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Friday, January 30, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7 ^Food director saw innovative services v I Dollar retires after 22 years at A&M By Kent Hawes Reporter Fred Washington Dollar, who was ■ instrumental force in creating nd maintaining Texas A&M food en ices will retire Sunday after serv- Jalmost 22 years as its director. )ollar began his career in food ervice as a waiter in Sbisa and Dun- ■ dining halls while he was a stu- ■t in the early 1940s. After graduating with a degree in ■icultural administration, he oined the Army and served in in «iVorld War II. He stayed in the Ml Winy 22 years. ^Although he didn’t plan to spe- jciaji/e in food service, the Army found a need for him in that field. ^Aefore retiring as a lieutenant col onel, he received a telegram from Gen. Earl Rudder, a past president kt A&M, asking him to direct the ibod service program. I lie started Aug. 10, 1965 and has worked there ever since. ^Rollar has been instrumental in reaiing programs in the food serv ice [system at A&M. In 1965, he ' '^started the student menu board, which is comprised of students who , sample different brands of food and chlose the one to be served. ■ns “ ! Wl! m^.^ji'hongh it’s nice if the students rii0‘ tse a cheaper brand, we’re more concerned with taste than cost,” Dol lar said. . . e ;B)<>Ilar said there have only been Five styles of dining developed in the past; 100 years, three of which were developed at A&M. ^■Tie “scramble,” in which people go to separate stations to get differ ent parts of their meal, and the “hol low square,” in which the line for forms a square, were the first two dining styles. ^■he “accordion” style, in which ^wde get their meals at stations that; close as the crowd decreases, And the “combination” style, which combines the accordion style with fast food items, were both developed it A&M. ^■'he most recent system, “plate re- You don’t need to be rich to rent here... Large One Bedrooms From $270 Large Two Bedrooms From $360 • Spacious Floorplans • Central A/C & Heating • Ceiling Fans • Swimming Pool • Pets Allowed • 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance • Shuttle Bus Line FREE B&W TV IF YOU LEASE BY JAN. 31. Two Bedroom Special Pay Y2 rent on 1 st & 3rd Full Month LPC FRENCH QUARTERS 601 N. Cross, College Station 846-8981 Photo by Sarah Beth Cowan Dietitian Cindy Zawieja, right, gives Col. and Mrs. Fred Dollar a gift in honor of his retirement. jrdCi Gramm: Reagan gives OK on ‘supercollider’ iding : il Auti Rabbi if the let jik egatiuri in Gei>. HbemWVASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Phil enetiffi Giiimm said he learned Thursday that Reagan ite L> r hat decided to proceed with a $6 billion “super collider” to keep the United States the undis- L P 11 " puked world leader in high-energy physics, group. jHrexas is a prime contender among the 45 concer states competing to host the lucrative project, Gikmm said. wish isstt^MJoug Elmets, chief spokesman for Energy Sec- said i reltiry John S. Herrington, said he could not con- 1 haveti finn Gramm’s statement. But Albert R. Bra- ouve t sh|ar, a White House spokesman, said Reagan issues t h a g no t made a decision on funding for a super- rm. collider. rets ntortjAfeagan and the Domestic Policy Council heard going i a [Ilea from Herrington on Thursday to back the isof®'$6[billion project to probe the deepest scientific v seciets of matter. ter theBp * ie nat ' on s physicists have eagerly been seek ing such a machine for several years to explore the next layer of questions in their quest for ex- ady,” will allow people to see the en tree listed overhead by use of large electronic letters. This system, which is to be used when Duncan Dining Hall re-opens in 1988, should speed service and in crease food variety for students. Dol lar said he believes this system could easily become the prototype for group dining in the military and that the future holds more innovations. “There is always more to do in the future than has been done in the past,” he said. Beautifully landscaped dining fa cilities and the use of panoramic 3-D television, along with automatic snack bars and limited use of robots could soon become reality, he added. Dollar’s replacement, assistant di rector Lloyd Smith, said he isn’t planning any major changes in the current system. “I owe a lot to this institution,” Dollar said. “It gave me my first job in the military and my second job in food service.” The university, he said, is “like good parents.” “No matter how hard you try,” he said, “you just can’t repay them for all they have given you.” planations of the physical world. Proponents say the machine is essential if the United States hopes to maintain the lead in physics research. Gramm said the decision to go ahead with the program will also be a boon to modern technol ogy in general and to the state that is picked to host the supercollider. “The Houston Area Research Council and Texas A&M have been heavily involved in re search on the superconducting supercollider, and since they have been involved, they stand a good chance of getting the project,” Gramm, a former economics professor at Texas A&M, said. “The advanced work done at HARC and Texas A&M should make Texas very compet itive,” Gramm said. “I will certainly work to pro mote that.” The supercollider would be a vast tunnel, al most circular, with a circumference of about 52 miles. Powerful magnets would force counter-rotat ing beams of protons, one of the naturally occur ring subatomic particles that make up the build ing blocks of all matter, to smash into each other with an energy of 40 trillion electron volts, more than 20 times the maximum energy of the most powerful existing accelerator. The collisions would concentrate into a small space the energy density that some scientists be lieve must have existed at the moment of the “big bang” that created the universe. Out of that could come particles predicted by exotic theories of the origin of matter. The DOE, which sponsors most accelerator re search in the United States, has been spending about $20 million a year for the past several years on planning the supercollider. 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