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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1972)
THE BATTALION J on* ft. 1971 College Station, Toxm Pa#* I Betty Hudman travels Texas armed with camera, notebook, curiosity Horizons «f an AAM library cataloguer extend far beyond the books, journals and microforms that cross her desk going to the library shelves. Armed with camera, notebook and inquisitive outlook. Betty Wilke Hudman baa traveled the length and breadth of Tagaa for magazine articles. She often slope at roadside and gets out the eaasera. Abandoned fane housees, windmills, rail and stone fences or Clabber Girl bak- mg powder signs am quently framed In the "Usually I stop to photograph something that may not bo there the neat time I go past," Mrs. Hudman explains. CMd wooden and brick structures etched by wind, sun and rain am bar fa vorite subjects. But these am sidelights of bus iness-related trips, contends the librarian whose photography is a family heritage. “Photography has always bean fre- an accessory tool for my free lance writing," she notes. Petty Wilke Hudman bylinas and credits have appeared in "Texas Star" and numerous other publications. She draws on professional newspaper experience for features such as a meant "Tsxna Star" spread on AAM Prof. Claude Davis' political button colloction, articles on a local florist and the TAMU floral test garden for "Southern Florist and Nursery man" and a piece in “Chuckwag- on," trade publication of the Tex an Restaurant Association. Urn red-haired librarian also shoots and writes for two Faw cett publications, "Startling De tective" and "True Police Cases." A future “Texds Star" piece will feature a Part Worth man who carves military miniatures. She also plans to use part of the summer assembling pictures and facta on "bush" rodeos. Mrs. Hudman Is the daughter of veteran Texas newsman and outdoors writer L. A. Wilke, be lieved to have fired the first pho to flash bulb in the state. Former edlter of the "Tbxaa Game sad Pish" mags sine, he writes out door columns for several mage- sines aad la on the "Texas Star" editorial board. His early photos illuminated by burning flash with the country San An- work. Her son, Mike Cox, is an Aus tin American reporter. Some of bar photos illustrate his book, “Bed Rooesr Country," dealing Mm. Hodman was born in Fort Worth, grew up In El Paso and was n general assignments re porter on the Gainesville Regis ter while the family lived there. They also resided in Sweetwater, Amarillo, Abilene, Corpus Christ!, Denton and Dallas. L. A. Wilks took up free-lance photography to supplement family income during the depression. Betty's mother did his darkroom a] SKAGGS ALBERTSONS DRUGS & FOODS SSfOMS OOOO WtO . THUS M. A SAT. JUNt 39, 30. 90. 31. 1973 UMJT MOMT MUT IEUH0FF r" BONELESS SMOKED NO WASTE- JUST TENDER JUICY LEAN MEAT ALL MEAT Mi c 12 OZ. PKG. COMPARE < OUR V ~"niaieim QUALITY..! 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Mrs. Hudman, whose photographs have been ex hibited in the TAMU library, re ceived the master’s in library sci ence at TWU in 1989. A member of the library staff here three years, she finds no conflict with the two interest*. "The library is a gold mine of information,'’ Mrs. Hodman ax- plains. "It's a detailad sort of work, eoch as cataloguing micro forms and the newspapers vre have on microfilm. It is really •** citing to work with the old his toric issues.” She found the camera useful while working in the Oak Springe branch of the Austin Public Li brary, to ilh stories, for exht participating in programs that helped get people in the library and with library public relations work. "We sometimes had trouble with some of the older boys in the rending room," she recalls. "If it got too rowdy, I would snap a couple of pictures and things settled down rapidly." As a means to an end, Mrs. Hodman’s photo equipment Is kept simple. She shoots a Ya- shica D twin lens reflex with a strobe flash. A yellow filter to bring out clouds and a cloeeup lens are the only accessories she UMM. "I try to keep it as simple as possible, so I can put my mind on other things," she comments. Her home work room is dec orated in black and white, as a background for photographic en largements of her favorite road side scenes. "Most people are attracted first by the windmill," she remarks. “Everyone tells me they kaow exactly where this one is located, but no one has called the place right yet. But this is indicative of what the ph^to means to peo ple, and how it tied them to a particular place and point In time." T * Milt Microfiche j answer to file problems Ad M’s Library offers one solu tion to overflowing office filing cabinets. It’s a microfiche production unit which can produce, almost instantly, a microfiche with space for eye-readable title plus 80 reg ular letter size pages. The machine can reduce the 8ft by 11 inch page format or smaller. . Don A. Hahroraon, assistant to the library director, said the li brary la leasing the machine on a trial basis during which fiscal records aad other materials will be reproduced. The microfiche produced is easily read on con ventional microfiche readers. ALLEN ‘ OkUmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE "Where satisfaction is standard equipment" 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 MOB1LTOWN PARK Mobile Homes and Spaces For Rent Spaces $28 - $85 pet mo. Natural gas—-Pool—Near A6M Stables—$15 per mo.—Working pen and riding area available. TV Cable Available Local Moving Service 490 Eh Hager Dr,—822-5158 *5* EMBREY’S JEWELRY 414 MARINA $300 also 150 to 1973 Wed. tins >4.75 Two Expert Watch and