The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1952 Page: 1 of 4
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IT’S CAGE SEASON!
2 POINTS COMING UP
The Redbird
MAKE YOUR POINT, BE
THERE TOMORROW!
.Vol. II, No. 9
Published by Students of Lamar State College ~of Technology, Beaumont, Texas
December 5, 1952
ATHLETIC STAFF REORGANIZED
Higgins Is Head Coach
Lambert to be Director
Lamar Tech president F. L. McDonald has announced reorgan-
ization of the college’s athletic department with James B.- Higgins,
assistant professor of health and physical education and assistant
coach, moving up to head football coach and Stan Lambert, pro-
fessor and head of the department of physical and health educa-
tion, director of athletics and head football coach, to devote full
time to the department and to the athletic directorship.
Lamar Students
Contribute 135
Pints of Blood
The Southwest Texas Red
Cross Blood Center collected 135
pints of blood from students Mon-
day to culminate the campus
blood drive. Red Cross workers
expressed sincere appreciation
for the contributions and for
work done by students to publi-
cize the drive and make the day’s
visit by the Bloodmobile a suc-
cess.
Although the drive fell short of
the goal set by its sponsors, the
number of contributions was
slightly more than the average
Red Cross workers said could be
expected from any given group.
Usually about 10 percent contrib-
ute. There are about 1330 stu-
dents who attend Lamar Tech
during the hours the Bloodmobile
was on the campus.
J. D. Wallace, president of the
Lamar Tech Veterans Club who
took over the campus campaign
when it started to lag, expressed
his thanks to all students who
contributed blood and to those
who worked with him in calling
attention to the need for such
contributions.
Wallace will soon announce
names of students who are to
receive gifts contributed by local
merchants. Gifts to donors in-
clude $5 gift certificates from
the Man’s Shop and Ed C. Cherry
Jewelers, three rolls of film from
the Thomas Camera Shop, Initial-
ed socks from Hoffer’s, a pair of
ladies shoes from Butler’s.
A lady’s purse from Suzy’s
Hat Shop, a white shirt from the
National Shirt Shop, two pairs
of hose from Jean’s Hosiery Shop,
white silk tie from Dover’s,
Goldtone portrait valued at $6.50
from Van Dyke Studio and undis-
closed gifts from Elkin’s 'Men’s
Shop and Thames Drug Stores.
Xmas Holidays
Begin 19th
Christmas holidays are
scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
Friday, December 19, accord-
ing to M. L. McLaughlin, ad-
ministrative assistant.
The 1952-53 catalog lists
the holidays as beginning at
12 noon Saturday, December
20. The date was not correct-
ed after the plan to hold
Saturday classes this term
was dropped.
Classes reconvene Monday,
January 5.
COLLEGE HOSTS WORKSHOP
Representatives of District 4,
Parent Teachers Association, held
its annual workshop on the cam-
pus yesterday with Miss Dema
Kennedy, field consultant of the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers as featured speaker.
Several Lamar Tech students
served as pages during the work-
shop.
Queen Candidates
For Beaux Arts Ball
Candidates who have already
filed for the nomination of queen
of the Beaux Arts Ball are as
follows:
Mary Jo Lampson, Bmt., South-
ern Bells; Louise Holcombe, Port
Neches, Photo Club; Patricia
Clampitt, Bmt., Home Ec. Club;
Joedna Mills, Bmt., D.A.R.; Crys-
tal Jean Jones, Bmt., Bmt. Art
League; Glenda Wheeler, Bmt.,
Revelers; Sue Rogers, Bmt., F.T.
A.; Geraldine Foreman, Pt. Nech-
es, Newman Cltib; Charlene Matt-
hews, Bmt., Pre-Med Club; Mary
STAN LAMBERT
Provine Studio, class section
photgrapher for The Cardinal,
student yearbook, will send Cam-
eraman Roger Wynn to the cam-
pus Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of next week to re-make
student pictures which did not
come out when they were taken
during registration and to give
students who did not take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to
have pictures made at that time
to do so, „
Approximately one-half of the
individual pictures made during
registration were ruined by bad
film, the studio reported.
Pictures made at registration
which were good will be shown
next week at a booth manned by
members of Alpha Phi Omega,
national service fraternity. Stu-
dents may elect to have another
pose made if they are not satis-
fied with the previous picture, it
was indicated.
