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Prior to being sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Education, Lauro Cavazos (second from left) has a conversation in the Blue Room of the White House on Sept. 20, 1988, with former U.S. President Ronald Reagan (left), former U.S. President George H.W. Bush (second from right) and Cavazos’ wife, Peggy Cavazos (right).

By MICHAEL CANTU Lauro Cavazos joined the army in 1944 during World War II. That same year, he started at Kingsville A&I College before transferring to Texas Technological College, where he would eventually become president.

“You could say we’re a family of achievers — we’re a family committed to educating ourselves and helping educate others and doing service to our country, because dad used to say to me, ‘Son, educate yourself.

That’s a treasure that no one can take from you.’”

— Lauro Fred Cavazos Former Texas Tech President

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n front of the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., is a school bell, designed as a donated monument with the promise of higher education in the United States.

On that monument is a plaque with the words, “I’d like to place an old fashioned school bell in every school in America. That bell would toll and say, ‘America, something important is about to happen.

Send your sons and daughters prepared to learn.’ We must heed the tolling of the school bell.”

Attributed to these words is Lauro Fred Cavazos, alumnus of Texas Tech, former Tech president — the first alumnus and Hispanic to do so — and the first Hispanic to serve on a presidential cabinet in the history of the U.S. During the May 21 commencement, Cavazos will be bestowed with an honorary doctorate, Monte Monroe, Southwest Collections

archivist, said.

Now 89, Cavazos is set to receive his 24th honorary doctoral degree, Chancellor Robert Duncan said.

“It was something that was long overdue,” Monroe said, “that Dr. Cavazos is getting the recognitions that he’s getting this spring.”

Monroe said it was a pleasure to chair the committee that gave the go-ahead for this honorary degree to pull through. It was a unanimous decision.

“He said, ‘this one means more to me than all the others combined, because it’s from Texas Tech,’” Monroe said.

Cavazos is also coming to Lubbock a bit earlier for a distinguished alumni award he will be receiving from the College of Arts and Sciences, Monroe said, which will take place today.

Talks of this started while former Tech President M. Duane Nellis was still in office, Duncan said, in the fall of 2015.

“He was someone who brought a lot of history,” Duncan said.

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In an elementary school class photo from the mid-1930s, Lauro Cavazos (in the black shirt) poses with classmates near the Santa Gertrudis Division of the King Ranch. Several decades later, Cavazos became the first alumnus and Hispanic to be the president of Texas Tech in 1980.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Besides the historical aspect Cavazos brought, he was also efficient in taking the entire university out of an academic rut it had been in during the years prior, Duncan said.

The most interesting thing about Cavazos, Duncan said, was Tech was not a system during his term. That meant along with workings of the academic campus, Cavazos was also in charge of Tech’s medical school, now the Health Sciences Center.

“In his experience as a dean of a medical school, that gave him some added strength when he came here,” he said. “Because the president at that time would manage as the CEO of the medical school and the general academic institution.”

The original idea to nominate Cavazos was because of an honorary degree Cavazos received from Kingsville A&M, Duncan said. As a whole, administration thought recognition was appropriate and Tech would need to give similar recognition.

“At least in my view, in my mind, a person who receives one of these degrees needs to have made some major impact on the university and on higher education in general or a major impact on the nation,” Duncan said. “This is the second one that we’ve awarded, I think, since I’ve been chancellor. The other one was Timothy Cole.”

Awards like this are rare, he said, and they should be. These degrees are reserved for those who have excelled and someone who’s made a huge difference on behalf of a university.

Just a ranch boy Along with three other brothers and a sister, Lauro Cavazos, former dean of Tufts University School of Medicine, former president of Texas Tech and former U.S. Secretary of Education, was among the first in the Cavazos family to graduate from a university. All of them have at least one degree, he said.

All of this was pretty amazing, he said, but it all can be mostly attributed to their parent’s insistence on all of them going to college.

However, by the time he was starting school the country was in the middle of the Great Depression, so Cavazos thought it all to be too much of a fantasy.

“I thought there’s no way in the world we could afford college,” he said. “I started school in a tworoom schoolhouse right there on the ranch. But my parents kept pushing and pushing us, and all of us got at least one degree.”

It was his father, Lauro Cavazos Sr., who pushed to get the kids away from the two-roomed school on the King Ranch and into what was mostly an all-white school in Kingsville, Jorge Iber, associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, said.

Even though segregation was still something commonly instituted back then, Texas was somewhat more accepting of Mexican-Americans, Iber said. But there was always the issue of skin tone and class, he said.

“At a time when it was extremely rare for one Mexican-American child to graduate from high school, all five of them graduated from college,” Iber said.

In order to beat the language barrier so many other Hispanic children found difficult, the Cavazos parents insisted on upholding a bilingual household, he said. The kids spoke English to their father, and to their mother, most other family members and other people on the ranch they spoke Spanish.

There was no question in Cavazos’ mind he would have to go to college, he said.

“My mother was partially illiterate. I don’t think she could read (well), and when she’d sign a check we’d write it out for her and then she would draw her name,” Cavazos said, “but there was never very much money (in) there.”

The language barrier Cavazos had to get through also posed a challenge to many other MexicanAmericans at the time, Iber said.

Spanish has always been something cultural that many Hispanic families feel the need to speak.

It is an important characteristic to keep, Iber said, because it is important to what Hispanics are as a group of people.

“I think a lot of people have come to the realization that being bilingual is a benefit,” Iber said.

“So I think that Dr. Cavazos is a person who helped to break down those barriers.”

One of the most important aspects Cavazos spoke of was a man named Maximiliano Garcia, also known as Vallejo.

Aside from Cavazos’ father, Vallejo was one of the people integral in upholding traditions and

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family values in the boys of the family, Monroe said.

“He had a great influence on Dr. Cavazos and he impressed upon him and General Cavazos and Bobby,” Monroe said. “This simple, humble, man taught them how to skin animals, how to trap animals and other things related to the operation of the ranch.”

More importantly, Vallejo taught the boys a tough work ethic, he said.

That also built interest in his career in biology.

Cavazos also talked about his influence of his mother on him and the family, Monroe said.

“His mother was determined that they would go to the Kingsville schools after they left the elementary school,” Monroe said. “But he talked about there was a little bit of discrimination and everything, but his mother bought the land in town so he could go to that school district.”

They built a small house on that plot of land, Monroe said, and the children would go to school in Kingsville after they left the schoolhouse within the ranch.

“You could say we’re a family of achievers — we’re a family committed to educating ourselves and helping educate others,” Cavazos said, “and doing service to our country, because dad used to say to me, ‘Son, educate yourself. That’s a treasure that no one can take from you.’”

There were three main things Cavazos Sr. wanted all of his children to do: educate themselves, serve their country and never disgrace the Cavazos name.

Those three things led all of the Cavazos children, and the children after them, to go about their lives, he said.

Going from Tech to Tech After high school Cavazos immediately went to serve in the U.S. Army.

Fortunately enough for him, he said, he never did see anything more than basic training. It was with his G.I. Bill that he was able to fund his going to college.

The G.I. Bill paid for his whole Bachelor of Arts degree, he said, and because he was a veteran, tuition was also waved.

