DECEMBER 1956
Sherry Sinex-- Tech' s South Plains Maid of Cotton
present and pa~t
For the fifth time in the seven year history of the annual South Plains Maid of Cotton contest, the beauteous lass chosen as cotton queen of the area this year was a Texas Tech coed. She is Sherry Sinex, a blond-haired blue-eyed sophomore who won out in stiff competition with 32 other lovelies after two full days . of judging. The victory means not only a $1,000 cotton wardrobe for the South Plains Moids of CoHon- Sherry Sinex, 1956, and Revis Jor 5 foot, 7lf.l inch speech major, but dan, 1955. in addition an all-expense-paid trip to the National Maid of Cot Named first alternate was Kay ton Ball held in the Caprock Hotel ton Contest in Memphis, Tenn., Robinson of Plainview, a senior. on the eve of final competition. late this month. Second alternate is Diane Wilson A senior majoring in business There she will present a talk on education, Miss Jordan is a mem cotton as one of the automatic of Ballinger, a sophomore. Run ners up were Sharla Bickett, Ama ber of Delta Delta Delta, 1956 finalists in the national event as Homecoming Queen and a La Ven well as exhibit both the smile rillo sophomore, and Sharla Pep per Lubbock sophomore. tana beauty. Both she and the which caught the judges' atten new Maid are seriously consider tion and her 35-24-37 measure Last year's South Plains Maid ing careers as airline hostesses. ments. of Cotton, Revis Jordan, was In 1953, Anne Perkins (now . At Tech, the winner is a Zeta · chosen first alternate to the 1955 Mrs. Fred McMurry) won the Tau Alpha, hostess for Phi Kap national winner. She served as crown as a sophomore. A Kappa pa Alpha, active in speech depart official hostess during last month's Alpha Theta, she is now complet ment activities, and is a finalist local finals, which were held in ing her senior year. in elementary in the current La Ventana Beau the new Lubbock Auditorium, and education while her husband works ty Contest. A graduate of Wichi also introduced the contestants on his masters. ta Falls High School whose home and led them on a tour of the ball · De Rose Wittenburg, the 1951 is now in Longview, she has also room to open the newest addition done some modeling. to the contest - the Maid of Cot- (Contin~eg DECEMBER, 1956 3 adult education helps towns answer some searching questions in an earnest attempt to preserve the ... by W-ENDELL W~LLIAMS Executive Associa te Adult Education Program The water problem got top priority when La mesa residents met in their com· munity center last month with Tech's Dr. N. Cosey Fine. Among those partici pating in the discussion were Lee Roy Colgan IL.), (back to camera) Bob Crawley, Aubrey Boswell, Mrs. Andrew Essary, Mrs. A. W . Partain, Mrs. Henry Stafford, G.. H. Peters who is executive director of the Adult Education Dis cussion · Group Division Fred V. Barbee, and Tom Wade. A symposium of Tech faculty members at the Seybold Conference in Mineral Wells earlier this fall provided background data from their various fields related to the ex ploration of regional prob lems confronting West Tex as. Participating were Rob ert Rouse (L. ), conference coordinator; Harry Walker, economics; Casey Fine, ag riculture; George Heather, business; J. William Davis, government; Fred Craw ford, sociology; and Ernest Wallace, history . " ... Our real trouble is that we're not planting the . ministers, homemakers, city offi~ials and Chamber right kinds of crops-crops that don't take so much of Commerce representatives in over 35 West Texas water., communities in recent and coming weeks. Search " ... Suppose 85 per cent of our economy is ba,sed ing questions are being asked - and answers on agriculture and we'r.e not going to have water sought - as citizens come to grips with some of enough to continue our particular form of agricul the major problems confronting our regions. Cer ture very long at its present level. ,. If that's so, we tainly they agree that West Texas with its rich ought. to be getting some industry *nto the r egion national and human and organizational resources to take up the slack., . is a region of promise, Their only question is, if we continue to farm as we have been· farming, to " .. . . Due to mechanization and economic competi depend on agriculture as we have in the past, to twn we're getting to have fewer and bigger farms. mine our water and minerals as we have been More farmers are living in town and driving out to mining them, and to deal with community prob their farms. I'm afraid we're losing the values of lems as we have been dealing with them - will farming as a way of life., that promise fade? " ... Why are people from farms and smaller towns moving to larger citie81 I think it's because of the The encouragement of these local roundtable conveniences, and the educational, cultural and discussions is one of the services provided by the s~cial opportunities. But are our cities getting too Adult Education Program of Texas Tech in coopera ~g? Th#!re are so many things competing for our tion with the West Texas Council on Adult Educa ttme and attention that it's getting harder to have tion. In September, 25 leaders of business, agricul ~ny real family life., ture, industry and community life of West Texas . . . You know, we have to spend more money on met for two days with a like number of representa str_eets, sanitation and police services down in that tives of the Tech administration and faculty to ex netghborhood 'across the tracks' than we do in any plore ways in which Texas Tech might render in ~ther area of the same size in town., creased service to the area. Many of the problems · · . The real problem out here isn't the lack of uncovered would require the best efforts of people money. People just don't listen to new ideas throughout the region and of all kinds of organiza You've got to show them, not tell them. There tions and institutions. Chambers of Commerce have ha~ been lots of changes in farming based on Ex been particularly active in sponsoring local round peNment Station research - but not enough., tables, as have schools and civic clubs. :' · · · One thing that hurts this r egion is articles A discuss~n guide was developed out of the tn I!'ORTUNE or LIFE or this one in U. B. NEWS preliminary thinking of the September conference Whteh keep talking about this area as a potential group. It was agreed that as many citizens of as dust bowl and the 'rw,gging headache of the water many communities as possible should be encourag PTOblem.' I think we've got a pretty good r egion out ed to examine regional problems affecting them. here-goo~ people, good communities, good soil. Eight rather general topics were suggested which al These artwles scare off industry and investment, lowed community groups to state the problems as and make it hard to sell our municipal bond is- they see them and to explore aspects of the prob sues . .. , . lems which they felt most important. Water- or Statements like these and many many more are bemg. made by bankers,' farmers' , P.ducators, .