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Hope and he got laughs. “Audiences are my best friends,” he liked to say. “You never tire of talking with your best friends.” Along with family members, Hope’s longtime caregivers and a priest were present when he died. “I can’t tell you how beautiful and serene and peaceful it was,” daughter Linda Hope told a news conference. “The fact that there was a little audience gathered around, even though it was fami ly, I think wanned dad’s heart.” “He really left us with a smile on his face and no last words. ... He gave us each a kiss and that was it,” she said. Hope earned a fortune, gave lavishly to charity and was show ered with awards, so many that he rented a warehouse to store them. Though he said he was afraid of flying, Hope traveled countless miles to boost the morale of ser vicemen. His Christmas tours became tradition. He headlined in so many war zones that he had a standard joke for the times he was interrupted by gunfire: “I wonder which one of my pictures they saw?” So often was Hope away entertaining, and so little did he see his wife, Dolores, and their four children, that he once remarked, “When I get home these days, my kids think I’ve been booked on a personal appearance tour.” Hope had a reputation as an ad-libber, but he kept a stable of writers and had filing cabinets full of jokes. He never let a good joke die — if it got a laugh in Vietnam, it would get a laugh in Saudi Arabia. On his 100th birthday, he was too frail to take part in public cel ebrations, but was said to be alert and happy — and overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection. The fabled intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was renamed Bob Hope Square, and Bush established the Bob Hope American Patriot Award. “He can’t believe that this is happening and that he’s made it to his Big 100,” son Kelly Hope said at the time. Leslie Towns Hope was bom in 1903 in Eltham, England, the fifth of seven sons of a British stonemason and a Welsh singer of light opera. The Hopes emigrated to the United States when he was 4 and settled in Cleveland. They found themselves in the back wash of the 1907 depression. The boy helped out by selling newspapers and working in a shoe store, a drug store and a meat market. He also worked as a caddy and developed a lifelong fondness for golf. A highly com petitive golfer, he later shot in the 70s and sponsored the Bob Hope Golf Classic, one of the nation’s biggest tournaments. Hope changed his name to Bob when classmates ridiculed his English schoolboy name. He boxed for a time under the name Packy East — “I was on more canvases than Picasso” — and tried a semester in col lege before devoting himself to show business. He quickly veered from song and dance to comedy patter, and his mono logue routine was bom. By 1930, he had reached vaudeville’s pinnacle — The Palace — and in the ‘30s he played leading parts in such Broadway musicals as "Roberta,” “Ziegfeld Follies” and “Red, Hot and Blue” with Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante. During “Roberta,” he met nightclub singer Dolores Reade and invited her to the show. They married in 1934. After a few guest radio spots, Hope began working regularly on a Bromo Seltzer radio program. In 1938, he was hired by Pepsodent to create his own show, and that led him to Hollywood. NEWS THE BATTALION Workers Continued from page 1 her retirement benefits. “I was upset because some times we stay and work here and take less pay because of the ben efits,” Becvar said. “I was in total shock about the whole sitn- ation.” Although the changes in age and years of service are very dif ferent to those as of now, Becvar believes they are still fair. “The new employees will know coming in how it is,” Becvar said. She said she feels fortunale to be able to continue as she had planned. Energy Continued from page 1 projects have been completed, he said. The Board of Regents approved three projects within the plan that total $4.3 million. The projects include a ne» chiller and boiler for the central utility and West Campus plants. There is also a $5.8 million new boiler that is 90 percent complete, which will go to the central plant on campus, Sippial said. Also within the energy plan are two projects under design. One idea is a $ 5.4 mil lion, 138 kilovolt electrical transmission line that will pro vide the campus with a backup commercial electrical power source, Sippial said. “If we lose the power feed that comes to us from off cam pus, 60 percent of our facilities would be affected," he said. The project has been in the works for several years, and is not a result of the three hour blackout that occurred in the spring of 2003, Sippial said. Sippial said A&M has apol- icy that is called the Continuous Commissioning process that continually improves systems in buildings on campus. The process observes sys tems such as thermal and mechanical systems. For exam ple, if a building has a change in design, the Energy Systems Lab will reevaluate the load requirements of the building and make the systems energy efficient. It will then monitor the adjustments. r \ uper winner • • • • » • • avings • # m m Jan : UV Free Tanning One Month Unlimited Tanning (Umit I coupon per semester) Good at any location. 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David Dewhurst began the new session by ordering the 11 who left back to the chamber. “I’m asking our Senate Democrats to come back and work with us. But I’ve got to share with you I’m disappointed, very disappointed,” Dewhurst said. He said he expects the Senate ultimately will pass a redistrict ing plan. “If I read the tea leaves correctly, we will pass a fair redistricting plan now or later," Dewhurst said. Dewhurst said he would enlist the Senate sergeant-at-arms and possibly off-duty police officers to retrieve the 11 lawmakers, but acknowledged that Texas author ities likely could not cross state lines. WANT SOMETHING FREE YOU CAN REALLY USE? FREE PREGNANCY TESTS & STD TESTING Peer Counseling for women & men Post Abortion Peer Counseling Pregnancy Support Services Open M-F 9-5 and some evenings & Saturdays Call for an appointment I I i ■ i ■ i Lot-of-fcin, Laugh-a-lot Ticket dismissal, insurance discount. M.-Tu. (6 p.m.-9 p.m.) or W.-Th. (6 p.in.-9 p.m.), Fri. 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