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Cruising down the road
Mustang lovers group together, raise funds
Who knows? The “Little Old Lady from Pasadena”
could have been cruising down the road in a Ford
Mustang, but we know that a group of local Mustang
enthusiasts cruise around the Golden Triangle on a
regular basis in both their vintage and new Mustangs.
And they are having great fun doing it and get a great
deal of fulfillment from meeting with one another,
showing, and discussing the cars in which they are so
interested.
Ford’s little muscle car has been around now for 35
years, and Southeast Texas has an organization for
Mustang lovers — the Southeast Texas Mustang Club,
founded in 1985 by Harvey Truax and Billy Caywood.
“The club was created for the love and preservation
of all Mustangs,” club president Chris Cormier said.
The club has 40 families on its membership list at
the present time. The group charges dues by car, not
by member and is a non-profit organization. Proceeds
go to the Hughen School in Port Arthur for mentally
impaired children.
“They (the students in the school) really love the
cars,” Cormier said.
Not only do the proceeds go to the children, but
members often visit the children.
“We either bring out some cars for them to look at,
or we will bring them some candy or Mustang
T-shirts,” Cormier said.
The mustang club meets once a month somewhere
in the local area, depending on the place decided on by
members.
“We now meet on the weekend, and that has really
helped attendance,” Cormier said.
The club will decide on a restaurant where mem-
bers want to hold the meeting and will usually eat and
visit before going over business.
“I felt the club needed more fellowship, so we
changed the meetings to weekends; and we included
time to eat and time to visit with one another,”
Cormier said.
The club welcomes anyone who would like to join.
Members usually own a Mustang or a vehicle that is
Ford-powered. The membership is not limited to vin-
tage Mustangs, Cormier said. Any year model is wel-
come.
“Our club is growing every year, and the interest in
the muscle car is holding steady,” he said.
Members believe the Mustang is a special car.
“How many cars have been in production for 35
years,” Cormier asked?
“We are connected to the Mustang Club of
America, and it has members all over the world,”
member Leonard Gunther said.
Members of the club are involved in many func-
tions. They get together on a regular basis for barbe-
cues and parties. They also caravan to car shows all
over the country. The club was recently approved for a
Sonic parking lot party. Plans are in progress to meet
at the Lumberton Sonic once a month on Saturday
nights, with members driving their Mustangs.
“We want people to see the club,” Cormier said.
The Lumberton parking lot party will probably start
this summer.
There are three major car shows that the club
attends on a regular basis — the regional, the national,
and the Grand National.
At the Grand National people come from all over
the world, and many of them bring their Mustangs to
be shown.
“This is where you really see the nice cars,”
Cormier said. The shows offer trophies to the owners
with cars that the judges score with the highest points.
“We don’t do it to get rich; we do it because we love
it,” Gunther said.
There are many classes in which a car can be
entered. Some of these classes include street driven,
daily driven, retired, modified, current year, and the
list goes on. Judges look at the condition, cleanliness
and workmanship of the cars — really every aspect of
the automobile.
“Clean cars win,” Gunther said.
In the future, Cormier says he expects membership
to double in the local club.
“With new members come fresh ideas,” he said.
“And like any organization, we will always need fresh
ideas.”
He said he wants the club to be more like a big fam-
ily — open to everyone.
For more information about the Southeast Texas
Mustang Club, contact Cormier at 246-4081 or Rodney
Breaux at 755-1470.
Harvey TYaux and Billy Caywood, founders of the Southeast Texas
Mustang Club, are pictured in 1987. The club was created for the love
and preservation of all Mustangs.
Mustang club to meet May 15
The Southeast Texas Mustang Club is hav-
ing its 14th Annual Regional Mustang Show
on May 15 in the Kinsel Ford parking lot on
11th Street in Beaumont. The show will be
hosted and sponsored by Kinsel Ford.
Chris Cormier, spokesperson, said the club
will give door prizes.
Show classes will include concours (trail-
ered), concours (driven), unrestored, street
driven, daily driver, retired, 1974-1978, 1979-
1993, 1994-1997, Saleen 1984-1997, current
year 1998-1999, and special interest. There
will be three places awarded in each class. The
entry fee is $16 a car.
