InsIde ThIs

edITIonNovember is here......Page 2Satire columnist Adam Jones explains what to expect this

upcoming month

GoNow Record.........Page 3A record number of GoNow

missionaries are signed up for Christmas holidays and next

summer.

Scary Movies............Page 4A look at scary movies with

Halloween approaching.

Texas Voices.............Page 5Texas entries continue to make

a splash on “The Voice.”

Homecoming........Pages 6-8A look back at Homecoming

weekend in photos.

Sims’ Turn..............Page 10After this season, it will be

Hunter Sims’ turn to lead the HPU football program.

Lady Jackets Picked..Page 11The HPU Lady Jackets are

picked to win the ASC West in basketball.

More than an RD...Page 12With a new family, Jenny

Jones is more than

The Yellow JacketOctober 29, 2015 Howard Payne University . Brownwood, TX Volume 106, Issue 4

Rachel Hughes

reporter

Danielle Strickland has no shortage of experience with illness in her family, but breast cancer was a dif-ferent type of experience.

When she was in third grade in Houston, her mother, Keri Strick-land, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At first, this didn’t really affect Danielle much since Keri also had a form of narco-lepsy, which meant she was bed-ridden for a large majority of time already. Danielle was too young to understand the difference when she was bed-ridden for cancer treatments.

This first experience isn’t as vivid in Danielle’s mind, but she did remem-ber that they were told it was a guarantee her mom had to go through che-motherapy. But after the surgery, she miraculously did not require chemo.

About 10 years later, Keri was due for a check-up to see how things were going, but because of fi-nances, she was consider-ing skipping the appoint-ment because she felt fine. While she was still on the fence about the decision, Danielle’s younger broth-er, Brandon, woke up in the middle of the night,

ran to his parent’s room, and said he had a night-mare that his mother died.

That night Keri and her husband, David Strick-land, decided it would be safer to keep the appoint-ment in case that was God sending them a warning. “If she had waited much longer,” Danielle said, “it would have been too late.”

The cancer had returned, much stronger this time.

Throughout all of the chemotherapy, Keri still went to work. She wanted to only take the

Wednesdays off once a month when she would ac-tually undergo chemother-apy, but her boss told her that she was not allowed to do that. So she did not work for the last half of that week every month.

At this time, there were a large amount of fam-ily, financial, and work problems that could have pulled apart an ordi-nary family. But with the Strickland family’s un-usual history of diseases, they have learned to grow closer through tough times

instead of tearing one an-other apart. They learned to trust in God rather than to push Him away.

The entire ordeal was very difficult but it brought the family – now living in Boerne – closer and taught them to trust in God.

“Through all this,” Danielle recalls, “I real-ized God can bring beau-ty out of the most diffi-cult circumstances, even when hope seems lost, and you think that there’s no possible way to bring good out of something.

“In the end, I’ve found that I’m stronger than when all this began. It has been three years now and there has been no sign of return-ing cancer. My mom’s hair has grown back, and she’s feeling better than ever.”

In order to support those who fight the bat-tle against breast cancer, Howard Payne University hosts an event every Oc-tober called the Brenda Newbury Breast Cancer Awareness Walk-A-Thon, named after breast cancer survivor and the wife of HPU chancellor Dr. Don Newbury. All proceeds from the Walk-A-Thon will go to the Walker Can-cer Center’s Patient Fund.

This year’s Walk-A-Thon is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. Saturday at Gordon Wood Stadium.

What doesn’t kill you makes you strongerHow breast cancer strengthened a family’s unity and trust in God

courtesy photoHPU student Danielle Strickland (far right) with her brother, Brandon, and her parents, Keri and David Strickland.

Brenda Newbury Breast Cancer Awareness10th Annual Walk-A-Thon

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Gordon Wood StadiumAll proceeds go to the Walker Cancer Center’s

Patient Fund

Brace Yourself: Winter isn’t coming, but November is, so you better get ready

Adam Jones

Satire columnist

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” – Adam Jones.

You have made it through midterms, which means that your life will be much easi-er from here on out, right?

Wrong.You have so much more

work ahead. You have re-search papers, presentations, and probably a bunch of oth-er stuff that’s due. So, here’s the deal, the next few weeks will be full of ups and downs.

The first major event com-ing soon is the end of day-light saving time. Many people believe that daylight saving time was first thought of by Benjamin Franklin to give farmers extra time of the day to work. This is a lie. In fact, the first coun-try to implement daylight saving time was Germany during World War I as a means of conserving energy.

The reason the Unit-ed States still observes

daylight saving time is to commemorate the victory over Germany by ending daylight saving time. So next time you want to complain about having to set your clocks back, remember that you are complaining about America winning a war. You also get an extra hour of sleep so you really need to com-plain about things that matter.

