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Tex.as Tech Ex-Students Office L C. Walker, Executive Secretary Freddy Carnes, Erma Folley, Shirley Hammer-Staff EX·STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS THE President HART SHOEMAKER, '41 Vice President RALPH BLODGETT, '41· Znd Vice President J. P. SMITH, 'S5 Director l'AUL NEW, '42 Director ROBERT WORK, 'S7 Vol. 5 No. 8 December, 1954 Director CULVER IIlLL, ' S2 Immediate Past President JACK MADDOX, '29 CONTENTS Rep. to Athletic Oouncll YANCEY PRICE, ' S5 FEATURES Ex. Secretary L. C. WALKER, '49 Judging Te!:!m Wins ·Trophy 2

Tech Beauties Chosen 3

LOYALTY FUND Services of Placement Office 6 TRUSTEES Musical Career of D. 0 . Wiley 9

Kenneth Leftwich Jack Maddox DEPARTMENTS James Wblteslde O. B. Ratliff Earl Fuson Dr. Wlllle Carson Bear Our Banners 10 Don Wooten George Langford Techsans In Service 12 D. M. McElroy Jack Maddox The Hitch in' Post 14 L Cl. Walker

Managing Editor: Shirley Hammer, '55 Published In February, April, June, August, September, Oct o be r, November and December by the Ex-Students Assoc 1 a tlon of THE COVER Texas T echnological College, Lubbock , T exas. Texas Tech's famed symbol, the Double T, is formed by the Red Raider basketball team. At Entered as second class matter at the top are Coach Polk Robison, Jim Whatley, ·the Post Office at Lubbock, Bill Buchanan, Eugene Carpenter, Du-Wayne Texas. Blackshear, Jim Reed, and Assistant Coach Change of address: New addresses Gene Gibson. Reading up are Manager should be sent to the Auocla­ Dennis Calvert, Walter Newton, Ned Under­ tlon offices SO days prior to date wood, Carroll Smith, and Carpenter. Henry of Issue with which it Is to take Scaling is to the left, Carl Ince to the right. effect. Subscription rate: $S per year. PHOTO CREDIT Advertlslng rates on request: All advertising is handled t.hroogh Avalanche-Journal-pages 3 and 8 the Association offices. Texas Tech-pages 7,9, and cover THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR Queen Candidate Picked for Meet Crop Judging Tearn Wins First Charlene Williamson, sophomore arts and sciences student from Fort Worth, was selected by the Place In International Contest Student Council to be Tech's Tech's crop judging team has brought back to the campus, for the candidate for queen of the Ken. third consecutive year, the top trophy in international crops judging tucky All-American City Basket. ball tournament. competition. The queen of the tournament Team members are Richard Motl, of Anton; Edmund Schlabs, will be judged through pictures Friona; Billy Smith, Snyder; "Dibrell Stowell, Pampa; and Coach Cecil of the candidates sent in by the Ayers, associate professor of agronomy. schools participating in the tourn. The team has competed in the National Collegiate Grain Judging ament. The girl selected will contest at Kansas City, Mo., and at the International Crops Judging travel to Owensboro, Ky., to reign contest held in Chicago, walking off with first prize and a number of over the tournament and its activ. individual prizes at each meet. ities. Tech's basketball squad is one of the teams entered. Permanent Possession The Chicago contest was spon­ sored by the International Live­ Miss Williamson was chosen by At Kansas City on Nov. 23, the stock Exposition, the Chicago the Student Council from a field team re<:eived an engraved loving Board of Trade, and the American of . five candidates submitted by cup, to be a permanent trophy, Seed Trade Association, and was the Double T Association. Others for their performance in the con­ held in conjunction with the Live­ nominated were: Glenda Moses, test sponsored by the Kansas City stock Exposition. Donell Phillips, Ruth Ann Cum­ Board of Trade and the Chamber · Tech scored a total of 5,184 out mings, and Jeanne Cannon. of Commerce of that city. Eleven of a possible 5,400 points. colleges and universities competed Stowell Tops in the event. In addition to the loving cup, the Tech team was Stowell took top honors in two Tech Prof Heads awarded plaques for first place in phases of individual competition each of the three phases of the at Chicago, with a score of 1,- Language Group contest. 747 out of 1,800 points in the Dr. John C. Dowling, head of Top individual honors at the entire contest, and 576 of a poss­ foreign languages, has been elect· Kansas City meet went to Sto­ ible 600 points in commercial grad­ cd president of the Texas Foreign well, who received a gold medal ing. Language Association for the com. during the awarding of prizes. The Tech was present at other ing year. The group is an affiliate 21 - year - old agronomy major events at the Livestock Exposi­ of the Texas State Teachers Af. scored a total of 1,780 points out tion. The local chapter of Block sociation which recently held its of a possible 1,800. Schlabs, who and Bridle, a national organiza­ annual meeting in Fort Worth. was awarded second place, scored tion for animal husbandry majors, Dr. Dowling announced that his 1,758.8 points, and Motl took ranked first in activities and sec­ group, at request of the Modern fifth spot with 1,722.6. ond in annual reports among Languages Association of America, Team score for Tech at the some 21 major institutions spon­ during the year would select three Kansas City contest was 5,261.4 soring Block and Bridle programs. outstanding foreign language points out of a possible 5,400. This A 1954 graduate of Tech, Dale teachers in Texas public schools was the fourth win for Tech at Hoover, of Perryton, placed fourth for recognition by the national this annual event. Second and in Merit Trophy competition for organization. third places went to Oklahoma individual honors. Dr. T . Earle Hamilton, assistant A&M and the University of Ne­ Mowery Present professor of foreign languages. braska respectively. Professor Ray C. Mowery of was re-elected editor of the the animal husbandry faculty and Texas Foreign Language Associa· Gets Sliver Bowl current president of the national tion Bulletin, which is published Climaxing the competition at Block and Bridle organization semi-annually. the International meet was the was in Chicago for the judging. awarding of a silver bowl to the The livestock judging team Tech team for their third consecu­ closed out its 1954 session with tive first place win. The bowl, an eighth place win at the Exposi­ Dr. Gillis Publishes which does not become a perm­ tion. Frank Newsom, Alpine sen­ anent trophy until a school has ior, was individual high man for Volume of Poetry three times won the distin<:tion Tech, placing second in cattle "Angles of the Wind," a bOOk of having the best crop judgers in judging. of lyrics and baUads by Dr. Ever· international competition, will now The team is coached by Stanley ett A. Gillis, associate professor of occupy a permanent place in Anderson, associate professor of English, has been published by Tech's agriculture department animal husbandry. Team members Kaleidograph Press of Dallas. trophy case. are Newsom; J. D. Jones, Jayton; Among the 50 poems in the The victorious team also brought Joe Ash, Bronte; Ralph Willing­ book are several prize-wmners. back two first place plaques, and ham, Rotan; Jerry Vines, Brown­ Previous books by Dr. Gillis are one second place trophy for in­ wood; and Joe LeGendre, Shreve­ "Hello the House," "Who C8! dividual phases of the contest. port, La. Retreat?" and "Sunrise in TeJCBS.

