The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1960 Page: 3 of 8
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The Yellow Jacket, November 11, 1960
Page 3
Women Students Toss 'Point, Reps' Discipline
Out The Window; Practice Self-Governnierif
Twenty-one women students have
taken offices in the organizational
system governing Veda Hodge
Hall, women's residence hall, this
year.
These students form a student
government body of dorm govern-
ment which has not been used in
several years, according to Mrs.
E. N. Elsey, dean of women.
Student self government has re-
placed the "point and rep" system
used in the past. Women students
living in the residence hall may
be called before the house council
for disciplinary action following
any infraction of the rules listed
☆ ☆ ☆
Organization
Comprises All
Campus Women
The Association of Women Stu-
dents (AWS) has taken Its place
among other organizations primar-
ily for women students at Howard
Payne for the first time this year.
Mrs. E. N. Elsey, dean of women,
serves as advisor to the entire
organization and is a key figure
in the establishment of such an
organization on campus.
AWS is an organization com-
posed of all women students en-
rolled at Howard Payne. The pur-
pose of the organization is to pro-
mote intellectual, social, and re-,
ligious welfare of women students,'
to deepen the sense of respohsi*
blllty, and to promote loyalty to all
college activities.
Like organizations, such as the
Women Students' Association, have
been used in the past. AWS, how-
ever, is a nationally recognized
organization in most colleges, ac-
cording to Mrs. Elsey.
AWS is governed by a student
group, the Women's Governing
Board, it makes recommendations
on rules and policies concerning
women students, it may sit as a
judiciary council, and acts as a
service organization on campus.
This board is made up of the
executive house council officers,
president of the Urbanites (wom-
en students from Brownwood),
representative of the Philokians
(ministers' wives club), and two
representatives of non-resident
women.
Members of the board include
Patsy Ridgaway, president; Cecilia
Vick, vice president; Glenda Yan-
dell, secretary; , Norma Pieper,
treasurer; Elwana Hawthorne,
parliamentarian; Shirley (Crunch)
Crenshaw, reporter and publicity;
Mrs. Nancy Simpson, Philokian
■ president; Nina Holmes* Urbanite
president, and Ruth Rhodes, rep-
resentative.
The AWS sponsors the all-school
Harvest Festival each year. The
Governing Board is in the process*
of planning other activities for
women students and for campus-
wise activities, accordng to Miss
Ridgaway.
in the Handbook for Resident
Women.
The organization is divided into
two kinds of councils. The first
being a general or executive house
council; the second, a council on
each floor of the dorm.
Officers of the house council are
elected at the end' of the spring
semester.
House council officers for the
60-61 academic year are Patsy
Ridgaway, Kerrville senior, presi-
dent; Cecilia Vick, Abilene junior,
vice president; Glenda Yandell,
Highlands sophomore, secretary;
Norma Pieper, Beeville sophomore,
treasurer; Elwana Hawthorne,
Brownwood senior, parliamentar-
ian, Shirley "Crunch" Crenshaw,
reporter.
Pat Howard, Rising Star junior,
first floor president; Linda Shaw,
Decatur senior, second floor presi-
dent; Una Clyde "Finner" Mullinax,
Kermit junior, third floor presi-
dent, and Annette Layne, Spring-
town senior, fourth floor president.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boeker, assistant
dean of women, serves as advisor
to the house council.
Floor councils include a repre-
sentative from each wing and a
secretary, in addition to the floor
president.
First floor officers include Sally
Lyons, San Antonio senior, repre-
senatlve, and Jan Nowlin, Devine
junior, secretary.
Second Floor officers are Sally
Philbrick, Dallas sophomore; and!
Virginia Thompson, Carltbn senior,
representatives, and Ann Hendrlck,
Irving senior, secretary:
Third floor representatives are
Eugenia Wilson, Waxahaehie jun-
ior, and Glendla Walker, Comanche
sophomore. Elizabeth Allen, Vic-
toria freshman, is secretary.
Carol Bond, Atlanta, Ga., senior,
and Connie Crew, Oklahoma City,
Okla., sophomore, are fourth floor
representatives. Secretary is Sara-
lou Vaughn, Paris senior.
Student counselors in Veda
Hodge Hall are ^Kaye Bragg, Ker-
mit junior, first floor; Jo Evelyn
Denton, Brownsville senior, and
Jean Flowers, Dallas senior, sec-
ond floor; Miss Ridgaway and
Beth Scott, Cleburne senior, third
floor, and Mamie Darlington, Dixie,
Ga., sophomore, and Glenda Philen,
Woodville senior, fourth floor. (
In addition to necessary discip-
linary action, this governing body
handles all dormitory business per-
taining to women students, said
Miss Ridgaway.
Self-government in the residence
halls is a step toward improved)
student self government through-
out the campus, according to Mrs.
Elsey.
"So far the self government sys-
tem has worked very well here in
our dorm. Already we can see im-
provements that are results, of this
type of government," said Miss
Ridgaway.
Ill
II
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Di< Marvin P. Knight, 1960 Man Of the Year
MEN'S WEAR
WADE & ABBOTT
BARBER SHOP
408 Center
Dr. Marvin P. Knight of Dallas
--American success story person-
ified—will be honored at Home-
coming activities today and to-
morrow as t&| college's Man-of-
the Year, according to Dr. C. E.
McCarver, development vice presi-
dent.
"Dr. Knight stands as an inspira-
tion to every student who must
work for an education. He stands
as proof that study at Howard
Payne can be a positive step toward
high personal achievement," Dr.
