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Seventy years ago this month, a
group of Tarleton students began a
project.
They wanted to circulate infor-
mation around the campus about what
was going on and what was impor-
tant to student life. To do this, they
began a newspaper called theJ-TAC.
Although by some the meaning
of these letters has been forgotten, it
was an anachronism for John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College.
The people who began the paper
were Riley E. Yarbrough, Clifton
Burnett, Barton "The Screws"
Lawson, Lucy Lee Young, Zelda
Tubbs, Frank Matheny, and Henry
Lee Purvis.
These people began and oper-
ated a newspaper using ordinary
typewriters and worked as best they
pould.
In the "Class History, 1920"
printed in the Grassburr that year
was the following dedication from
the original J-TAC staff: "We trust
that the students of the future classes
will uphold the standards of this paper
wich we have named and started in
its upward climb."
Exactly seven decades ago, a
young man named Barton "The
Screws" Lawson held the position
which I hold today.
I look back and I wonder if we
had anything in common. Did he
work long hours hoping to help
people see the world as he did? Did
he love to write, and did he get that
wonderful feeling inside when some-
rf'ooe told him that he had talent?-'
.' Did he beat himself mentally for
every mistake which appeared in his
papers? Did he ache when people
insulted the paper? Did he try to
satisfy everyone who brought him
things to put in the paper, and did he
feel regret when there just wasn't
enough room for everything.
Did he feel as though he did his
best to make as many people as
possible happy, but he only seemed
to make people angry?
Did he know that one day, 70
years later, a young man who is his
successor would look back through
time at, his accomplishments and
know a small part of the pressure as
well as the satisfaction that he must
have felt?
I also wonder what his staff must
have been like. I wonder if they were
anything like the staff I have been
blessed with.
I believe that they must have
been very amazing people to have
the determination to establish a
newspaper which has lasted for 70
years. They began what has become
a strong tradition at Tarleton.
I look at my staff today, and I
believe we would have made them
proud. They would be glad to know
that the determination and dedica-
tion that they brought into this proj-
ect has come down to us and is pres-
ent today in 1990.
I believe that Barton was proud
of his staff and grew very close to
them. It's impossible to work this
close and not care about each other.
Julie Grider, Features Editor, sits
in front of the terminal eyery week
5 and screams and rages, at tliel screen
because she has writers block, but
she looks great to me because I know
she will come through when the time
comes. She takes pride in her job
with good reason; she does it very
well. I would put her up against any
person on the staff, past, present, or
future.
Amie Campbell (Cunningham
actually, but I still think she'll even-
tually see the light, leave Jim and
spend the rest of her life desperately
trying to buy my affection), Manag-
ing Editor, keeps everyone's head on
straight, especially mine. Without
her we would all be lost. When
people think I have the newspaper
well organized, I'm usually taking
credit for her talent She would make
the 1920 staff very proud.
Crissa Nugen, Staff Writer, is
always a ray of sunshine. Days come
when we are nothing but a bunch of
grumbling, tired, motley bunch of
journalists, and Crissa comes in and
like the guy in the Coast comeicials
who sniffs the soap and gets happy,
we all feel better. She also makes me
take my vitamins.
Mike Marbach, Sports Editor,
has never been afraid to blaze new
trails. Sometimes I have to force him
to stay on at least some of the old
trails, but I know Barton would have
been proud of his pioneer spirit.
Glory Neeper, Ads Co-ordina-
tor, is never afraid to roll her sleaves
up or let her fangs show. She makes
us honest. She would never let us
give up. Sometimes she makes this
place so much fun that I forget how
hard I'm working.
Recent recruits include Tiffany
Holdridge, whom I assure you has
only taken a temporary leave of
absence. She'll be back, I hope, and
Christy Moore.
Top 10 o-tistvers to
park-in^ pro&Um
10, Picture it: Car pyramids
9. Invade McDonald's and force them to trade spaces for hostages.
8. Tlirn the Toro Team into a Valet parking service
7* Drive through window in the Dining Hall.
6. Exercise from walking to class may count as P.E. credit.
5, Land mines and armed guards for Reserved spaces,
4. Tickets! Tickets! More Tickets! That's the answer! * Campus Police
3. Phone registration? Why not Phone attendance?
% Instead of towing, Sell the Cars! Tarleton Used Cars!
1, Don't drink and drive. Free beer for students who walk to school!
angry, and 1 would not try to hold her
back. She has a determination that I
think the 1920 staff would have
appreciated and respected.
