The Mountaineer (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1953 Page: 1 of 2
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Pre-School
Edition
VOLUME 25
August, 1953
NUMBER—ONE
Here Sept. 2
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facilities obtainable to
carry on
the
Monday. September 7 for a
on
the case of those with families.
AUGUST to, 1953
Resident Men Students Report To Dean Of Students Office On Your Arrival
At Eastern A. & M. College!
I
Freshmen To Arrive
TO START ON
INDUSTRIAL
BUILDING SOON
Don’t Recognize
Off-Year Customs
Oct. 22 Bacone College
Oct. 28 Murray State
Nov. 6 Okla. Mil. Acc.
Nov. 12 Cameron State
Nov. 19 Connors State
Pre-School
Edition
With the opening of the Fall
term at Eastern Oklahoma A. and
M. College only a few days away.
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Hunter Sets Grid
Schedule, Promises
Hustling Ball Club
There
There
B.C.
Here
Bere
E. T. Dunlap
President
t-id
o-
social events at night, is under
supervision of Dean of Students
Gerald Williams.
Sophomore students at Eastern
veteran receives bis first check.
In this case, the College will credit
the veteran with all his educa-
tional expenses until his check
does arrive.
Don’t Be Half
Safe !! Bring Along
Important Papers
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT
To All Our Friends:
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EASTERN OKLAHOMA A. & M. COLLEGE
WILBURTON, OKLAHOMA
Formal letting of a contract and
the construction of the new indus-
trial. Education building at Eastern
Oklahoma A. and M. was expected
in a very few days, as this pre-
school edition of THE MOUN-
TAINEER went to press this week.
The new structure will not only
make available the most modem
THE AF R. O. T. C.
DEANS ANNOUNCE DATES FOR START
OF NEW SCHOOL TERM AT EASTERN
Doors officially swing open to new college students at Eastern
Oklahoma A and M here Wednesday, September 2, Dean of Instruc-
tion I. C. Gunning announced today.
the uniforms and training equip-
ment
The unit at Eastern has been
under command of Major Russell
J. Greene, USAF, during the past
year with M/Sgt. Grover James
as unit aide. The staff is expected
to be expanded with the addition
of another officer.
In addition to regular classwork
and drills, cadets also have parti-
cipated in Link instrument flying,
intra-collegiate rifle matches, spe-
cial drill squad exhibitions and
parades. AU qualified cadets re-
ceive service deferment while in
B.U.T.C. training.
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ITS CHOW TIME AT EASTERN • or almost that time anyway.
At any rate, the photo above will give you an idea of Operation
Lal at Eastern Oklahoma A. & M. taken in the Dining Hall out
pring Day last school year. The man hoisting the milk to those
at the tag end of the line is Edwin Spears, Heavener, a third semes-
ter student who was named first alternate to West Point by Rep.
Carl Albert. Eastern students, in case you didn't know, receive a
quart and one-half of milk every day when they eat in the Dining
Hall, located in the north basement wing of Choctaw Hall.
Summertime is hot stove league
time where campus politics are
concerned, and Eastern Oklahoma
A. and M is no exception.
While, of course, there are no
students yet on the campus to do
the actual politicking, the basic
framework for all campus organi-
zations. clubs and activities has
been worked out by Dean of Stu-
dents Gerald Williams.
“Students will naturally have
the same important part in organi-
zing and conducting student af-
fairs that they had last year,"
Dean Williams explained, “but
this year, they will become even
along the necessary papers—in
addition to personal belongings—
so that their enrollment will not
be delayed.
All students should make sure
I that the College has a copy of
I their high school transcript by
checking either with the College
Registrar or with their high school
principal. Some students who will
not be able to have their tran-
scripts forwarded to the College in
lime may bring them whon they
enroll.
Veterans should be particularly
careful to have with them a copy
of their discharge certificate. If
they are married, a copy of the
marriage license is required, as
To all our other triends inside and outside the education pro-
fession. we extend a personal invitation to visit with us at your
earliest opportunity and to “make yourself at home" while you
are here.
Yes, this indeed is a new beginning for most of us here at
Eastern A.& M. just as college is a new beginning for many of our
freshmen and just as the lessons learned here offer a new oppor-
tunity for personal advancement and a more successful career for
our graduates.
We here at Eastern wish you well, as together we look toward
the future!
The Mountaineer
Published By and For Students of Eastern Oklahoma A. & M. College
Wilburton, Oklahoma
prospective students today were ____________
urged to make sure they bring A. and M will come to the campus
out.”
Dean Williams expects the Stu-
dent Senate, campus governing
body, to take an active leadership
role in budding and maintaining
student activities and spirit especi-
ally. Others of the 14 organizations
on the campus last year are ex-
pected to “come back strong”
when classes start and students
begin looking around for “some-
thing to do.”
may be some weeks before
one-day counseling and enroll-
ment period. Night school students
also will enroll on this date.
