To Tech Ex-Students

the world over

and A HAPPY NEW YEAR

TEXAS TECH EX-STUDENTS OFFICE

L. C. WALKER, Executive Secretary Arline Whaley Jamie Lou Kellar Erma Folley 0. G. Nieman EX.;STUDENTS* ASSOCIATION OFFICERS IElIIRl5 President...... Jack Maddox, '29 Vice President...... :... .Hart Shoemaker, '41 ElCH5ilnl 2nd Vice President...... Harold Huffman, '39 Director...... Vol. 4 No. 8 December, 1953 ...... }laul New, '42 Director...... Robert Work, '37 Director...... CONTENTS ...... Ralph Blodgett, •,.n Immediate Past President...... D. M. McElroy, '35 FEATURES Rep. to Athletic Council...... Yancey Price, '35 Tech in ------'------3 Ex. Secretary...... L. C. Walker, '49 Raiders Are Honored ------5

Tech's Gator Bowl Queen ------:____ 6

LOY ALTY* . FUND Judging Tearns Win ------7 TRUSTEES Raiders of 1938 ------·------10 Kenneth LeftWlch ·Charles McNeese Ralph Blodsett Don Wooten James WhlWslde Georre Lanrtord O. B. Batlltt D. M. McElroy DEPARTMENTS Huch Rowland J ack Maddox L. O. Walker The Techsan Salutes ------2 * Observin' Sports ------4 .TtiE COVER Bear Our Banners ------~------8 I ' ~.- The two Red Raiders pictured on the cover are headed for two Hitch in' Post ------~··----- 12 bowl ga,mes in 1954. After Bob­ by Cavazos of Kingsville and J immy Williams of Phillips play Tech sa ns In Service ------14 in the Gator Bowl against Au­ burn, they'll go to the Senior Bowl at Mobile, Ala., Jan. 9. Cavazos, 190-pound halfback, and Williams, 210-pound tackle, Published In February, Aprll, June, August, September, October, November and December both made All-Border Confer­ by the Ex-Students Association ot Technologlcal College, Lubbock, Texas. ence. Cavazos also made the Associated Press All-American Entered as second class matter at the post office at Lubbock, Texas. second team and was second Change of a ddress: New address should be sent to the Association among the nation's scorers. offices 30 days prior to date of issue with which it Is to take effect.

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EWITT WEAVER, athletic director and head football at DTexas Tech, is the director of the Red Raiders's successful 10-1 football record this year and has been named "Coach of the Year" in the Border Conference. The gray-haired 1936 graduate of Tennessee was also nominated · for Southwesterner of the Year by Te~as Sportswriters Association. Weaver was · captain of the Tennessee team in 1936 and an all-Southeastern. Conference selection at guard. He coached at Tennessee, Centre College, Mississippi State and Tulsa before com­ ing to Tech in 1951. For the second time in his three years as head coach, Weaver is bringing his Raiders into a bowl game. His 1951 team grabbed the Border Conference title and defeated College of Pacific, 25-14, in the 1952 . This year's team, national scoring champions, swept through a 5-0 conference record and the ninth title for Tech in 19 seasons. Now the coach prepares his team for their first major bowl tilt since 1938--a Gator Bowl engagement with Auburn. The Techsan also salutes Weaver's assistant coaches and the entire Raider squad for helping to bring national fame and prestige to our college. The Raiders showed a combina­ tion of poise and spirit in rebound­ ing fr!>m a 3-7-1 mark in 1952 to a 10-1 mark and high national rankings this year. Key to most of the Tech victories were a high­ scoring offense and a light but hard-eharging line. The team had strength in depth too. Weaver was able to send in two full tea.ins capable of playing the opposition on even terms. The so-called "sec­ ond team" accounted for nearly half of the Raiders' 64 touchdowns. Tech's versatile attack is shown by the fact that 22 backs and two linemen participated in advancing the ball 4,141 yards on scrimmage plays during the season. Further evidence of the team's depth is found in the nµmber of men scor­ ing, 18; passing, eight; receiving, 15; returning punts 11; running back kickoffs, 12; intercepting passes, eight; and punting, five. Weaver has attributed the Raid­ ers' success to poise brought by · six starting seniors, spirit sparked by a determination to avenge last year's record, plus the aid of four starting sophomores. Assistant Coach Bob Kellogg may have summed it up by this statement, "All our boys are great, and if they kept statistics on team spirit and co-operation, DEWITT WEAVER the Raiders would lead the list." December, 1953 3 Red Raiders Are Gator BoWI Bound Tech Plays Auburn In New Year's Day Football Classic In Jacksonville, Florida After one of the most successful 20-7 over W

orts with bill holmes CINDERELLA TEAMS burn yielded 234.8 yards a game, were the line standouts, but most within a fraction of Tech's op­ agree that the Raider tackle com­ Texas Tech's Red Raiders can't ponents, who averaged 235.5 yards bination of sophomore Jerry be blamed if they think someone per contest. Walker of Pampa and Jimmy Will­ is holding a mirror up to them Auburn's leading ball carrier is iams of Phillips was the best in when they study their Gator Bowl a sophomore left halfback, Fob the Southwest. In fact, Walker opponents. James, who averaged 6.7 yards on and Williams, along with guard Both are Cinderella teams, re­ his 72 tries for a net of 482. Top Don Gray of Breckenridge, full-· bounding from dismal 1952 sea­ passer is quarterback Bobby Free­ back Jim Sides of Lubbock, Kirk­ sons. While Auburn was being man, a junior, who completed 42 patrick ,and Cavazos all made All­ saddled with a 2-8 mark, Texas of 84 throws for 603 yards and Border Conference. Tech was limping through a 3-7-1 four touchdowns. Favorite target An early-game effort paid off schedule last fall. is sophomore Jim Pyburn, who for the Raiders. Only two touch­ But now both schools who ex­ caught 25 pases for 379 yards and downs were scored against Tech perienced mighty teams in the three touchdowns this season. Ul'l while the Raiders were account­ 30s are back in the national lime­ in the line at a key tackle spot ing for 120 points in the initial light. The opposing coaches - is a 225-pound wheelhorse the quarter. West Texas State jumped Ralph (Shug) .· Jordan of Auburn Raiders will have difficulty coping off to a 7-0 lead in the season's and DeWitt ·weaver of Texas with, sophomore Frank D'Agost­ opener, and Texas A&M tallied Tech-have .been named "Coach ino.. seven points in the first quarter of the Year" in their respective before· the Raiders knotted the conferences, the Southeastern and RAIDER ATIACK count in· the second period. Those the Border. · An AP All-American second were the only teams ever to lead Both the split-T. Both have team selection, Bobby Cavazos, a Tech. · two teams of practically equal King Ranch product, led the Raid- Tech's average of 38.9 points strength-Aubt;irn . with its "X" ers' attack, but Tech's secret was per game got a big boost in the and· "Y". teams, Texas Tech with a balanced offense and strength 71-0 win over New Mexico A&M its No. 1 and No. 2 units that seem in depth. Cavazos scored 80 points but Weaver didn't leave in his to alternate in having more offens­ and averaged 7.8 yards in· amass- first stringers in an attempt to ive power. ing 757 yards on 97 carries. Op- pour it on. Most of the varsity Auburn shifts from its split-T ponents couldn't concentrate on went to the showers at halftime, · to run some single wing and Cavazos, however, since the Raid- and 35 freshmen played in the tight T plays, but the Raiders ers had seven, backs gaining more final period. In all, 75 Raiders can move into· their "L" forma­ than 260 yards and five others saw service. tion. In this set-up, the quarter­ averaging four yards or better a back is taileback, and the other try. three· backs line up behind one of STATISTICS & RECORDS the ends. · . Because the Raiders's passing Bobby Cava,zos' 80 points, second game was slow in coming around, by one nationally, new Tech Scholastically ·the · schools are Tech's total offense average, 376.5 record; old record 79, Harold similar. Auburn is actually Ala­ yards a game, high among the Cdites in 1932; 32 enemy fumbles bama· Polytechnic Institute, . anQ. nation's leaders, was gained most- recovered, new national record; Tech's full. name is T ex a s ly along the ground. After mid- Technological College. Both col­ season, however, the Raiders aver- old record, 30 by Colorado A&M leges have a complete liberal arts aged two touchdowns a game in '49, Detroit and NYU in '51. program to go with their techni­ through the air. Tech's Longest (in '53)- Kick- cal curricula. ·. Key to the most of Tech's vie- off returns, 100 yards by Jack Auburn won't have the only tories was a light but hard-charg- Kirkpatrick against West Texas only Plainsmen on the field. Texas ing line. Tech's forwards, aver- and Tulsa· pass interception re­ Tech is located on the high South aging 197 pounds, g~ve aw8:y 17 ·turn-Gar; Boyer, 67, against Plains of Texas (at 3,200 feet), pounds per man agamst Arizona . and the words "Plainsman" and and 15 against Houston. In each . COP; run from scrimmag~6. "Plainsmen" are familiar ones out game Tech runners and passers Cavazos against New Mexico in Lubbock, Hub City of West accounted for more than 400 yards A&M; pass play-49, Jerry .John­ Texas. of total offense. . son to Norman Janes against Like the Raiders, the Tigers Best job of defensing came A · . t t -J 56 have a well-balanced attack, with against Mississippi State when ri~ona, pun r~ urn anes a host of good ball carriers and Tech linemen threw the famed agamst New Mexico A&M. probably a bit more emphasis on Jackie Parker for minus fifteen Most touchdowns one game-:­ passing. Both teams t>laced stress yards rushing during the after- Cavazos four against Arizona, ty­ on offense. Auburn averaged 339.8 noon. ing mark set by Elmer Tarbox yards a gaiil:ei Tech, 386.5. Au- Tech followers differ as to who against Oklahoma City in 1938. December, 1953 5

