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Vol. 66 No. 128
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, June 16, 1971
845-2226
Policy change
will not affect
Silver Taps
plane. Texas A&M’s nuclear reactor is in the lower right
corner, above the trees. (Photo by Debi Blackmon)
serve flying buffs
Texas A&M’s Silver Taps observance will
continue in its traditional form.
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said a
recent notice that the ceremony honoring
deceased students would be limited to once a
month was the result of a misinterpretation.
“As in the past, Silver Taps will normally be
held on the day of the student’s funeral, or as
close to that date as possible,” Hannigan empha
sized.
The report of a change in the tradition
stemmed from a faculty-staff-student study
leading to adoption of new general procedures for
flying campus flags at half-mast.
University officials said campus flags are
often at half-mast many days each month in honor
of retired faculty-staff personnel and, less fre
quently, for active faculty-staff and current
students.
“It was felt the frequent lowering of the flag
detracted from the significance of the gesture,”
Hannigan explained.
Officials also pointed out that with the
rapidly expanding number of faculty-staff, both
retired and active, the trend was sure to continue.
The new policy calls for flying a portion of
the campus flags at half-mast on the last Tuesday
of each month to honor the memory of members
of the faculty-staff in the Bryan-College Station
area who have died during the month.
Hannigan said the center flag in front of the
System 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 eight
smaller flags in the vicinity will not be flown.
The other three main flags on campus will be
flown at half-mast on any occasion when the flag
in front of the System Building is flown at
half-mast, as well as on days when Silver Taps will
be observed and on the one day per month
designated for honoring deceased faculty-staff
members.
Cards noting Silver Taps ceremonies will
continue to be placed on the base of the flag pole
in front of the Academic Building, with the
ceremonies conducted on the Academic Building
lawn that evening, the dean added.
By DEBI BLACKMON
Texas A&M’s Aeroclub, the only
flying organization in the Bryan-
College Station area, is promot
ing hobby-flying this summer at
Easterwood Airport for the many
flying enthusiasts, providing spe
cial instruction rates and discount
plane rentals for over 130 of its
members.
“The Texas A&M Eeroclub be
gan in May of 1969 when we
started with ten people and one
little determined Cessna 150 Sier-
6,500 attend
first summer
session here
First-session summer enroll
ment at Texas A&M University
is 6,507, up slightly from the
same period last year.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
enrollment on the main campus
totals 6,137.
The Texas Maritime Academy,
currently on its summer cruise,
registered 159 students, includ
ing 89 in the “Summer School at
Sea” program.
The Texas A&M Adjunct at
Junction has an enrollment of 141
and the Marine Laboratory at
Galveston, 70.
Included in the total enrollment
are 1,144 women.
Enrollment for the first sum
mer session last year was 6,460.
ra, and we have grown in mem
bership to 130, and our club now
operates three aircraft,” explain
ed Eldon Oxley, president of the
club.
The Aeroclub is not affiliated
with the university, as is the Fly
ing Kadets, presently a nonactive
club. Membership in the aeroclub
is limited to those connected with
the university, including faculty,
staff, all undergraduate and
graduate students, their wives,
and alumni.
A&M’s Aeroclub is a self-sup
ported, private club offering all
branches of aviation study, in
cluding an instructor service and
a discount plane rental.
Club members operate six home
regional scanner units which
monitor the club’s planes, keep
ing track of those in active use.
Some of the club officers started
out two years ago as beginning
pilots and have gone to the com-
merical pilot’s level.
“The main aim of our club,”
Oxley explained, “is to provide a
way in which more people inter
ested in flying can afford to go
out for an afternoon of flying, or
maybe jump to Houston on a bus
iness trip, or put in their hours
toward a higher level licence.”
Besides handling the actual
training of the student pilots, the
Aeroclub sponsors a ground school
for its members to teach the
technical side of aviation.
“The ground school is good
background for the student be
cause it will give him a better
understanding of what is going
on,” explained Donald F. Weseli, we haven’t lost anybody or had
chief flight instructor of the Aer
oclub. “Although it isn’t required
in order to obtain a licence under
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)
rules, we urge our students to
take R.”
