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President's Message
MEMBER
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Your
Alvin O. Austin
Publisher
W. Bruce Cook
Editor
NOW (USPS #307-200) is
published quarterly by
L~eTourneau Universitv. 210l0
S. Mobbcrlv Longview TX
5602. Sent free upon
request to Editor, PO. Box
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Longview, Texas 75607.
UNIVERSITY
ADMINISTRATION
Alvin O. Austin
President
Russell Primrose
lice President
for Academic Affairs
James E Stjrnstrom
I'i r president
for (* itct-si/
Advancemenn
Dave Erickson
tice President ofStudent
Affairs and Institutional
Planning
Roger Kieffer
Dean ofEnrollment
Management
Earl Martin
Director ofGeneral
Ser-ices
Johnny Williams
Vice President of Business
and Finance
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Alvin Austin
S. E. Belcher
Delbert Bright
Ray Davis
Louise Dick
Charles Ferguson
Deb Fulghum
Paul Glaske
Billy Harris
Dale Hill
Calvin Howe
Tom Hunt
Harry Jeffcoat, Jr.
HaroldJordan
Keith McCoy
\. R. Roskam
B. F. Starr
w\illiam Stegall
Tames Stiernstrom
Nels Stjernstrom
Ammon Stoltzfus
Bill Stowers
Randel Stringer
Mike Stubblefield
John Thomas
Robert Thorne
Wayne Trull
Richard Walton
Clair Weller
Donald WolgemuthStudents Demonstrate Leadership Ability
MAKING A DIFFERENCE. This
headline in the Longview News-
Journal captured the reader's eye.
Above the headline was a picture
of LeTourneau University students
working on a home in the run-
down Stamper Park residential
area of Longview. The
accompanying article shared the
details of how more than 200
LeTourneau students were
working to repair 11 houses as
part of a local Operation Clean
Sweep program. They replaced
roofs, repaired porchs, replaced
windows and screens, painted
and did whatever was necessary
to make these houses more
habitable. Only two weeks before
final exams and these students
were giving up a weekend to
MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the
lives of some of the less fortunate
in our own community.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE. The
local ABC television affiliate,
KLTV, sent a news team to Mexico
to accompany more than 120
students who gave up their spring
break and paid their own
expenses to go to four separate
areas of Mexico to build and
repair churches and to minister to
the people of Mexico. For two
nights on their prime time
newscast, KLTV vividly and
visually described how+a
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4.L. to r., Jason Gupta and Stephanie Allen paint the face of President Alvin O.
Austin in San Luis Potosi, Mexico during spring break. Austin took part in a
student drama performance as part of a week long mission effort.LeTourneau students had gone to
Mexico to make a difference.
We have a program on campus
entitled LeTour. It is designed to
bring prospective students to
campus, to let them see and feel
first hand the life and spirit of the
campus. The visiting students are
typically housed in one of the
residence hall rooms with one of
our regular students. Recently.
while a student was visiting the
campus, he expressed to his host
roommate some concern about
the spiritual climate of the
campus. This visiting student was
not a Christian and was
concerned as to whether hewanted to be a part of a campus
that sought to bring faith and
learning together in the manner
that is practiced at LeTourneau.
The host student began to share
with the visiting student the
strengths of an education that
integrates an understanding and
belief in Jesus Christ with a
thorough search for knowledge
and truth. As part of this dialogue,
our student shared his own
personal faith and through this
the visiting student was led to
accept Christ as his Lord and
Savior. MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
Earlier this month at our Spring
Commencement, Chuck Colsonchallenged our students to make a
difference in this world. Colson
reflected upon the current demise
of our culture and the need for
those who claim Christ to provide
a solution through their
commitment to family and the
church. He called upon Christian
institutions of higher education to
prepare our students to be more
than just good engineers, good
teachers or good business
professionals. At LeTourneau
University, we accept that
challenge. That is a part of our
mission as an institution. What
happens in our classrooms, in our
chapel programs, on the athletic
fields and in the residence halls is
more than just transmitting
knowledge. We are in the business
of preparing men and women to
assume roles of leadership and
responsibility in seeking solutions
to the ills of the world, to reach
out to those who are needy or
hurting, and to share the joy of
the Christ-filled life with those
who are hungering and thirsting
for righteousness.
LeTourneau University is
committed to making a
difference.
LeTourneau students are
MAKING A DIFFERENCE.IBM Donates $500,000 Vanzetti Laser
A recent equipment gift by IBM
Corporation will benefit
engineering students and faculty
at LeTourneau University.
The Vanzetti 6112 Laser
Inspection Unit, valued at
$500,000, was donated in April
through the efforts of A.D. Harms,
Jr., Director of the University's
Research and Advanced
Development Institute.
"LeTourneau University was
selected to receive this equipment
based on its outstanding
reputation in engineering,
research and advanced
development,' saidJoe Lessert,
IBM Location Manager, Tyler.
The Vanzetti consists of a 30 watt
yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG)
laser, an indium-antimony (In-Sb)
infrared detector, an X-Y
positioning table, a CCTV system,
targeting optics, and a control and
analysis computer with
supporting software.
"IBM is a world leader in
computer and information
processing technology," said
President Alvin O. Austin. "We
appreciate their investment and'K
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Lessert and Bill Hagan of IBM; A. D. Harms, Director of the Research and Advanced Development Institute, and President
Alvin O. Austin. IBM officials were on campus April 19 to donate a $500,000 Vanzetti Laser Inspection Unit to LeToumeau.partnership in private higher
education, and their support of
LeTourneau University."
The Laser Inspection Unit uses
infrared technology to monitorthe thermal profile of solder joints signatures are compared against
in response to a programmed normal joint signatures stored in
pulse of laser heating. This computer memory so that
develops thermal signatures abnormal joints may be identified
unique to each joint. The for corrected rework action.2
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