The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 68, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1967 Page: 1 of 4
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Dr. Matthews To Retire in '68
Dr. J. C. Matthew*, president of N'TSU
for 17 years, will retire Auk. 31, 1968.
The move was announced at the NTSU
Board of Regents meeting here Thurs-
day.
Dr. Matthews noted that in November
1966 he had told the board of his desire
to be relieved of his duties as chief ad-
ministrator of the university.
In Thursday's meeting the board ap-
proved a motion that the chairman of
the board "be empowered at the proper
time to appoint a committee to pursue
the selection" of Dr. Matthew's succes-
sor. There was no hint of who might
be the next president or when the selec-
tion might be made.
DR. MATTHEWS said Thursday after
noon that he had not made plans for the
period after his retirement. He indicated
that he might be connected with the
school in some way. "That would be up
to the committee," he said.
The president said he hadn't expected
to announce the coming retirement
Thursday. The announcement followed
the regents' decision to set up a com-
mittee to select a successor. Ttiat deci-
sion was made at the meeting, which
was open to the public.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT was the
highlight of an unusually full meeting.
The regents, in an hour-and-a half ses-
sion, also did these things:
• Approved the Master Plan report by
Caudill Rowlett Scott architects.
• Voted to have the administration
pursue land purchases for the new coli-
seum. The student building use fee,
raised from $4 to $12 this year, will he
used to buy the land. The building board
will select an architectural firm to draw
plans for the coliseum, which will be
built on Avenue E at Highland.
• Approved architect's changer on the
design of a new women's dormitory. A
large banquet hall has been removed
from the plans in an effort to lower the
construction cost. Ten bids on the dorm
were rejected this summer because they
were too high. Architect Preston Geren
has l«eeii instructed to advertise for new
bids Oct. 1.
• Klected one new officer and re-elect-
ed two more. Hen H. Wootea was re-
elected chairman of the board. Dr. James
L. Rogers was re elected -eoretary for
another year. The newcomer is K. 0.
Penned, elected vice-chairman of the
board He replaces S. A. Kerr, who died
in January.
• Awarded Wooten an honorary Doc-
tor of Ijiw degree. It was the third
honorary degree ever presented by
NTSU. Woolen, u Dallas tanker, has
served as chairman since the board was
created in 11(49. ♦
The Campus Chat
50TH YEAR
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON. TEXAS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1967
Exams To End Summer School;
North Texans Get 24-Day Break
By RANDY CAMERON
Twelve weeks of summer school will
sizzle to an end Thursday when Summer
Commencement begins at 8 p.m. in Fouts
Field.
Eleven hundred and thirty-five stu-
dents are candidates for degrees.
Bachelor's degree candidates number
651, master's 465 and doctor's 19. NTSU
awarded 541 degrees in January and 879
in June. The August graduates will bring
the total for the year to over 2,500. Last
year, 2,400. students received degrees
from NTSU.
For most students the sumr r ses-
sion will end with final examinations
Thursday. Exams will be given during
the regular class periods.
AFTER FINALS, North Texans will
ccatter across the state and nation to
enjoy a 24-day break before the fall se-
mester.
Summer school students have until 4
p.m. Saturday to request card packets
for the fall semester if they want them
mailed. Students who do not apply for
packets before the deadline can pick
them up on the third floor of the Ad-
ministration Building beginning Sept.
18. John E. Tompkins, director of admis-
sions, urged that all students visit the
Registrar's Office and request their pack-
ets in advance.
THE UNION BUILDING will close at
5 p.m. Thursday and will not open until
Sept. 18. The Main Library will be open
weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. between
semesters. All books are due by 4:50 p.m.
Thursday.
The dorms will reopen Sunday, Sept.
17. The Talons will man an information
booth across from the Administration
Building to aid new students. They will
be in new white Ivy League shirts they
have purchased to replace their green
ones.
Other important dates for the fall
term are:
Sept. 18, Monday—All beginning fresh-
man assemble in the Men's Gymnasium
at 8 a.m. All transfer students assemble
in the Main Auditorium.
