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.
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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
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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.
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“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.
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