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"SERVING TARLETON STATE COLLEGE SINCE 1919"
Box 337, Tarleton Station
VIKINGS
38TH YEAR
STEPHENVILLK, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1958
NUMBER 5,
Go-Ahead Given for Campus Expansion
Coeds
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Sponsor Cap
Eight.freshman Tarleton coeds
will bo capped as BOTC company
sponsors in a ceremony between
the halVes of the Tatleton-Del Mar
game here Saturday night.
Chosen to represent the Battle
Group Commanders*and their staff
is Pat Thompson, an art major
from Morgan, Texas.
Company A selected Annette
Cash, secondary education major
from Gran bury, to be its represen-
tative.
Linda Woods, elementary educa-
tion major from De Leon, will rep-
resent B Company, Company C
chose Laurie Cone, business major
irojn Fort. Sam Houston,
Marilyn Ferguson of Stephen-.
. ville, who is majoring in music
educaton is the choice of Company
F. Martha Smith, elementary edu-
catiop major from Austin, will
represent G Company.
Patsy Creel of Graham, who is
majoring1 in elementary education,
will represent the Band,
Carol Edmfeton, freshman ele-
mentary education major of We-
iit.horl'ord, was elected as sponsor
' '"by E company. ---
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$■ pi mt
CAMPUS EXPANSION—The cross-hatched area in the drawing
above shows the area which the college is seeking to purchase for
the future expansion of the1 school plant and facilities. The area
would join the campus proper with the drill and athletic fields.
FFA to Select
A Sweetheart
Twenty-five members were pres-
ent at the first collegiate FFA
meeting in the Agriculture Audi-
tori u mon Sept. 29, reports Weldon
Schmidt, reporter.
The Tarl'eton officers have just
completed installing- all district of-
ficers of Area Four, a three weeks
job.
The g'roup made plans for the
coming year, Schmidt said.
The chapter sweetheart wll be
elected tonight after the program,
"The Football Highlights of '57,"
■which will begin at G:30 in the
Agriculture Auditorium.
Everyone is invited to attend the
meeting. However, Schmidt wishes
to remind FFA'ers that' they must
pay their dues before they can
vote.
The Wainwright Rifles will leave
Tardleton State College Friday at
noon for the State Fair in Dallas
where they will perform a special
drill routine in the Hall of State
Plaza at 4 p.m. The Wainwright.s
axe part of the special program
for honoring higher education in
Texas.
Frosh Elect Treasurer,
Reporter and Sponsors
The remaining freshman class
officers elected last week were
Nelda Mims as treasurer and
Gl'oria Cates as reporter.
Elected as freshman class spons-
ors were Dr. 0. A. Grant, professor
of social scence, and Miss Lee
Edwin Terry, associate professor
of home economics. Dr, Grant serv-
ed as senior sponsor last year, and
Miss Terry as freshman.sponsor.
Miss Mims, a secondary educa-
tion major of Hobbs, New Mexico,
was a member of the Student
Council and the National Honor
S'ociety of Hobbs' High School.
Miss Cates is a liberal arts major
from Kaufman. At Kaufman High
School she was a class officer, hand
ott'icer, Football Queen, Spanish
Club officer, and an FHA officer,
Allen Anz of Waco was elected
freshman cl'ass president in an
earlier meeting. Elected at the
same meeting were Jerry Rhodes
of Waco, vice-president, and Carol
Edmiston of Weatherford, secre-
tary.
Wac Major Will
Give Travelogue
Major A. H. Ashmead of the
Women's Army Corps will lecture
and show slides for Tarleton stu-
dents Wednesday at 4 p. m. in the
Agriculture Auditorium. She will
discuss Egypt, Greece, and the
Holy Land.
Major Ashmead, who is stationed
at Camp Wolters in Mineral Well's,
has traveled extensively with the
Army in the Near East, Middle
East, and Europe.
The lecture and slide showing
will be for students of History 107
and other persons who want to at-
tend, according to Dr. O, A. Grant,
professor of social science.
Brownwood Funeral Is
Slated for J. £. Trawick
Joe E. Trawick, 30, Tarleton
State College band director died at
5:30 a.m. Monday in Stephenvllie
Hospital after a brief illness. ■
Trawick was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Evans E. Trawick, formerly
of Brownwood and living now in
Fort Worth. He came to Tarleton
in 1957 from Howard Payne Col-
lege in Brownwood whcr he had
been assistant band director.
He was a graduate of Howard
Payne with a. bachelor of music
and education degree and while
there had written march music
for the band and was assistant/
director of the symphonic Orches-
tra. He also attended Southern
Methodist University and was
director of the freshman band. He
was named to Who's Who in
American Colleges iii 195G.
Trawick had taught school in
Bangs and t.he Dallas Elementary
School System.
Services are panding with the
Davis Morris Funeral Home in
Brownwood.
