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Professor studies
life, writings
of ‘Dr. Seuss’
Agencies bicker over use,
future of Galveston Bay
By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
By Sharon Maberry
While some professors praise
works by Shakespeare and Hemi
ngway, a Purdue University En
glish professor chooses to stress
the literary importance of “Green
Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in
the Hat.”
Ruth K. MacDonald, head of
the English and philosophy de
partment at Purdue University-
Calumet in Gary, Ind., has spent
three years researching the life
and writings of Theodor Seuss
Geisel —known to children of all
ages as Dr. Seuss.
“Children can read his books on
their own and thus gain mastery of
the written word,” MacDonald
said. “Dr. Seuss gives kids permis
sion to play with language and en
joy it.”
MacDonald recently published
the first critical analysis of the
works and life of Geisel titled “Dr.
Seuss.”
Geisel created his pseudoname
while attending Dartmouth Col
lege and working on the student
newspaper. He wrote his first chil
dren’s book in 1937 and has re
ceived three Academy Awards.
Geisel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984
for lifetime achievement for his
contribution to children’s litera-
STAFF WRITER
Galveston Bay may not have
much of a future if its users don’t
become more compatible, 1 exas
A&M researchers say.
The bay has no single governing
body, but its jurisdiction is split be
tween varied interests of federal,
state and local agencies.
A&M political science professors
James Anderson and Charles Wig
gins have spent about two years de
termining which agencies have ju
risdiction over the bay and how
much authority each has.
“Each agency (with jurisdiction
over the bay) has its own concerns
but, to date, none has considered it
(the bay) as a whole,” Anderson
says. “Sometimes these agencies
have overlapping and conflicting in
terests.
“A concern with the bay in recent
years is that pressures on the bay are
increasing. It is not possible for each
user to go his own way. It has been a
viable body of water and has a
strong regenerative capacity, but its
current uses can’t continue.”
Some uses of the bay include
transportation, recreation, commer
cial purposes and waste disposal.
A major issue concerning the bay
is the proposed enlargement of the
Houston Ship Ghannel by the U.S.
Corps of Engineers.
The proposal has been met with
resistance by various environmental
groups, including the National Ma
rine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Texas Water Com
mission and Texas Parks and Wild
life Department.
Wiggins says research is necessary
to determine possible damage by
enlarging the ship channel.
“The Corps of Engineers admits
it will wipe out a large amount of
oyster reefs,” Wiggins says. “It pro
poses to mitigate the problem with
artificial oyster reefs. But there’s
been no research to see if artificial
oyster reefs are as good as the natu
ral ones.”
Also, chemical companies have
used the bay for discharging waste,
Wiggins says. It is not known
whether dredging the bottom of the
bay during enlargement will stir up
toxic chemicals.
“Compromise, bargaining and
negotiation will he involved -
reaching the most acceptable plan
he says.
Anderson says another proble*-
identified by his and Wiggins're
search concerns the wetlands sur
rounding the bay area. The wet
lands, which serve as nurseries for-
fish and shrimp, are not regulate!
by any agency.
“It seems necessary for some
agency to regulate and protect these
wetlands if viability of the bay isto
continue,” Anderson says.
Galveston Bay was designated as
a national estuary for study under
the Water Quality Act of 1987. Va
rious committees will attempt to
velop a plan for the managementol
the bay during the next five yean.
Anderson says.
“It’s a way of trying to bring these
agencies together,” lie says. "Ho
wever, it is difficult to say if they wi
come up with a plan. Andevenif
they do, it might not be approved^
the state legislature.
“People lend to view thisasasd-
entific task. They think that all the
necessary people will come together
and reach at solution. But it probable
won't work that way.”
lure.
Residing in California, Geisel,
84, continues to write and head
the Beginner Book Division of
Random House Publishers.
Dorothy Van Riper, who tea
ches children’s literature at Texas
A&M, said Geisel’s works are as
important to children’s literature
as “Pinnochio” and “Alice in Won
derland.”
“This man’s work is excellent
because of his fine use of language
and art,” Van Riper said.
“Green Eggs and Ham,” pub
lished in 1960, is the best-selling
children’s book of all time. The
story contains only 53 words rear
ranged in different order.
MacDonald said, “Seuss proves
you don’t have to have lots of
words or be a great artist to create
a story children will love. The lan
guage is loud, rowdy and garish,
but still tells a great story.”
Crimestoppers seeks suspects
in computer robbery at A&M
Three desktop computers and
two monitors were stolen during the
early morning hours of Monday,
Feb. 6 from the Computing Services
Center at Texas A&M.
The suspects pried open the door
to the center and loaded the stolen
merchandise into two trash cans.
They carried these trash cans to the
north side of the building where
they unloaded the computers and
discarded the trash cans.
The items, valued at $10,000, are
listed as two IBM PS/2 Model 50
computers with serial numbers
8263870 and 3264131 and 1 AMU
ID numbers 0531536, one IBM
Color VGA Monitor Model B513,
STOPPER
775-TIPS
serial number 72-0155994, one IBM
black and white Monitor Model
8503, serial number 0293351,
TAMU ID number CSC 2055, and
one Macintosh Plus, serial number
F-6322RG, TAMU ID number
0530624.
