Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 20, 1982 Page: 1 of 4
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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 58 years
It's Wednesday
January 20, 1982
Vol. 58, No. 25
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Students progress
in training program
By ROSE BROUSSARD
of the UP staff_
Twenty Saudi Arabian students
participating in the 27-month training
program sponsored by Mobil
Chemical Co. and the government of
Saudi Arabia have moved into the
vocational training part of the pro-
gram.
“The first group of students to
move into vocational training are
there for six hours a day,” Dr. Ken-
neth Shipper, dean of the College of
Technical Arts, said. “These students
speak English the best and do not re-
quire any English training.”
The other 10 students receive two
hours of vocational training and four
hours of English instruction a day,
Shipper said.
At this time, the other more than 70
students in the program are still
receiving English instructions ex-
clusively. These students will all
The American Chamber Trio will
perform today at 8 p.m. in the
Spindletop Room, Eighth Floor, Gray
library.
The trio is comprised of three musi-
cians active in their own careers, yet
devoted to chamber music, and is be-
ing sponsored by the Setzer Student
Center Council Performing Arts Com-
mittee.
The Lamar program includes the
Trio in C major, No. 27, by Haydn;
Trio in A minor, by Ravel; and the
Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49, by
Mendelssohn, Bobbie Applegate, SSC
program director, said.
Their tours throughout the country
have included performances of the
Brahms Double and Beethoven Triple
concerti with orchestra. Their perfor-
mances in recital have been heard on
radio stations nationwide and seen on
television in New York and Los
Angeles.
begin vocational training by June, he
said.
While they are in the technical part
of their training, they will receive in-
structions in areas such as basic
mathematics, work safety, welding,
workbench hand processes, machin-
ing, piping and combustion.
The students are also given a “pro-
ject time” in which they are able to
use the skills they have learned in
class.
“They may weld something, or do
some soldering or do some wiring.
During project time, they get to use
their skills,” Sherald Davis, cur-
riculum coordinator, said.
So far, the program has been
almost problem-free, Davis said.
“There haven’t been any problems
except frustrations and boredom with
math,” she said. “The biggest pro-
blem is the word problem, and that
The American Chamber Trio has
presented three series of concerts in
New York and was recently invited to
participate in the American Music
Festival at the National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C.
Peter Basquin, pianist for the trio
and a scholarship student of Dora
Zaslovsky at the Manhattan School of
Music, was a top-prize winner of the
Montreal International Music Com-
petition and has appeared with the
Montreal, Quebec, Boston and Min-
nesota orchestras.
Basquin has been acclaimed in
recitals at Lincoln Center, Kennedy
Center and Carnegie Hall.
June DeForest, violinist, had
already been the recipient of several
awards and prizes when she was
awarded a full scholarship to study
with Raphael Bronstein at the
Manhattan School of Music.
stems from the students’ limited
English.”
While the Saudis are in the voca-
tional training program, they will all
follow the same curriculum.
Davis said that Mobil wants the
students to get a strong background in
certain areas. When they complete
this segment of the program, they will
then go to work at the local Mobil
Chemical plant.
At this time, students will be assign-
ed to specific jobs. These assignments
will be based on student preference,
instructor recommendations and
Mobil recommendations, Davis said.
Currently, Mobil has four plants
under construction in Saudi Arabia.
The first of these plants is expected to
be completed by the end of 1984.
The students will return to Saudi
Arabia sometime between October
1983 and June 1984, depending on the
completion of the plants, Davis said.
today
Shortly after her graduation, she
was appointed concertmaster of the
Joffrey Ballet and the Canadian
Opera.
Daniel Morganstem, cellist, is cur-
rently principal cellist for the
American Ballet Theatre and the
Chicago Lyric Opera. He received
recognition at age 16 when he was
selected a winner in competitions
held by the New York Philharmonic
and radio station WQXR in New York.
To promote a wider interest in
chamber music, the trio has placed
special emphasis on lecture-recitals
and master classes in residence.
Tickets for the program are $2 for
Lamar students and $4 for the general
public. They are on sale at the SSC
check cashing booth.
A reception will follow the pro-
gram, Applegate said.
