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Several cadets combined fun and military
survival-type training on their spring holiday.
Led by Army Capt. Vic Frysinger, they rafted
down the Rio Grande River in the Big Bend
National Park.
“Though the water was lower than usual, they
found some challenging adventure, Capt.
Frysinger observed. 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
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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
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of two sailing schooners operated by
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Haynes expects similar experi
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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. Schill, of Weslaco, has almost
20 years military service. He has
been with the A&M detachment five
years. He has operated the Trigon
rifle range and coached ROTC and
Aggie rifle teams.
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