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Page 12 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978 ‘The voice of Aggieland’ announcer By SALLYANNE CORNELIUS Battalion Reporter Something is different about Kyle Field this year. It has a new voice. C.K. Esten has retired after 24 years as the public address an nouncer at Texas A&M University football games and 30 years teaching here. Esten was born in 1908. He at tended Brown University and graduated from Baylor University with a master’s degree in English and theater. “I was working at a detective agency while going to Brown, and I met a fellow who was from Baylor doing graduate work at Brown,” Esten said. “He asked me to come to Texas with him, and I finally did. In enrol led at Baylor. “He got me a dorm room and a job with the athletic department.” Esten said he ran track at Brown University, and he hoped to run at Baylor, but “at that time transfer students couldn’t run, even if they had been there a year or more.” Esten managed the track team Esten said he teas ashed to he the public address announcer be cause “1 knew some football. I had played it, coached it, re fereed it, and watched it.” and helped the coaches and trainers while at Baylor. Esten said Brown University was “a tougher school than Baylor. After Brown, Baylor was a breeze.” After graduation, Esten became principal and coach at a high school outside Waco. Sun Theatres 333 University 84e The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS 846-9808 Greyhound R x > The cure for college blahs. It’s a feeling that slowly descends upon you. The exams, the pop tests, the required reading, the hours at the library, the thesis— they won’t go away. But you can. This weekend, take off, say hello to your friends, see the sights, have a great time. You’ll arrive with money in your pocket because your Greyhound trip doesn't take that much out of it. If you’re feeling tired, depressed and exhausted, grab a Greyhound and split. It’s a sure cure for the blahs. Greyhound Service One- Way Round- Trip You Arrive Houston Dallas-Ft. Worth Waco New Orleans, La. 6.45 11.75 6.50 33.55 12.30 22.35 12.30 63.75 12:20 P.M. 2:30 P.M. 2:30 P.M. 8:50 A.M. 2:35 P.M. 7:35 P.M. 5:15 P.M. 9:50 P.M. Students special to Houston & Dallas Friday afternoon. Call for Reservations. (Prices subject to change.) Later he taught at Gorman High School. “That’s where I met my wife. She was teaching elementary school in, Gorman,” Esten said. Esten and his wife moved to New England, where he spent 11 years as a summer stock actor. The couple visited relatives each year in Texas, until “One year I asked my wife if she wanted to move back to Texas, and she said Yeah”’ Esten was offered two teaching jobs in West Texas, but decided to check with a friend at Baylor first. The friend sent a recommenda tion to Texas A&M, and Esten came to College Station for an interview. “Within five minutes, Dr. Tommy Mayo said I had the job. I never signed a thing. I always had, an oral contract at A&M,” Esten said. Esten said he was offered a job a few days later for a better salary, but, “I stuck with A&M. Esten said he was asked to be the public address announcer because “I knew some football. I had played it, coached it, refereed it, and watched it.” “I knew the different formations, and I spoke clearly,” Esten said. Esten announced for Texas A&M through nine different coaches, be ginning with Homer Norton, he said. Esten said one of the games he remembers was the “Hurricane Game” against TCU in 1956. “I’ve never seen anything like it ever, either before or after. “It was so stormy you couldn’t see. TCU had the ball about a foot from the goal line. The officials cal led it a no-gain. I couldn’t tell, but I’m sure the officials were right. Battalion photo by Paige Beasley After 24 years, C. K. Esten will no longer announce Texas A&M football games. Those guys were right on it,” Esten said. The Aggies won the game 7-6. Esten remembered the Texas A&M-Texas game of 1963 because, he said, of an official’s mistake. A Texas A&M receiver caught a pass near the back of the end zone and the officials ruled he was out of bounds. “The problem was the wrong offi cial called the play, and the referee ^imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii^ took the wrong official’s word. “Each official has a certain area he calls, and this guy was out of his area. “I’ve refereed a lot of ball games and I know whose area is whose,” Esten said. Texas A&M lost that game 15-13, and Texas became the Southwest Conference champions. Hank Foldberg, Texas A&M coach at that time, said of the call - “This is the greatest injustice to a group of young fellows I’ve ever seen.” The Texas A&M-Memphis State game this year was "the first time in 40 yers I’ve gotten to sit with my wife,” Esten said. Since he retired, Esten has taken two European trips. Presently he is considering a trip to the Holy Land. Esten spends considerable time gardening at home on his two lots. The Texas Municipal Power A will allow timber for the N# bonfire to be cut at the site 0 Gibbons Creek Steam Elen Station. Aggies who build the center for the annual bonfire will pm labor, equipment and truckst and haul logs off the project s The students will be alk work in a 300-acre tract ofthel osed Gibbons Creek cooling and dam site, which mustbecli of all vegetation prior to i struction. Most of the bonfire cutting "L I done Nov. 11-12 and 18-19 U ' dents will have access to the! project site over designated r Stacking, on the drill fields# Duncan Hall, is scheduled for 26-30. Robert O. Luedeker, k chairman, will direct thecuttiii stacking of the bonfire this) is a senior agriculture majorl New Ulm. “This is an opportunity f# public entities to act jointlyldi mutual benefit,” said Hi; Smith, mayor of Bryan andl board president. “We needlti the land cleared at the plantst Texas A&M University student make beneficial use of the hi We see this as an opportunityl volve ourselves in the conn* and to support a fine Univeni Jerry Mainord of Texas. 1 Department of Student Adam the TMPA cutting area is i ideal. It is one of the closestt recent yean-Ui i itliwest m southeast of College Station MAMA'S PIZZA A DELIVERS 11 A.M.-11 P.M. DAILY PIZZA, SPAGHETTI, LASAGNA, SALADS, & DRINKS ($5.00 MINIMUM) 696-3380 A&M investigator studies severe weather condition imes. 'ed 374 iggies into the n there’! ■uite up ilt’ii Rice 76 Ov la game a : yTTai'/r I j |8^l ^iiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiuimmMmmMmMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTK 112 Nagle 846-1774 GO GREYHOUND Getting STAY AHEAD WITH SPEED READING Student Class Starts October 23 rd Business & Communication Services 846-5794 BRAZOS BOTTOM A Texas A&M University meteorologist wants to look at weather information from the last 80 years in the United States and Canada to determine if it can warn us of the severe winters suffered in late 1976 and January 1977. James McGuirk says there is a re lationship between certain kinds of colder-than-usual winter weather and a phenomenon known as stratospheric sudden warming that occurs miles above the earth’s sur face. Very cold winter weather is not always tied to conditions in the stratosphere; further, stratospheric behavior is not completely under stood. Huge distortions in the jet stream develop, explains McGuirk, and at any time may warm up Alaska, caus ing trees to bud, while snow falls in Florida. These distortions, which accom pany stratospheric sudden warming, apparently have occurred in about half the years since weather and un seasonable conditions. By examinig pressure and temp erature data compiled sice 1900, McGuirk hopes to determine the re lationship of stratospheric warmings to what happens a| ground. If patterns emerge, they serve to warn scientists stratospheric sudden warmin| their probable results on the surface. In plotting weather sunn maps, McGuirk has monstrated that the 1977 re] snow in Florida, warm weal Alaska and dry weather in the lis Dicke all had similar counterparts c |g Jay j n January of 1958, 1963 and 1971 itr Texas of stratospheric sudden wa:|l g ame disruptions. 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