The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1967 Page: 2 of 8
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HIE REDBIRD
■May 12, 1967
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Editorial
Year brings many changes
This has been a year of change for the college and for The
Redbird. We started the fall semester under the guidance of a
Letters
Dormitories Need Repair
man who handled the job of president for 16 years. Dr. F. L.
McDonald was a man whose name will be permanently asso-
ciated with Lamar Tech. This college grew tremendously during
his term of office.
But with the death of Dr. McDonald in March, the office was
passed to another able leader. The Lamar Board of Regents
tapped Dr. Richard W. Setzer and a new chapter in the history
of this institution was begun. Pres. Setzer quickly took over,
and the operation of the college never faltered. We look forward
to next fall and another round of Redblrds while Pres. Setzer
mans the " roundbuilding.”
Another change Involves the vice presidential office which
the Regents divided into two posts. Dr. Frank Thomas, who was
Dean of the School of Engineering, was named vice president
of academic affairs. H. C. Galloway made the switch from comp-
troller to the newly created job of vice president of finance.
This publication made the changeover to automated typesetting
machines and other new equipment. The end of this semester
has seen Lamar and the state changed as far as time is concerned.
Daylight Savings Time has crossed up all our time senses. And
next fall the assigned parking lot system goes into effect.
Construction of new buildings, however, continues as usual
as Lamar expands in fact and in capability.
This is the last issue of The Redbird until next September.
The campus seems oddly quiet after the action of student elections.
Everyone seems to be caught between a yearning for the semester’s
end and a dread of the final exams that the end brings. This is
one paradox that will never change.
20 Faculty Members
Receive Promotions
Twenty faculty promotions,
effective Sept. 1, have been ann-
ounced by Dr. Richard W. Setzer,
president.
The promotions include five
faculty members advancing to
the rank of full professor, seven
from assistant professor to
assistant professor and eight
from instructor to assistant pro-
fessor.
Dr. Setzer said the promot-
ions were recommended by de-
partment heads and approved by
academic deans and the vice
president of academic affairs.
The promotion list follows:
Sandra Buford Named
Tech s an s President
Sandra Buford has been elected
president of the Techsans Club.
Other officers Include Dianna
Stovall, vice president; Sarah
Knight, secretary; Sandra Hide,
treasurer; and Barbara Free-
man, historian.
Karen Wilson was elected pub-
licity chairman and Donna Brown
co - chairman. Membership
chairman is Laurie Nunez; House
representative is Dixie Grimes,
From associate professor to
professor-Dr, Bruce G. Rogers,
Department of Civil Engineer-
ing; Dr. Robert C. Rogan, Depart-
ment of Commercial Art; Dr,
Myrtle L, Bell, Department of
Psychology; Dr. Gordon Hensley,
Department of Modern Langua-
ges; and Dr. Howard Mackey
Department of History.
From assistant professor to
associate professor-Charles A.
Ford and Joan Brenizer, Depart-
ment of Mathematics; Dr. Joseph
T. Watt, Jr., Department of Elec-
trical Eng neering; Eugene F.
Martinez, Department of Mech-
anical Engineering; Dr. George
B. Wall, Department of Socio-
ment of Physics; and Dr. Mar-
cella D. Woods, Department of
Physical and Health Education for
Women.
From instructor to assistant
professor-Davld R. Read, Billy
D. Read and John F. Harvill,
Department of Mathematics; Dr.
Antonio de J. Pineda, Department
of Modern Languages; James Re-
nberg and Joseph Lambert, De-
partment of History; Marilyn D.
Georgas, Department of English;
and Rebecca M. Obenauf, Depart-
ment of Physical and Health Ed-
ucation for Women,
Dear Editor,
Quotes from the Bulletin of La-
mar State College of Technology:
“A number of ultra-modern dor-
mitories for women and men are
located on the campus... The col-
lege reserves the right to re-
quire campus residence of any
student.”
Full occupancy of all four old
dorms (842 students) means an
8-month term Income from rent
alone of $210,870. Room rent is
rising. Meal ticket prices
increasing is excusable; food
prices have risen. But the terms
of the financing by which the
dorms were built surely did not
require an annually increasing
payment on them.
Another quote: “Dormitory
residents will be refunded de-
posits ($20) less any breakage
charges, at the end of the year.”
Well, if $20 per dorm student
is available for repairs, why
isn’t it used? Yes, it is going
to cost a lot Initially, but only
because it was not collected in
the past.
Three of the dorms are in
terrible shape. The plaster needs
patching. The beds have holes in
the mattresses and springs; and
they are dirty. The walls and
partitions are grimy. The paint
that is left is the ultimate in
dreariness--dark grays and ol-
ive drab. The closets have no
doors. They too are dark. The
Venetian blinds stay together
from force of habit.
Just because one student tears
up his room does not mean
another student, paying the same
money, has to live in the other’s
shambles. In a private home, such
living conditions would be con-
sidered substandard.
Betty Coerver
+ + +
Dear Editor,
As members of the Cardinal
Band, we would like to express
our sincere gratitude for the
extensive coverage of our “an-
nual spring concert.” We had
a Standing Room Only crowd
due to your excellent coverage of
the event.
