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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.
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