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Adkisson picks Bond to return
to A&M as deputy chancellor
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University News Service
Janies B. Bond will return to the
Texas A&M University System staff
Sept. 1 as deputy chancellor, with re
sponsibilities similar to those that he
held when he resigned two and a
half years ago.
Bond, 50, is the second deputy
chancellor appointee to be an
nounced by Chancellor Perry L. Ad
kisson within the past week.
Earlier, he named Dr. William H.
Mobley to join his staff at the deputy
chancellor level to assist in business,
Financial and related matters. Both
appointments are subject to confir
mation by the A&M Board of Re
gents.
Adkisson said Bond will concen
trate on legal and external affairs,
emphasizing liason with local com
munity leaders and governmental
relations at the federal level.
The chancellor praised Bond’s
abilities and cited the value of his
past experience with the system and
his standing in the community.
“He is a person in whom I hold
great trust and for whom I have im
mense respect, and he is also held in
the highest regard by the regents,
the administration and faculty for
James B. Bond
his ability and warm manner,” Ad
kisson said.
“I know that he is also held in
great respect in the community and
can be highly effective in working
with local leaders to attain goals that
are mutually beneficial,” he added.
“It is my intention to strengthen
the ties between the system and local
government and local business lead
ers, and Jimmy Bond can play a key
role in such efforts,” Adkisson said.
Bond said he is looking forward to
returning to the system’s staff and
working with Chancellor Adkisson.
“I am certainly flattered to be ex
tended the opportunity to rejoin the
system — particularly to serve with
Dr. Adkisson,” Bond said. “I also
look forward to rejoining my many
friends within the administration
and faculties of all the system parts.”
Before he resigned on Feb. 1,
1984, to re-enter private law prac
tice, Bond was vice chancellor for le
gal and public affairs. He initially
joined the TAMUS staff in 1976 af
ter practicing law in Navasota.
He has been active in local gov
ernment and civic endeavors. He is
currently a member of the College
Station City Council and he said he
plans to continue to serve.
While living in Navasota, he
served as a trustee for the Navasota
Independent School District and is a
past president of the Grimes County
Chamber of Commerce.
In 1974 he was honored as the
Grimes County Chamber of Com
merce Outstanding Citizen. Also
while residing in Navasota he served
on the Texas Industrial Commis
sion.
Bond is a 1958 A&M graduate
and he earned his law degree at the
University of Houston’s Bates Col
lege of Law in 1968.
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Texas tries for 3rd consecutive Miss USA
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Michelle
Royer, the new Miss Texas-USA, will
try to make it three in a row for the
state when she competes for the Miss
USA title.
Royer, 20, of Keller, was crowned
Monday night at San Antonio’s Mu
nicipal Auditorium. She will rep
resent Texas in the Miss USA con
test next February in Miami.
The two previous Miss Texas-
USAs went on to take the national ti
tle.
The four other finalists were, first
runner-up, Miss Harris County,
LeeAnne Locken; second runner-
up, Miss Houston, Kimberly Greer;
third runner-up, Miss Dallas
County, Adrienne Ross; and fourth
runner-up, Miss Bayou City, Crystal
Dillard.
Royer is a student at Tarrant
County Junior College.
New traffic light system
in CS near completion
By Jean Lennox
Reporter
College Station residents will
find themselves growling at a few
more stoplights next month after
the city completes a new $295,300
traffic light system on Wellborn
Road, Texas Avenue and FM
2818.
The lights will be completed in
the next 30 days, says Bill Bock-
mon, managing resident engi
neer for the State Department of
Highways and Public Transporta
tion.
College Station Traffic Engi
neer John Black says the traffic
light project started March 10th
and consists of five new traffic
signals that cost about $60,000
each.
Black says federal funds were
made available for the lights after
data revealed an excess number
of accidents on the street. The
state earmarks funds for highway
improvement, he says, and the
money is distributed to cities on
the basis of need.
The city recorded the traffic
frequency on all the city streets
and recorded the number of acci
dents from 1981-84, then sent all
the information to Austin, he
says.
“There must have been
enough accidents at those inter
sections for them to give us the
money,” Black says.
