Echoes from the Hill Issue 1 Fall 1993 Echoes from the Hill Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office ofns I titutional Advancement and Alumni Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/echoes Recommended Citation Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni (1993) "Echoes from the Hill," Echoes from the Hill: Vol. 74 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/echoes/vol74/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Magazines at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Echoes from the Hill by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fall 1993 from the Hill Southwestern Oklahoma State University Vol. 74 , NO. 2 ECHOES WHO’S WHO?? Top; Southwestern Normal School Band of 1905 Middle: Southwestern State College Cheerleaders and ’Brandy' of 1968 Bottom; Southwestern State Normal School Football Team of 1906 inside SWOSU Alumni Officers Kurt Winden President . Special Interest M ike Freeman President-Elect Grayson Bottom Out-going President Todd Boyd Secretary Linda Redinger Treasurer 2 Distinguished Alumni Johnny Beech Parliamentarian Three Representing Southwestern Jim Waites Executive Director Board of Directors 4 Athletic Hall of Fame Arch Alexander Honoring Athletics Ed Berrong Kenneth Bibb Teed Bishop Brian Box . Foundation Larry Claxton Paul Conner George Dickey Cora Helen Gossmann 7 Noble Family Donates Art Dr. E. Van Greer, D.D.S. Family Sets up Art Scholarship Dean Ingram Doyle Jackson Robin (Blanscet) Johnson 9 Southwestern's Link to the Stars Jim Jones General Thomas P. Stafford Sets Up Scholarship Jim Litsch Peggy Litsch David Morley Terry Mosely . People Mike Muncy Kenneth New Mike North 11 Campus Clips Ron Oldfield Edd Painter Faculty/Staff and Sports Lucille Patton Stan Powers Peggy Prock 13 Alumni Album and Dawg Bites Roger Pryor Who's who, where's where and what's what Don Roberts Otis Sanders, Jr. Charles G. Torbeck, II Bill Ware ECHOES from the Hill Basil Weatherly Don Weeks Glenn Wright Editor.....................................................................................................Brandy Becker Harold Wright Alumni Director.........................................................................................Jim Waites Ex-officio Members Echoes from the Hill is published semi-annually by the Southwestern Oklahoma Slate University Office of Dr. Joe Anna Hibler Development and Alumni and mailed without charge to graduates, former students and other interested persons. Third Class postage is paid at Weatherford, OK 73096 under Permit No. 57. Change of address notices and other Lucille North correspondence should be sent to Office of Development and Alumni, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Weatherford, OK 73096. This institution, in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 as amended. Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, and other federal laws and regulations does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, handicap, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices, or procedures. This includes, but is not limited to admissions, employment, financial aid, and educational services.___________________ Dear Alumni and Friends: As we start the 1993-94 academic year, I want to express my sincere thanks to each of you for your support of Southwestern. Our paid memberships in the Alumni Association have more than doubled this past year, which reflects your loyalty to your alma mater. You are our best recruiters as you go about your daily lives and make your presence known as a Southwest­ ern graduate. With funding provided through the passage of State Questions 649 and 650, we have pur­ chased the Sayre campus, and the construction of the student union will start by early fall. On the Weatherford campus, we are currently automating and renovating the Al Harris Library. Also, we are developing plans for a classroom building and an addition to the Administration Building. Construction on these projects will start in 1994. This is the first time in 25 years that the State of Oklahoma has provided funds earmarked for space and renovations needs on the various campuses, and we are deeply appreciative of this support. However, not all of the news is good news. The 1993-94 state allocation for higher education has been reduced, so our operating budget will be 5.13 percent less than last year. We are also working with a system-wide mandate from the State Regents to “right size ” our institution and reallocate our available resources into programs that are central to our mission. This will include restructuring some programs while eliminating others. Needless to say, the next two years will be critical years in Oklahoma higher education and impact on the future of Southwestern. Homecoming is September 25. Come back to “The Hill!” As usual, 1 Making Their Mark Bates, Capshew, and Romig named Distinguished Alumni James R. Bates Charles Capshew William R. Romig Three