Texas Techsan September/October 1995

BY BILL DEAN '6

EXECUT IVE V I CE PRES I DENT AND CEO

Anew enthusiasm in this com muni ty is em bodie d in a gro up the fo r Champions. Patterned after TCU s Comm 1ttee of 100, t he Texas Tech gro up is designed to boost attendance at Red Raider athl eti c events.

"We want to be a grass roots effo rt of reg ion al businesses , c itizen s and fans working together in bu i ld in g spi rit and awa re ness of Texas Te c h as we enter th e Big 12," ex pl ained Ronnie Hill , one of the co- le aders of t he 200-member and growing gro up Hill is exec ut ive v ice president and genera l m anage r of Southwest Coca-Co l a Bott li ng Co.

"T his co mmittee of ove r 200 members cu rrent l y (cos ting nothi n g to join ) is more th an j ust a fund-rais i ng group," he sa id " Th e Committee fo r Champ ions is em ph as i zing the quality that ex ists i n both acad emi cs and athl etic s, as we ll as so me of the outsta nding stud ent organizations , suc h as the Coin' Band an d Saddl e Tramp s."

The idea fo r this committee grew out of a series of Chamber of Comm erce m eetings held last wi nter and spring to see what cou l d be don e about promoting Texas Tech at hlet ics and in creas i ng attendan ce. Danny Koch , regional manager of the Ro gers Bene fit Group , spear headed thi s gro up and through his effo rts it has grown into th e Comm itte e for Champions. H e and Hill are the tea m l eaders.

Athletics Director Bob Boc krath was i ncl uded in these early meetings an d has been an in tegra l part of the planning process. He had al read y p lanned to expand Raider Alley to a new area just southwes t of jon es Stad iu m adjacent to the police de p artment. With the he lp of the Ex-St udents Association and the Office of Development, that area has been cl eaned off and new gra ss has b ee n pl anted t hrou ghou t.

Some 40 vendors wi ll be o n hand eac h home game wi th a wi de va riety of food an d merchandise. Live ente rt ainm ent, games and other activ it ies add spice to Raider Alle y pre-game acti v i ties, starting th ree hours b efore kickoff. For in stance, f reestanding cutouts depicting va ri o us Tech team sports will be a new feature, w h ere peop l e ca n put th ei r faces in th e c utouts and have pictures taken in th e un i forms of th ei r c hoi ce. Raiders f rom sports other th an foot ball are on hand for autograp hs, and the Masked Rider and Raider Red w i ll al so b e in atten dan ce at eve ry Ra ider Alley t o give autogra p hs and pose with young sters. Fan s also ca n reg i st er at Raider Alle y for pr i zes to be awarded during each game. And for those interested , te nt party renta l s next to Raid er Alley are availabl e fo r $500 p er game.

Last yea r , there was so me co nfu s ion about ta ilg a ting . Tailgating i s d efinitel y encouraged in the parking l ot or other area s around the stadium Ta i lga t i n g co ntests are bei ng held eac h game with prizes goi ng to the ro w diest Raide r, the bestdressed Rai der couple, most origina ll y dressed Raider baby (1 to 6 yea rs of age), be st tai lgating food and most spirit-minded vehicle .

To add to the flavor of thin gs, a co ncert featur in g new country/weste rn reco rding art i st Bryan White fo ll owed the Mi sso uri ga me on Sept. 16, free to those i n attendance at th e game Th e ga me was preceded b y a coo kout at the University Center fo r stu d ents and a dance featuring Jack In gram the ni ght before, spon sore d by the Saddle Tr amps at Lon esome Dove. O th er spe c ia l ga mes include a " Bring a Chi l d " promotion plann ed for the Arkansas State game on Oct. 14 Th e committee wi ll tea m with Bi g Brothers/ Bi g Sisters , hospitals and c hurches to prov ide underprivileged kids with a pos iti ve Texas Tech experience.

A season- lon g fie ld goal kicking contest i s al so on the menu. With a pri ze of $40 , 000 ava il abl e, ti cket- ho l ders ha ve the opportunity to try and ki ck a 40-yard field goal. At the end of th e seaso n , all w inne rs will claim their portion of th e $40,000. Th e co ntest is spo nsored by radio station KRLB-FM an d contesta nt s are ran d o ml y selected at each ga me

A major prize w ill be award ed to students at each home game, and specia l ticket pri ces for groups, Gun s-U p Clu b kid s and sen ior c iti zens are ava ilabl e. Loca l and area c ivic cl ubs, the Lubbock Cha mber of Co mm erce' s 2,100 members Th e D epo t District, Raiderland bu s syste m and se l ec t Lubboc k hote l s/motel s are all gettin g invo l ve d to benefit Red Raid er fans. M any store s and b u sinesses are encourag i ng their employ ees to wea r red and b l ack, or eve n a specia lly design ed Big 12 tee sh i rt, on game weekends Em plo ye rs ma y elect to in clu d e th e company logo on the back of the sh i rt

" We al so hope employees w ill be allowed to d eco rate th eir lawns , offices and marqu ees with Tech support items," Hill sa id

"Some businesses are purc hasin g bumpe r stickers The key to making this idea work i s gettin g p eop le invo l ved When p eo ple don ' t h ave much to talk about, it usually comes out negat ive," h e sai d . " We want to be sure people have plenty to talk about. "

Th e co ncept is ve ry si mpl e. As Koch puts it, " What is good for Texas Tec h is good for Lubbock and West Texas." t=

by Lamesa artist Terrell O'Brien , cast at House

by j ohn Childress of Jim Childress Photography, also in Lubbock.

MAGAZINE STAFF

Publisher Bill Dean'61

Editor

Marsha Gustafson '76

Class Notes Editor Susan Bowen

Special Projects Director

Curt Langford '90 Freelance Writer

Wi ll iam Kerns '75

Artist Kent Gamble '77 Photography

Bill Gustafson I Jim Caw1hon '96

ExECUTIVE BOARD

President

Martha Crow York '6 1, Lubbock President-Beet

David Thomas '83, Addison Past President

Dicky Grigg '70, Austin

Athletic Council Representative Dan Law '57, Lubbock

Exeartive Vice President and CEO Bi ll Dean '61, Lubbock

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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 '8 1, Sterling City

Glenn January '75 , Houston

Kalyn Laney '88, Austin

Richard G. Ligon '58, P la inview

Mike Ma rs hall '90, Midland

W e sley Mas ters '60, Amar illo

Peggy Adcox Maxwell '76, Grapevine

Wendell Mayes, Jr. ' 49, Austin

Roy Middleton '56, Lubbock

Nancy Laine Price '71. Arl ington

Roger Scott '73, Steamboat Spr ings, Colo.

Diane Ki ng Scovell '68, Dallas

Joh n C. Sims '65, Lubb oc k

Dean Sta lcup '71, San Diego, Cali f

Terry Sterl i ng '74, San Angelo

John Stroh '87, Houston

Bob "Heavycat" Thompson '67, Lubbock Bill Womble '60, Dallas

The Ex Student s Ass o ci atio n is an i ndep e ndent organizat on of Texas Tech U niversity former stu · dents cooperating with and worki ng in btohalf of the Uni..,ersity, but not affili ated w ith i t. Te xa s Te<hsan

NEWS FROM KENYA

I 've been enjoying the May/june issue of the Texa s Techsan. I t is the fir st i ssue I've received sin ce coming to Kenya in March. Thank you so much for sending it all the way to Africa It i s exciting to read about th e co ntinued advancement of Tech in academics, spo rt s and financia l developmen t. And I like to read about Tec h al umni who are making positi ve co ntributions to the world. So, p lease, keep it coming. I will contin ue to be a Tech supporter, even thou gh I'm halfway around the world.

Can you send me the names and addresses of other Tech alumni li v in g in East Africa? Perhaps we can start an East A f rican chapter of the Texas Te c h Ex-Students Association! I have already been meeting Tech-exes by wearing Tech T-sh irts, or by seeing someone wea rin g a Tech cap. That is a great way to find other Tech folks when you are in a far-away place.

I graduated from T ec h in 1979 and h ad l ived in Gordon Hall. I was involved in th e Baptist Student Union and served as BSU president in 1 978. I went to medical schoo l at UT Medical Branch in Ga l veston and then received training in internal medi c ine at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas. I remained o n staff ther e after residency , and from 1988 to 1994 , I was an assistant professor in th e Texa s A&M Sc hool of Medicine in the

internal medicine department

I have been appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention as a med ical missionary to Kenya, Afr i ca. H ere, I w ill coordinate mobile medi cal clinics in rural areas, help sta rt permanent clinics, and t each part time at t h e University of Nairobi Med i ca l School.

I married Kathryn W i nn i n December 1981, and we have three daughters We are all glad to be here in Ken ya and are always happy t o rece i ve mail. So t ell everyone to w r ite us at P.O. Box 32, Li mur u , Kenya.

Thanks again for sendi n g t he Texas Tech sa n. I l ook for ward to receiving the next issue.

Glen A. Smith, M.D '79 Kenya, Africa

RE: THE OKC BOMBING

I read the letter by Danie l le Clere Hunt in the May/ june 1995 i ssue of the Techsa n conce rning the tragic bomb in g in Oklahoma Ci ty, and I thought I would send my l etter about my exper i ence. I am curren tly employed by EDS (Ele ctron i c Data Systems ) i n Plano, Texas, and work occa sionall y in New je rsey.

The exp l osion occurred on Wednesday, Apri l 1 9. I fl ew from Newark to Dal l as on Friday, April 21. My fa ther, ja c k Steven s, who is a consul tant to the cons tru ction indu s tr y, was ca ll ed by the Governm ent Se rvices Admi n istration to he l p with the i nspec tion of the bu il ding. He and 1

drove f rom Da ll as on Saturday at 5 :30 a.m. and arrived at t he Federal Building at 9 a.m.

T hro u gho u t th e morn i ng we were b r iefed on t he structural integ r ity of the bui l ding and how to continue with t he rem ova l of t he hangin g d ebris that consisted of co nc rete, rebar, fi li ng cabinets and gen eral office equipment It was i mportant to remove the hanging debris so t he resc ue workers co uld wor k safely on th e r ubb l e pil e b e lo w that cov ered so many victims.

A t one point my father and I he l ped the Ok l ahoma C i ty Fire department, FBI , an d DEA agents l ook for victims. Wh i l e I was sea r c hin g the ru bb l e pi l e, I fo und some zip -l ock plastic bags. The re was a red tag on each of th e bags with the word "Ev idence."

I ye ll ed down to one of the DEA agents that I had fo u nd some plastic bags co ntai ning audio cassette tapes and drugs. One of th e agents t o ld me to co ll ec t all the bags I cou l d and bring t hem to him I f i ll ed a yellow 5-gallon bucket with about 40 bags and made my way down the rub b le pi l e and gave i t t o the DEA

agent

On Satu rd ay evening, my fat he r was search in g through t he rub b l e pile with some resc u e wor kers and found the b od y of the ATF secretary. An honor guard was quickl y fo r med and h er body wa s remo ved.

It ha s bee n months since the bombing and I still f i nd it diffi cu lt to co mpr ehend the

magn itude of the b l ast. I have shared my though ts and pho tographs w i th many people including an Emergency tv\edical Technician unit in East W ind sor, N.j. The EMTs told me the photographs revea l ed mo re than what was shown on te l evision.

I fee l it is importa n t for peop l e to see the photos so they understand how severe t he blast was and hopefully t hey wi ll never forget the importance of this attack on our cou ntry by a few of i t s own citizens.

Bryan S. Stevens '88 Dallas, Texas

RAIDER RED STATUE PROJECT

Thank you and Dr. Dean for the help yo u have given me through the years with the Raider Red Stat u e Project. I fina ll y feel confident that this project is going to take off. I'm proud of the fact tha t we are ab l e to include the ExStudents Associat ion i n one of the greatest projects ever undertaken by Sadd l e Tramps.

I appreciate you and your staff fo r believing in our project enough to make it a cover sto r y fo r the Techsan. With the exposure we are going to receive from the pub I ication, we are positive that we wil l be able to reach our endowment goa l s. Please have peop l e contact me i f they need additiona l information about the project.

Albert Castillo, architecture senior Green Harvey Associates

5033 Brownfie ld Hwy. lubbock, TX 79416

THANKS FROM A NEW GRAD

The award the Ex-Students Association presented me (as one of the Highest Ranking Graduates of the College of

Arts & Scie n ces) thi s spring was a h igh li ght of gra du at ion My pa re nts and grandparents also se nd th ei r appreciation for this kind gesture. Plea se accept my th a nk s. (No te : San dra com pl eted her und erg radu ate work w ith a p e rfect 4 0 a nd was hired as a writer by the Hea lth Sciences Ce nter Offi ce of New s & Pu b li c ati o n s. H er articles appea r reg ularly in thi s magaz in e on th e H SC pa ge(s) in th e Tec h T oda y sectio n .)

Sandra Pulley ' 95 Lubbock, T exas

COUNTING SURVIVORS

(A Letter to Wi lli am Kern s)

My warmest th anks for b e lie vi n g in my bo o k "Coun tin g Sur v ivors" and takin g the time to say so in suc h fin e word s. The piece i s sp l end i d (see " Fo llow ing The Golden Thre a d ," p g. 22, Jul y/Aug 1995).

A s I to ld you, the c ove r Pitt sbur gh se l ec te d is ri cher t h an I co uld h ave im ag in ed, and I ' m touched eac h tim e I see it. The first time I he ld the b oo k I said t o my se l f yes, t h ey've ca ugh t w ha t I hoped the book wou l d be, an d more. (Th e cover shows a port i on of the w all of name s o n th e Vietnam Memor i a l. ) I 'm stunn ed and humbl ed by the desi g n of th e c over fo r the poem s; a n d I ' m g rat ef ul for your effo rt s, the e ndorseme nt of you r nam e, an d what you sa id

I can 't loo k at the front and b ack cover w i thout w i shing th e book had neve r had to be. Mi ll e r William s o v er in Arkan sas h as a poem (" Let Me Te ll You ") that clo ses, " It does not ha ve to be wo rth the dying ." I feel that , trul y, about the se poem s, th e photo of that monument, tho se good

friends and strangers.

I read com m e nts like yours about " Count i ng Su r vivors" and I won d e r how ca n a man get so lu c k y or b lessed. I wa l k out in thi s fe nc ed bac k y ard at dawn and at night an d am grateful for it all. I send my wa rm est thank s a nd best regards.

(Dr .) Walt M c Donald Te xas Tech English D epar tment

MORE ABOUT TECH AUTHORS PROJEG

Th e y oun g man to w hom th ese (194 1 and 1942 La Ventana) ye arbook s belonged was Carey M. Buie Jr. from Kopp e rl , T exas. H e graduated from T exas Te c h in 1942 and entered the Marine Corp H e was w ith the 4th Marine Division and was killed in act ion in June 1944 on the i sl and of Sa i pan. H e had no brothe rs or si ste rs, hi s fat h er i s de cease d a nd hi s mother is 9 5 yea rs o l d in a nu r sin g home i n Meridian , Texas. We a re dona tin g th ese to y ou for others li ving to enjoy.

John H Bui e Arlington , Texas

I ' m so pl eased to se nd the se boo ks to the Merket Alumni Ce nte r (for t h e Tech Author s project). What a good idea! I've wr itten my pub li sh er asking that " D ance A Littl e L o n ger" b e sen t a lon g, as wel l. If it doesn ' t come in a month or so , p l ease l et me kno w

I got a ni ce ca ll f rom a T ech g raduate w ho h ad see n and enjoyed th e article ab o ut me in the Te xas Techsan (pg. 38, March / Apri l 1 995) H e li ves i n Ba to n Rouge, La

Tha n ks aga i n for the ve r y ni ce article and for reque sti ng

m y books I enclo se here " The Train To Este llin e" and " A Pl ace Called Swee t Sh r ub." ( Note : " Dance A Little Lo n ge r" a r ri ve d at the ESA offi ce sho rtl y after your letter did. Thank you!)

Jane Robert s Wood '49

Dallas, Texas

H e re are copies o f t he books I ha ve co-authored A s Bill Dean to l d you , we do li ve i n a b ea utiful area. We ha ve more tree s i n a square city block th an you w o uld ever be li eve, es pecia ll y whe n l ivi n g in Wes t T exas. And l akes and ri vers all around us. But I have a great fondne ss for West Texas , Lubbo ck and Te ch , w ith 26 yea rs of my li fe in vested there!

I have meant for a lo n g time to te ll you what a superb job yo u -a l l do w ith t he magaz i ne. It makes the few yea rs I w orked on it l ook rather ama t euri sh. I al ways l ook fo r ward to rece i v ing th e Tech sa n and, o n th e whole, read ju st about eve rything i n i t. You a l ways seem to come up w ith a fresh them e idea for eac h i ss u e, a nd I think that makes for quite inte resti ng reading.

Oh yes, tell Billy De an I hav e fina ll y found my n ic h e in I ife after re t ir in g from t h e mass comm unicat ion s fac ult y. At age 7 0, I am a step-on gu ide for a tou r b u s c omp an y When on e of th e i r t our s comes to town, I ge t o n the bu s after breakfast and spend h a lf a day educating t he v i sitor s on t h e wonde rs o f Bran son. I think my scenic spiel is down pretty good, but t e ll h im I need some really g ut- wre nching ba d jokes to tell th e bus tourists. Surely he must have some for me!

We hope to attend a football ga m e this fall , wh i c h is

looming o n t h e ho r izon , and i f we do, we sh all t r y to stop by the offices an d visi t with you all.

Ralph l. Sellmeyer Bra nso n, Missouri

Enc l osed please find two b ooks t h at I wo u ld like to d o n a t e to t he Ex-St udents Assoc i atio n. I saw t h e inv it a t io n i n th e May/J un e i ssue of th e magazine. I l oved my t ime at T ech an d a pprec i ate the excell en t work t h e ExStude n ts Associat ion does in keeping alumni i nfo rmed abou t what is ha ppen ing on c ampus.

Dr. Karen A. Roberto '79 Greeley, Colorado

BRINGING TECH NEWS TO THE WORLD

(A Lette r to C urt La ngford)

I wo u l d l ike to tha nk you fo r the ha rd w ork you're putting into gett i ng t he T ech Onli ne fo ru m goi n g. Here i n Germany, about th e on ly news we get abo ut Te c h is the fina l game scores. That's it, no com m e nt ary, n othi n g, nada , zip. And don't even t hink about any n ews about th e Unive rsit y. If it's not in thf· Texas T ec h sa n , we don ' t ge,· it. Your efforts are really fillin e a gap. I hope yo u w ill be abl e t o cont i n u e uploading tht: a r t i cles from the Unive rsi t y D ai l y now t h a t the te rm ha s begun

Thanks again a nd kee p you r Guns Up!

Ro ss Lovela ce '8 i" E-Mail from Germany

Note : For mo r e in form ation about Tec h Online, or'') order your FREE CompuServe start-up software, contac t th e Ex Stud ents Association at 1 (800) 7 14-9444.

BY WILLIAM KERNS '75 ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, LUBBOCK AVALANCHE-jOURNAL

Naturall

: there w;re vocal cynics who swore 1t cou ldn t be done. Creating a downtown e ntertainment district in Lubbock, they huffed, would be as li ke ly to happen as the arrival of a river wa lk in the city, the latte r actually once p roposed despite Lubbock's lack of a river

Entertainment, however, never has been i n short supply and within the past year The De pot District has developed into a fo rce to be reckoned w ith: a growing number of restaurants, nightspots and varied live entertainment.

Texas Tech students and alumni have helped make the area a success

Ve nues now operating in the " District" include The Depot Restaurant (a long-standing favorite which opened in June 1976), The Depot Restaurant's beer garden (opened in May 1978), The Depot's 19th Street Warehouse (opened in November 1989), Stubb's Barbecue (opened on Feb. 12, 1993), Pall adian (opened on Sept. 1, 1994), Lonesome Dove (opened on Aug. 3 1, 1994), the Hub C ity Brewery (opened o n March 6, 1995) and the Cactus Theater (ope ned on Sept. 16, 1994).

Singer-songwriter-pianist Kyle Abernathi e is expected to open his 88 Keys Cafe in the District by late October or early November. During the summer, a common admission c harge w as experim ented wit h on weekends at venues offering live music, allowing fans to flit from one club to another throughout the night without paying extra cove r charges.

Yet even with an array of national rock acts h eaded to ward the Warehouse and country acts ranging from Willie Nelson to more contemporary names pl aying at Lonesome Dove , the Cactus Theater at 181 2 Avenue H has received the most atten tion. With superior acoustics, the Cactus already has played host to live music, dramatic a nd musical theater, cultural dance programs, ballet, operas and classic films.

Entertainment in Lu bbock appears to be increasing even more. The Lubbock Symphony Orc hestra will celebrate its 50th season with four individually styled packages. Community theaters are busy confirming thei r fa ll plans. Arena officials continue to lin e up concerts and touring shows. Yet the Cactus, concentrati ng almost primarily on local entertainment, steadily attracts packed houses

More amazing is that unt i l Don Caldwell ' 68 walked into the dirty, abandoned building, the Cactus was just a forgotten, empty structure on Avenue H that most recently had operated as an iro n works foundry (Greer Iron Works)- a far cry from

its g l amorous debut as a movie house on April 8 , 1938, when audiences lined up to see Ray Miland and Wendy Barrie in "Wings Over H o nolulu. " The admission price then was 20 cents for ad ults a nd a dime for chi ldren.

More than a half century later, it was Caldwe ll , a loca l music produce r and engineer, who envisioned the Cactus as a performan ce hall and theater, lining up 25 investors to raise the $250, 000 necessary to restore the theater and adhere to American Di sa bility Act g uidelin es. Concrete was poured over what Caldwe ll ca lled " good old West Texas dirt. " A wooden surface was added. A sound and lighting system was designed by Broadway Sou nd.

Back stage, the theater boasts two full cast dressing rooms, two star dressing room s, a g reen room (a meeting place for casts and patrons) a nd separate restrooms for men and women Performers have plenty of room to don makeup and costumes without having to share mirrors or the sa me dressing area.

The Cactus made its modern-day debut just one yea r ago, on Sept. 16, 1994.

The theater ' s most popular attractions , to date, have included a state-wide Ballet Folklorico Fes tival , a series of Nostalgia Night concerts celebrating music from past decades, a theatrical produc tion of the musical " Little Shop of Horrors" and a screening of " Casablanca, " the popularity of wh i c h caught promoters so off guard they even ran out of popcorn early in the evening.

Oh yes, the theater still has a fully functional co n cession stand in the l obby- and the balcony is most definitely open. Caldwell added that more emphasis wi ll be placed in 1995 and 1996 on luring state and regional record i ng acts to the Cactus.

The following is a li sti n g (as of press time) of co nfi rm ed e ntertainment this fall , beginning with the end of September.

Don Caldwell at the beautifully renovated Cactus Theater. (Photo by Sharon M. Steinman)

BALLET

Dec 1-3 "The Nutcracker," performed by Ballet Lubbock at the Civic Center Theatre

Dec. 8-10. " The N utcracker," performed by Lubbock Ballet Theatre at the Civic Center Theatre

CACTUS THEATRE

Sept. 29-30. Don Ca ldwell's "Music of the 1960s"

Oct 1. Sc reening of the classic film "Go ne with the Wind" Oct. 4-8. "On the Ve rge," staged by Actors' Playhouse

Oct. 13 Big Band concert staged as a KOHM-FM benefit

Oct 14 " Cactus Saturday Night" (country music}

Oct 20. Screening of the classic film "The Maltese Falcon" Oct. 27-28. Don Caldwell's "Mus ic of the 1970s"

Nov. 17. Screening of the comic film "A Shot in the Dark" Nov. 24-25 Don Ca l dwell's "Music of the 1950s"

Dec 1 Screening of the comic film "A Christmas Story" Dec 6-10. "All in the Timing," staged by Actors ' Playhouse

LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Albert-George Schram For ticket information , call (806} 794-7175. MasterWorks (classical music) at the Civic Center Theatre Sept. 29-30. Debut concerts of the orchestra's 50th season Nov. 3-4. Concerts with guest vio li nist Livia So hn Jan . 19-20. Concerts with classica l guitarist Ricardo Cabo Feb. 9-10. Concerts with guest pianist Wi lli am Westn ey March 29-30. "Verd i's Requiem," also featuring the First Methodist Church Chan cel Choir and guest voca l ists Edith Davis, Wendy Hillhou se, William Rhodes and Stuart Skelton

May 10-11 Concerts with guest pianist Andre Watts SuperPops (lighter music) at th e Municipal Auditorium

Oct. 7 M u sic from Broadway favorites

Dec. 8. A Holiday pops concert

April 20. Concert featuri ng country singer Louise Mandrell OrKidsTra (child-oriented) at Tech's Hemmle Recital Hall

Oct. 28. Garfield: "A Cat and His Music"

Jan. 21. "Rubber Duckie Fest ival"

March 9 "A l addin's Lamp and More Magi c" Sanctuary Series

Dec 14 "T he Messiah ," at First United Methodist Church

March 5. "A Co ncert For Lent," at First Baptist Church

MAJOR VENUE CONFIRMATIONS

Oct. 6. Robert Earl Keen at the Municipal Auditorium

Oct. 15 Dan Fogelberg and Tim We isberg at the Mu nicip al Auditori um

Nov. 3. B B. King at the Municipal Auditorium

Nov. 7-12 Major Broadway tourin g producti on of " Les M i serab les" at the Municipal Coliseum

Nov 15-19. Annual Holiday Happening, sponsored by Junior League of Lubbock at the Memoria l Civic Center

NIGHTClUB CONCERTS

Sept. 29. Spinning Ginny at The Depot's 19th Street Warehouse Oct. 12 The Fabulou s Thunderbirds at Midnight Rodeo Oct. 18. Jimmie Dale Gilmore at The Depot's 19th Street Warehouse Oct. 26. Perfect Stranger at Midnight Rodeo Nov. 3. Doug Stone at Lonesome Dove

SOUTH PlAINS FAIR CONCERTS

Sept. 29. Pam Tillis Sept. 30. Chris LeDoux

THEATRE

Avalon Theatre

Sept. 29-0ct. 1. " The Star Spangled Girl " Oct. 20-22, 2 7 -29 . "The Haunting of Hill Hou se" Nov 10-12, 17-19. " Hedda Gabler" D ec 1-3, 8-10. "Bus Stop" Lubbock Community Theatr e O ct. 27-29, Nov 3-5. " Neil Simo n 's " Chapter Two"

Phoenix Theatre

Oct. 19-22, 27-29, Nov. 3-5. " Jeffrey" Nov. 24-26, Dec. 1-3. " A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

VARIED CONFIRMATIONS

Oct. 6. "Art for Humanity," annual fund raiser and auc tion at The Baker Building

EVENTS

Oct. 6. Phi Delt/KA Kalf Fry, fea tur i ng Mark Chesnutt and Robert Earl Keen, Municipal Coliseum

Oct. 7. FANda ngo!, a free concert, featuring Andy Wilkinson, p l us Kenny, Donnie, LaTronda and Natalie Maines, and Cary Banks, east lawn of the Merket Alumni Center, 7:30-10 p.m.

Cary Banks, Andy Wilkinson , Kenny Maines and Special Friends will headline at Tech FANdango! on Oct. 7. (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Oct. 7. Saddle Tramps Reunion at Merket Alumni Cen ter

Oct. 14. Family Day at Texas Tech

O ct. 19-21. Texas Tech Rodeo at the Lubbock Mun ic ipal Col iseum

Oct. 20. Schola rship Awards Di n ner, Memorial Civic Center/Merket Al umni Center (tickets required, 742-3641)

Oct. 21 Texas Tec h Homecoming, parade, open houses, reunions, Road Ra ce, football game

Nov 10 Texas Tech Distinguished Al umni D inn er and Ceremony, Merket A lumni Center (t ic kets required, 742-3641)

MUSEUM

Closed Mondays

Through Oct 22 Contemporary Native American Prints

Nov. 12-Jan. 3, 1996 39 Works of Nico l ai Fec hin

Through Jan 1, 1996 Glenna Goodacre Sculptu re Exhibitio n

Through January 1996. Winds of Destruction , Currents of Cha nge

MUSIC

School of Music- All performances are at Texas Tech's Hemmle Recital Hall, unless otherwise noted All performances are free , unless otherwise noted as a "ticketed event."

Oct. 15. (afternoon) Concert by Texas Tech Symp honic Band, conducted by Jam es Sudduth

Oct 20-21. Gene Hemml e Memorial Concerts, servi ng as the Schoo l of Music's annual Sc holarship Concerts and featuring a ll Texas Tech c hoirs cond u cted by Kenneth Davi s and the Texas Te ch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eric Fried (both pe r formances are ticketed events)

Oct. 26. Faculty recital by the Mariah W i nds

Oct. 29. Concert by Percussion Ensemble I, directed by A l an D Shinn

Nov 10 Faculty recital by Tech p i an i st William Westney, Browning Artist- I n-Residence

Nov. 11 A Gen e H emmle Memorial Concert (ticketed event)

Nov. 13 Concert by Jazz Ensemble I, d irected by Alan Shinn

Nov. 16. Concert by the Texa s Tech Symphonic Band, conducted by James Sudduth

Nov. 17-18. Opera sce nes directed by Shei l a Wolk (s i te not yet determined; t icketed eve nts)

Nov. 19 Concert by Texas Tech 's Sy mphony O rchestra, con du cte d by Eric Fried

Nov. 30, Dec 2-5. Annual Madr igal D inn er, with Kenneth Davis co nduc ting choir participants (ticketed eve nts, wh ich se ll out extremely earl y by mail; held in Un i versity Center Ballroom)

Dec. 1. Annua l Ca rol of Lights ceremon y at the Science Quad rang l e

Dec. 1 Annual Carol Concert (t icketed event)

Dec. 10 Chr i stm as concert by Texas Tec h String Academy, directed by Cynth i a Scu ll y

Dec. 16 Concert by The Lubbock Chorale, conducted by Kenneth Davis (ti cketed even t)

NIGHTLIFE SERIES

Allen Theatre in the University Center Call (806) 742-3601 for tickets or information.

Oct. 6. Lecture by actor Ed wa rd James Olmos, the soft-spoken police supe ri or in TV's "M iami V ice," who went o n to make the films "Stand and Deliver" (earni n g an Academy Award nominatio n), " American Me" and " My Family."

Oct. 11 Momix performing " Basebal" Momix is a modern dance theatrical troupe which utilizes props, li g ht, sh adow, humor and the human body.

Oct 19 B.J Ward in " Stand-Up Opera" Ward co mbines opera with stand-up comed y.

Oct 25. Pe rformance by Patrick Ball, Ce lti c harpist a nd story· teller

Nov 4 (3 p m and 7 p.m. ) Missoula C hildren's Theatre p roduction of " Jack and the Beanstalk"

Nov. 14 Lecture by actor Michael Moriarty, best known for his work on the NBC series " Law and Order"- He' ll discuss freedom of expression and personal choice.

Dec 9. Holiday concert by pianist Doug Sm i th

RANCHING HERITAGE CENTER

Dec 7, 8, 9. "Candle light at the Ranch ," vignettes of ranch life at C hri stmas reenacted in the center's hi storic stru ctures

THEATRE

Texas Tech University Theatre. Call (806) 742-3601 for tickets. Season Tickets are available. Oct 5-8. Nei l Simon's "B ri ghton Beach Memoi rs," directed by new l y hired professor of directing Jonath an Marks Nov 24-28, Nov. 30-Dec. 5, Dec 7- 10 "Ann ie W arbucks," mu sica l directed by Kerry G raves, and the Broadway seq uel to the mus ica l "Ann i e," which recently clobbered all past attendance record s at the TIU Theatre Feb. 5-18. "The Kentucky Cycle," awa rd-winni ng two-part drama, directed by George Sorensen March 7-10. The fu ll length ballet "Coppelia," directe d by Peggy Willi s April18-21, 25-28. "Wh at the Butler Saw," directed by Ri c h ard Weaver Texas Tech Lab Theatre. Call (806) 742-3601 for tickets. Season Tickets are available.

Oct. 19-22 " Falsettos," musical directed by Brett Kristofferson Nov 16 19 "O i eanna," directed by Terri Wil so n Feb. 22-25. "Night Sky," d irected by Lo ui se Mallory April4 7 "An Even i ng of Im provisation," orchestrated by Wade Fransen

For current Red Raider athletic event schedules, contact the Texas Tech Sports Information Office at (806) 742-3355.