Bockman said the five new sig
nals are at the intersections of FM
2818 and Longmire Drive, FM
2818 and Rio Grande Boulevard,
Wellborn Road and Southwest
Parkway, University Drive and
Wellborn Road, and Texas Ave
nue and Deacon Road.
He says 90 percent of the pro
ject was funded by the federal
government and 10 percent was
funded by the state.
A new feature of the lights is a
loop detector under the pave
ment that senses metallic objects,
he says.
When a vehicle approaches the
light, it sends a message to a com
puter at city hall. The computer
then determines the optimum
traffic flow for that intersection.
“This will help avoid any con
gestion at the lights when all the
students return for the fall,” he
says.
Black explains that since he is
in charge of the traffic signal sys
tem in Gollege Station, he re
ceives all the nasty phone calls
from people who are upset about
the lights.
“I didn’t realize that public re
lations was 90 percent of the job
when I took it,” Black says with a
laugh.
Sociology head named associate provost
University News Service
Dr. Jerry Gaston, professor and
head of the Sociology Department at
Texas A&M since 1981, has been
named associate provost for the uni
versity, effective Sept. 1.
Provost Donald McDonald, who
selected Gaston from a list of nomi
nees provided by a faculty search
committee, announced the appoint
ment. ,
Gaston succeeds longtime A&M
administrator Dr. Charles McCand-
less, who is leaving to become exec
utive vice president at Iowa State
University.
McDonald said, “1 am happy that
Dr. Gaston has accepted this respon
sibility, and I look forward to begin
ning our work together.
“Dr. Gaston brings to this office
his many talents and a strong com
mitment to the faculty and to equal
employment opportunities for mi-
.norities.”
A native Texan, Gaston, 45, holds
bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from East Texas State University
and a master of philosophy and
Ph.D. in sociology from Yale Univer
sity.
After earning his doctorate in
1969, he joined the faculty at South
ern Illinois University, rising to the
rank of full professor. During that
time he also served as an exchange
lecturer at the University of Galway
in Ireland.
In addition to serving on numer
ous university committees including
the President’s Advisory Council on
Minority Conditions, Gaston has
been a member of the Texas A&M
Faculty Senate since 1983 •
Service provides lists of scholarships
By KATHRYN GREENWADE
Reporter
Students in the Bryan-College Station area
who need financial aid can find help through a
newly organized scholarship search service that
puts them in touch with private donors.
The Scholarship Source Registry, operated by
Tom Stone, puts students in touch with schol
arships that correspond to their career interests.
The service provides a list of donors that the stu
dent might not know about otherwise. Stone said.
“The target group for the program is high
school seniors and college freshmen and sopho
mores,” he said.
The application states that the program does
not apply to juniors and seniors, but Stone said
there is a service available to graduate students.
The home company for the service. Academic
Guidance Service, located in Marlton, New Jer
sey, reported that over $4 billion in gifts, grants,
and scholarships is available for students each
year. Stone said many of these are not awarded
because people are not aware that they are avail
able.
“I was amazed at the millions of dollars that go
unawarded each year,” Stone said.
“Part of the reason for the service is that peo
ple don’t realize how many sources exist. We
identify these sources for them.”
Stone is an independent licensee who serves as
a contact to the parent company.
He charges a fee of $49 to cover the fee the
parent company charges him. Students cannot
go directly to the company in New Jersey, Stone
said.
To find out about these scholarships students
must fill out an application. A computer at the
parent company processes the information and
sends the student a list of available sources.
Stone said the students are guaranteed a list of
at least five sources or they will be refunded their
money.
Once the students receive the list of donors,
they are on their own and it is up to them to fill
out the applications.
The company will follow up on the students to
see if they were successful in finding aid and if
they liked the service, he said.
There are no general qualifications such as
need or grade point average to use the service, he
said.
“The only qualification is that you want to go
to school,” he said.
Money is available to those in trade and cosme
tology schools as well as colleges and universities,
Stone said.
“There’s definitely a need for the service in
this area,” he said. “There’s A&M, Blinn, a busi
ness school and two beauty schools in the Bryan-
College Station area.”
Stone said the service had only been in exis
tence in this area for three weeks, but that the
parent company has been in operation since
1975.
Students interested in the service can write
Scholarship Source Registry, P. O. Box 9122,
College Station, Texas, 77840 or call 696-8559.
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