Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 27, 1982 Page: 1 of 4
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It's Wednesday
October 27, 1982
Vol. 59, No. 17
Good
Morning!
LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 59 years
Stratton crowned
1982 LU queen
By CLYDE HUGHES
UP Managing Editor
Debbie Stratton, Winnie senior, was
selected as the 1982 homecoming queen at
Lamar University, Monday.
Stratton, 21-years-old, was crowned dur-
ing the queen coronation ceremony in the
Setzer Student Center Ballroom.
A cheerleader, Stratton was sponsored
by Alpha Kappa Psi honor society. She is
aiso a business/retail merchandising ma-
jor.
“I was a little nervous through all of
this,” Stratton, who is also on the
homecoming steering committee, said. “I
got no sleep at all, but it was fun.”
Stratton, a member of the Panhellenic
Council and president of Gamma Phi Beta
sorority, said she did not think that she
would be chosen.
“Not in a million years,” she said. “I
was a representative of my business
fraternity and they, my sorority and the
cheerleaders were real supportive.”
Two other cheerleaders also qualified as
finalists: Stephanie Gaspard, Groves
senior, and Michelle Thomas, Beaumont
sophomore.
The other finalists were Rosa Arredon-
do, Beaumont sophomore, Deborah Crad-
dock, Texas City senior, and Tahita Doyle,
Houston junior.
Stratton said that running for homecom-
ing queen was a big challenge. “I like
challenges. This was a big one because
I’ve never run for anything in my life. I
couldn’t have done it without everyone’s
help.”
Stratton said that she feels that a
homecoming queen should be represen-
tative of the university not only during
homecoming week but the whole school
year.
“She should be a lady and someone that
the school should be proud of,” she said.
Stratton said that she would do her best
to represent Lamar throughout the year.
The program presented all 29 nominees
who were entered in the contest. Because
of a tie, there were six finalists instead of
the standard five, Billye Hooper, chairper-
son of the queen committee, said.
Part of the program also featured
musical numbers from the Lamar produc-
tion of “Grease,” which will open today at
8 p.m. in the University Theatre and run
through Sunday.
Earlier Monday, homecoming week was
officially opened with the ribbon-cutting
ceremony in the SSC Arbor. Dr. C. Robert
Kemble, Lamar president, Dr. George
McLaughlin, vice president for student af-
fairs and dean of students, and Larry
Beaumont, president of the Alumni
Association, were honored with homecom-
ing T-shirts by the homecoming steering
committee.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, a
sock hop was held in the SSC Ballroom,
with McLaughlin and his wife, Olive Ann,
giving a jitterbug demonstration. Winners
in the jitterbug contest were Stratton and
her partner, Vince Thompson, Beaumont
junior.
Winner of the 1950s costume contest was
Sibby Adams, Beaumont junior. Adams
won wearing a yellow sweater and poodle
skirt, complete with bobby socks and hair
tied in a pony tail with a chiffon ribbon.
Homecoming activities will continue to-
day at 8 p.m. with Gene Cotton in concert
in the SSC Ballroom.
The bonfire and the tailgate parade are
scheduled for Thursday, beginning at 7:45
p.m. in the Cardinal Stadium parking lot.
On Friday, a champagne happy hour is
scheduled for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the SSC
Perch. The jazz band Oasis will perform.
Homecoming activities will conclude
Saturday with the parade in downtown
Beaumont at 10 a.m., and the picnic in the
SSC Quadrangle at 11:30 a.m.
A campus open house, with tours of the
Cherry Engineering, Communication and
Galloway Business Buildings, will be from
1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. The main attrac-
tion, the football game between Lamar
and Northeast Louisiana (Monroe), will be
at 4 p.m., with the homecoming party at 9
p.m. in the SSC Ballroom.
A campus open house, with tours of the
Cherry Engineering, Communication and
Galloway Business Buildings, will be from
Debbie Stratton
1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. The main attrac-
tion, the football game between Lamar
and Northeast Louisiana (Monroe), will be
at 4 p.m., with the homecoming party at 9
p.m. in the SSC Ballroom.
Services are held
for Lamar patron
By NANCY LAWRENCE
UP staff writer
Some people have—and some people
share what they have. Mamie Louise
McFaddin Ward was one of those people.
Up to a few days before her death Sun-
day, Mrs. Ward was actively seeking ways
to better the lives of people in need.
Sometimes her aid came in the form of
contributions to institutions, and Lamar is
one that shared her generosity.
“Within the Lamar University Founda-
tion,” A1 Haggard, university budget
director, said, “she gave a $60,000 award
to what we call the Mamie McFaddin
Ward Fine Arts Scholarship, awarded to
students deserving scholarships in the fine
arts area.”
Mrs. Ward also gave about $600,000 to
what is known as the Mamie McFaddin
Ward Health Sciences Scholarship, Hag-
gard said.
These go to nursing, dental hygiene,
radiologic technology, and premedical
students, Dr. Myrtle Bell, dean of health
and behavioral sciences, said.
But what kind of person was Mamie
McFaddin Ward? Why was she so willing
to share her fortune when many others are
not? Did she seek renown? Was she given-
to spurts of whimful generosity?
Not this lady, Bud Leonard, vice presi-
dent for university relations, said.
“Mamie was a very private person,” he
said, “The first time I brought her out here
to see the health sciences building, which
was named after her, she said, ‘Oh, they
shouldn’t have named that building for
me. People are going to think that I gave
the money to build it. I gave the money for
scholarships.’
