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and this was never
January 4 when the
Club presented him
Krueger
Aggies from
Oak Hill Country
spects to this ma~
lives so meaningfully.
The program
King Jr. '52 and was
Hollimon '42 with j
of irreverence, tern
Gen. Fred Weston '29
tempts to characterize ~
claimed credil for
tend Texas A&M,
visualize and solve-
his keen sense ~
was organizing the
for the l~'xas Nd
recruit Weirus Wei
Field Artiller~
at first,
get killed by accident,
killed on purpose."
"Buck Weiru
ever served with i
Weston conch~t
rank of
A porhon of Jhe
Weirus' servite as Annual
(1961-64} and Executive I
Association of Former Studen
1980~ was shared by three who ,
cJosel~ wifl~ him.
J. B_ "J)ick" f }erve~
tot o~
recalled
Presidcm t
t tervev
him h:~ /ear,,
Servic£~
roach
come for
Class Pro
Lucia,
1968,
a tWo-v,
you, you,ve
She cited
you think, to
long as it was
hon." She als
ous times that
volunteers~ Wh~
hardest, look
you love what the~
care about eo le '
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laying
today's Annual
brought
incen fi yes
the
back from
ference at
nead,
increased ~
the
group m
recordkeeping, !
Scholarship
(more than 200 en
history
and tt~e Ass~x.iatk
his guidance
k)r the 1968
t!~e
nuallv to studenls performin?, e×Cep-
tionai service in behalf of their teltOw
students.
Vbhmteer (waiter in the dining hall), and
lettered in sb'imming, he recalled l~im aS
the drunime~ in the nationa v-recognized
! previous recipient of
;presented Weirus
Others honored in
CC, i'P%lly' Krueger '12 in~
H.
Ki/lian '26, and
as she sat
a
Dian na's husband
didn't,
his Wife
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Richard 'Buck" W '
' en~us, who headed the
Association of Fol~ner Students during a
time of change at tradition-botmd Texas
A&M University, died Tuesday at
Colmnbia Medical Center after he smffered
an aneurysm.
He was 76, said his daughter, Dianna
Burke of Bryan.,
During Weirus tenure as head of the for-
mer st~{dents association from 1964-79,
A&M began admitting Women and endM
in
edge
spokeswoman
Powell.
Weirus
met student group
a strongly
executive director of the
group in 1961.
"He
have to
Spirit,'
some
group were
place at
Weirus supported
former
minds,
is
City
Hervey as
· of the
m
said
for
the
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its Visitor
Funeral
of local
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Richard E "Buck" Weiru '
.. s will be remembered as a
great leader at Texas A&M and a friend of many Aggies,
said those who knewhim.
Randy Matson, Weims' successor as execu live di-
rector of the Association of Former Students, sai~
Weirus "will be sorely missed byAggies evel~where~
uc~ probat~ly knew more former students than
anyone I ~e ever ~no~m, because he made an effort to
g t to ~ow them, Mason sa~d in aUniversiW press
lease. '~ lot of them ready loved him becau}~ he was
genuinely interesled in them."
The Universi~% Buck Wekus Spkit Award was
named in his honor in 1982.
Mza Gonzalez,
received ~e awat~ this,
dents,"
~gela ~er, d-
uate student, also
"It was an l~onor
Weim
anna Burke of Bryan and four
the
d~d
be-
~ Re-
when
'(alumni)
000. He intro-
a first for
and also started
lowed Scholar-
s program recognizing
War II and
A&M in 1961
2 p.m. at the
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