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The program will include instruc tion in areas of management skills and techniques needed for proper school administration, such as orga nization, personnel management and accounting. Before making recommendations to the Texas Board of Education, Corrigan said the committee will study its task. The committee is con sidering initiating a four-year pro gram to spread out the extensive training, he added. It will meet with representatives from the central education agency, other universities, and school dis tricts, as well as with management trainers from professional organiza tions and private businesses. The committee is meeting with members of the business community because schools want to be run more professionally, he said, and the man agement of business organizations will give the program input on the content of training courses. The committee, which will meet every two or three weeks to deter- Dean C. Corrigan mine specific program content, hopes to submit a proposal to the board before this summer, Corrigan said. The committee will meet on March 12 to begin developing a plan for the program. The program will be required for public school administrators begin ning with the 1987-1988 school year. There are 13,000 supervisors in the 1,089 school districts in Texas. The committee’s dilemma, he said, is determining how to develop a quality program that will serve large quantity of people. The administrators are at ent levels in ability and are inawii) variety of work settings, Corrigj said, and the program must accot modate each of them. Corrigan said he accepted tli challenging position because looks at leadership roles as a respo: sibility of the profession and beam it is a credit to the University. The committee will include b Darrell T. Piersol, director of lli governor’s executive developme: program; Leroy Deanda, director training of City Public Services San Antonio; and Dr. Rosalie Blaylock, Manager of Business Rel lions and External Affairs of Amei can Telephone 8c Telegraph in Am tin. The committee also will indue representatives involved with pubt schools, which is important, Corr gan said, because the views of thm who will be affected by the plana, important. These representatives includeD: Lee Williamson, superintendent schools in Wichita Falls; Dr. Jofe Horn, superintendent of schools Mesquite; E. Don Brown, principi of L.D. Bell High School in Him: Marla Guerra, principal of Cant han Elementary School in Phan and Dr. Jim Rogers, the execum director of the Region IX Educam: nal Service ('enter in Wichita Fall: Hostels provide low-cost way for travelers to meet people By Sheryl Taylor Reporter In 1909, Richard Schirrman, a teacher from West Germany, and his school group were hiking in the mountains when it began to rain. They knocked on the door of a nearby castle, asked to stay over night, and the “hostel” movement was born. The hostel experience is a unique and inexpensive way to travel in the United States and Europe. “Hosteling is spending a night or two in a household-type structure, sharing in conversation and activities with people from other countries and backgrounds,” said Morty Rich, Bluebonnet Council treasurer. The Bluebonnet Council is one of three geographic councils in Texas, said Sherman Frost, A&M coordina tor and College Station council chairman. It consists of 47 counties in the Houston area and includes College Station. San Antonio, Houston and El Paso are the three hostel sites in Texas, and the council is working on hostels in Galveston and Brownsville. The American Youth Hostel, Inc., a non-profit membership organiza tion, was founded in 1934 by two American school teachers, Isabel and Monroe Smith. They estab lished the first American youth hos tel in Northfield, Mass. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AYH is a United States af filiate of the London-based Interna tional Youth Hostel Federation. The federation is made up of more than 5,000 hostels in 64 nations. Toby Pyle, marketing and public relations assistant for AYH in Wash ington, said the organization re cently expanded its regional offices and opened three offices in Texas. While the European hostels are publicly funded, all the U.S. hostels are privately funded by donations and membership sales. Rich said. “The idea of hosteling, or AYH, is to promote international under standing by providing a place where stay and people can stay meet people from other countries and various areas of the United States," Rich said. Frost said the Bluebonnet Council is trying to develop hostels for the Gulf Coast area. “We know hostels along the Gulf Coast will be successful because peo- “The idea ... is to pro mote international under standing by providing a place where people can stay and meet people from other countries. ” — Monty Rich, hostel spokesman pie in Texas want to go to these fa cilities,” he said. The Houston hostel is called Perry House. It has 30 beds with separate male and female dormito ries, a full dining room, a fully equipped kitchen, showers and a pa tio garden. The Perry House is near the museum district, the Texas Med ical Center, the Houston Zoo and several other sightseeing attractions in Houston. The people that pass through the Houston hostel are “usually not from the United States and the irony of it is that two out of 10 may be from the States, but the overnight residents are mainly for eign students,” Rich said. European hostels are usually dor mitory-style accommodations and are cheaper than their American counterparts, which cost $4 to $10 a night, Rich said. The hostels are su pervised by a person residing in the building and operate under a self- help system. The hostelers, not lim ited by age, provide all their own services, allowing the hostels to be inexpensive. Overnight guests are expected to do their own housekeep ing, Frost said. “Hostels are not really a place for transient people that just want a place to stay,” Frost said. “It is a place where folks from all overi country who are usually travelinj a less commercial or traditional fav ion can stay.” Hosteling is a worldwic movement that anyone from i countries of all ages can join. I joining AYH, each member get! handbook and a pass allowing enr into the United States and Europti hostels, Frost said. There is nos;* cial criteria for membership, buu individual’s membership fee df pends on his or her age. Thoseintd ested in AYH membership can pd chase their passes from the Te: A&M Study Abroad Office. Frost and Rich are also involved! the World Adventure Travel Pnj gram, which provides worldwideil tivities for groups of AYR inembd to visit historic sites and meetpeopj from all over the world in youth tel tels. About 45 different trips ij planned and about 1,000 peopj travel each year, Rich said. “We need leaders for these tr;:j badly,” Rich said. There will be a leadership campi San Antonio beginning March k 1 In Advance Club to debate law in arms deal The Texas A&M Debate te ciety is sponsoring a debate all p.m. Wednesday in 701 Ruddei Tower to address the following question: Should the presidentlx able to violate U.S. lawf to securtl the release of American hostages:! The debate will be conductedl “Irish style,” meaning anyoneirl the audience may speak. Thoseiil favor of the resolution exiij through one door, opponentil through another, and the tallil decides the winner of the debale, | Two speakers’ arguments will start the debate, and no one will be admitted after 7 p.m. ¥ ¥ ¥ 1 1 I I s '¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 8 I ■¥ '¥ Wednesday Special Buy a LARGE one topping PIZZA plus a pitcher of soft drink 99 good every Wednesday for only $6 501 University Northgate