Friday, September 6, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7
Special holiday celebrates
grandparents’ experiences
By FRANK SMITH
Reporter
Lillian Schiller relaxed in her
room at the Crestview Retirement
Community in Bryan and matter-
of-facdy recounted the story of
her grandparents’ arrival in the
Lone Star State.
“My grandparents came from
Germany on a sailboat and
landed at Galveston,” she said.
“Before they got to Galveston,
yellow fever broke out, so they
were quarantined and had to stay
on the boat until the fever cleared
up.
“And then they settled in
Washington County and they
lived in a log cabin. The Indians
were still around ....”
At 74, Schiller herself is the
grandmother of two teenagers.
She is one of many who will be
recognized Sunday on a date that
frequently escapes mention on
the common pocket calendar:
Grandparent’s Day.
It is a day celebrating the vast
experiences and diverse lives of
people such as 95-year-old Wallet
R. Henry.
Henry, also a Crestview resi
dent, spent 49 years working as a
schoolteacher and school admin
istrator. He explained how he got
his start:
“I kind of liked school,” he
said. “It was a job that I just easily
fell into. I graduated from high
school in 1909. That fall, this ru
ral school was without a teacher
and the county superintendent
“My Hie story would make
a book. It's been so var
ied. ” — Lee Marie Perry,
92, a great-great grand
mother who resides at
Crestview Retirement
Community in Bryan.
recommended me. And I got into
teaching and I stayed with it until
I retired some years ago.”
After retiring from administra
tive duties, Henry, a native of
Missouri, served two terms in that
slate’s general assembly in the
earlv 19b0s.
l ie is the father of one, grand
father of three and great-grand
father of two.
Another Crestview resident,
Lee Marie Ferry, 92, spoke of her
days as an army nurse during
World War I. She spent a year
working at a base hospital in
France during the war.
She has one son, t,wo grand
children, six great-grandchildren
and one great-great-grandchild.
“My life story would make a
book, ” Perry said with a laugh.
"It’s been so varied.”
JoAnn Millerschon, Crestview
activities direc tor, said that some
kind of Grandparents Day cele
bration for Crestview residents
will be conducted today.
But Grandparent’s Day is only
)f the year.
one day out of the yet
Millerschon said that a sepa
rate, more long-term project ex
ists in which each participant
meets regularly with and gets to
know a designated retired per
son. Called the Adopt-A-Grand-
parent Program, it has operated
for several years with the partici
pation of community members,
church and service organizations
and Texas A&M students, Mill
erschon said.
She said that those wishing to
adopt a grandparent must be
dedicated enough to make a reg
ular committment of time to the
program.
“1 really talk to people and say
‘Look, if you adopt a grandpa
rent, that’s great — but you’ve got
to have the time to really take that
one-on-one with somebody be
cause our residents, once you
start, depend on you,” Millers
chon said “And if you leave all of
the sudden, if you’re too busy —
they don’t understand that.’ ”
She said that church groups
and fraternities and sororities,
because of their service-oriented
natures, have been especially
good sources from which to draw
program participants.
Millerschon also said she thinks
that a participant who makes the
necessary committment gains as
much from the experience as the
adopted grandparent.
“Older people have been
through life and they’ve been
through so much and have seen
so much,” she said. “So they end
up getting — both of them — a
good fulfillment out of it.”
MSC Open
House this
Sunday
By MEG CADIGAN
St a ft Writer
The Memorial Student Center is
inviting everyone to the largest
Open House ever held at Texas
A&M.
From 4 p.m. to 8 p.rn. on Sunday,
175 campus organizations will be re
cruiting new members in the MSC.
The organizations are MSC Com
mittees, religious groups, academic
departments, international student
groups, service/honor groups, danc
e/music groups, sports/recreation
groups and University departments,
said Open House Chairman Chris
Bowers.
The 36th Annual Open House
has two goals, Bowers said.
The first is to give freshmen and
new students the opportunity to see
what kind of student life exists at
A&M, he said.
“All students are invited to Open
House, but it mainly benefits new
students,” Bowers said.
He said he does encourage “vete
ran” students to attend Open House
because the types of organizations
change from year to year.
The second goal of Open House is
to give student organizations an op
portunity to recruit new members,
he said.
In addition to giving new students
the “scoop” on campus organization.
Open House will have a full sched
ule of entertainment:
• 4:00 Introductions
• 4:15 Aggie Allemanders
• 4:40 Society of Creative
Anachronism — bard performance
• 5:00 Miss Texas A&M, Teresa
Fritz
• 5:10 Cliff Brown, poetry read-
in g
• 5:20 David Ellis, piano
• 6:00 Fish Drill Team
• 6:20 Corrie Bergeron, come
dian
• 6:45 The Midnight Floor Shak
ers, break dancers
• 7:00 Miss Texas A&M, Teresa
Fritz
• 7:10 Indian Vocalist
• 7:40 Yell Leaders
• 7:50 Booth Contest winners
The entertainment schedule is
tentative, said Heather McBreen,
entertainment sub-chairman for the
event.
A new twist to Open House this
year will be a booth contest.
Joe Arredondo, coordinator of
University Art Exhibits, Dr. Mike
Buchholz, a journalism professor,
and Joe Buser Jr. of Joe Buser and
Associates, a local advertising
agency, will judge the booths on
form, content and style, Bowers said.
“This should give organizations
an extra incentive to spruce up their
booths," Bowers said.
Tours of the MSC complex will be
given by MSC Hospitality every 30
minutes beginning at 4:30 p.m.
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