constitution met with such opposition from the 13 states that 120 proposals were presented for consideration before the document was to be ratified?

What two persons who played extremely important roles in the Declaration of Independence, and who later became presidents of the United States, were not present and took no part in the federal convention?

The answers to these questions and

Dave Cummins

thing that will last," said law professor Dave Cummins, who helped compile the material.

Also contributing to the project, along with Cummins, were law professors Tom Baker, Jim Eissinger and Jim Viator; history professor Ben Newcomb; and 3rd-year law student Regina Arditti.

The bibliography includes Colonialera writings that elucidate the understanding of the people at the time the Constitution was adopted, Cummins added. " If someone is interested in learning what colonial people thought about free exercise of religion, the bibliography identifies the writings that discuss that issue," Cummins said.

Although the professors donated their time and expertise, the bibliography was made possible by grants totalling S2,700 given to the Lubbock Chapter of Women Voters by the U.S. League of Women Voters Education Fund and by the Texas Commission for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.

In addition, the West Texas Regio~al library System agreed to place the bibliography in all public libraries located within the 29-county system.

KARENET breaks doctor's isolation

By Preston Lewis

N e L. Dubberly enjoys all the advantages of being a country doctor and finds one aspect particularly satisfying.

"I know all of my patients by their first name. In fact, I don't even know the last name of some of them, but I know about their grandmother, their father and even their dog."

Dubberly figures that first-name familiarity makes him a better doctor.

"The better I know my patients, the more faith they have in me. And, the more faith they have in me, the quicker they are going to get well."

As one of only two physicians in Cochran County, Dubberly is well known among the county's 4,900 residents, many of whom show their gratitude by keeping his freezer full with home-grown vegetables and fruits. That generosity is the country way and one of the advantages Dubberly sees over his urban counterparts.

Until recently, though, Dubberly would have had to acknowledge one advantage of the urban practitioner over the country doctor-ready access to medical information. But now, that is changing. Prominent on Dubberly's desk is a voice-data computer workstation which links him with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

60 miles away in Lubbock.

That computer is one of seven being installed in Cochran Memorial Hospital through a demonstration project designed by the Health Sciences Center to show how a computer network can help address the needs of health professionals in rural areas.

Called KARENET, short for Kellogg Affiliated Remote Environments Network, the system is funded by a threeyear Sl .5 million grant from the W.K Kellogg Foundation to TTUHSC and is augmented through a $210,000 gift of computer hardware and software from AT&T. Helen Cox, associate dean for continuing nursing education at the Health Sciences Center, is project coordinator for the Cochran County segment of KARENET, which also includes computer linkages with a floor of Lubbock General Hospital, with Roberts Memorial Nursing Home in Morton and with La Fe Clinic in El Paso.

Central to the KARENET system is an AT&T 3B5 computer housed in project offices in Lubbock. Information is stored in the computer for various treatment protocols. For instance, protocols are being developed for the Morton hospital to deal with burns, trauma, cardiac arrest, high risk pregnancy and delivery, geriatric problems and child abuse.

You can't take tbe doctor out of tbe country if rnraJ residents are to have a satisfactory level of beaJth care. However, tbe Kellogg Project at tbe Texas Tech Health Sciences Center is demonstrating bow a computer ne_twork c~n rnraJ doctors like N.L. Dubberly, who practices in Cochran Mem_orial Hospttal tn Morton, by providing them access to tbe resources of a beaJth saences center.

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Health care has grown so complex that it is impossible for a specialist, much less a family practitioner, to stay current in all the necessary fields, Dubberly said. In rural areas, keeping current presents an even greater problem than in cities.

As Cox explained, ''Without regular contact among their professional peers, the strain to keep up becomes even more difficult, especially with such great demands on their time. And, when a rural doctor does get away from a busy practice to take continuing education courses, the community may be at risk because no other doctor is available."

In Cochran County, for instance, Dubberly is one of only two general practitioners. Though a surgeon from Levelland, 30 miles away, does assist on a part-time basis in this 775-squaremile county bordering New Mexico, that is the extent of physicians available for Cochran Memorial Hospital, a 30-bed facility which operates around the clock, providing emergency room, in-patient and critical care.

When continuing education programs are in place, Dubberly can use his 510A AT&T workstation to call up a specific program without ever having to leave his office. As the network is further developed, Dubberly will be able to pick up the telephone receiver which is a part of the workstation and call a specialist in Lubbock for a medical consultation on a patient.

The next step in the network development will be to add equipment so an X-ray or even an instant photograph of an injury can be sent by computer to TTUHSC for an evaluation by a specialist.

"KARENET already saves me time just in being able to touch the screen and have my phone calls dialed automatically," Dubberly said, "but its potential in saving patients time, trouble and expense is tremendous.

"We have a lot of older patients who we will be able to handle more efficiently with KARENET because we can determine locally whether we can handle their problem or whether we must send them to specialists in Lubbock.

Since our hospital overhead is low, we actually save them money if they do stay here." ['fj NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987 39

SPORTS

Only One Senior Leadership is an often used intangible when it comes to the ultimate success of athletic teams. At Texas Tech, that is also true, and for the 1987-88 Red Raider men's basketball team, the leadership will most likely come in the form of senior Greg Crowe from South Garland High School. Greg, you see, is the lone senior for head coach Gerald Myers' team this season, and he realizes there is a job to be done and he hopes to help get it done. Crowe was interviewed recently by Texas Tech Assistant Sports Information Director Kelly Robinson, with that discussion following: KR: Greg, going into your final season at Texas Tech, what are some of the things that you feel most proud of in your Red Raider career?

ships. That was really neat and fun.

As far as the lows are concerned, I really don't know. Of course, any

GC: Obviously being on a championship team two of the last three years was a great thrill for me. I really think we surprised a lot of people in both of those seasons.

But we didn't surprise ourselves, because we knew what we had and we believed in ourselves. I just wish we could have gone farther in the playoffs.

KR: Looking ahead to this season, what are your goals for the year?

GC: Of course, I would like to play well all year and if I do that, then the other stuff kind of works itself out. I do have goals that I set every year for myself, but I kind of like to keep them to myself so I can work harder to get them accomplished.

KR: Does not having a great deal of success in playoffs help give you some incentive for the coming year?

GC: Well, in a way, I guess it does.

We have a team this year that will be kind of young, and we have some new players that will really help us. I think our main goal for the year is just to go out and get better every time we step on the floor, and then at the end of the year we want to say that we did as well as we could do. If we do get to the playoffs, though, I imagine we'll be thinking about those last two times and try to improve on that.

KR: What about any team goals that you would like to see accomplished?

GC: I think the top goal for us in long-range planning would be to win the conference championship.

I guess that's the goal of every team in the SWC. Other than that, we just want to play as well as we can every time we take the court.

Just like personal goals, if you play hard and play well every time out, you'll usually accomplish most of what you want to do.

KR: Looking back over your career, you really can point to several "'z~ highs and lows which you've experienced. Talk about that. ~ GC: The highs were, as I said, the championships. There has never been anything I've enjoyed more than winning the conference title and the two tournament champion4o

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time you lose, that's a low point, but you can't win all the time. You have to work your way through the losses and just try to get better. I guess that losing my friend and teammate, Ed Robinson, right before my sophomore year was probably the low point for me, as well as for the rest of the team and coaches. That was a tough time for me, but it also taught me a lesson about life and about myself that I'll never forget. (Robinson died of a heart attack.)

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Greg Crowe

KR: What, in your opinion, do you feel like you have to do from a leadership standpoint for the team this year?

GC: Being the only senior will certainly put me in somewhat of a leadership role, but I hope the way I play and conduct myself off the court will show that I can be a leader and not just the fact that I'm a senior. We've got some other guys on the team who can be leaders, and will be leaders, so I just have to be myself and try to keep the right attitude and that should help the team.

KR: Looking at the team this year, how good do you think it can be?

GC: That's a good que.s tion, because we have such a young team and we have some new guys who will play. I think we have the talent to be able to have a good team, and I know we have the coach to help us be a good team.

