The Lone Star Lutheran (Seguin, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949 Page: 1 of 4
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WATCH FOR
FEBRUARY 14
The Lone Star Lutheran
Student Publication of Texas Lutheran College.
BOOST THE
BULLDOGS
VOLUME 30
SEGUIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949
NUMBER 8
Latest Addition To
Faculty Arrives
From Germany
Mr. P.S. Wharton
Joins TLC Faculty
As Chemistry Prof
Board Of Regents Approves
A Bigger Varsity Program
Miss Hildemarie Damus, Ph.D.,
who has joined the faculty of TLC
as an exchange professor from
Germany, will teach philosophy,
history, and the techniques of
string instruments.
Dr. Damus received her educa-
tion in Paris, Edinburgh, and Jena,
and obtained her Doctor of Phil-
osophy degree from the University
of Berlin. She studied the faculties
of philosophy and theology includ-
ing the languages and history. She
later studied music in a school of
music in Berlin; she is very in-
terested in music and enjoys play-
ing the piano and violin. Also one
of her achievements is the ability
to take shorthand in five different
languages.
During the war Dr. Damus was
an instructor at the University of
Berlin and recently trained inter-
preters for the American Army of
occupation. In Russia and Ger-
many she was especially impressed
with the feeling of insecurity. She
was continually watched by the
Russians, all her papers were
checked, her western money taken
away, and practically all the food
was taken away. Often her friends
or students just vanished and were
never heard of again. In spite of
the handicaps in lack of equip-
ment, teachers, and books, educa-
tion in Germany is proceeding
about the same as before the war.
The students are very eager to
learn and take all the educational
advantages that they do have.
Dr. Damus found it difficult to
leave Germany and Russia because
of the Russian blockade and the
rules set up by the American oc-
cupational forces. Only a limited
number of people are allowed to
go from Germany to the United
States, and Dr. Damus decided to
go to Argentina, where her brother
is living, before coming to the Uni-
ted States. On the way to Argen-
tina she met many displaced per-
sons and refugees also going to
Argentina.
Dr. Damus is planning to hold
a forum for the students interest-
ed in the conditions of Europe.
Although Dr. Damus has not
visited Texas before, her offer to
teach at TLC brought her here;
this country does not seem strange
to her because her parents taught
her much about Texas, and her
brother made a study of the Ger-
man people, cities, and towns of
Texas. She has relatives living in
San Marcos, of which her aunt is
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The new chemistry professor,
Mr. P. S. Wharton, was introduc-
ed to the student body in Convo-
cation this past Monday morning.
He is to replace Dr. Willman who
has resigned as chemistry profes-
sor on account of ill health.
Mr. Wharton received his B. A.
degree from Austin College, Sher-
man, Texas, and his M. A. degree
from Texas University in Austin.
His major work was in the field
of bio-chemistry for which he pre-
pared at the Texas University
Medical branch in Galveston. He
then returned to Austin College
where he taught for several years
until the war.
In the spring of 1942 Mr. Whar-
ton entered the service. He served
two and one-half years in the
Pacific Theater as an ordnance of-
ficer. After leaving the service,
he returned to Galveston where
he was instructor of bio-chemis-
try at the medical branch. During
this time he also did some work
towards his Doctor’s degree.
Being employed by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture from Wash-
ington this past summer, he spent
most of his time in research on
vitamins.
Mr. Wharton stated that TLC
had a very nice set up for natural
science courses and that the labor-
atories were very adequate for ba-
sic teaching. At the present time
he is teaching one section of In-
organic Chemistry, Quantitative
Analysis, and Organic Chemistry.
He also supervises the labs of the
two latter courses.
Spring Semester
Begins With 17
New Enrollments
Reports of KVPR
Tests Ready For
Freshmen Students
Plans Must Pass
Board of Higher
Education In Ohio
Seguin s Population
Grows With College
Growing hand in hand with TLC
is the city of Seguin. In 1940 Se-
guin had a population of 7,013.
Based on recent figures and the
number of gas meters, the city
now has an estimated 12,000 in-
habitants. Seguin’s progress, which
has been gradual, seems to have a
sound basis, and no decline is ex-
pected.
In 1940, TLC, as a Junior Col-
lege, had 175 students enrolled.