Southwestern Oklahoma State and the Japanese Spacelab flights. His Bates served as co-chairman of the Space University alumni will be inducted into the present challenge is die Hubble Space Tele­ Radiation Environment Group diat devel­ school’s Distinguished Alumni Hall of scope servicing mission in late 1993. oped the space radiation monitoring net­ Fame during homecoming activities on Sat­ Born and raised in Clinton, Okla., work and instrumentation that provided urday, September 25, 1993. Bates was valedictorian of the 1958 Clinton solar flare warnings and radiation measure­ The honorees are Tunes R. Bates High School graduating class. He received ments for die Apollo crews on the moon. and Charles E. Capshew, both of Houston, a bachelor of science degree, Magna Cum During the last four lunar flights, Bates Texas, and William Robert Romig of Los Laude, in physics and mathematics from managed the science operations of the five Angeles, Calif. The trio will be recognized SWOSU in 1962. He was a member of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packag­ at the Southwestern Alumni and Friends Physics Club for four years and served as es placed on die moon by the astronauts. Luncheon at 11:30a.m. in die Student Union president during his senior year. He is mar­ From 1969-76, he was co-investigator for Ballroom with formal induction scheduled ried to die former Rosalie Lewis, also of the Lunar Dust Detector experiments left during half-time of die 2 p.m. football game. Clinton, and they have two children, Terri on die moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15 as part SWOSU President Joe Anna Hibler will and James II. of the ALSEP. Bates was project manager present each with a plaque. In 1962, Bates accepted a position for two experiments flown on the Apollo- Tickets for the Alumni and Friends at the National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ Soyuz mission. Luncheon are $7 and must be purchased in ministration Manned Spacecraft Center in Assigned to the NASA Shuttle Pro­ advance. Tickets are available in the Houston as a Mercury Plight Controller. He gram office in 1978, Bates has been lead SWOSU Alumni and Development Office participated in various flight controller as­ flight integration manager for 11 shuttle located in Room 201 of the Administration signments during Mercury flights six and flights to date and has directly supported 14 Building. Tickets also can be reserved by seven, all of the Gemini flights and die early other flights. Flight integration support be­ calling 774-3267. Apollo test flights. During the last Gemini gins approximately two years prior to flight, JAMES R. BATES is currently a flight in 1966, Bates was responsible for includes definition of flight elements, con­ senior (light integration manager of die establishing the Mission Control Center struction of the flight and participation dur­ Space Shuttle Program at the Johnson Space position of experiments officer that became ing die flight in the Mission Control Center. Center in Houston, Texas. Some of his the current payload officer. During the pe­ CHARLES E. CAPSHEW has most recent assignments have been as lead riod of 1962-67, Bates was instrumental in worked with Phillips 66 Company for 16 flight integration manager for die Hubble the hiring of 21 Southwestern graduates for years having been assigned nine different Space Telescope deployment, die Comp­ the space program at Houston. ton Gamma Ray Observatory deployment During the manned Apollo flights, Continued on page 3... 2 ...continued from page 2 Three to receive Southwestern's highest honor jobs. Capshew has made two significant contri­ activities. Capshew is still a member of lence in several bacteria that cause disease. butions to Phillips 66. First, he invented a poly­ the ACS and the Society of Plastics Together, Romig and his workers ethylene catalyst which is commercial today Engineers. He served as chapter pres­ have published about 100 scientific papers worldwide and is currently the basis for millions ident of the Bartlesville-Tulsa section in various journals. About 25 doctorate of dollars in sales in Phillips. Secondly, he spent of SPE in 1982-83. students have trained in his lab with most of five years helping to start up a new subsidiary, WILLIAM ROBERT them spending from four to six years in the Catalyst Resources, Inc. He traveled the world ROMIG graduated from Clinton High process. He has witnessed the progress of helping to establish the business and, in the School in 1944 as the class valedicto­ students to various government and indus­ process, became knowledgeable about the world­ rian. He attended the University of trial laboratories as well as positions at wide polyolefin industry as well. Oklahoma and then graduated from various academic institutions. During the most recent five years, Cap­ Southwestern in 1948 with a degree in Romig has served as a visiting in- shew has been involved in a variety of assign­ education.