The end of daylight sav-ings time is not the only major holiday in November. Soon you’ll be gathering around your loved ones over an extravagant feast because Election Day is also coming up soon so turn on CNN be-cause Kentucky needs a new agricultural commissioner! If you’re reading this after the election took place, then you should be ashamed of your-self for not participating in democracy. I bet you like day-light saving time too, traitor!

As you look around, you will notice a change in peo-ple’s clothing. T-shirts will be replaced with sweat-shirts, shorts replaced with pants, and leggings will be replaced with a differ-ent pair of leggings. OK, some things never change.

Normally, people would start changing their attire based on changes in tem-perature but at HPU, people alter their behavior based on the date. It may be 93 de-grees outside but as soon as it is November, you should expect to see girls break out the infinity scarves, ugg boots, and parkas because it is winter weather you like it or not. (Did you see the pun? Wasn’t it hilari-ous? Hahaha yay comedy! I laugh to cover up the pain.)

Eventually the weather will start changing to match the clothes people wear. Don’t panic! It may be get-ting cold, but that doesn’t mean that the mighty sun god has abandoned us; he’s just taking a little vacation. He’ll be back in no time.

People will enjoy the change in the weather for about a week. They will take pictures with dead leaves, pumpkins, and plan on going apple picking. After everyone has their week of pumpkin spice everything (I recom-mend the pumpkin spice que-sarito from Taco Bell), peo-ple will be hit with the harsh reality that it is cold outside.

The joy of cold weather will soon dissipate and be replaced with a cold bit-terness that matches the weather. You’ll be forced to actually go outside and con-tinue with your daily life even though it’s below 60 degrees and you are comfort-able in your nice warm bed.

But I bring you good news: It turns out your pro-fessors will also rather stay in their warm bed instead of putting up with you. Don’t feel obliged to go to class because of this. You won’t get in trouble at all.

The season is changing and you should start freaking out. You have a ton of assign-ments due, you have to get ready for the holiday season, and you have to deal with our beloved Brownwood be-coming as cold as the arctic – if the arctic was 54 degrees – so you should stop read-ing this and go do school.

I honestly don’t know why you wasted your precious seconds reading this article when you could have been studying or pumpkin pick-ing. When your GPA brings shame to you, don’t blame me.

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News Briefs

CampusHoward Payne will host a

career fair for students and alumni from 10 a.m. to 2

p.m. on Nov. 12. Open to the campus only, the fair will

introduce current students and graduates to representatives from businesses and organi-zations around the area. To learn more, contact Tammy Arreola, HPU’s director of

career services, at tarreola@hputx.edu or (325) 649-8630 or visit www.hputx.edu/ca-

reerfair.

StateAn 18-year-old woman killed two weeks ago was stabbed

and left for dead near a creek, according to court docu-

ments. Police had previously declined to say how Zoe

Hastings died. But some new details are in a search warrant affidavit for Antonio Lamar Cochran’s northeast Dallas apartment. He is charged with capital murder and

could face the death penalty. Hastings was on her way to

church when she stopped at a Walgreens to return movies. Cochran allegedly forced his way into Hastings’ minivan.

NationalIn Rochester, New York, a

deer that was severely injured when it ran into a car Mon-day wound up inside a local hospital. The injured deer wandered through the au-tomatic doors of the emer-

gency department, but did not enter a patient care area. Two sheriff’s deputies were at the hospital, which is a part of the University of Rochester Medical Center, when the

deer staggered in. The depu-ties removed the deer from the hospital. Animal control was called and the deer was

euthanized.

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Christmas Break Missions O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5 P A G E 3

Spirituality

From Asia to Arlington, GoNow missionaries will put Christ into Christmas

Now that fall break is past and autumn weather is fi-nally blowing in, thoughts of the holidays begin to pre-occupy people’s minds. The season always promises to renew a focus on family, friends, and fellowship, as well as giving and receiving.

This Christmas, students from universities across Texas will be proclaiming the most important gift – salvation – to people across the globe.

GoNow’s vision extends beyond organization objec-tives. “Our ultimate goal is to raise up a generation of Great Commission Christians,” the GoNow website states. “We desire to help students be-gin a lifestyle of missions.”

The organization was estab-lished in 1946. In the nearly 70 years since its founding, gen-erations of students and Bap-tist Student Ministries (BSM) across Texas have contributed over $3.6 million to send up-wards of 9,000 student mis-sionaries to share Christ’s love to the nations and all kinds of people across the globe.

