Texas A and M University - El Rancho Yearbook (Kingsville, TX)

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An exhuberant cheerleader practices before the football game. IS . A TocK AMfflt GOHZALEZ. IK M iff-THTU £uune r i Sandra Niemann posts a sign during election time. A major event during the fall sea- son is the campus-wide elections for the Homecoming and Lantana courts. Twelve coeds ran for the Homecoming court and 21 coeds ran for the Lantana court. Entertainment was well received during get-acquainted events. A student walks home on the tree- covered path by the Old Admin- istration Building one Fall after- noon.

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Studenti, faculty, and children enjoyed the watermelon feast held on the lawn in front of the SUB. Summertime-1965 A total of 2,276 students set a new summer session record at A l for the first day of registration on June 7. By July 16, 2,443 were enrolled for the summer session, making the highest summer enroll- ment in the history of the college. Other eventful happenings included the Jernigans' earth-circling trip to Thailand: English Professor Norman McNeil’s appointment to the presidency of Sul Ross State College: and the A l Band's participation at the World's Lions Convention in Los Angeles. Summer entertainment included a musical, speech play, a Broad- way production, a beauty contest, and a watermelon feast. Students waited in the shade to register for the summer session.

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Fall-1965 Classes began on September 20 for A l students. The fall enrollment reached a total of 4,563 students which was the highest total in 40 years. Fall activities included Dad's Day, Homecoming, the Fall carnival, the Shakespeare play, campus-wide elections and oth- er campus events. On the academic scene lectureship series opened Oct. 18 and continued throughout the year. Lecturing were Dr. Edwin R. Bogusch, Dr. John C. Rayburn, Ben P. Bailey, and B. Stanley Bittinger. Two Thailand educators, Dr. Panas Hannarlcin and Miss Opal Wattha, began their six-month administrative internship in October. Construction also began on the $1,172,000 dormitory com- plex which will house 400 students. It will be completed by Sept. I, 1966. A student begins his first day of class by becoming acquainted with his lab equipment. L, J, (Neighbor) Smith, first coach at Texas A l, got to visit with one of his star pupils, Fred Cochran of Conroe, during the Homecoming Game. Cochran scored the first touchdown in A l history in 1925.