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BY MARTHA YORK '61 1995 EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

1995 TO IE -IRED IS THE YEll

TEXIS TECH MOVED UP

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ith my year as president of the ExStudents Assoc i ation winding down, I reflect wi th a bit of nostalgia on al l that has happened. Never have I been in a position of leadership that has brought me more joy and pride of accomplishment. It's amazing to see how far we've come - Texas Tech is truly the Home of Champions.

It began on )an. 2, 1995, at the Cotton Bowl after the Red Raider football team was named co-c ham p ions of the Southwest Conference. From there, Tech won three more SWC championsh ips - in men's and women's basketball and in baseball. Let us briefly mourn the demise of our beloved Southwest Conference, as the time nears to move up to the Big 12. Has this not been a great way for Texas Tech to celebrate the SWC's end, and begin again?

At this writing, we' re riding high with a 2-1 SWC record after a big w in over A&M and a Homecoming win over Rice.

Women's soccer is going strong, as is volleyball. Softball, the newest women's sport, will make its debut this year. Men's and women's basketball tea ms h ave begu n practices looking toward another championship year. And that's just sports.

Academic champions have had great success, too. Texas Tech has four 1995-96 Goldwater Scholars- one of only seven universities nationwide to have the maximum allowable number. The Goldwater Scholarships are the most prestigious in the country in math, science and engineering.

Additio na lly, Presidentia l Endowed Schol arsh ips have increased from 7 to 302 in just six years since Dr. Robert W .

Lawless became president of Tech in July 1989. Likewise, the President's Council continues to grow at a rapid rate.

The newest edition of the Texas Tech Home of Champions booklet, published by the University, lists numerous accomplishments of students, facu lty, staff and alumni. We are a firstclass University! I believe we have arrived at the threshold of excellence- Texas Tech definitely is not an "also ran."

Have you seen the ads recent ly i n Texas Monthly and Southwest Airlines' magazine? The first ad features a picture of former Red Raider quarterback John Scove ll, cha i rman of Woodbine Development Corp. in Dallas. A subsequent ad featu res astronaut and Board of Regents member D r. Bernard Harris of Houston, an alumnus of Tech's medical school. And

did you see the bil lboard in Dallas proclaiming "Texas Tech Home of Champions," courtesy of several Dal las area alumni?

(If not, see page 53.) These are just some of the efforts of the Committee for Champions.

The comm ittee began to take shape in Lubbock last spring.

The idea came from the success of Fort Worth's Committee of 100, designated to boost attendance at TCU 's football games.

Lubbock's committee, statewide in membershi p and continu ing to grow, has a mission to tout al l of th e champions of Texas Tech and heighten public awareness of the University.

We are not without our own accomp lishments in the ExStudents Association. Last spri ng, we exper ienced a dream come true when the Merket A lumni Center was completed and opened for the public. What a fitti ng beginning for the move up to the Big 12. I am overwhelmed by how many Tech-exes and friends had a part in making this years-long dream come true.

What a thrill it is to walk through the building and courtyard, reading the names on bricks, bronze pavers, granite tiles and benches. Never a week goes by that someone doesn't inqui re about purchasing a p iece of the history.

Yes, there is still room for you. (See page 71.)

In fact, just in time for Homecoming, two beautiful, monument-style signs were erected on the law n of the Merket Alum ni Center. The signs reflect the facil ity's beauty and elegance. The best-kept secret is our new Tech Trad itions Gift Shop, located just inside the main entrance to the Center. Still without its own signage (thus the best-kept secret), the shop has been visited by thousands of shoppers since opening in March.

Now that Homecoming has passed, I am acutely aware of the hard work and dedication of the board members and the staff of our Ex-Students Association. The staff works hard all of the time in its various capacities, but during the weeks before Homecoming the work intensifies . I observed that everyone contin ued to smile, and visitors to the Association were greeted warmly and made to feel welcome - whether in person or on the phone. These are the people behind the scenes who make those of us who hold an office in the Association look good. I can never thank them enough.

There is much to say about Texas Tech. Lots of good has taken place this year, but we can't pause for a moment. We as alumni must carry the banner and tell the story of "Texas Tech, Home of Champions." The excitement continues to bui ld movin' up!

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VOL. 48 NO.6

FEATURES Last Cheer For The Last Year •••••••••••••••••••••.• 18 This Year's Homecoming Album

Friendship: G.W. Bailey and Barry Corbin ••••••••• 22 Fourth Pirate From the Left . ................. 23 Keeping His Characters Honest . . : ........... 2S

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At Home With The Armadillo •••• • ••••••••••••• 28 Gary P. Nunn - Still Promoting Texas Music

A Wonderful Darkness ••••••••••••••••••••••• 30 Terry Allen - An Interview By Andy Wilkinson

Image Maker •••••••••••••••••• • •••••••••• 34 Photographer Of The Year Artie Limmer

Local Girl Makes Good ••••••••••••••••••••••• 36 TV Newswoman Margaret Larson

Painting His Pictures On Film ••• • •••••••••••••• 38 Michael Merriman Maker Of C;W Videos

ABOUT THE COVER

Life At The Top •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 40 Karin M cCay of KCBO-TV News

Drawn by professional artist/cartoonist Kent Gamble '77, the caricatures of our Tech-exes appearing on the cover are (seated center) Barry

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Corbin and G. W. Bailey; (from left below them) Brian Hawkins, Artie Limmer, Terry Allen, Gary

Brian Hawkins, TV Video Producer

P. Nunn, Eric "E.G." Greene, Margaret Larson

A Star In The Fast-Forward Generation• •••••••••• 44 Eric "E.G." Greene, A ' Teenz on TV'

and Karin McCay. Their and others' stories appear in this issue of the Texas Techsan.

DEPARTMENTS Letters ••.•.•••••••..••••••••• • •••••••••. 3

Texas Tech in Retrosped .•.. . .....•.......... 6 Tech 's Nuclear Engineering Program

Development News •...•........ . .....•..... 7 A Year-End Reminder

Tech Today• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • ••• 8 News From Campus

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Sports . ................................. 46 Basketball Coaches Q&A

Association News .......•......•........•. SS Events Highlight Fall Season

Class Notes . . ..... .. ..................... 59 Editor's Notebook ... . .... . .....•....•..... 72 Give Me A Home Where There's No Telephone

TEXAS TECH HAS GONE VOGUE

MAGAZINE STAFF Publisher Bill Dean '61 Editor Marsha Gustafson '76 Class Notes Editor Susan Bowen Special Projects Director Curt Langford '90 Freelance Writer William Kerns '75 Artist Kent Gamble '77 Photography Bill Gustafson I jim Cawthon '96

EXKUTIVE BOARD President Martha Crow York '61, Lubbock President-Elect David Thomas '83, Addison Past President Dicky Grigg '70, Austin Athletic Council Representative Dan Law '57, Lubbock Executive Vice President and CEO Bill Dean '61, Lubbock

BOARD OF DIRKTORS Margaret Wood Brannan '54, San Antonio Bob Brown '59. Lamesa joe Dale Bryan ' 57, Lubbock ).C. Chambers '54, Lubbock Chino Chapa '82, Dallas John Conine '74, Waco Jeff Copeland '81, Sterling City Glenn January '75, Houston KaLyn Laney '88, Austin Richard G . Ligon '58, Plainview Mike Marshall '90, Midland Wesley Masters '60. Amarillo Peggy Adcox Maxwell '76, Grapevine Wendell Mayes, Jr. '49, Austin Roy Middleton '56, Lubbock Nancy Laine Price ' 71, Arlington Roger Scott '7 3, Richardson Diane King Scovell '68, Dallas John C. Sims '65, Lubbock Dean Stalcup '71, San Diego, Calif.

Terry Sterl ing ' 74, San Angelo John Stroh '87, Houston Bob "Heavycat" Thompson '67, Lubbock Bill Womble '60, Dallas The Ex-Students Association is an independent organization of Texas Tech University former students cooperating with and work ing in behalf or th e University, but not affiliated with iL Texas Te<hsan Magazine is the officia l publication of the Association. Copyric,ht 1995. Texas Tcchsan

Magaz ine (ISSN 0040-4721} is publishPd bi-monthly by the Ex-Students Association. Annua l membership is $25. of which SS is allocated for a subscrip~ lion to the Texas Techsan Magazine. Singte copies are available for $2.50. Editorial and Jdvenising office: P.O. Box 45001 , lubbock, TX 79409-5001 .

Telephone (606) 742-3641. Second-clJss postage paid at lubbock. POSTMASTER : Send address dlanges to Texas Techsan Maga:~:ine. P.O. 6ox 45001 , lubbock, TX 79409-5001 .

The campus may h ave been ra nked as one of t he " ugl iest" by Sports Il lustrated a few years back, but Sheryl Swoopes has changed the image for years to come. I was perusing my wife's September 1995 issue of Vogue magazine, when the "Ni k e's Air Swoopes" article jumped out at me. The artic le characterizes the shoe with an " i n your-face atti tude." Wel l, in your face, Sports Illustrated.

Texas Tech is VOGUE.

Tim Brierly '87 New Braunfels, Texas

NOTES FROM 'BONES' JONES Sorry for t he de l ay i n respond i ng to the article in the July/August 1995 issue of the Techsan (pg. 70, " Former Flatlander Is Appropriately At Home in 'The City Different"'). Peggy and I have been do ing mo re things than we should be trying. It was very enjoyable seeing everyone at the "Careers Day Sem i na r" arranged by Don Lambert this spring. He did a real good job. And, I und erstand, as some recog n it i o n for h i s efforts in that and a number of other endeavors on behalf of Texas Tech University, he was awarded the Lauro F. Cavazos Award for outstanding support. Well deserved, and an excellent choice by whoever comprises the commi ttee that makes the decision.

I, too, am flattered to have had a page, w ith p hotos, of my own in the Texas Techsan.

I cou ldn't tell much difference when comparing the two pictures of myself in college and myself now, cou ld yo u ?

Please don't answer - that's a rhetorical question. Ho l ly Hermon did a very good job with all the goofy info I gave her during the interview over the phone. Incidenta lly, it was my wife, Peggy, not Pat, w ho got the degree from St. John's College in Santa Fe. T hose two girl s (twins) are so identical that people get them confused, even over the phone.

Peggy is pleased with how the article came across and is keeping it in obvious disp lay at home and office for anyone w ho might be foo lish enough to ask us . why t h e Texas Techsan is laying around.

In response, I wou ld like to make a contr i bution to the Ka p pa Sigma Texas Tech Alumni Center project. A check is enclosed for $250. Is that enough for Peggy and me to get our names on o ne of the b ricks? (Yes, Dr. Jones, and w ith some to spare.)

I'm for some reason remin ded of a· question I've had for a long time. Is there a dusty o ld stack somewhere in the memorabi lia of the school newspaper of the '50s ca l led The To reador? I have reason to research some of the edi tio n s that were circu l ated wh il e Peggy and I were at Tech. I would appreciate any info you might have on the matter. (You can cal l Student Publications at 806/ 742 -3388, or the Southwest Col lection at 806/742-3749 and inquire.)

Than k s again for al l the good wo rk you and Bill are do ing for good o l ' TT . The Texas Techsan does a lot of good for alumn i relations. I'm enjoying reading the special articl es you do on the o l dtimers, of which I now am one.

Dr. William K. "Bill" Jones '57 Santa Fe, New Mexico

HUSBAND SENDS THANKS Tresea and I are v ery appreciative of the fine story about her wh ich ra n i n the Sept./Oct. Techsan (pg. 62, "Playi ng A Crucial Role" by Shei l a Foertsch). Tresea is a ver y ta lented person and it gives me special pleasure to see he r talent recognized .

Thanks again.

Jerry Beasley '70, '76 Amarillo, Te xas

TECH AS A LEARNING TOOL Our family was very fortunate to attend the reception June 7 for Texas Tech 's four Southwest Conference champ ionship teams. It was a great pleasure and honor to see the beautiful troph ies and visit w ith the coaches and players.

We're so very proud of them!

We also toured th e new Merket Alumn i Center leisurely. WOW! Congratulations on such a fine faci lity.

I wou ld also like to express my ap p recia t ion for the posters that Lynda Stein provided my class room. At the end of every school year, our class has a Texas Tech week

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and also compiles a fo lder on Tex as Tech traditi on s. Th i s year, we were very fortunate to have Jennifer O rtega, representing the marketi ng area of Tec h at h leti cs, and Lad y Raider Nikki Heath as speakers. The sec ond grad e rs adored them, and hopefully, i n the future, they'll consider attending our great university.

O ur t wo c hi l d re n have been properly indoctrin ated w ith Texas Tech. They show great enthusiasm and pride in t he i r dail y li ves. Th ey've made Double-Ts out of watermelon seeds, bui lt a huge red Double-T out of snow o n our d riveway (and used red food colo ring), and last year whi le kid s were bui lding sand cast l es on th e beac h at South Padre, our s we re bu il ding Double-Ts! Suc h pr id e i s al so dis-

played in their schoo l work.

Vale nti ne boxes, a mod e l dream home in the shape of a Doub le-T (actual ly part of a Sp an ish ass ig nm ent), and a pa pier mache ba ll oo n are among the projects that have been comp leted wi th a red and black theme and DoubleTs throughout.

Texas Tech g ives th e M ojicas lots of reasons to be so proud of it.

Mona ' 84 and Juan '76, '84 Mojica Lubbock, Texas

NEW FORMAT RECEIVES PRAISE (A letter to Peggy Pearce) Thi s year's Scho larship and Awa rd s Dinner (at th e Lubboc k Civ i c Cen te r, Frid ay night of Homecom ing weeke nd} was th e bes t ever! I heard so many comments as

check for membersh ip renewal in the Ex-Students Association is the day to check for her name in the obituaries!"

That's really loyal.

we mingled, especially about the dessert phase (back at the M e rk et Alu m n i Center} . I t hi nk t hat was espec iall y ap pea l ing to t he younger crowd. Good Job! Nancy Laine Price '71 Arlington, Texas

TOP TECHSAN SAYS THANKS! Thank you Peggy Pearce and Vi cki H e lton for you r arranging our Top Techsan Award s Luncheon. We a l l very much apprecia ted and enjoyed the event. It was a real joy sharin g it with o u r fa m ilies and fr iends. Thank you again for your efforts and thoughtfulness.

Ba rbi Dickensheet lubbock, Texas

RED & BLACK 'TIL THE END (A note from Katie Terrell of the Student Alum ni Board} I' m do i ng the A l umn i Appreciation ca lling this afternoo n (Oct. 19} and just talked w ith a Mrs. Mild red L. Bette ncourt (M ED '5 1 of Lubbock}, one of Dr. Dean's former professors. She specifica ll y said to tell everyone in vo lved how much she enjoys the Texas Techsan. We had a lo ng chat; she was a real sweet lady. She said that "the day we don' t ge t her

SUPPORT APPRECIATED Thank you for you r very generous Valedictorian scholarship. It was a great help in

THE SHELVES ARE (STILL) FILLING Thanks to Texas Tech authors, their readers and publishers for the books that continue to be donated to the Merket Alumni Center. he Ex-Students Association's Texas Tech-authored books and La Ventana collection are impressive to see. We have been asking for books written by Tech authors who are alumni, past and present faculty and/ or staff, to be donatT ed for display on the bookshelves of the Merket Alumni Center's alumni lounge. An engraved sign on the shelves gives credit to the authors, w hose names run, with each donation, in the Texas Techsan Magazine. If you can take part in this project, send the book or books to me, Marsha Gustafson, P.O. 4500 1, Lubbock, TX 79409. The cooperation of our Tech authors, their readers and publishers is genuinely appreciated.

The second group ofbooks donated and placed on the shelves are authored by : Robert C. Albin G.B. Thompson

Gertrude and Ray Eldridge

Billy I. Ross

Marshall Gene Harrison

Ralph Sellmeyer Louise Allen Lloyd Glover "and many o thers"

Ali Amir-Moez Oscar A. Kinchen Wendell M. Aycock John Marx Jean Ann Cantore and James M. Gregory

Gena Morris

Clark E. Cochran

Marilyn E. Phelan

Kirk Dooley Kent Gamble

Col. Nolan C. Rhodes

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Gerald Skoog Albert B. Smith William Wenthe

finan c i ng m y fi rst college tuition and fees bi ll. The genero sity of the Ex-Students Assoc i ation is an exce llent rewa rd an d incenti ve for young Techsans to co nti nue achieving goals.

Again , your support is greatly appreciated .

Monty Barnett, Freshman, Murdough Hall

L\DY RAIDERS CONTINUE RECENT SUCCESS Texas Tech' s success in wo men 's basketball wa s assured to continue well into the nex t ce ntu ry when, on Sund ay, Aug. 27 , at 1 :41 p.m ., Coach Marsha Sharp announced the early signing of Rachel Kasten Murray to a national letter of intent to play for the Lady Raiders in th e yea r 20 13. Thou gh Murray currently weigh s only 6 pounds 12 ounces and stands 19 inches tall, Sharp proudly proclaimed, "W e fully anticipate that Rachel will put on a growth spurt before arriving on campus, and w ith the athletic ability w hich she obviously possesses (passed down from her dad), we honestl y be l ieve she w ill be the first Lad y Raider to be an Al l American in each of her four years."

The recruiting wa r fo r Murray was inten se. After briefl y co nsiderin g the University of Texas and Texas A&M, Rachel indicated that she much prefe rre d th e thought of attend ing Texas Tech beca use it would prov ide her wi th a real edu cation, the opportunity to play for a w inner and the chance to live in Lubbock.

Darrell Murray '84 Proud Dad in Charlotte, N.C.

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BY TAl KREIDLER SOUTHWEST COLLECTION

THE BRIEF STORY OF TECH'S NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PROGRAM n the early 1960s, Texas Tech ty reports and building approvals, the University joined the nuclear age. Atomic Energy Commission (now, the Housed in the West Engineering Nuclear Regulatory Commission) in Complex, Tech's "sub-critical" nuclear February 1959 tentatively granted reactor went on-1 i ne and brought to approval. fruition a project that had been the focus of From left: I.C. Lankford, Dr. John R. Bradford and considerable discussion Ted Hannah and planning. The brainchild of College of Engineering dean Dr. John R. Bradford, Tech's reactor became the focus of its fledgling Nuclear Engineeri ng Program that had been launched in 1957.

Bradford energetically supported Te ch's entry into nuclear research soon after his arrival here in 1955.

Bradford, who had been a Tech undergraduate and graduate student, had also worked in private nuclear industry for a number of years. At the helm of Texas Tech engineering, he successfully established the nuclear engineering program and outlined a plan to build a nuclear research reactor. After three years of rigorous site surveys, safe-

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Unfortunately, f inal approval was denied . Instead, the Atomic Energy Comm ission only permitted Tech a "subcritica l" assembly. Essentially, it was a "pilot plant." Though initially disappointing, t he AEC decision was perhaps a blessing. Bradford explained that a fu llf ledged researc h reacto r would have demanded very strict operational rules and involved i nordinate security difficulties, maintenance headaches, and the continual safety problem.

Meanwhi l e, Tech 's "sub- cri tica l " unit powered-up and provided a vast amount of research data for a myriad of research projects. Essentially creating an "intense neutron fl ux," the reactor produced " lots of informat ion on a cheap basis," according to Southwest Collection documents.

Engineering operated it for five to six years and then transferred the reactor to the physics department, wh ich used it for researc h projects. It was eventually shut down and dismantled and shipped back to the government. Duri ng that entire period, the reactor ran smoothly and without any mishap.

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BY KAREN WILSON SELIM, J.D. ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT

AYEAR·END REMINDER inancial support of charities, including Texas Tech, is an

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ev~r- in creasing n~ed. Co~g~ess has provided tax incentives

to mcrease chantable g1vmg, and laws and regulations regarding such gifts have been implemented to assure that charities receive real support. As the year ends, many people make gifts to their favorite charitable institutions. When planning these donations, please keep the following information in mind.

Hopefully it will help you to realize the maximum tax benefits allowed for your charitable gifts.

• For taxpayers who itemize deductions for income tax purposes, charitable gifts can provide tax savings. Generally, a deduction is allowed for charitable contributions of cash, property and certain out-of-pocket expenses when the charity is qualified by the Internal Revenue Service to receive taxdeductible gifts.

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Charitable gifts of cash are deductible up to a maximum of 50 percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income.

Capital gain property, i.e. property including stocks or real estate that have increased in value and that the taxpayer has owned for more than one year, are deductible at current fair market value up to 30 percent of adjusted gross income.

A charitable deduction that exceeds these percentage limits in the year of the gift may be carried forward for five additional tax years.

Actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the taxpayer for legitimate volunteer work performed may be deductible. Additionally, the IRS allows a deduction of $.12 per mile, or the cost of gas and oil used in volunteer travel. Parking fees and tolls may also be deductible if they were not reimbursed by the charity.

commerce, fraternal orders or similar groups.

- The value of any "substantial benefit" received from a c haritable organization in exchange for a gift. A deduction is only allowed for the amount of the gift that exceeds the va lue of the benefit received, e.g., theatrical or musical performances, sporting events, dinners and premiums or gifts that exceed token amounts.

- Out-of-pocket expenses for travel that might include a significant element of personal pleasure, including recreational outings or vacation-like travel.

- The value of any personal services provided to a charity. The cost of materials used and other expenses may be deducted, however.

- Future interests in personal property.

- Charitable gifts designated for individual persons or foreign organizations.

- The cost of raffle or lottery tickets or property purchased at an auction.

• Over the past few years, Congress has instituted a number of receipt and acknowledgment rules applicable to both taxpayers and charities. It is more important than ever that documentation and receipts of all charitable gifts be maintained as tax records.

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For gifts of $250 or more, the taxpayer must have a written acknowl edgment from the charity for deductibility of the gift. Any tangible benefit information is also requi red.

For gifts of property other than cash, the written acknowledgment must describe the gifted property.

If the value of the property gift exceeds $500, the taxpayer must complete Section A of IRS Form 8283, " Noncash Charitable Contributions," and file it with his income tax return.

If the value of the property gift exceeds $5,000, generally the taxpayer must secure a "qualified appraisal" of the donated property and complete Section B of IRS Form 8283. For gifts of closely held stock, the dollar limitation requiring the appraisal is $10,000.

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INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE OFFICE OF NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS, THE LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-jOURNAL, THE UNIVERSITY DAILY AND COLLEGE LIAISONS

exas Tech president Dr. Robert W. Lawless has plans to make the University " the best public institution in the state" by 2005, but he said Sept. 21 during his annual faculty address that Tech may be ahead of schedule. " I had said that by the year 2005 we will be the institution of choice for quality students and recognized as the best public institution in the state," Lawless explained. " I am not at all dismayed, except that 2005 may be too far away."

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feel good about," he said. For example, since 1989, the Texas Legislature has given faculty and staff 11 percent in raises. Tech, however, has increased salaries by an additional 15 percent, he said.

That number includes a 3 percent merit-based raise that regents approved in August. "The investment we have made in our faculty is an investment that has really paid off," Lawless said.

exas Tech and the Health Sciences Center garnered more than $4.4 million of the $60.5 million in research grants awarded Oct. 26 by the Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Presid ent Lawl ess said this year's awards represent a significa nt increase over the money Tech previously received through the state-supported program.

"It's a great testimony to the continuing increase in quality of the faculty and their productivity," Lawless said.

By compa ri son, i n 1993, Tec h was awarded $1.95 million for 20 projects, and the HSC got $543,660 for four projects. This year, Tech received more than $3.8 million for 35 projects, and the HSC got $576,917 for six projects.

The grants, awa rded through the state's advanced research and technology programs, are for a two-year period.

Th e Legislature pays for the programs, which it started in 1987. By law, up to 70 percent of the research money goes to institutions in the UT or A&M systems.

That leaves about $18 million to be divided among all other institutions.

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Robert W. Lawless Lawless cited accomplishments such as having four Tech students win the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a national award for mathematics and sciences. Only six other universities had as many students win this year, he said.

Although total enrollment increased by less than 0.5 percent this year, freshman enrollment went up by almost 10 percent, Lawless noted. "That growth of about 1 0 percent a year in freshmen is very important for us," the President said.

"And the quality of the student body is increasing every year."

Texas Tech has been movi ng in a positive direction since Lawless became president in 1989. " There are quite a lot of things, as I look back, that we need to

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exas Tech was recognized recently by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for achieving significant inc reases in Hi spani c and African American student enrollment from 1989 to 1994.

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Board records indicate the number of Hispani c students at Te xas Tech increased 32.4 perce nt from 1,788 to 2,368. The number of enrolled African American students increased 16 percent from 607 to 704.

"This award indicates that our efforts at recruitment and retention of minority students are headed in the right direction," said President Lawless. "And while this is a great honor, we still have a long way to go in achieving our goals that are fully dedicated to the principles of multicultural ism and diversity on campus."

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all semester en rollment at the Health Sciences Center set a new enrollment re co rd of 1 ,326, up from last year's record of 1,276. Student enrollment at the University was 24, 185, an increase from 1994's fall enrollment of 24,083.

The breakdown follows for the HSC and the University: Allied Health, 408; Nursin g, 441; Graduate School of Biomedi ca l Sciences, 36; Schoo l of Medicine, 441 M.D.-track students; Law School, 623; Graduate School, 3,766; Agri cultura l Sc iences and Natural Resources, 1,538; Architecture, 623; Arts & Sciences, 1 0,325; Business Administration, 3,941; Education, 1,385; Engineering, 2,583; Hum an Sciences, 2, 172 ; plus 22 1 H SC stud ents taking classes at th e University under dual enrollment, and 774 students enrolled as yet undecided majors through the Grad School.

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he libraries at Tech recently expanded the number of indexes, abstracts and other databases that are accessed throu gh the co mputerized Library Information System.

Some 900 to 1,000 journals can be accessed via the LIS to provide patrons with full-text articles as well as abstracts.

One menu item on the LIS directory, the TexSh are indexes, includes a business database called ABI/INFORM and an allsubject database ca l led Periodical Abstracts.

The paintings feature a flowering perennial plant named for the Greek sea god Proteus, who could change his shape at will. Proteas range from mat-like plants to trees that grow as tall as 100 feet. The flowers are often complex and colorful.

h e Norwest Bank Masked Rider Endowment has been created at Texas Tech to fund operations of the Masked Rider program. According to Norwest President Gary Lawren ce, the bank has pledged a total of $250,000 and presented a $30,000 initial donation Oct. 7 at the Tech-A&M football game.

Currently, University funds and student fees, supplemented by donations, pay the ever-increasing annual expenses of the Masked Rider program. Those financial obligations include acquisition and upkeep of the h orse, as well as equipment purchases, travel expenses and a scholarship for the Masked Rider.

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Dale Cluff In addition to these two indexes, the TexShare Gopher may be used to access the Federal Reg ister and Commerce Business Daily. The library al so has expanded the number of indexes an d databases that may be accessed through FirstSearch, another menu item on LIS. According to Dr. E. Dale Cluff, director of libraries, the usage of FirstSearch has increased remarkably considering the short period of time that it has been available at Tech. For more information about the computerized LIS, indexes and databases, cal l the reference desk at (806) 742-2236.

he Museum of Texas Tech University is featuring an exhibition of watercolor paintings titled "Proteas: Flowering Plants of the Sou thern Hemisphere" in the DeWitt Wing.

