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Friday, January 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 Around town Defensive driving course offered A defensive driving course, conducted by the Brazos Valley Safety Agency will be Friday and Saturday at the Ramada Inn. The class will meet from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday evening and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday morning. Stu dents must attend all eight hours. Another class will bejan. 31 and Feb. 1 also at the Ramada Inn. The class will meet from 6 to 10 p.m. both evenings. Those interested can pre-register by telephone at 846-1904 or 846-9271 or at 5 p.m. at the Ramada Inn before the classes. The purpose of the defensing driving class is basic driver improvement. By taking the class the driver can obtain a 10 percent reduction in insurance rates and traffic line dismis sal. Fees for the class are $20 per student payable at pre- registration. if red awi iat the I® from year, ditary dett Our work is - tome tool i d and am i to turn b signaled! i rove relas returns lo gaining latl on rally anted by- top exew y SI40,1 tampaigna ilnrtorsio I nr in ism re prompd ise of a lad ile our reel iy (Dec. 301 tept it ini ;y wereinC “1 tried toj nt. The pr golf." 5Sl ird so will voif posed’cons ent lhai liings, of*| nstruction universiliBi isA&Morj Systemf ■nt also wl i those twi the PenriaK Mills committee to award fellowships The W.G. Mills Memorial Fellowship Committee is accepting applications for the W.G. Mills Fellowship in Hyd rology for the Spring semester. Deadline for application is today. MSC Hospitality looking for members The MSC Hospitality Committee is taking applications for new members. Applications are due today. Interviews will be conducted from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1. Order of Rainbow to install officers The Order of Rainbow for Girls will have an open instal lation of its officers Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Brazos Valley Union Lodge at 107A Main Street in Bryan. The Order of the Rainbow for Girls is open to daughters and friends of Masons. Worthy Advisor for the group is Shannon Stuckey and Mother Advisor is Kay Drescher. The group meets the first and fourth Monday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Union Lodge. Boot and Sport Show this weekend The 6th Annual Brazos Valley Boat and Sport Show will be today, Saturday and Sunday at the Brazos Center. The show will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Newsletter aids homesick ‘Brits’ United Press International NEW-ORLEANS — Home sick for Hampshire? Curious ab out Chichester? Thirsty fear news of your native isle that digs deeper than Princess, Di’s fertil ity or the latest spy scandal in Cabinet? As a veteran of life in the colonies, Hilary Brookes knows well the search lot that bit of news — or that bit of sausage — that will be forever England. And a small but growing num ber of “Brits,” strewn from Plot ida to California, are looking to her for the latest. Britannia, her Hedging new s letter. is a lively combination of news summaries from English papers, sentimental memories of home and pragmatic advice on finding f ood front plum pud ding to kippers in a can. “The recent emphasis on being ethnic has finally made the British aware,” said Brookes, who prides herself on roots in Yorkshire. “I don’t care if they were in Siberia. Fhey never con sidered themelves foreigners. They considered the Russians foreigners, not them.” Now all that is changing. The British, who once disappeared into the layers of American soci ety with far greater ease than other ethnic groups, realize that even close ties and decades of residency cannot wipe out their unique identity. Brookes sees several reasons i for this phenomenon beyond in creased awareness of roots. A heightened sense of nationalism spawned by the Falktands War is one. A reaction to the lac k of coverage given substantive Brit ish new£ in the American media is another. “I haven’t seen anything real ly that I would want to print ab out Princess Di,” she said. “1 don’t think most people want to see a picture of a pregnant lady in a bikini, no matter who she is. That’s Benny Hill journalism.” Though she perceived a need for a newsletter such as hers, Brookes said she was surprised by the enthusiasm and geog raphic diversity of the response. Beyond the British commun ity of Louisiana, she has received subscription orders from Flor ida, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and California, without spend ing a penny on advertising. At $10 a year, the subscrip tion income is hardly going to excite Barclay’s Bank — even with Brookes writing, typing and mailing out the newsletter Is request' purchases; , Sam Hois and Univeii iversity f* 1 ,0 will consi ised version of enroll® s and units uture es indicate 100 people <as institul it ion in ■en puttinjt two years® [ Surgery (continued from page 3) “Home is a nicer place to be than a hospital,” said Mahnky, especially for those patients who feel uncomfortable in a hospital. For day surgery, patients come the day before their surgery and have necessary lab tests done. Printed instructions about surgical care as well as spe cifics related to anesthesia are given to the patient. Mahnky said the idea is to educate the patients about their surgery. Even though patients are hos pitalized for less than one day, they receive the same basic nurs ing care and facilities as over night patients. e PEKING GARDEN Chinese Rest an rant AlXYOr CAN EAT Friday, Saturday and Sunday Evening Buflet 6-8:00 p.m. 84.98 Weekly Noon Buffet s 3 {,s Buffets Include: egg roll, fried rice, fried wonton soup, chicken lou mein, sweet and sour pork, and beef with broccoli. Ttxu.% “Ladies” The gentlemen of Crocker Hall would like to thank all of you for attending the 1984 ver sion of the Crocker/Puryear “All Girls Free Party” last Saturday, Januaiy 21, 1984. The problems which caused the early shutdown have been take care of to ensure an even better party next time. To prove our point, we cordially invite you to attend our Nor man G. Crocker Birthday Celebration with us, February 18, 1984 at the Elks Lodge. Thank You, The Men of Crocker Hdtf herself. She lias about 200 sub scribers and hopes to build cir culation enough to make it a full time living. She dreams of a spruced-up national version in the future. “Virtually every check has a note attached saying, ‘Thank God you did ibis. Where were you 20 years ago?” she said. 'Some of the Brits who’ve called me have been here 40 years, fhey’re Americanized, but there’s still that longing for home. It is a longing Brookes knows well. Marriage took her from the mist-draped valleys of York shire, celebrated by James Her- riott in “All Creatures Great and Small,” to the streets of San Angelo. Divorce tossed her rudely into the American work force, which was less impressed by her life time of avid reading than her lack of a college education. Starting as a waitress to sup port herself and a son, she work ed her way up to legal secretary. When her son reached adolesc ence, she felt she could finally trade security for the pursuit of a few dreams — and her college diploma. Though it frustrated her creativity a bit, the secretarial work did introduce her to the computer technology she uses to produce Britannia. Her word processor set her back more than $2,000, and she says it still belongs as much to her credit card as to her. 1 The monthly “newsletter for expatriate Britons” makes a quirky mix indeed — part se rious and part tongue in cheek. It features stiff upper lip sum torials, complete with notes on how stories were displayed in The Times or The Guardian. Yet it leaves plenty of room for a reader’s poignant memor ies of growing up in Sussex, a pseudo-society report on a bash by “top trendsetters” and a mountain of chatty tips on track ing the elusive mincemeat pie or maries of English news and edi- homemade chutney. ;¥-¥^*-¥^****-***-*-*Jf-*** * It/ll If P’ Q T- MIKES DISCOUNT LIQUOR Jack Daniels Black Label 90° Tenn. 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