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Open to all A&M Students and Faculty Rick Popp President For more info call 845-5020 Steve Buras Vice President Page 4B/The Battalion/Monday, August 31, 1987 Bryan mayor says knowledge^ of people key to successful life The a] ini By Cindy Milton Staff Writer It takes more than book knowl edge and a college education to be come successful in the business world today, says one of the influen tial city officers in the area. “Book knowledge is a necessity, but it’s how you handle people that will get you somewhere,” says Bryan mayor Marvin Tate. In his second term as mayor, Tate attributes his success to his ability to relate to people. “I feel that positive thinking, maintaining perspective of priorities and having a genuine hu man interest can carry anyone up the career ladder,” he says. Tate, a 1955 graduate of Texas A&M, feels he has been well- rounded in the career field. T ate’s motivation toward his may- oral position gathered steam in 1'983. “I wanted to let people know what was happening in the city,” he says. “I felt I had been through a great learning process at A&M, both in college and in my 15 years working with the (A&M’s) athletic depart ment, but until I got out of the ath letic arena, I wasn’t very aware of what was going on in my commu nity.” nis i Tex. is iotlK's. BpPK 11 emptv ■§H‘. 1 WO apai mu P l )u ' Kp ad< to rial- 1 pirn . jjaain a i of lilt' Sppus liked id , the w.n turt 1 ggpls kitclit'H Wigt" ftpapf pus and But hapm 1 Apia (n New not hid fest< d t -covered Photo hyjohnk not do: the ref t Marvin Tate, mayor of Bryan, talks about the positive future he sees for the Bryan-College Station area. He says his biggest ambition is to eventually incorporate the twin cities. After his election for a one-year unexpired term on the city council in 1983, Tate began a second term the following year. Tate ran for mayor in 1985 — what at first had been a personal interest became a ca reer goal. ' Tate’s main interest as mayor is getting people involved in the com munity. However, he says it’s diffi cult finding people who are willing take the extra time and effort to stay involved. “The hardest thing we have as a council is to find people to be very sincere with the job,” he says. “It takes time and effort to get some thing back in this position. There aren’t a whole lot of people who are willing to put time and effort into a position that doesn’t always get posi tive feedback from the community.” But Tate is very optimistic about the future of the Bryan-College Sta tion area. His biggest ambition, along with other city council mem bers, is to eventually incorporate the twin cities. “Bryan-College Station is a tre mendous place to live ,” he says. “Texas A&M attracts a lot of positive things in the community.” The University has boosted the economy of the area greatly, he says, and the geographic location of Bryan-College Station between Texas’ big cities adds to the positive future of the area. “This is a people-oriented com munity with a mostly happy, well-ad justed lifestyle,” lie says. “Texas A&M has given us the type of life style that’s adaptable to anything. We can attract every personality here and fulfill just about any need because of our location and our con stant development.” However, Tate admits that incor poration of the two cities may take some time to materialize. “Bryan has been around for a long time, and the people have cho sen to keep it a separate entity from College Station,” he says. “Just like traditions at A&M, it might take awhile for people to get used to the idea of change,” he said. For the time being, Bryan remains independent from College Station. Tate, however, feels it is essential to keep close relations with the area. He and Mayor Larry Ringer of Col lege Station meet socially once or twice a week to discuss the mutual problems facing the cities. “I’m a good old Ag, and I like to stay involved,” Tate says. “Like any other person, I have my priorities for everything. My family and my work keep me very active all the time.” Tate, 54, is the father of five and the owner of his own real estate busi ness. He spends at least 30 hours a week working as mayor while bal ancing his time with his business and his family. Tate first set eyes on College Sta tion when a football scholarship brought Tate to A&M from his hometown of Abilene. He played under Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant when the team practiced in junction and he lettered in the sport for three consecutive years. Tate graduated with a business degree and went to work for IBM and” later for Payne-Webber in Houston. But in 1967 Tate returned to A&M to work as the University's associate athletic director. From that point, Tate advanced to ctor, until 198 u<> into the athletic dirt decided to _ business. As far as his future, Taiti doesn’t have the aspiration! come a senator. “1 donto myself a politician," he says my job as mayor because working with people. Rigir just want to see the commt: velop and remain strong, ki Retirement isn’t in Tatei either. 