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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1976)
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In all, they spent three days and covered 30 miles on the Rio Grande. The eight Army ROTC cadets conquered “white water,” a rockslide and the usual hazards of camping in wilderness settings. They also rescued a goat mired in quicksand and another visitor who stuck his car in river bottom sand. The group spotted wild burros, antelope, deer, snakes and iguanas. The spring recess out ing also provided them opportunity to use sur vival techniques, such as mountain climbing, fishing and raft paddling, among others. The all senior and junior group included Danny Davis and Frank Gearing, Ranger School graduates with some rafting experience. Others along were Ken Gofer, Kelly DeWitt, Bart Jennings, Bill Langford, Rick Wall and Tony Wolfskill. “Each agreed the trip was enjoyable, and sev eral want to go back again, perhaps during the Christmas holidays this year,” Frysinger said. He earlier took his Army company on a similar jaunt. After a 600-mile car trip, the first campsite on Camino del Rio west of Big Bend Park was a welcome sight. They launched two-man rafts at Lajitas, a small trading post, the following day. From there, they paddled 15 miles down-river to the entrance of Santa Elena Canyon, one of the deepest gorges cut by the Rio Grande. It is seven miles of river boxed between sheer walls averaging 1,500 feet from river level. “Although the water level is low at this time of year, there was still enough white water to pro vide a challenge,” the A&M-assigned officer commented. A rockslide was encountered about halfway through, Frysinger recounted. It required some unusual navigating and portaging. The first day in Santa Elena included Gearing’s rescue of a goat bogged in quicksand on the river bank. They found additional white water in Poquito Canyon on the third day. And made a friend by freeing the stuck car. The group also stopped in Chisos Basin for a while on the way back. Officer decorated for saving woman THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAR. 24, 1976 Page 3B ladets to sail with foreign cruise Texas A&M’s 150 Naval ROTC idets on summer cruise this year bl! include two on foreign ex change. Arthur C. “Chris’ Braun of Georgetown will sail with the Swedish Navy; Erwin A. Haynes of inson, with the West German Navy. The eight-week special cruises ill provide the cadets with basically [he same experience of other senior ;adets on cruise. Haynes’ and Iraun’s cruises will also have good- ill overtones. Col. Jack Ivins, professor of naval tcience, said the duo will he A&M’s [irst foreign exchange cruise par ticipants. This will he the third summer of NROTC cruises from ’exas A&M. Braun and Haynes were chosen from among some 250 candidates rominated by 58 NROTC detach- lents nationwide. A&M nominated three. Twenty countries participate in the foreign exchange program, al lowing U. S. midshipmen to serve iboard their ships on an exchange lasis. Braun has been assigned the only Swedish billet. Haynes will be among three NROTC cadets from the U. S. on West German cruise, according to Lt. Cmdr. George Huxhold. Nominees from the A&M de tachment were screened for at titude, military bearing, academic performance and language ability. Haynes, whose parents now reside in West Germany, graduated from high school and resided there six years. His father works for the U. S. Army in Europe. “Both do very well in their NROTC studies,’ commented Cmdr. Huxhold. It has included op erations, tactics, rules of the road, piloting and celestial navigation, crit ical knowledge for the senior cadet headed for final cruise. “As with other senior cadets on cruise, they will be assigned bridge duties such as junior officer of the deck, assuming the con — or driving the ship — and taking part in tactical signal drills and tactical ship evolu tions,” Huxhold explained. In line with previous Swedish foreign exchange program cruises, Regents OK Tarleton funds The Texas A&M University Sys- [tem Board of Regemts Tuesday ap proved contracts totaling more than 32 million for construction at Tarle- ton State University, including re- jnovation of its football stadium, and authorized planning for a fine arts [complex at the school. Dr. W O. Trogdon, Tarleton pres ident, said the new fine arts complex Iis expected to cost more than $6 mill ion. It will include an auditorium, an [educational theater and a workshop theater. “This complex will become the focal point of the campus,” Trogdon predicted. “It will cut across all dis ciplines because the fine arts apply to almost everyone.” Construction of the 60,000- square-foot facility is expected to begin within a year. The regents appropriated $65,000 for preliminary design of the com plex. A $1,778,660 contract was awarded to K. A. Sparks Contractor, Inc., of Hamilton to build a two-story 27,000-square-foot addition to the building housing the university’s home economics and women’s phys ical education programs. Tarleton’s football stadium will re ceive a major facelifting under a $304,000 contract awarded to Jones & Williams Construction Co. of Waco. Improvements include instal lation of concrete bleachers on one SATURDAY DEXTER. FOR EVERYDAY! Ideal for Thursday nights on the town. Or Tuesdays at the office. These Dexters dress you up without fuss, dust ffood, supple leather with a minimum of trim. And a lot of class. Like all Dexter Shoes, they’ll make any date feel like a Saturday date. SHOE FIT COMPANY 7" ' .r.. . SENIORS Check our special prices for full length portraits for the Centennial Class of ’76. Braun expects to tour the Swedish naval academy and see and sail on a variety of vessels. They might in clude a torpedo boat, submarine, cruiser, destroyer and mines weeper. His tour could include one of two sailing schooners operated by the Swedish Navy for Cadet training. Haynes expects similar experi ences with the West German Navy. They will be on half ensign’s pay while on cruise. Cruise dates are to he determined. Braun is a mechanized agriculture major and first sergeant of Company S-2 this year. A political science major, Haynes is in Company E-l of the Corps of Cadets. Both are on Naval ROTC scholarship, with two cruises behind them. NROTC cadets on scholarship make three cruises. The first and last, after the freshman and junior years, are prolonged ship cruises that sail all waters of the world. After the sophomore year, NROTC cadets go on indoctrination cruises that in clude tours at several U. S. installa tions. Army SFC Max Schill of Texas A&M was decorated Tuesday for sav ing the life of an elderly woman. Sgt. Schill received the Commen dation Medal for Heroism. It was presented in the company of other Army ROTC instructor personnel at A&M by Col. Thomas R. Parsons, professor of military science. Sgt. Schill saved 76-year-old Mrs. Pauline Hendricks in a Dec. 15, 1975, fire. It was next door to his Briar Oaks Dr. apartment. Two firemen were injured and the non commissioned officer was overcome by smoke. Schill smelled smoke and noticed flames in the neighboring apart ment. He asked another neighbor, John Brack, to call the fire depart ment and obtain a hose. Firemen arrived, and with re spirators and Schill’s assistance, re moved the woman to safety. She was the only occupant of the apartment. Department of the Army general orders cited the non-com’s “take charge attitude and disregard for his own personal safety” in the situation. “Eyewitnesses related the SFC Schill’s immediate vigorous action saved Mrs. Hendrick’s life and pre vented adjoining apartments from being destroyed,” the citation stated. Sgt. 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