Spring 2004 Edition

Front Cover

Learning Support Services Celebrates 25 Years

Hagi - Living the Dream

A Gift of Love

Ana Rosales

Campus News

Distinguised Alumni

Faculty News

Ferris

New Athletic Director

Baseball

Athletics

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Fall 2003 Scene

June 2003 Scene

Schreiner honored the 2004 Distinguished Alumni and Athletic Hall of Honor
inductees during a recognition banquet on April 1, as part of the university’s Recall 2004.

The 2004 Distinguished Alumni are Martin L. Allday ’44 and John L. Kammerdiener ’57; the 2004 Athletic Hall of Honor inductees are John R. “Bob” Bowmer ’53, the late H.C. “Bully” Gilstrap, the late Donald "Red" Richardson ’51 and Donald W. Suman Sr. ’38.

The Distinguished Alumnus award was created in 1977 to honor former students whose personal or professional lives have achieved a conspicuous level of success. Schreiner created the Athletic Hall of Honor in 2003 to celebrate former students’ athletic achievements during their years at Schreiner and afterward.

Allday graduated from Schreiner Institute in 1944 and the University of Texas where he earned his jurisprudence degree in 1951. Upon graduation, he became a legal examiner at the Railroad Commission of Texas. He then joined the legal department of the Superior Oil Company. From 1959–1989, he was a member of the Midland law firm of Lynch, Chappell, Allday and Alsup. Allday was nominated to be Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by President George Bush in 1989.

He served as chairman until 1993. He currently is counsel to the law firm of Scott, Douglass and McConnico in their Austin office. Allday served as a combat infantryman in the Pacific during World War II and received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He is a past president of the Midland County Bar Association and a past chairman of the Mineral Section of the State Bar of Texas. He is a member of the Travis County, Texas, District of Columbia and American Bar Associations
and is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Among his civic and volunteer activities, Allday has been involved with the National Parks Foundation, the Midland Memorial Hospital Foundation, the High Sky Children’s Ranch, Midland Chamber of Commerce, Midland Jaycees and the Permian
Basin Petroleum Museum.

In 1997, Texas Gov. George W. Bush appointed Allday as the chairman of a three-person committee to oversee the Texas State Cemetery. In 2002, he was honored with the Pioneer Award—the Texas Railroad Commission’s highest award—for his work in the oil and gas industry.

“My two years at Schreiner Institute in the middle of World War II were extremely helpful in my life. I had lost my father at an early age and needed help growing up. And I got it,” Allday said. “I learned how to study and to accept discipline. And how to plan and manage a successful lifetime through service to our country, state and the cities I have lived in and those that I have been blessed to work with and lead. And how to help raise a family with a wonderful wife. And how to pray.”

Kammerdiener graduated from Schreiner Institute in 1957 with an associate degree. He graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1961. He served 11 years in the United States Army, earning three Bronze Star decorations in Vietnam. He served as an Airborne Ranger and was commissioned in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Kammerdiener earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of California. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost 30 years. In 1995, he was named Lab Fellow at the Laboratory. The Laboratory Fellows organization is made up of technical staff members who have been appointed by the Director to the rank of Fellow in recognition of sustained outstanding contributions and exceptional promise for continued professional achievement.

“I am grateful that Schreiner University has made me a distinguished alumnus,” he said. “Schreiner was a key stepping stone on my path from small town Texas (Ben Bolt) to West Point to a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and a successful career at Los Alamos.”

Bowmer was quarterback at Schreiner for two years, leading the team to 6-4 and 5-4-1 records. He was selected twice as All Conference and All State Quarterback. He also played tennis at Schreiner, and was No. 1 in doubles and No. 2 in singles. Bowmer then played football for the University of Texas for two years before serving two years in the U.S. Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree in geology from Midwestern
State University. He worked for Shell Oil for almost eight years before
being offered a position with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in 1967. Today, he is a vice president and financial advisor at Morgan Stanley.

Gilstrap played football, basketball and ran track at the University of Texas at Austin from 1921 to 1923. In 1925, he was named the head coach of a young Schreiner football team. He built the team into one of the state’s top junior college powers. The highlight of his 12 years at Schreiner was winning the state junior college football championship in 1935. In 1937, Gilstrap was hired as an assistant football coach at UT. He coached football at UT for 20 years. In addition, he coached basketball at UT for three years, compiling a 43- 28 record and leading his team to the Southwest Conference basketball co-championship and to a runner-up finish in the NCAA Tournament. Gilstrap retired from coaching in 1956 and became a physical-training instructor at UT until retiring in the early
1970s. He was voted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1968. He died in 1989 at the age of 87.

Richardson was a punter for the Schreiner football team, earning the All-Pioneer Conference punting crown in 1950. He also assisted the Schreiner track team to an undefeated year in 1950, taking first place in the high
jump, placing second in the broad jump and running a leg on the championship 440- yard relay team. After graduating from Schreiner, he attended Alabama University. Richardson’s love for sports continued into his adulthood—he played semi-pro football, softball and basketball; he coached a semi-pro women’s basketball team; and he officiated football, basketball and baseball. He died in 1984.

Suman was first team All-State in football at Schreiner in 1938 and second team All-State in basketball that same year. He then played football and basketball at Rice before leaving at the end of his junior year to enter the U.S. Air Force. While at the second stage of his pilot training, he injured his knee and was given an honorable medical discharge. Suman returned to Rice and graduated in 1944. He then worked for Rice, eventually becoming the assistant basketball coach in 1947 and head basketball coach in 1949. In 1954, his team won the Southwest Conference Championship, with a 23-5 record. That same year he was named Outstanding Coach of the Year in the Southwest Conference. After coaching for 10 years at Rice, he went to work for an American League professional football team for three years and then joined John L. Wortham and Son Fire and Casualty Insurance Agency, where he remained for 22 years until his retirement in 1985.