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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.
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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|
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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.
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