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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1977 Bike storage available to students over break Wind, rain and thieves can abuse a bicycle left outside during the holiday, but a method, short of stashing it in a bedroom, is available for bike care. The Texas A&M University Stu dent Government is offering to store bikes in the pistol range under Kyle Field for 25 cents. The bikes will be under lock, key and the watchful eyes of University Police. Student Government workers will store bikes 5-7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15 at the range. Bikes may be picked up Jan. 16. the first day of class. a Merru Christmas ) \i A from everyone at If you are being commissioned You may want to join the Bank of A&M’s World-Wide program. When you go on active duty, your banking requirements will change dramatically. You’re going to move around the world. Your need for credit and for cash will be quite different from your classmates who return to their hometown to work and live. And the penalties for record keeping er rors are more severe for military officers than most (if not all) other professions. The World-Wide Department of the Bank of A&M was conceived to meet the needs of A&M officers on active duty. The department is staffed by Aggies with first hand experience of TDY, overseas movement, car financing in a foreign city, check-cashing problems at a military installation, allotments, telephone transfers, etc. The World-Wide program includes all the features of the so-called “military banks”: direct paycheck deposit, telephone loan service, write your own loan program, overseas car financ ing, automatic transfers from checking to savings (and visa versa), credit cards, overdraft protection . . . plus personal service by senior bank officers with career military experience and Aggie know-how. Visit the Bank of A&M today (or some day of convenience) before your commissioning date to learn how the Bank of A&M’s World-Wide Department can be of service to you. The Bank of A&M member/fdic 111 University Drive/Coliege Station/846-5721 Col. Robert W. Elkins ’51 (USAF-Ret.)/Lt. Col. Glynn P. Jones ’43 (USAF-Ret.) Campus Names Seniors in education selected for honors Distinguished Honor Awards have been presented to eight graduating seniors at Texas A&M University’s College of Educa tion. They are, in the Department of Educational Curriculum and Instruction, Belinda Acock of Corsicana; Andrew Byrd, Kress; Regina Carter, LaMarque; and Laura Tirado, Fletcher and Robin Tielke, College Station. Honorees in the Health and Physical Education Department are John Johnson of Brenham: Gail Nelson, College Station, and Denise Prihoda, Bryan. Awards were presented by Education Dean Frank VV.R. Hubert. A&M cadets receive prestigious award The Legion of Valor Society s Bronze Cross for Achievement was presented Thursday to Texas A&M University cadets Mike Gentry of Huntsville and Ken Donnelly of Garland. The prestigious award, one of the highest to ROTC cadets, was given by Charles VV. Rush of Troup, Legion of Valor Society national commander. Gentry, Corps of Cadets commander, and Donnelly, deputy commander, received the Crosses at the Corps’ annual Christmas dinner. The award cites demonstrated academic and leadership excel lence. It is made annually on a select basis by the Societs com posed of winners of the Medal of II onor, the Navy Cross, Air Force Cross or Army Distin guished Service Cross. One award per 1,000 cadets is authorized. Texas A&M cadets have been Society Bronze Cross honorees annually since 1972. Recent recipients are John Rid dles of Pearland, Jon Bullock of Houston, Steve Eberhard of New Braunfels and Thomas Odom of Port Neches. Both 1977 society honorees are Distinguished Students in Business management. Donnelly is a Distinguished Naval Student and ranks first in a 67-member NROTC class. He commanded the Fish Drill Team, was sopho more class president, graduated fourth in a Naval Science Insti tute Class of 283 at Newport, R.I., and is a member of the Ross Volunteers. He is on Navy schol arship. A four-year Army scholarship student. Gentry chose Texas A&M over appointments to all of the service academies. Gentry, a Distinguished Military Student, also has broad student activities service, including concessions, Who’s Who selection and Ad-Hoc Traffic committees. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma and the Ross Volunteers, an elite honor military' unit and the old est collegiate student organiza tion in Texas. Engineering faculty honors top seniors Texas A&M University s top graduating engineering seniors, Russell Bistline of Beaumont and John Riddles of Pearland, were honored Wednesday by College of Engineering facultx. Bistline and Riddles were presented Engineering Senior Achievement Awards at a faculty meeting. Dean Fred J. Benson made the presentations. Along with individual plaques, the honorees names will be added to a bronze plaque in the entry hall of the Zachry Engi neering Center. The awards, made twice \early, go to recipients chosen by a faculty committee seating members from each engineering department. Scholarship is the prime criterion, but participation in campus activities, student technical activities and leader ship and financial responsibility are also considered. Riddles and Bistline have overall 3.9 grade point ratios, in industrial and electrical engi neering, respectively, . Riddles, a President s Scholar at Texas A&M, will be commis sioned in the U.S. Army on graduation Saturday. He has a two year commitment with the army and firm job offers from Exxon and Amoco Oil com panies. H e was the* 1976 A&M recipi ent of the Legion of Valor Soci ety’s Bronze Cross for Achieve ment. Riddles completed four years in the Cadet Corps last spring as corps information offi cer. He is memher of several honor societies, including Phi Kappa Phi and Tan Beta Pi. Riddles has also served on the Memorial Student Center Council, as class secretary and Town Hall chair man while earning all of his col lege expenses as a roustabout, assembly line worker and teach ing assistant, among other jobs Bistline has similar extracur ricular credentials and is placed second in his 145-member engi neering class. Along with other honors and activities, he was Phi Kappa Phis outstanding junior. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi neers treasurer, member of the Elect rical Engineering Student Council, an approved Amateur Softball Association umpire and member of the Davis-Gary Hall judicial board. Bistline, a National Merit Scholar, also received aid from the Texas Society of Petroleum Engineers and had summer woil as a service station attendentand truck driver. He has accepted employment with IBM in Am- tin. <1 ATTENTION Recognized Student Organizations T/ ^ ^ ^/z „ /' V 'Sht fair Enter the All Night Fair! Applications Now Available Room 216 MSG MSC Sponsored 0 Qbc) INTERSTATE UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 846-115) ADULTS $2 To 5:00 Sa+ TODAY 7: I 5 9: 15 11:15 Sat. & Sun. 1:15 3: 15 5: 15 ALSO If | "...A personal triumph for George Burns. 'Oh, God!' is an outrageously funny come«ly. r# —Aaron Gold, Chicago Tribune HELD OVER! 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