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MSC director finds job fun, exciting
By ANDY RICHARDSON
Reporter
Jim Reynolds, director of the
Texas A&M Memorial Student
Center, could be classified as an
unofficial yell leader for the Uni
versity.
“You’ve got no business in this
job if you don’t operate at a 100
percent enthusiasm level all the
time,’’ he says.
Reynolds, who came to A&M
in 1978 and has been Memorial
Student Center director since
1980, says he would like to invent
a 30-hour day because there are
so many good things in life to do
and not enough time to accompl
ish them.
He sees the MSC as a common
ground where everyone can come
together and learn to deal with
each other as human beings.
“Through the programs, serv
ices and facilities of the student
center, quality of life at the Uni
versity can be enhanced,” he says.
Administering a student union
is big business, Reynolds says. He
oversees an operating budget of
approximately $3 million a year.
Approximately two-thirds of
the student union budget is gen
erated by student volunteers who
raise $2 million in operating capi
tal through program ticket sales
Jim Reynolds
and program-related services,
Reynolds says.
“That’s good pressure when
your job depends on the ability of
students to generate $2 million to
C roduce 1,400 programs a year,”
e says.
Programs in the MSC include
the MSC Opera and Performing
Arts Society, MSC Town Hall,
MSC Political Forum and the
MSC Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs. The MSC also
sponsors several projects each
year including the MSC All Night
Fair and the MSC All University
Variety Show.
“Students are fun people to be
with and part of our friendship
role is to give them the best we
can give,” he says.
In addition to administering
the student activities program,
Reynolds’ responsibilities include
the Print ana Copy Center, the
MSC Browsing Library, Ruddtr
Box Office, the MSC Craft Shop, '
the Student Finance Center, the
MSC Gallery and some meeting
room facilites.
Reynolds says the joy of his job
is watching students grow and de
velop as they accept responsibili
ties and make important deci
sions.
A prime example, he says, was
Vice President George Bush’s
visit to A&M last year. The Politi
cal Forum committee had only
three days to get readv and had to
make very critical decisions
quickly. This example is a real-
world situation that the students
had to deal with, he says.
Reynolds did not start out to be
a student union director. After
graduating from high school, he
enrolled in Southern Illinois Uni
versity to major in zoology.
“I was reasonably certain that I
wouldn’t make it in college and
was scared,” he says.
He got involved by participat
ing in student government, be
coming president of the student
centerboard, president of a social
fraternity ana a member of the
General Electric College Bowl
team.
He says he still did not realize
that someone could make a living
in his line of work.
Following graduate school,
Reynolds accepted a position as
an assistant in the Museum of
Natural History at the University
of Kansas. He worked with E.
Raymond Hull, the scientist who
authored “Mammals of North
America.”
He was introduced to A&M af
ter leaving Northeastern Okla
homa State.
“I didn’t know anything about
A&M, but I was impressed with
Wayne Stark, the first director of
the MSC, who held that position
for almost 31 years,” he says. “I
was impressed with the students
of A&M. They convinced me that
I wanted to raise my children in
the shadow of A&M.
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