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Vol. 66 No. 127
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 9, 1971
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LT. GOV. BEN BARNES receives a greeting at Easterwood Airport last Wednesday
from A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams and representatives of the Texas 4--H Club.
Barnes was here to speak to the 4-H group during its annual Roundup.
\Local education center
established through grant
A $76,782 Mott Foundation
grant has been made to Texas
A&M for establishment of a com
munity education center here,
A&M President Dr. Jack K. Wil
liams has announced.
The foundation selected Texas
A&M as the location for the com
munity education center in the
Southwest. It will serve Texas,
[Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisi-
a.
The center will be one of 12
throughout the nation and one of
Ihree created this year by the
Mott Foundation.
Mott community education cen-
Iters develop through faculty and
;rea school district involvement
irograms for maximizing educa-
Itional resources for all members
of a community.
Philanthropist Charles S. Mott
[envisioned the operation and set
ip the foundation to support such
programs.
Education Dean Dr. Frank W.
R. Hubert said the A&M center
will be attached to the Depart
ment of Educational Administra
tion headed by Dr. Harold L.
Hawkins.
The center will begin operation
July 1 with Dr. Robert I. Ber-
ridge as director. Staffing ini
tially will also include a secre
tary.
Hubert said the grant provides
assistance in establishing the
center and its first year operation.
Year-to-year renewals on a cost
sharing basis are expected to
match university and area school
district input. Total annual budget
would be about $220,000 in line
with the original proposal, Hubert
said.
The education dean said the
center “will be an extremely fine
program for the university.”
Berridge has been assistant di
rector of a Mott center at Ball
State University in Muncie, Ind.,
since 1968. It is the Midwest cen
ter for dissemination, consulta
tion, research and training in
community education improve
ment.
He has degrees from Seton
Hall, Texas A&I and Michigan
State Universities, with the doc
tor of education awarded at East
Lansing in 1969. Berridge also
has done advanced work at the
University of Texas at Austin
and Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Berridge taught and was prin
cipal and federal programs direc
tor of Corpus Christi schools. Be
fore going to East Lansing for
doctoral studies under Mott in
ternship, he was interim director
of the Community Action Pro
gram for Nueces County.
AUSTIN—Dr. John C. Calhoun
Jr. was named academic vice pres
ident of Texas A&M University
at a meeting here Friday of the
Texas A&M University System
Board of Directors.
Calhoun, 54, currently serves as
Texas A&M’s vice president for
programs, dean of geosciences and
director of the institution’s Center
for Marine Resources. The ap
pointment is effective Sept. 1.
He succeeds Dr. Horace R.
Byers who is retiring from his
administrative position but will
remain at Texas A&M in his ca
pacity as distinguished professor
of meteorology.
The board officially lauded Dr.
Alvin I. Thomas, president of
Prairie View A&M College, for
action following the campus dis
orders last spring.
“The board commends Dr.
Thomas and the students, faculty
and staff who supported him in
re-establishing an atmosphere
conducive to learning and academ
ic achievement and in carrying
out the policies of the Board of
Directors at the Prairie View
A&M College campus,” read the
motion introduced by board mem
ber Ford D. Albritton Jr. of
Bryan.
Prior to their regular business
meeting, the Texas A&M directors
held a joint session with regents
of the University of Texas System
to sell bonds. Texas A&M’s por
tion of the sale totaled $5 million,
with the bonds being purchased
by Drexel Firestone, Inc., Blyth
& Co., Inc. & Associates of New
York at an effective interest rate
of 4.8705 percent.
The Texas A&M board also
awarded three construction con
tracts totaling $559,649 and ap
propriated $87,500 for a fourth
project.
John Gray Co., Inc., of Galves
ton won a $198,562 contract to
build an oceanographic staging
facility at Texas A&M’s new
Mitchell Campus on Galveston’s
Pelican Island. It will serve as a
support facility for the universi-
Silver Taps policy changed
E Silver Taps will be held only
once a month during the school
year according to a new policy
announced by A&M President
Jack K. Williams and the Uni
versity’s Executive Committee.
| “Significant growth in the
number of A&M faculty, staff
and student deaths has made a
policy change concerning individ
ual Silver Taps ceremonies nec
essary,” explained Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan.
F “Silver Taps traditionally was
MSC will hold
street dance
Friday at 9
Navasota, a band from Hous
ton, will provide the music for
the first MSC Summer Director
ate activity this summer.
The Street Dance will be Fri
day, from 9 p.m. until 12 mid-
nite in front of Sbisa (south
side), Joe Aridondo of the MSC
said Tuesday.
He said the purpose of the
dance is to get people who are
living on and off campus to get
to know each other.
