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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1980)
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KEyboARd Center MANOR EAST MALL 713/779-7080 BRYAN, TEXAS 77801 By CINDY GEE Battalion Reporter Lyndal Higgs is an old Ag — not the kind who marched down Military Walk in a Corps uniform, but an Aggie who rode the Toonerville Trol ley from Bryan to College Station in a crinkly, pink dress. “The little stopover was right in front of the YMCA building,” she said, smiling at the memory. “Down in the YMCA in the sum mertime they had the swimming pool and that was the main place ev erybody went. Then they had •••••••••• ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ You’ve been waiting all year. And now the music has come... Peter Frampton The Bee Gees Coming May 2 PIRANHACON I A presentation of MSC Aggie Cinema Casey’s Confectionary and that’s where we did all our laughing, talk ing and courting.” Higgs, 74, went to summer school at Texas A&M University in 1924 and 1925 to get her teaching certifi cate. In an interview at her home, the small, neatly dressed woman recal led the first 37 years of her life as well as the last 37. She said just a few girls from Bryan and the professors’ daughters went to Texas A&M in the summer. “Automobiles and girls were taboo on campus during the winter,” she said. “The boys would bring their cars here and then they’d be real nice to the girls in Bryan so they could hide their cars in the girls’ garages.” Those days were fun, she said. “The football games were just as wonderful to us then as they are now,” she said, her eyes twinkling with excitement. “We sang Hullabaloo, Caneck! •••••••••••••• IF YOU HAVEN’T PICKED UP YOUR 1979 AGGIE- LAND, BE SURE TO DO SO BEFORE YOU LEAVE HERE, ROOM 216 REED MCDONALD BLOG., MON DAY - FRIDAY, 8 A.M.-5 P.M. Caneck! and of course, the Aggie War Hymn. It’ll always be beautiful to me.” “On Sunday afternoons the girls would go out and park their cars on each side of Military Walk and watch the boys march in to Sbisa Hall. That was quite a thrill, you know. You’d stand there and look for this one and that one and they couldn’t dare wave. They walked with their eyes straight ahead like the girls weren’t even there.” She said they also did plenty of hell-raising. “There was a boy from Houston,” she said, “who could study up more mischief in 30 minutes. They called him ‘Fire Chief because he’d go to the window and wave his handker chief and then they’d blow the fire whistle. Then they’d let them all out to go to the fire.” Higgs was bom in Roan’s Prairie in 1905. She said her family is proud of its Texas heritage. “My great-grandfather had a league of land in Texas and he was a slave owner,” she said, “but he never divided the families. She continued, pulling at her short, gray hair: “Just like it makes me so infuriated my hair stands up everytime I hear somebody doom and down the young people. I could just tear ’em to pieces. All of’em are not bad. They’re as good as they were when I came along. “There’s just more of them and more opportunities. It’s an entirely different world. OOGOQOOOOOOOQOOQO 8 r<in “I think the young people are posi tively wonderful. They have prob lems that we never heard about. We never heard of the word drugs, we don’t know what we would have done had we been exposed to all that stuff.” Higgs was graduated from Bryan High School in 1923 and has lived in Bryan for 59 years. “When I came to Bryan,” she said, “Main Street was just being paved and there were still hexagon-shaped horse troughs at each end.” She taught elementary school for three years, then had to resign be cause she married Chester Higgs, who was with the Agricultural Ex periment Station at Texas A&M. “I thought it was sort of stupid,” she said. “They wouldn’t let married women teach.” Higgs, who has been a widow since 1968, has one daughter, Patri cia Ann Radulescu of Irving, and four grandsons. In the last 12 years she has vaca tioned in the Caribean, Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Norway, De nmark, Finland and Hawaii. She has a collection of about 60 china cups and saucers, each with its own spe cial story she gladly tells, from every place she has traveled. Higgs is a history enthusiast. She’s a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and has held sev eral offices in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She - has lived through two world wars and a depression and said the world’s present situation worries her, but she still has a positive out look on life. “In World War I we had meatless days, wheatless days and sugarless days, so it’s nothing to me,” she said, clasping her tiny, wrinkled hands in BILL’S AND JAY’S AUTO TUNE UP all cars Ita (or JpUAc, raihar) JvJ-s !a. 'ftworiU (xJl l-fnaW kluL.cjaiW,] or lou). $ 9.75 PLUS PARTS PLUS Oil change FILTER A OIL $4.00 Tune up & oil change PLUS OIL A PARTS $12 75 By appointment only 846-9086 3611 South College Ave. Address yourself to a new lifestyle You’ve made it through another semester with flying colors. Now treat yourself to a better lifestyle. You deserve it. □ A new ad dress that has campus conveni ence. Patios or balconies for outside entertaining. 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During World War Ilsks[( much time doing volunteerwoii the Bryan air base, she said. “Things have just ballooned) ballooned,” she said, "andthi®i going to have to come toal pie think they’re smarter thanGk they think they’re going to tit | something all their own. we’ve gotten too far away front: and He’s going to have to I hac k to our knees. _ “I think the collapse of Ckr 'A d principles throughout the wall Bistre what’s causing all of this. Peop](( view < so in a hurry to make a millionojj at Te: and spend two million thenextir held t I The Ife it I 1 is! f D to Sap The Bard t: p.m. i Kappa kappa The ■appi • flucek wins over fraterr , $1(K winnir Alt! be taki Wilkii United Press International donate The televised public dew? tonight between Republican idential contenders Ronald Ek and George Bush has beencrod H I ofl prime time on most PublicBf * casting System stations inTeuif^ Shakespeare drama. TV debati Houston viewers can wate debate between GOP front-r Reagan and hometown caul Bush on the local PBS affiliate, service -AUS Grande But in some other majorcitfe. ( debate telecast is being delayei 11 p.m. because of the ShakespE cities j program offered nationwidebyl|rtn, St; And in Dallas and El Paso, tlrHLee ’ Bate will not he televised at all sion hi The debate in Houston, spofi pfcposi by the League of Women V# an inen will begin at 7:30 p.m. and las me adc minutes. iljstmei Barbara Schwartz of the Leap "He r Women Voters office in Hotisions ir said the progam is being offered! to all PBS stations. ‘We’re carrying them li| delayed from 11 p.m. to2:30ai said Barbara Ritter, program4 ate at KLRU in Austin. “1 si* most of the PBS stations are gor| air the Shakespeare play (“Heiii 1 | because it is one of the biggifif PBS. They had the schedule# February, maybe even earlier KERA-TV in Dallas will nois east the debates at all. 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