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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1966
Page
2
With eight days to the entry deadline, the Student Council voted six to four to cancel the talent show due to lack of applications. The event had been set for January 28 after being postponed from December 17 and then from December 10 because of Picnic.
Author Fred Gipson, famed for Old Yeller, spoke at Lee College last week to a small audience while college leaders discussed building plans. The editorial questions whether Gipson’s visit should have had its own session separate from the joint Lyceum assembly.
A New Year message urges cooperation among Lee College students to advance education and strengthen the campus community. The piece links personal improvement with collective effort, arguing shared responsibility and going beyond one’s own load to create a college to be proud of.
Students describe last minute study habits and late nights before final exams. They note procrastination, distractions, caffeine, and fatigue that hinder memory and performance, ending with the realization that effort arrives too late to help.
In Wales on July 1 1919 wheat grew on land owned by William Calvert marking the first crop in a decade after barley and a fallow period. The robust yield puzzled observers as to why it appeared. The London Daily Express report from 14 Oct 1925 warned Edale Derbyshire residents of a nocturnal werewolf terror with large black slayings and torn carcasses, causing widespread fear and nightly household confinement.
Drama instructor Thur man Rowlett says the play will now run March 11 and 12 instead of March 4 and 5 due to the Texas Student Education Association convention occurring that weekend.
Mr. James Miller geology teacher new to Lee College resides at 402 Long Drive with wife Sarah and daughter Jamie. A Shreveport Geological Society of America member, he grew up in Cotton Valley Louisiana where petroleum work sparked his teaching career. He studied at Louisiana Tech and Emory University and aims for a PhD at the University of Texas. His current projects include publishing new work as he continues to build his life on a rock.
The Student Union buzzes from morning to afternoon as students gather at private tables for an hour before classes. George Rector, Betty Stephenson, Sonia Strickland, David Don and Christie Proctor are among early arrivals. Ping pong games start around 7 30 with spectators filling the balcony while Cadet Don airs the 7 30 news in the TV room. Chess players appear at first period and activity continues steadily through 3 p.m. The crowd, often called skippers, uses free periods to study play and gossip.
A stream of campus items lists personal notes and resolutions from students and staff. Entries cover habits, fashion, work in offices and labs, and small pledges for the coming year, including a few humorous or lighthearted remarks about daily life on campus.
The week adds four new TV shows including Batman and Shindig with next week bringing The Baron and The Long Hot Summer amid shifting time slots. Liberace performs January 15 16 at the Music Hall and Sound of Music tops Houston run weeks record.
Two former Lee College students, O. G. Weir and H. W. Kinsey, have been promoted within Esso Research and Engineering Company Baytown R and D Division. Weir becomes a research technologist working on numerical methods and digital computing at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery. Kinsey advances to research technologist analyzing petroleum and petrochemical products with infrared spectrometry. The Weirs reside in Baytown at 1905 Kilgore Road. the Kinseys at 409 N Burnet Drive. Their son H. W. Jr. is a business student at the University of Arkansas.
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