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UNIVERSITY PRESS October 7,1983*2
LU Briefs
Society to initiate officers
Sigma Tau Delta will initiate new officers and
members at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, in the Spindletop
Room, Gray Library, Sue Wright, secretary-treasurer,j
Officers to be initiated are Robert Rourke, Port Ar-
thur graduate student, president; Colata Harlan, Beau-
mont graduate student, vice president; Nancy Smalley,,
Beaumont graduate student, social chairperson; and
Wright, Groves graduate student.
In addition to the initiation, Dr. Edward Schmider,
professor of music, will speak, Wright said.
Fraternity names initiates
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has announced its new
initiates, David Madden, spokesperson, said.
They are Craig Cole, Beaumont junior; Ray Bauer,
Louisville, Ky., sophomore; John Hunter, Lumberton
sophomore; and Jay Hanson, Nederland sophomore.
Also initiated are Pat Bobbit, Beaumont junior ; Todd
Sandig, Gatesville, Texas, junior; David Reynard,.
Beaumont sophomore; and Derrik Fowler, Port Neches
sophomore.
Other initiates are Jasen Blewitt, Beaumont
sophomore, and Madden, Beaumont junior.
Registration drive set
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will sponsor an NAACP
membership and voter registration drive, Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday, in the Setzer Student Center
Arbor, Vernon Davis, president, said.
The drive will be held from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., each
day, Davis said.
For further information, contact Davis at 833-4259.
Five Lamar alumni to receive awards
Five nationally prominent i-amar University
graduates will be honored tonight as recipients of
the Lamar Alumni Association Distinguished
Alumnus Awards for 1983.
Marvin Hayes of Wilton, Conn., Debra Sue Maf-
fett of. Anaheim, Calif., Herring Coe of Beaumont,
Dr. Jack W. Moncrief of Austin, Texas, and Dr.
Alvin L. LeBlanc of Galveston are the honorees.
They will .be
honored at the
association’s an-
nual dinner today1,
at 7 p.m. in Grhy
Library,
The 'Association
will also present its
first Founders j
Award to Mrs. L.RI
(Sidney) Pietzsch ,
and her late hus-
band, L.R. Pietz-
sch Sr., Bo *
Crawford, awards
committee chairperson, said.
The distinguished alumnus recipients are wide-
ly acclaimed in their various professions:
medicine (Moncrief and LeBlanc), entertainment
(Maffett) and art (Coe and Hayes).
A 1926 graduate of South Park Junior College,
the forerunner to Lamar, Coe has worked on
private and public commissions ranging from
medals to monuments. His sculpture career
began as a modeller of portrait busts and statuet-
tes before advancing to an architectural modeller
of abstract and non-objective ornaments on
buildings.
Among his works are the bronze Dick Dowling
statue at Sabine Pass and the granite frieze on the
cenotaph erected in memory of those who perish-
Herring Coe
ed in the school explosion in 1937 at New London,
Texas.
Hayes graduated with honors in 1963 from
Lamar and earned the master of fine arts degree
in 1966 from Columbia University.
Following his graduation, he rose to the top rank
of illustrators for leading American popular
magazines. In 1972, he won first place in the 22nd
associate dean for graduate medical education
and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at
Galveston.
In these positions, he directs one of the nation’s
largest and most varied graduate medical educa-
tion programs. A 1950 Lamar Junior College
graduate, LeBlanc has been cited frequently for
excellence in teaching and hospital administra-
Moncrjef, a practicing nephrologist, and Dr.
Robert /Popovich,, a biomedical and chemical
engineer, introduced a new technique in
peritoneal dialysis called “continuous ambulatory
peritoheal dialysis.”.
CAPD has been recognized as a major medical
development that has contributed to the improved
qdidity of life for thousands of kidney patients
throughout the
world.
Moncrief is presi-
dent of the
Moncrief-Popovich
Research Institute
and co-director of
the hermodialysis
and transplant
unit, Bracken-
ridge Hospital and
Austin Diagnostic
Clinic in Austin.
In 1980, Mon-
Dr. Jack Moncrief crief was named
annual New England Painting and Sculpture Ex-
hibition and had work accepted in the Interna-
tional Graphics Exhibition.
