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.ocal THE BATTALION Page 3 FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1981 d t a 1 any oft pponent ist of the Handicapped freshman leads active life as cadet By KAREN KALEY Battalion Reporter Running a mile can be diffi- ;ult for many people, but Lee Henderson can do it — with inly one leg. Henderson, a Texas A&M University freshman in the vouldsai irps of Cadets, has an artificial eg that enables him to partici- am refet )ate ' n near ly a h Corps activi- ringwi do not the tigl nee my! e third rpped. it becai and he evident lird roui 'en-time t moving >ut at an vantedto /badly® gto i his left e needy, ction toward ’hat is, help the he place' He is in Air Force Squadron [5—“Fanatic 15. ” Henderson its the unit nickname well. The only activities he fore goes are “fun runs” of two miles or more, he said. Henderson can’t do certain parts of the workouts that freshmen are asked to do, such as bending down on alternating knees. The upperclassmen, more than hap py to accommodate him, com pensate by making him do push-ups instead, he said. It is painful at times, Hender son said, but the pain is not bad enough to make him a bystan der. His most recent run was . (1 would it this left in mustbel xpenditui Beth Alt Photo by Carolyn Cole feshman cadet, Lee Henderson, center, marches to Duncan lining Hall with his outfit. Henderson has an artificial leg but sn’t let that stop him from participating in almost all Corps divides. Henderson lost his leg in a farming accident nine Modular,#ars ago. s, I havert ulbox, anil: ■ have to# ner of cam 'V* Wl O ally be p® JL J. M. .1. JL J. robabilityi hose resiJi the from the Corps Quadrangle to Olsen Field. Henderson, 19, lost his leg in a tractor accident on a farm where his family lived when he was 10. Doctors’ efforts to re pair the torn tissue and vessels failed and gangrene made the amputation necessary, he said. He learned how to walk and run again by trial and error, he said. “I would fall down some but everyone does sometimes.” Henderson said he doesn’t feel he is really handicapped. “You just go on and live a nor mal life,” he said. His slight limp is not as noticeable as his sparkling green eyes and coun try grin. “Most people don’t even know about it,” he said. The artificial leg is made of wood and contains a hydraulic unit in the knee. The unit exerts a resistance that enables him to run and participate in other activities. The leg is not waterproof, he said. “I have to take it off when I shower.” One time after showering, an upperclassman who was not aware of Henderson’s missing leg, sternly asked Henderson: “Fish Henderson, where’s your . . .?” — Henderson said he never finished his question. Members of the Corps were curious at first, he said. “It’s a natural curiousity. It took a long time for anybody to come down and ask me about it,” he said Henderson said there ar advantages to his situation. “Everyone is worried about being drafted. All I have to do is walk in there and drop my I drawers and they say ‘see you later. ”’ When Henderson is not in volved in Corps activities he en joys water skiing, bowling and especially duck hunting, he said. He has not only athletic skills, but academic skills as well. The chemical engineering major earned the title of disting uished student by posting a 3.6 grade point average in the fall semester. Henderson has some advice for anyone who may suffer an accident similar to his own: “Get up and go home. Some things take a while, but you have to go on.” Aggie assigned to help NASA with ocean satellite photos A Texas A&M University graduate stu dent’s work using satellite photos to accurately plot concentrations of chlorophyll — which indicates the presence of plankton, a basic link in the sea’s food chain — has won him a six- month assignment to the Goddard Space Flight Center to help space agency personnel adjust their own pictures of offshore regions. Charles Trees of Wichita, Kan., an oceanog raphy student at Texas A&M, has been asked to travel to the Greenbelt, Md., center to help federal experts produce more accurate satel lite photos of ocean areas. Trees said the project for the National Aero nautics and Space Administration is in re sponse to a proposed new technique that can “correct” satellite images of certain regions — removing atmospheric interference, for exam ple — even when no research ship has taken readings in the area to provide what scientists call “ground truth.” The technique proposes to correct one smal ler area of a satellite image, then use that to adjust the entire picture, which covers thousands