This Christmas break alone, HPU is sending nine student missionaries through GoNow Missions. Keith Platt, direc-tor of Howard Payne’s BSM says this is the largest group to go on Christmas mis-sions from HPU in the past five years, exceeding the last years’ total amount of HPU GoNow student missionar-ies – Christmas, summer, and semester. Furthermore, a record 105 students from Texas universities applied and attended Discovery Day in-terviews for Christmas break and spring semester missions.

However, it not about numbers but about hearts. It is amazing to see how God is moving on our cam-pus and has compelled indi-viduals to take steps of faith.

“When students understand the Gospel, they cannot help but to share what is inside of them,” said Platt. “I think we are seeing that on our campus — students understanding the urgency of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the desire to share how Jesus has changed them.”

I, along with Chandler Condra will be participat-ing in the Christmas in China Town mission and will be working with a few Chinese churches who are doing out-reach in three of the china towns in New York City.

Shaefer Church and Xavier McFalls will be

serving alongside NCM, the Northwest equivalent of BSM, to reach college campuses across Oregon.

Dillon Hughes, Aaron Walling, and Zoe Em-ley will be serving at Mis-sion Arlington for a week.

Danielle Parkhurst is go-ing to be traveling to the Harmons, a small area in the south central part of Jamaica, building a hurricane-proof house for a Jamaican family.

Additionally, Andrew Er-win will be sharing Christ’s love in Moldova with orphans.

Church, BSM student worker and Bible ma-jor from Farmington, New Mexico, first got involved in GoNow Missions this past summer. He participated in the backpacking evange-lism trip to the Philippines.

“The main thing is that it taught me to really truly trust God – not just with really vague things but with every-day things and big things,” re-flected Church as he thought about what his summer in the Philippines taught him. “I knew that I was called to the ministry, but after that, I re-alized that I was specifically called to the mission field.”

Students interested in GoNow Missions for summer 2016 are encouraged to pick up a brochure at The Hub and visit with Platt. Interviews for summer missions will be con-ducted throughout November.

However, the many stu-dents who have gone on mission trips and will go on mission trips are not the only ones involved in this outreach. GoNow acknowl-

edges three roles in missions: praying, sending, and going.

One of the amazing things about GoNow missions is that BSMs across the state raise money to donate to the student mission trips. Every student that goes through GoNow will have part of their trip paid for by this coalition of supporters.

Each year, the Howard Payne BSM sets a fundrais-ing goal and raises money through donations and the annual Mustache Wheel of Doom (MWOD). For No Shave November, three teams will be formed to partici-pate in the MWOD contest, which initially began as a Homecoming event in 2003.

Guys who can grow facial hair are eligible to partici-pate on teams, but everyone is encouraged to donate as the goal of this competition is to raise money for GoNow missions. Fundraising always gets hairy, though, because only one team will be the top fundraisers. The other teams must spin the wheel of doom, which directs team members to shave their facial hair in crazy patterns that will be worn throughout the week.

Regardless of whether or not you are a member of a team, you can still buy a MWOD T-shirt to support GoNow missions or make a donation at the Hub or online at http://gonowmissions.com/give.

The Howard Payne BSM leadership team took a step of faith and made the deci-sion to double their fund-raising goal from last year. Raising $8,000 is a chal-lenge, but not impossible.

No matter where you are this holiday season, you can still be involved in the work God is doing through GoNow Missions, whether it be by praying, sending, or going.

Courtesy PhotoStudent missionary Shaefer Church on the backpacking evangelism GoNow Missions trip to the Philippines this past summer.

Jaclyn Bonner

Reporter

Scary movies worth watching again P A G E 4 O C T O B E R , 2 9 2 0 1 5

Entertainment

If you love Halloween pure-ly because of all the horror movies that arise out of it like I do, sometimes you can find yourself a little disappointed.

The film could either be pre-dictable or just not frightening at all. So instead of complain-ing that this movie isn’t as

bloodcurdling as the last one, it is exciting to watch the mov-ies that made you fall in love with the thrill in the first place.

Whether you prefer the classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Night-mare on Elm Street, or es-sentially any of the Stephen King movies, you just can’t go wrong. You will find that most scare and shock tac-tics used in today’s horror

films originated or flourish because of their presence in these timeless films. An ex-ample of this would be the dramatic use of a film score in Stephen King’s, The Shin-ing. Without the bone chilling music, the ambiance of the entire movie would be ruined.

There are numerous sub-genres of horror flicks like gore, slasher, psychologi-cal, and paranormal. Each

sub-genre has at least one definitive movie connected to it. People usually associ-ate the Saw franchise with gore and the Scream fran-chise with slasher genres.

