Louisiana Polytechnic Institute - Lagniappe Yearbook (Ruston, LA)

Text from Pages 1 - 290 of the 1957 volume:

A YEARBOOK PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS EDITOR ASST. EDITOR Louisiana Tech classes we attended ■ and the night life at Tech parties and dates WOMEN’S DORMITORY Contents CLASSES FEATURES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS ORGANIZATIONS GREEKS TfV 8 ’ iiu « m 19 DR. R. L. ROPP THE PRESIDENT OF TECH THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear Tech Students: It is again my happy and honored privilege, for the eighth consecutive year, to extend you greetings and best wishes through the medium of the Lagniappe, and to register commendation for the excellent spirit of cooperation exemplified by everyone throughout th e session. Although at times world tensions have threatened to alter normal thinking and actions, our college not only has remained stable but also has made remarkable strides. Most certainly, the enrollment of more than 3,000 students, the completion of a $2,500,000 expan¬ sion program, and the start of a $2,325,000 revenue producing building plan which will embrace the con¬ struction of three new dormitories, a student center, and the addition to dining facilities will designate the 1956- 1957 session as the most progressive in the 61-year history of our college. However, more important than these developments is the fact that high academic standards have been maintained in all departments of the institution. The faculty in many areas of instruction has been strengthen¬ ed, all departments of engineering have been accredited nationally for the first time, and special interest has been manifested in all phases of extra-curricular activity. May you cherish ever the memories of this, your year, at Tech; and may your accomplishments in the classroom and the laboratory and your associations in all segments of campus life serve as a bulwark of strength as you challenge the future. Faithfully yours R. L. Ropp President The President’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Ropp at an mformal tea. A real Bulldog supporter! 21 BEN T. BOGARD, Dean of the School of Engi¬ neering , B.S., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; M.S., Louisiana State University. THE DEANS OF BURTON R. RISINGER, Dean of the School of Business Administration , B.S., Louisiana Poly¬ technic Institute; M.B.A., Louisiana State University. JOHN B. WILSON, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences , BA., Ouachita College; M.A., University of South Carolina; Ph.D., Universi¬ ty of North Carolina. M. HAYNE FOLK, JR., Dean of the School of ALICE MILLETT GRAHAM, Dean of the School Agriculture and Forestry , B.S., Clemson Agri- of Home Economics , B.S., New Mexico State culture College; M.S., Louisiana State Uni- Teachers College; M.S., Iowa State College, versity. THE SCHOOLS CLIFFORD T. WOODARD, Dean of the School of Education , B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic In¬ stitute; M.A., George Peabody College. Fully accredited by the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States, Louisi¬ ana Tech confers four degrees: bachelor of account¬ ing, bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bache¬ lor of music. The grounds of the college comprise a campus of 104 acres within the city of Ruston, a tract of 29 acres adjacent to the campus, and the demonstration farm of the School of Agriculture and Forestry consisting of 352 acres situated about a half mile from the campus. The college buildings number a total of 40. Tech reached a peak in enroll¬ ment in the fall of 1956 when 3,012 students, 2,150 male and 862 female, registered at the college. 23 ' ' , MARTHA CONDRA NETTIE THORNTON Dean of Women Assistant Dean of Women ADMINISTRATORS W. H. McLAURIN Business Manager MABEL MAY Registrar HENRY R. MAYS, SR. Superintendent of Printing H. C. PYBURN Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Department 24 SALLIE ROBINSON Guidance Counselor ELENORA A. CAWTHON J. W. EVANS Director of Department of Auditor Placement and Services ERNEST J. SCHEERER JOHNNIE A. SPEIGHTS Librarian Superintendent of Dining Halls KENNETH F. HEWINS Director of Publicity JOE AILLET Director of Athletics 25 DEPARTMENT HEADS First Row HARRY W. ATKINSON, LT. COL. USAF, Air Science, B.S., University of Illinois. HOWARD BALSLEY, Business and Economic Research, A.B., M.A., Ph.I)., Indiana University. HAL B. BARKER, Animal Industry, B.S., Tennessee Poly¬ technic Institute; M.S., Iowa State College. F. ELIZABETH BETHEA, Art, B. Design, H. Sophie New¬ comb College; M.A., Columbia University. LLOYD P. BLACKWELL, Forestry, B.A., Lynchburg Col¬ lege; M.F., Yale University. Second Row JOHN PAUL CAMPBELL, Special Education Center, B.A., M.S.W., Louisiana State University. WOODROW W. CHEW, Chemical Engineering, B.S., New Mexico A. and M.; M.S., Oklahoma A. and M. GLEN LEE CORRIGAN, Petroleum and Geological Engi¬ neering, B.S., M.S., University of Texas; Ph.D., Penn¬ sylvania State University. M. HAYNE FOLK, JR., Botany and Bacteriology, B.S., Clem- son Agriculture College; M.S., Louisiana State Universi¬ ty- JOHN R. FOWLER, Zoology, B.S., Louisiana State Universi¬ ty; M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Third Roiv ALICE MILLETT GRAHAM, Home Economics, B.S., New Mexico State Teachers College; M.S., Iowa State College. PAUL T. HENDERSHOT, Economics, B.A., Henderson State Teachers College; M.A., Ph.D., Louisiana State Uni¬ versity. H. L. HENRY, JR., General Engineering, B.S., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; M.S., iilinois Institute of Tech¬ nology; Registered P.E., Texas and Louisiana. KENNETH F. HEWINS, Journalism, B.A., M.A., Indiana University. CHARLES G. HOBGOOD, Agronomy and Horticulture, B.S., M.S., Louisiana State University. 26 First Row GEORGE B. HOGG, Health and Physical Education, B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; M.S., Louisiana State University. LAVERNE E. IRVINE, Music, B.A., University of Pitts¬ burgh; M.A., University of Pennsylvania. DAVID L. JOHNSON, Electrical Engineering, B.S., Berea College; B.S., M.S., State University of Iowa; M.S., Okla¬ homa A. and M. WILLIAM J. MASSEY, Teacher Training School, B.A., Loui¬ siana State Normal College; M. Ed., Ed. D., University of Missouri. JOHN J. McDOW, Agricultural Engineering, B.S., M.S., Michigan State College. REGINALD A. McFARLAND, Civil Engineering, B.S., M.S., Louisiana State University. Second Roza GARNIE W. McGINTY, Social Science, B.S., Louisiana State Normal College; M.A., George Peabody College; Ph.D., University of Texas. PAUL J. PENNINGTON, Speech, B.A., Henderson State Teachers College; M.A., Oklahoma University. BURTON R. RISINGER, Business, B.S., Louisiana Poly¬ technic Institute M.B.A., Louisiana State University. HORACE EWING RUFF, JR., Physics, B.S., Hendrix Col¬ lege; M.S., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., Iowa State College. H. J. SACHS, English and Foreign Language, Ph.B., M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., George Peabody College. Third Row C. H. SMITH, Chemistry, B.S., Louisiana Polytechnic Insti¬ tute; M.S., Ph.D., Louisiana State University. PAUL KIMBRELL SMITH, Mathematics, B.S., M.S., Uni¬ versity of South Carolina; M.S., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Illinois. HAROLD J. SMOLINSKI, Accounting, B.A., Louisiana State Normal College; M.B.A., Louisiana State University; C.P.A., Louisiana. J. J. THIGPEN, Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Louisiana Poly¬ technic Institute; B.S., U. S. Military Academy; M.S., University of Texas. CLIFFORD T. WOODARD, Education, B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute; M.A., George Peabody College. 27 ■ N • ' i • . -- , ‘ 4 , ,A .W ■ • ' f. . ' • ' ' ►, . ■ ■■■■ -■ i; - 1 « $?♦ $ ' v r , v W - ' � (i w ' _ -V . . ' ' . m%, «e� 111 iiiis pill Eifs si sap® IS s V pi 1 Str .. Kj« V k smi «4 ■ ipi , •’■• ' ' ' i -1 ' « ' - ' r. . - ' vr.;!:-- -■ V-- ’•■ . .-;. ?• 5 . 25 ■ ■? ' •; ' : ‘ t . � ‘ , ' ' ? ■ ,::f ,,.. ?� ■■ ,. ■:■! % 1 . ' .. ? . S: s- ’i ' $ f m t mm ■ ii : ■. ii 1 ; i mrnimm: 3IIIIII ||g 1 ’ • 44« k %l 1 i. ; vji, r � « � tf ■ t ' 4 V . P ; ‘ % 4l| - ¥ ® , ■■ 8k 1 ■ i. 1 Bill! lillBlI Si® «. ' - a : ' % I! llli ®.. f ' - ‘ - m ► i Sli! —- li i §i® :::■ lllf m M:k m ’ ' n; ’. £ ' {feSJ V ' S ' ,S ' ■•• S, _ CLASSES SENIORS John Malmay_ President Sally Sue Greer _ Vice-president Beth Dawkins_ Secretary Janies Dunn _ Treasurer i Dawkins, Dunn, Greer, Malmay not shown. I;.. : ' HOWARD AUDITORIUM OF 19 5 7 First Row JULINDA ABU NASR Beirut, Lebanon Home Economics JESSE LUCAS ADAMS III Monroe Zoology Intramural Sports; Rush Chairman, Vice-president, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. JAMES WORLEY ADCOCK Ida Petroleum Engineering American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; Petroleum Club. Second Row DAVID LEE ADDINGTON Shreveport General Business President Pledge Class, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Drum Major, Band; Drum Major, ROTC Band; Intramural Sports; Debonnaires. KENNETH RAY ALLBRITTON Tulles General Business Marketing Club; Baptist Student Union; Intramural Sports; Society for the Advancement of Management; Freshman Adviser; Theater Players; Honor Fresh¬ man. MARTHA DENMON ALLBRITTON St. Joseph Home Economics President, Student Union; Phi Mu Sorority; Home Economics Club; Student Federation of Louisiana Colleges and Universities. Third Row WILLIAM DENNIS ALLISON Pineville Mathematics Honor Freshman; Band; ROTC Band; ROTC Color Guard; Debonnaires; Kappa Sigma Fraternity. PEGGY MARIE ALMOND Minden Secretarial Science Phi Mu Sorority; Honor Freshman. WILLIAM EARL AMIS Ruston Mechanical Engineering Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Mechanical Engi¬ neers. Fourth Row DELORES FAYE ANDERSON Ruston Medical Technology Warden Editor, Beta Sigma Omicron Sorority, Bap¬ tist Student Union; Biological Society; Band. JOHN P. ANDERSON Quitman Physical Education Varsity Track; “T” Club, Intramural Sports. EDWARD LEON ANDREWS Shreveport Accounting Vice-president. Beta Alpha Psi Fraternity; Treasurer, Delta Sigma Pi; Accounting Club. Fifth Rcw PATSY LOU ARNOLD Raceland Science Education HORACE JAMES AUSTIN Winnfield Agricultural Engineering Agricultural Engineering Club; Male Chorus; Intra¬ mural Sports. BETTYE AYCOCK Lillie English Education Sigma Tau Delta; Enlistment Chairman, Baptist Student Union; Blue Jackets; Choir; President, Fresh¬ man Girls’ Glee Club; Freshman Adviser; Campus Women’s Council; Dormitory Honor Council. 31 SENIORS First Row WADE ROSS BAGGETTE Lake Charles Civil Engineering and Business Administration Historian, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Treasurer, American Society of Civil Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Intramural Sports. LYNN LOUISE BAGLEY Alexandria Secretarial Science Pledge President, Treasurer, Vice-President, Beta Sigma Omicron Sorority; Panhellenic Council; Blue Jackets; Staff, Lagniappe; Secretarial Science Repre¬ sentative, Business Students’ Association. BUFORD RALPH BAILEY Sterlington Business Management Delta Sigma Pi. Second Roxu JAMES M. BALL Choudrant Physical Education Intramural Sports. JOHN MERRELL BARBER Homer Electrical Engineering and Business Admmistration Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Editor, Tech Engineer; Vice-president, Junior Class; Tau Beta Pi; Alpha Phi Omega; American Institute of Electrical Engi¬ neers; Engineers’ Association; Theater Players; Band; Associate Editor, Words for the Birds. BOBBY DALE BARRETT Lillie Accounting Vice-president, Accounting Club; Beta Alpha Psi. Third Row WILTZ DOUGLAS BARROW Homer Geological Engineering Secretary-Treasurer, Geology Club; Intramural Sports. ROBERT OREN BASS Morgan City Petroleum Engineering Pledge Master, House Manager, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Treasurer, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; Intramural Sports; Westminister Fellowship. WILLIAM RICHARD BASSETT Accounting Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; ing Club. Fourth Row DONALD E. BAXTER Mathematics Future Teachers of America. CHARLES EDWARD BELL Management Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Freshman Rules Com mittee; Freshman Adviser; Society for the Advance¬ ment of Management; Intramural Sports. JAMES REX BELL Simsboro Geology Fifth Row HILMA EZELL BENEFIELD Ruston Music Education Wesley Foundation; Secretary, Choir; Band O’Glee; Music Educators’ National Conference; Philharmonic Society; Christian Service Association. LAWRENCE RAY BENEFIELD Springhill Journalism Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Staff, Tech Talk; Offi¬ cer, ROTC; Golf Team. FRED HARDING BERRY Minden Geology Geology Club; Intramural Sports. Winnfiekl ROTC; Account- Farmerville El Dorado, Ark. 32 OF 19 5 7 First Row RALPH GLEN BILLINGSLEY Mansfield General Business Marketing Club; Photo Club; Intramural Sports; Society for Advancement of Management; Pre-Law Club. JOHN PAUL BIRDSONG Haynesville General Business Band; ROTC Band; Corresponding Secretary, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Male Chorus; Intramural Sports. EDWARD BITAR Beino, Lebanon Electrical Engineering First Vice-President, Student Senate; Publicity Chair¬ man, Secretary, American Institute of Electrical Engi¬ neers; Editorial Staff, Tech Engineer; Engineers’ Association; Honor Freshman. Second Row DON W. BLACK Jonesboro Speech Corresponding Secretary, Alpha Phi Omega; Theater Players; Staff, Tech Talk. JENNINGS MASON BLACKMON Junction City, Ark. English Sigma Tau Delta; Wesley Foundation; Future Teach¬ ers of America. MARY JANE BLAKE Jonesboro Social Science Third Row JAY REEVES BOND Pineville General Business Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Freshman Adviser; Market¬ ing Club; Intramural Sports. LEO H. BONDURANT West Monroe Chemical Engineering Kappa Sigma Fraternity; American Institute of Chemi¬ cal Engineers; American Chemical Society; Inter¬ fraternity Council. THOMAS PURSER BOSTICK McComb, Miss. Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Fourth Row FRED WILLIAM BOULWARE Jonesboro Accounting JACKIE DUANE BOURN Haynesville Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engi¬ neers’ Association; Wings and Props Flying Club. JEPPIE WAYNE BOURN Haynesville Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engi¬ neers’ Association. Fifth Row WILLIAM L. BOYD Choudrant Forestry Forestry Club. TERESA LYNN BOYD New Orleans Mathematics Education President, Future Teachers of America. JAMES RONALD BOYETT Sarepta Physical Education Varsity Baseball. 33 SENIORS First Row EARL E. BRADLEY Oak Grove Social Science Intramural Sports, Future Teachers of America. HELEN RUTH BRANTON Urania Education Future Teachers of America; Officer, Baptist Stu¬ dent Union. JACOB RICHARD BROWN Ruston Electrical Engineering Treasurer, American Institute of Electrical Engi¬ neers; Catalcger, Tau Beta Pi; Institute of Radio Engineers. Second Rote KENNETH BROWN Jonesboro Education ‘T”-Club; Varsity Baseball; Intramural Sports; Honor Freshman. MAURICE C. BROWNELL Shreveport Management Varsity Track; “T”-Club; Publicity Officer, Society for the Advancement of Management; Intramural Sports; Marketing Club. JOHN MELVIN BROWNING Haynesville General Business Third Row DON DE ARTHUR BROWNLEE Shreveport Electrical Engineering American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Varsity Tennis; Engineers’ Association. GERALD H. BRYANT Mooringsport Marketing and Merchandising Marketing Club. GLORIA DEAN BRYANT Ruston Business Education Honor Freshman; President, Theta Beta. Fourth Row WILFRED FRATER BUCKELEW Shreveport Electrical Engineering Kappa Sigma Fraternity; American Institute of Elec¬ trical Engineers. LAMAR SHIRLEY BUFFINGTON Winnfield General Business President, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Vice-president, President, Delta Sigma Pi; President, Vice-president, Interfraternity Council; Who’s Who. ANTIONETTE YVONNE BURTON Shreveport Elementary Education Phi Mu Sorority; Sweetheart, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Secretary, Freshman Class; Blue Jackets; Future Teachers of America; Freshman Adviser. Fifth Row EDWIN BENOID BURNS El Dorado, Ark. Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers. CHARLES H. BUTCHER Mangham Chemical Engineering American Chemical Society; American Institute of Chemical Engineers. M. GLENDA CANADY West Monroe Chemistry Band; Choir; Secretary-Treasurer, American Chemi¬ cal Society; Circulo der Sprachen Etranger. 34 OF 1957 First Row RICHARD DREW CAREY Minden History Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Wings and Prop Fly¬ ing Club; Westminister Fellowship; Debate Team. HOWARD FRANCIS CARLTON El Dorado, Ark. Chemical Engineering Honor Freshman; Treasurer, Junior Class; Kappa Sigma Fraternity; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Freshman Adviser; Intramural Sports; Officer, ROTC. ELIZABETH BRODNAX CARPENTER Mer Rouge English Education Kappa Delta Sorority; Women’s Recreation Associa¬ tion; Aswell Hall Honor Council; Secretary, Campus Women’s Council; Future Teachers of America. Second Row JO ANN ELIZABETH CARSO Monroe Secretarial Science Secretary, Vice-president, Phi Mu Sorority; Blue Jackets; Pi Kappa Alpha Dream Girl. JACK H. CARTER General Business Varsity Football. BEVERLY THORESAN CATANESE Elementary Education Future Teachers of America. Third Row JOSEPH MATTHEW CATANESE Accounting Historian, Kappa Alpha Fraternity JOHN F. CHEEK Accounting ANN FILES CLAIR Art Social Chairman, Historian, Alpha Chi Omega Sorori¬ ty- Ruston Shreveport Shreveport Pineville Oak Ridge Fourth Row IRWIN EDWIN CLAIR Ruston Social Science Education Honor Freshman; Future Teachers of America; Cir- culo Der Sprachen Etranger; Veteran’s Association; Freshman Adviser. CHARLES EDGAR CLARK Mathematics Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser. DEWITT CLEMENTS Social Science Fifth Row DALTON LEHANE CLOUD Speech CHARLES GORDON CLOUTIER, JR. Mechanical Engineering Officer, ROTC; Officer, Arnold Air Society; Kappa Alpha Fraternity; American Society of Mechanical Engineers. MARILYN GIBSON COIL Vivian English Band O’Glee; Future Teachers of America; Staff, Tech Talk. Hodge Lisbon Castor Shreveport 35 SENIORS First Row FRED COLE El Dorado, Ark. General Business Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Cheer¬ leader; Intramural Sports. JAMES M. COLEMAN Jena Physical Education Varsity Football. MELVIN COLVIN, JR. Dubach Accounting Varsity Baseball; Accounting Club; Intramural Sports; “T” Club. Second Row CHARLES R. CONNAUGHTON Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Vice-president, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Vice- president, Phi Kappa Phi; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Honor Court; Arnold Air Society; Student Senate; Outstanding Freshman Engineer; Outstanding Freshman Boy; Drill Team, ROTC; Intramural Sports; President, Petroleum Club; Presi¬ dent, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; Who’s Who; Omicron Delta Kappa. PRESLEY CLYDE CONNELL, JR. Ruston Insurance and Real Estate Society for Advancement of Management; Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Marketing Club. DONALD RAY COOPER Shreveport Business Administration Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Intramural Sports; Out¬ standing Intramural Athlete; Society for Advancement of Management. Third Row JOHN JOSEPH CORDARO Shreveport Electrical Engineering Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Newman Club; Ameri¬ can Institute of Electrical Engineers; Intramural Sports; Engineers’ Association. DOROTHY JEAN COSTELLO Oak Grove Elementary Education Vice-president, Future Teachers of America; Secretary, Newman Club. RICHARD SIMS COTTON Monroe Geology Geology Club; Petroleum Club; Intramural Sports. Fourth Row ROY DALE COX Homer Chemical Engineering Vice-president, American Institute of Chemical En¬ gineers; Staff, Tech Engineer. SAMMIE LANE CRAFT Bossier City Civil Engineering and Business Education Intramural Sports; President, American Society of Civil Engineers; Treasurer, Engineers’ Association. SHIRLEY ANN CRAFT Terry Education Theater Players; Future Teachers of America; Pub¬ licity Chairman. Panhellenic Council; Beta Sigma Omicron Sorority. Fifth Row RONALD DEAN CRAIN Shreveport Management WILLIAM DONALD CRAWLEY Jonesboro Mathematics RALPH DONALD CROSS Shreveport General Business Delta Sigma Pi; Secretary, Treasurer, Society for Advancement of Management; Varsity Baseball; In¬ tramural Sports. 36 OF 1957 First Row PAUL W. CROWE Springhill Business A dministration Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; President, Freshman Class; Student Senate; Varsity Football; Intramural Sports. HAROLD LAMAR CULPEPPER Jonesboro Geology Sigma Gamma Epsilon. FRANK N. CUNNINGHAM Shreveport Civil Engineering Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Officer, ROTC; American Society of Civil Engineers; Intramural Sports; Wesley Foundation. Second Row HAROLD GENE DARICEK Jonesboro Geology Freshman Adviser; Intramural Sports. KENNETH D. DAVIS West Monroe Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Tau Beta Pi; Engineers’ Association. LESTER CURTIS DAVIS, JR. Shreveport Management Marketing Club. Third Roiv MARY FRANCES DAVIS Ringgold Medical Technology B iological Society; Intramural Sports. RICHARD EDWARD DAVIS Shreveport Civil Engineering Rifle Team, ROTC; American Society Civil Engi¬ neers; Freshman Adviser; Engineers’ Association; Fly¬ ing Club. TOMMY H. DAVIS Winnsboro Music Fourth Row BETH DAWKINS Farmerville Music Education Philharmonic Society; Panhellenic Council; Sigma Kappa Sorority; Publicity Chairman, Women’s Lea¬ gue Board; Alpha Tau Delta; Freshman Adviser; Honor Freshman; Treasurer, Freshman Class; Secre¬ tary, Senior Class; Blue Jackets; Who’s Who. BILLY W. DEAN Sarepta Business Management Society for Advancement of Management; Marketing Club; Intramural Sports; Lambda Chi Alpha Fra¬ ternity. JEFF DAVIS DEBLIEUX Natchitoches Civil Engineering Fifth Row WILLIAM MORT DEW, JR. Springhill Electrical Engineering American Institute of Electrical Engineers. BETTY JO deYAMPERT Smackover, Ark. Business Education Pledge Secretary, Corresponding Secretary. Reporter, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Future Teachers of America; Blue Jackets; Honor Council, Adams Hall. RODERICK EARL DILLON, JR. Homer Civil Engineering Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; American Society of Civil Engineers; Secretary, Engineers’ Association. 37 SENIORS First Row GEORGE RICHARD DOWNS, JR. Rayville Electrical Engineering Honor Freshman; Choir, Executive Council, Baptist Student Union; Secretary, President, American In¬ stitute of Electrical Engineers; Engineers’ Association. JOHN PERRY DOXEY Cameron Mechanical Engineering Engineers’ Association; American Society of Mechan¬ ical Engineers. JAMES EDWARD DUGAN, JR. Sibley Journalism Staff, Tech Talk; American Society of Civil Engi¬ neers; RO IC; Engineers’ Association. Second Row JAMES K. DUNN Hampton, Ark. Marketing Pledge Treasurer, Vice-president, Kappa Sigma Fra¬ ternity; Marketing Club; Society for Advancement of Management; Agricultural Engineers’ Club; Delta Sigma Pi; Treasurer, Senior Class; Freshman Adviser; Interfraternity Council; Officer, ROTC; Intramural Sports. JUDY LANGSTON FAZIO Baton Rouge Psychology CECIL GLENN ECHOLS Norphlet, Ark. Business A dministration Third Row ANDREW MILLER EDWARDS Farmerville Geology Intramural Sports, Secretary, Geology Club. ROYCE DEAN ELKINS Farmerville Social Science JOE MARIE ELLETT West Monroe Elementary Education Blue Jackets; Future Teachers of America; Theater Players, Secretary, Theta Upsilon Sorority; Wesley Foundation. Fourth Row JIM r. ELORRIAGA New Orleans General Business Marketing Club GEORGE LEROY ERSKINE Shreveport Accounting Band; Officer, ROTC; Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Arnold Air Society; Beta Alpha Psi; Accounting Club. ELTON CLEVELAND EUBANKS Winnsboro Chemical Engineering American Chemical Society; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Executive Council, Baptist Stu¬ dent Union; Intramural Sports. Fifth Row KATHRYN JANELL EVANS De Ridder Science Education Chaplain, Treasurer, Theta Upsilon Sorority; Future Teachers of Americ a; Honor Freshman; Phi Kappa Phi. ™ HARRY JOE FARRAR General Business JERRY HARTMAN FENTON Animal Husbandry Block and Bridle Club. Ruston Bossier City 38 OF 1957 First Row BOBBY JOE FESTERVAND Shreveport Marketing and Merchandising Treasurer, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Treasurer, Student Senate; Comptroller, Arnold Air Society; Pub¬ licity Director, Delta Sigma Pi; Public Relations Chairman, Society for the Advancement of Manage¬ ment; Marketing Club; Varsity Baseball; Officer, ROTC; Business Students’ Association; Intramural Sports. OLLIE NOLAN FLEMING West Monroe Wildlife Conservation Sigma Tau Delta; Agriculture Club; Biological Society. PATRICIA ANN FLEMING Alexandria Speech Kappa Delta Sorority; Blue Jackets; Publicity Chair¬ man, Secretary, Student Union; Alpha Tau Delta; Honor Council, Sophomore Hall; Who’s Who. Second Row CURTIS T. FORD Ruston Mechanical Engineering Secretary, Program Chairman, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Adjutant, Arnold Air Society; Officer, Band, ROTC; Intramural Sports. CECIL E. FORREST, JR. Tallulah Chemical Engineering House Manager, Athletic Director, Lambda Chi Al¬ pha Fraternity; Officer, ROTC; Engineers’ Asso¬ ciation; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Intramural Sports; Freshman Adviser; Honor Fresh¬ man. KENNETH PAUL FOUNTAIN Shreveport Mechanical Engineering Varsity Football; “T”-Club; Tau Beta Pi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Who’s Who. Third Row MARGARET ANN FRANCIS Jonesboro Business Education BOBBY NEIL FRANKLIN Vienna Speech Freshman Council, Executive Council, Baptist Stu¬ dent Union; Christian Service Association. JEROME ALEXANDER FRASER Hodge Marketing and Merchandising Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Forestry Club; Vice- president, Marketing Club; Society for the Advance¬ ment of Management; Business Students’ Association; Newman Club; Veterans’ Association. Fourth Roto JO ANN FRAZIER Ruston Medical Technology LARRY BAIN FREELAND ' Springhill Marketing and Merchandising Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Marketing Club; In¬ tramural Sports. HOLLIS VERNER FULTON Pineville Music Education Honor Freshman; Men’s Glee Club; President, Vice- president, Band; President, Choir; Orchestra; Presi¬ dent, Vice-president, Philharmonic Society; Vice- president, Tech Chapter of Music Educators Na¬ tional Conference; Leader, Business Manager, Debon- naires; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Who’s Who. Fifth Row ROGER L. GALATAS Benton Geology President, Vice-president, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Varsity Baseball; Student Union; ROTC; Freshman Rules Committee; Inter¬ fraternity Council; Who’s Who. ROBERT CHARLES GAMBLE Mansfield Accounting Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Drill Team, Officer, ROTC; Accounting Club; American Institute of Electrical Engineers. PATRICIA INGRAN GARLAND Start Real Estate and Insurance 39 SENIORS First Row EDWARD THOMAS GATES Accord, N. Y. Civil Engineers American Society of Civil Engineers. THOMAS JOHNSON GILBERT West Monroe Wild Life Conservation CHARLES EDWARD GLOVER Shreveport General Business Varsity Football, Who’s Who. Second Roiu DOROTHY ETTA GOFF Ruston Secretarial Science President, Vice-president, Alpha Chi Omega Sorority; Vice-president, Panhellenic Council; Blue Jackets; Alpha Tau Delta; Phi Kappa Phi; Theater Players; Modern Dance Club; Honor Freshman; Beauty, Lagniappe; Who’s Who. BENNIE B. GOODWIN Homer Accounting Beta Alpha Psi; Accounting Club. SHIRLEY GOODWIN Tullos Elementary Education Future Teachers of America. Third Row CHARLES V. GOUAUX Lake Charles Mechanical Engineering Honor Freshman; Justice, Honor Court; Chaplin, Pledge Trainer, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Freshman Adviser; Intramural Sports; American So¬ ciety of Mechanical Engineers; ROTC. BOBBY JOE GOUGH Geology Band. DURWOOD R. GRAFTON Geology Fourth Row VELLA GENE GRANT Geology Geology Club; Intramural Sports. ERNEST BRODIE GREEN, JR. Geological Engineering Pledge Trainer, Corresponding Secretary, Best Pledge, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; President, Vice-presi¬ dent, Publicity Chairman, Geology Club; President, Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Concert Band; Baptist Stu¬ dent Union; Engineers’ Association. SALLY SUE GREER Oak Grove Sociology Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Registrar, Sec¬ ond Vice-president, First Vice-president, President, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Sponsor, ROTC; Maid, Home¬ coming; Court, Military Ball; Alpha Tau Delta; Who’s Who. Jena Farmerville Grayson Haynesville Fifth Row DENNIS WAYNE GRIFFIN Rodessa Accounting Accounting Club; Intramural Sports. N. FERN GRIFFIN Monroe Elementary Education Blue Jackets; Baptist Student Union; Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. JAP GULLATT, JR. Simsboro Health and Physical Education Varsity Basketball, “T” Club. 40 OF 19 5 7 First Row PATSY McGUIRE GULLATT Simsboro English Education MELVIN GLEN HAGLE Haynesville Chemical Engineering Engineers’ Association; Secretary, American Institute of Chemical Engineers. WILBER EARL HAMMETT Choudrant Marketing and Merchandising Marketing Club. Second Row ELDRED LEE HARP Agricultural Engineering Agricultural Engineering Club. RAYMOND THOMAS HARPER Business Education D. RONALD HARRELL Magnolia, Ark. Petroleum Engineering American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Bastrop Shreveport Third Rozv EDNA ALVERN HARTWIG Georgetown Medical Technology Honor Freshman; Honor Council, Aswell Hall; Campus Women’s Council; Secretary, Biological So¬ ciety; Band O’Glee; Maid, Engineers’ Day; Blue Jack¬ ets; Kappa Delta Sorority; Freshman Adviser. CHARLES JOE HARVESTON Jonesboro Mechanical Engineering Band, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engineers’ Asso¬ ciation; Freshman Adviser; Alpha Phi Omega; Varsity Track, Football; Intramural Sports; Student Athletic Manager. SUE HAYDEN Eudora, Ark. Music Education President, Alpha Tau Delta; First Vice-president, Rush Chairman, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Honor Fresh¬ man; Honor Council, Harper Hall; Blue Jackets; Debonnaires; Secretary, Choir; Band O’Glee; Band; Philharmonic Society; Sponsor, ROTC. Fourth Row HORACE LYNN HEAD Springhill Accounting Accounting Club. GEORGE C. HEARN, JR. Shreveport Geology VENTRISS PAUL HEARON, JR. New Orleans Marketing and Merchandising Treasurer, Marketing Club; Business Students’ Asso¬ ciation, Veterans’ Association; Intramural Sports. Fifth Row JUNE EVELYN HEMPHILL Baskin Medical Technology Biological Society. BOBBIE NELL HENDERSON Jonesboro Mathematics American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Honor Council, Adams Hall. LINDA THOMPSON HENDERSON Monroe English Education Sigma Tau Delta; Alpha Tau Delta; Who’s Who; Queen, Homecoming; Maid, Queen, State Fair; For¬ estry Queen; Queen, Military Ball; Honor Fresh¬ man; Honor Court; Kappa Delta Sorority; Beauty, Lagniappe. 41 SENIORS First Row VIC HENDERSON Alexandria Botany Biological Society. SHIRLEY ONITA HIGHTOWERS Jonesboro Elementary Education Theta Beta; Wesley Foundation. PATRICK R. HINTON Ruston General Business “T” Club; Varsity Track; Varsity Football; Football Team Captain; Who’s Who. Second Row SHIRLEY BARBARA HODGKINS Kilbourne Home Economics Home Economics Club; Theater Players; Baptist Stu¬ dent Union. JERRY LAWSON HOLMES El Dorado, Ark. Forestry Forestry Club; Society of American Foresters. JAMES W. HONEYCUTT Bossier City Business Management Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Treasurer, Student Senate; Cheerleader; Delta Sigma Pi; Society for Advance¬ ment of Management. Third Row WILLIAM B. HORSNBY Ruston Petroleum Engineering President, Chaplain, Tail Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Advertising Manager, Tech Engineer; Who’s Who; Officer, ROTC; Arnold Air Society; Intramural Sports; Engineers’ Association; American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. JAKE WAYNE HUMBLE Calhoun Electrical Engineering CLYDE LEE HUNT Dubach General Business Varsity Baseball; Intramural Sports; “T” Club. Fourth Row DOROTHY JOE HUNT Bossier City Marketing and Merchandising Secretary, Theater Players; Secretary, Marketing Club; Honor Freshman. JERRY DALE HUNTER Delhi Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Baptist Student Union. CHARLES GWIN JACKSON Oak Grove English Sigma Tau Delta; Future Teachers of America; Honor Freshman; Baptist Student Union; Choir; Men’s Glee Club. Fifth Roiu DOROTHY JEAN JACKSON Shreveport Elementary Education Honor Councils, Harper, Sophomore, Aswell Halls; Campus Women’s Council; Treasurer, Pledge Trainer, Alpha Chi Omega Sorority; ROTC Sponsor; Future Teachers of America. MINOR T. JACKSON, JR. Junction City, Ark. Z oology Kappa Sigma Fraternity. CURTIS JAMES DeQuincy Mechanical Engineering Honor Freshman; Vice-president, Rush Chairman, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Freshman Adviser; President, Engineers’ Asociation; Arnold Air Society; Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Mechanical En¬ gineers; Officer, ROTC; Intramural Sports; Who’s Who. 42 OF 1957 First Row MARY JON JEFCOAT Hilly Secretarial Science Women’s League Board; Vice-president, Theta Beta; Wesley Foundation; Choir. ERNEST LLOYD JOHNSON Shreveport Electrical Engineering American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Intramural Sports. GERALD M. JOHNSON Calhoun Management Delta Sigma Pi; Intramural Sports. Second Roic JOHN H. JOHNSON Bogalusa Agricultural Engineering Agricultural Engineering Club. REBECCA JOHNSON Calhoun Elementary Education Future Teachers of America. WILLIAM T. JOINER Gibsland Forestry Third Row HUGH ELLIS JONES Jackson, Miss. Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Intra¬ mural Sports. SHERMAN I. JONES Jonesboro Electrical Engineering Engineers’ Association; American Institute of Electri¬ cal Engineers; Baptist Student Union, Baptist Men on Campus. ENID LA RUE JORDAN West Monroe Elementary Education Activities Chairman, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Blue Jackets; Future Teachers of America; Circulo der Sprachen Etranger; Baptist Student Union. Fourth Row HARRISON KELLY JORDAN Rayville Business and Pre-Law Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Society for the Advance¬ ment of Management; Pre-Law Club; Intramural Sports. EDDIE MILTON JOYCE Roxboro, N. C. Physical Education CAROLYN KELLY Dodson Elementary Education Women’s Recreation Association; Future Teachers of America; Freshman Adviser; Band O’ Glee. Fifth Row BOBBY DREW KEMP Doyline Civil Engineering American Society of Civil Engineers; Engineers’ Asso¬ ciation. CHARLOTTE ANN KILGORE Shreveport Secretarial Science Sigma Kappa Sorority; Student Union; Baptist Stu¬ dent Union. SIDNEY CALVIN KILLGORE Homer Business Administration 43 SENIORS First Row SARAH LAVINIA KINARD Jena Medical Technology Theater Players; Biological Society; Maid, Home¬ coming; Band O’ Glee. JOYCE CHRISTINE KING Waverly Business Education Future Teachers of America. BILLY DAN KLINE Shreveport Accounting Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Presi¬ dent, Beta Alpha Psi; Vice-president, Accounting Club; Comptroller, ROTC. Second Row RUTH KNOTTS Ruston Music Education Sigma Tau Delta; Alpha Tau Delta; Philharmonic Society; Baptist Student Union; Music Educators Na¬ tional Conference. GRETCHEN KOVAC Oak Grove Physical Education President, Women’s Professional Physical Education Club; Reporter, Women’s Recreation Association; So¬ cial Chairman, Campus Women’s Council; Freshman Adviser; Publicity Chairman, Blue Jackets; Honor Council, Aswell Hall. MAMIE LOU KOVAC Oak Grove Accounting Honor Freshman; Accounting Club; Honor Council, Aswell Hall; Treasurer, Blue Jackets; Women’s Lea¬ gue Board; Beta Alpha Psi; Student Editor, Tech Alumni News; Freshman Adviser. Third Row JAMES D. KROUSE Springhill Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers. WALTER VICTOR LACY Shreveport Chemical Engineering Men’s Glee Club. WILLIAM DALE LAGRONE Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Petroleum Club. Fourth Row LARRY DALE LAPLUE Newellton Agricultural Engineering Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Agricultural Engi¬ neering Club. GILES EUGENE LANEY Junction City, Ark. Petroleum Engineering Sigm Gamma Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Del¬ ta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi; Intramural Sports; Who’s Who. JOAN BAGLEY LAYTON Oil City Management Fifth Roiu ROY L. LAYTON Mooringsport Management Delta Sigma Pi, Society for the Advancement of Management. CHARLES JOSEPH LEDOUX Monroe General Business Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Market¬ ing Club; Vice-president, Business Students’ Asso¬ ciation. ROY ALLEN LEE Magnolia, Ark. Mechanical Engineering Freshman Council, Chapel Director, Music Director, Baptist Student Union; Choir; Men’s Glee Club; ROTC; Engineers’ Association; American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 44 OF 19 5 7 First Row BRUCE LYNE LENOIR Mansfield Petroleum Engineering Varsity Track, Football; T-Club; Omicron Delta Kappa; Petroleum Club; American Institute of Min¬ ing, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; In¬ tramural Sports, Kappa Alpha Fraternity. ALLEN ROGERS LEWIS Shreveport Music Education President, Music Educators National Conference; Freshman Adviser; Vice-president, Philharmonic So¬ ciety; Librarian, Vice-president, Future Teachers of America; Band; Orchestra; Choir; Men’s Glee Club; Historian, Alpha Phi Omega. JERRY DEAN LEWIS Simsboro Business Education Wesley Foundation. Second Row MYRON JERRY LINDSEY Olla Chemical Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Vice-presi¬ dent, Tau Beta Pi; American Chemical Society. ERIA FAYE LINER Ruston Business Education Theta Upsilon Sorority; Baptist Student Union; Fut¬ ure Teachers of America. ROBERTA MANNING LINER Arcadia Home Economics Third Row MARY PATRICIA LITTLEFIELD Kilbourne Elementary Education Wesley Foundation; Future Teachers of America; Theater Players. WILLIAM G. LOFTIN Delhi Animal Husbandry Reporter, Historian, Block and Bridle Club. DEWEY O. LONSBERRY Pineville Civil Engineering American Society of Civil Engineers; Baptist Student Union. Fourth Row MARY ANN LOWE Calvin English Women’s Recreation Ass ociation; Panhellenic Coun¬ cil; Sigma Kappa Sorority; Blue Jackets. CHARLES REDMAN McBETH Sterlington Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engineers’ Association. FRANCES VERNELL McBRIDE Jonesboro Business Education Fifth Row DAVIE L. McCAIN Newellton Forestry Forestry Club. BOBBY RAY McCARLEY Haynesville Management Society for the Advancement of Management; Intra¬ mural Sports. JAMES F. McDEVITT Donellen, N. J. Accounting Phi Kappa Phi, Accounting Club, Beta Alpha Psi. 45 SENIORS First Row BETTY McDonald Heflin Music Education Honor Freshman; Choir; Vice-president, Band O’Glee; Philharmonic Society; Sigma Tau Delta; Pianist, Baptist Student Union. ROBERT JACK McDONALD Many Marketing and Merchandising Marketing Club. THELMA JANE McKINNEY Dixie Education Kappa Delta Sorority; Honor Councils, Aswell Hall, Adams Hall; President, Campus Women’s Council; Blue Jackets; Future Teachers of America. Second Row JOHN CHARLES McLEAN Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Petroleum Club. RALPH WAYNE McMICKLE Nachitoches Civil Engineering Freshman Adviser; Honor Freshman; Treasurer, Omi- cron Delta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi; Arnold Air Society; Major, ROTC; Drum Major, ROTC Band; Drum Major, Band; Interfraternity Council; American So¬ ciety of Civil Engineers; Business and Circulation Manager, Tech Engineer; Vice-president, Engineers’ Association; Treasurer, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Intramural Sports; Who’s Who. ERNEST ROSS McMURRAY Winnsboro English Geology Club. Third Row JEANNE MACK Springhill Home Economics President, Vice-president, Women’s League Board; Honor Councils, Sophomore, Harper Halls; Vice-presi¬ dent, Secretary, Blue Jackets; Secretary, Westminster Fellowship; Theatre Players; Band O’Glee; Home Economics Club; Who’s Who; Campus Women’s Council. BOBBY J. MALLARD Shreveport Accounting Treasurer, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Society for Ad¬ vancement of Management; Intramural Sports; Honor Freshman. JOHN W. MALMAY West Monroe Business and Pre-law Freshman Adviser; Freshman Rules Committee; Stu¬ dent Union; Student Senate; Newman Club; Student Federation of Colleges and Universities; Social Chair¬ man, Vice-president, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Pre-law Club; President, Senior Class; Intramural Sports; Who’s Who. Fourth Roxu JOSEPH L. MANCUSO Art Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. SUZANNE MARDIS Education Future Teachers of America. CHARLES ALLEN MARTIN Business Education Fifth Row LEONARD H. MARTIN Agronomy MINOR EUGENE MARSHAW, Jr. Accounting SEEBER WILLIAM MASON Petroleum Engineering Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. Bossier City Bastrop Lake Providence Ruston Mer Rouge Shreveport 46 OF 1957 First Row ERWIN G. MATHYS Shreveport Forestry Lamdba Chi Alpha Fraternity; Forestry Club; Biologi¬ cal Society; Photo Club. BOBBY GLEN MAXEY Jonesboro Chemical Engineering President, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Veterans’ Association. JOE ERNEST MAXWELL Shreveport Management Vice-president, Sophomore Class; Treasurer, Business Students’ Association; Society for Advancement of Management; Treasurer, Student Union; Public Re¬ lations Chairman, Vice-president, Delta Sigma Pi; Baptist Student Union; Intramural Sports; Freshman Adviser. Second Row PATSY JANE MAYFIELD Haynesville Accounting Secretary, Treasurer, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Honor Council, Adams Hall; Treasurer, Campus Women’s Council; Secretary, Alpha Tau Delta; Secretary, Ac counting Club; Secretary, Beta Alpha Psi; President, Blue Jackets; Who’s Who; Second Vice-president, Business Students’ Association. SHIRLEY ELIZABETH MAYFIELD Haynesville Medical Technology MARWAN IBRAHIM MAZHAR Amman, Jordan Civil Engineering Student Senate; Treasurer, Tau Beta Pi; Who’s Who; American Society of Civil Engineers. Third Row RICHARD MEEK Haynesville History President, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Inter¬ fraternity Council; President, Christian Service Asso¬ ciation; President, Wesley Foundation; Intramural Sports; Who’s Who. LOLAN J. MELANCON Pineville Management Band; Society for Advancement of Management. JAMES DAVID MELTON Jonesboro Social Science Education Fourth Row MARIE PHILLIPS MEADE Rayville Education Intramural Sports. HASTING C. MERRITT, JR. Minden Health and Physical Education Intramural Sports; Future Teachers of America. PEGGY C. MERRITT Haynesville Education Fifth Row GENE R. MILLER Shreveport Physical Education Student Director, Intramural Sports. ROBERT FLOYD MILLER Bastrop Electrical Engineering Kappa Alpha Fraternity; American Institute of Elec¬ trical Engineers; Staff, Tech Engineer; Arnold Air Society; Officer, ROTC. ANNE WILCOX MITCHELL Ruston Spanish and Commerce Phi Kappa Phi. 47 SENIORS First Row NITA PATSY MOFFETT Jennings Education Band O’Glee; Freshman Adviser; Theater Players; Future Teachers of America. DELOIS JONES MOONEY Smackover, Ark. Home Economics Home Economics Club; Honor Council, Sophomore and Adams Halls; Campus Women’s Council; Future Teachers of America. GWENDOLYN MOORE Shreveport Physical Education Women’s Health and Professional Education Club; Women’s Recreation Association; Staff, Lagniappe; Freshman Adviser. Second Roxo JAMES EDWIN MOORE, JR. Glenmora Electrical Engineering American Institute of Electrical Engineers. JAMES RALPH MORELAND Minden Accounting President, Accounting Club; Intramural Sports; Presi¬ dent, Business Students’ Association. ROBERT EDWARD NAPPER Dubach Accounting Secretary, Accounting Club. Third Row WILLIAM BERNARD NELSON, JR. West Monroe Mechanical Engineering Varsity Track; Treasurer, “T” Club; American So¬ ciety of Mechanical Engineers; Arnold Air Society; Freshman Adviser; Engineers’ Association; Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. BETTY JEAN NICKLAS El Dorado, Ark. Education Baptist Student Union; Phi Mu Sorority; Future Teachers of America; Choir; Band O’Glee. CARL A. NOBLE Shreveport Geology Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Geology Club. Fourth Row GERALD W. NORDER Baton Rouge General Business Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Officer, ROTC; Intramural Sports; Marketing Club. BILLIE BOB NUTT Spearsville Agronomy Agriculture Club. BILLY B. ODUM Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Secretary, Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Sec¬ retary, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. Fifth Roiv JOHN O. PALMER Shreveport Real Estate and Insurance Delta Sigma Pi, Intramural Sports. MRS. ELIZABETH PARISH Ruston Horticulture Agriculture Club; Sponsor, Theta Xi Fraternity; Bio¬ logical Society. FRANCES ELLEN PARISH Ruston Secretarial Science 48 OF 19 5 7 First Row MERR1LEE PARKER Bastrop Social Science Future Teachers of America. CLIFTON C. PATE, JR. Cotton Valley Geology EDWIN A. PEDEN Ruston Chemical Engineering Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; President, Wesley Foun¬ dation; Pi Kappa Delta; Debate Team; Band; Ameri¬ can Institute of Chemical Engineers; Intramural Sports. Second Roxu MARTHA JEAN PEDEN Ruston Social Welfare Social Chairman, Treasurer, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Blue Jackets; Freshman Adviser; Intramural Sports; Wesley Foundation. THOMAS EDWARD PELT Stamps, Ark. Electrical Engineering and Business Administration Tau Beta Pi; Vice-president, American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Institute of Radio Engineers; Associate Editor, Tech Engineer; Engineers’ Associa¬ tion; Honor Freshman; ROTC; Freshman Adviser; Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. BILLY DON PERRITT Arcadia Geology Third Row MARGARET ANN PERRITT Minden Business Education Chaplain, Theta Upsilon Sorority; Choir; Council, Wesley Foundation; Future Teachers of America. JOHN ERNEST PETERS Monroe Geological Engineering Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Geology Club. BOBBY EUGENE PETTITT Rodessa Petroleum Engineering Honor Freshman; Petroleum Club; Varsity Baseball; American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; Engineers’ Association; Intra¬ mural Sports. Fourth Row MONTA SUE PHILLIPS Mer Rouge Medical Technology Freshman Adviser; Treasurer, Biological Society; Wes¬ ley Foundation; Band; Blue Jackets; Sweetheart, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Honor Council, Adams Hall; Campus Women’s Council. PAULINE E. PHILLIPS Simsboro Elementary Education OSCAR KEMPER PICKELS Shreveport Mechanical Engineering Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Vice-president, Presi¬ dent, Newman Club; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Engineers’ Association; ROTC; Intramural Sports. Fifth Row JOHN LESLIE PICKERING Shreveport Chemical Engineering American. Institute of Chemical Engineers. MARY ELLEN PIERCE Vidalia General Business Baptist Student Union. VOLNEY EUGENE PIERCE Ruston Accounting Accounting Club; Beta Alpha Psi. 49 f f! 1 SENIORS First Row FRANCES PLATT Bernice Education Freshman Girl’s Glee Club; Blue Jackets; Standards Chairman, Secretary, Phi Mu Sorority; Future Teach¬ ers of America. CLINTON B. PLUNKET Good Pine Geology Intramural Sports. BARBARA ANN POOLE Plain Dealing Business Education Blue Jackets; Freshman Adviser; Treasurer, Campus Women’s Council; Honor Council, Sophomore Hall; Pledge Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Treasurer, Phi Mu Sorority; Forestry Queen; Student Senate; Secre¬ tary, Junior Class; Secretary, Rodeo Club. Second Row YVONNE PORTER Alexandria Home Economics Home Economics Club. GUY GEORGE PORTO Alexandria Real Estate and Insurance Newman Club. MILTON LAMAR POSEY Rayville Accounting Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Arnold Air Society; Society for the Advancement of Management; Drill Team, ROTC. Third Row BARBARA PRICE Shreveport Physical Education Treasurer, Women’s Health and Professional Educa¬ tion Club; Future Teachers of America. MARTHA LEE PROTHRO Ruston Health and Physical Education Choir, Baptist Student Union; Intramural Sports; President, Women’s Health and Professional Educa¬ tion Club. DOROTHY SPENCER QUIN Arcadia Home Economics Home Economics Club; Band; Majorette; Freshman Adviser. Fourth Roiv LILAH JEAN RABUN West Monroe Journalism Publicity Chairman, Sigma Kappa Sorority; Honor Council, Adams Hall; Vice-president, Campus Women’s Council; Vice-president, Sigma Tau Delta; Publicity Chairman, Baptist Student Union; Blue Jackets; Reporter, Circulo der Sprachen Etranger; Underclassmen Editor, Lagniappe; Feature Editor, Tech Talk; Editor, “T” Book; Phi Kappa Phi. MAJORIE JOHNSTON RAINES Grayson Elementary Education Theater Players; Future Teachers of America; Honor Council, Sophomore Hall; Campus Women’s Council. ALVIN B. RANEY Houston, Tex. Electrical Engineering American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Institute of Radio Engineers; Engineers’ Association. Fifth Roiu HERMAN ISAIAH RATCLIFF Minden Geological Engineering Geology Club; Petroleum Club; Staff, Tech Engineer; ROTC. A. W. REED Bastrop Forestry Society of American Foresters; Forestry Club; Vice- president, Kappa Sigma Fraternity. CHRISTINE VICTORIA REED Ruston Home Economics Assistant Rush Chairman, Kappa Delta Sorority; President, Home Economics Club; Helen Graham Home Economics Award; Queen, Maid, Homecoming. 50 OF 1957 First Row MARGARET ANN REEVES Home Economics Honor Freshman; Newman Club; club; Phi Kappa Phi. PHILIP RANDOLPH REEVES Geology JOANN RICHBURG Social Welfare Second Row DAVID NEIL RIDGE Shreveport Civil Engineering American Society of Civil Engineers; Engineers’ Asso¬ ciation; Intramural Sports. Bonita Home Economics Bernice Pensacola, Fla. CHARLES WILLIAM RILEY Springhill Management Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Intramural Sports. ELIZABETH RISINGER Ruston Art Education Theta Upsilon Sorority; Phi Kappa Phi. Third Row PEGGY JOAN RISON Jonesville Institutional Management Home Economics Club; Reporter, Wesley Founda¬ tion. CHARLES WARREN ROBERTS Minden Mechanical Engineering Honor Freshman, Tan Beta Pi; Program Chairman, President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; President, Treasurer, Wings and Props Flying Club. EDWARD HARTWELL ROBERTS, JR. Colfax Electrical Engineering Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Baptist Student Union; Fourth Row ROLAND L. ROBERTSON Mansfield Physics President, Student Senate; Vice-president, Student Union; Secretary, Honorary Physics Society; Omicron Delta Kappa; “T” Club; Varsity Track; Who’s Who. CHARLES ALLEN ROBINSON Homer Petroleum Engineering DONALD RAY ROBINSON Oak Grove Mathematics Fifth Row VERA FAYE ROBINSON Jonesboro Business Education Future Teachers of America, Baptist Student Union; Band; Circulo der Sprachen Etranger. LILLIAN RODDY Monroe Social Science and Business Education Secretary, Newman Club; Honor Council, Sopho¬ more Hall, Adams Hall; Vice-president, Blue Jackets; Women’s League Board; President, Adams Hall; Future Teachers of America; Who’s Who. MARY JACQUELINE RODEN Jonesboro Mathematics Education Honor Freshman. 51 SENIORS First Row WARNER DALE ROGERS, JR. Shreveport General Business ROBERT KENNETH ROSE Shreveport Accounting Treasurer, Alumnus Secretary, Pi Kappa Alpha Fra¬ ternity; Delta Sigma Pi; Freshman Adviser; Intra¬ mural Sports. CECIL DALE ROWELL Shreveport Forestry Rush Chairman, Pledge Trainer, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; President, Forestry Club; President, Inter¬ fraternity Council; Intramural Sports. Second Row KENNETH RAY ROYER De Quincy Mechanical Engineering Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Mechanical En¬ gineers; Baptist Student Union. FRED PARKS RUBEY Monroe Electrical Engineering Pledgemaster, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Institute of Radio Engineers. DWIGHT R. RUDISILL Shreveport Geology Theta Xi Fraternity; Geology Club. Third Row MALCOLM RAY RUNRELL Delhi Science Education Alpha Phi Omega; Geology Club. AUBREY CLIFTON SANDERS, JR. Shongaloo Geology Petroleum Club; Engineers’ Association; Intramural Sports. DOROTHY SAVOY SANDERS Alexandria Elementary Education Freshman Adviser; Circulo der Sprachen Etranger; Future Teachers of America. Fourth Row YVONNE SANDERS Shongaloo Institutional Management Freshmen Adviser; Home Economics Club; Wesley Foundation. WILLIAM T. SARTOR Alto Agricultural Engineering Tau Beta Pi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Vice-president, Agricultural Engineering Club; Secretary, American Institute of Mining, Metal¬ lurgical and Petroleum Engineers; Treasurer, West¬ minster Fellowship; Freshman Adviser. HARVEY D. SHAFFER Gibsland Civil Engineering Best Pledge. Ritual Chairman, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Intramural Sports; Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Food Chairman, Westminster Fellowship; Engineers’ Association; American Society of Civil Engineers. Fifth Row JAMES McLAIN SHAMBURGER Mooringsport Geology H. WAYNE SHELBY Ruston Marketing and Merchandising Theta Xi Fraternity; Marketing Club. LOUIS V. SHIPP, JR. Simms Social Science Education Future Teachers of America. 52 OF 1957 First Row DAVID T. SHIVELY Jonesboro Music Education Business Manager, Debonnaires; Vice-president, Presi¬ dent, Band; Orchestra; Choir; Philharmonic Society. WILLIAM LEONARD SHOULTZ Homer Economics Delta Sigma Pi; Society for the Advancement of Management; Intramural Sports; Atheltic Director, Treasurer, Theta Xi Lraternity; Representative, Busi ¬ ness Students Association. BOBBY J. SIMMONS Arcadia General Forestry Lambda Chi Alpha Lraternity; Tech Lorestry Club. Second Row SHIRLEY L. SKAINS Winnfield Business Education Luture Teachers of America; Baptist Student Union. HORACE D. SLATON Haynesville Animal Husbandry PATRICIA ANN SLAUGHTER Junction City, Ark. Medical Technology Biological Society; Theater Players; Freshman Ad¬ viser. Third Row CONLEY PAUL SMITH Pineville Petroleum Engineering Baptist Student Union; Band; American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; Pe¬ troleum Club; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Wings and Prop Flying Club. HARLAN P. SMITH Bernice Geology LESSE DEE SMITH Bastrop Social Science Band; Theater Players; Future Teachers of America; Honor Councils, Sophomore and Adams Halls; Cam¬ pus Women’s Council. Fourth Roio LIONEL SMITH Bossier City Management Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Vice-president, President, Society for the Advancement of Management; Market¬ ing Club; Intramural Sports. MARY ROSS SMITH Ruston English Education PATRICIA MARIA SMITH Shreveport Elementary Education Honor Freshman; Future Teachers of America, As- well Honor Council; Campus Women’s Council; Vice- president, Alpha Tau Delta; Sweetheart, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Rush Chairman, Alpha Chi Omega Sorority; Orchestra. Fifth Row PATRICIA NELL SMITH Grayson Business Education Treasurer, Future Teachers of America; Choir, Wes¬ ley Foundation. THETA SMITH Winnsboro Flome Economics Home Economics Club. ANTHONY SOLDATOS Athens, Greece Chemistry American Chemical Society. 53 SENIORS First Row JOHN T. SONEFF, JR. 7,oo logy Biological Society. CLAIRE LEFAY SOWELL Home Economics Home Economics Club. TOMMY R. SPIGENER Athens M usic Choir; Baptist Student Union; Philharmonic Society; Male Chorus; Christian Service Association. Second Row FERRELL H. SPIVEY Haynesville Animal Industry and Pre-Veterinary Reporter, Vice-president, President, Block and Bridle; Rodeo Club. THOMAS DONNIE STACY Houston, Tex. Petroleum Engineering Petroleum Club. WALTER STAGG, JR. Pineville Mechanical Engineering Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi; Color Guard, Drill Team, Officer, ROTC; American Society of Mechani¬ cal Engineers; Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; In¬ tramural Sports. Third Row MARY ELIZABETH STAMPS Minden Elementary Education Freshman Girls’ Glee Club; Future Teachers of America; Baptist Student Union; Freshman Adviser. JERRY JAN STANFORD Forest Home Economics Home Economics Club; Intramural Sports. ROY EDWARD STEDMAN Ruston Education Debonnaires; Orchestra; Choir; Philharmonic Society; Band. Fourth Row FREDERICK MARVIN STEVENS Ruston Pre-Medicine President, Interfraternity Council; President, Pi Kap¬ pa Delta; Alumni Secretary, Rush Chairman, Vice- president, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Wesley Found¬ ation; Honor Court; Honor Freshman; Who’s Who; Omicron Delta Kappa; Freshman Adviser. WAYNE R. STEVENSON Maplewood Chemical Engineering Promotional Director, Executive Council, Baptist Stu¬ dent Union; American Institute of Chemical Engi¬ neers. HENRY ROBERT STONE Tifton, Ga. Physical Education Varsity Football. Fifth Row LEU FRANCES STRANGE Coushatta Home Economics Cheerleader; Best Pledge, President, Phi Mu Sorority; President, Women’s Recreation Association; Who’s Who; Maid, State Fair; Maid, Homecoming; Phi Kappa Phi; Alpha Tau Delta; Wesley Foundation; Outstanding Sophomore Woman; Helen Graham Home Economics Award; Sophomore Representative, Secretary, Student Senate; Miss Louisiana Tech; Court, Military Ball; Home Economics Club; Photo Club; Honor Freshman. RAYMOND MEEKS STRONG Bastrop Mathematics and Physics Intramural Sports; Male Chorus. SAVERY GLEN STUCKEY Ruston Mechanical Engineering Social Chairman, Outstanding Pledge, Pi Kappa Al¬ pha Fraternity; Freshman Adviser; Wesley Founda¬ tion; Engineers’ Association; Drum Major, Band; Drum Major, ROTC Band; Wing Commander, Dis¬ tinguished Military Student, ROTC; Arnold Air So¬ ciety; Who’s Who; Omicron Delta Kappa; Secretary, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Cotton Valley Crowville 54 - OF 19 5 7 First Row CHARLES REAGAN SUTTON Ruston Business Management Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. JAMES B. TATE Delhi B usin ess A d m in is t rat ion DAVID L. TAWATER Houston, Tex. Business Ad mi n is tration Baptist Student Union; Vice-president, Baptist Men on Campus; Marketing Club; Officer, ROTC. Second Row DONNIS WARD TAYLOR Ruston Business Education VIRGINIA GRAY TAYLOR Ruston Education Future Teachers of America. BARBARA LUNDY TEER Belcher Business Education Future Teachers of America; Intramural Sports. Third Row WILLIAM TERESHKOVICH New York, N. Y. Physics Treasurer, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Honorary Physics Society. LARRY HOWARD TERRY Ruston Agricultural Engineering MACK FORREST THOMPSON Oberlin Civil Engineering Engineers’ Association; American Society of Civil Engineers; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi. Fourth Roiv HAROLD LANE THURMAN Alexandria Agronotny Intramural Sports; Agricultural Engineering Club. CYRUS WILLIAM TIETJE Roanoke Wildlife Conservation and Management Biology Club; Agricultural Engineering Club. OLLIE V. CALHOUN TIETJE Sikes Business Education Future Teachers of America; Freshman Girls’ Glee Club. Fifth Row CLYDE M. TODD, JR. Alexandria Forestry Forestry Club; Society of American Foresters. TILLIE BESS TOLAR Jonesboro Home Economics Home Economics Club; Council, Wesley Foundation; Women’s Recreation Association. DOROTHY ANN TOMLINSON Winnfield Accounting, Business Administration Accounting Club; Freshmen Girl’s Glee Club. 55 SENIORS First Row RALPH N. TOWNSEND Shreveport Business Management Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Marketing Club; Society for Advancement of Management. NORMA RUTH TUCKER Spearsville English Education Theater Players; Future Teachers of America; Secre¬ tary-Treasurer, Sigma Tau Delta; Women’s Enlist¬ ment Vice-president, Baptist Student Union; Fresh¬ man Adviser. ROMEO A. TURGEON, JR. Cullen General Business Second Row THOMAS LEE VANDERGRIFT El Dorado, Ark. Management President of Pledge Class, Treasurer, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Vice-president, Delta Sigma Pi; Society for the Advancement of Management; Intramural Sports. JOHN BERNARD VAUGHAN, JR. Greenwood Business Administration HELEN YVONNE VINING Choudrant Education President, Theta Beta; Wesley Foundation. Third Roiu BILLIE GEAN VISE Minden Social Science Education Future Teachers of America; Intramural Sports. SARA LYNNE WARE Fort Worth, Texas Marketing and Merchandising President and Pledge Director, Phi Mu Sorority; Beau¬ ty, Lagniappe; Panhellenic Council; Maid, State Fair; Blue Jackets; Wesley Foundation; Honor Coun¬ cil, Harper Hall. JERRY WAYNE WATTERS Springhill Marketing and Merchandising Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Publicity Chairman, So¬ ciety For Advancement of Management; Marketing Club; Intramural Sports. Fourth Row MARY ETHEL WATTS Lake Providence Home Economics Freshman Girls’ Glee Club; Freshman Adviser; Band O’Glee; Baptist Student Union; Home Economics Club. CHEVIS H. WEBB Bossier City Business Administration Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Society for Advancement of Management. HARRY ARTHUR WEBB Haughton Mechanical Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Fifth Row CHARIS JEANNE WEDGEWORTH Hammond Elementary Education Honor Freshman; Debate Team; Orchestra; Future Teachers of America; Treasurer, Alpha Tau Delta; Secretary, Pi Kappa Delta; President, Baptist Stu¬ dent Union; Honor Council, Adams Hall. BENNY NEIL WEEMS Pollock Ac counting GAYLE CLAIRE WELLS Ruston Management Delta Sigma Pi; Secretary, Historian, Chapter Effici¬ ency Chairman, Society for Advancement of Manage¬ ment. 56 OF 19 5 7 First Row VAN C. WESTBROOK Clay Civil Engineering American Society of Civil Engineers. FREDERICK C. WESTERGAARD Shreveport Management Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Society for Advancement of Management; Varsity Football; Varsity Track; “T” Club; Band; Debonnaires; Intramural Sports. BARNEY WESTMORELAND, JR. Shreveport Music Executive Council, Baptist Student Union; Officer, Choir; Male Chorus; Baptist Men on Campus; Christ- ain Service Association; Philharmonic Society; Officer, ROTC; Arnold Air Society. Second Row MARTHA SUE WHEATLY Hodge Medical Technology W. B. WHEELIS Monroe Petroleum Engineering President, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; President, Junior Class; Student Senate; Interfraternity Council; Petrole¬ um Club; Omicron Delta Kappa; Who’s Who. BETTY LEE WHITE Calhoun Elementary Education Blue Jackets; Honor Council, Adams Hall; Future Teachers of America, Women’s Recreation Associa¬ tion; Baptist Student Union. Third Row J. F. WHITE, JR. Shreveport Wildlife Conservation and Management Varsity Baseball. LAEL LYNN WHITE Vivian Physical Education Honor Councils, Harper Hall, Sophomore Hall, Adams Hall; Campus Women’s Council; Blue Jack¬ ets; Women’s Recreation Association; Future Teach¬ ers of America; Women’s Health and Professional Education Club. LOUIS CLIFTON WHITE Shreveport Social Science Education Fourth Row MARY ANN WHITMAN Choudrant English Education Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Women’s Lea¬ gue Board; Baptist Student Union. VANELLE WIDICK Mooringsport General Business Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Best Active, President, Beta Sigma Omicron Sorority; Pan- hellenic Council; Publicity Chairman, Alpha Tau Delta; Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Tau Delta; Blue Jackets; Theater Players; Baptist Student Union; Freshman Adviser; T. H. Harris Scholarship. CORRIE SUE WILKINS Tallulah Home Economics Home Economics Club. Fifth Row JIMMIE BELLE WILLETT Jonesboro Elementary Education Blue Jackets; Future Teachers of America; Baptist Student Union. LORA JEAN WILLIS Monroe Journalism Vice-president, Parliamentarian, Kappa Delta Sorori¬ ty; Blue Jackets; Editor, Lagniappe; Society Editor, Reporter, Tech Talk; Vice-president, Biological So¬ ciety; Panhellenic Council; Freshman Adviser; Honor Council, Aswell Hall; Campus Women’s Council. WILLIAM LAWRENCE WILLIS Oak Grove English Education Secretary, Pledge Master, Theta Xi Fraternity; In¬ tramural Sports. 57 SENIORS First Row GREGORY H. WILSON Columbia Civil Engineering American Society of Civil Engineering. JAMES L. WILSON Springhill B usin ess Ma n agement Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Business Students Asso¬ ciation; Intramural Sports; Officer, ROTC. DOLORES WIMBERLY Castor Social Welfare Circulo der Sprachen Etranger; Wesley Foundation; Intramural Sports; Honor Freshman. Second Row DARWIN EUGENE WINFIELD Baton Rouge Management Delta Sigma Pi; Vice-president, Society for Advance¬ ment of Management; Baptist Student Union; In¬ tramural Sports. JO WILLA WOMACK Dodson Home Economics Blue Jackets; Freshman Girl’s Glee Club; Freshman Adviser; Home Economics Club; Baptist Student Union. JOE K. WOMACK Sikes Social Welfare Third Row TOM ALLEN WOODARD Winnfield Physics President, Honorary Physics Club. GILBERT H. WOOTTEN, JR. Hot Springs, Ark. Forestry Club. JERRY E. WRIGHT Choudrant Geology Fourth Row WILLIAM GARDNER WRIGHT Hamburg, Ark. Marketing Theta Xi Fraternity; Marketing Club; Society for Advancement of Management; Theater Players. WILL MACK YOUNG Rocky Mount Agronomy Agricultural Engineering Club; Biological Society; Intramural Sports. ROSEMARY ZORNISH Bastrop Business Education Pi Kappa Delta; Future Teachers of America; Editor, Student Directory; Sponsor, ROTC. Fifth Row JOHN JOSEPH ZYCH, JR. Ruston Marketing aiid Merchandising Theta Xi Fraternity; Marketing Club; Society for Advancement of Management. 58 Techsters enjoy dcmcing to music of Les Elgart at the annual Christmas formal sponsored by the Student Union. 59 ! i Robertson, Reardon (seated), Salley, Speight JUNIORS CLASS OFFICERS Jack Salley_ President Doug Robertson_ Vice-president Jo Anne Reardon _ Secretary Gaile Speight_ Treasurer MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM OF 1957 First Row CARTER B. ACKEL Mechanical Engineering Monroe JACKIE MARZELLE ADCOCK Home Economics Rayville MACK URIAH ALBRITTON Elementary Education Kilbourne BILLY L. ALEXANDER Geology Second Row Cotton Valley WADE ALLBRITTON Chemical Engineering Starks CHARLES CHAPMAN ALLEN Art Shreveport CURTIS DALE ALLEN Laboratory Technology Farmerville EDNA ALLEN Elementary Education Third Row Jonesboro JOHN ED ALLEN Mathematics Education Jonesboro WILLIAM RUFUS AMBROSE Civil Engineering Minclen JAMES ROY ANDERSON Shreveport Civil Engineering and Business Administration GUY FOREST ANDREWS, JR. Mechanical Engineering Fourth Row New Orleans LA NELLE BARRETT ANDREWS Secretarial Science Shreveport IRA WALLACE ANTHONY Journalism Colfax JOHN MADISON ANTHONY Forestry Colfax JAMES APPLEBY Business Administration Fifth Row Shreveport ROBERTA WAYNE ARD Home Economics Bastrop PAUL H. ARMBRUST Mechanical Engineering Shreveport ROBERT E. ARMENTROUT Geology Shreveport M. GLYNN AYCOCK Business Education Sixth Row Lisbon HARMON WADE AYMONI) Management Alexandria BARBARA ANNE BALL Social Science Ruston LYNDA JANE BALL El Secretarial Science Dorado, Ark. JAMES T. BALLARD Civil Engineering Seventh Row Farmerville THOMAS LEON BARNARD Geology JACK D. BARNETT Business Management Haynesville Plain Dealing DON BARNEY Speech Shreveport GLEN N. BARRON Mathematics Spearsville 61 x JUNIORS First Row RANDALL FRANKLIN BARRON Mechanical Engineering RICHARD ADOLPUS BARRON Art LEONARD CARL BASSETT Chemical Engineering DON L. BECKETT History Oak Grove Plain Dealing Monroe Shreveport Second Row DAVID EUGENE BENEFIELD Accounting JAN A. BENSON Chemical Engineering BENNIE FAYE BERRY Music Education SHIRLEY RUTH BILLINGSLEY Laboratory Technology Haynesville Shreveport Bastrop Mansfield Third Row MARION BIRD Accounting JAMES EDWARD BISHOP Forestry BILLY RAY BLANCHARD Electrical Engineering WILLIAM HORACE BOLER Accounting Magnolia, Ark. Minden New Orleans Bogalusa Fourth Row ROBERT JEROME BOND Commercial Art MARLENE BOOTH Business Education JIMMY F. BOYD Insurance and Real Estate ROBERT F. BOZEMAN, JR. Mechanical Engineering Jonesboro Springhill Ruston Alexandria Fifth Row LUCY MEADOWS BRASWELL Elementary Education SYLVIA MARIE BRISTER Social Science Education JAMES CLAUDE BROUGHTON Accounting JERALD DAVID BROUGHTON Petroleum Engineering Ruston Bastrop Athens Hico Sixth Row ERVIN CECIL BROWN Electrical Engineering JAMES M. BROWN, JR. Science Education MYRNA MAE BRUCHHAUS Home Economics JIM M. BRYANT Forestry Baskin Lake Charles Elton Ruston Seventh Row CARL HAMPTON BUSSEY Petroleum Engineering DANIEL L. BUTLER General Business HAROLD BYRD General Business JOHN MICHAEL CAGE Pre-Medicine Gibsland Vivian Many Monroe 62 OF 1957 First Row KENNETH G. CALDWELL Economics JANICE NANCY CAMELL Home Economics HAROLD E. CAMP Electrical Engineering IRWIN DWIGHT CAMPBELL, JR. Physics Shreveport Norphlet, Ark. Bossier City Shreveport Second Row ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL Petroleum Engineering GAYLE M. CARLOCK Forestry JAMES WILLIAM CARR Chemical Engineering ARCHIE G. CARRAWAY Petroleum Engineering R us ton Leesville Monroe Jena Third Row JAMES FRANKLIN CARROLL Geology ROBERT GLYNN CARVER Wildlife Conservation AL G. CATHEY Journalism THOMAS WEST CHATHAM Forestry Shreveport Georgetown Arcadia Monroe Fourth Row WALLACE RALEY CHELETTE, JR. Economics JOHN CHISM Accounting MARSHA KAY CLINTON Home Economics CARL BUELL CLOSE, JR. Mechanical Engineering Alexandria Bastrop Clay Alexandria Fifth Row GLENN WAYNE COBB Jonesboro Wildlife Conservation MARY JANE COBB El Dorado, Ark. Psychology RONNIE DALE COIL Vivian Physical Education BEN W. COLLINS Haynesville Petroleum Engineering Sixth Row MARILYN VIRGINIA COLLINSWORTH History BILLY HOWARD COPELAND Pre-Law BILLY JAMES COX Petroleum Engineering JARRELL CLAY COYLE General Business Bienville Homer Rodessa Baskin Seventh Row DONALD GLENN CROUCH General Business WILLIAM CROCKER CULP Geology KENNETH CUMMINGS Pre-Medicine DEAN A. CUNNINGHAM Mechanical Engineering Logan sport Ruston Arcadia Minden 63 First Row GEORGE B. CUNNINGHAM Shreveport English JOHNETTE CAMPISI CETRRIE Shreveport Elementary Education LOUISE DARICEK Jackson Business Education HAROLD EUGENE DAUGHDRIL Natchitoches Management Second Row MARY SUE DAVIS Choudrant Social Welfare DARYLE LAMAR DEAN Winnsboro Business Education RENATO JOSEPH DEL BIANCO Lake Charles Mathematics DONALD H. DELOACH West Monroe Chemical Engineering Third Row HERMAN H. DELOACH West Monroe Electrical Engineering HOWARD W. DENNIS Shreveport Mechanical Engineering CHARLES T. DICKINSON Pioneer Mathematics ROBERT SAMUEL DICKINSON Shreveport Accounting Fourth Row SARA DIGIOVANNI Shreveport Secretarial Science RAY DILLON Shreveport Mathematics EUGENE DOC ' GLAS Shreveport Electrical Engineering ROBERT ADRIAN DOUGLAS Gilliam Agriculture Fifth Row RONALD LOUIE DUBOIS Jonesboro Psychology PAUL HUBERT DUPONT Ruston Mechanical Engineering MARIAN ELIZABETH DURHAM Oakdale Art Education ADAIRE EBERHARD Shreveport Elementary Education Sixth Row CLAUD EDMISTON Simsboro Electrical Engineering CHARLES W. EDWARDS Ruston General Business GARY V. EDWARDS Bastrop Chemical Engineering JOHN WARD EDWARDS Ruston Chemical Engineering Seventh Row BARBARA ANN EMMONS Ruston Elementary Education JOSEPH R. ENGLISH Marion, N. C. Mechanical Engineering JOHN RICHARD ENRIGHT Sicily Island JAMES A. EVANS Pre-Medicine Geology Shreveport - 5 7 Jonesboro Downsville Bastrop Urania Marketing and Merchandising Second Row JOHN HOUSTON FEASTER Geological Engineering JOSEPH CLARK FERGUSON, JR. General Business WILLIAM LARRY FERGUSON General Business JOHN B. FICK ] Physical Education Third ' Row GEORGE THOMAS FITZGERALD Petroleum Engineering THOMAS E. FLYNN Pre-Medicine LEE MOORES FONTAINE Civil Engineering DONALD GENE FORDHAM Electrical Engineering Fourth Row RICHARD LOUIS FRANZ El Dorado, Ark. Geology RICHARD L. FUGLER New Orleans Accounting WILLIAM DOYNE GADDY El Dorado, Ark. Accounting ALICE MARIE GAINES Physical Education Fifth Row JERRY N. GARNER Mechanical Engineering ROBERT HARRY GEORGE Mechanical Engineering MARTHA ANN GILLEN Elementary Education BOBBY EUGENE GILLILAND Chemical Engineering Sixth Row MARGARET ADEN GLOVER Medical Technology BILLY RAY GOUDY El Dorado, Ark. Electrical Engineering BOBBY DEAN GRAFTON Bernice Geology MILBURN EDWARD GRAVES Mansfield Petroleum Engineering Jonesboro Jonesboro Bastrop Shreveport Rayville Ruston Ville Platte Zwolle Dubach El Dorado, Ark. Winnsboro Shreveport Shreveport West Monroe First Row SARAH FRANCES EWING Home Economics HERBERT CLAYTON FARMER Physical Education TAMES NEAL FARRAR Art DONALD CURTIS FARROW Seventh Roiv SAMMY GREENWOOD Petroleum Engineering CAROLYN GREMILLION Psychology LEAMON E. GRIFFITH Mathematics GLORIA GULLATT Elementary Education Camden, Ark. Pineville Quitman Gibsland 65 JUNIORS First Row WILLIAM J. HADDAD Monroe Business Administration CLYNTON LEROY HAFNER, JR. Longview, Tex. Mechanical Engineering CHARLES ARTHUR HALBERT Hope, Ark. Mechanical Engineering HARVEY G. HALE Marion Management Second Roxu GEORGE JEROME HALEY Botany HARRIETTE NAN HALEY Home Economics EDITH HANNA Laboratory Technology WILLIAM C. HANSON Accounting Minden Rayville Dubach Shreveport Third Row LINDA WARE HARKNESS Elementary