Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1979 Page: 1 of 6
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Election
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1979
Winston Guillory
SGA President
Karan Nichols
SSCC President
Dr. Spradley
Professor of the Year
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Betty Jacob
Governing Board Chairman
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Greta Verrette
RHA President
The Wednesday, May 2,
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University Press of the
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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 55 years
Good Morning!
Friday, April 27,1979
Vol. 29, No. 51
HOT POTS—Sandi Laurette, Beaumont
senior, places a piece of pottery into the
kiln, constructed by the art department, in
front of the Setzer Student Center Thur-
sday. Students demonstrated firing
techniques in conjunction with a pottery
sale and exhibit sponsored this week by the
SSCC Performing Arts Committee.
Photo by Mike Cutaia
KVLU win host
open house soon
In conjunction with its fifth anniversary, The station hopes to sign up 150 new
KVLU-FM will host an open house for members for the listener-supported outlet,
members and friends from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and as many renewals of previous mem-
Monday in the Setzer Student Center berships, during “Celebration ‘79,” ac-
Reading Room, site of the inaugural cording to Joanne Scarborough, public in-
broadcast on April 30,1974. formation director.
Gary Hinson, program director, will air
his afternoon jazz show, “Jazz Volunteers are being sought among the
Unlimited,” live during those hours. Lamar community to answer telephones
KVLU will celebrate its fifth an- and take membership pledges. Volunteers
nlversary with “Celebration ‘79,” five are needed between the hours of 9 p.m. and
days of live events and special program- midnight Wednesday, May 2; 7 a.m. and 11
ming, May 2-6. p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 3-5;
■ Included will be a live jazz broadcast and between noon and midnight Sunday,
from Carlo’s restaurant in Beaumont, May 6.
movie music from the past 50 years, five Food wiu be provided for volunteers at
hours of operatic classics, and the broad- the station during mealtime hours,
cast premiere of the landmark February Those wishing to assist are asked to call
concert given by the Beaumont Symphony Joanne Scarborough at the station, 838-
Orchestra and the Beaumont Jazz Band. 8831.
Committee votes to abolish
10-cent state property tax
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI)—The Senate
Education Committee voted unanimously
in favor of abolishing the 10-cent state
property tax Wednesday but also ap-
proved, 6-2, a plan that would couple
eliminating the tax with an addition to the
state Constitution to guarantee state
colleges and universities a multimillion
dollar building fund.
Although the complex plan would give 22
state colleges and universities $28.3
million for construction projects in 1980
and more in following years, and authorize
the University of Texas and Texas A&M
University systems to borrow and spend
an extra $110 million, it is less than school
officials proposed and considerable con-
troversy remains about how the funds
would be allocated.
Sen. A.R. Schwartz, D-Galveston, urged
the committee to approve the proposal as a
vehicle to bring the controversy to the
Senate floor for a vote.
"It’s not what the colleges want but
we’re at a critical time. We’re running out
of time,” Schwartz said. “We’ve got less
than 30 working days left in the legislative
session.”
The constitutional amendment Schwartz
and Sen. R.L. Vale, D-San Antonio, are
pushing would give the Legislature control
over how funds are allocated among the 22
colleges and universities that are not part
of the UT or Texas A&M systems.
Current provisions of the Texas Con-
stitution allocate proceeds of the 10-cent ad
valorem tax to a special fund and the 22
colleges are authorized to issue bonds
against future proceeds of that fund to
finance construction projects.
The tax is under attack, however, and
there is considerable doubt the schools will
ever see the $40.7 million the tax would be
expected to generate in 1981.
> Critics say the tax fund has generated
more building money than colleges need.
Ballots counted
Guillory defeats Jones for SGA .presidency
Winston Guillory, Port Arthur
sophomore, was elected Lamar Student
Government Association president for the
1979-80 school year in campus elections
held Tuesday and Wednesday.
Guillory defeated his opponent, Ransom
“Duce” Jones, Beaumont junior, 571 votes
to 194.
Betty Jacob, current vice president of
the SGA, was elected chairperson of the
Setzer Student Center Governing Board.
Jacob ran unopposed.
Karen Nichols, Beaumont senior, was
elected president of the Setzer Student
Center Council. Nichols ran unopposed.
Greta Verrette, Liberty sophomore, was
elected president of the Resident Hall
Association. Verrette ran unopposed.
Robin Bashaw, Lake Jackson
sophomore, was elected vice president of
the Residence Hall Association. Bashaw
ran unopposed.
Four positions for the Student Senate
were filled in the election, with the
remaining four to be filled in fall elections.
