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TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1977
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Four graduates to receive awards
Four A&M graduates will re
ceive “distinguished alumnus”
designation, the highest honor
awarded by the university.
Ford D. Albritton Jr., of
Bryan, Leslie L. Appelt and
George P. Mitchell, of Houston,
and J. Roy Quinby, of Plainview,
will receive the awards Saturday.
The award, previously given
to only 55 of the institution’s
80,000 graduates, is jointly pres
ented by the university and the
Association of Former Students.
The recognition is reserved for
former students “whose excep
tional contributions to society
have singled them out as men of
great stature and ability.”
Presentation of the awards will
be made at Texas A&M’s spring
commencement exercises.
Albritton, a 1941 Texas A&M
graduate, is chairman of the
board of the Tipperary Corp.,
headquartered in Midland, and
chairman of the board of the
Houston-based Ashbrook Corp.
He is the only person to have
been a member of The Texas
A&M University System Board
of Regents, from 1968 to 1975,
and president of both the Associ
ation of Former Students, 1969,
and the Texas A&M Research
Foundation, 1970. He also
served as vice president and a
member of the executive com
mittee for The Aggie Club.
Appelt, also a 1941 graduate,
is president of Appelt, Robeau,
Womack, Inc., one of Houston’s
largest commercial real estate
firms. He is general partner in
five real estate development
properties and is a consultant to
the Jacintoport Corp.
He served as alumni president
in 1971 and is now chairman of
the board of trustees for the
Texas A&M University De
velopment Foundation. He initi
ated the idea and provided initial
funding for the university’s
visitor information center, and
helped establish Texas A&M’s
Center for Education and Re
search in Free Enterprise.
Mitchell, a 1940 graduate, is
board chairman and president of
Mitchell Energy & Develop-
served as superintendent and re
search leader at Texas A&M’s
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station facility in Chillicothe
from 1925 until 1961. Quinby
helped develop a hybrid grain
sorghum as a significant agricul
tural crop for cattle, swine and
poultry feed.
Since his formal retirement,
he has served as a visiting profes
sor at Texas A&M.
ment Corp., one of the nation’s
largest independent oil and gas
producers. He is also developer
of The Woodlands, a planned
community north of Houston.
In 1968 he donated the land
for the Texas A&M Moody Col
lege of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Resources. The site on
Galveston’s Pelican Island, was
named the Mitchell Campus in
honor of the donor’s parents.
Quinby, a 1924 graduate.
QUINBY
precedent
oman receives degree
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inn
e at the
a rodeo,
impers ate
recreational'
cks and
onnie Hunt will become the
[ woman to receive a Ph.D. in
strial engineering from Texas
1 University during Friday’s
mencement ceremonies.
|he joins the third generation of
ineers in her family — grand-
r, Colorado School of Mines,
I father, Georgia Tech, 1943;
brother, University of Dayton,
— but took a rather circuitous
; football fid le to achieve that goal.
, |My father always encouraged
ll ] eni as well as my brother, to do as
s ,,v - r h as we thought was possible,
( stutied! as a result there was none of the
Beal familial pressure to conform
ly chewthl woman s role,” she said,
asked j unt ’ s research i s j n the fj e ld of
it ” he said P at ' ons an d their effect on per-
)er of the l iance ar, d personality — effects
ml a home! ^ ias susta i ne d by truck drivers or
thelapofal P lane P ilots -
oppysunk L eVe notec j ) f or example, that
m until so )verts reS p 0n( i positively to the
Ihe perpt |j a j stimulus provided by
sic played o a [j ons h u t fall off rapidly as it is
n passed 1 ease( j ” s h e said. “However, we
with ban _
found that the levels at which
people complained was much lower
than the levels at which vibrations
actually affected them.”
Hunt said she had once wanted to
join the military or become an air
line stewardess. She later ran her
own business, then worked in a
steel foundry. The four-foot, nine-
inch Hunt also participated in the
Texas A&M half-marathon last
weekend.
Tell Mom “I Love You” Mother’s
Day (May 8) With One Of Our
Musical Figurines.
Canary plays
“Lara's Theme"
Owl plays
“Beautiful Dreamer”
Cardinals play
“Do-Ray-Me”
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We Also Have A
Large Selection of Music Boxes
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