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BRARY «pas — Special Freshmen Edition— Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967 Number 462 Col. Jim H. McCoy has been named commandant of Texas A&M’s 3,000-man Corps of Ca dets, announced A&M President Earl Rudder. Rudder said McCoy, a 1940 graduate of Texas A&M, will as sume his new position immedi ately, succeeding Col. D. L. Bak er who retired last spring after 30 years of military service. McCoy will also serve as pro fessor of military science. Prior to his assignment to Texas A&M, McCoy was deputy director of plans in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Washington, D. C. The 27-year veteran previous ly served in Europe, Japan, the Far East, Puerto Rico and Ko rea. He commanded an infantry battalion during World War II. Colonel McCoy is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, Armed Forces Staff College and the Armed Forces Industrial College. His military decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Combat Infan try Badge. McCoy, 51, is a native of Eddy, Tex., but currently lists his home town as Mart. He graduated from Bruceville - Eddy High School in 1935, from John Tarle- ton College in 1938 and Texas A&M in 1940. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McCoy of Midland and is married to the former Miss Dor othy Nettles of Mart. They have two sons, James, 24, and Donald, 18. PRESIDENT EARL RUDDER President Greets Incoming ‘Fish’ It is a sincere pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M University, the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning. This institution will play an increasingly im portant role in the advancement of higher education in Texas. You will be impressed with the environment which exists on this campus. Such an environment has been created by an outstanding faculty and staff, by an inspired student body, by fine teaching and research facilities, and by educational programs of the highest calibre. Your acceptance into A&M indicates that you have the capability to contribute in a meaningful way to this environment for learning. Your attitude, your diligent effort and your every action can be of lasting benefit to yourself and will contribute also to the enhancement of the University. The difference in outstanding success, mediocrity or failure for the student is determined largely by the stu dent. The scholastic record you achieve will be the basic standard by which success is measured. This record will begin your FIRST DAY on campus and will follow you throughout life. We hope that you will accept scholastic achievement as your primary mission while at Texas A&M. We place great confidence in the A&M Class of 1971. You have our best wishes for success and for an except- tionally challenging educational career at Texas A&M Uni versity. We commend you for selecting Texas A&M for the attainment of your educational objectives. Fall Semester To Kick Off With A Full Weekend Slate Humphrey Plans To Visit Postal Services To Be Curtailed K'.vnncsF C^y'a rr cr o era .QFaFi/xn m n /i V> i t-» o c in F n lr»KK\r rvP F Vi o A&M’s Galveston Facilities Vice President Hubert Humph rey’s whirlwind tour of Galves ton Friday is expected to include visits to Texas A&M’s Marine Laboratory and Texas Maritime Academy, A&M President Earl Rudder has announced. Rudder said the Vice President is scheduled to arrive at A&M’s oceanographic facilities about 11 a.m. after a helicopter tour of the Galveston area. Plans call for Humphrey to tour the Marine Laboratory and possibly go aboard the "Ala- minos,” the university’s oceano graphic research vessel which will have just returned from a three-week cruise in the Yucatan Straits. His visit to the Texas Maritime Academy, a division of Texas A&M, is expected to be brief, in that the TMA cadets and most of the staff are currently on a 10- week South American cruise aboard the “Texas Clipper,” the university’s other major vessel. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. Vice President Humphrey’s in spection of the oceanographic fa cilities at Galveston is being con ducted in connection with his po sition as chairman of the Nation al Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. In addition to Rudder, A&M officials accompanying Vice President Hump'hrey on the tour include Geosciences Dean Horace Byers and Dr. Richard A. Geyer, head of the Oceanography De partment. Congressman Jack Brooks of the 9th Congressional District is coordinating the Vice President’s overall Texas trip, with County Judge Ray Holbrook, A&M grad uate, handling the Galveston visit. A&M’s Marine Laboratory is engaged in various phases of re search in marine biology. One of its principal projects is the study of water pollution as it affects the poisoning of oysters and shrimp. The Texas Maritime Academy, established in 1962, is the newest of the five institutions of its type -Adv. in the nation. It offers a four- What’s In It For Me? This is the annual “Freshman Edition” of The Batta lion. This edition is designed to give the incoming fresh man and his parents a better insight into the history, traditions, scope, facilities and academic quality of Texas A&M. Many new students find it helpful to keep this issue of “The Batt” and bring it with them in September to