The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1956 Page: 1 of 6
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Vol. V, No. 20
Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas
Friday, February 24, 1956
King’s Bail Is Saturday Night
Today is Set As
Engineers Day
February 19-25 is National Engineers Week and
Friday, February 24 has been designated as Engineers
Day at Lamar Tech. The purpose of this day is to ac-
quaint everyone in the Sabine-Neches area with the
programs, equipment and methods employed within
the various engineering departments at Lamar.
Each engineering department within the Engineering
School will have displays of equipment and programs
utilized in their particular field. These exhibits are
sponsored by the individual professional engineering
clubs working in conjunction with the engineering
departments. 6
The exhibits will be judged by a committee from the
Sabine Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional
Engineers. Factors to be considered in the judging are
coverage of the field, effective presentation, complet-
ness of explanation and various others. Winner of this
competition in 1954 was the Mechanical Engineering
Department.
The civil engineers will present a display of civil
engineering projects, soil mechanics equipment, sur-
veying equipment, and several models of various
bridges and buildings. In addition, a film will be shown
m Room 137-E of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Dis-
aster. Showing times for the film are 9 and 11 a.m
2, 4 and 7 p.m.
The chemical engineers will have abailable for in-
spection all laboratory equipment concerning distil-
lation, evaporation, drying, curshing, grinding, filtra-
heat transfer, fluid flow and absorption. In
addition, special noncurricular exhibits have been
prepared.
u^ere,le,ctrical engineering display will consist of
high fidelity sound equipment, high-voltage displays,
motors, generators, electric eyes, and mobile units
and stationary equipment of the Amature Radio Club.
In the entertainment category is an automatic cigarette
lighter and a "translator" of spoken words into writ-
ing displayed on a screen.
Industrial engineering exhibits will include quality
control, productoral board, factory layouts, time and
motion,micro-motion exhibits and materials handling.
Also included are participation exhibits of the pm
board and wiggley blocks.
Mechanical engineers will exhibit a power labora-
tory, machine shop and metallography laboratory. In-
cluded in the power laboratory are steam turbine, air
compressor, blower, motor analysis, steam engine,
steam injector, air conditioner, instrumentation and a
refrigeration unit.
All exhibits will be open for inspection from 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Everyone is invited to utilize this oppor-
tunity to acquaint themselves with the engineering
work being done at Lamar Tech.
An information desk will be set up and manned by
members of Sigma Tau Fraternity at the entrance of
the Engineering building.
Marketing Association Elects
Officers For Spring Semester
New officers of the' Mar-
keting A s s o c i ation have
been elected.
They are Max Stevens,
president; P.J. Bruno, vice
presfdentjMartha Whitley,
secretary,and Joe Hawsey,
reporter.
Plans are underway for a
field trip under supervi-
sion of David Taylor,
sponsor.
The reason people do so
much driving around now-
adays is that it is cheaper
to drive it than to park it.
Tax Clinic Is
Is Set Today
The accounting depart
ment of the School of Bus
iness announces the annual
tax clinic will be held to-
day in Room 108 of the
Science building.
The clinic will begin at
2:15 this afternoon and an-
other session will be held
this evening at 7:15. The
afternoon session will be
gin with an address of wel
come by Dr. F. L. Me
Donald.
C. W. Adams, assistant
treasurer, Cities Service
R e f i n i ng Corporation of
Lake Charles, will preside
over the afternoon session
which will be c o n d u c ted
under two major headings,
Corporations and Partner-
ships .
F ederal Income Taxation
for Corporations will be
discussed by J. M. Erwin,
tax manager of Ernst and
Ernst of Houston. Federal
income Taxation for Part-
nerships will be discussed
by G. W. Lafferty, partner
of Cheatham,Brady and Co
of Houston.
The evening session of
the annual clinic will be-
gin at 7:15 with M. H.
Dougharty,credit manager
of the First National Bank
of B e a u m o nt, presiding.
The evening session will
be in the form of a panel
made up of B. B. Barkley,
group supervisor; A. B.
Marty Jr., agent; M. A.
Ryan, senior agent, and H.
