Texas Techsan May/June 1988

Texas Tech Ex-Students Association

May-June 1988

Cavazos Resigns as Tech President

Cavazos Resigns as Tech President

By Marsha Gustafson

he rain outside pattered against the windows of the Board of Regents Conference Room setting a gray mood for the proceedings. The media were assembled for a news conference with Tech's president and chairman of the Board of Regents. There had been much speculation as to the subject of the quickly called meeting, and stories were running rampant across the Texas Tech campus. It was May 11, an historic day for Lubbock-in 1970 on this same date, a devastating tornado ripped through Lubbock changing its face for ever after.

Now, Dr. Lauro Cavazos and Chairman Wendell Mayes had, by chance, selected the same day to announce Cavazos' decision to resign the presidency of his alma mater in July 1989, nine years after becoming the first Texas Tech alumnus to attain the post.

Cavazos, in his emotional statement, said he would return to a teaching position, probably in the Tech Health Sciences Center where he holds tenure as an anatomy professor. " It was time for a change," he said, regarding his decision to step down from the presidency. The average tenure of a university president in this country is four and a half years, he explained, and by July 1989, he will have served nine years. Cavazos ruled out any other reason for his decision, including the desire to take another administrative post.

Mayes indicated that a chancellorship had been ruled out, because that would require making Tech a system, and as Regent Wesley Masters pointed out, the state Coordinating Board will not approve that because of Texas' current economy. The regents did, however, during their regular meeting two days later, announce an administrative change to create two provost positions-one on the main campus and the other for the Health Sciences Center. Both campuses would be overseen by a president.

Cavazos said he gave the regents 14 months notice so adequate time will be allowed for finding a replacement, and the University will not have to be thrown into a situation where it will be weakened with an interim president situation. Regents estimate that the search will take a year.

Mayes, a longtime friend and former classmate of Cavazos, insisted that neither a group nor individual prompted or influenced the President's resignation.

"All along he has given me the same reasons as he gave today," Mayes said. "He's accomplished all he can in nine years and wants to go back to teaching. No member of the board said anything to him about leaving."

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Masters claimed there have been no grumblings about Cavazos and nothing but support for him among the nine regents. "I chaired the evaluation committee in late January, and he got the highest marks given in my six years on the board," Masters said.

During the news conference, Cavazos said Tech needs renewed leadership. "Those who are in positions of leadership should recognize when the time has come," he said. "I paid my dues to Texas Tech. I owe it so much." Masters claimed that Cavazos never really aspired to be chancellor because it is not a higher position than president. He currently is making S14 3,800 plus allowances and other benefits.

Vol. 41, No. 3

Texas Tech Regents Adopt Tougher Admissions Policy 8 Following much debate between faculty and administrators, regents adopt new admissions policy.

10 Steps to a Successful Marriage 10 Professor offers tips to help prolong marital bliss.

Hard Work and Lucky Breaks 12 Dee Law follows 'Passage' from modeling to movie-making.

14 Lone Stars Shine in the Big Apple Some 800 Tech-exes live in the New York area.

One of them, Bill Durham, provides this story.

17 And Then There Were 10 Focus on William M. Whyburn Tio Kleburg, Boss of the King Ranch 21 Alumni Profile covers the young Tech-ex who has responsibilities of running Texas' largest ranch.

22 Recital Hall, Namesake Boast Rich Histories Dr. Eugene Hemmle's work has been rewarded with a recital hall in his name.

Ughts,~eras,Actlon!

40 Tech Diamond gets lights . . . and a new name.

Putting Woodrow on the Map 41 Coach Karla Schutte Kitten is having great success.

42 A Fading Art in Action Donald Harris is first player since Donny Anderson to letter in both baseball and football.

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€lass Notes Editor's Notebook: Moral Compass OFFICERS PRESIDENT Marte Noble "76, l)!Ler PR.ESLOENT·ELECf llah Merriman '57, Dallas

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Bob Dyer '60, Houston AlliLEnC COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE John Sims "65, Lubbock

EXEClTilVE DIRECTOR BLLL Dean '61, Lubbock

DIRECfOKS Reb Brown ' 58, Throckmorton Jimmy Davis '68, Dimmiu Mike Doheny "73 , New Br11unfels Sieve Elliott '67, San Antonio Bob Fillpot '67, Houston Ken Furman "74, Chicago Robert Gossett '70, Carrollton Dieky Grigg "70, Austin Gco~ Harrison '66, San Angelo Pit Hlekman "75, Anwillo Janis Holmes '61, Temple S<Wc E. Johnson '62, Houston Dana Juett '69, Dallas

Dan Ulw '57, Lubbock Lee Loftis "77, Tyler GL)'Ilda McClure "70, San Antonio )esse I'nJiu '69, Dallas Jim Ratlllf '61 , Lubbock Keller Smith '68, Fort Worth Jack Swallow "74, Midl2nd ). Pat Walsh '61, McAllen

ABOUT TilE COVER-

Or. Lauro Cavazos announced May 11 that he would step down as Tech's lOth president in July 1989. Photographer Darrel Thomas captured Cavazos for our cover during the news conference.

ASSOCIATION STAFF EXEClTilVE DIRECTOR Bill Dean '61

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR J im Douglass '69

SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR

Peggy Pearce '70 EDITOR

MAGAZINE STAFF PUBUSHER Bill Dean '61

EDITOR Marsha Gustafson '76

ASSISTANT EDITOR June Gould '80

S11JDENT ASSISTANTS Donald Coy, Ian Halperin ADVERTISING DIRECTOR J une Gould '80

PHOTOGRAPHER Darrel Thomas '70

ARTIST Rlek Sales '79 PIUN'I1ID BY TEXAS TEOI PRESS

Marsha Gustafson "76

ALUMNI SERVICES COORDINATOR Margaret Hering The Ex·Students AMocilltion is an independent organlza· tlon of Texas Tech Univeniry former students, coopcntlng with and wortdnt~ln behalf ol the university, but not alftl. iated with IL 1bc Texas Tcchsan Is the ollldaJ publication o( the Association. Copyright 1988.

The TexasTcchsan (ISSN 0040-472 1) is published bl· monthly in February, April, June, August, October and December by the Ex·Studcnts AMocilltlon o( Texas Tech University. Annual membership Is J 2S, of which 15 is allo· cated for a subscription to 1bc Texas Techsan. Single copies arc 2V21Lable for II . Edltorial and advertising olllce P.O. Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409. Telephone (806 )742·3641.

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LEITERS Through The Years I am so very happy for the continued improvement of the Ex-Students Association through these many years. You see, I was there when the "Tech Alumni Association" was trying to get going in 1932.

In 1933, I was a director and paid-up life member (S35). My salary was only S83.50 per month as a Tech instructor.

I became president of the organization in 1934, and was chairman of the lOth year celebration in 1935. We had no paid staff and almost no money.

Our main efforts were Spring Banquet and Fall Homecoming. At Representative Doyle Settle's suggestion in 1934, we raised the money to bring the House Appropriations Committee from Austin for a three-night and twoday visit to the Tech campus. Most of the members had never seen Tech.

We have participated financially every year since 1932, and have read with interest every Ex-Students publication of whatever nature. Here, especially, we note continued improvement.

Thanks to your fine staff and to the officers and directors who give so much of their time and expense to build and improve our Association for the benefit of Texas Tech.

Mart Pederson '32 El Paso, Texas

this connection, he left a mark that is still very evident on the campus.

This mark is the angling sidewalks on the older part of the campus, particularly on the "circle" in front of the Administration Building. Money had been allocated for sidewalks, but Dr. Knapp had the location for the walks held up until he found where the students were going to walk. These well beat-out paths became evident shortly.

This was in line with his practical approach to all matters.

Arthur E. Gamble '37 Lubbock, Texas

The Greatest Right Halfback I played football in 1928 and E.Y Freeland was head coach. Another fellow besides me also played right half.

Jake Alexander's name was not mentioned very much at the football games, because everyone was yelling their heads off for this other fellow-and so was I. In my opinion, he was one of the fin. est fellows and the greatest right half· back that ever stepped on a Tech football field. To me he was not only a great football player, but a wonderful man and friend.

I am so glad I had the opportunity to know him as well as I did. I haven't

seen him since we left school. I bet he is still carrying the ball, making friends and helping people who need it.

I wish you well Percy ( big feller), "Hansom Ransom" Walker. From your rival halfuack, Jake Alexander.

J.C. Alexander '29 Arlington, Texas P.S. If anyone has any information about Mr. Percy "Hansom Ransom" Walker, please pass it along to us at the Ex-Students Association. Call Marsha Gustafson at 8061742-3641.

What She Doesn't Like I enjoy reading the class notes. It's one of my favorite parts of the Texas Techsan.

The only thing I don't like about the Techsan is that I traditionally get it during the week, and once I open it up, I can't put it down!

Sue Bucher '80 Lubbock, Texas

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Remembering Dr. Knapp I was quite interested in the article in the Techsan about Dr. Bradford Knapp by Jimmy Allen, since he was the president during my entire time at Tech.

My memory of Dr. Knapp was one of a man of quiet dignity who had the respect of the student body in general.

Since we students were more interested in eating regularly and trying to get enough money together to go to school the next semester, we weren't too social issue-minded. Everyone was more concerned with "making do" with what we had, and I thought Dr. Knapp did an excellent job of keeping things moving on limited resources.

The deans of the schools did exercise a great deal of power-perhaps more than in later times. But it did seem to work.

You will remember that the first dormitories were built during his administration, as well as the first library. In 2

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Texas Tech University.

Without your support, we'd be just another name.

He's proof that being selfish is the only way to share.

That's right. Selfish. When Dr. R.G. "Wick" Alexander set up a scholarship program for Arlington High School, he made sure the money would help students going just to Tech.

And when he participated in an insurance endowment program with Executive Ufe Insurance Company, he did it knowing the money would go just to Tech.

It's enough to make you ask, "Why just to Texas Tech?"

"I wanted to share my experiences from Tech with someone else who might not have the opportunity."

Not so selfish after all. And there are a couple of ways you, too, can share with the students of Texas Tech.

You can participate in one of two unique endowment programs in association with Executive Ufe Insurance Company which allows you to make a large contribution with a small donation. Both insurance programs allow the Association to become the beneficiary of an insurance policy purchased on your life or on a family member's life. The Association buys the policy with your tax deductible donation.

If you are interested in helping Texas Tech meet the challenge of academic excellence, please fill out the inquiry form below. Because your help today will secure a better future.

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AffiOCIN"ION NEWS

Mica Waggoner chosen as new field rep ''I'm excited about working with the Ex-Students Association and the opportunity to meet so many new people," Mica said. Her position became effective March 11.

Her territory is called the "North Texas region," and includes the Metroplex, Abilene to east Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and northern Louisiana. If you'd like to contact Mica, she can be reached at 817 I 265-1632.

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new Ex-Students Association field representative has been chosen for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Mica R. Waggoner '87 replaces Susie Duffy, who has resigned to marry and move to Houston.

In announcing her selection from among 10 finalists for the position, Dr. Bill Dean, executive director of the Ex-Students Association, said "Mica is poised, thorough and dedicated to the task at hand. Her recommendations were very good, and the board felt she would be an effective field representative."

Originally from Glen Rose, Texas, where she attended high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1983, Mica will be based in Arlington. There, she feels she will have better access to both Dallas and Fort Worth exes.

At Texas Tech, Mica majored in English and creative writing and minored in biology, graduating with a 3.1 GPA in her major course work She was treasurer of the Pre-Law Society, a Raider Recruiter, served on the Campus Alcohol Advisory board and worked as a Freshman Orientation Aide. She held an academic scholarship for eight semesters and did volunteer work with Lubbock General Hospital and was a Sunday school teacher for high school seniors.

Following graduation from Tech, Mica worked at Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Mo., as a counselor, then returned to Lubbock, where she was a substitute teacher for the USD. Since September, she has been teaching in the Ennis ISO. 4

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Redpients of this year's Outstanding New Faculty Awards from the Ex-Students Association are (front row, from left) Dr. Atila Ertas, Dr. V1rgin1a Felstehausen, Dr. Doris LeJicowitz and Professor Robert L. Coombs; (back row) ProfessorJames E. Wator, Dr. J. Ralph Byington, Dr. Bruce Barker, Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Dr. Curtis E.

Paulson.

The Association's newest award is in recognition of outstanding new faculty members at Texas Tech. It was first presented last spring, recognizing the top new professor in each college.

On April 6, the second group received their certificates and individual checks for $500. Chosen by their respective colleges for the 1988 award were: Agricultural Sciences, Dr. Curtis E. Paulson Architecture, Professor Robert L. Coombs Arts & Sciences, Dr. M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Dr. Doris Lefkowitz Business Administration, Dr. J. Ralph Byington Education, Dr. Bruce Barker Engineering, Dr. Atila Ertas Home Economics, Dr. VIrginia Felstehausen Law, Professor James E. Viator Recipients are restricted to having been at the University four years or less.

The awards were presented during an honors convocation

in the University Theatre. Other presentations included the Presidents Teaching Awards and recognition of the Hom Professors.

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It was termed "the event of the year'' for the Houston chapter on May 3 when they sponsored a silent auction featuring a $1 ,400 cruise and a trip for two to Paris. The joint meetings of the Ex-Students Association and Red Raider Club in Houston annually feature the fund-raiser raffle and auction, which this year was "bigger and better than ever."

AssoCiation field representative Cindy Rodriguez said the raffle was for a trip for two to Las Vegas. All proceeds from the event are split 50-50 between the RRC and the Ex-Students Association.

The formal event was held in the Double Tree Hotel (formerly the Uncoln) in Houston and began with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Silent bids were taken until 8 p .m., when the formal program began. Guests included President Lauro Cavazos, head football coach Spike Dykes, head basketball coach Gerald Myers and various assistant coaches. Steve Locke from the RRC and Bill Dean and Jim Douglass from the AssoCiation were also present.

Master of Ceremonies Dicky Grigg of Austin kept the affair lively.

Among the gifts donated to the auction, according to Cindy, were the 4-day cruise for two and top-of-the-line luxury room by Carnival Cruise Unes; a round-trip for two to Paris by Continental Airlines; a weekend in San Antonio featuring complimentary passes to Sea World; a $35/ hour fashion consultant who donated an entire day; hunting trips and guns; and items from Sakowitz and Tooties in Houston, among many, many other gifts.

"We are so excited about this year's event," Cindy said.

"We offered pre-purchased tables and lots more people came than the 170 who attended last year. It's due to Suzie Johnson, who is chairperson of the event, and all the people who've become involved. I just can't say enough about them."

Chapter meetings around the country are in full swing, as some 75 local groups have been scheduled this spring and summer. Consult the Calendar of Events preceding the Class Notes section of this magazine for the complete schedule for the summer.

As usual, keep in mind that these dates are subject to change. Contact your local chapter officers or the Association office for details. Mailings should give you advance notice of most meetings.

Ex-Students Association president-elect llah Merriman of Dallas served as representative from the Texas Tech Athletics Department on the SWC Women's Basketball Tournament held last March in Dallas. Merriman will become the first woman president of the Ex-Students Associ· ation when she takes office on Jan. 1, 1989.

Association Board Member Dan Law of Lubbock was the driving force behind the installation of lights at the Tech baseball diamond. In appreciation of his ellorts on this project and numerous others in both the academic and athletic areas of the University, the Tech Board of Regents voted to name the baseball facility Dan Law Field.

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Being involved is the name of the game when it comes to promoting Texas Tech. These two groups, separated by many miles and totally different activities, keep up with their Un.Jversity.

(Top photo) Brenda Baker and Stan Horton (on the horse) are two Tech-exes who helped start the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo out right.

They rode on the Salt Grass Trail Ride with Secretary of State jack Raines (left) and Ufetime vice president of the Livestock Show and Rodeo Roy Elledge. Stan and Brenda are Houston ExStudents Chapter oiBcers. (Bottom photo) A Southwest Conference Day was held in Chicago this fall, attended by former students of the l'at"ious conference schools who reside in the Chicago area. The joint meeting/mixer was held Nov. 20 and attracted exes from all eight SWC universities. From Tech were (from left) Don ScboHenberger, Sandra Cochran, Kathy Swift, Lee Cochran, V1rgin1a Cochran Scbmld and Er1k Peterson. Not pictured: Alan Spaeth.

The Dallas Chapter has organized a sunset River Boat Cruise on the fexas Queen.

This great adventure on the open waves of Lake Ray Hubbard will be held on June 17 from 7-10 p .m. The price of $75 per couple or $39.50 per person includes all-you-careto-eat shrimp, an open bar and a live, tropical-jazz band.

The river boat will leave the dock precisely at 7 p .m.rain or shine. All proceeds will support the Dallas Scholarship Fund. Contact David Thomas for additional information !tl at (214) 352-6616 or 263-0726.

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clayton Harris Jr. Clayton and Dollie Clements Harris of Albuquerque have donated $5,000 to the Ex-Students Association endowed scholarship program-$2,500 in honor of the late Dean WL Stangel, and $2,500 to the scholarship program in the College of Education. .

Both the Harrises are Tech-exes, he graduating with a BBA from business administration in 1941 and she with bachelor's and master's degrees in 1935 and 1936, with emphasis in English and education. Clayton was a charter member of Beta Sigma chapter of Alpha Phi Omega and its president in 1940-41.

Dollie was Best All-Round Westerner Girl at Lubbock High and continued to be active ·in college-Who's Who Among Students, Alpha Chi, AWS, WAA, Education Society and Tennis Club. She served for three years as secretary to the late Dr. W.A. Evans and head of the Teacher Placement Bureau. After graduation for eight years, she was secretary to Dean Stangel and the department of animal hu~andry.

Clayton and Dollie were married in 1940. He began his Air Force career and served in World War II and later in Vietnam. His last tour was in Albuquerque. Dollie became associated with Sandia National Laboratories and worked there until her recent retirement. The Harrises have three children: Richard III and Ann of Albuquerque, and her twin, Tom, of Pennsylvania.

Donors to the Endowed Scholarship Fund are: Classes of 1949 & 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Malouf Abraham of Canadian Dr. and Mrs. RG. (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. and 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-USD Principals Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Gulley Jr. of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. R H. Haley Sr. of Tyler . Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Harris Jr. of Albuquerque 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). Lewis of Fairfax, Va. Dr. Mary L. Luchsinger of Baltimore, Md. Dr. Vmcent 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 Pfluger of San Angelo Mr. Jesse K Pruitt of Dallas Mr. )ames 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. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Whiteside of Lubbock

For information write to Texas Tech Ex-Students' Association Endowment Trust, Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409 6

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Recognizing our new members NEW CENTURY CLUB Mr. and Mrs. Alan L Abrahamson '70 ( Mary J. Schultheis '70) Mr. HersheU E. Allison Jr. '86 u. Emmett L. Arnold III '85 Mr. and Mrs. C. Ron Baker '69 (Bonnie S. Riddle '68) Mr. and Mrs. Ray F. Barnes '72 (Vicki L. Miles '72) Mr. Ronald L. Benson '80 Miss Debra K Bretches '85 Mr. Clifton L Brundrett '81 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chavez '74 ( Alice Lara '77) Mr. and Mrs. Carson L Christie '85 ( Ralynda E. Wharton '86) Mr. Marc Conley (friend of Tech) Mr. Gregory Cox '86 U. Charles D. Cunningham '84 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D . Davidson '80 ( C Susie Humble '82) Miss jerry Denton '57 Mr. j oel W. Derington '81 Mrs. Karen Leaverton Duhrkopf '79 Mr. Charles L Dumis '58 Mr. j oe D. Edwards '80 Mr. William H. Edwards '78 Mr. BJ. Etheredge '60 Mr. "vvichael R Fitch '74 Mr. Frank H. Ford '79 Capt Paul S. Frazier '83 Mr. and Mrs. Bob L Freeman '62 ( Margie A Curry '60) Mr. R. William Grady Jr. '60 Mrs. \~arty Rueckwald Grassel '79 Mr. James S. Guild '84 Mr. Hayden G. Haby Jr. '78 Miss Julie A. Haisler '83 Mr. J. Alan Hargrove '84 Mr. and Mrs. John R Hazard '83 (E. Gaye Jones '83) Mr. James L HearreU '66 Mr. BiU D. Helton '69 Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Huff '58 ( Gayla L Cauthen '60) Mr. and Mrs. }. Rick jackson '72 (Diane M. Walsh '70) Mr. Dean F. Jarrett '82 Mr. Thomas P. John '67 Mr. J. Steve Joiner '70 Miss Karen S. Jones '81 Mr. J. David Joyner '86 LtJG. and Mrs. Charles D. Kasinger '83 (Paula McNulty '84)

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 $99 Century Club Member .. . . . .. . ..... ... . ... . . .... .. .. .. .. . $100 to $249 Bronze Century Oub Member ..... . ..................... $250 to $499 Old Red Oub Member ... .. . ..... . .... . .................. $500 to $999 Golden Century Oub Member .... .. .. . .. ............. $1,000 to $1,499 Ruby Century Club Member . ....... . .......... . ...... $1,500 to $1,999 Diamond Century Oub Member ... . ... . ............... $2,000 or more Mr. David L. Keeling '75 Mr. ). Allen KeUy Jr. '80 Mr. john L. Kennon '62 Mr. Donald F. Kephart (Friend of Tech) Mr. M .L. " Kirk" KuykendaU '40 Mr. Kenneth ). Kvapil '86 Mrs. Phyllis Ladwig (Friend of Tech) Mr. Stephen T. Lambert '86 Mr. Robert M. Lemond '77 Mr. Jim L. Lindsey '36 Mr. and Mrs. Randy W. Uoyd '82 Uoni L. Caroline '83) Mr. Jim R Lobb '63 Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Long '82 Qeffri L Izzard '82) Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Luscomb III '7 1 (Linda Montgomery '71 ) Mr. and Mrs. RogerS. Marks '75 (Ann Markel '75) Mr. Randy M . McCasland '84 Mr. Sam B. Monaco Jr. '74 Mr. Jesse L. Moore Jr. '51 Mr. Homer V. Moralez '67 Miss Maegene Nelson '65 Miss Shana B. Nelson '86 Mr. and Mrs. Kurt C. Nicholas '82 Qoyce A Walker '82) Mr. and Mrs. E. Ted O'Neil '52 (RaydeU Gay '55) Mr. and Mrs. T. Clifton Penn '50 (Dorothy M. Vrooman '49) Mr. B. Dean Philpott '62 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Pool '86 (Kristen L Hanst '87) Ms. Amy C. Price '84 Mrs. Kay L. Coulson Renfro '84 Mr. Bob G. Schlinkman Jr. '71

Mrs. lisa Famiglietti Snider '75 Mr. and Mrs. Hal M. Stockton Jr. ' 58 (C. Jean CoUett '57) Mr. A. Craig Trimm '8 1 Mr. Wesley R Tucker '71 Mr. Richard ). Tuttle '79 Mr. S. Dan WiUiams 11 '82 Mr. and Mrs. Van P. Williams '83 (Tiffany A Zarfas '86) Mr. Robert E. Williamson '72 Mr. Greg Wolfe '81

NEW BRONZE CENTURY CLUB Mr. Ronald L. Benson '80 Mr. David H. Cates '68 Mr. Leroy Cook '57 Mr. Bryan G. Goddard '68 Mr. james S. Guild '84 Ms. Karen S. Hogg '74 Mr. Harold R Inman '50 Mr. and Mrs. Ricky F. Kloiber Jr. '72 (Lydia Louder '80) Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie R. McWilliams '65 Qudy D. Boone '64) Mrs. Marguerite Mason Pendleton '37 Mrs. Tammy Bagley Quisenberry '81 Mr. Richard W. Scales '60 Mr. Gerald F. Scott '52 Mr. James A Sturdivant Jr. '71

NEW OLD RED CLUB Mr. Richard M. Alder '80 Mr. Mac W. Hancock III '72 Mr. and Mrs. Herschel L. Riddle '49 (M. Ann Crawley '48) Mr. }.M. "Buddie" Teague Jr. '28

NEW GOLDEN CENTURY CLUB Mr. B. Joe Pevehouse '48 Mr. Ellis W. Sammons '75 MAY·JUNE 1988 7

Texas Tech Regents Adopt Tougher Admissions Policy ByJoe Saaders andJames~"-­

oughened admission standards will be phased in to minimize economic impact on Texas Tech University, but the result after three years will be a more highly qualified student body, officials say. Dr. Donald R Haragan, vice president for academic affairs and research, said the plan would gradually replace the University's current open admissions policy with one that will force students to succeed or leave.

"What we tried to do is put together a program that would force people to perform," he told regents prior to the board's vote in favor of the plan March 25.

James L. Gulley of Tyler, who abstained from the vote, criticized the plan as insufficient to put the University's standards where they should be.

Gulley said that Texas Tech had waited long enough to put itself on the same level of quality with the University of Texas and Texas A&M and was critical of the three-year phase in and for lacking minimum requirements.

