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Texas Tech Specialties, Inc. % The Ex-Students Association Box 4009 Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone (806) 742-4193 THE EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS W. F. "Pete" Baker '61- Abilene President Glen Cary '56-Dallas President-Elect Manuel DeBusk '33--Dallas Immediate Past President Richard Dickey '50-Lubbock Representative to Athletic Council The Ex-Students Association is an inde­ pendent organization of Texas Tech Uni­ Editor versity Ex-Students, cooperating with and EXECUTIVE BOARD Wayne James, BS, '57, ME, '64 working in behalf of the Institution, but not John Anderson '53--Plainview affiliated with it. The purpose of The Asso­ Dr. W. K. "Bill" Jones '57--Santa Fe, ciation is to serve Texas Tech University and to provide opportunity for continued N.M. friendship and a closer relationship among Joe Pevehouse '48--Midland Ex-Students. The Texas Techsan is the of­ W. K. "Bill" Barnett '44-Levelland ficial publication of The Association. Dr. R. G. "Wick" Alexander '58-- The Texas Tech Ex-Students Association Arlington was one of two University Alumni Asso­ Larry Pelt '63--Dallas ciations in the nation awarded the 1971 Jon Davis '62-EI Paso Alumni Administration Award for Com­ Bill Waddle '58--Austin prehensive Excellence in Alumni Program­ Mrs. Amy Brewster '71- Houston ming by the American Alumni Council. Mrs. Hurley Carpenter '36---Lubbock Waggoner Carr '40-Austin Edd McLeroy '49--Dimmitt JESSIE W. THORNTON lEAVES lARGE ESTATE TO TEXAS TECH ...... 2 WYALTY FUND TRUSTEES Charles Aycock '63--Farwell STEVE SLOAN NAMED HEAD COACH ...... 4 W. M. "Dub" Heffington '60- HOPE ENTERTAINS ON CAMPUS ...... 6 Wichita Falls Tom Sawyer '70-Lubbock SHAPING THE DESTINY OF OUR COUNTRY ...... 8 Raymond L. Johns '38--Lubbock john Pittman '56-Dallas HOPE, PARADE, FOOTBAll, VISITING HIGHLIGHT J. Fike Godfrey '44-Abilene Preston Smith '34--Lubbock 1974 HOMECOMING ...... 13 Bob Brown '59--Lamesa Wendell Mayes '49--Austin BIG CROWD A ITENDS CENTURY ClUB DINNER . . . 16 ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ElECTED FOR 1975 ...... 18 ASSOCIATION STAFF GOIN' BAND PRESENTED COMMUNITY Wayne James, BS, '57, ME, '64 SERVICE A WARD ...... 19 Executive Director Jim W90d, BA, '71 FIVE STAFF MEMBERS RECEIVE 'TOP Special Assistant TECHSAN' AWARD ...... 20

MYERS' RAIDERS ENTER CONFERENCE RACE ...... 21

PEACH BOWl GAME ENDS IN TIE ...... 24 TECH TODAY ...... 26

FROM THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK ...... 29 Second-class postage paid by The Texas Techsan at Lubbock, Texas. Published in February, April, June, September, No­ vember, and December by the Ex-Stu­ dents Association of Texas Tech Univer­ ABOUT THE COVER sity, P.O. Box 4009 Lubbock, Texas 79409. Subscription rate is $10 per year. Change of address ·should be sent to the Ex-Students Association President Manuel DeBusk is shown presenting Bob Hope Association offices 30 days prior to date a pouble T Branding Iron signifying that the entertainer is an Honorary Member of of issue with which it is to take effect. the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association. Hope is shown holding an autographed foot­ ~~ve~ising rates on request. All adver­ tlsmg ts handled through the Association ball that had been presented him by the 1974 Red Raider football team. Bob Hope and office. Copyright 1975, Texas Tech Ex­ The Golddiggers presented a benefit show sponsored by the Association the night be­ Students Association. fore the Tech-Arkansas football game. Photo by Norm Tindell.

THI TDAI TICHUNI.tAIIUARY 1 Jessie W. Thornton Leaves Large Estate to Texas Tech

In a surprise announcement at the Century Club Dinner, Gov. Dan Thornton '32 an· nounced that a gift in excess of three quarters of a million dollars from his wife's estate would go to the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund.

The highlight of the Texas Tech Century Club Dinner of Lubbock. While a student at Lubbock High, he Meeting at Homecoming was an announcement of a was elected President of the 4-H Clubs of Texas. gift in excess of three quarters of a million dollars from In 1937 the Thorntons located in Arizona where they the estate of the late Jessie W. Thornton, wife of the established a registered pedigreed herd that was to be­ former Governor of Colorado, Dan Thornton. come famous over the entire continent. They built up The announcement of the gift came as a surprise an outstanding show string of Hereford cattle and just before the dinner was over. Ex-Students Association showed them with remarkable success at all the impor­ President Manuel DeBusk introduced Gov. Thornton, tant shows. The enterprise prospered and in a few years who DeBusk said had a special announcement to make. outgrew its original home. Gov. Thornton, a member ofthe Class of 1932, stated A ranch was purchased in Colorado near Gunnison that the late Mrs. Thornton, who died December 22, in 1941 and the cattle were moved to this new home 1972, had visited the Campus of Texas Tech many which immediately became and remained the Thornton times and had fallen in love with Texas Tech, its stu­ headquarters for many years. The expanded operations dents and graduates. He stated that it was her wish that became even more successful as the fame of the TT a large percentage of her estate would go to Tech Hereford spread and at the Denver Stock Show in 1945 through the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund. the Thorntons sold two bulls at the sale for $50,000 each. Arrangements for the announcement of the gift In 194 7, an auction sale was held at the ranch near were completed shortly before the dinner. A spokesman Gunnison attended by over 10,000 people from 46 for The Ex-Students Association said final details of states and several foreign countries and when the sale the gift and its use would be completed with attorneys was ended, a total of $875,940 had been paid for these representing Thornton and Mrs. Thornton's estate cattle. and would be announced after the first of the year. Having had a keen interest in government affairs, as Mrs. Thornton, the former Jessie Willock, met the soon as the first sale had relieved him of the necessity future Governor of Colorado while both were students for such close attention to his ranching operation, he at UCLA. They were married in 1934. took an active interest in politics and was elected state Thornton was the son of a sharecropper and lived senator to serve a term for four years. In the election of much of his early life in the Posey Community southeast 1950, Ralph Carr, a Republican who was running for

2 TMil TUAS TllCMIAH/.IANUARY Governor, died five weeks before election. Thornton In January 1955, upon completion of four years as was selected to become the candidate and few expected governor, Thornton voluntarily retired from office. He that he would be elected. During the campaign of less has had a number of assignments of national impor­ than one month, Dan Thornton went up and down the tance, including his appointment by President Eisen­ state shaking hands with old friends and making new hower to the Commission on Intergovernmental Rela­ ones and giving talks in 201 scattered towns. He was tions. In mid-1956 President Eisenhower appointed elected governor and took office on January 9, 1951 Thornton as Director of the Republican National Com­ and set about immediately on the job of giving such mittee's Farm Campaign Division, with headquarters outstanding service to the state that he was re-elected in at Chicago. 1952 by a much more substantial majority. In 1958 he was appointed special ambassador to His outstanding record as governor attracted national Paraguay and it was during his tenure there that Mrs. attention and he was selected in his first term as a Thornton was striken with cancer which ultimately member of the Executive Committee of the National caused her death in 1972. Governor's Conference and later served as chairman. Even though he has lived much of his life in Colora­ He was also elected president of the Council of State do, Gov. Thornton has kept close ties with Texas Tech. Governments, succeeding Allan Shivers of Texas. He returns to Lubbock and the Campus frequently. In Mrs. Thornton continued to share with her husband 1952 he was the main speaker for the Commencement his normal governmental activities just as she had with exercises and was awarded an honorary doctorate in the ranch operations. One of her proudest moments !953. was when he was chosen to make the opening nominat­ He has been an active member of the Ex-Students ing speech of Dwight Eisenhower for President of the Association and the Texas Tech Century Club. He was United States at the Republican Party Convention in named a recipient of the Distinguished AlumniJS Award 1952 in Chicago. He was for three years the official host in 1968. to President and Mrs. Eisenhower in Colorado when Wayne James, who had talked with the Thorntons they visited the Summer-White House and played on several occasions regarding the contribution, stated an important part in helping to win the presidential " It is most appropriate that the announcement of Mrs. nomination for Eisenhower and in electing him presi­ Thornton's gift could be announced at this time during dent. Tech's 50th Anniversary Celebration and at a time when In 1954 President Eisenhower appointed then Gov­ Gov. Thornton, a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas ernors Thornton and Allan Shivers of Texas as Co­ Tech, could be present. The appreciation that Mrs. Chairmen of a special mission to the war-ravaged Far Thornton had for Texas Tech and the quality of its grad­ East to make an evaluation of the economic strength and uates and its mission is a challenge for all of us asso­ peace situation in .Korea. Also serving with them was ciated with the Institution to continue the faith that she then Governor Fine of Pennsylvania. had in Texas Tech during the next half century."

Two long-time friends, Con­ gressman George Mahon (left) of Lubbock and former Gov­ ernor of Colorado, Dan Thorn­ ton, discuss the late Mrs. Thornton's bequest following the Century Club Dinner at Homecoming.

