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Once more, spring enrollment rises

Enrollment increases continue with 7,649 students attending classes this semester, up 4.65 percent from a year ago.
Each classification from freshmen to doctoral students is up.
This semester is the seventh consecutive registration period with an increase in enrollment, said Dr. Bud Smith, associate vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.
“Texas A&M University-Commerce is on the right track when it comes to recruiting and retaining students,” he commented.
This semester, undergraduate student enrollment is 4,224, up 4.92 percent compared to a year ago. Graduate enrollment is at 3,425, up 4.33 percent from Spring 2001.
The number of international students has increased this semester by a hefty 26 percent with 436 attending classes at A&M-Commerce.

Club pin finds its way back

Alumns Bill McAfee

Bill McAfee holds an Artema Club pin that will be displayed with other A&M-Commerce memorabilia at the Heritage House. A 1936 graduate and charter member of the club, Bill recently presented the pin to Catherine Crawford, executive director of the Foundation. The pin belonged to Forest Lake of Greenville, president of Artema in 1949. The Artema Club was a men’s social organization established in 1935 that would become Lambda Chi Fraternity in the 1950s. Bill and fellow student Joe Gentry organized Artema after receiving President Sam Whitley’s approval. The members designed the club pin, which featured 14 small pearls, each one representing one of the 14 members.

In other news....

• A recent doctoral graduate’s research into the unexpectedly healthy way law enforcement officers communicate with their spouses led her to win the University’s first Distinguished Dissertation Award. Dr. Lynn Winstead Mabe, who earned her doctoral degree in counseling last December, said, “The interesting finding of my research is that it is commonly thought the more we share, the better marriage would be, but this was not found in this law enforcement sample.” For officers, sharing could make spouses worry more or compromise certain operations, she says.

• A&M-Commerce, North Lake College of Irving and construction industry leaders have hammered out a new way to meet the need for college-educated workeers in the metroplex.Students in North Lake’s associate degree in Construction Management and Technology Program can transfer courses to the A&M-Commerce bachelor’s degree in construction science and then continue work on a bachelor’s.

2000-2001Foundation Board Chairman honored

With one former chairman saying the best way to roast the most recent former chair was to say “nice things about him,” Chris Adams recently was honored for his work as chairman of the Foundation Board.
Claiming that one of Chris’ “vulnerable points” is “he can’t stand to be praised,” former Foundation Board chairman Joe Hinton said that under Chris’ leadership the foundation is financially “better off, and the numbers are there to prove it.”

President Keith McFarland recognized Chris as a “giver extraordinare,” who cares about others, and one who has given back to A&M-Commerce.
Since January the Foundation Board, which focuses on fundraising, student scholarships and promotional activities for A&M-Commerce, has been headed by former Shell Oil executive Bill Adams.

A tale of two cities - from the despair of New York to the celebration of Salt Lake

Recently Dana Allen (BA '93( and other members of the Red Cross Rapid Response Team went to work at the olympics, the nations biggest event since the terrorist attacks. In the group picture, Dana and other Red Cross workers cheer the olympic torch as it goes by. "The biggest thing we did is the first aid for the crowds," says Dana. "we stayed in a former polygamist colony ( no lie) that had about 40 bed rooms and this weird wedding arch outside, but it was in the mountains and the scenery was gorgeous! we watched the Opening Ceremony, and did get time off to see a few events.We were able to purchase tickets for Men's Doubles Luges finds, the Gold Medal Womens Curling match, and USA vs Finland Women's Hockey. These tickets were affordable, but some were horribly expensive! Opening Ceremony tickets were $885, and any ice skating event was seven hundred dollars-some of the figure skating was $1,300 and more". In the top photo are a cadre of emergency response vehickes, just in case, says Dana, "any type of natural or human-caused disaster-we were on the third most active fault line in the country.