With all of this in mind, you can still find movies that are worth watching for the first time this Halloween. The Babadook, directed by Jenni-fer Kent, is a great example of a psychological/monster

film that is still relatively un-known. Receiving a 98 per-cent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, The Babadook “relies on real horror rather than cheap jump scares.”

Movie lovers always find it pleasing to go back and revisit their favorites. But beware! You may find it dif-ficult to watch, considering the poor quality and cheap graphics of those earlier films.

tiffani peeples

movie columnist

Marvel teams with Netflix to deliver more complex heroes

Over the last decade, Mar-vel studios has changed the genre of superhero film in unprecedented ways.

By developing an entire universe of popular charac-ters such as Iron Man, Cap-tain America, and Thor, and giving them each sequels and already two Avengers movies, Marvel alongside with Disney has created a dynasty of seem-ingly endless potential. Spec-tacle is mixed with laughs to create universal entertain-ment for the whole family.

However, after a recent deal with Netflix, Marvel has been expanding its universe to in-clude more obscure and gritty characters with exclusive TV seasons. Daredevil, released in April, was the first of this new format. Set in New York’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” it tells the story of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who defends the inno-cent by day and fights crime as a masked vigilante by night.

It stars Charlie Cox (Star-dust) as Murdock and Vin-cent D’Onofrio (Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Ju-rassic World) as Wilson Fisk, a mysterious and violent

businessman who through his shady dealings crosses paths with the “Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.” When asked about the direction of the show, Cox said that it would be a much darker representation of a su-perhero than what we’ve seen from Marvel in recent years.

Daredevil certainly did not disappoint with realistic and R-rated action scenes. How-ever, because the character Murdock is Catholic, he does not kill, swear, or have inap-propriate relationships, mak-ing it a relatively tame show apart from the violence. The second season has already been experiencing a lot of hype with the confirmation that fan-favorite, antihero The Punisher (played by The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal) will be making an appearance.

Netflix’s next offering will be Jessica Jones, which stars

Krysten Ritter (Confessions of a Shopaholic) in the title role. Jones is a former super-hero who becomes a private investigator when her career is cut short by a sudden trag-edy. The show’s tone is said to be a lot darker than even its predecessor, as it deals with more adult themes including a realistic depiction of PTSD.

Doctor Who’s David Ten-nant will be forgoing his usual type to play the role of villain Zebediah Killgrave. A long time comic book fan, Ten-nant was extremely excited to be apart of this project, saying, “This is something I grew up with. It’s like my 8-year-old self doesn’t know what to do with himself.”

With Jessica Jones premier-ing Nov. 20 and Daredevil’s second season confirmed for next April, fans are ea-gerly looking to the future as

Marvel plans to introduce more characters and shows leading to a team-up of the Defenders, the street level version of the Avengers. Us-ing this format, they have created an amazing way to showcase lesser known, yet complex heroes who wouldn’t otherwise be featured in a

big budget movie. Hopefully this will continue for years to come, allowing us to see the entire wealth of story arcs.

As for this columnist, I am eagerly awaiting a How-ard the Duck spinoff. I un-derstand that George Lucas isn’t too busy these days.

Jimmy Abbatiello

movie columnist

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Texas talents again doing well on ‘The Voice’ O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5 P A G E 5

Once again Texas natives are making a major impres-sion on NBC’s season nine of “The Voice. You may remem-ber back in season four when 22-year-old Waco native and Baylor University student Holly Tucker won it all under the coaching of Blake Shel-ton. After the show, Tucker went on to perform in 17 states and Canada while pur-suing a bachelor’s degree in Corporate Communications. Tucker also performed at Howard Payne’s 125th Home-coming weekend last year.

The blind auditions began with four Texas hopefuls. Judges Shelton, Adam Levine, Gwen Stefani, and Pharrell Williams were completely blown away as 31-year-old Chris Crump from Baytown preformed to Ed Sheeran’s hit

song “Thinking Out Loud.” It caused all four chairs to turn.

Crump went on to fol-low in Tucker’s footsteps and choose Team Blake.

Madi Davis, a 16-year-old

from McKinney in the Dal-las area caused judges Stafani and Williams to take stabs at one another in attempts to have Davis join their team. Davis suffered from

hearing loss at a young age, but found her confidence after undergoing surgery. She went on to pick Team Pharrell and proved herself worthy in the first set of knockout rounds.

