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.
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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
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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.”
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Peirce said 325 regularly en
rolls a variety of students.
“This semester, the roster in
cludes 14 women and 22 men,
from i'College freshmen through
Mrs. Thomas and Alexander,” he
said. Previous classes registered
a mother of four, the foreign-
born wife of a librarian and an
aspiring writer in her 60s.
MRS. THOMAS feels a strong
tie with A&M through her hus
band, retired entomology profes
sor Dr. Frank L. 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.
MONDAY
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Continental Oil Company; R&D
Dept. — Ch.E, (B, M, D), CHEM
(B, M, D), EE (M, D), ME (M,
D), PET E (M, D), GEOL (M,
D), MATHEMATICS (M, D),
PHYS (M, D), STAT (M)
Continental Oil Company; Mar-
Keting Division — AG ECO, Dist
MKTG (B)
Continental Oil Company; Cen
tral Engineering Department —
CE (B), EE (B), ME (B, M)
Continental Oil Company;
Transportation and Supplies —
ECO (B, M), FIN (B, M), MGMT
(B, M)
Continental Oil Company; Pro
duction Department — Ch.E (B,
M), CE (B, M), GEOL E (B, M),
ME (B, M), PET E (B, M), also
for summer employment.
Continental Oil Company;
Transportation and Supplies —
Ch.E (B, M), CE (B, M), EE
(B, M), I ENG (B, M), ME (B,
M)
Continental Oil Company;
Petrochemical Department —
Ch.E (B, M), CHEM (B, M), ME
(B, M)
Continental Oil Company; Re
fining Company — Ch.E (B, M),
CE (B, M), EE (B, M), ME (B,
M), also for summer employment.
Fort Worth National Bank —
ACCTG (B, M), FIN (B, M)
General Electric Company —
AERO E (B, M, D), Ch.E (B, M,
D), EE (B, M, D), I ENG (B, M,
D), ME (B, M, D), CHEM (B, M,
D), MATH (B, M, D), PHYS (B,
M, D)
Joske’s of Texas — ACCTG,
FIN, MGMT, MKTG (BBA,
MBA)
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Corporation — Ch.E (B), CE (B,
M), EE (B), I ENG (B), ME
(B)
The Dow Chemical Company —
Ch.E (B, M, D), CHEM (B, M,
D), CE (B, M), EE (B, M), I
ENG (B, M), ME (B, M)
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Tenneco Oil Company — Ch.E
(B, M), GEOL E (B, M), ME
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(B, M)
The Proctor and Gamble Com
pany — Ch.E (B, M, D), CHEM
(B, M, D), CE (B, M), EE (B,
M), I ENG (B, M), ME (B, M),
ECO (M), MATH (M), MGMT
(M), also for summer employ
ment.
Texas Instruments, Inc.; Semi
conductor-Components — Ch.E
(B, M, D), CHEM (B, M, D), EE
(B, M,D), I ENG (B, M), ME (B,
M, D), PHYS (B, M, D)
Texas Instruments, Inc., Ap
paratus (Dallas) — EE (B, M,
D), I TECH (B), I ENG (B, M,
D), ME (B, M, D)
Texas Instruments, Inc., Ap
paratus (Houston) — COMP SCI
(M, D), MGMT (M), EE (B, M,
D), MATH (B, M), ME (B, M,
D), PHYS (B, , D)
Texas Instruments Inc., Ma
terials (Dallas) — Ch.E (B, M,
D), CHEM (M, D), EE (B, M),
PHYS (M), ME (B, M)
Texas Instruments Inc., Science
Services Division — Ch.E (B, M,
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meet in room 205 of the AnITrack C<
demic Building at 7:30 p.m. Ipects a si
Baytown Hometown Club ^ r but he L
meet at 8 p.m. in the main ve the \
of the YMCA. Will elect tlj od battle
sweetheart and Cotton Pagei; e Bears
Duchess.
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
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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,
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party.
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