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Homecoming
VOL. 6
TEXAS STATE COLLEGE, DENTON, TEXAS, AUGUST, 1955
NO. 4
Fund Goal Set
DR. WAYNE ADAMS
Nov. 5 Set For
Homecoming Day
Homecoming Day for 1955 will
be Nov. 5, with registration begin-
ning Friday Afternoon, Nov. 4.
Plans for the annual schedule of
events are underway this summer
and Dr. Harold Farmer, NTSC
Ex-Student secretary and general
chairman, has announced ehairmen-
and committees for the various
activities. 7- ; —
Assisting Farmer as chairmen
are -Miss Beulah Hassis, regis-
tration committee; Miss Ruth
Priddy, hospitality and reception;
Miss Elizabeth Lomax, calendar of
events; Mrs. Dude Neville Mc-
Oloud, publicity; Jack Scrpggs, ac-
tivities; C. L. Littlefield, parade;
Ronald William#, house decora-
tions; Miss Eithel Johnson, enter-
tainment; and Winton(Pop) Noah,
barbecue. Co-chairman of the gen-
eral committee is Joe Cannon,
president of the United Students
of 'North Tetfas. « .
Representatives from different
departments ajid schools in the
college, and student organizations
-A'iit. serve on all of the commit-
tees, according to Farmer.
No particular theme will be
carried out for this year's cele-
bration. Students who decorate the
college campus and have floats
injhe parade will make their plans
- and arrangements, carrying out
their individual motifs of college
life: ^ ;—, ' '
"Five Classes"
^."However," Farmer pointed out,
will give_special- recognition
Adams Is New
Assistant To
NT President
Dr. Wayne Adams was 'named
assistant to the president by the
NTSC Board of Regents 'in a July
meeting. - -——
President J. C. Matthews said
that "his duties will relate in the
main to non-academic maters—as-
sisting with the building program,
the improvement and repair pro
gra
He will teach two e4ucation classes
and spend three-fifths of his time
in administration."
Dr. Adams' appointment .is ef-
fective Sept. J.. His present posi-
tion as director of teacher educa-
tion will be filled by Dr. C. N.
during the half of the... football
game to all ex-students present
who attended the college in any
year ending in five." ■
The calendar of events will in-
chiite the'annual parade Sa
ing the game, two apecial stage
shows and a square dance and so-
cial, dance.
Out-of-town ex-students are
a^ain incited to use the facilities
of the .NTSC Nursery School where
babies will be supervised freBF-t
p.m. Saturday until aftej? the foot-
ball trame. Miss Anna Alford will
be in .harge of the nursery.
Kenneth Hunt Dies
Kenneth Hunt, former student
am' Acuity member in the art de-
partment'at NTSC, died July 27
|j N^w York City. He had been
since an automobile accident
a out nine years ago. Funeral
■/vices were held in Denton.
Clarke, now with the State Depart-
ment of Education TrT Arkansas.
Officers re-elected by the board
were Ben H. Wooten, Dallas,
chairman; S."A.,Kerr, Huntsville,
vice-chairman; and Robert Cald-
well, Denton, secretary to the
board. New members in attend
ance were M\ss Emma Mae Brotze,
Marshall," a^d Ralph Elliott, Sher-
man.
In- other board afctionrthe Hogg
Memorial Loan Fund was extended
"to include—scholarships to be
granted from funds available from
income. The regents approved 20
scholarships for $100 each for the
fall semester.
Income from thjg source, to-
gether with the recently announced
McAtee fund, will make it possible
for thV college to have 20 such
scholarships each year, Dr. Mat-
thews said.
While former students through-
out Texas gathered in cities and
towns to observe North Texas Day
on, March 31, five newly-elected
officers of the NTSC Ex-Student
Association were installed and
students observed the day on the
campus with special programs and
socials.
Incoming president of the asso-
ciation is Mrs. Albertine Berry
Castle, 1929 graduate and home-
making director of Mrs. Tucker's
Foods, Inc., in Sherman. Vice
presidents are Joe B. McNiel,
Wichita Falls; Thomas Eugene
Wood, Austin; Bob McKay, Dal
More Fame Comes
To North Texans
International and national' fame
came to NTSC this year-with rec-
ognition being given to. some out-
standing students, student organi-
zations, ex-students and faculty
members.
Joe Conrad, now Jieutepant in
the "U.S. Air Force, was the win-
ner of the British Amateur golf
champibnship in England. Conra
a member of one of the late Fred
Cobb's NCAA championship golf
teams from NTSC, is stationed at
Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos.
