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Monday, March 18, 1991 The Battalion
Students help
design house
for McDonald's
By Troy D. Hall
The Battalion
Two upper-level Texas A&M
architecture classes and Ronald
McDonald House officials are
working together to design the
"ideal" home.
The Ronald McDonald House
program was established in 1984
m memory of McDonald's Corp.
founder Ray Kroc.
Since 1984, the Ronald Mc
Donald House program has
housed cancer-stricken children,
their parents and siblings when
children receive cancer treat
ment at hospitals.
The child and the family stay
for days or even weeks.
Ronald McDonald Houses are
an inexpensive way for parents
to stay with their children, while
gaining emotional support from
other families staying in the
houses, says George Mann, an
A&M architecture professor and
project coordinator.
Lodging costs are kept at a
minimum, usually between $5
and $15. More than 130 Ronald
McDonald Houses are located in
the United States and around the
world.
A&M architecture students
from ENDS 303 and ENDS 404
classes are using their skills to re
search already (built Ronald Mc
Donald Houses and take the best
characteristics to make the "i-
deal" home.
"Many houses are older and
need renovations," says Sean
Kirton, a graduate student in ar
chitectural design from Temple.
"We want to find out what's
missing from these older
houses.'
Kirton will tour eight of the 12
Ronald McDonald Houses in
Texas and study the positive and
negative design aspects of each
house.
"I will make a proposal for'
building the 'ideal' house after
touring the eight houses," he
says.
Kirton will visit houses in Dal
las, Fort Worth, Temple, Austin,
San Antonio, Houston, Galves
ton and Corpus Christi.
This project is of interest to
builders in the United States as
well as internationally, he says.
Since each Ronaldf McDonald
House is locally owned and op
erated, communicating the A i-
deal" house will be beneficial for
people wanting to open a house
in a foreign country, said Henry
Lienau, Ronald McDonald
House national coordinator, in a
letter to Mann.
In addition to the tour, stu
dents in Mann's architectural de
sign classes are proposing their
own "ideal" Ronald McDonald
House.
Students presented eight pro
jects on March 6. Each project
was planned for a specific city
from areas of the world.
Kenneth Falcon, a graduate
student in architectural design
from Dallas, says the design
process has three stages.
The first step is developing the
program, he says. The design
development stage is next, fol
lowed oy the finalpresentation.
The project helps both the
Ronald McDonald House and
A&M, Falcon says.
"It is important to actually
work with real companies and
work on real projects," Falcon
says.
MRL STOLLEIS/The Battalion
Two loyal fans
Evelyn Stanley and her dog Ginger . ((j, ^
ball game at Olsen Field Sunday. Stanley has been bringing Ginger to stands with Ginger anymore. For results of the game and other sports ac-
baseball games for nearly ten years, since Ginger was a puppy; and the tion during spring break, see page 7.
Stanley and her dog Ginger take in the Texas A&M-Arizona base- two still attend games even though Stanley is not allowed to sit in the
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"Drugs in Our Communities: A Chal
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The Texas Commission on Alcohol and
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The conference at the Capitol Marriott is
designed to arm community leaders with
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Workshops will address development of a
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Featured speakers include Reuben Green- ‘
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Philip Oliver-Diaz, an assistant deputy di
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