2 TEXAS ·recHSAN TEOH'S 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL COEDS-A group of 50 Tech beauty nominees was narrowed to 20 recently in the second round of the La Ventana beauty contest. Pictures of the above girls will be sent to a beauty authority who will select eight winners. P ictured left to right, are: Front row, Shirley Caldwell, Mary Alice Braselton, Sue Hunt, Phyllis Martin, Sandy Casstevens, Revis Jordan. Second row, Mary Jane Johnson, Mary McCanne, Edith Aldridge, Virginia Mitchell, Zoe Kirkpatrick, Laura Lou Bailey, Sandra Shook. Back row, Joyce Tharp, Jerry Anglin, Gloria Snell, Martha Schickram, Harriet McCabe, Frances Culvahouse and Mary Jane Cappleman. Tech Gets Chapter Adult Education Director Journalism Day At National Conferences Of Sigma Pi Sigma Dr. Per Stensland, director of Sigma Pi Sigma, national phys­ Is Huge Success Texas Tech's adult education ics honorary society, installed its Tech's annual Journalism Day, program, was in Chicago this 87th chapter here Dec. 13. Nov. 20, was attended by 167 stu­ month to speak at two nation­ The Tech chapter is the second wide adult education conferences. in Texas. The other is at Texas dents from 27 high schools· cover­ University. ing an area from Miami, Tex., to Dr. Stensland gave the keynote The local chapter has organized Fort Stockton. address at the 1954 conference and has elected Joseph H. Robin­ of the National Association of son, graduate student in physics, Staff members of T'lle Toreador Public School Adult Educators. as president-elect. 'Other officers and La Ventana, and members Theme of this conference was of the local chapter include of the Press Club and Theta "Education to Protect the Prin­ Richard W. Roddy, senior physics Sigma Phi, professional and hon­ ciples and Institutions of Free­ major, vice president; Thomas W. orary organization for women in dom." Summers, assistant professor of journalism, were present to tell visitors of their activities. He lead a discussion on "Edu­ mathematics, secretary; and B. H. cation for Mature Citizenship" at Visiting students and faculty Hale, Senior physics major, trea­ a three day conference sponsored surer. Dr. David J. Besdin, assist­ sponsors attended clinics on phases by the Adult Education Associa­ ant professor of physics, is advi­ of journalism work. A panel pre­ tion of the United States. sor. sented vocational opportunities. There are 14 charter members Its members were Dr. W. E. Hall, The two conferences, which had of the local chapter. Three of head professor of journalism; Dub overlapping attendance attracted these, Dr. William Merryman, Dr. Rogers, manager of KDUB-TV and more than 1500 educators, com­ Joseph H. Rush, and Dr. John C. Charles A. Guy, editor and pub­ munity leaders, editors, and repre­ R;esler, are already members of lisher of the Lubbock Avalanche­ sentatives of labor and business. Sigma Pi Sigma. Journal. Henry Steele Comrnager, noted· The executive secretary of Sig­ Twenty-two individual awards American historian and author, ma Pi Sigma, Dr. Marsh W. were made in newspaper writ­ was the main speaker for the sec­ White, headed the installing team ing contests and seven high school ond conference which concerned scheduled to come here for the newspapers received awards for itself with "Adult Education for ceremony. excellence. a Free Society."

DECEMBER, 1954 3 orts ·with bill holmes

Appointment of Texas Tech's was by the biggest margin in the individual scoring with 48 points DeWitt Weaver to coach the Bor­ history of the rivalry, and the each. Kirkpatrick led extra point der Conference AU-Stars against Houston loss was the worst ever kickers with 17 out of 20. the Skyline Conference AU-Stars sustained by that school. Spinks punted nine times for a in the Salad Bowl in Phoenix Jan­ Despite the Red Raiders' dom­ 37 yard average. None of the Raid· uary 1 serves to point up the mark ination of team statistics in the ers, who didn't kick once in their made by the Red Raiders' mentor Border Conference and high rank 61-19 final over Hardin-Simmons, since coming to Tech. nationally, you won't find any had enough boots to be considered In four years-his first four as Tech men among individual sta­ for conference honors. a head coach anywhere, incidental­ tistical leaders. (Tech led the Bor­ Kirkpatrick intercepted the ly- Weaver's teams in Border der Conference in total offense, most passes, four, for 47 yards of Conference play have won three rushing offense, total defense, and return. championships and taken a second rushing defense. Tech was third Best kick returner was Johnson, place on the strength of 16 wins, in passing offense and third in with four kickoffs run back for one loss, and one tie. Tech's passing defense, although allowing a 23-yard average and eight punts overall record for the same period, the fewest touchdown passes-3) for an average of 15.7 yards. including the only two bowl vic­ The best the Raiders could mus­ As a team, Tech managed its tories in Raider history, is 28 wins, ter in individual Border Confer­ 422.3-yard total offense average by 14 losses, and two ties. ence statistics was a scattering amassing 316.4 a contest rushing and 105.9 a game passing. The Season Surnntary of fourth places. Secret to the Red Raiders' suc­ Raiders held opponents to an aver· This year's edition wound up the cess lies in depth of ball carriers age of 180 rushing and 87 passing. season with the nation's second and ends- not to mention a dozen No Bowl best offense and a 7-2-1 record- or so hefty middle lineman. 4-0 in Border Conference play. In rushing, for example the best Texas Tech received mention Final National Collegiate Athletic mark was 457 yards gain on 50 and backing for four bowls- the Bureau figures are expected to tries by Lonnie (Lone Ranger) Cotton, Sugar, Gator, and Sun­ show only Army ahead of the total Graham of Broken Arrow, Okla., but the only post-season appear· offense mark of 422.3 yards per who averaged 9.1 yards. He was ances will be by individual players. game amassed by the Red Raiders' only a yard ahead of Olney's Tech's best chances were for a split-T attack. Walter Bryan, a scant 21 ahead of return to Jacksonville, Fla. to Tech started the season with a Ronnie Herr of Muenster. Six defend its Gator Bowl title or bang, exploding at 41-9 triumph more gained 200 or more yards­ to play in the Sun Bowl. But over Texas A&M, faltered in mid­ Jerry Johnson of Hale Center, 312; Auburn-almost mandatory as a season, then, as injured players Jim Sides of Lubbock, 308; Rick host because a large number of re-joined the lineup, finished with Spinks of Kermit, 307; Jack Kirk­ its followers could be counted on a rush. Tech's final four games patrick of Post, 243; M. C. North­ to make the short trip to Jackson· were victories over Arizona (then am of Littlefield, 223; and Don· ville- preferred to play Rice or. unbeaten in conference play and Schmidt of Olney, 215. Baylor. possessing one of the nation's top Johnson, fourth in the confer­ Sun Bowl officials wanted Tech, offenses) 28-14, Tulsa 55-13, Hous­ ence in passing and total offense, but Coach Weaver, not wishing to ton 61-14, and Hardin-Simmons led the Raiders' aerial attack with delay them while Gator Bowl 61-19. 27 completions of 61 throws for negotiations were going on, re­ Other Tech scores were a 33-7 three interceptions, 569 yards and leased them from any "obligation" win over West Texas State, a seven touchdowns. His total of­ to choose the Raiders. They still 13-13 tie with Oklahoma A&M, fense figure- passing and running held off, hoping for Tech, but a 55-28 victory over Texas West­ - was 881 yards. the night before the final selec­ ern, a 20-13 loss to. Louisiana Tops among 13 pass receivers tion was made, the Sun officials State, and a 20-7 defeat at the were ends Dean White of Lubbock heard the report from Florida that hands of College of the Pacific. with 10 catches for 252 yards and the Gator Bowl was planning a re· Five of Tech's opponents suf­ four touchdowns ar.d Claude Har­ match between Auburn and Tech· fered their worst losses of the land of Texarkana with nine re­ Consequently, they went ahead season to the Red Raiders. These ceptions for 126 yards and a pair and booked a fine Texas Western were Texas A&M, Texas Western, of touchdowns. team and Florida State University. Hardin-Simmons, Tulsa, and Hous­ Herr and Bryan finished fourth Tech had expressed a strong ton. The Hardin-Simmons game in the conference and paced Tech's desire to play in the Sun Bowl

