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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1968
Page
2
Lee College moves through a campus upgrade after a May 14 bond election funded expansion. Dean Alton Laird adds a cafeteria juke box and expanded mail boxes to improve student life while the library adds 4000 titles yearly and increases audio visual aids.
Sam Lightin Hopkins and John A. Lomax Jr. star on the first Lyceum program of 1968 69 at 10:20 a.m. in Lee College Auditorium. The program titled The History of the Blues features two folk singers with Hopkins noting country blues spring from hardship and Lomax stressing authentic singing. Lomax Sr. was the early American folk song collector who published Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910.
Fred Knight a Lee College rodeo club member and Navy CB veteran rose from diving school in Washington DC to UDT training in Fort Bend GA Vietnam service 11 months and two Purple Hearts. He captains the Lee College traveling team aiming for national intercollegiate rodeo titles.
In Houston last month Hubert Humphrey planned to meet Young Democratic leaders across Texas. A mixup canceled the group reception, but Humphrey later spoke by phone with Ken Bunting of Lee College after an invitation mix. The call followed an earlier exchange about Bunting’s opinions.
A list of individuals with brief notations from a social or event page. Mentions include Barry Reiter, Mike Lemon, Joey McChesney, Luann Cakebread, Gary Smitty Smith, Paul Petropolis, Cindy Kunz, E P Challenger, Brenda Casey, Larry Knox, David Wilks, Rhonda Walker, Kronnie DeHoyos, Ralph Gardner, Crispin James, Robert Shelton, Layne Lumus, Charles Perry, Ray Ethridge, Cynthia Arcineaux, Tony Bell.
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