RAIDERS GAIN NATIONAL RECOGNITION Cavazos Make5 All-American; Kirkpatrick, Walker, Williams, Spooner Also ·Honored The highest honor ever bestow­ NEA All-American team. in the past and Tech's Jerrell ed on a Tech gridder was paid Tackle Jimmy Williams was Price made the AP second team to Bobby Cavazos, Raider half­ added to the "national recogni­ in 1951, but that was under the back, when Associated Press tion" list when be and Cavazos two platoon system. Before Tech re<:ently selected him for a berth received invitations to play in the became eligible for the "senior" on the All-American second team. Senior Bowl game in Mobile, Ala., All-American teams, a host of Red Quarterback Jack Kirkpatrick and on Jan. 8. Williams, along with Raiders were honored on the Tackle Jerry Walker received Co-Captain Vic Spooner, also re­ Little All-American teams, includ­ honorable mentions for the AP ceived an invitation to play in the ing Walter Scblinkman, Elmer "dream team." annual Bule-Gray tilt at Mont­ Tarbox and others. The three also received national gomery, Ala., Dec. 26. However, All-Conference Selections recognition from other sources. these invitations were turned Tech's mighty Red Raiders Cavazos, Kirkpatrick and Walker down because of the Raider's placed six men on the 1953 All­ all received honorable· mentions Gator Bowl game in New Year's Border Conference first team as· on the United Press All-American Day. picked by the league's coaches. selections, and Cavazos also gain­ Several Raiders have been nam­ Cavazos, who set a new Tech ed an honorable mention on the ed to the honorable mention list (See CAVAZOS, page 17)

TEXAS HAS PYRAMIDS, TOO-Coach DeWitt Weaver sent his ­ Gator Bowl bound-into a triangle formation for a group picture. These are the men slated to start against Auburn in the Gator classic. Bearing the heaviest burden are these on the bottom tier, from left to right-tackle Jerry Walker of Pampa, guard Howard Hurt of Borger, guard Don Gray (co-captain) of Breckenridge, and tackle Jimmy Williams of Phillips. In the second layer are (from the left), end Vic Spooner of Colquitt, Ga... (co-captain), center Dwayne West of Fort Worth, and end Paul Erwin of Odessa. Next row is composed of fullback Jim Sides of Lubbock and halfback Bobby Cavazos of Kingsville. Don Lewis, halfback from Quitaque, is just below the top man, quarterback Jack Kirkpatrick· of P ost. 6 Texas Techsan McGehee to Seek Texas Politics Lures Tech History Prof Gator Bowl Title Bette Jane McGehee has been named to represent Tech in the Into Writing His Sixth Book on Subiect contest for a queen of the Gator Bowl football game to be played BY ADRIAN COMBS which was described by Gov. Allen New Year's Day in Jacksonville, Toreador Staff Writer Shivers in 1952 as "one of the Fla. be::;t and most thorough analyses Miss McGehee was selected Dr. S. S. McKay, Tech history of the political scene in our state · from 17 candidates by the Student professor, is diligently at_ work on that I have ever encountered." Council. She is the daughter of his sixth book about the Texas A copy of this book was present­ Mr. and Mrs. D. K. McGehee of political scene. ed to each member of the Gov­ Canyon and is a transfer from Dr. McKay has been interested ernors' Conference last August on West Texas State College, where in politics ever since he was a Shivers' recommendation that it she was chosen football queen and boy on his father's farm in Bell was a good publication on Texas. cheerleader during her freshman County, near Temple. This Central Dr. McKay's writing career be­ year. She is a sophomore home Texas area has given rise .to such gan in 1924 when his first book, economics major and a member political figures as James and "Making the Texas Constitution of Pi Beta Phi. .Miriam-Pa and Ma to the voters of 1876," was published at Col­ Miss McGehee will compete - Ferguson. umbus, Ohio. At that time he was with entrants from eight southern After last year's unusual presi­ teaching American history at schools. The queen will be select­ dential election, Dr. McKay hur­ Ohio State University. ed during the Gator Bowl Basket­ riedly went back to his type­ Not content with this view on ball Tournament Dec. 28-29. The writer and began compiling mater­ the constitution, he dug back into winner will receive a $1,000 dia­ ial to cover. the Texas political the dusty files and six years later mond ring, a television set and a scene from 1945 through 1952. came out with "Debates in the $100 evening gown. Her expenses This book will be a follow-up to Texas Constitutional Convention will be paid while in Jacksonville. his "Texas Politics, 1906-1944," of 1875." In 1942, after watching the Texas Constitution being amended and re-amended, patched and re-patched, he published "Seven Decades of the, Texas Con­ stitution of 1876." In this book Dr. McKay points out the differ­ ent amendments that have been passed and explains wlry they were passed. His fourth book, "W. Lee O'Dan­ iels and Texas Politics, 1938-1942," was published in 1945. This book deals with the first years of the amazing career of the state's most successful vote-getter in recent years-the man who introduc~d the hillbilly band to politics. But it is also the story of James V. All­ red, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Dies, Ernest 0. Thompson, Coke Stev­ enson and others. In addition to his books, Dr. McKay has written over 60 art­ icles appearing in the "Handbook of Texas," 10 in the "Dictionary of American Biography," 5 in the "Dictionary of American History" and numerous others for the "Southwestern Historical Quarter­ ly," "Southwestern Social Quart­ erly" and "West Texas Historical Association Yearbook." Dr. McKay's early teaching career took him to North Texas State College, University of Penn­ sylvania, University of Texas, Ohio State University and Fur­ man University, in South Carolina. In 1928 he joined Tech faculty and has been here since, except for two years, 1948 and 1949. These were spent at the Univers­ ity of Texas as a visiting pro­ BETTE JANE MCGEHEE fessor. December, 1953 7 Chapter Chatter o Tulia Chapter Organized - James A. Potts, '48 agricultural graduate, was elected president when ex-students in the Tulia area organized a Texas Tech Ex­ Students Chapter on Nov. 12. Other officers elected were S. Dale Foreman, vice president; Betty Devin, secretary and treasurer; and Mrs. Pat Jones, reporter. Ap­ proximately 40 exes were present at the meeting. D. M. McElroy, past president of the Association, and Executive Secretary L. C. Walker attended from Lubbock to help organize the new chapter. • Corpus Exes Hold Special Dinner-Corpus Christi exes held a dinner Dec. 5 with Marine Lt. George O'Brien as guest of honor. The Tech ex received the Medal of ROLLIE TAYLOR BILLY L. JONES Honor Oct. 27 and is now sta­ tioned in Corpus Christi. The As­ sociation office sent· films of the Tech-Mississippi State and Tech­ Tech Judging Tearns Win Top Oklahoma A&M football games to be shown at the dinner. Robert T. Allen, '46 chemistry grad, is Honors In National Competition president of the Corpus chapter. • Midland Exes Have Dance - Tech's gridders are not the only cribed as "very unusual" by the Ex-students of Midland held their college representatives who have ·manager of the exposition. annual football dance Nov. 3. A been earning victories and national Carl Menzies, Tech senior from ·special feature of the evening was prestige fol'. their school. Menard, was also high in indi- the showing of films of two ·Tech The -T judging teams won vidual honors, ranking fifth in football . games .this season. two top places in Chicago recent- the overall competition. ly as they competed in intercol- Runner-up teams in the crops • Amarillo Plans Meetings--Two legiate contests held in conjunc- judging contest were Oklahoma special meetings are being planned tion with the International Live- A&M, University of N ebraska, by the Amarillo E.x-Students stock Show. South Dakota State and Kansas Chapter. The first, .in January, is First, . the crops judging team State. In the livestock judging, slated to have high schoolicoaches successflilly defended its 1952 Ohio State was second, followed and senior players from the Ama­ international championship title by Colorado A&M, Mississippi rillo area as g_uests." Films of a with a first-place victory on Nov. State, and Texas A&M. Tech game will be shown and 28. The following day, Tech's live- Tech's meats judging team also Coach DeWitt Weaver and L. c. stock judging team won first place took high honors in the national . . in a field of 37. teams. .competition with a fifth place . Walker have been_mv1ted to at- Rollie Taylor, Tech senior from among 24 teams. tend and speak to the group. The Ballinger, won top individual hon- The crops judging team com- second meeting, scheduled for -orms in the crops judging event prises Taylor, Max von Roeder, ·March, will have high school sen­ with 1,772 points out of a possible Snyder; Duane Mo)Jnts, Perryton; iors from Amarillo and surround- 1,800. The score was just 12 points and Clarence Mertins, Iowa Park, . . . under the all-time individual alternate. On the livestock judg- mg to~s as guests of honor. At record set in 1952 by Bryan Close ing team are Jones, Carl Williams, that time the chapter hopes to of Shamrock, a member of Tech's Hermleigh; Fred Willis, Odessa; present general information re­ first national and international Dals Hoover, Perrytol!; Lewis :garding Tech which might in- championship tea,m. Blau, Booker; and Menzies. terest these students in attend- Billy L. Jones, Tech seniot from Making up the meats judging Mercury, tied Harley Rice of team are Robert Fitzgerald of ing ·the college. Ohio State for top individual Vernon, Donald Johnson of Mid------honors among the livestock judg- land, Dwayne Harrall of Fort ELLEN WEBB MASSENGILL, ing contests. Each scored 936 out '53 HE education grad, is a home of a possible 1,000 points in over- Stockton and Rayinond Barrier of all judging. Dallas. economics teacher in tl.e Floyd As a team, the Tech crop judg- Coaches 1are Cecil I. Ayers, as- Public Schools, · Floyd, N. M. ers set a new high of 5,278 points sociate professor of agronomy; out of a possible 5,400, bettering Stanley Anderson, assistant pro­ . JEANNETTE HILL, another the international record of 5,246 fessor of animal husbandry; and '53 grad, is now teaching · physi­ set by Tech's 1952 team. The double win of two judging teams Fred Boren, assistant professor of cal education in the Quannah from the same institution was des- animal husbandry. Public Schools. 8 Texas Techsan

