Library Initiates Complete Baytown SUN Microfilming
The Baytown SUN will be fully microfilmed in the LC library with the July 24 1931 first issue beginning the permanent file. Early 1960 six months of issues on two film rolls were presented to Dean Walter Rundell and Librarian Mattie Howard. New rolls will be added quarterly and yearly back issues monthly until 1954 to present. A Goose Creek Gasser file is not yet included. The project aims to preserve local history and aid research, with eventual microfilming of rarely used periodicals and plans to acquire a microfilm reader.
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Baytown Sun
Dean Walter Rundell
Mattie Howard
SUN
Fred Hartman
Goose Creek Gasser
The
Howard
Dean Rundell
Mollie Bowers Awarded BBDA Scholarship in Baytown
Baytown business leaders funded a $300 annual scholarship from the Harris County Agricultural Scholarship Fund for Molly Bowers, an 18 year old Lee College freshman and Baytown Sun associate women's news editor aiming to become an agricultural journalist. She plans two years at Lee College and two at Sam Houston State after editing REL High School’s paper and working about 40 hours weekly at the Sun.
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Baytown
Harris County Agricultural Scholarship Fund
Lee College
Molly Bowers
Molly
Baytown Sun
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Baytown Beer Distributors Association
Baytown Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Youth Committee
Sam Houston State
REL High School
Sun
Great Books Group Plans Homer Discussion Thursday
The Great Books Foundation will meet in room 101 at Lee College on the first and third Thursday to discuss Homer’s Odyssey. Members have previously studied Ecclesiastes and Oedipus Rex, and callers can reach Mrs. Robert C. Wahrmund at LO 6-5324 for more information.
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Great Books Group
Homer
Great Books Foundation
Lee College
Robert C. Wahrmund
Last Day to Order 1961 Lee LOG
Friday is the final day to place an order for a 1961 Lee LOG. Submit your order to Editor Patsy Holcomb or Business Manager Linda Mills. Payment options include cash or a signed card authorizing deduction from the breakage and property damage deposit.
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Lee
Patsy Holcomb
Linda Mills
Schultz to speak to Baytown groups this month and next
Clarence Schultz LC history teacher will address Baytown groups in October and November. He will speak on the Electoral College before Robert E. Lee High School assembly and at the Baytown Kiwanis Club October 20, and on Basic Human Needs to the San Jacinto Elementary PTA November 16. Previously he spoke on The National Purpose at the Thursday Forum.
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Clarence Schultz
Service Leagues
Baytown
Schultz
Robert E. Lee High School
Baytown Kiwanis Club
Tower
PTA
San Jacinto
Curtain Club Ends Play Tryouts Friday
Under Mrs Naomi Norton speech instructor direction Curtain Club wraps up its play tryouts on Friday with casting to follow and student rehearsals set to begin.
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Naomi Norton
Curtain Club
Lee Lantern Sets Fall Play Death Takes a Holiday
The Lee Lantern selects cast dates from October 5 to October 14 for a fall production with subtle humor. Mrs. Norton will choose the cast and post recall decisions on the bulletin board. She also plans Our Town for spring and will begin casting after Death Takes a Holiday concludes. Special makeup and lighting will depict Death. any student may audition.
Clark is SC Proxy Runoff Set Tomorrow
Run-offs begin tomorrow and continue Friday to decide most Student Council positions. Kay Clark was elected president, Don Hodges vice president, Pat Keller secretary-treasurer. Sophomore and freshman elections feature multiple run-offs among named candidates.
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Clark
Kay Clark
Don Hodges
Larry Kelley
Troy Woodall
Linda Mills
Patsy Holcomb
Steve Coburn
Winston Culbreth
David Kadjar
Sharon Douglass
Carol Englehardt
Gere Deane Hale
Larry Guenther
Terry Gillum
Bobby Paulson
Doug Bell
George Yates
Gayle Fleming
Betsy Phillips
Jo Ellen Sisson
Cynthia Boudloche
Nancy Dailey
Paula Stricklin
Lynn Taylor
Pat Berry, Jr
Billy Hartless
Craig Townsend
Norton Consultant To Guatemalan Education
Dr. David Norton a Lee College education teacher volunteered three weeks as consultant to Guatemala's Ministry of Education. He studied the adult education program in the Pacific slope and offered improvement suggestions with his wife and son joining. The Nortons stayed with M S Norton in Guatemala City and toured the country on weekends.
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Lee College
David Norton
Ministry of Education of
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Norton
Pacific Slope
Jerry Don
Nortons
Dr. Norton
M. S. Norton
U. S. Office of Education For
Faculty Will Tour Houston Ship Channel
With 544 faculty members and spouses having accepted the invitation, office personnel are invited to tour the Houston Ship Channel on October 29 aboard the Port of Houston yacht. The trip departs at 10 a.m. from Dock 8 and attendees should enter through gate 8 on Clinton Drive. Cold drinks provided. participants should bring a picnic lunch.
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Houston Ship Channel
Port of Houston
Dock 8
Clinton Drive
Meet the Faculty Lyon Enjoys Archery Gardening Reading
Mrs. Gertrude Lyon directs and supervises the Lee College physical education program for girls and women now in her third year as instructor. She values active living, gardens, and a broad view of health and discipline beyond mere exercise.
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Gertrude Lyon
Lee College
Summersville
George Peabody College
Nashville
Lyon
Arrangement Of Canon Published By Stephenson
Charles Stephenson, Lee College choir director, prepares a Tallis canon arrangement to be published by Harold Flammer New York. Performed at June commencement, the well known hymn tune uses Presbyterian Psalms text from 1881 in four sections plus a final sixfold Amen.
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Charles Stephenson
Lee College
Thomas Tallis
Harold Flammer
New York
Stephenson
Library aide added and art show opens at college gallery
Lantern Flashes Mrs Walter Rundell joins the library staff as assistant to manage circulation. An exhibition of fifteen paintings by Guy Johnson, LC art teacher and Texas painter, is on display in the college art gallery through October 24. A faculty committee selects Dr John M Ellis Clarence Chultz and Guy Johnson as candidates for the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation award for outstanding Texas college teachers.
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Walter Rundell
Guy Johnson
Texas
College Art Gallery
John M. Ellis
Clarence Chultz
Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation
Students Urged to Sign Up for Genetics 417 This Spring
Dean Rundell urges definite sign ups for Biology 417 Genetics. Interested students should leave their names in the office now. Lectures are MWF at 10 with Wednesday lab, taught by Bert Brehm.
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Dean Rundell
Bert Brehm
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Mollie Bowers
Thursday Forum
Allen Rice
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Baytown, Texas
Hodges
Keller
Pat Keller
Guenther
Veep
Houston
Dalia May Neele
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