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il N T E MCHOjASTiC LEAGUER VOL. XXXVII AUSTIN, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER, 1954 NO. I Rule Book Changes Dallas, Houston Conferences By League Noted Draw Students Oct. 16, 23 Attention is called to a number Some important rule changes Barry Holton, public relations; Dr. public relations; Dr. Otis Walter, of revisions in the 1954-55 Con have been made, however. All roads in North and Southeast First on tap is the North Texas James H. Mailey, chairman of speech chairman; Miss Lela Blount, stitution and Rules. School ex Rule 6c of the Boys' Basketball Texas lead to the Student Ac Student Activities Conference. at secondary education department; drama chairman; Bruce Under ecutives, coaches and teachers Plan now provides that district tivities Conferences at Dallas and Southern Methodist University on Dr. Bob G. Woods, assistant pro wood, journalism chairman. should acquaint themselves with games may not be played prior to Houston on Oct. 16 and 23, re Saturday, Oct. 16, under direction fessor of education; E. L. Callihan, the rearrangement of certain sec December 15, 1954, except by un spectively. of Bob McKay, assistant superin Tentative plans for the Houston chairman of journalism depart tions of the rules. animous consent of all district Plans are about complete for tendent of Dallas public schools. meeting call for a general session these first two of the year's student SMU faculty and staff have been ment; and Dr. Harold Weiss, chair at 8 a.m., opened with 30 minutes For several years the State Ex members. conference schedule, and all signs busy for several weeks, planning a man, speech department. of music by University of Houston ecutive Committee has been noting Rule 1 of the Football, Boys' point toward a boom in attendance stimulating program which is ex Next in line, on Oct. 23, is the students. After an official welcome the need for certain changes in the Basketball and Girls' Basketball and interest. Special invitations are pected to attract many more than Southeast Texas conference at the and an inspirational address, stu arrangement of the material in plans, make ineligible those schools going out to schools which have not the 1,000 students and faculty University of Houston, the largest dents and sponsors will go to sec order that the reader would have which participate in another high sent students to these meetings in sponsors who attended last year. of the 10 meetings. Dr. J. O. Webb, tional meetings at 9:15 a.m. access to all the information on a school league in those sports. (See recent years. Sections on speech, drama, ex assistant superintendent of Hous specific rule in a specific section related girls' basketball story, Page Sections are scheduled for drama, temporaneous speaking, decla ton public schools, is chairman. without having to refer to various 4.) Ten such conferences are sched journalism, speech (debate, extemp mation and journalism are planned. parts of the publication. uled in various regions during the University of Houston planners and declamation), poetry reading, Rule 11, Girls' Basketball Plan, year, featuring workshop sessions In addition, a section covering the are headed by Walter Williams, student council, number sense and The first major change was to provides that forfeiting of district generally in journalism and speech. new poetry reading contest will be radio-television. place the rules pertaining to the games in order to play non-district featured. Special instructions for Some sections will have two one- District, Regional and State Meets (See detailed schedule on this page games renders the school ineligible journalism are given below. hour periods, divided in turn into in a separate section entitled for the activities conference in for district honors. informative programs including "Spring Meet Plan." Heretofore your area.) Heading the SMU planning are These new contests have been student participation and exchange the information regarding the added: Poetry Reading in speech; of ideas. Final adjournment for all various /neets was found under 75-yard dash and 8-pound shot put groups will be at 1 p.m. several different articles and sec in track and field for junior boys. tions of the Constitution and Rules, At SMU on Oct. 16, the second with no particular continuity of School administrators and Find Yours Here session of journalism (11:15 to coaches are urged to read the Of 12:15) will be devoted again this subject matter. All rules now per Dates and locations for Student Activities Conferences this taining to the Spring Meet Com ficial Notice Column of the Leaguer year to constructive criticism of petition will be found in one section. to keep up with current corrections. year