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'27 Eugenia, who is a freshman at Fund. He is now engaged in ranch­ C. R. CRAVER is now · a com­ Tech. ing in Otero and Lincoln counties mander in the U.S. Navy at San OLAN LEE PETTY received his of New Mexico. He was married Diego, Calif. He hopes to be back Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in June to the former Clara Beth in Mobile, Ala., in June, 1954, as in August, 1952. He obtained his Lynn of Ballinger. head engineer, plant d iv is i o n, B.S. at Tech in '39. '42 Corps of Engineers. '41 HAROLD R. THOMPSON, pe­ '29 TOM MOORHEAD, marketing troleum grad, has been transferred A. J. HEWETT is now owner of graduate, is now circulation man­ to Denver, Colo., where Shell Oil the J . . R. Gallimore Contracting ager for the Southwestern Corp Company is opening up a new area Co. in Greensboro, N. C. The com­ and Stock magazine. office, and he will be area produc­ pany is in the process of construct­ tion geologist for the new area. ing pre-stressed. concrete build­ G. VANCE BLACK was a recent ings having the biggest pre-stress­ contributor to the Tech Loyalty He was with Phillips Petroleum ed concrete girders ereded in the United States. The girders are 122 feet long and six feet deep. . This type of construction is com­ HELP!-U.s Correct Our Records paratively new in the U.S. 'SO MARY LOUISE McNEILL was If You Have: · awarded her Ph.D. from the Uni­ versity of Iowa in August, 1952. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Tech in '30 and '36, respect­ ively. New Address 'SI L. 0. THOMPSON is chief New Job chemist at the Amarillo refinery of The Texas ·company. He has been with the company since grad­ New Wife uating from Tech in '31 with a degree . in chemistry. His wife, the former Gertrude R. Pool, is or Husband a '32 graduate. 'S4 New Baby ELMORE PLEMON$, business administration graduate, is now city: clerk at Taylor, Texas. For­ merly of Brownwood, Plemons Your former classmates would like to know and we moved to Taylor in 1949 as man­ would like to have the information for "Bear Our Ban­ ager of the J . A. Sheppard Co. He took over the duties of city ners ·Far And Wide." clerk on Sept. 1. He and his wife have one daughter, Mary Ann, who Why not write this information in the space below is in the first grade. 'SS and send it to us- . MORT DENTON, chemistry graduate, is a pharmacist in Big THE EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Spring. He has been there since TECH STATION 1941. He and Mrs. Denton have two children. .. LUBBOCK, TEXAS . 'S9 BYRON OWEN TERRELL, his­ ,tory graduate, ·is now principal of the Clairemont. school. He return­ ed to the teaching profession after ·a position as· ·construction fore­ man for a ~ubbock contracting c(i~pany. His wife, . the .former · Jennie Bailey Nason, also attend­ ~d Tech and is now teaching at Clairemont. They have a daughter, December, 1953 9

