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I
UBRARY OF
kR STATE eOLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGS
The KEDBIRD
Vol. 20 No. 27
Lamar State College of Technology May 15, 1970
Becky Lind Sitton Crowned
New Miss Lamar Tech
Becky Lind Sitton
Miss Lamar Tech 1970
Dr. Teller to Speak
At Commencement
Becky Lind Sitton, 19 year old
sophomore medical technology
major from Beaumont, was
crowned Miss Lamar Tech 1970
in ceremonies Saturday.
The new queen sang the old
Showboat tune “My Man* which
was popularized by Helen Mor-
gan and featured by Fanny Brice
in the Ziegfeld Follies and more
recently in hit rendition by Bar-
bra Streisand.
A standing-room-only audi-
ence witnessed the proceedings
which were sponsored by the
Student Government Association.
Miss Sitton, sponsored by the
Memorial Funeral Home of Vi-
dor, will represent Lamar in
the Miss Texas pageant at Fort
Worth in July.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph F. Sitton of Beau-
mont and is a member of the
Lamar Ballet Company, Beta Be-
ta Beta, honorary biology major,
and Alpha Chi Omega, social
sorority.
The title carries with it a
$300 scholarship. She will also
receive a swim suit and evening
gown from the White House De-
partment Store to be worn in
the Miss Texas pageant.
Suzanne Blackshear, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C, Walter Waits
Blackshear of Beaumont, was
named first runner-up. She re-
ceived a $200 scholarship for
study at Lamar where she is a
sophomore home economics ma-
jor.
For her talent entry she sang
“Who Will Buy" from the musi-
cal Oliver.
Susann Burford Graham,
Renovation plans for Combs
hall, choice of meal plans, in-
creased housing rates due to
different plans of occupancy, and
a pre-school seminar for hous-
ing personnel were items an-
nounced by Dean John C. Shir-
ley, assistant dean of students.
He also noted that students
who paid their $20 room depos-
it must pay the additional $30
due to housing policy changes
before their reservation is con-
firmed.
Combs Hall will be the first
of the East Virginiastreetdorms
to be remodeled since it is un-
occupied. Plans call for allow-
ance of single and double units.
Triple and quadruple suites will
be created with private sleep-
study areas for each occupant
daughter of Mrs. Lorene C. Gra-
ham of Fort Worth, was named
second runner-up. Miss Graham
is a sophomore Spanish major,
A song and dance routine to
“So Long Dearie* from Hello
Dolly was her presentation in
the talent portion of the pageant.
Cont. on page 4
along with a living room over-
looking the courtyard to be land-
scaped.
Shirley noted that the proposed
changes are a direct result of
the spring housing survey and
show the attempt being made to
meet the student’s needs.
Three meals plans were ap-
proved at the recent Board of
Regents meeting. The first is
a seven-day, twenty meals per
week plan for $252 plus tax.
A transferable cash coupon book
with a minimum purchase of
$200 per semester will be avail-
able for use in any of the cam-
pus food services.
The third plan is a minimum
participation meal plan with 164
meals per semester at a rate of
$200. This meal plan is also
transferable for use in any din-
ing hall.
Due to new plans of occupancy
and installation of air condition-
ing there will be an increase
in room rent for the fall semes-
ter. In air-conditioned regular
dormitories, rates per student
will be $325 for single occupancy,
$220 for double occupancy, $160
for triple occupancy, $325 in
two-student -uites, and $250 in
three-student suites.
A new plan allowing for rental
of unfurnished rooms will go into
effect allowing residents to rent
furniture through the college or
in conjunction with a local firm
if necessary. A reduction of $45
per year, per room will be al-
lowed for rooms rented unfur-
nished. Cont on page 10
Association Wins
Heritage Society
Award of $10,000
The Big Thicket Association
has won second prize in the
American Heritage Society A-
wards, according to Charles H.
Wilbanks, associate professor of
Education and president of the
association.
