Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1979 Page: 1 of 6
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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 55 years
Good Morning!
Friday, January 26,1979
Vol. 29, No. 28
The “Allegro” at dock last spring Photoiaphlc ServkM
SGA to sponsor yearbook
Plans for a yearbook for seniors have
materialized, according to Debbie
Bowling, Port Arthur senior and vice
president for the committee on student af-
fairs of the Student Government
Association.
An agreement between the SGA and In-
stitutional Services Inc., a publishing com-
pany, was signed by SGA advisers Dean
Ann Shaw and, vice president for student
\ affairs, George McLaughlin Jan. 15.
The agreement stipulated that the SGA
would work with Institutional Services Inc.
in producing a yearbook for seniors on the
Lamar campus.
Using a production manual provided by
the publishing company, Bowling said she
has set up committees to be responsible for
certain aspects of the yearbook.
The sales committee, which includes
Winston Guillory, Port Arthur sophomore,
and Cindy Lafitte, Groves junior, is now in
the process of selling advertising spots to
any organization on the Lamar campus,
according to Bowling.
The student affairs committee has also
set the first photo session for prospective
spring, summer and fall 1979 graduates for
the week of Feb. 12 - Feb. 16, according to
Bowling.
Bowling also said that these prospective
graduates will be sent letters notifying
them of the photo session time for this
spring and also the photo session which
will be scheduled later for sometime in the
fall.
Bowling said that two Beaumont fresh-
men, Bubba Collins and Kelly Asbury,
will be the introduction coordinators for
the yearbook and will handle the cover
design and layout the introduction pages.
Asbury and Collins designed the covers
for the 1977 and 1978 French High School
yearbooks. These covers won the first
place awards in 1976 and 1977 at Sam
Houston State University’s workshop for
high school yearbook cover design.
Another section will be the student index
in the back of the yearbook, Bowling said.
This section will contain information about
the graduate’s honors and about
organizations and activities in which the
graduate was active.
The yearbook, according to Bowling,
should be ready for all seniors to purchase
18 weeks after the final photo session takes
place.
The yearbook will cost $6.95. Those
seniors who will not be able to pick up their
books on campus may make special
arrangements to have the books mailed to
them.
‘Menagerie9
performance
in Orange
The first dramatic production of
Lamar University at Orange, “The
Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee
Williams, will be presented at the
Brown Center on Old Highway 90 in
Orange, Friday, at 8:30p.m.
Friday’s dinner theatre produc-
tion is sold out. Tickets for the Satur-
day show, to begin at 7:45 p.m., may
still be purchased at the door.
Tickets are $3 per person.
Shelley Thrasher, assistant
professor of English at the Orange
branch, will ber directing the drama,
which is being sponsored by the
Student Government Association at
the Orange campus.
‘Allegro ’ needs repair
Maiden voyage
is only voyage
By SUSAN MARLOW
of the UP staff
“Allegro,” the yacht given to Lamar
about a year ago by a local businessman,
has been used only once by Lamar, ac-
cording to Bud Leonard, vice president for
university relations.
The 29-foot yacht, given by George E.
(Billy) Bryant III, representing Oil City
Brass Works, is being housed by
Levingston Shipbuilding Co. of Orange.
The one use Lamar has made of the
“Allegro” was a trip Leonard and three or
four representatives of the university took
soon after the boat was housed in Orange,
according to Leonard.
“I took a member of the coaching staff,
because we thought it might come in han-
dy for athletic recruiting; Martha Reed
from the office of public information;
Charles Schmucker, who was then with the
development office; two representatives
from the shipyard; and the captain,”
Leonard said.
“In order to accept the boat,” he said,
Lamar had to find someone who would
house the vessel and maintain it in return
for corporate use of the yacht.
“Being the kind of first-rate operation
that Levingston is, one of the first things
they did was take the boat out in rough
water and put it to a real test.
“Levingston was going to use it as a cor-
porate vessel, whereas it had been a
private Vessel before, so they wanted to be
sure of what they were getting into. And,
because they were going to maintain it for
Lamar, they wanted to be doubly sure.”