Hayes’ etchings and egg temperas are in the
collections of major American collectors and in-
stitutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
His most distinguished work required three
years to complete. The “Biblical Etchings of Mar-
vin Hayes” were completed in 1976 and were ex-
hibited originally at a special one-man show at the
prestigious FAR gallery in New York.
LeBlanc holds concurrent University of Texas
Medical Branch School of Medicine appointments
as vice president for university hospitals,
tion.
LeBlanc, who earned his degree in medicine at
UTMB-Galveston in 1955, has served as a consul-
tant in many areas to the Texas Medical Associa-
tion and the American Medical Association.
Since she was crowned Miss America in 1983,
Maffett’s professional career has blossomed ex-
tensively.
The 1980 Lamar graduate from the College of
Fine and Applied Arts has appeared on television
soap operas, has hosted talk shows, and has enter-
tained at numerous benefit programs.
Maffett recently signed a contract to co-host a
nationally-syndicated cable television health
show. She was an active performer at Lamar for
the Cardinal Singers and the Madrigal Singers.
by the Texas Rehabilitation Association to receive
the organization’s “Physician of the Year Award
for Outstanding Contributions to Rehabilitation.”
The hemodialysis center he developed at the
Austin Diagnostic Clinic serves all dialysis pa-
tients in South Central Texas.
The Pietzsch’s will be recognized for their many
contributions in the founding of South Park Junior
College, which later became Lamar University.
Louis R. Pietzsch Sr., as superintendent of the
South Park Independent School District, was the
institution’s first president, from 1923-24. His wife,
Sidney Pietzsch, taught at the college for many
years.
LUPA elections to be Tuesday, Wednesday
Lamar University at Port Arthur Stu-
dent Government Association elections
will be Tuesday and Wednesday, Tom
Neal, director of student services, said
Wednesday.
All officers will serve during the 1983-84
academic year, Neal said.
Candidates for president are Tod Bra-
quet, Groves sophomore, Mary St. Brice,
Port Arthur freshman, and Gisele Dailey,
Golding receives
’83 Nobel Prize
for literature
STOCKHOLM, Sweden(UPI)-William
Golding, the British author who wrote
“Lord of the Flies,” won the 1983 Nobel
Prize for literature Thursday.
The Swedish Academy’s citation
described Golding’s novels and stories as
“not only sombre moralities and dark
myths about evil and about treacherous,
destructive forces...they are also colorful
tales of adventure.”
The citation said his novels are both
entertaining as well as of great interest to
literary specialists, who find “deep strata
of ambiguity and complication in
Golding’s work.”
Golding is a writer for the learned and
the unlearned, the academy said, compar-
ing him to another Englishman, Johathan
Swift.
Golding, reached by telephone, said he
felt “incredulous” upon hearing the news
on a radio broadcast. “I’ve hardly had
time to feel anything so far,” he said from
his home in rural Wilshire County, in
southwest England.
Golding, 72, is best known for his 1954
novel “Lord of the Flies,” about the loss of
innocence and the awakening to evil of a
group of English schoolboys marooned on
a desert island.
Lars Gyllensten, chairman of the
academy’s selection committee, said,
“The impact of his work has consistently
increased after every novel he has publish-
ed.”
Besides “Lord of the Flies,” Golding
also wrote “Thfe Inheritors” (1955), “Pin-
cher Martin” (1956), “The Brass Butterf-
ly” (1958), “Free Fall” (1959), “The
Spire” (1964), “The Hot Gates and Other
Occasional Pieces” (1966), “The
Pyramid” (1967), “Darkness Visible”
(1979) and “Rites of Passage” (1980).
Golding once said he wanted to suggest
“a shape in the universe that may, as it
were, account for things. The greatest
pleasure is not, say, sex or geometry. It is
just understanding. And if you can get peo-
ple to understand their own
humanity—well that’s the job of a writer.”
Since 1901, the Swedish Academy has
devoted itself to choosing the world’s
“most outstanding” author under the
terms of the will left by Alfred Nobel, the
Swedish millionaire inventor of dynamite
who created the prizes in his 1895 will.
Port Arthur freshman.
Candidates for vice president are Kirk
Thibodeaux, Port Arthur sophomore, Lisa
Garrett, Nederland freshman, and Jan Na-
tion, Port Arthur freshman.
