The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 01, 1995, Image 6

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at this stage and A&M is at this
stage and our paths intersected.”
Sessoms, who is a physicist
with a Ph.D. from Yale, said he
was reluctant at first to enter
tain the possibility of working
for A&M.
“I studied the University and
became convinced A&M is one of
the best schools in the country,”
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Sessoms said. “It’s really an ex
traordinary place. The faculty is
superb and I am impressed by the
quality of the students. It should
be the best school in the country."
Sessoms said A&M needs to
decide it wants to be the best
school in the nation and be willing
to work toward that goal.
“A&M needs to be network
ing with high schools and mid
dle schools,” Sessoms said.
“Everyone should know where
A&M is and it shouldn’t be just
about football. It needs to de
cide it’s going to be even better
in research. It should be in the
political inner circle.
Freund, who has a Ph.D. in
economics from the University of
Michigan, said her working per
sonality would fit in well at A&M.
“I’m a very open, collabora
tive type of person,” Freund
said. “I have a very open offi
cial policy. I sensed after my
first visit to A&M that it was a
very friendly campus.”
Freund said A&M needs some
one who can help it work through
past problems.
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through a period of leade.fi
instability and of tremepj
growth, and the level of]
coming through the state!
eling off,” Freund said,
needs somebody who krm
to make the best out of thl
get you have.
“A&M has received a i
able amount of national pul
for its problems. The way,
some stability is to try to 1
people whose integrity is:
question, someone who ini
confidence and is willing t r
with others to get things do:
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Satterwhite said the feta
job is to contact the na >
branches of the militai <
secure military resoun
aid in disasters.
“The president is the onj,
who can authorize FEli'
volvement, and we’re u ; ,
only called in times of nL
disasters,” Satterwhite!'.
“However, due to the devasy
in Oklahoma, they feltitv
sary that we get involved.’
The liaison team was.
of eight reservists with . ■
sentatives from the Army.i
and Air Force branches •
military, Satterwhite said
“It was a 24 hour open!
with half the team work:,;
hour shifts,” he said. “D|^
the 12 hours you were o;-
would just eat, sleep aig
ready for the next shift.”
The team was statione.
blocks from the federal
ing in the downtown 1 .’
Center, he said.
In this particular site'
Satterwhite said the teanf
was to provide any rest:
necessary to the voluntee^
Urban Search and Rescue 1 •
the FBI and the Bureau®
hoi, Tobacco and Firearm:
“If the volunteers nb
rain suits for 200 volun 1
for example, we would
them through military ct
tions and have them floF
he said. “Other examp
our duties were to locate .
sives and medical expsC
to coordinate aerial p|
phy over the city.
“Resources were first •
ed locally and then stall*
Only when these two ch:
failed did we have to loci
sources.”
Satterwhite said he
away from Oklahoma T
day morning with a gooc
ing about the citizens. .
“I was impressed mosi 1
how the community caff
gether for the victim 1 '
their families,” he
“There was also incredibli
port given by the city andp
to the volunteers.”
The Oklahoma Restai
Association provided the®
unteers with free 24-ho 1
meals. Telephone compi
gave free cellular phone’ 1-
and the UPS provided
shipping.
“I had never seen a coif
nity reaction like this,” Si
white said. “I think the
munity provided a hum&|
aspect that made it posi
for the volunteers to cont'
in their duties.
“Right now the media
focused on the crime and
victims, but I’m sure there
be more of a focus on the
munity’s support later.”
Satterwhite said the
port from his family and
University made his da
easier.
“A&M was very suppo r
of my leaving,” he said.
were appointments U
weeks in advance that I h£
leave, but the Commands
office said, ‘Don’t worry a ;
it, go, we understand.’
“My family was also very
portive and understood my P
had changed. I called
talked to them every night."
Satterwhite said quite8
A&M former students hd
in Oklahoma.
Col. Don Crawford, Cla 1
’64, and Army Lt. Col. FP
Hertzog, Class of ’72, alsosf
on the military liaison team
“A lady with the ATF
my Aggie ring and said,
you an Aggie? I am too, C
of ’85,’” he said. “I never
her name though.”
Satterwhite said the hr
ing has left him with nr 1
emotions.
“It was a mixed experier
he said. “I feel outrage!
the crime and the devask
and damage it caused,
compared to the loss of life
insignificant.
“I think when children
involved it lends a sensiti
to it that is over and above
a crumbled building.”
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