(Continued on Page 6) DECEMBER; 1956 :. Local roundtables are not just "talk-fests'' from which nothing tangible results. Reports from each parti9ipating community will be made at the Here Is What You Can Do West Texas Assembly on Regional Development to be held ~t Tech.Jan. 22-23. Following the reports, ef forts will be directe~ toward examining suggested READ all you can about more of these prob approaches to so~ut10n of the various problems. lems confronting our region. Perhap~ for t~e first time these problems will be stated m a regional perspective-not how they look to the people of Pampa or Lamesa or Abilene but SEEK OUT people who have information. how they look to West Texans. Suggested solutions will also be examined through the eyes of West LISTEN to those who have opinions-and try Texas, for it is certain that some of the problems to understand why they hold those opinions. are too broad to be successfully dealt with by indivi- dual communities. · DISCUSS these problems with friends and Reports from the earliest roundtable discus neighbors, in your homes and at meetings. Get sions uniformly recommend "research" and "ed ucation"-and perhaps these two types of activity your club to study one or more issues as part will be the most immediate outcomes of the local of its regular program. and regional meetings. The West Texas Assembly on Regional Development will be asked to state ve~ specifically what kind of research is needed, WRlTc to the Adult Education ' Program, Texas and _what kind of education. What facts do we need Tech, for copies of the discussion guide which to have at hand before we can begin to decide how will help in planning your discussion. to deal with the water problem? How can we di versify the economy of the region? What character istics of housing would improve life of West Tex ATTEND the West Texas Assembly on Regional ans? Development at Texas Tech, Jan. 22-23. Write the Adult Education Program for information. With specific knowledge of the kinds of facts needed to be gathered--or sought through research The strength of a democracy is its people. The -the foundations of a "tailor-made" educational or informational program are laid. Texas Tech, future of West Texas rests with you and ·your through its various schools and departments, the neighbors. West Texas Chamber of Commerce and local Cham bers, newspapers and ·broadcasters, libraries and many other organizations and institutions can be PROMISE OF WEST TEXAS ... gin making material available to· citizens and groups in local communities. (Continued From Page 5) . . This whole study of a regional approach to the impending lack of enough water - was one regional problems may be more significant than such general topic. any of us realize. West Texas is a large region, The adaption of our agricultural system to the but only a small part of the Great Plains which conditions of a semi-arid region and the develop extend to .the Canadian Border and are equally level, ment of a broader economic base for the region treeless and semi-arid. Through9ut the Great were suggested as general problems closely related Plains Region people are watching the experiment to that of water. The question· of a potential seri in West Texas. Will we be able to size up and deal ous depletion of other natural resources such as oil with our regional problems? Will our example was thought to be especially important to certain suggest a way for people from Kansas, Wyoming parts of the West Texas region. and the Dakotas to tackle their problems? Here is an opportunity to prove to ourselves Social and cultural problems were also seen as matters of regional concern--often interwoven with and to others that certain needs can be met with economic problems. Do certain aspects of the com out turning to Washington for help-or if the prob munity life of our region show signs of deteriora lems are so broad in scope as to make them matters tion? Is the fabric of community life weakened of national concern, that the people of West Texas by the lack of understanding, acceptance and co operation of various segments and groups of our or the Great Plains can take the initiative and population? direct the development with insight based on thorough study of facts and alternatives. In such matters as the designin.g of homes, do w e need more consciously to adapt our living to Regionalism as a method of looking at problems -conditions of dry winds, occasional heavy rains, and a tool for solving them is attracting wide at '.$udden changes of temperature and dust? tention, not only throughout the United States, but A final question for exploration-are we making also in many of the large and underdeveloped areas the best possible use of local, state and federal gov of the world. If we can prove that by thinking and ernmental units, of research agencies and educa tional institutions? Do w.e have- and are we us working together we· can plan for a future which ing --: our organizational machinery to meet prob is designed for our particular region, the eyes of lems regional in scope? the world may be upon us. 6 THE TEXAS TECHSAN some basic principles of the ex-students association as set forth by its executive secretary t:he BY L. C. WALKER Alumni organizations are relatively new in the field of higher education. For so many years. a lumni or ex-students associations were mistrusted because of the alumni themselves. There were ex students with axes to grind, supposed grievances to be righted. The discontented are always vocal. Class reunions and homecomings, built around alumni frivolity and football, can be well-fertilized breeding places for hated resolutions and half-baked criti cisms. Instead of organizing ex-students for the good they can do, many times they were resisted too long. Colleges were, perhaps, mindful of another characteristic still true about the majority of ex students. Despite their exposure to critical think ing, too many of them, within a shor t span of time and after leaving an institution, revert to a ll of their old animosities and prejudices. Too many of their lives seem to be based on self-personal enjoyment and security of the status quo. They seem to r e sent even the new building on the campus and will fight like tigers to prevent some of the old tcr·mite ridden landmarks be ing torn down to make way for progress. Too many of them drink their foo tball straight and eat t heir coaches raw. texas It's no wonder that earnest administ rators for so long a time found the alumni too big a head ache and nuisance - and still often do. Their· in stinctive distrust is understandable, but alat'ming. Alumni work has a long, long way to go. But il has come a long way. One thing is certain - although our program is not ideal, it does have some sh·ong, t horough, underlying principles for its basis. We might say t:ech it this way: "The main purpose of an al umni program is to create ex-stude nt interest where none exists and to make it effective fo1· the good of the institution where it docs." We say that thP basic a im of the Texas Tech Ex-Students Associa tion is to serve the College in evcr·y legitimate manne r and at the same time to serve the indivi An elaboration on an address deliv dual and collective interest of its ex-students gen erally. ered by Mr. W ,alker at the first annual Let':; assume the interest and describe the avenue through which it is made effective. We set: joint meeting of tire college a-nd alumni four principle ways in which the ex-students may work. They are: boards of directors during Homecoming 1. To interpret the institution. 2. To steer in new st udents. activities last month. (Continued on Next Page) DECEMBER, 1956 7 THE ALUMNI ... ly supported institutions on an annual giving plan (Continued from Page 7) was unheard of. But today, more and more state colleges and universities are beginning to get into 3. To clear in advice. the fund-raising field as they recognize how much 4. To raise money. gold is in ~ 'them thar hills." In some ·quarters, this new activity on the part of the publicly supported institutions is somewhat INTERPRETATION OF THE COLLE~E resented. Many private colleges also have their backs to the wall financially. But state college Every ex-student is potentially the best inter alumni are not going to give to privately endowed preter the College can have. Who better than institutions anyway. · The truth of the matter is the exes themselves, properly orientated and in that they actually owe more to their alma maters formed, might swing the tide of public opinion to than do graduates of the privately endowed insti the point where teaching would come to be the tutions, considering the difference in tuition. Fur most respected and learned profession, where a thermore, they seem ready and anxious to give. college president would be considered an education al statesman, and where a college graduate would be due the respect of all for the sacrifice of his early productive years for the American ideal of HOW CAN THE ALUMNI getting ahead the hard way. "SELL" THE COLLEGE? NEW STUDENTS Breaking it down still further, exactly how does the alumni. serve to interpret his college? When it comes to students, the state colleges There are many ways, the most obvious of which are today more troubled with having too many are by setting good examples through