We wish to commend your re-
porter on the conciseness of the
three lines spared us after a
thirty minute interview con-
cerning the program.
Please do misunderstand us.
We do not wish to slight the
article because it has been the
Deadlines Set
For Registration
During Summer
Students planning to attend La-
mar during either of the summer
sessions this year or in the fall
semester must observe deadlines
for applying for readmlsslon,
Miss Celeste Kitchen, Registrar,
reports.
Final date to apply for admis-
sion for the first summer term
is Friday, May 19. Second term
requests must be made not later
than July 7 and fall applications
must be in the office not later
than Sept. 1, she said. First
summer session registration will
be held June 5, with classes
scheduled to start June 6. Se-
cond session registration will be
held July 17, with classes to be-
gin July 18. Fall registration
will be conducted Sept. 12-14,
with classes scheduled to start
Sept. 15. Evening classes begin
Sept. 14.
Miss Kitchen said students who
did not meet the application dead-
lines will have to register last.
Enrollment packets are to be
picked up on the day of registra-
tion.
best coverage we have received
all school year. Fortunately
though, we played several more
numbers than you mentioned.
The Concert Band would also
like to thank you for the credit
you gave them in your quali-
tative article. We sincerely wish
that all who came enjoyed the
program.
We do not desire to criticize
the Redbird. As J.A. Broadus
has said, “The newspaper is one
of the foremost wonders of the
modern world.” Ours is indeed
a wonder.
The Redbird Staff
Editor.....................................Charles Goode
News Editor................................... Ray Stelly
Business Manager...........................Kathy Johnson
Faculty Advisor...........................R. H. Wilkerson
Sports Editor.................................Burt Darden
Sports Writer......................Bob West
Photographers ............................ Scott Harbers
Larry Austin
Bart Bragg
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gf On Campus
with
MwShuIman
(By the author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!”,
"Dobie Gillis," etc.)
HOW TO GET A’S
IN ALL YOUR FINAL EXAMS
In today’s column, the last of the school year, I don’t
intend to be funny. (I have achieved this objective many
times throughout the year, but this time it’s on purpose.)
The hour is wrong for levity. Final exams are looming.
Have you got a chance? I say yes! I say America did
not become the world’s foremost producer of stove bolts
and cotter pins by running away from a fight!
You will pass your finals! How? By studying. How? By
learning mnemonics.
Mnemonics, the science of memory aids, was, as we all
know, invented by the great Greek philosopher Mnemon
in 526 B.C. (This, incidentally, was only one of the inven-
tions of this fertile Athenian. He also invented the house
cat, the opposing thumb, and, most important, the stair-
case. Before the staircase people were forced willy-nilly
to live out their lives on the ground floor, and many grew
cross as bears. Especially Demosthenes who was elected
Consul of Athens six times but never served because he
was unable to get up to the office of the Commissioner of
Oaths on the third floor to be sworn in. But after Mnemon’s
staircase, Demosthenes got to the third floor easy as pie
-to Athens’ sorrow, as it turned out. Demosthenes, his
temper shortened by years of confinement to the ground
floor, soon embroiled his countrymen in a series of sense-
less wars with the Medes, the Persians, and the Los
Angeles Bams. This later became known as the Missouri
Compromise.)
But I digress. We were discussing mnemonics, which
are nothing more than aids to memory—little jingles to
help you remember names, dates, and places. For example:
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In fourteen hundred ninety two.
See how simple? Make up your own jingles. What, for
instance, came after Columbus’s discovery of America?
The Boston Tea Party, of course. Try this:
Samuel Adame Jiang the tea
Into the briny Zuyaer Zee.
(NOTE: The Zuyder Zee was located in Boston Harbor
until 1801 when Salmon P. Chase traded it to Holland for
Alaska and two line backers.)
But I digress. Let’s get back to mnemonics. Like this:
In nineteen hundred sixty seven
Personna Blades make shaving heaven.
I mention Personna because the makers of Personna
Super Stainless Steel Blades are the sponsors of this
column. If I may get a little misty in this, the final column
of the school year, may I say it’s been a pleasure working
for Personna? May I say further tnat it’s been an even
greater pleasure working for you, the undergrads of
America ? You’ve been a most satisfactory audience, and
I’m going to miss you this summer. In fact, I’d ask you
all to come visit me except there is no access to my room.
The makers of Personna, after I missed several deadlines,
walled me in. I have no doors or windows—only a mail slot.
I slip the columns out; they slip in Personnas and such
food as can go through a mail slot. (For the past six
months I’ve been living on after dinner mints.)
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Personna
have not walled me in, for they are good and true and
gleaming and constant —as good and true and gleaming
and constant as the blades they make-and I wish to state
publicly that I will always hold them in the highest esteem,
no matter how my suit for back wages comes out.
And so, to close the year, I give you one last mnemonic:
Study hard and pass with honors,
And always shave with good Personnors!
* * * © 1967. Mu Shulman
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Goode, Charles. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1967, newspaper, May 12, 1967; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499116/m1/2/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.