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Texas A&M University 1967 film
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"A graduate will receive many job offers. And a starting salary of $500-700 a month..."
At 10:14, you can see General Rudder in the audience. The woman in red next to him is his wife, Margaret.
aalan94 said:
"A graduate will receive many job offers. And a starting salary of $500-700 a month..."
Not much has changed these days lol
"and now you know, the rest of the story."
aalan94 said:
"A graduate will receive many job offers. And a starting salary of $500-700 a month..."
Also the BOR need to go back and heed the direction from Gov Coke about the cost of education at A&M
Nice find.
I like that they talk about air conditioning twice.
It was 7 years before I got there (6 before I first visited) but it looks mostly like the place I went to. Two things that struck me:
1. Every guy in the corps isn't decorated like a Mexican general and
2. The students don't look like they are starting the limbo when they sing "sounds like hell!"
Good times.
I like that they talk about air conditioning twice.
It was 7 years before I got there (6 before I first visited) but it looks mostly like the place I went to. Two things that struck me:
1. Every guy in the corps isn't decorated like a Mexican general and
2. The students don't look like they are starting the limbo when they sing "sounds like hell!"
Good times.
Narration by Paul Harvey, iconic radio commentator back in the day.
BQ78 said:
Nice find.
I like that they talk about air conditioning twice.
It was 7 years before I got there (6 before I first visited) but it looks mostly like the place I went to. Two things that struck me:
1. Every guy in the corps isn't decorated like a Mexican general and
2. The students don't look like they are starting the limbo when they sing "sounds like hell!"
Good times.
Was my fish year. In addition to everyone in the Corps not decorated like a Mexican general, neither was everyone in the military. Enrollment was 12,000
Who remember the President's home was next to the All Faith's Chapel......until it BURNED DOWN!
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I like that they talk about air conditioning twice.
I lived at A&M 4 1/2 years and never had AC. Lived 4 years in Law and 1 semester in Hart.
Great find.
Found the 1966 Batt article on the film:
https://newspaper.library.tamu.edu/lccn/sn84009780/1966-03-01/ed-1/seq-4/
Says it was commissioned by the school's department of publications, to be shown to high school audiences.
Found the 1966 Batt article on the film:
https://newspaper.library.tamu.edu/lccn/sn84009780/1966-03-01/ed-1/seq-4/
Says it was commissioned by the school's department of publications, to be shown to high school audiences.
Cokes message about being affordable has been forgotten
That was old Coke, we have new Coke now
Movie to promote the new hip Texas A&M University and moving away from the agricultural and mechanical college of Texas, the all male, military school
That was a nice find. I was born in the sixties, so was still many years from even knowing what Texas A&M was let alone enrolling there (started in 85). But there was a lot of imagery in there that looked pretty much like I remembered campus circa 1985. I was amused about the project to build an expanded library, clearly referring to Sterling C Evans Library, in that I've never known the campus without it but while a student there could clearly define where the new library started and the older one (the one I always described to akin to the corridors of the Nostromo in the Alien movie) ended.
I grew up in B/CS and this is the A&M from my early childhood. Dad taught journalism from 1965 - 1987. Back then, there was no old Zachry, no O&M building, no Commons, no new water tower, no Evans Library, and no West Campus. Only 12,000 students, no long hair and very few women.
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I was amused about the project to build an expanded library, clearly referring to Sterling C Evans Library,
No, this isn't Sterling C. Evans. If you look at the library, it's basically 3 parts: the old Cushing Library, Evans Library, built in 1979, and then squeezed between the two a sort of unmatched building linking them. It's THIS that they're referring to. They basically added on to the old library and then a decade later did Evans.
The middle section was the Gilchrist (engineering) library. Gilchrist had been both Prexy after Walton and, subsequently, Texas State Highway Engineer, IIRC. Lawyers in the room will remember Mr. Gilchrist's son, who was '46 and founded Jenkins and Gilchrist.
I remember an updated film from the 1980's that they showed at New Student Conferences. If I recall correctly, it included Robert Mitchum out in front of The Commons.
I think the film almost obtained Ricky Horror Picture Show status, where existing students who had seen it many, many times would yell out comments to the film.
I think the film almost obtained Ricky Horror Picture Show status, where existing students who had seen it many, many times would yell out comments to the film.
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dcbowers said:
I remember an updated film from the 1980's that they showed at New Student Conferences. If I recall correctly, it included Robert Mitchum out in front of The Commons.
I think the film almost obtained Ricky Horror Picture Show status, where existing students who had seen it many, many times would yell out comments to the film.
It was Richard Quine, who played fish Craig in Weve never been licked.
That's the A&M I grew up with and where I went to school.
As I often say, much has been gained in the changes that have occurred since 1967, not to mention since 1940, when my father got off the train in College Station and thought his parents had sent him to a reform school.
But some things have been lost, too.
As I often say, much has been gained in the changes that have occurred since 1967, not to mention since 1940, when my father got off the train in College Station and thought his parents had sent him to a reform school.
But some things have been lost, too.
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