Unfortunately, that would not be the case for Chance Pena, a 15-year-old from Ty-ler. Although he “wowed” Levine, Pena was later stolen by Team Blake only to fall short and be sent home shortly after the first knockout rounds. Finally, Blaine Mitchell from Fort Worth charmed both Shelton and Stefani with his interpretation to the classic “Drops of Jupiter.” Mitch-ell chose Team Blake as his coach, but after being elimi-nated in the knockout rounds,

Mitchell was given a sec-ond chance last minute by Levine with a steal. “The Voice” Season Nine is full of

talented and promising voices. There is still more to come in the following weeks with more eliminations that will lead into the playoff rounds, before finally reach-ing the Final 12 perform-ers whose future will rest in the hands of the viewers.

Features

Homemade Super Sliders are bound to please

In addition to going out to eat, I enjoy cooking at home as well. Here is one of my favorite recipes.

Want to make mini titans that could fill a crowd or help add a bit of flare to any party? Try my Super Sliders.

This is what you are going to need:

1 pound of ground beefBacon

Salt & pepperWorcestershire sauce

Garlic powderKing Hawaiian rolls Veggies of any kind

American cheeseMustard and ketchup

Here’s how you create the Super Sliders: Take a large bowl and place the meat inside. First take your Worcestershire sauce and pour a generous amount, usually about one-fourth of a cup, and then add about a tablespoon of garlic powder and pepper and then a tea-spoon of salt. Add more salt if you like.

Then wash your hands and get in there and mix it all up until all of the sea-sonings are soaked up by

the meat, and the season-ings are evenly distributed throughout the meat. After things are mixed up, take a cutting board or any form of flat baking pan and tear out pieces of the meat and make small meatballs that are half the size of the palm of your hand. You should make about six to eight meatballs. Once you have them using a spatula gently flatten them to form a small burger patty.

Take your burgers and ba-con to your grill of choice. I use a flat cast iron grill for indoor cooking and cook both the bacon and burg-ers. If you want to do it on an outdoor grill, take a pan you don’t mind getting

smoke stains on it you can place it directly on the grill and cook your bacon on it.

Once you have your cook-ing apparatus configured, let the bacon cook until has turned perfectly crispy. For the burgers, cook them for about three to four min-utes on each side to ensure they are thoroughly cooked.

When the burger are al-most done, place your slice of American cheese on it and let it melt while the patties are still hot on the grill. Once all the burg-ers and bacon are finished cooking, place the meat on a plate while you separate the rolls into halves and toast them briefly on the

grill while your veggies are chopped and ready to go.

I am more simplistic when it comes to veggies so I use a small Roma to-mato to add a contrasting tarty flavor to the slider. But to construct it, I take a mini burger with cheese, then top it with bacon and then the tomato with the top half with smeared with a mixture of the ketchup and mustard to top it all off.

For structural support I use long deli toothpicks to keep the whole thing together.

The final step is to simply enjoy your cre-ation. Happy eating

Aimee Orozco

Music Columnist

Andy Zembrano

Food columnist

P A G E 6 O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5

Homecoming

Homecoming ParadePhotos by: Rebekah Lytle and Andria Garza

Football Game and Convocation

O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5 P A G E 7

Homecoming

Photos by Ashley Moon,

Rebekah Lytle, and Andria Garza

Snapshots P A G E 8 O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5

Homecoming

Photos by Ashley Moon, Rebekah Lytle, and Andria Garza

Tracing the roots of our alma mater O C T O B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 5 P A G E 9

Features

Today, we are going to look at the or-igins of the Howard Payne alma mater.

According to Dr. Thomas Taylor, president of HPC 1929-1955, for many of the earliest years of the college, the school sang the Old Line Song. The tune was the Good Old Summer Time. Taylor, a student at HPC when it was a junior college, graduated from Baylor in 1907. Sometime dur-ing the early 1920s Baylor decided to replace their college song, The Green and the Gold, written by H. L. Clark.

Dean Roxy Harriette Grove, daugh-ter of Professor Grove of Howard Payne, was head of Baylor’s Music Department at that time. She wrote to inquire whether HPC would surren-der The Old Line Song to Baylor. As HPC did not own the music, and as other colleges in the country also used it, HPC responded with no objections.

Thus, the Good Old Baylor Line was born.

Unfortunately, though, HPC was then without a school song. Before re-ceiving an appointment to the Baylor faculty, Roxy Grove had been on the faculty at HPC. In addition, she had been a student when her father was president of the college. She first en-tered the HPC Academy program at the age of 12 in September 1900. She fin-ished her first two years at HPC and left for Baylor in September 1906. Born in Liberty, Missouri, she was proficient in piano and won the top Baylor scholar-ship as a result of her grades at HPC.

Grove majored in music, graduat-ing from Baylor in 1908. Returning to Brownwood, she felt the call to the mission field and served in Sao Pau-lo, Brazil, from 1908 to 1911. Upon her return, she went to Europe and spent two years in Berlin, Germany.

