CLASP Starts for Lubbocl~ * * * 13 Schools Fountain in Drive CLASP
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CLASP Starts for Lubbocl~ * * * 13 Schools Fountain In Drive CLASP. a coined word, like Plan Set ned to the clasp of a hand, the clasp of an idea as well as a A water fountain with seven clasp bmding together, 1s be columns of water shooting 30 coming a symbol of thousands of form<'r college and uni\'er ~~~io:.i~~n=~~n;P~~7gwi:~;~o~ FEBRUARY, 1964 VOL XV, NO. 1 sity students in Texas. mark the Broadway and College _____:...._ _____________________ The imtials stand for College entrance to Texa~ Tech ir plans H.ooolciMopl.-. Loyalty Alumni Support Pro instituted by the Tech Saddle Fo.tW...... Sh•lolo9'•"' gram Tramps, men·s spirit organiza· CLASP is a cooperati\e ef lion carry through fort by the alumni of college~ Cost of the project, approxi and universities private, de mately $60,000, will be met nominational and public jom through contributions by stud ing forces to strengthen higher ents, ex-students, Lubbock bul:>i education m Texas and the nessmen and fnends of the Col Southwe~t. and at the same lege,according to James Cole, t1me, to assist their re~pective Saddle Tramp member who is alma maters. co-chairman or the project, The heart of the program is serving with Paul Dinsmore. a simullaneous, coo1·d inated fund rlriw among 1he!oie ex The fund drive was kicked students off Sunday, Feb. 16 Cole said Texas Technological College An initial contribution or is a CLASP participant and will $2.500 toward the con.,truction be acti"·e in several cities before o r the fountain "a .. made b.\ the 1963-64 school year is over tho Ex-Students A'>"ociatlon, Primarily designed to drama \Vnyne Jam~ ... eH'<'uti\·o dlre<' tize to the public the value and t or. announced last neek. needs of higher education, As the accompanying picture CLASP abo ~erves to pomt out shows, the fountain will start that private and pubhc mstitu flush with College Ave. at the tion.s can work together for a present Broadway entrance. common p1·oblem Several feet in front of the pool Through the wonderful vol will be landscaped and planted, unteer leadership that 1s being then will come the reflecting obtained by officials of the Ex pool itself, 75 feet long and 1 1 z Students Association, Texas feet deep The 30 feet high Tech is beginning to rccei\'e columns of water """ill go up more and more from the people approximately as high as Sneed who know and appreciate the Hall Focal point of the foun school the most the former tain will be the college seal 12 students feet in diameter \\·ith raised The "big campaign" for Texas bronze letters. Tech is the number of Exes to be contacted in the Lub Design is by Schmidt and Stuart, Lubbock architects. E bock drive, being held Febru ary 10-25. In describing the project X e s Cornmentmg on the Lubbock Cole, a Slaton senior, said that To Give Decal drive, Ex-Students President no indi\·idual or organization Floyd Read '48 believes this one ".·ill be credit.ed v... Jth the pro- is one of the most significant ject, but rather Jl w11l be con- T efforts ever made in Lubbock in s1dered a student e.,es- Lub- the interest of highe1· education bock cooperalJ\·e elfort. 0 Loyalty Funders and Texas Tech on th(" part of "We ho)'e to dedicate the Tech Exes. fountain at Homecoming this fall," Cole said, explaining that The members of the Execu co-chairmen of the Chapter Re- served as Chairman of the Tex- of ~~t:o~r~s~eP~:~!~~;a:t'~';:;~ a fountain was settled on after tive Board oJ the Ex-Students lations Committee. as Tech Century Club in 1963. pooling their time and talents, the idea had been talked around Association and the Texas Tech In what some officers des- During 1963 this distinguished there 1s 110 1, 00Jinl{ or rund ... the campus for more than a Loyalty Fund Trustees had a cribed as "the brightest" fi- (Continued on Pul{e 5) (Continut>d on Pnge 2) year joint all day meeting on Feb 1 It '"ill replace the present to re\"iew the actinties of 1963 ~i~~ci~lis~~:;r~~-!