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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1950
Page
4
Opinion pieces question whether American college sports have commercialized. They note football programs attract top players with financial backing and scholarships, compare pay of athletics leaders to governors, and discuss bands, television bans, and attendance concerns amid major school programs.
Kenneth Baird is elected president of Lambda Chi fraternity for the spring semester with Dan Lamb as vice president James Buchanan as secretary and Albert Muller as historian. Other business includes new member nominations stunt night plans a February social and a student council decoration vote for the spring formal and an assembly in March being discussed.
A quotation attributed to Josephus Henry notes that children, at a young age, are not permitted to imitate or act as their parents did. The line frames childhood as a stage of restraint and growth rather than absolute emulation of adult behavior.
The table tennis mixed doubles crowned Billy Poston and Grace Alexander champions last Tuesday night. Raymond Ingrando and Doris Lively took second. Arnold Smith and Dolly Moskowitz finished third.
CBS announces a nationwide college writing contest to foster new television writers. Four prizes of 500 dollars for one hour scripts or 250 dollars for half hour scripts will be awarded, starting March 31, 1950, with monthly follow ups through the spring term. Applications go to CBS Awards at 15 East 47th Street New York or to James F Koenig at Lee College.
Taylor Miller profiles a diverse group of Lee College newcomers including a Mississippi river boat captain, a Navy veteran, a city worker studying medicine, a fisherman, and others from Arkansas to Kansas. The piece highlights varied backgrounds and motives for pursuing higher education.
Beginning Sunday February 12 the college library will open 2 to 5 p.m. through April to aid students who work and cannot access the library during the week. Miss Sylvia Stern, librarian, announced Lois Helen Bedinger will be in charge. Unless students avail themselves of these facilities the privilege will be withdrawn.
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