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Rhodes Scholars receive schol arship money from a fund estab lished in 1904 by Cecil John Rhodes, a South African statesman. Following a faculty reception hosted Friday afternoon by Dean of Faculties ana Associate Provost Dr. Clinton A. Phillips, the guests will be honored at a dinner sponsored by J. Wayne Stark, special assistant to the president for cultural affairs. Saturday the honorees will attend a student leader reception and Presi dent Frank Vandiver’s pre-game buffet. They also will be presented at halftime during the Texas A&M- Northeast Louisiana game. Cisneros, a recent appointee to the Texas A&M Board of Regents, graduated from A&M, Class of ’68, with an English degree. "At A&M,” Cisneros said in a San Antonio Express News story pub lished last spring, “I learned what you can do when you go all out. Most people don’t know what they can do because they operate in certain re straints.” During his White House Fellowship, Cisneros worked under then-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Elliot Richardson. As a White House Fellow from 1981-82, Barton served as an aide to Department of Energy Secretary James B. Edwards. Barton graduated as Outstanding Industrial Engineering Student of the Class of’72. Basse, a Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow, is finishing his master’s degree at Stanford Grad uate School of Business. He graduated from A&M Summa Cum Laude in the Class of ’76. Dur ing his term as a Rhodes Scholar, Hasse attended Pembroke College at Oxford University and received a master’s degree in philosophy and politics. Before beginning his White House Fellowship, Hasse founded HALT by borrowing $1500, Stark said. Stark said HALT, which is a non- K rofit organization of Americans for ;gal reform, has a budget this year of well over $2 million. While at tending Stanford, Hasse serves on the HALT Board of Directors. Altman, Class of ’82, is A&M’s most recent graduate who is a Rho des Scholar. He earned an electrical engi neering degree, Summa Cum Laude, and also served as Chairman of the Student Government Judicial Board, Student Government’s Vice President of Student Services and chairman of the committee which recommended the intra-campus shuttlebus now in service. As a Rhodes Scholar, Altman went to Pembroke college at Oxford University, earned degrees in poli tics and economics and specialized in international relations. He now works for Trammell Crow in Houston. Fulton, a native of Canada, re ceived the Association of Former Students Award for the top three masters’ candidates on campus while working on his agricultural econom ics degree. He graduated in 1978 and moved to Exeter College at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1980. Fulton now is an Assistant Profes sor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Research, at the Uni versity of Saskatchewan, Canada. McGurk, Class of’47, now is a pri vate investor, involved with many civic activities, and holds directorships in several companies. He earned his A&M degree in aerospace engineering and went to Christ Church College during his Rhodes Scholarship. McGurk was the Associate Direc tor of the Office of Management and Budget from 1976 to 1977, and also founded and was chairman of the Protype Corporation. Brooks, Class of ’46, began his A&M career in 1942 and was sent to Europe a year later during World War II. He returned to A&M in June 1946 and graduated with an electrical engineering degree in June 1947. “You could say he came to A&M twice,” Stark said. As a 1947 Rhodes Scholar, Brooks attended St. John’s College at Ox ford and received a Ph.D. in physics. He later went to work for TRW and dealt with a wide variety of pro jects including lunar and planetary exploration, scientific space mis sions, communications satellites, and many classified projects. Austin may trade share in nuclear plant Associated Press AUSTIN — The Austin City Council, meeting in closed sessions this week, has been considering a settlement proposal that would get the city out of the controversial South Texas Nuclear Project, it was reported Thursday. The Houston Lighting & Power Co. proposal calls for Austin to get part ownership of the Limestone power project, a lignite-fueled plant being built by the Houston utility in East Texas, in exchange for Austin’s 16 percent share of the nuclear power plant. The settlement offer, which is subject to further negotiation, calls > for Austin to turn its share of the $5 billion-plus nuclear power plant over to Houston Lighting & Power. But the city would continue to make weekly payments, which have been averaging $2.5 million, until the current $880 million share is paid off, the American-Statesman said, quoting sources close to the ne gotiations. The city has already paid about $650 million for its share of the nu clear plant. Austin would not be re sponsible for any additional costs if tne current $5.5 billion cost estimate is exceeded. In return, Austin would get part ownership of the two generating units of the plant in Limestone County. The first lignite unit is scheduled to be in operation in 1987, and the second in 1989 — about the same time the two units of the nuclear plant are scheduled for operadon. Austin would receive 400,000 ki lowatts of capacity from the two lig nite units, the same amount the city would get from the nuclear project. The agreement, which would be subject to approval by the Texas Public Utility Commission, calls for Austin to drop a lawsuit filed in 1983 against HL&P over management of the nuclear project. It also calls lor the city to stay out of proceedings scheduled early next year by the Public Utility Commis sion, which is to consider the rea sonableness of the proposed set tlement of a separate lawsuit by Austin and the other partners in the nuclear project against the former engineer and builder, Brown & Root Inc. Van may lead FBI to woman’s slayer t or Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — An unidenti fied caller told a San Antonio bank president to come up with a large amount of money or his wife would Tfc AscaA YftCrttve.wVs Nxe.'ioxe ^o\\ce found the woman fata))y shot six cimes at her affluent home. The Wednesday slaying has sparked a search by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for a white van seen in the exclusive neighborhood where Rebecca Jo Patton, 42, was found sprawled in the hallway of her home in the Alamo Heights suburb of San Anto nio. Police found her body after her husband, Frank Patton Jr., president of Castle Hills National Bank, re torted receiving a telephone call rom a man demanding money. The caller indicated Mrs. Patton | would be harmed if a large amount ‘ of money was not produced. Patton reportedly called police immediately, but when they arrived at the home Mrs. Patton was dead. “The person who saw it (the van) believes it said ‘air conditioning’ or something like that. What, if any con nection, it has to this event is unknown, but we are try- ing to identify that van and the driver.” — Pat Cowley, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On Thursday, officials focused on a van described by a witness, FBI spokesman Pat Cowley said. The older model vehicle with faded red lettering was seen in the neighborhood, he said. “The person who saw it believes it said ‘air conditioning’ or something like that,” Cowley said. “What, if any connection, it has to this event is un known, but we are trying to identify that van and the driver.” Investigators also questioned other residents in the neighborhood Thursday about the van and whether they had noticed anything EmJjuj the Siiftmcct suspicious, he said. Cowley said Mrs. Patton was shot several times with a small caliber weapon and there were no signs of a struggle. He said he could not theorize on why the woman was shot before the extortion money was turned over. The FBI agent confirmed Patton had gathered some money from the bank and taken it to North Star Mall, where the alleged extortionist told him to wait for a telephone call. The call never came. Cowley said authorities have no suspects and are not sure how many m people were involved. “There was one phone call,” he’ said. “One person on the phone. The possibility exists there were ac complices.” An autopsy was ordered on the body, but results were not available Thursday. Mrs. Patton’s death was an nounced during Wednesday night services at First Presbyterian Church, where a minister said she was very active. “We all prayed,” said the Rev. Jim Singleton, a pastor at the church. “There were lots of tears. She was so loving, caring and compassionate.” Singleton said Mrs. Patton and her husband worked with junior high youth. “She has been about as model a youth advisor as you’d want to see,” he said. “She’s a tremendous mother. 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