Albert Fehrenbach, a . senior
English major at NT from Edge-
wood, is the new national presi-
dent of the college Future Teach-
ers of America. He was elected at
the recent national convention held
in conjunction with the National
E .
the nine
tween Chattanooga University and awards presented by the Texas
N'TSC at 2 p.m., a barbecue follow- jjJiapter of Future Business Lead
ers of America at the national
FBLA convention in Chicago this
summer. ,-r
Awards included a Gold Seal
Chapter presentation to the out-
standing chapters in the nation,
-and certificates . for having the
second - largest membership in the
Mountains-Plains area which ^en-
compasses nine states.
Pi. Omega Pi, national business
education scholarship society, was
.given one of the 10 honorable. men-
tion awards in the nation for the
1954-55 projects. Mrs. Ardath
Stedman, sponsor pf the Eta chap-
ter of Pi Omega Pi at NTSC, is
the national secretary-historian
for the National Council of Pi
Omega Pi.
Over $71000 in Fund-
Needed for Scholarships, Loans
•A goal-of $100,000'has been set by the directors of "the student loan and scholarship
funds at the college, according to President J. C. Matthews, who has announced that
the funds available now total $71,291. V * • .. ^ •—
> Installed . . .
Exes Gather for NT Day Meetings
The Student Memorial Loan Fund, which originated in 1937 as a $25,000 grant from
the late Will C. Hogg, has grown to $42,126. At the suggestion ^f-^Iiss Ima Hogg, sis-
ter of the donor, the use of the fund was broadened to include scholarships as well as loans.
Beginning in September, Dr. Matthews has announced that twenty $100 scholarships,
financed from this fund, will be awarded. - ■ i ~ ..
The McAtee Trust Fund,
nounced in March, amounted to
$29,165. The board intends to use
the income from each o£ the two
funds for scholarships, which
means, according to Dn. Mat-
thews, that the college will be able
to continue the 20 scholarships
for a number of years and still
keep the' principal of this fund
intact.
The late Miss Sudie McAtee. a
graduate "of the college and ior
many years a teacher in the pub-
lic schools of Fort Worth, left
her estate to NTSC in the name of
the McAtee Trust Fund. The dis-
cretion as to the use of the fund
was to be left entirely up to the
administration of the college.
For the past two years, ex-
student and college officials have
been studying ways and means for
las; and Dr. Ray Hudspeth, Glade-
water.
- « . . . ' I
At meetings throughout the
state, exes gathered for organiza-
tional meetings and socials and
election of officers. Thirty-seven
Texas radio stations in some 33
cities broadcast a special NT Day
program which originated on the
campus. *
At Wichita Falls, where Dr.
R. V. Holland of the college fac-
ulty "was speaker for the banquet,
"there was possibly not only the
largest gathering of former stu-
dents, but probably more regis-
trants froin out-of the immediate
area than at any other gather-
ing," wrote ,Ulys- Knight. Some
250 exes are expected for next
year's banquet, he added. ; ,
NT Day was celebrated by Aus-
tin exes with a barbecue dinner by
several hundred former students,
according to a story in the Austin
American. Dr. Sam McAlister of
the faculty was speaker for the
gathering. >
In Gainesville, Dr. Arthur Samp-
ley, vice president of NT, ad-
dressed tlje area exes at a ban-
quet at which time the organiza-
tion of a local chapter was out- suppleme
lined
Amarillo Elects
New officers of the Amarillo
area exes are Miss Joi Johnston
of Amarillo, president; Mrs. Ejitfi-
beth Fly,- Amarillo," first vice
president; Richard Gubbrns, plain-
view, second vice president; C. E.
Bedwell, Sunray, third vice presi-
dent, and^Mancil McLarty, Ama-
rillo, secretary
Walter Schoenfeld -was named
president of the Cleburne group,
replacing Rex Arnold. Other offi-
cers are C. H. Bryant, vice prfesi-
(See EXES GATHER, j>age 3)
ship funds a <f several individuals
—ex-stydents and friends of ilffi
college—have indicated interest id
"aking contributions.
Supplementary Donations
At the present time the commit-
tee is working on details for the
plans for supplementary dona-
tions, from which scholarships
would be secured- from the in-
terests derived.
"One hundred thousand dollara
is the goal for our scholarship
and loan fund," Dn Matthews said.
"We would appreciate it if former
(See MEMORIAL LOAN, page 3)
NEW EX-STUDENT OFFICERS—Mrs. Albertirt8~Beny Gastle of Sherman took over as president
of the NTSC Ex-Student Association on North Texas Day. With her are three of the newly-elected
vice presidents: Thomas Eugene Wood of Austin (seated); Dr. Ray Hudspeth of Gladewater- and
Joe B. McNiel of Wichita Falls, standing left to right. Not present was Bob McKay of Dallas, the
fourth vice president. The new officers will serve for two years. * _
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