LC All-College Party Opens Fall Semester at LC Gym
Students celebrated the fall term with an all college party in the LC gym after classes on Monday Sept 23. Alton Laird directed activities as faculty joined in. A floor show featured Connie Plagens Jane O Sell Maidie Baldwin and Walter Brown with Diana Davis Dodie Derryberry. Glenn Lowry emceed. Gamma Phi Kappa hosted refreshments.
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Alton Laird
Connie Plagens
Jane O’sell
Maidie Baldwin
Barbara Upchurch
Diana Davis
Dodie Derryberry
Walter Brown
Glenn Lowry
Gamma Phi Kappa _ sorority
Peggy Haskel
Reba Neel
Florence Niell
Gladys Ellis
Pauline Kopecky
Naomi Norton
Gamma Phi Kappa plans fall rush parties and activities
The Gamma Phi Kappa sorority announces rush week opens October 6 with planned events including a tea, a Coke party, and a hayride-wiener roast. About 30 girls may be accepted. officers for 1957-58 are Bee Gee Gordon president and others. The group sponsors service activities and a Galveston weekend trip with sponsor Miss Reba Neel.
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Gamma Phi Kappa
Gammas
Kathy Yandell
Marjorie Shields
Bee Gee Gordon
Martha Ann Post
Reba Neel
Gamma Phi Kappas
Galveston
Rundells Honor New Faculty At Home Reception
Dean and Mrs. Walter Rundell hosted a Sunday afternoon reception from 3 to 5 at 107 Milner Drive to honor new faculty members and their wives. Assistants included Mrs. Robert McGraw Mrs. Wallace Heaner Mrs. Milton Johnson Miss Ruby Barham and Mrs. Ben F. Ammons as guests were served. The table featured a white cloth with Cluny lace and gold threads, centered by white asters and gold-sprayed leaves.
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Walter Rundell
Milner Drive
Rundell
Robert McGraw
Wallace Heaner
Milton Johnson
Ruby Barham
Ben F. Ammons
Mrs Norton Leads Lee C. English and Math Faculty
Dr and Mrs Norton reside at 140 Linwood Drive. Last year Kellogg taught mathematics in Stowe Vermont University of Texas and University of Minnesota. Before Bay town she was on Ranger Junior College staff. Mrs Norton took over Lee C work from Mrs Lynn O Hagan who this semester teaches English and French.
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Highlands
Kellogg
Stowe
Vermont
University of Texas
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Baytown
Ranger Junior College
Norton
Lee C
Lynn O’hagan
O’hagan
Linwood Drive
Four Local Schools Represented in Armstrong Family
Roland Armstrong, Lee College economics and government instructor, hails from the Middle West. Previously a supervisor of elementary schools in Wabash Indiana and Culver Military Academy summer supervisor of nature study. He holds an M A from the University of Michigan 1932 and a B A from Indiana State Teachers College. Mrs Armstrong teaches third grade in Baytown Alamo school. Their daughter Ann is a senior at AEL and son Jon is in eighth grade at Horace Mann. Baytown address 513 W Francis.
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Roland Armstrong
Middle West
Lee College
Wabash
Indiana
Culver Military Academy
Armstrong
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Indiana State Teachers College
Social Sciences Teacher Joins Former Colleagues at Lee College
EM BRY E WILSON joins the Lee College social sciences faculty after moving from Blytheville Arkansas where he taught with Paul Price and Robert McGraw who joined LC last September. Wilson holds an MA from Peabody College Nashville and is an Hendrix College and Speare School alumnus. He previously worked for the U S Department of Engineers in Hope Arkansas and with a Russellville radio station. He is brother of Baytown resident Charles E. Wilson.
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Embry E. Wilson
Wilson
Lee College
Blytheville, Arkansas
Paul Price
Robert McGraw
LC Group
Peabody College
Nashville
Tennessee
Hendrix College
Conway
Arkansas
Speare Professional School of Radio
Los Angeles
California
Mrs Naomi Norton Joins College Speech Faculty
Mrs Naomi Elaine Norton, wife of the LC registrar, arrives at the college to teach speech after a year on the REL faculty. She studied at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene and has joined the campus teaching staff.
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Naomi Elaine Norton
REL
Bargaining in Mexicos Thieves Market Offers Street Bargain Drama
The piece describes sidewalk vendors in Mexico who bargain with buyers using a price game that often ends with a small balance in the buyer’s favor. Vendors lament losing these contests as tourists sometimes pay asking prices, while Sundays bring deeper discounting in a famed thieves market selling stolen week’s goods.
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Mexico
New English Plan Put into Effect at Lee College
A revised English curriculum began this semester at Lee College offering broader sophomore options. Students may choose between American literature focus or early British literature survey in the second sophomore semester, with pathways for accelerated or standard entry based on high school grades and ACE test results. English 302 targets advanced freshmen for composition and reference skills, while 301 supports foundational grammar and syntax. The English faculty, chaired by Miss Peggy Haskel, formed the plan with committee members Mrs. Gladys Ellis Joe Drake Gilliland and Miss Elizabeth Meeks.
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Lee
Englsh
Peggy Haskel
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Rundells
Brunson
Andy Griffith
Patricia Neal
Frank Kellogg
M.lt. Gradto
K. Marshall
College Yearbook
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