Mrs. Betty Carter, professor of English, and Mr. J. E. Spencer, chairman of the Social Science Department, have been nominated for statewide competition among junior and senior college faculty members for the Piper Award.
The two were selected from faculty nominations.
The Piper Award, granted annually to ten outstanding Texas college teachers, is made possible by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Winners receive a certificate and an honorarium of $1,000.
In 1962 Professor Paul McFerran, division chairman of the Natural Science and Engineering Department, was one of the ten recipients of the award.
Mrs. Carter, a member of the TC faculty for the past 14 years, has served as chairman of the Foreign Language Department and taught English.
A graduate of both Lambuth College and L.S.U., Mrs. Carter has taught in several colleges in Tennessee and Mississippi. She is active in Delta Kappa Gamma, P.E.O., AAUW, church work and professional educational organizations. Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, and the Dictionary of International Biography carry her name. In 1963 she was nominated for national Teacher of the Year.
Professor Spencer, who holds a B.A. and M.A. in government and history from Texas Christian University, came to Texarkana in 1959. He became chairman of the Social Science Department in 1964.
The native of Clarksville is a devotee of grand opera and fishing in his free time. During the recent trip to the South Political Science Association in New Orleans, Mr. Spencer took a free evening to view Verdi’s Macbeth.
The Piper Foundation, set up in 1950, began the Piper Award for teachers in 1958. From an endowment by Randall Gordon Piper, a successful independent oil operator, the holdings have grown to one million dollars.
One portion is devoted to honoring the outstanding achievement of college teachers for their “presentation of eternal verities and new sciences in such a manner that influences and guides young people in their life patterns.”
Winners will be notified of their selection next spring.