Grove then returned to HPC as a member of the faculty from 1913-1916. While here, she composed both words and music to a beautiful college song that HPC would use for several years. The lyrics are found in the 1923 yearbook:

HAIL TO THEE, OUR ALMA MATERBlue’s for true and gold’s for worth,

True worth what our colors say,We will learn all we can

At the fount of knowledgeAnd do all we can for the dear old

college.

And when in life we meet the worldWe will look at it squareWith our colors unfurled

Hurrah for the BlueHurrah for the Gold

For the navy blueand the old gold

Rah, Rah.

In 1916 Grove left Howard Payne to teach in Canada. During World War I she combined teaching with volunteer nursing. In 1920 she again returned to HPC, but in 1924 she was elected to head the piano department at Simmons University in Abilene, a position she held until 1926 when she moved to the

Baylor faculty. She continued to be on the faculty at Baylor until her death.

Sometime in the spring of 1924, the present alma mater was written by Cameron Marshall, dean of the HPC School of Music. Marshall, first

elected to the faculty in 1919, held de-grees from Drake Conservatory of Mu-sic and Wolcott Conservatory in voice. He served at HPC until 1929 when he left for the University of Chicago.

While at HPC, Marshall was very popular. The 1924 HP yearbook was dedicated to him. Former students interviewed for the University Oral History Project unanimously and warmly remember Marshall as not only an extremely talented musician but as a great showman and one who was instrumental in bringing some very famous entertainers and artists to Brownwood during the early 1920s.

The new alma mater was first pub-lished in the 1924 yearbook. From Taylor’s papers it seems that not only was a new song selected that year but also a new tradition began: When-ever students sing the song, they face Old Main. The music was “stolen” by Marshall from Cornell Univer-sity. The tune is “High Above Cayu-ga’s Waters” (Cornell’s alma mater.)

Several colleges, in addition to HPU, use the tune to this day.

HAIL TO THEE, OUR ALMA MATER High above old Bayou’s waters

Out on Center HeightsStands our noble Alma Mater

Towering in her might.Keep her colors ever floating

Sing her praises dueHail to thee, our Alma Mater

Hail to Gold and Blue.

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Photo by Ashley MoonWhen singing the HPU alma mater, students show their stingers and face Old Main.

Dr. Robert Mangrum

university historian

His time to lead has come

It’s been an interest-ing season for How-ard Payne offensive co-ordinator Hunter Sims.

It began with the Yellow Jackets’ football assistant coach celebrating the birth of his second son, Finn, on the first day of preseason practices in August. Most recently, Sims has been named as HPU’s head coach after Roger Geise returns at the end of the fall semester.

Geise formally announced his retirement earlier this month effective at the end of the fall semester. Less than a week later, HPU announced the promotion of Sims.

“When we look for a head football coach, we look, first, for someone with high character and a strong com-mitment to Christ,” HPU President Dr. Bill Ellis said. “Second, we want some-one with the knowledge set and interpersonal skills necessary for directing the team. And finally, we want someone who wants to win – that competitive spirit.

“Coach Sims has all three, and I anticipate that, as he settles into his new role, Coach Sims will dem-onstrate to everyone that he possesses all three of these qualities,” Ellis said.

Sims has experience at nearly every level of the game, including interna-tionally. He started as a stu-dent coach during a year in which he redshirted at Mc-Murry University, then trav-eled to Schwäbisch Hall,

Germany, to play quarter-back and receiver. Sims also was the head baseball coach there of an 18-U team, play-ing on that team as well.

From Germany, Sims signed an Arena Football contract with the San An-gelo Stampede. While play-ing there, he helped coach receivers at Angelo State for a year and a half. After his playing career ended with the Stampede, he stayed on and helped coach that team for a season before finally landing a job coaching re-ceivers at Howard Payne.

“We are excited to have Coach Sims continue on at Howard Payne as the new head football coach next season,” said Abram Choate, HPU assistant athletic direc-tor for sports information and game administration. “His experience as a former Divi-sion III athlete and coaching experience will be an asset to him as he looks to guide the Yellow Jacket football

program into the future.”A jack of all trades so far

at HPU, Sims has spent time coaching both sides of the ball – two years coaching receivers, a year coaching defensive backs, and the last four as offensive coordinator.

“I’m real excited just to be picking up where Coach Geise left off,” Sims said. “Moving forward, we’re not really going in a differ-ent direction. As far as run-ning a good program, first and foremost getting guys to graduate, then taking care of our business on the field.”

