Were you among the many who pulled and pulled on the Student Center left front door and had no response? Can’t read, either! Like the rest of us, you probably felt silly when you noticed the “Use the other door” sign.
Junior colleges in Texas have some 76,007 on-campus students this fall. This figure, according to a UPI news release, represents an increase of 21.3 percent over last fall’s enrollment.
Senior college enrollment is up, too, but just 9.7 percent. Seems like the junior colleges are relieving the over-crowded situation in senior colleges.
Less expensive, too, if a person can get two years close to home.
What are you thankful for? Four days of holidays? That nine weeks exams are over? Just 58 more days till finals roll around beginning Jan. 15.
Professional nursing classes have three males this year: David Hadlock, Philip Hurley and Grant Rubly. There’s a great demand for nurses . . . the need for men nurses is far greater than the supply.
Mr. J. H. Calvert, former professor of accounting and, of late, associated with the Credit Union, was honored with a retirement dinner last week Tuesday at the Student Center. He served, during his 11 years at the College, as chairman of the business department and later as acting business manager.
The TC Faculty Association sponsored the dinner.
Biggest enrollment for the State in senior colleges is that 29,000 at the University of Texas. University of Houston is second with 21,770 students. In the past three years over 150 TC grads have transferred to UT; 60 went to Houston.
The Evening Division is branching out with extension courses in the neighboring town of Atlanta. Credit courses in typewriting, accounting and shorthand will be offered next semester if enough students enroll.
No one does a full days’ work any more. No one else, that is.
The percentage of workers in the U.S. who are women is 40%. And 70 percent of these work full time. Right good reason for girls to get a college education nowadays.
Newcomer to the TC faculty this fall, Mr. Frank Jackson, is no newcomer to Texarkana College. He is one of the several faculty members who are associate degree graduates of TC.
Since undergraduate days he has acquired a B.A. from U.T. and an M.A. from S.F.A. He teaches Spanish. His wife, Mrs. Shirley Jackson, also a S.F.A. graduate, teaches piano here one day a week.
The Student Center staff will be sad to lose the friendly and efficient services of Mrs. Mickey McAdams, Mr. Dick’s personable secretary. Next month she resigns to await the arrival of her first child. We’ll miss you here, Mrs. McAdams, but wish you well in your new duties.
Student debaters are wrestling with “Resolved: That the Federal Government Should Guarantee A Minimum Annual Cash Income To All Citizens.”
Donors of the funds for the Nursing Building, the Buchanan Foundation has been instrumental in providing over one million dollars to causes in the Texarkana Area. TC is indeed fortunate to have been on the receiving end of the foundation’s generosity.
If you have any leisure time during the holidays, check out one of the current fiction books available at the College Library. Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer, Tennessee Williams’ The Knight, The Spirit of ’76 by Holmes Alexander, Robert Roark’s The Old Man and the Boy, Allen Drury’s Capable of Honor are just a few of the many new books on hand.
If you missed Expo in Canada, get set for the Osaka World Fair in Japan in 1970. Closer to home is the Hemisfair next year down in San Antonio.
Jobs not existing or just beginning a generation ago were those in electronics, computer technology, aerospace and atomic energy. Specialized training plus a college education is a must for these fields.
Peanuts fans will flip over Charles Schulz’s newest book, a series of cartoon out in time for holiday reading. It’s “You’ll Flip, Charlie Brown.”
“Cluttervision.” Television Commercials?