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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1958
Page
2
A student run publication from Lee College in Baytown Texas appears every third week, delivering campus news and campus life updates produced by students for the college community.
The October Reader's Digest reports surprising findings on mind work. Penn researchers show energy use stays similar whether solving hard problems or sleeping, while thinking shifts with posture. University of Massachusetts and Long Island University studies note talking to oneself and posture affect cognition and learning. High tension during study links to muscular tension. Digest condensed from Popular Science Monthly.
The Lee College Placement Service announces new hours and procedures for students seeking work. Students may apply during 12:20 to 1:05 pm weekdays or 6:00 to 6:30 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays. Employers will post job descriptions without names or phone numbers on the bulletin board next to Office J.
Dr. Sam H. Hastings, Lee College graduate and part time science instructor, co authored a chapter in the new technical book Chemical Composition of Petroleum Oils sponsored by the American Society for Testing Materials. He directs an analytical research section at Humble Oil in Baytown Texas and holds degrees from UH and UT.
Deadline Friday October 10 is the last day to order a Lee Log yearbook. Students Lois Ptacek Judy McDonald Patsy Posern Ernestine May Ann Morris Lynne Grafton are invited to subscribe and secure copies.
The article lists Mrs. Mattie Howard, Mrs. Marion Orgain, Mrs. Ruby Roesler, and four student assistants as the library team. It notes Roesler’s Lee College enrollment, the staff’s name badges, and the library’s large Texas junior college collection with 23,000 volumes, eight daily newspapers, 270 periodicals, and an herbarium of 1250 specimens.
Seven new faculty members join Lee College and two courses are added. German and Russian are taught for the first time, bringing foreign language offerings to four. Some instructors return after absence while others receive new assignments.
Mrs. Naomi Norton resumes her role as speech and drama instructor and Curtain Club sponsor after a semester away. A native of Abilene, she earned a BA from Hardin-Simmons, an MA from UT, and did graduate work at Minnesota. She is listed in Who's Who in American Education and belongs to Pi Lambda Theta. The eight month old son accompanies her studies, with hobbies in travel and leathercrafts.
Ruby Goodwin formerly registrar at Lee College for eight years after its founding now teaches business English and shorthand. A University of Texas English major from Baytown, she has substituted at Lee for several years and teaches extra classes. She has two children Morris sixteen and Kathleen eight.
Mrs Bessie Durham, a Texas native and Sam Houston State University alumna, moves from assistant registrar to registrar after Dr David Norton swaps duties. She has two sons, Thomas and John, and her husband manages the Baytown Texas Employment Commission office.
Mrs. Marian Orgain developed an interest in library science while running a hospital book cart for wounded soldiers during the war. She later earned a degree at Columbia and began a librarian career after moving from Temple Texas and attending Texas Christian University.
She served as librarian in the foreign language library at Taiwan National University on Formosa. In her spare time she plays the piano cooks and gardens.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyon, once a REL teacher, joins LC staff after studying at junior college in Pasadena and George Peabody College in Nashville. A Missouri native who lived in Texas, she taught physical education at Robert E. Lee for eight years and has substituted there recently. She enjoys reading and gardening and has twins Mary Karen and Jim.
Charles Stephenson of Iowa directs voice and music appreciation at Lee College, conducts the choir, and runs the opera workshop. He holds a bachelor’s from Simpson College and a master’s from the University of Michigan, with prior teaching at Lon Morris College and a music staff role at the University of Wichita. He began singing publicly at age six and has an active background in high school music activities. He is married with a two year old son Greg.
Delton Goodin a first year physics teacher at Lee College, hails from Caddo Oklahoma. He earned a B E and M S from Southeastern State College Durant and studied at Oklahoma State University on a National Science Foundation fellowship. Goodin previously taught chemistry and physics at Ardmore High School for seven years. He is married with four children Dana Sue Lou Ann Jeff Paul and Mark David and has an interest in photography.
Mrs. Tomek teaches the first German course at Lee College and has German roots. She studied German at the University of Houston after a Europe trip and earned a Bachelor of Science. She also studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder and teaches at Austin High School in Houston.
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