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Thursday, April 30, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 ermott win ■ nt ieth Cen- -et at 6 p.m, 15 P-m.Call N: will meet in 230-231 udder, n 302 Rud- zed student ammer Cal- peanut-but- t and for Bi ll rch. 11 meet at 7 : will meet at conduct its room, banquet at 7 m. in 351G. ^Rie Spring lilding. OF COM- i of the Year Chamber of lay. 'le Battalion, :ing days be- ts St dot ■m works on 2! 5 the f requeno! This is extrem ctrical wiring isi kind of rock J >ns, he said, will want to w compare themti e salt mines,” 1« m will take there •ss them tosceer :ond trif a siroh nits in$ em ha; > dof2i ie research ,anies thatownsaf aid, “We gotg see through *' ,000 feet. We" 1 meters. , the research 1 civilization ee dures Photo by Kellie Copeland More than 3,000 brands are on display in the Kleberg Animal and Food Science Center. Kleberg branded with history By Kellie Copeland Reporter Ranchers’ brands usually appear on cattle hides to identify their ani mals, but visitors to the Kleberg Animal and Food Science Center may be in for a surprise. Authentic brands from ranches in Texas appear on 254 oak panels in the building. The branding project was ini tiated in June 19/8 by Dr. O.D. Butler to help preserve historical information about leaders of the state’s livestock industry and to provide a proud heritage for youth of ranching families, as well as for visitors to Texas A&M. Butler, now retired, headed A&M’s Animal Science Depart ment from 1950 to 1978 and served as associate vice president for agriculture and renewable re sources for several years. More than 300 members partici pated in the first branding cere mony, in which the branded stair way was dedicated to Butler for “distin-guished service to the live stock industry of Texas.” Every Texas county except Lev- ing County is represented by at least one brand in the oak panels. Selection of the first brands was left up to county extension agents and historical society members. The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and the Texas Farm Bureau helped iden tify leaders to take a part in the branding ceremonies. “We had to set up some kind of rules because we just couldn’t ac commodate everyone who wanted his brand on the wall,” Butler said. Between 3,000 and 4,500 brands have been added to the wall since. LA. Maddox, a leader in animal science and chairman of the pro ject, said some 200,000 brands are recorded in Texas and on file with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raiser’s Association in Fort Worth. “This is the state’s most com plete record of historic and active brands,” Maddox said. Butler said, “We invited ranch ers from all over. These guys lined up to brand and really had a ball. They had more fun than any bunch of kids.” When first registering, ranchers were responsible for registering in the official brand registry the brand name, ranch name and ad dress, brand design and any other historical information concerning the brand’s origin. Almost a third of the initial 139 brands were registered in Texas before 1900. Some of them date back to Texas’ Republic era. Oth ers are traced to Spanish and Mex ican colonization days. In a 1979 article in Texas Agri cultural Progress, Mary K. Maho ney said the “AR” brand of the Alamo Regiment was first regis tered in 1812 by the Spanish Army stationed at Mission Valero, later named the Alamo. The “Rocking Y” brand, now owned by Robert and John Yturria of the Yturria Ranch in Bexar County, was registered before 1845 to Manuel Yturria, who ar rived in the area in 1803. According to Mahoney, the ranch was part of an original Span ish land grant and has been in con tinuous use by family members. This grant included the area of San Antonio’s Hemisphere devel opment. The “Circle G” brand has been registered by Peter Gallagher since 1835, Mahoney said. Gallagher, a rancher and builder, built San Antonio’s Menger Hotel and other buildings at the Quandrangle at Fort Sam Houston. Gallagher’s nieces, who inher ited the ranch, sold it in 1927 to Mrs. V.H. McNutt, who is cur rently using the brand. This is the oldest ranch in Bexar County still consisting of the origi nal acreage and using the same brand. The “JLC” brand, owned by the Walsh Ranch in Bexar County, has been used continously since 1840. Mahoney said the Walsh brothers’ mother and grandmother and their families lived in the Spanish Governor’s Palace. Ownership of the palace remained in the Walsh family until 1921, when it was deeded to the city of San Antonio. Many of the brands originated during the days of the Texas trail drives, when ranchers took their cattle to markets in Kansas and other states. The largest ranch in Texas, the King Ranch, is represented by the famous “Running W” branded by Stephen J. “Tio” Kleberg. The King Ranch family also is rep resented by the “J3” and “HK” brands in Nueces County and the “S” brand in Kerr County. Sam Houston’s “SAM” brand was burned into the the panel by Mrs. Henry Boehm, Jr., of the His torical Society of Washington County, and Houston’s “X” brand was added to the Walker County panel. Butler said the branding project was created to bring about closer relationships between ranchers and the animal science facilities at A&M, as well as with research and educational work throughout Texas. The branded stairway has at tracted national attention. The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers in Fort Worth have im itated the branding idea. Some ranchers have left their historical branding irons as a per manent part of A&M‘s branding iron collection, which is also dis played in the Kleberg Center. Local doctors volunteer time to help A&M med students By Mark Gee Reporter Making the transition from listen ing to a class lecturer to listening to a patient’s heart can make a medical student’s own heart skip a beat. Rene Rodriguez, a second-year medical student at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, said her biggest fear was learning enough to actually make a diagnosis. The fear of closing the books and picking up a stethoscope is common among second-year students at A&M’s medical school — the only one in Texas in which second-year medical students get supervised, hands-on patient experience. Other schools wait until the student’s third year. Area physicians volunteer to ac cept students into their offices through the school’s preceptorship program. The program was initiated in 1978, the year after the medical school was founded, to expose stu dents to family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics and other medi cal specialties. Students spend one afternoon a week observing physicians, obtain ing patient histories and performing physical exams on patients who agree to be seen by a medical stu dent. The students are supervised by the patients’ physicians. After several physical exams, Ro drigues says, his initial fear was gone because he realized he was able to re call information that helped pa tients. He said one of his most rewarding experiences was diagnosing a heart murmur during a preceptorship ses sion with Dr. Ronald Huddleston of Hearne. With his stethoscope, Rodriguez heard the murmur caused by the pa tient’s inelastic aortic valve. He learned to recognize abnormal heart sounds his freshman year. First-year students take a physical di agnosis class and an introduction to patients class to prepare them to work with patients. “I like for students to get hands- on experience,” says Huddleston, a family practitioner for 18 years, who has accepted students since the pre ceptorship program was initiated nine years ago. “I don’t expect much,” Huddles ton says, “except for them (students) to think. I ask a lot of questions that I don’t expect them to answer cor rectly. They don’t have to answer correctly. I just want them to think AUSTIN (AP) — A judge’s ruling that Texas short-changes poor school districts could be among the most expensive court edicts in state history, officials said Wednesday. The ruling by State District Judge Harley Clark could require massive consolidation of school districts and could also change the face of rural Texas, according to a state lawyer. “In many places in Texas the school district is the center of town, not just educationally, but socially and in other aspects,” said David properly. Their real knowledge will come later.” Huddleston reduces his patient load from about 15 to 10 on the af ternoons he has a student in order to have time to explain clinical con cepts. He enjoys the interaction with students because it makes him recall technical information. The coordinator of the pre ceptorship program. Dr. O.C. Coo per, says it is well-received in the medical community because it offers physicians the reward of sharing their knowledge with students. 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