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Number 130: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959
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Wilkins Named
To Allen Post
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assist
ant commandant of the School of
Military Sciences since 1951, has
been named commandant of cadets
at Allen Military Academy, Bryan.
Colonel Wilkins will take over
his new post August 11.
President Earl Rudder said to
day, “We regret to lose the serv
ices of Colonel Wilkins—but we
are glad to know that he will be
our neighbor and that he is join
ing such a fine school at Allen
Military Academy.”
“All of us on the staff of Allen
Military Academy are delighted
that Col. Wilkins is joining us as
commandant of cadets,” President
Nat B. Allen of Allen Military
Academy said today. “His long
record of working with youth plus
his personality and leadership
qualities fit him admirably for
the job of leading our students in
their daily lives.”
A native of Franklin and a
graduate of A&M, Col. Wilkins
holds a B.S. degree, 1936, educa-
cation, and an M.S. degree is edu-
citation and psychology, 1950. He
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant, USAR, in 1936.
Col. Wilkins recently graduated
from the Command and General
Staff College at Fort Leaven
worth.
As a student at A&M he was
a member of the cadet corps, a
cadet first lieutenant and execu
tive officer of A Infantry and
earned a freshman and two var
sity letters in football, basketball
and track. He was co-captain of
the 1935 football team.
From 1936-41 he was comman-
Ten Ags Receive
Bars at Fort Sill
Ten Reserve Officer Training
Corps cadets from A&M were
commissioned this morning as sec
ond lieutenants in the artillery
branch of the United States Army
Reserve during final ceremonies of
the 1959 ROTC summer camp at
the US Army Artillery and Mis
sile Center, Fort Sill, Okla.
The men had completed their
academic work for the commissions
prior to coming to the camp.
dant of high school ROTC cadets
and assistant football coach and
head basketball coach, El Paso
public schools.
Col. Wilkins entered the armed |
services in 1941. He spent two
and a half years in Europe, par
ticipated in five campaigns and re
ceived the Bronze Star.
He commanded the First Battal
ion, 143rd infantry, 36th infantry ;
division, Texas National Guard f
from 1947 to 1959. At present he
is deputy commander, First Bat
tle Group, 143rd infantry, 36th
division, Texas National Guard.
He has been with A&M since
1946, first as a civilian Counselor
and then as a veterans advisor.
He was appointed to his present
post in 1951.
Colonel and Mrs. Wilkins are the
parents of three children, Robert,
who is due to receive a commis
sion in the regular army at Fort
Hood this week and two daughters,
Patsy and Ruth Ann.
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins
. named Allen Commandant
Mezzo Soprano, Pianist
Crim, Sperry to Perform
At Music Series Sunday
Femininity and youth are two
outstanding characteristics of the
musicians to be presented by the
Memorial Student Center Summer
Music Series Sunday at 4 p.m. in
the Main Lounge when Dorothy
Crim, mezzo soprano, and Pamela
Sperry, pianist, will give recitals.
Accompanying pianist for Miss
Crim will be Carl Moehlman, and
host and hostess from the MSC
Summer Directorate will be Ed
Maldonado and Joanne Harris.
A program of religious, classical
and semi-classical selections, in
cluding Bach’s “Come Praise the
Lord”, “O Lord, Our God” by Mo
zart, “Der Schmied” and “Wiegen-
lied” by Brahms, and the Scotch
air “Loch Lomond”, have been
chosen by Miss Crim for her pre
sentation.
“Fantasia I in D Minor” by Mo
zart, Chopin’s “Waltz in C Sharp
Minor” and “Golliwogg’s Cake
Walk” by Debussy will be included
in Miss Sperry’s recital.
Miss Crim is the daughter of
H. R. Crim, 1408 Hoppess, Bry
an. Studying music education and
specializing in voice, she is a jun
ior at North Texas State College
in Denton, where she has partici
pated in North Texas Grand Chorus
performances with the Dallas and
North Texas symphonies, a mem
ber of the A Capella Choir, Wo-
Dr. Leipper Picked
For AMS Position
men’s Chorus and Chapel Choir
and the national music sorority,
Mu Phi Epsilon.
The daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
John J. Sperry, 703 Thomas St.,
College Station, Miss Sperry is a
senior at A&M Consolidated High
School. A piano student of Mrs.
H. A. Luther, she won a superior
rating in the Bryan-College Sta
tion Music Teachers Assn, audi
tions this year. She has played
clarinet with the A&M Consoli
dated High School Band, and this
summer participated 'in A&M’s
Summer Science Enrichment Pro
gram for High-Ability Secondary
School Students.
Featured on the Summer Music
Series presentation for August 9
will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hos
tetler and Joan-ne Hertzler, re
corder artistjs, and Sarah Watts,
pianist. Concluding the Sunday af
ternoon recitals for the 1959 sea
son will be Carolyn Wilson, so
prano, and Charles Mitchell, bari-
Those receiving commissions
this morning were Cadets Dale C.
Cantrell, son of . Mrs. Allie B.
Cantrell, 2209 Yale, Wichita Falls,
Texas; Gaynael R. Grigsby, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Grigsby,
202 E. 11th, Mt. Pleasant, Tex.;
Edward W. Hill, Son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy M. Harrell, 717 Poindex
ter, Cleburn, Tex; Ronald W.
Holder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
D. Holder, 4010 Pickett St., Green-
vill, Tex.
Others were Cadets Dennis C.
Holle, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Holle, Rt. 1, Washington, Tex.;
Clarence E. Jamail, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence N. Jamail, 6105
Fairdale, Houston; Albert N.
Klopfenstein, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer L. Klopfenstein, 3302 Mar
salis, Dallas.
More cadets from A&M included
Cadets Tommie E. Lehman, son of
Mr. Zeke Lohman Jr., Box 565,
Quiaman, Tex.; John M. Ratcliff,
gon of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rat
cliff, 1132 Heights Blvd., Houston,
Tex.; and Roderick D. Stepp, son
of Mr. M. M. Stepp, 2409 White
Settlement Rd., Fort Worth, Tex.,
and Mrs. M. M. Stepp, 3011 Ave.
Q, Wichita Falls, Tex.
Loyd Keel Speaks
At Kiwanis Meeting
Loyd Keel, professor in the De
partment of English, presented a
short talk on “The English Lan
guage” at the weekly meeting of
the College Station Kiwanis Club,
Tuesday in the Memorial Student
Center.
Keel, program chairman of the
Kiwanis Club, briefly discussed
various phases of the language in
cluding the diversity,of pronuncia
tion in various areas of the United
States.
The Council of the American
Meteorological Society has chosen
Dr. Hale F. Leipper of A&M to di
rect its efforts to stimulate re
search and teaching in the science
area that involves effects of the
oceans on meteorological phenom
ena.
Leipper, head of the Department
of Oceanography and Meteorology,
has been appointed chairman of the
Society’s Committee on Interaction
of the Sea and Atmosphere.
Serving with Leipper on this
committee will be four outstanding
physical scientists. They are Dr.
John Lyman, chief of the Division
Location Changed
For Dance Tonight
A new location and a “new look”
are the latest plans for the Thurs
day night “Den Dances” sponsor
ed by the Memorial Student Cen
ter Summer Directorate.
The jungle-theme dance, prev
iously staged in the Fountain
Room, will be as 8 in the Dining
Room tonight — initiating the
change for the remainder of the
semester.
Billie Jean Blazek, “Den Dance”
chairman reports that the decora
tions for the dance will also un
dergo change and blend with the
decor of the Dining Room.
“The dance area will be larger,
yet the Dining Room presents a
more secluded atmosphere,” says
Miss Blazek. Music for the dance
will be provided by the juke box
and informal wear will be in or
der.
