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THE NORTH TEXAN
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October, 1955
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Published four times yearly in the months of January, March, August,
and November by North Texas State College, Denton,; Texas. Entered
as second-class matter September II, 1952, at the post office at
Denton, Texas, under act of August 18, 1903, as amended Auqust 23,
.1912. : n •
The North Texan is distributed four times yearly to former stu-
dents and other friends of the college who are interested in its acfvr-
ties. Persons with news which might be used are invited to submit
information for publication in later issues.
A publication 'committee which serves as the staff of the North
Texan includes Mrs. Dude Neville McCloud, news service and journal-
ism department, chairman and editor; C. E. Shu'fofd, director of the
department of journalism.; Dr. Imogene Bentley, dean of women; and
Dr. Harofd Farmer, executive secretary, of the NTSC Ex-Student As-
sociation. (5¥?icers of the Ex-Student Association are: Mrs. Albertine
Berry Castle, president; Joe B. McNiel, Wichita Falls; Thomas Eugene
Wood, Longview; Bab McKay, Dallas, arid Dr. Ray Hudspeth, Glade-
water, vice-presidents, and Harold Farmer,, executive secretary.
President's New Assistant Works
At New Office And On New Home
Although the new job as.assistant to the president of
North Texas State College takes up most of Dr. Wayne Ad-
ams' time, the young administrator, former director of
teacher education at the college, is finding time to make
plans for the new home he and his wife will move into by the
first of the year. - ■ , ' . t
~ "Nat is really doing most olNihfi planning," Wayne ad-
mits', "but I do a lot of kibitzing."
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Don't throw your North Texan away. Pass it along to
another North Texan.
If you have any news 6f exes, the Ex-Student Associa-
tion would appreciate hearing from you. Send information
to Dr. Harold Farmer,t NTSC Station, or Mrs. Dude Neville
BicQoud, Box 5128v NTSC Station..
News of Ex-Students . . .
Positions, Advancements Are Noted
Reports of new job3, advance-
ments,^ and awards have been
steadily coming in vo the. North
Texan. ' Recent communications
have reported the following items
MRS MOREEN C. JORDAN has
been named assistant professor of
English at the University of Ill-
inois' Chicago Undergraduate
Division at Navy Pier. She Was
promoted from the rank of in
tructor after teaching at the uni-
versity two years. She received her
bachelor's degree at NT in" 1944
• and her doctor's degree from the
* " University of Chicago.
WILLIAM C. CARPENTER is
an instructor in art and art ed-
ucation at Henderson State Teach-
ers' College, Arkadelphia, Ark.
Carpenter returned to his native
• state after teaching in thd Port
Arthur Public Schools. He^ received
his master's degree from -NTSC.
MAIFAIR OFFUTT, who holds
the B.A. and M.A. degrees from
the college, and formerly worked
in the business office, is now with
The staff of the Methodist Hospital
in Dallas; A part# of her assign-
ment will be directing a school
for-training medical records per-
sonnel. She was formerly at
Malone and' Hogan Clinic in Big
Spring^- 1 -
DAVID MALLOCH, 1955 grad-
uate of the School of Miisic and
„ organist of the First Methodist
Church in Denton for the past two
years, will be director of choral
music at Southmore Junior High
School in Pasadena this year.
Two former students have taken
over new positions at Texas
College in Kingsville. DR.
WREATHY AIKEN has been ap-
-pointed chairman of the depart-
ment of home economics and
MISS OPHELIA SAMMONS is
assistant professor of home eco-
nomics and director of home eco-
nomics teacher draining. Both hold
the bachelor of science from NT.
jq ANN McMILLAN, graduate
of 1953, is a physical - therapist
stationed at the U.S. Naval Hos-
pital in Bremerton, Wash. Jo Ann
did further physical therapy study
at the, Mayo. Clinic- after gradu-
ation and in 1954 received a com-
. ^mission. in.jybi«..Jfctox80ite<J}« JL JSefc
- vice Corps and continued her
training at the "dinic. She grad-
uated from Mayo's in August.
JAMES a WHEELER, former
member of the publications staff,
and a 1936 graduate, is with the
Dow Chemical Company in Hous-
ton and J. W. Johnson is assistant
manager of the Dallas branch of
the New York Life Insurance
Company. J. W. and his ex-student
wife, the former Varina Powell,
music major, have two children..'
BARBARA BREEDLOVE has
led the staff of the Crippled'
Children's Society of Fort Worth
Inc. as a speech and—hearing
therapist. Barbara__ received hfer
bachelor of arts degree at NTSC
and the master's degree from
Northwestern University.
FOSTER G. GARRISON is dir-
ector of market research, at the
Columbia-Southern Chemical Corp.
in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is a former
member of the NT education fac-
ulty and a graduate of 1935.
DORIS JEAN TEW, now Mrs.
Ronald -Lee Brumbaugh, '42, of
Lincoln Neb., received honorable
mention in the annual Poet
Laureate contest for the state of
Indiana, and DR. GEORGE PHIL^
IP MANIRE, associate professor
of bacteriology at the University
of North Carolina . Medical School,
has received a Fulbright award
for research at the State Serum
Institute in Copenhagen,' Denmark,
for 1956.
