The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 16, Ed. 1, Friday, January 20, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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PAY YOUR POLL TAX HERE Dr. Albert Lunday. professor in
sociology at H-SU and Rex Wilson in the foreground pay their poll
tax in the Sub Monday. In charge of receipts is Miss Corrynne
Galloway. (Brand Staff Photo by Gaylo Machen).
Spring
Agard Elected
BSU Prexy;
Nowlin Veep
Bob Agard .junior Sioux City
la. has been elected president of
the H-SU Baptist Student Union.
The election results were an-
nounced in the Little Chapel
Monday night at the BSU Great-
er Council meeting.
Elected to the vice-presidency
was Carl Nowlin junior Tucum-
cari N. M.
Stephenie Pierce Abilene will
serve the director of Christian
citizenship for the year.
Sue Engstrom sophomore Taos
N. M. was elected to serve as
Devotional Chairman.
Jerry Don Reynolds sopho-
more Merkel will be in charge
of enlistments.
In charge of the extension work
will be Trent Butler sophomore
Sweetwater.
Dennie Richardson junior Kil-
gore was elected as head of mis-
sions. Music director will be Owen
Leech sophomore Abilene. Elect-
ed to publicity chairman was
Suzanne Bacon sophomore Hous-
ton. Nairn (Steve) Ateek sopho-
more Nazareth Israel will head
activities with other denomina-
tions. Pat Blanton sophomore Abi-
lene was elected BSU secretary.
Social chairman will be Dorcas
Sealy junior Anson.
Perry Lockett junior Meadow
will serve as director of steward-
ship. Don Townsend junior Beau-
mont was elected Sunday School
representative and Carolyn Arm-
strong sophomore Lubbock will
serve as Training Union repre-
fipnt&tiVG Bill Goff junior Wichita Falls
directed the election which was
held in the SUB Monday.
These new officers will be in-
stalled at the BSU banquet Feb.
4 at Lytle Shores Auditorium
said John Petry BSU secretary.
Final Exams
Next Week!
Term Enrollment Jan. 30-31
New Auditorium May Be Ready
For Usage on Founders Day
The modernistic chapel - audi-
torium building roughly 80 per
cent complete as of this week
probably will see its first usage
Monday April 17 for Founders
Day ceremonies Dr. Evan A.
Reiff University president dis-
closed this week.
While formal dedication of the
structure will be delayed until
next fall the auditorium will also
be used during the spring semes-
ter for baccalaureate and com-
mencement exercises May 28 and
29.
Dr. Reiff estimated that the
contractors will turn the building
over to the school between Mar.
1-15. Installation of opera type
seats is expected to be finished
by Aprir 15.
When the entire structure is
completed some time this sum-
mer it will be valued conserva-
tively ta $900000 the president
said.
The main auditorium will be
Two Texas Editors Scheduled
For Campus Journalism Meet
Two Texas newspaper editors
have accepted invitations to speak
before the Southwestern Jour-
nalism Congress meeting March
23-25 on the H-SU campus. Rob-
ert H. Wilkerson assistant pro-
fessor in journalism and Con-
gress president reported today.
They are Felix R. McKnight
vice president and executive ed-
itor of the Dallas Times Herald
and J: Q. Mahaffey editor of the
Texarkana Gazette. A third
speaker will be added to the pro-
gram Wilkerson explained.
The Southwestern Journalism
Congress along with the South-
western Students' Press Club is
composed of faculty and mem-
bers from 15 universities and col-
leges. Tom Stevenson H-SU senior
journalism major and editor of
the Brand is president of the
Southwestern Students' Press
Club. Stevenson said that Boyce
House executive vice president of
Texas uonsumer a inance Associa-
tion in Dallas will address the
Press Club.
Members of thq Congress in ad-
dition to Hardin - Simmons are
University ux -ru.n.euioua uajnui
University of Houston Louisiana
State university jwortn Texas
State College University of Okla
'Dead Week' Ends on
By SARAH SALTER
Brand Staff Writer
Rumor has it that this is Dead
Week . . . the time all social
graces are held in suspended
animation and packed in moth
balls for the duration.
It is a week of note-book
writing cramming and staying
in ... . the staying in is of
course the most grueling of all.
After a few hours of this
you feel as though you would
like to run a tin cup up and
down the bars and shout for
the warden to let you out of
this solitary confinement be-
fore you go stir crazy. Some
300 other dormitory residents
want the same thing ... it
isn't easy living alone.
After the few moments of
freedom you know during the
daylight hours you rush into
your room grab up a book and
begin to memorize frantically.
You commit to memory the
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VOL. XLVI
the largest in Abilene with-"a
seating capacity of approximately
2000 persons and a stage that
measures 34 feet in depth 90 feet
wide and about 60 feet from the
floor to ceiling.
Fred Olds Jr. partner in the
F. C. Olds Co. which designed the
structure said the Hardin-Sim-mons
stage is larger than most
stages because it will serve both
the auditorium and the theater-
lecture hall.
The building will be the first
structure on the H-SU campus to
be constructed with complete air
conditioning facilities.
Olds said masonry work is
presently within two or three
weeks from completion. Roofing
also is almost ready. Inside the
spacious auditorium structural
steel framework comprising the
balcony had been completed and
workmen are pouring concrete for
the elevated flooring. Concrete
homa Oklahoma State Univer-
sity Southern Methodist Univer-
sity Texas A & M College Texas
Christian University Texas Tech-
nological College University of
Texas Texas Woman's University
and Tulane University.
felix k. Mcknight
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entire contents of Chapter 12
in your Psychology text.