Education ANN HARPER Education MARY CAMILLE HARPER English JIMMY M. HARRISON Accounting Stuttgart, Ark. Springhill Minden Ruston Fourth Row MEEDA CLAIR HARRISON Accounting EDDIE WAYNE HARVEY Petroleum Engineering DELORIS HAWKINS Elementary Education CHARLES EDWARD HAYDEN Education Ringgold Quitman Shreveport Jonesboro Fifth Row JUDY DEEN HEARN Shreveport Marketing and Merchandising MARY JAYNE HEARNE Lake Charles Secretarial Science RICHARD ELLIOTT HEARNE Texarkana, Ark. Business and Pre-Law DALLAS W. HENDERSON Spearsville Forestry Sixth Row ABE TROY HENDRICKS Mechanical Engineering Magnolia, Ark. GRADY B. HENRICH Business VIRGINIA ANN HENSLEE Business Education BOBBY HERREN Pre-Dental Maplewood Shreveport Doyline Seventh Row VIRGINIA CLAIRE HIEMENZ Elementary Education CHARLES R. HODGES Electrical Engineering HUEY PIERCE HOLDER Geological Engineering ROBERT DOYLE HOLSTEAD Mechanical Engineering Shreveport Georgetown Dubach West Monroe 66 OF 1957 First Row DONALD R. HOOGLAND Agricultural Engineering FREDRIC L. HOOGLAND Agricultural Engineering JOHN R. HOWARD Chemical Engineering BETTY GUNN HOYE Secretarial Science Ruston Ruston Baton Rouge Shreveport Second Row JACKIE LEE HUDSON Geology D. STEVE HURST Mechanical Engineering RAYMOND EUGENE HUTSON Chemistry RAMIE THERON JACKS Sociology Farmerville Bastrop Basile Ruston Third Row LUCY ANNE JACKSON Monroe Art Education MONROE JARDELL Ruston General Business MARGARET ANN JENKINS Smackover, Ark. Social Science Education BILLY DEAN JENNINGS Bastrop Medical Technology Fourth Row BYRON L. JOHNSON Electrical Engineering JAMES E. JOHNSTON Chemical Engineering JAMES WILLIAM JONES Electrical Engineering JOE CHARLES JONES Zoology Gibsland Maplewood Shreveport Jonesboro Fifth Row MONNIE MAE JONES Home Economics TOMMY JONES Accounting JOSEPHINE SUE JORDAN Education MARSHALL LAMAR JORDAN Forestry Rayville Arcadia El Dorado, Ark. Hammond Sixth Row LUCY LEE JOYNER El Dorado, Ark. Spanish KENNETH A. KELLER Mechanical Engineering REUBEN KENT Forestry ROBERT L. KETCHUM Geological Engineering Seventh Row BILLY H. KIDD Petroleum Engineering ERNEST L. KING Business Management HUGH ALY KING, JR. Lake Providence Pre-Medicine JOHN A. KUPRIONIS Ruston Mechanical Engineering Monroe Gilliam Jonesboro Minden Jonesboro 67 JUNIORS First Row PAUL T. KYLER Chemical Engineering ANNE LAFFITTE Elementary Education EMILY LANGFORD Journalism JOAN LARANCE Business Education Shreveport Mansfield Ferriday Dubach Second Row MARTHA RAMONA LAUGHL1N Clothing Art JOANNE LAY Music Education EUGENE DANDRIDGE LEA Geological Engineering SALLY LOU LEACHMAN Elementary Education Bossier City Homer Monroe Ruston Third Row GEORGE N. LE FEBVRE Geology ALBERT P. LEE Business Administration NANCY CAROL LEE Management ROBERT F. LETLOW Agronomy Baton Rouge Shreveport New Orleans Tallulah Fourth Row DOYLE WAYNE LINDSEY Mechanical Engineering Bearden, Ark. CHARLES OTIS LILES Petroleum Engineering Minden JOAN LOE Home Economics Bryceland JAMES CONWAY LOGAN Commercial Art Fifth Row Shreveport BENTON F. LONG Geology Haughton R. L. LONG, JR. General Business Houston, Tex. CHARLES RAY LO FT Chemical Engineering Ruston B. CLOVIS LOWREY Quitman Education Sixth Row GARY DALE LUSBY Accounting JAMES M. LYLES Physics JAMES DELWIN LYON Speech GEORGE PETE McALLISTER, JR. Electrical Engineering Camden, Ark. Shreveport Ruston Rayville Seventh Row JAMES F. McBRIDE Civil Engineering LADYE KATHRYN McCAA Business Education HUBER DONALD McCAIN General Business KENNETH RILEY McCALLISTER Chemistry Jonesboro Shreveport Winnsboro Arcadia 68 OF 1957 First, Row KENNETH L. McCARTNEY Geology SANDRA FRANCINE McCLUNG El erne n tary E d u catio n RICHARD W. McCRANIE Accounting MAX ALLEN McDONALD Commercial Art Jena Homer Bossier City Tallulah Second Row JACK McKINNEY Plain Dealing Geology MAURICE W ILLIAM McKINNEY, JR. Delhi Geological Engineering THERESA McMICHAEL Shreveport Mathematics WILLIAM KIRBY McRANEY Monroe Chemical Engineering Third Row HARRY T. MANN Electrical Engineering LEONARD JOSEPH MARANTO Business Administration BETTYE RUTH MARTIN Accounting GLORIA GWENDOLYN MARTIN Elementary Education Camden, N. J. Shreveport Ruston Hodge Fourth Row KATHERINE DERYL MARTIN Physical Education WILLIAM E. MARTIN English Ruston Minden MAJORIE LINER MATHYS Ruston Education FRANKLIN RUE MATTHEWS Smackover, Ark. Petroleum Engineering Fifth Row WADE MEADE Geology WILLIAM D. MERCER Forestry SUE MEREDITH Social Welfare SYLVIA RAE MIDDLEBROOKS Business Education Pollock Bossier City Columbia Shreveport Sixth Row NANCY LEE MIESSNER Home Economics FLOYD EUGENE MILFORD Mathematics CAROLYN FRANKIE MILLER Education M. ALLISON MILLER Elementary Education Jennings Lake Charle s Collinston Shreveport Seventh Roiv MARTHANN MILLER Elementary Education MAXINE MILNER Music Education DONALD SAM MOONEY Mathematics ZONEAL R. MOORE Mathematics Shreveport Bernice Ruston Oak Grove 69 JUNIORS First Row JUDY MOSES Hope, Ark. Accounting THOMAS EUGENE MOSLEY Shreveport Business LUDWIG CHARLES MULLING New Orleans Electrical Engineering ELLEN JANETTE MURPHY Bastrop Home Economics Second Row WANDA ANNE MUXWORTHY Shreveport Elementary Education BETTY ANN NAFF Ruston Health and Physical Education JAMES FRANCIS NAYLOR, III Baton Rouge Chemistry BOBBY J. NEILL Magnolia, Ark. Forestry Third Row NORA ALICE NUNN Business Education PAUL LAMAR ODUM Accounting MAX E. OLIVER Petroleum Enginee ring DWAIN O’STEEN Petroleum Engineering Fourth Row A. G. OWENS, JR. Botany A. WAYNE OWENS Microbiology SHIRLEY ANN OWENS English WALTER J. OWENS Mechanical Engineering Quitman Shreveport Louann, Ark. Springhill Ruston Ruston Shreveport Shreveport Fifth Row JEANIE PARKER Jonesboro Secretarial Science PAT PATTERSON Delhi Physical Education FRED D. PEACE Emerson, Ark. Mechanical Engineering BILLY JOE PENDARVIS Tullos Wildlife Conservation Management Sixth Row CAROLYN LOUISE PESNELL Ruston FAementary Education URSALENA PEPPER Jonesboro Elementary Education FARRELL JOSEPH PERDREAUVILLE Vinton Mechanical Engineering MARTHA E. PERRITT Arcadia Elementary Education Seventh Row FRED GERALD PERRY Sterlington Chemical Engineering J. DANENE PERRYMAN Pineville Elementary Education WILLIAM RESTELLE PETTY Ida Physics BOBBY GLENN PHELPS Haynesville Pre-Medicine 70 OF 1957 First Row NICHOLAS PHILLON Electrical Engineering REBA FAE PICKETT Business Education WILLIAM C. PIERCE Mechanical Engineering DOLORIES PITMAN Business Education Villia, Greece Arcadia Shreveport Rayville Second Row BUENA OLIVIA PITTARD Home Economics FORREST POST History HAROL LYNN TURNER Education CHARLES E. POWELL Forestry Grand Cane Lillie Minden Tallulah Third Row LEE ROY PRATT General Business JOE DAVIS PURVIS Mechanical Engineering MAUNSEL BERNARD RABALAIS Mechanical Engineering FONNIE H. REAGAN, JR. Mechanical Engineering Urbana, Ark. West Monroe Alexandria West Monroe Fourth Rozv JO ANNE REARDON Education ROBERT VANCE REITZELL Civil Engineering THOMAS JERRY REYNOLDS Mechanical Engineering W. H. REYNOLDS Civil Engineering St. Joseph Kelly Olla Pineville Fifth Row MICKEY DON RILEY Business Management MARGARET ANN RISER Home Economics JAMES H. ROACH Electrical Engineering RICHARD EVERETTE ROBERSON Accounting Sixth Row PEGGY ROBERTS Elementary Education DOUGLAS WARNE ROBERTSON Petroleum Engineering JIMMIE H. ROBINSON Electrical Engineering ROBERT L. RODGERS Geological Engineering Seventh Row JACK H. ROGERS Geology DAN PHILLIP RUNDELL Geological Engineering PATRICIA JANE RUPLE Secretarial Science JACK SALLEY Chemical Engineering Olla Ruston Benton Dubach DeRidder Shreveport Shreveport Shreveport Shreveport Delhi Monroe Springhill 71 JUNIORS First Row ERNEST FOSTER SCHULER Chemical Engineering EDNA W. SEARLES Elementary Education MARION LORRAINE SHANER Marketing ERNEST MIDDLETON SHIRLEY Psychology Second Row BOBBY ALEXANDER SHORES Commercial Art JESSE SIMMONS, JR. Agriculture Engineering ROSALIE SIMMONS Education HARRIET JO SMITH Business Education Keatchie Minden Shreveport Ruston Vivian Ruston Springhill Monroe Third Row JASPER KEITH SMITH Political Science JOHN P. SMITH Physics LONNIE O. SMITH Electrical Engineering THOMAS WAYNE SMITH English Vivian Vivian Monroe Shreveport Fourth Row WINSTON SMITH Forestry CLARENCE O. SNEED Electrical Engineering SARAH ANN SNEED Business Education FAY STRONG SOUTHERN Ffome Economics Minden DeQueen, Ark. Shreveport Holly Ridge Fifth Row GAILE SPEIGHT Commercial Art SHELBY F. SPRUELL Petroleum Engineering VIRGINIA SPURLOCK Elementary Education FLETCHER LOYD STAKES Chemistry Columbia Monroe Jonesboro Bernice Sixth Row JAMES FRANKLIN STANFORD Pre-Medicine ARTHUR JAY STARNES Mechanical Engineering MARTHA ANN STEWART Home Economics ROSE MELBA STEWART Social Science Education Shreveport Maplewood Many Quitman Seventh Row ROBERT BRUCE STORMS Marketing and Merchandising MAX STRACENER Electrical Engineering PATTI JANE STROTHER Home Economics SAMMY J. TALLEY Civil Engineering Pineville DeRidder Coushatta Shongaloo 72 OF 1957 First Row JOSEPH CLARENCE TAUZIN, JR. General Business GERALD LYN TAYLOR Mathematics TOMMY EDWARD TAYLOR Medical Technology JANICE NOBLES TERRY Education Rayville Boyce Winnfield Hilly Second Row JIMMY L. TERRILL Petroleum Engineering JOHNNY LEE THERRELL Mechanical Engineering JOEL C. THOMAS Accounting BUSTER THORNTON Pre-Medicine Winnfield Vivian Rodessa Shreveport Third Row BENNY LLOYD THRAILKILL Accounting EDWARD EARL TOLAR Forestry RONALD C. TUBBS Physics WILLIAM T. TURNAGE Electrical Engineering Haynesville Jonesboro Bernice Shreveport Fourth Row BETTYE SUE TURNER Home Economics FRANCES TURNER Elementary Education HARRY K. POULAN Mechanical Engineering ROBERT L. TYNER Geology Ansley Jonesboro Shreveport Plain Dealing Fifth Row CHARLES EDWARD VANDERSLICE Rayville Chemical Engineering ODIE F. VAUGHAN Camden, Ark. Accounting ARCHIE VODA Alexandria Mechanical Engineering JAMES C. WAGNON Summerville, S. C. Civil Engineering and Business Sixth Row NEIL L. WAGONER Petroleum Engineering LOIS MAXINE WALKER Physical Education SARAH ANN WALKER Business Education MARY ELIZABETH WALL Elementary Education Seventh Row JOSEPH H. WARE Insurance and Real Estate MARY JOSEPHINE WARE El Dorado, Ark. Home Economics JAMES BENJAMIN WARREN Ruston Mechanical Engineering JAMES FARRELL WATSON Arcadia General Business Winnfield Jonesboro Ruston Ruston Columbia 73 JUNIORS First Row PERRY V. WATSON, JR. Winnsboro Mechanical Engineering WILLIAM PATTERSON WEBER, JR. New Orleans Forestry GARLAND RAY WELLS El Dorado, Ark. Forestry JOHN H. WENDELL, JR. Houma Petroleum Engineering Second Row BOBBY KEITH WHEELIS Marion Management BETTY KELLY WHITAKER Ruston Elementary Education BOBBY RAY WHITAKER Shongaloo General Business ROBERT LARRY WHITAKER Oak Grove Economics Third Row WILBUR ARTHUR WHITAKER Dunn Center, N. D. Mechanical Engineering BENNY RAY WHITE Bossier City Electrical Engineering GLENN EDWARD WHITE Shreveport Medical Laboratory Technology JOE RAY WHITE Calhoun Physical Education Fourth Row LYNELLE WID1CK Mooringsport Business Education BEN H. WILLIAMS Shreveport Forestry FLETCHER W. WILLIAMS Lisbon Education MARTHA LILLIAN WILLIS Clay Business Education Fifth Row BOBBY JOE WILSON Shreveport Business Administration GEORGE ISHAM WILSON Alexandria General Business PATSY ANN WILSON Ringgold Elementary Education PATTI ANN WILSON Athens Medical Laboratory Technology Sixth Row JAMES D. WINBERRY Urania Education JOHN WILLIS WINDHAM, JR. Delhi Agricultural Engineering THADDEUS DANIEL WINN El Dorado, Ark. Chemical Engineering ROLAND ELVIS WISINGER Mooringsport Accounting Seventh Row CARL WAYNE WITT Shreveport Electrical Engineering CHARLES WREN WOLFE Shreveport Mechanical Engineering CHING H. WOO Hong Kong Electrical Engineering A. JENNINGS WOODARD Taylor Chemistry 74 OF 1957 First Row JULIE ANNE WOOLEY Social Welfare BETTY FRANCES WORSHAM Accounting SIDNEY VERNON WORTHY Geology LEARY L. WRIGHT Electrical Engineering Second Row WAYNE EARL WRIGHT Mechanical Engineering R. VERNON YEATES Mechanical Engineering EDWINA YOUNG Elementary Education BETTIE MURRY ZYCH Business Administration Monroe Shreveport Jackson Shreveport Bastrop Springhill Rocky Mount Ruston SOPHOMORES OFFICERS Field Montgomery Jimmy Thompson Lindsay Chapman Eddie Poulman __ President Vice-president _ Secretary _ Treasurer IRENE TOLLIVAR DINING HALL First Row MARY JANE ADAMS Education Jena ANITA ADCOCK Elementary Education Shreveport WILLIAM EARL ADCOCK Chemical Engineering Montgomery DONALD JACK ALEXANDER Art Second Row West Monroe GLENDA MONETTE ALEXANDER Business Education Simsboro RONALD JOE ALEXANDER Art West Monroe JIMMY C. ALLEN Electrical Engineering Heflin LOMA LaFAYE ANGLIN Secretarial Science Third Row Athens PATRICIA AUCOIN Medical Technology Eunice FRANCES AVERY Journalism Quitman JANET BURDINE AYCOCK Secretarial Science Lisbon GERALD EDWARD AYMOND Petroleum Engineering Fourth Row Alexandria JACK BAGENT Electrical Engineering Rocky Mount BARBARA J. BAGGETT El Dorado, Ark. Business Education LESLIE BOYETTE BAGLEY Pre-Law Longstreet BRUCE B. BAGWELL Education Fifth Row Choudrant SYLVIA SUE BAILIFF Secretarial Science Bernice LAWRENCE J. BAKER Education Bossier City ROY L. BAKER Education Ruston DAVID CROFFORD BANBURG Electrical Engineering Sixth Row Benton GEORGIA ANN BARBER Commercial Art Shreveport CAROLYN BARNES Education Crowley NELDA SUE BARNETT Elementary Education Ruston DIANE LEE BASTIAN Elementary Education Seventh Row Shreveport RONNY GENE BEARD Business Education Arcadia GLEN ELLIS BELTON Management Shreveport CARL RHEA BENEFIELD Geology Haynesville RICHARD AUBIN BENNETT Mechanical Engineering Alexandria 77 SOPHOMORES First Row DONALD RAYMOND BERLIN Alexandria Mechanical Engineering ANNETTE BERRY Bastrop Elementary Education BILLY EUGENE BLANCHARD Jonesboro Pre-Pharmacy HAROLD LOYD BLEDSOE El Dorado, Ark. Accounting Second Row JOAN BLONDIN Home Economics ANDRE LOUIS BOUTTE Geology KENNIE EUGENE BOWMAN Accounting GEORGE A. BOYD Petroleum Engineering R us ton Shreveport Arcadia Monroe Third Row NORMA JEAN BOYETT Secretarial Science Bossier City MELBA JANE BRADFORD English Education Georgetown ROY CHARLES BRADLEY Business BILLY F. BRASHER Marketing and Merchandising Shreveport Shreveport Fourth Row GUY ALLEN BREAUX Forestry and Chemistry DONALD RAY BRIEHN General Business RONALD CLAY BRIEHN Forestry Lake Charles Jonesboro Jonesboro BILLY W. BRITT Health and Physical Education Dubach Fifth Row EDWARD BROWN Mechanical Engineering JACK NORTON BROWN, JR. Electrical Engineering JOHNYE LOUISE BROWN Social Science LOBDELL PEREY BROWN Management Mindcn Alexandria Hodge Shreveport Sixth Row VONTRESS RAY BROWN Electrical Engineering VIRGINIA BUCKNER Elementary Education THELMA NIX BUNCH Elementary Education CHARLES RAY BUNDRICK Economics Sulphur Norphlet, Ark. Ruston Shreveport Seventh Row BARNIE GREY BUNDY Business Education JOYCE MARIE BURTON Secretarial Science BARBARA PERRY BYRD Elementary Education JEANNINE CABANISS Commercial Art Bossier City Shreveport Shreveport Shreveport 78 OF 1957 First Row HELEN CAIN Elementary Education RACHEL CALAHAN Social Welfare MARY JANET CALDWELL Elementary Education CAROLYN ANN CAPPS Academic Jonesville Ruston Bienville Georgetown Second Row BILLIE JO CAMPBELL Music Education WINSTON BERNARD CAMPBELL Civil Engineering MARY LA CELIA CARLTON Elementary Education ERNEST LEE CARTER Business Management Third Row GERRY CASON Elementary Education PATSY A. CAWTHON Secretarial Science RONALD G. CHAMBLES Electrical Engineering JEAN ANNE CHANDLER Elementary Education Ruston Pineville Sulphur Monroe Jena Pioneer Shreveport Ruston Fourth Row JOSEPH BUTLER CHANDLER, JR. Geology WILLIE DEAN CHANDLER Medical Technology ERNEST RAY CHANEY Pre-Medicine JIMMIE NELL CHANEY Academic Shreveport Ruston Bossier City Monroe Fifth Row WILLIAM LINDSAY CHAPMAN Economics CLARA JANE CHATWIN Secretarial Science G. W. CHURCHWELL Laboratory Technology CAMILLE CLARK Science Education New Orleans Shreveport Pioneer Rayville Sixth Row JAMES E. CLARK Winnsboro Laboratory Technology JAMES W. CLARK Warren Civil Engineering MARY ANN COLE El Dorado, Ark. Academic MARGARET DELLE COLLINS Elementary Education Seventh Row BILLY WICK COLVIN English SARAH ANN COLVIN Secretarial Science TOM ALFRED COLVIN El Dorado, Ark. Forestry MARY JANE CONLY Shreveport Art Education Plain Dealing Dubach Dubach 79 SOPHOMORES First Row RODERICK MARSHALL COOK General Business Athens KENNETH LANE COOLEY Chemistry Pine Prairie FRANK VESTAL COX Civil Engineering Shreveport JO ANN COX Home Economics Second Row Rodessa CHARLES D. CRAIN Electrical Engineering Oil City ROBERT SANDERS CRAWFORD Mathematics Metairie PATRICIA ANN CRANFORD Music Education Minden BETTY JEAN CRAWLEY Social Science Education Third Row Jonesboro GEORGE CURTIS CREWS Geological Engineering Jena VIRGINIA ANN CROWLEY English Education Ruston RUTH CUMMINGS Secretarial Science Delhi RONNY CUNNINGHAM Accounting Fourth Row Ruston WESLEY ALLEN DANS Chemical Engineering Zwolle BILL DAVIDSON Animal Husbandry Bethany CHARLES W. DAVIDSON Junction City, Ark. Mathematics Education MARY FRANCES DAVIDSON Secretarial Science Fifth Row Ruston DAVID ARTHUR DAVIS Geology Rodessa JOE ROBERT DAVIS Forestry Cotton Valley SHIRLEY M. DAVIS Secretarial Science Ruston SYLVIA CLAIR DAVIS Secretarial Science Sixth Row Ruston BESS ANN DEAS Arcadia Business and Secretarial Science MARGARET ANN DEASON Home Economics Tallulah WILLIAM MOORE DEGRAFFENREID, J R - Accounting Shreveport BETTY DELOACH Elementary Education Seventh Row Bossier City BOBBY GENE DENTON Petroleum Engineering Jena DON LEWIS DEWEY Chemical Engineering Stinnett, Tex. BILLY WAYNE DIXON Electrical Engineering Minden PAUL WOODROW DOMINICK General Agriculture Mira 80 OF 19 5 7 First Row JAMES T. DRAKE Bossier City Agricultural Engineering THOMAS LOYD DUBELL Ferriday Mechanical Engineering BILLIE JEAN DUCK Quitman Elementary Education JOHN RICHARD DUNN West Monroe Petroleum Engineering Second Row V. B. DUNN Monroe Chemical Engineering ERNEST RAY DUPUIS Fairbanks Chemical Engineering VERNETTA EARL Winnsboro Business Education CATHERINE ECONOMIDES Jonesboro Business Administration Third Row HARLON RAY EDMISTON Mechanical Engineering WILLIAM FRANKLIN EDMONDS Civil Engineering JAMES ELTON ELDER Physics NEAL BASIL ELDRIDGE Chemical Engineering Fourth Row CARROLL SUE ELLERMAN Home Economics LINDA LOU ELY General Business CAROLYN EARLE ENDEL Secretarial Science KENNETH GAYLE ENGLISH Chemical Engineering Fifth Row SUE EWING Elementary Education CHARLES L. FARRAR Accounting BETTY JANE FERGUSON Secretarial Science ROBERT ALLEN FITZSIMONS Management Sixth Row GLORIA FAYE FLETCHER English KAY LARRY FLETCHER Chemical Engineering BOBBY JOE FLORES Geology KAY ANDRA FLOWERS Speech Therapy Seventh Row JOE E. FOGLE Mechanical Engineering JUSTIN S. FOGLEMAN Art Education HENRY DADE FOOTE Civil Engineering OLIVE CAROLYN FOSTER Mathematics Education Sterlington Guidon, Ark. Shreveport Bastrop Winnsboro Shreveport Shreveport Sterlington Jonesboro Farmerville Ruston Shreveport Choudrant LeCompte Rodessa Alexandria Bastrop Monroe Alexandria Ruston 81 SOPHOMORES First Row WALTER CROCKETT FOWLER Alexandria Mechanical Engineering JAMES ARTHUR FRANKS Springhill Electrical Engineering PATRICIA ANNE FRIZELL Cotton Valley Business Education ELAM CHARLES FRYE Pittsburg, Tex. Physics Second Row CHARLES MELVIN FULLER Physical Education THOMAS R. FUSSELL Petroleum Engineering BILL TERRY FUTCH Physical Education JIMMY D. GAMMILL Petroleum Engineering Du bach Vivian Spearsville West Monroe Third Row JIMMIE WACTOR GARDNER Civil Engineering ROBERT RAY GARLOW Mechanical Engineering BETTY GATES Mathematics HARMON E. GATES Geology Pioneer Bossier City Jonesboro Shreveport Fourth Row CECIL DEAN GATEWOOD Petroleum Engineering JOHN R. GAY Mechanical Engineering ARCHIE ELMO GENTRY Business Administration BENNIE RAY GEORGE General Business Piggott, Ark. Bossier City Winnsboro Mangham Fifth Row RAYMOND D. GERMANY Physical Education EVELYN GIBSON Mathematics Education GARY GILBERT Pre-law CHARLES NOEL GILLETTE Forestry Holly Ridge Harrisonburg Jonesboro Alexandria Sixth Row ANN GILLUM Farmerville Elementary Education CHARLES BRYANT GLOVER Shreveport Pre-7nedicine ROBERT POESY GOFORTH Manchester, Ky. Electrical Engineering FAYE GOODWIN ‘ Alexandria Horne Economics Seventh Row BETTY MERRILL GRAFTON Monroe Elementary Education BILLY G. GRAFTON Bernice Geology PHILIP E. GRAVES Pineville Civil Engineering BILLIE FAYE GRAY Ruston Home Economics 82 i OF 1957 First Row CAROLYN JEAN GRAY Business Education Simsboro MILBURN DALE GREEN Geology Shreveport THOMAS F. GREEN Petroleum Engineering Shreveport MAUREEN GREMILLION Botany Second Row Pineville ROY D. GUIDRY, JR. Chemical Engineering Maplewood MILBURN JAMES GUILLORY Electrical Engineering Alexandria JOHN HORNSBY GULLATT Electrical Engineering Ruston PAUL JUDSON GUNN Music Education Third Row Baton Rouge MARGARET GUSTAFSON Elementary Education Ruston EDWARD ELMORE HALE, JR. Civil Engineering Baskin JOHN LEWIS HALL Engineering Doyline JESSE W. HALL Forestry Fourth Row Dothan, Ala. L. ARLEN HALL Home Economics Shreveport MILES WALTER HALL Mechanical Engineering Shreveport BARBARA ANN HAMMOND Speech Education Jonesboro VIVA ANN HANCOCK Physical Education Fifth Row Farmerville WILLARD RAGAN HANCOCK Petroleum Engineering Monroe PATRICIA HANNA Secretarial Science Jonesboro JIMMY ED HARALSON Smackover, Ark. Geology PATRICIA ANN HARDEE Elementary Education Sixth Row Monroe DON ROLLIN HARDIN Mechanical Engineering Shreveport CARROLL GAY HARDY Geological Engineering Minden CHARLES GENE HARLON Mathematics Bastrop PENNY ANN HARRIS Business Education Seventh Row Vivian VALERIE HARRIS Elementary Education Shreveport CLYDE DOUGLAS HART, JR. Accounting Alexandria RONNIE MITCHELL HAUSER General Business Shreveport GORDON LOUIS HAYES Petroleum Engineering Roanoke 83 SOPHOMORES First Row JAMES C. HEAD Oak Grove Dairying NANCY ELLEN HEARD El Dorado, Ark. Secretarial Science JIM E. HEARIN El Dorado Geology FRANK HEATHMAN Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Second Row DORIS ANN HENDRICKSON Ruston English , Speech and Psychology M. FREDDIE HERLEVIC Winnsboro Mechanical Engineering ANNETTE HIGHTOWER Jonesboro Secretarial Science DONNA HIGHTOWER Alexandria Medical Technology Third Row PEGGY RUTH HITESMAN Shreveport Elementary and Secondary Education DONALD RAY HOLCOMB Minden Petroleum Engineering VIVIAN DELL HOLDER Ruston English Education BEAUFORD L. HOLLAND Ruston Mechanical Engineering Fourth Row JAMES H. HOLLENBECK Leesville Mechanical Engineering CONSTANCE D. HOLLIS Sterlington Home Economics MARK NICKELL HUDSON Shreveport Civil Engineering TOM P. HUMPHRIES Shreveport Engineering Fifth Row JIMMIE RUTH HUNTER Shreveport Secretarial Science M. LARRY INGRAM, JR. Ruston Music MARY ALICE INSLEY Delhi Business Education PATRICIA JANE COLEY JACKSON El Dorado, Ark. Secretarial Science Sixth Row THOMAS D. JAMES Ruston Mechanical Engineering MINOR ROSS JENKINS, JR. El Dorado, Ark. Chemical Engineering ALTON RAY JOHNSON Bastrop Mechanical Engineering HAROLD W. JOHNSON Cotton Valley Management Seventh Row RALPH RAY JOLISSAINT West Monroe Mechanical Engineering BECKY LOU JONES Minden Home Economics DALE PIPES JONES Shreveport Engineering GARNET W. JONES, JR. Stonewall Geology 84 l OF 1957 First Row HELEN W. JONES Business Education Ruston ILA MAE JONES Social Science Monroe LAMAR B. JONES Business Springhill L. PARNELL JONES Petroleum Engineering Second Row Rocky Mount RICHARD HERMEN JONES Accounting Haughton WAYNE DEE JORDAN Mathematics Chatham BONNIE LEE JOWERS Secretarial Science Arcadia JAMES LAMAR JOYNER Civil Engineering Third Row Tallulah LINDSEY PAUL JUNEAU Forestry Alexandria DONALD RAY KAY Forestry Bernice BOBBY DON KING Petroleum Engineering Shreveport PATSY JEAN KING Elementary Education Fourth Row Ruston LISSA LINDA KIPER Home Economics Winnsboro RICHARD LEE KIRBY Mechanical Engineering Shreveport RITA RAE KOLB Education Delhi LELIA MARY KRIEG Elementary Education Fifth Row Shreveport CARLOS FRANCISCO LAMARCHE Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic Mechanical Engineering LEONARDO F. LAMARCHE Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic Chemistry ANNA FAY LA PLUE Home Economics Shreveport LARS JOHN LARSEN Civil Engineering Sixth Row Monroe LUTHER GERALD LATHAM Vicksburg, Miss. Pre-Law BARNEY HAROLD LEACH Civil Engineering Epps GENE A. LECKIE Petroleum Engineering Alexandria NORMA JEAN LEDBETTER Business Education Simsboro Seventh Row HOYT LEE Physical Education Tallulah JERRY T. LEE Mechanical Engineering Ruston RICHARD ARLEN LEE Physical Education Shreveport ROBERT EDWARD LEE, JR. Chemical Engineering Tallulah 85 SOPHOMORES First Row RALPH W. LEWIS Mechanical Engineering Crowville RANDAL LEWIS Petroleum Engineering Dubach RUSS L. LEWIS Engineering Iowa DON W. LIGHTFOOT Civil Engineering Second Row Shreveport PATSY LOUISE LILES Elementary Education Winnsboro FELTON LEROY LINTON Chemical Engineering Homer MILTON A. LITES Music Many THURMAN EDDIE LOFTON Petroleum Engineering Third Row Alexandria F. M. LOGUE, JR. Dairying Tallulah JOHN WESLEY LOLLEY Economics West Monroe DAVID GRAFTON LONG Mathematics Education Kelly PATSY LOVE Secretarial Science Fourth Row Ruston PATSY LOYD Secretarial Science Ruston GRANVEL WRAY LUSBY Commercial Art Camden, Ark. KATA RAY LUSK Elementary Education Plain Dealing CHARLES THOMAS McBRIDE Mechanical Engineering Fifth Row Monroe EDWARD JOHN McBRIDE Management Shreveport JERE MAC McBRIDE Tonesboro Wildlife Conservation and Management ALVIN LEROY McCANN Accounting Springhill CAROLYN ELIZABETH McCLANAHAN Shreveport Mathematics and English Sixth Row INA RAY McCLUNG Elementary Education Homer PATRICIA ELIZABETH McCONNELL Mangham Medical Technology MAC COOK McCULLIN Pre-veterinary Medicine Ruston RICHARD CLINTON McDEARMENT Mechanical Engineering Shreveport Seventh Row DERRAL MAX McDONALD Junction City, Ark. Chemical Engineering HOWARD W. McDONALD Bridgeport, W. Va. Agricultural Engineering JO ANN McDONALD Heflin Elementary Education MARVIN RIVERS McFARLAND Downsville Chemistry 86 OF 19 5 7 First Row DONALD RAYMOND McGEHEEE Waterproof Pre-Dental ROGER DALE McGUFFEE Harrisonburg Commerce REUBEN LAMAR McINNIS Shreveport Mechanical Engineering JAMES ALVIN McKENZIE Cotton Valley General Business Second Row WESLEY DUELL McKISSACK Forestry RONALD KEITH McKNEELY Civil Engineering SHIRLEY JEAN McLEAN Secretarial Science CLAUDE L. McMICHAEL Petroleum Engineering Third Row GARY DALE McNEELY Physics NANCY BRYAN McWILLIAMS Spanish KENNETH MABRY Civil Engineering JANET L. MAHAFFEY Elementary Education Fourth Row WILLIAM MARSHALL MAHONEY Academic THOMAS JAMES MANNING Chemical Engineering GEORGE RUSSELL MARSH Chemical Engineering BEVERLY LOUISE MARTIN Home Economics Bastrop Ruston Shreveport Shreveport Monroe Shreveport Ruston Monroe Shreveport Tallulah Alexandria Winnsboro Fifth Row DARREL WILLIS MARTIN Electrical Engineering ROBERT OLIVER MARTIN, JR. Electrical Engineering TERRELL JOSEPH MASHAW Commercial Art PRENTICE EUGENE MASSEY Business Administration Haughton Minden Camden, Ark. Monroe Sixth Row EMMETT ANDREW MATHEWS Academic ROBERT WAYNE MATTHEWS Electrical Engineering CAROLYN MAXWELL Elementary Education JOHNNY MAXWELL Business Administration Hodge West Monroe Choudrant Ruston Seventh Row ROBERT GORDON MEECE Shreveport Business Administration AUDLEY A. MERCER Bastrop Electrical Engineering JESSE MERCER, JR. Mangham Wildlife Conservation and Management KEN MILES Shreveport Engineering 87 SOPHOMORES First Row PEGGY MILES Physical Education LINDA LEE MIMS English Education NOAH WAYNE MOFFETT Physics MARVIN L. MONCLA Civil Engineering Second Row JOHN FIELD MONTGOMERY, JR. Pre-Dental BILLY MOORE Electrical Engineering MYRA ANN MOORE Home Economics PEGGY ANN MOORE Physical Education Third Row SARA MARGURITE MOORE Home Economics BOBBY RAY MOOREHEAD Civil Engineering ROBERT C. MORIARTY Mathematics JOAN TEMPERANCE MORRIS Business Education Fourth Row WILLIAM EVERETT MORRIS Forestry WILLIE ADAIR MORSE General Business JOHN MALCOLM MOTES Chemistry GEORGIA MOTT Home Economics Jonesboro Minden Jonesboro Shreveport Tallulah West Monroe Winnsboro Ringgold Bernice Minden Alexandria Shreveport Bastrop Winnsboro Ruston Columbia Fifth Row THOMAS P. MUSE Junction City, Ark. Chemical Engineering HUEY P. NARON Monroe Electrical Engineering MICHAEL JOSEPH NASSER Shreveport Mechanical Engineering JAMES DAVIS NELSON, JR. Mathematics Sixth Row NIETA RAE NETTLES Elementary Education ETTA JO NEW English Education LONNIE FRANKLIN NEWTON Geology KENNETH RAY NICHOLS Geology Seventh Row MARIE NICHOLS Business Education RICHARD DAVID NICHOLSON Physical Education WILLARD MEREDITH NICHOLSON Lafayette Electrical Engineering TOMMY EUGENE NIX Ruston Music Education Cotton Valley Athens Ruston Bossier City Glenmora Rodessa 88 OF 1957 First Row WILLIAM DONALD NORRIS Geology BETTYE JO OAKES Elementary Education MILTON TRUETT ODOM Physical Education JANIE O’NEAL Elementary Education Second Row JOHN EDWARD O’SHEA Accounting WILLIAM FREDERICK PAGE Business Administration ERNEST EUGENE PARKS, JR. Forestry JACK DOUGLAS PATE General Business Third Roiv JERRY C. PATE Chemical Engineering LEWIS PATE Civil Engineering ELIZABETH PATTISON Secretarial Science BILLY GENE PEARSON Business Education Fourth Row LINDA GAIL PEARSON Secretarial Science JEANETTE SMITH PESNELL Elementary-Secondary Education DELLA JANE PITTMAN Elementary Education PAULA JEAN PITTMAN Interior Decoration Fifth Row ROBERT A. PLUNKETT Mathematics Delhi Tallulah Hico Choudrant Tallulah West Monroe Louisville, Miss. Jonesboro Shreveport Hall Summit Mansfield Bernice Gibsland Choudrant Springhill Shreveport DON PONDER Electrical Engineering VELDA PONDER Secretarial Science MARJORIE SUE POULAN Secretarial Science Sixth Row TOMMY B. POWELL Geology HERBERT ALLEN PREWITT General Business NANCY JANE PRICE Business Education LOYD RAY PRICKETT Electrical Engineering Seventh Row JACK HOWARD PRIEST Electrical Engineering PHILIP EUGENE PUCKETT General Business SANDRA JEAN PULLIG Secretarial Science ROBERT A. PUTFARK Chemical Engineering Jena Jonesboro Chatam Arcadia Vivian Dubach Shreveport Extension Shreveport Farmland, Ind. Minden Chalmette 89 SOPHOMORES First Row RICHARD RAUS Leesville Electrical Engineering HOWARD O. REEVES Bogalusa Mechanical Engineering FRANKIE RUNDELL REITZELL Delhi Home Economics ROBERT BOGAN RENO Gibsland Civil Engineering Second Row BOBBY RICH Plain Dealing Mechanical Engineering GARY LOWELL RICHARDSON Shreveport Mechanical Engineering JOE RICHARDSON Ruston Civil Engineering JOYONNE RICHARDSON Jonesville Elementary Education Third Row JUNE RIDDICK Rodessa Accounting ANNA RISER Ruston Business Education WILL J. RISER Geology GUY WALTER RISLEY Winnsboro Alexandria Mechanical Engineering Fourth Roxu HARVEY ANNE ROBERTS Mansfield Business Education BEN W. ROBERTSON Mansfield Geological Engineering HUEY O. ROBINETTE Ringold Electrical Engineering JATIS GLORIA ROBINSON Jonesboro Elementary Education Fifth Row PAUL G. ROBINSON Shreveport Electrical Engineering KENNETH WAYNE ROCKETT Spearsville Forestry ROSALIND RODEN El Paso, Tex. Sociology ELIZABETH MERIEL ROGERS Arcadia Elementary and Secondary Education Sixth Row CECYLE CAROLYN ROSS Shreveport Business Administration FRED ROBERT ROWZEE, JR. Leesville Pre-Dental JOE LOUIS RUSSO Alexandria Education SYBIL ANN RYALS Chatham Secretarial Science Seventh Row WALT RYLAND Shreveport English BEVERLY ANN SANDERS Ruston Business Education FREDERIC RONALD SAWYER Bunkie Chemical Engineering RUTH CAROL SCHEERER Ruston English 90 OF 1957 First Row JOANNE SCHROCK Secretarial Science MORRIS GLYN SCOGIN Civil Engineering RICHARD DOUGLAS SEILER Chemical Engineering VIRGINIA ADAIR SHEMWELL Secretarial Science Oak Grove Ringgold Monroe Shreveport Second Row EVA JEANNE SHIRLEY Elementary Education JIMMY EARL SHOWS Academic ROBERT DAVID SHOWS Forestry ROBETT DREW SIMMONS Petroleum Engineering Ruston Hodge Bogalusa Minden Third Roxu GLENDA RUTH SIMPSON Education LINDA JEAN SKAINS Secretarial Science CAROL SUZANNE SLOANE Commercial Art MILTON WHITNEY SLOANE General Business Ruston Arcadia Shreveport Doyline Fourth Row MILTON LEE SMALE Ruston Pre-Medicine RAYMOND WALTER SMILEY Texarkana, Ark. Chemical Engineering ANITA SMITH Ruston Elementary Education JEFF D. SMITH Bossier Mechanical Engineering Fifth Row RALPH SMITH Agricultural Engineering Arcadia SHIRLEAN SMITH Secretarial Science MARY SUE SNEED Business Education JAMES HOWARD SOLESBEE Electrical Engineering Bossier City Shreveport Littlefield, Tex. Sixth Row RONALD DEAN SPARKMAN Business RUTH LOUISE SPOFFORD Home Economics ROBERT WILLIAM SQUYRES Forestry C. JAMES STAGG Forestry Shreveport Alexandria Alexandria Pineville Seventh Row ANNIE McBRIDE staples Elementary Education BETTY ANN STEPHENS Home Economics PAUL BERNARD STEPHENSON Physics VIRGINIA DARE STEVENSON Commercial Art Jonesboro Ruston Jena Cotton Valley 91 SOPHOMORES First Row CHARLES STEWART Physical Education Ruston KAY STEWART Home Economics Tallulah KERRY E. STOKES Mechanical Engineering Shreveport JOHN W. STORMENT Pre-Medicine Second Row Bastrop MARY VIRGINIA STOVALL Elementary Education Ruston SANDRA IRENE STREETMAN Elementary Education Arcadia WILLIAM LLOYD STRONG, JR. History Holly Ridge BARBARA SUMLIN Elementary Education Third Row Simsboro ELIZABETH JANE SUTTON English Education Ruston MARION DONALD SWANNER Civil Engineering Jonesboro ROY U. SWAYZE Pre-Dental Jonesville CHARLES DUANE TABOR Petroleum Engineering Fourth Row Homer RICHARD GARY TABOR El Geology Dorado, Ark. TRAVIS MORGAN TALLEY Medical Technology Pioneer HONOR JEAN TARBUTTON Accounting Ruston JAMES DAVID TAUBER Mathematics Fifth Row Kolin GLORIA ANN TAYLOR Secretarial Science Boyce KENNETH LANIER TAYLOR Mechanical Engineering West Monroe MARGARET ANN TERRAL Elementary Education Dodson NORMA JEAN TERRILL Elementary Education Sixth Row Ruston COY KING THEUS Secretarial Science Monroe LA LUCE THOMPSON Home Economics Bernice BARBARA JEAN TILLEY Physical Education Hodge CHESTER LEE TODD Pre-Medicine Seventh Row Monroe C. T. TOLAR Mechanical Engineering Shreveport MARY ANN TOMS Mathematics Education Jonesboro JEWELL TONEY Electrical Engineering Bogalusa PEGGY JOYCE TONEY Home Economics Bogalusa 92 OF 1957 First Row JOHN G. TRAHAN New Iberia Mechanical Engineering ROMA MAXINE TRAXLER Epps Business Education DUDLEY NIELS TRIGG Shreveport General Business HARRIET ANN TUBB Baton Rouge Accounting Second Row JOE H. TUCKER Marion Chemical Engineering JIM C. TULLOS Jena Petroleum Engineering JACKIE LOU TURNBOW Quitman Business Education REBECCA ANN UPSHAW Spearsville Physical Education Third Row ANITA KAY VALLERY Ruston Secretarial Science BETTY DAVIDSON VAUGHAN Bethany Secretarial Science JOHN FRANK VIOLETTE Ruston Business Management SHIRLEY LYNN VIOLETTE Ruston Secretarial Science Fourth Row FRED C. VOLLMAN Bunkie Mechanical Engineering GAY GERALD WALDRON Haynesville Chemical Engineering CARL ANTHONY WALEK Shreveport Mechanical Engineering ALBERT A. WALKER Bossier City Wildlife Conservation and Management Fifth Row BELVA DOYLE WALKER Minden Petroleum Engineering BERNARD NEIL WALKER Haynesville Pre-Medicine DONALD E. WALKER Cotton Valley Electrical Engineering RICHARD DOUGLAS WALL Lake Providence Wildlife Conservation and Game Management Sixth Row ROBERT ODIS WALSWORTH Quitman Mathematics WILLIAM EMMETT WARD Elementary Education Minden Haynesville PHILLIP NOLAN WASHINGTON Petroleum Engineering DOLORES ANN WATTS San Antonio, Tex. Elementary Education Seventh Row THOMAS H. WATTS Forestry WILLIAM SIMION WEBB Mechanical Engineering BETTY LOU WELDON Business Education LANE JANICE WELLS Art Education Shreveport Shreveport Shreveport Ruston 93 SOPHOMORES First Row MILDRED WEMPLE Secretarial Science Ruston ANN WEST Secretarial Science Monroe ROBERT FREEMAN WESTBROOK Forestry Pineville MARY LYNN WHEATLY Sociology Second Row Hodge J. SHERWOOD WHITE Chemical Engineering Bastrop DANIEL LEWIS WIGLEY Civil Engineering Minden ROBERT P. WILLETT Petroleum Engineering Clay C. SUE WILLIAMS Medical Technology Third Row Monroe ELIZABETH PAYNE WILLIAMS Education Shreveport GLORIA ANN WILLIAMS Elementary Education Olla KENNETH LEE WILLIAMS Forestry Shreveport THOMAS R. WILLIAMSON Accounting Fourth Row Ruston JOHN FLETCHER WILSON Sociology JOE H. WINDHAM Elementary Education Shreveport Cotton Valley LUCY MAY WINHAM Mathematics Education Alexandria GEORGE WOMACK Accounting Fifth Row Haynesville GLENDA CAROL WOODS Business Education Jonesboro BILLY RAY WRIGHT Electrical Engineering Minden JAMES E. WYCHE, III Chemical Engineering Monroe MARTHA ANN YEATES Business Education Sixth Row Homer SYLVIA LOUISE YEATES Secretarial Science Springhill CHARLES W. YOUNG Electrical Engineering West Monroe GARY W. YOUNG Mathematics Ruston SHELTON WAYNE YOUNG Art Seventh Row Vivian ELLA ZAPPA Education Minden 94 Techsters “slug it out” in intramural boxing finals. Kappa Sigma pledges pose for picture during work day they participated in and helped the local Jaycees dig foundation for a new building. 