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Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, March 10, 1966
Thursday, March 10, 1966
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A Look At Local Schools
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Eark
Growth Marks Consolidated System
By LARRY JERDEN
Battalion Associate Editor
A great deal is said and printed
about public education during
Texas’ annual Public Schools
Week, mostly in salute to teach
ers and administrators, who are
then quickly forgotten by the ma
jority of the public for another
year.
This is not enough.
What is needed for each parent
and taxpayer to take a good,
long periodic look at his local
system, in an attempt to better
understand its merits, its prob
lems and its goals for the future.
The original school district in
this area was authorized by the
State Legislature in 1909, but a
tax-supported school didn’t open
its doors here before 1920. It was
not until eight more years had
passed that the A&M Independ
ent School District was formed.
The public school system was
originally legally connected to
A&M College, but this was sever
ed in 1939 when it obtained its
own building off-campus.
In 1914 the gym, athletic field
and Lincoln High School were
added, and the present Junior
High was completed in 1948. The
first grade and cafeteria facilities
were constructed in 1951, as were
the shop and science lab at Lin
coln School. Two years later the
present high school and Lincoln
Gym were added to the facilities,
with the latest construction com
ing in 1960 with the high school
addition, Lincoln addition and
College Hills Elementary school.
Present physical facilities in-
At the Movies
with Lani Presswood
Everybody has a different idea the game you commit yourself and has to find out who’s after
of what is funny. If you can to ten hunts, on five you play him strictly on his own.
laugh readily at the sight of a the hunter and on the other five Once the victim learns who his
dozen or so murders in a satiric you’re the victim. Combatants hunter is it becomes his chore to
comedy, then chances are you will are matched by a Geneva com- bump his pursuer off. In other
enjoy The 10th Victim. I didn’t. puter. words, a member of this big game
Before taking the witness The hunter is told who his vie- club engages in ten fight-to-the-
stand though, I need to make a tim is but the victim is only noti- death contests, Avinning a size-
small confession m the interest fied of his active status (can you able hunk of cash each time he
of fair play and justice foi all. imagine getting a “greetings comes out on top.
While many were jumping up from your Big . Hunt Club” card ?) F °r surviving nine engage-
and down extolling the praises ' ments and then knocking off his
of the unadulteratedly brilliant tenth victim, the lucky killer col
and almost rapturously sophisti- lects the big money (one million
cated “Dr. Strangelove,” I was ' W^m ' ' bills) and passes go for life,
busy trying to repress a mild Now it comes to pass that a
case of nausea. k . coldly efficient lass (Ursula An-
And when I saw others rolling ' . dress) has undone her nine play-
in the aisles over the book “Can- ' mates and needs only a tenth
dy,” I began to wonder if this ^ , ' frame strike to enter the high in-
was the same piece of writing gk t aHHDj come tax bracket,
which had managed to pretty mm But her victim turns out to be
thoroughly gross me out in spite M Marcello Mastroianni, a fairly
of its incessant cleverness. • human Italian in a greatly de-
This then is my sordid past ||||||| humanized world, so a few corn-
voting record on two Very Big |jPI| ! \ plications naturally enter into the
Satires. Now, with this little K • jmr picture.
digression out of the way I’ll || jHH| But enough of this. The plot
proceed to the case at hand. fg, flHB is so miserably thin it’s really
“The 10th Victim” strikes me not worth detailing any further,
as a pretty awful motion picture, Marcello is colorless in an even
a lemon just as brightly yellow as I - more colorless role, the English
the Italian sun under which it is written at the bottom of the
was made. screen instead of being dubbed in
Its action occurs in the 21st c arK j actually the only good thing
century, and it seems that the about the whole production is
reigning cool heads of that gen- * seeing Ursula romping around
eration have come up with an * ^ , > * the scenery in various stages of
idea which has made war as ex- epidermis-tight dress. And be-
tinct as the dollar haircut. | . ’ lieve me, this is something to see.
Their master plan is called the _ In short, though, the picture
Big Hunt, and it’s designed to let aims for satire and aims for corn-
man take out his natural aggres- edy but a few of our Italian film-
sions in individual competition, URSULA ANDRESS making brethren need to take a
thus making war unnecessary. . . . appearing in “The Tenth refresher course in marksman-
If you choose to take part in Victim.” ship.
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The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Associate Editor Larry Jerden
elude: The 18-classroom College
Hills school, a brick, semi-fire-
proof structure; A total of 14
classrooms in the A&M Ele
mentary, including brick and
frame structures, a cafeteria used
to serve other schools on the
main campus; The Junior High
consisting of a frame building
with eight classrooms, a shop and
music room, one brick veneer
with seven classrooms and a li
brary and a frame gym.
The high school plant includes
a modern auditorium, new gym,
one class building with eight
rooms, one science building with
three labs, home ec facilities and
four classrooms, a library build
ing with three classrooms, a li
brary and a modern language
lab, one vocational education
building with classroom and shop,
one football stadium with a 3,-
200 seating capacity, an admin
istration building and a bus re
pair shop. The Lincoln school
complex with frame and concrete
blocking buildings burned and
now houses only grades three
through eight.
Present enrollment in all
grades is 2,111. This includes
962 in grades one through five,
559 in six through eight and 590
in the upper four grades. The
growth is reflected in the enlarg
ing enrollment figures from 1948
projected through 1975. In 1948
there were 506 enrolled in the
system, 1,554 attended in 1959,
2,033 in 1964, 2,744 projected for
1970 and 2,568 expected in 1975.
These figures, however, are
considered ultra-conservative by
most officials, and the present
facilities will definitely need ex
panding before 1970.
In understanding what the
school system is accomplishing at
present, one needs to know what
methods and teaching facilities
are available, and something of
the quality of the teachers.
“Our teaching staff,” said Su
perintendent W. T. Riedel, “is
definitely above average for this
size school.
“Of 102 teachers at all levels,
45 hold master’s degrees and the
others have earned at least their
bachelors,” he noted.
Tomorrow: Present teaching
aids and future plans.
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