Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 29, 1970 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle (] 0 1J ’meloilS Continent home for Cunningham Stick a pin in a map of the Americas. Chances are it’s probably with in a few miles of where graduate student Richard E. Cunningham at one time worked or studied. The 31-year-old junior high science teacher, his wife Diane and six children are as foot-loose as the early day American Indian. “Texas A&M is the 10th school I’ve attended,” smiled Cunning ham. He will be studying for a mast er’s degree in science education in the 1970-71 Academic Year Institute conducted by A&M and the National Science Foundation. He points out that A&M was one of three choices. Cunningham also was considering a University of Texas at Austin program and a teaching position in Ethiopia. For the last two years, the Port land, Ore., native was a Bureau of Indian Affairs employe, teach ing Sioux Indian sixth graders while obtaining data for a mast er’s degree thesis at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He’s traveled from Alaska to the Canal Zone and has 11 years in the Coast Guard Reserve. “Two of our kids were born in Panama,” he commented. Because of health service conditions, the Cunninghams had four-year-old Joseph and Judith, 3, delivered in the republic. “Theyr’e Panamanians,” he con fessed. “I think they will have to go through immigration pro cedures to become American citi zens.” “Whenever they act up,” Cun ningham added, “we call them Panama Joe and Jungle Judy.” He received his bachelor degree at the University of Portland in 1962. Between the junior and senior years, he worked as a radioman for a seafood firm in Alaska, utilizing skills acquired in the Coast Guard. He later studied at Portland State and a linguistics institute at Chico, Calif. State, among others, and received the master’s at Pacific Universtiy. Cunningham is a semi-profes sional photographer and has published articles. One in a national Catholic magazine deals with ghetto-like problems of the Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge. Mrs. Cunningham plans to complete her undergraduate work in jour nalism here. Though Dick is foot-loose, he’s far from fancy-free. During four years teaching in Oregon public schools, he was president of the Central Washington County Edu cation Association. In the Canal Zone, Cunningham was U. S. city council treasurer. As president of the National Federation of Federal Employees group at Pine Ridge, he represented all federal workers on the Indian reservation 30 miles south of the Badlands National Monument. Though the Oglala youngsters’ truancy rate (absenteeism ran around 26 per cent and as high as 50 per cent in good weather) wasn’t ideal for Cunningham’s research of teaching method effec tiveness, the Portland couple came to share the Indian problems. “It was a musical sort of ex perience to call class roll,” pointed out Cunningham, who has per formed extensively as a vocalist and once had his own radio show. The Sioux school roster includ ed names like Red Nest, Blue Bird, Yellow Hair, Roan Eagle, Black Bear, Yellow Thunder, Runs Close To Lodge, Returns From Scout and Good Voice Flute. to be sliced again Tuesday Cold watermelon will be sliced again Tuesday (Aug. 4) for Tex as A&M University summer stu dents. The melons, musical entertain ment and volleyball will be avail able at the picnic area east of G. Rollie White Coliseum from 5 p.m. until dark, announced Al len Huddleston of the Memorial Student Center Summer Direc torate. He said the watermelon will be 20 cents a slice or four c^ntS per pound. “Attendance wasn’t too good at the first watermelon feast July 15,” Huddleston noted, “but there was so much interest afterwards, we decided to have another one.” The watermelon feast and oth er activities during June, July and August are provided by the MSC Directorate for A&M’s 5,482 summer students. “It’s getting close to the end of the watermelon season,” the special events chairman pointed out. “This may be one of the last opportunities to get some really good watermelon this year.” Smoke-eater (See Firemen, page 2) “I had this urge to demonstrate, but didn’t have anything in particular to say!” Shopping-try bulletin board Industrial (Continued from page 1) Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio and Tennessee. Municipal classes finished Fri day. Industrial firemen reported Sunday for their one-week ses sion and Spanish firemen will be on campus Aug. 2-7. The schools are sponsored by the State Firemen’s and Fire Mar shals’ Association of Texas in cooperation with the Texas Edu cation Agency. The Texas Engineering Exten sion Service, through the Fire men Training Division, conducts Shopping for a set of golf clubs, a wiglet, SCUBA diving gear, gerbils, power tools, typewriter, camper or Judo outfit? One possibility is Texas A&M. More specifically, try the bulletin board “trading post” in the Academic Building. Besides cars, books and apart ments or rooms which are in abundance, the shopper might find a bargain in a set of car tires, furniture and home appliances, an airconditioner, cameras, a wide assortment of dogs or sound equipment. There is one selling a 1969 “Ag- gieland yearbook. And several offer tutoring services. Car parts, motorcycles, record and tape players, cassettes and tapes are listed. Musical instru ments from clarinets to trombines and electric guitars are offered. One seller has some vending ma chines and another has a water cooler. firemen today are better equipped and have to deal with more com plicated types of fires, but are probably somewhat less enthusias tic than in the all-volunteer days. He combatted dwindling enthu siasm at Belton by installing a partial-paid system. “The first 10 men to a fire got a dollar apiece, for fighting a blaze and staying around to take up equipment afterwards. That was a lot of money then,” he chuckled. “We had a register they had to sign in order to be paid,” Hammer recalled. rfS^ Yj-toiAuuy 6y COR ^ r LTD TOWNSHIRE / BRYAN. TEXAS 77B01 i For all your injftoraitce needs See U. M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main, Bryfcn 823-0742 State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Offices Bloomington, III, J. C. (Jim) Harris THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. 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