The plan, which goes into effect in the fall of 1989, would give probationary admission to students who graduate in the lower ranks of their high school class and/ or score low on college entrance exams. The students on probation would be limited to summer or spring enrollment and be required to pass 12 hours or face suspension.

Conditionally admitted students would not be limited in when they could enroll, and they could fail to meet minimum standards for two semesters before being suspended.

As adopted, the new admissions policy reflects the recommendations made by Tech faculty and administrators after several months of study.

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Starting last summer, President Lauro Cavazos and Haragan briefed the Board of Regents at several meetings on a campus push to be included among the top tier of Texas public universities. A tier system, which the state's Higher Education Coordinating Board could impose within the next two years, will determine which universities may expand their research and graduate programs.

In January, Haragan told the regents that the quality of the undergraduate student body will be one of the keys to inclusion in the top tier.

"The first step is to address and implement the recommendations of the white paper ( "Texas Tech in the Twenty-First Century" ) by increasing undergraduate admission standards, increasing our

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research effort . .. and changing the mix of graduate to undergraduate students to improve formula funding," Haragan said.

"We've put this off too long," responded Gulley. "Students are concerned: will their degrees appreciate in value?"

With urging from Gulley and Regent J. Fred Bucy of Dallas, the regents unanimously approved a motion introduced by Wesley Masters of Amarillo: "The Board of Regents supports the intent of the University to develop higher standards for admission to Texas Tech University and anticipates receiving specific recommendations... to be presented for consideration in the near future."

The resolution added impetus to two studies already under way that were prompted by the deans'

white paper.

The Senate Takes Action Working together, Faculty Senate and Academic Council committees drafted a plan that the Senate adopted on Feb. 10.

Rather than establishing a minimum admission standard, the Senate plan would create a new "probationary" admission category.

"In essence, students in this category would enter the University on academic probation," said Dr. Michael Stoune, who led the Senate study.

The Senate plan contains five points: -The University would add a "probationary" admission category to its existing "conditional" and "unconditional" categories.

-Each college would determine the academic requirements for students admitted conditionally.

-Probationary students could not enter the University in the fall semester. They would first enroll in the summer or spring.

-Probationary students would be required to complete 12 semes-

ter hours in their first term (either two consecutive summer sessions or the spring semester). They would be required to take at least one course in mathematics or English, and at least one other course that satis{ies a state or University basic requirement. To continue at the University after the first term, a 2.0 grade point average would be required.

-Specific counseling, advising and testing would be provided to probationary students in their first term. If that term is successful, the plan states that the students' "academic progress will be monitored in their first semester of their regular admission."

But the Senate committee stopped short of specifying a minimum high school class rank or SAT score that would be required to avoid probation.

A matrix considered by the Academic Council Committee, distributed to the senators, showed how the new probationary classification could affect the 1989 freshman class.

(Proposed guidelines for proba-

Profile of Probationary Admission

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Addocl in 1990

Addocl in 1991

A combination of SAT score and c1Jiss rank would determine probationary admission starting in 1989. The proBles shown for 1990 and 1991 are projections that would be reviewed annually. (Graph courtesy of Tom Newman, assistant vice president, academic compu(Jng.)

tionary admission, adopted by the committee a week later, are shown in the accompanying graph.)

If such a matrix had been applied to Tech's 1986 freshman class of 3,800 students, an estimated 12.4 percent would have been admitted on probation.

Dean Joe Goodin, who chairs the Academic Affairs Committee, told the senators that the probationary standards could be raised, "as the University's requirements become more stringent.

"This matrix would appear in the catalog," Goodin said. "Any high school student would be able to determine his or her probability for success at Tech."

Some senators argued for a minimum standard below which students would not be admitted, even on probation. Haragan said after the meeting that he would recommend instead that the guidelines for each admission classification be made more stringent in 1990 and 1991. He said that he may eventually recommend that the regents approve "some minimum standard."

Freshman Testing Lurking behind the issue of Tech's admission standards is the certainty of annual statewide testing of freshman students, starting in 1989. The test is being developed as part of the Texas Academic Skills Assessment Program approved by the Legislature.

Cavazos told the senators that the University must provide remediation for all students who fail any part of the three-part test. One projection, based on the makeup of recent Tech freshman classes, shows that as many as 30 percent could require remedial course work.

"This University should not be in the business of remedial education," Cavazos said. "We cannot wait until 1989 to reach decisions."

Senator Tom McLaughlin reported that representatives to the state's Council of Faculty Governance Organizations regard freshman testing as "a sleeping giant ~ about to wake up."

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to a successful marriage June. Month of happy beginnings and ageless love. Right? Well, the following advice from College of Home Economics professor of family studies Dr. Carl Anderson, if heeded, might help those loving beginnings continue through a lifetime by improving your chances for a successful marriage!

okay, so she doesn't always remember to put the lid back on the toothpaste and you occasionally brush with crunchy flavor. So he wants sheets with tools on them and likes paintings on velvet.

So he leaves the lid up on the commode, and she hangs drippy nylons all over the bathroom, and you both snore. Nobody said it would be easy. But here are a few things to keep in mind to make it go a little more smoothly.

1) Put marriage in the proper focus-yes, even before poker,

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football, golf, the news and/ or Wheel of Fortune (Vanna); before shopping, watching soaps, playing bridge, etc.

Marriage is lHE relationship that will be the most important factor in determining your overall life satisfaction. It won't be whether either of you drive a BMW 735, it won't be that big, beautifully decorated office, it won't be the trips, the friends or the kids.

It will be whether or not you can make the relationship work. If your marriage works, the job seems better, the world seems better, and the kids are easier to deal with.

2) Ah, yes, the kids. One of the biggest misconceptions about marriage is that children will bring a couple closer together. Wrong.

Hey, guys, once she goes through pregnancy, she'll never forgive you. Children inevitably become a barrier between a couple. This is not necessarily a horrible, unsolvable crisis. Most couples are simply unprepared for it.

All intimacy, all standards of communication and conflict resolution should be established before the birth of a child. Be prepared.

3) Be focused on a plan. As a couple, develop a sense of direction, a series of goals that you want to reach. Your relationship will be much more positive if you are on your way to something mutually important.

Focusing on the present, day-today drudgeries can bring down even Zig Ziglar, but the future, being yet undetennined, is easy to think positively about. Hope for the best!

4) Have a standing appointment

of 30 minutes every day that cannot be violated-no phone calls, no kids, no interruptions-30 minutes of just the two of you. This is your time to talk about whatever.

You would be amazed at how well you can keep up with each other's lives with just 30 minutes a day. If you miss a day or two, you will really be behind. This talking doesn't have to be about world issues, theology, etc. Just talk about whatever is going on with you.

By Bm Wlemuth

Photos by Darrel Thomas

S) If it really bothers you, talk about it. If she still doesn't quite let the clutch out all the way and you've replaced two burned out ones in the last eight months, tell her. If he teases you a little too much a little too often in front of a few too many people, let him know.

Come on! You don't mean to drive each other nuts! If there is not an atmosphere for discussing such things, talk about developing one. Make that one of your goals.

6) On the .tl.ipside of the last point, don't try to resolve everything. Realistically, some things in a marriage must be overlooked. If you can possibly stand those occasional little annoyances, let them go. But if they consistently make you bite your nails to nubs, see number 5.

7) This one sounds simple, but pay attention. Don't try to resolve "heavy" problems when either of you is tired or hungry.

You can't really communicate properly about cash flow when your brain is playing a 4 5 rpm at 33 speed. Nor can you really concentrate on little Jimmy's upbringing when every cell in your body is chanting "BIG MAC! BIG MAC! BIG MAC!" 8) Remember that words don't count. Voice inflection and body language ace all that count. If you argue and leave as you shout ''I'm sorry!" and slam the door, it just doesn't count.

If you wearily recite "I love you" as you throw another wad of diety clothes on the pile in the floor, you get no points. Say what you feel and act like you feel it. Don't just spout lines on cue like some stupid pet trick. Mean what you say.

9) Get it in your mind that the two of you ace never "opponents."

When (not if) you fight, try to think of the situation as the two of you versus the issue, not as one versus one over an issue.

Work together to solve conflicts.

You ace allies, fighting for the same thing-understanding and resolution. There's no place for a scoreboard in a marriage. Play cards if you want to compete.

10) Reserve the primary rooms of your house (bedroom, possibly kitchen, family room, whatever) for neutral to positive interactions. Do your heavy conflict resolution in lesser used rooms.

By doing this, you create a positive living atmosphere in the "living" part of the house and you set off a certain area to fight in. Having a certain area set aside for conflict can also help you concentrate on the problem because you know by the surroundings why you ace there.

In effect, you will have scheduled a certain time and atmosphere to resolve your problems. The room itself may take on some negative associations, but it will greatly aid in your problem solving.

Besides, there ace just too many weapons easily accessible in the kitchen and bedroom (knives, electric mixers, cold water, lamps, bedposts, cheap art, etc.) Don't hide from a problem. Face it and focus on it.

One of the wonderful things about marriage is that it can always get better (thank heaven).

Cherishing the good things and working on improving the not-sogood things makes marriage a wonderful, constant challenge.

If you can work together and pay attention to the lighter things marriage has to offer, you ace on the road to success. Life wouldn't be the same without him/ her (quieter maybe, but not the same), so make the most of what you have. lE

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II

ee Law, 27, left Texas Tech in 1982, and he's now a successful modelturned-screen writer, actor, director and producer. He s,tars in his first major motion picture, "The Passage," due out this summer.

Law, a son of Dan and Jeane Law of Lubbock, realized that college just wasn't for him. But he wasted little time deciding what was his calling and became a successful international model, appearing on such magazine and catalog covers as Gentlemen's Quarterly and Nieman Marcus.

"I started modeling in Europe," he said. "It was outstanding; I was real lucky. I got to do everything I wanted to do, all the major magazines, the top magazines in the world. I got to see a lot of the world and it paid pretty good.

"Modeling eventually took me to Los Angeles, the industry town, and I was approached by enough people to do some things entertainment-wise that I felt like it would be something I would be interested in doing."

Law's film deals with relationships, those in the family between parents, grandparents and grown children, and the relationship between man and God. "The attractiveness of this film is that everyone has those relationships, good and bad," Law said.

"They are as common as drinking water."

Along with Law, the film stars Brian Keith, Ned Beatty, Alexandra Paul and Barbara Barrie. The story is set in a logging community in Alabama, which is homeland of the Law family, by the way, in the 1930s.

It centers around the romance between a poor, rustic logger, played by Law, and a wealthy limberman's daughter, portrayed by Paul, and the consequences of her becoming pregnant out of wedlock.

Law said that he feels like the most important things in life are a person's relationship with God and the relationships with family.

"That is where you are going to . eventually draw all your happiness

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from anyway," he said. "The film is for people to kind of check their priorities."

There is something in the film for everyone, he said. "The Passage" is about life, death, and the struggle in-between.

"This is an old Hollywood movie-the way they used to make them," Law said. "It's a family film, but not the kind that fits the typical stereotype of a 'family film."' As he put it, it's not a "kiddy film. " "This is a family film, because I think that anyone in the family can go see it." "The Passage" is at times comical, but it deals with adult situations.

Law's work as a writer and actor was honored recently when "The Passage" was selected as the premier film from among several hundred to open the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this past March. It is young, but the festival has the likes of Gene Hackman, Burl lves, Kenny Loggins, Robert Mitchum, James Stewart and John Travolta serving on the board. They select the 30 or so films in the week-long event.

Santa Barbara Film Festival Director Phyllis de Picciotte in Jane Sumner's Dallas Morning News article Feb. 14 said of Law's performance: "I think (the lead) Dee

Hard work and lucky breaks Dee Law follows Passage' from modeling to movie-making

Alexandra Paul in a serious scene with Law.

Law is the most natural actor I've seen on film in a long time. I can't believe (no one) has discovered him."

Although Law has no formal training as an actor, he said he does not feel at a disadvantage. "I spent a couple of nights in acting class and when I say a couple, I mean a couple. So, I don't have the luxury of being an educated actor."

Law said he's afraid he doesn't have the patience needed to wait for a formal acting education, nor does he feel it is fully necessary.

"Who's to say, okay, you're an educated actor now? You have what it takes now. Who's to say that? To me, it comes from within.

I know how to set up a character in my head, how to know the character, what he is about, what he is feeling and how it relates. I feel comfortable with that."

Initially, to get the movie into production, Law came in contact with Andy Howard and Peter Stein, the associate producer and the director of photography, respectively, for "The Passage." Through them, he met Brandon Baade, executive producer of the movie and president of Spectrum Films, the Dallas-based movie company that produced the film.

Law, himself, is one of the directors of Spectrum Films.

"If we are not trying to win the

Academy Award in every category (with a particular film), then we don't bother making it," Law said.

While his efforts in the last year have been concentrated on raising the money and finding a major motion picture studio to release "The Passage," he has not stopped writing screen plays. He said he has another one completed and three more on the way.

"The hardest part is sitting down to write," Law said. "Discipline is what gets you in the chair to write everyday. So many people say they are going to do this and they are going to do that, but they have zero discipline. People don't know how to dig themselves in and go for a cause.

"Sure, a lot of it is about lucky breaks, but a lot of it is about hard work and making your breaks happen," he said. "You decide."

Law said that his work in films has come from his attitude, or outlook on life.

"Outlook is what you think you can do," he said, adding that his comes from being brought up in a Christian home and from his personal relationship with Christ.

"Christ promised me an abundant life," Law said. "I found it, and I'm living it. That is everything I am about. It's all that simple. It's as simple as what you will see in the film."

Brian Keith (left) prepares to enjoy some Beech Nut while talkJng with Law.

Law stands at grave site.

"The Passage" has received excellent reviews following private preview screenings in Lubbock and Dallas and from its showing in the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

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Ned Beatty (left) bas confrontation with Law. MAY·JUNE 1988

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Lone Stars Shine in the Big Apple ByBnlDurham

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Bill Durham Is a 1980 graduate in English and theatre. He appeared in nine Texas Tecb University Theatre productions, and bas appeared in off.cff Broadway productions and as a stand-up comic in New Y<>'*.

Bill received a master of arts degree in fiction writing from New Y<>'* University in 1986, and bls poetry bas appeared in tbe New Y<>'* Quarterly, a national poetry journal. He WOI"fls at Cbemical Bank as a writer, editor and photographer.

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hey take the subway up from Wall Street, the PATII train from New Jersey; they drive over bridges and through tunnels. They come to their jobs as real estate agents, performers, executives, musicians, writers, investment bankers, entrepreneurs. And the one thing they have in common is they all have diplomas from Texas Tech University.

There are some 800 Texas Tech graduates living in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, referred to as the Tri-State area. They represent classes from the early 1930s, when Tech was a handful of buildings surrounded by fields, to 1988, which finds the University a major educational force in the Southwest.

There are many roads that lead Tech graduates to the nation's biggest and fastest city, and each one is a little different.

ology, and also holds a 1973 M.A. in counseling psychology. He is married to Joyce Dawson, whose 1971 degree is in English and French education. Rex is executive vice president of Goodwill Industries of Greater New York "I've been in this area for almost nine years," Rex said. "When I was working on my master's degree, I ended up doing my internship at

Spreadlng Good W1H toNewYonc The chapter president of the TriState Tech exes is Rex Davidson, an Amarillo native who graduated in 1971 with a B.A. degree in soci-

Rex Davidson

Goodwill Industries of Houston. I liked the company; it was a combination of private nonprofit and vocational rehabilitation services.

That was intriguing, because it was the best of two worlds: private industry and rehabilitation services."

In 1979, Rex became president of Goodwill Industries of New Jersey, and in 1982, he accepted a position with Goodwill Industries of Greater New York "I was surprised when we moved here that the Northeast, and New York City in particular, wasn't really the way you see it portrayed when you're living in the Panhandle. The weather is much more temperate than we thought it would be. And even though this is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, the traffic isn't as bad as it is in Houston.

"There's a perception that New Yorkers are unfriendly, but I think that's because you don't see as much surface friendliness here as you do in Texas. There's a very good quality to the folks here."

On the other hand, Rex also sees some misconceptions that native Northeasterners have about Texas.

"Natives here tend to have a rather isolated view of the rest of the country, and many people don't really understand how things tick on the other side of the Hudson River.

"And that's unfortunate, because I think people from other parts of the country can bring a diversity of thought to New York business that's really valuable. I'd love to see Texas Tech reach out more to New York corporations. I think that the Northeast would benefit from it."

Tasting the Good LHe A very specific job market is what led Danna Westdyke to New York City. A 1983 graduate in -finance from Dallas, Danna worked for a Lubbock brokerage house during her undergraduate years, and accepted a job with a New York brokerage firm one month after graduating. She left the firm in May 1987 after four years and now works as a wine consultant on the

Dana Westdyke trendy Upper East Side.

"I originally came to New York for training, which I expected to last for 18 months to two years, but now I'm going on five," Danna said. "If you really want to pursue the stock market on the level I wanted to, you have to be in New York. Otherwise, you can't get a true picture of what's going on every day, what the market's really like."

Danna relishes what she calls the "intellectual stimulation" she finds here. "As far as I'm concerned, that's what New York's all about; that's what's exciting about being here," she said.

But despite her love for the hustle and bustle business world, Danna remains a Texan deep in her heart. "One of the most important things to me is never to forget where I came from," she said. "It's easy to come up here and lose perspective, because people are so driven. But I still have very strong ties to the Western spirit that makes Texas so unique."

Although she plans to reenter the Wall Street arena soon, Danna is excited about her present work in a wine boutique. "It's great to have a hobby you can make money at. My job is to advise restaurants and private wine collectors, and I work with a lot of businesses and celebrities.

"With Wall Street, you're dealing

with people who think and do things the same way, but the wine business exposes me to many different kinds of people. It's really very creative. "

Deep in the Heart of... Brooklyn?

Mark Hathaway sits at a table in the Alamo Cafe, a restaurant where a typical meal consists of chickenfried steak, black-eyed peas and cornbread. If you think this cafe must be located somewhere on the highway between Lubbock and Muleshoe, take another guess. You can find it in Brooklyn, "A nice place to visit, a great place to live."

Mark is a part owner of the Alamo Cafe, one of the latest and most authentic in a string of Southwest restaurants in New York, antl one of the few that is more Tex than Mex. A 1980 communications graduate from Tyler, Mark moved to New York six months after he got his degree. "I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do when I left Lubbock," Mark said, sitting underneath a giant-sized map of the Lone Star State that hangs on one wall.

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Hogg: Wild About the Garden State "I think one of the real problems is that people watch too much television. A lot of people are convinced that anybody who goes into a subway station gets killed. And if someone doesn't kill you, then a Bernie Goetz will kill someone else, and you'll get hit with a flying bullet. I mean, some of the ideas people have about New York are just flat ridiculous."

Karen Hogg, 1974 engineering graduate, loves living in New Jersey and working at Goldman Sachs, a Manhattan brokerage firm where she is a manager of telecommunications. But the hardest thing the Odessa native ever did for her career was leaving Texas. After graduating, Karen worked for a year in Houston before transferring to a job in St. Louis.

"For the first year and a half," Karen said, "I couldn't imagine anyone living north of the Red

Mark Hathaway good to me."

Mark worked as a waiter at several restaurants in Manhattan before arriving at a Texas-style restaurant in Greenwich Village in 1982. He rose to a position as manager, and soon became a partowner. He also spent four months in London, in an attempt to introduce Lone Star cuisine to Great Britain.

"I sold out my interests there very quickly," he said. "I just didn't like it there in London at all. I needed to be back in this country."

The decision was a wise one, because his new restaurant has been doing a brisk business since it opened last December, and it's popular with native New Yorkers and transplanted Texans alike.

Although he has no immediate plans to move back to Texas, Mark misses the accessibility he found in that state. "Back then I could just get in a car and be at a lake or out in the country in a matter of minutes," he said. "It's hard to do that here. The traffic is heavier, and because of over-crowding and the parking situation, it's not worth owning a car, if you ask me."

Mark has found a way to combine two worlds he loves-life in New York and authentic downhome· Texas cooking. "Tell the Tech graduates to come on down here. It's the real thing."

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River. But after a while I recognized that with my job as it was, and my career as it was, I'd better learn to like St. Louis, or I would be miserable.

"Missouri just wasn't Texas, and it never would be. And when I

realized that, it's amazing how much happier I was. So when I made the transition from St. Louis to New Jersey, it wasn't difficult at all."

Karen made her move to New Jersey in 1980. Ironically, she lives very near an area where she had once interviewed at the end of her senior year.

"I was offered the job, but I turned it down because I just couldn't imagine working here," she said. "I mean it was Yankeeland; I couldn't move that far north! But now I think it would be very hard to go back. Texas and the Northeast both have their positive and negative aspects, but I really do like it here. I've gotten used to the pace."

Six years after she graduated, Karen received an invitation to serve on the Industrial Advisory Board for Tech's College of Engineering, a position she filled for six years.

"That was a tremendous opportunity," she said, "to be able to go back and sit on the other side of the desk It was a different expe· rience.

"I went back to Tech twice a year, and I got to see how the campus was changing. And I think that going back is something everyone should do. You can't just walk away from the school. The campus is very dear to me. I didn't grow up in Odessa; I grew up at Tech."

There is much in New York that attracts visitors from other states, and many others come to stay, making it their home. But there are still longings to see the places they came from, the familiar sights that will always have a place in their hearts and memories. For a Texan, it's the sight of bluebonnets. in the spring, the quiet grandeur of Palo Duro Canyon, or the lights of Dallas coming into sight through the window of a descending jet.

And for many, it is seeing a statue of Will Rogers, perhaps draped in red streamers, and returning to the campus where they left many of the trappings of childhood and started on the path~ that have led them so far.

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#4 William M. Whybum 1944-1948 No

Byjames G. Allen Texas Tech University president

was more purely academic than its

fourth, William M. Whyburn, the youngest and the first with an earned doctorate.

An examination of the word "purely" might help us to understand what it means as I have used it here. He saw a university primarily as a learning place, an academic learning place, not as a place to train young people in the practicalities to which learning might be applied. His was the theoretical approach to learning, the platonically clean approach.

He was, then, most at home in the area we think of as liberal arts, as divorced from the more usable and worldly as was represented by Tech's other four divisions, each of which had an equal claim on his attention as president.

Since he had been a member of the faculty at Texas Tech its first year, from 1925 to 1926, he had known the college before it had begun to realize the potential Dr. Paul W. Hom had envisioned for it. He had known it when Lubbock was a very small, unsophisticated West Texas community and before the faculty had begun to project its unsolicited viewpoint into administrative affairs.

In considering the opportunity to come back as president 18 years later, Bill Whyburn may not have made adequate allowance for the changes that had come to both Lubbock and to Texas Tech.

Whatever the explanation, as president he did not seem to feel comfortable, never seemed to feel in place. He felt alien. For all his attempts at belonging, and he made some, rather self-consciously, he never became one of us again, though his efforts to identify himself were both great and painfully obvious.

There was a tenseness in him that bespoke the effort his self-constraint caused him. Always, I felt, just beyond, just barely beyond, was waiting a display of impatience to the point of

W11liam Marrin Wbyburn anger. It was not intended as a threat, it was only a measure of the control he was having to exert.

Perhaps he never understood just how he could have been persuaded to leave so ideal and secure a position as the full professorship in mathematics he had held at Duke University. No doubt the personal persuasion of a lifelong friend on our faculty, who saw himself as something of a king maker, had caught him when at his own university one of the inevitable problems inherent in the academic scene was particularly trying.

Whatever it was that induced him to consider the offer to become president of Texas Tech, his limited experience as an administrator, minimum above the level of department head, should have warned him that he was not ready for so major an assignment. Perhaps the opportunity to come back home on the top level did it. No doubt the clincher was that if he tried it and failed, he could always return to the professorship in which he had achieved distinction, which was exactly what he would finally do.

He had no knack of getting along with the town, even if he had construed that as part of his assign-

ment, which he clearly never did. He was all gown. More important, he made little or no effort to conceal from anybody his conviction that Texas Tech should operate completely free and independent of the community in which it was located.

Lubbock had not yet lost all of its feeling of elation in having landed Texas Tech. It attributed its amazing growth largely to Texas Tech, to the faculty and students who represented the one major business potential in an otherwise agricultural community. For all this President Whyburn did not make adequate allowance.

So Lubbock was both sutprised and offended at the distance he as president sought to create between it and Texas Tech, though in fact he was only expediting a process that was already in progress, that we can now see was inevitable. His insistence on the importance of separateness for Texas Tech was just another indication that he had become its president two decades too soon. Later, he would have found Texas Tech's autonomy to the liking of both the college and the town. From the first, President Whybum demonstrated a courage and independence of thinking and decision that sets him apart from all the other Texas Tech presidents. It was both his distinction and his Achilles heel. It was both productive and destructive.