BY DR. DAVID MURRAH

COLLECTION

TECH OPENING BROUGHT RAIN TO THE DRY PLAINS

Se ve nty years ago in 1925, the rain fell mainly on the pl ain sometimes in large quantities on the n ew T exas Technol o g ical College camp us pro vi din g a pleasant di version to tho se very first historic meeti ngs and convocations .

Several Tech professo rs missed the fir st meeting of the Texas Tech faculty, held on Sept. 15 , 1925 , because of high water Two more would have missed. How eve r , thanks to a tax i driver, who willingly carried two of the women teache rs across a waterfilled ditch in front of the Administration Buildin g, the m eeting progressed w ith a quorum.

Th e opening public convocation on Sept 30, staged in f ront of the Admini stration Buildin g, with cinder block and plank board benches, was staged without interruption from th e weather. But on Oct. 1, at the first student convocation , the rain returned , chasing the c rowd inside the Administration Building.

Tech President Paul Horn took t he weat her in str id e and n oted to th e student body t h at, ever sin ce the establishment of Texas Tech on th e plains, the normall y dry reg ion ha s

experienced abundant rainfall. " Look at the good that Te xas T ech has already done," he said.

Undaunted by the weather, th e princ ip al speake r for the event , Dr. J.A. H ill , president of the the n-named West Texas State Teachers' Co llege at Canyon, (now West Texas A&M U n iversity), gave a stirring address about the ob li gatio ns of a co llege to th e student s. Hill was fo ll owed by short speeches by the presidents of Southwest Texas State and t he University of Texas.

South Plains fa rm ers today would probabl y like to see Texas Tech restage those opening ceremonies to see if the much-needed rain would return to the plains.

Texas Tech 's opening convocation for the public on Sept 30, 1925, ssw no interruption from the weather, but the following day's student convocation was forced inside by a rain shower.

Tech President Paul Horn took the weather in stride and noted to the student body that, ever since the establishment of Texas Tech on the plains, the normally dry region has experienced abundant rainfall "Look at the good that Texas Tech has already done," he said.

BY BEVERLY B TUCKER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT

TEXAS TECH BOASTS ITS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS IN A POPULAR PUBLICATION

InDecember 1993 , President Robert W. lawl ess sent his annua l Christmas card to friends and faculty. The cover photo featured the lady Raiders women's basketball team who had just captured the NCAA National Championship. In the card, lawless praised the efforts of the team and l isted severa l other Texas Tech "champions" who might not have been as we ll known.

As a result of that 1993 Christmas ca rd , a new publication emerged. The Pr esident's Office recei ved so many requests for more examples of Texas Tec h champions, th e Office of News and Publications was asked to design a bookl et that cou l d be shared with Te xas Tech alu mni and friends.

The Te xas Tech " Home of Champions" booklet i s now in its fifth printing Dr Margaret lutherer, director of news and publications, said, "Our office is constantly receiving updates for the ' H ome of Champions' book l et. It is amazing to see, in print, how many true ch ampio n s we h ave at Texas Te ch U nive r sity and Te xas Tech University Health Scien ces Center." lutherer added, " Our c hampions don't just include students either We are al so including faculty, staff, alumni and institutional c hamp ions hips."

Th e most recent issue of the booklet feat ure s a photo of Texa s Tech 's four Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. The students, selected from among 1,300 math emati cs, science and eng i neering student nominees from 600 inst ituti on s are David Bessi re, E. Brook Phi lli ps, Jane l Short Hopper and Amanda Wright. Texas Tech

was one of only seve n universities nationwide including Duke a nd Princeton and the only one in Texas t o have the maximum fou r app li cants accepted fo r the academic merit scholarship.

Other examp l es of Texas Tech championships listed in the book let:

• Texa s Te c h became the first Southwest Conference school in Texas to captu re le ague championships in football , men 's basketball, wome n' s basketball and baseba ll in the same school year. Texas T ech was also t he only schoo l in the conference to adva nce to 1994-95 post-season competition in all four sports.

• Texas Tech has the lowest percent

of administrativ e costs of any public uni vers i ty i n th e state, according to a 1994 Texas Higher Edu cation Coordinating Board study which l ists Tex as Tech as the only state institution with administrative costs under 10 percent of total spending on instruction in 1993.

• Prior to graduating from the School of Med icine , K. Michae l Rice was named one of t he natio n ' s " Most Outstanding Students " of 1994. Rice was one of 1 0 students se l ected by the National Institutes of Health from among 65,000 medical students enrolled at some 120 medical schools nationally.

• law School Dean W. Frank Newton was named by the Texas lawyer as one of the top 10 people w ho have had the biggest impact on the Texas legal profession from 1985 to 1995.

• School of Medicine alumnus and Texas Tech Regent Dr. Bernard Harris '8 2 became the first African American to walk in space during a sp r ing 1995 NASA mission, his second space flight.

• Former lady Raider 1993 NCAA National Championship team standout She r yl Swoopes '94 is t he first female athlete to have an athletic shoe marketed under her name. The Nike Air Swoopes debuted in spri ng 1995.

The latest issue of the " H ome of Champions" book l et boasts more than 1 5 full pages of Texas Tech Champions. If you wo uld li ke to receive a copy of t he August 1995 publication , send your name and address to: Home of C ham pions, Texas Tech University, Office of News and Publications, P.O. Box 42022, lubbock, TX 79409 F

I NFORMATION SUPPLIED BY TH E OF FICE OF NEWS AND PUBLICATI O N S, T H E L UB BOCK AVA LANC H E-JOURNAL, THE UN IVE RSITY D A ILY AND COLLEGE LI A ISONS

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l lection of 1 60 sculptures, called "Glenna Goodacre: The Fi r st 25 Yea rs," was p l aced o n pub li c d isp l ay July 16 at Th e Museum of Texas Tec h More t han 500 pat rons vis i ted t he m u seum that day to meet the artist, who i s a Lubbock native an d daughte r of t he lat e H omer Maxey.

The exh i bit will remain at the m useum thro u gh Dec. 30. Goodac re, who res ides in Santa Fe, N.M., is most rece nt l y know n fo r he r sc u lpture of the Vietnam Women's Memoria l in Washington, D .C.

A july 14 benefit dinne r i n Goodacre's honor a nd priced at $500 per perso n was he l d at the Cap*Rock W i nery. On july 15, a meet-the-artist recep ti on, pr i ced at $75 pe r pe r son, brought not o nl y an overfl ow crowd to th e museum, but Goodacre's daug h ter, internationa l fashion model JiII Goodacre, and son-in-law, recording artist Har ry Connick Jr.

T h e Goo d acre exhibit is free and open to the pub l ic 1 5 p.m. on Su ndays an d 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays th ro ugh

Saturdays. The museum, l ocated at Fourt h Street and Indiana Avenue, is open unt i l 8:30 p.m. on Thu rsdays and closed on Mo n days. Fo r more deta il s, contact t h e Museum at (806) 742-2490.

He also d i rects the Howard Hughes Med i cal Institute program on campus. The p r ogram, f un ded si n ce 1992 by grants tota li ng $2.3 mi lli on, emphasizes undergraduate research opportu n it i es and science programs for K-12 teachers.

TheRanch i ng Heritage Center hosted its annua l Ra n ch Day celebration, "Windmi ll s and Washtubs: A Ranch Life Sampler," Sat urday, Aug. 26. A hi ghl i ght of the even t was the re -e nactment o f a shootout that occu rred at the cente r's H edwig H ill cabin during the Mason Co unty Wars. T he histor i ca l show was performed by the 1880s Saddle Tramps of San Antonio.

Other new features i ncluded a parade of ho rse b reeds and lo nghorn cattle, and a demonstrat ion of h ow settlers used natura l p l ants for dyei n g fabr ics.

Ranch Day ann u ally f ea tures costumed voluntee r s performing crafts , chores and skills that represent ranch life from 1840 to t he present.

Additiona l demonstrations of cur rent ranc h activ i t i es in cl uded cattl e brand in g, ho rse t rai ni ng and q ui lting

Dr John M. Bu rns, professor of biological sc iences and chair of the depart ment for the past eight years, assumed t he position of v i ce provost for academic affairs at Tech Sept. 1

Burns rep l aces C. Len A i n sworth who announced h i s resignation earlier this year to serve as a part-t i me faculty member in the College of Education and as director of the University' s Jun c tion campus i n So ut h Texas.

Burns d ir ects t h e Clark Scho l ars Program , an e ight-week summer ventu re that teams exceptional co ll ege-bound hig h schoo l st udents with U n iversity professo rs in inte nsi ve research endeavors. Th e program is i n its fifth year of operation.

The n ew v i ce provost is recip ient of numerous outstanding teaching awards du r in g his career. A nat i ve of Hobbs , N.M., he earned a bachelor' s degree in education with a major in chemistry in 1963 , and a master' s in biolo gy and microbiology in 1969, both from New Mexico State University. His doctora l degree in zoology and endocrino l og y from Indiana University was comp l eted in 1969.

Burn s also served as an endoc r inology res e a rch fellow at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. , i n 1976-77

Don E. Cosby, v i ce president for fiscal affairs at Texas Tech, was tapped by Gov. George W. Bush to fi ll an u nex p i red term on the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. Board. He wi ll serve a term ending jan. 3 1, 1999.

It is the second time this year the governor has named a West Texan to the

Glenns Goodllcre stands in front of her sculpture of the VIetnam Women 's Memorial.

(Photo by Bill Gustafson)

Dr. John M. Bums

corporation's board. The TGSlC guaran tees loans made to students by el igible lenders

Cosby, a certified public accountant, ha s served as Tech's c hief financial officer since 1989. He is responsible for i nstitutional accounting, investment management, budget preparation, personnel administration and other activities.

He was graduated with honors from Tech with a BBA degree in accounti ng and formerly served as executive vice president of Ford Bank Group Inc

as Di ckens Cou nty Judge, state senator, sta te highway co mmissioner and regent for Texas Tech He also was a newspaper editor and publisher, an attorney and a co-ow ne r of severa l rad io stati ons in the Texas Panhand l e

Also re cog nized were Dr. Rob ert and Bernice Moore of lubbock , the University library and Southwest Collection 's first Volunteer of the Year Award recipients. The Moores were honored for the ir commitment of time and effort in conduc ting and hosting special events that support the University Library and Southwest Collection

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Asignificant portion of the earth's sh ru bs, trees and flowers can be suc cessfull y grown in a semi-arid cl i mate. Dr. Thomas A. Musiak, c hair of the landscape architecture d epartment at Tech , suggested several to consider.

sweetgum , golden rain tree, mesquite and Ch inq uapin oak.

Musiak sa id sage i s an attractive, lowmaintenance plant that grows well in a se mi-arid climate. Sand sage, which is gray and very fine leafed, he said, could l ook good around a home and is very low maintenance It requires water on l y occasionally and can be pruned for shape in the spring.

" Winterfat is very popular among the native plant peop l e," Musiak said in reference to a broad-leafed plant. He also suggests rabbitbrus h, a plant w i th yellow flowers that "cove rs the hills in New Mexico." He said, " It is very showy , grows exceedingly well here and selfseeds quite readily ."

He also mentioned the red yucca as an attractive plant for West Texas The yew bush , which is growing in popularity among those who h ave shaded areas to fill, also is an examp le of a plant that is relatively maintenance free. Even insects avoid it.

Texas Sen. John T. Montford received the Friend of the Friends award Aug. 1 f rom Texas Tech University's Friends of the University library and the Southwest Co llection.

Montford was instrumental in Te xas Tech's ability to secure funding for the construction of the Southwest Collection /Specia l Co ll ections library This facility c urrentl y is under construction adjacent to the Tech Library and is scheduled to be complete d in 1996.

In the spring, the group presented a Friend of the Friends award to Sharleen Formby Rhoads of Midland, recognizing her contribution of the papers and books of her late husband, Marshall Formby, and her financial contributio n toward construction of the Southwest Co lle ction/Special Collect ions Library.

Marshall Formby was well known throu gh out West Texas from h is service

"The cedar elm is very adapted to the cl imate ," he sa id. The hardy, fast-growing tree is native to an area south of Abilene. It is a deep-rooted tree w ith a better form than the old Ch inese elms, and it i s not susceptible to Dutch elm disease, landscapers point out.

Other trees also thrive in the sem i-arid climate, such as red oak, live oak, Bur oak, mulberry, Bradford flowering pear,

Al though Tech is a nonland-grant institution , the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natu ral Resources has a strong agricultural research program , according to associate dean Dr. Bob Albin.

That re cog nition was achieved by partnering with Texas A&M (the state's land-grant i nstitution ) and the Agricultura l Research Service of the U.S D epa rtment of Agri cu lture.

" The traditional l and-grant university has a l ways co n centrated heav i l y on resea rch but now is looking at how to become a more effective teacher," Albin said, "while we've always concentrated on teaching and now we're getting more into the resear c h mode ."

Spendi ng on ag research at Tech has grow n to more than $7 3 million in 1993-94, up from $4.5 million in 198586, Albin said. The total l ast year amounted to an ave ra ge of more tha n $100, 000 per facu l ty member.

" Most nonland-grant universities wou ld be hard pressed to even come close to that in their research programs," he said.

DonE. Cosby

Dr. Tom Muslak

Albin added that Tech has the nation 's seco nd-large st und e rgraduate enrollment in agricu l ture among nonland-g ra nt un ive rsities and a l arger undergradu ate program th an two-thirds of the land grants.

San Antonio Li ves tock Expos ition In c. recent l y gave the college of ag sc i en ces a $1 00,000 grant for its meat sciences program. The donation creates the San Anto nio Lives tock Exposition Anim al Science Graduate Student Endowme nt Fund.

In past yea rs, the Livestock Exposition has donated $2 50, 000 to Tech's rang e, wildlife and fisheries m an ageme nt program for graduate student sup po rt

A mod ern meat l abor atory at Texas Tech supports re search and teac hing in developing , processing and evaluating meat produ cts. During th e l as t de ca de, T ex as T ech's meat judging program earned two nationa l championships. Th e te am has pl aced in the top five in each of its l ast 24 co ntes ts.

The Livestoc k Expos iti o n raises fund s to suppo r t Texas you th in ag r ic ulture throu gh its an nu al sto c k show and rod eo.

ARCHITECIURE

Fourteen Co ll ege of Architecture stu dent s sp e nt their su mm er in Stud io Santa Fe ' 95 , ab sorbin g th e cu ltu re, hi stor y and architecture of N ew M ex ico The pro gra m was dire c t ed by Be n Shacklette, a l ecturer in th e co ll ege, wh o was assisted by M att hew Gallegos, assist ant professo r

Studio Santa Fe was di vided into two summ er-school semesters. Th e first t wo weeks of instruction foc used on travel to historic locations in N ew M exico, including Rancho de Ch im ayo, Taos , Albuquerqu e, Quari and La s V egas. During the next three weeks, th e students were housed at the Co ll ege of Sa nta Fe, where they studied di stin c ti ve period s of architecture in north ern New M ex i co.

These period s included th e Pre Hi spanic or Indian Period , Spanish Co l onial , Territorial and the 2 0th Century/ Post- 1945-Modern Period, also known as Spanish Puebl o Reviva l. An overview of th e influences of the Indian, Hispani c and Anglo cu ltures was in corporated into th e curri culum .

Design ass i gnme nts included a renova tion and additi o n to th e boys and Gir ls club on Alto Street and th e ana l ys i s of a survey of the o ld er, west side of Santa Fe in the h istoric G uadalupe Neighborhood.

Th e seco nd portion of Studio Sa nta Fe was a working de s i g n st udi o on the Texas Te c h camp us. Th e stud ent s u sed th e inform at ion gathered in the first session to c reat e n ew archit ecture for th e hi sto ric di stri ct.

Th e coll ege's optional summer travel cu rriculum all ows student s t o become familiar with th e c ultures and climates of other region s and cou ntri es, and to inc or po ra te that awareness into design assignments.

Another summer program of 10 wee ks took 12 upper-d iv ision architecture stud e nt to Vice n za, Ital y. Led by Dr. Michael Jones, associate d ean for research, th is wa s the second yea r for th e Ital y program.

ARTS &SCIENCES

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Music professors Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, St e phen Weber and William Westney are among several mu sicia ns fea tured i n a recentl y released video.

The two-hour v id eo, titled " The Piano Teach er's Video Magazine, Volume I," is distributed by Keyboard Star System of Ru idoso, N.M. It contains interviews and performances of teach ers, clini c ian s and art ists relati ng th eir views of piano tea c hi ng

In the video, va n App l edorn, a Horn Professor of mu si c, performs and di scuss es h er co mpositi o n "Set of Fi ve," Weber performs his pi ece, " Rag Etude ," and Westney dis c u sses " The Un M as ter Cl ass," his approach to piano pedagogy.

The College of A rc hitecture anno unced the estab li shm ent of the Jery l j Jordan Memorial Scho l arshi p, en dowed b y a $5,000 gift from SHW Group I nc., a Dallas architectura l firm .

j o rd an, a 1 970 Tec h architect ure gr ad uate , was associated with SH W G roup, formerly SHWC , for more than 17 years. H e join ed th e firm in 1975 and in 1979 b ecame an owner and v i ce pres ident. j o rd an di ed i n 1992.

jord an spec i al ized in des i gn in g ed ucati onal faciliti es, c rea ti ng 200 pro ject s in 75 sc hool di stri ct s in Texas, Mary l and, Virginia, Arizona and Nevada.

Tho se wis hing to make co ntribut io ns to t h e jordan sc hol ars hip e n dow ment sh o uld make c h ecks paya bl e to Tex as Tech University Found ation , Box 42091, Lubboc k, TX 79 409-2 091 , and note th em t o the jeryl j o rdan Memorial Sc hol arsh ip fu nd in th e College o f Architecture .

Sung 11 Lee ' 80, a Ph.D. gradu ate in English at Texas Tec h, was des i gnated th e Di stin gui sh ed Alumnu s for 1995 on Ap r i l 20 at the annua l Awards Banquet of th e departm ent of English.

Dr.

Dr. Sung-11 Lee

Lee t eac hes at Yongsei University in Korea and has been a v i si t ing professor at th e Uni ve rsity of Washington and at th e U ni vers ity of Toronto. H e has completed two books, both tr an sl ations of Korean poets into Engli sh.

Active in Korean and Eng lish litera ture, Lee orga nized an internationa l sym

posium on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Shakespeare Society of Korea, the proceedings of which were published in 1993 in the Korean Shakespeare Review

Lee is married to the former Cremilda Toledo, previously a Br az ilian student who also earned her Ph.D. in English at Tech in 1980. They have one son.

The School of Mass Communications will host its Outstanding Alumni Scholarship Breakfast Oct. 21 in conjunction with Homecoming weekend. The event is co-sponsored by the Lubbock Area Mass Communications Alumni Council.

All former students and friends of the school are welcome to attend.

Outstanding Alumni awards will be presented to Dennis Copeland '78, twotime Pulitzer Prize winner and director of photography for The Miami Herald; Rich Flora '78, for 17 years a writer and creative director for southwest ad agencies, currently CEO of the Flora Co.; Don McBeath '77, after working in radio and television now serving as a Lubbock county judge; and Mary Alice Robbins '70, bureau chief for the Morris News Service Austin Bureau.

There will be a special presentation honoring Dr. Billy Ross, former director of the School of Mass Communications.

The breakfast will begin at 7:45 at the Merket Alumni Center. For more information, contact Beth Trischitti at (806) 742-3385.

or states need to determine which bridges are worth preserving, they often turn to King for his expertise.

He looks at the bridges and learns as much of their history as possible, including when they were built and who built them Often, photos are taken and architectural drawings are done.

After studying several bridges, King recommends which ones might be eligible for the National Register of Historical Places and those not worth saving.

"We say which ones are worth saving and then let the government decide," he said.

Even when the bridges are destroyed, photographs, histories and drawings are compiled so a full record exists, he said.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Area of finance faculty members at Tech recently received a $10,000 grant from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation in Oakland, Calif., to support research about investments.

The team 's research will focus on alternative methods of asset allocation and rebalancing techniques that can be used by private foundations to manage their investment portfolios.

A report of their progress and activities will be provided to officers of the foundation by Dec. 31, according to Dr. R. Stephen Sears, professor of finance and directo r of the Institute for Banking and Financial Studies at Texas Tech.

tion represen tatives want to invest i n and how much risk t hey are willing to take, Sears said.

People who do not know how to exercise patience while shopping may get t hemselves into a lot of trouble and a lot of debt, said D r. Scott He i n, head of the area of finance.

" If people are using credit cards in a situation where they are buying for immediate grat if ication, they have a tendency to abuse the cards in many situat ions ," he said. " The real consequence is b y going into debt now, they are committing future incomes to pay back more at a later date. There is a potential for personal bankruptcy to happen."

To avoid abusing credit cards, people need to monitor their use of them, he said.

"Keep a running total of how much you use credit cards. Too many people don't realize they are running up t heir debt balances." The best solution to avoid debt wo uld be to discont i nue the use of credit cards altogether, Hein said.

"Fig ure out how much each month you are required to pay on outstanding debt, and you will realize how much you pay a year on tha t debt," he said. " It wo uld make more sense to just wait (to make the purchase )."

Truss bridges still pepper the countryside. Most of them were built between 1830 and 1940, a period of great change. Dr. Joseph King , director of Tech's Center for Histo r ic Preservation and Technology, said the importance of the truss bridges lies in their ties to the history of technology. They were an important part of a rapidly developing infrastructure.

Since many of these bridges were built over a century ago, they now show the wear and tear of time, and many have become dangerous. When regions

"Determining what amount of a foundation 's monies should be directed to cash, stocks and bonds can be difficult," Sears said. "Therefore, a pressing issue for foundations today is how to achieve the proper mix of investments."

Sears, Dr. Scott Hei n and Dr. B iII Dukes are gathering data on current investment strategies typically used by foundations. They will make recommendations about the most suitable strategies for meeting the needs of the foundation. Ultimately, the selected investment strategy will be dependent on what founda-

He added that it is a plus to have credit cards to obtain a credit rating But the cards need to be paid off every

Dr. Scott Hein

VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN WEST

A Conversation with Kenneth Davis

BY TROY AINSWORTH

Avision

of the American West is evident among the books in Dr. Kenneth W. Davis ' home Its brilliant hues and deep earthy shadows are impressed upon the conscience of the professor emeritus of English , and his eyes divulge his musings of the mysteries of the desert canyons, the snow-peaked Rockies and the towering ponderosa pines

When visiting with Davis , h e inevitably invites you into this enchanting terrain which defines a part of America that he loves most.

The West has provided Davis with plenty of inspiration to write stories that tell of a time that was, a time that is, and a time that could become part of our national American character Yet he cautioned , "We are the inheritors of this land, and we have the duty to preserve the West. Once it's gone, we wi ll never be able to replace it."

Davis, a native Texan, early in li fe became fascinated with the open spaces and big skies of the Southwest landscapes. After he earned a bachelor of arts in English from Texas Tech in 1954, Davis traveled east to further his studies in literature at Vanderbilt University. He was ab l e to attend Vanderbilt after being awarded one of the available SO Woodrow Wilson Fellowships.

In 1955, h e temporarily finished his education for a few years with a master' s degree, but after a short break, Davis returned to Vanderbilt. He particularly remembers Dec 7, 1962, as a significant and important moment in his education On that day, he successfully defended his 19th century British literature dissertation.

" Fortunately , I didn ' t bomb it," he sa id with a smile.

For a young scho l ar with a recent doctoral degree in his possession, Davis opted to return to hi s orig i ns. He left the Tennessee hills for the rolling plains of West Te x as. That fall semester, Davis

began teaching freshman and so phomore English at Texas Tech.

In retrospect, he mentions his fondnes s for teaching undergraduates the rudiments of the art of writing During his caree r, Davis also conducted classes in British literature, focusing primaril y on the Romantics and the Victorians. But throughout the many semesters of tea ching, he never lost his youthful enthusiasm for the American West For quite some time , Da v is aspired to teach literatu re of the American West. Then an opportunity arrived for him to teach folklore, a su bject bordering close ly toward the ethos of the W este rn novel.

The re sult proved benefici al for the department of English at Tech. Davis assigned novels pertainin g to the West that i ncorporate the traditional essence of our American wi l derness. H e emphasized such classic tales as Owen Wi ster' s " Th e Virginian," Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show ," and Walter van Tilburg C l ark' s " The Ox-Bow Incident," al ongside contemporary We stern novels such as " Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko , " The Time It Never Rained " by Elm er Kelton, and Robert Fl ynn ' s " North to Yesterday."

"The novels I chose to t each illustrate a dual purpose of literature, as I see it," Davis said. " These novels aren ' t merely good stories. They represent the lives of Westerners within a particular historical era, a context if you will. Literature and history depend upon each other. They explain how we viewed our world at a given po i nt in time and how we will later perceive that same era."

Meanwhile, Davis co-authored several works within the scope of Western folklore. With Everett Gillis, Dav is wrote " Black Cats, Hoot Owls , and Water Witches : Beliefs, Superstitions and Sayings From Texas ," a collection of Texas weather folk lore. This brief vol-

um e, published by the University of North Texas Press, contains serious yet humorous advice about predicting the usually unpredictable Texas weather.

Consider these meteorological ponderabl es: " When the prairie dogs bank dirt up around their den entrances, watch for a gully washer;" " If water rise s to the surface of a dry creek bed, it is a sign of rain; " and " If late in the even ing, the horses and cows are frisky at play, it will surely rain the ve ry next day. " Davis and Gillis attribute these bits of wisdom to Sammie Miller of Brownfield and Diana Stafford and Ceci l Slover of Lubbock.

Davis and Dr Lawrence Clayton compiled a work titled " Horsing Around : Contemporary Cow boy Humor," another vo lum e dea ling with Western folklore With Dr Len Ainsworth, Davis edited "The Catch Pen ," a collection of ranch ing stories based on papers d eli vered at several Cowboy Sympos i a, which confronts the progressively c hanging role of ranching from the Old West into the New We st. Furthermore, Davis currently i s writing c hapters on Elmer Kelton and Robert Flynn for an upcoming edition of the "L iterary Hi story of the American West," to be published by Te xas Christian University Press.

Da vis ' knowledge of the West has opened other opportunities for his exper-

At home in both folklore and sophisticated lit· erature, Davis has found his niche in the American West. {Photo by Harley Shannon)

ti se. As a member of the Te xas Folk l ore Soc iet y, the We st Texas Historica l A ssociatio n , Texas St ate Historical A sso c i a tion , Western Wr it ers of Amer i ca, and We sterners, Davis re v iew s current literature publi shed within th e range of W estern themes. He recentl y se rved as one of th e judges fo r the Spur Award, a literary award which recogni zes th e b est Western nove l written wi thin the c ur re nt yea r.

" Sometimes I th ink I' m go in g to have to go bac k to wo rk to find time to get any thin g done," said Davis abou t th e ma ny duti es h e h as undertaken during his retirem ent from Tech's departm en t of Engli sh.

Davi s' member sh ip i n the various historical ass ociation s reflects his atti tu de tow ard academia.

" I' m a strong beli ever in English and h istorical st udies, " h e sa id with a th oughtful glance. For Davis, these two br an c h es of inquiry co-ex i st. Using C la y ton 's term " th e mounted he rd sma n ," Davis ex pl ai ned how this h ero has b eco m e to Am eri ca n s what Ki n g A rthur is to the En gl is h , th e Germa ni c Norse figur es to th e Scandinavi ans, and even Don Qu i xot e to the Spanish. "The mo unted h erd sm an or cowboy is our he ro , a nd for good reasons we've acce pted him to repr ese nt our i d ea l im age of o ur n ation a l c h aracter," he sai d.

Da v i s e laborat ed, " Peop l e need heroes. Th ey need m yt h o l ogy, t he knight on the white ho rse. We need our god s just like our h eroes. If they didn ' t ex ist, we wou ld have c r eated them. They sustain. Every cul ture needs that."

I ncl udi ng this cu lture. For tun ate l y, Texas Tech helps preserve this cowboy c ulture w ith th e Ranching H er it age Center, th e So uth west Co ll ectio n and the Texas Tech U ni ve rsi t y Press. The i mpor ta n ce of these th ree entities should be proper l y ack nowledged, as Davis sees it.

" Th e Ranc hing Heritage Cen ter is a living laboratory ra th er than simpl y a museum It s recreations of the American W es t are more th an ways of pres ervi ng, th ey' re ways of keeping a c ulture ali ve.

" It serves a u seful purpose of perpet uating w hat the West was li ke and continues to be, " Davis sa id

" T he Texas T ech U ni ve r sity Pre ss serves the same role for th e University. It has t he mean s to prov ide th e public w i th a p r inted ve r si o n o f th e West. " Then with another c haracteri stic sm il e, he mention ed o ne of his favorite Ba xter B l ack q u otes from the poem, "Van ishi n g Breed ," i n which he c l aim s cowboys aren't dead " They're just hard to see from th e road. "

D avis fo resees grea t thin gs fo r Tech in its pursu i t of So uthwes t ern cult ural stud i es. The soon- to -be-co mpl eted So uth west Collect i on/Spec i al Co ll ect ions Library l ocated betwee n t h e Agricu ltur al Pav ilion and the Libr ary will enha n ce Tech 's reputation in this academic area.

" I firmly believe th at if Tech foc u ses o n Southwestern studi es, thos e cl asses i n the En gli sh and history departm ents which d ea l with the c ultur e of t his region of th e U .S can ce rt ainly come al ive. The fact that th e n ew library i s under construction st resses the need for a Cen t e r of Southwe st e rn Studi es," Davis sa id.

"B ut Tech n ee d s to hire a full tim e professor of the modern novel of th e West w ho can draw co rr elat i on s to th e patte rn s of hi stor i ca l d eve l opm en t. Someone who can accurately mirror th e events of, say, the 1820s to th e present i n te rm s of co ntempo rary cu lture. Thi s person doesn't necessaril y need to specialize in Western literature, but ra th er should be enthu siastic about teaching Weste rn literature in a hi storic al co n text.

" This is very c riti cal for Tech to ful fi ll i ts obl igation to the students interested in this fi eld. "

Suc h are the many visions of th e Ameri ca n West Davis foresees as we ll as Tech's pla ce within thei r scope. His life 's work h as bee n d evo ted to it s preserva ti on Davis adh eres to the sentiment of profes sional actor and former Lubbocki te Ba rr y Co rb in :

" Th e Western is o u r mythology. If we let it die, we won' t have an identity. It' ll be gone."

month "That will be beneficial down the ro ad," Hein said. " If you overextend yourse l f, you will establish a poor credit rating."

If c redit gets out of hand, debt co nso l id atio n may b e a so lution D eb t conso li dation is taking out one loan to pay off all c redi t ca rd balances. This is beneficia l , because you can borrow at a lower ra te than w hat i nd ividual c redit cards charge on ex isting balances.

The best way to curb credit abuse is to c ut up all cards and disconti nue their u se, w hi c h is what Credit Counseling Centers will a dvis e people who have gotten th emse lves into d eep debt.

EDUCADON

In the past when Johnny cou ldn ' t read , fault was placed on the student' s shou l ders. The probl em, discove red as recently as 10 to 15 years ago, is that educators no w realize that learnin g sty l es vary amo n g students Identifying the learning sty l e for a particular stud ent is part of the theor y behind the alternative school con cept.

According to Texas Tech education res ea rcher Dr judith Ponticell , the alternative school concept was born out of the philosophy that some students cannot funct i on in tradit i onal school environments Consequently, these students, frustrated w ith their performance i n the classroom , often would become beh av ior problems for th ei r tea c hers As a resu lt, these students were sent to alternative or " last c hance" sc hoo ls.

" Th e problem for the a l ter n ative school model co ncept lies within the misuse of the labe l ' alternative ' school, " Ponticell said " A lternative sc hool model concepts are c haracterized by i ts flex i ble schedu l e in which students m as ter co ncepts at their own pace The model emphasizes sm all er class sizes, real -life expe rien ces and coo perati ve learning as well as diagnosing the student' s strengths and weaknesses. Its success is measured by allowing the student a c hoi ce in hi s or

Texas Techsans h ave been in the news, o r at least in the western magazines, recently. Bob Moorhouse '72 was th e coverboy in the November/ December 1994 Southwest Passages , featuring a cover story titled " Th e West The American Ranch Tradition Lives On," by Christ ine Mather, photos by Jack Parsons. Andy Wilkinson '72 was in the summer 1995 issue of Cowboys & Indian s magazine in a story titled "So ngs For Uncle Charli e (Goodnight) Andy Wilkinson's Musical Journey," by Kathy Lynn Wills. Then in August, W estern Styles magazine put Miss Rod eo America Jennifer Douglas, a Tech chem istry/pre-med student, on its cover. She was also shown in a Wranglers ad and was interviewed by H arry Myers for an article ca ll ed, " In Tune With Integri ty." Then , in the summer 1995 issue of Persimmon Hill , magazine of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, sc ulpto r Eddie Dixon '64 was th e subject of an art icle titled " The Buffalo Soldiers Heroes That History Forgot," by me, Marsha Gustafson . I Effecti ve Aug. 31 , Dr. Judi Henry reti red from Tech , where she has served for 15 years in the division of student affairs , first as dean of students and most recently as ass ista nt v ice president. She p lans to move to Arizona this fall. I Assistant Professor Ruth Gornet was invited in June to speak on " Marked Length Spec trum o n Nilman i fo lds" at the prestigious confe ren ce on Differential Geometry in the Large At Oberwolfa c h, Germany

her educational experience."

