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■Junior and senior members of
Company F-1 in the Texas A&M
Corps of Cadets have been reas
signed to other outfits following
the death of an F-1 sophomore
last week.
H The reassignments follow in
the wake of investigations into the
circumstances surrounding the
death of Bruce Dean Goodrich.
Goodrich collapsed and died last
Thursday after he and his room
mate participated in “motivatio
nal exercises” conducted by three
Company F-1 juniors.
■ Col. Donald L. Burton, Corps
commandant, said the juniors
and seniors were reassigned so
company freshmen and sopho-
mores could be provided with dif
ferent leadership.
I “It’s my view that the freshmen
and sophomores deserve the very
best leadership they could have,”
Burton said. “A lot of them (the
company’s former juniors and se
niors) are under investigation,
and will be under long trials and
tribulations.”
K Corps senior William Grimes
has been named new command
ing officer of Company F-1. Se
nior Ray Thomason has been
named executive officer, and ju
nior Greg Baine has been named
first sergeant.
Grimes, a history major from
Cincinnati, Ohio, said other ju
nior and senior cadets will be as
signed to the company. Several
juniors will be appointed to addi
tional staff positions (supply ser
geant, scholastics sergeant, and
two platoon sergeants) in the next
few days. Grimes said.
“Some superior juniors will be
assigned as officers,” Grimes said.
Cadets have not yet been selected
for those positions, he said.
The goal of the new officers is
to “pul the tragedy into the past”
and improve certain aspects of
the company, Grimes said. Im
provements in scholastics will be
stressed, he said.
“The changes we want to see in
F-1 are the changes we’d like to
see reflected in the whole Corps,”
Grimes said.
Chuck Rollins, Corps com
mander, said the new officers had
been “hand picked” from other
outfits. F-1 sophomores and
freshmen were not reassigned be
cause their presence is necessary
to reform the company, he said.
“The sophomores and fresh
men in that outfit know what has
happened, and they won’t let it
happen again,” Rollins said. “In a
couple of years, I expect F-1 to be
right back on top.”
Rollins said the Corps investi
gation into the circumstances sur
rounding Goodrich’s death
should begin “full steam ahead”
Monday. The Corps investigation
was put on hold pending infor
mation from other investigations,
he said.
The Corps investigation will be
conducted by Rollins, deputy
Corps commander Paul Davis,
and some junior staff members,
Rollins said. The investigation
will look into previous problems
with abuse of authority, as well as
last week’s incident, he said.
While Company F-1 is under
going transitions, one thing re
turned to normal in the Corps.
Physical training resumed
Wednesday following a five-day
suspension.
Training activities were tempo
rarily suspended last week follow
ing Goodrich’s death. Previous
problems concerning the quality
of training and the conditions un
der which training took place
were also responsible for the sus
pension, Burton said.
Burton said the Corps will con
tact Easterwood Airport or the
meteorology department at
Texas A&M to find out the tem
perature and humidity rating be
fore conducting training activ
ities, such as outfit runs. Weather
conditions will determine
whether training activities will
take place, he said.
H.B. ‘Pat’ Zachry dies
after suffering stroke
By KARLA K. MARTIN and
KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Former chairman of the Texas
A&M System Board of Regents and
internationally known civil engineer
and contractor H.B. “Pat” Zachry
died Wednesday in San Antonio.
Zachry, who founded the H.B.
Zachry Co. of San Antonio in 1924,
died at 9:55 a.m. during surgery af
ter suffering a stroke. He had been
in the hospital only two days and had
spent the last weekend at his ranch.
“The Texas A&M System has lost
a great friend in Pat Zachry — he
was one of a kind,” Texas A&M
Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen said.
“His loyalty, enthusiasm and sup
port set him apart. But even more,
the state has lost a leader. He was a
gentle man with high principles who
gave to all who asked but never
asked in turn. We who knew him
shall miss him deeply.”
Texas A&M President Dr. Frank
E. Vandiver said, “We are deeply
distressed at the passing of Pat
Zachry. He was an exceedingly good
friencl to all of us at Texas A&M.
