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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY: Meets at 7:30 p.m. inif U e outgoing I
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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
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ICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: Meets at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Agrogg an “intemati
on campus.
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“TEXAS ENERGY OUTLOOK 1981-2000”: Dr. Milton Holloway. Also present
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cil, will give this presentation from 11 a.m. to noon inRudcosyfce a . war . e ^ iner
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Sandwich Supper and election of officers beginning at 6:30pJ
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presentation will begin at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. T 1 ™’
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“ROSIE THE HIVITER”: This highly acclaimed film aboutj;
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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 _ ;
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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
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pursday.
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Miss TAMU readies
WEDNESDAY
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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
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is something where you cant ^Hitler’s R eicb
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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.
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several University organization
which include the Engineer®#
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