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The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, September 6, 1956
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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.”
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Martin uses a
to take lecture
Braille notebook
notes and then
transfers this to permanent notes
on a typewriter upon re turning-
home.
He can type 60-70 words per
minute and his wife reads his les
sons to him from his textbooks.
“I guess I will make out al
right if the college will stop put
ting up these new buildings”, Mar
tin grinned. “Used to, I could
start over at Mitchell Hall and go
all over the campus but this place
sure has changed.”
The Martins are residing with
an aunt, Mrs. Joe Orr, until they
can find an apartment of their
own.
By The Books
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. 0P> —
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.
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lb. 9c
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lb. 9c
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lb. 39c
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lb. 39c
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