Our heart felt sympathy goes out to
Mrs. Zachry and to all the other
members of his family.”
H.R. “Bum” Bright, chairman of
the Board of Regents, said, “Mr.
Zachry was a kind, thoughtful, gen
erous man who exemplified every
thing that the high ideals of A&M
try to give to man.”
Zachry not only supported Texas
A&M monetarily but also spiritually
by providing leadership and giving
valuable advice to the administra
tion, the board and the system,
Bright said.
“He will be missed and sorely
missed by all those interested in the
University,” he said.
H.B. “Pat” Zachry
Charlie Seely, president of the As
sociation of Former Students, said,
“H.B. Zachry was a gentleman in ev
ery sense of the word. He was an
outstanding Ag and entrepreneur —
a true, dear friend of Texas A&M.
Although his memory will live for
ever, he will be missed by all — espe
cially Ags, friends and Texas A&M.”
Zachry donated millions of dollars
to Texas A&M and more than 1,000
students have received scholarships
provided by Zachry; Robert Walker,
vice president for development,
said.
“He was a great supporter of any
one who wtis willing to work,”
Walker said, “and he hired a lot of
Aggies.”
Walker said, six years ago Zachry
had asked him never to disclose ex
actly how much money he had given
to Texas A&M.
“At one time, there were over 350
students attending Texas A&M
through Mr. Zachry’s support,”
Walker said. “A lot of students over
the years didn’t even know he was
supporting them and he didn’t want
them to know.”
Born Henry Bartell Zachry on
Sept. 27, 1901 in Uvalde, he grad
uated f rom Texas A&M in 1922 with
a degree in civil engineering. He
later went to work as an assistant
county surveyor and was promoted
to Webb County engineer. He re
signed in 1924 to establish his own
company.
While at Texas A&M, Zachry was
a first lieutenant in the Artillery
Shock Troops, a corps unit, and was
president of the Uvalde Hometown.
He also was a member of the Ross
Volunteers.
The 1922 edition of the Texas
A&M yearbook, then called the
Longhorn, called Zachry a “quiet,
hard-working, unassuming man of
sterling character.”
In 1964, Zachry was named a Dis
tinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M.
He served from 1955-1961 on the
Board of Directors of Texas A&M, a
forerunner of the Board of Regents,
and was president of the Board from
1959-1961.
In 1972, the Zachry Engineering
Center was named in his honor and
his firm performed the $22 million
renovation of Kyle Field.
Zachry is survived by his wife,
Polly; two sons, Bartell and Jim;
three daughters, Mary Patt Stum-
berg, Emma Leigh Carter, and Suz
anne Word; two sisters, Emma Leigh
Crowther and Ola Moore; 17 grand
children and one great-grandson.
Funeral services are set for Friday
at 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian
Church in San Antonio with the
burial at Sunset Memorial Park un
der the direction of Porter-Loring
Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the family re
quests that memorial contributions
be made to the Texas A&M Univer
sity Development Foundation.
J-Board changes policies
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By BRITTANY MILLHOLLAND
Reporter
In an effort to create a more ef
fective and professional disciplinary
system, the Residence Hall Judicial
Board is enacting several major
changes this year.
The Judicial Board, also known as
the J-Board, is a peer review panel
that hears minor housing violations
of students.
One of the biggest changes will be
the reduction of eight boards to
four, said Assistant Area Coordina
tor Tom Wellington. There will be a
board concentrated in each of the
main areas of campus: north, cen
tral, the Commons and the Corps.
In the past the J-Board has in
sisted on a board consisting of rep
resentatives from each hall. This
year, students who wish to be on the
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board must ag
Applicants will be interviewed and
carefully selected by a professional
staf fed team, Wellington said.
Each board will consist of eight
students, including Five members,
two alternates, and a chairperson.
Wellington said that one head resi
dent and an area coordinator will be
in charge of each board.
An effort is being made to in
crease the prestige of the board posi
tions and allow the board to hear
more difficult cases. The board
members will receive more intensive
training than they have in years past,
Wellington said.