Levingston found that some mechanical
work to the engines and pumps was
needed, along with some work to the hull,
according to Leonard.
“Levingston has done all the work on the
engines and pumps, and some interior
cosmetic work that they had wanted to
do,” Leonard said. “Levingston felt that
the hull of the boat needed additional
repair work, and since the hull is wooden,
they have not put a priority on hiring
somebody to come in and do the hull
work,” Leonard said.
“Levingston said that they would enter
into such an arrangement with the univer-
sity. They agreed to maintain the vessel
and provide a captain for it, in return for
the use of the “Allegro.”
Levingston does not have anyone in the
shipyard who can do the necessary
caulking and replanking to the wooden hull
of the “Allegro” to get it in top condition,
according to Leonard.
“We have not pressed too hard for
Levingston to go ahead and do the work,
because we haven’t had that much of &
demand for the boat,” Leonard said.
Levingston has been in the process of star-
ting up a new program, he said, and the top
management people who would normally
be working with Lamar on the boat are in-
volved with that.
“This is one of those give-and-take kind
of things where you try to make something
work,” Leonard said. “When someone is
giving you something, you don’t go over
and say, ‘Do this by this time, and do that
by that time.’”
The exact time when the boat would be
worked on could not be given, but Leonard
said he hopes to be able to use it by the
spring.
Leonard said he is working on four tours
for which the boat may be used. Tour A
would be a 30-minute industrial tour of
Levingston shipyards and other Orange
shipyards.
Tour B would be an industrial and scenic
tour that would take about two hours. Tour
C would go upriver on the Neches, ending
at the Beaumont Boat Club. The tour
would last one-and-a-half to two nuura.
Tour D would be just like C, except that the
boat would return to Levingston shipyar-
ds. This tour would probably take three-
and-a-half to four hours, Leonard said.
Leonard said that anyone from the
university will be able to book the
“Allegro,” but he does not know whether
the boat may be used for trips extending
over a day or two. Those details still have
to be worked out with Levingston, ac-
cording to Leonard.
Deadline now extended
for Rome summer trip
Trucker trains ‘kings of the road’
The application deadline for the Lamar-
Rome 1979 study-travel program has been
extended to Feb. 2, according to Dr. An-
' drew J. Johnson, vice president for ad-
ministration and planning, director of the
program.
More than half of the limited reser-
vations have been filled for the June 4 -
July 14 trip, which coincides with the first
regular summer semester at Lamar.
Total cost for the program is $1,600,
which includes air fare from Houston to
Rome, residence and megls in the univer-
sity center, and side tours to Pompeii,
t Available at additional cost are optional
tours to Sorrento, Capri and Paestum;
Florence; Venice; Athens; Paris; and
Palermo.
Both undergraduate and graduate cour-
ses will be offered for credit or noncredit in
art, education, history, humanities and
special education.
Students wishing to transfer credits in
this program to other colleges and univer-
sities are not expected to experience any
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) — A Rockdale
legislator said Wednesday he will push a
proposed constitutional amendment giving
Texas citizens the right to bypass the
Legislature and enact laws through a
limited initiative and referendum process.
Rep. Dan Kubiak, D-Rockdaie, said he
has filed the amendment, which also would
give voters the right to approve or reject at
the polls any law passed by the
Legislature.
“This amendment requires that any
initiative or referendum petition must be
signed by a number of voters equal to 25
percent of the total votes cast during the
preceding gubernatorial election,” Kubiak
said.
“We think this number is sufficiently
high to prevent frivolous petitions from en-
tering the mainstream of the lawmaking
process, and we hope it is a legislative
difficulty, Dr. Johnson said. It is the
responsibility of the student, he said, to see
that the transfer of credits is acceptable to
the institution at which he may be
matriculating.
The program is also open to high school
graduates preparing to enter a university
in the fall of 1979, and to high school juniors
accepted in the institution’s credit-in-
escrow program.
