The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 266, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 7, 1983 Page: 3 of 58
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UT Head Says College Students More Serious
AUSTIN (AP) —Life at college that blends varying measure* of “If we hre going to have first which he and hi* wife now live. Among the chancellor’* goal* the UT syetem, but in \
has changed — several times — In fund-raising, politics and ad- class or world class universities, ‘U think part of it was the for his final two years is winning higher education througbot
the 34 years since E. Don Walker ministration of a $1.64 billion It’s going to take salaries that are times,” he said about the mansion voter approval In November 19M state,”hesald.
began working at state univer- system with 52,000 employees. competitive,” Walker added. furor. for HJR 19, a proposed constttu
sltles “This is not something that hap- A measure also can be placed Another building that shows the tional amendment that would ex-
The prosperous 1950s became pened the morning of the board on private donations to the change In campus life Is an Pand the Permanent University chancellor — a Job he says he’D
the turbulent 1960s. The 60s faded meeting,” he said of the retire- university, the portion of the engineering building that almost fund to cover all UT and Texas miss.
Into the transitional years of the ment decision. "My wife budget that Walker said provides wasn’t built A&M schools, and set up a new “We’ll look back probably with
1970s. The 70s were programmed (Kathryn) and I had talked about the “margin of excellence.” h funding system for all other state some regrets, but I don’t plan to
Into the computer age pf the 1980s. it. It’s time to step down and do In 1979, the system attracted schools. have many,” be said, “{t’s a good
“I think the student I see today, something else, or slow down a lit- $52 million In donations, In addi- nn “If that amendment passes, It time for me to change, and if l
and I don’t have as much contact tie bit and do more reading and tlon to the lucrative income it gets inh,Lt|“_ ajeM,„,tnnn<Wi.n will raise the quality of higher good for the university to
as I would like to have, is much writing that I’d like to do.” from state oil and gas lands. By “r"1 it education, not only at AAM and change.”
more serious and career-oriented Upon his retirement, Walker 1982, the donations were up to $92
than they were a few years ago,” will become chancellor emeritus million.
said Walker, chancellor of the and serve as a special consultant Walker expects this year’s gifts „h’.. we Pul 1X16 P ans
109,000-student University of to the regents. to approach $110 million, “which f , ..l . . s.
Texas System. In reviewing his years with the probably puts us In the top three Later’ the demand for new
Full-time work in the state’s UT System, Walker talks about or four Institutions In the nation.” en|Jmeers increased and the
colleges began for Walker in 1949 the improvements In the “quality The changes in campus life can buUding went up after all.
as a business administration and excellence in all of our in- be measured by a couple of “Now we’re the other UOnatlOIl
assistant professor at Sam stltutions.” building projects Walker was side of this. ‘Why aren’t you traln-
Houston State University. It will “We have made, through' the assistant chancellor fielding ln8 enough engineers? Why did CHAMPAIGN, 111.
end In two years. Walker, 61, generosity of the Legislature and some of tfie heat of the campus y°u 8,ow down?’ WeU- there ~A of
recently told UT System regents the governor, some significant radical era, when the system wasn,t a market for them ” hc Walker Evans phoUy
that he’ll step down on Sept. 1, progress in the last few years in decided in 1971 to build a million- sald graphs valuedrftjjp-
l,‘ . . faculty salaries. We are still not dollar mansion for the chancellor. Today, the market is com-
At that time, Walker will have at the very top. We still need to “It had a rather stormy begin- puters, and the UT System is try- ,.a8 been made to the
served the longest term -- seven continue to make additional im- ning,” he said of the Bauer House, ing to keep up with its growth, ac- university Illinois
years — as UT chancellor, a job provements in salaries,” he said, the spacious Austin mansion in cording to Walker. Museum1 ^ *" Art
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MOCORON, Honduras (AP)
The term 13,000, the United Nations High Commissioner made logistics even more complicated
“logjstlcs nightmare” Is no dream to 24-year- for Refugees established a camp for them and “We’re committed to supplying the
old Bill Hubfer, logistics coosdinator of a appointed World Relief to run it. refugees with food, seeds, tools and medicine
massive refugee resettlement program The agency had done relief work in Central until they’re able to support themselves,” he
centered around this village in a swampy America for years, and had administered says. “The relocation sites are in remote
jungle area of northeast Honduras near the relief programs for Southeast Asian refugees areas of the jungle, and they’re only accessi-
Nicaraguan border. in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines, ble on foot or by dugout canoe. It takes from
He works for World Relief, the international But the sheer complexity of getting food and one to three days to get to them, even longer in
relief agency charged with keeping alive the supplies to Mocoron made those operations the dry season when the boats run into stumps
13,000 Mfskito Indian refugees who have fled seem easy, Huber points out. and driftwood. ’ ’
the conflict in Nicaragua. “Mocoron is 49 miles away from the nearest So far, the resettlement program has been
Huber, who grew up in Colombia as the son port, Puerto Lempira, and during the rainy successful, Huber says. “I ran a kitchen for
of missionaries, is accustomed to living and season the road is impassable for the last malnourished people, pregnant women and,
working in primitive tropical areas. But in His eight miles into camp,” he says. “Even four- children in a refugee camp in Thailand.”
present job, he is also responsible for bringing wheel-drive vehicles get stuck. We tried to
150 tons of food each month into some of the repair the road, but to do that we needed
remotest, most inaccessible terrain in Central gravel from the river, and the roads to the
river were also impassable.” -
Communicating by radio with World Relief
staff in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa,
camp administrators placed daily orders for
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“Anything that moves, I’m in charge of
making sure it moves right,” he explains.
That means footpower, dugout canoes, trucks,
jeeps, all-terrain vehicles to plow through flour, rice, medicine, fuel, tools and other sup-
swamps and marshlands, a DC-3 to fly in sup- plies. These were trucked some 200 miles to
plies during the- dry season and a 65-foot the ports of La Ceiba or Puerto Cortez, then
steelhull boat
When refugees first began arriving in Hon- Lempira. From there, supplies were trucked
duras two years ago, “they had no possessions as close to camp as possible, and carried by
£ . except what they could carry on the/r backs, refugees the last eight miles on fopt.,
sometimes not even that,’’Huber explains'. Even though hundreds of refugees still seek
“The young single guys swam the river bet- shelter in Honduras every month, the refugee
ween Nicaragua and Honduras, and families population In Mocoron has lessened drasticqj-
crossed in dugout canoes. But then everyone ly since January, when World Relief and the
Bad to walk 37 niiles through the jungle to Honduran government began a program to
reach Mocoron. By that time, they were in, resettle the Indiansdn their own farm plots in
pretty sad shape
As the numbers of refugees swelled to But for Huber, the dispersal program has
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 266, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 7, 1983, newspaper, September 7, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153125/m1/3/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.