Texas Techsan July/August 1992

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Alook at the numbers ~ any of you who live / ,Vin Texas probably read in your local newspapers or heard on local radio or television that state legislative leaders approved about $250 million in budget reductions and savings in April- an action that could spare Texas Tech officials the pain of trimming almost $5 million from the University and Health Sciences Center budgets next year.

However, predictions are that the state will face a $5 billion deficit in the next biennium if state services remain at the same level. Sen. Bob Glasgow from Stephenville was quoted by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal as stating that "We don't have the ability to raise $5 billion in January 1993. If we don't, then you're looking at some significant services cuts and some significant program cuts."

Texas Tech has been told to prepare for a 10 percent budget cut in 1993 and that is the focus of attention on campus. Tech will proceed with its suggested cuts by each college and school despite the relief provided by the Legislature in April. This will include termination of personnel and programs. The number to be terminated is not large because of attrition and early retirement.

At its May meeting, President Robert W. Lawless told the Board of Regents that 24 people will lose their jobs and 160 positions will be cut effective Sept. l in accordance with the 5 percent reductions that we have been planning for. In 1993-94, another 5 percent will be cut.

The regents also raised tuition and fees as follows:

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Tuition -resident, $20 to $24 per credit hour; non-resident, $128 to $162 Student service fee- $7.13 to $7.45 per credit hour (up to 12 hours) Health service fee - $37.50 to $42 per credit hour Reinstatement fee - $70 to $90 General use fee - $8 to $10 Regents raised resident medical school tuition from $5,463 to $6,550 and decreased non-resident tuition from $21,852 to $19,650.

They also raised malpractice insurance fees, graduation fees and application fees.

On the day before regents heard the budget report and raised

fees the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal also reported in a front-~ story that Dr. Lawless had received a $17,000 pay incr~ $177,000- a 10 percent increase. The timing of this story was good. The board action in question took place at the Dece" 1991 board meeting. It is not dear why the newspaper ran the~~: when they did.

In addition, the story failed to mention several impott factors. A subsequent follow-up did discuss those factors.

First, the $17,000 increase was a combination of three r~1 In August 1989, the Legislature provided a 5 percent pay inC!ll which Lawless declined. (Without the authority to do so.) 1 December 1991 adjustment included that amount, as well asi percent increase appropriated for all state employees effed Sept. l, 1991, _and an additional 3 percent raise, which 1 equivalent to that provided faculty effective Sept.l, 1990.

Alan White, chairman of the regents, stated in a follow-up story that it was a mistake not to go ahead and grant the raise ~ Lawless' objections in 1989. ''The raise is an effort to 1 competitive with the state's top universities," he said.

The second factor is that Lawless is president of both1 University and the Health Sciences Center, a situation uniq111 the state. He is the only individual who holds such dual posit\.))

The president at UT-Austin receives $177,480 a year andl salary at Texas A&M is $173,400. The president of UT Soc western-Dallas receives $194,00 and presidents of UTHSC Houston and San Antonio receive $190,000, as does the presi~ of UT Medical Branch-Galveston.

Dr. Bernhard Mittemeyer, executive vice president and ~ vost of Tech's HSC, was quoted by the AJ as saying, "I think! state is getting a heck of a good deal for someone serving int capacity."

The third factor is that the pay increase was taken from prin funding and not state funding. The state base salary forI president is $63,403 and private sources pick up the remaini $113,597.

"I still don't think we are paying him what he is worth," Whl said.

I would agree with that statement. Lawless has been a slrtll aggressive leader at a very difficult time. He is respected byo faculty and has been well-received by our alumni. He hasI» effective and forceful in presenting our case before the Legi~ ture. He has taken the lead in increasing the number ofPresideltl Endowed Scholarships from 8 to more than 130, currently.

Lawless took a pay cut to take this position. We are luc~ have him and we need to keep him.

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ouward Campbell Cowboy Artist, Artist Cowboy

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Buck Ramsey - The Cowboy Spirit

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They Call the Thing Rodeo

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Eddie Dixon Shapes Monument to Buffalo Soldiers

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AMano ... by Suzi Oliver

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Randy Steele: Lethal Weapon

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Professional artist Duward Campbell '75 provided us with one of his paintings to illustrate this issue's theme, "The Great American Cowboy." See page 6 for a story about Campbell.

Our treatment of his pencil drawing, 'The Heel Man," appears below.

Not For Men Only 1Thanks to Nancy Binford

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.Q& A with Sculptor Garland Weeks

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Ranchers' Roundup

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Arrowsmith's Relics of the Old West

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DEPARTMENTS Building Campaign

utters Development News: Endowments Techsan Issues: Gov. Ann Richards Tech Today Texas Tech in Retrospect: Tech at War Sports: Volleyball, Tracy Saul From My Window: Advice Association News: Mark Your Calendar Class Notes Editor's Notebook: By Dr. Ken Davis

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Kicking off the Alumni Center ith the help of some of Texas Tech's outstanding alumni and the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, the Alumni Center Campaign was launched this summer. Board contributions and luncheons held throughout the state, plus a mass mailing to Tech-exes secured (as of June 1) some $500,000 of the projected $1.5 million necessary to renovate and enlarge the existing Ex-Students Association Building.

The amount is enough to begin Phase I of the Alumni Center project.

Earliest contributions came from several Past Presidents of the Association, who donated $36,900 several years ago.

These funds have been earning interest and served as seed money to pay for the artist's rendering, building brochure and other necessities to launch the campaign.

The next major amounts came from members of the Association Board of Directors who gave in excess of $100,000, with contributions still coming in. Funds raised through individual luncheons hosted by the Association and alumni of Texas Tech in Houston, San Angelo, Midland, San Antonio, Dallas and Lubbock secured the bulk of the funds in both o n-the-spot donations and pledges. In San Antonio, alone, $10,000 in cash was raised at a single function.

Highlight of the luncheons was a special videotape report showing the building as it looks currently and how it is being proposed. The tape is narrated by Bill Dean, executive vice president of the ExStudents Association, and features an endorsement by Texas Tech President Dr. Robert W. Lawless.

"Wherever we've had these meetings, the response has been very positive," Dean said. "Follow-up has been strong, too. I have not been turned down by anyone I've personally called."

While the luncheons were being held, a special mailing to Tech-exes went out and

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by the first week of June, it had raised $96,000 in this early stage of response.

Lubbock architect Bill Adling projected a timeframe of bids in December, construction beginning in January 1993 and completion in January 1994.

That can vary 3 to 6 months depending on when the money is actually raised, Dean added.

Among the other ways money is being raised is what Association Assistant Director Jim Douglass calls "your guarantee of immortality." Your name, or many other creative combinations of names, can be placed on bronze pavers for $250 to be placed along the sidewalks leading to the main entrance; on black granite plaques for $1,000, which will be set into the interior floor area along the Grand Hallway; into 6-foot black granite benches for $5,000 to be located throughout the courtyard and landscaped grounds; and on polished granite wall plaques dedicating whole rooms or wings to specific donors who provide funds for those areas.

Consider the following suggestions for ways to "guarantee your immortality" at the new Texas Tech Alumni Center: - Your name, class year and degree -Yo ur business' name and logo - Your ranch name and brand - Your name and best Tech friends -Your sorority or fraternity name and the years you were active -A group of Goin· Band members and their class years -MortarBoard '88·, i.e., with initials of the members who kicked in the money -Your dorm or residence hall floor, i.e. 2nd floor Sneed Hall, 1967 - A group of athletes from a Tech sport, i.e. Basketball '89 or Red Raider Linemen '66 -All the people in your family who are Tech-exes and their class years

- So~ 1 giving for ill grandchildren, i.e., A fr.t1 Raider, Kevin Smith and hisbirthl - Special messages, like "Go Tq Terry Miller '79" - Former Homecoming Queens, Ill Texas Techs or cheerleaders -Couples who met at Tech with ~ marriage date and a Double-T -A group of individuals with mu~ degrees can go together and buy a heM plaque, for instance, and place theirn!) and their degrees at each of the uni~ ties they attended, with the Tech It, indicated by a small Double-T. F!l; stance, Dick Smith, B .S. ' 65 , M.S.~ Ph.D. '69 or Brett Simpson Baker,Bl '75, JD '77 Other ideas include chapters, ad~ trators of Texas Tech and the ESA,~ and present, and others who have pla)'li major role in the University: - Presidents of Texas Tech Univ~ and list n ames and years - The Midland Chapter or the R~ Plains Chapter or the Bay Area Chifi - Former chapter presidents - Texas Tech Board of Regents, I~ -Distinguished Alumni ofTech fil any given year -Various groups' officers, i.e., IK Class Officers and their names - Favorite or well-known athletici rectors and coaches, past and present -Band leaders, professors, deans,li presidents, etc.

The idea is, people love to looU names of those they know and remen:tl With a concerted effort, on campu~ off, and with the support of the entire~ community, we can have for the U~] sity and its former students an atua:iC Alumni Center, while helping topresl' the names of people who were a part ill history a nd its future.

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""'*""- . Bill Dean '61 Editor • Marsha Gustafson 7 6 AJwotant Edilor • Curt Langford '90 Clot• Nolet f<lilar • Susan Bowen Aooo<ialioriiWws • Jim Dougkm '69 ,ll.oriioint Diroctar . Morita Kennedy 7 9 Miol · K...t Gamble 77

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In the May-June issue of the Texas Techsan Magazine (page 18), in the section titled ''The Fountain," it states "the idea for a fountain to beautify the official entrance to the university was conceived in 1967." I have enclosed the front page and second page of theFeb. 16,1964,DailyToreador that disputes that date.

This particular page was in an old scrapbook as a reminder that the sophomore office assistants and legislators (pre-resident assistants) allowed ourselves to be "sold" as "slaves" to the freshmen in the dorm to raise money for the fountainfund. Webroughtin$200 for our efforts.

Mary Ann Moreland '66 Lubbock, Texas

BOARD OF DIRECTORS lorry Adams 72, Co<pu• Chritli Margent Brannan '.54, San Anlonio

Bob Brown, Jr. '59, l.omMo Joo Dole Bryan '57, Lubbock Suoie Buohl.r '81 Houslan

J.C. Chombon •.s.(, Lubbodc Chino Chapa '82, Atlinglon, Vo. .loll Copolond '81, Sierllng City Didty A. Grigg 70, Autlin Dr. Jod H.nry '60, San Anlonio J. Pal Hickman 75, Canyon Glom January 75, Houolon Jomo. w. Lacy '.49' Miclond Ric!.ord G. ligon '58, Ploinvi.w Weol.t Maslen '60, Amarillo Wtndol Mrzt-o, Jr. •.49, Autlin

John c. SirN '65, Lubbock Tony s...ling '7"'· San An!lelo t.'ichaol J. St.ven. '80, Midond Ocwicl Thoma• '83, Addison

J.Polridt Waloh, Jr. '61 , McAien Al~tci'Nhite 79, Ololhe, Kon. Bill Wamble '60, Dalla• Mcda York '61 , Lubbock

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Kappa Kappa Psi Note I am writing to inform you of a mistake in your May-June 1992 issue. On page 16 of the "Tech Trivia" article, it is incorrectly stated that the Kappa Kappa Psi chapter at Texas Tech was the founding chapter in the nation, when in fact, it was the founding chapter in the state. Your information was probably confused with the sister chapter ofTau Beta Sigma. This is the chapter that was originally founded at Texas Tech.

Wava Banes Turner Henry, a Tech alumna, is the foundress of this women's organization. Tau Beta Sigma was chartered in Stillwater, Okla., in 1946 because the laws ofTexas would not allow it to be chartered in Texas at the time. There is a monument honoring Texas Tech as the birthplace of Tau Beta Sigma outside the Music Building today.

The women of Tau Beta Sigma are very proud of this hard-working service sorority and would appreciate the recognition they

deserve for the hard work they do for the Goin' Band from Raiderland alongside their brothers of Kappa Kappa Psi. Tara N. Larson, Tech Junior San Antonio, Texas Tau Beta Sigma, Beta Chapter

Editor's Note: Many thanks for these history corrections. We'll also notify our sources.

Lots of Memories IreceivedmyMay-JuneTexas Techsan Magazine and I believe it contained more interesting information than any issue in many years. All the articles were very good, especially the ones about the early days.

I enrolled in 1932 and have seen or experienced so many of the things that were recorded in your magazine.

Congrats and best wishes for a successful campaign to build the new Alumni Center. I bought a brick last week!!

R.C. "Mitch" Mitchell '37 San Angelo, Texas

Best Pubbshed Congratulations on your latest Techsan, which may be the best blend of information and entertainment about Texas Tech that's been published. Anytime. Anywhere.

Russ R. Pate '69, '73 Dallas, Texas

Tech on Nashville Now Do any Tech-exes who watch "Nashville Now" on TNN know about this: There is a background singer who I am guessing is from the Snyder, Texas, area. (Brad Maul was on the show one night and said his first date was with this girl, and their mothers arranged the date. Brad is from Snyder, so

probably the girl is, too.)

Anyway, at the close of the show, this girl sometimes gives the Tech "guns up" sign. The band leader, Jerry Whitehurst, always makes a sign that includes the hook 'em horns sign, telling some friends in Waco and Austin 'good-night'.

The girl is always on the end, very dark hair, fairly long, with bangs. I just think it is neat that she does it, and I wish someone would ask her to explain what it means. I have seen the show twice when people have asked Jerry Whitehurst what the hook'em sign that he gives means. Someone may need to ask the girl about the 'guns up' sign she is giving. It would be good publicity on a popular show for Texas Tech.

Teena Carson Hughs '76, '79, ' 81 Kismet, Kansas

Rhoades Scholar?

I appreciate the latest issue of the Texas Techsan with its history of those early years. It is a fme issue and one that I will keep with my LaVentanas and directories.

However, on page 15, Canon Clements was identified as Tech's only "Rhoades" Scholar instead of "Rhodes" Scholar. Or should it be "Roads"?

Art Gamble '37 Lubbock, Texas

Editor's Note: This one got by us in the proofreading, but when Mr. Clements was featured in our November-December 1991 Endowed Scholars write-up, we did have him correctly identified as a Rhodes Scholar. He is a prominent man, an putstanding citizen and a generous supporter ofTexas Tech and the Ex-Students Association. He did not complain about the incorrect spelling of"Rhodes," and that doesn't surprise any of us.

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Endowments create

meaningful memorial A;emorial gift is one of the meaningful tributes we can make to a person we have loved and admired. When a death occurs, families may prefer a gift to a favorite charity instead of flowers.

A memorial gift to Texas Tech is particularly appropriate when a person with special ties to the institution, such as a former student, faculty member or administrator, dies. Persons also establish memorial funds for community leaders, persons with a special interest in · education and young people, or to support a field of study in which the subject was especially interested. Some of the most poignant memorials at Texas Tech are named for children whose parents have chosen to establish a lasting memorial.

Memorial gifts are most often designated for endowment. An endowed fund is a permanent possession of the University. The income, never the principal, is used for the purposes designated by the donor. Endowment funds are carefully invested to insure the highest rate of return consistent with good management practices. Donors receive regular reports on the status of endowment funds.

Texas Tech has identified endowment as a major focus of development efforts. Compared with other comparable institutions, Texas Tech is considerably under-endowed. Endowed funds provide a hedge against inflation and a

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measure of security in planning for the future.

Individuals, corporations and foundations may choose to endow a scholarship or faculty position, such as a named professorship, in a particular field of study. The Charles B. Qualia Professorship, which was discussed in the last issue of Texas Techsan Magazine, is an example. Income from the endowment is generally used to enhance salary, provide research and clerical help, facilitate publications and travel and purchase library or laboratory resources. Having such a position makes it possible for Texas Tech to recruit an outstanding scholar to the field.

By far the most popular form of endowment is the endowed scholarship.

Beginning with a gift of $5,000, a person may create a "named" scholarship endowment in memory or in honor of someone they love or admire.

Sometimes endowments are created to honor a member of the Texas Tech "family" who contributed to the growth and development of the institution.

Such an endowment is a permanent memorial and provides a lasting legacy.

For example:

The Wendell Eudell McClendon Scholarship in French is being created by colleagues and friends of Dr. McClendon, who died last year.

McClendon joined the Texas Ted faculty in 1984 and was director off~ year French classes, including supeni sion of teaching assistants. He had developed the syllabus and lab malelu for first-year courses since 1985. Ali time of his death, he was trying to establish the Texas Tech Zola Natura) ism Center in the Rare Book Room d the University Library. Tech has lbe only library outside France with mim film copies of French author Emile Zola's manuscripts.

The endowment bearing his name. will provide support to capable youll! scholars in the field to which Dr. McClendon devoted his life.

Another scholarship will bear lhe name of Willard Robinson, profesSOII architecture and adjunct professor of museum science, who died last sui1UIX while serving as interim dean of the college. He had served the Universicy for almost three decades and had heel designated as a Paul W. Hom ProfCS!l the highest honor Texas Tech besto\11 on its faculty.

A dedicated and enthusiastic ted~ Robinson inspired students with his excitement for architectural history I historic preservation. ·He was recog· nized world-wide for his special expertise on American forts and ho\llll of worship, and was often called to ~ 1 special consultant for historic presenl

. ro•iects But his first love was his uonp ~ · .topted state, Texas, and he was a iding force for development of the ranching Heritage Center of the Texas

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In 1990 he was designated as a ·ng cultural and historical resource" ~ . the Texas House of Representatives.

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Another member of the Texas Tech faculty, Dr. Joe Goodin, died within the last year. At the time of his death, Dr. Goodin was dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. He had created an endowed undergraduate scholarship in molecular biology, his own field. Friends and colleagues are contributing gifts to create still another scholarship in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Two scholarships will bear the imprint of William H . Tinney, who died early in 1992. A tireless advocate of Texas Tech, Lubbock and the South Plains, Tinney worked both officially and unofficially to advance the interests of the institution. He was employed as a development professional for the Tech President's Council, the Health Sciences Center, and he was deeply involved in the establishment of the Texas Tech HSC School of Medicine and School of Nursing.

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Dimes, Heart Association, Boy Scouts, Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation for Crippled Children, Lubbock Housing Authority and the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

He and his wife, Eileen, established the William H. Tinney Scholarship in Nursing. More recently, the Robert and Marilyn Tinney Presidential Scholarship has been created in honor of the couple's children.

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Duward Campbell CowVoy Artist, Artist CowVoy Bv ANDY WILKINSON uward Campbell's studio is one of those places made wonderful by too much of what you didn't expect. The antithesis of the light-filled, airy, Saturday-matinee ideal of an artist's loft, it is small and dark and cramped, each nook and cranny stuffed with the paraphernalia of art and the treasured junk of the artist.

There are working tables loaded with canvases and sheets of paper in various stages of becoming paintings and sketches, smaller tables arrayed with paints and brushes and rags and bottles of turpentine and rainbows of colored pencils, the remaining level spaces stacked with books and photographs.

On the walls are animal skulls Campbell '75 has collected while working horseback- deer, antelope, cow, horse, coyote, even a mountain lion

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.and, near the telephone, thumb-tacked notes with names and telephone numbers and messages. Perched atop an old fourdrawer fili ng cabinet is a small, blackand-white television, flickering quietly fike an electronic coal-oillamp.

Dominating the room from the far end is an ancient, well-worn easel.

Above it floats an adjustable metal arm dangling an industrial-strength fluorescent lamp. I happened by for a visit while Campbell was working in the ~mp's antiseptic light, putting the last toUches on the piece that graces this ~sue 's cover.

Although he was busy fussing with foreground details, working with surgical strokes of his brush to bring life k>rocks and blades of grass, my eyes ''ere immediately drawn to the center of ~e canvas by a bright yellow rain slicker rolled-up on the back of the saddle.

From there, skillfully arranged hlghlights pulled my vision first to the horse's hips, next along the rider's jeans and up to his shirt, stopping me at his silver-belly hat. Only then did I look at ~e face, recognizing a mutual friend, Rod Taylor '76, a cowboy from Cimarron, N.M .

It's not a typical piece of cowboy art, wt it is very much typical of Duward Campbell's work. There's no dramatic Ktion: no bucking broncos, no rattlesnakes coiled and ready to strike, no cowboy-and-Indian shoot 'em-ups.

There aren't any dramatic people, either, no famous lawmen, no infamous ootlaws, no imposing historic figures.

Campbell just paints the people he lnows, his friends and the folks he's worked beside, in the settings of their daily lives. The drama comes, instead, from his intimate knowledge of the life ~at he loves, expressed through his extraordinary skills in handling light, color and composition.

In this sense, aside from the subject matter, Campbell' s work shares less with contemporary cowboy or western lrlists than with the likes of Edward Hopper, or with Paul Milosevich, Duward's friend and former teacher.

During a recent conversation, Milosevich agreed with that assessment, ihough he pointed out that the best

traditional western artists were, like Campbell, chroniclers of a way of life.

'The more personal you get, the more universal you get," Milosevich said.

The pieces illustrating this article are good examples. Here are ordinary scenes of a life common to all cowboys: working cattle in the pen, getting set to heel calves for branding, drinking that second cup of coffee early of a morning .. But these are specific people, too.

There's Dan Wheelock, a buckeroo transplanted from northern California to the cattle pens of the Matador Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, and Shorty Goodwin, who spent his working life down on the Caprock on ranches like the Wilie and the Bird. And there's Rod Taylor again, sipping hot coffee while sitting on the porch of the log cabin that serves as summer camp on the Philmont Ranch, high in the mountains of northern New Mexico.

Like the studio in which he works, there is also much about Duward Campbell that you don't expect. His work hangs in galleries and collections from one end of the country to the other, his pieces command respectable prices, and he has more than a saddlebag full of gold and silver medals, including having won the American Indian and Cowboy Artists' Association's Western Heritage A ward for the past two years. Yet Campbell sets little stock in either money or awards.

"One of the hardest things for an artist to do is to not think about what he sells, but to just paint," he said. Focusing on awards and money, he said, is counter-productive, since the pieces that win awards are inevitably the last ones to sell, and vice-versa. Future Akins,

Compbe/1 one of Campbell's classmates at Texas Tech, herself an award-winning artist, thinks this attitude is the key to this success.

"He is a beautiful craftsman, and his pieces hold up over time," she said.

'There is a real honesty to his work.

Duward isn't motivated by the market system, but by the heart, and it shows."

"I just paint," Campbell said, matterof-factly, "what I damn well want to paint." And what he damn well wants to paint is the cowboy life. It's a life he's loved since childhood, when he'd leave his home in Lul:!bock to spend time with his cousins on their ranch near Brownwood. He started painting that life then, too, selling his first painting when he was still in junior high school (it was of a roping horse, and it brought him $35). By the time he'd graduated

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from Lubbock High School, his work was hanging in a Dallas gallery.

Campbell had begun his art education in public school and continued his studies at Tech. He credits his schooling with giving him a different eye than other cowboy artists, which has in turn affected his work. Part of the difference he attributes to the courses themselves, especially those in composition and design, which helped train him to see his pieces in almost geometric terms, where each element commands its own place

and purpose in the overall work.

But the rest of the difference was made by his having met and formed friendships with a wide variety of other kinds of artists, among them sculptors and photographers as well as painters. Those associations continue to influence his work today, and he still maintains close ties with many of his former teachers and classmates.

Campbells' friendships range well

Duward Campbell is represented

by Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Trails West in Laguna Beach, Calif.; James M. Haney Gallery in Amarillo; and Groupo Arte in Albany, N.Y.

beyond the art world, too. As with Ji art, he has never quit following the cowboy life. When he's not in his studio painting or drawing, or show~ his work in a fancy, big-city art galkr he's apt to be found hustling his picb down some dusty ranch road on his, to help out with a round-up or brandr I asked Rod Taylor how working cowboys took to the notion of going horseback with an artist from the ci~.

"Before I worked with him, I was afraid Duward was going to be oned those 'artistes' who have a romantic notion about cowpunching. When tr showed up, he was all rigged-out in cameras, which had me worried, butl hat was creased like a puncher' s andl determined that I'd at least give him! benefit of the doubt. Sure enough, e1 in the first morning of our drive, a bir of calves broke back in a spot on the I that was tough-working for any cowb Duward never hesitated. He dropped cameras, grabbed his rope and started throwing loops. He knew what had ~ be done and went and did it. He lMI hand, and he's proven himself ever since." · When I asked him if there was a philosophy that guided his work, Campbell commented that he nevero or painted an image that he hadn't "breathed on," and went on to say lha he strove for accuracy and detail in lx the physical and the spiritual aspects1 the characters and land that he loves.

His remarks stuck with me, and I understood why when I drug out my dictionary.

Our word spirit comes from the lJ word spiritus, which means breath. B made sense. Campbell's art goes beyond his talent in merely reproducil the images of cowboy life; it is born« and carries with it, the breath, the spi3 of that life. When it comes to the cowboy spirit, Duward Campbell has .sure enough made a hand. ~agon

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ms powerful pieces use cowboy lingo to achieve a universal elegance - a sort of B.obert Burns in boots.

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BY ANDY WILKINSON tcould be most any cowboy gathering, from a small, infonnal assem- t:- - ~~'--"~ at a ranch in the Texas f\mhandle to the big ~lowout at Elko, Nev.'lhe Carnegie Hall of rowboy poetry." Buck Ramsey '58, with his Yoda-like smile and hat tOCked to one side, makes them all as fllt ofthe most sought-out perfonners in tt rapidly growing movement.

Today, it's the National Cowboy !ymposium at Texas Tech, on a late !piing morning in one of the large ~~eeting rooms on the second floor of the University Center. Packed with bodies and awash in rich sunlight, the room is l'allll, but no one makes a move to bve; sessions with Buck on the !fllgram always draw a crowd.

Hats bumping together and boots domping on the wooden steps, several cowboys haul Buck and his wheelchair aponto the stage while the emcee reconfigures the microphones. He regins his set quickly and quietly and 'l'ilhout pretense.

Although music has been a part of his ~fesince childhood, Buck hasn't been rtrforming in public but for the past few years, and, perhaps because of it, hasn't ikveloped any of the glitzy parenthetical patter that most performers feel obliged 11~ to mark the beginning and end of ~etr sets - the kind of planned spontane-

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ity that becomes crusty with repetition and with hip cynicism. Instead, Buck sneaks up on an audience, almost childlike, by simply starting to play, and, when he does make comments or introductions, he grins and mumbles through them so they become little more than pauses to allow the audience to catch their breath.

Known for his renditions of traditional cowboy songs, today he plays such gems as "The Santa Fe Trail" and "A Letter From Home" and "Cowboy Soliloquy." His guitar work is effective in its simplicity, providing the right rhythmic foundation for replicating the traditional feel of the tunes, a guitar style that sets the tone as precisely as would the creak of saddle leather or the crackle . of a mesquite fire.

His voice is pure and clear, almost sweet, contrasting with the rustic phrasings and pronunciations that he uses for authenticity. Moved by the spirit, almost like folks at a gospel revival, the audience cheers and applauds after each number. Buck smiles sheepishly, like a boy who's just done something to make his folks proud.

Buck Ramsey is better known as a poet, writing powerful pieces that transcend labeling, poems that use cowboy lingo to achieve a universal elegance, a sort of Robert Burns in boots.

Like his traditional cowboy tunes, Buck has perfonned his poetry at cowboy gatherings and at a variety of other venues. He's recited before a crowd of thousands at the Vancouver Folk Festival, for small classes of college students and for the listeners of National Public Radio. He's also had the courage to deliver his poetry in that most difficult of venues, the public restaurant. It's the perfonner's nightmare: folks eating, drinking, talking, and yes, listening, too, but not so as the perfonner can know that or can concentrate on presenting his or her work.

