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THE McMURRY CHIEFTAIN
FEBRUARY, 1960
* News Notes on Our McMurry Exes *
Reports from several exes have
been received during the past
few weeks.
Bob Kern of Slaton, who grad-
uated from McMurry in 1954 as a
Monahans student, is now work-
ing as an insurance and real es-
tate agent. He and his wife, May
Belle Pember Kern, have one
daughter, Keri Anne, age three
years.
At McM Kern was president of
the band and president of KIVA.
Mrs. Kern was a member of the
band and Gamma Sigma social
club.
Dorothy L. Peery, who attended
McMurry in 1939-40 and became
a certified professional secretary
in 1955, is now doing secretarial
work in Amarillo.
Claudelle Perry, 1951 graduate
from McM with a biology major,
is still residing in Abilene where
she is employed as a medical tech-
nologist.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. "Dub"
Rhodes, 1941 graduates of McM,
are living in Clarksville.
Rhodes is a medical technolo-
gist at the Rhodes Clinical Lab-
oratory and Mrs. Rhodes, former-
ly Carolyn Ruth "Willie" Wilhite,
is a housewife.
The Rhodes have three chil-
dren, Dusty, Lynne, and Rhonda,
ages 14, 11, and three.
Rhodes has served his church
as chairman of the official board
for two years, and has served as
Womack, Ex McMurry Student,
Hunts Wild Game In East Africa
"African Adventures" was the
topic of wishful thinking for Mc-
Murry ex Bill Womack of Lub-
bock for many years before his
dreams actually came true.
Womack, who attended Mc-
Murry from 1956 until 1958, is
now employed by a security com-
pany in Lubbock.
Womack related his unusual
adventures in this manner.
"For a boy born and reared
on the South Plains who had
never shot anything larger than
a West Texas jackrabbit, the
thought of traveling 10,000 miles
to British East Africa and shoot-
ing lion and elephant was truly a
dream come true.
"This was the position I found
myself in the first of November
(1959) as I stepped from the giant
four-engined Super Star Con-
stellation and onto the runway of
the air terminal at Nairobi,
Kenya, in British East Africa, the
heart of the black continent's big
game hunting.
"I was met at the air terminal
by Harold Prowse, who was to
be my professional guide and
constant companion for the fol-
lowing 30-day adventure into the
wilds of Africa. Harold is one of
25 full-time professional hunters
in East Africa today. He is one
of only three Americans there
and postponed a promising career
in American business following
his graduation from the Harvard
School of Business, where he ob-
tained a Masters' Degree.
"After only three days of actual
hunting I had the extreme good
fortune of being able to shoot two
lions. It was a rather strange
feeling that I had when the whole
village came out to thank us for
shooting the marauders which had
caused them several hundred
dollars in damages. It was a
real hero's welcome they gave."
"Our good luck with the lion
carried over to our next camp,
which was some 250 miles dis-
tant from where we went to
hunt buffalo and elephant. Here
I had the good luck of bagging
the second largest elephant shot
in Kenya all year. His ivory
tusks measured eight feet, nine
and one-half inches and eight feet
five inches. They weighed 100
and 102 pounds each. I shot him
right at the foot of snowcapped
Mt. Kilamajaro, which stood in
the background, over 19,000 feet
high.
"Four days after the elephant,
I shot a fine African buffalo,
which measured 22 inches across
the front of his horns and weighed
an estimated 1800 pounds. To-
ward the end of my safari ... I
shot a fine old bull rhino whose
front horn measured 22 inches.
"In addition to the Big Four
(lion, elephant, buffalo, and
rhino), I also obtained a Grant
gazelle, Thompson gazelle, five
zebra, two wildebeest, two harte-
beest, two warthogs, two impala,
a steinbuck, a bushbuck, an eland,
an oryx, a waterbuck, and reed-
buck for a total of 26 animals and
17 species, all in a month's time.
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president of the Kiwanis Club
and the Quarterback Club.
At McMurry, he was Grand
Sovereign of Ko Sari, president
of the Student Council, and mem-
ber of Who's Who. Mrs. Rhodes
was editor of the War Whoop,
secretary of her class for two
years; member of Who's Who,
vice-president of TIP, presi-
ident of the Press Club, and mem-
ber of SCR A and the Wesley
Players.