Lee Blackman, Groves junior, was elec-
ted senator from the College of Business.
Blackman ran unopposed.
Lee Haidusek, Dayton freshman, was
elected senator from the College of
Engineering. Haidusek had 53 votes, and
his opponent, Betty Lees, Beaumont
sophomore, had 44.
Peggy Dow, Winnie junior, was elected
senator from the College of Fine and Ap-
plied Arts. Dow had 42 votes and her op-
ponent, Sherrie Booker, Beaumont
sophomore, had 29.
Hyattye Simmons, Beaumont junior,
was elected senator from the College of
Liberal Arts. Simmons ran unopposed.
Two representatives from each class,
except the freshman class, were elected.
Freshman class representatives will be
elected during the fall.
Jesse Rambo Jr., Beaumont senior, and
Steve Scott, Port Neches senior, were elec-
ted senior class representatives. Both ran
unopposed.
Terrilynn Thompson, Orange
sophomore, and Anthony Terracina, Port
Arthur sophomore, were elected junior
class representatives. Thompson had 98
votes; Terracina had 77; and Ben Morris,
Cameron, Texas, sophomore, had 49.
Danny Clark, Beaumont freshman, and
Lynne Freeland, Victoria freshman, were
elected sophomore class representatives.
Both ran unopposed.
Seven senators-at-large were elected,
with one post to be filled in the fall.
The elected senators are Shannon Clark,
Beaumont freshman; Timothy DuBose,
Beaumont freshman; Delbert Fore,
Beaumont junior; Ernest Gibbs,
Beaumont sophomore; Stan Kennedy,
Nederland junior; Robert Rose, Nome
sophomore; and Steven Walker, Groves
freshman.
SSC Annual party today
The Setzer Student Center is celebrating
its eighth annual Anniversary Party
today in the SSC Arbor.
The birthday party will include all-day
free check-cashing for students at the
check-cashing booth, and free games for
students in the SSC games area, according
to Annie Stegeman, assistant SSC program
director.
At 12:15 p.m., Larry Markley, SSC direc-
tor and dean of student activities, will open
an official birthday ceremony, Bobbie Ap-
plegate, SSC program director, said. At
this time, birthday cake, ice cream, and
punch will be served.
There will he drawings for free prizes at
this time, Applegate said, and a student
does not have to be present to win.
There will be a drawing box at the Setzer
Student Center information booth for
students to register for the prizes.
Free prizes include four tickets to the
Doobie Brothers show; 10 tickets to any
General Cinema; lunch with Markley; a
private elevator tour with Herk Rice, SSC
building superintendent; and a private
showing on video beam, according to
Stegeman.
Other prizes include four large pizzas
from the Perch; a $10 gift certificate to the
Arbor pottery display; a free issue of Run-
ner’s World magazine; and a free Atari
Football game with Veweiser Taylor, SSC
custodian, Stegeman said.
The Perch will participate in the
celebration by offering half-prices on
everything served, from 5 p.m. until mid-
night, Stegeman said.
Jimmy Simmons will provide live en-
tertainment during that time.
Students who are not present at the
drawings should contact Appligate Mon-
day to find out if they have won a prize.
Garrett wins Bess Gentry Award
Spradley
wins title
Dr. Larry W. Spradley, associate
professor of business administration, was
chosen Professor of the Year in general
campus elections, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday.
First and second runners-up were Ron
Wesbrooks, instructor of men’s health and
physical education; and Dr. Ann Die, in-
structor of psychology.
Dr. Spradley, tjie father of three, has
been at Lamar for seven years. He holds a
bachelor of arts degree from Stephen F.
Austin University in Nacogdoches; a
masters in theology from Southern
Methodist University in Dallas; a masters
in mathematics from Lamar; and a doc-
torate in mathematical statistics from
Texas A&M, College Station.
Cynthia Ann Garrett has been named
winner of the 1978-79 Bess Gentry Award.
The announcement came last evening at
the annual Bess Gentry Award Banquet,
held in the Spindletop Room of Gray
Library.
“It has been my privilege to work
closely with Cindy,” said Ann Shaw, chair-
man of the Bess Gentry Award Selection
Committee.
“I feel that everyone who has worked
with her will agree that she is deserving of
this recognition. She reflects everything
that the award is intended to recognize. ”
Cynthia Ann Garrett
The Bess Gentry Award is conferred an-
nually in recognition of an outstanding
senior woman who has exemplified high
standards of character, leadership, con-
tribution and scholarship while a student
at Lamar, according to Shaw.
“This year was one of the richest in ter-
ms of outstanding senior women
nominees,” Shaw said. “The decision was
a hard one to make. Any one of the
nominees would have been a good choice.”
