Angela Lee, the Project Designer from HKS Inc., the architectural design firm that is creating the plans for the new TMC Medical Facility, believes that color is one of the most useful and powerful design tools she has. “People respond to different colors in different ways,” Lee says, “and these responses usually take place on a subconscious, emotional level.
Author: Dan Acree
Designed for Healing
In the time before the freeways, automobile travelers entered Sherman and Denison on city streets lined with tall trees and stately houses. Our city centers were marked by civic buildings, town squares, and church spires rising up out of park-like groves. This rich architectural heritage, coupled with our location among the rolling hills of the Cross Timbers, created a unique identity for the two towns.
Architect Noel Barrick
Noel Barrick, AIA, a 1966 graduate of Sherman High School, was the principal-in charge and the project manager for the new Texoma Medical Center in Denison.
Is Everyone Rich?
Do you think that everyone who reads your magazine is rich? You print lots of articles about expensive things like the champagne and oysters. (Winter ‘07) Do you think people around here eat like that? The only tuxedos I have seen are at weddings. You people need to get real about how people really live in Grayson Co. and write more things for the average person.
Letters and More Letters
I’ve got a bone to pick with you. For all these years, I thought the ventriloquists were really singing and drinking water at the same time. Now I find out they use a trick glass! I will forgive you if you will invite my wife and me to the next big party you throw. We loved the piece on New Year’s Eve.
Recipe Guy
Don’t print my name because I don’t want to have to listen to the guys at work give me a hard time about this, but I like the recipes! Yeah, I’m a rough tough refrigeration repairman who likes to hunt and fish and cook. Chef Cathy’s recipes are a blast to try out and I have made at least one from every issue of your magazine. Keep them coming.
Cookie Town
I made Ray Bledsoe’s Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe (Winter ‘07) and WOW! I made some serious brownie points when I brought these cookies in to work! They were gone before lunchtime. This is not the first recipe from your magazine that I’ve tried. I’ve made several—most were great, some were just OK. But that may have been just as much operator error than anything else.
Shining Example
I recently moved south out of the Texoma area but I come back to visit family and friends as often as I can. My mother bought me a gift subscription to your magazine and I’m tickled to be getting it; it’s one more way to help me stay connected to my hometown. When I received the last issue, the anniversary issue, I was thrilled to read the article about Mr. Willie Riles.
Ten Thousand Words
In 1921 Fred R. Barnard in the advertising journal Printer’s Ink first coined the phrase “One Look is Worth A Thousand Words.” He later rephrased the ad headline to read, “One Picture is Worth Ten Thousand Words,” and credited it to an ancient Chinese proverb. The only thing ancient about the line was that he had made it up six years earlier. Regardless, I get his meaning.
Lions and Tigers and Bears
I bought a book off the discount rack at a local bookstore not long ago entitled Quintessence: The Quality of Having IT. On the jacket fly, the author explained the book’s purpose. “This a book about the objects of this world that transcend their form and function, that offer more to us than we ask of them—that rise above themselves to assume iconic stature.”