, The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, September 6, 1956 ISfei ^ Rm, TALKING OVER OLD TIMES—(left to right) Harry Boyer, chief of housing, talks over old times with James Martin and his dog Alita. We All Have Problems Just An Ordinary Fellow By DAVE McREYNOUXS Battalion Managing Editor James Martin describes himself as “an ordinary guy who has a handicap.” But, to the ones that know him he is quite a person for an “ordinary guy”. Martin is a 35-year-old student at A&M majoring in agriculture. That is ordinary, but the differ ence is James is blind. He has been so since he was six years old. Married and the father of two boys Martin’s problems are com mon to those of most students at tending college in that finances and housing give him lot of head aches. But, James being in the class of 1944 at A&M, has spent a lot of his time not only going to school, but working at various enterprises and meeting lots of people. He has done everything from raising chickens to playing piano and organ with Hank Thompsons’ band. He first came to A&M back in 1940 after his graduation from the Texas School for the Blind in Aus tin. He was a “good freshman” as he describes it, getting the “usual run of indoctrination that most fish received back in those days and still remembers the sting of a Sam Brown belt.” Majoring in pre-law then James left A&M to go back to Austin and enter Law School at the Uni versity of Texas in 1941 and in 1942 went after his first seeing- eye dog. Makes Straight A’s Things were a little different in Law School than Martin h a d counted on so in 1945 he returned to A&M for a special course in Poultry Husbandry, during which he made straight ‘A’s’ all the way. “We had quite a time then,” James said. “There were three of us blind boys and three disabled veterans in the course and not a whole man among us.” Martin went on to describe how they would work together to drive a Model A owned by one of tbe boys into Bryan for a visit and on one occasion ended crashed into a post office box. “The hoy that drove had a good left eye but couldn’t see out of the other one,” Martin laughed. “So another of us would sit on the right side of the car with a good right eye and call signals. One day it was real foggy and the guide on the right side of the car mistook a telephone pole for our regular landmark and we turned in the middle of a block and ended up wrapped around the mail box.” “But, we really had a lot of fun.” Martin left A&M soon after and returned to his home in Parker County near Weatherford to raise chickens and turkeys. In 1948 he and his girl, Nelda, eloped to Fort Worth and they have been married now for nine years. They have two sons, Wyman, 5, and Tony, 7. Receiving a lot of credit for Martin’s ability to do things and get around is his dog, Alita. She is the second dog Martin has own ed and is still a bit shy of people. “She got used to people quite a bit when I used to play in the band”, Martin said. “One of the bays used to try to make friends with her with cheese crackers and after a while she put up with him, but she sure looked for those crackers every -time he came around.” Uses Braille Notebook The Manning Smiths CHILDREN'S BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 10TH Register Now For ’56 - ’57 Season Call VI 6-6214 VI 6-4051 “Dial Mrs. Dial’ The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, in published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A. — There’s nothing like following mil itary regulations to a T. Regulations say every govern ment building must have a door and a means to lock it. At Kirkland Air Force Base here, there is a 20 x 40 foot build ing with only two sides—the ends being open. The building houses a truck. In one of the sides there is a door—-as the regulations require. Furthermore, it has a hasp on it so it can be locked—as the regula tions require. Veterinary Appointments Announced Appointments, including in structors, assistant professors a n d an associate professor, were announced recently by Dr. W. W. Armistead, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, at A&M. Dr. W. M. Rorhane, ’43, has been appointed instructor in the De partment of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. His duties will be in the large animal and ambulatory clinics. Dr. John P. Davis Jr., ’53, has returned as an instructor of veter inary medicine and surgery. Dr. Davis replaces Dr. E. M. Jordan, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, ’43, who resigned to enter private practice in Dallas. Dr. Davis re signed his instructorship at the SVM in 1954, to enter private practice in Florida. Dr. Paul F. Jungerman, ’47, has been appointed assistant professor with the Department of Veterinary Microbiology. After graduating with highest honors in his class, Dr. Jungerman operated a private general practice in Aurora, Miss, for nihe years, fie replaces Dr. E. E. Roth, ’48, who resigned to accept a position with the v Depart ment of Veterinary Science, LSU. Dr. R. R. Bell, a 1953 graduate of the University of Georgia, has been appointed associate professor of veterinary parasitology. He was an instructor from 1952 to 1955, when he resigned to become re search parasitologist at North Carolina State College. Dr. Bell re^ ceived his Master of Science de gree from A&M in 1955. Dr. James E. Neal, a 1951 grad uate of Alabama Polytechnic In stitute, is on leave from the Depart ment of Bacteriology of that school to pursue graduate study in veteri nary microbiology at A&M. During his stay here he will be employed part time as assistant professor for the research project on ornithosis. Dr. R. T. Dubose and Dr. J. R. Watkins, ’56, have been appointed instructors in the Department of Microbiology. Their duties will be primarily in research projects under direction of the SVM arid the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. J. N. Beasley, ’49 has been appointed assistant professor of veterinary parasitology. His prin cipal duties will be in connection with the research projects directed by the SVM and the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station. From July, 1949, until July, 1951, Dr. Beasley was instructor in the De partment of Veterinary Science at the University of Arkansas. After one year as instructor in veterinary medicine and surgery at A & M he returned to the University of Arkansas where he was associated with the Poultry diagnostic labora tory for three years. Dr. Beasley has done graduate study at Ohio State University and at A&M He received the Master of Science degree from the latter school in May, 1956. HILLCREST Sporting Goods and Hardware Co. RIFLES, SHOTGUNS REVOLVERS AND AUTOMATIC PISTOLS Financed at Bank Rates 2013 S. COLLEGE Phone TA 3-3299 News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or a f the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JIM BOWER Editor Dave M(‘Reynolds Managing Editor Barry Hart Sports Editor Bob Stansberry Staff Photographer Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent REDECORATE WITH SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINT SUPER KEMTONE KEM GEO ENAMEL S.W.P. 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