THE TEXAS TECHIAN/.IANUAitY J Steve Sloan Named Head Coach

By Miller Bonner '74 but I think most of the coaches I had place for them. I think loyalty to For a man admittedly unfamiliar at Vanderbilt will be coming with people is certainly more important with Lubbock and West Texas, me so that's not as big a problem as to me than one guy knowing how to Steve Sloan appeared right at home it might have been had I not have get out of town. All the coaches I upon meeting the news media and been a head coach before. have, if they want to come, I'm Texas Tech football fans for the "I'm just delighted to be here," going to take." first time Friday afternoon (Jan­ he continued. "I don't know Amaril­ Sloan recommended three Vandy uary 3). lo or Odessa or anywhere else. I've assistants for the head coach­ Sloan, the 30-year-old ex­ never been to West Texas before ing post. He said that if one of Vanderbilt coach chosen to succeed except for the time I came to see the them is named, it would split his South Carolina-bound Jim Carlen as school. I didn't see as many hills or staff, leaving more room for as­ the Red Raider gridiron boss, won mountains as I'm used to. One of the sistants already at Tech. Carlen took immediate favor in the eyes of news­ coaches remarked as we came in all but four assistants with him to men and the approximately 800 that there's probably no wood­ South Carolina-Tom Wilson, Tech fans that crowded into the peckers in Lubbock. I'd probably Jess Stiles, Ted Unbehagen and Bob Ex-Student's Association offices have to agree with him, there Bissell. for his quick wit, humor and wouldQ't be anything for them to The Austin native, speaking in straight-forward approach to the peck on." a combination Texas-Tennessee­ pressing problems of assembling a Sloan promised Tech backers Alabama drawl, led Vanderbilt to coaching staff and recruiting amidst "hard work coupled with honesty" a 7-3-2 record last season high­ strange surroundings. and an exciting offensive football lighted by a 6-6 Peach Bowl tie with "I'm very honored to be a part of team. Carlen's Texas Tech team. His the Texas Tech program," began "We try to do things right," he family moved from Austin to San Sloan, a religious man who neither said, "and be honest with the players Antonio and then to Cleveland, drinks nor smokes and is active and everybody. I'm basically in Tenn., where he became a football, as a member of the Fellow­ coaching because I enjoy working basketball and golf star for Bradley ship of Christian Athletes. "It's my with young people. I believe in the High School. primary concern, initially, to put as total-person philosophy of coaching. After gaining all-America honors much of our efforts in our recruiting I feel like the heart of communica­ at Alabama, where he quarter­ as we possibly can. While we're tion is caring about the player and backed back-to-back national doing this, we're trying to get our really being concerned about him championship teams, Sloan played coaches which is another problem as a person. I feel that if you do one year of pro-ball for the Atlanta · that, you're going to communicate Falcons. regardless of age. We'll try to work He returned to Bear Bryant's Mrs. Kathy Brewer, an Ex-Students As­ sociation secretary, is shown presenting hard. I think this should be our Alabama staff a year later ( 1968) a Double T tie and a tie tac to Tech's committment, hard work coupled as the offensive backfield boss. new head football coach, Steve Sloan; at w,ith honesty." After one-year stints as an assistant a reception hosted by the Association. Sloan, a devoted country-and­ at both Florida State and Georgia western music fan, indicated he Tech, Sloan took the Vanderbilt would bring most of his staff with job and, in two years, brought the him, depending upon his successor Commodores from football patsies at Vanderbilt. to winners. Of course, I have obligations to His indecision whether to accept my coaches at Vanderbilt," he said. the Tech offer late Tuesday night "and if they want to come to Lub­ left both Vanderbilt and Raider fans bock, they have the option to do so. alike filled with wonder. I think it's real important to retain "That was a mistake on my part some assistants off coach Carlen's making two decisions," remarked staff. However, I have people that Sloan who appeared headed for have worked for me and with me at Raiderland before announcing another place and I don't think I'd Tuesday night that he would stay at ever leave a place and-not have a Vanderbilt. "But Brenda, my wife, More. than 800 fans jammed the building on a cold January lifternoon to greet the new coach. Associations striff members served cof­ f ee to those waiting in line outside.

and I hadn't slept for a couple of toward that area. We have some situation. I had the opportunity to days and she had the flu. As we were guidelines which we like to give our go to Texas Tech which I think has a trying to decide there were about players that we think are important. great future in football and my ob­ 100 people outside our house in If we have a rule and someone jective is to make it as good as Ala­ Nashville and everybody was on breaks it, then we enforce it. We bama. I really don't look forward to the door step looking in the window. don't have a lot of rules, though, so following coach Bryant anyhow and Under the circumstances, we both that guys are walking around afraid there's about 10 guys that he could were tired and said the thing to do to do anything." choose to follow him. I felt that by was to stay in Vanderbilt. I tried to RECRUITING-"Texas looked coming here, I could make a good sleep that night feeling that I had big enough to me as we were flying program better and we'll play them made the wrong decision. across it. ... I would assume that (Alabama) and beat them and won't "I talked with coach J T King there are plenty enough of good have to worry about that stigma." (Tech's athletic director) and he players in Texas for everybody to Sloan also indicated that he had talked to me and I changed my pick from. It appeared to me on the a weekly luncheon with Vander­ mind I knew the reaction would be map that New Mexico was fairly bilt's Commodore Club and favored somewhat critical but I learned one close so we would probably do such meetings with the Red Raider thing-never make a critical de­ some recruiting in New Mexico Club. Carlen had discontinued such cision late at night with 100 people which I believe they've done in the luncheons. outside your house. past. I don't think we'll be going "I believe that football is only a "I lost a few friends," he con­ out of state that much unless it segment of the total program," tinued, "but I hope to gain a few would be to do some junior college Sloan said. "I believe the athletic more out here, I felt that I did the recruiting." director should be the athletic di­ right thing." OFFENSIVE FOOTBALL- rector and the basketball coach Sloan becomes Tech's eighth "We try to throw the ball and be should coach the basketball team. coach in the 49-year history of the exciting with our offense. I believe All I want to do is coach the foot­ school. He received a $36,500 an­ the coaches I worked with are very ball team, go home and play golf." nual salary and a four-year contract sold on the splitback Veer offense Sloan and his wife, Brenda, have renewable Jan. 1 of each year. but if we don't have the personnel, two sons--five-year-old Clay and On subjects such as discipline, we might have to do something else. three-year-old Jonathan Paul. recruiting, his reputation as an of­ Last year, at Vanderbilt, we finished Board of Regents chairman Clint fensive-minded coach and the sixth in the nation in total offense Formby introduced Sloan as "the rumors that he will, one day, and I think much of the reason for right man at the right school at the succeed Bryant as the Crimson Tide this is this type offense." right time." coach, Sloan commented as follows: BEAR ~RYANT ~TIGMA­ And after Friday's press con­ DISCIPLINE--"I feel that when "This is one 'reason I came to Texas ference and reception, you couldn't a young person gets to college, he's Tech . .. to get out from under that find a disagreeing soul in the house. reached an age of maturity where he should be able to know what he wants to do and makes progress

Athletic Director J T King introduces the new coach to Berl Hl4fman (left), a pop­ ular, retired Red Raider coach. Also shown is Clint Formby '49, chairman of the Tech Board of Regents. Also in the receiving line were Tech President Gro­ ver Murray and Pete Baker '61, presi­ dent of the Ex-Students Association. Hope Entertains On Campus

"Thanks For the Memory" is the theme song for Bob Hope. For over 4,000 persons it also means memories of the popular entertainer's concert on the Texas Tech Campus on November 22. America's "King of Comedy," Bob Hope, one of the most popular entertainers of all time was in Lub­ bock, in a star-studded benefit show. The show was sponsored by the Ex- Students Association to benefit the Associations Academic Student Recruitment Program and Scholar­ ship Fund. Appearing with Hope were Dean Martin's glamorous Golddigers, a talented assortment of singing, dancing, and acting young ladies. The three hour show also in­ cluded a member of Tech coeds modeling the latest fashions. Shortly before the performance was over Manuel DeBusk, President of the Ex-Students Association, presented Hope with a Double T Branding Iron, signifying · that he: was an Honorary Member of the! Ex-Student Association. ' Members of the Red Raider foot-' ball and basketball teams presented: Hope with autographed balls for their particular sports.

Cindy Garza and Bob.

I THE TEXAS TECHSAN/JANUARY In closing the show, Hope asked the Tech Cheerleaders to come forward to help drum up some spirit for the Red Raiders for the Tech­ Arkansas football game the next afternoon. Hope led the Tech Cheerleaders, the Golddiggers and the football team in some Tech yells. Following the concert in the Coli­ seum, several hundred persons in the audience who had purchased sponsor tickets attended a reception for Hope and The Golddiggers at the Alhambra Hotel. The popular entertainers stayed several hours until they had visited with everyone personally, signed hundreds of auto­ graphs and had their pictures made with a large number of those present. The evening provided an awful Association President-elect Pete Baker and 5 Golddiggers. lot of "memories."

Hope leads pep rally.

