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Tuesday
October 6,1981
Tarleton State University Student Newspaper
Non-Profit Organization
U.S. Postage Paid
Permit No. 133
Stephenville, Texas 76401
Freshman killed
in auto accident
Tarleton freshman
Teresa Lea Sutton, 18,
daughter of Dean Sutton of
Abilene, was killed
yesterday morning shortly
after 7:00 in a car accident
on Texas Hwy. 8.
Sutton, an elementary
education major, was
apparently attempting to
pass a school bus on a hill
when her vehicle collided
with a 1978 Chevrolet
pickup driven by
Stephenville resident
Wilbur Gaines, according
to officer Virgil Thompson
of the Department of
Public Safety.
Officer Thompson
pronounced Sutton dead at
the scene. Gaines was
hospitalized with leg in-
juries.
The parents of the girl
were notified by the
Abilene Police Depart-
ment. Funeral
arrangements have not yet
been made.
SOLID GOLD
CADILLAC - Diane
Roberts, Paul Schneizer
and Mike Bolen (left to
right) will be featured in
the Solid Gold Cadillac
scheduled to open tonight
and continue through
Saturday in the Clyde H.
Wells Fine Arts Center.
For more information, see
inside story on page 4.
(Photo by Javier Tamez)
New stamp machine installed
Post Office hours set
The Campus Post Office
will provide window ser-
vice between the hours of 9
a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday
thru Friday, effective Oct.
1, according to Clifton
Hanks, Auxilliary Services
Coordinator.
Many times the posting
of mail will still be in
progress even though the
window is open. A newly
installed stamp machine
will allow for stamp pur-
chasing any time the
building is open.
Students work at Baker Ranch sale
Last Saturday, nine
Tarleton horse production
students worked at the
annual Baker Ranch Sale
(a racing quarter horse
sale) in Weatherford.
For the third year in a
row, senior Tom Jones
made the arrangements to
have Tarleton students
work as grooms and ring
men.
The students were Amy
Willeke, Bruce Voyles,
Keith McLain, Mike
Chambers, Susan
Hollimon, Denise Dean,
Jeff Kloster and Stetson
Todd.
All of the students spent
the morning grooming sale
horses. Once the sale
began at 1:30 p.m., McLain
and Voyles led horses in the
sale ring while the rest of
the students led sale horses
to and from the barns.
Jones felt it was a good
learning experience for the
students. After the sale
was over, a couple of the
students agreed it had
worked out well.
T.G. SHEPPARD - T.G. Sheppard performed a variety of songs to a near full house
Thursday night.
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Oct. 1 2 faculty luncheon
Luncheon to feature Christopher
Dr. Joe Christopher of
the TSU English Depart-
ment will be the featured
speaker at the Oct. 12
faculty luncheon. He will
discuss some of his recent
works in the area of
"modern mythmakers."
"It's really amazing
what some of the faculty
members are doing," said
Dr. Don Zelman,
spokesman for the faculty
luncheon committee.
"These faculty luncheons
are a good chance for
people to find out some of
the interesting things that
are going on, such as books
being published or
research projects that
people are involved in."
Christopher is the author
of several works on British
mythmakers C.S. Lewis
and J.R.R. Tolkien, and
was recently co-guest of
honor at the 12th annual
Convention of the
Mythopoeic (mythmakers)
Society in California.
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At the convention,
Christopher distributed
copies of a small book of his
poems titled Musings
Beneath a Tree of Amalion.
The title of Christopher's
talk at the luncheon is
"Considering the Inkings."
The cost of the buffet
luncheon is $4.25. The noon
luncheon will be served in
the Robin Room of the TSU
Cafeteria.
T.G. Sheppard performance
gets enthusiastic reception
by Carol Daniel
"I'm basically just a lazy
type of person," country
western vocalist T. G.
Sheppard says, "so when I
work I try to make it fun."
Sheppard, along with
approximately 2500 hand-
clapping, foot stomping
fans, had 90 minutes of fun
at Sheppard's concert
appearance in Wisdom
Gym last Thursday night,
"That crowd was
phenomenal. Are they
always like that?" Shep-
pard asked after his per-
formance.
"There was a lot of high
energy in there tonight,"
he continued, "I just loved
it. They started standing
and clapping in the middle
of the show and just kept on
and on and on."
Daytime Band, Shep-
pard's instrumental group,
opened the concert last
Thursday evening with an
entertaining mix of
traditional country-weste-
rn and mellow progressive
country music, warming
the mood of the audience
for Sheppard's electrifying
performance.
Sheppard's rapport with
his fans, his flamboyant
style, and his silver-glinted
costume reflected the
influence Elvis Presley has
had on his career.
"I lived with Elvis at his
Graceland mansion for six
years," Sheppard said
after the concert. "Before
that I toured as a singer
with the Beach Boys and
another rock group. So I
got my start in rock music.
Then I dropped out. It was
with Elvis' encouragement
that I started up again in
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Bubbles, fog and other
special effects marked the
professionalism of the
show's programming. By
the middle of the concert,
the whole audience was on
cont. on p.7
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