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IT WAS HOT
Summer had barely peeked around the corner before it was
time for many to begin registration for summer school at
A&M. Most found the sun hot and the hours long before
they got through the lines of Sbisa. (Battalion Photo)
Hall Program Adds
Four More Dorms
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i Texas A&M’s civilian residence
hall program—off to a fast start
last September—will add four
dormitories next Fall, bringing
the number of participating dorms
to seven.
Walton, Davis-Gary and Leg
gett Halls will be joined by
Moore, Law, Puryear and Hughes.
; The unique project started as
a pilot program to help raise
sagging civilian student spirits
which some university officials
felt existed in the once all-mili
tary institution.
1 A&M’s civilian-cadet student
ratio is now approximately three
to one in favor of civilians.
Aggie Grads
Given Medals
The Silver Star was among
three decorations recently award
ed Texas A&M graduates serving
'with the Army in Vietnam.
> Lt. Col. James It. Woodall, 1950
llgraduate of Decatur, received the
Silver Star for “exceptionally
valorous actions,” the citation
read.
| The 173rd Airborne Brigade
jbattalion commander monitored
radio report of a Feb. 14 Viet
Cong ambush. He rushed to the
scene, organized an attack ele-
iment and turned the situation
around, causing the VC to flee
and fail their mission. The Com
pany “D” Infantry commander in
the corps at A&M knocked out
an enemy rocket launcher him
self, led friendly forces success
fully against a machinegun and
'directed pursuit of the routed
enemy ambushers.
At A&M, Woodall also was co-
editor of the “Aglgieland,” a
Ross Volunteer and Distinguished
Military Student.
The Air Medal and commen
dation Medal went to Capt. Noble
J. Atkins Jr. of Dallas and 1st
[it. Andrew C. Salge of Skid
more, respectively.
, Captain Atkins, 1965 grad in
S architecture, is a pilot of the
245th Surveillance Airplane
(Company at Da Nang. He com-
imanded Company E-3 in the
[corps and was an architect with
|Watson and Wagoner Associates
[in College Station before going
on active duty.
Grove Movies
Thursday-The Devil At 4 O’Clock
Priday-Ocean’s 11
Saturday-The Mouse That Roared
Sunday-A Man Could Get Killed
Monday-Baby, The Rain Must
Fall
Tucsday-Robin And The 7 Hoods
Wednesday-Behold A Pale Horse
Howard Perry said the in
crease in the hall program leaves
only 10 dorms not participating.
Perry is residence hall advisor.
“As the students want it, and
funds become available, we’ll
move others into the program.”
he said.
“We feel the program initiated
last year has developed pretty
good,” he continued. “There is
a good sense of unity among the
civilian students. And, we feel
the civilian students have found
their nitch,” he said.
Perry explained the special
halls elect their own student gov
erning body, much like a club,
with officers. Each hall is re
quired to ratify a constitution.
Hall constitutions provide for
a judiciary committee to handle
minor discipline problems. Perry
noted committees functioned sat
isfactorily during the past two
semesters without problems.
He added it is obvious the new
spirit among civilians is “spilling
into the other halls.” More civil
ian freshmen participate in stu
dent activities than previous
years, he cited.
Earlier in the year A&M’s
Civilian Student Council voted to
affiliate with the National Asso
ciation of College and University
Residence Halls.
The action followed a trip to
California State College at Long
Beach by three Aggies who ob
served NACURH’s annual con
ference.
NSF Awards A&M
Grant Of $42,000
The National Science Founda
tion has awarded Texas A&M a
$42,400 grant for “Mass Spectro-
metric Investigation of Diatomic
Metals, Intermetallic Compounds
and Pnictides at High Tempera
tures.”
Principal investigator for the
project is Karl A. Gingerich, pro-
xessor of chemistry.
The grant becomes effective
June 1 for a two-year period.
Gingerich said the grant will
be used for synthesizing and
measuring and determining bond
energies for various diatomic
species that have never been pre
viously studied.