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Texas Tech Interim President John Opperman met with former Tech president Lauro Cavazos and his wife, Peggy Cavazos, on Wednesday when Cavazos was in Lubbock to receive the Distinguished Alumni award from the College of Arts and Sciences. Cavazos was the first alumnus and Hispanic to serve as the university’s president when he took office in 1980.

Thanksgiving and then again on Christmas, that was about it.”

Aside from that, however, both parents would make all of the children’s graduations, he said.

“And you know, when dad told me he was going to go all the way up to Iowa to my graduation I said, ‘Dad that’s a long, long way,’” Cavazos said. “I said, ‘you know I’m not going to be on that stage more than 45 seconds, (maybe) a minute.’ He said, ‘those are precious moments to your mother and me.

We’re going to be there.’”

With Cavazos Sr. there was no big debate to be had, once the man made up his mind it was going to happen, he said. Out of fear of flying, the Cavazos parents drove all the way out to Iowa to watch their son get a doctoral degree.

While in Lubbock, Cavazos met and started a relationship with a young girl while still a junior at Tech, he said. For six years after they had quite a courtship, he said.

He and Peggy Murdock had known each other throughout the entirety

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D. Ashton Crossley and Lauro Cavazos stand next to one another after graduating with Bachelor of Arts degrees in zoology in 1949. Cavazos stayed at Tech to receive his master’s degree in zoology in 1951, then went to Iowa State University where he received a doctoral degree in 1954.

With a $65 monthly stipend, he was doing rather well for himself, because he was living at home part time. When he first went to college he was going to Texas A&M, formerly known as Texas A&I, in Kingsville.

Primarily starting as journalism students, Cavazos and a friend decided after taking an introductory biology course from James C. Cross they were going to change majors.

However, after his first year in Kingsville, their professor was to relocate. Following his biology professor Cross, who had accepted a position at Tech, Cavazos and a friend traveled around 600 miles along with him.

“I stayed in what was then called Sneed Hall, I think it’s still there,” Cavazos said. “(And) on the $65 I got from the feds, I could feed myself, I had some money left over and I could pay my room and board there at Texas Tech. “ Since he made the switch to biology, he said, there was a lot of work to be done in the lab for professors sorting frogs, starfish and other lab animals — for that he was able to cash in another $20 a month.

Of course he did miss his family, he said. They were such a tight-knit group it was sometimes difficult to be so far away from all of them.

After Tech, Cavazos was given the opportunity for a Ph.D. in biology in which he was given a Fellowship to Iowa State. This was because at the time Tech did not offer a Ph.D. in biology, he said. The main thing he did at Iowa State was research, and he said he insisted on working seven days a week.

“Now that was not unlike what my father did — seven days a week at the ranch, at the King Ranch where he was a foreman,” Cavazos said. “He never had a vacation, he never took a day off. He’d take (off)

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of his college career and kept in touch with each other after Cavazos moved out of Texas, he said.

She also tagged along with the Cavazos family when they made the trip to Iowa, he said.

The night before graduation, Cavazos said he was still working with experiments in the college and invited her. At the time the labs were open 24 hours a day, he said.

“So I said, I said, ‘Peggy, do you want to go around the university and visit faculty?’” he said. “And then I said, ‘I have to go back to the lab to inject some animals that were on our experiment.”

So they injected the rats together and put them back in their cages, he said. Then he invited her to a walk around the campus, near an orchid on the campus.

Then, Cavazos said, he took Peggy next to a bell-tower.

“And that’s when I proposed to her. And then she said to me, ‘whoo,’ she did not expect it,” Cavazos said.

“And she said, ‘Yes, but on one condition. I want 10 children.’”

He agreed to her condition and she agreed to his. They went on to have 10 children, five boys and five girls, after getting married in St. Elizabeth’s University Parish in Lubbock in 1954, he said. All of the children were born very close in age to each other, he said, and at any given point in their academic careers they would usually have around seven in school at one time.

Though his degree was in physiology, Cavazos said, he wanted to teach in a medical school, which influenced his move to the Medical College in Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Serving a 10-year tenure at Richmond where he climbed the hierarchy of professorship quickly, Cavazos made the move to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

However, Cavazos was initially surprised at the invitation to chair the anatomy department at Tufts, he said. Cavazos went from a regular instructor to a full professor within his 10-year stay in Massachusetts.

“So in 10 years out of graduate school I was running a department and it just went on from there,” he said. “All I did was probably work seven days a week.”

After he was dean of Tufts Medical School during the 70s, Cavazos said, he found an opportunity come up from his alma mater, Texas Tech. In 1980 he was hired almost unanimously after the resignation of Tech president Maurice Cecil Mackey in 1979.

“When I came back in 1980 as president, I became the 10th president and the first Hispanic, the first graduate of the university to hold that office,” he said. “And on top of that I was the first Hispanic ever appointed in the history of the United States to (a presidential) cabinet.”

As the former editor-in-chief of The University Daily, now known as The Daily Toreador, in the early 80s, Chino Chapa said he was able to meet then President Cavazos on a regular basis.

“We met as soon as he came on campus,” Chapa said. “So we became friends. He was a visionary as the campus president. Little did I know when I met him in Lubbock that a few years later we would meet again in D.C.” Chapa said Cavazos was one of the first presidents to host Q&A’s with students in the University Center, now called the Student Union Building. Chapa attended the first Q&A event in the courtyard of the UC and described Cavazos as open and welcoming.

Right off the bat, one of Cavazos’ first pushes for the university was to better the academic reputation of Tech, according to his book.

“And as students we were all for that,” Chapa said.

During Cavazos’ tenure, there was also much growth on the Tech campus, Chapa said, one of his main focuses was overseeing the growth of Tech’s National Ranching Heritage Center. Cavazos helped bring memorabilia from the King Ranch to the Tech campus.

Being hired at Tech after graduating from here in 1979, Jim Douglass, associate vice president of the Alumni Association, was able to start up a professional relationship with then President Cavazos, Douglass said.

When Douglass was first hired on, he said, his responsibility was to develop alumni chapters and begin similar networks around the country.

At that time, the alumni chapters associated with Tech were small and there were very few of them, he said. Cavazos wanted to change that.

“Dr. Cavazos, being a Tech alum was extremely open and helpful in traveling and speaking to our alumni group, wherever they were” Douglass said. “So I credited him so much. He and his wife Peggy, who went with him almost everywhere he went.”

As President, Cavazos was very open to the student body, Douglass said. Cavazos’ wife, Peggy, was also a well-known and liked figure in the city. She was a registered nurse and continued to work at Lubbock General Hospital, now University Medical Center, while fulfilling the duties of the university’s first lady, he said.

He Went to the White House Cavazos decided around 1988 he was going to venture into a different direction, he said. As he tendered his resignation there was a phone call from the White House.

According to his book, “A Kineno Remembers: From the King Ranch to the White House,” there was a search for someone to fill a vacant spot for the secretary of education

for Ronald Reagan’s cabinet.

But over anything, education was the most important priority to Cavazos, Douglass said.

“He was so flattered to be asked

by President Reagan to be in the cabinet,” Douglass said. “This was in September of ’88, so they were just in the process, two months later, to elect a new president.”

Though flattered, Cavazos was not happy with the idea of having that position for just a few months, Douglass said. By the time he received word he was nominated to be a member, it was almost assumed George H.W. Bush was to become the next president, he said.

