The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1953 Page: 1 of 4
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CHOOSE YOUR
STUDENT CANDIDATES
The Redbird
ELECTION TIME
COMING SOON
Vol. II, No. 22 Published by Students of Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas March 27, 1953
4-YEAR ACCREDITATIOiGMNTiD
FOUR QUEENS AND A JACK—Taking; in some of this new spring
sunshine we find left to right, Libby Dickson, Jack Kelly, Joanne
Spiller, Roger Ann Womack and Jackie Taylor. Just think people,
more yet to come.
35 Colleges Represented
At TISA Convention
EDITOR’S NOTE—This infor-
mation was gathered over a per-
iod of two days at the Texas In-
tercollegiate Students Association
convention in Houston. This
meeting was held at Rice Insti-
tute. Members of the student
council attended various panel
discussions that offered sugges-
tions for campus improvement.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
There were 35 colleges repre-
sented this year, 3 were non-
member participants. Texas-
Southern University presented
TISA with a huge scrapbook to
be filled with news of the asso-
ciation. Lewis Stephens presided
at the convention. Gordon Glenn
was selected as Lamar’s voting
delegate and Douglas Thibideaux
as alternate. Dr. William B.
Houston, President of Rice gave
the welcoming address in which
he stressed the importance of the
job of the student governing
council.
GAY YEAGER — PANEL
ON E V A L U A T IN G THE
PROGRESS OF T. I. S. A.
In this panel the three specific
parts of T.I.S.A. were brought
up for evaluation. They were:
1. The various panels
2. The T.I.S.A. bulletin
3. The convention itself
In evaluating the panels it was
brought out that some of the
same panels were discussed every
year. Some of the delegates be-
lieved that there should be a
greater variety. It was finally
decided, however, that since new
delegates came to the convention
every year, the most important
panels should be repeated. It was
also brought to the attention of
the panel, that new problems
and experiments arise on the
various campuses from year to
year, thus making the same
panel discussion vary.
The T.I.S.A. bul|etin was then
brought up for discussion. It
was requested that the various
schools submit more news to this
bulletin, since its j success is de-
pendent upon the number of
schools participating in its publi-
cation. It was also brought out
during this discussion that the
minutes of the convention should
be collected, published, and sent
to the member schools in a short-
er length of time. It was also
suggested that they be sent to
the various schools before the
opening of their fall semester.
The convention as a whole was
then brought before the group
for discussion. Everyone agreed
that the previous conventions had
definitely been successful. If was
also requested that the member
schools bring, as their delegates,
some of the following year’s stu-
dent government officials or in-
terested parties, so that the re-
sults and ideas gained from the
convention might be put into ef-
fect during the coming year.
As the panel was dismissed, it
was brought to the attention of
every delegate that the success
of T.I.S.A. in the future was de-
pendent upon the foundation that
they, as delegates, laid for the
future.
DIXIE HARVEY — PANEL
ON DEVELOPING STU-
DENT GOVERNMENT
LEADERSHIP
Suggestions: All people cannot
be leaders. Each can lead in
different fields. One should not
pick a dub for a leader, but
should refer to a constitution
which is set up mainly for gui-
dance.
The Student Council is a form
of leadership and should have at
least twenty members to func-
tion properly. It must also have
an interlocking plan to work by.
Faculty guidance is a fair back-
ground for student council work
and it is always profitable.
Qualities of the leader were
then discussed. A leader should
possess:
1. Sufficient duties
2. Self reliance
3. Good attitude
4. Power of leadership
5. Dignity
The chairman, as an office of
leadership, was then brought up
for discussion. It was decided
that the chairman should treat
all questions with equal courtesy.
Desirable traits of the chairman
should be:
1. Good attitude
2. Self-reliance
3. Realization of capacity
Every leader must have confi-
dent followers and a sense of
balance and dependence at all
times. A good leader can and
often does govern the success of
the student council.
The leadership in the various
clubs was then brought up for
discussion. At some colleges, the
clubs have a delegate to the
student council, and also dele-
gates to an Executive committee,
made up of students and faculty
members. A good leader should
produce a certain amount of har-
mony between the faculty mem-
bers, and the students, plus man-
aging to co-ordinate the student
problems and activities.
