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Page 12/The BattalionThursday, April 18, 1985 M i- 1985 ^ Touch Of Class Presented by * Walton and Moses Halls at the S.P.J.S.T. Hall in B/yan 1V2 miles west of 2818 on Hwy 21 All Girls Cordially Invited (Free) Friday, April 19th 8-12 p.m. Semi-formal J First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM I Bus from TAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AM Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events ♦ ♦ Co-op Student Association PICNIC!! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Sun. Apr. 21,5:30-7 p.m. Hensel Park, Site 3 $1 00 person Everyone Welcome! OVERLAM [he rest! ictic ers whose codes are so recent survt J Only 7 said dress co live, while 1 code shoulc company. (contir Whafs Up Garfield? 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A&M nautical to resume work archeologists in Jamaica problem dec administrati K|“In the pz from a posii says. “Inste; compromise tion of com ward the a< We left the and that wa University News Service Texas A&M researchers resume archaeological work later this spring on the sunken homes and shops of Port Royal, Jamaica — once the most wicked town of the New World. musket balls, pieces of glass panes, sections of window frames and debris f rom at least one shipwreck were also the pestilence that followed, ex plained Hamilton. Several summers of excavation are slowly unlocking a time capsule of British colonial life — especially the good life. One six-room structure, the first to be so completely documented, turned up evicience of the varied role Port Royal played in the lives of pirates, traders, sailors, soldiers and shopkeepers. unearthed and will further outline everyday colonial life in Port Royal, he said. Researchers are combing his torical texts and archives to piece together more information. The archaeologists and students also plan to explore the brick founda- adi The Port Royal excavation is car ried out as an underwater field school for A&M nautical archaeology stu dents in cooperation with the Jamaican government, which is in terested in restoring the present port to a Williamsburg, Va.-like showcase tion of an acfjaeent building disco vered last summer, and they hope to begin excavation on the buried re mains of Fort James, he said. Pipes, liquor bottles, pewter mugs and signs of butchering were reco vered as testimony to the city’s im portance as a source of fresh meat for British sfiips, said Dr. Don Hamilton, a conservation expert with the Insti tute of Nautical Archaeology. Fort James was the northernmost British fort on a spit of land which made up the south side of Kingston Harbor. The location gave Fort James one of the two most comman ding positions at the harbor entrance. Most artif acts are cleaned and res tored on the spot, using the old Brit ish Naval Hospital as headquarters. Some artifacts are taken to the A&M campus for special cleaning, study and teaching purposes and will be returned to the Jamaican govern ment, Hamilton said. Under the eyes of A&M and INA, a nonprofit research group affiliated with the University, work will resume in early June on the six-room build ing. It probably held three shops and lodging for the owners, said Hamilton. But the fort and the structures under study were among hundreds destroyed in June 1692 when an ear* The British presence in Jamaica started when Cromwellian troops, just repulsed in their attack on Span ish Santo Domingo, landed near pre sent-day Port Royal and over whelmed Spanish militiamen. p Roberts s< H “1 don’t t Bonney and Henrv Morgan. ^' C “You Although the presenceolikj a trgressive, t rates in the KiTUs ami wiili good ta Port Rusal its reputationasanfey,,^ ] iav J open town u lieie anv tempiir g ul g ov; i might be found — historians it; menl neec js ihrii ships .md guns withditt«|« nt b oc iy j mg Spanish attempts to* ertive ap] Jamaita until proper defenses a*‘qf we c; he eicried. administrati thority to sp . . • , . then hooch I he city s naval station ' , , position It) \ home to a young lieutenant* JJ „ D would lain hta omt' f.nglaE.lL US ’ , OV ‘, t greatest sailor, Horatio Nelson j them [o ^ , | Royall sa’ British troops on their way tolsj ne<c * s U . J c . or Americans at the Battle oTlg^heir Orleans stopped at Port Royalbt*. 1S . y e going on to Louisiana. thquake dropped two-thirds of the port into Kingston harbor. In the years that followed, Port Royal bacame a major center for pi- Shoe soles, tools, plates, buttons, Thousands of citizens either died immediately or soon thereafter from rates and privateers including Wil liam “Blackbeard” Treach, Anne It lias been said that looked “very much like an Ei shire town, perched on theefld tropical spit.” Because of itst® ence as one of the major Britiskg in the Caribbean, visitors totk| before 1692 were probably pressed by the numerousmasist rigging of cargo ships than will one and two-story waterfront to ings, according to historians. going to be; “We nee< stereotypes ent Goverr Graduations gaining in papula Associated Press A Gift of Texas Wildf lowers CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Students in U.S. high schools and colleges con tinue to show increased interest and participation in graduation cere monies, says an executive of a major manufacturer of graduation apparel. “During the Vietnam years, parti cipation in graduation ceremonies by students and faculty dropped signifi cantly,” says Ted Beach, vice presi dent of marketing for Collegiate Cap and Gown. “But the volume and kind of orders this year indicates students and facutly not only want to partici pate, they are seeking ways to make the event more memorable — adding more color, more pageantry, and a stronger emphasis on souvenir items like tassels, cords and pendants. “This has been a major trend in the cap and gown industry in the past several years.” The executive says a substantial in crease in the number of gowns for graduates of day care and other pre school programs reflects the increas ing number of two-career and single parent families. “The day could come when one individual might go through six or more graduations in a lifetime — kin dergarten, grade school, junior high, high school, college and graduate school,” Beach says. than a million garments eachse« and most graduation ceremonial between mid-May and latejune,p cision delivery is of overridingi portance. 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