“So (H.W. Bush) went to Cavazos and said, ‘look, I promise you you’ll be reappointed,” Douglass said. “So when he did that (Cavazos) took the job.”

After a thorough nomination process, Cavazos was unanimously approved to be the secretary of education, according to his book.

Throughout most of the senate hearings leading up to Cavazos’ appointment, there were many Hispanic advocacy groups that sat in to watch what was happening.

“And once he was confirmed there were actual celebrations in Washington, D.C., (because) Dr. Cavazos had been appointed to the cabinet,” Chapa said. “I remember attending a reception that was held in the capitol the night after the senate approved him. There were thousands of Hispanics and people from D.C. who came out just to shake his hand.”

Chapa had gone to work in Washington, D.C., serving Rep. Charles Stenholm, who was also a Tech graduate. After Cavazos had been appointed secretary of education he recruited Chapa to work with him as his chief of staff.

After a short while, Cavazos tried his hardest to recruit Chapa as a press secretary. He later replaced his chief of staff with Chapa, he said, which was a surprise to him because the average age of chiefs of staffs were usually in the mid-50s — Chapa was only 31 at the time.

“You know when you live through history sometimes it’s hard to see it. He became the very first Latino to become part of a presidential cabinet in the whole entire history of the country,” Chapa said.

“So I mean, it was a very big deal for the Hispanic community.”

Near the beginning of his tenure as education secretary, Cavazos spoke in Spanish during part of a news conference, being the first to do so. This was just his way of taking a different approach and running things his way, Chapa said.

After he first spoke in Spanish at a news conference there was a bit of criticism from various people, Chapa said. Anytime there was criticism though, Cavazos would handle it professionally.

Even though he was a bit softspoken, he was a principled man.

“So (criticism) didn’t shake him at all,” Chapa said, “so if it bothered him, he didn’t let it on.”

Just because he was Hispanic, though, he did take some swings of criticism, Chapa said. But it was not anything new to him.

But there was also much criticism of Cavazos because of his politics. He was an academic first and foremost, so he never openly revealed his party affiliations, he said. In his book he described himself as being a person who went after candidates who made the most sense, it did not matter the party they belonged to.

“He thought that was a very personal belief and thought he should be approved on his merits,” Chapa said. “Which essentially, he was.

But Washington, D.C., is a very partisan town and people attack you if you’re not on the right side.”

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Dean creates lasting legacy at Tech

By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida Editor

In 1956, about 8,000 students were enrolled at Texas Tech, and while many of these students would graduate and leave the college for their careers, one freshman would become a legacy for his work at the university.

Bill Dean, executive vice president and CEO of the Alumni Association, said he has always loved Lubbock and has gotten the chance to see the university change from the small school he attended to the university that now has Tier One Carnegie Designation.

“We didn’t have SAT or ACT tests, they had an entrance test they gave us and it determined what kind of math you should take and that kind of thing,” he said.

“There were no coed dorms.

Freshmen were required to wear slime caps, these green caps, for probably the first semester we were here. You registered by going building to building. It was quite different.”

While Dean was in college, he worked at the student newspaper, then known as The Toreador, worked on the La Ventana yearbook, played varsity baseball, was president of the student body, president of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, and president of the Interfraternity Council.

“I think you learn things,” he said. “It helps you grow. In my experience, students who participate in something, belong to something, do much better than those who don’t.”

Now that he has worked at Tech for so many years, Dean said he still sees student involvement as a key factor that increases the retention rates of the university.

Dean graduated from Tech in 1961 with a bachelor’s in marketing, he said, then he went into the Army.

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Bill Dean, an associate professor in the College of Media and Communication, earned an undergraduate degree from Texas Tech in marketing in 1961. Dean also received his masters and doctorate degrees from Tech in 1965 and 1971 respectively. He currently serves as the executive vice president and CEO of the Tech Alumni Association.

During this time, President John F. Kennedy was dealing with the Berlin crisis with Germany, Dean said, and college graduates had three choices: they could be drafted and serve two years in the infantry, they could join for three years and select what division they wanted to go into, or they could join for six months of active duty and then have a five and a half year service obligation after that. Dean chose the latter option.

After serving in the Army, Dean returned to Lubbock to work on his Master’s in Education Administration and a teaching certificate during night classes.

He also started working as student activities director for the newly constructed Coronado High School. “ I l o v e d i t . I w a s n ’t married and I didn’t have any major obligations, so I spent tons of time in that

publications room, in the dark room, working with students,” he said. “I look back on it as a great time, primarily because I could devote the time to it. I spent a lot of time up there with the kids, and we had a great time.”

While Dean enjoyed working at the high school level, he was soon offered a job at Tech as the student publications director, which had better pay for his newly formed family.

When Dean advised The University Daily, the newspaper was tied very closely to the journalism school and there was an adviser who taught a reporting class to the student workers.

Dean’s goal as director was to improve the journalism skills of the student reporters while still allowing the newspaper to be student-run, he said, and he served in this role for 11 years.

Dean was then offered his current position at the Alumni Association, and he said he was reluctant to leave student media because he enjoyed his work there.

“It was a whole new world,” he said. “The best thing about this job is over the years, you see how the university changes, how it grows, how it develops, how it’s a much stronger academic university today than it was back in the 60s. That’s a very rewarding experience.”

Dean has served as the executive vice president of the Alumni Association for about 38 years now, he said, and he is also an associate professor in the College of Media and Communication.

Todd Chambers, associate dean of undergraduate affairs for the College of Media and Communication, said he has known Dean since 1984 when he came to Tech as a freshman and

took his first class with him.

“I came back and told my roommate, ‘man, my professor looks just like Tom Landry,’ and it was Dr. Dean,” he said. “It’s been a privilege now when I came back to Tech as a professor to be able to call him a colleague. Over time it’s developed into more of a friendship more than anything.”

Dean already has a wellknown legacy, Chambers said, and one can go anywhere in the U.S. and mention Tech to someone and they will ask about Dean.

Dean balances being a nice and well-liked professor with being rigorous in his teaching, Chambers said, and he pushes his students to strive for excellence.

After teaching for decades, Dean said he still enjoys getting to see students transform as they work their way through college.

“If you ask him what gets him excited, I guarantee it’s about teaching students and changing students’ lives,” he said. “And he does it. Every day he owns it. I have a ton of respect for him. He is Mr. Texas Tech to me.”

Dean balances his two jobs for Tech by scheduling his four classes in the mornings on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, he said, and he works at the Alumni Association during these afternoons and full-time on Tuesday and Thursday.

The Alumni Association often requires putting in extra hours, he said, and he travels frequently to represent the association and he university.

Jim Douglass, associate vice president of the Alumni Association, said he has worked with Dean for 37 years since Dean hired him at the association.

“When you think of Bill Dean, a few things come to mind,” Douglass said. “He is integrity, very straight-

forward, he shoots from the hip, he lets you know exactly what he’s thinking and he is very well respected by everybody.”

Dean has many spheres of alumni who know him through his different roles at Tech, Douglass said, and his good reputation with the entire community reflects back onto the Alumni Association.

Dean has been a steady influence on the association, Douglass said, and he uses the help of the younger staff members to help modernize it when change is needed.