( “Everyone is urged to come
and listen to the Bayou sound of
Navasota whether or not he or
she has a date,” Aridondo said.
The summer Directorate will
meet Thursday, at which time
plans for the rest of the sum
mer will be made. Aridondo said
the Directorate is looking for peo
ple interested in working with
the Directorate. He urged stu
dents interested to go by the Stu
dent Program Office in the MSC
and leave their name and address.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
held as soon as possible after
each student’s death. The policy
change will hold the number of
ceremonies to once a month,”
Hannigan said. “This will empha
size the importance of the cere
mony and be less demanding on
the Ross Volunteers and other
people involved in each cere
mony.”
Under the new policy, the next
Silver Taps ceremony will be
held on the last Tuesday of Sep
tember, if one is necessary.
“Also, a new policy concerning
the procedure of flying campus
flags at half-mast will go into
effect along with the new Silver
Taps policy,” Hannigan said. “It
has reached the point where it
seems the flag is at half-mast
several times a week.”
The policy change will affect
the nine flags flown in front of
the System Administration Build
ing. The center flag in front of
the building will be flown at half-
mast only on Memorial Day or
by proclamation of the President
of the United States. On any
occasion when the center flag is
flown at half-mast, the other
flags in the vicinity will not be
flown.
The three other flags on the
campus will be flown at half-mast
on any occasion when the flag
in front of the System Building
is flown at half-mast.
They also will be flown at
half-mast on the last Tuesday
of each month, with the excep
tion of December, in memory of
deceased members of the staff,
faculty and student body. In the
event the last Tuesday of a cer
tain month is not a suitable date,
the dean of students will desig-
jniate another date during the
month.
NASA grant to help battle
ship channel, Gulf pollution
Airborne detection of pollution
along the Houston Ship Channel
and Gulf Coast estuaries is among
projects funded by a $100,000
grant from the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
to Texas A&M’s Remote Sensing
Center.
Dr. John W. Rouse Jr., RSC
director and principal investigator
for the grant, said four research
programs are funded by the re
stricted grant.
Two which will be fundamental
to interpretation of space satellite
data are the water quality study
and microwave applications to de
tect oil slicks, soil moisture con
tent and sea surface conditions.
The other two are studies into
rangeland conditions and plant
viruses, especially the San Augus
tine Decline along the Texas
coast.
NASA’s Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston will monitor
the research, Rouse said. NASA
also will fly the missions with
special remote sensing-equipped
aircraft.
The water quality study is in
cooperation with the Environmen
tal Engineering Division of the
Civil Engineering Department
here. Dr. Roy W. Hann Jr. heads
the division, and his staff has op
erated pollution research vessels
in the Houston-Galveston area
since 1966.
“This project will join the air
borne sensor capabilities of the
Remote Sensing Center with the
ground-truth data from the estu
arine studies project,” Rouse ex
plained.
Hann’s group has three of the
nation’s best-equipped water qual
ity vessels operating on the Gulf
Coast and Rouse will use visible
and infrared sensors — photo
graphic and thermal sensors—for
the airborne data.
The microwave study will in
clude both radar and passive mi
crowave sensors in oil slick, sea
surface and soil moisture studies.
Rouse is a nationally-known mi
crowave expert and A&M’s RSC
is recognized as one of the best.
The center, a consortium of the
Colleges of Agriculture, Engineer
ing, Geosciences and Science, was
started four years ago.
“This large grant is evidence
our facilities have reached the
stage where they are recognized
with confidence,” Dr. Rouse said.
Vet College
obtains new
facultymember
Dr. Walter Crenshaw, a veter
inarian with a private practive in
Weslaco the past 22 years, joined
the College of Veterinary Medi
cine June 1, announced Dean
A. A. Price.
Crenshaw will be employed as
assistant professor of veterinary
medicine and surgery in the Small
Animal Clinic.
He received his DVM degree
from Texas A&M in 1946.
ty’s three oceanographic research
vessels.
The structure will include an
electronics laboratory, storage
space and offices for the port
captain and engineer associated
with operation of Texas A&M’s
three oceanographic research ves
sels.
University officials said con
struction should start about July
1 and be completed shortly after
the first of the year.
The new facility will be similar
in design to the two buildings now
John C. Calhoun
nearing completion on the Pelican
Island site.
In other action/concerning Tex
as A&M activities in Galveston,
the board authorized a 12 per
cent increase in room and board
fees at the Texas Maritime Acad
emy because of rising food and
labor costs.
Under the new rates effective
Sept. 1, the room and board fee
for TMA cadets will be $292 per
semester or summer cruise.