The pictures will be shown at
a booth in the SUB. Provine will
set up its camera on the stage.
Students will enter from the east
side door.
Christopher Studio completed
taking club and organization pic-
tures this week. Each group is
requested to send two representa-
tives by the annual office in 121-E
Date Set For
Junior Class
Sock Shuffle
Plans for a “Sock Shuffle”
have been announced by the Jun-
ior Class. The 'dance, to raise
funds to finance the college’s first
junior-senior formal dance next
spring, will be held Tuesday, Dec-
ember fl.6, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Union Gymnasium.
A “bathing beauty” contest will
be held in conjunction with, the
dance. Admission will be charged
according to inch measurement
of dancer’s feet.
The dance is planned by the
finance committee of the Junior
Class, headed by Janette King
and Frank Rozell.
Jo Englin, Bmt, Kollege Klub;
Peggy Prejean, Pt. Arthur, Busi-
ness Club; Peggy Claire Mount,
Pt. Neches, U.D.C.; Sue Me Nabb,
Pt. Arthur.
This New Year’s dance is an
annual event sponsored by the
Beaux Arts Club.
J. B. HIGGINS
to identify persons in the pic-
tures.
Advance sale of annuals ended
Monday with approximately 350
annuals sold. A total of 450
books will be ordered, according
to David Bost, publications spon-
sor. Annuals may be purchased
from now until the Christmas
holidays but will draw a price of
$6 each instead of the $5 price
which prevailed during the ad-
vance sale period.
Dedication, end sheets, cover
and title pages have been design-
ed and work will begin immedia-
tely on layouts of club pages, ac-
cording to Editor Ray Hudson.
As soon as individual pictures are
returned, work will start on class
sections.
Persons interested in assisting
with production of the yearbook
are invited to contact Hudson or
Mr. Bost in the annual office.
Several staff members are need-
ed.
The 1953 annual will be the lar-
gest in the history of the college,
both from the standpoint of the
number of pages and page size.
Senior and faculty members
posed for formal portraits at Van
Dyke Studio here last month.
Only those seniors who posed at
the studio will be included in the
senior section. Faculty members
may have a selection of a Van
Dyke or Provine picture, which-
ever is requested.
Tech is Texas*
Fifth Largest
State College
Two-year-old Lamar Tech,
which added senior-level courses
only this fall, ranks fifth in en-
rollment among the state colleges
of Texas with 2,590 students ac-
cording to figures released re-
cently by the Texas Education
Agency.
Tech, the "baby” among state
colleges from the standpoint of
age, already has outstripped some
of the oldest colleges in the state
in size and promises to catch
others in the next few years.
There are a total of 18 state-
supported colleges in Texas.
With the exception of the Uni-
versity of Texas, which reported
12,776 students, Lamar Tech is
not "too far distant from the up-
per bracket enrollment schools.
Texas A&M reported 6,221 stu-
dents, Texas Tech has 5,148, and
North Texas State’s enrollment
is 4,356.
Enrollment exceeded all expec-
tations this fall, but even college
officials were surprised and pleas-
ed that Lamar Tech stands near
the top in state college enroll-
ment.
Lamar Tech’s total does not in-
clude off-campus extension cours-
es. Many colleges include exten-
sion students in their enrollment
reports.
Ranked behind Lamar Tech
are: Prairie View A&M (colored),
2,502; Texas Western, 2,402; Tex-
as Southern (colored), 2,065; Tex-
as A&I, 1,912; East Texas, 1,814;
West Texas, 1,766; Texas State
College for Women, 1,678; Sam
Houston, 1,597; Southwest Texas,
1,449; Arlington (JC), 1,279; Step-
hen F. Austin, 1,168; Tarleton
(JC), 641, and Sul Ross, 530.
TSPE PLANS SOCIAL
The TSPE student chapter will
hold a social for all members and
their dates Friday week in the
Student Union building, it has
been announced. The program
will consist of dancing, games,
and refreshments.
Higgins, who will assume his
new duties immediately, announ-
ced that Lamar Tech, which has
operated with a single wing of-
fense for the past four years, will
switch to the split T formation
next fall.