THI TPAI TICHIAN/JANUARY 7 Shaping the Destiny of Our Country

BY J. FRED BUCY

(Editor's Note: The following comments were made by J. Fred Bucy at the kickoff luncheon of the Lubbock United Way Campaign on September 26, 1974. The speech elicited consid­ erable comment in the community as well as on campus, and is presented here in its entirety in order that you may form your own conclusions regarding the many issues raised by Mr. Bucy.)

It is always with pleasure that I look forward to a visit to the South Plains. First-it is home to me. Second-because I like West Texans. You, as a group, are the most friendly-the most honest-the most straight-talking people in the world. You are the world's finest. Believe me, I know by firsthand com­ parison. J. Fred Bucy, a 1951 graduate of Texas Tech, is Executive Third-the Southwest is the last frontier for free Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of Texas Instruments Inc. enterprise. West Texas is truly the land of the free and home of the brave. As you can see, I am very proud to be a native West Texan! And I am mighty proud to be here today Our sin-yours and mine--is that we concerned to help kick off the United Way Campaign. and responsible folks continually allow the Irrespon­ You and I are here today because we are respon­ sibles to shape the destinies of this country. sible citizens. We feel profoundly that we are respon­ As we stand here at mid-decade in the Sorrowful sible for providing the people of the United States with Seventies, I am both discouraged and encouraged. the extra help they need, when they can't help them­ I am discouraged that we have for the second time selves because they're too young, too poor, too ill, or allowed the Irresponsibles in the Media, and the lr­ too suddenly beset by disaster. responsibles in the Eastern Liberal Establishment, to Year after year, we have discharged this respon­ hound another President of the United States out of sibility well- the United Way. With your help, we will office. meet our 1974 goal. They have been successful in obstructing progress · But we have a larger responsibility. We have toward responsible government during most of this handled it so badly, year after year, that providing for century. But this was their finest hour. This time they the future through the United Way becomes increasingly succeeded in hounding a President out of office before difficult. his term was up.

I THI TIXAI TICH8AN/.IANUARY A democracy needs critics, of course. But it needs to these forces is to water the seeds of our destruction." builders more. End of quotation. Chairman Mahon is a wise man. I Our balance is all out of whack. We have critics wish we had more Congressmen and Senators like him by the millions, and only a few thousand builders. in Washington. Sam Rayburn said it beautifully when he observed When a private citizen spends more than he earns, that "Any jackass can kick down a barn in one hour he goes broke. If he prints money to pay his debts, he's that it takes a carpenter many weeks to build." thrown into prison for counterfeiting. I am encouraged that the Watergate Agony is When a government spends more than it earns, finally subsiding into the past, that the Presidential par­ it can go broke. But to delay going broke, the govern­ don will keep it in the past, and that our new President ment prints more money to pay its debts; that's called and his staff have the image of integrity. "inflation". Perhaps you and I can keep the lrresponsibles off When the government puts all of that excess money their backs, and let them build. into circulation, it's added to the money already at work. Better yet, let's help them build responsibility back But nothing is added to the goods and services for which into this nation of ours. all that new money competes. So we all bid more for President Ford has stated that inflation is Public what is available, and prices soar. Enemy Number One. Any one who understands world It is an irresponsible government that lets this problems would have to agree. We can apply that same happen . . . Irresponsible not only at the federal level, phrase to our concern at this luncheon today; inflation but on state and local levels as well. is United Way's Enemy Number One. It hits us from If we lived under a totalitarian form of govern­ both sides. It makes the United Way more necessary ment, perhaps we could find an excuse--or at least than ever, while it makes the funds harder to raise. some consolation-in saying, "We, the people, are Writers love to say that "inflation is a disease". powerless" ... In America, we have no such excuse. Well, it is and it isn't. Many illnesses can be cured with­ Two centuries ago, our forefathers deprived us of out understanding their cause--ask your doctor some­ this spineless defense, when they insisted that govern­ time how an aspirin cures a headache. In the case of ments derive their just powers from the consent of the inflation, however, we must understand the root cause governed. before we can prescribe a remedy thtat will cure the There is no way for citizens of a free nation to disease without killing the patient. shift the blame. Everyone is offering pet theories about the causes You and I are irresponsible. and cures for inflation today. An army of economists You and I are irresponsible when we elect and have been debating the subject for years, and now reelect politicians who are irresponsible. they've called out reinforcements for the Summit Meet­ The favorite game of federal and state politicians ings. I often wonder how many of those fine econo­ is to get elected by taking a popular stand on local mists have ever met a payroll. issues, but to never address the national or state issues I've met payrolls for many years and that entitles on which they must stand up and be counted. me at least to render my opinion as to the cause of in­ But even worse is the fact that you and I let them flation: get away with this farce. Once again, we are beifl& The root cause of inflation is irresponsibility. irresponsible. As Congressman George Mahon said in April You and I are irresponsible when we vote for poli­ 1972, in an article published in Nation's Business: ticians who continue to support a $4 billion-a-year food "The United States government is headed toward stamp program. It means we're voting for another $4 the fiscal shoals. billion worth of inflation. It increases the price of food "No government, not even the richest on earth, can by creating more money to buy food, without creating continue to overspend, or undertax, by multi-billions more food. of dollars nearly every year and still not eventually Then, after giving people food stamps and money plunge itself into financial disaster. not to work, we let crops rot in the field for lack of "Public attitudes shape the ultimate course of harvest labor. And to compound our folly, we won't let events--for better or worse. You can't spend what you our starving neighbors, who are willing to work, come haven't got without going in the hole. across the Mexican border for the harvest, because the "There are times when that is unavoidable--but bleeding hearts say it's not fair to those living on food was it unavoidable in 37 of the last 43 years? stamps. "This is an election year and the usual pressures You and I are irresponsible when we allow feather­ are magnified. The emphasis is on spending, not on bedding in our schools. We have a great many dedicated fmding ways to raise revenues to pay the bills. To yield teachers in this land who work long, hard hours in and

THI TIXAI TICHIAN/.IMUAIW I out of class--but I'm afraid they're becoming a down­ jobs teaching in universities, where it's in their interest trodden minority. I suggest you look into The Great to turn out more majors in their field for job security. Education Rip-Off. The featherbedding is beyond And so, a bad system feeds on itself, and grows by what belief. it feeds on. Look at our colleges and universities first. It's This year, 131,000 elementary and high school incredibly true that no emphasis whatever is placed on teachers can't find teaching jobs because the school a professor's ability to teach. He must "publish or population has shrunk. Yet we're building larger uni­ perish". His advancement depends on how many pounds versities to turn out more teachers. You can spend thirty of research results he can get into print, never mind minutes reading a pamphlet on the 1970 census and that it's nonsense. And if he's a good enough public discover that they won't be needed. relations man to make some cockeyed theory nationally Why are we expanding universities in the wrong known, he's promoted to Little Tin God, and can com­ directions, funding studies that nobody needs, and mand a high price for his presence at any university that granting tenure to half-baked professors who couldn't won't trouble him with a teaching load. hold a job anywhere else? "Because it's there"-the Lesser professors who can't get by on reputation money, that is. Almost $13 billion is available in federal alone are forced to teach a few classes. After the first aid for education and manpower, through HEW. It's year, a professor's path of least resistance is clear. All up for grabs and some of the best paid specialists on he has to do is drone through the same dull lectures year campus are the masters in grantsmanship--a nice name after year. If he had enough foresight to save his first for experts in feeding at the public trough. year's notes, he need never spend time preparing a This is irresponsibility compounded. It is wrong lecture again. And, given some student assistants to in itself, and doubly wrong because our young people grade assignments and exams, he can make nice money learn, from the example of their educators, how to for working a twenty-hour week. practice this irresponsibility. Perhaps we could afford to pay for this kind of In case you're wondering, I'm not against college luxury, if our children came out of college marvelously or college education. It was my privilege to attend col­ well prepared to build a better world. But the dismal lege here in Lubbock. In college I learned that I didn't fact is that many of them aren't capable of cleaning up know very much, and with all there is to know, I their own rooms, much less cleaning up the world. never would know very much, so I would have to do Am I taking too narrow a view, when I suggest the best I could with the little I knew and what little I that the least our universities could do is teach our could learn by continuing to try and learn something children how to earn a living? I am the first to insist each and every day of my life. that a college graduate be educated broadly enough I know now, after leaving ~hool, that a college that he has a foundation on which to build his real edu­ education can increase your knowledge, but it cannot cation, which begins after college. He must know increase your intelligence. I learned that wisdom does enough history, literature, economics, politics and not come from either intelligence or education and that science to lend his public decisions--especially at if I had to choose among the three--education, intel­ the polls--a little borrowed wisdom, until he gains real ligence or wisdom-1 would choose wisdom, because it wisdom through experience. And he should be exposed is the most worthy of the three. to enough drama, art, poetry and music to make life From this comment on wisdom, let me return to my emotionally full. discussion of Irresponsibles. But what can we do with thousands of graduates Let me return to the mass media. whose major was Folk Singing? Or Social Interaction? There are a few fine, responsible, painstakingly Or Music History? Or Speech and Drama? Or, for that accurate newspapers and magazines and television sta­ matter, Social Sciences or English Literature? I can see tions in the U.S. Unfortunately, their audiences tend to that our economy might support each year a few be small, so I don't include them among the Mass Media hundred. But not hundreds of thousands. Newspapers have tight deadlines. Even if they had The economic world has come a long way in the the inclination to be accurate about the facts, they don't last few centuries. There is more to life than work, and take the time. They'll print errors and downright lies on we can finally afford some of the fmer things. But we the front page. Then, if they're caught, they'll print the cannot yet afford more fiddlers than farmers, more correction or retraction back with the classified ads. musicians than mechanics, more poets than plumbers. Television is most guilty of the same recklessness. Why won't universities guide these students toward In fact, it is the most irresponsible. When did you last, degrees that are in real demand in our economy, and hear a retraction or correction on TV? ... Did you treat the "broadening" studies as minor subjects only? ever? I suggest it's because most of these students can only get Sensationalism is the name of the game. In sixty

