Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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,. ATTer The prinT iudging, The winning phoTographs were displayed and The sTudenTs had an opporTuniTy To Tall: To The iudges. Judges Toi The TirsT conTesT held April I8, l97O were: Jaclc Groves, Sherman DemocraT phoTographer7 Bobby Monroe, owner oT Monroe STudio and Bill Norman, ediTor oT The Perrin AFB newspaper. Judges Tor The second conTesT held May l, I97l were: Allen Crenshaw, owner o' Crenshaw STudio7 Jack Groves, Sherman De-mocraT phoTographer: and Bob Campblell, KXll-TX news manager. PhoTo ConTesT Displayed STudenT TaIen+s CaTegories were divided inTo sporTs, news, commer- cial, porTraiT, absTracT, picTo- rial and open. All TirsT place winners won a ribbon and SIO. The prinT judged BesT of Show wenT To Jan Folse The TirsT year, and Sam Chapin The second year. The phoTo conTesT is spon- sored annually by The Press Club. l Winners received ribbons Tor TirsT place, second place, Third place and honorable menTion. 42

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.41 Governor PresTon SmiTh VisiTs GCC On February 4, I'-772 Governor PresTon SmiTh made a surprise visiT To The Grayson CounTy Area. l-le sTopped TirsT aT KXII-TV sTaTion Tor an inTerview and Then conTinued To The Gray- son CounTy Regional Planning Commission oTTice To visiT wiTh Jerry Chapman, regional planning commissioner. He Then leTT Chap- man's oTTice Tor The main campus of Gray- son CounTy College. ATTer ioining Dr. Cruce STarlc, presidenT oT GCC, he Then Took a 30-minuTe Tour oT The campus visiT- ing several classes in progress buT concen- TraTed mainly on The area oT Technical voca- Tional classes and labs. Governor SmiTh, on his TirsT visiT To The GCC campus in iTs seven-year hisTory, said he was very im- pressed wiTh The college and iTs Technical vocaTional programs. Governor PresTon SmiTh waves goodbye as he boards his plane To leave The Grayson CounTy Air- porT locaTed on The Grayson CounTy College WesT Campus. During The Tour oT The Main Campus oT Grayson CounTy College Governor SmiTh sTopped in The sTudenT cenTer caTeTeria To chaT wiTh sTu- denTs Accompanying SmiTh on The Tour was Dr Cruce STarlc presidenT oT GCC Ronnie Cole, DirecTor oT Public RelaTions and Governor

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C ,U ss,, RX W .',9U ' 9997 CliTTon Shearer, alThough no longer a sTudenT aT Grayson, was in charge oT mosT oT The air Time during The summer and is now working aT KSHN PM sTaTion in Sherman. Craig Burnell, whose radio name is Tom Shock, has The aTTernoon and evening Time sloT devoTed To easy lisTening. Shock is - on The air Trom Tour Till six Monday. Wednesday and Friday. The radio sTaTion provides The sTudenTs wiTh acTual on The air Training in preparaTion Tor a proTessional career KGCC-FM Began lTs FourTh Year On The Air KGCC-FM, Grayson CounTy College radio sTaTion, began iTs TourTh year on The air, broadcasTing various caTegories oT music Trom easy lisTening To soul and hard 'roclc aT 89.7 MHZ on The FM band. The sTaTion broadcasTed Trom noon unTil midnighT giving The news every hour and The news headlines every halT hour. Each OT The I4 disc jockeys were responsible Tor The ediTing and announcing OT The news during his pro- gram. KGCC also broadcasTed all oT The home games and some oT The selecTed ouT-oT-Town games. This year There were a varieTy oT courses oTTered in The area oT Radio STa- Tion Technology ranging Trom AdverTising To Programming To STaTion Management The radio sTaTion was designed To give sTudenTs pracTice under acTual broadcasTing condiTions. I4