Thursday, Movember 29,1984/The Battalion/Page 5
First woman at A&M
recalls campus life
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Reporter
When Texas A&M formally
Ipened its door to women degree
candidates in 1963, the first woman
to walk through was a 56-year-old
grandmother of four.
Stella Haupt, one of 150 women
I to be admitted to the University that
■ear, had earned her undergraduate
Hegrees in English and education
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jAbilene in 1930 — 33 years before
making history at A&M. She earned
a master’s degree in education from
||A&M in 1964, the summer after she
lll'as admitted. At the time she had
| taught sixth grade in the Bryan In
dependent School District for 10
■ears.
■ Haunt said there were several rea-
;Sons why she was chosen to be the
■first woman allowed to enroll for
study toward a degree.
“I was a mature woman already
teaching, I wouldn’t be going full
time and I was the wife of a profes
sor and former student,” she said.
“We received no ugly harassment at
all as someone else might have.
“There were lots of former stu
dents and students that objected (to
the admittance of women), so the
school just couldn’t afford to admit a
young girl just out of high school.”
Haupt said she never encoun
tered harassment probably because
few men in the College of Education
were taking the same classes she was
and because she took most of her
classes at night.
When her admission to Texas
A&M was announced, the media de
scended upon her at work. But she
said she was prepared.
“My husband forewarned me they
were coming, so I w'as able to fore
warn the children,” she said.
But Haupt prefers to emphasize
the fact that she, her oldest daughter
and a granddaughter are the first
three generations of women to grad
uate from Texas A&M. Her daugh
ter received a master’s degree in the
late ’60s and and her granddaughter
received an undergraduate degree
in 1978.
“It made about as big a splash in
some ways as when I was admitted,”
she said of media reaction to the
milestone.
Maroon blood has continued to
run through the family. Three other
granddaughters received Texas
A&M diplomas, three grandchildren
are currently juniors and two grand
children in high school plan to at
tend the University.
Haupt holds another place of
Chevron-Gulf merger
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honor as the longest sustaining
member of the Campus Study
Group, belonging since 1931. The
organization was formed in 1916 as
a study club for women connected to
the University.
But Haupt said she is more active
in the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Daughters of the Ameri
can Colonies and United Daughters
of the Confederacy because of an in
terest in genealogy. •
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WASHING EON — Defense Sec-
‘etary Caspar Weinberger promised
Wednesday that U.S. troops will not
be slowly drawn into Vietnam-style
xrnibat in Central America, and
ben listed six tests for going to war,
including a “clear intention” to win.
The Pentagon chief said Ameri-
:an troops should be committed only
ts a “last resort” and when their ac-
ion is vital to U.S. national interests.
But, Weinberger said, “Let no one
entertain any illusions — if our vital
interests are involved, we are pre-
the problem p are d to fight. And we are resolved
hat if we must fight, we must win.”
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fined” objectives.
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er’s speech was the desire to avoid
another Vietnam — a costly conflict
undermined by a lack of public sup-
port.
“The president will not allow our
military forces to creep — or be
drawn gradually — into a combat
role in Central America or any other
place in the world,” Weinberger
said.
“In those cases where our national
interests require us to commit com
bat forces, we must never let there
be doubt of our resolution,” he said.
“When we commit our troops to
combat we must do so with the sole
object of winning.”
Weinberger listed six major tests
for going to war, saying they “can be
helpful in deciding whether or not
we should commit our troops” in the
future:
• Forces should not be com
mitted unless it is “deemed vital to
our national interest or that of our
allies.”
• There must be a “clear inten
tion of winning” and there should be
no hesitation to commit limited
forces “sized accordingly,” such as in
the U.S.-led invasion of the Carib
bean island of Grenada Oct. 25,
1983.
• Political and military objectives
should be “clearly defined.”
• The relationship between the
size of the force and the objectives
“must be continually reassessed and
adjusted if necessary.”
• “Before the U.S. commits com
bat forces abroad, there must be
some reasonable assurance” of sup
port from the people and Congress.
“We cannot fight a battle with the
Congress at home while asking our
troops to win a war overseas or, as in
the case of Vietnam ask our troops
not to win, but just to be there.”
• “Finally, the commitment of
U.S. forces to combat should be a
last resort.”
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Chevron
Corp. said Wednesday 12,000 em
ployees nationwide of Chevron and
Gulf Corp. are being offered volun
tary severance pay as part of the
Chevron-Gulf merger.
The offer was part of Chevron’s
overall plan for merging the two
companies’ functions and was an
nounced to employees Wednesday.
The plan involves the transfer of at
least 5,800 workers and the shut
down of Gulf facilities headquarters
in Pittsburgh.