10 THE TEXAS TI!CHIAN/.IANUARY Bucy was named one of the 507 members of the prestigious National Academy of Engi­ neering last spring. He is one of two Texas Tech graduates that are members of the Acad­ emy. There are 19 members of the Academy living in Texas.

seconds of air time or a column of type, they can't go in­ Don't blame the kids. What we say is not important to a thoughtful discussion of the issues, so they pick a . . . it's what we do that tells them what's important. few highlights and twist them into something that sounds In Pogo's words, "We have met the enemy, and sensational-no matter how hard they have to twist. they is we." Are we so ignorant that after we hear the President Now, we come to our last but greatest irrespon­ speak that we must have someone explain what the sibility of them all: Government. President has said? Big government is inflationary. Federal, state and You and I are irresponsible, because we let it hap­ local governments employ more than 20% of the em­ pen. We could make them responsible, if we cared. ployed workers in the U.S. We're paying billions to 15 We are the advertisers who give them financial support. million people who do not produce goods. As we have We are the readers who give them circulation. And we allowed government to grow bigger and bigger, we have are the consumers who make them good places for ad­ made more money available without making more goods vertising. We give them life, and they control us ... like available, and that makes a strong contribution to in­ spoiled children who control their parents. flation. The people tied up in our governmental bureauc­ Should we let the Mass Media establish our racies should be freed to take jobs where they could standards of value? A good engineer, who makes a produce something of value! positive contribution to society, will earn about $1 Within our Big Federal Government, the greatest million in his lifetime. Yet a few Sundays ago, the single contributor to inflation is also our greatest nation witnesses a second-rate motorcycle mechanic national rip-off . . . our social welfare programs. The earn $6 million in one afternoon-the culmination of a Socialists, and their camp followers, the "Do-Gooders" few months' work. and the "Bleeding Hearts", keep insisting that the big Television is an effective teacher, for good or evil, cause of inflation is Defense spending. Let's set the and our children are quick to learn. Watch how many record straight. Defense in 1975 will be about $82.6 of them start trying hare-brained stunts on motorcycles billion. That includes military retirement and an all­ to see if they can cash in on the craze. We've already volunteer force. Social Welfare programs will cost us seen how many kids learn seven chords on a guitar and about $151 billion (this includes $13.6 billion in vet­ form a rock group, in hopes of making $50 thousand a eran's benefits) ... or almost twice as much as de­ performance. Why should they bat their brains out like fense. This $151 billion is equal to the total National Daddy does, when it is so easy to make money? And 1967 Budget. we've already seen millions of boys dedicating every Both categories are contributing to inflation, but waking hour to football or basketball in the hope that defense spending is at least being held reasonably con­ they, too, can sign a $3 million contract at the ripe old stant, while Social Welfare programs grow larger every age of 18. year.

TH! TEXAS T!CHIAN/.IANUARY 11 Let's look at just one of our Social Welfare pro­ grams-Social Security. It will cost us about $64 bil­ lion in 1974-almost as much as National Defense. "But", you may say, "that's like money paid into a trust fund, and we'll get it all back someday". Well, if you think that's how Social Security works, you're living forty years in the past. By the federal government's own standards for the regulation of insurance com­ panies, a fund of more than $600 billion would be needed to guarantee just the present Social Security promises. Yet the total Social Security trust fund stands today at about $36.5 billion-more than half a trillion dollars short. To say it again-more than 500 billion dollars short. The Social Security Administration, the nation's biggest insurer, is using today's premiums to pay to­ day's benefits. If any private insurance company did that, he would promptly be indicted for insurance fraud. It's the old "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" scheme. The first generation to get benefits got much more out of Social Security than they put in. As a result, this genera­ tion will get much less out than we put in. And our children will put in a great deal for a pitifully small return. In the name of charity, we have mortgaged our children's future. Economist Peter Somers calls Social A member of the Board of Regents at Texas Tech, Buey has Security "The biggest single roadblock to the security received the Distinguished Engineer Award at Tech. of the American wage earner." · Yet you and I are irresponsible and continue to federal bureaucracy could compete with that figure, let politicians buy our votes with our children's money, don't you think they'd publish the fact in blazing head­ in the name of sweet charity. fines? Of course, they would. We wouldn't be at this meeting today if we weren't Let's leave the depreciation of our federal tax dollars concerned with helping people. My point is that we to knowledgeable speculation. Maybe we should look on should be equally concerned with how that help is to be the bright side, as Will Rogers did when he said, "Thank given. goodness, we're not getting all the government we're Shall we continue to give the federal government paying for." more of our money to spend? Do we know what new Let's do it the United Way, with 92 cent dollars. inflationary bills are pending in Congress or in the State It's one of the best business bargains I know of. It's ' Legislature? If we don't, then we are irresponsible. made possible because 95 % of all the people at work on Independent auditors check the books of the United Way endeavors are volunteers. United Way every year, at the request of the United You and I, who are surely among the more re­ Way. They have determined that; on a nationwide sponsible citizens, have just as surely been irresponsible basis, it costs the United Way only B.cents to deliver one in the past. Let's resolve that we're going to be respon­ dollar's worth of goods and services to the deserving sible in the future. people of their communities. I would like to be able I can think of no better time to start than today. to tell you how much your tax dollar depreciates in the I can think of no better way to start than by givin& course of percolating through the federal government. ... the United Way. We hear quotations like "for every dollar you pay I have tried today, to convince you that the in federal taxes, only 33 cents is delivered in goods responsibility symbolized by our participation in the and services". Well, we've checked many knowledgeable United Way can beat inflation, preserve our self­ sources in government and education, and no one seems determination and improve our standard of living. Your to be able to authenticate that or any other figure. response to the United Way encourages and inspires It's apparently impossible to calculate a comparable me--I'm proud to be a part of it. figure, but my knowledge of government gives me an By the way, if there is anyone's toes that I have uneasy feeling that it's many times 8 cents. Auditors' not stepped on, it was not intentional. It was due to lack reports on the United Way are freely published-if our of time.

12 THE TEXAS TECHSAN/.IANUARY One of the largest crowds of Texas Tech Ex-Students ever to Hope, attend the annual Texas Tech Homecoming were on Campus No­ vember 8 and 9 for the "big week­ Parade, end". The revival of the Homecoming Parade, a surprise announcement Football, of a $750,000 gift, an appearance by world-famous Bob Hope, a 28-0 win over Texas Christian Uni­ Visiting versity were some of the highlights. The victory over TCU guaran­ teed the Red Raiders an appearance Highlight in the Peach Bowl. A Tech senior, CeCe Merryman, 1974 was crowned Homecoming Queen during halftime activities. A native of Richardson, Miss Merryman was sponsored in the queen contest by Homecoming the Friday Nite Tape Club. She was chosen from five finalists in the balloting for queen. Runners­ up include Joy Valentine of Tyler, Debbie Bandy of Dallas, Debbie Taylor of Lubbock and Barbara Startzell of Corpus Christi. Hope, who made a guest ap­ pearance in the Jones Stadium pressbox during the game, showed up on the field at halftime to help in the presentation of a special award to the Tech Red Raider Band. Assisted by Manuel DeBusk of Dallas, outgoing president of the Ex-Students Association, and Pete Baker of Abilene, newly elected Association president, Hope pre­ sented the band with the first annual Community Service Award for "scattering our brand of goodwill everywhere." The award will be presented annually by The Ex­ Students Association. Hope was in Lubbock to promote a scheduled appearance on Novem­ ber 22 for the benefit of the Ex­ Students Association ,· Student Re- cruitment Program and Scholar­ Prize-winning floats were ship Fund and to also "see a good honored during activities before the football game," the famous come­ Tech-TCU tilt. Gamma Phi Beta, dian said. a national sorority, and Pi Kappa Earlier Saturday, more than a Psi, a national fraternity, were hon­ dozen on-campus organizations ored as builders of the sweepstakes showed off floats in a Homecoming award winner. Parade, the first at Tech in several Delta Delta Delta, a sorority, and years. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a fraternity, Former Gov. and Mrs. Preston built first prize winners in a division Smith of Lubbock, both graduates for fraternities and sororities. of Tech, headed the march as grand A float entered by Los Chicanos marshalls. A healthy crowd turned was named winner in a division for out despite overcast skies. other campus organizations. More than 7,500 Tech Exes attended the traditional Exes Lunch­ eon in the Municipal Coliseum. Hosts for the luncheon were Furrs Inc., Gold Bond Stamps and Furrs Cafeterias. Numerous open houses, break­ fasts, coffees, teas, dances and re­ ceptions by campus organizations and academic colleges and depart­ ments also highlighted Saturdays activities. Homecoming activities acutally began on Friday with a number of Association meetings and the Awards Luncheon, at which five recipients of the Top Techsan Staff Award were honored. A reception in the Ex-Students Association Building late in the afternoon hon­ ored the five recipients and those members of the faculty and staff that had retired within the past twelve months. Friday night's activities included the pep rally, Century Club Dinner and the annual Homecoming Dance at the KoKo Palace. Big Crowd Attends Century Club Dinner