95 HoJstead, Abington, Dukes, Henry FRESHMEN Officers John Holstead _ Leonard Abington_ Billie John Dukes_ Mary Di aper Henry_ _ President Vice-president _ Secretary __ Treasurer PRESCOTT MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF 1957 First Row ABRAHAM ABDELLA Electrical Engineering De Quincy LEONARD QUARLES ABINGTON Academic Many JOHN LA DELLE ADCOCK Mechanical Engineering Delhi PATSY ANN ADCOCK Physical Education Second Row Rayville VALUE DEMARIS ADCOCK Home Economics Spearsville WILLIAM HARVEY ADKINS, JR. Mechanical Engineering Shreveport JOHN EDWARD AINSWORTH El Dorado, Ark. Electrical Engineering JERRY DOYAL AKINS Engineering Third Row Sulphur BILLY COLVIN ALBRITTON Electrical Engineering Farmerville JOYCE MARIE ALDEN Art Education Houston, Tex. MARY ALICE ALDY Elementary Education Jonesboro JAMES EARL ALEXANDER Music Education Fourth Row Ruston JAMES CONRAD AMBERG Agriculture Georgetown HARRY JAMES ANCELET Civil Engineering Sulphur BETTY LYNN ANDERS English Education Arcadia HOWARD LESLIE ANDERSON Petroleum Engineering Fifth Row Wisner H. W. ARMSTRONG Business Winnsboro SUE AULDS Medical Technology Farmerville SYBIL NAN AUSTIN Medical Technology Bernice DONALD RAY AUTREY Music Sixth Row Bernice WILLIAM F. BAGGETT Mechanical Engineering Shreveport MYPON BLAIR BAILEY, JR. Pre-Veterinarian Tallulah WILLIAM DONNIE BAILEY Mechanical Engineering Shongaloo DEBBIE FAYE BAKER Commercial Art Seventh Row Calhoun JANE ELOISE BAKER Social Welfare Ruston NEIL WEAVER BAKER Pre-Medicine Minden SANDRA JOHNETTE BAKER Elementary Education Ruston LUCY ROSE BANKS English Education Kelly 97 j FRESHMEN First Row EARL BANKSTON Forestry BILL G. BARBER Real Estate and Insurance JOHN B. BARHAM Music WILLIAM MATTHEW BARKAS Mechanical Engineering Forest De Quincy Columbia Marion Second Row FLO YE VIRGINIA BARMORE Elementary Education BRUCE R. BARRON Electrical Engineering CHARLES DWAIN BARRON General Engineering RONALD GORDON BARTON Business Administration Ruston Lillie Spearsville Shreveport Third Rojo WILLIAM FREDERICK BARTON Chemical Engineering MARVIN GLEN BASSETT Chemical Engineering JACQUELINE DALE BATTON Mathematics Education ROBERT ELLIS BAZZELL Petroleum Engineering Fourth Row DAVID MANDEL BEAIRD Chemical Engineering ROBERT HARVEY BEAUCHAMP Civil Engineering CHARLES EUGENE BEAVER Mechanical Engineering JOE BEAVER Geology Shreveport Monroe Minden Shreveport Doyline Shreveport Pineville Haynesville Fifth Row BARBARA LOIS BELL Houston, Tex. English Education RONALD DAVID BELLIZIO El Dorado, Ark. Accounting BETTY JOYCE BENEFIELD Haynesville Elementary Education MIKE E. BENNETT Pineville Engineering Sixth Row EUGENE HOWARD BERGMANN Sedalia, Mo. Engineering JOHN EDWARD BERGMANN Sedalia, Mo. Forestry MARY ELIZABETH BETTELL Dubach Business Education C. MARSHALL BICE Ruston Pre-Medicine Seienth Row CH ARLES ALAN BIERBAUM Mechanical Engineering ANNA REBECCA BIRD Music Education LA DEAN ELLEN BLACK Home Economics MARY EVELYN BLACKMAN Business Education Shreveport Winnfield St. Joseph Rayville 98 - OF 1957 First Row ANN BOHAN Shreveport French ALBERT LLOYD BOLEN Junction City, Ark. Pre-Medicine JOHN B. BOLLING Homer General Business BOBBIE RAY BOND Tchula, Miss. Forestry Second Row AL R. BORDELON, JR. Geology MARCIA N. BOROUGHS Pre-Medicine LOUIS EDWARD BOUDREAUX Electrical Engineering RICHARD LAMAR BOUTWELL Petroleum Engineering Third Row JIMMY WESS BOWEN Animal Husbandry JERRY WAYNE BOX Engineering CAROLYN JEAN BOYCE Accounting JERRY PAUL BOYCE El Dorado, Ark. Journalism Alexandria Shreveport Shreveport Ruston Bernice Shreveport Monroe Fourth Row JESSIE MAE BOYD Elementary Education LOU ANN BOYD Physical Education WALLACE H. BOYD History NORMA JEAN BOYETTE Secretarial Science Ruston Choudrant Choudrant Bossier City Fifth Row SHARON LOUISE BRADBURY Business Education ALVIN A. BRAMLETT Civil Engineering JOHN LOYD BRAMLETT Geology MARTHA N. BRAND Secretarial Science Maplewood Arcadia Hodge Shreveport Sixth Row CONNIE BRANTLEY Education LANNY ROBERT BRASHER Academic CLARENCE W. BRELAND Petroleum Engineering VIRGINIA WAYNETTE BRINSON Secretarial Science Spearsville Waterproof Jena Hodge Scr ' enth Row DARPvELL DENE BROUSSARD Civil Engineering CHARLOTTE BROWN English Education GERALD RAY BROWN Mechanical Engineering HAROLD WAYNE BROWN Chemical Engineering Sulphur Columbia Benton Bunkie 99 FRESHMEN First Row JAMES EMMETT BROWN Shreveport Engineering MIMI LOU BROWN Bossier City Elementary Education PEGGY W. BROWN Farmerville Home Economics RONALD LEIGH BROWN Rayville Engineering Second Row LEXIE ERMINE BROWNING Logansport English Education WILLIAM GORDON BROWNING Lake Charles Academic JOHN WALTON BRUCE Shreveport Business Administration WILLIAM MURRAY BRUMMETT, JR. Shreveport Petroleum Engineering Third Row JAMES NOLAN BRYAN Castor Accounting WILLIAM ALLAN BRYAN Coushatta Petroleum Engineering DORIS BRYANT Delhi Home Economics MARY ANN BRYANT Mooringsport Elementary Education Third Row SARA MARJORIE BUCKLES Rayville Mathematics Education CAROL S. BURCHAM Minden Secretarial Science BESS BURCKETT Shreveport Spanish Education CARL GENE BURNS Springhill Academic Fourth Row JAMES AUBREY BUTLER West Monroe Business Administration JAMES L. BUTLER Shreveport Petroleum Engineering ROBERT WILLIAM BYRD Springhill Academic WILLIAM NATHAN CABANISS Olla Chemical Engineering Fifth Row HUEY DREWMAN CALDWELL Sulphur Civil Engineering JO ANN CALLOWAY Spearsville Secretarial Science LILA GRACE CAMP Calhoun Accounting G. DALLAS CAMPBELL El Dorado, Ark. Engineering Sixth Row JAMES B. CAMPBELL Shreveport Petroleum Engineering ROBERT P. CANTRELL Shreveport Engineering DONALD K. CARROLL Oak Grove Pre-Law CYIHERINE AGNES CARSO Monroe Elementary Education 100 OF 1957 First Row WILLIAM KELLOGG CARTER, JR. Asheville, N. C. Geology ROBERT MACK CARUTHERS Shreveport Geology DON PAUL CATRON Oak Grove Forestry EDWIN BROOKS CAUGHLIN Jonesboro Agricultural Engineering Second Row GARNETT TAYLOR CAUSEY Doyline Accounting ED MORRIS CHAFFIN Mansfield Engineering JAMES ALVER CHAMLEE, III Plain Dealing Geology CAROLE ANN CHANDLER Ruston Business Education Third Roiv CHARLES RODNEY CHANDLER Arcadia A cademic JAMES EDWARD CHANDLER Shreveport Electrical Engineering PATRICIA CHAPMAN Archibald Business Education WILLIAM HOUSTON CHAPMAN Lake Charles Mechanical Engineering Fourth Row WILLIE THOMAS CHEVALIER Glenmora Mechanical Engineering NANCY LOU CHURCHMAN Shreveport Medical Technology GEORGE HAROLD CLARK Hodge Academic JAMES PAUL CLARK Delhi Mechanical Engineering Fifth Row JOHN R. CLARK Chesnee, S. C. Physical Education NANCY LOY CLONINGER Rayville Home Economics GERALD WAYNE COBB Ruston Physical Education HUBERT GERALD COFFEY Gibsland General Business Sixth Row CAROLE ANN COHEN Shreveport Secretarial Science DON COLE Simsboro Engineering HOWARD EUGENE COLE Shreveport Business Management MARTIN BENARD COLLETTE New Orleans Marketing and Merchandising Seventh Row JAMES EDWARD COLLINS Academic CELIA COLVIN Business Education JOHN ROBERT CONVILLE Business DAVE JAMES COOK Business Management Oil City Ruston Hodge Shreveport 101 FRESHMEN First Row SARAH BETH COOPER Elementary Education WILLIAM THOMAS COOPER Chemical Engineering ETHEL IRENE CORCORAN Business Administration ROBERT O. CORLEY Geology Walters Crossett, Ark. Baton Rouge Oak Grove Second Roxo JOHN ROBERT CORVILLE Business CARMON RAY COSTELLO Civil Engineering CHARLES E. COTTON Chemical Engineering CHARLES WAYNE COVINGTON Petroleum Engineering Hodge Oak Grove West Monroe Homer Third Row PAI L HOWARD COVINGTON Civil Engineering JO ANN COX Medical Technology TERRY CARNELL COX Mechanical Engineering J ANN IE COYLE Elementary Education Ruston Farmerville Winnsboro Baskin Fourth Row WALDO EMERSON CRAGAR Mechanical Engineering ARTHUR FRANK CRAIG, JR. Engineering LARRY WILKINSON CRAWFORD Mechanical Engineering JAMES E. CREWS Engineering Maplewood West Monroe Sicily Island Springhill Fifth Row CHARLES WESLEY CROOKS Petroleum Engineering FLOETTE CROW Business Education KENNETH RAY CROWDER Commercial Art P. KENNETH DANIEL Mechanical Engineering Sixth Row JAMES LOUIS DANOS Petroleum Engineering EVERETT STEWART DAVIDSON Physics HERBERT NELSON DAVIS Sociology MARILYN SUE DAVIS Chemistry Seventh Row SHELBY JEAN DAVIS Home Economics TOMMY CAROLYN DAVIS Secretarial Science VIRGIE MAROLYN DAVIS Secretarial Science ELLIS DAWSON Electrical Engineering Trout Linville Shreveport Roanoke Thibodaux Shreveport Arcadia Dubberly Ruston Minden Minden Winnfield 102 OF 1957 First Row ROBERT GLENN DEAN Haile Civil Engineering CONNIE DeBOE Vicksburg, Miss. Home Economics LOUIS MACK DeBOSE Coushatta Electrical Engineering MARY SUE DeFREESE Ruston Academic Second Row NORMAN PAUL DEROUEN Physical Education LOUIS JERRY DeSALVO Mechanical Engineering ALAN JEROME DeVILBISS Electrical Engineering JERRY JOSEPH DiFRANCO Civil Engineering Delhi New Orleans Roanoke New Orleans Till ' d Row ROSE MARIE DILLARD Laboratory Technology J. BRENT DOAN English ELIZABETH ANN DODSON English Education DAVE JAMES DONAHUE Geology Shreveport Welsh Dixie New Orleans Fourth Row CHARLIE DALE DONALDSON Academic MARY ELIZABETH DORR Business Education ROBERT LLOYD DOWNES Mechanical Engineering WILLIAM HOWARD DRAKE Civil Engineering Fifth Row JOAN MARIE DREWETT Home Economics THOMAS D. DREWETT Electrical Engineering MARY JEAN DUGDALE Elementary Education BILLIE JOHN DUKES Secretarial Science Jonesboro Shreveport Rayville Maplewood Ruston Shreveport Choudrant Farmerville Sixih Row WILLIAM EDWARD DUNN Academic JOSEPH EUGENE DUPUY Business LONNIE DURR Laboratory Technology GERALD WAYNE DYSON Petroleum Engineering Alexandria Monroe New Orleans Ruston Seventh Row LEONARD DAVID EARL Elizabeth Engineering MARY LYNETTE EAST Bossier City Physical Education NANCY PHAYE EAVES Shreveport English Education SHIRLEY RAE EDMONDSON Lake Providence Elementary Education 103 FRESHMEN Fi) t Row BOBBY C. EDWARDS Pineville Wildlife Conservation LARRY RICHARDS EDWARDS Bossier City Accounting WILEY ADAIR ELLEN El Dorado, Ark. Accounting RONALD WILLIAM ELLERBE Crossett, Ark. Chemical Engineering Second Row JOHNNY WAYNE ELLIOTT Engineering JACK E. EMFINGER Electrical Engineering DONA LOU ENIS Secretarial Science JAMES PRICE ENIS Petroleum Engineering Columbia Gilbert Bossier City Bossier City Thhd Row ROBERT TED ENLOE Petroleum Engineering JULIA ELEANOR ENRIGHT Business Administration LEON E. ESTES Engineering CARL LEON EUBANKS Forestry Mansfield Sicily Island Basile Springhill Fourth Row DONALD REESE EUBANKS Pre-Medicine BETTY RUTH EVANS Business Education WILLIAM SULLIVAN FAIRBANKS Electrical Engineering HELEN SUE FARMER Academic Winnsboro Bastrop Pineville Bossier City Fifth Row WILLIAM FREDRICK FARMER Engineering NEAL SEABRON FARRAR Engineering CARA LOU FEASTER Elementary Education MARILYN CAROL FERGUSON Elementary Education Shreveport Lillie Ville Platte Ruston Sixth Row EDGAR DANIEL FIELD Academic JO MARLENE FIELDS Secretarial Science ROBERT WAYNE FIELDS Academic LARRY GERALD FITTS Mechanical Engineering Jonesville Minden Bossier City Ruston Seventh Row BARBARA ANN FLANAGAN Home Economics BARBARA DIANNE FLEMING Academic FREDDIE LEWIS FLOWERS Geology WANDA SUE FORBESS Education Chatham Gibsland Kilbourne Farmerville 104 OF 1957 Fhst Row BILLIE GENE FORD Jonesboro Forestry CHARLES LARRY FORD Jena Chemical Engineering PATSY RUTH FORD Choudrant Secretarial Science. PAT WORLEY FOSTER Haynesville English Second Row SHIRLEY ANN FOSTER Ruston Elementary Education MARTHA ANN FRANKS Sicily Island Journalism NANCY LOU FRANZ El Dorado, Ark. Commercial Art SHIRLEY DALE FRASIER Minden Home Economics Third Roiu COLIN MICHAEL FREEMAN Bossier City Electrical Engineering RAYMOND FUITZ FUIZELL Ferriday Pre-Medicine JANE ELIZABETH FULLER Ruston Secretarial Science WILLIAM LEON FULLER Minden Geological Engineering Fourth Rovj WILLIAM TAYLOR FULLERTON Shreveport Civil Engineering ELOYCE DHALE FULTON Pineville Elementary Education JANIS HILBURN FUTRELL Monroe Home Service GLORIA BETH GAINES Rodessa Education Fifth Row N. JOYE GALLMAN Rayville Elementary Education JAMES ROBERT GANDY Many Chemical Engineering HERBERT CLEVELAND GARRARD Winnfield Electrical Engineering SHERIDAN GAIL GARRETT Winnfield Electrical Engineering Sixth Row CHARLIE HOWARD GARRIS Wesson, Ark. Accounting SAMMIE LAYNE GARZE Sarepta Engineering HARTLEY RUSSELL GASTON Shreveport Petroleum Engineering GERALDINE MARIE GAVOIN Ruston Elementary Education Setenth Rote FATEMEH GHAFFARI GHAZISAID Tehran, Iran Pre-Nursing HARRY JOE GIBSON Ruston Forestry JIMMIE GIBSON Haughton Geology ROBERT LOUIS GILBERT Greenwood Business 105 FRESHMEN First Row RICHARD LAMAR GILES Engineering SANDRA ANITA GILLILAND Home Economics MARY ANN GLOVER Home Economics ROY D. GLOVER Engineering Hosston Rayville Ruston Ruston Second Row GEORGE RUMON GOODWILL Business Administration JAMES RICHARD GOODWIN Chemical Engineering SYLVIA LOUISE GOSS Home Economics RICHARD ANDRE GOUAUX Mechanical Engineering Minden McDade Tallulah Lake Charles Third Row PEGGY STEWART GRANT Secretarial Science TASCA GRAY Secretarial Science BUFORD JAMES GREEN Engineering GLEN N. GREEN Economics Ruston Goodpine Monroe Homer Foui th Row MARLYN GAWAIN GREEN Marion Chemical Engineering LINDA MAUREEN GRIER Farmerville Secretarial Science THOMAS A. GRISSOM, JR. , Carthage, Tex. Civil Engineering DALE DOUGLAS GRYDER Rayville Business Administration Fifth Row GEORGE BARRON GUYNES Pre-Medicine ROGER MORRIS HAGLER Engineering CAROL JEAN HAINES Chemistry MELVIN H. HAIRE Business Sixth Row ALVIN HALL, JR. Civil Engineering JERRY MAC HAMMONS Petroleum Engineering MARY JO HAMMONS Home Economics BARBARA FAEY HANNA Elementary Education Winnfield Jonesboro Shreveport Pelican Mansfield Downsville Downsville Dubach Seventh Row THOMAS WALTER HARDEE, III General Business SELINA KATHERINE HARLAN Home Economics JARVIS LANE HARMON Academic BOBBY LANE HARRISON Electrical Engineering Pleasant Hill Maplewood Athens Ruston 106 OF 1957 Fitst Row PATSY ANN HARRISON Lisbon Physical Education LOUIS EDWARD HATSFELT Oakdale Mechanical Engineering MARTHA JANE HAVEN Bossier City Secretarial Scie nce KAY HAWKINS Bossier City Elementary Education Second Row BARBARA DISTENE HEAD Elementary Education CARROLL D. HEAD Electrical Engineering JAMES DAVID HENDERSON Civil Engineering VARNER HENDERSON Electrical Engineering Oak Grove Oak Grove Shreveport Spearsville Thud Row JAMES RUSSELL HENRY Chemical Engineering MARY DRAPER HENRY Education NANCY ANN HENRY Social Welfare NORMA NELL HENRY Business Education Winnsboro Bernice Hico Bastrop Fnuith Row MELBA GWYNN HERRING Speech ROBERT DUDLEY HERRING Engineering ALMA LOUISE HIGGINBOTHAM Accounting ANNETTE HIGHTOWER Secretarial Science Jena Shreveport Ruston Jonesboro Fifth Row DAN JOHN HILL Electrical Engineering RALPH DAVID HILLMAN Political Science BOBBY BROWN HINTON Pre-Medicine BOBBIE SUE HOGAN Elementary Education Sixth Row JESSE BOATNER HOLDER General Agriculture JOE ROBERT HOLDER Chemical Engineering OLIVER KEITH HOLDER Accounting FELDOR HAROLD HOLLENSHEAD Petroleum Engineering Vivian Shreveport Ruston Ruston Gilbert Dubach Dubach Urania Seventh Row JOHN BURNHAM HOLSTEAD Ruston Pre-Law PATRICIA ANN HOOD Lisbon Elementary Education BETTY ANN HORNADAY Bossier City Elementary Education JAMES WILLIAM HORTON Springhill Petroleum Engineering 107 FRESHMEN First Row SHIRLEY SUE HOUCK Laboratory Technology WILLY WAYNE HOUCK Engineering CAROLYN ELIZABETH HOWARD Elementary Education PEGGY CAROLYN HUGHES Elementary Education Hico Hico Baton Rouge Ruston Second Row DOROTHY LEE HUMBLE Home Economics HARLON TIMOTHY HUMPHRIES Chemical Engineering BILLY WAYNE HUNT Mathematics WILLIAM MACK HUNT Chemical Engineering Winnsboro Monroe Dubach West Monroe Third Row ROBERT A. HUNTER Geological Engineering Delhi CARL STANLEY HURST Education El Dorado, Ark. REAVES DAVID JACKSON Engineering Warren, Ark. VAUNDELEATH JACKSON Pre-Medicine Foviih Row Shreveport JOE DAN JACOBS Chemistry El Dorado, Ark. DAVID JAMES, III Pre-Medicine Minden LUCY ANN JARRELL Secretarial Science Freeport, Tex. MELLIE JO JEFCOAT Hilly Music Education Fifth Row PATTY SUE JOHNS Elementary Education BILLY R. JOHNSON Electrical Engineering CHARLES DAVID JOHNSON Civil Engineering GARLAND EUGENE JOHNSON Business Administration Delhi Gibsland Ruston Marion Sixth Row GLENDA SUE JOHNSON Business Education HAZEL MARIE JOHNSON Elementary Education WAYNE S. JOHNSON Engineering DORIS ANN JONES Home Economics Monroe Ruston Athens Crossett, Ark. Seventh Row PRENTICE H. JONES Mechanical Engineering WILLIAM PRESTON JONES, JR. Mechanical Engineering KATHLEEN JORDAN Clothing Art REVES WAYNE JORDAN Academic Mangham Shreveport Calhoun Arcadia 108 OF 1957 First Row DANNY DEAN JURLS Chemistry CLYDE BENJAMIN KAY Physical Education OLIVE ROSE KEEN Mathematics WILLIAM LEROY KELLY Academic Springhill Dubach Bently Hodge Second Row CATHERINE KENDALL English Education ANITA FAYE KIDD Secretarial Science DAVID EARL KILGORE Accounting WILTON DENNIS KILPATRICK Academic Clay Minden Camden, Ark. Homer Third Row H. JEANNETTE KING Accounting JERRY LONE KING Engineering MARY ANN KING Medical Techology WILLIAM TAYLOR KING, JR. Mechanical Engineering Shreveport Ruston Jonesboro Monroe Fourth Row HENRY CLAY KINNISON Forestry PERRY LEE KIRKHAM Social Science PEGGY JEAN KIRKLAND Business Education JOHN MARTIN KIRKPATRICK Geology Kelly Ruston Oak Grove Haynesville Fifth Row FRANCES SUE KNAUSE Physical Education MARY DANUTE KUPRIONIS Medical Technology ANTHONY KUTIPER Engineering JERRY LOUISE LACKEY Elementary Education Shreveport Ruston Shreveport Shreveport Sixth Row ROSE MARIE LANDRUM Mangham Home Economics BENNY F. LANEY Junction City, Ark. Music BOBBIE JEAN LANGHELD Minden Secretarial Science CHARLES LARRY LARANCE Warren, Ark. Speech Seventh Row DAVID WILSON LAWRENCE Shreveport Mechanical Engineering MARGARET MARILYN LAWRENCE Monterey Elementary Education EDWIN MICHAEL LEACHMAN Minden Engineering BRUCE GARY LEAKE Junction City, Ark. Engineering 109 FRESHMEN First Row WILLIAM HENRY LEDOUX General Business BARBARA B. ' LEE Medical Technology CAROLYN EUNICE LEE Elementary Education ARNOLD KIRK LEWIS Education Monroe Simsboro Bernice Ruston Second Row DONNY G. LEWIS El Dorado, Ark. Electrical Engineering IRMA LEWIS Ruston Elementary Education WOODARD HENRY LEWIS Ruston Civil Engineering MARGARET ANN LINDSEY Tullos English Education Third Row DORIS MARIE LOCKHART Speech Education JAMES EDWARD LOCKWOOD Geological Engineering BARBARA ELLEN LOE Home Economics SAMUEL VANCE LOGAN Electrical Engineering Hodge Truxno Tallulah Shreveport Fourth Row JOHN LOUIS LOLLEY Engineering ORLIS RAY LONG Physical Education BILLIE LOU LONIDIER Secretarial Science JAMES C. LOUE Engineering Shreveport Minden Arcadia Ruston Fifth Row OLBY LEE LOVE Music CHESTER LEON LOVETT Engineering PERRY JOE LOWE Business Administration MARIE ANNETTE LUCK Elementary Education Ruston Vivian Minden Bernice Sixth Row WILMA ANN McARTHUR English Education KELLY PEYTON McBRIDE Education ANN McCALEB Elementary Education JO ANN McCLEARLEY Medical Technology Glenmora Rodessa Winnsboro New Orleans Seventh Row JIMMY E. McCLARY Sarepta Petroleum Engineering ROBERT EARL McDANIEL Haynesville Chemical Engineering DERREL MAX McDONALD Junction City, Ark. Chemical Engineering HARLAND EUGENE McDONALD Shreveport Geological Engineering 110 OF 1957 First Row ruth McDonald Academic wayne McDonald Academic THOMAS BURK McDUFF Engineering JANELL McEACHERN Elementary Education Second Row RUTH ELAINE McEACHARN Academic CHARLENE McILVEENE Elementary Education LEWIS GORDON McKINNEY Chemical Engineering JANET McLANE Education Tallulah Haynesville Winnsboro Dubach Delhi Dubach Oakdale Ruston Third Row HOWARD B. McMAHON Rayville Engineering HENRY GRADY McMATH Strong, Ark. Engineering C. TAYLOR McNEEL Pineville Academic ERNEST REID McNEILL Jena Electrical Engineering Fourth Row MARY ELLEN McVICKER Elementary Education JAMES DAVID MADDEN Civil Engineering JAMES HENRY MADDEN Civil Engineering RAGAN BURT MADDEN Engineering Homer Minden Shreveport Ruston Fifth Row HOWARD G. MADDOX Zwolle Petroleum Engineering THOMAS E. MANBY Shreveport Marketing and Merchandising WARREN GLEN MANGHAM Shreveport Petroleum Engineering JOSEPH CAMILLE MARANTO Shreveport Mechanical Engineering Sixth Row CAROLYN GLENN MARLER Commercial Art DON SCOTT MARTIN Engineering JACKIE LUCILLE MARTIN Speech JOHN BENTON MARTIN Petroleum Engineering Seventh Row MARY ELLA MASON Secretarial Science NOAH JAMES MASON, JR. Engineering JERRY WAYNE MASSEY Agricultural Engineering SANDRA ANNE MATHEWS Elementary Education Ruston Springhill Jonesboro Ruston Ruston Ruston Columbia Shreveport 111 FRESHMEN First Row BETTY MAXWELL Choudrant Music WILLIAM HUGH MAXWELL Hodge General Business ANNETTE MEDLIN Rayville Physical Education ANDREA LOUISE MEEK Glenmora Home Economics Second Row EARLENE MENDENHALL Minden Secretarial Science JOHN WESLEY MERCER Mangham Physical Education DOROTHY MERRITT Benton Business Education JACK JAY MERTENS Alexandria Business Third Row BOB BAITY MIDYETT Shreveport Electrical Engineering ENNIS MITCHELL MIDYETT Pelican Engineering LARRY KIRTLEY MILES Minden Petroleum Engineering BARBARA JEANETTE MILLER Shreveport Music Fourth Row BILL MILLER Shreveport Engineering B. K. MILLER Sicily Island Academic GEORGE BENJAMIN MILLER Shreveport Engineering BENNY DON MILLIGAN Vidalia Chemical Engineering Fifth Row WALLACE LEO MILLS Summerfield General Business JACK E. MINOR Houston Political Science RAMONA RUTH MINYARD Bastrop Pre-Nursing CHARLES HENRY MISENHEIMER El Dorado, Ark. Petroleum Engineering Sixth Row GENE WALLER MITCHELL Lisbon Petroleum Engineering FRED VERNON MIZELL Ruston Electrical Engineering GLENDA SUE MOFFETT Jonesboro Business Education LINDA LOU MOFFETT Jonesboro Business Education Seventh Row ALLEN GEORGE MONROE Glenmora Mechanical Engineering CHARLIE SUE MONROE Baton Rouge Medical Technology MARY MINTA MONTGOMERY Mer Rouge Medical Technology PATSY ANNE MONTGOMERY Benton Secretarial Science 112 OF 1957 First Row DONALD RAY MOON Dubach Forestry MARY KATHERINE MOORE Ruston English Education ROSE MARY MOORE Chatham Education JAMES MARSHAL MOOREHEAD Minden Geological Engineering Second Row HUEY H. MORELAND Rayville Science Education WARREN HENRY MOREY Malverne, N.Y. Electrical Engineering GLEN ALAN MORGAN Wisner Marketing and Merchandising JACK ELBERT MORGAN Arcadia Chemical Engineering Third Row JOE ALMOND MORGAN Chalmette Chemical Engineering JOHN STACY MORGAN Tallulah Forestry MARJORIE EMILY MORGAN Ruston Academic PATRICIA ANN MORGAN Sulphur Business Education Fourth Row RICHARD GRAHAM MORIARTY Alexandria Accounting WALTER JOSEPH MORIARTY Alexandria Accounting BRENDA CHARLENE MURPHY Hico Secretarial Science JOE TRACY MURPHY Jamestown Mathematics Fifth Row DONALD KIRK MURRY Kilbourne Elementary Education BETTY JO MYERS Lake Providence Secretarial Science LARNELL NAPPER Dubach Secretarial Science MARABETH NAREMORE Bossier City Academic Sixth Row JAMES DOYLE NASH Louann, Ark. Engineering ROY BROWN NASH Monroe Business Administration LYNN NAYLOR, JR. Tallulah Pre-Medicine RAMONA MAE NEAL Perryville Mathematics Education Seventh Row CAROL ANN NEELY Ruston Speech and English BOBBY J. NELSON Minden Engineering JACKIE DONALD NELSON Tullos Petroleum Engineering ELIZABETH E. NEWTON Lisbon Secretarial Science 113 FRESHMEN First Row W. K. NINEMIRE Petroleum Engineering DONALD H. NIXON Accounting JAMES HOWARD NIXON Music Education BETTYE JO NOLAN Secretarial Science Ville Platte Coushatta Ruston Farmerville Second Row JOHN THOMAS NOLAN Accounting DOUGLAS HAROLD NORMENT Academic BETTY L. NORRIS Chemistry JAN DOUGLAS NORRIS Education Ruston De Quincy Rayville Vivian Third Row JANIS SUE NORRIS Elementary Education IVY LYNN NUGENT Academic DORIS ANNE OAKES Secretarial Science GLORIA NELL ODOM Elementary Education Homer Sarepta Shreveport Farmerville Fourth Row WILLIAM CECIL O’KELLEY Arcadia Sociology DOROTHY MARIE OLDS Saint Joseph Elementary and Secondary Education BOBBY WAYNE O’NEAL Pineville Electrical Engineering CHARLES RAY O’NEAL Mechanical Engineering Alexandria Fifth Row KATHLEEN ROBINETTE O’REAR Academic LEON A. OSTERLAND Petroleum Engineering JILL URSULA OSWALT Medical Technology CAROLYN LOUISE OWENS Secretarial Science Homer Monroe Minden Ringgold Sixth Row SHARON LEE OWENS Homer Secretarial Science ROBERT EDWIN PARK El Dorado, Ark. Chemical Engineering ROBERT FULTON PATTERSON Choudrant Academic KAY LYNN PAYNE Crowville Elementary Education Seventh Row NELL RAY PEARMAN Secretarial Science MARY ALICE PEARSON Music PATRICIA ANN PEEVY Secretarial Science NOVELYN LEE PENNEY Secretarial Science Homer Bernice Jonesboro Homer 114 L 9 5 7 First Row ALVIN WYATT PERRYMAN Engineering WANDA NEL PERRYMAN Secretarial Science ESTHER LAURENE PESNELL History DONALD WAYNE PETERS Accounting Shreveport Minden Choudrant Rayville Second Row PAUL ELLIOTT PETERS Electrical Engineering MARGARET ELEANOR PETTY Business Education CHARLES MACK PEVY Geology MARGARET ANN PHILLIPS Elementary Education Third Row THOMAS HENRY PILCHER Engineering JANE PILGREEN Secretarial Science SONJA LOUISE PILGREEN Secretarial Science WALTER KENNETH PINE Engineering Tallulah Shreveport Minden Jonesboro Zwolle Bernice Mangham Ruston Fourth Row GERALD E. PITCHFORD Engineering DAPHINE ANN PIXLEY Academic LORRY JAMES PLAUCHE Electrical Engineering VICKY RAE POLANCIC Business Education Natchez, Miss. Homer Alexandria Arcadia Fifth Row RALPH EDMON POWELL Rodessa Geology JOSEPH J. POYE Winnsboro Petroleum Engineering DRUSILLA LOUISE PRESTON Ferriday Mathematics Education LAVELLE PRINE Oak Grove Chemical Engineering Sixth Row SHELBY JEAN PUGH Marketing and Merchandising ANNICE RAFIELD Speech CHARLES LOUIS RAMAGE Pre-Medicine Mansfield Winnfield Winnsboro MICHAEL J. RAMSEY Engineering Hodge Seventh Row HARRY D. RANEY Electrical Engineering BONNIE JEANETTE RASBERRY Mathematics Education JACKIE LEON RASBERRY Civil Engineering EDGAR MATTHEW REA Engineering Oak Grove Quitman Shreveport New Orleans 115 FRESHMEN First Row RUBY JEAN REA Bonita Home Economics FAYE REARDON St. Joseph Academic MONA L. REED £1 Dorado, Ark. Education CAROLYN SUE REESE Baskin Home Economics Second Row JAMES O. REESE, JR. Franklinton Electrical Engineering JOHN EDWARD REESE Oakridge Mechanical Engineering R. MARDELL REINHARDT Monroe Secretarial Science JOHN CHRISTOPHER RESCHAR Alexandria Forestry Third Row VALLEAU RENEE RESWEBER Physics JIMMIE N. REYNOLDS Bastrop Shreveport Mechanical Engineering EDWARD LYNN RICH Jonesboro Academic WILLIAM RANDOLPH RICH Shreveport Engineering Fourth Row JOHN THOMAS RICHARDSON Ruston Civil Engineering STEPHEN LOWREY RICHARDSON Franklinton General Business GRETCHEN ALICE RIDGE Shreveport Chemistry DAVE RIGGS Monroe Mechanical Engineering Fifth Row ROBERT ROYAL RISER Ruston Pre-Medicine FRED McRAE ROBERSON Bastrop Pre-Medicine TOMMY PAT ROBERSON Dubach Petroleum Engineering NANCY JANE ROBERTS Shreveport Physical Education Sixth Row JOHN BERRY ROBINETT Shreveport English ALLEN WARREN ROBINETTE Cristobal, Canal Zone Mechanical Engineering ALMA GAYNELL ROBINSON Ruston Elementary Education DORIS ANN ROBINSON Ruston Secretarial Science Seventh Row BILL R. ROCHELLE Vivian Engineering DAN ROGERS ' ' Bernice Academic HOLLIS TIM ROGERS Winnsboro Pre-Medicine NELDA ROGERS Waterproof Marketing and Merchandising 116 OF 1957 First Row RUBY LYNELL ROGERS Arcadia Business Education VAN ROGERS Bernice Pre-Medicine KATHERINE DOLORES ROGILLIO Tallulah Home Economics JOE C. ROSS El Dorado, Ark. Electrical Engineering Second Row MARY VIRGINIA ROSS Home Economics BILLIE ANN RUPLE Secretarial Science RAY EVERETT RUSSELL Engineering RAY LYNN RUSSELL Engineering Third Row VIRGINIA RUSSELL Speech JAMES WHITNEY SANDERS Civil Engineering BARBARA RUTH SANDIFER Pre-Medicine JAMES WILLARD SARTOR, JR. Engineering Fourth Row CARRIE SUE SAVAGE Elementary Education WILLIAM ERNEST SAVAGE Electrical Engineering BERT LEE SCHRIVENER Engineering BERTHA NAN SCOTT Music Winnsboro Monroe Fisher Tullos Castor Minden Vidalia Vivian Jonesboro Collinston Shreveport Winnsboro Fifth Row BOBBY GENE SCOTT Ringgold Social Science Education WALTON BURT SCROGGS Alexandria Pre-Medicine CLAIBORNE N. SEAL New Orleans Accounting JOHN T. SEALE El Dorado, Ark. Geological Engineering Sixth Row ANNE SENTELL Secretarial Science RODNEY WAYNE SHAMBURGER Engineering JERRY DWAIN SHANKLES Engineering JOHN EDWARD SHAVER Civil Engineering Seventh Row JEAN MARIE SHAW Home Economics JOAN SHAW Commercial Art MILO EDWARD SHEARER Academic FRANK PLASANT SIMS Civil Engineering Hodge Shreveport Jonesboro Ruston Simsboro Vernon Jackson Winnsboro 117 FRESHMEN First Row MAGE B. SIMS Chemical Engineering DAVID ROBERT SINCOX Engineering JOYCE SKINNER Business Education ANNE SMITH Secretarial Science Springhill Vivian Simsboro Minden Second Row BARBARA SMITH Elementary Education BILLY CANAL SMITH Accounting CHARLYNE SMITH English Education DOUGLAS TEER SMITH Civil Engineering Sibley Winnfield Vivian Bossier City Third Row GEORGE H. SMITH Civil Engineering HELEN CLAIRE SMITH Business Education JAMES R. SMITH Mechanical Engineering JOEL ERNEST SMITH, JR. Mechanical Engineering Ruston Rayville DeQuincy Minden Fourth Row JUDY CAROL SMITH Minden Secretarial Science KELLY CROTHERS SMITH Houston, Tex. Secretarial Science MARGIE FLO SMITH Bossier City Secretarial Science MARIE SMITH Ruston Music Education Fifth Row ROY C. SMITH Agriculture and Forestry SHIRLEY JANE SMITH Art SUSAN BELTON SMITH Elementary Education WALTER DAVID SMITH Mechanical Engineering Oak Grove Ruston Oak Ridge Benton Sixth Row WALTER FRANKLIN SMITH Accounting DONALD BROOKS SORRELLS Education MAT SOULANT Civil Engineering HELEN JANETTE SPEARMAN Elementary Education Coushatta Hodge New Orleans Crowville Seventh Row ROBERT WRAY SPEED Mechanical Engineering SHIRLEY ANN SPEIGHTS Home Economics ERCIL ELAINE SPIVEY Secretarial Science SARA RUTH STANDIFER Home Economics Tallulah Ruston Delhi Forest 118 OF 1957 First Row LARRY ROGER STANLEY Minden Mechanical Engineering GEORGE LAWRENCE STEPHENS Monroe Chemical Engineering NELDA RAYE STEVENS El Dorado, Ark. Home Economics JANE STEWART Tallulah Business Education Second Row WILLIAM LUTHER STEWART, II Alexandria Civil Engineering LINDA FAYE STILES Logansport Home Economics LAWRENCE EDWIN STRAHAN Natchez, Miss. 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Jacksonville Mechanical Engineering CURRY LEWIS THOMAS Shreveport Electrical Engineering JAMES LEE THOMAS St. Bernard Petroleum Engineering HARRY W. THOMPSON Doyline Music 119 FRESHMEN First Row JOHN RICHARD THOMPSON Shreveport Mechanical Engineering DONALD ROY THORNTON Columbia Commercial Art BOBBY GLEN TILL Bernice Animal Husbandry DOROTHY SUE TILL Pollock Academic Second Row NELSON TILTON Elizabeth Academic HELEN MARIE TODD Alexandria General Business SHIRLEY JEAN TOLAND Bossier City Journalism JOHN D. TOLAR Jonesboro Engineering Third Row CURTIS L. TUBBS Dubach Forestry HUGH EDWARD TUBBS Bernice Petroleum Engineering ROBERT D. TUBBS Bernice Academic WAYNE TUBBS Bernice Medical Technology Fourth Row JEFFREY LYNN TUCKER Minden Geological Engineering PATTY SUE TUCKER Farmerville Secretarial Science PATRICIA MAY TUDOR Jonesboro Elementary Education JO ANN TULLOS Eudora, Ark. Business Education Fifth Row MARY ALICE TURBEVILLE Shreveport Home Economics WILLIAM BOWDEN TURNAGE El Dorado, Ark. Engineering KAYE LYNNE TURNER Monroe Accounting SANDRA JANICE TURNER Sibley English Sixth Row BILLY JOE TUTEN Farmerville Chemical Engineering FRANKIE L. TYNER Marion Accounting CAROL JUANITA ULMER St. Joseph Secretarial Science JIMMIE VASCOE Shreveport Chemical Engineering Seventh Row CHARLES ROGER VAUGHN Collinston Business Administration LEON JOSEPH VESSIER Franklinton Mechanical Engineering JOAN VINES Winnsboro Mathematics MARTHA ELIZABETH VINES Hodge Social Science Education 120 0 F 1 9 First Row JAMES DAVID VOLENTINE Academic BETTY JEAN WALL Pre-Medicine LYN WALL Journalism MEREDITH GLEN WALSWORTH Academic Minden Tallulah Winnsboro Hodge Second Row SAMUEL DAVID WALSWORTH Business Administration BARBARA ANN WARD Junction City, Ark. Music Education ROBERT L. WARD Accounting WELBY GAYLE WARD Mathematics Education Jonesboro Shreveport Spearsville Third Row WANDA SUE WASHINGTON Secretarial Science NIMMIE EDWARD WASSON Engineering WINIFRED WATKINS Home Economics EARL CLINTON WATSON Physical Education Haynesville Summerfield Ruston Jonesboro Fourth Row HOWARD MILLER WATSON Chemical Engineering LINDA WATSON Elementary Education PAT WATSON Electrical Engineering THOMAS GERALD WATTS Civil Engineering Crowville Alexandria Minden Shreveport Fifth Row MELBA GENE WEAVER Education JOHNNIE MAE WEBB Academic AMA ROSE WEBBER Minden St. Joseph Alexandria Speech and English Education VAT JEAN WECKEL Salina, Kan. Secretarial Science Sixth Row ELIZABETH JANE WEINGART Speech IRVIN DEWAYNE WELDON Electrical Engineering JOHN B. WELLS Mechanical Engineering ROBERT LOUIS WELLS Academic Hamilton, Ill. Mt. Carmel Lecompte Alexandria Seventh Row LEONA ELIZABETH WEMPLE Ruston Secretarial Science SHARON GALE WESSON Ruston Elementary and Secondary Education SAMUEL DON WESTON Sicily Island Pre-Veterinarian FLOYD WARREN WHITE Smackover, Ark. Petroleum Engineering 121 FRESHMEN First Row JAMES CARLTON WHITE Geological Engineering SALLY LOU WHITE Medical Technology ELIZABETH COLLEEN WHITTEN Art Education PATRICIA ILENE WHITTEN Elementary Education Second Row RAYMOND W. WICKARD, JR. Chemical Engineering NANCY ELLEN WIGGERS Academic JOHN DALE WILDER Electrical Engineering REBA E. WILEY Elementary Education Third Row DAVID GLENN WILKINS Engineering JIM EARL WILKINSON Geology IRMA ELAINE WILLETT Home Economics DON ALLEN WILLIAMS Music Education Farmerville Calhoun Pollock Pollock Shreveport Dubach Jena Shongaloo Rodessa Shreveport Ruston Jonesboro Fourth Row HARRY BYRON WILLIAMS Mechanical Engineering JAMES MURRIEL WILLIAMS Engineering JAMES ROBERT WILLIAMS Electrical Engineering JANE OVERTON WILLIAMS Business Education Shreveport Arcadia West Monroe Monroe Fifth Row ROBERT W. WILLIAMS Agriculture STONEY WILLIAMSON Pre-Me dicine NORMA MAE WILSON Physical Education KENNETH RALPH WINBERRY Forestry Greenwood Tallulah Bossier City Urania Sixth Row TOMMY EDWARD WIXSON Tallulah Forestry JIM HONG WONG El Dorado, Ark. Chemical Engineering JERRY DAN WOODALL Bossier City Mechanical Engineering MARSHALL LESLIE WOODARD Arcadia Sociology Seventh Row ROBERT LAWRENCE WOODS North Chicago, Ill. Electrical Engineering RONALD JAMES WOODWARD Worden, Ill. Mechanical Engineering SANDRA NELL WOODWARD Secretarial Science HAROLD STANLEY WORSHAM Electrical Engineering Ruston Winnfield l 122 OF 1957 First Row RICHARD EDWIN YANCY Electrical Engineering JIMMY MAISH YEAGER Geology BILLY HAROLD YOUNG Civil Engineering DWIGHT NICHOLAS YOUNG Pre-V eterinarian Natchitoches Shreveport Shreveport Grand Cane Second Row SHERMAN LEE YOUNG Engineering STEVE LOWREY YOUNG Mathematics Education RONNIE YOUNGBLOOD Petroleum Engineering FINNIS LYMON ZAPPA Social Science Vivian Lisbon Benton Athens Third Row WILEY RICHARD ZUBER Academic Jonesboro f Presentation of Miss Ann McCaleb, the Freshman Sweetheart, and her court at the Valentine Ball held by the freshman class. 123 FEATURES J liss yVlc aleb FAVORITE FAVORITE Jtyliss Uirgima FAVORITE JHiss yVtaygaret J elle C3 ollins FAVORITE Nancy Lee Rose of Delta Sigma Pi QUEENS Ann McCaleb Freshman Sweetheart Anne Laffitte State Fair Queen Military Ball Queen Carolyn Capps Forestry Queen Shirley Boyer Homecoming Queen TOM BASS WHO’S WHO TOM BASS—Honor Freshman; Vice-president, Westminister Fellowship; Interfraternity Council; President, Song Director, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraterni¬ ty; Justice, Honor Court; Intramural Sports; Chris¬ tian Service Association BETFl DAWKINS—Sigma Kappa Sorority; Panhellenic Council; Philharmonic Society; Pub- licity Chairman, Women’s League Board; Alpha Tau Delta; Freshman Adviser; Honor Freshman; Treasurer, Freshman Class; Secretary, Senior Class; Blue Jackets; Phi Kappa Phi BETH DAWKINS PAT FLEMING—Parliamentarian, Kappa Delta Sorority; Blue Jackets; Publicity Chairman, Secretary, Student Union; Alpha Tau Delta; Honor Council, Sophomore Hall HOLLIS FULTON-Honor Freshman; Men’s Glee Club; President, Vice-president, Band; Presi¬ dent, Choir; Orchestra; President, Vice-president, Philharmonic Society; Vice-president, Music Edu¬ cators National Conference; Leader, Business Man¬ ager, Debonnaires; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa LAMAR BUFFINGTON-President, Pi Kap¬ pa Alpha Fraternity; Vice-president, President, Del¬ ta Sigma Pi; Vice-president, President, Interfraterni¬ ty Council PAT FLEMING HOLLIS FULTON LAMAR BUFFINGTON JEANNE MACK CHARLES CONNAUGHTON r SALLY GREER—Registrar, First Vice-presi¬ dent, Second Vice-president, President, Sigma Kap¬ pa Sorority; Honor Freshman; Sponsor, ROTC; Homecoming Court; Military Ball Court; Alpha Tau Delta CHARLES CONNAUGHTON-Vice - presi¬ dent, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Vice-president, Phi Kappa Phi; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Gamma Epsi¬ lon; Honor Court; Arnold Air Society; Student Senate; Outstanding Freshman Engineer; Outstand¬ ing Freshman Boy; Drill Team, ROTC; Intramural Sports; President, Petroleum Club; American Insti¬ tute of Mining, Metalurgical and Petroleum Engi¬ neers JEANNE MACK—President, Vice-president, Women’s League Board; President, Sophomore Hall; Treasurer, Harper Hall; Vice-president, Sec¬ retary, Blue Jackets; Secretary, Westminister Fellow¬ ship; Theater Players; Band O’Glee ROLAND ROBERTSON-President, Student Senate; Vice-president, Student Union; Secretary, Honorary Physics Society; Omicron Delta Kappa; “T” Club; Varsity Track PATRICK HINTON—“T” Club; Varsity Track; Tri-Captain, Varsity Football ROLAND ROBERTSON PAT HINTON 137 RICHARD MEEK LILLIAN RODDY WHO’S WHO RICHARD MEEK-President, Lambda Chi Al¬ pha Fraternity; Interfraternity Council; President, Christian Service Association; President, Wesley Foundation; Freshman Basketball; Intramural Sports LILLIAN RODDY—Secretary, Newman Club; Honor Council, Sophomore Hall; Vice-president, Blue Jackets; Women’s League Board; President, Adams Hall; Future Teachers of America BARBARA EMMONS—Outstanding Pledge, Education Director, Phi Mu Sorority; Treasurer, IAWS Representative, Women’s League Board; Secretary, Sophomore Class; Blue Jackets; Pi Kappa Delta; Future Teachers of America; President, Pan- hellenic Council; Baptist Student Union CURTIS JAMES—Vice-president, Rush Chair¬ man, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; Freshman Ad¬ viser; President, Engineers’ Association; Arnold Air Society; Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Mechan¬ ical Engineers; Officer, ROTC; Intramural Sports WALTER STAGG, JR.