are listed below. Schools should check the date for the one high school newspapers. All schools "UK. WILLIS M. TATE that will attend are urged to sub The second important revision nearest them, or the one they prefer to attend: mit their newspapers for this free, was to remove all rule interpre Oct. 16—Southern Methodist University, Dallas. on-the-spot analysis. tations from the index and place Do You Remember When . ? Oct. 23—University of Houston, Houston. Journalism Instructions: 1. Mail the interpretation under the specific Nov. 6—Abilene Christian College, Abilene. two copies each of three different rule to which it applied. Frequently issues of your paper to: Nelson A. a person would read the original Nov. 13—Kilgore College, Kilgore. SMU Pres. Tate Held Hutto, Journalism Adviser, Sunset rule and fail to refer to the official Nov. 20—The University of Texas, Austin. High School, Dallas, Tex. interpretation in the index, thus Dec. 11—Texas A. & I. College, Kingsville. 2 These papers must be post failing to get the complete meaning Dec. 11—Odessa College, Odessa. of a particular rule. The Line for Old Main marked no later than Oct. 6. If Jan. 8—Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville. R. H. McKay, assistant super three fall issues have not been pub The third major change had to When Dr. Willis M. Tate was After coaching athletics for two The son of a retired YMCA sec intendent in charge of adminis lished by that date, include as many do with the change of type and Jan. 15—Southwestern University, Georgetown. elected this year as president of years, Tate became principal of the retary and active Methodist lay tration for the Dallas Independ as possible, plus enough of last style in all sections of the publi Feb. 5—Stephen F. Austin State College, Nacogdoches. Southern Methodist University, it Alamo Heights elementary and man, Dr. Tate has long been active ent School District, heads the spring's to make it three issues. cation. The book is more readable marked another achievement by junior high schools in San Antonio. in church work. His brother, Rev. Student Activities Conference at 3. IMPORTANT: On the first and should be better understood. another product of Interscholastic In 1942 the San Antonio Junior Robert S. Tate, Jr., is pastor of the Dallas on Oct. 16. Former prin newspaper in the batch you submit, In this process there has been no League competition. Chamber of Commerce named him Alamo Heights Methodist Church, cipal of Greiner Jr. High and be sure to mark your school's classi change of a rule or regulation in SMU shares the claim on its new as its outstanding young man of San Antonio. Regions I and III Vote Sunset High, Dallas, he holds fication—AA, A or B. Schools with "^ the revision, only the style and the president, one of its own graduates the year. At present Dr. Tate is assistant M.A. degree from SMU, has senior high school enrollment of 500 assembling of related material and at the age of 43 the youngest In April, 1943, he moved to conference lay leader of the North done graduate study at Univer or more are in Class AA, those with under a single item for the benefit head of the Dallas institution. Houston as executive assistant to Texas Conference of the Methodist On Advisory Council sity of Denver, Columbia and 210 to 500 are in Class A, and those of the reader. New type was set A native of Denver, Colorado, the pastor of the First Methodist Church and is chairman of the ex Conference AA and regions I and Region V, Conference AA: Prin. Yale. McKay is on the executive with less than 210 are Class B. throughout the publication and Tate has spent most of his life in Church. ecutive committee of the Highland III will elect representatives to the R. B. Sparks, High School, Bay- board of the Texas State Teach- 4. NOTE: In mailing papers to even though every effort was made Texas. All of it has been marked Returning to his alma mater, Park Methodist Church. Legislative Advisory Council this town; Conference A: Supt. E. H. erss Assn. Mr. Hutto, be sure to put sufficient to avoid any errors, some were by aggressive leadership. , - SMU, in September, 1945, Tate His leadership extends to a wide fall to fill vacancies created by the Black, La Marque; Conference B: postage on them. Papers can be made. As these errors are dis As a schoolboy at old Main Av was named assistant dean of stu variety of civic and educational resignation of Supt. Jack Ryan of Supt. Clyde Abshier, Deer Park. Good Spelling Formula: mailed at less cost in a manila en covered, they will be corrected in enue High School in San Antonio dents. He moved up to dean of groups. He is best known in teach McKinney and the transfer of Supt. velope, unsealed. Correct postage the current issue of the Leaguer.