The fourteenth annual dinner CBS News Correspondent Daniel meeting of The Texas Tech Century Schorr delivered the main address Club attracted the largest crowd in to the Century Club members in the history on Friday night of Home­ ballroom of the University Center. coming. Wendell Mayes, Jr., '49, Vice Presi­ The highlight of the evening came dent of the Texas Tech Loyalty when Dan Thornton, '32, former Fund introduced Mr. Schorr to the Governor of Colorado, announced a crowd. gift to the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund J. Doyle Settle '32, a past presi­ in excess of $750,000.00 from the dent of the Ex-Students Association Speaker for the 1974 Century Club Din­ and 1974 Century Club Chairman, ner was CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr estate of his late wife Jessie W. of Washington, D.C. Thornton. served as Master of Ceremonies for the dinner. Dinner music was provided by Ricky Brewer '70 from Lubbock. Charles Aycock '63, President of the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund, gave the invocation. Glen Cary '56, Trustee of the Texas Tech Loyalty Fund and Chairman of the newly organized "Old Red Club" made special pres­ entations of two 24 x 20 inch por­ traits of Old Red Club members to their spouses. The two members recognized were Jack Maddox '29 of Hobbs, New Mexico and J. Doyle Settle '32 of Dallas. Twenty-six members of the facul­ ty and staff that have retired during the past twelve months from full­ time employment at Texas Tech, Old Red Club Chairman Glen Cary presents a portrait sketch of her husband to Mrs. Jack Maddox of Hobbs, New Mexico. were honored by the Ex-Students Association at the dinner. Those honored were presented with certificates of appreciation by Association President Manuel DeBusk at the dinner. The 26, all with at least ten years service, have a total of 489 years service to the in­ stitution.

Dan Thornton '32, (left) former Governor of Colorado, discussed when as a student he worked part time in a grocery stort owned by Roy Furr (right). Also shown next to Mr. Furr is Texas Tech President Dr. Grover E. Murray and Congressman George Mahon at the reception at tht home of Dr. & Mrs. Croy. · · Wendell Mayes, Jr.

A. pleased Jim Humphries '47, a Guth­ rie Rancher, accepted a football auto­ graphed by the 1974 Red Raiders from Century Club Chairman J. Doyle Settle (left).

Dr. & Mrs. Dan Croy of Lubbock were host to a reception at their home for Golden, Ruby and Diamond Century Club Members honoring Daniel Schorr following the dinner. Mrs. Croy (left) is shown visiting with a special guest, Mrs. Betty J. Stocker, alumni director at TCU.

Dr. J. William Davis, Prof essor of Political Science and former Chairman of the Ath­ letic Council receives a certificate of appreciation for his 36 years of service at Texas Tech from Manuel DeBusk.

Dr. Bryce Campbell, a Lubbock Dentist and City Council Member, was the lucky win­ ner of the drawing for the autographed basketball by the 1974-75 Red Raider Basket­ ball Team.

THI! TI!XAI TI!CHIAN/oiANUARY 17 Association Officers and Directors Elected for 1975 During the annual meeting of the ) Ex-Students Association Council, / Friday afternoon of Homecoming, /~ ,. , &> new officers and directors for the Pete Baker '61 (left) presents outgoing Association President Manuel DeBusk '!3 of Association were elected. W. F. Dallas a miniature Double T Brand Plaque in appreciation for his year's serv1ce as "Pete" Baker '61, Abilene and Glen president. Cary '56, Dallas will serve as Presi­ Second Mile Awards were pre­ highlights of the year according to dent and President-Elect in 1975. sented to Richard Dickey '50 of DeBusk. He reported that both of Elected directors each for a three Scoggin-Dickey Buick Co. of Lub­ these would be extremely helpful in year term were Mrs. Amy Hammer bock and to Bob Brown '59 of Bob the future development and growth Brewster '72, Houston; Mrs. Hurley Brown Oldsmobile and Cadillac of the Association. Carpenter '36, Lubbock; Waggoner Motor Co. of Lamesa. James stated that the Century Carr '40, Austin; and Edd McLeroy Club had been expanded to provide '49, Dimmitt. Dan Webster '61 of San Antonio for different levels. The Golden Elected trustees to the Texas was presented the same award for Century Club was for gifts of $250 Tech Loyalty Fund for 3 year terms his dedicated service in behalf of the or more, Ruby Century Club for were Preston Smith '34, Lubbock; Texas Tech Ex-Students Association $500 or more and the Diamond Bob Brown '59, Lamesa; and Wen­ Endowment Trust. Century Club for gifts of $1 ,000 dell Mayes '49, Austin. Charles Ay­ Haskell Taylor received a special or more. cock '63, Farwell, was elected to fill plaque for his 14 ·years dedicated Glen Cary, Chairman of the the unexpired term of Glen Cary as service of helping keep the financial recently organized Old Red Club, a trustee. records of the Association. reported on the new fun type of Special certificates were present­ Manuel DeBusk '33, President, organization. Membership is ob­ ed to retiring President Manuel and Wayne James '57, Executive tained by raising $500 worth of new DeBusk and directors and trustees Director, reported on the activities or additional contributions to the Dan Howard '59, Roy Middleton of the Association during 197 4. Loyalty Fund, by making a gift of at '56 and Don Furr '49, whose terms The establishment of the Ex­ least $500 or by a combination of expired December 31. Students Association Endowment the two. Cary stressed that there Several awards were presented at and Trust Fund and Texas Tech were already 13 members since the the Council Meeting. Specialties Inc. were two of the club was announced in late October.

Edd McLeroy '49 Dimmit, who was re-elected as The annual two-day Homecoming was not all fun for some Exes. Shown in a director of the Association, discusses the Asso­ one of the several Association meetings were directors and trustees (left to ciation with Mrs. Hurley Carpenter '36 of Lub­ right) John Anderson '53, Plainview; Jon Davis '62, El Paso; Dub Heffington bock, who was also elected a director. In the center '60, Wichita Falls; Glen Cary '56, Dallas; Richard Dickey '50, Lubbock; and is Wendell Mayes, Jr. '49, Austin, who was elected vice president of the Loyalty Fund Board of Pete Baker '61, Abilene. Trustees. I ~ Go in' Band Presented Community Service Award

Amid a sea of surprised looks on President Elect. And, the dean nificent appearances on nation­ thousands of faces in Jones Stadium, of American Comedy, Mr. BOB wide TV and in packed Stadia ... the Ex-Students Association cli­ HOPE. Mr. Hope will appear in well-disciplined ambassadorship maxed the Homecoming half time Lubbock on November 22 in a wherever you've travelled, on show with the awarding of its .first performance benefiting the aca­ your best behavior even when you Community Service Award to the demic student recruiting program didn't know the world was watch­ Texas Tech Marching Band. Mr. of The Ex-Students Association. ing. You've paid the price in Bob Hope, America's King of We'd like the Go in' Band practice . .. in the cold, in the Comedy, made the presentation President, Mr. Mack Bibb, senior mud and in blowing dust . .. to along with the Association's Presi­ from Seymour, to ease out of his entertain millions while bearing dent, Manuel DeBusk and Presi­ big bass horn and join Mssrs. our colors. You've scattered our dent-Elect Pete Baker. Hope was in DeBusk, Baker and Hope right brand ofgoodwill everywhere. Lubbock to promote his Novem­ now. Because you have brought es­ ber 22 appearance which benefited This is the Climax of the teem and recognition to campus the Ex-Students Association aca­ "Golden Tale ... Tech's 50th and city, the president and presi­ demic student recruiting and schol­ Anniversary Homecoming" .. . dent elect and Bob Hope, acting arship program. Conferring by the Ex-Students for the Texas Tech Ex-Students As the Band made its final bow Association of its first annual Association and your many, following their steller performance, "Community Service Award", many fans bestow this first-ever the voice of the Goin' Band, Leon with similar beautiful plaques to annual "Community Service Harris, presented the following be given each future homecoming Award" to the Goin' Band from dialogue: to a campus organization selected Raider/and. for unique and exceptional con­ Congratulations! Goin' Band, please freeze for tributions to the mutual good of a big surprise! Heading toward Texas Tech University and the The Ex-Students Association the west sideline 50 is Mr. Man­ Lubbock community. Community Service Award will be uel DeBusk of Dallas, Class You 320 bandsmen on the field presented annually to a Campus of '33, president of the Texas represent eight great marching Organization that has done an out­ Tech Ex-Students Association. and concert bands at Tech with standing service to the community With him, Mr. Pete Baker of over 450 enrolled musicians. of Lubbock. Abilene, class of'61, Association You've done us all proud! Mag-

