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THE BATTALION Thursday, August 8, 1963
College Station, Texas Page 3
Fourth In A Week
This grass fire, which occured about one and start in that area last week. These men are
one half miles out the Wellborn road Sunday trying to keep the flames away from a
around noon, was the fourth of its kind to house that is out of the picture to the left.
Mexican Graduate Student
Shows Persistance Counts
One of the foreign students cur
rently enrolled at A&M is Hugo
Alejo Velasco-Molina of Saltillo,
Mexico.
Velasco is no newcomer to Ag-
gieland, however. Ten years ago,
he signed registration forms to
pursue a master’s degree in soil
science.
At the time, he had just received
his bachelor’s degree from the
School of Agriculture in Saltillo.
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-
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A Texas Transportation Insti
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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
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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.
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