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•uce Griffin, a senior engineering technology major from
•yan, practices milling styrofoam on this machine that is
rmally used for making tools out of steel blocks.
k:M professor displays
t in Houston gallery
Texas A&M University pro
finds it a bit funny that his
nt art show at The Off
Jpfi ward Gallery in Houston is
ed “Joseph Donaldson; Select
spective.”
rjcttotrospectives are often done
’."pe the artist dies,” Donaldson
■‘I'l^bed,J'‘ai K l I’m certainly not
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3 six-foot-four 64-year-old pro-
•, artist and poet is vibrantly
There was a time, however,
he wasn t so sure about liim-
r his work.
tuttered badly as a child, he
i ‘If anyone had told me when I
'j-, kyoung that I’d wind up a
er, I would have laughed in
me \ face.
\s wtiiyas sure of one thing, though, I
: | )( . V -’S wanted to become an artist. I
r pan, ememher as a child sitting on
<• a dir itchen floor of our house in
tepptipOrleans drawing horses. The
on the animal weren’t drawn
and the picture didn’t look
;ood at all. They were horrible
ngs. But my mother under-
. she was a painter herself.
maldson, a member of the
( s A&M’s architecture and
onmental design faculty since
rWcds haslcome a long way from the
l\ inn's scrihhlings on a kitchen floor.
•tric.)l-vork hangs in private collec-
of notables like Burl Ives and
rkmin xhibitions have hung from
i 10 in: ton to the Virgin Islands.
y first studio in St. Thomas
i the top of Bluebeard’s castle,
'///III 6 Virgin Islands, Donaldson
*^*ed. “I lived down there for al-
five years writing, teaching
unning a gallery.
I S '"Jeft the islands to come to Texas
nuieflj,” j ie continued. “It may
’ ta * c . s 3 strange, but I’ve never re-
^’ e *'3d leaving. Oh, it was a pretty
but I like it here, too.”
1 A r0 naldson’s work is filled with
?nces to people, trees, land-
s and one of his favorite sub-
I a pnf
urd the
Wedn
jects, shrimp boats.
"You can see how easy it’d be for
me to like shrimp boats,”
Donaldson said. “A person can’t live
in New Orleans for any length of
time and not get almost addicted to
their beauty.
“I’ll tell you, to see one of those
creatures come into port with their
nets is a sight to behold,” he said. “I
don’t know how anyone could see a
sight like that and not be moved.”
Though he doesn’t like to classify
himself or other artists into
categories, the salt-and-pepper-
haired professor thinks of himself as
an “expressionist” artist.
“If I had to be classified I d call
myself an expressionist, not an im
pressionist,” Donaldson com
mented. "I want my paintings to
show how I feel, what I’m thinking.
I love to draw realistically and
abstractly.
“Whatever I paint I’ve got to feel
it, he added. T don’t care if I’m
drawing with a matchstick, which
I’m prone to do, or with a brush. I
have to feel connected to what I’m
painting. ”
What will he do when he retires
next year?
“I’ve got plenty to keep me
busy, he said. “I’m currently work
ing on a book of my own drawings
and poetry. I’ve got my painting and
I may teach part-time.”
Teaching has been one of the
greater joys of his life, Donaldson
said. Though he said he won’t miss
getting up for 8 a.m. Monday
classes, he admitted he will miss the
students.
“I’ve seen some great minds come
through here, he said. “Life at
Texas A&M has been good to me. I
never felt poor. There’s always been
enough beautiful and exciting things
going on that I’ve never felt poor. I
think Charles Dickens said it best in
his novel, Tale of Two Cities’: ‘It
was the best of times, it was the
worst of times’. ”
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Biologist says global famine
will be occurring by 1984
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1978
Page 3
SPON
MSC SUMMER
PROGRAMMING
COMMITTEE
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Widespread global famine will be
occurring by 1984, and the United
States will be unable to produce
enough food to stop it, Shell Oil Co.
biologist William Gursey told stu
dents who attended an environ
mental and energy conference at
Texas A&M.
He said even with peak produc
tion, the United States could do no
thing to close the widening food and
popvdation gap.
Other speakers at the conference
talked on nuclear safety, coal uses,
the importance of petrochemicals,
energy, and cancerous compounds
in the environment. The 131 high
school students who attended came
from 46 states. They were guests of
die National Council of State Gar
den Clubs and Shell Oil Co., co
sponsors of the conference.
All speakers stressed the need for
greater awareness of one’s environ
ment. Gursey said it was impossible
to remain isolated from the world
food situation. Solutions to prob
lems would be neither easy nor
simple, he said.
A speaker on the use of pet
rochemicals echoed that position.
He said replacement of synthetic
fibers with natural ones would lead
to unforeseen consequences. To re
place polyesters with cotton would
require that 60 percent more land
be planted in cotton — land which
he said would be diverted from rais
ing foodstuffs.
Dr. Linn Carter of the University
of Texas said the odds of a nuclear
accident occurring were less than
those for the occurrence of some
natural disaster such as a tornado.
He said that since the first commer
cial plant went into operation, there
has not been one fatal nuclear acci
dent.
Dr. Van Bavel, a professor at
Texas A&M, spoke on solar energy.
He stressed the fact that the cur
rently fashionable alternate energy
source has some very real limita
tions such as the ability to provide
concentrated enough energy for in
dustrial use.
Dr. K. Sommers, toxicologist for
Shell Oil Co., discussed carcinogens
in the environment. She said that
contrary to popular belief, there is
no dramatic increase in cancer
cases. Although there is an overall
increase in the number of cancer
cases, it is primarily due to the
population growth, she said.
Once the figures are adjusted for
population increase, they show that
most types of cancer are leveling off
or declining because of improved
methods of treatment and detec
tion. She said the exception is lung
cancer, which is continuing to rise
dramatically in men and to a lesser
extent in women.
Approximately 70 percent of
cancer deaths are caused by life
style, she said. That includes smok
ing, consuming alcohol, and eating
overly fatty foods.
She said industry-caused cancer
deaths account for only 2-5 percent
of the total. She said those deaths
are on the downswing because of in
creased worker protection and
chemical testing.
In a later interview, Sommers
said companies had solid economic
reasons for giving their workers bet
ter protection. She said the com
panies have to contribute to health
plans and compensation. They also
have to absorb the cost of training
replacements.
Though two girls attending the
conference said they were bored,
Gary Wallace of Montgomery, Ala.,
said he enjoyed it.
“I’ve gained an insight on energy
and environmental problems,” he
said.
He explained this by saying he
was unaware of the shortcomings of
solar energy, or of the risk involved
in drilling for oil.
“I didn’t know only one out of
forty wells even broke even,” he
said.
He said that although he main
tains his stand against nuclear
energy, he was glad he became
aware of its safety factors and pos
sibilities.
All of the students were left with
the fundamental problem posed by
Gursey: a philosophy needs to be
developed that stresses the need for
preservation of the environment.
He said that over-intensification of
agriculture could lead to ecological
catastrophes similar to those that
destroyed past civilizations such as
Sumeria or the Indus valley. He
said that such a disaster needs to be
prevented.
He asked if the United States is
ready to say “We can provide no
greater quantities of food without
causing serious disruption to our
environment and great harm to our
wildlife resources — and what hun
gry person will accept a logic which
causes him to continue to go hun
gry?"
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