The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1961 Page: 2 of 6
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The Yellow Jacket, October 13, 1961
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Raybum's Illness
Affects DIA Week
The grare illness of Mr.
Democrat," Sam Rayburn,
which has already had shock-
ing effects on the state, the
nation and the world, is ex-
pected to rob Howard Payne
College's Democraey-In-Ac-
tion Program of one of Its
most colorful and renowned
speakers.
The 79-year-old Speaker of
the United States House of Rep-
resentatives was invited more
than a month ago to speak at a,
special convocation in his hon-
or scheduled April 13, 1962, to
climax a year of study in Amer-
ican heritage at the college. He
was to be given an honorary
doctor of laws degree.
"We had formally and offi-
cially invited Mr. Rayburn to
appear as our convocation
speaker at our Democracy-In-
Action program," Dr. Guy D.
Newman, HPC president, said,
"And this was to have been the
climatic hour of our year-long
program."
Mr. Rayburn was extended the
invitation in a letter written by
Dr. Newman. It was dated Sept.
6, 1961.
Building Work
Proceeds Well
On Schedule
Construction on the new How-
ard Payne College Science
building is right on schedule —
or a little ahead of schedule —
reports A. Donald Bell, execu-
tive vice-president.
Approximate cost of the build-
ing is $641,000. This price in-
cludes a good part of the
equipment to be used in the
science division. This includes
modern, built-in equipment.
The building is of a modified
Georgian Colonial architecture
similar to the other buildings
on the campus.
"Although many friends of
the college have made pledges
toward the building fund, many
are long term pledges," Dr. Bell
commented. "The money is
needed now or in the near fu-
ture.
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Dr. Bell urges students to
contact friends for contributions
toward the building fund. The
building will be of use to all
studlents, since classes other
than science classes will be
conducted on the first floor.
The building will be complet-
ely air conditioned with a spec-
ial air conditioning unit for the
animal room. Plans are now un-
derway to begin classwork and
labwork in geology at the time
of completion.
Classified Ads
Classified Advertising Rates,.
Each Word m
(15-word minimum) 4c J
(Deadline 3 P.M. Tuesday) $
Glenda Walker — Thanks for
your tireless effort In working
on the dorm decorations. A
Friend, Myraa Stracner.
Here Soon
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Not
LITTLE MATRON CAMPUS
It's here! Too soon, yet not soon enough, strange as that may
sound.
To the visitors on our campus we extend a hearty welcome and
say we hope your stay is an enjoyable one. And a word of advice:
Look slightly below the blood-shot eyes and you'll probably find a
lurking smile.
This Homecoming has been — will be — a real test of Howard
Payne student superiority, because there have been only four weeks
to compile what is normally done in two months.
But there has been the faculty coperation, too, behind it all.
Either tests or floats had to be sacrificed, so the instructors held
back the testing for a while.
(Jmst wait 'til next week!)
Seriously, visitors, the extra work hasn't been minded, and it's
hoped you'll enjoy remembering a few days a few years ago.
★ ★ ★
In all the rush of preparations, one student was hurrying across
campus, laden with books and thinking hard about a list of "things
to do." A familiar voice yelled, "Slow down, kid, and youH live a
lot longer!"
Many visiting on campus this weekend might have heard John
Mitchell, head custodian, say the same thing years ago.
And it's still true.
So if the time on our college campus will help "slow you down"
and help you "live longer," we're justly rewarded for all expended
efforts.
★ ★ ★
And speaking of expended efforts, here's a suggestion about
to expend some little effort and find it completely worthwhile.
After Homecoming settles down, outstanding movie entertain-
ment is available at the Brownwood theatre. "Exodus" — the story
about "fighting people, who do not apologize either for being born
Jews or the right to live in human dignity" — relates pictorially the
dramatic march of thousands to a land rightfully their own.
Starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson,
Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Jill Haworth
► and many others, the movie, directed by Otto Preminger is one of
the most moving stories of all centuries.
In one scene, the accumulated hate of a lifetime is spilled in
three seconds, and it's bone chilling.
This production is second only to "Ben Hur," in the estimation
of many persons, and would certainly be worth the time and money.
★ ★ ★
It's amazing how frequently things are said and they seldom
really get through to us. Here's a compiled list of comments teachers
probably hear . . .
"I told my roommate to set the alarm, but ..."
"Present ..."
"I worked all afternoon and when I got to the library, all the
books were Checked out, and ..."
"But, sir! I play football ..."
"You've sure learned me a lot of grammar ..."
"But you didn't tell us we were going to have a test today!"
"What research theme?"
"With Homecoming and all, and all the floats, well, you can't
expect me to do homework, too ..."