—Tau Kappa Epsilon Fra¬ ternity; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi; Color Guard, Drill Team, Officer, ROTC; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Intramural Sports BARBARA EMMONS CURTIS JAMES WALTER STAGG, JR suit MIKE CAGE A. L. WILLIAMS A. L. WILLIAMS—Tri-Captain, Varsity Foot¬ ball; Varsity Track; President, “T” Club; Freshman Rules Committee; Intramural Sports MIKE CAGE—President, Sophomore Class; Student Senate; Student Federation of Louisiana Colleges and Universities; President, Intrafraternity Council; Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Intramural Sports; Honor Court JACK SALLEY—President, Student Union; Llonor Freshman; Student Senate; President, Jun¬ ior Class; Second Vice-president, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Chairman, Freshman Rules Committee; Dean’s Discipline Committee; Tau Beta Pi; Amer¬ ican Institute of Chemical Engineers; Intramural Sports; Arnold Air Society; Vice-president, Omi- cron Delta Kappa; President; Interfraternity Coun¬ cil; Officer, ROTC; Engineers’ Association PATSY MAYFIELD—Secretary, Treasurer, Sig¬ ma Kappa Sorority; Treasurer, Adams Hall; Treas¬ urer, Campus Women’s Council; Secretary, Alpha Tau Delta; Secretary, Accounting Club; Secretary, Beta Alpha Psi; President, Blue Jackets; Honor Freshman; President, Harper Hall; Second Vice- president, Business Students’ Association MARWAN MAZHAR-Student Senate; Treas¬ urer, Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Civil Engi¬ neers GILES LANEY LEU STRANGE WHO’S WHO GILES LANEY—Sigma Gamma Epsilon; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi; Intramural Sports LEU STRANGE—Best Pledge, President, Phi Mu Sorority; President, Women’s Recreation Asso¬ ciation; Cheerleader; Secretary, Student Senate; Council, Wesley Foundation; Home Economics Club; Helen Graham Home Economics Award; Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Outstanding Sophomore Woman Award; Phi Kappa Phi; Alpha Tau Delta; Photo Club; Homecoming Court; State Fair Court; “Miss Louisiana Tech”; Band O’Glee; Military Ball Court RUSSELL RAINBOLT—Varsity Track; Treas¬ urer, President, Omicron Delta Kappa; Secretary, Vice-president, Physics Honor Society; Honor Fresh¬ man; All-GSC, NAIA All-American, Captain, Var¬ sity Football; Intramural Sports DOROTHY ETTA GOFF-President, Vice- president, Alpha Chi Omega; Vice-president, Pan- hellenic Council; Blue Jackets; Alpha Tau Delta; Phi Kappa Phi; Tech Theater Players; Modern Dance Club; Honor Freshman; Lagmappe Beauty PAUL ODUM—President, Social Chairman, Kappa Alpha Order; Student Union; Student Sen¬ ate; Accounting Club; Interfraternity Council RUSSELL RAINBOLT DOROTHY ETTA GOFF PAUL ODUM MARVIN STEVENS SARA LYNN WARE CONNELL KEN FOUNTAIN MARVIN STEVENS—President, Interfraterni¬ ty Council; Alumni Secretary, Rush Chairman, Vice-president, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; Presi¬ dent, Pi Kappa Delta; Wesley Foundation; Chief Justice, Honor Court; Honor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Omicron Delta Kappa SARA LYNN WARE CONNELL-Honor Council, Harper Hall; Lagniappe Beauty; Panhel- lenic Council; State Fair Court; Blue Jackets; Wes¬ ley Foundation; Pledge Director, President, Phi Mu Sorority KENNETH FOUNTAIN-Varsity Football; “T” Club; Tau Beta Pi; American Society of Me¬ chanical Engineers; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Engineers’ Association ROGER GALATAS—President, Vice-presi¬ dent, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Geology Club; Sig¬ ma Gamma Epsilon; Varsity Baseball; Student Un¬ ion; ROTC; Interfraternity Council; Freshman Rules Committee JOHN MALMAY—Freshman Adviser; Fresh¬ man Rules Committee; Student Union; Student Senate; Newman Club; Social Chairman, Vice-presi¬ dent, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; Pre-Law Club; President, Senior Class; Intramural Sports RALPH McMICKLE—H onor Freshman; Freshman Adviser; Treasurer, Omicron Delta Kap¬ pa; Tau Beta Pi; Arnold Air Society; Officer, ROTC; Drum Major, ROTC Band; Drum Major, Band; Interfraternity Council; American Society of Chemical Engineers; Business and Circulation Man¬ ager, Tech Engineer; Vice-president, Engineers’ As¬ sociation; Treasurer, Lambda Chi Alpha Frater¬ nity; Intramural Sports ROGER GALATAS JOHN MALMAY RALPH McMICKLE OH, THE SHAME OF IT DON ' T FENCE ME IN, PARDNA I f£ YE OLDE CAPPING CEREMONY I FOUND A PEANUT THE BALL GAME ' S THAT-A-WAY °°000 H I JUST HAVE A FEW WORDS TO SAY (HA) ANOTHER ELVIS ROUND THE WORLD IN ONE PICTURE Wmmmm . WHAT ' S UNDER THE SACK? JH? ■PHI movie ROUND UP TIME AGAIN MINNIE HA HA, YET AND THEN I SAYS, NOW LOOK HERE, COACH . . . HER MAJESTY, MISS SHIRLEY BOYER h °meco 1 FIRST-PLACE FLOAT BY SIGMA KAPPA Bu UDQg second THE SIG ' S SKUNK ' EM TOOK THIRD ELGART MUSIC CHRISTMAS RECEPTION AT PRESIDENT ' S HOME INVITING, ISN ' T IT? I on the WHERE ARE THE PRESENTS? PRESIDENT ROPP ' S YULETIDE MESSAGE DINING BY CANDLELIGHT TAU KAPPA EPSILON ■I WON SECOND PLACE WITH SINNERMAN ? aE TH G ‘ tOOK WESLEY ' S SKIT THIRD PLACE WENT TO KAPPA DELTA FOR THE CURSE ON BIGI SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY IN O! ANGOLA MEMORIES OF THE CIRCUS BROUGHT BACK BY LAMBDA CHI ALPHA ROCK ' N ' ROLL BY KAPPA SIGMA DISCOVER AMm - CALYPSO, THE THEME OF THETA U ' S STUNT ALPHA THE THETA XI ' S REWRITE WELL-WORN PLOTS TiCK.£T ? WHAT HIT ME? WE BEAT ' EM THAT NIGHT THE THINGS THAT I ' VE LEARNED FROM SAILORS THEN THIS REDHEAD TURNS AROUND WlLK NB WcgK C i TECH VICTORY BELL-A NEW THING GO, MAN, GO NOW FOR OUR BEDTIME STORY AND THERE WE SAT - POSING FOR THE CAMERA LOOK, HE ' S GOT A DEMON ' S NOSE m GERRY LAT HA M AN D LUCKY MISS AMERICA (I fill’! m. SOME OF THEM NEVER GROW UP OH SOL O MEOW! G AM PS - e MONa a yq N e? DEAR JOHN WILD SWIMMING PARTY SLEEPING BEAUTY ACTIVITIES Seated left to right ' . John Malmay, Sue Sneed, Marwan Mazhar, James Honeycutt, Pat Ruple, Roland Robertson, Nancy Lee, Ed Bitar, Barbara Toole, W. J. Haddad, Jo Jordan. Standing : Walt Ryland, Wallace Anthony, Field Montgomery, John Hol- stead, Charles Garris, L. J. Fox, Jack Salley. THE STUDENT SENATE Roland Robertson President The Student Senate of Louisiana Tech is the official governing body on the campus. Executive powers of the Student Body Association, of which all Tech students are members, is vested in the Stu¬ dent Senate. Members of the Senate are elected each spring in a campus election. The Student Body Association was organized dur¬ ing the 1937-38 session to “secure a better school spirit, to promote worthy projects in the interest of the whole student body, and to promote general student activi¬ ties.” This year the Student Senate served as host for the State Fair luncheon, planned the Homecoming Parade, sponsored a loan service, directed the orienta¬ tion program for freshman boys, sponsored a student insurance program, and a job clinic. As new activi¬ ties, the Senate revived the teacher evaluation pro¬ gram, placed suggestion boxes on the campus for the use of the students, encouraged better elections through establishment of political parties, and work¬ ed on new ideas for electing students to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. OFFICERS Roland Robertson _____ President Ed Bitar - First Vice-president Pat Ruple - Second Vice-president Nancy Lee -__- Secretary James Honeycutt - Treasurer L. J. Fox _ --- Adviser MEMBERS Wallace Anthony _ Editor of the Tech Talk Charles Garris - Freshman Representative W. J. Haddad - Junior Representative John Holstead - Freshman CAass President Jo Jordan - Junior Representative John Malmay __ Senior CAass President Marwan Mazhar _ Senior Representative Field Montgomery _ Sophomore Class President Barbara Poole - Senior Representative Walt Ryland ___ Sophomore Representative Jack Salley - Junior Class President Sue Sneed - Sophomore Representative Marwan shows a voter how to operate the machines used at Senate elections. Top Row: Ed Bitar, First Vice-president; Pat Ruple, Second Vice-president. Bottom Roic: Nancy Lee, Secretary; James Hon¬ eycutt, Treasurer. A senior buys the all-important ring from Roland. 159 Scene from the Campus Carnival sponsored each October. Martha Albritton President THE STUDENT UNION OFFICERS Martha Albritton_ President Roland Robertson _ Vice-president Pat Fleming_ Secretary Joe Maxwell _ Treasurer Max McDonald_ Publicity Chairman Top toil : Roland Robertson, Vice-president; Pat Fleming, Sec¬ retary. Bottom row: Joe Maxwell, Treasurer; Max McDonald, Publicity Chairman. The Louisiana Tech Student Union is an organi¬ zation composed of one representative from each so¬ rority and each fraternity, and six independent repre¬ sentatives. It is a service organization and has helped develop a well rounded program of activities for the entertainment of the student body. During the 1956-57 term the group sponsored the annual Halloween Carnival, in which all the Greek organizations entered booths featuring everything from a house of horrors to cake walks; the Christmas formal with music by Les Elgart’s band; the Christ¬ mas candlelighting service; a banquet honoring fresh¬ men who have a “B” average for the fall semester; Stunt Night, a popular program during the long stretch without holidays; dances after football games; practice dances on Tuesday nights with music by the Debonnaires; and the spring formal featuring the music of Harry James. First row : Carolyn Barnes, Neal Eldridge. Second row : Joe Fogle, Evelyn Gibson. Third row : Nancy Heard, Charlotte Kilgore. Fourth row : John Malmay, Fay Reardon. Fifth row: Jack Salley, David Tauber. Sixth row: Shirley Toland, Lucy Winham. Not Shown: Bill deGraffenreid. President Jack Salley presents Stunt Night awards to Mary Ann Gorton, Phi Mu, first place; Norman Richardson, Tau Kappa Ep¬ silon, second; and Nancy Lee, Kappa Delta, third. Practice dances sponsored every Tuesday by the Student Union provide entertainment for Tech- sters. 161 The new Board is installed at Freshman activities are just one phase of the annual service held in May. work for the Women ' s League Board. THE WOMEN’S LEAGUE Coeds admire display of life for a Tech Activities for Women ' s League girl put up on Women ' s League Day. Day featured a skit on campus life. 162 The Women’s League, composed of all regularly enrolled women students at Tech, was organized in 1939 with the purpose of discovering problems among women students in regard to living conditions, social life and scholastic standing, and seeking solutions to these problems. This organization, the largest on the campus, is a member of the national Intercollegiate Association of Women Students. On campus, various activities during the year are sponsored under the direction of the executive board, elected by women stu¬ dents in the spring. At the opening of school the Women’s League conducts the freshman advisor program for freshman women, the capping ceremony, and pajama party. They publish the Tech stu¬ dent directory, sponsor Mothers’ Week-end, all-campus discussion groups, and scholastic competition among dorms. Second semester activities include an assembly for the election of new officers and a style show, sending delegates to the national convention held this year in Lansing, Michigan, selecting advisors for next year’s fresh¬ man women, presenting the outstanding Sophomore Girl Award, giv¬ ing a picnic for drive-in and town students, sponsoring Sing Week, and installing the new officers. T , r i ° Jeanne Mack President THE BOARD: seated left to right: Lillian Roddy, president of Adams Hall; Gail Wesson, presi¬ dent of Harper Hall; Myra Ann Moore, treasurer; Martha Gillen, vice-president; Jeanne Mack, president; Billie Lester, president of Sophomore Hall. Standing: Mary Jon Jefcoat, drive-in girls’ representative; Lissa Riper, publicity director; Joan Blondin, town girls’ representative; Barbara Emmons, IAWS representative; Miss Martha Condra, adviser; Mary Jo Ware, recording secre¬ tary; Margaret Ann Jenkins, president of Aswell Hall; Ladye McCaa, corresponding secretary. 163 Officers of the CWC plan for the Christmas pajama party spon¬ sored each year by the organization. CAMPUS WOMEN’S COUNCIL I Some of the girls ivork on May Day breakfast plans. wm A iS ' 1 r A OFFICERS Thelma Jane McKinney _ President Lilah Rabun - Vice-president Camille Clark - Secretary Peggy Hitesman - Treasurer Betty Hoye Betty Norris -- Social Chairmen Sylvia Goss - Publicity Chairman First row: Carolyn Boyce, Camille Clark, Mary Jane Cobb, Betty Dubberly, Faye Goodwin, Sylvia Goss, Harriette Haley. Second row : Peggy Hitesman, Betty Hoye, Lucy Ann Jackson, Ann Jones, Myra Ann Moore, Betty Norris, Monta Sue Phillips. Third row: Lilah Rabun, June Rid¬ dick, Peggy Roberts, Billie Ann Ruple, Marion Shaner, Delores Ann Watts, Lael White. The purpose of the Campus Women’s Council is to unite the governing bodies of the four women’s dormitories so that problems may be worked out to¬ gether. The organization is composed of officers of each dormitory. Each year the CWC publishes a booklet “To Do and Not To Do’’ which includes all dorm rules, and all new women students are given a test on the booklet. Other annual projects are: Mother’s Weekend Cof¬ fee, Christmas Pajama Party, and the May Day Break¬ fast. Thelma Jane McKinney President Officers for the Blue Jackets for this year were Jeanne Mack, secre¬ tary; Lillian Roddy, vice-president; Patsy Mayfield, president; Gret- chen Kovac, publicity chairman; and Mamie Kovac, treasurer. THE BLUE JACKETS Blue Jackets perform in the half-time shoiv at Homecoming . Composed of 83 coeds, the Blue Jackets include 11 girls from each sorority and 17 independents. Requirements for membership include sportsmanship, scholarship, and loyalty to the school. The purposes of this organization are to promote sportsmanship in all athletic events, to pro¬ mote college spirit on the campus, to promote close co¬ operation between students and faculty, and to act as a welcoming committee to all visiting athletic teams and their supporters. This year the Blue Jackets attended football games, basketball games, and served as official hostesses for campus activities. Enthusiastic Blue Jackets keep the pep up at basketball games. 166 First row : Anita Adcock, Betiye Aycock, Carolyn Barnes, Lynn Bagley, Marlene Booth, Toni Burton, Camille Clark, Marsha Kay Clinton, Mary Jane Conley, Virginia Ann Crowley, Betty Jo deYampert, Betty Dubberly. Second row : Adaire Eberhard, Joe Marie Ellett, Martha Gillen, Dorothy Etta Goff, Fern Griffin, Alvern Hartwig, Ann Harper, Sue Hayden, Betty Hoye, Jimmie Ruth Hunter, Lucy Ann Jackson, Margaret Ann Jenkins. Third row : Becky Jones, La Rue Jordan, Lucy Joyner, Gretchen Kovac, Mamie Kovac, Emily Langford, Nancy Lee, Mary Ann Lowe, Thelma Jane McKinney, Nancy McWilliams, Jeanne Mack, Janet Mahaffey. Fifth row : June Riddick, Harvey Ann Roberts, Peggy Roberts, ler, Shirley Owens, Monta Sue Phillips, Paula Pittman, Frances Platt, Barbara Poole, Sue Poulan, Lilah Rabun, Jo Anne Rear- den, Vicky Reed. , Fifth row: June Ridick, Harvey Ann Roberts, Peggy Roberts, Lillian Roddy, Rosalind Roden, Pat Ruple, Eva Jeanne Shirley, Glenda Simpson, Harriet Smith, Patricia Smith, Sarah Sneed, Sue Sneed. Sixth row : Mary Elizabeth Stewart, Patti Jane Strother, Harol Lynn Turner, Lane Wells, Betty White, Lynelle Widick, Van- elle Widick, Lora Willis, Jimmie Willett, Lucy Winham, Jo Womack, Julie Wooley, Martha Zumwalt. 167 TECH BAND — MEMBERS Seated: Rebecca Bird Ralph McMickle Gloria Hester Elmo Gentry Virginia Stephenson Annice Rayfield Roy Stedman Miller Elliott Louie Dubois Bill Abernethy Tommy Shively Randall Barron Jennings Woodard Carroll Head Andrea Meek John Woolridge Jimmy Brown Standing : Willie Morse Dhale Fulton Beverly Sanders Glenn Cobb George Skinner Joe Richardson Ralph Feazel Gail Pearson Robbie Johnson Betty Wall Hampton Bussey Joe Sheppard Betty Weingart Shelby Pugh Allen Lewis Larry Ingram Snappy majorettes for this year were Gail Pearson, Betty Wall, Patsy Lemoine Taylor, Annice Rayfield, and Shelby Jean Pugh. The Louisiana Tech band is composed of students majoring in music and others who are interested in music. The band is under the direction of Joe Shep¬ pard. For the second consecutive year, the band march¬ ed in the Mardi Gras Rex parade and presented con¬ certs throughout the trip at various high schools. Other activities of the organization included attend¬ ing football games, presenting half time shows, at¬ tending basketball games, and attending rallies. Officers of the band are: Tommy Shively, presi¬ dent; John Wooldridge, vice-president; Jimmy Joyner, Glenn Gobb, Randall Barron, advisory board; and Ralph McMickle, drum major. The band rehearses for the trip to Mardi Gras. The percussion section. 169 Wallace Anthony Editor Norman Richardson Advertising Manager TECH TALK Established in 1927 as a student weekly, the Tech Talk is published every Thursday afternoon during the year by the Journalism Department and is pr inted in the college print shop. Students majoring or minor- ing in journalism make up the staff, with faculty assistance by Kenneth F. Hewins. Reporters for the fall semester were Marilyn Coil, Lilali Rabun, James Dugan, Lora Willis. Not shown is A1 Cathey. 170 Emily Langford Lilah Rabun Ed Shearer Society Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor The paper serves a twofold purpose: to give journalism students practical experience in newspaper work and to present coverage of campus activities to the readers. Circulation at the college includes students, faculty and staff members. The paper goes by mail to alumni, high schools of the state, and others interested in Tech. Work on an issue of the Tech Talk begins on Monday morning. News sources include each of the six schools on the campus, student government, social activities, sports events, and organizations. Staff mem¬ bers get practice in news writing, editorial writing, feature writing, sports writing, copy reading, head¬ line writing, proof reading, and layout. Spring semester reporters on the paper were Lilah Rabun. James Dugan, Ed Shearer, Wallace Anthony, and Lawrence Benefield. Not shown are Lyn Wall and Wiley Post. 171 Lora Willis Editor THE 1957 LAGNIAPPE Ed Shearer Sports Editor The Lagniappe, Tech’s yearbook, is published an¬ nually by students who are interested in working on the book. They are not necessarily journalism majors or minors. Work begins in September and continues until May when the book is published. Experience for the supervision of school publications and other phases of journalism is gained by working on the annual. Staff members are selected by the editor and assistant editor at the beginning of school from stu¬ dents who have had experience on working with an¬ nuals or those who show interest, ability, and willing¬ ness to work. 172 Activity editor and organization editor are Betty An¬ ders and Mary Alice Insley, respectively. Editorial assistants, Gaynell Robinson and Lilah Ra¬ bun, work with snapshot editor, Louis Boudreaux. Pictures for the annual are supplied by the college photographer, Mrs. Laura Higgins, who operates the studio on the campus along with student helpers who are employed to help her. The faculty adviser for the annual is Kenneth F. Hewins, head of the Journalism Department. Studio workers that supply pictures for the annual are Rich¬ ard Raus, Jean Shaw, Mrs. Laura Higgins, Ken Nichols, and John Barham. 173 THE TECH ENGINEER The entire staff has a meeting to plan layout for monthly publi¬ cation. Editor Barber proofs material for the magazine. Tivo editorial assistants check material on file. 174 John Barber Editor The Tech Engineer is a magazine published in November, January, March, and May by the students and faculty of the School of Engineering. Having fulfilled entrance requirements of En¬ gineering College Magazines Associated, an organi¬ zation of engineering college publications, the Tech Engineer was granted full membership into the group in 1955. The aims of the association are to standard¬ ize size and format, to simplify the soliciting and dis¬ tributing of national advertising, and to promote the improvement of engineering journalism. The staff is composed of engineering students interested in technical journalism. Each member is responsible for a certain portion or phase of the publication. The staff members are chosen by the editor and faculty advisers and their service is volun¬ tary. Staff members work hard to meet deadline. First row: Steward Baggarly, Wade R. Baggette, Earl Carlyon. Second row: J. G. Chumley, Charles Lott, Ralph Wayne McMickle. Third row: Robert Floyd Mil¬ ler, Thomas Edward Pelt, Herman I. Ratcliff, Jr. Fourth roiv: James Roach, Edward Roberts, Daniel L. Wigley. Not shown: John Gullatt and Dr. G. H. Pan- ula. 175 First Row : Tom Bass, Mike Cage, Charles Connaughton, Brodie Green, Linda Hen¬ derson. Second row : Charles Gouaux, Betty Hoye, Sarah Sneed, James Standford. THE HONOR COURT The Honor Court consists of eleven members. These justices, who must have acquired junior status, are elected by the Student Sen¬ ate and serve on the Court until they graduate. The Court is now in its seventh year at Tech. The purpose of the organization is “to promote higher standards of citizenship on the campus, to maintain a code of honor among students, and to administer justice through a student judiciary.” Students who have violated college rules and regulations are brought before the Honor Court and tried. The procedure is some¬ thing like that of a legal court room. Officers are Marvin Stevens, chief justice; Betty Hoye, chief clerk of court; Mike Cage, assistant clerk of court; Brodie Green, prosecuting attorney; and Paul McLean, assistant prosecuting attorney. Marvin Stevens Chief Justice 176 The purpose of the Women’s Recreation Association is “to further athletic interests and activities for women according to the highest and soundest standards of sports and recreation.” The organization is composed of representatives of each sorority, dormitory, and religious organization on the campus. The WRA sets up rules and regulations governing women’s in¬ tramurals on Tech campus. Each spring on Honors Day, an award is presented by the Women’s Recreation Association to that group which totals the greatest number of points in volleyball, basketball, softball, bad¬ minton, and table tennis during the year. Officers are Julie Wooley, president; Kata Ray Lusk, vice-presi¬ dent; Betty White, secretary; Harvey Ann Roberts, treasurer; and Mary Ann Lowe, reporter. Julie Wooley President WOMEN’S RECREATION ASSOCIATION First row: Shirley Billingsly, Virginia Buckner, Betty Carpenter, Viva Hancock, Dorothy Humble, Ann Jones, Susan Knause. Second row : Mary Ann Lowe, Kata Ray Lusk, Elizabeth McClanahan, Patricia McConnell, Jan McLane, Ina Ray McClung, Charlie Sue Monroe. Third row: Janie O’Neal, Harvey Ann Roberts, Rebecca Up¬ shaw, Jonnie Webb, Betty White, Lynelle Widick. Not shoivn: Jane Bankston, Mary Davis, Florence Frinsby, Bonnie Reed. 177 First row : Dot Hunt, Jo Anne Reardon, Dorothy Etta Goff, Betty Weingart. Second row: Connie DeBoe, Vaundeleath Jackson, Florence Frisby, Jackie Martin, Arthur W. Stone. Third row: Charles Frankie, Don Barney, Gordon Robertson, Virginia Russell, Evelyn Gibson, James Lyon. THEATRE PLAYERS Dot Hunt President The Tech Theatre Players, an extra-curricula dramatic group, was organized in 1936 by Miss Vera Alice Paul, with the purpose of providing entertainment for the campus and community. In this organization, students are afforded an opportunity to act and to engage in many other activities essential to the production of a play — make-up, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and business transactions. Some productions of the organization this year were “Shadow of the Cathedral,” “Volpone,” and “Chalk Garden”. Officers are Dorothy Jo Hunt, president; Dorothy Etta Goff, vice-president; Jo Anne Reardon, secretary; Gary Young, treasurer; Theresa McMichael, publicity chairman; and Betty Wiengart, parlia¬ mentarian. Arthur Stone, dramatics head, directs the plays. 178 Any student who has attended one of Tech’s weekly practice dances on Tuesday nights is familiar with the Debonnaires. An independent orchestra, the group has been providing music for campus and com¬ munity activities since 1946. The sound of their jazz, fox trots, and rhumbas has become well known since their organization. This year, the Debonnaires have journeyed to Barksdale Air Force Base to play for the Officers’ Club three times, to the Opelousas Country Club, Monroe, and Alexandria. The ten members of the orchestra are headed by A1 Cathey. i ■ Scene from the weekly practice dances for which the Debonnaires play. THE DEBONNAIRES Left to right: Harlon Humphries, Ralph Feazel, Tommy Cam- ella, Joe Baughman, Fred Westergaard, John Wooldridge, Robert Speed, A1 Cathey, Burt McDuff, Bill Allison. i 179 Wing Staff members are: First row : Col. Walter Stagg, Col. Mary Virginia Stovall, Maj. Howard Carlton, Maj. Leroy Er- skin, Maj. Billy Kline. Second row : Lt. Col. Don Stacey, Maj. Wilford Buckelew, Maj. Fred Westergaard, Maj. Victor Gouaux, Maj. James Roach. Third row: Maj. Ralph McMickle, M Sgt. Bill McRaney, Cadet Second Class Ernest McNeil, M Sgt. Ernest Schuler, M Sgt. Richard Hearne. AIR FORCE R. 0. T. C. Group I is composed of Lt. Col. Charles Connaughton, Maj. Ken Fountain, M Sgt. Doug Robertson, Lt. Col. Joan Morris, Capt. Harry Farrar. Group II members are Mjr. Perry Watson, Lt. Col. Curtis James, M Sgt. Andre Boutee, Capt, Roger Galatas, Lt. Col. Rosemary Cornish. 180 The Reserve Officer’s Training Course of Lou¬ isiana Tech has fast become one of the outstanding units in the south since its establishment in 1949. Students volunteer for a four-year program which is divided into two parts, basic and advanced. Graduates of the AFROTC are commissioned second lieutenants. SQUADRON “A” - Cadet Second Class Donald Thornton, Maj. Jake Humble, Capt. Massey Valentin, Maj. Betty DeLoach, Lt. Charles Wolfe. SQUADRON “B” - S Sgt. R. F. Westbrook, Capt. Gerald Nor- der, Maj. Gorden Cloutier, Lt. Oscar Pickles, Maj. Virginia Hiemenz. SQUADRON “C” - S Sgt. Donald Jenkins, Maj. Jim Ander¬ son, Capt. Tommy Davis, Lt. Maj. Virginia Henslee, Lt. Wayne Wright. The cadet corps, supervised by a staff of com¬ missioned officers and regular airmen is organized as a wing, and consists of two groups, each of which includes three squadrons, and the band and drill team. During the past year the Rifle Team participated in area matches in El Paso and Baton Rouge, and the Drill Team and Band marched in the Mardi Gras parades and participated in halftime activities at basketball games. The AFROTC is responsible for raising and lowering the flag in front of Keeny Flail each day, and the Color Guard raised and lowered the flag at all football games. The course is designed to “fulfill required acad¬ emic standards in order that cadets may receive credit in proportion to their academic load; to provide that fundamental training, both personal and professional which will best fit the cadet to become a well rounded junior Air Force officer possessing a high growth potential.” SQUADRON STAFFS SQUADRON “D” - S Sgt. Bill deGraffenreid, Capt. David Tawater, Maj. Bobby Miller, Lt. James Dunn, Maj. Carolyn Capps. SQUADRON “E” — S Sgt. Bobby King, Maj. Cecil Forrest, Capt. Cylde Todd, Maj. Barbara Loe. SQUADRON “F” — S Sgt. Thomas DuBell, Maj. Lamar Posey, Capt. Jay Starnes, Maj. Anne Laffitte, and Lt. Charles Wilson. 181 The AFROTC Color Guard. The Colonel and his staff from left to right are Col. Harry Atkinson. Capt. L. L. Dorris, Capt. Dale H. Gleason, Capt. Louis S. Harp, Maj. Doak S. Campbell, Jr. Drill Team officers are Lt. Walter Owens, Maj. Eddie Roberts, Lt. John Edwards, Maj. Bonnie Jowers, M Sgt. Willie Morton. The Drill Team carries out one of its intricate precision drills while marching in the Homecoming parade. 182 The snappy ROTC band in parade. Band officers are S Sgt. Joe Tucker, Lt. Ronald Tubbs, Maj. Dickie Miears, Lt. Randall Barron, Maj. Valerie Harris. Cadets receive honors from President Ropp. R. 0. T. C. Top: Fall rifle team are shown at the Tech rifle range located in the basement of the dining hall. Bottom: The spring rifle team for 1956 show off their new sweaters awarded for the first time. ATHLETICS First row: Pat Patterson, end; Ken Fountain, tackle; Charles Glover, center; Pat Hinton, tackle; A. L. Williams, halfback; Bobby Anderson, quarterback; Gene Jantz, fullback; and Bobby Stone, guard. Second row : Tommy Hinton, tackle; Neal Thompson, end; Buddy Juneau, guard; Joel Thomas, center; Sherwood White, end; George Sumlin, halfback; Henry Delony, tackle; and Monroe Fowler, tackle. Third row : James McCabe, quarterback; Jerry Frasier, fullback; Charles Stewart, center; Lamar Mclnnis, tackle, James Mardis, tackle; Bobby Hinton, end; Doyan Foster, guard; and Frank Brown, guard. Fourth row: Norman Derouen, halfback; Clyde Thompson, quarterback; Al¬ len Stough, guard; George Crews, center; Eddie Lanier, end; Joe Russo, guard; Doye Walker, guard; and Charles Saucier, halfback. Fifth row: Tom Causey, end; Frank Smith, tackle; Bobby Wilbanks, halfback; Charles Garris, end; Jonike Henderson, quarterback; Jim¬ my Tullos, halfback; Roger Reeves, tackle; and Dick Craddock, halfback. Sixth row: Billy White, end; Sydney Anderson, end; Wayne Bourgeois, fullback; Don Norris, guard; Earl Alexander, tackle; Jerry Adams, fullback; Billy Bond, quarterback; and Bob Burnley, end. First row: Cecil Crowley, basketball coach; and Berry Hinton, baseball coach. Second row: Jimmy Mize, track coach; and Glenn Tilley, trainer. Coach Joe Aillet and his staff look back on the 1956 season and see that Louisiana Tech featured one of its best lines in the history of the school. Led by four unanimous all-Gulf States Confer¬ ence gridders, tackles Tommy and Pat Hinton, center Charles Glover, and guard Bobby Stone, the Canine forward wall was very stingy, giving up but four touch¬ downs for the entire season. Ends Neal Thompson and Billy White and guard Buddy Juneau completed the Bulldog line, which had no mercy on opposing backs. 186 SCOREBOARD TECH 0 Louisiana College_ 0 TECH 0 Mississippi Southern _14 TECH 37 Stephen F. Austin_14 TEC4I 6 McNeese State_ 0 TECH 13 Arkansas State_21 TECH 0 Northwestern State _ 0 TECH 33 Southwestern La. _ 6 TECH 12 Southeastern La._ 6 TECH 0 Northeast State_ 7 TECH 101 Opponents _68 Joe Aillet Director of athletics and head football coach THE 1956 FOOTBALL SEASON TRI-CAPTAINS: A. L. Williams (standing), Charles Glover and Pat Hinton. Huey Williamson Assistant football coach f All-GSC tackle Tommy Hinton closes in on a Louisiana College back. TECH 0 - LOUISIANA COLLEGE 0 Louisiana Tech’s favored Bulldogs met an inspired band of Louisiana College Wildcats at Tech Stadium and battled the visitors to a scoreless tie. On two occasions the big Wildcat line rose up to stop Canine bids for touchdowns, once in the third per¬ iod and again in the final stanza. In the third quarter, Tech drove down field to the ’Cat one-yard line, but four plays later La. College had possession of the ball on their own seven-yard line. Late in the final period, Coach Joe Aillet’s gridders once again drove inside the visitors ten-yard line, only to see the underdogs rise again to halt the drive on their own five. The Wildcats narrowly missed hitting pay dirt in the fourth stanza, when quarterback Gene Southern hit Frank Mobley on the Bidldog one, but the Wildcat re¬ ceiver couldn’t hold on to the pig skin and the ’Cats missed their chance for an upset. The Techmen piled up 206 yards during the fray to 96 for La. College and made 13 first downs to 6 for the visitors but could not bunch up the yardage for a success- fid TD drive. A. L. Williams halfback Charles Glover center Tommy Hinton tackle Bobby Stone Q ' uard Pat Hinton tackle Billy Bond quarterback Jerry Frasier fullback Neal Thompson end Billy White end George Sumlin halfback TECH 0 - MISS. SOUTHERN 14 Mississippi Southern pushed across two first half touchdowns to score a 14-0 win over Louisiana Tech. Southern, a five touchdown favorite, had to stop Canine drives on the MS six and two-yard stripes before they could claim their seventh straight win over the in¬ vaders. The Southerners drove 48 and 46 yards for their two markers, with Harvey Seligman driving over from the one for the first tally and halfback Joe Doggett scamper¬ ing 21 yards with a pass for the second. However, it took a Canine back to bring the crowd to its feet. Following the Southerners’ second TD, Tech shook shifty halfback A. L. Williams loose for the longest run of the night. The Tech scatback took the ensuing kickoff on his own 15-yard line, raced up the middle of the field, and broke into the clear at the mid-field stripe. After a 78-yard jaunt, Williams was finally pulled down from behind on the MS seven. Two plays later the Bulldogs fumbled to end the scoring threat. The contest ended with the Bulldogs desperately fighting to get back in the game, with the ball on the Southern two. Two Wildcats stop Canine halfback Sonny Sumlin two yards away from pay dirt. Bulldog backs Jerry Frasier (33), Jim McCabe (11), and A. L. Williams (23) look on anxiously. 