What I don't know is how long it will take us to come together and play as a team the way you have to in order to be really good. Coach Myers knows how to bring us together and I think you'll see us develop into a good team as the year goes on.

KR: You were named to the SWC's All-Defensive Team last year and also were an All-SWC Tournament first-teamer. What did it mean to you to win those honors and how do you think it will affect you this season?

GC: It was nice to be named to those teams, but it really doesn't mean anything for this year. Those honors are nice to get, but this is a new year and in order to win honors like that again, I have to play well and that's what I hope to do.

KR: Finally, Greg, tell us in a

nutshell what your career at Tech meant to you.

GC: I'd have to say coming to Tech was by far the best decision for me to make. I've really enjoyed my years here and I'm looking forward to a good senior year. Tech is a good school, the people are nice and I'm playing basketball for one of the best coaches around. Looking back on it, I would pick Tech again if they still wanted me. it

Gerald Myers' Coaching Career YEAR 1960-61 1961-62 1962-63 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1966-67 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1970-7 1 197 1-72 1972-73 1973-74 TOTALS:

SCHOOL Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Lub. Monterey Houston Bapt.

Houston Bapt.

Houston Bapt.

'Texas Tech Texas Tech Texas Tech Texas Tech

RECORD

YEAR

16-10 30-5 17-12 15-18 20-8 28-3 24-7 6-20 16-12 I 0-11 8-5 14-12 19-8 17-9

1974·75 Texas Tech 18-8 1975-76 Texas Tech 25-6 1976·77 Texas Tech 20-9 1977-78 Texas Tech 19-10 1978-79 Texas Tech 19·11 1979-80 Texas Tech 16·13 1980-81 Texas Tech 15-1 3 1981-82 Texas Tech 17·11 1982-83 Texas Tech 11-20 1983:84 Texas Tech 17- 12 1984-85 Texas Ted1 23-8 1985-86 Texas Tech 17- 14 1986-87 Texas Ted1 15-14 'Took over midway through season

SCHOOL

RECORD

At Lubbock Monterey: 150-63 (.704) in seven years At Houston Baptist: 32·43 (.427) in three years At Texas Tech: 291-182 (.615) in 161/z years

POST-SEASON APPEARANCES:

1961-62 1965-66 1972-73 1975-76 1978-79 1984-85 1985-86

Led Monterey to Class 4A State Tournament Led Monterey to Class 4A State Tournament Led Texas Tech to NCAA playoffs- lost to South Carolina in first round Led Texas Tech to NCAA playoffs-beat Syracuse in first round, lost to Missouri in second round Led Texas Tech to NIT berth-lost to Indiana in first round Led Texas Tech to NCAA playoffs-lost to Boston College in first round Led Texas Tech to NCAA playoffs-lost to Georgetown in first round

HONORS IN COACHING CAREER Coached North team in Texas High School Coaches All-Star Game in 1962 Southwest Conference Coach of the Year in 1973, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1986 NCAA District Coach of the Year in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1985

MYERS' RECORD VS. 1987-88 OPPONENTS vs. Arizona State, 0-1 vs. Southwestern Louisiana, 0-1 vs. Wyoming, 2-1 vs. Montana, 1-0 vs. UT-Arlington, 1-0 vs. Jacksonville State, 0-0 vs. Purdue, 0-0 vs. Fresno State, 1-1 vs. Bucknell, 0-0 vs. San Diego State 0·0 vs. Sam Houston State, 0-0 vs. New Orleans, 0·0 vs. Rice, 31-8 vs. Houston, 13-16 vs. Texas, 24-U vs. TCU, 27-10 vs. SMU, 24-14 vs. Texas A&M, 22- 19 vs. Baylor, 30-8 vs. Arkansas, 17-20

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Vicky McKenzie

Darla Isaacks

'New Look' has West Texas flair ( (,..,..,

1. he New Look" is in for Texas Tech women's basketball during the 1987-88 season, but the team's only two seniors-the ones Coach Marsha Sharp will be looking to for leadership-will be West Texas all the way. Not flashy, but well grounded in the fundamentals.

Assuming this role will be senior Darla Isaacks, a 6-0 forward from perennial Class 4A state champion Levelland, and Vicky McKenzie, a 57 guard from tradition-rich Class 3A Abernathy.

The two are excited over Coach Sharp's plans for "The New Look" that will feature more of a running, fast-break offense and a pressingtype defensive alignment.

"I'm looking forward to a good season," Isaacks said, explaining, 42

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"With the changes, we will be adapting to the people we have, and I think it will be some exciting basketball."

McKenzie added, "The big difference is we're going to have 11 players who can play, and everybody is going to have a part-it will be a total team effort."

Winning is a tradition for women's basketball in Raiderland, illustrated by the fact that in Coach Sharp's first five years as head mentor, Tech has compiled a 10844 record. This becomes even more impressive when it is noted that 19 of those losses were to teams ranked in the Top 5 in the nation at the time of the game.

And, four of the losses during last

season's 18-11 mark were to the two teams that played in the semifinals of the NCAA Playoffs-the University of Texas and Louisiana Tech.

Isaacks and McKenzie came from superlative girls' basketball programs. In Isaacks' high school career, the Loboettes won the state championship in her junior year and finished as runners-up in her final prep season. During her high school career, Levelland girls' teams posted a remarkable 99-9 record.

McKenzie's participation at the state tournament in Austin was just as impressive, as the Lady Lopes won the Class 3A title her senior year, posting a 31 -3 record, ~er having done the same thing dunng her freshman season-the only dif-

ference being the role that she played. As a freshman, she was the first sub off the bench, while during her senior year, she was more the team leader from her pointguard spot.

Both believe West Texas girls' basketball is the best played anywhere. "We may not be as talented as some, but when it comes right down to it, the girls work together and know what it takes to make a winner," McKenzie said, pointing to the fact that girls' state champions in all five classifications last season came from West Texas.

Isaacks, too, believes West Texas is something special in girls' basketball. "I come from a basketball family, and I've been playing since I started with Little Dribblers in the third grade. I have four brothers, and we played a lot of basketball on the dirt when I was growing up. It was tough because they were all good athletes and taller than me, but I think it helped me. Of course, when I do something good in basketball now, they take credit for teaching me everything I know about the game," she said, laughing.

Isaacks' goal for the upcoming season is to be a leader on and off the court, just as she was in high school. "Scoring is going to be a big role for me, and my main goal is to be consistent and not so up and down like last year," she said, adding, "I also need to improve my defensive and running game."

In high school, she was the Loboettes' leading scorer from die post position in her junior and senior years, averaging about 18 points per game. Making the transition to college forward took her about a year, but now she is comfortable shooting from the perimeter. Isaacks wound up averaging 7.2 points per game last season but would like to improve that to double figures this year.

McKenzie believes she needs to score more this year (from her 2.4 average last season) and would like to average about five assists per game. "Any time you are a senior, it puts more pressure on you because you are just supposed to do good. Darla and I are used to

Vicky McKenzie ( 12) sets up a play during the game with NCAA runner-up Louisiana Tech last season.

that, and I think we'll handle it okay. It's the type of pressure that will be good for us."

Tech will be playing a tough schedule again this year, including top-ranked teams such as Texas, Louisiana Tech, Penn State and St. Joseph's, so the Raiders will need the experience and leadership that Isaacks and McKenzie can provide.

Coach Sharp puts it this way: "We think both seniors are critical ingredients, and I am looking forward to having their leadership for our younger players. Darla has worked extremely hard in the offseason and is shooting the ball right now with more range and accuracy than she ever has for us at Tech.

"She has come through the ranks, paid the price, and I really expect her to have a great year.

When Vicky was on the floor for us last year, it seemed like we were always coming up with the big steal or big rebound to help us win games. There were several games from the pointguard position that she was the team's leading rebounder, which tells you a little bit about her intensity level and her willingness to abandon self and go get the basketball--an important quality for a successful player."

The Red Raiders will be an extremely young team this season, with only two juniors (and one of

Darla lsaacks (54) lays in two points against Baylor last year.

those is a transfer) on the squad.

