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Alumni J-TAC
Stephen F. Austin
honors McCulloughDr. Jack McCullough ('52), was
honored May 16 as the 17th
recipient of the Alumni
Association Distinguished
Professor Award. This award was
started in 1966. Dr. McCullough,
a member of the SFA biology
faculty since 1964, is active in the
study of ecology as it pertains to
freshwater. He has received
numerous grants and directed the
research of more than 40 graduate
students in the past decade. His
studies of the Trinity River and
Livingston Reservoir have brought
considerable acclaim to SFA in
scientific circles.
A 1955 graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin, Dr.
McCullough received his M.A.
degree from SFA in 1962 and his
Ph.D. from Texas A&M
University. After two years as an
officer in the U.S. Army, he
taught in the Houston public
schools before entering college
teaching.
Except for a brief teachingstint at Texas A&M, Dr.
McCullough has spent his entire
college teaching career at SFA,
progressing from instructor to full
professor.
In gaining recognition as a
researcher, Dr. McCullough has
concentrated on the
eutrophication of freshwater
environments. This, he explained,
has to do with the addition of
nitrogen and phosphorus to water
supplies, thereby producing an
excess growth of algae and rooted
plants. Such growth threatens the
quality of water, he noted. He is
further interested in freshwater
environments and plankton
ecology.
During the past 10 years Dr.
McCullough has prepared, or has
been a major contributor in the
preparation of, numerous research
proposals. Of these proposals, 24
have be funded, mostly by sources
outside the University, for a total
of $426,402.Edgar gets UT award
Arlen L. Edgar
Arlen L. Edgar ('54), has been
selected by the Engineering
Foundation Advisory Council of
the College of Engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin to
receive a Distinguished Graduate
award.
Edgar is currently an
independent oil investor and
petroleum consultant in Midland
Farm boys ho
The Lake Leon home of Jack
and Lois Locke was the setting
May 30 for the fourth reunion of
boys who had stayed on the
Tarleton Farm and worked their
way through Tarleton in the late
1930's and early 1940's.
A covered dish meal was served
Saturday evening to the
following: Monroe Wells,
Stephenville Farm Foreman at the
time the boys worked on the ,
farm; Raby and Lenola Alford,
Gatesville, Texas; Bradford Avon
and Wanda Waddle, Fayetteville,
Ark.; Odis D. Gregg, Houston,
Texas; Tommy and Jerry Toland,
Cisco, Texas; Weldon D. and Rete
Smith, Jena, La.; Tom Yager,
Atlanta, Ga.; Glen D. Gary,
Bonham, Texas; Thurman and
Syble Head, Goldthwaithe, Texas;and is president of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers. He also
belongs to the American Institute
of Mining, Metallurgical and
Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
He served as junior engineer
and intermediate engineer for Pan
American Petroleum Corporation
in Odessa and Midland, before
joining Leibrock, Landrety,
Campbell and Callaway, a
consulting petroleum engineering
firm from Midland as reservoir
engineer and manager of the
consulting division in 1961.
He transferred to Tipperary
Land and Exploration
Corporation in Midland in 1967
where he served as vice-president,
president and director in Brisbane,
Australia; and as managing
director, Australia.
In 1971, Edgar became general
manager of the Western States
Producing Company in Midland.
Edgar is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Zeddie Edgar of Stephenville.
Id reunion
Jack Hagler, Arlington, Texas;
Carroll and Eva Louise Smith,
Gatesville, Texas; Charlie and
Maurine Beasley, Raymondville,
Texas; Dane and Ashley Beasley,
Fort Worth, Texas; Marie, Bill,
and Len Johnson, Stephenville;
Dan Anderson, Stephenville; and
Emil and Nellene Blanchard, also
from Stephenville, former Farm
Shop instructor of the boys, and
the host and hostess.