personality, rather than too few. But do they get their share career and citizenship; by activities and work for of the good ones? Who but the alumni, through the alma mater; and by expressing a positive atti their own examples and their devotion to the insti tude toward the school. tution, can break down the idea that we have as The ex can translate his school to individuals, sembly line production factories where the indi to groups and to the community by speaking with vidual is lost in the masses-making it impossible prospective new students and their parents- both to obtain the same quality of an education as found individually and through local chapters; by talking in smaller, private colleges. · with business and social acquaintances; and by making their own community generally more conscious of the College through the work of or G/YING ADVICE ganized ex-student chapters. Meetings of these local chapters in any town or Where might advice better come from than city are much lllOre than just a sentimental gather those who labored in the laboratories, recited ·in ing of college graduates. A speaker from the cam the classrooms, knew the faculty-both good and pus has a wonderful opportunity to bring them bad, savored the curriculum-good and bad, and and through the.resulting newspal>er publicity, the who now, out in the market places, have daily op community at large-up to date on campus develop portunities to test their techniques and procedures ment. Advance and follow-up publicity for the against the rigorous lay and professional need for meeetings obtained by the local committees is in culture and competence in these rapidly changing itself an opportunity to put the institution into the times? stream of coriununity consciousness. Quite often, the local publicity committee, or an officer of the club, or even a special committee, can RAISING FINANCIAL AID and does make contact with the local press to see There is doubtless no need to tell you board why more news about the college isn't being used. members, who are in the front !hies of the peren The Office of Public Information here at Tech has nial battle of the budget, that colleges are insati often used local alumni help in this connection. able. And that, while publicly supported institu tions can count upon governor and legislators for what might be called the "bread and butter" needs, LEGISLATIVE ACTION the qualitative aspects can go begging unless sources of benefactions are tapped. We know that the chief burden of responsibility Too often the difference between quality and for proper relations with the governor and legisla .mediocrity for the state college lies in these poten ture falls upon the president of the college and his tial additional resources. However much or little assistants. But which of you is unable to cite sev a legislature may support research, neither it's ap eral occasions when selected influential alumni have propriations, nor what is raised from the outside, helped immeasureably to support the school on leg will ever be adequate to meet the demands. islative matters. Supposedly, also, in our actual Legislatures will and should not provide schol alumni representations in legislatures and state :arships and loan funds, so here again other sources governments, we of the state colleges have our are our only alternative. As for refinements like strongest allies. :rare libraries, art museums and scientific colleges, Further pursuance of the point of personal in we must excite the interest of our friends if we are terpretation is not necessary. You can tell me to get them. things about it of which I have never dreamed. I Until a decade and a half ago, the actual solic am trying only to bespeak the limitless possibilities itation of funds from alumni and friends of public- of the alumni as a force for good in this field. The 8 THE TEXAS TECHSAN MEET OUR DIRECTORS the third in a series on those who serve on the college board of directors i· evetts haley distinguished historian of the Southwest, J. was its president in 1950-51, and is a membet· of its A Evetts Haley of Canyon, who has been a direc executive committee and a trustee of the National tor of Texas Tech since Feb. 19, 1955, has writ Cowboy Hall of Fame. ten 10 nationally recognized books of history and He returned to the cow countt·y in 1936 after biography, including The XIT Ranch of Texas and serving as a member of the department of history at Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman, and the University, and became general manager of received numerous awards of merit in scholarship more than 300,000 acres of range operations in and writing. Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Born in Belton in 1901, he grew up and graduat In 1939, he moved to Houston to be executi\·e ed from high school in Midland, and then began assistant to general range manager of the. largest punching cows there at $30 a month. After be individually owned ranch in the state. For the coming a top cowhand, he went to college- earn past five years, he has been a working cowboy ing his BA from West Texas State and his MA from operator of his own ranches on t he Pecos, Canadian the University of Texas. and Arkansas River ranges. After graduation, Haley joined the Panhandle Long active in state political circles, Haley was Plains Museum at Canyon as field secretary. He a states-rights candidate for governor this year. ex-studen ts, in my judgement, are the most impor right for these colleges to attempt to do something tant phase of the entire program of public relations. more. Not to make such an effort to meet the com petition would be tantamount to saying that the HOW DO YOU INFLUENCE state schools are merely designed for run-of-the mill Joe Colleges while the privately-endowed in PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS? stitutions are for "quality folks." There are mor·e than enough "quality folks" to go at·ound. There are those who aver that t he state col leges must be careful in their competition for stu dents with the private colleges and universities. ALUMNI SCH10LARSHIPS It seems to me that when the taxpayers invest millions of dollars in laboratories, plant and equip The alumni should be made more keenly inter ment, and then staff those facilities with good and ested in student recruitment. We should encour often great teachers, that the high school students age our alumni chapters to set up scholarship com of the state have a right to know what they are and mittees and to be on the alert for bright prospects. how they serve. This facet of the program is fast gaining momen tum at Tech, where more and more chapters are granting one or even two scholarships annually. AIM HIGH I suspect that more students pick their respec tive colleges on the say-so-or the example--of There should be no over-riding tendency to neighborhood alumni than in any other way. All hide one's light under a bushel; indeed, with tact, the more is the need for well-informed, interested the state colleges have a perfect right to go after exes out in the field spreading the gospel. But t his some of the top-flight potential agriculturists, missionary work must be organized, well-planned chemists, engineers, etc. Despite the fact t hat and controlled! most state college students are on partial scholar ships due to low tuition rate, I think it perfectly (Continued on Page 20) DECEMBER, 1956 9 Bevy of Beauties A slightly bedazzled group of judges finally managed to choose 20 finalists in the 1957 La Ventana Beauty Contest recently . after a long afternoon spent observing the charms of some 290 of the most comely coeds on campus. Now ready for even more critical study to determine the "fairest of all" are, seated: Anne M. Gordon, Sandra Hendrix, Bobbie Carroll, Caroline Wood, Enna McDaniel, Sherry Sinex, Shirley Kee, Beth Davidson ond Lynn Condiff. Standing: Mary Jane Miller, Marilyn Warren, Sharla Bickett, Simone Smith, Ann James, Barbara Hudson, Averill Brinkman, Revis Jordan, Ann Denny, Anny'ce Gibbs and Sandra Shields. THE TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION By William H. Crenshaw Director of Development Three major problems confront tributable to