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Laurels
To the College Station Noon Lions Club and the Post Oak
Mall for splendid fireworks displays last weekend.
To Tom Comstock, Bill Nash, Larry Smith, Alan Brown
and Jerry Stuck, state champions in ham radio operating for
the second year in a row.
To Stage Center, for its annual melodrama running this
weekend and next. A fun time for the community.
To Peggy Calliham, director of the new College Station
Community Center.
'To Jerry Windham and Leon Bard of Bryan, owner and
strainer of Passem Lika Flash, winner of the Firecracker
:Futurity horse race at Delta Downs last weekend.
To Michelle Rosynek, sophomore at A&M Consolidated,
winner of the 3,000 meter run in a national track meet in
Spokane, Wash. She finished second in the 1,500 meter run.
To William Alexander Engblom, Tanya Feltz, Tuyen Tran
and Barbara Stroud, winners in the Brazos Civil Liberties
Union student essay contest.
To Teddy Sue Herron, an accounting student at Texas
A&M, named Miss Cowgirl 10 in a local beauty contest.
To Pete L. Rodriguez, new member of the Bryan Planning
Commission.
To Brazos County Court-at-Law Judge James A. Amis
aJr., honored by the State Bar of Texas for half a century of
xpracticing law.
Calliham familiar
with site of center a
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By DAVID CRISP first four months of her
Staff Writer 37 years, has been active
Peggy Calliham, who in community affairs for
took over last week as
years. She has taught
director of the College school at A&M Con-
Station Community solidated Junior High
Center, has a particular School and also was a
interest in the building: home economics teacher
she went to school there. in Snook.
She attended A&M An A&M student now -
Consolidated High completing a master's
School about 20 years degree in public rela- Peggy Calliham
ago when it was located tions, Calliham says she funds to pay for the
at 1300 Jersey Street. takes a strong interest in A & M Consolidated
Today, the Jersey working with the public choir trip to Vienna.
Street building is a $1 and in improving the ci- "I'd like for this to be
m i l i o n community ty's public image. not just another College
center and the high She has done summer Station city building,"
school is on the FM 2818 work at the Information she said. "I'd like for
bypass. and Hospitality Center people to feel like it's
In returning to the of the Brazos Valley and their building to enjoy."
former school site, is an intern with KAMU- The center includes six
Calliham will be respon- T V' s F i f t e e n meeting rooms and an
sible for booking con- Magazine." She also has auditorium that seats up
ventions, club meetings, been involved with the 200 people. The most
art shows and other College Station Jaycee- spectacular feature is
events. Ettes, the March of curved wooden ceiling
Calliham, who has liv- Dimes and the Choir above a gallery that cur-
ed in the Bryan-College Props, the parent rently houses the
Station area since the organization raising municipal art collection.
Calliham likes building from scratch
By MARGARET ANN ZIPP When Calliham was starting her "It was kind of nice to drive out
Staff Writer year's graduate study at the universi- through the cotton fields to work, and
Peggy Calliham is an innovator. ty in the summer of 1981, a new prog- then those kids were so happy to see
"I guess, if you look at my past, I ram-called occupational investiga- me."
kind of have a tendency to start new tion - opened up at A&M Junior The four years in Snook were not
programs," says Call iham, the direc- High School. She was hired to head in her plan, Calliham says, but they
for of the College Station Community it. turned out to be probably the best
Center. "It was kind of a preparatory thing thing that ever happened to her.
To take one (a program) that's for all eighth graders," she says, "to "I have to say," she says, "that I
either not been done, or one that's get them ready for high school to took a faltering program and built it
been faltering, and build it up to get them thinking in terms of direc- into, I think, a good program."
something. tion." When Calliham began her tenure
"I think it's a lot easier than fol- Led by Call iham, the young people as director of the College Station
lowing someone who's done a inventoried some 15 different career Community Center, its role in local
wonderful job to just take a job that clusters, assessing their own talents activities was still undefined. She
nobody knows whether it can be done and skills and beginning to aim their says that when she was hired, City
or not and see what you can do." academic efforts toward fields which Manager North Bardell told her that
The center is the latest pioneering suited them. she would have to write her own job
venture undertaken by the 40-year- It was an exhausting year, Calli- description.
old Calliham, who has lived in Col- ham says. There were more than 300 "I have broadened it from what I
lege Station since she was 4 months eighth graders enrolled in the school, would guess that they hired me for,"
old. Her curiosity about the renova- and before the 1981-82 school year Calliham says. "As community cen-
tion of one of her old school buildings was over, she had taught every one of ter director, I could sit right here in
led to her being offered the center them. She attended classes at Texas this building every day and just see
directorship, shortly after she re- A'&M at night. that it's kept pleasant and clean and
ceived a master's degree in educa- "I like kids," she says. "They managed for meetings and parties.
tional administration from Texas know if you love them, and they "But it's also a base of operations
A&M University in 1982. know if you don't. That was the thing to present the cit in a good light."
