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James Vickery, his wife Sabra, their daughter Meghan and
their dog Snickers reside in barracks C-ll in the married
student housing residences across University Drive from the
Texas A&M University Campus. The Vickerys have cleaned
up the place by adding a coat of paint and putting up some
wallpaper.
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ceeds Raul Fernandez of San Anto
nio as president of the association.
gFernandez will continue serving the
Organization in an executive positon
as immediate past president,
i' Moore is a 1952 graduate of Texas
’A&M in pre-law and is board chair-
han of the American Bank of Com-
Jierce in Wolfforth. He has been ac
tive in the Lubbock A&M Club and
erved on the Aggie Club Board of
directors.
Also serving on the executive com-
[ mittee will be president-elect Jack
Fritts of Austin and Association of
Iformer Students Executive Direc-
| tor Randy Matson.
Other new officers are vice presi-
A&M deans visit
schools in Brazil
William V. Muse, dean of the Col-
ge of Business Administration, and
obert H. Page, dean of the College
of Engineering, were in Brazil
anksgiving week to observe edu-
tional programs at nine institutions
in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia.
« Muse said the trip, taken at the
f f / imitation of Brazilian professor
## Cleofas Uchoa, strengthened under-
tanding between the Brazilian insti-
■elebrationi ! ut j ons and Texas A&M.
The Brazil educators showed
eat interest in programs of Texas
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A&M’s Colleges of Business Admi
nistration and Engineering, and re
quested lectures at every opportun
ity,” Page said.
The Brazilian government is re
sponsible for 25 percent of college
level education in the country, with
private institutions handling the re
mainder. The Texas A&M deans said
they found a special program under
Uchoa’s leadership, Faculdads Inde-
gradas Estacio de Sa, to be unique. It
involves cooperative agreements
with industry.
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the Dec. 31 deadline with South
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Residents reminisce about barracks life
By CINDY GEE
Battalion Staff
Driving past the old army barracks
in the married student housing com
plex, one might feel sorry for the
people who had to live there.
The gray-white paint had chipped
off, shingles blown off from a too-
strong wind were lying on the
ground along with pieces of wooden
trim painted army green.
There were certainly dismal stor
ies of the worst kind about life in the
barracks to be heard in the dark, nar
row hallways. A door opened and
surprisingly enough, the apartment
behind it was not a run-down, hole-
in-the-wall that some poor soul just
survived in. It was a home.
It was a home that James Vickery
and his wife Sabra have grown very
attached to.
“Not very many people live in old
army barracks,” Vickery said. “It’s
neat because it’s old. I’ve always
lived in a nice middle-class house
and I probably will after I graduate.
This is different; well have some
thing to compare to.”
“It,was fun to fix this place up,” he
said. “We got a keg and invited some
friends over and just had a painting
party. You get a lot of satisfaction out
of fixing it up and you can do just
about anything you want.”
The bright yellow nursery and
neatly wallpapered kitchen is quite a
contrast to the dismal gray and green
outside.
“I kind of get a kick out of telling
people where I live,” Vickery said.
“When you call for a pizza and tell
them where to deliver, they almost
can’t help but laugh.
“The thing I like most about living
in the barracks is the atmosphere —
it’s like living in a melting pot.
There’re Venezuelans, Vietnamese,
Indians, Chinese, Germans, Latin
Americans; we ll have contacts
around the world for quite some
time.”
David Rubio came to Texas A&M
from Mexico with his family of five.
He said of the barracks, “It’s not
beautiful, but it has everything and
that’s important.”
Pointing to her children laughing
and screaming as they played chase
with neighbors outside, Mrs. Rubio
said the things she liked most in the
barracks were that her kids had plen
ty of room to play and she had plenty
of clothes lines to hang her wash on.
Belinda Hagler, a junior at Texas
A&M, spent the first 2 years of her
life in the barracks while her father
was in veterinary school. Her pa
rents, Kathryn and Max, have many
memories of life in the barracks.
“When you took your kid to the
pediatrician, they almost automatic
ally wormed them if you lived in Col
lege View,” Kathryn said. “All the
kids played together in a little sand-
pile outside.
I’ll never forget setting Belinda in
her stroller in the middle of the liv
ing room. The floor was bowl shaped
so she always rolled to one wall.”
Max recalled one instance of
trying to be a daddy and a student at
the same time.
“One night I was sitting there
studying and Belinda came in with a
little tea cup and said, ‘tea Daddy?’
So I took the little tea cup and drank
the water. A couple of minutes later
she came back in, ‘Want more tea,
Daddy?’ I drank about 10 of those
little cupfulls and finally I thought.
She can’t turn the faucet on.’ She’d
been getting it out of the commode. ”
Max also recalled getting together
with friends and buying Weingar-
ten’s beer for 690 a six-pack. Current
residents may not have memories
quite like that, but they will have
many memories of the old barracks
as they watch them being de
molished throughout this year and
next.
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class activities; Jack Benson, Fort
Worth, membership; William
McKenzie of Dallas, community
affairs; Richard Haas, Corpus
Christi, fundraising; Henry
Holubec, Diboll, high school rela
tions; Wayne Showers, McAllen,
public relations; and A.W. “Head”
Davis of Bryan, scholarships.
Regional vice presidents are Dick
Hicks of Bandera, South Texas;
Steve Stevens of Houston, Southeast
Texas; Oscar Hotchkiss of Duncan
ville, Northeast Texas; Davis Ford of
Austin, Central Texas; W.J. Poyner
of Odessa, West Texas; James H.
Vickery of Lafayette, La., national;
and A.L. “Lalo” Valdez of Washing
ton, D.C., international.
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