This puts even more importance on the leadership role that will be expected from Isaacks and McKenzie. Coach Sharp believes her team this year will be a good one but probably won't start reaching its peak until SWC play begins in January.

"Trying to learn to utilize the personnel in the best way as to who needs to fit into what positions is something that will be really important for us to work on early in the season. But, the encouraging thing is that when I look at our younger players, they are probably the most talented players we have ever had at Tech," she added with a smile.

The Red Raiders open their home schedule on Dec. 4-5 with the first annual Red Raider Classic, featuring Cal-Irvine, Arizona State and Temple University. Win or lose, Coach Sharp guarantees it will be exciting basketball, and it will be with a West Texas flair with Darla Isaacks and Vicky McKenzie in the ~ lineup.

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Behind the scenes on game day BYJ OHN WALLS Photos by I an Halperin

Sports Information assistant Kelly Robinson and Director joe Hornaday go over last-minute details in the press box before the game begins.

Members of the media combine lunch with work as they watch the action from the press box.

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early on an autumn Saturday morning and you are enjoying a leisurely day before the Red Raiders play. But things aren't quite so laid back at ) ones Stadium where the Sports Information Department is at work making sure everything for the game that day goes smooth as clockwork.

While you might be finishing a second Danish w ith your coffee, ]oe Hornaday, sp orts information director (SID), and his assistants, Kelly Robinson and Bob Ward, are working to promote the Red Raiders.

"Probably the main job we have is dealing w ith the media and informing them of what is going on w ith our athle tic teams, our individuals and our coaches," Hornaday said.

From the mome nt you walk through a gate at )ones Stadium, you are watching an event that has been carefully orchestrated over the period of the preceding week.

As you buy your program, you are receiving information that is put out for every home game by the sports information department.

Want to take your seat and enjoy the pre-game program? That too, has been planned (to the second )

A~sistant ~ID .Bob War~ types the play-by-play f or the game w hile student assistant

Rzchard Ktlwzen helps spot" the action for the press box announcer.

by the sports info department.

Once the game begins, the public address announcer updates fans on other action occurring across

the conference and the country.

The SID is continually updating information to keep the fans in the know.

More than just a game "A student assistant is not the most glorified position, but it's a lot of fun. I can't imagine not working here."

For Russell Warren, a senior from Lamesa, the job of a student assistant in the Sports Information Department has been a large part of his life for the past four years.

Warren carne to Tech as a freshman looking for a job in the athletics department when Lady Luck smiled on him and he went to work for Texas Tech athletics. It has been a memorable experience, he said.

"It's so much more than what I originally thought was involved," Warren said. "It involves marketing, public relations, journalism and all other areas of communication."

During those four years, Warren has been able to work with a wellrespected sports information department. ' "joe (Hornaday, the SID at Tech) and his staff of Kelly Robinson and Bob Ward are well thought of, not just within the conference but

Student assistant Russell Warren keeps an eye out for any possible problems on the field.

around the country," he said. "Joe can pick up the phone and call Penn State or USC and they are going to know him and the reputation of the department right off the bat."

One of the parts of the job that Warren enjoys most is the "family feeling" within the department- a feeling that extends through gaine day.

"When you work up there every day and you know what the players go through in preparation for a game, it takes on a different meaning for me when they take the field," he said. "It's more to us than just a game. When we lose, it hurts, because we're all working for the same goals. But when we win, it makes our job all that more satisfying."

During the games, Warren is the department's extension on .the field.

He keeps an update on all injured players for the writers in the press box, and he helps with security on the sidelines. Warren stays in touch with the press box during the game through the use of headphones.

"I was in the press box during my first year here, and I wa5 very glad to get out of there," he said. "In the press box, it's a working area so you are not allowed to show excitement or support for one team over another. That's very hard for meI'm a radical Raider fan."

As the double major in public relations and marketing finishes his last year in sports information, he can look back on a special accomplishment when Tech accepted the Independence Bowl bid last fall.

"I knew what those guys had been through and for them to get that invitation meant a lot to all of us involved in the department," Warren said. "It was a victory for all of us."

Students who are as committed to their school and its sports teams as Russell Warren is, become alumni who carry that same spirit away with them when they leave the campus. They are the real Red Raiders.

If any records are set during the game, you find out exactly what happened because the department keeps a file of all records set during a Tech game. "We are the information storage bank for the sports end of the University," Hornaday said.

And while you enjoy the game, there is another world going on in the press box.

Media representatives from across the state come to cover Tech games and the press box is where they do their job.

When a member of the media comes to )ones Stadium, he or she is treated to a pre-game buffet.

Then the correspondent can go to the pre-assigned seat and look over the pregame press release and the program that the department publishes each week. The press release carries notes, statistics and quotes about the game that might help the sportswriter prepare his or her story on the game.

During the game, the writers are left alone to work on their stories.

"We try not to visit much with the media during the game," Hornaday said. "It's a working situation for the people in the press box."

The sports information department provides a statistics crew to keep all the vital information that occurs during the game. Afterwards, the stats crew puts out a comprehensive book of information about the game, along with players' and coaches' quotes that have been obtained from the interview room after the game.

"We put out any kind of information you could ever want up there in the press box after the game," Hornaday said. "A typed play-byplay, a defensive tackle chart, statistics, and quotes from the players and coaches go into a book of information for the media."

The media use the book, normally about 15 to 17 pages, in developing their stories about the game. In this manner the fans are able to get accurate and complete information about the game in the next day's newspaper.

They're the men behind the men at )ones Stadium-the people who, rl'l literally, bring you the game.

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Calendar of Events Performing Arts

(from December 1)

Exhibits & Showings Planetarium Dec. 1-31, "The Star of Bethlehem." The viewer travels through time to the days of the first Christmas, where knowledge of legends, customs, science and superstitions are examined in hopes of discovering the "star" that heralded the birth of Christ.

Showings are 2 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; 7:30 p.m. Thur.; 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Sat./Sun. Planetarium will be closed Dec. 24, 25, 31 andjan. I.

The much loved and exuberant "Scrooge" will be staged just in time for Christmas at Texas Tech. Stan Norman will direct the University Theatre tradition, which will be presented Dec. 3·7 and Dec. 10 through 13, w ith Sunday matinees on Dec. 6 and 13.

"Scrooge" is a piece of magical Christmas cheer for the entire fami ly.

The classic Dickens tale of the miserly and miserable Ebeneezer Scrooge will be shown for the ftfth consecutive year.

In the spring, the American classic "The Time of Your Life" will play Feb. 18-22 ( matinee on Feb. 2 1). Nick's waterfront saloon is the setting for Willianl Saroy-.m's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a man's search for hap-

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University Events Dec. 1-3, Winter Arts & Crafts Fair, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., U.C. Courtyard Dec. 4, Carol of Lights, 7 p .m., Science Quadrangle Dec. 4, Wassail and Brass, Friends of the Library/ Southwest Collection, Croslin Room, Library, immediately following Carol of lights Dec. 10-11, Candlelight at the Ranching Heritage Center, 6-8 p.m.

Dec. 13, Christmas Open House, 1-5 p.m., Museum Dec. 19, Law School Hooding Ceremony, U.C. Theatre Dec. 19, Texas Tech Commencement

piness and answers to the eternal Questions of Life.

Rounding out the 1987-88 season will be the farce "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn. A play within a play, "Noises Off" is one of the most successful plays to come from Broadway in the past 10 years. A troupe of hasbeen and never-were actors frantically go about the ir final re hearsal for a sexfarce called "Nothing On." As they stumble and bumble their way through their lines, they are besieged by a kaleidoscope of calamities. "Noises Off," directed by Clifford Ashby, will run April 21-25 with a matinee on April 24.

Contact the Texas Tech University Theatre for ticket information: 806/ 742-3601.

