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August, 1955
THE NORTH TEXAN
Peoe 3
Mother of The Yearr. . .
Titles, Honors and Awards
Promotions^ honors, awards, new positions—news has
been flowing in to the North Texan of such activities of
former students of the college.
The title of "Texas Mother of 1955" was awarded this
spring to Mrs. W. C. Schutts of Fort Worth, a student of the
NT Normal College in 1907. The 69-year-olrf grandmother,
who met her husband at the Normal, has reared 11 children,
seven of their own, and four small grand children.
Roy Mays; 1937 graduate, is
manager .of exploration for Conti-
nental Oil Company's Rocky Moun-
ain region at Denver.-In Shreve-
port, La.j,. Mrs. Walter T, Col-
quitt was honored as "the woman
who has done the most for Ameri-
can horticulture during the year"
on—the basis of nationwide compe-
tition. • "' - , •;
James B. Trietsch, blind student,
n"w faachinpr Hgh qfhW h
social studies at Freeport, has re-
cently published a new Lincoln
biography.
Another blind student from the
ollege, Martha Lee Sanders of
FIoY.dadfl,lis -instructing 40 music
students and acquiring a sectional
reputation in, music, despite her
handicap. —u—
Gordon R, Carpenter has been
named executive director of the
Southwestern Legal "Foujidation;
Terry White is with Ayres Comp-
toa Associates, public relations
firm, in Dallas, and* Helen Delo-
Marshall of,, Amarillo and
Edith Eulaine Ellis of* Pampa afe
American Airlines stewardesses in
Chicago.
Nellie Osborne is working on the
Amarillo News and Globe-Times;
Mollye Wagner is with WFAA-
TV, and Wayne H. Lowrance is
the new assistant postmaster in
Denton. Bruce' Hepderson has been
transferred from Dallas to the
:Woeiafepd Press office in Buenos
Aires. —-— —:—> '
Darwin Wilder, former Denton
attorney, has located his new of-
fices in Mineral Wells; Bowen
Evans has been assigned as field
research officer with the U.S. In-
formation Service in London and
Henry- M. Amlin is director of la-
bor relations for Braniff Inter-
national Airways.
The Houston "Chronicle Rotogra-
vure Magazine carried an article
about Richard Barneby, who Rep-
resents the United States Escapee
Program in Vienna. He formerly
taught political" science at Weather-
ford College.
Former NTexar^s
Announce News
Reports of marriages, births and
deaths are again very prominent
in the North Texan mailbag.
ROBERT GENE GEDDIE and
Norma'Rae Allen were married in
Marshall; ELIZABETH A N N
married in Denton; Martha Mas-
sey and B I L L TURNER ex^
changed vo.ws this spring, and
MARJORIE MERLE DANNEL-
LEY and LOWELL EVERETT
LARSON were married in Denton
in April.
Others who exchanged^vows^f^
cently were PHYLLIS HAR-
GRAVE and KENNETH FORE-
HAND, Nancy Brian and - LAW-
RENCE D. KLEPAS, and BET-
TY JO WALL and William War-
ner Martin.
Word of the deaths of GENE
DARDEN and GEORGE DAY has
also bken received. Darden, a Dal-
las sportswriter, died in July. The
25-year-old ex-student had been
ill eight months. Capt. Day, 29,
was presumed dead after his jet
fighter crashed in Florida.
Additions to exes' faimly cir-
cles are the following: A boy for
FRANCES (White) JEFFREY
and Father Jim; a boy for the
RAY RENFRO' familyGary
Neal, to A. C. and PEARL R^Yi
MOND EBENSBERGER; girl for
MAX and JOYCE BILL HAN-
COCK,- and DOROTHY McKAY
WINDER and her husband ac-
quired another daughter.
Other income tax exemption aids
include a boy for Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Cope (ELINOR HOW-
ELL)';. boy for BILL J. and BET-
TYE COOK; boy, GLADYS J. and
ERNEST 'SNYDER.
A son was born to MARY
KATHERINE BROTHERS and
BILL CHANDLER, and JOHN-
NIE and WADE FREDRICKSOR
have announced the arrival of
little Robert Wade.
"DREAM COMES TRUE"—NTSC's own Miss Edith L Clark,
retired dean of women now living in Austin, and another mem-
ber of the Austin Chapter of Retired Teachers looks over a lot
donated to the chapter by Miss Georgia B. Lucas of Austin.^
, M*ss Clark is president of the chapter which aspires to build a
liome for retired teachers in AustUu-She retired from NTSC in
1944 after 42 years of service at. the college. Known by North
Texans throughout the Southwest as the "Dean of Deans of
Women," the 81-year-old is active in the retired teachers group.
