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.. and a young woman's fancy turn to thoughts of new fashions in the Spring and Summer. Dunlap's has a wonderful collection of the very newest fashions for every member of the family. Park free while you shop Dunlap's . .. dine in our Tea Room or Coffee Shop . Visit our Beauty Shop or Barber Shop . Our Post Office Sub Station. Dunlap's is your store . • . please visit it often. EX,STUDENT ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President RALPH BLODGETI, '41 Vice President II. HOMER G. MAX·EY, '31 2nd Vice President . BRAC BIGGERS, '48 H . 1111 Director ROBERT WORK, '37 Director Vol. 7, No. 1 February, 1956 CULVER HILL, '32 Director EARL FUSON, '31 CONTENTS Immediate Past President HART SHOEMAKER, '41 FEATURES Rep. to Athletic Council ED SMITH, '38 Die Kinderschule --------- ----- ------ 2 Ex. Secretary What Next? Tech Asks ---- ----------------------- 4 L. C. WALKER, '49 Life At The Campus Switchboard --------------- 5 Field Secretary Drd College Help You? --------------- 10 BUDDY BARRON, '53 LOYALTY FUND DEPARTMENTS TRUSTEES Class of '78 ------------:---- --------------- 5 Earl Fuson Chapter Chatter ------------~---- :___ _ 6 Dr. Willie Carson Observin' Sports -------------------- 7 Don Wooten George langford The Tech Fo.~ndation ------------- -- --------- ---- 8 D. M. McElroy The Techsan Salutes ---------------------------------- 9 Jack Maddox Bear Our Banners ------ ------------ 11 D. F. Sudduth Tom Abraham Hitchin' Post - ---------------------- 14 W. G. McMillan Techsans In Service ----------------'----------------------- 16 L. C. Walker Managing Editor: Nancy Koisner, '57 Published in February, April, June, August, September, 0 c to b e r, THE COVER November and December by the Ex-Students A s s o c i a t i o n o f A snow-blanketed campus was virtually Texas Technological College, deserted early this month after an unprece­ lubbock, Texas. dented five-day blizzard whistled through the Entered as second class matter at South Plains area and dumped 13 inches of the the Post Office at lubbock, sparkling white stuff on the city of lubbock. Texas. For the first time in the college's 30 year history, classes were dismissed and all but key offices Change of Address: New address were shut down due to weather conditions. should be sent to the Associa­ Oddly enough, no one seemed· to mind the un­ tion offices 30 days prior to date of issue with which it is to take expected holiday. effect. Subscription rate: $3 per year. PHOTO CREDIT Advertising rates on request: All The Avalanche-Journal advertising is handled through Texas Tech the Association offices. LEARNING BY SINGING - Kinderschule students learn their colors by singing as new words and colored circles a re placed on the flannel board by Professor Theodor W. Alexander of the foreign language department. Jeannette Reames, a third year German student, assists. Die Kinderschule Youngsters Get an Early St.aTt with Foreign Language Twenty-eight Lubbock fifth­ Last fall all these youngsters foreign language verb conjugation. graders are getting a head start knew about German was the Children learn to speak German on the "One World" idea of under­ rather simple faGt that people as the Germans speak it - natu­ standing other people through the somewhere over in Europe spoke rally in conversation and without most logical route yet discovered it. Now they answer the roll call an accent. Older students invari­ - their language. with German phrases, identify ably wind up speaking German - · These youngsters are the mem­ colors at the drop of a picture on or any other language - as an bers of Texas Tech's first Kinder­ the flannel board, and sing their American speaks it. The accent schule, the Saturday morning way into a knowledge of basic will always be there. classroom-festival where Assistant grammar. "Even now after 17 years in this Professor Theodor W. Alexander All of this because a professor country I still speak English with teaches the pint-sized Texans to of German believes that the eas­ an accent," Alexander says. "I've speak German without an accent, iest time to learn another lan­ even taken speech courses, but I or even a drawl. And there are no guage is when you're in grade learned English too late. As soon knit brows to ruin the weekend, school. Here you avoid the terror as I open my mouth, you can tell just the fun of learning through of high school or college freshmen I'm not a native son." songs, games and pictures. faced with their first problems in A native of Austria, Alexander·· 2 THE TEXAS TECHSAN came to the United States when he was 19 years old in 1938. "Lots of Europeans were travel­ ling then - 1938 was a good year for travel, especially out· of