1961

Alpha Beta Nu Members of the Alpha Beta Nu Home and Family Life organization presented their annual Christmas Tea December 14. Members of the faculty and friends of the club members were invited guests. The tea followed the installation of new officers and initiation of new members. Peggy Burleson, Betty Crowder, and Charlotte Rackley served…

Mrs. Lucille Cunningham spoke to the seniors of New Boston High School November 30. She also spoke to the seniors of Liberty-Eylau High School December 6. Miss Norma Lindblad attended a faculty workshop of the Texas League for Nursing December 1-3 at the Jack Tar Hotel in Galveston, Texas. On December 6 she attended a…

Nearly 45 acres of the campus at Texarkana College is taking on a new face. The land on the eastern side of the campus has been cleared and is being landscaped in an effort to beautify the campus as well as to provide a site for the construction of the proposed science and library buildings.…

The Circle K Club on December 7 completed their main project of the year by erecting a 40-foot flagpole on the mall in front of the TC Student Center. The three-section pole, sunk six feet into the ground, was constructed from steel pipe which was donated to the project by Ideal Plumbing Company of Texarkana.…

The Texarkana College Blue Jackets, an honorary organization for TC women students, recently initiated three new members following a dinner at Bryce’s Cafeteria. Students initiated were Jeanie Hall, Diana Martin and Lela Ann Tidwell. The Blue Jackets, organized in 1932, advocate comradeship and good will. They foster high ideals and help maintain a spirit of…

Victory-wise, the basketball team of TC is taking quite a different shape from the football team. Under Coach Tom Collins the Bulldog netmen are currently racing along with only one loss against their record—that a one-pointer to Ft. Smith in which TC scored five more field goals than Ft. Smith but was beaten via the…

By JACKIE SHULTZ The Student Senate-sponsored “Roaring ’20s” Day went down as perhaps the most successful social activities affair of the year. Participation, both of students and teachers, was considerably better than expected. Part of a program designed by the Senate to stimulate student interest in the campus life at TC, the Roaring ’20s Day…

Recently the Supreme Court agreed to make a ruling on whether or not it is Constitutional to have state-sanctioned prayer in public schools. The Court is acting on the protest of some half dozen parents of pupils in the New Hyde Park school district in New York. The protest stemmed from the use in the…

At North Texas State nine girls from Kendall Hall challenged men from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and walloped them 36-6 in a football game. Also at North Texas State, Charles Hall has for the past four years earned his way through college by cutting Christmas trees in New Mexico during Thanksgiving holidays and hauling them…

AUBREY ADCOCK So you want a college education, eh? Well, what type would you prefer—rare, medium, or well done? It would be wonderful if a bachelor’s degree were a consumer item. That seems to be the opinion of a large majority of us nowadays, anyhow. Work is a thing of the past; it is as…