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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1968)
>• .-VW* •»*». V ••'.ifrV »•.-«? .^V 4 • V., :• ***. . - • * • .1 » v ■n' .■ * "Second Session Registration For CS Swimming Program Set Registration for the second ses sion of the College Station Recre ational Council swimming pro gram is set for Sunday in the lobby of G. Rollie White Coli seum. Children who did not partici pate in the program the first session this summer will be reg istered from 2 to 3 p.m. Chil- A FAMILY AFFAIR Mr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Wright Jr. of Texarkana, Texas, squeeze every bit of study time out of every minute. Working toward graduate degrees in biology and elementary educa tion at Texas A&M is a summer project for the Arkansas public school teachers. dren who did participate in the program for the first session will be registered from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on a first come, first served basis. Since each class enrollment is limited, registration for that class will close when it is full, ac cording to Art Adamson, council coach and professor in A&M’s Driver Education Program Planned In an effort to develop a com prehensive plan for driver edu cation in Texas, the Texas Edu cation Agency is co-sponsoring a training program this summer at Texas A&M. Glenn L. Peavy, the Agency’s program director for safety and driver education, says the course can accommodate 60 training as sistants and 50 supervising teach ers in driver education. Classes for teaching assistants will be held July 15-August IQ, and classes for supervising teach ers will be conducted July 29- August 16. The course, which is being co sponsored by Texas A&M, is officially known as the 1968 Driver Education and Traffic Safety Study Programs. "There are two reasons why we are having this training pro gram,” explains Peavy. “First, we want to prepare non-degree teaching assistants to teach in the laboratory phases of approved driver education courses. And second, we want to prepare super vising teachers to supervise teach ing assistants and to teach driver education using advanced tech niques.” Dr. Leslie Hawkins, professor at Texas A&M, will direct the study program, which is being funded by the Texas Traffic Safe ty Fund. This fund of $2 million was authorized by the Texas Legislature last year. To date, Peavy says, five each of the state’s education service centers and independent school districts have made applications for their people to attend the study program. Chemistry Team Tops League ‘C The Chemistry Team took top honors in the League “C” soft ball competition in the summer intramural program, R. L. Fletch er of the Health and Physical Education Department has an nounced. Competition in Leagues “A” and “B” could not be completed this week because of rain showers. Playoffs between the three leagues are set for next week, Fletcher said. Golfing and bowling started this week. Results are not com plete. The five education service cen ters participating will be Region I at Edinburg, Region III at Vic toria, Region VII at Kilgore, Re gion X at Richardson, and Region XIX at El Paso. And the five participating school districts will be Ector County in Odessa, both Edgewood and San Antonio in San Antonio, Houston, and Lub bock. “Personnel from these 10 lo cations will take up 40 teaching assistant positions and 10 super vising teacher positions,’’ Peavy says. “This still leaves us with 60 openings (40 supervising teachers and 20 teaching assistants) for trainees from other service centers and school districts planning to begin a multi-phase driver edu cation program at some future date. Anyone interested in apply ing should write or contact Dr. Hawkins and request an applica tion.” To be eligible, all supervising teachers must be presently certi fied driver education teachers in good standing. Teaching assist ants must 21 years of age, a high school graduate, and have a per sonal driving record for three years, immediately prior to train ing as a teaching assistant, upon - which the Texas Department of Public Safety has taken no cor rective action. In addition, all applicants must be recommended by one of the following: an executive director of an education service center, a superintendent of an accredited school district, or a supervisory driver training instructor of a commercial driving training school licensed by the Texas De partment of Public Safety. Peavy says the course will be taught using state-owned simu lators. “These simulators are be ing used to help Texas move into its multi-phase program of driver education,” says the program di rector. Health and Physical Education department. Registration fee is $4 for resi dents of College Station and $8 for non-residents. In order to compete in the program, children must be six years old for the learner program. They must also be 51 inches tall or be able to swim 30 feet. Classes for the second session will meet three times weekly July 1-27. The learners session will be conduct ed by Coach Adamson. Testing will be required of all children who can swim but have never been enrolled in the Col lege Station