THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 23
Local
• New Miss Texas A&M replaces Ryman
Green crowned
Horticulture classes held
for high school teachers
; ; By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Cindy Green, 18, first runner-
L; up in the 1981 Miss Texas A&M
I ■ University Scholarship Pageant,
J • has been named Miss Texas A&M
| ■'! following the crowning of Sheri
• | Ryman as Miss Texas. Ryman won
> the state pageant competing as
! ; Miss Texas A&M.
; -: Randy Layba, executive dire-
; . ctor of the pageant, said a beauty
*! pageant winner is not allowed to
•, hold two titles concurrently. After
‘ Ryman was crowned Miss Texas,
l the Memorial Student Center
• - Hospitality Committee passed the
; Miss Texas A&M title and the
<',$1,000 scholarship to Green, he
I; said.
1 Ryman was named Miss Texas
; A&M at the conclusion of the two-
; day pageant held February 21-22.
She was crowned Miss Texas at
L; the July 11 Miss Texas Pageant in
Ft. Worth. In September she will
| - represent Texas in the Miss Amer-
; ! ica Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
As Miss Texas, Ryman will have
' ; to attend North Texas State Uni-
/•versity during the year of her
'.'•reign. Therefore, she will be un-
;"able to fulfill her duties as Miss
"Texas A&M, Layba said.
• */ The responsibilities of Miss
Texas A&M include representing
the University at community func-
' tions, participating in advertising
campaigns of community mer-
'/chants who sponsored the pageant
;and making appearances at cam-
<pus activities, Layba said.
Green is a sophomore pre-
Imedicine major from Dallas. She
^also was a contestant in the 1981
;Miss Texas Pageant, representing
•the Big Thicket area. However,
• she is relinquishing that title to
“become Miss Texas A&M.
2 “I was very excited when the
Hospitality Committee contacted
me,” Green said. “I wanted to be
Miss Texas A&M as much as I
wanted to be Miss Texas.”
The next Miss Texas A&M
Pageant will be held Feb. 27,
1982, but will be quite different
from past pageants, Layba said.
The Hospitality Committee has
decided to combine the two-night
pageant into a one-night event, he
said. Combining the pageant
should save money and increase
pageant attendance, Layba said.
The committee also had discus
sed holding a joint pageant that
would have crowned two winners.
Miss Texas A&M and Miss Bryan-
College Station. However, be
cause a double pageant would
have made the contest even more
expensive to produce, the com
mittee decided to stay with a sing
le-crown pageant, Layba said.
“Having Miss Texas A&M win
the state pageant has opened up a
lot of doors for us,” Layba said.
“People are taking more notice of
our pageant and are contacting us
to say they will be willing to help
with the 1982 pageant. ”
Teaching teachers how to prepare high school students for state and
national horticulture contests is the purpose of a workshop being held
at Texas A&M University Wednesday through Friday.
Workshop supervisor Dr. Arthur E. Nightingale, associate profes
sor of horticultural sciences, said 24 vocational agriculture teachers are
being trained in various aspects of plant identification and nursery and
florist crops so they can help students who compete in the state
horticulture contest held at Texas A&M in April.
Winners at the state level compete in a national contest held in
Kansas City, Kan.
The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Vocational Agri
culture in conjunction with the Department of Horticultural Sciences.
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won’t feed 5,000 people — holds promise as a food source for multi-
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; Tilapia, a striped, oval-bodied fish that resembles a sunfish and
; grows to about two pounds, is believed to be the same species spoken
of in the Gospel of Matthew when Christ fed 5,000 followers from five
loaves of bread and two fish. Also known as Saint Peter’s fish, Tilapia
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“They are easy to grow, have excellent flavor, bring a good market
price and eat things that most other fish wouldn’t touch,” said Dr.
James T. Davis, a Texas A&M fisheries specialist studying the nutri-
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1 Tilapia grows from marble-size to a pound in six months and reaches
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developed by the Texas A&M researchers speeds up the growing
• cycle, helping to make Tilapia a potential major commercial fish
farming product in Texas.
“This industry isn’t going to develop overnight,” admits Davis, who
also holds an appointment with the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, part of the Texas A&M University System.
“Tilapia has to be accepted by the public, and hopefully a low
• production cost will be an influencing factor.”
Tilapia were introduced into Texas during the 1960s when they
rapidly established in power plant cooling lakes and in portions of the
Rio Grande Valley. Their primary advantage over other more conven
tional fishes is that they are extremely hardy, said Davis, adding that
Tilapia are the second most cultured group of fishes in the world today,
surpassed only by carp, “which don’t enjoy a lot of popularity in some
portions of the country.”
Tilapia thrive in very hot, rich waters that would kill most other
fishes. In Idaho, they are grown in geothermally-heated water, Davis
said, and while they are primarily utilized for food throughout the
" world, they can also be used for aquatic vegetation control. The fish
• grow well when cultured with other popular commercial pond fishes,
such as channel catfish and buffalo fish. At Texas A&M, they are grown
with freshwater shrimp.
‘ “The Tilapia produce good gains when fed fertilizers and crude
foodstuffs,” said Davis. “Those fed grain and protein crops readily
available in Texas are a delight to the taste buds of gourmet chefs.”
Tilapia can also live off organic wastes like chicken and cow manure,
Davis added. While fish fed manure cannot be used for human con
sumption, he explained, they make excellent animal feed.
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