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LEOPARD TALES
March 26, 1964
LEOPARD TALES
Published monthly by the students of Temple Junior College,
Temple, Texas
LEOPARD TALES STAFF
Editor ....................................................................Connie Turner
Business Manager ....................................................Bob Nelson
Circulation Manager ........................................1.........Bill Jeanes
Sports Editor ....................................................Roscoe Harrison
Staff Reporters: Melvin Poscar, Gary Gibbs, Sandra Hejl,
Bertha Moore, Barbara Jaska, Susan Wills, Steve Flana-
gin, Pat McDonald, Leland Evans, Larry Guess, and
John Fox.
Sponsors................Mrs. Louisa Mehaffey, and Mr. Ed Mullins
EASTER BONNET
BY CONNIE TURNER
You are in a dime store. It doesn’t matter which one.
Any town in the United States will do. They all sell baby
chicks just before Easter. The little boy is screaming to
the top of his well-developed lungs. He is going through
this act to convince Mommy that if she doesn’t buy him the
purple furry thing he has clutched in his hands, he will turn
the same color—from holding his breath.
Mommy refuses. She remembers what happened to last
year’s green chickie. But the kid gets his way in the end.
She eagerly buys him a purple and a pink one just to keep
him from going into hysterics over the rabbits he begins
eyeing.
The above-described is a typical 1964 Easter season minus
the other delightful trimmings. The omitted flourishes in-
clude an Easter basket, dyed eggs, chocolate rabbits, stuffed
animals, and the Easter-egg hunt.
Who wouldn’t succumb to all the delicious display of
purchaseable tradition? Mommy did. She bought the new
outfit—in this spring’s most fashionable color—pink, and
all the matching accessories, even to the latest peekaboo-
style shoes. She goes around humming “Easter Parade.”
The merchants love Easter-time too—every minute of it,
beginning right after Valentines day. As soon as the heart
and flowers come down the bunnies and baskets go up. It
is store policy, and such a cash-register-ringing one!
A typical “contemporary” greeting card of the season
expresses its sentiment adeptly. “Happy Bunny Day” it
says.
'The point the writer has been trying to make is clear
by now to all those reading with only a minute degree of
alertness. Many people complain about it—the commercial-
ization of Easter.
Unfortunately, the tones about commercialization are
much more audible still than the ones about Christ. Parents
still don’t worry nearly as much about telling their children
the story of the Resurrection as they do about whether or
not Junior has enough jelly beans.
The rebirth He offers is what has been lost in the shuffle.
We won’t find it in a spring advertisement or Easter parade.
We’ll find it within ourselves.
There is a new bonnet we all need. It never goes out of
style . . . faith will buy it—the one for our souls.
Curious Students-
kids use the dining-room table” was Mr. Berry’s remark about the
interviews to date.
The counselors are also checking to see how many students have
changed their educational plans since the fall, how many work, and
if they do, how many hours a week. Finally, to what will undoubt-
edly be the dismay of at least a few, they want to know how many
and how well freshman notes are taken. For this data the counselors
are going to the primary source—their actual notes. At this point
the wily curiosity is again stimulated. How many of the seventeen
surrendered their hieroglyphics without a hurried re-copying ?
Just what kind of sloppy and/or systematic study habits the
freshman class will stand guilty or acquitted of has not been com-
pletely tabulated yet—a.11 the witnesses haven’t been called. Mr.
Berry and Mr. Bay will post yet another interrogation bulletin
when they are through cross-examining the students on the present
one.
This should be sufficient warning to those freshmen who haven’t
yet been called to the stand. Any freshman is liable, so now would
be a good time to begin recopying those hen-scratchings called notes.
Sophomores would do well not to become over-confident at having
escaped the investigation now at hand. Their day in court is coming
too. Still working on the present case the counselors are not letting
the grades grow under their feet either. Their next study will involve
the grades of students who have transferred to TJC from other
colleges.
Wonder if sophomores should recopy their notes too?
