The Yellow Jacket February 21, 2018 Howard Payne University . Brownwood, TX Volume 108, Issue 10 HPU Theatre presents ‘Farce of Habit’ Howard Payne University will be among five Chris- tian universities showcasing their talents March 5-8 at the Christian University The- atre Festival. This year HPU is hosting CUTF, which ro- tates annually for Christian universities all over Texas. The festival brings Chris- tian universities together each year for students to perform and learn in a different per- spective than a classroom. “CUTF is to share. This is not a competition, but a festival,” said Dr. Nancy Jo Humfeld, director of theatre at HPU. Beverly Murray will serve as this year’s respondent. Af- ter each performance, Mur- ray will give comments and suggestions to each produc- tion. The respondent also presents acting and techni- cal awards to select students. This year HPU is per- forming “Farce of Habit,” a southern comedy written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten. HPU’s production is sched- uled for three showings in the HPU Theatre prior to CUTF – at 7:30 p.m. March 2-3, and 2:30 p.m. March 4. HPU also will present “Farce of Habit” as part of the CUTF at 1 p.m. March 5. “Because this is a farce, there’s physical comedy that we get to have a ton of fun with – chase scenes, tumbling into dog piles, a mishap, and two scenes involving a ham- mock!” said Cassia Rose a se- nior theatre major playing the role of Sister Myrtle Agnes. “This play is also a mys- tery so the dialogue is witty and will keep the audience on their toes. If you love to laugh, this is definitely the show for you,” Rose said. Southern comedy is part of the larger CUTF hosted by Howard Payne InsIde thIs edItIon Every edition of the Yellow Jacket newspaper is available online at www.hputx.edu/yel- lowjacket. You Matter ..........................2 Your vote does matter; especially in local elections. Let’s Talk............................3 You’re not alone. Depression is a common problem for college students. ‘15:17 to Paris’...................4 This film does not live up to Clint Eastwood’s high standards. Taskmaster .........................5 The busy life of HPU student Stacy Anderson Big Life in Big Bend.......6-8 Audrey Binion writes about two years attending school in Big Bend National Park. Black History ...................10 SGA president Isaac Som- mers shares what it meant to participate in the Black History Recognition chapel service. Tournament Bound.........12 Both men and women’s basketball teams have qualified for ASC tournaments. Empty Bowls....................16 HPU hosted a paint gather- ing for the upcoming Empty Bowls Project. Katie Cravey Staff Writer CUTF→ Page 3 Photo by Katie Cravey Jake Bowren (left) wears high heels as character Ty Wilburn for a portion of the show. HPU Department of Theatre Presents ‘Farce of Habit’ 7:30 p.m. March 2-3 --- 2:30 p.m. March 4 At the HPU Theatre Tickets are free for HPU students, faculty, and staff $8 adults and $5 for non-HPU students/children.
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The Yellow JacketFebruary 21, 2018 Howard Payne University . Brownwood, TX Volume 108, Issue 10
HPU Theatre presents ‘Farce of Habit’
Howard Payne University will be among five Chris-tian universities showcasing their talents March 5-8 at the Christian University The-atre Festival. This year HPU is hosting CUTF, which ro-tates annually for Christian universities all over Texas.
The festival brings Chris-tian universities together each year for students to perform and learn in a different per-spective than a classroom. “CUTF is to share. This is not a competition, but a festival,” said Dr. Nancy Jo Humfeld, director of theatre at HPU.
Beverly Murray will serve as this year’s respondent. Af-ter each performance, Mur-ray will give comments and suggestions to each produc-tion. The respondent also presents acting and techni-cal awards to select students.
This year HPU is per-forming “Farce of Habit,”
a southern comedy written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten. HPU’s production is sched-
uled for three showings in the HPU Theatre prior to CUTF – at 7:30 p.m. March 2-3, and 2:30 p.m. March 4.
HPU also will present “Farce of Habit” as part of the CUTF at 1 p.m. March 5.
“Because this is a farce, there’s physical comedy that we get to have a ton of fun with – chase scenes, tumbling into dog piles, a mishap, and
two scenes involving a ham-mock!” said Cassia Rose a se-nior theatre major playing the role of Sister Myrtle Agnes.
“This play is also a mys-tery so the dialogue is witty and will keep the audience on their toes. If you love to laugh, this is definitely the show for you,” Rose said.
Southern comedy is part of the larger CUTF hosted by Howard PayneInsIde thIs
edItIon Every edition of the Yellow
Jacket newspaper is available online at www.hputx.edu/yel-
lowjacket.
You Matter..........................2Your vote does matter;
especially in local elections.
Let’s Talk............................3You’re not alone. Depression
is a common problem for college students.
‘15:17 to Paris’...................4This film does not live up to
Clint Eastwood’s high standards.
Taskmaster.........................5The busy life of HPU
student Stacy Anderson
Big Life in Big Bend.......6-8Audrey Binion writes about
two years attending school in Big Bend National Park.
Black History...................10SGA president Isaac Som-mers shares what it meant to participate in the Black
History Recognition chapel service.
Tournament Bound.........12Both men and women’s basketball teams have
qualified for ASC tournaments.
Empty Bowls....................16HPU hosted a paint gather-ing for the upcoming Empty
Bowls Project.
Katie Cravey
Staff Writer
CUTF→ Page 3
Photo by Katie CraveyJake Bowren (left) wears high heels as character Ty Wilburn for a portion of the show.
HPU Department of Theatre Presents‘Farce of Habit’
7:30 p.m. March 2-3 --- 2:30 p.m. March 4At the HPU Theatre
Tickets are free for HPU students, faculty, and staff $8 adults and $5 for non-HPU students/children.
Through my scholarship, I’m able to attend several po-litical conferences every year. Now that may sound ridicu-lously boring, and to be honest, sometimes it is, but not always.
Granted, it does line up with one of my majors, so I’m more inclined to like the conferences than most of you would any-way, but this last conference I attended was really cool. It was hosted by the Texas Tribune, a fantastic publication that works to bring political education and news to the people of Texas without partisan bias. All of the conferences hosted by them are informational and interesting.
The conference I attended on Feb. 9-11 was about public pol-icy, mostly at the city level, but there were also some discus-sions of the state level as well. We got to listen to the mayor of Dallas speak and many other people involved with running cities all around Texas. It was really eye opening to see how important local politics are.
Can you believe that only 6 percent of the population of Dallas voted in the last mid-term election? So many people don’t vote because they don’t think that their voice matters.
But I promise you, your voice is especially loud in local mat-ters – and that’s the most impor-tant part, because it’s the place where you are the most affected.