189 TECH 37 - S. F. AUSTIN COLLEGE 14 Louisiana Tech romped for six touchdowns and 533 yards gained to roll by Stephen F. Austin 37-14 at Tech Stadium. The Bulldogs scored their first marker of the season four minutes deep in the contest, when quarterback Jim McCabe tossed a six-yard scoring aerial to end Neal Thompson in the end-zone. The Lumberjacks bounced back to take the lead on a 24-yard pass play from Votto Gaddis to halfback Stanley Cruse. Gaddis split the up-rights to give the visitors a 7-6 lead. one, and fumbled, but center Charles Glover recovered it for the TD. In the third quarter McCabe heaved a perfect pass to end Billy White, who alertly lateraled to fleet-footed A. L. Williams, who raced the remaining 40 yards to pay dirt. Tech’s other markers were tallied by Charles Saucier, on a 4-yard plunge in the third stanza, Jerry Frasier, on a three-yard drive in the fourth quarter, and end Pat Pat¬ terson, on a 28-yard pass from Clyde Thompson. Tech took the lead for keeps on the first play of the second period when Sonny Sumlin drove over from the End James Nutt tallied the final ’Jack marker in the final period on a pass from quarterback Thomas Jordan. Buddy Juneau guard Wayne Bourgeois halfback Jerry Adams fullback Sherwood White end 190 TECH 6 - A 13-yarcl pass play from quarterback Jim McCabe to halfback A. L. Williams gave Louisiana Tech a 6-0 Gulf States Conference win over McNeese State at Tech Stadium. Midway of the third period McCabe hit the Bulldog scatback on the McNeese three, and Williams scampered into the end-zone for the game’s only marker. The Techmen had to stop three Cowpoke drives in¬ side the Canine 20 in the first half. Each of the visitor’s TECH 13 - AR Louisiana Tech took an early second quarter lead on a sensational 92-yard touchdown run but the Bulldogs could not hold it, as they fell 13-21, before Arkansas State College. Quarterback Billy (Buzz) Bond gave the visitors their early lead when he picked off an Arkansas State pass on his own eight-yard line and galloped 92-yards untouched for the marker. A. L. Williams’ PAT at¬ tempt was no good and Tech held a 6-0 advantage. The Bulldogs other tally came in the final period when fullback Jerry Adams ploughed over from the 12- yarci line to climax an 85-yard drive. McNEESE o drives ended with field goal attempts, all of which sailed wide of the goal posts. McCabe’s game winning toss to Williams was set up by a McNeese fumble. Tackle Pat Hinton broke through the Cowboy line to recover the ball on the Canine 45. Tech got within scoring range on a 34-yard jaunt by Wil¬ liams to the Cowboy 15. The Techmen piled up 203 yards to 138 for the visitors and out first downed the visitors 13-9. The alert Bulldog defense pounced on five ‘Poke fumbles. KANSAS STATE 21 State’s Indians gained the decision on the accurate passing of their NAIA All-American quarterback Tom Speirs, who pitched two scoring aerials and kicked three extra points. Halfback Don Riggs was the target on both of Speirs touchdown heaves. The first came in the second period, covering 14 yards, and the other came in the third quarter, a 13-yard play. State’s final TD came with but seven seconds remaining in the contest. Aided by a 15-yard penalty and a 29-yard run by Bill Temple¬ ton, the Indians sent halfback Eddie Romeo over from three yards out as the game drew to a close. A. L. Williams (23) shakes loose for precious yardage in the McNeese game as end Billy White (89) gets set to block a Cowboy defender. Three Canines, led by end Billy White (89), combine efforts to halt a Northeast ball carrier in the season ' s finale. TECH 0 - NORTHWESTERN 0 Arch rivals Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State fought to a scoreless tie in a Gulf States Conference en¬ counter on the muddy turf at State Fair Stadium. Each eleven threatened to score but neither could plunge across the double stripe. The Demons were the first to threaten to score. Early in the second period quarterback Dale Hoffpauir took a punt on the Demon 16-yard line and raced down the sidelines to the Bulldog 25 before punter Wayne Bourgeois could drag him down from behind. The Demons rolled down to the Canine five on a 17-yard pass from Hoffpauir to end Doc Bank¬ ston but two plays later Tech center Charles Glover pick¬ ed off a Hoffpauir aerial to end the threat. Fullback Jerry Frasier and Bourgeois moved the ball out to the Tech 29 to put some fire into the Canine machine. Several plays later quarterback Billy Bond toss¬ ed a long pass to end Sidney Anderson, who romped to the NSC 20 before he was finally stopped. Tech’s threat ended on the next play when Northwestern’s Dewey O’Neal picked off a Canine pass. The Techmen drove to the NSC eight on the run¬ ning of halfback Sonny Sumlin but the drive bogged down on the fourt h down. Bourgeois attempted a field goal from 12 yards out but the ball sailed off to the side of the goal posts. Bob Burnley end Sydney Anderson end Henry Delony tackle Charles Saucier halfback 192 1 Gene Jantz fullback Bobby Anderson quarterback Allen Stough guard James McCabe quarterback TECH 33 - Louisiana Tech turned on the steam in the second to push across five touchdowns to humiliate Southwest¬ ern Louisiana Institute 33-6 in a Gulf States Conference game. Sophomore halfback Charles Saucier led the second half onslaught with TD runs of five and 45 yards. It was the visiting Bulldogs’ first victory at McNaspy Stadium since 1948 and also marked the first homecom¬ ing day loss for SLI since that year. Midway of the initial period, halfback A. L. Wil¬ liams took an SLI punt on the Tech 20-yard line and returned it 34 yards to the Southwestern Bulldogs’ 46. The Canines continued the drive after a fumble had momentarily halted it and Saucier drove over from SOUTHWESTERN 6 the five for the marker. Wayne Bourgeois converted to make it 7-0, Tech. Williams galloped 23 yards for a tally early in the third quarter and Bourgeois again converted to make it 14-0. The Canines scored two more touchdowns in the third quarter. Fullback Jerry Adams cracked over from the two, with Bourgeois again adding the point, and quarterback Jim McCabe triggered a 15-yard pass to end Pat Patterson in the end-zone. Tech’s final tally came late in the fourth quarter when Saucier raced 45 yards for the touchdown. SLI’s lone score came with less than three minutes remaining in the contest when Frank Foreman cracked over from the one. Jerry Lewis converted to make the score 33-6. Quarterback Billy (Buzz) Bond (14), brings the homecoming day crowd to its feet on a 40 -yard touchdown run with an intercepted pass. The Lions were in hot pursuit, but couldn ' t catch the Bulldog speedster. 193 Halfback Sonny Sumlin picks up yardage around the left side in the homecoming game against Southeastern. TECH 12 - SOUTHEASTERN 6 Quarterback Billy Bond tossed a six-yard touchdown pass and raced 40 yards for another marker to lead Loui¬ siana Tech to a 12-6 upset win over Southeastern Louisi¬ ana College. The Gulf States Conference encounter was played before some 7,000 homecoming fans at Tech Stadium. Tech drove 54 yards for a touchdown the third time they got their hands on the ball. Wayne Bourgeois set the stage for the first tally when he intercepted an SLC pass on the Bulldog 40 and returned it to the Tech 46. Bond s basketball-like passes over the line of scrimmage to ends Neal Thompson and Billy White set the pigskin on the Lion six. The Haynesville gridder then hit Thompson in the end-zone for the TD. Bourgeois missed the PAT attempt, which sailed off to the right of the goal posts. The alert Bond gave the Techmen a comfortab le 12-0 lead in the third quarter when he picked off an SLC pass thrown by Billy Hawkins and romped 40 yards un¬ touched for the score. The Lions, who got their first first down 39 minutes deep in the contest, scored its lone marker late in the final period on a 35-yard pass-run play from quarter¬ back Cliff Stringfield to end Huey Husser. Ken Fountain tackle Jimmy Mardis tackle Pat Patterson end Joel Thomas center Clyde Thompson quarterback George Crews center Lamar Mclnnis tackle Joe Russo guard TECH 0 - NORTHEAST LA. 7 Louisiana Tech met head on with a fired up band of Northeast Indians, and the Northeast State crew upset the Canines 7-0. The loss dethroned the Gulf States Conference de¬ fending champs and enabled Southeastern to slip through the back door and snatch the GSC crown from the Canine’s grasp. The Indians tallied their decisive touchdown with 5:45 remaining to be played in the fray. Quarterback Everett Reynolds heaved a 25-yard pass to end Billy Laird for the game’s only touchdown. Reynolds added the point to make the score 7-0 in favor of the underdogs. Tech threatened to score several times throughout the contest, but were unable to punch the ball across the double stripe. The Techmen had the edge in the statistical depart¬ ment, picking up 145 yards rushing to 97 for the home team and gaining 11 first downs to 5 for the winners. Northeast picked off three Canine aerials and pounced on two Bulldog fumbles to aid them in their victory. Whoops! Three Bulldog defenders stack up on top of each other before downing this Northeast ball carrier. BASKETBALL Cecil Crowley Basketball coach First row : Charles Frye, guard; Jap Gullatt, forward; Jim Knotts, guard; Raymond Germany, center; and Gary Richardson, forward. Second row: Ron Woodward, guard; Ted Bagley, forward; Joe White, forward; Eddie Joyce, guard; and Jim Tullos, forward. Third row: Curt Tubbs, guard; Oberle Allbritton, forward; J. W. Mercer, forward; Charles Garris, for¬ ward; and Tommy Grissom, center. 196 t —r. ' SEASON’S RECORD TECH 69 East Texas State_ 53 TECH 79 Arkansas Tech_ 67 TECH 103 Abilene Christian _ 75 TECH 72 Southwest Texas State_ 69 TECH 62 East Texas State_ 66 TECH 85 Arkansas Tech_ 73 TECH 59 Loyola__ 66 TECH 80 Hardin-Simmons _ 56 TECH 72 Furman _ 80 TECH 65 Mississippi Southern_ 51 TECH 72 Louisiana College_ 77 TECH 93 Northeast State 1_ 83 TECH 56 Northwestern State_ 43 TECH 51 McNeese State_ 61 TECH 81 Southwestern La.__ 54 TECH 47 Mississippi Southern_ 48 TECH 67 Southeastern La._ 69 TECH 85 Southeastern La._ 60 TECH 79 Louisiana College_ 61 TECH 43 Northwestern State_ 56 TECH 41 McNeese State_ 49 TECH 75 Centenary_ 92 TECH 84 Southwestern La._ 68 TECH 64 Centenary _ 66 TECH 84 Northeast State _ 81 TECH 1767 Opponents _1624 Jim Knotts drives through the Northeast defense for a two pointer. Forward Gary Richardson drives in for a lay-up against South¬ west Texas State. Forward Jap Gullatt flips in two for the Bulldogs against Mississippi Southern. The Louisiana Tech basketballers showed much improvement over the Canine cage team of 1955-56 by compiling a 14-11 won-loss record during the ’56- ’57 campaign as compared to the 11-14 record of the previous season. The Bulldogs nosed out Northeast State in the final game of the year to move into second place in the Gulf States Conference. Tech’s CSC slate showed 6 loop wins and 4 losses. Tech jumped off to a good start and after 19 games had 12 victories under their belts. The injury jinx hit the Canines at this point. Forward Gary Rich¬ ardson broke a bone in his right foot and had to sit out the rest of the season, and forwards Jap Gullatt and J. W. Mercer missed several games because of ankle injuries. After the season ended, four Techmen were named to the All-GSC team. Center Raymond Ger¬ many was picked on the starting five of the dream team chosen by the Associated Press. Sophomore guard Charles Frye was named to the second unit and sen¬ iors Gullatt and Jim Knotts were chosen on the third team. The year brought to a close the collegiate careers of Gullatt and Knotts, Gullatt came to Tech right out of high school and put in four good seasons for the Crowleymen. Knotts came to this school after playing two years of junior college ball and averaged over 12 points a game for the Bulldogs during his junior and senior cage seasons. Jap Gullatt forward Tommy Grissom center Curt Tubbs guard Jim Knotts guard Eddie Joyce guard Charles Garris fonuard 198 A SUCCESSFUL SEASON Raymond Germany center Charles Frye guard Gary Richardson forward ]. W. Mercer forward Big Ray Germany leaps high in the air for a two pointer against East Texas State in the season ' s opener. Germany lays one up southpaw style against Northwestern . Tech looks the situation over during a time out. Jess B. Covington Sports Publicist The Techmen were strengthened in the coaching department during the ’56-’57 season when Coach Crow¬ ley got an assistant, Orlis Long. “Shorty” Long coached the Bulldog freshman team, took care of some of the scouting chores and assisted Coach Crowley on the bench during games. The Canine freshman team played two games against the Northeast frosh and won both tilts easily. Long is a student at Tech and he will be around three more years before completing his education. Coach Crowley can look forward tO ' having Shorty’s help during the next three years. The bench shows the strain during tense o moment of the Centenary tilt. The entire Northeast team looks on helplessly as Gullatt floats Germany drops in another field goal against under for an easy crip shot. Abilene Christian as Tech ' s Gary Richardson (24) and Jim Knotts (45) get rebounding posi¬ tion on the Wildcats. Germany was the leading scorer for the Canines pumping in 414 points for an average of 16.6 points per game. Knotts followed big Ray with 335 points, Gullatt totaled 306, Frye tallied 292 and Richardson scored 160 points. The leading scorer among the reserves was Mercer with 78 points, followed closely by Grissom with 75. Woodward added 62 points to the Bulldogs total of 1767 points for the season. Frye proved to be the most accurate from the floor and the free throw line. Bud hit .463 per cent on field goal attempts and .783 from the charity line. Two other Bulldogs hit over 78 per cent of their free tosses. Rich¬ ardson hit .782 per cent and Knotts tossed in .781 per cent. Germany led the team in total number of rebounds (204), but Richardson had the best rebound average per game. Gary pulled down 198 rebounds in 19 tus¬ sles for an average of 10.4 rebounds per fray. First row : Melvin Colvin, Jim Knotts, Eddie Joyce, Clyde Hunt, Glenn Schuler, Bill Till, Jesse Mercer, Curtis Allen, Bobby Shores, Doug Robertson. Second row: Ronnie Coil, Bill Britt, A1 Bolen, Richard Turner, Dudley Trigg, Ken Miles, Wade Scott, Clyde Thompson, Gene Barham. Third row: Bob Till, Curtis Tubbs, Oliver Holder, James Henry, Clyde Kay, Gerald Cobb, J. W. Mercer, Coach Berry Hinton. unanimous choice on the All-GSC team. Two other Canines were named to the dream team, Scott and first baseman Doug Robertson. The Techsters have not fared so well in the first half of the 1957 campaign. Tech has managed to win only two of its first 12 battles. However, only two of the losses have been in GSC action, as was one of the two victories. However, Coach Hinton’s crew can look back on the ’56 season and be proud of its outcome, and look forward to the remainder of the ’57 slate, hoping for bigger and better things from the Bulldog baseballers. BASEBALL During the 1956 season, Louisiana Tech’s base¬ ballers swept past twelve opponents dropping only eight tilts. Coach Berry Hinton’s nine ended their Gulf States Conference slate with a 7-4 record to take second place in the loop race. Two of the Canine sluggers were among the lead¬ ing hitters in the conference. Outfielder Bubba Colvin rapped out 16 hits in 39 trips to the plate for a fine .410 batting average. Third baseman Wade Scott hit at an .380 clip, tagging 16 safeties in 42 batting chances. Colvin, who has hit around the .400 mark in each of his three seasons with the Bulldogs, was a W. and Jesse Mercer pitchers Colvin All GSC outfielder Knotts Senior pitcher Scott third baseman W®® i TRACK First row : Bobby Storms, W. L. Strong, Fred Westergard, Tommy Powell, John Anderson, Robert Bell, Lamar Mclnnis, Rogers Reeves, Frank Heathman. Second row: Bobby Hinton, Taylor O’Neal, l orn Searles, Ronnie Briehn, Jim Tullos, Carl Bassett, Jim Sturdivant, Roland Robertson, Charles Saucier. Third row : David Beard, Ralph McKinstry, Charles Garris, Joel Thomas, Sherwood White, Maurice Brownell, Tommy Grissom, Colin Freeman, Max McDonald, Don Thornton. Fourth row : Gene Jantz, A. L. Williams, Sydney Anderson, Billy Bond, Oberle Allbritton, Jerry King. The 1956 track season was a season of record breaking performances by the Canine cindermen. Coach Jimmy Mize’s trackmen took second place in the tough Gulf States Conference and set seven new records and tied another at the GSC Meet to close out the season. Bruce Lenoir set new marks in the 100 and 220- yard dashes with times of 9.7 and 21.0 respectively. Hurdler Joel Thomas bioke the old records in both the high and low hurdles, stepping the former in 14.5 and the latter in 23.7. Distance runner Robert Dunbar ran the mile in 4:24.1 and Canine pole vaulter Oberle Allbritton vaulted 13 feet, both estab¬ lished new marks. The Bulldogs also broke the 440 relay record with a time of 42.1 and tied the 880 relay record with a time of 1:28.2. At the Kansas Relays Tech’s 880 quartet took first place in the college division with a time of 1:27.0. I ’Vtc H Left to right : Raymond Wickard, Billy Miller, John Howard, Rob Martin, Lee Fontaine, Leonard Maranto. TENNIS Louisiana Tech swept past six opponents during the regular sea¬ son and then went on to take the Gulf States Conference championship in the loop tourney at Lake Charles in 1956. Coach Cecil Crowley can bunch his six duel meet wins of last year with three during the ’57 season and one in ’55 to show a streak of ten straight wins over the past three seasons. The Canine netters swept by all opposition with ease last year and have done the same in the first three matches this year. The Bulldogs were led by the conference’s number one singles champ, team captain Leonard Maranto. Number two man for the Canine racquet swingers during the ’57 season was freshman Raymond Wickard. Following these two in the number three, four and five slots respectively were Lee Fontaine, John Howard and Billy Miller. Maranto and Fontaine took care of the number one doubles for Coach Crowley’s netters, with Wickard and Howard holding down the number two doubles. The Techmen showed spirit, hussle and determination in com¬ piling their fine record. Techsters can cheer up when the subject of tennis comes up because they know that the Bulldogs are tops among the small colleges of Louisiana. Whether the Bulldogs go on to win their second successive CSC championship or fall by the wayside, they will always be battling down to the wire, win or lose. 204 Louisiana Tech’s linksmen have become a team of champions over the past five seasons. No Gulf States Conference golf team has been able to capture the conference title in those five years, as Coach Joe Aillet’s crew has taken five straight championships. The 1957 squad is seeking to keep the streak going, but must do so without the services of four members of last year’s championship team. Finishing up their playing days under the tutelege of Coach Aillett were the ’56 team captain, Jim Rivers, Joe Morris, Dick Taylor and Bobby Irby. The three returning veterans from last years crew were Howard Dennis, Jerry Latham and Irving King. Joining these three to com¬ pose the 1957 foursome was Roy Nash. Nash broke in as a regular in his first year at Tech and did a fine job for the Bulldogs. Golf is truly the sport of champions on the Louisiana Tech cam¬ pus. No other sport that Tech competes in in intercollegiate compe¬ tition has been able to top the golfers accomplishments. Although the Tech linksmen have dropped several matches in each of the past five seasons, only one loss has been in the conference. Southwestern Louisiana Institute was the loop team that did it, down¬ ing the Techsters during the ’55 season. Howard Dennis, Jerry Latham, Roy Nash, Irving King. The chase is on as the defensive team is in hot pursuit of this ball carrier in a fraternity league tilt last fall. INTRAMURAL SPORTS Everyone gets set as the pitcher gets ready to hurl in an intramural battle this spring. 206 Leather flys as these boxers slug it out in an effort to stack up points for their respective teams. Ping pong tournaments are part of girl ' s in¬ tramurals. Intramurals play a very important part in the life of a college student. Most of the boys and girls at Louisiana Tech take part in some form of intramural athletics. Coach John Hay and Nelwyn McDonald are the directors of intramurals. A student director sets up the schedules for the various activities for the boys and the Women’s Recreational Association for the girls. The intramural program for boys includes football, basketball, softball, track, pool, ping pong, tennis, and boxing. Girls participate in volleyball, basketball, bad¬ minton, ping pong, and softball. Each year an award is given to the outstanding player for the boys and a trophy is presented to the girl’s team with the most points. Greek, dormitory, religious, ROTC, and independent groups participate. Skill in badminton is learned through partici¬ pation. Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Delta sororities battle to go into basketball finals. 207 “Two bits, jour bits . . CHEERLEADERS Four of the Tech cheerleaders, two girls and two boys, are elected in the spring in an election spon¬ sored by the Student Senate. The freshman class elect a boy and girl from its class the following fall to complete the squad. Those who are chosen must have an overall “C” average. Wearing the traditional red and blue of Tech, they keep up the pep at all football and most basket¬ ball games. They are also responsible for decorating the goal posts for football games, organizing all pep rallies, and sponsoring the annual bonfire before the State Fair game with Northwestern. l eading the cheers for the Bulldogs were Bonnie Jowers, Leona Wimple, Leu Strange, Andre Gouaux, Gerry Latham, and Bob Robinson. 208 First row : Curtis Allen, John Anderson, Carl Bassett, Wayne Bourgeois, Ralph Cross, Howard Dennis, Lee Fontaine, Kenneth Fountain. Second row ' . Charles Frye, Roger Galatas, Raymond Germany, Pat Hinton, Eddie Joyce, Lindsey Juneau, Max Kim mel, James Mardis. Third row : Billy Nelson, Pat Patterson, Doug Robertson, Roland Robertson, Joel Thomas, Neal Thomp¬ son, Fred Westergaard, Doug Winberry. Not shown: Bobby Anderson, Billy Bond, J. R. Boyett, Jerry Frazier, Charles Glover, Tommy Hinton, Eugene Jantz, Jim Knotts, Bruce Lenoir, Roland Mason, Russell Rainbolt, Bobby Stone, Billy White, A. L. Williams. “T” CLUB Organized in 1931 with the purpose of fostering sportsmanship and fair play in all athletic contests, the “T” Club is composed of lettermen in football, bas¬ ketball, track and field, tennis, golf and baseball. Each year the group sponsors the Homecoming dance which is planned for alumni, students, facul¬ ty members and other guests. The dance is highlighted by the presentation of the Homecoming Queen and her court who has been elected by the organization. The club also sponsors a spring picnic for its members. The “T” Club officers are Tommy Hinton, vice-president; Gene Jantz, secretary; A. L. Williams, president; and Charles Frye, treasurer (seated). GREEKS MEMBERS First row: Anita Adcock, Linda Ball, Jane Bankston, Ann Bohan, Marcia Boroughs, Virginia Buckner, La Celia Carlton. Second row : Mary Jane Cobb, Linda Ely, Betty Evans, Elaine George, Arlen Hall, Kay Hawkins, Nancy Heard. Third row: Jimmie Ruth Hunter, Dorothy Jackson, Margaret Ann Jenkins, Lucy Joyner, Lelia Kreig, Mary Minta Montgomery, Ann Oakes. Fourth row: Eleanor Petty, Buena Pittard, Paula Pittman, June Riddick, Rosalind Roden, Ruth Carol Scheerer, Judy Smith. Fifth row: Pat Smith, Barbara Underwood, Winifred Watkins, Linda Watson, Betty Weingart, Lane Wells. Not shown: Fern Griffin, Jeanette Miller, Mary Rita Smith. ALPHA CHI OMEGA SORORITY Alpha Chi Omega sorority was founded in Oc¬ tober of 1885 at DePauw University, Green Castle, Indiana. The local chapter, Beta Psi, was installed on Tech campus on October 17, 1944. The sorority flower is the red carnation and the colors are scarlet and olive green. The sorority held open house during rush. It participated in the Homecoming parade, Stunt Night, and Sing Week. An annual coffee for faculty was also an event of late fall. Summer activities included a houseparty which was held at Caney Lake. The chapter greeted a new province president, Mrs. Edward Kerr, during the fall. Scholastically, the local chapter rated first among Greek organizations for the fall semester of 1956- 1957. Special projects included the making of stuffed animals by the pledges. These toys were sent to the Children’s Hospital for Cerebral Palsey. On March 9, Beta Psi chapter and the sorority alumnae club in Ruston were in charge of the State Day activities which took place in the Ruston High School cafeteria. Dorothy Etta Goff President OFFICERS Dorothy Etta Goff_ President Anita Adcock_ First Vice-president Dorothy Jackson _ Second Vice-president Jane Bankston_ Recording Secretary Jimmie Ruth Hunter_ Corresponding Secretary Lucy Joyner_ Treasurer Ruth Carol Scheerer _ Editor Pat Smith_ Rush Chairman Miss Willie Fletcher _ Faculty Adviser Sorority ?nembers at their spring formal held in March. Alpha Chi ' s pose at their annual gypsy rush party. 213 MEMBERS First row: Lynn Louise Bagley, Diane Bastian, Joan Blondin, Myrna Bruchhaus, Janie Coyle. Second row : Shirley Craft, Johnette Campisi Currie, Lynette East, Vaundeleath Jackson, Peggy Jean Kirkland. Third row : Elizabeth McClanahan, Nancy Lee Miessner, Ellen Janette Murphy, Frances Parish, Drusilla Preston. Fourth row : Barbara Sandifer, Sara Standifer, Joan Vines, Betty Jean Wall, Lynelle Widick, Lucy Winham. Not shown : Barbara Loe, Katherine Rogillio, Patsy Tate. BETA SIGMA OMICRON SORORITY X Beta Sigma Omicron was founded in Col umbia, Missouri, on December 12, 1888. The local chapter was founded in May, 1947. The chapter colors are ruby and pink; the rose is its flower. During the current year the chapter participated in the Homecoming parade and won first place with its Christmas display at the President’s home. Another project was a booth at the Campus Carnival in Novem¬ ber, featuring “Beta Poker.’’ The group also entered intramurals. Special social events held this past year included a reception in Adams parlor for the new pledges, the Christmas party, alumnae party, and the annual Spring Formal in April with the theme, “Pink Fant¬ asy.” Caney Lake was the scene of the group’s house- party held last May. The visit of the sorority’s national first vice-presi¬ dent highlighted April for Beta Eta with the Southern Regional Conference in Baton Rouge follow¬ ing soon after. A workshop at Ford Park was held last summer with many plans being made, including the official project of the group this year. This project is col¬ lecting items for patients’ use in the hospital at Pine- ville, Louisiana. Vanelle Widick Dr. Minnie Tracey President Faculty Adviser OFFICERS Vanelle Widick_ President Lucy Winham_ Vice-president Elizabeth McClanahan_ Secretary Lynn Bagley_ Treasurer Diane Bastian _ Rush Chairman , Pledge Trainer Lynelle Widick_ Editor, Ritual Director Dr. Minnie B. Tracey _ Faculty Adviser “Around the World ” rush party was given by the BSO’s. Members pose at the Christmas party given by the sorority. MEMBERS First row: Betty Anders, Wayne Ard, Barbara Baggett, Marilyn Crowley, Virginia Crowley, Ann Dodson, Pat Fleming, Jane Fuller. Second row: Martha Gillen, Ann Gillum, Alvern Hart- wig, Linda Henderson, Betty Hoye, Mary Alice Insley, Lissa Kiper, Nancy Lee. Third row : Kata Ray Lusk, Ann McCaleb, Thelma Jane McKinney, Jan McLane, Janet Mahaffey, Joan Morris, Elizabeth Pattison, Vicky Polancic. Fourth row: Della Anne Rabb, Betty Ann Reeves, Valleau Resweber, Margaret Ann Riser, Harvey Ann Roberts, Jatis Robinson, Billie Ann Ruple, Pat Ruple. Fifth row: Anne Sentell, Eva Jeanne Shirlev, Sarah Sneed, Sue Sneed, Patsy Ann Taylor, Norma Jean Terrill, Carol Ulmer, Lora Willis, Sandra Woodward. Not shown: Betty Carpenter. KAPPA DELTA SORORITY The oldest sorority at Tech, Alpha Chi chapter of Kappa Delta came to the campus in April of 1931. It was founded nationally on October 23, 1897, in Farmville, Virginia. The sorority colors are green and white; the flower, the white rose. Honors won by the chapter in the spring of 1956 were the Panhellenic scholarship trophy for the highest average among all Greek groups for the eighth consecutive semester and the Sing Week trophy for the second year with the song “My Own America ' The annual circus party was held during rush along with the alumnae parties. Kappa Delta won third place for its Christmas decoration in the President’s home. Third place was also won at Stunt Night with a calypso production number entitled “The Curse on Bigi.” State Day, which was held in New Orleans, was attended by some members who took part on program. The chapter won first prize on its sorority display there. The highlights of the spring activities for 1957 were the annual formal held in Adams Cafeteria and the Installation Banquet. The national president of the sorority, Mrs. Texas Campbell, was the guest speaker. Mary Jo Ware Miss Ruth Richardson President Faculty Adviser OFFICERS Mary Jo Ware_ Lora Willis _ Pat Ruple_ Sarah Sneed _ Virginia Ann Crowley Nancy Lee_ Norma Jean Terrill __ _ President _ Vice-president - Secretary - Treasurer Assistant Treasurer - Editor _ Rush Chairman KLTs dressed as animals take part on program at annual circus rush party. Scene fro?n the pledges program at the Christ¬ mas Party. 217 MEMBERS First row : Jackie Adcock, Carolyn Boyce, Toni Burton, Catherine Carso, Camille Clark, Pat Coley, Betty Dubberly. Second row: Billie John Dukes, Nancy Eaves, Barbara Emmons, Barbara Flanagan, Sherry Fortson, Janis Futrell, Gloria Beth Gaines. Third row : Mary Ann Gorton, Virginia Henslee, Carolyn Howard, Jo Jordan, Ann Laffitte, Ladye McCaa, Ina Rae Mc- Clung. Fourth row: Mary Ellen McVicker, Nancy McWilliams, Sylvia Middlebrooks, Charlie Sue Monroe, Patricia Morgan, Carol Neely, Shirley Owens, Frances Platt. Fifth row: Barbara Poole, Shelby Jean Pugh, Mona Reed, Suzanne Sloane, Mary Virginia Stovall, Leu Strange, Coy Theus, Ann West. Not shown: Martha Albritton, Peggy Almond, Jo Ann Carso, Glenda Simp¬ son, Shirley Speights. PHI MU SORORITY Phi Mu sorority was founded at Wesleyan Col¬ lege, Macon, Georgia, on March 4, 1852. Alpha Lambda chapter was installed on Tecli campus in November, 1943. The sorority colors are rose and white and its flower is the enchantress carnation. The National Convention was held in 1956 at Biloxi, Mississippi. The chapter received the “Ronoh Award” given bi-annually to the ch apter which most exemplifies the spirit of “lending a helping hand.” Mrs. L. V. Dennis, district president, visited the chapter in February, 1957. The annual houseparty was held in July at Caney Lake and open house was held during Homecoming. Founder’s Day, March 4, was climaxed with a ban¬ quet attended by the chapter and local alumnae. Alpha Lambda chapter participated in many ac¬ tivities this year. Among them were the Homecom¬ ing parade, the Campus Carnival, and Sing Week. In the annual Stunt Night competition the local chapter placed first. Highlighting the spring semester activities was the “May Fantasy Ball” held with Sigma Kappa sorority. Sally Ware Mrs. Mary Elaine Wallace President Faculty Adviser OFFICERS _ President —First Vice-president, Second Vice-president _ Secretary _ Treasurer Faculty Adviser Sally Ware - Jo Ann Carso Virginia Henslee_ Frances Platt _ Jo Jordan_ Mrs. Elaine Wallace Phi Mu ' s pose at their Spring Formal of 1956 held, in conjunction with Sigma Kappa Members and dates dance at the Christmas sorority. party held in the “Tonk.” 219 MEMBERS First row: Joyce Alden, Marlene Booth, Sharon Bradbury, Nancy Churchman, Nancy Cloninger, Beth Dawkins, Betty Jo deYam- pert, Marion Durham. Second row: Shirley Foster, Edith Hanna, Ann Harper, Sue Hayden, Ann Hendrickson, Donna High¬ tower, Ann Jones, La Rue Jordan. Third row: Catherine Ken¬ dall, Charlotte Kilgore, Patsy King, Jerry Lackey, Rose Marie Landrum, Emily Langford, Mary Ann Lowe, Kathy McCarty. Fourth row: Patsy Mayfield, Myra Ann Moore, Patsy Mont¬ gomery, Betty Norris, Carolyn Owens, Martha Peden, Dolores Pitman, Lilah Rabun, Annice Raefield. Fifth Row: Claire Smith, Harriet Smith, Gaile Speight, Ann Stewart, Mary Alice Tuberville, Gail Waugh, Gail Wesson, Nancy Wiggers, Martha Zumwalt. SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY Sigma Kappa sorority was founded at Colby Col¬ lege, Waterville, Maine, in 1874. The local chapter. Beta Epsilon, was organized in March, 1940. The colors of the sorority are lavendar and maroon and the violet is its flower. Activities of Sigma Kappa this year have included holding open house in the sorority room during rush and Homecoming. “Pearl of the GSC,” Sigma Kappa’s float in the Homecoming parade, won first place honors. During the Christmas season the sorority gave its annual Christmas parties and entered the decorations contest at the President’s home. Another activity of the group was the annual Valentine Day party for the retired faculty members of Tech. Sigma Kappa’s houseparty was held in July on Lake St. John. Approximately 25 members attended and made plans for the year’s activities. The sorority National Convention was held in Colorado and Beta Epsilon was represented by two delegates. Sally Sue Greer Dr. Frances Fletcher President Faculty Adviser OFFICERS _ President _ First Vice-president _ Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary _ T reasurer _ Faculty Adviser Sally Sue Greer_ Gaile Speight_ Patsy Mayfield _ Betty Jo deYampert Martha Peden_ Dr. Frances Fletcher Sigma Kappa alums who helped establish the chapter at Tech were honored at Founders ' Day program. Pearl Banquet honors new initiates of the sorority. 221 MEMBERS First row: Carolyn Baines, Marsha Clinton, Celia Ann Colvin, Margaret Ann Deason, Jo Marie Ellett, Kathryn Evans. Second row: Sue Farmer, Marilyn Ferguson, Sandra Gilliland, Harriette Nan Haley, Katherine Harlan, Martha Jane Haven. Third row: Dorothy Louise Humble, Lucy Anne Jackson, Jo Anne Lay, Andrea Meek, Jill Oswalt, Margaret Perritt. Fourth row: Mardell Reinhardt, Betty Risinger, Faye Southern, Jane Stewart. Mary Elizabeth Stewart, Sara Alice Strahan, Ella Zappa. Not shown: Barbara Bell, Sarah M arjorie Buckles, Carole Ann Cohen, Mary Elizabeth Dorr, Eria Faye Liner, Carolyn Sherman, Kay Francis Stewart. 222 THETA UPSILON SORORITY Theta Upsilon was founded at the University of California in Berkeley, in 1909 as a girl’s club. On January 1, 1914, the group became Alpha Chapter of Theta Upsilon. The local chapter, Psi, was installed on January 28, 1932. Iris is the sorority flower and the colors are yellow and white. Highlighting the summer activities, Psi Chapter held its annual houseparty at a camp near Sterlington, Louisiana, and an informal party was given for the actives, pledges and alumnae in Monroe. Activities of the sorority this year have included participation in the Homecoming parade, Stunt Night, Sing Week and the Christmas decorations contest at the President’s home in which Psi placed second. First place honors were won at Sing Week with the song, “Catherine’s Wedding.” Special occasions for the chapter included an Open House for Mother’s Weekend when the mothers received the Omega Psi degree, the Christmas party, a Halloween party, Valentine Banquet and the an¬ nual Spring formal. This fall, Psi received and honored its province president, Carol Davis. Julie Ann Wooley Miss Edith Cotton President Faculty Adviser OFFICERS Julie Ann Wooley_ President Harriette Haley _ Vice-president Marsha Kay Clinton_ Alumnae Vice-president Joe Marie Ellett _ Secretary Kathryn Evans_ Treasurer Margaret Perritt- Chaplain Carolyn Barnes_:_ Editor Miss Edith Cotton__ Faculty Adviser Members pose at the Spring Formal held in March. Theta U’s at their annual Indian rush party. 223 MEMBERS First row : James Appleby, John Barber, Don Barney, Ronald Gordon Barton, Andre Boutee, Jerry Boyce, L. P. Brown, Charles Ray Bundrick. Second row : Robert Sims Calhoun, James F. Carroll, Joe Catanese, A1 Cathey, Ronald Chambles, Charles Gordon Cloutier, David James Cook, George Cunningham. Third row: William Moore De Graffenreid, Howard Dennis, Ray Dillon, Robert Ted Enloe, James Addis Evans, Dade Foote, Lee Fontaine, Robert Gamble. Fourth row: Richard Guerriero, Bill Hanson, Jimmy Harrelson, Beau ford Holland, Mark Hud¬ son, Steve Hurst, Lindsey Paul Jeaneau, Harrison Jordon, Richard Kirby. Fifth row: Paul Kyler, James Lyles, William McRaney, Larry Kirtley Miles, Robert Floyd Miller, Marvin Moncla, Leonard Maranto, Douglas Norris, Fred Perry. Sixth row: Douglas Robertson, Allen Warne Robinnette, John Roddy, Robert Louis Rodgers, Walter Ryland, Wade Scott, Massey Valentine, Hines Vaughan, John Henry Wendall. Not shown: Jack Dudley Alexander, III; Wiltz Joseph Bernard, Edmund Morris Chaffin, James Fullilove Clingman, Daniel Willis Coder, Jesse Marcus Covington, Lamar Craft, Frank Cunningham, Harry Currie, Michael Eiser, Roy Gordon Goodrich, Mark Harris, Richard Lee Johnson, Elmo Pearce Lee, Bruce Lenoir, James Lincoln, Ronald Lewis Mabry, Neil Marsh, James Richards Miears, Tommy Frazier Miears, William Forrest Miller, Robert F. Moore, Jr.; Toney Jack Morelock, Edgar Matther Reid, III, Jerry Edwards Richards, Thomas Sterling Stone, Sidney Earnest Thornton, Robert L. Ward. 224 KAPPA ALPHA ORDER I Traditionally a Southern fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Order was founded in 1865 on the campus of the present day Washington and Lee University. To¬ day this order has grown to 78 undergraduate chapters throughout the South and Western parts of the coun¬ try. Gamma Alpha chapter was chartered at Tech in 1947. Its colors are crimson and old gold, and her flowers are the red rose and magnolia. Representatives of the Tech chapter attended the 1956 convention in San Francisco, California, and the fraternity has participated in all campus activities throughout the year. Their activities included the ! Campus Carnival, Stunt Night, the Homecoming Parade, and all intramural sports. This year they won the campus intramural championship in football and volleyball and took first place in the cross country run with one of the members setting a new intra¬ mural record for the event. Climaxing the year’s activities is the traditional Old South Week End. In the past President Ropp has declared the entire week end as such in the seces¬ sion ceremonies on the steps of Keeny Hall. Ac¬ tivities start on Thursday afternoon with the deliver¬ ing of invitations to the dormitories by uniform rebels. OFFICERS Paul Odum James Appleby _ Douglas Robertson_ Jim Evans _ Joseph Catanese_ William DeCraffenreid John Barber_ Mark Harris_ _ President _ Vice-president _ Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Historian _ Treasurer _ Censor _ Faculty Adviser Paul Odum President Anita Adcock Rose Miss Ann Robertson, 1955 Rose, pins Miss Anita Adcock as the new Rose of the fra- Kappa Alpha ' s entry in the Homecoming ternity. parade. 