I was personally involved in a conflict that clearly evidenced this quality in President Whyburn. The expansion of the Texas Tech residence hall system had been almost entirely the achievement of Miss Mozelle Craddock, whose expert management had provided the funds for each new set of residence halls. They were almost always built in pairs. Her record clearly showed that she could make them resolve their indebtedness and in the process provide the down-payment for a new unit.

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President Whyburn and son, Skipper, shoot popguns at the cuckoo dock, a nighttime ritual. Whyburn, a devoted family man, also enjoyed helping his son carve wooden model planes. students on campus and so to furthering its independence of Lubbock. That would seem to fit in well with President Whybum's intent. Well, yes and no.

The perso~\ deans and the token supervision Miss Craddock provided for the residence halls were in constant and never-ending conf:ict. The differences in understanding just what was the purpose and function of this supervision were irreconcilable. But she knew that President Whybum knew that she had the full and unqualified support of the business manager of the college, whose main claim to distinction was that he had provided Texas Tech with housing for its exploding student population, the resources of Lubbock having long since been exhausted.

However great this achievement, it was not without its price. The constant stream of protests from the parents of students living in our residence halls was of general concern. Especially to me, who as dean of men was called upon to absorb the complaints of students, parents and fuculty.

Early in his presidency, I had discussed this problem with Dr. Whybum, using as an example any one of the innumerable student protests about Miss Craddock's autocratic procedures.

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agee under her thumb. My awareness of these circumstances made me let President Whybum off easily. I knew he was powerless to do anything about a problem of such long duration, one that he had inherited. Besides, I felt he needed to conserve his obviously limited strength for other battles, battles which he had a better, at least some, prospect of winning.

In the process, I had provided Dr.

tory supervision. It included for each of the six wings of each hall a part-time student advisor, who would provide us with the student viewpoint and evaluation that would be particularly helpful in handling the major infractions the disposition of which had been causing the administration embarrassment.

My figures were staggering in terms of anything Texas Tech had ever known. Common sense told me that there was little likelihood my plan would be accepted, and I had a serious question whether a watered down version would justify itself with either students, parents or administrators.

Late in the spring of his last year as president, I was greatly surprised when I looked up from my desk one morning to see Dr. Whybum standing, unannounced, in the door of my office.

"You remember that residence hall supervisory plan you talked to me about two years ago?" he asked. ''Well, I'd like you to get it ready for me to submit to the board of directors when they meet next week." I am not sure just how I answered him, or even that I did. I was overwhelmed by the suddenness of the request and the immediacy of the deadline. I had no time to consider the possible reverberations a consideration of my plan by the board of directors would produce.

Later I concluded that his request had been tied in with his decision, at that time unannounced, to resign his presidency, and his plan to effect some much needed changes before he did. I sensed then, and see now, the strength

Bnl Whyburn was a rumpled man. I do not

mean just that his suit never looked pressed, or his hair brushed. Or that his posture was poor, or that his face accommodated a smile with obvious di111culty.

Whybum with an analysis of exactly what I felt an effective residence hall supervisory p rogram should be, with a budget estimate of what would be necessary to fund it. I knew full well that cost would be the ultimate determiner of just how fur we could go. Not far, I felt sure, since I knew the funds for supervision would have to come from residence halls income, the use for which Miss Craddock had her own plans.

Major to my analysis was a full-time personnel administrator for each hall, a person with special training in donni-

of conviction he had. A less courageous president would have wanted to smooth off his term of office with all the grace he could muster. Instead, Dr. Whybum chose to make some not-toopopular reforms, to do some of the many things he had long wanted to do here, things that he felt would help Texas Tech. The board's approval of the proposed residence hall supervisory plan was not the least of the changes he effected just before he resigned.

Bill Whybum was a rumpled man. I do not mean just that his suit never

looked pressed, or his hair brushed. Or that his posture was poor, or that his bee accommodated a smile with obvious difficulty. I mean more, much more, than that. He exuded an awareness of failure as a president, of not being able to do what he felt he should do, even at personal sacrifice. His major problem was that he could not bring himself to compromise. First and last, he was a mathematician.

If we had had the opportunity we would have remonstrated, and we would have had good ammunition to back up our claims. Dr. Whyburn's insistence on high academic standards bad yielded Texas Tech recognition by the American Association of Universities. His effectiveness when presenting Texas Tech's budget requests before the State Legislature had earned him the respect of the presidents of the other state-supported colleges and universities, who valued highly his ad valorem tax concept for higher education.

But it would have been of no avail.

The four residence halls added while he was president were no more than the proverbial drop in the bucket in light of the tripling of our enrollment during his four-year presidency. Even the $6 million he had accrued as savings could not have represented much

menon rare in the '40s. Made keenly appreciative of our privilege, the six of us could not escape the implication that we were denying another family an income. That in each instance both members of these couples were eminently qualified for their positions had gradually come to be of secondary consideration. tittle recognition was given to the fact that the state was receiving more than its money's worth from the two-employees-in-one-family circumstance, since the salaries of both members of each couple were kept to a minimum in their classifications as a concession to the criticism and to what was construed as our advantage.

Finally, in 1945, the State Legislature passed a regulation that two members of the same family could not be employed by a state institution. At the end of the year, when the services of the wives of the six faculty families were terminated, President Whyburn, of his own initiative and at his personal insistence, granted them leaves of absence.

At the time his act was seen as little more than a gesture of appreciation and respect for professional performance over a period of years. But it proved to be more than that when two years later the legislative restriction

Whyburn demonstrated a courage and independence of thinking and decision that sets him apart from all the other Texas Tech presidents. It was both his distinction and his Achmes heel ... both productive and destmctJve. to him. He had failed to win the sup-

port of either his fellow administrators, the faculty or the students. That summed up the story for Bill Whyburn.

Someone had miscalculated. Texas Tech was not yet ready for a President Whyburn. Not the faculty, who still had not accepted the concept of Texas Tech College as the university it was beginning to become. Nor the students, who were more interested in expanding the fringe benefits of their college experience than in enriching its academic core. Nor the board of directors, who for the most part saw Texas Tech in terms of physical values, who measured its growth primarily in terms of enrollment figures.

My wife and I were one of six faculty couples both members of whom were employed by the college, a pheno-

was rescinded. Five of the six affected immediately resumed their positions with Texas Tech. Two years later, the sixth, Dr. Euhice Joiner Gates, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and the recognized authority on Gongorism, and her husband, Dr. W B. Gates, resigned their positions at Texas Christian University to return to Texas Tech.

Both had been members of the original faculty, Bryan Gates having served successively as professor of English, chairman of the English department and dean of the graduate school.

Once more, Bill Whyburn had evidenced a penetrating discernment in academic affairs well in advance of his time. Instinctively, he had reacted in the only way that fairness permitted to the discrimination that the state requirement represented. Using such

resources as were available to him, he had risen in defense of those who were being unfairly penalized. He had showed once more that he was ahead of his time, what with women's lib some two decades in the offing.

He once told me that as president of Texas Tech he could have no friends, that he had to so position himself that no personal relationship, however justly or unselfishly motivated, could seem to have influenced his decision.

Therein may have lain a major detriment to his evaluation of himself. For whatever validity for him there may have been in that principle, he finally found standing alone intolerable.

When we learned of his death in 1972, my wife's letter of condolence enlisted a reply from Mrs. Whyburn which stated that ours was the only such communication she had received from Lubbock, a touching corollary to Bill's refusal to accept personal friendship. Ironic, for Bill Whybum had a deep sensitivity to people and their problems, and a genuine respect for human rights long before they became a popular cause.

His values were of no common order. But they were such as could not be disciplined to the scale of the utilit· arian level of political thinking. His respect for the human ethic was unqualified. But it disqualified him for the presidency of a state university which required that he conform to a level of thinking and an ethical code that varied considerably from his own.

Bill Whyburn recognized that as president of Texas Tech he was out of his element, that his effectiveness was limited. He accepted the unchangeableness of the forces which then controlled higher education in Texas. In all his decisions as president, Bill Whyburn demonstrated the perception and the capacity to act that furnished those who observed him the opportunity to learn much from his example.

Ahead of his time and unwilling to temporize, at great personal sacrifice, Bill Whyburn tried to teach Texas Tech much that it needed to know, had to assimilate, and would be forced to accept before it could become a university.

His emphasis on academics and an administrative perceptiveness well in advance of his time during a short fouryear presidency left an indelible and invaluable imprint on Texas Tech.

(Next issue: Dossie Marion Wiggins, 1948-52) MAY-JUNE 1988

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Alumni Focus on

Tio Kleburg

By Roxanne Gabel

S.ephen "Tio" Kleburg's great· grandfather married the youngest daughter of Richard King, who founded the King Ranch in the 1850s. Since 1886, the year after King died, a Kleburg has run the famed King Ranch.

Currently a vice president and "senior" male Kleburg, Tio '69 is responsible for the South Texas farming, ranching and quarter horse operations. The ranch is divided into four divisions and together they cover 825,000 acres.

More than 2,000 miles of fencing are required to hold the 60,000 head of cattle on the ranch. In addition to the livestock areas, there are in excess of 2,700 oil and gas wells on the property, more than have been drilled in Saudi Arabia.

The ranch developed the first American beef breed of cattle (Santa Gertrudis) and went inter· national in the 1950s with purchases of more than 8 million acres around the world.

Texas Monthly magazine des· cribes the King Ranch as "the most famous ranch in America."

"Tio is a man of tremendous leadership qualities and integrity," said Dr. Fred Bryant '70, a range management professor at Texas Tech and fellow classmate of Tio's.

"He doesn't look at anything as a problem. He considers it more of a challenge." .

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there working beginning in 1955 at the age of nine, studied extensively the cattle and horses operation and learned a great deal about the business.

In 1963, Kleburg's summers at the ranch came to a halt when he had to start attending reserve officer basic training for the U.S. Army.

He graduated from high school at the Texas Military Institute in San Antonio in 1964 and enrolled ~t Texas Tech in August of that ~eyear.

"I wanted to attend Texas Tech for several reasons," Kleburg said.

"Tech had a good ag school, it was ¢o-educational, l could complete tny junior ROTC training there and l liked the climate."

- Kleburg recalls his five years at Tech as being "extremely rewarding." He got involved in ROTC and pledged Phi Delta Theta social fra. ternity, which he served as president his senior year.

Tio stands a solid 5-foot-7 inches and is readily recognized by his long, handlebar moustache and beard. His philosophies, however, have brought him success and recognition beyond all appearances.

"My advice to students has always been to believe in yourself because few others will, and have confidence," Kleburg said. "Do the right things, but not necessarily do things right. Anyone can follow in someone else's footsteps, but by taking risks, you can become the

best."

Upon graduation from Tech on June 21, 1969, with an animal science degree, Kleburg married Janelle Gerald, also a Texas Tech graduate. In August of that same year, he received his commission as a second lieutenant in the army.

Since he had two years of ROTC at Tech, Kleburg was able to attend a basic officers course at Eustis, Va. He later served as battalion transportation officer for six months at Fort Bliss near El Paso. For the remainder of his tour at Fort Bliss, Kleburg was the Aide de Camp to Commander General RD. Cassidy and was discharged on June 30, 1971, returning immediately to the King Ranch.

My father's uncle, Robert Kleburg Jr., advised me to work directly with my father and do what he said," Tio recalled. "From July 1971 until my father passed away in 1979, I did just that. I followed his instructions and guidance and tried to learn everything he had to teach me from his 40 years of experience with the land and livestock."

When Robert Kleburg passed away in 1974 and Tio's father five years later, there was a big void in the management of the ranch. Tio filled that void.

"I was never really told what to do," he said. "I was just eager to learn and saw areas that needed someone's personal attention, and I made these my responsibilities."

The King Ranch has become the focal point of his life, with his family sharing many of his strong feelings about the ranch. He and Janelle have three children, Chris, 16; Adrian, 14; and Jay, 10.

"Fortunately, they enjoy living on the ranch and working with cattle and horses," Kleburg said. He and Janelle both are active in the National Cutting Horse Association and cutting horse competitions.

His ranching knowledge has been useful to the College of Agricultural.Sciences at Tech, where Kleburg was a member of the first dean's advisory committee in 1981.

"I love the school and I love the people at Tech," he said.

"One of the highlights of my association with Texas Tech was on Oct. 16, 1980. I was one of the first three people to receive a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Ag Sciences."

"Tio is one of the youngest Distinguished Alumni to be recognized by the college," said Dr. Sam Curl, dean of ag sciences. "He handles his responsibilities well and is supportive of our activities here at Texas Tech. He's a very special person to us."

Kleburg sums up his philosophy for success in two lines. "Honesty, integrity and the willingness to stick your neck out will help you become a success," he said.

"You've got to realize that you'll make mistakes, but making those mistakes will allow you to learn." 1!l MAY·JUNE 1988

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r. Gene Hemmle worked long and hard trying to find an adequate place for Tech's music students and faculty to perform. But for the duration of his tenure as music department chairman, the best he could do was move the recitals around campus and to area churches. Then, soon after his retirement, Texas Tech honored Hemmle with a recital hall .. . named after him.

The hall, located in the music building and boasting almost 300 events per year, is used by students and faculty alike for performances ranging from degree requirement recitals to scholarly research and concerts by guest performers and ensembles. It seats 600 people, and admission is rarely charged except to raise scholarship money.

Although he is retired now, Hemmle still has an avid interest in music, as well as various forms of art. He is a prominent local painter and has had two one-man showings and a group showing, in addition to work displayed at the Fenn Galleries in Santa Fe, N.M. Hemmle was born in Neosha, Mo., on April 4, 1914, and graduated from SMU as a voice major before moving to New York to study privately. After postgraduate study at the University of Texas and ·a stint as a public school teacher, Hemmle accepted a job as the director of choral organizations at the College of Mines and Metallurgy, now the University of Texas at El Paso.

After three years in the U.S. Navy, eventually receiving the rank of lieutenant, he sang for the Robert Shaw Chorale and other conductors such as Bernstein,

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GeneHemmle

Recital hall, namesake boast rich histories Jl

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ By Tracy Thomason _ _ __ __ _ _ _ __

The Hemmle Recital Hall Leinsdorf and Toscanini.

Hemmle obtained both his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia University before D.M. Wiggins, whom he knew from UTEP, flew to New York to entice him to serve on the Tech faculty as chainnan of the music department.

Hemmle accepted and began his career at Texas Tech in 1949.

Among the classes that he taught were music literature to general students and an honors class.

"I think I learned as much as they did," he said, alluding to how bright his honors students were.

Hemmle said the most fun he had while teaching at Tech was when he masqueraded as Frank Zappa. He laughed as he recalled dressing in a wig and a wild array

of clothing (some belonging to his mother) and appearing in front of a large number of Tech students.

The charade was to teach his students a lesson. "I wanted them to be able to hold on to the real music, as fads always pass," he said.

Another memorable Tech adventure was taking the Texas Tech Choir he founded, now known as the University Singers, to New York to perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

In Hemmle's 24 years as Tech's music department chairman, he built the program from a faculty of four to 43.

"He, more than any one person, is responsible for building this department to what it is today," said Dr. Judson Maynard. However,

Hemmle claims the success of the department is "because of all that other people have done.

"I felt very grateful for all the support from the faculty, students and administration while I was at Tech," he mused. "I spent 25 years yearning for a recital hall," Hemmle said, adding that previously, recitals had been performed in Holden Hall, the Coronado Room in the U.C. and in churches"wherever we could find a space."

Finally, shortly after he retired from his position as chairman in 1973, the doors of the recital hall opened. In 1979, the year of his retirement from Tech, he was honored, "and flattered, of course," by having his name attached to the elegant, and long-awaited, facility. ~ MAY·JUNE 1988

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TEXAS TECH IN RETROSPECT ,.N

Flight schools played major role in wartime pilot training efforts

By Bruce Cammack

Although discussions of providing instruction in aeronautics at Texas Tech were held by the Board of Directors as early as 1927, it was not until the fall semester of 1939 that it was offered. The course, titled "Vocational Flight Training," was given as an extension course by the department of mechanical engineering.

Professor Robert P. Vail was named the director of the training program and head of the ground school. The two-credit hour course (which was later increased to four hours) required sophomore standing and offered: "instruction covering history of aviation; theory of flight; aircraft; civil air regulations; practical air navigation; meteorology; parachutes; aircraft power plants; aircraft instruments; radio use and terms."

The flight training was held at the Municipal Airport under the direction of Clent Breedlove. He was a pioneer South Plains aviator who did much to stimulate interest in aviation in the area. The students accepted into the course were required to attend 72 hours of ground school and from 3 5 to 40 hours of actual flying time. They were to have 3 1h hours of flight instruction the first two weeks, after which they could fly up to an hour a day.

Tech's course was only one of many set up by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as a way of encouraging the vocational training of young pilots. It is interesting to note that in the beginning, women at Tech were encouraged to enroll in the course in order to make up the initial minimum quota of 40 students.

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7be first graduating class of Texas Tech 5 CJvi11an Pilot Trainlng program in the spring of 1940. Behind the students and their instructors are a row of Wacos and a Travelair.

The first year of the national program resulted in 313 pilots from 13 participating institutions. The Federal Government appropriated money to assist the schools in providing instructors and classroom space as well as made available low-interest loans for the flight schools to help them in acquiring the necessary training aircraft.

The students, themselves, also paid a small fee. In the second year of the program, some 10,000 student pilots were trained, and in 1941, the year the United States entered World Wac II, almost 45,000 students went through the program. This included 8,000 secondary or advanced pilots, who had an additional 108 hours of ground school and 80 flight hours.

In Texas, these advanced courses were offered at Tech and 16 other schools.

Breedlove began his class with the purchase of a new 1940 Taylorcraft Trainer. As additional students entered the course and as the flight requirements were expanded to cover such skills as cross country and night flying and navigation

by instruments, he expanded his fleet to include at least 25 Taylorcrafts, as well as various Cub }3s, Aeroncas, Wacos and Stinsons.

He also started his own airfield, Breedlove Field, when the Municipal Airport became the site of the nation's largest advanced glider training base. In addition, many of the students attended a second flight school begun by M.F. Dagley.

Soon after Pearl Harbor, the Civilian Pilot Training program (CPT) was renamed the Wac Training Service. And in 1943, Texas Tech became the home of the 309th College Training Detachment, one of the first in the nation. Each detachment was set up to have 1,250 trainees, although the numbers sometimes varied.

By the end of the wac, Texas Tech had prepared thousands of pilots who saw service in all pacts of the globe and in almost every conceivable type of aircraft. Its flight schools were recognized as one of the largest wartime pilot training programs in the nation, and Breedlove, for his efforts, was awarded the Merit of Reward. ['fj

TECH TODAY Saddled with a selfadmitted image of mediocrity and an antithetical desire to "play with the big boys," Texas Tech University is angling for more respect.

Last spring, Tech's application for a Phi Beta Kappa chapter was rebuffed by the honor society's national headquarters, which cited entrance exam averages far below those of other member institutions.

In addition, a recent University internal report cited "an image of mediocrity."

"We are one of the two or perhaps three institutions in the state that like to play with the big boys, but we don't really have the resources to do it," said Dr. ).R Goodin, dean of Tech's College of Arts and Sciences.

But after Gov. Bill Clements opened competition in January for $60 million in research grants for Texas public colleges and universities, Texas Tech administrators and faculty got down to business.

With an eye to its future and probable changes coming from the passage of a sweeping higher education bill, Tech pitched ideas for some 220 research projects.

"I look upon this competition as very important to Texas Tech," said Dr. Don Haragan, vice president for Academic Affairs and Research. "To position ourselves, we will have to demonstrate that we do have a major research component in the University."

Tech also plans to beef up its graduate programs and adopt tougher undergraduate admission standards to work toward making the school one of the state's best.

Help in augmenting research resources may come from a share of the $60 million research grants allocated by the 1987 Legislature for research in such areas as aeronautics, computer science, oceanograpy, agriculture, physics, biotechnology, information sciences and telecommunications.

All public higher education institutions in the state are eligible for the grants, but no more than 70 percent of the money can go to the state's two research leaders, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.

"Given the number of people and tlte size of those universities, we antici-

joe Goodin pate that they will receive 70 percent," Haragan said. "The rest of us in the state will be competing for 30 percent of the pie."

Roger Elliott, assistant commissioner for research programs of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said more than 2,400 notices of intent to submit proposals for funded projects have been received.

The University of Houston, which Tech officials regard as most comparable in research capabilities to their school, has submitted about 110 preliminary proposals, while Texas A&M and its affiliated research agencies turned in about 4 50.

"The competition in biological and behavioral sciences will be intense," Elliott said.

Tech officials say they can't hope to compete for research dollars on the same level as the University of Texas or Texas A&M, but a good showing in the race is essential for the University's long-term health.

"We're in sort of a transitional mode," Haragan said. ''We're a young university- we're only 60 years oldand we're competing with universities that are at least double that age and much more established. We've come a long way, and I think Texas Tech has the poten~ial of doing much more."

For the 1986-87 budget year, Tech brought in $12.8 million in federal and state research funding and $4.6 million in private funding, Coordinating Board figures show. Overall, the institution took in $17.9 million in research funds-about 12 percent more than in 1985-86.

Texas A&M led the way with $172.8 million, UT had $130.6 million and Houston brought $25.2 million in research in 1986-87, figures show.

But bolstering research is only part of Tech's long-term plan to upgrade its academic image in preparation for changes in the state's educational system resulting from the adoption of House Bill 2181, legislation that grants the Coordinating board broad powers in reshaping Texas' higher education.

"In my mind, the number one priority over the next decade is the development of the graduate programs and research," Haragan said.

Graduate students currently make up about 12 percent of Tech's approximately 24,000 students. Goodin said the University will seek to raise that number to about 25 percent over the next few years. (By Wendy E. Lane, Associated Press)

An opinion poll of top

student leaders at Tech

identified what, in their opinions, are the University's primary problems in 1988. Each suggests how the University should progress and describes perceptions others have of Texas Tech.

Kreg Bryant, President Mortar Board "Sometimes, we're too concerned with little things and forget to concentrate on the big things. Basically, we are doing a good job on recruitment, except in the minority area. However, at University Day recently, we could see that the seniors were excited and that they wanted to be here. We need to concentrate more on recruitment in West Texas and to build up what we have out here.

"For so long, we have been ready to play 'second fiddle' to other universities in the state. We need to remember now that we are plenty good ourselves and that we belong to the entire state and nation, drawing our students from a wide population outside the West Texas area. We need to enlarge the Student Endowment Fund and increase minority recruitment.

"The image we have nationally and in the Southwest is much better than the image we have in our own state.

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school 'out there' and that we cater only to West Texas. By elevating the e.ffons of the image task force and working more closely with government offices, we can better our image. The progress can already be seen-Sen. john Montford has started by pledging that in next year's budget, the Museum funding will be passed, no matter what it takes. If we follow through on these things, the rest will take care of itself."

Kreg is a finance major from Lamesa.

David Tunnell, President Saddle Tramps "The biggest problems we face right now are state recognition, small representation in the State Legislature, our position in the tier situation and getting what we deserve as a top institution.

"Our agriculture, engineering and architecture schools are some of the best in the nation. Our law school is ranked number 11 in the nation. Yet we still have areas in which we need to excel. We need to be known in all aspects as a top school, which includes our athletic program.

"Many people believe that we are a little school on the plains. But we aren't just farm kids. I went to UT for three semesters, so I know what they think. We have a really diverse student body. The funny thing is that most people are truly impressed when they finally do meet a Tech student. We need to emphasize the real reasons people come to Tech: an excellent educational opportunity, friendly atmosphere and a nice community."

David is a general business major from littlefield.

Jim Lane, President Interfraternity Council "Our biggest problem is funding. We don't get the money we deserve for the services and programs we offer. People sell us short, and, consequently, we lose out. In order to stay better than most, we have to build upon what we have and not let it slip away.

"Over the next five years, we need to be considered in the top three schools in the state. There must be an increase in funding. I know in my department, students will get in line five hours ahead of an appointment for advisement, because they know if a course section fills up, there won't be enough faculty to open a new one. Our art school is the best in the state, and one of the best in the nation. In order to stay that way, we have to improve things such as student/ teacher ratios and encourage the addition of new col26 MAY-JUNE 1988

leges and programs, particularly at the graduate level.

"Most people see us as an engineering school out in West Texas. Yet we have some great programs, in addition to engineering. It's funny, but in industry, professionals recognize Texas Tech as a fine institution. With others, though, we have no image. A change in any negative attitudes won't be solved with advertising. It has to be through respect, through each individual being the best he or she can be, then going out and telling people about the education they earned from Texas Tech."

Jim is a design communications major from Houston.

Shannon Hopkins, President University Panhellenic Association "A large problem Tech has is that there isn't enough alumni support, and we need a better image both on- and off-campus.

"People don't realize how important it is to plan where our University should be in five years, and that includes improving our image. We have to start telling people about all the good things we have going for us before they're taken away by the Legislature cutting funds or by the Coordinating Board cutting programs.

