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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 29, 1973
Bearden Banquet Set For Friday
An appreciation banquet honor
ing Harold D. Bearden, retiring
director of A&M’s Engineering
Extension Service, has been sched
uled Aug. 31 in the Krueger-
Dunn Dining Hall.
Set for 7:30 p.m., the banquet
will feature Reagan Brown as
guest speaker. Brown, an Exten
sion sociologist with TAMU’s
Agricultural Extension Service,
is on leave as a special assistant
to Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
Associated with A&M for 27
years, Bearden assumed the direc
torship of the Engineering Ex
tension Service in 1954. The
number of staff members has
increased substantially and the
total of individuals served by the
training services offered by the
department has more than dou
bled.
Welcome Back
Picnic Friday
A&M students, faculty and ad
ministrators will mix formally
Friday at the Memorial Student
Center Council and Directorate
“Welcome Back Picnic.”
It will be at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Wayne Stark in Col
lege Station.
The annual event enables new
student leaders and members of
the MSC Council and Directorate
committees to meet MSC staff,
faculty advisors of MSC commit
tees and administrators.
Bill Davis, executive vice pres
ident for projects, said that in
case of rain the supper will be
in Hensel Park.
The MSC picnic is one of sev
eral events that precede the start
of A&M’s fall semester classes
Monday.
Aggie Players
Tryout Tuesday
Aggie Players will organize
Tuesday for the 1973-74 theater
session.
Tryouts for two major fall
productions, “The Devil’s Disci
ple” by Shaw and Moliere’s
“School for Wives,” will begin
at the meeting, announced C. K.
Esten, director.
The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be
in Building “J” on the second day
of classes of the fall semester.
The Aggie Players is the pro
duction company of the English
Department’s Theater Arts Sec
tion, chaired by Esten. He em
phasized that A&M students need
not be enrolled in theater arts
courses in order to join the Play
ers and take part in productions.
“The Devil’s Disciple” will be
staged in October; “School for
Wives” in December.
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Recognized for his outstanding
contributions to Vocational Indus
trial Education throughout the
state, Bearden has received hon
ors and awards from numerous
ox-ganizations and professional
groups.
He first came to A&M in 1943
as an instructor in supervisory
training with the Industrial Ex
tension Service, an office which
was enlarged and renamed the
Engineering Extension Service in
1948. He then served for a time
as an area supervisor for the
Texas Education Agency before
returning in 1947 as assistant
director of the Industrial Exten
sion Service.
Before joining the staff at
A&M, Bearden taught school in
Nocona and served as coordina
tor of Diversified Occupations in
Sweetwater, San Angelo and
Midland.
During World War II, he
served as director of War Indus
tries Training, headquartered at
Lubbock. He is a graduate of
Lamesa High School, Texas Tech
University, and the University of
Texas.
Born in Avery, Texas, Bearden
is one of five sons of Henry G.
and Stella Bearden. He is mar
ried to the former Doris Parsons.
They have one daughter, Mrs.
W. J. Merrell of Bryan.
The Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service, under Bearden’s
guidance, has grown to supply
some 22,000 people each year in
extension training courses con
ducted over the state. A major
portion of these people are em
ployed by local governments in
public service work.
The service offers training in
several areas, including firemen’s
training, telephone and electrical
utilities training, and public utili
ties technical training.
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