Running unopposed for the position of
secretary-treasurer is Christy Lacour,
Port Neches freshman.
Voting will take place at the cashier’s
window in the Madison-Monroe Educa-
tional Building from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.,
each day, Neal said.
Neal also announced that hypnotist Ken
Weber will perform at the LUPA campus
on Oct. 27.
Time and location of Weber’s perfor-
mance is to be announced at a later date.
On Nov. 10 and 17, Burdette Parks will
appear at LUPA as Benjamin Franklin,
Neal said.
Parks’ one-man show consists of two
acts; in the first, Parks portrays Franklin
at age 70, and in the second, he portrays
the colonial statesman at age 82. For the
show, Parks undergoes three hours of
making up to achieve the most realistic ef-
fect, Neal said.
Time and location for Parks’ show will
also be announced at a later date, Neal
said.
SSCC EVENTS
UP Profile
Maness ‘uplifted by eagerness’
By LINDA ECKOLS
UP staff writer
A young, friendly preacher from New
Mexico is die Baptist Student Union’s
new director.
James Maness took the position of
BSU director and bible study teacher at
the beginning of this semester.
He replaced James Wray, Lamar
BSU director from 1957 until his retire-
ment in August.
Maness and his wife moved to the
Golden Triangle from Albuquerque,
N.M., with their two daughters. In
.Albuquerque, he held the position of
BSU director at the University of New
Mexico. Maness is a graduate of
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
He has also worked as a high school
history and government teacher in
Weatherford, Texas.
Since he moved to this area, Maness
said he has been “uplifted by the
eagerness of the faculty, students and
administrators” to help him get settled.
He says he likes the area, but yet has
not had time to get the feel for the
leisure opportunities here.
“My wife and I are history buffs. We
enjoy visiting reconstructed historical
sites and events,” Maness said.
As BSU director, Maness sees his
primary duty as “carrying on a mean-
ingful and viable ministry for the
university community,” he said.
“Activities at the BSU will be based
on our purposes of sharing the gospel,
providing leadership opportunities and
training and encouraging Christian
growth,” Maness said.
“I see the development of these ac-
tivities coming from an identification of
the needs and resources at the BSU,”
he said.
Maness says he wants to spend time
with students in developiong bible
studies, socials and other BSU ac-
tivities. “We will discuss, pray and
search scriptures for what we should be
doing, and discovering why activities
exist as they do now,” Maness said.
Maness says he feels his ability and
willingness to deal with students is her
personal attribute that will be of
greatest use at the BSU.
“I am very pleased that I have the op-
portunity to teach classes and to work
so closely with students and faculty,”
he said.
Maness wants to build on the
“already excellent relationship bet-
ween the BSU and the university ad-
ministration and to develop new lines of
communication for the students back to1
churches,” he said.
Maness has begun creating a good
relationship with the students at the
center, according to BSU students. “He
has a positive attitude that reflects on
James Maness
everyone here at the union. His warmth
and friendliness are infectious,”
Audine Behn, Vidor senior, said.
“The fact that he is so energetic and
young, with a bit of vitality, causes him
to bubble over into all of us,” Phil Hem-
mings, Beckley, W. Va., junior, said.
Maness said he is looking forward to
Working with the Lamar BSU. “I’m ex-
cited about the fabulous potential here
at Lamar, as well as the interest and
support of the students and faculty," he
said.
Tonight:
Homecoming Parade
From MacDonald Gym down University Drive;
then Florida Street,
ending at Brooks-Shivers
Saturday:
Immediately followed by
The Bonfire
Homecoming party
with Pressure
9 p.m. • 12 p.m.
SSC Ballroom
Monday • Friday:
videotape: Robin Williams In
“Off the Wall”
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
SSC Videotape Lounge
Tuesday:
film: “Theatre of Blood”
12:30 p.m., 50 cents;
6:30 p.m., and 9 p.m. $1
SSC Ballroom
Thursday
Bill Miller and the Native Sons
8 p.m., Perch
Tickets for Beaumont Music Commission
(The Suzuki Children, Oct. 11)
and Beaumont Symphony Orchestra
(Santiago Rodriguez, pianist, Oct. 13)
available at the SSC check cashing booth
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