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Saturday 25 August 2001 • 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tuesday 28 August 2001 • 7 p.m.- 10 p.m.
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Enrollment in class is not a requirement, but is preferred.
MOUNT SELMAN, Texas (AP) — The
intended victim of a foiled 1997 murder-
for-hire scheme was found Friday, hang
ing in front of the isolated rural residence
he once shared with the wife who wanted
him dead.
Authorities said John Othello Haskins,
37, apparently had been dead at least a
week. Haskins, an employee of Trane Co.
in Tyler, had not reported for work since
Aug. 7.
Mount Selman is in northern Cherokee
County, about 10 miles north of Jacksonville
and about 20 miles south of Tyler.
Sheriffs deputies found the man around
2:15 p.m., after receiving a call from a
neighbor who discovered the badly decom
posed body, Cherokee County Sheriff James
Campbell told the Jacksonville Daily
Progress.
Medical experts at the Southwest Institute
of Forensic Sciences in Dallas identified
Haskins through his fingerprints, the Tyler
Morning Telegraph reported.
Investigators found a farewell note, but
declined to release the contents.
“We are awaiting autopsy results to de
termine affirmatively that this is a suicide
case,” Campbell said.
Haskins’ troubled personal life made
headlines in 1997 after he walked into an
early morning ambush, orchestrated by his
wife, Kathy Therese Haskins.
Authorities said his wife, 44 at the time,
conspired with three men to kill her husband
and then disguise the crime scene so that it
looked like an accident.
“They were going to kill him, break his
neck and then throw him out the top tloor of
the bam to make it look like he fell,” Camp
bell said.
Joshua Mangrum, 18; Billy Bert Shoe
maker, 23; and William Carl Stephens, 18,
hid in the house and waited for Haskins to
come home from work, officials said
time, Haskins was serving probatii
pleading guilty in April 1996 to ini
with a teen-age girl, whom investigai
scribed as Mangrum’s fonner girlfri:
When Haskins arrived home on the,
ing of Sept. 2, 1997, the three jumpe;
officials said.
“One man attempted to grab himtrj!jj|2 j
hind but Haskins, who was smaller
aged to take a gun from (Shoemaker)
him,” Campbell said.
When the other two men tied,
shot Stephens through a glass door,
him in the back,” Campbell said.Sl
made it to the pickup the trio hadhii
hind a barn, but died shortly later in
hide, which was driven by Mangnir
Daily Progress reported in 1997
Mangrum dumped Stephens'bodv
woods beside the road and covered'ti
brush, but later led deputies to the site
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sessions begin in early
August and end just before
Fall 2001 classes begin.
These camps are named in
honor of University and com
munity leaders.
This year, camps were
named after former President
George Bush and Tim and
Janice Kerlee parents of, Tim
Kerlee Jr., who died after the
1999 Texas Aggie Bonfire
collapse.
The main focus of each
camp is to talk, Sullivan said.
Ten to 12 freshmen meet with
two counselors in individual
discussion groups, which
serve as the springboard for
conversations about college
life, from worries and fears to
handling classes and dating,
Sullivan said.
“This is our main avenue
to make freshmen feel com
fortable about coming to
A&M,” Sullivan said. “If we
can make the fish laugh and
break down barriers, then
we’ve done our jobs.”
The six different camps
come together at night to
watch camp counselors per
form skits and demonstrate
such Aggie traditions as
yells and the War Hymn.
About 900 upperclassmen
serve as counselors. The
freshmen also participate in
a mock Silver Taps and a
Midnight Yell.
Not much differs from
year to year in Fish Camp,
said Sullivan, who’s been a
part of the camp since he first
attended as a freshman. He
sees Fish Camp as an A&M
tradition that helps to carry
on other traditions of the
school.
“It’s good to know that it
won’t change,” Sullivan said.
“Traditions are what drew me
to the school, and Fish Camp
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about A&M,” Patel said with six i
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Review on the Quad from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Not all the freshmen who arrived will
march in that review, however, as many
decide that the regimented lifestyle of
cadets is not for them. Of the 700 fresh
men cadets going through FOW, about 15
percent will drop out before the week’s
end, Voelkel said.
“Some students just don’t realize what
they’re getting into when they sign up for
the Corps, so they drop out when they find
out what it’s all about,” he said.
Continued from Pi
But the orientation leaves \k
the freshmen ready for life at AM.
Everyday, the new recruits arete
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was In for," he said.
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