In addition to the FAA rules
and regulations, the Aeroclub re
quires a yearly check flight with
a qualified instructor to make
sure the pilot hasn’t picked up
any sloppy or dangerous habits
during the year.
“The main thing is the stu
dent’s safety, so we try to give
them as much experience in actual
flying and flying problems as we
can,” added Oxley.
During the training session, the
instructors, including Jerry La-
Boid, John Richardson, Don Lit
tle, George F. Kerkhoff, Dean
Eveslage, and Mrs. Imogene
Chamberlain—the only woman in
structor—dream up some pretty
interesting problems.
“An instructor may blindfold a
student and give him the controls
a few hours later, telling the stu
dent to take him hcpare. So far,
Shortcoming of the ramjet at
subsonice speeds and turbojet
above twice the speed of sound
led a Texas A&M student to study
combining the two air-breathing
engines.
George W. Walton of San An
tonio says he believes the two
anyone seriously injured, so I
think the students’ record stands
for itself,” Oxley added.
Participating in flying meets
is another of the club’s outside
activities. In May of 1970, several
club members attended a 10-day
Intercollegiate Fly Meet in Bos-
mon, Mont., where Frank Gertson
brought hack the navigation
trophy.
“Right now, we are debating
sending two of our lady members
to a Powder Puff Derby compe
tition,” Oxley said. “Next year
we will be competing with all
three of our planes.”
The Aeroclub owns three air
craft at Easterwood Airport. The
two small planes are Cessna 150s
two seaters which are used as
the training planes, and the larger
one is a Cessna 172 which will
seat four and is used for the long
er distances like the cross coun
try flights.
“In the near future,” Oxley said,
the club plans to buy a faster
plane to meet our growing mem-
Good weather a boon
to campus building
(See Aeroclub, page 3)
Good weather and a minimum
of material and labor problems
have Texas A&M University’s
major building program on sched
ule, reports Charles E. Brunt, as
sistant manager of construction.
Brunt said the 320,000-square-
foot Engineering Center will be
completed this fall, with some
parts of the building ready for
student and. faculty use by the
start of the fall semester Aug. 31.
The Engineering Center is the
first building in the program
scheduled, for completion. Con
struction is in progress on seven
other major buildings, with com
pletion ranging from next sum
mer to the spring of 1975.
Brunt said $63.7 million in other
Student ‘marries’ jet engines
powerplants can be fused into one,
providing an aircraft the advant
ages of both.
‘The ramjet and turbojet are
complimentary,” Walton said. “It
is possible they could be com
bined, with each overcoming the
other’s shortcomings.”
in ramjet power increments of
one, two or three times the front
al area of the reduced-size turbo
jet, said the Air Force ROTC
cadet who graduated and was
commissioned in May.
The senior aerospace engineer
ing major said that such a “mar
riage” would enable a plane to
fly high and fast or cruise ef
ficiently at subsonice speeds.
Ramjets are most efficient at
high altitude flight above Mach
2.5 (two and a half times the
speed of sound) but cannot op
erate at power levels suitable for
take-off, low-altitude maneuver
ability and landing , Walton noted.
The afterburning turbojet op
erates with increasing inefficiency
above Mach 2.
Walton’s study shows that the
combined jet system can lengthen
aircraft speed range, increasing
ceiling and push the thrust-to-
weight ratio to twice that of an
afterburning turbojet.
Thrust, fuel consumption,
weights and configurations, drag
and level flight ceilings for three
powerplant combinations
considered.
were
projects includes the Memorial
Student Center expansion, audi
torium and conference complex;
Oceanography and meteorology
Building; 1,000-student dormitory
complex; Educational Television
Building for KAMU-TV; eight-
story office and classroom build
ing; Chemistry Institute Annex;
and utility expansion.
He gave the following summary
on each project:
—Engineering Center. Sched
uled, for completion in the fall of
1971, the four-floor and basement
structure will cost an estimated
$10 million.
—1,000-student dormitories. To
be used by both male and female
students, the 270,000 square feet
include four floors of student
rooms and a two-story commons
building. Scheduled completion is
the summer 1972 at a cost of
$8.5 million.
