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IOUTBWBSTBBN PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY :U YEARS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP AllD PUBLIC SERVICE EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President ...... Ed McCullough '32 Vice-President ...... H art Shoemaker '41 2nd Vice-Pres...... Windy Nicklaus '28 D irect or ...... 0 . R. McElya '34 Director ...... Olaf Loda! '32 Director ...... Forrest W eimhold '36 Immediate Past P res. Vol. l, No. 6 October, 1950 Hurley Carpenter '28 Rep. to Athletic Council George Langford '32 Exec. Secretary ...... D . M. McElroy '35 ..... CONTENTS * * * FEATURES LOYALTY FUND Homecoming Will Bring Football, Food and Fun ...... 2 TRUSTEES June Jay previews November 11th plans.
When Summer's Past...... ~------' · ------· ···------3 Olaf Loda! E : A. McCullo.u.gh The old and the new in back-to-school .procedure. Fred Rollins W. B. Rushing Wayne Sellers Floyd W ooldridge i\\eet Mr. Ba nd ______~ ~------·------· ------_:______5 0 . R. McElya Jimmy J ay Posy Piper introduces Tech's band director R. Guy Carter Kenneth Leftwich D . M . McElroy New Departments, Buildings in Agriculture Plans ...... 7 Things to come for the aggies.
* * * DEPARTMENTS ·The Hitch in' Post·------· ·------·------·------··········------· 4 THE COVER The Faculty Sce ne ...... 8
This month t houghts of the ne~ Sports Roundup - by H. A Tuck ...... 9 school year, with the many cam· pus changes it uncovers, are min Ch apter Chatter...... ______10 gled with backlward glances on the eve of Tech's Silver Aniversary Campus Roundup ...... 12 ce!Efuration. Our cover captures the spirit of the month-the old Signals from the Huddle ...... 14 scene of students strolling to and from t heir classes, w ith the re cently completed m useum, symbol Published In February. March. May, July, September. Oct ober, November and December of the new, as a background. by the Eit-Students Association o! Texas Tecbnolog1cal College, Lubbock, Texas. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Lubbock, Texas Change of address: New address should be sent to the Association offices 30 days prior to date of issue with which it * * * is to take effect. Subscription rate: $3 per year. PHOTO CREDIT Advertising rates on request. All advertising is handled throuJ?h the Association offices.
Cover-Cecil Horne Managing Editor: ...... Rose (Posy) Piper '50 2, 3, 7, 17-Rick Jay Sports: ...... H. A. Tuck '51 5-Courtesy of D. 0 . Wiley 12--<.::ourtesy of Lubbock Ava · Circulation:. ...: ...... :...... ,...... June Jay lanche-Journal Adversiting: ...... AL Stevens '51 Homecom_ing Will _Bring Football, Food and Pun
By JUNE JAY attended. Since then, the attend- al value. Over forty floats are ex- L Tech homecoming is the time for ance has increased each year until pected in the giant parade. ' all Techsans, former and present, the number of people present last Not only are the students putting to mingle, get acquainted and re- year was 1814. on the show; but the exes have a acquainted. FQ, the exes the re-ac- Tech gym is the place for the big chance to show off too. Any ex quainting is the highspot 4uring feed, and service starts promptly student chapter is permitted to en their return to Tech's campus. at 12 o'clock with no lines to stand ter a float in the parade. So, exes This year which begins Tech's in and every one taken care of come on, don't let the students out 2nd quarter of a century of exls- within thirty minutes. That means do us. Let's show them how to real tence will prove to be the biggest all 1814, and TNM&O and Furr's ly make a float. and best for the exes homecoming are prepared for the expected in There are sever a 1 tro.phies entertainment. For that old· home crease of exes this year. awarded to winning floats in feellng and casual atmosphere Aside from the luncheon, plenty the parade. The outstanding float where everyone can see everyone of other eVoents have been planned from all three groups .is given the else, the annual !buffet luncheon to keep Tech's exes happy · ;vhile Thomas trophy, a large bronze given by TNM&O and Furr Food, visiting. The big homecoming par trophy which is left in the trophy Saturday noon, will be the top ade is scheduled as usual for Sat case in the Administration build event. This wlll be the second year urday morning at 10 o'clock. It will ing with the name of each year's that Furr's has helped with the form in town and go right on out winner engraved upon it. Also a luncheon. They started last year to the campus to break up. These warded are three plaques, one to when TNM&O needed some help 1)resent Techsans are planning a the best float in each group. All to take care of the huge crowd. parade that will never be forgotten these awards are given by Lucian This luncheon was started in 1945 by anyone. There will be three Thomas, '40, who is now a jeweler by TMN&O and other firms, and groups of floats, those judged for in Lubbock. was first given at the Hilton hotel. their beauty, those for their hu Approximately 250 to 300 persons mor and those for_ their education- (Cont inued to Page 20)
The big neon Double-T, a campus landmark. since its donation by '38 seniors, finds a per manent resting place high on the east stands of Jones Stadium .. It was first moved from its tra ditiona./ spot between the library and chemistry buildings to make room for the new science building. Stood west of Jones Stadium until removal to its present high post. October, 1950 3 Fall Means Back· To School
When September rolls around, it's. time for returning students and r-.. - tremulous freshman to forget a bout summer picnics and afternoon sessions at the pool. It's registra tion time again, with thoughts of semester hours, grade points and l majors and minors uppermost in the minds of Techsans. Fall registation clicked off in or der this year with 5,434 students enrolling. Returning students found some new wrinkles as they went th r o u g h registration processes again. For one thihg, those persons who drive cars found they could no longer park in the nearest va cant spot. A new traffic system is now in effect on the campus, with each car owner being assigned a specific parking area. They were given stickers with their designat ed area recorded on them and told that city patrolmen would be check ing those stickers to see that there were no violators. Returning stm?ents line tip to begin fall registration. They Dorm dwellers who had hereto found some new wrinkles in night courses, parking regulations, . fore been able to sleep until eight and crowded housing facilities. · But registration went off some o'clock, then jump into a car and still make that early morning class what smoother than in the past-fewer lines and less red tape. on time were hard hit by the new regulations. Now they'll have to al dents who wanted rooms. in the arts and sciences division low themselves time to walk, since Room reservation requests gain their first year. under the new system they .are ed momentum following the out Pre - regist ration estimates had not allowed to drive cars to class. break of the Korean war, accord placed probable fall enrollment fig New night and .Saturday courses ing to H. L. Burgess, head of the ures at near 6,000, close to the being offered this year were an dorm reservation of.fice. Men't record year of 1948-. However, final other added registration feature. dormitories were filled •by July 13, figures failed to reach the 1949 to These new courses, being offered with a waiting list of 260 compiled tal of 5,844. A sharp decline in the before the office stopped taking numbers of veterans in school was for business personnel and teach reservations. ers, helped to boost the enrollment partly responsible .for the smaller Students also found that all cam than expected enrollment. figures this term. pus dormitories would offer the Night class schedules call for Another reason given for tre came food fare, with the installa lower t han ex.pect ed enrollment courses in education, English, his tion of a new uni.fied-menu pro was the Korean