The objective, Gingerich added,
is ot increase “our understanding
of the nature of the bonding in
such species.”
Gingerich was a senior chemist
at Battelle Memorial Institute
before coming to A&M last year
as a professor. He received de
grees at Albert Ludwigs Univer
sity in Freiburg, Germany, and
taught at Ludwigs, the Univer
sity of Illinois and Penn State.
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Five Elected To New Academic Panel
Faculty Chooses
Tenure Committee ^
END OF THE LINE
Once inside, many more steps were taken before reaching the end of the line where the
card packets were turned in. Final tabs are not in, but it is expected that more than
5,800 will register for the first summer session. (Battalion Photo)
Students Find Lady Prof
To Be A Real ‘Cool Head’
Texas A&M’s new Committee
on Academic F r el e d o m and
Tenure will be composed of
Drs. W i 1 b o u r n E. Benton,
Charles L. Boyd, Edwin B.
Doran Jr., Rudolph E. Leighton
and Bob M. Gallaway, an
nounced Academic Vice Presi
dent Horace R. Byers.
The five men were elected
by fellow faculty members from
a panel of 16 professors nomi
nated by colleagues in A&M’s
various colleges.
Dr. Byers announced the elec
tion results Wednesday follow
ing tabulation of the 520 ballots.
Deadline for voting was 5 p.m.
Monday.
The Committee on Academic
Freedom and Tenure, along with
a Faculty Advisory Committee,
was established in accordance
with provisions of Texas A&M’s
recently adopted Statement on
Academic Freedom, Tenure and
responsibility. The statement
follows the policy of the Coor
dinating Board, Texas College
and University System.
Members of the Faculty Advi
sory Committee were announced
this week. Each of the eight
members was selected by an ad
visory committee or the equiv
alent in the academic college
which he represents.
Byers explained proposals for
termination of tenured faculty
initially be presented to the Fac
ulty Advisory Committee. In a
mutually agreeable decision is not
reached with that group, the per
son involved may request a hear
ing before the Committee on
Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Dr. Benton is professor of po
litical science; Dr. Boyd, asso
ciate professor, veterinary medi
cine and surgery; Dr. Doran,
professor and head, Geography
Department; Gallaway, professor,
civil engineering, and Dr. Leigh
ton, professor, animal science.
Members of the Faculty Advi
sory Committee are: Dr. Page W.
Morgan, representing the College
of Agriculture; Richard Vroo-
man, College of Architecture;
Dr. Russell A. Porter Jr., College
of Business Administration;
James H. Caddess, College of En
gineering; William R. Bryant,
Prof Attends Meet
Dr. Paul Jungerman, veterin
ary microbiology professor at
A&M University, will attend the
Elanco Management Seminar-
Practice Improvement Program
in Houston June 8.
Veterinarians from Texas and
Louisiana are registered for the
seminar, which is designed to
give private practitioners a bet
ter understanding of current
business management practices.
Four outstanding 4-H Club
members were honored during
the first general assembly of the
1969 State 4-H Roundup here
this week.
They were James F o r t s o n
Dockrey of Colorado City; Billy
Dan Snow and Randall Casey
Moore, both of Abilene; and
Glenn D. Sparger of Grapevine.
Dockrey, Snow and Sparger
each received a $4,000 Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo Schol
arship while Moore was awarded
a $500 continuing scholarship
from the G. J. Davidson Scholar
ship Fund.
A nine-year member of the
Mitchell County 4-H Club, Dock
rey is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry L. Dockrey. He holds the
Gold Star Award, the highest
award that cah be presented at
the county level, and has won
trips to 4-H RoUndups three
years as the first place winner
in district competition with ’
Method Demonstrations.
Snow has been a Taylor County
4-H’er for 10 years and is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Snow.
He won the Gold Star Award in
1967 and was Texas’ 4-H repre
sentative to the State and Na
tional Convention of American
College of Geosciences; Dr. Car-
roll D. Laverty, College of Liberal
Arts; Dr. Charles E. Gates, Col
lege of Science; and Dr. James
H. Denton, College of Veterinary
Medicine.
