The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1963 Page: 1 of 8
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Friday, January 11, 1963
San Antonio, Texas
Volume XXXVIII No. 9
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Dr. Lois G. Morrison
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Memorial Service Honors English Instructor;
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New Conference Plan
Permiis Sophomores
To Register Early
Second semester sophomores,
which includes all prospective
spring graduates, will be permitted
to register on Wednesday, Jan-
uary 23, from 8 a.m. until noon or
possibly later, for the spring se-
mester.
The regular registration for all
other students is scheduled for
January 28 and 29, and students
preregistering, will not have to
return to school after exams un-
til January 30, the first day of
teaching for the spring semester.
To be eligible for preregistra-
tion, the student must have con-
ferred with a faculty adviser con-
cerning graduation plans. Students
have been notified by card as to
which adviser to consult.
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“She is Lois Morrison, Ph.D., a
dean and teacher, whose profes-
sional honors are many. Yet she
is probably best known in her
community and to the readers who I of American
named her to this honor for her 1 Women (she is working with
untiring efforts to persuade wo-
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The instructor had served as an
Army chaplain (major) and as a
teacher at Howey
Howey-in-the-Hills,
fore coming to SAC.
His study of the English poet,
John Milton, written as the thesis
for his master’s degree, was later
published as were many of his
poems.
The driver of the other car and
his companion escaped serious in-
jury in the accident: the driver
has been charged with double
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“I am more proud for SAC than
for myself,” was the reaction of
Dr. Lois Morrison, dean of wo-
men, upon learning of her selec-
tion as “Career Woman of the
Year” by the San Antonio News.
The dean considers herself “San
Antonio’s most over-rated wo-
man,”
achievements
Dr. Morrison
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which San Jacinto Junior
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“Current offices she holds in-
clude that of honorary member of
the Public Library Board, a mem-
ber of the Educational Committee
Assn, of University
a
special group on the AAUW’s Rare
Book Project) and chairman of the ' special opening event staged by
International Committee for Serv- the 12 mortuary science students
ice in Zonta International. I will follow.
“A dynamic speaker, she trav- i Other speeches delivered by SAC
els throughout the United States faculty members will be “A Col-
groups (now le§e on the Grow” bY Dr- C1Vde
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men that ‘tragic human waste is
found in under-achievement.’ She
has spent a lifetime in inspiring
others to ‘full’ achievement and
striving for it herself.
“Mrs. Dale Morrison in private
life, Dr. Morrison is professor of
of English and Dean of Women at
I San Antonio College.
James K. Moorhead
memorial service for Mr.
James K. Moorhead, SAC Eng-
lish instructor, and his wife, Phyl-
lis, was held in the Covenant
Presbyterian Church on Sunday,
December 23, 1962.
The couple, with their three-
year-old son. Keary, were en route
to Florida on December 20 to vis-
it Mrs. Moorhead’s parents for
the Christmas holidays. Three
miles out of Columbus, Texas.
Head-On Collision Claims Lives of Couple
their car collided head-on with he did his mot
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SAC Morticians
Serve as Hosts
To Stale Group
Organized for the educational
and professional advancement of
funeral services, the Texas Funeral
Directors and Embalmers Associa-
tion will hold its fourth annual
Mid-Winter Conference at SAC on
Tuesday, January 15.
Mr. John H. Cage, Mortuary Sci-
ence Department chairman, ex-
plained that SAC invited T.F.D.E.A.
to present their program here “to
make more professional members
aware that SAC is a higher insti-
tution of learning with more than
a mere mortuary department.”
SAC is one of the four colleges
in the United States which have
Mortuary Science departments, and
it is the only one which offers
an Associate of Mortuary Science
degree.
The other institutions, the Uni-
versity of Kansas, University of
Minnesota, and Wayne State Uni-
versity, offer no degree in this
subject.
T.F.D.E.A. agreed to hold one
convention day at SAC because it
is the organization which instigat-
ed the establishment of SAC’s Mor-
tuary Science Department under
the presidency of Harold Saunders,
owner of Riebe Funeral Home of
San Antonio, in 1960.
Following a registration period
in the McAllister Fine Arts Cen-
ter, President Wayland P. Moody
will give the welcome address. A
Finalists in the Talent Show try-
outs held last month, presented a
variety program January 10, in the
McAllister Auditorium. The top ten
acts were selected by Mr. Ron
Lucke, Mrs. Irma Dee Everts, Dr.
Paul Culwell, and Mr. Allen Hol-
ley, who also did the staging and
directing of the program.
The show, or musical “broth”
was flavored by Roy Lozano and
Philip Dieckow, in a piano duet;
a pinch of jazz was added by Bill
Bailey and his combo; further in-
gredients included “chili pepper”
in the form of a Mexican inter-
pretive dance by Roxanne Hurd;
“spice” in the person of Claudia
Cantu whose performance consisted
of a dance and vocal solo; other
soloists, Barbara Balogh and Olga
Torres, also added to the flavor.
Garnishing the “broth” with vocal
duets were Bob Baker and Ken
Carlson; Bill Denton and Mary
Navarro; also teaming up were
Jeanie and Linda Barger. The
“mixture” was “well-stirred” with
the dancing legs of Beverly Ball,
Sharon Hodges, Mary Alice Na-
varro, and Mary Lou Tamez as
they put on their dance routine.
