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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1947
Page
3
The piece notes 90 degree heat prompts a wardrobe shift to cool fabrics and two piece suits. Dept stores show longer skirts with padded shoulders, natural lines still in demand. Silks and cotton prints return postwar, with bold colors like red and vivid hues amid white accessories to complete a cool ensemble.
Mrs. Earline Bradley, art and speech student at LJC, designs and decorates her Old River Terrace home titled El Ranchito BBradley Branch. Her contractor husband builds it, featuring Early American Southwestern motifs with murals, a stairwell bird mural, grape borders, and a blue bathroom theme as part of a seven acre log cabin setting.
Robert Lee Jacks of LJC is praised for his wide navy education and storytelling prowess. The student is noted for photography skills, door taping innovations, and mechanical aptitudes while balancing studies and work at Hum ble. He modestly claims genius comes from brains.
After completing their first term, freshmen at the college map summer paths. Some will attend summer session for credits, others will work, some will balance both. Names include Annette Costley Bettye Gunn Duke Parker Theo Ratliff Joyce Williams and many more planning work and study or full-time study.
The Alpha Rho Tau honorary art fraternity held a candlelight initiation in the LJC dining room at 5 40 p m on Wednesday May 7. Miss Collene Harris Baytown Junior High School art instructor read the ritual and presented pins while discussing the organization history. Joanne Steed was elected president as nine pledges with strong art grades joined. retiring president Mrs Walter Rundell received a past president gavel. A group photo followed and refreshments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jones of Coady announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Earldene to Bertam C. Norris, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Norris of Highlands. The wedding is set for June 12 at Highlands Methodist Church.
The piece mocks study distractions and offers humorous guidance from Howard and Ruch. It jokes about telephones and dogs interrupting freshmen, notesTexas laws on cruelty, and suggests phrenology maps to organize memory. It ends with a quip about bags under eyes indicating vocabulary size.
LJC instructors map diverse summer plans as heat looms. James F. Koenig laments teaching English literature again, while Alvin Miles will teach chemistry and American history. Other faculty list summer teaching, study, and trips from Houston to Odessa and New York City, with staff like Rundell staying on and Moskowitz traveling post term.
Kathryn Myebroff profiles as a model young lady who once led the Red Hot Mamas in rowdy clashes with boys. She moved through junior high, excelled in Interscholastic league events, and now serves as secretary to Dean Walter Rundell. Her hobbies include collecting 75 volumes since age six, English composition, journalism, shorthand, bridge, and semi classical music.
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