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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1950
Page
3
The Lee Library expanded its holdings by 253 volumes over two months. Librarian Sylvia Stern announced 155 are bound magazines, with numerous reference works and fiction titles added to circulating and education class collections.
Recent gifts to the library include SEEKING TO SERVE by Charles M. Goethe who also supplied a year's LIVING WILDERNESS subscription. MEASURE FOR GREATNESS by David O. Woodbury donated by Newark College of Engineering. ON POWER by Bertrand de Jouvenal and LIBERTY by Floyd A. Harper given by the Foundation For Economic Education. STEEL MAKING IN AMERICA by Fisher from U S Steel. BELK TIMSON by Steen and ELEPHANT AND CASTLE by Hutchinson, fiction donations by Mailer. NAKED AND THE J. F. Koenig.
The Dallas Times Herald invites Texas college students to enter with a first prize of 500 dollars. Manuscripts must be typed without author names, sent in triplicate with a separate 4 by 6 card listing author and school details, due by midnight June 16, 1950. Winners announced around October 1 1950. The contest accepts novels, stories, plays, poems, or non fiction.
In September 1949 Lee College in Baytown dropped Junior from its name and began the 1949 50 session with a move toward a larger campus. Enrollment dipped 68 from last year but semester hours rose as the school grew.
Hannah Lardent describes a newcomers view of Texas entering from the east. She notes vast landscapes with Spanish moss, cattle on plains, rapid development, oil wealth, and intense Texan loyalty. The piece contrasts past trails with modern expansion and heat, insects, and the state’s progressive spirit.
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