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Wednesday, May 19, 1971
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center
for real estate
established
A Real Estate Research Cen
ter in the College of Agriculture
at Texas A&M was established
Tuesday when Gov. Preston
Smith signed Senate Bill 338 au
thorizing its development.
The bill was sponsored by the
Texas Association of Realtors.
The center, located at College
Station, will conduct studies in
real estate, urban and rural eco
nomics, and subjects related to
real property. Assistance to the
teaching programs in real estate
colleges and universities
throughout Texas will be offered
when requested. Scholarships
real estate chairs will be
made available upon finding.
It will also make studies of
md recommend changes in state
statutes and municipal ordinanc-
regarding real estate.
“The establishment of the Real
Estate Research Center at Texas
fficers named
A&M will mean much to the
State of Texas and to Texas
A&M,” said A&M President Dr.
Jack K. Williams. “This is the
first such center in the South
west which combines the exper
tise of sociologists, economists,
engineers, and political scientists
to make meaningful contributions
to the study of real property.
“There exists a need to know
more about real property for
which Texas citizens annually
spend millions of dollars. This
is indicative of the tremendous
importance of the establishment
of the Real Estate Research Cen
ter. I’m grateful to the Texas
Association of Realtors for their
confidence in the academic com
petence of the staff at A&M,”
Williams said.
Upon request, the research
center is to supply materials to
the Texas Real Estate Commis-
State guard unit
moves to Bryan
Headquarters for the 203rd
Texas State Guard Battalion of-
licially moved to Bryan Monday
light when Maj. Ira E. Scott, lo-
:al commander, received the bat-
alion colors from Brig. Gen. Jack
T. Brown of Austin.
Brown and Col. DeForest Jones,
tommander of the 2nd Defense
Group Headquarters in Houston,
conducted the ceremonies at the
Bryan National Guard Armory.
Pour local officers were com
missioned on the battalion staff.
Appointed to staff positions
were Maj. Jack W. Upham, op
erations; Capt. Ken H. Truitt,
administration; 1st Lt. Russell O.
Coleman, intelligence and civil
defense liaison; and 2nd Lt. Onis
J. Cogburn, assistant communica
tions officer.
Capt. Arlie D. Patton was com
missioned Battalion communica
tions officer a month ago.
Remaining members of the bat
talion staff are Maj. Bill Card,
executive officer; Gilbert K.
Petri, to be commissioned supply
and logistics officer; Sgt. Maj.
Winston E. Eastes; Sgt. David
L. Butler, and Cpl. Michael W.
Eastes.
Two officer positions and four
enlisted slots still must be filled
and Scott is currently taking ap
plications for those positions.
Visitors for the ceremonies were
Col. R. J. Faught, State Guard
inspector general from Houston;
Lt. Col. Charles Barker, opera
tions officer for the state head
quarters staff; Capt. Elwood
Plourdes, commander of the Col
umbus unit; 2nd Lt. Sam Behnke,
commander of the Brenham unit;
Capt. Frank J. Kocman and Lt.
Rudy Cortez, both of the Bryan
company, and Capt. Jerry Main-
ord, commander of the Bryan Na
tional Guard company.
sion for the preparation of the
examinations for real estate
salesmen and brokers and is to
develop or update materials for
use in the extension courses in
real estate offered by the univer
sities and colleges in Texas.
Assistance will be offered the
Texas Real Estate Commission,
when requested, in developing
standards for the accreditation of
vocational schools and other
teaching agencies giving courses
and in developing standards for
the approval of courses in the
field of real estate.
Funding for the center, esti
mated to be from $375,000-400,-
000 the first year, will be as
sessed through real estate license
fees primarily, although the cen
ter may receive gifts and grants
from foundations, individuals,
and other sources for its benefit.
Approximately 10 professionals
with attendant secretaries and
staff will initiate the center.
An advisory committee, com
posed of nine persons appointed
by the governor without Senate
confirmation, will review and
approve proposals to be submit
ted to the board of directors of
the Texas A&M Universty Sys
tem relating to staffing and gen
eral policies, including priority
ranking of research studies and
educational and other studies.
The advisory committee, also
created by the bill, is to be com
posed of six members who are
real estate brokers representa
tive of the following real estate
specialties: real estate broker
age; real estate financing; own
ership or construction of real es
tate improvements; ownership,
development, or management of
residential, commercial, and in
dustrial properties, respectively.
Three members of the advisory
committee will be representatives
of the general public.
Attending signing ceremonies
in Austin from Texas A&M were
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of Agri
culture; Dr. Tyrus Timm, head
of the Department of Agricul
tural Economics and Rural So
ciology; and Dr. A. B. Wooten,
professor in the department.
GIRL WATCHING may be fun but it also can have its drawbacks, as Steve Laughbaum
discovered while giving the eye to Diane Dunning on the Vanderbilt University campus
in Nashville, Tenn. He may have been caught in the act, but it all turned out rather well.
(AP Wirephoto)
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20-YEAR-OLD, 15-pound snapping turtle and a 6-foot boa
constrictor are two of the creatures John R. Gockley put up
for bid recently during the Philadelphia Herpetological
Society’s annual auction. The turtle went for $10.50, the
boa for $40. More than 100 snakes, lizards and turtles
were auctioned. (AP Wirephoto)
Stark gets Arts Council award
The Arts Council of Brazos
Valley has honored Memorial
Student Center Director J. Wayne
Stark by making him the recipient
of its first annual award of
appreciation.
A presentation ceremony will
be held later this week.
