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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1981
Earnestly. . .
Staff photo by Brian Tate
John Worthing (Jeff Fitzgerald) proposes to
Gwendoline Fairfax (Laura Bellomy) in the
Texas A&M University Theater Arts pre
sentation of Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The
Importance of Being Earnest,” in Rudder
Theater. The play will run tonight and Fri
day night at 8 and Saturday at 3 and 7:30
p.m. The ticket cost is $2.50 for students
and $3.50 for non-students. The satire on
late 19th century society concerns the im
portance of being “earnest” and plays up
the name Earnest.
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By JENNIFER WAYMAN
Battalion Reporter
I Bn his book-lined office in
^ /T I f pry Engineering Center, a
S dl J hort Indian man, eyes bright with
Icitement, shows his colleagues
his new development.
Dr. R. K. Pandey, associate
pofessor of electrical engineering
told me hlio jtTexas A&M University, has re-
a rehabilitaliipntly developed a new method of
Idren who blowing crystals,
s, but I reall The U.S. Air Force is in-
l in that sorti(|rested in the crystals for use in
■face acoustic wave devices.
;raduated in tfawley said that no one has been
s class, a profelable to grow single crystals as large
ist, after testiii as they have been grown at Texas
would neverkA&M.
illege level wot) Although Pandey has been
or college. “Mbrking on developing the crys-
me to go on this for eight years, he is reluctant
ve that I oCjtb accept the credit for his work.
” he said. “Everybody is excited about
graduated fas|t, Pandey said. “Although I have
ersitywithaJidone it, I will not take the claim
and a degrewcause it is the group effort,
tation. That w| Pandey said that he has a great
love for researching single crystal
ol to get adeps Materials.
: it.” I “Crystals, like tomatoes and
: has learnedcucumbers, have to be grown, ’’ he
ilmost enjoy'[Mid. “When I get a crystal grown,
rdog in certa|have a motherly feeling because
it motivatest *t is my baby.”
er to achieved In 1974, Pandey discovered a
lew system of growing single crys-
a job with aw sis, which have recently viewed
mid require b ^ a possible material for making a
s and more mea tew type of laser,
here just ara Aside from his research, Pan-
>r people like® pey, teaches electrical engineer
ing. He said that he loves teaching
tie he said he* Mid that one of the reasons he
y and looking h ^me to Texas A&M was to work
depressedsoiTf^ith young people,
ry interviews^ “The students have been the
e a lot of suppoit best colleagues I can imagine one
he said.
can have,” Pandey said,
Bom and raised in Bihar, India,
Pandey graduated from Bihar
University in 1957 and got his
master’s in physics at the Univer
sity of Patna in 1959. In 1962 he
was one of six people selected for a
state scholarship in West Ger
many.
“I ended up going to Germany
with no word of German in my
vocabulary,” Pandey said, laugh
ing;
Pandey has also done research
in Italy. In 1966 he went back to
Germany, got his doctorate in ap-
“Crystals, like toma
toes and cucumbers,
have to be grown, ” Dr.
R. K. Pandey, associ
ate professor of electri
cal engineering, said.
“When I get a crystal
grown, I have a moth
erly feeling because it
is my baby. ”
plied physics, and did post
doctorate work in state electronics
at the University of Cologne.
After giving a paper at a profes
sional conference on magnetism in
Hamburg, Germany, Pandey was
offered a job as a research scientist
by the research manager of Amer
ican Standard Co. in New Jersey.
Pandey agreed to come to
America for about two years but
was upset when he was told that
he had to become an immigrant in
order to get a visa to America.
“I was too proud an Indian to
immigrate,” Pandey said. He said
that because of the kindness of the
people, he and his wife “fell in
love” with America and ended up
becoming immigrants. They will
become citizens in about a month.
Pandey worked for eight years
in industry, and after tiring of it
went to Mexico in 1974 to estab
lish a research institute there.
Pandey said that his wife was sur
prised when he wanted to learn a
fifth language, but after one year,
Pandey was teaching Mexican stu
dents in their native language.
Pandey said that in 1977 he
became homesick for America. He
wrote to Dr. William B. Jones,
head of the electrical engineering
department at Texas A&M, asking
for a job. After only a telephone
interview, Pandey got the job.
“At first, I was doubtful that I
would like College Station, but I
love it. The reason has been the
people,” Pandey said.
Pandey said that in every coun
try he has lived he has always
found friends.
“In any country you go, if you
are willing to know the people,
you find excellent people,” he
said. “You just have to look for
them.”
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‘East Texan’ talk is fading
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LUFKIN — In Houston it may
be “a big thunderstorm” but in an
East Texas town like Carthage that
rain would be remembered as
“hub-deep to a ferris wheel.”
The truth of the matter is that if
there is something to say, country
folks, those in East Texas, for ex
ample, will say it with more style
and more color and in more ways
than the urbanites.
Bob Bowman, a public rela
tions executive with St. Regis Pap
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Tell You a Hen Dips Snuff.” The
title comes from an old saying one
uses to boast of his integrity — “If
I tell you a hen dips snuff, you can
look under her wing,” meaning
there will be a tin of snuff under
that wing, as unlikely as it might
seem.
Consider the old physics law
that states that for every action,
there is a reaction. The East Texas
translation is: “There was never a
persimmon ‘cept there was a pos
sum to eat it.”
Bowman’s book is 106 pages of
country metaphors, similies,
understatements and overstate
ments — followed by translations
— commonly used in East Texas
to brighten conversations about
looks, anger, marriage, morals,
dogs and anything else.
Bowman has been around the
porch-sitters, spit-and-whittlers,
farmers and loggers all his life. He
was born near Palestine, raised in
Diboll and educated in Tyler. East
Texan is his native tongue.
“You find some of these ex
pressions frequently used today,
but I think more and more you’ll
see them fade into oblivion,” he
said. “The culture is becoming
more sophisticated, urbanized.
People don’t talk like that in
Dallas.”
The most popular subject in
Bowman’s book is ugliness, offer
ing 12 ways to describe the un
attractive, including “ugly enough
to sour milk,” “ugly as a wart on a
pickle” and “so ugly she has to
sneak up on a mirror.”
Marriage is another favorite
topic — “She’ll marry at the drop
of a hat and throw it herself’ —
and the book offers a bit of cracker
barrel logic: “Every man is bom
free and equal. If he gets married,
that’s his fault. ”
“A lot of the expressions came
out of the cowboy culture in West
Texas. A lot came out of the farm
boy culture and the third grouping
is the logging industry.”
For the past 10 years Bowman
has been collecting sayings and
witticisms of East Texans. The in
spiration came from three colorful
friends: Ottis Lock, former state
legislator Ben Ramsey and Ed
Clark, former University of Texas
regent and one-time U.S. ambas
sador to Australia. His sources also
include Texas Agriculture Com
missioner Reagan Brown, former
legislator Don Adams and Harvey
Davis, head of the Texas Water
Resources Board.
Perhaps it was even a self-
effacing politician who contri
buted this gem: “A fool and his
money are soon parted and a fool
and your money are probably run
ning for re-election.”
Bowman has authored five a reporter for the Houston Chro-
other books about the people and nicle, the Tyler Courier-Times
places of East Texas. He once was Telegraph and Lufkin News.
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