“I don’t think he’s ever going to leave,” Douglass said. “He will be honored accordingly when and if the time ever comes when he leaves here, either feet first or leading a parade, who knows.”

Dean has a secure legacy at Tech, Douglass said, and he is the “dean” of the alumni associations across the country.

Dean is also involved with his fraternity as the current faculty adviser, sponsored the cheerleaders for 11 years and is in his 21st year as chapter adviser for the Saddle Tramps.

“I love baseball, that’s my sport,” he said. “I go to every game. It keeps me young.”

Tech has been named a national research university and received Tier One Carnegie Designation, and Dean said these enhance the value of his degree from 1961 as well as the degrees of all Tech alumni.

He has seen six generations of students come through Tech during his time at the university, and Dean said he does not see himself retiring anytime soon.

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Speaking to reporters in Columbus, Ohio, Kasich didn’t outline his reasons for ending his bid or mention Trump. Instead, he offered an emotional recount of his exchanges with voters on and renewed his call for Ameri-

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He acknowledged it was a message that never seemed to resonate.

“The spirit, the essence of America lies in the hearts and souls of us,” he said.

“Some missed this message.

It wasn’t sexy, it wasn’t a great soundbite.”

Despite his inability to win any contests beyond Ohio, Kasich held on to become the last candidate battling Trump — albeit for only a few hours. His decision to end his campaign comes a day after his other remaining rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, announced that he was suspending his campaign.

Kasich was visibly emotional as he thanked his family and staff.

“Nobody has ever done more with less in the history of politics,” he said.

E a r l i e r We d n e s d a y, Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer “I think John’s doing the right thing.”

“I think John will be very helpful with Ohio, even as governor,” he said in a clip of the interview. Trump stressed that he’s had a good relationship with the Ohio governor and says he’s someone the billionaire is willing

to consider as his vice president.

“I would be interested in vetting John,” he said.

Touting his two terms as governor and 18 years in Congress, Kasich failed to gain traction with GOP voters in a race dominated

by Trump’s ability to seize on the electorate’s anger and disdain of political insiders. Although Kasich tried to pitch himself as the best Republican to take on Hillary Clinton, the weight of the non-Trump never got behind him.

Viewed widely as a longshot candidate from the start, Kasich’s popularity shot up after his strong second-place finish in New Hampshire’s primary in early February. But from the South to the Midwest, many voters were captivated by his boisterous rivals, and his efforts to cast himself as a nicer alternative fell short.

Kasich had pledged to take his campaign all the way to the Republican convention in Cleveland this summer, but his losses in almost all the primaries left him struggling to generate the money and resources needed to sustain a longterm bid. In an extraordinary effort to send the GOP

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contest into a contested convention, Kasich and Cruz forged an alliance in late April, going to the states where they were most likely to succeed and deprive Trump the delegates needed to reach the nomination.

As the race grew increasingly nasty on both sides, Kasich largely maintained his vow not to go negative or, as he told voters to “take the low road to the highest office in the land.” It may have been a more effective tactic for dealing with his rivals — Trump frequently referring to Kasich as “a nice guy,” while lashing out at Cruz with names like “Lyin’ Ted.” He did eventually launch a series of blistering criticisms against Trump’s candidacy, blasting the businessman for creating a “toxic” environment and preying on people’s fears.

Kasich argued that he would be able to win over Trump’s supporters if he gained more attention, saying he understood their economic worries from his own experiences growing up in the blue collar town of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. He insisted that his upbringing positioned him to offer real solutions to those who need them most.

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server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system. Those on the list were some of Clinton’s closest aides during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, including former chief of staff Cheryl D. Mills, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy.

Also set to testify is Bryan Pagliano, the agency employee who was tasked with setting up the clintonemail.com server located in the basement of the New York home Clinton shares with her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Pagliano has previously refused to testify before Congress, citing his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination.

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hen challenges and instant replay for Major League Baseball were introduced in 2014, I was skeptical about it. I knew that most other sports, including the National Football League, incorporated challenged and instant replay into the games and was OK with them using it.

But, originally, I was not OK with baseball using it. At the time, it seemed to take away the excitement of baseball, the opportunity of close calls at the plate not being as exciting as they used to be.

But, the incorporation of instant replay has helped the game more than it has hurt the game.

For the instant replay system in baseball, managers receive one challenge per game. They can challenge anything from tagging plays on the bases or whether the ball was a ground rule double or not.

If the managers overturn the call, they receive one more opportunity for a challenge in the game. Umpires in New York watch these challenged plays and determine if the play in question should stand, be confirmed or be overturned.

This system helps Major League Baseball in general because it keeps the umpires accountable.

If an umpire makes an obvious mistake, the manager should be able to challenge the play and have it overturned because of a human error.

This reason for the instant replay initiation was evident in the infamous near-perfect game Armando Galarraga pitched for the Detroit Tigers in 2010. According to a recap from ESPN, Galarraga had 26 perfect outs and then, on the last batter of the game, first place umpire Jim Joyce made the wrong call at first base on a ground ball.

According to the ESPN recap, Joyce said after the game he made the wrong call and apologized

to Galarraga.

If instant replay was enforced at that time, Galarraga would have made history by having the third perfect game in that month.

Being the last major North American sports league to incorporate a replay system, Major League Baseball was behind the times in integrating the technology available for instant replay.

For the people who think instant replay takes away the excitement of a baseball game, I originally agreed with you. But, after the incident with Galarraga, I realized human error was affecting the integrity of the game.

Umpires should not have the overall power to call a play and then make it stay. Managers, just like coaches in the NFL or NBA, should have had the ability to question calls in a respectable way, rather than arguing with the umpire, years ago.

Critics of the instant replay still have aspects of the game that cannot be challenged by managers, including balls or strikes and the infield fly rule. Because these aspects of the game cannot be challenged, it still brings the original sense the creators of baseball intended.

While skeptical of instant replay at first, I have grown to love the system.

Looking back, I wish they initiated the system earlier in baseball history.

Now the system is in full effect, if Major League Baseball went back to having no system, baseball as a whole would not be as popular as it is today with the replay system. @DavidGayDT

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Clinton, Sanders fight for California LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hillary Clinton is looking confidently ahead to the general election, but taking nothing for granted as California’s mega-primary approaches, reaching out to Hispanic and black voters in the hope of waging a final knockout against rival Bernie Sanders.

Clinton’s visit to the Golden State Thursday coincides with Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. She plans to rally supporters in the gymnasium of a community college that serves heavily Hispanic cities on the edge of Los Angeles.

The event will carry symbolic value. The venue, East Los Angeles College, isn’t far from another local school where Clinton kicked off her successful 2008 presidential primary run in California, when she delivered a setback to then-Sen. Barack Obama on his way to claiming the White House.

In that race, the former first lady notched nearly 55 percent of the vote in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County, home to 10 million people and an important

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As in past primaries, Clinton is expected to do well in the June 7 primary with older Democrats, Hispanics and black voters, while Sanders could perform better with younger voters and independents, who have the option of voting since California holds an open primary.

“The Sanders folks feel that they have to do better with the minority communities, especially Latinos,” said Mitchell Schwartz, who ran Obama’s 2008 campaign in the state and supports the Vermont senator.

