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VOLUME 64 Number ¥&> l*>0
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1969
Telephone 846-2226
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Texas A&M University President Earl Rudder
President Rudder
Greets Freshmen
It is a sincere pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M
University, the states oldest public institution of higher
learning. This institution will continue to play an increasingly
important 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 caliber. Your acceptance
into A&M indicates that you have the capability to contri
bute 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 student.
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 1973.
You have our best wishes for success and for an exceptionally
challenging educational career at Texas A&M University. We
commend you for selecting Texas A&M for the attainment of
your educational objectives.
Texas A&M will have many
supporters at the Oct. 4 A&M-
Army football game at West
Point, N. Y., thanks to a program
coordinated by senior class offi
cers and supported by former
students.
Jimmy Dunham of Baytown,
senior class president, reports
over one-half of the seats on the
198-passenger jetliner have been
reserved and he expects the char
ter flight to be full by early
September.
The trip is estimated to cost
$120 per student for all trans
portation and two nights lodging
in a New York City hotel.
Former students have been
asked to contribue to the trip.
“Tickets for the Army game
will be on sale at the campus so
the only cost a student should
have on the trip is meals and
personal expenses,” Dunham ex
plained.
Students have until Sept. 23 to
pay the total cost but are asked
to register as soon as possible. A
$30 down payment must be made
with each reservation at the Stu
dent Finance Center, Memorial
Student Center.
Dunham reported the group will
leave Houston Oct. 3, stay at the
Manhattan Mid-Town Hotel, at
tend the A&M-Army game at
West Point and return to Houston
Sunday, Oct. 5.
“The trip is open to any A&M
student, male or female, and the
student’s wife or husband,” Dun
ham pointed out.
The trip would cost over $200
per student without the charter
benefits, he noted.
Texas A&M Athletic Director
and Head Coach Gene Stallings
was the first to donate funds for
the trip. Coach Stallings gave
$100.
Dunham said donations received
will be used to lower the cost of
the trip for the entire group. No
individual students will receive
money to cut expenses, he noted.
$7.5 MILLION ENGINEERING CENTER
Site preparation for the $7.5 million engineering complex will house graduate and undergraduate instruction, is ex-
continued this week. Completion of the structure, which pected to be the summer of 1971. (Photo by Monty Stanley)
A&M Donated Fourth Ship
Dance On Aug. 14
Shiva’s Head Band, the top
name band to play at a dance at
Texas A&M this summer, will
highlight the Memorial Student
Center’s last Directorate gather
ing of the summer next Thurs
day, Aug. 14.
Composed of four members,
they play the organ, bass, elec
tric piano, drums, guitar, electric
violin, and recorder. Dress is
casual for the 8-12 p.m. fling in
Sbisa Dining Hall. The cost will
be $1.50 stag, $2.50 drag, and
maggies will get in free with
their A&M I.D.
Parker Brothers & Co., Inc., of
Houston announced it will do
nate a ship to Texas A&M for
use in oceanographic research.
C. T. Parker, president of the
building materials firm, identi
fied the vessel as the Mary Gene
II, a 110-foot converted World
War II submarine chaser.
The ship has a 2,500-mile
range and is rated at 150 gross
tons. Its air-conditioned facili
ties will accommodate 17 scien
tists and crew members.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, head of
Texas A&M’s Oceanography De
partment, said Mary Gene II will
be primarily used for research
along the continental shelf of the
Gulf Coast.
Such operation, Geyer noted,
will free the university’s present
oceanographic research vessel,
the 180-foot R/V Alaminos, for
deep-water projects and long du
ration cruises.
Mary Gene II will be Texas
A&M’s fourth sea-going vessel.
In addition to the Alaminos, the
university operates the “Texas
Clipper,” a 15,000-ton converted
oceanliner used as a training
ship for its Texas Maritime
Acadmey, and a 55-foot Chris
Craft Constellation which has
been transformed into a pollu
tion research vessel. The Chris
Craft was recently presented by
Houston oilman H. M e r 1 y n
Christi.
Texas A&M, only institution
in the state with sea-going cap-
ETV Step Closer
With $66,193 Gift
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Texas A&M’s proposed com
munity-wide educational televi
sion station moved a step closer
to reality with announcement by
Cong. Olin E. Teague that fed
eral funds totaling $66,193 have
been made available for the
project.
Mel Chastain, AM’s educational
television director, said the grant
is being furnished through the
Educational Broadcasting Facili
ties Program of the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare.
Chastain said the next and
final step involves issuance of a
construction permit by the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion.
“We don’t foresee any prob
lems with the FCC application,”
the ETV official said. A&M sub
mitted its application to the FCC
more than a year ago.
Chastain said the Texas A&M
station could be on the air by
the end of the year, barring un
foreseen difficulties.
The station will operate on
Channel 15.
Facilities will be located in
Bagley Hall, campus headquar
ters for ETV’s current closed-
circuit operations.
The new station will require
an expenditure of approximately
$88,000 for purchase of a trans
mitter and construction of a
broadcast tower. The HEW grant
will be supplemented by $22,000
in local funds.
When in operation, the Texas
A&M station will provide local-
interest and local educational
programs for both the university
and community, as well as car
rying National Educational Tel
evision (NET) programs.
At The Grove
AT THE GROVE
Tonight—All The Young Men
Thursday—Ten Little Indians
Friday—El Cid
Saturday—Rebel Without
A Cause
Sunday—Flying Leathernecks
Monday—Thunder Bay
Tuesday—Cape Fear
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
abilities, also is scheduled to re
ceive two new oceanographic
research vessels under a special
ship-building program proposed
by the Navy for the early 1970s.
Formal ceremonies for presen
tation of Mary Gene II to the
university will be held soon, not
ed the Parker Brothers presi
dent.
Three of the firm’s top offi
cials are Texas A&M graduates.
They are W. R. Parker Jr., ex
ecutive vice president; Dan R.
Parker, vice president; and
George G. Smith, vice president.
Other company officials include
R. H. Parker Jr. and Briscoe
Parker Jr., also vice presidents.
Mary Gene II, presently dock
ed at the Parker Brothers ship
yard in Houston, will be berthed
with the Alaminos at Galveston.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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SEND AN AGGIE HALFWAY
Texas A&M senior class president Jimmy Dunham, left, accepts aa $100 check from Ath
letic Director and Head Coach Gene Stallings for the “send an Aggie halfway” project.
The senior class is asking former students to help fly 198 Aggies to the A&M-Army foot
ball game in West Point, N. Y., Oct. 4. Coach Stallings graduated from A&M in 1957.
Inside The “Batt”
This annual freshman edition of The Battalion is
designed to give the new student and his parents some
insight into the background, size, traditions, facilities
and extra-curricular activities of Texas A&M.
The new student might find it helpful to keep this
issue of the “Batt” and bring it with him in September
to help him in the big job of getting acquainted with
the university.
The first section contains the current campus
news and feature stories.
The second section includes information on the
1969 football team and what is in store for them in
the fall.
The third section centers around the history, tra
ditions and extra-curricular activities available to the
students of A&M.
MISS WORKSHOPPER
Karen Day, South Houston High School senior, was
crowned Miss Workshopper at the 1969 High School Publi
cations Workshop sponsored by A&M’s Journalism De
partment. She won the crown over 24 other contestants.