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VOL. L AUSTIN, TEXAS, APRIL, 1966 No. 8 Foundation Offers $111,600 In Scholarships i League Competitors 56th Annual UIL State Meet Vie For 95 Awards More than $111,600 in college scholarships is being affered to participants in League literary and academic contests this To Be In Austin, May 5, 6, 7 year. This amount includes more than 95 grants already approved. will regis The 56th Annual University except in One-Act Play, A number of $250 grants, in addition to the 95, will be awarded Interscholastic League State Meet ter 'at headquarters immediately in Austin. One-Act by Texas Woman's University. Eligibility requirements for the will host more than 2000 of the upon arrival Play participants will register on various grants are different. Applicants should study require OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR talented high school students in the the day of their contest, after the ments shown on the application material and listed below. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS state on May 5, 6, 7. company meeting at 7:45 a.m. in AUSTIN, TEXAS 78712 Texas Interscholastic League Foundation scholarship appli Precontest conferences will be Hogg Auditorium. Here they will cation blanks and full information about the grants will be held for Speech and Debate con receive instructions, sign up for re tests; Typing and Shorthand con bate, receive delegates' tickets and mailed automatically to all literary and academic entrants in tests ; Number Sense and Slide Rule pick up messages. State Meet contests. Others may write to the TILF, Box 8028, competitors and Science entrants. University Station, Austin, Texas 78712, for blanks. Tennis coaches will have a special League Breakfast No application blanks will be sent meeting. The annual League Breakfast out until after the State Meet, May Elizabeth Memorial Scholarship and Meeting of Delegates will be 5, 6, 7. Applicants must fill out $300 first year, To Interscholastic League Visitors; League Headquarters held at 7:30 a.m. Saturday in the £500, payable blanks completely, and send test year—Recipient may Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill $200 second League headquarters will be in scores required and a transcript of Texas State Univer The University of Texas is proud of the Tickets at $1.15 each, includ attend North the lobby of Gregory Gym to take Hotel. high school grades. University, Interscholastic League - its history, its present ing tax. Tickets may be offered by sity, Texas Woman's care of registration, housing, rebate Those eligible for TILF grants by College, West accomplishments, its prospects. purchased at League Head Sam Houston State and other details. It will be open at mail, virtue of having competed in the or Southwest quarters in the lobby of Gregory Texas State College 1 p.m. Thursday, May 5 and remain 1965 State Meet must write for ap State College. Preference Your honors already attained are part of your and if any are available, pur Texas open until 10 p.m. Friday hours Gym, plication blanks. planning to own record. They are also evidence of real education in chased at the door to the Crystal given to applicants will be from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. enter teaching profession. Funds Texas . open from Ballroom Saturday morning. Saturday it will remain Requirements provided by J. O. Webb of Houston. 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. At this meeting teachers, coacher Our congratulations are mingled with high All applicants for TILF awards Contest results will be posted at and administrators traditionally must meet the following require Roy Bedichek Award hopes for your future, whatever college or university bring up questions concerning all headquarters as soon as they are ments : $500, payable $250 a semester— you attend and whatever goals you seek. phases of League activities. Also determined. 1. Graduate during the current may attend any accredit the results of the April referendum Recipient yours , year. or college in Texas. Sincerely One-Act Play Registration ballot will be announced. See March ed university 2. Compete, in a State Meet liter Funds provided by TILF. Official contestants and sponsors, Leaguer for details of the ballot. ary or academic contest. 