Alternative schoo ls pull away from the tr ad itional model of lecture/ reca ll and rote means of educa tion, Ponticell said. Sea t time, a term u sed to measure the amount of tim e a student is sea ted during a lecture/reca ll format, ha s been the norm esta blished for the classroom e n v ironment. According to Ponticell , the altern a t ive school concept would allow the student to pursue th e same core c urri culum (science, art, mu sic, etc.) goals o utside the classroom, fo r exa mple, by taking a stro ll through a ne ighborhood and u si ng the rh yt hm s of mu si c t o describe the architecture of a bui ldin g.

c h all enging and fulfi llin g than the traditional core c urri cu lum This also i s the th eory behind magnet sc hools.

In Lubbock, the magnet school concept was introdu ce d in 1978 at Ella lies El em entary School. According to Dr. Gerald Skoog, professor of c urri c ulum an d instruction at Tech , 60 to 100 students were selected to p artici pate in the program. The n ew format featured multiage grouping and alternative grading.

"During that time, if a student failed to master math ema ti cs in the traditional mode l, he was retained w hi ch had a stig ma attach ed to it, " Skoog sa id "Usi ng the new format, students co uld stay together for two years and eve ntually ma ste r all aspects of th e c ur r i c ulum at their own pace. In t he end, t h ey all would be on the same l evel."

At li es, the stud ents were divided into three sect ions -green house (pre-kindergarten t hrough first gra d e), forest (second and third g rad e) and argo nauts (fou rth and fifth grade). Each section was taught by a team of t eachers who specia li zed in mathematics, sc ien ce and reading.

" I n other words, the ed u ca t ors are ca ll ed upon to be more c reative in their app ro ac h on a particular subject," Ponticell sai d "Teac hers would h ave to incorporate science, mathematic s, art and music in a manner that rel ates t o a ce rt ai n subject.

"The team approach i s a key co mpo nent of the alternative sc hool model co ncept, " Pontice ll sa id " Thi s truly i s an interdi sc iplina ry means to education. "

Based upon th e article "A lterna ti ve Schools: The State of the Art" by Mary Anne Raywid, professor of education at Ho fs tra Uni ve rsi t y, a l te rn ative sc hoo l s can serve as mode ls for any sc h oo l that seeks innovati ve c hange. The alternativ e schoo l concept i s divided into three different approaches to education.

One concept, according to Raywid, foc uses on making th e c urri c ulum more

According to then li es prin c ip al Kay Knight H owe ll , " We were on th e ground floo r as far as bui l ding a progra m th at wou ld set the sta nd ard for oth er magnet schools. The id ea of introd ucing so many new and in novati ve ap proac hes to edu c ati ng ch ild ren was not only thrill ing but a li ttle bit scary. "

To access a stud ent's d eve lopment, th e stud ent was required to write several paragraphs de scribing the be ne fit s of each project in which he or she had par ticipated , H owell said. The p ar ag rap h s then were c ritiqu ed b y eac h t eam teacher to make sure th e student had l earn ed th e objective of the exercise. In stead of a stu dent rece i ving a l ette r grade, a parent teacher conferen ce was conducted to dis cuss the stud ent' s progress.

Raywid's second co ncep t of alternative sc hoo l s is the behaviora l mod el fo r at-ri sk students. Th is program, whic h represent s the l as t step pr ior to expu ls ion, usually houses stud ents who are c hronica ll y disruptive. Th e program al so can include some type of int ersc hool suspensio n system

Th e third alternat ive schoo l co ncept,

Dr Judith Ponticell

says Raywid , focuses on rem ediat ion Thi s progr am is de sig ned for students who may n eed additiona l aca demic , social or emotiona l deve l opment.

Despite the positive as p ect of the alternative schoo l mode l concept, ga ining ac ceptance among the profess ion is slow in comi n g, she sa id Among the advantages of the alternative concept is a student gets o n e-to one attention i n th e classroom, a stud ent deve lops his or her ow n strategy to make him se l f a better lea rner, and teachers are rewarded for th eir c reativity.

Ponti cell said, " In stead of viewing th e ch ild as an empty vesse l waiting for kn owl edge to be po ured into the bra in, the al ternative mod el views t he chi ld as the inquisitive lea rn er who wants more than surface i n format ion."

She said the di sadva n tages of the alternati ve sc hoo l conce pt m odel keep the program f rom ga inin g n ationwide ac ceptan ce. One problem i s cost it would be too costly to re-tool the cu rrent teac h ing faculty. Al so, t h e attitud es of pare nts an d their co mmuniti es wo uld need to be cha ng ed to accept the n ew wave of educa tion .

"W h at do you say to a banker w h o says, ' I went to a trad iti onal schoo l and I tur n ed o ut OK , so w h y shou ld we chan ge th e way we teach kid s today?"' Ponti ce ll sa id.

The biggest obstacle fac ing the accep tance of the model lies with i n the politica l context surrounding edu cation, she said. Educators are ca ught toda y i n thi s w hi rlwind of i nfo r matio n in which we know what changes have to be made in a sys t em that mov es very sl ow l y, Pontice ll added

ENGINEERING

Dean Jorge Auiion , d ean of the Co ll ege of En ginee r ing, desc rib ed Si beri a as hot and humid with l ots of mosqu i toes and lush vegetation That' s not exactly how m ost people imag i n e th e " iso l ated was teland of ice and tundra, a place

where und esirables are se nt in ex ile" to be. But Auiion spent two weeks there th is summer, so he know s fi rst-hand. Auiion and j acque Behrens , deputy directo r of internat io n al affair s for Tech , mad e the trip to improve re l at i ons b etween the University and official s in t h e home c ity of 18 Ru ssia n stud ents attendi ng Tec h th is year.

The trip was spon sore d by the Komsomo lsk oi l refinery, w hi ch pays to send its future employees to stud y engineer ing at Tec h

" They in vite d u s to go and see the universi ty, th e town and to m eet w ith the pare nts who are se ndin g their ch il dren to Tech," Auiio n said.

Thi s is t h e second year th at Russian stud ents fro m Komsomolsk will study at Tec h as part of the program. Behrens said that although the prog ram helps i nternationa l st ud ents le ar n abou t chem i cal e ngineering , it a l so b e nefits Tech' s American students.

" We' re try ing to hel p peop l e who, up unti l recentl y, were considered o ur ene mi es," Auiion said. " I think the y a r e going to give us a p erspective we might not oth erwise get. "

Electric Co ., missile and space div is ion, Valley Forge, Penn .

H e earned hi s bachelor's degree in eng i nee rin g in 1969 from the California In stitute of Tec hnology , hi s master's in mechanical e n g in eering and appl ie d m ec hani cs i n 1972 from t he Un ive rsity of Pennsylvania, and his Ph . D . in mechanical engi ne ering and applied mec h ani cs in 1976 f rom t h e University of Pennsylvania.

The College of En gi neering will host a H omecoming recepti o n after th e footbal l game on Saturd ay, Oct. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Godbo ld Cultural Center, 260 1 19th St., Lubbock. If you and your guests pl an to atte nd , please contact Jean Ann Cantore or Eugeni a Tillinghast in th e Dean of Engineeri ng's Office, (8 06 ) 7423451 b y Oct. 9.

Dr. Thomas D. Burton became c hair of t he mec han ica l engineeri n g departme nt in jul y. Burton spent the past year as affili ate d staff sc i entist at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, appli ed phys i cs secti on, in Richl and , Wash.

Prior to t h at position , he was on the mechanica l enginee rin g fac ulty at Washington State Universi t y in Pullman for 15 yea r s, se rv in g as ac tin g department c hair for o n e yea r Burton al so wo r ke d in ind u stry at Boeing Military Airplane Co ., Seatt l e, a nd at G ene ral

In addition to w ritin g numerous jour n al articles and p a pers, Burton is the autho r of a t ex tbook , " Introduction To D y namics Systems Analysis ," pub l i shed b y McGraw-Hill in 1994 .

The f uture will be paved with recycled ro ads with the help of Texas Tec h Eng i n ee ri ng resea rc h ers are work ing w ith the Texas D epartment of T ransportation to re cy cle fly ash, a b y-p rodu ct of burnt coal.

Drs Phil Nash , john Borelli , P W jayaw i ck rama and Sanjaya Senad hee ra are deve l oping specifications for us i n g hydrated fly ash in road construction

So uth western Publi c Service's Ta l k Power Plant near Muleshoe burns abou t two train loads of coa l d aily, producing mountain s of ash , Jayawick ram a said Currently, about 80 percent of th e fly ash is bur ie d i n l a ndfill s. H owever, the power plant operators wa nt to recycle fly ash to lay t he fou ndati on for an en v ironmentally friendly infrastructure

Dr. Thomas D. Burton

Dr. Jose Morales of the HSC department of op hthalmo l ogy and visua l sciences, received a KTEF grant of $6,000 from the Mason 's Eye Foundation for hi s work in "ge net ic mapping in a family with Stickler's Syndrome." I Steve R. Pruitt, director of accou ntin g serv i ces, was promoted to associate vice president for business affa i rs and comptro ll er, and Jacque M Garcia accepted the new position of ass istant vice president for fiscal affa irs serv ices. Both appoint ments were effective Sept. 1 I Dr Lora Deaht associate professor of music, was n amed Colleg i ate Teacher of the Year by the Texas Music Teachers Association in June . I Tech student Kristen Pregun participated in the 1995 Exxon Community Summer Jobs Program as a horticulture intern for the Dallas Arbo retum. Th e interns h ip provides f ull -time college students with an eight-week internship to ga in expe rienc e in nonp rofit soc ial , c ul t ural or hea l th organizations I Dean of the Schoo l of Nursing Pat Yoder Wise was elected president of the Texas Nurses Association , Texas' l argest nursing association. She began her two-year term o n July 1 I Horn Professo r Dr. Clyde Martin was an o rgan i zer and main speaker at the Special Conference on Control Theory in Bozeman, Mont. , in July. I Valedictorian at Canad i an High School, Monty Barnett, was re c ipient of the prestigious four-year Malouf Abraham Scholarship to the College of Business Admin istrat ion Barnett, a finance major, also received the McFadden Leaders Scholarship from Tech and an Ex-Students Assoc i ation Valedictorian Scholarship . I Drs. Ana Valadez and Savina 0 Schoenhofer h ave been se l ected as d i rectors of the HSC School of Nursing.

SPS contra c ted with D ePauw Fl y Ash to p ile the f l y ash into pits and hydrate it. After severa l weeks, th e soup y ash hardens and i s br oken i nt o p i eces, j ayaw ickra ma said.

" U si ng the fl y ash wi ll help save power pl ants mon ey because they won ' t have to spen d money to d ispose of t he ash/' Nash sai d

"A nd i t w ill h elp the e n viro nm ent b ecause the fl y ash won' t take up l an dfill space."

Research o n the effects different amino ac id s have on th e central n ervo us system may he l p scienti sts answer quest ions about bra i n fu n ction s.

" We are looking at two aspec ts /' said Lee Beverl y, assist ant professor of nutrition. " We are looking at how th ey affect

DOING HER PERSONAL BEST

BY AMY RAYMOND

Catherine' s dad never l ooked at her report ca rd when she b r oug ht i t home from sc hoo l. H e did not even open it for a quic k gl ance.

In stead, h e asked her w hat subj ects she was tak in g and what it was sh e l ea rn ed in them. If she gave eno u gh infor mation to p ass h er father's test, he then proceeded to the next subj ect. If the know l edge d i d not meet his expec tat ions, Catherine had to march to th e libra ry to stud y more on the subject.

I f he h ad eve r opened her repo rt card , he wou ld have di scovered that she usua ll y made all A's. Even then, it wo uld not have mattered t o him , for h e was just interested in his daughter lea rnin g and d oi ng her persona l best at all t imes.

Th i s l ess on i s so m ething Dr. Catherine Bla ck has tr i ed to pass on to her own da ughte r and to her students. As a Texas Tech ass istant professor of fas hio n d es ign , sh e has t ri ed to teach her stude nt s to val u e education. Throu gh her examp l es she shows them that everyone' s best is not perfect, but doi n g you r b est and learn in g something comp l ete ly is w h at is imp orta nt.

Black, a nati ve of Canada, came to Texas Tech on ly three year s ago, and since th en the fash ion design progra m has risen to nati o nal prominen ce, w inn i ng numerous award s and ma ki ng a

name for itself and its stud ents.

With a grin, Black sai d , " Outsid e Texas, peo pl e did not know how good a program Tec h had. We have excell ent physical fac ili ties fo r d es i gn It c rea te s a grea t atmo sph ere con du c ive to teach in g. A ll of our stu dents' awards have c h anged the n atio n's perception of o ur program ."

O ne of the major parad igm shifts i s that Tec h had t he program that won the most a wa rds at the International Textil e A ppare l Associ ation (ITAA)

" The stude nt s h a d a l ways b ee n good/' Black sa id " I improved t h e ir desig ns by cri tiquin g them , p u tt ing emphas i s on the qu ality of co n stru c tion. A student may h ave an exce ll ent and c reative design , but it will m ake first place instead o f t hi rd place jus t f rom having qu ali ty i n things such as t he li nin g."

Sh e wants all of h e r students to learn not just how to do t hi s, but to do this right. " I wa nt them to l ook within themselves and kn ow t h at it's t h eir best. It 's impo rtant to have studen ts w h o wa nt to exce l. "

And excel, her fashion d esi gn students have done. It j ust takes one to lea d the way, an d th e others rea l ize th ey can excel, to o. Black h as h ad sev eral student s go on to reac h national recogni t io n and wi n Best Of Show in

behavior, su ch as motor activity and mood. We are also looking at the physiol ogical effects. For example, if you supp le ment children's formula with amino acids, wi ll they l ea rn the i r alphabet qu ic ker?

"Amino acid supplements are being researched for a variety of uses," Beverly said.

" There are a number of amino acid supp lem ents in sports t hat can perhaps help performance in athletic events," he

said. " Maybe they can also h e lp the mood of h ospitalized patients. "

How amino acids get to the brain and what effects they have on the brain are also studied , he said.

" The foods we take in can have an acute change or a chro ni c cha nge. We want to find the biological response to a supplementation. If there are effects, we need to know how to app l y them. "

An examp l e is drinking warm milk to induce sleepiness.

i ng national finalist and studied the sport in Tokyo for a yea r Not only did she participate in athletics, she designed for them, as well. Black was a designer for the ski wear of the 1988 Olympics, and then went on to be an assistan t designer for Jantzen.

Bl ack doesn 't like to boast of the success of herself nor of her fami l y, but she does attribute her drive to someth ing in her genes. The self-serv ing and driven attitude that her student s always co mment up on was established by her incredibly successful family.

many competitions , such as the Natural Fiber Competition, ITAA and Ca reer Day.

Because of the se accomplishments by her students, Black hopes it will encourage others to branch out and realize these outstanding goals are attainable. She also hopes it will expand the program.

" The reason the program is sma ll is that it takes special students to be in this sort of major Students not only have to be creative and illustrate well, they al so h ave to be ski ll ed in pattern making and the more technical aspects of the dimensions and sewing. It takes a well-rounded individual to succeed in this business ."

Black is a li ving example of this statement to her students She has excelled in many different areas of her life In Canada, she was awarded a judo scholarsh ip for being a top rank-

Black's great-aunt was Edith Head , the famous H ollywood costume designer and winner of eight Academy Awards. She designed for movies such as " To Catch a Thief," " Roman Holiday" and "S unset Boulevard." She neve r turned down a movie ; a tena cious characteristic of her family. Bes ides Academy Awards , Bla ck's family lineage has al so won a Nobel Prize and the Indy 500.

When speaking, Black fails to mention all of her and her family's accom p li shments. She would much r ather talk of what is most important to her: teaching and her students.

"I think in a university, we tend to forget who the customer is, " she claimed. "I always try to remember the real reason I am here."

With a statement such as that, one can understand why the Texas Tech fashion design program h as risen to prominence in the last few years

Marilyn Wagg, director of the Home Economics Curricu lum Center, received the Golden Service Award from the Vocational Home Economics Teachers Association of Texas at their meeting in Dallas. I Drs. Darryl James and Jerry Dunn of the mechanical engineering department, are con ducting research for th e State of Texas on decreasing energy consumption of state-owned buildings. Th e project, n amed LoanSTAR, has been ongoing for 5 yea rs, although Tech 's involvement began in june 1994. I The Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America will hold its annual meeting at Tec h in March-April 1996. Some 350 facu l ty and students are expected to atte nd. I Th e Tech chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity wo n several national awards : tied for second place as the most outstanding chapter in th e fraternity; first place for the second stra ight year for having the be st gradu ate relations program ; second place for publications; third place for scho l arship programs; and honorable mention for socia l services. The chapter's graduate adviser, Lubbock attorney George H. Nelson '5 8, was voted the outstanding graduate adviser in the interna tion al fraternity for the second straight year. I Professor David Payne was featured as tuba soloist with the Roswell, N.M. , Symphony Orchestra. Other faculty to ha ve been soloists with the sy mphony include Anthony Brittin, Richard Meek, Michael Stoune and William Westney. I Dr. Dalton Tarwater was an invited participant and speaker at a confe r ence on Combinatorics at Laramie, Wyo. , in july H e spoke on research done jointly with sophomore mathematics major Phoebe Samuels.

Dr. Catherine Black

GRADUATE SCHOOL

The Graduate School has hired Susan G. "Su" Pasewark '87 as new coordinator of graduate student recruitment. A Lubbock native, Pasewark's father is professor emeritus at Texas Tech , having taught in the Colleges of Business Administration and Education. Naturally, she was raised a Red Raider.

While an undergraduate student at Tech, Pasewark completed a bachelor's degree in merchandising, was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, served as a President's Hostess and achieved the Dean's List.

After graduation, she was employed by Palais Royal and served from 1988-90 as president of the Houston Ex-Students Association chapter. She was a member of their scholarship committee and was active in student recruiting and raising scholarship funds.

The focus on her work at Tech will be on attracting top academic achievers and minority graduate students to the University.

She will also be working to expand the prospective student pool by focusing on schools that are members of the new Big-12 alliance.

"I am looking forward to representing Texas Tech and having the opportunity to encourage students to achieve both academic and personal goals as I did during my undergraduate degree, and as I continue to do in my graduate studies." -

LAWSCIIQOL

Professor William R. Casto has written

a book titled "The Supreme Court in the Early Republic The Chief justiceships of john jay and Oliver Ellsworth." In it, he casts new light on America's federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court's formative years.

In a study that spans the period from

the Court's tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice, Casto reveals a judicial body quite different in orientation and philosophy from the current Supreme Court, and one with a legacy of enduring significance for the U.S. legal system.

Casto reveals the philosophical mindset of the first Supreme Court, contrasting the 18th-century concept of natural law with the legal positivism on w hich th e Supreme Court now relies. Using this historical context, he addresses the politic a l controve rsy over federal common la w crimes, th e drafting of the judiciar y Act of 1789, and the adoption of judicial re view.

Although the 292-page book focuses primarily on national security concerns, Casto does include substantial chapters on the Court's treatment of state-federal government relations and interpretation of the Constitution.

He analyzes the theoretical foundations of judicial review, the modes of interpretation employed by the justices, and the states' sovereign immunity from suit in federal court.

The hardcover book was published in May by the University of South Carolina Press. It sells for $49.95. If you are unable to locate the book in your area, contact Lee Gaither at the press, (803) 777-2021.

Th e Schoo l of Law named its f i rst

Distinguished Alumnus on April 22 at the annua l St rasb urger & Price Honors and Awards Ceremony. Robert A. Junell '77, chair of t he committee on appropriations f or the Texas House of Representatives, was selected to receive t he h onor.

A committee of alumni from across the state appo i nted by Dean W. Fr ank Newton se le cted the honoree.

j u ne ll was elected to th e House in 1988 by the voters o f San Angelo. He is serving h is second term as cha i r of the committee on appropriations. During his t ime in the House, two different Speakers and his fe llow H ouse members have appo i nted him to serve in no less than a dozen special positions of leadership responsibility with in the state and the nation.

He has been honored with two dozen awards in the last six months, including recognition as a Top Legislator by Texas Monthly magazine (three times), the Dallas Morning News, The Texas Municipal League, the T exas Chamber of Commerce, the Texa s Civil ju st ice League , t he V ie t nam Vete rans of America, the Texas Assoc iation of Municipal Health Officials, and the NAACP.

junell i s a partner i n the San Angelo firm of Griffis, Motl & june l l. He and his wife, Beverly, have th ree children, Ryan, Keith Elizabeth and Clay.

Robert A. Junell (left) receives his award from Foundation Board President Barbara Runge and Dean W Frank Newton. (Photo courtesy the Jaw school.)

TEXAS TECH CENTER

QUESTIONING THE LICENSE TO DRIVE

BY SANDRA PULLEY

The open road s of Tex as may not be open to all dri vers. Th ose w ith disabilities, espec iall y neuro logi cal di s o rd ers , may n eed a d oc tor's approva l before getti ng a li ce n se.

But a mou ntai n of guid elines often l ea v es both patient s and th ei r doctors confused about pub li c safety l aws.

" Keeping the roads safe i s the main issue," said Richard D asheif( M. D ., a professor of n eurology at the Texas Tech University H ea lth Sciences Cente r. " But there are also secondary issues, like t he patients' ri ghts and doctors' responsibil it ies for th e well being of their patients."

Pati ents are often relu ctant to gi ve up their licenses, since man y may need their automobiles to ge t to work, Dasheiff sa id. But eve n w hen a car i s not necessary, re luct ance remain s.

" In America , there is a certai n importan ce pl aced on dri v in g," he sa id. " I try to remi nd pati ents that they are not only a danger to others, bu t the y co uld al so endan ger themselves. You can't wa l k away from every acc ident."

Di so rd ers li ke epi lepsy, d i abetes mel litu s an d na rcolepsy ca n easily cause a patien t to lose contro l of a ve hicle, espe c ially if the pe rson's co nd ition can not be cont ro ll ed by medi ca ti on.

" Neurolo gical disorders co n stit u te dan gers through alteration of co nsciousness, alteration i n cogn ition or l oss of motor co ntrol ," Dasheiff said. "E ither one of these can impair one's dri v ing ability. Losing co ntrol fo r eve n a few seconds can be dead l y."

While the dr iv in g l aws are designed to prevent these types of accidents, they also grant dri ving pr ivileges to patients w ith controlled problems .

Those w ho have convuls ive disorders, such as ep il epsy, ca n be gra n ted a licen se if they are und er a ph ysician's

ca re and h ave n o ev id ence of cl i nical se i z ure s within a s i x -month period

Th ese p atie nts al so may be required to get a ph ysicia n's recommendation about t h eir re l iability in taking m edi c ation , avo id i ng sleep deprivatio n an fatigue and refrai n ing from al co hol abu se.

"This process works bot h ways , though," Dasheiff said " A docto r can be instrumental in helpin g patients get their li ce nses, but they al so have a responsib ility t o wa rn the Texas Depa rtment of Publi c Safety (DPS) if an unsafe patient is dri vi ng."

A lthou gh doctors are not required to report patients wi th neurological disorders to the DPS , a n y public cit i zen, includin g a doctor, ca n fi le a report.

" It does not break the doctor/patient pri vacy l aws if a docto r i n forms DPS ab o u t a patient ," Dasheiff sai d " The public safety is consi dered utmost. "

These reports are held at DPS unti l it is time for license renewal. The person ma y th en have to pass ano th er driving test or get another fo rm from th e doctor to re ce ive the license.

" The doctor's recommendati o n is very important for patients see kin g a li cense," Dasheiff sai d. "B ut t hese same doctors should refrai n f rom giv ing patients adv ic e abou t driv in g that co nfl icts w ith state driving cod es."

Doct ors may not rea li ze that by giving th eir pat i ent s permission to dri ve, they are open i ng themse l ves up to lawsuits, Dasheiff sa i d. Lega ll y, only the Te xas Depa rtment of Pub l ic Safe t y has the au th ority to regulate drivers.

" There have been cases, w h ere a doctor told a patient it was okay t o drive, witho u t knowing the drivi n g regulations," Das heiff warned. " Th en when the patient got i n an accident, he successful ly sued the doctor."

This part of t he law often is troublesome to doctors, Dashe iff said, because family physicians and specia li sts often fear they w ill lose business if the y warn patients not to drive.

" Th at is when large r neuro logy centers can come in handy," Dasheiff said. " Th e patient can be r ecommended to pl aces l ike th e Texas T ec h H ea lth Sciences Ce nter to get information. Thi s does not p l ace t h e doctor's rel ati onship w ith the client in j eopardy

" Getting adv ice fro m an impartia l thi rd party may make patients reconside r t hei r v iews about dr iv i ng."

It also pro vi d es the patient with the most up-to-date information abou t drivi ng re gu l at ion s, since large neurolog y centers ofte n rece i ve updates from t he Texas Department of Public Safety.

" To be confused about these regula tions is normal," Dasheiff said. " But doctors and pat ients need to know that there are places to turn fo r informa tion. " r

"In America, there is a certain importance placed on driving," he said "/try to remind patients that they are not only a danger to others, but the y could also endanger themselves . You can ' t walk away from every accident. "

-Richard Oasheiff, M D.

KEN KETNER: A Teacher's Teacher

Demystifies a Thinker's Thinker

BY MARGARET SHEFFIELD LUTHERER

K:en

Ketne r remembers his first visit to Lubbock in the summer of 19 7 1. Having just comp leted his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Ca lifornia at Santa Barbara, Ketner was looking for a way to return to his Southwest roots, and a job an noun cement at Texas Tech had caught his interest. Once in Lubbock, Ketner cou ldn ' t find the campus When he finally came upon the Broadway entrance, he saw the campus before him like an oasis in the summer h eat.

"Twenty-four years later, I still see Texas Tech as an oasis- a beautiful home to the cultura l trea sures of this region, " Ketner says. " I came to Texas Tech because I wanted to live in this region; I stayed here to help the University realize its vision as an institution of international significance. The rea lization of that vis ion h as greatly benefited this region ."

Ketner's vis ion of the dialogue between stude nt and t eache r and of what should occur in the cla ssroom was considered a bit uncon ventiona l by his first students in the fall of 1971 After moving the desk and bookcases out of his offi ce and replacing his chair with a simple rocking chair, he invited his students in to sit in a circle and talk about aesthetics, the subject of the first

cou rse he was to teach. Of those first fi ve students that first semester, three are still involved in full-time academic pursuits- as a univ ersity administrator, an author and a profe sso r.

Ketner be lieves that the rol e of the lecturer was appropriate in Medieval times when most of the aud ience had no access to books and a learned scholar was necessary to read and interpret the text. But

in contemporary university classes, he sees a more relaxed atmosphere as appropriate.

" Discove ry occu rs when a group of equals stands before a problem to be solved or understood," Ketner says. He sees trust as the most important aspect of a true learning situation. " When students and teacher trust each other , the roles fall away and everyo ne is part of the group attempting to so l ve

.

" Teac hing is impossible if you mean ' A causes B to learn .' Classes should not be merely a student' s exercising of memory. Students are not tape recorders," Ketner says.

According to Scott

The cornerstone on the northeast of the Administration Building is Ketner's favorite campus location; it is where Tech began, where It was set to work, he says. (Photo by Artie Limmer)

Since first coming to Texas Tech as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1971, Dr. Kenneth L. Ketner has devoted his considerable energies to two major endeavors: guiding his students in critical thinking and introducing the world to one of its greatest critical thinkers, Charles Sanders Peirce.