war situation, tory, accounting, finance, market gram. This new .pro·gram is planned which has kept many -prospective ing, economics, management, archi to provide better meals and at the students from entering school. tecture, agricultural · educati o .n, same time, to reduce the amount Probably the smoothest regis clothing, home economics educa of wasted food. ' tration to date is now past history, tion, psychology and music edu Ratio of men and women on the as students settle down to classes, cation. Cour.ses will be followed by campus remained about three to cramming, and midnight bull ses advanced studies in the spring and one, as out of the 5,400 plus regis sions. subsequent semesters. tering, 1,440 were women and 3,994 Another change was the expan men. The largest number, 1,607, sion of graduate studies at the registered in the arts and sciences Tech's music department is com college. W ith the beginning of this division, with engineering running ing of age. For the first time in semester, the new 'Program for of second with 1,145. The. •business the history of the college, a bache fering doctorate degrees in three school had 1,105, agriculture, 791, lor o fmusic degre els being of slibjects, Am e r i can civilization, home economics, 352 and the grad fered by the department. Until English and history went into ef uate school, 432. now students have only been able fect. Approximately 1,031 freshmen to obtain a ·bachelor of arts de Housing facilities on the campus took part in orientation activi gree in music. were crowded to overflowing after ties which preceded registration two days of registration. Girls' of upperclassmen. For the first J . E. Williamson, holder of a dormitories still had a few rooms time this year, freshmen were reg master of arts degree from Tech, . left, but boys' dorms were full and istered in business administration. is new dean of men at the Univer there were long waiting lists of stu- Previously, all freshmen registered sity of Houston. The Texas Techsan The Hitchin' Post Due to the unusually large num CHARLIE C. TRUITT, JR. to Julia ANNA JO YARBROUGH to George ber of marriages among ex-stu Ann Miller Thomas Adams dent ranks during the past months, It has been necessary to limit mar JOE H. SMITH to Bobbie Geraldine T. A. MORRISS, JR. to Doris Anr. riage accounts to only the names Pearce Brown of the participants. Personalized WILLIAM EDWIN LUMMUS to Gen- JOYCE BOYLES to Howard Mitchell accounts of marriages will return eva Montgomery NELLIE EDITH BEEBE to Charles when the summer boom is over, ALICE HIX to Bill J. Parsley Austin Rawlings -The Editor. LINIOEL GEYER to Paul Aleskin JAMES PATRICK CHRISTAL to HEBER A. HARBISON to Pauline Yvonne Olds ELIZABETH ANNE BOWYER to Rex Hosier BETTY LOUISE WOLCOTT to LES- Harris BOB COPELAND to Nina Jo Dunn LIE NANCE, JR. JOAN CARVER to Robert E. Miller KATHERYN WITTY to WILLIAM WILLIAM GARRETT McMILLAN to DOROTHY WALTERS to Bill Cole- NELSON LAURA McCRACKEN man GEORGE REUBEN WALL to Zena PEGGY WEATHERS to John Dee NORMA WRIGHT to Cpl. James 0. Estell Bolin Martin Bullard MRS. JANE WOODRUFF Mi::DON- BILLY NOYES to Ruby Nelle Braly WANDA JEAN HEINE to Wyatt ALO to GRANVILLE LEE DICK- PEGGY JORDAN to Vernon Ram- o. Lipscomb ·INSON sower ELAYNE HEAD to JACK COLE, JR. MARGENE FRY to GILSERT LEE- NORMA WRIGHT to James 0. FLOYD NAPIER, JR. to Ramona MAN BRYANT Bullard Andrews JAMES W. EVANS to Janelle CHARLES CROWE to Joy Curry JANIS HAMILTON to Robert L. Turner LILA THRACE MATTHEWS to James Oates JOCELYN AILEEN MYERS to Nel- Nathaniel Patterson JEANNINE BALLEW to VICTOR A. wyn Richards NORMA JOYCE SCHOFIELD to CHILDERS MAT E. DILLINGHAM to Joan Cole Rex Harold Hennington BARBARA SCOTT to Augusta Lew- JEAN NELSON to Mack Roberts DOROTHY PUSTEJOVSKY to ED- is Smith 111 JONISlJE HUDSON to Mervyn WIN GERIK MARY LOU FREEMAN to SHELLY Douglas JIMMIE LEE COTTEN to Oatus A. C. HUDNALL, JR. REX RAMSOWER to Ethel lee Os- Roberts SAM A. BLAKE to Dorothy Mc- borne JANNETTE McGUIRE to Edwin Donald . FREIDA JO MEADER to Harold Pechacek DELIGHT HARDIN to S. J,. HEN- Maxey THURMAN Al.:EXANDER B 0 U - DERSON · JUNICE ANN FAHLE to ROYCE F. KNIGHT, JR. to Leah Frances JOYCE BOYLES to Howard Mitchell BROOKMOLE . Beall NANCY LEE EVITT to J. B. Millsap, JOHNNY E. LEATHERS to Betty TOMMYE CARTER to BEN BURK- Jr. Murray HOLDER LOIS ALYNE CONE to Samuel MARGARET DELL CLARK to JOHN W. B. WILSON, JR. to Gloria Gosch Sidney Bates CLIFTON FORMBY NET A UNDERWOOD to Billy Gill WILLIAM M. PEARSON, JR. to Mar- MYRA BOWNDS to Wayne Tim- LEON C. GIESECKE to Jareene gie Nell Lamer, Jr. mons Holcomb MARY LOIS BLOUNT to Jack Bris- THURMAN D. REYNOLDS to Billie LADOT WHITE to 'Charles Stewart tow Louise Brown · Branch, Jr. JACKIE SUE REID to Troy A. Wil- 'TWILA DECK to Louise Odle JAMES D. SUBLETT to Beverly Hay- son CLAUDE C. DONALDSON, JR. maker DOROTHY DEAN ALBERTSON to to Beulah Faye Edwards W. C. BROWN to Nancy Lee Evans Allen J. Daggett MURRY GAY to Annette Partain DORIS ZINN SMITH to John Paul MRS. BOBBIE PLOWMAN KELLY to CATHERINE LEE McDONOUGH to Wurtz Clyde l. Hickerson Julian S. Yett THURMAN D. REYNOLDS to Billie JANELLE TURNER to JAMES W . HELEN OHLENBUSCH to Richard Louise Brown EVANS Buckles MARY THOMAS to J. R. McANALLY I. W . TERRY to Margaret Carolyn JAMES DELMA BAUCUM to Po- RICHARD M. STRAIN to Barbara Foster cahontas Miller Watts LILLIAN LINDSEY to LESTER HOOD NORRIS WAYNE ELSTON lo Bev- SUE ANNE ROBERTS to E. L. Derr LAVERNE ORR to Cecil Heith erly Anne Rigdon d EDWIN JOSEPH CAMPBELL to Hel- EUGENE FREDERICK STREGER to TOMI JO HACKNEY to C. Gia en Hanson en Whaley ·Evelyn Joyce Dutton CAROLYN HOOKER to Jack Harl- LAWRIE GLENN McGEHEE to Juli- JACK TURNER to Mary lee Sears ton Ballew ia Frances Houston By POSY PIPER, '50 ~"""';" "'"'····---·--~ goal in all his w ork. That is why he takes such pride in t he band "We just wanted to have a good l school for high scool students held band for the college." That's the on the campus each summer. The way D. O. Wiley explains the phe summer training school has been nomenal growth of Texas Tech's heia the last seventeen summers, band. The genial director, who and during that time he has seen has always •been simply "Prof" to the attendance rise from 30 at the his students, recalls that the band first school in 1934 to the a.pprox was a small one when he came to :mately ZOO present for the 1950 Tech back in 1934. Since that time session. it has come to ·be rated among the Outstanding band directors from major college and university bands different parts of the country are in the country by music critics and brought here in the summer to c.:.perts who really know. instruct the young students. Dr. Prof Wiley's twenty-nine years A. A. Harding, considered the num or band directing have been spent ber one cc•llege director In the at two colleges, Hardin-Simmons United States, has been here eight and Tech. He .went to Hardin-Sim summers. Others who have helped mons in 1921 and ·became director with the program are Colonel Har c:f the Cowboy Band which gained old Bachman of the University of '· orld wide recognition under his Florida and Mark H. Hindsley, leadershi-p. l.Jniversity of Illinois. He took the Hardin --Simmons Prof D. 0. Wiley has done more band to Europe in 1930. Fourteen than any other person to put performances were given by the Texas Tech's band right up among group in the Palladium of London, "PROF." D. 0. WILEY-he's the leaders. Evidence o! the way England. It was during one of responsible for the natty uni exes appreciate this fact is the number of outstanding band stu these performances that the Prince forms and national recognition of Wales, heir to the throne of dents they send back to their for L:ngland, was in the audience. of Tech's band. mer professor every year. As one ex-student put it, "Prof Wiley is The band traveled across Eng While the salesman was in town, just Mr. Band at Texas Tech, land, giving concerts in Birming that's all." ham and Newcastle, and to the a quartet of planners decided to Hague, :Amsterdam and Rotterdam take advantage of his presence In !iolland. One