Texas Tech University Archives
Below are historical tidbits on the establishment and growth of Texas Tech University.

Index to the Texas Techsan Magazine

February 1950

• Why Texas Tech isn't in the Southwest Conference
• What makes your college great? Is it the football team, the faculty, the school spirit or a desire to better humanity?
• The campus is bustin' out all over? A $4,000,000 expansion program is changing the Tech scene by the minute -- Petroleum Engineering, Tech Museum, dormitories on College Avenue, Agricultural Engineering, Home Economics and the Student Union.
• It took a long time, but... the "open" sign is out -- Tech Museum
• Tech's faculty has some new faces, he's a travelin' man -- Stanley Anderson
• The loose ends -- Frank Junell, Clark Schooley, Dr. Bradley Patten, and Administration Building electronic chimes
• Campus beauties chosen for 1950 student annual
• Science at Tech... cosmic rays are so-o-o fast! And work as they may, the men of science haven't been able to catch them but at Tech they're trying
• Sports roundup -- A Raisin Bowl rehash and cage report [football and basketball]
• The faculty scene -- George Gail Heather, Haskell Taylor, R. C. Mowery, Bonnie Dysart, Alan Strout, Margarette Walker, J. C. Cross, R. M. Strandtmann, L. C. Hutchins, E. A. Gillis
• Exes help Raisin Bowl committee
• Check Aunt Hattie's Attic! History tucked away in Tech's Library
• Traditions at Tech -- Fish hats, Aggie Grove, the Double T and copyrighting it, Aggie Pig Roast, Mock Trial, and Rodeo
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• Allie White will accept TCU opening [football coach]
• Sun Princess - Glena Winston

March 1950

• Let's think about the H-Bomb... A Tech physicist and former Oak Ridge worker gives his views on what the H-Bomb means to us -- Paul P. Elliott
• It's all in the family -- Baumgardners family
• Will Rogers comes back to the plains he loved -- Will Rogers Statue dedication
• Our cagers need elbow room -- Tech needs a new gymnasium
• Tech coeds 'adopt' orphan
• Slow boat to China and back costs two cents
• Chapter chatter
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• The gentleman from Kansas -- R. C. Janeway
• New freshman coach -- Carl Mulleneaux
• Sports roundup
• Frosh grid coach picked -- Carl Mulleneux
• Loose ends -- Drane Hall becomes male only; Tech dairy department beginning oxidized flavor research; Tech's silver anniversary program; Bud Wilkinson and Coach Dell Morgan
• Engineers arrange for T-Bone circuit
• The faculty scene -- James N. Michie, Earl L. Thompson, Leone Orner, W. L. Stangel, James G. Allen, T. B. Duggan, Imogene McMurray, D. O. Wiley, A. W. Young, F. A. Kleinschmidt, Sgt. James P. Welsh, President Wiggins, and Gene Hemmle
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]

May 1950

• The academic outlook
• It's bronc bustin' time -- Block and Bridle Club and the Tech Rodeo Association
• The hitchin' post
• Sports roundup
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• From genes to Greek -- Dr. J. C. Cross
• Cradle rockers
• 1950 Homecoming date announced
• Chapter chatter
• Exes seeking officers, several already elected
• Loose ends -- W. B. Gates succeeding Dr. Holden; open houses for Engineering and Home Economics; "Texas Tech on the Parade" phonograph record sale
• The faculty scene -- W. B. Gates, James G. Allen, Annah Joe Pendleton, P. Merville Larson, Emmett Hazelwood, E. R. Heineman, R. S. Underwood, Fred W. Sparks, Bernice Moore, Raymond Elliott, Joe Haddon, A. L. Leonard, W. L. Stangel, Reginald Rushing, Ramon Kireilis
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Fall grid prospects brighten, sophomores may carry attack
• Techsans hail from 17 foreign nations
• Former Techsans given engineering permits by state
• Chile's president visits Tech campus
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]

July 1950

• Can we prevent war?
• Can Tech pull football's biggest upset of 1950?
• Graduation exercises held May 22
• Dr. Holcomb will become 'Engine dean
• Loose ends -- Tech's 11 year old Foundation Board; Geology Department dust storm research; removal of trees in front of Textile Engineering
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• Wiggins plans ROTC Camp visit
• Dr. Joe Dennis made department head beginning Sept. 1
• Senior class gift aids Student Union
• Dr. Julien Blitz moves, accepts Dallas post
• Bavarians plan Home Ec study

September 1950 [Silver Anniversary Issue]

• Tech was still a dream when West Texas threatened secession
• Home thoughts from abroad
• Silver anniversary brings back 1925-1935 memories
• The eyes of Texas focused on Tech -- football, Jimmy Williams, Buddy Barron, Don Gray
• '13' can be lucky in 1950! -- how the Tech campus has changed
• Statesmen to head list of Tech speakers
• Bootstraps and a glorious past -- Tech traditions such as the Varsity Show and the student Rodeo
• 1950 -- Year of progress - building boom on campus includes the Administration Building addition, new Engineering Building, new Petroleum Engineering Building, Home Economics addition, new Music Building, new Science Building, new Veterinary Science Building, new Stock Judging Pavilion, and plans for a new Student Center
• An 'under-grad's eye' view
• Gridiron scrapbook - Tech's 1938 champions -- includes "Cotton Bowl or Bust!" photograph and team portrait
• Five presidents have served Tech since doors swung open
• When better colleges are built
• Souvenir cover designated for anniversary date
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Silver anniversary gift chosen -- engraved silver punch service given by the Ex-Students Association for the new Student Union Building
• Letters to the editor
• 25th anniversary emblem
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]