At the beginning of the 1948 fall
semester, the number had jumped
to 285. Like Seguin, TLC’s growth
has not been phenominal but grad-
ual and sound. Unlike many col-
leges, TLC does not have such a
large influx of veterans and their
absence in a number of years will
not pull the enrollment down bad-
ly.
Old Man Winter Visits TLC Campus
Those TLC students who hailed
from Ohio, Kansas, and North Da-
kota felt understandably quite at
home last Sunday night, when the
huge mass of cold air that had
been hovering over the northern
states for the past three weeks
moved down into Texas and sat
down—hard.
The low temperature reading of
zero degrees was a record in 65
years of Weather Bureau records,
and positively the only thing at
all like it since Lincoln’s Birthday,
1899, when the low reading was
four degrees above zero. But the
big snow which fell through twelve
hours on Sunday was not alto-
gether unprecedented. Old-timer
Mr. Walter Christiansen remem-
bers a six-inch snowfall in 1926,
when he was a student at TLC.
Sunday’s five-inch snow was ac-
cepted as the most natural thing
in the world. On the campus, stu-
dents gleefully rolled up snow-
men, and pelted each other with
snowballs just as if they were
used to doing such a thing every
winter—which they aren’t. One
snowball, true to form, went
through the glass door in the front
of Old Main.
The big winter snow fall was
old stuff to Mr. Knautz. Most
surprised were the Fiehlers, who
drove north during the Christmas
holidays to see some snow, and
then found they had to come back
to Texas in order to see the real
thing. But, after all, Texas has
everything!
A total enrollment of 267 stu-
dents for the spring semester is
the figure found by the Lone Star
Lutheran in an informal check of
enrollment blanks made this week.
According to the check, the men
students out-number the women
students 156 to 111. Thirty-seven
of these men are veterans.
Fifty-eight Business Administra-
tion majors outnumber those in
any other single program. There
are 32 pre-theological students, 6
parish workers and 4 social wel-
fare workers.
Prospective teachers number 41
with liberal arts students, whose
programs include languages, social
science and science, close behind
with a total of 40. There are also
6 Home Economics majors.
The pre-professional group in-
cludes 11 pre-med students, 8
looking forward to nursing, 7 to
the career of a laboratory techni-
cian, 5 to pre-dental and 3 to phar-
macy. In prospect, there are 18
engineers and 11 athletic coaches.
Also four music majors. The rest
of TLC’s students plan to follow
agriculture, journalism, forestry,
speech, art, law and geology.
Seventeen new students have en-
rolled including 3 girls and 14
boys. They are the following.
Martha Bailey is from San An-
gelo. She hails originally from
Zanesville, Ohio, where she at-
tended the branch of Ohio State
University last year.
Robert Blomstedt is a liberal
arts student from Kenedy.
William Dawson is attending
TLC under G. I. provisions. He is
an engineering major.
Kenneth Downs was at Texas
A. & M. last semester. He is a
town student.
Marjorie Dreier comes from
Meyersville and has enrolled in
the parish worker’s program.
Nolan Edwards is another Se-
guin boy and has chosen a liberal
arts program.
Glenn Franke is a transfer from
Southwestern University. He is a
veteran and comes from Schertz.
Stanley Gerdes, another veteran,
is also a town student.
Rudy Kelling is a transfer from
Blinn Junior College in Brenham.
He is a pre-theological student.
Harold Klein, town student and
veteran, is back at TLC after hav-
ing been out during the last sem-
ester.
Fred Kupatt, veteran, comes
from Sagerton in north Texas. He
expects to follow agriculture.
Leland Nauert .also from Sager-
ton, is an agriculture major.
Delois Maddox is a transfer from
SWTSTC and journalism is her
major.
Carl Peterson, physical educa-
tion major, comes from Avoca. He
is a veteran.
Charles Seelig is an education
major from Fredericksburg.
Roy Timaeus is a pre-theo. He
attended Temple Junior College
the last two years.
Among the checks of students’
abilities and interests generally
made during their Freshman year,
the Kudar Vocational Preference
Record has established itself as a
widely-used and informative in-
strument to determine their pref-
erences with regard to activities
and vocations.