225 MEMBERS First row Bill Allison, Gerald Aymond, Ted Bagley, Dickie Bennet, Leo Bonduvant, Roy Bonner, Jack Brown, Howard Carlton, Tom Colvin. Second row: Sonny Connell, Buell Close, Charles Davidson, Jimmy Dunn, Neal Eldridge, James Farrar, Walter Fowler, Bill Gaddy, Parks Goodwin. Third row: Bill Haliburton, Clyde Hart, Joe Harveston, Jim Hearin, Jack Herr¬ ing, Eddie Hislop, James Honeycutt, James Howe, Sonny Jack- son. Fourth row: Eddie Lofton, Charles Martin, Billy Mayberry, George Mays, Lome Michaud, Field Montgomery, Jim Naylor, Mert Nickolson, John O’Shea. Fifth row: J. E. Peters, Eddie Pohlman, Lamar Posey, A. W. Reed, Eddie Roberts, Bob Robin¬ son, Jimmie Rush, Bill Sartor, Middleton Shirley, Lionel Smith. Sixth row: Robert Squires, Joe Tauzin, Jimmy Thompson, Ronald Tubbs, Tommy Vandergrift, Chevis Webb, Fred West- ergaard, Bill Whellis, Johnny Willard, Jimmie Wyche. Not pictured: Philip Hampton, Dr. W. T. Meek. 226 KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY Kappa Sigma fraternity was founded in 1869 at the University of Virginia. Omega Kappa, a local fraternity formed in 1928, was granted a charter and installed as the Epsilon Gamma chapter of Kappa Sigma in 1941. The colors are scarlet, white, and emerald green, and the flower is the lily of the valley. Special parties given by the fraternity included the French party, Christmas party, two hayrides and several informal record parties. The pledges gave a “mixer” honoring sorority pledges at the beginning of the year. During the fall open house was held be¬ fore each home football game. Among activities of the group were participation in Sing Week in which they won first place with “Deep In My Heart,” Homecoming parade in which they won third place with their float, the Hallo¬ ween Carnival and Stunt Night. Plans are now being made for the construction of a new fraternity house that will provide accommo¬ dations for approximately 24 members. Roger Calatas President OFFICERS Roger Calatas _ President James K. Dunn _ Vice-president Howard Carlton_ Grand Master of Ceremonies Bill Halliburton _ Secretary Tommy Vandergrift _ Treasurer Dr. W. T. Meek_ Faculty Adviser Kappa Sig’s float won them third place in Santa Claus passed out the favors for Sig’s Homecoming parade. dates at the Christmas party. 227 MEMBERS First row : Robert Beazley, Robert Caruthers, Lindsey Chapman, Ben Collins, Glen Cobb, Roderick Earl Dillion, jr., Tommy Dubell. Second row : Ronald Dubois, V. B. Dunn, Jr., Roland Durrett, John Feaster, Donald Ray Finch, Joe Harris, Doyle Eugene Hendricks. Third row: Curtis Ray James, David James, Jimmy Joiner, John McDonald, Max McDonald, Ralph Mc- Mickle, William Mercer. Fourth row: Meade Middleton, Bob Midyett, Mitchell Midyett, Richard Pinchera, Jackson Howard Priest, Huey Lee Roper, Cecil Rowell. Fifth row: Frank Sims, Jasper Smith, Sam Thompson, Bernard Neil Walker, Benjamin Warren, James Wingate, Richard Yancy. Not shown: Wallace Anthony, Cecil Forrest, Brodie Green, Charles Filmore Jacobs, Robert Edward Lee, Jr., Ralph Merritt, Harvey Dale Shaffer, Charles Smith. 228 FRATERNITY LAMBDA CHI ALPHA The oldest national fraternity on the campus, Theta Psi Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha was installed at Louisiana Tech on April 1, 1925. The fraternity was founded nationally in 1909 at Boston University. Its colors are purple, green and gold, and the flower of the fraternity is the white rose. The fraternity has been represented in such events as Stunt Night, the Campus Carnival, the Home¬ coming parade, and Sing Week. The pledges and actives have participated in all intramural sports dur¬ ing the year. Lambda Chi was represented by severa l members from the local chapter at the National Conclave in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, this year. Represent¬ atives were also sent to the University of Houston for the installation of a chapter there. Richard Meek Toni Burton President Crescent Girl OFFICERS Richard Meek_ President Curtis James _ Vice-president Lee Roper_ Secretary Paul McKellar_ Treasurer Don Finch_ Ritual Chairman Cecil Rowell_ Rush Chairman Brodie Green_ Pledge Trainer Louis Dubois _ Social Chairman William R. Higgs _ Faculty Adviser The newly selected Crescent Girl dances with Lambda Chi ' s egg throwing booth at the Cam¬ ber date at the 1956 Spring Formal. pus Carnival. 229 MEMBERS First row: Jay Adams, Billy Alexander, Curtis Allen, Jimmy Anderson, Milburne Barefield. Gene Barham, Leon Barnard, Jack Barnett, Richard Barron, Robert Bass, Thomas Bass. Second row: Carl Bassett, Charles Bell, John Birdsong, Jimmy Brown, Mike Cage, Kenneth Caldwell, William Carr, Ernest Carter, Charles Cook, Donald Cooper, Paul Crowe. Third row: William Culp, Hale Davenport, Don DeLoach, John Dunn, John Ed¬ wards, Leroy Erskine, Lenial Fargerson, Bobby Festervand, Hank Frazer, Larry Freeland, Benny Gammill. Fourth row: Sherrod Gillenwater, Alfred Gillespie, W. J. Haddad, John Howard. Tommy James, Charles Jimerson, Harold Johnson, Bobby King, Billy Kline, Gerald Latham, Joe Ledoux, Fifth row: Jack McKinney, Maurice McKinney, Tommy Manning, Russell Marsh, John Maxwell, Bill Morton. Jerry Norder, Jerry Pate, Edwin Peden, Charles Riley, Fred Rubey. Sixth row: Jack Salley, Dick Seiler, Charles Ray Smith, Janies Stanford, W. L. Strong. Rea¬ gan Sutton, Max Thornton, Jerry Watters, James Wilson, Sidney Worthy. Not shown: David Addington, Lawrence Benefield, Fred Cole, Charles Connoughton, Donald Davey, Charles Glover, Rudolph Grafton, Fredrick Hoagland, Thurman McClellan, Billy Mason. Bill Nelson, Bobby Rose, Marvin Stevens, Pat Thomas, Jerry Waldron. PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY Pi Kappa Alpha was founded March 1, 1868, at the University of Virginia. The local chapter was originally the Esquire Club, founded at Tech in 1936 by four students. S. A. Dickson was elected presi¬ dent, but was killed an a plane crash the following year. The name of the club was changed to Sigma Alpha Delta, his initials in Greek letters. In May, 1940, that local fraternity became Gamma Psi chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. The Pikes won second place this year in the Homecoming parade with their float portraying the death of the S.L.I. Lion. During the past year Pi Kappa Alpha was fraternity intramural league champ¬ ion. Several members from the local chapter attended the fraternity’s national convention held in Septem¬ ber at Mexico City. In March the traditional Black and White formal was held and Margaret Delle Collins was presented as Pi Kappa Alpha Dream Girl of 1957. Jo Ann Carso had been selected in 1956. Pi Kappa Alpha held its houseparty at Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas, June 1-5. Lamar Buffington President Jo Ann Carso Dream Girl OFFICERS Fall Semester Lamar Buffington Jay Adams_ Jack Salley_ Jack Barnett _ Larry Freeland Tommy James_ Joe Ledoux _ Tom Bass_ Fred Rubey_ Johnny Maxwell _ John Dunn_ Don DeLoach __ L. P. McLane _ - President _ First Vice-president _ Second Vice-president - Secretary _ Athletic Director - Treasurer - Historian Spring Semester - President - First Vice-president _ Second Vice-president - Secretary - Treasurer - Faculty Adviser Pike ' s costume party given at Halloween. Supper celebrates Founders ' Day. 231 MEMBERS First row: Pete Abington, Jerry Akins, Harry Ancelot, Mike Bennett, Allen Bierbaum, A1 Bordelon, Louis Boudreaux, Robert Boyett. Second row : Carl Bussy, Huey Caldwell, Winston Camp¬ bell, Emerson Crager, Ronny Cunningham, Renny Del Bianco, Bob Edwards, Jack Fenner. Third row : Joe Fergueson, James Foshee, Jim Gandy, Andre Gouaux, Charles Gouaux, Roy Gui¬ dry, Robert Harget, Gary Hicks. Fourth row : Ralph Hillman, James Hollenbeck, Bill Hornsby, Billy Kidd, Carrol LaCroix, Ed Leachman, Wayne McDonald, Tim McGriff. Fifth row : Taylor McNeil, Gene Milford. Bobby O’Neil, Farrell Perdreau- ville, Rodney Shamburger, Ray Sparkman. Oliver Spencer, Jim Stagg. Sixth row: Walter Stagg, Max Stracener, Bill Terresh- kovich, Jackie Veal, Phillip Washington. Jim Wilkinson, Butch Williams, Wayne Wright. Not shown : William Bassett, Harry Byrd, Joe Henry Crew, Jim Gibson, Barron Buynes, Ross Jenkins, Dick Jones, R. C. Lassater, John Malmay, Bo Neely, Kemper Pickles, Richard Rails, Fred Rowzee, Pat Watson, Jerome West. James Wise. TAU KAPPA EPSILON FRATERNITY Tau Kappa Epsilon, now composed of 142 chap¬ ters, was founded at Illinois Wesleyan University in 1899. Tech’s chapter, the oldest Greek letter organi¬ zation on the campus, had its beginning in 1901. Beta Zeta of TKE participated in the Homecom¬ ing parade, Stunt Night, Sing Week, the Campus Carnival, and all intramural sports, tieing for first place in basketball. In Stunt Night competition, Tau Kappa Epsilon placed second. Holding Open House before each football game was also an activity of the fraternity. At the Southeastern football game. Beta Zeta brought a hugh bell onto the field and rang it every time Tech scored or made yardage for a first down. This idea was well received by the campus and the bell thereby became a tradition with the fraternity. The summer houseparty was held at Lake Hamil¬ ton, Arkansas. Special parties of the fraternity were the Christmas formal, pledge-active parties, hayrides, coke and dance parties and the annual Red Carna¬ tion Spring Formal. Monta Johnson Phillips was presented as Sweet¬ heart of TKE at the annual spring formal in 1956. Monta Sue Phillips Sweetheart Norman Richardson President OFFICERS Norman Richardson Wayne Wright _ Gene Milford_ Bill Terreshkovich Renny DelBianco _ Oliver Spencer_ Max Stracener_ J. S. Tarbutton _ _ President _ Vice-president _ Secretary _ T reasurer _ Historian _ Chaplain House Manager Faculty Adviser Tekes pose for picture in chapter room of house. Members and dates dance at fraternity party. I 233 THETA XI FRATERNITY Gary Young President Vee Stephens Sweetheart OFFICERS Gary Young __ John B. Wells _ Bill Willis _ Milton Smale James Lyon _ Jack T. Painter _ President JVice-president _ Secretary _ T reasurer Senior Steward Faculty Adviser Theta Xi fraternity was founded on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, on April 29, 1864. The colors are blue and white. The Alpha Upsilon chapter was founded April 2, 1949, on the Tech campus. The chapter participated in intramurals, Home¬ coming, and Stunt Night. The high light of the year was the fraternity’s annual Spring Garden Formal which had a Grecian theme. Anne Reeves was presented as the Sweetheart of 1957 at the dance. Vee Stephens had been selected in 1956. The fraternity was awarded the Scholarship Trophy for having the highest average among fraternity groups at Tech by the IFC. National Theta Xi also presented the chapter a trophy for attaining the highest scholastic average among all units of the organization for 1955-1956. The purpose of the organization is to provide a college home environment for its active members in which fellowship and alumni guidance lead to whole¬ some mental, moral, physical, and spiritual growth. To that end Theta Xi actively supports and augments col¬ lege and community efforts to make individual members f more mature and chapter groups more useful units of society. First Row: Earl L. Carlyon, Robert Crawford, Carl Hurst. Second row : James Lyon, Joe Morgan, Milton Lee Smale, James David T auber, John Wells, William Willis. Not shown : James Jackson, Rodney Key, Bill Lee, Roderick Lejune, William Paul McLean, Scm Mooney, Max Stidham. i 234 JUNIOR PANHELLENIC COUNCIL OFFICERS Betty Wall _ President Billie Ann Ruple _ Vice-president Barbara Flanagan _ Secretary Carolyn Owens_ Treasurer Jill Oswalt _ Publicity Chairman Miss Ruth Richardson __ _ Faculty Adviser Started only last year by the Panhellenic Council, the Junior Panhellenic has as its purpose the orientation of the new pledges of the sororities with Panhellenic problems so that they will better understand how the senior group works. Its membership consists of the pledge president from each sorority and one other representative. The officers are chosen on the basis of rotation among the sororities. The project adopted by the new group this year was the making of picture books for the children’s ward at the local hospital. It also worked with the senior group on spring rush. First rozv: Celia Colvin, Barbara Flanagan. Second row : Ladye McCaa. Ann McCaleb. Third row: Jill Oswalt, Carolyn Owens. Fourth row: Billie Ann Ruple, Rosalind Roden. Fifth row : Patsy Tate. Sixth row: Betty Wall. Not shown: LaCelia Carlton, Gail Waugh. 235 COUNCIL PANHELLENIC The Panhellenic Council is the governing body for the six women’s social organizations on the cam¬ pus. Membership of the council consists of three repre¬ sentatives from each sorority and a faculty adviser. The purpose of the organization is to regulate the rushing activities and to promote inter-sorority co¬ operation. Each year representatives from the council and the faculty adviser attend the Southeastern Panhellenic Conference, which was held this year on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. The Tech group was the only one in which all groups on the campus were represented and was also the group at¬ tending from the farthest point. Trophies for scholarship are awarded each se¬ mester by the council to the sorority having the highest average and to the sorority making the most improvement in grades. It worked with the Inter¬ fraternity Council this year in putting up a Greek display at registration to interest students in the groups and is also working in conjunction with the 1FC on a Greek Week for this spring. The Junior Panhellenic, which is composed of sorority pledges and is a training organization for Panhellenic work, is also a project of the group. OFFICERS Barbara Emmons_ President Dorothy Etta Goff_ Vice-president Gaile Speight _ Secretary Marsha Kay Clinton_ Treasurer Miss Ruth Richardson_ Faculty Adviser First row: Anita Adcock, Diane Bastian, Lynda Ball, Marsha Clinton, Sally Connell, Shirley Craft. Second row : Barbara Em¬ mons, Dorothy Etta Goff, Mary Ann Loe, Emily Langford, Janet Mahaffey, Sylvia Middlebrooks. Third row: Gaile Speight, Mary Jo Ware, Vanelle Widick, Lora Willis, Julie Wooley. 236 I N T E R F R A T E R N I T Y COUNCIL OFFICERS Marvin Stevens __ Fred Perry_ James Lyon_ James Farrar_ Robert E. Lee_ Gene Milford_ Russell Ferrington George Freeman _ _ President _ Vice-president _ Secretary _ Ti r easurer _ Publicity Director Special Activities Director _ Faculty A dvisers The Interfraternity Council is composed of two members and an alternate member from each of the six fraternities on the campus. It has as its purpose to foster interfraternity re¬ lations, make the rules governing the different houses, and con¬ sider applications by other fraternities for the establishment of chapters on the campus. Each year the group sponsors a drive at Christmas to gather food and toys to send to needy families. This year the organization worked with the Panhellenic Council in sponsoring a Greek display at registration and in making plans for a Greek Week in the spring. It also planned to form a Junior Interfraternity Council to train pledges in fraternity cooperation. First row : Tom Bass, James Farrar. Second row : Russell Ferrington, Roger Galatas. Third row : Robert E. Lee, James D. Lyon. Fourth row: Richard Meek, Richard Milford. Fifth row: Paul Odum, Fred Perry. Sixth row: Gary Young. Not shown: Rennie Blanco, Marvin Stevens. to 237 ORGANIZATIONS 239 OMICRON DELTA KAPPA Founded at Washington and Lee University in 1914, Omicron Delta Kappa is an honorary leader¬ ship society for men. Beta Omicron Circle at Tech was installed in 1949. First row : William Roy Abernathy, Joe Aillet, Wallace Anthony, John Merrell Barber, Ben T. Bogarcl, Charles Connaughton, M. Hayne Folk, Jr., Kenneth Paul Fountain, Lawrence J. Fox. Second row: Hollis Fulton, Roger Galatas, Brodie Green, Jr., Paul Hendershot, Charles Goyne Hobgood, Curtis James, Giles Eugene Laney, Willie Hugh McLaurin, Ralph McMickle. Third row : William McRaney, James Ralph Moreland, Burton Rising- er, Douglas Robertson, Roland Robertson, Ralph L. Ropp, Jack Salley, William Thomas Sartor, Joe Sheppard. Fourth row: Harold J. Smolinski, Thomas Stacy, Walter Stagg, James Stan¬ ford, Marvin Stevens, Raymond Meeks Strong, Savery Glen Stuckey, J. J. Thigpen, Willis Bryan Wheelis. Not shown: M. O. Colvin, Reginald Sam Goodwin, Jr., Bruce Lenoir, Russell Rain- bolt, S. X. Lewis, Scott Weathersby, John B. Wilson, C. T. Woodard. The Society believes that while good scholar¬ ship and intellectual development are the chief ob¬ jectives of college years, the life of the mind is not the only life students will have to cope with as the result of their college experience. In following this belief, ODK recognizes and en¬ courages achievement in scholarship; athletics; stu¬ dent government, social and religious affairs; publi¬ cations; and speech, music, drama and the other fine arts. Active faculty members for 1956-1957 are J. J. Thigpen, L, R. Daniel, S. X. Lewis, and Paul T. Hen¬ dershot. i I Officers of the organization are Russell Rain- bolt, president; Sam Goodwin, vice-president; Charles G. Hobgood, secretary; Ralph McMickle, treasurer, and S. X. Lewis, faculty adviser. i ■ 240 J TAU DELTA ALPHA First row: Patricia Ann Fleming, Dorothy Etta Goff, Sally Sue Greer, Carl Sue Hayden, Linda Lou Henderson, Ruth Knotts. Second row: Patsy Jane Mayfield, Patricia Smith, Leu Strange, Charis Jean Wedgeworth, Vanelle Widick. Not shown: Advisors: Dr. Elenora Cawthon, Dr. Frances Fletcher, Miss Sallie Robison, Mary Jane Cobb, Barbara Emmons, Martha Gillen, Virginia Hen- slee, Betty Hoye, Ann Harper, Margaret Jenkins, Lucy Joiner, Joanne Lay, Anna Faye LaPlue, Nancy Lee, Betty McDonald, Lilah Rabun, Betty Risinger, Anne Stewart, Harol Turner, Mary Jo Ware, Lynelle Widick, Lora Willis. Alpha Tau Delta is an honorary organization founded on the Louisiana Tech campus in 1955. The purpose of the organization is to recognize the dis¬ tinguished senior women on campus. These women are selected on the basis of scholarship, citizenship, and leadership. Each spring the group holds a banquet to honor the new initiates and the newly selected advisers. The group’s future plans include that of qualify¬ ing for admittance in the national organization of Mortar Board. The officers for this year are: Carl Sue Hayden, president; Patricia Smith, vice-president; Patsy Jane Mayfield, secretary; Charis Jean Wedgeworth, treas¬ urer; and Vanelle Widick, publicity director. 1 [ l 241 BETA TAU First row : William E. Amis, John Barber, Dick Brown, Charles Con- naughton, Kenneth D. Davis. Sec¬ ond roiu: Richard G. Downs, Ron¬ ald Harrell, Curtis James, Giles Laney, Marwan Mazhar. Third row. Ralph McMickle, Billy Odum, Tho¬ mas Pelt, Farrell Perdreauville, Joe Purvis. Fourth row : Charles Rob¬ erts, K. R. Royer, Fred Rubey, Jack Salley, Conley P. Smith. Fifth row: Clarence Sneed, Walter Stagg, Max Stracener, Mack Thompson, fames Wingate. Sixth row: L. L. Wright. Not shown: Kenneth Fountain, My¬ ron Lindsey, William T. Sartor. Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885. The Tech chapter was formerly known as the Delta Alpha Rho Engineers. The purpose of this organization is “to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as undergraduates in engineering . . . and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in the engineering colleges of America.” The officers for this year are Giles E. Laney, president; D. Ronald Harrell, vice-president; Bill Odum, recording secretary; Myron Lindsey, corresponding secretary; Marwan Mazhar, treasurer; and J. R, Brown, cataloger. « PHI KAPPA PHI A national honorary scholastic society, Phi Kappa Phi, was founded in 1897. The chapter at Louisiana Tech was organized in 1951. Election to member¬ ship is based on scholarship and character. Members are elected from the upper five per cent of the last semester juniors and from the upper twelve and one-half per cent of the seniors. Officers are P. K. Smith, president; Paul T. Hen- dershot, faculty vice-president; Charles Connaughton, student vice-president; Mabel May, secretary-treasurer; and M. Frances Fletcher, journal correspondent. First row: F. O. Adam, Jr., Randall Franklin Barron, Lloyd P. Blackwell, Ben T. Bogard. Second row : Gloria Dean Bryant, Merle Burk, John A. Cawthon, Irwin Edwin Clair, Charles Edgar Clark, Charles Connaughton, Mary Moe Connaughton, William Donald Crawley. Third row: Mary Beth Culp, Beth Dawkins, Robert Elioff, Kathryn Janell Evans, Russell C. Fer- rington, Frances Fletcher, M. Hayne Folk. Jr., Kenneth Foun¬ tain. Fourth row: Hollis Fulton, Patricia Ingram Garland, Dorothy Etta Goff, Alice Graham, Ronald Harrell, Paul T. Hendershot, Linda Thompson Henderson, Byron L. Johnson. Fifth row: D. E. Johnson, Joanne Lay, Myron Jerry Lindsey, James McDevitt, John J. McDow, John E. McGee, James W. Malone, Mabel May. Sixth row: Billy Odum, Bernice O’Neal, Thomas Edward Pelt, Farrell J. Perdreauville, Lilah Rabun, Fonnie H. Reagan, Jr., Margaret Ann Reeves, Elizabeth Risinger. Seventh row: Roland Robertson, Walter Stagg, Jr., Leu Strange, Raymond Meeks Strong, Mack Thompson, Dorothy Tomlinson, Charis Wedgeworth, Vanelle Widick. Not shown: Frederick Beckett, Sara Jane Goodwin, Alene T. Goodwyn, Claud J. Irby, James Truly Johnson, Giles Eugene Laney, Barbara Price Lash- ley, Dallas 1)! Lutes, William Paul McLean, Dana Davis Miles, Burton R. Risinger, Reggie Rives, Sallie Robison, R. L. Ropp, H. J. Sachs, Richard A. Smith, Paul K. Smith, Joanne Puckett Watson, John B. Wilson, Lynelle Widick, Deloris Wimberly, Lora Willis. 243 First row: Wallace Anthony, Betty Aycock, Jen¬ nings Blackmon, Mary Camille Harper. Second rou : Linda Thompson Henderson, Betty Hoye, Charles Jackson, Ruth Knotts. Third row: James Logan, James Lyon, Linda Lee Mims, Lilah Rabun. Fourth row: Walt Ryland, Ruth Carol Scheerer, James Stanford, Betty Sutton. Fifth row: Norma Tucker, Harol Lynn Turner, Lanelle Widick, Vanelle Wi- dick. SIGMA TAU DELTA Rho Gamma chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English fra¬ ternity, was founded at Tech in 1931. Its purposes are to foster a spirit of fellow¬ ship among those specializing in English and to extend recognition to those who achieve distinction in literary composition. The organization entered a total of twenty-four manuscripts in contests spon¬ sored by the College Writers Society of Louisiana, won five places and were awarded the sweepstakes cup at the Society’s annual meeting this spring. Officers for the organization are: James Logan, president; Lilah Rabun, first vice-president; Wallace Anthony, second vice-president; Norma Tucker, secretary-treasurer; Linda Mims, assistant secretary; James Lyon, sergeant-at- arms; Harol Lynn Turner, chairman of the Louisiana collection. Faculty members of Rho Gamma chapter are A. Z. Bu tler, Dr. John Cawthon, G. Edward Jones, Dr. R. L. Ropp, Ernest Russell, Dr. H. J. Sachs, Robert C. Snyder, Dr. J. B. Wilson, and Dr. Frances Fletcher, faculty adviser. I First row: Edward L. Andrews, Ralph Bailey, Ja ck Barnett, Lamar Buffington, Harold Byrd, Jarrell Coyle, Ralph Cross, James Dunn. Second row : William J. Haddad, James Honey¬ cutt, Tommy Jones, Billy Dan Kline, Roy Layton, Joe Ledoux, Joe Maxwell, Hubert D. McCain. Third row: Richard McCranie, John O. Palmer, Lamar Posey, Robert Rose, William Shoultz, Tommy Vandergrift, Gayle Wells, Darwin Winfield. Not shown: John Barker, Harold Bledsoe, D. L. Butler, Robert Gaar, William Gaddy, Sam Goodwin, Eugene Hendricks, Gerald John¬ son, Leonard Maranto, John E. Maxwell, John O’Shea, Lamar Ozley. The International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi is a professional commerce and business administration fraternity. The local chapter was founded as Beta Alpha Epsilon, and obtained its charter as Beta Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi on May 15, 1948. The purpose of the organization is to foster the study of business; to encourage scholarship, social activities, and association of students; to promote closer affili¬ ation between the commercial world and students of commerce; and to further a higher standard of com¬ mercial ethics and culture. Male students regularly enrolled in the School of Business Administration or pursuing business ad¬ ministration subjects and maintaining a scholastic average above the overall men’s average in the School of Business Administration are eligible for mem¬ bership. The officers for the current year are: Lamar Buf¬ fington, president; Joe Maxwell, senior vice-president; Tommy Vandergrift, junior vice-president; Edward Andrews, treasurer; William J. Haddad, secretary; Gayle C. Wells, chancellor; Gerald Johnson, historian. 245 ( ENGINEERS’ ASSOCIATION First row : Wade Baggette, Edward Bitar, Dick Brown, John Edwards. Second row: Melvin G. Hagle, Curtis James, Bobby Kemp, Ralph McMickle. Third row: Bobby Maxey, Thomas Pelt, A1 Raney, Charles Roberts. Fourth row: A. J. Starnes, Savery Stuckey, Mac Thompson, James Wingate. Not shown: Stirling Dougherty, James Tooke. I The membership of Louisiana Tech’s Engineers’ Association is composed of students enrolled in the School of Engineering. The Engineers’ Association was organized in 1934 for the purpose of promoting interest and a spirit of friend¬ ship in the engineering department and acquainting prospective students with the engineering profession. The officers for the current year are: Curtis James, president; Ralph Mc¬ Mickle, vice-president; Sammie Craft, treasurer; Mack Thompson, secretary. 246 I I The Louisiana Tech student chapter of the A. I. Ch. E. was established in 1950. The membership of the club is composed of students enrolled in the chemi¬ cal engineering curriculum. The object of the organi¬ zation is to afford an opportunity for the students of chemical engineering to secure the intellectual stim¬ ulation that arises from professional association, to secure experience in preparing and presenting tech¬ nical material before chemical engineering audiences, to foster a professional spirit among the members, and to instill a professional pride in chemical engineering. The officers are: Bobby Maxey, president; J. A. Wingate, vice-president; John Edwards, reporter; M. G. Hagle, secretary-treasurer. First roiv: Carl Bassett, Jan A. Benson, Leo Bondurant, Thomas Bostick. Second row: Charles Butcher, Howard Carlton, E. L. Carlyon, Billy Carr, W. A. Dans, Dan D. Davis, Don DeLoach, V. B. Dunn, Ernest Dupuis. Third row: Gary Edwards, John Edwards, Gayle English, Elton C. Eubanks, Lennie Fargerson, K. L. Fletcher, Cecil Forrest, Bobby Gilliland, Sam Gueringer. Fourth row: Roy Guidry, M. G. Hagle, John Howard, Ross Jenk¬ ins, James Johnston, Paul Kyler, Walter V. Lacy, Robert E. Lee, Jr., M. J. Lindsey. Fifth row: Leroy Linton, Charles Lott, D. M. McDonald, William McRaney, T. J. Manning, Russell Marsh, Bobby G. Maxey, William Mayberry, Tommy Muse. Sixth row: Jerry Pate, Edwin Peden, Fred Perry, Robert Perry, John Roddey, Jack Salley, Ronald Sawyer, E. F. Schuler, Richard Seiler. Seventh row: Raymond Smiley, W. R. Stevenson, Joe Tucker, Charles Vanderslice, Jerry Waldron, Sherwood White, James Wingate, Bill Winterrowd, James Egbert Wyche. Not shown: T. J. Morelock. First row : John Ackel, Paul H. Armbrust, Jr., Randall Barron, Walter Bond, Robert Bozeman, Edwin Burns, Buell Close, Charles Cloutier, Dean Cunningham, John Perry Doxey, Joseph English, Curtis Ford, Kenneth Fountain, Jerry Garner. Second row: Charles Gouaux, Clynton Hafner, Charles Halbert, Joe Harveston, Doyle Holstead, Jerry Dale Hunter, Curtis James, John Kuprionis, Roy Allen Lee, Charles McBeth, Farrell Perdreauville, Oscar Pickles, Harry Poulan, Glenn Ray Powell. Third row: Joe Purvis, Maunsel Rabalais, Howard Reeves, Thomas Reynold, Charles Roberts, George Skinner, Walter Stagg, Arthur Starnes, Kerry Stokes, Johnny Therrell, Archie Voda, Wilbur Arthur Whitaker, Charles Edward Williams, Charles Wren Wolfe. Fourth row : Wayne Wright, Vernon Yeates. Not shown: W. E. Amis, J. D. Bourn, J. W. Bourn, Edward Brown, H. R. Edmiston, Miles Nall, Ralph Jolissaint, James Drouse, Michael Nasser, W. J. Owens, F. H. Reagan, Jr., John Trahan, Harry Webb, Tommy Weeks, David Welsh. A. S. M. E. 248 The Louisiana Tech Student Section of the Ameri¬ can Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded in 1949. Membership is open to all students of mechanical engineering. At the present time, there are over 50,000 active members in the 215 Student Sections of the So¬ ciety. The purpose of the organization is to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the theory and practice of mechanical engineering, in the presentation of a proper perspective of engineering work, ) in the opportunity to become acquainted with the per¬ sonnel and activities of the Society, and in the pro¬ motion of a professional consciousness and fellowship. First semester officers were: Charles Roberts, presi¬ dent; A. J. Starnes, vice-president; Savery Stuckey, sec¬ retary; Stirling Dougherty, treasurer; Curtis Ford, pro¬ gram chairman; Jerry Hunter, publicity chairman; Mr. John D. Calhoun, honorary chairman. Second semester officers: Jerry Hunter, president; Curtis Ford, vice-president; F. J. Perdreauville, secre¬ tary; C. R. McBeth, treasurer; O. K. Pickels, program chairman. A. S. M. E. 249 First row : Claude Balentine, John Barber, Edward Bitar, Billy Blanchard, Ervin Brown, Jacob Brown, Wilfred Buckelew, Charles Crain, James Cryer, Herman DeLoach, William Dew, Jr., Billy Dixon, Richard Downes, Claude Edmiston. Second row : Gene Fordham, James Franks, Billy Goudy, John Gullatt, John Herring, Claud Irby, Ernest Johnson, Sherman Jones, George McAllister, Harry Mann, Darrel Martin, Ennis Midyett, Robert Miller, James Moore, Jr. Third row: William Morton, Ludwig Mulling, Huey Naron, Thomas Pelt, Nicholas Pillon, Alvin Raney, Harry Raney, James Roach, Edward Roberts, Jr., Jimmie Robinson, Fred Rubey, Clarence Sneed, Raymond Stew¬ art, Harry Suddath. Fourth row: William Turnage, Jr., Carl Witt, Larry Wright. Not shown: Harry Chernikoff, Ben Clary, John Cordaro, Manuel Frontado, Jake Humble, James Jones, Joseph Marceaux, Charles Martin, Billy Short, Donald Walker, Hollis White. A. I. E. E. 250 The American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the professional organization of electrical engineers. The organization was founded in 1884 for the advancement of the theory and practices of electrical engineering and the allied arts and sciences and for the maintenance of a high professional standing among members. There are over 50,000 members and more than 130 student branches in the leading colleges and universities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Louisiana Tech’s student branch of the A. I. E. E. was founded in 1948. All students enrolled in electrical engineering are eligible for membership. The officers of the organization are Alvin B. Raney, president; Thomas E. Pelt, vice-president; Edward Bitar, secretary; Jacob R. Brown, treasurer. A. I. E. E. 251 A. I. M. E. The Louisiana Tech student chapter of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers was formed in March, 1955. The purpose of the chapter is “to promote fellowship among the students in Petroleum and Geological En¬ gineering, to afford students an opportunity to hear technical papers and discussions presented by mem¬ bers of industry, to prepare and present technical papers and discussions presented by members of in¬ dustry, to prepare and present technical materials be¬ fore petroleum industry groups, and to acquaint stu¬ dents with the practical phases of the industry ’ In addition to the regularly scheduled meetings, the chapter is host annually to the joint meeting of the Lou-Ark Section of the A. I. M. E., and the South Arkansas Secondary Recovery Study Group. Officers are Charles Connaughton, president; Frank Mathews, vice-president; Bill Odum, secretary; C. A. Robinson, treasurer; Dr. Glen Lee Corrigan, faculty adviser. First row : C. H. Bussey, Robert J. Campbell, Archie Carraway, Charles Connaughton. Second row: Glen Lee Corrigan, J. R. Dunn, George Fitzgerald, E. W. Harvey. Third row: Billy Horns¬ by, Billy Kidd, Bobby King, W. D. Lagrone. Fourth row: Giles Laney, Gene Leckie, Charles Liles, J. C. McLean. Fifth row: Claude McMichael, Bill Mason, Frank Mathews, Bill Odum. Sixth row: Dwain O’Steen, Bobby Pettitt, Douglas Robertson, C. A. Robinson. Seventh row: Y. S. Shakhashir, John E. Shell, R. D. Simmons, C. P. Smith. Eighth row: C. R. Smith, T. D. Stacey, Doyle Walker, Johnnie Wendell. Not shown: Willard Hancock, Billy Wayne Lee, Bruce Lenoir, Jack Miles, Hines Vaughan. 1 252 SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON First row: Charles Connaughton, Glen L. Corrigan, Harold Culpepper, Harold Daricek, Roger Galatas. Second row: Brodie Green, Ronald Harrell, William R. Higgs, Giles Laney, Maurice McKinney. Third row: Bill Odum, Bobby Pettit, Herman Ratcliff, Jr., Charles Robinson, R. O. Trout. Not shown: Harold Burford, Victor Colombini, William A. Kraus, William Phillips, Conley P. Smith. Sigma Gamma Epsilon, a national earth science honorary society, was found¬ ed at the University of Kansas on March 30, 1915. Its objectives are “to recognize the outstanding students in the earth sciences (geology, geological engineering, petroleum, and geography) and further advance the social and scientific con¬ tacts between its members. ,, The Beta Xi chapter of the Society of Sigma Gamma Epsilon was installed at Louisiana Tech on April 22, 1956. In conformity with the objectives of the society, the election to membership is based on scholarship, primarily in the earth sciences. Officers of the organization for the fall semester were Brodie Green, presi¬ dent; Ronald Harrell, vice- president; Charles Connaughton, secretary-treasurer; and Conley P. Smith, corresponding secretary. Spring semester officers are Harold Burford, president; Maurice McKinney, vice-president; Eugene Lea, secretary- treasurer; and Sidney Worthy, corresponding secretary. 253 The Louisiana Tech student chapter of the American Society of Civil En¬ gineers was founded in 1949. The purpose of the oiganization is to foster the pro¬ fessional spirit in civil engineering. Each year the chapter takes a field trip to observe some phase of civil engi¬ neering. A Senior Banquet honoring the graduating students is held annually. The chapter maintains close contact with the parent organization in preparation for professional work. The officers for the group are: James D. Tooke, president; Mack F. Thomp¬ son, vice-president; Bobby D. Kemp, secretary; Wade R. Baggette, treasurer. First row : William Rufus Ambrose, James Roy Anderson, Wade R. Baggette, James T. Ballard, Ira Donald Degges. Second row: Roderick Dillon, Lee Fontaine, Jimmie Gardner, Edward T. Gates, Edward E. Hale, Jr., Bobby D. Kemp, Robert Lasater. Third row: Barney Harold Leach, Dewey Lonsberry, James F. McBride, Ralph McMickle, Marwan Mazhar, Lewis Pate, Hugh Pearson. Fourth row: Robert U. Rietzell, David Neil Ridge, Harvey D. Shaffer, Marion D. Swanner, Sammy Jay Talley, Mack F. Thompson, Thomas Watts. 254 First row : Rosalind Roden, Faye Robinson, Ruth Carol Scheeier, Betty Sutton, La Rue Jordan. Second row : Lucy Joyner, Martha Yeates, Mrs. C. E. Mitchell, Mrs. Paul McLean, Betty Wall, Jane Bankston. Third row: Nancy McWilliams, Deloris Wimberly, Glenda Canady, Lilah Rabun. Fourth row: Wiltz Barrow, Toney Morelock, A1 Cathy, Jimmy Lyles, Robert Rogers, Irwin Clair. Fifth row: Leonard Maranto, Jim Carroll, Marshall Mahoney, Bill Baxter, Paul McLean. CIRCULO DER SPRACHEN ETRANGERES The Foreign Language Club was organized on the Tech campus in 1955. It is an honorary organization composed of students of French, Spanish, and Ger¬ man. The purpose of the organization is to further an active interest in foreign languages and to bring students with this common interest into an organized re¬ lationship. The officers are: Nancy McWilliams, president; Lucy Joyner, vice-president; Ruth Carol Scheerer, secretary; Glenda Canady, treasurer; Lilah Rabun, reporter; Dr. F. O. Adam and Dr. O’Neil Richard, faculty advisers. 