Texas Talks, 1962.

• Main Author: Texas Tech Ex-students Association.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Digitized by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. 1962
• Subjects: Texas Technological College > History; Texas Technological College > Students; Texas Technological College > Administrators; Texas Technological College > Faculty; Texas Technological College > Students > Social life and customs; Cawthon; Pete; 1898-1962; Waghorne; W. R; Hemmle; Gene; Camp; Truman; LeMaire; Harry; Texas Tech University > Name; Wooldridge; Floyd A; Charles; Killion; M. Dean; Texas Tech University. Southwest Collection; Texas Technological College. Dept. of Animal Husbandry; Texas Technological College. Libraries; Dormitories; Mahon; George Herman; 1900-1985; Greek letter societies > Texas > Lubbock; Urbanovsky; Elo J; Mascots > Texas > Lubbock; Wade; F. Alton (Franklin Alton); 1903-1978; Miller; William J; Diller; Sue; Texas Tech University. Seismological Observatory; Matador song; South Pole; Lubbock; Lemaire; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10605/55065

The digital file consists of four issues of the Tex Talks publication published by the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association. The March, 1962, issue is eight pages long and includes such topics as the establishment of a freshmen honors program; approval for private dorm telephone service; Pete Cawthon's induction into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame; Marshall Formby's book "These are My People"; and a recap of the activities of the Student Council. The April, 1962, issue is eight pages long and includes such topics as the student poll to change the college's name to Texas State University; recaps of the brothers Charles and Floyd Wooldridge's football years with the 1920s Matador football team; ribbon cutting of the new Student Union annex; Dean Killon at work with the marching band; researching in the Southwest Collection; Sue Diller becoming the first female to make the Tech Judging Team; a new core curriculum in engineering; the new Seismological Observatory; and the Student Council's plan to seek a new official college song. The August, 1962, issue is eight pages long. Sections of pages 7 and 8 are missing. This issue includes such topics as the new library now open for business; proposal of name change for the college to "Texas University of Arts, Sciences and Technology"; construction of housing for married students; retirements of Tech faculty; demolition of the old Tech Recreation Hall; and 1225 students on a waiting list for dorm rooms. The October, 1962, issue is eight pages long and includes such topics as construction of Tech Village Inc., a 200 unit married student housing project; Charles Wooldridge's election to president of the Cotton Bowl Association; Alton Wade's various trips to the South Pole; Bill Durfey as the new Red Rider; remodeling of the old library building for the Southwest Collection; Tech receiving permission from the FCC for KTXT-TV; changing of the traditional Slime Cap colors from green with red numerals to a red and black color scheme; approval for the sale of 10 acres of ...