New Assistant to be Hired
He has been authorized to re-
commend a new football coach-
ing assistant to Dr. McDonald.
The assistant will be a mem ex-
perienced in T formation football
and will be backfield coach.
First experiments with the
new offense will come in spring
training this year.
“Our rapidly growing enroll-
ment makes it advisable to ex-
pand our work in physical and
heedth education,” Dr. McDonald
said. He indicated that Coach
Lambert will devote much of his
time to supervision of this pro-
gram as well as to teaching of
physical and health education
classes.
Lambert Happy
Promoted to the job he has
“been looking forward to for the
past several years,” Lambert as
full time director of athletics will
handle all athletic business af-
fairs, arrange schedules in all
sports and handle game arrange-
ments. He has been conducting
the athletic director’s job in ad-
dition to head coaching and teach-
ing duties.
Higgins, who has been assis-
tant in charge of linemen under
Lambert for the past four years,
will continue his duties as head
baseball coach.
The new arrangement will
make it possible for the college’s
head football coach to devote full
time to coaching duties, Dr. Mc-
Donald said.
Enrollment Cited
The college’s enrollment in-
crease is cited as necessitating
the addition of one man to the
coaching staff. “We decided to
effect a complete reorganization
while making necessary addi-
tions,” he said.
“The action is not being taken
because of our football record
this year, which I consider highly
satisfactory considering the new-
ness of the school in the Lone
Star Conference,” Dr. McDonald
emphasized.
“I am confident Coach Higgins
can produce a good football team
if given sufficient time to bring
in good material and to train
them. I believe he will be very
popular with both the student
body and with fans,” he said.
Coach Lambert was thoroughly
in accord with the promotion of
Higgins to the head job. “I con-
sidered Higgins the befit qualified
man to serve as my assistant and
do not believe a better man could
have been picked to serve as my
successor,” he said.
Move Previously Planned
Pointing out that the promotion
was originally planned a couple
of years ago, but abandoned be-
cause the college’s budget would
not permit it at that time, Coach
Lambert said, “I am very happy
for both Hig and myself.”
Higgins, a major in the Marine
Corps Reserve, is commanding
officer of the 33rd Special Infant-
ry Company of the Marine Corps
Reserve unit here.
He has had high school, college,
professional and service playing
experience and has coached high
school, college and service ball.
He earned four varsity letters
at Trinity University and was
named to various all-conference
(See Page 4, Col. 4)
Human Relations Experts
Presented Thursday Nite
Harry Allen and Bonary Wilkin-
son Overstreet, two of America’s
most distinguished leaders in the
field of human relations, will
present the college’s next artist
series attraction Thursday at 8
p.m. in the auditorium.
Norris Kelton, dean of student
life and chairman of the artist
committee, called special atten-
tion to the time set for the Over-
street colloquy. It will be at 8
o’clock in the evening instead of
during the student or regular as-
sembly hour in the morning.
Topics for the Overstreet’s dis-
cussion will include, “A New
Sense of Community,” “The
Home as a Place for Maturing,”
“Development of Personality,”
“Exploring the Motives of Men,”
“Prejudices: Its Prevention and
Cure” and “What Should We Ex-
pect of Education?”
The public is invited to attend.
No admission will be charged.
Co-workers in the field of
human relations, the Overstreets
have developed a peculiarly ef-
fective form of team-lecture.
With spontaneous give and take,
but with soundly organized
material, they bring to bear upon
their subjects both their shared
and their individual expertness.
For several years they have
used this joint method of teach-
ing with adult classes sponsored
by the University of Michigan.
Mrs. Overstreet is the author
of, “Courage for Crisis,” “Free-
dom’s People,” “American Rea-
sons” and “How to Think about
Ourselves.” Mr. Overstreet’s
books include, “Influencing Hu-
man Behavior,” “About Our-
selves,” “The Enduring Quest”
and “The Mature Mind.” Jointly
they have authored, “Town Meet-
ing Comes to Town,” “Leaders
for Adult Education.”
NEW DUTIES—Stan Lambert, left, will devote full time to his
post as athletic director and head of the physical and health educa-
tion department with J. B. Higgins, right, to assume Lambert’s old
job as head football coach in a reorganization plan announced this
week by President F. L. McDonald.
Student Yearbook Pictures
Scehduled For Next Week
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