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Renee Vandiver
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Renee Vandiver
By CATHIE ANDERSON
Reporter
Renee Vandiver, wife of Texas
A&M President Frank Vandiver, is a
“people person.”
Her interest in people helps in her
dealings with A&M and its students.
“Being the president’s wife is a
very difficult role, in that you can’t
be all things to all people,” she said.
“It’s been neglected for so long.
They used to be looked upon just as
a person who only gave teas.”
Having socials at her home is one
of Vandiver’s duties. However,
tnany of her parties are designed to
give students an opportunity to raise
money or find lecturers for upcom
ing events like the Endowed Lecture
Series.
By helping students bring lec
turers from different backgrounds,
Vandiver said she wants to further
her husband’s hope of making A&M
a world-class university.
The Vandivers travel to many dif
ferent countries, attempting to make
agreements with other institutions
which could increase the University’s
store of knowledge in some areas.
Renee Vandiver, who received
her bachelor of fine arts degree
from Newcomb College which is af
filiated with Tulane University in
New Orleans, said she is interested
in seeing A&M attain a fine arts de
gree.
“I don’t care for everyone to come
out a painter,” said Vandiver, who is
an artist, “but I think that a school
that has everything that this one has
should find a place for the arts.
“Once I got up at a Board meet
ing. I kept raising my hand and rais
ing my hand, but he (a department
head) wouldn’t call on me. He called
on everyone except me, and I
thought, maybe he knows what I’m
going to say. Then I thought, he’s
closing the meeting, and he’s not
even going to call on me. I got up
and introduced myself and went into
my little spiel (about fine arts).”
Vandiver said she knows she
causes static sometimes.
“My children always tell me,
‘Mother, you’d never make a good
secretary,”’ she said. “I ask them
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Tuesday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A silver Motobecane 10-
speed bicycle was stolen from out
side Sterling C. Evans Library.
why, and they say, ‘Because they’d
ask you to do something, and you’d
decide that it wasn’t right and you
wouldn’t do it.’”
One idea which Vandiver has de
cided against is building a fence in
the back of their house. The fence
would aid in keeping people further
away from the house, she said.
“They (those who support the
fence) tell me, ‘They’ll say you live in
a goldfish bowl,’ I ask them, If we’re
eating supper, and they see us, what
harm can it do? All they can say is we
eat like everyone else,” she said.
The Louisiana native has another
reason for not wanting a fence built.
Not only is she a “people person,”
but she is also a people watcher.
“Since I am an artist, I am a peo
ple watcher,” she said, “I like to sit
and watch the joggers (on the aero
bic track) go by. Of course they can’t
see me because of the trees.”
Vandiver watches the joggers
from one of two benches which she
added to the garden in the back of
her house.
“When I came here, I asked if
there were two old benches around
that I could use,” she said. “I wanted
to put them out in the garden. They
told me that they didn’t know if they
had any, but they said they’d look
for two benches and try to make
them look old for me.”
The garden behind the Vandiv
ers’ home has attracted attention
from several people. Once a grad
uate student wandered into the
backyard to get detailed pictures of
the flowers, Vandiver said.
A few families have even walked
onto the patio in order to take pic
tures, she said.
While Vandiver enjoys her home,
garden, and the visitors there, she
also says that she loves the University
campus and thinks that it’s one of
the prettiest left in Texas.
“I take walks on my own because
no one knows who I am,” she said.
The Vandivers used to take walks
across campus together, but they dis
continued them after being stopped
so frequently when people recog-
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
State Rep. Neeley Lewis will speak
to the Texas A&M Student Senate at
their meeting tonight. Bill Presnal,
vice-chancellor of state affairs, and
nized the University president.
“We had Ladybird (Johnson) up
last year,” Vandiver said. “She didn’t
know one (a campus) like this still
the Student Senate legislative study
group will join Lewis, in discussing
Proposition 2, which concerns the
future of the Permanent University
Fund.
On Nov. 6, Texas voters will vote
existed. She was just overwhelmed.
As Frank says, ‘You can’t help but
love this place.’ The traditions and
spirit are something.”
on a constitutional amendment to
restructure the PUF.
The Senate also will hear a report
from Mike Hachtman, its College
Station Ci^y Council liaison, about
the city’s recent decisions concerning
the Luther Street railroad crossing.
Lewis to speak on Proposition 2
at the Student Senate meeting
PBS initiates weekly H<
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Public Broadcast
ing Station introduced “Wonder
works” this fall, non-cable tele
vision’s first regularly scheduled
educational series aimed at enter
taining pre-teens and their families
on prime-time air.
While ABC has its “After School
Specials” and CBS has its “CBS
School Break Specials,” they’re just
that — specials.
“Wonderworks,” conceived of by
executive director Jay Rayvid, the
WQED-Pittsburgh executive who
brought to PBS the acclaimed “Once
Upon a Classic” series, started
broadcast Monday from H:0() p.m.
9:00 p.m. as a weekly series.
Among the stars who will appear
in the productions ranging from
comedy to drama to fantasy are
Henry Winkler, Susan Anton, Sam
Waterston, Hermione Gingold, Jose
Ferrer, Shelley Duvall, LeVar Bur
ton, Dick Van Patten and Wally
Shawn.
Rayvid said the first 26 hours of
the series have been underwritten by
the Corporation for Public Broad
casting for $6.25 million, the largest
CPB grant ever for a single series in
one year.
“We are working with what we
think are the best producers in the
world and we’ve been real lucky at
tracting performers,” Rayvid said.
“They’re all working for scale.
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By CATHIE ANDERSON
Reporter
Texas Land Commissioner Carry
Mauro and Senator Chet Edwards
talked party politics to a group of 40
at a meeting in Rudder Theater
Tuesday night.
Mauro spoke against the Republi
can Party and the Republican candi
dates while state Senator Chet Ed
wards emphasized the importance of
having Democrats come together
and vote in the upcoming election
during a meeting in Rudder The
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Edwards tried to convince the au
dience to register as many people as
possible before the voter registration
deadline at midnight Sunday.
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to make the American public “feel
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