For Clinton’s campaign, “they don’t want to go into the (national) convention having lost the biggest state in the country,” Schwartz added. “They are going to pull out all the stops here to win.”

Relying on many of the same advisers who laid the groundwork for her 2008 win, Clinton is looking to build on that strategy, targeting key demographics in the diverse region. Hispanics alone make up about half the population in Los Angeles County.

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Ashlyn Tubbs, former writer for The Daily Toreador and current news reporter at KCBD-TV, said she has been writing since her childhood and got heavily involved with it in middle school.

“I always loved to write, so I would do creative writing in second grade,” she said. “I won the Young Writers and Illustrators contest for Reading Rainbow in second and third grade, and I can remember the news coming down from Amarillo to interview me. At that time, I thought I wanted to focus on writing books, but as I got older, I joined 4-H and was named the 4-H reporter in junior high. They had me write these little features for each 4-H member and the Clarendon newspaper would allow space for my features in their newspaper as well, so it was a really cool experience.”

Tubbs said she continued writing in high school and competed in different UIL writing competitions to gain more experience.

“When I was a freshman, I decided to apply to write for the Clarendon newspaper,” she said. “I applied when I was 14 and got the cover reporter position. I would go out and cover events like City Council meetings and other town events. That’s when I decided that news was what I wanted to do. I went to state my junior year in feature writing and got second place. Doing that well at state and my overall experiences so far really concreted my love for the ethics of journalism and how creative you can be with features, which are definitely my favorite.”

Tubbs said she already knew coming into college that she wanted to work for The DT. “I researched it and I knew that was what I wanted to do for as long as I could,” she said.

“I applied for the freshman apprentice position and told them about my experience writing for the newspaper all four years

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 2 As an educator it was hard to get used to that sort of mentality, Chapa said. Through all of this though, Cavazos never let anybody know anything was bothering him.

Getting past the politics of D.C., Cavazos did have a full agenda for the education sector of the United States, he said. It was Cavazos who made a big push to keep track of how well, or unwell, all minorities were doing in public schools.

One of the first things Cavazos asked for when he went into office was the data how ethnic groups were scoring in public schools, Chapa said.

“At that time they weren’t counting (them), it was just Anglo and black (statistics),” he said. “And he was kind of floored, because here we were in the mid-80s and at that point we thought, ‘these are modern times?’”

Another big focus Cavazos had was on Native American studies, and from his experiences with people from the Southwest, he knew there was need for improvement from that sector of people, too.

So they issued a report called Nations at Rest, Chapa said.

This was a play off a study from the 1970s in which they looked at the academic statistics from the nation called Nation at Rest.

The plural ‘nations’ signified the various Native American tribes around the United States, he said. That was very important in assisting those communities, and in turn the communities were very grateful.

“Secretary Cavazos always thought that education effected everyone, so he had to be above partisan lines,” Chapa said. “So he just really liked that ideal.”

Being devoted to his wife, Cavazos gave most of his time to her. Once office hours were up, he was home, Douglass said.

However, because Cavazos was such a principled man who took his family life seriously, it was a bit bothersome always being in the public eye, Chapa said. In almost all

of high school, and shortly after I got a call from the editor-inchief who told me I was more than qualified.”

Tubbs said her experience as apprentice at The DT gave her more well-rounded experiences with different styles of writing, as well as using technology to tell her stories.

“In the apprentice position, I got to do a little bit of features, news and I got into the multimedia department,” she said. “That’s when I kind of started trying my hand at video. I would edit it and turn the video into a story. I was able to find those stories that people were interested in hearing. I knew I loved the writing part of it, but the most challenging and rewarding part about it was giving a voice to the stories that needed to be heard. After I got my first camera, I really learned to appreciate the art of video and photography, and those components really helped me tell good stories.”

Tubbs became the editor for the La Vida section of The DT after the summer of 2013, and shortly after her time as editor, she got an internship with KAMC. Tubbs got the internship after attending KAMC’s job fair and networking with some of the directors.

“I walked into that newsroom and I knew that was exactly where I wanted to be,” she said. “People were running around the newsroom, and it was just this adrenaline rush. The breaking news atmosphere was what I knew I wanted to be a part of. At the time, I really didn’t understand it, but I knew I wanted to.”

Tubbs’ internship at KAMC ran its course, and she eventually found herself needing a job.

Tubbs enlisted the help of Todd Chambers, associate dean of undergraduate affairs in the College of Media and Communication, for her search.

Chambers suggested Tubbs attend the Texas Association of Broadcasters Convention, she said, which would prove to be Tubbs’ path to KCBD. She said

her opportunity came at the conclusion of the convention, where she met the news director for KCBD. “Todd Chambers had me meet all of the news directors and figure out exactly what they were looking for in applicants,” Tubbs said. “Benji Sneed, the news director for KCBD at the time, said he had a position open for a reporter, and while I hadn’t done anything on camera before, I took the chance and went in to read scripts for him. He told me I needed to work on some things, so I went home, worked on them and came back a while later. At some point during my reading, he said, “That’s it. You emphasized all the right words and showed that you can improve, so let’s go sign a contract.”

Tubbs said her first year was a learning experience trying to tie together the film, writing and reporting aspects of television, but once she transitioned into her second year, she was telling stories more effectively and finding her passion for her job.

“You meet these people at their happiest times and happiest moments, but also in their worst times when they’ve lost a loved one in a tragic way,” she said. “To be able to be their voice is really powerful. They could be the quietest voice in the room, but we can make theirs the loudest voices when telling their story. That is the part of my job that makes me want to come here early and stay late every day.”

Ruben Villarreal, KCBD news operations manager, said he most admired Tubbs for her ability to balance school and a career.

“I’ve known Ashlyn Tubbs for nearly two years. She started her career at KCBD while she was still a student at Texas Tech,” he said. “Not that others haven’t done the same, but the life of a news is reporter is a demanding one and she handled it well.”

Villarreal said he praises Tubbs for her ability to tell

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“Ashlyn has grown leaps and bounds as a reporter over the past two years,” he said.

“She has developed into a dynamic storyteller. She has the ability to really bring out the emotion in a story and draw you in.”

Villarreal said he thinks the College of Media and Communication at Tech equipped Tubbs for her career and he said he looks forward to the stories she will turn out in the future.

“I think the media and communications department at Texas Tech really prepared her to hit the ground running once she began her reporting career,” he said. “I am excited to see what the future holds for her. It has been a pleasure working with her, and I look forward to many more great

stories during her time here in Lubbock.”

Kasie Davis, 10 o’clock news producer for KCBD, is not only Tubbs’ colleague, but she and Tubbs are also roommates.

Davis said she looks at Tubbs from a mother’s eyes — she cannot do any wrong as far as Davis is concerned.

“Her work ethic is incomparable,” she said. “She regularly clocks in 14 and 16 hour days and even when she goes home, she’s still digging to find her next story. Her reporter bug never really goes to sleep.”

Davis said her favorite thing about Tubbs is the fact that she can flip a switch between her personal life and career in a split second.

“If you were to meet her on the street, you would probably hear a lot of giggle, see a shy smile and most likely hear a bit of her Texas accent,” she said.

“However, all of that is put on the backburner when she is on the job. She is assertive and

attentive and passionate about her stories — and above all, strives to find the truth. Truth is a reality and a necessity in our profession, whatever that truth may be, and I can think of no one I am more honored to share in that quest with.”