It's a weeknight at a little Mexican restaurant in a South Lubbock shopping center, with good food and a quirky atmosphere emanating from a strange melange of garish fluorescent lighting and nifty Mexican knick-knack decor set against a stunning Aztec-looking wall mural. Margaritas are papular and the blender goes off sporadically; the waiters and waitresses are mostly teenagers, young and perky but also given to charging about with trays TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE •

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loaded with food or dirty dishes just like they go through life- noisily.

In his wheelchair, lost against the brightly colored mural and surrounded by microphone stands and other soundsystem paraphernalia, Buck begins to recite his poem "Anthem," working from memory, as he and any good poet does. He speaks softly, though with firmness and deliberation, letting the rhythm of the piece dominate his delivery.

A remarkable thing happens. Conversations slow, then stop. Knives and forks and spoons follow suit, and even the waitpersons pause to listen. When Buck finishes, his eyes are closed, as if a peaceful spirit has passed over his face.

Slowly, he begins to smile as cheers and hand-clapping erupt all over the dining room, not just from the couple of tables of hats and boots.

••••••• Born to Texas farm folk, Buck wasn't raised on a ranch, although he spent a few very important years living on the edge of the ranching country between the Texas Panhandle towns of Channing and Dumas, in a little community called Middle Well.

And it's Middle Well that he'll tell you he's from, if you ask, because it's there that he first began his love affair with the cowboy life, going horseback and often rambling on foot along the north side of the Canadian River Breaks to visit the cowboys of the Coldwater Cattle Company and the Kilgore Ranch.

It's where his Uncle Ed would drift in from cowboying around the Capitans in New Mexico and show Buck how to braid tack, or sing him the old cowboy songs.

For the past 30 years, Buck has been riding a wheelchair instead of the roughstock that he was once so good at breaking, the result of a snapped bit shank, a spoiled, sorry horse named Cinnamon, and "just landing wrong."

But throughout those years, through jobs like bookkeeping and newspaper reporting and freelance magazine writing, Buck has never quit being a cowboy. Working cowboys still treat 10

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him as one of their own, and those not belonging to the "cowboy tribe," as Buck is want to say, defer without question to his authority on matters of cowboy lingo and lore, and, most of all, on matters of the cowboy spirit.

Not that the spirits in Buck' s life have always been so benign, or so simple.

"I wanted to kick some dents in the world and put my initials in 'em," Buck once said to me, and much of his past still shows the bruises. A streak of rebellion as a teen and the willingness to emulate his cowboy buddies and his writer heroes left him with a drinking problem that he's only subdued in the past few years.

Today, Buck is the last guy you'd think of as quarrelsome, with his angelic demeanor and expansive smile and genuine willingness to do anything for a friend. And you have to believe him when he says he never sought out a fight nor started one.

Buck has never been just a cowboy, either. Always interested in poetry, he wrote his first poems in grade school.

On his own, he also began to read a wide variety of poets, including T.S. Elliott and e.e. cummings. He also memorized long works, like Poe's ''The Bells" when he was in junior high school and Elliott' s ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" when he was older, motivated, he says, to recite them "purely out of conceit."

And Buck embarked on a lifetime of selfdirected reading, a program that didn't necessarily mesh with school assignments but that led him to modern philosophy and contemporary literature. This "life of the mind" also led him to college.

At Texas Tech, Buck did some cowboy day-working around Lubbock to keep from being totally broke. His favorite classes were in literature, and a

kindly English professor even went~ far as to give him several tutoring sessions in Greek language and liten ture, subjects in which Buck showed much interest. His love of reading~ philosophy, literature and poetry Cfl.ll not overcome his lust for the outd!XIi and the cowboy way of life, and Buq became an ex-student, never to graill

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••••• •• There are spirits even in this mol;, world, some which guide us and S011t which haunt us and dare us follow. ] cowboy spirit is both.

It is the spirit that turns the headc the young boy from farm or city, film his dreams with stars that shine c~ above the infinite expanse of a prai!i range, open and unspoiled by the nester's clutter; it is that same spirit' leads him from the comfort of his kll past and certain future to chase those• stars, only to find in them the merCUI! vapor lamps dotting the subdivisions! farms that, like a glittering rust, relei lessly eat away at the body of the · American West.

It is the spirit that whispers in hisc that there is no man better than he; iti that same spirit that condemns his kil to forever work for a boss.

It is the spirit that gives him bollil heart to face the world alone and til self-confidenceto allow others to pro their own equality, is that same spirit I pushes him to hubi and taunts him to~ higher and higher until he brusheshi wings against thes It is the spiritW gives him the gla.'l and the insight to know that the ultimate measured man is what he does, not what he o~ it is that same spirit that seeks to se116 pure labors of his heart and hands to* highest bidder. It is the spirit that leal him to poetry and song. It is Buck Ramsey's spirit.

Buck begins to recite his poem "Anthem," working from memory, as he and any good poet does. Be speaks softly, though with firmness and deliberation, letting the rhythm of the piece dominate his delivery.

uyou're even more careful, you can hear the groaning and sighing of leather, the sharp shutfie of hooves, the heavy rustling of dusty hides, the snorting of the horses and the whistles and whoops of their riders.

Postscript...

You won't find Middle Well on the oaptoday. But if you drive north out of

IJnarillo on Highway 87, tum left at IJur·Way onto Texas 354 and head west l~Vard Channing, after about nine miles ~u will begin to see the outline of the ~side of the Canadian River Breaks 11he flat and level Plains drop away in ~mble of washes and draws down to ~distant river.

The cover oF Ramsey's newly releasee/ C.D., "'Rolling Uphill From Texas."'

Just before the highway intersects with the unmarked country road that runs north toward FM 722 and on back up to US 87, you can see on the south side of the road a stand of old evergreen trees that mark the depth of the wagon-yard in front of the twostory ranch house that once stood there. This is the site of Buck Ramsey's boyhood home, with the Breaks falling away no more than 700 yards out the back door, the blue and hazy outline of the southern side of the valley clearly visible in the

distance, and the four structures of Middle Well just a few miles north and east over the farmland across the road.

Stop, tum off the ignition, and get out. Walk down the road so you can't hear the popping and creaking of the engine as it cools down. Now, listen for awhile. To the north and east, depending on the time of year, you can hear the throb of the irrigation motors and the rhythmic plap-plap-plap of the tractor.

At any time, you' 11 hear the wind, and in its varying pitches, weaving in and out like the strands in a braided rope, you can hear, if you're careful, gospel harmonies or the raw melodies of old cowboy tunes.

To the south, when the wind lulls or when it shifts so that it's blowing off the red quick-sands of the Canadian River, you can hear the groaning and sighing of leather, the sharp shuffle of hooves, the heavy rustling of dusty hides, the snorting of the horses and the whistles and whoops of their riders. Or, if you'd prefer, you can simply listen to Buck Ramsey.

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Bv KAnni t's more than a sport, it's a way AND MARSHA G~ of life for those who become addicted to it. It has roots in Old PHoTos Bv BILL G1111 West history, and it has a spirit of its own. At the University, "the thing Kim Wulfjen, who is~ they call rodeo" has been kept alive Rodeo Queen this year. I qualified, too, last year in ~ for 40-plus years by the Texas Tech racing. "If the women don'il Rodeo Association and its advisory this year, they havea~ board who are dedicated to the sport chance next year," said~ and the preservation of western life.

Ropers, steer wrestlers and bull Hopping '83, rodeo adviJ board treasurer. "We've~ riders - Texas Tech has had more working with a coup~ than a few good ones. The intertwined spirit and sport of rodeo take students who were big~ on deeper meaning with examination participants in their high sc~ of the accomplishments of rodeoers A good rodeo team and orp at Tech. zation help draw outslarii In spite of the fact that the team students to Texas Tech, 00:1 *Rodeo, • written by Larry Bastian, does not receive financial backing rodeo is something they~ © Rio Bravo Music - BMI from the University, and that the like other students pill performed by Garth Brooks team has never had an advisor who football or greek organizatitt was a rodeo coach, rodeo is the only Students carry on the Ui Tech sport to have captured a national championship. Men •s ersity' s strong tradition begun in 1947, when the TexasTr rodeo team members Dave Hopper, B.F. Yates, Lee Cockrell, Rodeo Association was born as a support organizati01l John Leonard, Neal Love and Tooter Shanklin brought home competing cowboy and cowgirl students. Membersdl the national title in 1955. Another national title was won by group helped found the National Intercollegiate Rodeo AI! Tech student Gina Burns Brown, who was named as National ciation (NIRA) and began hosting ananJ Intercollegiate Rodeo Queen in 1980. rodeo for intercollegiate competill The women' s team was second in the nation in 1969 and Participants still express their pride in being associatedli fourth in 1967. From 1955 until 1976, 20 rodeo participants the rodeo's success. Tommie Bell '51 of Tyler was presi'l from Tech placed in the top five in the nation in various events. of the Texas Tech Rodeo Association and vice presidentdl In April 1992, the Texas Tech women took top honors in the NIRA in 1950. Alvin Davis.' 52 of Lubbock still prof 46th annual NIRA rodeo in Abilene, racking up 225 points. displays a tooled leather brief case and jacket as mem~ Since then, they moved from third to second place and qualiof his term as administrator of theNl fied to go to the national finals in Bozeman, Mont., from 1955 throughI~ this summer.

In the fall of 1992, the Tech organization will sponsat Representing the University on that team are former 46th annual NIRA-sanctioned rodeo, which is theia!P Masked Rider Ralynn Key, Kody Newman, Melanie Graf and indoor collegiate rodeo in the world. Without missing atd

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Well, it's bulls and blood, it's dust and mud, It's the roar of aSunday crowd.

It's the white in his knuckles, The gold in the buckle, He'll win the next go 'round.

It's boots and chaps, it's cowboy hats, It's spurs and latigo.

It's the ropes and the reins, And the joy and the pain, And they call the thing RODEO.

iieRodeO Association has put on a rodeo since the late 1940s.

Rodeo alumni admit they have had their good and bad years as ttpopularity of the sport cycles. Currently, rodeo is on the ~wiJTg.

Since 1976, Texas Tech has struggled to help members fu!ancii111Y participate in collegiate rodeos. Oftentimes, parents llll rellltives have kicked in funds to help send Tech rodeoers ~compete.

Adownturn of rodeo participation spurred concerned an advisory board for the Tech Rodeo \SSOCiarlon. The board boasts members and alumni with .vofesstonal rodeo backgrounds and experienced business ~ons who are leaders in their communities.

With their guidance, the organization is building momentum 'ilce again, according to Hopping. Their goal is to proudly ~q>resent Texas Tech in NIRA competition and to continue to 1p0nsor the largest and most professional indoor intercollegiate rodeo in the world.

Hopping is a former Tunnel award winner and bronc rider 1he Tech rodeo team. He joined the PRCA in 1981 and 100 ~~tcame Saddle Bronc Rookie of the Year in the Lone Star Ciltuit. As an officer on the advisory board, he sees their goal 11"represent Texas Tech proudly" as an opportunity to build a ~eholarship base to attract to Texas Tech outstanding scholastic ~udents with rodeo talents, and to build a nationally competiiverodeo team once again.

Additionally, he sees the advisory board as an avenue to fUCSUe financial backing for hard-working rodeo team cowboys lid cowgirls. He knows first-hand the financial strains rodeoing can put on a college student and his or her family. ''Tack, keeping a horse while in school, plus gas and entry fles to the various rodeos add up fast," Hopping said. The ~udent organization raises what funds it can to help defray the ravel expenses and entry fees for members.

Alumni support and enthusiasm have started to r1nect on students, Hopping added. The Texas Tech Rodeo Association today has 53 members. Membership rtquirements, just as they were 46 years ago, state !hatany student interested in rodeo can become 1member. Rodeo Association President Angie Williams estimates it~ liathalf of the members are rodeo '· rr,. , '' , ~ participants and the other half supporters. · ~-;;:: ,.., Each member of the organization is kept " oosy when NIRA rodeo time rolls around in !he fall. In addition to competing, members help raise $40,000 through &>nations of money and gifts for !pOnsorship of the rodeo and for OOers and ropers who win their events. Many rodeo alumni stay involved, serving as judges or doing whatever is needed. Often, they merely return inthe fall and again in the spring for the intramural rodeo as a show of support. ''There are some very good people involved ~mni to establish

Angie Williams {lehJ, a Tech sophomore, serveJ the cluol role ol l992'ABC Pro Roc/eo Queen oncl presiclent ollhe Tech Roc/eo Association. With her ore lost yeor's ABC queen Tomro Southern '9l one/ Rolynn Key, l99l-92 Moslcec/ Ricler oncl a senior in office systems lechnology.

with_the Tech rodeo," Hopping said. "Now, and in the past. I think it's always been that way. It's the nature of this kind of person to help out."

As a registered organization at Tech, the association also sponsors the Cowboy Christmas Ball, activities at Pike Fest and a spring intramural rodeo. They also help out with the city's American Businessmen's Club Pro-Rodeo, a four-day competition that brings in professional rodeoers from across the United States. This year's Pro-R~deo celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Rewards are few and hard-earned in the competitive sport of rodeo, but each fall one member is guaranteed to walk away with a silver belt buckle. The award, established in 1954 as a memorial to Dub Parks for whom the rodeo practice arena is named, recognizes the student who best represents what the rodeo stands for. Parks was a former president of the Tech Rodeo Association who took part in the various events. He was killed the summer after he graduated in 1953.

Another prestigious award goes to one male and one female Tech Rodeo Association member. Called the Lenore Tunnel Award, it recognizes outstanding leadership and participation, usually by non-competing rodeo team me mbers.

In 1986, the award was given to agricultural engineering student Brenda Shroyer ' 90, now working on her Professional Engineer certification with Dove Hopper Oller Engineering in Lubbock.

Shroyer received the award as a sophomore for doing countless hours of volunteer work during her freshman year and throughout the summer heading committees and selling ads.

"Student members work to sell ads for the program and to bring in money from businesses, family members and Tech alumni," Shroyer said. 'They also get prizes donated and raise money for the large silver prize buckles that are individually designed for the event winners.

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rodeo, 15 of them being with the PRCA taking Hopper to 36 states. At Tech, he was National Collegiate Rodeo bareback riding champion in 1~ and a member of the Tech national champion rod!! team in 1955. He has served on the advisory bold and is a continuing contributor to the rodeo association's scholarship fund and NIRA fall r~ Like Hopper, alumni and friends of Tech and~ NIRA rodeo may support the work of the rodeo association by funding scholarships and sending contributions to offset expenses of competition.

Direct your donations or inquiries to Scott Hoppi~ American State Bank, P.O. Box 1401, Lubbock, T. 79408-1401, or phone him at (806) 763-7061.

~ U.bbock Downtown Chapter

Tech rodeo alumni Roy Jones '85 (on fence], Lance Folsom '85 (left] oncl Mike M. Collin '76, '8 r (Low} help out now with the ABC Pro Rocleo.

It's a lot of work, and it is difficult work for a fulltime student. So the Tunnel award really means something to those who win it."

To honor outstanding leadership, the advisory board created the Texas Tech Rodeo Hall of Fame.

Its purpose is to recognize Tech alumni who have been a contributing force in the sport of rodeo and to the American way of life. Hall inductees include Alvin Davis, Jack Buchanan, B.F. Yates, Dave Hopper, Dr. Frank Hudson, who for years was the rodeo team advisor; Rob Brown, Donnel Echols and H.C. Zachry.

One of those inductees, Dave Hopper '55, '57, now is president and part-owner of Champion Feeders in Hereford. He participated for 18 years in

(From left] Hopping with student leom members Ron Lone, Joson 5pef1Cf,' l992-93 Moskec/ Rider, one/ Mike Shipman.

Poet Peter LaFarge spinmed UQ¢,the sp:ii:U of ro~,~9 . in his work titled "Rooeo Han8:" . ..

"A rodeo hand is a twister. You can tell them easy cause even the short ones have a tall walk.

They're dust devil-damned with a punch of bpurbon, and graced with a b.ig black hat~pQl~teness, their rainbow shift} like flags {riT a thousand J'J!:nas, and down every rodll,Pidt ever tlfltif.'a rodeo.

Calf ropers with the fast hands, Billy the Kid and Jesse James-quick, with the ropes that move like an answered prayer, and the lives gauged in tenths of a second on the snap finger-nimble rope horses, horse and man moving together .Iii&t, as though they had traded soulssome prairieci'ight. Steer wf~stlers makfq§f!J.e long j~mf?s frorif the backs of the locomotive train-trackedifi(/gging hors~J; the teapifig reach onto i1i1 '}unning st~'if.~ rope horses and dogging teams as valuable as diamond humming birds.

Bull riders on the Brahma bulls, with the snide horns bent to smash, and death as an alibi the rider outweighed by just two thou~{lfld pounds, "rYboop swagger; cowboys, ...•... ignoring with a cCI:.re,the adding. ?f:.Jhe constan;(;~tampede ~4r~i£qlways d~~~i.o go that(qtfier.further, ·· past the hellgate oads, happily screaming th!7Jidest atmost"~z8fJP~ries in dte 1htght, . . .. . ··.. these are the heirs to the last of the Old West." .

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Artist redirects rage into labor of love

Dixon shapes monument to Buffalo Soldiers

BY DAVID MARANISS he eyes that haunt Eddie M. Dixon, 44, are monumental, set in clay 14 feet above the ground.

They are the eyes of a black soldier he sculpted for a national shrine that is to be dedicated this month on the grounds of Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Dixon has been shaping his cavalryman for four years, a labor of love and redirected rage. His Buffalo Soldier is a single figure on a rearing horse immortalized for life.

Dixon '75, '83 earned a bachelor's (in chemistry and zoology), a graduate degree (in medical entomology), and an MBA from Texas Tech. He said the message of his Buffalo Soldier is all in the eyes - everything he yearns to say about pain, fear and mistreatment, about being rendered invisible by his.tory, about pride and persistence. He tries to evoke these feelings with modest touches - a particle in the comer of an eyeball or one more stroke across the eyelid.

Eyes are his means of both capturing an era and revealing the inner thoughts of one mind, long dead and yet still living.

Dixon, who resides in Lubbock with his wife Betty Fleeks Dixon '76, looks to the past for answers to the racial

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discord and distrust he sees everywhere in modem America. And he sculpts Buffalo Soldiers as the ultimate statement of a career intent on ensuring that future generations know more about long-neglected black heroes than he knew as a child and young adult.

"If I can move one child from apathy to sympathy, from ignorance to pride, then I've accomplished something," he said. "I used to walk through museums and national parks and listen to the silence - the silence of unsung heroes.

The silence of men and women who were missing from history."

With Dixon sculpting or talking, the silent void is filled. He found his creative force rather late, in his early 30s, and he carries the zeal of a convert after a diverse and chaotic life that took him from soldier in Vietnam to Black Panther in San Francisco to graduate student at Texas Tech to commodities broker at the Chicago Board of Trade.

For much of his life, Dixon's feelings as a black man in this country were driven by hate. "I'm too busy to hate anymore. My art is not to destruct but to create and restore. Hate wouldn't take me anywhere I wanted to go."

It was only 11 years ago that Dixon, utterly self-taught in his art, sculpted his

first work. He was sitting at his dinaa table with a large block of candle~ stick and a butter knife. Night after night he carved the wax until he had created the face of an ancient Iberian warrior, representing the Africans Ill» migrated to the Iberian peninsula. tAl of his friends liked the figure so mud' she encouraged Dixon to have it casti bronze.

The foundry owner in Lubbock sil it was so good he would cast it forflll Dixon let him keep a copy. From thi moment, a career began.

The sculpting coincided with Dix11 sudden passion for black history. He found a niche carving historic black figures and developed a specialty in Buffalo soldiers, the name the Chey~ and other Indian tribes gave the all·bla 9th and lOth Cavalry units that patro!l the West from Kansas to Arizona~• to Nebraska and Montana from their formation in 1866 through the tum ol the century.

Buffalo Soldiers played a key rolei the settlement of the West and had a desertion rate only one-third of their white counterparts. They often were burdened with inferior horses and equipment and were assigned hard )Ill renovating forts and stringing thousMt

ofmiles of telegraph lines.

Yet they excelled in the field and won 13 Medals of Honor during the Western campaigns. Only in recent years have these black soldiers begun to receive widespread recognition, culminating with the construction of a national monument at Fort Leavenworth, where the illustrious lOth Cavalry was formed.

Scheduled to speak at the dedication of the national shrine is Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was assigned to Fort Ltavenworth in 1981 and who, while there, came up with the idea of building afitting memorial to the 9th and 1Oth Cavalries.

Dixon has sculpted 12 Buffalo Soldiers over the years, including statues at Fort Concho in western Texas and at Texas Tech. The monument for Fort ltavenworth is the largest piece he has ever attempted, although he is sketching a63-foot prehistoric crocodile that he hopes to sculpt for the Dallas Zoo, a rare departure from his focus on black figures.

He recently completed a statue of Eugene Bullard, the first black flying ace of World War I, that was commissioned by the Smithsonian, and the University of Texas has solicited his work for the bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Like many artists, Dixon prefers to work late at night, often from midnight 10 sunrise. He finds that his attention spanis longer then, his concentration ~vel higher, his feelings more intense.

He listens to poetry tapes as he works: Lord Byron and Carl Sandburg.

Hefinds the art of sculpture natural and easy physically, but demanding and frustrating mentally. He strives for perfection and constantly falls short, he said. Only rarely will he feel he is

Dixon with his sculpture ol the Seminole Inc/ian Negro Scout. doing something exactly right.

"It's an elation, almost like a spiritual elation, when that happens," Dixon said. "It takes you to a feeling that makes you shudder. A trembling goes through your body. It's a great feeling.

I hate to say it's a high, because that word is associated with drugs.

It's an elevation. It's almost like it happens accidentally. Like a trumpet player trying to capture the tune that isn't there. And sometimes you get a glimpse of it, just for an instant. Those moments are transitory, ephemeral and they come so rarely."

The deeper Dixon has delved into sculpture and black history, the more spiritual and religious he has become.

Once, while leafing through old papers, he found a poem that was written for him long ago by a friend at Texas Tech, a Cheyenne woman everyone called Gypsy.

At the time, years before Dixon took up sculpture as a way of life, the poem meant little to him. He has it memorized now, and the words make him tremble: Molding stem1aced soldiers Images of your mind And galloping on a horse You discovered in the night Fitting on ancient civilizations

Wearing them like a well-cut suit Fiery eyes in ebony How long the masquerade?

Until the drums of God call And raise this dormance of the grave.

"How did Gypsy know I would be molding stem-faced soldiers?" Dixon asked softly, shaking his head. "I didn't know. How did she know? There is something at work here that I can't explain."

As he spoke, at that moment, the message was in Eddie Dixon's eyes.

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(David Maraniss is a staff writer for the Washington Post.

Article used with permission.)

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mano" means made "by hand" in Spanish, but to Suzi Pipes Oliver '64 of Pleasanton, it means the reality of her dream to design and manufacture her own line of lady's clothing.

A Mano is the multifaceted fashion and design business founded by Oliver in March 1990. It's remarkable success has surprised even Oliver herself.

"I had no idea the designs would catch on like they did," she said. "I had friends in the rawhide furniture business and one day I saw extra calfhides laying around. I thought the hides would make a beautiful vest. After that first vest, the response was so great, I've been making them and other western-inspired and contemporary fashions ever since."

While wearing some of her own designs, people constantly stopped Oliver to ask where she had gotten them.

"I knew I had a great idea on my hands," she said.

Oliver began outfitting her friends and family in her designs before too long, and through word-of-mouth, the orders began pouring in. Her lady's leather wear and custom-designed fabrics line includes straight, gathered, wrap and A-line skirts of printed fabric

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in color combinations like one line in chambray, rawhide and black. M atching vests are made with the skirt fabric as the lining and rawhide-colored suede to coordinate. Another red and black printed skirt series matches up with a bright red suede vest, lined in the skirt fabric. Numerous other designs are available with the A Mano label, but the vests and jackets always tum out to be "signature items."

One reason for her success, Oliver said, is her personal attention to each individual customer. Her enthusiasm for the fashions and excitement about her work are apparent to the customer.

People come to a specialty boutique like A Mano because they want a oneof-a-kind creation made just for them. ''They come here because they know we can help them find what they want," Oliver said. "Sure, the cost of the apparel is higher, but to the customer, the special attention is worth it. We do all of our own cutting and sewing.

Basically, we do all of the manufacturing ourselves," she added.

This is why she prefers to remain small scale in an industry where volume makes money.

"I feel more comfortable with A

Mano growing slowly like it is now ~ knowing I'm building a solid reputat~ for satisfying my customers than tog on too much just for the money.

"As you go along, your reputation! a business person and designer are l1ll important than the volume of work )II do," she added.

Oliver's reputation and company name are growing. This is apparent• the availability of her designs in the marketplace has increased with each passing season.

A Mano designs have been shown1 such events as the National Cattlemal Convention, an Arabian horse showi• Fort Worth, the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration at Tech1 the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.

Because A Mano is available in bet the wholesale and retail markets, the designs can be found in a number of cities including W aco, Corpus Chris~ Fredericksburg and Cheyenne, Wyo. Originally Oliver's designs were specifically for natural materials suchf calfhide, cowhide and pig suede, but recently, new apparel has been addedl the line in designer fabrics of cotton. line n, wool and chambray.

According to Oliver, the future holds an extended line of fabrics as well as

designs. Besides coordinated skirts, blouses, belts and vests, a new line includes such home items as designer pillows, placemats and personalized napkin rings.

AMano's apparel designs do not change with every latest fad or trend, but ~ey remain instead very classic to fit several different figures and lifestyles.

Thisallows the clothing to be wearable longer, Oliver pointed out.

"I add new styles and materials each season, but they are always designed for comfort and wear," she said.

Although Oliver always seemed to have a flair for combining colors and fabric and made her own clothing as a young girl, she never hada reason nor much time to use her talent as a career.

Her husband, the late Dr. Todd Oliver '64, had earned his degree fromTech then gone on to get his veterinary degree from Texas A&M

in 1968. She had been able to stay at home with her children until Todd died seven years ago from a massive brain tumor leaving her with three sons and the need to make a living.

"I earned my license and tried my hand at selling real estate and insurance," she said. "I had a degree in home economics and even taught school for a couple years."

Her sons are current or former Tech students now, and Oliver's small business has turned into a full-time career where she can put her talent for design, and fashion to work for her.

Lou Carr wears pig suecle skirt, wool ploid jacket.

Donna Slcelton moclels mini-slcirt with chambray Ionic lop.

''The Lord gives me ideas," she said.

"Sometimes I'll be driving in the car or just thinking and an idea will come to me out of the blue. I'll write it down so I can try it out when I get to the shop."

Oliver relies on her friends and her sister for their honest opinions of her completed designs.

"I look to the response from people I trust and that usually lets me know whether or not I've got a good

Donna Slcellon shows a Prairie Fire slcirt. design on my hands."

She has two employees who help out in her shop, and this summer she is sponsoring her first college intern. A new catalog is also being prepared and will be available by calling A Mano at (512) 569-3141.

Oliver is excited about her work and at having the talent anci ability to turn something she loves doing into a business, particularly a creative business that involves making something by hand -literally, "a mano."

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Lethal Weapon

There's nothing secret or magic about Randy Steele, but guaranteed, he's a man you want on your side once he's committed to some· thing. This guy's a winner!

Bv MARSHA GusTAFSON PHOTOS BY BILL GUSTAFSON andy Steele '90 is a tall, likeable Texan who sells boots to western wear stores. He could just as easily be selling Rolls Royces or toothbrushes, because he sells himself, and he sells people, and he's more than good at it. Lucky for Tony Lama that Steele always wanted to sell boots.

It was confidence talking, not arrogance, when during a job interview after coming to Texas Tech, Steele answered his inquiries like this: "Have you ever worked in a western store?"

"No, sir." "Have you ever sold cowboy boots?" "No, sir." "Can you sell cowboy boots?" "I can sell the ones you've got on your feet back to you."