(See TISA Page 3)
Prof Pay
Proves Problem
Lamar Tech will lose many of
its top technical instructors un-
less the state appropriates suffi-
cient funds to raise salaries sub-
stantially, Dr. Fraijk M. Tiller,
director of the Division of En-
gineering, told a joint meeting of
the student and professional chap-
ters of the Texas Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers recently.
“Our chief problem is to hold
the fine instructors who were
attracted here by the opportunity
of building a first-rate institution.
Salaries will become a major
problem if the state does not in-
crease appropriations,” he sajd.
Dr. Tiller pointed to one pos-
sible solution. “If area industries
offer consulting work it may be
possible to keep men we probably
would otherwise lose through
resignations.”
A few key men already are
doing special work for local
firms, he said, and it may be
possible to retain their services.
“It is doubtful if there ever
will be enough state funds to
make Lamar Tech a great col-
lege,” Dr. Tiller said. “In fact
the state probably will not appro-
priate enough money to make
any state college a great college.
“We must turn to local busi-
ness and industry for aid, and in
turn we must render services
which will be of sufficient value
to warrant receiving such aid,”
he explained.
Chorus Returns to
Campus Thursday
The college chorus returned to
the campus yesterday following
a four-day tour of Louisiana dur-
ing which time the group made
eight appearances in six cities.
Thirty-one voices comprised
the chorus under the direction of
George Parks, Jr., head of the
Department of Music.
The chorus sang at high
schools in Jennings, New Orleans
(Kenner), Gretna and Natchi-
toches, La., and Jasper, Texas,
and for students at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge
and Northwestern State College
in Natchitoches.
Final appearance of the tour
was made in Jasper yesterday
morning en route home.
Soloists were Sopranos Bar-
bara Britt and Mary Elizabeth
Grey of Beaumont and Theresa
Simon of Port Neches, Tenor
Dale Leggett of Port Neches and
Contralto Ann Manry of Neder-1
land.
Other members of the chorus
on the junket were Gene Bates of
Edinburg, Sara Greer of Vidor,
Henry Larcade, Jerome Bour-
geois and Feme DeCuir of Port
Arthur, James McGee of Orange,
R. H. Miller of Burkeville, Roy
Silvey and Wayne Legg of
Groves, John Glaze of Yoakum.
Jane Holland And Kathlene Wil-
son of Port Neches, William
Byrd, Charles Cropper, Rebecca
Garza, Elwyn Reavis, Rogers
Smith, Rose Marie O’Brien, Jo-
edna Mills, Gordon Chesson, Bill
Cook, Mary Lou French, Anna
Dell McDaniel, Mildred Smith,
Bonnie Sohlinger and Joyce Can-
non of Beaumont.
HOLIDAYS
Easter holidays have been
changed to April 2, 5 P. M. to
April 7, 8 A. M.
Junior and Senior Level
Accepted by ATC Group
Full accreditation of its four- ]
year program was granted Lamar
State College of Technology Tues-1
day by the Association of Texas
Colleges at its annual meeting in
Dallas.
President F. L. McDonald and
Dean O. B. Archer presented the
Story of Lamar Tech to the asso-
ciation’s nine-member Committee
on Standards Sunday afternoon.
A favorable report from this
committee brought quick approv-
al from the entire membership
at its Tuesday session.
A rule of several ye^rs stand-
ing was broken when Lamar Tech
was voted associate membership
in the Texas accrediting group.
Lamar Tech is the first college
ever to receive accreditation prior
to the graduation of at least one
class.
Two Students
Submit Papers
AlChE Meet
Robert Griffith and Dennis E.
Wade will present papers at the
third annual meeting of student
chapters of the Southwest Region
of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers to be held at
Rice Institute in Houston April
11.
A committee of local profes-
sional people judged their papers
the best of four submitted by
senior chemical engineers.
A. C. Hogge, director of re-
search at Shell Oil Company’s
Houston refinery, will be the
main speaker for the meeting.
