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VOL. 10
NORTH TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON, TEXAS, AUGUST, 1959
NO. 4
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SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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Seven Structures Set
For North Texas State
Seven new buildings, costing $6,782,774 to erect and
equip, all under construction in 1959 with three of them go-
ing into use during the year. . __
That's the status of the current ten-year building pro-
gram which began Jan. 1, 1958, qn the NTSC campus. The
construction is financed under provisions of a state con-'
stitutional amendment which first, went into effect 10 years
earlier. .
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND HOME ECONOMICS—
At NTSC
Seventy Years Are Reviewed
Citizens of Denton in 1890
purchased a 10-acre tract west
of town to start a normal col-
lege. Until a building could be
built, the first classes met
that fall over. Ill hardware
stork on the city^square.
^ Frcrtn that beginning there Jias
de^feloped a' state-supported uni-
versity-type institution of nearly
7,000 enrollment, spreading across
a fast-growing 300-acre campus—
North Texas State College, which
will begin its 70th year of opera-
tion this fall.
— The-' growth of the school in <n-
rollmerit and physical plant be-
comes obvious to any campus visi-
tor. A 6% million dollar buildinjg
program now in_ progress attests
to plant expansion.
In ihe last 50 years, enrollment
has risen almost exactly 10 times
' —from""670 in 1908 to -6y¥79 in
the fall of 1958.
-—- But to see that the college has
risen to a place of eminence, in
higher education in the Southwest,
-one needs to look, beyond the
buildings and the number of stu-
dents.
Doctor's Degrees
One -interesting indication cornea
from a study, of doctor's degrees
awarded in the United States from
1936 to 1956 with respect to the
colleges from which the recipients
earned their bachelor's degrees".
From 1479, schools in the nation,
there was developed a list of the
95 top college's in the country
whose graduates earned the built
of the doctoral degrees.
- The Texas institutions in this
list were the University of Texas,
North Te*as State, and Tejtas
A&M, in that order.
Other indications of NTSC devel-
opment can be found in these fac-
tors:"/ • _. >
^ 1. Som6 150 faculty members
hold the, doctor's degree.
2. Research-grants and supple-
mentary programs have an annual
budget of more than $100,000.
3. President J. C. Matthews re-
ported this spring that there has
been more staff writing and re-
search in the last five years, than
in the first 50 years of the col-
lege's history.— : : — :—
4. Admission standards have
ben elevated "and students must
make even better scholastic rec-
ord's to maintain their standing in.'
the college.
5« The library now . eOntains
340,000 volumes a,nd an annex has
just been ^.completed which' will
house an: additional- 290,000 vol-
Four Doctor':
Summer Grads
Steady Progress
arts at NTSC;, Howard Jt. Patter-
ns - , • son, professor at Tennesse^pTech,
This development has not^beenjjCookeville, Tenn.; Arlie Keith
ir.cft.nH fivJis houn n t Turkett, assistant professor at
Sam Houston State Teachers Col-
lege, Huntsville, and William Mar-
ion Turner, Texas A&M, College
sudden, but instead been7" a
steady— process,. Dr. Matthews
pointed out.. Enrollment was 1,395
in 1928, 2,538 in 1938, 5,133 in
1948, and 6,779 in 1958.
The NTSC School . of McCain "^ote. his dissertation
Administration is now second in
size in Texas and nineteenth in
teacher education program is first
in Texas in certificates issued. TKe
School of Music is the. largest in
the Southwest.— ;——
The latest report of the Com-
mission on Higher Education shows
NTSC to be the second largest in
the stdte m graduate semester-
hour ehrollmen:
When the North Texas Normal
College began offering four-year
degrees, five students received-
their bachelor's diplomas in 1919'
By May of this year, 27,260 bach-
elor's, master's, and doctor's de-
grees had been awarded. „
Ex Gets Fellowship
Fred Baldwin, NTSC graduate
who has been studying at Prince-
ton University on a Woodrow Wil-
son Fellowship, will continue his
study at. Princeton another year
on another fellowship.
He has been appointed a Charles
J. Dunlap Fellow for the 1959-60
academic year. - =- '
The $2r100 fellowship in Ameri-
can history is fl^nted to two oqt-r
standing graduate students. Bald-
win is preparing for college teach-
ing.
Four college professors applied
for doctor of education degrees
rid there were approximately 400
achelor and 250 master degree
candidates for the Aug. 21 cere-
monies in Fouts-Field.
Applicants for the doctor's de
grees were Jerry Clay McCain,
assistant professor of industrial
on "Textbook Suitability for the
Industrial Arts Program in Texas."