Dec. 3 and 5·8, Madrigal Dinner, 6:30 p.m., U.C. Ballroom (call 806/742-3610 for tickets) Dec. 3·7, "Scrooge," theatre production, 8: 15p.m. ( 2 p .m. Sunday), University Theatre Dec. 4-6, "Nutcracker" ballet, Civic Center Dec. 4, Carol of Lights, 7 p.m., Science Quadrangle. Followed by annual Carol Concert, University Choir and University Singers, 8:15 p.m., Hemmle Recital Hall Dec. 4, Tina Thmer concert, 9 p.m., Municipal Coliseum Dec. 5 & 12, Cecil Caldwell Concert, Civic Center Dec. '6, College of Education Home Tour, 3-6p.m.

Dec. 10, University Symphonic Band, 8:15 p .m., Hemmle Recital Hall Dec. 13, Suzuki String Program Christmas Concert, 3 p .m., Hemmle Recital Hall Dec. 18-20, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Civic Center

Sports Women's Basketball Dec. 4-5, Red Raider Classic here Dec. 8, at Univ. of Texas-San Antonio Dec. 11, Brigham Young University here Dec. 19, at Penn State Dec. 21 , at St. Joseph Univ., Philadelphia Dec. 29, at New Mexico State Jan. 2, Univ. of Alabama here Jan. 5, Rice here Jan. 9, at Houston Jan. 13, at Louisiana Tech Jan. 16, Texas here Jan. 19, at TCU Jan. 23, at SMU Jan. 26, Texas A&M here Jan. 30, Baylor here Men's Basketball Dec. 5, at Wyoming Dec. 7, at Montana Dec. 10, UT-Arlington here Dec. 19, Jacksonville State here Dec. 22, at Purdue Dec. 27-28, San Diego State Tournament in San Diego Jan. 2, Sam Houston State here Jan. 6, Rice here Jan. 9, at Houston Jan. 11, at New Orleans Jan. 16, Texas here Jan. 20, at TCU Jan. 23, at SMU Jan. 27, Texas A&M here Jan. 30, Baylor here

ClA$ NOTES By june Gould

'Rushing '44

'Spraberry '52

'Reynolds '55

'BirdweU 74

'Maga/Janes 74

'Whitt 74

'Redding 78

'Brown '80

'Ross '82

'Arrington '84

32 Faye Bumpass (BA, MA '34 English), Lubbock, was named a Distinguished Alumna by the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a longtime faculty member in the department of classical and romance languages and a published author.

36Georgia Mae Smith Ericson (BS Food & Nutrition), Crosbyton, was named a 1987 Distinguished Alumna by the Ex-Students Association. She is well known for her active solar home, Casa del Sol, in Blanco Canyon.

39 Joe A. Stanley (BS Civil Engineering), Lubbock, was inducted into the Beverage World Hall of Fame by the International Bottled Water Association. Stanley is president and co-owner of Continental Water Systems of the

Alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences. She has been an instructor in the English department and is a noted author of West Texas fiction. She collaborated with Kline A. Nail on "Evolution of a University: Texas Tech's First Fifty Years."

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duction), San Angelo, was named a 1987 Distinguished Alumnus by the ExStudents Association. He is a rancher.

He is active in community and civic affairs. Piluger served on the Tech Board of Regents from 1975-81.

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•Hubert 0. Spraberry (BS Agricul-

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M.Y. ':Jerry" Hall (BAJournalism), Austin, was named an Outstanding Alumnus of the department of mass communications. He is the owner of a public relations finn that focuses on public and press relations, governmental liaison activities and political campaigns. Hall is married to the former Mary Vestal ( BA '51 Journalism).

Floyd C. Rector (BA Chemistry), Sausalito, Calif., has been named a 1987 Distinguished Alumnus by the ExStudents Association. He is a physican and renal specialist. He is presently professor of medicine and physiology and senior scientist with the Cardiovascular Research Institute and the University of California Medical Center at San Francisco. Rector is married to the former Marjorie Bullen (BFA '50 Advertising Art).

is assistant principal at Paris High School.

•Jane Gilmore Rushing (BA Journalism, MA '45, PhD '57 English), Lubbock, was named a Distinguished

51Robert L. pfluger (BS Animal Pro-

57 H. Dane Grant Jr. (BBA Finance),

Plains.

41 Duffer B. Crawford ( BS Civil Engineering), Houston, has been named a feUow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is retired as manager of process development for M.W. Kellogg Co.

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Winifred Woods Vigness (BA, MA '43 History), Lubbock, has been named a Distinguished Alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is executive secretary of the West Texas Museum Association.

tural Economics, PhD '85 Land Use

Planning), Brownwood, is dean of the School of Business at Howard Payne University. He and his wife have three children.

55 •Joe J. Reynolds (BBA Finance), Lubbock, has been named Mass Mutual Agent of the Year by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. He has been with the company since 1966. Reynolds is married to the former Annise Baynes ('58 General Home Economics). They have two sons and two grandchildren.

56 Paul Stuart (BA Philosophy), Paris,

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Kent Hance (BBA Finance, JD '68), Lubbock, has been named to the Texas Railroad Commission.

James R. Henley Jr. (BA, MA '66 Sociology), Fort Worth, is associate professor of sociology and associate dean of the AddRan College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Christian University.

J.E. "Pete" Laney (BS Agricultural Economics), Hale Center, was honored as a Man of the Year in Texas Agriculture for 1987 by the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association. He is a state representative. Laney is married to the former Nelda McQuien (BSE '65 Education). They have three children.

66 Sammy Duncan ( BSE Education, MA '74 Mathematics), Andrews, is a math teacher at Andrews High School.

He is married to the former )annette Beck (BA '72 English).

Woodrow W. Hitchcock (BS, PhD '69 Mechanical Engineering), Stamford, Conn., has been named to the board of directors of Parsons Brinckerhoff Construction Services Inc. He is president of Parsons Brinckerhoff International Inc. Michael R. Pinkston (BA, MA '68, PhD '74 Psychology), Santa Rosa, Calif., is in private practice as a clinical psychologist.

Max Stapleton ( BS Agricultural Education), Haskell, was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association. He is married to the former Christie Couch (BSE '66 Education).

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Ted Allen (BA Chemistry), Lubbock, is a general and vascular surgeon.

He recently complete a term as chief of staff at Methodist Hospital. Allen is married to the former Doris Hobson (BS '62 General Home Economics).

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Donald A. Key ( BBA Accounting, MBA '65 ), Dallas, is partner-in-charge of accounting and auditing in the Dallas office of Ernst & Whinney. He and his wife, Patty, have two children.

65 Kenneth Baker (BS, MS '70 ChemiName._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _

cal Engineering), Dallas, is president of Greene & Associates Inc. He is married

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to the former Ruth Reid (BS '64 Home Economics Education).

David D. Davis (BA Mathematics), Bryan, is a studies analyst with GTE Southwest. He and his wife, Maureen, have two children.

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68 Bruce Magness (BA Political Science, JD '7 1), Lubbock, is a partner in the law firm of Jacobo & Magness.

Katherine Barnard Thurber (BS Home Economics Education), Atlanta, is director of communications for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

69 Sam P. Henry (BBA Finance), Dallas, is senior vice president of Cornerstone Barik. He is married to the former Gretchen A. Strlef ( BA '68 Political Science). They have six children.

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Paul Douglas Kenley (BA English), Abilene, is pastor of the Southwest Park Baptist Church. He recently received his MA in religion from Hardin-Simmons University and was

Former livestock judgers honor Stanley Anderson More than 60 alumni gathered in honor of Professor Stanley Anderson, a former Texas Tech judging team coach in the 1950s. The Anderson reunion was held in the University Center Ballroom Sept. 19 in conjunction with Uvestock Day, Ranch Day and the Golden Spur Award.

A native of Villisca, Iowa, Anderson came to Texas Tech from Iowa State in 1948 and earned his master's degree in 1951. He was the meats judging coach for one year before becoming head coach of the livestock team, a position he held for the next 12 years.

Along with many significant team wins, Anderson also was chosen as judge of all individual steer classes at the 1959 and 1960 Chicago International livestock Exposition. He was the second American, at that time, to be elected to the position since the exposition was founded in 1900.

Anderson now lives in Springfield, Mo., dealing in livestock exports and real estate.