Classes for all will begin at 8
a.m. Tuesday, September 8.
“A large number of students al-
ready are enrolled under the Col-
lege's new pre-enrollment pro-
cedure," Dean Gunning said. "Pre-
enrollment for last year's fresh-
men began before the end of the
Spring term and enrollment of
new freshmen has continued at a
xapid pace throughout the sum
mer."
Housing conditions at Eastern
A. and M. are still plentiful, al-
though students are advised to
make a preliminary room reserva-
training than in the past, how-
ever. The Air Force has devised more a part of the overall college
a new curriculum for the Air j administration in helping to for-
Science courses and new textbooks mulate policies and carry them
will be provided in addition to
I IS PLANNING FOR Campus Politics
1 300 IN UNIT
Coach Eck Hunter today re-
leased the 1953-54 Mountaineer
Once again we are looking toward the beginning of our Fall
term here at Eastern Oklahoma A. A M. College, but this year with
a great deal of enthusiasm, particularly since these past summer
structed. This unit will provide
for the butchering, dressing and
refrigerated storage of college
farm meats and poultry so that
these products can be further,
utilized in supply the college din-
ing hall operation.
Hunde for the project were ap-
propriated by the last Legislature,
at the urging of Sen Clem Hamp-
ton of Panama and Rep. Jim Cook
of Wilburton. The new structure
will replace the shop building
Which was destroyed by fire in
September, 1951.
working curriculum, but will en-
able the college to expand its in-
dustrial arts program as soon as
possible to include auto mechanics I
and farm and home repair courses.11
among others.
In connection with the shop con-
struction, a modem food process-
ing laboratory also will be con-
________________... grid schedule, one that promises
months have brought about some changes which we hope will make to give the “reborn" Easterners
the institution of an even greater service to the public a “tough row tc hoe" in their
” " - second attempt at the Oklahoma
Highlights of the student ser-
vices division of the college will
be explained in brief during the
three-day orientation program
which kicks off the school year
Wednesday, September 2.
A small training unit that began
I two years ago with a total of 50
I student-cadets, the Air Force
I R.O.T.C. unit at Eastern Oklahoma
I A. and M. college announced this
I week it is expecting a 300-man
I complement when classes begin
I here next September.
The figure for the 1953-54 term
I is about double the average
I strength of the unit this past year,
I according to unit officers who
I are setting up uniform allotments
I and planning next year’s curricu-
I lum. Uniforms for the unit will
I follow the Air Force pattern as
I to color and style and probably
1 will sport the new R.O.T.C. in-
signia.
Cadet studies next year will
be tied more closely to flight
present diversified wood-
For those of you who are returning to Eastern A. & M. as sopho-
more students, we’ll have several surprises in the form of both phy-
sical changes in the plant and in revisions of the college program
which will make a more pleasant study and living situation for you,
For those of you who will enroll as freshmen this Fall, we
hope that the impression you receive upon coming to Wilburton
will be one that will eventually make “you glad you came, happy
while you are here and proud when you graduate.”
AD BUILDING REDECORATED
The Adminstration Building,
oldest structure on the Eastern
campus and the “heart" of the
institution, received a general
face-lifting this summer, as part
of an overall rejuvention of the
physical plant. Work on the three
dormitories is now in progress.
The three-day period between
Wednesday and the ensuing week-
end will be designed specifically
to orient freshmen and give them
individual counseling before ac-
tual enrollment on Friday. Sep-
tember 4. This program, which
will include a busy round of
JC conference since football was
resumed here in 1952. Five of
nine games will be played at
home.
Practice on a two-a-day sche-
dule will begin September 1. Hun-
ter said, with suits being checked
out to lettermen on August 30 and
to others on the following two
days. The coach expects about the
same number — 70 — to turn out
for the team as last year.
The schedule:
Sept. 17 Murray State Here
Sept. 24 Ark. Polytechnic There
Oct. 1 Open Date
Oct. 8 Northern JC. There
Oct 18 Northeastern A&M Here
tion to insure against a possible
are copies of birth certificates in "tightening up” when September
the case of those with families. 2 arrives, Dean Williams explain-
The formal Veterans Admin - ed. "Everything but bed linen,
istrntion application for GI ed- Pillows and personal equipment
cation benefits is now available Is furnished in the three Eastern
at Eastern A. and M. However, it dormitories," he said.
a “Prospective students at any
college should be urged not to for-
get to sen! the college of their
choice a copy of their highschool
transcript, and if a veteran, a
copy of their discharge certificate,
too,” the deans said.
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Lester, J. D. The Mountaineer (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1953, newspaper, August 1, 1953; Wilburton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1994602/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.