More than 70 paintings by artist Zoe Carter of Ne lson, South Island, New Zealand, will remain on exhibit at the museum through September 1996.

A reception honoring Dr. Grover E. Murray and his wife, Sally, collectors of the works in the exh ibit, was held Oct. 1.

Murray was president of Texas Tech from 1966 to 1976.

thletic coaches have taught academic adm inistrators a lesson in student retention, according to Dr. Don Garnett, director of Tech's Transition Advisement Center.

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Don Garnett " When coaches get an 18-year-old with raw tal ent and und erd eveloped skills, they do not send the student back home," Garnett explained. Instead, they place the you ng athlete in the care of a

strength coach who outlines a long-range plan of development.

"Texas Tech is taking sim ilar approaches to intellectual development.

We should meet students where they are and develop them," Garnett said. "Then, they will stay with their academic programs. " A computer program in the College of Engineering, called GREG (Grade Results Evaluation Game), for example, predicts test performance and time needed for a college education, according to the program's creator Dr. j ames M. Gregory.

GREG also balances a student's financial needs, employment demands and other time constraints.

Programs like GREG provide earl y interaction between the student and the University, a critical factor in retaining students, according to Garnett.

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r. Norman Hopper, a Tech agronomist and cotton research scientist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Lubbock, is studying cold tolerance of cotton and seed coating, which may improve seedling emergence.

Cotton, a crop of tropical origin, likes warm temperatures. Cool cond itions resu lt in slow germination, emergence, sta nd establishment and growth . Even though in some areas cotton is planted early in the spring to utilize the warm days, cool temperatures at night hinder growth.

Hopper and his research team are trying to improve emergence under coo l conditions. One approac h is through genetics. Th ey're trying to select li nes which have cold tolerance.

Another approach involves a physical method of enhancing germination and emergence.

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rocessed meat, which falls into t he general category name of sausage, has a very long history, according to Dr.

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Boyd Ramsey, professor of animal science. "Some think it goes back as far as 3,500 B.C. There are written records back to about 1500 B.C." Processed meat is sometimes defined as meat that has been c hanged by mechanical, chemica l or enzymatic treatment. Ramsey said processed meat typically was salted and dried in the winter so food would be available in the summer.

He added that all of the world's sausages, hot dogs and various types of processed meat taste different primarily becau se of the spice mixture used in them. The U.S. Department of Agricu lture oversees the sanitation, packaging, refrigeration temperatures and weight of processed meat from its basic form to the finished products.

n Oct. 4-6, the department of agricultural economics hosted loan officers from across the state during the f ifth ann u al Texas Agricultural Lending School. In conjunction with Texas A&M, Tech sponsors the event that alternates sites each year between Lubbock and College Station during the week of the Tech/A&M football game.

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opportunity to interact with other lenders as they analyze key issues facing Texas agriculture."

Lending school sessions run from 9 until noon, followed by the football game. Workshops this yea r inc luded " Handlin g Co mpl ex Loan s," " Using Futures and Options" and "Ten "Things Lenders Should Never Do On Friday Afternoon." About 60 loan officers from across the state registered for this fall's school.

he Techsan Collegiate Cattlewomen's Association is one of the newest organiza.t ions at Texas Tech. It meets biweekly and members are undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline.

The wome n of th e Texas Tech Chapter of Cattlewomen are members of the State and National Cattlewomen's Associations and work in conjunction with the State and National Cattlemen's Associations.

The primary purpose of this alliance is to consistently promote the consumption of safe, quality beef products that meet consumers' demands, and to increase consumer awareness of th e entire cattle/beef industry.

The collegiate c hapter is hosting a number of speakers, educati onal tours and service events. Through their various efforts, the Cattlewomen's Associations have been an essential component of the beef industry . The Techsa n Colleg iate Cattlewomen's Association wi ll only add to this tradition, according to the organization's advisers.

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ARCHRECJURE KsryMsthis " This is an in-depth educational program focusing on financial analysis, current issues and customer relations," said Dr. Kary Mathis, Thompson Professor of Agricultural Economics and program coord in ator. " Participants have the

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desire to be back in architecture education in the Southwest brought Dr. Joe Bilello to Texas Tech. "I worked w ith Dean (Martin) Harms on national committees and was looking for an opportunity to come back to architecture education," he said.

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education for the Architecture Institute of America in Washington, D.C., for eight years b efore com ing to Lubbock in August.

"Architecture is different than it was 10 years ago, and it is a profession that is rapidly fragmenting and all of the edges mean different opportunities," Bilello said.

Cyberspace, worldwide agencies and working with people worldwide have created new opportunities for architects, he said. People need to have an understanding of architecture as part of their education, he added.

"Joe has a very strong background in research in the area of campus design," H arms sa id . For hi s doctora l wo rk , Bilello studied the institutional dynamics of new construction on campuses.

ast year, retired facu lty member Dr. El izabeth Sasser and her husband, Tom, were on the trail promoting their book " Dugout to Deco: Building in West Texas 1880-1930."

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Elizabeth Sssser The College of Architecture, which served as a quasi-bookstore, has benefited through a generous arrangement with TIU Press. All the profits on book sales handled through the college have been added to the El izabeth Skidmore Sass.er Lectureship Fund. When this endowment is fully funded, the income will provide funding for distinguished guest lecturers: The Sassers also have a new book;

"The World of Spirits and Ancestors In the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa."

The impetus for the work came from an extensive collection of African art recently donated to the Tech Museum.

Both are beautiful "coffee table" or gift books, w ith text by Betsy and photography by Tom. Info rm ati on about the books or the Sasser endowment may be obtained by calling the co llege, (806) /42-3 136.

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wo longtime faculty members of the College of Architecture have retired.

Bill Felty retired in August 1994 after 36 years, and Bill Cantrell retired this past August after working at Tech for more than 28 years.

Felty, who had most recently served as the associate dean of the undergraduate program, graduated from the arch itecture program in 1952. Shortly afterwa rd , he j o in ed the Tech staff und er No l an Barri ck i n th e office of the University architect.

Cantrell, in addition to a private architectural practice in Lub bock, ta ught courses in construction documents.

In addition, Dr. George Peng, former director of the Institute of Urban Studies, retired in December 1993. He had been at the Un iversity since 1972. All three reside in Lubbock and are pursuing areas of special interest.

-ARTS &SCIENCES.... r. Michael R. Willig recently began hi s f i rst semester as cha ir of the department of bi ological sciences. He first came to Tech as a faculty member in 1983.

Since 1994, he has served as director fo r the Institute of En v ironmenta l Sciences at Texas Tech. Will ig's predecesso r as c h air, Dr . John M. Burns, assumed the position of vice provost for academic affairs Sept. 1.

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He holds a bachelor' s degree and a doctorate in biology from the University of Pittsburgh.

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rofessor of theater and dance Peggy Willis-Aarnio returned f rom Washington state, where her bal let was performed Oct. 6-8 for more than 1,300 people. The performances were part of a 4 3- c ity tour of the Saint Petersburg Ballet, starring Prima Ballerina Assoluta Gal ina Mezentseva.

Her new ballet for the Prima Ballerina and the Sai nt Petersbu rg Ballet, t itled " Rhapsody on a Love Theme" to music

by Rachmaninoff, is in its second year of being performed. Last year, it was produced in 17 cities, this fall to 43, and next spring 30 cities are contracted.

This past summer, Wi ll is-Aarnio was inv ited back to choreograph a second new ballet for the company. She began t he wor k on her new b allet, t it led " Remember When? " to mu sic by Gershwin, and has been invited again in 1996 to complete the ballet, w hich is being planned in conjun ction w ith an extensive 1997 U.S. tour.

ats have been v i ctim ized by the media, according to Dr. Robert Baker. "Bats are often misunderstood because they don't look like soft, cuddly th ings. But they play a special role in the ecosystem."

Bats help control the insect population by consuming up to half their weight nightly in gnats, fru it fl ies and mosquitoes, said Baker, Horn professor of biological sciences and di rec to r of the Natural Science Research Laboratory.

Some bat species actually help pollinate flowers.

Only three of the 900 species of bats found world wide feed on animal tissue, or blood. Because of these bats, all bats often are mistakenly labeled as " bloodsuckers," Baker said.

Many people also think that bats are blind and dependent on sonar to track their prey. This is not true, according to Baker. Bats can see - th e sonar simply aids them in catch ing insects.

One th ing is for sure about bats: no one, if encounteri ng a bat on the ground, should try to pick up or handle the animal. Chances are it is sick, most commonly w ith rabies, Baker warned.

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Peggy Willls·Aarnio Professor and Russian ballet legend Askold Makarov has hailed Willis Aarnio's choreography as "brilliant and in the true tradition of Russian classical ballet." Makarov is an Honored Member of th e Internationa l Association of Choreography.

Former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre Yuri Grigorovich, said, " Today, Makarov's theatre occupies the first and the best place among those w ho represent the contemporary ballet in Russia. It can be ca lled the Theatre-Laboratory, because only here all the best, profound and leading choreographers have worked to create their new works."

W illis-Aarnio is the fi rst American to choreograph a classical ballet for one of the top three ballet companies in Russia.

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roductions of the Texas Tech University Theatre incl ude the musical "Annie Warbucks" Dec. 1-5 and 710, directed by Kerry Graves, and "The Kentucky Cycle" Feb. 5-18, directed by Dr. George Sorensen . From March 7-10,

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lius State Comptroller John Sharp was keynote speaker at the annual Texas Tech University Masters of Public Administration Alumni Day Oct. 6.

The event combines students in the MPA program with professionals in city management and municipal government. Or. Mark Somma is director of the MPA program. I Teachers and school nurses now have a new way to educate junior and senior high students about the risks of tattooing. A ni ne-minute video targeted to adolescents was

Peggy Willis-Aarnio will stage the ballet "Coppelia."

"Annie Warbucks" begins on Christmas morning 1933, with Annie and Daddy Warbucks finally a family .

Commissioner Harriet Doyle insists Warbucks find a suitable wife or return Annie to the orphanage. Daddy falls for the suspiciously ideal Mrs. Sheila Kelly, who just may be in on a sinister plot to nab all of the Warbucks' bucks.

Meanwhile, distraught at the trouble her presence has caused, Annie runs away, prompting a search that stretches all the way to the Oval Office. " The Kentuc ky Cycle," a two-part play, was winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. It is the epic saga of three families in eastern Kentucky and spans 200 years of American history from 1775 to 1975.

For tickets, call (806) 742-3601.

developed by Dr. Myrna Armstrong, R.N., a professor in the School of Nursing. To cover the cost of video production and shipping and handling, the School of Nursing is charging $55 for the video. For more information about the video, contact Armstrong at

hree Nobel Laureates highlighted the joint fall meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, the Texas Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students.

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conference hosted by the department of physics at Tech.

Together with the Nobel Laureates, two world-renowned physicists discussed " Frontiers in Physics." The distinguished speakers were: Leon M. Lederman, w ho was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics; Clifford G. Shull, who received the 1994 Nobel in Physics; llya Prigogine, who was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize for Chemistry; Edward Teller, who has served as a presidential adviser and as a scientist on the Manhattan Project and the first nuclear reactor; and T. Nejat Vezirogl u, w ho is ed itor- in-c hief of the monthly International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

he n veterans of World War II returned home, women were faced w ith the reality that their newly acquired ro les as career women, college students and political office holders had to be surrendered.

Or. Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, professor of political science specializing in gender politics, said women underwent drastic changes during the 1950s postwar period.

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(806) 743-2730. I The Arts in the Library Committee has begun a free Readings in Literature series in the Special Collections Room of the University Library. The fi rst two readings featured Jill Patterson and Dr. William Wenthe, assistant professors of English. Patterson read from a collection of her short stories focusing on the contemporary South and Southwest. Wenthe read poems from his book, "Birds of Hoboken," as well as several new works. I The department of animal science hosted the 1995 Beef Efficiency Enhancement Forum Sept. 14-1 5 at the Livestock Arena. The educational symposium aimed at cattle producers coincides annually with the National Golden Spur Award, sponsored by the Ranching Heritage Association.

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MASS COMMUNICATORS- The School of Mass Communications honored its outstanding alumni at a Homecoming breakfast in the Merket Alumni Center Oct. 7. This year's honorees were Dennis Copeland '78, d~rector of photography at The Miami Herald; Rich Flora '78, creative director for Flora Creative; Lubbock County Judge Don McBeath '77; and Mary Alice Robbins '70, Austin correspondent for Morris Communications. Also recognized was Dr. Billy Ross, former chair of mass comm, on the 25th anniversary of the development of the department of mass communications. Afterwards, Dr. Roger Saathoff (left), director of the school, congratulated Robbins, McBeath and Ross. (Copeland and Flora could not be present for the awards ceremony.) (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

women were told to go back home," she said. "A lot of women were not happy.

However, most women felt that the veterans had a right to a good job as a reward for their war service."

During the 1950s, women's presence in the work force, at universities and in the political arena declined considerably.

Many of the women had become interested in politics during the war, as far as voting, running for offices and joining political groups. But that increased involvement quickly declined as women retreated into family life.

It wasn't until the 1970s that women again became active in politics, enrolling in colleges and expressing the need for equality in the workforce.

Automatic machines that detect defects are available, but they cost about $2.2 million each and can't classify defects they find, Hennessey said. Some defects detected by a machine may not be an important problem but still can slow down the manufacturing process.

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION emiconductor manufacturers using software developed by Tech researchers can detect defects faster and with fewer errors than if human inspectors do the checks. So said Dr. Kathleen Hennessey, director of the Institute for Studies of Organizational Automation.

The software is based on automated visual inspection techniques developed through a collaboration between Texas Instruments and Tech researchers.

Hennessey said the new automated defect classification software allows semiconductor manufacturers to detect defects and quickly adjust equipment and processes before many flawed products have been produced.

"This replaces the human inspectors, who make a lot of mistakes," Hennessey said. She added that the error rate for humans is about 30 percent, and even an expert operator takes 15 to 75 seconds to identify a defect. It takes the automated system slightly more than a second to find defects, and it averages about a 10 percent error rate.

"This will improve yield," Hennessey said. "They (semiconductor manufacturers) have to scrap so much of the product because they have defects in it."

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needs; assistance in the education of currently employed health care managers through the graduate certificate program; and a field exper ience in hea lth care management for currently en rolled health organization management students.

Dr. G rant Savage is directo r of the MBNHOM Program and associate professor of management at Tech.

Kathleen Hennessey "Our system flags or classifies the defect," she said. The system, which uses artificial intelligence, is capable of accurately classifying defects on computer chips even when the size or shape of the defect varies. It also accumulates an indexed defect image library to help engineers and operators identify causes of defects, she explained.

he Master of Business Administration Program in Health Organization Management received a $36,799 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services that will be used for special projects and health administration traineeships.

The special projects program received $25,000 to help defray the staffing costs of implementing the program, and the remaining $11,799 was to be awarded as scholarships for MBA/HOM students who will complete the required field experience or practicum course in health administration through June 30.

The special projects emphasis focuses on three components: a needs assessment survey of rural health care providers' management and educational

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ome Lubbock Independent School D istrict K-6 teachers, Tech education faculty and COE research ass istants began the 1995 fall semester taking part in the CLICK p roject, Connecting Literacy with Content Knowledge.

The project seeks to b ring children, books, and reading and writing experiences together to build a life-long foundation of literacy and co ntent knowledge. Funded through a local foundation, the project includes piloting a new curriculum based on the Hirsch CORE Knowledge curriculum, developing content-rich classrooms that support l iteracy development, and creating a parent and community participation program.

At the 2-6 intermediate level, 14 teachers will pilot the CORE Knowledge curriculum in their classrooms. Thus far, Tech faculty members have held awareness sessions introducing LISD participants to the CORE Knowledge curriculum and traveled with the teachers to San Antonio to visit the Hawthorne School, a Hirsch-based school.

As part of their ongoing curricu lum development, teachers w i ll meet in workshops, work with College of Education faculty, and attend a weekly class.

At the K-2 level, 21 CLICK project teachers, education faculty and research assistants, and LISD staff began the school year by admin istering the Observation Survey to more than 400 students of participating teachers. The survey, a component of Reading Rec-

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Charles Alvin Jones, M.D., professor and associate chair of fami ly medic ine, received the C. Frank Webber Family Practice Award, and fourthyear medical student Michael Loden received the Norma and Felipe Porres Medical Student Scholarship.

Both were presented by the Texas Academy of Famil y Physicians during its 46th Annual Assembly and Scientific Program. I D r. Kathryn Button was named the first recipient of the Donald McDonald Excellence in Teaching Award for her language/literacy development course she introduced to two local elementary school classrooms. I Elemen-

overy, provides a literacy profile of students' literacy skill s so teachers know where to b egi n reading an d w ritin g instruction.

Reading Recovery is an early literacy intervention program for students experiencing reading difficulties. K-2 teachers had the opportunity to attend the Texas Reading Recovery Co nfere nce in O ctober. Th ey take part in a weekl y course to learn about the early literacy framework, an in novati ve instru ctional approach. To implement the framework in their classrooms, teachers were given a collection of quality children's literature.

The CLICK project is an opportunity for collaboration between LISD and Tech to effect lasting school change.

tary-age students participated in a collegiate recruitment conference Nov. 3 at Tech as part of a program designed to encourage sixth-grade minority students to begin th inking about college and a career in education. The students wi ll be tracked through high school graduation,

r. Mary K. Tallent-Runnels is the new associate dean of administration and special projects in t he College of Education . She replaces Dr. Ann Candl erLotven, who resigned in july and accepted the position as dean of education at O klahoma State.

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nator for educational psychology . The primary focu s of her research is in the area of learning and study strategies and gifted children.

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ean Jorge I. Auii on received the Hi sp anic Engi neer N at io nal Achievement Award for Education Oct. 14 at the H yatt Regency Hotel in Houston. Aunon was chosen by an independent committee comprised of representatives from industry, government and academia for his dedication to engi neering education, his promotion of science and engineering at the college level, and hi s leadership as a rol e mod el f or Hispanic youth.

Auii o n came to Tech Feb . 1 from Colorado State, where he served as interim dean of engineering and professor and chair of the electrical engineering department. He also has served as a visiting scientist at th e Natio nal In stitute of Pediatrics in Mexico City. He is a native of Havana, Cuba.

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meet their needs. The Texas Tech Association of Black Journalists is a student chapter of the national group and offers members a "solidified pipeline to career opportun ities, according to the group's president Jason Jenkins. I Dean Jorge I. Auiion of the College of Engineeri ng spoke to Permian Basin engineeri ng alumni Sept. 14 in Midland about

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his plans for the college, including a newly established Dean's Council that w ill assist in strategic planning issues. I Arden L. Bement, co-author of the report "Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers," spoke at Tech Sept.

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Tallent-Runnels came to Texas Tech in 198 6 to se rve as director of th e Institute for the G ifted in Continu i ng Education and later becanie associate director of the Div ision of Continuing Edu cation at Tech. M ost recentl y, Tallent-Runnels was an associate professor of educational psychology and speci al education and, for th e past three years, she has served as program coordi-

ulling minority engineering students together into peer groups before they arrive on campus pushes their grades up w hen c l asses begin, accord i ng to Corneliu s Griffin , d irecto r of Tech' s M inority Engineering Program.

"It has been proven that students w ho w o rk together and study togeth er in groups do better than those who do not," he said.

A week- long camp in August at the Juncti on campus begins th e bo nding process for th e inco ming Hi spanicAmerican, native-American and AfricanA meri can eng ineerin g students. " We introduce students to college-level work and the basic concept of collaborative learning," Griffin said.

During the regular academic year, the privately fund ed Mi nority Engineering Program continues to focus on students' academic development. "There is always

some event or program pl anned throughout the year to keep them focused on the goals of the Minority Engineerin g Program," Griffin said.

said. "We want to develop some synergy so we can be more effective in solving the problem," said Dr. Raghu Narayan, chair of chemical engineering.

Texas Instruments Inc. awarded $4,000 to the TexPREP Lubbock Program. Portions of the gift are used to fund awards to those in the eight-week educational experience for pre-college students who have demonstrated a potential for careers in mathematics, engineering and science. I Tech student Gabrieal

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Cornelius Griffin Tech's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers had the second highest grade point average, 2. 96, for a region comprised of 33 universities in 11 states. " Based on the statistics, the minority engineering program is clearly a success," Griffin said.

an y fashion experts agree that World War II severely impaired the fashion industry. Dr. Samina Khan, associate professor of clothing and texti les, said the war placed " shackles on fashions for women."

She attributes this to the government's ban of certain features of clothi ng th at were cons idered wasteful, such as doubl e yokes, sashes, large belts, patch pockets, turn-up cuffs and hoods.

Prior to the war, hosiery made out of nylon were i ntroduced. However, the government discontinued the production of nylon hosiery during the war in order for nylon to be used to produ ce parachutes.

the Selena Quintanilla Perez Memorial Scholarship in M usic.

Local radio station KXTQ-FM established the scholarship in July for Tech's School of Music in honor of the late Tejano singer Selena. I

Spencer T. Yantis has been named assistant vice president for institutional advancement and Mitzi

Sturgeon is the new director of development for the Lubbock

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esearchers at Van H all Institute in Holland, Tech's department of chemica l engineering, Rice University and Fac hhoc hsc hul e Wilh elmshave n in Germany are working as an international team to devise schemes for attacking pollution.

David Goldsborough, a faculty member at the Van Hall Institute, said that although Holland is a small country, it has between 600,000 and 1 million contaminated sites, much of which affect the soi l of the small northern European country.

The Dutch government has established stringent cleanup standards, but quick and sweeping restoration isn' t feasible given the amount of sites and the shortage of money. So Goldsborough and fellow faculty member Peter Shmit have developed a computer model that helps prioritize w hich sites should be dealt with first.

Such information will come in handy in the U.S., given the cost of cleanups, he

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the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. It was part of $481,000 in cash and more than $12 mi llion in in-kind awards for equipment and software grants that were given by the foundation to 121 educational institutions. I Professor Anatoly

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Samina Khan Perhaps the most detrimental restriction to the fash ion industry was known as the " L85 Scheme." The War Production Board restricted the use of fabric in an effort to save 15 percent of the yardage for military purposes.

With all the restrictions placed on clothing, clothes were, needless to say, p lai n-looking. Khan said women's clothing during the war could be l abel ed

originally from Gorky in Russia, discussed Hilbert's 16th problem Oct. 9-10, as the ESA Distinguished Visiting Professor. I jason Lee is the new DeVitt/Jones Fellow in Theatre and Marjorie Arnett is the DeVitt/ Jones Fellow in Art. I Provost's Research Assistants are, for art Peter Van Ael, for music, judith Lopez, and for theater, Darise Error.

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"functional and utilitarian ." Because women were thrust into the work force when men went off to war, slacks became a very popular clothing choice for women.

"It was more functional to wear slacks in factories, however, it was acceptable for work only," Khan said.

hild nutrition has become a growing national concern. Inadequate food intake by children is associated with delayed physical and intellectual development. On the other end are children whose food intake promotes childhood · obesity. It is known that poor childhood nutrition is a major cause of health problems later in life, including heart disease and adult obesity.

Dr. Ruth Martin, professor of home economics education, received three years of funding from the state of Texas to conduct a research, outreach and needs assessment project that will help to understand these and other problems of child nutrition .

Martin teamed up with other Tech researchers to collect data from children across Texas and assess the students' knowledge about sound nutritional practices, food choices and their attitudes toward changing improper nutritional habits.

"We also are looking at parents, teachers, food service personnel in the schools and school administrators," Martin said.

The findings of her study reveal that although attitudes toward proper nutrition were quite favorable, nutrition knowledge was, in general, below the 70 percent acceptable level for all populations studied. Food choices by children and nutritional practices of all groups were found to be below the levels necessary to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Ameri.c~ns which are identified as 90 percent compliance.

According to Martin, "The populations are· eating too much fat, saturated fat,· cholesterol, sugar, sodium and lack the proper variety of food components in their dietS/ One hopeful sign was that the children expressed a high interest in

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wanting to learn more about nutrition, which is a necessary basis for developing school-based programs to teach nutritional concepts and change inadequate dietary habits, she said.

tion and enhance research.

Information from the conference was shared with colleagues at the Texas Tech Graduate Council meeting on Nov. 2.

Langford and Dr. Monty Strauss will represent Tech at the national meeting of the Coun c il of Graduate Sc hools in December.

GRAOOm SCHOOL r. Thomas Langford, dean of the Graduate School; Dr. Marijane Davis, assistant dean; and Dr. Troy Johnson, director of graduate admissions and enrollment management, represented Texas Tech at the Association of Texas Graduate Schools Conference in Denton Oct. 12-13. Davis is serving her second year as the organization's secretary-treasurer.

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Marijane Davis The association consists of 34 universities and meets annually to discuss postbaccalaureate educational concerns such as admission policies, recent state legisl ation and funding fo r gradu ate programs. The conference also provides graduate school administrators an opportunity to network with colleagues to solve mutual graduate school problems.

Langford spoke at the conference about the research and teaching requirements of graduate faculty and procedures for effective graduate faculty evaluations.

Universities were also informed of national and international computer resources to increase access of informa-

tate narcotics officer Jerry Randall went on trial Oct. 10 for the 1994 shooting death of his 23-year-old girlfriend, Trudi Doyle. Sort of. Actually, Randall isn' t an accused murderer; he just played one.

Sgt. Randall, who really is a state narcotics officer, was one of the participants in a mock murder trial at the law school, hosted by the Lubbock Legal Secretaries Association.

Students in Assistant U.S. Attorney Dick Baker's trial advocacy class acted as prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case.

The mock trial was used to give continuing education credit to members of the secretaries association and to give trial experience to law students.

The " defendant," Sgt. Randall, was accused of shooting his girlfriend to death on Dec. 1, 1994, and the trial was complete with actual forensic pathologists and homicide detectives.

Kathy Roberts, a student in Baker's class, was one of two prosecutors in the case. She said this was the perfect opportunity to practice what she is ·studying. " I want to be a prosecutor, so I want to get as much trial experience as I can," she said. Robert Vititow, a defense attorney in the mock trial, agreed. " It gives you more experience. It's the closest thing you can get to a real trial."

Ann Rogers, a past president of the Legal Secretaries Association, said the trial was held in conjunction w ith national Court Observance Week. " We don't normally get into the courtroom," she said. " It's nice to see how it works." ::i

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GLAUCOMA- THE SILENT THIEF

BY SANDRA PULLEY

laucoma i s often a si l ent thief, stealthily stealing v ision until its victims are blind. But jose Morales, M .D ., at t h e Tex as Tech University Hea lth Sciences Center hopes he can stop the disease before it causes major, irreparable damage to the eye. " Th i s is a cond ition that ca n be stopped if caught early enough," said the ophthalmologist. " But many people do not realize they have the disease until it is too late."

Although prevention is the only way to stop the disease now, Morales said he hopes his research will help find genetic ways to stop glaucoma in the f uture.

Using a $6,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Morales is studying how glaucoma is inherited. " This research may help us find the disease earlier and prevent major damage," he said. " In the di stant future, it may even offer us a way to cure the disease. Most people do not understand what glaucoma does."

