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Academic artist
Department head displays her
work in the Dishman gallery.
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Quote of the day
“The test of a man or a woman’s breeding is how they behave in
a quarrel.”
— George Bernard Shaw
University Press
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
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Vol. 77, No. 14
Academic Lecture Series
Trumpet maestro Mangione
holds concert, master’s class
Catherine Wright
UP staff writer
It was 2:30 on a Friday
afternoon, and most Lamar
students had already headed
home for the weekend. But
in the Music Building, peo-
ple were still milling
around the Rothwell
I Recital Hall.
Chuck Mangione
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That’s because
Chuck Mangione,
wo rld-renown
i trumpet player,
was offering a
no taster’s class.
The class was
sot up and con-
ducted as an infor-
mal discussion time
beltween Mangione
and music students
and faculty.
For an hour, he answered, questions on top-
ics ranging from the beginning of his career to his
wardrobe.
Mangione was bom in 1940, at a time that he
says was “the best time for music.”
At age 8, he started piano lessons.
But Mangione said that it wasn’t until he saw
the movie “Young Man with a Horn” that he
decided to leam to play the t rumpet.
Mangione said that whe n he was young, his
father would always take him and his brother to
the concert of whoever was in town at the time.
After the concert, the performers were often
invited over to the Mangiome’s house for dinner
and wine.
He said that he didn’t realize that he was
being given an advantage iin the musical world.
Being young, he thought that everyone was
entertaining famous musici ans at dinnertime.
By the time he was 1.‘5, Mangione was per-
forming about six nights a week.
In 1958, he went to the Eastman School of
Music for a degree in music education.
Ironically, he wasn’t fully accepted by the
school but was allowed to attend on probation.
Mangione said that he was intimidated at
Eastman, surrounded by so many incredible
musicians.
The first time he landed the first trumpet
part, he was so scared that he missed his
entrance.
And suddenly, he wasn’t first trumpet any-
more. He was third tram pet.
“There was no second chance, no ‘Okay Son,
let’s try that again.’ Never mind I’m paying eight
grand to go here,” Mangione says.
“It was a totally different ball game.”
It didn’t take long fior him to leam the rales
of the game.
Mangione said that from 1958 until 1963,
Eastman did not have a jazz program. But that
didn’t stop him. He puit together his own ensem-
bles to perform.
“I got lucky with t he ensembles,” Mangione
said. “The talent just slhowed up.”
And so did the audiences.
Mangione said that as many as 3,000 people
would show up for a performance, one that was
not being funded by Eastman in any way.
He made sure the crowd knew about the
lack of funding before; they left.
During the mid-sixties, Man-
gione was hired as part of the
Eastman faculty. It was at this
time that he was introduced to
Russ Schultz, now the dean of fine
arts and communication here at
Lamar.
Schultz was a student of
Mangione, and he played gigs
with him as well.
“(Mangione) is a very knowl-
edgeable musician and a very fine
teacher,” Schultz says.
Mangione refuses to take
credit for his success.
“I cannot think that I wrote
something that two million people
bought and are still whistling
today,” Mangione says.
The song he is referring to is
“Feel So Good,” Mangione’s
biggest hit. It is the song he refers
to as “the one that put my two
daughters through college.”
It was also one of the crowd’s
favorites at the free concert he
gave on Friday evening in the
Montagne Center.
He also played songs from his
latest CD, titled “Everything for
Love.”
Mangione didn’t perform
alone. He brought with him six
other guys, and they played every-
thing from piccolo to auxiliary
percussion.
One band member even sang
and played the harmonica.
At the master’s class, Man-
gione talked about how he chose
the members of the band.
“I spend more time with my
band than with my family,”
Mangione said. “They have to be
people you enjoy being with as
human beings. And you have to
look at what they can bring to the
table.”
“Being a good player is not
the only criteria to be in my band.
It’s better if they’re not taller than
me,” he said with a smile.
Mangione said that being a
musician is not filled with all the
glamour some would expect. And
he says that it is a sacrifice being
away from his family.
So why does he do it?
“Music is God’s greatest gift
to man,” Mangione says. “When
the president walks in, you play
music. When the president dies,
you play music. For every reli-
gious organization, there is music.
You play music for the one you
love. You play music for the one
you want to love. Music is the best
thing that ever happened to me.”
Mangione does not either
encourage or discourage anyone
from pursuing a career in music.
But he does encourage everyone
to make the most of his life and
career.
“Be passionate about whatev-
er you do,” Mangione said. “Do it
real good and enjoy doing it.”
Titanic discoverer
Ballard talks of far-reaching findings
Tara Smith
UP staff writer
Robert Ballard, an explorer who
found the Titanic wreckage, was the
keynote speaker for the Beaumont
Chamber of Commerce’s second annual
Spindletop Award presentation that
took place on Oct.18 at 6 p.m. in the
Beaumont Civic Center.