TEXAS TECHSAN if Wichita University, coached to a great record by a former Tech assistant, Jack Mitchell, could be matched. The shockers decided against any post-season appear- ance. * Tech will be represented in the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 25 by quarterback Jerry Johnson, halfbaclC Rick Spinks, and end Claude Harland. And when Weaver puts his Bor­ der All-Stars (seniors) on the field at Phoenix there'll be in the lineup end Dean White, end-or­ guard Ken Kummer, guard Bobby Hunt, halfback Walter CJoJo) Bryan, center Ralph (Bubba) Martin, Harland, Spinks, and Johnson. All Conference Four Texas Tech Red Raiders made the All-Border Conference first team on both the AP and "Official" (coaches' vote) selec­ tions. They include end Claude Harland, senior from Texarkana; tackle Jerry Walker, junior from Pampa; halfback Rick Spinks, senior from Kermit; and fullback Jim Sides, junior from Lubbock. Walker, like Sides, a repeater from 1953, was named captain be­ cause he received the most votes. Official second team picks numbered eight, including end Dean White of Lubbock, tackles Bob Kilcullen of St. Louis and Bill Herschman of Vernon, guards Arlen Welsey of Littlefield and Hal Broadfoot of Clyde, center Dwayne West of Fort Worth, quarterliack Jerry Johnson of Hale Center, and halfback Walter c.As D"EFENDIN6 BORDER Bryan of Olney. GONFERENCE ~ Basketball 141S QUINTET FACES IMPROVED Texas Tech's cagers started LEAGUE OPPOSITION, PLUS TWO NCAA with two victories' over Eastern PLAY·OFF TEAMS (NORTH CAROLINA New Mexico University 88-61 and S"T'ATE ~ OKLAHOMA A'fJM), PLUS Abilene Christian College 86-55. S UNIVERSITY. SWC CO ·OIAMP Polk Robison's starters for most . '· IBMAN U, NATIONAL SCORING of the season look to be center ' . CMM l>~~:,,.ffl'c RAJDFRS PLA'/;,... TtlE Eugene Carpenter of Big Spring, ~· All:AMERl[,.;~IW TOURl-JAMENT 4'l:;.I forwards Jim Reed of Pine Bluff, . &A?~f!t: ~. ~" THE CANYON REE!'--.,,,TOURNAMENTau ,;;U'~ ,u:,: ,.,.,,.,.H#..,.,,., ~.....,.... , y. - Ark., and Du-Wayne Blackshear of Mountainair, N.M., guards Carl ~ce of Lubbock and Harry Scal­ ing of Fort Worth. Tech's next home game will be January 7 against New Mexico A&M. Meanwhile, the Red Raid­ ers have scheduled the Canyon Reef tournament at Snyder, Okla­ homa A&M at Goodwell, Okla., Funnan, North Carolina State, and Memphis State, and the All­ American City tournament at Owensboro, Ky.

·DECEMBER, ·l954 5 Services Of Tech Placement Office Available To All Alumni And Students "Although the Texas Tech end when students leave school. Placement Service helps graduates A permanent file on all graduates and former students learn where since 1947, when the office was jobs are available, it actually does established, is kept available to not 'place' anyone," Mrs. Jean employers, and graduates and for­ A Jenkins, director of the office, mer students are encouraged to said in a recent interview. contact the office when they want to know of job openings. "The purpose of the office is to bring prospe<:tive employers and At this time, industry is espec­ student or graduate together. The ially interested in graduates who term 'placement' can be mislead­ are getting out of the armed ing, because actually the student services and a're ready to go to earns his own pJace. The office work. Mrs. Jenkins suggests that just acts as a clearing house, service men write her office six which makes it simpler for em­ mon tbs before they are discharged ployer and prospective employee so she can J>rief them on available to meet." she explained. jobs as well as put their file on an active status for employers to Last year over 500 <:0mpanies see. MRS. JEAN A. JENKINS listed jobs through the Tech Director of Placement Office Placement office and over 100 Another specialty of the Place­ sent representatives to the cam­ ment Service is the listing of avail­ pus to inteniew seniors. With able part-time employment for each company having one to ten students still in school. Also, wives positions available, the necessity of students are often able to Tri-State Council for a coordinating office is evi­ secure jobs which they hear about To Meet At Tech · dent. through that office. Mrs. Jenkins stressed the fact The energetic, petite director of Two Texas Tech officials were that the placement services don't the Placement Service, Mrs. Jen­ in Houston Dec. 2-3 attending the kins, is a Tech graduate from annual District IV meeting of the the class of '35. ·She majored in American Alumni Council, being Dr. Strout Has Article In government. Before taking over held on the campus of Rice Sweeclish Language Journal her present position in 1947, she Institute. had worked as secretary to the Dr. Alan A. Strout, professor Dean of Women, the Dean of Arts The Tech representatives were of English at Texas Tech, has· been and Sciences, and the Registrar at L. C. Walker, executive secretary published in a recent edition of Tech. There are three other full­ of the Ex-Students Association, Studia Neophilological: a journal time persons on her staff, all of and William H. Crenshaw, execu· of Germanic and Romanic Phil­ whom are former Tech students. tive secretary of the Tech Founda· ology. The journal ·is a Swedish The majority of the openings tion. publication devoted to the study t·ecently have been for engineers, of languages. business administration majors, The group accepted the invita­ Dr. Strout's article, "Knights of and teachers. However, many posi­ tion of Mr. Walker to hold their the Burning Epistle,,' is based on tions are usually available outside next annual meeting at Texas a collection of articles and letters of these fields. The Placement Tech in December of 1955. District · from the old Blackwood magazin.e Service, whi.ch was started seven IV is composed of alumni secre­ which was published in England years ago, now has over 5,000 taries from colleges in Texas, durin;; the 19th century. Techsans in its permanent files. Louisiana, and Arkansas. Discus· The article is one result of a Before that time a placement com­ sions each year are centered on quarter of a century of research mittee composed of the deans of procedures in alumni offices, by Dr. Strout to determine the the divisions was in charge of record keeping, organizing chapt. authorship of works published graduate placement on a smaller ers, mailing and mailing regula· anonymously in the magazine be­ scale. Naturally, the faculty still tions, fund raising, personal soli· tween 1817 and 1826. plays a very important part in the citation, and publications. work of this office, since depart­ While the magazine exhibted a About 40 persons attended the conservative Tory viewpoint, po­ ments are usually in close con­ tact with the professional people meeting in Houston. Dusty Rhodes. litically, the writers indulged alumni secretary from the Uni· frequently in virtriolic personal in their field and often know about job openings. versity of Arkansas is chairman journalism, Dr. Strout reports. of the group. He received a research grant In short, the Placement Service from the American Philosophical tries to serve the needs of four Walker participated in a panel Society in 1950 to continue his re­ groups: (1) business and industry, discussion on alumni problems search abroad. Much of his more (2) the public schools, (3) seniors, with E. E. McQuillen, Texas A. recent work was done in the Na­ alumni and ex-students, and (4) and M., and Miss Bea Fields, TU­ tional Library of Scotland. part-time student workers. iane.