negligence or indif three principal sources: govern ing higher education have been in erence on the part of higher edu ment, business and industry, and dicated in a series of discussions cation to the realities, but to the the individual. in this column over past months inherent desire, stemming back to Both national and state govern as the college and university pon the passage of the Morrill Act in ments are showing increased con der the solution to handling a 1860, to provide every youth of cern for higher education dollar heightening plateau of students. the nation the opportunity of a needs, with the national govern The problems of teacher shortage college education at the lowest ment showing the greater con and inadequate physical plant and possible cost. cern. Both are increasing their facilities have been considered. Now, however, the "facts of life" support for higher education but, Possible solutions and alleviating have caught up with us, and must as yet, in a far too small degree measures have been looked at. But, be realistically faced by all who to so}ve the problem. The nation the solutions mentioned or allevi are concerned with keeping edu al government, thus far, has di ating measures suggested cannot cational opportunity alive in this rected its financial aid to the sec totally solve the problems involved. nation. Higher education is con ondary and elementary level of In fact, many-if not most--of cerned because of its desire to con~ education, with its assistance to these measures cannot be carried tinuingly afford- its educational higher education restricted basi into effect unless the third major processes to those students who cally to loans and research grants. problem confronting higher edu desire them. The student is con Many educators are fearful of fed cation is solved. That is the prob cerned because the. world increas eral aid on the premise that such lem of additional money with ingly demands that he equip him aid may bring about government which to implement the carrying self through those processes. The interference in, and/ or domination out of solutions and alleviating parent is concerned because he of, academic freedom. · measures in the area of teacher wants his child equipped to take State. governments, of course, shortage and inadequate physical his place in the world and to con have directed their aid to their plant and facilities. tribute more to the world than he particular state-established insti Rising costs have affected high has contributed. The parent also tutions of higher education. And er education just as such costs wants· his child to be able to rea state governments in many areas have affected agriculture, business, lize a greater economic security in have been fearful of federal aid of industry and the personal lives of the world. any sort for fear of losing much of each of us. Higher education has Business and industry are con their control over their institut not been immune from this effect cerned because their success and ions to the federal government. as many people seem to believe. continuance depend on their abi Both federal and state govern And, the impact of rising costs lity to employ better educated and ments have had to face the prob oft higher education has been felt qualified people. Increasing tech lems of increasing taxation and far more greatly than by other nology in ·business and industry have perhaps been held back to areas of economic life because of necessitate employees with a high some extent by these problems. the, perhaps, traditional reluc er degree of technical skills. Gov The over-all result of these fac tance on the part of higher edu ernment ·is concerned because, as tors has been that government cation to pass on the increasing has been said, "What happens to support of any type has been slow costs of education to the student; . American education will eventual in materializing and has certainly and the traditional tendency of ly happen to America." not keep pace with increasing state governments to lag from Constantly we read of the con costs. four to ten years behind current cern of our national government Business and industry have only needs in dollar support of its insti over the increasing shortage of in the last few years begun to tutions of higher learning. think and act to support higher scientifically and technically edu education to any real degree. The Perhaps higher education is at cated people - people who are extent of this support, while in fault, and somewhat to blame needed to keep this country abreast and ahead of o t h e r creasing each year, was approxi for the financial predicament in mately $500 million last year, and which it now finds itself, because world powers in this increasing less in preceding years, and cer it has not faced up to the realities scientific world in which we live. of increasing costs and more ag Estimated dollar needs, if high tainly is far short of the amount gressively pursued their solution. er education is to take care of the necessary to keep pace with in Yet even if this statement be fully rising level of students, is $50 bil creasing costs. In 1954 corporate true, the fault or blame, if it be lion by 1970. Now, where are these support of higher education that, would seem not so much at- dollars to come from? There are (Continued on Page 16) 12 THf TEXAS TECHSAN oris with bill holmes Good news in every respect came A sidelight: Tech's first vote as "Monday's first effigy was hung from the first Southwest Confer a conference member came upon during the first basketball game ence business meetings ever at the subject of expansion, whether of the season, making it quite ap tended, as members, by Texas the Univer sity of Houston would parent that the boys that strung Tech representatives. be invited to become a member. up the dummies didn't do it out Most significant news was the How Tech's vote went has not of school loyalty. Football boys granting to Tech's faculty repre been disclosed. The motion did not left the basketball game to cut sentative the right to vote in the carry. the effigy down. executive business sessions. It had As you no doubt r ead, the cam "Surely our memories are not not been expected before 1960. pus fad that replaced panty raids so short that campus-wide opinion To the average fan, the big news fi nally has hit the Texas Tech favors hanging effigies- and what may have been the fact that Tech's campus, a nd DeWitt Weaver , Tex allegedly well-educated person first conference competition will as Tech's athletic director and wHJ openly subscribe to such mob be THIS spring, not next year. It head football coach, was hanged in psychology? will be in the freshman division effigy while the school's sports "If campus-wide opinion favors of the conference track meet at fans were attending the basketball the ridicule of the coach that has Austin in May. game with Kansas State. The fact put Tech on the football map, More good news came when the that several footballers, including then Weaver should have a per conference voted to allow the Doug Duncan, Carlos Lerma, Bill fect right to ha ng an effigy of his Tech golfers who won the Border Turnbow and Tim Stone hurried own - one of the Tech student Conference the past two years to from the Coliseum to cut down the body." participate in the 1957-58 school effigy is significant, as in this Hanging's quite a sport, but it year. Of course, all sports ex editorial in the Toreador by Editor can't have the appeal of that ex cept football {and, possibly, base Ross Short: tra-curricular activity of the 19- ball) were slated to title competi "Anybody know where the effi 30's- goldfish swallowing. The tion next year anyway, but there gy-hangers have been hiding dur guppy gulpers got their pictures was some doubt as to whether the ing Texas Tech's recent rise to in the papers, a t least. golfers who participated as fresh football fame? SIDELIGH TS men would be allowed a fourth "They didn't ma ke a n appear Tech 's footballers came up with year of varsity play. ance when the '53 Raiders set the one national championship, any Under Border Conference rules, national scoring title, turned in a way. A picture of