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Warped by Scott McCullar
Waldo by Kevin Thomas
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personal leave days and duty-free
lunches for faculty and staff mem
bers.
Currently, she says, teachers are
required to have lunch in the school
cafeteria even if they’re not techni
cally on duty.
nk small classes are important, es
pecially in the elementaries and in
the junior high,” she says.
Jessup’s concerns, though, extend
beyond such current reform issues
as smaller class sizes.
“We need to have forward-
looking people on the school board
because we have to attract new peo
ple to Bryan,” she says. “If you say,
‘What is the very minimum Bryan
can do to get away with having an
okay school?’ — that’s not going to
bring new people into Bryan. We
have to go above and beyond what’s
expected.”
Travis E. Nelson, the current
board president, is also looking to
ward the district’s future —but his
emphasis, an administrative one, is
on making sure the quality of educa
tion doesn’t drop in the face of bud
get cuts.
Nelson, who is also a district clerk
candidate, says Bryan is changing
from a petroleum economy to a
high-tech economy and education
will become Increasingly important.
Nelson has a background in fi-
nance and accounting that includes
18 years as the director of finance
and accounting for the Bryan school
district. He says this background will
enable him to evaluate the district’s
budget needs.
After being released from active
duty in the Navy, he returned to
Bryan and built the Midway Motel.
He ran the motel 13 years and sold
it.
Nelson served as director of fi
nance and accounting for the Bryan
schools for 18 years before his retire
ment in 1982. He was elected to the
school board the following year.
He and his wife have five children
from previous marriages, and he has
two school-aged granddaughters.
He has been timing A&M home
football games since the late 50s and
is on the steering committees of the
community action programs Lead
ership Brazos and Bryan Forward.
He’s also the chairman of the
board of directors of the Brazos
County Appraisal District and a dea
con at Central Baptist Church.
Though Nelson has been crit
icized for running in both the school
board and district clerk races, he in
sists that there is no conflict between
them.
“I kind of hear it at every corner,
mostly from the media,” Nelson
says. “But actually had I been in a
position where I was in my second
year of the school board and was
running for district clerk there
would have been nothing said about
it.”
One of those opposed to Nelson’s
running for two offices is the third
Place 1 candidate, E.N. Rutherford.
The 53-year-old piano instructor
says there is a potential, not for con
flict of interest, but for conflict of
government.
“I oppose that because it weakens
representative democracy,” he says.
“I am against autocracies or oligar
chies of any kind, and allowing peo
ple to run for two offices at the same
time will perpetuate those.”
Rutherford’s views on the school
district are basically student-
oriented. He has attended five col
leges and two music conservatories.
Over the course of 11 years he has
attended Lamar State College of
Technology, the Los Angeles Con
servatory of Music, The Houston
Conservatory of Music, Texas A&M
University, the University of Chi
cago and the United States Armed
Forces Institute in Madison, Wis.
In 1962 he graduated from Sam
Houston State Teacher’s College
with a History, English and Russian
language bachelor of arts degree.
Rutherford, who ran for the
school board in 1971 and 1985, has
been a substitute English teacher at
Victoria High School, a reporter for
the Bryan-College Station Eagle, a
writer, a motel night manager, and a
grocery store night manager.
A bachelor, he has lived in Bryan
for 23 years. His hobbies include
reading, writing and playing the pi
ano.
He doesn’t use air conditioning in
his home, doesn’t own an auto
mobile and has never owned a tele
vision set, nor has he allowed one in
his home for the past 14 years.
“I save 22 hours a week by not
watching television — that’s the na
tional average,” he says. “I learned
seven different piano concertos that
I never would have learned other
wise. When I say I don’t allow TV’s
in my home and do not view it my
self, I am not for censoring pro
grams that you want to watch.”
Rutherford says he expects to
spend about an hour to two hours
every day doing his homework if
elected to the school board.
“At last count there were at least
50 educational psychology, mag
azines and newspapers, and you
should try to read at least 10 of
them,” he says.
Rutherford says the district needs
a Vocational high school and a tech
nical high school west of Texas Ave
nue. These would provide 75 per
cent of the students that don’t go to
college with the adequate educatio
nal instruction for productive and
constructive citizenship, he says.
Last
chance
for the
magic of
MSC OPAS
Thirteen.
The Houston Ballet will perform Giselle on Thursday,
April 10, the grande finale for the thirteenth magical
season of the MSC Opera and Performing
Arts Society in Rudder Auditorium.
Spend the last night of MSC OPAS in the
magnificent performance of this lovely dance corps.
Under the artistic direction of Ben Stevenson, the Ballet
will present Giselle, the enchanted
myth of unrequited love.
Tickets for the April 10 performance are available
in all sections. For ticket information,
contact the MSC Box Office, 845-1234.
VISA and MasterCard accepted.
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