Patterson entitled his disserta-
tion * "The Relationship Between
Personality Traits and Preferences
for Instructional Methods." .. —
Turkett did research oh "Effec-
tiveness of the Undergraduate Cur-
riculum in Teachei1 Edu
Developing Desired Teaching Com-
petencies."
- Turner's dissertation was "A
Follow-Up Study* of Music Educa-
tion at North Texas State College."
HOMECOMING
Homecoming is Oct. 31 this
year.
The Eagles will take on the
Wichita University eleven at 2
p.m. and the campus will take
on a holiday atmosphere, .
Activities will begin Oct. 30
with afternoon registration and
the usual activities will be held
Saturday,. Oct. 3i. Scheduled is
a parade at 11 a.m.; a.barbe-
cue after the game; departmen-
tal, club, sorority and fraternity
parties, and the stage shows
and dances.
Further details of the 1#59
Homecoming will be in the Oc-
tober North Texan.
Dr. Spurlock Takes
Position as Vice
President at NT
Dr. J. J. Spurlock, professor of
chemistry, has been named vice
president of North Texas
~ " Sept; 1. -t—--
Dr. A. M..Sampley,.>yho has"!
vice president since November,
1953,, requested the Board of^ Re-
gents to consider his resignation
from that post.
"It has been known all the while
that Dr. Sampley intended to re-
turn to teaching," NTSC President
J. C. Matthews said in announcing
the change. "Because -of that fact,
when he was made vice president
he was also named distinguished
professor of English."
Dr. Sampley will resume full-
time teaching in September. On«
of five men on the staff'to hold
the highest academic rank of dis-
tinguished' professor, he has pre-
viously served 'the college as di -
rector of libraries and dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences.
• He was poet laureate of Teka s
from 1951 to 1953.
— Sampley Honored ■ ■—
.— more: an additional. building for c,
, eirt*the. School of Music and another^
300-man unit for the West Dormi- *
tory. ' I •
'• Located at Avenue B and' Hick-
ory, the industrial arts building
occupies the former site of the
president's home. The new struc-
ture unites .under one roof the
classrooms and shops that were
formerly housed in several small-
er units.
' Physics-Math - j
Nearing . completion on Avenue
A just south of the historical build-
ing, the physics-mathematics build-
ing contains 52,923 square feet,
with provision for optimum labor-
atory facilities for the present.
Arrangements have been made for
the future conversion of some
classroom's to laboratories with-
out additional plumbing or electri-
cal work required. ;
The, .basement will house a Van
The board passed a resolution
noting Dr. Sampley's "integrity,
his devotion arid duty, his sense of
jiistice, his* way of working With
students and faculty, and his loy-
alty to the college, his fellow ad-
ministrators, and the board-
;Dr. -Spurlock is a graduate of
NTSC and the University of Texas
and has been on the staff here
since l-940i
"He has received national recog-
nition for his research," President
Matthews said. "He is currently
engaged in orie of the most com-
prehensive research projects at the
college, sponsored by the Robert A.
AY„elch Foundation ^of Houston."
"Dr. Spurlock has all of the
qualities of a key administrator in
a growing college," Dr. Matthews
way. of gathering all the data be-
fore taking action, and works well
with students and faculty. He is
VipIH in h i crVi patoom in fho nnm-
NTSC.
During the summer session, the
move was made to the new in-
dustrial arts building and to an
annex to the library building.
Early /.this fall a new physics^
mathematics structure will bei oc-A^t
cupied. ' . . ■ 2*
. Now going upare a business ad-
ministration building and an edu- -
cation and home economics build-
ing. Expected to go into u^e in the ""
fall of 1960, these will be the two
largest structures on^the campus.
Contracts will soon be let on two
de Graaff accelerator and a Cock-
roft-Walton accelerator, used in tha
study of nuclear reactions.
The annex was added to the
south wing of the library; It con-
tains stacks, carrels, and other
equipment to house 290,000 vol-
umes. The expansion is planned
to take care of growth for about
10 years.
The 55-classroom unit for * the
School of Business Administra-
tion at Avenue... A and Chestnut
will be the larj^esj^jiiilding on the
campus. It is "' alsft to contain- 77
faculty offices, seminar rooms, and
an auditorium seating 378 per-
sons. The industrial arts, physics-
math,/ and business buildings will
be heated and air-conditioned from
a central unit installed in the power
plant. ■ ■■ :
School of Business
The business building is to con-
tain 85,278 square feet. Nearly as-
large will be the new home of the-
~ hool of Education and School of
with 75^2&L—
Structures, page 2
J. J. SPURLOCK
A. M. SAMPLEY
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