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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1982)
erespon! ictys Ak| cards itsofakoliil its and 1* determi*! weight i aad to dtil urs. Thou; s waiting from The «| sful inotkl , she said f this Thanks,!' ochure not or yotmetl iple aroori| ingthei are .s and nitkl ■en home, tore than I school 'ment !cM Unk' at the fc! eeting. 11 ve suba committee! mittee -t blitz duni[| of Dec® photo by Mary Jo Rummel Michalsky, of the College Station electrical department, checks the lights o air raffll l 011 t ^ e community Christmas tree, mercialsh homassait littee is tlit| The groii[ sand prof iorstudeitj tree lighting tonight 1 a literatmij ittee, a littee andil ommittee [ l by Lynn Falco e responsep Battalion Reporter he first annual community ed withtheBristmas tree lighting cere- ; commucjnony will be at 7 tonight on the link its thnouheast edge of campus at nunityhis#xas Avenue and University Drive. sople mismThe 35-foot tree will be deco- oals scr rated with 2,500 lights and a ■jOOO star. After the ceremony, ing to s the tree will be lit every night said. “Bc-through Christmas. Donations c, do it h for the lights and the star will help support the Brazos Valley ^Rehabilitation Center. E Each contribution of $ 10 or more to the center will be repre sented by a light on the corii- munity tree. The light wall hon or someone whom the donor wishes to remember. There will be a special section about the tree in the Christmas issue of the Biyan-College Station “Eagle“. Included in the section will be a list of all those honored with a light on the tree. ! Harold McCullough, dire ctor of development at the Bra zos Valley Rehabilitation Cen- teiy said he got the idea from an article he read about a similar tree that stood in the lobby of a small eastern United States hos pital. He decided to try it on a community-wide basis. | McCullough chose the in tersection of Texas Avenue and University Drive because it is the busiest intersection between Dallas and Houston. [ “I wanted to put it where everyone could see it,” he said. "About 43,000 cars pass through there every day.” I So McCullough asked various Organizations around town what >TIC ions Tours ! JoM 1 alien they thought about his idea. “City Manager North Bardell was all for it,” McCullough said. “Everyone is all for it and they’re all willing to help out.” McCullough said that one Bryan family contributed $5,000 for the star. He said the rehabilitation center has re ceived $15,000 in contributions so far, including $10,000 for lights. Texas A&M University, Alpha Phi Omega, the Texas Forestry Service, city officials and many local residents have been willing to help out, McCul lough said. Texas A&M gave the rehabilitation center permission to put the tree on their property. APO, a service fraternity, is col lecting donations from students on campus. The Texas Forestry Service donated the Christmas tree. And city officials provided the electricity and helped with the wiring for the lights. “This is the first time the two communities have worked on a big project like this together,” McCullough said. Dr. Frank W. Hubert, Texas A&M chancellor emeritus, will hold the local Easter Seal child, Allison Utterback, while she switches the tree lights on dur ing the lighting ceremony. Rev. Bob Waters of the A&M United Methodist Church wall be the master of ceremonies. High school coaches Harold Ferguson and Merrill Green and two local school choirs also will participate in the activities. Donations still may be made through the Brazos Valley Re habilitation Center or APO. i5canner reads body surface ■ by Ann Ramsbottom I Battalion Reporter Optical measuring instru- Diehts used in the production of fiew automobile models may soon have an alternate use in measuring human body surface, Texas A&M University resear chers say. I Human performance resear chers, under the direction of Dr. George Jessup, have been work ing with the instrument, called a biostereometric scanner, for a year. “We’re just in the research Cage,” said Jessup, associate rofessor of health and physical education. “But potentially the device can be used in rehabilita tion to evaluate injuries and atrophy. Hopefully, it will also aid in the study of tumor growth and the effectiveness of treat ments on surface tumors through external measur- ments.” Jessup said the device uses a laser beam to measure human body surface, a measurement which in the past has been hard to achieve accurately. The scan ner traces the body with a beam of infrared light that bounces off the skin surface and then is detected by a television camera, Jessup said. Health researchers require accurate body surface area mea surements to evaluate such things as cardiopulmonary function. 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