Company two years following his ceived her B.A. in speech at Tech, graduation and spent four and one­ was awarded her M.A. degree from half years in Venezuela with the the University of Iowa in June, Shell Oil Company. Since return­ 1953. . ing to the U.S., he has worked in MAR LOU MOORE, summer various parts of the Gulf Coast graduate of '.52, is now teaching area in Texas and Louisiana. He first grade in the Pleasant Valley is ma rried and has two sons, ages school at Amarillo. 7 and 3 years. He was president JAMES W. CATHEY, education of the student body at Tech in graduate, is teaching social stud­ 1942. ies, history and mathematics in '48 the Anton Public Schools. . PHYLLIS DRAKE, home eco­ JIMMY T. HENLEY, journal­ nomics education grad, has ac­ ism graduate, was a recent vistor cepted a position in the home eco­ to the campus. He is working on nomics research department of the sports desk for the Fort Winthrop College in Rock Hill, Worth Star Telegram. s. c. '58 '46 GUY IRVING, geology grad­ MRS. ELOISE CLEMMER EL­ uate, is now in Calcutta, India. LIOTT, home economics graduate, He is a geologist for Standard­ is now teaching in the Jayton Vacuum of Calcutta. His address schools .She formerly taught hom'i! is: c/o S.V.0.C., 238-A Lower economics in the Clyde schools. Circular Road, Calutta, 20, India. Her husband also teacHes at Jay­ THELMA CORINNE BOWLIN ton. is now a physical education in­ TROY CALDWELL is now the structor in the, Alta Loma schools. state agent for Gulf Insurance Tech Grad May She was a P .E. graduate. Company in Denver, Colo. After MARGARET HELEN BROWN leaving Tech, he had six months Run For Governor is now employed with the State insurance schooling in Philadel­ Auditor's Department in Austin. John C. White, agriculture com­ She majored in Spanish. phia, Pa., with the Insurance Com­ missioner of Texas, may be a pany of North America. He workep candidate for governor in the 1954 CAROL LEE · RADEBAUGH, with this company in Dallas until race. An Associated Press story clothing and textiles grad, is now 1949 and then became associated quoted White as saying that many a property and stock control clerk with his present company. He was people had asked him to run for in the publications office at White transferred to Denver in Septem­ governor and that he is giving the Sands Proving Ground, W ·hi t e ber, 1951. He is married and has matter "serious thought." Sands, N.M. · · a two-year-old son. A 1946 graduate of Tech, White MRS. DORIS COOPER BUR­ '47 is 29 years old and mid-way in :RESS is now teaching in the C. J . GRIGGS, civil engineering his second term as agriculture Shallowater Public Schools. She graduate, recently became the commissioner. The red-haired for­ :s a home . economics education first city manager of Mesquite, mer Wichita County farm boy was graduate. Texas. He is a former City of Lub­ RAY C. BISHOP, history grad­ a head cheerleader while at Tech. uate, is. teaching in the Littlefield bock engineer. Public Schools. . '48 ball victory, so she mailed the clipping to us at the Association MRS. SANDRA . LU SADLER C. R. "CHOC" HUTCHESON, HAYNES is now a departmental news director of ·KCBD and office. (She has probably seen more stories on the bowl-bound secretary in the Division of Home KCBD-TV in Lubbock, was named Economics at Tech. president of the Texas Associated Raiders by now!) Press Broadcasters Association in '51 WINNIE FORRESTINE an October meeting of the group. PAUL KESSINGER is now an CROWLEY, elementary education He is a '48 journalism graduate instructor in geology at South­ graduate, is now teaching sixth of Tech. western Louisiana Institute in grade in the Santa Rita School JAMES M. HALL, mechanical Lafayette, La. He received his at San Angelo. engineering grad, has been em­ B.S. in '51 and his M.S. in geology BOBBY JIM BOULDIN, P.E. ployed with Southwestern Bell in '53. graduate, is now a high school Telephone since graduation. He ELIZABETH LEE C 0 CAN­ coach and teacher in the Plummer, now holds the position of assistant OUGHER received her M.S. from Idaho High School. account supervisor in the Dallas the University of Iowa in Febru­ GLENDA WILLIAMS has ac­ office. ary, 1953. She is a '51 home eco~ cepted employment as home dem­ '49 nomics grad of Tech. onstration agent for Tom Green J. R. CONELY, civil engineer­ PHYLLIS RAE HERRINGTON, County, San Angelo. She is a ing graduate, has accepted employ­ elementary educl!,tion grad, is now home economics education grad­ ment in the engineering depart­ teaching second grade in the For­ uate. ment of the City of Abilene. est Hills schools at Amarillo. BUSTER G. McDUFF, electrical JAMES EUGENE BURGESS '50 engineering graduate, has accepteQ. has been employed by Lubbock BILLIE LOUISE HUTCHINGS employment with the Te m co Auto Company in a sales position. speech graduate, received her M. Corporation in Dallas. He is a management graduate. A. from the University of Iowa DOROTHY MAYE LEONARD MRS. HELEN ANNE PAYNE in August, 1952. is now teac hing home economics FORTENBERRY is now a secre­ SAMMIE LANHAM, commer­ in the Wilson Public Schools. She tary ·for The· Texas Insurance cial art graduate, is employed is a home economics education Company in Lubbock. with Walt Disney Production in LOUIS E. DENTON is now Burbank, Calif. She was happy to graduate. teaching in the Seminole schools. see a story in a Los Angeles news­ '52 He is an elementary education paper about a Texas Tech foot- JO ANN SIMMONS, who re- graduate. · · 10 Texas Techsan Cotton Bowl Raiders of 1938 ·Recalled By TANNER LAINE other names live again like these: undefeated. Its offensive per play Lubbock Avalanche Staff Writer G. L. .(Country) Webb and was best in the nation with an Prince Scott, ends; Leonard Latch average gain of 5.73 yards per try. Football bowl talk is rampant and Abe Murphey, tackles, Holt 'Barnett led the nation in indivi­ in Lubbock and the fever gets Waldrep and Dixie White, guards; dual gains per play with an aver­ higher by the day-the 1953 Red Rex Williams, center; Ray Flus­ age of 7.81 yards. Raiders of Texas Tech have a che, quarterback; Bobby· Holmes Tarbox, one of the local school's New Year's date in the Gator and Elmer Tarbox, halfbacks; all-time greats, he of the biggest Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla., with Jodie Marek fullback. legs in football, gained stardom Auburn. That lineup started the 1939 among the nation's nine best of­ There's a · group of fellows scat, Cotton Bowl · game againt the fensive backs. He gaiped more tered around these South Plains beef-packed Gaels. · than 600 yards rushing. Len Esh­ and the nation, who are wishing mont of Fordham led with 831. the current crop of Raiders plenty And as surely as Tech's 1953 gang quickly calls on reserve That was the kind of competition of luck in the bowl battle, perhaps strength; so did the 1938 Raiders. Elmer had. Tarbox led the nation with a little more fervor than the That brought in Charlie Calhoun, in pass interceptions. He stole ele­ average fan. plunging fullback and great punt­ ven. Mississippi's Parker Hall was They are the ·1938 Red Raiders, er; Gene (Bubbles) Barnett, scat­ next with seven:· "Elmer. the no means shakes of a football ag- away back and great passer. They Great" was fourth in the nation in gregation themselves. · · were the Rick Spinks and Jerry scoring with 10 touchdowns. He They had a ·bowl date, too. It Johnson's of that day. ti~d with Osmanski of Holy Cross was Jan.'2, 1939-the Cotton Bowl, Where . has time scattered. and Connie Sparks of TCU. Still no less. Opposition was the. then t~e that tough competition. In rush­ famous Galloping Gaels from St. 1938 Red Raiders? From Tarbox, an auto company executive, .and ing; Tarbox was se:venth with 675 Mary's of. California. Latch, a consulting geologist, both yards on 127· efforts. Brings· Back Memories of Lubbock, and Barnett, vocation­ Ranked With B.est · .M any footballs have b e e n al agriculture · teacher in Plain­ thrown or carried over the go.al­ view, have come these reports on ~ . Tech finished second to Ford­ line .in .the Cotton .Bowl.since that their old buddies: ham (then a power) in rushitig day. Great . teams have played Webb was last heard of in Ama­ offense with 2,501 yards to the there. There bowl has been twice rillo. Scott once coached at Mid­ Ram's 2,674. The Raiders were enlarged and now it's one of the western of Wichita Falls but is at second in scoring to Tennsecss. major classics as it was beginning Kilgore now. Murphey, the red­ The Vols made 41 touchdowns, 27 to be then, But few New Year's haired demon tackle, is believed conversions and one field goal. engagements in it have equaled to be in Louisiana with an oill Tech made 40 touchdowns, 31 con­ that Tech-St. Mary's encounter fo1· company. Waldrep, a Slaton pro­ versions arid one field goal. Texas sheer power and. thrills. duct, died in World War II. White Christian was third. Tech and St. Mary's won it, 20-13, but not is coaching at the University of Southern Cal tied in total pass in­ until the scarlet-dad Raiders from Idaho.. Williams is supposed to be terceptions with 30 each. the Plains of West Texas had put in South Dakota in the oil game. Marek was the team's point up the· fight of · their lives: · · Flusche . is teaching in Florida. kicker. Against New Mexico that So it is. that bowl talk ·of this Holmes, the little dark-eyed, 146- year with 31 seconds to play and day and time brings back mem­ pound Indian scooter, now is Tech facing a disastrous .tie 7-7, ories aplenty . of the . time ·when teaching at Temple. Calhoun is a the all-stater from Temple booted Texas Te·ch really bit off: a . big cement contractor in Lubbock. a game-winning field goal from a chew and mixed with one of the Philbrick At Tech difficult angle, and then added an great football teams of all times­ · George Philbrick, an end on the 80-yard touchdown run with an Slip Madigan's Galloping Gaels, 1938 squad, is in · the intramural intercepted pass and kicked the who roamed the gridiron of · the program at Tech, after a span of extra point-10 points all in 31 nation for grid competition and high school coaching on the South seconds. got it one day in Dallas from the Plains. Tarbox made several All-Amer­ Red Raiders of Texas Tech. F. W. (Chief) Jones, a colorful ican mentions. He was named one 1988 Lineup Recalled guard of the 1938 Red Raiders, of the outstanding backs in the Texas Tech was coached by the has a feed business at Muleshoe. nation for performance and good unforgetable . Line Other names of squadmen of sportsmanship. coach was Russell T. (Dutchy) the 1938 untied and undefeated The "Higgins' Hurricane" had Smith. These two had gathered a Red Raiders include: E. J. Mc­ never played football· or even seen crop of football players that will Knight, Phill Harmon, Ralph Bal­ a game when he came to Tech. go down in history as one of the fanz, Thurman Bostick, Lloyd He asked for a grid suit and got greatest. Taliferro, Frank Guzick, Dudley one from a doubting coach. As a That was 15 years ago-football Akins, Milton Hill, Big Bill Davis, freshman, he ran wild in the first playing weights have long gone Jack Wheelis, Elbert (High Pock­ games he ever saw, to say the and waist lines are increasingly ets) Overton, J . B. Gilbert, Wilmer least in which he participated. larger; the hair is thinned or gray­ Greene and Johnny Simms, and Now for the 1954 Gator Bowl ing. But the spirit is the same, just eherging up from the frosh game, and the 1938 Raiders who "Fight Matadors for Tech . . ." ranks at the time were C. L. played in the 1939 Cotton Bowl, As the current bowi talk mem­ Storrs, Primo McCurrv, Rafe Na­ are hoping the 1953 Raiders win tions the names of Bobby Cava­ bors, Glen Jones,- Woodrow Ram­ it. Their bowl effbrts 15 years ago zos, Skeeter Lewis, - Jim Sides, sey, Charlie Devoreck, and others. when Tech was an infant school Jimmy Williams, Jack Kirkpat­ Tech in 1938 was one of six of 13 years, have not been for­ rick, Paul Erwin and company, m11-jor clubs in the nation going gotten. December, 1953 11