Sept. 19, Tuesday, thru Sept. 21, Thurs-
day Registration according to alphabet-
ical listing in class schedule.
t'ept. 22, Friday Classes lw gin.
Oct. 4, Wednesday Last day incoming
student may register fur a full load and
las' day for a schedule change other
than a drop.
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19 Seek Doctoral Degrees
Lab Band To Present
Final Summer Concert
By KATHI BOYD
When a group receives as many hon-
ors as consistently as the Lab Band,
there has to be a reason.
One reason is that it is consistently
good.
Band Director Leon Breeden attributes
this consistent quality to the "depth of
musicianship" at North Texas. "We al-
ways have one to three students ready
to move up to a more advanced band,"
he said.
Students who have moved to the top
this summer will demonstrate their abili-
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ty Wednesday afternoon at the Summer
Lab Band's final concert. The music be-
gins at 2:30 p.m. in the Music Recital
Hall. The band will do three selections
from its newest alburn, "Lab '67," and
several new songs and arrangements.
THE STRUCTURE of the lab bands
constitutes a feeder system that resem-
bles a baseball farm system. Students
are placed in different bands according
to ability and are advanced according to
improvement and vacancies in other
bands.
Auditions are held each semester. Breed-
en and his assistants hear the competi-
tors for about five minutes each and
assign them to bands. "The ability to
sight read is the most important factor
in the auditions," Breeden said.
There are two ways to move up in the
lab bands. One is to challenge a person
in a higher hand for his position. This
is done every year at midterm by stu-
dent-initiated competition.
The other chance comes when someone
drops out of one of the bands. In this
case the person in the next lowest band
is promoted.
One consideration in advancement is
the student's class schedule. "We could
never ask anyone to drop a class to be
in our band," Breeden said.
STATE LAW forbids college music in-
structors to solicit high school students
for their school. 'It's often hard to keep
from soliciting," Breeden said. "But if
they express an interest in North Texas
I try, as subtly as possible, to convince
them it is the best place."
State law does not forbid it, but there
is no soliciting of members for the lab
bands either. To be a member, thi; stu-
dent has to want it, Breeden said.
There are 19 candidates for doctoral
degrees at Thursday night's commence-
ment exercises. Here are their names
and dissertation topics:
Paul Allison Brooks, Cedar Hill, Ed.D.,
"Teacher Selection Practices in Texas
Public Schools."
George Wendell Bryant, Waco, Ed.D ,
"Ideal Leader Behavior Descriptions of
Appointed and Sociometrically Chosen
Student Leaders."
Hilda Arnold Elkina, Drakeaboro, Ky.,
Ed.D., "An Analysis of the Social and
Ethnic Attributes of the Characters in
Children's Books Which Have Won
A wards."
Eleanor Diane Ford, Ruston, La., Ed.
D., "The Relationship of Certain Soci.o-
Cultural Factors Among Junior High
School Students to Creativity in Art."
Robert Ellard Gades, Danvers, Minn.,
Ed.D., "The Effect of Short-Duration
High-Speed Drill on Speed, Accuracy,
and Production Development in the First
Year of Typewriting."
Bob Burk Hays, Abilene, Ed.D., "Stu-
dent Teacher Expectations of the Lead-
ership Role of the Principal."
Robert J. Hittson, Dallas, Ed.D., "A
Comparison of Certain Personality Char-
acteristics of Selected Seconday Students
in Special English Classes,"
Overdue Mascot
May Show Soon
North Texas may soon get its long
awaited mascot- an eagle—from the
Fort Worth Zoo, according to Bill Butts,
chairman of the Talons' summer plan-
ning committee.
The Talons are obtaining the eagle
with aid of student contributions made
last spring.
Butts said the curator of the 7.00 told
him the eagle will probably lie available
before school starts in the fall.
The industrial arts department has
built a cage for the bird.
The acquisition of a new eagle will
end a six-year period in which North
Texas was without a mascot.
