The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1986 Page: 3 of 16
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Former trustee ‘pioneer/ English professor thinks
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English Professor John Igo
Jesse N. Fletcher
The Second Front
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Cycle accident
Andre Hurey was injured while leaving campus Monday when Ray
Hanson's stalled GMC pickup rolled over Hurey and his Yamaha
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John Igo, English professor, recall-
ed the early days of the Faculty
highly of Fletcher.
Recalling serving with Fletcher on
the board, Trustee Sue Oppenheimer
said Wednesday, “He was a very nice
man, and I enjoyed serving with
him. He was very interested in the
While he was on the board, Fiet-
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“He was the most gentlemanly of the power holders I’ve dealt with. He
pioneered shared governance.”
discovered one day, smack dab in
the middle of the cover sheet to my
essay, the flag of failure. I had writ-
ten a fragment and earned my first
F.
At first I was appalled. Though my
essay shone bright with my usual
rhetorical sunshine, the singular
fragment condemned it to
unimaginable dungeons of darkness
and despair.
The punishment seemed
disproportionate to the crime. It was
as if I had spat on a sidewalk and
been thrust rudely into the most
punitive of penitentiaries.
When Mrs. Timmons handed me
the essay, she flushed with embar-
rassment for me. She muttered
something about a mental lapse. It
all seemed so inhumane, but I now
see her slight embarrassment as a
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Campos resigns post
effective April 30
President lauds 234
for 15 or more years
in college positions
chancellor at the trustees’ May 20
meeting “if we work on the
timetable that we have the first can-
didate here on (April 28),” Harlan
said.
“We (Harlan and Oppenheimer,
who both served on the search com-
mittee) will present the full packet
on each person and brief the board
on the committee’s assessment,”
Harlan said of Sunday’s meeting.
“The board will have to make the
decision on bringing them (the
finalists) back. The procedures
henceforth are beyond the commit-
tee’s discretion.”
Harlan said the board also will
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He believed whole-heartedly in
quality college education, and he
devoted many hours of his life serv-
ing the community.
That is how Dr. Jerome Weynand,
former president of the community
college district, described Jesse N.
Fletcher who died April 10. He was
82.
Fletcher, a charter member of the
board of trustees, served as board
member, vice president, president
and chairman of the board, a tenure
lasting more than 20 years.
He was defeated for re-election in
1972 by local dentist, Dr. D. Ford district, and he did a fine job.
Nielsen.
Weynand and others spoken cher established a program to build
company’s coveted “Hall of Fame”
award.
He also was cited as the outstan- ____________
ding young man of San Antonio in Life Underwriters and vice president
and director of the Kiwanis Club of
San Antonio.
Upon Fletcher’s departure in 1972,
Senate and Fletcher’s support of the the district named the administra-
group. tion building here in honor of him. •
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Three out-of-state applicants and
an administrator in the Texas A&M
University System are finalists for
chancellor.
Trustee Doug Harlan, the
chancellor search committee’s chair-
man, made the announcement after
Tuesday’s special board meeting.
The board will meet at 9 a.m. Sun-
day at Holiday Inn North (near the
airport) to discuss the applicants in
a work session.
The four finalists are Dr. Eduardo
Marti, executive dean of Tunxis
Community College in Farmington,
Conn.; Dr. Robert Messina, vice
president of academic affairs at
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“He was the most gentlemanly of
the power holders I’ve dealt with,”
Igo recalled. He said Fletcher
pioneered shared governance.
“The Faculty Senate was
represented at board meetings by
his invitation. He was a pioneer in
shared governance. He understood
representation of the senate involv-
ed the entire faculty,” Igo said.
Fletcher also was actively involved
in community and service organiza-
tions, serving as president of the
Jaycees, a member of the San An-
tonio Housing Authority, a member
of the San Antonio Association of
« from objects of infinitives to dangl-
ing participles to fragments. Frankly,
I do not think these exercises had or
have much to do with learning to
write well. Writing correctly, you
see, is not the same as writing well.
Nor is proper posture the sure sign
of an upright man.
Despite the grammatical drudgery,
under Mrs. Timmons’ tutelage I
became a writer who waxed elo-
quent on occasion, soaring high on
the giddy wings of language,
dashing off observations on politics
and poetry as if I had a special
crystal ball that enabled me to see
into the mysteries of the human
condition.
Mrs. Timmons encouraged my
flights into these realms, however
amused she may have been at a
naivete that allowed neither the
facts nor sound judgment to burden
my wings. She effervesced at my ver-
bal splendor, and I rode the bubbles
of her enthusiasm into the clouds of
careless delight.
Mrs. Timmons had one inflexible
rule about compositions: If an essay
had a fragment, an incomplete
sentence, the essay received an F.
I will never forget when this iron-
clad rule winged me and wrecked
my ego. Although accustomed to
high marks and frequent praise, I
sign of her humanity. It meant she
cared.
Although for awhile I wallowed in
self-pity and mourned the passing of
justice from the face of the earth, I
soon recovered.
