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University Press » Wednesday, April 29,1998 • Page 2
TALH answers questions with ‘dynamic year’
Archie Windham
UP copy editor
As the school year winds down, the Texas Academy for
Leadership in the Humanities reminisces about a year that
started with questions and ended with answers in the forms
of a vote of confidence from the Texas University System
Board of Regents and various individual honors.
Two months ago, whether TALH would continue to
exist was a question still unanswered. But the question was
put to rest at the Feb. 20 TSUS board meeting in Huntsville
on the Sam Houston State University campus. At that
board meeting, the regents verified an existing need for the
academy, which allows academically advanced students to
complete their last two years of high school and first two
years of college concurrently.
“There is a real need for this program,” John Hageman,
regent, said. “Parents want to have a place for children to go
when they are bored with high school.”
Fluth said Michael Verde, TALH student services coor-
dinator, Loyce Sinegal, academy director of residence life,
and he have learned on the job and, together, helped the
academy rise above past problems and criticisms.
“We tried to restore sanity to this place,” Verde said at
the Feb. 20 board meeting.
The sanity Verde spoke of seems to have paid dividends.
The fall ’96 academy grade-point average tallied 2.84,
but Fluth, Verde and Sinegal’s troops turned in a 3.25 this
fall.
Individual accolades, Fluth said, are also positive proof
of the program’s about face.
Charles Combs of Beaumont and Nicholas Denniston of
San Angelo were named as National Merit finalists on
April 15. Ruth said both Combs and Denniston would be
considered for some of the most prestigious scholarships
currently available.
Combs, Denniston and eight other academy students
were honored April 2 at the State Board of Education’s
annual Texas Celebration of Educational Excellence held
in the Setzer Student Center Ballroom. This ceremony hon-
ored the students for exemplary scholastic achievement by
presenting the students one by one to a member of the State
Board of Education who then gave each one a gold medal.
In addition, eight of those honored on April 2 were
joined by four other TALH peers on the National Dean’s
List, which honors students for maintaining a cumulative
GPA of 3.5 or greater.
“This has been a dynamic year,” Ruth said.
Ruth said academy students have already received
acceptance notices from top schools such as MIT, Stanford,
Cornell, Johns-Hopkins, Air Force, and, he said, without
pausing, Lamar.
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ancies in their books. She said she had no idea
who was forging the checks until the time of the
arrest.
“I’m glad that we caught it in that short period
of time with such a large sum of money,” she said.
She said the SSC office is in the process of mak-
ing changes to the way the student club accounts
are handled.
Students can no longer distribute checks. Only
Lamar staff are able to hand out checks now, and
all checks and books relating to student club
accounts are kept locked.
Thomas said the student clubs have already
been reimbursed by the university for the money
that was taken.
Reed Evans, assistant vice president for
finance and operation, said that the reimburse-
ment money has been drawn from the designated
fund balance and that the university will pursue
every legal avenue in an effort to recover those
funds.
“My main concern was that student clubs not
be affected,” Thomas said. “And right now they
are not being affected.”
Chief Fontenot said the losses will likely belong
to the bank and that it will reimburse the universi-
ty
“The bank will eventually be the one who is
out the money,” he said.
Thomas said Russell Fontenot was immediate-
ly terminated as an employee of the Setzer
Student Center. Chief Fontenot said the Lamar
police want to acknowledge the Beaumont Police
Department for their help on the case. He said the
bank’s cooperation was to be commended as well.
“Twila Baker, our internal auditor, and her
staff were a tremendous amount of help in aiding
us in the investigation of this case,” he said.
Jung-
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Andris, Tonya. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 29, 1998, newspaper, April 29, 1998; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth501038/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.