February, 1965 ''I like present jo ' but ••• '' If you've said this, or even thought it, you're like many you have contributed to the future happiness and well· men. Their first years have been marked with success and being of many, many people. advancement, but now they feel as if they are on a "plateau" in their career progress. They find themselves To find out what the opportunities would be for YOU vaguely dissatisfied - unchallenged - and see them­ just write a personal letter about yourself to Charles H . selves not fulfilling as large a role as they KNOW they Schaaff, President, Massachusetts Mutual, at Springfield, can fill. Mass. (Be sure to tell him in what area of the United States you would most like to live and work.) It could Men like these frequently feel that they would do much be the most important letter you ever wrote! better if they were workin~ for themselves. But they are often unsure how to make the break into such work. If you feel this way, consider a future working for yourself anti Mass Mutual. MASSACHUSETTS MUTUA~ It ia a career where you meet interesting people, earn a LIFI!: INSURANCE COMPANY ~ood income and reap financial benefit in direct propor­ SI'I'IINCIFIIELD, MASSACHUSr:rrS • OI'ICIANIZED 1111 tion to effort expended. And above all, it offers a feeling of real accomplishment that comes with knowing that Somt o/tht TtxaJ Tuh alumni in MaJsachustiiJ Mutual strvice: William W. Wilson, '3 6, El Paso Spencer Blocker, '54, Lubbock Ronnie A. Foster, Lubbock Jesse C. Chambers, ' H , Lubbock Bobby L. Rains, 'H, Lubbock Leo M. Brown, Lubbock Jay R. Egan, '62, C.L.U., Lubbock EXECUTIVE BOARD Term Expires 1965 Frank Calhoun, 'S6 Lubbock . :'resident Don Anderson, '48 Crosbyton ..... First Vice President C. H. Cummings, '34 Lubbock . .. Second Vice President G. C. "Mule" Dowell, '3 S Lubbock . Athletic Council Representative Floyd Read, '48 Lubbock . Immediate Past President Wayne James, 'S7 New Deal .. ... Executive Director 2 HOME-GROWN COACH DIRECTORS Term Expires 1965 by Jim Davidson Donnell Echols, 'S 9 . Lamesa Bill Bales, 'Sl . ........... .... Tyler 5 TRIAL ON THE ROAD A. J. Kemp, '42 . ........ ..... Dimmitt Term Expires 1966 by Wayne James David Casey, '34 . Lubbock Ken Dowell, '44 .... ... ... ..... Dallas Pat Thurman 'SO . ... ..... .. .. Austin 10 GO-GO RED RAIDERS Term Expires 1967 Andy Behrends, 'Sl ... .... ... Amarillo 13 OBSERVIN' SPORTS Ralph Davis, '34 . El Paso Guion Gregg, '41 .. .. ...... Dallas by Bill Holmes LOYALTY FUND TRUSTEES Term Expires 1965 14 QUITE A YEAR Kenneth Reast, '4 S • • . • . • • • • Littlefield by Wayne James Marshall Pharr, 'S4 .......... Plainview D. N. Pope, 'SO .. Oklahoma City, Okla. Term E-1<pires 1966 18 '65 MISS MADEMOISELLE Joe Allbright, '42 . Andrews by Winston Odom P. A. Lyon, Jr., '42 ... .... Spearman Jack Maddox, '29 .... ... Hobbs, N.M. Term Expires 1967 22 SWC AT LARGE Ralph Hooks, '40 . Abilene by Mike Wall Eugene Mitchell, '3 4 . Dallas R. C. Mitchell, '37 ...... .... Lockney CHAPTER PRESIDENTS 24 SUN BOWL '64 ~bilene . ... ..... ... J. B. Fraley, 'SS by Don Enger Amarillo .............. T. M. Cox, '46 Andrews .. ..• . .. .. Roy Buckner, 'S 1 Arlington . Roy Williams, '47 27 BEHIND THE SCENE Austin . .. ......... Rex Jackson, '41 Big Spring .. .... W. D. Broughton, 'H Bryan-College Station .. Bill Jackson, 'H 28 CURRENT SCENES Cen-Tech . John T. Shires, 'S 8 Crosby County . Ed Smith, '49 Dallas . .Charles G. Stokes, '41 30 BEAR OUR BANNERS El Pas.o . .. ........... ... .. ... East Texas ...... E. J. Folsom, 'SO Floydada .... .. ... Edward J. Foster, 'S8 33 HITCHIN' POST Fort Worth .. .... .... Fred Currie, 'H Hale County . John R. Link, NCG Houston . Marion Crow, '49 Midland ...... ... Howard Parsley, 'H North Texas .. .. ... Arol Rogers, '43 Odessa . .. .... .. 