It has been almost three years since I had going for me. I really loved the
Calliham dropped by the former kids."
school, which had become the Col- The first time that Calliham was
lege Station Community Center, to called upon to accept a professional
see what was going on. challenge was in 1977, when she
"I found out the (director's) job joined the faculty of Snook High
was open," she says, "and it sound- School. She became a teacher in a
ed like an opportunity to do a lot of special home economics program de-
the things I wanted to do, working signed to teach the students job skills.
with people in this community." The program was designed for poten-
In July 1982, Calliham became the tial drop-outs.
center's first permanent director. She "The idea was to keep these kids in
says the position gave her a chance to school," she says. "But if they did
help strengthen the relationship be- drop out, they would have a skill.
tween the City of College Station, "Something happed to me out
which owns the facility, and the Col- there. It was absolutely the most un-
lege Station Independent School Dis- glamorous situation. But somehow,
trict, which had been her employer these kids needed me so badly, and it
while she was studying at Texas was a difficult time in my life, be-
A&M. cause I was going throe h a divorce.
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Peggy Calliham, College Station Community Center director
Update
COLLEGE STATION
Pay Nor♦thgate
~a visit and
tell 'em Peggy
sent you
All communities, in the name of
progress, occasionally cause temporary
disruptions and inconveniences for
zens and businesses in order to improve
the infrastructure. On a personal basis,
most of us have experienced this type of
interruption when we had to take time
from our regular schedules to have some
treatment or surgery we have been
putting off for too long.
Since the Northgate Business District
is the oldest commercial area in College
Station, it too has reached the time when
some reconstructive surgery is needed.
Ground was broken on the College Main
reconstruction project on May 30. Tile
section. of street between University and
Church Street is targeted to open back up
to traffic by Aug. 1. During this recon-
struction, the businesses in the College
Main section of Northgate have been
especially inconvenienced and disrupted.
Even though pedestrian access has
remained open throughout the area,
some of the regular patrons have been
PEGGY CALLIHAM ~ ~ Spokeswoman ~.1
discouraged just by the sight of construc-
tion. The city of College Station has tried
to make this process as swift and painless
as possible, but business has naturally
waned temporarily due to the construc-
tion.
I visited with many of the merchants
this week and we discussed their con-
cerns and a couple of things about
North ate that rha s the eneral ub-
c might not know.
First of all it is one of the few, if not
the only, areas in College Station in
which all of the businesses are owned
and operated by local residents of our
community.
They are not sending their revenue to
corporate offices in other cities or states.
It stays right here in College Station and
Brazos County. The area provides the
_ sole means of livelihood- for 35-50 people.
Secondly, four of the present busi-
nesses have been there for at least 50
years: Holick's Bootmakers has been in
business in Northgate since 1914;
Loupot's Bookstore since 1934 and
Northgate Barbershop and Aggieland
Cleaners since 1935. In this day and time
that is a real record.
I can remember playing in and out of
all these stores and up and down the side-
walks of Northgate when I was a child.
My daddy ran a bus station and taxi there
back in the late 1940s. Even then it pro-
vided almost everything a Texas A&M
student needed.
The city of College Station staff would
like to encourage local residents to make
a little extra effort to visit the Northgate
merchants, let them tell you about the
revitalization project and plans for the
future, and give them a little help by
patronizing their businesses.
It is really not that hard to park if
you know where to go. Take University
Drive to Boyett Street, beside the old
Campus Theatre (now Shadow Canyon)
and then take a right on Patricia Street. G
You can park free in the parking lot
behind the Dixie Chicken and Duddley's
Draw.
In fact, if you are a new student in
town it is still one of the few places you
can take care of many of your personal
needs. You can have your film developed
at Campus Photo, your boots repaired at
Holick's, take your cleaning over to Aggie
Cleaner's, buy those school books at
Loupot's, and have your hair cut at the
Northgate Barber Shop.
Oh yeah, and if you are into music,
Northgate claims to be the CD capital of
Bryan-College Station with Marooned I
and Disc Go Round. Dead Lazlo's Coffee
Pub (named from a Laverne and Shirley
episode) has some great coffee and 'ea
desserts, too. But I think they are closing Ra
during July, so maybe you could stop by oja
Sweet Eugene's, owned by the same peo- '10
ple, located just off of Kyle South. n~
There are other businesses that can al
meet many of your personal needs, too. asol
They include the Software Exchange,
Sarge's Military Surplus, Lacey's Sterling a S
and Silver, The Factory and Trade Winds ;ugi
Bead Company.
You might ask all of them about their T S
"Construction Specials" and I think they
will give you a great deal. Who knows,
you may fmd the kind of local merchant
and friend that gives you the type of per-
sonal service you expect.
Oh yeah, and tell them Peggy sent
you.
■Peggy Calliham is College Station's spokeswoman.
Register Now
for
Creative Classes in
Self Improvement for
girls, grades 3.12.
Classes begin Oct. 2
Register Thursday 6-8 p.m.
and Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
in Sears Junior Bazaar
8 weeks of classes
DISCOVERY I $15
DISCOVERY H $20
Price includes class, textbook and supplies
Our Instructor
Peggy Calliham
" Mrs. Calliham is a gra-
duate of A&M Consoli-
dated High School. She
r earned a degree in Home
S Economics from Sam
Houston State University.
In October she will begin
substitute teaching in
Home Economics at Bryan
High School.
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