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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1978
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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