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The school’s director urged Velas co to accept a scholarship for ad vanced studies at A&M. “I WAS leery at first,” Velasco recalls today. “I could only speak a few words of English.” A week later, he arrived in Col lege Station to undertake a special English course, provided for for eign students each summer. As he had anticipated, Velasco was un able to crowd a knowledge of Eng lish into six-weeks. “I remember I was the only one in my class to flunk,” he related. “As a result, I lost • my scholar ship.” Velasco accepted a job picking cotton. At every opportunity, be studied English. “I read books, went to the mov- Transport Institute Department Head To Lecture Friday A Texas Transportation Insti tute staff member, Charles Pinnell, will lecture at 2 p.m. Friday on “Computer Applications to Urban Transportation Problems.” Interested persons are invited to attend this lecture in Room 229 of the Chemistry Building. Pinnell heads the Design and Traffic Engineering- Department of the Texas Transportation Institute which has its headquarters on the A&M campus. The lecture is another in the National Science Foundation Semi nar series on applications of digi tal computers to problems in re search, engineering and industry. A film showing the visual simu lation of freeway traffic by a com bination of computer and cathode ray techniques is planned as part of the lecture. ^ 111111 MTV fY I ■■■■■■iihiBBbiBBiBJIi \ ; “Sports Car Center” ■ Dealers for ■ : Renault-Peugeot & : ; British Motor Cars V \ Sales—Parts—Service !“We Service All Foreign Cars”; ■1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517; r ^ PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS ies, talked with everyone,” the Latin remembered. THE MAN who recommended Velasco find a job was H. E. Hampton, a soil and crop science professor, whom Velasco credits with his later success at A&M. In addition, two Aggies found out about Velasco’s desire to learn English. They invited Velasco to share their room in the “Y”, at no expense to him. They literally taught him to speak, read and write English. Hampton saw Velasco in the fall. “He (Dr. H.) told me that I was a new man,” Velasco said with a grin, “and that I had made prog ress. He took me to the dean and I talked to him. The dean thought I had made mighty good progress and said I could have my scholar ship back.” Velasco had little trouble enroll ing that spring semester, but he took a “lighter schedule of classes, only 10 semester hours.” “Had most difficulty taking- notes in class,” Velasco recalls. ANOTHER PERSON that en couraged Velasco to remain at A&M after his initial failure was a fellow student from Saltillo, Ru ben Castro Estrada. “The friendship that exceeds here is very good,” Velasco com mented. “Ruben really encouraged me to stick around.” Velasco got his master’s degree in soil science in 1956. He then accepted a position with an Ameri can firm on the west coast of Mexico as head of the research department. Since then, he returned to the School of Agriculture at Saltillo as an instructor in soil science. He accepted a graduate fellowship to the University of California for doctoral work, but illness in his family forced him hack to Mexico. NOW VELASCO has a Rocke feller Foundation grant and is en rolled to complete requirements to ward a doctorate. He could have returned to the University of Cali fornia under a Rockefeller fellow ship. “I think this college ties in with the environment in Mexico more,” he stated. Velasco is fluent with English now. He won’t have any trouble. His story of failure and finally success is encouragement to others. Attention Students Taking Entrance Exams: This shoe sale is made for you. Buy your shoes now and break them in for the fall. 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