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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
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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.
Patients also benefit from the pro
gram, Cooper says. He has worked
with more than 120 perceptorship
students in his family practice in Col
lege Station.
“Patients appreciate having an
other person (the student) take care
of them,” Cooper says.
Thompson, the Texas Education
Agency lawyer who unsuccessfully
defended the school finance system.
Judge Clark said in his order,
“There is no underlying rationale in
the district boundaries of many
school districts.”
If the order is upheld on appeal,
Thompson said state lawmakers
would have to carve new districts to
guarantee fair distribution of
wealth.
Judge’s ruling may bring
changes in school districts
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