The idea for the reunion of Anderson with his former students belongs to Tech-ex Richard ligon '58 of Plainview. Ligon was a member of the senior livestock judging team of 1957.

His first idea was to get together some old teammates, but after a little brainstorming and a few calls, the focus changed and the reunion formed.

The luncheon began at 12:30 with honored with the Hemphill Honor Award given to the outstanding master's candidate.

J.R. Price (BBA Finance), Arlington, is an inspector at the Fort Worth division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. He is married to the former Nancy Laine (BA '71 English).

James E. Sowell (BBA Finance), Dallas, and his wife, Elizabeth, have endowed a professorship in finance for the College of Business Administration.

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Jack Bowen ( BA Telecommunications), Oklahoma City, was named a 1987 Outstanding Alumnus of the mass communications department. He works at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City and has been recognized nationally for his ''Wednesday's Child" program, which focuses on finding permanent adoptive homes for children with special needs.

William W. Echols III (BAR Architecture Design), Arlington, is a project architect and construction adrninistra-

Richard Ligon (right) turns the microphone over to Stanley Anderson during the Livestock Reunion held this fall on campus.

Dr. R.A. Long, chairman of the animal science department, giving a brief slide show. Anderson then gave an address in which he said, "I now feel comfortable about Texas Tech. Dr. Long has turned the University around."

Anderson reminisced about his days at Tech and told a few tales about the judging team trips. "My life has been affected by you people," he said, ending his speech with a sincere invitation. "It's good to be back and see you folks. Stop by Missouri and I'll tion manager for V. Aubrey Hallum Architects/ Planners. He and his wife, Jan, have two sons.

Jack W. Flynt II (BA Speech), Dimmitt, holds the rank of major in the U.S. Air Force. He is chief of the Command Control Division with the 7th Air Division in West Germany. He recently was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.

Carl Eugene Garrett Jr. (BS Mathematics), Ingram, is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy currently on special assignment awaiting duty as the executive officer on the USS San Jacinto.

72 Eddie Holland ( BS Animal Science, MED '76 Agricultural Education), Kerrville, is Kerr County agent. He recently was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the Texas County Agricultual Agents Association. Holland is married to the former Peggy Hudgins (BS '73 Consumer Studies & Manage-

be happy to visit with each and every one of you."

The reunion concluded with an announcement by Rob Brown '58 of Throckmorton about a scholarship fund in honor of Anderson. Donations would be taken for the next four years and the interest off the endowment will establish a permanent scholarship.

In response, Anderson said he was humbled by the honor, as it was the highest that could be paid him. ( By Alice Hall) ment).

73 Roxann McMurry Allen· ( BSE Secondary Education), Dumas, is an artist who works in watercolors. She has her own studio and gallery.

Charles L. Salomon OD ), Bryan, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is currently serving with the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Dallas.

William J. Wisniewski (PhD Psychology), Toledo, Ohio, has completed the military indoctrination for medical service officers at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He holds the rank of major in the U.S. Air Force.

74•Nancy Leech Birdwell ( BA Advertising), Lubbock, is director of corporations and foundations for the Office of Development at Tech. She is married to John E. Birdwell Ill ('74 Agricultural Science).

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Secondary Education), Lubbock, is a management consultant. She has one daughter.

Stephen A. Headley (BA Advertising, MA '79 Mass Communications), Washington, is a major in the U.S. Air Force. He is chief of the Public Affairs Division, 51st Tactical Fighter Wing, South Korea.

•Ramon Magallanes Jr. (MED Elementary Education), Fort Worth, is director of bilingual education with the Fort Worth Independent School District.

Adelaida Montemayor (BS Sociology), Lubbock, is program director of the psychiatry unit at Methodist Hospital.

Charles F. Schattgen (BBA Marketing), Dallas, is area manager of the Specialty Products and Insulation branch offices in Dallas and Orlando and Tampa, Florida.

•Jack L. Whitt (BA Sociology), Dallas, is southwest division manager for Maidstone Wme & Spirits Inc. He and his wife, Kahti, have two children.

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G. Rux Hensley (BA Psychology), Lubbock, is director of social services at Buckner Children's Home. He recently earned at master's degree from Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

T. Charles Parr III (BBA Accounting), San Antonio, is senior manager in the tax department of Peat Marwick Main & Co.

76 Gay Richardson Adams (BSE Secondary Education), Andrews, is the ULD teacher at the Andrews Middle School. She is married to Charles W. Adams (BSE '76 Secondary Education).

Timothy C. Harrison (BS Mathematics), Reston, Va., is a senior member technical staff with the Software Production Consortium. He is married to the former Annelle Harris ~BSE '76 Elementary Education), who ts a member technical staff at the MITRE Corp.

Ken Turner (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, is vice president strategic planning and treasurer of Furr's/ Bishop's Cafeterias, LP. He and his wife, Carol, have two children.

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Darla Bu~ Doty (BS Agricul-

t~ Education), Snyder, is an adminis-

trative assistant in the student services office at West Texas College. She and her husband, Bob, have two sons.

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Nathan D. Smith (BSE Elementary Education), Weatherford, is a captain in the Army National Guard. He is married to the former Cheryl Hundley ( BS '82 Home Economics Education).

78 Armando Gallardo Jr. (BAR Architecture), Dallas, is an associate principal and project manager with RTKL Associates Inc. Brian Hendon (BA Advertising/ Public Relations), Plano, is sales manager at the Dallas Marriott Park Central. He is married to the former Nancy Miles (BSE '81 Elementary Education), who is a special education teacher.

•tarry Redding (BBA Accounting), Allen, has received Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s Texas Comptrollers 1987 VIP Award for his work on the development and implementation of new programs allowing for the mechanical rather than manual entry of various computer data. He and his wife, Susan, have three children.

79 Arthur Aguilar (BFA Advertising Art), Lubbock, is supervisor of graphic arts with Texas Tech Engineering Services.

Douglas W. Schoemaker (BAR Architecture), Dallas, is an associate principal and head of one of three proJect management groups with RTKL Associates Inc. Alfred White (BGS General Studies), Overland Park, Kan., is associate director of communications with the NCAA.

80 David A. Blasingame ( BS Physical Education), Mexia, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marines.

Stephen Bouline (BBA Account· ing), Houston, is state chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation.

He has also been named an Outstanding Young Man in America for ·1987.

•Gary R. Brown (MBA), Plano, is executive director of the Texas Society of CPAs. He and his wife, Peggy, have one daughter.

Doug S. Freeman (BBA Marketing), Bellaire, is a buyer for men's clothing and furnishings for Sakowitz in Houston. He and his wife, Becky, are the parents of a son.

Ruben Osuna ( BSE Secondary Edu· cation), Muleshoe, is a coach and Spanish teacher at Muleshoe High School.

He is married to the former Pam Rigsby (BSE '87 Elementary Educa-

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tion ), who is a teacher at DeShazo Elementary School.

81 Suzan Blackman Browning (BFA Advertising Art), Lubbock, is a designer with D. Hill Design. She is married to Jay D. Browing (BBA '8 1 Finance, MBA '83).

Phillip A. Nichols QD ), Stephenville, is serving as county attorney for Erath County.

David Tunmire (MS Animal Nutrition), Benjamin, received the Achievement Award from the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association. He is county extension agent for Knox County.

82 *Jeppe Gustin Ross (BA History), Austin, is director of human resources at the Guest Quarters Hotel. She is responsible for personnel hiring and training.

83 Lynn Baldwin (BS Nursing), Morton, is head nurse at Cochran Memorial Hospital.

Brenda Richie Benge (BS Merchandising), Longview, is marketing director of La Hacienda Restaurant. She is married to Willima Bret Benge ( BS '83 Agricultural Education), who is KETK-1V sales manager.

David Carroll (BBA Finance), Pago Pago, known as "Booger Red" when playing baseball at Tech, graduated from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a master of divinity degree. He and his wife, Karyn, are missionaries in Samoa.

Jeana vonRoeder Duke (BFA Interior Design), Snyder, is owner and manager of Classic Designs. She and her husband, Mark, have one daughter.