With her, inspecting the property on which the home will be
built, is Miss Nellie Lea Brown (right),; retired Austin teacher.
Memorial Loan—
" (Continued from page 1)
students and friends of North
Texas State would advise us of
anyone wishing to-make a con-
tribution," he added. \
The board is composed
Matthews, chairman; Ben H.
Wooten, chairman of the NTSC
Board of Regents, vice chairman,
and three members: Mrs Alber-
tine Berry Castle, president' of
the NTSC Esi-Student Associa-
tion; Dr. Harold Farmer, executive
secretary of the efces association,
and Robert Caldwell, fyisinesfc,
manager of the" colleges /
Exes Gather—*
——^Continued from page If
dent, and Miss Bess Ashley, sec-
retary.
Twenty NT ex-students Voted to
form a permanent chapter of the
organization at a meeting in San
Angelo on NT Day. Joe Mitchell,
San Angelo College social sciences
professor, was chairman for the
group meeting. —.
•Or. Sidney Hamilton was speak-
er for the annual banquet in Glade-
water when former students from
East Texas gathered for a social
and listening party.
All Kinds . . .
News of Doctors'
Doctors who were students at
NTSC are plentiful throughout the
nation.
Not only medical doctors, but
education and other specialized
doctors.
Dr. Harry Hall Womack, Jr., is
a pediatrician in Fort Worth; Dr.
J. Elmer Cox, dean of the college
at Texas Wesleyan College; Dr.
Lewis E. Fraser, director of hu-
manities at San Angelo College;
Dr. Edward Thompson, Farris,
dentist in Dallas, and Dr. Sam P.
Copeland is a physician with the
U.S. Navy at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Dr. Benjy Brooks Is a physician
in the children's unit at Harvard
Medical School. Dr. Murray Ken-
neth Cox, professor at Wake For-
rest College in -North Carolina;
. James Leslie Hildebrand, pro-.
n
College, Bellingham, Wash., and
Dr. -Kenneth R. Grnhhs is a pro-
fessor. at Louisiana Polytechnic
Institute in Ruston, La. •
Lester Matthews received ,the
Ph.D. in AugustTHe wiTT "be as-
sociated with Baylor Medical
School in Pallas.
Head of the music department
at Troy State Teachers College in
Alabama is Dr. John Patrick
Graham. Dr. Nolen Dawson Ged-
die, Jr., is now assigned to tf>e
U.S. Army hospital in Puerto
Rico, and Dr. Fred P. Giles is
head of the fine arts division of
Eastern. Kentucky State College in
Richmond. - . -
_ Dr. Willis W. Floyd, is on the
faculty - of Sam Houston State
Teachers College in Huntsville.
Dr. Richard Alvin Glenn is a re-
search chemist at the Carnegie In-
stitute of Technology in 'Pitts-
burgh, Pa., and Dr. Newton Ben-
nie Everett is teaching at the
University of Washington School
of Medicine in Seattle, Wash.
W. Russell" Sjnith. holds the
Ph.D. from the University of
Texas and is associate professor of
biological sciences at Lamar State
College *-of Technology in Beau-
mont, and Pat M. Windham re-«'
cently completed work on his Ph.D.
in nuclear physics at Rice Insti-
tute. He will teach at Texas Tech
this fall, his brother, Joe Wind-
ham, reports. Joe is with the Aus-
tin American Statesman.
Graduating from the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical
School in Dallas in June were
three former students: James Ta-
tum, Jewell S. (Doc) Daughety
and Orland Baker.
Scraps From Scrappy . . .
Full of Requests and Information From
With that special time of the
year f. oming up. . .Homecom-
ing. . IScrappy's mailbag has been
iwlging with requests for infor-
mation concerning the special
event.— ' , '
N' v. 5~ is the - day, • fellow exes!
_ A complete schedule of events in
"play-Hy-play" form, has-not yet
neen <*orhpleted, but general plans
■fill be found in a page one story
in thts~T£sue of the North Texan
and the complete schedule of
■m-rrts \vill be published in the
October issue. ■-' ■ /
Exfes are urged not to stay, home
the kiddies. The NT
Laboratory School Nursery "will
be available to out of town child-
>«i of exes during the hours of
the football game Satatday after-
noon. - ; ■
Ami ngw, for /iews of exes . . .
I^ST and De Olva (Barnard)
Hodges "Write" from Bellaire that
they expect to attend homecoming
this year. They are also anxious to
know anything about the ex-stu-
dent association in the Houston
area. G-ibert Gorman in Houston
may give- some information. ?.
