Battalion/Page 3
November 23, 1982
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Dave Warren and Bob Smith, co
coordinators of the Walton Hall run,
hold the torch that 24 Walton Hall resi
dents carried from Memorial Stadium in
Austin for lighting Bonfire.
Walton runs flame
all the way from Austin
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
“There’s a light ...”
There’s a light — actually a
candle — burning in a dorm
room at Walton Hall. It's burn
ing until tonight, when Walton
residents say it will light the tor
ches for Bonfire.
This particular flame
traveled a long way before stop
ping at Walton Hall — all the
way from Austin.
The candle flame was lit from
a torch carried by 24 residents of
Walton Hall. The group ignited
the torch at the University of
Texas’s Memorial Stadium at
1:50 a.m. Sunday morning, did
their dorm yell and ’ 1 the
torch to College Station in half-
mile running shifts.
W r hen they reached Texas
A&M, runners used the torch to
light a candle which will burn
until it lights Bonfire torches.
Bob Smith, one of the coordi
nators of the run, said the run
was completed in 11 hours and
45 minutes.
James Carnes, one of the run
ners, said the run was a way for
people who didn’t have time to
work on the stack to participate
in Bonfire activities.
“I think we’ll feel more satis
faction when it (Bonfire) goes
up after this,” Carnes said.
Each runner ran about five
miles before the torch made it to
College Station.
“Candy bars and beer kept us
going,” Carnes said.
The group picked up one
souvenir along the way: an Au
stin parking meter.
Several state Department of
Public Safety troopers stopped
the runners along the way.
“One DPS guy asked how far
we had left to go,” Smith said.
He said passersby “just looked
at us kind of funny.”
Smith said the runners never
dropped the torch and never
stopped to rest.
Carnes said his major prob
lem occurred when he fell asleep
in the back of one of the pick-up
trucks and fell out.
“The whole time you’re freez
ing in the back of a truck you
wonder,” Nick Gonzalez said,
“but it’s worth it when you see
Kyle Field.”
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Squadron 7’s ‘Run to t.u.’
raises money for children
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Bonfire and the Texas A&M
— U niversity of Texas rivalry in
spires school loyalty and intense
competitiveness among some
people.
For others, it inspires charity
and caring.
This year, cadets from the
Corps’ Squadron 7 will run from
College Station to Memorial Sta
dium in Austin carrying a foot
ball, but the traditional rivalry
between Texas A&M and UT
isn’t the only reason for the run.
Money raised from the
cadets’ “Run to t.u.” will be used
to sponsor, a child through the
Christian Children’s Fund.
Squadron 7 has sponsored
three runs to Austin before the
football game between Texas
A&M and UT; this year is the
fourth. Greg Brown, coordina
tor of the run, said the event
began just for fun, but it became
a way to raise money for charity
during the next two runs.
Brown said the squadron
wanted to contribute to a charity
this year, and he heard about the
Christian Children’s Fund f rom
a Texas A&M English professor,
Dr. Robert S. Kellner.
Brown said the group has
raised $585 so far and probably
will raise over $600 — enough to
sponsor a child for two years.
Brown said the group took
contributions in lump sums
rather than in pledges per mile.
Most of the money was donated
by students, he said, but some
cadets got contributions from
local businesses.
“We basically got everybody
to contribute money,” Brown
said.
Kellner, who is regional rep
resentative for the Christian
Children’s Fund, said it costs
$216 per year to sponsor a child
through the fund. The money
helps feed, clothe and educate a
child through the fund’s mis
sions.
Kellner said the fund can pro
vide for children wuth the rela
tively small amount of money
per year because missions distri
bute food, clothing and educa
tional supplies to groups of chil
dren each day.
“It really doesn’t cost much,”
he said, “but it requires people
who care.”
Kellner said the Corps of
Cadets sponsors several chil
dren through the fund. The en
tire Corps sponsors a child, and
five children are sponsored
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“As representative of the
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Kellner said the squadron
members have a tough job
ahead of them in the run to Au
stin.
“Even with sore muscles, I
think they’ll be quite inspired ;
knowing that little bit of pain will;
help feed children,” he said.
The run will begin at bonfire
tonight. After the bonfire is lit,
50 members of Squadron 7 will
run around the site seven times
and then run to the fish parking
lot.
Brown said the runners will
be escorted by cars and the
cadets will take turns running
half-mile shifts.
He said the caravan to Austin
will be like a “giant leapfrog,”
with runners moving forward to"
the next car with each shift.
The run will end at Memorial
Stadium probably between 10
a.m. and noon Wednesday,.
Brown said.
T he football the cadets wilt
carry to Austin was given to
Squadron 7 Friday by Head
Football Coach Jackie Sherrill.
The cadets will return the foot
ball to Sherrill before the game'
Thanksgiving Day.
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