Twenty-two Phi Theta Kappa
Pledges Take Their Oaths
Twenty-two pledges were initia-
ed into the Lambda Theta Chapter
of the Phi Theta Kappa Thursday
night, March 5. The initiation of
the new members into the honor-
ary fraternity of Temple Junior
College was held at the City Fede-
ration Clubhouse.
The following pledges were in-
itiated by the officers into the fra-
ternity: Glenda Bell, Frances Big-
ham, Lois Brooks, Nancy Copeland,
Hiram Duncan, Stephen Flanagin,
Linda Gibson, Janet Gross, Patsy
Hejl, and Barbara Jaska.
Also initiated were Vannete
Joachim, Kalista Kretzschmar,
Kenneth Kunkel, Kaye Lange, Dav-
id Leigh, Sally Loggins, Sandra
Muse, Susie Presley, Randolph
Scott, Rita Spinn, Polly Wall, and
Susan Wills.
To open the ceremony the mem-
bers formed a semi-circle behind
the decorated table and the pledges
formed two semi-circles within. All
were carrying blue candles in gold
holders; only the members’ candles
were lighted.
David Cocke, the chapter presi-
dent, welcomed the 75 guests—
family and relatives and friends of
the pledges—and then gave a brief
history of the organization.
Larry Guess, vice-president,
Sharron Leschber, corresponding
secretary, and Myra Stevens, his-
torian, gave the meaning of the
symbolism of the “golden key.”
President David Cocke administ-
ered the oath to the pledges while
Joan Kaska, the recording secre-
tary, presented the Bible for the
oath.
Ah, Spring!
“Spring and a young man’s
fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of love.” Romantic as this oft-
quoted verse may be, for at least
two young men at TJC this could
not apply less. It would seem
that their actions would better
fit the Tom Sawyer and Huck
Finn vein.
There Was at least one day
recently while enroute to school
from Waco that Bill Griffin was
not dreaming-up sweet nothings
to whisper in his sweetheart’s
ear. He rather engaged in an
innocent skrimmage with a fel-
low car-pool member. The re-
sult was a broken nose, a very
ungallant and painful trip to
Scott and White Memorial Hos-
pital, and a most unchivalrous-
looking bandage. After- suffering
bravely the queries of his fel-
low school members for a week,
Bill can again display his Roman
profile to any shy young maidens
who might be looking.
Barefooted baseball was Will
Campbell’s folly. Now the young
ladies will have to carry his
books while he carries himself—
on crutches. Will received a very
deep cut on his foot when his
unshod foot came to rest on some
glass while he was pursuing
America’s favorite sport. Per-
haps now that he is off the dia-
mond for a while Will will have
time to put into verse some of
the thoughts spring brings to
mind . . .
As the ceremony drew near its
end, one by one the pledges signed
the official roll book, received a
white rose, and lighted their can-
dles from the flame of a torch
bearer’s candle.
Then the new members and the
old ended the ceremony by form-
ing a circle and singing the official
Phi Theta Kappa song.
After congratulations were ex-
tended to the new members by the
guests, refreshments were served
by th social committee. Kay Miller
and Carolyn Forney served punch
while Peggy Kruger served cake.
Polly Proctor, Joan Kaska, Shar-
ron Leschber, Kerry Hawkins,
Billy Catchings and David Cocke
served as hosts and hostesses and
welcomed the guests.
Business Ad Studies
IBM Machines In
Its Monthly Meeting
The IBM Machines in the Busi-
ness department got a working
over in the March meeting of the
Business Ad Club. The machines,
specifically, a Keypunch, Sorter,
Collector, Reproducer, and Ac-
counting Machine were the subject
of speeches, demonstrations, and a
film at the meeting.
Mr. Garnett Frazier, IBM opera-
tion instructor, showed a film on
the uses of data-processing in the
Internal Revenue Service.
Demonstrators of the machines
and boards and wires were Charles
Johnson, Birt Brooks, Norbert
Grygad, Linda Keith, Glenn Fisch-
er, and Sandra Gibson.
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