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I Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1981 Local Corps outfits request guidons yearly Woman has stitched flags since ’30s By LISA SURMAN Battalion Reporter Any time the Corps of Cadets marches, Mrs. T.G. Corbet can be assured her satin guidons will be seen glimmering in the sun- REDSTONE APARTMENTS 2 Bedroom 1 Bedroom Central A/H W/D Connections Drapes Refrigerator Range/Dishwasher Cable T.V. Bus Route $280-$300 - Summer $325-$350 - Fall 12 Month Discount 4-Plex Brentwood at Texas College Station Unfurnished Spearman, Sears and Murphy, Inc. 1701 Southwest Parkway, Suite 100 696-8853 light. Corbet, 81, has been making guidons — the flags carried by each outfit and staff in the Corps — for more than 40 years. “I enjoy making them because I feel like I’m helping,” she said while rocking in a chair. Corbet, born in Madison County, said she does most of the sewing by machine. “Of course, the tassles (which trim the border of each flag) all have to be sewn on by hand, which is quite a lot,” she said. The seamstress said her first one was handmade with the help of her employer, Tilley Hollis, some time in the 1930s. Hollis was the owner of an alteration shop at Northgate. “Some cadets came into the shop one day and asked if we Don’t forget YOUR Aggieland ’80 Available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Room 216, Reed McDonald Building Bring your ID card MSC LOST & FOUND would make a guidon for their company,” Corbet said. With the help of Hollis, that first flag took a week to make, she said. “The boys were real thrilled with it when we finished, ” Corbet said. “They gave us $5 for it.” Throughout the years, the price for one of her flags has risen to $48.50. Some of the more de tailed guidons, which are mainly for the Navy and Company E-l, are more expensive, Corbet said. “Thread that I used to pay 10 cents a spool for is now $1.08,” she said. Although the price for these flags has increased from years ago, the time it takes for Corbet to make the guidons has decreased because she has more experience and uses a sewing machine. She can now make one in about 3-5 days, she said, but she usually re quests a week to complete a guidon. “It takes one day to draw the letters and design for a flag, one day to cut everything out and pin on the material and one day to sew it all on,” Corbet said. “I always tell the boys, if there’s anything wrong with the flag to bring it back and I’ll fix it,” she said. “I don’t ever want them to walk across campus or be in a para de and have everyone say, 'Look at that flag. That’s one Mrs. Cor bet made; look at how crooked it is,” she said. Corbet said the most guidons she has made in one year is 38. She said she made 10 flags last year. “Every other year I make more because some units don’t order new flags every year,” she said. “Of course the Navy, which is so time-consuming, orders every year,” she said. “If I was smart. I’d just make theirs in the summer,” Corbet AUCTION Featuring KEYES CARSON, Auctioneer Going once Going twic MSC Main Lounge Wednesday, April 15 10 am-2 pm Seniors Vote Mark Retzloff Previews at 9 am and For further information Call 845-1515 Sean Rudolph (MSP OUNCIL PCOJECTS CASH ONLY Class Agents paid for by Kenzy Hallmark : i: THE NEW MADRIGAL DINNER COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES openings for student positions in 1981 Madrigal Dinners Director of Finance Director of Public Relations Director of Costume Design All students interested in joining Madrigal Dinner Committee or applying for leadership positions are invited to an orientation meeting Tuesday April 14, in the Council Conference Room 216T in the Student Programs Office in the MSC. For More information call 693-6098, 696- 2757, or 845-1515. Lunch Specials Monday Pepper Steak Tuesday Lasagna Wednesday — Fried Fish dji Thursday Mushroom Steak Friday Pork Chops Happy Hour — 4:30-6:30 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.) woodstone commerce center =— on hwy. 30 easiAs “'Coupon One Pitcher of Coke said. “But I wait until they call me before I make it because I’d just die if they wouldn’t want it.” Corbet doesn’t make all of the guidons for the 57 outfits and staffs. “Some of the units order them ready-made from Houston and occasionally one of the boys’ mothers makes one,” she said. In spite of this, Corbet said she remains busy. “Every once in a while, I have to have a friend come help me if I have too many orders,” Corbet said. “But that isn’t very often.” Several years ago Corbet said she made the red sashes that the officers of the Ross Volunteers wear on their uniforms. “That got to be too hard for me to keep up with because of my arthritis, ” she said. The seamstress said each unit always wants their guidon finished by Parent’s Day, which is held the end of April. She said she remembers when the flags used to get stolen by members of the Corps in different outfits for pranks. After an instance like that, she said. They’d call me up and say, ‘Mrs. Corbet, can you make us another one?”’ Corbet said she can remember sitting up many nights trying to finish a second flag for an outfit. Although making guidons keeps her busy, Corbet said she is in the process of trying to make quilts for each of her six great grandchildren. She has already made quilts for her three grand sons, who are all Aggies. Corbet said her family is very happy about her making flags, but she said her one daughter used to tell her, “Now mother, you’re doing too much; I wish you’d quit it. She said she knew her daugh ter was never serious about her quitting. i lilli What’s Up MONDAY awar< KATHY O’ Batlalioi TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY: Meets at 7:30 p.m. inif U e outgoing I Fermier. Memorial Studen CATHOUC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Night Prayer will saidi^s presented 10 p.m. in St. Mary’s Church. SsC "awarlb 'ha SCUBA CLUB: Meets at 7:30 p.m. in 407 Rudder. ‘ TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: Meets aC Ernen Hab) p.m. in 140 MSC. Rountree award, i 1966, which recc TUESDAY s '"^ r n c Council and Dirt The plaque -MED/DENT SOCIETY: Dr. Joseph Richardson. Assoc® H Roun .... t j . . <r.. . . it 1- iV. ...i C- l I Ca„ Antoni: IDOmas ii- Dean for Student Affairs at U.T. Dental School in San Antoni: 0 f Texas A will speak beginning at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Harrington. w h 0 was instrunn ICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: Meets at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Agrogg an “intemati on campus. nomy. “TEXAS ENERGY OUTLOOK 1981-2000”: Dr. Milton Holloway. Also present Director of Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory C»;Wayne , l ' r cil, will give this presentation from 11 a.m. to noon inRudcosyfce a . war . e ^ iner TAMU STUDENT DIETETICS ASSOCIATION: Wi J . have C'advTsers in Sandwich Supper and election of officers beginning at 6:30pJ in 126 Kleberg. Bring a sandwich ingredient. | “HOUSTON SYMPHONY WITH LUCIA POPP’ This MSCOpa presentation will begin at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. T 1 ™’ are available at the MSC Box Office. “ROSIE THE HIVITER”: This highly acclaimed film aboutj; during World War 11 will be shown at 8 p.m. in 105 Heloeim L sponsored by the Department of History. in Ct jj MEDINA COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Meets at 7:30p.m.islfriO 321 Physics. SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: Mike McCandfa £L pAS0 _ ; will speak about evaluation of reformed methanol as an autom 0 f Q en Or tive fuel beginning at 7:30 p.m. in 127-B Zachry. Officers w ' : ^| )tlteto the nal elected also. | About 6,000 p ASSOCIATION OF BAPTIST STUDENTS: “Let Their Eyes Be| n t e r Chapel b) Opened,” a film documentary on humanism in today s cm ure, jloydBentsem will be shown at 7 p.m. at 304 Highland, College Station, by members of tl pursday. I Bradley, 88, v »my career, die 1 Bradley’s bod ,,, iMonday to Wasl MSC HOSPITALITY FASHION BOARD: A Spring Fashion in 197 7 b( will he held at 7 p.m. in Rudder Forum. Tickets may hep urc civilian com ased in the MSC Box Office. ■Hiepresident SOCIETY OF PLASTICS ENGINEERS: Meets at 7 p.m. in 342 iOa.m. MSTand Zachry. 'fonday afterno. Imanel in the - pesday. Bradley’s bod Miss TAMU readies WEDNESDAY for Fort Worth slm By JENNIFER CARR Battalion Reporter The McFadden Hall room looks just like any other women’s dormi tory room with two small excep tions — a glittery rhinestone crown on the shelf by the bed and a maroon and white banner on the bulletin board that reads “Miss Texas A&M University.” , Sheri Lynn Hyman, who won the crown and banner on Feb. 21, said that becoming Miss Texas A&M has not changed her lifestyle at all. She said she doesn’t feel the need to dress up and impress peo ple all the time. One morning during a week when she had a lot of tests, Ryman said she was in Sbisa Dining Hall wearing “this cruddy old warmup and my hair was pulled back in a ponytail. I heard this guy behind me say, ‘That’s Miss Texas A&M?’ I looked horrible,” she said. Ryman said she’s busy now that she represents the University at the KAMU-TV auction and help ing Kappa Sigma fraternity with its Easter Seals drive. “I got a letter yesterday from the civil engineering department. They want me to go down to Gal veston April 25 and christen one of their new research vessels,’she said. The industrial distribution de partment has also asked Ryman to do some promotional work. The sophomore industrial distribution major said she thinks the pageant could be advantageous to her in her career. Ryman said she would like to use her degree to go into outside sales. “Right now, I think I’d like to work for Honeywell, TI or IBM and sell computer hardware,” she said. And if she still has the same interest in two years, Ryman said she thinks it would help if she ginning with : |en. Archie Ca 'efense School, Participating ionor contingen were Miss America or even Mfc| When Dwigh Bfas supreme al Texas. ™ r - Ryman said she is now] American forces .gfto'tho Mis S T^.pag^#»>J June «. ‘The talent I have, gymnastics, ac ross France an is something where you cant ^Hitler’s R eicb out of shape because it takes | B es id es his while to get back into jBradley Dorsey You’ve just got to keep it U P’ man said. ‘They pamper you up there s! sean the Miss Texas Pageant. Itsgr® You feel like a queen. Ryman described the comp^ tion in the pageants as heallk) rather than “cutthroat. , “It takes a lot of nerve . sacrifice and ... a lot °f de er tion,” she said. “You rea ^’ do get a lot out of it, and worth all that hard work. The girls who enter the Tea A&M Scholarship Pagent are " “just dumb blondes, sh e sal : m “It’s not a beauty contest. Jhipby scholarship pageant — t,ie ‘ . Texas Scholarship Pageant, the main purpose — to gi ve sc larships. “They’re not looking so n 111 ' for a beautiful girl as they are ® talented and intelligent gn • said. When getting ready for Texas A&M pageant, she said, was working out everyday " gymnastics and weights. “I was dieting, I was readW (US News and World Report)' keep up with current events aj 1 stuff,” she said. “It was pr etl ) much an everyday thing. Also keeping Ryman busy ac e several University organization which include the Engineer®# Technology Society, the Gy mn , tics Club, and the MSC Hosp* ity Committee. 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