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People You Know . . .
Staff Members
DR. ADAMS A
Nat is Mrs. Adams. . .the forT
mer Natalie Sebastain of Gales-
burg, 111., whom Wayne met while
he was teaching and she was ,a
student at Colorado State College
at Greeley. She was an art stu-
dent there while he was working
on his master's degree and teach-
ing. .
The new home for the Adams'
will be located in a new addition
in East Denton, just off the
McKinney Highway. The, plans,
drawn up by Nat, were begun a
year ago and the' couple spend" a
lot of their time at the Greenwood
Drive location'these days.
NTSC's new assistant to. the
president was appointed by Presi-
dent! J. C. Matthews this Julyi
His duties, • which began in Sep-
tember, relate in the main to non-
academic matters—assisting with
the building program, the improve-
ment and repair program, non-
teaching personnel, etc., accord-
ing to Dr. Matthews.
Adams, a member of the NTSC
faculty since 1937, received both
the A.B. and M. A, degrees from
Colorado State -. College aijd. the,
Ed.D. from the University of"
Missouri. He held an assistantship
at the University of Missou
while doing graduate work there.
His former teaching work was
at the Garland County Day School
in Denver, Colov at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, and Colorado State Col-
lege of. Education. During the
war he served as director
teacher training at Fort KnelC Ky^
Adams is a member ofthe Texas a
eachers ^Association, the
College Classroom Teachers Asso-
ciation, ^the National Education
ion, the Association of
ervision and Curriculum De-
ment, the Association for
Teaching and Phi Delta
Kappa. He is also a past president
dent Teaching and co-author with
Dr. Robert Toulouse, Dean of the
NTSC Graduate School, of the ?
Fifty-Third Yearbook of the Nat-'
ional Association for Student;,
Teaching.
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, Thousands of - former students...
and still more thousands of pros-
pective students... will remember
Miss Gladys Bates and Mrs. Inez
Ray. For there are few who at-
tend North Texas State College
who do not have the opportunity
and pleasure of contacting these
two administrative officials at
ie time or another.
Dexigraphs and class cards,
headaches to the average student
during registration, are only two of
the dozens of records and forms
handled daily by the registrar's of-
fice under the supervision of Miss
Bates, assistant" registrar. In addi-
tion, "Glad" gives encouragement
and advice about college, and
with another year to go.
is also recognized for her extensive
collection of relics, handicraft, and
religious articles Native to Mexico^ ^various organizational programs.
Since the development of her inter-
est in Mexico, she has made ap-
proximately 22 trips to the coun-
try, taking special note of the coun-
try's archaeological points. She
has built up a library of over two
thousand pictures of Mexico which
she uses to .illustrate the talks
she gives as guest speaker for
receipes for Mexican foods
free.
This September "Glad" began
her 31st year" of service to the col-
lege. She cam* to NT in the fall
of 1924 as assistant- registrar. Her
31 years -ef^serVice hare been in-
terrupted by only one summer
which she spent as acting registrar
at Sul Ross college.
A graduate Of TSCW, she is a
native, of Denton county and has
a"ctively"participated in the exten-
sive progress of the college. She
viewed its advance from a normal
college to a state c o 11 e g e, and
watched the climb- in enrollment
from 1207 in 1924 to an all-time
record of 5500 this fall semester.-
"Glad" is noted on the campus
as an authority on the United
States' sister country, Mexico. She
GtADYS BATES
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Mrs. Inez Ray first joined the
college staff In 1927 as secretary
to Dr. W, J. McConnell, president-
emeritus, who was at that time
dean of the college. She served as
secretary to Dr. B. B. Harris when
he took over as dean of the college
In~T938, an<T is now secretary to
Drw Arthur Sampley; vice presi-
dent. Her present title is assistant
in-administration. —
During her 33 years at the col-
lege, where she receiv'ed both the
bachelor's and master's degrees,
Inez has" coached, advised, "cnrT
i railed" and administered to many
thousands of students.
Any student "expecting, hoping
or planning" to graduate checks in
with Inez. Her administrative du-
ties bring her in close contact with
students, parents andadministra-
tors.
Her spare time, however.. .if
and when she gets it.. .goes to her
family, composed of her dentist
husband, M. B. Ray, and the"~two
children and two grandchildren.
Shirley Ann Ray, now Mrs. Wil-
liam Noah Carter, and their two
children live at Hobbs, N.M. Shir-
ley graduated at NT in 1947 and
Noah in 1948. Noah is a teacher in
the' Hobbs School system. The
1 Ray's son, M. B., Jr., who inar-
Jried an ex-student, Roddie Wol-
verton, is in the school of.archi-
tecture at Texas A & M College,
' Before coming to NTSC, Inez
taught at what she calls "a little
place just outside of McKinney,"
then at Muskogee, Oklahoma. "I
taught just long enough to find out
I did not want to teach," she ex-
plains," but she chose work closely
related in order to stay near the
young people.
dfl
INEZ RAY
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