Maxine Grady has been ap-
pointed to the faculty of David
ycomb College i^ Nashville,
enn. She. will teach health and
I'jysical.education. Ralph T. Dan-
pfct''ved the degree of Doctor
verf f Sophy from Harvard Uni-
Riy r % i'n '*une an^ John Forest
W. Jr., received the doctor of
dental surgery from the Univer-
sity of Kansas City.
Church Soloist
Doris Okerson, currently- ap-
pearing in "The Saint of Bleeker
Street^n Washington, D. C., has
been hamed soprano soloist at
Riverside Church/in New York
City. Bill Blankepship js . grad-
uate tutor in the NT School of
Music -this summer, and Ivan
Davis was the winiveFof the Yoving
Attist Contest of the National
Federation of Music Clubs.
Jack iGuerry was one df the win-
ners of ./the Younger Artists of
the 1955 division of
Piano-Playing Tournament in Ajr6-
tin, and Monte Hill Davis was the
state winner of the 21st biennial'
Young Artists.. Auditions of the
National Federation of Music
C|ubs this spring. Rayjnaf Ditson
has been awarded a miijritlscholar-
ship for voice study at the Uni-
versity of Indiana. "p
Gerhardt Dorn and Samuel M.
Trickey, both members of';the
Sthool. of Music, received the first
doctor of philosqphy degrees
granted by NTSC this August.
At press time. Scrappy learned
that Charles Michael (Mike)
Hagler, 19-year-old NT track-
man, was in critical condition
in an Abilene hospital after be-
ing stricken with bulbar polio.
Mike was a member of the mile
relay team whkh "won at the
Border Olympics, West Texas,
Texas, Kansas and |)rake relays.
Lt. Robert Eugene Williams of
Dallas was killed jii a plane crash
in Japan in March, and T. N.
Porter, 1924 graduate, died sud-
SCRAPPY.
denly in Austin in April. He had
been a member of the Austin Pub-
lic School system for 34 years/
In answering the request for
the clasmates attending the college
in 'fffty year ending in five, Patri-
cia Price Lorance, 1945, wrote
from Tyler that she especially en-*
joyed the,* March issue of the
North fcexan because of the fea-
ture story on W. J. Wisdom of
Stephenville. She recalled that
Mrs. Wisdom was house mother
for Orchestra Hall at'NT in 1944-
45. -
CoacK^owe __
Loyd Lowe, formei\NT and CHfc"
cago. Bear halfback, nas been ap-
pointed assistant footbalKcoach at
Tarleton State College in
ville.
, Bruce Henderson, formerly
Associated Press in Dallas, ha
joined the AP Bureau in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, as a permanent
member. Polly Ann Brown is
teacher of hompmBkintr at Bon-
ham High School, L., ,R. Johes is
branch manager for International
Business Machines Corp. in Waco,
and Lt. Jay Bennett Howard is
taking basic training in the air
force. He was Cadet Colonel of
the' AFROTC in 1953-54 at NT.
They let school out this spring
for one day in Decatur to pay
honor to Miss Bell Ford who
retired in June after 44 years as
a teacher. There was a parade
and talks paying tribute to tfie
•rx-student.
Delmer Brown, track great dur-
ing the 1930's at NT, will take
over -as track coach and trainer at
Texas Tech this fall.; Thelma Johns
Collier is librarian at DenisOn
high school, and Lt. Col., and Mrs.
William Roy Norman (Theda Rich-
ards) are liying at Arlington, Va.
Hays in Manila
- Margaret Hays .has been ap-
pointed Second secretary-consul in
the foreign service office in Ma-
nila;.. Capt. and %8. Ted A<
sack are statiolfed at Barksdfile
AFB in Shreveport, La,,, and Har-
old and Mariana Hullender Pipkin
are living in Oklahoma City. They
write that Dan Hatch and Mar-
jorie' Lund Cornelius are playing
with the Oklahoma City Symphony
Orchestra. Harold plays violin in
the orchestra. Merl Cornelius is"
inister of music in one of the
big churches there, j
nk M. Busch has been
to the Adjutant""Gen-
eral'8 School of the Army at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indi-
ana. Mrs V^taa Marie . Hall Is
secretary in the legal division
of the El Paso Natural Gas co.,
and her husband, George, is1
stationed at Fort Bliss there.
Dr. Robert C. Hamtnock, pro-
fessor of secondary education at
the College of Education, Uni-
versity df Alabama, is the author
—of a recently published book,
"Supervising Instruction in Sec-
ondary Schools."
Billy Dinkle is {head coach at
Silsbee High School and Ira
Schantz is a professional singer
with the Robert Shaw. Chorale.
Eddie Roy Schroeder is doing
government accounting with the
Air Force in Greenland and Wil-
burn N. Curnett is working with
corrective therapy at the Veteran's
Hospital in Waco.
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