THE TEXAS TECHSAN/JAHUARY 11 Five Staff Members Receive 'Top Tech san' Award

Five Texas Tech employees were honored as the 1974 "Top Techsans" at a luncheon The Texas Tech Ex-Students of the Ex-Students Association Council during homecoming festivities. Stand­ Association's Top Techsan Staff ing are G. W. "Scotty" Scott, left, general services foreman, and H(Jrry Arthur, asso· Award was presented to five out­ ciate director of the Textile Research Center. Seated, from left to right, are Gerie L. Pirkey, chief accountant for Research Accounting and Reporting; Nancy Lance, ac­ standing members of the Tech counting clerk in charge of Jones Stadium seat options in the athletic office; and Cliff staff during the Association's Award Stogner, shopforemanfor the Texas Tech Press. Luncheon Friday of Homecoming. This years recipients, the second group to be so honored included Tech. The recipients are judged on Stogner began working for the Tech Harry Arthur, associate director of their loyalty to the institution, and Press during 1960. Miss Pirkey's the Textile Research Center; Cliff quality of service to students, the employment began in 1949, Scott's Stogner, shop foreman for the university community and city com­ in 1954 and Mrs. Lance's in 1957. Texas Tech Press; Miss Gerie munity as well as their integrity and The five were honored at a Friday Pirkey, chief accountant for Re­ moral character. afternoon reception in the Ex­ search Accounting; Gaines W. Scott, In his remarks prior to presenting Students Association building. They general services foreman; and Mrs. the awards Chairman Formby were also special guests at the Texas Nancy Lance, accounting clerk in stated, "This Top Techsan Staff Tech Century Club dinner that charge of stadium seat options at the Award in the only award that I night. athletic office. know of that recognizes outstand­ The first recipients who received Clint Formby, '49 Chairman of ing members of the non-academic, the award last year included Mrs. the Texas Tech Board of Regents untenured staff. I congratulate the Gertrude Morse '35, director of and a past president of the Ex­ Association on establishing this food service, University Center; Students Association made the pre­ award. For, in recognizing these Mrs. Kathryn Durham '34, assist­ sentations on behalf of the Ex­ five outstanding people today, you ant to the dean of the College of Students Association. are also recognizing all members of Arts and Sciences; Lewis N. Jones, This was the second year that the the University staff for the fine job '38, dean of students; Miss Jerry top Techsan Staff Award has been they too, are doing for Texas Tech. Kirkwood '54, Campus Planning presented to full time, non-teaching, Arthur a 1949 graduate of Committee coordinator; and Mrs. non-tenured staff personnel with at Texas Tech has been with the Tex­ Jean Jenkins, '35, director of the least 10 years of service at Texas tile engineering facilities since 1960. Placement Service.

10 THR TUM TICHIAN/.IANUARY Myers' Raiders Enter Conference Race

From Hertz one year to A vis the next. After winning the Southwest Con­ ference title in 1972-73, the Red Raiders tied for second last year, a game back of the pace set by Texas. The Techsans did have the best sea­ son record among the SWC schools (17-9), however, and registered wins over nationally-ranked teams Hous­ ton and Nevada-Las Vegas. The 1974-75 non-conference schedule offered a tough challenge, as well, with a number of perennial basketball powers as opponents. "We always play a tough non-con­ ference schedule," says Myers in an understatement. The Raiders have finished their non-conference play this season with a 7-5 won-loss record. Two of the losses came during a three-game absence when 6-9 Rick Bullock was out of the lineup with injuries. To cope with the schedule, Myers has had his frontline back intact­ forwards Grady Newton and Wil­ liam Johnson, and center Rick Bul­ lock. But out front the amiable Tech coach has had to rely on sophs Keith Kitchens and Steve Dunn and Sen­ iors Phil Bailey and Bryan Mauk,

THI TIXM TICHIANI.IANUARY 11 who only started I 0 games between them last year. Those four have to replace the departed Richard Little and Don Moore, who gave steady guard play for two years. Some people have equated the 6-9 Bullock to "the franchise." Maybe he's just a part owner. The junior pivot man was a first team All-SWC selection last year, after making second team as a fresh­ man. "The Bull" led the SWC in field goal percentage for the second consecutive year (58.7), was fourth in scoring (21.4) and fifth in re­ bounding (1 0. 7). "Rick's one of the top centers in America," says Myers. "He's po­ tential All-American." Bullock is tough inside and out and he reported to Tech in the best shape of his career this year. In the 9 of the 12 non-conference games this season that he played in, Bullock has averaged 22.7 points a sewed up one of the forward spots play. Rudy Liggins came off the game and has averaged 11.4 re­ in non-conference play with a 10 bench in that game to score 18 bounds a game. point per game scoring average. points in the second half. Newton seems to have pretty well However, Rudy Liggins, a touted Overall, the Red Raiders have junior college transfer from John­ better team speed than last year and son County, Kansas has seen a lot of fans can expect to see more fast BASKETBALL SCORES 1T 98, Adams State 72 action despite a pre-season shoulder breaks. Rebounding should be im­ 1T 65, Kansas State 88 injury. proved with a year's experience 1T 86, Vanderbilt 95 Myers says Johnson is "one of gained on the frontline. 1T 70, New Mexico 50 the top forwards in the conference." The defense has been exception­ 1T 76, Dayton 67 He plays both ends of the court ally strong this year and no doubt 1T 64, LaSalle 73 1T 90, Mississippi 85 strong." Through the first twelve was a big factor in the surprising 1T 60, Arizona 62 games this season he has averaged wins over Dayton, New Mexico, 1T 72, Oklahoma State 62 15.5 points and 10 rebounds a game. Houston and the overtime game 1T 45, Creighton 51 It has been a tight race between with Arizona. 1T 86, Houston 82 Dunn, Kitchens, and Bailey for the 1T 66, Oklahoma Baptist 51 Myers still thinks the big question starting guard spots. However, mark about the team is how the SCHEDULE Mauk and the only freshman recruit, young guards will perform. He Jan. 21-Arkansas Fayetteville 6-3 Mike Edwards, has seen a lot of seems somewhat pleased in the Jan. 25- Texas, Austin activity at guard. pre-conference games but con­ Jan. 28-Texas A&M, Lubbock "Dunn is a good driver and has Feb. 1-TCU, Fort Worth ference play could be something Feb. 4-Baylor, Lubbock good quickness. Keith is a good else. Feb. 8-Rice, Houston passer, with a good outside shot. "The Southwest Conference may Feb. 11-SMU, Lubbock We'll count on Bryan against pres­ be the toughest it's ever been," Feb. 15--Rice, Lubbock sing defenses," Myers says. says Myers. "A&M and Arkansas Feb. 18-SMU, Dallas Phil Bailey has been described Feb. 22-Arkansas, Lubbock are real strong, and Texas, Baylor Feb. 25--Texas A&M, College as one of the best outside shooters and TCU are improved." Station in the conference. Bailey, a 6-3 Many people pick Tech No. 1. Mar. 1-Texas, Lubbock senior, hit 21 points in the win over One thing's for sure, after being Mar. 4-Baylor, Waco Houston and has a 10.9 point per No. 2, Myer's Red Raiders will be Mar. 8-TCU, Lubbock game average in non-conference trying harder.

12 THR TRXAS TRCHSAN/oiANUARY March 19-28

A curious mixture ofth e old and new! See the highlights ofth is majestic capital-the magnificent Royal Palace, Puerto del Sol, the Prado Museum with its collections of Spanish masters-Goya, Velazquez, ElGreco. R etiro Park, Cibeles Cir­ cle, Plaza De Espana.

Explore boulevards and enjoy Madrid 's fine shops­ - Mantillas, suede, leather goods-bullfights, splashingfoun­ tains, shady parks. Cafes to castanets, fiery Flamenco dane­ mg.

Feast on all the varied marvels of this colorful, sensuous city-theaters, elegant cabarets. An imaginative itinerary with a fiesta offeatures. Ole!

