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Fireworks can be seen over a statue at the 49th annual College Station Lion’s Club Fourth of July Celebration. The fireworks show brought the evening events to a close.
Fanfare for the
Fourth By Christen Beck | The Battalion
The crowd snapped photos and clapped and hollered as four F-15 jets flew over the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, a group of Boy Scouts posed in front of the museum with American and Texas flags beside them as patriotic music played in the background.
It was the Fourth of July in College Station, and Saturday marked the 10th Independence Day celebration at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Around 3,000 visitors toured the museum during the celebration, said Bush Library and Museum Director Warren Finch. He said there were about 6,000 people on the grounds, and 15,000 to 20,000 people lined up to enjoy the 20-minute firework display that evening. The library began coordinating the event a year ago, and next year’s July 4 plans are already underway, said Finch. See Food on page 6
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Photos by Patrick Clayton — THE BATTALION
Children enjoy the festivities at the George Bush Presidential Library Saturday, which included numerous musical shows, a military fly-over and games.
Professor contributes to women’s health research ■ Dubriwny dedicates career to study of medicine and rhetoric Lindsay Lewis Special to The Battalion
Patrick Clayton — THE BATTALION
Think you know every nook and cranny of Texas A&M? Test your campus know-how by e-mailing The Battalion and telling us where you think this photo was taken. The first people to get the answers correct will have their names published in The Battalion. Send your response with your name, class and major to photo@thebatt.com.
Thursday’s answer: Rudder Tower
Correct response: Natalie Pollak, junior kinesiology major
Fifty years ago, women’s health topics were rarely discussed in popular media. Postpartum depression, cervical problems or something on breast cancer? Not likely. But now with ample public information available on women’s health, Texas A&M educator Tasha Dubriwny wants to know how issues are being portrayed and what it is that’s being said. The answers are both personal and professional for Dubriwny. She grew up in a house filled with conversation about the medical world, thanks to her mom, a psychiatric nurse, and father, a psychiatrist.
Dubriwny was surrounded by the medical world from her youth, and as an assistant professor in communication and women’s studies, her work primarily focuses on aspects of women’s health and communication. Raised in Oklahoma, she started her college career at the University of Oregon, but returned to her home state where she obtained a degree from the University of Oklahoma in women’s studies and met her husband. Her choice of a major fell into place because of what she called a “click moment” during an introduction to women’s studies course when she realized what was important to her. “It was one of those moments I hope every student has in a college career,” Dubriwny said. “It happened for me when we were talking about issues of discrimination, inequality, social structures and power. I thought, ‘That’s it. That’s what matters,’
Biography Influenced by her mother’s experience, Dubriwny wrote her master’s thesis on hormone replacement advertisements to graduate from the women’s studies department at the University of Cincinnati. Dubriwny then earned her doctorate in speech communication from the University of Georgia and began searching for a job.
See Dubriwny on page 4
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