The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1956 Page: 2 of 6
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THE REDBIRD
Friday, October 19, 1956
THE REDBIRD
Published Weekly, except during holidays and exam
inations, during the regular school term. Opinions
expressed are those of the student editors and do not
necessarily reflect those of the faculty and adminis-
tration. Items of interest may be submitted to anyone
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STAFF MEMBERS
Editor.................... Leon Obenhaus
Managing Editor..............James Martin
Editorial Assistants...........Virginia Abbott,
Mary Anne Cotton, Sandra Dunlay
Business Manager............Frank Cricchio
Sports Editor..................A1 Chandler
Sports Features..............Honter Schmidt
Feature Editor...... Betty Jo Watt
Circulation Manager...........Newton Lemke
Fashions Editor.............Dorothy Barnes
Photographer.............Wallace Shaunfield
Typesetter.................Bethany Dumas
Typist................... . Joyce Richards
Proofreaders......... Carl Wells , Beverly Lee
Faculty Sponsor. Stephen Kirk
Vote '3’ For Benefits
What could Lamar State College of Technology do with
$10,000,000? This question will not remain a fantancy
but become a reality if Amendment 3 is passed. This
is what Amendment 3 can do for our schools.
No doubt ever student on the campus is aware of the
beautiful, modern building which will soon grace La-
mar. These buildings will greatly increase the class-
room space; yet all these new buildings are not enough
to fullffll the needs of the anticipated enrollment.
Dean Taylor has predicted that Lamar will be even
more crowded under future circumstances .Amendment
3 is the answer th this problem.
Lamar was not included in the College Building fund
jet up in 1948 because it was not a state supported in-
stitution then. Under Amendment 3 Lamar will re-
ceive benefits every five years from the College Build-
ing fund. Within twfenty years Lamar State College of
Technology can receive $10,000,000. With this money
Lamar can double it's size, but is up to you.
All future students and past graduates of Lamar Tech
will benefit greatly from amendment 3. Should this a-
mendmenf b e past, better instructional facilities will
be available from now on. It will help gr eaten the pres-
tige of Lamar. Therefore both the future ana past
graduates will be benefit.
This is perhaps the most important long range issue
that has ever faced Lamar since it became a state in-
stitution. If you are looking for a chance to better your
coll ege there is no better way than to influence your
freinds, parents and relatives to vote for Amendment
3, in the general election in November._
First Forensic
Meet Planned
The first forensic meet-
ing of the 1956-57 school
year will be held Tuesday
Oct. 23 in Speech Building
2, announced Mr. ArnoJLa
C. Anderson today. All
students interested in
competi ng in poetry read-
ing, extemporaneous
speaking, oratory, after-
dinner speaking, and deb-
ate are urged to try-out;
no previous experience is
required.
This will be Lamar's fir-
st year to conduct a full-
scale forensic program as
a senior college. The it-
inerary of trips includes
competition at the San-'Mar
cus Speech Festival, the
annual Baylor Tournament,
The Texas A.& M. Debate
contest, the Southern
Speech Association Tour-
nament at Athens .Georgia,
the annual tournament at
Northwestern State Col-
lege at Natchitoches, Lou-
isiana, and the Baylor Poe-
try Reading contest.
Circle Kardinals
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ationonce each semester.
Of those nominated, a
member ship committee
eliminates all but one
third, who are offered
membership. The entire
pro cess is a secret until
the names of selectees are
released to the club.
Those who are charter
members or who have re-
ceived invitations to be-
come members are: James
Rodgers, Bill Neil, Robert
Parma, Dudley Rench,
Norm Walker, Ronnie
W a 1 ker, Jimmy Peacock,
Charles Starcke.J. E.
Whitmore, Andrew Bailee,
Elwyn Seay, Billy Tubbs
James Mellard, David
Reynard, Bobby Courville,
T. C. Smith, Lee Jackson,
Harold Blake, dint Airey,
A1 Chandler, Cy Northrup,
Butch Bairds Keith Dor-
man, James Schmidt, Paul
Wilkins, Eugene Sailer,
Pedro Bueno, Clayton Gar-
ner, Bruce Pate, Phillip
Pierce, Charles Lowe,
John Ben Martin, Donald
Thorn ton, Harry Seiler,
Pete Roseheger, and Leon
Barnett.
American Manners and
Customs Puzzle Mithu
Cherry Named to
National Board
Prof. Lloyd C. Cherry of
the Electrical engineering
Dept, has been named a
member of the National
Committee on Student
Branches of the American
Institute of Electrical En-
gineers. Prof. Cherry is
the only engineeif in Texas
to be thushonored.
