Dale Simpson Is Named to Coaching Position at THS
School Superintendent A. J. Evans today announced the appointment of Dale Simpson to the coaching staff of Tonkawa junior and senior high school.
Simpson, a graduate of Tonkawa high, Northern Junior college and Northwestern State college, will serve as assistant coach in football and basketball and head coach of track.
While a student at Tonkawa High, 1949-1953, Simpson was a three-year letterman in football and basketball, lettered in track four years, and was captain of the Buccaneers one year. He played on one of Tonkawa’s two state championship grid teams as a halfback.
Simpson continued his football career at Northern, where he graduated in 1953, and at Northwestern, where he graduated in 1937, lettering two years at each school.
Son of Tonkawan Completes 15-Day Space Flight Test
Captain Charles W. McClean, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mc-Clean of 201 N. Jenkins, is among the first Air Force combat crew members to successfully complete simulated space flight performance tests in a laboratory “space ship”.
Captain McClean is a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft commander with the Strategic Air Command’s 4245th Strategic Wing at Sheppard Air Force base, Tex.
His crew completed the tests May 7 at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant in Marietta, Ga. The tests, a psychological study conducted for the Air Research and Development command, were conducted to determine how many hours a crew could work and still maintan satisfactory performance and efficiency for prolonged periods.
After leaving the space cabin in which his crew remained secluded from the outside world for 15 days, Captain McClean said he was “somewhat fatigued but very enthusiastic.”
This was the first time any Air Force crew has been tested under such circumstances, psychologists said. The test results may indicate a tremendous saving in the amount of hours required to send a manned rocket into outer space.
Captain McClean and his crew moved to Sheppard Air Force Base in January from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S. D.
BPW Awards Scholarship
Janice Cunningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cunningham, was announced as the recipient of the Tonkawa Business and Professional Women’s club NOJC scholarship at a dinner meeting of the BPW held Thursday evening in Hotel Tonkawa.
Miss Cunningham, a special guest at the affair, was introduced by Mrs. Kathryn White.
The scholarship has been given annually for the past four years to an outstanding Tonkawa high school business department student who plans to major in the field of business.