Rev. and Mrs. Clesby Patterson
are in Lakeview where he is pas-
tor of the Lakeview Methodist
Church and Mrs. Patterson is
teaching in the third grade.
The Pattersons have two chil-
dren, Mrs. Ralph Russell of Mer-
kel, and Clesby Lynn, who is at-
tending West Texas State at Can-
yon on a four year basketball
scholarship. Mrs. Russell is the
mother of four children, Jeff, Bill,
and Anne.
BILL WOMACK
Miss Hinds Is Named
As Rhodesia Missionary
Miss Marcia Joyce Hinds, a
McMurry graduate, is one of the
85 persons named as home and
overseas missionaries of the
Methodist Church recently in
Buck Hill Falls, Pa.
Miss Hinds received her bache-
lors degree from McM in 1954.
Her assignment will be to South-
ern Rhodesia, where she will do
secretarial and general mission
work. She has previously served
as missionary to Angola for
three years.
The group of 85 is thought to
be the largest number of new
Methodist missionaries ever com-
missioned at one time.
The missionaries will serve in
the United States, including
Alaska and Hawaii, and in 20
countries of Asia, Africa, South
America and North America.
They will serve under two di-
visions of the mission board, the
Division of World Missions and
the Woman's Division of Christ-
ian Service.
A native of Amherst, Miss
Hinds did graduate work in Per-
kins School of Theology at South-
ern Methodist University. At
McMurry she was a member of
Kappa Phi, Volunteers, Christian
Foundation, Boyce Hall Club, Re-
ligious Council and the Wesley
Players.
LECTURES—
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guests will be Monday evening,
March 14, in the Iris Graham
Memorial Dining Hall.
In addition to a talk by Dr. J.
M. Willson, president of the Mc-
Murry Board of Trustees, a film
entitled "Education Is Every-
body's Business" will be shown.
Several of the committees will
meet on Monday preceding the
Dr. Maurice Fain
Leads Busy Life
Dr. Allen Maurice Fain, a 1947
McMurry graduate, is described
as one of the busiest citizens of
Duncanville, located near Dallas.
At McMurry Dr. Fain was
known as Maurice, but while
serving in the Army he had to
use his first name and middle
initial and is still known as Allen
M. today in Duncanville.
In a story published in the
Dallas Times-Herald, Dr. Fain
was praised as an outstanding
person both as a doctor and as a
civic leader.
"Dr. Fain handles as many
cases and makes as many house
and hospital calls as the next
physician. And he still finds
time for civic work and heads the
city's biggest home development,"
the story said.
A typical day for Dr. Fain was
described as:
"At about six o'clock in the
morning he heads for the Wheat-
land Retreat rest home in Dun-
canville, which counts from 60 to
90 patients. After seeing the
ailing patients there, he rushes
to make his rounds at Methodist
Hospital in Oak Cliff.
"Then he heads back to Dun-
canville, stopping for a quick
sandwich on the way. There he
checks on Flame, Inc., which has
laid out plans for some 400 home
sites, 32 duplex apartments and
an 8V2-acre shopping center.
"Next he goes to his medical
office in Duncanville, where his
staff already has compiled mes-
sages, phone calls and has taken
the initial histories of the first
patients. He dispenses with the
backlog of calls and interviews
and examines the patients.
"By noon he is ready to go
back to the Wheatland Retreat to
complete his calls there. He then
heads for Methodist Hospital
where he again visits his patients.
"His civic duties sometimes
keep him busy late in the night.
"He's a member of the county,
state and national medical socie-
ties, the Lions Club, Oak Cliff
Country Club, Chamber of Com-
merce, and is a fellow in the
American Geriatrics Society. He
is also on the board of stewards
of the First Methodist Church of
Duncanville and is one of the di-
rectors of the proposed Citizen's
State Bank of Duncanville.
"Dr. Fain's biggest dream is to
establish a hospital in Duncan-
ville."
Dr. Fain was a 1940 graduate
from Abilene High School and
received both his BA and BS de-
grees from McMurry. He re-
ceived his doctor of medicine de-
gree in 1951 and began his medi-
cal practice in 1953.
annual meeting on Tuesday.
Some of the committees, in-
cluding the budget committee,
committee on degrees, building
committee, and possibly the plan-
ning committee, will meet prior
to March 14, according to Dr.
Bennett.
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