“She appreciated that the university had
honored her in that way, but it was difficult
for her to accept because she never wanted
to mislead people. She liked things done in
a proper way. She reminds me of John
Gray (president emeritus of Lamar). He
inspires people to want to do their very
best. Mamie was like that. If she was in-
volved in a project, she wanted it to be the
best it could be. She was more concerned
Alcohol-related offenses in Jefferson County increase
By SUE WRIGHT
UP staff writer
Arrests for driving while intoxicated and
other alcohol-related offenses are on the
increase in Jefferson County, and are close
to being doubled over last year, County
Court-at-Law Judge Tom Man ess said.
This does not necessarily mean that the
number of offenses have increased, he
said; it is just that the law enforcement
‘ f people have increased their efforts to
catch offenders.
The number of highway accidents and
deaths has caused groups such as Mothers
Against Drunk Drivers and other
organizations to put pressure on law en-
forcement officials to crack down on DWI
offenders.
“Ninety-five percent of the cases filed
are disposed of by plea bargaining,"
Maness said, “and out of the cases that do
come to trial, the district attorney is lucky
to get convictions in four out of ten trials.
“Texas laws have enough teeth in them,
but Texas juries do not always demand
that they are properly enforced.”
Maness said that the defendant in a
criminal case has the right to elect a trial
by the judge or a jury, and to have either
the judge or the jury assess his punish-
ment. “Naturally they always choose the
jury,” Maness said, “because they feel
that a judge would assess a stiffer penalty,
which is usually true, and they also know
that it only takes one dissenting jury
member to create a hung jury.11
Although first DWI offenders can get a
jail sentence of up to two years, most of
them are given a fine and probation. If
they violate their probation they almost
always have to spend 30 to 45 days in jail,
he said.
They can violate the terms of a proba-
tion by such a simple act as going onto
premises where liquor is sold, or staying
out past their curfew hour.
Second offense DWI, Maness said, is
punishable by a fine and up to five years in
the penitentiary.
“If the drunk driver has an accident and
kills somebody,” Maness said, “that is
voluntary manslaughter, which is a third
degree felony and carries a penitentiary
sentence of two to 10 years."
Jefferson County Criminal Court Judge
Leonard Giblin says that there are two
types of probation that could be assessed
in a DWI case.
Giblin says that regular probation is
given in cases where the person pleads
guilty to a charge and a judge finds him
guilty and assesses punishment. The judge
then suspends the sentence and places him
on probation for a specified length of time.
Ten years is the maximum time that can
be given on regular probation.
The second type is unadjudicated proba-
tion, Giblin said. In this type of probation,
the evidence may be such that the judge
could find the person guilty of a crime, but
because of no prior offenses, or other ex-
tenuating circumstances, he will defer his
finding of guilty for a certain number of
years. During this time the person will
report regularly to a probation officer.
If the person violates the terms of his
probation, Giblin said, the judge can then
find the person guilty of the crime as
charged and assess the maximum
statutory sentence of that particular
crime. The full range of punishment is
available to the judge, and there is no ap-
peal from an unadjudicated sentence.
“What this type of probation was
originally designed for,” Giblin said, “was
the young person or college student who
wouldn’t want to mess up his record and be
branded for the rest of his life.
“If he serves out the term of his proba-
tion without a violation, he can truthfully
about how it was done than how much it
cost.”
Her original gift to Lamar was given in
1975 in the amount of a half-million dollars.
Leonard said she added to that as recently
as last year.
“She wanted to know you before she did
business with you,” he said. “She was the
kind of genteel lady that you didn’t rush.
When you made a business call on Mamie,
she received you properly. You would
make polite talk, then you were served
refreshments, then more polite talk—when
she was ready, you got down to business.”
If Mrs. Ward was unusual in wanting to
share her good fortune, she was even more
unusual in that she also shared her house
cleaning. Leonard said he called on her a
few times when she was in the midst of spr-
ing and fall cleaning.
“She did it the old-fashioned way,”
Leonard said. “She and her crew would *
clean each room from top to bottom. As
she moved to each room, she would hang
up a shield so that the dust wouldn’t sift in-
to the clean rooms.”
“Mamie Ward was a good friend to this
university, supportive in many ways. She
was thoughtful about the people who work-
ed here, and she thought highly of (Lamar
president C. Robert) Kemble,” he said.
Leonard said that Mrs. Ward always in-
cluded representatives of the university
when she had a gathering at her home.
Such a gathering, he said, might be ex-
tended over two or three evenings in order
to include all the guests she wanted to have
come by.
“She was a person with a sharp mind, a
fine memory, and high standards in
business or interpersonal relationships,"
Leonard said. “If she told you she would do
something, you could bank on it, and she
expected other people to be that way too.
“Mamie McFaddin Ward gave more
than her money—she got involved, she
gave her time. We will miss her very
much.”
Funeral services for Mrs. Ward were
held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mark’s
Church Episcopal, with burial in Magnolia
Cemetery.
over year
say that he has never been convicted of a
crime.”
He said that unadjudicated probation
has its good and bad points. If the person
adheres strictly to the terms of his proba-
tion, his record will be clean at the end of
the probationary term. If, however, he
breaks the rules of probation, he is liable
for a stiffer sentence than might have been
originally imposed.
“It is important,” Giblin said, “that the
young person be made thoroughly aware
of the terms of his probation in order that
he may follow it to the letter and avoid
having it revoked where it will go on his
record, and also stand the chance of
receiving a harsher sentence.”
.Like man, Daddy’O, they shoulda used that greasy kid ...
Members of the Lamar production of "Grease" found the going
sticky when they prepared to drive "Greased Lightnin' * into the
Setzer Student Center Ballroom for Monday's sock hop. Left, director Adonia
Placette aligns the car's wheels on a ramp leading into the building.
Above, cast and crew members pick up the car to turn it at the right
angle to get it through the door. Right, Placette guides the driver through
the ballroom door. Cast members performed three numbers from the play
at the hop, held in conjunction with homecoming.
Photos by JAN COUVILLON
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