Student Mixes Rodeo, School
When Bob Wheeler, an Aca
demic Year Institute graduate
student at Texas A&M Universi
ty, encounters a tough study
problem, he bulldogs it or goes
after it with both fists.
Wheeler, 26, is an International
Rodeo Association champion
bronc rider, steer wrestler and
Oklahoma Golden Gloves middle
weight champ.
The math and general science
teacher, former football, basket
ball and boxing coach attends
BOB WHEELER
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The six-foot, 190-pound cow
boy wants to keep his spurs in
the rodeo arena summers and
teach too.
“I like to see kids learn,” the
blond math teacher explained.
“We had good teachers at Pres
ton High School. They inspired
me to want to teach.”
After graduation at Preston in
1959, he earned a math degree at
Central State College in Edmund,
Okla.
While instructing general sci
ence and coaching at Muskogee
junior high, Bobby Dean realized
he needed more schooling. Appli
cations for an AYI position
brought him, his wife Earlene
and children — twin girls Jamie
and Jodie 6, Gregory 5 and Wendi
3 — to A&M. He brought his
bareback riding gear along and
keeps an eye peeled for rodeo
posters around the state.
Wheeler’s tenacious way with
buckin broncs and steers in 15
states on the IRA circuit and in
Sooner Golden Gloves and AAU
boxing rings is his way of life.
He grew up on a Western Okla
homa farm near Reydon.
Bob first climed through the
ropes with his twin, Bill, and
younger brother Jim at Preston.
He continued boxing while study
ing at Central State. He won 45
of 50 matches and two state mid
dleweight titles in three years,
winning 25 times by knockouts.
He won a bout in a Eufala tour
ney by TKOing his opponent in
17 seconds of the first round.
The last time he laced on gloves
was during a three-year teaching
stint at Henrietta, Okla. The
A&M student coached basketball,
taught math and science and
headed a boxing team that won
28 of 34 matches.
Bob’s twin brother is now an
Assembly of God missionary in
East Africa.
Henrietta cage teams under
Wheeler tied for a conference
title, took another outright and
won 53 of 73 games.
At Henrietta, he met IRA ro-
deoer Everett Crandell and
cinched bareback rigging the first
time, in 1963.
“I really like it,” the amiable
teacher said. “The individual
competition is the thing. Peo
ple emphasize team sports too
much.”
His successes in the arena
earn Bob $3,000 to $4,000 a sum
mer. In a Tulsa bulldogging
event, he threw a steer in 3.8 sec
onds. He later matched the near
record time at Sedalia, Mo. His
best single rodeo performance
came in Jackson, Miss., last sum
mer. Bob copped second in bull-
dogging and fourth bareback for
$300.
He and Crandell hitch a two-
horse trailer to his camper-equip
ped pickup and ride in four or
five rodeos a week in June, July
and August, covering 800 miles a
week.
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“Everett is a real pro. He will
win the IRA bronc riding and all-
around cowboy this year,” Wheel
er predicted.
Bob won second bulldogging in
the All-Aggie Rodeo at A&M,
forking another fellow’s horse.
Wheeler won the bareback event.
He doesn’t get the practice
he’d like (“It takes some every
day”) but he’s set for the South
Texas Junior College rodeo at
Aldine Dec. 15-17. Wheeler also
has circled dates of the Intercol
legiate, Texas Tech and SMU
rodeos.
“I’ve got to lose some weight
though,” he grinned. “Down to
about 175. That way, there isn’t
so much hitting the ground.”
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Wheeler, Sallisaw, Okla., hopes
to get back to teaching after fin
ishing at A&M.
“I want to teach and hope to
stay in the rodeo business, too,”
he said.
Bob figures he can make it in
both, and has an advantage riding
out of the chute.
“I’m always kidding other cow
boys about using my slide rule
to compute my rides,” he grinned.
A&M College Of
Geosciences Will
Host Lecturers
Two scientists and an Air Force
officer will speak and visit in
Texas A&M University’s College
of Geosciences this week.
Dr. M. G. Rutten, geology pro
fessor at the University of
Utrecht, Holland, lectures Wed
nesday on “The Geological As
pects of the Origin of Life on
Earth.” The Geology Depart
ment presentation will be at 3
p.m. in room 105 of the geology
building. Dr. Rultep is a visiting
professor at the University of
Michigan.
“Marine Geology and Geo
physics” will be presented by Dr.
Maurice Ewing at 3 p.m. Friday
at the same location. He is direc
tor of Columbia University’s La-
mont Geological Observatory.
The Meteorology Department
will be visited Friday by Maj.
Roddee E. Lord of the Air Force
Institute of Technology, Wright-
Patterson AFB, Ohio. Major
Lord will confer with Dr. Vance
E. Moyer, department head, and
A&M AFIT students. The fa
miliarization visit is of one-day
duration.
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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 6,1
Rescreening Of
1-Y’s Announced
WASHINGTON — The
Pentagon announced recently a
third revision in draft standards
this year and said men currently
qualified for duty only in an
emergency will be rescreened un
der the new guidelines.
The Defense Department an
nouncement on the latest lower
ing of mental standards for in
ductees said registrants currently
classified 1-Y will be rescreened
when administrative procedures
are worked out.
There are about 2.4 million men
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only in time of war or national
emergency. A small percentage
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The latest change is designed to
bring in the second half of 40,-
000 men Secretary of Defense
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would otherwise be rejected.
McNamara announced last
summer the Pentagon would take
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Physics Lectures
Slated This Week
Dr. Jesse W. M. DuMond i|
the California Institute of T
nology will lecture on the S
ford two-mile accelerator and r
clear physics fundamental w
stants in two lectures at Te:
A&M this week.
The Cal Tech physicist, a i
sultant for the Stanford accelep
tor, will speak in a Graduate Co|
lege Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday’
the biology building lecture roo
“Recent Developments in tin
Evaluation of the Fundamenti
Constants” will be discussed in i
physics colloquium Wednesday, i;
4 p.m. in room 146 of the physic
building.
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