Trio to perform
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Kampus Korner burns
The Kampus Korner restaurant was damaged by a
fire that occurred around 5 a.m. Tuesday. The kit-
chen area (shown above) and ceiling sustained
heavy damage in the one-alarm blaze. See related
story, page 2.
Photo by JAN COUVILLON
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Campus friend dies
after sudden illness
Lady is dead.
The white German shepherd
that was a permanent resident of
the Lamar campus was a familiar
face to many students.
She died at 10:30 p.m. Monday
after a sudden illness.
Lady could be seen each morn-
ing in front of the Galloway
Business Building or the Wimberly
Student Affairs Building.
“Lady was just a loving pet who
kept stray dogs away from the
Galloway Business Building
because she didn’t like other dogs
on her turf,” Pat Culp, custodian
for the Galloway Building, said.
Lady was found dead in the
shrubbery surrounding the
Galloway entrance.
She was buried Tuesday after-
noon in the pet cemetery at the
Humane Society of Southeast
Texas. The burial plot was donated
by the society.
Professors to present programs
for Science Education Conference
Two of America’s most prestigious
university professors and lecturers
will present programs Jan. 25-26 at
the 29th Science Education Con-
ference hosted by I,amar University.
Dr. Hubert Alyea, professor of
chemistry, emeritus, at Princeton
University, and Dr. Addison E. Lee,
professor emeritus of science educa-
tion and biology at the University of
Texas-Austin, will deliver lectures to
300 selective Southeast Texas junior
and senior high school science
teachers.
Alyea, who has given more than
5,000 lectures in 80 countries, taught
42 years at Princeton. His presenta-
tion is entitled “Lucky Accidents,
Great Discoveries and the Prepared
Mind.”
He developed the widely-acclaimed
TOPS technique for teaching
chemistry. The system, which in-
volves a small kit for projecting live
chemical experiments, is con-
siderably less expensive than other
methods.
In 1964, Alyea received the New
Jersey Science Teaching Award. The
American Chemistry Society honored
him with the Manufacturing
Chemists’ Award in 1970 and the Nor-
ris Flack and Chemistry Teachers
awards in 1972.
He was a lecturer at the 1958
Brussels Expo-58 and the Seattle
World’s Fair in 1962.
A biology teacher for 45 years, in-
cluding 34 years at UT-Austin, Lee
was the 1975 recipient of the Robert H.
Carleton Award, the highest honor
presented by the National Science
Teachers Association.
Lee is a past president of both the
National Science Teachers Associa-
tion and the National Association of
Biology Teachers. He has served as a
consultant, lecturer and participant
in various international conferences.
His. topic will be “The Biology
Teacher and Back to Basics.”
Lee has authored more than 100
publications including research
papers, non-technical articles and
books.
Other elite university professors
selected to make presentations in-
clude Bill Matthews and Roy Biser of
Lamar University; Dr. Henry Levins-
tein, Syracuse University; Dr. H.
William Menard, Scripts Institute of
Oceanography; and Dr. Mac
Rugheimer, Montana State Universi-
ty.
Also, Dr. Roger Milkman, Universi-
ty of Iowa; Dr. Roger Mellgren,
University of Oklahoma; Dr. Klaus
Keil, University of New Mexico; and
Dr. Tung H. Jeong, Lake Forest (111.)
College.
The conference, scheduled in Texas
for the first time since 1964, is co-
sponsored by Lamar University, the
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation,
Gulf States Utilities Co. and the Texas
Education Agency.
Miscalculation by team pilot may be cause of deaths
INDIAN SPRINGS, NEV.
(UPI)—An Air Force spokesman said
v, today a miscalculation by one
Thunderbirds stunt team pilot may
have caused three other pilots to
follow him to their deaths.
Four members of the precision fly-
ing team died Monday when their
planes slammed into the desert floor
and disintegrated at speeds ap-
proaching 400 miles per hour.
The four pilots were practicing a
wing-to-wing upward roll maneuver
when they almost simultaneously
crashed near the landing strip of the
, Indian Springs Air Force Base.
» Col. Mike Wallace of the Public In-
formation Office at nearby Nellis Air
Force Base, headquarters for the
Thunderbirds, said today the pilots
are trained to look at each other to
determine their positions.
