Choir presents
Friday concert
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1980
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By MERIL EDWARDS
Campus Staff
The Century Singers, Texas A&M
University’s mixed choir, will pre
sent their annual spring concert at 8
p.m. Friday in Rudder Theater.
Tickets are on sale for $2 at Rudder
Box Office.
Lisa Kinney, business manager for
the choir, said they will perform all
kinds of music: pop, contemporary, a
little classical, some Broadway show
tunes and a tribute to Richard Rod
gers.
Some of the Broadway show music
featured will be from “A Chorus
Line,” “South Pacific,” “Oklahoma”
and “The Sound of Music.”
“This will be a really good con
cert,” Kinney said. “I think it will be
what the public has been wanting to
hear. We want everybody to come so
we re trying to get the word out. ”
The 65-member choir is directed
by Nancy Theeman, who is also the
pianist for the Singing Cadets.
Since the Century Singers is the
only mixed choir at Texas A&M,
many students audition at the begin
ning of each semester.
“This semester 200 students tried
out,” Kinney said, “but only seven
were chosen. Most of the members
have had some kind of voice training.
We have students from freshman
level to graduates and all majors.”
Kinney said the choir practices an
hour every day at noon in addition to
a weekly Tuesday night practice.
“Everyone participates out of a
love for music, ” she said, “and for the
school too, because we don’t receive
any credit for this. There’s a real
close bond between everybody in
the group.”
The Century Singers have per-
fomed this semester in Austin, East
Texas arid extensively in the Bryan-
College Station area at churches,
lunches and on campus.
The Century Singers is one of four
choral groups at Texas A&M begun
by Robert Boone, director of vocal
music. The others are the Singing
Cadets, an all male group, the
Women’s Chorus, and the Reveliers,
a small pop ensemble.
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Foresters win
fourth in meet
By JED T. YOUNG
Campus Reporter
There’s the Superbowl, the World
f Series, and then there’s the World
rogri'-, ’Series of Forestry,
cum®; That’s what they call the annual
cils. j Association of Southern Foresters
creaseii Conclave (ASFC) meet that was held
Hiring 'in Hillsville, Va. last month,
itbssc* “The ASFC meet is called that he
ir slut 'cause the competition is so stiff,” said
blew Dr. Andy Ezell, assistant professor
pl, e J .of forest science.
IjCdj! The ASFC is a semi-national orga-
, r g 0 |J nization made up of representatives
of 15 universities in southern part of
e j jpJ the United States, Ezell said.
The representatives are usually
members of forestry clubs or,
according to ASFC by-laws, students
in one of the natural resource disci
plines such as wildlife or forest sci
ence.
Each year foresters from around
the nation meet to compete in events
icherii' that are “wood” oriented. The events
:nssaiH are much like the skid-a-doo com-
shf f petition held annually on the Texas
A&M campus. In fact, the winners of
vers J the competition here represent
Texas A&M in the ASFC meet, Ezell
led up? sai ^
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The Aggies placed fourth overall
and were awarded the sportsman
ship award that won them a standing
ovation by the other 700-800 fores
ters at the awards banquet held at
i the end of the competition.
This award, presented for the first
is rnii) time this year, and was given to the
liW team with the most spirit, coopera-
ecant tion and brotherhood. The judges
Jsaid there was no doubt that the
Aggies should receive it, Ezell said.
“I think these guys are doing a
incredible job and have a real good
chance of winning first next year, ” he
said.
S The winner of this year’s contest
was Virginia Polytechnical Institute,
with Arkansas placing second and
North Carolina coming in third in
m front of the Aggies.
| Most of the Texas A&M team
f members are sophomore or junior
forest science majors, and will be
back to compete next year.
"The foresters that compete are
ion ? ( j not just a bunch of guys who can cut
e j, j - wood,” Ezell said, “but are the very
yjt best from their school.
“The events aren’t just muscle
vents only, but require brains and
technique.
“Most events involve a direct ap
plication in the use of tools a forester
ould use on the job, such as height
and diameter measuring instru-
; ments,” siad Ezell.
. The 20 events are divided into two
fr°; ^categories, physical and technical.
Some of the physical events in-
elude axe throwing, log speed chop-
^ ping, log rolling, archery, knife
dH .throwing, pole climbing, bow saw-
tyfj ing, pole falling and log biling.
| Pole felling is the art of making a
eb ,;pole fall the direction you want after
s it has been chopped down. The win
ners in this event are determined by
who gets closest to their designated
falling point. Pole climbing is the
task of getting up a 20-foot de-barked
pole.
Log biling is when the two loggers
try to ride the rolling logs in a river,
and at the same time throw the other
one off.
“Those physical events also in
volve using tools of the trade,” Ezell
said.
On the other side of the pole are
the technical events. These events
require a great amount of workable
knowledge about the forest and the
forest industry, Ezell said.
These events include timber esti
mation, photogrammetry, compass
and pacing, dendrology, diameter
estimation, wildlife identification
and pole classification.
Timber estimation is calculating
the number of board feet of wood in a
particular area. Photogrammetry in
volves the evaluation of aerial photos
of forest areas, while dendrology is
the identification of tree species from
the external characteristics only.
Pole classification is the evaluation
of a stand of timber for the number of
poles available and the grade of those
poles. Ezell said this procedure is
very important in a working situa
tion, to the telephone companies for
instance.
Also, compass and pacing involves
finding the way out of a forest with
only a degree direction and a com
pass.
Wildlife identification is the iden
tification of both plants and animals
in the forest setting.
Ezell said that most people have a
sterotype image of forest science ma
jors. “People think that forest scien
ce majors have a hard time getting a
job and if they do, they end up sitting
in a tower somewhere,” said.
Ezell explained that they have a
100% employment rate and the job
does not consist of sitting in a tower.
“Foresters are mainly employed
by paper industries, timber produc
tion firms, the government or con
sultant agencies,” said Ezell.
“But that doesn’t mean that they
won’t be putting out a fire or two, ” he
said.
The forest science club members
are preparing for the ASFC meet
next year.
“This is the best undergraduate
department that I’ve ever worked
with,” Ezell said. They had better
watch out next year for the “Aggies in
the forest.”
Now you know. . .
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