of the largest and order some. new uniforms for crowds ever to assemble in the the band. So President Bradford Demo Nominee Amsterdam theatre was present to Knapp; Jim Lindsey, Toreador hear the Cowboys from Texas. "It editor; Claude Thompson, presi was quite a thrill to play to such dent· of the Student Council, and To Tour Campus a crowd," Wiley recalls. Ending Wiley spent the day before Christ the European tour were aippear man designing the colorful uni John White, Democratic nominee ances in Pari~, France, and Brus forms still worn by the band. for state commissioner of agricul sels, Belgium. President Knapp and Professor ture and a Tech alumnus, will be Just a few days. before their ap Wiley had to sign a note to pay one ot the honored guests at the pearance at the Palladium, Paul for these first uniforms, 73 ot Panhandle-South Plains Fair Oct. w ·hiteman, then in his heyday, had them. L i n d s e y and Thompson 2-7. played a command performance agreed to conduct a fund-raising No speaking engagements have tor the king there. "That's Paul campaign among the stu4ent body been scheduled on the Tech cam "hiteman, the King of Jazz," Prof to pi:.y for· the new garments. pus, said Dean W. L. Stangel of said with a twinkle in his eye. 'I·hey were as good as their word, the agriculture division, but White and they sold enough one dollar .. 1 v e were in pretty fast company." will visit the campus, particularly t:ckets to raise the $2400 needed to the Aggie building. Despite the international re.pu pay fc-r the uniforms. On a Febru White received the nomination tation of his Cow.boy Band, Prof ary day In 1937 the band, resplend ,,·as never really pleased with it. ent in their new uniforms, played in August. He received his B.S. In "It was primarily a show band," the concert before over 2,000 proud animal husbandry in 1946 and since he said, "and I am more interested and loyal classmates and teachers. then has . served as Veteran's Co in a band such as we have here Prof Wiley was mighty proud of Ordinator in Central Texas coun- ties. · ::.. .. 'l'ech." those first uniforms, but now that One of the first innovations made he has looked at them for 14 years, While a student at Tech, "Red" by Prof Wiley after coming to Tech he expresses these sentiments, "We White was a member of the College had to do with uniforms for his have $15,COO worth of uniforms club, Saddle Tramps, Aggie club band members. Their uniforms in n c_,,v so we can't get di.fferent ones. and was cheer leader in 1945-46. 1934 consisted of black corduroy But if anyone is tired of them and trousers and red corduroy jackets. wants to donate that much money "Education makes a people easy On Christmas Ev.e ot 1936, a sales for new ones, we would be glad to lead, but difficult to drive; man came through Lubbock with lu accept." easy to govern, but Impossible to samples of materials suitable for rTov1ding gr eater service to the enslave." ltandsmen's uniforms. area ser-ved by Tech is Wiley's Attributed to Lord Brougham EXES This silver punch bowl and the engraved cups will remain at the college-a lastin~ me morial to the ex-students of Texas Tech. To reserve YOUR cup, just return the order blank below to Ex-Students' Association, Box 96, Texas Tech College, Lubbock, Texas. I want my own Silver Anniversary cup In the Student Union Building! Enclosed is $25.00, payable to the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund. Engra ving to 'be as below: NAME______(Print or typewrite) If not a graduate, list year scheduled t o graduate. .., .,. ; October, 1950 7 A Look At The Futu re New Departments, Buildings Loom In Agricultural ·Plans With the beginning of construc bution of irrigation on ·the plains, vailable, a building to house the tion on the new agricultural engin has given rise to a need for more department ii; planned. training in horticulture. The ex- L9.boratories for the department eering building and a battery of tent to which towns and cities on will be held in t he greenhouses un four greenhouses, plans for de the treeless plains are becoming der construction just east of the partmental changes in the division landscape conscious has resulted Tech dairy. The proposed horti of agriculture are taking shape. in a demand for a curriculum in culture .".building will stand east of ·park management, according .t<> ·the. :greenhouses. Complete nurs President Wiggins has given his ·Stangel. eries on the college farms are also . a·pproval to the creation o.f three :. .. Dean Stangel feels that creation planned to complement the gr een- new departments beginning · with the 1950-51 session. Budgets for of the new departments will be a houses. . these departments, agronomy, agri definite advancement for the agri- Plans for the greenhouses were cultural ·engineering, and horticul cultural division. "The budgets we drawn by Elo J. Urbanovsky, cam have set up are in keeping with de- pus landscape architect, and are ture and park management, have been set up and are to be requested m ands of students in college and being constructed by Lord & Burn will result in· greater service of han of Irvington, New York. They of the next Legislature. Texas Tech to the area which it will be built at a total cost of $83, At present curricula for agron serves", he says. 680.00 and ar e to be completed by omy, agricultural engineering and The new department of horti- January l , 1951. horticulture and park management culture and park management will Haynes & Kirby of Lubbock are ar e included in the departmen·t of have offices and classrooms tern- architects for the agrculturai en plant industry. But if the present porarily in the agricultural engin- gineering building, which will be plans are approved by the Board eering building, which is schedul- built at a total cost of $354,436.00. of Directors and budgets are pro ed for completion about August 5, R . F. Ball Construction Company vided by the Legislature, plant in 1951. Later, when funds become .a- of Houston, is the contractor. dustry as a department will be a bolished, with the three proposed departments replacing it. . W . L. Stangel, dean of agricul ture, explains that requests of stu dents now enrolled in college for more specialized training in these phases of agriculture will justify setting up of separate departments for them. Since the area served by· Tech is largly an agricultural one, with the principal cash income being derived from such crops as cotton, grain sorghums and wheat, Dean Stan gel feels that interest in agronomy will continue to expand with the de velopment of the area. This fact justifies a well-rounded curriculum in agronomy as a major, he says. Increasing· importance of me chanization in farm production has brought about an unusally heavy demand from students for an in tensive course in agricultural en gineering, he says. A separate d e partment of agricultural engineer ing would have its classrooms and laboratories in the new building, which Dean Stangel believes will fumish badly needed facilities for Dr. A. W. Young, head of the department of plant industry, students who designate ag engin W. L. Stangel, dean of agriculture and President Wiggins break eering as their major. ground for the new agricultural engineering building. Members The attention now being given to the growing of vegetable crops, of the agriculture faculty ·zook on. Dean of Agriculture Emeritus brought about by the wide distri- A. H. L eidigh is on the right, holding hat in hand. 8 The Texas Techsan THE FACULTY SCENE Neil Casey Fine, on leave from the college for the past two years, returns to the agriculture division this semester as assistant dean of agriculture and professor of ani mal husbandry. While on leave, Fine has been working toward his docto1·ate degree from the Uni versity of Minnesota. Fine came to Tech in 1935 and was made assoc iate professor of animal husbandry in 1946. He has a B.S. degree from Tech and an M.S. degree from Iowa State C9llege. * * . * Filling the new post of Director of Public Information is Rick Jay, graduate of the University of Okla homa School of