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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1979
city manager, Ernest Clark, arranges the books
of His new Home. Battalion photo by Jeanne Graham
By ESTHER CORTEZ
Battalion Reporter
Bryan’s six-month search for a city
manager ended today when Ernest
R. Clark officially took charge of the
office at 8 a.m.
Lou Odle quit the position last
summer over a disagreement with
the city council. Hubert Nelson,
Bryan s director of Planning and
Traffic, took over until a replace
ment could be found.
Clark, 44, came to Bryan from
Kingsport, Tenn. where he had
served as city manager for four
years. He received a master’s de
gree in public administration from
Oklahoma State University.
Clark doesn’t expect his respon
sibilities as Bryan city manager to
differ much from those of his previ
ous job, he said in an interview
Wednesday.
“Most cities have the same prob
lem,” he said, “and that is that there
are a lot of things to be done and not
enough money to do them with.”
Regarding his plans for the city,
Clark said he will try to analyze and
propose new concepts and tech
niques for managing the city’s prob
lems.
“The success of my job depends
on the people who work under me,
and it is also my responsibility to
make them successful,” Clark said.
By providing his employees with
an environment which will “expand
their horizons,” he hopes to
motivate them to do the best that
they can.
He added that he will basically be
working for the city council, doing
what they tell him.
“A yearning to come back to
Texas” made him decide to take the
city manager job in Bryan, Clark
said.
Although he was born
Portsmouth, Va., Clark has spent a
great deal of time in Texas.
He completed his undergraduate
work at West Texas State Univer
sity. He was later stationed at San
Antonio for nine years while serving
as a Staff Sargeant in the U.S. Air
Force.
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By LOUIE ARTHUR
Battalion Reporter
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airman Daryl Taraba of Dallas
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lomic Environment: Business,
iksand Bureaucracy,” will be the
nference ever.
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lied this year than in the past,”
a said. “We ve got a wider sec-
f people so we have a lot more
eront views, both liberal and
rvative.”
Ithough the delegates represent
e variety of viewpoints and at-
udes, SCONA 24’s planning
ijmittee has not had as much luck
Hits speakers. Mark Troutz, a
ember of the planning committee,
ys this year’s list of speakers may
tceive some criticism.
r e may get blasted for it being
mservative this year,” Troutz
said. “We invited a long list of liber
als but they all turned us down.
“The people who fund it
(SCONA) would love to see all the
speakers be conservative,” Taraba
said, “but we tried to get it as equal
as possible. Fifteen percent, or
$6,000, of the $40,000 total budget
comes from delegate fees while the
other $34,000 comes from dona
tions. Many of these donations are
from large corporations and foun
dations.
“Liberals are harder to get,’’
Taraba explained. “Most of them are
not in business — they’re in Con
gress or the administration. Con
servatives from corporations seem
to be looking for an opportunity to
do things like this.”
Taraba sees luck as a big factor in
getting more liberals to speak in the
future. “You really need good con
nections to get them,” Taraba said,
“and most of the connections of the
students and faculty here are con
servative.”
Sixteen of the delegates attending
SCONA 24 will be from Texas
A&M.. These were chosen from the
85 to 90 applicants this year on the
basis of their grades, involvement in
vents program
school activities and their ability to
express themselves clearly, think
well, evaluate a problem and ap
proach it.
In recent years, high schools have
been invited to send delegates to
SCONA. This year 36 seniors from
the top schools in Texas will be at
tending the conference.
“This is an opportunity to give top
high school students in Texas a
chance to look at A&M,” Taraba
said, “and it also gives A&M a
chance to brag a little and pull in
those top-notch students.”
There are six speeches on the
agenda thus far for SCONA 24.
After each speech, the delegates
will break up into 10 round-table
discussions — eight of them col
legiate and two high school.
Each round-table will have co-
chairmen to lead the discussions.
One of these co-chairmen will be an
off-campus representative and the
other will be an on-campus leader.
The majority of the on-campus co-
chairmen will be professors, while
most of the off-campus co-chairmen
will be business leaders.
The SCONA programs were
begun in 1954 by Earl Rudder, then
president of Texas A&M.
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Feb. 14
-3 :30 p.m. James L. Buckley,
mer U;S. senator from New
rk “The Federal Bureaucracy:
Irvant or Master?”
Feb. 15
-8:30 a.m. Dr. Murray L.
eidenbaum, former assistant sec
tary of the U.S. Treasury, “Effects
Government Regulatory Policies
the American Economy”
-1 p.m. William Cunningham,
nomist, research department
rCIO, “Labor’s Concerns and
ues Within the Economy”
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serve Bank of Dallas, “The Inflation-
Unemployment problem.”
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—10 a.m. Dr. Clifton B. Cox,
chairman and chief executive. Ar
mour and Company, “The Eco
nomic Environment in Agriculture”
Feb. 17
—11 a.m. William P. Hobby Jr.,
lieutenant governor of the state of
Texas, wrap-up speech.
Hobby’s speech will be given in
room 224 of the Memorial Student
Center. All other speeches will be
in Rudder Theater.
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