PeterS. Durkin (BS, MS '85 Electrical Engineering), Pittsburgh, is a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He is a beam control systems engineer with the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Durkins is married to the former Charla Frazier ('81 Home Economics Education).

Jeri}. Fickes (BA English), Lubbock, has won the S500 first place prize in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Susan Graham (BM, MM '85 Music Performance), New York, was awarded the prestigious Schwabacher Award at the graduation recital by the San Francisco Opera's Merola Fellows. She also won the Kent Family Grant. She will 52 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1987

study with noted voice teacher Christa Ludwig.

Jeffery Miller (SSE Secondary Education), Andrews, is a math teacher and golf and football coach at the Andrews Middle School. He is married to the former Deann Halsell (SSE '83 Secondary Education).

84*Chris Arrington (BA History),

Irving, has joined Jim Richardson & Associates Inc. He is in sales and acquisition of investment properties.

Arrington is married to the former Kimberly Martin (BS '86 Family Studies).

Pattie L. Frisbie ( BBA Finance), Plainview, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. She recently graduated from Aircraft Maintenance Officer school.

Michael T. Genereaux (BS Geology), Renton, Wash., is an ensign in the U.S. Navy. He is a naval flight officer.

Stephen C. Rodgers (BS Recreation), Las Vegas, is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He is a deputy missile crew commander with the 740th

Strategic Missile Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Lisa Saxenian (BSE Secondary Education), Waco, is teaching Spanish at Lake Air Middle School.

Sharon L. Tavenner (BA Social Welfare), Lubbock, received a MSW from Our Lady of the Lake University.

Kenneth W. Williams II (BBA Accounting), Abilene, has passed the CPA exam. He is employed by Wolfe, Roberson & Brown. Williams and his wife, Cynie, have one daughter.

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Kathryn M. Anthony (BA Political Science), Fort Collins, Colo., is an intern in city management with the city of Fort Collins. She received her MPA from Texas A&M. Rick Barnes (BS Agricultural Economics), Fort Worth, is coordinator of Greek residential living at Texas Christian University.

Fred L. Chavez (BA Political Science), San Antonio, is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He is a squadron commander at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas.

ALUMNI PROFILE

jim Humphreys

Name: Jim Humphreys '47 City: Lubbock, Texas Occupation: Ranching, Pitchfork Land & Cattle Co. Major: Animal Husbandry Tech Aff~a~ions: Saddle Tramps, Aggie Club, Block & Bridle, Double T Assoctat10n, Alpha Phi Omega Hobbies: History of Ranching and of American Railroads Favorites: Food - Beef Music - Country & Western Movie - Union Pacific Book - Centennial, Lonesome Dove Place to Visit - Hawaii Ambition: To live a good life in service to my God my country and my fellow man. '

Karen Gill McLaughlin ( BSE Elementary Education), Muleshoe, is a math teacher at the Muleshoe Junior High School. She is married to Mark A. Mclaughlin (BBA '85 Management).

Joseph E. Parsley (BS Geology), Carrollton, is a cartographic operations officer with the 544th Target Materials Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. He holds the rank of first lieutenant.

Parsley is married to the former Karen Waddle (BBA '84 Finance).

Jay R. Schrock (PhD Home Economics Education), Lubbock, is a professor in the restaurant, hotel & institutional management department at Tech. He recently spent a month at the Tianjin University of Commerce in China where he trained students and government officials in computer applications in the hospitality industry.

Timothy E. Weitz OD ) , San Angelo, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

E. Roger Williams (PhD Psychology), Monterey, Calif., is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He is an outpatient mental health services chief at Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center, Miss.

86 Kim Broderick (MS Sports Health), Lubbock, is an assistant trainer in women's athletics at Tech. She was a member of the training staff for the 1987 Pan American Games.

Perry Cole (BBA Management), Spring, is regional account manager with Whitehall Laboratories.

Timothy M. Heatherman ( BS Food & Nutrition), Plantation, Fla., is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

C. Clay Hollock (BS Agricultural Economics), Richardson, is a copier specialist with Pitney Bowes. He is married to the former Bernadette Friedrich (BA '86 Public Relations), who is a marketing representative with Rainbow-Ticketmaster.

Anna Beth McKaskle ( BSE Elementary Education), Andrews, is teaching reading at the Andrews Middle School.

Jerry W. Pritchard (BA Geography), Lubbock, is a navigator in the U.S. Air Force. He holds the rank of second lieutenant.

Michael A. Reed ( BBA Finance), Houston, is an assistant manager at l.uby's Cafeteria o n HWY 290 & West 34th.

Richard Schad ( BS Agricultural Economics), Gruver, has published a research article in the first issue of the Texas Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The article, "Production

of Cash Market Grain Sorghum versus Contracting Hybrid Seed," was co-written with agricultural economics professor R Terry Ervin.

87 Alain G. Jelensperger ( BA Anthropology) , Bay City, completed recruit training and is a U.S. Navy Seaman.

Cindy Mitchell (BSE Secondary Education), Levelland, is teaching English at the junior high school level in Muleshoe.

Scott Moore (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, received the Arthur G. Upleger Graduate Accounting Fellowship for 1987. He is working on his MBA at Tech.

MARRIAGES (Send your marriage announcement and current dty of residence to june Gould, P.O. Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409.)

Darrell Adams (BBA '84 Finance) and Pamela Ferguson, Aug. 22, Mineral Wells.

Christopher Bagby (BBA '87 Finance) and Clarissa Maxey, Aug. 1, Lubbock.

Karen Lynn Bailey (BS '84 Civil Engineering) and Eric Lee Wildhagen, Sept. 12, Rockwall.

Cassandra Dee Barnett (BS '84 Clothing & Textiles) and Lynn Raggio, Sept. 4, Lubbock.

Lynn Snyder Bartell (BS '69 Interior Design) and Bob L. Hooker, July 24, El Reno, Okla.

Les BifDe ( BA '82 English) and Karen Carter, Aug. 8, Lubbock.

Amy Adelle Blackwood ( BA '87 History) and Paul David Bliese, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Donna Dee Britt ( BFA '83 Design Communications) and Cary Reynolds (BS '85 Mechanized Agriculture), May 30, Lubbock.

Marcy Brown ( BSE '87 Elementary Education) and Darin Kip Hair, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

David Alexander Bruington (BBA '86 Accounting) and Paula Lynne Sanders, Aug. 8, Lubbock.

John Scott Burkhardt (BS '87 Physical Education) and Kimberly Joy Shollenbarger Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Tracy ieigh Cain (BS '86 Clothing & Textile) and John David Elmore (BBA '81 Accounting, JD '84), Aug. 29, Lubbock.

M. Katie Campbell (BS '85 Home Economics Education) and Scott Mitchell Sept. 19, Dallas.

Cheryl Chambers (BSE '87 Secon-

dary Education) and Tim Tannehill, Aug. 8, Lubbock.

John leonard Coffman ( BS '82 Agricultural Economics) and Melinda Kathryn Matthews, April 25, Midland.

Donald Glenn Cook (BS '85 Zoology) and Krisha Jeanelle Tanner, Aug. 22, Lubbock. leslie Gail Cox (BBA '85 Management Information Systems) and Robby Dale Garrison ( BBA '86 Management Information Systems), Sept. 19, Arlington.

James Robert Crisp IV (BS '83 Horticulture) and Laurie Jo Engle, Sept.

25, Lubbock.

Torri Carol Crow (BSE '87 Secondary Education) and Steven]. Welch (BBA '87 General Business), Aug. 8, Lubbock.

Darrell Logan Davis ( BSE '84 Elementary Education) and Catherine Anne Goodwin, Aug. 1, Fort Worth.

Robert Francis Doviak II (BBA '82 Accounting) and Lauren Robert Ross, Aug. 22, Dallas.

Lori Kirstyn Drachenberg (BS '85 Home Economics Education) and Mitchell Dean Britton (BBA '84 Finance), Aug. 8, Wolfforth.

Brian Alan Duke ( BBA '86 Management) and Sonya Kay Williams, Sept.

