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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978 Campus Names Chemistry Club awards presented At its annual banquet the Texas A&M University Chemis try Club presented awards on April 11 to the undergraduate chemistry majors. Loren Richardson, of Houston was named Chemistry Department’s Outstanding Undergraduate, and presented a Hugh E. Mc Lean Jr. award. American Insti tute of Chemists Outstanding Student was Carl Dufner of San Antonio. Donald Beck of Dallas and Toni Chancellor of Bedford were presented with Chemistry Department Achievement Awards, and Terry Seidel of Rosansky received the Merck Index Award. Michael Smith of Princeton was cited as the CRC Outstanding Freshman and Re- beckah Torres of Killeen re ceived the Dow Fellowship. ACS Undergraduate Leadership Awards were presented to Carl Dufner and Dan Ryan of Hous ton. Donald Beck of Dallas also received a Hugh E. McLean Jr. Award. The banquet concluded with the installation of new officers. President of the Chemistry Club is Margaret Sanders of Pearland. Mike Dishberger of Conroe is the vice president and secretary is Leslie Pope of Corpus Christi. Treasurer is Elizabeth Schluback of Miami, Fla. Granger receives 1st Lamport award Recipient of the American Physiological Society’s first Harold Lamport Award is Dr. Harris Granger of Texas A&M University’s College of Medicine. Granger, 33, was selected the outstanding car diovascular investigator from na tionwide nominees. The award was based on his studies concern ing the fluid balances in circula tion, the build-up of excessive fluids, and research related to control of blood flow in the body. Granger, associate professor of medical physiology, is nationally recognized as an authority in capillary dynamics and the func tion of lymphatic vessels. First area log cabin ; p has many memories MIDNIGHT MADNESS All The Buttermilk Pancakes You Can Eat 49 5 for 99c WED. 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WAS $125.00 NOW NOW We have Hewlett Packard models HP-29C to HP-97 in stock $9995 LOUPOT'S BOOKSTORE By CHRIS CAIN Tucked back among light-green spreading oaks, vines, bushes and blossoming wildflowers, rests a white log cabin. Its logs have settled over the years and slump in the middle, adding rustic charm to the 58-year-old cabin. It’s rather odd to see a log cabin alongside the more conventional wood frame house, especially in 1978. Even in 1920, when the cabin was built, it was probably an un usual sight. The log cabin, at 405 Dexter, was built by Dr. Floyd B. Clark and a friend. Drink Milner, the son of a former Texas A&M University pres ident. Clark, a Texas A&M history pro fessor and later, an economics de partment head, came to College Station with his wife in 1915. They lived on campus, as did the rest of the professors at that time. “He and his wife wanted to move off campus,” said Gloria Martinson Lefher. Lefher inherited Clark’s es tate after his death last summer at the age of 92. “They bought this land from Jer sey Street back about 200 acres,” she said. Clark owned a strip of land that eventually extended from Jer sey to Southwest Parkway, Lefher added. “Everybody used to tell him that it was ‘hanced out here,” she said. “Hanced” means haunted or ghost ly, Lefner explained. In the early 1920s, there were no large trees in that area. “When they built that (the cabin), and he and his wife moved out here, there weren t any trees on this street,” she said. The area across from the cabin was Dexter Lake. It is now a pic turesque park with a stream running through the center. In early photo graphs of the cabin, there were a few young, scrawny oak trees at the edge of the lake and some behind the house, but other than that, its landscape was bare and scattered with stones. Lefner said she did not know where Clark got the logs for the ca bin. She had never thought of ask ing him that, perhpas because she has always seen the area with trees and not without them. “Dr. Clark wanted to build a log cabin in the original form of a log cabin — log on top of log,” Lefner said. “First off, they didn’t have any money. They had to pay for the land,” she said. Clark’s strange de sire to construct a cabin and the low cost prompted him to build it, Lefher said. She said she didn’t know if Clark had dreamed of being a pioneer or settler. He was a very intelligent man who had his quirks, Lefner said. “You had to know him to under stand him and it took a lot of time to in-law used it as an art studiol' while, Lefner added. He retired from Texas A&l the late 1940s and several vj later, his wife died, Lefner s Clark wanted to move back inli cabin because it held so a memories for him but it wasnll able, she said. “He built a garage-apartmeil hind the log cabin,” she said. Clark would go over there ei day. He had a telephone in j and he would sit by that telepl listen to the radio, and look Battalion photo by Jean \ Restoration is planned for the first house to be built soutlj the Texas A&M University campus. It was constructed! Texas A&M history professor in 1920 and was recently sold| an antique dealer. know him and all the quirks he had,” she said. One of his quirks was he wouldn’t drink tap water — maybe that’s why he lived to be 92, Lefher said. The Clarks lived in the log cabin, the first house in the area south of the campus, until 1928 when they built the wood frame house at 305 Dexter, Lefner’s present address. She said there was always someone in the log cabin while the Clark’s lived in the other house. It was never rented, she said. His sister- window every afternoon.’’ Lefner used to cook and cla him until his death last sun, Clark had no children or relatij she inherited his estate, said. She sold the log cabin to 1 tique dealer last month to [ inheritance tax. “I would not| let it go under any other 1 stances but the fact that itwoi restored,” Lefher said. “Thai! number one reason I let it( cabin) go. I swore to him IdiJ tear it clown,” she said. The word is out. The place is the ATHLETE SUIT Jf IF IE AIL CILAJjf pum: Veronica Jerry Elise Val Lynnell Charissa 209 E. University 846-4771 College Station Broad Shoulders and Narrow Waist? We can suit you! (In the George Green Building) Jlthlete BOOKS . for Mom’s! . for Grads! Exclusively at the Gentleman’s Quarter ASK ABOUT OUR WARDROBE ACCOUNT HARDBACK BOOK SALE Top Quality Gift Books 50% to 70% off list price GENTLEMAN’S QUARTER 3705 East 29th • Bryan • 846-1706 Town & Country Center Open til 8 Thursday TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE Memorial Student Center