E. R. HENNINGSEN
Major Air Reserve
Local Air Reserve
Flight Needs Men
A recruiting drive by the 9875th
Air Reserve Squadron, Flight D,
will begin on the TSC campus this
week announced Major E. R. Hen-
ningsen, assistant flight com-
mander and instructor of geology.
Major Henningsen said the Re-
serve group is attempting to con-
tact all ex-servicemen on the cam-
pus and explain the Air Force Re-
serve to them. He said regardless
of what branch of the armed serv-
ices they were previously in, they
could become' members of the re-
serve flight in Stepjienville,
He said a man can earn retire-'
ment, promotions, training, travel
and pay benefits by participating
in the reserve program. The flight
meets three times monthly in the
Fry Room of the Farmers First
National Bank for short meetings.
Ex-servicemen who still have a
reserve obligation to fulfill can re-
ceive pay benefits and promotions
while they are in college, Major
Henninstsen said. "It seems like
an ideal way to suplement,finances
while going to school."
Sixteen Nations
Represented on
Tarleton' Campus
The total fall enrollment at Tar-
leton State of 1078 is comprised of
students from 16 different coun-
tries, 13 states, and 130 Texas
counties, according to Regirtsar
Stuart Chilton,
In a breakdown of enrollment
Chiton said that 1016 students
were from Texas, 20 from outside
states, and 42 from foreign coun-
tries.
The TSC registrar said that the
represented point fartherest from
the campus is Iran. El Paso County
is the most distant county in Texas
represented, and Connecticut, the
most northerly state.
The 130 counties out of, 254
Texas counties represented com-
pare to 125 counties last year, The
top counties with students at TSC
are Erath with 195 students;
Hamilton, 43; Tarrant, 42; Mc-
Lennan, 41; Comanche, 40; Cory-
ell, 33; Palo Pinto, 30; Hood, 2G;
Eastland, 25, and Bell 24.
The leading outside state repre-
sented is New Mexico with four
students. Other states represented
are California, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland,
North Carolina, Connecticut, Mis-
sissippi, , New Jersey, and New
York..
Of the foreign countries Cuba
lias the largest number of students
at Tarleton with seven. The other
foreign countries represented are
Iraq, Iran, Mexico, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Vene-
zuela, Panama, Honduras, Co3ta
Rica, the Dominican Republic,
Uruguay, and Brazil.
Bands Contacted
For HC Parade
Dr. Don W, Morton, head of the
Tarleton State fine arts depart-
ment, announced today that he has
contacted several high school bands
in the Steplionville area to play in
the Homecoming parade.
He added that he expects at
least four or five bands for this
year's attraction.
Construction
OK'd on New
Health Center
In its regularly scheduled meet-
ing- at College Station Sept. 4, the
Board of Directors of the Texas
A & M System gave Tarleton State
College the go-ahead on current,
construction plans and future ex-
pansion of the campus.
The board awarded the contract
for the erection of the $200,000'
student health center which will
be located in the southeast comer
of the campus at the intersection
of Washington avenue and Me-
Ilhaney street. The frame building
near the Main Auditorium which
has proved inadequate in recent
years. The center will bo com-
pletely air conditioned and out-
fitted with modern furniture and
equipment.
Construction of two parking lots,
ona behind the Agriculture Build-
ing' and the other between tha
College Store and Shop Building as
far east, as the Lucy Hennigart
hospital was approved and work,
will begin in a few days.
In other board, action, the direc-
tors approved a plan to expand the
TSC campus by the acquisition of
property which lies between Tar-
leton avenue and Vanderbilt, and
between the njain campus and the
athletic fields.'1
President E. J. Howell, returning-
the college last week, said that the
section will join, the campus pro-
perty and provide sites for build-
ings designated in the master plan
of the college. He said the college
now has options to purchase 10 of
the 19 pieces of property which lia
in the area of acquisition.
Tha addition of the property to
college holdings will provide ne-
cessary space for future expansion
of the school plant and facilities,.
Foreign Students
Interviewed on
TSC Radio Show
"Meet the Tarleton Students,"
a program by the Tarleton State
College speech department on radio
station KSTV, interviewed four
Latin American students last week.
Produced and directed by Miss
Lillie V. Lillard, head of the de-
partment, the program is designed
to give practical training and ex-
perience to speech students. Ac-
cording to Miss Lillard, the pro-
gram consists of interviews, camp-
us news, and speeches.
On its fifth broadcast lest week,
Miss Lillard interviewed Carlos
Trujillo of Peru, Oscar Leon Dcl-
gado of Cuba, Augusto Cruzalegui
of Peru, and Carlos Kail of
Venezuela. The toreign students
discussed their impressions of the
United States and Cruzalegui play-
ed several songs on the harmonica.
Grassburr Deadline
Monday is the absolute dead-
line for students and faculty
members to have GRASSBURR
pictures made.
Students who have not had
their pictures made may do so
before Monday by paying a 25
cent penalty.
Coeds are asked by Editor Sue
Kenny to wear dark clothing;
non - military., male., students,
coats and ties; and corps mem-
bers, Class A uniforms.
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