3. Submit college entrance board T. H. Shelby Scholarship Harry Ransom examination scores, or the equiva $500, payable $250 a semester— Chancellor ALTERNATE WINNER Scenes from William Gibson's The Miracle lent. Applicant must attend The Univer UIL Headquarters Worker were presented by Floydada High School actors at the 1965 4. Have complete application in sity of Texas. Funds provided by by June 1. HR:np State Meet One-Act Play Contest in Conference AA. Mrs. Jackie Gil- the league office Mrs. Dorothy Shelby Casey in List of scholarships now avail memory of her father. To Handle Housing breath directed. Pictured are Miss Lucy Cogdell as Annie Sullivan and able: Miss Rande Brown as Helen Keller. Myra S. Pryor Awards quarters on the same day they are Houston Endowment 10 awards of $100 each—For stu Falfurrias Journalist Special Phones received. W awards of $500 each—For con dents who wish to attend San An Incoming requests will be given testants in journalism, speech, sci tonio College, St. Philips College in Just for Housing a priority number and will be as ence, number sense, slide rule or San Antonio or Wharton Junior signed in order on a "first come, 8 Baseball Teams writing. Applicants must at New President of ILPC To telephone the League about ready College. Applicants must have com first served" basis. Telephone or tend The University of Texas or Carter Pettit of Falfurrias was Mirror Rated Tops housing you must call GR 1-3985 peted in the regional meets held in telegraph requests will be processed Western University. For stu elected president of the Interscho or GR 1-5040. These are direct Texas San Antonio. The Mirror, newspaper of Mon- in the same way. Please remember, To Be In Tourney dents in Conference AAA, AA, A lastic League Conference at the rated the "Top Newspaper in lines to Edwin Cain, Director of however, that each telephone or Field. or B schools only. TILF Scholarships March 25 convention. teray High School of Lubbock, was Housing. No other League mat telegraph request must be confirmed The 1966 baseball season will Disch There will be eight teams brought 2 awards of $500 each, payable Terry Long, W. B. Eay High Texas." The staff and sponsor were ters can be handled over this by the return of the housing form. again feature state championship Robert A. Welch Foundation School of Corpus Christi, was line. It is for housing only. play-offs in two conferences, AAAA to the state tournament this spring, $250 a semester—Applicants may praised for effective news coverage 10 awards of $4,000 each, payable elected vice-president. Nancy Bish No FREE housing will be and AAA, with conferences AA and four in conference AAAA and four attend any accredited college or and superior presentation. The Mir Late Requirements $1,000 a year—For contestants in op of Sam Houston High of Arling available at State Meet. A playing to regional champion in AAA. This plan has the advan university in Texas. ror is in its second year of publi In case requests for housing are speech, science, number ton was elected secretary. ships. tage of having the tournament in journalism, cation, having won the Award of received in this office after April 30, rule or ready writing. Henry Beckman Slide Rule More than 1,400 secondary school As far as possible, all schools two days, while in previous years it sense, slide Distinguished Merit, ILPC's high it is too late for the State Office to may attend any Texas Proficiency Awards journalism teachers and students At the 55th Annual State Meet, will be assigned to baseball confer has been a three-day tournament. Applicants est, last year. send you your housing assignment or university which cur attended the meeting. This was the University Interscholastic ences and districts on the same basis college 2 awards of $200 each—High Col. Joseph M. Murphy, director confirmations. The duplicates will a Robert A. Welch Foun more than double the number an League will again provide hotel and as they are assigned in basketball. AA, A Deadlines rently has school seniors in the upper 25 per of Columbia Scholastic Press Asso be held at the League housing desk are listed on and more than three times motel reservations for the sponsors It is hoped that this continuity of Conferences AA and A schools dation grant. These cent of their graduating classes ticipated, ciation, was the main speaker for and must be picked up by sponsors blank. Recipients figure. and official contestants who qualify teams in football, basketball and must decide their district champions the application who participated in the State Meet the pre-registration the convention. when you arrive in Austin on evi from the regional meets on April baseball districts will help eliminate by May 21 and they have until June must major in chemistry and slide rule contest may apply. For Outstanding Teacher 22-23 as long as rooms are avail Thursday. 11 to complete their regional cham dence a desire to engage in research additional information write to 1967 Convention the several organizational meetings and able. If you request assistance from pionship. Conference B schools must in chemistry at the graduate level Mrs. Margaret Baker, 401-C En Mrs. Margaret Caskey, journal Next year's ILPC convention will MAKE OTHER better school relationships will be Sponsors and contestants who League, DO NOT decide their district champions by in Texas. gineering Lab, University of Texas, ism teacher at Paschal High School be held in Austin on March 17-18.