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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1980
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By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
Debby Koldus sees sights around her house that many people don’t
see around theirs. Not many houses have uniformed military men
parading in front and a college football stadium looming behind.
“The band marches in front of the house before midnight yell
practice, and the Corps will run by and sing,” she said. “I’d seen them
before, but it’s different when they’re going by your house at dinner
time.”
Debby, 16, said she likes living on the Texas A&M University
campus, in the white two-story house on Throckmorton Street.
The sophomore at A&M Consolidated High School lives in the
house because her father is Dr. John Koldus, Texas A&M’s vice
president for student services. Koldus lives on campus since his job
most directly involves students. He also occasionally entertains stu
dents at the house.
Debby said her friends are usually surprised to learn where she
lives.
“Not that they’re shocked, but it’s different,” she said.
Instead of watching neighborhood children frolic in the street as
other people do, Debby said she occasionally watches college men
playing football or cadets marching drills in the park around her house.
“The park seems like it’s my backyard,” she said. “But when I see
people I don’t know out there, I realize it’s not all mine.”
The family does have its privacy, but people are always going by the
house, Debby said. Christmas time is lonely, she said, because the
campus gets quiet when students leave.
Debby said she looks forward to Fall weekends when the campus
hums with visitors.
“Football weekends are real loud,” she said. “There are a lot of cars
coming in, but it doesn’t bother me. I get all excited — seeing people
coming back to A&M.
“A lot of people walk past the house going to yell practice, and it’s
hard to believe that many people do that at midnight,” she said.
The youngest of four children, Debby was 7 years old when her
family moved from Commerce, Texas, her birthplace. There her father
was dean of students and vice president for student affairs at East Texas
State University.
Jay, Debby’s brother, is a senior at A&M Consolidated. Her two
older sisters, Melissa and Cindy, are students at the University.
The Koldus family moved on campus four years ago. Originally a
dean’s home, the house was built in the 1930s, at a time when most of
Texas A&M’s faculty and administrators lived on the campus.
While she enjoys many of the concerts and special events on cam
pus, the high school sophomore said she doesn’t ever feel out of place
among the older college students.
“I look younger,” she said, “and they probably know I’m a high
school student. But they don’t treat me any different, and I’ve always
been the littlest in my family.”
While remaining loyal to her high school, the “littlest” Koldus said
she is also loyal to Texas A&M.
“A lot of people say you’re not an Aggie unless you go to or went to
the University,” Debby said. “But I consider myself an Aggie because
I’m always here when things happen — I live right here with all the
students.”
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Ihairman John Poerner, Texas’ U.S.
Rep. Charles Stenholm, Gulf Oil
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and Dr. Ronald Knutson, economist
in marketing and policy with the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser
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System.
Headquarters for the conference
ill be the Quality Inn South.
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