Journalism. Jay comes fl'om Oklahoma City, where he handled sports news for the United Press Bureau. His duties will include sports publicity, pub lic information and editing college bulletins. DR. JOHN S. CARROLL GEORGE W. SCOTT * * * Bob Rutland, assistant publicity ous bulletins on educational topics. Oklahoma A&M. He participated dil'ector and editor of the TEXAS He is a R otarian, a member of the in both football and track while a TECHSAN, has resigned his post national advisory council of the sophomore at the University of Girl Scouts, and has been active In Michigan. and is now at Vanderbilt Univer the YMCA and PTA movements in sity working on his doctor's de California. * * * A 1941 graduate of Tech, Agatha gree. With t he appointment of Dr. Turner, will be an instructor in Carroll will begin an expansion of architecture. She was awarded the the educational program to include * * * LeBurn traveling scholarship last Assistant Dean of Women for the a ll departments which can con year and spent six months travel coming year is Miss Marion Thomp tribute to the education of teach ing in Europe. son. She has her master's degree ers, according to President Wiggins. from Boston University, whe1·e she Dr. Carroll succeeds Dr. Doyle * * * has done counseling and guidance D. Jackson, acting head of the de T wo new Instructors have been work. Another addition to the partment since last fall. Dr. Jack added to the horticulture teaching Dean of Women's office is Miss son took over the duties of Dr. staff. They are Michael Andrew Nancy Nall, assistant to the Dean R. E . Garlin, who had be~n head 8amchok and A1·al Boyd Gwinn. and counselor of women's resi of the department since 1934, when Samchok 1·eceived his master's de dence halls. Miss Nall has been Dr. Garlin gave up his administrat gree from Pennsylvania State Col studying at the Unlve1·sity of Miss ive duties because of ill hea lth. lege in Februa1•y. Gwinn recently ouri the last two years. received his M.S. degree from Iowa * . * * :3tate College. * * * Taking ove1· freshman football * * * Dr. John S. Carroll, · fo1·mer coaching chores this yea r Is George Additions to the engineering div county superintendent of schools W. Scott, veteran high school and ision faculty include two in elec in San Diego county, California, is college coach. His past experience trical and one in industrial engin head of the education department. Includes track and football coach eering. Harold Spuhler, assistant Dr. Carroll received the B.A. de ing jobs at Tulsa University, Okla professor in elech'ical engineering, gree at San Diego College, M.A. homa City University, Oklahoma was formerly employed as a re at University of Southern Californ A&M and various high schools in search assistant in the Research ia and Ph.D. degree at Yale Uni Oklahoma and Texas. Laboratory of Electronics at Mass versity. achusetts Institute of Technology, Coach Scott has been asl:loc1ated Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to serving as an in with four championship football William A. Blackwell, instructor stl'ucto1· at Yale, Dr. Carroll has teams, at Po1·t Arthur, Odessa, in E.E., has been working for the taught at San Diego State, New Canyon and Elk City, Oklahoma. Haven (Connecticut) Junior Col General Electric Company in His track team at \.:anyon last year Schenectady, New York. A former lege, University of Southern Cal won top honors at state playoffs. ifornia and the Claremont College Tech instructor in industrial en Scott has a bachelor of education gineering, Willlam Loyd Jenkins, Graduate School. degree from Oklahoma City Uni Dr. Carroll has authored numer- ve1·sity and an M.S. degree from (Continued on page 11) October, :1950 ·· 9 SJIO'RTS 'ROUNOUJI .' by H. A. TUCK, Jr. '51 Texas University's highly-touted Longhorns were frankly amazed as the Texas Tech Red Raiders held them to a 28-14 win on Sept. 23. Rated as high as third in some nation-wide polls and slated to take the Southwest Conference without so much as a fair-sized struggle, the Steers were pushed to the lim it by Tech before emerging vic torious before a capacity crowd of 20,000 at Jones Stadium. Fans and sports writers are won dering how many tons of crow Abe Chanin should eat this season. It was Chanil). who predicted in a national sports magazine that Tech would end up in fiffh place in the Border Conference, behind such teams as Hardin-Simmons, West Texas, Texas Western and Arizona. Tech was definitely not a fifth rate team as they pushed the Long horns on the ground and lost the game in the air. The Raiders gained over 100 yards more on the ground than Texas, but 13 success ful aerials out of 22 attempts was the deciding factor for the Steers. A tight pass defense for the Raid ers might have wr itten· another ending. Texas was loaded with talent; such gridiron greats as Byron Townsend, Ben Proctor, Bud Mc Fadin, BuM>a Shands and Tom Stolhandske were on the field, but they didn't look any better than the Raider regulars. Ike Stuver and Earl Jackson each rolled up over 100 yards on the ground, while quarterback Pete Edwards, an un Big Jerrell Price, Tech's 5'11", 200 pou~d tackle, performed. heralded transfer from Coffeyville brilliantly in the game against Texas University. He and the (Kansas) Junior College, ran the other Tech linesmen rose up repeatedly to hold Steer break Red Raiders with cool precision. away artists to short gains and often losses. In the line it was Jerrell Price, Elbert Johnson, Dick Pirtle, Dick Cavazos and Doug McSwane who touchdowns, but the Canyon college but none of the regulars can be hobbled the Steers in their power is pointing for this game in a big discounted to any extent. For the house plays down the middle. Ex way. W. T. students figure that first time s ince 1945 Tech will tra points seemed t o be automatic Tech will be down after successive play T . C. U. in the first of a two as Porter booted four for the Long meetings with Texas and A & M; year home and home series at horns and Tim Hatch added a pair they also state that this is the year Ft. Worth . Since this is the official for the Raiders. and that they have the team to out-of-town trip for the Tech stu So much for the past; let's look get the job done. dent body, the Raiders will be go ing all out to win for their suport at what the Raiders can expect in With 31 juniors and seniors on ers. It is interesting to note that the next four games. the roster, the Buffs look stronger Tech has won four of the last five On October 7 the West Texas than they have in years. All po State Buffaloes invade Lubbock to games they have played with t he sitions seem to be ably filled and Horned Frogs. start the Red Raiders on their Bor backed with lots of good reserves. der Conference opposition. Frank Quarterback Gene Mayfield is be Dutch Meye1· will have ample Kimbrough is expected to have ing touted as the outstanding un manpower from which to choose his team strung tight for this en der-T man in the Border Confer for the October 14 game, with 24 counter and the Buffaloes will be ence and little Bill Cross has sh.own returning lettermen and some out after· their revenge. Tech has won to be putting plenty of drive into standing sophomores. Loss of L indy the last seven jousts with the Buffs the power plays from his fullback An S and Q C/.o+hiers Exclusive TOWELS.and SHOWERAPS with Texas Tech Shield in Color' TOWEL Close loop, highly absorbent 22" by 44" size. Texas Tech shield as illustrated in. Red and Black. . .. each $1.95. S~-tOWERAP A wraparound of the same mater ial. Sizes small, medium, large. Has useful pocket, snap fastners, and Texas Tech shield. ·... each $2.95. Designed by Texas Tech Student Bill Wilson, Slaton, Tex. s'Q clo~hiers · I I 12 Broadway October, .1950 · l1 Tech's Booth At State Fair Former Student President Is Made To Feature Anniversary Cake District Geologist Texas Tech's booth at the State birthday candles, one for each of Fair of Texas, to be h eld in Dal- Tech's twenty-five ye·ars. Bill Nugent. class o! '48, has been las October 7 through 22, wlll be At the" base of the cake and