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Activities recognize alumni and faculty
By Kelly Boren
Staff Writer
Elections are being held today
for the 1991-92 Tarleton
Homecoming Queen, Votes can
be cast in the Tarleton Center and
in the Humanities building.
This year's nominees are
Michelle Musgrave, Nikki
Spiller, Mendi Driver, Mplley
Moseley and Sharee Owens.
Musgrave is a senior market-
ing and management major from
Throckmorton. She is a member
of the Delta Zeta sorority and is
the president of university's chap-
ter of the Human Resource
Management Association. She is
the daughter of Norman an^
Isabelle Musgrave.
Criminal justice major Nikki
Spiller is a senior from Bonham,
Spiller is a member of the Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority and is the
Panhellenic President. She is the
daughter of Albert and Gilda
Spiller.
Driver is majoring in speech
and drama. She is a junior from
Sinton. Driver is the daughter of
Warren and Melissa Driver. She is
a member of the Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority, the Student
Programming Association, the
Student Goyernment and Tarleton
(Players.: « .
Moseley is
Vj is a junior agricul-
ture services and Development
major from Lampassas. She is a
member of the Delta Zeta
sorority, the Student
Programming Assoc-iation,
Collegiate FFA and she serves on
the Tarleton Agricultural Council.
Mpseley is the daughter of Henry
and Patsy Stdi^harT) and Sonny
Owens is jpjmember of the
Delta Zeta sorprity, the vice presi-
dent of Panhellenic and is active
in the Student Programming
Assoc-iation. Owens is a
communications and nursing
major from Bonham. She is the
daughter of Donnie and Judy
Maraz,
Bart Bradberry, student body
president, expressed that "they're
all well qualified girls...I wish
them allluck."
Br|||§Cfy stated that not very
many M^p|e nominated girls for
this hppil^t he believes that
more actually vote for
thequeej|'?|r;$'
The npw Homecoming Queen
will be an?iouttced and crowned at
the annu^ j\Qmeco?ping bonfire.
This will take piac^ at 10 p.m.
Friday night behind ^e baseball
field. Official cerenidiiies will
take place at, halftime during
Saturday* night's ^iganj& at
Memorial Stadium.
Tarleton State University
, has selected three alumni and a
faculty member to honor during
Homecoming 91 activities set for
Oct. 5. Celebrating a "Purple
: Salute to the Red, White, and
' Blue", the Tarleton Alumni
v " Association will honor three
rr .former students who distin-
guished themselves in military
: : and civilian careers.
I Colonel Edwin Dyess ('36),
- a World War II hero for which
Dyess Air Force Base was
named, Major General
- Christopher Adams ('52) of
: Granbury, a retired Chief of
- Staff of the Strategic Air
Command, and Colonel Robert
. ;:; Ruff ('35) of LaMarque, a veteran
: .of WWII, will be the
: Distinguished Alumni this fall.
' Joy Terry, an Associate Professor
; ■ >; Emeritus of Chemistry, who
; ; taught for 21 years at the
-: - ' University will be recognized as
; i the Distinguished Faculty.
: ; Col. Dyess, a native of
Albany, will be the first posthu-
. mous recipient of the
Distinguished Alumnus honor at
:: Into the wild blue yonder...
Tarleton. Stationed with the
21st Pursuit Squadron at Nichols
Field near Manilla in December
1941, Dyess led his troops in the
Battle of Bataan.
Although he was ordered to
be aboard one of the last few
flights out of the country, Dyess
gave his place on the plane to his
men and was taken prisoner by
the Imperial Japanese Army in
1942. Dyess survived the cruel-
ties of war and the "Bataan Death
March" for 361 days before
escaping aboard a United States
Navy submarine. After a period
of recuperation, he returned to
active duty and two months later
in 1943 was killed when his
plane crashed and burned on a
training mission in California.
Major General Adams
was raised in Tomball and received
his education at Tarleton, East
Texas State University, Ohio
State University, the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces and
the Navy Post Graduate School.
Adams was a pilot, staff officer
and senior commander with the
U.S. Air Force serving three years
as Brigadier General of the 12th
Air Division at Dyess AFB, six
years with- the Defense Nuclear
Agency and three years with the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has over
7,500 flying hours to his credit,
including 1,100 combat hours in
Vietnam.
Currently the vice president
and chief of Business Operations
for the Andrews Corporation,
Adams has over 35 years of expe-
rience as an executive manager in
government and industry. In ad-
dition to serving some 15 years in
the Strategic Air Command,
Major Gen. Adams has been an
Associate Director of the Los
Alamos National Laboratory at
the University of California and!
executive vice president and a
member of the Board of Directors
for Scientific Communications
Inc.
