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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1953
Page
1
Starting today you can climb toward the Quota Club as a volunteer solicitor in LC's ad driven drive. If volunteers hit a fifty dollar ad total by November 15 they earn a party and each extra fifty earns a guest invitation, with Office A sponsoring.
The local sorority Gamma Phi Kappa announced the names of its pledges after a Sunday afternoon meeting on October 18. Pledges include Nancy Battle, Jane Brewster, Shirley Burleson, Louise Dates, Jane Davis, Evelyn Doss, Eula Flynt, Patricia.
Gamma Phi Kappa Sorority invites Lee College students faculty and friends to a Halloween Carnival on Saturday October 31 from 7 30 to 11 30 P M in the Student Lounge and gym The event features a seance a crystal ball Madam Panda a ghostly tent and games dating and bingo with admission at most ten cents or free with a blank slip.
Judith Kinghorn, Mathis, Sandra Millard, Jean Neuerburg, Edith Pavlat, Margaret Robinson, Nancy Tarpey, Cecile Treat, Ellen Waltman, and Betty White are listed as participants in the readable segment.
The Student Association elected Sager Hunsucker for president Betty Hart for vice president and Shirley Hlanak for secretary treasurer. Sophomores Bert Allen James Caruthers Linda Scott and Glenn Barrett won class offices. Mickey Pillow Cecile Treat Doris Ann Tribe Linda Griffin lead freshman posts. Florence Niell supervised ballots while officers voiced plans to boost basketball crowds and social events.
Nine student groups complete organization and begin activities this week. Phi Theta Kappa elected Sager Hunsucker as president with Betty Hart as vice president, Sandra Montgomery secretary, and Donald Ott treasurer. Zeta Chapter at Lee College promotes scholarship and fellowship. members require a 80 average and biweekly meetings with sponsor Miss Minnie Alice Robertson. Delta Chapter of Alpha Rho Tau announces new members. Richard Coones is president, to be succeeded by Gary Lindsey. Memorial Art Collection showcases past presidents’ artworks under Miss Robertson. Faustine Hobbs leads fifty six officers in Alpha Rho Tau with Pat Kinghorn as vice president and Bill Harlan as treasurer. Social activities will include French conversation in the Student Lounge.
Gamma Phi Kappa led by Ollie Miller as president and Sandra Montgomery as secretary plans the October 1 Masquerade Ball as their first social activity after pledging new members. They will host seasonal parties and sell ad space in the LEE LOG to support campus life and community welfare, including gifts for underprivileged children.
The Curtain Club invites anyone to join with James Russell as president Hazel Flournoy as vice president and Bill Joy White as secretary treasurer and reporter Mrs Lynn O Hagan serves as sponsor The group performed The Non-International Man at the Lions Club twenty fifth anniversary banquet on October 12 and two more plays are planned for early December.
The Baptist Student Union links the Baptist Church with Lee College students meeting the third Monday monthly. After a layman led devotional, members join a friendship circle while the Women's Missionary Union provides refreshments. The group carols at Christmas and plans a holiday hayride sponsored by Miss Minnie Alice Robertson.
Representing Lee College music department Joyce Reynolds Linda Scott and Mitch Vanya took part in a television show on the University of Houston station October 14. Lee students tied with competitors from Alvin Junior College. Each department received a phonograph record and each student won a record.
Baytown hosts the fifth annual District Five Texas Library Association meeting at Lee College on October 17 drawing over two hundred librarians from thirty three counties. Dean Rundell spoke at the morning session highlighting Friends of the Baytown Public Library support to the local library system. Sylvia Stern of Lee College served as vice-chairman and secretary.
Dean Walter Rundell of Lee College and secretary of the Southern Association of Junior Colleges will attend the University of Texas inauguration for Dr. Logan Wilson on October 29. He recently traveled to a Mississippi college to serve on an evaluating committee for regional accreditation, departing October 18 and returning October 21.
Curtain Club begins planning two one act plays The Weathermen's Secret and The Case of the Crushed Petunias casts not yet announced Mrs Lynn O'Hagan director calls The Weatherman's Secret a light hearted comedy and notes the weather forecast does not coincide The Case of the Crushed Petunias by Tennessee Williams is also a comedy featuring Miss Simple an unhappy twenty six year old attempting to attract men
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