SHSU
Update For Week Of April 23
Golf Tourney To Tee Off Faculty,
Staff
Sam Houston State University employees will have the opportunity
to show off their skills at putting, driving and even dressing
during the Department of Recreational Sports’ 12th Annual
Faculty and Staff Golf Tournament on May 15.
The four-person team, best-ball scramble, will be held at
the Raven Nest Golf Club. The entry-deadline is 5 p.m. on
May 10.
Members from teams of all men, all women or a combination
will compete in putting, longest-drive, closest-to-the-pin
and Best “Caddyshack” Costume contests throughout
the day. Team prizes will also be given for the best “Caddyshack”
costumes.
Single entries will also be accepted.
Individual and team awards will be given for first and second
places. Grand prize drawings include a stay and play golf
package from Waterwood National Resort, Houston Astros tickets,
a custom set of irons from G.B. Golf and a Raven Nest round
for four.
The entry fee is $40 per person, which includes the 18-hole
green fee, half cart fee, a bucket of range balls, a goodie
bag, soft drinks, lunch and special gifts and prizes.
Entry forms can be picked up and returned to the Rec Sports
Office, in Health and Kinesiology Center addition Room 162.
Forms can also be returned by mail to the Recreational
Sports Office, c/o Golf Tournament, Box 2387.
Checks should be made payable to SHSU.
For more information, contact Ed Chatal at 936.294.1740 or
rca_elc@shsu.edu.
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McLane To Speak Monday
Drayton McLane, chairman of the McLane Group and chairman
and chief executive officer of the Houston Astros Baseball
Club, will be this spring's President's Speaker Series guest.
McLane will speak at 11 a.m. Monday (April 24) in the Beto
Criminal Justice Center's Killinger Auditorium.
He earned his business degree at Baylor University in 1958
and a master's degree in marketing at Michigan State University
in 1959.
He learned his family business, a wholesale grocery distribution
center, from the ground up, loading trucks on the night shift
for 18 months before moving into management as vice president
of purchasing. He served 14 years as general manager of operations,
becoming president and CEO of McLane Company in 1978 and chairman
in 1992.
During his years with the company, he helped his father build
a grocery distribution network that served convenience stores,
supermarkets, and the fast-food industry nationwide. He improved
the distribution system through technology and expanded the
business from $3 million to $19 billion a year.
In 1990 the McLane Company merged with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.,
and he accepted the position of vice chairman of Wal-Mart.
He resigned his positions as chairman of McLane Company and
vice chairman of Wal-Mart in 1994 to devote more time to his
responsibilities as the chairman of the McLane Group, a holding
company, which he had founded in 1992.
The President’s Speaker Series was created in January
2002 by James F. Gaertner, SHSU president, to introduce Sam
Houston State University students, many of whom are first
generation college students, to people who are living successful
and principled lives. It is supported by a grant from long-time
SHSU benefactor Lu Ellen Gibbs.
Previous speakers include Gene Stallings, Dave Dravecky, Debbi
Fields, Mickey Herskowitz, Ken Jennings and David Robinson.
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Honors, Guitar Recitals
To Be Held April 27-28
“Outstanding students” in the School of Music
will perform a range of music, from Baroque music by Handel
to Romantic Era pieces by Chopin to works by contemporary
composers such as Joan Tower during the Honors Recital on
Thursday (April 27).
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
“The program will feature several outstanding students
from the School of Music,” said Patricia Card, School
of Music assistant chair. “These students were first
nominated by faculty and then required to audition for a position
on the program.”
Students selected to perform include voice students Rachel
Saines, Erin Clements, David Bracken and Isabel Larae; saxophonist
Eric Daniels and a saxophone quartet comprised of Eric Daniels,
Brian Klekar, Aaron Martinez and Pablo Tani; violinist Erin
Daniel; and pianists Celeste Matthews, Yoriko Saito, Hannah
Hong, and Chi Wai Liu.
“The music is quite diverse, and there should be something
for everyone,” Card said.
Music chair Rodney Cannon will also present the school's honors
and scholarship winners at the event.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The SHSU Guitar Ensemble will perform a variety of pieces
on Friday (April 28).
The concert, which will also be performed at Tomball College
on April 26, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Guest performer Ben Guillotte will accompany the guitarists
on the drums through such songs as Michael Praetorius’
“Four French Dances,” Scott Joplin’s “Elite
Syncopations,” and Sammy Fain’s “Alice In
Wonderland,” as well as Jerome Kern’s “All
The Things You Are,” arranged by SHSU guitar instructor
Gerald Blakeman.
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information on any of these events, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Mass Communication To
Host Banquet For Students
Sam Houston State University’s mass communication
department will recognize and award its students during the
Second Annual Mass Communication Scholarship and Awards Banquet
on May 5.
The dinner will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Katy and E. Don
Walker, Sr., Education Center, at 1400 19th St.
The evening’s events will include recognition of the
officers from the Public Relations Student Society of America
and the National Broadcasting Society, along with presentations
of the Eubie Awards, journalism awards and scholarships, and
radio and television program scholarships.
Staff and instructors will also be acknowledged as well.
Dinner will be served by McKenzie’s Barbeque.
Advance purchase tickets are available for $12 in the mass
communication office and will also be sold at
the door for $15.
For more information, call 936.294.1341.
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SHSU To Hold Property
Auction April 29
SHSU will have a public auction on April 29 beginning at
8:30 a.m. at the property warehouse in the Sam South Complex,
at 2424 Sam Houston Ave.
Items will be sold, “as is, where is,” piece by
piece or in lots to the highest bidder.
Some auction items include office furniture, typewriters,
air conditioners, televisions, refrigerators, tables, fax
machines, chairs, file cabinets, copiers, bicycles, scientific
equipment, couches and microwave ovens, among many others.
In addition, a 1984 Chevrolet step van will be auctioned off.
Vehicles can be removed the day of the sale if paid by cash,
or check with original current bank letter of credit guaranteeing
payment. Otherwise, vehicles will be held for 10 working days
to allow check clearance.
Cash or checks will be accepted as payment for other items,
with proper identification.
All items, except vehicles, must be removed after the sale
until 2 p.m. or 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. the following
week.
For more information, call Wayne
Frosch at 936.294.1903 or 936.294.1908.
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Learning Community Celebrates
Family, Friends Day
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| Family and friends of the Bearkat Learning
Community members gathered to recognize the students'
achievements over the past year. |
Members of the Bearkat Learning Community and their friends
and family recently acknowledged the accomplishments of learning
community members over the past year.
Emily Ellisor, Brian Castro, Larry Davis, Lindsay Keeling
and Will Sullivan were selected as Bearkat Learning Community
“Students of the Year.”
Students were recognized for academic achievements, contribution
to building community and service to the university and Huntsville,
according to Bernice Strauss, director of academic support
programs for the Student Advising and Mentoring Center.
In addition, history major Will Sullivan, music major Chase
Congleton and theatre major Amanda Spindola performed for
parents.
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
April 23, 2006
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