Glaucoma is actually the name for an entire fami ly of eye diseases wh ich cause pressure to build in the eye. As the pressure builds it injures the optic nerve, caus in g a gradua l l oss of periphera l vision and, eventually, blindness.

Although curre nt treatments cannot repair damage to the nerve, they can prevent further deterioration. " That is why annual exams are so important for people at a high risk for developing glaucoma," Morales said. "The exams allow us to detect the problem early."

This is especially important considering the most common type of glaucoma is "silent," meaning it has few symptoms.

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us find the disease earlier and prevent major damage. In the distant future, it may even offer us a way to cure the disease. Most people do not understand what glaucoma does.''

- jose Morales, M.D.

This type normally affects peopl e who are over the age of 40.

Others with a high risk for glaucoma include African Americans, diabetics and people with a fami ly history of glaucoma. Those who have taken steroids for prolonged periods, had trauma to the eye or had intraocular surgery are also in the high risk group for getting the disease. " Everyone can be affected by glaucoma, though," Morales warned. " It is rare, but chi ldren can be born w ith glaucoma.

Some people develop th e disease as young adults. These are not the normal cases, but they i llustrate w hy periodic

eye exams are so important."

People between the ages of 45 and 65 who do not have a high risk of developing glaucoma shou ld have an eye exam every two to three years, Morales said.

For those over the age of 65, a yearly exam is advisable.

Exams include a simple and painless test for glaucoma. The most common test checks the eye' s pressure, making sure it is within normal limits. This examination takes less than two minutes to perform.

An examination of the optic nerve completes the glaucoma test.

A more sophisticated tool for diagnosis is the perimetry test, which assesses a patient's peripheral vision. Right now this test is lengthy, but Morales said he is developing ways to make the test shorter, w hile maintaining its accuracy.

"Patients often think to ask about their blood sugar or cholesterol levels when they visit the doctor," he said. "They should be just as adamant when asking about the condition of their eyes. We do not discover that some people have glaucoma until they need an eye exam for glasses. By then, they already have lost some of their vision permanently."

O nce glaucoma is detected, ophthalmologists have an array of options to stop its spread. Medicated eye drops and prescription pills are two of the most common ways to treat glaucoma. Laser treatment or surgery may be required in more severe cases.

"The kind of treatment depends on a variety of factors," Morales said .

"Fortunately we have a wide range of options. But pati ents have to keep in mind that once they have glaucoma, they will have it for the rest of their lives."

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LAST CHEER FOR THE LAST YEAR

BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON

lumni and friends came back to campus Oct. 20-21 for Tech's final Homecoming as part of the Southwest Conference. The Red Raiders had little trouble with Rice, sending fans home

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w ith a 31-26 victory after a warm weekend full of events, activities and surprises. Our annual Homecom ing Album featu res some of those memories of " the last year."

This year's bonfire and pep rally returned to the Southwest Conference Circle, followed by live music at Raider Alley. (Photo by Jim Cawthon)

The Council and Awards Luncheon featured the Top Techsan staff awards, which wete presented to (from left) Steve R. Pruitt, accounting SMVices; Joan B. Weldon, history department; Barbara Benson, plant and soli 'sciences; Marsha Sharp, Lady Raiders coach; Barb/ Dlckenshtet, graduate school; and Tom Razey, housing and dining.

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Presenting Coach Marsha Sharp with her sward were (from left) Director of Athletics Bob Bockrsth, Board President Martha York and Association CEO Bill Dean. (Photo by Jim Cawthon)

Ex-students Association national board member Dicky Grigg presented Martha York with a gift recognizing her service as this year's board president. (Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Friday night at the Scholarship and Awards Dinner, Donald Lambert '64 of Dallas, founder and owner of Lambert Surgical Inc., (right} was presented the Lauro F. Cavazos Award In recognition of his time, creativity and finance enhancing excellence at Texas Tech. Travis L. Simpson '64 received the Distinguished Service Award. The popular Simpson is director of external relations with the College of Engineering at Tech. {Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Colleges observed Homecoming In various ways. Business administration, for Instance, hosted a reception for scholarship donors and recipients, among them Iris Abraham of canadian, who with her late husband, Malouf, fund numerous scholarships. (Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Some of the past presidents of the Ex-Students Association met for lunch with Tech President Robert W. Lawless. From left are Robert Gossett, J.C. Chambers, Ed McCullough, Manuel DeBusk, /Ish Merriman, Larry Byrd, Lawless, Dr. David ca", Earl Fuson, Royal Furgeson and Warlick Carr. {Photo by Jim Cawthon)

Donald Lambert (center) is a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Congratulating him on his award are the chapter's president Cory Hooks {left) and chapter adviser Bob "Heavycat" Thompson. {Photo

by Bill Gustafson)

The Scholarship and Awards Dinner was split into two parts, with dinner at the Civic Center and coffee and dessert at the Alumni Center.

Among the crowd on hand were (from left) Greg Todd and Steve Locke of the Red Raider Club, Lubbock County Judge Don McBeath and Danette and Mike Gallagher. {Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Travis Simpson (center) was excited and surprised to receive his award. He asked everyone associated with the electrical engineering department to be a part of his celebration. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

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Ex-cheerleaders posed for a group picture. Their reunion was held at the Merket Alumni Center.

(Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Other groups, Including former Student Association presidents, held a brunch.

Among those attending were Dr. Harold Brannan '53 (left) and Maxine Craddock Wuffjen, who held the office In back-to-back years during the war In '43-'45. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

The health, PE and recreation faculty had a tailgate party for their alumni before the football game. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

The 1~ class reunions were held at the Merket Alumni Center after the football game. Nancy '62 and Champ Turner '60 of Amarillo visit with Dsvld Pool '57 of Hamilton. (Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

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ESA board member Chino Chapa and his nephew joined the crowds at Raider Alley.

(Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Max '59 and Nancy Gaines '60 of Dallas greet Tommy Priddy '59 of Austin at the class reunion. {Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Jim Douglass presented the Community Service Award to Delta Sigma Theta sorority, represented by its president, Tewanza Tanner. (Photo

by Jim Cawthon)

Homecoming Queen Libby Fuller of Plano was congratulated by friends after being crowned during halftime. {Photo by Jim Cawthon)

Among the annual Homecoming events was the Red Raider Road Race, which supports a scholarship fund. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Highlight of the morning was the Homecoming Parade. Float winners this year were Sigma Phi Epsilon/Kappa Alpha Theta and Coleman Hall. {Photo by Jim Cawthon)

Raider Alley attracted thousands of people before the game, among them Lubbock County Commissioner Kenny Maines and his wife, Sharon '78. (Photo by Bill Gustafson),=

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Friendship: G.W. Bailey and Barry CoiDin 'Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel" - Polonius, in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" COLUMN AND INTERVIEWS BY WILLIAM KERNS

ears and miles often have separated actors G.W. Bailey and Barry Corbin, who met while studying theater at Texas Tech in the 1960s during the reign of professors Clifford Ashby and the late Ronald Schulz. Yet a bond of friendship between the two has grown over the years, the sort of friendship whose boundaries are wide enough to accept criticism and jokes as much as loyalty and support.

Think back to the number of friendships formed during one's college years and how few survive the passing of time after the acceptance of diplomas, and then ask just what price can be placed on any friendship that has survived three decades. " I'm a little older than G.W.," says Corbin. "But I don't have as much gray hair as he does, and my stomach's in better shape than his."

Bailey counters, " I' ll accept the remark about gray hair. But Barry needs to look into a mirror. Sure, if you ask him what his belt size is, he'll say 36. But look where he's wearing it. Hell, if I wore my belt at my hips, I could buy a size 22."

The needling does not stop there.

Bailey later remarks, "Now Barry's into all this cowboy stuff. He's got a place down in Texas and he's got himself a bunch of damn horses, chickens, goats, all that. There's three Longhorns. I' m telling you, the man has cows. I asked him, 'Barry, are these income-producing animals?' And I'm thinking to myself that the man has $50,000 worth of pets.

"He gets up at 6 a.m., tucks his jeans into his boots and goes out to

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clean the stalls. The man is knee deep in horse manure."

But Bailey - and Corbin, too, for that matter- share distinct memories of how they met and why they've stayed friends.

Corbin recalled, " G.W. came to Tech when he was 17. He was exactly like he is now, except his hair was black. I was 21. One day we sat down on the old library steps and G.W. was talking about becoming a lawyer. I remember telling him, ' But G.W., you can act. Not too many people can do that.' Shoot, I guess I might be responsible for all those damn ' Police Academy' movies he made.

"Then we never saw each other for a long time. I went to Chicago, to New York, all around. G.W. stayed in Lubbock for a while and ran the community theater.... We met again years later in Louisville, Ky. I was doing dinner theater and G.W. was at the Actors' Theatre. But we didn't really get back together until I was in California writing some radio plays. I wrote one about two cowboys on the side of the road waiting for a buddy, sort of like 'Waiting for Godot.' We did that together."

Bailey concurred, saying, "I had a small speech scholarship at Tech, but no math or science skills. The thing I loved most in the world was politics. I was going to study political science. But the theater kids were a lot more fun. They roped me into auditioning for a play and I got cast.

Then I got cast in a play with Barry.

"Barry is considerably older than I am. But he was the leading actor at Tech, and he became a friend and a

'75 mentor. And yes, he did tell me to quit law. He said, ' Don't fool yourself.' The truth is, I think I'd been waiting for someone to tell me that. ... So there's no question that Barry was a great influence on me in school. But then he left. I had a hard time dealing with that."

Bailey and Corbin were inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame in Lubbock in 1985. Two years later, both were named adjunct professors within Tech's theater department.

Today, each still looks to the other in times of need. Corbin is preparing a one-man play based on the life of Western trailblazer Charlie Goodnight- and he wants Bai ley to direct.

In turn, Bailey staged a reading of Larry L. King's new play called " The Dead Presidents Club"- and Corbin was the first person he called and asked to read the part of Lyndon Baines Johnson .

Yet what is it that truly makes these two men friends? Can it be put into words? Ask Bailey and he'll laugh and start singing a song from "Man of La Mancha."

"I like him. I really like him. Pluck me naked as a scalded chicken. I like him."

Then Bailey adds, " I do get angry at Barry sometimes. It's not a relationship without its bumps; no good one is. But I like him, and I know he genuinely likes me."

Corbin said simply, "G.W. and I are comfortable together. We know everything about each other, warts and all, and we still like each oth~r.

We know all the stuff about each other that the tabloids would like to get hold of. We' re that close."

G. W Bailey

Fourth Pirate From. The Left Acting is not what he originally dreamed of doing, but he's not disappointed nor surprised at how things have turned out. .W. Bai ley, although a veteran of television and feature fi lms, is not above counseling theater students at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos these days about the up-and-down realities of show business- and he still recalls with almost crystal clarity one of the more influential moments in his own career.

Ask him, for example, about his first stage role after leaving Texas Tech, and he answers, "I was in 'The Pirates of Penzance' at the Actors' Theatre of Lou isville."

Bai ley cou ld have stopped cold at that point, creating the assumption of a leading role and his first notable step toward success as a profession-

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But he continued, " I played the fourth pirate from the left.... And w hen the play was over, I started questioning myself. I had been pretty hot in Lubbock with the community theater and dinner theater, and now this was all I could do? Be the fourth pirate from the left? Keep in mind I was about 29 then, almost 30. I wasn't some 22-year-old theater graduate. But as we were driving home, my wife looked at me and she said, ' I've never been prouder of you than I am tonight.'

"And that stayed w ith me. That's something I've never, ever forgotten ."

In truth, even after Bai ley found recurring roles on popu lar television series (M*A*S*H," "St. Elsewhere," "Goodnight, Beantown," etc.) and became a reliable character actor in films, he still questioned his value as a thespian .

G.W. Bailey (Avalanche-Journal Photo)

"I was into my 30s before I was no longer embarrassed or nervous about listing 'actor' as my occupation. O h, I wanted to. I just literally d id not feel worthy, because you take a lot on when you call yourself an actor. I had my theater equity card; I had my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card . But damn it, (Laurence) Ol ivier was an actor; I wasn't ready

to call myself one."

"So on my income tax forms, I listed myself as a 'performer.' I figured that that could mean anything; I could be a male stripper for all the Internal Revenue Service knew."

Acceptance of his own talents did not come with any specific role or accomplishment, he said, "just after a number of years went by."

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Having returned to Los Angeles, Bailey is back in the Hollywood hold, considering scripts, hustling after rol es, at times thinking about co-producing with good friend Roger Young, who directed both the award-winning " Joseph" and "Geronimo" for cable television debuts.

But although he had been asked only to "help out" at Southwest Texas State University, Bailey found himself " spending a lot more time than I'd originally planned" in San Marcos during the fall. The university is the home of the Southwest Writers Collection and the Texas Monthly archives. " Bill Witliff, Larry L. King, John Graves, Katherine Ann Porter, J. Frank Dobie- their work is in the collection. Sam Shepard also sends most of his stuff there," Bailey said.

"I had been trying to bring some exposure to the collection. We decided to do a festival featuring works by Larry L. King. And then Larry, who lives in Washington, D.C., flew in for it. And he brought in Carol Hall, who did the lyrics for 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.' ... The university's collection includes an extraordinary exhibit of every letter King's ever written, along with his original 'Whorehouse' papers.

"So we put on a performance of 'Whorehouse' one night and afterward Larry took the stage for a conversation with the cast and audience.

That was something special. Then I read about four or five of his letters from the collection, just really unbelievably funny stuff. But the next night was the exciting part."

Bailey could not bridle his enthusiasm as he explained that King had finished writing a new play called "The Dead Presidents Club" and had approved a pre-performance reading.

Bailey said, " Basically, it's about four presidents : Johnson, Nixon, Truman and Coolidge. I read the part of Nixon. Anyway, these four are stuck in purgatory and they can't get out of committee. The play begins the day

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that Nixon dies and he immediately starts conniving. God, by the way, happens to be a large, middle-aged black woman who also is a great singer.

"The play is a lot of fun because Larry finally is going back to his roots, which are political. And we had producers from New York and Texas and writers from The Dal las Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram all coming to this little university town of maybe 30,000 people to cover our festival."

Bailey seems to drift from movies to television and on to acting and directing for the stage. He admits that he's fond of variety. " I' m like a kid. I just don't have a long attention span. We worked for two months on the festival, but now I' m kind of glad it's over and I can go on to something else. I like doing different things, although I have trouble making some people in Los Angeles understand what I' m doing out in San Marcos.

"Then again, if I had Robert De Niro's career and could just pick and choose films, maybe that would be enough. Or maybe it wouldn' t. I can't imagine being a movie star and just making fil m after film after film.

That sou nds like the most tedious thing o n Earth ."

He added, "And besides, I think the lucky actors are those who are accepted both on stage and screen.

A lot of movie stars are not really accepted, or even wanted, on the stage. Glenn Close is one of the few obvious exceptions."

But working at Southwest Texas State University did change - or rather, bring back into focusBailey's view of theater.

"I hadn't been on stage myself for 14 years when they asked me," he recalled, " and it was a wake-up call.

I said to myself, 'You' re an actor.

You were trained for this. You worked hard for this. Suddenly I' d gotten excited about signing autographs for the 'Pol ice Academy' and ' Mannequin' movies.

"I remember in San Marcos at the opening night for 'A Man For All Seasons' - I played Thomas - I just reverted back and thought I' d be scared to death and throw up. But as it turned out, I couldn't wait to get on the stage."

Bailey, despite those early doubts, never seriously considered leaving show business behind. A former prelaw student at Texas Tech, he noted wi th a laugh, "I've sure never thought about law school since then.

But yes, there have been moments when I wondered if I cou ld do anything else, and those were a little frightening. My career has been so up-and-down, so varied . It's not what I originally dreamed of, but I' m not d isappointed and I' m not surprised at how things turned out.

"Was it my dream to go 18 months without work at one stretch?

No. Was it my dream to play a character who winds up in a horse's butt in the first ' Police Academy?' No. My dream - the reason I acted - was to become someone like Olivier. But there are people w ho respect my work. I know that. And I've never second-guessed my career choice."

As for teaching, well, that's a bit too much a commitment.

"Someone asked me about establishing a repertory company in Austin, and I told them, 'Man, that's like owning a restaurant. I'd have to focus on that for 24 hours a day and stick with it.' I don 't mind working with theater students, though. It's fun. I' ll help out with some scene work, some lecturing, maybe some scene critiques. " Hey, when you turn 50, you're thankful for any validation of your work, even if the person asking for your opinion happens to be a freshman from Floydada."

William Kerns '15 is a freelance writer for the Texas Techsan and entertainment editor for the Lubbock Avalanche-journal.

Barry Corbin

Keeping His Characters Honest He's more an actor than a writer, even though he found success with his play "Throckmorton, Texas 76083." arry Corbin ' 64 still has not made up with CBS. He was upset when network officials canceled the quirky Monday night television series "Northern Exposure," on which he co-starred as retired astronaut and wealthy Alaska land owner Maurice Minnifield.

Although he has stayed busy making television guest appearances and accepting roles in feature films since being handed that particular pink slip, it does not take much coaxing to convince Corbin to expose his side of the "Northern Exposure" controversy.

"It (the reason for cancellation) was all smoke and mirrors," Corbin said in Los Angeles, where he was wrapping up a guest appearance for a future "Murphy Brown" episode.

"The truth is that CBS never did support 'Northern Exposure' from the beginning. They never knew where it fit or how to promote it. The show was first thrown on the air as a summer replacement and, when CBS finally decided to renew it, they told us it was for eight more episodes and that was it. But they were contractually required to renew us for 13 episodes.

"I brought that up and I was told, 'If you're not happy, don't do the show. We'll just cancel it. Then it will be your fault that all of these people are out of work. That was my first backdown on the show."

He continued, "They never renegotiated contracts for anyone except Rob Morrow, and he had to stage a one-man strike to get that. CBS perceived it as a marginal show, but we knew it was a hit. People liked the

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However, his most colorful role solved in a violent way. That's how things happen in real life. Go ask may be that in the Quentin Tarantino-produced movie titled people when was the last time they "Solo at Curdled." Corbin said, " I saw a stabbing. Most folks have play the ow ner of a post-forensic never seen one, except for every cleanup operation. My character had hour on TV." to take the job after he hurt his back The cancellation hasn't stopped and couldn't lift corpses anymore."

Corbin from working.

In june, he finished a made-fortelevision film called "Please Forgive Me," which costars Cheryl Ladd. "I play a sleazy security expert," Corbin said.

He worked on another made-fortelevision film with Loni Anderson called " Deadly Family Secrets."

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Keep in mind that all movie titles are subject to change- and also keep in mind that Corbin is far more excited about putting the finishing touches on a one-man play titled "Charlie Goodnight's Last Night."

He has co-written it with Andy Wilkinson '72 - " actually, more of it is written by Andy than by me" - and he hopes to premiere the work at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in February 1996, with a possible follow-up performance at the Lubbock Arts Festival in the spring of 1996.

Corbin already has been fitted for a wig and beard, and he has asked longtime friend G.W. Bai ley ' 66 to consider directing the project.

"What happened," Corbin explained, "is that I was casting about for a one-man project, something I could just take out of the trunk whenever I liked. I read the J. Evetts Haley biography of Charlie Goodnight and I thought his story was pretty dramatic. But then I read in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal about Andy's musical project on the life of Goodnight, and I sure didn't want to step on any toes.

"So I called Andy long distance and, when I talked to him, he told me that he thought our two projects could compliment each other."

Months of work have been devoted to writing and shaping the oneman play, and Corbin now reveals, "The play has progressed to a point where I think we're doing more than just telling the life story of Charlie Goodnight. It says something about the land and the values of the people who settled the land - because those values are something we are in danger of losing. We have become a fragmented, shattered society in which everybody is afraid of everybody else.

"That's one thing the O .j. Simpson verdict pointed out," Corbin said.

"But O.j. didn't cause it. It' s been there. We've been afraid of each other for a long time and the fear I'm talking about doesn't just refer to

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color lines. We have got to come to an understanding with each other without the help of the government.

And Charlie Goodnight is a good example of a man who went his own way; he did what he did with no apology to anyone. Goodnight did not judge people externally, say, by the color of their skin. It was the core that concerned him, the fiber of a man, and he judged that harshly."

Corbin concluded, "Sure, this is Charlie Goodnight I'm going to portray. But I think if people come out and see an old man on stage talking about integrity and honor and loya lty, it might help - especia lly if we can make the play entertaining."

Ten years ago, Corbin described writing as a hobby, explaining that he rented a typewriter in 1974 so he could write a nasty letter and make it look official and, as he put it, "Since I had to rent it for a whole week, I started writing a play .... I do enjoy writing first drafts. That's because even I don't know what's going to happen. The drudgery comes in rewriting, in cleaning the thing up so it makes sense. I don't enjoy that at all."

The fact that he has co-written "Charlie Goodnight' s Last Night" does not necessarily mean that Corbin has changed his mind; after all, Wilkinson also is around to handle re-writes.

Corbin is more actor than writer, to be sure, even if he found success with his play "Throckmorton, Texas 76083" (which actually linked his one-acts "The Whiz Bang Cafe" and "The E.Z. Snooze Motel"). He once pointed out, "They're really so different, writing and acting. but I' d have to say that I prefer acting because I prefer the company of people. I' m a gregarious guy and, while I enjoy writing, it's lonely work."

But whether it is a " Northern Exposure" script or a historical oneman play, the Lamesa native emphasized that he now is more intent on challenging the words, if only to "keep my characters honest."

Information Box Birthdate and Birthplace: Bailey: Aug. 27, 1944, Port Arthur Corbin: Oct. 16, 1940, Lamesa

Years Attended Texas Tech: Bailey. 1962 to 1972, off and on.

Corbin: I think I left in 1964. You' d have to look it up.

Worst Job rve Ever Had: Bailey. W hile in college, I worked fo r an ice house, delivering these big blocks of ice. I remember one year I had to work during Easter break. I was by myself, I couldn' t afford to go home, all of my friends were off vacationing, and I actually started cryi ng in the car. I felt pretty sorry for myself.

Corbin: Loading laundry trucks in New Haven, Conn., in February.

The second worst was shovel ing lead in a print shop in Chicago.

Favorite Stage Bole: Bailey. Common Man in " A Man For All Seasons."

Corbin: That's like ask ing which one is your favorite chi ld. I love 'em all.

Favorite Bole In TV Or Movies: Bailey. For TV, it wou ld be Sgt. Rizzo, the character I played on "M•A•S•H." Later, I made a picture with Dennis Hopper ca lled " Doublecross," and I guess that's my favorite movie role because I helped develop that character.

Corbin: I can be a little more selective here. It's probably more the experience of doing it than the role itself, but my part in "Urban Cowboy" (as john Travolta's uncle) still is one of my favori tes. It was good for exposure, but I also really liked that character. I enjoyed doing " The Thorn Birds," although I didn' t care for the final product. I also enjoyed doing " Lonesome Dove," and that one turned out better than anyone ever expected.

Bole I Am Best Remembered For: Bailey: Movie fans probably remember me as Captain Harris in the "Pol ice Academy" films. All of the "M *A*S*H" freaks know every single character on that show and remember me for playing Rizzo.

Corbin: Right now, it' s probably Maurice in "Northern Exposure." But a television role seeps into the fabric of the cu lture and then goes away. So I'd say I'm better remembered for playing Rosco in " Lonesome Dove" or the general in "WarGames." People still remember my line in " WarGames" about urinating on a spark plug; I made it up on the spot, just ad-libbed it. That line still makes people laugh.

Everything is fine .... Then as Craver leaves, he turns around and says, "And you'll never guess who your director is.

He's our bug man. He kills bugs." I' m not sure what the actors thought- but we did "Private Lives" and we put the whole thing together in just four days.

Corbin: There was a story that went around campus that I was living in a dumpster, and that story was not strictly true. I did sleep in a dumpster, but I didn't li ve in it. See, there used to be greenhouses by the old library- not the library that is there now- and every day they'd dump their flowers in there.

And it smelled real nice. It wasn't like I was nestl ing down in something that smelled like sour milk. It was flowers.

Funniest Thing That Happened

To Me At Tech: Bailey: How I got my first job directing at the Hayloft Dinner Theater. I was a fat kid with a bad complexion, and I was working as an exterminator.

One day I was supposed to go kill roaches at the Hayloft Dinner Theater. I go in and I Barry Corbin {left} and G. W. Bailey {Photo by James Granger/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal} hear (theater owner) Les Craver on the phone telling someone, " Damn it, I So I' d crawl in there and take a nap have three New York actors here. I between classes. And no one would have known except one day the truck need a play up by next Tuesday. I still need a director." So I walk into his came and picked up the dumpster and office - and keep in mind that I' m emptied it whi le I was in there. So I got wearing a shirt with a picture of a dead dumped into the garbage truck.

(For the record, Bailey admits that bug on it and I'm carrying a squirt gun -and I tell Craver that I am a director. he helped spread the news. "The way I Late that same night I got a call from saw it, where you sleep is where you (Tech theater professor) Ron Schulz. He l ive," he said w ith a laugh.) told me, "G.W., that peculiar man at the Hayloft said he needed a director Five People, Living Or Dead, and I recommended you. " So the next Td Like To Have Over For DinnerAnd What rd Serve Them: morning I go back wearing a coat and Bailey: Assuming that we could all tie, I get the job and Craver introduces speak English, the first person I would me to three professional actors.

invite would be Jean Anouilh, who is one of my favorite playwrights. I'd have to invite Tennessee Williams. I' d invite LBJ (President Lyndon Baines Johnson), because I' m fascinated with him and that era; it's not out of respect, because I know he messed up a lot. Then I'd invite Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, because they're two of my favorite actors.

And I' d serve them a good, old-fashioned Southern meal: fried chicken, black-eyed peas, fried okra, mashed potatoes, home-made yeast rolls, corn bread. Maybe some catfish, too. And lots and lots and lots of booze.

(One week later, Bai ley ca lled back and said, "This is going to sound so Norman Rockwell, but a couple of nights ago I was able to have dinner with my family for the first time in months. I was able to be with my wife, June, my daughter, Terri, her husband, Alan, my son, Martin, and his wife, Heather. We had a lot of red wine and a lot of fun and I realized that these are the people I'd really want to be witha lot more than any old playwrights and actors. Even my 13-month-old granddaughter, Hannah, was there.)

Corbin: Well, what I'd serve sounds horrible, but it's reall y tasty. I just had it in North Carolina. I was making a movie there and they served me "shrimp and grits," and it was so good that I had it more than once. You just cook up some grits and put shrimp over it and then toss in some bacon and scallions.

I'd also serve some really salty garlic bread and some southern sweetened iced tea.

Most of the people I' d invite already are dead, so we wouldn' t have to worry about cholesterol. We'd have ice cream sundaes for dessert. And I' d have a fully stocked, open bar, because the guys I'm inviting would appreciate that.

If I can only invite five, I'd invite Mark Twain, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields, Buffalo Bill Cody and William Shakespeare. And I think we all could have a good o l' time and probably put a pretty big dent in the bar.