ex made district geologist for the Pure 0 one of the highlights of this year's tending out from it will be an ex Oil Company. Bill, who has been Silver Anniversary celebration. The hibit platform wh.ere exhibits from employed by the company since booth will not only feature exhib- engineering and science depart his graduation two years ago, will its from various departments on ments, featuring electrical and have as his territory t he area in the campus, but it will also boast scientific phenomena, will form a cluding Northern Louisana and that all important Item, the birth- "house ,of magic." Identifying cards Southern Arkansas. day cake. to in di'cate the educational value Bill was a geology major at Tech. No ordinary confection will be of each exhibit wil be used. He was student body president dur this anniversary cake, which in- Thesis models prepared by fifth ing his senior year. While a junior cidentally is not the edible kind. year architectural engineering stu he was business manager of the Measuring ten feet in height and dents will define the corners of the student council. Nugent was also diameter, it's size alone makes it 20x30 foot booth. On the single wall named to Who's Who in '47 and '48. unique. dividing the area from the next Bill is married to the former Atop the cake will be a revolv- door )>ooth, a photographic mural Wanda Jean Fowler. He and his Ing medallion bearing on one side will be mounted. wife ·reside in Shreveport, La. a double T and on the other, the An aerial v iew of the campus words Silver Anniversary. The has been used to make the mural, medallion will rotate in one direc- which measures nine feet in width. "Of course everybody likes and tion, and the cak e in the opposite But it has been retouched to show respects self-made men. It is a direction. how the campus wlll look when the great deal bett er to be made in On the third layer T exas Techno- present building program is com that. way than not · to be made at all." logical College w ill be spelled out pleted. in silhouette letters. Back of these There· will be ·a desk at the Oliver Wendell H olmes letters, which number exactly booth where ex-students of the col twenty-five, wlll be the traditional · 1e·ge· may register. To complete the " There is no refuge from con picture, a record player will lend fession but suicide; and suicide is THE FACULTY SCENE a collegiate atmosphere through confession." Still more *newcomers * * wlll become a part of the faculty scene as the new school year gets underway. J. T. Matthews, M.S. from the Uni versity of Oklahoma, will be an instructor in phys ics. Assistant professor in sociology is Frank C. Moore, who has been working on his master's degree at the Univers ity of Texas. Dr. Neil Berst, assistant profes sor in chemistry, has a Ph.D. de gree from Pennsylvania State Col lege. Since December, 1S48, he has been working in the industrial lub ricants group of the Standard Oil Company of I ndiana. A former teacher, John E. Hard ing, has returned to become an as Tech's 1927 lit1estock judging team was the first of many which sistant professor of economics. He has been a way doing graduate have swept honors at the nation's top shows. This first team made work. the long trip to Kansas City 1mder the direction of Prof. Ray C. Mow Herbert Colvin, M.M. degree from ery, now head of the animal husbandry department. the University of Colorado, will be The !cam i11cl11cled (front row, left to right) F. G. Blackmon, R. a new instructor in music. Mary C. Reed, Elton Mims and Sam Chatham. Back row: L. C. Jennings, Ella Crozier, instructor in child Mowery, Buck \fleaver and Lonnie Starr. development, and James E. Dykes, formerly in the Department of Professor Mowery recalls that one of the highlights of the trip ?ommer'ce at University of Florida, was a stroll down one of Kansas City's main streets. Chatham picked instructor in marketing, are other ttfJ a cmm pied piece of paper which turned out to be a $2 0 bill. T.nts additions. of money- in 1927! 12 The "Texas Tech sa n and John Sebastian, harmonica player, a re other world renowned CAMPUS ROUNDUP performers whom Artist course go ers will h~ve a chance to see and A couple o! Nelsons new to the hear. Tech !acuity wer e quite con fused Charles Laughton, movie actor, t or a couple of days over who was a nd Louis Untermeyer , literary going back in the Navy. Seems t hat cr itic, are among the big names H arold Nelson, a ssistant professor to be featured in th e recr eation ot jour nalism, arriving in Lub program. Dr. P olgar, the "Mental bock from Minnesota, wa s t old by W izard", will also be back to en a n acquaintance that "some sort tertain a nd amaze w it h his mental of Navy orders" awaited him at prowess. school. * * * To N elson, wh o h ad j ust dispos Speaker list for t he Silver Anni- ed most of his fur n iture, rented versary Symposium was completed his Minneapolis h ome, packed up with the recent addition ot Mrs. h is wife and two children, and Chase Going Woodhouse, U.S. Rep driven to Lubbock , and who'd been resentative from Connecticut. strictly "Inactive reserve" most Mrs. Woodhouse is an out stand of th e time since the war, it was ing educator and statesman who quit e a blow. has served in both the 79th and 81st Western union finally cleared t he sessions of Congress. She was Sec bus iness up by digging out a· tele retary of State in Conn ecticut from gram addressed to LaVerne Nelson, 1941 to 1943 and is executive direc dormitory counselor in West hall. tor of the Women's Division, Dem It informed L . Nelson that Navy ocratic National Com mit tee. orders to ·active duty awaited him :She also edits "Women's Work at D uluth, Minnesota, September and Education," is author of "Bus 26th . iness Opportunities for the Home At this writing L. Nelson is in M R S. CHASE GO I NG Economist," the "Big Store" and the p1·ocess of delaying his orders. WOODHOUSE, U.S. represent "Studies of the Institute of. Wom T ech's keeping a journalism teach ative from Connecticut, is one en's Professional Relations." er and possibly a counselor, too. T wo famous scholars, Dr. Henry of the three speakers to tak~ Steele Commager and Dr. Otto * * * part in the Silver Anniversar y T wo other Tech staff members Struve, had previou sly agreed to are not confused about their or Symposium. speak at the Symposium. ders to active military service. Has kell Taylor, professor of account ing and finance, and a first lieu tena nt In the organized A rmy re serve, has already reported to Fort Meade, Maryland. Taylor has MINIATURE FOOTBALLS been in command of the headquart ers of the 317th Military Intelli These balls are reguation in all respect except for gence platoon. Miss Marie Davis, register ed size-6 3/ 4" in length-have heavy duty rubber n urse in the Tech Infi rmary~ wa.S bladders-white with letters TEXAS TECH and seal called into active service in the Na in scarlet. vy Nurses' Corps. Miss Davis, who was at Tech two years, re.ported to San Diego. All Balls Are Inflated * * * Mailed Anywhehre For $1 . I 0 Something else new has bee'n add- ed In the division of B usiness Ad min istration. . An extensive sched ule of night courses are being ~f fered to persons who war~ dur ing KID'S KAPS the day and a 1·e unable to attend regular classes. A genuine Frosh Cap-made just like Dad's in Texas At present nine courses are be ing offered, but Dean G. G. Heath Tech colors-for the freshman of the future- child- er said that additional courses will ren I s sizes• . be included in the program when there Is sufficient demand for Mailed Anywhere For $1 .10 them. * * * An impressive list of well-known lecturers and entertainers will par ticipate In Artists course and rec reation series this semester. Rise Stevens opens the Artists course season with a concert Oc- t ober 16. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin October, 1950 13 ·::orkers on those buildings. Physi cally handicapped students who New Rules Govern must use a cal" for transportation from building to building are giv Parents of a new son, Neil en a sticker entitling them to move MoJre, are LT. AND MRS. to different parking areas. These WAYNE A. HILTON, who reside Campus Parking stickers are also given to vehicles at 3701 27th Street, Lubbock. Moth of the college that mus t m ove to er is the former CHRISTIN]!! A problem that has long bother various buildings providing service MOORE, a 1941 home ec g·raduate. ed Techsans is that of adequate· to t he college. · He is a chemistry major, class of parking facilities for its growing City patrolmen will check cars '43. The Hilton's also have a five student body a nd faculty, plus in the campus parking areas to see year-old son . the construction workers who now that stickers are displayed, and· vio Randy Eve is a new adition to crowd the campus. A major step lators will be referred to a special the J .. W . FRENCH family. Her toward solving this problem was students panel to be organized parents, both exes, are residing at taken during fall registration with from the Student Council. 24H> 13th Street, Lubbock, while the issuance of a new set of traf the father works on his master's fic regulations. degree in chemical engineering. Under the new system students CLARK-FORMBY VOWS READ He was a '49 graduate. The former living in dormitories have been A!DDERIENE CLAY, '48 H. E. given assigned parking places near .. Margaret Clark, Student Council grad, is the mother. their respective 'dormitories · and secretary for the last two years An August 5th arrival was Gary will not be able to drive to campus and a s.pring graduate, and Clint CaTroll Gunter, an 8 lb. ~ oz. boy. buildings for classes. Formby, president of Student Coun cil in 1948-49, were married re Parents are .the former LANELL Students living off the campus DOSHIER, 1946 graduate in home w ho drive cars to school received cently at Van Horn. Mrs. Formby was selected "Miss economics, and JAMES HARLEY stickers .which serve as permits GUNTER, '47 A . . H . grad. The Texas T ech" by the student ·body to individual parking lots. There last fa ll. She was a DFD m ember father is engaged in farming at are twelve of these parking areas Claude. and Formlby, '49 graduate, was a provided for students and staff Socil memlber. MRS. W . G. CHAPMAN, ·the for members. mer THELMA RUTH STRAIN, is They will live in Colorado City the mother of a son, Kenneth Parking lots near buildings un where he is mana:ger of a radio Blair, born July 16. She is a 1944 der con struction are provided for station. graduate with a major in public school music. She reiiides at 1401 Hazelwood in Borger. Michael Ashe! is the name given a new son born June 23 to MRS. Many An "Ex" Marks A.SHEL RICHARDSON, the for mer OLETA ELKINS. Oleta, a resident of Bula, received. her BBA This Spot .. degree in 1949. For.ty-nine graduate WILBUR W. HART is the father of a n ew boy. · Hart received his degree in accounting in 1949. He now lives in Perryton. Prospective member of the class of '71 is George William Fletcher, son of GRADY W. FLETCHER, class of '47. The Fletchers reside a t 4026 Sue Ellen, Houston. Nine Enrolled In Graduate Program Nine students are now working toward the doctor of philosophy degree, which will be· offered at Tech this y ear for the first time. In a n expanding program of graduate work, the college offers the doctorate in t hree fields of study, American civilization, Eng lish and history. Dr. W . B. Gates, dean of grad HILTON HOTEL nuate study, has announced that LUBBOCK, TEXAS the program will grow in 1951 to include a doctorate in ~hemistry and geology. P lans are also being THE HILTON MEANS HOSPITALITY made for the inauguration of the degree of doctor of education. 14 The Texas Techsan Signals From The Huddle '27 R oussel. the former ENA ARM MR. AND MRS. W . D. WAT STRONG, reside in Port Arthur. KINS make their home in Abilene, She holds ·B.A. and M.A. degrees .where he is vice president and i!l mathemati'cs from T ech. gP..neral manager of the Western The El Paso .firm, F oster & Da vis, architects and engineers, is Co~tonoil Company. Mrs. W a tkins is the ·former LUCILLE MOXLEY, m!lde up cf exes JOHN P. -FOS L:nglish major of the class of '30. TER and RALPH V. DAVIS . Fos ter grad·uated in '32 with a degree •. '28 in architectural engineering. Davis Former Englisl). major PAUL C. received the same de-gree in 1934. McWILLIAMS is a senior field Mrs. Foster, the former VELMA executive for the Boy Scouts of PENDLETON, was a '33 education America. His home is in Lufkin. grad. Kansas City, Missouri, is the '29 h·ome of the C. H. Garrison Com Tc:dile engineering grad u ate pany and its owner, C. HILL GAR RUDD HARDESTY is assistant RlSON, a mechanical engi!leering rnperintendent of the Davenport I:-fosiery Mills, Inc., in Chattanooga, graduate. Tennessee. '33 < Living in Lubbock at 2826 27th Wl'LLIA!M T . STITT, meohani Street is MRS. CHARLES V. cal en·gineering grad, was recently ( NELMS. She is the former FLOY aippointed superintendent of po.wer LEE ANGLIN, home economics plant engineering for Pan Ameri J grad. can World Airways. He and Mrs. . Another Lubbock resident, MRS. Stitt, nee ·CHRISTINE SAWYER, l GARNET REEVES, is the former live in Miami, Florida. Mrs. Stitt .....~ LOIS FREDNA HARKEY. She is a '33 home ec .grad. CAPTAIN JAMES Q. HAM was an English m ajor while at LT. ODR. 0. E . FORBESS, U.S. 'I'cch. Mrs. Reeves lives at 2510 Navy, is stationed at Treasure Is RICK, above, is a personnel di 21st Street. land, 'San Francisco, California. rector for the Eighth A ir Force, '30 Forbess was a civil en.gineering stationed at Carswell Air Force MR. AND MRS. ROBERT J . grad. Base, Fort Worth. He attended HUFF live in San Antonio w.here The former LESEY BULLOCK, Tech from '38 to '40, majored he is a title insurance. salesman now MRS. LES·EY KJ.iNiSEL, is living in Beaumont. She has a de in animal husband.ry. Hamrick for the Texas Title Cit y Company. t ook part in the famous Berlin R o:bert was a •l>usiness ad major. gree from T ech in foods and nutri His wife is the former JOHNNIE tion. Airlift last year. He is the fa JOE WHITLEY. '34 ther of triplet sons, Glynne, Owner of Powe 11 Insurance MRtS. RALPH GUYGER, the Lynne, and Wynne. Agency and tax assessoro:'Coilector former BURLYNE McCOIJLUM, for the Dumas Inda.pendent sooool· is an offi'ce clerk .for the .Humble professor of agr icultural econom district is JOHN R. POWELL, ·bus Pi-pe Line Company in Midland. ics at Teoh. Mrs. H aiigrave, nee iness ad graduate .. Residing at 3833 Linden, Fort RU'r.H ANNA THOMPSON, was '31 . -:~1 '''lorth, are MR. _AN;D MRS. A. G. a '34 home ec graduate. 'I'he Har R. 0. BUSBY, elecfrkal engi STALN.AK·IDR. The .Mrs., formerly g raves live in W olfforth. neerin•g grad, .is owner-: of the R. U'ARGAR"IDT PORCHER GREEN, T. L. P..A.TTERSON was recently 0 . BuSby Engineering and Con is a '35 · zoology graduate. He . is. transferred from Lubbock to Chi st ruction Company. His- home is employed by ·southiwestern °' · Bell~· cago, Illinois, where he is in the in Li'berty. Telephone Company as· dire-ctorY} manufactures sales department of Ohief park ra nger in/ Carlsbad rcpre&entative. . ~ the Goodyear Tire and Rub'ber Caverns National Park is L. B. MR. AND MRS. 0. 0. WIV. ··Company, Inc. Patterson, a textile \VORUEY, geology graduate. Mrs. LIAM•S are Jiving in Denton where; C!lgineering major, is temopora.-rily W orley is the former TENNYE he is a General Electric ·salesman. 