Raised in the Houston area,
Col. Ruff has 32 years military
service with the U.S. Army and
was employed 37 years in man-
agement and administration with
Amco Oil. He graduated from
Ball High School in Galveston,
Tarleton and the University of
Houston and joined the military in
1942, As a graduate of the
Aviation Ordinance Officer
Candidate School, Ruff was as-
signed to the Army Air Force
Training Command which in-
cluded 25,000 plane at 150 bases
in 47 states. The AAF turned out
as many as 80,000 pilots a year
and Ruffs assignments ranged
from Aviation Ordinance Officer
to Staff Ordinance Officer. From
1946 until retirement in 1974, he
served in the Army Reserve.
A veteran of 32 years as an
educator, Terry taught in the
Department of Physical Sciences
at Tarleton from 1958 to 1979.
She was a nominee for the piper
Foundation award for excellence
in teaching and was named
Associate Professor Emeritus in
1980 by the Texas A7M
University System.
A Houston native, Terry re-
ceived her Bachelors and Masters
from the University of Houston.
(See Alumni page 9)
Administrative position
eliminated due to budget
By Brenda SustaJa
Reporter
The Tarleton State Administra-
tion has closed ranks in a cost-cut-
ting move tliat eliminated one of four
top-ranking positions, the office of
vice president for operations.
Dr. Dennis McCabe, president
of TSU, recently announced some
organizational changes due to state
cut in funding. Until his recent
appointment to the presidency,
McCabe was vice president for op-
erations. The taste and responsibili-
ties of this office ware delegated to
individuals in other departments with'
the exception of four duties which
McCabe will continue to oversee.
These include University Develop-
ment, Intercollegiate Athletics, Uni-
versity News Services and the
Alumni Assiciation.
McCabe said that he is getting
positive feedback on both a formal
and informal basis to insure that stu-
dents are not being shortchanged.
The three remaining vice presi-
dents will be in charge of the follow-
ing additional responsibilities:
Dr. Robert C. Fain, Vice Presi-
dent fa- Academic Affairs, will head
the Teaching and Learning Center,
Continuing Education, Testing,
TASP and federal programs such as
YES and Mainstream
Larry Bickett, Vice President
for Business Affairs, is in charge of
University Police and Physical Fa-
cilities.
Dr. Johnny Johnson, Vice Presi-
dent of Student Services, will over-
see the Office of Special Programs
and Minority Affairs, the Program to
Acclimate Students to Scholastics
(PASS), International Program and
UIL.
The Office of Planning, Evalu-
ation and Institutional Research has
been created under the supervision
of the president Barbara Lee, direc-
tor of testing, will be in charge of this
office. It was established in response
tp a recognized need for an organ-
ized information system and to the
recommendations of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
Aerial events set for homecoming
Two special aerial presentations
have been planned for Saturday, OcL
5 as Tarleton State University cele-
brates Homecoming '91 with a
"Purple Salute to the Red,. White and
Blue".
Two T-38 training jets from
Dyess Air Force Base will do a fly-
by during the annual Homecoming
parade. The fly-by honors this year's
Distinguised Alumni : Col. Edwin
Dyess, the World War II hero for
which Dyess Air Force Base was
: named; Major General Chris Adams,
:a former commando" of Dyess AFB;
land Colonel Robot Ruff.
■ The parade starts from Tarle-
ton's Memorial Stadium at 2 p.m.
and follows a route down Washing-
ton Street to the courthouse square.
Also Big Country Squadron of
the Confederate Air Force will par-
ticipate in special military pre-game
ceremonies on Saturday evening.
Honoring Tarleton's past as a
military school, Major William
Brown, director of the University's
ROTC program, has scheduled a
ceremony by the Wainwright rifles
at Memorial Stadium at 6:45 p.m.
prior to Saturday's Homecoming
game. The Big Country Squadron
will pass over the ceremony in the
Missing Man formation.
Former TSU students Col. Mike
Canion (68) and Col. RD. Lancas-
ter ('40) were instrumental in arrang-
ing for die T-38s and another alum-
nus, Allen Bennett, Jr. C50), coordi-
nated the appearance by the Big
Country Squadron.
Col. Dyess, Major General
Adams and Col. Ruff will be hon-
ored at the Distinguised Alumni
lunechon at 11 am. Saturday.
Another featured guest will be
the 1990 Alumni, astronaut Dr. Millie
Huges-Fulford. A payload special-
ist aboard the Space Shuttle Colum-
bia this past summer, Dr. Hughes-
Fulford will present the Tarleton
Alumni Association with a TSU class
ring that has, been to outer space.
Tickets to the luncheon must be
purchased in advance and more in-
formation is available by calling the
Tarleton Alumni offices at 817-968-
9074 weekdays.
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