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September, 1958
THE McMURRY CHIEFTAIN
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Summer Exercises Held
For Graduates, Aug. 28
Graduation exercises for the
1958 summer session at McMurry
College were held August 28 in
the Radford Memorial Auditor-
ium. A total of 55 candidates ap-
plied for summer graduation.
Twenty-two received Master of
Education degrees; 21 Bachelor of
Science; nine, Bachelor of Arts;
and three, Bachelor of Business
Administration.
Candidates for the M. Ed. de-
gree were Jessie W. Aldridge, Jr.,
Lawn; Jane M. Barb, Roby; Roger
C. Bauernfeind, Abilene; Patsy
Fay Bouchette, Clyde; Tommy
Edward Boyd, Throckmorton.
Edwin Lee Chappell, Abilene;
Jean Smith Gann, Abilene; Ima
Elliott Higgins, Sweetwater; Ruth
Whitworth Hodges, Abilene; Floy
Jim Hughs, Abilene; O. M. Isbell,
Stamford; Trudie Isbell, Abilene.
Roy B. Mathews, Santa Anna;
Alma Pauline Owens, Abilene;
Bobby Jack Price, Abilene; Jen-
nie Bess Bigham Russo, Tuscola;
Laura Cornelia Sheridan, Sweet-
water; Katherine Dobbins Shuey,
Abilene.
Barbara June Seidel Swagerty,
Abilene; Alton Wayne Wakefield,
Abilene; Clara G. Weir, Abilene;
and Margaret Anne Young, Bor-
ger.
BA degree candidates included
Eugene Parker Cox, Amarillo, re-
ligion major; Sandra Jeanine
Cross, English major from An-
son; Nelda Faye Dunn, religion
major from Big Spring, and Glyn-
ell Armstrong Hughes, Abilene
English major.
Harry Gene Newton, science
major from Snyder; Howard D.
Quiett, religion major from Abi-
lene; Douglas William Randolph,
White Deer speech major; David
Eugene Stephens, Sweetwater
English major; and Milton Bailey
Teagarden, religion major from
San Angelo.
BBA candidates were Joan Har-
ris Clark, Abilene; Don Ray Kidd,
Ralls; and Risela Brisamor Tala-
mantes, Chihuahua, Mexico.
BS candidates are Frankie Tan-
ner Baker, physical education ma-
jor from Mattson; Patsy Jo Mills
Baker, elementary education ma-
jor from Abilene; Patricia Lee
Bennett, business administration
major from Abilene.
Corrine Lee Blackford, Abilene;
Mrs. Lucy S. Callis, Post; Nancy
Katherine Clifton, elementary ed-
ucation, Slaton; Nancy Katherine
Collins, Irving; Ethel Jones Ellis,
Woodson; and Mrs. Fanny Fay
Feaster, Colorado City, all ele-
mentary education majors.
Robert L. Forbes, Abilene phy-
sical education major; Hollis Rae
Haynes, Stamford elementary ed-
ucation major; Eric Wayne Loon-
ey, Abilene physical education
major; Nancy Dickson McMillan,
Tuscola elementary education ma-
jor; Ruby Nance, Stamford ele-
mentary education major.
Reginald V. Powell, physical
education major from Abernathy;
Norma Lee Rosinbaum, medical
technology major from Abilene;
REV. JAMES PICKENS
Ex-McMurrians Meet
In Radford Building
The Abilene Ex-Student Asso-
ciation held a meeting in the Rad-
ford Memorial Student Life Cen-
ter, September 21. Jim Couch,
newly elected president, presided
at the meeting.
In the discussion of the new
business, the organization voted
to meet twice a year, once shortly
before homecoming in the fall and
sometime around Founder's Day,
April 5, in the spring.
The meeting was then turned
over to Brad Rowland and plans
were made for homecoming ac-
tivities.
Serving on the committee for
the social Friday night are Mr.
and Mrs. Mason Altman, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmo Cure, Mrs. L. W. Fry,
Melba Rucker, Myrtlee Bennett,
Dub Hale, Vic Baldridge, Len
Johnson, Jim Couch, Joe Burk,
Susanne Rowland, and Judy Jar-
rett.
The welcoming committee, who
will work all day Saturday, is
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harwell,
Eddie Springer, T. G. Carter, Sha-
ron Jarrett, Len Johnson, John
English, David Hambliss, Wayne
Graham, and Dick Buckley.