Vendor space is available for $15 for a
16x20-foot space. Vendors who pre-register
will be provided a confirmed space.
If a person is trying to sell a vehicle, he can
bring it to the show and put it in the pony cor-
ral for $10 a car, Cormier said.
The host hotel for this event is the Best
Western/Jefferson Inn at 1610 1-10 South,
Beaumont 77707.
For more information on the upcoming
show, call Cormier at (409) 246-4081 or
Rodney Breaux at (409) 755-1470.
— Stories by Doug Huggins —
Silver anniversary tour highlights
prominent Galveston architecture
For 25 years, the Galveston Historical
Foundation has opened the doors to some of this
island city’s finest privately-owned, restored
houses during the Galveston Historic Homes
Tour. On May 1, 2, 8, and 9, spring visitors will
again enjoy guided tours of historic homes from
Galveston’s heyday in the late 19th-century.
To celebrate the event’s silver anniversary,
the tour is featuring a collection of nine 19th-
century homes in Galveston’s historic residential
neighborhoods. In 1885, the great Galveston fire
destroyed more than 40 square blocks in the
city’s oldest residential district. From the ashes
rose a neighborhood of impressive Victorian
homes. Today, the East End National Historic
Landmark District contains one of the United
States’ largest collections of late 19th-century
architecture.
“Twenty-five years ago, the Galveston
Historical Foundation started the homes tour to
encourage restoration projects, particularly in
the East End,” Gina Spagnola, events director,
said. “This year, we’ll celebrate the success of
that effort by showcasing several of the neigh-
borhood’s outstanding Victorian houses.
“Since most of the homes on tour are within
easy walking distance of each other, we know
visitors who take the opportunity to stroll
through the East End will get a real appreciation
for the work that has been done here.”
Works by some of Victorian Galveston’s most
prominent architects are featured on the tour,
including the 1887 Albert Rakel home, 1808
Postoffice, designed by Alfred Muller, a
German-born architect trained at the Royal
Academy in Berlin. Nearby is the 1898 C.C.
Allen home, 1721 Church, one of the earliest
creations of George B. Stowe, an architect who
helped rebuild Galveston after the devastating
1900 hurricane.
Each of the featured homes will be open for
continuous guided tours throughout all four days
of the event. Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Saturdays, May 1 and 8, and noon to 6 p.m.,
Sundays, May 2 and 9.
Complete tour tickets may be purchased at
The Strand Visitors Center, 2016 Strand, and at
Ashton Villa, 2328 Broadway, in Galveston.
Tickets may be used during both weekends of
the tour. Each ticket provides one admission to
each of the homes on tour. Tickets are not sold
for admission to individual houses. Tickets are
$20 a person.
Call 409-765-7834 for more details.
The 1887 Albert Rakel home
John Carroll tapped university scholar
Lamar University honored
regents’ professor of history John
Carroll as the 1999 University
Scholar, Lamar’s top award recogniz-
ing research and creative activity.
Carroll, a member of the Lamar
faculty since 1972, accepted the
award at a reception Thursday, host-
ed by the office of research. Carroll
and other faculty members displayed
their publications and creative works
during the event.
“Although the Lamar University
Scholar Award recognizes significant
achievements in scholarship, re-
search and creative endeavors, every
letter written in (Carroll’s) support
emphasized his abilities as a
teacher,” said Robert Moulton, asso-
ciate vice president for research and
dean of graduate studies. “But it is as
a scholar and writer that we have
come to honor our second University
Scholar Award winner. It is this
aspect of his work that has brought
national attention to him and to
Lamar University.”
Carroll recently completed the
biography, “Red Grange and the
Rise of Modern Football,” scheduled
for publication this summer by the
University of Illinois Press.
His first book, “Fritz Pollard:
Pioneer in Racial Advancement,”
focused on the first black All-
American football player and the
first black coach in professional foot-
ball. The Pollard book earned the
1992 Nelson Ross Award for the best
book written on professional foot-
ball. Carroll’s next book will be a
biography of Jim Brown, another
record-setting black athlete.
