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Climb Aboard For Family Value! Swensen’s Cable Car Kid’s Meal Served in unique cable car toy box. • Kids Sandwich* • French Fries • Plus Ticket For A FREE Ice Cream Cone All For Only Hamburger or Grilled Cheese Culpepper Plaza-College Station America's Favorite Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor local Battalion/Page February 25, Seniors plan spring events, class gift set for April 16 * * * * 34- MIKE’S DISCOUNT LIQUOR by Pamela J. Franklin Battalion Reporter The class of ’83 will hold the Former Students Induction Banquet, a softball tournament, dedication of the class gift and the Senior Weekend this spring. Two class agents, who will represent the class for the next five years, will be elected during the Former Students’ Induction Banquet, said Joe Meyer, senior class president. The agents will plan the five-year class reunion and will maintain contact with the former students’ association. All seniors graduating in May or August 1983 may attend the former student induction ban quets, which will be at 6:30 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom, April 4 and 5. Complimentary tickets will be available March 29 through 31 in the Forsyth Alum ni Center lobby in the MSC. De cember 1983 graduates will have their banquet in December. A sixty-four team softball tournament will be held April 8 through 10 at the Fenberthy Baseball Complex. Any com munity or campus organization may participate. Team and indi vidual trophies will be awarded. Y - 7 TerT- -XTW-iV Dedication of the class gift, the Aggie Eternal Flame, is sche duled for Parents’ Weekend, April 16, Meyer said. The eter nal flame monument will be con structed next to the Reveille gravesites on the north end of Kyle Field. The flame will be used to light ceremonial candles for Aggie Musters. The 12- to 16-inch flame also will be used to light Bonfire and Yell Practice torches, Meyer said. “The flame will symbolize the undying spirit that all Aggies have for A&M,” he said. Meyer said he hopes a tradi tion will be started by a civilian POST OAK VILLAGE 34- CROW ROYAL (754>) ^ 80 proof Blended Canadian Whiskey J SMIRNOFF VODKA ^ 5 750 ml 80 proof * CANADIAN LTD * 9 3^- 1.75L 80 proof Blended Canadian Whiskey Something Special Manor East Mall Bryan, Texas Vz Price Storewide } COKE & DIET COKE £ J 2 liter $ l 39 } OFFER EXPIRES a/a6 - 1 34- 34- While Supply Last! 34- 34- introducing new lines of greeting cards, silk flowers, candles and many other items. Wednesday-Saturday Only! r f T ❖ or Corps organization to care for the eternal flame. The monument — designed by seniors Dan Kardell, Jim Vandenberg and Ian Seaton — will be 6 feet high and 1 1 feet long, Meyer said. A bronze bowl containing the flame will rest on top of a black granite pyramid. Surrounding the pyramid will be a 12-point pond structure containing four fountains, which symbolizes the 12th man. The monument will utilize an electronic ignition system to keep the flame from being ex tinguished. Senior Weekend will consist of the Senior Bash, the Senior Banquet and the Ring Dance. Tickets will go on sale in mid- March in the MSC box office. The cost for all the Senior Weekend activities will be $35 per couple, and profits will go toward the five-year class reun ion. Ticket prices if bought sepa rately are: Senior Bash $6 per couple; Senior Banquet $20 per couple; and Ring Dance will be $14 per couple. The Senior Bash is scheduled for 8 p.m. April 29 at the Texas Hall of Fame. The Senior Ban quet will be at 6:30 p.m. April 30 at the Aggieland Inn, with a cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. The Senior Ring Dance will be from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 30 in Rudder Exhibit Hall and the MSC ballroom. Meyer said ab out 1,400 couples will attend the dance, and he is expecting it to be the largest collegiate ring dance in the nation. An 18-piece orchestra will perform at the dance in the ex hibit hall, and The Debonaires, a country and western band, will perform in the ballroom. Come hear a Christian perspective on Latin America The Right Rev. Anselmo Carral Retired Bishop of Guatamala Current Executive Director of 7th Provincial Center for Hispanic Ministry Bishop Carral will celebrate at the 9:15 & 11:00 services at St. Thomas Epsicopal Church Following the 11:00 service, there will be a light salad lunch. Bishop Carral will speak on Ministry to Hispanics at 1:30 in the Canterbury House. 