{"id":86092,"date":"2011-04-15T02:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=86092"},"modified":"2011-04-16T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:10:47","slug":"tjc-residence-hall-wing-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=86092","title":{"rendered":"TJC Residence Hall Wing Dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/04\/15\/tjc-residence-hall-wing-dedicated\/eva-saunders2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-86093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/Eva-Saunders2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eva Saunders2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-86093\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College officials have dedicated a wing of the Louise H. and Joseph Z. Ornelas Residential Complex in memory of a former Apache Belles director. The Eva Saunders Wing was dedicated in honor of the woman who served as Belles&#8217; director from 1963 to 1976. The wing is located on the Ornelas complex&#8217;s fourth floor, which is occupied by the entire Apache Belles line.<\/p>\n<p>Private donations for the dedication were raised by fundraising chair and former Apache Belle Mary Boles Blitch, a member of the precision dance team from 1948 to 1950. All gifts were placed in the TJC Belle Heritage Endowment. &#8220;The quintessential &#8216;Steel Magnolia&#8217;, Eva Saunders guided the Apache Belles in all aspects of life, manners, dress, speech and community participation,&#8221; Blitch said. &#8220;With Eva&#8217;s impeccable appearance, soft voice and genteel manner, she molded many &#8216;country girls&#8217; into presentable young ladies.<\/p>\n<p>During Eva Saunders&#8217; tenure, the Apache Belles were the only college dance drill team to perform during televised halftimes for the Dallas Cowboys; and through this exposure, the group gained a worldwide reputation for excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The Al Gilliam Wing and Mildred Stringer Lounge are also located on the Apache Belles&#8217; floor and named in memory of the Belles&#8217; former choreographer and director, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College officials have dedicated a wing of the Louise H. and Joseph Z. Ornelas Residential Complex in memory of a former Apache Belles director. The Eva Saunders Wing was dedicated in honor of the woman who served as Belles&#8217; director from 1963 to 1976. The wing is located on the Ornelas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=86092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC Residence Hall Wing Dedicated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 13:58:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86327,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86092\/revisions\/86327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}