—Educational Television. This
one-floor, 17,000-square-foot
building will house A&M’s edu
cational television station KAMU-
TV. Scheduled for completion in
the summer of 1972, the building
will cost $600,000.
—Oceanography - Meteorology
Building. A 15-story structure
with 100,000 square feet built for
$7.6 million. It will be completed
by the fall of 1972.
—Office - Classroom Building.
Scheduled for completion in the
fall of 1972, the eight-story build
ing has 114,000 square feet. It
houses faculty offices and class
rooms. The cost is $3.6 million.
—Chemistry Institute annex.
The $4 million addition has five
floors and 77,000 square feet.
Completion is scheduled in the
fall of 1972.
—Auditorium and Conference
Complex. Built on the former site
of Guion Hall, the complex in
cludes an 11-story conference
building and three auditoriums
seating 2,500 persons, 750 and
250. Scheduled for completion in
the fall of 1973, it will cost $10
million.
—Memorial Student Center ex
pansion. The MSC expansion will
be completed in the spring of
1975 at a cost of 8.5 million The
two-story and basement structure
includes 94,000 square feet.
The university also has over
a half-million dollars in minor
building projects now under con
struction.
Projects estimated to cost $20
million are currently in design
stages, Brunt said.
They include a student health
center, athletic dorm, two-story
classroom building, College View
Apartments, utilities expansion,
Easterwood Airport resurfacing,
Texas Maritime Academy dorm
and dining hall and a forestry
field laboratory.
KAMU to air
CS candidates
Friday at 8:30
Walton’s mating of the two
engines places the turbojet in
front of the ramjet, with two
pairs of movable doors. One door
on a bulge at the junction-point
of the engine would remain shut
for turbojet operation and open
to supply air for ramjet opera
tion.
Grove to feature
i tiger flick ’tonight
A nose door opens for
turbojet propulsion and closes
when the ramjet is used. The
1967 San Antonio Highlands High
School graduate diagrammed the
engine so that the ramjet could
be used as an afterburner for
the turbojet.
Easterwood Airport again, this time as the men in the control tower see it. (Photo
by James Hopkins)
After establishing minimum
turbojet size for take-off, cruise
and landing, level flight ceiling
of the plane must be considered
The Texas A&M nostalgia equi
valent of “No, No Nannette” will
be seen tonight at the Grove The
ater.
Movies-under-the-stars patrons
will see “We’ve Never Been Lick
ed” in a double feature. The first
show, starting at 8:30 p.m., will
be “Texas Across the River,”
starring Dean Martin and Joey
Bishop.
“We’ve Never Been Licked”
was filmed by Universal Produc
tions at Texas A&M in the early
1940s. Dealing with A&M student
life, it provides pictorial record
of several student traditions.
Campus scenes, clothing styles
and dialogue also emphasize the
extent of change in 30 years.
“We’ve Never Been Licked” fea
tures Robert Mitchum, Noah Ber
ry, Jr., Anne Gwynn and Martha
O’Driscoll in a story plotted
around the presence of a foreign
intelligence agent on the campus.
Grove chairman Richard Mc
Henry said that the Texas A&M
film relic will follow the regular
feature. The second movie will
start at about 10:15 p.m.
A&M students are admitted to
Grove movies by ID card. Tickets
for others are 50 cents per adult
and 25 cents for children under
12. In case of rain, Grove movies
are shown in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom.
The KAMU-TV News and Pub
lic Relations Department and the
League of Women Voters Friday
at 8:30 p. m. will present Meet
the Candidates for the Tuesday
College Station special election.
Four candidates, Ed Miller of
504 Guernsey, Eldon W. Oxley of
510 First Street, C. A. Bonnen of
201 Lee and J. D. Lindsay of 1029
Walton, are seeking the two
places vacated by College Station
Councilmen Cecil B. Ryan and
C. H. Ransdell.
The meeting, open to the pub
lic, will take place in the Channel
15 studios at Bagley Hall.
The format will be the same
as past Meet the Candidate pro
grams. Each candidate will be
allowed a limited time to speak
to the group, followed by a ques
tion-answer session.
The program, which will be
shown to viewers live Friday
night, also will be taped for re
broadcast Monday at 10 p. m.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.