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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1974
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ne of A&M’s oldest campus
flmarks is getting a facelift to
se TAMU’s recently establish-
university press.
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ing has been the board of
tors’ living quarters and
ing rooms for several years,
ysical Plant craftsmen are
ting the outside, and plans
1 for interior renovation soon.
The old structure will be the
ce of scholarly books when
renovation project is com-
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led by Frank H. Wardlaw, will
n move-in operations when
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pleted in the new MSC complex.
The building was constructed
originally as a residence for TA-
MU food service directors, Physi
cal Plant officials believe. It has
housed at least three families
since then, including the family
of Bernard Sbisa, for whom one of
the two dining halls is named.
The family longest in residence,
however, was that of W. A. Dun
can, who replaced Sbisa as super
visor of subsistence—food ser
vices—from 1920 until his death
in 1943. Mrs. Duncan remained
in the building until 1952, serving
as hostess for the TAMU Board
of Directors.
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Mrs. Percy W. Mims of College
Station is one of two Duncan
children who grew up in the struc
ture. She recalled that the build
ing was also used to house enter
tainers and guest lecturers until
the old Aggieland Inn was con
structed.
“One of my mother’s favorite
guests was Gladys Swarthout, a
famous opera singer who per
formed several times on campus,”
Mims noted. “I also remember
when Bob Hope and Doris Day
spent the night in the building.
That was in 1947, I believe.”
Mims was one of 11 daughters
of TAMU faculty allowed to at
tend classes in 1934. She recalled
that those were good days to be a
young girl on campus.
She met her husband, who was
captain of A&M’s track team in
1932, while she was a resident in
the building. They were married
in 1935 in Guion Hall.
“We were and still are an all-
Aggie family,” Mims noted. “The
days I spent in the house were
some of the best of my life. The
campus then was five miles from
Bryan, with nothing in between,
and we were all one big happy
family.”
Another long-time resident of
the structure was Mrs. M. L.
Cashion Sr., who replaced Mrs.
Duncan as board hostess in 1952
and remained in the house until
her retirement last year.
“The most exciting time I re
call in the house was back when
Texas A&M was searching for a
football coach,” she recalled. “I
think it was the year that “Bear”
Bryant was hired. We had the
Notre Dame coach and the coach
of the Los Angeles Rams in for
interviews by the board.”
Many monumental decisions
were made in the building’s meet
ing room, including the decision to
allow women to attend TAMU
and the name change from A&M
College of Texas to Texas A&M
University, in 1963.
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By KATHY YOUNG
Faculty and students partici
pated in Wheel Chair Awareness
Day, sponsored by Help Our
People Excel (H.O.P.E.).
Students who volunteered to
ride in wheel chairs Friday after
noon for several hours quickly
acquired blisters on their fingers
and bruises on their arms.
Cracks in sidewalks and pedes
trian traffic presented new found
difficulties. Doors were either
too heavy to open or too narrow
to get through. Water fountains
towered above the wheel chairs
as did most elevator buttons.
Elevators were usually too
small to turn around in and often
did not allow ample time to wheel
aboard. Several students were
hit broadside several times by the
older elevators.
Catalogs, transcripts, the Fiscal
Office and other facilities of the
Coke Building are unavailable
directly to the handicapper stu
dent as it has a moat of stairs
Carpenters, fiddlers
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Music from “Ballet Parisien”
to highlights of “Fiddler on the
Roof” and “Sounds of the Car
penters” will be presented to
night in the debut of the Univer
sity Symphonic Band.
A pioneer for the U. S. school
band movement, R. V. “Bob”
Leach, will guest conduct for the
concert here.
The new organization that be
gan rehearsing this semester will
perform in the Rudder Center
Auditorium. Conductor Joe Mc
Mullen will mount the podium at
7:30 p. m.
The University Symphonic Band
is composed of musicians from all
parts of the TAMU student body.
Conceived with the support of
President Jack Williams, the band
provides every TAMU student the
opportunity to continue previous
musical experience.
The first performance of the
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organization will feature a variety
of music.
“Melody A La King” and
“Home Town Boy March” will be
directed by Leach, the inspiration
for Meredith Willson’s Broadway
musical “The Music Man.”
Both selections felt the compos
ing touch of the late Karl L. King.
“Home Town Boy” was the last
of many popular marches com
posed for bands by King.
“We are honored to have Mr.
Leach as our special guest,” Mc
Mullen said. Leach, 80 and a
Houston resident, in 1909 organ
ized and directed the nation’s first
high school band in Ackley, Ohio.
He was the first band director
employed by a school district in
America. McMullen made his ac
quaintance immediately on enter
ing public school music.
Leach was for 40 years the
Texas representative of a Chicago
music company. He has heard
more than 8,000 bands as a clin
ician and is responsible for start
ing more than 12,000 students on
band and orchestra instruments.
Admission to the University
Symphonic Band concert will be
$1 per adult and 50 cents stu
dent, public school or university.
Tickets are available at the Rud
der Center box office.
bulletin board
TONIGHT
TAMU WHEELMEN will meet in Room
228 MSC at 7:30 p.m. for elections of
officers.
THURSDAY
PRE-VET SOCIETY will meet in the
main lecture room of the Zachry En
gineering Center at 7:30 p.m.
MIDLAND AREA HOMETOWN CLUB
will meet at Sparkey’s from 6-8 p.m.
for Pizza Party for all people from
Midland, Odessa and Andrews.
FREE UNIVERSITY will present a mini
course in home haircutting in Room
230 of the MSC at 8 p.m.
FORT BEND COUNTY HOMETOWN
CLUB will meet in Room 504 of the
Rudder Tower at 8 p.m. for officer
elections.
PANHANDLE HOMETOWN CLUB will
meet in Room 501 of the Tower at
8 p.m.
FENCING CLUB will meet in the attics
of G. Rollie White Coliseum from 7-9
surrounding the building. Other
inaccessible buildings without
ramps for the handicapped are
the Reed-McDonald Building, Bol
ton and Bizzell.
Vending machines and dining
halls on campus all discriminate
against the non-walking student.
Sbisa, Duncan and Krueger-Dunn
Commons are all isolated by
stairs. Presently there is no
place to eat on campus on
“wheels.”
The need for down ramps from
sidewalks onto the streets was
the loudest criticism from the
participating students. John Fink-
lea, a sophomore who spent two
hours wheeling around, found the
ramps in Zachry too steep. He
also suggested ramps at the corn
ers of Ross and Spence Streets
and in front of the Mechanical
Engineering Shops to the front
of the Chemistry Building.
Jerry Easley, a freshman and
chairman of the Architectural
Barriers of the Paralyzed Vet
erans cautioned bike riders not
to park on ramps. Bikes act as
a barrier to the entrances of
many buildings, said Easley. Low
curbs would aid in crossing
streets, he added. The aisles in
the library are impassable in a
wheel chair as are most rest
rooms, said Easley.
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