"Many people I know think Tech is a party school. They think it's easy to be admitted into and that our graduates aren't as good. They just don't say a lot of positive things."

Shannon is majoring in the restaurant, hotel and institutional management program. She's from Dallas.

Amy Love, President

Student Association "I believe Texas Tech has several opportunities, not problems, that need to be addressed. Those include increasing the endowment fund base, emphasizing the University as a research institution, and improving our posture within the state.

"I believe Texas Tech should become one of the premier institutions in the state and in the nation. The programs are already here- we need to 'let the secret out' now. This will insure our competitiveness through the 21st century and beyond "In many areas, Texas Tech enjoys a good reputation. Most of the negative images are due to a lack of information. The best parts of our University are unknown, in many cases. It is important to constantly promote and inform people of the good things about Texas Tech."

Amy is a marketing major from Dallas.

J. FredBucy

Texas Tech University Regent J. Fred Bucy of Dallas has been named by Gov. Bill Clements to head an advisory panel formed to persuade the federal government that the multi-billion dollar super collider should be located in Texas.

In addition to Bucy, Texas Tech physics department chairman Dr. Walter Borst will also serve on the 17member panel.

Bucy has been a member of the Board of Regents at Tech since 1972, serving as its chairman from 1980 until 1982. He worked at Texas Instruments Inc. throughout his professional career, retiring in 1986 as its president and chief executive officer.

Borst has been at Tech since 1984 and has done research on petroleum formation funded by the Texas Advanced Technology Research Program.

Bucy will now head the newly created Texas Scientific Advisory Council, comprised of businessmen, members of the academic community and scientists from across the state.

"Our function is to win the super collider for Texas," Bucy said. "The council is working on any new policies that are needed to address any and all questions during the competition."

In addition to convincing Congress to fund the super collider, the council will also write a proposal asking the U.S. Department of Energy to build the super collider in Texas, Bucy said Seven states are still in competition for the super collider. If located in Texas, the proposed location is Ellis County because of geological advan· tages not found in other possible locations, according to Bucy.

Tech~ award-winning cheerleaders (back row, from left) Jef£ Davis, Olney; Tommy DeLoach, Dallas; David Dixon, Lubbock; Jlm Bob Pollard, Odessa; Mitch Bradshaw, San Antonio; and Mac Stldom, manager, Dallas; (second row) Kyle Bowan, Odessa; Tracy Nichols, San Antonio; Diane Tse, San Antonio; ca.ra Dixon, Lubbock; Joy M111er, San Antonio; and Bill Robertson, Odessa; (front row) Wendy Tisdale, Lisa Chase and Brandi Noble, all of Dallas.

In August, the Tech squad won rtrSt place in the SMU National Cheerleading

Camp. This "Award of Excellence" earned members All-American honors and entitled them to compete in the National Cheerleading Association Championship, where they came in fifth.

Rankings in the SMU camp were as follows: 1 ) Texas Tech; 2) Oklahoma State; 3) University of Oklahoma; and 4) Miami of Florida.

All-Americans following this competition were Brandi Noble, lisa Chase and Wendy Tisdale.

The 1988 National Collegiate Cheerleader Championship was held Jan. 3 at the Dallas County Convention Center. More than 600 cheerleaders competed, making the event the largest collegiate cheerleader championship of its kind in the country.

Forty-five squads from 21 states competed for the national championship title.

The collegiate squads were selected on the basis of winning the Award of Excellence at summer

cheerleading camps or through competitions in their divisions during the summer at camp. Other squads received a chance to vie for the collegiate national championship by submitting a videotape of a fight song, home cheer, and/ or a porn pon routine.

The squads performed 3112-minute routines and were judged on all the elements of cheerleading and gymnastics by a panel of qualified professionals throughout the cheerleading, gymnastics and choreography/ dance industries.

Final national rankings were 1 ) Oklahoma State; 2) University of Texas; 3) University of Louisville; 4) California State Long Beach; 5) Texas Tech University; 6) University of Kansas; 7) Iowa State; 8) Arkansas State; 9) Mississippi State; and 10) Indiana State. (By Jeff Davis)

The Meadows Foundation has made a $50,000 matching grant to the Museum of Texas Tech.

The Dallas foundation will match funds

up to 150,000 in new contributions or pledges for operational support given to the museum through Aug. 31.

Sally R Lancaster, executive vice president and grants administrator for Meadows, said the grant is "to assist the museum in weathering a critical fiscal period."

An intense effort is underway to replace the 1459,000 in operating funds which were cut from the 198889 state budget by Gov. Bill Clements.

"We are very pleased by this generous offer from Meadows," said museum director Gary Edson. "This, along with major grants from AT&T and Shell Oil Co. and many individual gifts ranging from I 1 to 15,000, puts us a long way toward meeting our goals. This grant will be an impetus to us to get out and raise the rest of the money we need.

"Fortunately," he said, ''we have some good friends working for us, including State Sen. John T. Montford, who has said he will 'pound the pavement' to raise the money we need."

The Meadows Foundation, founded

by Algur H. and Vlfginia Meadows in 1948 to benefit Texans, supports programs in health, education, social services, the civic and cultural sector and the arts. Algur Meadows was associated with General American Oil Co. of Texas. Meadows is one of the largest private foundations in Texas and among the 20 largest in the nation.

The matching funds offer is the second major gift from Meadows to Texas Tech in recent months. Meadows was a major contributor to the TwoWay Interactive Telecommunications System at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Lea Whitehead of Sonora has been named as the 1988-89 Masked Rider at Texas Tech.

Whitehead, a junior agricultural communications major, was selected from a field of seven candidates to be the University's official mascot. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Whitehead of Sonora.

She became the official Masked Rider during a Transfer of the Reins ceremony March 3, succeeding former Masked Rider Kim Saunders of Marfa Whitehead was the American Junior Rodeo Association All Around Champion at the 1982 National Finals Rodeo, the 1984 Region II Texas High School Rodeo Association All Around Champion and the 1986 American Junior Rodeo Association World Champion in pole bending.

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Tech Today Briefs Dr. David J. Hentges, chainnan of the microbiology department at the HSC, has been named regional editor of the new international journal, "Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease." Hentges is president of the Society of Intestinal Microbiology Ecology and Disease .. . Dr. Robert A. Anderson, professor emeritus in the department of psychology, directed a workshop titled "The Impaired Psychologist" at the midwinter conference of the American Association of State Psychology Boards in Thcson .. .The area of accounting in the College of Business Administration became the beneficiary of alumni contributions totaling S65,000 recently. Ernst & Whinney, an international public accounting firm, contributed $37,945 to the program, designated for the continued support of scholarships and the Ernst & Whirmey Professorship held by Tech professor Dr. lane Anderson ... Ph.D. student Melissa Postnikoff recently received notification that her composition "Toccata for Two" received its West Coast premiere at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. She is the composition student of Mary Jeanne van Appledom at Tech ...

The Tech debate team placed third out of 30 teams in debate competition at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Mike Truesdale, captain of the senior debate team, said the team considered it great to finish second since some of the best debate teams from the East Coast were in contention .. .

Professor Nguyen To Nhu of the Institute of Mathematics in Hanoi, Vietnam, was ESA VISiting Distinguished Professor in March in the math department at Tech. He is a topologist and worked with Dr. Wayne Lewis during his stay ...

Hom Professor John Gillas received an Action plaque from the West Texas Museum Association for enhancement of the cultural community and was described as the man who brought opera to Lubbock. Gillas is Hom Professor of music ...

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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Texas Tech will be the site of the only U.S. Fish and Wtldlife Service Cooperative Unit in the state of Texas.

The unit, requested by U.S. Rep. Larry Combest, R-Lubbock, will employ three U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency personnel whose primary duty will be to study wildlife management.

"The program will be staffed by two wildlife (experts) and one fishery expert," Combest said in a news release. "These researchers will provide wildlife studies and management for a five-state region.

"This research is important to us scientifically and economically. We are fortunate to have this unit established at Texas Tech."

Combest's initial request to establish the research program at Tech was acknowledged in an appropriations bill last year.

"There has not been one cooperative unit established in Texas," said Trudi Lewis, Combest's press secretary. "All previous research done for Texas was based in South Dakota."

Lewis said the agency "would not be a building" but a cooperative unit based somewhere on the Tech campus.

"A particular place has not been named to house the agency, but it may be located in the Goddard Range and Wildlife Building," said Dr. John Hunter, a Tech associate professor of range and wildlife management.

Hunter said the agency will provide research for Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Ari2ona, Nebraska and Kansas.

The center for studying fish and wildlife comes at an appropriate time with apparent increased interest in the area's hunting potential and because grass is being permanently established on millions of High Plains acres under the Conservation Reserve Program.

As rtre ants continue to spread across the southern United States, Dr. Harlan Thorvilson, an assistant professor of entomology, and other professors in his area are watching their behavior patterns.

They are conducting research, funded by the Texas Legislature, to

Harlan Thorvilson determine the behavior, community strucrure, biology and methods of controlling the fire ant.

"Fire ants are moving across Texas," Thorvilson said, "and we are trying to find out how far west they will go.

There are not very many fire ants in West Texas yet. I predict that it will be difficult for them here because the climate is cool and dry." He added that California has a climate favorable to fire ants, though, which could be dangerous for that state.

He said the small, reddish brown ant is a major pest because it poses a threat to humans, young livestock and wildlife.

"The fire ant holds on with its jaws and stings with its abdomen," he said.

"It can take weeks for the wound to heal." The ant's sting can be life-threatening to some people.

The large mounds cause much damage to farms and farm animals, he said.

The insects are aggressive and efficient, blanketing the area in which they invade, attacking animals near their mounds.

Thorvilson said fire ants are present in all areas of the southern United States and in more than half of Texas.

He said the total eradication of the fire ant is not possible, but some methods of baiting the insects, growth alteration and reproduction control are being studied and are considered promising.

ARCHITECTURE Three Mexican architects are using Texas Tech as a base to research the historic roots of the U.S. Southwest to highlight the connection between

Wayne Drummond, W1llard Robinson andJohn White the cultures of colonial Mexico and this region.

The visiting professors-Arturo Parra Morena, Alfonso Alcocer Martinez and Ramon Gonzalez Flores-are from the Universidad de Guanajuato.

A grant from the United States Information Agency, a branch of the Fulbright Program, is underwriting the exchange program. In April, Tech architect professors Willard Robinson, John White and Wayne Drummond visited the Universidad de Guanajuato.

The exchange program between the two universities ties into Lubbock's ongoing Sister City program with Leon, Mexico.

The city of Guanajuato, located about 350 miles northwest of Mexico City, is the capital of the state of Guanajuato, where Leon is located.

Parra Morena said the three professors split their time discussing architecture with Texas Tech undergraduate and graduate students and visiting historic sites since they arrived in January.

They also participated in a symposium on Hispanic Religious Architecture in Mexico and the American Southwest at the Ranching Heritage Center.

Guanajuato, with its colonial architecture, dates back to the 1500s when Spain developed the mines in the region. Lubbock is a city founded in the 20th century. However, Parra Morena downplayed the comparative ages of the cities when considering history.

"History began a few seconds ago," he said. "History tells you where you were and where you are going. It does not have to be so old."

Alcocer Martinez pointed out that the first buildings of Texas Tech were built in the 1920s in the fashion of that time called "Spanish renaissance." The Spanish or "mission" styles were popular in both Texas and California in the 1920s and 1930s, he said. A notable example of that architecture can be seen in Hollywood and Beverly Hills in the homes of the movie stars of that time.

However, a revival of a similar style was underway in Mexico during the same decades, Alcocer Martinez said.

In Mexico, the style was called "traditional" rather than "Spanish," he said.

The three Guanajuato professors visited Santa Fe, N.M., to tour the examples of Mexican colonial architecture there. Among their stops was the governor's palace, the oldest public building in the Southwest.

Parra Morena said the three are particularly interested in historic preservation so that older buildings can be recycled without losing their historic value.

They maintain that conserving such buildings helps preserve the true historic record of cities. ''We can keep the truth of history through conservation. Everyone can 'read' the building for its true message to history," Parra Morena said.

A memorial fund has been established in honor of Dr. Thelma Yambao, to perpetuate the work she had begun in perinatology and high risk pregnancy. She was killed Dec. 3, 1987, in a plane crash in Rwanda, Africa. The endowment will provide resources for an endowed chair in the department of obstetric s/ gynecology at the Regional Academic Health Center at Amarillo ... Dr. Jimmie M. Killingsworth, associate professor of English, and Dr. DeraJd D. Walling, professor of mathematics, have been appointed to serve on test development committees that will prepare exams to be taken by all public college and university students in Texas ... Dr. Edgar 0. Ledbetter, professor of pediatrics and former chairman of the department, has been named director of child, adolescent and maternal health for the American Academy of Pediatrics .. .jacque Segars Behrens, director of international studies, has been elected first vice president of the Texas Association of International Education Administrators. She will serve as president of the group in 1988-89 .. . Dr. Ronald I. Dom, assistant professor of geography, was presented the Hemphill-Wells New Professor-Excellence in Teaching Award by the Dads and Moms Association. Dom is in his third year on the faculty and received the award based on demonstrated exceptional teaching ability as attested by students, fellow faculty and administrators ... Dr. Wayne Lewis, associate professor of mathematics, presented an invited address at the spring topology conference at the University of Florida in April .. . Dr. Louise Luchsinger, director of undergraduate programs in the College of Business Adminis· tration, has received the 1988 Dis· tinguished Leadership Award from the Dads and Moms Association.

The award recognizes a faculty member who has exhibited leadership on campus committees and boards ... Dr. Jeffrey Roger Smitten has been named chairman of the English department at Tech. He is a specialist in 18th Century British literature ... Dr. Henry A. Wright, Hom professor and c hair· man of the range and wildlife management department, has received the 1988 Barnie E. Rushing Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Award ...

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Dr. John Muma, psycholinguistics professor in the department of speech and hearing sciences, was the featured speaker at the annual conference of the South Carolina Speech-Language-Hearing Association in April. He is the author of two major books and many research articles on language acquisition ... Dr. Gabor Racz and Dr. James E. Heavner of the anesthesiology faculty in the HSC, and anesthesiology resident Jerold Holubec produced an instructional exhibit which was recently recognized for excellence by the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, ranking first over 22 other entries from medical schools across the U.S ... Dr. Pat S. Yoder Wise, executive associate nursing dean, has been named editor of the ':Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing." Yoder Wise has served on the editorial board since 1980 and has been associate editor since 1982 .. .A team from Tech Block and Bridle Club won third in two categories and fifth overall at the Southern Regional Academic Quadrathalon in New Orleans. The quadrathalon features a written exam, an oral presentation, practical skills competition and a quiz bowl. The team is sponsored

by Drs. James Clark and John McGlone ... Math professors Drs. Kamal Chanda and Gary Harris have been invited to be visiting professors at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Thrkey, from May 15 until the end of June. The visit will be part of an exchange program arranged through ICASALS and funded by the Thrkish government ... Dr. Bill Gustafson, associate professor of financial planning, was recently invited to the University of Alabama to serve as a distinguished visiting professor. His visit was sponsored by the OrmanHarris Distinguished Lectureship Fund and was attended by faculty and professionals in the planning field from throughout the state ... Law Professor John Murray serves as coordinator and liaison between Tech Law School faculty and the State Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee ... A $10,000 endowment scholarship established for Hispanic students in Texas has been presented to Tech by the Anheuser-Busch Companies. The fund will help increase educational opportunities for Hispanic youths in Texas ...

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ARTS & SCIENCES The f'11"'St alumnus to receive a cold-cast plaque, created by Electra Waggoner Biggs, who sculpted the Will Rogers statue at Tech, has been presented to Bill Grist '70 of-Lubbock.

The plaque is given to individuals who donate at least $1,000 to the College of Arts & Sciences' Quest for Excellence.

The first shipment of 25 plaques has

arrived and is being distributed to persons who have contributed to the Recognition Garden, the fund-raising project which will beautify the campus while recognizing friends and alumni.

The plaque is a replica of the 13-foot Will Rogers statue which has been on the Tech campus since 1943.

The first 250 recipients of the plaque receive a certificate of authenticity with the signature of the artist.

Donations of at least $1,000 may be mailed to the Plaque Project, College of Arts & Sciences, Box 4379, Lubbock, TX 79409.

BJH Gist 70 (left) and A&S Dean Joe Goodin admire Gist's Quest for Excellence plaque depicting the Electra Waggoner Biggs statue of W1H Rogers and Soapsuds.

A Texas Tech anthropology professor has returned from a lecture tour in which he spoke about Central America at Brazilian universities.

Dr. Philip Dennis, professor of anthropology, was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent five months last semester lecturing in Brazil.

The Fulbright program was initiated after World War II by former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas to increase understanding between the United States and other countries. The awards are granted competitively and are based on the professional and academic record of the applicant. ~nnis arrived in the city of Natal, Brazil, last August, and remained in the country lecturing at various universities on current conditions in Latin American countries.

Part of the Fulbright program requires the recipient to be available to other universities. As a result, Dennis was able to give lectures at universities in Floranapolis, Rio de Janiero and Bahia Salvador.

Dennis said students in Brazil were interested in the economic conditions in Mexico, since Brazil was similarly affected by the plunge of oil prices.

He said Brazil's economy affects the nation's universities much like the Texas economy affects Tech but to a more serious degree.

"Professors are leaving the university to find higher-paying positions." ''We take a lot of things for granted here, whereas over there the revenue shortage does not allow for many services to exist. The grounds of the university are unkept and, when machines break down, they remain so because there are no funds to repair them."

well represented, Baker said.

"Through the collection, we are creating a permanent record of mammals which have lived in various areas in various times," Baker said. ''We are documenting their size, weight and other physical characteristics and, through the frozen tissues, we have a record of genetic make-up."

The purpose of the collection is like a library, to provide basic understanding and a data base for the science of · mammalogy.

Filming storms as they develop and investigating the damage they cause

Robert Baker and bobcat

A bobcat has become the 15th specimen in the museum's collection of Recent Mammals. The milestone is a distinction which places the collection among the top seven university mammal collections.

Only six other universities-California Berkeley; Harvard; Michigan; Kansas; Illinois; and New Mexico- boast more than 50,000 specimens, according to Dr. Robert Baker, curator/ director of the Natural Science Research Laboratory and Horn Professor of biology and museum science.

"In the scientific community, Texas Tech is viewed as the best university in the country to get a degree in systematic mammalogy and the mammalogy collec tion is a big part of the reason," Baker said. "The academic program is structured around the collection, and the collection's uniqueness and organization allow students to use it and learn from it in a way many universities do not use their collections."

The program can lead to a master's or doctoral degree. Tech graduates have been curators at university collections, including ones at Harvard, Texas A&M and the University of New Mexico, and museum collections including the Carnegie Museum of National History, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver Museum of Natural History, and the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa The Tech collection includes nearly all orders of rila.mmals, and most continents' mammal populations are fairly

are part of a two-pronged attack by meteorologists and engineers at Tech to learn more about tornadoes.

It's no coincidence that Dr. Richard E. Peterson's arrival in West Texas and the creation of the Tornado Intercept Team came shortly after a 1970 tornado that leveled sections of Lubbock and claimed several lives.

The fact that the atmospheric sciences office is located on the 12th floor of the tallest building on campus is no fluke either. From this perch, scientists can view storms festering on the horizon.

"One of the misconceptions about tornadoes is that rapid pressure changes cause buildings to explode," Peterson said. His department's analysis of this misconception was a factor that led the National Weather Service (NWS) to change its public warning system.

"This is why the NWS no longer issues bulletins telling people to open windows before taking cover," Peterson said. "The message now is don't worry about indoor pressures, just take cover."

Peterson and other researchers at the University's Institute for Disaster Research are crusaders against misconceptions about tornadoes.

Pressure changes associated with tornadoes have little to do with the destruction of most buildings. "The slashing movement of contrasting winds are really the culprits," he said.

The strongest tornadic winds probably do not exceed 350 mph, he said, and the common speed is less than 200 mph. However, winds of that speed can easily drive a 2-by-4-inch board through a brick wall.

The circulated myth that tornadoes, like lightning, don't strike twice in the same spot is also erroneous, Peterson said. Tornadoes can hit twice and have done so many times in Texas .

Drs. Oyde Martin and Thomas McLaughlin of the department of mathematics have been appointed to the editorial board of the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, a professional journal dedicated to the publishing of research articles in various areas of pure and applied math ... Professor Marilyn Phelan serves as faculty sponsor for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA), sponsored by the ABA and Internal Revenue Service.

The program allows law students to gain experience through preparing tax returns and providing legal advice and assistance to low-income individuals ... Dr. Pat Dunne, associate professor of marketing, has been named as one of four recipients of the American Marketing Association's Wayne Lemburg Award for Distinguished Service. The pres· tigious award recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the AMA for a sustained period of time ... Dr. James W. Kitchen of the park administration and landscape archite cture d e partment has been elected secretary of the Texas Nature Conservancy, a private organizatio n dedicated to pro tecting the natural diversity of land, plants, animals and ecosystems ... National retaile r Sears has donated a complete set of its Christmas ''Wish Book" catalogs to Tech's Southwest Collection. The microfilm, fro m 1933-1987, complements the collection of Sears general catalogs which the Southwest Collection previously received. Direc tor Dr. David Murrah said the catalogs are i mport ant because from i t researchers can learn about the lifestyles of particular time periods ... A television veteran from Amarillo Ray Poindexter was inducted into the Mass Communications Hall of Fame during Mass Comm Week activities. Poindexter is the 17th Hall of Fame inductee.

He is general manager of KAMR-TY, the NBC affiliate in Amarillo ...

Arthur Andersen & Co., an international public accounting firm, recently contributed S27, 195 to the area of accounting in the College of Business Administration. The gift will support the Arthur Andersen Professorship held by Dr. Paul Munter and the master's program in taxation ...

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Dean Frank Newton of the Law School received the Pro Bono citation, recognition by the State Bar Association for his contributions as committee chairman of Legal Services to the Poor in Civil Matters ... Dr. Frits Ruymgaart, professor of mathematical statistics at the Mathematisch Instituut, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, was visiting the Tech math department as ESA Distinguished Visiting Mathematician, collaborating with Dr. Kamal Chanda ... The College of Engineering's Texas Beta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi received a congratulatory note from Gov. Bill Clements on the 50th anniversary of its founding. Clements commended the chapter for its emphasis on high academic and ethical standards and for service to the community, particularly the group's work with indigent citizens and the elderly ...

Dixon (Dick) Platt, manager of public affairs for the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce since 1984, has been named director of the new Office of Health Sciences Center Relations at Texas Tech. Platt, who has extensive background in management and marketing, will oversee the planning, design, implementation and supervision of public awareness activities for the Health Sciences Center and its regional academic health centers ... Dr. Mary Ellen Rudin, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was in residence at Texas Tech in April as part of the visiting mathematician series supported by the Ex-Students Association. She is a world renowned topologist and may well be the best known woman mathematician active in the world today ...

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Have the media gone too far in their pursuit of political candidates? What does the American public have the right to know? Where is the line drawn between investigative reporting and snooping?

These are questions that have been posed.recently in trying to determine exactly what the role of the media is or should be today. Perhaps a more appropriate question would deal with the American voters themselves and their apparent lack of interest in candidates' platforms and ideologies.

Indeed, the public seems more concerned with who is sleeping with whom and which Supreme Court nominee has tried smoking pot, rather than which candidate has a deeper understanding of the economic troubles inherent in our system, or who has the most realistic foreign policy.

Dr. Steve Swindel, director of the Institute for Communications Research at Tech, says reporters should stop researching when their actions venture into the private life of a political person when the information is not relevant to the story.

He suggested that the behavior of one politician in his or her private life may have an impact on job performance, and therefore be worthy of headline news, while the same activity done by another political figure is "no one's business but his or her own."

Such is the case with Supreme Court Justice nominee Douglas Ginsberg and his past use of marijuana. Because marijuana is a controversial subject, and his use of the substance might bias Ginsberg's decision if the issue were presented to him in court, the public had a right to know about his prior use, Swindel said. However, if it were discovered that Gary Hart had tried pot in his past, it should not be turned into a major voting issue because it would not affect his ability to lead.

According to Swindel, the most important issue surrounding Ginsberg's nomination was not his use of a controlled substance. His possible conflict of interest stemming from investments in a cable company was a much more valid concern.

"Unfortunately, that issue was simply overshadowed by the public's interest in his past use of pot."

Swindle said it is the media's responsibility to give the public relevant information so it can make intelligent policy-forming decisions. "The other trash belongs in tabloids," he said.

Robert Rooker, professor of mass

communication law, is quick to agree that stories of promiscuity and adultery have no place in legitimate news reports.

"These people aren't running for Pope," he said. "They're running for a secular office. There's no question that what Hart did was immoral, but immorality doesn't affect one's ability to reduce the deficit or manage domestic spending."