1 esid:ng in Evanston, Illinois. MAYE JEFFRESS, '35 public Mrs. Williams was known .to her speaking major. schoolmates as INA KATHLEEN '36 GEROME GRAY UM is store IGO. •She was a n edUtcation major A teacher in the Lubbock schools is RUSSELL E . . WIM!B1IDRLY, B.A. manager of the J. C. Penney Com in the -class of '30. H e holds J3.A. pany in .Midland .. Grayum, a 'busi a nd M.A. degrees in government. and M.A. in history. His wife, w ho was VELDA MARGUERITE BA- ness majc.t\ is a lso president of '35 .. Midland's ex-students' chapter. KER, m aj ored in home ec and was N. E. TROSTLE and t1he Mrs., R alls residents are MRS. · AND a member of the class of '38. MRS. C. L. SoPACEK. A former E conomics graduate GAINES formerly NElJLIE MAY R I GGINS, ag ecc-nomics major, Mr. Spacek DAVI'S is associated with the La are residents of Brownwood. He, a civil engineering g rad, is super is now owner of the Spacek Grain mesa Meat Company of Lamesa. Company. His wife is the former DR. J. D. DONALDSON; JR., intendent of the city water works. MAURINE ALEXANDER of the chemistry graduate, is a pediatri '32 class of '37. Her major was com cian at the West Texas Hospital in A construction and re.pair engi mercial art. Lu'bbock. neer for the Texas Company is Animal husbandry graduate L. FOY PRIBBLE a nd his brother, W . A. ROUSSEL, JR. He and Mrs. M. HA:RGRAVE is an a ssociate IRIS PRIBBLE, '32, both hor t icul- October, 1950 15 ture graduates, are co-owners of President of the Tidmore Con· Pribble Bro·thers Florist in Hobbs, struction Company of Lubbock is New Mexico. At present they are MAX TIDMORE, former English in the midst of a building program major. Mrs. Tidmore is the for which will give them 5'500 square mer CATHERINE V. COLLIER, feet of floor space. '41 home ec graduate. J. W. HARP is a geologist for '37 the Sun Oil Company in Midland, Residing in Houston are exes while his wife, nee DOROTHY DR. GORDON L. MOORE, science MAY DANIELS, is a stenogra,pher major ,and JIM PINKSTON, M.E. for the Carl B. King Drilling Com SANDERS grad who is a sales manager for pany. He is a geology graduate the ·S·pecialty Manufacturing Com and she is a '39 English graduate. pany. -MR. AND MRS. CLAUDE J. '41 'I'HOMPSON live in Garden City, HARDY MASTERS, B.S. and ONE HOUR Kansas, where he is vice presi M.S. in math, lives in Dallas where dent and general manager of The she is a gravity computer for the Vvestern. Company and Kansas Oil Atlantic Refining Company. and Gas Production, Inc. The Mrs., Area Supervisor at A&I College, nee GRACE STENGEL, attended Kingsville, is MRS. CAR'RlE BI Tech in 1936-37. SHOP, formerly CARRIE CAR CLEANERS RUTH. Mrs. Bishop has B.S. and· '38 M .oS. degrees in home· economics MRS. P A!SCAL DeBONA, for~ education. merly DORJOTHY SPENCE, lives MR. .A:ND MRS. CLA.RllDNCE in Eagle P ass, Texas. -She was a HOWE are residents of Clapham, physical education major. New Mexico, where he is a rancher OWEN T. LOYD, holder of B.B. and she is postmistress. He ma ·t9 13A Ave. Q A. and Master of Education de jored in agriculture and she, mem grees from Tech, is high school ber of the class of '40, majored in principal at Dimmitt. speech. Mrs. Howe was formerly ·A breeder of registered Jersey LOLA P.EA!RIL COX. Do you need extra fast cattle is agriculture graduate A. RAYBON LAM, geology grad, is DEAN HARMON. He lives in Tu a partner in the Miller-Lam Motor lia. Company of Kermit. His wife, a se rvice on clea ni ng and RICHARD E . SPA>RKS, B .S. and '41 H.E. graduate, is the former M.S. in agricultural economics, is GERALDINE CONNER. with the Soil Conservation Service pressing? in Fort Worth. Mrs. /Sparks is '42 the former -M1ARIE LANCASTER. Ex-Raider ART WEBER, holder Former F.B.I. man HiUGH Mc of a B,S, degree, is Director o! CULLOUGH has recently moved Recreation and Industrial Safety from Fort Worth to Midland where for The American Thread Com If so, come to us for the he is an independent lease broker. pany of Clover, South Carolina. He is a geology grad. Mrs. Mc H e was recently elected president Cullough is the former MAXINE of the Clover Lion's Club. utmost in speed and t he l<'RY, a journalism graduate. ·DR. RANDOL.PIH BRANTLEY, who attended '.l'ech and received '39 his D.D.S: degree from Texas Uni foremost in Principal of the Cottage School versity, is a . "dentist in Angleton. In Lulbbock is MRS. C. 0. BERG Stationed with the Marine Corps HOI.JM, the former IRIS OHRIS in Cherry Point, North Carolina, '!'INE McKINNON. She was an is geology graduate CAPTAIN education graduate. GEORGE 0. ROSS. The Mrs., MoR. AND MRS. ARGO V. formerly MAXINE DEA:RDOFF, QUALITY Pl!)EK are residents of Lubbock. received her. degree in sociology in Mr. Peek is a journalism graduate 1946. with a master's degree in govern McKinney resident CLINTON 0. ment. His wife, nee BESSIE LEE BERGMA!N, graduate in dairy FORD, was a '41 H.E. grad. manufactures, is superintendent of VESTEL ASKEW is a livestock Caibell's Finer Dairy Foods. buyer for Armour & Company in MR. AND MRS. JOE B. MILLS YOUR ONLY Sonora. are residents of Childress and he is co-owner of Mills Machine Shop '40 there. She Is the former ED JOHN R. BIDR'l1R.AND, B.S. and WYNA V·ANICE FITE, '48 secre ONE-HOUR M:S. in agricultural economics, has tarial student. recently been made dean of the new basic division at A&M College. '43 He will head the faculty for all The degree · of Master of Arts in freshman students. Spanish from the State University CLEANERS A dietitian at Lu-bbock Memor of Iowa was recently awarded to ial Hospital is HELEN PRLEBE, LOR!ENtE CAROLINE SANDER. home economics grad. Petroleum She received her B.A. in English engineering grad C. B. LEUEN from Tech··in 19413. B.l!:RGIIDR is a production engineer CHARLES S. NEEL, J1R. ls a for Gulf Oil Corporation in Ker production geologist for the Hum mit. ble Oil and Refining Company in 16 The Texas Techsan Florey. He Is a petroleum engi student at the Southwestern Medi dren, Mary. Katherine, 11 months, neering graduate and his wl!e, nee cal College there. He was a zool and John, three years. THELMA HEAD, majored in home ogy graduate. The Mrs., nee JOE MR. AND MRS. BARNEY J. economics. ANN BA:I•LEY, was a bu siness ma CARR live in Las Cruces, New ·MAJOR RICHARD A. BOS jc r in the class of '49. Mexico. He is employed by New WORTH of the U.S. Air Force Is MR. AND MRS. ED HAVRAN Mexico College of A&M Arts as commanding officer o! the 7502 live in Denton, where they have electrical engineer with w ork at Air Base Group, stationed over recently purchased an a·partment White Sands . Proving Grounds. seaE. He Is a government grad. house. Ed is coordinator of the Barney is an E.E. graduate and his '44 Wise County Vocational School and wife, nee BLLLIE CAIN, was a teaches an agriculture class in De '48 H. E. graduate. The former THELMA RUTH STRAIN, now M:RS. W . G. CHAP catur. He has B :S. and M.S. de ROBERT AND PATRICIA NORWOOD are living in Verona, M·AN, is a piano teacher in Borger. grees in ag education and she, the former MURIEL MARGARET Pennsylvania, where he is a j unior She received her degree in public school music. · GUNN, was a '38 Spanish major. engineer for the Universal Atlas Living in Big Spring is MRS. A Union Oil Company geophysi Cement Company. He is an indus ROSS J. CALLIHAN, formerly cist is MARSHALL MASON, JR., trial engineering grad and she, the MILDRED CAlJB[.IE, home ec edu petroleum engineering graduate former PATRICIA McCAI.JL, is an cation graduate. living in Midland. English graduate. G RA C E J 0 N E S , journalism MRS. TROY MAC OVE\RMAN, nee HELEN FAY McDONALD, '50 graduate, Is a member of the Pa Fifty grads who wlll be teaching ducah firm, Jones & Renfrow, ab lives In Levelland. She is a speech this year include the following: stracts. grad. MAR'IlHA CUDD, home economics HOY WEST, mechanical engi C o u n t y h o m e . ·demonstration at Crosbyton; MRlS. WiiLLI.A.M T. neer ing graduate, lives in Dallas agent fot Haskell County is MR$. . TROTH, nee NANCY LIDE CON and Is a mechanical engineer for STEPHEN A. HOWLE, home ec DER, Garland grade schools; BOB the Service Equipment Company. graduate, who will -be remembered BYE NELiL ADAMS, g irls' physi '45 as HONEY GIRL JOHNSON. cal education in Borge r high Living on a ranch at Fort Stock school; SILVA M:AE LOYD, home ton ls MRS. HUGH W. "BUCK" '48 economics at Borger; HARRY HARRIS. She is the former CAR ROGIER GREGSTON and RAY BLIENDE>N, M.S., v ocational agri LYNN COX, who was a vet major MOND INGRAM, both petroleum culture in Pecos,· and BRUCE a t Tech. engineering graduates, are petrol BROWNING, M.S., coordinator for MRS. RAY PHILLIPS, LAFARA eum eng ineers for the Creole Pe the elementary grades in Plain HARBISON before her recent mar troleum Corporation in Venezuela, view schools. riage, Is living in McCamey, where S outh America. WILLIAM W . EVARTS, .chemi her husband Is employed