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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, MAY 1, 1978 In celebrating our 1st year in our new location, we want to express our thanks to the Bryan-College Station area for letting us serve you! Ann, Coke, Connie, Diane, Kay Ai' a & m travel service 111 UNIVERSITY DRIVE travel anywhere, anyplace, anytime 846-8881 HOME, HOME, SWEET HOME! A lost child who was so scared, cried out to ask people to help her find her house. She was so hungry and thirsty. She just wanted to go home and see her dear parents. Every time I heard this story when I was young, I sympathized very much with this girl and asked my mother: “Mom! Will I get lost? I want to stay at home forever!” I have a sweet home and since I am the youngest child in the fam ily, my parents spoiled me and my sisters took care of me. All my childhood was filled with love. I had everything that a girl wanted to have. When I went off to the university, I was very concerned with what people said about me, I wanted to be a good charming girl, but the more I attended social ac tivities the more empty I felt. I knew all that I had would go one day. People who praised you one day would criticize you the next. That just came to naught. At that time I lived in the school dormitory and my family was far from me. When I encountered some frustra tion, I could not go home and tell my parents. I felt I was getting lost. But one day, one of my classmates invited me to a meet ing. I still remember that night; they talked about that one hun- dreth lost sheep that the Shepherd left the 99 to go find. I asked myself “am I that one?” On the way home, that song remained in me and kept repeating itself over and over again. I could not help but think I was baptized when I was an infant. Every Sunday I went to church. The Lord Jesus seemed to me just to be sitting in the heavens and one day He would come down to the earth to judge all the people. I never had had the feeling that He is the lonely Father looking for ward to His lost son coming home. I was so impressed by finding out this. I saw Him as the merciful Father. I loved to lie down in His arms. In 1976, I had to leave my coun try, my parents and my dear friends to come to the United States for advance studying. When the airplane took off, I knew I would go to an unknown world. The western world is so strange to me; the culture, the life style, the people who live there are totally different from the Oriental. The first semester just went by. I iso lated myself from the American. I was very homesick. I prayed to the Lord, “Lord, don’t leave me alone! I don’t want to get lost again. Oh Father! Where is your home?” Then, one day I went to a meet ing. When I entered the meeting, I was very much shocked. Everyone just had a pure heart enjoying the Lord. We were singing, talking, and singing again and again. I al most forgot the time when I had to leave. I was so happy even I didn’t really understand what they said, but I just felt that I had come home. We were in God’s family and this family will last forever. In Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 19 says “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreign ers, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.” Thanks Father for bringing me to Your Home. In this family, we can enjoy and touch the Lord every day. Oh! Home! Home! Sweet Home! I love You. Judy Chang, graduate 846-0610 Paid for by Christian students on campus. Bible study Weds, noon All Faiths Chapel Reading Room ★ ELECT ED ELMORE 1820 GREENFIELD PLAZA, BRYAN TEXAS 77801 May 1, 1978 Students, Faculty, Personnel Texas A§M University College Station, Texas 77840 Ladies and Gentlemen: On Saturday, May 6, the voters of Brazos -County will select the Brazos County Attorney. This office is only important to those people who ever write checks without suffTcient funds; who ever drive after drinking alcohol; who ever exceed the speed limit outside the city limits; and those people who desire to live and work in an academic community free from fear of crime. It is said that politicians are afraid to state their positions. Here is one who is not. I believe the following: (1) People associated with TAMU SHOULD NOT receive any better treatment than other residents of Brazos County. (2) People associated with TAMU SHOULD NOT receive any worse treatment than other residents of Brazos County. I firmly believe that the people of Brazos County will get what they deserve on May 6. I believe they deserve a Brazos County Attorney of which they can be proud. Your vote and support will be appreciated. Sincerely, 0. E. "ED" Elmore □ A County Attorney You Can Be Proud Of. FI Paid Political Advertisement: Committee To Elect Ed Elmore: Ron Walenta, Treasurer EaJI Td rattier tiave anajyplel American yp Cancer Society ^ 9f ' Mail clerk likes opening letters Most people enjoy getting letters in the mail and Mable Rek is no ex ception. She just gets more than the average person —r about 100,000 letters per year. Rek is the mail clerk at Texas A&M University’s Admissions and Records Office. She is paid to read other peoples’ mail and direct it to the appropriate office. It may sound tedious, but she says the interesting letters keep her happy. “I enjoy opening the mail,” she says, “and I even keep copies of some of the cute letters. ” She reaches into a file and pulls out a folder containing some letters, most pertaining to admission to the university. One young man wrote: “Dear Texas A&M, I am righting you to ask for a applikashun for admishun in yur Colidge. I am a scenure at Eastwood High School and my Momma is a teacher, hear. I have a 3.85 grade point avrage and my Momma says I’m smart. I filllwood to be a good Aggy and a tribyoot to your School.” He signed the letter, “Yours Truely.” Rek says she gets many joke let ters, but this one may have backfired. The writer is not enrolled in the university today. Some of the correspondence is tragicomic, such as the post card a girl sent in illustrating her despera tion to secure a room on campus. She drew a picture of herself holding a gun to her head. But she added, “maybe that’s a little drastic. But let me tell you, when I told my mom that I might not get a room and might have to stay home, she broke down and cried! Poor thing. She wants me to be happy so badly. So, not only for my sake, but for my mother’s ... The