Rooker points out that Thomas Jefferson had mistresses and slaves, but he was still one of our country's most noteworthy leaders.

"It's not always easy to decide what information would be considered an invasion of privacy if reported, and what information is actually relevant to current events," he said, contending that it is up to the editor to use good judgement in determining what stories to carry.

"That's what gatekeeping is all about," Rooker said.

"There is no clause in the Constitution granting the public a right to know. There is a right to report, but the media should take it upon themselves to regulate the outflow of garbage. Although the sex and drug stories certainly contain an apparently much-desired element of entertainment, the American public and the institution of democracy would be better served by a focus on hard-core news items." (By Kathryn Wolcott)

The Vietnam War is more than 20 years old, yet those two decades have not yet diminished the impact of that war on American society.

The current generation of college students are the offspring of people who either served in, supported or protested the Vietnam War, and because of that, many college students are interested in what really happened.

In response to that interest, Dr. Jim Harper, associate professor of history and director of the Honors Program, is teaching a course on Vietnam, dealing not only with the various battles fought, but also the cultural impact the war had on the people who stayed home.

Harper said one of the most important questions that needs to be answered about the war is "what can we draw from it?"

"There are many legacies left from the war," he said, "both in the memories of the men who fought in it and in the minds of those who did not partici·

pate," he said. "The events of war are compl~x, and this makes every war different.

He said students need to understand about the impact of the Vietnam War and what any future wars may entail.

"Although the Vietnam War had its share of protestors, nationalism was still very strong," Harper said. "One of the biggest reasons for stirred emotions during the war was the television coverage it was given. It's hard to explain what is going on by showing just a few fihn clips of soldiers overseas. But this war actually came into our livingrooms via the television, and we saw young men dying."

Harper said one of the most impor· tant lessons for a student to learn is that in any future conflict, the United States' goals need to be within the means to be achieved.

"It was a logical process that brought us to war," he said. "But what we tried to do was beyond our means.

Maybe one thing we learned from it is that the United States cannot be the world's policeman." (By Kim Trainor)

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Undergraduate student enrollment in Tech's College of Business Administration has decreased slowly because of stricter grade requirements that were estab· lished in the summer of 1986.

A minimum GPA requirement of 2.5 was adopted, which affects all transfer students from on-campus colleges and other institutions. The requirement also restricts current college students from entering upper-division courses unless they meet the GPA requirement.

"Student enrollment went down by 400 to 500 students because of this," said Dean Carl Stem.

Carl Stem

A survey conducted by the Coopera· tive Institutional Research Program at the University of California found that freshman interest in the business field across the nation is at its highest level since 1972. The GPA requirements that were established at Tech have caused student enrollment to decrease, how· ever.

Stem said there continues to be a problem with the balance of majors within the college. Too many students who wanted to major in accounting, management information systems and finance forced the college to adopt a cumulative GPA requirement of 2.7 for students to advance in upper-division classes in those academic areas.

"This is the highest requirement that is in the state of Texas," Stem said.

One student said he believes the upgraded requirements are beneficial in preparing graduates to enter the business world.

"The requirements make me study more to achieve the higher GPA in the college," said Kevin Buschman, a junior accounting/finance major. "I think the requirements better prepare the Stu· dent for the 'real business world."'

"The requirement has improved the quality of our students," said Danny Bellenger, associate dean for academic programs in the college. "Most of the impact has hit the transfer students."

Stem said the stricter rules were placed in effect because the faculty was being "outnumbered" by students.

"Business colleges have had increased student enrollment for the past 15 to 20 years all around the U.S.," Stem said.

"We had to deal with over 5,000 undergraduate students in the fall of 1986."

Stem said the college is forced to adopt stricter requirements when stu· dent enrollment becomes "out of hand." "There's no building space to expand, and it's not good to be scat· tered all around campus."

COBA will increase the requirements again if student enrollment becomes too large, Stem said.

Bellenger added that the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Busi· ness closely analyzes the student/ faculty ratio in business colleges.

"It should be balanced," he said. "If it isn't, then they would probably put the school on probation. And if the problem is not taken care of soon, they might lose their .accreditation."

He said reasons so many students enter the college include a high demand for business students after graduation and student perception that business is an exciting field.

Walter McDonald Winner of the 1987 juniper Prize for Poetry is Dr. Walter McDonald's "After the Noise of Saigon."

McDonald is Hom Professor of English and director of creative writing at Tech. The work includes themes drawn from the part of Texas where he grew up, as well as those stimulated by his experience as a USAF pilot in Southeast Asia ...

An Amarillo businessman and civic leader was recognized for his service to higher education in Texas and his outstanding support of med· ical education. Ben Latham was chosen by the regional HSC center at Amarillo as the recipient of the Louise Evans Bruce Award for sup· port of excellence in medical edu· cation ... In an effort to understand how current home building practi· ces could be altered to improve wind resistance, the Allstate Foundation-research arm of Allstate Insurance Co., has presented a S25,000 grant to the Institute for Disaster Research at Tech. Accord· ing to Dr. James R. McDonald, director for the institute and professor of civil engineering, the grant will be used to develop practical and economical methods of con· struction to minimize wind damage ... A textbook authored by Don R. Tanner of the music education faculty won the 1987 "Course of the Year" award presented in Febru· ary by the 17th annual conference of the Association of Christian Continuing Education Schools and Semi· naries. "Fundamentals of Music" was published in December by the Inter· national Correspondence Institute in Brussels, Belgium ... Tech student Donald Michael Coy has received the Top of the Crop award from the American Advertising Federation.

Coy, who graduated in May with a bachelor's degree in advertising, was recognized as one of the top 10 advertising students in the nation based on experience, leadership and scholastic achievement.

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Credit cards can be a convenient purchasing instrument, but overspending with such cards is tarnishing the credit record of some Tech students.

"Fifteen to 20 students have already come to me for help," said Dr. Kathleen Hennessey, an assistant professor in the Institute for Studies in Organizational Automation.

Hennessey said Tech students have been "bombarded" during the past three years with credit card applications sent through the mail. Students apply for credit intending to establish a credit record.

However, she said, the desire to use the cards to establish credit has caused some students to have to quit school.

Students can start a credit record with a credit card, Hennessey said. "If students would just pay their bills on time-like water, electricity and telephone-they would establish a credit record. These are perfectly good references."

Students use credit cards to purchase short-term items, she pointed out. "The students use credit cards to buy little things like pizzas or clothes for a party. Students just don't need a credit card for that reason."

"Some students with several credit cards have allowed their bills to run as high as $3,000 or $4,000, Hennessey said. She blames 18 to 23 percent interest rates and late payment fees charged to cardholders as reasons for the speedy escalation of many students' credit bills.

Department stores and major credit card companies realize that if students are unable to pay their bills, their parents eventually are likely to pay the outstanding balance, she said.

"Credit card companies and department stores get the names of students by just looking in the Tech directory," Hennessey said. "Anyone with an address gets sent an application."

"We send cards to college students because we think they would be better educated and more responsible than someone who hasn't been to college," said a major department store's credit card supervisor.

"College students are definitely a good market," said Jake Lemaster, credit card supervisor for Beall's department store in Lubbock.

Hennessey said students should not be ashamed to seek assistance if they find themselves in financial trouble.

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card department and tell them you're having trouble paying. They might at least put a freeze on the interest to keep your bill from increasing."

Hennessey said she advises students to discard all credit card applications.

"No student needs a credit card."

EDUCATION The College of Education will discontinue its undergraduate program beginning this fall semester because of changes in state law.

Under provisions of SB 994, passed by the Legislature during the last legislative session, teacher candidates are required to obtain an undergraduate degree in an academic field other than education. The legislation specifies that 18 hours of education courses may be taken within undergraduate studies.

Dean Richard Ishler of Tech's College of Education said teacher candidates who seek interdisciplinary degrees will remain in the education college but that students in other academic fields will remain in their respective colleges.

Other provisions of the bill outline minimum requirements for student teaching and require students to take additional courses for bilingual education, English as a second language, spe· cial education and early childhood education.

"We had hoped that we would not have to offer a four-year program, but lawmakers in the Texas Senate had said that the intention of Bill 994 was not to eliminate the four-year programs and that Texas universities still must offer the four-year program," Ishler said.

He is working with deans of other education schools to develop a fiveyear program that will be available by the fall of 1989.

"We will have that program available, but we are designing a five-year program that will be a combination baccalaureate/ master's degree," Ishler said.

"We are hoping it will be regarded by students as a much more professional program and that they will be better prepared to meet the challenges of the classroom as first-year teachers.

"They will be the kind of people that will, hopefully, ultimately become the master teachers in the state career ladder program," he added.

The program is designed for the educational career professional, but it does not necessarily encourage teachers to

leave the classroom in order to attain leadership positions, he said.

The program under consideration was developed by a group of education deans from major research institutions across the national who began searching in 1983 for means to improve teacher education at the university level.

The major goal of the group is to create standards of entry to the profession.

Since it appeared as a field of study 25 years ago, higher education as a major has groomed students for leadership positions in higher education administration and business and finance management, institutional planning, personnel administration and higher education research, according to Dr. Dayton Roberts, coordinator of the field at Tech.

Typically, students receive their master's degree in higher education before holding middle-level management posi· tions, he said.

Recently, he pointed out, the Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees in higher education have become the "umbrella" degree for a plethora of majors, with more than 90 percent of the doctoral candidates having backgrounds outside of education. For these people, a doctorate in higher education is, according to Roberts, an alternative choice to the Ph.D. in such subjects as English, math, biology or political science, for instance.

Currently, Tech's higher education program, which offers an Ed.D. degree, is awaiting final approval by the Coor· dinating Board to allow the Ph.D. option, Roberts said.

A doctorate in higher education is excellent preparation for a variety of top administrative positions, Roberts said. Among alumni of the program are Dr. Sheryl Boyd, assistant chairman of the department of internal medicine at the Health Sciences Center; Dr. James Johnson, assistant dean of students at Lubbock Christian University; Dr. Ronnie Glasscock, dean of South Plains College in Lubbock; and Dr. Georgia Fojtasek, chief operations officer at Lubbock General Hospital.

Roberts said that Tech's higher education program has been referred to as the best across the Sun Belt between Florida State and Arizona State universities. In the past 12 years, Tech has taken its higher education professors on the road to teach in Abilene, Amarillo, Big Spring, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Midland, Odessa and San Antonio.

"It is one of the few education fields that is still under expansion," Roberts said. "But in spite of the number and diversity of jobs available, the field remains in demand of women and minorities, especially Hispanics." (By Trey Strecker)

ENGINEERING Two research projects designed to enlii!hten

engineers about the effect of~-nd forces on automobiles are being conducted by mechanical engineering faculty at Tech.

The projects are operating under a S250,000 grant from the Ford Motor Co. Larry Socha, manager of the exterior and aerodynamics design engineering department of the company, said Ford currently leads the world's automobile manufacturers and will be able to make further improvements based on data gained through research at Tech.

One of the projects involves windtunnel testing with a long-range goal of improving cars to give them greater handling stability in winds. This project utilizes a small model of a 1983 Ford Thunderbird set up in the mouth of the wind tunnel.

The second project studies the flow of air under the hood of an automobile. A three-eighths scale model of a 1987 Ford Taurus is used by researchers in this study.

Ford first took an interest in Texas Tech two years ago when senior-level mechanical engineering students asked

Work1ng on the project are (from left, samd1ng) Drs. A1k-SJong Koh, Walt Oler, Duane Jordan, and (kneeling) Jerry Dunn and Timothy Maxwell.

Ford engineers to provide them with data for their light trucks. The students used the data to repeat tests that had been carried out by Ford, and the students suggested some aerodynamic improvements.

Ford awarded a S15,000 fellowship for graduate studies in the full of 1986 and repeated it in 1987. The company signed two contracts with Tech's Center for Applied Research and Engineering earlier this year.

Four faculty members, including Dr. Timothy Maxwell and Dr. Jerry Dunn, and 10 graduate students are involved in the research.

In an attempt to help produce wind-resistant structures, a team of Tech researchers have wired a rotatable building to measure the amount of stress that actual wind puts on low-rise structures.

"That is the purpose of the research: We want to reduce the damage on houses and small buildings when the winds do come," said Dr. Kishor C. Mehta, a civil engineering professor who is directing the S270,000 project.

In the long run, the National Science Foundation-funded Wmd Field Experiment Project may result in better building designs that are less susceptible to wind damage, Mehta said.

Dick Marshall, an official with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., said "We are interested in the development of information for use in codes and standards.

There is no doubt in my mind that it is going to return many, many times the investment."

Marshall also said the project's findings will be especially helpful in determining how well wind-tunnel testing has assessed the effects of nature's wind. "Historically, most researchers used wind tunnels ... but that is not the real world," he said.

To assess the wind's effect on a structure, Tech researchers have mounted a metal building on rollers so the structure can be moved. The movement will assess with winds' impact at a variety of angles.

Tabs mounted on the metal building transmit pressure data to a computer, where comparisons and assessments are made.

Mehta said the research data are to be presented to a committee for the American National Standards Institute, the agency that sets national building standards.

HOME ECONOMICS An endowed scholarship in the name of

Billie Wolfe,

who taught for 20 years at Texas Tech, has been established in the College of Home Economics.

The endowment was announced during a surprise luncheon in her honor, Feb. 10.

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In 1985, Wolfe received the first Distinguished Service Award in the college, where she taught from 1955 to 1975.

Dean Elizabeth Haley said Wolfe has set a record at Tech for initiating scholarship and fund-raising drives in the names of other people who have made important commitments to the colleges of Agricultural Sciences and Home Economics.

Prior to her retirement, Wolfe established a scholarship for her mother, Mrs. Ross R. Wolfe, in the College of Home Economics. She also raised more than $8,000 for an endowed scholarship fund honoring another home economics faculty person, Lila Allred Kinchen.

Wolfe has also been responsible for a $5,000 Ross Wolfe-Luther Burbank Fund, a $27,000 scholarship endowment and a $7,000 Wildflower Lecture Fund, all in the College of Ag Sciences.

Global Connections Was the theme for Home Economics Awareness Week activities in March, which included honoring four new Distinguished Alumnae of the College of Home Economics.

Chosen for recognition were Dr. Kyle Jane Coulter '60, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.; Dr. Gayle Carter Frank '70, director of nutrition, Mahorner Clinic, New Orleans and consultant to the Clinical Research Center at Tulane University;

Attorney]ef£rey W. Harrison (left), with the sponsoring law fJrm of Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest and Minick ofDallas, presents the winners' trophy to Tech team members (from left)]ana Al11son, Ted Brabham and Rick Fletcher.

Dr. Ann Cunningham Grandjean '66, associate director of the Swanson Center for Nutrition Inc. and instructor in the sports medicine program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha; and Dr. Mina Wolf Lamb '32, professor emeritus of Texas Tech and recipient of the prestigious Medallion Award for service to the American Dietetic Association in 1986.

Dean Bess Haley (left) and President Lauro cav.uos took part in the DJstinguished Alumnae presentations to this year's honorees (from left) Dr. MJ.na Wolf Lamb, Dr. Kyle jane Coulter, Dr. Gayle Carter Frank and Dr. Ann Cunningham Grandjean.

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The Texas Tech School of Law Client Counselin2 team emerged as victors for the fourth straight year by placing first in the regional American Bar Association's 1988 competition.

Runner-up in the event was the University of Texas law team, and Baylor University placed third. A total of seven Texas law schools participated in the regional competition.

"This is the fourth straight year and the fifth time in the last six years that we have qualified for the national finals by winning the regional event," said law professor Charles P. Bubany, team coach and advisor to the Board of Barristers.

The team representing Tech also won the national and international championships last year.

Tech's team is comprised of secondyear law students Jana Allison of Lubbock; Ted Brabham of Atlanta, Texas; and team alternate Rick Fletcher of Goodland, Kan. The competition tests student skills in legal consultation. The regional contest is sponsored by the Dallas law firm of Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest and Minick, which presented a trophy to the winning team.

Researchers encouraged with PTH as weapon against heart datnage

By Preston Lewis

A

hormone produced by the body to regulate calcium levels may help regulate coronary blood flow and possibly offer a potent weapon against ischemia-induced heart damage.

"When we first tried parathyroid hormone in a cardiovascular system," said physiologist Dr. Bill Crass of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, ''we were astounded at what it did to the circulation. The coronary blood flow went way up. We couldn't believe it!" lt was not just that the coronary blood flow went up, but that it did so without an increase in the heart rate and without a more forceful beat of the heart muscle.

"Parathyroid hormone had markedly increased the blood flow, which is beneficial, but without the deleterious effects of increasing the heart rate and the contractile muscle function," Crass said.

That is important in cases of myocardial ischemia where a blockage prevents an adequate blood supply from reaching the heart muscle. Without sufficient blood to a region, that part of the heart muscle will die. Physicians call this an infarction.

This promising increase in coronary blood flow was accomplished by minute doses of a hormone thought just to regulate the body's calcium level. When the calcium level in the blood drops, this hormone is released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands, located in the neck on the thyroid glands.

Parathyroid hormone stimulates the release of calcium from bone, increases calcium retention by the

Dr. BJll Crass

kidneys and also activates Vitamin D in the kidneys to stimulate the blood's absorption of calcium from the small intestines. Calcium is essential to the body because it activates certain enzymes, causes muscle cells to contract and performs numerous other functions.

Though parathyroid hormone had been shown to dilate certain blood vessels, primarily in the gastrointestinal region and to lower blood pressure, it was not until 1980 that research at TTIJHSC first showed that parathyroid hormone, or PTH, was a powerful dilator of the coronary circulation.

Crass's basic research has built upon that finding with grant support totaling $150,000 from the National Institutes of Health. Using laboratory animals for in vivo and in vitro experiments, he is trying to unwind PTH's physiologic complexities so eventually it can be used in clinical tests.

In collaboration with TTIJHSC surgeon Dr. Mario Feola, Crass has shown that P1H can have an ameli-

orating effect against infarctionthe irreversible damage to muscle tissue-caused by coronary blockage or occlusion.

"If a coronary artery is occluded, there can be extensive damage to the heart muscle," Crass said. "But if we infuse PTH during the occlusion of a coronary artery, we markedly decrease the infarct size in the area at risk because the PTH increases the collateral blood flow to that area and reduces the oxygen demand on the heart."

"I am optimistic," Crass said, "because the doses of PTH that we study have no direct effect on heart rate or on the cardiac contractile function and there are no known toxic effects of PTH at normal blood levels. It holds promise for eventually finding a role for PTH in regulating coronary blood flow and possibly in treating ischemic heart disease, but we have several more questions to answer in the laboratory before such potential roles can be confirmed."

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00000000000 00 0 0[ The Enterprise Campaign-

Develop111ent Activities Update

By Frande Lowe

be

"can-do" spirit of West Texas was very much in evidence this spring as development efforts increased on behalf of Texas Tech University and the TTU Health Sciences Center.

Colette M. Murray, vice president for development, reported to the Tech Board of Regents in March that she has been "pleased, encouraged and impressed with the spirit and enthusiasm for cooperation and development" that she has found both on and off campus since her arrival in Lubbock Feb. 1.

"I want to report that our leadership, both in Lubbock and around the state, is very committed to enhancing Tech's standing and supporting development efforts," Murray said. "We have a very strong and enthusiastic network of volunteers around the state, who are going to serve as advocates for our efforts in the future. Tech's reputation is attracting national attention, from foundations and corporations who will be important to us in the future. So the climate is very good for our efforts."

Murray told the regents that the Enterprise Campaign stood at S64,201,20l

MI\JOR GIFI'S ANNOUNCED Seve.ral exciting announcements this spring related to the effort to raise funds for the Texas Tech Museum and Ranching Heritage Center. The Meadows Foundation offered to match up to S50,000 received for the museum between late February and August 31.

Burlington Industries, AMOCO and the F.A. Franklin Unitrust were among the first to take advantage of the offer, pledging a total of S30,000. Added to earlier gifts, including S30,000 from AT&T announced in February, the total had reached $281,849.

While museum director Gary Edson said this was "not enough to fulfill our obligations entirely," it reflected the detennination of museum supporters to reach the goal.

In another announcement, Gurer Aykal, popular new maestro of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, said he was 38

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forming a Simfonietta, which would give a series of concerts next year in Tech's Hemmle Recital Hall to benefit the museum.

Nancy Birdwell, director of development for foundations and corporations, said the gifts from Meadows and AT&T were especially important because they represented a "significant commitment" to Texas Tech and the region; both had made substantial grants to the Health Sciences Center within recent months, as well.

KTXT-1V Channel 5, Tech's public broadcasting station, celebrated its 25th anniversary on the South Plains this year with a year-long "Five by 5" celebration. FESI1VAL 88, its annual fund-raising effort, and a direct-mail campaign had been very successful in raising funds for public television, said Karen Payne, development director.

KTXT-1V awarded its coveted PeeBees to local supporters who have been especially supportive of public broadcasting: Harris and Louise Underwood, United Supermarkets and Richard Kirkpatrick of Holand Merriman and Christian Inc. Also this spring, "Friends of Classical Radio KOHM" announced that the new FM radio station for classical music would be on the air May 2. The support group raised S92,000 of the SlOO,OOO needed to get the station on the air, and the Cultural Affairs Council of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce made a Sl5,000 grant.

Among significant gifts to the Health Sciences Center during this period was SlO,OOO from the Unicare Foundation for development of a regional Alzheimer's Disease Information and Referral Center. Such a center will "add a significant dimension to the clinical, research and educational transfer operations of the Texas Tech Alzheimer's Center," said Dr. J. Thomas Hutton.

The Tech Board of Regents announced that funds had been found to match those given by faculty and staff to the Matching Gifts Program, which had been so enthusiastically received on campus that donations had exceeded funds set aside for the purpose.

REPORT TO THE REGENTS Addressing her first meeting of the

Texas Tech Board of Regents, Murray said the major focus of deve lopment efforts would be to secure additional endowment funding for the University and the Health Sciences Center. "We are way behind other, comparable institutions in our endowment funding," she said. "I'd like to see us achieve something like SlOO,OOO in endowment funding by the year 2000."

She said a major task of her office will be to provide support, cooperation and coordination of development efforts on and off campus. She mentioned especially the Student Endowment, a new organization created by Student Association President Amy Love, to raise funds for the University and Health Sciences Center. "The earlier we involve students, the more likely they will participate in giving and getting in later years," Murray said.

She is also working closely with the Development Council on campus, which consists of deans, development officers and the various support organizations. "These people are very important to our fund-raising efforts, and I want to provide them with the same support, training and communications I do my own staff," she said.

In addition, Murray said, she and Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, president of the University, had been speaking with corpo· ration and foundation representatives in major cities around the country.

"The cultivation of foundations and corporations is no different than the cultivation of individuals," she said. "It is a long and often drawn-out process."

Among her in-house tasks will be to bring the Office of Development up to full force with the addition of a coordinator of resource development and a director of annual giving and stewardship; to coordinate development efforts both on and off campus; to devise sound tracking and reporting systems for gifts and donors, and to develop more efficient stewardship policies and procedures. She said she would also support efforts on behalf of the President's Council, a key support organization, annual giving and deferred giving.

The President's Council is being directed on an interim basis by William Tinney, whose primary focus will be on increasing membership, Murray said. ll

Calendar of Events

Now You Have Access, Too!

So you like to read? Or maybe you need to do some research? WellYou are now entitled to the privileges granted students in the Texas Tech Main Library. Upon presentation of your Association membership card at the circulation desk in the library, a Courtesy Card will be issued to the holder. An added benefit to members of the ExStudents Association.

Exhibits & Showings Planetarium June 1-June 26, "Footsteps." Story of two worlds, the earth and moon, and of man's fascination through the ages with our nearest neighbor. The viewer will explore the processes by which both the earth and the moon were formed, man's early study and recording of the moon's phases, modem man's flight to the moon, and future space colonies on the moon's surfaces.

July 12-Sept. 4, "Islands in the Sky." The viewer will explore the Pacific islands and the traditions of early navigators who used only the stars, winds and seas as their guides to travel thousands of miles of ocean.

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

Sat./Sun. Exhibits June 1-July 3 1, "Chair Exhibition," Gallery 3, Museum June 1-Nov. 15, "Space Photos," Gallery 5, Museum June 1-July 17, "Natural History Exhibition," Balcony Gallery, Museum June 1-July 17, "Peter Hurd in Lubbock," Balcony Gallery, Museum June 1-Dec. 4, "Recent Acquisitions to the Art Collection," Gallery 2, Museum June 9, Opening of the Taos/ Southwest Gallery, 5:30-7 p.m., Museum June 9, "Flashes of Fashion," tour of the Betty Mills historical fashion collection, 7-8:30 p.m., Museum June 19-Sept. 18, "Espiritu Mejicano: Lubbock," exhibit by Louis Carlos Bernal, Gallery 4, Museum July 3-0ct. 16, "Black Folk Art of the Southwest," a 75-piece exhibit, Gallery 3, Museum July 10-Sept. 4, "Five Centuries of Italian Painting: 1300·1800," 45 paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation of Houston, Gallery 1, Museum July 31-July 1989, "Merritt Mauzey Prints," a 1930's Dallas artist, Balcony Gallery, Museum Museum hours are Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., 10 a.m.8:30 p.m.; and Sun., 1-5 p.m.

