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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 3, 1970
Frank Griffis
Slide program shows
Celebrated TV star and all-around goodtimer Glenn Campbell is
probably sitting in his easy chair in Delight, Ark., thinking about all of
us weekend voyageurs who were dumb enough to visit the resort
paradise of Galveston last weekend and laughing until the tears fall.
I came to the conclusion that he sang his hit song, “Galveston”
while watching “Hawaii Five O” on CBS. The Gulf Coast resembled
Cape Horn more closely than it did Hawaii during the Memorial Day
weekend.
The trip down there was a gas. We sang “Row, Row, Your Boat”
and other modern hit songs and generally flitted around throughout the
whole 150 mile trip. Our hearts were gay and we dangled our doilies
behind us as we stopped at every filling station between Navasota and
Dickinson.
My first disappointment came when we hit the beach. There were
no bikini beach party-blanket bingo-pajama-type beach bunnies
swarming around dancing to the tunes bursting from their miniature
portable radios taped to their ears. As a matter of fact there weren’t
radios, much less any babes.
We plodded on, undaunted by our seaside environment.
Even the overcast sky and roaring surf didn’t phase us as we took
three hours to erect a five by nine tent. That is when we should have
packed our lantern, stove, cots, beach balls, flowered shirts, air
mattresses, water wings, and sand shovels and buckets and left.
The storm hit Saturday morning just as the tide was coming in. I
had just succeeded in snagging a couple of five-inch mackeral (keepers,
too) off the jetties when the rain came pouring down.
My wife and I hurried back to the tent where the other couple
was straining to keep it from collapsing in the high winds.
We held the tent up for about four hours in the 20 to 25 mile an
hour winds, while all around us tents and camps collapsed. Other
campers were smart enough to leave while they had a chance, but we
stayed.
We finally packed up and left, but not before calhng the Weather
Bureau to find out its predictions. The recording from the weather
bureau kept saying, “Get out while you can, get out while you can,” or
something to that effect.
I was so angry, I wanted to demand my dime back from the
operator, but the phone had already swallowed and digested it by the
time the recording shut off.
The trip home was a repeat of earlier events. The fan belt broke
somewhere between Galveston and LaMarque, about five miles from
the nearest gas station. We finally got the new fan belt back on and
were almost home when we had a flat.
We bumped into a service station in Navasota and the attendant
laughed. He said we looked like a band of gypsies.
Not to be unnerved by the grinning attendant, I unloaded the
trunk in a record 15 minutes and got out the spare. I jacked up the car
like an old pro, took off the dying tire, and handed it to the attendant
with a grin. “Here, fix it,” I said with a sardonic grin.
He just laughed and asked me why I had gone to all the trouble of
unloading the trunk and getting out the spare if I wanted the flat tire
fixed.
I grinned sheepishly, beat my head against a gas pump, and cursed
Glenn Campbell.
After all, I had to blame someone, and he was handy.
future TAMU campus
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dorms on the present putting
greens, and a 1,000-car parking
lot east of the new engineering
complex.
“Strong emphasis should be
given to improving the environ
ment. Plans should anticipate on-
campus housing for an additional
2.000 students after the proposed
development of the new 2,000 bed
dorm complex is complete,” Dr.
Pinnell said.
He added that bids on two of
the four four-story dorm units
will be let soon. The units will
have approximately 500 beds
each.
“We will probably let bids next
January for the expansion of the
Memorial Student Center which
will include three theaters. One of
the theaters will hold approxi
mately 250 persons, another 750,
and another from 3,000 to 3,500
persons,” Dr. Pinnell said.
“The MSC will be greatly ex
panded in terms of eating facili
ties and meeting rooms, with the
area across from G. Rollie White
Coliseum serving as a parking
lot,” Dr. Pinnell said.
He said consideration has been
given for the expansion of mar
ried student housing in the pres
ently developed area west of Uni
versity Drive.
Concerning housing for coeds,
Dr. Pinnell said:
“Actually, any one wing of the
600-bed dorms could be used. The
question of coeds is one I really
don't know how to answer at the
time.”
A member of the audience ask
ed Dr. Pinnell if the new dorms
on the putting greens could be
10- or 12-story buildings, elimi
nating the buildings on the green
area in front of the Systems
Building.
Dr. Pinnell said the high rise
dorms would be more expensive
and boost student costs.
“Preliminary guesses about the
kind of parking we need to ac
commodate the automobile and
growth trends are around a
20.000 to 22,000 student campus.
We’ve got a little over 8,000 park
ing spaces now and we’ll need
roughly 16,000, almost 17,000 in
the future,” Dr. Pinnell said.
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He said the new 1,000 car park
ing lot will feed from the campus
extension of South College and
will exit on University Drive.
Dr. Pinnell said he sees the
area west of Old College Road
as probable extension of the ag
ricultural experimental plots. He
added that the road adjacent to
the Veterinary Medicine Center
could be improved and possibly
tied in with Pinfeather Road.
One of the slides depicts a new
oval arena to the west of the
campus and a “sub-MSC” near
the proposed dorms in the north
east corner of the campus.
The slide program also implied
that:
—Any plan to use the park
area near the president’s home
should be carefully studied to
preserve the natural beauty of
the site.
—Good architecture such as the
library has forms, scale, contrasts
of materials and plans and
rhythm.
—The water tower doesn’t con
tribute to the campus and should
be moved.
—All overhead utilities should
be eliminated.
—All exposed ventilation on
the exteriors of buildings should
be removed.
—Dumpsters should be ar
ranged in groups and eliminated
from view by low brick walls or
by planting.
—Introduce islands of planning
and screening to help keep cars
from view on large parking lots.
—Campus maps should be set
at selected points to help guide
visitors.
—Trash receptacles and street
lights should be standardized.
—Paved walks should replace
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—Emphasize the pedestrian as
pect of the campus by continu
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