How many jobs will be eliminated,
Chevron said, cannot yet be calcu
lated, but it is generally understood
in the industry that between 5,700
and 7,500 out of the two companies’
total domestic employment of
57,000 will be phased out. Similar
reductions will be made among
21,000 workers overseas.
The Pittsburgh closure would re
sult in the transfer of 1,500 jobs to
the San Francisco Bay area. About
2,800 jobs would be transferred out
of Houston, mostly to the San Fran
cisco area. Another 1,500 jobs at
other locations also would be trans
ferred to various sites.
Chevron said disposition of Gulfs
headquarters building in Pittsburgh
was “under review.” Research activ
ities at Harmer, Pa., where 900 are
employed near Pittsburgh, would be
mainly merged with Chevron re
search in the San Francisco area.
Marketing and management
functions of Gulf Oil Products, Gulf
Pipe Line, Gulf Mineral Resources,
and the International Division of
Gulf Oil Exploration and Produc
tion all would be consolidated in the
San Francisco area. Gulfs credit
card operation in Atlanta, which em
ploys 500, also would move to San
Francisco.
However, 3,000 jobs were ex
pected to remain on Houston after
the merger is completed, as well as
7,000jobs elsewhere in Texas.
Employee relocations were not ex
pected to begin until next spring.
Chevron said employees not offered
transfers would be given “severance
benefits and out-placement assis
tance at company expense.”
The 12,000 offered voluntary sev
erance should receive up to a year’s
pay and previously earned retire
ment benefits. Transferred em
ployes would be granted Chevron’s
regular moving benefits.
Program aids war vets
Cooke: Structure often confused with quality
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
“In the year 2004 I would like to
see every college graduate be able to
write simple English,” Alistair
Cooke, featured speaker of the E. L.
Miller Lecture Series, said Wednes
day.
Cooke made his second of three
appearances for the lecture series.
Wednesday’s address, sponsored
by the Great Issues Committee, was
advertised beforehand as being
about the state of America 20 years
from now. Cooke, however, had
other plans.
“I’m not here to give a lecture,” he
said. “A lecture is a reading. What
I’d like to do instead is hold a sympo
sium — a bringing together of voi
ces.”
One question asked of Cooke con
cerned the recent topic — especially
locally — of world universities.
Cooke said he thinks universities
striving for this classification tend to
go about it the wrong way.
“Universities have a tendency to
confuse the structure with the qual
ity,” Cooke said, referring to the
amount of money put into buildings,
laboratories and other facilities.
“First rate people don’t grow on
trees and they don’t grow in steel
labs,” he said.
Administrators are fond of talk
ing about how many Nobel prize
winners they’ve recruited, while
their average student is a moron, he
said.
“The test of whether a university
is of the world class is the intellectual
quality of the average student,” he
said.
And the key to intproving the in
tellect of the average student, he
said, lies in recruiting the right tea
chers.
Cooke will give his last address to
day at 4 p.m. in 204C in the Sterling
C. Evans Library.
By DALLAS MORRIS
Reporter
Post-traumatic stress syndrome, a
disorder associated with war veter
ans, is more common than was once
believed, says Dr. Merrill Lipton, a
psychiatrist with the Texas A&M
College of Medicine.
Lipton is a staff physician in the
Teague Veterans Center and has co
founded a 3-year-old therapy pro
gram for veterans and ex-POWs. Dr.
William Schaffer, a Teague Center
social worker, and Lipton both said
they feel their therapy program has
been successful.
“We feel that post-traumatic stress
disorder is more common than we
earlier believed but that the diagno
sis is frequently missed,” Lipton said.
“And, once diagnosed, obtaining a
medical history and symptoms can
be more difficult than average be
cause of the veterans’ reluctance to
dwell on the incidents.”
Lipton said most older veterans
are reluctant to admit to symptoms
related to their war experience and
often deny a symptom when asked a
direct question.
Traumatic stress reactions in life
may be brought on by pressures un
related to war, Lipton said. Any
stressful experience, such as the in
ability to work due to a heart attack,
the loss of a loved one, or being the
victim of a rape or natural disaster,
can cause a reaction.
The treatment for post-traumatic
stress syndrome is different for ev
eryone, Lipton said. Some people
have the best results when working a
in a group.
An effective part of the treatment
for group members has been dis
cussions of recurring bad wartime
memories with others who have
been in the same situation, Lipton
said. Sometimes medication is given
to a person to help calm his nerves,
he said.
Members of the program obtain
varying degrees of relief from night
mares, irritability, anxiety and de
pression while usually improving re
lations with their own families and
friends, Lipton said.
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