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History-making team induction
The entire 1952 football team was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame during recent Homecoming festivities. The 1952 Football Lions — the last gridders to go undefeated — posted a perfect 11-0 record, complete with a win over Tennessee Tech in the Tangerine Bowl, the first of four for the Lions. Members of the 1952 Lion football team include: D.L. “Bruno” Ashley, Corky Bowling, Marvin Brown, Bryant Clark, James Coble, Lloyd Corder, Robert Crump, Forrest Faver, G.A. Glenn, James Gray, LeRoy Harry, Eroy Harry, Norman Hinson, Marlin Ingram, Glyn Johnston, Kenneth Kimbrell, Wayne Lambert, Bernie Leftwich, Thomas McCormack, Herman Musser, Billy Norris, John Owens, Oscar Pena, Jack Pirkey, Kenneth Potter, Thurman Pynes, Billy Self, Pasqual Valle, Bob Williams, Charles Wilson and Donald Yates.

Former A&M-Commerce athletes inducted into Hall of Fame
A&M-Commerce inducted five into its Athletic Hall of Fame during Homecoming. Pictured are inductees (from left) Wade Wilson, football 1977-80 and current quarterback coach for the Dallas Cowboys; Jackie Alford, track and field ’87-90; Terry Skinner, football ’74-77; Aundra “Boomer” Thompson, football ’72-75; and John “Cheetah” White, boxing ’52-54.

Volleyball in the Hall

The 1986 Lady Lions were the first women’s team to win a LSC Championship, doing so with a perfect 12-0 record and posting an overall record of 22-2. Pictured are (front): Angie Buantello, Coach Kathy Goodlett, and Sharon Mayo. Second row: Teresa McLain, Stacy (Harris) Mattei, Kathy Rogan and Paulette Pilcik-Britton. Not pictured are Alice Fortes, Kristine King, Shannon Knight, Judie Koukol, Angie Eberhart, Barbara Goodman & Becky Wilson.

Three outstanding coaches honored

Recipients of the Outstanding Alumni Coach Award are (from left) Max Bledsoe, a coach of several sports for the Frisco Independent School District; the late football coach Charles Churchill, who was represented by his widow, Billie McHenry Churchill, and Hosea Lee, a basketball coach for Wilmer- Hutchins ISD.

In Memory

Carl Hyatt
Carl Hyatt, the former director of the Instructional Printing Facility at the University, died Nov. 16 at Presbyterian Hospital of Commerce. He was 85.
Born March 28, 1917, Mr. Hyatt was reared in the newspaper business in West Texas. He attended Texas Tech University and continued to publish and edit the family’s newspaper until 1940. He served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Guam. After the war he worked for the Waco Tribune-Herald and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal as a linotype operator. In 1952 he and a friend, Bill Latson, bought the Commerce Journal.

Carl Hyatt is pictured here at a linotype machine in the University print shop in 1987. He once told colleague Otha Spencer: "I have seen more changes in printing in the last 25 years than in any previous period in history.”

In 1966 Hyatt and Latson sold the Journal to Harte-Hanks Corporation. Following his newspaper career, Hyatt joined the University as printing instructor and production superintendent of the print shop.
Dr. W. J. Bell, former Department of Communications head, said, “I hired Carl Hyatt because of his practical newspaper experience and his dedication to printing as a profession.” Mr. Hyatt ultimately was named director, a position he held until he retired. He helped develop the top-rated professional printing program of any university in Texas and supervised building a state-of-the-art printing facility that opened in 1979.
Lyndal Burnett, who succeeded Hyatt as print shop director, remembers his former teacher and boss “as a person who loved printing and felt that it was the world’s best educational tool.”
President Keith McFarland said, “The fact that Texas A&M University-Commerce had one of the premier printing programs in the nation is due in large part to the leadership that Carl Hyatt provided. His emphasis on mixing the theoretical and practical aspects of printing was a forerunner of what has become standard practice in printing programs today.”
Mr. Hyatt was a 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge and Commerce First Presbyterian Church, where he served on the Board of Deacons.
He is survived by his wife, Frances, whom he married May 21, 1939.

CORRECTION
In the last issue of The Pride, John D. “Cheetah” White was inadvertently identified as Clinton “Whizzer” White for induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame. “Whizzer” is already a member of the Hall.