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Reunion
Singing Cadets reminisce, have a sing-along
by Christie Johnson
Battalion Reporter
About 100 iol inei members
of the Texas A&M Singing
Cadets had a chance to re
minisce about gootl limes, good
friends, and life at Texas A&rM
at the 8th Annual Association of
Former Singing Cadets Reunion
last weekend.
The three-day event began
Friday with an informal open
house. Fhe gathering took place
at the home of June Biering,
piano accompanist for the Sing
ing Cadets from 19(i()-77.
Members and their families
attended a banquet in the
Memorial Student Center where
the Singing Cadets performed
familiar songs.
Association members smiled
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and mouthed the lyrics to many
of the songs. They were encour
aged to sing along.
The association was founded
in 197b. Reunion Committee
Chairman T.C. Cone, a Singing
Cadet from 1970-73, said the
group was created for the pur
pose of supporting the Singing
Cadets in every way possible.
Directors are elected by popular
vole every two years.
Alvin Meyer, president of the
association, reminded guests
who attended the banquet that
giving financial support to the
Singing Cadets tV not the sole
reason of the association.
“As you listen to these gUys
sing the songs that you sang
when you were in, and think of
all the places that you were when
you sang those songs...that’s
what it’s all about...preserving
memories,” Meyer said.
The reunion ended with a
“sing-along” for former Singing
Cadets.
Members of the association
pay a $10 yearly fee. Meyer said
fees were used this year to buy
new uniforms for the Singing
Cadets. Fees also have gone to
ward production of an album
the cadets plan to record this
spring. Meyer said the album
will be the first produced by the
association.
C.B. Cone, T.C.’s father and
a Singing Cadet from 1946-50,
was recognized for representing
the oldest class present at the
reunion. He has two sons who
were also in Singing Cadets.
Members of the Singing
Cadets either stay in hotels when
traveling or in homes in the com
munities where they perform.
Organizations that book the
cadets sometimes make such
“Think of all the places
that you were when you
sang those songs...that’s
what it’s all about-
.preserving memor
ies.
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Tuesday, Oct. 11
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7:00 p.m.
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arrangements. By staying in dif-
ferent homes throughout
Texas, the cadets are able to ex
perience a wide range of geog
raphical, ethnic, and cultural
differences among people.
Steve Rottler, who was a Sing
ing Cadet from 1976-81, said
that staying in 17 to 18 different
homes a year taught him to have
self-conFidence. He also said it
gave him a chance to meet many
people and taught him to carry
on conversation with almost
anyone.
Jeffrey Johnson, who was a
Singing Cadet from 1978-80,
said being in the group was per
sonally rewarding to him. “Our
E erformances made people
appy—I liked that,” he said.
Johnson said the spirit of the
organization stands out in his
memory more than anything
else. Johnson has missed only
one reunion in the last eight
years.
Several Association of For
mer Singing Cadet members
said although Texas A&M has
grown since they were in Sing
ing Cadets, students are still per
sonable and have a “small-town
friendliness” about them.
Meyer said that tradition at
Texas A&M is as strong as it was
when he was a student from
1960-65. Meyer is a civil en
gineering professor at the Uni
versity of Texas.
The group began as the
Texas A&M Mandolin and Glee
Club in 1906, and became
known as the Singing Cadets in
1938. It is the oldest known sing
ing organization on campus.
Unique greenhouse
boasted by center
at
by Bob Caster
Battalion Reporter
Sunset Gardens, Bryan-
College Station’s newest lawn
and garden center, boasts an
all-glass greenhouse that is the
“only one of its kind in Texas.”
The 25-foot by 71-foot
structure is totally automatic
and is believed to be the only
curved glass greenhouse used
by a garden center in the stale,
manager John Fossati said. An
automatic control system
keeps the temperature inside
the greenhouse constant.
The main building, a 3,000
foot structure designed by G.
Phillip Morley, uses a con
struction that prevents crack
ed foundations caused by high
water and shifting soil.
The entire center is com
pletely landscaped to show
how the plants would be used
for different purposes.
The center, touted by own
er Bill Oglevee as a new look in
garden centers, is on Texas
Avenue between FM 2818 and
the Highway 6 bypass exit.
Oglevee has put several
years of planning into the pro
ject and says it contains ideas
from other garden centers in
several states as well as input
from his customers.
Oglevee said he wanted to
“build a garden center from
the ground up — with the best
grounds, facilities and build
ings designed with the cus
tomer in mind.”
Fossati said they knew they
wanted something different.
What they ended up with
was an impressive display of
plants, gardening tools and
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environment to house it all.
"W'e tried to stock the store
with a little bit of everything,"
Fossati said.
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grand opening Saturdavi
Sunday.
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Six new subdivisions
may house students
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
The College Station Indepen
dent School Board held a work
shop Monday night to discuss
long-range plans for the 2,300
to 3,300 new students who are
The subdivisions include
Family Tree, Wood Creek,
Courtland, Shanandoah, Nan
tucket and an addition to Fox
fire.
The board did not defil
when or how an industrial:]
raise would be put into<
group is
of Hallil
Brown 8
contracti
General
Peak pla
The
Associati
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New neighborhoods will
include approximately
2,90 7 single family
homes, 265 townhomes,
694 patio homes and
1,411 apartments.
These neighborhoods will in
clude approximately 2,907 sing-
family homes, 265 tow-
nhomes, 694 patio homes and
1,411 apartments, Ney said.
There also will be a new country
club, hotels, industry and re
creational facilities.
Other long-range
elude the acquisition i
build at least four, possibktl
new schools in the district.ll
tative plans are for thecoiffli
tion of threeelementarysdit
one junior high or middles
and one high school.
Monday’s meeting was]
Da
estimated to join the district
within the next decade.
Assistant Superintendent
Donald P. Ney presented a study
to the board concerning the de
velopment of at least six new
subdivisions and how they will
affect the student growth in the
district.
Superintendent H.R. Bur
nett said there are about 350
new students in the district this
year, about a 6 percent increase
over last year. The majority of
the growth is in lower level
grades with many of the new stu
dents moving into the district
from Bryan, Burnett said.
“If the student growth occurs
as we’ve estimated, we will have
“If the student
occurs as weVeei
mated, we will hare
raise industrial faxes.
to raise industrial taxes,” Ney
said.
second in a series of worWi
that the district is holding#
view and discuss its onef
five-year and 10-year goals;
will t e presented to thelfl
Education Agency.
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