6 TEXAS TECHsAN Three New Musical Dad's Dag Held Men Outnumber Grou.ps Organized By Tech Coeds Women . At Tech Texas Tech coeds honored their Three new musical organiza­ fathers Nov. 20 at the College's Texas Technological College is tions at Texas Tech made their first annual Dad's Day. a happy hunting ground this fall initial public performances at a for coeds, if registration figures Christmas concert in the Student Invitations were extended to all are a reliable indication. Union ballroom December 19. fathers of Tech women students for the affair sponsored by the For the girls are outnumbered These three new groups were Associated Women Students. almost two-and-a-half to one, ac­ the Girls Glee Club, the Tech Mothers were welcome, but the cording to an enrollment anaylsis Civic Choir, and the Texas Tech big "hurrah" was reserved for by W. P. Clement, registrar. Orchestra. Dad. There are 1,745 coeds as compared with 4,512 men students, totaling The Glee Club was organized Registration opened the week­ a record breaking figure of 6,- in September of this year and is end's activities. A reception was 257. made up of 40 coeds who repre­ held in the Student Union Build­ Romantic odds best favor the sent all divisions of the College. ing at 1 p.m. Saturday. President three coeds in the agriculture di­ It is under the direction of Robert and Mrs. E. N . Jones and AWS vision and the six men training Elson. officers formed the receiving line, in various fields of home eco­ The Civic - Choir, numbering according to Shirley DuPriest, nomics. Waco, Dad's Day Chairman. more than 100 voices, is composed In class size, the freshmen lead of both students and townspeople. There was a special section re­ with an enrollment of 2,312, a 20 This group, also under Elson's di­ served in Jones Stadium for the per cent increase over last year's rection, is planning to give two girls and their dads at the Tech­ figure. Following the freshmen are major concerts each year. University. of Houston football the sophomores with 1,372, juniors, The 51-piece Orchestra, accord­ game. 1,046 and seniors 959, graduate ing to Dr. Gene Hemmie, is the Following the game, there was students, 568. result of four years of planning to an open house in all girl dormi­ Largest single division on the enable Tech students to perform tories under the direction of Iris campus is Arts and Sciences with standard orchestral arrangements Brunson, Lubock, A WS president, 2,281. Engineering is second with and to provide training in orches­ and Mrs. Martha Hall, assistant 1,539, trailed by Business Admin· tra techniques and procedures. A dean of women. istration, 1,327, Agriculture, 752 similar effort during the 1940's AWS is planning next year to and Home Economics, 358. developed into the Lubbock Sym­ enlarge the event to include the The total enrollment Increase phony. The director is Paul dads of all Tech students, accord­ for this year was 15.5 per cent, Ellsworth. ing to Miss DuPriest. according to Mr. Clement's fig­ ures.

·Man Who Sent 7 Children To Tech Dies The father of the family that ROTC staff at Tech and was an claims 27 collective years at Tex­ assistant professor in the Depart­ as Tech died at his home in Well­ ment of Animal Husbandry; For­ ington Nov. 23. r est, who now is a dairy engineer­ He was Joe B. 'Baumgardner, ing consultant in Tulsa, Okla. age 61, who has farmed in Well­ Haynes, a former assistant pro­ ington for the past 42 years. He fesor of military science and suffered a heart attack and had tactics at Tech now working in not been previously ill, having Washington, D. C.; Robert who been at Tech only the weekend majored in animal husbandry at before for the Dad's Day festiv­ Tech and now is farming at ities. Brownfield; Marion, who was Baumgardner was the father chosen for "Who's Who In Amer­ of eight children, two daughters ican Colleges and Universities," and six sons, seven of whom have and now is doing post graduate graduated and one who still is at­ work at Purdue University, La­ tending Tech. She is. Priscilla, the fayette, Ind.; 1 Youngest Baumgardner who is a David, who·· graauated from sophomore majoring in home eco­ Tech last year and is residing at nomics. Wellington; two daugh~rs, Mrs. Survivors include: Eva Welling­ C. M. -Gordon, who graduated DON DILLEY, junior agri­ ton, his wife; six sons, John: from Tech in 1950 and is living in culture major from Borger, Henry, first of the Baumgardner Grapevine; and Priscilla, the last was elected Tech's "Most family to go to Tech and who of the group, who lives in Casa j Handsome Man" at the an­ now is captain of the Air Force Linda at Tech. nual Club Scarlet this month.

DECEM~ER, 1954 7 Miss Mitchell Set Social Calendar At Tech For Maid Finals Virginia Mitchell, winner of the Now As Full As In 20's South Plains Maid of Cetton con­ test, Nov. 22, will spend the By PAT HARKLEROAD Christmas holidays preparing for Journalism Major her trip to the National finals in Memphis next month. From Charleston to Bop, from Junior-Senior Prom, that were flapper dresses to Dior creations, started back in the 20's, are still Miss Mitchell, Tech business from local clubs to nationals- Al­ given each year, although class education major from Fort Worth, though these are a few of the queens are not elected now. The will fly to Memphis on an expense changes that have come about freshman class sponsors a dance paid trip. Full length photographs since Tech was founded, one thing each year which takes the place have already been sent to the Na­ has remained pretty much the of Fr~shman Day given in the late tional contest. same. "The Tech social calender is 20's. This year Freshman Council Miss Talkington, owner of full of exciting dances and parties was elected to help the class of­ Margarets dress shop, is helping - they get better every year"­ ficers sponsor more class activ­ her choose an all-cotton wardrobe to quote from the 1929 "La Ven­ ities. to be worn at Memphis. This was tana." When the Greeks arrived on one of the prizes won by Miss The AWS Carnival that was campus they brought with them Mitchell. given annually back in the 30's many traditional dances and pro­ The 1955 South Plains Maid of has been replaced by the Senior jects. One such project is the Cotton is 5 feet 2, with brown Carnival whose proceeds go into planting of Pine trees on campus hair and brown eyes. Past honors the class gift fund. · by Tri Delt. The Tri Delt fall include her selection as an ROTC Class traditions, such as the formal is the Pine Tree Prance. sweetheart. Sophomore Hodge - Podge and (See SOCIAL, Page 9)

SOUTH PLAINS MAID OF COTTON is Virginia Mitchell, Tech student from Fort Worth. The runners up · for the honor were also Techsans-Barbara Cowherd of Dallas, on the left; and Jerry Anglin of Plainview on the right.