Even with all his experi-ence, coaching and playing, Sims isn’t coming into this opportunity with unrealistic goals. He knows exactly how

he wants this program to be run, and exactly how the coaching staff wants to do it.

“The plan for me, is for the guys in the program to be proud to wear Howard Payne Yellow Jackets across their chest,” Sims said. “Then when they graduate, to be proud to say that they went to school at Howard Payne and played football.

“Wherever the chips fall while they’re here, to let them know and remind them that it’s completely in their hands. My goal is to pro-vide the best experience pos-sible for them, while grow-ing them as young men.”

Dealing with a small army of men in their late teens and early 20s, Sims knows of the

trails and difficulties that will stand in the way of his goal.

“The thought is always the process, and the roadblocks you might hit. Whether it’s in town, or on campus that might hamper the kids from reaching their own ultimate goals. From a parents’ per-spective, trying to take care of your kids and giving them the best opportunity. My biggest fear is for one of the kids in our program not feel as if they were successful in our program,” Sims said.

With three games re-maining in an 0-7 season, the Jackets are preparing to battle Louisiana Col-lege at 1 p.m. Saturday at Gordon Wood Stadium.

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Courtesy photoHunter Sims has been promoted to head football coach after Roger Geise retires at the end of the fall semester.

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The Howard Payne women’s bas-ketball team has been picked to win the 2016 American Southwest Conference West Division title fol-lowing a vote of the league’s head coaches, sports information direc-tors and select media members.

Howard Payne, 16-11 overall and 12-8 in the ASC last year, received 59 points and 11 first-place votes to claim first-place in the West Division. HPU has played in the last 12 confer-ence tournaments and are coached by ASC Hall of Honor member and former HPU player Meia Daniels.

Hardin-Simmons and Mary Hardin-Baylor were picked to finish second and third behind HPU in the West Di-vision. Concordia, picked fourth, and Sul Ross, picked fifth, round out the West. McMurry will play a confer-ence schedule this season, but is in-

eligible for the ASC championship.UT Tyler is picked to win the East

Division, followed by UT Dallas.The Lady Jackets open the season

on Nov. 13 at Prairie View A&M.

Bradley named preseason All-American

Howard Payne’s Danyel Brad-ley has been named a preseason All-American by Division III News/Smal lCol legeHoops .com.

Bradley finished the 2014-15 regular season as the leading scorer in Division III with 22.3 points per game. Her 602 points overall are the most scored by an American Southwest Conference play-er in a single season since former HPU player and current coach of the Lady Jackets, Meia Daniels, set the confer-ence record in 2007-08 with 649 points.

Bradley last season ranked in the top 10 in six league categories. In ad-dition to leading the ASC in scoring, Bradley also held top marks in steals (93), ranked second in free throw per-

centage (.831), fourth in field goal per-centage (.449) and 10th in assists (3.1).

Jackets picked fourth in West

The HPU men’s basketball team has been picked to finish fourth in the Amer-ican Southwest Conference West Divi-sion following a vote of the league’s head coaches, sports information di-rectors and select media members.

Howard Payne, 15-12 overall and 14-6 in the ASC last season, made its first ASC tournament appear-ance since 2008. The Jackets re-ceived 30 points and had one first-place vote while finishing fourth in the preseason poll. Hardin-Simmons, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Concordia ranked 1-2-3 in the ASC West poll.

East Texas Baptist, Louisiana College and UT Dallas were the top three teams in the ASC East in the preseason poll.

The Jackets open the sea-son Nov. 13 at Southwest-ern University in Georgetown.

HPU Sports Update

Football

Record: 0-7, 0-2 in ASC

Oct. 17: ETBU 51, HPU 13Oct. 24: HSU 63, HPU 7Oct. 31: Louisiana Coll. at HPU, 1 p.m.Nov. 7: HPU at UMHB, 1 p.m.Nov. 14: Sul Ross at HPU, 1 p.m.

Men’s Soccer

Record: 3-9-1, 1-7-1 in ASC

Oct. 15: LeTourneau 3, HPU 2Oct. 17: HPU 1, ETBU 0Oct. 22: UT Tyler 4, HPU 0Oct. 24: Ozarks 1, HPU 0Oct. 29: Belhaven at HPU, 3 p.m.Oct. 31: Louisiana Coll. at HPU, 3 p.m.

Women’s Soccer

Record: 3-8-2, 2-6-2 in ASC

Oct. 15: HPU 0, LeTourneau 0Oct. 17: HPU 1, ETBU 0Oct. 22: UT Tyler 5, HPU 0Oct. 24: Ozarks 1, HPU 0Oct. 29: Belhaven at HPU, 1 p.m.Oct. 31: Louisiana Coll. at HPU, 1 p.m.