In a resolution the Council
cited Stark’s quarter century of
leadership in the arts in the
county, and says he “has labored
almost singlehandedly during
these years to encourage an in
terest in and an appreciation of
artistic endeavor in all its many
forms among the students, faculty
and staff of Texas A&M Univer
sity and the citizens of this area.”
The resolution designates the
appreciation award as one which
will be given annually “to that
person who has made a significant
and outstanding contribution to
the arts in the Brazos Valley.”
Stark, 55, is a 1939 A&M grad
uate. After serving four years
during World War II and two
years with Anderson, Clayton and
Co. Inc., he was hired by Texas
A&M in 1947 as MSC director.
He spent three years planning
the complex, which opened in
September 1950.
He is responsible for nearly
all professional musical and the
atrical events brought to the B-
CS area. He created the Artist
Showcase Series as part of the
Town Hall Program.
The MSC director also influ
enced the Rotary Club to sponsor
the Rotary Series which brings
music, dance and theater to Bry
an. He has helped bring such
musicals as “Fiddler on the Roof”
and “1776” to the area.
Stark is a member of the execu
tive board of the Association of
College and University Concerts
Managers, and the Texas A&M
Fine Arts Committee. He was an
advisory board member for the
Alley Theater in Houston during
1969-70.
In 1968 he received the Associa
tion of Former Students Annual
Faculty Distinguished Achieve
ment Award for Student Relation
ships.
He also has received the MSC
Lawrence Sullivan Ross Award
and the Liberal Arts Student
Council Award. He was honored
in 1968 by an appreciation dinner
and given an all-expense paid
European tour through contribu
tions made by present and former
students who served in MSC posi
tions during the preceding 21
years.
Library receives 191-year-old book
as 5,000th piece in cattle collection
Presentation of a 191-year-old
book Friday to A&M. President
Dr. Jack K. Williams highlighted
the expansion of the Jeff Dykes
Range Livestock Collection of
books at the A&M library to more
than 5,000 volumes.
Jefferson C. Dykes, 1921 grad
uate who assembled the collection,
made the presentation. He is also
at A&M for the Class of 1921
Sul Ross Reunion.
The 5,000th book for the col
lection of volumes about beef cat
tle, sheep and grass and the men
who manage them around the
world is a rare first edtion of
“A Tour in Ireland: with General
Observations on the Present State
of That Kingdom: Made in the
Years 1776, 1777 and 1778.”
Written by the renowned Brit
ish agriculturist and author Ar
thur Young, and in perfect con
dition for a volume published in
1780, the book is typical of the
Jeff Dykes collection.
The assemblage is located in
the A&M library Special Collec
tions, supervised by Mrs. Evelyn
King. It now stands at 5,270
items.
Though cataloguing is still in
process, much of the Jeff Dykes
collection is available and in use,
Mrs. King indicated. The special
collections librarian said students
and faculty in history and English
have made use of the collection
along with others from environ
mental design, journalism, me
chanical engineering, zoology, ag
ricultural economics, accounting
and animal science.
Dykes has traveled extensively
the last few years to add to the
original 3,160-item collection. The
College Park, Md., book dealer
has been all over the U. S. and in
Canada, Mexico, England, Ireland,
Wales and Scotland.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
“This is a world-wide collec
tion,” he said, “with some 200
volumes from South and Central
America. Most items are in Eng
lish and Spanish and there are
several in French, Hungarian,
German and Swedish.”
A close acquaintance of the
late A&M President Earl Rudder,
Dykes said “the general told me
in 1966 I had five years to make
it the best collection of its kind.
It wasn’t then but I think it is
now, and I still have six months
to go.”
Dykes, 71, was an A&M agri
culture professor when Rudder
was a student.
“He was the mayor of Brady
when we started on the Brady
Creek flood control project,” add
ed the former Fort Worth region
deputy administrator of the Soil
Conservation Service in Fort
Worth.
Dykes moved to the Washing
ton office of the service, where
he retired in 1965 as an assistant
administrator. It was then that
the pipe-smoking scholar hung
out his shingle as a book dealer.
“I’d been a book accumulator
since I was 12, however,” he re
marked.
The Dykes Collection contains
many sought-after collectors’ vol
umes and extremely rare books
and also includes unusual fiction
and prose. A 1970 tour in Eng
land, Wales, Scotland and Ire
land produced several volumes
that reveal Dykes’ acumen as a
dealer.
The original “A Tour In Ire
land” is an example. The three-
quarters leather and marble
board-bound book was reprinted
twice in Dublin and London in
1780 and translated into German
for publication in Leipzig the
same year. A French edition was
issued in Paris in 1800, Dykes
said.
“All these editions are rare, but
the first is definitely exceedingly
rare,” the dealer said. “There are
copies reported in only four of
the great libraries in the British
Isles, at the British Museum, Ox
ford, Cambridge and the Royal
Agricultural Society.”
Dykes is of Scotch, Welsh and
Irish extraction, revealed by his
appearance, manner and dialogue
through only cursory examina
tion. It undoubtedly added to his
successes in the Isles last spring.
A visit to Dr. John O’Loan,
retired Irish Department of Agri
culture official, opened several
doors and added to the list of
desirables Dykes planned to ac
quire.
One was “The Ancient Laws of
Ireland,” a six-volume set of pas
turage laws written in Gaelic
from the 7th Century on by
priests of the various monas-
taries. More than 40 'years work
by four translators — three of
whom died while on the work —
and a committee were required
before publication between 1865
and 1901.
“Dr. O’Loan warned me it would
be next to impossible to get a set
of this most important and basic
(See Library, page 2)
Jefferson C. Dykes and Mrs. Evelyn King examine a
191-year-old book among 2,239 volumes added to the Jeff
Dykes Range Livestock Collection held by the Texas A&M
Library.
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