12, Lubbock.

Suzanne Eidson ( BBA '82 Finance, MBA '84) and Brantley Ross Pringle (BBA '83 Marketing, JD '87), Aug. 15, Dallas.

Robert Mark Estep (BA '83 History) and Theresa G. Williams, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Melanie A. Fewin (BS '86 Merchandising) andJimmie Hilton]r. (BA '87

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Advertising), Aug. 29, Burr Ridge, Ill. Kevin Hartman (BBA '86 Management) and Diana Shamblen, Aug. 1, Arlington.

Heather Headley (BBA '87 Management) and Scott Williams (BS '86 Chemistry), Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Kent Alan Hennig (BBA '86 Accounting) and Dawn Marie Crossland, Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Gary Henniger (BS '86 Agricultural Education) and Kristy Robbins, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Lawrence Lee Hicks (BBA '82 Marketing, MBA '84 ) and Susan Michalka, Aug. 22, Addison.

Jan Hill (BSE '86 Elementary Education) and Todd Beedy (BS '86 Agricultural Economics), Aug. 15, Floydada.

Raymond Holllda (BS '86 Geosciences) and Cathy Holland, Aug. 1, San Antonio.

Stephen Alan James (BS '84 Civil Engineering) and Tena Diane Nabors, Aug. 15, Snyder.

Jill Ellen Jenkins (BA '85 journalism/ Public Relations) and jesse C. Miller, Aug. 15, Sherman.

Gregory Wayland Jones (BS '82, MS '83 Agricultural Education) and Julia Beth Sadler, Aug. 22, Raymondville.

Laura Kiltz ( BSE '85 Secondary Education) and Craig Garrison (BBA '85 Finance), Aug. 1, Houston.

Sara Knight ( BBA '86 Accounting) and Michael Schulenberg, Sept. 26, Lubbock.

Rosemary Lynn Lane (BS '86 Computer Science) andJames Lynn Berry (BS '87 Computer Science), Aug. 1, Phoenix.

Michael Craig Lemons (BS '87 Chemical Engineering) and Traci Michelle Cearley, Aug. 8, Midland.

Susan Kay Link ( BA '86 Advertising) and Jeffrey Glenn Boone (MA '87 Mass Communications), Sept. 5, Dallas.

Jack Anthony Long ( BS '85 Mechanical Engineering) and DeVono Michele Taylor, Aug. 1, Levelland.

RichardJames Marks (BBA '84 Finance) and Eileen Marie Reinauer, Aug. 8, Boston.

Martha Michele Massey (BBA '87 Marketing) and Donald Bryan Boone, Sept. 5, Arlington.

Nancy H. McDonald (BA '81 Political Science) and Mark H. Siefken, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Melissa McFadden (BS '85 Consumer Studies & Management) and Grant McCarty, Aug. 1, Spade.

Gary McLaren (BBA '83 Finance) and Andra Draper, Sept. 26, Lubbock.

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General Business) and Randy Lee Hutchcraft, Aug. 1, Lubbock.

Susan Kay Mohnkern (BBA '87 Management) and Kelly David Heinrich (BS '85 Mechanized Agriculture ), Sept. 5, Slaton.

Laurie Lee Myers (BSE '82 Elementary Education) and David Todd McKee (BS '83 Agricultural Economics), Aug. 14, Lubbock.

Beverly Kay Norfleet (BS '85 Home Economics Education) and Bill Hendon, Aug. l , Lubbock.

Gina Pendergrass (BA '86 Journalism) and Mack Baldridge (BS '86 Food & Nutrition), Sept. 12, Lubbock Charlotte Rutherford Peters (BSE '87 Elementary Education) and Jay Foreman (BFA '82 Art) , Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Wmdy Rainey (BFA '84 Design Communications) and Nathan Shannon, Sept. 19, New Deal.

Bridget Record ( BS '86 Horticulture) and Marty Faulkenberry, Sept. 12, Lubbock.

Kelley Dupree Roach (BA '82 Advertising) and Bruce Henry Hoeve, Sept. 5, Lubbock.

Roger Robe (BBA '83 Marketing) and Shannon Conover, Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Tammy Simmons ( BS '84 Merchandising) and Michael Rockafellow (BBA '83 Finance), Sept. 19, Lubbock.

Mary Beth Sledge (BS '83 International Trade ) and Stanley joel Gumble, Aug. 29, Garland.

Rebecca Ann Smith (BSE '81 Secondary Education) and Brian Conrad Smith, Aug. 22, Dallas.

Katrina Lynn Stefanides (BBA '86 Management Informations Systems) and Gary Dean Eifert, Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Paul Sullivan (BS '86 Mechanical Engineering) and Tracie Sharp, Aug. 15, Lubbock.

Don Warren Talley Jr. (BBA '81 Marketing) and Mellisa Louise Melcher, Sept. 26, Lubbock.

James Austin Templer (BS '84 Wildlife Management) and Susan Lynn Hutchins, Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Laura Lea Tetreault (BA '87 Journalism) and Eric Emil Gutschke, Aug. 14, Lubbock.

Jeff Tinnell (BA '83 Journalism) and Nancy Kay Louder, Aug. 22, Lubbock.

Janice Marie Valdez ( BS '84, MS '86 Speech & Hearing Science) and Randall Scott Hardin (BS '85 Landscape Architecture), Aug. 1, Dallas.

Julie Renee Wadsworth (BBA '87 Finance) and Ross Wayne Alexander, Aug. 29, Lubbock.

Kimberly Michelle Wagner (BA '83 Advertising) and Donald Lynn Kerr, Aug. 29, Sherman.

Miles W. Walston ( BS '81 Physical Education) and Me lisa K Chambless, Aug. 1, Lubbock.

Carol Lynn West ( BA '85 Art Education) and Nathan Wheeler (BS '82 Agronomy), Aug. 8 , Lubbock.

Dayla Anell Wtlson ( BS '84 Family Studies) and Christopher -Melancon Hearo n, Aug. 8 , Lubbock.

Kent Womack (BS '86 Food & Nutrition) and Suzanne Carlisle, Sept.

18, Corpus Christi.

Roy David Wright (BS '84 Chemical Engineering) and Robyn Annette He rron, Sept. 12, Fort Stockton.

DEATIIS (Send obituary announcements to june Gould, P.O. Box 4009, Lubbock, TX79409.)

Beryl Duff Barnett '49 Beryl Duff Barnett, 69, of Plainview died Sept. 3. She received her BS in general home economics. Barnett taught at Plainview Junior High School from 1950-83. She is survived by four sons and six grandchildren.

Byron C. Bennett '45 Byron C. Bennett, 59, of Plainview died Sept. 6. He was a member of the class of 1945. Bennett was a farmer and an independent grain broker. Survivors include two daughters, two sons, two grandchildren and his mother.

Ellzabeth Bobo '42 Elizabeth Thacker Bobo, 8 1, of Lubbock died Aug. 10. She received her BSE in 1942 and her MEDin 1950.

Bobo taught school in Seminole and surrounding schools for 42 years. Survivors include her husband, Ira; three stepdaughters, one stepson, and 13 grandchildren.

Elmer Brownlee '54 Elmer G. Brownlee, 87, of Brownfield died Aug. 22. He graduated with a MED. Brownlee taught school in several West Texas counties. He also worked in real estate. He is survived by his wife, Ella; one daughter, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Juanita Collins '39 Juanita Hauk Collins, 74, of Midland died Aug. 28. She graduated with a BS in home economics. She was retired from teaching school. Survivors include her husband, Bernard; and two daughters.

R.L Davidson '35 R.L Davidson, 82, of Lubbock died Sept. 1. He received an MED from Tech and his doctorate from the University of Texas. He taught school in Texas and New Mexico, and retired from Tech's College of Education in 1970 after 21 years as a professor. He is survived by his wife, the former Bessie Ford .(MED '45);.one son, one daughter, rune grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

TJ. DeFee '34 T.J. DeFee, 74, of Conroe died Sept.

1.

