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Jeff Barnes, vineyard manager of the Mes
sina Hof Winery in Bryan, checks the flow
Photo by JOHN RYAN
of juice from the grape press into stainless
steel fermentation tanks.
Family tradition kept at
Messina Hof vineyards
By LAURIE HEIDBREDER
Reporter
Messina Hof winery, located in
Bryan, harvested their last grapes
Thursday for the 19H4 season.
I he winery is owned and oper
ated by Paul and Merrill Bonar-
rigo. Bonarrigo is a physical ther
apist as well as a wine maker.
“It is something that you have
to really schedule your time for,”
Bonarrigo said.
Mrs. Bonarrigo graduated
from I’exas A&M with a degree
in marketing and is the general
manager of tlie winery.
Bonarrigo’s family had a win
ery in Sicily. After moving to the
United States, they kept making
wine but did not continue the.
vineyard. His father made the
wine from bought grapes.
“The tradition is that the First
born son is called Paul and he is
that generation’s wine maker,”
Bonarrigo said.
The Bonarrigos 2-yedr-old
son, Paul Bonarrigo VII, will in
herit the winery.
The Bonarrigos organized the
vineyard in 1976 and planted it in
1977. They began making the
wine in 1980 and in 1983 they
were bonded and had their first
commercial release.
“The grapes are harvested
yearly,” he said. “It starts the first
of July and usually Finishes about
the First week in September.”
The wine is made mostly by
machines. However, there is
some foot trodding of the grapes
which Paul VII has already expe
rienced.
Messina Hof wines are distrib
uted locally in Bryan and all over
Texas.
“We have some distribution in
New Orleans, New York and in
Florida,” Bonarrigo said.
It is sold under the Messina
Hof Wine Cellars label. “It’s
named after Messina, Sicily
where my family is from, and
Hof, Germany where Merrill’s
family is from,” he said.
The Messina Hof winery
makes 11 types of wine.
Smoke detectors installed
in dorms, local apartments
By KIM TREESE
Reporter
A new law protecting tenants re
quires all dwelling units occupied as
residences prior to September 1,
1981, to install smoke detectors by
September 1 of this year.
W. G. Ferris, housing operations
supervisor, said approximately 650
smoke and heat detectors are being
installed in Texas A&M residence
halls. “We’ve been working hard all
summer,” he said.
Harry Stiteler, of the Texas A&M
Department of Health and Safety,
said the alarms being installed are
equipped with both heat and smoke
seisovs. The smoke sensor wiH trig
ger an individual alarm in the room
where the alarm is only. However,
once the room temperature reaches
135 degrees Fahrenheit a heat sen
sor will trigger the main university
alarm.
Smoke and heat detectors have
been installed in each room of the
modular halls and m two balcony
halls, Schuhmacher and Mclnnis.
Installation is being completed in
Hughes, Fowler and Keathley Halls.
Twenty smoke detectors per floor
are being installed in the halls of As
ton, Krueger, Mosher, and Dunn
Halls. Stiteler said even though these
smoke detectors are not located in
the rooms they still will meet the res-
ideviVs’ the pvovecUou weeds.
College Station apartments also
have been affected by this law. Ger-
rie Jillette, manager of Barcelona
apartments, said about 250 smoke
alarms are being installed in the
complex. “We’re working like mad
and putting them in right now,” she
said.
Elena Bosely, manager of the Tra
vis House apartments, said that
many of the units already had smoke
detectors. Since July, however, 30
more have been added to the com
plex.
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Houston In
dependent School District settled a
28-year-old desegregation case
Thursday by agreeing to a $ 13.4 mil
lion improvement program and the
recruitment of more minority teach
ers.
Four days of almost around-the-
clock negotiations with attorneys for
the NAACP and Mexican American
Legal Defense and Education Fund
ended about 1 a.m.
The settlement still must be ap
proved by U.S. District Judge Robert
O’Conor. After negotiations began
Sunday, O’Conor delayed a hearing
that was scheduled this week on the
plaintiffs’ opposition to a school
board request that the suit finally be
dismissed.
The most expensive part of the
settlement is the institution of a pre
school program for 4-year-old chil
dren from economically deprived
areas. The program, which is to be
gin in the 1985-86 school year, is ex
pected to cost $8 million, HISD
spokeswoman Geri Koningsberg
said.
A major demand of the plaintiffs
was answered by the decision to set
the ratio of minority to white stu
dents at inner city magnet schools at
60-40. The ratio currently is 50-50,
which NAACP attorneys said pre
vents many minority students from
attending the special schools.
About 42 percent of HISD stu
dents are black, while 34 percent are
Hispanic and about 20 percent are
white.
The school board also agreed to
increase recruitment of teachers
from colleges with substantial num
bers of Hispanics and blacks; in
crease the number of teacher aides
in bilingual classrooms; offer volun
tary tutorial programs to any stu
dent not achieving state or national
norms; and continue to improve its
school buildings.
It also agreed to a demand by the
Mexican American Legal Defense
and Education Fund to make a study
of dropouts and determine methods
of keeping them in school.
The district also will hire more
people to act as liaisons between
schools and the community.
District Superintendent Billy Rea-
g an said the five-year plan approved
y the groups is the highlight of his
10 years with the district. He said
children are the winners in the set
tlement.
O’Conor ruled in 1981 that the
Houston district is “unitary,” saying
it had done everything possible to
desegregate. At that time, he said
the court would monitor HISD for
three years.
The desegregation suit was Filed
in 1956 on behalf of two black stu
dents who were denied admittance
to all-white schools.
