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Some of the most interesting
things a professor does are out
side of the classroom, said Dr.
Robert D. Powell, professor of
plant physiology.
“Outside of the classroom, I
like to garden, do a little wood
work, and take care of children,”
Powell said.
Although Powell has four
grown children of his own, the
children he is referring to are
foster children.
He cited the case of one boy
that he had taken care of for
four years, the longest he ever
cared for a single child. The boy
was taken from Powell and put
into a group home.
“He needed special psycholo
gical care that we couldn’t give
him at home,” Powell said. “We
hope that when we get the chil
dren we can help them, but
sometimes they are better off at
another place.”
When asked what kinds of
changes he has seen in College
Station in 20 years he said,
“Well, I used to live on the edge
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of town, and now I live in the
center of it.”
“We began taking care of fos
ter children about ten years
ago,” Powell said. “Now I never
know when I will get a new child.
If they need somewhere to place
them, they call me up and I’m
happy to take them.”
It might seem that foster chil
dren would be hard to get close
to, but Powell doesn’t see it that
way.
“The hard part is not getting
close to them,” Powell said. “The
saddest part of it is giving them
up, but sometimes they need
special help that we can’t give
them.”
He does see some advantages
to this growth, however. “When
we first came here, we had to go
all the way to Houston to do any
major shopping. Now we don’t
have to.
“When I first came here 20
years ago, there were only 8,000
students and all but a half a
dozen of them were men, and all
in the Corps,” Powell said. “We
have a lot more students now
and a much larger campus, but I
don’t think that being large
necessarily means being good.”
Powell has one clear regret
about the growth at Texas
A&M, “We used to have so much
more parking.”
One change that Powell said
he would like to see is l etter stu
dent-faculty relationships at
Texas A&M.
“There is a tendency for peo
ple here to feel like the faculty is
trying to get the students and
students are trying to get by with
what they can, instead of work
ing together,” Powell said.
He said he is trying to do
something about that problem.
Powell is a member of the Texas
A&M Mentors, a program in
which faculty members vol»]
teer to counsel students alx
academic and personal
lems.
“The Mentors would be uj
excellent program, if or
students would use it morel
Powell said.
Powell taught at the UnivenJ
ty of Florida for 14 years befttl
coming here. When he
teaching at Florida, there»en|
about 17,000 students there
“There are some advance
to going to a smaller collep,
Powell said. “Studem-faculttre
lationships were much
there. We had a central meetii(|
place where the faculty andst-
dents got together to drinktd
fee and talk. It was rightoutsilt|
my office.”
All four of Powell’s owndi
dren attended college.
Louisiana trial beg
ins
in slayings of couple
shootings of a north Louisiana
couple. Newton and Erlene
Brown were killed as they lay
bound and gagged in the bed at
their rural home near Dixie Inn.
The former Oil City police
officer has pleaded innocent to
two counts of first-degree mur
der. Prosecutors have said they
will seek the death penalty if
Wingo is convicted.
Retired Circuit Court of
Appeals Judge G. William Swift
of Lake Charles, who was named
by the state supreme court to
preside at the trial, rejected sev
eral defense motions Monday,
including one asking that the
charges be dismissed.
The trials were moved to
Lafayette because of intense
publicity on the case in north
west Louisiana. Attorneys said
they did not think it would be
hard to seat a jury in Lafayette,
despite news accounts of Glass’
trial there.
“I am sure it will be a little
more difficult than it was with
the Glass case, but I don’t think
we’ll have any trouble,” said
Webster-Bossier District Attor
ney Henry Brown.
Jimmy Glass, 20, was found
guilty of the murders earlier this
year and ordered to die in the
state’s electric chair.
Glass, whose case is under
appeal, implicated Wingo in the
slayings during his trial and has
been subpoenaed by Wingo’s
attorney.
Wingo has told authorities he
was hiding with Glass in a stor
age room at the Browns’ home,
but he left when he realized
Glass was going to burglarize the
house.
The two men were making
holiday telephone calls at the
Webster Parish Jail in Minden
Dec. 24 when a jailer was dis
tracted by a disturbance it* a
nearby cell block. They used the
opportunity to jump into an ele
vator and escape.
Glass testified at % his trial that
the pair broke into the Brown’s
home to rob the couple and tied
the Browns up with electrical
cord. After rummaging through
thi
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fled. A massive manhunt
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bolted their doors and feattB°n Set
the two would return. to
the house, Glass climbed into the
Wingo was arrestedJan.5i
wooded area near Al
Texas, along with hisgirlfnffl
Gwen Hill. Glass was picked!
the next day in a San Die?
Calif., airport.
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