John Breier, president of the
Beaumont Chamber of Commerce,
introduced Ballard and noted a few of
Ballard’s many accomplishments as an
explorer and scientist.
“While best known for discovering
the Titanic, his accomplishments have
been far more reaching and have had
far more impact than discovering the
Titanic, as exciting and as interesting as
that is,” Breier said.
Ballard’s findings, he said, have
provided insight into the understanding
of life on this planet, the early origins of
man, and the possibility of finding life
elsewhere in the solar system.
Ballard’s exploration of the under-
water Mid-Atlantic Ridge, for example,
has led to tremendous amounts of
knowledge about the earth and its struc-
ture.
“This great mountain range covers
23 percent of the whole world’s surface
area but was not explored until after
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldron
walked on the moon,” Ballard said.
He said that his interest in this
mountain range was not only because of
its huge size but also the role the moun-
tain range plays in the creation of the
earth’s crust and plate tectonics.
“It is along this mountain range that
the earth’s plates are separating, and
magma rises up through that separation,
hardens, and becomes a new part of the
earth,” Ballard said.
Some of his discoveries have also
revolutionized scientific thinking about
where our planet originated.
“We now think that that original
seeding of the system came from Mars,”
he said.
What he said he found was a type of
bacterium that had figured out how to
duplicate photosynthesis without the
sun through a chemical process.
“We had just discovered a major
ecosystem on our planet that was not
living off the energy of the sun; it was
living off the energy of the earth. Even
more amazing is that the same bacteri-
um can be found on a meteorite in
Mars,” Ballard said.
The earth and Mars are not the only
planets that provoke Ballard’s strong
curiosity, but he also has an interest in
one of Jupiter’s moons and an ocean on
it that may also contain this same kind
of bacterium trapped within clams that
can live without sunlight.
“If you have this organism, you
should have life. The question is, ‘How
smart are your clams?”’ Ballard asked.
While Ballard did not speak as
See BALLARD, page 2
UPTobias
Sunlight and shadow
Senior Jason Woods, a transfer student from New Mexico State, pauses to
study in the morning sunshine between photography classes.
Staff
Senate
presents
awards
Christopher Williams
UP staff writer
The annual staff senate
awards kicked off Thursday on the
8th floor of Gray Library.
Awards consisted of cash, cer-
tificates, gold-plated pendants, and
marble and overlaid glass plaques
cut in a pentagon shape. More
than 70 people attended, including
Callie Trahan, president of the
2000-2001 LU Staff Senate; Karen
Wells, senate contact; and JoAnn
Russel, director of human re-
sources.
University President James
Simmons was one of the presen-
ters, along with Mike Ferguson,
vice president for finance and
operations; Kevin Smith, interim
executive vice president for acade-
mic affairs; and Barry Johnson,
interim vice president for student
affairs.
John Mades, computing assis-
tant director, received a thirty-five
year award. Thirty-year awards
went to mail center director Re-
gina Chaisson-Carr, chief of police
Dale Fontenot and physical plant
employee Mary Wilson.
“I started in 1970...working for
a state institution.... You have to
See STAFF SENATE, page 2
Davis, Loges honored for scholastic excellence, teaching
Terri Davis
The Lamar University Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences has
honored faculty members Terri
Davis and Max Loges with excel-
lence awards for the 2000-2001
academic year.
Davis, assistant professor of
political science, earned the “Ex-
cellence in Teaching” award.
Loges, associate professor of
English and foreign languages,
earned the award for “Excellence
in Scholarly/Creative Activities.”
“This year’s recipients are
truly sterling members of the
Lamar community,” said Rick
Marriott, interim dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences.
“Each has contributed great-
ly to his respective departments,
to the college and to the universi-
ty.”
Each honoree received a
plaque and a cash award.
A faculty member since 1996,
Davis specializes in American
constitutional law and judicial
politics. Loges, who joined the
Lamar faculty in 1991, teaches
American literature, technical
writing, documentation design
and technical editing courses.
Glenn Utter, chair of the
department of political science,
nominated Davis for the Excel-
lence in Teaching award.
“She is among the most pol-
ished teachers we have had in the
political science department dur-
ing my 28-year career at Lamar,”
Utter said. “She consistently has
the highest student evaluation
scores in the department, and her
sections fill up quickly each se-
mester. Dr. Davis has been an
excellent recruiter, bringing new
majors to the department.”
Loges is a teacher and schol-
ar with a wide range of scholarly
and professional interests, said
Sallye Sheppeard, chair of the
department of English and for-
eign languages.
“Certainly, Dr. Loges num-
bers among our most accom-
plished faculty members,” Shep-
peard said. “He has proved him-
See HONORS, page 2
Max Loges
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