The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1953 Page: 1 of 4
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SOUTHERN BELLES
DISPLAY GRIT
The Redbird
DEPUTIES APPOINTED
FOR WESTERN WEEK
Vol. II, No. 13
Published by Students of Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Texas
January 16, 1953
Southern Belles To Escort Tech President WRA Carnival Planned
APO Ugly Man Entries
To Launch Frontier Week
The Southern Belles, brave
girls that they are, showed
their grit this week by agree-
ing to serve as escorts to can-
didates vying for the honor
of being Ugly Man on the
Campus when the local hor-
ror is presented at the West-
ern Week dance.
Ronald Holt, president of
Alpha Phi Omega, sponsors
of the Ugly Man contest, said
the Southern Belles reluctant-
ly agreed to handle the job
when it looked like no one
else could be found to do it.
Students will select the
campus’s ugliest male speci-
men from a list of candidates
(if any can be found) by con-
tributing lc votes to the
Damon Runyon Cancer Fund.
Any campus male, student,
faculty or staff member, is
eligible, except members of
APO. They can enter on
their own bad looks or as
candidates of clubs or organi-
zations.
Entry blanks are available
in the office of the dean of
student life. The entry fee
is $1, applicable as 100 votes.
“Ballot” cans will be avail-
able in the SUB during West-
ern Week to collect votes.
Holt emphasized that all
proceeds go to the cancer
fund.
UMOC candidates were
scarce during the first days
Two Local Men
Honored By
Library Gift
Lamar Tech library has re-
ceived $56 in memory of two
prominent men, the late Mr. Her-
man lies and Mr. F. B. Martin.
Mr. lies was a member of the
board of regents for Lamar
Junior College. The money is be-
ing used to purchase several
books which will be on the shel-
ves very soon. They are: Art
Treasures of The Met, Great
Paintings From The National
Gallery of Art, Etruscian Paint-
ing, and a two-volume Texas En-
cyclopedia.
Donors of this fund were: Mr.
and Mrs. John E. Gray, Dr. and
Mrs. Eugene Lindsey, Mrs. Watt
W. Winn, Hugh E. Alexander Jr.,
Carey E. Bruce, Philip B. Dickin-
son, Lum C. Edwards Jr., John
W. Ellis, James S. Latham, Clif-
ford R. Litherland, William S.
Mason Jr., Arthur E. Nall Jr.
Finance Committee
Meeting Planned
A semi-annual meeting of the
college’s Gifts and Endowments
Committee has been called for
Monday by ' Sam Montgomery,
Port Neches banker and commit-
tee chairman.
The agenda will include a re-
port on the scholarship program
and a review of the college’s
financial needs by President F. L.
McDonald.
The committee, composed of 50
business and professional men
from Southeast Texas, was or-
ganized to solicit gifts and endow-
ments for the college and to serve
as an advisory board on invest-
ment of such money for maxi-
mum return.
ZETA CHI PLANS
A meeting was held by the Zeta
Chi Thursday night in the lib-
rary. During this meeting the
club decided to promote a melo-
drama in colabration with the
Revelers.' At this time a deputy
was also selected by the club for
Frontier Week, namely Marion
Braquet.
Tentative plans were made for
the Spring Rush party, with Dix-
ie Harvey, Jackye Moore and Jo
Anne Sarver in charge of plan-
ning.
of filing. In fact, none had
entered as The Redbird went
to press. Holt said he felt
sure, however, that a number
of campus males would final-
ly admit to being ugly and
break their reserve and file.
Candidates will be intro-
duced at the Western Week
dance in a manner similar
to that in which homecoming
queen candidates are intro-
duced each fall.
Slim Watts and his Hill-
billy All-Stars will play for
the dance, scheduled for Feb-
ruary 19.
Western Week will be held
February 16-20.
Frank M. Tiller
Awarded For
Research Paper
Dr. Frank M. Tiller, director of
engineering, has been honored by
the American Institute of Chemi-
cal Engineers which selected his
paper on “Porosity in Filtration”
as the best technical paper pre-
sented at the institute’s annual
meeting in Cleveland last month.
Some 50 technical papers were
presented during the session by
chemical engineers from through-
out the nation.
Dr. Tiller will receive a scroll
from the institute at a future
meeting of the local area chapter.
He gave credit to Billy Knight,
senior chemical engineering stu-
dent, for assistance in prepara-
tion of materials and of the
paper, and to Ray Hudson, senior
business student, for preparing
lantern slides used to illustrate
his lecture.
Work on filtration will continue
with Gordon Glenn and Troy
Mouce,. senior chemical engineer-
ing majors, conducting experi-
ments under Dr. Tiller’s super-
vision. Special equipment is be-
ing set up to facilitate such study.
Dr. Tiller expects a series of
papers on filtration to result
from this work. Dr. Tiller is a
consultant to the Niagara Filter
Company of Buffalo, N. Y.