guard Ray How the freshmen of 1954-55 played as near perfect season record and ard was judged t he best in Ameri a varsity team throughout the sea trounced Auburn in the Gator can College Public Relations As son. Since they played as a com Bowl. sociation competition in the "of plete team throughout, the N. C. "They remained in hiding while fensive lineman" category. And A. A. had given them the right to '54 and '55 Weaver-coached elev Ray's the fellow who made the play a fourth year in its post-sea ens continued to bring home a All-Border Conference DEFEN son tournament, but there was the large majority of victories a nd SIVE platoon two years. possibility that the Southwest Con keep Tech's standing as the Last year Jack Kirkpatrick's ference would rule them ineligible "scourge of the Border Confer picture was considered the best in for a fourth varsity year. ence." the "quarterback" divison. Jim Tennis was in the same boat, "And where was the 'lynch Laughed took both pctures. but the conference very kindly mob' when work on Weaver's Speaking of quarterbacks, Jerry voted that athletes entering Tech part helped to make Tech the new Johnson called the plays this year before the fall of 1956 could fin est member of the Southwest Con for Ft. Hood and was elected team ish out their play ... at least as ference? Where were they when captain for the Tankers in their to the number of years of com the Raiders put the TCU Frogs Shrimp Bowl game with Bolling petition . . . under the require to shame a couple of games ago? AFB. Jerry lettered at Tech in ments of the Border Conference. "These fair-weather frie nds are 1951-54. He set a Tech total of Little wonder, then, that Tech's probably among the same group fense record in 1952 and a Gator representatives, Dr. J. William t hat stays away from the pep-ral Bowl record for a punt return in Davis, Athletic Director DeWitt lies - the same bunch that re the January, '54, game with Au Weaver, and Jimmie Wilson ath fuses to get into the spirit of the burn. letic business manager, came' back football season or any other col Texas Tech players will be from Dallas with added enthusi lege activity- the "ball-and-chain" watching a nd listening to the bowl asm for their colleagues from fel which has been dragging at Tech's low Southwest Conference schools. school spirit for years. {Continued on Page 20) DECEMBER, 1956 13 Techsans In Service Col. JB£k S. Jenkins, '37, is sta AFB now is 1st Lt. Robert E. Tin of Technology in St. Louis. He was tioned in the Pentagon where he ney, '51, BS in ag education. He formerly with the Camouflage Re is assistant deputy director of de was formerly stationed at Edward search Center of the Air Force for velopment planning. A mechanical Gary AFB, San Marcos, and serv three years. Capt. Douthit, a mem engineering grad, he recently made ed a tour of duty in Korea. He ber of the Society of Sigma Xi, a trip back to this vicinity to visit lives with his wife, the former Seismological Society of America, his parents and purchase a farm. Wanda Jo Hubert, and their two Society of Exploration Geophysi Mrs. Jenkins, nee Brunette B. Har children in Reese Village. cists and American Geophysical per, received a BA in speech in Palmer P. Willis, '52, BS in ani Union, is married to the former 1944. mal husbandry, has been promoted Billie Sue Brown. They have two A 1956 finance grad, Sam Camp to specialist third class with the Children-Leslie, 4, and Debra Sue, Jr., has been cominissioned an en Army's 586th Quartermaster Sub 1. sign in the Navy after completing sistence Supply Company in Japan. a 16-week officers candidate school He is a member of Alpha Chi. · Seventeen Tech$ans Vo+ed at Newport, R. I. He is now assign Maj. Carl G. Schneider has re ed ·to the Navy Supply Corps cently been assigned as wing. gun Professional !registration School at Athens, Ga. nery officer with the Air Force Seventeen exes were voted reg Lt. Carl P. Rodolph is now serv in Bitburg, Germany, and is now istration as professional engineers ing with the Corps of Engineers flying the F-100 super-sabre air at a recent meeting of the Texas in Vicksburg, Miss., afte!-" return craft. He was an agriculture ma State Board of Registration for ing from three and one-half years jor with the Class of '49. Professional Engineers. with the 39th Engineer Construc A 1955. graduate, William A. Included in the group were elec tion Group in Ka.rlsruhe, Germany. Tanner, is a clerk in Company G trical engineering grads Sam R. Since receiving his degree in in of. the. 7th Infantry Division's 31st Hunter, '51, J. Milton Tucker Jr., dustrial management and join Regiment in Korea. A private first '52, Douglas· F . Parker, '49, Calvin ing the service in 1952, he has ~1- class, he received basic training at M. Kunkel, '54, Paul R. Tingle, so been stationed in Ft. Belvoir, Ft. Ord. Calif. Va., and Ft. Polk, La.' He is mar '50, and Charles S. Mann, '50. Ex-Techsan Thomas M. Blain, Mechanical engineering grads C. ried and has two sons. now an Army corporal, has com Formerly Air Force supply offi B. Heith, '51, S. H. Johnson, '51, pleted guided missile school at Ft. and W. W. Lauderdale, '47; archi cer at Cheju-Vo, Korea, 2nd Lt. Bliss. He has been in the service Hubert D. WaddlU, '55, BA in since·April. tecture grads G. R. Billingsley, '50. and B. Rea Nesmith, 50; and civil journalism, is convalescing in Ita Army specialist third class Karl huke, Japan, after being hospital engineering grads Travis Tadlock W. Vinson, who is an assistant Jr., '50, and Hal M. McElya, '50. ized for some time with a severely team chief and plotter with the infected thumb.' anti-aircraft unit at Ft. MacAr Industrial engineering grad J.P. A non-grad who is now a colonel thur, Calif., has been promoted to Settle Jr., '48, petroleum engineer in the Air Force has a key posi private first class. He attended ing grad T. Alan Nelson, '47, and tion in an Air Force drive to re Tech before entering the service. H. M. Ables and T. C. Penn, who duce flying accidents. Chairman of A member of Phi Kappa Psi were not listed in Association the recent second Worldwide Con while at Tech, Lt. Tommy D. Nea files. ference of USAF Flying Safety therlin has been transferred from Officers held at Keesler AFB, the Army's 490th Military Govern Biloxi, Miss., was Col. J. C. Bailey. ment Company to the artillery MAID OF COTION ... Second Lt. Eldon L. Smith Jr., school at · Ft. Sill, Okla. He was (Continued from Page 3) '56, has been graduated from a 14- graduated from Hardin-Simmons week officers basic course at the Maid, graduated in 1952 with a BS last August. in home economics. Also a Ko Army's engineer school in Ft. Bel · Agronomy grad Max von Roed voir, Va. A member of Phi Gam Shari and La Ventana Beauty, er, '54, an Air Force lieutenant, is she lives in Lubbock with her ma Delta, he entered the service receiving his discharge after four in July. husband, animal husbandry grad years of service and will be asso uate George Belcheff Jr., '51. Serving with the 7th Infantry ciated with the Von Roeder Seed Division in Korea is 2nd Lt. Gor Farms in Snyder. He has been sta The first Maid of Cotton chosen don L. Collins, '55. A member of tioned at San Marcos. Mrs. Von for the South Plains was Ruth Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Al Roeder is the former Ann Richard Brunson, who was a junior home pha at Tech, he is now a platoon son, a Tech beauty and home ec ec major in 1950. No further in leader in the division's 31st regi major. formation on her is available. ment after completing basic train Capt. Nathan Douthit, who re Other winners have been Vir ing at Ft. Benning, Ga. · leived his MS in geoyhysies, is ginia Mitchell in 1954 and Bever An instructor pilot at Reese teaching at the Air Force Institute ly Peck in 1952. 