If the engineering dept,
is o f f i c tally accredited
by the Engineers! Council
for Professional Develop-
ment, Prof. Cherry's place
on the committee should
go a long way toward help-
ing Lamar's affiliate
branch become a full-
fledged student branch of
AIEE.
Lamar's fate will be de-
cided by the 12-man team
who visited the campus
last spring. The decision
will be revealed at the 24th
Annual M eetingofthe
ECPD on Oct. 25 and 26
I .ending to our campus
the charm of the East is a
16 year old lass with the '
musical name of Mithu
(Mitzi) Advani.
With the mountains and
fields of her native.Bom-
bay, India, over 30,000
miles away, Mithu has
lived the Cinderella drama
all dream of; she has seen
and been a part of two vast-
ly differing cultures.
A c c u s t o med to the old
worldness of the East
much of the American
manner and mode .have
been puzzling, if not enig-
matic, to Mithu. She is
completely amazed by the
western manner of court-
ship.
"Why, in India, no young
girl would ever, ever be
seen out with a young man
unchaperoned," muses the
Indian girl. "Over here
there is so much freedom,
so much boy-girl mingling;
in India suen behavior
could only be called scan-
dalous ."
However, Miss Advani
admits there is much of
the westernizing influence
in present-day India, if not
in the courtship, at least
in the marriage custom.
There was a time when the
parents of a girl arranged
ner match, often signt-
unseen, until the day of the
marriage ceremony.
Today, however, a girl of
Miss Advani's caste has a
very definite say-so in the
matter of marriage. The
matter of the dowry, so
much a part of India one
hundred years ago, has al-
so undergone modifica-
tions.
Many interested wester-
ners ask Miss Advani how
anyone ever gets married
in India if there is no dat-
ing. To this query she ans-
wers, tongue-in-cheek,
"we Indians believe that
Nature compensates; the
rich girl is usually fat and
ugly, out someone marries
her because of her dowry,
the less wealthy girl wul
Homecoming committee making final plans for Homecoming events. The group
planned the program for the Homecoming Queen and made rules for the floats.
Standing are: Larry Farmer, Elvid Mason, Jimmy Brown,Dr. Setzer, and Dean.
Kelton. Sitting at table are: Toni Follmer, Laura Weber, and Clarence -.nglish.
(Photo by Watkins)
be lovely,and someone will
marry her for her beauty.
So there are no old maids
in India."
Asked for her impres-
sions of the American peo-
ple, American education,
life in general, Miss Ad-
vani answered eagerly and
most readily. She finds the
American people ener-
getic, c o r d i al and easy-
going.
"Everyone at Lamar has
been so friendly, sympa-
thetic, and kind, always
asking me to come back
whenever I need help, that
I wonder sometimes if they
are really sincere," she
admits.
The Indian lass is a soph-
omore s o c i o logy major,
having completed one year
of her college work at Wa-
dia College m Bombay. She
says that she won't be able
to compare the relative
difficulty of the two
schools until she has had
an exam, but there is one
vast difference, she de-
clares, all in favor of the
Indian college.
"At Wadia, whenever a
lecture was boring or I
just felt like leaving,! did;
nere.that obviously is not
done."
Miss Advani is amazed
when a young man begins
talking to her without being
formally introduced."This
could never happen in In-
dia," she sighs.
Another lamentation of
the Indian girl is that Tex-
as is most definitely not
filled with cowboys .horses
and guns. "I had planned
to take riding lessons but
there isn't even a stable
around here," wails Mithu.
American food is another
source of discomfort for
the girl, for she can order
almost nothing which suits
her Indian palate. Before
coming to the US Mithu was
a strict vegetarian,and she
would love to eat just one
hamburger while here, but
she will not because her
religion, Hindu, holds the
cow sacred.
To the disappointment of
her western friends, Miss
Advani has abandoned her
native sari which she wore
during her first days on
the campus. However, she
promises to return to the
sari, which she contends is
much more comfortable
than western dress, as
soon as her trunks arrive
from India.
She refuses to wear pow-
der or rouge, but occas-
ionally dons lipstick with
her western e n s e mb 1 e .
The mark which Mithu
wore' on her forehead dur-
ing her early days here,
and which most wester-
ners mistook for a mark
of caste, is really only an
Indian cosmetic.
All Lamar students who
have met the Indian girl
have found her charming,
gracious and suprisingly
mature for a 16 year old.
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Obenhaus, Leon. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1956, newspaper, October 19, 1956; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499075/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.