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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1968
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ANNELLA WRIGHT
Sweetheart Asks
Gifts For Aggies
Dear Santa,
Although it’s only Dec. 19, I’ve been celebrating
“Christmas” for two months! I do hope you under
stand, because I have 13,000 other “Santas.” They’re
all wonderful! From them I receive letters, cards and
Howdys—warm, sincere, distinctive of the Aggies of
Texas A&M. Because they’ve been so good, would you
bring them some special gifts for Christmas?
First of all, please bring them unity: in athletics,
in student-faculty-administration relationships, and in
cooperation with one another.
For the Twelfth Man, an increasing abundance of |
spirit and pride with which to follow the finest team
in the Southwest Conference. For the athletes, good j
health, tremendous enthusiasm and cooperation for the j
yell leaders. i
Please stop in Oklahoma to give Carla (the Aggies
adopted her) a happy Christmas with her mother.
From there, would you go to the Faith Home in Hous
ton and take a Merry Christmas to the young men
there ?
To the seniors of 1969, bring' the promise of next
year. Fill their stockings with time to think, to recall,
and to look ahead.
Finally, carry courage, and the confidence that
Aggie buddies at home support them, to Aggie exes
in service away from home this Christmas, especially
the men in Vietnam.
Please bring to every Aggie a strong feeling for
the meaning of Christmas, a safe, pleasant trip home,
a warm reception by families and friends, and many
happy memories to bring to school with them.
They’re wonderful people, Santa, so please don t
overlook a single one. I hope that you, too, have a safe
trip, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Love,
Annella
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, P.S. Can I go with you when you visit all the Ag-
ges? Oh dear! ! ! They’ll be asleep, won’t they? Instead
Ulmake a 110 percent effort to meet each one in
^id to repay them—howdy for howdy—for their friend-
mess and generosity to me. I owe them so much.
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Deadline Nears For Registering
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—Adv.
The Feb. 15 tests will be ad
ministered in Room 108 of the
Academic Building by Counseling
and Testing Center personnel.
“Graduate students who want
to take one of the tests on that
date must complete registration
within eight days following the
Christmas holidays,” noted Aus-
ton Kerley, center director.
A receipt for payment of the
$6 fee at the Fiscal Office should
be presented at the center e-
fore 5 p.m. Jan. 15. A booklet
describing the tests will be avail
able at registration. Questions
will be answered at the center.
Yule Activities Continue;
Holiday Break Approaches
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Reorganization
For Council,
Study Seen
Directorate
YMCA Schedules
Program Tonight
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
A study of the organization
and workings of the Memorial
Student Center Council and Di
rectorate will be conducted next
semester by the Student Senate
upon recommendation of A&M
President Earl Rudder, accord
ing to Bennie Sims, Council and
Directorate president.
The decision by the president
reportedly stemmed from his
study of a revised constitution
submitted by the MSC Director
ate earlier this fall.
The new constitution was
unanimously adopted last spring
by the MSC Council, the chief
policy-making body of the MSC,
composed of seven students, five
faculty members and two former
students. The main changes in
the constitution involve organiza
tion of officers and rearranging
the composition of the Council to
add four more students.
“I ASSUME he (President
Rudder) doesn’t want an over
balance of students on the Coun
cil,” Sims said. Rudder said the
study would be conducted under
the supervision of Bill Carter,
Student Senate president, in an
attempt to involve the maximum
number of students in student
affairs at the lowest possible
cost.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan appeared before the
Directorate Tuesday night to ex
plain the letter from Rudder and
the reasons for the study.
Dean Hannigan said Wednes
day the move was to consolidate
responsibility for different stu
dent activities into one governing
body, somewhat similar to the
original MSC Directorate.
“BEFORE the MSC was built,
ninety percent of the student
programs were operated through
the YMCA,” Hannigan said.
Many of the YMCA duties
were moved to the MSC when it
became the hub of campus life
in the 1950’s. Dean Hannigan
explained that the planned ex
pansion of the MSC will present
a similar opportunity for con
solidation of student programs.
