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Workers replaced exterior tiles andclosed in the mezzanine level withtemporary wood partitions.Hundreds off utilityworkers used the northand south Montagnelots as their base ofoperations during theinitial recovery period.In the days after Rita littered theQuad and other areas with brokentrees, workers cleaned up campus.Branches were cleared and chipped,creating mountains of mulch.Restoration companiesdried out scores ofcampus buildings.Lamar employees played a critical role in getting theuniversity computer system up and running, allowingstaff to get loan funding to students.Workers repaired, repainted andrestored hundreds of student suitesin Cardinal Village halls . . . and leftcandy kisses on pillows.Soon after Hurricane Rita ripped through Southeast Texas, school officials returned tocampus, joining LU police who had remained there throughout the ordeal. After quicklyassessing the damage, Lamar staff and scores of contractors began the work of restoring thecampus with the goal of students returning in time to complete the fall semester.By noon Monday, Sept. 26, about 500 people were at Lamar working toward that goal. On the weekendof Oct. 1, electrical power was restored to the campus — one of the early areas to regain power — and soon after, Lamar’s computerand phone systems were restored.Scores of buildings had to be dried out and restored, roofs repaired and debris and damaged trees removed from campus. Teamsof workers transformed the Rita-wracked campus into a neatly manicured university once again.Faculty and staff returned to work Oct. 17, and classes resumed the afternoon of Oct. 19, with all buildings open for business.With the aid of a slightly modified class schedule, deletion of the winter mini term, and finals held on the last regularly scheduled classday, Lamar’s December graduates will receive their diplomas on time. Winter commencement will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 22 in theMontagne Center.President Simmons, TSUSChancellor CharlesMatthews and RegentGreg Wilkinson enterCardinal Village phase IIIon a tour of the ongoingrestoration effort.President James Simmons shared images of Rita’s damageto the campus with faculty and staff in a special convocation,Oct. 19. Classes resumed later that day.Gerald McCaig, associatevice president for maintenanceand operations, right,describes the roof damagein the Montagne Center.28 | Cardinal Cadence September - November 2005 September - November 2005 Cardinal Cadence | 29
LU’S BUXTONS:MOVING LOCK, STOCK AND BARRELBRIAN SATTLERBy Brian SattlerMoving hundreds of miles to a new home is always a challenge.That challenge gets big when you’re talking about moving a farmoperation — lock, stock and barrel. That is especially true whenthe stock includes dozens of longhorn cattle and award-winning horses.When two of Lamar University’s newest professors moved fromcentral Oklahoma to their Sour Lake farm, it meant moving not onlytheir household effects, but a lifestyle as well. Sheldon and Patti Buxtonraise registered Texas longhorn and Beefmaster cattle as well asClydesdales and champion quarter horses.Over the period of several weeks, the couple has been movingstock from their ranch near Union City, Okla., to the place theybought in July.The move has stretched out overmany weeks because one of the couple’strailers was compressed by a semi — fortunatelyit was empty at the time — andboth truck and trailer were totaled. Nowthat they’re down to one truck and trailer,some of the couple’s livestock still waitfor their ride across the Red River.Sheldon taught 15 years at theUniversity of Central Oklahoma, inEdmond, Okla., as chair of the advancedprofessional services department thatincluded guidance counseling, schoolleadership and library and media technology.He taught school leadership afterserving as a school superintendent for sixyears. At Lamar, he is visiting professorof educational leadership. “The programinterested me because it is a comprehensiveprogram,” Sheldon said, referring toLamar’s new doctoral program, now inits second year.Patti Buxton taught at CentralOklahoma for eight years and served ascoordinator of its guidance and counselingprogram, then served two years as adean of social sciences at Oklahoma CityCommunity College. This summer, shetaught three courses at Lamar in the College of Education andHuman Development where she now serves as associate professor ofeducational leadership.“Lamar has a reputation as a top-quality university,” Patti said.“The people here have been very friendly,” she said. “They haveshown true southern hospitality.”Now with about 30 cows, numerous calves, and a few bulls toomany, Sheldon sees “Longhorn cattle as a heritage” that is much apart of the history of Southeast Texas and the Big Thicket where theoriginal herds began.The couple’s Clydesdales, Preacher and Major, will soon makePreacher at work in Oklahoma City.Sheldon rides Sneakers in the show ring.the trip to Sour Lake and, after opportunityto adjust to the Southeast Texas climate, willresume their duties in carriage work that hasseen them around the Oklahoma City areapulling the Buxton’s two Amish-built vis-àviscarriages to offer old-world charm toweddings and special events. Their stablemate, Deacon, now lives with a new ownerin Virginia.A veteran of the show arena, Sheldonhas presented two top champions. He raisescowbred, or cutting horses, with a few mares on hand, including 16-year old Sneakers whose progeny has earned considerable money,including honors as 1994 American Quarter Horse AssociationNational Champion Mare. That wasSheldon’s second top-winner. In 1984,one of his horses won World ReservePaint.“Sneakers has won a lot of moneyand has been the financier of a lot of theother horses,” Sheldon said. “She willlive with us in comfort until she departs.“It seems my luck comes aboutevery 10 years,” Sheldon said. “I thinkI’ve got a colt now that might be anotherchampion.”That colt, Ike, was feisty from theget-go. “He’s wired 220,” Sheldon said,and differs from his more affectionate 3-year-old sibling, Sneaky. Both have thepotential to be breadwinners.In addition to his cutting horses,Sheldon enjoys Traveler, a jet-black standardbredtrotter he acquired to pull a carriage,but soon found that “nobodywanted to go that fast.”The couple found their new propertyafter viewing several places in the area.It was love at first sight. “It was a giftfrom God,” Patti said.“It fit us,” Sheldon said. “It hadgreat facilities for the horses and the pastures for the cattle. Pattiloved the house, and I love the barn.”“I love the barn too,” Patti quickly interjects.In the mornings, the couple enjoys the south breeze and coffeeon the porch as they gaze across the fields where the longhorn andBeefmaster cattle graze. Then it is off to work at Lamar, helping preparea new generation of leaders for Texas’ schools.At the end of the day, when their work at Lamar is done, “it is ajoy to turn into the drive,” Sheldon said.“The whole setting is incredible,” Patti said. And while noteverything is adapted for working Longhorn cattle, that, like the restof the livestock, will come in time. (See update, page 51)30 | Cardinal Cadence September - November 2005 September - November 2005 Cardinal Cadence | 31
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