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used in 18th century
In a narrow tributary to Penobscot Bay in Maine,
Texas A&M University faculty and students are carry
ing on the bicentennial celebration by excavating re
mains of an American ship sunk there during the Revo
lutionary War.
The project, recognized by the American Revolution
Bicentennial Administration, is part of a field school
run by Maine that includes Texas A&M anthropology
lecturer J. Richard Steffy and four nautical archeology
students from the Texas campus.
Steffy, ship reconstructor for the Texas A&M-
headquartered American Institute of Nautical Ar
chaeology (AINA), said the students are diving on the
remains of the privateer Defence, a 16-gun ship scut
tled in 1779 during an abortive attempt to capture a
British fort.
Project director is AINA adjunct professor Dr.
David Switzer and divers include Texas A&M students
Samuel Margolin of Philadelphia, Pa., Sheila Matth
ews of Shreveport, La., Warren Reiss of Walpole,
Maine and Dick Sweet of Buies Creek, N.C.
Texas A&M became a world center for the training of
underwater archeologists last year when it added three
of the top names in the field to the faculty. As a result,
AINA moved its headquarters to College Station from
Philadelphia.
So far, said Steffy, the Defence wreck has yielded
the only cannon apron to be recovered from an Ameri
can ship of the 18th Century. The aprons were used to
keep gunpowder that was already n the cannon dry.
Other artifacts include the ship’s cook stove, can
nonballs, casks and personal possessions of crew mem
bers.
Steffy noted excavation of the remarkably preserved
vessel, the most intact of any 18th Century wreck yet
found in American waters, provides a rare opportunity
to study construction techniques of a commercial ship
yard of that period.
“Many people ask why we spend time, energy and
money to recover a 200-year-old ship,” said one Maine
State Museum source. “Well, we feel the artifacts are
exciting n themselves. More importantly, the project
is valuable because it reveals parts of history and daily
life not found in books. ”
The recovered stove is one example of this senti
ment, Steffy said.
Its design seemingly answered one question, con
firming the idea that most shipboard diet was in the
form of soup or stew. But it posed another puzzle be
cause a partition divides the cauldron into two sections,
one much smaller than the other. Historians seem baf
fled as to why the divider exists.
The Maine project is one of several involving Texas
A&M and AINA personnel this summer. Others are off
the shores of Turkey, Korea and Sicily.
Production of ‘Hello, Dolly’
has Channing in original role
Campus Names
Asst. Dean named
JETS president
Asst. Dean of Engineering,
Charles A. Rodenberger, was
named president-elect of the na
tional organization of the Junior
Engineering Technical Society.
His election came during the an
nual meeting of JETS at the Uni
versity of North Dakota.
Dr. Rodenberger will serve as
president-elect during the
1977-78 academic year and as
president in 1978-79.
JETS is for high school stu
dents, to encourage scholarship
in science and mathematics for
students interested in careers in
engineering and science.
Faculty members
to attend seminar
Three faculty members of the
Texas A&M University System
will attend summer seminars
under a program of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Jerome Loving and John
Short, both of the Texas A&M
faculty, and William Walker of
Prairie View A&M University
were among 1,259 participants
selected by the National
Endowment for the Humanities
in the fifth year of the summer
seminars program.
Fred W. Dollar
receives award
Fred W. Dol
lar, Texas A&M
food services di
rector, received
the Theodroe W.
Minal Distin
guished Service
Award.
Dollar was presented the
award at the National Association
of College and University Food
Services’ national convention in
Hot Springs, Ark. July 9.
Dollar has served in various
capacitites in NAGUES, the Na
tional Restaurant Association and
Texas Restaurant Association.
He was president of the local
TRA chapter in 1967-68.
A 1943 A&M graduate, Dollar
has also served 12 years as an
administrator at Texas A&M and
a faculty member.
Youth agency
program to begin
Edward L.
Rogers of Fort
Worth has been
named by Ameri
can Humanics
Inc. to adminis
ter a cooperative
program with
Texas A&M Uni
versity which will train students
for professions in such youth
agencies as the Scouts, Red
Cross, YMCA, YWCA and the
4-H.
The program, utilizing courses
already offered at Texas A&M,
will begin this fall under a three-
year grant totaling $116,135.
Haney to attend
music convention
Lt. Col. Joe T. Haney, Texas
Aggie Band director, and Maj.
Joe McMullen, associate direc
tor, will attend the 30th Texas
Bandmasters Association con
vention in San Antonio.
The four-day convention, to
headquarter at the Hemisfair
Convention Center, will enable
the Texas A&M instrumental
music directors to study new
scores and music for all phases of
the program and to make and
maintain contacts with Texas’
high school directors.
Six nominated
for Hall of Fame
Six individuals have been
nominated for possible induction
into the Food and Fiber National
Institute of Achievement’s Grain
Sorghum Hall of Achievement.
Nominated were: Frank. L.
Gaines, Robert E. Karper,
Nicholas W. Kramer, who were
till employed by the Texas A&M
University Agricultural Experi
ment Station in Lubbock; and
Glen H. Kuykendall, J. Roy
Quinby and Joseph C. Stephens,
who worked at the Chillicothe,
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
As part of its original concept,
Food and Fiber recognizes indi
viduals whose achievements
have exerted significant and con
tinuing influence on agriculture.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Carol Channing,
the delightful lady who created the
saucy American heroine in “Hello,
Dolly,” is back again in a new and
grand production of the musical.
The lavish production mounted
by the Houston Grand Opera
opened June 23 in the Bayou City
where it closed with Miss Channing
exactly 10 years ago.
"It’s a thrill for me to do it again,
she said in an interview with UPI.
“It’s a great privilege to play one of
the great classical characters of our
American musical theater. We don’t
have that many. Naturally, I adore
her. I would jump out the window if
I couldn’t play her.”
Some musical purists might raise
eyebrows about the propriety of a
well-known opera company turning
to musical comedy, but not HGO
general director David Gockley.
“I think of musical theater as one
big continuum that goes from the
most simple thing to the most artis
tic, from the most sophisticated to
the most broadly accepted and
popular,” he said.
"It’s quite a sentimental thing for
a lot of people. For those in the
know, those in the business, Carol
has been the only really Dolly in
their eyes. Many famous people
have played Dolly, but none like
Carol,” he said.
The $300,000 production will
play 25 American cities in the next
year.
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Herman-Michael Stewart classic.
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way next season for a limited run.
A special preview benefit hon
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For Miss Channing, the revival of
Dolly is full of special meanings and
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she played the part on Broadway
and in the subsequent touring road
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“We have this beautiful privilege
of doing it in a relaxed way,” she
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former is not just play this character
but be this character. Now, I am
Dolly. I can feel it in my bones.
“Now I pick up a wonderful script
from what we had 4 years ago, it is a
joy to work on it. We were so busy
creating it at the time we couldn’t
get perspective.”
Now I can see that in 200 years
they will be doing this like Gilbert
& Sullivan. Musical comedy in
America is our one contribution to
the arts. No one else can do Ameri
can musical theater.”
There is a fierce pride in Miss
Channing as she" defines musical
comedy in today’s artistic concepts.
“It was all done before. But no
one ever did musical comedy. It’s
an outgrowth of vaudeville, minstrel
shows, Yiddish art theater — it’s the
melting pot we have here. ”
This ‘Hello, Dolly’ is our Ameri
can heritage,” she said. “Dolly is a
great, great character and will go on
for hundreds of years. I wish I could
be here to see it.”
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