1 to 255 FUTURE First row : Donald Baxter, Teresa Boyd, Sharon Bradbury, Sylvia Brister, Toni Burton, Barbara Byrd, LaCelia Carlton, Betty Carpenter, Catherine Carso, Irwin Clair, Dorothy Costello, Shirley Craft, Virginia Crowley, Vernetta Earl. Second row: Joe Marie Ellett, Betty Ruth Evans, Kathryn Evans, Vernon Fairley, Dhale Fulton, Katherine Harlan, Charles Harlon, Ann Harper, Dolores Hawkins, Norma Nell Henry, Carolyn Howard, Charles Jackson, Lucy Anne Jackson, La Rue Jordan. Third row : Peggy King, Allen Lewis, Patsy Louise Liles, Mary Pat Littlefield, Wilma Ann McArthur, Sandra McClung, Carolyn Miller, Linda Lee Mims, Pat Morgan, Ramona Neal, Betty Nicklas, Dorothy Olds, Merrilee Parker, Margaret Perritt. Fourth row : Danene Perryman, Frances Platt, Barbara Price, Mona Reed, Faye Robinson, Lillian Roddy, Dorothy Sanders, Edna Searles, Shirley Skains, Lessie Dee Smith, Patricia Nell Smith, Barbara Jean Teer, Ollie V. Tietje. Fifth row: Harol Lynn Turner, Joan Vines, Billie Vise, Linda Watson, Delores Watts, Ama Rose Webber, Lane Wells, Lael White, Lynelle Widick, Jane Williams, Patsy Wilson, Betty Jo deYampert, Martha Ann Yeates. Not shown : Beverly Catanese, Janell Hyde, Margaret Ann Jenkins, Joyce King, Dana Miles, Patricia Marie Smith. 256 TEACHERS OF AMERICA The George Bond Chapter of the Future Teachers of America on the Louisiana Tech campus received its charter from the national organization in 1951. The outstanding purpose of this organization is to provide opportunities of leadership and fellowship for young people preparing to teach. The chapter sponsors an Education Day to honor all education majors and sends representatives of the chapter to the State F. T. A. convention in the spring of each year. The Advisory Board consists of Dr. LaRue Co- canougher, sponsor, and Wilma Smith and Morgan D. Peoples, advisers. The officers of the group are: Teresa Boyd, presi¬ dent; Allen Lewis, vice-president; Sandra Me Clung, secretary; Patricia Nell Smith, treasurer; Betty Nick- als, librarian; and Charles Harlon, parliamentarian. 257 first row: Ferrell Spivey, Floyd Fullerton, Dwight Young, Connie Bob Horne, Jerry Gamble, F. M. Logue. Second row : Albert Wurster, Larry Pate, Bill Davison, Bob Walker, Hal Barker. Third row: Robert Williams, Jerry Fenton, Clayton Streback, B. F. Vaughan, William Lofton, James Head. Fourth row: Don Weston, James Dowen, Mac McCullen, Ralph Merritt, Glenn Clark, Ernest Bryant. Fifth row: Myron Bailer, Bobby Till, Jessie Holder, Don Whittington, Horace Slator. BLOCK AND BRIDLE The Louisiana Tech Chapter of the National Block and Bridle Club was organized to promote and increase interest among the students of animal hus¬ bandry and to bring about close relationships between the students and the men pursuing some phase of this field as a profession. Each year the club exhibits livestock in state and local fairs to help support the judging team and to finance the annual spring banquet. The organization also sponsors a student intramural rodeo each year. Club officers are Ferrell Spivey, president; Ben Vaughan, vice-president; Mac McCullin, secretary; Floyd Fidlerton, treasurer; Bill Loftin, historian; Larry Lott, parliamentarian; and Hal B. Barker, Glenn Clark and Ernest Bryant, advisers. I 258 These livestock judges of Tech won the championship trophy for the third con¬ secutive year in senior intercollegiate competition at the hat Stock Show held in Houston, Texas. Club members show off some of the Louisiana Tech prize winning show herd. 259 Charis Jeanne Wedgeworth President First row : Helen Branton, secretary; Richard Downs, spiritual director; Barbara Hodgkins, librarian; Ernest Carl Jones, faculty adviser. Second row: James Logan, publicity director; Charles Lott, chapel director; Bill Martin, BMOC representative; Maxine Milner, music director. Third row: Judy Moses, YWA representative; Buena Pittard, center hostess; James Stanford, missions director; Wayne Stephenson, promotional director. Fourth roiv: Jimmy Terrill, men ' s aihletic director; Norma Jean lerrill. social director; Norma Tucker, women’s enlistment Rebecca Upshaw, women’s athletic director. Fifth row: Neil Wagoner, men’s enlistment.’ BAPTIST STUDENT UNION I he Baptist Student Union is an organization designed to coordinate the religious activities for Baptist students on the Tech campus and to extend the influence of the church into the school and make Christianity collegiate. The purpose of the organization is to conserve Southern Baptist college youth for Christian leadership and the Kingdom of God. It is a church centered movement. Membership is composed of all the Baptist students on the Tech campus. Sam Sanford is the director of the Baptist Student Union. 260 Scene from the Christmas Pageant given by the Baptist Student Union this year. The Baptist Student Union has many activities during the year. This year it gave a pre-school retreat, a Christmas pageant, took part in state wide activities, sponsored a Missions banquet and an alumni lunch¬ eon at Homecoming, and gave its annual BSU picnic in the spring. For the second year the group won Sing Week and retained ownership of the cup permanently. They sang “Almighty God of Our Father ’ A newspaper is published by the organization three times a semester. It is called the “Bow Wow.” Top : Fellowship period at the pre-school retreat held at Miracle Camp at Ringgold. Bottom: The BSU provided background music for the Christmas pageant. Guests and members enjoy the Installation Banquet held each spring, 261 WESLEY FOUNDATION 262 First row: David Benefield, treasurer; Joan Blon- din, food chairman; Virginia Ann Crowley, Sun¬ day morning worship chairman; James Vernon Fairley, Sunday evening vespers chairman. Second row : Martha Gillen, music chairman; Bobby Hin¬ ton, house chairman; John Holstead, grounds chairman; Lucy Ann Jackson, secretary. Third row : Mary Jon Jefcoat, drive-in luncheon chair¬ man; Becky Jones, social service chairman; Frank Jones, social service chairman; Le Roy Linton, personnel chairman. Fourth rote: Mary Pat Littlefield, food chairman; Betty McClanahan, library chairman; Johnny Maxwell, recreation chairman; Myra Ann Moore, personnel chair¬ man. Fifth row: Edwin Peden, president; Mar¬ garet Perritt, Thursday evening vespers; Peggy Rison, newspaper chairman; Leggy Roberts, vice-president. Sixth row: Johnnie Webb, girls’ intramural chairman; Lane Wells, publicity chairman. Not shown: Jean Frye, choir director; Charles Vanderslice, boys’ intramural chairman. Recreational facilities are provided at the center for members to enjoy. Top : The Wesley choir practices for Sing Week. Middle: Students use the library at the center for study . Bottom: The council at its regular Wednesday night meeting. Wesley Foundation is the arm of the Methodist Church on the college campus. The slogan of this organization is “A Home Away from Home.” All Methodist students on the campus are members of this organization. Wesley Foundation seeks to understand the col¬ lege community and relate it to Christ, to cultivate and make vital Christian living for its members, to tie students to the Church and train for leadership. These areas are developed through study, teamwork, prayer, worship, recreation, singing, discussions, con¬ ferences, and retreats. Pearley Maye Kelley is the director of Wesley Foundation. Wesley’s entry in the Homecoming Parade had the slogan, “Cut off the power in the Lion’s booth.” 263 CLUB CANTERBURY 264 The Louisiana Tech chapter of the National Canterbury Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church was re-organized on the Tech Campus at the beginning of the 1955 fall semester. It is designed to offer an opportunity for students on the college campus to receive the teaching of Christ through the faith and practice of the Episcopal Church. During the fall semester the organization sponsored a “Get Acquainted Supper” and “A Harvest Blast” at Hallo¬ ween. Officers are Hank Fraser, president; Wayne Ard, vice-president; and Bill Winterrowd, secretary-treas¬ urer. Top: The Episcopal Center is located just off the campus. Middle: Spiritual guidance is received through the regular services. Bottom: Students go to the center for study periods. Sharon Bradbury takes part in the remodeling of the center. First row : Patricia Ann Aucoin, Carol Ann Bohan, Louis Boudreaux, Janice Camell, Gonzalo Casanova, Renato Joseph Delbianco, James Robert Gandy, Milburn James Guillory. Second row : Matt Freddie Herlevic, Many Danute Kuprionis, Leonardo Lam- arche, Emily Langford, Sue Meredith, Warren Henry Morey, Michael Joseph Nasser, John O’Shea. Third rozv : Farrell Perdreauville, Oscar Pickels, Ann Reeves, Gretchen Alice Ridge, Nancy Roberts, Ann Robinson, Pat Ruple, George Skinner. Fourth row : Max Thornton, Robert Woods James Tauber, Joe Tauzin. Not shown : Roderick Charles Lejuene, Michael John Monsour, III, John Richard Ogea, Mack Thomas. The Louisiana Tech chapter of the National New¬ man Club Federation was organized in 1941 and federated in 1947. The purposes of the club at secular institutions of learning is to supplement the work of secular instruction with spiritual and religious in¬ struction, to give the Catholic students an oppor¬ tunity to come together and to know one another. Activities for the group this year have been Com¬ munion Breakfasts, picnics, skating parties, a Christ¬ mas party, and an Easter party. The officers for the year are: Oscar K. Pickels, president; Robert L. Woods, vice-president; Doris Ann Robinson, secretary; Renato J. Delbianco, treasurer. NEWMAN CLUB 265 HOME ECONOMICS CLUB The Home Economics Club on the Tech campus is a student division of the American Home Economics Association. It has a dual purpose of broadening one’s knowledge in the field of homemaking and providing an opportunity for girls to combine educational, busi¬ ness, and social interests. Activities for the group during the year included a cake sale and a trip to the state convention in Lafayette. The officers are Vicky Hinton, president; Ann Stewart, vice-president; Shirley Speights, secretary; Joan Blondin, treasurer; Lissa Kiper, reporter; Mary Jo Ware, parliamentarian; and Miss Ruth Richard¬ son, club adviser. First row: Jackie Adcock, Vallie Adcock, Wayne Ard, LaDean Black, Joan Blondin, Myra Bruchhaus, Doris Bryant, Janice Camell, Marsha Kay Clinton, Nancy Cloninger. Second row: Jo Ann Cox, Shelby Jean Davis, Margaret Ann Deason, Connie DeBoe, Joan Marie Drewett, Sara Ewing, Barbara Flannagan, Shirley Dale Frasier, Jane Fuller, Janis Futrell. Third row : Mary Ann Glover, Sylvia Goss, Billie Faye Gray, Harriette Haley, Arlen Hall, Katherine Harlan, Barbara Hodgkins, Dorothy Lee Humble, Ann Jones, Monnie Jones. Fourth row : Lissa Kiper, Anna Fay LaPlue, Joan Loe, Ann McCaleb, Jeanne Mack, An¬ drea Meek, Nancy Miessner, Delois Moony, Myra Ann Moore, Sara Moore. Fifth row : Georgia Mott, Janette Murphy, Buena Pittard, Yvonne Porter, Jean Rea, Vicky Reed, Carolyn Sue Reese, Ann Reeves, Miss Ruth Richardson, Margaret Ann Riser. Sixth row: Peggy Rison, Kathrine Rogillio, Mary Virginia Ross, Yvonne Sanders, Theta Smith, Fay Southern, Shirley Speights, Sara Standifer, Jerry Jan Stanford, Kay Stewart. Seventh row : Martha Ann Stewart, Linda Stiles, Leu Strange, La Luce Thomp¬ son, Tillie Tolar, Mary Alice Tuberville, Mary Jo Ware, Mary Ethel Watts, Irma Elaine Willett, Jo Womack. Not shown : Gail Lazarus, Nina Lenoir, Della Ann Rabb, Frankie Rundell, Irene Sims, Ruth Spofford. First row : Curtis Allen, Glynn Carver, G. W. Churchwell, Janies Edward Clark, Glenn Cobb, Maureen Gremillion, George Haley. Second row: Alvern Hartwig, June Hemphill, Vic Hender¬ son, Billy Jennings, Erwin Mathys, Jere Mac McBride, A. G. Owens, Jr. Third row : Wayne Owens, Elizabeth Parish, Monta Sue Phillips, Patricia Slaughter, Lessie Dee Smith, Tommy Taylor, Max Thornton. Fourth row: Cyrus Tietje, Tillie Tolar, Richard Wall, Lora Willis, Mack Young. Not shown: Mary Davis. The Biological Society was formed at Tech in 1956. The Society has pledge, active, associate, junior, honorary, and alumni membership. To be eligible for nomination for membership into the Society, a student must have an over-all “C” average and must have completed eight semester hours in bacteri¬ ology, botany or zoology. The purpose of the organization is “to promote an interest in the biological sciences; to cultivate scholarship; and to seek, whenever possible, a practical application of biology.” Officers of the club are Wayne Owens, president; Dick Wall, vice-president; Mary Davis, secretary; G. W. Churchwell, treasurer; A. G. Owens, Jr., program chairman; and Dr. Otto Wasmer and S. S. Kilgore, faculty advisers. 267 ' S ' Left to right: Tommy Davis, Jim Appleby, Walter Stagg, Gordon Cloutier, Massey Valentine, Curtis Ford, Robert Miller, Lamar Posey, Wayne Wright, Charles Connaughton. Not shown : George Erskine, Kenneth Fountain, Curtis James, J. R. Miears, Ralph McMickle, A. J. Starnes. ARNOLD AIR SOCIETY The Arnold Air Society at Louisiana Tech is a part of the national society which was formed in 1950 to encourage students to participate in Air Force pro¬ grams and to create their interest in learning more about the Air Force before being called to active duty. The organization is honorary and new members are selected by an unani¬ mous vote of all members. The candidates for membership are selected on the basis of showing great military bearing, leadership ability, and interest in the ROTC activities and program. 268 The V-3 Piper CAib and Luscombe planes owned by the club. The Flying Club is made up of Tech students and faculty members who are flying enthusiasts. The club was organized for the purpose of providing an eco¬ nomical means for its members to learn to fly and to keep flying after they have received their pilot certifi¬ cates. 1 he Club boasts a V-3 Piper Club, which it bought in the fall of 1955, when it organized. In the fall of 1956, the club bought a new plane, an all metal Luscombe, which is capable of crusing at over 100 m.p.h. in cross country flights. The officers for the club are Dickie Fernandez, president; Richard Guerriero, vice-president; Jim Nay¬ lor, secretary; Charles Roberts, treasurer; Harold Camp, maintenance officer. WINGS AND PROPS, INC. First row : Joe Rayborn, James Naylor, M. B. Rabalais, Ronald Tubbs, Robert J. Campbell. Second row: Robert George, E. L. Johnson. Dickie Fernandez, James D. Mathney, Harold Camp, Lamar Jones, Charles Roberts, Roddy Dillon, Pat Cardwell, Mitchell Midyett. 269 BETA ALPHA P S I First row : Bobby Barrett, Leroy Erskine, Russell Ferring- ton, Bennie Goodwin. Second row : William Hanson, Billy Kline, Mamie Kovac, Jim McDevitt. Third row : Patsy Mayfield, John Plielps, Burton R. Risinger, Harold J. Smolinski. Fourth row: William R. Rives, Richard Roberson. Not shown : Edward Andrews, John W. Barker, James T. Johnson, Volney Pierce, Huey Lee Roper. Beta Alpha Psi is a national honorary accounting fraternity. The purpose of the club is “to encourage and foster the ideal of service as the basis of the accounting profession; to promote the study of accountancy and its highest ethical standards; to act as a medium between professional men, instructors, stu¬ dents, and others who are interested in the development of the study or pro¬ fession of accountancy; to develop high moral, scholastic and professional attain¬ ments in its members; and to encourage cordial intercourse among its members and the profession.” The officers are Billy Don Kline, president; Edward Andrews, vice-president; Patsy Mayfield, secretary; Charles Phelps, treasurer; William R. Rives, faculty vice-president. 270 i ACCOUNTING CLUB hirst row: Edward Andrews, Bobby Barrett, William Bassett, David Benefield, Marion Bird, William Boler, James Caskey, Joseph Catanese. Second row: John Cheek, Johnny Chism, Melvin Colvin, George Erskinc, Russell Ferrington, Bennie Bob Goodwin, Jimmy Harrison, Horace Head. Third row: James I. Johnson, Billy Dan Kline, William Knight, Mamie Lou Kovac, Gary Lusby, Alvin McCann, James McDevitt, Bettye Martin. Fourth row: Minor Mashaw, Patsy Mayfield, James Ralph Moreland, Robert Napper, Paul Odum, W. R. Rives, Richard Roberson, Harold J. Smolinski. Fifth row: Joel Thomas, Benny Thrailkill, Dorothy Tomlinson, Harriett Ann Tubb, Odie Vaughan, Benny Weems, Roland Wisinger. Not shown: John Barker, Drew Fowler, James R. Gaar, Dennis Griffin, Bill Hanson, Richard McCranie, Melvin Phelps, Volney Pierce, George Raus. The Louisiana Tech Accounting Club was organ¬ ized in 1953. It is an honorary professional organ¬ ization for encouraging higher standards of scholar¬ ship and developing a closer relationship between ac¬ counting students, faculty, and business men. Mem¬ bers must be accounting majors with a “B” average for four semesters of accounting and an overall C” average. The organization meets twice each month with one meeting devoted to business affairs of the club and the other meeting to j rofessional develojmient.. The officers for the year are: Ralph Moreland, j resiclent; James Gaar, vice-jDresident; Robert E. Nap- per, secretary; Melvin Colvin, Jr., treasurer; and Wil¬ liam S. Knight, faculty adviser. 271 First row: Wade Aymond, Charles Bell, Ralph Billingsly, Maurice Brownell, Ralph Cross, Donald Crouch, Harold Doughdril. Second row: Lester Davis, Billy Dean, James Dunn, Charles L. Farrar, Bobby J. Festervand, William Hanson, Roy L. Layton. Third row: Bobby McCarley, Leonard Maranto, Harold Matti- son, Lolan Melancon, William L. Shoultz, Lionel Smith, Ralph Townsend. Fourth row: Romeo Turgeon, Thomas Vandergrift, Bobby Whellis, Darwin Winfield, Ronald Wisinger, William Wright, John Zych. Not shown: Jay Bond, Donald Cooper, B. E. McNaughton, Edward W. Novak, Samuel Poe, William Price. The Louisiana Tech Society for the Advancement of Management is a part of the national professional organization of management people in industry, com¬ merce, government, and education. The purpose of this organization is “to develop efficiency through the study and application of scien¬ tific principles and methods of management; to pro¬ mote and accomplish the various mutual interests of management, investors, labor, government, and the public in improved management; to provide direct means whereby executives, engineers, teachers, and public officials are able to apply scientific methods to management problems; and to inspire in manager and employee a constant adherence to the highest ethical conception of individual and collective social responsibility.” The officers are Lionel Smith, president; Darwin Winfield, vice-president; Ralph Cross, secretary-treas¬ urer; Dr. W. T. Meek, faculty adviser. SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANAGEMENT 272 CLUB MARKETING The Tech Marketing Club was organized on April 15, 1956, by a group of marketing majors for any college student interested in marketing and any busi¬ nessman approved by the Executive Committee. Honorary life membership may be granted to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the edu¬ cational program of the organization and whose eminence in the field of market¬ ing warrants such an award. Some of the purposes of the club are ‘ho foster scientific study and research in the field of marketing, to develop better public understanding and appreci¬ ation of marketing problems, to study and discuss legislation and judicial de¬ cisions regarding marketing, and to promote friendly relations between students, facidty, and businessmen.” Officers of the club are Jerry Fraser, president; David Tawater, member¬ ship vice-president; John Zych, program vice-president; Judith Hearne, secretary; Earl Hammett, treasurer; and Dr. Minnie B. Tracey, Dr. Leslie Bayliss, and Amos W. Ford, faculty advisers. First row : John Edward Adcox, Ralph Billingsley, Gerald Bryant, Lester Davis, Daryle Lamar Dean. Second row: James Elarriza, Donald Farrow, Bobby Joe Festervand, Jerome Fraser, Patricia Garland. Third row : Earl Hammett, Judy Deen Hearn, Dot Hunt, Joe Le- doux, Robert McDonald. Fourth rote: Marion Shaner, David Ta¬ water, Dorothy Tomlinson, Ralph Townsend. Dr. Minnie Tracey. Fifth row : Jerry Watters, Vanelle Wiclick, William Wright, Bettie Murry Zych, John Zych, Jr. Not shoivn: Dr. Leslie Bayless, Sally Connell, Charles Edwards, Amos Ford, V. P. Herron, Jr., Tommy Hinton, Wil¬ liam Price, Wayne Shelby, Bob Storm, Dot Thompson. The governing body in Aswell Hall. Projects for the group this year included in the year, one of which was providing magazines for the dormitory. Seated, left to right : Ann Stewart, floor repre¬ sentative; Lilah Rabun, secretary; Julinda Abu Nasr, floor representative; Charis Wedgeworth, devotional chairman; Monta Sue Phillips, treas¬ urer; Harol Turner, floor representative. Stand¬ ing: Mrs. Nettie Thornton, head resident; Thel¬ ma Jane McKinney, vice-president; Peggy Rob¬ erts, CWC representative; Lillian Roddy, presi¬ dent; Lael White, social chairman; and Betty White, WRA representative. i i ADAMS HONOR COUNCIL ASWELL HONOR COUNCIL Standing, left to right : Harvey Ann Roberts, WRA representative; Lynelle Widick, floor rep¬ resentative; Shirley Billingsley, WRA representa - tive; Betty Hoye, vice-president; Mary Jane Cob!), assistant social chairman; Nancy Lee, floor representative; Theresa McMichael, floor repre¬ sentative; Harriette Haley, social chairman; Mar¬ garet Ann Jenkins, president. Second row stand¬ ing: Marion Shaner, CWC representative; Mary Ann Gorton, floor representative. Seated: Mrs. Lucile Hardaway, head president; Ann Harper, floor representative; Camille Clark, secretarv; Myra Ann Moore, treasurer. 274 The governing body in Aswell Hall. Projects for the group this year included sponsoring three parties for the dormitory residents and sandwich sales every Thursday night. The governing body of Sophomore Hall . Seated, left to right : Dolores Watts, treasurer; Faye Goodwin, secretary; Becky Jones, floor rep¬ resentative; Peggy Hitesman, social chairman; Lelia Krieg, floor representative; Mrs. Courtney White, head resident. Standing: Betty Dubberly, vice-president; Billie Lester, president; Cathy Econoinides, floor representative. June Riddick, Campus Women’s Council Representative. Not shown: Ann Gillum, floor representative; Kata Ray Lusk, WRA representative; Betty McClana- han, devotional chairman. SOPHOMORE HONOR COUNCIL HARPER HONOR COUNCIL Seated: Sue Knause, floor representative; Ann McCaleb, floor representative; Billie Ann Ruple, social chairman; Joye Gallman, floor representa¬ tive. Standing: Sylvia Goss, secretary; Robbie Johnson, floor representative; Elizabeth Terry, floor representative; Carolyn Boyce, vice-presi¬ dent; Gale Wesson, president; Martha Franks, devotional chairman; Ann Jones, Campus Women’s Council representative; Betty Norris, treasurer. Not shoivn: Miss Anna Kribs, head resident. The Harper Honor Council sponsors the Mothers’ Weekend and handles all problems which arise in the dormitory. First row: Horace J. Austin, Gonzalo Casanova, Edwin Caughlin, Elclred Lee Harp, Frederic Hoogland, John H. Johnson, Larry LaPlue, Howard W. McDonald, Jr. Second row: Jerry Massey, Bill Sartor, Jesse Simmons, Ralph Smith, Roy Smith, Larry Terry, John Winham. Not shown: Giroud Burt, Herman Cal¬ houn, James Drake, Jerry Gwinn, Donald Hoogland, Rodney Johnson, Eddie Simpson, Gilbert Simpson, Bobby Wise. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING CLUB The Agricultural Engineering Club was organized on the Tech campus in September, 1954. Some of its objectives are “to acquaint agricultural engineering students with topics of interest to them through the medium of addresses by competent speakers and tours to interesting and informative industries and projects, and to foster the development of a professional spirit.” Activities include participation in campus in¬ tramural sports, Engineers’ Day, Agricultural-Forestry Day, and a project to provide funds for the develop¬ ment of barbecue pits for the Tech picnic grounds. Officers are Larry LaPlue, president; John Wind¬ ham, vice-president; Howard McDonald, Jr., secretary- treasurer; and Frederick Beckett, faculty adviser. AGRICULTURE CLUB The Agriculture Club seeks to promote scientific and professional interest in agriculture and related fields. Activities of the club include discussions by leaders in the various fields, Agriculture-Forestry Day, a fall wiener roast and a spring hayride. First row: Horace Austin, Edwin Caughlin, Eldred Lee Harp, John Johnson, Larry La Pine, Howard McDonald, Jr., William Sartor. Second row: Jesse Simmons, Jr., Ralph Smith, Roy Smith, Larry Terry, John Windham. 276 k First row: Larry Alexander, Glenda Canady, Kenneth Cooley, V. B. Dunn, Ernest Dupuis, Gayle English, Leo Lamarche. Sec¬ ond row: Myron Lindsey, Leroy Linton, Tommy Manning, Jimmy Wyche. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY The American Chemical Society is the world’s largest professional scientific organization, and its Student Affiliates program has one of the largest en¬ rollments of any student group. The Student Affiliates program has one of the largest enrollments of any student group. The Student Affiliates of the Society share with the parent organization the purpose of providing for its members the breadth of outlook and opportunity for professional association and advance¬ ment needed by all who plan to make a life work of chemistry or chemical engineering. Officers of the organization at Tech are Glenda Canady, president; Jimmy Wyche, vice-president; Larry Alexander, secretary-treasurer; and Dr. C. H. Smith, faculty adviser. HONORARY PHYSICS SOCIETY The Physics Club is an honorary organization which promotes scholastic achievement, provides mem¬ bers with information about professional duties, and stimulates social contacts and fellowship for the mem¬ bers. The club was organized in 1956. The club spon¬ sors outside speakers and science films at the meet¬ ings. During the year two social outings are held. The officers of the organization are Tom Wood¬ ard, president; Russell Rainbolt, vice-president; Rol¬ and Robertson, secretary-treasurer; and Robert Elioff, faculty adviser. Members of the club from left to right are William Petty, Tom Woodard, Ronald Tubbs, Charles Frye, Gail Waugh, Rol¬ and Robertson, Jim Lyles, William Terreschkovich, James Nut- tall, Don Finch, Oliver Spencer, Robert Elioff. James Lyon, Alan Bierbaum, Mary Ann Gorton, John Lolley, Lehane Cloud, Miss Wilma Baugh, Charis Wedgeworth. Not shown : Ann Hendrickson. PI KAPPA DE Pi Kappa Delta, a national honorary forensic fra¬ ternity, is composed of outstanding students who engage in intercollegiate forensic competition and who meet the standards of the local and national organizations. The organization sponsors a college forensic tournament, a high school forensic tournament, and a high school forensic clinic. The Louisiana Tech chapter has earned an en- L T A viable record this year in competition with other col¬ leges and universities. In debate, discussion, and in¬ dividual events, the Tech chapter earned eleven super¬ iors, five excellents, five first places, seven second places, three third places. The officers are James Lyon, president; Charis Wedgeworth, secretary-treasurer; Lane Wells, reporter; and Wilma Baugh and Paul J. Pennington, faculty advisers. ALPHA PHI OMEGA Alpha Phi Omega was started on the Tech campus in 1941 and reactivated in 1956. Members of the or¬ ganization must have previously been members of the Boy Scouts of America. The purpose of this fraternity is to assemble col¬ lege men in the fellowship of the Scout Oath and Law, to develop friendship and to promote service to humanity. This program embodies four fields of ac¬ tivity: service to the student body and faculty; service to youth and community; service to members of the fraternity; and service to the nation as participating citizens. Officers are John Herring, president; William Ambrose, vice-president; Emmett Mathews, secretary; Ronald Dubois, treasurer. First row : William Rufus Ambrose, Don Black, Glenn Cobb, Louis Dubois, Jimmie Gardner, Eddie Harvey, John Herring! Second row : Allen Lewis, Ray Rundell, Daniel Lewis Wiglev, Ben Williams. 7 278 First row : Edward Andrews, Lynn Bagley, Kenneth Caldwell, Joe Ledoux, Nancy Lee, Joe Maxwell, Ralph Moreland. Second row : Pat Ruple, James L. Wilson, Burton R. Risinger, Paul T. Hendershot. BUSINESS STUDENTS ASSN. The Business Students’ Association is composed of all students in the school of Business Administra¬ tion. The association promotes the traditional Com¬ merce Day on the campus each year. Officers are Ralph Moreland, president; Joe Le¬ doux, first vice-president; Nancy Lee, second vice- president; Pat Ruple, secretary; Joe Maxwell, treas¬ urer. Representatives are Edward Andrews, account¬ ing; James Wilson, business; Kenneth Caldwell, eco¬ nomics; Lynn Bagley, secretarial science. Dean Burton Risinger and Dr. Paul Hendershot are faculty ad¬ visers. RADIO CLUB The Louisiana Tech Radio Club has promoted amateur radio and electronics on the Tech campus since the club was organized in 1939. The club meets bi-weekly in room 209 of Bogard Hall to transact busi¬ ness and to contact other c lubs and individuals on the chib’s 800 watt radio station, W5HGT. Member¬ ship is open to anyone, the only requisite being a genuine interest in amateur radio. In the interest of civil defense, the club operates a Conelrad monitor and maintains close liaison with the ARRL emergency corps tO ' provide emergency communication in case of enemy attack or natural disaster. Officers are David Kotar, president; Pat Watson, vice-president, Alan DeVilbiss, secretary-treasurer; and Mr. Robert Elioff, Mr. Robert S. Wynn, and Mr. C. E. Cole, Jr., faculty advisers. Club members left to right are Robert Elioff, Pat Watson, Alan DeVilbiss, C. F. Cole, Jr., Dick Shaw, Dale Flick. Not shown are Audley Mercer, Parks Goodwin, Robert Moriarty, Roderick Lejeune, Rodney Shamburger, Stewart Rabb, Robert S. Wynn. First row : Shirley Foster, Marilyn Lawrence, Bess Burckett, Shirley Edmondson, Betty Myers, Betty Benefield, Bertha Scott, Betty Anders, Mona Reed, Dorothy Till, Jo Ann Calloway. Second row: Ann Scheller, Mary Draper Henry, Mellie Jo Jefcoat, Lynn Lawrence, Marcia Borroughs, Celia Colvin, Marie Smith, Jackie Martin, Lonnie Durr, Mary A. Pearson, Mary Moore, Marilyn Ferguson. Third row: Jeanette Miller, Betty Stamm, Jane Stewart, Peggy Hughes, Lucy Jarrell, Betty Evans, Mary King, Eleanor Enright, Floy Barmore, Betty Weingart, Carolyn Lee, Lyn Wall. Fourth row: Charlotte Brown, Wanda Washington. Jo Ann McCearley, Fvebecca Bird, Patricia Tudor, Mary Dugdale, Margaret Phillips, Sally White, Sharon Owens, Janice Norris, Sue Farmer. Not shown: Sara Buckles, Ethel Corcoran, Marilyn Crowley, Elizabeth Dodson, Martha Franks, Barbara Hanna, Betty Hornaday, Barbara Loe, Annette Luck, Dorothy Merritt, Vicky Polancic, Annice Rayfield, Barbara Sandifer, Catherine Smith, Iris Strother, Jane Williams. The Freshmen Girls’ Glee Club was organized for freshmen girls interested in music. These students may or may not take school credit for participating in the organization. Each spring the Club makes a tour to neighboring cities for concerts in the high schools. This year the tour extended to the southern tip of the state and lasted for two days. Officers are Marie Smith, president; Betty Anders, secretary; Marilyn Fergu¬ son, treasurer; Sue Farmer, librarian. Mary Elaine Wallace is the director. FRESHMAN GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB 280 BAND O’GLEE 7 he Band O’Glee is composed of upper class- men who may or may not be music majors. The group makes a tour in the spring giving concerts at various high schools throughout the state. Officers are Pat Cranford, president; Betty Mc¬ Donald, vice-president; Mary Ethel Watts, secretary- terasurer; Ruth Knotts, librarian. First ™ w: Carolyn Gagnard, Jean Frye, Carolyn Foster, Hilma Benefield, Martha Perritt, Patsy King, Lavinia Kinard. Second row: Barbara Ward, Pat Fleming, Mary Ethel Watts, Betty Mc¬ Donald, Judy Moses, Margaret Ann Terrill. Alvern Hartwig. Third row : Pat Cranford, Bennie Berry, Billie Jo Campbell, Ruth Knotts, Danene Perryman, Joanne Lay, Maxine Milner. Under the direction of Marshall Bretz, the Lou¬ isiana Tech Choir specializes in presenting concert programs of various types throughout the state. I he purpose of the choir is not only to publicize Tech, but also to allow the average student here an opportunity to participate in a program which features some of the best in musical literature. Officers are Bill Abernethy, president; Tommy Nix, vice-president; Sue Hayden, secretary; Roy Steel¬ man, treasurer. THE CHOIR First row: Diane Bas tian, Cathy Economides, Carolyn Foster, Olby Love, Ben Laney, Allen Lewis, Bennie Berry, Jean Frye! Mary Stewart. Second row: Karen Upchurch, Betty McDonald! Lane Wells, Adaire Ellen, Miller Elliott, Charles Jackson, Ruth Knotts, Pat Cranford, Sue Hayden, Nelda Richardson. Third row: Wayne Tubbs, Maxine Milner, Joanne Lay, Ralph Feazel, Donald An trey, Tommy Davis, James Jones, Margaret Perritt, Nancy McWilliams, Ed Bramlett, Milton Lites. Fourth row: John Barham, Bill Abernethy, Roy Stedman, John Woolridge, Harry Thompson, Larry Ingram, Judson Gunn, Earl Alexander! Richard Nixon, Barney Westmoreland, Jewette Farley, Tommy Nix. First row: Danene Perry man, Edward Flat, Larry Stanley, Jew- ette Farley, Tommy Nix, Milton Lites, A. E. Tellinghuisen. Sec¬ ond row : Van Rogers, Adair Ellen, Charles Jackson, Barney Westmoreland, Wayne Tubbs, Kenneth Williams. Third row: James Jones, Donald Autrey, Tommy Davis, Meeks Strong, Larry Ingram, Judson Gunn, Ben Laney. MALE CHORUS The Tech Male Chorus, under the direction of A. E. Tellinghuisen, is composed of both music and non-music majors. Officers are Tommy Nix, president; James Logan, vice-president; Jewett Farley, secretary-treasurer; Larry Ingram, librarian. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY The Philharmonic Society was organized in 1940 by L. V. E. Irvine, head of the music department. The purpose of the Society is to foster and propa¬ gate the ideals, practices, and policies generally ac¬ cepted as indispensable to the successful maintenance of music as a profession. The group helped create in¬ terest in a series of artist attractions such as those new sponsored by the Louisiana Tech Concert Association. Officers are Bill Abernethy, president; Allen Lewis, vice-president; Pat Cranford, secretary; Joanne Lay, treasurer. First row: Bill Abernethy, Don Autrey, John Barham, Hilma Rae Benefield, Rebecca Bird, Billie Jo Campbell, Pat Cran¬ ford, Beth Dawkins, Hollis Fulton. Second row: Judson Gunn, Sue Hayden, Larry Ingram, Ruth Knotts, Ben Laney, Joanne Lay, Allen Lewis, Betty McDonald. Third row: Red Nixon, Mary Alice Pearson, Bertha Nan Scott, Marie Smith, Tommy Spigener, Roy Stedman, Harry Thompson, Barbara Ward. Not shown: Tommy Davis, Ralph Feazel, Jean Frye, Lynn Lawrence, Nelda Richardson, Mary Stewart, Barney Westmoreland. The Forestry Club at Louisiana Tech was found¬ ed in 1947. Its purpose is two-fold: to furnish a chance for social contact among the forestry students and faculty and to provide t he students with pro¬ fessional contact with the forestry field. Any member of the Forestry Department is eligi¬ ble for membership. The big project of the year for the club is Agriculture-Forestry Day. Officers are Bill Wells, chief forester; A. W. Reed, assistant chief forester; Clyde Todd, fiscal agent; Travis Joiner, public relations officer; and Mr. L. P. Blackwell, faculty adviser. First rou : L. P. Blackwell, Travis Joiner, A. W. Reed, Bill Wells, Clyde Todd. Second row : Carl Eubank Bob Bond, Pete Thiels, Norman Trigg, Bobby Simmons, Tommy Watts, Charles Gillette, Cecil Rowell. Third row : John Kelly, Billie Ford, David Shows, Robert Squyres, Duell McKissack, Kenneth Rockett, Bill Mercer, Erwin Mathys. Fourth row: Ray Wells, Ben Williams, Glyn Mixon, Jesse Hall, Tommy Chatham, Harvey Stall, Ronald Jenkins, William Boyd, Lamar Jordan, Robert Maza. Sixth roxu: l ine Harrison, John Bergmann, Bill Poland, John Reschar. Seventh row: Thomas, A1 Tolar, Tom Searles, Robert Stroud, Jerry Holmes, Stuart Slayton, Gene Garland, Dallas Henderson, Jim Bryant, Guy Breaux, Gayle Corlock, Reuben Kent, Donald Kay, Joe Davis, Archie Aulds, Davie McCain, Gil Wooten. FORESTRY CLUB 283 Those old Tech days, those joyful days, So cherished in our memories, Though days of toil, in many ways Were happy days and free. ALMA MATER O Tech, thy halls so beautiful, Thy pleasant walks, thy noble trees, That charmed me in my college days, Are ever dear to me. Louisiana Tech, 1 love thee, My Alma Mater, my Alma Mater; I will ever loyal be To thee my Alma Mater. Those old Tech days, those joyful days, So cherished in my memory, Though days of toil, in many ways Were happy days and free. v ■