The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1956 Page: 1 of 6
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Voi. VI, No. 9
Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas
Friday, November 23, 1956
Slime Queen Election Slated
Dance Music By
Student Nurses Enroll
For Freshman Courses
rmitory where she must
live.
After a years training
program, the student nur-
se receives an R.N. de-
gree. She may apply her
college credits towards
obtaining a bachelor's de-
gree should she decide to
add to her education.
Participation in the extra
curricular activities spon-
sored by the hospital is
expected. The prospective
nurse can take part in the
Student Government Ass-
ociation. The student at
Hotel Dieu is fortunate in
that she can participate in
Dramatics Club, Glee Club
and can contribute to the
Hotel Dieu newspaper
"The Commentator."
As she progresses in her
s t u d i es, a student nurse
finds her work b e c o m es
harder, but the personal
satisfaction in a j o b well
done is greater. The only
evidence of material re-
(Con't on page 2)
Have you noticed the girl
in the blue and white stri-
ped uniform? Perhaps
she's one of 47 student
nurses from the Baptist
General and Hotel Diet
Hospitals.
She's here to take the
freshman courses in Eng-
lish, Biology and Chemis-
try.
In addition to her Lamar
Tech c ou r s es, a student
nurse must carry many
subjects taught at the hos -
pitals .She must also man-
age to spend a specified
number of hours each week
performing practical nur-
sing duties. Evenings are
reserved for study and she
is expected to obey the
"lights out" rule in die do-
Concert Band
Is Honored
Lamar’s Concert band
has been invited to Dallas
to play for the Texas Music
Educator's Ass o cia tion
Convention in F e b r uary.
"This is the greatest hon-
or we've ever had," said
Mr.Pete Wiley, conductor
of the band.
Only one college band a
year is asked to perform.
Lamar Band will join che
ranks of those previously
honored hands—from TU,
SMU, North Texas, Baylor,
and Texas Tech.
Over 3,000 college and
public school music tea-
chers in Texas, plus the
high school students se-
lected to make up the State
orchestra, State chorus,
and two State bands, will
attend the convention.
In addition to the Dallas
trip, the band will make a
two-day spring tour in
May. Trips to the valley
and the Houston area are
being considered.
The band will soon begin
rehearsals fora Columbia
recording to be made next
spring.
Director Wiley has an-
nounced that within the
next few days the entire
55-piece band limit will
have been selected.
The Tech Marching Band
will perform in the Gover-
nor's Inauguration Parade
on Jan. 15. The band has
been invited to present a
c o n c e rt the night before
the parade. The concert
will be sponsored by the
Austin public schools.
Circle K’s Plan
Turkey Trot
Next week on Tuesday
Nov. 27 Circle K will pre-
sent the newest innovation
in racing...The Turkey
Trot. This will be a foot
race, open to any student,
male or female, with pri-
zes to the first four fin-
ishers. The prizes will be
fitting indeed. Firstplace,
a live turkey;second place,
a live duck; third, a live
chicken, and fourth, a doz-
en eggs.
The race will go some-
thing like this, reports
President A1 Chandler.
Starting position will be
in front of the Student
Union. The entrants will
run over a course by
members of Circle K
who will be watching to
see that there is no cut-
ting of comers. It will be
a long course, most of it
being visible from the
union, so that the specta-
tors can watch the antics
of the entrants.
It was tried once before
a few years ago and prov-
ed a hilarious success.
There is no entrance fee,
and the prizes will be the
real live things..if we
aren't breaking any rules
givingaway live-stock. In
that case, prizes will be
regular store bought type.
New Chapters
Are Installed
Lamar chapters of the
Alpha Delta Pi and the
Kappa Delta sororities
will be installed this week-
end. Tech will then have
four national sororities.
Chapters Delta Zeta and
Alpha Chi Omega were in-
stalled last weekend.
ADPi's installation activ-
ities began last night with
an open house at the home
of Mrs. Samuel Baker. The
chapter, honorary, and
alumnae initiates met
Grand President Maxine
Blake and other members
of the Grand Council.
They will be formally in-
stalled this afternoon at 1
o'clock in the Educational
Building of the Trinity
Methodist Church. To-
night at 7 initiates, their
mothers, and the pledges
will attend a formal ban-
quet in the Rose Room of
Hotel Beaumont. Saturday
morn ing Miss Blake will
conduct a model meeting.
The presentation tea will
be held in the home of Mrs.
