The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 23, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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Dance
After Game
53rd Year
Wednesday, February 23,1972
No. 16
GYM DEDICATION SET FOR FED. 26
by Jay Louis Evans
The greatest galaxy of stars ever to
shine on the campus of Tarleton State
College is expected in Stephenville on
Feb. 26 when the formal dedication of
Wisdom Gymnasium will .be held on the
TSC campus.
The gymnasium, in Tarleton's new
Health and Physical Education Building,
will be dedicated to W. J. Wisdom who
coached at Tarleton from 1920 until
1943.
A large number of former Wisdom
athletes from throughout the Southwest
have already indicated they will attend
the reception honoring Wisdom, and the
formal dedication of the gymnasium at
halftime of the Tarleton-Howard Payne
College Lone Star Conference basketball
game.
Returning to the Tarleton campus
will be members of the teams that won
18 Texas State Junior College champion-
ships in football, basketball, and baseball
during Wisdom's 23-year tenure, and for-
mer Plowboys of the 1930 decade who
established a world's record 86 consecu-
tive wins in basketball.
Listed among Coach Wisdom's athletes
are many men who went on to play
major college basketball and football,
two men who served as head basketball
coach at the University of Texas, a former
head basketball coach at UT Arlington,
a Texas high school football "coach of
the year," the head basketball coach
at Lamar Tech, the winningest coach in
Texas college basketball, the coach of the
world's champion Wayland Flying
Queens, a man recently inducted into the
Iowa High School Coach's Sports Hall of
Fame, Texas A&M's "most valuable bas-
ketball player two consecutive years,
and three-fifths of the University of
Texas basketball team that played in the
NCAA western regional tournament in
San Francisco's Cow Palace in 1939,
Coach Wisdom recalls a basketball
game in the late 1930's between the
Longhoras and the Aggies when eight of
the ten players on the floor were former
Plowboys, and a 1938 college tournament
in Oklahoma City where 12 of the players
listed on the various rosters were his
"boys."
The reception honoring Coach and Tarleton Center from 4 until 5:30 p,m.
Mrs. Wisdom, their children, and Wis- preceding the Saturday ball game and
dom's former athletes will be held in the gym dedication.
I
Imperial Nightingale'
Begins Show March 9
Moomaw Services Scheduled
Funeral services have been set for
1:30 p.m. today for Kenneth R. Moo-
maw, a 23-year old Tarleton student
killed in a parachute accident near Val-
ley Mills Friday.
Services will be heid in the chapel
of Stephenville Funeral Home with burial
at West End Cemetery. R.O.T.C, cadets
James Kindel, Mike Robinson, Perry
Bennett, Hugh Bryan, Mack Alford,
and J. D. Matlock will act as pall-
bearers.
Eight cadets will man a rifle team
to fire a salute at graveside.
Moomaw, senior physical education
major at TSC, was in the second round of
jumps for the day. He was the second of
eight members of a recently formed sky-
diving club from Stephenville to dive
from the twin-engine plane above the
small airport.
Witnesses said Moomaw jumped from
the plane about 5:30 p.m. Friday from
an altitude of 3,000 feet. His main para-
chute became a "streamer," according to
witnesses and his auxilliaiy chute became
entangled with the snarled main para-
chute,
Moomaw's body landed in a field near
the airport. He was pronounced dead on
arrival at a Waco Hospital. McLennan
County Justice of the Peace Joe Johnson
returned a ruling of accidental death.
Moomaw graduated from Bel ton High
School in 1967 and was due to graduate
from Tarleton in August, He worked for
Stephenville public schools as a bus driv-
er. Before moving to Bel ton six years
ago, Moornaw lived in Fort Meade. Md,
Survivors include his wife, Tonya,
currently a TSC student: his parents,
George (J. Moomaw, .a retired Army
sergeant-major working at Da Narig,'
South Vietnam, and Mrs, Veronica Moo-
maw of Morgan's Point near Belton; a
sister Mrs. Juanita Kelly of Killeen; and
three brothers, Kevin and Dennis Moo-
maw, both of Morgan's Point, and Ron-
ald Moomaw, also a Tarleton student,
by W. K. Vandygriff
The Tarleton Players have invited sev-
eral groups of children and a group of
adults to be their guests at two special
matinee performances of "The Imperial
Nightingale."
The Players' invitation was extended
to fifty students, members of four special
education classes and one kindergarten
class from Central Ward Elementary
School. Also invited were fifty students
from the Foster Home for Children and
35 adults from the Senior Citizens Club,
These various groups will attend matinee
performances of "The Imperial Nightin-
gale" during the week of March 9-16,
Mrs, Mary Jane Mingus, director of
the Tarleton Players, said, "We invited
these particular groups because we felt
some of them might not be able to at-
tend otherwise."
She further stated, "The Players want
to instigate a biennial children's produc-
tion so that some of these kids can see
some form of live art." Mrs. Mingus com-
mented "It's a shame when you see some
students leaving high school who have
never seen a play."
Bill Tanner, who will portray the char-
acter of Bamboo in "The Imperial Night-
ingale" said, "I think, if we take the time
to put on a children's production, we
should try to see that most of the kids
get an opportunity to come."
Mrs, Tommie Riggjns, speaking for the
special education classes at Central Ward
Elementary, said that they were very
pleased with the invitation.
"We've been invited to the last three
children's productions and are always
thrilled," she said, "It always leaves,
a lasting impression in the children's
minds."
She said that when her class attended
the performance of "Cinderella" the
prince tried the glass slipper on one girl's
foot, but it would not fit. Mrs. Riggins
said that the little girl went around for
days asking what would have happened
if the shoe had fit. She told the little girl
Players Continued on Page 6
VALENTINE FOR VALENTINE,-- Jane Valentine,
senior elementary education major from Lubbock,
and Ronnie Sullins, senior agriculture major from
Oglesby, were named Valentine Queen anci jQng
at the Sweetheart dance'"Jifcld Friday, Feb. 1J.
Second runners-up were Suzan Smith and Wayne
Allen, and third runners-up were Eddie Garner
and Judy Randolph. Jerry Cox substituted for
Wayne Allen who was not present.
(Photo Courtesy ot Miller's Studio)
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 23, 1972, newspaper, February 23, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth141237/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.