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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1977
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mbrellas, anyone? The lost and found department at the
tISC holds a myriad of paraphernalia lost hy unlucky, care-
ess or just forgetful people. Virginia Arnold, manager of the
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iported by a $10,000 grant from
National Science Foundation,
have six main workshop
egories: agriculture, geosciences,
sciences, social and behavioral
enees, engineering, and physical
sice. It will be Feb. 28-March 1
Rudder Center.
An eight-member advisory panel
has been named to help put the
program and exhibits together. Cap
and Gown, senior honor society for
men and women, has begun gather
ing illustrations, facts and figures for
the workshop.
Dr. Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui and
Karen Switzer will be directing the
workshop, with Dr. Wayne M. Ahr
coordinating the exhibits. Dr. Wal
ter F. Stenning is in charge of eval-
uating the effectiveness of the pro
gram and the exhibits.
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Texas A&M University’s depart-
iciit ol finance has received a grant
urn the Harry S. and Isabel C.
heron Foundation to establish an
pdergraduate research assistant-
lip.
StudeMv eligible lor the assishint-
iip must be undergraduate finance
tijors who have completed at least
iesemester at Texas A&M with no
P 5 than a B average and must an-
ets gather for
og research
ymposium
JVeterinarians will convene at
has A&M University next Wed-
pday to Took at new research
pings concerning dogs.
The Gaines Veterinary Sym-
sium, will feature reports from a
aimer ol research veterinarians,
he conference will be held from
a m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rudder
wer > according to Walter Chimel,
rector of the White Plains, N.Y.-
sed Gaines Dog Research center.
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tieipate graduation no earlier than
May 1978. A committee from the fi
nance department will make the
selection.
The research assistant selected
will he expected to work with a
member of the faculty of the finance
department on a project lor approx
imately 15 hours per week.
Aplications are available in room
210 of Francis Hall. All applications
must be submitted by October 6.
BY LINDA NORMAN
A Mickey Mouse hat, an Alpha
Zeta Pledge Paddle, a Corps
member’s hat, a full flask, and a set
of poker chips. Articles from any
Aggie’s closet? No, just a sample of
the merchandise in the lost and
found department at the Memorial
Student Center main desk.
“You wouldn’t believe the things
that are turned in,” said Virginia
Arnold, manager of the main desk
and guest rooms in the MSC. We
have everything from diamond rings
to class schedules.
The “display room exhibits a va
riety of items from a little girl’s
white crochet purse to a Victoria
Bank and Trust cash bag.
“We have a lot of one of some
thing,” Arnold said, holding up a
single hike pedal. Lone shoes —
ranging from a baby s tennis shoe to
a women’s size 13 dress shoe — are
common items in the back room.
Tupperware sandwich cases, contact
lenses, keys, books, umbrellas, eal-
culaters, and eye glasses are also
standard items.
“It’s better than any garage sale,”
Arnold said.
An abundance of both expensive
and inexpensive jewelry is turned
in, she said. Recently, a class ring
set with a family diamond was re
turned to its owner after a short visit
to the lost and found.
Unusual situations come up occa
sionally. One man who attended a
conference at Texas A&M Univer
sity came back a year later and
found the keys he had lost on his
first visit, Arnold said.
In the summer when the tempci-
ature was 95 degrees, a girl reported
her winter coat had been missing six
or eight months.
“It certainly is the rule rather
than the exception for people to
turn in wallets with the money, and
also just loose monies, Arnold said.
A locker full of wallets with money
still inside and loose money labeled
in envelopes are in the back room.
When items are turned in they
are logged, giving a description of
the article, who found it, and when
and where it was found.
Some grateful students write
“Thank God” on the log when they
sign to pick up their lost things, said
Dorothy Reid, clerk at the desk.
“The entire staff does a super job
trying to locate the owner some
times better than a private eye,
Arnold said.
“We kill ourselves to get the stuff
back,” Reid said.
Of the 123 items reported missing
since the beginning of the fall
semester about 75 percent have
been returned to the owners, she
added. This does not include all the
lost keys and identification cards
that are there for only a short time,
“Don’t assume it’s not here,” Ar
nold said. “People are good to turn
lost items in.
If students would put their name
and phone number on calculators
and in books and notebooks, they
could be returned the very same
day, Reid said. There were times
when an entire semester’s notes
were turned in, but the owner could
not he found.
Unclaimed items are auctioned
off once a year, said Debra Dollar,
vice president of finance in Student
Affairs. Money from the auction is
used to buy Christmas decorations
for the MSC.
The auction this year is tenta
tively set for Nov. 2. Items will be
on display from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
and the auction will start at 2 p.m..
Dollar said.
Once the items are put on dis
play, it is too late to claim them,
Dollar said. Anything that is not
sold at the auction is given to ehar-
itv.
Town Hall 1977-1978
IT’S NOT TOO LATE
Freshman transfer students can still sign up to
interview for the Town Hall committee. All appli
cants must sign up in the student programs office
of the M.S.C., by 5:00 p.m. Friday, September 30.
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