L. G. Chambers from 3 to
5 p.m. on Saturday. Sun-
day the new members will
attend church in two
groups, one at the First
Methodist Church and the
otheratSt. Joseph’s Cath-
olic Church.
Final activities for Kappa
Delta pledges will begin
tonight in the club rooms
of the First National Bank
in Port Arthur. First de-
gree pledging of honor
mitiates and alumnae will
begin at 7 p.m., and se-
cond degree pledging of
the entire group will start
at 8 p.m.
Classy Ballou
Honor Society
Adds New Pledges
The Freshman Honor So-
ciety added five new pled-
ges to its role yesterday.
They are Clara Bean, Pat-
ricia Cash, Joyce Rich-
ards, Jerry Morris and
Claude Sibert.
Each applicant must have
a 2.5 average on a mini -
mum of 15 hours work.
Fall enrollment is limited
to 10 per cent of the fresh-
man class of previous
spring semester.
The society's recognition
of outstanding students en -
courages other capable
people to apply themselves
scholastically.
(Con't on page 2)
All clubs, fraternities,
and sororities are eligible
and urged to sponsor a
candidate for the election
of the Slime Queen. Ap-
plications will be accepted
from Nov. 26 thru Nov. 28,
Monday thru Wednesday
preceeding the Thanksgiv -
ing holidays.
Campaigning will begin
on Tuesday, Dec. 4 and the
election will be conducted
on Thursday Dec. 6. Can-
didates will be presented
Tradition Outlaws
Letters On Jackets
The Lamar Student Coun-
cil a dopted at their last
meeting a resolution re-
affirming the school's
stand on the outlawing of
letter jackets on our cam-
pus.
The1 council asks that all
students cooperate in not
wearing these letter jack-
ets so that our atheletes'
jackets will mean more to
them and to Lamar.
Tradition at all colleges
outlaw letter jackets.
With Lamar the fifth lar-
gest state supported col-
lege in Texas, weshould
honor this tradition.
Business Students
invited To DuPont
Senior management ma-
jors who made up the class
in Job Evaluation and Wage
Administration will be
guests at the Orange plant
of Du Pont Monday after-
noon, Nov. 26.
This group of business
students are to arrive at
the plant in time for lunch
in the company cafeteria.
Following luncn their pro-
gram will include discuss-
ions on company organiza-
tion, wage administration
practices, and other as-
pects of industrial rela-
tions.
The group then will visit
the personnel department
of the firm and tour the
operating area of this
Orange chemical plant.
Thirty-two students will
make the trip.
This is the second of a
series of three field trips
intended to give seniors
majoring in industrial
management a closer look
at "big industry" systems
and procedures.
to the student body at an
ass e m b ly on Tuesday,
Dec. 4.
There will be only one
election. No run-off elec-
tion will be held.
The queen and all at-
tendants will be presented
at a dance on Thursday,
Dec. 6 in the school cafe-
teria. The winner will not
be announced until that
time.
Classy Ballou's Band has
been acquired for the
dance and will play from 8
'til 12. Tickets to the
dance will be available
after the Thanksgiving
holidays and will cost
$1.25.
Dress will be coats and
ties for the men and ap-
propriate attire for the
ladies.
The Freshmen class of-
ficers met and made final
arrangements for the pre -
sentation of the queen and
dance. Committees for the
event are: entertainment,
Glen Guillet, chairman,
Nan Tolle, Sybil Ebanks,
Kenneth Hatch, and Bar-
bara Weber; decorations,
Gail Provost, chairman,
Erin Clark, Pat Hubbard,
and Carol Shirley; ticket
sales, Cicil Mason and
Jerry Tipton, co-chair-
man; and Diane Flint has
been assigned the respon-
sibility of purchasing a
gift for the queen.
A p p 1 i c ations for Slime
Queen should be turned in
to Ann Silva in Dean Kel-
ton's office. A charge of
$3.00 for each candidate
will be made to buy a gift
and flowers for the queen.
Pink Slips Being
Mailed This Week
Pink slips are being mail-
ed out this week and should
reach students some time
before the Thanksgiving
h o 1 i days. These reports
will be mailed directly to
the parents unless the stu-
dent is over twenty-one,
married or a veteran.
Such a slip is an indica-
tion of unsatisfactory
work, but does not neces-
sarily denote failure. Stu-
dents are encouraged to
confer with their major
field counselors. Each
counselor will have a car-
bon copy of the reports of
his students.
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Obenhaus, Leon. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1956, newspaper, November 23, 1956; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499523/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.