Nominees from the May and August
graduating classes included Stephanie
Ann Jackson, Beaumont; Susan Kay
Musch, Port Arthur; Gail Ann Perkins,
Port Arthur; Tara Shockley, Port Arthur;
and Garrett.
Nominees from the December 1978
graduating class were Rebekah Louise
Byrd, Port Arthur; Sarah Louise Cam-
mareri, Port Arthur; and Katherine
Elaine Streetman, Nederland.
Garrett is the daughter of Nell Rose
Garrett and L.R. Garrett of Rosenberg.
She will graduate in May with a B.B.A. in
business administration. Her major field
of study is office administration.
Among her offices are Panhellenic
Association president, Cap&Gown
president, Setzer Student Center Council
travel chairman, Students for Free En-
terprise publicity chairman, cheerleader,
and Techsans pledge president.
Garrett has served on the Leadership
Lamar Steering Committee, the Blood
Drive Committee, the President’s Task
Force for Recruitment and Retention, the
Bess Gentry Banquet Committee, and the
President’s Ad Hoc Committee for the
Selection of a New Football Coach.
She was selected to Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities and
Colleges for two years.
Garrett will graduate Phi Kappa Phi.
Dr. Spradley, an ordained Methodist
minister, received the “Teaching Ef-
fectiveness Award” last year from Phi
Kappa Phi, national honor society.
He is faculty sponsor of the Students for
Free Enterprise and is adviser to Kappa
Sigma fraternity. He also is a member of
Blue Key, national honor society.
He is the sponsor of Zeta Tau Alpha
sorority.
Dr. Spradley’s wife is a senior education
major at Lamar. His daughter is a fresh-
man undecided major at the university.
Award honors Gentry
By SUSAN MARLOW
of the UP staff
For the first time since the Bess
Gentry Award was established in
1975, Bess Gentry was not able to be
present at the Bess Gentry Award
banquet.
Gentry is recuperating from
surgery she underwent about a mon-
th ago, according to Ann Shaw, dean
of student development.
“The award was established to
honor and to express appreciation of
Bess Gentry, who has done so much
for the women at Lamar,” Shaw
said.
Gentry came to Lamar in 1944 as
head of the Department of Women’s
Health and Physical Education and
dean of women.
“When I first came to Lamar, I
was the only teacher of women’s
physical education,” Gentry told the
UP this week.
Women’s physical education,
men’s physical education, music,
and the cafeteria were all housed in
what is now the Wimberly Student
Affairs Building, according to Gen-
try.
As dean of women, she was in
charge of the women’s dormitories,
Gentry said.
As Lamar grew in size, more
duties were handed to each office. In
1955, Gentry left her position as head
of women’s physical education to
become dean of women.
She remained in that position until
her retirement in 1968.
In 1954, Gentry established the
Physical Education Professionals
Club on campus while she was still
head of the women’s health and
physical education department.
In 1956, she established the first
four national sororities on campus,
as well as the Panhellenic
Association.
Gentry founded Cap and Gown,
women’s senior honor society, in
1960.
In 1963, the Board of Regents
named Gentry Hall, a dormitory for
housing the national sororities, in
her honor.
She founded a Lamar chapter of
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
national honor society, and the
Association of Women Students,
presently known as the Lamar
Hostesses, in 1967.
Gentry, a native of Bonham,
Texas, earned her Bachelor of Scien-
ce degree from Texas Woman’s
University, Denton, and her Masters
of Education degree from the
University of Houston.
Before coming to Lamar, she ser-
ved as recreation director of the
Beaumont YWCA for 12 years.
“The most important thing about
Bess Gentry was her keen sense of
foresight and sense of timing in
knowing when the appropriate time
was to establish a program,” Shaw
said.
Shaw, a student at Lamar when
the national sorority system was
established, said, “We had four local
sororities here at that time. My
junior year was consumed with
meeting the women of all the
national sororities that were in-
terested in establishing themselves
on our campus.”
“Through the files kept during
that time,” Shaw said, “I found that
Gentry had been corresponding with
the national sororities as much as a
year before coming to the local
sororities with the idea of becoming
national sororities.
“She had the local sororities doing
things in the way that the national
sororities did them. She was
preparing us for the change without
our even knowing it,” Shaw said.
According to Shaw, feelings for
Gentry can be described best by a
passage from the speech made at
the first Bess Gentry Award
Banquet in 1975, “We heard former
students and colleagues sing her
praises. Amid their tributes was a
constant theme—Bess Gentry is
loved and her friends are legion. ’ ’
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