Elton "Buck" Amburn Project
WTAMU Students Search Campus Resources to Help Family Elton "Buck" Amburn was a student at West Texas State Teachers College from 1936-39. He returned to receive his masters degree from West Texas State University in 1949. The Search for Elton Amburn One of the most valuable pieces of information we can ever be gifted with, is the history of our parents. On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 8, 2021, Elton Philip Amburn, of Tucson, AZ, had emailed The Prairie News, the West Texas A&M University online campus newspaper, located 660 miles east, in Canyon, TX. In the electronic message, Philip Amburn had written that he was looking for more information about his father, the late Elton “Buck” Amburn, who attended the Canyon, TX college in the late 1930’s. “There were whole sections of my dad's life that I don't know a lot about,” said Philip. “I initially got in contact with [The Prairie] asking if there was any way I could look at some online records fro