The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1962 Page: 3 of 4
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THE YELLOW JACKET, NOVEMBER 30, 1962 PAGE 3
Maintenance Man Known As Poet
Hard Work, Lyrical Philosophy
Win Friends lor John Mitchell
SEARS GRANT—Dr. Guy D. Newman, Howard Payne College president, receives a check for $1,000
from Mrs. Dora Carpenter, local representative for Sears Roebuck and Co. The gift was part of
$900,000 the company is giving in unrestricted grants, to help colleges meet expenses.
$1,000 Gift
College Gets Boon
Howard Payne College last
week received $1,000 from Sears,
Roebuck and Co. in its distri-
bution of almost $900,000 in un-
restricted grants under a new
program to Aid privately sup-
ported colleges and universities,
announced Dr. Guy D. Newman,
HPC president
The check was presented to
Dr. Newman by Mrs. Dora Car-
penter, local Sears manager.
"These grants are for the pur-
pose of helping these institu-
Conferences Colled
For Ed. Students
The revised program for cer-
tification of teachers will begin
in the spring semester," said
Dr. Frances L. Merritt, dean of
graduate studies.
Prior to registration for these
courses, education students need
to consult Dr. Merritt, she not-
ed.
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tions meet their increasingly
critical financial needs/' said
Mrs. Carpenter.
Commenting on the Sears
program, Mrs. Carpenter noted
that corporate giving to private
higher education must increase
from its current annual level of
$200 million to $500 million by
the end of this decade if these
schools are to properly dis-
charge their educational obliga-
tions.
Under the new program, 35
participating colleges and uni-
versities in Texas shared In
grants totaling $48,100, A total
of 557 colleges and universities
from coast to coast received
grants.
In addition to the company's
new program of aid to educa-
tion, another $700,000 will be
given in 1962 to institutions of
higher learning by the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation, the non-
Richardson Poem
Chosen For Book
Shirley Richardson, Brown-
wood senior at Howard Payne,
wrote a poem that will appear
in the National Poetry Assn.
i
Anthology of College Poetry.
"The Anthology is a compila-
tion of the finest poetry written
by the college men and women
of America, representing every
state in the country. Selections
were made from thousands of
poems submitted," according to
D. Hartman of the NPA
Miss Richardson, a secondary
education and art major with
a speech minor, was notified
last week by the association,
which is headquartered in Los
Angeles, Calif. Miss Richardson
doesn't know > when the book
will be published. (SE£ POEM
ON PAGE TWO)
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Sears to carry on charitable,
scientific and educational pro-
grams.
Registration Is
Set For Badminton
All men students interested in
participating in the mens intra-
mural badminton tournament
must sign up by noon Tuesday,
according to Mr. Ken Morgan,
director of intramurals. Stu-
dents may register in his office
in the gymnasium.
Singles and doubles play in
badminton will begin Tuesday
afternoon.
The Golden Hour
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Across from City Hall
Howard Payne's Favorite
Eating Place.
He carries the campus mail
twice a day, paints, directs the
college carpentry and student
help, fires the boiler if this is
left undone, fills in on cleaning
up sometimes and plays the
chimes and picks up pecans on
the side.
He has taken cows out of Old
Main and once took a calf out
of Howard Payne Hall in the
dead of night. He- used to write
for the Yellow Jacket and ran
t.lio basketball concessions for
12 years.
John Mitchell, Howard
Payne's five-foot-four head
maintenance man, can be seen
anywhere on campus, but most
often near the boiler room be-
hind Mims Auditorium. He's out
in all kinds of weather.
John built a legend at How-
ard Payne by writing a poetic
bit of advice or frivolity on the
blackboards each evening when
he cleaned up. Every morning,
students watched for John's
poems. The poetry earned John
the title of "The Blackboard
Poet" in a feature story in the
Dallas Morning News.
Press Poet
Howard Payne's 1948 Press
Club named John the poet
laureate of Howard Payne in
their volume of his collected
verse, "John Sez." The college
honored John and Mrs. Mitchell
with "John Mitchell Day" and
an appreciation dinner in 1957.
Dr. T. R. Havins, then profes-
sor of history, addressed the
banquet guests and John gave
a talk in chapel service.
The foreword of "John Sez,"
by Dr. Havins, ,says "To know
John is to have an understand-
ing of his philosophy . . . hard
work is a cardinal virtue."
"Penny honesty," says John, is
basic. The 1948 foreword ends
saying John is an integral part
of Howard Payne. The classes
come and go, but John is always
here.
He's been here since the fall
of 1943, when he started as a
janitor in Old Main. Looking
back, John recalls that Walker
Memorial Library, Veda Hodge
Hall, the boiler room, Taylor
Hall and the ministerial courts
weren't here when he came.
Occasionally during the nine
years John lived on campus, he
would grease the flagpole in
front of Old Main. "The fresh-
men would put up a flag and
the upperclassmen would take
it down. Or the upperclassmen
would put one up and the fresh-
men would get it down." John
says there were some real bat-
tles.
TENNESSEE
John came from Franklin
County, Tenn., to Texas when
he was 18. He married Mary
Buse three years later in 1922,
in Bangs. Then he farmed 25
years in Coleman and Brown
Counties before starting with
HPC in the fall of 1943.
"I don't have time," John
answers when asked why no
more blackboard poetry and no
greased poles. But he's still
ready with advice and humor
and gives off an occasional
poem. And he still reaches Old
Main each day at five p.m. to
play the chimes.
"John Sez," which is in Wal-
ker Memorial Library, holds
such tidbits as:
If you have worked hard
And did your best
You will have no trouble
In passing your tests.
But if too much campusology
Has your brain in a spin
You will be sorry
Both you and your friend,
Another poem seems timely:
Golden leaves are flying
Beautiful trees almost bare
There is no denying
Winter is almost here,
But the topper, perhaps, is
this one:
Dear ole HPC
The college of romance
If you don't get married here
You haven't got a chance.
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The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1962, newspaper, November 30, 1962; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128419/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Howard Payne University Library.