girl did not have to shoot her self, though, and now resides on campus. Students are not the only ones to write, says Rek. A former student of Texas A&M wrote about his son, about to graduate from high school and a junior ROTC officer. The son was trying for an appointment to one of the service academies, but the father was making plans for Texas A&M just in case. “I am an old Aggie’ of the 1930s and would rather have an Aggie offi cer under my command than any damned West Pointer ever graduated,” he wrote. With the bulk of mail that Rek re ceives and that the office answers, there are some mistakes. For exam ple, a man from Massachusetts re quested the forms and information requried for enrollment. Forms for a foreign student were sent to him. Mable Rek — mail clerk “With all due respect to the pride that I am sure Texans feel for their home state,’’ he replied, “it is nonetheless true that the state of Massachusetts is not a foreign coun try. The correct forms were sent. She even gets letters fnn graduate students, such as the;&| who requested, “please send 4, I Rek says some potential students are not sure where to send their re quests of enrollment information and cites an example of a student who addressed a letter to the “Red Star Office, Texas A&M Univer sity.” After reading the letter, Rek directed it to the appropriate loca tion, the Registrar s Office. graduate catalog so that I can geti with this business of driving mis* absolutely mad.’’ Even though Rek says theaiw.; of mail she must handle keeps|fl very busy, letters like these Upl highlight her day. She adds cute comments are just a partollli fringe benefits of her job. Shetri also started collecting stamps M all parts of the world. ‘Come Out the Night’: by far best poem 1978 Moebius is'fair-to-middlin By ANDY WILLIAMS Battalion Staff Fair-to-middlin’ looks at love and oceans of sexual imagery surround a few excellent pieces of writing in the 1978 “Moebius.” The “Moebius,” published by the Memorial Student Center’s Arts Committee, is a collection of crea tive writing and artwork by Texas A&M University students. By far the best poem in this year’s edition is Michael Wilks’ “Come Out the Night.” It describes a place on which a house once stood, the house that stood there and its con tents. Wilks uses several excellent images in depicting the razing of the house, including a vivid surgical analogy and suggestions that the de struction was done maliciously by something catlike. Wilks, a Daiiy Science major, did not win any of the poetry prizes given by the Arts Comittee. In fact, he said he had several pieces re jected by the “Moebius.” Marc Gist, who did win first prize in poetry, had two fine works, though neither impressed me as THE MSC CRAFT SHOP is looking for instructors for the summer sessions. If you’re interested in teaching a class in leather, silkscreen, lapidary, quilting, weaving, sandals, sand terrariums, or any other craft, contact us by May 1. Call 845-1631 or come down to the MSC Basement and see us. much as Wilks’. “Chester” is a good portrait of a black man in the army; “David’s Troubles” is an analysis of illness or injury on an atomic level. Tim Gaertner’s “A Schematic Ex perience” was enjoyable, as were Colin Crombie’s “The Answer in Blind Anger” and Diana Villarreal Aldrich’s “How the Elephants Got into My Pajamas (or Life after Death).” Generally, the prose was inferior to the poetry, though “Grandpa’s Hands” by Karl D. Klicker was a pleasant exception. It is a very short view of a man through a description of his hands; it is concise, simple. and effective. Ricks Fraziers "The Beumt fun and Is probably the best pray, work in the magazine. Itisastoijl an old Russian in a retirementte. in Alaska. ?: Too many of the writings cont# trate solely on teaching a h| Bonnie Campbell’s “The Fallofl tumn” has this fault, as does Jij shall J. Gezt’s “Those WhoTrea However, Campbell demonstej that a lesson can be taught inapt! without destroying it in "A Hym Anger and Love to My Gra mother.” Former students hon A&M deans at dinne Texas A&M University deans were honored Friday with other university administrators at the As sociation of Former Students’ an nual Deans’ dinner. Association President Harvey Cash of Dallas formally presented $60,000 in unrestricted grants from alumni organization sources. Funds are used at the discretion of the de ans, vice presidents and director of the Texas A&M Press. The president’s and vice- presidents’ funds are also included in the $60,000 total. environmental design; Dr. Job Pearson, business administration Also, Dr. Frank W. R Hui* education; Dr. R. E. Thomas, ing, engineering; Dr. Earl F. C# geosciences; Dr. George W. K® graduate; Dr. W.- David Max* liberal arts; Dr. Thomas T. Si hara, science, and Dr. George Shelton, veterinary medicine, The monies are in addition tof ln §> Association of Former Students nual gift to Texas A&M, nuraefi scholarships and departmei could enrichment funds, initiated! dry 2 year. race, pies: ,enjoy Tin A Gift of Pride for the Graduate! She’s special and you love her. Demonstrate your love in a proud and lasting gesture of your affection. Give her a gift of pride on Graduation Day . . . give her an Orange Blossom ring. Lindsey's Jewelers The dinner involved Texas A&M Chancellor Jack K. Williams, Presi dent Jarvis E. Miller, new vice- presidents Fred J. Benson, for en gineering and non-rewable re sources, and Dr. Perry L. Adkisson, agriculture and renewable re sources, and other top University of ficials. “The dinner is a way for the sociation of Former Students b to meet with the. officials and thanks for the job they are Texas A&M,” commented Rit! “Buck’’ Weirus, Association Former Students executive direfi Recipients of the deans’ funds in cluded the new dean of medicine. Dr. Robert S. Stone. Other deans honored are Edwin H. Cooper, admissions and rec ords; Dr. H. O. Kunkel, agriculture; Raymond D. Reed, architecture and He noted that the funds ei the administrators “to do tilings which state funds are not allocals One dean uses the money asa loan fund, while the majoritye®f it in various enrichment “The funds are set up in each® for flexible use,” Weirus said. 205 I I I I LOUPOTS SPRINGTIME SPECIAL A FREE A&M FRISBEE WITH EVERY T-SHIRT I l PURCHASED WITH THIS COUPON l l l l l Offer limited to one per customer whilf supply lasts. 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