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Thursday, March 22, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Is Professors discuss history Pit of women at Texas A&M ‘ l ref 'erred to ( V President jj 10 36,000 | eaJt eri an open^ • n th e students, ‘<3 l>e would | uuee ofstudem, epresentalivej >leins and ta^ 0 to increase ce fee by {(j. •0 in the nexttj -vas presented upport. By PAM BARNES Reporter From 1916 when women ere tolerated as special stu- ents to 1971 when women iere fully admitted to Texas i&M, change has been the wd to describe women’s his- jry here. Slow change. tse, to be voted nns, would pai costs of 111; Two assistant professors of istory, both women, spoke of jese changes at a luncheon eld Wednesday in celebration f National Women’s History leek. The luncheon, Panta- 10ns to Prominence, was spon- ired by the Texas A&M stu- ^lent chapter of Women in der Tower aid I C° mmunications - Inc - ndem Centen K Bonnie S. Ledbetter, Ph.D, i" the existinjl Ipui^g to the group of women ■bout the history of women ■ere. Then Sara Alpern, Ph.D, ^ _ 1 spoke of the present and future |7Qmbi Aggie women. The two “^'"lomen were aided by a slide * Site son named n murder of mother show put together by WICI President Kim Schmidt. Ledbetter spoke of such things as the first woman per mitted to attend classes here and of women who were given certificates instead of degrees. While slides of Texas A&M in the old days appeared on the wall behind her, Ledbetter told of women’s struggle to attend Texas A&M. Ledbetter traced the history of women here to 1963 when T he Texas A&M Board of Di rectors approved the admission of wives and family of faculty and students. At that point Al pern took the podium. With the last slide in Ledbet ter’s speech still on the wall — the changing of a “men’s” room sign to that of a “ladies” room sign — Alpern began to tell of women’s existence at Texas A&M to the present. She told anecdotes of wom en’s presence here and of such important happenings as the opening of the first women’s dorm. Alpern admitted that wom en’s beginnings and even pre sent at Texas A&M sometimes seem negative but she was posi tive when she talked of the fu ture. Honored at the luncheon were Stella Haupt and Sallie Sheppard, two of the first women enrolled at Texas A&M. Haupt received her master’s de gree in Education and is the longest sustaining member of the campus study group at Texas A&M. Sheppard is a Hal liburton professor in computer science here. South African discussion set By DAINAH BULLARD Staff Writer B.G. Fourie, South African Ambassador to the United States, will present a speech about South African policies at 8 p m. Thursday in Rud der Theater. The ambassa dor will discuss both internal and external policies in his speech. Fourie was appointed am bassador to the United States on June 1, 1982. He began his 50 years of service to South Africa in 1934, when he enlisted in the civil service. Fourie later worked for South Africa’s department of foreign affairs. In 1945, he attended the Organizational Conference of the United Nations, and later he partici pated in the final session of the League of Nations. From 1947 until 1952, Fourie was a member of the South African delegation to the United Nations, and in 1958, he was appointed South African ambassador to the United Nations. In 1963, Fourie became South Africa’s secretary of information. From 1966 until 1980, Forie served as secretary of foreign affairs for South Africa. In 1980,he was appointed direc tor of foreign affairs and in formation, where he served until his appointment as am bassador to the United States. Fourie’s presentation is the second part of the MSC Polit ical Forum’s South African Series 1984. The purpose of the series is to examine dif ferent viewpoints about the state of affairs in South Af rica, and to promote better understanding of the current situation there. Part one of Political Forum’s series fea tured Donald Wood, a lead ing segregation critic. Part three of the series will feature Edward Fugit, County Offi cer for South Africa from the ,U S. State Department. AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 •nience. At ulia meeting,! a residents toward one id souo-econt® lit yet been con cial study of >ning, Taylor water users think we need k asked. United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A high hool student was charged with announced T« mrder Wednesday in the t I exas sites i looting death of his mother, a ed from hundti aims adjuster with the United .quare milesei ervices Automobile Associa- on, police said. 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