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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1953
Page
3
Wanda Jones a Lee freshman balances 15 semester hours and full time work as Bay town Sun women's news reporter. Former Lee High editor seeks playwriting with journalism and music study at UNC after LC, amid jazz piano drums marimba and a love of Eugene ONeill and sophisticated comedy.
Linda Pierce, LC sophomore and Dean Rundell's secretary, plans to study music composition while exploring varied interests. She enjoys play production and once described her role in Overtones as a ghostly meanie with blue lipstick, seeing life with quiet self confidence.
Arthur L. Jennings, a Baytown LC physics sophomore living with his family under a drive in theater screen, plans to finish at the University of Houston and join a government research department. A former Air Force member, he has traveled widely, born in Adamsville, and still favors Texas.
Miss Maridene Hawkins of Oklahoma writes and revises choral pieces while finishing a master’s degree. Her work includes Old Man Noah for the University of Texas Choir and a forthcoming folk song series with Theodore Presser Co. Noble Cain has requested copies, and Hawkins plans a fifth composition soon. She notes gender barriers in music and credits inspiration for her output.
In February 1951 Jennings describes the Las Vegas tests as the most interesting event of his life. He felt the explosion from a safe distance and remained awed by the display. He began schooling at Cedar Bayou under Teacher Smith and later attended Anson Jones Horace Mann Robert E. Lee and Modesto Junior College in California.
Two books by Rice Institute professors will be available in the college library shortly after the Christmas holidays. The item notes future access for students and faculty.
Mrs. Inez Ford, a Lee College sophomore and Highlands resident for 25 years, stays busy with Girl Scouts 4-H Home Demonstration Club and Baytown art. She has poems in a national anthology, reupholsters to fund tuition, and paints to preserve lasting, original works. She contributes to Baytown Sun and North Shore Citizen and plans to study journalism at the University of Houston. She has three daughters and three grandchildren.
Carolyn Foster, a Grace Methodist Kindergarten teacher from La Habra California, reflects on six months of teaching work. She describes children as varying, amusing, and endearing and shares anecdotes about teaching and her own schooling and future plans.
Miss Sylvia Stern visited the library during Thanksgiving. Carl Green went to Illinois to see family. Hildegarde Odhner toured Bryn Athyn and attended Christmas service with her father the pastor. Ruby Barham stayed in Stephenville and Florence Niell in Houston and Temple. J F Koenig and the Alvins visited in Austin and Hallettsville.
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