Steele got the job. He had been hoping for it since he was 5. He used to say to his parents that when he got big, he was going to work in a boot store.

That job at Boot City in Lubbock provided Steele with the opportunity to not only sell boots as a student, but to start selling Randy Steele.

"When my boss, Ken Sanderson, took me to markets with him, boy, I wore the prints off my fingers shaking hands with people and saying, 'Randy Steele, Randy Steele, Randy Steele.' I knew someday I'd get out of school and want to work with one of those people."

Before his senior year, he really started selling himself to the boot people, sending them letters and progress reports and even learning the names of the secretaries. In January, the boot ?Ompanies started calling him, and on April 2, he was hired by Tony Lama.

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If you're driving through Mississippi, look for the white Suburbon with the license plate "Big Txn." Then say "hello" to Randy Steele, a very big Texan.

He started working two days after graduation on May 14, 1990, as a sales support manager. He was promoted to sales representative after displaying "an outstanding work ethic and abilities" and was assigned to a non-traditional territory for western boots - the state of Mississippi.

No matter. ·Quietly unassuming, friendly and highly motivated, Steele is a card-carrying goal-setter with both feet firmly on the ground. He is not driven by the desire for success or riches, but rather the challenge of the sale. And he's bringing a tough territory back .to life.

One of his hardest sales as a new man on the job pointed out the importance of a salesperson earning a buyer's trust.

"I just kept trying and trying with this man who had not previously carried many Tony Lama products in his store up near Memphis. I had been to see him five times with no sale," Steele said,

shaking his head. "Finally I went bad one day and he happened to say son» thing about baseball.

"He was talking about going upto see the St. Louis Cardinals play and asked if I liked baseball. I said, 'Yes. I'm a big Rangers fan. I don't know why, though' and laughed. ''The man turned out to be a base'-! nut. We talked about our teams for qi a while, then all of a sudden he said, 'Randy, have you got anything new?

And I said, 'Yes, sir, I do.' That wasl Baseball had been the niche that got• in. I sold him 47 pairs of boots thatdl! and walked out of his store feelinglilii million dollars. I had worked my taili and finally won the man's confident:t.

He's been a good customer ever since' Steele makes it a practice to keep~ with the trade magazines, to know his competitors' products' strengths and weaknesses, their prices and what is going on in their individual compan~~

For instance, when Justin Boot Co. quit Tony Lama Co.," Steele said. ''Tony Selling the western industry is selling belts, Steele went to a friend who Lama is the most recognized boot brand different than selling cars, he explained. sells for Justin and asked for their in the world. If you say 'Tony Lama' to Boots are not an intangible, but the newest boot catalog. The friend, Techpeople who know nothing about western western image is. People see boots as an ex BillY Averett '61, asked why. wear, they're going to say 'cowboy important part of that particular image, "I told him I wanted to see how many boots.' To me, that's the signature of whether they live in the country or in the of my Tony Lama belts matched up to endorsement. If you can get Tony Lama city.

Justin's boots. Knowing that could help in a store, you'll know these guys are That's why the word "crossover" is a me get more of our belts into the stores." serious about being in the western big one in the western wear industry.

To be a good salesperson, in Steele's business and I think the customer knows It's what Garth Brooks is doing with that, too." opinion, there are eight "musts": music, combining country/western with I) Know your product; rock to create a totally 2) !(now your competinew market, and what tors' products; 3) Be Maury Tate is doing with absolutely convicted western shirts. Tate's about your product; 4) Be Mo' Betta brand of able to convince others colorful, stylish rodeo about it; 5) Have the shirts (made even more ability to communicate; 6) popular by #1 Mo' Betta Earn the trust of the fan and "model" Garth buyer; 7) Always tell the Brooks) is taking the trUth; and 8) Don't run western wear industry by down your competitors' storm. products.

"Western wear is ''That last one is a becoming more versatile Cardinal Rule for me," he and popular with new said. "If you have to talk segments of society. It badly about your competiappeals to the farmer, tion in order to make a rancher and the working Weslem wear representatives got together in Lubbock recently. From leFt ,sale, you need a new cowboy - and to those are T. Evans, Steele, Bill Price, Fred Barber, Tom Thomas and Jim Darden.

1 product!" who aren't. That is the The president of Tony Lama has told future of our industry. Our society is ,Steele that he is a good salesman now, progressive, and so is the western wear :butone day he will be a great one. industry."

Steele is confident that the only thing to Western is no longer a fad like it was during the Urban Cowboy era, according 1keep him from being at the top of his to Steele. It is now an accepted fashion.

Iindustry is himself choosing not to be.

Two of the boot industry's biggest Originally a psychology major at markets, in fact, are in New York and Texas Tech, Steele switched to human California, not exactly part of the core .development and family studies where (New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, be earned his bachelor's degree.

Oklahoma and Louisiana). On the East I "I was tired of dealing with matters and West Coasts, boot buyers prefer :ofthe head and wanted to deal with what is called "faster styling," wild and matters of the heart," he explained. " My bright colors, contrasting tops and fancy degree mainly involves three things: 1 stitching, as opposed to the traditionally ! interacting with people, communicating popular black. ' with people and understanding people.

The cowboy has a romantic image, · All of those things are important in and Steele sometimes thinks he was born sales. Sales is more than numbers, it's 100 years too late. Advertisers realize people." .

I that many people have a love for and He said motivational speaker/author fascination with the cowboy and are . Zig Ziglar says that sales is a transfersteering their products, from jeans to 1 ence of feelings - "I want you to feel · automobiles, to just such an audience. about my product the way I feel about "Everybody likes a cowboy and the my product." fascination of the Old West," he said.

"I feel very fortunate to work for the

The word "crossover" is a big one in the western wear industry. It's what Garth Brooks is doing with music, combining country/western with rock to create a totally new market.

It's what western wear is doing, too, appealing to the farmer, rancher and the working cowboy - and to those who aren't.

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"For example, look at television and radio commercials. More and more advertising campaigns have a Western theme. It may be country music in the background or a cowboy appearing with a particular product. Western is a fastgrowing trend in the advertising business."

Boots have always been an important part of the cowboy's attire, and they are important today, for both the city wearer and the "cowperson." With proper care, a good pair of boots can last a long time, and like a comfortable old pair of jeans, they can become a part of the attire the wearer doesn't want to give up. So why buy a new pair?

'The boot industry is a simple one," Steele said. "New is always better, particularly when the product is good already."

The industry may be a simple one, but not so the life of a good boot salesman. A typical day requires long hours on the road and many nights spent in hotels. Steele makes a habit of getting up early and has what he refers to as quiet time.

"I'll think about who I'm going to see, what I'm going to say to them, and what I'm going to try to sell. I get mentally prepared." Then he goes to the store, greets everyone there, takes a physical inventory of the Tony Lama products, and gets out his new line.

"I spend a lot of time talking about the owners' business, what worked well for them and what didn't. I try to make them feel good about previous sales, because their business is my business.

And if they aren't selling, they aren •t buying!"

When the stores close, Steele heads out to the high school rodeos, stock sales and cattle shows. 'There is a big misconception that my job is over at 6 when the stores close. No, ma'am.

Because you can bet my competitors are sitting in a hotel room somewhere thinking about ways they can make a

difference in somebody else's store. I have to do the same thing. You have to work hard, and you have to work smart."

Steele credits Billy Averett, who has been with Justin in Mississippi for 25 years, with opening doors for him as a new Tony Lama representative. First and foremost a competitor, Averett is

likewise Steele's best friend in his llel territory.

"A lot of the success I've had in ~ job is directly attributable to Billy. ~. told people 'Hey, we've got a new gl) out here from Tony Lama. He's as~ kid, and you need to get to know him!

Billy and his wife are great people, ilti

"The one thing that would

make my life complete right now is being back in West Texas with season tickets."

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S~le's ~elf-con.ficlence one/ eosr-going monner molce people enjoy being orounJ hilt.

He IS ph.losoph•col, contemplative, attentive one/ o great story-teller with o gooJ setllli. humor. · But most of o/1, in his opinion, he's o Tech grocl.

On the East and West Coasts, boot buyers prefer what is called 'faster styling," wild and bright colors, contrasting tops and fancy stitching.

I'm really grateful to them for their help.

If Billy is a diamond at what he does, ('mjust a sparkle."

But Randy Steele has only been at it 18 months. He believes 1992 is going to be a good year for him. "You know why? Because I have worked hard on selling Randy Steele. People know they cantrust me and that I won't try to sell them something they don't need. They know that Tony Lama and I will stand behind our product. I've earned this I!Ust in the people I work with."

People who know Steele also know that he is honest, fiercely loyal and totally devoted to what he considers the four most important parts of his life God, his wife, Jennifer (Buster '89), Tony Lama and Texas Tech University.

In fact, he says "Knowing these things gives a person a pretty accurate picture of me. And I like it that way.

"I really believe that to be good in sales, you have to have a healthy ego.

Not arrogance. There' s a difference.

I'mnot 'there' yet in terms of making it, but I have definite goals."

He carries those goals at all times on acard in his shirt pocket. On that card are such things as his desire to endow a $50,000 scholarship at Texas Tech.

"That will be a great day in my life," Steele said, eyes shining. "If I live to be 150, the best days in my life will be 1) the day Jennifer and I were married, 2) the days our children are born, 3) May 12, 1990, the day I graduated from Texas Tech, and 4) the day I can endow that scholarship. I bleed this University.

I challenge anyone anywhere to have a better love affair with Texas Tech than I have."

To illustrate, Steele said that if during his last semester he had been offered a jobpaying a quarter of a million dollars ayear, he would not have accepted it. "I

;be'aWg'fo'd'SalespersJn, in Steele''!! opinion, #tpere are eight "musts": l) Know your product; 2)Know 'peclducts; . @!~;. *' < w1,r<i '' 3)'Be · .·convictedtf(loiU your 4) Be abltlirconvince others about it; 5) Have the ability to communicate;

:~J ~ar~!~,rt.m ~'?! t~e buy{t 7) Alway§ie ·t i truth; and . ,. .

8) Don't run down your competitors' products. worked too hard for too long to quit. I wanted a diploma with 'Texas Tech University' printed on the top of it. My education and graduation were very important to me, and being able to walk across that stage was THE most important thing to me."

The only difference between the regents and himself, Steele said, is "they have the financial resources to support Texas Tech that I lack since I'm just starting out. I will match them someday, though. You can count on that."

Steele said he loves selling for Tony Lama, but if his product was Texas Tech, he would be lethal!

"I'm really a lucky person," he added. "I have a job that I really love, a wife who means more to me than anything in the world, and a degree from Texas Tech . The Lord has truly blessed my life. The one thing that would make

my life complete right now is being back in West Texas with season tickets!"

There is a saying that goes: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve, as long as it does not violate the rules of man or the laws of God, he can, if he is absolutely willing to pay the cost."

"I wish I'd said that," Steele said. "I don't know who did. That's what life is, graduation is, interviewing is, even having a child is," Steele said seriously.

"I know that I want to make a difference in life, and I feel strongly that I can. I'll pay the cost."

Those who have the pleasure of knowing this honest-talking, tall Texan in boots don't doubt his sincerity. Nor do they doubt his ability to make a positive difference. Because when Randy Steele sets his mind on something, he can be lethal.

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"Through the present day, the panorama ofWild West show and rodeo women has included pioneer cowgirls, relay racers, sharpshooters, daredevils, rodeo clowns, ropers, barrel racers, bull riders, stuntwomen and fancy trick riders. This maid of rodeo and its hazards has named her horse Little Britches, or Buck or China Rose, has vaulted off speeding ponies in stunts called 'the Cossack drop' and 'the reversefender drag.' In rodeo bucking eventsfrom Chicago's Soldier Field to San Francisco's Cow Palace and New York

City's Madison Square Garden, she fanned broncs. 0 ride she did; whether at a rodeo or on the range, womanironed the kinks out of the 'rough string, 'sunfishing ho~ she claims left her 'picture in the sand' or 'ate her lu111.1 On ranches or in arenas, she has forked wild mustangsti tamed bulls and shaggy buffalo in her 'wild eat's life' ofi West. Unlike her Eastern sister, the cowgirl knew not~ of broken-down nerves and neurasthenia. " (from the National Cowgirl Hall ofF3!1i

Rot For Men Only The Wl'llA includes legendary equestriennes and world champions and, moreso, it was started by aTech-ex who believed that women could rope and ride as qood as any man and deserved the chance.

Bv CHARLENE WALKER

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eople may think that rodeo participation is only for men the "real" kind who chew tobacco, break broncs and love the excitement of an 8-second ride. Not so! In August 1947, the ftrst "All-Girl Rodeo" was held at the Tri-State Fair in Amarillo, and it was so successful, many others followed.

That rodeo, and many others like it, helped to form the Golden Age of Rodeo.

Behind that ftrst all-female event was Tech-ex Nancy Binford '43 of Wildorado with Thena Mae Farr of Seymour.

They came up with the idea, made the plans and produced the rodeo.

Not only was it a success, the Women's Pro Rodeo Associa-

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tion followed in August 1948 in San Angelo. Its main pUrJXI was to set siandard rodeo rules that applied to female contes. tants. And this, too, was formed by Nancy Binford.

A woman of many firsts, Binford was reared on the fam~ M Bar Ranch, located ftve miles north of Wilderado. She has ridden horses since she was able to walk and grew up workiq side-by-side with men on the ranch.

Her rodeo career began in 1939, just before she entered Texas Tech. She participated in calf roping, cutting horse contests, bareback bronc riding and barrel racing. In fact, lht all-women' s rodeo events included everything the men did except steer wrestling.

At Tech, she was one of the flrst women to ride a horse around the football field during the games as an original member of the "ghost riders" or Matadors, thought to be only men. These unidentified students were the predecessors of today's Masked Rider.

Binford graduated in 1943 with adegree in physical education and ~aught at Lubbock High School.

When World War II began, she left Binford as a rodeoer. her teaching career and returned home to the ranch to the way of life she knew and loved best.

It was in 1948, after the success of the first AU-Girl Rodeo, that Binford and three men were invited to promote the American Quarter Horse Association and the Cutting Horse Association in the eastern part of the United States.

'1'hat was the most rewarding and memorable event during my rodeo career," Binford said.

She quit rodeoing in 1953 and in the 1960s set up a race horse training station on the ranch. She raised Quarter Horses that were raced in New Mexico and on the eastern tracks.

Binford was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, located in Hereford, in 1979 as the year's Cowgirl Honoree. Binford's mother had been inducted in 1976 as the Western Heritage Honoree.

Margaret Clark Formby '50, a director of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Western Heritage. Center, said Nancy Binford is an outdoor person who has dedicated her life to ranching and being an innovator at all she undertakes. She called the Tech-ex a top citizen throughout the area who always ;gives 100 percent of herself to any job or cause. . Binford has served for a number of years as vice president on the board of directors of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. A photograph of her hangs in Hereford's American Quarter Horse Heritage Center.

Departing from the past, when Hereford cattle and wheat were the main cash crops of the M Bar Ranch, Binford now feeds out yearlings to sell and runs the family ranch.

"Nancy Binford personifies the strong, successful woman rancher," Formby said. But Binford declines the praise.

"Ranching and cowgirls have changed through the years," she said. "Cowgirls today are athletes, whereas working cattle and riding horses were just something we grew up doing. It was just a way of life."

As the brochure for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center indicates, ranch women and cowgirls and those women who lived that life had an important role in history and their importance is not taken lightly.

Binforc/ barrel races on Blonc/ie B. at All-Girl Rodeo, J948.

Early women in the West were mining camp cooks, school teachers, isolated ranch and farm women, missionaries crossing the Rockies to work with the Indians, suffragettes, journalists, artists, entrepreneurs, humanitarians, nuns, midwives, architects, authors, historians and "mothers of the plains." They were pioneers, in their own way, much like Nancy Binford.

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Q.&A. . with sculptor

GARLAND WEEKS

BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON PHOTOS BYBIU GUSTAFSON

"'Between Bra There is a difference between being committed to something and being involved with it, according to Garland Weeks!q{!fReferring to a Newsweek interview 10 years ago with Martina Navratilq:y~i.~JYeeks told how the professional

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Academy of Western Art and the''N'ltional Sculpture Society. He is a former,.~· president of the Texas Cowboy Artists Association and a member of the Texas ' Society of Sculptors. He is the only Texas Tech graduate to hold such honors. And, likewise, he is the only member of the National Academy of Western Art who has had a rodeo career in the PRCA. We talked with Weeks in June at the annual NAWA meeting in Oklahoma City at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Excerpts of that conversation follow: ·.·:·.•:·~-~<<A

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When did you begin sculpting?

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I was a analyst for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association for several years after graduating from Tech with a degree in ag economics and left Amarillo in 1971 to take a job with ChemAgro in San Diego. I sold to veterinarians, feed yards and dairies in California, Arizona and part of Nevada, and I was still rodeoing at the time.

A couple guys I was rodeoing with were doing sculpture. I kept looking at it and thinking, "I know I can do that."

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don't know if they were so much impressed with my work as they felt sorry for me.

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Did it take long before you were creating your best work?

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I think we get caught up in "How quickly can we begin to sell?" and don't study enough on "How long will it take us to learn?'' We never stop learning.

Art is not a destination, it's a journey. I know I sold some things I wish I had back rtow. I mean they were terrible!

They were the best I could do at the time, but in retrospect, they're hom. dous. If we're truthful with ourselvet we've all done our share of dogs.

The best sculpture I've done is Ill last one - because we continue to lea~ and improve. "Between Broncs" isill largest piece I've done, and it's preuy good.

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What should a potential buyer I>: for in western art, in your opinion?

• We in the western art genre han allowed ourselves to be dictated to by the buying public who say that westen art must be extremely narrative, very literal and has to tell the whole story. I mean every cow has to have every ey1 lash, every brand has to be exact, ev~ cowboy has to have the right kind of boots and the right kind of spurs. Ar/. that is absolute garbage.

The piece itself should make a statement. You've got to be able to ki at the piece and see art, not whether !!~ cowboy is wearing the right kind of boot. Some people get caught up in ~ details without seeing the piece as a whole. A potential buyer should fllll like the piece of art, like the design pi the content, and then buy it objectivdj' not subjectively.

~What is the most important thing a ,:ulptor must do to create a good piece?

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we' re all sculpting the human bodY· And when you do that you must ,:ulpt the body in the nude. Period.

And if you don' t, buddy you are lost! I could sculpt that guy in "Between Broncs" squatting down there as anybodY I chose him to be by putting him in a sailor' s suit, a Revolutionary war uniform or a ballerina's tutu. The lllman body is the same - the clothes ~fine the subject. When I say " nude," I mean a proportioned human form wilhout clothes. There is a difference betWeen "nude" and "necked."

and here I am serving in the same organization with him, drinking coffee with him, having breakfast with him.

I'm still amazed.

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Is there anything you really dislike about this business?

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Yes, that we have people in the art business who are committed to making bank deposits instead of art. They create art for the artist' s sake rather than art for art's sake, and I can be quoted on that! I really get perturbed about the artists who don' t put the time and effort into their art to give it heart and soul. They don' t wake up early with a burning desire to create; they just stay in bed trying to figure out what they can do in a minimum amount of time to sell something quickly.

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am a representational, figuralivesculptor. I have sculpted the ooffalo, cow and horse, but I've also sculpted Rip van Winkle. I am a humanist. When I use . mimals in my work, it' s as a &sign element to enhance the roman beside them . I don't want to get typecast as a cowboy artist. I'm just an artist who liappens to be from the West, and that' s what I know best. I cansculpt a ballerina just as easily as I can sculpt a cowboy.

We tend to get off in our own niches because we understand 1he nuances of the trade.·

Are you involved in the whole process of creating a bronze, or do you

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I am involved in every step of the process except the foundry. I make my own molds but I don't pour the molten bronze. Many sculptors are not involved in anything but creating the original product, then they turn it over to someone else. Others are even more involved than I am. I make molds for other sculptors, enlarge monuments for others, too. We're all one big fraternity.

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Where is your art displayed?

My sculpture is in the permanent collection of Buckingham Palace in London and in personal collections in the United States. I am represented by the Pierce Fine Arts Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz.; the American Legacy Gallery in Kansas C ity, Mo.; and the Hawthorn Gallery in Branson, Mo.

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What was the highlight of your professional career?

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I'd have to say the year 1990.

That' s when I was elected into both the National Academy of Western Art and the National Sculptors Society. I'll never be able to duplicate that.

~Are there sculptors whose work you particularly admire?

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When I frrst started, my liero list was 100 miles long.

Anyone who had ever cast a ~ece of bronze was my hero.

Nowthere are one or two names !hat are still there after all these Years. Edward Fraughton is one of them. He is my personal hero,

sculpt a piece and relinquish the rest to others or to the foundry?

Garland Weeks

Garland Weeks-was known as "the bestlooking man on campus" by many of his friends and female admirers back in the '60s. He entered Tech in the fall of 1961 and "crowded four years into six," he said, settling on ag economics as a major and totally overlooking art courses. He was active in Student Council, Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity and the Rodeo Association, where he was president and rode bucking broncs. "There weren't many members of a social fraternity who were on the rodeo team," he said with a chuckle. A native of Wichita Falls, Weeks resides in Loveland, Colo., wanting to return soon to Texas.

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There would be no 1/Greot American Cowoij, without the ranchers that employ the menu ~omen who help to keep that profession ~ Texas Tech has some of the top ranchers in1 country, each making his mark in his own way, carrying on the generaffons-old tradiTions with the help of modern science,: technology and some of the best "hands" to be found. Their spreads range from the for south of Texas north into Colorado~ Wyoming, and even into countries throughout the world. The following sketches introducer, to orepresentoffve few of the ranchers Tech is proud to coli its a1 Bv MARSHA GusTAFSON AND SusAN BowEN

R.A. Brown Jr. '58 ~ The R.A. Brown Ranch - - - - - - - - - Headquartered near Throckmorton, Texas, the R.A. Brown includes 110,000 acres in Young, Stephens, Throckmorton, Shackelford and Haskell counties in Texas and Pueblo and El Paso counties in Colorado. The 90-year-oldranch includes Brown, Thomas and Donnell family ranch land.

Rob Brown is a third-generation West Texas rancher with his wife, Peggy Donnell Brown '59. Their children are actively involved in the family business, running the Brown and Thomas ranchlands plus a portion of the fourth-generation Donnell ranch, established in 1876. The ranches run registered Simmental, Simbrah, Senepol, Angus and Red Angus cattle. They also have a large Quarter Horse operation and grow wheat and cotton.

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Located in Stephens and Haskell counties, ~the fifth-generation Coody Ranches are a .. mixed-breed cow/calf operation. Jim Bob's son, J.R., who just graduated from Texas Tech, is helping with the business, and his daughter, Sunny, is currently a Tech student. Mrs. Jim Bob is the former Suzi Rosser '66. The Coody Ranch headquarters is in Breckenridge, Texas.

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Wade Demere '81 Lone Wolf Ranch ~ 4-D Ranch Co. _ _ _ _ __ Also located out of Water Valley, Te~ these cattle, sheep and goat ranches ~ located in Tom Green County and C( County.

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Tio heads the historic King Ranch, a multinational livestock corporation with ranches in South Texas, Florida and Kentucky and in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Morocco and Australiamore than 6 million acres of ranch and farm land with 200,000 head of beef cattle worldwide. Farms produce grain sorghum, cotton, wheat, sugarcane, sweet com and sod. The i(il Ranch's stockholders are virtually all descendants of Riebl King, who founded the operation in South Texas in l8l:

j James Koontz '71 Koontz Ranch - - - - - - - Located 15 miles west of Fort Sumner, N.M., the Koontz Ranch is a cow/calf anl yearling operation. It is one of several ranches in the state headed by Tech-exes.

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The Chalk Creek is primarily a cattle and sheep operation out of Water Valley, Texas.

Jack Lott Jr. '59 U (/:1 ULazy S Ranch------ - - - - Headquartered in Post, Texas, the U Lazy S was founded by Job B. Slaughter in Garza and Borden counties, south of Lubb<x'l

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Bob Moorhouse '72 Pitchfork Land &Cattle Co. Primarily a cow/calf operation, the Pitchfork is a unique and well-managed ranch operation, surviving since its establishment in 1881. Located in 1 King and Dickens counties in West Texas and portions of two other states, the Pitchfork home ranch stretches across 165,000 acres of central West Texas, specifically located 80 miles east of Lubbock along a 14-mile stretch of U.S. highway. The Pitchfork has maintained its basic corporate structure first established in 1883 and has remained under the control of the same St. Louis family that was principally involved in its founding. Current president is Eugene F. Williams Jr., a grandson of the founder.

Moorhouse, who is widely known and recognized for his excellent photography and management skills, hires only those hands who "respect the trade."

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incorporated in 1979. The ranch runs yearlings on wheat pasture and maintains a cow/calf operation. The Moorhouses also raise their own saddle horses for the ranch .

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Headquartered 15 miles west of Benjamin, Texas, theMoorhouses operate 96,000 acres, 10,000 of which they own. The remaining land in King, Stonewall, Knox, Baylor, Hall and Borden counties is leased, some of which date back to the 1940s. The ranch was established in the 1930s by J.C. ''Togo" Moorhouse, now lllanaging the operations with his sons, Ed '65, John '68, Bob '72 and Tom '67, who bought into the family business when it

Located in Callahan, Haskell, Scurry and Throckmorton counties, the Snyder ranches are headquartered 2 miles north of 1-20 on the Albany Highway north of Baird. A cow/calf operation, the ranches are run by James and a son, Jim ' 76. Another son, C. Byron Snyder III '70, resides in Houston. James is a former Texas Tech regent, remaining actively involved with the University, particularly the College of Home Economics, in which he has a strong interest.

Rudie Tate '62 Tate Farms & ~ Red Canyon Cattle Co. _____ Rudie's spread is located in Collingsworth County, 30 miles northwest of Wellington.

He has stock cattle, cotton and wheat.

l I l I Roland Trees '82 _Y __Y_ _______ Roland Trees Ranmes Four ranches located in Real County carry registered and commercial Maine-Anjou cattle, registered angora (mohair) goats and Suffolk sheep. Roland is a licensed auctioneer and also has an exotic hunting service. He judges angora sheep and goats in six countries and is a cattle and goat consultant. A penchant for collecting spurs was the inspiration for Roland's brand.

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The ranch, located in Throckmorton County, Texas, has been part of the Watt family for 50 years, running a cow/calf and stocker yearling operation with a small farming interest. Trey's primary occupation is with the southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth, where he is administrative assistant. He coordinates all Stock Show activities, livestock and horse shows, rodeos, exhibits, the carnival and midway .

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PHoTos Bv BILLY VALENZI

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hen Mark Arrowsmith '78 goes to his gallery each morning in Santa Fe, N.M., it's like taking a walk back into time. Every day is a treasure hunt that provides him opportunities to see and touch and acquire pieces of the past.

His business, Arrowsmith's Relics of the Old West, located on the Old Santa Fe Trail, has a history of its own. Built in the early 1600s, it was used to house the Indian servants of the priests of San Miguel Mission, the oldest church in the USA. To keep with the authenticity of the adobe building, Arrowsmith has recreated the feeling of an old trading post stocked with authentic museum-quality items which the average person seldom sees.

As owner of the gallery, Mark's main responsibility is purchasing the inventory and researching its authenticity and provenance. This takes him to beautiful, out-of-the-way ranches, to Indian reservations and small towns throughout the West, and even into Montana and Canada.

"I think the Old West, namely cowboys, Indians, and all of the history and myth that surround this era, is what most people, both here and abroad, identify as 'truly American.' Most boys ·

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Marie (right} works with o customer. at one time or another dreamed of being a cowboy, and many of us were brought up on a steady diet of western books and movies.

