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Boyce Bryan Agriculture, the Army
r. Bryan was born in
1933 and raised in
MRalls, Texas. Later,
his family moved to Plainview,
where he grew up farming.
Boyce had plans of becoming an
agronomist and a Red Raider.
He met a beautiful “ticket taker”
at the movies and married her in
August 1953. Boyce was farming,
June was teaching English and
Speech in Ralls and two months
later, November 1953, Boyce was
drafted. He was shipped to the
8th Army Compound in Seoul,
Korea, where he trained to be a
Private 1st Class MP (Military
Police). One of his duties on the
border between North and South
Korea, in Panmunjom, was to
guard the Quonset huts where
negotiations were taking place.
He would go in one direction and
meeting him from the opposite
direction would be the guards
28 Amarillo Senior Link
and Auditory Ability
By Gayle Willson
from North Korea. That was in his world. Noise-induced
the first time he’d seen quilted hearing loss occurs when the
military uniforms; he was that nerve cells in the cochlea are
close. President Donald Trump permanently damaged by being
recently shook hands with Kim over exposed to sounds louder
Jong Un at the very location Mr. than 85 decibels over time. “Some
Bryan guarded in 1954. 1 billion people worldwide are
at risk for hearing loss due to
One of the highlights of his tour exposure to loud sounds.” 1 A
was when Debbie Reynolds came normal conversation is about
to perform for the troops. Mr. 60 dB. This is not damaging,
Bryan was assigned to her safety. but a motorcycle can reach 100
He led the procession to Seoul for dB and a power saw 110dB.
her team. He has a photo taken
with her, although he was not
able to attend her performance.
After his time in Korea was up
in 1955, he returned home to his
bride and began his education at
Texas Tech, studying agronomy
and eventually getting his Master
of Science in Agriculture. He is
thankful for the fellowship from
TTU, his job at the soil lab, June’s
teaching salary, and the GI Bill,
that got him through TTU in four
years. Boyce and June moved to
Plainview to farm in 1973. He
then began Boyce Bryan Realtors,
where he worked until he
retired. June and Boyce have two
daughters, Leigh Bryan Crane
(Tim) of Lubbock and Susan
Bryan Binford (Joe) of Toronto,
Canada, three granddaughters,
and two great grandchildren.
June passed away 2015. Teens listening to an iPod with
ear buds expose their hearing
Mr. Bryan suffers from a nerve to 100 decibels or more.
profound hearing loss from Other types of hearing loss
noise exposure. The loud dB are in our genes, and heredity
sounds from the military and plays a big part, depending on
from farming have caused him the generations before us and
to wear two hearing aids. He how their DNA is manifested.
also commented, though, that at Some are more prone to the
night, it is very easy to fall asleep, loud sounds affecting them
when the devices come off, than others. Another factor is
because it gets very, very quiet the length of time a person is