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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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