“Dr. Carroll is a classic example of
a scholar-teacher,” his department
head, John Storey, wrote in a letter
of nomination. “It is through the
achievements of faculty members
such as Dr. Carroll that the reputa-
tion of a university is enhanced.”
Carroll’s book on Grange is of
national significance, Storey said,
and his research and publications
have benefited his students, as seen
in his popular course, “Sports in
Modern America.”
“Dr. Carroll has demonstrated a
continuous record of ongoing exem-
plary scholarship spanning his years
of teaching at Lamar — turning out
books, papers and talks on the sub-
jects of recent U.S. history, sports
history, race relations and 20th-cen-
tury social history,” Joe Pizzo,
regents’ professor of physics wrote in
an endorsement of Carroll’s nomina-
tion for the honor.
Carroll’s record of current schol-
arship is significant, Pizzo said, as
demonstrated by the book on
Grange, which recently brought
ESPN to the Lamar campus to inter-
view Carroll for a television special
on the top 50 American athletes of
the 20th century.
“Dr. Carroll’s skill as a teacher is
well documented, but I see the proof
every day among the students who
confer with him and from the com-
ments students make about him,”
said JoAnn Stiles, assistant professor
of history and a longtime colleague.
Carroll was honored as' Lamar’s
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in
1990 and as regents’ professor in
1991, among highlights of a distin-
guished career that also include the
Regents’ Merit Teaching Award in
1974 and organized research grants
in 1988 and 1990-91.
He earned the College of Arts and
Sciences’ Research Award in 1991
and teaching bonuses in 1994, 1996
and 1998
In addition to writing books on
Pollard and Grange, he has served as
co-editor or as consulting editor for
10 other books.
Besides the honor of being select-
ed from among one’s peers, Moulton
said, the award includes a $4,000
grant, which the recipieht will use to
support future scholarship. Carroll
plans to use the grant that accompa-
nies the award to conduct research
and interviews for the book.
“Jim Brown was one of the out-
standing athletes of this century,”
Carroll said, and one of the few who
have attained All-American status in
two sports (football and lacrosse in
1956).
Jackson receives top
honors, LUIT’s first
named-to-state team
Sylvia Streeter
UP managing editor
Christina Jackson, a 4.0 student at Lamar
University Institute of Technology and mother
of 12 children, was recognized on April 20 as one
of the top 87 students in the state, all members
of the Texas All-State Academic Team.
Jackson was named to the second team, a
group of 62 individuals from Texas community
colleges. Based on national rankings, the top 25
of the 87 students were named to the first team.
This is the first time LUIT has had a student
named to the team.
The Texas All-State
Academic Team is
sponsored by the Texas
Association of Com-
munity Colleges and Phi
Theta Kappa Interna-
tional, a worldwide
honor society for two-
year college students.
“It was a great honor
for the institute to have
one of its outstanding
students recognized in
this way,” Robert Krien-
ke, president of LUIT, said. “Being a mother
and a student, Christina has worked very hard to
achieve her goal of getting a college degree. She
is a special person and outstanding scholar.”
Jackson will receive her degree from LUIT in
the fall. She is majoring in management develop-
ment with a minor in criminal justice. She
intends to continue her education at Lamar
University-Beaumont, pursuing a bachelor’s
degree in industrial engineering.
“My husband was out of work for a 13-month
period,” Jackson said. “When I wanted to help, I
realized that I did not have all the skills neces-
sary for a job.”
That is when she decided to come back to
school.
Jackson is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force,
having served during the Vietnam conflict. She
was the first female Illinois Veteran’s Service
Officer with the Department of Veteran’s
Affairs.
She made the National Dean’s List in 1997-98
and has been on the LUIT president’s list every
semester since 1997. She was inducted into Phi
Theta Kappa in the spring of 1998. She serves as
secretary and treasurer of the group.
Jackson recently won the Phi Theta Kappa
scholarship and award presented to a top student
who also excels in involvement in Phi Theta
Kappa and her school.
Christina
Jackson
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