"People love this gallery because they have a chance to look at, touch and even own a piece of that American history," Arrowsmith said. "To many Texans, for instance, chaps, spurs and saddles are still a part of everyday life.

But to someone just off the plane from New York, it is a high point of their trip to hold an old Colt .45 or to sit on an 1890s half-seat saddle."

Arrowsmith said his clientele range from curious tourists to serious collectors and gallery owners in America and

Europe. Prices range from $!1 to $25,000. New merchandi~ usually doesn't stay in the s~ very long before it is grabbed up by one or the other of these individuals.

Recently, the gallery has become important to another group of buyers.

"The bad economy has actually helped my business, a people are putting their money into things that are tangible aa that they can enjoy rather thao into CD's or Treasury Bills, Which are paying such a measl return," Arrowsmith said.

"Great antique Indian art values have quadrupled in the past 10 years, and the value of cowboy items has doubled or tripled in the past 3 years," he added.

"Very few investments have that kind! payback these days."

Arrowsmith's main items fall into three basic categories: cowboy, Indiao and Spanish Colonial.

The cowboy items include chaps, spurs, guns, saddles, gambling items a1 other western-related items like photographs, documents and antique paint· ings. Indian items include weapons (bow and arrows, tomahawks), headwork, ·moccasins, pottery, blankell and a larg·e selection of vintage "pawn' jewelry. The Spanish Colonial itemsil l religious art, furniture and architectural

"People love this gallery because they have a chance to look at touch and even own apiece of that American history,"

Arrowsmith's building is an historic adobe locatecl on the Santa Fe Trail. atiques for use in homes.

"It's hard to predict my best-selling tms," Arrowsmith said. "One week it rill be saddles, the next week Indian llankets. The best items often last only lfew days, or even hours, because of nlectors checking the inventory for ~ific relics."

Arrowsmith gets many items from ~le who walk in to the gallery with peces to sell. His father, Rex ~wsmi th, was in the business since 1'59 and stayed for 15 years. He had mgendered good will and developed toad contacts over the years by dealing fairly and honestly with people, and his Ill\ now continues that tradition.

"I worked in my father' s store from mut the age of 5 through my teens," llark said, "so I learned the business I~U. My father sold it in 1974 when he retired. It was then occupied by various galleries which sold everything from lcdian art to African and Oriental art."

Mark Arrowsmith bought the gallery backin 1989 after returning to the United States from living in New

Zealand. He had worked in a private dental practice there and held a faculty position at the University of Otago in the city of Dunedin.

It was a drastic change of lifestyles, but switching careers and residences seemed to run in the family. His father had been vice president of a large optical manufacturing company in Houston when he got the opportunity to buy the Santa Fe business and move.

Mark had studied both animal science and architecture at Tech, graduating with a pre-vet degree. He then earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1982 from the University of Missouri.

He built a successful business in Santa Fe of general dentistry with an emphasis in cosmetic dentistry in Santa Fe, but burned out, he said, with the stress of private practice. A six-week vacation to the South Pacific led him to New Zealand, where he fell in love with the country, the people, and eventually with his future wife, Martha. They were married, and their first child, Ryan, was

born there. (A second son, Kit, was born in Santa Fe.) A retina problem with his eyes prematurely ended Arrowsmith's dental career and left him with blurry vision in his right eye. The family moved back to Santa Fe unsure of what type of work Mark would do.

'That's when I decided to try to reopen the family business," he said.

'The incident with my eyes, which gave me a swift kick out of dentistry, was a blessing in disguise. I never did like wearing a starched shirt and tie. Now I make a better living wearing my old, faded, soft jeans, a western shirt and my beat-up cowboy boots. Every day new things turn up, and unlike dentistry, I look forward to each day of work."

People ask Arrowsmith if he feels bad that he "wasted all of that time" in nine years of college and dental school.

He replies with an emphatic "NO," saying his two years of architecture gave him an appreciation for art and aesthetics and architectural antiques. His years in animal science provided a knowledge of the agricultural and ranching industry and "the ability to talk to the ranchers."

Dental school helped to improve his eye to perfection, quality and aesthetics as well a~ how to work with people.

"And the private practice gave me some buying experience and the financial springboard to start the gallery," Arrowsmith added.

Many people come to Santa Fe because of its rich history, he said. 'The city is legendary and almost synonymous with the Old West. This is a major reason for the success. of my gallery."

Many who could afford to live anywhere in the world choose the "City Different" as their home. Mark Arrowsmith is one of those individuals.

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Bv ANN W.R1a GovERNOR OF 1

Priorities for Higher Education here was an article a few months ago in the Washington Post about some focus groups and how to deal with the federal deficit. One of the participants asked: "Why do the people have to come up with the money? Why can't the government come up with the money?"

That may sound like a joke line in some Washington offices, but the truth is that line has a great deal of resonance to many of us.

More and more of us feel cheated when we don' t see our tax dollars going to services that are important, when we see those dollars going down the black hole of an inefficient system of government.

When I became Governor of Texas, I said it was our most profound responsibility to provide the highest quality education for our children from preschool to graduate school. And I said that for once, instead of bringing up the rear, it is time for state government to be leading the way.

But leading the way means overcoming many serious obstacles. And the first is finding the money.

Faced with rising local property taxes and the recent memory of big tax increases passed in earlier administrations, the taxpayers have made it clear that they expect us to find most of the money in existing sources of revenue not in the family budget.

Nationally, we find ourselves crawling through what has generously been called a recession.

All across the state, we have people who have had good jobs 10, 15, 20 years 32 • JULYI AUGUST 1992

-people who were solidly middle class, who worked in what they thought were safe industries with secure jobs and suddenly, it' s all gone.

Industry after industry oil, automobiles, every kind of manufacturing you can imagine- they're all laying off, trimming back, leaving too many people out of work, and too many people wondering if their turn is coming.

So it is no wonder that people are worried and feeling like every hardearned penny they have is precious.

The truth is that the cupboard is bare. And frankly, if higher education is going to survive and thrive, its representatives must work to be efficient and responsive to the needs of society. Higher ed must be flexible and willing to consider new arrangements and new approaches. If we are going to restore public confidence in government and maintain an excellent higher education system, we must demonstrate that we are getting the most out of every hard-earned tax dollar that goes into the system.

I cannot in good conscience ask the people of Texas for higher taxes and higher budgets for higher education when we have people huddled on grates on the street, when people are going without work and shelter and food and basic health care.

Governor Ann W. Richards The Texas experience is not uniqlX All across this country, institutions of higher education -private and public· are tightening their belts. Yale Unive: sity has eliminated two departments a~ is consolidating three. Stanford is cutting $43 million out of its budgetfo the next two years. Last year, Califoro cut $369 million out of its state higher education budget and their govemoris. pushing for a 22 percent tuition increas next year.

The problem is nationwide, but we are expected to find the solutions at the state level. And if we are going to do that, we've got to keep the big picturei

:mind all the time. We ·~ve to keep in mind that r.try Texan has a right to uwe recommend expect quality services at another S% cut 1price they can afford. in ...

And that means we must get our priorities !llllight.

Earlier this year, I asked eachof my higher education appointees to ask the hard ~lions . If a contract looks like a ·lrolher-in-law deal, if a line item in the ·Wdget looks like padding, they've got to

TEXCEUANA PROJECT ••• IS EXAffiY WHAT WE NEED. THIS IS THE KIND OF PROGRAM THAT SETS THE STANDARD. THESE PROGRAMS SERVE AS THE HARBINGER OF HOW WE MUST MARSHAL OUR RESOURCES TO

~ up.

Our number-one priority must be !lriking a new balance between under!filduate instruction and research.

On too many campuses, undergradullesare not getting their money's worth.

They have to struggle with a system of loge introductory classes, little contact ~th tenured faculty, and little effort to aeet their needs. Our undergraduates reour customers, and we must provide ttmwith "legendary customer service."

And, at the upper levels, we must do llbetter job connecting academic I!Search with the businesses that can put Ito use, ensuring that the profits from ~at research stay in Texas.

When we hear that there's been a oceakthrough in breeding laboratory rats ·abreakthrough potentially worth tens of millions in the commercial market wl it's been sent off to a California rompany without so much as a tip of the rot to Texas firms, it ought to make all «us angry.

We are in a cutthroat international \tlmpetition for jobs and dollars, and we cannot afford to let the best of our !!Search slip away to anyone else.

The Texas Tech Texcellana project to ·:ombine Texas cotton fiber and Texas t«>l to produce a marketable yam is ~~actly what we need. This is the kind or program that sets the standard. These

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COME OUT AHEAD." - GovERNOR ANN W. RICHARDS

programs serve as the harbinger of how we must marshal our resources to come out ahead.

And future resources for higher education will depend on how well the economy is doing, competition from other spending priorities, and public confidence in the job we do in higher ed.

In fact, it's not that our system is failing. The problem is that the expectations for the future far exceed the capacity of the current system to meet them. Our institutions of higher education must keep pace with an economy that is changing at lightning speed. What our students will be expected to know and be able to do is more and more complex.

The bottom line is that we have to be smarter. We have to stay one step ahead of the curve.

And so I've asked all of the higher education agencies in the state to develop a mission statement, goals and objectives, strategies for accomplishing those goals, and quantifiable measures to evaluate their performance. And in writing our 1994-95 budget, we will focus on innovation, performance, results and cost-efficiency.

In this last year, we may have all gotten more than we bargained for. But it is nothing we can't handle.

We walked into this capitol together in January 1991, and we promised the people a New Texas. If we stick together and remember that our first goal is to make governme nt mean something good in people's lives again, we'll get the job done.

And when we are finished, we'll be proud of what we have accomplished.

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Tech President Robert W. Lawless in May estimated that 46 faculty positions and 120 staff positions will be cut from the 1993 fiscal budget as part of a 5 percent reduction in University spending.

Lawless also announced that four tenure-track faculty will be given a year's notice of termination on Sept. 1.

still under some debate."

A firm dollar figure for state reductions probably will not be released until August, Lawless said.

Even if the cuts are minimal, Lawless said, Tech will continue with its planned 5 percent cuts to prepare for future financial setbacks. Another 5 percent reduction is predicted for fiscal 1994, he said.

The Go in' Band from Raiderland anticipates an exciting fall semester. The band

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Although the state Legislative Budget Board last month approved $226.5 million in budget reductions and savings, Lawless said Gov. Ann Richards had not agreed to the proposal. With no governor guarantee and $73 million worth of reductions still needed, Tech's cutbacks range from 1.7 to 6 percent, according to Lawless.

"I know you faculty are being emotionally yo-yoed," Lawless said. "There's a lot of misinformation that we're out of the woods. But where in the woods we are is

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begins summer rehearsals on Aug. 23 for new member orientation, the teaching of fundamental drills, and for music/uniform issue. The usual civic events are scheduled -Knights of Columbus football kickoff, a Chamber of Commerce breakfast and the Raider Roundup, which is a welcome party for dorm residents. The band must prepare for the early Sept. 3 game with Oklahoma.

Special events for the fall will include Tech Band Alumni Day on Sept. 12 (Wyoming game). Plans are underway to honor long-time trumpet professor Dick Tolley on the preceding Friday evening. Tolley retired at the end of the 1991 spring semester and is currently serving as choral director of the First United Methodist Church in Jasper, Texas.

On Sept. 26, The Goin' Band will march in the Homecoming Parade as Tech hosts the Baylor Bears. On Oct. 3, the band will travel to College Station for the Texas A&M game. During away games on Oct. 10, the band will host the Tech Percussion Clinic, and Oct. 17 will be the Tech Marching Festival. These events attract high

school bands from across the region to University for performance critiqu~ preparation for their U.I.L. contests.

Another first for the Tech Bal)d wil Trumpet Day, which will be held on( 24 when Tech plays SMU. This eve~ expected to draw some400-500 high sci trumpet players to the campus for trum clinics and a special performance with Goin' Band. Special guest artists will elude Sgt. Ron Blaise of the U.S. Air Fti Band in Washington, D.C., and Sgt. a Walters of the U.S. Air Force Acade Band in Colorado Springs. These d cians will join newly appointed truro professor Willie Strieder for a series clinics and section rehearsals. This et is similar to other such special days in past as Trombone Day and Band Day. The Goin' Band will then travel to!

Worth for the TCU game on Nov. before returning home for the season nale at the Houston game - The Patri1 Show.

Discussion of graduate tt tion and student fees toppt the agenda during Tech's board regents committee meeting in May. The regents previously authoriz President Robert W. Lawless to appro an additional tuition rate for graduate ~ dents not to exceed $20 per semester ere hour over the minimum required by l state. The minimum state tuition rates! students enrolled in graduate programs! the 1992-93 academic year are $24' semester hour for state residents and $11 per semester hour for non-residents.

As a result of changes enacted by the 72nd Legislature, tuition rates for state ~tSidents are scheduled to increase $2 each year during the next five academic years.

The campus student-run daily newspaper, The University Daily, was recognized in May as one ofthe top three college newspapers in the state of Texas at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors convention on South Padre Island.

The 1991-92 University Daily editor, Francisco Rodriguez, was awarded an hon!rable mention by the APME for quality of writing, editing, layout, graphics and photos, as well as the general quality of news coverage. Southern Methodist's Daily Campus took top honors among all Texas colleges and universities that subscribe to the Associated Press wire service. The Daily Texan, the University of Texas paper, also received honorable mention recognition. The newspapers from Tech, SMU and UT were the only state collegiate papers honored.

The UD, which will begin its 68th year this fall, will be considered for national bonors in November at the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers convention in Chicago.

ships are chosen for their high scholastic achievements and ability in a scientific field. Undergraduates are awarded $2,500 each and graduate students are given $3,000.

Thes~ sc?olarships are an effort to stop the decline m number of American students attempting to earn degrees in science and engineering. Today, only 7 out of every 1,000 U.S. college students pursue majors in scientific fields in comparison with 40 out of 1,000 in Japan and 35 of 1,000 in Russia.

Because 60 percent of all doctorates from American colleges and universities are awarded to non-American students and in math that number rises to almost 97 percent, ARCS' main goal is to interest American youth in these fields and to help finance their educations.

'The world is beginning to know what ARCS has known all along. The future rests with the students," said Geri Pridmore, Lubbock chapter president.

The need has never been greater for scientific education as technological, medical and environmental problems have begun to have a direct effect on the nation and its understanding of the world.

Currently, there are 15 ARCS chapters nationwide in states from California to Massachusetts. With more than 1,700 members, ARCS has raised $14.5 million in the past three decades.

One hundred percent of the money raised and donated goes directly to scholarship funds at 51 college and university campuses in the United States.

The majority of the universities and cities that have an ARCS chapter are very large. For this reason, the national board had doubts about whether Lubbock Christian University and Texas Tech University were large enough to meet the criteria, and whether or not Lubbock would be able and willing to provide the community support needed for ARCS. To date, corporations, civic groups and individuals concerned with the advancement of the sciences have contributed more than $466,000 to the Lubbock chapter.

The chapter celebrated its 20th anniversary this year in April by sponsoring the annual National ARCS Convention. It was the first time since 1976 that the event was held in Lubbock. (By Rachelle Cameron)

ARCS is a prestigious organization supporting scholarships in science. Founded for the alvancement of students pursuing higher education in the fields of natural science, medicine and engineering, ARCS stands for Achievement Rewards for College Scienlists.

"Lubbock is one of only two cities in Texas to have a chapter, because other cities have been unable to show the ability I! support the work and funds required by ARCS," said member Jim Ratliff.

This year, the 109-member Lubbock ARCS group raised $45,000 for scholarships to Texas Tech University and Lublock Christian University students. The 110ney was raised through one major fund raiser and a number of business and individual contributions.

Students who receive ARCS scholar-

ENDOWMENT GIFT- Cox Coble Inc. recently clonolecl a $10,000 p/etJge lo lhe Presidential Endowecl Scholarship program at Tech. The checlc presenlotion lo Tech President Robert W. Lawless was mocle AprilS by Randy Winlc, Cox Coble vice presiclent one/ general manager of the Lubbock office; Greg Homesley, controller for Cox Coble-Lubboclc; and V'~elcie Bennett, local public relations manager. {News & Publications pholo} TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE • 35

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Nance, who graduated in 1941 with a degree in animal husbandry from Tech, has served on the board of directors of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show since 1962.

"We are very proud to say that Sonny Nance is one of our alumni," said Dean Sam E. Curl. "Sonny is an outstanding rancher, cattleman and businessman. His exemplary service to the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show for these many years is certainly worthy of recognition."

W.R. Watt Jr., stock show president and manager, said Nance's long-time involvement and counsel with the organization "attest to his dedication to the advancementofthelivestockindustrythrough education."

During the hot days of su1 mer, many homeowners ;a turning their attention to landsc~ Native plants provide many practicalt aesthetic choices, said Dr. David Mor~ associate professor of horticulture at T~ "There is a real opportunity to use~ tive plants in landscaping," he said. ., should appreciate what nature has g~ us."

Native plants have several advan~ over non-native, or exotic plants, ~ Morgan, whose specialty is trees natiVti Texas. Water, a limiting factor in Wt Texas landscaping, is not demanded large quantities by plants native to d areas. He predicts a time will come II\ homeowners no longer can afford toQ municipally treated drinking water for~ consumption.

"Our interest is to use water-conS!i ing plants instead of water-consuna plants," Morgan said. "Shrubs such as ~ Apache plume, winterfat and desert oi1 are good water-conserving plants in 6 area."

Another advantage oflandscapinglli native plants is their natural resistanct environmental conditions. For examp~ plant native to West Texas may noll damaged by high winds and winter-Sill mer temperature extremes as would ~ exotics, .which must be planted in Jf tected areas to survive.

The greatest advantage of native piZII is the low amount of preparation and tmil tenance they require. Preparation forpl:t ing may require little more than an 11 equate hole in a well-drained location,! said. However, he warns, shallow h!il containing caliche are poor choices !1 most vegetation.

Ifonly caliche soil is present, use pia native to the Southwest instead of exoo plants. Soil additives are only temport solutions, he said. The roots event~ will grow out of the additive and be Sll rounded by caliche again. "You're siqtl delaying the inevitable," Morgan said Recommended trees for South Pl» landscaping include the Texas red c* bigtooth maple, various Mexican oat< Texas and Mexican redbuds,lacebarkel: cedar elm and western soapberry, MOC!t pointed out.

The College of Agricultural .Sciences is reorganizing its primary recruiting organization 10 extend

the college's increasing enrollJl)ent. According to a bi-weekly report released April 1 by the Office of Admissions and Records, the college shows a 23 percent increase compared to the 1991-92 figures.

While the admissions figures change frequently throughout the semester, ag was the only college at Tech that reported a positive admissions percentage. Since the issuance of the April 1 report, Tech has ,reported a 6 percent decrease, with added emphasis on the Graduate programs.

Rory Thomas, coordinator of recruitment and placement for the college, said the Office of New Student Relations conducted a study in 1989 that predicted this decline in enrollment.

"This was all anticipated," Thomas said of the overall decrease.

Agri-Techsans, the college's student recruiting group, is working to increase its visibility on campus as well as off-cam-

pus.

The organization is comprised of 30 students from the college who are responsible for various recruiting projects, including traveling to area high schools and maintaining relations with prospective students and alumni.

Thomas said that while the group focuses on recruiting high school and junior college students for the college of ag, recruiters also attempt to attract students from all fields of interest to Tech.

ARCHmClURE Architecture is closely tied to the economy and to the environment. When the economy changes or when, as now, the natural environment is threatened, architecture must respond.

According to Dean Martin J. Harms of the College of Architecture, a good archilect is sensitive to the needs and expectations of society, whether those needs be

economic or environmental.

"The profession requires special expertise to design buildings in ways appropriate to the economic resources available and the climatic requirements of the area in which the client lives," he said.

For instance, it would be unprofessional and impractical for an architect to design a structure of adobe with a photovoltaic system for solar heating in a part of the country that has few sunny days per year and a soil type incapable of supporting adobe bricks.

Although such buildings are very appropriate and cost-effective in the Southwest, they may not work as well in the upper Midwest or Northwest. In those areas, where the climate is wetter and wood is more readily available, a wood-based home, or "stick-built house," may be more cost-effective and environmentally appropriate.

As people become increasingly conscious of making their homes and commercial buildings fit the local environment, more and more natural products will be used. Becoming popular as a natural building material in such states as Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Nevada and California is a process called rammed earth.

This material is nothing more than earth stabilized with a small amount of Portland (cement) and compacted under rammed pressure to withstand stress and weight as well as any poured concrete, concrete block and wood structure.

Adobe has many attractive qualities.

The stabilized "mud" bricks have a natural look that is still apparent even when painted and the adobe blends well into the hills and natural environment. Where rounded corners are more difficult with some conventional materials, adobe lends itself to this possibility with no extra cost or effort.

"As Americans become more environmentally aware, and as the economy of the future will require Americans to depend less and less on fossil fuel-based methods of heating and cooling, architects will need to design structures that are less wasteful of resources and more attuned to the natural environment," Harms said.

Some experts claim that the supply of natural gas for use in homes and other buildings will only last another 30 years.

Petroleum used in the manufacture ofmany of today's building materials is also a finite resource. Both active and passive solar design solutions fllSt proposed by architects in the late '60s and early '70s, yet ignored by developers in the energywasteful '80s, will likely re-emerge in the '90s, according to Harms.

"Architects will need to be better prepared and more persuasive this time around," he said. Harms added that historic preservation of existing buildings must also re-emerge as a national priority in the '90s as part of emerging environmental consciousness. The College of Architecture has strong energy-related design and historic preservation programs.

"We are preparing a new breed of service-oriented architects for the 21st Century right here at Texas Tech," he said.

(By Leigh Crow and Marsha Gustafson)

-ARTS &SCIENCES... ·A tiny drop of water measuring barely l/64th of an inch is not enough to quench anyone's thirst, but that amount, extracted from Martian meteorites by a Tech researcher, is absorbing the interest of planetary scientists.

While the water's analysis may help answer questions about Earth's neighbor, scientists believe the resulting knowledge may lead to a greater understanding of the solar system, especially on the origin of atmospheres and the Earth's future, said Dr. Haraldur R. Karlsson, assistant professor of geosciences.

'The premise is that the terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, all started out with similar atmospheres," said Karlsson, an Iceland native who joined the Tech faculty in the fall of 1991. ''Yettoday, Mercury has no atmosphere.

Venus is shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere, and· Mars has a thin, cold atmosphere," he said. "Both the Venusian and Martian atmospheres are composed mainly of carbon dioxide. Our atmosphere consists of nitrogen and oxygen. What happened?"

TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE • 37

The find, Karlsson said, may provide a reference point for research on Earth's future, such as the impact of g~obal warming. "If Earth, Venus and Mars all started out with similar atmospheres," he said, "then what went wrong on Mars and Venus? Could a similar d~stiny await the Earth?"

The tiny drop of Martian water also deepens the interest into what happened to the water that once existed on Mars, he said.

Karlsson began the research project while he was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Johnson Space Center. He was selected in 1988 after he had completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago.

Tech's Phi Alpha Theta chapter sponsored the History Department Awards Banquet in April at the Lubbock Plaza Hotel.

Dr. Arnoldo De Leon, the C.J. "Red" Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University, presented the keynote address.

De Leon, author of several books, including the widely used textbook ''The History of Texas" written with Robert Calvert, spoke on "GringoAmigos: AngloAmericans in Tejano History."

During the awards segment of the program, Betty Carr '80, '88, was presented with the Outstanding Alumnus Award. Dr. Brian L. Blakeley, chairman of the history department at Tech, received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award.

The department of health, physical education and recreation honored five faculty members at its annual awards banquet in April.

Receiving awards in the department were Dr. Tina Taylor Fields, Dr. John W. Cobb Jr., Dr. Margaret Eileen "Peg" Wilson, Dr. Mike Bobo and James Faber McNally.

Fields, associate professor in the department, was named as Fellow of the Texas Public Health Association and has received a Distinguished Service Award from the Texas School Health Association. Fields was responsible for develop38 • JULY/AUGUST 1992

ing an undergraduate major curriculum. Throughout the years Fields has generated more than $350,000 of grant funding for several health-related projects.

Cobb has been a part of the physical education program at Tech for almost 35 years. He has received an Honor Award from the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recre(From ation and Dance (TAHPERD). He was one of the organizers of the campus chapter ofPhi Delta Kappa and was elected national president of Phi Epsilon Kappa in 1973.

A recentrecipientoftheDavid K. Brace Award, Wilson has been an active cQntributing member of TAHPERD, having served in numerous elective and appointed positions. She joined the Tech fac ulty in 1965 following several years of teaching at both the secondary and college levels in the state of Arkansas.

leh} Bobo, Wilson oncl Cobb Having retired in 1990 as an associa professor, McNally recently received ~ 1992 Hall of Fame Award and was rnadt member of the High School Hall of Faa in Austin, Minn. McNally joined the sit in 1952 and is a distinguished lifetim member of the College Swimming Coacil!

Association and holder of the cov~ NCAA Master Coach Award.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION The Center for Professionru Development in the Collegr ofB usiness Administration once agail

Fiek/s

McNally

Also a recipient of the TAHPERD Honor Award is Bobo, professor of physical education and director of the Exercise Science Laboratory at Tech. Both his teaching and research involvement have largely been in the scientific areas although he has maintained involvement with, in his words, ·"the basis of our profession - physical education activity courses."

conducted its Southwest School of Gov ernmental Finance in May. Each year IN school has attracted public and privak sector participants from throughout tlr nation with attendance often averagi~ more than 200 individuals from 25 stale1 The school, which is designed for f~ nancial and non-financial administratoo and staff in all sectors of governrnen!J finance, provides current information 01 accounting, auditing, finance officers,~ surers and commercial and investm~l brokers.

The project has been directed by Dr. Don Finn '67, since 1990. Finn joined the accounting faculty at Tech in 1980 .

involved with the alumni activities in the area. Some 1,500 Tech business grads reside in the Houston area.

Tech professor Dr. Walter ~· McDonald recently received the

National Cowboy Hall of Fame's 1992

EDUCADON

Western Heritage Award for literature.

McDonald was recognized during a March ceremony in Oklahoma City

More than 20 years after Title IX was adopted, educational facilities still receive a fail-

Finn

Reunions were shared and new lessons were learned at the annual alumni dinners held in the Dallas and Houston metropolitan ar-

eas.

The purpose of these gatherings was to keep channels of communication open with the alumni in each area as well as provide ameans by which to foster good will and continued education with alumni.

The Dallas dinner was held at the Westin Galleria Hotel in May. Chairman of the event was John F. Ammons ' 76, and fealured guest speaker was John F. Scovell

ing grade in educational equity, according to a February report released by the American Association of University Women.

Title IX, a section of the Education Amendments of 1972, states that discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal in any educational program that receives federal funding.

However, the report reveals that through test scores, curriculum and teacher-student interaction, females continue to lag behind their male peers, especially in the areas of math and science.

'There are two possible reasons for this gender bias," said Dr. Gerald Skoog, chairman of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education at Tech. 'There's the idea that females have a defect in genetics -which is preposterous- or it's environmental."

for a 1991 book of poetry titled "The • Digs in Escondido Canyon.'' It was ( McDonald's 12th bo6k of poetry and

p was published by Tex:

Tech

University Press. I A three-member team of students at the School of Law

were ranked as semifinalists at the American Bar Association National Mock Trial Competition in San Antonio where they were among the top four competing teams. Members were Maureen Clancy, a second-year student from Plano; Steve Forman, a third-year student from Lubbock; and f··

Ken Campbell, a third-year student

J from Lubbock. I Cathy Smith

f Bowers, winner of the"hrst-boolc

i

competition in the Texas Tech University Press Poetry Award Series, arrived in Lubbock in April to accept her prize and offer a public reading from her recently published

t• book. The prize, thefit~~~to be given

~~

in the series, was presented by Dr. ' WendcU Broom, director of the Texas

Tech University Press. I The Tech

'68.