THREE COTTON BOWL RAIDERS of 1938 recently dropped by the campus to wish the 1953 Raiders good luck in the 1954 Gator Bowl. Left to right are Gene Barnett of Plainview, quarter­ back of the 1938 ·team; Leonar d Latch, Lubbock geologist, a tackle on the team; and Elmer Tarbox, Lubbock Auto Company executive, star halfback on the squad. (Photo by Lubbock. Avalanche-Journal Tech Is Popular Coed Thinks Chemical Engineering With The Leaches Attending Tech is a family tra­ Offers Challenging Career to Women dition with the J . L. Leaches. Mrs. Mary E. Leach of Lubbock "Why in th~ world did you pick stopped by my desk and casually is a senior majoring in business such a major?" mentioned that he thought I education and her daughter, Pa­ to get should go to school," Billie says. tricia Ann, is a second-term fresh­ "Do you really intend man majoring in · pre-med. Mr. your degree in that?" · That was last November and, af­ Leach, now a Captain in the Air These are just samples of the ter careful thought, she quit the Force, is a former Techsan. questions that Billie Harding, job she had held five years and Mrs. Leach formerly attended freshman from Big Spring, is ask­ came to Tech this fall. San Francisco State College. Her ed every day. She is majoring in "I ch. Tech because it is daughter, better known at Pat, chemical engineering, one of three close to home and several of the gr :duated from high school in San women in the department. engineers in Ft. Worth recom­ Francisco and atter>ded Texas Uni­ mended it," she says. versity last spring. Billie, who is 23, first became Mrs. Leach is a member of Pi interested in the possibility of "However," she concedes, "wom­ Omega Pi. Pat is a member of getting a degree in chemical en­ an's place in the field is a little the Biology Club and is a candi­ gineering; while working at Con­ doubtful right now, but," and she solidated-Vultee Aircraft Com­ gets a gleam in her eye, "th.ere date for Alpha Lambda Delta. pany in Ft. Worth. At Convair, she was a time not too long ago when Capt. Leach is an alumnus of Delta was a cost accountant, ·which women doct"rs were looked upon Sigma Phi. in the same light." Traveling is also traditional with meant that s:1e figured out the the family. Since Capt. Leach amount of time and money that Although Billie probably would entered the Air Force in 1937, every engineer for the company have majored in English had she they have lived in 33 states and spent. · come to college directly from high traveled through the remainder of "I had never really · considered school, she says that chemistry the 48. Capt. Leach is currently goinir to school until one dull day was the only subject in high school stationed in Albuquerque, N. M. at the office when an engineer that completely fascinated her. 12 Texas T echsan

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. Carlon Dell Brady and LUKE GEORGE R. BROWN recently grad from Tech. He has served R. RAMPY were married in the exchanged wedding vows wi~h in the Air Force and will rejoin Presbyterian Church at Bobbs, N. Bernice E. Dunlap in the chapel the R. E. Ellison Accounting firm M., recently. The groom attended of Saint Paul's Methodist Church in Lubbock. Tech before entering the Navy and in Houston. He is a Tech grad­ * * is now stationed aboard the USS uate. The couple will live in * Ranville, APO, San Diego, Calif. Dallas. RAYMOND W. MOORE and Alice .Riviere were united. in mar­ * * * * * * riage recently at the home of the Joan Kathryn Hanson and BIL­ JERALDYN FAYE PENNING­ bride's mother in Tyler. The bride­ LY MORGAN HARRISON ex­ TON became the bride of Lt. groom attended Tyler Junior Col­ changed wedding vows in a late Felix K. Freier in the First Bapt­ lege and Texas Tech. August ceremony in Northfield, ist Church at Plainview on Sept. Minn. 28. She attended Tech and has * * * * *.· * recently been employed as ~n air­ Two Tech graduates, BETTY Jan Kriebel and LESTER W. line hostess for Trans-Texas Air- JANE HENDERSON and WILL­ WHEELIS pledged double ring ways. IAM MORRISON were married vows recently at the Trinity * * * in Ford Memorial Chapel of the Episcopal ·Church in · Co r p"u s •SGT. JACK EDWARD McDON­ Lubbock First Baptist Church Christi. The groom ·attended Tech ALD and Peggy Joyce Thomason recently. The couple will live in and Texas A&I, majoring in ani­ Lubbock where the . groom is em­ were married recently in the ployed with an oil company. mal husbandry. ·The couple will North Temple Baptist Church at . - live ~n Tivoli. Dallas. The bridegroom is in the * * * * * Air Force and is now stationed at LT. PAUL A; TAYLOR and JAMES H. WELLS was recent­ Love Field. Marilyn Louise Madsen exchang­ ly married ..to. Dorothy Lambert * * * ed wedding vows Sept. 3 in the in the· Central·· Baptist Church at LT. EARL E. CURETON was Epworth Methodist Church at Lubbock. He received his B .S. in married to Jeanne Taylor in the Tacoma, Wash. The groom, who math at Tech in "52. · · ·First Baptist Church at Hondo on is from Odessa, attended.Tech and is now stationed in the Air Force * ~ _. _* Qct. 3. The couple will make their in Washington. DAVID ROBY CHAMBERLAIN home at Kelly Field in San An­ t,'t: • . * and Jeanette Vandiver were mar- tonio, where ·the groom is station- ried recently·at Dallas. The bride- ed with the Air Force. IVA ELMORE SMITH became groom is a '51. mechanical engi- * * * the bride of Branham Payne neering graduate. The couple will JEAN CRAIG became the recently at Carr's Chapel near live in Dallas. bride of John L. Laird recently in _Floydada. They will make their * * * the Lovington, N. M., First Meth- home in Stamford. The bride is A September wedding in the odist Church. The bride is a '52 a Tech gra~uate* * Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. management graduate of Tech. in Houston united DOUGLAS * * * GAIL Lil'TLETON and LT. PERRY and Bina Lucille Hansen. BILL BLACK and Janet Gar­ GAYLE E . FERGUSON were.mar­ The groom is a 1950 graduate of ner exchanged wedding v o w s ried recently in the First Christ­ Tech where he received a B.S. recently in the College Avenue ian Church at Perryton. The bride in chemistry. He received a Baptist Church ·at Lubbock. He attended Tech and the groom is a master's degree in chemistry from received his degree in business graduate. The couple is living at LSU in 1953, and is now employ­ management from Tech in May Fort Campbell, Ky., where he is ed as a chemist by the Humble of 1952. The couple is at home in stationed with the Army. Oil Co. in Houston. Lubbock. * * * * * * * * * BILLY L. SIMS and Barbara - Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Hicks ROBERT EARL STATTON and Ann Lester were married Sept. are at home near Meadow follow­ Billie Whiteside were · married 21 in Greenville, Miss. The groom, ing a September wedding. The June 13 in the First Christian whose home was in Ropesville, bride is the former · BE L VA Church of Midland. A '51 graduate attended Tech three years before JEANNE METTS. of Tech, the groom is now a entering the Air Force. lieutenant in the Air Force in * * * 1 * * * Cheri Lynn Box became the Japan. AR WIN MELVIN TURNER bride of LONNIE. LEE THOMP­ * * * and Annie Mae Cotham were SON, JR. in -the First Methodist RAYMONDE. HAHN and Eliz- united in marriage Oct. 11 at the Church at Odessa on Oct. 2. The abeth Anne Vanhala were mar- home of the bride's parents in couple will live in Odessa, where ried Nov. 28 in St. John's Luth- Littlefield ~ The groom attended both are attending Odessa Col­ eran Church of Detroit, Mich. The Tech for two years, '51-52-53, and lege. The groom attended Tech couple will live in Wilson, Texas. majored in agriculture. He left last year. The groom is a '49 government for service on Oct. 19. December, 1953 13

SOUTH PLAINS .MAID OF COTTON for 1953 is Ann Perkins, 20-year-old Tech sophomore. The brown-haired Pampa beauty poses above with some cotton bowls following her selection over 20 other contestants of the South Plains area of Texas. By winning the pageant, whiah was staged in Lubbock, she gained the right to represent the South. Plains in the national Maid finals in Memphis, Tenn., in January: (photo courtesy Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)

