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Tuesday • August
The Jesus
By Jeremy Keddie
The Battalion
R.O. Smith, a junior in Squadron One
of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets,
walked into Holick’s Boots and Insignia
Mfs., stepped up to the boot chair and
sat down. His eyes glanced across the
front foyer of the store, which smelled of
leatherwork.
“I’m finally getting measured for my
(senior) boots,” he said.
Cobbler Johnnie Holick then emerged
from the small workshop in the back
and told Smith to place his feet on a
notebook, and began tracing. After
ward, Holick took measurements of the
feet, calfs and ankles, and Smith’s senior
boots were three weeks away from being
finished.
“So when can I pick them up,” Smith
asked.
Although Smith has made'several
payments to Holick’s for his boots, he
and many of the cadets will perhaps
never see the process, nor learn much of
the history behind the craftsmanship.
Holick’s began as a mishap when
Joseph Holick, Johnnie’s father, came to
the United States from Austria in 1885
and boarded a locomotive from Taylor,
Texas to look for work at a sawmill.
Destined for Orange, Texas, the locomo
tive passed through Bryan where
Joseph Holick decided to visit his sister.
Joseph Holick then began working at
Blatherwick’s shoe shop in Bryan and
remained there for five years.
And in 1891, at the request of Texas
A&M president Lawrence Sullivan Ross,
Holick’s Boots and Insignia Mfs. opened
for shoe and boot repairs.
“It was an example of how a seeming
ly insignificant happening can change
the courses of many, many lives,” Holick
said.
Since then, this insignificant happen
ing has led to manufacturing of boots for
thousands of senior Corps members, and
the current style has existed since 1931.
Becoming part of the Corps of Cadets
uniform in 1915, senior boots are valued
as more than just part of the uniform.
The riding boots symbolize the rank of
cadet officer achieved after three years
of dedication to the Corps and to A&M.
The cavalry boot style became part of
the senior uniform in 1925.
Although Holick’s is not the only
manufacturer of senior boots, they pro
duce 250 pairs per year and also place
orders for boots that they do not have
the resources produce themselves.
Holick’s takes measurements and then
readjusts the boots received according to
style.
After taking measurements, the
process is broken into a producton-line
process which includes trimming the
leather and shaping the sole. The most
distinctive characteristic of the boot is
the barrel, the upper part of the boot
which fits the calf, which are made of
stiff leather, allowing them to be shined
easily.
To make the boots, several varieties
of leather are used. The most predomi
nant is the tan imported French calf,
which is used for the exterior leather of
the boot.
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customer’s foot.
Carolyn Matheson, daughter of John
nie Holick, said the leather is imported
from France because of the ideal condi
tions for raising cattle.
“When working with leather you
have to take into account things like in
sect bites, diseases, and barbed wire
fences,” Carolyn Matheson said.
And the line of men who have worked
this French leather into an A&M tradi
tion started with Joseph
have been passed down to his an
nie Holick.
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Correction
In Monday's issue of
The Battalion, the headline
and story on page 2B of
the Campus section
incorrectly spelled Corps
Cmdr. Matt Segrest's name.
Segrest is the correct
spelling.
In Wednesday's issue of
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information box on page
two incorrectly identified
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Success comes out in the wash for studen
By Jeremy Keddie
The Battalion
Texas A&M student Amir
Omar said as a child he always
dreamed of owning a huge busi
ness.
Little did Omar know he
would eventually spend 90 hours
a week as owner of the Westgate
Washaus, one of Bryan-College
Station's most successful laundro
mats.
The 22-year-old industrial dis
tribution major opened the busi
ness after plUiviously running a
pickup and delivery laundry ser
vice that provided the $50,000
needed to open his business.
"With a wife and a three-year-
old son, the business pretty much
grew out of necessity," Omar said.
The stylish laundromat fea
tures an automatic door, two fish
aquariums, a leather couch, a
Stacy Cameron/THE Battalion
Amir Omar, owner of the Westgate Washaus, is a senior industrial
distribution major at A&M.
game room and red bar stools
arranged on a black-and-white
checkered floor.
With every customer at West-
gate Washaus there is a sense of
urgency to help, Omar said.
which is a trait he claims to have
acquired through discipline as a
member of the Corp of Cadets.
He can frequently be seen rushing
to help customers unload their
laundry from cars, wiping off
equipment and offering customers
change.
"He seems to be a hands-on
type of guy who is interested in
how things are running," said
Grant Tabor, a senior accounting
major.
"It is important to be at your
business and find out what people
are happy with and what they
aren't," Omar said.
This relationship with the cus
tomers has led to Omar's earning
over $13,000 per month, he said.
But things didn't always go so
well. Although Omar's business
is prosperous and growing steadi
ly, he admits that there were sev
eral problems when first starting
out.
"Everyone will stick
when you are weak," 0k
Omar said most of his
have been made with reft
finance and advertisiri
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him.
But Omar said most®
can be prevented byre
which can only be obtain
studying for a degree.
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