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Fortune teller Tracy Hatfield “reads” the tiny hands of Brian, one of the many children that came to MSC Hospitality’s Halloween Party.
Hospitality serves community through work
By KRISTI LORSON
MSC Hospitality members were
“spooked” Tuesday night by 250
tiny goblins at the Hospitality Hal
loween Party for children of faculty,
staff and students.
The children exploded into the
room on the second floor of the
MSC which was full of Halloween
games, apples for bobbing, face
painting, a haunted tunnel and a
nsh pond.
Happy faces and satisfied parents
proved the event was another suc
cess to add to Hospitality’s list of
campus and community events.
Reisha Ammons, president of
MSC Hospitality, said the group has
planned holiday events, fashion
shows, tours and a lost and found
auction for the MSC since 1970.
Their involvement with kids in
the community is now growing
through hospitality’s Outreach and
Campus and Community programs.
This year, Outreach, began work
ing with Emmanuel Baptist Church
on Pioneer Program, a Bible study
and play day for children through
out Bryan.
“This is a practical way to help in
the community,” said Outreach Ex
ecutive Todd Garner. “You can
really get down and get your hands
dirty in community work.”
Ammons said she “absolutely
loves” working with Pioneer pro
gram.
“The kids are so excited having
you there spending time with them,”
she said. “When you give them at
tention, they absorb it like a sponge.”
Ammons and Garner said both
the children and the students get at
tached to each other through the
program.
“One little girl asked me to go eat
with her at her school, and I ended
up staying for three lunch periods,”
Ammons said. “They were sooo
sweet!”
Garner said he can see their ap
preciation in their eyes.
“It’s really neat to see the look in
the kids’ faces when you’re playing
with them, and how they admire
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Josh Alan is a great guitarist. Josh
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Alan performed an hour-long set
Sunday night at the Front Porch
Cafe. And although he says he is
dedicated full-time to his guitar
playing, he also made a stop to sign
copies of his latest book, Warts and
All
Alan is one half of the Friedman
brothers cartoon team. In 1986 they
published Any Similarity to Persons
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tal, and their new book has just been
released.
Alan explains that this book will
probably be their last collaboration
for a while. “Drew has channeled his
artwork into something. He’s gotten
better and better. The first book was
a lot of my strips with his artwork,
but this book is more his—my strips
take up a little more than half.”
“I’m a big fan of his work,” Alan
adds. “I can just gaze at his drawings
and go into a trance.”
But Alan is now concentrating al
most 100 percent on music. “I’m not
actively working on anything with
Drew, except that he’s doing my al
bum art,” Alan said. “I’m really
pushing my guitar and playing lots
of new places.”
After moving from New York
City to Dallas three years ago, Alan
has become a regular on Dallas’s
Deep Ellum music scene. He plays
there three times a week now, and
plans to release an album, Musicians
Lead Complicated Lives, in a few
months.
With the album, Alan hopes to
broaden his audience. “I’ve just
started playing outside Dallas. I’m
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you,” he said. “When you leave, the
kids beg you not to. You need a
crowbar to get them off.”
Shanna O’Shields, the campus
and community executive, said Hos
pitality also works with Big Brothers,
Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs of
America and Volunteers in Public
Schools (VIPS).
“Anyone can get involved with
these programs by filling out an ap
plication and attending a short
orientation,” she said. “It’s very re
warding to be looked up to by a child
and know you’re a positive role mod
el.”
O’Shields said about 30 people are
involved with VIPS and work with
elementary schoolchildren in Bryan
each week.
“We help directly with teachers’
special projects, bulletin boards and
with small groups of kids,” she said.
“I work each week with a group of
eight to 10 kindergarten math stu
dents."
Each Wednesday night, another
group of students travel to the Boys
and Girls Clubs in Bryan to tutor
kids who come to the community
center for help. The program is
called Homework Hotline.
“We also have a lot of fun playing
with the kids,” O’Shields said. “We
play group games with them, com
puter games, pool and ping-pong.
It’s a good outlet for kids who would
normally be on the streets.”
For more flexible and individual
work with kids, students can get in
volved in the Big Brothers or Big
Sisters program through Oakwood
Middle School.
“It’s up to individuals to commu
nicate with kids over the phone and
set up times to meet,” O’Snields said.
“The school loves for us to come in
the classrooms.” 4
To get involved with these pro
grams, fill out an application at the
Hospitality booth in the Student
Programs Office.
“Our primary goal is to serve the
campus and community in' any way
we can,” Ammons said. “Our sec
ondary goal is to establish
friendships along the way.”
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going to Arizona, and I’iJ be playing
colleges in the surrounding Texas
area. I also want to go to Nashville
soon,” Alan explains. “I’m also going
to go back to play in New York, and
I think L.A. would be very receptive.
The books sell well there.”
Experience with the music scene
has taught Alan some lessons. “Aus
tin is one of the toughest places to
get into—they have a chip on their
shoulder about Dallas bands.”
But Alan is quite pleased with the
scene in Dallas. “Dallas is the friend
liest, homiest place. People in Texas
like to help out, like Robert Earl
Keen, Jr.—he lets me open for him to
help me out. I played with the New
Bohemians for a set.
“That doesn’t occur in New
York,” he continues. “The studio
cats hang out by themselves. Musi
cians in New York don’t reach down
to help someone below them, and
you need people to help you out in
the music business.”
Alan started his set about 10 p.m.
with an instrumental riot on acoustic
guitar. No warm up was necessary;
he immediately jumped into slide
blues, quick licks and tapped har
monics.
Next, Alan played a delta blues
medley, with lyrics put together
from about 10 different songs. He
threw in an old Rogers and Parks’
tune “My Funny Valentine,” then
tore into an acoustic version of Hen
drix’s “Stone Free”.
The guitar work in Alan’s set is
some of the best I’ve seen. He’ll be
rocking back and forth between
some jazzy rhythm chords, then
jump into slide blues, then bam!—he
kicks into some solo picking up and
down the neck of the guitar.
The neatest sounding number
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