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LEOPARD TALES
October 8, 1964
LEOPARD TALES
Published monthly by the students of Temple Junior College,
Temple, Texas
LEOPARD TALES STAFF
Editor ....... Barbara Jaska
Assistant Editor........................................................Sandra Hejl
Business Manager..................................................Mike Brandes
Sports Editor ............................................................Kent Payne
Photographer....................................................Anthony Hennes
Sponsor ........................................................Miss Donna Calvert
COOPERATION NEEDED
By BARBARA JASKA
As late as Sept. 7 college officials were predicting a fall
semester enrollment of 925. The end of the first three days
of formal registration foretold an increase over the estimate,
for 983 had already registered in the day school alone. The
final enrollment figure was 1055.
The present physical facilities were intended to accommo-
date about 650 students. It is obvious that the added students
place a great strain on the facilities.
Construction of a new library and science buildings should
be completed in time for the 1965 term. The added space,
which includes 11 new classrooms, will enable the college to
accommodate about 1500.
The administration has tried to offset the strain in
various ways. Eight new teachers were added to the faculty
and the school day was lengthened to 3 p.m.
Students were asked to cooperate on several matters
Those going to class five or ten minutes early and waiting
near the door only heighten the problem of crowded hallways.
Students should refrain from entering a classroom before
those leaving have gone out.
To ease conditions in the student center, students are
to make the center available to those who are eating lunch
after 11 a.m. Empty bottles should be returned to the racks
by the cold drink machines and dirty dishes to the snack bar.
On the matter of parking, students are to park between
two yellow lines on the paved area and not behind another
car on gravel areas. Each automobile should have a parking
permit on the windshield or side glasses.
While crowed conditions are difficult, they are not
impossible, according to college officials. Adherance to the
administration’s suggestions means obtaining the maximum
use of the present facilities. Friendly cooperation clears the
way for growth and progress.
Campus Clubs Organize, Elect
Officers, Plan Activities For Year
LEOPARD TALES SPOTLIGHT:
Cuban Brothers Say
’This Is Our Home’
Student organizations are hold-
ing their first meetings, electing
officers and making plans for the
year. The interests and talents of
each student determine his choice
in membership.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY CLUB,
for those interested in prehistoric
man, sponsors field trips occasion-
ally to ancient camp sites. Officers
elected on Sept. 29 were Gary
Wiese, president; Betty Fuller,'vice
president; Sherry Davis, secretary;
Susan Stavinoha, reporter; and
Rosemary Bierschenk, college coun-
cil representative. Faculty sponsors
are Mr. Bryant Berry and Mr.
James Rivers Jr.
PHI THETA KAPPA, national
junior college honorary scholastic
society, will organize at 7 p.m.
Oct. 12 with Miss Ethel Haag and
Miss Irene Haag, sponsors. Eligi-
bility for membership requires
completion of 15 semester hours
of college work and an academic
rank within the upper 10 per cent
of the student body. Sophomore
members are reminded to pay their
semester dues of $1.00 at the Oc-
tober meeting.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION,
for students of all faiths, meets at
7:25 a.m. every Thursday to hold
a morning watch. Officers are Don
Pratt, president; John Burton, vice
president; Nancy Copeland, mis-
sions chairman; David Wright, de-
votional chairman; Sandra Gilley,
secretary; Carolyn Jackson, pub-
licity chairman.
Faculty adviser is Mr. Macel
Ezell; pastor adviser is Rev. R. B.
Baker of Memorial Baptist Church
of Temple. Members may attend
the state convention in Waco Oct.
9-11; transportation is provided.
Upon request members present
programs to local church worship
services.
DELTA PSI OMEGA, national
honorary dramatic fraternity, se-
lects members on the basis of pre-
scribed hours of crew work and
acting in a college production.
Present members—Steve Flanagin,
Dan Moran, Carolyn Jackson, John
Burgar and Sandra Rannals—are
now working on “The Male Ani-
mal.” Additional members will be
selected during the year.
GAVEL CLUB members work in
extemporaneous speaking, oratory,
radio, poetry reading, dramatic in-
terpretation and choral speaking.
Some 14 students comprise this
year’s nucleus for the club. Try-
outs are held for competing in
intercollege forensic activities. Or-
ganization will be at 7 p.m. Oct.
19.
LANGUAGE CLUB membership
is not restricted to students en-
rolled in Spanish and French clas-
ses but also consists of those who
have some mutual interest in the
language or people. The club will
hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. on
Oct. 22 with sponsors Mrs. Louisa
Mehaffey and Mrs. Aurora Con-
treras.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB, under
the sponsorship of Mr. Charles
Adams and Mr. Don Minor, will
hold its first meeting at 7 p.m. on
Oct. 27. The club promotes in-
terest in history, government, eco-
nomics, sociology and psychology.
STUDENT NATIONAL EDU-
CATION ASSOCIATION (SNEA)
attempts to promote better under-
standing of the teaching profession
and consists of future teachers.
Sponsors are Miss Velma Wilson
and Mrs. Barbara Rossman.