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By MARY COX
Reporter
■ Texas A&M professors are cre-
iting a software library for use in
iigh school science laboratories. The
University received a contract from
Bio-Systems, a Healthdyne Com
pany in Houston, to design the pro
grams for micro-computers.
Program coordinator Dr. Jon
Hunter said one of the major weak
nesses in American high schools is
the lack of science laboratory skills.
“We became concerned about the
quality of secondary education back
in December, 1982,” Hunter said.
“As educators, we wanted to up-
■gralelabs. And the ideal thing is to
use micro-computers.”
SC1-LAB (Science Computer-
based Instruction) will provide in
struction and experiments in bi
ology, chemistry and physics. The
software will be used on micro-com
puters manufactured by Apple,
Texas Instruments and I.B.M. Per
sonal Computers.
“The computer is ideal for teach
ing in four areas,” Hunter, an asso
ciate professor of bioengineering
and veterinary physiology/pharma
cology, said.
Hunter explains the computer
will simulate complex problems in
situations where lab experiments are
too expensive. He said it will per
form mathematic computations and
it will present visual information
such as reproduction of slides, which
is necessary in the medical sciences.
The computer will gather data and
allow students to test hypotheses, he
said.
“My philosophy is computers are
not ideally suited to teach, just as tea
chers are not suited to compute,”
Hunter said. “This is a very sophisti
cated research tool for high school
students.
“While it takes one teacher for 30
or 40 students, we recommend three
people per computer. T herefore,
you would need eight or ten com
puters per lab.”
Hunter said each lesson in the
software library will contain a title
page, a ‘menu’ that describes the va
rious topics covered in the lesson,
the objectives and principles of the
lessons, procedures, data collection,
data analysis and a summary. The
computer also will store information
and will come equipped with a line
printer.
Students will be able to perform
experiments with the addition of a
sensor that plugs into the interface
hardware. Testing pH levels and
performing an electrocardiogram
are some examples of the experi
ments that SCI-LAB will do.
“Anything that you can measure
can be measured by this computer,”
Hunter said.
He said SCI-LAB will enable stu
dents to study at their own pace.
This will be helpful to the excep
tional student as well as the slower
student.
Hunter said he feels that high
school students tire tested too much.
The idea behind SCI-LAB is to whet
student’s appetite for knowledge af
ter they have studied a text, he said.
Hunter said the computer will be
designed to be ‘student-friendly’ —-
easy to operate and use.
The software engineers that per
fect the instructions and design the
colorful grahics are research assis
tants Randy Adolph, Anne Adolph
and Sharon Pickett. Also working on
the project are bioengineering grad
uate students Tony Brown and Bill
Randolph and electrical engineering
graduate student Jan Williams.
“These people are the brains be
hind the software,” Hunter said.
Dr. James Anderson, Dr. Larry
Claborn, Dr. Don Clark (veterinary
physiology/pharmacology) and Dr.
John Hogg (chemistry) began work
ing with Dr. Hunter developing the
software June, 1983. The contract
with Bio-Systems expires April,
1985.
Hunter said the cost of the hard
ware is between $2,100 and $3,000,
depending on the particular com
puter. The software is approxi
mately $85 per lesson and the sen
sors necessary for experiments
rclnge between $20 and $100.
Recently, the National Science
Teachers Association selected the
SCI-LAB development team to pre
sent its software at the conference. It
was the only team invited to display
software to the select group of edu
cators as well as computer manufac
turers.
Beach cleanup of oil stopped, left to nature
United Press International
GALVESTON — Officials have
decided to let nature take its course
in cleaning up oil on the island’s
western beaches and have stopped
the use of heavy machinery to scrape
away sand, a Coast Guard spokes
man said Thursday.
“It’s one of those things of how
much sand do you really want to
scrape off,” Lt. j.g. Larry Clark said.
“There comes a point (where you
wait) and see what happens natu
rally.”
Clark said the ratio of oil to sand
on the western beaches from a mas
sive oil spill is now one to four
pounds of oil per 100 pounds of
sand.
Tons of oil washed up on Galves
ton’s beaches after the British tanker
Alvenus split open July 30 off the
coast of Cameron, La. The ship cur
rently is in a Galveston Bay shipyard
and will be lifted into dry dock
Wednesday for repairs, Clark said.
A major problem continues to be
cleaning the thick mess from rocks at
the bottom of the seawall.
“They’re still working on it,”
Clark said. “No one is finding a great
solution (to get it off the rocks). You
can always get it with a Brillo pad
and a putty knife. So far a great solu
tion has not presented itself.”
Clark said the contractor hired by
the ship’s owner has asked to remove
work crews from the seawall to allow
the oil to weather. However, the
Coast Guard has not yet decided
whether to grant the request.
More than 100 workers are using
a variety of methods to scrape the oil
from the rocks, including high pres
sure water or water mixed with sand,
he said.
While sand on beaches from the
west end of the seawall to the west
ern end of the island are discolored,
the popular east beach tourist areas
are clean, he said.
Although the heavy machinery
has been removed from the west
beaches, they are on standby should
large amounts of oil begin to wash
on shore again.
Rhodes Scholarship 1984
Are you a senior with a 3.5 + average? If so, you
may be eligible for a Rhodes Scholarship. You
could spend the next 2 years at Oxford University
honing your career skills, widening your educatio
nal base.
Contact Dr, Carolyn Adair
Director Student Activities
845-1133
Deadline: September 28^ 1984
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