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Page 4 * Thursday, April 8, 1999 ALLSPACE SELF STORAGE Students Need a place to store your summer belongings? Give ALLSPACE SELF STORAGE a call! $ 10 off first month’s rent w/this ad Call about our early sign in specials that will save you a ton of money and womes before Finals!! 821-2129 1920 S. FM 2818 • Bryan, TX (1/2 mile north of Villa Maria) - SIZES TO MEET YOUR NEEDS - WONDERING WHAT THAT “V” COURSE IS ABOUT??? All Students are invited to the UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY COFFEE Monday, April 12, 1999 • 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. • Mark Francis Room This will be the opportunity to find out more information about courses you are considering enrolling in for the Summer and/or Fall semester. Professors will describe the course content and answer any questions you may have. Refreshments will be available and we hope to see everyone there! Contact the BIMS Office if you have any questions at 845-4941. TJnu "tr MSC Film Society presents... Film on Video Presents: fl’ues. April 13 7:00 pmAcad. BldgJ Friday, April 9, 7:00 & 9:30pm Rudder Theater Tickets: $3.00 at the door or $2.50 in advance at the MSC Box Office (845-1234). Or Avoid long lines and buy a season pass for $10. All films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex. Questions? Call the Aggie Cinema Hotline - 847-8478. Website: http://tilms.tamu.edu Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to ] inform us of your special needs. Robert Gates Former Director Central Intelligence Agency Anthony Lake Former National Security Advisor Clinton Administration ill! Sam Nunn Former U.S. Senator Chairman Armed Services Committee April 9, 1999 • 8:00 p.m Rudder Auditorium LECTURE SERIES Memorial Student Center Tickets available at the MSC Box Office 845-1234 or toll free (888) 890-5667 Visit our web site at wiley.tamu.edu for more information. Charlie Rose, Moderator Charlie Rose Show A GGIELIFE HBattalion roug. 'fi : 3ore s mite S OO xing git Ran jo: stage with it a $1,00' r 0 0 )residentici C/du “He's c= arist Bob MSC Forsyth exhibit showcases masterpieces Story by TImty Daugherty (~ / he spring semester brings / scores of potential fresh- v —^ men to Texas A&M to visit landmarks such as the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue, Century TVee and the Academic Building. How ever, many students have been ven turing to the MSC to visit another landmark that houses an extensive glass collection. Texas A&M and the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries is currently dis playing “A Rich and Lasting Beau ty: Masterpieces from the American Cut Glass Association National Col lection. ” "A Rich and Lasting Beauty" is the first in a series of several exhi bitions that will be taken from the American Cut Glass Association collections and represents the ear lier pieces of the national collection. The glass is not part of the per manent collection at the Forsyth Center Galleries, but there are sev eral permanent pieces of English, American and Continental glass do nated by Bill and Irma Runyon. Photos by tSallie turner eal huma png to si— Weir e-— ,yVliCkey Ha j jag Other behinc r \ l.f Iff # / y/rTMp esda y ni ^ sA' : iJf/r 5 renditio Jr 'Queen Ja rr'/f: . )olitica^a ■mh In 1902 to 1923, the pitcher and glasses (above) and vase (right) were designed in vintage patterns by the Tuthill Glass company Timothy Novak, di rector of the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries and curator of the Bill and Irma Runyon Art Collec tions, said the gallery would not be nearly as ex ceptional without the Run yon’s donations. “Bill Runyon, he was Class of ’35, donated every thing as far as glass and paintings [to the gallery),” Novak said. “At the time, it was the biggest gift we had gotten from a single per son, and it was an art col lection.” Novak said people have come from all over to see the gallery’s glass collec tion. “[Bill Runyon’s donation] made this one of the best collections in the world,” Novak said. “We have better English glass here then [what you can see in England]. “Scholars, researchers and students come to A&M to learn about the exhibit. We’ve got people all over the world who think about A&M and the great rShe’ll tia Princ * online j LON DO r :ol ection'P tion^ChecL royal Webs : mm ^ ' xf. tl. Glass ■ Continue alas- colled ■trhe An' Forsyth Cer year series < of the Amei menca le 1876 French and born craftsn IK see Glass on Page bol. Novak s v .. ^ roads, cut g Y ^ I “With r. > places like S in New Yorl ^ : NV’the custonK .3 Novak Sc A. ... ;' : g v ■ y-X exist, includ 7. Hejsaid blan vr.Vr* A - ■L, ■Bi-' T'O-r-AAi. then cut Ian k'V t Lut-glas: < means they •' 1 ■ ' / fen, how eve he blank, ai ^^W^^NSlBBiliBnoldswe ./1, ~ fik 313 S. 846 presents Doug Stone Pre Chilifest Party! 1 . Friday, April 9 th Tickets: $ 8/advance $ 10/door @ Bothers, Cavenders & Hurricane Harry’s $1 longnecks • $1 drinks till 9 p.m. Drink Responsibly. Designate a Driver. 0 ^•Apartments, Inc. AllA[ 5
