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RED RIVER GRANT ANNOUNCED
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ion of Red River Army Depot scientists in
Maintainability Engineering are examined
by (from left) Dr. A. W. Wortham, head of
Texas A&M’s Industrial Engineering De
partment ; Herchel E. Lynch, depot program
Industrial Engineering
Professors R. L. Street and Dr. Robert J.
McNichols. Street and McNichols will in
struct graduate engineers and physicists at
Texarkana and A&M.
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By SHAKY BROWN
The Bryan Daily Eagle
Some say that it’s impossible
to get far in journalism these
days without a degree. But 27-
year-old Robert C. Stewart Jr.,
managing editor of The Bryan
Daily Eagle, is possibly the
youngest editor in the state—and
he never made it back for the
sheepskin.
It’s impossible, they say, to be
a writer without a command of
the English language. Stewart
hates it. He failed Freshman
English three times.
Yet, he’s a writer, and judging
from the checks he has received
from such television series as
“Gunsmoke,” a good one.
STEWART’S PLAY, “Which
Death To Die,” is the saga of five
men trapped in a ship sunk at
Pearl Harbor. Texas A&M’s
Aggie Players are currently pre
senting the play — its world
premiere — at Guion Hall.
There will be performances to
night, Thursday and Friday.
Curtain is at 2 p.m.
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and
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Will have their portrait
made for the Aggieland
’67
November 16 - January 15
Portraits will be made at the
University Studio (coat and
tie).
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Irony, which is a hallmark of
Stewart’s writing as well as his
life, forbids the men the knowl
edge that Pearl Harbor has been
bombed by enemies.
Throughout the three acts the
men never learn what has hap
pened. As they die, one by one,
of suffocation and wounds, the
men must meet their ends with
out the comforting thought that
they are heroes.
“I’ve hinged the play so that
none of them knew they were
victims of war. They think it’s
the boiler or something. It makes
their lives useless. They have
nothing to die for, nothing to pro
mote bravery,” explained Stew
art.
DURING HIS college years at
Abilene Christian and Arlington
State Colleges Stewart wrote one-
act plays and short stories, and
he taught creative writing for
the YWCA in Dallas.
While his writing has been an
off-again, on-again avocation,
Stewart has seen a few news
paper offices in his career, hav
ing worked for the Oak Cliff
Tribune in Dallas, the Vernon
Daily Record, the Arlington
News Texan, the Borger News-
Herald, and The Bryan Daily
Eagle.
Stewart’s first “complete work”
of playwriting was the first of
two Gunsmoke scripts written in
collaboration with Frank Dobbs
ATTENTION ! ! !
ALL CLUBS
Athletic, Hometown, Pro
fessional, and Campus Or
ganizations.
Pictures for the club sections of
the Aggieland are now being
scheduled at the Student Publi
cations Office, Y.M.C.A. Build
ing.
of Houston, formerly of Bryan.
This was followed by a second
successful script and several
others which didn’t quite make it.
He has concentrated nearly full
time on the writing and rewrit
ing of his three-act play.
“I’M VERY PLEASED that
the Aggie Players are going to
do it,” he said. “I couldn’t think
of a better place to open this
play, because of the military his
tory and tradition, and the fact
that right now we have men from
A&M in Viet Nam. And the
school has one of the most dis
tinguished war records.”
His characters in “Which
Death To Die” are a tribute from
Stewart to the unsung, unknow
ing heroes who made the supreme
sacrifice. It’s his way of saying,
“We lost, too.”
“I just wanted to say that we
always see the heroics, and I
wanted to show that there were
just possibly some people who
died for a reason on the first day
of the war and didn’t even know
it.
“And because of this and the
other people who died heroic
deaths, I just want it on the
record,” Stewart explained.
The story sounds morbid. Actu
ally, it isn’t. The viewer will, of
course, know that the men are
heroes, and this alleviates the
feeling of futility. But even if
the audience didn’t know this, the
story would still be good because
the five found themselves and
met death—honestly.
C. K. Esten, head of the Aggie
Players, is pleased with the play,
both because of its content and
the fact that it is completely
local.
“I’ve been waiting for a thing
like this for a long, long time.
It’s not the first play to be locally
written, but some of the others
were not in good taste. This one
has got some guts to it. It tells
a story and has a heck of a good
title.”
