The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 16, 1952 Page: 1 of 8
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Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
WALLOP
WRANGLERS
33 ND YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1952
NO. 2
l-'IRST SCHOLARSHIP—In a fifty-year-old catalogue of
"John Tarleton College," Dean Paul Cunyus looks at a list of
free scholarship holders which includes the name of Miss
"May Jones who has been a member of the college's mathe-
matics department for the past twenty-three years,
(Pix by Bax)
May Jones Is Holder of
First TSC
Miss May Jones, associate pro-
fessor of i^iathematics at','.Tarleton
Stat<5 Coliege "for the last'22 years,
boasts a distinction that no other
Tarleton faculty member can l^y
claim 'to.
She attended Tarleton as. a stud-
ent in 1906-07 on ,a free-scholar-
ship. Founds for this were made
available in the will of John Tarle-
ton, founder of the school. Miss
Jones was one of 52 students that
year who under' the provisions of
Tarleton's will received their tui-
tion, their books, and about 20
dollars in cash.
At that time the school was
known as John Tarleton College,
Miss Jones recalls, and was a four-
year institution, giving three de-
grees. Although Miss Jones lived
at Fairy in Hamilton County, when
it came time to go to college she
moved to Stephenville, where she'
lived with her grandmother. Her
grandmother lived several miles
in the country, and Miss Jones
drove in daily in an old buggy.
She remembers hitching the horse
to a tree in a post oak grove which
stood where the girls dormitories
are now. This was some distance
from the old three-story wooden
main building.
The attractive, well-groomed pro-
cessor has always been a "Tarleton
booster. After she finished Tarle-
ton, she taught for several years in
the rural schools of Hamilton
^County and in the Hamilton High
School. Once soon after the late
Dean J. Thomas Davis came to
Tarleton, he drove to Hamilton
and . asked Miss Jones to teach in
the Tarleton summer school. "I
was so flattered," Miss Jones says,
"that I immediately recruited nine
students to take with me." Before
coming: to Tarleton^ in 1929, Miss
Chaney Appointed
Cadet Lt. Colonel
Roline Chaney was recently ap-
pointed Regimental Executive Of-
ficer with the rank of Cadet Lt.
Colonel.
Chaney, a native of Hico, was on
■^che "B" ..honor roll both semesters
of last year, and he played on the
Tarleton Plowboys football team.
Jones was head of the mathematics
department at Stephenville High
School, where she also served as
Dean of Girls and High School
principal.
Outside the classroom,. Miss
Jones has worked as hard and as
earnestly with students as in her
mathematics classes. She has spon-
sored a girls' social club for many
years, has been a sponsor of the
Baptist Student Union, and spon-
sored the senior class for 12 years.
She organized and sponsored a
study club for wives of veterans
during the time that there were so
many GIs on the campus. She was
chairman of the Parents' Day Pro-
gram ' for 14 years and is serving
this year as chairman of the Home-
coming Committee. She is also
secretary of the Tarleton Ex-Stu-
dent Association.
Miss Jones has brought much
publicity to Tarleton through her
See No. 2—Page 8
Tarleton Progress
Cited by President
FACULTY MEETS
ARE SCHEDULED
Tree meetings of the general
faculty are scheduled during the
fall semester at' Tarleton State
College.
The first meeting will be held
at 4:15 p.m. Thursday', Oct. 30 in
the auditorium of the new agricul-
ture building. This will be a panel
discussion on counselling conduct-
ed by Dean Paul A. Cunyus with
J. W. Autry, Dr. G. E. Waggener,
•and Miss Ruth Ililliard participat-
ing.
The next meeting, will be held
on Friday afternoon, Dec. 5. Guest
speaker will be Dr. Jesse P. Bogue,
executive secretary of the Amirican
Association of Junior Colleges.
The general subject of his talk will
be the role of the junior college
in present day affairs.
FIRST ASSEMBLY
TO BE THURSDAY
The first assembly of the year
will be held Thursday, September
18 at 10 a.m. in the main aud-
itorium. The business to be con-
ducted will include try-outs for yell
leaders, and the nomination of pre-
sident and vice-president of the
Student Council.
President E. J. Howell will give
a welcome address to all students.
There will also be a short yell pra-
ctice and members of th'tf football
team will be introduced to the stu-
dent body. Music for the program
will be furnishedby the Tarleton
R.O.T.C. band.
Joe Bennett is the only returning
yell leader, so four positions will
be open in the staff. Nominations
for president and vice-president of
the Student Council will be taken
from the floor. Ballots will be cast
at an assembly on September 25.
Candidates for the positions may
be either juniors or seniors, but
they must maintain a C average.
Students elected to any of these
posts will not, be eligible for the
class officers staff, the J-TAC
staff, or the Grassburr staff.
METAL CAR TAGS
NOW NECESSARY
' Alt Tarleton students and facul-
ty and staff members who' drive
cars on the campus are now re-
quired to register their car with
the registrar's office and purchase
a metal identification ear tag. This,
requirement was recently set up
by the Tarleton Academic Council.
Cars may be registered as soon
as the metal tags are available, and
these are expected to arrive this
week. The metal tags may be pur-
chased at the College Store for
$.25. They are 3x6 inches in size,
purple and white in color, and bear
the inscription '"Tarleton College".
Faculty Fun Night
Committee Named
O. H. Frazier of the mathe-
matics departmsnt has been named
committee -chairman of ' the first
faculty fun night committee.