Every semester, new faces ap-
pear here at the office. Some of them
make a mark and last, others seem to
go as quickly as they came.
Those that are here now are more
than just my staff, they are my friends
and partners.
Seventy years ago this month, a
group of Tarleton students founded a
newspaper that paved the road that
we would eventually follow, and
Dreams
the world turn
today, we produce the highest con-
Christy began working here this sistent quality newspaper in Tarle-
semester, and I'm glad I could be ton history.
here for it She did not come in here I like to think that Barton "The
timid and afraid. She came in confi- Screw" Lawson cared for his staff as
dent but not cocky. That alone much as I do and was as proud of
impressed me, but to back it up, she them as I am of mine, and I like to
When I was in preschool I lived
for linoleum floors...
hp peat talent I feel as though I'm think that some nights as we wqrk;, or concrete, hard wood or any other
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signing a year book.in High-School • -here, tliat those young, fiery men' and;
when I say this, but I really believe women look through the years and
she will go far. I've seen her get smile on us approvingly.
I don t think I ever believed in
myself strong enough. I never
thought I could make it without
surface that Would make a sufficient " rrioney and lots of dance classes. So
TSU
for a Safe University
CRIME OF THE WEEK
T exans
?WYlU.t
FOR WEEK OF
11/26/90
A VANISHING TREE.
There once was a ficus tree in the Clyde Wells Fine Arts Center. The tree
decorated the hall beside the large theater. On Thursday, November
8th, the 250 lb.+ tree and chrome pot vanished.
Evidence indicates the tree was taken out of the theater exit. The exit
opens to the loading dock side of the Fine Arts Center. There it is
believed that the tree was loaded into a vehicle. The missing ficus tree
is 7 ft. tall and is in a chrome pot. The chrome pot is about 18" diameter.
If you have information about the VANISHING TREE, please call Crime
Stoppers. Anything stolen from TSU is stolen from all of us.
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If you have information that could help solve the above crime,
Crime Stoppers wants to reward you for your help.
REWARD REQUIREMENTS
FELONY CASES - The offender must be arrested and Grand Jury Indictment issued for same.
MISDEMEANOR CASES - The offender must be arrested and complaint and information filed by the
County Attorney or referral to the Dean of Students at Tarleton State University for administrative
discipline. ,
CRIME STOPPERS will pay you up to $1,000 on felony crimes and up to
$100 on misdemeanor crimes.
CALL 965-CASH
PERSONS INELIGIBLE FOR REWARD
Peace Officers or members of their immediate family.
Members of the Crime Stoppers Board or members of their immediate family.
Any party to the crime being reported or a member of their immediate family.
INVESTIGATOR, RANDALL DOLLOFF ,
T. S. U. CRIME STOPPERS COORDINATOR
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tapping noise.
Grocery stores were always fun
too. I would drive my mother crazy
shuffling along behind her up and
down the aisles performing the new
time steps I learned that week to the
grocery store music.
Needless to say my nickname
was twinkle toes.
I had a dream back then and it
lasted almost fourteen years. I was
going to be a dancer. I absolutely
loved being in Ae spotlight, wearing
sparkley costumes and blending with
the music that I loved so much.
That dream carried me through
a lot of hard times and dissappoint-
ments. I could always get away from
life and the pressures of junior high
and high school and family through
dancing and the dream of going to
Broadway. ,
Dreams are wonderful because
now matter what people can take
from you, they can't take your dreams
away.
What happened to my big
dream? Times got hard, money got
scarce and my dream wore away
along with the callouses on my feet
and toes.
I've heard it said that "Believing
is the beginning of a dream come
true."
I gave up.
I'm not altogether dissappointed
for I never would have found my
great love and ability for writing and
newspapers otherwise.
One of my favorite poems is by
Langston Hughes entitled Harlem.
"What happens to a dream defered?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun,
or explode?"
Dreams don't ever compledy go
away; Deep down we all have those
secret childhood fantasies. We
always wish for tilings in the back of
our minds.
I still have a hard time keeping
my feet still on linoleum floors.
Dreams come and go, but with-
out them people would have nothing
to live for. I think dreams are what
make the world go round.
Now my great dream is to stay
in Texas, live on a ranch, marry a
cowboy, have four kids, write for the
Quarter Horse Journal and ride cut-
ting horses for the rest of my life.
Will this dream come tnie? I'm
working on it. I believe in it this
time.
And if it doesn't, I suppose
another I'll dream up another life-
time goal for myself.
The best thing about dreams is
you can have as many as you want.
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