~

womens' rodeo team took top honors

There were 144 graduates in attendance with 16 Dallas firms sponsoring tables.

There are some 4,000 business graduates from Tech in the Dallas area.

Stepping away from the traditional formalsetting, the Houston dinner was held at the Great Southwest Equestrian Center.

The chairman of the Houston event was Bill D. Scott '72, and co-chaired by Amy D. Love '88. Speaking for the gathering was Larry A. Strickland '66. More than 120 attended the event and 13 Houston area flrms sponsored tables.

The new focus of the dinner was to begin providing an opportunity for recent graduates of the college to begin getting

i

in the 46th annual National Intercolle-

~ giate Rodeo Associatio~ rodeo at

~~ Hardin-Simmons U~i~Jf:ity in

Abilene. The Tech women racked up 225 points at the event. I Two Tech students won prizes totaling $3,100 at the Natural Fibers Design Competition

t in Denton. Kimblyne Henry, a senior

Slcoog The women's organization reports that by any measure - test scores, curriculum or teacher-student interaction - females are being shortchanged in the classroom.

I!

fashion design major from Houston.

J and Stacie McDonald, a senior t clothing, textiles and merchandising major from Pampa. won $2,000 and $1.100, respectively, in prize money.

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Among the 43 percent of Lubbock Independent School District students who took the 1990-91 SAT college entrance test, males outscored the females in both the verbal and math areas. Males scored 440 to 424 for females on the verbal section and 509 to 447 on the math. Nationwide, the mean scores reflected the same male dominance.

college, told a group of 25 students and media representatives in the Livermore Auditorium that engineers- such as those training at Tech - are the "artists and dreamers of reality for the future."

Recent changes in state laws have led to many revisions in teacher education. Some uncertainty exists among students about the future of elementary education preparation.

Currently, there are two separate degree programs offered to students interested in becoming professional educators at the elementary level.

Because majors using the term "education" are no longer allowable under the new state laws, the College of Education now offers a bachelor of science degree with a major in multidisciplinary studies.

This enables the graduate to teach grades with a specialization in one area.

Certification is available through the College of Home Economics for teachers of young children. A bachelor of science degree specializing in early childhood enables the graduate to teach children as young as three years old through the sixth grade. This program focuses mainly on human development courses; therefore, it is designed more for those students interested in the teaching of younger children.

Although the College ofEducation and the College of Home Economics each provide separate degree programs for individuals interested in a teaching future, both programs are required to file with the College of Education in order to meet current Texas requirements for teacher certification. (Rachelle Cameron)

ENGINEERING The College of Engineering outlined in April four areas ofengineering research projects and a soonto-be launched alternative fuels program.

Dr. Mason H. Somerville, dean of the 40 • JULYI AUGUST 1992

partment of mechanical engineering fa 1952 to 1972.

'This is part of our effort to try emphasize the importance we plact education," said Morris R. Scales, eq neering project manager for the airfrar design department at General Dynarni Fort Worth division.

The company employs some 120Tt graduates in its Fort Worth division, ont seven General Dynamics locations nat~ wide.

Powers was nominated by his stude1 and faculty peers, said Scales, who eaJTt his bachelor's and master's degrees civil engineering from Tech in 1960 t 1964.

Researchers at Texas Ted have been awarded son Somerville 'There is a difference between scientists and engineers," Somerville said. "A scientist describes what is known. An engineer designs and builds what has never been."

The five engineering research projects discussed were the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Challenge, Compressed Natural Gas Research, a Methanol Test Program, an Alternative Fuels Pilot Program and the Society of Automotive Engineer's MiniBaja Competition conducted in El Paso.

Louis "Jack" Powers, in his 50th year of teaching engineering courses, has received a Teaching in Excellence Award from General Dynamics.

The award included a $2,000 honorarium and was announced this spring during a faculty-staff meeting of the College of Engineering. It was the first such award given by the company to a Tech faculty member.

Powers, a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, began his teaching career at Tech in 1942. He continues to · teach courses in dynamics and thermodynamics·. He served as chairman of the de-

$400,000 for a 12-month contract byi Texas General Land Office for research! oil spill remediation. The state has d~ nated funding of $1,250,000 annuallyi research and development activities on1 spill response and remediation.

Billy Horton, special projects direct with the Texas General Lands Office, ~ research projects are chosen not only h cause they are likely to help preven1 1 clean up oil spills but also because lbt may enhance economic growth in Tex~ The Tech proposal was one of the fi!j funded and by far the largest project cow mitted to by the Land Office accordingi· Horton. Other institutions with contract~ include Texas A&M, the University t Texas, Lamar State and Corpus Chm State.

The Tech group, led by Dr. Ham Parker, professor of chemical engineer· ing, and Phil Nash of the Texas Ted Research Foundation, will be collecti~ data on the absorption of oil using low grade cotton. As a second part ofthe projet\ Dr. Caryl Heintz, associate professor d biological sciences, will guide the effort• design a bioreactor to degrade the o~ cotton. Microbes will, first, degrade theoo and, then, degrade the cellulose in t1'1 cotton. According to Horton, this part ~ the project is in line with the Land Office'i concerns about ecology and waste d~ posal and would create a viable altematiw to landfills of contaminated materials.

Note: Distinguished Engineer James Renfro was identified in our last issue as being with Northrop Corp. He is now a Navy scientist. Renfro led a long and distinguished career with Northrop prior to this move.

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Former Dallas Cowboys football player Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson discussed "Sobriety as an Option" during an April fundraiser for the substance abu se studies scholarship program in the college.

Henderson, who played for the Cowboys from 1975 to 1979, said he used cocaine during Super B owl XIII, a game viewed by more than 80 million people.

He spent the next four years playing for three other National Football League teams - the San Francisco 49ers, the Houston Oilers and the Miami Dolphins.

In Nove mber 1983, Henderson was arrested on drug-related .charges. After receiving care in a treatment facility, he spent 28 months in prison where he wrote his autobiography, "Out of Control," with Peter Knobler.

His Tech appearance was sponsored by United Supermarkets, Tech 'saddictionand substance abuse specialists and the Center for the Study ofAddiction, Lubbock Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

Fashion design took a new twist as Tech students enrolled in the apparel designing II class in April presented 1993 spring clothing lines for the handicapped. ''There are many things to consider when designing clothing for someone confined to a wheelchair," said Beth Decker, a junior fashion design major from Harrisburg, Pa. ''The pants have to be made slightly higher in the back so they are comfortable, and there cannot be too many seams or pockets that will cause discomfort."

Decker and four other students designed a set of clothing called Safari Sights for Kathy Keesee, who is confined to a wheelchair and swims competitively.

The group explained that the clothing had to be comfortable, durable and inexpensive, as well as functional and stylish.

"After Kathy was in the accident we tried to search for clothes that fi t her and were durable," said Gle nna Keesee, Kathy' s mother. ''The catalogues don't

Tech 's seven-m ember horse judging team completed iiS 199 1-92 season with a first-place national fmish in the annual judging contest sponsored by the National Association of College and Teachers of Agriculture. The event was hosted in April by Redlands

1 Community College in El Reno, Okla. tlt; Tefi teams participated. Abilene f:~-~~hri;tian University and Purdue ~~University fmished second and third, respectively. I Tech's physics department announced $36,100 in 1992-93 scholarships during the

department's recent annual banquet.

Tom Waak, manager of the computer division of Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, delivered the keynote address. , Waalc, who earned his doctorate in

~ physics in 1972 from Tech, was ,~,.,honored as the department' s 1992 l tpistinguished Alumnus. I The . :::=::: :·:'%-~:··

!J'd~pirtment of mathematics at Tech

~''honored its outstanding studeniS during

f the department's annual banquet. ~

. Pamela Lockwood, senior from Lorenzo, was named outstanding undergraduate student for 199 1-92. ; Lockwood also was presented the Ali

Arnir-Moez Research Award. Mark 1

Stamp of Harlan, Iowa, was named outstanding graduate teaching assistanl

I Tech student Lisa Cole won first h

p lace in the Third Annual Internat.ional

!\,~tudent Design Competition for Window TreatmeniS. The competition

t

1\was sponsored by Draperies & Window , Coverings magazine. Cole, from

f ~:

Albuquerque, N.M., is a sophomore

, interior design major in the College of

1992 AWARDS -Dean Elizabeth G. Holey (rigM recognized four outstancling alumnae cluring Home Economics Awareness Week activities this spring. The new Achiever AworCJ recipient was Carol Anderson Beii'B3 of Fort Worth (second/rom left}, president and director of operations of Special Services Management. This year's Distinguished Alumnae were {from left) Phyllis J. Pittman '72 of Houston, owner of Phyllis J. Pittman designs; Janet Miles '74 of Alexandria, Vo., member services division heocl of the Amerkon Home Economics Association; ancl Gayle Gordner Erskine '73 of Aurora, Colo., consumer and family studies teacher and deporlment choir at Prairie Middle School.

f Home Economics. For her entry in the I Tomorrow's Window Coverings and

Design category. Cole won a trip to the lOth annual International World of Window Coverings trade show in New Orleans, La.

TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE • .41

offer clothes that fit her well. It is absolutely marvelous that these girls came up with this line."

Safari Sights is an ensemble complete with tops, jackets, pants and skirts.

LAW SCHOOL Annette Marple, professor of law, was honored during a retirement reception in April in the School of Law Forum.

Marple said that during her 19 years of teaching and administrative work, she has had the opportunity to observe and participate in the school's development from a fledgling law school to one that has earned an excellent reputation with the public and legal community for producing highly qualified professionals.

Thomas E. Baker, the Alvin R. Allison Professor of Law at Tech, recently received a Fulbright grant to teach at the University of Athens in Greece. Baker, who will be in Greece for three months beginning in October, will lecture on American constitutional law.

He is one of some 1,800 American Fulbright faculty members who will travel abroad during the 1992-93 academic year.

The Fulbright Program, which was established in 1946 under congressional legislation introduced by former Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, is administered by the U.S. Information Agency.

Baker has been a law professor at Tech since 1979. During a 1986-87 leave, he served as an acting administrative assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and was a Tom C. Clark judicial fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States in 1985-86.

pleted the implementation of a comp111 ized Graduate School degree audit. ~~ the degree audit in place, departments, areas will be better able to monitor• progress of students who have filed deDI plans.

The computerized system will a!! students and graduate advisors to tr~ degree progression accurately and cl! ciently.

This project represents one of m1 improvements by the Graduate SchOOl provide quick and efficient services students and departments. The implelll( tation of the computerized degree ali will mean that processing time will be a. degree status information will be imtnc6 ately accessible, and student problems111 be handled quickly and easily.

GRADUATE SCHOOL Spring 1992 boasted record enrollment in the Graduate School. The 3,861 graduate students

Marple She moved to Lubbock in 1969 when her husband, Hugo, now a professor emeritus at Tech's School of Music, was offered a teaching position.

After earning her law degree at Tech in 1973, Marple was offered a position teaching legal analysis at the law school. In 1976, she became assistant dean and later was promoted to associate dean, chairing the admission committee, counseling students and handling some of the internal administration at the school.

In 1981, Marple returned to full-time teaching in property, wills and trusts, marital property and homestead law courses.

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resulted in the highest Graduate School enrollment ever in a single semester. The University's overall emphasis upon graduate education and research along with recruitment efforts of departments and the Graduate School contributed to the record enrollment.

Graduate School Dean Dr. Clyde Hendrick is particularly pleased with the record numbers since graduate education and research have become more vital to the future of the University than ever before. According to Hendrick, "the strength of graduate programs ·and r~search become increasingly important as the University strives to be nationally recognized as a first-class institution."

Assistant Dean Dr. Marijane . Davis, along with the Administrative Information Systems, have com-

Davis

The Graduate School is mak· ing a special effort to read two-year college faculty membel who might be considering furthering tiKi graduate education or research experieniX Since that interest tends to increase r~ the summer semesters, low-cost arrange. ments have been made to be certain thatl faculty at Tech's nearest two-year cd leges receive the Summer/Fall 1992 Il rectory of Classes.

Additionally, the Graduate Schooli investigating the future possibility of p~ viding class schedule access to perso~ computer users through modems or ndworks.

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Don't believe everything you eat Bv KIM DAVIS ~gs aren't always what they seem / in the. search for low-fat, low-cholesrerol products.

The next time you see "Lite," "95 Percent Fat-Free," "Cholesterol Free" or a ~milar description jumping off a food package label, you might want to read the fine print to be sure you're getting what youthink you are, says Kae Hentges, Ed.S., acertified health education specialist at !he Health Sciences Center. Unfortunately, she said, many of the descriptions splashed across food labels are deceiving.

Here are a few tips Hentges encourages consumers to consider while strolling down lhe supermarket aisles: Light and Lite- Except when applied to meat and poultry products, these terms have no precise meaning. The "light" designation can refer to calories, fat, sugar, salt or even the color or texture of a food.

Don't assume that a "light" product is necessarily better for you. In fact, some of lhese products have a lighter texture but just as many calories and fat as regular products, if not more. Meat or poultry labeled "light" or "Lite" has at least 25 percent less fat than the traditional item does.

95 Percent Fat-Free- Sounds great, but

oon't be fooled. The designation refers to !he fat percentage by weight, not percent of calories. Because fat is such a concenlrated source of calories -nine per gram aproduct with 5 percent fat by weight may still draw up to 35 percent of its calories from fat - and may not be the healthful food you think it is.

Cholesterol-Free-Legally, the term "no cholesterol" means the product has no more than two milligrams of cholesterol

per serving. But the cholesterol you eat which is found only in animal products - is only one player in the cholesterol drama. The major villain is saturated fat, which your body converts into artery-clogging cholesterol. Plenty of products boasting "No Cholesterol" may be dripping with saturated fats in the form of hydrogenated vegetable oils or tropical oils, such as palm, palm kernel or coconut oil.

derived from fat, check the product' s list of ingredients. Now multiply the product's grams of fat by nine and divide your answer by the total calories per serving. Now multiply by 100 and you've got your answer.

For example, the diagram below details a cereal that has five grams of fat per serving, and would be figured as indicated.

This, Hentges said, would be a fairly good choice in cereals. "It may take a little more time to read and calculate the product's fine print," she said, "But in the long run, your body will thank you for it."

Plenty of products

boasting "No Cholesterol" may be dripping with

saturated fats in the form

of hydrogenated vegetable oils or tropical oils, such as palm, palm kernel or coconut oil.

Low-Calorie or Dietetic- A food labeled "low-calorie" can have no more than 40 calories per serving or 0.4 calories per gram. "Reduced-calorie" products have one-third fewer calories than traditional products.

The terms "diet" and "dietetic," on the other hand, mean only that the food has been altered in some way - riot that it's necessarily lower in calories.

The best advice, Hentges said, is to take the time.to read labels. After all, the truth of the product is not found on the front panel, but in the fine print. To be sure you're eating healthy, the most accurate information is listed in the ingredients, serving sizes, calories and grams of fat.

Americans should aim for foods that derive less than 30 percent of their calories from fat. It takes a little calculating to figure out, Hentges explained, but it's really quite simple.

To calculate the percentage of calories

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BY STEPHANIE EOWIJI

SoUTHWEST Comtrd

hese dramatic words were blazoned on the inside covers of the 1942-43 La Ventana. Fifty years have passed since the fall of 1942 when students began the term with the nation at war on two fronts. Though World War II raged abroad far away from Lubbock, the war greatly affected the Texas Tech community. Because many students and faculty joined the war, enrollment dropped in half, down from 3,896 in 1938 to 1,928, the smallest since 1927.

Throughout the 1942-43 La Ventana, we are reminded how the war affected Texas Tech. In addition to the endpapers having the above phrase, patriotic motifs run throughout the issue. Colors of red, blue, black and white were used.

On the title page, planes fly through colored clouds, shaped as a flag. The front of the yearbook listed alumni and students who had been killed in the war and those serving in the armed forces.

Images in the yearbook showed Tech's involvement with homefront activities, such as a group making surgical masks for the Red Cross, students buying war stamps, faculty members riding bicycles to save on gasoline and tires, and students marching in military attire. In the class section, numerous student portraits were taken in military uniforms. The dominant color at Tech was army khaki.

While the social activities revolved around war work, other events, such as field trips, the Aggie Rodeo and the Engineering Show were canceled.

Major sports, such as football and basketball, were played, as it was felt it 44 • JULY/AUGUST 1992

would boost campus morale.

In February 1943, the Army Air Forces Air Crew Detachment arrived on campus, as one of the first college training detachments in the nation.

These 625 students moved into the male dormitories West Hall and Sneed Hall.

Named Barracks Number 1 and Barracks Number 2, these dorms changed to typical army barracks with strict military discipline and had four cadets to a room.

Tech students who were majoring in engineering or taking pre-med work were moved to Women's Donn No. 1.

Others moved off campus. The displaced women were either moved to Women's Donn No.2 or into Lubbock homes. Following the changes, more than 480 coeds lived in this donn, three to a room. They accepted the changes

with a "full spirit of cooperation."

The publication of the 1942-43 La Ventana was not an easy task. The editor appreciated the accomplishment despite government restrictions. Because of the shortage of film and photographic supplies, less snapshots were used. With the shortage of labori the engraving and printing companies, the editor was forced to set early dead· lines, thus leaving out some students ~ events.

Today, 50 years after the publicatiot of this yearbook, La Ventana still depi~ daily life at Tech, but none is as dra· matic as the 1942-43 issue which sholll a country and campus coming to grips with a world war. All La Ventanas, from 1926 to date, are available for use at the Southwest Collection. f

Tech students malce surgical maslcs for the Reel Cross, 1942·43.

Students malce contributions for the ReJ Cross war relief drive, 1942-43.

Fall Calendar of Events September=---~~--~~------------------------------3 12

18 19 25 26 26-0ct. 3

Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma Texas Tech vs. Wyoming Band Alumni Day Livestock Day Golden Spur Award Ranch Day Texas Tech vs. Oregon Century Club Dinner Classes· of '52-'57 Reunion Pre-Game Buffet Texas Tech vs. Baylor, Homecoming South Plains Fair

jones Stadium jones Stadium School of Music Arena - Tech Campus Lubbock Plaza Hotel Ranching Heritage Center Eugene, Ore. Civic Center University Center Ballroom SWC Walkway jones Stadium Fairgrounds

October_____________________________________________ 3 10 16 17 24 30 31

Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M Texas Tech vs. North Carolina State LSO - Classical Concert LSO - Classical Concert Texas Tech vs. SMU, Family Day Trumpet Day ESA Distinguished Alumni Dinner Texas Tech vs. Texas ESA. Chapter Workshop

College Station Raleigh, N.C. Civic Center Theatre Civic Center Theatre jones Stadium School of Music Mcinturff Center jones Stadium University Center

November-----------------------7

8 12-15 14 20 21

Texas Tech vs. Rice LSO - Sinfonietta Concert LSO - Sinfonietta Concert Holiday Happening Texas Tech vs. TCU LSO - Classical Concert LSO - Classical Concert Texas Tech vs. Houston

Houston Tech Hemmle Recital Ha ll Tech Hemmle Recital Hall Civic Center Fort Worth Civic Center Theatre Civic Center Theatre jones Stadium

December------------------------3, 5-8 3-6 4 10-11

Madrigal Dinner LSO - Nutcracker Ballet Carol of Lights Candlelight Christmas

University Center Civic Center Theatre TTU Science Quadrangle Ranching Heritage Center

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The Museum of Texas Tech, 4th & Indiana, (806) 742-2456 The Ranching Heritage Center, 4th & Indiana, (806) 742-2456 The Southwest Collection, Math Building Room 106, (806) 742-3749 Lubbock Lake Landmark State Historical Park, 2200 N. Landmark Dr., (806) 741-0306 Uano Estacado Winery, 3.2 miles east of Highway 87 on 1585, (806) 745-2258 Pheasant Ridge Winery, east of New Deal, (806) 746-6033 Teysha Cellars Winery, 112 mile east of Highway 87 on Woodrow Rd. , (806) 863-2704 TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE • 45

Bv WALT McALWI SPORTS INFORMATION DEPAR11

This could be the start of something BIG Recruiting coup plus top returners point to an outstanding year lor Tech volleyball ~sh from what he considers are-

/cruiti~~ coup, Tech Coach Mike Jones, who has four starters returning, is anxiously awaiting the 1992 volleyball season.

'There were about seven or eight players in Texas we felt were really good," said Jones, who has compiled a 76-21ledger in three years at the Red Raider helm. "Of those, we felt five would fit into our program well and we got four of them. Any time you can do that, well ..."

Jones, who has seen his previous three teams finish as Southwest Conference runners-up, feels the freshman women will make an impact. ''They're all big kids, have great athleticism and, I feel, kids who should be a dominant force in the net, plus can play ball control. All four are good, but all four (From leh} Holly Snoolcs, Kristen Sparlcs and Erica Ruegg read aher the home playoH do different things and should complement win over Georgia last year. (Photo proviclecl by Sports lnlormotion} each other."

The best thing, though, is that "they're all from Texas," Jones said.

"She's probably the best player on the team, especially at the net; Jones said. "She is the most dominating player we have and is~ The Class of '95 includes 5-9 outside hitter Diane Owens of Houston Jersey Village and middle blockers 6-0 Jackie Bode of of the best blockers in the country (she ranked No. 18last year wit Katy, 6-0 Jennifer Cohn of Round Rock and 5-11 Jill Slapper of 1.537 per game and was one of only four sophomores listed amoq the Top 20).

Hurst L.D. Bell.

Another first for the Jones era is that alll2 players have been "I'd put her up against anybody," Jones said. "She can just liJ recruited by either Jones or top aide Lisa Seifert. A third first is that up on the ball and block it. Her back row and defensive skilk improved this spring, as did her serving. I think she's just deci~ all are on scholarship. Several walkons tried out for the team Adrienne Salomone lettered the past two years after getting a shot she wants to play the back row. That was one of her weakneSSG in the spring- but none made the 12-person squad. last year. Offensively, she's coming in harder on her approachc!

Starters returning are 5- 11 senior outside hitter Kim Gosselin and she's such a strong player she can really put the ball away.Sit (2.81 kills and 2.88 digs per game last year), 5-11 senior outside hit .267 and .290 her first two years and those are good averages hitter Kristen Sparks (2.12 kills, 2.19 digs), 5-5 senior setter She's the mainstay in the net and is very important to us."

Rochelle Kaaiai (10.0 assists, 3.24 digs) and 5-11 junior middle Sparks will be on the right side and Jones claims she's justlib blocker Erica Ruegg (2.38 kills, 2.56 digs, 1.53 blocks). Sparks fine wine- she gets better with age. "Kristen has definitely gotlll will be starting for the fourth straight year and Gosselin for the better each year. She passes well, plays good defense and Ill! · third season. blocked and hit better each year."

Ruegg, though, will likely set the tone for the Red Raiders.

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oo]y is Kaaiai back, but 5-7 sophoJ!l(JreGingerCarterreturns. Carter 100kcommand late last year when anemergency appendectomy sidelined Kaaiai for the final three regular-season games and the two NCAA playoff encounters.

"I think we have two of the beSt setters anywhere," Jones said.

'You'd have a hard time finding a ~eam that has two as good as we have. They're not very big, but !hey both do a good job blocking !he ball and both can pass the ball.

They can both run the team and they're both strong leaders.

Rochelle's intensity is tremendous and she's one reason why this ~tam is as good as we are. She's done that since she's been here."

Chris Fehrle, a 5-11 junior middle blocker who underwent back surgery in early June for a herniated disc, may be moved to outside hitter if she recovers in time to play this year.

The other two sophomores on !he team, 6-1 Holly Snooks and 60 Amy Baxter, will see time at outside hitter and middle blockers, respectively.

Jones indicated the Raiders llave four goals for the 1992 campaign. They are: * Remaining in the Top 25 polls (the Raiders were 16, 17 and 18in the final polls last year); * Winning the conference championship, which Jones feels is a legitimate goal every year; * Returning to the NCAA Tourney (the Raiders have been in the Sweet 16 round each of the last two years, losing to Final Four entry LSU both times; and * Giving best effort every day in practice and in matches. "If wedo this," Jones said, "everything else will take care of itself."

For the first time ever, the SWC will hold a post-season tournament to determine the NCAA playoff representative. This year, the event will be in Austin and in 1993 in Lubbock.

Seven of the 12 Lubbock matches this year are slated for the Coliseum, including the annuai"Red Raider Classic. Jones indicated the Double-T Connection was attempting to raise funds to get all 12 matches in the Coliseum.

As far as the SWC race is concerned, Jones said Texas has to be No. I. "They're the champions and until someone beats them, they've got to be considered No. 1. They've got good players back this year, plus they've had good kids on the bench who will play

well, and then they had another good recruiting year.

"Houston has athletes as good as anybody' s, and the Cougars are very big and strong in the net.

Theirbackrowisbetterandthey'll be difficult to handle. Texas A&M has had two good recruiting years in a row so they will be better, plus they're always difficult to play.

"Baylor has improved and will be better than last year. Rice has two good outside hitters who will make them better, plus this is their second year in their offense. On a whole, I think the Conference will be much better."

Naturally, Jones would like to advance to the playoffs, as his teams have the last three years.

"We have to beat the right people and we have to win," he said.

"Our region is very competitive, so that makes it difficult. There's parity and lots ofgood teams wanting those playoffs berths."

The Raider schedule is stronger, also. Six matches this year (Pacific No.4, Nebraska No. 7, New Mexico No. 8, Texas No. 13 and Pepperdine No. 17) will be against teams that finished in the NCAA' s Top 20 last year, plus another will be against the Stanford (No. 1) vs. UC-Santa Barbara (No. 11 ) winner in the prestigious Bankers Classic in Stockton, Calif., prior to the playoffs.

Gonzaga is projected as a Top25 team and such teams as Auburn, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona and Wichita State are on the upswing. In-state rival Texas-Arlington is always a tough game for the Red Raiders, and other Lone Star State teams on the Tech schedule are North Texas, Sam Houston State and Southwest Texas State.

Jones is excited about the SWC Tournament. "It will be a neat thing to have, because everybody knows the NCAA representative comes from here. It gives lots of teams a second chance. You have to stay on the top of your game and still have to beat people.

Overall, I think it will help everybody in the conference."

Twenty-four Raider victories would put Jones in an elite category: 100 wins in four seasons.

"I haven' t really thought much about that," he said. "With the game limitations we now have, if we do accomplish that, it will show that we' ve had good athletes who have worked hard and played hard to make this program a success."

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SAUL OF TEXAS

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Tracy, that is...

Bv MIKE HEWLETT enior free safety Tracy Saul is somewhat of a Renaissance man.

He is also the most highly touted Red Raider All-American since the days of the mighty midget Tyrone Thunnan or the big man Gabriel Rivera.

Tech can be doubly proud when it claims its latest defensive standout in the fact that Saul possesses a rather rare quality among today's athleteshumility.

"I really have to thank my parents for keeping me down to earth," Saul said.

'They always told me that no matter how many awards or honors you might receive, you're part of a team ftrst."

Saul's no-nonsense approach to the game coupled with his strong work ethic have gained him the admiration of his peers and the attention of the nation. In three 1992 pre-season polls, Saul was named to the ftrst-team defensive squad across the board. They include the Playboy Magazine poll, the College/Pro Football News Weekly and ATHLON polls.

"What is so impressive about Tracy is he was able to come from a relatively small high school setting and have an immediate impact for our team," said Red Raider Defensive Coordinator Carlos Mainord. "Tracy is a prime example of a guy who stayed close to home and did well. His success is a real plus for us when it comes to recruiting here on the South Plains."

