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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1981
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By LEIGH McLEROY
Battalion Reporter
What many Southwestemers
know about private schools is li
mited to what they see on “The
Facts of Life,” a Wednesday night
situation comedy. But these facts
can be misleading.
No longer an all-male, upper-
class, Eastern phenomenon, the
private school is making strides in
No longer an all-male,
upper-class, Eastern
phenomenon, the pri
vate school is making
strides in the South
west as a business
whose product is a
high-quality, individ
ualized education.
the Southwest as a business whose
product is a high-quality, indi
vidualized education.
Allen Academy, the oldest pre
paratory school in Texas, is a co
educational, military-oriented pri
vate school located in north Bryan.
Little about the school’s physic
al appearance is commanding. Its
facilities, like most private schools
its size, include classrooms, dor
mitories, tennis courts, a dining
hall, gymnasium, a recently com
pleted football field and a swim
ming pool.
Because males who board at the
Academy are required to partici
pate in the ROTC program, they
can be seen on campus sporting
short haircuts, green fatigues and
combat boots. Female students
dress conservatively in skirts and
slacks worn with topsiders and
Bass loafers.
In Lyra Pointer’s English class,
pictures of Hemingway, Dickin
son, Twain and Fitzgerald line the
classroom walls, along with a Zig-
gy calendar and a poster titled
“Twelve Things to Do Instead of
Smoke Cigarettes.”
Fifteen students listen as Poin
ter reads assignments for the next
nine weeks. They groan collec
tively at the mention of grammar.
(Six weeks out of the nine week
course include grammar studies.)
After the assignments are given,
the class continues reading a play
aloud.
Pointer makes frequent com
ments during the play. She is en
thusiastic and appears to enjoy
what she is doing.
Although she has a public
school background, Pointer, who
has taught at the Academy two
years, says she prefers Allen.
“I don’t like to teach in public
schools anymore,” she says.
“There are too many discipline
problems and classes are too
large.”
Private school students are fre
quently stereotyped as a homoge
nous and sheltered group. The
Academy has students from seven
states and 11 countries.
Headmaster Bill Creedin stres
sed the importance of exposing
students to outside influences.
The students take field trips regu
larly and each week hear speakers
from the local community and the
University.
During a chapel period where
attendance is mandatory but parti
cipation is not, representatives
from different religious groups
present their views.
“These kids aren’t in a glass
bubble,” Creedin said.
Creedin, a newcomer to the
Allen Academy and the South
west, is a product of Philadelphia
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First MSC spring auction
to be held Wednesday
By KAREN KALEY
Battalion Reporter
Calculators, clothes and books
are just some of the items that will
be auctioned off in Wednesday’s
lost and found auction sponsored
by the Memorial Student Center
Council Projects Committee.
The auction is scheduled for 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Viewing will begin
at 9 a.m.
This is the first time a lost and
found auction has been held in the
spring. The committee decided to
hold two auctions this year be
cause the accumulation of articles
was too much to handle in one
auction, Merrie SoRelle, commit
tee chairman, said.
The majority of articles au
ctioned off are calculators, sport-
ingequipment, clothes and books.
‘The auction allows the stu
dents to buy items for a better-
than-reasonable price,” SoRelle
said.
Proceeds from the auction are
used to sponsor the MSC Christ
mas program, SoRelle said.
The auction consists of viewing
tables, a bidding table, the auction
and the cashier’s table, SoRelle
said.
Prospective buyers are allowed
to view the articles to be auctioned
off If they see an item they want
to bid for, a person at the bidding
table is informed and the item is
then put into line to await the au
ctioneer, she said.
The auctioneer, Keyes Carson,
is a former student of Texas A&M
University and has handled every
lost-and-found auction at Texas
A&M.
Items used in the auction are
found all over the campus, she
said. Building proctors are re
sponsible for collecting lost items
in all the buildings and taking
them to the MSC Main Desk.
Items not sold in the auction
are stored.for re-auction or given
to the Twin City Mission in Bryan,
SoRelle said.
parochial schools. He majored in
finance and spent a year on Wall
Street before launching a career in
school administration.
This background is helpful be
cause private schools depend not
While money problems
plague many private
schools. Headmaster
Bill Creedin says the
Academy is in good
shape financially. “We
balanced our budget
last year and are
$25,000 away from
balancing again this
year, ” he said.
on tax dollars, but on contribu
tions and endowments for their
operating funds.
While money problems plague
many private schools. Headmas
ter Bill Creedin says the Academy
is in good shape financially.
“We balanced our budget last
year, and are $25,000 away from
balancing again this year, ” he said.
Alumni donations are responsi
ble for some campus improve
ments. However, the restoration
of a turn-of-the-century house on
the premises is being made possi-
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8:00-12:30
A NIGHT OF GAMBLING, PRIZES,
AND ENTERTAINMENT
Major prizes donated by
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PLACE: MSC, 2nd floor and Lounge
TICKETS: $3.00 advance $4.00 door
Ticket sales: April 20-24
MSC, Sbisa,Commons, Duncan
ble by a $35,000 grant from a his
torical society. When restored,
the home will house a faculty fami
ly and the Academy’s nine seventh
grade boarders.
School trustees are now de
veloping a long range plan for im
provements, and plans for several
renovations and additions are
already jn the works.
Creedin chose Bryan and the
Allen Academy from three job
offers last year. “At the time my
friends thought I was crazy,” he
said.
Now, however, he sees things
differently-
“It’s a challenge, ” he said. “I see
the Southwest as a sort of frontier
for the private school and looked
at the job as an adventure. ”
Today, more and more parents
nationwide are choosing a private
education for their children.
Assistant Headmaster Claude
Lewis says most parents that he
sees at the Academy are looking
for one of two things: either their
child is exceptionally gifted and
they want him to have a more indi
vidualized education, or their
child has had trouble in the regu
lar school environment and needs
a more structured, disciplined
atmosphere.
“These two reasons are not as
opposite as they appear,” Lewis
said. “A lot of times you’ll find that
the typical problem student has a
very high I.Q.”
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