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Thursday, July 16, 1959
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texut
Local Air Reservists Finish
Two Week Training Tours
Several members of the 9807th
Air Reserve Squadron recently
have completed two weeks active
duty tours in their various capa
cities as Air Force Reservists.
Lt. Col. William 0. Davis,
Squadron Commander, completed
his active duty training with the
3510th Flying Training Wing at
Randolph Air Force Base, San An
tonio. Col. Davis is a salesman for
the Humble Oil & Refining Com
pany as a civilian.
Maj. Archie I. Flowers completed
his two weeks of active duty with
the 3700th Military Training Wing
of Lackland Air Force Base in San
Antonio. Maj. Flowers, whose civ
ilian occupation is assistant profes
sor in the School of Veterinary
Medicine at A&M, resides with his
wife, Rosemary, and family at
1304 Walton Dr., College Station.
Maj. Guy Davis completed two
weeks with the Laredo Air Force
Base, being attached to the 3640th
Pilot Training Wing. Maj. Davis,
Art Adamson’s College Station
Swim Club is entered in the Sparks’
Swim Club Invitational Swimming
Meet in Houston to be held to
morrow and Saturday.
In the midget division, Diane
Bell, Virginia Patterson, Matha
Lawrence, Kay Callahan, Mary
Amyx, Gerry Lowe, Paul Fagan,
David Brusse, Scott Hervey, Ste
phen Henry and Preston Smith are
entered.
Swimming in the junior division
|re Kathy Cleland, Suzanne Med-
len, Sharon Covey, Barbara Ewens,
Linda Rudder, Jim Amyx, Tommy
Kahan, Bruce Riggs, Renn Law
rence, Peter Fagan, Trixie Doran
and Kay Fisher.
Rosemary Thompson, Donna
Dozier, Becky Kahan, Elenor Wor
ley, Johnny Badgett, Bill Ewens,
Jered Hitchcock and Leslie Brusse
are entered in the intermediate
who is manager of Davis Auto
Supply in Bryan as a civilian, is
also president of the Davis Flying-
Service of Bryan.
Capt. Charles E. Neelley com
pleted two weeks with Bergstrom
Air Force Base. Capt. Neelley as
a civilian is employed as fan test
ing supervisor for the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station.
Capt. Neelley resides with his
wife, Betty, and family at 1007
Dexter Dr. in College Station.
Capt. Vance W. Edmondson com
pleted two weeks of active duty
with the 9807th Air Reserve
Squadron as administrative officer
during the absence of the unit ad
visor. Capt. Edmondson as a civ
ilian is employed at A&M as as
sistant professor in the Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and Sociology.
1st Lt. Lyman S. Reed completed
two weeks with Chennault Air
Force Base, Lake Charles, La. Lt.
Reed as a civilian is a draftsman
division.
Entered in the senior division
are Eddie Lehr and John Covan.
Two members of the club will
participate in the Southwestern
Open AAU Swimming Meet in
Dallas at the Brookhaven Country
Club Saturday and Sunday. They
are Pam Hayes and Joe Brusse.
Last week the club placed fifth
at the state swimming meet in
Tyler, scoring 83 points.
Pam Hayes set a new record in
the women’s 200m. breaststroke
event with a time of 3:17.2 She
also placed second in the women’s
100m. butterfly 1 event.
In the women’s 22m. medley re
lay Becky Kahan, Gail Schlessel-
man, Mary Francis Badgett and
Pam Hayes placed first.
Dick Hunkier, Joe Brusse, Dave
Corson and Jim Covan placed first
in the men’s 400m. free relay.
and photographer for Philip G.
Norton & Associates, architects.
T. Sgt. Harold L. Boedeker com
pleted two weeks of schooling with
the Amarillo Technical Training
Center, Amarillo Air Force Base.
Sgt. Boedeker, a senior accounting
major attending A&M, resides
with his wife, Patsy, and family
at 206 Ehlinger Dr. in Bi*yan.
T. Sgt. Donald J. Hutchison was
attached to the 9807th Air Reserve
Squadron for two weeks of active
duty in an administrative capacity
for training. Sgt. Hutchison is en
rolled at A&M and is working on
an advanced degree in genetkis.
S. Sgt. Andrew Schouvaloff com
pleted two weeks of active duty
with Lackland Air Force Base. Sgt.
Schouvaloff is a veterinary medi
cine student attending A&M.
S. Sgt. Edward L. Manning was
attached to the 9807th Air Reserve
Squadron performing administra
tive duties for two weeks of active
duty. Sgt. Manning, a sophomore
agricultural engineering major at
tending A&M, resides with his
wife, Lillian, at A-14-A College
View, College, Station.