L. Ives, agent. All of these
men are of the Internal
Revenue Service of Beau-
mont.
Following each session,
questions, answers and
general discussion will be
invited from the floor.
All of the men comprising
the mem bership of the
clinic have distinguished
themselves both in the
fields of education and in
taxation accounting.
The clinic is sponsored
by the Sabine Chapter, Na-
tional Association of Cost
Accountants.
NOTICE
M r s. Ena Beachell will
talk about and show slides
from her recent Around
the World trip, including
her extended stay in Cut-
tock,India,where Mr. Bea-
chell participated in a U .N.
rice conference. The date
is Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. in
Room 137E.
King Of Lamar Tech
Will Receive Crown
The King of Lamar Tech will be crowned tomorrow
night at the twelfth annual King's Coronation and Ball
The formal affair is presented each year by th<
Rogues fraternity, and following the custom originate*
last year, the dance will again be given free of charge
Men are encouraged to wear white dinner jackets.
Distinctive bids in black and gold, the fraternity1!
colors, are available from each member of the frat-
_ emity.The King's Ballwil
Beauty Judges " r*
Are Chosen
The six most beautiful
girls on our campus will
be judged at a seated tea
Sunday afternoon at 2 in the
lounge and snack bar of the
Student Union building.
Judges will be Dr .Dorothy
Stine, David Bost, Miss
Celeste Kitchen and Mrs.
Bess Gentry, all faculty
m embers, and Miss Pat
Brown, beauty consultant
and Miss Beverly Sanders,
fashion consultant.
Every girl who is carry-
ing 12 semester hours, has
never been married, has
24 semester hours im-
mediately preceding this
semester at Lamar Tech,
and who has a minimum
overall one point scholas-
tic record while in school,
is invited and urged to at-
tend.
The six girls chosen will
each receive a full page in
Les Belles Cardinelles,
name chosen for the beauty
section of the annual.
Appeals Board
Meets Tuesday
The traffic appeals board
will begin functioning
again Tuesday morning at
10 and will be in session
each Tuesday at the same
time in Room 201 of the
Student Union building.
The appeals board i s
made up of students ap-
pointed by the Student
Council. Their function-is
to hear the appeals of re-
cipients of traffic tickets
when such persons feel
that the ticket issued was
without justification or
when such persons feel
that extreme circumstan-
ces outweigh the violation.
Upon hearing the appeals
the board will come to a
decision and in most cases
take action within the hour.
With the announcement of
be held this year at th<
Harvest Club from 8-12
and music will be provide*
by Harry Vaughn and hi!
orchestra.
Candidates for King art
being s p o n s o r e d by tht
fraternities and sororities
on the campus.
The candidates and theii
sponsoring clubs this year
are Jimmy Brown, Revel-
ers; Jerry Jones, Southern
BellesjBurt Lee,Cavaliers;
Pat Lennon, Lambda Tau
Sigma; Philip Taylor, Zeta
Chi; Sam Yianitsas, Kol-
lege Klub; Bob Wooten, Phi
Delta Lamar, and Carl Van
Davendeir, Sigma Phi Gam-
ma.
Ballots for electing the
King will be marked at the
dance.
The King's Coronation,
the highlight of the even-
ing, will be held at 10:3Q
The entire program will be
under the direction of
Wayne Patterson,vice pre-
sident of the Rogues, who
will also act as Master of
Ceremonies.
The president of Rogues,
Wayne Phillips, will crown
this year's King.
Royal entertainment for
the King and his court will
be given under the direc-
tion of Bob Megarity. One
of the highlights of the en-
tertainment program will
be a skit given by the
Rogue Flayers.
Gifts will be presented to
"His Majesty” during this
period by Wayne Phillips.
the renewal of the appeals
board came the news that
a great number of tickets
are still being issued for
violation of the laws gov-
erning automobile regis-
tration. All automobiles
driven on campus must be
registered with the Assis-
tant Dean of Men in Room
201U.
Individuals who have re-
ceived one ticket for non-
registration will have that
ticket destroyed upon re-
gistration of their automo-
biles.
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Siebenthall, Carl. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1956, newspaper, February 24, 1956; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499392/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.