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By Miller Bonner Raiders belted Texas on Sept. 28 and moved into the Avalanche-Journal Sports Staff nation's Top Ten with an impressive 2-0-1 record that included a season-opening win over Iowa State (24-3), a Delightful ... Controversial ... Disgusting ... tie with New Mexico (21-21) and the Texas victory. Promising .. . In fact, an untried quarterback, sophomore Tommy The 1974 version of Texas Tech football could be Duniven, had combined talents with senior flanker Lawrence Williams to deliver the death blows to the labeled any of the above: Delightful in the fact that a Longhorns. young football team registered a monumental win over Duniven and Williams rocked the Texas secondary Texas ... Controversial in the light of a change-over with touchdown passes of 77, 15 and 18 yards en route in the coaching staff ... Disgusting considering a late­ to being named the National Backs of the Week by the season slump that saw three of the final four games slip Associated Press. away from the Red Raiders . . . and Promising as Steve Tech had vaulted into the national limelight and had Sloan gives the Red Raider faithful new-found hope taken control of the Southwest Conference race with that the Tech date with the elusive Cotton Bowl might 60 minutes of the finest football ever played by a Red just be right around the corner. Raider eleven. Sloan, whose Vanderbilt team met and tied (6-6) Yet, the prophesied problems with inexperienced per­ Jim Carlen's Red Raiders in the '74 Peach Bowl, took formers was just two short weeks away from being fulfilled. over as Tech head football coach shortly after the At­ After holding off a determined Oklahoma State out­ lanta classic. fit by a 14-13 margin, Carlen took his youngsters to The 30-year-old ex-Alabama all-American quickly College Station for a fateful meeting with Texas A&M. won the hearts and support of Tech fans statewide The Aggies administered a 28-7 beating to the young with his easy-going, down-home-country-boy nature. Raider's pride, snapping a 13-game winning streak He promised "hard work, coupled with honesty," that dated back to the 1973 campaign. Only Duniven's and, with a grin, a football team that would try their 58-yard, fourth-quarter scamper saved Carlen's crew best to put lots of points on the scoreboard. from suffering a shutout. With 14 returning starters off 1974's 6-4-2 squad, The following week, Tech returned home to host Sloan has the nucleus for a fine team in his initial year. ninth ranked and undefeated Arizona. In a defense­ The returning players have tasted the sweetest of dominated affair, the Raiders registered a costly 17-8 victory. Duniven suffered a back injury that would victories and the bitterest of defeats as the '74 season began on a high note. The head coach at Vanderbilt, Steve Sloan, and then Red An uninformed visitor, thrust into Texas Tech's Jones Raider Coach Jim Carlen admire the Peach Bowl Champion· Stadium that historical afternoon in September, would ship Trophy. A few days later, Sloan replaced Carlen as Raider have witnessed seemingly strange behavior from thou­ head coach. sands of Red Raider fans. Whether dancing in the aisles or singing joyously, the members of Carlen's congregation had ample reason to celebrate and a glance at the scoreboard quickly ex­ plained all the merriment. Tech had just handed mighty Texas a decisive 26-3 setback in a game that would eventually represent the pinnacle of the Raider's roller-coaster season that con­ cluded with the Peach Bowl affair against Vanderbilt. Carlen, the Tennessee native who has led the Tech­ sans to four bowl appearances in his first five years as head coach, warned before the season began that his 1974 Red Raiders were dangerously inexperienced. "We lost too many first-rate football players off last year's team," Carlen preached to all listeners referring to the 1973 Tech squad that posted a sterling 11-1 record. "Losing six all-conference players that included one all-American will hurt. We have too many young, inexperienced players in key positions." But those words were quickly forgotten when the

M THI TIXAS TI!CHSAN/oiANUARY curtail his effectiveness for weeks but another sopho­ more quarterback, Don Roberts, stepped in and per­ formed admirably, throwing a six-yard TD pass to the elusive Williams and leading Tech to a final-period score that iced the Raider win. Roberts continued his winning ways seven days later against SMU with help from defensive end Tommy Cones. Tech, on the strength of an 11-yard TD juant by Roberts and two field goals by artificial-legged kicking specialist Brian Hall, bulled to a 13-7 lead over the pesky Mustangs. But SMU stormed back in the third quarter and grabbed a 17-10 advantage. At that point, Cones broke through the SMU line and blocked a punt which Tech converted in to the game­ winning touchdown four plays later. Larry Isaac, the Raider sophomore tailback voted Newcomer of the Year in the Southwest Conference as a freshman, scored the actual TD on a two-yard plunge which brought his rushing total for the day to 125 yards. Now boasting a 5-1-1 record and back in the graces of the national pollsters, Carlen carried his Raiders to Houston for a meeting with the winless Rice Owls. There were no Tech fans dancing in the aisles that day, however, after Rice romped to a surprising 21-7 triumph in a game that magnified Carlen's preseason fears. Three Tech quarterbacks, two sophomores and a freshman, tried to ignite some spark in the dormant Raider offense but succeeded in only throwing costly interceptions or fumbling at equally inopportune times. Again, however, Tech bounced back by pasting a lArry Isaac, Raider sophomore tailback, was awarded the 28-0 loss on TCU and, on the same afternoon, accepting trophy for best offensive player in the Peach Bow/. the first Peach Bowl invitation in the school's history pending, of course, on the outcome of the SWC race. 415 yards per game, was shut down to a mere 200 by A week later, the Tech fans began packing for the trip to Atlanta after their Raiders dropped a 17-10 the rugged Raider defense. decision to Cotton Bowl-bound Baylor. And two Raider backs--Isaac, voted the game's top Dark clouds gathered again over the Techsans as offensive player, and Hoskins--rambled for more than Arkansas, in the regular-season finale for both teams, 100 yards each. Still, the Techsans couldn't penetrate invaded Jones Stadium and pasted a 21 -13 setback on the Vandy goal line. the Raiders. Disgusted, no doubt, by the adverse publicity given Boasting a 6-4-1 record, the Peach Bowl had histori­ the Peach Bowl trip since Tech officials agreed to pur­ cal-significance for Carlen's crew. Only a win over Van­ chase 6,000 ti~;kets at a cost of nearly $45,000, the derbilt stands between the 11 Raider seniors and a Tech players ~ere also faced with a question-mark bright page in the Tech history books. Over the past coach. Carlen, by the Dec. 28th Peach Bowl, had al­ three seasons, Carlen's Raiders have posted a 25-9-1 ready announced plans to join the University of South mark. The 1932-34 team under coach Pete Cawthon Carolina. won 25 games. Little did the Raider players and followers know Also, the '7 4 Peach Bowl game marks the first time that just across the Atlanta Stadium field stood the man Tech has played in bowl games for three consecutive destined to become the eighth head coach in Tech's seasons. football history. But against Steve Sloan's Vandy team, the Raiders Ironically, Carlen accepted the Raider job after his managed only two Hall field goals. And Commodore then West Virginia team beat South Carolina in the Mark Adams matched Hall's efforts with two of his 1969 Peach Bowl. own. But 1974 was that kind of year, full of every emo­ But the 6-6 tie that shown from the Atlanta Stadium tion the human mind can imagine. Raider fans were scoreboard was misleading. Vandy, boasting the sixth­ treated to a vintage year. 1974 was, indeed, anything best offensive team in the nation averaging more than but boring.

THE TEXAS TECHIAN/JANUARY 25 Dr. Grover E. Murray, Texas Tech Carolina. They were Richard Bell, Bob Jim Carlen Moves president, said, "I regret both personally Brown, Marc Dove '73, Dale Evans, and professionally that Coach Carlen is Jack Fligg, Dick Rader and Jerry Sul­ to South Carolina leaving. He has done a good job and has livan. contributed to a clean, quality ath­ Tom Wilson '65, Jess Stiles, and Ted Jim Carlen, head football coach at letic program at Texas Tech. The people Unbehagen have not yet announced Texas Tech for the past five years, in higher education do move from time their plans. resigned to accept the position as head to time and if Jim feels this is the posi­ Another assistant, John Conley, had football coach and associate athletic tion for him, we wish him and his previously been named Assistant Ath­ director at the University of South family Godspeed." letic Director. Carolina. Coach Jim Carlen said, upon accepting Carlen has just finished the first Coach Carlen's appointment was ef­ the new position, "I hate to leave my year of a 10 year contract at Tech. He fective Dec. 28., after his Texas Tech players and friends but the new received a 5 year contract at South Red Raiders played Vanderbilt in the position gives me a chance to direct my Carolina. Peach Bowl. own football program." Clint Formby, Chairman of the Texas Athletic D irector J T King said, "We Tech Board of Regents said, "I have at the Athletic Department appreciate mixed emotions in learning of Coach the fine job Coach Carlen has done for Luchsinger to Head Carlen's resignation. He has provided Texas Tech. We wish him well in his Texas Tech and our football program Business Association new position." outstanding leadership and tremendous growth during his five years as head foot­ Carlen's teams at Tech had a 37-19- The newly organ­ ball coach. We wish him well in his new 2 won-loss record. They went to four ized 1,000 member position at South Carolina. Jim has been post season games during the five Allied Association an integral part in helping the entire years. of Southern Business Tech athletic program become one of the Seven of Carlen's assistants at Tech Associations has finest in the entire nation." joined him in the move to South named as its first executive director Dr. Louise Luch­ KTXT-FM had a campaign on campus during Homecoming to raise funds for a 1,000- singer '55 of the volt stereo transmitter. Tony Gustwick, left, presents a check from the Ex-Students marketing faculty in Association to Carl Pendley, one of the station announcers. . Texas Tech Univer­ sity's College of Business Administration. Dr. Luchsinger has just completed a one-year term as president of the Southern Marketing Association. It was at that association's annual meeting Nov. f3- 16. iii Atlanta -that the new or­ ganization was formed. It includes the Southern Management Association, the Southern Risk and Insurance Associa· tion, and the marketing group. As executive director, Dr. Luchsinger will have responsibility for completing the merger of the business groups and planning and executing the meetings and annual activities of the ASBA profes· sional units. The next meeting is sched· uled for November 1975 in New Orleans. Most members of the new association are in academics, the executive director said, but there will be an emphasis in encouraging business executives to join. "By combining into one group," she said, "we expect to gain greater flexi- · bility in our programming and a better flow of knowledge. The disciplines in­ cluded are related, and it is important to share information. This can better be done within a single organization than among three separate groups." Prof. Luchsinger is a member of the Prof. Carl H. Stem has been appointed support to Prof. Stem's office and will Advisory Council to the National Satel­ associate dean for the College of Busi­ continue teaching courses in their areas. lite Educational Program, an associate noss Administration and he will work Until the recent appointments, there editor of the Social Science Quarterly, closely with the dean's office in all ac­ was only one associate dean, Dr. Robert and has held numerous other national, tivities of the college. He is a full pro­ D. Amason, who has resigned that posi­ regional and local offices. She is known fessor in the Area of Finance. tion to return to full time teaching in the both for her lectures and her profes­ "Stem will have prime responsibility Area of Marketing. sional writing. Her research interest is in for the overall internal administration of Whitehead will continue "to develop behavioral science in business and ad­ the college and for its functions within the acceptance and stature of the grad­ ministration. the university community," Dean Steele uate programs that have been obtained said. "He will work with the faculty, during the past two years," Steele said. area coordinators, students and staff in Dock will continue development in the BA Appointments, the on-going development of the educa­ area of research. Steele said the office tional, special services and research will work toward securing funds to sup­ Changes Announced programs of the college." port and recognize curriculum develop­ Other appointments to associate dean­ ment as part of the research activity. Dean Jack D. Steele of the College of ships are Carlton Whitehead, professor Taylor will have responsibility for Business Administration at Texas Tech of management, for graduate studies; monitoring the budget. He and Charles University has announced appointments Tom Dock, associate professor of in­ Neil are developing internal control and administrative changes "to recog­ formation systems and quantitative procedures to improve efficiency and nize the major thrusts of the college." sciences for research and Haskell Taylor effectiveness in the use of the College of Those thrusts are in the areas of educa­ '36, professor of accounting, for admin­ Business Administration funds. They tional programs, research and admini­ istration. also will coordinate special program stration. All three will give administrative activities.

