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No cobwebs, disintegrating papers
THE BATTALION Page
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1978
A&M Archives kept systematically
By MARLA RAGLAND
Mention the word archives’ and
images of cobwebs covering piles of
dusty books and disintergrating pa
pers comes instantly to mind. But
not at the Texas A&M University
Archives where papers are neatly
and systematically fded.
The Texas A&M University Ar
chives are located in the old section
of the library facing the Academic
building. Within the files is informa
tion on anything about Texas A&M
from Aggie traditions to corre
spondence of the president’s office.
“Most students come in here try
ing to find information for a class
theme or a term paper,” said Dr.
Charles R. Schultz, university ar
chivist. “Professors sometimes as
sign papers having to do with the
traditions of A&M and the students
come in to do research in our files.
“Freshman Corps members also
come in to obtain information about
the Aggie Band or the answer to a
‘cush’ question,” Schultz said.
“Sophomore Corps members ask
questions of freshmen and give
them a certain length of time to find
the answers. Some ot the questions
have no answers, but usually we can
help the student. We have a short
list of ‘cush’ questions and answers
on file.”
Along with the answers to ‘cush’
questions, there is information on
Aggie Spirit, the Aggie Ring, mas
cots, bonfire. Silver Taps, athletics.
Muster and many other facets of
Aggie life. There are also copies of
all the university catalogs and year
books. The archives contain ar
chitectural information on all the
major buildings on campus, as well
as photographs of buildings, activ
ities and student life.
“The archives preserve anything
of administrative, historical, legal or
fiscal significance,” Schultz said.
“We are trying to avoid the destruc
tion of any material related to the
University by encouraging the vari
ous offices to give us valuable rec
ords and papers so that they can be
preserved.”
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Graham Purcell and Texas legislator
Will L. Smith have been added to
the collection. Also included are
files from the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station.
As a part of the Oral History Col
lection, Dr. Robert Calvert has
conducted interviews with 50 of the
nation’s prominent oceanographers.
Interviews also have been done with
Mexican Americans who fled from
Mexico during the Revolutionary
War period of 1910-1920.
The archives were organized in
1950 and have been funded by the
University and by the Association of
Former Students. The Associaton of
Former Students initially gave
$10,000 to support the program two
years. They continued to provide
funding and paid the salary of the
archivist for several years. Today
the program is budgeted through
the University Library.
David Brooks Gofer was ap
pointed part-time archivist in 1950.
He took on the responsibility along
with his teaching duties in the
English Department and began
building the resources. Gofer retired
in 1957 and Ernest Langford of the
Architecture Department faculty as
sumed his position. Dr. Schultz
came on as full-time archivist in
1971. Today, there is also a full-time
assistant archivist, David Chapman.
All files of the archives are availa
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Monday through Friday. Docu
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