1 le says he planstosc with his eyes open to ami reer-wise that may corneal® Tate feels he has beeneD just about everything with Is sification in careers. “I’ve met all kinds of pt says, “and I feel thatifyoua to deal with people reason: keep your priorities straight do just about anything you*: “People get so involved: own lives that they arentu what goes on in their comm think that you should estakli goals and work toward then get involved and keepyouri straight, you’ll get attribn; matter what you do.” die. HL lea Caved i ceding months the first very in were fu |nste ■art nn visiting to SIX i; showers Aitei nan c n with th were sti T1 den < >n women DE C Root High-rise buildings in Texas stand tall in skyscraper architecture across U.S Cal DALLAS (AP) — With gleaming angles pierc ing the sky and towering arches 60 stories tall, designers of skyscrapers in Texas have been among those at the forefront of high-rise ar chitecture over the past decade or so. Structures such as Pennzoil Place and Transco Tower amid the bayous of Houston, the blue- green prism-like Allied Bank Tower and the Texas Commerce Tower across the urban prairie of Dallas have given the skylines a “signature” of their own, architects say. With the faltering oil economy, the Texas real estate market isn’t conducive to new devel opments now, but architects say some of the same concepts already employed in Texas seem to be showing up elsewhere. “There is an ongoing development in design in architecture,” says Hal Box, dean of architec ture at the University of Texas in Austin. During the past decade, Box says, “A lot of the building in the United States was going on in Texas, in Houston and Dallas. It wasn’t happen ing in New York and Boston several years ago.” During the Texas boom years, there began a trend toward breaking out of the rectangular, vertical steel-and-glass boxes that had dominated high-rise architecture. Slanting towers broke the form in buildings such as the Trans America tower in San Fran cisco, Citicorp headquarters in New York and Houston’s Pennzoil Place, completed in 1975. Later, decorative tops, or “hats,” began to grace skyscrapers on buildings, such as a pyr amid on Dallas’ LTV Tower and the groined vault of Momentum Place. “There’s a helluva lot of energy and entrepre- neurism in Texas in a hardscrabble sort of way,” says Richard Keating, who designed Texas Com merce Lower and LTV Tower. The developer, Trammell Crow Co., one of the largest in the world, is Dallas-based. Keating says Crow and other major Texas-based devel opers embody the type of spirit to which a bold architectural statement might appeal. John Burgee of New York says, “ I his search for identity has become a very real thing, not only among corporate buildings but also among developer buildings.” Burgee’s firm designed Momentum Place, a new Dallas high-rise that is a series of arches growing out of arches, topped with a quadruple vault. “We’ve always been interested in making buildings identifiable, not only at the skyline, but at the ground,” says Burgee, who with Philip Johnson has designed some of the most notable buildings in Texas. Here, mey began with a great archfc J tranceway to the major tenant, MBanl; a vaulted ceiling over that, and played to the very top.” It was Johnson who designed Pennzoil Houston, a dark glass double tower witl B tops and base. “The thing that was so strikingabouiP* was that it broke the box,” says Lawrenul head of UT’s Center for the Study of tl Architecture. “It had been alongtimea* kind of visual vitality had been broughti«‘l rise building.” Speck says the developer, Gerald Ifcl ized that if he constructed offices withinB striking building he would “lease them! ■ cause everybody will want to be inthisbusB Other developers followed suit. “It became, ‘My tower will be diffeui your tower,’ ” says Michael Graves,an and teacher of architecture at Princetonil sity. “Always before it was ‘My tower higher than your towef.’ ” The result in Dallas, as the 1980sturf came an eclectic skyline highlighted at nfl 75-foot tower outlined in green argon,iW ing hall of Reunion Tower, a green-glas" ; presiding over an array of fountains, andl ing with a 10-story needle’s eye at the top Org, Ti Ri COLLEGE STATION CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC WELCOMING BACK AGGIES 20% OFF WITH STUDENT ID SPECIALIZING IN TREATMENT OF: Whiplash & Auto Accident Cases Worker’s Comp/Industrial accident cases Preventive & Maintenance health care Women & Children/Scolioses screening Sports & Athletic injuries Lamaze classes offered DR. 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