One of the panelists at the conference was Beth Van Duyne, a former mayor of Ir-ving who was appointed by President Trump as the regional administrator of the Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development. Van Duyne said she got her start in politics just because she wanted to improve the park where her children played. She started going to city council meetings, eventu-
ally joined a committee, and then moved upward from there.
This concept carries over to college life too. You don’t have to actually go into politics, but you can definitely make an im-pact. If there is something on campus that you are not happy about, speak out. The Student Government Association meets every Monday evening and is always looking for student feedback. You don’t have to just tolerate problems you see on campus. You can talk to an SGA rep or even go to a meet-ing to voice your concerns.
And if you care about what’s
going on in your cities, district, and state, you can make a real impact in the midterm elections. The state primary is on March 6, I encourage you to take part if you can. And if you do, please educate yourself about the can-didates. Don’t just vote straight down one ticket or the other. If you can’t make it March 6, find out when your district’s early voting is being conducted.
Remember, you don’t re-ally have any right to complain about politics if you don’t do anything to try and affect them.
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Opinion/NewsNews Briefs
CampusDr. Celeste Church, a HPU faculty member since 2004, has been appointed as the uni-versity’s accreditation liaison to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commis-sion on Colleges (SACSCOC). Church additionally serves the university as dean of institu-tional research and effective-ness and professor of music. The accreditation procedure includes the examination of all university operations, includ-ing administrative processes, academic programs, student life, library services and physi-cal and financial resources.
StateOne of Dallas’ top leaders has urged the National Rifle Asso-ciation this week to find another city to host its annual conven-tion, taking a stand against gun violence in the wake of last week’s deadly mass shoot-ing in Florida. Dwaine Cara-way, mayor pro tem of Dallas, said that the NRA, the nation’s largest gun lobby, would be met with “marches and dem-onstrations” if it went ahead with plans to host the three-day meeting scheduled for May 4-6.
NationalStudents at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Park-land, Fla., expressed aston-ishment that President Trump would use the tragedy they experienced last week to push back on the FBI’s investiga-tion into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Late Satur-day, Trump accused the FBI of spending too much time on po-tential collusion between Mos-cow and his own presidential campaign. Trump suggested that if the bureau hadn’t been so focused on his campaign that it may have been able to stop the gunman from killing 17 people last week.
Rachel Hughes
Editor In Chief
What’s the Buzz?To submit items and events to this HPU campus calendar, email [email protected]. Through Feb. 27: Winter Art Exhibit, Waco Artist Group, Doakie Day Art Center.Feb. 22: Student Led Worship, 9 p.m., Grace Chapel.Feb. 23-24: Pancakes and Prayer, 6 p.m.-6 a.m., The Hub.Feb. 25 & March 4: Disciple Makers Multipled Bible Study, 8:30 p.m., Mabee Center.Feb. 27: Winter Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Mims.Feb. 27 & March 6: Free lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., The Hub.
Feb. 28-March 2: Friends of the Library Book Sale, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Walker Memorial Library.March 2-April 6: Spring Student Art Exhibit, Doakie Day Art Center.March 2-5: Spring Theatre Production: “Farce of Habit,” HPU Theatre, showtimes vary daily.March 3: Paynt Rave, 9-11 p.m., Warehouse across from HPU soccer fields.March 6: HPU Spring Health Fair, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Wilson Walkway.
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Let’s Talk: Depression produces unique needs F E B R U A R Y 2 1 , 2 0 1 8 P A G E 3
News
It will probably come as no surprise to you that depres-sion affects a huge percent-age of the general population. Some estimate that over 50 percent of people will experi-ence at least one depressive period within their lifetime.
While anxiety ranks No. 1 as the most prominent emo-tional issue for people in the United States, depression ranks No. 2. In the rest of the world, it is just the op-posite with depression rank-ing No. 1 and anxiety No. 2.
The majority of requests from Howard Payne students for counseling are about de-pression and anxiety. Some may be experiencing a form of depression called “acute, reactive.” We all have days or short periods of time when
we get “down” as a result of something disappoint-ing happening to us. This kind of depression is usually short-lived and will resolve without special treatment.
Another type of depression is more long-term and doesn’t seem to get better over time. It may be “endogenous,” that is to say a medical problem which may need to be treated with medications. Symptoms of this chronic type of depres-sion include sadness, pes-simism, focusing upon past failures, loss of pleasure in what have typically been plea-surable things, excessive feel-ings of guilt, feeling a need to be punished, disliking oneself, being overly critical, exces-sive crying, excessive agita-tion, being indecisive, feeling worthless, loss of hope, a lack of energy, changes in sleep patterns, changes in appetite, difficulty concentrating, loss of sexual interest, excessive
tiredness or fatigue and most seriously, suicidal ideations.
One need not have all of these symptoms. Usually about five or more over a period of about two consecutive weeks are necessary for a clinical di-agnosis of major depression.
There is another kind of de-pression, dysthymia, which is a persistent “low-grade” type. Again, a large segment of the general population suf-fers from this kind of depres-sion. It is not medical in na-ture, that is, it is not caused by chemicals in the brain be-ing imbalanced, but rather is part of a learned or inher-ited personality characteristic.
While not a major depres-sion, dysthymia can nega-tively impact a person’s entire life. It is treated differently than either “acute, reactive” or “endogenous” depressions.
Over a 4-5-year academic career, it is not unusual for many students to experi-
ence the “acute, reactive” form. Usually having a good friend or social network that can listen and be supportive through the depressive period are adequate for resolution of the symptoms and a return to “normal” moods. The “en-dogenous” and “dysthymic” types usually need more help.
As with any medical or psy-chological difficulty, a proper assessment must first take place. This is followed by a specialized treatment plan and approach. Every person is dif-ferent and needs something tailored to their personhood.
The university counsel-ing services are available to any enrolled student, free of charge, and can be very help-ful in addressing the more seri-ous types of depression. Some students will experience some-thing depressive for the first time when they encounter col-lege life with all its stressors.
Other students may have
been dealing with personal depression for years before arriving at university. They may have been in personal counseling over a long pe-riod of time. When they come to the university, they are away from their counselor for weeks or months at a time. Again, on-campus counseling can help provide a continu-ity of care for these students.
Every student is important to us. Anything that can have a negative impact upon your efforts to succeed in class-work or social life are our concern, too. Be wise and ad-dress any depressive symp-tomology early on rather than waiting. I invite you to contact me through e-mail and set up an appointment. Let’s meet and talk and deter-mine what might be helpful.