Mr. Hogge, who helped develop
Shell’s new tubo-grid distillation
trays, will speak at a banquet
climaxing the session.
Featuring the meeting will be
presentation of student papers,
two from each school, which will
be judged by members of the
South Texas Section of the
AIChE.
Five schools—Lamar Tech,
Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas
and Rice—.will be represented by
about 150 students. The meeting
will be held in Rice’s new Fon-
dren Library lecture lounge.
A buffeL luncheon will be serv-
ed in the college’s student lounge
after the morning session. The
banquet will be held in the Rice
Commons at 7 p.m.
■ Norman Banta of Pure Oil
Company; Dr. Vladimir Kalichev-
sky of Magnolia and H. W. Per-
kins of Sun served as judges for
the local contest. Wade’s paper
is on “Compressibility in Filter
Cakes” and Griffith’s on “Ef-
ficiencies in Gas Absorption.”
The college’s freshman and
sophomore years in all depart-
ments which were in existence
during its junior college days
I have been accredited for several
I years. The new recognition em-
braces courses on the junior and
senior level and includes every
phase of the college’s program.
Dr. Otto Nielsen, vice-president
of Texas Christian University
and a member of the Committee
on Standards, spent last Friday
inspecting facilities and visiting
with members of the staff. The
college invited him for the visit
to ask his opinion of whether
Lamar Tech was ready to request
association membership.
It was on his advise that Lamar
Tech appeared before the Com-
mittee on Standards.
Dean Alfred H. Nolle of South-
west Texas State Teachers Col-
lege at San Marcos, is chairman
of the Committee on Standards.
The Association of Texas Col-
leges is made up of public and
private colleges of the state.
Dean Archer served as a mem-
ber of the association’s Resolu-
tion Committee for this year’s
meeting.
Usually colleges must wait
three to five years after becom-
ing senior colleges to obtain ac-
creditation. The usual custom is
to observe a one to two year wait-
ing period after the first class is
graduated to see what kind of
record graduates make in indus-
try and in graduate schools.
However, the Association of
Texas Colleges felt that Lamar
Tech’s sound original two-year
program, plus its excellent facul-
ty and degree curriculums, were
good enough to warrant imme-
diate accreditation.
Lamar (Junior) College was
recognized as one of the top 10
junior colleges in the nation, a
fact which had considerable bear-
ing on prompt recognition by the
Association of Texas Colleges. ■
Business Club
Plans Picnic
April 25
At the last meeting members
voted on having a picnic. This
will be for all business and termi-
nal students and their guests.
There will be all types of games:
baseball, swimming, and horse-
shoes.
Tentative dates and plans are
as follows: Saturday, April 25th,
at Lake Tejas. The club, one of
the larger clubs on the campus
expects a good turnout, this will
be one of the first club sponsored
picnics of the season.
Anyone having helpful sugges-
tions should contact Tom Fortes-
cue, Lyn Phelps, or Vernon Klas-
sen.
Books of Adventure Found
On Ready List in Library
For complete information about
the United Nations, A. H. Feller
has written United Nations and
World Community. This book
gives a factual report about the
establishment, work, progress,
and objectives of the United Na-
tions.
A story of the first settlers in
North America is told by Elsie H.
Spriggs in Pioneers of the New
World. Full of the adventures
the new settlers experienced, it
also contains an accurate history
of the strides made in Christi-
anity.
Behind the interesting life story
of Steven F. Austin, Carleton
Beals shows the growth of Texas
in his informative biography of
one of Texas’ greatest leaders.
Stephen F. Austin, Father of Tex-
as is a moving story of Austin’s
life—his great achievements, the
battles in which he took part, his
failures, his loved ones’ betrayals,
the imprisonment he suffered,
and his death as a lonely and
forgotten marl.
Divine Horseman, The Living
Gods of Haiti gives a picture of
the beliefs and rituals of the
people of the land. Maya Deren
explains the mystic and little
understood “voodoo” religion and
gives a good comparison of the
native religion and Christianity.
by Beverly Boozier
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