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Ladyjacks fall
to McNeese
State in
overtime
Weighing in on
the Super Bowl A small fire was extinguished in
a residence room on the second
floor of Steen Hall during the early
morning hours Thursday. There
were no serious injuries. The fire
broke out when a lamp fell on
a bed and ignited the bedding.
Students were evacuated across
the street to the East College
Cafeteria. Although the fire was
small and extinguished quickly,
there is water damage to the first
and second floors. Cleanup is un-derway.
Students on the undam-aged
floors have been allowed to
move back to their rooms. Students
who reside on the damaged floors
were relocated to other rooms.
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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth
man to walk on the moon and an award-winning
artist, will be the featured guest at
the 2011 installment of the Archie McDonald
Speaker Series at Stephen F. Austin State
University.
The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 14, in the Grand Ballroom
of the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the
SFA campus. Reserve tickets will go on sale
soon.
“Alan Bean is a member of a most exclusive
group - one of 12 people who have walked on
the moon and captured the focus and imagi-nation
of the nation and the world during
the apex of manned space exploration,” Dr.
Archie McDonald said. “Our speaker series
is delighted to feature a fellow Texan who
has viewed our world from a perspective few
others have experienced.”
Bean graduated from Paschal High School
in Fort Worth in 1950 and received a Naval
Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship
to attend the University of Texas at Austin,
where he earned a bachelor’s degree and was
commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy.
He was trained as a test pilot and, in 1963,
was selected as a NASA astronaut.
He was the lunar module pilot on Apollo
12, man’s second lunar landing. In 1973,
Bean again flew in space as commander of
Skylab Mission II, a 59-day mission in which
he traveled more than 24 million miles. He
later served as backup spacecraft command-er
for the joint American-Russian Apollo-
Soyuz Test Project and as chief of operations
and training and acting chief astronaut until
the first flight of the space shuttle.
Bean began pursuing his interest in
painting while still a test pilot in the Navy.
Throughout his NASA career, he took art
classes and honed his artistic skills at night
and on weekends when he wasn’t training for
a mission. For the past 29 years, the former
astronaut has worked full time as a profes-sional
artist. His work has evolved into a mix-ture
of painting and sculpture, textured with
lunar tools, sprinkled with bits of his Apollo
12 spacecraft and the emblems and flag from
the spacesuit he wore on the moon.
When he retired from NASA, Bean vowed,
“I will not be an astronaut that paints, but
will become an artist that used to be an as-tronaut.”
He explains, “I want to record, in fine art,
paintings that will tell future generations
of humankind’s first exploration of another
world.”
SFA’s speaker series, which debuted last
spring, was created to honor and preserve
McDonald’s legacy as a distinguished schol-ar,
educator and community commentator.
A prominent national figure will be hosted
annually at SFA to discuss contemporary
cultural issues - from politics to art - in the
tradition of McDonald’s writings and oral
presentations.
McDonald has taught history at SFA for
46 years and served as director of the East
Texas Historical Association and editor of
the association’s journal for 37 years. He is
a past president of the Texas State Historical
Association, past vice chair of the Texas
Historical Commission and author/editor
of more than 20 books on historical topics.
Along with teaching, McDonald currently
serves as the SFA university/community li-aison
and is a weekly commentator on Red
River Radio in Shreveport.
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Former NASA astronaut Alan Bean to speak at SFA
Small fire in Steen leads to
evacuation, water damage
Snow Day in Nacogdoches
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SFA students enjoyed a Friday off from classes as
snow fell for the first time this year
(Above) Snowball fights were
the order of the day for students
like John Jackson (left) and
Tim Calderon (right). Below,
Stephen F. Austin stands vigil
as the snow continues to fall
across campus. Most school
districts in the area canceled
classes and icy temperatures
swept over East Texas.
Some students had to resort to
extreme measures to free their
cars from the ice and snow on
Friday morning. Germissca
Hendrix (above) resorted to
using a hole punch to chisel
her way through the ice on
her vehicle. Others, like Tim
Calderon (below) used the
snow day as an opportunity to
unwind and have fun.
THOMAS MOTYKA/THE PINE LOG