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Gary P. Nunn

vf_t H@tib=.¢· With, th,=.¢· vfrmadill@) He's still promoting Texas music, too entrenched in it to pull up and move

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ary P. Nunn '65, no stranger to the highs and lows of the •. • music business, was a pre• pharmacy major at Texas Tech before he became a notable ingredient in the Austin music scene in the early 1970s.

By 1985, then-Texas Governor Mark White proclaimed Nunn an "official ambassador to the world " and proposed that his song, "London Homesick Blues," perhaps referred to more often as " Home With the Armadillo," be embraced as the state song of Texas. The song since has been adopted as the theme for the nationally syndicated TV show "Austin City Limits."

At one time in his earl y career, Nunn was juggling time and commitments so he could play bass guitar for Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker during the same year. Little did he know that some seven years later, he'd be struggling again. " Yeah, I told myself that if I ever ran completely out of money, I'd go back to school and get my pharmacy degree," Nunn said during a conversation from his 800-acre A-0 Ranch in Hanna, Okla. "And I remember one time I got down to where I had $30 in my pocket and I was going to make a Californi a tour. I had the equipment in a horse trailer, and the band was sitting in the bed of my pickup truck.

"We made it as far as Tucson and found a gig there. That got us enough money to go on. I just gutted it up. I guess if I' d had any pride - any quitting pride, that is -I would have :

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BY WILLIAM KERNS given up.

Maybe I didn' t know better."

To his credit, Nunn, once a vital cog in the Lost Gonzo Band, has managed to find solo success and develop a following w ithin the college crowd and many others, all without changing his philosophy of playing Texas music.

Born in Brownfield, Nunn began Gary P. Nunn, flanked by the Buddy Holly statue. He loves what he does and it shows/ (Photo by Bill Gustafson) playing guitar as a seventh grader. "Ever since I was a little continued. " I won first place in the guy, I tried to be in the middle of junior high division . That was all it w hatever music I could find," he took to get me hooked. W e formed a said. " After my friend A lton band, and the same bunch of us Nicholson's dad bought him a guitar, stayed together all the way through I spent the next six years hanging out high school." at his place. The Emeralds were the Nunn enrol led at Texas Tech, but big band at the time in that area. by 1972 college had taken a permaW e'd hang out w henever they nent home on the back burner. In rehearsed, and they'd teach us some Austin by then, he recalled, " That songs. was when Michael Martin Murphey "Then I entered a talent show moved in w ith me, we put a band when I was in the eighth grade," he together and made his first album,

titled 'Geron imo's Cadil lac.'

"Then Jerry Jeff came to town, and not long after that Willie arrived in Austin. I figured I'd try the music business full time, and we were just cruising. Life was good. I made three records with Michael and, in 1973, Jerry Jeff made 'Viva Terlingua,' and we were off and running with him through '76."

It was in the early '70s that Nunn wrote "london Homesick Blues."

Although he is proud of the song and never tires of singing it, he fully admits that its success "was a real fluke because I wrote it as a joke. I wrote it as a parody of a country song. And I never had any intention of singing it. The first time I did was when Jerry Jeff coaxed me into singing it for his live 'Viva Terlingua' album."

The song is more autobiographical than one might assume. " I wrote it when I was in London57 Montague Square, to be exact," recalled Nunn. "I was over there with Michael Martin Murphey. He was married to this English woman at the time, and I was just kind of hanging out because Michael left me in this cold flat for weeks at a time.

"Anyway, I was feeling cold and lonely, and I couldn't really go anywhere. So after about a week, I pulled out my guitar and started writing a song. The first line was something like, 'Well it' s cold over here and I w ish they' d turn the heat on.' I wasn't kidding."

Murphey, by the way, never learned to appreciate the song, Nunn added. "At the time, Michael thought I was slapping his kinfolk with that song."

Nunn said Murphey also didn't like his bass player performing with Walker. "The Lost Gonzo Band had been known for backing Jerry Jeff," Nunn said. There w ere problems with both arrangements, and about 1977, the band got their own record deal.

"But it didn't work out," Nunn said. "The band didn' t accept my

leadership role, and no one else would step up and take the lead.

They weren't into the Texas music I wanted to play either and, about 1980, I pulled out."

That was a frightening year. "I had never performed under my own name," Nunn said. "I never had been the lead guy, and I couldn't get anyone to book me or manage me. So I had to do everything myself."

A turning point arrived in 1983 when Nelson not only recorded one of Nunn's songs, "The Last Thing I Needed The First Thing This Morning," but also released it as a single.

on the birthdate of Lubbock's favorite son.

Nunn, 49 - he'll turn 50 on Dec. 4 - now works 48 weekends a year, mostly in Texas. He still drives his truck from Oklahoma to Texas, logging as many as 1,500 miles per week. He's created a new following with little help from the media and none from national promoters or record labels.

Although he may have had regrets at some points In his career about not finishing col· lege, Nunn couldn't be happier with the way things have turned out. (Photo taken at the Red Raider Ruckus in 1994/n Austin.)

Gary P. Nunn was inducted into Lubbock's Walk of Fame this fall and received his plaque from another Tech-ex, City Councilman Ty Cooke '68, '73. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Nunn said, "I know the album sold about six million copies and the song was a hit. It generated some income for me at a time when I needed it."

On Sept. 7, 1995, another high point occurred when Nunn, along w ith Elvis' pianist Glen D Hardin, became the 31st and 32nd entertainers inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame.

The induction ceremony annually takes place at the Buddy Holly statue

"I'm still promoting Texas music.

The industry is centralized in Nashville; that' s where the money and power is. But I' m too entrenched in Texas music to pull up and move."

Nunn' s wife, Ruth, and two sons, Julian and Luken, are the pride of his life, and are always mentioned prominently in his personal newsletter to fans. Quoting from the fall issue cover letter, Nunn' s own words sign off here: " I just want you all to know how very much we appreciate your support and friendship. I look forward every weekend to getting out there and seeing your smiling faces. You appear to be enjoying yourselves, and that' s how I measure success.

Put our schedule on the 'fridge' and come be with us and bring a friend.

May God shower you with His blessings as He has us. AAAAAAAAAA-

0000000000!!! "

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Terry Allen

A Wonderful Darkness And a wonderful darkness it is, spewing forth paintings and drawings and songs and sculptures and plays and movies and things called installations.

BY ANDY WILKINSON n a coo l Sunday this September past, Terry Allen ' 61 sat in his studio and talked about his work. All afternoon, small thunderclouds had been spilling down between the Jemez Mountains and the Sangre de Cristos, punctuating stately paragraphs of clear New Mexican light with shadows and rain-shower smudges, but for now the skies to the west had cleared and the large cedars just outside the studio doors lit up in thick golds and neon yellows. The photographer, Natalie Brown, hurried Terry out to the porch to make use of the unexpected sunset bonanza.

We continued to talk for a few moments, but A llen's three dogs piled out the door and joined the photography session, busying those on both sides of the camera and taking over the conversation, as dogs and child ren w ill . Whi le the photographer used up the last of the sunlight, I went back inside and looked around. By the telephone were snapshots tacked to the wall, including a

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Allen enjoys the sunset at his home in Santa Fe. (Photo by Natalie Brown)

few recent ones of Allen's and wife Jo Harvey' s first grand baby, Sled Harvey Allen. On a table in the studio's large room, the one with huge overhead doors to perm it passage of big works, lay one of Allen's notebooks, open as if in use, filled w ith writing and sketches and photos of works in progress. Above the south w indows that overlook the valley

and the nearby Santa Fe River, w ere several old framed photographs of baseball teams.

On a prior visit, Allen had pulled one of the pictures down and pointed out his father, Sled Allen, who' d played in the big leagues, catching for the St. Louis Browns, then serving as a player/manager for several of the o ld Texas League teams, among

What's An Installation, Anyway? argon makes language rich, even though it someti mes makes it difficult fo r folks on the outside to understand w hat fo lks on the i nside are talking about.

Yet, most idiomatic w o rd s and express ions have logical origins, and can be understood in some sense of their o rdinary meanings.

Th at's th e case for in sta ll ation .

Wh en a wo rk o f art is ca ll ed an install ation, it means the work has

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been created for a specific space. It is, in the simple se nse, insta lled in the space, implying that it cannot be readil y moved abo ut and v iewed elsewhere.

O ften as not, the w ord space is replaced by the more encom passing term environment, the latter further implying that the art occu pies more than just the three d imensions that define physical space.

Though there seem to be no hard

and fast ru les, in stallati o ns tend to have certain characteristics that set them apart from other types of art.

Besides static images, they m ay incorporate film or video of images in motion, and they often invo lve elements other than sight, such as music or sound.

Moreover, insta ll at ion s usua ll y involve all or most of the avai labl e vis ual space, frequent ly requ ir ing that the viewer enter the work to see

them the Lubbock Hubbers, whose tribe surrounded him in the photo.

After he'd hung it back, Allen took me to an adjoining room in the studio, a library of sorts, lifted up an old Hubbers trophy from a modest place on a windowsill, and as we hefted the heavy silver memento, turning it to read the engraved plate on its base, he talked about his folks and his roots in W est Texas.

"For many years after having left there, I had convinced myself that I was alienated from Lubbock, that I hated the place," he said. "But in 1977, while I was teaching art at Cal State in Fresno, I was looking to do an album of a big bunch of songs I'd written.

"I'd talked with a couple of people- Laurie Anderson and Lowell George- about producing the record, but, for various reasons, I couldn' t get them. Out of the blue, an old friend, Paul Milosevich, telephoned with the suggestion that I come to Lubbock, that he had some people he wanted me to meet and that I might want to do my recording there. I told Paul I' d like to come out and visit, except that I didn't have any money. The next day one of those eternal mysteries occurred: a check for a piece of artwork arrived in the mail , so Jo Harvey and I went.

That' s when I met (musicians) Joe Ely and Lloyd Maines and (restaurateur) Stubb and the rest of the Lubbock crew. It felt like coming home."

The resulting album was called "Lubbock on Everything," a doublerecord set of classic Terry Allen tunes such as " Amarillo Highway," "The Great Joe Bob," and "New Delhi Freight Train."

"While doing this record, I realized the songs were about how much growing up in Lubbock meant to me," Allen said. "Lubbock's got a hard bark, with little or no self-pity; its music has an edge that can be smelled, like Lewter's feed lot. And no one from Lubbock ever apologized for what they were or where they lived."

A homecoming it was, for Terry Allen was returning to his roots. He attended public schools there, graduating from Monterey High School and starting college at Texas Tech. It was where he met his wife and colleague, Jo Harvey, at a Rainbow Girls Dance; they were 11 .

About that same time, when he was in the sixth or seventh grade, Allen began to write, and has been writing every day since. "I was starting to read then, and writing putting words down on paperseemed like a pretty amazing thing for people to do."

He learned music from his mother, Pauline Roosevelt Pierce Allen, a professional jazz and barrel house piano player, who, Allen told me with no small degree of pride, "was the first girl to be kicked out of SMU, for having been caught playing jazz

music in a Negro band."

He began· performing in Lubbock, too, playing music w ith locat legend David Box at Monterey High. That's also where he d id his first paid work as an artist, in a manner of speaking : getting expelled from high school for drawing risque figures on fel low students' notebooks for 25 cents each.

This afternoon, just before we'd adjourned to the studio's front stoop, I'd asked Allen about "Chippy," a musical stage drama he and Jo Harvey had written based on the Depression-era d iaries of a West Texas prostitute. The play's all-star cast - Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock and Jo Carol Pierce- j oined Al len and Jo Harvey in w riting and performing the music. Having run only five w eeks, four in Philadelphia and one at the Lincoln Center in New York, I hoped he had plans to stage it' again . " It's run its course," he said, " too expensive to travel, and too difficu lt getting everyone together. Doesn't have anything to do with the reviews. Some were good, like in The Atlantic; others w eren' t so good .

But a lot of that was the complete mystery of the West Texas experience. The pl ay's set during the Dust Bowl, so we had d irt on the stage.

Lots of it. People w ere asking, 'What is that stuff?"' Allen smiled, almost out loud. "It was dirt. Just dirt! " Instantly serious, he continued. " For

all of its aspects. M any installation s are ki netic, adding motion as an eleme nt of the w ork, and oth ers are interactive, making the view er literally part of the art as well.

Most impo rtantly, beca use they are site-specific, install ati ons almost always change w hen moved from exhibit to ex hibit, to the point that a substantial number of unique works that exist only for the time and place of their creation.

In stall ations are not necessa ril y new things. Cave art, fo r in stance, depe nd s upon a spec if ic spa ce in that the figures themselves are often defined by the shapes and textures of the rock surfaces upon which they w ere draw n, so that different su rfaces, e.g., di fferent caves, necessitate different art.

Several thousands of years later, in the aftermath of the First World W ar, M arcel Duchamp and others in the

art movement k nown as D ad aism la id the modern fo undat ions fo r install ation art by exhi b iting as art ord inary three-d imens iona l objects, often without any altera tion. Mostly, though, installations are thought of as an off-shoot of the "happenings" of the 1960s, t hose p la nned "unplanned" events that mixed visual art w ith pe rfo rm ances o f mus ic and poetry and theater and were one-ofa-kind phenomena.

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those of us who did the play, it was a ings and songs, the earliest of which family thing. We'd wanted for years came about in Allen's first studio, on to work together. I've never done Idalou Road in Lubbock. He and his anything I was more proud of. And wife, jo Harvey Allen, and their two sons, Bukka and Bale, had returned there've been lots of good things've to their hometown for w hat turned come from it."

One of those good things to come out to be a brief interlude, five from "Chippy" was that the work months during which Allen only triggered Depression and Dust Bowl managed to make a couple of hunstories from lots of people, giving dred dollars writing an advertising jingle for Lubbock Power & Light.

Allen a richer sense about that era, a An offer to teach art at Berkeley time that must have personal signifitook them back to Californi a, w here cance for him, as he continued straight into a description of a new piece of work, one still very much in the beginning stages. Its working title is " Dugout," having drawn inspiration from both his dad's baseball career and the fact that his mom had been born in a sod dugout in Oklahoma.

When asked what sort of work it was intended, or expected, to be, All en shrugged his shoulders.

"Maybe a theater piece, maybe an installation.

Maybe something else. Or all three."

That answer should've been no surprise. Terry Allen's art knows no boundaries. Indeed, the first section of " Dugout" Allen, in his studio, talks with writer Andy Wilkinson.

(Photo by Natalie Brown) has become a radio show for New American Radio, a syndicated program on National Allen had graduated in 1966 with a Public Radio. Like this new project, BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute.

But Allen didn't leave "juarez" his past works have been multibehind . Those first few pieces inaufaceted treatments of central themes. gurated a related series of works that "I get interested in an idea and I don't care what it's going to become. continued to develop and grow for well over two decades. The songs The idea takes you to what it necesbecame his first record album, sitates: song, image, object. You' re riding blind, always, throwing yourreleased in 1975, and the visual art became a one-man exhibition held self into you r own igno rance. The that same year. A screenplay fol work gets made in the dark." lowed in 1978, then a performance And a w onderful darkness it is, spewing forth paintings and drawings by jo Harvey.

Two years later, the piece became and songs and sculptures and plays "a si mple story Uuarez)," an installaand movies and things called instaltion of three units incorporating lations. "juarez," for example, found aspects of song, image, word, space its start in 1969 as a series of draw-

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and form. The most recent incarnation of "Juarez" is a stage script worked out by Allen and David Byrne.

By 1979, both Allen and jo Harvey were beginning to make enough money at their respective work- Terry with music and art, Jo Harvey writing and acting - that Allen was able to resign his art professor's post. With both sons out of public schools by then, the Aliens left California, first looking for a place to live in Texas, but winding up in Santa Fe. If Al len had been busy before with his own work fitted around a regular teaching job, he's only been busier since devoting full time to his callings. In addition to continu ing the "j uarez" series, he began another project titled " Youth In Asia, " a mu lti-level treatment of the war in Vietnam. His interest in the theme first developed in 1982 when he began work on the soundtrack for "Amerasia," a German film about both the Amerasian children left behind after the war and the ex-patriot American veterans who chose to remain behind in Southeast Asia themselves. Allen produced the first pieces for the project in 1983, but after spend ing six weeks working on the film score in Thailand the following year, the project took on momentum. Between 1982 and 1991 , he produced works in the series every year but 1990, with music, text, and several large installation pieces, among them "China Night" (1985), "Tables and Angels" (1987) and " Big Witness (living in w ishes)" (1988).

After "Juarez" (1975) and " Lubbock (on Everything)" (1978), Allen has recorded several other fulllength albums of music: " Smokin' the Dummy" (1980), "Bloodlines" (1984), " Pedal Steal" (1985), " Amerasia" (1987), " Rollback" (1988), " The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)" (1993); and the cast album of "Chippy" (1994), co-produced with Joe Ely.

Early in 1996, Allen will release "Human Remains" on the wellknown Sugar Hill label. Rather than a thematic work, it is a collection of songs, reminiscent of "Lubbock (on Everything)." Of no small importance is that it's Allen' s first release on a major label, his prior recordings having been issued on his own Fate Records. (A note for collectors: all these recordings are available on CD except "Amerasia," wh ich can only be had on cassette.)

Texas music who died earlier this year in Austin.

Allen was enthusiastic about striking a life-size bronze statue of Stubb to be placed on the concrete slab on East Broadway in Lubbock, all that's left of the original Stubb's Barbecue.

If Allen was tired from his recent road trip, any vestige of weariness dropped away as he described how there was talk that the city government would maintain the site as a park, and about how bronze plaques

As I was collecting my notes to leave, and the photographer was giving the dogs one last pat, almost as if he'd read my mind, Allen fished through some papers and handed me a copy of a quotation he keeps stuck to the wall of his studio. It says a lot about art, and just as much about Terry A llen: "Dear Lord God, I earnestly pray you to help me order this work, ugly, chaotic, and sinful though it may be, in a manner that is acceptable in Thy

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atalie Brown had shot up the last of her film, and the three dogs had mostly settled down -Joker, the Harlequin Great Dane, having artfully packed his huge frame into a rather small armchair, while Nancy, the Blue Heeler, and Sunday, the mixed Chow-Lab, milled about quietly. Nothing remained of the sunset but a washed-out sky, darkening enough to the east by now that the street lamps below in Santa Fe could be seen blinking on in deliberate fashion.

We were nearing the end of our visit. Allen had only been home a couple of days, having been on the road working on the new album, recording in Lubbock and mixing in Austin, and installing a new bronze sculpture in Kansas City. Those few days back, he'd spent mostly working on another life-size bronze sculpture for Sony Picture's movie lot in California. But neither of us was quite done.

Terry was anxious to tell me about his involvement in another new project, one near and dear to his heart.

He'd stopped in Lubbock on his way back home to meet with artist Paul Milosevich and Connie Gibbons, director of Lubbock's Fi ne Arts Center.

They w ere making plans for a memorial to C.B . " Stubb" Stubblefield, the legendary barbecue cook and spiritual saint of West

Terry Allen (left in sunshades) and the cast of "Chlppy" (Photo by Wyatt McSpadden)

were to be placed on the slab to mark where the pit was, where the bandstand fit, and on the spot beneath the hand-lettered sign proclaiming "There Will Be No Loud Talk, No Bad Talk In This Place."

Stubb is sti ll very important to Allen.

I wondered aloud, "What else is important to you?" Allen didn' t hesitate. " I' ve never been interested in art about art, or music about music.

I' m interested in the planet, in the humans who populate it, what they do to each other, in the human experience."

I thought to myself that Allen' s answer was the best definition I'd ever heard for art.

sight; thus, so it seems to my imperfect and disordered brain, at the same time fulfilling the highest canons of art, yet breaking new ground and, where necessary, o ld rules. It must be tumultuous, stormy, full of thunder, the exh ilarating word of God must sound through it, pronouncing hope for man, yet it also must be balanced, grave, full of tenderness and compassion, and concepts, but let me be truly Thy servant in making this a great and beautifu l thing, and if my motives are obscure and the notes scattered and often meaningless, please help me to order it, or I am lost ... " (Malcolm Lowry, "The Forest Path in the Spring").

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Artie Limmer

Image Maker National Photographer of the Year in 1993, he had gone t o college to study the field in which he wanted to work. First, he had to pay his dues in the real world.

BY jEFF FITLOW

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at do a roofer, a bartender and a reelance photographer have in common? In 1982 after graduating from Texas Tech, Artie Limmer was all three of them. Life might seem dull now in comparison- Limmer's just a national award-winning photographer and head of the always-busy photo lab in Texas Tech's Office of News and Publications.

There, he is responsible for a majority of the photographs used in various public rel ations media for Tech's main campus, as well as for the University's Health Sciences Centers in Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso and Odessa.

At fi rst, finding a job in the field he'd studied was hard for Limmer. Immediately following graduation from Texas Tech, he worked in Lubbock as a bartender at the Santa Fe restaurant, owned a roofing company and worked as a freelance photographer whenever he could. On those occasions, Limmer took photos of restaurants and food and shot ads for several designers.

"I looked at jobs in Dallas but in '82, there was a big recession," Limmer said. " I wanted to get a job with someone I respected and start learning more about the business that way."

He started talking to people in D~llas about jobs and received a

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Texas Tech Photographer Artie Limmer

great deal of positive feedback, but no offers.

"At the time, there were many photographers in Dallas worki ng as assistants who had once owned their own businesses in Chicago and New York," he explained. "And that didn' t help my chances any."

Finally in 1983, a position opened at Tech in news and publications. He interviewed, showed a portfolio and was offered the job. " It was a nice job," Limmer said, "and one I could go for. The roofing business was slacking off, and everyone was underbidding me."

A young bachelor with energy to

spare and nothing but time, he kept the bartending job at Santa Fe, continued to freelance for a year, waterskied whenever possible, and he took the Tech job.

Today, Limmer has acquired a small staff which includes one fulltime photographer and two part-time student assistants. Together they design and shoot photo il lustrations for brochures, calendars, phone book covers, newspaper stories, slide shows, the University's research magazine and the alumn i magazine for the Health Sciences Center.

Occasionally, they even shoot something for the Texas Techsan.

Limmer has received many awards in his photography career, including the Top Techsan Award from the University and National Photographer of the Year in 1993 given by CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Limmer is proud of the CASE award. He had submitted work three times before receiving the top honor, garnering a bronze in 1992. " For that award, work is submitted by photographers from universities and colleges in the U.S., Mexico and Canada," Limmer said. "The work must be current and used in a publication. After receiving my bronze in ' 92, I submitted all new work in '93

and won the first-place award."

Winning is nothing unusual for the tall, good-natured photographer.

A native of Slaton, he played high school football and won a scholarship to Western New Mexico University, where he played for a short time before transferring to San Angelo, where he also stayed for a brief period.

members of the President's Council.

"Most universities have a research magazine. We just started ours a few years back," Limmer said. "I have looked at many of these across the nation and I would put ours up visually with any other. Most of them have good cover photos but fall apart on the inside. We do really interesting photos all the way through."

But neither school suited Limmer, and he gave up his scholarship to return to Texas Tech and take advantage of art and design courses.

"When I got started in photography, I liked it even more than painting. It was faster, and I really got hooked."

He decided to flip his major, making design comm his minor and photography his major. "My degree is actually two-dimensional art studio with an emphasis on photography," he explained.

Limmer took photography courses with faculty members Ashton Thornhill and Hershel Womack in the School of Mass Communications, and James Hanna and Jim Broderick of the art department.

Over the years, Limmer's job has grown, with the two magazines, Vistas and Pulse, taking much of his time and energy. Paid for by the President's Council, Vistas deals mainly with current research events at Texas Tech and is received by University donors, congressmen, and

Pulse magazine is an alumni publication for the HSC and also started w ithin the past two or three years, Limmer said. " If we don't put good photos inside, many people will just fumble through the pages and not pay attention to the stories. If they see a good photograph, they are more likely to read the story. That's what we want them to do," the photographer said.

Assignments are handed down to Limmer and his staff by writers of each magazine, he said. Limmer, then has the responsibility of creating an illustration to go with the story that wi II attract the attention of the reader.

"All of our ideas originate down here in the photo lab," he said. "If we are stumped, we have brainstorming sessions like designers do.

We want to make illustrations work so people will understand them."

That sometimes takes great effort.

Limmer even goes to engineers occasionally, asking questions until he finds a way to photograph his subject

so the average person picking up the magazine will understand it.

Variety is what excites Limmer the most about the job he does. "Most photographers you see might be portrait, or landscape, or news photographers. In our job, we have to do it all. We don't know what we are going to be doing from assignment to assignment.

"One day we might be shooting photojournalism, not worrying about specific lighting, then we may do a landscape or a portrait. We shoot in the studio and on location, and we use color and black and white film.

We shoot with all kinds of cameras from 35 millimeter to large-format cameras. Something different goes on here everyday. We never get bored. We don' t have time to! " Limmer very much wants to step into the "electronic age" of photography. This would allow images to be placed on computers and manipulated, a controversial subject for many photographers. " I think of the computer as just another tool, but it has its place;" he said. "You can't use it in photojournalism unless you use it clean and not manipulate anything." But for the illustrations he does, Limmer feels it would not be a problem to use a computer, because those shots are set ups and manipulated at the time they are taken.

"Everything is going that way (to the computer)," he added.

Although Limmer is happy where he is, he has many goals for the future. "I want to go full-time freelance," he said, "and eventually move on from Tech and have a private business. I first have to acquire equipment and be financially set. I' m not there yet." " As for now, I love working at Tech. Like any other job, there are good days and bad days, but I enjoy it here because there are so many different things to do."

Artie and Beverly, his Tech-grad wife, have two children- Austin, 8, and Colton, 5.

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Margaret Larson

Local Girl Makes Good Former news correspondent and reporter for NBC, "NBC Nightly News," "The Today Show," "Now" and "Dateline" tells it like it is in Seattle.

BY HOLLY HERMON AND MARSHA GUSTAFSON

he Iraqi conflict, a safe zone for Kurdesh refugees, the Soviet Union under Communist rule. They are subjects that television journalist and Texas Tech graduate Margaret Larson '78 covered in a successful career as an international correspondent and television reporter.

Still a TV newswoman, Larson's focus these days is more on her family and raising her 3-year-old son.

A native of Lubbock living in Washington state, Margaret Mintkenbaugh graduated from Tech with a sociology degree and an internship at KAMC-TV which literally catapulted her into a career that carried her across the state, the nation and abroad.

From Lubbock she moved to San Angelo, where she worked as a freelancer in 'radio and writing. She quickly moved into television at KSLA in Shreveport, La. After a year and a half, she arrived at NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento, Calif., where she worked from 1982 to 1990.

"It was a really, really good station," larson said. In her eight years there, she did several documentaries and in-depth stories in foreign countries including Mexico and the former Soviet Union.

Larson was hired as a correspondent for NBC, working in Los Angeles, New York, and for a little more than a year in London. She was a correspondent for "NBC Nightly News," "The Today Show," "Dateline" and "Now."