14 THE TEXAS TECHSAN our bon - and wide, '29 Geology graduate J. T. Gist, Nortex Equipment Corp. and Nor K <>nnt>th E. Condray, BBA who r ecently suffered a tex Drilling Corp. He has been as '48 sociated with Nortex for the past in accounting, has accepted heart attack while working in the position of sales engineer· for Turkey, was due to arrive back in year following his resignation the P anhandle Area of Peerless the States this month. With Tide from the law firm of Lyne, Pump Division, with offices in water Oil Co. assigned to the San Blanchette and Smith, where he Amarillo. Francisco office, he will make his had practiced oil a nd gas law home in Hayward, Calif. since his graduation from the Uni '49 Baylor University has an- versity of Texas Law School. nounced the promotion of '33 Cecil G. Ke rsey, who has Lannes Hope from director of Ko both his BBA and MBA '4) A recent visito: to the kernot Dormitory, a position he from Tech, is new gener al pas campus was ammal hus has held for five years, to assistant senger agent of the Chicago, Bur bandry graduate Wesley Roddy. dean of men and director of fresh lington and Quincy Railroad in He is a farmer in Hale County men men students. Hope has a BA Chicago. He was formerly manager with 800 acres of irrigated land in education ft·om Tech, MA from of mail express and baggage. and 2,000 head of cattle. the University of Texas, a nd is curren tly working on his PhD. '37 Former Red Raider star '42 Jeff and Kitti McCa.Uum tackle Bert A. Williams, Coffey are living in Dal Clifford Mayo has become a gen who is now a salesman for Keesby las now, where he is on the area eral evangelist of the Evangelical & Madison, manufacturers of as staff of Southwestern Bell Tele Methodist Church a nd a co-pastor bestos products, is recovering from phone Co. as the traffic studies of t he Evangelical Methodist a heart attack suffered recently engineer. Coffey is a n English Church in Lubbock. A marketing while on a selling trip to New graduate and his wife received her graduate, he lives with his wife Mexico. d2gree in speech. and three children in Abernathy. Denzil B t>Yers has recently re '38 Victoria Co u n t y School signed as county attorney of Col superintendent R . C. Pick linsworth County, and moved to ett, BA in education, is included Lubbo::l< to join the Jaw firm of in the new edition of "Who's Who Huff and Splawn, which special in the South and Southwest." Mar izes in civil practice. He served ried and the father of six children, in t he Army during World Wat· Pickett has held his present posi II, and studied at Tech before tion for the past 16 years. graduating from the U. of T. Law Donald :Qenry, BBA in manage School. ment, has been appointed secre \Varrt> n E. Busch is now operat tary of International Petroleum ing a real estate business in Twin Co., Ltd., of Cora l Gables, F la. Falls, Idaho. A marketing major Since joining the firm in 1953, he at Tech, he is married and has had been it's advisor on organiza a dau ~ htcr, Kathy. tion planning and management de 1 so KPnnt>th Smith is now ser- velopment prior to the new ap ving as administrative a ide pointment. A lieutenant colonel in to the cit y manager of Waco. He the Marine Corps reserve and a has a BS in mechanical e ngineer member of the Society for the Ad ing. vancement of Management and the American Management Associa Jamt>s P. (Jim) Caudle, 1950 tion, Henry was previously with a civil engineering grad, is office management consulting firm work engineer with Tidmore Construc ing with oil companies in South tion Co. of Lubbock, which r e America, Europe and the Middle cently contracted the $2 million East, Charles J. Dyar, a non-grad, has River Oaks Shopping Center in been promoted by Delta Air Lines Abilene. '40·William (Bill) Parks, vice from sales manager in Tulsa to Lee R. McDaniel is now living president and gener al Shrevepor t sales manager. Dyar at Meritt Island, Fla., a nd work counsel for Nortex Oil & Gas attended Tech a nd served four ing at nearby Patrick AFB. A Corp., has recently been appointed years in the Air Force before join senior engineer with North Amer- to the board of directors of the ing the company in 1946. He is company and its subsidiaries, married and has two daughters. (Continued on Next Page) DECEMBER, 1956 15 BEAR OUR BANNERS .•• 156 Bob Dietz is now working superv1smg work of 16 depart (Continued from Page 15) toward his d6ctor's degree ments of boys and girls four and five years of age in the church's !can Aviation, he was an electri in physical chemistry at North western University under an Ab Sunday school and training union. cal engineering major at Tech. She previously conducted a kinder Agriculture grad James A. Bur bott Pharmaceutical Foundation Fellowship. He graduated from garten in her home. ran recently received a national Shell Pipe Line Corp. has an award for outstanding achieve Tech with honors and has served three years in the airborne in nounced the promotion of ex-Tech ment in interior design for his san William H. Craddock to the work in the lobby of the Clovis fantry. His wife, the former Bee Chinn, is also an ex. position of superintendent of it's High School. Occasion of the pre Wasson-Hobbs division. With the sentation was the 1956 Institu Samuel G. Evetts, electrical en company for 26 years, he was for tions Interiors awards program gineering grad with both · his BS merly division superintendent of reception in New York City. and MS degrees, is studying at the Bayon Pipe Line system. Charles M. Cole, BS in Stanford on his PhD as a recipient A business education major back 151 of a Lockhead Missile System Ad . petroleum engineering, is in the late '30's, Norman Brewer vanced Study Award. He is also a today is in the insurance business petroleum engineer for El Paso part-time employee at Lockheed's Natural Gas Co. in Jal, N. M. He with his own agency in Brecken Palo Alto, Calif. plant in the elec ridge. He and his wife, the former was formerly with Aztec Oil and tronic department. Gas Co. Alice Kate Elliott, also an ex, have Morris McClendon bas assumed John 0. West, who for the past two children, Bettie Ann, 12, and the duties of Civilian Personnel two years has done advanced grad Norman, 15 Director at Clovis AFB, N. M. The uate study here, is now assistant County agent of Leon County McClendon's and their son, Phil professor of English at West Texas in east Texas is Mrs. Leola Sides, lip, were at Ellington AFB, Tex., State College. BS in home economics. Mrs. Sides before their move. Alton Slagle, BS in ag econom also has her MS from Columbia. ics, has been named first recipient 152 Petroleum engineering of the Major General Julius Ochs graduate, John Lyndel Adler Memorial Scholarship in T.ECH FOUNDATION .•• Best, is employed by Phillips Pe journalism at Columbia University. (Continued from Page 12) troleum Co. at Borger as a natural At Tech last year, Slagle was amounted to 1.57 per cent of the gas engineer. His wife, Mary Ann managing editor of the Toreador, allowable five per cent granted by Holt Best, graduated in 1951 in president Of the Ag Eco Club and the federal government. This per ed1,1cation. They have two children, a member of Press Club, Aggie centage of giving was to all causes, Laura Lynn and Jimmy. Club and Tech Vets. that is, charity, education and re Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Callaway Jack Neal Anderson, a ligio'il. Of the "gift dollar" ex have recently returned to this pended by corporations, · in 1954, country after spending three years NeG business major, is a pub 70 cents went to charity; 20 cents in England. She is the former lic accountant in Mabank. He to education and 10 cents to re Martha Pace, BBA in commercial served with the Air Force Signal ligion. teaching. They are now making Corps in World War II. He and his This pattern of support from their home in Troup, Tex. · wife have two daughters, Marsha business and industry arises not After completing duty in the Air Ann ~nd Pamela Sue. from indifference so much as from Force, Earle (Buddy) Alniy, · is Carl M. Gardner, who attended uncertainty. The signs of awaken employed by the First National Tech for three years, has been ing interest on the part of busi Bank of Ft. Worth. He is engaged elected supervisor of Zone 3 of the ness and industry in the support in a lengthy training program fol Nolan-Aquilla Soil Conservation of higher education are most en lowing which he will be in the Service. He is also. a Polled Here couraging. Yet, many businesses correspondent bank division. ford Breeder in Whitney. and many industries do not know 153 Instructor in