Other ex-students who attended
the meeting were Mr. and Mrs.
Tom M. Johnston, Mrs. Jim
Couch, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Fry,
J. Arlie Garner, Robert Eastus,
Jr., Bill Fiveash, Dick Buckley,
Dr. Gordon Bennett, Mrs. Walter
Jarrett, Jerry Turner, Mrs. Pat
Soladay, Thomas Harrison, Mrs.
Fran Burk, Joe Burk, Martin Car-
gile, Milburn Warner, Gene Hoop-
er, Jim Pickens, Mrs. Bill Five-
ash, Mrs. R. C. Fry, and Garnet
Gracy.
DR. ALVICE YEATS
Three Members Added to McMurry Faculty
New Staff Members Serve
As Hostess, Secretary
Three new faculty members and
two new staff persons were on
hand this month to greet arrivals
on the Reservation, with further
additions to the college staff to
be announced soon.
Dr. Sina Mott, who will be as-
sociate professor of elementary
education, comes to M^cMurry
from Southern University of Illi-
nois, Carbondale, 111. She had
ino? at the Illinois School since
1936.
Author of several manuscripts
in the field of education, Dr. Mott
graduated from Iowa State Teach-
ers College in 1923. She was
awarded the MA degree by New
York University in 1930, and the
i£>'c o,by the same institution in
i9o5. She has done post graduate
work in the University of Chicago
and the University of London
Dr. Alvice W. Yeats, a 1932
graduate of McMurry, joins the
English department as an asso-
ciate professor this year. Dr. Yeats
has been a member of the faculty
of Sam Houston State College
Huntsville.
He received the MA degree in
English from the University of
Texas in 1940, and has this sum-
mer completed his Ph. D. work
at the same institution.
The McMurry graduate, consid-
ered an outstanding Kipling schol-
ar, will also serve as a library
consultant to the University of
Texas during his tenure at Mc-
Murry.
The third newcomer to hold
faculty rank is the Rev. James
T. Pickens, a 1948 graduate of
McMurry. Mr. Pickens has been
named Minister to McMurry Col-
lege by the Northwest Texas Con-
ference of the Methodist Church.
Both the newly-appointed col-
lege chaplain and his wife, the
former Mary Ann McCollum, are
McMurry graduates.
He also holds the BD degree
from Perkins school of Theology,
SMU, Mrs. Pickens holds both the
BA and BS degrees from Mc-
Murry.
Mrs. Alta Rochelle, mother of
McMurry junior Ray Rochelle,
has been named hostess for Presi-
dent Hall, girls' dormitory. She
succeeds Mrs. Amanda Phillips as
hostess for the hall, Mrs. Phillips
having become hostess at Hunt
Memorial Dormitory.
Mrs. Rochelle, who had been a
resident of Littlefield or the Lit-
tlefield community for some 24
years prior to her coming to Mc-
Murry, worked there as a book-
keeper for a local firm. She is a
graduate of Hedley High School.
Mrs. Bernice Brunner will act
as secretary to the Dean of the
College this year. An Abilene res-
ident for three and a half years,
Mrs. Brunner has been employed
by a local oil company.
She has a 16-year-old daughter
attending Abilene High School.
The new secretary to the Dean
graduated from Quanah High and
attended Texas Wesleyan College,
Fort Worth.
Letha Gwendolyn Scott, music
education major from Stamford.
Mrs. Elvira Smith, Tahoka; and
Mrs. Helen Soladay, Abilene, both
elementary education majors; and
Charlotte Ann Wheeler, business
administration from Tulia.
DR. SINA MOTT
Two Faculty Members
Leave McMurry Campus
The dean of the school of busi-
ness administration at McMurry
College, Dr. Andrew Rockover-
Cecil, has resigned to accept a
position at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.
Dr. Gordon Bennett, president
of McMurry, announced that Dr.
Rockover had resigned, effective
September 1, to become executive
director and director of Continued
Legal Education of the South-
western Legal Foundation at
SMU.
Dr. Bennett also announced that
Mrs. Cecil, who had been an as-
sociate professor in the language
department, submitted her resig-
nation along with that of her hus-
band.
Mrs. Rockover, who had been
a member of the college faculty
the last seven years, previously
served as manager of the Radford
Building and hostess on the cam-
pus. She later was given full fac-
ulty status as associate professor
in the language department.
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