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by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Amid all the green, white and
blue uniforms at commissioning
ceremonies Saturday, one khaki
uniform will stand out.
Oscar A. Alvarez, a senior
member of the Corps of Cadets,
will become the first cadet to re
ceive a commission in a foreign
army during a Texas A&M com
missioning ceremony.
Alvarez will be commissioned
as a second lieutenant in the
Army of Honduras by his uncle,
Brig. Gen. Gustavo A. Alvarez
Martinez, commanding general
of the armed forces of Hon
duras.
Alvarez, a political science
major who will graduate in Au
gust, will report as an airborne
ranger instructor in the second
battalion of his country’s army.
Alvarez, a platoon leader in
Company 1-1, learned about
Texas A&M through Major
Robert Epps, an Aggie who was
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dies ’s Draw resulted in the
H>oting death early Wednes
day morning of a Bryan man.
^■Steven Lee Schenck, 23, of E.
Street, died at St. Joseph
Hospital from a single gunshot
^Bund in the chest. Capt. Ron
^jler, of the College Station
police, said an autopsy will be
jformed.
[Miller said the incident began
|h an argument which occur-
behind Duddley’s Draw be-
ben Schneck and two other
lite males. Schneck left in a car
Wen by a friend, and the two
In followed in a pick-up truck.
■About 12:20 a.m., the two
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assigned to the U.S. Army group
in Honduras.
Alvarez said it took almost a
year for the U.S. Government to
allow him to take Reserve Offic
er Training Courses as an allied
cadet. Since his situation was un
ique, no one seemed to know
what to do with him, he said.
Upon the request of the Hon
duran government, Alvarez was
accepted.
Since he was unfamiliar with
the English language, Alvarez
attended the English Language
Institute here during the 1978
fall semester.
He joined the Corps the fol
lowing spring.
Communication was his big
gest problem upon entering the
Corps, he said.
“I had to learn three lan
guages — English, Texan and
Corps,” he said. “But when you
are an Aggie, everyone takes
care of you.”
Even now professors some
times use words he doesn’t
understand, so Alvarez borrows
notes from his friends so he
doesn’t miss anything.
Alvarez said he feels his ex
perience in the Corps will be in
valuable to him in the future.
“You become a big family in
the Corps,” he said. “They treat
me like a brother. My room
mate’s parents treat me like
another son.”
Twenty-eight people, includ
ing family, friends and govern
ment officials, are coming from
Honduras for his commis
sioning.
Alvarez said he is glad his un
cle is taking time to come to
Texas A&M to commission him
in light of the problems Hon
duras is having on its Nicara
guan and El Salvadoran bor
ders.
Texas A&M differs from
Honduran universities because
Honduran universities “spend
too much time on politics,”
Alvarez said. When he was a stu
dent in Honduras, strikes some
times prevented classes from
being held.
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vehicles stopped in the 100 block
of College Main, near Loupot’s
Bookstore. Schenck got out of
his car and started walking to
wards the truck when he was
shot once in the chest. The two
men in the pick-up truck left the
scene.
Schenck’s friend put Schenck
back in the car and took him to
St. Joseph Hospital, where he la
ter died.
An employee of Duddley’s
Draw told police she heard a
noise like a firecracker at about
the time of the shooting.
No suspects have been
arrested, Miller said.
Schenck, a native of Iowa, was
not a student at Texas A&M
University.
to provide work for the unem
ployed in the depths of the
Great Depression.
In 1972, an armed man who
hijacked a plane in Pennsylvania
parachuted over Honduras the
next day with $303,000 ransom.
In 1975, President Ford
made a broadcast appeal to
Americans to welcome the
thousands of Vietnamese re
fugees pouring into the United
States by air from their com
munist country.
A thought for the day: Amer
ican writer F. Scott Fitzgerald
said, “It is in the 30s that we want
friends. In the 40s we know they
won’t save us any more than love
did.”
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