Curtain Club
Presents Drama
'Dona Rosita*
“Dona Rosita,” a serious drama
by Spanish playwright Garcia
Lorca, will be presented March 4,
5, and 6 in observation of Nation-
al Theater Month, according to
Mr. Charles Lane, Curtain Club
sponsor.
Readings will be heard on Janu-
ary 19 and 20 at 7:00 in the
auditorium. Rehearsals will not
begin until after mid-term exams.
Tentative plans are being made
for another production which will
be given April 29 and 30.
A March of Dimes benefit
dance has been scheduled for the
first week of the spring semester
by the Lamar Tech Veterans
Club, J. D. Wallace, president, has
disclosed.
The dance will be Friday night,
February 6, from 9 to 12 p.m.
Dancing will be to orchestra.
Mary Jo Lampson, popular
sophomore who is a living exam-
ple of the good work done with
March of Dimes funds, and of the
need for contributions to the
campaign, has been named honor-
ary dance chairman.
Inauguration
Set April 28
April 28 has been tentatively
set as the date for the inaugura-
tion of Dr. F. L. McDonald as
president of Lamar Tech, accord-
ing to O. B. Archer, dean and
vice-president.
He indicated that a change of
date might be necessary, how-
ever, in order to prevent conflicts
with the 53rd session of the state
legislature which opened in Aus-
tin Tuesday and will in all likeli-
hood be still flourishing in April.
Mr. Archer pointed out that Dr.
McDonald will be extremely busy
with legislative matters at that
time and that virtually every
other college president will be in
the same situation, making it nec-
essary for them to send represen-
tatives instead of coming in per-
son.
A pilot committee has been ap-
pointed to study the inaugural
program and to set a final date
after consultation with Dr. Mc-
Donald.
Members of this committee are,
in addition to Mr. Archer who is
serving as chairman: Mrs. Ruth
Olcott, director of the humanities
division; Dr. Edwin S. Hayes,
director of sciences; Mrs. Norma
Hall, head of the department of
secretarial sciences, and E. E.
Miller, director of the vocations
division.
W. R. Smith, chairman of the
board of regents, appointed a
committee composed of Dr. John
E. Gray, past-president of the
college; Mayor Otho Plummer,
member of the board, and Mr.
Archer to serve as an inaugural
committee for the board.
Ten committee chairmen have
been ^ appointed to assist with
planning the event. Committees
and chairmen are: Invitations, M.
L. Cariker; housing, M. L. Mc-
Laughlin; line of march, Dr.
Richard Setzer; luncheon, Miss
Charlsie Berly and Miss Rosa
Jean Tannahill; transportation,
Lewis Hilley; reception, Norris
Helton; facilities, G. A. Wimber-
ly; electrical facilities, Lloyd
Cherry; publicity, David Bost,
and decorations, Charles Lane.
Band To Present
Variety Program
The Lamar Tech Cardinal band
will present a program of variety
music in assembly next Thursday,
Director C. A. (Pete) Wiley has
indicated.
The program will be at 10:10
a.m.
Selections will include every-
thing from Blue Tail Fly to light
classical. Tommy Fields of Aus-
tin will present a baritone solo,
Carnival of Venice.
Mr. Wiley indicated the pro-
gram will be light entertainment
with selections to suit every taste.
FOUND
One Parker pencil, will
owner please contact Miss
Celeste Kitchen. Other items
have been turned into the
registrar’s office also.
Miss Lampson contracted polio
while a student at South Park
High School. She kept up with
her studies although bedridden
for two years and graduated with
her regular class.
Since coming to Lamar Tech
she has been homecoming queen
(1951), queen of the Beaux Arts
New Years Ball (1953) and repre-
sentative 'to the Student Council.
Contributions of 50c to $1 will
serve as admission, Wallace said.
Receipts from the door and the
check room will go to the March
of Dimes polio fund.
The Women’s Recreation Asso-
ciation will sponsor a carnival
Monday night, February 9, to
help launch Lamar Tech’s annual
Western Week celebration.
Organizations interested in set-
ting up booths for the night are
asked to contact Betty Madole,
WRA president, or either of the
two sponsors, Mrs. Bess Gentry
or Dianne Martin.
One of the main attractions of
the evening will be bingo with
appropriate prizes.
Deputy Sheriffs
Twelve clubs and organizations
have nominated Deputy Sheriffs
Registration
Slips Issued In
Test Week
Students can draw registration
time slips for the spring semester
during exam week January 26-30,
Miss Celeste Kitchen, registrar,
has announced.
Registration for the semester
will be controlled, with 90 per
hour scheduled to register from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday, February 2 and 3.
New students will report at 9
a.m. Tuesday for tests and will
complete registration at 2 p.m.
that day.