Jerry Leslie
University Counselor
From Page 1: CUTFThis unique play also includes
the character Ty Wilburn, played by sophomore theatre major Jake Bowren, wearing high heels for a significant portion of the play.
“Wearing heels was definitely some-thing new, and it was fun to experi-ence. This particular role has allowed me to be spontaneous and do things spur of the moment,” said Bowren.
Along with watching and perform-ing, students participating in CUTF are able to learn as they help each crew set up and strike their sets.
“I enjoy the performances, but I love the fellowship even more,” said Deejay Moses a junior theatre education ma-jor who plays the part of Maxie Suggs. “One of the cool things about CUTF is getting to see the handiwork of other school’s technical directors. Since we help them put up their sets, we get to learn some tips and tricks of the trade.”
HPU faculty and students are
welcome to join the festival by watching the performances lo-cated at the HPU Theatre. Each CUTF presentation is free of charge.
Christian UniversityTheatre Festival
March 5-7HPU Theatre Building
Tickets are free for HPU students, faculty, and staff
Monday, March 51 p.m. – Howard Payne presents
“Farce of Habit.”8 p.m. – Hardin Simmons presents
“The Christians.”Tuesday, March 6
1 p.m. – East Texas Baptist presents “Moon Over the Brewery.”8 p.m. – McMurry presents
“Women in Congress.”Wednesday, March 7
1 p.m. – Lubbock Christian presents “What I Did Last Summer.”
8 p.m. – Wayland Baptist presents “The Amish Project.”
‘The 15:17 to Paris’ not up to Eastwood’s standard
Clint Eastwood, in addition to starring in numerous films, has directed some of the bet-ter movies of the past 30 years.
“Mystic River,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “American Sniper” and “The Bridges of Madison County” are just a few of the excellent mov-ies he has had a hand in cre-ating. His latest film, “The 15:17 to Paris,” misses the standard set by many of Eastwood’s previous films.
The central story is compelling on its own.
U.S. Air Force Airmen First Class Spencer Stone and Na-tional Guardsmen Alek Skar-latos planned a trip through Europe in the summer of 2015
while they were on leave. They were joined by child-hood friend Anthony Sadler. Near the end of the trio’s Eu-ropean tour, they stopped a terror attack on board a train bound for Paris, France.
The men, along with an-other passenger, were awarded the highest military honor in France, the Legion of Hon-or, for their heroic actions. Subsequently, the men au-thored a book about their experiences, which “The 15:17 to Paris” is based on.
Unfortunately, the film fails to equal the heroism that was displayed on that train.
In what might look like a gimmick, Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler play themselves in the movie. Their acting won’t win awards, but it is sufficient. Due to the recency of the event, this casting decision is probably an
effort to honor their bravery displayed during the attack.
The issue with the movie doesn’t lie with acting of the leads. Instead, a structure de-signed to fill time and that clumsily tries to lead audienc-es to relate to the trio detracts heavily from the film’s quality.
This reliance on non-es-sential filler, in an already short runtime of around 90 minutes, makes the film feel exploitative of heroic acts.
These men are heroes with-out a doubt, but if it takes so much effort to stretch a story into a feature film, per-haps the story should be left alone. It is not always neces-sary to make a movie about significant or heroic events.
Part of the awkward pac-ing is a result of the film spending significant peri-ods with the middle-school
aged Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler. It seems that the goal here is to highlight the boys desire to serve their coun-try and enduring friendship.
This is accomplished rather heavy-handedly, as the boys repeatedly express their desire to join the armed forces and get sent to the principal’s office together, supposedly bonding them as fellow trouble-makers.
Additionally, nearly all adult characters depicted during the boys’ childhood are exaggera-tions of archetypes. Teachers are villainized because they don’t take the time to under-stand, while parents are lov-ing and supportive, but they don’t know what to do with their trouble-making children.
The time the movie spends with its protagonists as adults feels just as awkward as their childhood. The film moves
too quickly through important moments in their adult lives, especially when Skarlatos and Stone joined the military.
For most of the runtime, the film meanders without clear direction through the lives of the men until the mo-ments of the attack. This is no fault of the heroes, but in-stead a flaw in story-telling.
Many of Eastwood’s films have been incisive examina-tions of humanity that also tell engaging, creative sto-ries. “Sully” is a good exam-ple of one of his films, also based on a true story, that honors its heroes while be-ing effective in movie form.
“The 15:17 to Paris” had a chance to be another good Eastwood film, but failed pri-marily due to poor pacing and lack of focus on prop-er character development.
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Entertainment
Seth Rainey
movie columnist
By HPU MediaRelations
Howard Payne’s Symphon-ic Band will present its annual late-winter concert, titled “How Suite It Is,” at 7:30 p.m. Tues-day, Feb. 27, in Mims Audi-torium. This is a free concert.
The concert will feature “First Suite in E-Flat,” a band masterpiece by Gustav Holst. Other selections include:
• “October” by award-winning American composer Eric Whitacre
• “Commando March” by Samuel Barber, a titan of 20th-cen-tury American music
• “Arabian Dances,” a new-ly released piece by Brian Balmag-es based on Middle Eastern folk music
• “American Folk Rhap-sody No. 3,” one of four by Clare Grundman
• “On a Hymnsong of Low-ell Mason” by David R. Holsing-
er and based on Lowell Mason’s 1832 work “My Faith Looks Up To Thee.”
HPU’s Symphonic Band is under the direction of Corey Ash, director of bands and as-sociate professor of music.
“We are very excited to have
the opportunity to present these band masterworks to our com-munity,” said Ash. “We hope ev-eryone will tell a friend and join us for the exhilarating concert.”
For more information, con-tact HPU’s School of Music and Fine Arts at 325-649-8500.
Symphonic Band to present winter concert
YJ PhotoThe 2017 HPU Symphonic Band spring concert.
Fambrough’s Stacy Anderson pleases customers, even during bad days
Stacy Anderson uses his shirt sleeve to wipe the sweat from his furrowed brow as he dashed back and forth be-hind the counter as he does the jobs of three people.
He greets a customer with a weary smile, hastily ringing up her order at the cash register before scrambling over to the grills to check on the cooking food. After saving the panini from an untimely demise, the buzz of an alarm sends him flying over to the smoothie machine to retrieve the lat-est frozen concoction he’s blended for a hungry patron.
This is just a typical Mon-day night at Fambrough’s, the on-campus restaurant and coffee shop at How-ard Payne University.
Anderson, a sturdily built young man in the latter half of his junior year at HPU, has been working at Fambrough’s for about two years. Consid-ered by many to be one of the eatery’s most skilled and experienced employees, he is held in high regard by both co-workers and customers alike.
