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■H ts to felony »r Moody ■fendanls atemenls n the i daiminj velfare oi ed beforf ey turned ids /ill meet plans for ‘xeeutive neeting. Centennial Voices project underway at Prairie View iis public icrat who Watergate In the year 2078, students and historians at Prairie View A&M University will be able to hear about the school’s first 100 years directly from those who shaped and lived it. No, there’s no magical elixir in the works. What is in the works is a project to record on high-fidelity tape as many of Prairie View A&M’s 70,000 living alumni, former employees, past teachers, present faculty and state officials as possible. The Centennial Voices project, as the oral history endeavor has been designated, asks persons to buy a cassette tape, record in their own words pertinent personal information and their own recollections and views of Prairie View, then re turn the tape to the History De partment. Project director George Wool- folk, chairman of history, says the largest problem now is find ing addresses for about 50,000 alumni for whom no current ad dress is known. Woolfolk and his three- member project team feel that many former students are lo cated in Central and East Texas in such areas as Temple-Waco, Tyler, Longview and Marshall as well as the Houston and Dallas urban regions. Many of those would like to participate during the school’s centennial year, he says, but that milestone is slipping away. The university has already cel ebrated its centennial com mencement and on-going projects have included a centen nial observation of Afro- American History Month in Feb ruary and, more recently, honor ing the nearby birthplace of black planter and politician Nor ris Wright Cuney. Dozens of other tentative cen tennial projects have been dis cussed, from fund raising, pub licity and time capsules to “Op eration Roots,” which will try to identify and obtain photographs of key administrators and stu dents in each academic and non-academic area since 1878. Woolfolk says initial response to the Centennial Voices project has been good among university officials, Texas A&M System administrators and state officials. Recordings have been re ceived from regent chairman Clyde Wells, system chancellor Jack Williams, Texas A&M foot ball coach Emory Bellard, Texas Commissioner of Education M. L. Brockette and Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton. Invitations have been sent to Gov. Dolph Briscoe, numerous state senators and representa tives, and current faculty, staff and students at Prairie View A&M. Response has been so encouraging that Woolfolk says the university is considering another project called Vista Voices in which a videotape of key administrators and alumni will be solicited to join the tape recordings in the Prairie View A&M archives. Woolfolk urges former stu dents and past employees and teachers who wish to participate to contact the History Depart ment as soon as possible. While fund raising is not the purpose of the oral history pro gram, any donations sent in with the tapes will be forwarded to the university’s development and scholarship officials, he said. Firemen’s for public School service THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1978 Page 3 adds course dispatchers Training for personnel who send emergency crews into action will be included in the Firemen’s Training School this summer at Texas A&M University. The new course is for public safety emergency service dispatch ers who are in top demand na tionwide. “He’s the nerve center of the whole operation,’ Chief Hershel Sharp said. “Without this indi vidual, nothing else moves. Taught by communications specialists of city and state agencies, the course is designed for fire, police, utilities and ambulance dis patchers. Enrollment will be lim ited to 30 trainees. Sharp said, ‘ be cause we want to give each student individual attention.” He noted that Course 114 is dif ferent from other fire courses in that it is not restricted to fire personnel. Half of the week-long training program will be devoted to hands-on experience in a communi cations center mock-up. One of a number of highly- specialized courses, the new Fire men’s Training School course could become an extension offering of the Fire Protection Training Division that would be conducted on the road. To reach that goal, the mock- up is being designed to be trans portable. The communications course, along with firefighting, fire preven tion training and courses on fire service management, rescue opera tions, pump operations and other areas vital to fire service operations, will be part of the July 23-28 Munic ipal Firemen’s Training School. FTS will involve more than 2,500 participants. It is coordinated by the staff of the Fire Protection Training Division under Chief Henry D. Smith. He and staffers work with an advisory board to devise and install new courses. “The advisory board has seen the need for this course for several years. Sharp said. The former Lubbock fire chief has worked with the Texas Department of Highway; Safety and Transportation as a course instructor to develop back ground for the FTS course. To cover telecommunications equipment, operating procedures and telephone and radio techniques among other topics, the training will put students in actual dispatching situations in the mock-up of the radio control center. The mock-up is being developed by Dr. Lloyd Fite and the Electronics Training Divi sion, also a part of the Texas Engi neering Extension Service. “It will be down-to-earth, hands- on type training,” Sharp said. Em phasizing basic tools needed by their dispatcher, instruction will go into diction, how to ask the right questions to get accurate informa tion about emergencies and use of organizational channels to get equipment and crews to sites in the shortest time. “It takes a special breed of per son, who knows how to organize calls and responses,” Sharp added. “More and more, the job is being done by women. ’ Course instructors will include Joe Trowbridge, regional communi cations supervisor for the Depart ment of Highway Safety and Trans portation at Lubbock; Capt. Buddy Jenkins, Dallas-Fort Worth airport communications specialist; Ben Montague, Texas chapter officer of the Associated Public-Safety Com munications Officers, and Bill Payne, city of Lubbock communica tions director. 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MachinesRwe haven t had a major hur- urer, saysRne in several years,” says Walter -fat fryers lenry, “and people have become em could jonchalant about the devastating ef- 5ofarhvoecjts of major storm, srious. |“When we do have a big hur- Rne, I m afraid it’s going to be a Bhtmare,” Henry says. “The build- I pof beach front property, and the I let that many people just haven’t |en a hurricane, is a real problem, dexicois The hurricane season officially i the two pan June 1. 1 cases o([ The new residents may not know first five chat to do in an emergency, the rs. Thereneteorology professor said. They fornia. ^ not helped much by the old tim- ;rs who tell how they weathered jiny storms. The old timers may »7 ust have been on the fringes of a 'l najor hurricane, or weathered a mall hurricane, Henry says, would [ fortitude does not do much good Carey, ptinst a storm like Hurricane Celia greater pi|l970 . Hurricane winds of up to a year jlO mph can cause incredibly high ides and enormous waves. elia swept through Texas on a i-day spree, leaving in its wake 11 yad and more than $453 million in amages to property and crops. Fornadoes also are spawned by the uirricanes, with 115 credited to 0 P tlJ Iu rr i can e Beulah in 1967. ement yjody I Precise figures on how many ch will feople are building or moving to the urrent mpreline are sketchy, but evidence hows that many seaside resorts are fecoming suburbs of cities, says the Jexas A&M scientist. The National Weather Service estimates, for llample, that in the past decade, 3 Mlion more people have moved to the hurricane-prone areas of florida. While the figures may not is as high, the pattern remains the same in Texas. A framework can be installed to Also, a fire extinguisher is rec- hold a first aid kit, snakebite kit, ommended. Emergency phone flashlight, candles, waterproof numbers should be listed on the matches and information on first door in large figures that can be read aid, civil defense, tornado safety and in poor light without glasses, he hurricane preparedness. adds. jr two ullage, amped :ratch- ;ar-old is hos- m last vas in- 3 went ddiers ; “Many of the newcomers haven’t seen firsthand a major coastal storm, and do not realize how violent the sea can get,” Henry said. “Waves and winds can hit a home like a Mack truck ramming the house. Now is the time to prepare for a hurricane, while there is plenty of time.” Henry suggests all coastal resi dents have two checklists. One for evacuation inland and a second list for remaining at home during a hur ricane. p’ Keep these lists available and, if it’s convenient, keep them in a loca tion such as the inside of closet door,” Henry says. “That area can be the emergency center of the house. 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