Witnesses reported seeing tvo
white males, approximately 21 yearsl
old, each about 5 leet 9 inches tall
with thin builds, iu the vicinity of the)
Computer Center at 12:30 a.m.
If you have any information rel
garding this crime, contact Crimfl
Stoppers at 775-TIPS. When calledl
Crime Stoppers will assign the caM
a special coded number to protecl
the caller's identity. If the call leai|
to an arrest and grand jury India
ment, Crime Stoppers will pay tfcl
caller up to S1000.
Crime Stoppers also pays cash!
any information regarding any fel
ony crime or the whereabouts ofan|
wanted fugitive.
Galveston library holds treasures of past
GALVESTON (AP) — The first man to direct
the Rosenberg Library has been misplaced.
Somewhere in the attic, among the boxes of
books, tattered battle flags and the dusty relics of
Galveston bootleggers, Frank Patton’s ashes rest
in the institution he helped build.
John Hyatt, the current head of the Rosenberg
Library, has puzzled over the missing ashes of his
predecessor for years, yet he is reluctant to
search for them himself.
“One of my great problems over the years has
been to get people to go up into the attic,” Hyatt
said as he shined a flashlight into the dark cor
ners of the attic.
Hyatt stumbled across an open old wooden
chest full of carpenter’s tools and a shaving brush
coated with a generation of dust.
Fastidiously, Hyatt closed the lid. Under the
grime, a name faintly appeared. Hyatt wiped
away the dirt to read the name of Frank Patton.
“Would Frank be in there?” Hyatt’s visitor
asked. “Would you care to look deeper into the
chest and see if the ashes are there?”
“No, not right now,” Hyatt said.
Hyatt would rather look for less morbid items
among the historical trash and treasure Galvesto
nians have been giving to the Rosenberg.
He shuns the word museum when referring to
the Rosenberg Library, but the parallel arises
naturally in the attic, where silver tennis trophies
from the 1920s, 19th century porcelain dolls, and
political memorabilia such as yard signs, posters
and buttons can be found.
Librarians have been behind in the slow proc
ess of sorting the treasure from the trash since
the library, with walls four feet thick to withstand
hurricanes, was built in 1905.
Molly McGill Rosenberg’s carriage sits in
pieces on the floor of the attic, part of more than
2 million items in the library.
Curator Lise Darst, who is in charge of the in
stitution’s attic, says that of all the things under
her care, the carriage is one of her favorites.
She looks at the carriage and sighs, “Someday,
we hope someone will give us the money to have
it fixed.”
B
•esides the treasure of the Rare
Book Room, the library holds the
world’s largest collection of paintings
by German artist Julius Stockfleth,
larger even than the collection in the
Stockfleth Museum in Germany.
But not all of the items in the collection gather
dust.
Downstairs in the Rare Book Room are the in
stitution’s most prized possessions.
In a glass display case are a Faberge egg, a sil
ver pig that has ruby eyes with diamonds, a bowl
and Czar Nicholas it’s cuff links and desk clock.
In a cabinet is a collection of 19th-century
“horn books,” once used in colonial schools.
A pair of Babylonian cuneiform tablets are the
oldest items in the library, dating from 2350 B.C.
Sitting under lock and key are a first edition of
Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” and a 1488
Suma Angelica list of indulgences similar to those
Martin Luther pitched into a fire.
Margaret Schlankey, custodian of the room,
handles the items with white gloves.
Besides the treasure of the Rare Book Room,
the library holds the world’s largest collection:
paintings by German artist Julius Stockfleil
larger even than the collection in the Stockflel
Museum in Germany.
For a period around the turn of the centurl
the artist worked in Galveston. Hyatt says tM
while the Stockfleth collection is the librarj
most important, other artists' work is there:
well.
“We ate trying to gradually develop a tollcl
tion of Texas painters, especially those wfc|
worked here,” he said.
From time to time the library sends part oil
collection of historical oddities downstairs
display, or to museums across the country, itl
eluding the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper-HJ
witt Museum in New York.
Sam Houston’s dueling pistols are downstair!
on display, as is a lock of hair from the tailr
Traveler, Robert E. Lee’s horse.
In a cabinet sit Santa Anna’s cut-glass decaffj
ers. On a shelf is a spittoon from the GalvezM
tel, and a bed-warmer once owned by a Saleij
woman who was accused of being a witch am
who was burned at the stake.
Galveston’s first library began as the Galvestfll
Mercantile Library, chartered in 1870 by til
state after its creation by the Galveston Chaml*
of Commerce.
However, the city fathers didn’t have a rel
commitment to the library.
Philanthropist Henry Rosenberg gave an erj
dowment of $300,000 to build a library
would rival those of much larger metropolital
cities.
Rosenberg’s original endowment, along will
others given over the years, has grown to$5i
lion.
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