Robinson Boys Add Color To Life Around Lee College
Harold and Lester Robinson, Lee College graduates, plan futures in Arkansas teaching and law. Veterans with decorated service, Harold earned the distinguished flying cross and four air medals. Lester survived Pearl Harbor and four years overseas. Both pursue further education and enjoy outdoor hobbies, owning dogs named General Eisenhower and Tojo.
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Alpha Rho Tau
Phi Theta Kappa
Lester
Lee College
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Harold
Pete
Tojo
General Eisenhower
Les
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Lee
Old Timer Recalls Glories Of Former Football Days
Sam Polley, 81, recalls 1889 style football in Grinnell College newspaper. He notes rough play with two 30 minute halves, no downs system, home-made uniforms, no substitutes unless injured, and touchdowns worth four points with two point conversions by kick. He compares 1889 play to modern football, emphasizing the goal of crossing the goal line.
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Grinnell, Iowa
ACP
Sam Polley
Scarlet and Black
Grinnell College
Congress
Jena
Sampson
Emerson Quote on Hidden Kindness
A reflection on Emersons statement that people harbor much kindness unsaid, suggesting inner benevolence exceeds spoken words and can surface in actions rather than dialogue. The quote prompts examination of everyday generosity and restraint in expressing goodwill.
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Emerson
Library Adds 36 New Books to College Collection
The Lee College Library announces the addition of 36 new volumes across psychology, literature, history, and reference works. Titles include Studies in Psychology, Best Plays, Roosevelt and Hopkins, War of 1812, Dictionary of Modern European Literature, and Garden Bulbs in Color among others.
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Torgeson
Shatter
Watson
Gassner
Cecil
Louttit
Rothenberg
HWO
Palatin
America
Duetsch
Goldman
Symonds
Americas
Saminsky
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Sherwood
Jonesville
Warner
Bienne
Gages
United Nations
Beard
Lester
Merriam
Murdoch
Wittenberg
Columbia Dictionary OF
Super
Hudnut
Morrell
Welshimer
Foley
Yasuo Kuniyohai
Goodrich
McFarland
Opera class plans for study of Rigoletto attendance
Lee College music appreciation class led by Mrs Ellis will present a radio program on the folk ballad on November 380. Participants include Maurine Beal Vaudine Beal Patsy Barnet and others with an invite to anyone to sit in on the class and study opera background.
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Lee College
Maurine Beal
Vaudine Beal
Patsy Barnet
Houston
Patsy Barnes
Peter Baumgarten
Merrill Carter
Brent Green
Gordon Lieb
Betty Satterwhite
Tito Zamora
Bobby Morgan
John Ellis
Traveling Texan Finds Art Means of Self Expression
Billy Joe Walker, an art student from Lee College born in 1923 in Desdemona, details his journey from Trinidad Colorado to Texas towns including Brownwood and Tomball. He served in the Naval Air Corps and Army Engineers in Hawaii, where he studied architecture drafting and observed Hawaiian culture, planning further studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts or the University of Texas.
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Ft. Worth
Woolsworth
Levinworth
Hawaii
Billy Joe Walker
Lee College
Bill
Desdemona
Texas
Trinidad
Colorado
Brownwood
Tomball High
Texas University
Naval Air Corps
Army Engineers
Islands
U.S
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
University of Texas
Students Question Best Living American Authors
A SWTSC San Marcos campus poll finds students list mainly novelists and few poets among the ten greatest living American authors. Faculty lists favor poets and dramatists, with Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck appearing on both sides.
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Southwest Texas State College
San Mates
John Steinbeck
Fear] Buck
Erskine Caldwell
Ben Ames Williams
James Cain
Taylor Caldwell
Rachael Field
Marjorie Rawlings
College Star of
SWTSC
Lloyd C. Douglas
John Dos Passos
Sinclair Lewis
Frank Dobie
Pearl S. Buck
Thomas Costain
Ernest Hemmingway
College At
San Marcos
Robert Frost
Eugene O'Neil
Carl Sandburg
T. S. Eliot
Edna Millay
Maxwell Anderson
University instructor aids cancer fight with rat snake finding
W Harry Jones Burdick of the University of New Mexico biology department reports discovery of a Sarcoma type cancer in a rattlesnake. The finding could aid cancer research in humans and aligns with ongoing Albuquerque studies.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
ACP
University of New Mexico
W. Harry Jones-Burdick
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