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Student development dean
Shaw retires after 28 years at Lamar
Billie Dorman
UP staff writer
Involvement and decision-making
as a student at Lamar, caused Ann
Shaw to come back to campus Sept.
1, 1968, to help students experience
what she had experienced as a stu-
dent.
Shaw, who served as dean of stu-
dent development at Lamar for near-
ly 29 years, retired Jan. 10. She said
that what she learned in the class-
room as a Lamar student and what
she learned in her job after coming
back to campus are still some of her
most prized memories.
She came as a student to Lamar in
the fall of 1953 and graduated at the
end of the spring semester in 1957.
She said that her first year at Lamar
was the first fall after four-year
degrees were established. The first
freshman orientation was her fresh-
man year. About 600 students
attended.
“As a child I had a love for the
University of Texas,” she said. “In
first grade I knew I would go there.”
Her mother graduated from
Lamar and the plan was for her to
attend Lamar for her first two years
and then transfer to UT. As her
junior year came around, Shaw told
her parents she did not want to leave
Lamar.
“The faculty and administration
involved themselves in our lives,”
Shaw said. “I had friends who went
off to school and came back to Lamar
and said ‘We didn’t experience there
what we experienced here.’”
She pointed out that at that time
there was nothing mediocre about
Lamar. Quality was the key when she
was a student.
“We could fight and disagree, but
we were family,” she said.
The people who influenced Shaw
as a student now have buildings on
campus named for them. She remem-
bers them as people, not locations or
buildings.
For 28 years, Shaw has tried to
influence students just as those peo-
ple tried to influence her as a student.
Quincy Martin, Leadership Lamar
Institute student director, said, “I
was sad when I learned that Dean
Shaw was retiring because when I
first came to Lamar I didn’t know
See SHAW, page 2
Ann Shaw
University Press
Friday, January 17,1997 Serving Lamar University and the community for 73 years Vol. 73, No. 2$
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MLK Day I
Monday is a student holiday in honor of Martin
Luther King, Jr. See area events.
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The Quad, above, was covered in limbs from the live oaks and pines ting passersby. Icicles formed on the grill of a car on Dowlen Road,
breaking with the weight of ice deposited on, the trees from freezing below. The storm extended across Texas slowly. The picture of the
rain which started Sunday and lasted through Tuesday. School work- fence, left, was taken just outside the city of Kileen Jan. 8. By 10:15
ers cordoned off the area because of the danger of limbs and ice hit- a.m. Sunday, rain began falling in Beaumont and freezing to the trees.
Worst Winter storm in
24 years closes school,
paralyzes triangle area
the Montagne Center side ofi, the
campus lost po^er Tuesday morning
at 10 a.m. By 3 p.m., the entire cam-
pus had power, except for Brooks-
Shivers Hall, which had no power
until 10 p.m. Tuesday night.
A crew from a private contractor,
12 physical plant ground staff mem-
bers and 28 inmates from the Gist
Unit are helping in the clean-up
process, McCaig said.
He said the process of cleaning up
is slow, but cooperation from the
Lamar community is a plus.
“This process will take time. We
ask that everyone be patient, and we
will eventually get it all up in time,”
McCaig said.
The Quad was still cordoned off
Thursday, with work crews trying to
clean up the huge limbs that the
weight of ice broke off the spreading
live oaks that grow there.
With the problems with power,
the campus was closed Monday and
Tuesday. The Institute, Orange and
Port Arthur campuses were also
closed those two days.
By Wednesday, the campuses
were able to reopen. Everything that
had been scheduled for Monday and
Tuesday was moved to Wednesday
and Thursday. Classes, which were
scheduled to start Wednesday, were
canceled. They will start' today
instead. Registration has been
extended through Tuesday. Monday
is a student holiday in honor of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cynthia Hicks, spokesperson for
institutional advancement, said that
late registration will take place
Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Telecourse orientation will take
place Saturday. Late registration will
continue Tuesday from 8 a.m. until
4:45 p.m. Tuesday is also the ‘final
day for schedule changes.
Hicks said there will be no delay
in the scheduled May graduation.
She also said that professors and
instructors will decide how to make
up class days due to the delay of
classes starting.
Entergy currently has 1,400 per-
sonnel and support crews working to
help restore power to the Southeast
Texas community.
“The cause of most of the power
outages were due to ice forming on
limbs, causing the branches to fall
See ICE STORM, page 2
ICE
STORM
’97
Tonya Andris
UP managing editor
The worst winter storm since
January 1973 hit Southeast Texas
Sunday morning. By Monday, the
freezing rain had paralyzed much of
the area, leaving 100,000 Entergy
customers without electrical power.
Mike Rodgers, public relations
spokesperson for Entergy, said, as of
Wednesday, 14,200 customers in
Beaumont, 7,000 in Port Arthur and
6,800 in Orange were still without
power due to the arctic blast.
As of press time Thursday, 12,000
customers in the Beaumont, Port
Arthur and Orange area were still
without power.
Company officials said they
should have all power on by late
Saturday.
Power outages were so vast that
area Entergy workers could not han-
dle the problems. Work crews were
brought in from Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Alabama to assist in
restoring power. They will remain in
the Triangle through the weekend.
Lamar was not spared damage
from the storm. Gerald McCaig,
director of the Physical Plant, said
Wednesday that most of the damage
to the Lamar University campus was
contained to landscaping, such as
trees. There was little damage to
buildings.
He said the main campus lost
power Monday at 9 a.m. and was re-
established around 8 p.m. However,
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