University Events July 10-22, "55th Annual Texas Tech Band/ Orchestra Camp." Call 806/7422225 for tuition and other information.

Aug. 3-6, "Texas Tech Choir Camp." Call 806/742-2225 for information.

Performing Arts July 24, Mikhail Baryshnikov & Co., 8:30 p.m., Lubbock Municipal Auditorium Sundays June, July, August, "9th Annual Summer Carillon Recital Series," 8:15 p.m., West Bell Tower area, Administra· tion Building, Texas Tech.

This will be the last time The Techsan will run The Calendar of Events.

Ex-Students Chapter Meetings June 1, Fort Worth June 2, Dallas June 3, Denver June 4, Colorado Springs June 5, Denton June 7, Wichita Falls June 11, Boston June 16, Dimmitt June 23, Big Spring June 24, Rio Grande Valley June 26, Tulsa June 26, Corpus Christi June 30, Albuquerque July 9, Atlanta July 10, Miami July 11, Pensacola July 12, Orlando July 20, Minneapolis July 22, Chicago July 24, Kansas City Aug. 6, Southern California Aug. 7, San Diego Aug. 8, Phoenix Aug. 9, Portland, Ore. Aug. 10, Seattle Aug. 13, Bay Area, Calif.

Aug. 14, Bakersfield

RHC encourages your membership The Ranching Heritage Center has brought much attention to Texas Tech University and has won several awards for preservation. The unique facility is backed by a group of people who love the ranching way of life and donate their support to the Ranching Heritage Association.

Yearly dues in the association are no minal: S15 individual; $20 family; S2 1 contributing; and S5 student.

Membership privileges include a subscription to "Ranch Record," and invitation to various events. In addition, members receive a 1 0 percent discount in Cogdell's Store at the RHC. Each fall, a meeting of the members is held during Ranch Day activities.

Free tours are offered from 10 a.m.5 p .m. Monday through Saturday, and from 1-5 p .m. Sunday when the Barton House is open to visitors.

For additional information, call Claudia Cory at 806/742-2456.

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SPORTS

Lights, cameras, action!

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has been a year to remember about the Texas Tech baseball program-one that will affect the future. Less than two years after accepting his job, Athletics Director T. jones turned one of Tech's perpetual dreams into a reality by securing lights for the diamond.

The 1988 Red Raiders played March 15 against Wichita State in their first-ever lighted night game at the Tech diamond. In addition, it is no longer "Tech Diamond," but rather "Dan Law Field."

The new name was announced March 25 preceding the SWC home opener against Houston.

Naming of the diamond for Law was approved by the Tech Board of Regents that day and announced that evening during the ceremony.

"I'm totally surprised; I'm flabbergasted," Law said shortly after hearing the news. "I'm truly humbled and so appreciative. It's one of the finest honors I've ever had, and it's more than I ever expected."

The renaming of the field was announced by jones and President Lauro Cavazos during the ceremony.

At the front of the effort to light the diamond was Law, a former 40

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Tech Diamond gets lights, television broadcasts and opportunity to host SWC Tourney in the future ...and a new name, to boot.

By Marsha Gustafson Photos by Ian Halperin

Raider football and baseball player, now president of Fields and Co. in Lubbock. He is a longtime supporter of Tech athletics and academics and is a scholarship donor in both areas. Law donated the greater portion of the S300,000 necessary to fund the lights.

It was called a "S300,000 step

into the mainstream of college baseball" that can eventually lead to televised games and hosting of the Southwest Conference Tournament in Lubbock.

Jones pointed out that the upgrading of the overall baseball complex is being done in different phases of construction with the addition of lights having been the first phase. The next ph~ of construction will call for the addition of dressing rooms that connect to the dugouts of both the home and visitors' areas and the building of permanent concession stands and ticket booths.

The final phase will be the expansion of the stadium through permanent seating and bleachers as attendance dictates. Total construction estimate is S700,000.

Official dedication of the lights was made on March 22, honoring those individuals and businesses that had donated time, effort and support. They were recognized on the field prior to the game between Tech and Oral Roberts.

Law expressed gratitude to the "25 fine companies in Lubbock involved in making the project possible. I think that's just indicative the West Texas spirit," he said. :I

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Putting Woodrow on the map

By Cameron Mann

Coach Karla Kitten

Most

Tech-exes are familiar with the stretch of highway 87 just south of the Loop, heading toward Tahoka. But probably not too many know that just 10 miles beyond the "Strip" lies the town of Woodrow.

The high school there, which serves the 350 locals, is Lubbock Cooper-fiercely proud of its women's basketball team.

This pride stems, in large part, from the coaching prowess of Tech-ex Karla Schutte Kitten '78 and the excellent job she has done there.

Kitten, who played at Tech as Karla Schutte, was an energetic point guard who helped the women cagers to a healthy 54-29 record between 1976 and 1978.

The 5-foot-6 playmaker led the team in scoring 18 times her junior year on her way to being named Tech's Outstanding Basketball Player for the 1976-77 season.

Her senior year, Kitten led an impressive 34-11 squad by distributing the points more evenly. The Lady Red Raiders had six players score between seven and 16 points per game, and that versatility can be traced back to the effective ball-

handling of the Slaton native.

"You all are so lucky to have the facilities you have now," laments Kitten. "When I played, we had to practice in the old intramural bam, or if we were lucky, the women's gym. Now Tech has the student Rec Center and the new Athletic Training Center. We were considered more of a club than a basketball team."

Indeed the thought of practicing in an "intramural bam" does not inspire illusions of grandeur, much less of a women's dynasty. Regardless, the fact is that the '77-'78 squad remains one of the most successful teams in Tech women's basketball history.

Kitten was born and raised in Slaton, the second of five children, her father a farmer. Kitten didn't begin playing basketball until junior high at St. Joseph's, a private Catholic school. She recalls seeing her future high school and college coach, Gay Benson, for the first time.

"I feel she was one of the best coaches around. She was very knowledgeable and a good motivator," Kitten said. Benson helped

Kitten achieve All-District and AllRegional honors while at Slaton.

When it came time for college, Kitten said she chose Texas Tech, primarily because of its proximity to home. She elected not to play basketball for her first two years.

Instead, she concentrated on her studies. (Karla graduated with a cumulative 3.45 GPA and a degree in physical education and math.)

She was persuaded to give basketball a try her junior year and was an immediate hit.

After graduation, Kitten took a job teaching math in an Amarillo school, but her real calling was to coach the game she played so well.

She received a coaching offer from Lubbock Cooper in 1979, and she has had a remarkable career since.

Kitten's coaching resume at the 3-A school is an impressive one.

She has compiled a record of 17878 for a winning percentage of 70 percent. She has won three district championships and her team reached the regional finals in the '82-'83 season. That was a special one for Kitten.

"That was n·o t the best team I've had here, but they played together better than any team I had," she said. "It was such a thrill to beat Abernathy in the district finals.

That was a big upset."

Her Cinderella team lost in the regionals by four points, but Kitten began to build a reputation as a fine fundamental coach. In other words, you could beat Kitten's teams with a superior team, but Lubbock Cooper was not going to beat itself. Rather than molding her team into Kitten's system, she adjusts her coaching style to fit her players' talents.

Considering her past successes, one would believe she will not only find a way to win in '88 and continue a tradition in Woodrow, but that Karla Kitten may some day put Lubbock Cooper on the high school basketball map. lfJ MAY-JUNE 1988 4 1

A fading art in action

By Brad Walker

'K.

may remember Donald Harris as the Texas Tech defensive back wearing number "2" and literally flying into every play this past fall. If you liked his act then, you'll have the opportunity to see him again and not just in the fall. Harris performed his spring encore at Dan Law Field in a Red Raider baseball uniform.

The 6-1, 190-pound Raider athlete has made his mark in both football and baseball in his first year in Lubbock, winning Southwest Conference Defensive New42

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comer of the Year in football.

He may eventually make his mark all across the conference.

Tech football mentor Spike Dykes and baseball boss Larry Hays would like nothing more than to overhear opposing wide receivers and pitchers sharing stories of how hard Harris "hits."

Harris said his college plans always included both games, a natural decision since he had played as many as four sports at Waco Jefferson-Moore High School.

"My father was a multi-sport athlete," Harris said. "He played football and baseball and was drafted to the pros in baseball but never

had a chance to go because of the war.

"I guess I picked it up from him.

Everybody in my family plays something," he added. "Most of them play basketball and baseball."

If there is any pattern to Harris' young career, he should only get better. He came out of nowhere during August football drills to land the starting safety spot and went on to grab the defensive newcomer honors.

Harris joined the baseball team at the start of the spring semester, after the rest of the team had gone through fall camp, and got his first start in the opening series against

T

he art ofplaying two sports at the college level is a fading one, and Harris is one of only three footbaH-basebaH players in the SWC, the f1rst at Tech since Donny Anderson in 1962-65.

New Mexico.

All of this after Harris sat out from football for one year and baseball for two. Rapid improvement is the name of his game.

"It takes time to get back in the groove, but I did pretty well," Harris said. "I didn't try to put any pressure on myself to do as well in baseball as I did in football. I just tried to improve because I knew I could do better."

Harris began the year as a platoon player in baseball, starting only against right-handed pitchers.

He started at all three outfield positions and designated hitter and was one of the team leaders in tri-

pies. He also blasted a three-run homer at College Station in a 5-3 loss to Texas A&M. The art of playing two sports at the college level is a fading one and Harris is one of only three football-baseball players in the

swc.

He is also the first true footballbaseball player at Tech since AllAmerican Donny Anderson did it in

1962-65.

Playing both sports poses a few tough questions for athletes in the modem era; just ask Bo Jackson.

Harris claims both sports as equals and doesn't plan to make either a "hobby."

"I guess I like baseball better but I really can't say," he said. "I like the excitement that football brings me, probably because you play in front of such big crowds."

The toughest decision, though, could well be in which sport Harris will choose to play professionally. The future is uncertain, yet bright.

"It depends on which one I'm playing better," he said. "I've already proven myself in football. I want to prove myself in baseball. I plan on playing all four years in baseball."

For Raider fans, that's twice the good news.

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SPORTS SHORTS football ticket sales, with supplemental funding coming from basketball, student services fees, the Red Raider Club and other donations.

Through jones' efforts to improve Tech's lot, a higher level of anticipation is developing, but it will take the continued support of the Tech community and alumni by attending sports events and/or making contributions to athletics for Texas Tech to become a major power in the Southwest Conference.

(By Claude Brazell)

years in the SWC competition for women in basketball as Tech's point guard.

She played at Tech from 1981-84 after an outstanding career at Lubbock Monterey High School, where she was a three-year starter on teams that played in the state tournament in her sophomore year and won the Class 5A state championship her senior season.

Tech sophomore forward Keena Lynch of T.]ones

Through the efforts of Director of Athletics T. Jones and excellent coaching and support staffs, Red Raider sports are seeing many improvements. But in the Southwest Conference, constant improvements are mandatory to being competitive and attracting the best athletes.

Over the years, Tech has not had major problems with the NCAA and has been regarded in the SWC as a respectable school. But as far as wins and losses, the Raiders have had to struggle to be regarded as a "power." jones says there are many solutions to this problem but a sufficient budget heads the list.

Tech receives some $6.7 million annually for its sports budget. "For Tech to continue to become the best it can, the budget must remain high," jones explained. The $6.7 million is divided between the 15 men's and women's sports teams and is definitely not one of the highest budgets in the

swc.

Sports require a large amount of money because of the many regular line items and special projects that must be undertaken out of necessity or for improvement. One such "extra" expense is having to spend some $100,000 to replace the artificial playing surface at jones Stadium this spring.

The main problem with athletics funding is that although the S6.7 million meets the basic requirements, there is still more needed. The bulk of the department's money comes from 44

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Morton was named to the All-Tournament team at the 6th annual SWC basketball tournament in SMU's Moody Coliseum on March 9-10 and 12.

She led the Red Raiders to the finals of the tournament with 60-49 and 6059 wins over SMU and Houston, respectively. In the finals, Tech lost to No. 4-ranked Texas by an 88-61 count.

Lynch was the Raiders' leading scorer and rebounder, averaging 15.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game during the Raiders' 17-13 1987-88 campaign. Tech posted a 9-7 conference record, good for third place.

She was also selected to the All-SWC second team on March 7.

Janet Mears Howey, an assistant coach the past three years for the women's basketball team, left her position at the end of April.

She plans to seek a high school girls' basketball head coaching position in Texas for next fall, but this summer, Janet will go with baseball player husband, Todd, when he is assigned to a team in the Philadelphia Phillies' minor league organization-possibly at a Class A club in Florida or in the Class AA league in Pennsylvania.

"The next two years are going to be critical in Todd's baseball career, and I want to give him all my support during the summer-that's the primary reason for making this change," Howey said. "I have enjoyed my stay at Tech and feel I have learned a lot about coaching from Coach (head coach Marsha) Sharp and Coach (assistant coach Unden) Weese."

Howey played four years at Texas Tech, leading the Red Raiders to two second-place finishes in their first two

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Sean Gay has been named to the All-District 9 second team. District 9 includes all major colleges in Texas and Arkansas, and the voting was done by coaches in the district Gay was averaging 15.0 points per game and 5.3 rebounds this season.

He was also selected to the Associated Press All-Southwest Conference second team.

Baylor's Darryl Middleton was named Offensive Player of the Year and became the first player to win SWC scoring and rebounding titles in the same season since Tech's Rick Bullock did it in 1975.

Windy Nicklaus, Tech's first football captain, was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Waco recently.

Nicklaus was captain of the 1925 Red Raiders, and was also the first foot· ball captain of the Amarillo Sandies in 1923. He joins E.j. Holub and Leete Jackson as former Raiders who have received the honor.

Following a successful recruiting season, coach Spike Dykes offers this assessment from the coaches of his new crop of Red Raiders:

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Scott Upsey 5·1 0, 176, quarterback and safety Big Lake Reagan County Coach Ronnie Reeger: "Scott's got a great chance to be a big help at Texas Tech. He catches the ball extremely well and he has excellent work habits."

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Freddie Nixon 6-0, 175, quarterback, secondary Willis Coach Mike Garrison: "Freddie is a great athlete and a tremendous competitor. His athletic ability will give Texas Tech a lot of flexibility on where they can use him."

James Walker 5·9, 168, wingback Waco High Coach Johnny Tusa: "James is an all-round, great athlete. Along with his great speed, he is also very rugged. He's a natural who enjoys the game." Brother is Red Raider Wayne Walker, All-SWC in 1987.

Don Hasley 6-6, 230, tight end San Antonio MacArthur Coach John Osborne: "We used Don as a blocker more than a receiver because we didn't throw the ball a whole lot. You don't find a tremendous amount of high school kids who have the size that Don does and who can block as well as he does. His pass-catching abilities improved his senior year."

Steve Stewart 6-3, 205, tight end, defensive end Lubbock Estacado Coach Louis Kelley: "Steve is an outstanding young man. He is very responsible and I believe he will have great success at Texas Tech."

VemAngton 6-3, 245, center Fort Worth Wyatt Coach Willie Criss: "Texas Tech is getting a tremendous football player and tremendous person in Vern. He is a super leader, one of the best I've had in my 25 years of coaching."

Charlie Biggurs 6-4, 305, offensive lineman Houston Waltrip Coach Bill Barron: "Charlie has great physical size and strength and he works every day on his speed. He takes a lot of pride in what he does."

Eric Henry 6-5, 255, defensive tackle, end; offensive tackle Sugar Land Clements Coach Buster Gil·

breth: "I coached Eric for three years and he always did an outstanding job for us. He's a fine player."

Brad Phelps 6-3, 235, defensive tackle Haltom Coach Carl Copeland: "Brad's a great player. He has good size and especially is quick on defense. He is always dedicated and he has a great desire to succeed."

John Runnels 6-3, 305, offensive lineman Dallas Carter Coach Freddie James: "John blocks well and he plays good defense. In the playoffs this year he was tremendous. After he lost some weight, he got a lot quicker and he was able to handle himself a lot better."

Steve Simatovich 6-5, 270, offensive lineman Arlington Houston Coach Billy Stewart: "Steve has the size to play college foot· ball. He's aggressive and a hard worker.

He's got a bright future ahead of him."

Jon Wood 6-7, 275, defensive lineman, tackle Tahoe, Nev., JC Coach AI Baldock: ''}on is a big kid with a lot of potential down the road. He will get bigger and he has good quickness for his size."

Kenneth Banks 6-3, 220, linebacker Big Spring Coach Quinn Eudy: "Kenneth has the quickness and size to be a successful college football player."

Michael Brisco 6-3, 215, linebacker New Deal Coach Jimmy Nolan: "Michael has the right attitude about

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playing football. He enjoys doing whatever it takes to win. He loves the prep· aration part. He certainly will do his best at Texas Tech."

Steve Carr 6-3, 225, linebacker El Paso Hanks Coach Pat O'Neill: "Steve is a super kid. He's an A student who also is a great leader. He's the type of kid you would want your son to be."

Lerick Eaton 6-1, 210, linebacker Houston Waltrip Coach Bill Barron: "Lerick is a great competitor and leader. He will be an asset to Texas Tech."

Ben Kirkpatrick 6-0, 205, wide receiver, running back Post Coach David Thompson: "I have to say the main thing about Ben is his attitude. He's real tough and he plays extremely hard. He was out there almost every minute we played."

MichaelLlsdo 6-2, 220, defensive end Richardson Lake Highlands Coach Mike Fuzzito: "Michael has great instincts for the ball. He knows where it is all the time. And he always takes the shortest route to it, no matter what's in the way. He has super quickness, is very mobile and is tough."

John Pitts 6-3, 235, offensive, defensive line Wichita Falls High Coach Joe Bob Tyler: "John is a highly competitive kid who will be an asset for Texas Tech.

He's a player." ~ MAY·JUNE 1988 45

CLA$ NOTES ByJune Gould

Nidclaus '28

Lamb '32

Hogan '50

Tarwater '59

Coulter '60

Phelps '63

Lively '64

Grandjean '66

Kehl '66

Stinson '66

Bawcom '67

Frank 70

Garrett 71

Noble 76

Whiteley 76

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"W.W. ''Windy" Nicklaus (BA Sociology), Amarillo, has been inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He was captain of the 1925 Red Raider football team.

31 J.D. "Red" Waller (BA Arts & Sciences Business), Malakoff, was honored by the renaming of the Malakoff Public Ubrary to the Red Waller Community Ubrary. Waller was instrumental in raising the funds to build the library and has served on the library board.

32 •Mina Wolf Lamb (BS Chemistry, MS '37 Food & Nutrition), Lubbock, was named a Distinguished Alumna by the College of Home Economics. Lamb has received many honors and awards during her career including a Distinguished Alumna award from the Ex-Students Association. She is married to Arch G. Lamb (BS '39 Dairy Management).

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Harriette Williford Whatley ( BS Food & Nutrition), Fairfield, has been appointed to the Texas State Ubrary and Archives Commission.

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W.K. "Bill" Barnett (BA journalism), Lubbock, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of First National Bank.

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J. Vic Allen (BBA General Busi-

ness), Kerrville, has recovered well from heart transplant surgery at Humana Hospital in San Antonio in May 1987. Although he still has to make twice-monthly trips to the cardiac clinic to determine medicine dosage, Allen has time now for his stamp collecting and for in-depth study of investment and financial markets.

ics Applied Arts), Lubbock, is the owner of Design Today. She is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers and teaches interior design part time at Tech.

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Jerry V. Buster (BBA Management), Texas City, is chairman of the board of Texas City National Bank.

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•Robert E. Hogan (BS Civil Engineering), Dallas, is president of Hogan and Rasor Inc. He was recently named a fellow of the American Consulting Engineers Council.

51 48 Billy Chesnut (BS Quepha Rawls (BS Home Econom-

Animal Production), Dalhart, was named vice chiir-

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man of the board of directors of the Farm Credit Banks of Texas. He is a farmer.

Robert Monk (BS Sociology), Abilene, is chairman of the divisions of Humanities at McMurry College. He is married to the former Carolyn Parker (BBA '52 Secretarial Administration).

William M. Pope (BS Civil Engineering), Lubbock, is District 5 engineer for the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. He was recently named Engineer of the Year by the South Plains Chapter of the Texas Society of Engineers.

52 Alvin G. Davis (BS Animal Production), Lubbock, has been elected chairman of the 1988 Tech Rodeo Advisory Board. Davis is the executive director and.general manager of the Ranching Rentage Association. Davis is married to the former Barbara Hext (BS '53 General Home Economics).

Robert M. Duff (BS Physics), San Antonio, is director of technology and chief scientist of the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses located at the Southwest Research Institute.

53 Harry

W. Parker (BS Chemical Engineering), Lubbock, is a professor of chemical engineering at Tech. He is married to the former Phyllis Spidy (BFA '77 Interior Design).

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James Oran Egger (BS, MS '59 Agricultural Education), Tuscola, is principal of Buffalo Gap Elementary School.

55 James

A. BrodrickJr. (BS Industrial Engineering), Dallas, is vice president and manager, casualty loss control for Alexander and Alexander of Texas Inc.

57 G. Cordell Custer (BS Petroleum Engineering), Cincinnati, has retired from the U.S. Air Force as a colonel after 30 years in the military. Upon his retirement he was presented the Defense Superior Service Medal. Custer is married to the former Dorothy Jones (BS '56 Home Economics Education).

H. Dane GrantJr. (BBA Finance), Highlands, is president and chief executive officer of First National Bank of Highlands.

Dan Perkes (BS journalism), Pelham Manor, N.Y, is assistant general

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manager of The Associated Press's New Features Division.

58 Tom Battin ( BBA Finance), Lubbock, is president and member of the

board of Plains National Bank. He is

married to the former Juanice Turner ('60 Secretarial Administration). They have two chlldren.

J. Mike Joplin (BBA Finance), Dallas, is a partner in the law firm of Strasburger & Price. He was recently elected president of the Dallas Bar

Association. joplin is married to the former Barbara McKinney ( BSE '58 Elementary Education).

David W. Thompson ( BBA Finance), Borger, is executive vice president and board member of Citizens Security Savings and Loan. He is

Tech-ex heads Corporation for Public Broadcasting Donald E. Ledwig '59 is an example of a Texas Tech alumnus who has risen to great heights. He is president and chief executive officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The CPB is responsible for the national growth and development of public radio and television in the United States.

Ledwig, 51, was elected to head the CPB in July 1987 by the group's board of directors. He had served as acting president from November 1986 until July 1987, and as vice president-treasurer from November 1984 to July 1987.

He has 28 years of experience in public broadcasting, management, finance, contracting and telecommunications technology.

Ledwig's goal is to strengthen the educational level and enrich the cui-

tural life of all Americans through public television and radio.

"We are trying to address the national literacy problem and to increase the reading capabilities of children before they begin grade school," he said. "Our roots and our strengths are in education from Sesame Street to adult educational programming."

Ledwig said public television is also committed to diversity in news, art, education, foreign and alternative, or minority, programming that would not be sponsored on the major networks.

He added that the majority of his time at present is spent in testimony in congress to ensure the continued support of the CPB and public television and radio statistics across the country.

President Romdd Reagan (left) meets with CPB President Domdd E. Ledwig 1n the Oval OJBce Oct. ZZ to commemorate the ZOth anniversary of the signing of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

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Public broadcasters will again be leading the way in technology as they did with satellite transmission and stereo television when high-definition TY, or HDTY, is put into use in the near future, Ledwig said.

This type of TY, he explained, uses high-frequency waves to generate a much clearer picture than is now possible.

"I am pleased and honored to be a part of CPB and PBS," Ledwig said.

Before the CPB, Ledwig worked in government affairs with the Washington office of the L1V Corporation of Dallas. He had served 25 years as a naval officer in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in assignments involving the business aspects of acquiring high technology systems and as a lecturer on policy matters.

His early naval career involved work in the business and federal appropriations process with the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program under Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.

Ledwig played a key role in developing the Unuorm Cost Accounting Standards Act, major legislation to standardize contracts and accounting procedures for corporations doing business with the U.S. Armed Forces.

He holds several military awards, including the Legion of Merit and two Meritorious Service medals.

Ledwig has served as the disbursing officer for the U.S. Treasury, is a certified professional contracts manager as named by the National Contract Management Association, and he is a director of the Public Telecommunications Financial Management Association.

A distinguished graduate of the Naval War College in national strategy and policy, Ledwig holds an MBA degree in financial management from The George Washington University.

His B.S. degree from Texas Tech was earned in economics.

