Friday, November 9, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
A&M hosts
luncheon
for old Ag
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
The Historic Resource Society
of Texas A&M hosted a noon
luncheon Thursday in honor of
former student David L. Mofflt,
the superintendent of the Statue
of Liberty site.
The luncheon was attended by
about 30 people, and featured a
collection of clippings, sketches
and pictures of the statue.
The collection was donated to
the club by Graham Horsley, a
professor of environmental de
sign and architecture at A&M.
The club will donate the collec
tion to the Statue of Liberty mu
seum.
The collection follows the his
tory of the statue f rom the time of
its creation by French sculptor
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and
engineer Alexandre Gustave Eif
fel.
Club president Tony Sara-
bando said he invited Moffit to
speak at A&M after discovering
that Moffit was an Aggie. The
club was formed to promote the
restoration and preservation of
historic sites.
The club presented Moffit with
a T-shirt with pictures of Reveille
and the Statue of Liberty. The T-
shirts will be sold in the Memorial
Student Center and Langford
Architecture Center to raise
money for the renovation project.
David L. Moffit, Class of ’61, is silhouetted
in front of a slide of the Statue of Liberty
during his presentation Thursday night
Photo by PETER ROCHA
sponsored by the Historic Resource Society
of Texas A&M. Moffit was appointed super
intendent of the statue site eight years ago.
Public restores
Liberty statue
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
The restoration of the Statue
of Liberty and Ellis Island is a
project belonging to the people of
America, not a service of govern
ment, former student David L.
Moffit said Thursday evening.
Moffit, Class of ’61, was ap
pointed superintendent of the
Statue of Liberty site eight years
ago. About 70 people attended
Moffit’s presentation, which was
sponsored by the Historic Re
source Society of Texas A&M.
Moffit said the decision to so
licit donations to restore the
statue from citizens instead of re
questing an appropriation from
the government is based on Lib
erty’s history. The statue was built
in the early 1880s with funds do
nated by the people of France,
and the statue’s pedestal was built
with funds donated by the people
cif America.
“This project has captured the
imagination of America, but not
just America,” Moffit said. “We
get money from (countries) be
hind the iron curtain.”
Moffit’s favorite fund-raising
stories come from projects
headed by children. One such
story dates from the early days of
the fund-raising project. After
showing a high-school level film
to a group of grade school
children, Moffit was approached
by a little boy.
“A little second-grader came
up to me — he was about this
high,” Moffit said, holding his
hand about four feet from the
floor. “He put his hand in his
pocket and pulled out a quarter,
and said, ‘Will this help?’ ”
During a luncheon given in his
honor earlier Thursday, Moffit
gave another example of the ef
forts put forth by school children.
The children — fourth- and fifth-
graders — wanted to raise money
for the restoration, but needed
capital. They recjnested a $20
loan from a local banker, who ex
plained that borrowers must own
something valuable to use as col
lateral.
“The children left and came
back an hour later with a shoe
box,” Moffit said. “In that shoe
box was a Barbie doll, a base ball,
a box of Milk Duds, and some
marbles and stuff. The banker
gave them the loan.”
The children eventually paid
back the bank loan, and sent $100
to the restoration fund, Moffit
said.
The fund-raising goal is set at
$230 million, but may be raised to
$250 million, Moffit said. So far,
$115 has been raised.
Restoration plans include
cleaning the statue, installing a
glass elevator in the pedastal, cre
ating easier access for hand
icapped people, repairing the
statue’s interior framework and
rebuilding the flame.
Election
A&M students thanked; victory celebrated
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
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ds ofthisl ^ oe ^ arton ’ w h° won 6th U.S.
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i in 'l new state legislator for the 14th dis-
nave de'M.j ct) new jj razos County Sheriff
JS. Ronnie Miller, and Billy Beard,
Bounty commissioner, were all on
Iqiand for the gathering of mostly
/ Texas A&M students.
I “You are my well-oiled political
| machine,” Barton told approxi
mately 150 people at the celebration,
citing the importance of the A&M
student vote.
Smith, who defeated incumbent
Democrat Neeley Lewis, spoke to the
crowd next and denied charges that
his victory came on the coattails of
President Ronald Reagan.
“I won on my own issues,” he said,
“and the students at A&M played a
critical role in the outcome of the
election.” •
Miller, who, won the race for
county sheriff by a slim 153 votes
over Democrat Howard Hill, joked
about questions raised about the tiny
margin.
“Better be careful,” he told the
students. “They’re gonna try and
convict you of voter fraud.”
After all the speeches were made,
Barton talked about his plans for the
coming months.
“I’ve talked with Phil Gramm sev
eral times this week,” he said, “about
the transition we want in January
when I take his place in the House. ”
Barton said he’s working on the
various committee assignments that
will be made when the new rep
resentatives take office in January,
and that he’s also working on the
legislative agenda for the new Con
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City to regulate speed of trains
By LYNN RAE POVEC
Staff Writer
After holding a public hearing,
the College Station City Council
unanimously passed an ordinance
Thursday night that will allow the
city to regulate the speed of trains
within the city’s limits.
According to the ordinance, the
maximum speed that trains can
travel between FM 2818 and Holle-
man Drive is 40 mph. From Holle-
man Drive to Bryan’s city limits,
trains cannot exceed a speed of 30
mph.
The speeds were decided upon at
a meeting of College Station city
staff with representatives from
Texas A&M, Southern Pacific Rail
road and Missouri Pacific Railroad,
said city attorney Cathy Locke.
The council denied a request by
Southern Pacific Railroad represen
tative Rodney Stutes to delay taking
action for three weeks and provide
the railroad company time to meet
with city engineers to discuss the
matter.
“The railroads don’t want an ordi
nance,” Stutes said. “That’s as plain
as it can be.”
He said the railroad company had
voluntarily imposed speed limits on
its trains so an ordinance was unnec
essary.
College Station Mayor Cary Hal
ter said that the railroad company
should have no objection to the ordi
nance since they already were abid
ing by the speed limits that the ordi
nance sets.
Later in its meeting, the council
addressed Southern Pacific’s
agreement with the city’s proposed
crossing at Holleman Street. The
company returned the city’s request
with no changes, Halter said.
He said that now construction is
being delayed by developers’ lack of
bids on the cost of constructing the
Holleman Street crossing, which
would allow the city to close the Lu
ther Street crossing where two A&M
students were killed in September in
car-train collisions.
In other business, the council
unanimously approved two rezoning
requests and denied another.
It rezoned a tract of land east of
Wellborn Road (FlM 2154) and south
of Holleman from Single Family
Residential District R-l to Neighbor
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A COMMUNITY CELEBRATION IN RECOGNITION
OF THE
MILITARY SERVICE
OF THE WOMEN AND MEN OF THE BRAZOS VALLEY
Sponsored by the:
American Legion & Auxiliary
Veterans crF Foreign Wars & Auxiliary
American GI Forum
Disabled American Veterans & Auxiliary
Reserve OTTicers Association
Retired Officers Association
Aggieland Air Force Association
in
Kyle Field
Texas A&M University
Sunday, November 11, 1984
10:30am
Rededication oT World War I Memorial Monument
Dedication of Eli L. Whiteley Medal of Honor Park
Speech by Lt. General James F. Ho11ingsworth, USA Ret.
Texas A&M Singing Cadets
Presentation of a Special U-S- Flag to Texas A&-M
36 Generals will attend
Texas National Guard, 163rd Armored Cavalry
US Army Reserve, 420th Engineering Brigade
Flyover, Confederate Air Force Aggie Wing
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served or are serving our country in its military
please come and share it with us, your neighbors.
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