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In july 1993, when their son, Kyle, was 8months-old, Larson and her husband, Tim, made the decision to leave New York, where he, too, was working in television. Tim accepted a position as producer of a new show, "Hour Northwest," in Seattle, and Margaret left network TV to work and travel as a part-time correspondent for NBC. Larson described her TV newswoman (and good sport) Margaret Larson work at that point as chaotic. "I'd sit on my bed"When I was living in New York, I room floor and write on my laptop was working 12-14 hours a day, computer and then pass through airoften at weird hours- starting at 4 ports three days a week meeting a.m. This is not conducive to raising camera crews." a small child," she said.

Saying a schedule like that made " I miss people in New York. I had it difficult to build a life, she called it great friends there, and some aspects quits and began looking locally for of work I miss. But we didn't want to something else. In january 1994, raise our son with the nanny routine when a co-anchor at local TV station and the constant traveling. New York KIRO resigned, Margaret was hired is a fabulous city in most ways, but to anchor the 5 and 11 p.m. news. not to live in long-term and raise She felt few regrets about leaving kids."

New York City for a less hectic Larson considers Seattle and the Bellevue, Wash., near Seattle. whole Northwest exceptionally

beautiful. "I like what I'm doing right now. I'm here for Kyle at an age when it's important. And I'm still involved with my career, just not as totally as I was earlier."

Although many people have been instrumental in Larson's career, she cites the late Rusty jones, her first news director at KAMC-TV in Lubbock, as a particularly inspiring influence.

"He was really fabulous," Larson said. "Many people who worked for him have gone on to be successful broadcasters. He really taught the interns how they could do well if they applied themselves and worked hard.

"He taught me how to improve, how to do a good job." jones passed away last year, she added.

Now, as a professional broadcast newswoman with much experience adding to the advice Rusty jones had imparted to her as an intern, Larson admits that there are no easy roads in this line of work.

"Everybody gets into the field differently. Not one way is a guarantee.

This is a very competitive, mercurial business. The people who do best in it are interested in writing and love observing events," she said.

"People interested in broadcast news can't start too early getting a head start. They should work in college or even in high school, no matter how small the medium.

Professional experience means a lot in the world, and maybe particularly in television. You can't just have a diploma."

Larson added that studying a variety of subjects is also important for future journalists. "You need a wellrounded education. Although no one is an expert in all fields, you need to have a good background in subjects

like political science, economics and history, because journalists have to deal in depth with stories in those areas."

Looking over her career, Larson acknowledges how such advice helped her to have some exceptional professional experiences.

"At KCRA (in Sacramento), I did two documentaries on the Soviet Union when it was still the Soviet Union," she said. "I spent more than a month traveling. I was really proud of that.

"At NBC, I covered the end of the Gulf War in Turkey, and the Kurdesh refugees. I also covered the release of the last four hostages from the Middle East."

A highlight of a different kind came while Larson was still on the "Today Show." Many Tech-exes recall one particular morning when co-host Bryant Cumbie was talking about college football and asked Margaret if she remembered the words to her alma mater's Fight Song. He said, "You went to Texas A&M, didn't you?" Larson quickly corrected his error but admitted, somewhat embarrassed, that she didn't remember the words to Tech's Fight Song.

Within minutes, fax machines across the country were sending the words to Larson. They were also sent in the mail and phoned in. The ExStudents Association received calls from Tech grads on both coasts and in the Great Plains, wanting to be sure Margaret Larson at the "Today Show" received the words to the Red Raider Fight Song!

Despite the fact that her parents no longer live in Lubbock, Larson said she occasionally returns to the Hub City, where she still has close friends and relatives. Some of them

Many Tech-exes recall one particular morning when Larson was still on the "Today Show." Cohost Bryant Gumble was talking about college football and asked Margaret if she remembered the words to her alma mater's Fight Song ... grin and suggest that Margaret might come back for a Texas Tech footba ll game, where she can once again sing the Fight Song she so dearly loves and remembers.

That trip just might work out sometime, for Larson's goals at this point in her life involve less hectic and stressful living. When asked what her future aspirations might include, there was no pause.

"I aspire to be a good mother and to find a meaningful way to balance the work I love with my fam ily." One can't ask for better than that.

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Michael Merriman

Painting ms Pictures On Fibn As director at Pecos Film ~o~ he has written and directed more than 100 country music videos.

BY PATII DOUGLASS

ichael Merriman '74 has a reputation . A good one.

And, in Nashville, where a well-deserved reputation goes a long way toward making and breaking careers, his serves him well.

As director at Pecos Film Co., a two-man partnership, Merriman has written and directed more than 100 country music videos for a variety of artists includ ing Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio, Pam Tillis, Clay Walker, Sammy Kershaw and Travis Tritt. More than 10 of those videos have climbed to the No. 1 slot on the country music video charts. Some have been chosen as finalists in prestigious competitions, such as the Country Music Association's music video of the year, Billboard magazine's music video of the year award for best foreign music video and Music Row magazi ne's annual music-video award for new artists.

And, because he's on Nashville's A-list of directors, there's never a shortage of record companies calling him for his ideas.

"The record company solicits ideas from four or five directors.

You've got to have a reputation for them to call you," he said.

Merriman, whose company recently relocated from Albuquerque to Nashville, works on videos with budgets ranging from $65,000 to $150,000. He describes his style as "narrative and emotionally driven," as opposed to "visually oriented what 1 like to call eye candy, kind of like the new Batman movie. You walk out wondering what you just

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saw," he said.

Although Merriman likes working with country music "because it tells a visual story," he didn't choose the industry as much as it chose him. In 1985, while working as art director and designer at his Amarillo advertising agency, Holland Merriman and Christian, he became involved in a public service Michael Me"iman - on Nashville's A-list project for High Plains Food Bank. Country recording was something I knew I had to do," act Michael Martin Murphey, the Merriman sa id, adding that film food bank's spokesperson, was direction had certain appeals for impressed with Merriman's work and him . asked him to collaborate on the "As an art director-designer, I was video for "Long Line of Love." The sitting at a table with aT-square or project, shot in Palo Duro Canyon computer all the time. As a director, I just south of Amarillo, was nominatenjoy working with different people ed for Country Music Association in lots of different locations," he video of the year, and Merriman explained. began getting offers from other In 1992, Pecos Films was awarded record companies.

Brooks & Dunn's " Boot Scootin' In August 1991, Merriman left the Boogie," a single from the duo's 10-year-old ad agency and, with debut album, "Brand New Man." Bryan Bateman, founded Pecos " It' s the single that really launched Films. them, and it's the one that gave us "It was a tough decision, but it our big break, too," he said. (It's also

the video that spurred the line-dancing craze, according to a Pecos Films spokesperson.)

Merriman said he and his partner were lucky to get their foot in the door just as country music videos were about to grow in popularity.

"Country outsells rock and pop, and the (video production) budgets have shifted from rock and pop to country. The video outlets don't accept everything that's been given to them any more. They can pick and choose what they' re going to run," he said.

The industry has become so big that many film directors are trying to break into it, he added . Recently, Merriman and Keifer Sutherland submitted proposa ls for the same project. Sutherland got the job.

The road to Merriman's successfu l directing career began in 197 4 at Texas Tech. O riginally a stud io art major, he soon changed to design while taking a class taught by Frank Cheatham, who still is an art professor at Tech. " He turned me on to design. He's wonderful," Merriman said.

It was that design track that led him to the advertising industry and, eventually, his directing career.

Paul Milosevich, a Lubbock artist, was another faculty member w ho influenced him, Merriman said.

"He was doing album covers for Willie Nelson and some other big artists, and I was impressed. I think it's ironic that he had such a big influence on me whi le he was doing album covers, and now I'm working with country musicians," he said.

A young, married student, Merriman left Tech when an Am arill o advertising agency offered him a fulltime job. He later graduated from West Texas A&M University.

A lthough Merriman still directs advertising, he prefers music videos because they're "a director's medium." " I'm doing my idea. In a commercial situation, I' m doing someone else's idea - the ad agency's idea."

Still, the music video is much like advertising, he said.

"It's very marketing-directed, to the point that it's a kind of commercial. You're selling the artist. Record companies are like big, glorified ad agencies nowadays," he said.

In fact, he added that his ideas are based on product d ifferentiation, just as commercial ideas are. "It comes down a lot of times to finding something unique about the artist's personality," he said .

A video project begins when a record company w rites Merriman and several other directors and asks for treatment proposals, simplified scripts of one to seven pages. The request includes a production budget. The directors have about a week to submit the treatments, and a decision is made within a few days. If his treatment is selected, Merriman has a week to write the full script and scout locations before production begins.

Sometimes, he produces two versions: one for broadcast and one for clubs. (Merriman calls the latter "the really good versio n.")

He said his treatment often depends on the artist's personality and talent. "It's my job to write within the artist's personality. A lot of

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artists look alike. It's the director's job to find out w hat that thing is that makes the artist different."

He added that some singers are more inclined to act than others. " The young ones are excited about it. They've grown up on music videos. Some, like Travis Tritt and Sammy Kershaw, are great actors.

Some of the others you just try to make look good," he said.

Merriman used Tritt's acting talent in " Tell Me I W as Dreamin,"' an emotionally moving video in which Tritt played a d isabled veteran.

Merriman is particularly excited about working with Terri Clark, a new female artist who he thinks translates well to video.

"She is very different from other female artists," he said. "She wears a cowboy hat; she's tall, muscular, gorgeous, an incred ible musician. It's like this perfect situation."

Even when others are visibly moved by his videos, Merriman looks at his work only with critical eyes. " I look for all the things wrong with it. It's a child . Conceptually, we've created it; visually, we've created it; and, sometimes, we're sick of it," he said.

Looking back on his first video, " Long Line of Love," he is a little easier on himself, realizing that his industry was still undeveloped. "For that time, it was a great video, I think," he said.

Merriman wants eventually to direct films and made-for-TV movies.

And, someday, he added, he just wants to paint.

"As a kid, I always had the talent to draw. I always won the Scholastic Art contest and the Fire Prevention Poster contest in elementary school.

My fifth- and sixth-grade art teacher was good at seeing a kid's talent and nurturing it," he said.

For now, though, Merriman enjoys painting his pictures on filmand building on a reputation that's earn ed him a career most o nly dream of.

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Karin McCay

Life At The Top KCBD- TV NewsChannel 11 has the highest percentage of 10 o'clock news viewers of all the television markets in Texas. Part of the credit for that distinction belongs to its popular co-anchor.

BY SHEILA FOERTSCH

he dream of wanting to be a writer for children's television programming led Karin Crider McCay '77 into a career as coanchor of the evening news in Lubbock. Not exactly a logical progression, one might think, but she couldn't be happier about it.

The key to her career might well have been an interested and cooperative faculty in the School of Mass Communications. As a student at Texas Tech majoring in telecommunications and minoring in speech, McCay told her professors of her interest in writing for children's television.

"They worked with me to create a special academic program combining children's programming with the normal telecommunications cou rse of study," McCay said. To gain some work experience, she accepted an internship at KLBK-TV writing scripts for the weekday "Sunshine Sally Show" for children.

McCay graduated in 1977 then headed west to San Luis Obispo, Calif., as part of a summer graduate program. " I wanted to write for a program such as 'Sesame Street,' and this was an opportunity to actually study under the direction of some of Jim Henson's people," McCay said.

When the study program concluded, Karin returned to Lubbock, where she and Bill McCay were married. They decided to stay in the Lubbock area, and Karin accepted the challenge of working with KCBD-TV, Lubbock's NBC affiliate,

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to create and produce the station's first noon news program.

After being on the job for two weeks, the producers at KCBD told McCay that, in actuality, they had hired her to anchor the news. She was stunned.

"The producers explained to me that if they had said up front they wanted me to anchor the news, I might not have put forth as much effort in going out and getting the stories and writing the news. I was surprised because I had worked very hard those Karin McCay, NewsChanne/11 co-anchor and medical reporter. (Photo by Robert Suddarth) fi rst two weeks, and I had no idea they were thinking about using me on the air," broadcast features Karin and Abner she said. on news, and 10-year member of the McCay anchored the noon news team John Robison ' 85 with weather. with the station's news director.

The broadcast consistently ranks When he went on vacation for two number-one in the Lubbock/South weeks, Abner Euresti '74 filled in .

Plains market as being watched by The chemistry between McCay and the most viewers. In fact, in a Euresti was good and viewers liked February 1995 poll, NewsChannel them together, so the news director 11's 10 p.m. newscast had the hightook himself off the show and left est percentage of viewers of all 18 Abner with Karin. Within a few television markets in the state of months, management moved them Texas. both to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., and In addition to her news responsithey've been together since. That bilities, McCay is KCBD's medical was 1980. reporter. Over the years, she has The decision has paid high divibeen a five-time winner of the Anson dends for the station. The 10 p.m.

Jones Award, three of those awards

coming consecutively. The award is presented for excellence in medical reporting by the Texas Medical Association. In addition to nightly medical spots, McCay hosts a weekly medical show called "Health Matters," where she and her experts explain topics such as breast cancer, diabetes and children' s immunizations.

Pleased with her achievements in television news, McCay said she does not plan on leaving the South Plains anytime soon. Lubbock is a relatively small market for television, and many reporters and anchors use the city as a kind of stepping stone, or spring board, to further their careers, she explained. McCay recognizes this occurrence, but she is too dedicated to her family and the Lubbock viewers to leave.

"People really like it when a news team stays together on the air," she said. "Many television stations have people in one day, and no sooner than the viewers get used to seeing

them, they are replaced with new faces. I think the viewers respect Abner, john and me for staying."

One thing that has remained a constant in the years since taking over as the station's co-anchor and medical reporter- there has never been a typical day.

As a working mother of two children, jacob, 4, and Morgan, 12, McCay is up early. If she has an interview to conduct or a story to tape, she goes to the station to get a head start on the day. As part of being medical reporter, she has, on occasion, been required to watch specialized surgeries, such as a cornea transplant, which begin as early as 7 a.m.

When working on special projects, McCay stays at the station until 2 or 3 a.m. editing her stories. She is quick to point out that her job is flexible, allowing her time to spend with her husband and children .

"It is very important for me to watch my kids grow up and be

The KCBD award-winning news team - (from left) Joel Grunberger, former sports director; Karin McCay and Abner Euresti, news anchors; and John Robison, weather. Shortly after the interview, Grunberger moved to another market. (Photo provided by NewsChannel11)

McCay is a five-time winner of the Anson Jones Award} presented for excellence in medical reporting by the Texas Medical Association. involved in their lives," she said.

"That's why I made time to be a room mother. I also am involved with various organizations like Hospice of Lubbock, the YWCA, Children' s Miracle Network, the Junior League of Lubbock and SPARC, the South Plains AIDS Resource Center."

Being in front of the public as much as she is requires poise and self-confidence, leadership skills she gained serving as president of Delta Delta Delta social sorority at Tech . " I know some people put down ·fraternities and sororities, but I think they can help you learn a lot about how to be a leader without being overbearing," McCay said . Those skills have helped her to be the best she can be in representing her profession.

Although the career she envisioned in children's television is much different from what she is doing now, McCay said she couldn't be happier working with Big Bird and Ernie than she is with Abner and John. ,=

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Brian Hawkins

ATEXAS COUNTRY REPORTER The former shy and bashful kid now makes a living visiting with strangers, getting them to tell him their deepest mostprecious memories and feelings.

BY MARCIE FREILEY

tanding in line is a common occurrence for college students.

But how many would go so far as to change their major to avoid those long lines? Brian Hawkins '83 did.

"There was an error in my transcript that said I was in print journalism. I didn't want to stand in line again, so I stayed with what my transcript said," he explained. Hawkins graduated with a degree in print journalism, rather than in radio-television, which is what he really had declared as his major.

The error didn't hurt him, as it turned out. He now is part of the award-winning TV show "Texas Country Reporter" as a video photographer-producer, finding stories, writing scripts, selecting background music and editing tape.

While a student at Tech, Hawkins took advantage of every opportunity to gain real experience, working for KAMC-TV Ch. 28, KLLL radio, writing for the University Daily and even doing some cartooning.

A man of many talents, he was also a good student, partly because of one hard-as-nails teacher Hawkins remembers only too well- former journalism professor Dr. Harmon Morgan. · · · "He was the meanest, toughest

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Award-winning video photographer and producer Brian Hawkins '83.

(Photo by Rhonda Lashley)

and most demanding human being," Hawkins recalled. "He was also the best teacher I ever had, and I think of him at least once a week." The know-how Hawkins gained from Morgan and his other professors paid off immediately and in the long run.

Going into final exams his last semester at Tech, Hawkins had a lot riding on the outcome. He had already been hired by WFAA-TV in Dallas, pending the passing of his finals and graduating. He stayed with WFM for five years, starting as a camera operator and working into a producer spot. He then joined Phillips Productions in 1989, and began freelancing in 1990.

The " Texas Country Reporter" is based in Dallas, but has three producers and staffs. Hawkins works for one of the staffs. He is the only one located away from Dallas, working out of his home base in Kerrville. He finds the various stories, writes and produces the segments himself, and does the editing at night and on his off days.

"I really never have a day off, actually, because when I'm not filming, I am editing, " he said .

"While doing 'Texas Country Reporter,' I have been in every county in Texas and have spent the night in nearly every little motel, or at least it seems that way."

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Hawkins emphasizes that "Texas Country Reporter" is not new s.

Therefore, it is not shot or filmed like news. The show is really creative, he

said, and it takes a long time to get the segments ready for production.

"It's a lot of hard w ork," he added.

"When I was a kid, I was so shy and bashful, and now I make a living eight hours a day visiting w ith strangers. In that limited time, I have to get them to tell me their deepest, most precious memori es and feelings. I never thought I w ould be doing that for a living."

Hawkins said the job has a uniqueness to it - he does not own a suit and rarely knows where he is going to be the next day. He also does not have an offi ce to go into everyday.

Bes ides his " Texas Country Reporter" work, Hawkins does contract work. He does corporate videos and image building; he contracts out to the N BA and Southwestern Bell.

And in March, he traveled to Africa

Hawkins was Invited to the real Rosa's Cantina Apri/6, 1993, for a gathering of Tech-exes and friends of host Bill Worrell '59, commemorating the anniversary of Marty Robbins' famous song, "EI Paso." (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

"He was the meanest, toughest and most demanding human being. He was also the best teacher I ever had, and I think ofhim at least once a week." to shoot video for Nieman Marcus.

He also spent three weeks in Mexico City as a video photographer working for the city's beauty pageant.

Hawkins' job provides hi m with feedback about the qual ity of the work he is producing. He pointed out that "Texas Country Reporter" has won numerous awards, including Emmys, The Golden Award and the Houston Internatio nal Film Festival, to name j ust a few.

For those who are not familiar w ith "Texas Country Reporter," Hawkins offered some advice.

Above all, "Do not speak whi le you are watching it." To help the show's segments build, often to a very emotional conclusion, viewers need to pay attention to w hat is being said by the people being interviewed, to the narrator' s script, and even to the always appropriate music. "You don't want to miss any of it," he said.

And Hawkins added, "Watch it by yourself."

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Eric "E.G." Greene

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is far from being a teenager, but he can still think like one. And for the last four years, when he cohosted the hottest teen-oriented TV show in Houston, that's what was important.

With co-host and University of Houston graduate Tiffany Hartley, Greene helped entertain a viewing audience of more than 24,000 teens and "twenty-somewheres" on the locally produced, KPRC-TV, Saturday morning show, " Teenz on TV." The show, a two-time regional Emmy and national American Women in Radio and Television award-winner, was a trend-setter in Houston television since it first aired in September 1991.

Employing a fast-paced, unscripted, MTV-style, graphics-fil led format, " Teenz" attempted to speak directly to the so-called "X Generation" by treating viewers as equals and not talking down to them or lecturing in an adult fashion. " It was all about respecting the people you were talking to," said Greene, now KPRC's entertainment promotion producer.

"Teenz" episodes included topics ranging from animal cruelty to suicide to environmental issues to teen pregnancy to homelessness. In other words, it wasn't an easy show to pigeonhole. Greene thinks the show tackled difficult situations in a way that made the viewer feel comfortable with sometimes uncomfortable

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E.G. and Tiff co-hosted Ch. 2's popular "Teenz on TV" show in Houston.

topics. He said the show was about "giving people what they don't expect."

During its four-year run, Tiff and E.G. took their show on the road to such locations as Disneyworld, Los Angeles, the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., a South Dakota Indian reservation and, of course, the State Fair of Texas. In their travels, the " Teenz" crew interviewed stars including Jay Leno, host of the "Tonight Show," Will Smith of the " Fresh Prince of Bel Air," former President jimmy Carter, jason Priestley of "Beverly Hills, 9021 0," astronauts Pete Conrad and Mae Jemison, Andrew Shue of "Melrose Place" and supermodel Naomi Campbell. "Poor kid. I think she fell for me," Greene said laughing.

The co-hosts also covered their share of bands, including Garth Brooks, the Gin Blossoms, Collective

Soul, Brandy, Van Halen, W eezer and Belly. Greene is particularly proud of interviews he did w ith some of his personal favorite bands, like Superchunk, Helmet, jawbox and Rocket From The Crypt.

The success of " Teenz on TV," which received a fair amount of attention from national syndicators, was attributed to the hosts' chemistry and ability to not act like "an adult's idea of what a young person should be like."

Hartley grew up in Houston and had aspired to be in television since she was 9 years old. Greene, however, grew up a "m ilitary brat," living in various locations around the world. By the time he entered high school, he was living in Houston.

There, he studied at the High School for Health Professions.

After graduating, he had no idea what he wanted to do. He had been

accepted at a private school in Indiana, the University of Texas and Texas Tech. A group of already Tech-bound friends convinced him to go with the Red Raiders, Greene said.

What followed was a series of eye-opening experiences, he said.

When he came to Lubbock for orientation, Greene recalls, " I got off the plane and all I saw were the plains!"

He attributes many of his liberal views to growing up in a single-parent household and living in Lubbock, saying he didn' t fit in with the conservative, Greek system nor mainstream student groups and activities.

He felt comfortable with older, more free-minded students.

After a year in pre-med, Greene changed his major at Tech to advertising, an area that not only allowed his creative nature to flourish, but encouraged it. He graduated in 1989 and secured a job in Houston with a small advertising firm.

That led to a position as a publicist in advertising and promotion at KPRC-TV. When executives at the station began looking for a young face to host a new show, "Teenz on TV," one of the producers literally

"At first, the producer wanted me to be the '2 Bee.' You kno~

dress up in a bee costume and go around to all the

schools. And I said, not laughing, 'No, I don't think so."' dragged him from his desk to try out.

As Greene explained it to the Houston Chronicle' s Cheryl Laird, "At first, she ('Teenz' producer Leslie Seamon) wanted me to be the ' 2 Bee.' You know, dress up in a bee costume and go around to all the schools. And I said, not laughing, ' No, I don't think so.' The most important thing the people that I worked with impressed upon me was to be yourself."

When the producers decided to let the bee thing go, Greene accepted the job. He said they threw him and Tiff in front of the camera and said, "Do something." One of the first things Greene did was shake the stationary camera. The effect was good, and for four years the show became the eyes, ears and mouth of a once-silent generation of Houstonians.

Unfortunately, in early 1994, KPRC-TV was sold to a new parent

company, and the show's previous backing by management was replaced by an almost total focus on revitalizing the station's sagging news ratings. " Teenz On TV" was canceled in August 1995.

"I was a little bruised and bitter," Greene conceded. "Even though 'Teenz' was only a small part of my professional life, it was still hard to see something you gave four years of your life to get prematurely killed off.

I've learned a lot about 'the real world' in the past year."

But the story doesn't end there.

Co-host Tiffany Hartley moved to Florida, where she is currently working as a TV/radio traffic reporter.

After five years at KPRC, Greene has continued to climb the corporate ladder and is now an entertainment promotion producer. He is also tackling the huge task of going through almost 100 "Teenz" episodes to find his "best bits" for a three-minute demo tape.

"I want to pursue something in broadcast TV focusing on my true love- music," Greene said. "I find it interesting that many of the underground things I was involved with in college are now considered mainstream. Not to sound egotistical, but I think I' m good at what I do, so I'd be stupid not to go after the gold ring while I still can."

Is that the sound of someone taking control of his 15 minutes of fame? "Let's just say that I hope I reach MTV before VH-1 starts calling," Greene joked .

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RED RAIDERS APPROACH BASKETBALL SWON WITH CONFIDENCE Men's basketball toadt JGmes Ditkey distusses the J995·96 seGson.

DICKEY: " Not making the NCAA tournament was a very big d isappointment for our players and coaches. That was perhaps the most disappointing thing last season and something that we can use for motivation this season."

he fol lowing interview of Red Raider head basketball coach James Dickey took place prior to the start of 1995 practice in mid-October. The fifth-year head coach of the Red Raider men's program heads into the 1995-96 season with a career record of 70-47 in his previous four seasons at Tech. Dickey led the Raiders to the 1995 SWC Championship as they posted a league record of 11-3 and an overall mark of 20-10. Tech was selected to participate in the 1995 NIT tournament, but lost in the first round to Washington State on the road. Dickey welcomes the return of three starters off the 1995 team, including All-America candidate Jason Sasser. Sasser and fellow seniors Darvin Ham, Koy Smith and Jason Martin should provide an excellent nucleus for the 1995-96 Red Raiders.

you r players confidence that they can win either at home or on the road."

TECHSAN: "What do you consider to have been the most positive things to come out of last season's title run?"

TECHSAN: "What do you personally consider the highlight of last season?"

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DKKEY: "Winning the conference championship brought back excitement and tremendous interest in our basketball program. We had outstanding home crowds that helped us go undefeated on our home court. That helped us establish a definite home court advantage and that helped the players' confidence to know that anytime they went on the floor, they cou ld win. Anytime you win a championship ring, it creates pride and gives

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TECHSAN: "What th ings d id you learn from the successes and failures of last season that might help this season?"

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DICKEY: "Two things really stick out in my mind from last season. First, going undefeated at home for the first time in 38 years and only the second time in the history of the school. Secondly, winning the conference championship was a very big highlight for our basketball team."

TECHSAN: "What was the most disappointing thing about last season?"

DICKEY: "Any year there are always some key basketball games and we felt like we lost some key games last season in December that were important. This certainly hurt us at the end of last year w hen it came time for selections for the NCAA tournament. Also, we' ve got to wi n key games in March. We had some tough losses at the end of last season -at TCU in the final regular season game, in the finals of the conference tournament (to Texas) and in the first round of the N IT (to Washington State). We've got to be playing well at the end of the season and we did play well in january and February- as well as early in our nonconference schedule. There are a couple of other things we need to learn from last season that will help this basketball team. One is that we have to take better care of the basketball and make sure we don't make critical turnovers. The other is defense. In both the TCU game at the end of the season and against

Washington State in the NIT we felt we didn't p lay defensively the way we need to in order to wi n."

tive offensively, but we think we can still be very effective."

TECHSAN: "How do you plan to replace TECHSAN: "What do you feel will be the strengths of the team in the coming season?"

DICKH: "Obviously, our front line wi ll be a strength w ith the return of Jason Sasser, Darvin Ham, Gionet Cooper and Tony Battie returning. Those four players give us a quality front line, along with the addition of Da'Mon Roberts and Gracen Averil. There is tremendous experience in the front line and that wi ll be a factor as well."

the 34 points a game that Mark Davis and Lance Hughes provided?"