by the ANN CA!SNER, Spanish gradu ca l engineering grad, is employed Humble Pipe Line Company: She ate, is a Methodist missionary at by the U.S. Gypsum Company in Is a business graduate. the Colegio Americana, Porto Ale Sweetwater, ALLAN R . OR'R, an Methodist pastor at Vega is gre, R.G. do Sul, Brazil. other chem engineer, is a n engl CHA·RLES LUTRICK, who re Secretary for the C h i 1 d r e s s neer-in-trainln.g for the Cosden ceived his bachelor's degree in Chamber of Commerce is MRS. Cc-mpany of Big Spring. philosophy from Tech. Mrs. Lut RICHARD A. BELLAH. She is Assistant county agent of Pot rick Is the former EL'LA RUTH former secretarial student PEGGY ter county is DELBERT TIM MONK, a .speech major. JO PAINE. MONS, ag education grad. He re Midland residents are MR. AND sides in Ta·hoka. Another aig edu '46 MR'S. BOB LA.CY, JR. He ls a cation graduate, WARREN W . Wilbur, Washington, is the home C:E. grad and. she Is the former PICKENS, J•R ., is assistant county o! MRS. GORDON KUNZ, former MELBA LOUI'SE LEWIS, a busi agent of Hill County. Mrs. Pick ly EDNA EARLE PARKIDR. Mrs. ness major. Also livln·g in Midland ens, the former NETTIE JEAN Kunz ls a zoology graduate. are MR, AND MRS. BILLY C. SHE>A'RIER, is a h om e economics History graduate W. R . . DUN JOHNSON. Mr. Johnson, a math grad. They live In Hillsboro. LAP Is principal of the Caprock g raduate, is a geophysicist for the TOMMIE JEAN WALL, B.S. in schools. His wife, the former LE Shell Oil Company. His wife, nee foods a n d nutrition, is taking her ONE BLANCHE IDASTER, Is a ESTEJJLE DeBUSK, was a busi dietetic internship at Colorado grade school teacher there. ness major at Tech. A salesman for the Quanah Cot State H ospital in Pueblo, Colorado. t on Oil Company in Quanah Is '49 B. R. FOSTER, JR. Foster grad RILEY V. CARLTON, '50 grail u ated in industrial manag ement. V E S TA CHANDLER, finance with B. S. degrees in petroleum and GLADYS HILL, elementary edu grad, Is employed by the Shell Oil mechanica l engineering, is employ cation graduate, Is a teacher in Compa"Y in Midland. Vesta was ed in t he producing department of the Ballinger schools. formerly secretary to Dean Mar the Stanolind Oil and Gas Com· JAMIDS WELCH, honor grad In garet Weeks. pany, Pampa. The Mrs . is the for agriculture education has begun ORLIN BREWIDR, journalism mer IMOGENE BELL, '46 home ec his fourth year as coordinator of g raduate and former Toreador edit student. the Foard Co unt y Vocational or, is a member of the editorial staff of the Olton Enterprise. He Schc·ol at Crowell. CHARLES WENDT, '50 journal Recent recipient of the master formerly worked for the Roswell ism grad, is field executive of of education degree at the Univer Daily Dispatch . and the Hockley Haynes district, South Plains coun sity of Oklahoma was LOUISE County Herald. cil, Boy Scouts of America. His area LOWE, sociology graduate !rom Architecture graduate ROBiERT Tech. E. RAPIER ls working !or R . L. will include _five counties and two Rolfe, structural engineer, in Dal cities. Mrs. Wendt, the former '47 las. His wife, formerly ISABEL MARADEE ,~·; :F:.QSTER, is a. '49. MR. AND MRS. GENE HA·RDY MOREHOUSE, attended Tech in journalism grad.·"l'he Wetidts have are Dallas residents and he Is a '45-'46. The Rapiers have two chi!- a baby daughter. October; 1950 17 THE HITCHIN' POST JO ANN TYL-ER to Dr. Charles W. Edwards Pro_fessor Finds Europe 'On Vo.lcano' ! . Washington Meet If the Edinburg library had sud Waies for the Eisteddfor, a con Dr. D . M. Wiggins will attend a denly burst into flames this sum test of singing, dancing and poetry, meeting of the American Council mer, attendants would not have and to Stratford to .study Eliza on Education in Washington, D. C., been greatly surprised. bethan drama while her husband Oct. 6-7. Dr. A. L. Strout, Tech professor was in Scotland. The council, which cooperates of English, admits he scribbled so The witty professor of English, with the Defense department on the furiously for six weeks copying old in addition to his work in Edin draft, ,will hear several speakers manuscript letters· that "asbest<;>s burg, spent 10 days in London from the De'fense department and blotters were provided" to prevent copying letters of Lockhart and related fields of the government. this mishap. attending plays. "The best of T he Department of Defense and Not all of his trip to Europe un these was 'Mister Robert' with the the Research and Development der a grant from the American American actor, Tyrone Power, board will both furnish speakers Philosophical society was spent in playing the title, role," he said. for the meeting. Maj. Gen. Louis this manner. He and his wife also "Europe is living on a volcano,." B. Hershey, head of Selective ser toured England, Paris and the cha he answered when queried on pres vice, will also speak. The US Office teaux of the Loire. ent conditions. A great inflation in of Education will be represented on The couple arrived in Plymouth France wa.S noted while the con the program. on June 18, crossing in eight days servative English had kept things While i)l Washington the pres from New York city on the French reasonable. ident will attend a reception held liner DeGrasse. The trip, the fourth for Strout, by the Washington, D. C., chapter Before beginning work, they vis pointed out damages as main dif of Texas Tech alumni, Ed Smith ited the literary famous Lake Dis ference seen in Plymouth, South assistant to the president, said. trict of northern England, friends hampton and London where parts The reception will be sometime in London and the counties of of the cities were "simply not there Oct. 6. Cornwall and Devon, where Mrs. anymore." Strout commented, there were .A tour of London, a week's ·visit strawberries a!nd whipped cream." in 'France and a meeting at Oxford Mrs. Strout new teaching fel of the International Conference of Glamourous Stars low of En•glish at Tech, went to University Professors of English "large quantities of marvelous completed the summer's sojourn. Are Daily Routine To One Ex-Student Daily contact with glamourous We're Across the Street Hollywood stars is something· that most.-of us dream about but never from the Campus experience. But for one Tech ex student seeing· the stars Is just part of 1C job. FELLOWS! Vera Culwell, journalism major of the class of '44, ls an employee It's Time to Think about of the Universal-International mov ing pictm·e studios in Hollywood. THAT FALL WARDROBE Her job in the story and scenario department is one of keeping com plete records on all scripts sub CORCORRAN'S ARE THE mitted as possible s creen stories. Vera describes her job as an in CAMPUS HEADQUARTERS FOR teresting and varied one. She has been working in H ollywood ll!bout five and a half years nO'W and • Dress & Sport Shirts by Jayson is still fascinated by the movie ln dusfry. • Hollyvogue Ties The most interesting thing to her is the coordination of a ll de • Renta I of Tu xedoes partments during the making of a picture. "It's amazing that a good picture ever develops out of all these combined efforts", Vera says. Vera has found many Texas peo Corcorran's ple working in Hollywood. One of the persons whom she enjoys is Mary Spar~s. '43 chemistry gradu 1407 College ate, who is a photographic chem ist for Eastman Kodak Company there. The Texas Techsan 20 SPORTS ROUNDUP And when the g~me is over, he folds it up in a little plastic case and takes it home with him. His Touch-Down measures 66 by 84 inches, and it is a joy to behold! It's I 00°/o pure virgin wool - smooth, soft, resilient - yet it weighs only three pounds. It has the officia I "Texas .__.!lillll~ Tech" colors and the Texas Tech insignia, with ;~~i;:;~lik1i] a four-inch border of wool felt. It's the dal'n ... des+ blanket you ever saw-rich, w.arm, colorful -and it'll stay that way for a lifetime. Sensational in the car . . . on picnics . at home! Terrific in the stadium or in the "d en "I. Why not fill in the handy order blank at the bottom of this page and get a Touch-Down Blanket now? 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