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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1977
Inspector rates Corps high
Nine management areas were
evaluated by the Air University IG
team. They rated six outstanding,
two excellent and one satisfactory.
“You’ve got the best cadet records
section I’ve ever seen,” one of the
inspectors remarked. They also
praised the AFROTC detachment’s
safety and Flight Instruction Pro
gram indoctrination procedures,
under Capt. Joe McNabb.
Air University inspected 70 de
tachments in 1976. No outstanding
ratings were given. Current results
are incomplete, with inspections
still in process on other campuses.
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time when he isn’t studying. Tom builds custom fishing
rods from small trout stream size to giant deep sea
rigs. The senior zoology major has been building rods
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since he was 14 years old. When asked about the quality
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west. . . east, north and south.”
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When Tom Buckner s father
broke his 11-year-old son’s fishing
rod, he did not realize l\e was
launching an interest in a hobby that
could also be a lucrative business.
Buckner has been building cus
tom fishing rods ever since he re
paired his own rod 10 year ago. The
senior zoology major said he is
mainly a self-taught craftsman, al
though his father, an amateur rod
builder, taught him enough to get
him started.
Buckner begins his rod building
process with a blank he gets from a
wholesale supplier. The blank is the
main shaft of the rod, lacking a
handle, guides and any design.
Then the artwork starts. Each
guides is attached to the blank by
hand wrapping thread around the
rod, forming intricate patterns from
the colored spools.
“It takes years of practice before
you get them (designs) down,’’
Buckner said. “It’s a talent you have
to acquire — or maybe you’re just
born with it.”
Buckner caters mainly to the seri
ous fisherman, who can really ap
preciate the quality of his work.
His wares vary from 42-inch,
ultra-light rods to heavy 14 and a
half foot salt water fishing rods.
Prices range from $30 to $125, and
customers have a choice of either
fiber glass or more expensive
graphite rods.
“I usually know what a person
wants before he orders a rod, even if
he doesn’t know,” Buckner said. He
custom fits the rod by adjusting the
length of the guides or the position
of the handles for lighter action and
maximum leverage.
Buckner makes rod building his
full time job during the summer,
but cuts the production down while
he’s in school. He might make as
many as 50 rods a year, he said, and
the majority are bass rods.
Word-of-mouth advertising is
mainly what Buckner depends on to
sell his rods. “It’s really a small
number of people who keep coming
back,” he said. About 50 percent of
his business is from 10 steady cus
tomers.
There is a big chance for ad
vancement in the field, Buckner
said, even though it is hard to get
started. “If you get in the ijight
channels, you can make a lot of
money.
There is a possibility he might
make his hobby a full-time career,
although he is also considering
going to pharmacy or dentistry
school.
The income from his craft is used
to keep him and his wife Cary “into
fishing. ” They try to go surf fishing
about twice a month. “She usually
outfishes me,” Buckner admitted.
He said he has thought of teach
ing classes, and may be lining up
seminars for next spring.
Alpha Phi Omega to host
regional conference
Accounting firm presents
$2000 to A&M fund
Members of the accounting firm
of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
presented $2,000 Thursday (Nov. 3)
to the accounting excellence fund at
Texas A&M University.
Albert Coldewey Jr., 1963 Texas
A&M graduate and a member of the
firm’s San Antonio office, and Matt
Landry of the Houston operation
presented the Peat, Marwick and
Mitchell Foundation Check to Dr.
Gary Schugart of Texas A&M’s Ac
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Texas A&M’s chapter of Alpha
Phi Omega will host the Region VII
conference of the national service
fraternity Nov. 18-20.
About 300 delegates and national
officials are expected for the affair.
Sessions, seminars and workshops
are planned at the Ramada Inn and
Rudder Tower.
Xi Delta Chapter guests will be
Roger Sherwood, APO national
executive director, and Lorin Jur-
vis, national vice president. Jurvis
works for the U. S. Information
Agency in Washington, D.C., as di
rector for Southeast Asia.
Conference Chairman Richard
Scruggs said delegates will come
from chapters in Texas and
Louisiana, at Lubbock, New Or
leans, Baton Rouge and Edinburg
among others. Sam Houston State at
Huntsville has indicated it will send
the largest delegation, of 40.
Seminars on development and
improvement of the individual are
planned for the visiting collegians.
Decision-making and assertiveness
will be discussed by Bonnie Smith,
with the Counseling and Guidance
Center at S. F. Austin University at
Nacogdoches.
Goal-setting and motivation dis
cussions will be led by Ronnie
Smith of Houston. A 1969 A&M
graduate, he is active in personal
development in the Houston Junior
Chamber of Commerce. He works
for Spaw-Glass Inc.
A&M’s Xi Delta chapter hosted a
sectional conference in 1975. Hank
Baker presides this semester. The
chapter has 40 actives, a 20-member
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