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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, July 18, 1963 ' : . ■ • 1 1 ' • aK tmm '' " :" - 4 -. m i 1 1 i ^ i “With university status and coeducation, it seems only fitting that I come out with a ‘new look’ too!” TAES Veteran Of 38 Years Will Retire At End Of August Dr. Kate Adele Hill, a 38-year veteran with the Texas Agricul tural Extension Service, is retiring on August 31. The widely known and respected extension worker be gan her extension career as home demonstration agent rh Cameron County in 1925. She was transferred to the head- qj\arters staff in 1929 to begin 21 years of service as a district home ■demonstration agent in four differ ent, areas of the state, involving 187 different counties. In 1951 she was named studies and training leader for the state and in 1958 was transferred to the position she now holds, reports analyst. She is responsible for the filing, distri buting and analyzing of monthly and annual reports submitted by the county extension workers of Texas. The retiring veteran is a native of Travis county but did her grow- in up on ranches in Kerr, Schleicher and Tom Green counties. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hill, and her grand father, Sam H. Hill, along with his son established in 1903 one of Texas’ earliest herds of purebred Angus cattle. In announcing the retirement, Director John E. Hutchison, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, said “Dr. Hill has served with dis tinction on every assignment and has made many outstanding con tributions to the literature dealing with Extension Service work. “Her leadership abilities are widely recognized and she has been a moving force in the development and maintenance of the Regional Extension Summer School at Prai rie View A&M College. She has taught in seven of the 14 annual sessions and last month was pre sented a plaque by this year’s stu dents in appreciation for services rendered. They came from eight states and five foreign countries.” FISHING for the first time C RANCH LAKES Caldwell Hwy. 21-4 Miles West - Right on FM 908 - 1 Mile MINNOWS — CABINS — BOATS Rates upon request THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a college and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&.M College. 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VAN CONNER EDITOR J. M. Tijerina Photographer TREA TS LITTLE KNOWN PERIOD ICo Professor Writes ‘After San Jacinto] The “little knotvn and largely unwritten” history of Texas- Mexican frontier relations from San Jacinto to the Republic’s wan ing days has come to light in a new book by a A&M history professor. The author is Dr. Joseph M. Nance, head of history and government, who began collecting material for the book, “After San Jacinto,” shortly after receiving his doctoral degree in 1941. “After San Jacinto” deals with Texas-Mexican relations from 1836 to 1841. It is the first of three volumes which will take the story down to the annexation of Texas to the United States. THE AUTHOR., describes his work as neither fiction nor text book, but rather “an objectively written and thoroughly documented book for those student^ of Texas history who really want to know what happened.” Hobart Huson of Refugio, who has worked extensively in South Texas history, said “Professor Nance’s book is an exceptionally outstanding historical work. It has been thoroughly researched, in telligently digested and splendidly and entertainingly written.” The book contains pictures and four historical maps. The maps, incidentally, were done by the auth or’s wife, Mrs. Eleanor H. Nance, who has prepared illustrations for several publishing houses. The Lone Star State’s past be fore the Civil War has long been of special interest to Nance, and his many years of research into the period revealed a lack of reliable published material. The situation was impetus for “After San Jacin to.” “THROUGH MY study of Texas history, I realized that nothing of significance and dependability had been done on the Southwestern frontier from the time the Mexican army withdrew from Texas to the end of the Republic,” the profes sor said. “The foolheartedness of the Mier Expedition always fascinated me, and I was determined to see why such an expedition could take place and write an objective history of it,” he added. “As I got deeper into the story, I realized that the background was very important. So I decided to Editor’s Note: James Ray, a senior English major from Con roe who wrote the letter below, is one of four Aggies participat ing in Peace Corps-type activi ties abroad this summer. He plans to send a series of these letters on his work in Africa to The Battalion. Dear Friends: Our flight to Nairobi, Kenya via an Air France 707 jet was just perfect. We spent an hour at the Orly Airport in Paris but did not get to go into Paris. We flew over Alexandria just before dawn and saw the out line of the coast along the city’s waterfront by streetlig-hts. We landed in Cairo to dispatch a Crossroads group assigned to Egypt just in time to see a beau tiful sunrise over the desert which borders the Cairo airport. The Cario airport is very beauti ful and an interesting mixture of ancient and modern Egyptian architecture. The government troops around the airport pre vented any thorough tour during our hour layover there. It seem ed very suspicious to us. As we took off from Cairo we passed over the pyramids and at tempted to photograph them from about 10,000 feet. The desert and the Nile Valley pro vided some very interesting pat terns and contrasts which held our attention until clouds obs- curred them. /Incidentally, the clouds also provide interesting captivating patterns from 40,- 000 feet, which was our cruising altitude for most of the trip. We arrived in Nairobi to be g’reeted by a representative of Kenya Prime Minister Kenyatta and a curious group of transient Africans at the airport. With a Polaroid camera, provided by the Polaroid Company, and a few baloons we quickly won a great number of friends among the African children and their par ents. Except for the great predomin ance of black-skinned people of Africa there was little to remind us that we were several thou sand miles from the U.S.A. It is still hard for us to realize this. 1 don’t know exactly what we were expecting, but whatever misconceptions we had (and there were many) are rapidly disappearing. The educational level of the people, of course, is far below that in the U. S. but not as low as most of us ex pected. In fact, in common sense and straightforwardness “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars” 11422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS Sound Off many Africans surpass many Americans. From the Nairobi airport we were transported by bus to the YMCA where we forced down our first African meal. Actual ly the food looked very good — not much unlike American food — but we had had an Air France breakfast less than three hours earlier and were not very hun- gry. The next item on our agenda was an afternoon session at the USIS fbiffice in Nairobi which was about as useful as the meal at the YMCA. Having had only about six to eight hours sleep in the last 2Vz to 3 days most of the group drowsed through the propaganda. The Information Service officer rec- ogmized the situation and let us off after only 30 minutes, set ting the world’s record for bre vity for this type of ‘groilp wel come.” By this time all the East Africa Crossroads groups which shared the 707 flight to Nairobi had separated excxept our group and a group going to another part of Africa. We spent the night at the Limaru Con ference Center about 20 miles south of Nairobi. Most of us were to tired to realize that this was our first "night on the Afri can continent. There was no celebration, I can? guarantee! Most of us went to bed before 7 p.m. We were to rise at 5 a.m. Tuesday to leave for Kam pala, Uganda. So until later, James E. Ray p.s. For anyone wishing to write, the aerogramme air let ter form is the cheapest and the fastest form of communication to Kisiizi. write as full, as possible the vt: story of the Texas-Mexican fits ier relations after San Jack using- primarily original so® materials on both sides and p suing the study as objectively possible.’ IN SUMMARIZING the k Nance said the withdrawal of I Mexican armies from Texas beyond the Rio Grande early June 1836 was the signal for mi loyal Mexicans in the Victoh Goliad-Refugio area and the rep between the Neuces and Rio Gw to abandon their homes and prop ty for the safety of northern Met co. Although the historic bonnfc of Texas was the Nueces Eire the state’s First Congress lie the Republic arbitrarily set h Rio Grande as the dividing la In time, many of the Mexie returned to their former but were soon driven out by Tea “cowboys” who raided into tl area below the Nueces. The res; was counter raids by Mexican ar; units and by brigands. 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