Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1976 Page: 4 of 34
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Speech team in meet
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Campus news
College day set
for next week
sity, and St. Mary’s University of
San Antonio.
Also attending are representa-
tives from Sam Houston State
University, Southern Methodist
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The Temple Junior College
Forensics Team competed at the
Southwest Texas State University
Intercollegiate Speech Festival in
San Marcos on Nov. 19 and 20.
Twenty-two colleges competed.
Those participating from TJC
and receiving superior awards
were Kevin Weems of Rogers in
poetry, Jeannie Bilbrey of Temple,
also in poetry, Mary Cavanaugh of
Granger in prose, Debbie Jones of
Temple, also in prose and Luisa
Amaral of Temple in dramatic
interpretation.
Roxanne Jackson of Temple
received an excellent rating in poe-
try.
Coaches for the Forensics team
are Nil Whittington and Wayne
Toone.
Erma Mathis, whose hometown is Bartlett, is a
sophomore nursing major. She plans to continue
her education at Mary Hardin-Baylor or in Denton.
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State University, Howard Payne
University, Huston-Tillotson Col-
lege, Incarnate Word College, _________ _____o
Lamar University, McMurry Col- Texas State University and Wiley
lege, North Texas State Univer- College will also be represented.
Charles Stout, director of ad-
missions and records encourages
will be present.
These include Abilene Chris- _____
tian University, Angelo State University, Texas Wesleyan Col-
University, Baylor University, lege, and Texas Woman’s Uni ver -
Dallas Baptist College, East Texas sity.
The University of Texas at
Arlington, Austin, El Paso, and
San Antonio along with West
“students to talk with these repre-
sentatives if they plan to continue
at a four year college or univer-
sity.”
Faculty Council
The Faculty Council met Nov.
19 to discuss old and new business
and to listen to committee reports
on this year’s projects.
The Fringe Benefit Committee
reported on the pros and cons of
withdrawing from social security.
Bill Vannatta’s committee on
academic freedom and tenure are
working on a draft to be presented
at the February meeting.
Changing the name of the col-
lege is still being investigated, but
no names have yet been submitted.
The council voted to retain the
salary schedule as it appears in the
personel handbook. It was origi-
nally drawn up by a committee on
the Faculty Council.
In the spring the executive com-
mittee plans to meet with Dr.
Felder concerning the new budget.
The committee will accept a pro-
posal to provide money for a
faculty member’s leave of absence.
Administration of this project
would be the responsiblity of the
Faculty Council. This would allow
teachers to further their degrees.
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Christmas’ Origin
By Erma Mathis
Christmas is a Christian festival commemora-
ting the birth of Jesus Christ. The name was
derived from the old English Christes Masse or
Christ Mass.
All Christian Churches except the American
Church observe the birth of Christ on Dec. 25.
This date was set in the West until about the mid-
dle of the fourth century and in the East until a
century later. The reason for establishing Dec. 25
as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it was
usually held on that day to correspond with the
pagan festival that took place around the time of
winter solstice (when the day begin to lengthen)
to celebrate the “Rebirth of the Sun.”
Northern European Tribes celebrated their
chief festival of Yule at the Winter solstice to
commemorate the rebirth of the sun as the gift of
light and warmth. The Roman Saturanalia, dedu-
cated to Saturn, the god of agriculture and to
renewed power of the sun, also took place at this
time, and some Christmas customs are thought to
be rooted in the Ancient Pagan Celebration.
Christians have generally regarded Christmas
as both a holy day and a holiday. For Christ’s
birth brought new spirit of joy into world, and
from the first recounting of the story of Nativity,
man has fashioned endless variation — not only
in words, but also in art, song, dance and drama
— and has ever created specific symbolic holiday
food.
The TJC Senior College Day is University, Southwest Texas State
planned for next Thursday from 10 University, Southwestern Univer-
a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Union sity, Stephen F. Austin State
Building. University, Sul Ross State Univer-
Representatives from about 30 sity, Tarleton State University,
Se.?j?r C0^eSes and universities Texas A&M University, Texas
Christian University, Texas Luthe-
ran College, Texas Southern
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Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1976, newspaper, December 3, 1976; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1380097/m1/4/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Temple College.