San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Reoders ond Writers Members read and criticize original poetry and short stories at the regular club meetings. In this picture Carol Lafferty, president, is entertaining a Friday after- noon audience. The Readers' and Writers' Club is one of the literary organizations on the SAC campus. The club was organized in October, 1953, by its present sponsor, john Igo of the English department. Iohn Brantley is the current co- sponsor. Organization activities are generally confined within its weekly one-hour meet- ings. The main purposes .of the club are to as- semble young writers for the sharing and discussion of writing problems, to insure practice in writing, and to lend encourage- ment and stimulus for writing to its members. Each year, several club members are fortu- nate enough to have works published in national anthologies as a result of various literary contests which the club enters dur- ing the year. The club roster includes Thomas Walker, Wanda Wilkinson, Iohn Hauger, Elliott Stendig, Richard Hussey, Carol Lafferty, Adolph Garza. Society of Architects Aldermon The Society of Student Architects is one of the newest special interest clubs at SAC. It organized in February with 19 charter members. The future architects set forth the pur- poses of their organization as follows: To seek information relating to the architectural profession in all aspects, to promote a pro- fessional attitude between students of arch- itecture, and to provide an organization to promote the college and the architecture stu- dents. Officers of the new club included Bruce Duderstadt, presidentg Kenneth Watson, vice- presidentg R2illQl Martinez, secretary, james Crain, treasurer, Larry Woocl, reporter-hist- oriang and Richard Bothe, Student Council representative. Other charter members in- clude Richard Blankman, Eddie Cliffe, Claude Day, Robert England, Frank Garza, Gene Grulich, Joe Madison, Eugene Martin- ez, Clyde Nelson, jesse Quiroz, Carroll Rivers, Seferino Villarreal, Keith Wieters. Aldermon, the new social group for older male students,made its debut upon the crow- ded SAC club stage in early spring. Dedi- cating themselves to talking and coffee drinking, the club members feel that they are fulfilling a social need in providing the older males with an on-campus social outlet. Several informal get-togethers have been held by the club which the wives of the members were allowed to attend. The in- formality of the weekly meetings and the friendliness of the members contributes a great deal to the popularity of the organi- zation. First officers of Aldermon were Bill Car- penter, president, Bart Melbourne, vice-presi- dent, Charlie Crain, secretary-reporter, C. C. Burris, parliamentariang and Pepe Lucero, Student Council representative. 153

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Baptist Student Union L Officers of the B. S. U. are Billie Linder, S. C. rep.g Houston Craigheacl, S.C. chm.. Patsy Anne Smith, enlist- ment chm., bottom: Charles Roberts. vice-pres.: Lonnie Carter, pres.g and Clem Brook, dev. chm. Under the sponsorship of J, O, Wallace and the leadership of president Lonnie Carter, the Bap- tist Student Union completed a successful year of Worship and fellowship as one of the largest and strongest religious youth groups on the San Antonio College campus. The Baptist Student Union meets on Monday of every week in the E1 Alamo room of the Loftin Student Center for an hour of devotion. Guest speakers from different churches are often featured highlights of these meetings. One of their biggest achievements for the year was the purchase of a two-story frame house to be turned into a student center and meeting place for the members of the organization. Sitting on the steps of the house soon to be converted into a Baptist Student Center are members Marilyn Mangum, Nelda Brickey, jerry Benton, bottom, james Wallace, sponsorg Billie Linder, Houston Craighead, Patsy Anne Smith. Molly Dodson, middleg joe Lockhart, Ralph Roberts, Lonnie Carter, and Clem Brook, top. 152

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Throughout the year students have many opportunities to compete with each other for honors and to select their fellow students for positions suited to their special abilities or talents. In this 1959 group of Favorites the staff has attempted to portray the variety of selections made by student ballot alone and by student and faculty opinion combined. The only group chosen entirely by the faculty is the traditional Top Ten. Every member of the teaching staff was given an opportunity to name the students whom they thought possessed the required qualifications of leadership, scholarship, character, personality, followship, and reputation.