ceramics for Lynn W. (Dunk) Duncan, has just how to give to -education. the adult education divis been promoted from assistant They are seeking and probing for ion of Amarillo College this year cashier to cashier of the Post First the best way in which to make is Arthur E. Vaughan, associate National Bank. Duncan started his their dollar support most helpful architect and engineer with the banking work as bookkeeper in the and useful to education. As these firm of Edward N. Bliss. Vaughan Winters bank ways emerge, increasing support has a degree in architecture from George D. Duey, industrial engi will be forthcoming. Tech. neering grad, is assigned to work Individual giving, long establish ed as a supporting means for Nell Stovall, BBA in man- in the aluminum plant for Alcoa 154 Rpchdale Works. higher education, is changing in agement, has been promo Dr. Maurice R. Wingo, former pattern. No longer are large en ted to test administrator for the pre-med major at Tech, has been dowments the pattern. In 1954 Texas Employment Commission in personal giving to the three causes Waco. · appointed to the faculty -of Tulane University Medical School at New allowed by the federal government 155 Raymond Mitcham, now Orleans, where he will teach jun amounted to 1.2 per cent of the living in Wichita Falls, is ior and senior medical students in allowable 30 per cent. associated with Harris & Kille radiology. He is also taking a resi Certainly it must be said that brew Architects. His wife, the dency in radiology there. none of the three sources of sup former Patti Harris, is speech New beginner director at Lub port can be expected to meet the therapist for the Cerebral Palsy bock's First Baptist Church is Mrs. entire burden, nor should they be, Treatment Center there. They Georgia A. (L. M.) Taylor, an ele for all have an equal stake in have two sons, David and Mark. mentary education grad. She is (Continued on Opposite Page) 16 THE TEXAS TECHSAN I Chapter Chatter I NEW ORLEANS Nov. 23 in t he Sherman Wood spaghetti supper. Coach Robison m en's Circle Home. also spoke at this session a nd a A new chapter was organized Awards in a bridge series went when a group of exes living in the Red Raider football fil~ was to Dr. and Mrs. Vincent Stanphill shown. New Orleans area m et Nov. 19 in of Denison and W. E. Rainwater. NORTH PLAINS the Metairie Playground Gym. A Refreshments were served by the 1952 graduate, Jeffrey Morris, was social committee, which is headed More than 35 exes were pres<:>nt elected president; Frank Spitler, by Mrs. Stanphill assisted by Mrs. when the North P lains chapter '41, is vice president; and Mrs. Emory P ayne. organized Oct. 3 at the Hot('} Sneed in Dumas. Billie Grace Webb Howell, '46, is The chapter's next meeting is secretary. slated in February, when a Red Officers elected include: H. A. The group will hold its second Raider Club will be organized for Tuck Jr., president; Bill McGloth meeting Jan. 8 in t he home of Mrs. a five county area. Coach DeWitt lin, vice president; Betty South Howell. Weaver will be principal speaker ern, secret ary-treasurer; Mert HOUSTON for the occasion. Keeney, reporter; and Gene Al A branch group of the Houston CORPUS CHRISTI ford, Dick Buckles and Bill Kil chapt er, the Texas T ech Women's More t han 75 persons attended lingswort h, directors. All but Bridge Club, sponsored a bridge a buffet dinner and dance given Buckles, who is from Stamford, luncheon Nov. 16 to benefit the by Corpus Christi exes Nov. 16 in are Dumas residents. chapter's scholarship fund. the T errace Room of the Robert Guest speaker for the dinner Co-chairmen for the event, held Driscoll Hotel. Alumni from all session was Association field sec in the Carnation Dairy clubroom, over the southern part of the state retary Dennis Bingham, who out were Mrs. R. A. Lohse and Mrs. were invited. lined the necessary steps in form Gilbert W. Knox. Mrs. Ralph B. Dick Godeke is president of the ing a chapter and sum marized Cantrel , chairman of the scholar group. recent developments at the school. ship fund, assisted, and Mrs. Har ARLINGTON vey M. Bjornass was a special A holiday dinner m eeting is guest. slated by Arlington Dec. 28. This Final Decision On Tech's TY GRAYSON COUNTY is t heir first major session since Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Alexander chapter members met Oct. 20 at Channel Is Due From FCC of Sherman were hosts to the Meadowbrook Park for a "Witches Grayson county cha pter meeting Final decision as t o whether or Brew." not Texas Tech will have an edu A "witches brew" stew was cational television o u t l e t on TECH FOUNDATION ... served and a football movie shown. Channel 5 is in the hands of the Basic ingredients for the stew (Cont inued from Page 16) Federal Communication Commis were furnished by the chapter, sion in Washington. higher education. Nor, could busi with each family present bring ing several cans of vegetables to The application, actually a move ness and industry or the indivi to reclassify the proposed station be added t o the pot. dual meet the full need by giving from a commercial outlet to one their full tax-allowable amount; FT. WORTH of educational value, is the second although such giving would go far Alumni in Ft. Worth got to attempt made by Tech. gether Oct. 25 at the Pioneer towards solving the dollar prob The first was made in October lem. Palace on Will Rogers Memorial Grounds for a chili supper and of 1954 and was rejected by FCC However the problem is to be officials. solved, it seems inescapable that dance, according to a report from if the three sources of support de president R. E. Sparks Jr. A $1 ad "If Tech's petition is approved," sire to maintain our systems of mission fee was charged. says M. L. Pennington, vice presi higher educat ion at a level of ef FLOYD COUNTY dent and T ec h comptroller, ficiency which will permit the Basketball coach Polk Robison Channel 5 will serve both students opportunity to all students who told Floyd County exes about the a nd the general public in many desire a college education of qual outlook for the College in regard educational ways." ity thus producing college-edu to athletics and scholarships when Plans call for the station to be cated · students in quantity and they m et Nov. 1 for their annual set up in a manner in which it quality - t hese sources are going pre-homecoming banquet. The din can operate on both open and to have to be willing to "pay the ner session was held in the Lock closed circuit. The closed circuit cost" by m aking available to high ney High School cafeteria. will be in operation for Tech stu er education the dollars it will Atte nding were Mssrs. and dents only. need to provide the adequate and Mmes. Ned Bradley, Gene Probas Tech's petition to the FCC con competent teaching, and the ade co, J. S. Hale Jr., A. L. Holt, J er tains an inventory of all available quate physical plant a nd facilities ry Cooper, Ralph Johnston and TV resources on the campus, ac necessary to turn out its quality R. C. Mitchell; Miss Alic<:> Latta cording to Dr. S. M. Kennedy, product- the student. and Mrs. Dorris J ones. chairman of the Radio-Television In the next issue of t his column, In October, members of the Committee. The information was we will look at some of the ways group met in t he ballroom of the obtained from a questionnaire sent in which this can be done. Hilton Hotel in Plainview for a to faculty members. DECEMBER, 1956 17 Leading Juniors, Class of 1978 Seniors, Nominated Mr. and Mrs. Arlis Ratliff are The couple, who graduated in 1939 parents of a baby girl born Oct. and 1946, respectively, also have For 'Who's Who' 14 in Big Spring Hospital. Named two other sons, Bob, 9, and Paul Laura Maud, she tipped the scales 2¥.!. Twenty-two Tech students have at 8 lbs., 2 ozs. Mrs. Ratliff, the been nominated for the 1957 former Barbara Lu Currie, who Capt. and Mrs. Lowrey H. Spen was charter president of Delta cer have a new daughter born Nov. Who's Who Among Students in 5 at Brooke Army Hospital, American Universities and Col Delta Delta and Miss Texas Tech in 1954, received a BS in eiemen Brooks AFB, San Antonio. Named leges. tary education. She was a third Debra Kay, she weighed 7 lbs., 1 The names were revealed today grade teacher in Garden City dur oz. Spencer, '48, BBA in market ·by Dean of Studert Life James ing 1954 and 1955 and is now a ing, is stationed at the base with G. Allen, chairman of the selec substitute. Her husband is a ranch the 1st' Air Evacuation Group. tion committee. er in Glasscock County. Carol Lynn is the name chosen by Charles and Claudia Maple for Included are Frances Allison, A son, Mark Allan, weighed 7 their daughter born Sept. 9 in Fay Wallis F.