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Pink church
Building a memorial to community strength
Associated Press
VATTMAN — As you take the S-
shaped curve on Farm to Market
Road 628, Our Lady of Consolation
Church can be seen at the far end of
a mile of grain and cotton fields.
Its pink bricks stand out against
the horizon, the tallest thing for
miles around. The pink paint helps
hide the true color of interior bricks
of beach sand from Baffin Bay,
three miles down the road.
Things are quiet in the little com
munity, just the way the Rev. Wil
liam P. Disney likes it. Disney took
over the parish 12 years ago. He also
takes care of the church in nearby
Riviera.
The two small communities are all
that remain of entrepreneur and
land developer Theodore F. Koch’s
plan for a “Texas Riviera.” In the
early 1900s, Koch bought 18,881
acres from the King Ranch and
planned three communities: Riviera,
Riviera Beach and a third town.
To help populate his third com
munity, Koch approached the Rev.
Edward J. Vattmann, secretary of
the Catholic Colonization Society of
America. Koch wanted Vattmann to
encourage Catholic families to settle
in the new town to be called Vatman-
nville.
A new church was planned and
families began moving into the area!
In 1914, the wood frame church was
opened with a new bell and a new
priest, the Rev. J.J. Hoellmann.
That same year a 40-acre townsite
was laid out. To celebrate their new
town, the residents held a Thanks
giving Day picnic and dance. But on
August 18, 1916, all the ambitious
planning was swept away in hurri
cane winds that struck the town at
4:34 that Friday afternoon.
Hilda Yaklin remembers the hur
ricane. She and her family huddled
in a cellar while the winds blew their
house halfway off its foundation.
The rest of the town was not as
lucky. The church blew down and
the general store Collapsed. Many
homes were swept into the country
side.
The town of Riviera Beach was
completely destroyed. Little was left
of Vattmannville but a determin
ation to rebuild.
Hoellmann had built schools and
school’s 50 students.
In 1930 the church received a
Crucifixion scene carved by Aloys
Lang of Germany. Lang, famous for
his portrayal of Christ in the Passion
Piav at Oberammergau, is believed
to nave carved only two crucifixion
scenes.
the Goddess will be re-assembled
and displayed on the Capitol
grounds for several days, according
to Graham.
Also Wednesday, Graham an
nounced a plan to replace the dis
eased and dying elms along the Ca
pitol’s main south walk.
For years, the elms provided a
natural archway leading to the Capi
tol.
The planting project, scheduled
to begin in February, will be super
vised by the State Preservation
Board in conjunction with Project
Greenscape, an Austin Chamber of
Commerce project
‘‘They had some hard
years after that (hurri
cane). ...”
— The Rev. William P.
Disney of Our Lady of
Consolation Church.
Monsignor Frank J. Pater took
over the parish in 1937. Through his
efforts, 10 stained glass windows
from Germany were contributed by
parishioners. The interior of the
church was redone.
Faculty Senate
may examine
curriculum plan
(continued from page 1)
churches before, and felt well-
equipped to help the community
start over.
To make sure the new church
wouldn’t be destroyed by another
hurricane, Hoellman decided to
build it out of brick.
Each parishioner was assigned to
make a share of the bricks. The 18
families made them from the hand
iest material they had: beach sand.
Yaklin’s father, Henry Forsthoff,
was abrickmason.
“We had this little brick-making
machine,” she said. “It would make
three bricks at a time. Everybody
kept coming by the house to make
bricks. We soon had bricks drying all
over the yard.”
The church was designed by Igna
tius Loyola Underbrink in the colo
nial romantic style. It is 100 feet
long, 40 feet wide and has a 25-foot
arched ceiling.
Bricks made by the parishioners
were used on the inner walls, with
the outer walls constructed of com
mercially produced brick. The
church was finished in 1920 and the
bell from the first church installed in
its steeple. Hoellmann had more
plans. A rectory, parochial school
and convent soon followed. Nuns
from the Incarnate Word and
Blessed Sacrament taught the
“They had to put up plaster,” Dis
ney saicl. “The sand they made the
bricks from was full of salt. When
ever it rained, they leaked water.”
Disney said the town never really
recovered from the hurricane.
“They had some hard years after
that and people started selling out
and moving back up north,” he said.
The school and convent closed 20
years ago. The town’s name was
soon shortened to just Vattmann.
Between the two signs that mark the
town there are only three homes to
day. One of them belongs to Corne
lius and Hilda Yaklin.
Every morning at 7:15 she joins
20 other parishioners at the church
for Mass. Most of them have lived in
the area for more than 60 years.
“I guess 25 percent of my parish
are in their late 70s to early 80s,”
Disney said.
Although most of the young peo
ple have moved away, they return
once a year for the Thanksgiving
picnic. More than 1,500 people show
up for the picnic every year and de
vour more than 50 turkeys.
The picnic is open to the public
and food is served family style. All of
the parishioners help out. You can
find Mrs. Yaklin deboning turkeys.
“I’ve only missed one of these
since they started,” she said.
“These are good people around
here,” Disney said. “I don’t tell them
that — but they’re good people.”
Stress of raising family can depress workers
(continued from page 1)
what they do at work. It manifests it
self in conflict.”
The Boston University study also
found that:
• Forty-three percent of the em
ployees interviewed, both male and
female, said the strain of managing
family responsibilities was the main
reason they got depressed at work.
Googins said one-third of the re
spondents said they worried a signif
icant amount about their kids during
the day, “which has got to be a large
oft
25 percent of the parents with chil
dren aged 6 to 12 said their kids
cared for themselves at home.
part of this stress-strain depression.”
• Eighty-eight percent of the em
ployees rated their job performance
tly “ ~
as “very high,” while only 56 percent
rated their performance as a parent
in the same way.
• few employees used formal af
ter-school day care for their chil
dren. In fact, according to the study,
The study recommended that
companies should provide day care
or a center where employees can
learn about day care in their neigh
borhoods. It also said employers
should consider offering flexible
schedules and benefits to help work
ers pay for day care.
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tering student complete at least one
computer science course in high
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student will be required to complete
a computer science course at A&M.
The report also recommends that
the entering student complete two
years of a foreign language in high
school or demonstrate proficiency
through an exam. The student not
fulfilling that requirement would
take two semesters of a foreign lan-
guaee.
Black said the committee began
working on the core curriculum in
February 1984 after Vandiver re
quested that the Faculty Senate
make recommendations on the gen
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University.
Vandiver told the Senate that
A&M is one of the few major univer
sities in the nation that fails to re
quire a broad background in the arts
and sciences, which he said was “the
hear t of a university education."
Black said one problem facing the
core curriculum is the number of
hours students will be required to
take if the proposal passes without
amendment.
For example, electrical engi
neering students will be required to
add as many as five more hours to
their current 139-hour degree plan
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degree plan includes 13 elective
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