BUSINESS ADMINSTRATION
CLUB conducts programs benefi-
cial to students planning to enter
the business field. Faculty spon-
sors are Miss Gracie Watson and
Mrs. Garnett Frazier.
THE SCIENCE CLUB sponsors
field trips and encourages research
reports and discussion of classical
and current topics in biology,
physics and chemistry. Sponsors
are Mr. Charles Stout and Mr.
Paul Knox.
BY LARRY SCHILLER
In 1961, two years after the
Castro regime took power, two
boys and their parents left Cuba
separately by boat for a new life
in America.
Robert and Cesar Font, begin-
ning their first semester at Temple
Junior College, were two' of hun-
dreds of Cubans who left their
homeland, disgusted with the
whims of a bearded dictator.
Robert, 18, was the first to leave.
His father, realizing that Robert
was nearly of age for induction
into the militia, sent to America
on Jan. 8, 1961.
Five months later, their father
had to leave; his work with the
Cuban Underground was becoming
too dangerous. Too, as a doctor
and former naval officer, his serv-
ices were in demand.
Their mother departed two
months later. Cesar, 19, came by
way of Venezuela in December.
Each arrived in Florida without
a place to live or work and unable
to speak English. Robert lived with
his grandmother in Florida and
finished high school there. As a
Cuban refugee, he received a
monthly check from the U.S. gov-
ernment.
The Cuban Refugee Committee
helped their father find a job at
the VA Hospital in Marlin. Cesar
graduated from high school in Mar-
lin.
When Bautista was overthrown
Miss Arnold
Chosen For
English Panel
Miss Mozella Arnold, head of the
English department - and Dean of
Women, has been chosen to take
part in a panel discussion on the
program of the Texas Joint Eng-
lish Committee for Schools and
Colleges Oct. 9 at Navarro Junior
College.
“Better Writing Through Better
Reading” is the topic of the panel
discussion. According to Miss
Arnold, this will be a discussion
on the practical application of writ-
ing through reading.
Attending the meeting at Cor-
sicana will be teachers from Dis-
trict 10 of the Texas State Teach-
ers Association. Three levels of
schools will be represented: junior
high, senior high, and college.
Besides the panel discussion, the
workshop will include sectional
meetings.
Dr. Louise Cowan, chairman of
the English department at the Uni-
versity of Dallas, will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
most of the brothers’ Cuban friends
and classmates were against Cas-
tro. However, people were afraid
to voice their discontent, said Rob-
ert, because Castro’s spies were
everywhere. One had to express
disinterest and ignorance or else
risk loss of property, imprisonment
or death.
Will they return to Cuba at any
time in the future?
“If Castro is overthrown,” said
Robert, “we may go back, but only
to visit.”
“This is our home now,” said
Cesar. “They took everything we
had in Cuba.”
“Yes, this is our country now,”
Robert continued. “I would give
my life for it.”
Becoming adjusted to the Amer-
ican way of life was easy, they i
said, once they learned the English
language.
“In Marlin everybody was very
friendly,” said Cesar. His class-
mates encouraged him to join all
activities and accepted him as one
of the group.
Robert recalled the first time he
asked an American girl for a date.
He had asked a boy with whom he
had become friends how to go about
it. His friend advised, “Just ask
her.”
With typical American forthright
Robert approached his prospective
date. His English was so inade-
quate that he had to ask her
again the next day before she
understood and consented.
Both boys are wholly in favor
of American dating customs. In
Cuba, they explained, the couple
had to have a chaperon, usually
the girl’s mother.
“That can be very bad,” said
Robert, “and very expensive, be-
cause you have to pay the chap-
eron’s way, too.”
Robert, the spokesman and
younger of the two, is undecided
about his major. He likes business
and the arts. Cesar, on the other
hand, hopes to major in medicine..
Staffs Organize
For Publications;
Sales To Begin
Subscriptions for The Templar,
the Temple Junior College year-
book, will go on sale within the
next three weeks, according to Miss
Donna Calvert, faculty sponsor for
the yearbook.
The annual staff is being select-
ed at this time and will be an-
nounced soon. About 45 students
have applied for positions on the
yearbook staff.
Miss Calvert, also faculty spon-
sor for the Leopard Tales, recently
announced the 1964-65 staff ap-
pointments for the college news-
paper.
Barbara Jaska is editor-in-chief
of the Leopard Tales. Other mem-
bers of the staff are Sandra Hejl,
assistant editor; Mike Brandes,
business manager; Kent Payne,
sports editor; and Anthony Hennes,
photograper.
Reporters are Bobby Connally,
Jim Gentry, Bobby , Jones, Jeanette
Klotz, Kim Mykleby, Ruth O’Neal,
Margaret Pechal, John Rister, Lar-
ry Schiller, Johnell Schmidt, Rich-
ard Warren, Linda Bridges, Bertha
Moore, Roscoe Harrison, Susan
Wills, Betty Fuller, Linda Gibson,
Ronnie Lillard, Leland Evans,
Bobbye Zehr, James Burgar, and
Colleen Stone.
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Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1964, newspaper, October 8, 1964; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099666/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Temple College.