McCarver declared.
"Graduating from Morgan High
School at the height of the great
American depression, Dr. Knight
supported himself and worked his
way through Howard Payne and
Baylor University Medical School—
at a time when older, experienced
workers could not find employ-
ment
"From this background, he went
On to learn the Legion of Merit for
his work as a lieutenant colonel
in the Army, to establish a private
orthopedic surgery clinic in Dallas
and to become chief orthopedic
for Baylor Hospital in that city."
Dr. Knight will give the main
address at the traditional Man-of-
the-Year banquet, 6 pan. tonight,
in Hotel Brownwood.
He will be presented at 1:45
pan. preceding the 2 p.m. Home-
coming game with Southwest Texas
State, tomorrow in Brownwood
Lion Stadium, and he will be hon-
ored with the Homecoming Queen
at an after-the-game reception in
Veda Hodge Hall.
In addition to being a 1931 grad-
uate of Howard Payne, Dr. Knight
is a member of the board of trus-
tees and heads the steering com-
mittee for the current science
building fund drive of the college.
"It I had ever quit college and
learned what it meant to live, 1
might never have gone back,"
Dr. Knight says today, recalling the
lean years when he was a1 student.
Two uncles rescued him the time
he thought he would have to quit
in his junior year in medical
school.
Broke and: owing for his pre-
vious semester, he headed for West
Texas to look for work.
"I stopped in Rochelle," he re
lates, "Uncle Harve asked me how
much I would have to have to re
turn to school. I told him I thought
I could make it on $100.
"The next morning, he and Un
cle Claude each "brought me $50
and I came back and enrolled a*
week late. I didn't know until I
started practice and paid! theto
back that they had to borrow that
money."
His first summer out of high
school, Dr. Knight worked in
Brownwood as a carpenter's help-
er during construction of the Main
Hotel, now owned by Howard
Payne.
His brother, Clarence Knight,
now of San Angelo, was attending
HPC. He made friends in the com-
munity.
Also, knowing he wanted to stu-
dy medicine, he investigated and
found that the Howard Payne stu-
dents who went on to medical
sohool "had done well." So he
stayed and enrolled itt the fall.
He found work at the newly-
opened Helpy Selfy Store, working
at first to earn $2.60 a day carry-
ing packages on Saturdays. Be-
fore long, he was working full
time and able to do any Job In the
store.
He opened up at 6:30 each morn-
ing, left long enough tor classes
and returned after lunch to work
until the Btereclosedl in the even-
ings He1 was given time off when
•the Putnam Supply Company had
>ia -carload • of - pipe to unload be
cause he could earn an extra $2.
Many friends helped, Dr. Knight
mulls; both in encouragement and
with more tangible Aid—including
a loan.
One year, he washed dishes for
board. His senior year, he was
business manager of the Yellow
Jacket, school paper.
I sold enough foreign (out-of-
town) advertising to pay the
printing bill each week, and the
editor and I could split • anything
we made above that on local ads.
We took it out in meals, shoe
shines, anything."
1 "I.(had.to have a job and it had
to come first and school work
second," he says. And yet he found
time • at night and extra hours of
the weekend to study and keep up
oa lab work. • ?.
•Arift h'e made-a-record that gained
him enterance into Baylor Univer-
sity Medical- School.
After medical School and an in-
ternship at G&llinger City Hospital,
Washington, D. C., Dh Knight
practiced two years at Kermit.
jtfs father, a partner in the
Ktii&ht Brothers construction Com-
pany, had friends in the oil Indus-
try and helped him locate a begin-
ning practice.
During the years of treating tra-
uma arid broken bones in the oil
fields, Dr. Knight made two dis-
coveries. "I found out that I didn't
know anything and I learned that
t had a knack for setting bones."
And so he went on to a residency
a( Steindler's Clinic for Orthopedic
Surgery at the University of Iowa
and the Tulane Section of Ortho-
pedic Surgery at Charity Hospital,
New Orleans.
Because of his training and his
own talent, Dr. Knight earned his
Legion of Merit for Ms radical new
treatment of bone infection—a
treatment developed' under the
pressure of war that saved many
lives and limbs.
It also saved many Army hospit-
als because these formerly long-
time patients were cured rapidly—
thus emptying badly needed beds.
His treatment started with the
removal of the dead bone and ap-
plication of a "dressing" of skin
from another area of the patient's
body. Later, when the skin dres-
sing was removed, healthy bone was
grafted in and the wound covered
over.
Dr. Knight's first assignment for
the Army was at Walter Reed
Hospital.
He spent twO years in the South
Pacific and later Was Chief ortho-
pedic surgeon at Cflle General
Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, serving
directly under Surgeon General
Kirk.
He opened his clinic in Dallas
after receiving his terminal leave
in 1946. Three other surgeons are
now associated, with the clinic.
Dr. Knight is president-elect for
1961 of the Western Orthopedic
Association. He is a member of
the Dallas, Texas and American
Medical Associations, as well as the
American Academy of Orthopedic
Surgeons, the American Board of
Orthopedic Surgeons and the Ro-
tary Club.
He is a member of the Park
Cities Baptist Church in Dallas.
Dr. Knight's wife is the former
Josephine Higginbdtham of Dal-
las, who studied at Baylor Univer-
sity, Waco. They have three chil-
dren—Betty Pearl, a Baylor senior;
Marvin, Jr., and Walter.
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The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1960, newspaper, November 11, 1960; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128358/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.