Scholarship Is .Presented EX-TECHSANS ELECTED · By Br·ownfield Music Club Texas Tech Cagers Two Tech graduates were recently elected to the Board of A $100 music scholarship will Show Class Directors of the Plainview Cham­ be given a Brownfield student for ber of Commerce. The ex-Tech­ study at Texas Tech next year. sans are Jason Gordon, '32 agricul­ Inauguration of the scholarship Tech's basketballers seem to was announced recently by Mrs. have picked up where the Raiders ture economics graduate, and Arch Bill Cope, president of the Cen­ left off. Coach 's Keys, '47 horticulture grad. They Tex Harmony Music Club of were elected for three-year terms. Brownfield, following a benefit team won five of its first six concert presented by the Tech games and now appears to be a played Dec. 11712. The Raiders Music Department. . loop favorite in the Border Con­ won the by defea,ting ference. · ' · · tourname~t This is the second such scholar- Howa:rd Payne, 86 to 81, and ship to be given recently. Th.:> Tech has· averaged 81.5 points North Texas, 73 to 66. Their lone Seagraves Music Club sponsored per game through· the Snyder !n­ loss 'to date was at the hands of one last year. vitation tournament, which was Vanderbilt, 75-71. 14 Texes Techsan

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Commander O.E. Forbess has Lt. Bill C. Powell recently wel­ to leave for overseas duty. He is been serving in Korea for the past comed his wife and one-year-old a graduate of Winters High School and attended Tech before five months as commanding offi­ son, Gary, to Darmstdt, Germany, going into the army. cer of a construction battalion. where he is stationed. Mrs. Pow­ * * * He was formerly stationed at the ell, the former Marilou Williams, Lt. Jerry B. Killian, former U.S. Naval Air Missile Center at and her son left Plainview Oct. 14 Tech student, recently received Point Mugu, Calif. Cdr. Forbess and met Lt. Powell just in time his wings as a jet fighter pilot is a '33 civil engineering graduate for Gary's first birthday, Oct. 24. at Laredo Air Force Base. He has from Tech. Lt. Powell is a '52 architectural been assigned to Perrin Air Force graduate and Mrs. Powell is a Base at Sherman, Texas. He is * * .. '51 journalism graduate. He grad· attached to a group flying the Lt. Joe Bill Gipson is an in­ uated as a distinguished military_ F-86-G, all-weather interceptor structor in the Medical Field Ser­ student from Tech's ROTC and jet. vice School in Korea. A '49 gradu­ has seen duty at Fort Monmouth, * ate of Tech, Lt. Gipson recently IN.J., and Ft. Bliss, Texas,pre­ Pfc. Eldon Williams is serving received a letter of aopreciation vious to his overseas assignment. for his work from the Korean with the 28th Infantry Division <:hief of staff. Gipson's wife, the * * * in Germany. The 28th Division is former Jaletta Ann Srygley, is Pvt. Eldon Hambright, former now receivirig intensive field also an ex. She received her B.A. Tech student, recently reported to training as part of the NATO Fort Lewis, Wash., where he was force on guard in western Europe. in journalism from Tech in '49. He arrived overseas in October, 1952. He attended Tech before entreing the service in February, 1952. * * * Lt. Walter I. Speer was re­ cently awarded the silver wings of a U.S. Air Force pilot along with a second lieutenant's com­ mission in the Air Force Reserve. Lt. Speer ranked as the second highest cadet in the graduation of the jet-pilot class at Webb Air . Force Base. He attended Tech before entering the Air Force in . March of 1952. * * * ., Robert Carr Vincent, '53 gradu­ with a B.B.A. degree, was in· ducted into the army on Oct. 23 and was sent to Fort Bliss in El Paso. He was a member of the Rodeo Association at Tech~

