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Thursday
THEATER: Stagecenter Inc. presents Dirty Work at the Cross
road,” a Gay Nineties melodrama today through Saturday at 204
W. Villa Maria Rd. The musical begins at 8 p.m. and admission is
$2.50 for adults and $1 for children under 12.
MOVIE: “Slaughterhouse Five,” based on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. s book,
will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater.
ASTROS TICKETS: ABCS is selling tickets for the Astros vs. Dod
gers game this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. There will be a charter bus
available. All tickets are for seats behind first base. For more
information call Becky at 845-5541.
Friday
GROMETS: The Texas A&M Gamers club will meet at 7 p.m. to play
wargames and role playing games in Room 137A and 140B today
through Sunday at 6 p.m.
THEATER: Stagecenter Inc. presents “Dirty Work at the Cross
road, a Gay Nineties melodrama at 204 W. Villa Maria Rd. The
musical begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $2.50 for adults and $1
for children under 12.
MOVIE: Omen, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, will be
shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: “M*A*S*H,” starring Elliot Gould and Donald
Sutherland, will be shown in the Grove Theater.
Saturday
MOVIE: “Damien: Omen II,” starring William Holden and Lee
Grant will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater.
THEATER: Stagecenter Inc. presents “Dirty Work at the Cross
road,” a Gay Nineties melodrama at 204 W. Villa Maria Rd. The
musical begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $2.50 for adults and $1
for children under 12.
Sunday
MOVIE: “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother,
will be shown at 8:45 p.m. in the Grove Theater.
CALENDAR: Any person, group or organization who would like to
have something printed in the What’s Up column should fill out a
form provided in Room 216, Reed McDonald. The name, date and
purpose of the event should be included.
Never too qldjbr school
Man aims for doctorate
If you get the urge to go back to
school, do it, recommends 58-year-
old Merritt Goff.
Now a graduate student at Texas
A&M University, Goff has twice left
good jobs to get more education.
Most recently he pulled up stakes
after 15 years with the Ford Motor
Co. to enroll in a doctoral program
in engineering at Texas A&M.
“It does take readjustment, but
I’ve done it twice,” Goff said, who
also teaches quality control on
halftime appointment as an instruc
tor in the Industrial Engineering
Department.
The recently elected Fellow of
the American Society for Quality
Control (ASQC) teaches two 30-
student sections during regular ses
sions.
When Goff sits down in a class
room on the other side of the lec
tern, he finds basically the same
thing: “The other students could be
my sons or daughter,” said the
father of one.
Only a student from Nigeria
showed interest in Goff because of
his age. “He asked why and dis
cussed the doctor of engineering
program, because they don’t need
researchers in his country. They
need engineers to help the country
develop. ”
A 1943 graduate of Purdue in
chemical engineering, Goff worked
14 years then returned to school.
He earned a master of science in ex
perimental statistics at North
Carolina State University in 1960.
Throughout his life he has sam
pled a variety of careers, including
technical and consulting contribu
tions in the aerospace, rubber and
automotive industries.
Goff took an educational leave of
absence from Ford in Dearborn,
i Victims paralyzed by spinal injur
ies may have new hope for partial re-
bvery as a result of a Texas A&M
^University medical study.
Oxygen and chemical treatments
Sministered in a pressure chamber
elped laboratory animals with se-
fered spinal cords regain use of
keir hind legs, some to the point
[here they could support their
[eight, said Texas A&M researcher
br. John Gelderd.
■ Gelderd said best results were
obtained following hyperbaric
[(pressurized oxygen) treatments
[combined with the use of dimethyl
[ulfoxide (DMSO), a ch emical
Sometimes used to preserve tissues
during freezing.
[ The tests were among the first in
fhich such regeneration has oc-
urred in mammals.
; Gelderd said that hyperbaric oxy-
ien apparently prevented deteriora-
on of tissue and allowed more spi-
ial nerve fibers to regenerate
'rough the severed part of the spi
nal cord.
The preliminary findings hold
juge potential if they can someday
applied to human victims. Cur-
ently, little if anything can be done
to return normal functions to per-
®ns paralyzed with spinal injuries.
The oxygen treatments were
applied over a peroid of two months
at pressures almost three times that
of Earth’s atmosphere, said Gel
derd. The tests were made in
cooperaion with Texas A&M hyper
baric pioneer Dr. William Fife, as
sociate dean of science.
Gelderd said almost a third of the
rats treated with pressurized oxygen
alone showed a return of function.
The success rate rose to 60 percent
in the group given both oxygen and
DMSO.
In a control group which did not
use the oxygen and DMSO treat
ments, not a single animal regained
use of its hindquarters, supporting
the widely held belief that mammals
are unable to regenerate injured
spinal cords under natural condi
tions.
Gerlderd, who particiapated in
the inauguration of the Kent Wal-
drep (injured TCU football player)
International Spinal Cord Research
Foundation at Arlington last month,
has received $21,375 from the
Paraplegia Cure Research Founda
tion to continue his studies with two
other Texas A&M medical re
searchers.
The current study was funded by
Organized Research, special alloca
tion established by the Texas Legis
lature to foster experiments that will
benefit all Texans.
Mich., where he “took systems en
gineering to the auto industry from
the aerospace industry.”
Technically still a Ford employee,
Goff figures he will complete the
doctorate in three years. “Then (in
1981, at the age of 61) we’ll see what
happens,” he said.
That approach partially explains
his varied background.
“Every job I had turned out to be
a problem-solving situation, for
which I had the ability,” he said.
“When it ceased to be interesting,
I’d move on.”
Following pre-bachelor degree
work with a Michigan railroad, he
worked first for the tire company
without the blimp then the com
pany with the blimp. Goffs five and
four years, repectively, with B.F.
Goodrich and Goodyear bracketed
teaching in Purdue’s engineering
mechanics department.
Master’s studies at North
Carolina State preceded a year as a
technical writer for Rubber World
magazine then he finished his mas
ter’s. Goff worked two yeears at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, a few
months each at Lockheed and
United Technology and joined Ford
in 1963.
Fifteen years with Ford was
partly the doing of his son, Zane
Alan, now with an oil company in
Montana. “He questioned our mov-
. ing around so much,” Goff said.
Though it followed a relatively long
span in one place, his wife Mary
took the move from Dearborn to
College Station in stride.
Goff sees some problems for
major companies with later retire
ment ages. “Some of them think
you’re dead at 40. What do they do
with this individual if he wants to
stay on to 70?” Goff asked.
“I have no time for the traditional
retirement things,” he said. “I’ve
gone fishing, but it wasn’t to rest... it
was to catch fish.”
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tudied at A&M
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for college graduates.
A paralegal is a lawyer’s assistant who is able to do many
tasks traditionally done by attorneys. Not a clerical or se
cretarial role, the paralegal is a new legal specialty with ex
cellent job opportunities in law firms, corporate legal depart
ments, and banks.
Three months of intensive training in courses taught by
law professors and lawyers can give you the skills to inter
view witnesses, conduct legal research, prepare pleadings,
draft transaction documents, and prepare cases for trial under
the supervision of an attorney.
The Basic Legal Assistant Course begins September 10,
1979. In addition to the three-month daytime program, the
same course will also be offered two nights per week for
eight months starting September 24, 1979.
For a catalogue and further information, call or write:
The Southwestern Paralegal Institute
5512 Chaucer Drive
Houston, Texas 77005
(713) 528-3803 SW
Approved by the Texas Education Agency
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