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: THE BATTALION Thursday, October 2, 1969 College Station, Texas Page 3 A&M’s Gen. Oscar Abbott, 78, ptudent Businessman Turns Dies in San Antonio Hospital $1000 Into Thriving Firm ien Studfj indry, s are rf xande t , ( ;.., Robej) :0 v Do f A 23-year-old A&M graduate student has turned a $1,000 loan ''Allto a fast-growing company. —Bennett Lee Hardeman, a May ‘'‘nangraduate who entered the Col- lege of Business Administration | ^^|M.B.A. program this fall, is the ■■•J^founder and president of Orna- gto , Metal Casting. He started the firm in 1967 '“'‘with a $1,000 loan and currently ^^heads a business housed in a 3,100 square foot building on PM 2818, l x /n miles from the Bryan-College Station Industrial rk. [“With the new facilities I Ape to expand into other mar kets and develop new products. Someday, hopefully, we will put up plants in other parts of the ■untry,” Hardeman declared. ■ The College Station native Ainted out “our prices reflect Kill, rather than production. Ae couldn't compete with most Asting firms if our products ■ere not quality.” ■ It all started in 1967. Through an Industrial Distribution Club project, Hardeman met John Hopkins, executive vice presi- Ant of the Texas Aggie Club. The club was selling cast metal Ame plates and Hardeman was Re number one salesman. Hopkins wanted the plaques ade for outstanding club mem- ;rs. Hardeman said he could Alw ita replica of the A&M ring crest. It can be used as a paper wegiht, wall decoration or mount ed as bookends. First sales of the ring crest were at the annual Senior Ring Dance this spring, where Harde man sold 120 that night. He hand-carved the crest and explained that about 80 hours of meticulous work went into the master pattern. He can now pro duce any year with the crest as it appeared during that year. Hardeman notes the crests will be available at the Memorial Student Center Gift Shop start ing today and A&M student Corbit Magby of 303 University Drive is sales manager for cam pus sales. The business address is Box 3322, Bryan. •ft ast Ha A local banker was enthusi- tic, so with Hopkins' help ardeman left that afternoon Bnth $1,000 and a project that led to a business. I Ben received technical and mechanical help from his father, I L. B. Hardeman, an engineer ^ith the Cyclotron Institute. ■hey set up production at the ■ family home on Turkey Creek , [Road near College Station and ■ y Hesigned a pattern for casting BOO Aggie Club plaques. lLLEI During the fall of 1967 Harde- |ian found there was a market |or metal products designed for fa&M students, former students i‘enil n d sta ^ members. He added detiiiP ne A&M student employe, Paul [Rowe of College Station, who is mgatill with the firm. Demand for Hardeman’s prod- iUcts boomed. 1 Since that time he has designed pnd cast desk and door name plates, A&M bookends, historical markers, plaques, chalk tray end iplates, aluminum hammer han- Mles, animal cage door crank handles and nine 75-pound bronze name plate castings for R&M dormatories. I In January he decided to look por a permanent location. Financ ing was a problem because he was to be commissioned in May and had a two-year Army com mitment. I Hardeman incorporated to get the funds he needed. 1 His gross sales during 1968 [were about $10,000 and he ex- fpeets 1969 sales to exceed $25,000. f ! The hottest selling item at the iresent time is a large bronze EXHIBITS HIS WARES Ag-gie graduate student Bennett Lee Hardeman shows some of the products of his OrnaMetal Casting firm, a student- run business that promises to gross $25,000 in sales this year. CS Chest Workers Launch 1969 Drive Volunteer workers for the College Station United Chest Wednesday afternoon launched their 1969 campaign to raise a record $28,050 for 16 charitable and civic agencies. Campaign kickoff speaker Dan Jobnston of Austin remind ed the estimated 100 volunteers that they are “salesmen” for the United Chest. Johnston, service unit super visor for the Salvation Army in Texas, urged the campaign work ers to “have the proper enthu siasm, talk ‘fair share’ and en courage everyone to do his part.” “Only in a free land,” he em phasized, “do we have the op portunity to call on our neigh bors for support, and only in a free land do we have the oppor tunity to decide what we’re go ing to do with our money.” Would You Believe? Fresh From The Gulf OYSTERS on the half-shell or fried to order Served Right Here on the Campus 5 to 7 each evening at the famous Oyster Room MSC Cafeteria B. L. ••BOB” RYCHLIK, C.L.U. SUITE 220—BRYAN BLDG. AND LOAN BLDG. BRYAN, TEXAS 77801 TELEPHONE 823-0031 B. L. “BOB” RYCHLIK, C.L.U. PROVIDES MORE THAN A POLICY! Our College Representa tives have been specially trained to assist you in planning and coordinating your financial needs now and for the future! COLLEGE CAREER PLAIN! LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVE OFFICES WACO, TEXAS "FAITHFUL PROTECTION SIN Welcome To The AGGIE DEN “The Home of the Aggies” Open 7 Day,s Weekly 8 a. m. till Midnight We Cash Aggie Checks (Next to Loupot’s) PALACE “Me Natalie’ CAMPUS “Death Rides A Horse” Skyway Twin EAST SCREEN “Dirty Dozen’ Plus “Grand Prix” WEST SCREEN “Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting” Plus “Stalking Moon’ QUEEN ‘Spanish Night” CIRCLE “Vixen” Plus “3 Nuts and a Bolt’ SAN ANTONIO CP> _ Retired Army Brig. Gen. Oscar B. Abbott, one of Texas A&M University’s general officers during World War II, died Wednesday at a local hospital. He was 78. The general began his mili tary career in the Mexican bor der service of the 2nd Texas Infantry, serving from 1916 to 1917. He entered regular Army service as a second lieutenant in July 1917 and retired in 1950. Texas A&M honored Gen. Ab bott after World War II with an honorary doctor of law degree as one of the school’s 12 general officers serving during the war. Earlier, in 1936, he earned a doctor of law degree from the Washington College of Law. During the war he served un der Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Army personnel division for the European Theater of Operations and afterward com manded Camp Beale, Calif. He played football for A&M and the 2nd Texas Infantry and from 1913 to 1916 served as a civil engineer, participating in construction of Medina Lake dam. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday. Survivors include his widow, two sons, two daughters, a sis ter, 11 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Connevey Fund Started A memorial fund in memory of Army 1st Lt. Layne H. Con nevey, a ’67 A&M graduate who was recently killed in Vietnam, has been established here. Lt. Connevey was killed Sept. 4 in a helicopter crash in Viet nam. He was a member of the Rangers. While attending A&M, he was a member of the Corps of Cadets and the Ross Volunteers. The fund has been set up by the employes of Goodpasture Inc., a grain chemical company in Galena Park. Connevey work ed for Goodpasture during the summer while attending A&M. Students wishing to contribute should make checks out to the Layne Connevey Memorial Fund and take them to the Develop ment Office on the third floor of the YMCA, room 306. Stu dents are asked to include their name and address so that they can be recognized for having con tributed to the fund. Lt. Connevey was a graduate of Pasadena High School. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Hale Connevey and reside in Pasa dena. His wife, Sylvia Estes Connevey, also resides there. 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