“The expansion will just about
double the size of the MSC. The
new MSC will need a larger staff
and perhaps a different distri
bution of responsibility,” he re
marked.
“I welcome this (the study);
any organization needs this and
I think it will be beneficial,” Sims
remarked.
“In my opinion the Student
Senate is going to study this and
whatever they decide, President
Rudder is going to buy.
“I’m not worried about it right
now,” he emphasized.
Sims said he does not expect
the study to be completed before
March or April, at the earliest.
Bad Driving Weather Expected
For Homeward-Bound Aggies
Meteorology Department
weather station officials say
weather conditions are likely to
be extremely poor for the 13,081
students driving home for Christ
mas recess and that the need for
cautious, safe driving will be even
more critical.
Weather throughout the U. S.
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
will be marginal due to a deep
low over the northeast part of
the nation and another develop
ing low in Colorado and the Texas
Panhandle, according to Jim
Lightfoot.
THE STATION meteorologist
said his situation will make South
Central U. S., including Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisi
ana, cloudy, rainy and cool.
“The Northeast U. S. will have
widespread snow during the three-
day period and the Southeast will
be generally clear, but cool,” he
added. “The Central states will
have rain Friday, becoming mixed
rain and snow Saturday continu
ing through Sunday. In the West
it will be generally cloudy but
with no hazards to travel except
snow flurries at the higher eleva
tions.
HE SAID general driving con
ditions will not be “too bad for
South Central and Southeast U. S.
Hazardous conditions will prevail
over Central and Northeast sec
tions with no major relief at least
until Monday.”
In the College Station area,
Lightfoot predicted cloudy skies
and intermittent rain Thursday
and Friday, with temperatures
ranging from the high 40s to the
low 30s.
“This will hold until Sunday
then clearing should set in and
make it generally clear in Col
lege Station the first of next
week,” he added.
He said flying conditions will
be clear and crisp Monday and
Tuesday nights.
By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff Writer
As Aggies prepare to return
home for the holidays, Christmas
activities cram the schedule for
both campus and community.
Holiday spirit officially de
scended on the A&M campus
Wednesday with the annual
Christmas dinners held in Sbisa
and Duncan Dining Halls.
TO COINCIDE with the din
ners, the Student Senate held a
fruit drive for 400 needy Bryan
Boys Club members. Students
from dining halls donated 40 boxes
of oranges, apples and bananas
from their own tables. Charles
Hoffman and Jim Stephenson,
who were in charge of the drive,
said that due to the success more
money could be spent buying toys.
The “Campus - Community
Christmas” program will be held
Thursday at 8 p.m. in front of
the Systems Administration Build
ing. YMCA cabinet officers deco
rated two 30-foot pines in prepa
ration for the singing program.
THE SCHOOL of Architecture
is having its annual Christmas
party Thursday afternoon for
members of the faculty and their
families. The different class sec
tions have decorated the interior
of the building with many Christ
mas trees, each trimmed distinc
tively.
Children of the Architecture
faculty members will make their
way through a maze of gigantic
Christmas packages, at the end
of which will be trees decorated
with candy.
THE MEMORIAL Student Cen
ter bowling and billiards area will
remain open during the holidays,
except for Dec. 24-25. The only
doors open in the MSC will be
those in the Post Office, the ones
next to the gift shop, and the
doors in the bowling-billiards
area.
The Western Union office and
the travel services will also be
open except on weekends, Dec. 25
and Jan. 1. The west front door
will be open for access to these
offices.
ALL REGULAR services of the
MSC will be open after Dec. 30,
except for the barber shop and
fountain room.
Dormitories and dining halls
will close at 6 p.m. Friday, with
the exception of Schumacher and
Hotard Halls. Students wishing
to stay on campus may live in
Schumacher if written permission
is granted by all room occupants
and turned in to the housing of
fice by 5 p.m. Friday.