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Cunningha m, a 1985 grad was still widely unknown The comp lete l ist of Uni versity and in photouate in philosophy, because hi s m ajor writings areas in which Peirce copied form at Tex as Tech. " Professor Ketner sees him- rem ained unpublished made origina l resear c h Scholars from around the self as a participant in a Scholars around the w orld contribut io ns is amazing l y world have come to Texas community of inquiry. H e are now realizing that b road and includes log ic, Tech for the past de ca de to is not an authori ty fi gu re Pei rce has had a profou nd mathematics, c hemistry, stud y the unpublished w ho gives you the qu es- effect upon the way people religion , law, Shake- manuscripts, and an explotions and then gives yo u in the 20th ce ntury view spea rean studies, psycho!- sia n of scholarly books on th e answers. He shows you the wo rld Ketn er, the ogy and a lmost all aspec ts Peirce has resulted. th at there are inherent Cha rles S. Peirce Professor of philosophy. Peirce was In cooperat ion with advantages in doing yo ur of Philosophy at Texas recogn i zed as the founder schola r s from around the ow n work." Tec h and director of its of pragmatism , the defini- world , Ketner was responFormer student Darl ene institut e for Stud ies in t ive Ameri ca n philoso phi- sible for o rgan izi ng an Norto n, now a nurse prac- Pragmati sm ha s become a ca l movement. In hi s life international confe re nce ti tioner and assistant pro m ajor so urce of informa t im e, he ga ined recogni- on the philosopher held at fessor of nursing at Texas ti o n fo r the redi scove ry of tion as a mathematical Ha rva rd and jointl y spon Tec h, notes that Ketn e r Peirce physici st, h av ing desi gned sored by Texas Tec h, in wo u ld never let hi s stu- Peirce (1839 -1914) was a pendulum that became Septembe r 1989. In the six dents desc ribe him as a th e so n of Benjamin the standard device for yea rs si nce the conference , teacher, faci litato r or Peirce, Harva rd professor g ra v ity studies wo rld w id e 12 scholar ly wo rk s on gui de. " But he c reates an an d th e foremost Ame ri ca n H e was a lso the first histo Peirce have been pubenv ironment that a ll ows mathematician of the 19 th rian of scien ce in the fished as a direct resu l t of people to learn as mu c h as ce ntury. Be njamin Peirce United States. papers prese nted at the poss ib le," she sa ys was a co-founder of th e Of g reat fascination to meeting. An earlier interIn th e yea rs sin ce he r N at ional Academy of contemporary sc hol ars is a nat i o na l c onference , also student days, Norton h as Sc ience. A precocious letter he wrote to a fr ie nd o rga ni zed in pa rt by Ketner team ta ug ht several classes c hild , Charles w rote a his in 1885 in w hi c h he pro- and he ld in 19 7 6 in w i th Ketner. "A l though I tory of c hem istry at age 11 po sed th at e lectricity might Amsterdam, had stirred have b een in a situat io n as and was described as writ be the best means for consi d erab le acade mi c a co-teac her w ith him , I ing ma th prob lems his develop in g a log ic interest in Peirce, resulting am always hi s student, fath er would give him with ma c hin e that cou ld so lve in t he secon d meeting at always l ea rning f rom him ," hi s left hand whi le simulta comp li cate d prob lems, H arva rd No rton says. neo usl y so l ving them w ith becau se co njun ct ion and Di sc us sions in Ketner 's his ri ght hand Although he disjun ction in logic are

classes ofte n revo l ve graduated from Harvard in analogo us t o series and

around a figure v irtu ally 1859, Peirce never esta b- parall e l ci rc uits i n unknown to the ge nera l fis hed him se l f in a pe rm a- e lectri city. Some pub l ic, yet co nsidered by nent academ i c e nv iron- 50 years l ater, many scho lars to b e th e ment. H e was di sm issed research on e lec most important mind t o from the fa c u l ty at John s tri ca l circuits co me from th e Ame ri ca n Hopkin s Uni vers ity wh en t hat l ed t o th e expe ri enc e. Ketner's pro h e appeared in pub li c with invent ion of the fess ional academic li fe h as the woman who was to com pute r poi ntbee n as involved with b ecome hi s second wife ed t o the same Cha rl es Sanders Peirce as b efo re he had divorced his co nclu sions Peirce wi th hi s students fi rst wife. Peirce li ved hi s h ad reac hed in his Peirce (p ronounced last years with hi s seco nd letter. "p urse") is amon g th e most w ife, Juli ette, as a recl use Peirce's unpub important intellectu a l f ig- in M il fo rd , Penn. Led by fi sh ed pape rs numures eve r t o h ave wo rk ed phi losopher Wi lli am ber so m e 80, 000 in th e United States. Very j ames, h is frie nd s raised pages. The y few other scholars unde r money to suppo rt Pe irce in are hel d in stood his wo rk during hi s his la st yea rs, a time of th e li brary at lifetime; until re centl y h e prolifi c writing for him H arva rd

Charles S. Peirce as a student

at Harvard, 1859

Although Ketner is often humorous letters that has brou ght cons iderab le tude of internationa l scho l understandably proud th at are schedu led to be pub- positi ve attention to Texas arship represented at that hi s institute at Texas Tech lished in October b y t he Tech and the ci t y. " He is meeting. All those prese nt ha s done much to bring University Pre ss of the academ ic Budd y Holly look ed to Ken Ketner and Peirce into the forefront of M i ssissippi. "A Thief of of Lubbock, " she says. to Texa s Tech as major academic inqu i ry, he is Peirce : The Letters of Ketner is proud of hi s lead ers in the Peirce al so plea sed that the Texas Kenneth Lain e Ketner and ro le as adjunct professor in Movement. It was signifiTec h manuscripts are no Wa lker Percy," edited by the Texas Tech School of cant po siti ve exposure for longer one of very few Pa trick H Samway, Nursing, w h ere he teaches our university," Lawless ways to get at Pe i rce. " It i s prom i ses to provide a ri ch a course ca l led Ph i lo soph said. pleasing to survey the con- philosoph ica l perspe ctive ical Issues in Human When h e was an undertinuall y growing number of for better understanding Caring. He believes it is graduate student, Ketner edit ion s of his previously the fiction and non- fiction critical l y important for was convince d his career inaccess i ble work, ba sed of Percy, best known fo r hea l th care professiona ls to would be in electrical upon the steady and per his novel s "T he Movie- ask them se lve s how th e engineering. But by his siste nt work of ca refu l goer," "Lance lot" and care they give affects them senior year he was tir i ng of sc ho l ars ," Ketner writes in "Love in the Ruins. " personally. " You can ' t sus- the many hours of memothe preface to " Pe i rce and Ketner sees his corre- tain a lon g-term career in rization necessary for hi s Contemporary Though t : sponden ce with Percy as a care giving without real l y classes. Philosophical Inqu i ries ." hig hli ght of hi s academic getting to know yourse l f," He decided at the time Edited by Ketner, the vol life and makes compar- he belie ves. that all the memorization ume i nclud es the plenar y isons to the letters and hi s Norton , assistant profes- was impractical , that he lectures of the 19 89 Peirce discu ss ion s with students. sor of nursing and former needed to find a pract ical Congress at Harvard and "My letters to Percy were graduate stu dent who stud profe ssio n to pursue. was pu b li shed th is year b y often jok i ng and fu ll of fun; ied with Ketne r agrees. Ketner says, " I found phiFordham Un i vers ity Press. that puts me i n the ri gh t " H is class he l ps nursing losophy then and came to Ketner is al so the editor frame of mind for real students rea lize what their kno w it as the most practiof one other co ll ection of thought to take place. The beliefs are and how they ca l of all profess ions. After essays about Peirce and sa me is tru e in my class see other people the y care all , each of us has to ask two co ll ections of Peirce's room. When you are hav- for in the co ntext of tho se 'who am I ?' and 'w he re am lectures and writings. H e i s ing a good time, you are beliefs. Confronting your I ?' The st udy of phi losophy cu rrently working on a h av in g a good class ," he own biases is an importa nt allows yo u to answer those b iography of Peirce , fund co nclud es. part of the developmental questions. " ed by the Nationa l Other highlights he process a nurse goes

For hi s student s who si t Endowment for th e point s to as h e approac he s through in order to su stain i n a c ircl e and dis cuss the Humaniti es. his 25t h an niver sary as a a career in care gi ving," wo rl d with him and fo r t h e

Ketner 's quest to uncov facu lty member at Texa s Norton says. " Hi s abid in g hundreds of sc ho l ars er the full significance of Tech include the number interest in nursing, nursing around the world who Peirce 's remarkable inte l of international sc hol ars stud ents and the philo equate hi s name with the lectual cont ribution s also w ho ha ve come to Texas so phi ca l problems inherent stud y of C.S . Peir ce, Ketne r l ed him into a six -yea r cor- Tech to st ud y at the in ca re giv in g have made made a w ise and practica l respondence with noted Institute Two of those, him a signif icant asset to career cho ice. r= Amer ican nove li st and Klaus Oeh ler of Germany the Texa s Te c h Schoo l of scho l ar Wa l ker Percy . I n and Kees Schuy t of The Nursing. " 1984, Ketner discovered Netherlands, stu di ed in Texa s Tech Pre sident Margaret Sheffield Percy's volume of co ll ect- Lubbock as Fu lbright Robert W. Law less, six Luth erer, '77 English, was ed essays, "The Message in Scho l ars. weeks after com ing to the a stu d ent in Ken Ketner 's the Bottle ;" seve ral of the Fran Scott, who com- University, made an offi- first clas s at Texas Tech in essays dea l t with Percy's p leted her do c torate in c ial v i sit to H arvard her senior yea r. She holds fasci nation with Pe i rce's philo sop h y at Texas Tech University to host the inter a Ph.D. in English from theory of langu age. Ketn e r with Ketner and is current national confere nce on Penn State University and wrote to Percy, an d the ly an executive with th e Peirce organized by is dire c tor of the Office of two continued a se rie s of United Way of Lubbock, Ketner. " I was quite News and Publications at honest, i nstructive an d h as I ittle doubt that Ketner impressed w ith the magni Texas Tech.

1995 TEXAS TECH DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

BY WILLIAM KERNS

Thousandsof Texas Tech a lumni proudly display their diplomas and have gone on to make their own indi vidua l marks in l ife. Of those thousands, however, only 111 Te xas Tech-e xes have, to date, been honored with Distingu is hed Alumni Awards. That number will grow to 11 5 when four more successfu l an d influential T ec h graduates- R Guy Ca rter, Tom Craddick, Brigadier General Walter B Huffman and Judy Sims- are officially named Di st in guished A lumni in formal ceremonies in November.

The first Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony was held in 1967. Since then, recipients , who m ust be nominated to be considered, continue to be chosen on the basis of significant co ntributions to society at large either through their lives or the ir profess ions Those contribu tions, in turn , illuminate the distin ction that each has brought to his or her alma mater.

Thi s year's Distinguished Alumni D in ner w ill begin with a reception at 9:30, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. , Friday, Nov 10, in the Merket Alumni Center. A slide show, refl ecting the lives of each award recipient, wi ll be a hi ghlight of the ceremon y.

The four honorees will be introduced to the general publi c when they are asked to walk onto the field at Jones Stadium , either prior to or during half-time, at the Tech vs. TCU game, Nov. 11

Tickets for the reception and dinner, priced at $35 , can be reserved by writing the Texas Tech Ex -Students

Association at P O. Box 4500 1, Lubbo ck, TX 794095001 Those w i shing to make re servat ion s by phone shou ld ca ll (806) 742-3641 and ask for Vicki Helton. The Distinguished A l umni Awards dinner and ceremony are open to all interested persons .

R. GUY CARTER

WhenR. Guy Carter walks onto the fie ld at Jones Stadium as a Distinguished Alumnus, one will have to fo rgive him for feeling jyst a small sense of de ja vu. After all , when the stad i um was originally opened to the public and dedicated , it was one of Carter's duti es, as then president of th e Texas Tech Ex-Students Association, to formally introduce Dr . Cl ifford B. Jo nes, the man for whom the sta d ium is named

Already saluted as an honorary alumnus of the School of Law, Carter was no stranger to small-town li fe while growing up. He was born in 190 7 in Fletcher, Ok l a., and f in ished hi gh sc hool in Grady, N.M. , located about 30

R. Guy Carter

Tom Craddick

Walter B Huffman

Judy Sims

miles north of Clovis. His decision to attend Texas Tech was made on the spur of the moment while driving home from Waco.

As he recalled, " I passed by the Texas Tech campus on the way home and it just impressed me a great deal. "

Carter majo red in government and added that Dr. William Albert jackson , head of the government department, once hired him to serve as a student assistant to grade papers a significant step up from Carter's previous jobs, which included instal ling furniture in University buildings , working in a grocery store and as a night clerk at the Lubbock Sanitarium.

But when Carter received a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago's law school, he felt compe lled to take advantage of the opportunity.

He became a successfu l attorney and, with the law firm of Carte r, Jones, Magee, Rudberg & Mayes in Dallas , specialized in a wide r ange of general c i v il , trial and appellate cases. Yet despite earn in g a diploma from a law sc hool in Chicago , Carter has made a p erso nal donation every year since 1974 to Tech 's School of Law. In 1985, his firm mad e an additional $10,000 contri bution to fund the R. Guy Carter Endowed Scholarship at the law schoo l.

With a $10,000 g ift, h e esta blished , through the ExStudents A ssoc iation , the R. Guy Carter Endowed Scholarship in Political Science. He ha s made substantial fi n ancial g ifts to the Preside nt's Council, and he a lso served as a civic directo r for the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association.

" My favorite memories of my years at Tech," h e re ca ll ed, "are all about the student body. I remember the re a l ways was suc h a friendly attitude on the Texa s Tech ca mpu s. Students would speak to each other. In stru c tor s would speak to students. So I' ve a lwa ys tried to maintain my ties with the University through the years."

Carter and his wife, Phyllis, also a former Tech student, have four daughters: Phyllis Anne , jane, Sara and Pamela.

TOM CRADDICK

TexdS State Representative

Graduated in 1965 with aBBA, and in 1966 with an MBA.

While it's true that many enroll in col lege sti ll seek ing direction , Tom Craddick never fit that description. He was fascinated with politi cs b y age 13 and sought stu

dent body offices whi le at tending junior high and high school. He recal led , "I was living in M id land and sta rted looking around at col leges in the area. I was interested in po l itics, and I wa nted to attend a West Texas sc hool that would give me a chance to meet a lot of peop le from that area."

C raddick always knew what he wanted and he pursued his dream passionate l y.

That said, he was elected a Texas State Representative in 1968. At 25, he was the youngest person serving in that sess ion of the Texas Legislature- but he must have impressed his constituents because he was re-elected in 1970 and every two years since. Most recent l y, he has been serv ing as chair of the House Ways and Means Comm ittee , a member of t he House Calendar Committee and as a member of the State Affairs Committee.

He has served during hi s cu rrent term as a member of both the Legi slative Budget Board and the Legislative Audit Comm i ttee. He was elected by Republican members of the House to cha i r the Republican Legislati ve Caucus.

Cra dd ick was chair of the House Natural Resources Committee for 11 years and the House Energy Resources Committee for 1 5 years.

H e was named one of 10 outstanding Republican legislators in the nation for the year 1984 , a one-time distinction made by the Nat iona l Republican Legislators Association. Texas Business included Craddick on its l ist of best l egis lators; Texas Monthly also included him on its li st this year.

The owner of Craddick Properties and owner and presid ent of C raddick In c., his success never has diluted hi s admiration and appreciat io n for hi s alma mater. " I love Texas Tech. M y son just gradu ated f rom Tech. I remember it being a real fr iendly schoo l. I loved being i n the Saddle Tramps; all the people I met at Tech were great."

Craddi c k cited George Berry from th e finance department as a favorite professor. " He was a person, not just an in stru c tor . In fact, Berry and I ended up in bu siness together after I left Tech." Crad di c k him se l f taugh t in th e finance department in 1966.

Cr ad di ck has displ ayed c ivi c pride an d generosity while servi ng Texas Tech and his home of Midland. He is the past director of the Midland Boys Club and a memb er and past director of both th e Midland Jay cees and Midland Downtown Lio ns Clu b. H e is a member and past president of the Midland chapter of the Ex-Students Association , and a member, former director and past president of the Nat io nal Board of the Ex-Stu den ts Association . He also is a member of the board of direc tors of the Texas Tech University Foundation.

In 1976, the Midland Jaycees gave Craddick their Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to M idl and and the state of Te xas. In 1981, Texas Business Magazine named him one of the 10 best con servative legislators in Texas.

Yet his be in g named a Texas Tech Distinguished Alumnus, he said , "is the highlight of everything 1 have ever acco mpli shed or received. I am ecstatic. This really is someth in g neat. I never thought I' d be named one of the Distinguished Alumni of Tech. "

Craddick and his w i fe , the former Nadine Nayfa ' 69 , have two child ren , Christi Leigh and Thomas Russell Jr.

BRIGADIER GENERAL WALTER B. HUFFMAN

Assigned in the Pentagon as the Assistantjudge Advocate General oftheArmy.

Graduated from Texas Tech in 1967 with a BS degree in physical education; in 1968 with an MEDin physical education; and in 1977 with a]D in general law

"W ith my dad being a Te x as Tech coa c h and my mother a former Tec h fa c ulty member, I was born into a Texas Tech fami l y," recalled Brigadier Genera l Walter B. (Walt) Huffman. " So it was pretty much understood from the beginning that I' d attend Tech. There reall y never was any question about it. "

Even so , Huffman was both surprised and " abso lutely thrilled " at being named one of the 199 5 recipients of Tech ' s Distinguished A lumn i Award. " Being born a Red Raider, " he exp lained from his Washington , D.C. , office, "there can be no higher honor for me. I mean that. "

Huffman has spent his post-graduate years distinguishing himself with oth er honors. After receiving his master' s degree in 1968, h e entered the Army, serv in g as a field artillery officer for si x years- command i ng f i ring battalions in Fort Sill (Ok l a. ) and in Vietnam- and serving as Battalion Operations Officer.

In Vietnam, Huffman was awarded the Bronze Star medal three times and the Vietnam Cross of Ga ll antry with Silver Star.

Upon becoming on e of the few office rs selected b y the Army for the Funded Legal Education program in 1974, he returned to Texas Tec h to attend the School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Te x as Tech La w Review and graduated first in his class ac ade-

mically with highest honors in 1977.

Following graduation , Huffman returned to the Army as a Jud ge Advocate General ' s Corps officer

In that position , he has prosecuted and defended in criminal trials, and has been an associate professor of law at the Judge Advocate General ' s School. He also has been the senior lega l adviser for two commands in Germany, and was deployed from Germany to the Persian Gulf for Desert Storm . After the war, Huffm an and his legal office were responsib le for establishing the first occupatio n law regime since World War II for the fo ll ow up occupation of Southern Iraq.

Subsequently , General H. No rm an Schwartzkopf selected Huffman to be senior legal adviser for U.S Centra l Command, where he la ter developed and implemented the legal rules for the first major U.S . humanitarian intervention in Somalia.

The years that ha v e passed since his graduation from Tech have not dimmed hi s memories of influential professors " I have benefited from the efforts of so many fine instructors , it' s hard to selec t one or two, " he began. " I al ways admired the late Dr. Bob Packard, who wa s a zoology instructor. H e was a great com binati on of an ext reme l y intelligent academician and a caring and very personable person.

" I remember Dr. John Cobb in the health/ physical education department as being a ve r y bright guy , a tale nted man with personal i ty and a zest for life . He related very we l l to the students and made a ll of us want to excel as he had done. "

Huffman cont inu ed , " If I had to pick o nl y one professor from an outstanding group at Tech's law sc hool, it wou ld be Reed Quil li am , who was my mentor then and , in fact, stil l coaches me from time to time. (Quilliam taught at the law school from 1969 to 1994, at whic h t ime he retired.) Professor Quilliam taught us law, but he also made us realize why what he was teaching was important. He taught us the right reasons to practice law and how to go about it. "

In add iti on to his degrees from Texas Tech , Huffman also is an honor graduate of the Judge Advocate Basic and Advanced cou r ses, as well as a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Natio na l War College Aside from his c ombat honors , he has earned the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with one oak leaf cluster and the Meritorious Service Medal w ith three oak leaf clusters. He is a member of the Field Artillery Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame.

Huffman and his wife, the former Anne Robison of Lubboc k, also a Texa s Tec h graduate, have th ree c hil dren They are Tech graduates Burl and Becky, and current Tech student Ross.

JUDY SIMS

CEO and co-founder ofSoftware Spectrum

!udy Odom Sims reca ll s he r yea rs at Texas Tec h as "very mu c h a fun p art of my life ," but ad d ed that she ever rea ll y co nsidered attending other co ll eges. " It was pretty set up," she sai d from her office as c hief executive office r of Software Spectrum in Garland. " My older b roth er Uohnny O dom ) was on athl etic sc holarship on the foot ba ll team at Texas Tec h, so I ' d alread y been around the Tech camp u s a lot.

" W hen the t im e came to go to co ll ege, I knew that was w here I'd go."

She enjoyed the acco unting department, reca ll ing H ersc he l Mann as one of her favorite instructors beca use, " I remember him be ing an extra-energetic profe sso r, one displaying a lot of professionalism. I lea rn ed a lot from him ."

Sims did not immediately declare an accountin g major w hen she enrolled at the University , but ref l ected, " In a way, I still think I w as ve ry foc used No, I wasn ' t sure what I wanted to major in w hen I first ca me tq co l lege. But I was abl e to co n sid er and elimin ate othe r possi b ilit ies. I liked math a lo t, but I asked myse l f, ' What can yo u do with math for a career?' I kn ew I didn ' t want a caree r in ed uca t io n I checke d in to the bus i ness sc hool , and I finally di scovered that acco unting was what I liked ."

It did not take long for Sims to t ake advantage of her education after grad uation. She worked from 1 975 to 1977 as a cert ified public accou ntant for Coopers & Ly brand in D a ll as and from 19 77 to 1985 as one of the first women in the co untry to be nam ed an audit partn er with a nat ion al firm , specifica ll y that of Gra nt Thornton also lo cate d in Dalla s

In 1985, she co-found ed Software Spectrum , w here she c urre ntl y rema in s C EO

Softwa re Spectrum is a lead ing multinat ion al rese ll er of mi c ro- co mputer softwa re, pro vid ing technical se rv ices for a client b ase that includes more th an 300 Fortune 500 co mpanies, as well as small businesses. Sims' f irm was included in Fortune Magazine ' s " Fast 100 " list, In c. Magazine' s " 100 list" an d Bu siness Week's " H ottest of the Hot" li st.

Sim s person all y has been featured in the D allas Morning News, D all as Busines s Journal and Bu sin ess

Week m agaz in e I n May 1992, Working Women maga zi ne c ited her as one of the to p 25 female CEOs in the United States.

The "variety of li fe" she expe ri e nce d during college is a fo nd memory. " I grew up i n Fort Worth ," Sim s said , " and going to Texas Tec h in Lubbock was a lot d iffe re nt. I do thin k it helps to expe rience tha t type of variety, to try out different environments. "

Sim s is a member of the Texas Tech President' s Council and has been involved with such Dallas ci v ic and business organizations as the International Women ' s For um , The Charte r 100 of Dallas, Young Pre sident' s Organization and the Committee of 200.

But being named one of Texas Tec h' s Distinguished Alumni ca ught her b y surprise. " I' m rea ll y excited It's a wo nd erful hon or, " she said. " I' m rea ll y loo kin g forward to being there (fo r the ceremon ies i n November) "

After all , one reason she came to Texas Tec h was because her brother had bee n a Red Rai der football player. She j ust never thou ght that she wo uld be asked to walk on t he field at Jone s Stad ium and ac c ept the applause of te n s of thou sands o f Tech supporters.

" That's go i ng to be fun," Sims said. " I' m just hop in g for a nice, pretty day." r

William Kerns '75 is a f reelan ce writer for the Techsan and entertainment editor for the Lubbock Avala n c hej ournal.

Graduated from Texas Tech in 1974 with aBBA in accounting

Red Raiders Bask In Glory of SWC 'Grand Slam' Championships

BY jOE HORN ADAY / SPORTS INF ORMAT ION DIRECTOR

ob Bockrath h as a bit of a prob lem. It see ms champ ionship troph ies a re being w hee led in so qui c kly that there isn' t adequate space to display them all. But then , th at's the k ind of iss ue th e d irector of athletics at Texas Tech enj oys deali ng w ith.

Trophies arrived in Raiderl and like neve r before during the 1994-95 schoo l yea r No o ne in the Lon e Star State had ever housed So uthwest Co nference cha m p ion shi p h ardware i rom t h e four major sports- footba ll , me n 's b asketb all , women 's basketball and baseball- in the sa me season. No one, that is, until Texas Tec h became known as " H ome of Champion s" on May 13, when Larry Hays' ba se ball team rout ed Bay lor to clinch i ts f irst ever SWC tit le to fina l i ze the four spo rt sweep.

Hays was named the SWC Coac h of the Yea r, as was Sp ik e Dykes i n footb all , j ames Di c key in men ' s basketball and Marsha Sha rp i n wo men 's basketball.

Ent hu siasm fo r the Texas Tech program ha s been pour in g forth ever since. The Dall as Morn i ng News, w hi ch n ormally sl ips more cove rage to the Aggies and Longhorn s, devoted a le ngth y at icle to Tech 's suc cess fu l run of c h ampions hips.

A group of Lubbock bu sin ess people for med th e Committee fo r Cham p io n s to help promote Red Raider at hl etics. Fans packed Red Raider C lu b chapter meetin gs to devour the c hampionship atmosphe re. W est Texas media ca ll ed it a "G rand Slam " year. Pride engulfed

Red Raiders everywhere. It was ha rd to tell the di ffere nce between the Guns Up and No. 1 signs.

How cou ld thi s thunderstorm of success sudd en l y h ave happened a ll at once? Let's tak e a look at eac h sport an d w hat effect the c h amp ion ship had.

Football

Spike Dykes wandered into the spo r ts information office during twoa-day practi ces in Augu st 1994 with a sm ile on his fac e. Now, Sp ik e leans heavily toward the opti m istic sid e, but this Spike Dykes da y was unus u al.

" Don't bet aga in st us w inn i ng," D ykes sa id with a sl y smile. "There 's somet hin g spec i al about this team. "

W ith no estab li shed q uarterback

o r p roven receivers , with the top two defen sive t ack les academica lly inelig ibl e and a sc hedu le that i ncluded Nebraska and Oklahoma, th e bystander thought perhaps D yk es had been o ut in th e su n too long.

What D y kes saw so ea rl y was a combinat io n of talent and to ge th erness that sometimes turn out c h ampionships The ability to lea rn , to boun ce b ac k and produce big plays in key situatio n s were instrumenta l e lements in the ti t le run. A fo u r-game late-season w innin g streak was hi gh l ighted by rousi ng victor ies over Baylor (3 8- 7) and Texas (33-9).

TCU dampened Tec h' s season when it upset the Red Raiders in t he seaso n f in ale to throw th e c h ampio nsh ip into a fiv e-way tie. Perhaps i t wo uld have been bette r if Tech had h ad its back to the wall as it seemed to ha ve all seaso n

The impo rtance of the c h amp i o n ship beco mes magnified whe n one considers it was on l y the second time in 35 SWC ca mpaigns in w h ich Texas Tec h came out o n top. What

followed was a run on Cotton Bowl tickets the likes never seen before. While the Red Raiders suffered a lopsided loss , the events in Dallas leading up to the game were flooded with Red Raiders showing their colors. Every luncheon , every pep rally and just about every Cotton Bow l Stadium seat were filled with joyous rooters. It united the sc hool in a cause rarely seen before.

Men's Basketball

james Dickey knew he h ad a talented group of players gathered for his fourth season as head coac h Unfortunately for Texas Tech , man y others knew it , too.

"We are having

the hardest time finalizing our schedule," Dickey said during the summer

of 19 94. " A lot of Division I schoo l s do not want to come into Lubbock to play us."

Folks like Kentucky, Temple and Arizona were interested in playing Texas Tech but wanted eve ry opportunity to win. So Tech played a much tougher road schedule than at home and that transpired in a number of non-conferen ce defeats. And those defeats probably were the telling blow in keeping the Red Raiders out of the NCAA Tournament.

However, those games did prepare Tech well for the conference race.

Not only did Dickey's team get on a roll (it didn't lose at home all year), but it won in NBA-type style. Running with a theme of " Rock the House," Tech averaged almost 89 points a game seventh most in the country with a high-octane brand of ball that left opponents gasping for air at the end.

The net result was a late-season nin e-ga me winning streak (including a 94-87 thriller over Texas) that clinched a tie for the SWC crown . Lightning struck twice when TCU let Texas share the title by defeating Tech in the season finale in Fort Worth 108-106.

The SWC PostSeason Classic c hampionship narrowly eluded Tech when it lost in the championship game to the 'Horns 107 104. A loss in the first round of the National Invitation Tourn am ent quickly ended the season

It did little, though , to quell the task of winning the school ' s first men's basketball c hampionship in 10 years with a style of play plea sing to the eye.

Women's Basketball

O ne of the best things to happen to Marsha Sharp' s Lady Raiders came about before the 1994 regu lar-seaso n eve r started. It was the first-ever Women 's National In vitatio n Tourn ament, and a

runner up showing helped get the kinks out early and springboard Tec h to its fourth co nsecutive league championship.

"That tournament was a postive factor in our seaso n," Sharp said. " We got a cha nce early to pinpoint are as we needed to work on. "

Sharp put the program on the national m ap by w innin g it all in 1993 and since then has maintained a high degree of visibility with Sweet

James Dickey

Marsha Sharp

16 and Elite 8 finishes. To show how well-oiled the Lady Raider machine was in 1995, the team lost its top player (Connie Robinson) with a knee injury for the second half of the SWC race and still ran away and hid from the opposition by a four-game margin.

At home , fan s expected the best and got it. The Lady Raiders won 1 7 of 18 contests in Lubbock and wound up fourth national l y in ave rage attendance, packing over 7,400 people into the co li seum for each co ntest. The most unbelievab le affair was an 84-40 shel lacking of Texas in front of a packed house.

It was more of the same i n the SWC Post-Season Tournament whe re no one cou ld get as clo se as 20 points of Tech. AP ranked the Lady Raiders at No. 5 in its final regularseaso n poll, a designation that is becoming routine among Marsha Sha rp-coac hed teams.

"We might be pretty good," Hays had sa id before the season. "But then everybody e lse will be, too. "

But not good enough to stay with Tech Head s turned during the nonconference slate when the Raiders registered wins over nationally ranked Arizona State, Ok l ahoma and Wichita State Li vi ng up to the theme " Running Down a Dream, " Tech won the regular-seaso n series aga inst Texas for th e third strai ght year and defeated Texas A&M four times in College Station. The last win over the Aggies was for the cham pionship of the SWC Post-Seaso n Tournament, thus sec urin g Tech 's first post-season appearance eve r. A four-game sweep of Baylor to end the regular season secured th e champio nship

No team in co ll ege baseba ll had an attack like Texas Tech's. The Raiders led the nati on in team batting ave rag e with a .344 and were second in scoring with over nin e runs per outing. Texas gave up a school reco rd 26 runs in one of the losses to Tech .

The best thing about the c hampionship was that Ha ys proved good guys can finish first!

he long-su ffe ring Tec h fans, who have doggedly stayed with the programs throughout the 35-year era of Southwest Conference mem bership, were able to enjoy the "fou r-pe at" first hand. In the four major sports , Texas Tech was nearly invincible at home. In 69 contests played in Lubbock, Raider fans enjoyed victories an amazing 64 times. No other school in the country realized that kind of success in the four major sports at home.

BaseballFor years, baseba ll at Texas Tech was not given much priority. But T. Jones c h anged that by hiring Larry Hays and sinking funds into Larry Hays the pro gram. Bob Boc krath kept the ball ro lling, even when th e NCAA sa id Tec h 's sched ule was a negative factor as far as receiv in g a post season bid.

Hays showed his c haracter by meeting the NCAA demands this sp rin g. H e beefed up hi s schedule and proceeded to beat the daylight s out of ju st about eve rybody. Somebody had to pay for t he two past N CAA misdeeds, and it happened to be a sc hoo l-record 51 foes. Wonder how many red faces th e re were in Overland Park, Kan (NCAA's home), when Te c h ca me within two runs of re aching the Co llege World Series?

To make matters even sweeter, victories were achieved with high profile West Texas products. Pampa ' s Zach Thomas was a first team All-America linebacker and the SWC's Defensive Player of the Year. Lubboc k Estacada's Zebbie Lethr idge was the SWC's Newcomer of the Year. Hale Center' s Koy Smith was a key e leme nt in Coach Dickey' s perimeter game. Loraine' s Michi Atkins was the SWC's Player of the Year and th e SWC's Fema l e Ath lete of the Year. Lubbock Monterey ' s Clint Bryant was a first-team AllAm erica choice and a first-team GTE Academic All-America selection. There were many others, as we ll.

A new y ear is upon us now. New memories lay just ahead. It always will be fun , though , to look back and remember "The Grand Slam " year and what it did fo r Texas Te c h ' s image. Trophy cases don ' t li e . F

RAIDER RED GOES BRONZE

Saddle Tramps work to create an endowment for Raider Red.

BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON

This fall , Raid e r Red will be inviting the crowds at Jones Stadium, and those Homesick Techsans everywhere, to join him in celebrating his 25th anniversary as Tech 's " other" mascot.

To commemorate his quarter-century of service to Texas Tech , the Saddle Tramps have commissioned the creation of a Raider Red statue. Th e cooperation of several key individuals has made possible a beautiful replica of Dirk West' s famous cartoon figure, sculpted by Lamesa artist Terrell O ' Brien , who may be recognized for his statues at the Ronald M c Donald House nea r the University Medical Center and at Methodist Hospital.

Jerry House of House Bronze in Lubboc k, who has worked with O'Brien on several of hi s sculptures, has agreed to cast the 15 in ch b y 11 i nch maquettes of solid bronze at a special price for this fund-raising project.

A limited number of 200 statues will be produced , signed and numbered by the artist, and sold for a minimum donation of $1 , 500 per maquette Actual cost to the Saddle Tramps is $800 , so purchasers may take a tax deduction for a $700 donation

Proceeds from the sale will help with Raider Red 's promotion of spirit on behalf of Te xas Tech, according to Saddle Tramps president Chad Tompkins, a junior civil engineering major from Andrews An endowment

will be established to provide funds for Red ' s costume maintenan ce and replacement, travel expenses, lodging during out-of-town games, and props.

With only 200 available, the Tramps' marketing plan was to offer the maquettes first to Saddle Tramp alumni; next, and currently, to Techexes who receive this maga z ine From there, members will approach businesses and interested Tech fans.

Creation of an endowment is c ritical to the future of Raider Red. Currently , the mascot ' s head is so worn that it's being held together by twist ties , according to Saddle Tramps adviser Dan Burns, and his costume overall is sorely in n eed of replacement. If enough of the maquettes can be sold to create an

endowment, the Tramp s h ave another project to tackle.

"O ur goal after creating the endowment is to place a 12 foot statue of Raider Red on the Tech campus," sai d Scott Collier, a senior business management major from Lubbock and former Tramp president.

" The fund-raising project has input from not just the current Saddle Tramps, but also from a group of business leaders and advisers who believe the statue should be a lasting part of the Texa s Tech campus. "

The proposed statue is a bigger-than-life version of the maquette. " Both have the support of Lubboc k professional cartoo nist Dirk West, creator of

Raider Red. He's 100 per cen t behind this project," said Albert Castillo, a senior arc hitecture major from San Angelo.

" Th e sta tue will be a gift from the Saddle Tramps to Texas Tec h," Castillo added. " It's probably the largest project the Tramps have been involved in since the fund drive for c reation of t he Tech Seal and fount ain at Broadway and Un ive r sity about 25 years ago. "

The statue idea began under the pre sidenc y of Greg Collier and was passed on to other presidents and officers, including Collier's younger brother, Scott, and Castillo, who kept the momentum going. One former Tramp preside nt, Paul Williams ' 94 of Lubbock, is still acti ve ly working on the fund drive to build the

The Raider Red statue was designed by artist Terrell O'Brien and cast at House Bronze in Lubbock (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

endowment and statue.

" There's a saying that th e more you give, the more you receive. It's fantastic how much comes back when you work hard on a worthwhile project," he said. " I see this as an investment in ourselves."

The idea to bring Raider Red to life came to former Saddle Tramp Jim Gaspard 25 football seasons ago after the Southwest Conference adopted a rule limiting the use of live animal mascots at away games.

Over the years, Raider Red has grown in popularity with Tech fans and children, evidenced by the large number of pub I ic appearances he is annually invited to make He shows up at Tech games and tournaments , parades, elementary schools, area carnivals, Raider Alley, freshmen send-offs as far away as Houston , and at other special eve nts in and around the state. Although many of these functions are fund-raisers, Raider Red makes no money- he takes part voluntarily.