Tellers for the Committee on
Academic Freedom and Tenure
election were Bryant, assistant
professor of oceanography; Dr.
Manuel Davenport, professor and
head, Philosophy Department, and
Dr. John F. Griffiths, associate
professor of meteorology.
Foreign Opinion
Is Progressive
America’s progressiveness is
a “first impression” for Argen
tina’s Pedro G. Bordelois who is
visiting Texas A&M as one of
several steps on a month-long
tour of the U. S.
Speaking through an interpret
er, Bordelais said, “. . . it does
not wait for the future ... it
grasps.”
Bordelois added it is hard to
evaluate a nation.
“There is always a difference
in what you read and see,” he
said. It is his first trip to the
U. S.
“I want to look, observe and
ask questions,” he remarked.
Bordelois is president of the
National Institute of Agriculture
and Livestock Technology (INT
and Livestock Technology
(INTA) in Argentina. He served
formerly as under-secretary of
Agriculture and Livestock in the
Argentina government and is a
former member of the Board of
Directors of the Argentine Asso
ciation of Agronomists.
Bordelois’ trip to A&M repays
a visit made to his country last
year by A&M President Earl
Rudder and Dr. Tyrus R. Timm,
professor and head of Agricul
ture Economics and Sociology.
Several A&M faculty-staff
members have visited INTA dur
ing the past nine years A&M
has worked with the Argentina
institute.
A&M International Programs
Director Dr. Jack D. Gray point
ed out Bordelois is responsible
for the institute’s agricultural
research and extension activities.
The U. S. Agency for Interna
tional Development has worked
closely with the South American
country through grant-type pro
grams.
“These INTA programs have
resulted in close contacts with
several of our nation’s universi
ties,” Gray continued. “Part of
Bordelois’ plans include visiting
these universities to further
these developing relationships.”
Society of Range Management.
He was high individual in the
1967 State Grass Judging Con
test.
A veteran Tarrant County
4-H’er for nine years, Sparger
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus
Sparger. His outstanding record
includes such county honors as
Junior Boy in 1962, Gold Star
Boy in 1965 and Rural Youth of
the Month in 1964.
Moore, another veteran of nine
years as a Taylor County 4-H’er,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
ton C. Moore. An outstanding
livestock showman, he exhibited
the county grand champion bar-
•row in 1964, grand champion
Sears boar in the district in 1964
and grand champion Duroc fe-
made at the West Texas State
Fair in 1966. The youngster also
has won numerous honors in
grass identification and? dair'y
judging.
Dockrey and Sparger both plan
to study veterinary medicine at
Texas A&M University. Moore
plans to study petroleum engi
neering at Texas A&M while
Snow intends to major in agri
cultural engineering at the same
university.
The lady prof is a “cool head”
to her students.
Several hundred Texas Aggies
use the name to describe their
marketing professor, Miss Bar
bara Davis.
And she doesn’t object.
Clear proof of the student’s
affection for the attractive Ari
zonian are the honors they heap
ed upon her as the spring semes
ter closed.
Although she has been teaching
at Texas A&M only two years,
Miss Davis—it will soon be “doc
tor”—received the Civilian Stu
dent Council’s Distinguished Fac
ulty-Student Relationship Award.
A few days later she was named
recipient of a Distinguished Serv
ice Award from the university’s
Memorial Student Center Direc
torate.
She also stands tall with other
faculty members who honored
her with an Outstanding Teach
ing Award from the College of
Business Administration.
All of the honors were received
within a few weeks of each other.
Miss Davis is well-prepared
for her teaching role. She is a
graduate of the University of
Arizona where she earned her
bachelor and master’s degrees in
marketing. At Northwestern she
received a master’s degree in
sociology and has completed both
course work and dissertation for
a Ph.D.
The prof likes her students.
“I think a person going into
teaching has to like students, she
remarked. “If the day comes
when you hate to go into a class
room you should get out of teach
ing.”
Students offer a special chal
lenge to Miss Davis.
