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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1967)
Brazos Time Trial Sunday Lists Variety Of Entries By WINSTON GREEN Corvettes, Lotus Elans, Mini Coopers and a King Cobra are just a few of the different makes of sports cars that will roar to the starting line Sunday at the old Bryan Air Force Base. They will participate in the Brazos Sports Car Club’s Grand Prix Time Trial and compete for some 30 trophies valued at more than $100. “Top cars and drivers from around the state are expected for this event,” said club member Jim Ray. “Entries ^re expected from Dallas, Houston, Austin, Fort Worth and Waco. The event will be a time trial, which is an amateur form of sports car racing, and will cover a course two miles long marked with rubber pylons. “The drivers will not actually race against each other,” Ray said, “but will compete against the clock as they run through the course.” Drivers will be placed in eight men’s and two women’s classes. HPiPiPi The classes are determined by power and handling character istics of the automobile. Ray said cars such as Volks- wagens will be competing against cars of similar speed and size. “An MG wouldn’t have to com pete with a 427 Corvette,” he said. A technical inspection of all cars will be made to insure safe mechanical operation of the car. Also, seat belts are required on all entries. Ray explained that anyone can “aim a car down a highway at 70 miles per hour” but “when a person has to brake fast, maneu ver his car through a tight turn and accelerate down a straight away, it will tell a lot about his driving and his car.” Registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the first run will be at 9:30 a.m. The Bryan Air Force Base is located seven miles west of Bryan on Highway 21. “Those interested may contact Roger Meade at 846-3225,” Ray said. “Anyone interested in en tering the event may do so, re gardless of the type of car he drives. We will have a class for every car. There will be a regis tration fee of $3.50.” Ray also expressed the need for walkie-talkies for the event. “We will gladly furnish our own bat teries if we can borrow several of the units,” he said. Page 6 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, February 23, Job Calls 80-YEAR-OLD STUDENT A English professor J. Frank Peirce goes over a manuscript of 80-year-old Mrs. Mabel Claire Thomas for a Texas A&M course in creative writing. “Knowledge should increase a person’s consciousness of what is still left to learn,” the A&M student explains. Oldsters Enrolled In English Class TIME TRIAL ENTRY A Corvair passes three “shutoff” signs as it brakes for a turn while practicing for Sunday’s Grand Prix Time Trial to be held at the old Bryan Air Force Base. Paintings Shown In MSC Lounge Pizza After The Freshman Ball PIZZA HUT Open Until 1:00 a.m. Fri. - Sat. 12:00 a. m. Sun. - Thur. 2610 Texas Ave. — 822-1411 Orders To Go Twenty award-winning paint ings are currently on display in the lounge area of the Memorial Student Center. The Texas Fine Arts Associa tion sponsors the circuit exhibi tion which is shown all over the state. The paintings selected for the exhibit were award winners in the State Citation Exhibition, July, 1966, or the Fall Invitation al, October, 1966. All the paintings except one were done by Texans. Many dif ferent media were used by the artists including oil, charcoal, casein and crayon. Two of the oldest students en rolled at Texas A&M answer when Professor J. Frank Peirce calls roll in English 325. Studying creative writing in the 36-member class are Mrs. Mabel Claire Thomas, 80, and E. R. Alexander, 78. Alexander is the retired former head of A&M’s Agricultural Edu cation Department. A poet, playwright and news paper columnist, Mrs. Thomas plans to write short stories. “I find the older I get, the more I want to know,” the active matron declares. “Several friends have chided me about taking the course, but I tell them education is a continuing process and not something that is suddenly com pleted.” PEIRCE, 49, and greying him self, finds the senior additions to his class a unique experience. “Both have alert, active minds,” the English assistant professor noted. “Best of all, they are willing to have their work criti cized, which the younger student doesn’t want.” /vVoNTGOM E RY WARD 3 DAYS ONLY. . . •mem**. ■ Tires for Volkswagen ri\\% AND OTHER FOREIGN CARS, INCLUDING: %X\\ r ii / k", S'SK'i • Austin • English Ford • Fiat • Hillman • Lotus • M.G. » Opel • Peugot • Porche • Renault • Saab • Simca • Triumph • Vauxhall • Volvo f 11 r a '£ \ mm §,i i « v LL \ \ / ha hhn.i |! ht :> jl\ \J y, J I w r i ? 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Thomas who taught Aggies 34 years. Three sons attended A&M, their son-in- law Dr. John V. Perry Jr. is a mechanical engineering professor and grandson Frank Thomas III is a junior management major. “I love young people,” the writ er of a recently published book of poems, “Sunlight and Shadows,” confided. “I enjoy being able to sit and study them in Dr. Peirce’s class.” Her primary goal, however, is writing techniques he instructs. “I’M NOT in the class for fun,” Mrs. Thomas stated. “I want to learn the pulse, needs and stand ards of modern story telling and adapt them to my own standards and years of experience.” The silver-haired writer has volumes of experience. The daughter of a scholar and Ala bama plantation owner wrote her first poem at the age of 11 and sold her first story to a Baptist Sunday school paper at 14. Mrs. Thomas wrote for news papers in Birmingham, Mont gomery and Opelika, Ala., and has been penning poetry for the last 20 years, publishing verses in “The Saturday Evening Post,” “Progressive Farmer” and other periodicals. She later wrote a column for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, reviewing children’s books and was selected Progres sive Farmer’s “Woman of the Year” in 1962. THE POETRESS, who feels a person is never too old to learn, lost her father at 16 and was denied opportunity for a formal college education. 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Bell County Hometown Qij will meet at 7:15 p.m. in theMS( Picture for Aggieland will be til [ n score en and club sweetheart willl, elected. Bi-Stone Hometown Clubi; meet in the Anderson Rooitj the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Orgn zation meeting. Dallas Hometown Club t> meet in the Ballroom of the IM.i; ah c at 7:30 p.m. Irffman ir El Paso Hometown Club « c ky Smit meet in room 2-B of the USlRandy M at 7:30 p.m. Isspecialt Fort Bend County Horaetoii Resley, Club will meet in room 3-A oflBotiputter MSC at 7:30 p.m. | the sha< Shreveport Hometown Club™ 011 ’ fr n isl meet in the lobby of the MSCil^f 8 p.m. for the club picture toLbis, is t taken. P place £ cept the its are es rints, th e relay e Heading jll be W elin thi Texarkana Hometown Clubr, meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSCi discuss their hometown t!i party. ATTENTION Civilian Sophomores and Juniors Pictures scheduled for 19$; Ag-gieland to be taken i University Studio. 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