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Local THE BATTALION Page 3 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1980 Vhite Colise. VI y family . waiting pm Myfathe: in line to® 2 list who cl* i e right orden steriously sc Staff photo by Pat O’Malley 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. ts meouttoi ■turned that ver forgets, ormer Students name president ; James S. Moore of Lubbock will 1 be the 1981 president of Texas A&M HJniversity’s Association of Former ! Students, ■ Moore, a bank executive, suc 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 suggestion !>■ :ted the i 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. been i ew ch : hecere® : Deadline is Friday :for insurance claims 3 recogni* to chaff * Faculty and staff of Texas A&M ild notk 1 University must file claims against jheir group medical insurance by mil tFriday for charges incurred during I# 9 ! 9 ' Ray Smith, director of person- Jay ccompa nel, said claims must be submitted by that day to the insurance claims office of the Personnel Department to allow time for processing before the Dec. 31 deadline with South western Life Insurance Co. s Battalion | r Recreation i e p S i-Cola tee s; error. ;ponS0f f -1 IV editor <r's intent t* J phone n 0 welcome’ ^ m letters’ r The W COW* 1 * ; Tex* exaitii' 1 * 1 ' 0 Jl ter.m* 5 '* , . a te S fur" liM JdB"* qcDona 1 XX 77MO exclusi''*", Also available: Winter Park Steamboat Aspen Jan. 5-10 12-17 / □ 6 days/5 nights in a condo with kitchen and fireplace □ 3 days lift tickets □ 3 days ski rental □ Discounted additional ski days □ Ski party . □ Optional air, bus or train transportation PI micheue $169 ■ w ^ P er P erson Charter bus option $99 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: Willie or Bill @ 693-8067 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. Appearing LIVE Wednesday & Thursday STEVE FROMHOEZ! 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