Kathryn Huggins Hopkins, Arlington,
Ed.D., "The Relative Effectiveness of
Tw'.> Methodologies in High School Sen-
ior Knglish in the Development of Conri-
position Skills."
Yuan Tsun Hsu, Taipei, China, Ph.D.
in chemistry, "Discontinuous Thermal
Expansions and Phase Transformations
in < rystals at Higher Temperatures."
Thomas Webb Hunt, Fort Worth, Ph.D.
in musicology, "The Dictionnaire De Mu-
siqne of Jean Jacques Rousseau."
Howard I'ayne Ledbetter, Johnson
City, Term., Ed.D., "The Effects of Feed-
bad from the use of Interaction Analy-
sis n Supervising Student Teachers."
Eva Pearl Lewis, De Ridder, La., Ed.D.,
"A Comparison of the Academic
Achievement of Head Start Pupils with
Non-Head Start Pupils."
Robert Eugene Mnroney, Boxeldcr,
Tex., Ed.I)., "An Analysis of Percep-
tions of the Task of Male Physical Kilu-
cators in Secondary Schools as Held by
Three Groups of Physical Educators."
Matthew Hunter McLemore, Denton,
Ed.D., "An Analysis of Inter-Personal
Croup Structures and Personality Pro-
files of Team Memliers Representing Two
Categories of Junior College Basketball
Teams."
William Murl McMurtry Jr., Still-
water, Okla., Ph.D., in musicology, "The
British Museum Manuscript Additional
,'{f>087: A Transcription of the French,
Italian and Latin Compositions with Con-
cordance and Commentary."
Hubert Ronald O'Neal, Snyder, Ph.D.
in chemistry, "Kinetics and Mechanism
Study of Diphenylketenc Cycloadditions."
Nelton Duward Patterson, Dallas, Ed.
I)., "A Comparison of Changes in Sev-
eral Psychological Measures for Lower
Socio-Economic Children Living in a
Children's Home and Living in their
Own Homes."
Milton Robert Payne, Stepheriville,
Ed.D., "The Relationship of Student
Teachers' Manifest Psychological Needs
to Interpersonal Perception and Students'
Self-Concepts."
Edith Marie Hendrix Pewitt, Grape-
vine, Ed.D., "The Teaching Practices of
Science Teachers in Selected Texas High
Schools."
• Established new regulations govern-
ing security and safety on campus.
Campus security personnel will lie com-
missioned as peace officers and have
the power, privileges and immunities of
peace officers.
The hoard established the regulations
under the authority of a law passed by
the Texas Legislature last spring. The
law states that the president of the
university is authorized to provide for
measures to enforce regulations.
Dr. Matthews has been president since
Sept. I, 1951. He received his B.A. from
North Texas in 1925, and got his M A.
and Ph.D. at I'eabody.
He joined the faculty of North Texas
as an instructor in history in the Labora-
tory School in 1925. He was a professor
of education from 1932 until 1935. Dr.
Matthews served as director of curri-
culum and textUioks for the Stf*te De-
partment of Education until 1937, when
he became director of teacher education
at NTSU.
NO.-fcfr^ HE BECAME DEAN of the School of
Education in 1946, and was appointed
vice-president of the college in 1948. He
ln'cane the school's eighth president
when Dr. W. Joseph McConnell retired
in 1951.
Dr. Matthews' last year will be the
first for new security regulations. Be-
ginning Sept. I, campus patrolmen will
lie authorized to wear firearms.
The new peace office law authorized
the president to negotiate with the City
of Denton on the area that will be desig-
nated a being under the jurisdiction of
the school.
The school will also determine parking
areas, set speed limits, require registra-
tion of vehicles by students and "en-
force the general and criminal laws of
the state under their jurisdiction," the
law states.
Officers will lie able to issue tickets
and summonses like these used by the
Texas Highway Patrol. Violators will
he tried in municipal or justice of the
peace courts.
Campus Patrolmen will also be author-
ized to impound vehicles, revoke regis-
tration stickers issued to students and
make arrests.
