The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 9, Ed. 1, Friday, October 22, 1976 Page: 1 of 4
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H-SU
BRUND
the
Volume 64
Abilene Texas
October 22 1976
No. 9
George Mahon to be here Nov. 6
Congressman to speak at library dedication
Cong. George Mahon chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee and a
member of U.S. Congress since 1934 will
speak at the dedication of the Rupert and
Pauline Richardson Library Nov. 6 at
Hardin-Simmons University.
We are delighted to have a person of
such high stature and one who was a
student of Dr. Richardson to play a major
role in dedicating this new building Dr.
Elwin Skiles H-SU president said.
The dedication ceremony will be held at
2 p.m. on Saturday Nov. 6 and will be one
of the main features of H-SU's
Homecoming-Parents Day weekend.
Others on the dedication program will be
Jane Hix of Dallas a 1971 H-SU graduate
and president of the Student Congress
during the early phase of the library fund-
raising compaign; Dr. Calvin Turpin
director of university libraries; and Dr.
Skiles.
The program will be held outside at the
library entrance. An open house will follow
the ceremony.
Dr. Skiles emphasized that the program
will be open to the public.
We are sending formal invitations to
some of the people who have played major
roles in helping us accomplish our goals in
the library campaign but our main desire
is to issue a blanket invitation to all friends
of Hardin-Simmons to attend this
memorable event Dr. Skiles said.
The new library is named for H-SU's
president-emeritus and distinguished
professor of history and his late wife who
was chairman of the
French Department many years before
her death in 1965. It was completed this
past spring and was in partial use for
summer school although installation of all
equipment and 'materials is not yet
complete.
The three-story structure includes many
special features one of whiich is the
Richardson History Center a regional
research facility to be operated
cooperatively by H-SU Abilene Christian
University and McMurry College. Dr
Richardson's office is situated in the
History Ceriter area.
Other Homecoming events will include
the annual All-School Sing to be presented
both Friday and Saturday nights in
Behrens Chapel-Auditorium meetings of
all university boards on Friday and
reunions of various campus organizations.
Mahon who was at home in Lubbock this
past week is a 1924 graduate of H-SU
which was then known as Simmons
College. He was born in Louisiana but was
reared on a farm in Mitchell County. He
completed high school in Loraine.
After receiving a B.A. degree from
Simmons he earned a Doctor of Laws
Tickets now on sale
degree at the University of Texas and
established a law practice in Colorado City
in 1925. He later served as county attorned
and as district attorney and was elected to
Congress from the 19th District in 1934.
Mahon has become known as one of the
most powerful men in Washington and
because of his service on the Armed
Forces Subcommittee of the House Ap
propriations Committee became known
many years ago as the champion of a
strong defense program. He became
chairman of the Committee on Ap-
propriations in 1964.
Mahon has received honorary degrees
from a number of institutions including
Hardin-Simmons and was on the H-SU
campus in 1972 to accept a Distinguished
Alumni Award.
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NOW WHO WOULD do a thing like that? Perhaps a semi-malicious tever
over comes mischievious H-SU students on the weekend as practical jokers
often put the University up for sale soap car windows and wrap houses
buildings and trees. (Photo by Brad Jennings)
8 groups enter All-School Sing
The 16th Annual All-School Sing is
almost here. The long hours of planning
and rehearsal are continuing however for
some eight group entries who are entered
in this year's Sing in three separate
divisions.
The Sing which will take place Nov. 5
and 6 at 7:30 p.m. is co-sponsored by
H-SU owns HAM set
but no one to oneratv
it
Are there any Hams on campus? Har
din-Simmons owns a full fledged Ham
radio station but so far there is no one to
operate it.
In 1974 the garage behind the old
president's home was renovated and
remodeled to house some fine radio
equipment donated to the school by Mr.
Bill Wright and Dr. B. B. Trotter.
