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A&M press plans series
of books on Texas life
By ADA FAY WOOD
Reporter
The daily lives of Texans
past will be relived in a new
series of books to be published
by the Texas A&M University
Press.
The series was begun on
the suggestion of author
James Michener. It will be ti
tled the Clayton Wheat Wil
liams Texas Life Series, in
mempry of the father of Mid
land oilman and rancher
Clayton Williams. The elder
Williams died in early 1983.
Michener was so impressed
by Clayton Wheat Williams
book, “Texas’ Last Frontier:
Fort Stockton and the Trans-
Pecos,” also published by the
University Press, that he
urged the younger Williams to
develop this program.
Loyd Lyman, director of
the University Press, said that
Michener has agreed to be
consulting edtor of the series.
He will be living in Texas
while searching the state for
background material for the
novel on Texas he is writing.
Recording the daily lives of
Texans from past generations
is especially important, Ly
man says, now that the state
approaches its sesquicenten-
mal — 150th anniversary —
celebration. Otherwise,he
said, the unique heritage of
the state and its people would
be lost.
Lyman said he became
cainted with the younger Wil
liams while the press was
working on his father’s book.
Williams, a 1954 Texas A&M
graduate, is interested in his
torical literary works such as
his father’s and will provide
$150,000 for the project.
Another $100,000 has been
given by an anonymous
donor, Lyman said.
The fully illustrated series
will consist of about 12 books.
They will cover from the fron
tier period to contemporary
times, including the oil and
lumber booms, Lyman said.
At this point the prelimin
ary background work is being
done on the series. The re
lease of the first book will be
known at a later date.
The Texas A&M Universi
ty Press, founded in 1974,
publishes about 30 books a
year, Lyman says. These are
sold to retail booksellers but
can also be purchased at the
press offices on campus.
The type of manuscripts
chosen to be published must
appeal to either the scholarly
community or to general
readers in Texas and the
Southwest, Lyman says. Publi
cation of such works is the
purpose of a university press
and the Texas A&M press
adheres to that tradition, Ly
man said.
The University Press is
housed in a new building,
south of Duncan Dining Hall
and near the bonfire site.
Tower causes uproar
Economics prof reappointed
United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS — Paris
. £is the Eiffel Tower, New York
j^s the Statue of Liberty and In-
jjanapolis may have the Indiana
^ower — whether residents like
or not.
The 750-foot, $15 million
wer, which looks like an up-
l ^ht Leaning Tower of Pisa, is
proposed centerpiece of an
^ t fibitious urban park in Indi-
j} apolis. It is not the idea of a
^ wer, but the structure’s design
is creating what some peo-
1 are calling a “monumental”
F c ,fitroversy.
Critics — including the
^ayor of Indianapolis — voice a
^timber of concerns about the
assign-
“Most of us feel it’s not an
appropriate symbol for Indiana-
Jxlis,” said Don Claffey, presi
dent of the American Institute
of Architecture’s Indianapolis
chapter. “We’d prefer some
thing indigenous to Indiana.”
Ray Ogle, Claffey’s predeces
sor at the AIA, also dislikes the
current design, what the town’s
mayor calls a big spike in the
ground.
Mayor William Hud nut
echoed Claffey’s concern, saying
the double helix symbol for
DNA would be more “symbolic
of the health motif they’re trying
to bring to the park.”
Some observers, however, say
the tower is just what the prop
osed White River Park needs.
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BELL
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■ Texas A&M economics pro
les or Dr. S. Charles Maurice
i room has been reappointed to the fed-
ntur), eral Advisory Council on Educa-
)ics of lion Statistics by the Secretary of
i, con- jpucation, Terrel Bell.
spring I' I know it sounds stupid, but
udder Honestly don’t know how I was
guest chosen,” Maurice said. ‘Some-
infor- body at the Department of Edu-
lation must have known of me
, and recommended me to the
secretary,
ns are ;
Elisa 1 1(
i "I guess they just wanted me
. rw i|| tosta y>” Maurice said. “I’m glad
juipt- U) l,c serv ing, particularly dur-
more mg thls Ume of ' g reat emphasis
on greater education.”
Maurice, who has been on the
council since 1980, was first
appointed to fill a one-year posi
tion vacated when a council
member resigned. Maurice was
recommended by colleagues
from the Texas A&M economic
and education departments.
The council’s 11 members
meet four to five limes a year to
review general and operational
policies of the National Center
for Education Statistics. The
NCES is a division of the Office
of Educational Research and
Improvement of the Depart
ment of Education .
The council establishes stan
dards to ensure that statistics
and analyses disseminated by
the NCES are of the highest
quality and are not subject to
political influences. The NCES
is the primary federal source for
collecting statistics on the condi
tion of education in the United
States, from kindergarten to col
lege.
In order to maintain the dis
semination of high quality, im
partial information, the seven-
man, four-woman advisory
council works closely with NCES
administrator and Assistant Sec
retary of Education, Dr. Donald
Senese.
Maurice’s reappointment to a
three-year term will end Sep
tember 1986.
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