Seven retire
Seven faculty and staff
members at Tarleton retired at the
end of August. The group
included Dr. Henry Lohrmann,
Dr. Richard Johnston, Dr. Russell
Peterson, Dr. Leo Purvis, Dr.
Raeford Evans, Dr. Mack McLeod,
and John Miller.SENIOR OUTING - Kathleen and Tid Watkins (L). and NIlta and Henry Todd serve themselves at the
hamburger buffet party held for the 1981 graduating class at Tarleton. The party was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Chambers with the Association board of directors as hosts and hostesses.Riley is rodeo manager
Kelly Riley ('72), a member of
the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association and graduate of
Tarleton State Univeristy, has
been promoted to team manager
of the Winston Rodeo Series.
Riley, 32, succeeds John McCarty,
who resigned recently to accept a
pdsition with a Denver advertising
and public relations firm.
Riley joined the special events
department of the R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company in January of
1977 as assistant team manager
for the Winston rodeo program.
The Fort Worth native has
been associated with the sport of
rodeo since birth. His father was a
top calf roper on the PRCA and
his mother and grandmother were
two of the top trick ropers on the
circuit. Riley's grandfather was a
steer wrestler and saddle bronc
rider in 1920's and 1930's.
After graduating from Tarleton
with an economics degree in
1972, Riley joined the PRCA. He
rode bulls and trained horsesbefore deciding to join Reynolds
Tobacco four years ago.
As team manager for the
Winston Rodeo Series, Riley will
direct the day-to-day operations
of the program which
encompasses 70 of the top PRCA
rodeos in the country. He will
handle all the advertising and
promotional aspects for the
$168,000 series in which cowboys
earn points toward the year-end
payoff. The top cowboy in each
of six events--bull riding, calf
roping, steer wrestling, saddle
bronc riding, bareback riding and
team roping, receives a $10,000
bonus.
Reynolds Tobacco also will
present a $10,000 check to the
world all around champion
determined at the National finals
rodeo in Oklahoma City in
December and $5,000 to the
world champions in bull riding,
calf roping, steer wrestling, saddle
bronc riding, bareback riding and
team roping.Howard appointed missionary
Emily Jo Howard ('81) was
among 82 young adults
commissioned as missionary
journeymen July 9 by the
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission
Board, marking the first time a
journeyman commissioning has
been held during Foreign Missions
Conference at Ridgecrest (N.C.)
Baptist Conference Center.
All college graduates under the
age of 27, the group of 82 will
work for two years in 31
countries around the globe,
assisting career missionaries and
national Baptists in evangelism,
church starting, education,
medical missions, relief and
construction.
Taking Christ's gospel
everywhere "is the most
important thing in the world,"
declared Foreign Mission Board
President R. Keith Parks as heEmily Howard
gave the new -journeymen a
missionary charge.
Of those commissioned, 28 will
work in Africa, 25 in Asia, 22 in
Middle and South America, and
seven in Europe and the Middle
East.Garry Wright
Services for
All-American
Garry Dean Wright, senior at
Tarleton State University, died
from complications after a
drowning accident on April 14 in
Stephenville. Wright was 24 years
old.
Wright and several other
Tarleton students were engaged in
"friendly horseplay" shortly after
midnight at the Royal Manor
Apartments when he was pushed
into the apartment's pool. Wright
apparently did not know how to
swim and drowned.
Wright's body was recovered
from the pool and successfully
resuscitated by students at the
scene. He was rushed to the
hospital where he succumbed to
complications arising from the
accident in the early morning.
Wright graduated from Mart
High School in 1976 where he was
an all-district linebacker two
years. He came to Tarleton to
major in physical education. A
starter on the Tarleton football
team, Wright was named to the
NAIA Division II honorable
mention All-American team at
defensive end in 1978. That year,
the Texans played Findlay College
in the Division II quarterfinals.
Sidelined from competition in
1979 with a knee injury, Wright
returned to form in 1980 and was
named first team all-conference in
the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic
Association.Page 3
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