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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1981
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HOUSTON —Since 1887, Wil
iam Casey Jones has been on the
oad. His driver’s license from
Washington state lists his birthday
it April 5, 1872, making him the
ildest active driver in the country
Jones travels in an old, battered
mobile home, visiting senior
litizens and college and high
school students. Originally from
St. Paul, Minn., Jones moved to
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and has been a jack-of-all-trades.
Jones spoke Sunday with resi
dents of the Saint Dominic Retire
ment Center. His blue eyes shone
and his voice crackled with emo
tion as he took the audience on a
brief journey through his life.
After a heart attack in 1959,
Jones said his doctor told him to
live quietly.
“If I had, I probably would have
died in six months,” he said. “Now
my doctor tells me my active life is
what keeps me going. And I’m
going to continue traveling until I
die.”
Pointing to his head, Jones said:
“Life is all up here. If you make up
your mind you’re not going to die,
you won’t.”
He tells anyone who will listen
that worrying can kill a person:
“It killed my wife. She worried
about every little thing. If I was 15
minutes late getting home, she’d
call the police.”
He married in 1922 at age 50
and remained married until his
wife died several years ago.
Jones lives on stipends from his
audiences, eats only vegetables
and parks his mobile home in lots
at night.
Jones has written a book, which
he expects to be published this
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By ELI JONES
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M’s Pre-Theological
Society has had difficulty in
attracting members because some
students consider it to be a de
nominational organization, the
society’s president says.
Club President Curt Collier, a
junior philosophy major, said:
“We are a pre-professional society
offering academic counseling to
undergraduate and graduate stu
dents considering careers in
ministry, chaplaincy, religious
education or theological training. ”
Collier said other religious
organizations on campus are
biased to specific denominations.
“That is not our purpose,” he
said. “We are a non-
denominational organization. We
present to Texas A&M students
programs designed to meet the
needs of those considering further
graduate studies in theological
training — regardless of religious
sect.”
Theologians study the nature of
God and religion. Studies also en
tail the sociological and psycholo
gical effects of religion on man.
Collier said the group is interested
in the philosophical approach to
theology.
“We do in-depth studies on the
questions that theology asks, such
as, ‘Who is God?’ and ‘What is the
nature of evil?”’ he said.
The society’s main purposes are
to boost academics at the Univer
sity and to inform incoming fresh
men about theology, he said. It
sponsors programs dealing with
religion and academic theology.
Members listen to religious speak
ers and philosophers and take
tours and trips of theological
schools and seminaries.
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Irnest Pesek was dressing for a
lalloween party Saturday and
lad applied white makeup to his
and fake blood to his body. To
nake it appear he had a knife stuck
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“It allows a lot of students who
are undecided about a career to
have an access to religious stu
dies,” Collier said.
The Pre-Theological Society,
open to all students, was orga
nized three years ago with nine
members, and now has 45.
“The College of Liberal Arts
suggested the society to keep stu
dents interested in the studies of
religion and theology,” Collier
said.
“We have had a hard time with
our image, because Texas A&M is
such a conservative school, and
most students don’t have a back
ground in any theology.”
Most people only have a Sunday
school view of religion — no ex
perience in higher criticism of the
Bible, Collier said.
“We have many people with dif
ferent religious preferences in our
organization,” he said.
spring and said there is a possibil
ity a television movie will be pro
duced about him.
The book will be published by a
Portland, Ore., firm and the script
for the movie may be developed
by the publisher. Jones said he
will give the money he makes on
the book or movie to charity after
he buys a new mobile home.
“I don’t want to add no more to
what the government gets
already,” he said. “All Uncle Sam
would do is take it away from
where it is needed and send it to
some foreigner.”
With his will written and lodged
above the sun visor in his mobile
home, Jones continues his cross
country travels. When he dies,
Jones said he wants to be buried
beside his wife in Tacoma.
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November 11, representatives from the Stehlin Cancer
Research Foundation (associated with St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Houston) will interview students interested
in beginning Co-op with them in the Spring semester.
They want to interview students majoring in any of the
Sciences (including pre-med), BICH, BIMS, ANSC, or
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A minimum grade point average of 2.7 and U.S.
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