help with the big job of getting acquainted with the campus. ■ Studertts enjoy a “double shot” of entertainment as the Memorial Student Center gives “The Kind of Party You Like.” See page 8, section 1. ■ The Aggies are picked for third place in the Southwest Conference football race this fall. See a run-down on how each of the Aggies’ opponents shape- up for this season. See page 4, section 2. ■ The World’s Largest Bonfire” is the symbol of the ever-burning Aggie Spirit. Each year Aggies con struct the bonfire the week before the game with Texas and ignite it during a pre-game yell practice. See pages 4-5, section 3. year college course of instruction leading to B.S. degrees in marine transportation or marine engi neering. Summer Students Asked To Move All summer session students living in air-conditioned univer sity dormitories are requested to remove their belongings from the buildings at the conclusion of the summer session to make way for guests of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, according to Bennie Zinn, director of stu dent affairs. More than 4,000 are expected to attend the conference from all over the United States and some foreign countries. The confer ence is scheduled Aug. 27-Sept. 1. “We consider this a great op portunity to allow many people to learn much about A&M and its programs,” said Zinn. Ernest Gregg, College Station postmaster, announced today that beginning Saturday, August 12, 1967 window services at the Col lege Station office will be cur tailed. This new policy is in conformi ty with those of the banks, sav ings and loan associations and city and county offices. The Post Office has its labor problems, as other businesses, in that the 89th Session of Congress passed a law that any regular employee that worked on Satur day or Sunday must work a full eight-hour day. This has created a problem as the service windows remain open only four hours on Saturdays. All other mail services, such as delivery of mail by carriers, mail placed in post office boxes and the dispatch of mail will continue as usual, Gregg said. “This ven ture will enable this office to give more efficient service Mondays through Fridays, as we will have experienced clerks at the service counters every day during the week.” The office will remain open on Saturday, August 5th as usual. There are two stamp vending Town Hall Is Slated To Open With Jazz Trumpeter A1 Hirt Jazz trumpeter A1 Hirt, “King of the Trumpeters,” will open the 1967-68 Town Hall Series at Tex as A&M with a Sept. 15 perform ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Robert Gonzales, chairman of the A&M Memorial Student Cen ter’s Town Hall Committee, not ed that a capacity crowd is an ticipated since the event is set the night before A&M clashes with SMU in the Southwest Con ference football opener. Hirt, who played to a packed house here two years ago, is booked for 8 p.m. The jolly 300- pounder’s first gold record was “Java,” but he has added a dou ble handful since then, including “Honey in the Horn” and “Su gar Lips.” The 1967-68 series, Gonzales explained, will include three fall and two spring presentations, with three extras. Current plans machines in the lobby of the main post office and one in the lobby at South Station in the Memorial Student Center. Any number or amount of stamps may be purchased at any hour of day or night as long as the patron has the correct change in nickels, dimes, or quarters. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Texas A&M’s 1967-68 school year will start with a bang. Registration and a nationally- televised football game with SMU, including a Cadet Corps march-in, will take place in a 48-hour period. Registration Thursday and Friday, Sept. 14 and 15, will be held against the usual backdrop of an expected record number of students moving into dormitories. Campus vehicular traffic will in clude visitors for the 3:30 p.m. A&M-SMU football opener at Kyle Field Sept. 16. During organization of the Ca det Corps Saturday and Sunday, the 3,000-man organization will pause for a football game march- in. President Earl Rudder gave 1967-68 seniors advance warning of the Corps’ game function while visiting cadets at ROTC summer camp. Preparation for the march-in will be limited, though the Aggie Band will check in 10 days early to work up a halftime drill. Fall semester classes will start Sept. 18. call for extras October 27 and November 22, and a third in the spring. Town Hall Extras are not in cluded in season ticket sales. All patrons, including students, need tickets for these performances. At regular performances, A&M students are admitted on presen tation of activity and identifica tion cards, Gonzales pointed out. The Town Hall chairman said students with activity cards are given priority on purchase of season reserved seats in every other row of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Solid bookings for the regular series include Mantovani and his orchestra November 8 and Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Dec. 6. BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. FIRE UNDER CONTROL Firemen participating in the Texas A&M Firemen’s school keep a demonstration fire un der control as they learn new fire-fighting techniques. The school concludes its third and final week Friday.