The Lubbock native lives with his wife, Gail, and their two sons in Arlington, Va. (By David A. Martin)

married to the former Glenda Keith (BM '58 Music Education). They are the parents of four children.

59 Kenneth R. Good ( BBA Management), Houston, is vice president, land of Pogo Producing Co. Charles D. Lynch (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is president of 0 & A TexPack Express. He was recently elected to the board of directors of Texas Commerce Bank. Lynch is married to the former Kay Woody (BSE '62 Elementary Education).

"J. Dalton Tarwater (BS Mathematics), Lubbock, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium. He is a professor of mathematics at Tech. Tarwater is married to the former Nancy Houston (BSE '59 Education).

60"Jane Cagle Coulter (BS, MS '68 General Home Economics, EdD '71 ), Falls Church, Va., was named a Distinguished Alumna by the College of Home Economics. She is director of the USD.A:s Office of Higher Education.

Beverly Lawson Ward (BSE Elementary Education), Crockett, is Associate Pastor of the First United Methodist Church. She was ordained as a minister in 1980.

ble for management of the administrative, finance and accounting divisions.

Martin and his wife, )o Ann, have three children.

•Howell R. Phelps ( MS Electrical Engineering), Austin, is marketing director for KMW Systems Corp.

64 Sandy Devlin Henry ( BBA Finance), Lubbock, was named 1988 Woman of the Year by the Altrusa Club. She is married to Alan Henry (BBA '64 Management, MBA '65). They have three children.

•Karolyn Spafford Lively (General Business), Lubbock, is director of public relations for the Red Raider Club.

When Karolyn, a mainstay of the Austin Chapter for years, moved to Lubbock, Dicky Grigg was kind enough to write her a letter of recommendation to prospective employers. He said that Karolyn was "a dog that will hunt."

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Jim Broome (BS Physical Education), Lubbock, has joined the firm of

Crossed Keys as general manager. He is married to the former Sue Reue ( BSE '68 Elementary Education).

Ronald C. Lowe ( BME, MME '66 Music Education), Corpus Christi, is manager of the Corpus Christi and Rio Grande Valley territory for Patrick Whitty and Associates.

John D. Shiver (BBA Accounting), Longview, is executive vice president of Texas & Northern Industries.

66 Tom Boecking (BBA Finance), pflu. gerville, is senior vice president of First State Bank pflugerville.

•Ann Cunningham Grandjean (MS Home Economics Education), Omaha, Neb., was named a Distinguished Alumna by the College of Home Economics. She is associate director of the Swanson Center for Nutrition Inc. She is married to carter J. Grandjean (MS '68, PhD '70 Chemistry).

Fred C. Kellum ( BS Agricultural Education ), Silsbee, is district conservationist with the USDA Soil Conserva-

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Martha Crow Farmer (General Business), Lubbock, is a realtor with WestMark Realtors. She is on the board of directors of the Ex-Students Association.

Donald L. Zimmerman ( BA Speech), McAllen, is vice president and senior trust officer of McAllen National Bank.

62Dee Ann Minnis Thornton (BS Home Economics Education), Levelland, is owner of Your Executive Secretary. She is married to Raymond D. Thornton (BBA '56 Accounting).

Jane Anne Henry Wilson (BME Music Education), Lubbock, is a professor of music at Tech. Wilson is a pianist.

63 Scherry Stephens Johnson ( BS

Name: Patrick Thomas Moore '82 City: Arlington, Texas

Occupation: Business Analyst, BSN Corp.

Major: Management, MBA '83 Tech Affiliations: Varsity Baseball, Alpha Kappa Psi Hobbies: Team sports (especially softball), althletic activities Favorites: Food - Chili Music - Contemporary Christian Movie - It's A Wonderful Life Book- Dune Place to Visit - Hawaii Ambition: To be a positive influence on as many people as possible.

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J. Benny Martin (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is executive vice president of Lubbock National Bank. He is responsiMAY-JUNE 1988 49

tion Service in Hardin County. He is married to the former Judith Uglow (BS '69 Animal Production).

"David E. Kehl (BS Mechanical Engineering), Temple, is vice president of engineering for Ralph Wilson Plastics Co. He is married to the former carol Appell ( BA '66 French). They have two children.

"John M. Stinson (BS Industrial Engineering), Houston, has been named general manager for Europe and the Far East in Conoco's international production department.

67 "Jerry G. Bawcom (BSE Secondary Education, MED '69 ), Fort Worth, is president of Texas Wesleyan College.

He is married to the former Vicky Keene (BSE '67 Elementary Education).

Bruce E. Mabrito (BSE '67 Education), San Antonio, is director of quality assurance for the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses at the Southwest Research Institute.

68 Richard Clipson (BS Animal Science), Eagle Lake, is a co-owner of Eagle Lake Insurance Associates.

C. Richard Edwards (BS Entomology), West Lafayette, Ind., is extension entomologist at Purdue University. He is married to the former Claudia Henderson (BSE '68 Secondary Education).

Ken A. Jones (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is executive vice president and board member of Shadow Hills National Bank. He and his wife, Sharla, have two children.

Andrew Sansom ( BS Park Administration), San Antonio, is director of land acquisition and management for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is the first individual to hold this position.

69 William

M. Klein (BBA Management), Lubbock, is president of Mike Klein General Contractors Inc. He was recently elected to the board of directors of Texas Commerce Bank.

Richard B. Rooney (BBA Accounting), Newport Beach, Calif, is the managing partner of the Newport Beach office of Klaiman Bush & Associates.

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"Gayle Carter Frank (BS Food & Nutrition), New Orleans, has been

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James 0. Gilbreath Jr. (BBA Marketing), Lubbock, is vice president of United States operations of Agrigenetics Inc. He was recently named to the board of directors of First National Bank. He is married to the former Sue Sudduth (BSE '71 Secondary Education).

Robert E. WarrenJr. (BS Petroleum Engineering), Houston, will receive his MBA from the University of Texas in May. He is married to the former Anne Meaders (BS '76 Family Studies). They have four children.

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Coy Ballard (BFA Interior Design), San Antonio, is marketing director for Jasmine Engineering. "carl E. Garrett Jr. (BS Mathematics), Kerrville, is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He is the executive officer of the USS San Jacinto, the newest Aegis cruiser in the Navy.

S. Thomas Hawkes (BBA Finance), San Antonio, is vice president of NBC Bank-San Antonio. He is married to the

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'A playmate today-a treasure tomorrow' Robin Funnell Woods '65, '67 is founder of a company boasting her own name in Pittsburgh, Pa.-a company manufacturing dolls with wide appeal.

Woods' doll designs are rapidly making her name well known throughout the toy industry. Honors for her creations keep coming in, and as one sales representative said, "She's the best in the business."

In 1986, Woods' creation, "Larissa," based on the character in the novel "Doctor Zhivago," won Doll of the Year Honors for Fashion Doll, Public's Choice presented by Doll Reader Magazine.

Two other dolls were nominated.

One was a limited edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; the other a limited production doll from "The Nutcracker Suite."

The following year brought even greater honors to Woods with two winners in Doll Reader's Dolls of the Year Award. "Catherine," heroine of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," won top honors in Premium Priced Fashion Doll, and ''Jenny Und," won Celebrity Doll honors. Others nominated included "Happy, Collectable Doll, Plastic; and "Katie Louise," Doll Design Concept of the Year.

Three of her newest dolls have also been nominated for the 1988 Award of Excellence. They include "Uttle Arthur" and "Morgan Le Fey'' from her new Camelot Castle Collection, and "Kate Greenaway."

Woods' background in the English department at Texas Tech serves her well, for many of her doll concepts come from literature. For instance, Camelot Castle Collection, one of her latest creations, features seven characters from that fantasy land, including Uttle Arthur, Uttle Guinevere, Young Lancelot and Lady Elaine.

Other areas of literature include characters from "Uttle Women," "Alice Through the Looking Glass," poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, tales by Charles Dickens and more.

While still working on her master's degree at Tech, Woods moved from Lubbock to Mansfield State College in upstate Pennsylvania, where she taught English and was director of public relations. Following a divorce, she moved to Pittsburgh, remarried, and attended the University of Pitts· burgh, earning a Ph.D. in child development. Woods taught at the univer-

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Robin Woods shows two of her special dolls, Catherine (left) and Larissa. sity for seven years before leaving it all behind to go into doll manufacturing.

"I had always wanted to make toys and be in the doll business," she said.

"When I got to be 3 7 years old, I decided that if I am ever going to do it, it ought to be now. I got up one morning and said, 'Let's start."'

Start she did. That was in 1983.

Woods began with 12 employees working in a building of 8,000-square feet. Through steady growth, her company, Robin Woods Inc., now has 70 employees working in 33,000· square feet with nationwide distribution.

Dolls from her factory in Pittsburgh are sold in all SO states in department stores and doll specialty stores. Her factory currently produces 45 different dolls in assorted sizes. They are frequently featured in specialty mail order catalogs including the Nieman Marcus Christmas Catalog. At present, her greatest sales come from the Southwest, Southeast and New Eng· land. ''We refinanced in 1987," she said.

"As is so often the case with new businesses, we were under-capital· ized. I tried to be everything at once.

I was designer and in charge of pro· duction, but I also had to be on the road to attend doll shows, meet sales representatives, toy buyers and get sales moving.

"Now we have an executive team

with a president and someone to look after marketing, sales and day-to-day production."

Woods now serves as chief executive officer, free to use her creative juices on new designs and travel the country meeting her customers."

Her trademark, a doll in a swing beneath a tree, carries the slogan, "A Playmate today-A Treasure Tomorrow."

"It's hard to put in words, but our dolls are different," Woods said. "Our dolls look substantial and yet they are fanciful. They are designed to be allordable, to take hard play by child· ren and then be kept as treasures when the child grows up. A lot of design goes into our doll clothes. If I had known what I know now, I would have gone to Texas Tech and majored in home economics," she said, laughing.

Woods said she enjoyed her time at Tech and obtained a good education from some excellent instructors. "I minored in journalism and wrote for the University Daily, too," she said. "I was active in Student Union affitirs, including the mock United Nations that they had every year. I remember my college days fondly."

It was only right that Woods should have attended Texas Tech, as it was ' her great-grandfather, Sen. William Harrison Bledsoe, who wrote the bill that founded Texas Technological College.

"I came to Texas Tech because of my grandparents who lived in Lubbock," Woods said. "I was visiting them during Christmas vacation while going to college in Colorado and told my grandfather, W.S. Bledsoe, that I was bored. He said, 'Fine, you can go to Texas Tech.' He informed my mother back in Colorado Springs that I was going to make the transfer to Texas Tech, and I did."

Robin's husband, Steve Woods, is a native of Pittsburgh. Their 11-year-old daughter, Mimi, is often called upon to give approval or disapproval of a new doll design and reviews the merits of dolls from other designers.

In her honor, Woods has given the name "Mimi" to one of her newest 19-inch creations from her American Children Collection. Many say the doll looks a lot like its namesake. Best of all, it has proved to be one of this year's best sellers. (By Rodney Goe· bel) MAY-JUNE 1988

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former Mary Hamm ( BSE '71 Special Education).

John Owens ( BS Physical Education, MED '73 ), Lubbock, is executive vice president/ director of marketing and board member of Plains National Bank. He is married to the former Cynthia Munn (BS '73 Speech Pathology, MED '74).

Sandy Sandlin (BBA General Business), Wichita Falls, is pastor of the Faith Baptist Church. He and his wife, Cheryl Anne, have two children.

Richard D. Shaw (BBA Management) , Borger, is corporate manager of safety and health for J.M. Huber Corp.

He was recently selected the 1987 Safety Professional of the Year by the American Society of Safety Engineers, Region III. Shaw is married to the former Cherry McEntire (BA '71 Sociology).

Ronald Thuett ( BS Agricultural Economics), Post, is a partner in the Double T Farms.

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Don Richards ( BA Journalism, JD '84 ), Lubbock, is an attorney with the law firm of McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson. He is married to the former Melba Herron OD '84 ).

Donald W. Shouse ( BBA Management), El Paso, is senior vice president for clinical services with Landmark Medical Center.

Alan White ( BBA Finance), Lubbock, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Plains National Bank

Administration. He will join the finance department for the 1988-89 academic year. Sears is married to the forma Reva Flournoy (BSE '73 Elementary Education).

73 Donald L. Curry ( BA Political

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Science, JD '74 ) , Austin, is senior partner of the law firm Curry, Curry & Robinson. He was recently named a director of Briercroft Savings Association.

Michael C. Harder (BS Wtldlife Managment ), Plainview, has been appointed to serve on the Family Farm and Ranch Advisory Council. He is vice president of Southwestern Grain Inc. Terry S. Key (MS Finance), Lubbock, is executive vice president and manager of the lending division of Lubbock National Bank. He and his wife, Charlene, have one daughter.

Tim Lambert (BA Political Science), Lubbock, is regional vice president with Adalite Inc. of Dallas.

He is married to the former Lyndsay Holms (BA '73 Psychology). They have four children.

R. Stephen Sears (BBA Finance), Champaign, Ill., has accepted a full professorship in Tech's College of Business 52

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Lewis (BBA General Business), Lubbock, is the owner of Lee Lewis General Contractor Inc. His firm recently began work on a development for Disney World and MGM Studios at the Disney World site in Florida. Lewis is married to the former Debi Metzker ( BSE '75 Elementary Education).

Steve Owens (BS Electrical Engineering), Lubbock, has joined the firm of Sullivan, Gray & Smith Inc. He and his wife, Sherry, have three children.

Craig Wilkinson (BSE Secondary Education), Lubbock, is a rate auditor/ supervisor with the Lubbock District of the Texas Railroad Commission. He is married to the former Darcy Schwartz (BSE '75 Secondary Education, MED '79).

75 Jim Ferguson ( BA Advertising), Winetka, Ill., is associate creative director for Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago.

Holly Hughes (BM, MM '77 Music Performance), Abilene, is an assistant professor of music at McMurry College..

Loyd I. Rinehart Jr. (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, is executive vice president and chief financial officer of First National Bank. He and his wife, Gilda, have two children.

Randy Smith ( BS Physical Education, MED '80 ) , Coleman, has resigned as head football coach and athletic director for the Coleman School District.

76Benny Ball (BBA General Business), Spur, is the adult probation officer for the 110th Judicial District.

Don Brookshire (BBA Management), Bartlesville, Okla., is area marketing manager of Latin America for TRW Reda Pump Division. He is married to the former Cynthia WUllams (BSE '78 Elementary Education).

David Dearmore (BBA Management), Uberty, is the owner of Dearmore Oldsmobile-Cadillac. He is also serving a second term as director of the Uberty-Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce. Dearmore is married to the former Becky Roby (BSE '75 Elementary Education ). They have two children.

Music alumni receive professional acclaim Five veterans of Tech's music theatre along with theatre arts graduate ' Kevin Howard, have recently received acclaim in the professional world.

A review in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore., of Gaetano Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment" gave credit to Eugene Opera general director james Toland for assembling "a dream cast" which included soprano Tambra King as Marie, tenor jerry Minster as Tonio, and Howard in the comic role of Hortensius. Chorus Master for the production was Frank Graffeo.

Also, j ohn Priddy has received notification that he will start duties next August as kapellmeister ( dire<.:tor of music) for the city theatre of Luneberg, Germany. His wife, dramatic soprano j ean Wilkinson, has aJso been signed with the company.

King, Toland, Minster, Graffeo and Priddy are all former private vocal students of John Gillas, Horn Professor of voice at Texas Tech.

Toland earned his bachelor and master of music degrees before becoming the Tech music department's publicity director. Following that, he held posts with the Lubbock Cultural Affairs Council and Texas Opera Theatre before taking over fund-raising activities for both the Eugene Opera and Ballet in 1981.

King holds bachelor and master of

Brenda Lefevere ( BS Child Development), Lubbock, is director of communications at Methodist Hospital.

Linda G. Moore (BBA Finance), Dallas, is a partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. She is principally engaged in litigation.

•Mark D. Noble (BBA Management), Tyler, is vice president of sales and marketing for the East Texas Center Project of Triton Development Corp. He is serving as the 1988 president of the Ex-Students Association.

Noble is married to the former Vicki Okerson (BS '76 General Home Economics).

K. Dixon Platt (BBA Management), Lubbock, was recently named director of the Office of Health Sciences Center Relations at 1TIJHSC. He was formerly manager of public affairs for the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce.

•Karen Whiteley (BA Spanish), Dallas, is the co-owner with her sister, Sharon, of International Language Services Inc., an alternative instruction ser-

music degrees in vocal performance from Tech. She recently sang roles in WA. Mozart's "Cosi fan tune" with the Connecticut Opera, and the title role in Seymour Barab's "Little Red Riding Hood" with the Connecticut Opera Express.

Minster, presently a graduate student in vocal performance at Tech, is also conductor of the Symphony of the Uano Estacado and music director of First United Methodist Church in Plainview.

Graffeo is currently music director of the Central City (Colorado) Opera Educational Outreach Program. He has been assistant conductor/ chorus master for the Eugene Opera's last three seasons. He was a Magna cum Laude graduate of Tech, who earned a master of music degree with distinction in performance from the New England Conservatory.

Priddy, who holds a bachelor of music degree from Texas Tech and a doctorate in music from Indiana University, was recently a candidate for the position of conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. He led the orchestra in the December 1986 production of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Ballet."

Howard, a 1984 theatre arts graduate, is pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. (By Gail Littleton)

vice for corporate executives. They also supply cultural inunersion studies, translation services, and typesetting.

John W. Young (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, is a CPA with Hartman, Walton and Associates.

77 Don Cosby (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, is chief financial officer of Ford Bank Group Inc. He has been elected to the board of First National Bank as an advisory director. Cosby is married to the former Pam Long (BBA '76 General Business).

Tommy Duniven (Advertising), Lubbock, is general sales manager for Lubbock Steel & Supply. He is married to the former Diane Callaway (BSE '77 Elementary Education). They have three children.

Kurt Gilman (MM Music Performance), Beaumont, is violinist with the Lamar Trio. He is c urrently completing his doctorate in music at UT. Gilman is married to the former Bonnie Boyd

(BME '69 Music Education).

Sharon Rafferty Goldston ( BBA Finance), Lubbock, is a certified financial planner with the Pennington/Bass Co. She also writes a financial planning column for the Lubbock AvalancheJournal.

Thomas C. Sellers ( BS Agricultural Education), Sulphur Springs, is vice president and loan officer at Sulphur Springs State Bank. He is married to the former Pam Horton ( BSE '77 Elementary Education). They have two children.

Michael White ( BS Agricultural Education), Dimmitt, is a soil conservationist with the Dinunitt field office of the Soil Conservation Service.

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Steve Barton (BS Civil Engineering), Gainesville, is the owner of the State Twin Theater in Gainesville. He was recently named Cooke county environmental health officer.

Oscar Cervantes (BAR Architecture), San Antonio, is a project manager with Incore Inc. Jennifer Goode (BA Advertising), Austin, is division manager of the Austin area for Philip Morris USA. James Toland (BM Music Performance), Eugene, Ore., is general director of the Eugene Opera.

Jerry D. Vance (BS Animal Science), Lubbock, is vice president of commercial lending at First National Bank.

79 Carrol Kingsbery Ottmers OD ), Lago Vista, is director of the Office of Public Utility Counsel.

Cathy Campbell Sitzes (BS Food & Nutrition), Hope, Ark., is in private practice as a clinical dietitian.

Ben Woodward OD ), San Angelo, is a partner in the law firm of Griffis, Woodward, Colia and Motl. He was recently named a director of Tom Green National Bank.

80 Sue Swanson Bucher ( BSE Elementary Education), Lubbock, is the author of "Instant Centers," a book of learning centers for teachers. She is married to Terry Bucher (BBA '80 Marketing), a unit sales manager for Procter & Gamble.

AI Hunt (BS Physical Education), Georgetown, is head coach and athletic director for the Georgetown Independent School District.

Paula McClellanJohnson OD), Lubbock, is vice president and trust officer of First National Bank. She and her husband, Terry, have two children.

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Nancy Folsom Street ( BS Microbiology), Milpitas, Calif, completed her PhD in immunology and is working for DNAX. She is married to Jules W. Street ( BA '80 Sociology). They have one daughter.

81 James A. Bell ( BBA Finance), Lubbock, is an assistant vice president in the marketing division of Plains National Bank. He and his wife, Rhonda, have one son.

Bryan Jensen ( BA Telecommunications), Beaumont, is a sportscaster with Channel 6 in Beaumont.

Lanny Lambert ( MPA Public Administration), Terrell City, is city manager for Terrell City. He is married to the former Debi Simmons ( BSE '80 Elementary Education). They have two children.

John Priddy (BM Music Performance), Bloomington, Ind., has accepted the position of kapellmeister (director of music) for the city theatre of Luneberg, Germany.

Jerry Schaffner (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is vice president of commercial lending for Plains National Bank.

He and his wife, Susan, have two daughters.

Vicki Spillman ( BS Child Development), Lubbock, is director of the child care center at Methodist Hospital.

82 Sheri B. Asbell OD ), Boerne, is a member of the law firm of Hollon, Marion and Richards.

Thomas Bohuslav (BS Civil Engineering), Brownwood, is head of engineering and maintenance operations of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation in Lampasas, Mills and San Saba counties.

Kathy Melrose Lackey (BSE Elementary Education), Lubbock, is associated with Century 21 Big State Real Estate. She is married to Kenneth R. Lackey (BBA '72 Finance), a real estate appraiser. They have two sons.

Richard D. McPeak (BS Electrical Engineering Technology), Lubbock, is a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He is currently on duty with the 4th Force Service Support Group.

83 Paula Wylie Bower ( BA English), Suffolk, England, is editor of the RAF I.akenheath OWC Magazine. She is married to Capt. Scot Bower, a physician with the USAF Regional Hospital at I.akenheath. They have two daughters.

Wl1llam Keith Brown OD ), McKinney, is an associate with the law firm of 54

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Abernathy, Roeder, Robertson & Joplin.

Todd Clement (BA History, JD '86), Dallas, is an associate with the law firm of Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox. He is in the practice of insurance defense litigation.

James F. Geary (BS Petroleum Engineering), San Diego, is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He is assigned to the missile cruiser USS Truxton.

D. Lane Giles (BBA General Business), Lubbock, is assistant vice president in the controllers division of Plains National Bank.

Rex A. Gore (BS Animal Business), Lubbock, is assistant vice president in loan review and credit at Lubbock National Bank.

Randall D. Grooms)r. (BBA Finance), Tyler, is assistant vice president in commercial lending at Southside State Bank.

Thomas Hochwalt (MBA), Snyder, is chief executive officer at Cogdell Memorial Hospital.

Ernest C. Lynch Ill (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is administrative assistant of the Lubbock Methodist Hospital System. He will be working to develop business plans and oversee the implementation of various projects including a helicopter service which began this spring.

Gary Mclaren (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is vice president of the credit division of Plains National Bank.

Robin Russell (BS International Trade), Houston, is an attorney with the law firm of Andrews and Kurth.

Bondred Stout (BS Family Studies), Lubbock, is resident manager of the Ronald McDonald House.

Rodney Strickland (BBA Accounting), Dallas, is assistant treasurer and controller for Qwest Microwave Inc., a telecommunications company.

Mark A. Tilker (BBA Management Information Systems), Milpitas, Calif, is a senior programmer/ analyst in the information services department of Business Land Inc. Rob L. Young ( BBA Finance), Fort Worth, has been named a vice president of First City National Bank.

84 Callan). Brown (BA Advertising), Long Beach, Calif., is an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is married to the former Lataine Richardson (BS '85 Clothing & Textiles).

Joy King Chauncey ( BS Home Economics Education), Lubbock, is an assistant vice president at Lubbock National Bank.

John Crumpler (MED), Lubbock, is in charge of the Family Care Ministry at

Broadway Church of Christ.

Frank Graffeo (BME Music Education), Central City, Colo., is music director of the Central City Opera Educational Outreach Program.

R. Scott Heitkamp (BBA Finance), Aransas Pass, is president of Coastal National Bank.

Richard A. Korzekwa (BS, MS '86 Electrical Engineering), Lubbock, is a doctoral student at Tech. He recently received the Pulsed Power Student Award, given for accomplishments while a full-time student that point toward an outstanding career in pulsed power technology.

Tambra King ( BM, MM '86 Music Performance), West Hartford, Conn., is a soprano with the Connecticut Opera and the Hartford Ballet.

Richard Kirkpatrick (BFA Design Communications), Lubbock, is art director of Holland Merriman and Christian Inc. He is a 1988 PeeBee Award recipient from KTXT-1V for his exceptional support for Channel 5 and public television on the South Plains.

Kirkpatrick is married to the former Kimberly Clark (BSE '84 Elementary Education).

Kun McEnaney ( BBA Finance, MBA '85 ), Dallas, is a banking officer in the general banking line of business of First RepublicBank Dallas.