8 TEXAS TECHSAN Prof Wiley Has Directed Bands At Texas Tech For 20 Years By J. M. JONES Journalism Major Dr. D. 0. Wiley, director of cribes as a small village near Texas Tech bands, first . became Dublin. His father was a pioneer interested in music when given a who had moved there soon after violin by his parents at the age the Civil War, before the Indians of five. had left the vicinity. "Prof," who knows most of At five he began playing the America's leading men of music violin, and except for what his by their first names, believes he father and various "fiddlers" can get more work out of band showed him, he was self-taught. students by kidding them along At 15 he went to Ft. Worth and than by using a heavy hand. began studying with Carl Venth, "I had much rather my students who, at that time, was the out­ refer to me as 'Prof Wiley' than standing authority on violin in 'Dr.' or 'Mr.,' as many college in­ the Southwest. structors are called," he says. - Upon graduation from Graham Prof Wiley came to Tech in High School, Wiley went to Mid­ PROF. D. 0. WILEY 1934, and since that time the Tech land Junior College, now extinct, bands have increased from approx­ and taught violin and directed the imately 60 members to more than orchestra while attending college year, when he directed the Whit­ 200. two years. ing, high school band, orchestra Dewey 0. Wiley was born at In 1921 he went to what was and chorus, Wiley was at Abilene Alexander, Texas, which he des- then Simmons College at Abilene from 1921 to 1934. It was by acci­ as violin teacher and director of dent that he developed the "cow­ the orchestra. Also that year, he boy" theme for the Simmons SOCIAL- inherited the job as band director band. Asked to design new uni­ when the man who had previously forms, he saw some chaps in a If costume dances are the fav­ held the post left unexpectedly shop window and ordered the cow­ orite there's room to let the imagi­ with a circus. boy regalia as a tryout uniform. nation run wild from gypsies to At that time band directing was It met with such approval that L'il Abner. Tamborines clang at just a sideline, his main interests the entire band was outfitted in the Theta Gypsy Whirl. Pi Phi being violin and orchestra work. the western togs. sponsors a fall Masquerade Ball. Except for the 1927-28 school During the summers he went to New Orleans comes to life when Chicago to further his violin the SAE's have their Basin Street studies at · the American Con­ dance, and the Dogpatch days are The White Rose Sweetheart of ser vatory of Music. While at relived at Phi Psi's L'il Abner Sigma Nu is presented . at .the Hardin-Simmons, band became his party. Kemas, which will receive White Rose dance each spring. major subject and he received a a Phi Gamma Delta charter next The Kappas have added a Bachelor of Music degree there. month, turns the ballroom into a picnic, which they give for faculty In 1930, the Cowboy band, under Fiji Island at its shipwreck dance. members, to their social calendar. the directorship of Wiley made a All the sororities, which were Zeta has a White Violet breakfast three-month summer tour of originally social clubs have kept each year. Europe. Concerts were played in their presentations. Theta, former­ One girl each month is hon­ London, Birmingham, and New­ ly San Soci, usually opens this ored as PiKA Gardenia Girl. At castle, England. The band also series by presenting pledges in this time the girl is serenaded. played in Holland, Belgium, December. Sigma K appa and Alpha Phi, France, and Germany. Dinner dances are still held to the newest groups to colonize on be extra special. The Phi Delts the campus, will add more dances When Wiley began his band have theirs at the Country Club to the social calendar. career the discovery was being each year, while the ATO's use a Besides these social functions made that a band director could downtown hotel. Delta Gamma, there are always picnics, mixers, be perhaps more successful just 'combined their dinner dance with parties, and talent shows. There as a conductor than as a musician presentation. Favors from these are serenades when couples get and a conductor at the same time, dances range from jewelry boxes pinned, and the interfratern~ty "with a cornet in one hand and a With the Greek letters on them, sing. There are Student Uruon baton in the other." Wiley has to French poodles wearing the dances, there is Club Scarlet, there therefore stuck to conducting and fraternity crest. is-well, we could go on forever . let the players do the playing. Shades of red and w h i t e So, no matter if you Charleston Besides taking over the Tech Were seen at the Alpha Chi to "Ain't She Sweet" or bop to band in 1934, Wiley was elected Omegas Candyland Ball this fall, "Honey Hush," you'll find that president of the Texas Music Edu- ~hile Kappa Sigma gives a tradi­ Tech still offers a full social tional Black and White formal. calendar. (See WILEY, Page 13)

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Olass of '29 organizations. Her busy life also with the Pioneer Natural Gas Co. J. M. RANKIN, county judge of has included being church organ­ as a junior engineer. Crosby county, is listed in "Who's ist for 38 years and teaching a Who in the South and Southwest, Sunday School class for 36 years. VIOLA STINSON, home eco· 1954." Judge Rankin graduated nomics education, is teaching from Te<:h in '29 with a B.A. de­ Class of '86 homemaking at Amherst. gree in English. RICHARD S. BRANNIN, elec­ EARL DOUGLAS STOUT, ge. trical engineering graduate, was Class of '88 ology major, is employed by the promoted recently to head of the Humble Oil Co. in Houston as a MRS. WILL S. YOUNG recent­ Fighter and Helicopter Flight Con­ junior geologist. Also employed by ly was named the outstanding trol Engineering Department of that· company in Houston are woman of Bowie for 1954. Mrs. the Sperry Gyroscope Co. in Great WILLIAM E. PAYNE, junior ex­ Young holds B.A. and M.A. de­ Neck, N. Y. Since joining the ploration geophysicist; GEORGE grees from Tech. She has taught Sperry Corp. in 1941, Brannin has C. KUNKEL, roustabout; THOM· school for the past 24 years, been granted seven patents on AS EUGENE SCOTT, rousta. taught private music, been librar­ flight control systems and gyro­ bout; and MORRISON P. KELLY, ian for 11 years, and also has scopes and has one other pending. junior geologist. been active in civic affairs and Class of '49 A. B. GILLIS, JR., electrical DAWSON REID, JR., manage­ engineering graduate, is an elec· Fine Arts Fe stival ment graduate, has bought a trical well services trainee with Started At Te ch ranch near Cotopaxi, Colo. He is the Halliburton Oil Well Cement· married to the former Bobbie Lou ing Co. A new ci.;l,.1ral event was added Verner. The couple, formerly of HENRY L. KING, chemistry to the Texas Tech activities cal­ Paducah . has two children, a major, is employed by the Chem· endar this month, the College's daughter four years old and a son strand Corp. first annual Fine Arts Festival. two. Dawson was a member of Los Six departments at Tech - Camarades. ROBERT ALLEN LOWKE, fi. music, speech, applied arts, allied nance major, is associated with arts, women's physical education Class of '51 the Goodyear Tire and Rubber and Tech Artists Course-merged J. R. CUNNINGHAM, civil Co. forces for a five-day series of pro­ engineering grad, is employed by DALE HENNON, math grad· grams between December 9-13. the Continental Carbon Co. in uate, has been employed in Little­ The Festival availed itself of the Amarillo. field as a computer for the United finest talent and program offer­ Geophysical Co. since June. His ings of the six cooperating depart­ Class of '58 wife, Connie Hennon, is a former ments, according to Mrs. Mary BOYD B. GLIMP, electrical employee in the office of the dean Helen McCarty, music department engineering graduate, is employed of engineering. instructor and Festival chairman by the United Motor Service Co.­ of publicity. Delco Branch. DAISY NELL HOLLY, speech graduate, is employed by the Lub· Highlights of the first annual Class of '54 bock Public Schools as a speech Festival were a piano concert, a therapist. band clinic, exhibits by the two LEWIS OLIN MARTIN, physi­ art departments, modern dance, a cal education major, is teaching MARY FRANCES SHEFFIELD, play, a movie and several musical in Fritch Public Schools. so:::iology graduate, is employed by programs featuring both instru­ the American Cancer Society in mental and vocal music. MRS. UNA MABEL BELL, edu­ Austin. cation major, is a second grade Preparations for the festival teacher in Ralls. JOHN H. CAULFIELD is em· were made by the following Tech ployed in the construction and faculty committees: Mrs. Mc­ EDNA FAY PARKER, secretar­ maintenance division of the Pan Carty, music; Richard K. Tracy, ial administration graduate, is a American Refining Corp. in Tex~ allied arts; Mrs. Ethel Jane Beit­ clerk-stenographer with the Hum­ City. He has a degree in mechaJU· ler, applied arts; Dr. Cecelia ble Oil and Refining Co. in Hous­ cal engineering. Thompson, speech; and Miss ton. JAMES DALE YOUNG, an in· Dorothy Hoyle, women's physical DALE JOHNSON, petroleum education. dustrial engineer major is employ· engineering major, is associated ed with the same co~oration. 10 TEXAS TECHSAN There's Not So Much Coffee in Brazil out coffee since before the war, suddenly got thirsty for the dark beverage. Brazilan Agricuhure Dept. Official Well, we're still feeling the re­ sult, and since it takes five years for a coffee tree to develop Gives Reasons for Coffee Shortage enough to produce good coffee in quantities large enough to make By Alton Slagle -the home of coffee trees. Mr. it economical for harvest, we may Wekerlin should know what he's Toreador Staff Writer continue to pay dearly for our talking about, too, since coffee great American habit for some The song about there being an production in Parana, · his home awful lot of coffee in Brazil may time. state, ranks second in the nation, Education Compulso&·y have been true back in the hey­ and in Brazil, that ain't hay, day of the Andrews Sisters, but brother. That's coffee. After. thoroughly hashing over 1954 finds a little different situa­ the coffee situation, we went on to tion regarding quantity of the Frost in 195S an even more involved subject: popular bean. It seems that back in the spring education. Brazil has quite a So many rumors have been cir­ of 1953, just as the harvest was scholastic set-up. Formal educa­ culated in the past year as to the getting underway on the annual tion- book learnin', if you will­ cause of currently high coffee coffee crop, a killing frost· blew is compulsory for every child be­ prices that we decided to find out over from the Andes, putting out tween the ages of seven and 11. first hand just exactly what was of commission some 440 million of After this elementary training going on. And we did-over a Brazil's five billion coffee trees. come four years of high school, lunch of barbeque and, strangely With Brazil producing over 50 per­ three years in a preparatory enough, orangeade. cent of the world's coffee, this institution, and then college. Mr. Harry Carlos Wekerlin of was quite a blow. Universities and colleges are set Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, was on And, as if that weren't enough, up in the coffee country on three the other side of the "big orange Germany, England, and some oth­ levels: small schools primarily for drinks," so the information came er European countries, whose po­ one particular subject (i.e. law); straight from the source of coffee pulace had been virtually with- (See COFFEE, Page 13)

