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J. Pat Richmond and his family help keep the memory alive of Jay E. Pietzsch, the first Texan recorded killed in action during World War II.

Jon Mark Beilue: A former Buff was first to fall

Jon Mark Beilue November 8, 2023

Japanese Zero planes suddenly and without warning filled the sky on a sleepy Sunday morning in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. The Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor caught the American Navy, Army and Marines...

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Jim Cornette and daughter Betsy Cornette marched at the head of the Cornette Library entry in the Oct. 14 Homecoming Parade at West Texas A&M University.

Jon Mark Beilue: Cornette Library nears 50th

Jon Mark Beilue October 26, 2023

Dr. Jim Cornette was a student at the college in Canyon two name changes, nine school presidents and nearly 70 years ago. The new library was located near the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, and Cornette’s...

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WT nursing studens fill out job applications and hope to be hired during a morning-long simulation of life in poverty held Oct. 11 in Harrington Academic Hall WTAMU Amarillo Center. The simulation teaches students to have empathy for their future patients and their life circumstances.

Jon Mark Beilue: No money, no nutrition, no hope

Jon Mark Beilue October 18, 2023

Jon Mark Beilue: No money, no nutrition, no hope WT nursing students role play to help better manage patients   In Realityville USA, there are no two parents with double incomes over $100,000...

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Jon Mark Beilue: Terry Funk loved being Terry Funk

Jon Mark Beilue: Terry Funk loved being Terry Funk

Jon Mark Beilue August 29, 2023

My youngest son and I were in our rental car, heading south on Highway 41 out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, on a late Sunday afternoon in mid-September 2018. It was the first of two bucket-list sports-trip...

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Jon Mark Beilue: Once a presidential savant, now…

Jon Mark Beilue: Once a presidential savant, now…

Jon Mark Beilue March 30, 2023

WT freshman Carsen Roberts member of Claude school board The last time I spoke with Carsen Roberts was almost exactly nine years ago. I was convinced he would one day be a congressman, governor or senator....

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Jon Mark Beilue: A history of race in one place

Jon Mark Beilue: A history of race in one place

Jon Mark Beilue February 28, 2023

African American history of WT, Amarillo found with one click   About four years ago, some West Texas A&M University history students were in the government documents section of the Cornette...

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Jon Mark Beilue: Success outside the classroom

Jon Mark Beilue: Success outside the classroom

Jon Mark Beilue February 1, 2023

‘Journey of the Buffalo’ designed to improve student well-being Photo: Students' experience at West Texas A&M University typically begins with the traditional Buff Branding event. The University...

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Jon Mark Beilue: The great escape — at 8,000 feet  History professor Paul Clark also has classroom in a cockpit

Jon Mark Beilue: The great escape — at 8,000 feet History professor Paul Clark also has classroom in a cockpit

Jon Mark Beilue December 15, 2022

Dr. Tom Hickman, a retired local OB-GYN, planted the seed into West Texas A&M University history professor Dr. Paul Clark. “I call him ‘The Grand Duke of Aviation,’ and he pulled me aside...

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Jon Mark Beilue: A-four-able pursuit of education

Jon Mark Beilue: A-four-able pursuit of education

Jon Mark Beilue November 21, 2022

Swartwood triplets, older brother benefit from Family Scholarship   Photo:The Swartwood siblings—triplets Cale, from left, Kylee and Kynlee, and older brother Cody—all are attending West Texas...

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Jon Mark Beilue: A one-stop shop for news

Jon Mark Beilue: A one-stop shop for news

Jon Mark Beilue November 18, 2022

As aggregator of local news, WT looks to fill a mission   The idea began to germinate when Walter V. Wendler was making his every-other-year road trips in 2017, 2019 and 2021. The West Texas A&M...

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Jon Mark Beilue: So you want to be your own boss?

Jon Mark Beilue: So you want to be your own boss?

Jon Mark Beilue November 2, 2022

New entrepreneurial studies give WT students the toolbox   After the last of the free pizza had been inhaled and washed down with soft drinks, and the five entrepreneurs had given a brief...

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Jon Mark Beilue: Being the creative messenger

Jon Mark Beilue: Being the creative messenger

Jon Mark Beilue September 16, 2022

WT students work with Canyon on award-winning videos   It was a pretty simple and logical connecting of the dots. Randy Ray, director of broadcast engineering and associate lecturer of...

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