Wednesday, June 27, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
s
P
r
✓
-eady been
salad tk
.ay I woi
:h plated
jood Food
morninj
requested
inch attlit
No thank
s in a om
lor joum
m's rotin;
is of Tea
)
Family Tree provides home for retarded
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Bill Dobson mows the front yard of the Family Tree as part of
his Saturday chores. Right: Bill Dobson helps David Swilley
fold a sheet. Both men live in the Family Tree.
By RENEE HARRELL
Reporter
Friday is the big day. He’ll be
moving out. After four years of liv
ing at the Family Tree in Bryan,
Conway Perry is getting his own
apartment.
The Family Tree, a branch of the
Mental Health Mental Retardation
Authority of Brazos Valley, is a
halfway house for men at least 18
years old suffering from mental re
tardation.
“I’ve been here too long,” Perry
says. “I’m ready to get out in an
apartment.”
Perry, 28, came to the Family
Tree from the state school. He will
be moving in with John Sanford
who also lived at the Family Tree.
Sanford has been on his own for
two years.
“It was pretty rough for me when
I first came here (to the Family
Tree), ” Sanford says. “I had some
problems learning. I talked to
Wendy and Roy when I had prob
lems. They really helped me out. I
used to be real quiet. Now I talk. It’s
just a habit.”
The three-bedroom brick fa
cility, which houses nine men, pro
vides an opportunity for them to
prepare for independent commu
nity living and develop vocational
skills.
“All the guys that live here have
some kind of work or vocational
training that they are in,” says Jack
Rush, director of the Family Tree.
“Some of them work on contract
with the state highway depart
ment.”
The Family Tree, which opened
in 1975, has a waiting list of 10
men. Most of them come from state
schools or home, although. Rush
says, some do refer themselves.
“We try to emphasize a normali
zation principle,” Rush says. “We
work on the principle that you have
to do things for yourself.”
The residents plan and prepare
meals, do household chores, pur
chase and care for personal belong
ings and manage money.
“The concept of money is a prob
lem,” Rush says. “All of the money
they earn goes into separate bank
accounts under their name. Before
they leave we try to have them save
up enough money for it. They start
buying household items too. We
make sure they have enough in
come.”
Follow-up care is provided for
residents who move into the com
munity. Sanford comes back to the
Family Tree every week for classes.
A social worker, two psycholo
gists, a nurse, seven house man
agers and the director help staff the
facility 24 hours a day. Because the
residential program is a step be
tween dependence and indepen
dence, there is a need to get out
into the community.
“We went to Dr. G’s last New
Year’s Eve,” Sanford says. “About
four or five of us went. We just
went there and had fun.”
Kunkel
(continued from page 1)
academic and experiment station re
placements alone,” Kunkel said.
The U.S. Department of Agricul
ture is the single largest employer of
agricultural scientists in the country.
“If retirements take only half
those reaching eligibility for full fed
eral retirement provisions and re
placements require agricultural sci
entists, another sixth or more of the
annual Ph.D output would be taken.
leaving 500-550 or so a year for ex
tension services, industrial organiza
tions and agribusiness, regulatory
agencies, other federal research lab
oratories, consultancies and a lot
more and with the redundancy nee
ded,” Kunkel said.
Redundancy is the over produc
tion of graduates to assure there are
enough quality graduates to keep
positions filled as people drop out of
the profession.
Such shortages will result in com-
petitioh for graduates students for
faculty members among colleges and
universities.
“Competition for good Ph.D. fac
ulty is going to get tough, really
tough,” Kunkel said.
Though smaller schools, smaller
land grant colleges and non-land
grant colleges will suffer more,
Texas A&M will suffer, Kunkel said.
Texas A&M has lost several tenured
, faculty members to other institu-
ttions.
“We never had that problem befo
re,” Kunkel said.
In addition to the expected surge
of vacancies, other factors also play
into the increased need for graduate
students. One factor is dropping un
dergraduate enrollment.
“Competition for quality is getting
tougher,” Kunkel said.
Another factor is that the field of
agriculture is moving into a biologi
cal and informational revolution.
“At Texas A&M, we’re weather
ing it well, because we are moving
faster,” Kunkel said. “I can’t judge
' the rest.”
Three faculty members were
moved to biochemistry positions and
the College of Agriculture is requir
ing freshmen to learn about comput-
\ ers and is changing the courses to be
; fully computerized, Kunkel said.
| “We’re moving in that direction,”
he said.
