The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 27, Ed. 2, Thursday, May 12, 1966 Page: 1 of 4
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Non-Profit Organization
U. S. Postage
PAID
Permit No. 495
Abilene Texas
THE
iarai? whoop
McMURRY COLLEGE
SUMMER EDITION
Carr to Address
Summer Graduates
Texas' nttoincy general Wafi-
gonci Can of Lubbock will id-
dicss McMuny's summei fitaduat-
lng class August 19
Cair an outstanding Methodist
la man and Di John Ficdcnck
Olson of Oklahoma City picsi-
dent of Oklahoma City Univci-
sit will receive honorary de-
fit ecs
Appioxmialely 100 will leccive
dcgices in the summer commen-
cement exercises Di Joe C Hum-
phiey ditcctor of the summer
school and administiathc assist-
ant to the president said
Di Olson has been piesidcnt of
OCU since July 1904 He h i
solved both as a Methodist mm
istei and as an cducitoi He ic-
cencd his own collegiate training
it DePaul Univetsitv Boston Uni-
eisity School of Theology and
Boston Univcisity Giaduate
School (foi the Ph D )
Carr has served both as a stale
SCIENCE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES Schedul
ed for occpuation by Nov. 1 the new science building progresses "Z wslyKU '"
during hot summer months. Left to right are Jim Stovall. senior oftlccr and a county official Ho
irom faiesune ana busan Allen sophomore from Hoswell N. M. "ns assistant aisinci attorney
Eight Instructors Join Faculty
Eight new faculty and staff
members will join the McMunj
family in September Di Howard
L Ramsey dean of the faculty
has announced
Two arc in business administra-
tion and the others aie in Eng-
lish biology education history
mathematics and the hbraiy
They will serve as replacements
for professors who are moving off
the faculty some of them only
temporal lly to do graduate work
and into other positions Four
professois will be working on
Ph D 's at vanous institutions this
year
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS in.
elude Di Harold M Moblcy from
the Univcisity of Texas who will
be a professor of biology at Mc-
Muiry.C B Darrell coming from
Dicw University to be an assist-
ant professor of English M B
Morns director of cuinculum foi
the Abilene Public Schools to
become associate professor of
education
Joe H Murrey Jr coming
from the University of Arkansas
count attorney and was elected
to the Texas Legislatuie in 19rl
He scived five tcims in the House
of Hcpiesentatnes and was elect-
ed Speakci of the House foi two
tcims
Carr is a giaduate of Teas
Tech and the Unneisity of Texas
Law School He amassed an en-
viable legislative iccoid dining
his 10 j ears in the House of Rc-
piesentatnes While onlj a fresh-
man mcmbei he was named vice
cluiuinaii of the Texas Ciimc In-
vestigating Committee and won
statewide acclaim for exposuie of
oiganized cnme in Texas
In 19G2 he announced his can-
dulacj foi Attorney Genet al of
Texas and icceived mote than one
million votes in being elected
He icceived mote votes than any
othei major statewide candidate
in that election As Attorney Gcn-
cial Can dnects a staff of 105
law eis He was icelccted in
19G3
During the Septembot conven-
tion of the State Demociatic Exe-
cutive Committee Cair announc-
ed Ins candidacy for the United
States Senate
to be assistant professor of busi-
ness administration Duncan
Muckelroy from the Univcisity
of Texas to be instructor in his-
tory at McMurry Lawicnce Fin-
ley formei employee of Linfi-
Tcmco Vaught to be instructor in
business administration Michael
N Swanson fiom Canyon to lc
instiuctoi in mathematics and
Miss Emma Louise Wills longtime
hbiarian at Abilene High School
to assistant libraiian
THE FOUR PROFESSORS who
will be doing graduate woik aie
Vernon G Spence asistant pro-
fessor of history who has been
granted a one-year leave of
absence to complete work on his
PhD at the Univcisity of Colo-
lado and in Washington D C
Gciald L Richards assistant pro-
fessor of marketing who has been
given a two-year leave to work
on his Ph D at the College of
Business Administration Aiuona
State Univcisity at Tcmpe
Robert W Sledge assistant pro-
fcssoi of history on a one-year
leave to continue woik on his
PhD at the Univcisity of Texas
and Paul E Stubbs instructor in
biolog at McMurrv who will
entci the School of Dentistiy at
Bayloi Univcisity this fall Stubbs
this summer is in Dallas doing a
special icseaich pioject in
physiology
SOME McMURRY TEACHERS
have accepted othei jobs An-
dtcw O Lerche assistant piofes-
soi of mathematics will bo teach-
ing in a technological institute
in Baltimore He had been with
McMuny since 19G1
Assistant librarian Frances
Bun age has taken a library post
at the University of Chattanooga
Grovel Gillett Ji assistant pro-
fessoi of business administration
has joined the Ling-Temeo
Vaught staff And Mrs Maurine
B Walker assistant professoi of
education is moving to Angelo
State College
Fanen M Sadler assistant pro-
fessoi of business administration
who has been at McMuiry since
1956 has resigned as of the end
of the summer He will join the
Hardin-Sim mons University
faculty
School Calendar
Sept 4 1 00 p m Dormi-
tories open foi ftcshmen
Sept r)-Sept 7 ') 00 a m
Meeting of fieshmcn in Rad-
ford Auditonum
Sept 5 7 00 p m -Student
Faculty Mixer
Sept 0 9 00 a m Meeting
of new faculty membcis 7 30
p m Ficshman Party
Sept 7 9 00 a m Faculty
planning sessions Religious
Life All-School Piogram-Paity
Sept H 8 00 a m Registia-
tion of uppei classmen
Sept 9 8 00 a m Registra-
Hon of fieshmcn
Sept 12 8 00 a m Classes
begin
Sept 17 7 30 p m Fust
football game against Angelo
State College at San Angelo
Oct 28-29 Homecoming
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The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 27, Ed. 2, Thursday, May 12, 1966, newspaper, May 12, 1966; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth104014/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McMurry University Library.