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Domek said:

So answer the question, and Yes, I want the truth and nothing but the truth...
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Ocean Engineering is simply applying engineering principles in an ocean environment. Some examples would include offshore oil rigs, coastal protection systems, or, in my case ... dredging. :beer:

:flamingo:
 
My respects to you Sir!
 
I learn something new everyday. Whether I want to or not.

Good song there Aggie. Being of the blood myself, some of the traditions are new and some are old... we are always Aggies first and whatever else second.
Happy Trails! N

Nick Stone '79
Chemical Engineering
 
I'll have to ask College Boy. We didn't leave pennies on Sully when I was there.

Y'all realize College Boy's gettin' married on Friday. T minus three days and counting. I wonder if he's worried yet.
;-)
Happy Trails! N


Texican said:
Whazzup with the pennies on Sully?
Kowboy knew nothing of it.......
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Texican said:
Whazzup with the pennies on Sully?
Kowboy knew nothing of it.......
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http://newsarchive.tamu.edu/article.php?articleid=11968&month=5&year=2001

Pennies for Sully

Aggie lore has it that putting pennies on the base of the campus statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross will bring the donor good luck when taking a test. The pennies are piling up during the final exam period that concludes Wednesday. Then it's on to commencement Friday and Saturday, with more than 4,500 degrees expected to be awarded. Ross, better known as "Sully," was president of Texas A&M in the 1890s.

http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/article.php?articleid=14170&month=5&year=2002

Pennies for Sully

It's a common sight during final exams at Aggieland: students placing coins --sometimes rolls of them -- by the statue of Sul Ross in front of the Academic Building, a tradition that is supposed to ensure a good grade on a big test.
 
It was a tradition while I was there whenever you needed any kind of Good Luck you would put a penny on Ol' Sul Ross's Boots. I always felt a pretty close connection to the Sully tradition because I spent every summer growing up out near Fort Davis and Alpine, and Sul Ross was something that took me back to West Texas, thus every time I passed Sul Ross I tossed a penny on the Statue, out of respect for Sully and always asking for luck for that night at Northgate :D

As Kowboy and the other aggies probably know, if you do something twice in College Station it's a tradition.

On a couple of side notes, I am getting married next year and Granger Smith the singer and author of "We Bleed Maroon" is playing my wedding, and being that I am a 5th generation Aggie I just had to have an Aggie play the wedding!
Great Great Grandfather class of 1900 and the ORIGINAL 12th man (but that is another story for another day)
 
Aggie said:
... being that I am a 5th generation Aggie ...
Great Great Grandfather class of 1900 and the ORIGINAL 12th man (but that is another story for another day)
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Don't know if'n I've met you sir or when/if I will ... but I'd sure like to hear that story. :cool:

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum ... first one in my family to ever even get to college ... much less graduate. :grinpimp:

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My story is the same as Kowboy's... first in the family to go beyond high school.
I would enjoy hearing you speak on King Gill myself. Hope to see you at Hard Eight tomorrow night.
Happy Trails! N
 
Well the story is a bit different than E. King Gill's but it shows the same devotion to ones school and as great a commitment. My family has deep seated Aggie Pride and it all started with my great great grandfather who would have done anything for TAMC.

Well the quick version is this, my Great Great Grandfather is actually an UNSUNG hero on the Fightin' Texas Aggie Football Team because nobody outside of the family knows his story. Back in 1896, my great great grandfather Dr. Ferring was a 6'3" freshman at Texas A&M College and back then 6'3" was kinda big to say the least. The Football coach at the time had been coaching the program since its beginning in 1894, and after a couple of embarrassing losses to Houston High School realized he needed to do some recruiting in the school. He saw my gramps walking across campus and said you gotta come play some football. My great great grandfather said sure but he would have to ask his Mom. So he wrote her a letter, and on receiving the letter she promptly told him no. The reason for this was my Grandfather was going to school to be a doctor and she said that you couldn't perform surgery if you didn't have perfect hands, and that he would hurt his hands playing that violent sport. Just like any 18 year old guy my great great grandfather rebelled against his parents and played the next four years of college football under an ALIAS so that his mother would never know, because he wanted to support his school and his team. He never received individual credit and if you go back into the library of recordson the west side of Evans Library, and compare the student list of TAMC to the football roster you will see that one name doesn't show up on the list of students in the college.

To this day his football "uniform" (which is a full length canvas body suit with no number, and laces all the way up the front, with bamboo in the shoulders and thighs) is hanging in my Great grandma Octi's Attic. It still looks like the day he took it off in 1899, sweat stains and all. He went on to be a doctor and set up a hospital in Chambers county but he only told his family what he had done. Nobody at A&M knows, and this is the first time I have ever told the story somewhere public.

Well anyways, it makes me proud enough to send out a WHOOP!!!!
 
I have often times thought about donating the uniform with a full write up on his alias and all to the sports museum at Kyle Field but I just havent found the time to get all the documentation properly cataloged and the story written up nicely. It would take a couple of days probably to dig up the records and I should have done it while at A&M but I just never took the time.
 
valkyrie610 said:
  • Mississipppi displays a Magnolia and uses the slogan "ONLY POSITIVE MISSISSIPPI SPOKEN HERE" :confused:
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I've never seen the Pisitive Miss-sippi sign.

Here's the one we use the most:

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WHOOP! x2

My first reaction is to ask for more detail. After thinking about it, I recommend you talk to the Former Student Association first. They will help you. Your G2 Grandfather is a hero and the old uniform is, in itself, priceless.

All of us have heard similar stories during our school days. In the 1890's they had to pull down the original clock tower. Neither man nor beast could get it down. One of the students grabbed some buddies and "acquired" a Civil War cannon that was used as a statue piece. With the permission of the work crew, they shot the base a couple of times and then the oxen teams could pull it down.

Stories like that (and like yours) need to be collected and written down. Dr. Ferring's story captures the Spirit of Texas. Congratulations and call the Association.

Happy Trails! N
Nick Stone '79


Aggie said:
Nobody at A&M knows, and this is the first time I have ever told the story somewhere public.

Well anyways, it makes me proud enough to send out a WHOOP!!!!
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Chris and Euclid, I at least know that on I-10 West or East the sign on the first picture it's the one been used. They were there a couple a weeks ago...

Aggie good story on the GG Grandpa...

Now about "Sully" I don't know about that wish for luck...

Obviously you gotta be an Aggie to believe it.

I am not an Aggie, but I am a realistic person, you study hard=good grades...

You don't study = poor grades...

I, myself went to the Lord himself while in school for help, and guess what! some times no help...

which I am thankful for it...

I realized that I needed to focus in my studies and quit my job, at the time I was working at a bank(Senior Year/ UT Brownsville).

Butch, I believe this thread has been Jacked several times, but some how gets it back to the Topic...

How about more videos of George S. about Texas?
 
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