DICKH: "That w ill definitely not be easy to do. We know that jason Sasser wil l elevate his game just as he has done each year he's been here. Darvin Ham really started playing well offensively at the end of last season and we expect him to give us more point production. Gionet Cooper and Tony Battie have the potential to score and certainly we expect Koy Smith to be able to score. jason Martin has the ability to score and Cory Carr has

proven he can be an offensive threat, as well. Lance was one of the top scorers in school history and Mark was an outstanding offensive player, so they won't be easy to replace, but we feel good about the people we have and their ability to do that. As I mentioned, we may not be quite as exciting, but I think we w ill be very sound and we' ll have several players with the abil ity to score."

TECHSAN: " Do you feel like jason Sasser is ready to become one of the country's household names in college basketball as a senior?"

DICKEY: "I've always felt that jason is one of the best forwards in the country. He's

TECHSAN: "W hat, if any, weaknesses do you feel this year's team will need to address to have another shot at the SWC title?"

DICKEY: "Guard play will be very important for us this season. We have good experience in the backcourt w ith Koy Smith returning for his senior year. We expect him to have his best year ever for us. jason Martin needs to step up his play to the level that we feel he is capable.

The big thing is guard play and having some young players and new p layers step up and elevate their game in order for us to repeat as Southwest Conference champions."

TECHSAN: "What do you think w ill be the biggest difference between last year's team and your 1995-96 club?"

DICKH: "Our team this year might not be as explosive as we were last year.

Certainly, w hen you lose two players l ike Lance Hughes and Mark Davis, w ho were outstanding offensive players, very explosive, who could make exciting plays, that is hard to replace. But, I do think that we can be a very sound basketball team, we can execute and play defense and still be able to score. We will always be a team that wants to run and execute. We may not be as produc-

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a tremendous competitor, plays with great intensity and has been very productive for us in his career. One area of his game that has been inconsistent is his outside shot and, hopefully, that w ill be an area in w hich he's improved through hard work during the off-season. He's a great rebounder, plays good defense and he's improved his ballhandling and passing. We' ll work hard this fall on his perimeter shooting and I expect him to have an outstanding season."

TECHSIN: " Do you feel good about your

meant so much to so many people and to our great state for the last eight decades.

Certainly, from a personal standpoint it has been such an important part of my interests as I grew up and now in my coaching career. It's sad for the league to break up, and it's an added incentive for us to have an outstanding year and win the league in the last year of the conference."

RCHSAN: "Finally, Coach, with this being the final SWC Campaign prior to joining the Big 12 next year, w hat do you want

your team to focus on the most?"

DICKEY: "To me, a great way to end this era would be to win the conference championship in its final season and be the final team to win the title. Also, getting into the NCAA tournament and play as well as we possibly can. That wou ld add momentum to head into the Big 12 if we could win the final two SWC championships. Our main focus to reach those goals should be to take better care of the basketball and play well defensively.

Those two concerns will be our main focus throughout the year."

senior class and the leadership they will provide?"

DICKEY: " Leadership is always the main thing you expect out of your senior class.

They know what is expected of them on the court and in the classroom as wel l.

We feel good about this class and think they will be very instrumental in our quest for a league championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament."

TECHSAN: " How do you view the SWC race this season?"

DICKEY: "I think the league race is going to be balanced. Certainly, Texas is going to be picked up there high and we'll be picked near the top. I think Rice is going to be an outstanding basketball team and Willis Wilson does an outstanding job.

SMU has four starters back. Billy Tubbs has brought confidence back to TCU and they've got an outstanding recruiting class coming in. At Texas A&M, Tony's team always plays hard. Baylor has some outstanding young players. Houston has one of the top players in the league in Tim Moore, so they will be strong. I think in total the league is going to be very balanced, but I also think there will be some teams that can do well nationally."

TECHSAII: " Do you have any personal feelings regarding this being the final year of the SWC?"

DICKEY: "The Southwest Conference has

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arsha Sharp, one of the most popu lar basketball coaches in the country, took a break from her demanding summer schedu le to discuss Lady Raider Basketball.

TECHSAN: "With 1996 being an O lympic year, you' ve arranged for a "special " team to play in Lubbock. Tell us about that."

SHARP: "The first thing I did when we

TECHSAN: "With the imminent demise of the Southwest Conference, how special will the 1995-96 season be?"

SHARP: " I have mixed emotions about the whole year. Obviously, we have a lot of traditions developed during play in the Southwest Conference. A lot of relationships we have had with schools that are not going with us into the Big 12 w ill end. That will be a sad occasion to play those last games in those facilities. Some of us have only known the SWC during our careers. I think there will be a little bit of nostalgia and certainly a little bit of sadness. The relationships we've enjoyed with TCU, Houston, Rice, and SMU wi ll always bring great memories, but at the same time, it w ill seem different not to go to those faci lities year-in and year-out.

Some of the coaches have talked about the change a little bit and how strange that will feel ... but on the other hand, there's a lot of anticipation about joining the all-new Big 12 and being involved for the first time ever w ith those schools from the Big Eight."

TECHSAN: " How wi ll all that affect th is year's SWC race?"

SHARP: " Every school feels like it will be special to be able to say you won the SWC the last year of its existence.

Obviously, for us to close it out after winn ing four in a row would be a real special thing for us, and I know our players feel that way. It's not going to be easy, because some teams are returning

Marsha Sharp almost intact from a year ago. We're not.

We' ll need people to step up and make that happen."

TECHSAN: "Michi Atkins has been named on several pre-season All-America teams.

Will she be our go-to person this year?"

SHARP: "We'll build everything around Michi and I think she knows that. She really needs to step up and be our go-to player. I think she proved, after Connie Robinson got hurt last year, that she could do that and wanted to do that. The last half of SWC play and the Conference Tournament were an indication of what she' s capable of doing. She's talked to me several times over the summer about how she' s so excited about that challenge for her senior year. I think there are a lot of people around the country who feel she may be o ne of the best post players in the U .S. Certainly we need to turn that into positives for us. I think the recognition her name now has across the country is a special thing for her - and us as well - and she has a chance to become one of the premier players in America."

scheduled the National Team to play here in February, was to make sure it d idn't count on the schedule. We have lots of mixed feel ings about playing them. It' s a great honor for us to play the National Team. There will be some outstanding players, and it's a great opportunity for our players to get to meet in person what could be the Olympic team and be around them for a few days. It' s also great to bring Sheryl (SwoopesJackson) home and to let our fans show their appreciation to her again. All those things will make it a special time, and I'm really excited about being involved with that. As far as the game is concerned, we're just going to go o ut and try to do the best job we can to help them during a time of preparation. I think it' s really neat that our kids can say they played against the National Team and it may be one of their highlights to say they were on the same floor with O lympians.

I think that will be a very special weekend in Lubbock for our team and our fans."

TECHSAN: "Texas Tech has been awarded an NCM Regional Tournament for 1998. W hat are your feelings about that?"

SHARP: " It continues to build excitement that has been generating in the Lady Raider program for a few years. The effort of many people went into that bid, particularly Jeannine McHaney' s. She had fought for that for eight to 10 years and to see it finally happen is a special event.

We obviously think it' s going to be a

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time in our program where we' ll be strong ... a lot of these young kids in our program right now wi ll be juniors and seniors and feel like they have a chance to have a good basketball team. They're excited about that. They've watched enough television to know - and been involved in some games - to know what that home court advantage can mean to you. There' s some pressure attached to it, particularly the year it happens, so you hope you're playing good enough to deserve to host it. I think for the Lubbock community to see basketball of that caliber and host the highest level we' ll be able to host (because we don't have the seating and other things to host a Final Four), this will be the best basketball we can be involved in. It's a great recruiting tool for us and I think it will be a great opportunity for anyone in West Texas."

besides our conference play. One of them is to Colorado State and Tennessee on the same trip. That'll be a tough weekend ... the first games that count for some of these kids. Then we come home and play several games before we go back to Berkeley. That should be a fun trip for them -and great competition.

We play 16 home games counting two exhibitions. That' ll be good for our team to play that schedule. It wi ll also be a great chance for Michi, Melinda and Michelle to close out their career like that . .. we' ll be home for Stanford, UCLA and San Francisco in December. That'll be a great month for our fans, and I think it will get us ready for SWC play from a lot of different directions. It's a chance to build their confidence and play in intimidating situations, and we need both of those. I think it will make us much more prepared to face conference teams than had we selected a different route."

DCHSAN: " This year's schedule has Tennessee early and also Stanford before the New Year gets here. Why play such a strong schedule early?"

SHARP: "We want to keep teams like Tennessee on our schedule. We've done it with Stanford and Louisiana Tech.

Now we're trying to do it with Tennessee. We'll try to change the teams up from time to time, but I always like playing the premier teams in the nation. It helps us, our fans and our players. We' ve always been an advocate of playing a strong schedule in the non-conference because it helps when we get to conference play. I don't think there will ever be a year that will be more important than this one. We have some freshmen who will be heavily involved in what happens to our team. For them, that experience is invaluable ... after going to Tennessee there shouldn' t be many other situations that would intimidate them during the year."

TICHSAN: "What about the rest of the schedule?"

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DCHSAN: " Many of the perennial powers in the country are using fewer than the allotted 15 scholarship players. What's the advantage of this?"

ends of those games where we had the great leads w ill really come back and be a major factor for this basketball team. In my mind you can do that better with 12 or 13 kids than you can with 15. For those reasons, it' s easier for people to assume roles and maybe not feel they' re w ay down at the end of the bench if you don' t have quite so many players. If we have the opportunity to have 15 quality kids, it' s important for us to assign freshmen to those roles. And we' ll do that, but as far as working with them, I like the smaller numbers."

TECHSAN: "What about your staff?

Between Linden Weese, Roger Reding and Vicky McKenzie, they' ve got 23 years of experience at the college level.

How does this help you?"

SHARP: "They' re great! Obviously, I' m extremely comfortable w ith them. They do great things. When you have continuity on your staff, it makes everyth ing so much easier. They can read my mind, because they've done the same things for practice, recruiting and games for so long. It' s not like we have to deal with

SHARP: " I honestly like coaching with a smaller number. I like to have enough in practice so we have a few substitutes, but I don' t want there to be five or six kids standing around the wall watching. Even from the point of view of playing kids in a game, it helps when you don't have so many. Last year I think our freshmen got a lot more playing time than they would have, had we suited out two or three more kids. We're going to see the results of that this year. Those seven, eight, 10 minutes that Boles, Thompson and Cockerell got at the

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trying to indoctrinate our players, too. It's such a huge help in that area. That even goes for (manager) Lance White. He knows exactly w hat needs to happen at what time and where. To be able to have a staff that is so competent and takes care of so many details, that if you don't take c::are of become big things, it's a great help. The strength of our program is that we have continuity. Th is is one of the most important areas as we strive to maintain a certain level. Our players realize that continuity and they're comfortable w ith it."

That's crucial to this team' s success.

Thompson might play behind her or start at another place on the floor, depending how that works out. Boles can play i n one of those spots and G ibbs is an outstanding running post who gets out and blocks shots and does a lot of things that will remind fans of Boles. These six kids are solid, and our post game is in outstanding shape. I feel any combination of those kids will be able to play."

SHARP: "I don't know that the guard position is our weakness, but I think it's an unknown. A ll of our new kids except Cara Gibbs are guards. Ju lie Lake, Rene Hanebutt and Amber Tate all have come highl y regarded, had great high school careers, great AAU experiences and now they're ready to go. They're excited about their playing opportunities. It's just a matter of them adjusting from the level they've been playing to Division I and how quickly they can handle it."

TECHSAN: "The Lady Raiders appear to have a plethora of post players. W hat's your assessment?"

SHARP: "Obviously, the most stable position is the post area. If shouldn't be a surprise to see us play three post people together. I think we can do that in a couple of different situations. First of all, we have some post players w ho are able to go out on the w ing and play. Alicia Thompson and Crystal Boles can do that.

That' ll give us a bigger back line for a couple of reasons. We' ll build around Michi Atkins. jennfier Cockerell will play behind her. Cockerell showed much improvement, had a great spring and summer and is really ready to take the challenge to come in and get big minutes. Melinda White is a fan favorite. You never have to doubt her effort. She's going to work hard and play hard at all c::ost and do whatever is needed to win.

TECHSAN: " What's the overall o utlook?"

SHARP: "We'll have to go to our strengths

TECIISAN: "What about the other guard returnees?"

TECIISAN: " What is the team's weakness?"

the freshmen, who are outstanding and w ill have great careers here at Tech. Kim Sumrall, who is probably the only true three player in our program, can spread the defense out and hit the three. She could possibly have a starting role if we decided not to go to the big players inside."

SHARP: " I always take a position that someone has to beat the veterans out.

Michelle Thomas and Sandy Parker would be the starters if we go w ith a big lineup. After those two, we really have the young guns at the guard spot. Elesha Walker has one year of experience, then

early and try to protect our weaknesses.

If we can do that, we'll have a really good basketball team. I think you'll see them improve every day and I think we've got different combinations and a great player to build around in Atkins. I think Michi can average 20 points a game. That's as good a building block as we've had even when we were dealing with that championship season. "

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exas Tech alumni joined together to make possible the new Raider Express bus, a part of the Citibus fleet in Lubbock. The vehicle' s new look was unveiled Sept. 22.

"This bus serves a two-fold purpose," said jake West '95, assistant to the general manager of Citibus. "It supports Texas Tech athletics, and it introduces a new advertising medium." The bus will run on campus and during Tech home games as part of the shuttle service, he said.

"Citibus reached the point where we had the opportunity and finances, and we were comfortable with the technology to do this project," West said. "It was done almost exclusively by Texas Tech alumni."

The bus' design is by Mike Meister of the Price Communications Group. It features the Masked Rider on the black horse with " Riding into the Big Twelve" on the sides.

The bus is covered with vinyl, and the design was made using four-color digitized computer technology. "The material won't be peeled off easily, and it wont cause damage to the vehicle," West said.

Phil Price '67, president of the Price Communications Group, said the project was very positive, and it has never been done before. "It was a three-way cooperation, with Citibus donating the space, Pr ice Communications creat ing the design and the athletic department paying the cost to produce it," Price said. (By Donald Gillilan)

ne of Texas Tech's most popular basketball players and a pair of former administrators who also excelled as coaches at the University were inducted into the Athleti c Hall of Honor during half-time ceremonies Nov. 11 in jones

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Athletic Director Bob Bockrath exits The Raider Express {Photo by Jim Cawthon) Bubba Jennings, former assistant football coach and athletic director john Conley and the person credited with creating women's athletics at Texas Tec h jeannine McHaney. McHaney, who will be honored posthumously, is the first female to be inducted. The addition of the three brings to 88 the number of inductees since the Hall began at Texas Tech in 1961.

Jennings is the only Texas Tech player to w in the Naismith Award as the nation' s top collegiate player under 6feet tall after the 1985 season. He was named the SWC's Playe r of the Year while leading the Red Raiders to regularseason and post-season tournament conference championships.

Conley spent a quarter of a century elevating the Red Raider football program and directing the athletic department's course through the Southwest Conference. H e was named athletic director in 1980 and during his five years in that capacity he accomplished a general upgrading of facilities. He retired in 1985.

McHaney was th e driving force behind the establishment - and success-

of women's athletics at Texas Tech. She served the Un iversity in a number of capacities before her death from cancer on Oct. 16, 1994.

oach Marsha Sharp and the Texas Tech Lad y Raiders have teamed up with the American Cancer Society once again for the Coaches vs. Cancer ThreePoint Attack.

Last year, residents and local businesses ra ised more than $16,000 by pledging a specific dollar amount fo r each of the 115 3-point shots the Lady Raiders made during the 1994-95 regular and post-season. Texas Tech finished far ahead of the Longhorn s and the Aggies in dollars raised and ended up sixth in the nation among first-time participants.

This year, a pledge of $1 or more per 3-point shot enters the donor in a drawing for a trip for two to the 1996 Southwest Conference Tournament in Dallas.

In add ition, the individual with the highest pledge or flat donation will be an honorary coach at the last home game against SMU and have a spot reserved on

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the Lady Raider bench. To join Sharp's cancer-fighting team, make a pledge taday by calling (806) 792-7126 or 1800-ACS-2345.

onny Anderson, Texas Tech's legendary running back of the 1960s, was honored Nov. 11 at the Tech-TCU football game when his jersey number was retired.

Anderson's No. 44 is only the second number retired in football by Texas Tech.

E.j. Holub's No. 55 was retired shortly after his Red Raider career ended in 1960.

"This is a special tribute to a special Red Raider," said Director of Athletics Bob Bockrath. "I acted on a strong recommendation by the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Honor Committee. There are many people who think first of Donny Anderson when they think of the greats of Texas Tech."

A native of Stinnett, Anderson gained All-America honors in 1964 and 1965 leading Texas Tech to consecutive bowl appearances. As a senior, he was named National College Player of the Year by The Sporting News and by the professional scouts; he was consensus AllAmerica, he was the SWC Player of the Year and he won the SWC Sportsmanship Award.

Anderson played for Green Bay from 1966-71 and St. Louis from 1972-75. He was part of the Packers' Super Bowl I and II championship teams. Anderson's number was retired in conjunction with the 1965 Red Raiders' 30th-year reunion.

baseman at the University of Oklahoma.

She still holds the single season assist record at OU. Red Raider softball is a new program entering the inaugural season in the Big 12 Conference this year.

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helly Suwa was named assistant coach for the inaugural season of the Texas Tech softball program. Head coach Renee Leurs-Gillispie announced Suwa' s appointment in September.

Suwa came to Tech from Texas A&M where she has spent the last three years as the restricted earnings coach. Prior to that she coached at Sacramento Community College.

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number of Lubbock businesses erected 290 flags attached to 145 I ight poles surrounding the Tech campus this fall during the football season.

The flags flew along University Avenue from Fourth Street to 19th Street, west on 19th Street to Indiana Avenue, north on Indiana to the Brownfield Highway to Fourth Street and University Avenue.

Lubbock Power & Light, Southwestern Public Service, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Cox Communications and Southwestern Bell Telephone took part in the project.

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ennis player Mattias Rohlin lost to Roger Pedderson of UNLV 7-5, 6-3 in the semifinals of the All-American Tournament in October in Austin. The loss ended Rohlin's 11-match winning

streak in the tournament.

"It was an incredib le accompl ishment," his tennis coach, Tim Siegel, said.

"I knew I had a great player. But he proved he's tough mentally and it was a tremendous effort."

With his performance, Rohlin has qualified for the National Indoor College Championships in Dallas in February.

Rohlin's performance will help the Tech tennis team secure a good preseason ranking in January, according to Siegel.

"There will be a good chance we will be ranked among the top 30 teams in the nation."

ubbock's chance to be headquarters of the Big-12 Conference office isn't helped by the city's lack of jet service, commissioner Steve Hatchell said in October.

A private-sector group led by local bank presidents laid out in September a tentative plan that includes a $500,000 bid, two possible Lubbock locations for a league office and a house built at cost for the commissioner.

The local group acknowledged that inconvenient air travel to Lubbock cou ld

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CHAMPIONS ALL- Thanks to Dallas area Tech alumni and FM Board, a vety special billboard sign was erected at 183 as It merges with 35 just south of Texas Stadium. The billboard proclaimed its proud message to all passers-by for 45 days from Aug. 20 to Oct. 10. It featured a red Double-T and "Texas Tech - Home of Champions." Among those making the billboard possible were David Thomas, Jim Goodsell and Gerald Jackson of Sewell Lexus; Lane Johnson of the Dallas Ex-Students chapter; Greg Todd of the Red Raider Club; Greg and Suzy Williams; Alan and Susan Brown; Susan Parker; Jesse Pruitt; Ralph and Jennffer Trevino; Deborah Bumpass; Charlie Calhoun; Heidi Schuette and Southwest Airlines; Gene and Kim Coulter with Brokers Insurance Group; Jerry Riley; Ginger Hardage; and Amy Canales.

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foil their plan. "Wherever you can go and meet that's easy - in essence, onestop· kind of trave l - i s p referred ," Hatc hell said. " Your co nference office doesn' t necessarily have to be at the hub of that travel. That's why we say it's not an end-all condition in itself."

Presidents of the Big-12 universities are expected to select the office th is month. Others likely to compete for the Bi g-12 headqu arters inc lude Dallas, Kansas City, D enver, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Colorado Springs.

or t he fi rst time since the JT King Invitational in 1978, Tech hosted an in-season golf tourn ey - the 1995 Red Raider Intercollegiate Golf Tournamentwhich w as held Oct. 23 at Hillc rest Country Club. Th e fie ld co nsisted of Tech, Baylor, Rice, Colorado State, Sam H o usto n State, Id aho, Iowa State, Nebraska, New Mexico State, Southwest Louisiana and Utah.

Coach Tommy Wilson said the main reason Tech had not hosted a tournament in 17 years is a problem other universities have. "A main problem is course availabi lity," he said. " If you don't have a university course, it is a problem."

Wilson said he was most appreciative to Hill crest Country Cl ub's board of directors for allowing the tournament to be held there.

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rch and Mina Lamb were honored by the Saddle Tramps during the TechTexas A&M football game this fall w ith their own section in Jones Stad ium . The University declared Oct. 7 as Arch Lamb Day to commemorate his dedicati on to Texas Tech.

Lamb founded the spirit organization 59 years ago i n 1936, making it one of the oldest organizations on the campus.

The Arch and Mina Lamb Section on the east side of Jones Stadium is reserved for the Saddle Tramps during football games and bears a sign in the Lambs' names.

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"The best th ing that has happened to this ca mpus was the Sadd le Tramps," Lamb said. "You could go to any university town in the country, and I believe fi nd that Lubbock has the best relationship with its school, much of the reason being the Saddle Tramps."

Lamb added that the organization was set up with the intention that the men would be dependable and hard working.

He said it would continue to thrive as long as members work for the betterment of Texas Tech. (By Donald Gillilan)

ech junior soccer player, midfield Kristi Patterson, blasted a right-footed shot past Texas goalkeeper Jaime Strong in the 13th minute of the first overtime Oct. 25 giving the Red Raiders a 3-2 SWC victory at Dan Law Field.

Tech (10 -6- 1 overall at that point) won its first league game and avenged a 5-0 loss to the Lady Longhorns last year. " It's been happening to us all year," Tech head coach Diane Nichols said of missed opportunities. "But we told them if they kept plugging it would come. Our defense played so well . We just to ld them to keep it up and if our attack could get us a goal, we could do it."

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Sasser, a sen ior, was named to the College Sports M agazine Pre-season AllAmerica Team as a third-team choice.

He averaged 20. 1 poin ts and 7.8 rebounds per game last season, helping the Raiders to a 29-10 mark and a share of the Southwest Conference regular-season title.

Bryant was named a final ist for the Golden Spikes Award, presented annually to the top amateur baseball player in the country by USA Baseball. He was a consensus AII-SWC selecti on and fi rstteam All-America pick last season after

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Chad Tompkins (left) escorts Arch and Mina Lamb to their newly named section of seats at Jones Stadium, as Arch waves his thanks to the crowd. (Photo by Zane Fry)

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BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON EDITOR

LOTS OF MNTS HIGHLIGHT ESA FALL SWON ever a dull moment could be an accurate phrase to with arrangements for one to five groups nearly every day since describe this fall at the Ex-Students Association. In addi- the Merket Alumni Center opened last spring!

The fall has really gone by in a hurry. Be sure and visit the tion to the football game watching parties, chapter meetings and pre-game receptions, the classes of 1955 through Merket Alumni Center during December while the building is 1960 came to the Alumni Center for a reunion Oct. 21, and the decorated for the holidays. It's really beautiful!

Association even added a few new events.

Th ese incl uded the first outdoor concert, called Tech FANdango!, which was free to the public and held on the east lawn of the Merket Center the evening of Oct. 7.

Plus, staff members ran an award-winning booth at Raider Alley each home game, attracting huge crowds. The Student Alumni Board hosted a new event - a cookout for Tech students, faculty and staff during the week of Homecoming. Even our new Tech Authors project has been a success, with book donation s continuing to come in, and visitors enjoying the display.

The Student Alumni Board cookout this fall Having a new, beautiful building has brought lots of people out for lunch. Adviser kept everyone busy, giving tours, greeti ng Curt Langford and Lise Wrlgh~ pres/den~ do visitors, helping with phones and the gift the honors. {Photo by Marsha Gustafson) Ex-Students staff member Vicki Helton (left) shop o n game days. Bobby Loth ringer welcomes Dee Ann Thornton '59 as she fills knows better than anyone about the traffic out her name tag for the class reunions Oct. - as new facility manager, he has helped 21. (Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

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The Tech FANdango! was held Oct. 7, featuring singers (from left) Kenny, Natalie, Ls Tronda, and Donnie Maines, Andy Wilkinson and Cary Banks. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

The Ex-Students Assoc/stlon and Student Alumni Board ran a booth at Raider Alley before every home football game. The crowds were always several people deep buying merchandise, Inquiring about the magazine or membership, and fllllng out applications for the Texas Tech credit card. {Photo by Bill Gustafson)

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OTHER PICTURES FROM THE EX·STUDENTS ASSOCIATION PHOTO ALBUM •••

This group got together at a tailgate party before the Penn State vs.

Tech game in Happy Valley: (from left) Tim and Tommie Hatch, Rebecca and Harold Harriger, Bob and Doty Johnson, and Kay and Dan Howard.

(From left) Jim Newcomb, Steve Senter, Casey Curnutt, Dan Mcinnis, Scott Senter, Karley Clearman and Phillip Wicker enjoyed the beautiful setting at the Abilene meeting.

Guns Up! at the Oklahoma City get-together: Melba Martin, Charlene Curfman and Daniel Gray.

Organizers of the Raider Roundup in Coma/ County are Dehn and Rick Stepp (left) and cooks Marvin Morris and Steve Schulz.

At the Summer Banquet at the Dallas Four Seasons Resort are Debra Bumpass, Barney Miller and Rob Forsythe.

Displaying their Tech pride at the Cotton Bowl are (from left) Polly Plunkett Laglng '92, Kirk Laging '92, Holly Nobles Plunkett '93 Andy Plunkett '90, '93 and Steve Plunkett, who Is currently attending Tech.

Andy and Holly constructed the Double-T from authentic West Texas cotton bolts.

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INTRODUCING EX·STUDENTS BOARD MEMBER NANCY LAINE PRICE Name: Nancy Laine Price City where you reside: Arlington Position on the board: Board Member Degree, major and class year at Tech, plus any other degrees you may have earned: BA in English, 1971 ; MA, English, Southern Illinois University; M.Ed., Adult Education, Lincoln University; and Ph.D., English, TCU. Where are you employed and what is your position? Teach English at UT-Arlington.

Family members: Husband, j.R. "Rick"; and daughter, Laine, a Presidential Scholar and National Merit Scholar at Tech.

Major activities you were involved in as a student at Tech: Alpha Phi sorority, Student Un ion committees, Sigma Tau Delta English honorary, and edited literary magazine.

What is one of your fondest memories from Tech days?

Tech's beating UT in Austin (1967) and everyone in Lubbock spontaneously hitting the streets in celebration; and the yellow mums planted all over campus.