program. The test ing will be in Downs Natatorium from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. All swimmers are expected to bring a swimming suit and cap. A competitive program will be offered from 7:30 to 9 a.m. daily. During the month of August this program will continue on an in vitational basis under Pat Patter son, new assistant swimming coach at A&M. THE EPISCOPAL, CHURCH WELCOMES YOU ST. THOMAS’ CHAPEL 906 Jersey St. South Side of Campus Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. — 9:15 a.m. The Rev. W. R. Oxley (49) The Rev. M. W. Selliger (62) Houston Swimmers Take AAU Meet Houston swimmers dominated the two-day Region 9 Amateur Athletic Union meet which con cluded Saturday night at Texas A&M. The Dad’s YMCA Swim Team of Houston won the meet with a total of 578% points, followed by the Shamrock Swim Club of Houston, 423 points, and the Houston Dolphins, 145. Rounding out the top five teams were the Austin Aquatic Club, 96 points, and College Station, 83. The outstanding individual per formance was turned in by Mary Ann Spira of the Dad’s YMCA. She won the 200 meter butterfly with a national qualifying time of 2:34.2 minutes. Mi|SS Spira also won the 100 meter butterfly and the 400 meter individual medley. Other triple winners were Jen nifer Webb, also of the Dad’s YMCA, and Bill MacNaughton of the Shamrock club. Miss Webb captured the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 and 1500 meter free-styles. MacNaughton won the 200 meter backstroke, 400 meter individual medley and 1500 meter free-style. The College Station AAU meet attracted eight teams from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. NOW OPEN! Services Unlimited COMPLETE SECRETARIAL SERVICES Let "sir Work For You ! • ANSWERING SERVICE • BOOKKEEPING • COPY WORK • DICTATION «. TRANSCRIPTION • DISSERTATIONS • MANUSCRIPTS • MIMEOGRAPHING • PRINTING • THESES Mrs. Opal Finka Mrs. Bamlca Tharp OPERATORS 1907 S. COLLEGE, BRYAN, TEXAS 77801 —Next To Tote-A-Bite Grocery— PHONE 823-5362 THE BATTALION Thursday, June 27, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 7 Couple Finds Education Takes Time “When I was a high school sophomore, Dad put me on a cross-cut saw with a 6-foot-2, 210 pound husky. We went into the woods at sunup and came out at sundown.” Jerry T. Wright, Jr., a Texas A&M graduate student still trav eling the road to knowledge at 50, says the logging experience was an education itself. “Toward the end, I told Dad I was going back to high school,” the energetic gray-haired gradu ate student recalled. Since then, the vertebrate zo ology major has kept one finger in a textbook while working him self and his wife Juanita through Texarkana and Southern State College and now, Texas A&M. Two regular summer school students, the Wrights teach in Arkansas public schools nine months and study in June, July and August. Their degree programs are aimed at the summer of 1969. Mrs. Wright will complete mas ters studies in elementary educa tion, Jerry in biology. POOR PEOPLE’S marches on Washington puzzle Wright, who has paid for his education with long, hard hours. He worked al most 28 years for the Cotton Belt railroad in Shreveport. Yard clerk on the night shift 24 of those years, he worked nights and studied days to get an associate degree at Texarkana and bachelor in biology at Magnolia. It wasn’t a straight through route. “We nearly went broke doing undergraduate work,” Wright noted. “But we figured both should get an education if one did, so I’d carpenter while Juanita was in college. Then she worked and I studied.” THEY STILL SHARE chores. Jerry teaches biology, chemistry and physics at Arkansas High on the Ozarks side of Texarkana. She is a remedial reading special ist for Pleasant Grove and Oak Grove schools. By judicious spending, both are doing graduate work on Wright’s assistantship sponsored by South west Electric Power and Schlum- berger Foundation. “If a fellow doesn’t keep mov ing, he’ll dry up on the vine,” professes Wright. He believes accomplishment depends on how much a person wants something. Parents of three children, the Wrights put off college until the youngsters were raised. Tommy, 29, works for a Texarkana con struction firm. Martha, 25, is with a Houston company, and Tim, 19- year-old Texarkana College sopho more spends summers in the em ploy of his brother. Wright doesn’t fret about the younger generation. “Hippies, draft card burners and peace marchers are very much a minority,” he said. “They don’t rep resent high school youngsters I work with.” Buy now and SAVE! r, ; ' \ \ > v> • ffMtittt# July 4*h Tire ut % 'Price when you buy th§ first tire at our low everyday price! ^Tireston* CHAMPIOM FULL 4-PLY NYLON CORD SIZE Tubeless E llackwalls Tubeless Whitewalls Fed. 1st TIRE 2nd TIRE 1st TIRE 2nd TIRE Ex. Tax 6.50-13 M6.50 *8.25 M9.50 *9.75 M .81 7.35-14 18.75 9.37 21.75 10.87 2.06 7.75- 14 7.75- 15 19.25 9.62 22.25 11.12 2.19 2.21 8.25-14 8.15-15 22.50 11.25 25.50 12.75 2.35 2.36 8.55.14 8.45-15 25.00 12.50 28.25 14.12 2.56 2.54 All prices PLUS taxes and trade-in tires off your car. NO MONEY DOWN — Months to Pay! Don’t miss out! 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