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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980
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The University Symphonic Band was formed
in 1974 for people not in the Texas Aggie Band
and is under the supervision of Maj. Joe
Staff photo by Ed Cunnius
McMullen, who is also associate director of the
marching and concert bands. The band has
65-70 members.
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Robert C. Runnels and J.P. Watson.
Runnels, a meteorology professor
at Texas A&M University, said he is
running because he feels it is every
citizen’s duty to take part in his com
munity. He said he is concerned
with continuing the high quality of
life and sound planning of industrial
growth to provide an economic tax
jast
| Watson is a local businessman and
was not available for comment,
v In a change of pace, incumbant Pat
Boughton is being challenged by
Texas A&M student Mary Elizabeth
Herring.
Boughton has spent two years on
city council, she said, learning the
|opes. “I need more than one term,’
she said. Originally zoning and the
liveability of neighborhoods were
her main concern, she said, because
commercial areas and apartments
were encroaching on single-family
living.
“But now my main goal is to bring
in more good, clean industries to in
crease the economic base and de
crease the tax load to citizens,”
Boughton said.
Herring, a junior agriculture eco
nomics major, has served as the
Texas A&M student senate liaison on
the council since October and said
earlier she is running because of her
interest in the issues, especially
zoning.
“But as the liaison I felt limited to
student affairs,” she said, “and it
would be nice to have a voice and be
able to vote.”
Incumbent Jim Dozier is un
opposed for place six and could not
be reached for comment.
Halter has been a councilman for
five years and said being mayor is not
very different from being on the
council since any additional powers
are only informal. He said he has the
experience and background (as an
associate professor of political scien
ce at Texas A&M), and wants to con
tinue the same policies the city is
following.
He said these policies include
efforts to attract industrial growth,
especially companies involved in
furthering University research
efforts or computer manufacturers;
also, railroad track relocation which
could include becoming a part of a
rapid transit system. Such a system
would run through the major cities of
Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and
Houston, and Halter said he wants
College Station to be included.
By GAIL WEATHERLY
Campus Reporter
Like a magician, he has their com
plete attention without saying a
word. With one rap of his small white
baton on the podium and a quick
upswing of the arm, he creates unity
from what was discord the moment
before.
Maj. Joe McMullen, a soft-
spoken, dark-haired man directs the
University Symphonic Band with
feeling.
A variety of music-loving Aggies
makes up the band. Students, staff
members and faculty are eligible for
membership, but the competition is
tough.
The 65-70 members make the
Aggie Band Hall come to life at 12:30
p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays
with trombones, clarinets, flutes,
bassoons and other instruments.
Corps boots, cowboy boots, tennis
shoes and high heels start tapping to
the music, and it is plain to see that
no one feels he is wasting his lunch
hour.
Most of the band members come
from top high school bands, McMul
len said, and have to audition each
fall even if they have been in the
band before. It is not unusual, he
said, for 20 people to audition for
only eight places.
The band was formed in 1974 for
people not in the Texas Aggie Band.
It is under the supervision of
McMullen, who is also associate
director of the marching and concert
bands.
Jim Metcalf, an English professor
at Texas A&M, plays a B flat clarinet
in the band “just for pleasure.”
Members receive no special recogni
tion, he said, but “this year we got a
decal to go on our shirt.”
John O’Keefe plays trombone and
is a full-time Marine attending Texas
A&M through the Marine Enlisted
Commissioning Education Program.
Previously he was in the Marine
Corps Field Band at Quantico, Va.,
and he said he wanted to be in the
Aggie Band.
Orchestra, band
to have concert
f 'The Texas Aggie Concert Band
md the Aggieland Orchestra will
present an evening of musical enter-
ainment April 10, with proceeds
:'rom the concert benefitting the
scholarship fund of the Brazos Coun-
jy Texas A&M University Mothers’
[Hub.
The 8 p.m. performance in the
Rudder Auditorium on the Texas
\&M campus will also feature Rich
atteson, an internationally recog
nized jazz soloist on a variety of in
struments including the valve trom
bone, bass trumpet, euphonium,
tuba and piano.
Tickets, which can be purchased
at the Rudder Box Office or from any
member of the Mothers’Club, are$l
for students and $2 for adults, or $3
per family.
All proceeds go to the Mothers’
Club’s scholarship fund.
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“But there was a conflict about my
being in the Marines, ” he said. So he
auditioned for the University Sym
phonic Band.
Doug Rogerson, president and
three-year band member, said it is
amazing to have such a quality band
since Texas A&M has no music
program.
“A large number of these players
were all-region and all-state players
in high school,” he said.
It is nerve-racking, O’Keefe and
Rogerson said, to have to audition
every year to get in the band. It
makes them practice during the
summer, they said, to have a fighting
chance of competing against incom
ing freshmen.
The high point during his three
years in the band, Rogerson said,
was the last year’s trip to New
Orleans to play in the Superdome.
The band’s final spring perform
ances will be a concert near the MSC
fountain at 12:30 p.m. April 17.
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