Monday night’s dance contains
an underwater theme (bring your
aqualung) and will include a floor
show with Bill Turner’s Aggieland
Combo providing the music from
8:30 to 11 in the Ballroom.
of Oceanography, Navy Hydro-
graphic Office, Washington, D. C.;
Gerhard Neumann, professor of
oceanography and meteorology,
New York University; Dr. Walter
Munk, professor of oceanography
at the Scripps Institution of Ocean
ography, La Jolla, Calif., and Dr.
William von Arx of the W r oods
Hole Oceanographic Institution and
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
The area covered by this com
mittee is one in which the Depart
ment of Oceanography and Meteor
ology at A&M has specialized for
a number of years.
Projects now being carried out
in this area by A&M staff mem
bers include a study of weather
information obtained from bouys
which report automatically from
anchored positions in the central
Gulf of Mexico, a study of the ex
change of gases and heat between
the oceans and the atmosphere and
predictions of hurricane tides,
ocean waves and swell.
Lions Chib Plans
Future Projects
The College Station Lions Club
held a monthly business meeting
Monday in the Memorial Student
Center.
Past programs were discussed
and future projects including a
turkey sale and a light bulb sale
were discussed.
Plans were made to erect new
city limit signs in the city Monday
afternoon.
Guide Posts
Be careful also to avoid with
great diligence to those things in
thyself, which do commonly dis
please thee in others.—a Kempis.
tone.
These presentations are open to
the public.
Dorothy Crim
2,188Attending
Second Sessidn
Number Includes
Eighty-eight Coeds
A total of 2,188 students are now enrolled for the second
semester of summer school, H. L. Heaton, director of admis
sions and registrar at A&M, announced this week.
The mark exceeds the total number of students enrolled
for the same period last year. Last year’s enrollment at the
same time was 2,180.
Included in the 2,188 are 88 women students on the main
campus and 15G students at Junction. Seventy-five women
students were enrolled at the same time last year with 175
students at Junction.
Students residing on the campus are being housed in
Hart Hall, Dormitory 16, Walton Hall, Dormitory 14 and
■Dormitory 15.
Large Grant
Given College
By Foundation
The National Science Foundation
has recently granted A&M $80,800
for the support of a summer insti
tute of high school teachers of
science and mathematics, Dr. M. T.
Harrington, Chancellor, said this
week.
This period will be approximate
ly 12 weeks, beginning on or about
June 8, 1960. It will be adminis
tered under Coleman M. Loyd of
the physics department.
The bulk of the grant, $61,900,
will be received by A&M on or
about May 15, 1960, but the rest of
the grant will be paid earlier on
Nov. 15, 1959.
Stipulations of the grant are
that the money be used specifically
for scientific research.
The objectives of the summer in
stitute will be to improve the sub
ject-matter competence of the par
ticipating teachers and to bring
these teachers into personal con
tact with prominent scientists for
the stimulation of teacher inter
ests.
Last Thursday was the
deadline for enrolling in the
college for the second summer
term.
There were 2,596 students en
rolled for the first semester, an
all-time record for first semester
summer enrollment.
Vai’ious activities are offered on
the campus in order to make the
summer a most enjoyable one.
Most of the events are sponsored
by the Department of Student
Activities and the Memorial Stu
dent Center. Dances, movies, in
tramural sports, music series and
etc. are offered throughout the
second summer session.
The second term will end Friday,
Aug. 22
Graduation Notice
Ordering Date Set
Graduation announcements
may be ordered beginning to
morrow in the Office of Stu
dent Activities, Room 210,
YMCA, W. L. Penberthy, di
rector of Student Activities,
announced this week.
Top Plant Scientist
Joins Faculty Here
Dr. D. V. Sweet, an outstanding
plant scientist, has joined the
teaching and research staff here
Murray Receives
$50 TAS Grant
Fi’ed A. Murray, an A&M sen
ior from 339 Teakwood, San An
tonio, has received a grant of $50
from the Texas Academy of Sci
ence for support of a research pro
ject.
A fisheries student in the De
partment of Wildlife Management,
Murray is conducting a study that
involves a careful examination of
the gill arteries of a fish to der-
temine the connection of these ar
teries with the main vessel which
carries blood to all parts of the
body.
