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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1949
Page
2
The Lee Lantern is a twice monthly publication produced by the Lee College sophomore journalism class in Baytown Texas and carried by The Highlands News Highlands Texas line. Associated Collegiate Press membership noted for the 1949 1950 period.
The Student Council announces a campus wide Sadie Hawkins party to be held in the school gym this Saturday night for students seeking a lively evening of fun. The notice frames it as a communal, enjoyable event to boost weekend entertainment.
The piece surveys thoughts on wisdom and art, cites Joseph Auslander, John Ellis, and Dr Will Durant. It notes a campus debate over intellectualism, mentions a Lanthorn staff reaction, and records a student photo sale success with 225 participants.
The library has received many new books from philosophy to murder stories. Reading helps crystallize vicarious experiences and offers entertainment. Have you explored the shelves lately.
A column argues that denouncing opponents by labels like Communism is manipulative. It explains USSR is totalitarian, not truly communist, with state power over individual rights. It warns that any organization threatening individual dignity and freedom should alarm thoughtful citizens.
Dean Walter Rundell attended a November 3 4 conference in Austin on adult education. Two sessions interested Lee College: a dramatics and great books discussion led by Floyd Winship and a talk on using lay people to organize the adult education curriculum in the junior college. Rundell noted Lee College is the only Texas junior college with an advisory council and specialized course committees.
A satirical column rails at low brow culture, noting fourteen Lee students attend the opera and mocking comic books and stereotypes. It laments dull entertainment and defends independent rugged individualism amid public curiosity and test grades.
A collage of classroom life and student antics fills the page. Foots Russell prowls in a rubber mask while Jimmy Johnson helps. others like Mary Posky, Betty Robertson, and June Layd appear in class and hallways. Dean Williams cheers SMU vs. the Aggies. Barbara Rainer and Joe Chandler draw attention with curiosities and jokes as peers parade in outfits, hobbies, and small campus pranks.
A compact collection of aphorisms reflects on memory, proof, fate, and the value of reading. The lines juxtapose forgotten truths, the cost of proof, fate’s jokes, and the limits of a soul fed only by books.
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