The responsibility for training the
needed agricultural scientists falls
mainly to colleges and universities,
Kunkel said.
“It follows that the academic sys
tem must be central to respond to
i further demands,” he said. “I expect
; it will need considerable help from
federal agencies, industries and state
governments. A ready supply of
would-be agricultural scientists has
been taken for granted. It can no
longer be. We must now be con
cerned that the new cohorts are re-
and trained.”
Police beat
The following incidents were re
ported to the University Police De
partment through Tuesday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A G.T.E. telephone was stolen
from 205 Halbouty.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING.
• A Xerox copier, two solid state
40-channel radios and two solid state
three-channel radios were stolen
from the Gulf States Construction
Shed.
Consumer
group files
complaint
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — South
western Bell Telephone Co. is artifi
cially inflating local service costs, and
the U.S. Department of Justice
should take necessary action against
the company, a Missouri consumer
group said Tuesday.
The Missouri Public Interest Re
search Group, a St. Louis-based or
ganization, filed a complaint Mon
day with the Justice Department,
alleging Southwestern Bell has vio
lated the consent degree which
broke up AT&T.
Tom Ryan, MoPirg’s executive di
rector, and Tim Hogan, a member
of group’s board of directors, an
nounced Tuesday they sent a letter
of complaint to Jeffrey Blurnenfeid,
with the Antitrust Division of the
Justice Department. He is handling
administration and enforcement of
the AT&T divestiture agreement.
“Our complaint is that Southwes
tern Bell is artificially inflating the
cost of local telephone service by us
ing a cost-methodology prohibited
by the consent decree,” Hogan said.
“The continued use of the prohib
ited cost methodology will have a
long-range effect on telephone pol
icy and a wide-ranging impact” on
all customers served by Southwes
tern Bell in Missouri, Texas, Kansas,
Arkansas and Oklahoma, the letter-
said.
The consent decree, according to
MoPirg, requires a division of costs
between local and long distance
when facilities are used for both
services.
The Justice Department must
now respond to the complaint, Ho
gan said. If MoPirg is unsatisfied
with that response, or the depart
ment has failed to deal in good faith,
MoPirg can then go directly to the
federal judge in Washington
rig in total 1
xibility be-
h she was
is strong
hethersbe
say, ho»-
hite slack
:s look to-
let ray late
my father
lat wasn't
irk. Recre-
lea of fttit-
er I began
ny father
y going t°
you quit
g and pul-
ve known
nt.
Nunn do
r in their
,uld have
is. It may
the three
n joining
mtion of
in 1982,
986, no"'
the Dem-
>y cannot
jmewhat,
5 , Arkan-
nnectifl 11
ile chose
Hart or
not i®‘
d Glenn
nd thej
[o match
]oloraef°
e to elec -
e off^
jtives in
sidential
ylondak
deration
merviee
j all the
No one gives you a
better deal on savings.
BrazosBanc has been the best place for savings
since 1919.
Today’s rates and terms are better than ever with
more choices and more options to meet your plans for
the future.
There’s never been a better time to open a savings
program with BrazosBanc. If your savings account is held
at another institution, now would be a great time to
compare earnings and terms.
Talk to a savings counselor at any of our offices.
You’ll get a better deal on your savings.
Savings Association of Texas
(A DIVISION OF LAMAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION)
802 Brazos I Austin, TX
ove us
to pieces.
Everybody says we have good taste—and we know you do—so let’s get
together. Come in for our light ’n crispy chicken, home-style fries, corn-on-
the-cob, cole slaw, potato salad, and our fresh-baked rolls with lots of butter
and country honey. It’s a meal you’ll love, especially at prices like these.
Save $2.00
Chick ’n Pak, 8 pieces of
chicken, 2 family orders of
vegetables and rolls for only
$6.88 (regularly $8.88).
1905 Texas Ave.693-1€69
705 N. Texas Ave. 822-2819
512 Villa Maria Rd. 822-5277
Limit 4 per coupon.
Offer expires 7/11/84 TA>
Chicken
’n rolls
Save $1.00
Chick ’n Lot, 2 pieces
of chicken (our choice),
2 vegetables, 1 roll and a
24 oz. Coke® for only $2.22
(regularly $3.22).
1905 Texas Ave. 693-1669
705 N. Texas Ave. 822-2819
512 Villa Maria Rd. 822-5277
Limit 4 per coupon.
Offer expires 7/11/84
TAM
Chicken
’n rolls