A slide program about Larry and Lloyd Smith's 3 years at LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas 1960 - 1963

1. Lloyd and Larry Smith
LeTourneau
Technical Insitute
and College
1960 – 1963

3. Such a contrast in
60 years

4. The now issue
that changed
our lives - was
found in a trash
can!

5. May 1956
Our father, Elmer,
worked at Tucker
Sno-Cat

6. May 1956
This is the actual
NOW that our father
found in the Tucker
trash can. -

7. May 1956
“Sent free upon
request”
Mother sat down and
sent in a request. That
was the moment that
changed the direction of
our lives.

8. The long, 2,500-mile trip from
Southern Oregon to East Texas
No Interstate highway system

9. We did a bit of sight seeing along the way.

10. We did a bit of sight seeing along the way.

11. Arriving at LeTourneau, that August, we found the
school was occuping the U.S. Army’s former
Harmon General Hospital.

13. With 220 buildings, on 156 acres, the school just
had to turn a key to add another classroom.
25,000 soldiers November 1942 – May 1945

14. “Fast Buck Avenue”

15. The Water Tower was a campus landmark
“Kilroy was Here”

16. Dorm life in the old army barracks. We slept on old army
cots left over from the days of the hospital. The photos
on the wall are from the LET darkroom trashcan. Dorm 4

17. When we moved into Amus Hall, a remodled army barrack,
the school bought us new wooden beds.
Our mother bought the bed covers.

21. Some of the guys cooked and ate in their rooms. Some would
even overhaul engines, including their motorcyles, next to their
beds. Others sold food goods and sundries out of their rooms.

22. We had no air conditioning. Instead, gaint exhaust fans, located in
the roof dormers, sucked air in from the outside. Worked amazingly
well if you kept your screened windows open just 4 inches.
Expanding air sucks out heat.

23. As air conditioning was added, the dormers were removed
along with 20 miles of wooden corridors/ramps.

24. Tearing
off 20
miles of
ramps
and
corridors
.

25. 1st - year we lived in Dorm 4 –
2nd year - Ausus Hall (KZX – Kappa Zeta Chi – New Life in Christ)

27. 3rd year – Tyler Hall – It was pure luxury

28. “God’s Business Man”

29. “Your problems are not too big, your machines are
just too small.” R. G. LeTourneau

30. Grandson
Bennett Smith

33. The US Army had three experimental Overland Trains built,
the largest reaching almost 600 feet long, which holds the
record for the longest off-road vehicle ever built.

34. RG was inspired by watching elephants load logs in Asia.

35. Our first attempt at using color slide film.

36. Tournapull
Tournadozer
Tournatrailer
Tournacrane
Tournatractor
Tourna

37. Tournapull
Tournadozer
Tournatrailer
Tournacrane
Tournatractor
Tournavista, Peru
Tournata, Liberia

38. Tournapull
Tournadozer
Tournatrailer
Tournacrane
Tournatractor
Tournavista, Peru
Tournata, Liberia
Tourna-hole (chuckhole) -
Tourna-roach -
Tourna-trots (after eating in the cafeteria) )

39. Even though Mr. RG built the world’s largest machines
on rubber tires, he drove a VW Bug or a golf cart for
every day transportation.

40. But one day he left it parked behind one of his BIG
machines. The equipment
operator thought
Mr. RG was still in the VW.

41. It used to snow in East Texas!
“There is nothing between us
and the North Pole, except
for a barbwire fence and two
strands of that are broken.”

45. While tearning down a two-story barrack, Lloyd pitched off
a dump truck, breaking his arm, (his third of four broken
arms), breaking his ribs, and gaining a facial concusion.

46. Our ‘57 was a clasic even in 1961

47. The same location where the Chevy was
sitting, 56 years later.

48. The same location where the Chevy
was sitting 56 years ago.

57. Photography before the days of PhotoShop
Making use of an Exacto Knife

58. Mom LeTourneau – America’s
Mother of the Year – 1969- age 68
They say, Mr. RG founded the
college. Actually it was Mom.

59. Ted LeTourneau – Jovial beyond measure

60. Dr. Richard LeTourneau
College President
Larry took the photo for
the yearbook. Richard
liked it so well, it
became his “official”
photo for a couple of
years.

61. Ben LeTourneau

62. Roy LeTourneau

63. Roy
LeTourneau

64. Roy LeTourneau and Wayne Hansen

65. Going places with
Mr. RG in his
converted
A-26 bomber

66. Mr. RG’s schedule was published ahead of time. If a student
lived in the area and if there were seats available, then all it
took was a phone call to Mom LeTourneau to grab a spot.
Larry was able to fly to Kansas to visit friends.
He had his camera with him.

68. Mr. RG often said,
“My time is worth $1
a minute. “
He used every minute
productively.
While flying to a
speaking engagement
on his A-26 bomber,
Mr. RG confers with
son, Roy.

70. Popular Dr. Kenneth McKinley and his Bible survey
classes - especially - Daniel and Revelation

74. Alpha Omega – the college’s first “society”.
They were not allowed to be called “fraternities”.

75. The Dog House – The gathering place –
founded by Mom LeTourneau. - for those
men who were in the “:Dog House” with
their wives.

76. Pioneer Days A time
to be
silly

80. Grandson
Bennett Smith

85. We had several major fires
during our time at LeTourneau

86. The wooden buildings were all connected with few fire breaks.

89. At the airport

90. It was bad!

91. The Alter-Day program. To gain practical
experience, students were expected to work,
and earn real money. Half of us went to school
on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while the
other half took the same classes on Tuesday,
Thusday, and Saturday. The next week we
switched schedules.
With the Alter-Day program, a full-time worker
was available to work at R.G. LeTourneau or at
Trailmobile, or on campus.

92. Us students
took it upon
ourselves to
restore the
Chapel in
1962.

95. We even
worked
at night.

96. Making
KZX
livable

98. Us students
took it upon
ourselves to
restore the
Chapel in
1962.
Compulsory Chapel –
They took attendance.
2 days one week –
three days the next week.
The alarm clock

99. Graduation – May 1963 with degrees in Industrial Engineering
We both became school teachers , teaching Science and Math

102. The morning following our graduation, Mom invited us
and our parents down to her house, next to the plant, for
breakfast. She cooked since her maid was off for the day.

103. April 2013 I walked into the the Alumni Office
at the end of the celebration to thank them.

104. April 2013
Dr. Dale Lunsford
LETU President
Was in the meeting
It has been 50 years
since attending
school at LET.

105. The same Christian values established by the LeTourneaus in 1946 was still
very evident on campus.

106. Mr. RG’s and Mrs. RG’s Christain testimony permeated all
aspects of the college. They seemed bigger than life.

108. Photo Bank