“There’s just something about Stacy that really draws people in,” said Stephanie Ra-sor, Anderson’s chief super-visor. “Everyone loves him. He’s friendly, he’s reliable, and he’s just a really hardwork-ing employee. We’re proud to have him working for us.”
“I love coming here when Stacy’s working,” said Gabri-elle Ruiz, an HPU junior who frequents Fambrough’s. “He always makes my coffee just the way I like it, and he’s al-ways really nice. Even if you
can tell he’s having a bad day, he’s always nice to everyone.”
It’s certainly not an easy job. Anderson, who typically works six days in one week for a total of about 25-30 hours, spoke at length about the im-mense difficulties that employ-ees are often faced with. These difficulties primarily pertain to the overwhelming workload.
“It’s too much. And it seems like almost every day I come in, it gets even more,” said Anderson, wiping his hands on his apron during a short break from working. “It feels like every time we come in, they got something else new for us to do. They’ve got something else bigger for us to do, including all the stuff that we already had to do before.”
The regular duties of a Fam-brough’s employee include manning the cash register, taking orders, preparing food, brewing coffee, and mak-ing smoothies. However, as
a member of the night shift, Anderson must also restock items, take out the trash, wrap up the food, close the cash register, put up the secu-rity gates, and clean the entire restaurant from top to bot-tom before he can go home.
His end-of-shift responsi-bilities regularly keep him and his coworkers busy for over an hour after Fambrough’s closes at 11 p.m., meaning that he often does not leave work until well past midnight.
So why does he do it? What motivates him to do a good job?
“It’s just part of my nature,” Anderson said, explaining that he takes pride in being good at what he does. “So I have to go out, even if I really don’t want to, and I have to put some kind of effort into what I’m doing.”
Anderson also cites his posi-tive relationship with his co-workers as part of what keeps him going, though he admits he doesn’t always feel worthy
of the praise they give him.“I feel like I’m appreciated
by my coworkers and by my supervisor and all that. I feel like I’m overly appreciated by everybody because I know some people are always talking highly of me,” Anderson said. “I know I’m treated differently than everybody else here.”
Despite having resigned himself to his nightly duties at Fambrough’s for now, An-
derson does hold greater ex-pectations for the future. He is currently pursuing a degree in education with the goal of becoming a high school English teacher and football coach – a profession that will undoubtedly allow him to bring even more happiness into the lives of others than he does now at Fambrough’s.
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Valuable Employee
Fred Zavala
Staff WRiter
YJ PhotoStacy Anderson in class on the HPU campus.
Photo by Fred ZavalaStacy Anderson on the job at Fambrough’s.
A Unique Way to Live
When you visit a national park in the United States, do you ever consider, “I wonder what it would be like to live here?”
Well let me tell you, it is an experience. If you want to know what it is like, just sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and read along as I tell you about Life in Big Bend National Park. It’s a simple, slow-paced life – one most people don’t get to experience often.
Living in a national park wasn’t always fun because we had to follow the same rules as visitors and tourists:
• Don’t take any-thing home that you find.
• Don’t disturb the nat-ural earth around something.
• When riding bikes, you must wear a helmet.
Riding with a hel-met is a simple rule, but one all of us kids hated.
These rules were to keep everyone safe. I think the hardest one for every-one to follow was this one: Don’t feed the wild life.
When you are in a national
park, you have many differ-ent families of wildlife liv-ing around you. In Big Bend, we had bears, javelinas, deer, mountain lions, moun-tain goats, and many other types of animals and bugs. People always love animals and like to see how close they can get to them, but in a national park, it is highly frowned upon because ani-mals can become aggressive.
OK so this isn’t what you thought this story was going to be about and, so far, you are right, so
let’s get to it. The first few questions I always get when I tell people that I lived in a national park are:
What was it like?Where did you go to school?Where did you get groceries?So many other questions
are asked, even though it has been years since we lived there. I’ll lay out the life-style for you in this article.
The school atBig Bend
San Vicente ISD was a very small school located in the center of Big Bend. Not a lot of people know there was and still is a school
within the park. It’s mainly for the children of Big Bend National Park employees.
Going to such a small school was fun, entertaining, and very hands on. It was an experience not every student in America gets. I was one of 32 students that attended the school from kindergarten through eighth grade. At the time, there were no eighth graders, so I was the oldest student in the school. I was 14 and in the seventh grade.
We had only a few teach-ers that taught us throughout the years there. When I at-tended the school, there were five teachers and about 10 staff members that worked together to keep the school running.
Each teacher taught up to three different grade lev-els, carefully teaching each to ensure that each student was having their educational needs met. For example, my mom taught kindergarten and first grade, but she also taught ESL (English as a second lan-guage) and physical educa-
tion. She was nothing short of an amazing teacher, which also describes every teacher and staff member at the school.
My teacher was amazing. She reminded me of an old-fashioned hippie. She loved the world around her and how it worked. She loved giving us this cool view of learning and life and applied it to school and the artwork she taught us.
She was very passion-ate about art and history, and loved to tie the two together. She helped each student see the world from an artistic point of view with color, laughter, and joy. My seventh-grade teacher was a teacher who im-pacted my view of the world, my way of looking at how things were done around me.
Because of her, I learned how to be kind to our earth and how to treat the creation around me with a gentle hand. Miss Wheelock was a teacher that made learning fun, one that showed her stu-dents a different way to look at the world around them.
Being in such a small school, we were taught in a way that some might look at like being homeschooled, but in a public-school setting. In my classroom, there were two different grades being taught different things on different levels. But it was all happen-ing in the same classroom.
We were taught what we needed to learn for the state-mandated tests, such as the TAKS test that was around when I was in the seventh grade. Our education was very hands on, very educational, but always taught in a way we would be able to retain it.
Plenty of field trips Throughout the school year,
we took several field trips. I mean, we had a national park for our backyard. One I re-member very clearly was the time we went rock hunting. The whole school – kindergarten through eighth grade – loaded
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HPU student shares experiences of living, schooling in Big BendFrom the Adviser: HPU student Audrey Binion
spent two years living and attending school in Big Bend Na-tional Park, located in a remote area of far West Texas. Big Bend is surrounded by desert and mountains, and bordered on the south by Mexico, courtesy of the Rio Grande River.
It’s 108 miles to the nearest grocery store in Al-pine, 182 miles to nearest Walmart and Sam’s Club in Odessa, and 293 miles to the nearest large city, El Paso.
