The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 1975 Page: 5 of 6
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Photo by JANE HEAIY
Voice Recital
Terry A Mai. Denton graduate student, sings a song
composed by Mozart, "Per quests bellas mano," at
a graduate voice recital Monday night. Mai, a bass-
baritone. was assisted on the piano by Sharon Has-
lund. Lake Jackson graduate student. Also perform-
ing in the recital was Deborah Petty. Abilene junior
Hunger Committee To Meet;
Milner Warns of Famine
Dale Branum, campus minister, has
invited anyone interested in working
with the Committee on World Hunger
to come to a meeting in the United
Ministries Center today at 3 p.m.
According to SGA Vice-president
Janie Milner, the world food shortages
of the past couple of years will seem in-
significant compared to future famine
unless action is taken now to combat
world hunger.
She made this statement after at-
tending the National University
Conference on Hunger Nov. 21-24 on
the UT-Austin campus.
R E P R E S E N T A TIV E S F R O M
Denton's Committee on World Hunger
at the meeting were Branum, Jeannie
Kotowski, Free University director;
Judy Robertson, Dallas sophomore;
Dawn Chapman, El Paso sophomore;
Milner and Sarah Jane Pate, SGA
budget officer.
A series of 15 issues and action
workshops were conducted by expert
■panalists from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, university researchers and
representatives from Oxfam. Problems
related to hunger were discussed in the
workshops. Topics included alternative
methods of food production and dis-
tribution, consumer and personal ac-
tion and research priorities, Ms Milner
said.
Ms. Kotowski said she feels a benefit
from attending the conference was talk-
ing with other representatives from all
over Texas and deciding to form a
Texas coalition of groups working on
world hunger.
“ONE OF the reasons for the Texas
Coalition is we can share research
persons and materials regionally,” Ms.
Kotowski said.
Branum is on the steering committee
for the coalition. The group will meet
Dec. 20.
One of the ideas the NT Hunger
Committee suggested to the Texas
Coalition would be a “no lunch” pro-
ject in which participating students
would agree to give up one meal a
month and donate the cost to the
organization for world hunger Ms.
Kotowski said this would aid education
efforts.
The conference was sponsored by the
Institute for World Order and
Washington-based Project Dialogue.
By RON GROVE
Daily Reporter
When the 18 students in Sweet Estes’
back-packing class decided to spend
the Thanksgiving holidays hiking in the
White Mountain Wilderness of New
Mexico, they expected a pleasant
weekend outing. But being lost in near-
zero weather, snow and wind gusting at
70 miles per hour changed pleasant into
adventurous.
"Before we left Denton Nov. 26 1
called the ranger station at Lincoln
National Forest where the White
Mountain Wilderness is located,” Miss
Estes said. “They told me the weather
would be sunny with mild temperatures
through the weekend. They said they
didn’t expect any deep snow until mid
December.
“When we arrived at the park,” Miss
Estes continued, "I checked with the
rangers again and they said that it
would be a little colder than first
suspected but the weather would be
sunny. So I decided it would be safe to
start.”
MISS ESTES said they began their
20-mile trek at Tanbark Canyon a few
miles north and west of Ruidoso, New
Mexico. “I scouted around and found
some old mine shafts,” Miss Estes said,
“and we decided to camp in one for the
night.”
The next day Miss Estes left 14 of the
students under the direction of veteran
hiker Larry Ray to begin the journey.
She and two other students took the
two pick-up trucks, which served as
transportation for the class into
Ruidoso to get gas and some additional
supplies. She left instructions with Ray
to wait for the rest of the group at the
first water hole located further up the
mountain. She left one hiker, Mrs.
Emma Majors at the mine to watch the
smaller group's packs.
When the smaller group arrived at
Ruidoso, they found that because it
was Thanksgiving most of the stores
were closed, and they would have to
wait until ! p.m. for a store to open.
When they returned to the base
camp, Miss Estes’ group discovered
Mrs. Majors was missing. Not knowing
that the student had become worried
and had left to call the sheriff, the
group spread out to search for her.
When Mrs. Majors could not be found,
the group took the trucks to the Sierra
Blanca Ski Lodge which was to be the
terminating point of the trek, and
proceeded down the mountain in Mrs.
Majors’ Volkswagen to call the sheriff.
UNITED AGAIN, the group decided
since it was growing dark and the
weather was becoming steadily worse,
Mrs. Majors and her husband Craig
would stay at the mine while Miss Estes
and student Chris McCallum would
search for the larger group, now several
hours up the trail.
“I was really worried by this time,”
Miss Estes said, “because it had
become so cold, the wind was so terri-
ble, and it had begun to snow. 1 was
told later that it was the worst storm
they had had in that area since 1956.”
Miss Estes and McCallum continued
until they reached Argentina Canyon
where they had to stop because of the
Enrollment
Increases
This Fall
Enrollment this fall increased more
than 1,000 compared to the fall
semester of 1974, according to Jimmie
R. Naugher, associate director of
analytic studies.
Headcount for students last fall was
15,875. This fall the headcount was
16,879, an increase in enrollment of
1,004 students.
Growth has been mainly in graduate
work with a leveling off of un-
dergraduates.
Because graduate studies have in-
creased, there is a decrease in total
semester credit hours from the same
period last year when total enrollment
was lower. Naugher explained,
“Graduate students take fewer hours
than undergraduate students. As head-
count increases because of graduate
students, total hours decrease.”
blinding snow and wind. “We decided
to make camp and try to weather out
the storm,” Miss Estes said, “but it
started lightning and I’m familiar with
what electrical storms in the mountains
can do. We decided to start back down
the way we came because limited
visibility prevented us from continuing
the trail.”
It was apparent to Miss Estes at this
time that because of poor trail mark-
ings the large group had taken the
wrong fork. “I knew that there was an
old cabin up there and 1 hoped that
they would find it," Miss Estes said
“Chris and I made it back to the mine
but I only stopped to eat some cookies.
I knew I had to find the others.”
IT WAS morning when the group of
four reached the Volkswagen and
started back down the mountain to get
help. On the way they were stopped by
two men who reported the rest of the
students were all right and were a few'
miles ahead in the house of a J.L. Tal-
ley. “When I found them,” Miss Estes
said, "there sure was a lot of crying
and iaugning going on. We were so
happy to see each other.”
The group discovered snow drifts
had piled so high on the road to the ski
lodge that they would not be able to get
to their trucks, but the group did
manage to find lodging in Ruidoso’s
Presbyterian Church. The pastor is the
Rev. Frank Crown. The group was able
to reach the trucks the next morning.
“When we got to the trucks," Miss
Estes said, “everything was frozen, but
after two hours we got them started,
and headed for home.”
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