Participants who are not Lamar studen-
ts must apply for direct admission to the
university by May 5.
A $200 deposit is required at application
time, of which $25 is nonreturnable if the
participant withdraws. The remainder of
this deposit will be returned if withdrawal
is prior to March 1. The balance of all fees
is due on or before April 3.
Applications and additional information
are available from Dr. Johnson in the of-
fice of the vice president for ad-
ministration and planning, in the Plum-
mer Administration Building.
compromise that will satisfy both the
groups which want initiative and referen-
dum and those which do not.”
Based on the 1978 governor’s race, the
proposal would require about 558,000
signatures to put an issue on the ballot.
“Some opponents claim that a clever ad-
vertising campaign could trick the people,
and then there are other public officials
who simply fear what the general public
officials who simply fear what the general
public might accomplish with the initiative
and referendum process,” Kubiak said.
“Personally, I have complete faith and
trust in the people. They have the wisdom
to decide what is best for them.”
Gov. Bill Clements recommended enact-
ment of an initiative and referendum
amendment in his state-of-the-state ad-
dress to the Legislature on Tuesday.
By PEGGY DOW
of the UP staff
A group of squires are attempting
to become members of the White
Knights of the Highways. Who
knows? Maybe one of them will
become king of the road.
No, these men are not putting on
suits of armor and learning to joust.
They are taking a truck-driving
course offered by the College of
Technical Arts.
The 120-hour course in
professional truck-driving
techniques includes intensive prac-
tice and classroom work. Students
drive a truck on their first day of
class, according to Pat Pearl,
secretary of the technical arts truck-
driving school.
The course, which costs $1,195,
teaches parking, shifting, backing,
logbook preparation, defensive
driving, and road safety. The ob-
jective of the course is to qualify
people as truck drivers so they are
employable, according to Jack Hef-
feran, instructor of the course.
Hefferan has taught trucking at
the East Coast Tractor Trailer
School, Davners, Mass., and at the
Ridge Truck Driving School, Atlan-
ta. He owns his own truck and has
been involved in the trucking in-
dustry for 30 years.
“I got interested in trucking,”
Hefferan said. “I was living in
Miami at the time, and took a
trucking course. I drove for a lot of
companies and then bought my own
truck.
"Then I got involved in teaching. I
enjoy people. It’s a nice feeling when
students come back and tell me they
got a job.”
The three students in Hefferan’s
class seem to have a nice feeling
about him, also.
“He knows what he’s doing and
he’s easy to understand,” said Arvie
Luckey, a 41-year-old former con-
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Texas.
“Jack is bedutiful,” said Bobby
Fluellyn, a 31-year-old former car-
pentry instructor at a center for the
retarded. “He takes his. time and
explains everything. He always tells
us, ‘You can do it.’ He instills con-
fidence in us.”
“He’s really a good guy. I like
him,” said Andy Kirby, a 19-year-old
mechanic from Pinehurst.
All four men agreed that one of the
greatest things about trucking is get-
ting to travel, see new country, and
meet new people. They also agreed
the pay is good and job opportunities
are abundant.
Learning to be a truck driver
begins with driving a truck for the
first time. The students did this the
first day of class, and seemed to feel
right at home behind the wheel.
“I just felt like a truck driver,”
Kirby said.
“I was somewhat afraid because
of the largeness,” Fluellyn said. “I
had never driven a truck before, but
I was excited. It was almost like
being a kid with a new toy.
“It’s like being with your best girl;
you really get attached to it. Most of
my waking hours, all I think about is
this truck.”
Safety is an important area
stressed in the course.
“You need to learn to operate your
vehicle correctly and safely,”
Luckey said.
“We put safety first,” Fluellyn
said. “Truckers always try to be
well prepared.”
Many truckers enjoy the freedom
of being on the road and making long
hauls. They are often gone several
days at a time before returning
home, Fluellyn, being a married
man, has his own ideas about long
trips away from home.
“I plan to drive local, to be home
for my time off,” he said, “and to
catch the 6 o’clock news.”
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