TECH COW HIGH PRODUCER Tech owns a cow which produces enough milk daily ,to serve 92 per­ sons a half pint ·each. Almost a hundred students could be served at one meal each day with milk from this cow. Tech Ormsby Frieda, one of sev· eral registered Holstein-Friesian cows in Tech's herd which have completed official production tests LT. COL. ROBERT E. LEE MICHIE is shown here .(left) under Advanced Registry rules, with two other members of a stratojet crew who flew a B-47 . averaged approximately 23 quarts bomber· to England last summer in a survey flight from MacDill of milk daily for the period cover­ Air Force Base near Tampa, Fla. The flight is the subject of an ed by the test. article in a recent issue of Saturday Evening Post. The other Testing was supervised by Texas officers are Maj. William W. Richards and Col. Elliott Vandevanter A&M, in co-operation with The Ja. A Tech ex, Col. Michie is the son of P rof. J. N. Michie, Holstein-Friesian Association of professor emeritus of mathematics at Tech. America. December, 1953 15 Artist Finds .Home In This Country; Seeks Citizenship, Enrolls at .Tech. BY MARGARET SCHRADER likenesses, but are impressions Toreador Staff Writer (definitely not abstracts, however; Mrs. Lindsey considers these neu­ Tech students need not travel rotic). The likeness is there but to far countries in order to meet so is the feeling which she wishes interesting people. They may be to suggest to the viewer. The found in many of the classrooms painting of a street in a CubaJ1 on the campus-Journalism 331, city conveys an atmosphere of a for instance. hot, lazy, afternoon in a tropical Mrs. Olga Lindsey is a m0mbcr country. A snow scene recalls that of that class. Not many people warm, wet period just prior to the are. familiar with her nan1e, hut spring thaw. in art circles, both in Europe and Her portraits, too, have this (~ in the United States, many do added quality. There is no doubt know the name Olga Dani, Mrs. as to the identity of the sitter, but Lindsey's· maiden name and the the soft, flowing lines also depict one she uses professionally. the character and personalit'.1 of Nat?vc of Yugoslavia the subject. Mrs. Lindsey has no Mrs. Liuusey is a native of Yu­ originai portraits to show the visi­ LT. WILLIAM L. ELKINS, goslavia, and spent her childhood tor, but does have a numbe: of who attended Tech in 1950- in Belgrade where her father was black and white reproductions. 51 as a band major, is now a judge. About 12 years ago she One of these which she values engaged i n advanced a 11- left that country with her parents highly is that of a peasant of her weather fighter interceTltor en route to the United State<>. native country, the only picture training at Perrin AFB, Sher­ Asked why, she will tell you simp­ she has broue-ht from there. man. He graduated as a ly: "My country is Communistic Hopes To Write Book fighter pilot Nov. 2 at Bryan now." Why is she enrolled at Tech? AFB and was married Nov. 3 After spending many months in "I am taking American G•Jvern­ to t h e former Mary Alice Switzerland awaiting a quota va­ ment ·so. that I ·may. get a· J:>erfeet Pusey o f Miami, ·Fla. He cancy and, seemingly not drawing grade on my· citizenship examiila­ studied aero engineering at any nearer to the required per­ tion," she· explains. '"EngliSh and the University of Texas after mission to enter the United States, joufnalism will help me to write leaving Teeh. she moved on to Cuba where she a book on· art which. I am plan­ hoped the waiting period would ning." She · a~ds · that, .although be shorter. she could write this in one of sev­ Allowed to Enter eral . other languages - Yugoslav· Finally she . was permitted to ian, Russian, French, German, enter this country as a perman­ Spanish:...:.... she· wants ~t to be· in ent resident and 11ow has taken English "b!!cause I expect to be the first step toward citizenship, ·American." the declaration of intention. Two months ago she married H. L. Lindsey, whose business interests Dr. Qualia Honored brought then:i .to Lubbock to ~stab­ Dr. Charles B. Qualia of the lish a home at 4204 40th St. foreign languages faculty has be­ Before leaving Yugoslavia, ·Olga come the fourth person ever to be Dani had gained recognition as granted a lifetime honorary mem­ a portrait artist and had painted bership in the South Central Mod­ many well-known persons there. ern Languages Association. She also had done many land­ scapes. In Switzerland and in Cuba she worked at her ·profes­ Home Education Di8cusscd sion and derived much pleasure Dr. Willa Vaughn Tinsley, dean from the contrasting scenery of .of home economics, was coordina­ those two countries. tor of a panel discussion on home In the United States, Mrs. Lind­ and family life education at a sey has exhibited in New York, recent homemaking teachers' con­ in Miami Beach, in Philadelphia, .ference in Amarillo. and in Washington, D. C. In addi­ tion, she has lectured on art in a number of galleries and over radio A Bath With A View BILLY G. WILKISON, and television. Now she is plan­ Lack of privacy in the dorm naval aviation cadet, has ning more exhibitions probably in shower rooms is a standing gripe qualified as a carrier pilot San Francisco and along the west among men students at Tech. after six successful landings coast. Those who read an item posted on board the USS Monterey Considers Abstracts Neurotic on a bulletin board in the Ad in the Gulf of Mexico. The "Art begins where imitation Building recently probably decid­ former Tech student will re­ ends," she says, and her paintings, ed they didn't have much to gripe port to the Naval Auxiliary several of which hang in her home, about after all. The notice read: Air Station at Corry Field for illustrate what she means by this. "Six-room house for rent, near instrument flight training. They are not merely photographic school, with bath on busline." 16 ' Texas Techsan European Tour Planned for Summer .· • College Credit in History To Be Given rmnr1am Tech students may tour Europe C. D. Eaves on the campus or at this summer and earn six semester 2221 14th St. in Lubbock. ~ hou,-s in hi•tocy at the •ame time. D« Eave• was a member of the ~ Two new field courses in the original faculty at Texas Tech and ... history department, which ·will has taught European history at · provide for the students enrolled the college since 1925. He holds to travel in 10 European countries B.A. and PhD degrees from the Harold Elbert Blevins, 25, was from June 11 to Aug. 16 were University of Texas and an M.A. the victim of a water-well drill­ announced today. from the University of Chicago. ing accident Nov. 18 at Prescitt, The trip will include tours of Dr. E~ves spent a year in Japan Ariz. He was working with his France, Italy, Switzerland, Aus- followmg the close of \Y'Orld W:ar father when the accident occurred. tria Germany Belgium Holland II, where he was associated with Mr. Blevins was born November Scohand, England and' Monaco'. the. educational program of the 13, 1928 in Graham and graduated from Graham High School in 1945. Visits will be made to historic Umted States government. He received his B.S. in petroleum sites in Paris, Milan, Florence, geology from Tech in 1949. Venice, Rome, Monte Carlo, Isle He served in the armed forces of Capri, Naples, Geneva, Inns­ Graduates Named and returned to the states from bruck, Cologne, Munich, Coblenz, duty in Germany in November, Brussels, The Hague, Amster­ 1952. Survivors include his par­ dam, Isle of Marken, Edinburgh, As ASME Officers ents , Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Blevins; Windermere, Stratford-on-Avon, Four Tech g r a d u a t e s were a brother, Hugh Blevins, U.S. London and many others. among the 15 new officers named Navy, White Sands Naval Base, Two Three-Hour Courses Dec. 4 to the Petroleum Division Las Cruces, N. M.; and his grand­ The new courses are History of the American Society of Mech­ mother, Mrs. F. B. Lowrey of 3314, a study of World War I and anical Engineers in New York, N. Graham. its aftermath, and History 3315, Y. . * * * a study of World War II and its 0. G. Joiner, 50, was striken aftermath. 0. L. Lewis, 1939 mechanical with a heart attack at a football Dr. C. D. Eaves, professor of engineering graduate, was made game Thanksgiving Day at Ball­ history, will teach the course. chairman of the Petroleum Divi­ Mrs. C. D. Eaves, assistant pro­ sion. He is employed by the C. F. inger and died later that day in Braun & Co., Alhambra, Calif. In a hospital at Ballinger. He was fessor of accounting, will be the the past 12 years, Lewis has been band director at Rising Star High tour conductor. She spent a year responsible for the engineering de­ School. . . in Europe in 1946-47 and travelled Mr. Joiner held both his bach­ in 13 countries. sign of more than 50 maior petrol­ elor and master's degree from The tour is available ·to stu­ eum-processing plants. Texas Tech. He was well known dents, teachers and the public. Dr. J. P .. Mooney, ME graduate of in band and music circles of West Eaves will be in charge of the 1942 and employed by the Humble Texas. He formerly taught or di­ students and · teachers who en­ Oil and Refining Co., Bayton, was rected bands at Idalou, McAdoo, rolled for the tour and Mrs. Eaves selected as chairman of the refin­ Lovington, N. · M., and Ballinger. ·wm be in charge of other tour ing committee; H. H. Meredith, He was born Oct. 29, 1903 at members. Humble Oil Company, Houston, Seymour. · · To Sail June 11 and an ME graduate of 1939, was Sur.vivors include his wife of The group will sail from Que­ selected chairman of the produc­ Rising Star; two sons, Gary , 15, bec June 11 on the SS Atlantic tion committee; and G. L. Farrar, and Jay, 6; a daughter, Barbara, and will reach Paris June 18. chemical engineering graduate of 17; his parents, E. L. Joiner of From Paris they will travel inland 1942 now employed by the OH Rising Star and Mrs. Euna over the various countries and re­ and Gas Journal in Tulsa, Okla., Joiner, Mill Valley, Calif.; one turn to Quebec Aug.· 16. heads the press committee. sister and four brothers. Brownell Travel Bureau, Inc. * * * will conduct the land tours. Most Mrs. C. M. Killgore, secretary in of the travel will be by motor­ E-SA Office Das the Ex-Students Association of­ coach through the countries, fice at Tech since January, 1953, which will enable the party mem­ New Secretary died early Wednesday morning, bers to see native homes, farms, Dec. 2, following a short illness. villages, and out-of-the-way places, Mrs. Arline Whaley was recent­ She was hospitalized Nov. 29. in addition to the important cities. ly employed as a full-time secre­ Mrs. Killgore, 21, was a grad­ Included in the program are sev­ tary in the Ex-Students office here uate of Sweetwater High School. eral days and half days set aside at Tech. Mrs. Whaley, formerly She was not a Tech ex but her for leisure, swimming, shopping Arline Morgan, class of '51, was a husband, Mark, is a senior student and entertainment. business education major while at­ in the Geology Department at Cost of the tour will include tending Tech. Tech. Funeral services were held every calculable travel expense in Her husband, Sgt. Hugh F. Dec. 3 in the First Baptist Church Europe, such as meals, sightseeing, Whaley, is in the Air Force and in Sweetwater. hotel bills, taxes and tips. stationed at Reese Air Force Base, Survivors include her husband; Contact Dr. and Mrs. Eaves near Lubbock. They have one son, Sharon, her 15-month-old daught­ Additional information and de­ seven-month-old Michael. er; and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. tails of the trip may be obtained She fills a vacancy left by the J. E. Ware of Sweetwater.· from Mrs. Luta P. Eaves or Dr. death of Mrs. Mark Killgore. December, 1953 17

CAVAZOS- cconttnuec1 from page 5) scoring record of 80 points in one season, received the most votes and was named honorary captain of the team. The 79-point record he broke was set in 1932 by Harold Crites of Tech. Tech's backfield ace scored the record tounchdown as T e c h walloped Hardin-Simmons Uni­ versity, 46-to-12, in their last regular season tilt. The victory also gave the Raiders· the Border Conference crown and a 10-1 sea­ son record. Joining Cavazos on the first team were Tackles Jimmy Will­ iams and Jerry Walker, Guard Don Gray, and Backs Jack Kirk­ patrick and James Sides. Vic Spooner, end and co-captain, was the only Raider to land a second­ team berth. TECH'S MOST HANDSOME MEN were selected recently at Three of the Raiders honored on Theta Sigma. Phi's annual Club Scarlet. Shown here are the top the coaches' selections were also three from a group of seven finalists. Left to right are · Don named to the All-Border· Confer­ (Skeeter) Lewis, second; Vic Spooner, first; and Buddy Hill, ence team as selected by sports third. All three members of the Raider football team. Spooner writers and coaches. They were is from Colquitt, Ga., Lewis is · from Quitaque, and Hill is from Cavazos, Kirkpatrick and Walker. Lubbock. (photo courtesy Lubbock Avalanche-Journal). On this second team were Will­ iams and ·Guard Ray Howard.

