: 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
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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.
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ast
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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.”
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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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