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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 7, 1973
THE BATTALION
[HE BATT
Sky lab 3 Crew
Rookie Astronauts to Spend Longest Journey in Space
Wa
SPACE CENTER, Houston(AP)
—Gerald P. Carr is a tough ma
rine pilot who is about to com
mand the longest space journey
in history, but the 41-year-old as
tronaut /says if he had another
life to live he’d spend it teach
ing the young.
Carr, a lieutenant colonel with
almost 20 years in the service, has
spent several years helping the
Boy Scouts and teaching a Christ
ian Youth Fellowship. Working
with young people, he says, has
its own type of excitement.
“I find that you can really get
turned on by the kids,” he said.
“They’re stimulating people.”
The work, he added, “gives him
great satisfaction and if he had
a second career, “I probably
would be a teacher, probably a
Bulletin Board
TONIGHT
TEXAS A&M SKEET AND TRAP CLUB
will meet at 7 :30 p. m. in Room 308 of
the Tower.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME
BUILDERS will meet at 7 :45 p. m. in
the Architectural Auditorium.
BLACK AWARENESS will meet at 7 :30
p. m. in Room 231 of the Memorial
Student Center. All students are wel
comed.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY CLUB will
meet at 8 p. m. in Room 502 of the
Tower.
ALICE AND AREA HOMETOWN CLUB
will meet at 7:30 p. m. on the 6th
floor of the MSC.
POLICE WOMEN will speak at 9 p. m.
in Hughes Hall.
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should be allowed. After work
ing on the Hart Hall council, Uni
versity golf course committee and
the campus projects committee
I’ve seen that these things need
to be done.
Randolf Gonzalez — “Service
projects, things that would bene
fit other people, should be done
by the class. I’m interested in the
school and the freshman poten
tial.”
Carl Radago—“The class should
do something more than the
Freshmen Ball so we can gain
some identity. We are important
to this university and should get
to know each other to be able to
shdw this importawce. , -* !
Carolyn Johnsen — “The main
thing the freshmen do is plan the
ball. There should be girl to help
and represent the girls’ point of
view. I’d like to come up with
some ideas, plan activities and
make them come through.”
James See — “In planning the
Freshman Ball, I will entertain
any suggestions any freshmen
may have. I also won’t be afraid
to present these ideas and pre
sent my opinion on other ideas.
I’ll not be dominated.”
Also running for office are San
dy Guillory and Nancy Guido, So
cial Secretary; and Linda Gools
by and David Reta for Secretary-
Treasurer.
The list for Senators includes:
Tommy Fox, Susan Fontaine,
Troie Ann Pruett, Cindy Wilke,
Jerri Ward and Shannon Walker.
Also running for the office are:
Susie Brewer, Terri Spence, Lar
ry Wingo, David Stewart, Mike
Mullenax, Jim Cloninger, Robert
Taylor, Tom Strickland and Mark
Sherrill.
Also contesting for the position
are: Gerald Pelletier, Cecil Al
brecht, Bill Ibbotson, Timothy
Hlavinka, Gary Hall, and Rick
Floeck.
Hoping to fill the slots are: Hal
Brunson, David Young, David
Roberts, Steve Manley, Bruce
Halbrook, Keith Glazener, Henry
Franke, Scott Cragin and Pete
Castrejana.
Also up for consideration are:
Robert Campbell, Ed Bloom, Da
vid McCabe, Harvey Brown, Mike
Outlaw, Steve Johnson and John
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high school or college teacher.”
Right now, however, the astro
naut is busy preparing to make
history. Carr and his crewmates,
Dr. Edward G. Gibson and William
R. Pogue, will be launched Satur
day on Skylab 3, an 85-day mis
sion aboard America’s space sta
tion.
Carr and his crewmates are
all space rookies, and the astro
naut expects they may make a few
mistakes as first timers in orbit.
“I think it would be awfully
naive to think we can go up there
and not expect any problems
caused by inexperience,” he said
in an interview. “I think we’ll
have to adjust to certain things
that we don’t understand and
don’t have the experience to un
derstand right now. But I don’t
see anything major.”
Carr was born in Denver, Colo.,
but moved at an early age to San
ta Ana, Calif., where his mother,
Freda L. Carr, still lives.
The astronaut said the move
molded the direction his life took.
During his boyhood, said Carr,
Southern California “was a hot
bed of aviation development” and
he often saw “some of the crazy
fighter planes they were develop
ing . . . fly over my house.”
Soon, Carr, like many youth
smitten by the wonder of flight,
learned the odd jobs could pay
his way briefly into the world of
aviation.
“As a boy it was no problem at
all for a couple of buddies of mine
and me to hop on our bikes and
pedal out to Orange County Air
port and wash a plane for rides,”
he recalled. They would work all
morning to earn a 20-minute tour
in a light airplane.
Thoroughly hooked on aviation,
Carr joined the Naval Reserve in
(Continued i
“Obviously, tl
mendment w a
high school so he could be arorjfected by the tra
airplanes. In 1950, he entered t; I national level tl
University of Southern Califo^lpublic confidenc<
and governmenl
lid.
He called the ]
nal sessions am
ortunity” to im
rrunent.
“The continuin
on a Navy scholarship,
to became a Navy pilot.
But along the way he
terested in the spirit of the
rine Corps. When he graduate
he took his commission in tii
corps.