Europe." Since then he has earned both the B.S. and M.S. degrees at Tech with a major in geology and minor in zoology. Although Alexander specializes in scientific German, teaching children is a major in­ terest. Why Texas? "Actually, I came to Texas out of curiosity. When I was growing up in Austria, I used to read Zane Gray when I should have been reading something else. I also read a lot of the stories by Karl May, the German "western" writer. That way I developed a love for the West and when I came to America I naturally wanted to see what it was like. I looked on the map and it seemed to me that there would probably be more In­ dians around Lubbock than in any other area of the state. I was wrong there, but I still love this part of the country." Progress of his fifth-grade stu­ WAITING FOR THE ANSWER - Professor Alexander waits for dents in learning German is rapid the reply to his query about the car's color - in German, of course. because they have fun doing it. The boys and girls represent five spelling exam. This may be follow­ the class had to be limited to a Lubbock grade schools: Roscoe ed by more illustrated singing or small group, the interest of both Wilson, Wheelock, P. F. Brown, games. Some of the songs are the children and their parents was A. C. Jackson and Dupree. Judg­ German folk songs, others are the guiding factor in selection. The ing by the. attendance record, familiar. Soon they'll be learning students were then nominated by you'd think the schools had their a University of Wisconsin German their school principals. Tech had own contest in getting to Tech translation of God Bless America no part in the selection. every Saturday a few minutes be­ and the original German version This semester the pupils' begin­ fore the 10 a.m. d~adline. But, they of Silent Night, Holy Night. ning German phrases and senten­ don't. The kids just don't want to The hour-long class is a con­ ces will get an animated workout miss anything. stant change of pace with a steady when they begin handling hand Class starts with a more ani­ growth toward a mastery of basic puppets. The verbs and nouns will ma ted roll call than you'll prob­ German. come more freely as each young­ ably find in any other session on "By the time this first year is ster works with his own puppet to the Tech campus. German phrases over," Mr. Alexander says, "these produce class shows. covering the color of shirts and children should have a good know­ That's the way these kids learn skirts and even the sky get each a new language. No one told them boy and girl used to the idea that ledge of basic German conversa­ it was hard. And right away it all conversation for the next 50 tion. Of course, much will depend turns out to be fun. minutes will be in German. Next on their own interest plus the help come songs, games, and dances, all and encouragement they get at in German and all illustrated by ••. IN MEMORIAM pictures or action. home. If their parents know some German and will help them, the Mrs. Lucian Moore, the former Ten minutes of singing as new Imogene Boyd, died Jan. 7 in her · words and circles of color are put children will move faster. It's on the flannel board may be fol­ largely a matter of practice." Lubbock home following an ex­ lowed by a quarter hour of games A real desire to learn German tended illness. She is survived by at the front of the room. The was the first requisite for getting her parents, husband, three sons, ·youngsters push back their chairs into the class. When the Kinder­ two stepdaughters and a step­ and swing into the German chil­ schule idea was first presented to grandson. A member of the Class dren's games with all the enthu­ the Lubbock schools last spring, siasm of an unexpected softball Alexander stressed the need for of '43, Mrs. Moore received aBBA practice called in the middle of a children with a deep interest. As in secretarial studies. February, 1956 3 What Next? Tech Asks Letter To Techsans Dear Fellow Techsans: Faced with Ever-Increasing Enrollments, the College Sees The installment plan has come Major Problems Ahead in Faculty, Housing, Library Facilities to the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund and the Ex-Students Association President E. N. Jones' New The part still to be done is the is well pleased with the growth Year's prediction of a new tidal paving of a driveway to the back of this idea for giving your sup­ wave of students in 1956 was ful­ of the building and parking areas. port. Called "BDA" (Bank Draft filled early this semester when a The new infirmary has the same Authorization), the plan is simple record 6,420 students enrolled for amount of hospital space as the and effective.

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