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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1978)
e till! >rt ■Tile in 1 fepkt 'ingotii 'liege Bruce! dyings eduled eloped j isydict ' get® conditi i will Ij edals t, said I it psyi ool. 1 oratont A third generation Aggie woman; probably first in school’s history Texas A&M University, in its 101 lis, was an all-Southwest Confer- commencement for a bachelor of will take a bilingual capability into Texas A&M University, in its 101 years, has had a number of graduates with an Aggie parent and grandparent. They’ve been male, until now. Susan Dianne Ellis graduates Saturday, and can relate to her grandmother, Mrs. L.M. (Stella) Haupt, Class of ’64, and mother Reni, (Mrs. Don Ellis) Class of ’69, as Texas A&M former students. Stella, Reni and Susan are proba bly the first three generations of women Aggies. The Association of Former Students records reveal no others. Since Texas A&M has admitted women to degree programs only the last 15 years, the chances are slim. Actually, Susan can say her father and grandfather are Aggies too, using fraternal and maternal lines. Her father, Air Force Col. Don El lis, was an all-Southwest Confer ence quarterback at Texas A&M who completed business studies in 1954. Her grandfather, Lewis Haupt, retired electrical engineer ing professor and College Station rancher, earned two degrees from Texas A&M, his first in 1927. But keeping track of Texas A&M associations in the family would call on all the genealogical experience of Susan’s grandmother. Ruth Trotter, another Haupt granddaughter and sophomore computer science and electrical en gineering major, can also lay claim on familial ties with the university. Her father, Ide P. Trotter Jr., also graduated in 1954, in chemical en gineering. Her late Grandfather Trotter was dean of the Graduate College in the 1950s. Susan is a candidate in Saturday’s commencement for a bachelor of science degree in elementary edu cation, another similarity. Her mother’s and grandmother’s masters degrees are in education. Circumstances leading to the Saturday culmination required some unplanned timing and being in the right place at the right time by Mrs. Haupt, a campus meeting of Don Ellis and Reni Haupt, the Vietnam war and an Aggie father’s outlook. What’s more, Susan is the only girl in Reni and Don’s family. She has three brothers and two aunts and an uncle on the Haupt side. The latter attended college elsewhere. “Dad told me I could go any where to school, but not the Uni versity of Texas,” related Susan. Reni is a 1953 University of Texas graduate. “There was no question ever, really, about any place else. I always assumed I’d go to Texas A&M, be cause I didn’t know anything about any place else, ” said the Aggie, who will take a bilingual capability into her elementary school teaching. “My parents met in the Academic Building while they were taking a summer course,” Susan added. Col. Ellis was assigned in Vietnam in 1968-69, forging another link toward three generations of women Aggies. Reni earned her master’s degree at Texas A&M while he was in Southeast Asia. But it really began in 1952, when Mrs. Haupt, now retired, was teach ing school in Bryan. The 20-year teacher began taking summer courses then, to meet professional requirements of the Bryan school district. She became the first woman ad mitted to Texas A&M in a regular degree program in 1963, when the university opened its doors to wo men. “I was not the first to graduate, but was among the first five,” she pointed out. And only 14 years since she graduated, the Haupts and Ellises have more reason to be proud. vr n LET US ENTERTAIN YOU... LET US MAKE YOU SMILE! Bring your smiling face and those of 25 to 100 friends over to our party room at the Pizza Inn in Bryan. Perfect accommodations for your party at a price you can afford. “WE’VE GOT A FEELING YOU’RE GONNA LIKE US!’ Pizza inn. Call 846-1784 for details. thing (j ihig said, nt is sli basket, taken to signing! (lympics iparatm History will probably be made Saturday when Susan Diane Ellis, pictured between her grandmother, Mrs. Stella Haupt (left), and her mother Reni, graduates. America's millionaires Roster lists rich : s» tsn g(H1 B46-1 . hoppinc 1 ] United Press International NEW YORK — If you aren’t a millionaire, then surely you must know one, because America is, lit erally, a land of millionaires — 200,000 of them — according to a study published in the May issue of Town and Country magazine. Theat’s one millionaire out of every 1,200 people. The richest individual among them is Daniel K. Ludwig, an 80- year-old, publicity-shy New Yorker, whose empire includes the coun try’s largest oil tanker fleet, the magazine said. Ludwig’s personal wealth is estimated at between $2 billion and $3 billion — more than the Rockefeller family. Among the names, the magazine said, “are oilionaires and cattle ba rons, investment bankers and indus trialists: along with “makers of greeting cards, pet foods and baby shampoo. The magazine listed 74 American individuals and families worth more than $200 million each. The richest of the rich, the magazine said, are the Mellon fam ily of Pennsylvania and the du Pont farinily of Delaware, The Hearst Publishing Co. magazine for the leisure-class woman estimated the wealth of each family as between $3 billion and $5 billion. The Mellon fortune stems from the Mellon National Bank & Trust Co., covers four generations and in cludes Gulf Oil, Alcoa, and Koppers Co. Town and Country said the du Pont wealth spanned six genera tions, making it the oldest family of the superwealthy. The du Fonts began selling gunpowder to the ad ministration of Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, and now own one of the most diversifies chemical companies in the world. Ranking behind the two richest families, with between $2 billion and $3 billion, were the Getty fam ily of California and Ludwig, the country’s wealthiest individual. The Rockefeller family oil, real estate ranked next, with between $1 billion and $2 billion, and between $600 million and $1 billion were the Ford family of Michigan (au tomobiles). the Hunt family of Texas (oil), and the Pritzker family of Il linois (real estate and manufactur ing). Those estimated worth between $400 and $600 million were Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. 77, and Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., 53, of San Francisco (engineering and construction man- gagement); Henry Crown, 81, of Chicago General Dynamics Corp.; Marvin Davis, 52, Denver (major independent oil driller); Michael Fribourg, 64, New York (Continen tal Grain); William R. Hewlett, 65, Palo Alto, Calif. 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