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PAGE 6 Thursday, June 28, 1956
Letters Poured In
“Mom” Returns to A&M
After Hospitalization
Mrs. Irene “Mom” Claghom, the
woman who has nursed aggies for
almost 40 years, has returned to
the campus after a four-month con
valescence period following a car
wreck.
Mom was injui’ed Mai*ch 4 when
she lost control of. her car and
collided with a pai’ked vehicle on
the highway near Dallas while en-
route to visit her mother.
She received a crushed chest,
which later caused a collapse of the
left lung, broken leg, severe head
injury, and a damaged heart.
“I don’t remember very much
about the accident, “the white
haired lady said,” but when they
carried me to the emergency en
trance of Baylor Hospital in Dallas
someone bent over my stretcher and
said—‘Mom, it’s one of your Ag
gies.’—I knew I was in good hands
then.”
Luckily the facial cuts left no
marks but she’ll always carry the
deep scar on her chest where wires
suspended from a bar above her
head, held her injured chest for
weeks, to allow her lungs and heart
freedom.
“I will always be sincerely grate
ful to the wonderful doctors I had
and the staff of nurses at the hos-.
pital,” she said. “They were just
marvelous.
When news leaked out of Mom’s
injury, Aggies and their wives
flocked to the hospital keeping the
halls filled with anxious faces.
Dr. Walton Davis, the chest spe
cialist, gave very little hope for her
recovery, according to the Aggie
nurse. When he mentioned that
her age—which is 67—was against
her, relatives told him, “Dr., she’s
been with the Aggies for so many
years she doesn’t realize her age.”
The doctors were wondering if
Mom had the will to live but her
family assured them that she had
been around the Aggie spirit for
so many yeai'S, “she has enough of
their fight in her.”
Meanwhile letters and cables
poured into Mom’s «room from all
over the world. Chancellor and
Mi’s. M. T. Harrington, hearing the
news in Honolulu on their world
trip, cabled Mrs. Claghorn imme
diately.
“I I’eceived best wishes from Ag
gies that I haven’t seen in 30
years,” says Mom, “some, even
date back to the 1920’s.”
Center News
FRIDAY—MSC Film Society —
7:30 p.m., Assembly Room, pre
sents “My Little Chickadee” star
ring W. C. Fields and Mae West.
Admission, 25 cents or by season
ticket.
SUNDAY—Beginning a Summer
Series music program from 3:30
to 4:30 p.m. Featuring this week
Misses Jean Anne Smith, vocalist,
and Eve Portei - , pianist, the pro
gram will be held in the main
lounge of the MSC and is free.
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MONDAY—Hide - a - way Dance
from 8-11 p.m. in the Ballroom.
Music by Aggieland Combo, stag
or drag. Admission 25 cents per
son.
New Store Opens
Toby’s Youth Center, a new
children’s store in Bryan, opened
it’s doors to the public this morn
ing with favors and gifts to the
children.
Featuring name brand merchan
dise, the store is equipped to clothe
infants, toddlers, girls -wear
through Sub-teens and boys-wear
through 14.
The new store is located at 207
N. Main Street, Bryan.
Pretty salad plate for lunch: to
mato aspic (canned or Romemade),
shrimp salad, cottage cheese and
crisp greens.
One letter in particular, Mom
holds very dear to her, from an
Aggie who had woi-ked in the Col
lege Hospital.
“I had to keep after him to go
to class, study and everything,” she
said, “while he, in turn was con
stantly after me to tell him my
age.”
When the accident occurred this
Aggie ex wrote an extremely long
letter expressing his sympathy for
her unfortunate accident, wishing
her a speedy recovery, and as an
after thought, added: “Mom, you
must have got an awful lick on
your head to have told your age.”
Even Dr. Davis was astonished
by the flock of mail received con
cerning Mom. . . “Even my desk
is filled to the capacity with letters^
from your Aggies, Mom,” he said,
“telling me.how to treat you, what
to do, and really laying down the
law about being particular,” he
laughingly reported to her.
“When something like this hap
pens to you, you really know who
your friends are,” she said, “and
they’ve been truly wonderful.”
“When the accident first occur
red,” she went on to say, “Rev.