October 1950

• Homecoming will bring football, food and fun
• Fall means back to school when summer's past
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Let's meet Mr. Band -- Dewey O. Wiley
• Democratic nominee, John White, to tour campus
• A look at the future - new departments, buildings loom in agricultural plans -- Ag Sciences new departments
• The faculty scene -- Neil Casey, Rick Jay, Bob Rutland, Marion Thompson, John S. Carroll, George W. Scott, Agatha Turner, Michael Andrew Samchok, Aral Boyd Gwinn, Harold Spuhler, and William A. Blackwell.
• Sports Roundup
• Chapter chatter
• Tech's booth at state fair to feature anniversary cake
• Bill Nugent, former student president is made district geologist
• Campus roundup -- Harold Nelson, Haskell Taylor, Marie Davis, and G. G. Heather
• Cradle rockers
• Nine rolled in graduate program -- first Ph.D. candidates
• New rules govern campus parking
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Homecoming parade depicts college history
• Student services are coordinated
• Dr. Carl Coke Rister will speak at formal Museum opening
• Dr. Ramon Kireilis announces new P. E. program
• Tech stamps make world-wide trip
• A. L. Strout returns from continent tour; professor finds Europe 'On Volcano'
• D. M. Wiggins to attend Washington meet
• Glamorous stars are daily routine to one ex-student -- Vera Culwell

November 1950

• The Texas Economy Commission
• Sports roundup
• Friendliness and faith -- Robert Millikan, Blake Smith and R. R. Oglesby
• Chapter chatter
• The C. B. Qualia Story
• Let's talk about cotton
• Campus roundup --Bavarian Home Economics students, quonset hut, dormitory radio system, campus safety, academic faculty rating
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• Tech ex to see first Tech home game since 1930 -- J. D. "Red" Waller
• Home Economics exes to hold Nov. 11 breakfast
• Ex-student's son named best pledge -- Scott Poage
• Baptist Student Union to celebrate 25th anniversary
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Industrial, Textile courses approved
• Cradle rockers
• Two ex-students are associates in Houston firm -- Gerald T. Kerbow and A. B. "Tony" Ullrich

December 1950

• Homecoming 1950
• Sports roundup
• Time for reminiscin'
• Chapter chatter
• Ex-student sends congratulations from Canal Zone -- William B. Caldwell
• Building program dedication with guest speaker Lyndon B. Johnson
• Parade unfolds Tech's history
• The faculty scene -- Raleigh Usry, Wayne Kittley, Judd Morrow, L. Edwin Smith, James Roy Well, Ed Smith, Margaret Weeks, Alan L. Strout, James G. Allen, Arthur W. Young
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Cup sales total 110 -- silver anniversary punch cups
• Campus roundup -- South Plains Maid of Cotton, 1950 band sweetheart, club for independent women, Ex-Students Association scholarship
• Sports roundup
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• Museum exhibits gem collection
• Worn tires threaten job, Tech graduate student landscapes future New Mexico A&M campus -- Elo J. Urbanovsky and Fred Day
• English Department dinner honors Mrs. Mary Doak
• Dell Morgan resigns; no successor named

February 1951

• Khaki and Blue -- Tech students enlisting in the Armed Forces
• Student Union nears reality
• All about [James G.] Allen
• Speaking of coaches -- J. O. "Dell" Morgan, Paul Bryant, Sammy Baugh, Bowden Wyatt, and Eck Curtis
• W. B. "Dub" Rushing and D. M. McElroy attend Alumni Council meeting
• Sports roundup
• Tall men are no problem for the 1951 Tech varsity squad -- Jack Little, Irl Brown, Paul Nolen, and Jack Alderson
• The faculty scene -- Cecil Horne, Billie Steve Weaks, Ray J. Yantis, Eunice Gates, W. B. Gates, Arthur H. Leidigh, W. L. Stangel
• Chapter Chatter
• Brownfield student given scholarship -- Victor R. Herring
• Campus roundup -- Vote to wear Double T insignia on senior ring, 1st annual Wash Bowl game, 19th annual Engineering Show, 1951 Varsity Show, 3rd annual Little International Livestock show
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Ex-Techsan is campus cop -- William Harold Verner
• Dr. Joseph R. Griggs named commission head
• Exes tell about Mexico "It's a Teacher's Dream"
• Standolind employs several '50 grads
• Signals from the huddle [alumni updates]
• '42 graduate credited with ranch success -- Alvin Eden
• E. A. McCollough relates story of shrunken head's origin
• Labor-management mediator's interest started with college doctoral thesis -- Byron Abernethy
• Results show gain for 1950 Loyalty Fund
• Sammy Baugh is new Tech Foundation board member
• Publications Committee approves plan to send Toreador to Tech servicemen
• Islands' movie portrayal distorts Hawaii, Honolulu student says -- Vernon Kim

March 1951

• DeWitt Thompson Weaver named coach -- includes W. A. "Babe" Woods and Bobby Goad
• The news in brief -- Carl Coke Rister wins first distinguished professorship award at Tech; new Board of Directors members; spring enrollment is 4,579; Pan-Tech farms experiments continue; plans for the 2nd annual National Intercollegiate Rodeo and Western Days at Tech
• Tech in the Snow
• Chapter Chatter
• Meet Tech's foreign students "They're All Techsans"
• The faculty scene -- Thomas Francis Murray, Ellen Wright, Melvin M. Burnett, E. J. Urbanovsky, Fred Wayland Norwood, E. L. Schick, George Mecham, NOrman Lamont, and Clifton Hayes Jr.
• Campus roundup -- 1951 Tech Varsity Show; Tech Military Association established; new non-music major courses; Museum exhibit of political and Nazi items; Arnold Air Letter publication;
• The hitchin' post [wedding announcements]
• Signals from the Huddle [alumni updates]
• "Chick" McElya featured in Dallas success story
• Sports roundup

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