Although Saul wouldn't take all the credit for swaying the decisions of such prized local signees as Tony Daniels and Lloyd Hill from Odessa and Robert Johnson and Jason Upshaw from Lubbock, his success over the past three seasons certainly couldn't have hurt the Tech effort.

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Saul "I feel real fortunate that when I came here as a freshman there were a lot of talented upperclassmen available to help me better my skills," Saul said.

'The main questions for incoming freshman at any school are ftrst, am I going to get to play? and then will this team be competitive. I think that is the primary factor that influenced most of the players to come here because Tech has the look of a winner, and since we've gotten a taste of success I feel we're definitely one of the up and coming powers in the conference."

From his inaugural freshman season to his most impressive year to date (1991), Saul has been racking up awards almost as fast as he has been wrapping up opposing players.

This is illustrated in the fact that as a freshman he received SWC honors being named the defensive newcomer of the year as well as consensus All-SWC kick returner.

This marked the beginning of a series of national recognitions for the former 2A standout including being named to · the Football News All-American freshman squad for his efforts the

previous season.

Saul improved upon these early numbers (8 interceptions /157 return yards I 62 tackles) greatly the followi~ two seasons amassing 12 interceptions, 226 returns yards and 192 tackles for • 1990-91 seasons combined.

"Tracy's certainly blessed with g~ athletic ability, but on the other side of, things he doesn't have the great size," Mainord said. "He makes up for this with speed and heart and by getting to balls that leave you saying, 'there is no way he could have done that."'

Currently, Saul is tied for the SWC career pass interception record at 20 with 1991 Houston graduate Kevin Smith. Heading into his senior season! is likely that Saul will take sole owner· ship of the conference record and have1 legitimate shot at the NCAA mark of~ steals held by AI Brosky of Illinois.

An added weapon in Saul's arsenal of defensive weaponry is what he does with the ball after he catches it. Saul is the owner of the SWC record for caret: interception return yards (383) and is ranked 5th nationally in this category.

Saul's prowess on the fteld is evided when you look at the record books.

However, the true measure of athletes is how they conduct themselves both in and out of the stadium.

Tracy Saul has stayed true to his roots of family and values and said the atmosphere at Tech and its coaching staff have helped him to maintain his focus. ''The team concept is very big here,' Saul said. "Everything we do relies on everyone completing his job as a unit.

That is why all of the pre-season hype does not mean much. It is what you do on the fteld as a team that counts." f

PREPARED BY THE

SPOm INFORMAnoN DEPARTMENT

Louise Ritter resigned as fech women's track coach iW days after the program had showed

agns of improvement during the 1992 Southwest Conference Championships. ,.mgoing into private business because k's a great opportunity for me, and it's a utuation that allows me to be closer to my family," she said May 4.

The resignation was effective immediitly.

Ritter is returning to the fitness and cycling business in Fort Worth that she was a partner in during 1988 and 1989.

6he had been named as Tech' s head coach last June and said she saw improvement in lheprogram during less than one year at its belm.

The Raiders, who had scored only two ~ints at the 1991 SWC outdoor meet, 13Jlle in above TCU this year. "It wasn't a ~tuation at all where I felt like the team wasn't making any progress," Ritter said.

1t'sjust that I thought it was going to be alot longer before we got the program where I wanted it to be."

The search for her replacement has begun. Ritter was a three-time Olympian who won the gold medal in the high jump at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea.

Pitcher Mark Brandenburg and outfielder Wes Shook, loth seniors, were named to the Associ!ted Press All-Southwest Conference baseball team. Brandenburg and outfielder Kent Blasingame were named to the Austin American-Statesman All-Southwest Conference team. And Brandenburg also made the UPI All-SWC squad.

Brandenburg concluded 1992 with a 10.7overall record and a 2.92 ERA. The Humble, Texas, pitcher struck out 107

batters and walked 22 in 145 innings of work this season. He pitched 12 complete games in 1992 and finished his Tech career with a school record 22-11 mark while throwing a record 24 complete games.

Blasingame set a Tech single-season stolen base record with 44. He led the SWC and was among the top 10 in the nation in steals this season.

On the first day of the national signing period, the women's basketball program signed one of their best high school recruits - Michi Atkins, a 6-foot all-state post player from Loraine.

Head coach Marsha Sharp said Atkins ranks among Tech's top freshman recruits and may be a sleeper among the Texas high school seniors, many of whom signed early last November.

Sharp is convinced Atkins can provide immediate front-line help after Tech posts Jennifer Buck and Hazel Tull and forwards Teresa McMillan and Tami Wilson completed their eligibility.

"She's an outstanding athlete who will be able to get out and do so many of the things we want to do in the transition game," Sharp said. "She can start the break because she's such a strong rebounder, and she can get some rebounds on the other end as well.

"She's a good shooter, and she can score. She's really as fundamentally sound as any high school post player we' ve signed."

Men's basketball coach James Dickey signed two additional players to his 1992 team. Roy Roberts, a 6-5, 205-pound perimeter player at

Northeastern Oklahoma A&M junior college from Texarkana, Ark., and Lenny Holly, a 6-4, two-time New Mexico Class 4A player from Alamogordo, inked with Dickey in April.

They joined earliersignees Jason Sasser from Dallas Kimball and Koy Smith from Hale Center who signed in November. The four comprise what appears to be one of the Raiders' strongest recruiting classes in years.

"Roy is a shooter," said Northeastern Oklahoma head coach Lonnie Spencer.

"He's a very skilled perimeter shooter. I think he' s also a little gifted at all three perimeter positions."

Holly played point guard and off guard for the Tigers, who went 25-1 last season en route to the state title. "I think he has great potential as a Division 1 prospect," said Alamogordo head coach Ron Geyer.

"I've felt all along that whoever gets him was going to get an outstanding player."

Wide receiver Rodney Blackshear and punter Mark Bounds, both passed over in the NFL draft, have signed free-agent contracts.

Blackshear will go with the Miami Dolphins and Bounds to the Chicago Bears, where he will compete with former Tech punter Maury Buford, a 10-year NFL veteran.

Ironically, Bounds and Buford became friends last season and talked frequently on the telephone. Bounds, who led the nation in punting last season with a 46.8yard average, also was pursued by the New York Giants.

Blackshear turned down offers from the Bears, Kansas City, Minnesota and Phoenix before signing with the Dolphins.

Tech I-back Anthony Lynn signed a two-year free-agent contract with the Gi-

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Bustin' through in '92!

TEXAS TECH

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1 - 800 - 554-7799 ants. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound Lynn was Tech's second-leading rusher during the 1991 season, gaining 459 yards.

Linebacker Matt Wingo received the Darrell K. Royal Leadership Trophy June 6 at the Greenbelt Bowl high school all-star football game in Childress.

The award, named in honor of the legendary Texas coach, is presented to a senior at a SWC school who demonstrates outstanding leadership qualities.

Wingo was selected from a field that included one top nominee from each of the SWC colleges. From Pasadena, he recorded more than 100 tackles each of the past three seasons.

National signing day turned out to be good for Tech spring sports. Men's track coach Corky Oglesby said it was one of the best in recent memory for him.

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The Raiders received commitments from distance runner Raffeg Ayyad of Mesquite Poteet and pole vaulter Jason Price of Conroe. 'They're top-notch recruits," Oglesby said. 'They're some of the best we've signed in a long time."

The women's team signed Arlington Martin sprinter Karis Moseley, who has run a 25.24 in the 200 meters and a 57.79 in the 400 this season. Also signing were Class 1A 400-meter state champion Jill Williams of Anton and distance standout Louisa Tam of Ruidoso, N.M. J.J. Rorie from Sulphur Springs and Pasadena Dobie's Candy Merrill signed with golf coach Jeff Mitchell. Rorie finished among the top 10 in·the Class 4A state tournament the previous three seasons. She just won her third-straight district title. Merrill has won the District 235A championship four times. She finished second in the regional tourney in 1990 and 20th in the state tournament.

Elizabeth Ameel signed a tennis schol· arship with Tech, graduating from Midland High School and attending Tyler Jun-

Premier Trav~

ior College the past two years. Str1 ranked No. 20 in the NJCAA in sinjl with a 20-12 record and is ranked No.i doubles. As a senior at Midland, Alii reached the Class 5-A state semifina~

The Red Raider golf teal was selected to play in tl NCAA Central regional ph offs May 2 1-23 at Stonebridge Cou~ Club in McKinney. This was the ~ NCAA golf team competition for T~ since 1976.

The Raiders finished seventh in I 1992 SWC Championships in early ~U at Lubbock Country Club. The top eir teams in District 6 advanced to I regionals.

Other District 6 qualifiers were Arb' sas, Texas, TCU, Houston, Southwestr Louisiana, Texas A&M and Rice.

The SWC also announced the I~ All-SWC men's golf team and se~ Chance Blythe was Tech's lone repre!f tative. Blythe led the Raiders with [I

,IOp-10 finishes this season and has a scor.ing average of 74.17 strokes per round.

Roy Elsea scored five goals, and unbeaten Texas Tech claimed the Southwest Lacrosse Asso:iation Collegiate title May 3 in Dallas with a 15-14 victory against Texas A&M in the championship game held at SMU. Tech avenged a last-minute loss to A&M in the championship game, pushed its season record to 14-0 and handed A&M its first loss of the year.

Elsea was named as the tourney's most valuable player. Teammates Steve Swift and Dave Postar scored four and three points, respectively, in the title game.

Tech had reached the final by beating Rice 13-9.

Catch all the football and basketball broadcasts, from the pre-game show through the postgame wrap-up with the coaches, by taking advantage ofTEAMLINE. The phone service is available by dialing 1-800-2251752. Enter a VISA or Mastercard number and expiration date. Cost is 50-cents per minute or $38.95 for a three-hour broadcast.

After a one-year absence, the popular Guns-Up Club is back.

Designed for high school-age and younger Red Raider fans, the Guns-Up Club offers discounted tickets to all six home football games this fall. Members receive a reserved seat in the south end zone for each home game, a Guns-Up Club T-shirt and anofficial1992 Texas Tech football poster.

Price is $36. Deadline for purchase is Aug. 17 from the ticket office.

Former player Matt Jackson, now a student assistant on the Tech tennis team, and singles player Michael Slauson were honored by the Region 6 awards committee.

Jackson was selected as the co-winner of the Region 6 ITCA John Van Nostrand Memorial Award, along with Steve

Campbell of Rice. The award was established by the parents of the young man, who died in a car accident while playing tennis at Pepperdine. The award is given to a person who is a noted fighter and has overcome an obstacle.

Jackson missed most of his senior season in 1991 while battling cancer.

Slauson received the district's Head/ Arthur Ashe Jr. Sportsmanship Award for showing good court sportsmanship.

Texas Tech senior free safety Tracy Saul has won the Dare to Be Great Award, presented annually to the football player who best exemplifies dedication to the program in work habits, enthusiasm, courage and unselfishness during the off-season and spring practice months.

"Tracy exemplifies what the award truly stands for," said Tech strength and conditioning coach Joe Juraszek. "We could have given him this award every day since he's been at Texas Tech."

Juraszek, who selects the winner, said others who received strong consideration were sophomore tight end Scott Aylor, junior center Brad Elam, sophomore center Scott Fitzgerald, freshman cornerback Shawn Hurd and junior guard Bingo Mancillas.

Nikki Heath replaced injured Tech teammate Sheryl Swoopes on the Southwest Conference all-star basketball team that toured Australia in June. Swoopes, a Kodak AllAmerican and the SWC' s Player of the Year last season, suffered an injury to her right knee May 30 during the U.S. Olympic team trials in Colorado Springs.

Swoopes underwent arthroscopic surgery June 3 and begart rehabilitation of four to five weeks.

Heath is a 5-foot-9 guard from Sweetwater who recently completed her freshman season. The tour was June 10-20 and featured seven games, including three against the Australian-National team.

Raider guard Krista Kirkland was also a member of the team.

Former Tech linebacker Charles Rowe and wide receiver Tyrone Thurman played an instrumental role in helping head coach John PaulYoung and the Dallas Texans capture a 49-27 victory May 29 in their opening game of the Arena Football League at Reunion Arena in Dallas.

Thurman had 217 return yards and scored three touchdowns. The Midland product also caught scoring passes of 30 and 12 yards and returned an errant field goal attempt 56 yards for a touchdown.

Rowe scored on a one-yard run and registered a safety on defense.

This fall, ABC Sports will make its regional college football games available on pay-per-view while continuing to provide its regular weekly coverage. While viewers will have the usual option to watch the game chosen for them by ABC Sports on their local ABC station, now they can also watch ABC Sports' production of other games that are ·not being shown over the air in their area.

The price of a pay-per-view game is expected to be under $1 0. You can contact your local cable company for details and check your local TV listing for the game being shown both over the air and on payper-view.

Many Tech-exes have relocated to areas far from Lubbock, so they only get a chance to see the Red Raiders on TV when a network televises them nationally. When ABC telecasts a Tech game in a regional split, many fans see a game which is of more interest to the region in which they live instead of the Red Raiders. This new opportunity opens up more Tech football games to Red Raider fans.

Season tickets to the Red Raiders' six home football games this fall can be purchased by contacting the Tech Ticket Office at (806) 742-3341 or 1-800-800-SWC8. Price ranges are $90,$102 and $108 per season ticket. Orders are being taken now for individual game tickets. Over-the-counter sales for individual game tickets will start Aug.3.

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Bv JIM DouGU AssiSTANT D1R~

Unsolicited Advice ~short time ago, I had the chance to spend a little time

e:;rl with an old high school buddy of mine while he was on campus for a visit. The purpose of his trip was to escort his daughter, Kimberly, while she went through summer registration and orientation prior to her freshman year. It is a most impressive process and both father and daughter seemed very pleased with the way they were treated by faculty and staff on campus.

They lived in a residence hall for those two days and were given red carpet treatment. There were advisors at every turn making sure that Kim got the right information and the best advice as she prepared for her freshman year as a Red Raider. It made me feel proud that Tech does a terrific job in getting new students ready for the wonderful adventure that awaits them.

After Kim and her father returned to San Antonio, I thought of some of the things I would like to have said to her (but wasn't asked!). These are bits of advice that don't fit under any particular category but that I consider important. You might want to pass them on to your student or any young person heading for Tech.

1) Live in the dorm- at least for a year. A residence hall is a great place to get your college career started. You will meet a wide variety of students from every background imaginable. You will learn about campus living, campus events and you will be exposed to so much more going on around you. Besides, it is so convenient having all of your classes close by. Some of the best discussions you will ever have will occur late at night with dorm-mates as you cover such topics as politics, religion, sex, and where to get the best Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream.

2) Room with somebody new- don't pick a roommate that you have known all of your life. You will still have that friend so why not make a new one? You can always request a non-smoker, if you wish, but make an effort to bring someone new into your life.

3) Don't declare a major- at least not right away. Especially if you are not that sure exactly what you want to be when you grow up. There are plenty of courses that are required for most degree plans that you can take while you snoop around and find out what is available. The great thing about Texas Tech is that there are numerous major courses of study so why not shop around and see what interests you? Don' t take four years to do it but a semester or two won't hurt. Most students end up changing majors at least 52

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once anyway. There may be something out there that you hr never heard of that will be perfect for you.

4) Get involved on campus - there are plenty of soci; opportunities on campus: dorm committees, political grou1 fraternities, sororities, University Center events, major/mim associations, etc., etc., etc. We find that our best alumni are usual those who made a point to get involved with a group or gro~ while a student.

S) Attend everything - notjust sporting events. One of then~ things about Tech is that each semester offers a large numbeu special events to choose from: concerts, plays, speakers, comet ans, touring Broadway plays, international fairs and lots m01 Take advantage of these while you can.

6) Take a course for the "fun of it"- take the time to enroll: at least one course at the University or through the Division!

Continuing Education that has nothing to do with your major b. one that interests you. Such things as creative writing, photogn phy, country & western dancing, cooking with wine, and u history of baseball are all waiting for you.

7) Learn a new sport - with the terrific Student Recrealia Center on campus, students have the opportunity to learn racqut" ball, squash, rugby, sailing, rafting, rock climbing and rapellic along with field trips everywhere.

8) Be a loyal Tech student- show it off, talk it up and tlaUP it every chance you get. Make sure you have a Tech decal on yrJ; car and lots of Tech shirts and caps in your wardrobe. When yo. go home for holidays, volunteer to speak to classes at your hi~ school about college in general and Texas Tech in particular.~ positive about Texas Tech and talk loudly and proudly of being' Red Raider.

9) Roll with the punches- maintain a positive mental attilua about college. We are not so naive to think that every experien~ will be a wonderful one. We realize that there will be lines to s~ in, professors you won't care for and experiences that won'l k perfect. Hey, that's life. By keeping a smile on your face and! good outlook on life, your time at Tech will be great.

P.O. Box 4009 luBBOCK, TX 79409 (806} 742·3641

Mark Your Calendar ~mmer is half over and it is time for you to start plan-

On the Road Again•••

Wat'h Us Boom the Sooners•••

This season Tech will be making two big non-conference road trips, and the Ex-Students Association will be sponsoring trips to both. On Sept. 19, the Raiders travel to Eugene, Ore., to face the University of Oregon. Three weeks later, on Oct. 10, the team flies across country to Raleigh to take on North Carolina State. They should be exciting games, both in beautiful parts of the country.

/ ni~g your fall events. With the great weather in Lubbock during the fall months, a calendar full of events and a football team picked in the Top 20, it will be a great time to come to campus and be a part of it all.

The Red Raiders open the 1992 football season in fine fashion hosting the Oklahoma Sooners on national television. On Thursday evening, Sept. 3, Jones Stadium will entertain a full house and an ESPN audience. Many Tech chapters are already planning TVwatching parties.

For instance, Houston area field representative Jim Lane reported that three of his chapters have scheduled Texas Tech vs.

Oklahoma TV game-watching parties in conjunction with their chapter meetings on Sept. 3. They are: Bell County Chapter, Rodney Shine, (817) 774-9131 Southwest Texas Chapter (Del Rio and Uvalde), Lashawn Wardlaw, (512) 563-2580 Houston Chapter, John Stroh, (713) 622-5760.

Speaking of Trips••• One of the most exciting things to happen to this university will occur next May 20. The Texas Tech Symphonic Orchestra has been invited to perform in Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Ex-Students Association will sponsor a trip to the Big Apple for this event.

The performance is on a Thursday evening, so arrival will be on Wednesday, May 19. Tickets to a Broadway show, the symphony performance, touring and shopping are all included in this trip. Make plans now for this outstanding travel opportunity.

Contact our office for details and to reserve your spot.

Come On Home, Raiders••• The weekend of Sept. 25-26 bas been set for the annual Homecoming celebration. We will be playing the Baylor Bears as !heir coach, Grant Teaff, comes to Jones Stadium for the last time. !twill be a great game and there are lots of events throughout the weekend. The schedule of events follows on page 63.

The Deal of the Century••• The annual chapter leadership conference will be held from 8 ·11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 31 in the University Center. All interested chapter members are invited to attend and learn more about the Ex·Students Association and bow to be a better volunteer for Texas Tech.

This is also the date Tech hosts the UT Longhorns. With kickoff set for that afternoon, the workshop will conclude in plenty of time to get to the game. Those who register and attend !he workshop will receive a FREE game ticket. This is the Association•s way of saying thank you for your interest in and support of the chapter program.

For more information, contact the Ex-Students Association on campus or call your local field representative.

Winer (left}, clean ol the College ol Arts & Sciences,. congratulates summa cum loucle spring 1992 grac/uotes,.a/1 With perfect 4.0 gracle point averages, ancl presents them the" Highest Ranking Gra~uote aware/ plaques. (F':om left} Winer, Angelo Gabriel, musiC perlorrn~!"e; T':oy Wil"a'!'~n, philosophy; Christa Nolan, pol1tical sc~ence; PatriciO Vowels, sociology; Tori lrlbeclc, biochemistry; ancl Susan Wintersteen, geography. {A lull list ol winners is on page 54.}

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Highest Ranking Graduates..• This isn't a calendar event to mark, but it's certainly worth mentioning. At each commencement ceremony, the Association recognizes the top graduates in all colleges. In the spring, those individuals were:

Agricultural Sdences Robert Bryan Daniel, Darrell Lee Taylor

Architedure Kenneth Robert Killian

Arts &Sciences Angela Marie Gabriel, Tori Gae Irlbeck, Christa Ann Nolan, Patricia Nolte Vowels, Troy Dale Williamson, Susan Beth Wintersteen

Business Administration Darinda Darr Rotan, Kimberly Jewel Schott, Jon Larkin Troutman

Former Tech Regent Clint Formby of Hereford (lower right} visils with Tech President Robert W. Lawless and his wile, Marcy, o1 the New York meeting.

Education Deborah Ann Jackson Edington

Engineering Michael Allan Conditt

Home Economics Linda Kay Caster

What a Great Idea...

One of the best activities taken on by a chapter comes from the Denver/Colorado Springs area. They have volunteered to "adopt a highway" and share the responsibilities with the local Moms and Dads Club. Every few months the groups join together to patrol their stretch of Interstate-25 (between the two cities) and pick up debris.

Besides doing their part to keep their state clean, there are highway signs on both sides that designate their sponsorship. It raises Texas Tech's visibility in the state of Colorado. Maybe other chapters throughout the country would like this idea, too.

Former Texas Tech President Dr. Lauro Cavazos and his wife, Peggy, attend the Boston chapter meeting in April.

Saying Goodbye...

Field representative Bob Paikowski, who headed up chapter and related activities in the West Texas, New Mexico and Colorado areas, moved back into the "real world" July 1. Bob was a positive force with his chapters and his loyalty, hard work, enthusiasm and great sense of humor are appreciated and will be missed by those who worked with him. We all wish Bob the best of luck in his new ventures.

Chapter Pictures••• The photos that will run in this section during the next few months represent the various activities and events that are ongoing in our chapters throughout the nation. We appreciate the help of all those responsible.

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(From left} Arthur Mayhew and Carol Mann visit with Bob Camr bell and Bob Larrabee in Philadelphia.

Attention Black Alumni and Friends!

T Association notional boarcl member Mortho Yorlc: ol Lubbock (second from lelt) ottenclecl the Washington, D.C., meeting in April. Other chapter leoclers incluc/e (lrom lelt) Danelle Former, Joel Branclenberger, Sylvia Castillo one/ Michelle one/ Ston Roy.

he Black Students Association will be hosting their first annual Homecoming Dance Sept. 25 in the University Center Ballroom for current and former Tech students.

We hope to start another exciting Red Raider tradition that will stimulate minority involvement and make Afro-American Tech-exes feel really good to be back at Texas Tech University.

The dance will begin at 8 p.m.with tickets available at the door for $5 per couple or $3 per person.

Tickets are not required to be purchased in advance, but we would appreciate knowing if you will be attending so we can plan accordingly. RSVP: (806) 742-2402.

Greer ancl Suzi Kothmonn (lelt) one/ Tulisho one/ Hoc/ley Wardlow moke plans with other Tech-exes in Broclcettville to go to Mexico.

A highlight of the Homecoming Dance will be a slide presentation. We are asking all those who wish to attend the dance to submit pictures that we can include in the presentation. To submit pictures, bring them to 309 West Hall between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and drop them off. Put your name, address and phone number on the back of each picture if you wish for it to be returned . The deadline is Sept. 18. If out-of-town guests would like to participate, all photos can be mailed to Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 68, Lubbock, TX 79409.

The event will include the first Black Homecoming Queen and King crowning. The two will be selected by votes by Black students on campus on the basis of who they feel best represents the Black community in an outstanding manner. Also, we will have a special recognition of the female who represents the minority students in the campus-wide Homecoming Queen election.

Plan on joining us for this first-of-its-kind event at Texas Tech!

Telea Johnson President,

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Broclcettville's Stanley Dunbar one/ Loshawn Wardlaw, banquet chairperson; and Chorley Robinson ol Uvalde he/peel organize the night's festivities.

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Class of 1942 celebrates 50th anniversaiJ

BY PEGGY PEARCE Three days packed with activities tailored for the Texas Tech class of 1942 proved to be a bonding experience for 100 classmates, spouses and upperclassmen on May 6-8.

Music of the 1940s and a trivia quiz offered a flashback of the familiar, an update session gave a glimpse of the new and a bus tour allowed a sense of both.

Representatives from the campus provided input during the events including President Robert W. Lawless; Dr. Bill Dean, vice president and CEO of the Ex-Students Association; and William G. Wehner, vice president for institutional advancement. Others were Joe Hornaday, sports information director; and Jim Bob Jones, director of Health Sciences Center relations. Members of the steering committee were Dr. John R . Bradford, Audrey Binkley Bennett, Zeb and Vondee Moore, Winifred Woods Vigness, Charles B. "Chocky" Fair, Raymond and Dorothea Scheihagen Goodrich, Joe (From lelt} Moclc Atcheson '42, El Paso, renews lrienc/ships with Bob Johnston, and Roger upperclassmen Kline Noll '37, Lubboclc; John Osborne Jr. '29, Corsicana; and Jane Prickett KuyWillie Mae Hawthorne Rogers '27, Lubboclc; oncl Sylva Wilson Wesenclonlc '27, Lubboclc. kendall.

Vonclee Lewis Moore '42, Lubboclc, receives her Goklen Anniversary certificate from Presiclent Lawless.

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Visiting during the reception at Teysho Cellars Winery ore Lubboclcites (from le/j Dr. John R. Braclford '42, Audrey Binlcley Bennett '42 onclBelly Vaughn Bradford '50 oncl from Dallas Cha! B. 'Choc/cy' Fair '42.

Winifrecl Woods Vigness '42 ol Lubbod wos all smiles during the reunion activities.

She served on the sleering committee.

Wehner (right}, presents o prize to Raymoncl oncl Dorothea Scheihogen Fonner Football players toile with Joe Hornaday. (From leh} Eel Goodrich '42 of Santo Irons, Lubboclc; Byron Gilbreath, Atlanta; Hornaday; and Rafe Cruz, Calif., during the Nobors, Dallastown, Pa. campus update.

Introducing Ex-Students Board Member Jack H. Henry Name: Dr. Jack H. Henry City where you currently reside: San Antonio Position on the board: member Degree, major, and class year at Tech, plus any other degrees you may have earned: BA in chemistry in 1960; MD from University of Texas in 1964 Where are you employed and what is your position there: San Antonio, orthopedic surgeon (also physician to the San Antonio Spurs professional basketball team) Family Members: wife Jane Underwood; and sons David and Robert Major activities you were involved in as a student at Tech: Varsity football, Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and Saddle Tramps What is one of your fondest memories from Tech days?

We beat TCU in 1956 when they won the SWC and played . Syracuse in the Cotton Bowl.

What would you like to see implemented, changed or improved at Tech? Better graduate relations with the older alumni, for instance, job market for Texas Tech grads.

What is your favorite book? Lonesome Dove What is your favorite movie? Patton What are your interests/hobbies: Hunting, fishing What character trait do you value highly in an individual? Honesty If you could invite six persons to your home for an evening, who would they be: Former Tech coach Pete Cawthon, head football coach Spike Dykes, former Tech presidents Clifford B. Jones, Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos and Grover Murray, plus current President Dr. Robert W. Lawless. We'd discuss the future of Texas Tech.

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ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP DONORS Art and EIRay Busch Distinguished Alumnus Art Busch '50 calls himself an "ex"- as in ex-professor, ex-researcher, ex-EPA regional administrator and exconsultant. He retired in 1990 from a professional engineering career and a private practice as environmental engineering consultant to industry and government. Art and EIRay Carter '50 met and married while at Texas Tech. They moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Art earned an M.S. in "sanitary engineering." He taught at Rice University and held adjunct and visiting professor status throughout his professional career. EIRay runs Childrens' Antiques, Ltd., a collection of antique furniture and accessories for children. The couple has two grown children and reside in Wimberley. The Association appreciates the support of the Busches in time, when Art was president in 1980 ofthe Ex-Students Association, and as contributors to the Loyalty Fund and the Endowed Scholarship Endowment.