6° 0^ *A*S* the final battle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 7:00 PM — RUMORS BIG screen t.v.SODA & SNACKS (Rumors — Behind the MSC Post Office) CATCH ALL. THE ACTION! Catch all the excitement of this year’s Texas Aggie Baseball on KAGC Radio (1510 AM)! The Aggies are lining up to start a new season, so don’t get caught out in left field, listen to the games on KAGC! KAGC 1510 AM Sponsored by: Aggieland Inn Bernath Concrete Products Binford Insect Control Service Bryan Coca-Cola Bottling Co Bryan Muffler Shop Chicken Oil Company Citizens Bank Fort Shiloh Steak House Lavco Air Conditioning & Heating Parker Lumber Company Pepe’s Mexican Food Restaurants Sparkle Ice I : i c 3 * i Die wil nei Around tom Toastmasters announce schedule Texas A&M’s chapter of Toastmasters Internationali April 5 & 19 and May 3 in Room H; meet March 8 8c 2! MSC at 8:30 p.m. The Aggie Toastmasters welcome anyone wantingi sharpen their public speaking skills and receive friend criticism. SCEC convention to be held here The Texas A&M chapter of the Student Council forExce|> tional Children will host the state SCEC conventionSatut day on the Texas A&M campus. More than 125 delegates from 15 univerisities in Texa are expected to attend. Six programs will lx* presented within three time period Registration will be held from 8:30-9 a.m. Speakers include: Dr. Douglas J. Palmer, head of ikt Texas A&M Special Education Department; DeanCorriga dean of Education here; Dr. Maggie Coleman, from tlx Austin Learning Center; Dr. Linda Parrish, also of Tesa A&M; Dr. H.D. Kuykendall, and Dr. Mack Masseyoftk University of Texas at Tyler. tes cil 2; on el Bu en: loll an oe IRAs to be topic of library speech Individual Retirement Accounts will be the subjectofi slide presentation by Greg Stiles at the Bryan PublicLibra Marcn 8 at 7:30 p.m. I his program is open tothe will be held in tne auditorium on the second floor Stiles will speak and show slides about IRAs and correct misconceptions about this new personal retiremet: plan that has been provided for in the Economic Recover Tax of 1981. He will answer questions after his presentatk Stiles is a 1973 graduate of Texas A&M and isanaccou: executive with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. Sc :ek pe les ipu eili W( Church to present organ recital The First Presbyterian Church of Bryan will present Hi dur Satre, concert organist, in rectial this Sunday afternod at 3:30 in the church sanctuary, 1 100 Carter CreekParkw Satre, who is also organist of First Presbyterian Church,* play music by Bach, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Schin® Sowerby and others. Stare is a graduate of Augustana College in S South Date ""S and has done post-graduate study in organ in California^ Following the recital, Satre will be honored atarecepti# which is open to the public. Exhibit opens in architecture galldf The College of Architecture and Environmental Design sponsoring a show of photographs, drawings and pamfflj 1 opening this Friday night at 7 p.m. J The show, which will be in the CAED gallery, locate the second floor of the Ernst Langford Architecture Cent features photographs by Ruth Schilling, ^ exas . ‘oi vironmental design lecturer, and paintings by Julian ner, the college of architecture and environmental def artist in residence. The exhibit will be on display thorugh March H Program to feature women sp eafcfi The Texas A&M chapters of Women in Commun: icatto* P irate tnds Dber Inc. and Phi Delta Gamma are sponsoring a luncheonp ram March 8 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 230 MSC,in~ on National Women’s History Week. ^ The theme of the program in “Perspectives on Women” and wifi include an address by Sava A(p ern ’ ^ assistant professor of history here, and Lynn Martin Ph.D., national president-elect, W1C1 and pvofessoi o J" nalism at Penn State University. . {0i The The deadline to register in March 4 and th eC 9 stin ^p-- 1 person. Limited seating is available. For more into call 845-4667. ( by ou arc ght Ev< ebi rat s at izai a mei no bee fed w lyii his roc imd tse” bra he 1 Idles cus sn’t If you have an announcement or item to submit . ^ column, come by The Battalion office in 216 R ee 1 nald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. Police beat The following incidents were listed in University Police De- fo Burgla ?fr^ partment records for Feb. 23. Thefts: •A calculator and several text books were taken from outside the Texas A&M Bookstore. •A bicycle was taken from outside Goodwin Hall. •Twenty dollars was taken from a resident of Dorm 12. •A coffee fund valued at $14 and a set of keys were taken from the Reed McDonald Building. lasses were BTHi: in parking lot a j t ) 1 r#l§ c feva •A tiller anu ; were i house plants oUS cf’ floriculturegre pptB bu broken into bet' r e b,S phe C 22 and 7:30 a-^. (tiiz- Other in clde hr0 ke * • Someone y- window ot a parked m a et ye; driveway at tn dent Center.