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Thursday, March 11,1993
Fishing for advice
RICHARD DIXON/Vie Battalion
Ruffi Hunt, known as the "fish lady," talks to freshman Joe Tabares in Hullabaloo Food Court on Wednesday.
"The Corps is a tough place for freshmen," said Hunt, who sits at her table every day to talk with students.
Woman offers friendly ear,
counsel to cadets, civilians
By ERIN HILL
Vie Battalion
T wo A&M traditions cele
brated their eighty-third
birthdays this year— Bon
fire and Rutn Hunt, also known
as 'the fish lady.'
Since 1967, Hunt has served as
a friend and unofficial adviser to
freshmen in the Corps of Cadets,
or "fish," as they are called, and
other students.
She sits every day at a table
near the bowling alley in the Hul
labaloo Food Court in the Memo
rial Student Center, talking to
students who drop by to visit.
"When everything looks down
around the Corps I come down
here and Ruth will lighten my
spirits so I feel I can make it
again," said Mike Yates, a fresh
man cadet and general studies
major.
She has many visitors at her
table, both cadets and civilians.
Elizabeth Nunn, a freshman me
chanical engineering major who
is not in the Corps, said she tries
"to visit every day at least."
"She is the mother they [the
cadets] are missing," Nunn said.
Hunt listens to students' prob
lems and tells stories of her expe
riences with the Corps and A&M.
"If they have a problem we all
try to work it out ... there's no
way to help 'em except love
'em," she said. Her most com
mon piece of advice: "Hang in
there, you'll make it."
A brick in front of the Sam
Houston Sanders Corps of
Cadets center bears her name,
and a photo and plaque honoring
her hang inside, crediting her
with keeping "scores of cadets"
from dropping out.
John Paddenberg, a senior his
tory maipr and former band mem
ber, stillstops by. "Everyone goes
to see the fish lady!" he said.
H unt received her nickname
in the fall of 1975 when
she was talking with a se
nior cadet in front of the MSC.
As Hunt tells it, the senior spot
ted a freshman cadet he did not
know and called out to him, "Fish
Jones, come here. I want you to
meet this lady." The freshman,
Gary Weaver '79, called back to
the senior, "I know who she is,
sir. She is our fish lady."
"I realized that's what I am— I
am their fish lady," she said.
"From that moment forward I
tried to fill those shoes."
The Corps staff nominated her
for Mother of the Year in 1972 be
cause of her work with the
cadets. She is the only woman
ever to win the award without
having any children attend A&M.
A cadet named Bob Felsh was
her escort for the Mother of the
Year ceremony and was instruct
ed to take Hunt out to dinner at a
nice restaurant on the Corps tab.
When he asked her where she
wanted to go, she said "I want to
go to Duncan."
She said Felsh was disappoint
ed but she was firm; that was
where everyone else would be
and she didn't want to miss the
action.
Her most memorable experi
ence was going to Nebraska in
1973 to see the Texas A&M foot
ball team play the University of
Nebraska Cornhuskers, she said.
In honor of the Mother of the
Year award, the A&M chapter of
Alpha Phi Omega, a service orga
nization, arranged for Hunt to
ride to Nebraska with an A&M
student and stay with his wife's
family.
Last year the Class of '72 invit
ed her to their twenty-year re
union and presented her with a
A&M wristwatch for being their
Mother of the Year.
Hunt has traveled with the Ag
gie Band all over the Southwest
Conference and taken many
Corps trips, including one to
Memphis in 1975 to attend the
Liberty Bowl. She said she does
not travel as much as previously
but still keeps busy through vol
unteering on campus.
I n 1967 Hunt moved from her
hometown of Henderson,
Texas, to College Station to be
near her son Jim, who was sta
tioned in Houston with the mili
tary. She found a job as a wait
ress at the Ramada Inn, now the
University Tower, where she met
A&M students and their families.
Whenever Sbisa dining hall
closed, many students would get
their meals at the Ramada, a pop
ular nighttime hang-out.
Hunt would often get to know
the families and would tell the
students to come over anytime
they needed someone to listen.
"Sometimes I was the only
motherly human they could talk
to," she said.
In early 1975 she began visiting
the MSC occasionally in the
mornings. Once she was given
the title of "the fish lady," how
ever, she made it her duty to be
on campus every day.
She wears the Corps brass and
a Band lyre which is 'unshaven,'
since that is what Corps freshmen
wear. She said she only dons a
shaved lyre for Final Review.
In addition to her Corps pins
she wears an official nainetag,
suggested by Colonel Parsons,
former commandant of the
Corps. Hunt said that when Par
sons heard her nickname, he said,
"Ruth, get you a tag. I like that."
Her first try, which read "The
Fish Lady," wasn't quite the way
he wanted it, so she had another
one made. It said "The fish
Lady" and still wasn't right. Her
third effort, "the fish lady," was
perfect. She said Parsons wanted
the name in lower case letters for
authenticity's sake since the title
of "fish" is always in lower case
letters.
O ver the years she has met
famous former students
such as Secretary of Hous
ing and Urban Development
Henry Cisneros, Class of 08; the
late Congressman Jack Teed,
Class of '50; and the late J. Earl
Rudder, Class of '32, former pres
ident of Texas A&M.
Since many of the A&M class
reunions were held at the Rama
da she was also able to meet
Pinky Wilson, who wrote the
"Aggie War Hymn," and E. King
Gill, Class of y 24. Gill, the stu
dent who started the "Twelfth
Man" tradition by being pre
pared to come out of the stands
and play on the football team,
even autographed her program
"The 12th Man."
She also has had two Fish
Camps named after her over the
years, one of them being the
''Hunt's Hot Peppers."
"I've gotten back more than
I've ever given, more love, car
ing, and happiness back every
day," she said. "I love A&M. I
love the Corps. I feel honored
that they'll even turn me loose
over here."
Hunt said she believes strong
ly in the Corps structure, but re
alizes it can be difficult to get
used to.
"I've been around the Corps
for over twenty years," she said.
"I put it in my words to ex
plain to them how it is, soften it
up a bit, but I never interfere
with Corps business. I always
tell them that's the way it is and
you wouldn't want it to change
to suit you."
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