I see now that Mrs. Timmons took
the long view. However painful it
may be, the rigorous application of
immutable standards pays dividends
in the long run.
I, of course, took the short view.
One thing I know: Since that day, I
have never written a fragment on
any essay or composition of any
kind. Except to give deliberate em-
phasis. (And I always feel a sort of
bohemian glee at having ensconced
one into an otherwise immaculate
discourse.)
As most English teachers know
(there are exceptions), a fragment is
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President Max Castillo stressed
recognition and symbolic meaning
during an awards ceremony for
faculty and staff here April 10.
The ceremony drew 120 of 234
faculty and staff members eligible
for the award.
Castillo said, “The Staff Council
and the Faculty Senate had sug-
gested a recognition for those with
more than 15 years of service.
“Suggestions were made ranging
from certificates, to trips to Ber-
muda, to a merit pay raise,” Castillo
said.
Blaming the “austere times that
confront us,” Castillo said he settl-
ed on a pin to recognize years of
service.
“It’s not the value of the pin that
counts, but the recognition and the
Hurey was treated and released from Medical Center Hospital for in-
juries to his left ankle.
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the library, Weynand recalled.
“It was a real thrill for him at that
time. He attended the original San
Antonio College when it was located
on South Alamo and it meant a lot
for him to see the college grow,”
Weynand said.
Fletcher worked for Great Southern
Life Insurance Co. and received the
Broome Community College in
Binghampton, N.Y.; Dr. Ivory Nelson,
executive assistant to the chancellor
of the Texas A&M University System;
and Dr. Douglas Picht, president of
Post College in Waterbury, Conn.
“These people have some very fine
qualities. The strengths are not quite
the same with each candidate,”
Harlan said.
He said the committee interview-
ed 15 semifinalists over the
telephone, and interviewed seven of
those applicants in person.
The board will decide when to in-
terview the finalists in person, and
probably will choose a new
symbolic meaning,” the president
stressed.
In the afternoon function that in-
cluded punch and hors d’oeuvres,
Dr. Kenneth Shumate, chemistry
professor and Faculty Senate chair-
man, presented the awards.
Dr. Max Jabs, whose position as
director of faculty development, is
being terminated in August, quip-
ped about his situation.
“I was here long enough to get a
pin and once I do, I get the boot,” the
17-year veteran said.
Carolyn Haisler, Castillo’s
secretary, said from now on, the
presentation will be made at a
September faculty convocation.
“Today, we had to present these
pins in this manner because there
were so many.”®
Grammar lapse leads to rationalization of
From the smallest occurrences one
sometimes learns much about
others and much about oneself.
The case in point is a particular
non-sentence I wrote years ago in an
essay for my high school English
teacher, Grace Timmons. Although I
am unable to explain exactly how,
Mrs. Timmons taught me to write—
or, at least, to love writing.
I remember the long days of
tedious grammatical and mechanical
exercises that surveyed everything
Three recall Jesse Fletcher’s influence
By Julie Boenisch
Staff Writer
In October 1983, Campos said, in
an interview with the Ranger, “The
director of business services is the
right arm of the president in
business-related matters.”
Before Campos’ appointment as
business services director, he serv-
ed 24 years in the Army.
Under a reorganization plan
trustees approved in February, Cam-
pos remained in his position, but the
not a cardinal sin. It can never rank
with pride and avarice and wrath as
deadly sins.
A careless incomplete sentence is a
breach of etiquette, a snarl in the
traffic of language, a lapse in the
grand obligation to be articulate.
But, composed deliberately and
judiciously, despite its heretical op-
position to the canons of linguistic
structure, the fragment can arrest
the reader like a splendid curse or .
an illuminating afterthought or an
outbreak of vehemence or an encap-
sulation of astonishment.
From Mrs. Timmons and her cam-
paign against fragments, I learned
the value of design and deliberation.
But, having learned to avoid the
careless fragment, I now seek, with
the stealth of a thief and an avidity
that is almost neurotic, the occasion
of a careful fragment.
Nothing so delights me as break-
ing a rule well. And rationalizing my
minor sins.e
Domingo P. Campos has resigned
effective April 30 as director of
business services.
Campos submitted his resignation
to Dr. Max Castillo, president of the
when the accident occured on San Pedro Avenue near Ashby Place, college.
The board of trustees will act on
the resignation Tuesday.
“I turned in my resignation to the
district through my boss,” Campos
said.
Campos served as director 2 ¥2
years.
With the approval of the board of
representatives to the finalists’ trustees, Campos became director of
colleges. business services Sept. 9, 1983.
“I’m going to strongly recommend The department of business ser-
personally and in behalf of the com- ’lces, IS resPonJslble for budget
mittee that there be on-site visits,” de™J°‘ ™d
he said.
The search committee first met in
January to review the 65 applications
for the position. Thirty-five ap-
plicants survived the first round of
checking references and
qualifications.
The committee considered 15
semifinalists for a month, and nar-
rowed the list to five last week. •
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business services office was
abolished.
Campos said he prefers not to
discuss his resignation or plans. •
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