What would you like to see implemented, changed or improved at Tech? Academ ic standards ra ised even higher (above UT and A&M!).

What is your favorite book? Too numerous to count.

What is your favorite movie? Same as above.

What are your interests/hobbies? Reading, theater, travel, gardening, sports (playing and watching, especially Lady Ra iders).

What character trait do you value highly in an individual?

Helping others.

If you could invite six persons to your home for an evening, who would they be? Jesus, Socrates, Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Ann Richards, Dr. Stella Smith (freshman honors English professor at Tech, 1967-68). And Jim Douglass as waiter!

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BY GALE WELLS

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ames of our new members are listed in each

tssue of the Texas Techsan Magazine.

Likewise, when members raise their contributions to a higher level, we list their names as a new member of that giving level. For additional information, call

Ms. Gale Wells at (806) 742-3641.

OLD RED CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Carr, Jr. '73 (Karen Auld '73) Dr. Michael D. Robertson '82

CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Acker '72 (Nikki Tisdale '72) Mr. & Mrs. Anthony F. Adamo '90 (Amy Perkins '92) Mr. & Mrs. Britt Allen '93 (Cheryl Allen '93) Mr. Grant W. Anderson '93 Miss Laura R. Anglemyer '92 Mr. David Arista '81 Mr. & Mrs. David L. Atkinson '89 (Darlene Renfro '90) Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Au Ibach, II '83 (Carol Bisett '84) Ms. Cynthia). Barela '86 Mr. & Mrs. Monty). Barker '75 Uudy Hasse '74) Mr.james M. Blackwell (Friend ofTech) Mr. & Mrs. William Boon '81 (laura Boon '81)

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Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence W. Wood '70 (Mary Blanton '67)

BRONZE CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS Mr. & Mrs. Britt Allen '93 (Cheryl Allen '93) Mr. David K. Becker '71 Mr. James M. Blackwell (Friend ofTech) Mrs. Patsy Smith Brister '53 Mr. & Mrs. Steven V. Brown '89 Uacqueline Gisela) Mr. & Mrs. C. Kemp Derrick '63 (Sue Smith '64) Dr. Kelly M. Harrison '62 Mr. Stewart E. Hinshaw '83

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$250 TO $499 ·:

Mr. Wilbur D. Jarrett (Friend of Tech) Mr. Charles Short (Friend ofTech) Mr. & Mrs. C. Wayne Smith '54 (Eileen Smith '77) Dr. Wayne C. Smith '67 Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Sommer '90 (Bridgit Moore '92) Mr. Joseph Stanislao '57 Mr. & Mrs. Marc F. Taylor '79 (Pamela Tuthill '77)

$100 TO $249 ; Mr. & Mrs. Georges Bouche, )r. '77 Uanette McNeese '88) Mrs. Janice King Bowen '70 Miss T. Catherine Boyd '87 Mrs. Patsy Smith Brister '53 Mr. Brent A. Brown '90 Mr. & Mrs. Steven V. Brown '89 Uacqueline Gisela) Mr. & Mrs. David Buescher '59 (Mrs. David Buescher) Dr. R. P. Cantrell '66 Mr. Mark). Carothers '90 Ms. Wanda Yeargan Cecil '66 Mr. Billy C. Chandler '51 Mr. & Mrs. Paige C. Close '83 (Kelly Goodwin '81) Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Cole '57 (Beverly Shoemaker '60) Mr. C. Kent Conine '76 Miss Carol L. Cox '92 Mr. Jay Davis '86

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lLoyalty Fund. Memher $25 to $99 Century Cluh Memher $100 to $249 Bronze Century Cluh Memher $250 to $499 Old. Red Century Cluh Memher $500 to $999 Gold.en Century Cluh Memher $1,000 to $1,499 Ruhy Century Cluh Memher $1,500 to $1,999 Di.unond. Century Cluh Memher $2,000 or more Mrs. Judith Bussey Day '65 Mr. )ames R. Deese '82 Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Doty '65 (lucy Newton '70) Mrs. Joan Dorris Duke '62 Mrs. Mary Reames Edwards '92 Ms. Sadye Garner Fahrenbruch '56 Mrs. Kimberley McCay Foster '91 Mrs. Myrtle Brown Fritschy '47 Mrs. Diane Elliott Garrett '78 Mr. Mark A. Green '82 Mr. Mark Griffin (Friend ofTech) Mrs. jeanne Spitler Guerra '72 Mrs. Anita Reynolds Hamilton '51 Mr. )ames W. Hartley '79 Mr. Tommy E. Hayes '65 Miss Margaret M. Heatherrnan '90 Mr. Steven B. Heniford '82 Ms. Lea A. Hiett '86 Mr. & Mrs. )ames M. Holland '67 (Sandra St. Clair '67) Mrs. Joann Armstrong Hollingsworth '76 Mr. Denney R. Howard '81 Mr. Tim). Hughes '76 Mr. Brandon E. lden '87 Mr. Robert W. Isaacs '59 Dr. Kevin B. Jones '77 Mr. Roy L. Lemons '60 Dr. & Mrs. W. Kurt Loveless '78 (Paula Crump '79) Mr. Albert M. NcNeel, II '92 Mr. D. Wayne Madden '77 Mrs. Lindsay Guidi Masso '71 Mr. Scott L. Mayfield '93 Mr. John S. Menzies '75 Mr. Michael D. Minnis '85 Mr. & Mrs. John H. Morris '72 (Galene Zelms '72) Mr. Kevin G. Morton '83 Dr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Nabors '77 (Sarah Pancake '77) Mr. Brian). Naughton '93 Mr. Dwight S. Neas '68 Mr. Loren B. Nelson '89 Mr. & Mrs. ). Charles New '88 (Ronnye Herndon '88) Mr. Andrew L. Nieswiadomy '88

Mr. S. Wade Nolan '85 Mr. Jeffrey D. O'Bryan '94 Mr. Cody M. Owen '89 Ms. L. Cathleen Parsley '78 Mrs. Linda G. Pelt '88 Mrs. Margaret Klaus Quaid '49 Mr. David M. Rast '86 Mrs. Jane Yates Reardon '71 Col. & Mrs. Carl Rodolph, Jr. '52 (Dolores Rosenbaum '52) Miss Desiree Sage '80 Mrs. Gretchen Clift Sammons '49 Mr. Bud M. Seward, Jr. '61 Mr.). Pat Shepard '61 Mr. & Mrs. Travis Simpson '64 Uoy Simpson) Mr. Alan L. Smith '85 Mr. Gary M. Smith '58 Mrs. Kelli Hukill Smith '88 Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Sommer '90 (Bridgit Moore '92) Mr. & Mrs. Jack T. Spears '77 (Marlynn Sewell '77) Mr. & Mrs. David M. Staggs '70 (Barbara Merrell '68) Mr. Kyle L. Stallings '78 Dr. Joseph Stanislao '57 Mr. Keith W. Stephens '67 Miss Shelly L. Stevens '80 Mr. Jack E. Stoffregen, Jr. '72 Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Stoltz '75 (Patty Daniel '75) Ms. Dorothy Cox Van Loozen '71 Mr. & Mrs. Chuck T. Wallace '83 (Karla Ade '85) Mr. Jim). Walsh '60 Mrs. Vicki Stanphill Washburn '76 Mr. Charles R. Waters '88 Miss Dorothy N. Watts '49 Mr. Larry E. Wilke '69 Mr. Alexander H. Wilson '85 Mr. David B. Wilson '62 Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence W. Wood '70 (Mary Blanton '67) Mr. Steven H. Woodard '82 Mr. & Mrs. Don R. Workman '60 (Skeet Ratliff '60) Mrs. Betty Watts Wright' 46 Mr. Christopher A. Zinda '93

COMPILED BY SUSAN BOWEN CLASS NOTES EDITOR

Western Artists Association; Diamond M. Museum; the State Department American Embassies Program; and the Museum of Texas Tech University.

Dr. Joe T. Ritchie (MS Soil Science), East Lansing, Mich., is the Homer Nowlin Chair Professor at Michigan State University.

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Kerns '75

McKee '80

Schaner '84

Horton Struve (BS Mathematics), Santa Fe, N.M., is employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and his wife, Sandy Malone Struve (BBA ' 68 Secretarial Administration), is with the Simons, Cuddy & Friedman Law Firm.

David Swinford (BS Agricultural Education), Dumas, is state representative for District 88 and is employed by Moore Company Grain.

Barham '85

Timmons '87

Gregory '91

Orsak '91

I Robert S. Hayes (BBA, MBA '67 Finance), Amari llo, was appointed by Gov. George W. Bush to the Credit Union Commission. Robert is president of the Public Service Employees Credit Union.

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Judith English Morehead (BA Chemistry), Austin, taught high school chemistry in Austin for 35 years before retiring and putting her skills to work in her kitchen. In 1971 , Judith pub! ished "The Texas Wild Game Cookbook," coauthored by her husband, Richard.

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Cecil E. Roberts (BA Political Science), Arlington, was named a distinguished alumnus by the University of Texas at Arlington in October. Cecil had a prominent military career, eventually receiving the rank of full colonel.

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Dwayne Harral (BS Animal

Science), San Antonio, is in commercial development and the meat packing business.

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Dr. Jack McAninch (BS Animal Production), San Franc isco, Calif., is chief of urology at San Francisco General Hospital and professor at the University of California.

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Robert F. Brown (BS Agricultural Economics), Lamesa, is president of First National Bank of Lamesa and owner of Bob Brown Motors. He and his wife, Elena, are supporters of the arts and culture of their town.

Bill Sandy (BBA Accounting), Houston, retired July 1 after 35 years with Texaco.

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Dale McKeehan (BBA, MBA '62

Management), West Bloomfield, Mich ., recently intro duced the 1996 Ford Taurus and 1996 Mercury Sable at Texas Tech . Dale is vice president of vehicle operations for Ford Motor Co.

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Toni Buckley Arnett (BS Clothing & Textiles), Lubbock, has studied w_ith renowned artists Frank Gervasi, Millard Sheets, Daniel Green and Glenna Goodacre among others. Toni's paintings are being exhibited by The Driscol Collection in Beijing, China; Society of American Impressioni sts; National

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Dennis Law (BS Park Administration), is serving as interim dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University.

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Ken Jones (BBA Finance), Lubbock, has joined Plains National Bank of West Texas as senior vice president in the commercial lending department.

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Patrick Murfee (BBA General Business), Lubbock, was hired in June as new administrator of the Ranching Heritage Association, one of the unique facilities in the world with its 33 historic buildings on a 14-acre site.

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Raul Colon (BS Engineering Technology), Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, is president of ProBuilders, S.E., a construe-

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tion company specializing in industrial and commercial buildings. Raul and his wife, Graciela, have three ch ildren: Raul, 18; Carol ina, 13; and Marcos, 6.

James E. Schwertner (BS Agri cu ltural Economics), Schwertner, is president of Capital Land and Livestock Co. (Yes, the town is Schwertner!)

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William Kerns (BA Englis h), Lubbock, contracted with KCBD-TV, Lubbock's NBC affi liate, in September and now provides entertainment reviews and commentary for the telev ision station's " Daybreak" news program. Bill remains entertainment ed itor and critic at The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, a position he has held since September 1976, and he has been entertainment critic for KLLL-Radio since September 1980. Bill also is a freelance writer for the Techsan.

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Robert Duncan (BS Agricultural Economics, JD ' 81 La w), Lubbock, is with the law firm of Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, L.L.P. He is a state representative for the Lubbock area.

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Ted Barron (BA Political Science, MPA '81 Public Administration), M esquite, has been named new c ity manager. Ted began work in 1988 as an assistant city manager and was named to the deputy post in January 1995.

Kathleen Berry (BSE Elementary Education), Sausalito, Calif., was married in October 1994 to John Arensmeyer.

Kat hl een a nd her husb and own ACI Interactive Commun ications, a multimedia marketing/adverti sing grou p. They

create multimedia for Fortune 500 companies. Kathleen is director of operations.

Don McBeath (BA Telecommunications), Lubbock, is County Judge.

He was named a " Fri end of Reese" in July by Reese A ir Force Base. The designation is an honor bestowed upon benefactors and advocates of the base.

Karan Watson (BS, M S ' 8 1, PhD '82 Electrical Engineering), College Station, is the first woman to be honored with the 1995 Undergraduate Teaching Award fro m th e Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Karan is the assistant dean of engineering at Texas A&M and is an associate professor of electrical engineering. At the university since 1983, Karan rece ived the facu lty distinguished achievement award in student relations from th e university's Association of Former Students in 1990 and the Tenneco meritorious teaching award in 1987 from th e Co ll ege of Engineering.

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Mary Marable Christopher (BSE Elementar y Education), Abi l ene, has been named to the facu lty of HardinSimmons University as an instructor of education and a certification officer. She has been an elementary schoo l teacher in public and private schools since 1979.

Will Dodson (BA Hi sto ry), Washington, D.C., accepted a position as a lega l advocate for Chri stian faith and va lues. He will begin work on Jan. 15 as director of governmental re lations and associate counsel for the Christian Life Comm iss ion. Will i s a fo rmer co unty judge for Lubbock. He left his position to

CAN YOU HELP US FIND THESE LA VENTANAS? The Texas Tech Ex-Students Association needs the following La Ventanas to complete a set for visitors to view in the Merket Center's Alumni Lounge

1926, 1927, 1930, 1932, 1949 In addition, the Board of Regents Office is looking for

1969, 1976, 1985 And, the Student Publications Office needs

1926, 1927, 1930, 1932, 1942, 1943

IndicaJt which offictyou want your Ld Vmtana(s) to be givm to, and I will s« thai tht boolu art providtd to that offict along withyour nott or letter.

Thanks very much for your htlp.

La Ventanas can be dropped off at the Merket Alumni Center or mailed to:

Marsha Gustafson, Ex-Students Association, P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, TX 79409-5001

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attend a seminary in North Carolina. He pl ans to complete his seminary degree with part-time work.

Stuart W. Johnson (BA Psychology), Lubbock, has been named general manager of the Lubbock Club. Stuart managed the club from · 1986 to 1990 and, since that time, has served as general manager of th e Sweetwater Country Club and as c lu b house manager of Columbia Country Club in Carrollto n.

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Kevin S. Fisher (BS Phys ical Educ ation, MS ' 86 Sports Health ), Lubbock, and lisa Ottomanelli (MA '92 Psychology) were married o n July 29.

Kevin is employed by Roosevelt lSD. Richard Steinborn (BBA Management), Lubbock, has jo i ned Plains National Bank of West Texas as a banki ng officer in the data processing department. Richard w ill be assistant network administrator.

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Shueh-Mien "Jimmy" lee (MS Electrical Engineering), San Jose, Calif., is president, chief executive and a founder of Integrated Sili co n Sol utions Inc., a company w hich develops an d markets fast memory chips called static random access memory or SRAMs. James M cKee (BBA, MS '82 Accounting), Dall as, has jo ined KPMB Peat Marwick LLP in the compa ny's information, communication and entertain ment line of business. KPMB is th e global leader among professional services firms.

Dr. Chris Seeker (BA Chemistry), Austin, heard of Edye Smith's tragic loss and offered to reverse her tubal ligation at no charge. Smith is the woman who lo st both o f her sons in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. Chris is an obstetrician/gynecologist in private practice in Austin. He has also vol unteered free prenatal and delivery services for Edye, should she become pregnant again.

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Michael Eslick (BLA Landscape Architecture), Beaumont, is a registered landscape architect.

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Allen Burnett (BA Jo urnalism),

Clovis, Calif., is married, has one 4-year old son and one toddler-age little girl. He is teaching school in Clovis, Calif.

Cecila Carter Hardin (BA journalism), Irving, has been promoted to managing editor of Directors Memo i n the field communications department of Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. Cecilia and her husband, Tony, have a son, Ty, 2.

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Daniel B. Waggoner (BS An imal Business, BS An imal Production), Corsicana, a reserve officer in t he A rm y National Guard of Texas, is recipient of t wo nationa l research awards - the Kenneth D. Nade n Awa rd and t he William App l ebaum Memori al Scholarship Award. Each is in recognition of his research contributions regarding the export behavior and marketing performance of cooperatives and agribusiness fi rms. The research was conducted while Daniel was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. He is the first person to receive both awards concurrently.

William Watson (BS Ag ric ultural Education), Or lando, Fla., is executive director of the Nat iona l Watermelon Promotion Board.

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Darrell Murray (BBA Accounting), Charlotte, N.C., and his w ife, Sarah, annou nce the birth of their daughter, Rachel, on Aug. 27.

Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth D. Pierce (BS International Trad e), Gaeta, Italy, recentl y returned from a one-month deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas while serving aboard the Sixth Fleet flagship USS La Salle.

Dean J. Schaner (BA Politica l Sc ience), Houston, has joined the law firm of Haynes and Boone, LLP Dean is a partner and was prev ious l y w ith t he firm's Dallas office. laura l. Wimmer (BFA Studio Art), Denver, Colo., was married on Sept.

9 to Mark Demos.

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T. Matt Arbu ckle (BS Construction Technology), Plano, is national sales manager of gas appliances and product manager of HVAC products for Selkirk Metalbestos, a world-lead ing manufacturer of gas and multi-fuel vent-

ing products. Matt and his wife, Danna, have two sons, Hunter, 4, and Miles, 2.

Mara Moore Barham (BBA Finance), Lubbock, is vice president of American Bank of Commerce. Mara w ill head the credit administration department, w hich is in charge of credit analysis for the entire banking operation. jan Beckner (BA Advertising), Boise, Idaho, is manager of fulfillment services for Creative Source Inc., a part of Marketing Commun ications.

Terry S. Holeman (Architecture/ Civi l Engineering), Lubbock, and jill l.

Notturno ('86 Housing & Interiors) were married on Sept. 2. Terry is employed by Hugo Reed and Associates and Jill is employed by St. Paul ' s on The Plains Episcopal Church.

Greg H. Vaughn (BA Advertising), Lewisvil le, has recently been named president of the Lewisville Chamber of Commerce. Greg was previ-

ou sl y with the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, Katie, have a son, Tyler, 2.

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jon D. locke (BM Music Performance), Lubbock, and laura Morriss (BM ' 94 Music) were married on july 17.

Jon is employed by the Frenship lSD and Laura is employed by Lubbock lSD. laura K. Branc h (BBA Accou nti ng), Fort Worth, was married on Aug. 19 to jeffrey L. Miller.

Zulfiqar Rashid (BS Computer Sc ience, MS ' 89 Bus i ness Ad mi n i stration), San D iego, Calif., is a computer software consultant and artist. H is painti ngs have been exh ibi ted at t he Wall Street Gallery i n La Jo lla, the Tarbox Gallery in downtown San Diego and the San Diego Art Institute.

Mike Reed (BBA Finance), Waco, has accepted part-ownership and tota l management of the historic Elite

Join the TEXAS TECH EX-STUDENTS' LUBBOCK CHAPTER

Sunday, January 14th As we watch the Lady Raider basketball team take on the Lady Aggies on big-screen televisions at the Merket Alumni Center

Lookfor more details in the nearfoture!

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Cafe o n North Valley Mil ls i n Waco.

M i ke had completed several years of trai n ing through Luby's and had been work ing in Houston at the t ime of the offer. Mike and h is wife, Trac i e, are expecting their second ch ild, a son, on Jan. 4. They also have a 19-month-old daughter, Sydney.

Robby Rh ea (BBA Finance), West Palm Beach, Fla., was married on Aug. 5 to Susan Moomjean. Robby is em p loyed by Palm Beac h Atlanti c College.

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Tom Bibby Jr. (B BA Accou nting), Dallas, and his w ife, lieschen Crowder Bibb y (BBA Acco unting), announce the arrival of their daughter, Ash leigh, on Aug. 9.

Kell y Cook (BLA Landscape Architecture), Midland, started his own lan d scape arch i tectu re fi rm i n Apr il 1994. The fi rm specializes in mun icipal and commercia l design. Kel ly and h is w ife, Carol langford Cook (BBA Marketing), have a daughter, Elizabeth, 3, and a son, David, 6 months.

Nolan Dees (BBA Accounting), Albuquerque, N.M., and his wife, Susan D i ckson Dees (BS E ' 86 Elementary Education), announce the birth of thei r daughter, Cortlyn, on Sept. 3. They also have a son, Cullen, 5.

Kimberl y Holmes Timmon s (BBA Finance), Lubbock, joined Plains National Bank of West Texas as a vice president in the loan review department.

Stace Williams (B BA Finance), JD '92 Law), Lubbock, was married on Sept. 16 to Lori Price. Stace is owner of Stace Williams Law Firm.

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Donald M ichael Coy (BA Advertising), Austin, is with State Farm Insurance Cos. as an auto underwriti ng agent. Donald is also ed itor of the New Achievers Toastmasters newsletter, "The Voice."

Cliff Miller (BBA Management Information Systems), Amaril lo, worked six years as a programmer/analyst for Corporate Systems, a leadi ng com pany that provides risk management informatio n services to more tha n ha lf of the

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Ki mb erl y J. Saund ers (BS Animal Production), Marfa, is instructor of equine science at Sui Ross University.

In addition to teaching, she serves as the judging team and show team coach.

Dar la Sherrill Sommermeye r (BBA Accou nting), Lubbock, is an accountant for Goodwill Industries. Darla and her husband, Michael, have th ree chi ldren: Matthew, 7, Shawn, 3, and Katherine, 8 months. The fam ily was featured recently on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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lane Brock (BA Advertising/ Public Relations), Dallas, has accepted a position with Primas Automotive Services Inc. as a region analyst.

Tamara Cannon (BBA Economics, BBA Management), Lubbock, is marketing director for South Plains Mall.

She is a vo l unteer for t he Ame ri can Cancer Society, serves on the board of directors of the organization and as cochair of the communication committee.

Robert Car r illo (BS Civi l Engineering), Austin, and Rosa Nunez (BBA '88 Secondary Education) were married on Sept. 2.

Jeff Gloor (BBA Marketing), Longview, was married in june to Laura P. Wiggins. Jeff is a customer engineer for IBM. Irm a H ern andez (BA Socia l Welfare), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 12 to Rey Pena. Irma is employed by the Lubbock County Community Supervision and Corrections Department.

Ron Henslee (BoA Marketing), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 19 to Lauri Lester. Ron is employed by Armstrong McCall.

Tammy Robin son Jordan (BA Englis h), Midland, and her husband, Chad, announce the birth of their second child, Katelyn Elizabeth, on May 8.

Harry Rever (BBA Marketing), Round Rock, and his wife, Lynne laney

Rever (BS ' 88 Physical Therapy), announce the birth of their first child, Wi lliam Harry Rever IV, on Ju ly 11.

Missy Smith (BA Advertising), Dallas, was married on Sept. 23 to Bill Evenson. Missy is employed by United Television Sales.

Stephen D. Starkey (BLA Landscape Architecture), Dallas, was married on Sept. 23 to Lisa Kelly. Stephen is selfemployed.

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Lance Cochran (BGS General Studies), Highland Village, and Kathleen Godfrey (BS ' 89 Restaurant, Hotel and Institut ional Management) were married on Aug. 12.

Tony Egenbacher (BS Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management), Lubbock, and Kristi Earl (BBA '92 Marketing) we re married on Aug. 19.

Tony is employed by Egenbacher Business Forms and Kristi is employed by Gary Products Group Inc. Capt. Gonzalo Madrid (BS Industri al En gineerin g), Yuma, A riz ., reported for duty w ith Ma rine Attack Squadron 513, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corp s Air Station. Hi s new assignment is an example of how Navy and Marine Corps men and women are assigned to ships, squadrons and shore stations around the world .

Trina Quaid (BSE Secondary Education), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Scott Spri nger.

Randy Steele (BS Famil y Relations), Austin, and his w ife, jennifer Buster Steele (BS '89 Family Relations), are expecting their first ch ild on May 21 .

Randy is the South Texas sales representative for Justin Boots and Jennifer is program monitor for the Texas Alcoho l ic Beverage Commission.

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jennifer Ec hol s (BS Fami l y Relations), Plano, was married on Sept. 9 to JeffreyS. Allen. )ana Kenley Gregory (B BA Accounti ng, BBA Fin ance), Lubbock, j oined Pl ains National Bank of West Texas as assistant auditor.

Christopher M . Huckabee (BAR Architectural Design), Stephenville, was notifi ed by the Texas State Board of

Architectural Examiners that he successfully passed the state exam and is now a registered architect. Christopher is the computer-aided drafting (CAD) specialist with the firm of Huckabee & Associates Architects. Chris and his wife, Robin Davis Huckabee (BS '92 Interior Design), have a son, Andrew.

Brent Lovelady (BAR Arc hitectural Structu re), Euless, is employed

by D an iel s & Associates Architects, w here he has been for three years. Brent was married on Jan. 21 to Lauren Dailey and is a youth sponsor and song leader for the youth ministry at Calvary Temple in Irvi ng.

Brent A. Meyers (BGS General Studies), Lubbock, was married on Sept.

15 t o Pamela S. Maeker. Brent i s emp l oyed by H ea lthcare Centers of Texas Inc. Timothy Orsak (BS Mathematics), Dallas, married Tracy Jimerson on June 17. Timothy is senior evaluation specialist for Dallas lSD. Travis D. Simpson (BS Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Ka l i W ell s. Travis is employed by Home Plate Diner.

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Stephen Coulston (BAR A rchitectural Design), A rl ington, Va., was married on July 1 to Meg Fitzsimmons.

Stephen is working for Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, PC in Washington, D.C. Kevin J, Croy (J D Law), Ka ufman, was married on Aug. 26 to Kristi McGinnes. Kevin is employed by Burford and Ryburn, LLP in Dallas. john G. Eberly (BA R A rc hitectural History), Midland, is an associate with MWM Architects Inc. james L. Kell er (BB A Marketing), Arlington, was married on Sept. 2 to Amy L. Brackeen. James is employed

by ProForma Inc. Lt. j .g. Matthew Kennedy (BS Computer Science), M ayport, Fla., was recentl y designated a Surface Warfare Officer. Matthew is assigned aboard the guided missile frigate USS Aubrey Fitch.

Lt. j.g. Esperanza Meza (BS International Trade), Gaeta, Italy, provided support for a major NATO mil itary

planni ng conference whi le serving aboard the command ship USS La Salle off the coast of Southern Italy in the Tyrrehnian Sea. Kevin N ewsum (BA Adv ertising/Publ ic Relations), Lubbock, and Julie Wrinkle (BA '95 Public Relations) we re married on Aug. 12. Kevi n is employed by H oll and, Merriman and Christ ian Advertising and Ju l ie is employed by American Turbine.

Rhonda Pendergrass (BS Family Relations), Lewisville, N.C., was married on Aug. 5 to Kerry Lee Shronts. Rhonda is employed by the Sara Lee Corp.

Terri Searcy (BS Fami ly Relations), San Anton io, returned i n early September from a three-week work camp in Ghana, Africa, where she and 16 other young adults initiated the construction of a new chapel in the town of Tema. The trip was offered through the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Terri was the only one in the group from Texas. jim G . Shepherd (Pre-Pharmacy), Houston, w as married on Aug. 12 to Rachel Regan. Jim is employed by Owen Healthcare Inc. William R. Stone (BA Political Science), Lubbock, was married on Sept.

