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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1951
Page
3
New LC recruit Vesta Bowers captivates campus in night classes and club circles. She aims for a BA in history and education, eyeing Gamma membership and lead in the Curtain Club play The Warrior's Husband. Once shy at LC night courses, she now thrives, remembered for her cherry red dress and cafeteria stint.
Fraternity life notes warn of wedding bells and deferments as Ray Robertson greets Dan Lamb and Pat dates. Charleen Jackson now Mrs John Adams plans Austin life at U T while Margie Brady and Wyona Schaffer figure in bouquet gossip. Several LC students celebrate deferments easing future worries.
The survey features J. P. Wallace supporting education for the mentally disqualified and others. Kenneth Baird opposes drafting eighteen year olds and veterans. Joe Don Dollar favors drafting eighteen year olds at nineteen for overseas initiation and prioritizing 4-Fs. Ann Matthews questions eighteen year olds and favors delaying draft for carried men and veterans. Violet Piewitz argues for recalling physically able individuals before veterans.
Joe Chandler on leave from Lackland Field requests mailed copies of the Lee Lantern. He asks for five stamped envelopes to be sent to J. F. Koenig or journalism class members for immediate mailing after publication.
The Gamma Phi Kappa sorority at Lee College invites all students to the St Patrick Day Party on Saturday night March 17 1951 in the Bay Town Community Building from 7 30 to 11 00 announced Charlene McCarty president.
The Sigma Alpha Chi sorority will elect a new president as Grace Alexander resigns from the role. All other officers stay in place for the spring semester and no new members have been voted in. An informal spring dinner is planned with date to be announced.
The library announces a broad addition of new drama, reference, and fiction titles. Included are Best Plays volumes, Ethereal Light, Radio's Best Plays, and works by Tennessee Williams, Fry, Eliot, Corwin, and Hemingway among others.
La Porte High School senior Douglas Lawrence now attends Lee College, crossing the channel three nights weekly. He holds a student flying license and flies whenever possible with his National Guard unit. Lawrence is active in drama, music, and hunting, enjoys fishing, and previously led the high school dramatics club and played trumpet in bands.
Psychology and education students gain updated texts including Scheinfeld Mursell Bell Ross Wallin and Cronbach among others. Economics and sociology readers inherit Withers Mund Thompson Hollingshead and Tarbell titles with more to come in the Lee Lantern.
Pat Holitzke was elected president at the Wesley Foundation spring term meeting. Paul Black became vice president and program chairman, Mary K. Langston secretary and treasurer, Linda arated chaplain, with Linda Henningen leading a committee to draft a new charter. A special meeting and later party for members and friends will follow. announcement posted.
Fifteen students have received bids to become members of the Phi Theta Kappa. Sponsor Florence Niell lists the invitees: Joanne Gautesen, Harris Lee Keller, Mary Lou Kirkpatrick, Glenda Mae White, Ralph C. Erwin, Nana Ruth Cooper, Pat Holitzke, Mary K. Langston, Frank Sawberger, Jacqueline Anne Summers, Murphy McNulty, Edwin Thomas, Annie Elizabeth Horn, Dolores Selensky and Wynona Schaeffer. Eligibility requires being in the top ten percent of their class.
Dean Walter Rundell urges students to keep the road into the building and around the old track clear for school buses until 4 p.m. Students should not park on the road before then to ensure access, especially in bad weather.
Gamma Phi Kappa sorority chose Charlene McCarthy as president for the spring semester after Jean Kellogg resigned. Dolly Moskowitz was elected vice president and Glenda White became historian, with June Lewis pledged as the sole new member. Plans for the annual St Patrick's Party were announced.
Phi Theta Kappa held a cake sale on Saturday February 17 to raise funds for delegates attending the National Convention in Independence Kansas March 8 9 and 10 The sale took place in front of Culpepper's furniture store.
The Lee Lantern will publish the second semester counseling list in the next issue. Dates for the psychological examinations will also be included.
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