Residence halls will open at 1
p. m., Jan. 5. Duncan and Sbisa
will reopen Jan. 6.
Despite an error in the MSC
calendar, Aggies are reminded
that classes will start at 8 a.m.
Jan. 6.
Season Marks Peak Of Activity
For A&M’s262Hometown Clubs
Senate Will Meet
At 7:30 Tonight
The Student Senate will meet
at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the con
ference room of the library.
Visiting students, though wel
come, may address the Senate
only through their respective rep
resentatives, David Maddox, Sen
ate vice president, reminded.
No Hong Kong Flu Here Yet
While Hong Kong flu closes universities and the Bryan-
College Station area is attacked by the every-day variety
of flu bug, Texas A&M students are “virtually free and
healthy,” Dr. Kenneth L. Nelson, director of the University
Hospital, reported Wednesday.
He expects them “to stay healthy too, especially now.”
The Christmas-New Year recess for students starts
Friday for two weeks.
Nelson expects the Aggies to stand up to most any
thing—at least until after Jan. 5 and the resumption of
classes.
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Air Force and Army personnel work fast to keep up with the deluge of maily at Saigon’s
• terminal as the letters, cards and packages pour in from the states. The terminal
fs JTw handling about a million pounds of mail a day and officers expect this to increase
to a million and a half by the week before Christmas. (AP Wirephoto)
Attendance at hometown club
meetings here reaches an annual
peak this week.
Clubs encompassing students
from Abilene to Wise County are
completing on-campus plans for
Christmas gatherings back home
during the two-week holiday peri
od beginning Friday.
BACK-HOME dinner parties,
dances, barbecues and the like are
usually much better attended than
club meetings on campus. The
socials are often sponsored or par
tially supported by city and
county A&M clubs, organizations
of Aggie exes and university
friends.
Elaborateness of the annual
gatherings varies widely, from
Dutch-treat dinner of a few stu
dents and their dates to country
club-leasing shindigs involving
a full-course feast and live band
dances requiring considerable
planning and preparation.
MORE THAN 200 hometown
Christmas parties will probably
be scheduled around the state.
There are 262 hometown clubs
registered with the student fi
nance office at the Memorial Stu
dent Center and MSC officials
figure others have not been offi
cially recognized by the univer
sity.
“About 150 to 200 clubs remain
consistently active year to year,”
commented Jo Scanlin, assistant
building cashier. “Some are off
now, on later, I suppose, due to
the number of students enrolled
from a given city or geographical
area.” .Organization and leader
ship also determine activeness.
ORGANIZED to promote previ
ous friendships, hometown clubs
also carry out recruiting pro
grams at home and hist groups of
high school students at A&M for
functions such as career day and
Future Farmers of America
meetings.
Socials, however, remain a
club’s primary means of main
taining membership interest and
participating. The spirit catches
in early December, when a stu
dent may be looking for a ride
home and the chance to buy tick
ets to the party.
“This time of year really brings
out the members,” one student re
marked. “I met two fellows last
Thursday I didn’t even know were
Aggies. We attended the same
high school.”
Rites Held Here
For Laundry Exec
Services for Roy N. (Pete)
Miller, who died Tuesday in a
Marlin hospital, were to be con
ducted this morning in the Hillier
Funeral Home chapel.
Miller, 57, of 1320 Antone in
Bryan, was assistant manager of
the Texas A&M laundry. Prior to
joining the university in March,
he served as a salesman here for
Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Burial was to be in Bryan City
Cemetery.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Edna Miller; two sons, Ken
neth and Jim, both of Bryan; two
sisters, Mrs. W. F. Davis of Bryan
and Mrs. Fannie Mae Cooke of
Houston; and one brother, W. F.
Miller of Houston.
WEATHER
Friday — Cloudy, intermittent
rain; southerly winds, 5-10; low
41°, high 56°.
Saturday — Cloudy, northerly-
winds, 5-10; low 42°, high 58°.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
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ggies’ Shout: ‘One More
And We’ll
Out!’