In the past, security officers have had
few powers. They could only detain law
violators until police arrived.
UNDER THE NEW regulations, a
student can be placet! on disciplinary
probation after campus officials refer the
case to the dean of students, dean of
women or dean of men. In severe case*
of law violation, a student can be su-
spended from the university.
Many Texas universities are expected
to adopt the new security rules. The
program will be put into effect at NTSU
this fall.
DR. J. C. MATTHEWS
. . . retiring nest lummer
President
Has Career
Of Firsts'
In the fall of 1961, North Texas' en-
rollment totaled 4,.'tlH,
In that year Dr. J. C Matthews be-
came president.
Since then, enrollment has gone up to
14,000 and the value of the physical
plant has increased by almut $15 million
to over $.'12 million.
President Matthews' administration
has seen vast physical growth, a soar-
ing enrollment and numerous academic
advances.
BUILDING EXPANSION is related
to growing enrollment. In the fall of
1966 it hit a record 13,473. Summer en-
rollment reached a record 7,234 the first
six-weeks term this summer. Also, there
has been a continuous increase in gradu-
ate enrollment. Graduate students reach-
ed a record 2,842 during the first ses-
sion this summer.
Many academic advances have been
made under President Matthews, who
was the first graduate of North Texas
to become its president. The first doc-
tor's degree was awarded in education
in 195.'! and in music in 1955.
In 1964, Ph.D. programs were started
in biology, chemistry and physics. A
Ph.D. program in business administra-
tion began in the fall of 1966. Doctoral
programs in the fine arts, humanities,
social sciences and mathematics and in
the scientific fields other than engineer-
ing and medicine are l>eing developed.
PRESIDENT MATTHEWS' career at
North Texas has been one of "firsts."
Besides In'ing the first graduate of
the school to become its president, he
was the first dean of the School of Ed-
ucation, first vice-president the school
ever had and the first president of the
school under its name of North Texas
State University.
In The News
North Texas To Host
'68 Economics Institute
Thirty high school teachers who im-
proved their knowledge of economics
this summer will come back for more
next year.
The are members of a Sequential Eco-
nomics Institute.
The NTSU institute is the first in the
nation to lie sequential covering two
years in a row for the same students.
The 30 are all experienced teachers
with little training in economics, said
Dr. Kendall P. Cochran, director of the
institute.
He said the institute staff feels that
"a second summer will add even greater
knowledge for the students."
Med Tech Students
To Get $9,610 Grant
Threi medical technology students will
receive financial aid for work on their
master's degrees for the 1967-68 school
year.
A grant of $9,610 has l>een awarded
North Texas by the U. S. Department
of Health, Education and Welfare. Dr.
Kufus Guthrie of the biology department
was notified of this grant last week.
The grant will support three persons
who have degrees in micro biology and
are professionally prepared for employ-
ment in medical technology.
Dr. Guthrie said the purpose of this
grant is to tram the students in one spe-
cific area. Chiefly, it is to encourage
more individuals to go into medical tech-
nology
Individuals who qualify have l een no-
tified, but recipients have not yet been
announced.
Vets Can Report Now
For Eari/ Fall Checks
Veterans of military service can speed
up delivery of their first fall checks by
seeing Mrs. Judy Oriffitts, director of
Veteran's Administration affairs, before
completing the summer session.
Mrs. Griffitts, who is in the Regis-
trar's Office, also said veterans who pre-
enroll but fail to register must notify
her or the VA office in Waco.
Ritual of Death
Becain* rattlesnakes will not eat dead animals thrown into their cage, the
Zoology Museum ii often the scon* of the grim tableau pictured here. The
pictures show e diamondback rattler getting iti weekly meal, in the first pic-
ture, the snake inspects the animal, a black mouse. Tne snake then strikes—
the second picture shows it
double-hinged jaw. In the third
on the mouse to insure death
backing away after the strike and dropping Hi
' picture the snake strikes aqain and bites down
the snake then swallows the mouse, head first.
Photos by JIM BARLOW
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