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Detachment 805, A&M’s Air
Force ROTC instructional-admin
istrative department, received
Friday the Air Force Outstanding
Unit Award.
The detachment headed by Col.
Keith C. Hanna was cited as the
nation’s top source of Air Force
officers through the AFROTC
program.
Brig. Gen. Benjamin B. Cassi-
day Jr., AFROTC commander of
the Air University at Maxwell
AFB, Ala., presented the award
to Col. Hanna in a Friday after
noon detachment formation.
Col. Hanna is professor of aero
space studies and ranking Air
Force officer in the 22-man de
tachment. It handles instruction,
administrative and commission
ing requirements for 1,000 cadets
a year. Detachment 805 also pro
vides similar services to 150 Air
Geistweidt gets
$100 as result
of speech
A former student was so im
pressed with the Mother’s Day
talk by Student Senate President
Gerry Geistweidt that he has paid
Geistweidt’s $100 fee to join the
Association of Former Students’
exclusive Century Club.
With the check from Col. (ret.)
Stewart D. Hervey, Geistweidt
became the first class of 1970
member to join the Century
group.
Col. Hervey, who lives at 415
Hathaway Drive East, San An
tonio, noted on the back of the
check that Geistweidt is “The
Number One Aggie from the
Class of 1970.”
Presenting the check to Geist
weidt was Paul Hervey of Ruling,
grandson of the 1917 graduate.
Geistweidt endorsed the check to
Association President James Sew
ell of Dallas.
In his May 10 Mother’s Day
talk, Geistweidt declared “Texas
A&M and its student body is and
will continue to be a staunch
bastion of sanity, maturity and
pride.
“While other student bodies are
clamoring for so-called peace
through riots, strikes and pro
tests, we at Texas A&M are
keeping the peace.”
Force active duty personnel as
signed at A&M for degree work.
Lt. Col. Glendon P. Jones is
executive officer of the detach
ment consisting of 14 officers and
eight enlisted men.
Gen. Cassiday cited the de
tachment for qualities of leader
ship, knowledge and professional
skill that has “resulted in an Air
Force Reserve Officers’ Training
Corps program which is recog
nized nationally as the standard
of excellence for this type of ac
tivity.”
The general, who heads the Air
Force’s largest continuing source
of officers, noted “the accom
plishments of this detachment, as
the No. 1 producer of second lieu
tenants in all of the AFROTC
program, in almost doubling en
rollment of pilot and navigator-
qualified enrollees, and as reflect
ed by the personal accomplish
ments of their cadets in campus
activities and at summer field
training, are indicative of the ab
solutely superior performance of
the unit in every area of mission
responsibility.”
Gen. Cassiday also praised
civic and academic achievements
of Detachment 805 members and
“their extensive personal involve
ment in the affairs of the univer
sity and surrounding community
(which has) greatly enhanced the
image of the Air Force not only
in the state of Texas, but also
nationally.”
NSF awards A&M
$56,800 in grants
Eight National Science Foun
dation grants totaling $56,800
have been awarded Texas A&M
University for purpose of equip
ment to improve undergraduate
instruction, President A. R. Lue-
decke announced.
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Editor:
I am not without sympathy for
the families of the four students
killed at Kent University, but I
cannot agree with Professor
Rowe’s letter in the May 19 Bat
talion. Perhaps there is no evi
dence proving the four students
were involved in the rock throw
ing and name calling but where
there is mob violence the inno
cent, too, will surely suffer. It is
truly a pity that the students
were shot, but is it not also a pity
that our country has reached this
point of mob violence?
I do not condone the shootings,
but I cannot crucify the guards
men for defending their lives in
their attempt to enforce the law
and restore peace. These very
men responsible for the shootings
are also the men who defend you,
Professor, and the demonstrators
who spit on their uniforms and
call them “pigs.” These are the
men who protect our country and
die for us if necessary. Why
should their lives be needlessly
jeopardized by a sniper’s bullet
or rocks thrown by irresponsible
demonstrators ?
Perhaps the shootings were use
less, but I ask you, professor, is
a sniper’s bullet necessary?
Shannon Boswell
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