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Campus park on agendaThe University of Texas System Board
of Regents meeting in Houston recently
approved a lease contract with Ector
County for location of a park on the
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
campus.
The park, consisting of about 25 acres
on the northeast corner of the campus, is
made possible under a lease for a term of
10 years and is to be automatically ex-
panded for successive 10 year periods
unless the county chooses to terminate
the lease. The university also can termi-
nate the lease after the initial 10 year
period by giving a year's notice, if the
area is required for campus use.
Improvements on the site will be
made at the expense of the county. Plans
Regents approve
S& E advisors
Fifteen Permian Basin residents have
been named to UTPB's recently created
College of Science and Engineering Advis-
ory Council.
Dean Robert Reeves, College of
Science and Engineering, said the council's
membership comes from communities
throughout the Permian Basin.
The council will advise the dean of the
College of Science and Engineering con-
cerning ways to develop programs and re-
sources to broaden the services of the col-
lege and the community, Reeves said.
Council members include L. E. Case
of Midland, regional exploration manager
for Texaco; E. E. Clark of Odessa, district
production manager for Phillips Petroleum;
H. Mark Foersterof Midland, vice president
for engineering, The Ortloff Company;
Dr.! borge R. Gibson of Midland, indepen-
dent geologist; Dr. M. Campbell Hawkins
of Odessa, director of engineering and re-
search at El Paso Products Corporation;
Doyle Little of Odessa, president of OPI.
Dr. B. H. List, vice president and
general manager of Texas Instruments of
Midland; Dr. Martha Madsen, M. D., Mid-
land pathologist; Ronald D. Medley of Big
Spring, vice president of Cosden Chemical
Corporation; MargaretMessingerof Odessa,
co-owner of Computer Patch; Dr. Howard
P. Renick of Midland, president of Indesco;
Myra Robinson of Big Spring, president of
Robinson Drilling; C. Richard Sivalls of
Odessa, president of Sivalls Inc.; Ronnie
Turney of Odessa, chief of data process-
ing at First National Bank of Odessa; and
Dr. Phillip R. Zeeck, M. D., Odessa ortho-
pedic surgeon.call for $200,000 in initial improvements,
with an additional $176,000 to be spent
during the following two years.
Regents previously approved a lease to
Ector County for installation of softball
playing fields. The new park will be locat-
ed adjacent to the softball fields.
Regents also granted an underground
pipeline easement to Getty Oil Company
for the purpose of laying, constructing,
operating and maintaining pipelines at the
site of proposed State Highway 191. The
area is located on the northeast side of
the UTPB campus near Loop 338.In addition, Regents approveda budget
of $245,887 for faculty salaries for the
1982 summer session budget, and approv-
ed an agreement between the state Coor-
dinating Board and UTPB providing intern-
ships for UTPB criminal justice students.
The intern program, funded at $2310
for the period of Jan. 11 - May 28, 1982,
is under direction of Prof. J. L. "Ray"
LeGrande, coordinator of criminal justice
management . Under the auspices of the
Texas Statewide Corrections Intern Pro-
gram, it is an ongoing program at UTPB
whereby criminal justice students receive
practical training with area corrections
agencies.Coiwell assumes dean's post
Prof. James Colwell, literature, has
assumed duties as dean of UTPB's College
of Arts and Education. He replaces Prof.
William Tanksley, who resigned to accept
a position as the dean of the School of
Ministry forthe UnitedChurchof Religious
Science in Los Angeles, Calif.
Colwell was the founding dean of
UTPB's College of Arts and Education,
but stepped down in 1977 for health reasons
and resumed full-time teaching. As the
college's first dean, he has been with UTPB
since 1972. He was involved in the plan-
ning stages of the university and recruited
much of the arts and education faculty
prior to the university's opening to stu-
dents in 1977. He has served as chairman
of literature since 1978.
Previously Colwell served as director
of the Office of International Education
at the University of Colorado; exchange
professor for the College of Education,
Goettingen, Germany; assistant director of
the European Division of the University
of Maryland; associate director and lec-
turer in American Civilization at Yale For-
eign Student Institute; assistant command
education director and base education ad-
visor for the United States Air Force in
Tokyo, Japan; and high school English and
journalism teacher in Snyder and Sterling,
Colo.
Colwell, a brigadier general i-n the
Air Force Reserve, holds a masters and a
doctorate in American studies from Yale
University; a certificate and diploma in
German civilization from the University
of Heidelberg, Germany; a certificate in
French civilization from the Sorbonne
(University of Paris); a MA in English
from the University of Northern Colorado;
a BA in journalism from the University of
Denver and additional study at the
National University of Mexico and Sophia
University in Tokyo, Japan.He is listed in "Who's Who in the
South and Southeast," the "Directory of
American Scholars," and "Leaders in Edu-
cation." He has been editor of the Permian
Historical Annual and president of the
local chapter of the Texas Association of
College Teachers.
Advisory group
named for UTPB
Fifteen citizens in the Midland-
Odessa region have been appointed to
serve on a citizen's advisory committee
for The University of Texas of the Permian
Basin.
The announcement of the appoint-
ments was made by James L. Powell,
chairman of The University of Texas Sys-
tem Board of Regents.
Five citizens from Midland appoint-
ed to the advisory committee are Chair-
man Ray Herndon, Charles Fraser, John
Hendrix, Herschell O'Kelley and Johnnie
Warren.
Odessans on the committee include
Gayle Earls, Steve Late, Larry Melton,
Virgil Waggoner and Don Walker.
Also included are Conrad Dunagan
of Monahans, Wanda Fox of Crane, F. S.
Hoermann of Andrews, Bill Little of
McCamey and Ron Medley of Big Spring.
Powell said the committee will func-
tion as a regional force of The University
of Texas System Board of Regents in the
determination of the appropriate role and
scope for UTPB in meeting the future
needs of higher education in the Permian
Basin area.
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