The young men who wear the Raider Red costume each semester are always Saddle Tramps. They accept, along with the honor of being Raider Red, the bulk of his expenses, usually about $3,000, according to present and past Reds , who have opened their own pockets

on his behalf

Th e Saddle Tramps have an account to defray some of Raider Red's travel expenses, and every decade or so Red gets a new costume. That is about all the organization can provide currently.

funds for a lasting monument to the mascot's service at Texas Tech.

At the base of that monument will be a plaque tell ing a brief h istory of the mascot, giving the involvement of Dirk West and listing the n ames of all 48 of the Saddle Tramps who have served, and those who will serve in the future , as Raider Red.

In furthe r recognition of the mascot's 25th anniversary, Red will p resent the game ball at every home football contest this fall. He will have with him some very spec ia l guests , adding their congratulations to Red on his service to Texa s Tech.

Among the special guests who w ill join Red on the field Nov. 11 will be former Raider Reds, who will be recognized during the Tech vs. TCU game at Jones Stadium. Red will also be a part of specia l Arch Lamb Day ceremonies Oct. 7 during the Saddle Tramps' reunion.

"Mr. Gaspard's idea and hard work have paid off in 25 years of promot ing school spirit for Texas Tech and Red Ra ider athletics," Tompkins said That' s where Raider Red 's anniversary celebration comes in. The creation of an endowment would take care of expenses plus, if enough money is collected, provide

"Ra ider Red has established himse lf as a central part of Tech tradition."

Saddle Tramp members discuss their marketing strategy for selling the Raider Red maquettes. From left are Chad Tompkins, Albert Castillo and Scott Collier. {Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Masked Rider Tradition Makes a Return to the Past

The Masked Rider, with reins in teeth and both "guns up," riding hell-bent for leather down the sidelines at Tech football games, became one of the most impressive university mascots in the nation.

BY DANA NEAL AND MARSHA GUSTAFSON

In 1936 several Tech students ca ll ed "G host Riders" were the beginning of Tech 's most dramatic sc hoo l tradition No o ne kn ew the iden t ity of the horseme n Th ey just took the i r turns , u nexpected ly showing up before home football ga mes, wearing a scarlet satin c ape and circling the fie ld at brea k neck speed, the n va ni shi ng from the stadium.

These riders left behind them a n aura of mystery and the Te xas Tec h c rowd wondering, "Wh o was that m asked m an?"

The tradition officially t ook hold nearly two d ecades later after j oe Kirk Fulton , wea rin g Lev i 's, red and black cape and a black cowboy hat, led the Red Raider s onto the field for the Gator Bowl on jan 1, 1954, r idin g a horse named Blackie.

Nearly anoth er two decades passed when , in 1975, the m an behind th e mask was joe Kim King '76 of Brady , the 14th M asked Rider to circl e th e fie ld in celebration of Tech touchdowns King was the fi rst person to obtain the m as

cot position th rough a committee that form ul ated an app li ca tion , intervi ew and riding process. Selection is now conducted th roug h th e Office of Student O rga niza tion Services

" Before 1975, the mascot was appo inted by the head of th e anim al science department," said King, who gained "connect ion s" to the positio n, he ad ded , by being i n c harge of the horse barn. th at yea r at

Th at committee had narrowed se lections down to five app li ca nts, all of w hom had to ride for t he selection committee. King, an animal scie nce m aj or, re ce ived the nod and accepted the reins in April of 1975 f rom th e first female rider, A nn e Lync h .

Afte r many hou rs of training in the stad ium w ith the horse, Happ y V , King said he remembered being anxio u s to make his d eb ut.

" Th e first football ga me of the seaso n was goi ng to be the most exciting moment of my Masked Rider experience," he said, "a nd it ra in ed that day. I had to be more careful

tha n normal , but eve rythin g turned out fine , and it reall y was an excit ing day for me. " King in red cape a nd black hat made many appearances

publi c functions as the officia l symbo l of Texas Tec h . A highlight for him was represe nti n g the Un iversity at the rodeo. " I really liked post ing the colors at the ABC Rodeo," he sa id H e and another horsema n rode side-by side in a g rand entrance before the rodeo displayin g the Texas and Am e rica n flags .

There were lot s of great experiences assoc iated with being the Masked Ri de r, he sa id , bu t al so o ne ve ry bad one It occurred on the way to the Texas football ga me in Austi n when King stopped in Brad y for a ni ght. Someone c rept in to the barn where

he had st ab led H appy V and spl atte red the ho rse w ith ora n ge, o il-b ased paint.

" It rea ll y bothered me," King said. " It was done by loca l peop le who were Texas fans. "

Now, 20 years l at er, he i s st i ll very in volved w ith the Masked Rid er program . H e was a member of the committee that se lected the late ho rse , Double-T.

" The horses we had to choose from were limited at the tim e Double-T was chosen ," he said The· 4yea r-ol d Quarter ho rse died at t he begi nning of the 1994 footba ll seaso n.

" Th e d eath of Double-T,

King is president of the Brady National Bank.

even though it was tragi c, has brought abo ut two good things In terest in the Masked Rider prog ram has blossomed , and th e selec tion of donated hor ses from w h ic h to choose has increased

"A bout th e best trait you can have in a ho r se like the one needed for th e Masked Rider is calmness, " Kin g sa id The se lec tion comm ittee feels confide nt that the horse they have now is a good one.

Named High Red , t he new mount is a 9-year-o ld Q uarte r horse, bred at Phill ip s Ran ch i n Frisco. It had served in the Dall as Black H orse Patrol and wa s purc hased from Craig Pelt by the Tech H ea lth Scie nces Cente r Th e Dallas Black H orse Patrol is a showy drill team of horses that performs i n parades an d around c rowds For the past two yea rs, Hi gh Red h as been used fo r t ea m rop in g and other ran c h work.

King be li eves the horse inc ident of 1994 was a freak accident. "As far as

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Former Masked Rider Joe ((Kim n King

Amy Smart goes, t h ere is not a lot you ca n do when the saddle starts sli pp in g," he said. H e also be li eves that the horse selection co mmittee "must be object ive, but be co mpo sed of k nowle dgeab le people with good horse sense."

The M asked Rider, h e sa id , should have "t he abi l ity to ride a horse throug h rattlesn akes or rocks at breakneck speed."

Thi s yea r, fans ofTech foot ball w ill see a modification of the horse and rid er tradition and a ret urn to the past. Committee members have revi sed the path th e Masked Rider wi ll take. Instead of running down t he west sid e l i nes

w ith eac h touchdown or extra point, sta rtin g t hi s year, the ri der wi ll lead the team onto t he playing surface at the beginning of each home game, mu c h l ike th e firs t ride of joe Kirk Fulton 40 years ago. There wi ll be no side lin e runs. " I'm happy they ' re going to keep the tradition in some form," King sa id . The fo r m er Tech mascot is a co ntributor to the Masked Rider Endowment Fund , whic h h as a goa l of $250,000, and feels t he trad itio n is a very important one for the University to h o ld o nto to.

Texas Tec h has pla yed an important role i n the King family, with severa l members serving on Tech boards and comm ittees.

Hi s sister, Diane King Scove ll '68, a Dist ingui sh ed Alumna of the College of Human Sciences, was a twi rl er at Tech and marr ied fo rm er Red Raider quarterback john Scove ll of Dallas. j ohn was th e top acco untin g grad u ate in 1968 and is a Distinguished Alu mnu s of the University. Kim 's nep hew, Fie ld Scove ll , i s #87, sp lit end for the Red Raiders. Kim ' s mother is also a Tec h -ex.

King met hi s w i fe, Robin , in hi s m at h cla ss wh il e at Tech. He graduat ed in May 1976 and the coup le was m arr i ed o n Jun e 19. King ea rn ed hi s master's degree in agriculture from Texas A&M

At t he age of 31, he beca me presid ent of First National Bank of Lockney. That was fo ll owed by a position as exec utive vice president, th en presi dent, of First Nationa l Bank in Plainview. In january 1994, t h e Kings and t heir three so ns, Riley, Brantley and Montie, moved back home where Kim run s the family ranch and is president of Brady National Bank.

King said hi s expe ri ence as a Masked Rider has been helpful i n his li fe " It gave me a lot of se l f-confiden ce in dealing with people, which is a natural part of th e co ll ege learning experience. Yo u don't get grades for it , but it makes a big d iffe rence in your suc cess in life."

The Masked Rider should have th e ability to ride a horse through rattlesnakes or rocks at breakneck speed.

King (right) and one of his sons attend a recent Ag Homecoming Breakfast and talk with Dean Sam Curl and Pete Laney (center) (Photo by Bill Gustafson)

IN ADIFFERENT LEAGUE NOW

Red Raider Club prepares for greater challenges when Texas Tech officially joins the Big 12 Conference a year from now.

BY WILLIAM KERNS

The Red Raider Club , which merged with the Texas Tech Athletic Department in September 1994, has for 66 years been a service-oriented organization with the purpose of raising funds to support Texas Tech ath letics. It has, however, made huge strides over the past decade and is readying for even greater cha ll enges w hen Texas Tech officia ll y joins the Big 12 Conference in the fa ll of 1996.

Steve W. Locke, formerly executive director of the Red Raider Club and given the title of senior associate athletic director by Texas Tech Athletic Director Bob Bockrath, was willing to reveal figures.

" In terms of fund raising , we have enjoyed nine reco rd -breaking fund drives in a row at the Red Raider Club," he said during an interview at his office, which is filled with Texas Tech so u ve nirs and paraphernalia.

"The Red Raider Club was formed in 1929 as the Matador Club , an externa l-au xiliary organization designed to raise money for Tech ath letics In fiscal year 1989 , the

Red Raider Club rai sed $1 mi lli on from donors for the very first time.

" Thi s year (1995), t he Red Raider Club was able to rai se $1 million just during an eight-week fund-raising drive. We will be around $2 million for the entire year. Our m oney is at an all-time high , but we ' ve sti ll got a ways to go. "

Locke continued , " Bi ll Dean (CEO of the Te xas Tech Ex-Students

ever have before. At th e sa me time, we're not yet at the level of a University of Nebraska, a University of Florida, a Florida State University : schoo ls that put 75 , 000 people in the football stands every Saturday a nd 15 , 000 in their arenas for each basketba ll game.

" Th at's where I think the merger with the Big 12 will help. We ' re very co mpetitive on the fie ld and court now. But it is nice to help ra i se the athletic depa rtment's budget. I think it' s going to be fun to see what kind of resu Its we wi II have once we're able to take the field and play with th e same amount of resources already enjoyed by many other schoo ls in the Big 12 ."

As a historical reference, Locke points to another university as an example of one benefiting from a conference change The University of Arizona increased its donations from booster clubs and

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Steve Locke

also dramatically improved its renewals. In stead of 16 to 18 organinationa l at hleti c status, he said , zat ions wanting to take part in Raider when it made the switch from the Alley, we've already sign ed close to Western Athletic 40 The change was Conference (WAC) to the good and the benefits PAC 10 .-

for the athletic pro-

" lt's not that there were gram have been not good schools in the _ ..., tremendous." WAC. It's just that PAC 10 mem- • Locke indicated that two probers Washington , UCLA and USC 'I jects have priority at this point at were considered more e lite. Now 'th e Red Raider C lub Th e physical the University of Arizona has to be move of several offices from the curconsidered one of the top five athlet- rent Red Raider Club, lo cated on ic programs overall in the country, I Sixth Street on the east sid e of believe. University Avenue , across

"A nd our move from the the street to the Athletic Southwest Conference to the Big 12 Department probably will -with the help of Mr. Bockrath , our be a two to-four-year proboard, vo lunteers, fans and the ject. Committee for Champions- co uld Much more important, he have the same sort of impact. " said, is the final impl ementation

Bockrath wholeheartedly con- of what he termed a " priority point c urred with the Un iversity of Arizona system" before Texas Tec h kicks off analogy. "Steve is right on target its first Big 12 football season. there," said Tech's ath letic director. The merger of the athleti c depart" ! don't want to belittle any other ment and the Red Raider C lub , and schoo ls, but the rea l fact is that when both now being linked with the you align yourse lf with presti gious Sports Information institutions, certa in expectations Department and Texas are associated with that k ind Tech Ticket Office on of a move. I think that fan s the same compu te r also tend to puff up when base frame, will help you join a very respected brin g that about. conference, which

The "p ri ority point sysmeans the teams have to tern " eventually will be ti ed step up. not to ticket sa les and option

"We're in a different league now programs through the ath letic and that applies to our teams, our department, nor to donations to th e coaches and also to our donors." Red Raider C lub. Instead, this point

In troduc ing change is no easy system eventually will reflect a comass ignment and, after ref lecting, bination of all three Bockrath has concluded that Tex ans, With a point system in place, including Texas Tech fa ns, may be Texas Tec h fans can be c redited more skeptical of change than those for their support of the University in other regions. "So we've been in a variet y of ways. This point cha ll enged to overcome tha t ske pti system, said Locke, not only wi ll cism , to make people understand help elimin ate lon g lines that we're not changing for the sake to buy tickets for chamof c hange, b ut rathe r to improve our pionship and bowl program. We' re trying to educate games, but wi ll establish people to tha t principal. " a priority system for ticket avai labili

Bockrath continued, "A good ty. examp l e is all that negative ta lk "A ll we have to do is finish devis about Raider A ll ey l ast year. But ing the formu l a to be used ," he said. guess where we stand in terms of But Locke added, "C han ge really

does scare some people, and we plan to approach that. When our ' priority point system' is finalized, we will produce an elaborate brochure explaining everything from top to bottom. You know, when the option program was first implemented, that also sca red some people. Now everyone seems comfortab le with it. But a point system is quite simply the most fair and equitable way to handle the athletic program.

" I also have heard a few people say that it sounds like they'll be kicked out of their seats or lose the season tickets that have been in the family for generations.

Those are unfounded fea rs That's simply just not going to happen. At Texas Tech , we're st ill working to get more people into the seats. We want more people attendin g each game. We ' re certain ly not going to be taking seats away from the people who have been support ing Texa s Tech. "

This " priority point system, " Locke added, has been dis c ussed in one form or another for the past 15 years. The concep t is not at all new to Division 1 univers ities

Yet Locke , who took over the reigns of the Red Raider C lub in 1987 after being a Dallas field representative for th e club since 1981, has managed to keep the organization fisca ll y viab le even without the benefits of a point system. He c ited several reasons.

" We have a great board , we have had terrific cooperation from the athleti c department a nd we stress that we are a service organization. The staff here at the Red Raider Club treats Locke said.

peop le like go ld. We are here for our donors, to help them in any way possible ,"

" We' ve tried to in crease our number of fu nctions i n town. We've hosted more receptions , more golf tournaments, more trips to out-of-town

gam es . W e' ve tri ed to remain v isi b le and , more important, make o ur do nors fee l spec i al. "

V is ib i lity in creased b y leap s and bound s with th e Red Raid e r C lub's move to its own bu i ldin g ac ross from the ca mpu s on Uni ve rsity Av enu e .

" In 1987 , t he Red Ra ider C lub w as o ffi ced on th e sixth fl o or of a downtow n bank," Lo cke ex pl a in ed " W e had to bu y t i me f rom th e ba nk co mputer ; w e w ere still kee ping so me do no r reco rd s o n ind ex ca rd s. Wh e n we w e re abl e to bu y th e pro per (c ompute r) softwa re, th at he lped us w ith ret enti o n of d o n o rs. But w hil e w e w e re at th e bank, th e re was no traf fi c, no ex pos ure.

" The onl y person o utsid e o f staff that w e saw eve ry d ay was t he postm an brin gin g th e ma il. "

The move t o th e Red Raid er Club ' s c urre nt l ocat io n in c reased street traffic and v isib ili ty. M o re peopl e w o uld wa l k in ju st t o v isit or b u y souvenirs at t he clu b's gift sho p M any f ans w o uld dro p b y to v i sit or w atc h footb all ga mes o n a big sc ree n TV before w alking ove r to Jo nes Stadium to see th e Red Rai ders p lay on Sat u rdays

The gift sho p wa s close d this year and c urrent l y is 0 be ing remod el ed to pro vid e sp ace for new o ffi ces. A new Red Raide r Club reg io na l development directo r, workin g an area from Midland-Odessa no rth to

Pl ainv iew, and f ro m Ab il ene wes t to Hob bs , N .M. , w ill b e hired. Jess Stil es, in c harge o f th e car and bee f coach p ro grams, and m ark et ing di recto r Je nnife r Ortega will move th eir off ices from Jo nes Stadium o n ca mpu s to th e Red Raid er C lub ' s buildin g . O rtega a lso w ill hire an ass ista nt, Loc k e sa id

Steve Locke

li v in g, say, m ore th an 200 miles away, th ese Tech supporters m ay o nl y see a p aragra ph in t heir loca l newspaper abou t a Texas Tec h gam e o r may be n othin g m o re th an a fin al sco re

" Red Ra ide r Spo rts now w ill he lp kee p th em inform ed. "

" W e've add ed t wo spo rts, but no ph ys ica l fac ili ties, " Boc krath said " Jes s and Jenn ife r we re natura ls to wo rk in cl ose r p rox imit y w ith Steve a nd , rea ll y, t he Red Raid er C lub offi ce is an ath leti c d ep artm ent ann ex ac ross the street fro m Jo nes Stadiu m."

Boc krath po in te d o ut th at sta ff has bee n

Suppo rt of Texas Tec h athl eti c s rem ai ns th e Red Rai d er C lu b ' s foc us. " I don ' t kno w o f m any peo pl e w ho t hi nk th at all o f th e shufflin g is com pl ete ly ove r, " Locke said . "We' re mov in g t o th e Bi g 12 ri g ht now. Bu t wh o k nows? Maybe yea rs d ow n th e lin e, so me supe r co nfer e nce w i II be fo rm ed and lead to an NCAA champ ionship ga m e. I k no w I d o n' t ever w a nt u s to get to th e po int w he re Texas Tec h w a nts to go so mew he re and is not inv ited in crease d " W e' ve add ed " It sounds like a cl i che, bu t I do n' t an eve n ts manage r, a n ass is- wa nt to lose eve n o ne me mber of th e tan t eve nts m anage r, a com- Red Ra id er C lub W e w ork ve ry hard puter coordin at o r, two mo re to e nco urage d o nati ons, to i nc rease tra in ers and seve ra l oth er suppo rt o ur mem be rship Re tenti o n is v ital staff positi ons. W e've add ed qu ite a before rea l g ro wt h ca n occ ur T o few peop le actua ll y, but th en accom pli sh t hat , we have to we've bee n sore ly unde r

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continu e to m ake all Red staffed fo r a long tim e. " Raid er C lub me mbers f ee l

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like th ey are an impo rtant m ain p l ace w here we've part of th e athl eti c prog ram been lac kin g has been in -w hi ch t hey are. " r puttin g o ut o ur news l ette r Bu t

I think th e d ebut of Red Ra ider Spo rts, w hi c h actuall y is

Umo re o f a sports news pape r, will fill th at need thi s fall. W e have Red Ra id er C lub me mbe rs in every st ate in t he Uni te d States a nd al so in seve ral fo re ign co untri es. However, for th ose

W i lliam Kern s '75 i s a fre el a nce writer f or th e Texas Tec hsan a nd ente rtainm ent edito r for th e Lubbock Ava lan c h e-j o urna l

"At Texas Tech, we're still working to get more people into the seats. We want more people attending each game. We're certainly not going to be taking seats away from the people who have been supporting Texas Tech."

BY WALT MCALEXANDER

ASSISTANT SPORTS INF ORMATI ON DIRECTOR

TEXAS TECH SOCCER OUTLOOK

With a stronger sthedule and quitk fans tan exped an exdting season

Th e second time aro und shou l d be a l ittle easier on Coach Diane Nic hols and her Soccer Raide rs. O h , it may be hard to dupli cate that 9-5-1 re cord of their inau gu ra l yea r, but th e first -and l ast- Southwest Conference season will add some spice to th e race.

Nicho l s was a l ittl e surprised with last yea r 's record , since Tech was a brand new sport a nd got a l ate star t. Her Raiders ave r aged 523 fans fo r seven home matches and Tech posted a 5 -1-1 home mark.

"A dmittedly , we didn 't h ave t he toughest schedu l e, but I think we'l l be bette r t his yea r. By the same token, we've got a much stron ger schedul e. We have 1 7 Divi sion I schoo l s (out o f 19 games leading up to th e SWC Tournament)."

N i chols i s ready. Sh e has n in e returnees w h o started at least one match l ast yea r, plu s some stro ng new recru its

" Thi s is rea ll y the fir st time we've had the opportu n ity to recruit," sai d Nicho l s, a Tech graduate who made a name fo r he rself as Lubbock H igh's soccer coach.

ap ples I think you' ll see a quicke r ga me. We recruit e d p l ayers with more speed. We ' l l be a little more so und tactical l y a n d should be a better team. "

Ni c h o l s r ec r ui ted two junior college p l ay ers (sop homores midfielde r/fo rward Va nessa Balderrama and goa lkeepe r Beck y We nd t) and e i ght high school ers, to go along with the eight l ette r- winners.

Among the returner s a re midf ie lder s Kri sti Patte r son and Ran ey Terre ll , who both started al l 1 5 matc hes Patt erson led the team in scor in g w i th 9 goa l s and 9 assis ts for 2 7 points.

Midfie ld er Julie C l e-

ment and forward H ea-

" This year we' ll b e talkin g app les and ther St r eet m an had 1 2 and 10 poin t s, respectively. T wo of t he four goalies are

back , but Wen dt is expected to b eat out Stepha ni e Carte r and Cind y Frost for starting honors.

" I th in k we' ll make better decisions on t he fi el d t his year," N i cho l s said. "We h ad a summer worko u t program and players reported i n Aug u st much mo re physically fit. "

She said there was mu ch i m p ro vement over the spring. "To have seen us i n A pri l and remember what we looked like l ast A u gu st, there was a b ig, b ig imp rove ment. Pl ayers like Julie Clement an d Lauri Perry rea ll y improved.

"K ri sti Patterson was our MVP and she ju st con t in u es to get bette r Ove r al l, they 've all gotten better."

Senior defender Vicki Laure/son (Photo by Jim Cawthon)

The Zach Attack Is Back

No exaggerating - Zach Thomas is the most talked-about middle linebacker in the Southwest Conference.

BY j ASON ARC H INAL

Thomas

Sept.

3, 1994, at j ones Stadium in Lubbock. The first home game of the year for the Texas Tech 's Red Raiders as they faced the University of New Mexico Lobos. Coac hes were fu ll of high hopes and fa n s were biti ng their nails as the you n g team took the f iel d The offense sputtered from the get-go with freshmen Zebb ie Leth r idge and Tony Darden alternating at quarterback. Spotting the Lobos' 17 points , t he Raiders went in at halft im e down 1 7-9.

The Lobos' first offensive p lay of the third quarter was i ntercepted by Zach Thomas fo r a 35-yard touc h down. The extra point was good, and the Raiders never trailed again on the way to a 35-31 victo ry.

A long the way , afte r such a h ig h

sco r ing game, some people fo rgot what cha nged the momentum Tech's way. It was a 6-foot, 230-pound mid dle l inebacker f rom Pampa. Th omas stepped up as a team cap tain and took contro l Others were not getting the job done, so he decided to make someth i ng happen.

"Zac h is a strong capta i n and a great leader," said John Goodner, defensive coordinator and inside l inebackers coac h. " If he didn ' t say a word, his actions on the field wou ld make peop le want to follow h im."

H e is not sh y. Thomas has no prob lem be in g voca l to encou rage t he team. He wi ll lead through h is act ions Thomas wants to be the diffe rence.

" I p lay all-out every play," he sa id . " The coaches don ' t wa nt any less I want to make p lays to he l p the team I' m not as fast as some of those guys out there, so I have to work on other things to get ' me' into the play. "

And boy, does he work!

This summer, he stayed in Lubbock, not to p lay golf and lay in

the su n getting a ta n. He stayed so he could work out five hours a day, six days a week. Five hours of lifting weights , doing footwork drills, running sprints, stretc hing, defending re ceive rs and watching video. All because thi s 1994 All-American feels he can improve to be a better player and leader fo r the Red Raide rs in ' 95.

" I'm in the best shape I've ever been i n. These five-hour workouts have done nothing but good fo r me," Thomas sai d, and tha t translates to being good for his team.

His third yea r in a row to be a ca ptain , it's an honor given to Thomas th ro ugh a vote by his peers. He leads by example. When others see him go the extra mile, it motivates them to do the same.

" I' m proud of our team. We ' re like brothers, especially the defense.

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Zach Thomas

Most of us have been here since we were freshmen. As a team , I don't feel like we have to play above our head s," he said " All we ha ve to do is play consistent and we will be su ccessful."

"Co nsistent," now there is a oneword description of Thomas. "Zach is cons istent," Goodner said. " He has natural instincts and a nose for the ball. Zach is a great competitor w hose work ethic will give him a good chance to play in the NFL."

Thomas responded "Coach Goodner is the best coach I've ever had. He has helped me on my reads and to recognizing plays. H e stresses re petition by watching plays on fi lm and running them over and over in practice. It comes natural in games to recognize a play. If I can read the play early, it makes up for my speed That will help me if I make it to the NFL.

" Friends of mine are always saying, 'Are you gonna ca ll me if you make it to th e NFL?"' and I respond, " ' If I don ' t , are you gonna ca ll me?'

NFL scouts are looking for guys like (Marcus) Co leman and (Shawn) Banks. Plus, I don ' t like to look ahead," Thomas sa id

This season, his se nior year, is an important one to the middle lin ebacker. "O ur g uys work and play hard to do the best we can do. I perso nally want to have a better year

won't sett le for mediocrity . This year we will be on top in those close games."

There is something special about Thomas Maybe it's that he is an AllAmerican and a third-year captain. M ay be it's that he hurts after every game because he gave it his all. Maybe it's because his name is said

than I did last year, but as long as the other guys are doing good and taking care of business, that's fine. If someone happens to slip past our lin eI' ll be there!"

In '94 he personally achieved honors as first-tea m A ll American , consensus SWC Defensive Player of the Year, unanimous AII-SWC, the Pete Cawthon Award for team MVP, he was c hosen twice as the AP's Defensive Player of the Week (against New Mexico and Baylor) , and he was the SWC' s leading tack ler with 116 stops. However, the individual glory is not what concerns Thomas.

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in the same breath as " team player" and "consistent."

" I don ' t see myself as anything specia l," Thomas said. " I mean , I play football , come on."

Sure, h e puts hi s football pants on ju st like everybody el se, one leg at a time. But for some reason he laces hi s shoes a little bit tighter and buckles his c hin strap one notch more Zach Thomas suits up to play. Whether it is the Red/ Black scrimmage or a game aga inst Penn State, Thomas is determined to play every down as hard as he can. Not for him se l f, not to impress the coaches, or to awe the fans. Thomas does it for the team. If he happens to catch a few scouts' eyes or some awards along the way , so be it. But let it be known that Zach Thomas is first and foremost a team player.

" The personal honors are nice, but I want something we can share as a team ," he said. " I' ll enjoy those individua l awards when I get older. Then I c an exaggerate a I ittle bit to make myself look better," he joked. " Those four interceptions l ast year w ill be ten."

" I want a rin g that says the Texas Tech Red Raiders are the out ri ght champions," he said " I'm not much for wearing rings, but if we win it outright, I' ll wear it every day. This has got to b e the year. I the Southwest Conference.

Thomas won ' t have to exaggerate very many storie s. He is the most talked -a bout middle linebacker in

''Friends of mine are always saying, :4re you gonna call me if you make it to the NFL?'" and I respond, '"If I don't, are you gonna call me?"'

Thomas is first and foremost a team player. (Photo courtesy Sports Information)

ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE GUIDELINES

Tips For Texas Tech Supporters, Fans, Boosters and Friends from Coach Taylor McNeel

REPRESENTATIVE OF ATHLETIC INTERESTS:

Under NCAA rules a "representative of the institution's athletics interests" (athletics representative/booster) is any individual who has ever:

7. Made any type of contribution to the athletics department or booster club;

2 joined the institution 's booster club (or any sport-specific supp ort g roup );

3. Provided benefits (e g , summer jobs) to prospective or enrolled student-ath letes;

4 Assisted, in any manner, in the recruiting of prospective stu dent-athletes; or

5. Promoted the institution 's athletics program in any manner.

Please make special note of three important points:

7 You become a representative by any action on your part to assist the University Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA );

2 Once you become a representative of the institution ' s ath l et ics interests, yo u retain that identity forever; and

3 NCAA rules hold the institution responsible for all actions of its athletic representatives

RECRUITING:

Representing Texas Tech 's athletic interests, you may not :

7. Con tact a prospect's coach, principal or counselor in an effort to evaluate a prospect;

2 Visit a prospect' s educational institution to pick up film or transcripts pertaining to the evaluation of the prospect' s academic eligibility or athletic ability;

3. Contact a prospect, his/her parents, legal guardians or spouse o n or off the Texas Tech camp us;

4. Contact a prospect by telephone;

5. Write a prospect; or

6. Make special arrangements for entertaining (e g ., donations, goods o r services, discounts ) for recruiting purposes for a prospect o n an official visit.

As a representative of Texas Tech's athletics, you may:

7. Call, wri te or send clippings to the appropriate Texas Tech coach;

2 View a prospect' s athletics events (but may not contact the prospect, his/her parents or legal guardians on such occasions;

3. Talk to a prospect on the telephone if he/she calls you, but yo u can ' t talk about the athletics program; or

4. Talk to a prospect about summer employment, subseque nt to completion of th e senior year of high school, after he/she signs a national letter of intent. (In a ll instances, please contact the head coach before contacting the prospect.)

The following financial aid or other benefits may not be offered to a prospect or the prospect's relatives or friends:

7. Cash or like items;

2 Any tangible items, including merchandise;

3. Gift of clothing or equipment;

4. Payment of any fees (e.g ., summer camps, specia l tutoring);

5. Free or reduced-cost services, rentals or purchases of any kind;

6 . Free or reduced-cost housing;

7 Cosigning of loans;

8. Any emp l oymen t arrangements for a prospect's relatives; or

9. Providing loans to a prospect' s relatives or friends.

ENROLLED STUDENT-ATHLETES :

Representing Texas Tech 's athletic interests, you may not:

7. Provide a student-ath l ete with extra benefits or services including, but not l imited to : a Joan of money, a g uarantee of bond, the use of an automobile, or signing or cosigning a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan;

2. Make avail able to student athletes services (e g ., movie tickets, dinner, use of car) from commercial agencies (e.g , movie theaters, restaurants, car dealers) without charge or at reduced rates ;

3. Provide a student-athlete with a special discount, payment a rrangement or credit on a purchase o r service;

4. Provide a stude nt-athlete with professional services without charge or at a reduced cost;

5. Allow a student-athlete to use a telephone or credit card without charge or at a reduced cost; or

6 . Serve as " sponsors " or " families " for enro lled student-athletes.

As a representative of Texas Tech's athletic interests, you may: 7. Provide an occasional family home meal The meal must be provided in an individual's h ome and must be restricted to infrequent and special occasions (e.g. , Thanksgiving, Ch ristmas) please contact the head coach before inviting the studentathlete to your home;

2 Provide summer employment for enrolled studen t-ath l etes under the following conditions : the athlete is paid only for work actually performed; rate of compensation is commensurate with the pay scale in that locality for similar services; and, transportation related to the job is not provided unless it is provided to a ll employees in that particular job.

PLEASE NOTE:

you have any doubt as to what you may or may not do m regard to any aspect of the Athletics Department's operation (recruiting, student-athlete benefits, employment, etc.) , call and.ask !or an interpretation. Call Taylor McNeel, assistant athletics for compliance and certification, at (806) 742-3355.

Thank you for your continued support. The Texas Tech athletic on its friends for its livelihood . Help us by paymg attent1on to the many details such as the above guidelines: to our ability to operate a program of class, style and mtegnty. Remember- when in doubt, ASK!

Infigures released by the SWC Office, Texas Tech was third among conference schoo ls in percentage of ath letes that earned at lea st a 3.0 grade point average in the fall semester. Tech was first among the state's public schools .

SMU l ed the way with a 43 .2 percentage, Rice was second at 40 .8 percent, and Texas Tech was n ext with a 39 8 percen ta ge The conference average was 32.9 percent.

While the Red Raiders were winning SWC c hampionships in football , men's and women's basketball and baseball du ring the 1994-95 school year , they were also among the most scholarly in the four major sports.

