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
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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-
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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.
II the decision is made to go ahead, it would
set off a scramble ambng congressional dele
gations to land one of the most desirable federal
installations in years, with 3,000 jobs and an op
erating budget of about $200 million a year.
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