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’age 8B THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 25. 1976 Meteorology Ph likes to sim • Y7i U'^SINI Of HART HAl : WSC W AREA BIWNC THIS if-. ZONE Battalion File Photo Who’s winning? Construction on campus was so wide- On-campus students thought the above spread last year that students seemed scene looked war-torn enough to erect to meet barriers everywhere they turned. this sign. Dennis Driscoll would sing in the rain, if it would rain. A Ph.D. on Texas A&M Univer sity’s meteorology faculty, Driscoll likes to get together with three other vocalists and harmonize. He’s been “barbershopping” 28 years. While the meteorology professor is not currently part of an active quartet, he stays busy as one of 37,000 members of the American Barbershop Quartet Society. Driscoll also sings with the Community Singers, a local group of which he was interim director last spring. They performed at the July 4 bicentennial celebration in Col lege Station. The group will join forces with the Houston Symphony and Singing Cadets to perform Berlioz’s “Re quiem.” Performances are slated here Nov. 4 and in Houston Nov. 8 and 9, if the orchestra settles its strike. Art displays shown locally Studio arts and crafts have a imminent place in the Texas A&M •ommunity. There are three locations in the irea where artists exhibit their vork, the Memorial Student Center Uallery, the Brazos Valley Art Gal- erv and the Budder Exhibition I all. Twice in the fall, artists sell their vork in the open market concept, he Art Market held November 6 in vlanor East Mall and the Craft Fairs leld at Christmas and on Parent’s Day. The MSC Gallery will feature a lifferent exhibit each month. Each exhibit is displayed the entire nonth. The fall semester schedule s: Peaceable Kingdom arts and tober; and Brad Foster, A&M stu dent and illustrator in November. The MSC Gallery is located in the northeast corner of the building, and admission is free. The Brazos Valley Art Gallery will feature three fall shows. These are: Priano and Lisa Thomas, Sep- ;rafts in September; Margaret and pauline Van Bavel, silver jewelry jnd pottery respectively, in Oc- tember 1-6; Lienite Dominquez, October 17-30; and a joint showing by Don Durrant and Benita Williams October 3-16. The Brazos Valley Gallery is lo cated at 3211 Texas Ave. The Rudder Exhibition Hall will house two displays this fall, “African Art: Cultural and Contemporary” and the Mondale Rogers exhibit. The Mondale Rogers display is hanging in the exhibition hall now. The display will be up until Sep tember 15 and can be viewed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Rogers is a 1971 graduate of Texas Tech with a degree in architecture. His show is entitled “Old Ranches of the Texas Plains” and contains 80 paintings. The show was opened in conjunction with the release of a book containing 56 prints of these paintings by the Texas A&M Uni versity Press, August 23. The African Art display is being lent to the University by a former student, Rex Grey. The show can be viewed from September 21 to Oc tober 9. The pieces in the display were collected by Grey during visits to Africa and are original African art. A major A&M art event of the up coming year will be the unveiling of faculty member Rodney Hill’s Cen tennial Carvings at 2 p.m. October 4 near the student lounge in the MSC. Dr. Driscoll, meanwhile, has other irons in the fire, or chords to strike. Fall semester classes start soon. Along with his share of those, the 1959 Penn State graduate specializes in human bio meteorology, “on how weather af fects people,” he explains. An accomplished musician, he has been arranging 10 years through the society. “I’ve been fortunate to have some work published,” the former Maes tros quartet member observed. A number Driscoll arranged was part of the Singing Cadets’ spring concert. Mrs. Margaret Rudder wrote the lyricks for “Aggie Muster Day,” and with a melodic theme and some chords provided, asked Cadets Director Bob Boone to work up a song. Boone turned to Driscoll, who arranged it for the Cadets. Driscoll also works with the “Aggie-nizers,” a quartet made up of Singing Cadets. “He’s super good,” commented Lynda Harp, secretary to the Memorial Student Center vocal music director. “He works with our guys and has done some arranging for them.” “I’ve been fortunate this year to be associated with the society’s champion, the Innsiders, ’ he said. “They were chosen No. 1 at San Francisco in July.” Driscoll has ar ranged for the Innsiders three years. The Warren, Pa., native says there is frequent talk of forming a society chapter here. There may be other barbershoppers who would join him and other known quartet singers in the effort. Don Pittman, one of Driscoll’s students this summer, sang with the “Right Four.” Graduate students Charles Hill and Larry Jones are ac tive members of the society. “Singing is fun whether with a group or quartet,” commented Driscoll. “But barbershopping is more flexible and the personali| peal is greater.” “It also presents the opporluii] ty,” he assessed, "to manifest! ham in all of us.” YOUR COMPLETE FLORIST Beautiful B} ■•A n £ FLOWERS PLANTS ARRANGEMENTS AGGIE MUMS CORSAGES By Tips given on what to do if trapped in burning building ('urktlbcrrys POOL & OOMINO PARLOR TAP BEER • CHECKERS FOOD • CHESS • DARTS SHUFFLEBOARD 309 UNIVERSITY DRIVE NORTHGATE m MONDAY-FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 12:00-12:00 12:00-1:00 2:00-12:00 If your life depended on it, could you get out of your house, crawling, eyes stinging because of smoke, lungs burning as you breathe hot air, doors and passageways blocked off by heat and flame? Many Texans find out the answer to this question each year. 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