Tech's Auxiliary Many An "Ex" Marks For Civil Defense This Spot. • • Discusses Plans "The minute a disaster strikes, ROTC communications equipment, the campus radio and student cars equipped with two-way "ham" ra­ dios will swing into action. Dr. John M. Penick told Tech staff personnel and area educators at a recent meeting of Tech's Civil Defense Auxiliary. The Civil Defense unit. auxili­ ary of Tech's Fire Prevention and Safety Committee of which Dr. Penick is chairman, met to de­ signate some 60 key T ech person­ nel who will be "on call" at all times in case of disaster. In his speech Dr. Penick review­ ed the various m easures to be taken · by disaster officials in case of an emergency, including pro­ per evacuation of buildings and fire prevention. The Civil Defense auxiliary was formed this fall to give specific attention to planning and organi­ zation in event of disaster. C:APROCK HOTEL JEANETTE MEURER and Ken­ FORMERLY THE HILTON neth Wiesman were married recently in the Sacred Heart Church at Muenster. They will Alsonett Hospitality In Lubbock live in Houston. ------.. 18 Texas Techs·an Murdough, Member of Original faculty, Recalls Early History of Tech' sEngineering Division BY CLAUDIA MARTIN ing Building was opened and the During his first year here Mr. Toreador Staff Writer departments of mechanical, chemi­ Murdough ·•used to be able to Can you picture Tech's engineer­ cal and geological enginc•ering drive straight a-cross the campus ing division with all activities of were added. Geology has since be­ from 18th Street to the Textile its present six major buildings come an individual department Building-and there weren't any crammed into the Textile Build­ and petroleum engineering has parking problems." ing? been added along with industrial The student branch of the When Tech opened in 1925 the engineering and commercial art. American Society of Civil Engi­ cloister of the TE Building was The only remaining member of neers was first organized by Mr. partitioned off to house the classes the original engineering faculty is Murdough and was later given his in electrical, textile, and civil· en­ J . H. Murdough, who is also the name. gineering, architecture and engi­ only head of thP civil engineering The first Engineering Show was n·eering drawing. department in Tech history. sponsored by the 1929 graduating The first engineers ware grad­ Mr. Murdough graduated from class. Attendance was about 1,500. uated from Tech in 1928. They Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ Seniors of the division have car­ were: James B. Biggers, and Ted nology and before coming to Tech ried on the tradition annually. he worked with the State High­ Sams, civil engineers and T. A. Th~ newest member of the En­ Rogers, electrical engineer. Sams way Department, American Bridge gineering faculty is Nolan E. Bar­ is now manager of the Fisher Steel Company, Truscan Steel Company rick, head of the department of Company in Tennessee and Rogers and was consulting engineer for architecture, who joined Tech's is owner of the Lubbock Machine the Massachusetts Highway Com- staff this year. mission. He also taught at Okla­ Company. He received his three degrees ·Also in 1928 the West Engineer- homa A.&M. from Rice Institute. He has prac­ ticed architecture in Houston, Austin, and Iowa. He also taught at Iowa State College and was acting dire<:tor of architecture at the University of Texas during summer sessions. Mr. Barrick is the first in Tech history to hold both positions of department head and campus architect. ·· · He spent six months in Europe on a Rice traveling fellowship. 4t Rice he.studied under W. W. Wat­ kin who worked on the layout of the Tech campus "and wl)o later became my father-in-law," he adds. The 1925 enrollment of the di­ vision was 347, including 3 wo­ men. This year 1,252 engineers are registered, 40 of whom are women.

E X MOVES TO LUBBOCK Dave D. Dillard Jr., a former Tech student, has been named Lubbock manager of Southwest­ ern Bell Telephone Co. He was manager at Midland previous to moving here.. Dillard was in the first group of aviation -cadets who attended Tech for a six-month academ:c course in 1942-43. The MR. AND MISS TEXAS TECH, as chosen in a campuswide cadets attended class during the popularity -contest, arc Bobby Cavazos, Raider halfback from morning and participated in flight Kingsville, and Barbara Lu Currie, Garden City, a member of the training in the afternoons. Dillard Student Council. Mr. Tech is a member of the Double T Associa­ served in the Air Force during tion, Aggie Club, Infantry Club, Newman. Club, and a pledge to World . War II. H e and his wife Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity. Miss Currie is an executive have one daughter, Pamela, 12. m ember of the Board of Student Organizations, president of Delta Delta Delta, and holds membership in the Future Teachers of Joe W. Evans, '53 education America and the Sociology Club. grad, is now teaching in the ele­ mantary school at Canadian, (photo courtesy Lubbock Avalan<:he-Journal) Texas. December, 1953 19 Association Needs .. Active Local Chapters "The biggest problem of the Ex­ actively in the Tech Ex-Students have at least one business meet­ Students Association is to generate Association. ing a year at which time officers enthusiasm all the way down to WHY NEEDED are elected, (2) keep Association the district level." The Association needs local office informed of activities and These were the words of Jack chapters (1) to serve as a public any news which may be used for Maddox, new president of the As­ relation organization between the the files and ex-student publica­ sociation, as he spoke to the As­ College and their respective com­ tions, (3) urge members to sup­ sociatim:i Council during the munities, (2) to acquire a better port the Tech Loyalty Fund which Homecoming weekend on the understanding of the College's entitles them to a subscription to Tech campus. aims and ideals, (3) to serve as "The Texas Techsan," (4) have a publicity agency in interesting representatives of the chapter at­ The local chapter plays an im­ tend the annual Association Coun­ portant role in stimulating and people of wealth in Texas Tech, (4) to interest worthy students cil meeting at Homecoming, (5) maintaining interest of former ask the executive secretary to students in College and ex-student in attending Tech, (5) to serve as a media for mobilizing the ex­ send information concerning foot­ activities. However, this is only ball games, lecture series, artist one of many reasons why we need students into a supporting body when assistance is needed in secur­ course, commencement, and any active local chapters throughout ing the passage of legislation es­ other special events during the Texas and the entire United sential to Tech ·and other institu­ College year, and (6) encourage States. If the Ex-Students Associa­ tions of higher learning, and (7) members to to visit the campus tion of Tech is to render an ef­ to assist the Association in locat­ whenever possible. fective service to the College, it ing the vast number of former It is also good to acquaint .needs active local chapters to students whose current addresses members of the chapter with the serve in the o.rganization. are not on file. College program so they can talk Believing that the former stu­ ORGANIZATION intelligently about· it to prospect­ dents living in various places want Two or more former students ive students and other people. local chapters, or clubs. the follow­ must take the initiative to get Copies of the catalog, student ing suggestions and information the movement started for form­ handbook, and other publications are made to those exes who may ing a chapter. The first step is which give such information may wish to organize and participate to secure from the executive sec­ be obtained upon request fr:om the retary a list of the exes who, ac­ Association office. ' cording to the files, live in that Ex students can derive pleasure particular community. With these from participation in a local chap­ names and with exes you know ter. It is their expression of Col­ Students Select personally, assemble a small lege loyality; it provides a meeting group and add any new names to place where alumni· and exes may the list. gather for sociability and fellow­ Cavazosi Currie Decide on a time and place for ship, renew old fri~ndships ·and a meeting of the group rep~sent­ make new friends-all· of whom ed by the list of names. For the have had similar experiences at first meeting, notify each ex by Texas Tech. .For Top Honors personal contact if possible and Bobby Cavazos, senior animal put a notice in the local paper ..EX ASSIGNED OVER~EAS husbandry major from Kingsville, announcing the meeting. Invite Lt. Louis E. Adams, •53 grad­ and Barbara Lu Currie, senior edu­ all Tech exes to attend the meet- uate, recently reported to Fort cation major from Garden City, ing and secure a "plug" over the Lewis, Wash., for assignment to will occupy the space reserved for ·local radio station of possible. The American For~es, .Far: E~t. Yoko­ Mr. and Miss Texas Tech in the more publicity obtained for the hama, Japan. The Tech ex has 1953-54 La Ventana. meeting, the better turnout you been with the Army Intelligence may expect. for the past year at Fort Mon- Class favorites to be pictured in At the first meeting, have one mouth, N. J., and Camp Gordon the annual were elected in class of the primary workers preside Ga. He received his B.B.A. degre~ meetings Nov. 18. as chairman for the election of , from Tech last January. Cathy Beaird, elementary edu- officers. More information and de- cation major from Claude, and tails on electio? ~f officers and KENNETH WILLY is WOJ;"king Weindell Stiles, agriculture maj- su~gested constitution can be ob- for Atlantic Reginning Company or from Maypearl, were elected tai~ed from the Ex-Students in Crane. He is a •53 petroleum senior favorites. office. geology grad. Junior favorites are Gwen Will- Have your chapter reporter see iams, sociology major from Lub- that a story of the meeting ap- Eleanor Lincoln is now teach- bock, and Jay Fish, pre-med from pears in the local paper and a Snyder. report is sent to the executive ing speech in the Brownfield High Pat Boles, commercial art maj- secretary. Make it a regular policy School. She is a '53 speech grad­ or from Midland, and Don Dilley, following each meeting for the uate. reporter to send out this informa- animal husbandry major from Bor- tion. Also furnish the executive ger, are sophomore favorites. secretary in Lubbock with the re- Studies Indian Wars Ronald D. Johnson, business ad- · vised list of exes and their Dr. W. C. Holden, Museum and ministration student from Mule- addresses. history department, recently in- shoe, and Kathy Kerbow, arts and ACTIVITIES terviewed former Mexican soldiers sciences student from Sweetwater, Suggested activities for the local at Reynosa, ·Mexico, about battle;; were chosen freshman favorites. chapter include these "musts," (1) with Yaqui Indians. 20 Texas Techsan

- 'THE GATOR BOWL SIGNING is shown above as Coach DeWitt Weaver inks the contract for Tech to .meet Auburn in the Jan. 1 football game in Jacksonville, Fla. Gathered around the Raider mentor are, left to right, Jim· McGregor, president of the Gator Bowl; Jimmy Wilson business manager of Tech athletics; Bill Nimnlcht, chairman of the Gator Bowl selection com­ mittee; and Sam Wolfson, member of the sele(!tion committee. (photo courtesy Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)

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Also being added to Tech athletic facilities are ~t cinder track, two baseball diamonds, and a new practice field. To Jones Stadium, 11,500 S<':tts ha,·e been added since 1951, bringing the total capal'ity to 28,000.

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