Davis said there are hardships that come with being a reporter, and said she admires Tubbs for never allowing those hardships to affect her.

“Ashlyn has worked at KCBD for two years now, and in this career, two years can seem like an eternity,” she said. “From car accidents, to murders, to births and children fighting deadly diseases, she has told people’s stories. In fact, she has conveyed their emotions in almost a poetic fashion.

Her love for her career, for the stories that still need to be told, will follow her throughout her life and will drive her to do and see wonderful, wonderful things in this world.”

circumstances, his main focus besides his job was his family.

“Well, he wanted to focus on education, the quality of education in this country,” Douglass said. “And he was almost too idealistic about it, you know, people were wanting him to be much more political.”

There Still Stands a Legacy Out of Cavazos’ 10 children, nine of them have at least one college degree, he said. Moving from Virginia to Richmond with the children was a bit of challenge, he said. However, one thing both Cavazos and Peggy tried to do on a regular basis was to show the children different parts of the world.

“We decided to travel. So we would travel with our children so that they understood the whole world was not like Concord, Massachusetts,” Cavazos said. “You know, nice and clean and educated, all of this other stuff; it has some rough edges and that taught them about the rest of the world.”

While president, Douglass said, Cavazos was open to letting the alumni association use him for just about everything they needed. For many folks, that was a prestigious event, to have the president come to their town and meet them in person, he said.

All three of them, Douglass, Cavazos and his wife, would travel all around the country networking and raising more money for the university, he said.

“They have 10 children, and there’s 11 years (age difference) from top to bottom,” Douglass said. “I kid Peggy that she was pregnant seven and a half years of her life. She said, ‘don’t I know it.’”

There was one instance specifically that caught Douglass’ attention, he said. While at an alumni reception in Tulia, most of the town wanted to attend the event just because Tech’s president was there.

What caught both Cavazos and Douglass’ attention was an old farmer who showed up right after work. Still in his work attire, mostly dirty, he was adamant on meeting the president, Douglass said.

“He said, ‘I decided if the

president of the university is going to come see me the least I can do is get off my tractor and see him,” Douglass said.

Cavazos comes from a distinguished and accomplished family, Douglass said. As Lauro Cavazos was the first Hispanic to become a U.S. cabinet member and first Hispanic president of Tech, his brother Richard was the first Hispanic to become a four-star general in the U.S. Army and his brother Bobby was the first Hispanic All-American football player in the 50s.

For the Cavazos children, it was a combination of drive, discipline and family status that made it possible for all of

them to go about their various accomplishments, Iber said.

It’s not every family that has a four-star general, nurse, businessman, All-American football player and a Ph.D. Within two generations of being in the United States, the Cavazos family was able to go from ranch hands to what they’ve become now.

“In many ways it’s not just a Mexican-American story,” Iber said. “It’s an American story.”

Throughout his career Cavazos has received many honors, Monroe said. All that mattered was being prepared, he said. That’s how one becomes a department chair, dean, president of a university and a secretary

of education.

“There are many times I’ve been up here late at night, sometimes 9 or 10 o’clock, and I’d get an email from Dr. Cavazos. We talk about all kinds of little things, and I’d call him up,” Monroe said. “And he’s still working on a manuscript or he’d call me up on his first book or on his second book he’s working on now.”

It was all a matter of stay-

ing focused, Cavazos said.

There were no summers off, and there was hardly any time to take a vacation. He ran straight through three degrees to get to a point in which he could get comfortable, he said.

“I just focused on what I really wanted to do, and I finally decided that I wanted to really be a scientist or a teacher,” he said, “and I achieved that, and I owe Tech a lot of debt.”

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entered as an undergraduate, he said, and even though the campus has grown and increased enrollment to about 35,000 students, the friendliness and hospitality surrounding campus has not changed.

“There’s no limit to what you can do, and I think that people that move to that area are affected by the no-boundaries attitude of the people out there,” Hance said of Lubbock. “They have a can-do attitude.”

Even though the issues he faced in SGA and the U.S. Congress were very different, Hance said being involved in SGA helped him learn how to bring people together.

“It’s a great training to prepare yourself for a legislative body like congress,” Hance said.

During his time in his fraternity, Hance said he developed great and lasting friendships, and was fraternity brothers with Edward Whitacre Jr., who the engineering college on campus is named after.

Hance said his favorite memory at Tech was walking across the stage during his graduation and shaking the

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Former Texas State Senator, U.S. Representative and Texas Tech University System Chancellor Kent Hance was involved in several things on campus during his time at Tech, including being a member of the Student Government Association and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

He chose to attend Tech for his undergraduate degree for several reasons, Hance said, including being close to home, the affordable cost of being at a state university and the friendly environment surrounding the campus and city. Hance attended the University of Texas for law school.

While at Tech, Hance said the faculty and his professors made him feel very comfortable, which is important in an academic setting.

“When I visited, everyone was friendly, and I just thought there was a great atmosphere about it,” Hance said.

Tech only had about 10,000 students enrolled when he first

university president’s hand.

“My theme at Texas Tech was dream no little dreams, and Texas Tech opened doors for me,” Hance said. “It made me think big thoughts.”

Bill Dean, professor and executive director of the Alumni Association, said he and Hance knew each other when Hance was an undergraduate student.

“He’s a leader,” Dean said, “there’s no question about that.”

When Hance first became chancellor, he had definite goals in mind he wanted the university to achieve, Dean said.

“When he first got here he said we need to increase enrollment to 40,000,” Dean said. “It was less than 30,000 at the time and people, their jaws just kind of dropped,” Dean said.

Hance believed if Tech was going to compete against schools such as Texas A&M and Texas, then the university needed students to represent more parts of the state and broaden influence, Dean said.

It looks like the university is going to reach Hance’s goal of having 40,000 Tech students by 2020, Dean said.

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Kent Hance served as the Texas Tech University System Chancellor from December 2006 to July 2014. During his time as chancellor, the system doubled in size.

During his time as chancellor, Hance also raised more than $1 billion in fundraising during a capital campaign, Dean said, which had never been done before and raised the endowment.

“That had never been done

and most people didn’t think it could be done,” Dean said about Hance’s fundraising.

In Dean’s opinion, Hance’s fundraising efforts were a prelude to being named a national research university and receiving the Tier One

Carnegie designation, and Hance still helps the Tech and Lubbock community.

“I think people call on him from time to time to do things that he is willing to do because he loves Tech,” Dean said. @EastonWollneyDT

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like (Fuller),” Sacco said. “He’s a real Red Raider in every sense of the word.”

Fuller’s contribution to Tech and to society in general is much more than monetary donation.

Fuller is a good human being, Sacco said, and the world would be a much better place if everyone respected fellow humans like he does.

In 2002, the Fullers traveled 43,000 miles in their 45-foot, 1996 Prevost bus to attend every Tech football and basketball game that year. It was the 25th anniversary of his graduation, Fuller said.

“That became kind of my hobby,” Fuller said. “I went to every football game and every basketball game for about five years in a row before I finally missed a basketball game, but I haven’t missed any football game in quite a long time.”

After driving 250,000 miles in

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Terry Fuller is a true Red Raider who never stopped loving Texas Tech. After graduating from Tech in 1977, Fuller’s bond with Tech only grew stronger as the decades went by.

