Del Mar College - Cruiser Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Is Honored ith Dedication of '64 Cruiser N - , !7 A At the spring registration Dr. Creighton complies with the duties of the Director of the English Department. Dr. Creighton gives Lee Ann Loving instructions to type a study sheet for her' English literature students. Dr. Creighton talks to fellow faculty members in the Student Center during the week following Kennedy's assassination.

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Dr. Aileen Creighton Photographer Bill Dornfeld readies his camera as Dr. Aileen Creighton strikes a dignified pose. Dr. Aileen Creighton Dr. Aileen Creighton was born in Gainsville, Texas. When she graduated from high school at fifteen, she went to the University of Texas and received her Bachelor of Arts Degree at eighteen. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta. In 1932, she received her Master of Arts Degree at Texas. After graduation she taught in Taft for seven years and then for two and a half years she taught at the Corpus Christi High School. In 1939, she accepted her first position at Del Mar. In that year she replaced Mrs. I. W. Agee, who took a year's leave. of absence for the birth of her daughter. When Grady St. Clair, the present president of the college, went into the army, she replaced him as acting registrar. She taught English for a time and in 1946 became the head of the English department. She served until 1951 when she took a semester's leave of absence. During that time her son, James, was born. She became head of the department for the second time in 1957. In 1959 she received her doctorate from the University of Texas. Dr. Creighton is the chairman of the largest de- partment on campus, which includes thirteen teachers. She has handled the problems of administration very well. She was responsible for English teachers having graders to help them with paper work. She also succeeded in having a restriction placed on the num- ber of students a teacher could have in any one class. Dr. Creighton has been with Del Mar College for twenty-five years this year. The 1964 Crulfef' 15 dedicated to Dr. Aileen Creighton for those twenty- five years of service and assistance to Del Mar Col- lege. Margaret Kline, Dr. Creighton, and Mrs. Agee discuss their twenty-fifth anniversaries at Del Mar College.

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M Campus Provides Pleasant Baekdrop The library building contains 55,000 bound volumes on the 5 After some quiet study in the library, Carl Walker and Mary Eubank chat as they descend the marble stairs. Empty, orderly chairs create strange motifs in the early morning hours, but they soon will be in use. top floor with classrooms and teacher's offices below. 'ss