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Penberthy has been called the “Father of Intramurals” for his work in developing the intramural pro gram here at Texas A&M. While at A&M, he has held many titles, in cluding Head of the Health and Physical Education Department, chairman of the MSC Council, chair man of the Athletic Council, Dean of Men and even PE instructor. Penberthy came to Texas A&M after graduating from Ohio State University and was hired by legend ary head football coach Dana X. Bi ble in 1926. “At that time, Ohio State, Michi gan and Illinois had the outstanding intramural programs in the coun try,” he says. “The man who was in charge of the A&M intramural pro gram left here and went to Washing ton State.” Penberthy took the job and has been in College Station ever since. But he says he was not always well- accepted. “Dean EJ. Kyle (for whom Kyle Field was named) was very much sports-minded,” he says. “He couldn’t understand how anyone who wasn’t an athlete himself could run a physical education or intramu ral program. Coach Bible had to cram me down Kyle’s throat. “But I’ll say this to his (Kyle’s) credit, he became one of my most staunch supporters. We became good friends.” When Penberthy started, the in tramural program was run on a company basis, meaning the seniors could pick the sports they wanted and the underclassmen got what was left over, he says. To counter this, Penberthy divided the sports into di visions. “It’s the same way now as it was then,” he says. “I guess it has never changed.” Penberthy says the students came up with ideas for the foundation of A&M’s intramural program. “We had a wonderful bunch of kids,” he says. “They were just looking for someone to lead them.” All the other Southwest Confer ence schools were located in cities that provided more sports accidently than A&M could on purpose, Pen- “I think the yardstick I put on it when I was in tk was if ids an activity and it's wholesome and practical, can be worked in. I didn’t get technical about wheth it was a sport or not, as long as it was wholesome, In for it. ” — Walter Penberthy, A&M’s “Father of Intramun ip. Penberthy became friends with the intramural director at the University of Texas. “I’d try something out and if it went good I’d recommend it to him,” he says, “and if he’d try some thing that didn’t work he’d say, ‘Don’t try it, it’s no good.’ So we worked hand in hand.” The intramural program started with only the basic sports, but new sports were always in the making. Some didn’t last very long, Penber thy says. “But it was worth a try,” he says. “I think the yardstick I put on it when I was in there was: If it’s an activity and it’s wholesome and practical, it can be worked in. I didn’t get techni cal about whether it was a sport or not. As long as it was wholesome, I was for it.” Penberthy also tried his hand at teaching the required physical edu cation classes. At the beginning of each semes ter, he always told his students, “I’m not concerned at all with the amount of natural ability you bring into this activity. But the thing that will con cern me is if I don’t get 100 percent of what you’ve got.” Penberthy says his best sport was probably handball, but it didn’t allow the contact with the students that he wanted, which is why he became in terested in volleyball. When he started coaching, he didn’t know anything about volley ball, he says, but he learned about the sport through films and attend ing national tournaments on the West Coast. “I couldn’t execute any of the skills, but I knew enough to where I could teach them the fundamen tals,” he says. “I had a pretty good analytical mind and I knew how to teach them.” Penberthy says he hoped he had the “God-given ability” to inspire kids to be good in whatever they did and to teach the students as well as the subject. “1 figure that if the student didn’t get something extra from contact with me, then they were missing the program,” he says. Another quality that “Mr. possessed was his ability to reme oer students names. After the £ two weeks, he called all his studi by name. This way the studentb he was being spoken to, he says. “A lot of time, I’d had tneii thers,” he says. “It wasn’t unus for kids to come in and givea* and say, ‘Mr. Penny, Dad saidto you hello.’ ” In 1978, 12 years after hisrti ment, the Penberthy Ihtrai Center was named for him, and ery spring, the Penberthy Tournament is held there. He says he still attends somt the games, handing out trophies shirts to the participants. He doe follow any particular team tournament, but he does follow team. “I go out to watch the girls women’s softball team),” he “Their homefield is in the intrai ral center, so I have a double ii in them. They (last year’s natii champions) were the best! Thf the ones I like to watch because! like to see those gals perform they do. As a kid growing up, just didn’t do that. 1 like that.’ Among Penberthy’s other di were writing a weekly column in Battalion called “Penny’s Seren* which dealt with sports and whi considered “good living, kind and anecdotes.” Penberthy was a member Athletic Council when footballn Paul “Bear” Bryant was hired berthy says he had a lot of res for Bryant for three reasons. “Number one, he would col close to getting 100 percent what a boy had, and I admired in anybody,” he says. “The sfl reason was he knew what he«a and he knew what he was do to get it. The final reason of his most admirable qualities never heard him blame a plajf ter a loss. He took all the blame self. “The only objection I had hiring Bryant was that he resented big-time football, and Athletic Council didn’t feel A&M was ready for that image HaU of Fame Bonfire Bash Wednesday $2 cover $1 00 Pitchers all night Victory Dance Thursday $2 cover (open ’tn2a.m.) $1 00 Pitchers $1 All single shot aid call drinks 822-2222 FM 2818 North of Villa Vlaria Lawyers file petition to question officials about Saraaosa funds PECOS (AP) — Texas Rural Legal Aid attorneys Tuesday filed a petition that would allow them to ques tion some county officials under oath about the fate of Saragosa tornado relief donations. The petition for bill of discovery filed in state district court asks officials to turn over any records relating to tornado relief that have not already been given, Legal Aid attorney Alpha Hernandez said Tuesday. The action may be the first step to legal action, de pending on what is found, she said. Donations of cash, cars, building materials, clothing and other items poured in from all over the country fol lowing the May 22 tornado that killed 30 people and leveled more than 60 buildings in the small cotton farming town near the Davis Mountains. The Reeves County sheriffs office, the Pecos Jaycees and the county-appointed Saragosa Relief Fund Fi nance Committee collected and distributed most of the donations. Some items, including $4,000 cash, have been stolen, and a community group named the Sara gosa Foundation asked Legal Aid last month to investi gate whether county officials were negligent or dishon est in handling the donations. “We haven t come up with a definite list of d tions we want to take,” Hernandez said from her in Del Rio. “Though I imagine they will start wi county judge and whichever county officials we sely involved.” released rec» : Earlier this month, the county mostly deposit slips and canceled checks, to Legal after the agency threatened to file suit. Hernandez Legal Aid wants any records the county did notj vide, such as automobile titles, warehouse receipts shipping and receiving statements. Interviews and additional records can help agency figure out exactly what happened with th f nations, she said. “You can go through a box of papers and try 1 construct the story,” she said. “The best way is) ask people about th< She calh e papers. called the petition an intermediate investij? S step “At some point,” Hernandez said, “we’ll co( enough information to sit down with out clients say, ‘Look, this is what we’ve found out. What" you like us to do about it? If we see any miscondu will be presented to the proper authorities.”