Tech Junior Elected VP of Speech Group smart birds Lou Echols, junior audiology major at Texas Tech University from Albuquer: que, N.M., was elected vice-president of the National Student Speech and Hearing Association at a Las Vegas, Nev., con­ are:ntching vention recently. She will hold the office during the 1975-76 academic year. The meeting was held in conjunction with the American Speech and Hearing Association.

ELEC IRIC HEAT! Gustwick Moves to North Texas State

Tony Gustwick '62 resigned as As­ sistant Director of the Texas Tech Ex­ Students Association in early December to accept the posi­ tion as Director of the North Texas State University Alumni Association effective January 2. Gustwick worked part-time for the Association as a student and a short time full-time before entering the mili­ tary service in 1963. He returned to the Association in 1965 and has been em· ployed here since that time. Gustwick has been involved in all phases of Association activities. At NTSU he replaces Dr. Ray Lewis, who has ~n named Associate Director for education placement in the Office of Career Planning and Placement. Gustwick, a 1962 Tech araduate with a bachelor of business administration, was a member of Alpha Phi Omeaa

THI TUM *"'-'MNUAIIY 17 Service Fraternity and served as Chair­ man of the Homecoming Committee as a student at Tech. He is married to the former Betsy Grimes from Carrolton and they have two children, Bobby and Susan. In commenting on Gustwick's resigna­ tion, Wayne James stated, "I deeply hate to see Tony leave the Association. He has been a very dedicated worker and has represented the Association well. I have enjoyed working with him these many years and wish him continued suc­ cess in his new position at NTSU."

Tech Has Outstanding Engineering Society

The Texas Tech University chapter of Alpha Pi Mu, industrial engineering honor society, has been named the out­ standing chapter in the nation for the 1973-74 academic year. The selection was based on chapter and university activities which advance or promote the university and its stu­ dents, which better the field of industrial Wayne James, right, executive director of the Texas Tech University Ex-Students engineering and which affect the ad­ Association, delivers a $300 check to students campaigning for funds to finance their vancement and improvement of Alphi portion of the traditional Carol of Lights. Accepting the contribution are Richard Pi Mu on the general and national Brock, vice president for men of the Residence Hall Association, and Tory Olejer, levels. There are 50 chapters in the president of Chitwood Hall and general chairman of the Carol of Lights Program. The United States. Residence Hall Association, sponsor of the program, had assumed responsibility for Prof. H. J . Mackenzie of the Depart­ raising half the cost of the lighting project. · ment of Industrial Engineering is faculty sponsor and national vice-president of the honorary. The chapter will receive the industrial engineering. They are the David Trotter is president of the Texas a trophy in recognition of the achieve­ top one-third of the industrial engi­ Tech chapter; Carlton Kupp, vice presi­ ment. neering senior class, the top fifth of the dent and recording secretary; and Steve It is made up of 35 members, all junior class, and graduate students with Martin, corresponding secretary and undergraduate or graduate students in a grade point average of 3.5 or better. treasurer.

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Ia THI! TI!XM TICHaAN/.IANUARY from the PEACH BOWL There has been a lot of discussion and a lot written about Tech's visit to the Peach Bowl. We don't know who made the editor's notebook agreement, how many tickets were sold or any of the details. We do know that over 300 Exes and other Red Raider 1HIS AND THAT s~pporters attended an Association sponsored pre"game recep­ Extensions of the Tech Campus now includes 2,240 acres tion early the morning of the game in a downtown Atlanta in two tracts near B~ownfield in Terry County, 981 acres of hotel. Most of those present were Exes from the Southern land near New Deal m North Lubbock County and 430 acres States that had purchased their tickets in Atlanta. at Jun~tion . The University also has title to and use rights on Our hat is tipped to our family physician, Dr. James Mat· approximately 14,000 acres of land at Amarillo (Pantex). In tllews of Lubbock for having purchased the largest single num­ addition, a Health Center in El Paso and Amarillo will soon ber of tickets for the game at the Tech ticket office. He pur­ expand Texas Tech even further. chased 16 tickets for his family and friends and they had their The Ex-Students Association is trying to complete a set of own cheering section at the game. La Ventaoas for the Association Office. A copy of each of the years of 1932 through 1945 are needed. Should you have an TECH'S NEW COACH extra copy, why not send it to the Association? Everywhere we looked in Atlanta we saw people wearing little badges with the words, "We Believe in Steve" on them OUR SWC FRIENDS referring to Vanderbilt coach Steve Sloan. It seems that the impression that most Red Raider fans Alumni Association staffs at Texas A&M and SMU have been most helpful to the Association staff at Tech this fall in have of him is the same. He has made a real good first impres­ helping to arrange pregame functions. sion in Lubbock. It was announced in Lubbock the night of January 1 that It is almost totally impossible to locate a place to have a he had accepted the coaching job at Tech. It was also pointed pregame function in College Station. This year the Association out that everyone was invited to a 4 P.M. reception for him of Former Students at A&M rearranged the schedule of one two days later at the Ex-Student Association Building. of their class reunions in order to let their Tech friends have a At 4 P.M. on that cold Friday afternoon, more than 240 room for a Tech function. people had crowded into the Building and there was a long line In Dallas, the SMU Alumni Association made room for of people outside waiting to get in. There was such a traffic the Tech Exes at their annual Homecoming Barbecue. More jam that Coach Sloan was even late arriving. than 1,800 grads and former students of the two schools met The people waiting in line outside were cold and to try to and had lunch together in a building adjacent to the Cotton warm them up, the Association staff started serving hot coffee Bowl. John Wooldridge '70 and David Darden '63 were in to them. In all, coffee and punch were served in less than an charge of coordinating arrangements for the Association with hour to more than 800 persons. SMU. The funny thing is that the Association staff was all so At the Dallas function it was amazing to notice that a large busy making and serving coffee that only one of us got to meet number of Tech Exes had married former students from SMU. the new coach. The lucky staff member was Mn. Katby Brewer They all seemed to like the idea of a joint function before the who presented Coach Sloan a DoubleT tie from the Association. game. So maybe after recruiting season is over, we will get the opportunity, like many of you, to meet Coach Steve Sloan.

1HIS ISSUE Two of the articles in this issue are written by Miller Bonner '73, a sportswriter for the Lubbock Avalanche­ Journal, Miller served several years as Sports Editor of the University Daily and as an officer of the Saddle Tramps. We first got acquainted with Miller several years ago when we were trying to hitch hike back to Lubbock after a Tech­ SMU game in Dallas. As many Exes no doubt will agree, you can learn a lot about a student when you hitch hike with him. On this particular trip I learned that he is a top young man, a big Tech supporter in addition to being a good sports writer. I almost forgot to add that Saddle Tramp sponsor Joe Wlnepr stopped to pick us up before we got out of the drive way of the Dallas hotel. He already had a car full of people, but what's two more after a big victory over SMU. David Darden (left) and John Wooldridge are shown with Frank lvey, Alumni Director at SMU, be/ore the joint barbe­ cue. BASKETBALL GAMES BROADCAST Red Raider basketball fans in much of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico will be able to hear the radio broadcasts FLYING RED RAIDERS of the conference games this season. Quite. o~en we receive phone calls or letters asking about An AM or FM station in Hobbs, New Mexico, Lamesa, the Association sponsored travel group trips. We are always Hereford, Pampa, and Levelland are broadcasting the games happy to explain how the previous trips have been a Jot of fun in addition to the two stations in Lubbock. Additional stations for those Exes going, are much cheaper than a person can go may be added to the network. on their own, and other things. Fans are encouraged to con.tact their local station for the But probably the best testimonial is the fact that the f'lfSt broadcast time. Some stations are featuring a delayed broadcast ten persons to sign up for the trip to Spain in March were due to local high school games on Tuesday nights. Exes that bad gone on the trips to London or Rome in 1973- JaCk Dale announces the games and Bob Nub handles the 74. color on the Red Raider basketball network.