+
Election: Agony, ecstasy Students react to President Barack Obama’s re-election Editor’s Note: This is the last part of a four-part series highlighting the importance of voting. BRITTANI PFAU Co-Executive Editor Barack Obama took center stage Tuesday night as the newly re-elected president of the United States, beating opponent Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 100 electoral votes, despite a four-year preface of a weak economy. Along with the rest of the country, approximately 200 to 250 KC students gathered for their own election watch party planned by government instructor Rick Moser. “Several government instructors and I were
discussing the upcoming election and I asked who was holding the election watch party. When we realized there was not one planned, we decided that we should sponsor it,” Moser said. “We felt that it was important that we give our students the opportunity to witness the actual election and help them to understand the whole process, not just the voting aspect of the election.” This was the second time Moser had been involved in planning an election party for college students. The first was while he was a student during the last See ELECTION on Page 6
Kris Dobbins / THE FLARE
Jacquelynn Abamu, Ovilla sophomore, shows her support for President Obama during the KC election watch party Tuesday evening.
The Flare
Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 Vol. 76 No. 9 Serving Kilgore College since 1936
VETERANS DAY
+
+
Randi Vinson- Davis/ THE FLARE
Veteran Jordan Moss spent three and a half years in the Navy before coming to KC. Moss rose to the rank of Logistic Specialist third-class before completing his contractual duties in 2010.
From sea to shining sea
Navy veteran taking advantage of GI Bill TRAVIS HULL Staff Writer
J
ordan Moss, Gladewater sophomore, is not your stereotypical college student. In fact, he has seen more of the world than most and has overcome obstacles many people will never have to face in their lives. Moss, 27, spent three and a half years in the Navy with more than a year on the open ocean, defending freedom from pirates off the coast of Somalia and even more time training his mind and body to perform his duties at standards laid down for generations. Jordan is a sailor, freedom fighter, Navy veteran and now a KC student. After growing up and finishing high school in San Antonio at Blessed Hope Academy, Moss proceeded to work at various restaurants, telemarketing and construction jobs for a few years before deciding to enlist in the military. “I joined the Navy to get my life on track. I
Veteran celebration Monday
knew if not a career [in the Navy], I would have my education paid for,” he said. The Navy gave him the opportunity to learn marketable skills and to use these skills while meeting people in other countries, like Israel and Italy while participating port visits, pier/ship security. While on board the destroyer USS James E. Williams, Moss rose to the rank of Logistic Specialist third-class, and in the summer of 2010 he completed his contractual duties to the U.S. Navy and decided to follow his family to East Texas and attend KC as a mass communications major. Many college students come directly from high school and have little outside world experiences to depend on. This is not the case for Moss. When he came to KC he already had priceless training and experiences in an adult world. “I kind of laugh when I hear people so
ASHTON JOHNSON Co-Executive Editor
KC
will host its third Veterans Day Appreciation Celebration 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in the Devall Student Center Ballroom. The event is free and all veterans and the public are invited to attend. It will be a come-and-go event and door prize drawings will be held throughout the celebration for those in attendance. KC President Bill Holda will sing the national anthem and the KC Chorale will sing throughout the event. Lt. Colonel Joseph Willoughby will be the guest speaker. Winners of the Veterans Day art contest will also be awarded during the
See VETERAN on Page 6
Anne Dean Turk remembered TRAVIS HULL Staff Writer The name Anne Dean Turk is permanently displayed on the KC Fine Arts Center for good reason. Anyone who knew her as a teacher comments on her commitment to excellence, not only for herself but for her students as well. Mrs. Turk died Nov. 1 at age 88. The impact she had on KC built a foundation for the music program, as nearly every lead music instructor at KC was a student of Mrs. Turk at one time. In life she inspired others to achieve beyond themselves, and her legacy lives on through the standard of quality for which the
celebration. The purpose of this contest was to bring awareness to the community of every age as to what Veterans Day is about and why it is celebrated. Participants were asked to submit an art project depicting their own personal thanks to veterans. Projects from the following winners will be on exhibit: Kindergarten- second grade: Gabriel Carry from Gilmer Elementary Third grade - fifth grade: Kristal Loredo from Kilgore Intermediate Six grade - eighth grade: Kersten Ellison from Bruce Jr. High in Gilmer Ninth - 12th: Roger Etheridge from Spring Hill High School Honorable Mention/ Veterans Choice: Karea Richardson from Kilgore Intermediate.
KC Music Department is known. The name Anne Dean Turk will never be forgotten, and reverence will always be held in her memory. Graduating from Longview High School in 1940, Mrs. Turk planted her first roots at KC before transferring to The University of Texas at Austin. In 1944 she earned her bachelor’s degree of music and immediately landed herself among the esteemed performers at Julliard School of Music to study piano pedagogy (the science of education). Mrs. Turk eventually gained a Master of Arts from Columbia University then came home to Texas to teach at East Texas Baptist University and soon after
returned to her KC roots to teach music theory and piano from 1946 to 1982. “As a student, you wanted to please her,” said Jeanne Johnson, KC Music and Dance Department chair. Johnson remembers Mrs. Turk as an intense teacher who would ask nothing of her students that she would not ask of herself. “She would come to work an hour early just to practice her scales and arpeggios before she taught any lessons, and she did that for over 30 years,” Johnson said. “That takes an incredible amount of self- discipline.” See MRS. TURK on Page 3
Bre a k i n g n ews, videos an d exten ded cover age at www.thef lareonline. com
+
MASTER TEACHER Anne Dean Turk attended KC from 1940-41. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Music degree. She attended Juliard School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Mrs. Turk taught music theory and piano at KC from 1946 to 1982. She established the Bach Festival and Concerto Program. In 1989, KC President Bert Woodru named the Fine Arts Center after Mrs. Turk to honor her legacy.