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McMURRY COlLLGC
CHIEFTAIN
Vol. 16 Number 1
PUBLISHED BY McMURRY COLLEGE, ABILENE, TEXAS
October, 1967
A Report
From
The President
We are beginning a new year, and
things look bright on the reservation. We
have all been giving thanks for Mrs. Basil
Ryan's great legacy. She, with her hus-
band, has been coming to the campus
for years, and here it was that she
sensed the potential of greatness. We
grieved at her passing last February, but
the generous gift
from her estate will
perpetuate her mem-
ory and provide op-
portunity for growth
in academic talents
and spiritual char-
acter. Her gift comes
at a strategic time
as we prepare to
launch a multimil-
lion dollar campaign
to strengthen our endowment and com-
plete our master building plan.
In addition to the fine arts building
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Bring Seniors Along
To Homecoming, McM
Urges Its Alumni
Dr. BENNETT
McMurry students and the Alumni As-
sociation staff are pooling their energies
and imaginations to make this year's
Homecoming on Oct. 20-21 a festive and
rewarding event.
The returning of the exes will mark the
renewal of all the McMurry Homecoming
traditions, highlighted as always by the
erection of Tepee Village for the enter-
tainment of exes and competitive judging.
Kicking off a full slate of events will
be a Thursday night torchlight pep rally
when torches will be lighted in Wah
Wahtaysee Park. A student assembly at
7 a.m. Friday morning will be following
by furious activities as the students pre-
pare Tepee Village for the 10 a.m. open-
ing.
Tepee Village has received widespread
interest since it was conceived in 1951.
Not only alumni but thousands of area
school children and their teachers tour
the site each year to get an authentic
look at Indian life in the Southwest.
Because of this interest, the Alumni As-
sociation is suggesting that exes invite
some of their home town seniors to ac-
company them to this year's Homecom-
ing. This would enable many prospective
students to visit the campus and meet
with some of the students.
Already announcing plans is the Lub-
bock area chapter. This group hopes to
bring three buses—two of alumni and one
for seniors, B. E. Young, Jr., chapter pres-
ident, has announced. They will arrive on
the campus Saturday morning and re-
turn to Lubbock that evening after at-
tending the day's Homecoming events.
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Board to Decide How McMurry Will
Use New Million Dollar Gift
A memorial gift of one million dollars
from the estate of the late Amy Graves
Ryan of El Paso was announced by Mc-
Murry President Gordon R. Bennett at
the close of the summer commencement
August 18.
Basil Ryan, trustee of McMurry and re-
tired El Paso businessman, conveyed the
gift to the college on behalf of his late
wife.
The gift has been directed to the Mc-
Murry College development and building
program, according to Dr. Bennett. It is in
the form of common stock of Gulf and
Western Industries, Inc. of Houston and
New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan have also
contributed other stock to McMurry dur-
ing the past several years.
Disposition of the Ryan gift will be de-
cided at the October meeting of the
Board of Trustees. The Executive Commit-
tee of the Board of Trustees was slated to
make recommendations to the board as
to use of the gift at its September meet-
ing.
Dr. Bennett hailed the gift as a "major
breakthrough in _the college's building
and development program." He said it
would be the initial major gift in the
forthcoming Greater McMurry Golden
Anniversary Fund Campaign, scheduled
to begin in the spring of 1968. Goal for
the campaign is $10 million between
1968 and 1973, when McMurry will cele-
brate its golden anniversary.
Major aims in the Golden Anniversary
Fund Campaign are three new buildings
—a fine arts center, a fieldhouse-gym-
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