Tech had 54 athletes in the four sports com pile at l east a 3 0 GPA in the fall, seco nd only to Rice ( 56). Texas Tech fared well in the spring sports as well. Its 13 men's and women's golfers with a 3.0 or better were more than any other schoo l had, as was Tech 's 12 women tennis players.

A $30,000-p lus joint venture by the IIAthl etics Department, Ex-S tudents Assoc iation and the Development Office will help enlarge and improve Raider Alley this fall.

Th e pre-game ce lebr at i on area is being moved to the open area just west of the Tech Campus Police Station near the corner of Boston Ave. and Sixth Street.

Last yea r Raider Alley was lo cated at Dan Law Field.

"The move enables us to have more vendors, which will mean shorter food lines," Bob Bockrath said. "Bei ng closer to the stadium is a plu s, and we can utilize trees already in place. It also centralizes Raider Alley since the tailgater cookers were located in part of this area last ye ar ."

Atkins, who dominated the SWC basketball race l ast spring in helping Tech post a 33-4 record and advance to the NCAA Elite Eight round, was named SWC Female Athlete of the Year.

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Atkins, a senior from Class A Lora ine, was named the SWC regular-season MVP and al so became only the second Texas Tec h player- Shery l Swoopes the other to score 30 or more points in three consecutive games.

That feat prompted TV analyst Nancy Lieberman Clin e to say: " Atkins we nt from an average All-Conference player to an All American in three games." Atkins scored in do uble figures during her fina l 27 games of the 1994-95 season and posted seven double doubles during the year.

per minute based on a declining rate A typical football game costs $36 for a three-hour game. Pre-game a n d postpage shows included.

Great for large groups with speakerphone Last year, Texas Tech ranked 12th among the 212 schools that utilized the serv ice.

Zach Thomas was among the list of preliminary candidates announced Aug 15 for the Butkus Award, w hich is presented annually to the nation ' s outstanding l i nebacker by the Downtown Athlet ic Club of Orlando, Fla.

The li st will be pared to 10 semifina l ists Oct. 19, and three finalists wi ll be announced Nov. 16 . The winner will be a nn ounced Dec. 9 , and the award's namesak e, former Chicago Bears lin ebacker Dick Butkus , is schedu l ed to make the presentation.

Other Southwest Conference candidates are Chris Bordano of SMU, Reggie Brown of Texas A&M , joe Davis of Rice and LaCurti s jones of Baylor

Techforwa rd jason Sasser was one of 1 0 Southwest Conference bas ketball standouts who played in a series of games in Mexico this summer.

The team was coached by Texas A&M's Tony Barone and included at least one player from each SWC school. The SWC All-Stars played in tournaments i n Victoria and Guadalajara before return i ng to the U.S Aug. 13.

Tra veling out of radio range and missin g the game? No problem. Catch the radio broadcast by dialing 1-800-8464700, ext. 1752.

Enter Visa or Mastercard number an d expiration date. Setup cost is 50 cents per call and between 50 and 20 cents

"It was an inte resting experience for all of us," SWC associate commissio ner Bill Foster said. "Th is is a great opportunity for the conference."

Ti cket prices at Tech men ' s and women ' s basketball games wi ll jump for the second time i n two years to

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addr ess rental i ncreases fo r the Municipa l Coliseum

Last season 's ti c ket prices were $10 , $9 and $7 per seat depending on l ocation . The increase i s to $11 , $10 and $8

AD Bob Bockrath said Tec h rented t h e Co l ise um fo r $1,575 p er game l ast seaso n and that the re ntal cos ts wo uld inc rease to $2 , 100 per game in 1995-96, $3 ,000 per game in 1996 97 an d $4, 000 per game in 1997-98

Bro w n, a 5-1 0 outside hitt er, is the lone sophomore returnee. Kr i sten H olmes, a 5-9 o ut si d e hitter , was re d sh irted la st year.

Chris Mathis i s one of 80 stud ent-athl etes selected as 1995 A ll-Am erica Scholars by th e Golf Coaches Association of America. A se n ior f ro m Gi l mer, M athis met the cri teria for se l ectio n w hi c h includ ed a minimum c umul a tive CPA of 3.2 and a maximum seaso n stroke average of 78.

Mathis h elped th e Red Ra i ders to a spot in the 1995 NCAA Centra l Reg io nal c ham pi onsh ips.

piece, " Bob Bock rath said

Tech i s sched ul ed t o host the SWC Ou tdo or Tra ck and Field Championships in spring 1996. Officials anti cipate having th e track resurfaced by th en

" We'l l be taking all f i el d events out of th e in side of the track and putting th em o n the outsi d e o f th e track," Bo ck rat h said. " Th at will enab l e us to put a fullsize women ' s soccer fi eld on th e inside of the tr ac k. It will give us a mu c h better utilized faci lity than we c urrent ly have ."

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I think that 's one part of a big, c ont inuous problem th at faces i ntercollegiate athletics," he said , " the co ntinued inflation of our cost to do bu sin ess."

Th e NCAA D iv i sion I W o men ' s Basketba ll Committee annou nced thi s summer that Texas Tec h has been se lect ed as one of four re gio nal hosts fo r the 1998 season

Tech , whi ch will host the Midwest Regiona l March 21 and 23 , w ill be join ed by Dayton (Eas t) , Vanderbi lt (Mideast) and Californ i a Berkel ey (West).

"Th at ' s awesom e !" sai d Lad y Raider Coach Marsha Sharp. " We' re exc ited t o h ave the opportuni ty to host a regional. It 's a good opportunity for th e fa n s in W est Texas to see such an outstanding event. We ' ve been working tow ard thi s goa l for a number of years. "

Mic h e ll e Smith of Slaton h as been named assis t ant sports information director A 1995 Tech graduate, she wa s d irec tor of community rel ations for the Lubbock Cri c kets pro fe ss io nal b aseball team

Smith w ill serve as t h e primary media co ntact for Tec h 's soc cer, softb a ll and men ' s and wome n' s track prog ram s. She wi ll ass i st Joe Hornaday, Kell y Robinson and Wa l t McAlexander in v ariou s proj ects.

The ta bl o id news p ap er Red Ra id e r Spo rts is be i ng published month l y and is avai l ab l e throu g h subscription or members hip in the Red Raid er C lub.

First-year

head vo lle yb all coac h Jeff Nelson takes the helm of a Red Raider team th at has hovered near th e .5 00 mark the past two seaso n s H e wants records like those to rem ain a thing of the past.

" Until we mi x it up I don ' t know what a realistic goal is, but th e spring season went great and recruiting went great. If we can keep people health y and get our freshmen and newcomers to contrib ute, we can get our sights set on getting back in the NCAA tournament," N el son said

Returning seniors are 5- foot-1 1 middle blocker Jill Slapp e r , 6-0 middle blocker jennifer Cohn and 5-9 outside r hitter Diane Owen s. Juniors return i ng are 5-7 outside hitter Lacy N ye, 5-5 defensive specialist Courtney Tham es and 511 outside hitter Cristin e Martin Brande

AD Bo b Bock rath added , " The fact we ' re the smallest venu e (based o n arena size) amo ng the e ight sch oo l s announced f or 1998 and 1999 speaks directly to the impact Marsha Sharp and th e Lad y Raiders have had on wo men 's basketb all. "

Under a p l an appro ved Aug 11 by th e Tech Bo ard of Rege nts, m ore than $500,000 i n ath l et ic department reserve funds w ill be use d to re surface R P Fuller Track and lay out a fie ld for the women ' s soccer team.

The track stadium is l ocated adjace nt to D an Law Field, which i s in the process o f adding lu x ury b oxes an d addit io nal seatin g. " That will real ly make th at corner of o ur athletic enterprise a show

Joe Hornaday

Joe Hornaday, Tech' s sports informati on director , said Strategic Sports Advertising Inc approa c hed t h e ath letic depa rtm ent abo ut the magazine because

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Te c h didn't ha ve an all-sports publication and because of the University's rece nt ath l etic success.

" It (Red Raider Sport s) wil l be espe cial l y h e l pfu l f or peop l e o u tside of Lub bo c k But Tec h fa n s here i n to wn who ju st don ' t get enou gh w ill like it too," H o rn aday said.

" Red Raider Sports w ill definitel y fill a gap for us in getting more information out, " he added. Red Rai der Sp orts costs $29.90 per year and ca n be ordered by calling 1-800 46 7-6532.

Some 350 of Tec h -ex Dirk West ' s sports cartoons have been co mpil ed in to a 300-page, 9 by-12-inch , soft-cove r pub li cation, " The SWC Car toon Book " Th e book ca n be p urchase d for $19.95 plu s $5 p ostage through the Avalanche j ourn al.

" I think it' s a pretty apropos ti me for someth i ng like thi s," West sai d, "beca use of the d e mis e of th e Sout h west Conferen ce. Th e Big 12 wi ll have to go a l o ng way to r ep l ace th e SWC in m y memory. "

The book i s broken into th e tenures of each man who h as coac hed the Raiders since Tech's entry into the SWC: JT Ki ng, Jim Carlen , Steve Sl oan , Rex Doc kery, jerry Moore , David M c Williams and Spike Dykes.

To order " T he SWC Cartoo n Book," mail check or money o rd er (do not send cash) for $24.95 for eac h book to : Dirk Wes t Book , c/ o Lubb ock Ava l an chej o urn a l , P.O. Box 491 , Lu bbock, TX 79408. Include yo ur n ame and ad dress, home and work ph one numbers and t he number of books req u es ted .

Bac k t o-back con t ests wit h Nebraska an d Texas A&M highlight Tech's 1996 and 1997 Big 12 footbal l schedules. " It ' s an am bi t i ous schedu l e, but every bod y i s i n the same boat, " sa id AD Bob Bockrath. " W e wi ll be fo rming some new r ivalri es i n th e Big 12. "

In 1 996 , Tech w ill h os t Neb ras ka o n Oct. 19 befo r e trave li ng t o Col l ege Stati on to play A&M on Oct. 26. O th er games on tap i nc lu de So uth weste rn Lo ui siana , Geo rgi a, Utah State, Baylor,

Kansas, Kansas State, Texas, Oklahoma State and Ok l ahoma.

I n 1997, all teams wi l l be repla yed excep t Georgia and Utah State. The Raiders will i n stead play T ennessee and North Texas. Start ing in 1997 , t he Red Raiders begin a five year se ries wi th North Texas. Three games will be pla ye d in Lubbock and two will be held at Texas Stadium.

averaging 7, 386 fans per game.

Ove r all , Tec h was third nationally when counti ng h ome, road and neutralsite ga m es. Th e L ady Raide r s pla ye d be fore 216, 626 fans in 1994-95

H ad the t ea m filled th e Coliseum every ga me (8,17 4) la st year, Tech wou ld have l ed th e nat ion As it was, Tennessee was the l eader with 8,032, followed by Texa s with 8,009.

Hav in g pl ayed softba ll sin ce the th ird gra d e, fo ur yea r basketba ll letterwoman f or the Lad y Raid ers Nikki H eath an n o un ce d , to the de li gh t of Coach Ren ee Lu ers-G ill ispie, that she wil l pla y softba l l for Tech next spring.

Winni ng c hampi o nship s i s litera ll y pa yi n g di vidends for Texas Tec h Donat ions and p ledges f ro m th e rece ntl y co mpl ete d Red Raider Club Fund Drive increased b y $ 144,000 over l ast yea r in fig ures rel eased by senior associate AD Steve Locke.

" It was inc redibl e what our fund dri ve vol unteers did th is yea r," he sa id " There were a lot of peop le w ho worked rea ll y hard at making the drive a success."

He said th e RRC has 1,544 total member s a nd $858 , 856; the f und drive brou g h t i n 296 n ew members a nd $150,583 in new donat ions. ..,=

TEXAS

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Nikki Heath

I n doing so, she could become Tec h' s fi rst three spor t l etter wi n ner. H eat h, a Sweetwater nati ve, was a starter for t h e 33 4 Lady Raiders tea m in 1994-95 and al so lettered i n track her f res hm an year

An exercise and spo rts science major w ith a minor in En gli sh, H eath w ill do her stud ent teaching th is fall and gradu ate i n December. In j anu ar y sh e wil l ente r Grad uate Sc hoo l an d joi n Jenni fe r Bu ck as ath letes (and Lady Ra i de rs) who have pla yed as graduate studen ts.

For the fo urth co nsecutive seaso n, t h e Lady Raider s finis h ed am ong the n atio n ' s top 10 in home attendance. Marsha Sharp ' s team finished fourth this yea r- the hi gh est ever fo r a Tec h team ,

THE SHELVES ARE FILLING

Thanks to Texas Teth authors, their readers and publishers lor the books that are being donated to the Merkel Alumni Center.

TheEx-Students Association is so li citing books written by Texas Tech autho rs alumni and past and present facu lty and staff- to display in the bookshelves of the Merket Alumni Cente r 's alumni lounge. An engraved sign on the she lves gives credi t to the authors, whose names will run, with each donation, in this magazine. If you ca n take part in t h is project, send the book or books to me, Marsha Gustafson, P.O. 45001 , Lubbock, TX 79 4 09. The cooperation of our Tech authors, their reade rs and publishers i s gen u i nel y app reciated.

The first books to be do- Kirk Dooley j. Knox Jones nated and placed on the Clyde jones shelves are authored by: Rosalie Long Dunham j erry R. Choate

Len Ainsworth

Eve lyn Ina Montgomery Martha Kirk

Kenneth W. Davis W.O. Ehrhart

Zoe Merriman joe H. A l corta

Don E. Eth rid ge Kirkpatrick

H Allen Anderson Dan Flores j im Koger

Billy I. Ross

BY MARSHA GUSTAFSON

Ronald E. Sosebee

Donald j Bedunah Clifford Ashby George Q. Flynn Thomas A. Langford

Ralph L. Sellmeyer

Mabel H. Ros sSuzanne DePauw May

Edward I. Steinhart

Luci le Davis Ford Steven C. Lo

Barbara K. Walker Francisco E. Balderrama

Alex Stewart

Alan Burton Etta Lynch

Jane Gilmore Rushing Alwyn Barr Kent Gamble, i llu strator

Ernest W. Sullivan II Walter M c Dona ld Jane Gilmore Rushing Nolan E. Barrick

Marsha Gustafson

Kent Gambl e, illustrator Linda M. McNeil Nancy j . Bell

Kline Nail

Jodi Th omas

Curt Langford, designer

John Samson

David G. T royansky Robert W. Bell D.G. McWilliams

Leon H ale

Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser Barbara K. Walker Norman A. Bert Paul Mi l osevich

Thomas j. Sasser, Elizabeth R. H all photographer Donald R. Wa l ker Fred C. Bryant Judith Morehead

Neil F. Payne

Fred Hartme ister Richard Morehead

Thom as D. Burton James E. H eavner David j. Murrah

Tim Branigan

Ronald Schl eifer Ernest Wall ace Robert Markl ey

Seymour V. Conno r Russ Pate H en ry A. jimmy M. Skaggs

Kenneth W. Davis

Susan Hendrick

Benny j. Simpson Arthu r W. Bai ey C l yde H endrick Wil l iam T. Patterson

Loren M. Smith

Author Martha Kirk signs and dates her book, "Green Sands," donating it to the Merket co/lee-

tion (Photo by Marsha Gustafson)

Joel Weinsheimer

Craig Flinders Matthias Schubnell

Anna Belle Collins Collier Dennis j. McMahon Frances Nail

Andy Wilkinson

Ralph L. Sellmeyer Duward Campbell, arti st

Waggoner Carr with J Michael Badgwell

Otto M. Nelson Ca l Wayne Moore, jack Keever Ulrich Goebel photographer Elizabeth Hale Winkler Waggoner Carr with L.l. Held jr

Byron Varner

Harley D. Oberhe lman

Margaret Sheffield Simon j ane Roberts Wood

Susan S. Hendrick Lorenz Otto Lutherer

Severa l La Ventana yea rEverett Gillis

Mary jane Hurst Karen A. Roberto books have been donatj effrey R. Smitten ed by various Tech-exes Philip A. Denn is

Keith F. Johnson Col. Ceci l E. Roberts Ann Daghistany and their families

City where you reside: Lubbock

Position on the board: Board Member

Degree, major and class year at Tech, plus any other degrees you may have earned: BBA in finance, 19 56

Where are you employed and what is your position? Roy Middleton Real Estate. I am currently self-e mployed as a real tor, land developer spec ializ ing in commercial real estate a nd rentals.

Family members : Wife, Linda; chi ldren , Mark Middleton, Mitzi Middleton, Chris Coke and Kyle Coke

Major activities you were involved in as a student: Phi Delta Theta fraternity (the year we went from loca l fraternities to national); Finance Institute, Rodeo Week and anyth ing else that was fun

What is one of your fondest memories from Tech days? The camarader ie we had as a st ud ent body- being 5,000 to 6,000 in size at a time w hen everybody knew everybody else. It was a time when Tech was coming of age and going into the swc.

What would you like to see implemented, changed or improved at Tech? I visualize Tech gaining in sta tu re and being recogn ized as a University of The First Class because of the accomplishments of its students, a lum n i and facul ty re sea rch.

What is your favorite book? The Bible

What is your favorite movie? " Forrest Gump " and "The Sound of Music"

What are your interests/hobbies? All Texas Tech sports , water and snow sk iin g, mov ies and time at Lakeway

What character trait do you value highly in an individual? Honesty and humility

If you could invite six persons to your home for an evening, who would they be? Tom Landry, Paul Harvey, Princess Di , Rush Limbaugh , Harr y Truman and joe Barclay

FROM THE TEXAS TECH EX·STUDENTS ASSOCIATION PHOTO ALBUM •••

Bill Dean presents Beverly Pevehouse with a plaque which names the conference room in the Merket Alumni Center for her late husband, B.J. "Joe " Pevehouse.

Texas Tech Hawaii Cruise hosts (from left) Coach Marsha Sharp, B/11 and Peggy Dean and Betty Cagle.

Attending the San Francisco get-together are Sudhakar Kondlsetty, Jill Hayashida, Siby Antony and Patrick Barr.

Coach Msrsha Sharp (seated, center) and Bill Dean (seated, left) were hosts of the Texas Tech Hawaii Cruise this summer With them are fellow fans (seated) Peggy Dean, and David and Lorene Meyers; (standing, from left) Joseph and Wilida Leinbach, Marina Zepeda, Lori McComus, Betty Cagle, Charles and Mary Louder, Jimmie and JoAnn Keith, David Cornelius, Debbie Jackson, Ann Cornelius, Lillian Kountz, Elizabeth Parlee, Chris Kountz, Quatha Baker, Jackie Durham, Bettye Wright, Bill and Carolyn Cate, James Allison, Lucille Cooper and Barbara Allison.

At the Dallas summer meeting are (from left) Rich Fields, Jill Fields, Michael Embry, Mike Fitch and Sylvia Castillo.

Attending Arlington's Freshman Sendoff are {down left side of table) Sharon Allison, Greg Allison, Rick Price and Wick Alexander; (right side) Jeff Allison, Monte Westfall and Sarah Westfall.

Brenda Merriman and her daughter, Robin, served as hosts for the annual dinner of the East Texas chapter in Longview.

A catfish dinner is an annual tradition at the Texarkana chapter gettogether.

The St Louis chapter got together for a hamburger cookout at the home of Tom and Sue Carter Tom (left) does the work while Charlie Divine supervises.

Lincoln, Neb., was the site of a new alumni chapter Dr. Dennis Boyles (right) serves as liaison for this group

Assistant football coach Doyle Parker addresses the group In Longview. Doyle's wife, Shirley, (In white dress) accompanied her husband.

Rajeev Kak, Vinita Kak, Linda Klnlltz and Mike Robbins are among those attending the San Francisco meeting.

At The Lakes chapter meeting, scholarship winners pose with Coach Marsha Sharp (left) and Coach Ken Murray (right) They are Tammy Wimberely, Breckenridge; Catherine Beggs, Jacksboro; and Leslie King, Olney.

Among the group In Cooke County are (from left) Mike Williamson, Ronnie Glasscock and Scott Willis.

At the sign-In table In Oklahoma City are (from left) Dans and Mike Gustafson, Jennifer and Brent Hull, and Denise and Will Stripling

(From left) Todd Mayfield, Lane Johnson and Dial Mayfield vie for a "prized" auction item in Dallas

At the San Francisco chapter meeting June 18 are (from left) Rajiv Chopra, Cindy Fluitt, and Dolores and Joe Fazio.

(From left) Will Stripling, Bill Dean, Scott DeGroote and Ronnie Williamson visited at the Oklahoma City chapter meeting.

Among the Tech-exes and their family at The Lakes meeting are (from left) Susan Beggs, Chester Martin, Joe and Catherine Beggs Diane Martin and Wets Phillips '

At the South Carolina meeting are (from left, standing) Francisco Hamm '88 and Patrick Thornton '89 and (seated) Jennifer Hamm, Linda Bradley '72 and Marchie Thornton

Arol and Sue Rogers (left} join Ronnie Herr, Neil Tibbets and Floyd Copeland at the Cooke-Grayson County meeting.

At the Texarkana event are the Bonner family-Emily '67, Bryant '67, Amy '98 and Robert

Mary Lu Johnson Keller and H.D. Keller visit with Byron Filler In Fort Worth during the group's meeting

The Tulsa summer banquet got together (from left) Jack and Kell/ Conner, Russ lden, Mary and Larry Langford and Tom Feltel.

Austin Marriott at the Capitol 701 East 11th (1 35 & 11th Street)

Nov. 1 8 At SMU (at Cotton Bowl) I kick-off 1 p.m. Fai r Park near the Cotton Bowl Nov. 25 at Houston I Kick-off 7 p.m. Astro Hall Grand Ballroom

Lots of happy faces In Dallas (from left) Mike and Beth Mikeska, Byron and Jennifer Green and Xan and Todd Thompson.

Rollins, Judy Jarmon and Clark Pfluger

Joel Brandenberger and Danelle Farmer (standing) give a report to Tech-exes attending the Washington, D.C., chapter during a backyard barbecue at the home of Rick Meyers in Alexandria, Va

Bill Dean (right center) inspects his Double-T plane In preparation for some high flying competition during the Oregon chapter meeting this summer.

Posing for our camera at The Lakes chapter are (from left) Mike Lukert, Mark McClelland, Hank Pace and Garrett Pace.

At the Cooke County meeting are (from left) Galene Morris, Alan Burton, Julie Morris, John Morris and Don Moody

LAST TECH HOMECOMING

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Homecoming Committee invites you to join with students at Texas Tech during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 20-21, 1995, in celebrating the last year of the SWC . A complete calendar showing day and time of the various college, department and organization open hous es, recept ions and activities can be picked up in the University Center and th e M erket Alumni Center Homecoming weekend. And don ' t forget- Tech Traditions Gift Shop in th e M erket Alumni Center is open Saturdays of home football ga mes!

The

FRIDAY, OCT.

20

Red Raider Road Race Registration * Coach ' s Coffee

Ex -Stud ents Association Board Meets ESA Co un ci l and Awards Luncheon* Snake D ance through Residence Halls Raider Alley and Pep Rally Bonfire Scholarship Awards Reception & Dinner * Followed by D essert and Entertainment *

SATURDAY, OCT. 21

Red Raider Road Race 5K and 1OK* Hom ecom in g Parade

Raider Alley Food Booths, Entertainment Pre-game Activities

Texas Tech vs. Rice*

1955 -60 Class Reunion Reception *

8 a. m 8 p .m. 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 5:45p.m. 5 p.m. Dusk 6:30p.m. 9- 11 p.m. 8 a.m 10 a.m. 11 :30- 1 :30 1 :30 p.m. 2 p.m. After Game

U.C. Lobby U.C. Courtya rd Merket Alumni Center Merket Alumni Center Campus West of Police Stat ion SWC C ircle C ivi c Center Ballroom Merket Alumni Center

Student Rec Center Broadway West of Police Station

Jon es Stadium Jones Stadium Merket Alumni Center priced at $30 for the entire evening or $10 for the dessert and entertainment portion only, call the Ex-Students Association at (806) 742-3641.

* Indicates tickets or reservations required. For reservations to the Scholarship & Awards Dinner,

BY GALE WELLS

Names of our new members are listed in each issue 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.

GOLDEN CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS $1,000 TO

Mr john j Rafferty, Jr '87

OLD RED CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS $500 TO

Mr Peter H Berzanskis '85

Mr. Ralph G Campbel l, Jr. '59

Mr. & Mrs. Rand a ll L Cotton '8 1

Mr. Michael d'Amico '75 (Kristal Dammier '78)

Mr N. Ray Davis ' 61

Mr Thomas R. Durant '72

Mr & Mrs. joseph B Hilbun '71 Oanet Wossum '70)

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff A. Klotzman '76 (K im Kochanek '77)

Miss M. Poll y Mayfie ld '8 7

Mr. Christopher C. Nelson '78

Mr S. David Peeler, Jr. '63

Mr Bill T Ray '78

Mr. Walter E. Rinehart '60

Miss Lori A. Rives '84

Mr. David F. Thomas ' 83

Mr. & Mrs D Kyle Touchstone ' 80 (flo Lust '78)

Mr. Christopher P. Trout '92

BRONZE CENTURY CLUB MEMBERS

Mr & Mrs. Randall Craig Anderson '82 (Kimberly Hester '80)

Dr. 0. Lyn n Avant '65

Mr Walter M. Ba umgarten ' 88

Mr. Robert E. Boro (Fri end ofTech)

Dr james A. Boss '76

Mr & Mrs Robert S. Bridges '77 (Linda Arnett ' 83)

Mr. Dewey D. Britt, Jr ' 82

Mr. james R Brown '75

Miss Caren C. Caffrey '86

Mr john F Campbell '6 1

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E Carr, Jr. '73 (Karen Auld '73)

Dr Sidney B Chadwell, Jr. '76

Mr Eugene C. Chambers '65

Mr jimmy W. Coffer '67

Mrs. Tina Clawson Cooney '80

$250 TO $4ii

Mr Tommy A. CO!bell '75

Mr & Mrs. Ja mes A. Deen ' 89 (Melissa Augenstein '89)

Mr. Louis T. Dubuque ' 62

Mr. Brent L Durbin ' 80

Mr & Mrs. Doug E Eckel '73 (fricia Boyce ' 80)

Mr. james C. Fletcher '78

Mr David Q. Flores '76

Mr & Mrs Gran t P. Foxworth ' 88 (Cheryl Estes '89)

Mrs. Lesli Garnett Hardwick '79

Mr. Bobby K Helton '59

Mr James L Houk '65

Mr james E. Hu ckaby '66

Mr. Robert E Iverson '88

Mr. Royce D Ke lly '58

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Kerns ' 6 1 (Cora Lilly '60)

Loyalty Fund Member $2 5 to $99

Century Club Member $100 to $24 9

lBronze Century C lub Member $2 50 to $499

Old Red Century Club Member $500 to $9 99

Golden Ce ntury Club Member $1,000 to $ 1, 499

Ruby Century Cluh Member $1,500 to $1, 999

Diamond Century Club Member $ 2 ,000 or more

Bronze Club continued...

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Frances Clark Nail Uourna li sm), Lakeway, had h er fir st book , "C row in the H ouse, Wolf at the Door," published by. Coming of Age Press in Austi n Frances, who bega n to write two years ago at age 70, has had seven essays published in Texas, th e Sunday magazi n e of t he Hou ston Chronicle.

Tom Rollin s ( BBA General Business), Lubbock , is vice president of t he Lub bock c h ap ter of the Ex-Students Association. Tom i s the ret i red owner of Health Claims Co n su ltants. He and his wife, Nelda jobe (B BA '5 1 secretarial busi ness, MED '55 edu cation ), this summer hosted a development related dinner for "Champ i ons" of t h e College of Human Sciences.

'52

Jimmie Mason (B BA, MBA ' 53 Accounting), Lubboc k, was appointed by Gov. George W. Bu sh to the Texas State Board of Publ ic Accountancy. jimm ie i s part of the CPA firm of Mason , Warner & Co., P.C. He has received several acco untin g honors, in cluding Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Al u mnus, Te xas Tech Disti nguis h ed Accou nting Alum nu s and the William H Ti nney Ethics in Business award.

'55

Lt Gov Bob Bullock (B BA Genera l Bu si ness), Austin , received the 1995 Hats Off! Award from the Te xas Ind ependent Producers and Royalt y Ow ners for hi s l eadership and life l ong service to Texas.

Dr james C McGraw ( BA Chem i stry ), Be lle vue, Wash., an endodont ist, was ho nored in jul y by the Was hi ngton State Dental Association as the 199 5 WSDA Citizen of the Year. Amo n g his act i vi ti es are se rvice to the Woodland Park Zoo and the Zoo logical Society, the University of Washington Schoo l of Dentistry and the 1990 Goodwill Games. Well know n as the "zoo d enti st," j ames i s a p ioneer in the f i el d of applying human dental t echniq ues to veterinary cases.

'57 Wayne james (BS journalism ), Ar lin gton , was presented w ith th e Disti nguished Executive Award for 1995 by t h e Texas Society of Association

Executives. The awa rd re cog ni zes leade rship and invol vement in the profession of associat i on ma n agement and con t ribu tions to the professio n Wayne is execu tive director of the Te xas Lathing and Plastering Contractors Associat io n.

1 59

Harold L. Rogers (BS Chemical Enginee ring), Lubbock, retired on June 1 after 36 yea r s of em pl oyment with Ph illip s Petroleum Co in Borger, Sweeney and Bartlesville, Ok l a.

'60

Dr Felix Crawford ( PreMedicine), Plainview, was in ducted into the South Plains District Dental Society's new Wall of Honor for his contrib utions to the developme nt of the dental profession in the South Pl ai ns area. Felix h as practice d dentistry fo r 30 years in Plainview and i s the first indu ctee into the Wa ll of Honor.

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jerry A Davis ( BBA Acco u n ting), H o u ston, was appointed by Gov. George W. Bush to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy. j erry is a partner in the CPA f irm of Ernst & Whinney. In 1991 , he was recognized as a Texas T ech Distinguished Accounting Alumnus

Tony Gustwick (BBA Management), Baton Ro u ge , La ., ha s been named director of institutional adva ncement at Northwestern State University. He wi ll ove rsee the activities of th e NSU Fou nd ation and NSU A lumn i Assoc iatio n Ton y i s a former fi eld secretary and assistant director of the Ex-Students Association at Te xas Tech.

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Dain M Hancock (BS, MS '66 Mechanical Engin eeri ng) , Fort Worth, is the new pre siden t of Lockheed Corp. Dain was previously vice president of F16 programs , directing the co mpany 's domestic and i nternational F-1 6 p r o gr ams fo r the U .S. Air Force , the U.S. Navy and 17 internatio n al countries.

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Donny Anderson (General Studies), Dallas , was one of 1 2 former football legends i nducted into t h e Southwest Conference Hall of Honor in Ju l y. Donny was the second Red Raider to be inducted , following E.j. Holub in 1994. Donny is alread y a member of t he Te xas Spo rts Hall of Fame , the Green Bay Packer s Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. He played for Tech from 1963-65, earni ng All-Amer i ca honors in 1964 and '65.

lee Cochran (B BA , MBA ' 67 Fina nce) , Dallas , has opened an office for the Interstate Group, an institutional securities brokerage f irm where he serves as senior vice pres ident.

Gary B Hicks ( BS Mathematics ), Fort Worth , w as honored as a Tand y Teacher Scho l ar for the 1994-95 school year. Gary is a computer science teacher at D unba r High Schoo l for Science and Engineer in g Professions and is o n e of only 100 teachers in the nation to be selected a Tandy Techno logy Scholar, as well. Gary offers simulations that help st udents apply m ath to real world prob lems.

I 66 Cecil T Simpson (BS, MS ' 66 Chemistry), Lubbock, a professional pho

Am er i cas Towe r

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tographer a nd member of t h e janu ary throu gh May in New York Ci ty's his second term as ch air of the commitInternational Association of Panoramic Photographers, atte nded the i nternationa l conve ntion held in Flagstaff, Ariz. One of hi s photograph s placed first in the swing len s category.

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Garland A Weeks (BS Agricu ltura l Eco no mics), Maso n, was designated as the 1 995 Official State Sc u lptor of Texas by th e 74th Legislature o f th e State of Te xas. H e was c hosen o n the basis of exh ib iting exceptional ability in portray ing the beauty of this state, facets of i ts history, and the proud spirit of i ts people through his bronze sculpture and life size monuments. Garland has been inv i ted to show his works in prestigious sh ows t hro ugh out the cou ntry. The most recent invitation was extended by t he Nationa l Sculpture Society' s show " We stward H o! America n Scu lpture," w h ich was held

Stanley T. Myles (BA History), Gathersburg, Md , and hi s wife , Marianne, an nounce the arr iva l of their first ch ild, daughte r LeeE II en , born june 29. Sta nl ey is a U.S. Foreign Serv i ce Officer assig ned to the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

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Bill J. Graham (BA Chem i stry), H ouston, has been named a manager of the international accounting firm KPMG Peat Ma rwick LLP H e will serve the firm ' s rece nt ly created mana ged ca re practice in the Houston office.