When Binion lived in Big Bend from 2007-2009 the school had 32 students from kin-dergarten through the eighth grade. Teachers taught more than one grade level simultaneously.
Binion shares some of her unique experiences in this offering.
Audrey Binion
Staff Writer
Courtesy PhotosAbove: Audrey Binion and San Vicente students doing their morning Pledge of Allegiance each morning before school.Right: San Vincente students on a hike in Big Bend National Park.
Big Bend→ Page 7
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Big Bend
up and made the 52-mile drive to Stillwell Ranch in Brewster County.
All the science classes had just gone through a section on the geology of the area. Our whole school went on a rock hunt because in the national park, you can’t keep the rocks that you find. We hunted rocks and had a picnic. Through-out the trip, each teacher took a moment to teach the stu-dents about different rocks. We also had a geologist come long to help teach each of us about the rocks we found.
The second field trip I re-call was a conservation proj-ect to plant cottonwood trees. Big Bend partnered with our school to help plant trees in an area where the National Park Service had a controlled burn. All the students par-ticipated in this field trip and learned how to dig, plant, and water cottonwoods so they would flourish in the desert.
We learned the plot of land we were working on was not far from the Rio Grande Riv-er, so the cottonwoods would grow, shade the river, and the river will provide the water they would need to grow. This field trip was probably one of the more hands-on trips we did because of the plant-ing and learning happen-ing together. If you visit Big Bend, the cottonwood trees that are in the Cottonwood Campground are some of the trees we planted that day.
Hands-on experiences were something I couldn’t do with any other school. These field trips catered to the needs of learning in a small area. We did a lot of other hands-on learning.
During our PE time, we were taught how to dance, and not just a normal dance. We were taught folkloric dancing, specifically a type of dance done in Mexico. We were taught these dances through-out the school year to perform
in Terlingua, located just west of Big Bend National Park, at their school during National Hispanic Heritage Month be-tween Sept. 15 and Oct. 15.
As we learned this dance, we also learned about the Mexican culture and learn how much they love color and life. Every student from kin-dergarten through eighth grade learned these dances. Our dance teacher had a passion to teach students the meaning of dance and how to make it beautiful – even with hiccups.
As a class, we worked through our subjects together but on different levels. I re-member my sister, who was one year younger, and I learn-ing the same thing but at dif-ferent levels. Within our small classroom we had, a fish tank,
multiple computers, and a huge art area. There were times when other classes were in our classroom having an art class while our teacher had us work-ing on something different.
We all had the responsibility of working on the school year-book. We had to make sure we took the pictures, came up with the captions, and pro-vide up-to-date information.
We took two class trips to Fort Davis, which is like about 96 miles from the school. On that trip we went camp-ing, attended a star-watching party at McDonald Observa-tory, and hiked the moun-tains that lined the area where we were staying. The entire Big Bend area is known for its dark sky where you can see a million stars at night.
The last class trip we took was to Austin and the Texas State Capitol. On that trip, we got to meet state rep-resentative from our area, Pete Gallego. We went to the Texas History Museum, an art museum and other plac-es that supported what we were learning about in class.
Our teacher was a Uni-versity of Texas graduate. She took us to see where
she had gone to school, and we went bowling in the stu-dent union building at UT.
The impact of‘Manners Meals’
As, a school we did so many things together. At the end of each six weeks, we had what our superintendent/principal
Courtesy PhotosAbove: Audrey Binion (back) practices a Mexican dance during PE class.Above Right: Audrey Binion (back row, second from left) and other San Vicente one-act play students in competition at Rankin.Right: A field trip near Boquillas Canyon along the Rio Grande River.
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called “Manners Meals.” Each class picked a country and spent the whole six weeks learning about that coun-try and compiling a menu. At some point, either the teacher or the class together went to grocery store in Al-pine – 108 miles away – and bought supplies for the meal.
They spent a day or two preparing for the meal that normally took place on a Fri-day. Each class took the time to decorate the house and prepare the food while other students served. One year my class did an Asian coun-try, and we had a field trip to learn how to make authentic egg rolls from a gentleman in the area. It was one of those memories I recall every time I watch “The Karate Kid.” You know when Mr. Miyagi catch-es the fly with chopsticks.
We all asked that gentleman if he knew how to do that. He handed us all chopsticks and let us try catching flies. It was not easy. We returned to school and decorated and cooked for two days. Everyone loved our meal that we had worked so hard on and decided it was one of their favorites of the year.
The “Manners Meals” taught us how to use our man-ners in a proper setting, and we learned about the country from which we were eating. We stepped into a house deco-rated from that country and experienced the smells as well. It felt like we stepped into a different country every time we had a “Manners Meal.”
These meals are something I talk about often. My sib-lings and I often talk about these when we sit down to eat in a nicer restaurant with our friends and families. These are the memories that have stuck with us because they were meant to leave an impact on us. It wasn’t an event every kid gets to experience, but our ed-ucators found it very important
for us to leave that school with manners that would please the Queen – or at least Ms. Coleman, our superintendent.
Something else that took place every day, as a school we would say the pledges, have a moment of silence, and then we would do our sentences. What are those? Each teacher had a set of six weeks. Each week they added two words to the “word wall” and with that, each day dur-ing the week each student would have to say a sentence or two with one of the “words” that the teachers had picked.
Each word we used the cor-rect way would earn us a ticket with our name on it. Each tick-et was put it in a bucket, and at the end of the six weeks, the teacher picked one or two of the tickets out the bucket. Those students received a prize.
Eleven years later, I still use those words. The mo-ments outside saying the pledges and the anxiety of having to say a sentence are among my favorite memories of going to school out there.
How far to Walmart?Another popular question
I get asked is where we went to get groceries. Every month, my mom sat down and made a “meal plan” – a list of literally every little thing we needed
for our house. We loaded up and drove north to Odessa, 182 miles from Big Bend.
Seems simple, right? In our minivan, we had four people, normally two large coolers, but that’s not all. We also had those Rubbermaid tubs that are pretty deep – the kind you might take camping. We used them to carry our groceries.
We went up to Odessa on a Friday night and stayed at the MCM Fun Dome, then got up and started our day of shopping on Saturday. There were a few times when mom dropped off us kids at the mall across the street from Walmart and Sam’s Club. We went ice skating so we wouldn’t be bored out of our minds for five hours while mom shopped.
Odessa had the closest Wal-Mart and Sam’s, so we had to get as much as we could possibly fit into our car. If we forgot something or ran out of something between the trips to Odessa, we made a “quick” 108-mile trip to Al-pine, which of course never ended up being a quick trip.