Donors to the Endowed Scholarship Fund: Mr. and Mrs. Malouf Abraham of Canadian Dr. and Mrs. R.G. "Wick" Alexander of Arlington Mr. and Mrs. Edmond A. Anderson of Lubbock Gen. and Mrs. Ross Ayers of Austin Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barnett of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Benninger of San Antonio 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. R. Canon Clements ofLub~k Mr. and Mrs. Solon Clements of North Carolina Mrs. Anna Belle Collins Collier of Lubbock 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 Mr. and Mrs. Truett W. Flache of Brownfield Thomas A. and Grace Wood Ford of Washington Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Foster of Midland Mr. Dicky Grigg of Austin Mr. Roy T. Grimes-LISD Principals Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Gulley Jr. of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Haley Sr. of Tyler Mr. and Mrs. 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. James W. Lacy of Midland Mr. and Mrs. Arch Lamb of Lubbock In memory of Terry and Chris Lane of Brady Mr. and Mrs. M. Dan Law of Lubbock Mr. Robert J. Lewis of Fairfax, Va. Dr. Mary L. Luchsinger of Baltimore, Md. Dr. Vincent P. Luchsinger of Baltimore, Md. Mr. H.J. "Mac" MacKenzie of Lubbock Mr. Don Maddox of Gastonia, N.C. Ms. Ilah Coffee Merriman of Dallas.

Mr. and Mrs. E.A. McCullough of Midland Mr. and Mrs. William E. Miller of Lubbock Mr. Marlin P.J. Minter of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Morris of Houston Dr. and Mrs. Barry Norman of Fort Worth 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. James Ratliff of Lubbock Col. Jack Robinson by the 406th Fighter Group Mrs. T.A. Rogers of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. W B. Rushing of Lubbock Mr. James T. Schiermeyer of Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. John K. Sosnowy of Cameron Dr. and Mrs. Ken Talkington of Arlington The Puck and Grady Taylor Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Garland Threadgill of Dallas Mrs. Harriette Williford-Whatley of Fairfield Mr. and Mrs. John Wheeler of Fayetteville, N.C. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Whiteside of Lubbock Mr. Elmer Dean Wilson of Pampa Individual gifts from classes of 1949 and 1950

For information write to Texas Tech Ex-Students Association Endowment Trust, Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409 58 • JULY/AUGUST 1992

Recognizing our new members...

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Mr. Joel Ackerman ~riend of Tech)

Mr. Robert L. Adkins, Jr. '90 Mr. & Mrs. J. Jeffrey Anderson '85 (Stacy Hutchinson '89)

Brunjes Mrs. Michelle Moreland Bartlett '91 Mrs. Winnie Spears Bartley '67 Mr. Monty W. Becton '87 Ms. B. Kay Berry '81 Mr. Mark D. Blake '89 Mr. Jim Brunjes ~end of Tech) Mrs. Debbie Butts (Friend of Tech) Mr. Jim T. Casey '41 Mrs. Carole Q. Cross '92 Mr. James M. Davis, Jr. '89 Mr. J. Wes Dorman, Jr. '89 Mr. Marc S. Farmer '81 Mr. J. Mark Fox '82 Mr. James A. Gerick '50 Miss Tiffany A. Glover '88 Ms. Lauren M. Graves '81 Mr. & Mrs. Billy J. Greaves '74 (Mary Seidel '71) Mr. Michael E. Gyman '91 Mr. V. Mike Hi11'89 Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hobgood '73 (Debbie Brooke '72)

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The Century Club is a division of the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund for $100 and above contributors. Membership entitles the individual to privileges reserved for our special donors, such as the Century Club Scholarship and Awards Dinner each year at Homecoming.

Loyalty Fund Member Century Club Member Bronze Century Club Member Old Red Century Club Member Golden Century Club Member Ruby Century Club Member Diamond Century Club Member

Mrs. Patricia Hogan-Grattan '72 Mr. & Mrs. Troy M. Johnson '86 (Julie Landgraf '89) Mr. John E. King (Friend of Tech) Mr. Sam E. Lanham '66 Ms. Jeannine McHaney (Friend of Tech) Mr. George B. Macklin '88 Miss N. Margaret Moore '84 Mr. Brad L. Moran '82 Mr. Isidro Palacios '89 Miss Kim K. Phelan '87 Mr. Billy J. Robinson '78 Mr. Michael R. Standerfer '89 Mr. Mark Stiff (Friend of Tech)

$25 to $99 $100 to $249 $250 to $499 $500to$999 $1,000 to $1,499 $1,500 to $1,999 $2,000 or more

Mr. Leland M. Stone '58 Ms. Lisa V. Vela '82 Mr. David K. Waggoner '83 Miss Margaret S. White '90 Miss Penny S. Willenborg '76 Miss Tonya L. Wilson '88

NEW BRONZE CENTURY CLUB Mr. & Mrs. Jim H. Anderson '73 (Pat Ramsey '73) Mr. E. Dick Brooks '61 Mrs. Patsy Bauer Felter '72 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hamilton '67 (Lyn Ashmore '68) Mrs. Donna Doyle Heyman '79 Dr. John P. Narro '81 Mr. John E. Roueche III '88 Mr. Tim G. Soles '69

NEW OLD RED CENTURY CLUB Mr. Jack Bumpas '67 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Hamilton '67 (Lyn Ashmore '68) Mr. & Mrs. James L. McCarley '87 (Lynn McGee '86) Mrs. Susan Cowden Raybourn '84

NEW GOLDEN CENTURY CLUB Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Gantt '68 (Marjorie McGraw '68)

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*Jim Lindsey (BA Journalism), Austin, joined the staff of State Comptroller John Sharp on May 1 after nine years in the General Land Office. Jim served 17 years as director of information and publications of the A&M System and was a recipient of the outstanding alumni award in the School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech.

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L.E. "Sonny" Nance (BS Animal Husbandry), Haslet, has served on the board of directors of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show since 1962. He is a general partner of Hall-Nance Ranches Ltd.

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James Evans (BBA Management), Lubbock, and his wife, Janelle Turner Evans (' 49) are the owners of Evans Travels Inc. after buying the company a year ago.

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Billy R. Cooper (BA Political Science), Fairfax, Va., has been appointed director, government and industry liaison for the Eastman Kodak Co.

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Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock (BBA General Business), Austin, received an Honorary DoctorofHumanities in Medicine degree at the Baylor College of Medicine's commencement

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in recognition of his continuing dedication and service to the people of Texas. *Tom Locke (General Business), Lubbock, has joined The Plains National Bank as senior vice president for commercial lending. Tom has 37 years oflending experience in the Lubbock market and has served as president and vice chairman of the board of Texas Commerce Bank of Lubbock.

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T. Glen Cary (BBA Finance), Dallas, has been selected for inclusion in the 1992 - 1993 edition of Oxford's Who's Who, The Elite Registry of Extraordinary Professionals.

Glen's selection was based not only on an illustrious career as president and CEO of Foster Financial Group/Foster-Cary Corp., but also on a long record of achievements and awards for community services. His company provides financial services, insurance and investment products, financial and estate planning, charitable giving, employee stock ownership plans and business brokerage services. *Jake Sitters (BA Speech Communication), Castroville, retired in March after 28 years as a resident of Johnston Atoll, a small island southwest of Hawaii. Jake was hired as a field clerk for the Defense Nuclear Agency division of Kirtland AFB, N.M., and went on to

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become the senior administration assislall the resident manager at the Raytheon Servi Nevada, the agency's operations and m31111 ment contractor for Johnston Atoll.

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Larry Nelson (BS Agricultura!E gineering), Tulia, was named Texas' outst. ing ginner of the year in April. Larry heal! corporation that owns three gins, a seed ca pany and a farm. He has held leadership rd in many regional, state and national col\ organizations and is vice president of Coli Inc. Ben R. Stuart (BS Mechanical B gineering), Coming, N.Y., was named pra dent and CEO of Dresser-Rand Co., acompR sor and turbine joint venture owned by Dresl and the Ingersoll Rand Co. Dresser-Rand ~ plies products and services for the energy Clll neering and mining industries.

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•c. Robert Black (BS Petrokl Engineering), Harrison, N.Y., was elected! senior vice president of Texaco Inc. R'* will oversee a number of Texaco units inclll ing the Middle East/Far East division, Tenl fuel and marine marketing, international a~ tion sales and the marine department.

Rob Brown (BS Animal Hush~

nuockmorton, serves as a member of the executive committee of the American Quarter Horse Association. He has been selected to progress .into the presiden? of th~ organizationwithm four years. He IS the third-generation owner of the R.A. Brown Ranch near nuockmorton.

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Wayne S. Smith Jr. (BS Mechani-

cal Engineering), Amarillo, retired recently after 33 years with Maran & Hanger, Silas Mason Co. Inc., contractors to the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Wayne was a senior project engineer in tool design at the Pan-Tex Plant in Amarillo.

He is married to the former Fairy Tom George (BS '58 Education). They have two children and four grandchildren.

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Dr. John Bear (PhD Chemistry), Houston, has been newly appointed as dean of theCollege ofNatural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston.

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Bill Dean (BBA Marketing, MED

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Education), Lubbock, was presented the Outstanding Fraternity Alumni Award for 1992 at the lOth Anniversary Greek Awards banquet beldon April29 at Texas Tech. The award was presented by the Interfraternity Council. Also, atthe fraternity's annual international meeting held in Arlington, Va., June 20, Bill was presented the Legion of Honor Award for his major contribution of time, effort and energy as longtime adviser to the Texas Tech chapter of Phi Delta Theta and as editor of The Scroll, the rraternity' s magazine, a position he held for 19 years. The Tech chapter received the Harvard Trophy, which is given annually to the most outstanding chapter among more than 180 schools. In addition, the chapter received six of 24 awards given at the convention. They included the Outstanding Excellence A ward, Bininger Religious Life Award and Community Service Citation. Rob P. Schmid, a junior in the Tech chapter, received the Arthur R. Priest A ward as the outstanding undergraduate in the fraternity. Bill is executive vice president and CEO of the Ex-Students Association.

Martha Crow York (General Business), Lubbock, was honored with a Gold Medal Award by the Lubbock chapter of Women in Communications Inc. The award is given to individuals who have worked for the development of one or more programs that improve the qualityoflifeforthepeopleofLubbock. Martha ~ broker, director and founding partner of Westmark Realtors and a partner in Yet Inc. with her husband, Bob. Martha served on the Lubbock lSD board of trustees for six years, is past president of the Lubbock Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse board of directors,

served as campaign vice president for the United Way, serves on the national board of directors of the Ex-Students Association and was recently appointed by the University president to serve on the Tech Athletic Council.

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Tony Gustwick (BBA Management), Baton Rouge, La., is executive secretary for the Louisiana State University Alumni Association.

Rodney C. Hill (BAR Architecture), College Station, professor of architecture and associate dean for student services in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M, was recently awarded the Student Relations Award by the students at that university. Rodney is a sponsor ofstudent organizations and also works with programs to attract high school students to architecture careers, recruit minority students and build relationships through summer exchange programs. Rodney received a collegelevel teaching award in 1983 and a universitylevel teaching award in 1985.

Brig. Gen. James M. Johnston Ill (BBA Marketing), Yokota AFB, Japan, retired after a 30-year military career. During those 30 years, James served in various positions in various states and overseas. The general is a command pilot with· more than 4,600 flying

hours in the F-100, T-39, A-1HJE, F-4, F-15 and F-16 aircraft. His military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion ofMerit and Distinguished Flying Cross.

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Carolyn Davis Kennedy (BA English), Lubbock, has been South Plains regional director for the American Heart Association for nine years. Carolyn's duties were recently expanded when she was named senior regional directorforthe Panhandle-West Texas Council of the association. She now oversees the operations in the Amarillo and Midland regions, in addition to her direct supervision of the South Plains region. Her entire field of responsibility is comprised of 63 counties from Amarillo to El Paso.

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Lt. Frank S. ADen (MED Education), Point Mugu, Calif., has returned from a four-month deployment with Antarctic Development Squadron-Six, Naval Air Station. While in the Antarctic, Frank contributed significantly to the support of the command's mission which included around-the-clock flight operations to deliver needed supplies and fuel to the science teams.

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*Robert P. Blair (BBA Accounting), Tuscaloosa, Ala., is director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and has received the first Secretary's Award for the Advancement of Nursing Programs. Robert is one ofonly two directors in the VA system of 172 medical centers to receive this honor. *R.B. (Pete) Holden (BBA Marketing), Richardson, started Holden Loose Leaf in 1975 as a manufacturer of custom printed vinyl binders and has diversified and now distributes a variety of products. Holden Loose Leaf was presented with Texas Instruments' Vendor Excellence Award in May. Dr. GeorgeE.Stanley(BA, MA '67 French), Lawton, Okla., has been at Cameron University for 22 years. He is chairman of the department of languages and communication and is also the author of 19 children's books and one book on writing for children and young adults.

Ronald W. Tubbs (BS Mechanical Engineering), Abilene, retired from the USAF with over 25 years service. He is currently teaching ROTC at Abilene High School.

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Col. David Love (BS Dairy Management), Lubbock, took command of the 64th Flying Training Wing at Reese AFB on May 29. David is a command pilot with more than 4,000flyinghours in theC-141 , C-130, B-52D, T-38, Jet Provost and Hawk aircraft. This includes 400 combat hours in Vietnam in the C130. David has numerous military decorations and has come to Reese from Randolph AFB in San Antonio, where he was deputy chief of staff for personnel at headquarters air training command.

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Dr. J, Thomas Hutton (BA Zoology), Lubbock, was elected president of the Texas Neurological Society. Tom is in private practice and directs St. Mary of the Plains

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Hospital's Parkinson Disease Research Center.

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Col. Michael K. Corbell (BSE Education), Fort Hood, graduated from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Mike is serving his second tour at Fort Hood; where he was selected to assume command of the 3rd Personnel Group, 10 Corps. Mike and his wife, Donna, have three children: Conny, who earned herBS in international economics from Tech in August 1991; Kent, a sophomore at Auburn University; and Candy, 14.

Jodi Price Koumalats (BS Home Economics Education), Amarillo, is seeing much success as an historical romance author.

She has had excellent feature articles in the Lubbock and Amarillo papers and has a new book, "Prairie Song."

of staff for Methodist Hospital and is the )lQ team physician for the Texas Tech athJc6 department.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gary l Stephenson (BA Journalism), Long B~ Calif., returned recently from Central A~ where he was deployed on the USS Fraaa Hammond, which is to be decommissioned ~ month.

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B. Dan Foster (BS Animal SciellCII Paris, is married to Billye Foster (BS l Animal Science). Dan is a team leader Kimberly Clark Corp. plant and Billye teacl~ agriculture at Paris Junior College and OCl\ pies the E.C. Hancock Division Chair. *Johnny W. Lasiter (BS ChemiU Engineering), Odessa, has been named as ~ president and general manager of the Odet complex for Rexene Corp., which manuft lures thermoplastic resins and petrochemil products.

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Jens Hansen (BA History), Arlington, teamed up with two other men to write a controversial book, "JFK: Conspiracy of Silence." One of the men, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, was one of the first doctors on the scene when the President was brought in and helped prepare the body for shipment back to Washington. What he saw and what we were told were two different things. This is what the book, which was #1 on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List for the week of April 20, discusses. *F.A. Underwood (BBA Management), Lubbock, was elected to the board of directors for The Plains N!ltional Bank. F.A. is the president of The Trinity Co. and serves as the director of Cotton Warehouse Association of America.

Dr. Sandra Stecher Harper (B~ Secondary Education), Abilene, dean of 11r College of Arts and Sciences at McMurry Uli versity, has been accepted as one of thnz Texans into the class of 1992 Harvard Mana&~­ ment Development Program.

Dr. Robert 0 . Kirby (DBA Bll!i ness Administration), Kingsville, was appoinld as provost and vice president for acadeni affairs at Texas A&l University. He was ftl merly dean of the College of Business Admil istration.

Dr. Robert Martin (PhD Zoology) Abilene, is professor of biology at McMUII) University. .

Paul E. Parkinson (BA Englilll, BBA '82 Finance), Midland, has been namd as president ofTexas National Mortgage Bank· ers, a division of Texas National Bank of Mil land.

Shirley Wills (BBA Accounting) Lubbock, was named as 1992 Distinguisbti Alumna of Tech's area of accounting. Shirlq is chief financial officer for Cardiology As~ ciates of Lubbock.

Lt. Jack F. Wright (BA English) La Maddalena, Italy, received the Navy Co~t mendation Medal for meritorious service whik serving aboard the ammunition ship USS Buill. homeported in Earle, N.J. Jack is curren~ assigned at Navy Support Office in lJ Maddalena.

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*Dr. Robert R. King (Pre-med), Lubbock, has been elected to the board of directors for The Plains National Bank. Robert . has a private orthopaedic practice, and is clinical assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Tech Medical School. He is also vice chief

George M. Hill (BS Animal Business), Andrews, is married to MariiYJ Pederson Hill (BSE '76 Elementary Eduation). George is secretary-treasurer and gcteral manager of the Hill Cattle Co. Marilynil bookkeeper for the company and a homemakt:f.

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Steve Brown (BA Telecommunications), Lubbock, was married on April 25 to Cheryl Wilkins. Steve is employed by Lubl:;lek Power & Light.

Carol Campbell (BSE Elementary Education, MBA ' 80 Business Administration), Carrollton, was married on May 2 to Bob Barke. Carol is employed by SSBA America in Dallas.

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Hawaii, reported for duty with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-364, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Marine Corps Air Station.

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Mackie Plaster Bobo (EDD Education), was given a Gold Medal award by the Lubbock chapter of Women in Communications Inc. Last year, she catered a South Plains Food Bank breakfast for 400 people using only donated foods and in the process, she helped ~ach unemployed volunteers the skills of catering and food service. janice Hunt (BSE Elementary Education), Lubbock, was married on May 30 to Michael K. Neighbors. Janice is employed by the Lubbock lSD.

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Saturday, September 26 4 : 30~6:00

p.m.

Journalism Building If game is rescheduled, reception will be held two hours prior to ga me.

(Please send your current address to Box 43081, Lubbock, TX 79409-3081.)

David Deason (BBA Accounting),

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, S EPT. 8a.m.

8a.m. - 9 p.m.

9a.m.

Noon 7p.m.

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Ex-Students Past President's Breakfast Red Raider Road Race Registration (5 & 10K) Ex-Students Board Meeting Council and Awards Luncheon Century Club Reception Century Club Scholarship Awards Dinner Dance

S A TURDAY, S EPT. 6:30 - 7:30 a.m.

8 a.m.

10a.m.

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1 p.m.

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4:30 · 6:30 p.m 6:30 p.m.

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UC Green Rm uc Lobby UC Lubbock Rm UC Ballroom Civic Center Civic Center

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Tech Rec Center Tech Rec Center Broadway Dan Law Field UC Ballroom ATC UC Green Rm SWCWalkway Jones Stadium Jones Stadium

For a complete schedule of Homecoming events, call 806 / 742-3641

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Lubbock, is general manager of the Olive Garden Restaurant and is president of the Lubbock Restaurant Association. David is primarily responsible for overseeing four managers and a staff of more than 100 people.

Gary E. Patterson (BA Political Science), Houston, practices Jaw in the areas of personal injury, family Jaw, probate and general civil litigation.

Shauna Hill Peterson (Journalism), is director of Engineering Services at Texas Tech. *Jake Weber (BBA Management), Richardson, is senior purchasing agent for Texas Instruments Inc.

•Lt. Jay S. Lewis (BS Mechanical Engineering Technology), Panama City, Aa., received the Bronze Star and Navy Commendation Medals, both for valor during combat operations in the Persian Gulf with Operation Desert Storm. Jay recently completed an extended tour in the Republic ofthe Philippines as a member of Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit Five and currently is the officer in charge of the EOD Detachment in Panama City.

Chuck McDonald (BA Political Science), Austin, is assistant press secretary for Gov. Ann Richards.

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Randy D. Darnell (BS Agricultural Economics), Amarillo, is married to Lisa Erwin Darnell (BS Human Development/Family Studies). Randy farms and runs cattle in the Panhandle in Randall County, and Lisa is a homemaker.

Lisa Vines Flathers (BA Social Welfare, MPA '85 Public Administration), Lubbock, has been appointed South Plains regional director oftheNational League ofJunior Cotillions.

LaneGiles(BBAGeneralBusiness), Lubbock. and Kim Locke (BA '85, MA '90 Mathematics) were married on June 6. Lane is employed by The Plains National Bank and Kim is employed by Levelland lSD. Kenneth R. Heard (BBA Management), Dallas, continues to work with Andersen Consulting. He and his wife, Kim, have two

*Elizabeth Elias (BSE Secondary Education, MA '84 Speech Communication), Arlington, was appointed as executive director of the University ofTexas at Arlington Alumni Association in April. Elizabeth was formerly coordinator of the President's Council and special projects for the development office at Texas Tech.

Elizabeth Preisinger (BM Music Performance), Houston,was awarded an M.D. degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and has been accepted into the pathology residency program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

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Catherine J. Cruz (BA Advertising), Aledo, was named as director of advancement services at Texas Christian University.

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children, Andrew, 3 and Carly, 14 months, Duke McDowell (BA Engineeriq Austin, and Angie Abell (BS '89 Human ~ velopment/Family Studies) were married ~ April11. Duke owns Sterling Custom Ho~tt;

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Tracy Spencer (BS Secondary F4 cation), Austin, was married to Tom Brow.j August 1991. She completed a master's l divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theolo~ Seminary in May and has accepted a positiOll associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church Emporia, Kan.

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Michael D. Allen (BS Enginee~ Technology), Tahoka, was married on June6t Jonama Cox. Michael is employed by Lyntep Electric Cooperative.

Fran Scott (PhD Fine Arts), 1.1 bock, taught at TexasTech for14years. Sl is now serving as vice president of plann~ research and special projects for United W~ Connie Cooper Stovall (MA & glish), Dayton, Ohio, was married on May 301 David L. Post.

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Kristi K. Kountz (BS Agriculbn Education, MA '87 Agriculture), Amari& was married on April25 to Keith Mathis. Krit is employed by the U.S. Government.

Bob Leahy (PhD Psycholog~ Levelland, was married on May 30 to ChaJ Smith. Bob was recently promoted to profess~ at South Plains College.

Timothy R. Mills (BBA Manall ment), Plano, and his wife, Stephanie Sat!~ Mills (BBA Management) announce the bill of a son, Russell, born on April9.

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Tim Cooper (BS Crops), Locknq was married on May 23 to Tamera Bowdcl Tim is employed by Burson Crop Consultiq Sven Phillips (BS Physical Edua tion), Odessa, is an instructor and clinical coo dinator in the Radiologic Technology progm at Odessa College. His wife, Becky M~ Phillips (BSE, MED '86 Physical Education) is an elementary physical education instructa coach at Goldsmith Elementary School. Thq have a daughter, Blythe, 6, and a son, Max,l Robert Rum below (BM, MM '91 Music Performance, MME '89 Music Ed~ lion), Lubbock, and Linda Gammill (BSE '91 Elementary Education) were married on Jur.: 6. Robert and Linda are both employed ~ Lubbock lSD.

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Julius Amin (PhD History), Dar· ton, Ohio, an assistant professor at the Univosity of Dayton, was raised in Cameroon ani taught by Peace Corps volunteers and lattJ worked as their colleague. This experielll't

Velvet Butterfly Bv GLYNDA HowARD McCLURE ut of her own life's pain and road to joy, Karen Akard Geurin ' 60 of San Antonio recently published ~ first book, "To Touch the Face of God, (Joe Soul's Journey." This is Karen's story o("her search for serenity with a taste of a Sllll in agony, in ecstasy, in reverence and in pyer."

Karen's parents were divorced when she was an infant. She never knew her biological father. Her childhood was plagued with questions of "Daddy, where are you?" &neath the surface of that beautiful little girl ns a cry to be loved, cared for and nurtured.

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'Shadows ofmoonlight flicker softly against the darkened wall.

Huddled in my bed I watch and think and dream ...

Emotions rise that feel the pain of loneliness.

Where are you? Who are you? Whispers, whispers that give no comfort. !ky only sound like rushing wind and look like swirling shadows. /try hard to see your face and my little girl hand shyly reaches up to you.

You're gone ... there is only darkness."

"From the time I wrote my first poem," Karen said, "I knew that writing best tXpressed the emotions I felt inside. I found rdease in writing, but even that long ago, ~>mething in my spirit knew that I had a God-given gift."

Yet, the only benefactors of Karen' s writings were her English teachers.

After her graduation from high school, wen ventured to the plains of West Texas llld the Tech campus. "I wrote fr~uently in roUege about love, life, hopes, dreams and prayer," she said.

Karen graduated from Tech, married her Tech sweetheart and moved to San Antonio.

While she raised two children, her writing was put on hold for about 15 years.

During that time, she said "I was very caught up in 'lifestyle' ... raising perfect drildren to reflect my own perfectionism and doing everything 'just right."' In the midst of her perfect life, Karen's marriage, like

many college romances, ended in divorce. "The pain of that rejection and Joss immobilized me," she said.

In her 40s, Karen once again found her life full of pain. Her pen, which had been silent for so long, found new life. "I began therapy, Glyncla McClure (left} and Karen A/card Geurin which has continued off and on in the years that have followed. I remarried, experienced my spirit that is Karen shines through in these children becoming adults and releasing them expressions from the heart. The marvelous to go forward with their lives, and became a truths that emerge from these words will grandmother." inspire all of us for the living of these days.

In her book "To Touch the Face of God, And our days will be better as we walk with One Soul's Journey," Karen shares with her Karen through her pain, eavesdrop on her reader her journey from pain through prayer: prayers and experience in our own lives the triumph of the promises!"

"Sitting high above the wind and waves I seek to hear God's voice Calling, guiding, leading to make some sense out of the chaos ofmy life.

An occasional sea gull calls out as it flies by surveying all below.

In some ways this is a moment of shelter from the pain ofparting but a{ways, as /listen for your voice I am called back to my own reality.

This peaceful place is a balm to my wounded heart and saddened soul and I want to escape forever but always, always I am called back to deal with what reality is.

I cover my pain so well but it gets harder everyday. "

In 1989, Karen joined a co-dependency group based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was here that she began to realize the full potential of her writing skills.

Through the encouragement of her group, she returned to her writing and ultimately submitted her book for publication. She shares, "One of my life goals now is to touch those whose hearts are hurting."

Renowned speaker and leader .in San Antonio Dr. Buckner Fanning says of Karen and her book, "The privilege of knowing Karen is a special blessing in my life, but the

"More than anything I want that bliss that is serenity ... unruffled ... calm brimming with enthusiasm.

I want to be the velvet butterfly whose brightly colored wings touch everyone so gently and softly.

I want to truly live each moment of each day ...making a difference in people's lives and in this world.

That's why my writing is so important to me ... it gives my heart and soul away to those who have walked the same paths ... to those who have been abandoned, rejected, had broken hearts and overdosed on love ... only to love again.

I want to learn to live, to love as I've never done before.

Hurry and teach me.

Teach me to be a butterfly whose wings are strong but soft.

Teach me to soar, to grow, to dare, to risk.

Show me the path to freedom. "

Through her book, Karen has shown that she has, in fact, become that "Velvet Butterfly."

(Glynda Howard McClure '70 is pastpresident of the San Antonio chapter and served for six years on the National Texas Tech Ex-Students Board of Directors.)

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All Former Red Raider Cheerleaders and friends are invited to the annual Homecoming Reception Saturday, September 26 - Texas Tech vs. Baylor 4603 16th, Lubbock 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Make plans now to attend!

