Wayne, this is a great story. I remember dissecting the cat in that class, but
we did not have this extra credit option. Jim Greunke reassembled a fish
skeleton for an ichthyology class when we were pissheads in dorm 9. I walked in
the room one day and the draft that was created with the window open blew the
entire project into a thousand little pieces (or peces?). Jim was most
displeased with me for a while.
Jeff
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On Mar 15, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Wayne Zieschang <waynez1122@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Summer of '75 - To save money, I slept on my sisters' couch. They had a 2 BR
apartment over in Treehouse Apartments, but I couldn't talk them into
sleeping in one BR so I could have the bed in the other one. Treehouse is
across George Bush from where the Blue Bell baseball park is now. Just a
short bicycle ride to campus.
Shortly after 1st summer session started, my youngest little sister caught me
boiling a dead cat in their roasting pan on top of the stove as part of my
Biology 315 Chordate Anatomy class. I could get extra credit for cleaning a
cat skeleton and articulating it (putting the bones back together using glue
and wire). The TA told me that the easiest way to clean the bones was to
boil the skeleton for an hour or so and the fleshy crap would scrape off
easily.
So off I went with a frozen, already dissected cat carcass in a bag. Got to
the apartment and the only pot big enough was their roasting pan. I put the
carcass in the pan across two burners on top of the stove, put enough water
in to cover the cat and started studying, checking occasionally for water
level.
Well, that cat was happily boiling away when my little sister walked in. Now,
she was a sophomore, but only 17 years old because she graduated from high
school when she was 16 and immediately started summer school at A&M June '74.
"What're you cooking?"
"Felis catus"
"Huh?" and lifted the lid to see a dead cat looking at her. She screamed
like someone was killing her and threw the hot lid across the room and kinda
got hysterical. AND she started screaming all kinds of stuff at me,
including words I had no clue she knew. I had never seen her like that.
Well, someone heard the bloody murder going on and called the cops. Took
about 5 minutes for a couple of College Station cops to show up. She had
calmed down a little and was no longer screaming invectives and threats at
me, but she was still furious when the cops arrived.
It took a bit to get the situation all settled out. The cops were trying not
to laugh about the scenario because everytime one of them chuckled, my sister
would give the laughing cop the stink eye treatment. Learned how intimidating
my little sister could be at 17 y.o. and 5 ft 2 & 100 lbs when she is pissed.
The cops left, I finished cooking my cat, my sister stormed out the door to
stay with a friend for the duration.
She threw away the roasting pan and made me buy her a new one, even though I
thouroghly cleaned it.
Got an "A" in Chordate. 8-)
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:14 PM Edward Retta
<eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yup, dammit I had a ceiling fan in my north gate dorm room summer of 75. No
AC! Open window, cold shower, hop into top bunk at nite. That fan looked as
old as the dorm itself.
I don't remember the name of the dorm, but it was across from the little,
on-campus post office at north gate. Close to Sbisa. Each floor had 4 rooms,
2 suites that shared a bathroom. So 8 guys per floor, 2 bathrooms. My
roommate was a Chinese grad student...
I also remember old ceiling fans in the old church I grew up in, that also
had steel rings embedded in the curbs, for tying up horses. So definitely
before 1980s.
I didn't think Dorm 11 was open during the summer of 75. Anyway, I preferred
north gate because it was co-ed. Who remembers that blond girl who wore a t
shirt that said, "camel jocks do it better?" Remember those 4 "fish" CTs
from Iran, I think our junior year? They were like grown men, older than us.
Edward Retta
On Mar 14, 2021 13:42, Kyle Braswell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was there the summer of 75 too - Right across the street from the Chicken.
That spoiled me. It was a long way on foot to the Chicken from dorm 11, and
an even longer way back!
Buzz
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 12:44 PM, Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The 1880s
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On Sunday, March 14, 2021, 11:48:19 AM CDT, David Pointon
<david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don’t think ceiling fans were invented until the 80s
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 11:47, DANNY POPHIN <danpophin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Summer of 75, I don't remember any stinking ceiling fan in my north gate
dorm room.
Dan
From: fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
David Pointon <david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2021 12:32 PM
To: fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977] Re: Scholarship, moving
forward
Ceiling fan?
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 10:39, Edward Retta
<eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spildo,
I spent one summer session at TAMU. I remember paying about $45 bucks total
to stay in a non air-conditioned dorm at north gate. It was hot. I would
take a cold shower and hop in the top bunk under the ceiling fan, still wet,
to sleep cool.
Edward Retta
+1 214 394 3000 (GMT -5)
crossculturecommunications.com
linkedin.com/in/edwardretta/
On Mar 13, 2021 22:32, Robert Spiller <rspiller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I still have all those bills for room, board and tuition and Mom's
house. Seems like the first one was around $700 and the last one around
$850. The tuition was $4/hour, but the fees went up a lot while we were
there.
From: fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
Edward Retta <eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 8:29 PM
To: fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977] Re: Scholarship, moving
forward
I found a receipt for my last semester, fall of 77, under $300 bucks, I
lived off campus.
As a comparison, the last year of my youngest daughter’s undergrad at
Brandeis U. in Boston, 2014-15, was $56K.
Not including airfares… All my daughters’ graduate degrees were on them!
TAMU is still a bargain!
And TAMU education enabled me to live this life. And no college debts. God
bless TAMU!
Queso
On Mar 9, 2021, at 10:02 PM, Stephen Sublett <ssublett77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 10:00 PM Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yeah, college inflation rates are higher than overall inflation. I seem to
recall a semester of tuition, room, and board, was a total of around $800?
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On Mar 9, 2021, at 8:59 PM, Stephen Sublett <ssublett77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dean,
Inflation, tuition was $4 per credit hour in 1975. It's now 125 times that.
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