Picked from approximately 30
acts, these ten entertained the stu-
dent body with their musical
“recipe.”
over-rated
but her many honors and
are fully deserved.
stated that she
couldn’t believe it had happened
because it was so quiet around
the school that it seemed no one
even knew of the annual contest.
She said that as far as she knew
there had been no “politicing”
around the school, and that she
could not even find any one who
had voted for her except one
teacher. Then she discovered that
it was in last year’s contest that
he had cast his vote for her.
Out of 100 women selected
through the years as “Woman of
the Year,” Dean Morrison is the
first person from San Antonio
College to receive this honor, and
it is for this reason that she is
prouder of SAC than herself.
Expressing the reaction of the
college personnel to the dean’s
honor, Dr. Clyde R .Nail, vice-
president, stated, “The honor that
has come to Dr. Lois Morrison is
one that is most deserved. Dr.
Morrison has been untiring in her
efforts, enthusiastic in her ap-
proach, diligent in her achieve-
ments, and sincere in her deal-
ings with the students. It is an
honor to have Dr. Morrison as
your friend.”
Following is the article on Dr.
Morrison which appeared in the
San Antonio News on New' Year's
Day.
“A nationally recognized woman,
who considers her seven grand-
children her greatest achievement,
was named Career Woman
1962.
C. Cox of
Moorhead was
i the collision.
Mrs. Moorhead died shortly after
7 a.m. the following morning.
Their son was injured but quickly
recovered.
"" Upon word of the accident, Dean
Paul R. Culwell, and Mr. John
Igo, English instructor, went to
Columbus to help make arrange-
ments and to greet Mrs. Moor-
head’s parents, the Hitchcocks.
Since the bodies were cremated,
friends from Mr. Moorhead’s
church, faculty members, and busi-
ness associates, decided to start a
memorial fund rather than to send
flowers to the memorial service.
This fund was used for the trans-
portation expenses incurred by
Mrs. Moorhead’s parents, who had
to travel from Florida to Colum-
bus, to San Antonio, and to Mas-
sachusetts, where Keary has gone
to live with Mrs. Moorhead’s
sister and borther-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Janusz. The Januszes
intend to adopt Keary legally.
Word has been received that
Keary is adjusting very well to
his new environment and is fol-
lowing Mrs. Janusz around just as murder.
; Stale Supreme Court Decision
Gives Junior College Districts
Power to Levy Community Taxes
Thirty-eight million dollars in bonds rested in a de-
cision of the Texas State Supreme Court, Wednesday,
December 19, including a $2,500,000 bond issue outstanding
at SAC which could have been voided. The supreme court
ruled specifically on a case brought by Harris County
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College ! change their opinions.
sought to collect. The College was At this time, however, Texas
only established two years ago, junior colleges, including SAC,
and has an enrollment of nearly csn levy a local property tax to
1,200 students. The school was support the schools, following a
collecting a secondary tax until a precedent established 32 years ago
group of Harris County property j by a law which allows people to
owners brought suit challenging' form a junior college district,
the validity of a state law giving |
the school district the taxing I
power.
All J. C.’s Affected
Although directed against San;
Jacinto Junior College, the case
affected every public-supported
junior college in the state, and
had the case gone against the col-
leges, all the property taxes every
junior college district in Texas had
ever collected would have had to
be returned.
The case was a direct appeal
from the 55th District Court be-
cause of the constitution challenge.
-There has been no action in a
• court of civil appeals.
The case was on appeal for
nearly eight months, and during
the interim, word leaked out that
the nine justices of the supreme
court were divided on the issue,
and in their opinions as to wheth-
er the tax was constitutional or
not. Also during this time, bonds
were held up which were desig-
nated to build dormitories, student
union buildings, classrooms, and
' other facilities at many of the 32
junior colleges throughout the
state.
At Wharton Junior College,
construction had already b e e n |
’ started on a new building, and
when the necessary bonds were
held up, work had to be stopped,
and the contractor was forced out
of business.
Mr. Leon Shepherd of Harris
County and other property own- j
ers contended that junior colleges
do not come within the meaning
of the term “public free schools”
as used in the law.”
Constitution Interpreted
However, the state attorney
general said junior colleges are,
■ owned by the public and main- I
tained by taxes and as such fall
under the constitutional defini-
tion of “free schools.” He claimed
. that junior colleges are directly
authorized by Article 7, Section 3
of the state constitution, and it
was on this argument that the
majority of opinions were based.
All the junior colleges in the
state filed briefs as friends of the |
court, since information filtering j
out gave the impression that the,
decision would go against the col- j
leges, but the final decision was
in favor of the colleges by a mar-
gin of seven to two. However, the
Chief Justice was one of the two
dissenters, and if the people who
brought the suit decide to ask for
a reconsideration, the case could
be reopened and the justices could
Mr. Moorhead was an ordained
Congregational minister, and had
been an instructor at SAC since
last year when the family moved
here from Orlando, Florida. A
native of Belfast, Northern Ire-
land, he served as a part-time
minister and was a recognized
poet.
In 1928 he moved from Ireland
to Montreal, Canada. The follow-
ing year, he entered Gordon Div-
inity School in Boston, and was
ordained into the ministry in 1934.
In 1949, he received an M.A. de-
gree from Wesleyan University,
Middleton, Connecticut.
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Morrison, Career Woman of 1962
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