It should prove of interest to
TLC students to know how they as
a group vary in this respect. The
data derived from the Kuder Rec-
ord, as reproduced below, indica-
tes that we have a goodly group of
potential musicians, artists and
scientists on this campus, followed
closely by those interested in tea-
ching, the ministry, and in busi
ness pursuits.
The Kuder Record supplied 168
groups of three activity or interest
preferences in each group,—there-
fore a total of 504 examples of ac-
tivities from which to choose. For
each of the 168 groups, students
checked the activity they would
prefer most and the one they liked
least. Only the most dominant
preferences are indicated, since
only those fields in which students
scored above the 75th percentile
are considered significant. The
data given apply to 110 students
who marked the Record up to the
time of this compilation.
Activity Preferences
Men
Women
Musical ........................
9
21
Artistic ............../.........
14
14
Scientific ......................
19
9
Social Services............
11
15
Clerical (business) ....
6
20
Computational ............
8
15
Persuasive (salesmen)
2
12
Literary........................
3
9
Mechanical ..................
6
3
Twelve students
showed no
dominant preference in any one or
two fields, but were more equally
interested in a variety of activities.
One dominant interest was indi-
cated by 32 students, two by 39
students, three by 22 students, and
four by 5 students.
Dr. Beck, who is in charge of
the college testing program and
of student personnel services,
states that an individual report is
available for every student who
checked the Record form. This re-
port may be secured from the
individual’s adviser. Upperclass-
men who made the check a year
or two ago may also secure their
report from their advisers or
through the Personnel office. In
some instances it will be advisable
for such students to make a second
check, since preferences frequently
change after being in college for a
year or two.
The college library includes var-
ious books on occupations and vo-
cations, as catalogued under these
headings, together with a large
number of special pamphlets giv-
ing specific information about
many types of jobs. The reading
of such books, together with fur-
ther aptitude tests and vocational
interest checks, should enable
every student to arrive at a defin-
ite conviction concerning the dir-
ection to follow toward a future
career.
Football will be continued as a
major interscholastic sport at TLC
on the basis of encouragement of-
fered by the Board of Regents in
its last regular meeting on Thurs-
day, Jan. 27.
The Regents at their meeting,
unanimously approved a report
originally prepared for the TLC
Athletic Council, interested Seguin
business men, and a committee of
the ex-students’ association inter-
ested in promoting inter-college
athletic competition at TLC.
President Kraushaar pointed
out that the Board of Regents is
not the final authority because this
move is a change in policy of the
school. Such changes must be ap-
proved by the Board of Higher Ed-
ucation of the American Lutheran
Church.
Rev. F. G. Roesener, a member
of the Board of Regents, will at-
tend a meeting in Columbus, Ohio,
Feb. 18 as a representative from
TLC.
Recommendations in the report
were that football be continued as
an intercollegiate function of the
college, that athletic scholarships
be awarded to athletes participat-
ing in the football program, these
scholarships to be provided jointly
by the college and by friends and
ex-students of TLC, and that the
Athletic Coach be given a full-time
assistant.
Coach Lehnhoff pointed out to
the Lone Star Lutheran that the
new status of TLC as a four-year
college with a relatively small
student body has made it difficult
to continue to play football against
other schools. The college is no
longer eligible for conference com-
petition against junior colleges,,
and the majority of four-year col-
leges in Texas are in position to/
provide athletic scholarships, Mr.
Lehnhoff said.
The report approved by the Re-
gents was initiated at the last TLC
Homecoming banquet, at which an
impromptu speech was made by
Walter Voges, of Poth, urging for-
mation of a TLC Boosters’ Club.
It was suggested that memberships
to such a Club be sold at $50 a
member.
Mr. W. W. Christiansen reported
a favorable response to the sugges-
tion for a Booster Club, and
several TLC Ex-Students who were
interested held a meeting to look
into the matter.
Seguin business men who ex-
pressed interest in the expanded
athletic program were represented
by Mr. Elbert Jandt, attorney. Mr.
W. N. Corder represented the TLC
Athletic Council.
Plans are still progressing on
the new gym. Ayres and Ayres,
architects of San Antonio, have
drawn two preliminary plans for
study.
Tentative plans call for the
building to be constructed of con-
crete tile and stuccoed on the out-
side. Complete facilities for physi-
cal training and varsity basketball
will be included. Due to shortage
of funds, there will probably be no
classroom space available.
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