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Friday, March 8,1991
The Battalion
Cornerstone ceremony
Sam Houston Sanders Corps of Cadets Center to include library,
visitors’ center, conference rooms, museum with Hall of Honor
University News Service
The cornerstone of Texas
A&M’s Sam Houston Sandei's
Corps of Cadets Center was
leveled in a ceremony Thursday
at the building site.
The 19,300-square-foot
building is expected to be
completed tins fall, said Corps of
Cadets Commandant Maj. Gen.
Thomas Darling, who presided at
the ceremony.
The event was conducted by
the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Texas.
The $3 million facility, now
under construction adjacent to
the cadet living area, is only the
third structure on campus to be
built entirely from private gifts.
The building will house a
visitors’ center, library,
conference rooms, Corps offices
and a museum that will include a
Hall of Honor.
“We will have in this fine
facility a building of which we can
all be proud, built by Aggies for
future generations of Aggies as a
personification of the values that
we all hold so dear,” Universitv
President William Mobley saia.
Texas A&M University System
Regent Raul Fernandez of San
Antonio, who also chairs the
Corps Development Council,
elaborated on those values.
“The lessons that I learned in
the Corps — the teamwork,
problem solving, the camaraderie
— all of these lessons have stayed
with me for a lifetime,”
Fernandez said.
As a part of the ceremony,
many of the 500 attendees
contributed small items to three
tubes that will be included in the
cornerstone’s time capsule.
KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion
A Mason admires the cornerstone of the future led the ceremony. Members of the Grand Ma*
Sam Houston Sanders Corp of Cadets Center at sonic Lodge of Texas, Dr. Mobley, Dr. Koldus
the leveling ceremony Thursday afternoon, and other A&M systems leaders were present.
Corps Commandant Maj. Gen. Thomas Darling Dr. Sanders was unable to attend.
Custodians to battle
in clean competition
By Twila Waddy
The Battalion
The South Area Posse, Northeast
Area Tower of Power, Northwest
Area Main Ingredients and the
Corps of Cadets Area Challengers
will match forces Wednesday in the
M.C. Showdown Custodial Competi
tion.
Four teams of 12 Texas A&M cus
todial workers from the four hous
ing areas will display their custodial
skills in eight events in the Commons
lobby.
“This is a good opportunity to rec
ognize custodians and help enhance
their skills,” says Dan Mizer, assistant
director of A&M Residence Life, Fa
cilities and Operations.
This also will recognize the tech
niques used in custodial work, he
says.
One event is the Mop Magic,
where the objective is for a team to
dean a 50-square foot area in the
least amount of time.
Another event is the Soaked
Sponge Relay, where the team must
get the most amount of water from
the start bucket to the finish bucket.
Other events include Bathroom
Brigade, Measure Minder, Buffer
Driving Course, Fine Tune Clean
ing, Trash Can Relay and quiz.
The custodial competition is in its
second year and open to the public.
Mizer says the competition next year
might pit A&M’s custodians with the
custodians from the University of
Texas.
Mizer says more than a hundred
people are expected to come out and
ort the teams.
ou get a chance to see how well
people do and test their skills,” he
says.
The team that accumulates the
most points at the end of the compe
tition wins.
Four trophies will be awarded for
first through third place winners
and a traveling trophy for the over
all winner.
Everyone who participates will be
given a ribbon.
“They are fired up about it,”
Mizer says.
The competition begins at 8 a.m.
and continues to 2:45 p.m. The
showdown is sponsored by the De
partment of Student Affairs.
Dr. Red Duke to highlight
high school conference
Dr. Red Duke highlights a confer
ence this weekend at Texas A&M for
state high school students interested
in learning about trends in science-
related fields.
Duke, an A&M graduate now af
filiated with the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston,
will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Rudder Fo
rum.
He will address several hundred
students participating in the Texas
Junior Engineering Technical So
ciety (JETS) regional testing compe
tition.
JETS, a non-profit organization,
is designed to help persuade high
school students to choose technical
careers in engineering, math and sci
ence.
More than 2,000 high school stu
dents are expected to attend five re
gional JETS competitions this
spring.
Testing this year will include indi
vidual and team competitions in En
glish, math, physics, biology, chemis
try and computer fundamentals.
Duke’s speech is open to the pub
lic, but priority seating will be given
to JETS members.
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