If you are not receiving the Ex-cheerleader newsletters, call the ExStudents Association and register yourself as an ex-cheerleader in their computer. Next mailout will be in August.

inspired Julius to write a book, "The Peace Corps in Cameroon."

Edward Gately (BA Journalism), Lake Charles, La., is a news reporter for the Lake Charles American Press. Earlier this spring, Edward received an award for business reporting while he was employed at the The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel.

Mark D. Graham (BA Advertising), Midland, was married on May 2 to Sherri Heytz. Mark is employed by J.C. Penney Co. Holly Hines (BBA Finance), Dallas, was promoted to unit manager for Whitehall Laboratories. Holly will be responsible for sales and merchandising of the over-the-counter non-prescription drug and toiletry product line in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Doug Marnell (BS Agricultural Economics), Lubbock, was married on June 6 to Mary Ann Macha. Doug is employed by Data Transmission Network.

Charles "Beau" 0. Rolfe III (BBA Accounting), Lubbock, and Debra Malcolm (BS '92 Human Development/Family Studies) were married on May 23. Beau is employed by Texas Tech.

Melissa Starr (BSE Early Childhood Education), Lubbock, was married on June 6 to Richard Jones. Melissa is employed

by Abernathy lSD. Shelley Van Natter (BA English/ French), Houston, was one of the members of the winning South Texas College of Law team who swept theNational Moot Court Regionals in March.

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Lt.j.g. Gregory L. Barringer (BGS General Studies), Norfolk, Va., was deployed with Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squad-

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ron-125, Naval Air Station embarked aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga for six months in the Mediterranean.

Travis Dougherty (BAR, MAR '90 Architecture), Houston, and Sharie Taves (BS '92Education)weremarriedonMay23. Travis is employed by Harry Gendel Architects.

Keith Kalka (BS Food Technology), Dallas, was married on April 25 to Gina Heinrich. Keith is employed by Americana Foods.

Kelley Shearer (BS Public Relations), Grand Prairie, was married in March to Jerry Herring. Kelley is employed at the Fort Worth Star Telegram as advertising account executive.

Jennifer Buster Steele (BS Human Development/Family Studies), Jackson, Miss., is a drug-free schools specialist for the Department of Education, Bureau of Instructional Services, Branch of Health Related Services.

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Jerry Copeland (Physical Education), Slaton, and Amy Burns (BS '91 Human Development/Family Studies) were married on April4. Jerry is employed by Lubbock Nut &Bolt.

Ens. Richard G. Hagerty (BBA Management), San Diego, Calif., was deployed aboard the tank landing ship USS Tuscaloosa and is mid-way through a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific.

J. Cliff Lammons (BGS General Studies), Lubbock, and Kim Havens (BA '85 Social Welfare) were married on April4. Cliff is employed by Lubbock County Youth Center and Kim is employed by the Texas Department of Health.

S.H. Liew (BBA Finance), Lubbock,

has been appointed to the position of m~ and chief executive officer for Daniel 0!1.

Construction Co. Darren Marsh (BBA Fina-.

Odessa, was married on June 6 to~ Shelby. Darren is employed by South"' Energy Distributors Inc. Ronald Phillips (BS Agricuhl.

Economics, BS ' 91 Environmental Desip Consumer Economics), and Jamey Laney~ '91 Agricultural Economics) were married!.~.

2. Ronald and Jamey both are attending!

Texas Tech School of Law. Ens. Alvin Plexico (BBA MaJI.l! ment), Norfolk, Va., recently returned r~ six-month deployment to the Persian rJ aboard the destroyer USS Arthur Radford.

Jessie Sanders (BA Telecolllll'll cations), Fort Worth, was married on May91 Carrie Newell.

Gerald W. Scott Jr. (BA Eng~ Sugar Land, and Debra L. Davis (BM Mci Performance, BME '89 Music Education)\11.1 married on June 6. Gerald is employed\ Conoco and Debra is employed by Brazosrc College and is a freelance musician.

Ens. James W. Smith (BS Puti Relations), Sacramento, Calif., was presel'd with the coveted Wings of Gold, which marl! the culmination of months of flight trainill!, Naval Air Training Unit, Mather Air Fill Base in Sacramento.

Mark Tadlock (BA Socioloa Lubbock, was married on May 23 to Kril1o Nordeen. Mark is attending Tech working•. another degree.

Donna Tullos (BBA AccountiJ6 Fort Worth, was married on May 30 to Riebl Rush. Donna is employed by Chosen Herill!

Christian Adoption Agency.

Peter Wierzba (International Traiq Lubbock, and Sonia Peng (BS ' 86 Envin» mental Design/Consumer Economics) lVII married on April 11. Peter is employed ~ Cargo Control.

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Charles Addington II (BS Physid Education), Lubbock, and Louanne Va~ (BBA General Business) were married on~ 23. Charles is employed by Absolutely B~ tiful Inc. and Louanne is employed by~ American Bank of Commerce.

2nd Lt. David R. Baldwin (B! Mechanical Engineering), Quantico, Va.,grat a ted from The Basic School. During theCOIIIi at Marine Corps Combat Development Cce mand, newly commissioned officers are pi!' pared for assignment to the Fleet Marineforrt Tracy Billingsley (BA Histo~ Abilene, was married on May 16 to Tim Thol Mark Campsey (General Studic4 Austin, and Allyson Wallis (BSE Elementl!

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Your Own Cowboy Put your own brand- or the Double-T -on this 15" bronze titled "Cowboy Signature," sculpted in a limited edition of 12 by R. Scott Nickell of Fort Worth.

Price is $675, payable in check toR. Scott Nickell. Texas residents should include 7-3/4% sales tax. If the order is for a personalized brand, a sketch of the brand should be included with the order. Initials may also be substituted, or the artist will replace the brand with a Double-T. Specify what you prefer and include the artwork and your area code and phone number with the order. Otherwise, the piece will be shipped with the artist's own brand, as shown on this particular piece.

R. Scott Nickell has recently been commissioned to sculpt the bust of Clayton W. Williams Jr. for Texas A&M. Other pieces of Nickell's work are available at these fine art galleriesNEW MEXICO Taylor Gallery

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Education) were married on June 6. Mark serves in the Texas National Guard and Ally son is employed by Alief lSD. Chad Carlisle (BS Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management), Lubbock, and Deborah Fuoss (BA Advertising/Public Relations) were married on April25. Chad is co-owner of Ralph Carlisle Motors.

Ens. Phillip Durbin (BA Geography), Lubbock, was commissioned upon graduation from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Program.

Ashley Eitzen (BSE Elementary Education), Lubbock, was married on May 30 to Bradley Tussy. Ashley is employed by Lubbock lSD and Bradley is attending Tech and is employed by Computer Express.

2nd Lt. John P. Hanlon (BS Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management), Quantico, Va., was graduated from The Basic School.

2nd Lt. James C. Hatcher (BA Political Science), Quantico, Va., was graduated from The Basic School. During the course at

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Marine Corps Combat Development Coilllll newly commissioned officers are prepan~ assignment to the Fleet Marine Force.

Lance M. Johnston (BA Engf4 Cheyenne, Wyo., was married on May 2!1 Cristy Lewis. Lance is serving in the U.s. 1 Force.

Glenn Lambert (BME Music & cation), Fort Worth, and Holly Greene(BSI Psychology/English) were married on May~ Glenn is attending graduate school at T~ Christian University.

LaDale McCallister (BS Physt Education), Lubbock, has been named as as$ tant basketball coach at Wayland BaptistU versity in Plainview.

Penny Minner (BBA Accoun~ Lubbock, was married on April 25 to R~ Angle. Penny is employed by NBK Inc. Bryan Moffit (BS Human Develtl ment/Farnily Studies), Lubbock, and Anp Casebolt (BA ' 92 English) were married& May 16. Bryan is employed by the Lubbx County Youth Center.

Lisa Otis (BS Human DeveloplllQI Family Studies), Lubbock, was married in~ to Stephen Riker. Lisa is employed by ~ Plains Head Start in Levelland and Stephca1 employed by Texas Instruments and is atlall ing Texas Tech.

Corbin Pemberton (BA Polilii Science), Lubbock, and Lexl Jones (BS 'I Clothing &Textiles) were married on Mayll Corbin is attending graduate school at Te11 Tech.

Teresa Perez (BA Social Wellill!

Lubbock, was married on May 16 to R~ Sanchez. .

Ens. John Ramsey (BA HistOl)j Sacramento, Calif., was married on May 23a Stephanie Holt. John serves in the Unild States Navy.

Preston Roobaert (BS Mechania Engineering), Elk City, Okla., and Deh~ Weston(BSE ' 90ElementaryEducation)wcr married on June 6. Preston is employed ~ Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Holly Walter (BSE Elementary &t cation), Lubbock, was married on June 6t William Metzig. Holly is employed ~ Whitharral lSD. Kelly M. Weiss (BA Political SO ence), Washington, D.C., was married on Ml! 30 to Shanna Spencer. Kelly is employed ~ President Bush.

Edward Wills Jr. (BS Restawai Hotel & Institutional Management), Lubb<d and Marisa Johnston (BSE Elementary ~ cation) were married on May 1. Edward i employed by St. Mary of the Plains Hospid and Marisa is employed by Abernathy lSD. James A. Womble (BS Civil En~

,Wng), Da11as, is the recipient of two engi¢ing graduate scholarships. James will pur,.:a master's degree in structura1 engineering - Colorado State University, where he will rorli: as a research assistant on a joint wind ~ch project with Tech.

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Mark Bounds (BA Recreation), Lubbock, was given a Headliner A ward by the Lubbock chapter of Women In Communications Inc. Mark finished the 1991 footba11 season with the nation's top punting average.

Hedevoted his spare time to drug awareness visits at numerous elementary schools around the area. Mark was signed by the Chicago Bears after the NFL draft.

2nd Lt. Peter Brown (BS Chemisli)'),Lubbock, was commissioned upon gradualion from the Nava1 Reserve Officer Training Corps Program.

Charles Garrett (BA Physica1 Education), Arlington, and Stephanie Patterson (BS '91 Recreation) were married on June 6.

Qmrles is employed by the Cokesbury Book1~ore and Stephanie is employed by the city of Carrollton.

Ens. Jessie Guerrero (BS Biochemisby), Lubbock, was commissioned upon graduation from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Program.

Virginia Howard (BS Speech & Hearing Sciences), Lubbock, was married on May 15 to Matthew Von Castle.

Robert S. McMinn (BS Electrical Engineering), Clute, and Karen J, Cobb (BS Physical Education) were married on May 30.

Robert is employed by Amoco Chemica] Co. in Alvin and Karen is employed by Brazosport

lSD. Nancy Murphy (BA English/Spanish),Lubbock, was married on May 23 to Jason Bowles.

Ens. Sean Stolz (BS Geology), Lubbock, was commissioned upon graduation from !he Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Program.

Dana Taylor (BS Journalism/Political Science), Odessa, graduated Cum Laude fromTech in May and will be returning in the fall to work on her master's degree in public administration.

DEATHS (Send obituary announcements to Susan Bowen, P.O. Box 4009, Lubbock, TX 79409. Please iDclude date of death.)

design and was past vice president of the Wingfield/Sears Group.

William Bredemeyer, 35, of Odessa died Feb. 1. William received his bachelor's degree in mechanica1 engineering in 1978. He was a registered professiona1 engineer. Survivors include his wife, Donna; a son, two daughters and his mother.

Dr. Robert L. Brien, 56, of North Richland Hills died May 25. Robert received his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1959. He had been a psychiatrist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Wayne Burford, 75, of Clovis, N.M., died April3. Wayne received his bachelor's degree in anima] husbandry in 1942. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Gladys, in 1944.

Survivors include his wife, Hazel; two daughters, a son, eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Jo Ann McDhaney Conely, 63, of Abilene died April20. JoAnn received her bachelor's degree in education in 1951 . She taught in the adult education department of the Abilene lSD and worked at the Marbridge House in Abilene.

Survivors include her husband, John, '49; a son, a daughter and two grandchildren.

Patricia Davenport, 62, ofLubbock died April 14. Patricia received her bachelor' s degree in secondary education in 1977 and her master' s in education in 1981. She had taught earth sciences in Lubbock schools, most recently at J .T. Hutchinson Junior High. Survivors include her husband, Paul; two daughters, a son and six grandchildren.

Bess Ford Davidson, 89, of Lubbock died May 26. Bess received her master's degree in education in 1945. She was an elementary school teacher and had taught at Overton Elementary until her retirement in 1970. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray, in 1987 and a son, Hugh, in 1982. Survivors include a son, a daughter, nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Ruth ADen Fowler, 75, of Lubbock died April 5. Ruth received her bachelor's degree in business in 1938. She had taught school in Muleshoe and Lubbock. She was preceded in death by her husband, Arch, in 1981. Survivors include a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.

Patricia Rhyne Barnard, 46, of Santa Fe,

N.M., died May 23. Patricia received her bachelor's degree in applied art in 1967. She established a career in architectura1 interior

Craig T. Garner, 51 , of Lakewood, Colo., died April 5. Craig received his bachelor's degree ·in education in 1964. He taught in

Lubbock schools before moving to Lakewood in 1987. Survivors include his wife, Diane; and a son.

Dr. Aubrey Green, 52, of Abilene died April 3. Aubrey received his master' s degree in 1965 and his doctorate in 1972, both in English. He became an associate professor at Abilene Christian University in 1982 and helped create the ACU Learning Enhancement Center. Survivors include his wife, Elaine; a son and a daughter.

James E. Hall, 63, of Lubbock died May 15.

James received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1951. He was a public accountant and worked for Harmon Tank Co. Survivors include his wife, Mary; a son, three daughters and seven grandchildren.

John Hewlett Jr., 35, of Lubbock died May 27. John received his bachelor's degree in finance in 1991. He had worked in the registrar's office at Texas Tech for the past 10 years.

Survivors include his parents and a sister.

Philip Johnson, 74, of Lubbock died March 31. Philip received his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering in 1942. He was a professor of petroleum engineering at Texas Tech from 1948 to 1976 and worked as a consultant after retiring. Survivors include his wife, Mae; two sons, two daughters, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Jim Kimmel, 75, of Lubbock died May 23.

Jim received his bachelor's degree in politica1 science in 1938. The Lubbock Regiona1 Mental Hea1th/Mental Retardation's Jim Kimmel Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment was named for him. He had practiced law in Lubbock County for 40 years. Survivors include five daughters and five grandchildren.

Marion Mayes, 68, of Carrollton died May 8.

Marion received his bachelor's degree in agricultural economics in 1948. He had farmed and ranched in West Texas for many years and also owned real estate and insurance companies in Lubbock. His survivors include his wife, Jo An; a daughter and a grandchild.

Helen Womack McClain, 83, of Brownfield died May 17. Helen received her bachelor's degree in English in 1931. She is survived by her husband, R.N. Edd C. McLeroy, 72, of Dimmitt died May 5.

Edd received his bachelor's degree in animal husbandry in 1949. He retired from First State Bank in 1985 after 30 years of service. He had been involved in the Farm Appraisal business.

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Survivors include his wife, Jackie, and kdaughters.

Music and-books for your cowboy dreams ... or for just fiddlin' around Lanny Fiel '83, is producing recordings and written works through his Lubbockbased company Fie) Publications Inc. and has placed some of his efforts with Adobe Records, Texas Tech University Press and Mel Bay Publications. The recordings, although varied each from the other, reflect a similar value for traditional music, whether it be historical or original cowboy songs or fiddle music.

"Buck Ramsey- Rolling Uphill From Texas" features Ramsey's unique vocal renditions of traditional cowboy songs, many of which were taught to him by his cowboy uncle who worked ranches in the Panhandle of Texas. Joe Stephenson provides fiddle and guitar accompaniment Produced by Lanny Fie), Joe Stephenson and Buck Ramsey for Fie) Publications Inc., it is available in cassette tape only for $10 plus tax (and $2 shipping) from Fiel Publications Inc., 3717 27th St., Lubbock, TX 79410, or phone (806) 791-3967 or 799-4907.

"Joe Stephenson- Moonlight on the Colorado" is a recording of the accomplished musician's traditional and original fiddle music. Stephenson is a fourthgeneration fiddler from McAdoo, Texas.

Produced and engineered by Lanny Fiel and recorded in Lubbock, the C.D. or cassette tape is available through Adobe Records.

'The One That I Never Could RideR.W. Hampton" is a beautiful C.D./ cassette containing the original songs of Sedan, N.M., cowboy R.W. Hampton.

Done with a traditional approach, all songs are written and sung by Hampton.

It is produced by Lanny Fiel, Joe Stephenson and R.W. Hampton for Adobe Records.

Both "Joe Stephenson -Moonlight on the Colorado" and 'The One That I Never Could Ride- R.W. Hampton" can be obtained from Adobe Records for $9.98 plus tax and $2 shipping for the cassette, or $14.98 plus tax and shipping for C.D. by calling (806) 873-3537 or toll free at (800) 657-7173. Written correspondence may be sent to Adobe Records, C.O. Box W, Shallowater, TX 79363.

Recording and working with tradi-

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tional musicians has led Fie) into the area of documenting their work through written transcriptions of musical styles. These efforts have resulted in two publications by Texas Tech Press and the formation of 'The Preservation Series," a TTU Press publication series devoted to the preservation of music from traditional American cultures.

"Play It Lazy - The Bob Wills Fiddle Legacy" introduces "The Preservation Series" and features the instrumental talents of Frankie McWhorter with transcriptions by Lanny Fiel. The foreword is by national award-winning author John Erickson and the afterword was provided by well-known journalist, cowboy singer and poet Buck Ramsey.

Published jointly with Mel Bay Publications, the price of the book with cassette tape is $18.95 plus tax and $3 shipping and is available through TTU Press.

'The Essential Texas FiddleImprovisation, Harmony and Style" by Lanny Fiel features an indepth look at the fiddle style of Joe Stephenson including solo and twin fiddle study guides. The book, which also includes a cassette tape by Joe Stephenson, is designed to accommodate both classical violinists and country fiddlers and is published jointly by Texas Tech University Press and Mel Bay Publications. It can be obtained for $21.95 plus tax and $3 shipping from TTU Press. An optional piano accompaniment book is also available making the set $26.95.

Both "Play It Lazy" and 'The Essential Texas Fiddle" can be ordered by calling Texas Tech University Press at (806) 742-0158, 742-2982, or toll free (800) 832-4042. Written correspondence can be directed to the TTU Press, Lubbock, TX 79409-1037.

All of these books and recordings are also available at Cogdell's General Store, the gift shop of the Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech, (806) 742-2497.

Mary Bell Teeters Montgomery, 65, , Moshar Boor Tuvia, Israel, died June 5. Mt Bell received her bachelor's degree in fOOdnutrition in 1948. She taught school in Na Mexico and Texas before moving to Israelt~ her family, where she had lived for the past) years. Survivors include her husband, 0.

'48; two sons, one daughter and eight gn1 children.

Dorothy Gleason Murray, 83, of Albllqllr. que, N.M., died March 31. Dorothy r~ her bachelor's degree in food and nutritioei 1931. She taught at Albuquerque ~lemen111 schools from 1960 until her retirement in 1~ She was preceded in death by her husbil William, in 1961. Survivors include a~ ter, a son and six grandchildren.

Haskell L. Odom, 57, of Hurst died May11 Haskell received his bachelor's degree insa. ondary education in 1958 and received li master's degree in educational administnlix in 1963. He was a teacher in Lubbock flx t years and was an employee of Interface&. tronics at the time of his death. Survi111 include his wife, Ottoma; two sons, a dauglil and five grandchildren.BJ. " Joe" Pevehouse, 66, of Midland dill May 27. Joe had received his bache!«'! degree in geology in 1948. He worked lll petroleum geologist and as a vice presidem4 Permian Corp. before forming Adobe Oil i 1960. Joe served as president and directoro Adobe until 1985 and until recently had bca vice chairman of the board of directors. Joebll served as chairman of the Texas Tech Boanl~ Regents and had been honored with the fowi. annual Lauro F. Cavazos Award foroutstanl ing contributions and service to the Unil'll· sity. He had also been named as a TexasTai Distinguished Alumnus in 1986. Survivm includ his wife, Beverly; one son, one daup ter and three grandchildren.

Jackie Pylant, 56, of Snyder died April ~ Jackie received his bachelor's degree inematics in 1960. Survivors include his wif~ Frances; two sons, two daughters, a step!ll and five grandchildren.

Virgil Rowland, 82, of Warrenton, Va.• ~ April22. Virgil received his bachelor'sdeglll in economics in 1933. He had been a partnai the Rowland-Gordon Co. in Lubbock and hal owned the Rowland Co. in Plainview. Helal!l marketed a liquid soap he had developed Ia Tulsa Bus Co. Virgil was preceded in death~

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two wives, Katherine in 1976 and Vivian in

1990. Survivors include a daughter and two gnndchildren.

JoyceHazeltonRuebush,57,of0maha,Neb., died April 18. Joyce received her bachelor's !Iegree in home economics education in 1955.

She·bad been a home demonstration agent in Lubbock County at one time. Survivors includeher husband, Carl; a daughter and a son.

Dorothy Magee Sharbutt, 71, of Lubbock died April20. Dorothy received her bachelor's degree in English in 1942. She was a public school teacher for 28 years and had taught at school in Whitharral, Levelland and the San Antonio area before her retirement. She was preceded in death by her husband, James, in 1948 and a son, James, in 1969. Survivors ioclude two sisters.

Ruby Cotton Standefer, 91, of Lamesa died April 28. Ruby received her bachelor's degree in 1950 and her master's in 1953, both in

education. She had taught school in Union and Lamesa until her retirement in 1966. Ruby was preceded in death by her husband, Luther, in 1976. Survivors include a son, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Steve H. Storey, 30, of Dallas died April 20.

Steve received his bachelor's degree in finance in 1986. He was employed by Santa Fe Drilling & Mineral Co. Survivors include his parents, a sister and two brothers.

Raworth Tilson~ 70, ofLubbock died May 18.

Raworth received his bachelor's degree in agricultural education in 1972. He worked as a vocational teacher for the Florida State Bureau of Prisons before retiring in 1984. Survivors include his wife, Barbara; three sons and four grandchildren.

Ronald Tucker, 41, of Midland died April5.

Ronald received his bachelor's degree in microbiology in 1975. He had worked for Martin Water Labs for 15 years. Survivors include a

son and his parents.

Charles Wiley, 67, of Ruidoso, N.M., died May 30. Charles received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1947. He was band director at Lamar University in Beaumont for 31 years. Charles had lived in Ruidoso for the past nine years and was owner of TRN Music Publishing Co. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane; a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.

James Wiley, 54, of Flagstaff, Ariz., died April9. James received his bachelor's degree in management in 1960. He had worked for Santa Fe Railroad as a brakeman and conductor since 1977. Survivors include his wife, Shirley; a son and a daughter.

Mary Christian WiUh]gham, 62, of Houston died March 26. Mary received her bachelor's degree in marketing in 1950. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Sterling; two sons and two grandchildren.

TEXAS TECHSAN MAGAZINE • 71

BY OR. KENNETH W1

BOOK

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Center for the Study of the

American Southwest a ~natural' for Texas Tech ~ced with severe budget cuts, / how can Texas Tech continue to provide the leadership and service a major state university must offer the region in which it is located? ll can play to its present strengths to make maximum use of them in a cost-effective manner. Established components of the University demonstrate what can be done to provide ongoing service which will enhance the university's reputation and help maintain its position in higher education.

The Texas Tech Southwest Collection, the International Center for Arid and Semi-arid Land Studies, the Texas Tech Museum and Ranching Heritage Center, and the Texas Tech University Press share emphases on the culture of the American Southwest as well as of the world. By capitalizing on these vital elements and on the research and teaching interests of many faculty members, the University can strengthen its role in Texas and in the nation without major cost.

Focusing on existing stre ngths is far more cost-effective than establishing wholly new programs.

Texas Tech's Southwest Collection, a key research center for historians, literary scholars, economists, sociologists, and anthropologists - as well as for readers, writers and researchers in related fields - is representative of the best facets of interdisciplinary study of a region which con72

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tinues to capture the interest of people throughout the world.

At the 1992 National Cowboy Symposium, people from all across America came to hear the music, poetry, fiction and history of the American cowboy, a folk hero whose appeal is international. Representa-

tives of Austrian television also attended to observe and to make plans to film for European markets a documentary about the life of the working cowboy in contemporary Texas. The Southwest Collection is a rich repository of documents about the history of the American West. Many participants in the Symposium are familiar with Texas Tech University because of their awareness of th e Southwest Collection's holdings. Undergraduate and

graduate students make frequent useof\hl services the Southwest Collection provi~ The Collection also serves the gener, public. Some researchers at the collecti! seek information about family historya abou ttheir home towns or counties. AwrJ winning novelist Elmer Kelton uses ~ Collection to do research for ~ historical novels.

The other existing units - u Museum and Ranching Herila!

Center, the Texas Tech Press, a:. the International Center for Ai. and Semi-arid Land Stu d ie~ complement each other as well! the Southwest Collection. Thci present strengths combined wit the teaching and research in teres! of faculty in many academic 0: partments argue for a somewh! formal emphasis on the study ~ all facets of the vast region froo which Texas Tech draws its SU¥ port and most of its students.

This formal emphasis wou~ require more cooperation tha~ cas h. The Southwest Co llectio~ ICASALS, the Museum and RanchiOI Heritage Center, and the Texas Tech Pres! can work with faculty members and st~ dents in many academic departments W facilitate concentration, in-depth studyd all facets of the American Southwest anl many of its contiguous areas. Such em~ ses need not be done at the expense d existing work devoted to other regionsd the nation or of the world. Instead, the!!

emphases on the life and culture of the greater Southwest should complement research worlc whose focuses are national or international.

Some specific suggestions for establishing the study of the American Southwest as a major teaching and research aim ·at Texas Tech include broad.ening the already sound pub4ishing program of the Texas Tech University Press to include more original fiction to complement ,its firSt-rate collections of poems and the handsome series ofreprints of fiction done by southwestern writers Jane Gilmore Rushing and Marshall Terry. The most recent catalog of the Texas Tech Press demonstrates its present significance and suggests potential for growth on its sound base. The Museum and Ranching Heritage Center are likewise strong in service and in the potential to strengthen Texas Tech' s contributions to overall academic excellence through concerted efforts to examine all facets of the American Southwest.

No university supported by state funds should shy from the study of the geographic region in which it is located. If Texas Tech, a major state university, hopes to maintain excellence in teaching and research, it must actively embrace the study of its challenging, inspiring, and at times all but overwhelming region, its heart's country: the American Southwest. Working together with the already established

service and research arms of the University - the Southwest Collection, the Museum and Ranching Heritage Center, the International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies- Texas Tech's faculty, student body, and the University's many patrons and friends can assure that well into the 21st century, people throughout the world will know of its willingness to use its resources wisely.

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center through its Med-Net program provides a valuable service to the region. Now is the time for the University to consider how best it can use its resources to make significantcontributions by emphasizing the universal values reflected in the study of regional culture. Participating units and faculty members can learn from each other as they work together without worrying about territoriality. Cooperation is the goal; academic excellence will be a result. The benefits will improve all colleges in the University.

(Dr. Kenneth W. Davis (BA '54) is professor of English at Texas Tech, where he teaches courses in American folklore, the Modem Novel of the American West, and British Literature.

He is co-author of "Black Cats, Hoot Owls, and Water Witches" with the late Everett Gillis; co-author of "Horsing Around: Contemporary Cowboy Humor," with Lawrence Clayton (Ph.D. '75), and with Vice Provost Dr. Len Ainsworth edited "The Catch Pen." A past-president of the Texas Folklore Society, he is currently president of the American Studies Association of Texas.)

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