One time after grocery shopping, we literally had so much stuff that our car was a low rider. The back-end was so heavy that the front of our car was raised up. It was so funny and weird at the same time. That was the moment
I realized how many grocer-ies we needed to survive for a month in a national park.
We had bought so many things in order to make it longer than a month. Mom worked hard to fit every-thing we needed in the car. I’m pretty sure I was holding things in my lap for all 182 miles of the way back home.
Besides grocery shopping, we actually traveled a good amount in those years we lived in Big Bend. We took several trips to El Paso – 293 miles – to see family and friends. We took a 238-mile trip one time to Carlsbad, New Mexico, for spring break and spent a couple of days away from our little part of Texas. It was probably one of our family’s favorite vacations.
We took a few trips to the Texas Panhandle to see my
mom’s family. Everything was so far away that we rarely took a weekend trip farther than Alpine. A lot of our friends didn’t travel a lot, either, be-cause their parents had work. So we always had some-one to play with right in our huge, national park back yard.
Living in Big Bend National Park was a life-changing expe-rience – one I wish every kid could enjoy. I would not be the person I am today if my mom had not listened to the Lord and taken that teaching job in Big Bend. My mom took a leap of faith into the unknown of living in a national park.
If you ever wonder if there is a town behind the headquarters of any national park, just know there are hundreds of adven-tures waiting to be taken by a kid just like me. A kid who had the experience of a lifetime.
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Courtesy PhotosAbove: San Vicente students on a camping trip.Above Right: San Vicente students at a sleepover.Right: rare snow in Big Bend National Park.
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The following is an excerpt from FOR HOWARD PAYNE MY ALL: 125 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDU-CATION AND SERVICE 1889-2015, AN ENCYLCOPEDIA, by Dr. Robert G. Mangrum.
Today we examine the Dan-iel Baker College magazine, the Collegian for December 1922. A subscription was $1 per year.
The editorial staff of the magazine consisted of Henry Horne, editor; Iola Bowden, news and society; Martin Clary, business manager; Sam McInnis, athletic editor; and Ruth Montgomery, literary.
The December editorial: “Es-sentially we are under student control, all talk to the contrary not-withstanding. This being the case, there is great need that we realize what responsibility is upon us. Not because we need it any more than any other col-lege, but because all are prone to disown any personal account-ability. The Student’s Council have by no means all the burden of keeping the student honor and looking after the student welfare; in fact, without the aid
of the student’s themselves, the council is but a name. When a college is governed by the stu-dents, it is the duty of every student to reprove or report anything which is contrary to the rulings or spirit of the insti-tution. This is not encouraging tale bearing, but it does encour-age manly and womanly refusal to countenance anything which savors of evil; and when the individual students stamp their disapproval upon anything, that thing is sure to go. This is the bulwark of the student honor system – the student is responsi-ble for the honor of the college.”
This issue was published before finals, and the editors wrote: ‘ “All the air a solemn stillness holds.’ in anticipation and preparation for the dread-ed events. All public functions have been put under ban in order that nothing may interfere with the process of examming [sic]. . . . When exams are over for the student and paper grading for the professor, there is no reason why there should not be a short period of alloyed pleasure, if the daily duties of the past term have not been neglected and provided too much turkey and mince pie not swallowed at one time.”
A further observation, “the first term has just about ended
and of course a large number of us will fail in all or a part of our work. This is certainly something to be serious about, for there is seldom, if ever, a reasonable excuse, for the av-erage student’s failure to pass his work. However, a failure may be a blessing in disguise to us as students, for there is nothing that ever does us as much good as to become thor-oughly disgusted with our past and to become different per-sons in the future. . . . ‘It’s no harm to fail flat in the dirt, but to lie there – that’s disgrace.’ ”
With DBC’s football season ended, the routine of campus had changed. “Nearly all of the instructors are very glad that the boys now have more time to give the class work, and are expecting an improvement. While we do not advise one to do an entire term’s work in the last week, still we ought to make these last few days count for as much as the number in any other part of the year.”
The rest of the issue con-tained poetry written by Dr. John Power, member of the faculty, and several stories, in-cluding working during the summer harvesting wheat, a report about several recitals performed on campus, athletic
letters awarded to members of the DBC Hill Billies football team, two stories about detail-ing the last two football games
of the season, and information about the Pep Squad and Delta Kappa Sigma literary society.
Dr. Robert Mangrum
university historian
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Howard Payne’s Department of Art is hosting an art show through Tuesday, Feb. 27, titled “Intimate Studies: Nature and Landscape Forms.” The free exhibit is available for viewing at the Doakie Day Art Center.
“The work in this exhibition is comprised of four Waco-based artists who all studied visual art at Baylor University,” said Da-vid Harmon, professor and chair
of the Department of Art. “Each artist brings her unique vision in terms of interpretations of na-ture and landscape forms in var-ious art media including char-coal, graphite, oil and acrylic.”
Featured works of art in the exhibit are by artists Kim Abercrombie, Kath-erine Makowsky, Jennifer Seo and Trisstah Wagstaff.
The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays. All inquiries may be directed to Harmon at 325-649-8088 or [email protected].
According to Abercrom-bie, her work, a lithograph titled “Flower Study #4,” is a visual interpretation and documentation of the famil-iar. She captures reflections of the past and present and takes in what draws her to nature by bringing it to the canvas.
Makowsky, a native of Waco, was trained as a printmaker
but says her artistic influences derive from a wide variety of mediums in nature. Her fea-tured work is graphite on My-lar and paper and titled “Forest Track I.” Makowsky’s says her art seeks to uphold the classi-cal ideals of goodness, truth and beauty and is inspired by local and familiar landscapes.
Seo is currently a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts de-gree at The University of Tex-as-San Antonio. She says her artwork, including her exhib-
ited acrylic and charcoal work titled “Sanctum,” is based in personal memories to explore the cognitive process of an experience becoming a mem-ory and how those memories are built into self-perception.
Wagstaff is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting. She says her acrylic on canvas painting titled “The Kind Storm” explores how people are affected by beauty and how that beauty is found and experienced even through deep loss and sadness.
HPU hosting exhibition by four Waco artists through Feb. 27
SGA president participates in Black History chapelYJ Staff
Wilbert Rogers, a 1975 How-ard Payne graduate, blames his generation for not continuing to tell the story of the accom-plishments of African Ameri-cans in the United States. That’s why Rogers began or-ganizing and leading a Black History Month Recognition chapel service at HPU in 2012.
This year’s Black History Month chapel service was Feb. 7 in Mims Auditorium.