Robert A. Junell (BSE Education, JD '77 Law), San Angel o, a partner in the firm of G riffis, Motl & jun ell, is the T exas Tech Schoo l of Law ' s first Dist in guished Alumnus. Rob i s serving

tee on approp riations for the Texas Hou se o f Represe ntatives. H e has been h onored with two d oze n awards in the l ast six months, i nclud i ng recognition as a Top Leg isl ator by Texas Monthly, the Dallas Morning News and the Vietnam Vete rans of America

Ru ss Pate (BBA Management, MA '73 Mass Communications), Dallas, has h ad another of his books pub li shed " Green e r Past ur es" is a biography of farmer/ golfer Robert Lauder s, w ho came o ut of nowhere to make the Senior PGA Tour. Russ is co-writing " The Pocket Go lf Ps yc ho logist " for spri ng publication .

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Karen Keown Lu ec k (BSE Seconda ry Education) , Fo rt Worth, was honored as a Tandy Teac her Sc holar fo r the 1994-95 sc ho ol year by the Fort Worth I SO. Karen te ac h es a l gebra , tr i gonometry and advanced placement calc ulu s at Pasc hal Hi gh Schoo l. H e r part icu lar interest is introducing stud ents to a " thinking curricul um" that deals with the real world of mathematical modeling.

Steve D. Rivers (BBA Gene ral Bu siness) , Bastrop, was named to the Lower Co lorado Rive r Authority Board of Directors. Steve is an in vestment broker with A.G. Edward s & Son s in Austin and is a mana ge r of family farms and real estate in Bastrop, Nueces an d Wharton counties.

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John P. Dalrymple ( BBA Finance), Centerv ille, was appointed direc tor of advancement fo r t h e Nat i onal Eagle Scout Associati on. He wi ll provide professional l ea dership to all se rvices re lated to Eagle Scouts

Randall C. Elkins (BBA Finance), Hou ston, recently joined Baker & Hostetler Counsello rs at Law as a new partn er

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Margie Hollingsworth (BA Psycho logy, BBA Genera l Business, MED '8 1 Edu cati o nal Psychology), Lubbock, is a li ce nsed profess ional cou n se l o r who spec ializes in self-esteem, perso n a l growth, women i n t ransition and ab use and addiction.

SOMETHING WORTH HAVING

Hispanic alumnae share feeling of responsibility to help young people succeed in life by pursu1ng an education.

BY HOLLY H ERMON

11weare We are capable. We are knowledgeable. I m human , JUSt l1ke everybody else. I can obtain my bache l or's degree, I can obtain my master' s degree, and I can go fo r my doctorate, if I want. And so can they. "

So said Marlene Hernandez ' 77. Esperanza Solis agreed. They represent many outstanding Hispanic Tech alumnae whose l ives and bel iefs and accomp l ishments bring inspiration to many young Hispanic women.

Hernandez earned her bachelor' s degree in social welfare and later completed her interdisc iplinary master' s degree with an emphasis in higher education and family studies. A Lubbock nat ive, she i s asso c iate director of the Office of New Student Relation s, where she helps in the recruitment of top students to Texas Tech

H er outgoing personality , realization of the impo rtance of her job, and strong be l iefs in education have helped her to earn such awards as Outstanding Achievement in Student Affa i rs i n 1987 and 1988, and Superior Achievement i n 1990 She was also named a Top T echsan in 1990, a high honor afforded Texas Tech staff persons.

Hernandez advises the campus sorority Kappa Delta Chi , w orks w ith variou s Hispanic organizations on camp us, and for 10 years has he l d positions and worked on committees of the YWCA. Above all , she is a role model for many young Hispanic w omen.

" I can show by my acts and how I live my li fe that they, too, can successfu ll y graduate from Tech and have fu l filling caree rs, " she said. " Not o nl y that, it can be very enjoyable. "

The eldest of five daughters , H ernandez was the first in her fami l y to attend college. Her father had a third-grade education, and her mother comple ted the ninth grade. Three of her siste rs have gone on to college, and two h ave obtained master's degrees.

Growing up, Hernandez reca ll s, student s were he l d back in elementary school if th ey spoke Spanish. She remembers that she and h er best fr i end went to kindergarten together, but because sh e spoke Span i sh her friend stayed behind while Hern andez went on to the first grade.

When she was a student at Tech , there were few H ispanic students. "When I was here, there were only about 500 Hispanics, total ," Hernandez said. " Now there are more than 2, 300. There were only about 200 blacks, and now about 700 black students attend classes at Tech. That' s a big difference.

"You rare l y saw any person of color then If you were in class, you were probably the on l y person of color t h ere."

Hernandez conside rs th e high drop-out rate to be the biggest problem of young Hispanic studen ts.

" That ' s why I feel it is so important for Marlene Hernandez

me to try and encourage staying in school and emphasize edu cati on to th ese young people," she said. " I tell them it is possible. Financial aid is po ssible I even try to help adults go ba c k to school. I f they ' re married with two or three children , they ca n still obtain an education to better themselves and their families. "

Esperanza So li s earned a bachelor' s degree in edu cation from Texas A&l and her master' s degree in bilingual edu ca tion from Tech in 1984.

So l is ' 20-year career in bilingual education was c ut short when she suffered chronic kidney failure. She last work ed at Harwell Elementary School in Lubbock. She was ac tive in the Ladies Chapter of the American Gl Forum , Mexican American Democrats, and the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. She was an o r ig i nal member of the Hi spanic Assoc iation of Women, as we ll as holding membersh ips i n the PTAs at O.L. Sl aton, Lubbock Hi gh Sch oo l and Estacado High Schoo l

She said she has a responsibility to young people as an educated Hispanic woman to help th em succeed in li fe by pursuing an education. Her obligation to the stud ents was such that she declined severa l offers for principal position s She felt most comfortable in the classroom with " her children. "

" It doesn ' t matter if the careers they choose make them rich or not; just being happy and produ ctive citizens is what i s most important, " So li s said.

Among her interests , So l is enjoys most being politically active and participating in voter registration "One of the things I really enjoyed was helping the voter register," she said. " We ca ll ed it 'walk in g the stre ets,' going from door-to-door to talk to people. It gave me i nsight into h ow people live and what are their needs and concerns."

She added, " It kind of gave me the impetus to run for office. " Eli seo Solis, her husband, was a Lubbock County Comm i ssioner for eight years, so she is no stranger to public service.

Although she worked while on dialysis and with a transplant , So li s ul timatel y had to retire early due to the debilitating effects of kidney failure.

The biggest problem fac i ng Hispanic women today, in her opinion , is her cu lture' s traditional opinion of career women. " Once the Hispanic woman decides to go to work, right away she is accused by her own people of neglecting her fam il y."

As more and more H ispan i c women become educated, the old stereotypes inevitably will fall away.

Esperanza Solis

PLAYING A CRUCIAL ROLE

First Day

s,hool

(OUnselor Tresea Beasley has found a great es,ape from the problems and (On,erns of reality.

BY SHEILA FOE RTSC H

Being a counselor to 700 inc reasing l y mature, sometimes troubl e d or confused junior high school students i s a profession most people would not c hoose as thei r dream j ob. Tre sea Lavend er Beasley '66, '68 i s not " most people. " She con siders

it th e g reatest job in t he wo rld

Students at Valleyview ju nior High in Amaril lo, part of the Canyon Schoo l Distr i ct, are far better off becau se of the ca re, co ncern and wi sdom "Mrs. Beasley" imparts as their co un se l or.

"It's a wonderfu l job," sa id Beasley, who is beg i nning her eighth year at the sc hool. " Everyone here is the g reatest from the princ ip a l to th e c u stodian. We a ll work together in a fri endly , energet i c and coope rative atmosphere."

Once in awhi l e, though, even the best counselor needs a cop ing device to keep the stude nts' problems from overwhelming her. H ow Beasley manages to he lp herself is a story in itse lf.

Beas ley earned bachelor's and master's degrees i n En g l ish from Tex as T ec h and taught i n m iddle and hi g h sc hool s, following her coach hu sband, j er ry '70, '76, in his career.

"After 20 years of teachi ng, I had decided I wanted to make a change," she said. " I think all teachers feel to so m e extent that they can save the world and want to fix everythi n g and everybody."

As a classroom teacher, seeing many you ng people with very real , very adu lt prob lems, Beasley dec ided she wanted to l earn to do counse lin g. Sh e took classes at West Texas State University in Canyon, earning a master' s degree in spec i al ed ucation. At about th e same time, jerry began a career move into administration, now nearing comp letion of his do ctorate in education at T exas Tech.

Beas l ey is quick to point out that a lthough she loves her work, eve ryd ay isn't Utopia when students have serious problems that have to be addressed. As a counselor, she deals with chil dren who

have probl ems ran g ing from rape and abuse to not being able to communicate with their parents.

"Everyone comes to the point where they think they can't hand le their problems by themselves," she said. "Tha t is where cou n selo rs can play a crucial role in someone's life. We can help them take that first step."

One of the most often expressed problems comes from students who have had a falling out, or fight, w i th t he i r best fri end.

" To an adult, this doesn't seem like something to talk to a counse lor about, but to these kids, it is a major problem," Beas l ey said.

In such a situation, she believes i n a ll owing the students to work th rough th e ir differences together. "W ith both of t he stu dents' permission, I bring them in to my office. I tell t h em to use ' I' statements, suc h as ' I am upse t w i th you because .'."

She be l ieves the need for counselors i s c rucial and that students i n junior hi gh face the same problems that the res t of the world faces. "We are just a sma ll er version of a l arger communi ty, and we have to deal with very real issues," she said.

To enco urage a positive fee lin g in the schoo l, Bea sl ey he l ped to implement a prog ram ca ll ed STEP, whi c h stand s for Students Together Encouraging Pride. The service-or i ented program a llows stud ents to g ive to their school and community.

" The program involves about 400 students and i t offers them the chance to do somethin g they can be proud of," she exp l ained.

One aspect of the program i s peer mediat i on and co un se li ng. Students a re given th e opportunity to eva l uate other students ' co n cerns and offer support Beas l ey said t h e peer counseling is a tremendous help to her perso nally, and it is quite effec t ive.

Although some days are emotionally drain ing, due to the kinds of problems she sees h er young students co nfronting, Beasley derives a great dea l of satisfaction from being ab le to he l p them. She has a lso found a way to keep from tak ing

A gaunt yellow dog raced down the d eserted roa d. Dark ly-c ircle d ghoul i sh eyes pierced the eerie morning bl ackness, search i ng fo r an u nattended chi l d to snatch up peremptoril y in h i s j aws and abandon terrified at the nearest schoolhou se door.

© Tresea Beasley 1995

A W alk In Th e Past

Responding to a treasured melody, her face softened as she inclined her ear And wrap ped herself in su mmer warmth to walk a path so rrowfu l to most.

Stro ll i ng along the familiar course, sh e bowed to ho nor bo l d fo rget-me-nots, which bent their blooms in deferential nods to one who chose a doxology, not a lament.

© Tresea Beasley 1992

her stude nts' problem s home w h ere they cou l d have a negative impact on her family.

H er way i s a very private one. She gains solace from wri t ing poetry.

" I always wan ted to write poetry," she sa i d , "a nd now I use poe t ry as a way of coping with problems that arise at work and in my own life. "

None of Beas ley's f ri end s or fa m i l y knew she had poetic abi l ity, including her husband. Sh e found i n poetry a persona l so litude. When she fina ll y disclosed her love fo r writing poetry and the fact that she had been wri t i ng for a n um ber o f yea rs, a friend urged her to continue writing and to consider at some point l etting o t hers read it. She n ow keeps a notebook with possible i deas fo r poems, and whenever she feels insp i red, she jots down lines and ideas

Bea sley recently enrolled i n a poetry class where she was forced to "come out of the closet" with her work. It was hard at first, she said, allowi ng others to " intrude" into some of her most intimate and emotional thoughts. But the class also expanded her p oeti c t hinki ng i nto lighter subjects and creative expression.

Poetry has provided Beas l ey with a great escape f rom t h e prob l ems and con cerns of reality. It is a steam va lve t hrough which h er own tensions a re released , enab l ing her to listen to the problems of her young students and wor k with them calmly to find re l ia ble solu · tions.

After some prodding, Beas l ey allowed the T exas Techsan to sha re some of her work with our readers.

Tresea Beasley

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Dr. Sandra Stecher Harper (BS E Secondary Educat ion), Edmund, Okla. , i s th e vice president fo r academic affa irs at Oklahoma City University. Sa nd ra move d from McMurr y University in Abilene, where she h ad been on the faculty and dean of th e Col lege of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband , D ave, have two so ns, Justin, 15, and Jonathan, 12.

'75

Jean Badger ( BSE Seco nd ar y Education) , Lub bock , h as accep te d a pos ition as stu d io director of K Porter Photography, wh il e co nt i nuin g he r art ca reer on the sid e.

Mike Heath ( BS Gene r al Business) , Lubbock, h as bee n promoted to region al sa l e s manager by Dekalb Genetics Corp. H e wi ll oversee the acti v it ies of nine district sales managers and dea lers in the 13-state Southwestern and Paci fic reg ion.

Dr Judi Henr y (BS, MED '78 Physica l Educa t ion , EDD ' 85 Hi gher Education ), Lubboc k, retired from Texas Tec h effecti ve Au g. 3 1, where she h as served f or 15 years i n the divis i on of student affairs, first as dean of students and most rece ntly as ass istant vice pres ident. She plan s to move to Arizona this fall.

Loyd I Rinehart (BB A Accountin g), Lubb oc k, joined Pl ains Cap ital Co rp , p a rent compa n y of Th e Pl ain s Nation a l Bank of West Texas , as vice president. Loyd is a CPA w ith more than 20 years of ex peri ence.

'76

Ecomet Burle y (BA Political Science) , Lubb ock , has bee n named assistant t o the sup er intend ent of the LISD Ecom et had served as pr i nc ipal of el ementary sc ho ols i n Te x as City an d LaMarque during the past five y ears and i s curr ently working on hi s doctorate in education. H e is a fo rme r Red Raider football playe r

Robert Duncan (BS Agricultura l Eco nomi cs) , Lubbo ck , State Representative , was named a 1995 leg is lator of th e Year by t h e Nat i ona l Republi can L egis l ato r s Assoc i atio n Robert serves as vice chair of t h e Texas Hou se In su ran ce Comm itte e and was named Hou se Freshman of the Year after

the 73 rd Te xas Legi slature.

Dwight Pitcaithley (PhD Histo ry) , Ca rl sba d , N .M., was appointed c hi ef hi sto ri a n of th e Na tio n a l Par k Service He is respo n sible fo r a hi sto ry program including the deve lopment of all natio nal parks, f rom Ye llowstone to the USS Arizona Memorial i n Hawaii.

'77

Sharon Raffert y Goldston (BBA Finance), Lubboc k, has been named vice presid ent of inv estm ents b y St. Louisbased A.G. Edwards & Sons. An investment broker, Sha ron has been with the co mpan y at t he i r Lubbock office for six years.

Don McBeath (BA Telecom mun ications) , Lubbock, Co unt y Jud ge , attended the 42nd Annual N at i o nal Secu r ity Forum at the A ir Wa r College at Maxwell Air Fo rce Base, Alabama Each year, th e U .S Secretary of the Air Force inv ites 100 civ ili an l ea ders from across the U.S. to meet w i th the class members an d f ac ulty of the A ir War College to probe curren t issues that affect the future security of the U .S.

'78

Gary Ashb y (BS Physical Education ), Lubbock, h as been na med to the Presi dent' s Club by Merrill Lyn c h, where he is a stock broker. Gary is a former pro fess i o n a l baseball player an d co llege coac h

'79

Alex Grice ( BBA Finan ce) , Lubbo ck , has been nam e d to the President' s Club by M err ill Ly nch , where he is a senior consultant.

William P Hanley ( BBA Manage men t) , Dallas, wa s appointed by KPMG Peat Marwick as partner-i n-c h arge of its p ubl ic services pra c tice of its D a ll as / Southwest office K PMG Peat Marwick is the U S practice of KPMG , the global leade r among professi onal se r v ices firms

'80

Jeffrey Anderson (BA R Architectural De sig n ), Su gar Land, is vice president of M o narch Communities of T exas , a su b s id ia r y of Monarc h Deve l opment Cor p. He d i re cts development and construction ac tivitie s on a ll Texas properties, includin g Sugar Lakes,

a 400-acre waterfront enclave comm unity in Sugar Land.

Kandy Walker Duke (BS Horti cu lture, MS '83 C rop Sciences), Athens , Ga., was married on Apr il 15 to Ken Duke Kandy has accepted a promotion to director of regulatory affai rs for Rhone Merieux, In c

Roger Jones (BBA Acco unti ng), Amarillo , was named pa rtne r with Clifto n, G unde rson & Co., the nation 's 15t h l arges t accounting firm. He previously se r ve d as se nior manager in the Amarillo office of KPMG Peat Marwick, which was recently acquired by Clifton, Gunderson. Roger and h is wife, Diann e Morris Jones ( BS '8 1 Family Finance) , h ave two children, ju stin and Jill.

Shueh-mien Jimmy Lee (MS El ectrical Engineering), San j ose, Ca lif. , is president, chief executive officer and a founder of In tegrated Silicon Solutions In c., a semiconducto r company. I SS I manufactures SRAM computer chips.

'81

Jack L. Barr (BAR Arc h itectu ral Design), Lubb ock, is h ead of Barr

Architectu re, a recently added divi sion of O ll er Engineering In c. Barr Architecture specializes in commercial construction, reroofi ng and Americans with Di sabi l ities Act compliance.

'82

John D Alexander (BS Mechanical Eng in eering) , Oak Harbor , Wash. , was announced as the 1 994 Commander , Naval Air For ce, U.S. Pacific Fleet Naval Flight Officer of the Year His selec tion came as a re su l t of hi s unsurpassed tactica l initiati ves as a bombardier/ navigator flying the A-6E Intruder while assigned to Navy Attack Squad ron 196. During 1994, John deployed to the Western Pacif ic and Arabian Gulf as part of the USS Carl Vinson Battle Group. He flew 20 missions, 14 as the Air Wi n g Strike Lead, enforcing the Iraqi no-fly zone in support of Operation So u thern Watch.

Elson Bihm (PhD Psycho l ogy), Little Rock, earned the designation of Researcher of the Year at the University of Central Arkansas.

Todd Thompson (BS Agricu l

tural Economics ), Lubbock , has been named to th e President' s Clu b b y Merrill Lynch, where he is assistant vice president and a se nior f ina nci al con sultant.

'83 Melisa J Hancock (BSE Elementary Education), Manhattan, Kan., a teacher at Woodrow Wilson El ementary, is a 1994 Milken Fam ily Fou ndation National Educator. Melisa was one of 1 50 of the nation 's top elementary schoo l educators to re ceive the award , which carries a $25 , 000 prize.

Shomir Sil ( Finance ), Westmont, Ill., an associate professor at Purd ue Un i vers i ty Calumet, was named a department head in the management area. His areas of expertise include cor porate finan ce, investments and management of financial instituti ons.

'84 Capt. Charles Q. Brown Jr. (BS Civi l Engin eer ing) , Washington, D.C., was transferred from the USAF Weapons Schoo l , Nellis AFB , Nev. , where he served as an F-16 inst ructor pilot. He is cu rrentl y assigned as the Aide-de-Camp

to the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Fo rce, Pentagon.

Rick Gould (BBA A cco unting), Lubbock, joined the public ac counting firm of Mason Warner & Co. as a staff accountant in the audit department.

Rhonda Kinsey (BSE Elementary Education) , Lubboc k, w as marr i ed on june 1 7 to Shannon Pierce Rhonda is emp loyed by Lubbock lSD.

Mark Nanny (BBA Finance), Lubbock , was among the Top 10 sales associates in Texas for Coldwell Banker Residential Affiliates Inc.

Jo Betsy Spaulding Norton UD Law), Austin, Senate Nominatio n s Committee director and general counsel, was named to represent the publ ic on the Texas Empl oyment Commissi on

'85

Suzanne Mino (BS Cl othing & Textiles), Lubbock, was married on June 10 to j ose San c hez. Suzanne is employed by the Lubbo ck Memorial Ci v ic Center .

Greg Vaughn (BA Ad vert ising) , Lewisv ille , i s preside nt of th e Lewi sv ill e Chamber of Commerce. Greg had been w ith the Lu bboc k Chamber since 1988, most recentl y as vi ce presid ent.

'86

Penny Apple (BBA Ac counting), Lubbock, has join ed the publi c account ing fi rm o f Ma son Warner & Co. as a staff accountant in th e audi t departm ent.

Scott Burdette (G e ne ra l Stu dies), Fort Worth, was married on jun e 3 to Kristine Goad. Scott i s self-employed.

Rus se ll McCorkl e (BBA Finance), Lubbock, and Sandra Kountz (BA ' 94 En g li sh) w ere married on june 10. Ru sse ll i s emp l oyed by C ros sroads Samaritan Coun seling Center i n Lubbock and Allan j. M cC orkl e in Am a rillo. Sandra i s emplo y ed by M eadow l SD

Allison McMillan ( BS Home Ec onom i cs Edu c ation), Hou ston , was mar ri ed on june 1 7 t o R C arte r Burkholder Alli son i s e mplo y ed b y Diebold Inc

'87

Nan cy Anderson-Hill ( BS Fami ly Relation s), New Bern , N.C. , is the associate director for the United Way o f Coastal C arolina She is responsible fo r commu n ity awareness and pub l icity and

plays an i ntegra l ro le in the fa ll fundraising ca mpaign.

Garry P Kaufman (BBA Marketin g), Galveston), is a partner and vice president of j ahn Austin In surance, the island's o ldest and l argest independent in surance agenc y He, his w ife, Melanie M cCo rmick Kaufman (BA ' 89 Ad v erti sin g), a nd their 2- y ear-old daughter , Taylor , moved to Ga l veston from Denver.

Denise Welch Matt so n (BSE Secondar y Education ), i s vice principal for curriculum at Estacado High School. She was formerly a technical comp u ter expert for th e LI SD. Denise comp l eted her master' s in adminstration degree in jul y. Her h usband is former professional baseball player Ronnie Mattson (BS ' 89 Agric u ltural Economics) , and th e y have four sons.

Aubrey Richburg (BBA Marketing ), Lubbock, was promoted to vice p re s ident of American Bank of Commerce. Aubrey is an i nstallment loan offi c er at the 50 th Street branch

Nancy Ridenour (PhD Family Rel ations) , Lubbo c k, a memb er of th e Texas Tec h Sc hool of Nursin g facult y since 1981 , wa s n amed a Fellow of the Amer ic an Academy of Nursing, t he academy's highest honor. Nancy was selec ted in 199 3 to participate on a nationa l health c ar e ta s k for c e with Do nn a Sh al ala , secretary of the U.S. Department of H e alt h and Human Servic es.

Debra D ePoyste r Talley (BBA A cc ounti ng) , Levell and, married Steve W e ll er in j une. D ebra is employed by

South Plains Rural Health Services In c

'88

Dana Westbrook Cooley (JD Law) , Sn y de r, was appoi nted by Gov. George W. Bush as dist ri ct attorney for the 132nd Judicial District in Borden and Scurry counties Her appointment extend s through the November 1 996 general el ect ion.

Willard Kirkpatrick (BS Animal Production), Crosby Cou nty, and Ralynn Key (BSE ' 92 Business Education) were married on june 17. Wi ll is empl oyed by Stoker Kirkpatrick Ranches. Ralynn is a former Masked Rider.

'89

David Cea (BS Restaurant , Hotel and In stit ut ional Management) , Lubbock, general manager of Orlando' s Italian Restaurants, wa s elected pre sident of the Lubbock Restaurant Association for the 1995-96 year.

Nathalie Delafosse ( B BA Marketing), Dallas, was married on June 3 to Stephen Leroux. Nathalie is emp l oyed by Stonehouse and Co

Jim S. Ivy (BBA Management), Ri c h ardson , and his wife , Laurie Williams I vy (BBA A ccounting/Finan ce), announ c e the bi rth of their fir st child , Trevor, on june 30. Spike needs to go ahead and si gn Tre vor h e cam e in w eighing 10 lbs ., 6 oz.!

Robert Schuchert (BA Eco nomi cs), Katy, recentl y began classe s at the Univ ersity of Houston Co ll e ge of Optometry He and his wife, Lisa, have two daughters, Tiffany, 5, and Melanie, 11 months.

Capt. Keith Terrell ( BBA Finance ), Lubbock , and Shelley McDowell (BS '91 Multidisciplinary Studies) were married on Jul y 29. Keith is emp loyed at Reese Air Force Ba se and Shelley is employed by Lubbock lSD.

'90

Lucrecia Allen (BS Physical Education) , Dallas, is director of the Dallas Federal Employees Wellness Center. Lucrecia is a member of the 1995 Team in Training, a group of men and women who have made an extraordinary commitment to run or walk a marathon and raise money for leukemia research, patient financial aid and education.

Kelly Damron Beasley (BS Mathematics, MED '9 4 Curriculum & Instruction ), Abilene, is teaching junior high math, and her husband, Steve (BA '92 Psychology), is manager of the new Abuelo 's restaurant in Abilene

Timothy Fogle (BBA Finance , BBA Economics, MBA ' 94 General Business) , Lubbock, was married on June 10 to Jennifer Bradford. Timothy is employed by Methodist Hospital and Jennifer is attending Texas Tech Craig Gilbert (B A Economics) , Lubbock, and Lisa Barrick ( BSE ' 92 Business Edu ca tion ) were married on June 3. Craig is employed at Texas Tech Federal Credit Union and Lisa is employed by Pyramid World Travel.

Jan Halperin (BA Telecommunications), Allen , asked Beverly Cook (BA '91 Telecommunications) to marry him in a full-page ad in the Plano StarCourier Aug 27 Jan is photo editor for

the Harte-Hanks community newspape rs, which includes Plano. Beve rl y works for the Plano Chamber of Commerce. By the way, she said "yes," and the we dd ing will be in a year.

Trent Hilliard (BS E Secondary Education), Lubbock, and Cindy Mulder (BBA '88 Accounting) were married on July 22. Trent is employed by Lubbock lSD and Cindy works at Hillcrest Country Club.

Cpl. Kevin J. Hurt (MS Agricultural Economics), Harlingen, was meritor iously promoted to his pre se nt rank w hile se rving with Inspector and In st ru c tor Detachment, 1st Battalion , 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division

George MacNair (BS International T rade), Lubbock, is secretary of th e newl y reorgani zed Lubbo ck Ch apter of the Te xas Tech Ex-Student s Association.

Suzanne Moreland (BME Musi c Education ), Lubbock, is a design er with Dillard's Custom Interiors and did mu ch of the interior work on a Lubbock Parade of Homes house

Miles P. Owen (BA Advertising) , Dallas, and Esther Chavarria (BA '95 Spanish) we re married on June 5. Miles is employed by BA Advertising.

Stephanie Adams Reneau ( BS Microbiology), Fort Collins, Colo., and her husband , Tipton , announce the birth of their daughter, Morgan , on June 6.

Greg Salli (BM Mu si c Performance, BME Music Education), Corpus Christi, and Michele Shoumaker (BS '9 1 Zoology) were married on June 6. Greg i s

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emp l oyed by New Caney lSD and Mich el e works at Memorial Hosp ital.

Linda Tijerina (BS E Elementary Education), Lubbock, was mar rie d on June 3 to Joe Landin Linda i s employed by Lu bbock lSD.

Lara Creech Wakefield ( BSE Secondary Education ), Co l umbia, Mo., h as rece i ved h er Master o f Health Science degree in speec h-lan guage pathology. Sh e is now wo r king at the Rusk Rehab i lit ation Hospital at the Un i ve rsity of Missour i Co lu mb ia Hea lt h Sciences Center.

'91

Russell Greener (BS Agricultural Eco nomi cs), Lubbock, w as married on July 22 to Sh annon Casperson. Russe ll i s se lf-emp l oyed in t he farming industry. Sedef Kavasogullari (MS Mechanical En g in ee ri ng), Boss i er City , La ., was mar r ied on June 2 to Ja me s Joseph son.

Lt. j.g. Espiridion Limon (BS Electrical Engineering), Cecil Field, Fla., rece i ve d a Letter o f Apprec iation f ro m t he U.S. Navy. Esp iri dion was ci ted fo r superi or performance of dut y wh ile assig ned w ith Sea Contro l Sq uadron 24, Naval Air Stat ion.

Lari Masten (BSE Secondary Edu catio n), Lu bbock, was married on June 17 to Scott Fra il ey. Lar i i s attendin g Texas Te ch and is emp l oyed by Ela in e McNair CPA In c.

Lisa K. Morris (BA En glish ), Vance A ir Fo rc e Ba se, Okla., was married on June 3 to Lt. Michael Comtois

Timothy Orsak (BS Math emati cs, MS '93 Statisti cs), Dallas, was marr i ed on Jun e 1 7 to Tr acy Ji me r son Timo th y is em pl oyed by D allas lSD.

Benjamin Rector ( BS In te rnational Tr ade), Lub bock, and Conny Corbell (BS Int ernat ional Trad e) were married on june 10. Benjami n i s attendin g th e Texas Tec h Healt h Sc i ences Center and Co nn y is empl oye d by Meth odist Hospital.

Corby Roberts (BA Po li t ical Science), A marill o, is a photographer for t h e Amarillo Globe News.

David Verheul ( BBA Fi na n ce, BBA Account in g), D allas , and Susan Cline (BBA Accounting) were married on

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june 1 7. David is emp lo yed by Coca Co la Bottling Group and Susan i s employed b y Coopers & Lybrand LLP.

'92

Lt j.g. George Aguilar (BA Chemi stry), Milton, Fla., was designated a naval aviator. He was presented with the Wings of Gold , wh i c h marked the c uI mi nation of flight training with Helicopter Trainin g Squadron 18, Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton.

1st Lt. Peter J. Brown ( BS C hemi st ry) , Kingsville, was re cent ly named a naval aviator Peter received the Wings of Gold marking cu lm inatio n of months of flight trainin g with Helicopter Training Squadron 18, Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton.

Meredith Butler (BA General Business, MBA '94 General Business, MBA ' 94 Health Organization Management), Lubbock, was married on June 10 to Randy Durham Meredith is employed by West Texas Skilled Nursing Facility.

Lt. j g. Julian Clarke ( BBA Management Information Systems), LaPorte, is involved in a six-month overseas deployment aboard the fast combat su pport ship USS Seatt l e , which has included duty in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Steven Dean (BS Civil Engineering, MS '93 Chemical Enginee ring), San Antonio, was married on Jul y 1 to Kallie H argrave Steven is employed by Pape-Dawson Civil and Environmen tal Engineers.

Jerry J. Defeo ( BGS General Studies), Irving, was married on june 17 to Christine Bednarz . Jerry is employed at Good Eats Restaurant Group in Dallas.

Tanna Dorsey (BA Sociology), Lubbock, was married on July 29 to Charles Moon. Tanna is emp l oye d by Lubbock lSD

Mark A Drake (BS Zoology), Lubbock, and Nicole M. Jones ('93 PreNursing) were married on June 3. Mark is self-emplo yed and Nico le is attending South Plains College.

Stacy M. Graham (M ultid isciplinary Studies), Lubbock, was married on June 24 to Heath Acrey. Stacy is employed by New York Life.

Lt. j .g. Matthew Kennedy (BS

Computer Science), Mayport, Fla , was promoted recently to his present rank whi l e serving aboard the guided missile frigate USS Aubrey Fitch.

Corey Layman (BS Agricultural Economics), Wolfforth, and Candace Gillit (BS Agricultural Education) were married on June 10 . Corey is employed by Amarr Garage Doors and Candace is employed by the City of Wolfforth.

Dean Mariott (BBA Management, BBA Marketing), Lubbock, and Jill D. Garrett (BA Mathematics) were married on Jul y 1. Dean is employed by Lubbock Glass and Mirror and Jill is employed by Lubbock lSD.

Kimberlee McKean (BS E El ementary Education), Lubbock , was marri ed on July 1 to David M. Th ompson. Kimberlee is employed by Lubbock lSD

Linda Orrantia (BM Music Education), El Paso, was hired as the percussion instructor at Bel Air High School. Linda is a member of the El Paso Wind

Symphony and is pursuing her master's degree i n music history.