OFFICERS FOR THE ARLINGTON CHAPTER of the Ex-Students Association are pictured above. The chapter was organized Oct. 29. Left to right are, Mrs. Charles Hawkes, secretary­ treasurer; Dr. Gene Nowlin, president; C. B. Caswell, vice president, and Mrs. W. W. Kitts, reporter. Not pictured is the executive committee composed of Morris Neel, Elton Smith and Carl Knight.

DECEMBER, 1954 1J Techsans In Service

Mrs. Hon is the former Janet football game between the Chicago Johnson. Bears and the Green Bay Packers. • * * Don plans to return to Tech for Capt. Charles E. Hulsey of Lub­ the spring semester of '56. bock is a member of I Corps' * * * 545th Quartermaster Company, Second Lt. Dan M. Royal, Jr. is which recently received the Mer­ stationed at Fort Ord in Mon­ itorous Unit Commendation for terery, Calif. Royal was a '55 busi­ outstanding supply operations in ness ad graduate. Korea. Capt. Hulsey, commander of the company, arrived in the * * * Far East in July of this year. Pvt. Philip D. Thompson, '53 He is a former student at Texas government graduate, is stationed Tech. at Fort Lee in Virginia. Phil was * Tech's head cheerleader in '52- Pvt. James M. Luker and Pvt. '53. Robert M. Williams, both of Level­ • land, have recently begun eight * • Pvt. Joe E. Begey is serving at the Brooke Army Hospital at Fort Sam Houston. • * • Several Ex-Techsans are in U. S. Navy primary flight training. They are: John F . Brown of Lui>- · LT. ALLEN BENNETT, JR. bock and John E. Berry, Jr. of Lt. Allen Bennett, Jr., 1953 grad­ Spur, who are stationed at Corry uate of Tech, was awarded the Field in Pensacola, Fla.; Also silver wings of a United States James S. Morriss, Van Horn; Ro­ Air Force pilot during graduation land E. Gregory, Fort Worth; and ceremonies held at Reese Air Jim F. Dowty, Dimmitt, who are Force Base last month. He com­ stationed at Whiting Field in Mil­ pleted five months of training in ton, Fla. the North American B-25 just (See IN SERVICE, Next Pagel prior to graduation. Lt. Bennett received a B.S. degree in educa­ tion from Tech... .. Major Ted M. Moody of the U.S. Army has been appointed highway engineer in I ndochina by the Fed­ eral government's Foreign Opera­ tions Administration. Moody has studied civil engineering at Tech PVT. JAMES M. LUKER and SMU. weeks of army basic training in The former Techsan will in­ the Antiaircraft Artillery Replace­ struct the Vietnamese and French ment Training Center at Fort in the latest U. S. Methods of Bliss, Texas. selecting and testing highway con­ struction materials, according to * * * a press release from the FOA. Another Tech Ex stationed at ...... Fort Bliss is Bert Goodyear, edi­ A2/ C Charles Robert Smith is tor of the 1954 "La Ventana." stationed at Keesler Air Force * * • Base in Mississippi. Charles was Pvt. Don Elliff, Jr. was selected an accounting major at Tech be­ the "Soldier of the Month" for the fore entering the services. Chicago area during the month of • • • October. He received a three-day Jackson P. Hon entered the pass for the honor and compli­ service at Fort Bliss in September. mentary tickets to a professional CADET JOHN F . BROWN

12 TEXAS TECHSAN IN SERVICE- before entering the Navy in 1951. COFFEE- First Lt. Thomas Keith Schier, • • • who organized and was first pres­ Lt. Richard A. Armstrong, class state supported institutions much ident of the Institute of F inance of '54, is stationed at Selfridge Air like our state colleges; and federal at Tech, is an instructor in social Force Base in Michigan, where universities. sciences in the U. S. Army Fi­ he is assistant engineering chief Mr. Wekerlin, head of the in­ nance Corps, For t Benjamin, in the material section. Arm­ formation division of Parana's de­ Harrison, Ind. Schier is from strong has a degree in architec­ partment of agriculture, has been Houston. ture. He received his ROTC in the States for some four * * * commission at Tech, where he months now, making a study of Pvt. John C. Anderson has was national publications officer U. S. agriculture in Georgia, Ken­ recently completed the Medical of Arnold Air Society. tucky, North Carolina, Virginia Field Service School's 16-week • • * and Texas. He plans to be home Laboratory Procedures Course at First Lt. Joseph B. Gipson of for Christmas. Brooke Army Medical Center and Morton is an operational staff Well, lunch was over, and we is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ar k. officer at Brooke Army Medical had a 2 o'clock appointment to Pvt. Anderson attended Tech be­ Center. Gipson graduated from blow up the Chemistry building, fore entering the service. Tech with a B.A. degree in 1949. so the discussion was tabled. Mr. * • * * * * Wekerlin hasn't seen the last of Pvt. Warren Miles Bondurant Tech, though. . He's scheduled to of Lubbock has been transferred Pvt. Larry D. Griffin of Earth is training at the William Beau­ make a campus tour Saturday to Fort Knox, Ky. after complet­ mont Army Hospital, Fort Bliss, morning, highlighted by a coffee ing a dental assistant course at Texas. He is a former student at break at the Union. Brooke Army Medical Center at Tech. Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He may bring his own. * • * Robert V. Miller, Jr., photo­ grapher's mate second class, USN is on the USS Valley Forge. He HELPl-Us Correct Our Records has served aboard the ship during two tours of the Korean war and has earned four battle stars. He If You Have: is from Austin and attended Tech

WILEY- New Address cators Association, serving two years in that office. Prof has been New Job a pioneer in Texas for the pro­ motion of high school bands. He was on the committee that pre­ New Wife sented a petition to the State Department of Education to ac­ or Husband credit music in Texas high schools. He is also the originator of the summer band school for public New Baby school students held at Tech each year. Today D . 0. Wiley is still very Your former classmates would like to know and we active in the music field. He is would like to have the information for "Bear Our Ban­ at present secretary-treasurer of the Texas Music Educators As­ ners Far And Wide." sociation and editor of "South­ western Musician-Texas Music Why not write this infonnation in the space below Educator," a magazine published and send it to us- by the association. He is much sought after as a THE EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION judge for band clinics and festivals TECH STATION held over the Southwest each year. He has been judging bands at LUBBOCK, TEXAS such events for 24 years. Each spring Prof Wiley has taken the Tech band on a concert tour over parts of Texas and sur­ rounding states. He is currently Planning the 20th annual concert tour for April. Dr. and Mrs. Wiley reside at 2810 Canton in Lubbock and have two sons and· one daughter.

