Tuesday, January 27, 1967
College Station, Texas
Page 3
THE BATTALION
‘Grave Rubbing’ Project
Teaches Students History
Third year design students in
the School of Architecture learn
some South Central Texas history
in a class project termed “grave
rubbing.”
Fifty students made afternoon
field trips recently to Calvert and
Anderson for “grave rubbing”
sessions. They also paid a visit
to the Booneville Cemetery just
east of Bryan.
Assistant Professors Wesley
Harper and Chartier Newton said
some of the oldest gravestones
and the largest cemeteries in the
area are located in Calvert and
Anderson.
They agreed that rubbing of
gravestones is nothing new, al
though the activity is more popu
lar in New England and Europe..
The process in simple. Rice or
brown paper is taped to grave
stones. Carpenter’s crayons of
Animal Science Major Wins $500
From Ralston Purina Company
Gerald Max Smith, senior ani
mal science major, has received a
$500 award from the Ralston
Purina Company.
The award, which is made each
year to a senior in the A&M Col
lege of Agriculture, recognizes
Smith’s outstanding academic
achievement, leadership and stu
dent activities.
Presentation was made by Dr.
R. E. Patterson, dean of the Col
lege of Agriculture. The Ralston
Purina Company was represented
at the ceremony by its district
sales manager, Bob Wurzbach of
407 Walton Drive in College
Station.
Gerald is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Smith of Pineville, Mo.
Patterson said Smith has won
many awards while at A&M. He
was designated a “Distinguished
Student” for the spring and fall
semesters of 1964, and the fall
and spring semesters of 1965 and
1966.
Other previous awards won by
the student include the Moorman
Manufacturing Company Scholar
ship, the Houston Association of
Hotel and Restaurant Meat Pur
veyors Scholarship, and a Welch
Foundation Undergradute Assist-
antship.
Smith also is a member of
Gamma Sigma Delta, a national
honor fraternity for agriculture.
GERALD SMITH, LEFT, DR. R. E. PATTERSON
varying colors are then rubbed
against the paper, with the end
product being unusual graphics.
Dale Bolyard of La Marque
was intrigued with man’s efforts
to be remembered and the things
that are of special importance to
families of the dead.
Bolyard pointed to an inscrip
tion on a rubbing, “He was a
native of South Carolina and for
21 years a consistent Baptist.”
The varied reactions between
the thoughts of people who
erected gravestones and those who
made rubbings 100 years later
impressed Roger Killingsworth of
Jonesville, La.
“Their feelings about death
were perhaps a great deal differ
ent,” he noted. “Some of the
stones had serious inscriptions,
yet the rubbings were in bright,
gay colors.”
At Calvert, the future archi
tects learned that a yellow fever
outbreak in the 1870s almost
wiped out the city. Gravestones
at Booneville date back to the
1850s. The cemetery is all that
remains of the original settle
ment, said to have died when the
railroad was built through Bryan.
Largest rubbing was of a tomb
stone at Anderson. It reflects
both local and state history. The
stone was erected in memory of
Kenneth Lewis Anderson, district
judge, Speaker of the House of
the 6th Congress, and last vice
president of the Republic of
Texas. It was noted that Ander
son died July 3, 1845, and the
name of the town later was
changed from Fanthrop to Ander
son in his honor.
Tom Phillips of Galveston car
ried his interest in gravestone
rubbing home for the weekend.
He returned with a unique rub
bing with lettering in Hebrew for
a two-year old boy who died in
1870.
“Wandering around old ceme
teries sets you to thinking,” com
mented Steve McGregor of Ama
rillo. “You see an inscription and
you wonder if the man was a
good or bad guy.”
McGregor showed a rubbing
which illustrated his point. The
gravestone related the man’s
name, that he died in 1879, and
followed with this inscription:
“This body pierced with bullets
rests calmly in the tomb, But his
spirit who can doubt it, Has gone
to its heavenly home.”
The rubbings are on public ex
hibit in the main lobby of the
School of Architecture.
Paper To Present
TTI Weed Control
A paper on controlling weeds
in pavement will be presented by
a Texas A&M researcher at the
Southern Week Conference in
New Orleans this week.
William J. Bowmer, Texas
Transportation Institute research
associate in vegetation manage
ment, will present the paper,
“Control of Broadleaf Weeds in
Asphalt Pavements.” The treatise
was co-authored by Wayne G.
McCully, head of TTI’s Vegeta
tion Management Department and
Allen F. Wiese, U. S. Department
of Agriculture official with the
Southwestern Great Plains Re
search Center in Bushland.
The paper was drawn from re
sults of cooperative research con
ducted by TTI, the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station, Tex
as Highway Department and U. S.
Bureau of Public Roads.
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GRAVE RUBBING GRAPHICS
Dale Bolyard (left) of La Marque and Jim Unique shapes and inscriptions from grave-
Patton of Commerce survey a display of stones in South Central Texas are preserved
“grave rubbings” produced by a third year on rubbings,
design class of the School of Architecture.
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