2 to Lynne Durrant. William is employed

by Pollard Ford.

Melanie Lanham Trevino (BS Home Economics Education), Kerrville, and her husband, Tony, announce t he birth of t heir fi rst ch i ld, a daughter, Morgan, on Aug. 12. Melanie had been teaching high school home economics.

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Phillip Bullard (BS Ci v il Engi neeri ng), Lubbock, and his wife, Brenda Shroyer Bullard (BS '90 Agricul tural Engineeri ng, MS Civil Engineering), announce the birth of their son, Noah, on Sept. 8. Noah's maternal grandparents are Tech 's own Dewey Shroye r, director of grounds maintenance, and Dr. joAnn Shroyer, head of the merchandising, environmental design and consumer economics department.

Matt Hamel (BGS General Stud ies), Lu bbock, and Karen McDuff (BA Advertising/Publ ic Relations) were married on Aug. 12. Matt is employed by McDuff Spraying and Chemical.

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WORK PAYS DMDENDS FOR PERPETUAL MOTION PHOTOGRAPHER

BY SHANNA M. SARGENT AND MARSHA GUSTAFSON

an Halperin ' 90 is a photo editor. That probably doesn't surprise anyone who has ever known the curly-haired, bespectacled young man. Halperin has had at least one camera hanging over his shoulder or poised in front of his face for years. In fact, finding a picture of him without a camera is a near impossibility!

One of Texas Tech's most recognized and well-known non-athlete graduates, Halperin is better known by his first name, l ike such other famous people as Elvis and Reba, Aretha, Selena and (the man formerly known as) Prince!

Everyone who has been associated with Texas Tech in its last 10 years knows, or at least knows of, " lan."

He earned that recognit ion factor by being in two or three places at once- or at least it seemed that way. Actually, he took advantage of every opportunity to gain valuable work experience. In high school at lubbock Monterey and Round Rock Westwood, he was head photographer for the school's publications. When anything at all was going on, lan and his camera were there. As an entering freshman at Texas Tech, he was awarded a photography work-study position as a darkroom technician in Student Publications, working up to photographer for both the La Ventana and the University Daily.

Other students did those things, too.

W hat separated Ian from them was 1) he was a good-natured, friend ly kid who preferred to be doing something rather than just sitting around, and 2) he volunteered for any kind of photography work he could get!

He shot for Sports Information, the Texas Techsan magazine, Party Time, sporting events for area high schools, special assignment stories, wire services and the Southwest Conference office. He even volu nteered to work with profes-

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the road and was hanging nose down from an overpass." lan shot it as a vertical, emphasizing the d irection the truck was pointing, and the paper's editors ran it as a long, thin picture on the front page.

After graduation from Tech in 1990, lan moved back to Plano, w here his family was living, and began worki ng in a camera store. After two months, he was recommended for an opening at one of the Harte-Hanks newspapers. At first, he photographed for the paper on a freelance basis, and as a resu lt of havi ng his camera with him and ready, he proved to be a formidable news photographer.

He was hired by the newspaper as a staff photographer. Three years later, he was offered the position of photo editor of the Plano Star Courier and the other seven newspapers that Harte-Hanks publishes in the Dallas area. lan is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the photography department, hiring and firing photographers, making assignments, and checking photographs and cutlines.

"Cutlines and correct IDs are just as important as a good photo," he said. "If you bring me the world's best photo but

sional photographers from Sports Illustrated and Playboy magazine as their assistants, helping with lighting and running errands when they were in town shooting special assignments.

He also sought out internships to gain real-world experience. During the summer between his junior and senior year, lan drove to Florida to serve an internship with the Miami Herald. That's where he shot his first front-page picture for a major market newspaper.

"I was on my way to work one morning and came up on a major traffic accident," he explained. " I got out of the car and ran ahead to see w hat had happened. An 18-wheeler (truck) headed into Miami /an, on the job, during opening day at the Ballpark in Arlington. (Photo by Tech grad Allen Rose) had ru n off

don't have the information to go with it, I'm not going to run it."

Jan said he is grateful for the opportunities he had while attending Tech, because "the difference is huge between students who come out of school with just a photojournalism degree and the ones w ho come out with that degree and experience."

He lives by two credos: " Don' t burn bridges. The communications industry is a very close-knit business;" and " Any time you have an opportunity to take a picture, take it."

Jan's work has been very rewarding for him, he said. It provided him with the occasion to meet Beverly Cook '91 (Telecomm/ English), now Pl ano's Chamber of Commerce membership director. The two have dated for more than a year. On Sunday, Aug. 27, lan popped the big question in true form he bought a full-page ad in the Plano Star Courier. "I planned it for a long time," he said. " But even so, I couldn't sleep all Saturday night."

W hen Sunday morning came and Beverly saw the giant heart and flowers on page 3B of the paper, proclaiming "Bev, Wi ll you marry me? I love you, Jan," she cried. She gave him her answer immediately, but for the readers who also wanted to know her answer, Beverly

This Lady Raiders' championship shot is one of Halperin's favorite - and most sought after -Texas Tech photos. The Texas Techsan even sought a copy for use on our May/June 1993cover. too, purchased an ad.

O n Wednesday, Aug. 30, on page 4B of the paper, she answered, " Jan, Yes! I love you, Bev." Star Courier Society Editor Sandra Fay said the wedding, slated for early in 1997, will be the event of the year, attracting friends from across the country, family members from Texas, Chicago and the West Coast, and at least a hun-

dred or so photographers! Among them will be friends who worked with lan in Student Publications at Tech. Under the direction of Darrel Thomas '70, students for decades have been instructed and critiqued in the how-tos of photojournalism, becoming prepared for careers with newspapers, magazines and public relations/advertising agencies. " Darrel has a reputation for producing good photographers," lan said. "Nearly all of his students have gone on into professional photography careers. Recently, I had the opportunity to fill a position here in Plano, and I hired a Tech photojournalism graduate. I guess that means I've come full-circle now."

Jan continues to shoot for the Texas Techsan, the first publication to publish his work outside of high school papers and yearbooks, he said. He has covered the Cotton Bowl, Final Four and numerous sporting matches. He shoots pictures of events sponsored by the Dallas chapter, for which he is a member of the executive board.

Life has been good for the 28-yearold, and he thinks luck has played a big role. Some of his friends would point out that luck is merely opportunity meeting preparation. lan Halperin, the perpetualmotion machine, has just been ready w hen opportunity knocked.

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This Carol of Lights photo is a double timed exposure and one of Halperin's favorites from his student days. He said it took four years of trying and testing to get it right.

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Robert D. King (BS Chemical Engineering), Amari llo, was married on Aug. 5 to Angela C. Murray. Robert is employed by Hoechst Celanese. jason E. Lipetska (BBA Marketing), Houston, and Hazel Daun Tennell (BS Family Rel ations) were married on Sept. 16. jason is employed by Gray Bar Electric and Daun by United Cerebral Pal sy of Greater Houston.

William C. Newsom (BS Agricultural Communication), Schaumburg, Ill., and Barbara L. Bland (BS '9 4 Multidisciplinary Studies) were married on Aug. 5. William is emp l oyed by Gibbs & Soell Hoffman Estates.

Sean M. Nichols (BS Famil y Relations), is a floor manager at Service Merchandise.

Starla Pace (Dance), Lubbock, contracted to join the ensemble of the international cast of the musicai"My Fair Lady" starring Richard Chamberlain . The play's tour runs from Sept. 30 through mid-February. The musica l will be perfo rmed in Berlin , Munich, Zuric h and Paris. Starla also performed in a touring

p roduc ti on of " My Fai r Lady" in t he spring and summer of 1994 and is the on ly origi nal cast member returning for the international tour.

Concha Ramsey (BA Ad vertising), Lubbock, was married on Sept.

2 to M. Scott Neeley. Scott is attending Tech and works for Citibus of Lubbock.

Shauna Richardson (BS Family Relations), Hugoton, Kan., was married on Aug. 5 to Chad Hittl e. Shauna is employed by Ulysses Unified School D istrict in U lysses, Kan. Sara Russell (BM Music Perfor man ce, BM Music Hi sto ry & Literature), Lawrence, Kan., was married on Aug. 12 to Alan Anbari. She graduated from the Universi ty o f MissouriKansas City with a master's of music in performance in December 1994 and is now a graduate student in musicology at the University of Kansas.

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Donald D . Baldwin (BS Agricu ltural En gineerin g), Lu bbock, and Rachel L. jamison (BS Hum an D evelopment & Fami l y Studies) were

married on july 15. Donald is employed

by McDougal Properties and Rachel by Highland Baptist School and Oakwood Baptist Church.

Ens. Tracy Brines (BS Civil Engi neering), Pensacola, Fla., gradu ated from Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schoo ls Command and was commissioned to his present rank.

Natalie Dunn (BA Telecom munications), Lubbock, was married on Sept. 9 to Stephen Furdek. jennifer Harden (BBA Marketing), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Craig Lang. jennifer is employed by Dillard's.

Alyson J. Haynie (BS Human Development & Family Studies), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Michael B. Goll ihugh. Alyson is employed by Lubbock lSD. Brian J. Howard (MA Museum Science), Washington, D.C. and Paula Oelkrug (BS Human Deve lopment & Family Studies) were married on Aug. 12.

Brian is a curator for Airmen Memorial Museum and Paula is with a nationally

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Kathy Huffman (MS Restaurant, Hotel & Institutio nal ManagementL Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Steve Crockett. Kathy is a doctoral student at Texas Tech and is employed by the University.

Shari D. Jenkins (J D LawL Athens, was married on Aug. 19 to Jason Moore.

Jarret Mallon (BA Public Relations), Lubbock, was hired by the Texas Tech University office of New Student Relations as an admissions counselor.

2nd Lt. Jeremy McElroy (BA Mathematics), Quantico, Va., graduated from The Basic School fo llowing the course at Marine Corps Combat Development Command.

Tanya E. Nichols (BS Cell & Molecular Biology), Waco, is a biochemist at Baylor College of Medicine.

Timothy M . St. John (BS International Economics), Euless, and Paula S. Brown (BA '93 Social Welfare) were married on Sept. 2. Timothy is employed by Sherwin Williams in Lewisville and Paula

by The Gladney Center.

Casey D. Thompson (BBA Management), Colleyville, was married on Aug. 12 to Shannon P. Webre (BBA Management Information Systems).

Casey is employed by Automation Resources Inc. in Arl ington and Shannon

by Andersen Consulting in Dallas.

Steven Tuttle (BS Compu ter Science), New Braunfels, was married on Aug. 12 to Michelle Adams. Steven is employed by the U.S. Air Force.

Matthew W. Welborn (BS Human Development & Family Studies), W olfforth, and Amber S. Johnson (BS Restaurant, Hotel & In stitutional Management) were married on Sept. 16.

M atthew i s employed by First Baptist Church in Wolfforth, and Amber works for Sheraton Inn of Lubbock.

Jeffrey K. Zuber (BA Ps ychology), Fort Worth, was married on Aug. 12 to Sylvia Bynum.

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Joseph B. Donaldson (BA R Architectural Design), Dallas, was married to Kristi L. Sparks on Sept. 2. Joseph is employed by Johnson Architects and Associates.

Stacie M . Enders (BS Biology), Lu bboc k, was married on Aug. 12 to Pace H. Gothard. Stacie is attending Texas Tech.

James W . Hedrick (Management), Odessa, and Melissa A. Northcutt (BS '94 Human Development & Family Studies) were married in September.

James is empl oyed by H arri gan's Restaurant and is attendi ng Odessa Co ll ege. Melissa is employed b y Andrews lSD. Dorian W. Hubbard (BA Telecommunications), Birmingham, Ala., and Julie L. McMahan were married on Sept.

2. Julie is self-employed.

Angie Kolander (BA Engli sh )~ Lubbock, was married on Aug. 19 to Scott Davis.

Terri Lowrance (BA Journalism), Cedar Hill, is marketing coord inator for Gemmy Industries Corp., a toy manufacturing company based in Irving with the factory in China.

Elizabeth A. Murray (BS General Home Economics), Lubbock, was married on Aug. 5 to Heriberto Gaona.

Joshua Parrott (BBA Finance), Dallas, and Sara A. Alexander (Multidisciplinary Studies) were married on Aug. 5. Joshua works for Bank One. Jason E. Patterson (BA Telecommu nications), Lubbock, was married on A ug. 18 to Annie Davis. Jason is employed at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.

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Robert C. Pierce (JD LawL Amarillo, was marri ed on Sept. 9 to Shannon M . Robitaille. Robert is employed by Underwood, W ilson, Berry, Stein and Johnson in Amarillo.

Michelee Sparkman (BBA Marketing), San Angelo, was married on Aug. 19 to Justin McGeath.

Leslie Tucker (BA Advertising), Lubbock, was ma rr ied on Aug . 5 to Shawn Wilson. Leslie is employed by KFYO/KZII Radio.

Shane J. Willis (BS Exercise & Sports Science), Houston, was married to Michele Marshall (BS Multidisciplinary Studies) on June 17. Shane is employed

by Tomba ll lSD and Mic hele is employed by Klein lSD.

DEATHS (Send obituary announcements to: Susan Bowen, P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, TX 79409. Please include date of death.)

Misti L. Ayers, 23, of Austin died Aug. 4.

Misti received her bachelor's degree in industri al engi neer i ng i n 1994. She worked for Motorola Inc. as an industrial engineer. She is survived by her mother and step-father, her father and a stepbrother.

Claud L. Booth, 52, of Lubbock died Aug. 1. Claud received his bachelor's degree in soil science in 1967. He was a farmer and in recent years was a convenience store operator. He is survived by seven sisters and one brother.

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Anastacio Bustamantes Jr., 46, of Pflugerville died Aug. 14. Anastacio received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1975 and his master' s in business administration in 1986. He was a program specialist in the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Texa s Attorney General 's Office. Surv ivors include his wife, Donna; and two sons.

Dr. Edward L. Byrd Jr. of Durant, Okla., died Nov. 23, 1994. Edward received his doctoral degree in history in 1969. He was a professor of history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant where he had taught since 1966, receivin g numerous honors and awards, in c luding Alpha Sigma Tau SOSU Professor of t he Year, th e Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award and the prestigious Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Teach ing. He is survived by hi s w i fe, Martha; and two daughters.

Richard H. Carlson, 68, of Lubbock died Oct. 29. Richard was an associate professor of psychology at Texas Tech until retiring in 1984. Survivors include h is w ife, two sons, and a daughter. The family suggests memorial s to the American Heart Association.

Geraldine Clewell, 87, of Lubbock died Sept. 6. Geraldine received her bachelor's degree in home economics education in 1933. She taught high schoo l home economics in Eola and Slaton. She joined the Texas Tech faculty and taught home economics education and management and served as the supervisor of student teachers. She held jobs at Montana State, University of Iowa and Mankato State in Minnesota, retiring in 1976.

Survivors include a sister.

George R. Coffman, 81, of Cleburne died May 4. George received h is bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1936.

He retired from Texas Power & Light Co. after serving 42 years as vice president of engi neering. He was named a distingui shed engi n eer by the Col lege of Engineering at Texas Tech in 1975.

Survivors include a son.

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Leslie Roark Cook, 33, of Lubbock died Aug. 6. Leslie studied accounting whi le she was a student at Texas Tech in 1992.

She worked for Bell Dairy Products as an accounting clerk. She is survived by her husband, Mark, and a daughter.

Dr. Pamela A. Cooper, 36, of Lubbock died Sept. 22. Pamela earned her doctoral degree in higher education in 199 1.

She had been director of library development and external relations at Texas Tech since 1992. Pam received the Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Award for Excellence in Research on t he Administration of Higher Education in 1993, which is given by the American Association of Universi ty Admin istrators Foundation Board. She was preceded in death by her f ather, Paul. Survivors include her mother, one brother and two sisters.

J.E. Couch, 86, of Pecos died Nov. 9, 1994. J.E. received his bachelor's degree in soil science in 1930. He was an educator, a farmer and a rancher. He served continuously as director and as secretary of the board of th e Red Bluff Power Control District of the Pecos River for 59 years. Survivors include his wife, Sue; and two daughters.

Brad Crawford, 60, of Lubbock died Sept. 26. Brad received his bachelor's degree in political science in 1956. He joined the law firm of Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam in 1958 and was a lifelong partner. Survivors include his w ife, Bobbe; and three sons.

Charlotte Snowden Dauer , 47 , of Panhandle died July 31. Charlotte earned her bachelor's degree in business education in 1969. She was a homemaker and substitute teacher. Survivors are her husband, John; one son and three daughters.

Winston Dodson, 53, of Lubbock died Sept. 12. Winston received his bachelor's degree in agricultural econ om ics in 1982. He was a loan officer for the Small Business Administration for 1 3 years.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia; a son and a daughter.

Harlan Dunlop of Mesquite died Aug. 8.

Harlan received his bachelor's degree in dairy management in 1949. Survivors are his wife; two sons and a daughter.

Jeffrey Edwards, 55, of Troy died Aug. 15. Jeffrey earned hi s bachelor's and master's degrees in dairy management in 1963 and 1965 and retired from Kroger Co. Su rvivors include his wife, Althea; a son and a daughter.

Oyara Esteves, 69, of Lubbock died Aug. 6. Oyara was a member of the education faculty at Texas Tech until her retirement in 1983. She was awarded the New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award i n 1975 and was name d a Fulbright Faculty Scholar in 1980. She is survived by a brother.

Kathryn White Ford, 57, of Lubbock died Sept. 3. Kath ryn received her bachelor's degree in home economics education in 1960. She taught in Lubbock p ubl ic schools until 1989, when she opened a dress design business. Survivors include her parents and two daughters.

E. Howard Grant, 53, of Roswell, N.M., died Aug. 16. Howard earned his bachelor's degree in politica l science in 1965.

He was in the broadcasting business for 30 yea rs. H e crea ted "Open Li ne Roswell" on the radio and is best known for the "Grant and Compa ny Morning Show." There is an endowed scholarship in his name in broadcast journal ism at Texas Tech. Survivors include his wife, Linda; three daughters, two stepsons, two stepdaughters.

Patricia Hoy Greenfield, 54, of Leadville died Aug. 11. Patricia received her bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1965 an d her master 's and doctoral degrees in education in 1969 and 1978.

She was a professor at the University of New Mexico and owned a restaurant in Albuquerque. Survivors include her husband, Arthur; and two daughters.

Marshall G. Harrison of Lubbock died Aug. 22. M arshal l earned his master's degree in educati on in 1970. He had

written t h ree books relating to the Vietnam War and received several awards for h is servi ce, inc lud ing the Silver Star, Distingu ished Flyi ng Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Air Medal with 20 oak leaf clusters. He is survived by his wife, MaryAnn. Thomas W . Hughes, 72, of El Paso died June 27. Tommy received his bachelor's degree in history in 1947. He was associated with Rexall Drug Co. for 35 years.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley; and three sons.

Karol Kelley, 67, of Lubbock d ied July 30. Karol taught history at Texas Tech for 15 years and received the Pres iden t's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1994.

Survivors include two sons.

Hal B. lary, 84, of Spring Valley, N.Y., died March 3. Hal studied international trade whi le he was a student at Tech in 1930. He reti red from a d istinguished career as an economist after spending the last 15 years of his career at the National Bureau of Economics Research in Manhattan, retiring as its vice president of research. He is survived by his wife, Nathalie; two sons and a daughter.

D. Keith loveless, 36, of Kansas City, Mo., died Sept. 3. Keith earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1981. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Buffington '82; and a son.

John F. "Buddy" Maner, 64, of Lubbock died Sept. 13. Buddy received his bachelor's degree in political science in 1951.

He practiced law in Lubbock and served as a director of the Texa s Trial Lawyers Association and was a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Clodette, in 1987. Survivors include his second wife, Sue; a son and five daughters.

band, Elitle, in 1961. Survivors include a son and two daughters.

Rebecca Kirksey McKinley , 76, of Lubbock died Sept. 20. Rebecca received her bachelor's degree in education in 1941. She was an elementary school teacher i n Meadow, Texas, and Taos, N .M., and worked at the Stork Shop and Texas Instruments. She is survived by her husband, Lewis; and a son.

division as plant manager in 1989 .

Survivors include his wife, Patricia; one son and two daughters .

Emma Thatcher Neal , 76, of Lubbock died Sept. 5. Emma stud ied home economics education at Texas Tech in 1939.

She was a former office manager for WesTex Aircraft. Survivors include her husband, Roy '39; two sons and a daughter.

Marie McDonald Mill i kin , 88, of Lubbock died Aug. 20. Marie earned her bachelor's degree in sociology i n 1943.

She t aught sc hool i n Colorado and Lubbock. Survivors include a daughter.

Allen H. Nelson Jr., 72, of San Angelo died Aug. 10. Allen received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1964.

He retired in San Angelo as ci ty engineer in 1987. He is survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters.

lowell Morris, 62, of Turlock, Ca l if., died March 31 . Lowel l received h is bachelor's degree in dairy management in 1954. He served 33 years wi th the Lucerne/Safeway dairy division before joining Sunny Side Farms Turlock dai ry

Raymo n C. Pack, 87 , of Step henv ille died Aug. 14. Rayman earned his master's degree in general educa tio n in 1965. He was a teacher and schoo l administrator in Central and West Texas.

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Dale Hill McGowan of Lubbock died Aug. 28. Dale rece ived her master's degree in general education i n 1953. She taught at schools i n Paducah, Roosevelt and at Stubbs Elementary in Lubbock.

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Harold E. Parsons, 74, of Austin died Aug. 31. Harold received h is bachelor's degree in petroleum geology in 1948.

Survivors include his wife, Adele; two sons and two daughters.

Robert W . Patterson, 58, of Huntsville, Ala., died Sept. 1 0. Robert earned his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1961 .

He was a board certified public accountant in the states of Alabama and Texas and he worked for RPC Inc. He is survived by his wife, Evangelina; a son and a daughter.

Nolan G. Pickens, 44, of Iowa Park died Aug. 30. Nolan received his bachelor's d eg ree in agricultural economics in 1974. He worked for the downtown post office for 10 years, retiring in 1995. He is survived by his wife, Gayla McClure '75; a son and a daughter.

Thomas "Skip" Poindexter, 47, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 27. Skip received his bachelor's degree in secondary education in 1972. He worked as a processing specialist for Investment Banking, and he was an executive producer for the Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble. Survivors include his parents, two sisters and a brother.

Howard Price, 82, of Lubbock died Aug. 9 . Howard received hi s bachelor's degree in marketing from Texas Tech in 1940. He was both a coach and pri ncipal at Lubbock High School and a principal at Coronado High School. He was directo r of secondary education for the Lubbock Independent School District for 35 years until retiring in 1978. He is survived by his wife, Cameron; a son and a daughter.

Earl Prosser, 77, of Amarillo died Sept. 3.

Earl studied general education while he was a student at Texas Tech in 1939. He was one of the last steam locomoti ve engineers for the Santa Fe Railroad.

Survivors include his wife, Margarett; a daughter and a son.

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Dr. jean M . Rankin, 66, of Lubbock died Aug. 4. Jean earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1950. He entered a pediatric practice in Lubbock in j uly 1965 and served on the staffs of Methodist Hospital, St. Mary Hospital and Un iversity Medical Center in Lubbock. He was a clinical p rofessor of pediatrics at the Health Sciences Center. Survivors include his wife, Marianne; two sons and a daughter.

Opal McReynolds Robnett, 79, of Lubbock died Aug. 8. Opal received her bachelor's degree in elementary educati o n in 1950. She taught at Wheelock and Harwell elementary schools unti l retiring. She is survived by her husband, Nolan; a son and a daughter. jan Stovall Sullivan, 80, of Wichita Falls died Aug. 18. jan received her bachelor's degree in English in 1935. She taught school in Fl oydada and is surv ived by three children. juanita Scott Taylor, 67, of Lubbock died Aug. 5. juanita rece ived her master's degree in general education in 1964 and her doctoral degree in elementary education in 1972. She helped establi sh the Project New Directions in Lubbock and tau g ht sc hoo l i n the Muleshoe and Lubbock ISDs. She was a professor at Sa m Houston State and Texas Tech.

Survivors include her husband, Marshall '72; and a son.

books, articles and publications dealing with sc hool fi nance. H i s surv ivors include his wife, Betty; two sons and a daughter.

David W. Walker, 40, of San Francisco, Calif., d ied Aug. 1. David received his bac helor' s degree in soil sc ience i n 1977. He was associate professor of horticu lture at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge from 1984 unti l 1991. He also se rved as di recto r of cu rric ul u m affairs at the University of Phoenix in San Francisco. Survivors incl ude his parents and one sister.

G.W. "Dub" Warden, 70, of M idland died Aug. 29. Du b received his bachelor's degree in physical education from Texas Tech in 1953. He was a golf coach for Andrews High School for 28 years and assistant golf coach in M idland. He i s su rvived by his wife, Li nda; and a daughter.

Lloyd Zellner, 85, of Lubbock died Aug. 6. Lloyd earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in 1932 . He retired in 1968 from a position as audito r with Shell Oil Co. Su rvivors include his wife, Mary Cammack '35.

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Billy D . Walker, 53, of Austin died july 17. Billy earned his bachelor's degree in secondary ed ucatio n in 1966 and his doctorate in education in 1977. He had a distinguished career in education, servi ng as a teacher, pri ncipal, and central office administrator in Texas sc hools before becoming the Texas Association of School Board's executive director in 1991 . Bill y authored more t han 40

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OH, GIVE. AHOME -ERE THERE'S NO TELEPHONE ••• here th e deer and the antelope play; where seldom is heard a discou ragi ng word, and the skies are not cloudy ... (with telephone poles and electric cables mess ing up the natural beauty, and the lights of mass transportation and big c ities blocking out the stars) ... al l day.

I have a favorite picture which was cut from a catalog.

It shows a lone log cabin in a snowy mountain park (meadow). A decorated Christmas tree is glowing warm ly th rough the win dow, and evergreen garlands adorn the roof line.

Nowhere in the scene is a te lephone v isib le, nor answering machines or voice mai l, not even a telephone pole. Li kewise, no one wanting a story, a proposa l, a budget or a meeting set up is com ing up the shoveled walk, and th ere are no deadlines, nor computers hard wi red and "modemmed" bringing the information highway to the doorstep; and there certain ly are no alarm clocks set at 6 a.m. It is a wonderful picture. The slogan reads, "Christmas the way it should be." I agree. By this point on the calendar, I need peace on (my) earth!

Nearing the end of a busier-than-usual year at work, the image of that cozy cabin in the snowy mountain park (meadow) real ly is appealing to me. I stare at it and think how nice it wou ld be to get away to a place li ke that for a week and not have the constant interruptions that tend to accompany my days. I'd take hikes through the woods and later read books by a roaring fire. Bil l said if I'd take him along to this fictional place, he'd even cut wood for the fire. (He has a chain saw, after all.)

So, if anyone reading this knows of such a place as the one in my favorite picture, come by the office anytime and tell me about it; o r by all means, send me E-mai l at 74431.2604@compuserve.com. O r, hey, you can cal l, too, because if I can't come to the phone just then, you can leave a message on my voice ma il ... some calls, after al l, are worth receiving!

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