Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT Up 115% Late last spring Texas Tech ' s journal- ism department received accreditation from the American Council of Edu- cation for Journalism. This fall, journalism department head W. E. Carets reported one of W. E. GARETS Plans improving deparlment. the fastest growth rates of any depart- ment at Tech. He also announced the addition of a graduate program, indi- cating the department ' s continuing progress. Tech was honored as the only school in the nation to become accredited in 1966. Of the 47 institutions with ACEJ accreditation, only 14 are de- 1 partments of journalism. The remain- der are complete journalism schools. At the present time, only three col- leges in Texas have a nationally ac- credited school or department of journalism. Enrollment in the Tech journal- ism department has shown a steady increase in the last fev; years. The number of students for the fall se- mester of 1966 was up 115% from three years ago, 72% from two years and 36% from last year. This tremendous growth rate affirms the department ' s need for the pro- posed journalism building and also for the new graduate program. Chosen to head the graduate school, starting in the fall of 1967, is Dr. Charles L. Allen. Dr. Allen is leaving I BOB ROOKER Ideas are important — but use your head. RON CALHOUN The know-how of reporting. Oklahoma State University, where he set up the graduate school and headed it for 17 years. He will join faculty members Carets, Ralph Selhneyer, Robert Rooker, Tan- ner Laine and Duncan Ellison. Laine, the regional editor of the Lubbock Avalanch-Journal who is known for his folklore and historical features, teaches a class in feature writing. He and KLBK news director Ellison, instructor in television and radio writing, represent the newest additions to the Tech journalism staff. As soon as possible, the students will be instructed in the shooting and editing of documentary type films on campus oriented subjects. The department sponsors Sigma RALPH SELLMEYER Finer points of photojournalism. Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, men ' s and women ' s journalistic societies. These organizations are encouraged in a variety of activities and journalistic pursuits. For the past nine years the depart- ment has sponsored summer workshops for high school teachers and students. Attendance at the workshops has jump- ed from 74 to 465. There were stu- dents from 90 high schools and nine states this year. Each year the department hosts Journalism Day on campus for high school students in the Southwest who are interested in learning about op- portunities in the field of journalism and mass communications. The de- partment also sponsors interscholastic journalism competitions among high schoolers who visit the campus. TANNER LAINE Classes learn from his experience. Tyme. — 3

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LA VENTANA DEDICATION Man Of The Year Award An enthusiastic man with a purpose is a very mild way to describe Dean Gerald W. Thomas. Dean Thomas, selected and honored as Tech ' s Man of the Year, has done much for Texas Tech. Since he arrived in 1958 as Dean of Agriculture, the Ag School has grown and improved at a rapid rate. Under Dean Thomas, the school has enlarged until now it is ranked in the top ten in the United States in terms of undergraduate majors. The School of Agriculture has a larger percentage (68%) of Ph.D. professors than any other school on campus. Presently there are over 150 active research projects or preliminary in- vestigations underway in the seven departments and at the 14,000 acre research farm near Amarillo. The establishment of the Interna- tional Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies (ICASALS) presented a new and exciting challenge for the School and will enlarge the role of the Research Farm in serving Texas and the nation. Dean Thomas is careful to empha- size that research, although the key to the quality of the graduate pro- gram, is not the major goal of the school. A well-balanced person himself, Dean Thomas is a former Navy pilot with three Distinguished Flying Crosses. He is the president of the Lubbock Rotary Club and is the author or co-author of numerous Dean Thomas Is recipient of the Man of the Year honor because of his many contributions to Tech. publications on range management, grasses, soils, livestock operations, farming and ranching risk, research, marketing and change in American agriculture. He has held special assignments in Italy, Greece, Mexico and Africa and with the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He also was general chairman of Dr. Murray ' s inaugura- tion. Dean Thomas holds membership in several scientific societies and pro- fessional organizations including the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, American Society of Range Management and the Texas Agricultural Workers Association. He holds a bachelor of science de- gree from the University of Idaho and master of science and Ph.D. from Texas A M. La Ventana co-editors Charlotte Shive and Nancy Hedleston seemed to sum it up very well when they described him as a man who has made significant contributions to Jexas Tech through his outstanding lead- ership, publications and special as- signments. wm

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LA VENTANA Bigger And Better The school year of 1966-67 can be called a bigger and better one for La Ventana. CHARLOTTE SHIVE Co-editor It was bigger because several pages were added, making the 1967 yearbook one of the largest published in the nation. In 1966 sales were high, as 11,000 out of 16,000 students sub- scribed to La Ventana. 1967 sales promise to be even greater than this. It was better because La Ventana again received First Class Honor Rating on the 1966 yearbook. Only KAY GESSLING Associate editor forty-five points were lacking to give the book an All-American rating. This bigger and better year saw as its leaders Nancy Hedleston and Charlotte Shive. These girls were chosen as co-editors for La Ventana on the basis of their past experience as section editors. Serving as production editor was Beverly Hunt and copy editor was Kay Gessling. Section editors were Ronnie Lott, Tyme and Sports Illus- trated; Barbara Reed, Town and Country and Freshmen View; Sheila Looney, Mademoiselle; Barbie Feissell, Playboy and Senior View; Noel Knight, Life and Junior View and Cheryl Russell, Post and Future. Jimmy Hogg was Art Editor and Suzi Olive was the staff assistant. A new addition was added to the Publications Department when Bill Dean replaced Phil Orman as Director of Student Publications. Dean, a graduate of Tech, served as director of publications at Lubbock High School. Under his direction, both PHIL ORMAN Publisher the newspaper and yearbook won several All-American awards. Early in September the paid staff traveled to Dallas for a visit to the place where La Ventana becomes a reality, Taylor Publishing Company. On this three-day trip, the staff toured the plant and were able to see the actual process of printing a yearbook. While there they also planned and worked the dummies of the 1967 yearbook. In October, Miss Shive and Miss Hedleston went to Philadelphia to at- tend a convention for the National Association of Collegiate Presses. Other duties for the year included judging two beauty contests for Crosbyton and Lorenzo High Schools. Working behind the scenes were many unpaid staff members, who gave of their time and effort to make La Ventana possible. Betty Anglim was selected as the Outstanding Non-paid Staff Member. In the early part of May the 1968 co-editors were named by the publica- tions committee. They were Beverly NANCY HEDLESTON Co-editor Hunt, a junior from Odessa, and Ronnie Lott a sophomore from Ros- well. New Mexico. The staff of La Ventana worked hard to present this 1967 yearbook. However, it is the student of Texas Tech, who is featured in the book and who purchased it and who made 1966- 67 a Bigger and Better year for La Ventana. OFF BEVERLY HUNT Associate editor J V-: 4 — Tyme :|| k