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Published by Texas Tech Ex-Students Association 1965 PUBLISHED BY TEXAS TECH EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION 1965 Does your job pay you •1n direct proportion to your efforts? "After seventeen years working for myself- and Iviass Mutual - I'm more than happy to say that it's been a rewarding career. It's been rewarding in all respects, personally and financially. I'm my own boss, and my income is directly related to my accomplishments. "Service to my clients, plus participation in civic af­ fairs and philanthropic activities, have brought me great personal satisfaction as well as a standing in my community that is equal to that of any professional man I know. This, plus the knowledge that I have been in­ strumental in helping people with their financial plan­ ning, has comprised the 'extra value' of my insurance career. "Mass Mutual is a company whose policies, reputa­ tion, character and quality of training are second to none. I entered the business in 1947, without capital and without selling experience, and have sold over a million dollars of individual life insurance every year since 1954, reaching a peak of over $7,000,000 last year. "What Mass Mutual did for me, it can do for you. So, if you're a man who is vaguely dissatisfied with his prog­ ress, and to whom the values that have appealed to me make sense, write a personal letter to the President of my company. He is Charles H. Schaaff, President, Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, Mass. Do it today. The company always has room-for a good man." MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL ~~ LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Rudolph Arkin, C.L.U., Washington, D.C. Springfield, Massachusetts /organized 1851 ~~ Somt oftht Ttxas Tuh alumni in Massachusttts Mutual ser11ice: William W. Wilson, '36, EI Paso Spencer Blocker, ·~4. Lubbock Ronnie A. Foster, Lubbock Jesse C. Chambers, ·~4. Lubbock Bobby L. Rains, '54,. Lubbock Leo M. Brown, Lubbock Jay R. Egan, '62, Lubbock EXECUTIVE BOARD Term Expires 1965 Frank Calhoun, '56 Abilene . President Don Anderson, '48 Crosbyton . First Vj« President C. H. Cummings, '34 Lubbock .. .... Secottd Vice President G. C. "Mule" Dowell, '3 5 Lubbock . Athletic Council Representative Floyd Read, '48 Lubbock . Immediate Past President Wayne James, '57 New Deal . ..... Executive Director DIRECTORS 2 PRESTON SMITH Term Expires 1965 by Cecil Green Donnell Echols, '59 .... .. Lamesa Bill Bales, '53 . Tyler A. J. Kemp, '42 . ... ....... Dimmitt Term Expires 1966 8 FACES OF THE GIANT David Casey, '34 . Lubbock Ken Dowell, '44 ... ............. Dallas by Kay Gessling Pat Thurman '50 . ... ... Austin Term Expires 1967 Andy Behrends, '51 .. ... ·. Amarillo 12 Ralph Davis, '34 .... ..... El Paso OBSERVIN' SPORTS Guion Gregg, '41 . Dallas by Bill Holmes LOYALTY FUND TRUSTEES Term Expires 1965 Kenneth Rease, '45 .. .. ... .. Littlefield 15 CURRENT SCENES Marshall Pharr, 'H ·. Plainview D. N. Pope, '5 0 ... Oklahoma City, Okla. by Wayne James Term Expires 1966 Joe Allbright, '42 . Attdrews P. A. Lyon, Jr., '42 ...... .... Spearman Jack Maddox, '29 ... ... .. Hobbs, N.M. 19 BEAR OUR BANNERS Term Expires 1967 by Jerry Woolard Ralph Hooks, '40 ... ... Abilene Eugene Mitchell, '34 . .. .... Dallas R. C. Mitchell, '37 .. Lockney CHAPTER PRESIDENTS 24 BEHIND THE SCENE Abilt~~e . J. B. Fraley, '58 by Phil Orman Amarillo .......... T. M. Cox, '46 Andrews . ... ..... .. Roy Buckner, '51 Arlington ........... Roy Williams, '47 Austin . Rex J ackson, '41 Big Spri11g .. .. ... W. D. Broughton, '53 Bryan-College Station .. Bill Jackson, '53 Cw-Tech . .. ...... John T. Shires, '58 Editor: Wayne James Managing Editor: Phil Orman Crosby Co1mty .. .. ...... Ed Smith, '49 Dallas .. Charles G. Stokes, '41 Photos by Cal Moore and Allyn Harrison El Paso ........... .. Bart Fischer, 'J8 East Texas . .. ..... E. J. Folsom, '50 Floydada . .... Edward J. Foster, '58 Fort Worth ........ .. Fred Currie, 'H Hale County . .. John R. Link, NCG Housto" . Marion Crow, '49 Sunrise at Buffalo Lakes is one of the things that brings Midland . , .. ..... Howard Parsley, 'H thousands of visitors to the area each year. Tech students find that North Texas . .. .. ..... Arol Rogers, '43 ()dessa . ... .. .. .... Bobby Hawkins, '56 this man-made recreational spot is perfect for the warm spring San Antonio . Melvin Sisk, '3 7 weather. Boat races, water skiing, swimming, and fishing are only Trans-Pecos .. .. ..• . ... Fred Gibson, '49 'frt-County . ... ... .. Eric Rushing, '40 a few of the sports available in .and around Lubbock. Thanks Vernon .... ... .. ... Odin Brewer, '49 to Cal Wayne Moore and La Ventana for this picture. Albuquerque . Cary Lodal, '3 1 Dtnver, Colo . .. Robert S. Ralston, '59 New Orleans, La . .... Jay Maltby, '33 Pecos Valley . .... .. Kent Shannon, '57 Tulsa, Okla. .. ... James E. Cannon, '58 second-clus postage paid by the TEXAS TECHSAN at Lubbock, Texas. Published In February, Oklahoma City, Okla. .. Bob Broyles, '51 April, June and August to December Inclusive by the Ex-Students Association o! Texas Techno­ Bartlesville, Okla. W. E. Reno, NCG logical College, Lubbock, Texu. Subscription rate Is $3 per year. Change o! address ahould be Bakersfield, Calif• . ........ ..... .. ... sent to the Association offices 30 days prior to date o! Issue with which It Is to take e!!ect. Advertising rates on request. AU advertising Is handled through the Association office. Southtrn Stales ...... .. C. W. Cook, '3 9 Four Corners . .. Jess May, Jr., NCG APRIL, 1965 PAGE ONE Phot os by W ayne James by Cecil Green The author was born in Mim ral Wells, Tex., tmd moved to Lub­ bock where he graduated from Lubbock High School in 1962. Was editor of LHS W est.·nm World and won 1st place il! the nation in newswriting that year. Has been copy editor and mt~nag ­ ing editor of Tech's Daily Tor­ eador. Junior classification and majoring in journalism with 11•inor in English. THE TEXAS TECHSAN Lt. Governor from Tech Preston Smith The man behind the big desk didn't look like an ex­ jingle and no place to sleep and no job to look forward to. Lamesa farmboy who had to "pull bolls" to pay his way "During this time jobs were at a premium and any­ through Texas Tech in the depression days of the '30s. thing honorable a person could do to get money was con­ Dressed in a dark blue business suit, he chewed re­ sidered okay," he said, "but finding even anything hon­ flectively on the plastic tip of his thin cigar. Often, he orable was still a problem and students literally fought would lean across the polished desk to talk in a neighborly over jobs. fashion. "After I got registered, I, too, joined the job-hunting Still, the old farmboy friendliness was there, shining parade, but I couldn't find anything," Preston continued. through the obvious signs of success. "Boy, was I discouraged, but I kept going from building This is the present-day picture of Preston Smith, to building, inquiring about any possibilities. the recently re-elected lieutenant governor of Texas­ "Finally," he said, "I went into one building to check . quite a different picture than one drawn of the same with a firm upstairs. I looked up those tall stairs and man some 3 0-odd years ago. almost didn't go up, but I did. Then, Preston Smith was the seventh of 13 children, "On the second floor, I saw a sign that I have always and the entire family lived and worked on a small farm remembered, and I guess I always will," he said. "That about 17 miles west of Lamesa in Gaines County. sign said 'A Winner Never Quits, and A Quiter Never "Back in those days life was often hard," Preston Wins. recalled, "and our parents couldn't afford to solve the "That sign made me stop and think," he continued, problems caused by our educational desires, and I wanted "and I guess it reassured me, because within the hour I an education in the worst way." had a job with a real estate company cleaning out vacant So, one day Preston's mother gave him a pillow and houses for 2 5 cents an hour." a blanket and he started out on foot for Lamesa and a high And that was just the start of jobs Preston Smith school education to supplement his "school learning" in used to finance his way through four years of college. the Sunset community. During the next few years at Tech, Preston worked In Lamesa, Preston started school again and "pulled hard and studied hard. Besides cleaning up houses, he bolls" and handled other odd jobs to pay his way. mowed lawns, pulled more bolls and even leased a gas "Most students wouldn't think of doing things like station and hired other Tech students. that today," he smiled, "but I wanted that education." He also provided for his lodging while in school, but After graduation from Lamesa High School in 1930, with a slight twist: "I rented a four-room garage apart­ Preston once again shouldered his belongings and started ment to live in, but I got permission to lease out some out for Lubbock and a young college called Texas Tech. of the rooms to other students. He was still on foot in his search for more education. "The rent on the apartment was $9 a month, but I "When I reached Lubbock I had just $50 in my boarded six other students-two in each room-for $6 pocket," he said, "and after I paid my registration fees and a month each. I paid the bills and slept in the kitchen on bought the necessary books and supplies, I had 3 0 cents to a cot," he said. APRIL, 1965 PAGE THREE all sorts of time cleaning up the theater and keeping it running. "We weren't without our problems though," he added, "and in 1943 we filed a suit in the federal courts prc>­ testing that there was a monopoly of the film business in Lubbock because I wasn't allowed to compete with other local theaters in buying first- and sec­ ond-run movies.
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