He and his wife have established scholarship endowments in every college and every sport at Tech. In recognition of their contributions to the university, the Fullers have two Tech facilities named after them: the Terry and Linda Fuller Track and Field Complex and the Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building.

Al Sacco Jr., dean of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, met Fuller in Spring 2011.

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the Prevost coach, Fuller said he decided to buy a new one in 2008.

The customized bus features the Double T emblazoned on its sides and a decal of the Masked Rider in the front. Fuller hosts more than 200 fans in his bus during the daylong tailgates.

It is one of his ways to stay in touch with the university, he said. Fuller is also an avid collector of Tech memorabilia, and among other objects of interest, he owns former Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree’s No. 5 black jersey from the Red Raid-

ers’ historic game against Texas on Nov. 1, 2008.

Founder and president of Phoenix PetroCorp, Fuller said he was not always a millionaire.

In fact, as a sophomore at Tech, Fuller had to sell blood plasma for food money.

It all began when Fuller, an Amarillo native, visited Tech as a high school senior in 1973.

During the campus tour, Fuller said he was walking across the Engineering Key, when he happened to meet Harold Winkler, former chairman of

the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering.

“I had never even heard of petroleum engineering. I didn’t even know it existed,” Fuller said. “Price of oil was $3 a barrel. So, petroleum engineering was not a hot topic at that time.”

Winkler told him about summer job opportunities at major oil and gas companies, and the petroleum industry seemed promising, Fuller said.

Moreover, Winkler’s offer of a $500 scholarship made the deal hard to refuse, Fuller said, and he agreed to pursue the petroleum engineering program at Tech.

“In 1973, $500 was a large amount of money. Texas Tech tuition in 1973 was $4 per semester hour,” he said. “So, in engineering, (if) you took 17 hours of classes at $4 an hour, it cost you $68 per semester for tuition.”

Overall, Fuller’s journey at Tech began very well, he said. He also became an active member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and the Saddle Tramps.

“I really can look back and say with greatest passion, I loved that place from day one when I got there,” he said. “I learned a lot about not only petroleum engineering, but life itself.”

However, this journey took an unfortunate turn when Fuller said he made a D in his first petroleum engineering class.

Winkler, the very man who had given Fuller the $500 scholarship, invited Fuller to his office and told him to switch majors, if need be. Winkler revoked the scholarship as well, Fuller said.

“It was just a valuable life lesson there that when you get your priorities wrong, there are consequences to your actions,” he said. “I knew deep down inside that it was nobody else’s fault but mine, and it was my responsibility to take care of business.”

Fuller decided to stay in the petroleum engineering program, but did not want to ask his parents for financial help. After all, Fuller said, losing the scholarship was his fault.

Therefore, he decided to utilize the money he had earned from his summer job. When this money was not enough, he said he had to sell blood plasma at a donation center on Main Street.

“I would go over there twice a week, sell plasma for $10,” he said. “So, I had $20, and that was my food money for the week.”

Later, Fuller improved his grades, and Winkler reinstated the scholarship. This whole experience taught Fuller an important life lesson, he said, which made him a stronger person.

Fuller graduated from Tech with a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering in 1977.

He then worked for various oil and gas companies from the Rocky Mountains to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Finally, in 1993, Fuller said he decided to start his own oil and gas company, and two years later, Fuller, along with his partner, made their first purchase.

“So, for 21 years now we have been buying and operating properties, mainly in Southern Oklahoma, but some in Texas and some in Kansas,” he said.

“What I have today, I owe a great part to Texas Tech University, and that’s why I give back, that’s why my wife gives back.”

Terry Fuller’s wife, Linda Fuller, is a Tech graduate as well, who graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Terry Fuller’s son, Clint Fuller, is also a Tech alumnus. Clint Fuller’s wife, Casey Fuller, is a Tech alumna. Linda Fuller’s brother and his two children are Tech alumni, as well.

“So, we have a little history there,” Terry Fuller said.

He said Tech provided him not only with the educational tools necessary for industry, but also with important life lessons of perseverance, determination and responsibility.

Despite donating millions of dollars to Tech, when asked about the value of his contributions, he only said the amount itself is not important.

“What I have given (is a) repayment of what Texas Tech gave me,” he said. “Whether it’s $10 or $10 million, whatever you can give back, I think you should give back.” @sastryshashi_DT

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Thompson shares experiences with students

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Most student-athletes hope to continue their sport outside of high school and outside of college. One alumna got the opportunity to play professional basketball and coach young students at Lubbock High School after her professional career was over.

In 1998, former Texas Tech Lady Raider women’s basketball forward Alicia Thompson was drafted in the first round of the 1998 WNBA draft by the New York Liberty.

Thompson played for Tech her entire collegiate career at Tech from 1994 to 1998.

Growing up in a small town, it was a dream of Thompson’s to play professional basketball, she said.

Thompson played throughout middle and high school and received a scholarship to play at Tech.

“To have the opportunity to come to Texas Tech was a huge dream,” Thompson said. “It was never a choice for me. Getting a basketball scholarship was the way that my school got paid for.”

Thompson’s teammates at Tech were influential in her playing career, she said. The seniors during her freshman year, like Tabitha Truesdale, taught her the most. These players guided and supported her in practices.

Truesdale, a former Tech basketball player who was on the team with Thompson from 1994 to 1995, said it was awesome having her on the team. Truesdale said Thompson had expansive knowledge playing the post position.

“It was easy to play with (Thompson),” Truesdale said.

“She was able to come in and listen and learn. She learned to step up whenever needed.”

Truesdale and the other seniors made an impact on Thompson, she said. Thompson’s goal was to treat the younger players like they treated her.

“When I came as a freshman, those girls treated me so well, making me feel comfortable and showing me the ropes,” Thompson said.

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Former Lady Raider basketball player Alicia Thompson is a Texas Tech Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and was ranked in the WNBA’s top five in 2000. She is now the girls basketball coach at Lubbock High School.

“When I became the older or upperclassman, I wanted every player that came in after me to feel the same way. I wanted to make them feel like they were a part of the team.”

There were two games in Thompson’s Tech career that stood out to her, she said. A 47-point performance Thompson had against Texas was the best personal game of her life.

“I feel like I could have dropkicked the ball and it would have gone into the basket,” Thompson said.

“That basket seemed like the ocean. Everything that I shot went in. Athletes talk about being in the zone. In that game, there was nothing that could touch me. There was no one that could stop me from scoring. That’s the best I could describe it. I could not hear the crowd. I would not be taken down that game.”

The other game that stood out to Thompson was

the game where the team made the Elite Eight in 1994, she said. The team faced some tough competition in the tournament and Tech was just knocking the teams down.

On the Elite Eight run in 1994, expectations were high because the team had won the National Championship the year before, Thompson said. The team chemistry is what carried them far in the tournament.

“We didn’t have one particular star on the team, but every person on the team that year did specifically what they needed to do to advance,” Thompson said.

“We were all clicking. Everyone wanted it so bad.

The chemistry was there.

We did everything we could to advance.”

In Thompson’s junior year, the WNBA started to come into focus, and the dream Thompson had since she was a child could

finally be made a reality, she said. Thompson knew she would be in the WNBA at some point.