Evening students will register
from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday.
No schedule revisions will be
allowed until Friday, February 6,
Miss Kitchen said. Late registra-
tion fees will be charged begin-
ning Monday, February 9.
Wednesday, February 11, is the
final day to register for credit.
Junior and senior students
must have the approval of their
department heads to revise sched-
ules while freshmen and sopho-
mores must see division directors.
Dr. F. L. McDonald
Addresses Grads
President F. L. McDonald will
give the commencement address
for approximately 52 mid-term
graduates of Thomas Jefferson
High School, Port Arthur, in
exercises Thursday night.'
The graduating class will be
the smallest January class to
receive diplomas from Thomas
Jefferson, and the last. The Port
Arthur system has altered begin-
ing dates so that all students will
complete high school diploma re-
quirements in the spring, if nor-
mal progress is made.
Thomas Jefferson has been the
only Southeast Texas high school
to hold January commencements.
Discussion On
Marriage Begins
Sunday, 25th
A series of discussions on
“Christian Marriage” will be con-
ducted by the Canterbury Asso-
ciation of Episcopal students be-
ginning Sunday, January 25, ac-
cording to Eugene S. Marble,
faculty sponsor.
The series will continue for a
period of five weeks at the Epis-
copal Student Center, 786 E. Vir-
ginia Street. Meetings will be
held from 5 to 7 o’clock each Sun-
day evening during the series.
All students are invited to at-
tend, Mr. Marble said. Refresh-
ments will be served.
Names of discussion leaders
for the series will be given next
week.
for Western Week. The sheriff
will be picked from the list of
nominees at a meeting of the
Intraclub Council Tuesday.'
Nominees, and sponsoring
clubs, are Gene (Gabby) Bates,
PEP; Douglas Thibodeaux, Pre-
Med; Marion Braquet, Zeta Chi;
Charles Westmoreland, Kollege
Klub; Victor Gail, Newman Club;
June Turner, Revelers; Robert
Mauer, Texas Society of Pro-
fessional Engineers; Ronnie Holt,
Alpha Phi Omega; Gwen Park,
WRA; Ward Beckcom, Mechani-
cal Engineers; Dick Goerlich,
Future Teachers, and Henry K.
Pitts, Redbird.
Each will serve as a deputy to
whichever is elected sheriff.
Bates, senior PE major from
Edinburg, was sheriff last year.
Keep ‘Law and Order’
Duties of the sheriff and his
deputies will be to maintain “law
and order” as it existed in the old
west and to see that all campus-
ites conform to rules of Western
Week.
Many of the booths set up for
the WRA carnival will continue
to operate throughout the week.
As The Redbird went to press,
plans were for the following
booths, with products listed:
WRA—Hot dogs, drinks, bingo;
Zeta Chi, fortune telling; PEP,
horror house, and Vets, western
hats, bandanas, rubber cigars.
Several others are expected to
be constructed between now and
Western Week.
Other organizations still can
submit names of deputies for con-
sideration as candidates for
sheriff. They must be turned in
to Douglas Thibodeaux, Student
Council vice-president, by Tues-
day.
Student Council
Office Moved
Into Library
The student council of Lamar
Tech is now thoroughly settled
in their new office in the library.
The office is in the entrance hall-
way of the library on the left.
It contains all the information on
the student body and of the clubs
for accessibility to those desiring
information on any given student
activity. The purpose of the files
in the Student Council office is to
act as a central organization
point for all information concern-
ing the student body. The SCO
will be open from 9:00 a.m. until
3:00 p.m. Monday through Fri-
day. There are two student coun-
cil members on duty at all times
between 9 and 3. The files of the
student council are open to the
clubs for reference at all times
and it is suggested that clubs and
other organizations file their im-
portant information and activi-
ties in these files for the refer-
ence of others. Information may
be found in the files concerning
Homecoming; Frontier Week;
The Annual; etc. For conveni-
ence, Gordon Glenn, President,
suggested that any information
could be secured from other stu-
dent council members. These
are: Douglas Thibodeaux; Dixie
Harvey; Billy Robbins; Paul
Aguillard; Delbert Green; Mary
Joe Lampson; Patsy Clampitt;
Frank Rozell; Maribel Ware and
Charlene Matthews.
Bobby Caldwell; Betty Ann
Miller; and P. J. Bruno.
Gordon Glenn reminded those
students interested in the beard
growing contest for Frontier
Week that they must be register-
ed with the student council to be
eligible.
All activities on the Lamar
Tech campus must be cleared
through the office of the student
council, said Gordon Glenn.
The juke-box in the union is
still waiting for the selection of
the records that the students
want to hear. If you have a fav-
orite, write it on a slip of paper
and leave it in the student council
room. Those records most re-
quested will be the ones next in
line.
Lamar Tech Veterans Club
Sponsors Benefit Dance
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