He graduated with a BS in history. He was a school administrator until his retirement in 1976. Survivors include his wife, three daughters and six grandchildren.

Marjorie M. Eagan '30

Majorie Mitchell Eagan, 77, of Greenl'ille died Aug. 1. She received a BME in music education. She was a retired bookkeeper.

Yvonne Faulks

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Yvonne Mitchell Faulks, 50, of New Deal died Aug. 5. She graduated with a BBA in accounting and received her JD in 197 1. She served as chief of the Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney's civil division from 1979-82. She was in private practice. Faulks is survived by her husband, Jack; one son and her father.

Ethel Fulton '38

Ethel Moore Fulton, 85, of Brownfield died Sept. 5. She received a BSE and taught school until her retirement in 1950. Survivors include two foster

sons.

LM. Hargrave '35 LM. Hargrave, 75, of Lubbock died Sept. 18. He graduate with a BS in 1935 and received his MS in 1942, both in agricultural education. He taught vocational agriculture at Frenship High School in Wolfforth from 1935-46. He was a professor emeritus of agricultural education at Tech. Hargrave is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Thompson (BS '34 Home Economics Education); two daughters and two grandchildren.

Tom Hooser '39 Tom Hooser, 68, of Seymour died Aug. 13. He was a member of the class of 1939 and a general business major.

Hooser was a manager and purchasing agent for Edelsteins furniture chain. He ~as al~o a real estate investor. Hooser ts survtved by his wife, Bessie Lou; one daughter and one son.

James R. Howard 74

J~es Randall Howard, 35, of Houston dted Aug. 26. He was a member of the

class of 1974 and a general studies major. Howard was a trouble shooter for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Survivors include his mother, one brother and two sisters.

Patsy A

Norman '61

Patsy ~Junker Norman, 48, of Lubboc~ died Aug. 5. She graduated with a BSE 10 secondary education and was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha soroity. Survivors include her husband, Glad L. (BBA '60 Finance); and three daughters.

Dean Hughes

Dean W. Hughes, 37, of Lubbock died Sept. 25. He was an associate professor of agricultural finance. Hughes graduated from Princeton University, earned a master's from Purdue University and a doctorate from Texas A&M. He is survived by his wife, Nadine; one son and his parents.

Shirley C Lewis '56

Shirley Chapman Lewis, 52, of Lubbock died Sept. 5. She received her BSE in secondary education. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Lewis owned and operated Merry Monograms. Survivors include her husband, E. Grey (BBA '56 Management); two daughters and two grandchildren.

Mary P. Killam '41 Mary Pickett Killam, 68, of Snyder died Sept. 22. She received a BSE. She was retired from the Snyder Independent School District. Killam was a former board member of the Ranching Heritage Center. She is survived by one sister.

Thomas R. Miller '65 Thomas R Miller, 69, of Butler, Pa., died Sept 7. He received his MA in history. Miller was a graduate of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin. He was rector of Lubbock's St. Christopher's Episcopal Church from 1956-65, and served parishes in Texas, Florida California and Pennsylvania before his retirement in 1984. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; one daughter and one grandchild.

Joe D. Hensley '49 Joe Dick Hensley, 64, of Lubbock died Sept. 20. He received his BS in civil engineering. He was part-owner of Orion Construction Co. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; one daughter and four grandchildren.

Lynn 0. Murray '49 Lynn ~· Murray, 60, of Fayetteville, ~.C.,. died Aug. 22. He received his BS 10 soil science. Murray retired from the ~.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He ts survived by his wife, the former Lois ~oudy ('49 General Business Secretartal ); three daughters and three grandchildren.

jean Mobley '52

Jean Mobley, 55, of Lubbock died Aug. 10. She graduated in 1952 with a BA in French. She was a medical assistant and office manager for Dr. John H. Selby.

She is survived by her mother.

H enry L Norris Jr. '37

Henry Lee Norris Jr., 75, of Bellaire died Aug. 2. He received a BS in mechanical engineering. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Norris owned an engineering and consulting firm. He is survived by his wife, Marie; one son and one grandchild.

LE. Parsons '36 LE. Parsons, 74, of Ransom Canyon died Aug. 27. He received a BS in textile engineering. Parsons taught in the textile engineering department at Tech for 36 years. Survivors include his wife Ann; one daughter, two sons and five ' grandchildren.

Thomas Redcay I. Thomas Redcay, 57, of Lubbock died

Sept. 20. He was a professor of music at Tech since 1966. Redcay received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Royal Academy in London. Redcay is survived by his wife, Margaret; two daughters and one grandchild.

Cecil Schwalbe '34 Cecil 0 . Schwalbe, 78, of Lubbock died Aug. 8. He graduated with a BS and received his MAin 1936, both in mathematics. He was a retired vice president of Southwestern Life Insurance Co. in Dallas. Schwalbe is survived by two daughters and one son.

R.S. W1lldnson '37 Russell S. Wllkinson, 70, of Lubbock died Aug. 9. He received his BA in journalism. Wllkinson played basketball for Tech from 1935-37. He was owner of RS. Wllkinson and Associates. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla; one son, one daughter and five grandchildren. if NOVEMBER·DECEMBER 1987 55

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It was only fitting that, if I were to return to Lubbock, I do it in the company of this circle of friends.

For those who were on this flight, and the many more from across the state who would meet us shortly, it was to be a homecoming of friends-friends who only seemed to draw closer rather than drift apart as the years went by.

It was an assemblage of souls from a divergent spectrum of backgrounds, hometowns and lifestyles, but who had found a common thread that held us close from naive freshmen through cocky seniors and then on to successful adult members of society.

And successful most were. Once in town and seated in a banquet hall, I again surveyed the faces.

Tech had prepared us well: doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, musicians and artists, each making the others proud.

My mind was a kaleidoscope of memories as I traveled to and fro in the city and on campus during the course of the weekend. The passing of years seemed to enhance memories of our years at Tech. We recalled all the pleasant things about growing up at college and even the unpleasant things were recalled as necessary learning experiences with positive end results. It seemed only moments ago, to all of us, that, as cool, carefree college students, we used to snicker at returning middle-aged alumni. At the time we thought, as most college youths do, that we would be young forever, that we were immune from such dreaded things as growing up.

The weekend was wonderful - everything and more than we had expected it to be. As the plane ascended at the beginning of a quiet flight home, I again looked back and surveyed the faces behind me. It was a tired group, but I could see thoughtful, reflective expressions. They seemed to want only a few more moments to secure the memories of the weekend in their minds.

We had gone back in time for a few short days and now were returning again to the real world that had taken us in different directions.

By the time the plane landed in Dallas, I knew at least this much: going to college at Texas Tech had made me rich. Besides receiving a sturdy education, I also had made true lifelong friends, memories that will be with me forever, and an appreciation for those things in life that can't be taken away.

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SHOP Celebrate your holiday season with Christmas Ornaments from Texas Tech!!

All of the ornaments have a white background with the Red Raider theme.

Each is dated by year, and each year is in a limited edition of only 200 with a design that will not be repeated.

Ornaments are available for the years 1982 through 1987.

Sweatshirt - SO% cotton/ SO% Creslan, fleece lined with logo on front.

Available in red, black and gray.

Sweatpants - SO% cotton/ SO% Creslan, fleece lined, drawstring waist, elastic at ankles. Available in red, black and

gray.

Sweatshirt $14.95 Sweatpants $11.95

lndividual Ornaments (any year) $6.50 Set of 2 Ornaments $10.00 Set of 3 Ornaments $13.95 Set of 4 Ornaments $16.95 Set of 5 Ornaments $19.95 Set of 6 Ornaments $24.95

Toboggan Cap- Red and black knitted cap with red pom-pon.

Toboggan Cap $6.95 Scarf - Red and black stripes, approximately 6' long.

Scarf $5.95

Toboggan Cap & Scarf Set $10.50

Unless year is specified when ordering, the 1987 ornament will be shipped.

Teddy Bear - 9" traditional-style, plush, brown and cream colored Teddy Bear wearing a red and white T-shirt with the message "I Love Texas Tech."

Teddy Bear $12.00

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