As a senior, different coaches were telling Thompson she was going to be drafted pretty high, she said.

When Thompson was drafted

Everything is an open book for my students. This game is a privilege to play.

ALICIA THOMPSON LUBBOCK HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH as the ninth pick in the first round, words could not describe the feelings she had.

“I don’t know if I can find any words to describe (being drafted),” Thompson said.

“It was a dream come true.

I used to sit in middle school

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Through her time in the WNBA, Thompson played with and against some of the players she played with at Tech, she said. One of those players, Angela BrazielSmith, played at Tech from 1997 to 1999.

Smith said Thompson was a talented basketball player, and Thompson helped Smith succeed both at Tech and in the WNBA. “(Thompson) helped me being a better player,” Smith said. “She taught me the qualities of working hard.

She was someone who I looked up to at Tech. She had a lot of heart and desire to work hard at Tech and (taught me that) when I was going into the WNBA.” Thompson and Smith got to play together on the Indiana Fever team, Thompson said. When she played against other players she played with, it was awkward.

“Of course, I knew what

they were going to do before they did it,” Thompson said. “They also knew my strengths and weaknesses, too. You spend so much time with these players, so you know, you develop these tidbits that you learn about these players.”

The best part of Thompson’s career was winning the WNBA championship with the Seattle Storm in 2004, she said. The whole team that year was in the zone, similar to the zone Thompson was in for the 47-point performance against Texas.

“I can take the WNBA Championship team and every single one of us were in that zone state,” Thompson said. “Our practices, our shoot-arounds and every game that led up to the championship was like nothing that had happened to me before. Nothing could keep us from the championship because we were firing on all cylinders. There was no team drama. We were all working together because we had the common goal. We genuinely loved and cared for each other that year.”

After playing in the WNBA, Thompson returned to Lubbock to coach at Lubbock High School, she said.

Thompson brings things she has learned from different coaches throughout the years.

Thompson also took away certain things coaches did that she did not like.

Thompson has enjoyed relaying the information she learned as a player to her students now, she said.

“For me, as a coach, it is very rewarding to give (the students) the information to succeed,” Thompson said.

“You have all this stuff to share. You have been able to play for great coaches and play around the world and do everything. If I didn’t share that, I would be restricting myself what could be helpful for them. Everything is an open book for my students.

This game is a privilege to play. Basketball took me across the world and taught me to play.” @DavidGayDT

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Allison making strides for Tech athletes

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Alma maters are important to an athlete’s career.

For most successful athletes, the university they attended made a huge impact on their life in some way.

Most of those athletes want to give back in some way to their university.

Rodney Allison, a quart e r b a c k a t Tex a s Tec h from 1975-1977, came back to his alma mater to make an impact on Tech’s former athletes.

In 2013, Allison was chosen to serve as the director of the Double T Varsity Club.

This club gives former athletes the opportunity to connect with their old teammates through reunions and different programs.

Before serving as the director, Allison was part of one of the most successful eras of Tech football, he said. He was coached

by Steve Sloan and played quarterback for the iconic 1976 team.

Robert Giovannetti, senior associate athletics director for external operations, said he idolized Allison as he grew up watching the 1976 Tech football team.

Giovannetti remembers the aspects of Allison’s play during that season.

“He was a quarterback on, if not the best, one of the best Tech teams in history in 1976,” Giovannetti said. “The things about him that I remember as a player, he was hardnosed, he never quit. He was the kind of guy who truly represents Tech with his work ethic.”

When Giovannetti met Allison during his radio show, Giovannetti talked with him about the Houston game during the 1976 season, he said. “(Tech was) ranked No. 5 in the country and they

played Houston late in the season at Jones (AT&T) Stadium,” Giovannetti said. “Tech was way behind in that game. Rod led them on this big comeback but still lost the game.

Houston went on to go to the Cotton Bowl and Tech was co-champions of the league. I asked him on the show if he still thinks about that game and he said every day.”

After playing for Tech, Allison coached for 31 years, Allison said. Allison went everywhere from Clemson to Auburn.

Many people Allison played under influenced his coaching style, he said, like Sloan and coach Bill Parcells.

Allison even had a stint at Southern Mississippi as a quarterbacks coach where he coached a young Brett Favre, who went on to be a first ballot hall of famer, he said.

At the time, Allison did not know how special Favre would be in the National Football League.

“You don’t see it at the time,” Allison said. “You are in college so you know that (Favre) is pretty good, but you don’t know that he will be a first ballot hall of famer.

I miss the games and the relationships with the players.

RODNEY ALLISON DOUBLE T VARSITY CLUB “I dealt with him just like I did any other player, (by coaching) him. You are their mentor and counselor.”

Through all his coaching positions, Allison said he knew he wanted to come back to Lubbock one day, he just did not know in what role.

“I didn’t know if it was going to be coaching or ad-

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Rodney Allison is a former Texas Tech quarterback who played at Tech from 1975-1977. He is currently the director of the Double T Varsity Club, the Texas Tech letterman’s organization. ministratively, but I wanted to be at Tech at the end of my career,” Allison said.

Giovannetti said when Allison was at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga he kept following Tech closely.

“Every Sunday morning, he looked in the paper to see how Tech did the night or the afternoon before,” Giovannetti said. “He was always kind of a Red Raider.”

After finishing his stint as head coach at Tennessee -Chattanooga, Allison knew it was time for him to come back to Tech, he said.

The situation came up where Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt decided to move the letterman’s association inside the athletic department. Allison thought this would be something he would be passionate about.

Allison said the importance of the Double T Varsity Club is for the former athletes to connect and stay

in touch with other athletes.

Also involved in the Tech Hall of Fame and the Ring of Honor, Allison’s job is to keep former athletes involved in the university as much as they can.

The Double T Varsity Club is a way for the former athletes to tell their story, Allison said. Each athlete who played here has one. “(The stories) show the historical perspective of what this place is and what these people did when they were on the field or on the court or on the track,” Allison said. “(The Double T Varsity Club is) about them coming back. Those people who played here are the history of this program and built what this program is today.”

The Double T Varsity Club is run on an expectation of success, Allison said.

He expects this program to be held account-

able just as all the head coaches are held accountable. Allison’s goal is to get most of the former athletes connected through this program.

When Allison figured out he wanted to come back to Tech, he thought he would be doing something completely different than what he is doing now, he said.

“I thought that I would end up coaching here again at some point,” Allison said. “I coached here for two or three years when I first started. That’s a normal deal. I thought that I would be a coach or the head coach here and be more involved directly with the football side.”

But, after coaching for more than 30 years, Allison was ready for a change, he said. Allison thought there was not a better profession to be involved in but the job itself has changed over

the years.

Allison decided to stay out of the coaching realm and focus on the administrative side because of the change in recruiting and the day-to-day grind.

As football season comes up, Allison said he does miss certain aspects of coaching football.

“I miss the games and the relationships with the players,” Allison said. “I miss the part of seeing the growth of the guys from a kid to a man.”

Giovannetti said he is fortunate to work with one of his heroes now.

The Double T Varsity Club is an important part of the Tech Athletics system. “(Allison) is an iconic part of our history,” Giovannetti said. “He is just down to earth, what you see is what you get. He still has a little coach in him and he is a great guy.” @DavidGayDT