You are brought out of your
daze by your roommate who is
now shaking you violently and
grabbing the book. It is only
then that you realize that you
aren't taking psychology but
your roommate is and needs
the book to study . . . and
Chapter 12 isn't even required.
While you've been cramming
for your roomy's exam the dear
old folks at home are thinking
of you and decide to write.
And in this letter they send
the one thing you'd give your
eye-teeth for during the "live"
weeks . . . they send money . . .
with a note that you can spend
it any way you choose and not
just on necessities.
Parents have a subtle way of
getting back at us for the many
little things that rankle them
during our development.
Usually your radio goes on
ABILENE. TEXAS FRIDAY. JANUARY 20
pouring for the stage 'in-99 per
cent complete.
The architect said a consider-
able amount of grading planting
terracing and pouring of side-
walks needs to be done. He esti-
mated the entire building will be
ready within two or three months.
Rose Construction Co. of Abi-
lene is general contractor for the
project with a $467000 contract.
Other contractors and the
amounts of their contracts in-
clude: Plumbing Service Plumb-
ing Co. $16000; air conditioning
Abilene Air Conditioning $120-
000; electrical Bond Electric Co.
$34000 and seating American
Seating Co. of Dallas $50000.
Dr. Reiff said the speech de-
partment will hold its first classes
in the new structure this summer.
Formal dedication services will
be held in the opening convoca-
tion o fthe Fall term. Dr. Reiff
said the University probably will
hold a series of special programs
during that week under the di-
rection of Dr. William O. Beazley
director of institutional services.
While gifts are still being re-
ceived for the chapel-auditorium
however the building fund is
some $450000 shprt of its goal
Dr. Reiff said.
The 1960 graduating class do-
nated money for a clock for the
auditorium while another class
has specified stage furniture.
The president said the Univer-
sity will place memorial plaques
at the end of a row of seat in
the new building when donors
contribute money to purchase
enough seats for a row. The rows
vary from six seats in the bal-
cony to 16 seats downstairs.
Cost per seat is $25 Dr. Reiff
said explaining that the chairs
are the opera type with plush up-
holstering. Byron Bryant director of pub-
lic relations is handling the spe-
cial gifts.
Former H-SU Botany
Teacher To Visit
Dr. Doyle McCoy former bot-
any teacher at Hardin-Simmons
will be on campus Friday. He
arrived Thursday from East Cen-
tral State College at Ada Okla.
where he now teaches Dr. W. D.
Craik proffisor in biology saidt
Dull Note
the blink cutting you off from
the outside world.
(Actually it is a group of
influential citizens who broad-
cast nothing but static in or-
der to drown out Elvis which
is on a par to jamming the
"Voice of America.")
You stay up until 3 a. m. each
morning and drag to class to
drouse feeling in your naive
little heart that your teacher
surely wouldn't be so mean as
to try to inflict new data upon
you at this late stage of the
game.
If you have had some tests
under this teacher earlier this
year (which statistics show is a
possibility) you can just about
figure what the test will be
composed of.
You decide: "It could be 50
per cent true-false and 50 per
cent objective . . . that's the
usual formula." So you study
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HARDIN-SIMMONS
UNIVERSITY
AMD
19G1
No. 16
Night Class
Registration
Set Jan. 31
Students will register Jan. 30
and 31 for the spring semester
in the Student Center. Mrs.
Madge Grba registrar said that
registration will begin at 8 a. m.
both days.
Students will sign up for night
classes Jan. 31 from 7 to 8 p. m.
They also may register at their
appointed times.
Classes will begin Feb. 5 at 8 a.
m. Mrs. Grba stated that some
students will be leaving but sev-
eral beginning freshmen and
transfer students are planning to
enter the school.
Mrs. Grba urged all students
to pick up their packets before the
registration date to help avoid
confusion.
The order of registration for the
spring semester is:
A-Arm 8:30 Tu; Arn-Bd 10
Tu; Be-Bl 11 Tu; Bm-Bq 8:30
M; Br-Cam 1:30 M; Can-Cn 11
M; Co-Cq 1:30 Tu; Cr-De 9:30
M; Df-Ec 10:15 Tu; Ed-Fle 9
Tu; Flf-Gh 9 M; Gi-Gz 9:45
Tu; Ha-Hk 2:45 M; Hl-Hol 9:45
M; Hom-Ha 10 M; I-J 2:45 Hu;
Ka-Lar 10:30 M; Las-Log 10:45
M; Loh-McK '8:45 M; McL-Mh
2:00 Tu; Mi-Mn 2:30 Tu; Mo-
Oo 2:15 M; Op-Pe 2:15 Tu; Pf-
Pz 8: 15 M; Q-Ri 9: 15 M; Rj-Rt
2:30 M; Ru-Sg 2 M; Sh-Sm 1:45
Tu; Sn-Sth 9:30 Tu; Sti-Td 1:45
M; Te-Tr 10:45 Tu; Ts-Wan 8:7$
Tu; Wao-We 10:30 Tu; Wf-Wi
10:15 M; Wj-Wr 8:45 Tu; Ws-
Z 9:15 Tu.
Those helping with registration
will register Monday at 8: 00
Nurses register at 8:00 Tues-
day. Basketball boys will register
9:00-9:15 Monday and 9:00-9:15
Tuesday.
A notice from the registrar's
office stated that students who
are unable to report for registra-
tion at their assigned times be-
cause of work must submit a
statement to the Registrar's Of-
fice from their employer on let-
terhead stationery. When possible
the hour" will be changed but not
the date Mrs. Grba Said.
Final Exams
Next Week!
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