S. Sgt. Barney I. Seely com
pleted two weeks of acive duty
with the 4501st Air Base Group in
Waco. Sgt. Seely, who is a senior
physical education major attend
ing A&M, resides with his wife,
Kathryn, at C-7-A College View,
College Station.
Airman 1. C. Andres Gomez com
pleted two weeks of active duty
with the 9807th Air Reserve
Squadron performing administra
tive duties. Airman Gomez is a
sophomore attending A&M.
Airman 1. C. Henry Vault Jr.
completed two weeks with the
3565th Navigation Training Wing,
James Connally ATr Force Base,
Waco. . ^Airman- Vault is a> student
attending Prairie View A&M.
Airman 1. C. Lawrence Marshall
completed two weeks of active duty
with the 3610th Navigation Train
ing Wing, Harlingen Air Force
Base. Airman Marshall is a stu
dent attending Prairie View A&M.
GS Tankers Enter
In Houston Meet
Young Moderns
Pianist Van Cliburn Says
Is Needed Even Following
By VIVIAN BROWN
AP Newsfeatures Writer
IF RELATIVES and neighbors
rebel at your piano practice, don’t
give up. It happens in the best of
circles.
Our new cultural hero, 25-year-
old Van Cliburn attests to that.
“I wouldn’t have been able to
practice in New York at all if it
weren’t or my friends, the Stein-
ways, who let me use the the base
ment of their building. Neighbors
in my apartment building in New
York complained to the janitor all
the time, even aftex-'I had won the
Moscow competition.”
Van had to go on a list though,
and so much of the time was
booked previously by touring art
ists, that he could only practice
past midnight, and far into the
night.
“It’s never too late to resume
or begin piano lessons though,” he
says, but “young people should
choose teachers who are near to
their age for better understanding
of their world. The teacher should
have the ability to be firm, should
be someone you respect, and some
one who can make you enjoy play
ing piano.”
Van’s mother taught him “until
she just couldn’t teach me more,
she said, so I went on to New York
and was fortunate in studying with
Mme. Rosina Lhevinne,” says Van.
Practice Vital
The most important point about
learning to play piano is to stick
with the keyboard—“just like
typewriting,” Van says. Discour
agement isn’t limited to beginners.
“Every day I feel thattaway.”
Looking at Van’s hands one
might suspect it was important to
have king-size span. Van can
reach a 13th from Middle C up to
A in the next octave, but on the
other hand, Josef Hoffman, one of
the world’s great pianists had such
tiny hands, Van says, that the
Steinways made him a special
piano by shaving the keys.
And it isn’t a prerequisite to
From Many Lands
Scientists from every inhabited continent
on earth are working side by side at A&M
to solve some of the mysteries of nature.
They are members of the research and
teaching staff of A&M’s Department of
Oceanography. Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of
the department, is seated in front of the
foreign-born members of his staff. They
are, left to right, Dr. Mitsunobu Tatsumoto
and Dr. Yoshikazu Sasaki, both of Japan;
Pieter Groot of Holland; Dr. K. M. Rae of
Scotland; Commander John R. Lumby of
England; Dr. Hugh J. McLellan of Canada;
Dr. Kinjiro Kajiura of Japan; Brian Logan
of Australia; Basil W. Wilson of the Union
of South Africa; and Captain Luis Capurro
of Argentina.
Practice
Success
have a big mop of hair, although
it seems to go with piano players.
“The only reason I have a repu
tation for a lot, of hair is because
I loathe barber shops,” Van ex
plains.
There is nothing personal in the
remark, he adds. He’s had that
feeling since he was a child with
straight hair.
“I’d rather snip my own hair
with scissors,” Van laughs, illus
trating how he holds a lock of hair
in his index and third finger and
snips away, although he’s “care
less in not doing it often enough.”
Van’s had a normal life, even
though he stuck with the keyboard,
and his wonderful sense of humor
and friendliness attests to it.
“I drove a car when I was 14,
played a clarinet in the Kilgore
High School ban five years, and
was president of the Thespian
Club. I enjoyed dramatics.”
No Mama’s Boy
He is not a mama’s boy, he says,
because his mother had such an
aversion to pushy mothers whose
‘little darlings’ were her piano pu
pils.
“Mother couldn’t bear to see
them overwhelm their children, so
she went overboard trying to put
me on my own. I used to go to
recitals alone. Once when I said
‘mama why don’t you go to one of
these things with me some time,
she said ‘why should I, you’re 6
years old.”
But no matter what courses you
take in high school or college, Van
points out, be sure to concentrate
on a language.
“It is pitiful to go abroad, as
you may find out some day, and
meet Europeans who speak many
languages, and you speak nothing
but English. It is shocking, and
one reason why Americans have a
reputation for being uncultured.
We give them plenty of reason to
suspect it is true even though it
isn’t, because we give the impres
sion we care nothing for culture or
tradition.”
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