Rogers cited sacrifices made by Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister known for his nonviolent civil dis-obedience, and Rosa Parks, known as the first lady of civil rights, have faded with time.
“Most college kids know who Martin Luther King is, but they don’t know the circum-stances that caused him to rise
the way he did,” Rogers said. “They don’t know that the sto-ry of Rosa Parks is more about the Civil Rights Movement and the Bill of Rights than refusing to give up her seat on the bus.”
Three years ago, Rogers was reminded of the failure in African American edu-cation during practice for the Black History Chapel.
“A photo of Nat King Cole was up on the projector,” Rogers said, “and I asked any of the current students helping with the program if they knew who he was. No-body knew. I said, ‘I’ll give you a hint: His daughter is Natalie Cole.’ They didn’t know who she was, either.”
The late Nat King Cole, a
singer and jazz pianist, was one of the first blacks to host a TV variety show. Natalie Cole is a singer/songwriter with 30 million records sold.
“If nobody else knows these contributions, at least the black kids need to know,” Rogers said. “They need to know there’s more to their history than rap mu-sic and singing and dancing.
“There’s a long line of bril-liant people. I don’t think young black people to-day feel as brilliant as they would if they were edu-cated about the accomplish-ments of African Americans.”
Participating in this year’s Black History Chapel ser-vice touched Isaac Sommers, president of HPU’s Student Government Association.
“Having the opportunity to speak at Howard Payne’s
Black History Month chapel service was truly an honor,” Sommers said. “At this ser-vice, we shared the history of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who literally gave his life to fight for justice and equality.
“Although our country has made substantial strides since then, it is critical that we never forget what Dr. King fought for. Not only hu-man beings, but especially as Christians, we have an obli-gation to fight for the equal treatment of our neighbors.
“I was honored to speak on behalf of black Americans by helping to share the wonder-ful story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., reminding us all that justice and equality can only be achieved if we are willing to stand up with each other, for each other,” Sommers said.
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Recent grad shares missionary work in UgandaBY HPU Media
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Jaclyn Bonner, a May 2017 Howard Payne graduate, was back on campus recently to talk with students about her mission work in Uganda. Bon-ner delivered a presentation on the Ugandan culture to students in a sociology class taught by Lynn Humeniuk, associate professor of crimi-nal justice and sociology.
Bonner spent more than three months in Kampala, Uganda, last fall, serving as a missionary through the Bap-tist General Convention of Texas’ Go Now Missions pro-gram. She worked with Ref-uge & Hope International, a faith-based organization that serves refugees who have fled to the area. The primary fo-cus of the organization is to
share the love of Christ with refugees and help equip them through English as a Second Language (ESL), General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and entrepreneurship courses.
Bonner, who majored in communication studies and minored in sociology at HPU, was able to utilize what she learned in the classroom while assisting with market-ing and communications, ESL teaching and tutoring.
“I believe it is important to have a missional mental-ity wherever I live,” she said. “However, this opportunity was particularly unique be-cause it perfectly incorpo-rated my calling, passion and skills. As a Christian, I am called to share Christ and make disciples. As an indi-vidual, my passion is helping marginalized people. As a re-cent communication studies
graduate, I was able to use my skills to help make the operation run efficiently and equip refugees to succeed.”
Bonner explained to HPU students that Uganda’s cul-ture is much broader than she could adequately explain in the time allotted during class. “We’re just looking at a part of a mosaic,” she said while showing photos of rural vil-lages and cosmopolitan cities.
Bonner first became in-volved with missions through HPU’s Baptist Student Minis-try and served in Brownwood, New York City and with service projects like Beach Reach on South Padre Island.
“Each of these mission ex-periences were impactful and formative for me,” she said. “I learned more about spiri-tual discipline and the char-acter of God. My exposure to local, state and national
missions helped prepare me to serve internationally.”
While an HPU student, Bonner also had the opportu-nity to study abroad for a se-mester in London and travel internationally with HPU’s Model United Nations team.
“These experiences exposed me to world events and is-
sues, such as the refugee and migration crisis, that I have come to care about great-ly,” she said. “Additionally, HPU’s Christian worldview has exposed me to ministry opportunities and encour-aged me to pursue missions for this season of my life.”
HPU Media Relations PhotoParticipants in this year’s Black History Month Recognition Cha-pel service on Feb. 7 in Mims.
Courtesy PhotoRecent HPU graduate Jaclyn Bonner (center) celebrates with graduates of an educational program sponsored in Uganda by Refuge & Hope International.
HPU VS. UMHB
Photos by Audrey Binion
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BY YJ STAFFBoth the Howard Payne
men’s and women’s basketball teams qualified for their respec-tive American Southwest Con-ference basketball tournaments this week at different locations.
The Yellow Jackets, who fin-ished the regular season 11-14 overall and 7-10 in conference, will play LeTourneau (22-3, 16-2) at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the quarterfinals of the ASC men’s tournament, which will be host-ed by Sul Ross State in Alpine.
The Jackets had to win their final two regular-season games in the Brownwood Coli-seum to qualify for the men’s tournament. They eased past Concordia 82-77 Thursday, setting up Saturday’s game against Mary Hardin-Baylor.
HPU freshman guard Timo-thy Aguero made a fade away jump shot at the buzzer to break a tie and give the Jack-ets a 76-74 win over UMHB and a spot in the tournament.
With the game tied at 74-74
with 28 second left, HPU had the ball but senior Khyce Randall missed a 3-point shot. Aguero came up with the ball and hit the game-winning shot. He scored just four points in the game.
Randall, who became the first Howard Payne men’s player in the ASC era to lead the con-ference in both scoring and re-bounding, scored a game-high 36 points and grabbed nine rebounds Saturday. Randall averaged 25.3 points and 9.4 rebounds during the regular season. He also moved up to No. 8 on HPU’s all-time scor-ing list with 1,669 career points.
The Lady Jackets held onto the No. 2 seed from the ASC West Division entering the women’s tournament despite finishing the regular season Sat-urday with an 82-62 loss to West winner Mary Hardin-Baylor.
The Lady Jackets (15-10, 11-6) will play East Texas Baptist (19-6, 13-5) in Thurs-day’s quarterfinals of the ASC women’s tournament at UT-Dallas in Richardson.
Photo by Audrey BinionHPU recognized four men’s basketball players Saturday on Senior Day. They are, starting second from left, Jaze Randolph, Rickey Guillory, Khyce Randall, and Cody Hastings. Joining the seniors are assistant coach Jorden Young (left) and head coach Troy Drummond (right).