GRE Scheduled
For June 27-28
Seniors expecting to gradu
ate in July or August should
register by Friday for the
Graduate Record Examinations
to be given June 27-28.
The Counseling and Testing
Center will administer the GRE
and will notify registrants by
mail of the time and place, an-’
nounced Director S. Auston
Kerley.
“Students who cannot take
the Jqne 27-28 tests may reg
ister for the national testing
program of the Graduate Rec
ord Examinations to be given
on campus July 12,” he added.
National program applica
tions are available at the cen
ter and must reach the national
office in Berkeley, Calif., be
fore June 17.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
“Wet get so complacent with
ourselves,” she said. “But stu
dents ask questions about things
we have forgotten. It’s very
stimulating.”
There appears to be mutual
teacher-student trust.
“I don’t think the majority of
the students are afraid of me,”
she continued.
Students report their market-
BARBARA DAVIS
ing prof is willing to talk with
them outside of class as well as
in the classroom. They feel they
are getting a “fair shake.”
Miss Davis, who doesn’t look
upon her gender as an advantage
or disadvantage in the predom
inantly male university, admits
students are “many times shock
ed to find I am a woman.”
“Usually I was the only girl in
my graduate class,” she smiled,
adding, “basically I know how to
get along with men.”
Active on several student com
mittees, Professor Davis feels in-
Aggie Grad Gets
Highest Award
Army 1st Lt. Eloy Garcia Jr.
of Laredo, a 1967 Texas A&M
graduate, has received the na
tion’s highest award for heroism
in a non-combat situation.
The 5th Cavalry helicopter
pilot at Dong Tam in Vietnam
was decorated with the Soldier’s
Medal for life-saving valor after
his craft was hit by enemy fire
and crashed in flames on Feb. 28.
Lieutenant Garcia “braved in
tense heat and imminent danger
of explosion to help free the
door gunner whose foot was
caught in the wreckage,” accord
ing to the citation.
The 23-year-old 9th Infantry
Division officer has been in
Southeast Asia since December
and also holds the Commendation
Medal for heroism and Purple
Heart. Garcia studied sociology
and psychology at A&M and was
in Company H-2 in the corps.
volvement offers “a better under
standing of the university and
its students.”
She refuses to label committee
activities as “work.”
“I get so much out of them
. . . so much satisfaction ... I
don’t really think of them as
work,” she continued.
Miss Davis returned to the
classroom after two years in
business.
“I wasn’t getting the fulfill
ment I wanted,” she said. Liking
the interaction of students from
her graduate teaching days, she
decided to return to the class
room as a teacher.
What are her plans ? Simply
more teaching assignments!
Engineering And
Economics Linked
What does engineering have to
do with the low economic index
of the lower Rio Grande Valley ?
Nothing, from one point of
view, and from another—every
thing.
“One of the need^s common to
the U. S. and foreign nations is in
creasing the wealth of those
people with marginal incomes,”
suggests an interdisciplinary en
gineering research team at Tex
as A&M.
The five graduate students
identified and analyzed one of
society’s basic needs then u^sed
problem solving techniques of
engineering to propose a solution.
Their proposal describes an in
dustry that could be situated in
the Valley. Intrusion detection
systems manufacturable by semi
skilled labor available there would
provide a means of alleviating
economic problems of the unem
ployed or poorly paid.
Ideas expressed in the proposal
is the first step toward fulfill
ment of a prediction made by En
gineering Dean Fred J. Benson:
that engineers will “take a whack”
at social problems.
Philosophy of the new industry
proposal was expressed by Dr.
Charles A. Rodenberger, instruc
tor of the engineering course.
“If we really want to solve the
problems that exist in the U. S.
today, we’ve got to look at what
causes riots,” he said. Rodenberg
er cited poor housing and not
enough food which are traceable
to lack of income.
“The students’ proposal basical
ly would provide jobs for person,s
of relatively little skill, which
would help solve this problem,”
the aerospace engineering profes
sor added.
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Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L —Adv.
Outstanding 4-H’ers
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