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Feyten makes it official
“It’s [TWU] a force. It’s a dynamic force with the
capacity to do great things for the community
and region. ”
— Carine Feyten, president and chancellor of Texas Woman’s University
Inauguration ceremony
conducted for TWU
chancellor, president
By Britney Tabor and Jenna Duncan
Staff Writers
btabor@dentonrc.com
jduncan@dentonrc.com
After more than four months on the
job, Carine Feyten, president and chan-
cellor of Texas Woman’s University, was
inaugurated Monday.
The formal academic ceremony
made her title as Uth president and sec-
ond chancellor of TWU official. On
Monday, she was presented with the
university’s presidential medallion.
Those attending the ceremony in-
cluded U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-
Flower Mound, state Rep. Myra Crow-
nover, R-Denton, and Denton Mayor
Chris Watts.
The ceremony’s theme was “Moving
Beyond the Inflection Point: Pioneers
for a New Era,” coinciding with strategic
planning work underway at the univer-
sity under Feyten’s direction.
Feyten said that in the last several
months, all the discussions she’s had,
observations she’s made and materials
she’s read have led her to the conclusion
that “Texas Woman’s University already
has many of the things experts say you
need to be great and stay great.”
She said the Denton campus is sur-
rounded by reminders of the universi-
ty’s legacy of tradition and greatness.
With that legacy, TWU must continue
forward at envisioning how to thrive
and maintain leadership in the coming
decades, she said.
The new president and chancellor
told a story about three workers con-
structing a building who were asked
what they were doing. One, a carpenter,
responded, “Creating a window.” A
brick layer responded, “Creating a wall.”
The third construction worker’s re-
sponse was, “I am building a magnifi-
cent cathedral,” Feyten said.
With that spirit, Feyten said that
TWU is not “just a place, but a living,
breathing organism,” with a heart,
mind, body and creative purpose.
“It’s a force. It’s a dynamic force with
See TWU on 5A
Al Key/DRC
Sue Bancroft, chairwoman of the Texas Woman’s University Board of Re-
gents, left, and Mary Pincoffs Wilson, vice chairwoman of the board, right,
place the presidential medallion on Carine Feyten during her inauguration
at Margo Jones Performance Hall on Monday.
TODAY
IN DENTON
Mostly wunny, windy
and colder
High: 48
Low: 40
Three-day forecast, 2A
LOCAL
A public hearing on
Ryan Elementary
School’s plans to im-
prove its state account-
ability ratings will be
conducted at the Denton
school board meeting
tonight. The board will
meet at 6 p.m. at the
Stephens Central Servic-
es Building, 1307 N.
Locust St.
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INTERNATIONAL
China is trying to boost
its status as a regional
power during a summit
of world leaders by
launching a rapid-fire
series of trade and fi-
nance pacts that might
dilute U.S. influence.
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OPINION
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SPORTS
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WEATHER
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Mason Callejas/For the DRC
Veteran Bill Splichal, shown here at his Trophy Club home, will be awarded a congressional commendation by U.S.
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, today at the “Salute Our Veterans” luncheon in Lewisville. Splichal served in
World War II and the Korean War.
Honor awaits patriot
By Mason Callejas
For the Denton Record-Chronicle
TROPHY CLUB - In the doorway
of a two-story house in Trophy Club, an
elderly man presents himself with sil-
very hair and a medium build.
“Hi, Bill Splichal,” he says, “SPLY-
cull, pronounced like ‘Michael.’” He ex-
tends his arm for a handshake. His skin
is weathered but his eyes seem young
and full of brawn.
Splichal is 90 years old, a veteran of
two foreign wars, a musician, teacher
and retired businessman who has devot-
ed his life to country, community and
family. Even though he and his wife,
Mildred, have lived in Trophy Club for
nearly 15 years, he has recently become
one of the town’s most distinguished res-
idents.
At a Veterans Day luncheon in Lew-
isville today, he will be one of five area
veterans to receive the 26th Congressio-
nal District’s Veterans Commendation
from U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-
Lewisville.
For the Fourth of July, he was named
honorary grand marshal of Trophy
Club’s annual Independence Day pa-
rade. The honor had a certain symmetry
to it, because Splichal spent much of his
active duty leading a Army parade band.
“He’s quite a patriot,” says Trophy
Club Mayor Nick Sanders. “He not only
See HONOR on 5A
Cold
weather
coming
to area
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc.com
Time to pick the season’s last tomatoes
and peppers and cover the spigots and the
perennials. Something wintry this way
comes.
It’s not that the morning low will be-
come today’s high temperature, said Jesse
Moore, meteorologist with the National
Weather Service in Fort Worth. But the
cold front that arrives this morning won’t
let temperatures rise very much today.
And Denton County is under a freeze
watch overnight into Wednesday morn-
ing.
Northbound travelers may encounter
snow from central Oklahoma northward,
but the system that’s coming in from Can-
ada should bring no precipitation to Texas
for now.
Meteorologists predict a series of cold
fronts will continue to keep temperatures
below normal for at least another week,
Moore said.
‘We’ll get another push of cold air that
will keep the overnight low in the upper
20s Friday,” he said.
Meteorologists see a 30 percent chance
of rain this weekend. Temperatures
should be warm enough by then that
there’s little threat of ice or snow, Moore
said.
Yet another cold front is expected Sun-
day night, and that will keep temperatures
below normal early next week, Moore
See WEATHER on 5A
Foundation offers vets
a biplane experience
By Christian McPhate
Staff Writer
dmcphate @ dentonrc.com
FORT WORTH - Some of the old
men approached the blue and yellow bi-
plane in wheelchairs, others use walkers
and a few are able to make it without any
help.
Some of them have been waiting for
this moment for a long time, a chance to
be taken back to a day when old age was a
future worry and the vigor of soaring
through the air still thundered through
their veins.
The blue and yellow biplane is known
as a Boeing Stearman, and it’s older than
many of the veterans who were scheduled
to fly on Monday as part of the Ageless
Aviation Dreams Foundation Day of Rec-
ognition ceremony. The plane was pur-
chased in 1946 by foundation founder
Darryl Fisher’s grandfather, who paid
$1,200 for it.
“To give you some perspective, the pro-
peller had to be replaced last year,” said
Fisher. “It cost $6,000.”
Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation
manifested from the Fisher family’s pas-
sion for flying and senior citizens. Fisher’s
grandparents, William L. and Dorothy
Fisher, started the family’s aviation heri-
tage in 1940, instilling a love of flying that
See AVIATION on 5A
Al Key/DRC
Former Denton Mayor Euline Brock and her husband, Horace, who served in the
Air Force, check out a 1940 Boeing Stearman biplane with Darryl Fisher, left,
founder of Ageless Aviation Dreams, at Fort Worth Alliance Airport on Monday.
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