Photo by Audrey BinionHPU women’s basketball coach Meia Daniels-Netter (right) recognized five players Saturday on Senior Day. They are, from left, Kristin Cunningham, Djimonii Jackson, Jada Evans, Dominique Featherstone, and Presley McKethan.
ASC Men’s Basketball TournamentAt Sul Ross State, Alpine
Quarterfinals: Thursday, Feb. 22Game 1: Mary Hardin-Baylor vs. East Texas Baptist, 12 p.m.Game 2: LeTourneau vs. Howard Payne, 2:30 p.m.Game 3: UT-Dallas vs. Concordia, 5 p.m.Game 4: Sul Ross vs. UT-Tyler, 7:30 p.m.
Semifinals: Friday, Feb. 23Winners of Games 1 and 2, 5 p.m.Winners of Games 3 and 4, 7:30 p.m.
Quarterfinals: Thursday, Feb. 22Game 1: UT-Tyler vs. Concordia, 12 p.m.Game 2: Mary Hardin-Baylor vs. Louisiana College, 2:30 p.m.Game 3: Howard Payne vs. East Texas Baptist, 5 p.m.Game 4: UT-Dallas vs. Hardin-Simmons, 7:30 p.m.
Semifinals: Friday, Feb. 23Winners of Games 1 and 2, 5 p.m.Winners of Games 3 and 4, 7:30 p.m.
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Women’s basketball guard Va-larie Matlock may just be a ju-nior, but she is already assured her name will be in the Howard Payne University athletics’ record books.
After three seasons of playing for HPU, Matlock ranks second in ca-reer steals – behind her head coach, Meia Daniels-Netter, who played for the Lady Jackets from 2004-2008 and led them to the national championship in 2007-2008. Dan-iels-Netter posted 322 career steals while Matlock currently has 209.
Additionally, this season, Matlock ranks near the top of the team most major statistics. She leads the Lady Jackets in scoring at 13.6 points per game, assists with 79, steals with 81 and minutes played at 34 per game.
The kinesiology major is from the small town of Azle, near Fort Worth. She credits her mom’s in-fluence for her interest and passion for basketball. She said her moth-er played in high school and this has pushed Matlock to play well.
“My mom and how hard she works motivates me to work hard,” Matlock said.
This hard work contributes to her value in multiple facets of the game. Daniels-Netter said Matlock is a very important part of how the team plays.
“Valarie is an energy booster for the team and drives our defense,” Daniels-Netter said. “She does a good job causing turnovers, and that helps lead to offensive possessions for us.”
When asked about the effort she puts into her play, Matlock believes the answer is a relatively simple and in turn responds concisely.
“You just have to work your butt off to play well,” she said.
Matlock’s quiet manner is evi-dent when speaking with her, but this is also a positive fac-tor to her play. Matlock is a good
team leader, through mostly non-vocal, according to her coach.
“She’s a quieter player, but she leads by example on the court,” Daniels-Netter said.
Matlock’s defensive ability is clear. The past two seasons, she has led the team in steals with 104 in 2016-17 and 81 this season – with this year’s conference tournament still remaining. Last season she led the conference and ranked seventh in the nation in steals. With an un-derstated response, she says that her defensive stats and contributions are because she just enjoys defending.
“I like defense. Defense is my fa-vorite part of the game,” Matlock said.
It’s important to remember that although Matlock is a very good collegiate athlete, she has aspira-tions beyond her college days.
Her mom is in the medical field which – combined with her experi-ence as an athlete – has helped to guide her hopes for finding a pro-fession. Matlock wants to become a physical therapist, which would in-volve her going to physical therapy school after graduation. She also has a specific demographic in mind that she would like to care for as a PT.
“I want to be able to help athletes recover from injury,” said Matlock.
She says she doesn’t really know why she ended up at HPU, but whatever the reason, Mat-lock has been able to leave her mark on the women’s basketball program during her time here.
As for this season’s team, the outlook is good. The Lady Jackets completed the new year with an 8-5 record and a 15-10 record on the season. They are headed to the American Southwest Conference tournament this week in Richardson.
Matlock is positive following a 73-69 home win over Concordia in the next-to-last game of the season.
“We’re good going into the tour-nament if we continue to play like we have been,” she said.
Daniels-Netter added that HPU fans should come to Richardson
to support the team in the tourna-ment as they try to become eligible for the NCAA Division III Na-tional Championship Tournament.
The Lady Jackets’ first game of the ASC tournament will be at 5 p.m. Thursday against East Texas Baptist.
Seth Rainey
Staff Writer
Matlock ranks high in categories other than steals
Courtesy PhotoValarie Matlock leads the Lady Jackets this season in scoring, as-sists, steals and minutes played.
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School of Education DeadlinesIt is time to complete application to the School of Education
Educator Preparation Program (EPP).If you want to be a teacher, coach, band/choir director after
graduation from HPU, you must apply to the EPP for admission into the program by the March 1 deadline if you:
1) Have completed at least 30 hours by the end of this semester, fill out Phase 1 application and set up an interview. Bring your Driver License with you.
2) Have completed at least 45 hours by the end of this semester and want to teach Elementary (EC-6), fill out Phase 2 application.
3) Have completed at least 60 hours by the end of this semester and want to teach secondary, coach, or direct bands or choirs, fill out Phase 2 application.
4) Have completed all coursework, with the excep-tion of EDU 4375 and will Clinical Teach next se-mester, fill out Clinical Teaching application.
You may fill out these applications in Office 106 at the School of Education in Newman Hall. If you have any questions, contact Su-
san Sharp via email at [email protected], by phone at (325) 649-8144.
Courtesy PhotosThe Howard Payne women’s golf team finished second in a four-team field last weekend at the Battle of Camp Bowie tournament at Brownwood Country Club.The HPU men’s team finished fourth in an eight-team field. The HPU men and women are scheduled to play in three more tournaments prior to the American Southwest Conference tournament April 30-May 1 at Avery Ranch Golf Club in Austin.
The 2018-19 FAFSA is now available! Get started at
www.fafsa.gov.
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Baseball Home Opener
It didn’t feel like baseball weather when HPU played its home opener against Schreiner on Feb. 7. Temperatures hovered in the mid-40s during the afternoon doubleheader. The Yellow Jackets shrugged off the cold and swept the Mountaineers 8-1 and 3-0.
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Painting forEmpty BowlsHoward Payne students gathering recently to paint bowls for the Empty Bowls event, sched-uled for April 5 in Brownwood. Empty Bowls is sponsored by Good Samaritan and supported by HPU. Its purpose is to raise money to feed hungry families in Brown County.