· · Cham~ion , James G. lbs., 10 ozs., when he was born etteville, N. C. A 1954 journalism Cloyd, Donald A. Eiliott, Hugh R. Nov. 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. grad, Maple has recently been dis Fewin, Eddie Henson; ·Scott Hick Crawford II. A 1963 ag education charged from the army and is now man, Joanne Holmes, Juanita graduate, the new father is now a reporter with the Amarillo Globe Kiesling, Joan Knight, Lu Anne farming in Rockwall. He is affili News. His wife, the former Clau McNeill, Max Merrell, Donald ated with Phi Kappa Psi. dia Martin, was also a journalism Pendelton, Mary H. Randal, Eldon Carl Raymond Zapffe was born major. J . Reynolds, Rrchard L ..Ridgway, Nov. 30 in Dallas' St. Paul Hospit Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ma Edwina Schovajsa, Barbara L. al to F red and Nina Byrom Zapffe. Smith, Charles L. Strehli; Alice haffey of Galveston are parents of Wells, Mariana Wilson, and Wal a new son whom they named Ke lace Wilson. vin Eugene. Mahaffey, who has The committee itself was com both bachelors and masters de · Qualifications considered for the posed of two student representa grees in chemistry from Tech, is selection...... included scholarship, tives from each division, headed by Dean Allen. Non-voting· mem a research associate at the Uni leadership, character, and contri versity of Texas Medical Branch. bution to the student body. A 1.65 bers were Dean of Men Lewis A second son was born to Ted overall scholastic average was Jones and Dean of Women Flor and Shirley Maggart Cummings ence Phillips. necessary for nomination. Aug. 1. He was named David Law · ·The names of 142 students were Students forming the committee rence. Their other son, Steven, is -subinitted by deans and · faculW were <;hosen with the approval of two. Cummings has his BS in pe of the collegE;'s five divisions, ·and their academic dean, and, as is troleum engineering and his wife by student members of the cOm traditional, will remain anony received her BA in speech. They mittee. . mous. are living in New York. HoLIDAYs -~-iday Fruit Ice Cream 18 THE TEXAS TECHSAN From The Office Of The Texas Tech Ex -Students Association L. C. WALKER, Executive Secretary DENNIS BINGHAM, Field Secretary NANCY KAISNER, Publications Editor CAROLYN CALVERT, Office Clerk MARIE CARTER, Office Clerk BONNIE PILES, Stenographer THE ALUMNI ..• HOW TO HANDLE THE (Continued from Page 9) MONEY PROBLEM? HOW CAN THE ALUMNI How can the alumni raise funds for the col EXPRESS THEIR IDEAS? lege? They can do it through an active, working alumni fund. The standard practice now is a sys Nobody likes advice, particularly when it is tem called the "annual giving program." Under gratuitious. The more money the ex-students may it, all exes are called upon to make a yearly con raise for a college, the more ideas they may believe tribution to the fund. Solicitations are made by it their right to express as to how the show ought mail, and where most effective, are also obtained to be run. If you believe in an expanding alUmni by personal contact. A rule of thumb states that program, you might well consider that advice will although each of the five annual mailing pieces will come with it. Besides, what's wrong with counsel, produce about three per cent return, personal con as long as it is constructive and helpful? Why not tacts will produce a 66 per cent return r- which is harness it, channel it, sublimate it? to say that two out of three exes will contribute when personally solicited by another ex. ALUMNI ADVISORY BOARD PERSONAL CONTACT There are a number of plans to carry this idea out in effect at various college and universities to There aren't days or hands enough to contact day, although none now exists at Texas Tech. Some Tech's former student body, but we are planning colleges have their alumni advisory boards which a personal solicitation of some six or eight com serve as official counselors to the college president munities through .our local alumni clubs. The and to him alone. He may take its recommenda drudgery and detail of such extensive organization tions or leave them. No heated resolutions are is terrific, but We know that it is worth it. The ever adopted. Every recommendation goes ·in to · price of success must always be met. the president from the group in the form of a fac tual, well-documented presentation. As a result of annual giving, a new pride and There is absolutely no publicity on recommen proprietorship in Texas Tech has developed among dations. The deliberations of the advisory board the alumni. · Even a one dollar contributor has a are secret. Even the alumni Board of Directors, share of stock in the enterprise. "Where thy which nominates the group, does not see its min treas\Ire is, there thy heart is also," is a most pro utes or pass upon its reports. (Occasionally, the found statement. These partners in the enterprise two boards will work together on matters of alum will take up the cross for the college a lot faster ni policy.) Properly channeled, such a setup is not than they used to-on any and all fronts of inter only useful, it is a great safety valve for impetuous pretations-because they are now part and parcel complaints. of it. OBSERV.IN' SPORTS • .• bock, be sure to see one or more (with Jim Reed) Jan. 19, and Bay (Continued from Page 13) basketball games. The January lor Jan. 30. It's fun watching the slate in the Coliseum includes freshmen, too, with their 6-5 start telecasts and broadcasts with in Arizona State Jan. 12, Phillips 66 ing lineup. terest. No fewer than four of their opponents are playing in them- Baylor in the Sugar, TCU in the Cotton, West Texas in the Tangerine and Texas Western in Attention Forum Members the Sun. Texas A&M would have been in a bowl but for its proba If Forum is approved by all chapters for affiliation with tion, and Houston was considered Mortar Board, an installation and initiation of Forum will take a top candidate for two of the place on either Feb. 2 or Feb. 9. post-season games. All Forum alumnae who wish to be initiated into Mortar This is the second time for a Board at this time are urged to send their maiden and married TCU team beaten by Texas Tech names and current addresses to: to go to the Cotton Bowl. Coach Weaver's first Tech team, the Miss Sue Rainey 1951 eleven, won by 33-19 over Dept. of Physical Education for Women the Horned Frogs, who later met Texas Tech Kentucky. Lubbock, Texas Incidentally, in beating TCU, It is essential that this data be turned in immediately. Tech accomplished one thing no other Southwest Conference school Each interested alum will receive information concerning the outside of the top three managed. initiation fee and dinner, and will be notified of the deadline for Since the other two in the top the fee to be paid. trio were Texas A&M and Baylor, Former Forum members desiring Mortar Board affiliation but the Raiders' mark of 1-out-of-3 unable to come to Tech for the ceremony and who now live in a against SWC members takes on town having a Mortar Board chapter may pay their fees through more importance. Tech and be initiated this spring at the college ·or university chap BASKETBALL ter in their locality. If you live anywhere near Lub- 20 THE TEXAS TECHSAN HELPI-Us Correct Our Records If You Have: New Address New Job New Wife or Husband New Baby Your former classmates would like to know and we would like to have the information for "Bear Our Ban ners Far and Wide." Why not write this information in the space below and send it to us- THE EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION TECH STATION LUBBOCK, TEXAS rfE:RRY C}tPJSi~S from Hol l y and a ll of us h e re a t