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988 Fish Camp director demonstrates
eadership abilities in activities at A8cM
By Mike Walters
Reporter
She has been described by her
other as “the girl who was left out
the rain and rusted.” But the rain
about the only thing this redhead
sheen left out of.
Angela Funk, the director of Fish
imp '88, has been a leader all of
ir life and is a living example of
pe spirit in action.
unk is a petite, fair-complex-
ned accounting major wnose
wndless energy and enthusiasm
ive helped her oecome a leader in
nost everything she’s become in-
Ived with.
Funk now eats, drinks and
eathes her new responsibility of
sh Camp director.
This 22-year-old senior from Ne-
dand will be responsible for get-
ig approximately 3,200 freshmen
om A&M to Palestine and back
id making sure they have a good
ne and learn about A&M tradi-
ms along the way.
If anyone is qualified to explain to
eshmen the myriad of extra-cur-
cular opportunities at A&M, it is
ink.
Funk is involved in several clubs
id activities. She belongs to Kappa
M appa Gamma sorority, the MSC
ouncil, Student Government
reshman Aides, Cap and Gown and
senior honor society. She also
played intramural athletics at
M.
This year Funk is concentrating
making Fish Camp ’88 the best
lat it can be.
“I am going to be working on one
lain goal for an entire year: Making
le transition from high school to
exas A&M as easy as possible for
r jicoming freshmen,” Funk said.
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the time students spend at
; peopl &M,” she said. “They leave Fish
of mod amp with a positive attitude that
, rece j( elps them through their first week
"class. Hopefully this spills over
ito the next four years.
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Angela Funk is 1988 Fish Camp director.
“We try to help the freshmen pre
pare for the future and to put high
school behind them and get involved
in the activities that A&M offers. We
not only stress academics, we stress
extra-curricular activities.”
One part of Fish Camp that Funk
has applied to her everyday life is
the aspect of setting goals.
“I think that setting your priori
ties and goals in list form — really
writing them down on paper —helps
you to organize your life and really
move forward,” she said. “Sure, you
will run into obstacles and might slip
a step or two, but as long as you are
making some progress, you are suc
ceeding in the long run.”
Fish Gamp started in 1954 when
Gordon Gay, Director of YMCA act-
vities, took a small group of A&M
students camping near Mexia,
Texas.
Entering its 35th year, Fish Camp
is an independent student organiza
tion that accommodates more than
3,200 freshmen in four different
sessions. The campground is at
Lakeview Methodist Assembly near
Palestine.
Funk learned about the impor
tance of Fish Camp as a freshman in
the summer of 1984. She applied to
be a counselor for the summer of
1985 and was chosen to be in Camp
Cisneros — named for San Antonio
Mayor Henry Cisneros, Class of’68.
In 1986 Funk rose through the
jungle of qualified counselors and
was picked to be a vice-chairman of
Camp Monroe.
One year later, with lots of Fish
Camp experience and hard work be
hind her, she was chosen associate
director of Fish Camp ’87.
As current director, Funk is in
charge of an associate director,
seven assistant directors, 48 co-chair
men, 650 counselors and an entire
“school of fish.”
Funk inherited her love of A&M
from her father.
“My dad was an Aggie, so I was
exposed to A&M throughout my
childhood,” she said. “I didn’t want
to attend Texas A&M just because of
my father, however. The atmo
sphere and the friendliness — the
uniqueness made me want to come
here.
“I visited many different schools,
but none of them seemed to have
that certain something — friendli
ness. I really felt like I was part of
the school and that I could be my
self.”
Funk has had to curtail interests
in other activities like jogging, read
ing mysteries, playing the piano and
swimming in order to concentrate
on camp.
She already has been hard at work
planning for next summer.
' We’ve been concentrating on ad
ministrative tasks this fall like trans
portation to and from camp, print
ing brochures and camp materials,
contacting Lakeview Methodist As
sembly to reserve the session times
for camp and reserving rooms on
campus for counselor training in the
spring,” Funk said.
“Fish Camp, as a whole, does not
require much improvement,” Funk
said. “It has evolved over the years
into a smooth operation. The only
thing that I would like to be able to
change, but can’t, is the amount of
freshmen that are able to attend in
the summer. Lakeview lets us have
as much time as they can spare, and
each session is already filled to ca
pacity.”
Funk does agree that there are
some necessary changes.
“One thing that I would like to do
with the camp this year is work on
programming and interest sessions
to make them more beneficial for
the freshmen, because that’s what
Fish Camp is all about,” she said. “I
would also like to see some im
provement of the entire registration
system to make it much more effi
cient.”
Funk is widely respected by her
mentors and peers.
“Angela is one of the finest stu
dent leaders that I have ever worked
with,” Jo Hudson, Fish Camp ad
viser, said. “She anticipates what has
to happen and tends to takes care of
it before it presents itself as a prob
lem.”
Funk knows that Fish Camp is a
responsibility that requires much
time.
“I will not be able to hold down a
regular job next summer,” she says.
“My regular job, approximately 40
hours a week, will be Fish Camp.
You can probably find me upstairs
in the Pavilion if you ever need to
talk to me — morning, noon or
night.”
A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Progressive
Part of the St. Joseph Hospital & Health Center
“Learning to Live” series
You are invited to the second of three
hands-on workshops for parents with
Dr. Mahesh Dave, Psychiatrist
Ronald Lewis, Ph.D., Director of Counseling and Testing Services
DECEMBER 10, 1987
St. Joseph Hospital & Health Center
Cafeteria
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
$3.00 per person or $5.00 per couple for WORKSHOP TWO
PROGRESSIVE PARENTING
WORKSHOP 2 - December 10
Interactive communication between parents and children
1. Communication Facilitators and Blockers
2. A Model for Effective Communication
WORKSHOP 3 - January 14
Identifying and preventing children’s emotional problems
BABYSITTING
Special rates provided by (sinme-A-ferecifc
846-1143, 505 University Dr, Suite 101
REGISTRATION FORM
# of children for babysitting Ages of children
MAIL FORM AND CHECK TO:
St. Joseph Hospital & Health Center
Community Relations Dept.
2801 Franciscan Dr.
Bryan, Texas 77802
OR CALL 776-2458
Registration deadline - December 8, 1987
ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER
UT regents
may raise
tuition costs
AUSTIN (AP) — The Univer
sity of Texas System regents this
week are to consider doubling tu
ition for graduate business stu
dents and making a 50 percent
increase for law students at UT-
Austin.
The increases would begin
next fall and would be the first
approved by a Texas university
under a new state law giving re
gents authority to raise tuition for
graduate and law programs
above the minimum set by the
Legislature.
The Legislature retains au
thority to set undergraduate tu
ition rates.
If approved by the regents at a
meeting Thursday, tuition for
Texas residents in the Graduate
School of Business would rise
from $16 to $32 per semester
hour. Non-resident tuition would
rise from $120 to $150 an hour.
The rates would be in effect
through the 1989-90 school year.
In the law school, Texas resi
dents would pay $75 an hour
next fall, and an increase to $90
an hour would begin in 1989-90.
The minimum set by the Legis
lature for in-state law tuition will
rise from $48 to $60 next fall.
Tuition for law students from
outside Texas would rise from
$150 an hour to $165 next fall,
and to $180 in the fall of 1989,
under the plan to be presented to
the regents.
Correction
MOSCOW (AP) — In a story Nov,
30 on Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor
bachev’s interview with NBC, the As
sociated Press reported erroneously
that the U.S. Senate had not ratified
the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty
with the Soviet Union. The treaty
was ratified.
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