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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1956
Page
2
Baytown Texas Lee College publishes its third week issue with student staff Lorraine Orton Norm Smith Robert Hamman Jean Marie Raney Johnny Odom Jarrell Benedict listed among the staff and contributors.
An editorial from Lee College notes the Lantern relies on a few staffers and a journalism instructor. It urges broader student participation to improve coverage, liveliness, and campus representation beyond the current limited editorial team.
Lee College yearbook staff shows strong early activity with eager volunteers and high morale. Advance ads reach nearly 500 dollars and subscriptions exceed ninety, signaling a successful yearbook effort through student participation and co operation.
On a hot September day students complain about scarce campus parking and heat. The existing lot cost 39 billion dollars, and officials propose a campus wide license plate based registration to limit parking to enrolled students and maximize spaces.
Engineers are drawing plans to air condition the main building at LC with completion hoped for by spring. The project, slowed by required approvals and funding, aims to reduce crowding as a new classroom building is planned and constructed later this year.
Jack Poole recalls campus warmth and friendliness from fellow students at LC. Joseph Ressler and others note welcoming greetings and morale boosts, while Emery Wood compares students and teachers. quotes include Donald Walker, Joe Laughlin, Claudette Robinson, and Perry Christy. Virginia Tyler and Donald Royall add campus plantings and locker struggles.
The review extols the Todd-AO Oklahoma at Tower Theater Houston with Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones as Curly and Laurie, notes two miscasts, and mentions Rod Steiger. It also covers Pat Weaver leaving NBC reducing experimental programs, ABC’s Omnibus in Sunday slots, and college theater plans and UH drama students Judy Davis and Cissy Chambers entering drama studies.
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