His research program is being
carried out under the supervision
of Dr Richard J. Baldauf, assist
ant professor in the Department
of Wildlife Management.
Murray will appear at a meeting
of the Collegiate Division of the
Texas Academy of Science in De
cember to pi’esent the results of
his research.
The study by Murray is one of
numerous research projects being
conducted by undergraduates of
A&M under the supervision of re
search scientists.
Baldauf says this fundamental
research not only trains the stu
dent to observe, do careful work
and to describe his observations,
but contributes to a better under
standing of the meaning of sci
ence through research.
as an associate professor in the
Department of Floriculture and
Landscape Architecture, Dr. A. F.
DeWerth, head of the department,
has announced.
His research at A&M will deal
principally with ornamental crops
and plant propagation.
For the past three years, Sweet
has been on the staff of the De
partment of Horticulture and the
College Experiment Station of the
University of Georgia where he
did research in floriculture.
Sweet was born in Michigan
and as a youth he worked with his
father in landscape gardening. He
attended Bethany College, Western
Michigan College and received his
B.S. degree' from Michigan State
University in 1951.
He was primarily interested in
propagation of ornamentals and
deciduous fruit-tree rootstocks.
He helped pioneer the work with
plastic films in horticulture, re
ceiving an M.S. degree in propa
gation from Michigan State Uni
versity in 1953.
He published one of the first
papers in the uses of plastic film
in the propagation and culture of
horticulture plants. This article
appeared in the quai’terly bulletin
of the Michigan Agricultural Ex
periment Station in 1952.
Sweet received recognition for
his application of plastic film to
horticulture in articles that ap
peared in the American Home
magazine in May, 195.3, Popular
Gardening in June, 1953, and the
Country Gentleman in August,
1953.
Dr. J. P. Abbott
Higher Education
Commission Elects
Abbott President
Dr. John Paul Abbott, distin
guished professor of English at
A&M, has been elected to a three-
year term as president of the Com
mission on Coopei’ation in Higher
Education. ;
The commission is a newly form
ed body of the Association of Tex
as Colleges of which Abbott is a
former president.
Purpose of the commission is to
identify and solve problems in ed
ucation to enhance th| coopera
tion and mutual assistance among
all levels of education in Texas.
Abbott joined the A&M faculty
in 1926 as an instructor in Eng
lish. He was dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences from Sept.
1, 1950, to Sept. 1, 1953, and was
dean of the College from Sept. 1,
1953, to Sept. 1, 1956, when he
was named distinguished pi’ofessor
of English.
A&M May Assist
In Peaceful Use
Of Atomic Energy
Peaceful use of nuclear explo
sions and possible research in this
field were discussed here last week.
Three visiting scientists, Dr.
Harlan Zodtner, Dr. Frank Adel-
man and Dr. Gary Higgins of the
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of
the University of California at
Berkeley, conferred with A&M
staff member's, concerning the
aquifier phase of the Atomic En
ergy Commission’s Operation
“PLOWSHARE,” and possible
participation by A&M in the pro
gram.
They met with Fred J. Benson,
dean of engineering; S. A. Lynch,
head of the Department of Geology
and Geophysics; Robert L. Whit
ing, head of the Department of
Petroleum Engineering and other
members of the two departments.
Others included in the confer
ences were Dr. Aaron Rose, direc
tor of the Texas Engineering Ex
periment Station, and Paul B.
Crawford, assistant director of the
A&M Division of the Texas Pe
troleum Research Committee.
The aquifier phase of Operation
“PLOWSHARE” in concerned with
the development of water resources
through the use of nuclear ex
plosions. The word aquifier means
a water-bearing bed or stratum of
earth, gravel or porous stone.
Professor Lynch and Paul Wea
ver, distinguished professor of
geology and geophysics at A&M,
attended the first conference on
the aquifier program last March
at the Lawrence Radiation Lab
oratory.
The proposed research at A&M
would be conducted by staff mem
bers of the Department of Geology
and Geophysics and the Depart
ment of Petroleum Engineering
and would concern basic problems
in the aquifier program.