W. Rich Renton Jr. (BS Civil Engineering), Allen, and Shelby Madigan (BS E '93 Elementar y Education) were married on July 1. Rich works for the Te xas Department of Tran sportatio n and Shelby is employed by Plano lSD.

Edwin A.D. Schwartz (BA Political Science), Harr isbu rg, Penn., was ma rri ed to Stacey Saxton on Nov. 19. He graduated from Widener University School of Law and has accepted a position as an associate with the law firm of Cunningham & Chernicoff. His area of practice is bankruptcy and civil litigation.

Tim Tucker (BS Electrical Electronics Technology) , Lubbock, and Valerie Mooney (BBA '89 Accounting) were married on July 8. T im works for Brandon and Clark Inc. and Valerie for Law rence, Littlefield, Jacob and Ferris.

Mary C. Walters (BA Social Welfare), Houston, was married on May 27 to Greg Brabbin.

Tracy K. Wilson (Accounting), Cheyenne, Wyo., was married on july 1 to 1st Lt Jason R Zimmerman.

Peri-Ann Winder (BS Recreation ), Oklahoma City, Okla., was marri ed on June 24 to j Eric Boydstun.

'93

Cody S. Anthony (BS Agricultural Eco nomics), San Angelo , was married on July 29 to Caylei gh Ru x. Cody is employed by First Community Federal Credit Union.

Laura L. Baker ( BA Advertising/

Public Relations), Lu bbock, was married on june 3 to Derrick Osborne. Laura is emp l oyed by CapRock Communications Co rp.

Lance A. Barnett (BS Agricultural Economics), Phoeniz, Ariz., married Martha C. Blackwell in july C. Brian Borthwick (BA Advertising/Public Relations), Lubboc k, was m arr i ed on july 8 to Kristi D Stephens. Th ei r re ception was held at the Merket Alumni Center. Brian i s emp loyed by Digital Satellite Television.

Steve W. Carr (BBA Marketing), H o u ston , and Mallory Grantham (BBA Management, BBA Marketing) were married o n May 20. Steve is employed b y Cintas Corp

Kenneth Casarez (BA Hi story) , Lubbock, and Pamela S. Ramirez (BS ' 92 Business & Merchandising) were married o n June 1 7 . Kenneth i s empl oyed b y Lubb ock lSD and Pam el a by South Pl ai ns Community Action Association

Jeremy W. Ellis (Psychology), Camp Leje une , N.C. , was married on Jul y 22 to Elisa R Howard

David A. Gaschen ( BM Mu sic Performance) , Lubbock, and Jeanne M Swihart (BBA Marketing) were m arri ed on j une 24. David is emp l oy ed by John so n Liff Cas ting Co. and Jea nne by Southwest Airlines.

Anne M. Grant (BSE El ementary Edu cation) , Lubbo ck, was married on july 22 to Brian M. Co x. Anne i s emp loyed by Lamesa lSD and Bri an is attending Texas Te ch and works for Phase I Electronics.

Lance Green (BS Biochemistry), Alpine, was married on june 10 to Kristal Settle.

Scott Holland (BA English) , Lubbock , was m arri ed on j une 17 to Le ah Ell is. Scott is emp lo ye d by Bes t Western Lubboc k Regency.

J.J. Hudson (BS Zoo logy), San Antonio , and Ginger Gilchrist (BS ' 95 Exe rc i se and Sports Sciences) were marri ed on June 10 J. J is attending th e U niversity of Texas D ental School.

Donovan Kendrick ( General Studies), Lubbo ck, was married o n july 14 to Ami Ca rrell. Donovan is employed b y Spageddies.

Jacqueline Killpatrick ( BSE Business Educatio n), Lu bbock, was marr ied on Augus t 5 to Ty Fe win. jac que is the coord inator of recr ui t in g and alumni relations for the petroleum engi n ee r i ng department at Tec h.

Joel Lindsey (BBA Management Infor mation System s), Dalla s, is working for Th e Associates as a business systems analyst.

Steve Massengale (B BA General Business), Lubbock, is treasurer of the Lubbock chap ter of the Texas Tech Ex

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"Like the soul of man, you can'tput yourfinger on can't draw a picture of it. School spiritjust appears when you need then disappears unt il it is needed again."

-Arch Lamb, Texas Tech Class of 1939 and Founder ofSaddle Tra mps

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TWIN FIDDLES - THE LA. CONNECTION

BY WILLIAM KERNS

It was a whim that ca rri ed Lanny Fief '83 to the (Gene) Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles for the first time in the earl y 1990s.

Several yea rs l ater museum officia l s contacted Fief with a proposa l to create and ed it a summer exhib it soundtrack, and t hat project, noted Fief, could open the door to even more co llaborations between Lubbock and LA.

" I was traveling with (Ama rillo based recording act and Tech-ex) Buck Ramsey. We'd already gone to Elko, Nev., and the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech was sponsoring me to go on out to the Roy Rogers Museum in California.

"Buck and I went together and, when we left, we just decided why not drive to th e Autry Museum and say hello. They already knew of Buck, of course, and I had gotten to know (Au try Museum executive) Kevin Mulroy through the editors of the Texas Tech Press back in 1992, when I was writing my fiddle books."

Later, in the summer of 1995 when the museum hosted a june exhibit and corresponding symposium titled " Imaging the West," Mulroy recalled his ear li er conversations with Fief. The museum executive wa nted authe nti c Western music to be found and r ecorded to add a touch of aura l authe nt ic i ty for those vis itin g the exh i bit and he ca ll ed Fief in Lubbock to see if he could handl e the job.

Fie f a viola p l aye r with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, a fidd l e player when not wearing a tuxedo, and a music historian who hosts the "Roots Music " program on KOHM-FM in Lubbock eagerly produced the soundtrack being sought.

He recalled, " The folks that I produced records for and all the people on the 'Roots' program with a western

theme what I did was take • excerpts from all of their work and c r eated a 40minute collage. I tried to make su re to hi gh li ght both th e old and new mu sic of the West.

Students Associatio n. Steve i s employed by WestMark Rea l tors.

Robert Schmid ( BS Zoo l ogy), Galveston , was married on May 27 to Beth A. Bond. Robert is attending the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Chri s J Schmucker (BBA , MS ' 93 Accounting) , Lubbock, was ma rried on ju ne 24 to Aimee Gi l l. Chr is is w ith the fi rm of Sandefur & Sw indl e.

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Lanny Fie/

" To kick thin gs off, they invited me to co me back and play Texas fiddle tune s with (Texas Tech al umna) Kathy Borrego. "

Fief 's books and tapes include " The Essential Texas Fiddle: Improvisation and Harmony , featuring joe Stephenson" and "P l ay It Lazy: The Bob Wills Fiddle Legacy, featuring Frankie McWhorter." His research , involvement with the "Roots Music" program and new l y reinforced relationship with the Autry Museum has l eft Fiel extremely excited.

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I' m very interested in establishing a link with the Autry Museum, in particular go ing back out there and trying to do some more things like this," he said. " I have been collecting oral music history from the West Texas area and I think it would be great to expa nd and go to Ca l ifornia and interview the old movie cowboys, to also make "Roots" programs there and docume nt t h ei r ac h ievemen ts.

" It would be something shared by both the Southwest Co ll ection at Texas Tech and the Autry Museum. Me going out there this year provided a good shot in the arm for something li ke that happening in the future. "

(William Kerns '75 is a freelance writer for the Techsan and entertainment editor for the Lubbock Avalanche-journal.)

Marc Abbott (BBA Accounti ng), Hobbs, N.M. , and Kristi Roy (BS H uman Deve l opment/Fami ly Stu dies) were marr ied on june 24. Marc i s emp l oyed b y Amoco Production Co.

Chri s Driskill ( BS Cell & Molecular Bio l ogy), Lubbo ck, and Nancy Stocking (BS ' 93 Family Relati ons) were married on june 17. Nancy is emp loyed by Lubbock l SD.

Dawn D Fische r (BS Human Deve l opme nt / Family Studies), Lubbock, was ma rr ied on jun e 24 to Cullis L. King Il l. D awn is atte nding Texa s Tec h Michael R Graham ( BS El ectr i cal En gine eri n g), Nort h Ri c hl an d H ills, was marr i ed on june 10 to Bren da Fish. M ic hael is employed by Motoro l a. Jill I. Griffin (BS Comm unication Studies ), Austi n, was ma rr ied on j une 3 to Eri c Bernard.

James R Hamilton (BS Range Management), Stephenville, was marr ied on Ju l y 1 to Ronn i e G. Barnett. James is attend ing graduate school at Tarleton.

Leigh Harvey (Gene ral Studies), Ok l ahoma City, Okla. , was married on jul y 22 to Dan Lewis.

Robert A. Higgins (BA Po l it ical Scie n ce), Lubbock, and Kristi D. Lloyd (BA '95 En glis h ) were marr i ed o n j u ne 10.

J. Chad Johnson (BBA Accoun ti ng ), Lubbock, and Nicole Gibson (BS '95 Human Development/Family Stud ies) were ma rr ied o n jun e 24. Chad is employed by Polla rd Fo rd.

Sarah Kell y ( BS Exerc i se & Sports Sciences), Houston, is a personal trainer at Q The Sports Club in Sugar Land.

Robby Kirkland (BS Ani ma l Busi ness), Amarillo, was married o n jul y

22 to Amy Bryant. Robby i s employed at Kirk l and Feedya rd.

Garrett Perkins (Theat r eActing/Directing) , Lubbock, and Lee Ann Dan i el (BSE ' 84 El e menta ry Education, MED ' 91 Educati ona l Ad mini strati on) we re m arri ed on Ju ly 22. Garrett is se l f employed a nd Lee Ann is employed by Lubbock lSD

Monica l. Pierc e (BA Soc i a l Welfare), Lubbock, was marr i ed on M ay 2 0 to Mi chae l Birdwell. Michae l i s attendi n g Texas Tech and i s employed by Methodist Hosp ital.

Tiffa ny P ope (BA English ), Lubbock , was mar ried on june 1 0 to jason W eese. Ti ffany is e mplo yed b y Fre nsh i p l SD.

Adon Pow ell ( BB A Management In formation Syste m s), Irvi ng, was ma rri ed on June 3 to De ean n Lowe. Adon is emp loyed by Banctec in Da ll as Charles L. Rober son ( BA Adve rti s in g), D a ll as , an d Stacy Blum enfe ld (BA Publi c Relations) were ma rri e d on jul y 1. C h arles is emp l oyed

b y Mega Equipment of Fort Worth and Stacy b y Sovereign H omes of Da ll as. Toby Sc haef (Ra nge M anage ment) , Perryto n , an d Elizabeth Moore (BS Multid i sci plinary Sc i ence) were married on Ju l y 1 5.

Mich elle Tosi (BA Psyc hology), Lubbo c k, was ma r r i ed on june 10 to Matthew T Stephens. Mich e ll e is employed by Mor Le.

Juli e K lowe (BS Mu l tidisciplinary Stu di es), G r oom , was marri ed on july 8 to Jeffrey Couc h Ju li e is emp loyed by Groom l SD.

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Caro l yn M. A shmore ( BBA Management), Lubbock , was married on Jun e 17 to Christopher Osborne.

Jason A Be c ker (B BA , MBA Acco u nting), Pa mpa , wo n f i rs t place in t h e Beta Alpha Ps i graduate manuscript contest. H is paper em phas i zes th e impo r tance of ethi ca l be hav io r for accounti n g professionals.

Lila Booker (En g l ish) , Socorro, N.M., was married on j une 3 to Rodney

Earwood. Patrick B Connor (BM Mus i c), Lubbo ck, an d Bobbie Jo Hrncirik (BS '93

Famil y Re l ations) were married in j une.

Stacy l. Davis (BS C i v il Enginee rin g), Gar l an d , was married on June 3 to Lori H o ll y.

Terri I. Gordo n (BS Multidi sc ip lin ary St udie s), Lubbock, was married o n Jun e 10 to Russe ll S. Nash. Ter ri is em ployed by Lu bbock l SD.

Kevin G r avett (BA Math e m at ics ), H ouston , was marri e d on Jul y 1 to Sh e ll y Staggs. Kev in is em p l oye d b y Wes tern Geophysica l.

Paige E Harrell (BS Re sta urant, Hotel & In st i tutional Manageme n t), Lubb ock, was m a rried o n ju ly 29 t o Edward W. Carpenter.

Jesse Jant ze n (B BA Mana geme nt) , Lubbock, and Shannon L. Co llin s (BS ' 91 Rest aurant, Hotel & In st itut io nal Management) were married on jun e 3. j ess i s e mp loyed by B.T H ea lth ca re and Shan non by Mosby Pu bli sh ing .

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Agri c ulture), Sweetwater, was married on july 8 to Keel y Wood

Brent McGa vock (BBA Management ), Lubbock, a nd Amy Ha rd e r (BS Hum an De ve l opment/Family St ud ies) were m arried on June 10. Bren t i s w ith McGavoc k Motors Inc. in Pl ainview and Am y is employed b y Bi g Brot hers/ Big Sisters

Micha e l C. Mickan (BBA Marketi n g), Lubbo ck, was marri ed o n Jun e 10 to Mendy R Reed He is employed by N o rwest Bank.

Lissette Miranda (MS Bu si n ess Administration ), D alla s, is a ca pita l market s ana l ys t for Te xas Commerce Bank. Li sset t e r eceived h er firs t d egree from Florida I nterna ti o n al Un i versity.

Jon D. Mit c hell (BS Ele ctrica l Engin ee ring ), Fort Worth, and Angela R. Dulane y ( Pre Physical Therapy ) we r e marri ed on jun e 10 j on is emplo yed b y Motorola an d An ge l a i s attendi ng the Unive rsi ty of North Texas.

Shannon Pe e ple s (Exe rcise & Sports Scie nces), Henr ietta , was married on June 1 7 to Patrick Nobles.

Ma rk Ri c ha rd s (B GS Gene ral Studi es) , Housto n, an d Ingrid Ma ngold (BS ' 94 Human D eve l opment/ Famil y Studi es) we re marri ed o n june 24 Mark is emp loyed by Kimball H i ll Constru ction and In gri d by Kat y l SD

Michael S. Steward (BBA A ccounting) , Dallas, was marr ied on jul y 22 to Am y L. Cr i tes Mi ch ael i s em p loye d by Delo i tte and Tou che LLP.

Michae l P. Voigt (BS Mechanica l Engineering), Lubbock, and Mary R. Garza (BBA ' 87 Management) were mar ri ed on jun e 1 7. Michael i s emp l oyed by UMC A viat ion Se r v i ces and Mar y b y Mclau gh li n Ban csha res In c.

David W . Waltrip ( BS Mechanical En gineeri n g), Sa n Anto ni o , and julie K . Kl e in (BS '9 4 Biology) we re marr i ed o n j uly 8 David se r ves in th e U.S Marin e Corp s and Julie is attendi ng the Uni ve rsity of Tex as HSC.

Phil Ward (BBA Management), Lu bb ock , was married on Ju n e 30 to D arcy Goodwin

Gregg M. White (BS Ag ri cu l tural Eco nomics), San An ton i o, was married on june 10 to jenn i fe r S. j oh nson.

DEATHS

(Se nd obitu ar y announcements to : Su sa n Bowen, P O Box 4 5 007 , Lubbo ck, TX 7 9409. Plea se include date of death.)

J.V. Beau c hamp , 80 , of Lu bbo c k died june 1 7. ) V r ece i ved h is ba c h e lor 's degree in acco untin g i n 1936 H e pl ayed football for the Red Raider s and wo rked for Ben E. Keith Co ., re ti rin g as ge n eral mana ger. Survi v or s in cl ude his wife, Margaret Opp '3 9, and two sons.

Gary Cave , 33 , of W a ll d i ed Ju ne 20 Gar y st ud ied i nterior design while he was a stud e nt at T ec h in 1 993. He wo rkked as a n accounta nt for a propert y manageme nt c omp a ny in Dall a s. H e is surv ived b y hi s parents , one broth er, one sis ter and one stepbrother.

Anna Belle Collins Collier , 87 , of Lu bbock di e d jul y 3 1 Anna Belle rece i ved her ba chelor's d egree in clothing and te x ti les in 1929 She was a fo r m er ch eerleader and was named Mi ss Te x as T ec h in 1 927 An n a Be ll e was named a Di stin g uished Alumna in 1982. Sh e was ret ired v i ce president of Park C i t i es Bank in D allas. Anna Belle was pr ece ded in d e ath b y h e r h u s ba n d , Ra l ph, in 19 55 a n d b y her daughter , Beverl y Mill iga n, i n 1990 Her survivors incl ud e four grandchildren

Mildred Jane Mast Cox , 85 , of Au stin di ed ju ly 3. Jane re ce i ved he r bachelor' s de g ree in Engli sh i n 1929 a nd taught sc hoo l in Lubbo c k and Lamesa for 23 years. Sh e was preced ed in death b y her hu sband , William , in 1 979. Surv ivors i n c l ud e two sons

ROBINSON RECEMS DAR MEDAL OF HONOR

Jess L. Robinson ' 48, '50 of H ereford i s recip i e nt of th e Los Cibo l e r os C h a pte r of th e D a u g hters of th e American Revo l ution Medal of H onor. Hi s awa rd recogn i zes trustworthine ss, l ead ersh ip, patri oti sm and se rvice.

Robinson wa s b orn in Qua il in Co llin gswo rth Cou nty. Very ea r ly h e es tabli shed his goa l to ed ucate youth

H e atte nd ed West Texas State Co ll ege before ente r ing the Army, servi ng in the Europ ean-Afri ca n Middle Eastern Th ea tre of Operations for 1 2 m o n ths.

Hi g h l y d ecorated b y the war's en d , Robinson atte nd ed Shri ve nham Ameri ca n University in England , while wa itin g to return h ome

Robinso n e nroll e d at T exas Tech and ea rn ed a bachelor' s degree in an i mal hu sba n dry in 1948 and a master's degree in 1950.

H e moved to H e r efo rd in 1 954, accep ti ng a position as vocatio n a l agricultu re t each e r Hi s ca ree r l as ted more th an 35 yea rs.

As an educa tor, he tri ed to instil l in

hi s stu d ents t h e fee lin g of patrio ti sm , to develop l eadership in hi s stude nts, a nd t o establish root s i n th e community

Hi s student s numb e r more th an 2,000.

Robinson has Jess Robinson been the re cipient of nume rou s awards f rom teache r s' association, H erefo rd Young Farm ers and FFA. H e i s a pastpres i de nt of H erefor d K i wa n is cl ub and a member of the city's Senior C iti ze ns Assoc iation.

Robinson an d his w ife, Patricia Brown Robin son '5 1, ha ve four son s, Lee, Otis, j ess Arthur, and Ira , all g radu ates of Texas Tech.

They are th e gra n dpare nts of 1 1 grandsons a nd two granddaughters. (Based on an arti cle in th e H ereford Dail y Brand sent to us b y M s. Argen Hix Draper ' 48)

Tracie Cain Oensford , 33, of Lubbock died ju ne 16. Tracie stud ied advertising while she was a stud ent at Tech in 1985 then became a f li ght attendant for American Airlines. She is survived by her husband, Darren ' 87 ; one son and one daughter.

Jack Fletcher, 67, of Midland died ju ne 1 Jack received h is bachelor's degree i n petro leum eng in eering in 1959. H e was an ind ependent petroleum eng ineer in g co n sul t ant. Su rv i vo rs include his wife, Delphia; three daughters, a ste pson and two stepdaughters.

John L. Gillispie, 76, of Wo l fforth died july 3. jo hn received his bachelor's degree in eco no mics in 1940. He was the ret ired ow ner of a rendering plant. Surv i vors inc lud e his wife, Kathryn Mcllhaney '45, and three so n s.

Edwin H. Irons, 74, of Lubbock died ju ly 21. Ed received his bachelor's degree in genera l business in 1942. H e was a lett erman on the football and basketball teams at Texas Te c h He se r ved as tea cher, coa ch, principal and superintendent of severa l Texas schoo l s before becoming super int e nd e nt of Lubbo ck ISO in 1970, ret i red i n 1983. Su rvivors inc lud e hi s wife , Jane; two sons and three daughters.

Kenneth Levens , 35,of A l amogordo, N.M., died May 10. Kenne th received his bachelor's degree in agricu l tu r al economic s in 1982. An Air Force ca ptain i n Stea lth f i g hte r training at the time of hi s death, Kenneth h ad b een assigned to Reese Air Force Base in Lub bock as an undergraduate pilot and in structor He is survived by his w ife , Cathy; and a daughter, Jacie.

Dorothy lomax of Lubbock died Jul y 22. Dorothy receive d her master's degree in general education in 1942. She taught at Lubbock Hi gh Schoo l a nd was director of secondary educat ion for the Lubboc k ISO until her ret irement in 1963. The Dorothy Lomax Cente r for the Lubbock ISO was n a med in h er honor. Her su rv ivors include a nephew and nieces.

Mildred lewis Martin , 87, of Petersburg died Ju l y 26. Mildred received her bachelor's degree in elementary educat i on in 1957. She taught sc hoo l in Petersburg for 29 years, retiring in 1970. She received t he Outstanding Teacher Award in 1964.

Mi ld red was p receded in death by he r husba nd , C l yde, in 197 3, and a daughter, Barbara Barto n , i n 1980 She is surv i ved b y a son.

George Medley, 73, of Mid l and d i ed ju l y

TEXAS TECH US T.U. ''RED RAIDER RUCKUS''

November 3 & 4, 1995 Aust in Marr iott at th e Capitol

FOOTBALL WEEKEND PARTY

Friday Night Dance & Silent Auction Music by Jod y Nix & T he Texas Cowboys 8:00 p.m -1 :00 a.m.

Tickets $2 5.00 p e r couple advance I $30 00 at t he door $15 .00 single advance I $20 00 at the door Cash Bar Silent Auction

Saturday Pre-Game Breakfast and Pep Rally 3 hours prior to kickoff I Fu II breakfa st $1 0.00 per person Re d Rai d e r Ru c ku s Is Spo n so re d By • The Dental Offices of David W. Carr- Austin • By-Well Ltd Austin • Dicky Grigg, Attorney at Law- Austin • j ohn & Marianne Kyger- Austin • Lonnie & And re a Ball Austin • Ch uck & jean Strehli Austin Please make check or money order payable to TTESA. Mail to 206 W. 13th Street, Suite 200A, Austin, TX 78701.

26. George recei ved his bachelor 's degree in civil engineering in 1953 He worked for Ogborn Steel Co. in Midland an d served as publi c works director from 1965 to 1969 H e was city engineer from 1969 to 1 984, when he retired. Survivors include his wife, Eleanor; two sons and two daughters.

Bonnie Gary Mims of Barwise Community died July 18 . Bonnie received her bachelor 's and master's degrees in elementary education in 1936 and 1951. She taught fi rst grade in th e Lubbock public school sys tem for 42 yea rs. She was preceded in death by her first husband , Lawrence McCrory, and her second husband, D.V. Mims. She is survived by a brother.

Helen Eiland Palmore , 80, of Lamesa died june 24. Helen received her bache l or's deg ree from Texas Tech in home economics education in 1935 and taught at Tu scola and Canton schools Survivors include her husband, John '3 1 , and two daughters.

Milton Pe eples, 67, of Roby died June 26. Milton received his bac h elor's and master's degrees in dairy management in 1949 and 1954 and was a professor of food techno l ogy Te xas Tech f rom 1951 He retired in 1979 and i s surv ived by a daughter.

Myrtle Cone Pevehouse, 99, of Lubbock died June 7. Myrtle recei ved her bachelor' s degree in history in 1932. She taught school in H ale, Lubbo ck, Dawson, Yoakum, Lynn and Terr y coun ties. He r survivors include one son and one daughter

Claudia J Price, 37, of Wylie died June 18. Cla u dia rec eived her doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1983 and was an attorney for Republic Title in Plano. She is survived by one son.

John E. Price of Dallas di ed jul y 13 . John was a former Texas Tech music teacher. He was the recipient of the Fulbr ight Scho l arship to study in Paris. Survivors i nclude one sister.

George T Robertso n, 62, of Denver, Colo., died June 5. George received his bache l or's degree in finance in 1962 He retired from the Department of Commerce , Economic Development Administration, in December 1 988 following 37 years of serv i ce with the Federal Government. Survivo rs include his wife, Ann, and one son.

Herman Segrest, 81, of Lubbock died June 3. Herman joined the faculty at Texas Tech in 1962 and retired in 1984. H e became professo r e111e ri t u s in 1967. Survivors include his w i fe, Nettie; two sons and a daughter.

Mildred Alldredge Strickland , 77, of Lubbock died June 29. Mild red received her bachelor's degree in home economi cs edu cat ion in 1938. Mi l dred is su rvived by her husband , J. Hassler '39; three sons and one daughter.

Dexy Sudduth, 79, of Lu bbock died May 31. Dexy received his bachelor's deg ree i n journa li sm in 1941 He worked in the oil business w i th Sudduth Oi l Properties in Lubbock and was a partne r in ownership of Eat on-Suddut h Printin g a n d Office Supply Co. in Plainview. Survivors include his wife, Winnie Hoose r '41 , and two daughters.

Er nest Sullivent Jr ., 61, of Northridge, Calif., died May 30. Ernest received a bache l or's degree in texti l e engineer i ng in 1954 and another bachelor's degree in el ectrical engin ee ring in 1956. He was an engineering manager fo r Allied Signal/Bendix Oceanics and is survived by his w ife, Belva; two sons and two dau ghters

William E. Summey, 56, of Dallas died earlier in the year. He received his bachelor' s degree in journalism in 1961 and was a churc h receptionist. Survivors include his wife, Patsy

Billy D Walker, 53, of Austin died Jul y 17. Bi ll y received his bache l or's degree in seco nd ary education in 1966 and his docto rate degree in ed u cation in 1977 . He se rved as exec uti ve director of the

Tex as Association of School Boards. He is survived by his wife, Betty.

Robert J. Walker , 85, of San Antonio died July 2 Robert received his bachelor 's degree in business education in 1936. Robert was a cheerleader and helped de sign the Dou ble -T logo. In 1936, he started R&R Supply Co ., a combination of radio a nd refrigerator services. The company eventually signed on with Ampex Corp ., which i ntroduced its fi rs t videotape machine in 1956 Nine years later, using equipment des igned by Robert, Tech and Coach j. T. King introduced instant repl ay to college football. Robert retired in 1984 when he so l d his own company, Video Electronic Systems Inc. He was preceded in death by his fi rst wife, Naomi. Survivors include his wife, Lorna ; one son and two daughters.

Charles E Weichert, 52 , of San Antonio died June 7 . Charles received his bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology in 1 965 and 1 966 and taught at San Antonio College for 28 years. Survivors include hi s wife, Nancy Hicklin '66, and two sons.

Curtis B. Williams, 83 , of Albuquerque , N.M. , d i ed j an. 5. Curtis received his bachelor's degree in dairy management in 1933. After working in the dairy i ndus try , he became a district manager for State Farm Insurance Cos. , a position he held unt i l retirement. Survivors are his wife, Mary; a son and a daughter

Phil Williams, 58, of Odessa died July 2. Phil was a four-year letterman fo r football in 1955 He was a terminal manager for Time DC, Graves Motor Freight and A&R Motor Freight. Survivors are his wife, Mari ly n; one son, two daughters and three stepsons.

Rogst ad Zac hary , 75 , of Lu bbock died july 21. Rogstad studied general business while he was a student at Tech in 1 942. He was with Keeton Cattle Co ., which became Keeton Zachary Cattle Co. He later owned Zachary Lawson Feed Lots. Survivors i nclude h is w i fe, Bernice Keeton ' 42; a son and a daughter.

DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, AND LOVING WHAT YOU DO

Someone o n local radio recently made a statement th at rea lly reg i st ered w ith me He sai d , "Ca n you imagine what it would be like gettin g up every morning and going to a job you really hated?"

Yes, I ca n. Once in my li fe I was in th at position. I was rig ht out of high sc hool , and it was just a summer job, fortunately. I fou nd out q u ick l y that l iki ng you r job meant n o t just you r "d utie s," but who you were work i ng for an d wit h. Th at job eve n cha nged my personality. In thr ee months I went f rom a bubb l y, happy, t a lk ativ e ki d to a person who rarely laughed, dragged out of bed each morning and resen ted terr ibl y hav i ng to g o to a job w h e re I was forced to li ste n to o ffice gossip, observe office politics a nd i gnore obvious attempts for " office passion." To put it bluntly, it was the summer f rom hell!

Th at o n e br i ef i nterlude in my 18-ye ar-old life propelled me headlo ng and st rong into co llege, hell-bent on a career i n the only thi ng I' d wanted to do since awaken i ng to a love for wri t ing in the f ift h g rade. I wa nted to be a journali st, and th at was th at. Many years have pa sse d , no w, since ob tain in g t h at d egree, a nd I h ave worked i n a var iety of wri ti ng jobs, from new spape rs i n Illi noi s and Alabama, to sports in fo rm ation (for Coach Bear Bryan t) , and n ews and publications at the University of A l abama. I've done public re l ations wor k, and now I've found my ni c he i n magazines.

I love th is ki nd of writing w ork it comb in es P.R and journalism and even a llows room fo r feat ures. Through it, I have ha d the privilege of being around others who love what they do, too, w het he r it is art , m us ic, directing a Fortune 500 compan y, r un ning a restaurant, helpi ng th e home l ess, pun c hin g computer keys or punching cows. There is one quali ty I have found in the se people that se ts them apart from others l ess fo r tunate i n t he ir professions, and that is en thu siasm W hen th ey talk abo ut t he ir wo rk , t he ir eyes g l ow, they sm ile, literally they c ome a li ve! They wa nt to show you th e ir work; t h ey keep up with te c hnology and n ew kn ow l ed ge; they think c reatively about how to do it differently and better; th ey intera ct; and the y fee l good about getting up every morning to do it some more!

When 1 think of p eop le who are enthusiastic when they ta l k about the i r work, three men imm ediately come to mind. I co uld be brain-dead and they would still co m e to mind: Cur t Langford, Randy Steele and Tim Cha m bers. If ever God c reated loya l "co mpany men ," the se three are proof of it.

When I think of people who are enth usiastic when th ey talk about their work, three men i mme diatel y come to mind. I could be b rain -dead and they would still come to m ind: Curt Langford, Randy Steele and Tim Chambers. If ever God create d lo yal "com pany men,'' these three are proof of it.

- Marsh a Gustafson

Curt is spec i a l pro j ects director for our offi ce, a nd h e lives and brea thes Te xas Tec h. H e i s gung ho fo r the Ex St u dents Association getting bigger, with stronger support and do i ng new things to en co urage th at loyalty with oth ers. H e l oves his uni versity . Ra nd y Stee l e i s a boot man . H e sells them fo r ju st i n, and he knows ho w to do it ri ght. H e's t he type w h o'd te ll you stra ight about which boots are t he bes t for you and i n w hich ones you'd look li ke a dork. Only, he'd do it w ith tact. Randy is a Red Rai der a Texas Tec h fa n to th e dea t h. T im Chambers is directo r of develop ment for the Co llege of Arts & Sc i ences, and Tim is a stat i stician for the Red Raider foo tball and bas ket ba ll teams. I n fact, the Missouri game re presented the 1OOt h foo tba ll game for wh i ch T im has kept stats. Tha t's a ten u re longer than the band announcer, the ga me anno uncer, certai nl y t he head coach, and m any of t he fans, of which he i s defini tely one. Tim i s one o f those rare people who EVERYbody likes. H e has class.

A few week s ago, wh il e attendi n g Lu bbock's Wa l k of Fame ceremo n y i n w h ich Tech-ex Gary P. N unn was being i nducted, I noticed th at ent h us iasm t h ing again. After th e i nduc tion , Nunn and fe ll ow indu ctee Glen D H ardin, were joi n ed by Nunn's band o n stage. As t hey p l ayed for th e c rowd, N unn 's eyes li ter a ll y glowed. I looked at Hardi n , si tting at the p i ano. He was gri nnin g his bashful smi le an d loo k in g equally as ha ppy The two men had been sh y i n th eir acceptance of th e awa rd s, kind of an "aw shucks" attitude about them. But w hen t hey started doing wha t they do, the y we re tota ll y exuberant. It was gratif ying to watch

As it i s with others who possess enth u siasm fo r t hei r work, or their hobbies, or their bab ies, or their spouses, or life. Enthusias m is a wonde rf u l qua l i ty for a pe rson to possess. It makes getting up in the morning a whole l ot easie r. :r

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