Karen Waddle Parsley (BBA Finance), Omaha, Neb., is a caseworker for U.S. Rep. Hal Daub of Nebraska She is married to Joseph E. Parsley (BS '85 Geology), who is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Denise Warren Sanders (BA Advertising), Lubbock, was named Employee of the Year at Barcelona Court of Lubbock.

Gail Serratt (BA Advertising), San Antonio, is a media planner/ buyer with Sosa & Associates, a national Hispanic marketing and communications agency.

David Whitmire Starnes (BA Political Science, JD '84 ), Beaumont, is an attorney with the law firm of Mehaffy, Weber, Keith and Gonsoulin.

Doug Willis ( BS Agricultural Economics), Wolfforth, is assistant vice president and loan officer of the American Bank of Commerce.

Pat S. Yoder Wise (EdD Educational Psychology), Lubbock, is executive associate nursing dean at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. She has recently been named editor of the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.

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David DeLamar (BBA Marketing), Lubbock, is the owner of Merry Maids, a professional home cleaning service.

Jimmy Fitz-Gerald ( BGS General Studies), McKinney, is an adviser with Collin County Community College. He is married to the former Ellen Verheul ('85 Clothing & Textiles).

Joe Don Long (BS Textile Technology & Management), littlefield, is manager of quality control at the American Cotton Growers' Denim Textile Plant.

Mirt S. Nevill III (BBA Finance), Levelland, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Paul William Preston (BS Zoology), Dallas, is a physical therapist with Physicians Therapy Associates.

Susan A. Rankin OD ), Dallas, is an associate with the law firm of Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox. She is in the practice of family law.

Kirk Robinson (BS Animal Science, BS '86 Agricultural Education), Silverton, is the vocational agriculture teacher at Silverton High School.

Joseph D. Rogers (BS Petroleum Engineering), Vernon, is general manager of the Best Western Village Inn.

Michael). Mistler (MBA), Corpus Christi, is sales district manager, financial systems for the Corpus Christi District of NCR Corp.

•Patrick D. Treybig (BS Mechanical Engineering Technology), Kerrville, has completed recruit training at Orlando, Fla., and is a U.S. Navy fireman.

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86 RaLynda Warton Christie (BBA Finance), Dumas, is new accounts receptionist at the Dumas branch of Dalhart Federal Savings & Loan. She was recently selected as the January Young Careerist of the Month by the Dumas Business and Professional Women's Club.

Dale Hudspeth ( BBA Finance), Pilot Point, is an administrative officer with the Pilot Point National Bank. He is married to the former Jennifer Smith ( BSE '86 Elementary Education).

Kevin T.Jones (PhD Psychology), Houston, is with the Center for lifestyle Management at San Jacinto Hospital.

Melinda Mood (BFA Interior Design), Lubbock, is a specialist in commerical design at Hester's Office Center.

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Karey D. Bodey (BS Petroleum Engineering), Albuquerque, is a research engineer with Delphi Research.

R.E. lshmaeljr. OD), Dallas, is an associate with the law firm of Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox. He is involved in the fidelity/ surety construction practice.

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What does it take to have the extra edge? The edge that gives opportunity to someone over another. The quality that makes getting hired easier for some than others.

Employers used to look primarily for management skills in a prospective employee, then the trend changed to a liberal arts background.

The most "qualified" person is not necessarily the one who gets a particular job, according to several Techexes who are now in professional positions.

Ken McEachern '64, president of Uberty State Bank in Lubbock, said "Experience is important, but a person with good decision-making abilities is what we look for in a prospective employee."

The employers' attitudes towarq hiring someone with a liberal arts background as opposed to a more specific education varied with the profession. Tech-ex Bill Barnett '44, chairman of the board of First National Bank in Lubbock, felt that a specific education and good grades were of importance because it reflected a sense of ambition.

On the other hand, Marilyn Gilbert

'87 Landscape Architecture) and Jennifer Diane Drake, Feb. 20, Columbia, Md. Donnell Robert Archer (BBA '85 General Business) and linda Beth Hoffman, March 19, Lubbock.

DiAnna Baker ( BS '84 Clothing & Textiles) and Kyle Radford Day (BBA '87 Finance/ Economics), Feb. 13, Irving.

Sheri Barton ( BSE '85 Elementary Education) and Scott Boles, March 12,

Lamesa.

James Clifford Bassett (BBA '84 Accounting/Management Information

'75, vice president and production manager at Anderson Fischel Advertising in Dallas, said, "The first thing I look for in a potential employee is a good sense of humor."

Fifty years ago, a college education was rare, but today a bachelor's degree is more easily obtainable because of government grants and loans. This has created a different problem- the competition among graduates.

One recent study indicates that current college students, now more than ever, are interested in making money right out of school. But a degree will not give the same insurance to a graduate that it used to.

Many recent students agree the key to finding a job out of college is in the interview. Depending o n the field they are pursuing, grades are of differing importance with individual companies.

Employers in communications agree teamwork, enthusiasm and an interest in yourself top the list of requirements needed by a prospective employee.

Recent Tech graduate john Rafferty '87, who is now an account executive for KBIN-1V in Roswell, N.M., also found that, "the harder you work, the luckier you get."

Certainly, a strong desire to work hard with a definite goal in mind is a winner in all fields. But because of competition among recent graduates, everyone needs a detail that differentiates them from everyone else.

Employers still look for honest, trustworthy, dependable people. But when it comes down to that "extra edge," a potential employee better present everything he or she has to offer-which, without a do ubt is not just a degree. (By Ann Miniatas)

Systems) and Susan Gail Parker, March 26, Grapevine.

Lori Beth Beckham (BBA '87 Finance) and David Dean Caldwell, Jan. 2, Irving.

Suzanne Berry ( BA '81 Advertising) and Gary lindley Cravens Jr., March 26, Dallas.

Laura Bogar (BS '87 Human Development & Family Studies) and Eric Highsmith (BAR '87 Architecture/ Design), March 5, Lubbock Sammie Don Buchanan Jr. (BS '84 Mechanized Agriculture) and Paris Dawn Ponder, March 4, Cedar Creek.

Becky Byerley (BSE '84 Secondary Education) and Kevin Frierson, March 5, Dallas.

Elizabeth Ann Carrell (BA '87 Journalism) and Frank Douglas Wdson III, March 12, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sara carter (BBA '80 Finance) and James Steven Lackey (BS '80 Agricultural Economics), March 19, Arlington.

Gregg Alan Clements (BS '80 Textile Technology & Management) and Marl Luz Moerbe, Feb. 13, Costa Mesa, Calif.

Violet Ann Crawford (BA '86 Psychology) and Laran G. Mcinnes, Feb. 20, Lubbock Sharon Duncan (BSE '86 Elementary Education) and Joel Talley, Jan. 2, Denver City.

Paul Fergeson (BA '87 Psychology) and Mona Young, March 27, Flushing, N.Y. Gary Paul Frederick (BBA '84 Finance) and Donna Stuart, Feb. 13, Frisco.

Betsy Louise Henderson (BBA '84 Accounting) and Kevin Wood, March 12, Lubbock.

Lynne Holcomb (BFA '85 Interior Design) and Clayton Fowler (BBA '83 Finance), Feb. 27, Haskell.

Charles W. Hurd Ill OD '73) and Jill Ann Duncan, Feb. 14, Houston.

Suneetha Elizabeth Jayaseelan (BS '81 Microbiology) and Peter Carmine D'Apice, Jan. 30, Co rpus Christi.

LaurieJohnson (BA '81 Advertising) andJames Maddux Ill (BS '84 Mechanical Engineering Technology), Feb. 27, Dallas.

Sheri Gall Jones (BBA '79 General Business) and Jeffrey Lynn Bagby, Feb. 27, Dallas.

Daniel Mark Killian (BS '81 Agricultural Economics) and Susan Denise Todd, Feb. 20, Lubbock Diane Lynne LaBouff (BSE '86 Elementary Education) and Richard Dee Anderson, March 12, Lubbock.

Teresa Ann Lantz (BBA '83 Management Information Systems) and Richard Coke Hopping Ill (BS '82 Chemical Engineering), March 31 , Hereford.

Teresa Lynn Laramore (BS '85 Biology) and Joe Chavez, Feb. 27, Waco.

Susan Annette Mayfield (BS '81 Microbiology) and D. lindsey Dingmore Jr., March 19, Lubbock Robert Clayton Mays (BBA '81 Accounting) and Patricia Vivienne Boswell, Feb. 20, Fort Worth.

David Lynn McDermett (BS '82 Petroleum Engineering) and Susan Annette Holloman, Feb. 27, Odessa.

Jerry D. McLaughlin II (BS '86 Chemistry) and Sundi Jones, March 5, Houston.

Lisa McLeroy (BSE '83 Elementary Education) and Stoney lingo, March 5, Lubbock.

Patricia Hasson McMullen (BS '85 Consumer Studies & Management) and Lynn Vmcent Elliott, Feb. 6, Houston.

Michael Ray Melton (BS '87 International Trade) and Annette Kay Gilmore, Dec. 5, Dallas.

Mazel M. Merrlll (BBA '73 Accounting) and lindsey Patricia Long, March 19, Arlington.

Shawn Leigh Mordah (BS '87 Animal Production) and Dennis Wayne Ricks, March 12, Lubbock.

Carla Kay Morgan (BFA '87 Design Communications) and Richard Lee Hagerman (BAR '87 Architecture/ BS '87 Civil Engineering), March 19, Findlay, Ohio.

Jeffrey Clyde Mosley (PhD '87 Range Science) and Carrie Maenius, Jan. 23, Tucson, Ariz.

Kathy Ann Nolen ( BS '86 Home Economics Education) and Edward Q. wlesner Jr., Aug. 1, Houston.

Lindsay Marie Parker ( BA '84 Art) and Richard Kenneth Tall, Jan. 16, El Paso.

Jan Alison Pasewark ( BA '81 Advertising, MBA '85) and Frank Melvin Stogner (BBA '80 Accounting), April 2, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Julie Elaine Peck (BS '82 Dance) and Roger Bayard Bryan II, March 26, Abilene.

Jimmy Dean Pendergrass (BBA '77 Accounting) and Katherine Joan Meyer, March 19, Lubbock.

Millini Rae Powell (BA '87 Telec ommunications) and Gary Alan Skuba ( BBA '8 7 General Business), Jan. 30, Hazelton, Pa. Rhonda Diane Rhone ( BS '86 Consumer Studies & Management) and Kevin Sell Chapman, Jan. 22, Dallas.

Robin Lee Richards (BS '87 Food

& Nutrition) and Michael V. Vallee (BBA '87 Finance), March 5, Dallas.

Tonia Richards (BBA '87 Finance) andJohn Shrode (BBA '86 Marketing), Feb. 27, Midland.

Michelle Diane Robertson ( BBA '86 Marketing) and David Wayne Godfrey, Feb. 6, Fort Worth.

Imelda Rodriguez (BLA '87 Landscape Architecture) and Randy Lee Wegwerth, Jan. 23, Stonewall.

Jennifer Lynn Roy (BA '87 Advertising) and James Chan Campsey (BBA '85 Finance), March 12, Lubbock.

Steve Kendal Rutherford (BS '87 Agricultural Economics) and Elaine Marie Brown, Jan. 2, Fort Worth.

Karla Kay Schertz (BSE '82 Elementary Education) and Joe Remly ~s, Dec. 26, Lubbock.

Deborah Ann Schmitt (BSE '86 Elementary Education) and Bobby L Hanson (BS '87 Physical Education), March 12, Lubbock.

Barbara Jean Schwertner (BS '86 Family Studies) and Terry Glenn Zimmerman ( BS '87 Family Studies), March 19, Amarillo.

Laine Alea Snider (BS '84, MS '85 Home Economics Education) and David Ross Horton (BBA '86 Finance), Jan. 23, Dallas.

David Whitmire Starnes OD '84) and Peggy Judene Shelton, March 26, Beaumont.

Smith Swords IV (BA '74 Recreation) and Janet Faye Watson, March 19, Fountain Valley, Calif.

John Rogers Temple (BS '82 Zoology) and Jennifer Lynn Buie, Jan. 16, New York.

Joni Renee Thurman ( BS '82 Family Studies) and Dennis Alexander Bell, Feb. 14, Lubbock.

Lee Andrew Van Fleet ( BBA '80 Accounting, JD '83) and Cynthia Lee CroweU, Jan. 16, Houston.

Wendy Wade (BBA '84 Accounting) and Thomas D. O'Rourke (BS '84 Animal Production), Dec. 28, Carlisle, Ma. John Loran Wilson (BS '81 Chemical Engineering) and Melanie Joan Mills, March 19, Brownfield.

Laura Lynn Wilson (MED '81) and David Elijah Beebe, Feb. 25, El Dorado, Ark. Christopher Dudley Wino ( BS '82 Biology) and Krista Irene Petersen, Jan. 2, Wolfforth.

Macey Sheryl Wino (BBA '85 Accounting) and Byron Woody Conradt, Jan. 30, Irving.

Janet Lynn Wood (BA '86 Social Welfare) and Christopher Jason Powe, Feb. 13, Lubbock.

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BIRTHS

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Shirley Bredfelt Astwood ( MM '80 Music Performance) and Michael V. Astwood (BME '80 Music Education, MM '83 Music) of Lubbock, a son, Alden Matthew on June 1, 1987.

David R. Bellows ( BME '80 Music Education) and Melissa Lee Bellows of Fort Worth, a daughter, Tamara on May 26, 1987.

Lori Womack Bryant ('84 Telecommunications) and Mark H. Bryant ( BA '83 Telecommunications) of TwentyNine Palms, Calif., a son, William Austin on March 24.

F. Tim Burt ( BME '87 Music Education) and Donna Griffin Burt, of Ropesville, a daughter, Kirstin Nicole on July 14, 1987.

Terri Maynard Chadwell (BS '81 Family Studies) and Kirby L Chad-

well (BAR '81 Architecture) of Garland, a daughter, Kimberly Lynn on Jan. 7.

Nancy Miles Hendon ( BSE '81 Elementary Education) and Brian Hendon (BS '78 Advertising/Public Relations) of Plano, a daughter, Lauren Christine on Mar. 8.

Tamra Neuberger Holbeck (BS '83 Family Studies) and Randy Holbeck of Beaumont, a son, Nicholas Andrew on June 22, 1987.

Catherine Gaskins Lewis (BME '86 Music Education) and Gary J. Lewis ( BME '84 Music Education) of Abilene, a daughter, Devree Shea on April 22, 1987.

Robert W. Poole Jr. (BBA '81 Finance) and Donna Poole of Amarillo, a son, Daniel Wade on May 15, 1987.

Marcia Fleer Reeves (BBA '84 Finance) and Mitchell D. Reeves (BBA '83 Finance) of Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., a daughter, Ashley Michelle on March 10.

Sudie Johnson Rogers ( BME '77 Music Education) and R. Mark Rogers (BME '76, MME '77 Music Education)

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Cathy Campbell Sitzes (BS '79 Food & Nutrition) and David Sitzes of Hope, Ark., a son, Bryan Campbell on Jan. 25.

Stephenie Mendenhall Stewart ( BBA '82 Finance) and Vernon T. Stewart of Lewisville, a son, Richard William on Nov. 27, 1987.

Jeanne Lamb WJ.Sener (BBA '81 Finance) and Darwin Wisener (BBA '81 Finance) of Houston, a son, Payton Clark on Oct. 21 , 1987.

DEA1HS

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Mark C. Ashley '80 Mark Conley Ashley, 29, of San Angelo died Feb. 13. He graduated with a BBA in 1980 and an MS in 1981, both in accounting. Ashley was a certified public accountant. Survivors include his wife, Collene; his parents, two brothers and one sister.

Donald G. Bailey '50 Donald G. Bailey, 65, of Big Spring died Feb. 23. He received his BAR in architecture in 1950. Bailey was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Texas Society of Architects. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Longan ( BA '50, MA '66 History, EdD '77); one daughter, three grandchildren and .his mother.

AW. Crawford '35

A.W. "Gus" Crawford, 76, of Lubbock died Feb. 25. He graduated in 1935 with a BS in mechanical engineering.

Crawford was a retired engineer with Reed Roller Bit Co. Survivors include his wife, the former Inez Hensley (English); one sister and one brother.

Sidney Dalton '65

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Sidney Dalton, 50, of Lubbock died Jan. 27. He received his BBA in accounting in 1965 and his MBA in 1973. Dalton was an ordained Methodist minister.

He was a U.S. Army veteran and had taught school. Survivors include one daughter, one son, one grandchild and his parents.

Gerald Felder '64 Gerald Dale Felder, 45, of Lubbock died March 11. He graduated in 1964 with a BS in agricultural education.

Felder taught school in Spearman before moving to Lubbock where he

was employed as general manager at A1 Mobile Homes. He is survived by his

wife, Janet; two daughters and his parents.

Mark R. Foster 79 Mark R Foster, 33, of Fort Worth died March 30. He received his BME in music education in 1979 and an MS in business administration in 1984. Foster

was a software engineer with General Dynamics. He is survived by his wife, Susan; two brothers and one sister.

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Dan Gmean '28 Dan Slay Gillean, 83, of El Campo died Feb. 29. He graduated in 1928 with a BS in horticulture. Gillean was a retired rancher. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; one daughter, three sons and six grandchildren.

Vernon H1l1Ja.rd Vernon Hilliard, 76, of Plainview died Feb. 28. He became Tech's first fulltime track coach in 1964. After his retirement in 1975, he went to Wayland Baptist University as athletic director. Hilliard is survived by his wife Lillian; one son, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

George O.Jackson '41 George Oliver Jackson, 67, of Abernathy died Feb. 12. He received his BBA in marketing in 1941. Jackson was a farmer and a board member of the Consumers Fuel Association. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann; two sons, one daughter and two grandchildren.

GeneHe W. KeHy '33 Genelle Wilhite Kelly, 75, of Lubbock died March 17. She received a BA in 1933 and an MA in 1936, both in Spanish. Kelly taught in the Lubbock Independent School District for 3 5 years and retired in 1975. Survivors include one half-sister and several nieces.

Mary ElJzabeth Maxwell '35 Mary Elizabeth Dryden Maxwell, 73, of Van Hom died Feb. 24. She graduated in 1935 with a BA in anthropology. She was retired from the ranching business.

Survivors include one daughter and one grandchild.

20. He graduated in 1931 with a BA in Spanish and received an MEDin 1949.

Mills taught foreign languages in high school before his retirement. Survivors include his wife, Nellie; two daughters and three grandchildren.

Leslie Pepper '50 Leslie Pepper, 57, of Sabinal died Jan. 27. He received his BS in animal production in 1950. Pepper was a farmer, rancher and owner of Pepper Irrigation Co. He also served as a director and vice chairman of the Edwards Underground Water District. He is survived by his wife, the former Jean Verett (BSE '52 Elementary Education); three sons and four grandchildren.

Walter F. Pfennig '41 Walter Fred Pfennig, 73, of Corpus Christi died March 10. He graduated in 1941 with a BS in geology. He was an independent geologist and geophysicist. Pfennig is survived by his wife, the former Anna Buckley (BS '40 Clothing & Textiles, BS '43 Home Economics Education); two daughters and one grandson Robert E. Rapier '49 Robert E. Rapier, 65, of Lubbock died Feb. 15. He received his BAR in archi· tecture in 1949. He was managing partner of BGR, Architects/ Engineers.

Rapier was a member of many professional and civic organizations and was a strong supporter of Texas Tech. He is survived by his wife, the former Isabel Morehouse ('48 Architecture); three sons, two daughters and six grandchildren.

Ralph 0. Riojas '56 Ralph 0. Riojas, 53, of San Antonio died Feb. 5. He graduated in 1956 with a BBA in marketing. He served 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 1981 as a lieutenant colonel. He was a financial planner at the time of his death.

Riojas is survived by his wife, Celia; two sons, two daughters and three grandchildren.

Erie Mayo Sr. '35 Erie Mayo Sr., 75, of Coleman died Feb. 16. He received a BS in electrical engineering in 1935. Mayo retired after 43 years with the Texas Highway Department He is survived by one son, one step-son, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild

Thompson D. Rodgers '38 Thompson Deane Rodgers, 70, of Ralls died Feb. 29. He received his BS in 1938 and his MS in 1942, both in geology. He was employed by Amoco Petroleum Co. for 27 years. Survivors include his wife, Fran; one son, one daughter and five grandchildren.

Gordon MJ1Js '31 Gordon Mills, 79, of Lubbock died Feb.

T.A. Rogers '28 T.A. Rogers, 82, of Lubbock died Feb.

7. He graduated in 1928 with the first BS in electrical engineering awarded by Tech's College of Engineering. He owned and operated Lubbock Manufacturing Co. for SO years. He is survived by his wife, the former Willie Mae Hawthorne (BA '27, MA '31 English); two sons and six grandchildren.

Bob M. Simpson '49 Bob M. Simpson, 59, of Lubbock died Feb. 8. He received his BBA in marketing in 1949. Simpson owned McKillack Auto Supply before entering the insurance business in 1963. Suvivors include his wife, Laura Jean; one daughter, two grandchildren and his mother.

Burnett T. Smith '42 Burnett T. Smith, 81, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died Feb. 23. After receiving his BS in education in 1942, he taught school before his retirement in 1975. He is survived by his wife, Jewell; two sons and four grandchild· ren.

LaVerne Snow '36 LaVerne Hayhurst Snow, 75, of Buffalo Springs Lake died March 26. She gradu· ated in 1936 with a BS in general home economics. She was a supervisor for the Farm and Home Administration and later taught school for 15 years.

Survivors include one daughter.

James Story '43 James Story, 65, of Midland died Feb. 25. He was a 1943 graduate with a BS in petroleum engineering. He was a staff geologist with Cities Service Oil Co. and with Southland Royalty before becoming an independent geologist.

Story is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Anthony ('47 History); two daughters and three grandchildren.

Nolen SwalnJr. '49 Nolen Swain Jr., 62, of Lubbock died March 9. He received his BBA in management in 1949. He had been employed by Southwestern Public Service Co. since 1950 and was division manager at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, the former Carol Sherrod (BA '49 Journalism); two sons and one daughter.

Earl Wlggins '49 Earl Wiggins, 65, of Lubbock died March 18. He received his degree from Tech in 1949. Wiggins was a retired hospital administrator. Survivors include his wife, Elaine; one daughter and one grandson.

1!1 MAY·JUNE 1988 59

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK

Don't lose your tlloral cotllpass

By Marsha Gustafson, Editor

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The following are excerpts from a speech given by Walter Rodgers, ABC News bureau chief, Moscow, at a Southern Illinois University commencement ceremony. His remarks, because they contain a lifelong common sense guide for the new and old graduate alike, are reprinted here for the benefit of us all.

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First, set some goals for yourselves-and I would recommend that you begin by learning to speak a foreign language. In Europe, you know, they have a saying: "What are you if you speak three languages?

Trilingual. And if you speak two languages? Bilingual. And if you speak one language? American."

Second, don't stop going to school. Keep taking courses. When I was an undergraduate, Harvard professor David Reisman came to speak, and I was amazed at his encyclopedic mind. When I had a chance to chat with him, I asked how he knew so much about everything, and he said, "You know, it's easy.

Every semester I take a course-physics, botany, religion, geography-whatever."

Point three: become an expert on something other than your profession. I don't care if it's Chinese cooking or Japanese gardening or auto mechanics or birdwatching. It will greatly enrich your life.

Having an area of expertise outside your profession makes you an interesting person, and as my good friend Sam Donaldson says, "The cardinal sin in life is to be bored-or boring."

Point four: think critically. Critically assess everything, including your fellow human beings. If someone tells you Jimmy Carter was a bad president, challenge that. He had, for instance, the finest environmental record of any president since Teddy Roosevelt.

I know of a newspaper editor who challenged his reporters to think critically, check out their sources, challenge every accepted truth. He had a sign in his office that read, ''When your mother tells you she loves you, check it out."

Point five: read books. Set a goal for yourself-read 52 books a year. Shut off your television set and read books. I graduated 25 years ago last spring. I was well read in my major, history. But I had never read jane Austen, "Don Quixote" or even "Moby Dick." I have now- and I keep on reading.

One of my most vivid memories as a reporter covering Watergate was that of a bright young Yale graduate who had worked in the Nixon White House and who appeared before Judge john Sirica. The young man was about to be sentenced to prison. Asked if he had anything to say, this Yuppie said, "Somewhere along the way I lost my moral compass."

Don't lose your moral compass. Dare to be morally radical. Don't be afraid to say "no." Law and morality are the glue that holds families and societies together.

Cultivate a code of ethics for yourselves. Cultivate quality thinking and frame it in your code of morality.

To paraphrase another Illinoisan, ''You are, and remain, the last best hope for mankind."

(Reprinted from the Alumnus, V. 50, n. 2, Fall 1987, page 22. Southern ll/inois University Alumni Association)

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