DECEMBER, 1954 13 The Hitchin'

MOLLIE JORDAN and BILL VIVIEN BRAKE and LT. McNallen, Oct. 4. Big Spring. STINSON, Nov. 27, in Kaufman. CLYDE HOLLINGSWORTH, Nov. ~ilton is a 1951 graduate and is Mollie is a '54 home economics 6, in Pampa. While at Tech, the now employed by the Lubbock honor graduate. She was president bride was a member of the New­ Avalanche-Journal as a reporter. of the Theta Sigma Phi, member man Club and Kappa Alpha Theta. * * * of 'Forum, Alpha Chi, and the She was the 1953-54 Sun Princess DELTON ESTO KELLY and Home Economics club. The groom from Tech. Clyde, who graduated Clona Nell Cypers, Oct. 1, in is a junior at Tech after serv­ from Tech in June, was a mem­ Lorenzo. Delton, who graduated ing four years. in the Air Force. ber of Arnold Air Society and with a degree in finance, is teach­ • Kemas. He is now serving in the ing at Lorenzo High School. JEAN BURKETT and Wilford Air Force. * * * 0. Ford, Nov. 28, in Lamesa. The • • • GLADYS HILL and Robert L . bride is a former student at Tech. PATSIE SCALES and ENS. Nickell, Jr., Nov. 11, in Ballinger. Her husband is employed in the CLAYTON ROSS, Sept. 26, in Gladys is a '46 graduate of Tech Pharmacy department of a drug Lubbock. Both are graduates of majoring in elementary education. company in Lamesa. Tech, classes of '52 and '53 The couple is at home in Del Rio, respectively. Patsie taught school where the groom is an engineer "' • and the bride is employed in the RICHARD H. MARTIN and in Galveston last year. The couple is in Burmuda where Clayton is Civilian Personnel Office at Glenda Huffman, Nov. 26, in Laughlin Air Force Base. Odessa. Richard is back at Tech stationed with the Navy Air Corps. * * * after serving two years in the JOAN NORRIS and Rufus Dun­ Marines. He is a member of Kappa • * • can, September wedding in Waco. Sigma. PATRICIA ANN EDWARDS Joan attended Tech from 1952 to * • * and Phillip Julius Record, Sept. 1954 and was a member of Pi LOLA PETICOLAS and KEN 29, in Fort Worth. Pat graduated Beta Phi. The groom is a graduate GILBERT, Nov. 6, in Lubbock. from Tech in '53 with degrees in of the University of Texas where Lola attended Tech two years and speech and journalism and was he was affiliated with Phi Delta Ken graduated last year with a a member of Zeta Tau Alpha. She Theta. The couple is living in degree in physics. The couple is at is now employed by WBAP-TV. Houston since returning from a home in Fort Worth, where Ken The bridegroom, a graduate of European wedding trip in Novem· is a nuclear engineer at Convair. Notre Dame, is employed in the ber. He was a member of Kemas and editorial department of the Fort * * * Lola belonged to Kappa Alpha Worth Star-Telegram. SHARON McDANIEL and Theta. • * • VERNON WILLIAM BRADLEY, * • • JEAN GOODLOE and PAUL Sept. 18, in Dallas. The bride AUBREY H. FAULKNER, JR, L. PAYNE, JR., Sept. 19, in attended T.C.U. and Tech. Ver· and Peggy Louise Jobe, Novem­ Spearman. Mrs. Payne is manager non, a graduate of Tech, is em· ber wedding in Lubbock. Aubrey of a public stenographic service in ployed in Dallas by the Sun Oil graduated from Tech in 1950 with Lubbock, and Paul is associated Co. a BBA degree. Peggy is a former with Producing Royalities Inc. * * * student at Wayland and· a grad­ Both are former Tech students. RITA CHOW and FRANK G. uate of the West Texas Hospital LOUIS, Sept. 26, in Lubbock. The School of Nursing, Lubbock. THOMAS* HERBERT>f. * WENDT bride is doing graduate work in • • • and Dorothy Louise Sasse, Oct. 8, art at Tech. Frank is a textile SHIRLEY SHIELDS and LT. in Dallas. Wendt is a graduate engineering graduate of Tech and MARUS SMITH, Nov. 26, in of Tech, where he was president is presently employed by Texas Waco. Shirley was a member of of Gamma Delta and a member Cotton Research Laboratory at Mu Phi Epsilon, Kappa Alpha of Alpha Phi Omega and the Tech as a research technologist Theta, and Tech Choir while in Lutheran Students Organization. * * * . college. Marlis, '54 petroleum * * * JOHNNY F. WINSTON and geology graduate, held member­ PVT. JOHN THAD DRAKE and Reba Buchanan, Sept. wedding ships in Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Wanda Brown, Oct. 7, in Ropse­ in Martinez, Calif. The groom Kappa Mu Epsilon, and Kemas ville. The bridegroom attended was graduated from Tech in '54 fraternity. He is stationed at Tech and is now stationed at Fort and is now stationed in San Diego Ellington Air Force Base, Hous­ Bliss. in the Navy. Mrs. Winston is a ton, taking aircraft observer train­ * * * graduate dental assistant. ing. HILTON HAGEN and Patsy (See HITCHIN' POST, Next Page)

