VOL. LVII AUSTIN, TEXAS MARCH, 1973 NO. 7 Regional Directors Announce Meet Schedules State Meet To Be May 3-5, Schools Should Check Contest Times, Sites Girls' Track, Golf Events Regional literary competition in at Denton are scheduled for April Region I, Conferences AA and 17 and 18, respectively. AAA, at Odessa College, is sched­ All other regional spring meet uled for April 7. An exception to competition, both athletic and lit­ Scheduled For May 11-12 this is the one-act play competition erary, is scheduled at the respective and athletics, which are on April sites listed on April 13 and 14. The 1973 State Meet is sched­ fernces. Boys golf teams will also Dr. Rhea Williams, the League di­ 12 and 13. District directors should mail in uled for May 3-5. compete. rector. "Contestants in debate are One-act play contests at Texas the list of their entrants promptly This will include all literary com­ The following week will see the as excited as those who throw the Tech for Region I, Conferences B, upon completion of their district petition, such as debate, one-act girls golf teams compete and girls discus. We anticipate excellent A and AAAA, are scheduled for competition to the proper regional play, number sense, shorthand, etc. track and field events are scheduled. competition in both academic con­ April 17,18 and 19. director at the site designated. May All boys' track and field events are This is on May 11 and 12. tests and relays, in both golf and One-act play contests for Region we urge the district directors to set for this weekend, as is tennis "Competition is as keen in slide tennis. It is always a pleasure to II, Conferences AAAA and AAA (Continued on Page 2) for both boys and girls in all con- rule as in the long jump," reported have these young people in Austin." Four Rule Change Proposals League Housing Office Will Aid Contestants Up For Referendum Balloting By DR. RHEA H. WILLIAMS call to the housing office in order League Director to save time, expense and confu­ Four proposals will be submitted If Ballot No. 1 is approved, the courses offered during the summer sion. to League member schools in the Transfer Rule, Article VIII, Sec­ at various colleges and universities. Assistance will be 'provided to In conclusion, may we stress April referendum, namely: tion 14, as it affects ninth graders, As now worded, the rule penalizes qualified contestants and sponsors these points: Whether the Transfer Rule, as it will read: "A pupil who has repre­ the ambitious student. for room reservations in Austin 1) the success of this operation applies to ninth graders, should be sented his school in the ninth grade With so many innovations in during the State Meet. Again this will depend entirely upon the co­ revised, in either football or basketball will school planning, it is felt that some year, the only mailing schools will operation of all concerned; receive regarding room reserva­ Whether the rule applying to col­ be ineligible only in the sport or adjustments must be made in some 2) in this way, your qualified con­ con­ lege contestants should be amended, sports (football and basketball) in League rules and the study com­ tions will be a special mailing testants and their sponsors will Whether the Legislative Coun­ the school district to which he mittee of the Legislative Council sisting of the General Program TILF SCHOLARS LOO;. _ _.-. _AMPUS Dr. Stephen Spurr, UT Austin President, points out campus have room reservations secured; cil's study committee should be au­ changes until he has been in at­ seems the logical group to work out along with a list of the hotels and and thorized to amend such League tendance for one year." The pro­ such changes. points of interest to Texas Interscholastic League Foundation scholars Rudolph Tschoerner, left, and Croclcett motels in Austin. This mailing will 3) make sure that you have all rules as now cause confusion in posed change in wording is to clari­ The fourth ballot makes the Grabbe. Tschoerner, Tuloso-Midway High School graduate, won a Houston Endowment scholarship as a be sent to ALL members schools. of the details such as the exact schools with such new plans as tri­ contests. Grabbe, a Welch Foundation Schools having no qualified contest­ fy the meaning of the rule. school calendar a little simpler by result of his winning League debate and extemporaneous speaking number of persons, type of reserva­ mester or quarter systems, and ants will please disregard this mail­ The change proposed in Ballot providing the same date for begin­ scholar from Silverton, is a science major who received 51 semester hours credit at UT Austin by advanced tion needed, preference and second Whether girls in Conferences