~ ~~~o;l~s;ci~; ,.:===--=======.;.,===.;.,=====::;,~;_--, campus marker at Broadway ancl make plans for 1964 Haskell Taylor and Wayne and College put there by the The adopt ion of an Ex-Stu James. ThC'y reported that an .... .M 'l<'" class of 1934 Henry Godeke. dent decal highlighted the meet income of $58,843.35 was re l! who was president of the '34 ing. The decal will be mailed to cei\ed with disbursements of c~ class. is enthusiastic about the all Ex-Students making a gift ~56,969.09, lea' ing a balance or E";' 0 fountain and has approved the to the Texas Tech Loyalty $1,874 26 for 1963 ~ ~ removal of his class' marker to Fund in 1964 Don Anderson "48 of Crosby c f~ ~ 0 .... another campus location The Board voted to pledge ton was appomted Cha1rman of "'z FO The college newspaper, The $2,500 as a kick-off g1ft to the the Century ('Jub Committee .. ~ Toreador, recently devoted a new entrance marker for the for 1964 Anderson immedmtely i[ "'0 special issue in the fountain campus. The Board also dis announced the appointments of !J project, and the Avalanche cussed other ways in which the Bill Collins '32, Joe Bryant, l! n ,. Journal and other Lubbock news Ex-Students Association could Paul Haskms '4A, Ralph Krebbs !!.. :::! media have been helping to for be acti\'e in supportmg this p!·o '43, and Roger Kuykendall '12, i 0z ward the idea with the public JeCt to his comm1ttee and that SP\'P • and ex-students. President Floyd Read '48, I·al other appointments would Among the college officials who presided at the meeting be announced lat<>r corrunenting on the project, appointed Ken Dowell of Dallas The Board ga,·e spec1al tri- and Bill Bales of Tyle1· to be bute to C H Cummings, \\·ho Fountain ot College Avenue Entrance TEX TAL KS - FEBRUARY, 1964 PAGE TWO Ground Is Brol{_en IGllgore For Food Complex Move On The first inhabitants, 110 ,\ppr·oxlmately 75 per-sons at· ser• tee s1nce 1956. who JOmerl bulls, have be-en moved into tended gr-oundbreaking cere the star m 194R Texas Tech's plush. nearly-com mome~ Jan. 23. for Texas Tech's. Guy 1\-1001 P, d1rectm· of resi pleted Killgore Beef Research nC\\ Ct·ntral Food Storage dence halls. ''as mash'r of cere Center near Amarillo. Bu•lding on the west sJdc of the montes. Dr R. C. Goodwm Tech pres1d£'nt spoke bnC'fl) The $500.000 Center will be campus, ''here the ground was formally dl•<hcated March 12. "brcakm,i(' m the dust- filled emphas1zmg that the ne'' food storage bmlding will 1mpro'e 1964. m conjunctiOn wtth a beef wmds as fast as 1t was turned cattle lield day and a bull sale w1th the shmcl. effic1ency of the foorl sen 1ce. Th{' new tacillly. Inca ted west Between now and then, the College officmls and resi of the Physical Pl<lnl RUJidnmg many large and small details rtcnc(" halls pcr~onnel gathPrerl on the Fhnt .\\e cutoff. 1s ex will be wrapped up by archi for the ceremony heard Mar Jlf'Cted to pay for Jtself through tects, landscape specialists, and shall Pcnmn,::-ton, v1ce president econom1e~ m 1he purchase a net contractors. for busmess affairs. describe pr·eparat1on of food 0\er a peri ~olan Barnck. heart of archi the m'\\ Central Food Storag(" od of t1me. tecture and apphed arts at Tech Buildmg as the culmination The bmldmg "ill contain and th<' College's architect on of somcthmg we'\ e needed for 33.000 square feet and enable the Center. hao:; been making )Tars the college to buy m great<'r frequent trtps bet,,.·een Lubbock Be pomted out that Tech now quantities and prO\ 1de a greater and Pantex. the tmy commun hou. cs and feeds 5 2R5 students, \ariety. Moore reported It is Ity near Am:tnllo where the Cen with 808 from a n<"\\ women's scherlulerl fnr completton nl·xt ter 1s sltuated. hall anrl 1.0:>6 from a new rnf'n's fall. ·we hav£' made the final in hall c:xpcctecl to raise the total spectton on the facility," Bar to 7.147 next fall nck said, and 1t IS e5.3entially ''Te:xas Tech could not exist complete now. There are a few at Its present Site '' 1thout the CLASP ... minor things to fmish, but noth restdencc hall system,'' h{' -.aid, (('ont innf'll rrom PaJ,:'I' I) m g of an)· lireat Importance. adding that by tall the halls will "\\'e have also apprO\'ed the be \alued at S22.4 million, and Each mst1tutmn recei\Cs gifts cattle pens <tnd I understand that all were constructed with Cor 1ts 0\\ n purposes and through 1ts own alumm solici that tht• cal tle have been trans borrO\\cd mane} that is being ferred from the old pen area to repaid wtth residence hall rev tors. Read pomted out that <:~.11 the pens at the Center'' cnul's MAILING OUT MORE than 18,000 copies of this newspaper, Pennington ga,·e special rec gifts by Tech Exes are m<1cle The Center, a two-story struc cogmtton to members or the to the ta.'\-deductlble Te>.as TEX TALKS, to ex-students tokes several days.