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Gibson on the other hand, was a four-year letter­ Gibson's fint assistant and chief right-hand man is man for the Red Raiders from 1947-1950. In his senior also no stranger to these parts, Charlie Lynch is a product year, 1949-SO, Coach Polk Robison, now Athletic Director of Texas Tech and is beginning his fourth year as fresh­ at Texas Tech, moved Gibson from forward to center, and man coach and assistant to Gibson. told him be expected him-despite standing only 6-4--to Lynch, 27, was an aU-around athlete at Sudan High carry on the school's tradition of producing aU-Border School. While at Texas Tech, he lettered three yean in Conference centen. Gibson lived up to Robison's expecta­ basketball, those being 19S7, 19S8, and 19S9. In his sen­ tions and landed on the all-co~erence team. ior year at Tech, Lynch was one of the crowd favorites After graduating from Tech, Gibson received a coach­ and was named to several aU-Southwest Conference teams, ing job at Leveretts Chapel in East Texas and served in both fint and second squads. that capacity until 19S2. He then returned to the South Lynch graduated from Tech in 19S9 and went im- Plains as head coach at Snyder High School. He joined PAGB Two THE TEXAS TECHSAN the Texas Tech staff as Polk Robison's assistant after have been picked by almost everyone to win the South­ Snyder tied for the district title in 1953-54. west Conference in 1964-6 5. Being reminded of this fact Then, just twelve years after his graduation from doesn't seem to shake up the cool-headed Gibson much. Tech, Gene Gibson was promoted to head coach of the "Sure, it's supposed to make your games tough to Raiders when Robison moved up to the position of Ath­ win, but I don't think anything could make a South­ letic Director. west Conference basketball game more difficult, no mat­ In his final season as head coach, 1960-61, Robison had ter where they've picked you. We may as well thank the guided the Red Raiders to their first Southwest Conference folks for the compliment, then work to deserve it. title. And then, the following year, under the direction of "Jinxes don't worry me nearly as much as those seven Gibson, the Raiders repeated their previous year's perform­ teams, some of whom could just as easily have been picked ance by tying SMU for the conference championship. by the publications," Gibson commented. The "Big Red" then knocked off the Ponies in a playoff In their four years together, Gibson and Lynch have game at TCU's Amon Carter Field House to advance to the seen many fine basketball players come and go. Among NCAA regional playoffs in Dallas. these have been the likes of Del Ray Mounts, Harold Hudg­ In "Big D" Tech beat the Air Force Academy in the ens, Mac Percival, Roger Hennig, Bobby Gindorf, Sid first round of the tournament, only to bow in the second Wall, Bill Murren, Tom Patty, and now, Harold Denny, round at Manhattan, Kan., to Colorado University. Glen Hallum, Dub Malaise, and Norman Reuther. All of these have been fine individual performers, but what has The 1962 Southwest Conference championship marked really made them great is the fact that they were molded the first time that a freshman coach had even so much as into a championship team by Gene Gibson and Charlie shared a part of the title. Lynch. In many circles, Gibson was discounted, with people This year, Gene Gibson has his first crack at the saying that he was handed a championship ball team and Southwest Conference title with truly his own ball club. anyone could have led them to the title. The critics reaf­ No more has he been handed a team that won a champion­ firmed their position the following year when the Red ship a year before. This is his team, and it looks as if he Raiders posted a dismal 6-17 season record. might live up to the pre-season "No. One" billing. In his But when the 1963-64 season rolled around, Gibson's first two conference games, he has knocked off two of Red Raiders proved to be the cinderella team in the SWC the teams figured to be in the running for the SWC by reversing their previous season's record.