“In the maneuver they were doing,
the pilot on the exterior left divides
his time between checking the in-
struments and his right wing man,”
, Wallace said.
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He said the instruments tell the
pilots air speed and altitude.
Could a miscalculation by one pilot
cause the other three planes to follow
his lead and crash in information ?
“I don’t want to speculate. That’s
why we have a board to investigate,”
Wallace said.
Is it possible ?
“Yes, it is possible,” he said.
Wallace said Maj. Gen. Gerald D.
Larson, the head of an Air Force in-
vestigation board, arrived at Nellis
from New Hampshire at 10 p.m. PST
Monday and met this morning for
briefings. Larson planned to visit the
crash site about 40 miles away by
noon.
Larson and a team of 10 to 15 ex-
perts are expected to spend three
weeks studying the wreckage of the
four T-38s—the worst crash in the
28-year history of the Air Force stunt
flying team.
Wallace said the bits and pieces of
the jet trainers likely would remain
on the ground at Indian Springs dur-
ing most of the preliminary investiga-
tion by Larson’s team.
The manufacturer of the Thunder-
birds’ planes, Northrop Corp., dis-
counted mechanical failure of the
four supersonic T-38 Talon jets as the
cause.
“The airplane has/ been known to
have a very, very good record,” Nor-
throp spokesman Monte Montgomery
said in Hawthorne, Calif. “I don’t
think this particular accident had
anything to do with the operation of
the airplane at all. You don’t have
four airplanes fail at the same time.”
The jets crashed almost
simultaneously with what nearby
Desert Springs residents described as
an earthquake-like explosion that
looked like a napalm bomb.
Wreckage was strewn across a
1-square-mile area of desert 60 miles
north of Las Vegas.
The crash brought to 18 the number
of Thunderbird aviators killed since
the formation of the group in 1953.
Witnesses said the pilots failed to
pull out of their steep dive and crash-
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ed into the earth side by side, still in
formation.
The fatal maneuver, called the
“line abreast loop,” called for the
four pilots to streak 100 feet above the
ground, sharply climb several thou-
sand feet, make a loop in the sky, dive
earthward and pull out of the loop 100
feet above the ground—making a
final side-by-side fly-by over the run-
way at speeds of 400 mph.
“It was not the most difficult
maneuver,” said Maj. Gen. James
Gregory, Commander of the Tactical
Weapons Fighter Center. “The wing
positions are very critical so they
don’t bobble and also the pull out is
very important.”
Tom Sullivan, a Boulder City, Nev.,
man driving to a construction job at
the time of the crash, said one jet hit
“and the other three followed within a
tenth of a second flying in formation.”
“They didn’t pull up fast enough,”
he said.
“Right before the crash they were
climbing and then were rolling on a
dive down to the ground,” said
y
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another motorist, Jim Kelso of Ojai,
Calif. “Just as they pulled out of the
dive all four of them hit the ground.
The instant they hit we knew they
were dead, no one could have surviv-
ed.”
The Thunderbird pilots were prac-
ticing for the 1982 show season when
the accident occurred. The first of
their 87 aerial shows had been
scheduled for March 13, in Davis
Mothan, Ariz., but officials said it was
too early to determine when or if the
season would begin.
Killed in the crash Monday were:
—Major. Norman L. Lowry in, 37,
Radford, Va., a veteran of 264 combat
flights in Vietnam and the new
commander-leader of the Thunder-
birds.
—Capt. Willie Mays, 31, Ripley,
Term., left wingman.
—Capt. Joseph “Pete” Peterson,
32, Tuskegee, Ala., right wingman.
—Capt. Mark E. Melancon, 31,
Dallas, Texas, flying the slot position.
The 1982 show season would have
been the debut for Lowry and Melan-
con as Thunderbird pilots.
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Inside_
• Baird, Thames head 'La
Traviata' cast, page 2
•SSCC film committee sched-
ules flick series, page 3
•Lamar puts halt to Broncos,
65-52, page 4
Weather_
Today's and Thursday's
weather forecast calls for
cloudy to partly cloudy skies,
with the daytime highs
reaching the upper 70s. Morn-
ing lows should be in the mid
60s.
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