The building was re-roofed panelled and
carpeted and the garage doors were
replaced with sliding glass doors. An
antenna was constructed outside the
building and the station was ready for
operation.
Very few people were interested or
qualified to use it however. It was
originally hoped that the radio would be
used to keep in touch with Southern Baptist
missionaries around the world many of
whom are H-SU exes and some of whom
now have children at H-SU.
It also would have helped enable in
ternational students to occasionally make
contact with their families and friends in
their native lands and could be used to
help during national and international
emergencies.
Approximately $9300 worth of facilities
and equipment is in a sense going to waste
because there is no one available to utilize
the equipment.
There are possible scholarship op-
portunities available to any liscensed Ham
radio operator interested in attending
Hardin-Simmson according to Dr. Clyde
Childers vice presidnet for development.
Students who know of a high school
senior who is a Ham or students who are
interested in obtaining more information
about the station and its possible
operation are urged to contact Dr.
Childers or Clark Baker.
Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia H-SU's two professional music
fraternities for women and men
respectively. It will be the top feature of
Homecoming and Parent's Day weekend.
Tickets for the Sing will go on sale
beginning Friday Oct. 22 in Caldwell
Music Hall and continue through Satur-
day Nov. 6 although students are urged to
get tickets as soon as possible. Regular
rates are $3 for adults and $1 for students.
However H-SU students may obtain one
free ticket in addition if they present their
I. D. card when purchasing a ticket. Paula
Edwards SAI president also encourages
students to attend Friday night's per-
formance if possible in order to allow
more alumni to see Saturday night's
Sing.
Total prize money of $975 will be
awarded over the two nights to the winning
entries. Each night a $100 cash prize will
be made to the winners of the men's
women's and mixed divisions. No
organization may win more than one
nightly division prize. Three grand prizes
of $125 each will be awarded to the entry in
each division which accumulates the most
points over the two nights. Also on
Saturday night a sweepstakes trophy will
be awarded to the organization which has
accumulated the higest point total over
two nights.
Groups participating in this year's Sing
are:
Men's Division-Alpha Phi Omega
national service fraternity; Kappa Phi
Omega social club; Sigma Delta Sigma
social club; and Tau Alpha Phi social
club.
Women's Division-Delta social club;
Lange-Hunter Hall dormitories; and Phi
Phi Phi social club.
Mixed Division-Freshmen Class.
Masters of Ceremonies for the Sing this
year will be Miss Jayne Middleton H-SU
voice instructor and Dr. Andy J. Pat-
terson professor in Music theory and
Woodwinds and head of the H-SU Theory
Department.
Proceeds made from the All-School Sing
go toward different projects ranging from
prize money and trophies for fhe Sing to
new equipment for the school. Examples
of the latter include the pruchase in the
last few years of a microfilm reader and
recording equipment for the Caldwell
music library and the donation of new
earphones for the drama department
sound system.
Dr. Richardson receives
history association award
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RALPH BOWEN operates the Ham radio located on the Hardin-Simmons
campus. Bowen is not an H-SU student but operates the radio because no
students are qualified.
Dr. Richardson now a Distinguished
Professor of History at H-SU is author of
many books on Texas among them a
college text Texas the Lone Star State.
He has been president of the South-
western Social Science Assn. president of
the Texas State Historical Commission
president of the Texas Philosophical
Society and president of the Council of
Church Related College and Universities.
He has edited the West Texas Hisotrical
colleges and universities located west of Association Yearbook since it began in
the Mississippi. 19229.
The governor of Colorado Richard D. The new H-SU Library is named in his
Lamm was guest speaker for the awards honor
dinner at Denver last Friday. The library will be dedicated on Nov. 6.
Dr. Rupert N. Richardson president
emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University
has been given the Award of Merit by the
Western History Assn. meeting in Denver
Colo.
The award which came as a surprise
was for Dr. Richardson's "outstanding
additions to the fields of literature and of
history."
The association which made the award
is composed ot nistonans representing
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