Robert L. Darwall, pastor of St.
Thomas Episcopal Chapel in Col
lege Station, telephoned to the
SMU Episcopal minister in Dallas,
and he stayed by my bedside
through the trying days, giving me
strength and courage.”
Mom is now on her last lap
toward recovery. The cast, which
encased almost her entire body, was
removed June 11 after eight weeks,
and she was able to sit up in a
chair last Sunday for the first time
in 99 days.
Dr. Harold Masten, bone special
ist, will check on his famous pa
tient the latter part of August on
the progress of her broken leg.
“I’m hoping to be able to take
my first steps, then,” she smiled,
with the sti'ong will of a deter
mined person showing through.
Mrs. Irene (Mom) Claghorn
Local Girls Will Present
Musical Sunday at 3:30
The first of the Summer Series
Music Programs sponsored by the
Directorate’s office of the Memor
ial Student Center, will be held
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday in
the main longe.
Scheduled for this Sunday are
Misses Jean Anne Smith, vocalist,
and Eve Porter, pianist, who will
present numbers together, and as
solos.
Miss Smith’s program will in
clude the following selections: “The
Social Whirl
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m.
Monday in the social room of the
Memorial Student Center for a
White Elephant Bingo Game. Mem
bers are asked to bring a package
wrapped for the game. There will
be no charge for Bingo. All new
members are particularly invited
to attend.
First Primrose”, Grieg; “It Must
Be Wonderful, Indeed”, Listz; “Ap
ril Fool,” Gartlan; “Prayer”, Gui-
on; “Cradle Song”, Brahms; “Peo-
pie Will Say We’re in Love,” Cole
Porter; and “Because”.
Miss Porter will play these se
lections: “Sonato,” Hayden;
“Puck”, “Nocturne”, “Watchman’s
Song”, “Dance of the Elves”, all
Grieg compositions and “Scotch
Poem”, Mac Dowell.
Miss Smith, graduate of Consol
idated High School, had the lead
in the School operetta for two
years and plans to attend Oregon
State College as a music major.
Miss Porter, a Stephen F. Aus
tin graduate, has studied piano
for seven years, accompanies vo
calists in Bryan and College Sta
tion and the Methodist Church,
and is one of the accompanists for
the Mikado opei-etta.
The MSC plans to present ser
ious classical and semi classical
programs every Sunday for the
public, free of charge.
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CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES
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9:45 A.M.—Bible Classes
10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
7:15 P.M.—Evening Service
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LUTHERAN CHURCH
9:30 A.M.—Church School
10:46 A.M.—Morning Worship
A&M METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:55 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:00 & 6:45 P.M.—MTF Meeting
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
10:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Service
7:30 P.M.—Evening Worship
A&M CHRISTIAN CHURCH
9:30 a.m.—Coffee Time
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.—Morning Service
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
8:45 a.m.—Worship
9:45 a.m.—Church School
FAITH EVANGELICAL AND
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9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship
7:30 P.M.—Evening Service
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY
9:30 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
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9:40 a.m.—Church School
11:00 a.m.—Worship
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BETHEL LUTHERAN
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800 S. College Ave. Bryan, Texas
9:30 A.M.—Church School
>0:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
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ST. THOMAS
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9:30 a.m.—Sunday School
9:30 a.m.—Morning prayer and sermon
THE LAND OF THE FREE
One of the first landmarks the European traveler sees as he
approaches this country is Bartholdi’s famous Statue of Liberty.
The artist here has deftly drawn a broken chain across the
background of freedom’s holy light, signifying that oppression
and human slavery cannot exist in a land of free people.
But freedom involves much more than an unshackled body
and the possession of civil and political rights. One may possess
all these and still be a slave to his own weaknesses.
True freedom encompasses the mind and soul of man as well
as his body and his political relations. Men are enslaved
by vicious habits, by their ignorance, prejudice, selfishness
and hate.
Religion is the mother of freedom, and the Church has
been its chief and most constant exponent. Jesus said. “The
truth shall make you free,” and the truth is embodied in the
Holy Scriptures.
No chains can fetter the soul of the man who
dwells in the light of God’s freedom.
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