“Students can do more for judicial
board than people believe,” said
Brent Patterson, supervisor of stu
dent judicial affairs. “Their success
comes through training and experi
ence in hearing cases.”
Beth Castenson, head resident of
Mosher Hall, said that the board will
be less of a “traffic court” this year.
Many first offenses will be handled
by the head residents of each hall in
order to keep the boards open for
the more serious cases. Therefore,
those who do appear before the
board for second offenses will be
dealt with more harshly and issued
stricter sanctions than in the past.
Last year, board sessions were
held in various locations, sometimes
even in a board member’s apart
ment. This year the board perma
nently will hold hearings in Rudder
Tower or the Memorial Student
Center.
The changes in the Judicial Board
system are a result of evaluations by
students and faculty, and the deci
sions made by a committee of hous
ing authorities who met this sum
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il/Vmeri^ MOSCOW — President Konstan-
ts,and p ! tin Chernenko, who had been ru-
ichapters mored seriously ill, made his first
public appearance in 54 days
jin in $2 Wednesday at a brief Kremlin cere-
mlltouri mony honoring three cosmonauts,
islken i# The ceremony, shown on the
police offij nightly TV news program Vremya,
ns,we began with a tanned and smiling
ionics ofl ! Chernenko walking unaided into the
ornate Kremlin hall.
tofls Holding a five-page speech firmly
iifctas,’ 1 in his left hand, Chernenko read his
slid o(Q remarks without the wheezing and
iiiidPol |£f halting delivery tfiat had marked
fflllie^ earlier public speeches. Later, how-
i cnop f[ ever, he stood stiffly and seemed
lOKi td 10 short of breath.
KKion ^ In his speech honoring “space
heroes” Vladimir Dzhanibekov,
Svetlana Savitskaya and Igor Volk,
he repeated his call for a mora
torium on the testing and deploy
ment of space weapons.
“We would like to hope that the
United States will, after all, display
political foresight and appraise the
Soviet Union’s constructive ap
proach at its true worth,” he said.
Following the ceremony in which
the cosmonauts received the nation’s
highest awards, a smiling Cher
nenko, dressed in a dark blue suit
and striped tie which offset his
ruddy complexion and silver hair,
posed w’ith the space trio and other
officials.
The appearance of the 72-year-
old leader ended an absence from
E ublic view that began July 13, when
e was seen with Secretary-General
Javier Fere/ de Cuellar.
Two days later, Chernenko offi
cially began a vacation at his Black
Sea retreat. Soviet leaders ordinarily
take annual six-week vacations.
Chernenko’s lasted almost eight
weeks.
His reappearance followed ru
mors that surfaced in late August
that he was being treated in a Mos
cow hospital and was seen in a
wheelchair.
The Soviet leader, who became
the oldest man to assume command
of the Soviet Union following the
death of President Yuri Andropov
Feb. 9, suffers from chronic breath
ing difficulties, believed to stem
from emphvserna.
Similar health rumors about the
Soviet leadership cropped up last
summer following the disappear
ance of Andropov from public view
after meeting with a delegation of
U.S. senators.
During Chernenko’s vacation, two
letters from him to European peace
activists and a question-and-answer
interview with Pravda were pub
lished. However, he made no public-
appearances.
Dzhanibekov, the commander of
the Soyuz T-12 mission that linked
up with the Salyut station from July
17-29, was given the nation’s highest
award — the Order of Lenin.
“Svetlana Savitskaya and Vladimir
Dzhanibekov carried out complex
experiments outside the orbiter,
working as celestial assemblers,”
Chernenko told the Kremlin gather
ing. "Svetlana then became the
world’s first woman to make a space
walk.”
Local
* University Police officers are still looking for the driver
of the car involved in the hit-and-run incident earlier this
week. See story page 5.
• Texas A&M greenhouse manager tells which plants are
best suited for apart merits and dorms. See page 4.
• C.S. Police Department sponsors class to help parents
prevent child molestation. See story page 5.
World
• The death toll from Typhoon Ike rises to 660. See story
page 12.