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By Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff Writer
There are diverse career options
for engineering graduates, espe
cially in the rapidly expanding busi
ness world, a panel of four Texas
A&M engineering alumni said Mon
day night.
Three speakers, Michael E. Hum
phrey, Class of’78; Thomas R. Lan-
;fits hoJlgford, Class of’81, and Jack N. McC-
evervoi rai 7’ d ass of ’59, hold masters of
^ "business administration degrees
from Harvard Business School. Wel
don D. Kruger, Class of ’53, earned
a masters degree in engineering
from A&M.
Humphrey is vice president in an
investment banking company, Lang-
Iford is an associate with a manage
ment consulting firm and McCrary
i come li is managing partner of a part
nership aimed at developing tech
nology and is president of a medical
device corporation. Kruger recently
retired after a career with Exxon.
The panel told members of Tau
Beta Pi, the national engineering
honor society, that business offers
wide opportunities for the engi
neering graduate.
J. Wayne Stark, moderator of the
1 lecture and director emeritus of the
itorym M emor i a l Student Center, said,
ft forTn “ Man y y° u are thinking about or
Thave already made up your minds
I go to graduate school. Many yet
years
Photo by Robert W. Rizzo
Weldon Kruger, left, Thomas R. Langford, Michael E. Humphrey and Jack N. McCrary
ago, the only counseling many of
you got was in engineering.
“What we want to do is to show
you the other options, should you
decide to go that way. There’s a lot
of opportunities for people with an
engineering backround as well as
going on to engineering.”
Humphrey said, “There are a lot
of Aggies who have gone before you,
and I suspect, a lot in the future —
and it’s a viable alternative — for
those of you who have an interest in
the business side of things.
“With experience, if it Fits into the
plans you are developing, it it some
thing you should consider.”
Kruger said familiarity with busi
ness is almost a prerequisite for
many careers today.
“The business world is becoming
more and more compact,” he said.
“If businesses are not competing in
ternationally now, they will be soon.”
McCrary said, “The world is get
ting so small. If I were in school now,
I would load up on accounting and
marketing, and I would try very
hard to learn something about inter
national business.”
The speakers recommended
working before beginning graduate
education to strengthen a commit
ment to a career choice and to deter
mine interests.
Recognizing personal interests is
essential, Humpnrey said, but not al
ways as obvious as it may seem.
“You might not be able to do that
until you actually get out there and
try, like I did,” he said. “It might
take a little bit of experience to fine-
tune and hone those preferences.”
McCrary emphasized the impor
tance of broadening the base of
knowledge when entering graduate
school, especially for students with
an engineering degree.
“I encourage you all, when you’re
leaving school, to go someplace you
can learn something, because you
really don’t know very much,” he
said.“Engineering was tremendous,
but the breadth of engineering when
I went to school — and I really don’t
think it has changed that much — is
really quite narrow.
“I really encourage you to some
how, some way, try to broaden your
base as you go out and even after
you go out in the business world.”
Stark included attending a differ
ent school for a master’s degree in
broadening educational experi
ences.
“I hope that if you are going to go
on to graduate school, that you try to
go to places other than A&M,” he
said, “to have the prestige of having
degrees from two schools.”
As experience and education in
crease, however, personal commit
ments and values should not be sup
planted by business or career
interests, panel members said.
“I think you will Find that people
will throw themselves into their job
excessively,” Humphrey said. “And
you may find out a few years down
the road that you may not have held
on to all the things you thought were
important. I encourage you to retain
a sense of longer duty.”
Langford also said that there is
more to success than academics and
the goal of graduation.
“When you graduate, it’s not the
piece of paper, it’s what’s in your
head, what you learned and how
well you can articulate that and
implement it,” he said. “That’s
what’s really going to keep you in
good shape.”
j* Professor: Pari-mutuel betting would aid local economy
By Annette Primm
Reporter
If the pari-mutuel betting measure is
passed, the increased opportunity for Bra
zos Valley farms probably would have the
greatest effect on the local economy, an
A&M veterinary professor said.
Ken Campbell, information director for
Texas Horse Association, said 7,000 new
farm-related jobs would be created
statewide by passage of the legislation.
And according to Dr. Joerg A. Auer, an
A&M associate professor of large animal
medicine and surgery, Brazos Valley farms
would be affected by the legislation the
most.
“Where I see the increase in opportunity
in this region of Texas is in farm devel
opment,” Auer said. “This area (the Brazos
Valley) will be one of the major areas where
they are going to raise horses.”
Pari-mutuel legislation also would legal
ize dog racing in Texas.
But he said Brazos Valley farms defi
nitely would be affected more than local
veterinary services.
Brazos Valley would stand in the middle
of the Texas horse racing triangle, he said.
Class 1 tracks would be built in Dallas-Fort
Worth, San Antonio and Houston.
Doug McClure, race horse owner and
breeder, said these Class 1 tracks are built
in heavily populated areas to draw in the
finest horses in the world and to bring in
larger “handles.”
A handle is the total amount of money
bet at a track on a given day.
Auer said there are many provisions in
the racing bill that encourage the breeding
of Texas horses.
McClure said when a state-bred horse
wins a race, the track will pay a Breeder’s
Cup Bonus in addition to the purse the
horse wins. The bonus goes directly to the
breeders of the horse.
But Dr. Sturge C. Maurice of the eco
nomics department at A&M said legalized
horse racing will not increase the demand
for Texas horses.
“There is definitely a breeding industry
in Texas, but it will not really bring that
many more horses,” Maurice said.
Horse racing is basically a national indus
try, he said. Many horses race on a national
circuit as well as within states.
Good horses travel to states such as New
York and California as well as Louisiana, he
said.
And a lot of people already are involved
with horse racing, he said.
Maurice doesn’t anticipate a large num
ber going into it now.
“I am certainly in favor of the state reve
nue it would bring, but it would not have
much of an impact economically for Bryan-
College Station,” he said.
Maurice said cities such as Dallas, Fort
Worth and Houston will benefit directly be
cause people would come into these cities
and spend money for hotels, - restaurants
and other tourist services.
But the twin cities would benefit indi
rectly, he said.
Education would benefit from the addi
tional state revenue, he said. Because A&M
would benefit, so would the Brazos Valley.
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