TEXAS TECHSAN HITCHIN' Post.- WILLIAM CARL HUGHEN in Colorado City, The groom at­ ~nd Jo Ann Underwood, Aug. 2, VIRGINIA LIANNE LEWIS tended Tech two years before is Carlsbad, N.M. Hugen is sta­ entering the Air Force. and CLAUDE KIRTLAND tioned at Mineral Wells in the BROWN, Sept. 4, in Lubbock. The Army. * • • bride attended Tech last year NANCY KATHRYN SULLIVAN and was a member of Tri Delta. * • • and James Philip Bradley, Aug. C. K. r eceived a degree in in­ WILLIAM F. KILLOUGH and 14, in San Angelo. The bride is a dustrial engineering in May and Willie Mae Gregurek, Aug. 1 in 1954 graduate of Tech with a is now employed by the Jones­ Bay City. William is a graduate major in English. She was a Loflin Steel Corp. in Beaumont. of Tech and is a member of the member of Sigma Tau Delta;, He was a member of Kappa Sig­ coaching staff of the Harlingen honorary English society. The ma at Tech. schools. couple is at home in Corpus * Christi where Mrs. Bradley is * teaching in the high school and PED READ and Beverly Ann THOMAS E. ROBERTS and her husband is attending Del Mar Mary Lee Jones, April 3, in Irving. Adams, July 22, in Abilene. The College. Tom received his BBA degree in groom attended Tech for two and .. • • accounting in 1950. They are one-half years. The couple is at home in Abilene. OLEITA MARIE HILL . and residing in Dallas where he is • • * _Kenneth L. Dendy, Aug. 29, in associated with a C.P.A. firm. Lubbock. The bride attended Tech The bride is a graduate of Loui­ DEWEY YEAGER and Dorothy and is employed as church sec­ siana State University. Joplin, July 17, in Lubbock. Dewey retary of St. John's Methodist graduated from Tech in August * * Church in Lubbock. The groom and is in pre-med school in Gal­ works for Lubbock Wood Works. JACK WALBERG and Janet veston. Daniels, Sept. 4, in Dallas. Jack * * * • • * graduated from Tech in '53 and JAMES AUTHOR BROWN and JANADA SUE GOUND and is now connected with Chance­ Mary Jane Vaughn, July wedding MONTY EARL DAVENPORT, Vought Aircraft Co. in Dallas. The in Olton, James attended Tech Aug. 28, in Lubbock. The bride bride is a former student at Texas and is now farming near Olton. is a graduate of Tech and teaches State College for Women in Den­ • • • in the Lubbock schools. Monty is ton. MARY RUTH HOLLOWAY and a junior majoring in engineering. * * POWELL HINSON, July wedding • • • BETTY VAUGHN and DR. in McLean. Both are '54 graduates STEVE _BAVOUSETT and Mary JOHN R. BRADFORD, Sept. 4, of Texas Tech. Powell entered the Frye, Aug, 14, in Hereford. The in Lubbock. Betty, class of '50, Baptist Theological Seminary in groom graduated from Tech where was formerly employed as home New Orleans, La. in September. he was a member of Alpha Chi, service advisor for Pioneer Natural * • • Alpha Zeta, and the choir. He Gas Co. The groom, a graduate BILLIE FRED JAMESON and is now work unit conservationist for· Parmer County. They are liv­ of Tech, class of '42, and Case JOE NEL~ON THORP, Aug 7, in Institute of Technology, is now re­ Silver. The· groom is a graduate ing in Friona. The bride is a grad­ search consultant of the United of Tech, and the bride has attend­ uate of West Texas State. States Radium Corp. in New York ed school here. They are at home • * • City. The couple lives in Morris­ in Throckmorton. CAROLYN FONDY and Joe town, N.J. * * • Thomas Tucker, Aug 24, in Sla­ HENRY VIRGIL MIERS III ton. The bride attended Tech. The * groom is employed as a telegraph JO MORROW and Roy Milton and Patricia Locke, Aug. 7, in Robnett, Sept. 3, in Lubbock. Jo Dallas. The groom is a graduate of operator for the Santa Fe Rail­ gratluated from Tech in '54 and Tech where he was a member of road in Slaton. was a member of Kappa Kappa Wranglers. The couple is at home • • .. Gamma. The groom attended in Dallas. JOEL LYNN READ and Bobbye Oklahoma A&M and Bradley • • • Jean Akers, Sept. 14, in Lubbock . ~niversity. The couple is at home TRAVS 0. SMITH and Alice The groom, a former student at m Lubbock. Marie Clough, July wedding in Tech, is employed by the Sunshine * • * Kermit. Smith is a graduate of Biscuit Co. DAISY NELL HOLLY and Tech and has served two years • • • ROBERT LESLIE MARTIN in the Army. He is teaching the GEORGE C. KUNKEL and Rosalee Ries, July 17, in Denver Sept. 3, in Abilene. The bride, ~ sixth grade in the Salinas, Calif. speech major, graduated from City. The Kunkels reside in Mid­ schools. land, where George is a petroleum Tech in August and was a mem­ • • * ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma. ERNEST FRANKLIN LOKEY, engineer trainee with the Humble Oil and Refining Co. He graduated ~o_bert, a math major, received JR. and Jane Claire Overstreet, his BA degree in May and is now July wedding in San Antonio. The in '54. working toward his Masters De­ groom is a graduate of Went­ • * * gree at Tech. JAMES R. ·RUSSELL and Ala­ worth Military Academy and rah Pierce, Aug. 27, in Lubbock. * * * Texas Tech. He is stationed at the The couple is at home in Lub­ DONALD BAZE and Shirley Marana Air Force Base in Tuc­ bock, where James is employed by Armstrong, July 24, in Phillips. · son, Ariz. the City of Lubbock in the Engi­ The groom, who has attended • • neering Department. Mrs. Russell ~ech, is employed at the First Na­ AIRMAN KAY PHILLIP OR­ tional Bank of Borger. MAN and Sylvia Harvey, Aug. 10, (See HITCHIN' POST, Next Page)

DECEMBER, 1954 15 HITCHIN' POST- has taught home economics in lege for Women. The couple is liv­ Amherst High School. ing in Dallas. is director of Christian education • • • • • .. at the First Christian Church. STAFFORD EUGENE JONES • • • BOBBY JANE FOX and JOHN and Betty Leasure, Aug. 21, in P. ANDREWS, Aug. 5, in Peters­ Lubbock. Jones attended Tech, FRANCES ANN HUDSPETH burg. The bride, a '53 elementary and DONALD NEWTON HOLT, where he was a member of Silver education graduate, is a teacher Key in 1949. He is a sales repre­ Aug. 22, in Abilene. The couple is in the Whiteface School System. sentative for West Texas Grocery in California where the bride­ John, who was a member of the groom is stationed as an ensign in Double T Association, is employed ·Division for Standard Brands, Inc. the Navy. Ann attended Tech and by an oil company. • • • was a member of Delta Delta DON FRANKS and Helen Mil· Delta. Donald graduated in '54 • • • ler, Aug. 1, in Olton. Don is a with a degree in retailing. He is a TWILDA DEAN WELCH and '54 education graduate of Tech member of Phi Delta Theta and JOHN DEE SPICER, Aug. 14, and was. a member of Los Cama­ Alpha Phi Omega fraternities. in Justiccburg. The bride, clo.ss of rades dub. He is farming near '51, majored in education and has Olton. • • • her B.S. and M.E. degrees. For BILL LANE and Peggy Vaughn, the past two years she has been • • * Aug. 25, in Lamesa. The couple employed as speech therapist by PAT TINNEY and PAUL is at home in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Lubbock Public Schools. John, GRIFFITH, Aug. 28, in Bowie. Where Bill is stationed with the class of '53, holds a degree in agri­ The bride attended Tech prev­ armed forces. He attended Tech culture and is now serving as a ious to her marriage, was a mem­ two years before entering the ser­ second lieutenant in the Air Force. ber of Kappa Alpha Theta soro­ vice. Mrs. Lane is a graduate of • rity and a 1954 La Ventana beau­ Hardin-Simmons University. • • ty. She will attend Boston Univer· ALICE LAVENIA WILSON and sity while her husband is doing • • • HAROLD CLINTON CARPEN­ graduate work at the Massachu­ NANCY McCLENDON and TER, Aug. 7, in Slaton. The couple setts Institute of Technology in BILLY P. PHILLIPS, Aug. 7, in has taught for the past two years Cambridge. Paul was graduated Lubbock. Billy, a '48 accounting at Cooper. Alice, class of '51, and from Tech with honors in '54 and graduate of Tech, is employed by a home economics major, has was cited in Who's Who in Amer­ the BMFP Construction Co. in B.A. and M.E. degrees; Harold, ican Universities and Colleges. Lubbock and is working on his class of '50, also holds two degrees They are living in Boston. Masters Degree. Nancy is a junior from Tech. * • home economics major at Tech. • • • JOE DAVID RANKIN and • • • BUSTER G. McDUFF and No­ Beth Brasfield, Aug. 22, in Slaton. CAROL MIDDLETON and LT. liah Boone, Aug. 22, in Truth or Joe graduate in '50 with a zo­ GERALD C. DALLAS, Aug. 17, Consequences, N.M. Buster, an ology major. He served three years in LubbocK. Both graduates of electrical engineering graduate, is in the U. S. Air Force and is now Tech, they are living in Harlingen employed by the Temco Aircraft engaged in farming near Ralls. where the groom is stationed as Corp. of Grand Prairie. The bride His wife is a graduate of Hardin· a pilot in the Air Force. Carol is a graduate of Texas State Col- Simmons University.

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