Announcing A
Gospel Meeting
DEC. 5 THRU 11
7:30 EACH EVENING
(6 p. m. on Sunday)
Speaker Will Be
W. L. WHARTON
from San Antonio
Twin City Church of Christ
203 S. Parker — Bryan
By MIKE PLAKE
Three information officers for
the Peace Corps will administer
applications and examinations in
the Memorial Student Center be
ginning tomorrow at 8 a.m.
Mike Korin, Mary Jackson, and
Geri Deskin, all previous Peace
Corps volunteers, will locate their
headquarters in a booth between
the gift shop and the snack bar.
They will be giving information
on all aspects of the Peace Corps,
from 8a.m. to 4 p.m. through
Friday, and until 12 p.m. Satur
day.
Each of the three recruiting
team members have served a two
year term in a foreign country.
Korin, a graduate of Southern
Illinois University, held a posi
tion similar to that of a Texas
county agent in Cuzco, Peru. He
helped the local farmers learn
the importance of grain storage,
fertilizer and other modern
farming methods virtually un
known in that area.
HE EMPHASIZED that a great
number of Peace Corps volun
teers enlist a second time; he
said he had considered it because
of the experience gained during
the service.
Miss Jackson, a philosophy
major, graduated from Salem
College in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. She served two years
as an English instructor in Tunis,
the capitol city of Tunisia, where
she taught students who were
preparing for scholarships in
American universities. In addi
tion, she conducted an adult class
in beginner English for local
people.
Miss Deskin, from the Uni
versity of Arkansas, used her
major in physical education in
teaching P.E. and swimming
classes in a secondary school in
Acarigua, Venezuela. In a “crowd
ed little town” of 40,000, she also
taught English. In the summer,
she helped organize one of the
first 4-H clubs. She had one re
mark to make regarding the
Peace Corps:
“I think it’s the best thing
the United States government
has done for foreign policy to
date.”
Between them, the Peace Corps
team had these facts to relate
about their organization:
In 53 countries overseas,
25,000 people have volunteered
a first or second time for two
years of service.
These volunteers include ages
from 18-75.
Volunteers come from all occu
pations; 85 percent are college
graduates, with some doctorate
and graduate levels of study.
THE TEAM members will be
interviewing as many seniors as
possible. They will be speaking
in classes and at the booth
throughout each day.
To be considered for acceptance
into the Peace Corps, a student
must fill out an application, take
a Language Aptitude test (30
minutes) and wait for acceptance
or rejection.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
will bore two peepholes 250 feet
back of the precipice on each side
of the American Niagara Falls.
The problem is rockslides.
PIZZA HUT
2610 Texas Ave.
Tel. 822-1441
OPEN
11:30 a. m.
to
Midnight
Friday & Saturday
till 1:00 a. m.
AN OPEN LETTER
Hello Aggies,
For several weeks we have been running our adver
tisement in the Battalion telling you about Aggieland
Recreation Center located behind Betty’s Fashions in the
Redmond Terrace Center, College Station, Texas.
We’ve told you that we have two five by ten billiard
tables, two five by ten snooker tables, sixteen four by
eight billiard tables, seven pin ball machines and other
games. That we are open 7 days each week from 8 a. m.
till midnight. That no alcoholic beverages are sold or
allowed. That we sell billiard supplies, jointed cue sticks,
etc.
Hundreds of Aggies have visited our Recreation
Center, and we believe most of them were impressed. If
you have never visited the Aggieland Recreation Center,
we hope you will very soon. We believe you will like what
you see.
AGGIELAND RECREATION CENTER
Redmond Terrace Center
College Station, Texas
P. S. By the way, the girls play here!
WEAK
Even When She Answers, He Still Gets the Busy Signal.
DEAR REB:
Lately, every time I call my girl, she's either "not in" or "not inter
ested." Last week I called her 23 times and couldn't even make a
coffee date. The trouble started when she started dating a guy
who owns a Dodge Coronet. Now she goes to parties with him,
dances, football games, etc. Do you think I should call her again,
or should I forget her and break her heart?
BAD CONNECTIONS
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a date to see the '67 Coronet, the car that's breaking hearts all
over America. You’ll find that its good looks are pretty hard to
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break. Ask her to go for a ride in your new Coronet. I think she'll
get the signal.
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