A, ing. ning scrimmages or games in both placement. He finished the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in two years with an "A" average. These choice of hotel or motel, length of AA and AAA should be permitted No. 2 has been proposed because time you will stay, hour of arrival to begin their scrimmages at the so many students today are taking boys' and girls' basketball in Con­ two are representative of the 1,400 students in Texas universities who have earned more than $1 million Housing Procedure and departure. same time as the boys. advantage of the "enrichment" ferences A, AA and AAA. in Texas Interscholastic League Foundation grants provided by interested individuals and Texas foundations. May we direct your attention to the following housing procedure to If you plan to arrive on Wednes­ be used in 1973. day or Thursday, May 2 or 3, ac­ Interscholastic League Only telephones will be used in commodations can be secured and Prairie View taking housing requests. At the confirmed. Once your reservation is time of the telephone conversation, confirmed for May 2 or 3, it cannot the qualified contestants and their be changed. sponsors will be booked into a hotel/ Requests for housing received Fifty Years Outstanding Service motel and CONFIRMED at that after Monday, April 30, will be han­ time, if they will be arriving on dled by the housing staff at Thomp­ Wednesday or Thursday, May 2 or son Conference Center upon your 3. arrival in Austin. In Interscholastic Competition Persons other than qualified con­ testants and their sponsors will be EDITOR'S NOTE: successful operation, professor solve the program at Prairie View. education. Yancey, working with required to make their own reserva­ This article is being published to Rogers turned over active control of They were Dr. George R. Woolfolk, the same executive committee, con­ tions directly with a hotel or motel. STATE MEET give credit to those pioneers in the the League to Dr. J. G. Osborne, Dr. C. A. Wood, Dr. J. L. Brown, tinued the League program at its The League reserves only a small Prairie View Interscholastic principal at Prairie View. As execu­ J. C. Williams, W. H. Stickney, J. J. high level for the next few years. number of rooms in each cooperat­ SPECIAL NOTICE tive secretary, Dr. Osborne, called Woods, O. J. Baker, and J. R. Pow- Dr. Evans retired in December 1966 League, who did such a fine job for ing hotel and motel. Therefore, it Again this year, the Univer­ upon the entire college staff to as­ ell. Two members of this original and Dr. Alvin I. Thomas was ap­ many years and to officially record is imperative that schools request sity Interscholastic League office activities of and M. V. College. W. R. BANKS DR. E. B. EVANS the history of this fine organization. sist in promoting the committee, H. E. Fuller pointed president of the space only for qualified contestants will mail to AL member schools the League, establishing a pattern Brown, served until their deaths in He gave full encouragement and and sponsors. Also, please keep in materials consisting of the Gen­ By CURTIS A. WOOD which persisted until the program the late sixties. emphasis to the League program mind that the majority of the hotels eral Program for the 63rd An­ was finally dissolved in 1968( ?). during its final years of operation. and motels have "two double beds The Prairie View Interscholastic nual State Meet and a list of the Advisory Council in each room" type accommodation. hotels and motels in Austin, so League was founded in 1920 under Banks' Leadership Jones Last Director It will be greatly appreciated if the name "The Interscholastic A State Legislative Advisory that winning contestants of ev­ W. R. Banks, the seventh princi­ superintendents and/or principals League of Colored Schools in Council was also an important link Herman Jones, who served as ery event will have this informa­ pal at Prairie View State College, in the administration of The Prairie Yancy's assistant director, was ele­ cooperate by beginning telephone tion at hand prior to Regional Texas". requests for lodging on Monday, The University of Texas Inter­ took over the leadership of The View League. Composed of school vated to director upon the death of Meets on April 13-14. League in 1926 and served as its ex­ principals or superintendents, the Yancey in 1968. His services came April 16, for all qualified contest­ This mailing will provide nec­ scholastic League at Austin had ants who will arrive in Austin on ecutive secretary until his retire­ Council held an annual meeting at at the time the League was grad­ essary information to all schools worked with Negro schools in a Wednesday or Thursday, May 2 or ment in 1947.