"If he's not here in two more minutes, we can leave . . .
uh . . . "
"I was absent that day, ma'm and no one told me we had a
book report ..."
★ ★ ★
And these are things and remarks an upperclassmen gets tired
of hearing:
"But somebody 'stole" my beanie ..."
"Did you take Bible 102 last year and have a set of maps I can
borrow ..."
"You've been appointed to serve on my committee to work
with ..."
"Now you upperclassmen are supposed to LEAD the freshmen
in spirit ..."
"Ohhh, I've wanted to go out with an upperclassman soooo
much!"
I'm sorry, but this activity will have to be cleared through my
office, first ..."
"There'll be no show of affection on campus ..."
"Girls, you're not going to church without hats, are you?"
"You've been here two years and ought to know ..."
"I'M sorry, but you didn't get any mail today ..."
★ ★ ★
And of course, freshmen hear a lot of things and must get tired
of listening, too . . .
"Where's that beanie, slime?"
"That was poooor . . . Let's hear you button-up ten more
times ..."
"What's the good word?"
"What time did you get to bed this morning?"
"Who is your date?"
"Now take this card, see, and write your name ..."
"What's your second teaching fieldr
"When are we going to have some hot water around here?"
"Oh no, freshmen!"
"Where were you for room check?"
"Have you paid your dues yet?"
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IBM Invades
HP Division
Of Business
BY BETTY HELD,
Staff Writer
The Department of Business
Administration is offering for
the first time a course in work-
ing with IBM (International
Business Machines). Johnnie
Beth (Mrs. Groner) Pitts is
teaching the course entitled
"Introduction to Data Proces-
sing."
"I am very pleased with the
good response we're had with
the course," stated Mrs. Pitts,
who trained this summer In
Dallas and Ft. Worth so she
would be qualified to teach it.
"We hare ninety-one persons
enrolled and only about twen-
ty are not Howard Payne stu-
dents," she continued.
The IBM installation, consist-
ing of eight machines', has al-
ready been installed in the bus-
iness annex directly across from
Taylor Hall. The use of these
machines is madte possible
through a lease agreement with
IBM, which makes the units
available to business, govern-
ment, education, and scientific
organizations.
"Right now the machines
will be used only for instruc-
tional purposes and It won't
be until next year that they
will be available for business
purposes," emphasized Mrs.
Pitts.
The Installation includes the
following machines:
Card Punch — A machine
similar in operation to an elec-
tric _typewriter, .utilized _to
punch source records into IBM
cards with alphabetic, numeri-
cal or special characters. How-
ard Payne has two card punch
machines.
Card Verifier — a means of
checking the accuracy of the
original key punching. It is
basically the same type of func-
tion as typing, or other key-
driven operations.
Sorter — A machine that
sorts cards into alphabetical or
numerical sequence. With it,
specific cards or groups of
cards can be selected from a
file without disturbing the se-
quence. Cards are sorted, one
column at a time, at the rate
of 450 cards per minute.
Collator — An instrument
performing functions of se-
quence checking, selecting,
merging and matching cards.
Every problem of filing and file
maintenance fits into one of
these operations.
Reproducing Punch — A ma-
chine that duplicates IBM and
records. It will reproduce week-
ly payroll time cards from a
master card file at an operating
speed of 50 cards per minute.
The other two machines are
involved in interpretating and
accounting.
Fields in which the IBM ma-
chines are now used Include
science, engineering, manufac-
turing, marketing, business ad-
ministration, programming and
customer and field engineering.
"The new innovations of
IBM are part of an industry
without bounds," Mrs. Pitts
remarked. "In the world to-
day, there is scarcely a form
of human actlrlty in which
data processing does not play
some useful part."
The Yellow Jacket
"The. Voice Of The Campus"
Texas Intercollegiate
Press Association Member
Circulation — 900
Believing that freedom is a gift and
not a right, and maintaining that th©
responsibility to defend freedom falls
upon those who enjoy its profits, this
newspaper is dedicated to the task of
uplifting and preserving the privileges
of a free people living in a free nation
with a freedom of the press.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor Jeanette James
Associate Editors Larry Causey
Betty Held
Editorial Assistants: David Addison,
Ronald Armstrong, Cherie Duran, Neal
Ford, Ken Gale, Joe Gwathmey, Carolyn
Hand, Sharon Hicks, Peggy Nettleship,
Jerry Perkins, Lee Ryden, Carole Smith,
Loren Wilson.
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager .. Kathleen Alexander
Faculty Advisor .. Miss Tessica Martin
The Yellow Jacket is published every
Friday morning except duiing examina-
tion weeks, twice a year, and holidays.
Basically a student publication, the
paper Is under the auspices of Howard
Payne College, Brownwood, Texas.
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