Thursday, March 5,1987/The Battalion/Page 7
Students find matching names
create confusing experiences
By Kelley Bullock
Reporter
“When 1 was a freshman here at
A&M, this guy gave me a call,” says
senior industrial engineering major
Stephen Bruce Kelly, one of three
Stephen Kellys at Texas A&M.
“I need to talk to you about my
son,” the man said. “I really think
that you need to move his position.”
“What?” Kelly, 22, asked.
“I think you should move him to
shortstop,” the man answered.
“I don’t know what you’re talking
about," Kelly, of Spring, said.
“You are Steve Kelly, the P.E. ma
jor?” he asked.
“Yes,” Kelly, who thought the
man said Pet. E. (petroleum engi
neering.), said. Kelly was a petro
leum engineering major at the time.
"OK, good,” the man said. “It’s
really a positive experience for my
son, but I really think you need to
move him to a different position, be
cause I think it would be better for
everybody.”
Ten minutes went by as they
talked in circles, confused and un
aware of the mistaken identity.
"Did you say P.E. or Pet.E.?”
asked Kelly, who finally realized
something was wrong.
“P.E.,” the man answered. “You
don’t work at the church as a coach?”
“No!” Kelly said.
Kelly is one of the many students
at A&M who has the same first and
last name as somebody else.
“I thought it was funny, but he
was more frustrated that he had
spent that much time talking to me
on the phone,” Kelly says.
Many times identical names lead
to problems and confusion.
Kimberly Lynn Cajacob, a fresh
man elementary education major, is
one of two Kimberly Cajacobs at
A&M.
She received the wrong midterm
grades.
"I went to get my midterms last se
mester,” Cajacob says. “They gave
me Kimberly Ann Cajacob’s, and I
didn’t realize it. I went all the way
home and looked at it, and I had
over 130 hours. I didn’t know how I
got that many — I’m a freshman. I
didn’t know what was going on. I
read it. It said Kimberly Cajacob. I
didn’t look real close. Finally, after a
long time, I figured it out. I looked
at the middle name, and it said Ann.
“So then I had to go all the way
back to the Pavilion and tell them
they gave me the wrong one.”
Both Cajacobs were born in
Omaha, Neb., but are not closely re
lated.
Since their name is so unusual,
they have crossed each other’s paths
before.
“One time I was at the pool a cou
ple of years ago,” senior elementary
education major Kimberly Ann Ca
jacob says. “Someone asked me if I
swam in Houston. They were talking
about the other Kim.
“It’s a weird feeling, especially
when it’s such a weird name. But it’s
fun — I like to tell other people
about it.”
Kimberly Lynn Cajacob agrees
that it’s strange to have the same un
common name.
“I think I’ve got about the strang
est name around,” Cajacob (fresh
man) says. “I think it’s really strange
that someone else would have the
same name.”
Curious about the other girl
named Kim Cajacob, Kimberly Ann
Cajacob called Kimberly Lynn Caja
cob to talk to her.
“The thing I thought was funny
was when we were talking about our
nicknames on the phone,” Cajacob
(freshman) says. “We have had the
same nicknames. One was funny —
‘Cucumber.’ It doesn’t really sound
like Cajacob, but we both used to be
called ‘Cucumber.’ ”
Having the same name is not al
ways fun, such as when Kelly was
mistakenly given credit for having
taken defensive driving.
“I don’t know if it was a mistake
because of my name or not, but at
College Station they put me down
for taking defensive driving for a
ticket I paid,” Kelly says. “I had to go
down there and write letters to
them, to Austin and to the court
house. 1 still don’t know if it’s offi
cially straightened out.”
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checks, especially when another per
son with the same name is on the
bad-check list.
“I think I need to start signing my
middle name with a ‘B,’ because on
my checks I just have Stephen Kel
ly,” Kelly says. Freshman general-
studies major Stephen Glenn Kelly,
another one of the three Stephen
Kellys, agrees.
However, having the same name
often brings people together, fresh
man English major Stacey Lynn Al
len says.
ernment, and she was a fish aide
when she was a freshman.
“A lot of people asked why Stacey
Allen was on the fish aide list. They
said, ‘She’s not a freshman; she’s a
junior now.’ I said, ‘I’m Stacey Allen;
I’m a freshman.’ ”
Allen’s friends have had problems
getting her phone number from stu
dent locator.
“I’ve had people say, T called stu
dent locator, and I couldn’t get your
number because there were so many
Stacey Allens,’ ” she says.
‘Tve met two Stacey Allens,” Al
len, one of at least four Stacey Allens
at A&M, says. “One of them I met at
Fish Camp. Her name was Stacey E.
Allen and I’m Stacey L. Allen. They
got us mixed up.
“I’ve met another Stacey Allen
who is a junior now. I met her at a
party. I’m a fish aide in Student Gov-
“Also, I applied for Fish Camp
counselor. The night before we were
supposed to find out who got it, a
panic gripped me. I thought, ‘What
if I go in there, and the list says Sta
cey Allen.’ I would think I got it and
get my hopes all up. Then I would
find out that it was somebody else.”
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