Volleyball

Record: 2-19, 1-11 in ASC

Oct. 13: Sul Ross 3, HPU 2Oct. 16: LeTourneau 3, HPU 1Oct. 17: ETBU 3, HPU 0Oct. 23: Concordia 3, HPU 0Oct. 24: UMHB 3, HPU 0Oct. 27: HPU 3, Univiversity of Dallas 1Oct. 30-31: HPU at Centenary tournament

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Jenny Jones settles into role as RD and mom

Over a year ago Jenny Jones stepped into Veda Hodge Hall and took her place as resident director. Her time here as RD has been anything but typical. Since last fall, Jenny and her husband, Phillip Jones, not only finalized the adoption of their long-awaited daughter, Julia, but traveled halfway across the globe to bring her back from China. After so much waiting and overcom-ing of obstacles, the arrival of their third family member was cause for much joy and cel-ebration. However, the transi-tion for the family and for Ju-lia has not been always been easy, especially with their unique living situation inside a college women’s residence hall. “When I look back at last spring, it’s kind of a blur — really discerning becoming a new mom,” said Jenny. “But it was so neat to start last fall semester and enter the spring semester, knowing that the girls that lived here were pre-pared and anxiously waiting for Julia along with us. ”Last winter, Jenny and Phillip made the long journey across the pond to complete the adoption process, and bring Julia home to Texas. They were there for two weeks and when they finally made it back to an expectant residence hall, there was no rest for the weary. “It was kind of like walking into Veda, stepping into the apartment and boom! Life is happening!” Jenny said. “Everything was so dif-ferent, but really so sweet too. We knew Julia would be in a place where she was safe and cared for.” Once Julia ar-rived, the family of three faced more difficulties, such as a

language barrier, and Julia’s own troubled past. These and other factors forced Jenny and Philip to essentially start over completely as though they had brought home a newborn, in-stead of a 4-year-old little girl. “She has definitely grown so much since we first brought her home. She has gone from sleeping one hour a night, to two, to four, to eight,” Jenny said. “She is learning that she has words and she doesn’t have to cry to get the things she needs. By giving her words, we show her that she does matter and she does have a voice.” As much growth as Julia has made at HPU since January, there were some problems she faced at the end of last semester. “Julia was used to having caregiv-ers come and take care of her

and show her love and then leave so often in China, that she was having a hard time discerning that there were two people only that were going to care for her, and care for her forever, which was Mom-my and Daddy,” Jenny said. When the college residents left for the summer, Julia was so heartbroken over the loss of her new friends that Jenny and Phillip had to make some tough changes when the resi-dents returned this semester. Those residing in Veda were asked to only to give Julia high fives. As hard as it was, Jenny and Philip knew it was necessary. “It was very hard for me to make that speech,” Jenny said. “We were so hap-py for everyone to be a part of this journey, but … Julia was tearfully heartbroken when

all her new friends left for the summer. She didn’t under-stand that now there were two people who would never leave her and that was Mommy and Daddy. “It was definitely a defining time for Julia, but has strengthened her trust in us as her forever family.”

Thankfully, the Jones fam-ily has settled in nicely at Veda Hodge Hall, and the residents are more than will-ing to make necessary accom-modations for them. The resi-dent assistants are also a huge help to Jenny as she works as a full-time mom and RD. “I put a lot of trust in my RA’s,” Jenny said. “My joy is really just equipping them and mak-ing them feel empowered and helping to provide a sense of community in the residence hall.” Aside from taking care of things in Veda, Jenny is a part of the Student Life Office and works to make students’ stay at HPU more enjoyable. “We are involved with the life of students and making Howard Payne a place where students feel loved and cared

for,” Jenny said. “Our hope is to serve them well, providing opportunities for growth so when they do leave Howard Payne, they are better, and stronger individuals. ”For Jenny, balancing the two roles of a full-time mom as well as an RD can be tricky at times. Both jobs require a lot of work and responsibility. “It’s definitely a hat I take on and off … except neither hat ever really gets to come off, each one just takes turns being on top,” Jenny said. Despite all the challenges in transition-ing Julia, learning to be a new mom, and working as a full-time RD, Jenny remains posi-tive and praises God for how far He has brought her and her family. “I have been more than happy to be on this jour-ney and I do thank God daily when I see how far he has brought our little family,” Jen-ny said. “My favorite thing is seeing Julia bring residents so much joy. She’s come so far. To know that God is using her as a gift to bring joy to others. God is in the details of that.”

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Courtesy PhotosJenny Jones (left), Vega Hodge Hall residence director, with her daughter, Julia, and husband, Phillip.

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