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March 23, 1982
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staff photo by Eric Mitchell
[Gloria Sprinkle spoke at the Bryan the National Organization of Women
(Public Library on Monday night to on the problems of homemakers.
ifetime dream helps
oys explore camping
by Cheryl Maynard
Battalion Reporter
A'hen Thomas Read was
bwing up in Cleveland, he
her got to go to camp as his
ends did. The Houston busi-
jssman vowed if he was ever
|e, he would open his own
mp. Holding true to his prom-
, he opened the Fred A. Len-
Youth Camp in Magnolia
ur years ago.
[The camp, sponsored by the
|xas A&M Department of
faith and Physical Education,
lets four weeks of free camp-
;for boys from economically
[advantaged backgrounds,
lie camp offers 36 boys — ages
12 — swimming, tennis,
|If, wrestling, archery,
noeing, Field hockey and
hing.
The camp — named for one
Read’s friends — has six
bins, a covered pavilion, a
[imming pool, tennis courts
a lake on its 35 wooded
s.
[Campers are provided with
aging, meals, clothing and
bndry.
Read believes competition is
; way to build the character of
ese young boys,” said Dr.
wiard D. Ponder, health and
physical education department
head and associate professor.
Ponder said it was Read’s idea
to take the boys out of their
home environments and let
them compete in sports to de
velop their desire to excel in the
future.
Some of the campers come
back year after year. And if they
decide to go on to college, Read
has set up scholarships to pay for
it.
Most of the campers are from
Houston, but there is no stipula
tion that campers be from that
city. Campers usually find out
about the camp through chur
ches, newspaper advertise
ments, slide presentations, and
the Big Brother Club of Hous
ton, Ponder said.
The department selects the
campers, plans programs and
coordinates the camp staff.
Seven male counselors from
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“An amazing chemistry de
velops between the counselors
and kids,” Ponder said. The
high quality of the counselors
sets excellent role models for the
boys to follow, he said.
The department needs two
more counselors for this sum
mer’s two camp sessions. The
job pays $125 a week and free
room and board for 11 weeks.
Counselors get one day off per
week. Applications can be pick
ed up in in East Kyle at the de
partment office. Though there
is no deadline for the applica
tions, the department would like
them as soon as possible.
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Homemakers fight for rights
Leader calls for stand
by Chris Hunley
Battalion Reporter
Thirty percent of all house
holds headed by women live be
low the poverty level, the chair
woman of a Texas Homemakers
by June DuVall
Battalion Reporter
The opportunities and chal
lenges for Texas architecture re
sulting from the state’s econo
mic growth will be the topic of a
lecture series Friday from 9:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
The Rowlett Lecture Series,
“Money and Monuments: The
Impact of Rapid Economic
Growth on Architecture” is
sponsored by the Texas A&M
Department of Architecture
and Environmental Design.
The lecture series honors
architect John Miles Rowlett.
Rowlett, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Texas and a founding
member of the Houston firm of
Caudill, Rowlett and Scott, en
hanced architecture by both the
scope and quality of his work,
Rights Task Force told the
Bryan chapter of the National
Organization of Women Mon
day night.
Gloria Sprinkle, also on the
National Board of Mother’s,
David G. Woodcock, Texas
A&M professor of architecture,
said.
Speakers will be Earnest Con-
nally, architect and historian
with the National Park Services
in Washington, D.C.; John S.
Samuels III, chairman of Carbo-
min International in New York;
Richard C. Keating, American
Institute of Architecture, a gen
eral partner of Skidmore, Ow-
ings and Merrill in Houston;
and John C. McDermott, Texas
A&M distinguished professor of
philosophy and humanities.
A panel discussion during the
series will address future oppor
tunities in architecture.
The series is made possible
through a grant from the found
ers of Caudill, Rowlett and Scott
and Virginia Rowlett, Texas
Architectural Foundation.
Inc. and a member of the Home
makers Equal Rights Associa
tion, discussed homemaker’s
rights and how women can exer
cise them.
As most laws now stand, a
husband can decide what kind
of life his wife will lead. Sprinkle
said. A husband can decide how
much, if any, money to give his
wife, she said.
Texas has community prop
erty laws — what the husband
owns is half the wife’s and vice
versa.
However, in a joint bank
account, the wife cannot man
age the money unless she has a
larger amount of money in the
account than her husband. The
wife cannot draw credit or use
her husband’s half of the
account as collateral without her
husband’s signature, but the
husband can use his wife’s half
without her signature.
The Gross National Product
would be raised 30 percent if
homemakers’ contributions
were counted, Sprinkle said. If
the Equal Rights Amendment
was passed, the legal system
would be forced to recognize the
non-monetary contribution of
homemakers to the family, she
said.
“The law does not support
women in divorce,” Sprinkle
said. In cases of child support,
80 percent of the women
awarded child support did not
receive payments after the first
three years.
In the case of a husband’s
death, Social Security offers lit
tle help to women, Sprinkle said.
For every year a woman stays
home, she receives a zero in her
Social Security record. If she is
divorced after less than 10 years
of marriage, she will receive no
thing from the Social Security of
her ex-husband.
Women over 65 have the
lowest median income of any
age or sex group, $2,500
annually, where men receiving
Social Security get up to $5,000
annually.
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