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Nike APPROACH Vertex Hiking Boot Reg s 66 87 SALE $ 45 87 Tr^SCata Sfrnrfts Ceatev 2023 Texas, Townshire Center 779-8776 Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 3, 1984 ¥ FISH CAMP BOONE REUNION J ^ Sunday, Oct.7 at 1:30 Hensel Park (across from Skaggs) Bring Sack Lunch h* Baseball gloves, footballs, etc. ^ *:»*-*■¥¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Gallery Datsun * ¥ * ¥ ¥ * Executive Warped of the Year chosen by Scott McCullaf Q V U is pleased to extend the 10% GME ''Wo* Student Discount w!current Aggie I.D. 1214 Texas Ave. 775-1500 By SARAH OATES Staff Writer The Texas A&M University Col lege of Business Administration has named Harold S. Hook Texas Busi ness Executive of the year. Hook is chairman and chief executive officer of American General Corp., a Hous ton-based insurance firm. Dr. William Mobley, dean of the College of Business, will present the award to Hook at 11 a.m. today. Initiated in 1980, the award hon ors outstanding businessmen who “exemplify the,ideals and achieve ments that earn the respect of the business community.” Recipients are chosen by their peers and serve as role models for students in the college. More than 200 corporate executives are nomi nated for the award each year. Besides being president of three major insurance companies before the age of 40, Hook also is known for developing MODEL-NETICS, an innovative management language designed to simplify management theory. PROBLEM PREGNRNCV? 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Tr TOFBAV uiKEF/vm: MV THAT Id FINISH W J r m \. •CTIGITT.. 1 sou wt suPtoze REAlUFE IS ANYTHING HKE tub sixth grade, row?. m Jtsssis: A&M physicist hosts, directs classical music radio show Sf ber 1 Sheri emer the c the v Tt that [ to th cials i “vy ; visit,’ sione thing there comii Ac said i Maje: it is | that. Th a vac; chesti colm chesti horse Th Oct. visit t Engki Shi Johns Britis on ar montl tions. No plann the qi busini dan, I Job Wyon idan backu A 1 also b Airpo are ad University News Service Auto mechanics do it. Mailmen do it. Even college students do it. What is it? — listening to a classical music radio program put together by a Texas A&M physicist. “I never cease to be amazed by the variety of people who tell me they enjoy listening to the show,” said Dr. Gilbert Plass — by day, a specialist in the physics of astronomy; by spare time, the initiator, disc jockey, pro gram director and one-man archivist of the tri-weekly program on KAMU-FM radio. Plass got the opportunity to do the program when he wrote to the sta tion in 1977 complaining about the lack of classical music on the air. The station director decided to give him a chance to do something about it. A lot of different people seem to be glad Plass took the bait. At least one auto mechanic in town finds the program provides the perfect background for repairing cars, and a substitute mailman left Plass a note one day complimenting the program, which Plass does as a gift to the station. Known in some circles as “the clas sical crusader,” he believes classical music is even more popular today than when — at the age of 11 — he became an avid enthusiast of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven and other classical composers. Jazz, the popular music of the time, was okay, Plass said, but some how it just didn’t carry the appeal of the time-honored adagios, allegros and minuets. Plass got his first records — a 78 rpm, five-record set of Brahm’s Third Symphony — on the instal lment plan when he was 12. It was in the middle of the Depression, and his mother made a deal with the store owner to buy the first three re cords one Christmas and the last two the next year. Today his collection of 2,000 to 3,000 albums is honored in specially- designed cabinets that take up two walls in his den. It is from this mas sive collection — 99 percent of which is classical — that Plass finds the ma jority of the selections he plays on his radio program. He is somewhat proud of the fact that he has never played the same recording twiceil though the station does air someo! the better programs morethanonct A graduate of Harvard (B.S.)ami Princeton (Ph.D.), Plass receivti little formal training in music i though he modesdy says hecanpla; a few simple classical pieces on tk piano. In physics, however, he isquitea; complished and early in his caw worked at the University of Chicaj on the Manhattan Project, the cot name for the first self-sustained* clear reaction, where he litei helped build the first atomic pile, Plass isn’t quite sure how, bulk believes his aptitude in science mai have something to do with hista for classical music, and he says I appreciation for classical music: more common among peoi trained in the pure sciences tli physics and mathematics than general population. $< t< “It takes an ordered mathemaie mind to study these fields a? mavbe that somehow relates tot? order in music,” he said. MSC Cafeleria Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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