of square miles. Trees, who has been doing similar work studying plankton concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico under Texas A&M oceanographer Dr. Sayed El-Sayed, was requested for the job because of his unusual combination of back grounds in oceanography, biology and com puting science. Trees’ work at Goddard will be funded as part of an overall $39,000 NASA grant to Texas A&M. Part of the hinds are being used by remote sensing experts here who are increas ing Texas A&M’s ability to process and correct satellite photos taken with a coastal zone color scanner. At present, Texas A&M is one of the few universities or non-federal research centers able to carry out such work on satellite images of Earth, Trees said. One long-range goal of such research is to find a way of getting satellite information con cerning plankton concentrations — which usually attract fish — and water temperature data to dockside commercial fisherman for use the same day. Trees said his selection for the NASA job was aided by an $1,800 fellowship from Texas A&M’s Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise which allowed him to concen trate on the use of computers to correct satel lite photos more accurately. ‘Dead’ army buddies reunite •oomin vould be J F of the res wt them- n, “Why?1 By KATHLEEN WIATREK Battalion Reporter The German Club of Texas solution® [M University in April won first en to so® ice in one-act play competition ow. Ones#' the state convention of the s of almosilhts Association of German Stu- and a fe"l nts at the University of Texas at nns I'ngtpn. With a cast of both beginning |d advanced German students, dub presented Die Klein- rgerhochzeit (A Petite wrgeois Wedding) by Bertolt echt. The play is about a Ger- ii family living in 1919 after Jorkl War I. ommon’s® br. Wulf Koepke, professor of tig us soiiief 0 ' 10171 languages, and Dr. Roger id associate professor of ivate ai i()|P ern l an g ua ges, directed the ie new rcsif”“This was p irs ^ q rne Texas ;eding has entered the one-act [mpetition,” Crockett said. [The Texas A&M students disco- Jred acting in a play that is in a ■eign language can take a lot of time. The cast of nine, four of whom were beginning German iudents, started working on the §lay in October. The first two months were spent wking on the interpretation of ines and getting the correct in- lonation of the words, he said. Because of the students’ success Club wins 1st this year, the German Club plans a full length play on campus next to present either a one-act play or year. United Press International AMARILLO — Two ghosts got together by telephone recently. Robert Earl Green of Jensen Beach, Fla., and Forrest L. Smith of Amarillo were Army buddies in World War II. They were as close as brothers. Both were in the thick of fight ing across Europe and were killed in action in France 38 years ago, or so they thought. They had heard detailed descriptions at veterans’ gatherings about how each other died. But Green knew he wasn’t dead and clung to the possibility that Smith wasn’t either. For years he asked the question of anybody who might know: “Did Smith made it back from France?” Green placed advertisements in veterans’ publications and in newspapers across the Midwest, including Kansas, Smith’s home state: “Smith, if you are out there somewhere, Green wants to see you again.” Finally, Green got a lead on his old buddy’s whereabouts when a list of names and addresses of for mer soldiers in the 7th Infantry, 3rd Division was made available at a reunion. Sunday, a telephone rang in Amarillo. “My wife answered it,” Smith said, “and the guy asked if ‘Tall Timbers, Pinky or Carrot Top was there.’” “She handed the phone to me, ” Smith said, “and he asked, ‘Do you know who this is? ” “And I said I couldn’t guess — not in 20 years. “He said, ‘Try 38 — this is Robert Green.’ “I couldn’t believe it,” said Smith. “I thought he was dead.” Arid that started a flood of recol lections. “We were just like brothers; he protected me and I protected him, I guess,” Smith said. “I got hit in the stomach in Sicily and then hit in the leg in Anzio and then hit in the shoulder in south France. I never did see him after that. ” The remembering will con tinue this summer when Smith visits Green in Florida. THE ADVENTURE IS JUST BEGINNING PIRANHACON II coming May 8 SM*? DO-NUT SHOP \ Greatest Name I \ InDo-Muts I '—ijSnirr 3310 S. College Avenue, Bryan Just South of Villa Maria 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. • Drive-Thru 7a.m.-1 p.m. Sun. OPEN LATE FINALS WEEK! 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