The board awarded a $301,402
contract to Sentry Construction
Co. of Bryan to renovate portions
of the basement of Texas A&M
Sbisa Dining Hall.
Another Bryan firm, W. E.
Kutzschbach Co., was awarded a
$59,685 contract for electrical
services for the university’s new
educational television facilities
under construction.
The $87,500 appropriation pro
vides funds for detailed design of
a new health center at Texas
A&M.
Calhoun was appointed aca
demic vice president upon the rec
ommendation of Dr. Jack K. Wil
liams, the university’s president.
Calhoun joined Texas A&M in
1955 as dean of engineering and
director of the Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station and Texas
Engineering Extension Service.
He was named vice president for
engineering in 1957, vice chan
cellor for engineering in 1959 and
vice chancellor for development
a year later.
In 1963, he was named science
advisor to the Secretary of Inte
rior. He returned to Texas A&M
in 1965 as vice president for pro
grams and distinguished profes
sor of petroleum engineering.
He was appointed director of
the university’s Sea Grant Pro
gram in 1968, with the expanded
operation being renamed the Of
fice of Marine Resources earlier
this year. He assumed the post
of geosciences dean in 1969.
Calhoun, who holds three de
grees in petroleum engineering
from Penn State, has held key
positions in numerous govern
mental and professional organiza
tions. He is currently chairman
of the Ocean Science Affairs
Board of the National Academy
of Sciences and vice president of
the American Society for Engi
neering Education.
Byers, a member of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences, has
served as the university’s aca
demic vice president since 1968.
He joined the institution in 1965
as its first dean of geosciences.
Proper accountability needed,
educator tells conference
If public education is to per
form the'task of teaching children
to listen, speak, think, read and
write, proper accountability must
be fixed, a leading educator said
here Monday.
“Of the states, Texas and Alas
ka have the spirit to do the job,
and do it well,” declared Dr. Jo
M. Stanchfield, keynote speaker
of the annual School Adminis
trators and Supervisors Confer
ence.
Fixing accountability requires
determining what education is ac
countable for, who is accountable
and how to accomplish account
ability, capsuled Dr. Stanchfield,
Occidental College professor and
recognized leader in reading, edu
cational psychology and adult
education.
“Accountability means being
answerable, liable, chargable and
responsible,” she reminded 700
participants at the annual Texas
A&M conference. “Education is
historically accountable for free,
public-supported schools that lead
young people to a better life, the
ability to participate in our demo
cratic society and equity.”
The system is responsible for
teaching five literary skills, lis
tening, speaking, thinking, read
ing and writing.
“Who is accountable for this?
Not just teachers and adminis
trators, who are most frequently
cited,” Dr. Stanchfield declared.
“We’re all in this together. Legis
latures and school boards, the
public in general, parents and
teacher education institutions
ought to be there on the firing
line with professional educators.”
Teachers are on the front of
the firing line, but are not in the
power structure to instigate new
programs and secure funds to
back them. The administrator is
one of the most important people
in education accountability, Dr.
Stanchfield told the gathering of
county and district superintend
ents and instructional supervisors.
“The administrator has got to
know if his school is being com
pletely accountable for the liter
acy of its pupils,” she said. “He
has to go through classrooms and
see whether the right things are
happening. He has to get in there
on the firing line with the teacher.
“If he’s not, we might as well
get businessmen to run our
schools,” Stanchfield warned.
“The American Association of
Manufacturers says they have the
most trouble with people who
don’t know how to listen. We have
a bias for the spoken word, the
raiment of thought. There are
many creative ideas to which no
body listens, because the creator
can’t put the idea in words,” Dr.
Stanchfield added.
Thinking is a natural part of
reading, if reading is done silent
ly with the goal of asking a ques
tion and answering it through
seeking inferences, predictions or
cause-effect relationships, she
said.
“This oreal, round-robin, barber
shop reading circle has to go,”
she continued, citing research that
indicates people who learn in
reading circles continue to read
orally.
“Reading is thinking with sym
bols, taking in thought units with
the eyes. There is no automatic
thought transfer if a reader has
to vocalize each word, sending it
through the teeth, lips and throat
to the brain,” Dr. Stanchfield add
ed.
Worst, the reading circle oral
subjects the poor reader to ridi
cule of his peers, when it is known
that the concept of self is most
important to the individual, she
contended.
PROMOTION was in order a few weeks ago for Dr. Lannis Hope, associate College of
Education dean, who moved from Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel in the Army Reserve.
Taking- part in the ceremonies at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio are Hope's wife and
Brig. Gen. Joe G. Hanover of Bryan, commander of the 420th Engineer Brigade. In
civilian life, he’s the district highway engineer for the state highway department. (Photo
by Tom Curl)