Wilbanks received notification
of the $10,000 award. The tele-
gram said in part “we hope this
award will help you in continu-
ing your valiant struggle to save
the Texas wilderness.*
Wilbanks said, “I wish to ex-
press my appreciation to the
administration, faculty and stu-
dent body for the wonderful sup-
port they gave us in the awards
contest.*
Tentative plans for use of the
money are to purchase a museum
in the Big Thicket,
Dr. Edward Teller, the re-
nowned physicist who advocates
constructive uses of nuclear en-
ergy, will speak at the 18th an-
nual commencement of Lamar
State College of Technology.
His address will be heard by
some 670 degree candidates, a
record graduating class for La-
mar Tech. The ceremonies are
scheduled for May 30 at 8 p.m.
in McDonald Gymnasium.
“We consider it a distincthon-
or for the entire college com-
munity in announcing Dr. Teller’s
forthcoming appearance on our
campus,* said Dr. Frank A.
Thomas, Lamar Tech president.
“This man has raised a pow-
erful voice—morally and intell-
ectually—on a subject of great
national and worldwide import-
ance,* Dr. Thomas added. “His
concern for peaceful use of nu-
clear energy is shared by mil-
lions, especially our young peo-
ple.*
The nuclear physicist, a na-
tive of Hungary, became a citi-
zen of the United States in 194L
Until 1939, he was absorbed
by the pursuits of the theoreti-
cal physicist, attempting to un-
derstand the behavior of mole-
cules, atoms and nuclei. But the
discovery of the fission process
and the menace of Nazi Germany
drew him to work on atomic ex-
plosives.
Unlike many of the nuclear
physicists who helped develop
the world’s first atomic bomb,
Dr. Teller continued to work on
nuclear weapons after Hiroshima
and the end of World War n.
He did this in the firm belief
that there were many unexplored
applications of nuclear energy
and because he felt that the
United States would need ad-
vanced nuclear weapons to suc-
cessfully oppose future dangers.
After World War n, Dr. Tel-
ler made significant contribu-
tions to developments of atomic
weapons and to the design of the
world’s first hydrogen bomb. He
was a member of the General
Advisory Committee of the UJ3.
Atomic Energy Commission from
1956 to 1958, helped establish
the nation’s second weapons lab-
oratory at Livermore, Californ-
ia, and served as director of
the Livermore Laboratory from
1958 to 1960.
Dr. Teller has returned to aca-
demic life as professor of phy-
sics-at-large at the University
of California, and continues to
serve as associate director of
the university’s Lawrence Radi-
ation Laboratory.
He is also a member of the
Scientific Advisory Board of the
U.S. Air Force. His present act-
ivities are connected with ap-
plications of nuclear energy, with
astrophysics, and with molecular
physics, and he also has con-
cerned himself with the teach-
ing of elementary science and
of applied science on the gradu-
ate leveL
Dr. Teller is the co-author
of “The Structure of Matter*
(1948), “Our Nuclear Future
(1958), and author of “The Leg-
acy of Hiroshima (1962), “The
Reluctant Revolutionary* (1964),
and co-author of “The Construct-
ive Uses of Nuclear Explosives*
(1968).
Redbird Stall
Named lor '70
Mike Ramsey, senior from
Orange, will be editor of the
Redbird for 1970-71, according
to R. H. Wilkerson, Redbird fac-
ulty advisor.
Other staffers are PhyUis
Lewis, news editor; Julian Gali-
ano, sports editor; Judy Ham-
mond, staff writer; Bobby Dic-
kinson, photographer; and Mari-
lyn Primeaux, business manage^
MEMORIAL SERVICES for four Kent State
students killed on the Ohio campus two weeks
ago were conducted Friday in the football
stadium. Reverands Ralph Shuffler, Epis-
copal Church Center, (standing) led the ser-
vices, which were attended by about 500 stu-
dents and faculty. The ceremony had ori-
ginally been scheduled for the Liberal Arts
buildingbuta last minute order by Dr. Frank
Thomas, president, forced the moving,'
Changes Announced
In Housing Program
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