1 Serving on the committee with
Frazier are J. Louis Evans, Mrs
Maryd Todd, Miss Jo Olander, and
A. M. McMahan.
First fun night.will probably.be
held in October. Fun nights'were
started three years ago to pro-
vide informal faculty .entertain-
ments.
Student HostsAppoint
Temporary Yell Staff
Temporary yell leaders were ap-
pointed recently by the student
host group. These people wilt serve
at the yell leader staff until re-
gular elections can be held.
Joe Bennett of Mineral Wells
is the only returning member of
the staff. Those appointed were:
Ann Cassels, Mineola; Nancy And-
erson, Brownwood; Dan Shepard,
Stephenville; and Buck Cannon,
Mexia. All are seniors.
NOTICE
Freshmen students whose last
names begin with A thru M should
have their annual pictures made
at Bax or Baxley's Studio before
Sept. 20. A penalty of 25 cents will
be charged any person not having
pictures made on schedule.
President E. J. Howell of Tarleton State College considers
the progress of a $1,500,000 building program, now nearing
completion, and the successful- development of a two-year
terminal vocational agriculture course to be the two most
important developments in the school during the past year.
Dedicated last fall was the school's $350,000 agriculture
building, which was the main building in the million dollar
program. Also completed last year were a $120,000 women's
physical education building, a $35,000 all-student swimming
pool, and a $70,000 creamery and dairy barn,
A half million dollars worth of
buildings have just been completed
or are now under construction. Just
completed is a woodwork and
mechanic arts shop building cost-
ing $150,000. Just starting _ is a
boys dormitory contracted for
$375,000. This structure will not be .
completed until some time in 1953. '
The college dining hall is being-
renovated and converted to cafe-
teria style service, and a $5,000
seating addition was recently fin-
ished on Tarleton's Memorial Field
where existing athletic facilities
are valued at more than $100,000.
Launched three years ago, a two
year course designed, to train farm
boys ant! girls for rural leadership
has already proved its worth. Two
sets of students have graduated
from the course and ai'e enthusias-
tic in' their approval of it. The
course, which aims.to give a down-
to-earth' education in practical
farming and ranching, has attract-
ed wide favorable comment as the
answer to a definite need in Texas.
Particularly stout endorsement
has come from, the farm press, in-
cluding: The Dallas News, the Ft.
Worth Star Telegram, The Pro-
gressive Farmer, Southwestern
Crop and Stock, The Houston
Chronicle, and Farm and Ranch.
Parents like the course too be- '
cause the whole plan is based on
'"Doing." By college bus the boys
are carried daily -to the college
livestock farm, where they are
taught to vaccinate animals; to
breed, feed, and care for feeder
cattle, dairy stock, sheep, and
hogs; to select cattle and to handle
milk,
They learn how to make money
from chickens at the college poul-
try farm. Here they select and
care for fowls, test for diseases,
grade and crate eggs. In the farm
shop they are taught how to build
and operate farm equipment, such
as hoof-trimming devices. They
learn to handle, care for, and op-
crate tractors arid other farm
machinery.
At the horticulture farm they
learn about soil conservation and
how to bud pecan trees. They
study soils, insects, and grasses,
and in the spring they plant a
garden.
See No. 1—Page 8
PROF TO RETURN
FROM ENGLAND
Miss Mary Hope Westbrook, head
of the English department at Tar-
leton, is expected to return to-
morrow from England where she
spent the summer.
Miss Westbrook went to England
to do research on her thesis for a
Ph.D. degree from the University
of Texas. She is writing her thesis
pn Alexander Pope, English poet
and essayist,
: The papers necessary for her
research were buried in England
for safekeeping during.World War
IT and are just now. being made
available, for study. She is doing
'the "work on Pope in collaboration
with Dr. Griffith of the English
department at the University of
Texas.
a"'**. ■ '
Major Duke Gets
SummerPromotion
On August 26, 1952, Major B.
Duke was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant colonel.
This summer Colonel Duke at-
tended R.O.T.C, summer camp at
Fort Lee, Virginia. While there he
W^s assistant plans and training
officer of Quartermaster R.O.T.C.
Colonel Duke came to Tarlton
■in the summer' of 1950 and will
remain here until his tour of duty
is over in June. Before coming here
Duke was provost marshall at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina.
Wainwright Rifles
To Meet Tuesday
■ A meeting will be.held on Tues-
day, September 23, at 6:30 p.m. in
the Armory Building for anyone in-
terested in becoming a member of
the Wainwright Rifles. Any stu-
dent interested should contact Cap-
tain Plummer.
All former members of the Wain-
wrights are to meet Tuesday,
September 16, at 6:30 in the Armory
Building.
594 REGISTERED
AS WORK STARTS
Tarleton State.,.College had reg-
istered 594 students when classes
started Friday. Last year 651 had
registered by the first day of
calsses.
Of the 594 students this year,
447 are men,, and 147 are women.
Regsitration will continue
through Saturday, Sept. 27, and
approximately 50 more are expect-
ed to register making a first se-
mester total of about G50.
CALENDAR
Tuesday, September 16—Meeting
of the Wainwright Rifles, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 16—^-Meeting
of the J-TAC staff and the Grass-
burr staff in the. Shack, 7 p.m.
Thursday, September 18 •— As-
sembly in 'the main auditorium,
10 a.m. ;
Thursday, September 18 — Pep
rally in front of the cannon, 5:45
p.m.
Thursday, September 18—Meet-
ing of the, J-TAC staff and the
Grassburr staff in the Shack,.
7 p.m.
Friday, September 19—Pep rally
in front of the cannon, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 20 — Cisco
football game, here, 8 p.m. .
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