Forum #5

Human nature is apart of life itself.  But what is also apart of our lives are very many stories.  Stories are apart of every human beings life, even when the stories aren’t really meaning to be there.  They can be the shortest story in the world like where someone is just randomly knocking on your door, asking me if he can take my picture for one of his classes, and then there are extremely short stories like telling people where you left something or describing an autobiography about someone important.  Stories are always being created every single day, whether or not we are realizing that it’s happening or not.  There are ways that we learn and or reference to the past, which would be by telling stories.  Multimedia projects are actually is a different type of telling a story, except for the fact that you are telling the story by pictures instead of words.  All of this can be referred to the book called “Digital Storytelling”.

 

“Memories of Old E.T.”. By: Silver Leos Writers Guild.

“Music, Music, Music” by Patricia West Root - Page 262

            Patricia West Root was a music education major at East Texas State University in 1972.  At first, her major consumed her life to the point that she didn’t have time to join a sorority, like the Greek system but she did join the music sorority called Mu Phi Epsilon.  This was the time period when Vietnam War was going on and she got married to an Air Forceman named Randy Root and they were married for forty years.  This was also the time period when integration was just starting to begin to take place at the university.  Patricia lived at Smith Hall while her husband was at war and the dorms had curfews, then she moved to married housing on campus.  And eventually, her and her husband moved to Mesquite, so she had to commute to school.  Patricia West Root ended up graduating in the Class of 1972.  She taught music education for twenty- five years, then took a couple of years off because she had a son, and then taught for another six years.  But after the last six years, she ended up retiring from teaching.  I think it’s just interesting how Binnion Hall didn’t use to be a dorm hall and how Smith Hall had a curfew back then which I can totally understand for that time period because of the fact that I use to stay in that dorm hall just last school year.  I also like how Patricia was so devoted to her schooling but also just equally devoted to her husband, which is very noble.

“Walking on the Edge” by Dewayne Bethea - Page 220

            Dewayne Bethea went to East Texas State Teachers College in 1971.  He met

Earlene Pepper in October of 1957 and they married in 1960.  They were together for fifty years and shared two children.  In the middle of all of that, Dewayne was part of a group called the Tejas Brothers.  They liked to start the party per say because of the fact that they started the panty raid of 1956, where the scene was chaotic, but the coeds were very willing participants as the panties came raining down.  But the whole affair was to basically tease girls and to prank with the establishment of the dorm and the university, itself as a whole.  The Tejas Brothers were definitely the rebels on campus.  Dewayne eventually realized that walking on the edge was not always a good thing, when it came to living a certain lifestyle.  So, he gradually improved his GPA, started focusing on his schooling so he could be done but he didn’t think that he had a path to a career that he wanted to do.  Later on, Dewayne’s life consisted of the Education Public School system because he graduated with a bachelor from East Texas State Teachers College in 1961 and then got his masters in education degree in 1970 from Texas A&M University Commerce.  He was a teacher, football coach, athletic director, high school counselor, vocational counselor/director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent.  Dewayne thanks all of his professors for showing him the way.  I think that was the smartest decision that Dewayne could have ever made in his life.  I feel like in some way, that I see where Dewayne is coming from when it comes from not knowing his career path in life.