with the company in 1961, and most
recently he has been assistant man-
ager of the Los Angeles agency.
Donald Smelley is in the dairy
business at Weatherford.
Bryan W. Dedeker, sales represent-
ative for Stewart & Stevenson Serv-
ices, lives in Dallas.
Monte Darden, Ft. Worth, is high-
way engineer for the Bureau of Pub-
lic Roads.
Charles S. Ware received his law
degree from LSU in 1961 and is prac-
ticing law in Lake Charles. He is
presently serving as vice president of
the City Council.
Ronald S. McCarter has been pro-
moted to head of the Radar Research
Department at Bell Telephone Lab-
oratories, Whippany, N. J.
William A. Hackney is a lubricat-
ing engineer at Gulf Oil Corpora-
tion’s Port Arthur refinery. He and
his wife and their children live in
Groves.
Don E. Todd is a new faculty mem-
ber of A&M’s Electrical Engineering
Department. Todd, who holds a BS
in electrical engineering, is seeking
a PhD in that field.
Curtis Tyler, Western Air Lines
pilot, lives in Torrance, Calif.
Randolph Newcomer is district
drilling engineer for the Union Oil
Company of Calif., Houma, La.
John Hoyle, former junior high
school principal at Midland who is
working on his doctorate in educa-
tional administration at A&M, has
been named an instructor in the
Education and Phychology Depart-
ment.
58 tin architect, has reported
arrival of Melanie Dawn
Dec. 20, 1965. The Wadsworths live
at 2303 Mahone, Apt. A.
W. E. Kuykendall is working on
his PhD at A&M.
Bill Hanna has been. promoted to
supervisor LPG distributor for Sun-
ray DX Oil Company's Sales & Re-
tail Supply, Tulsa. Jon Eric joined
the family circle March 30, 1965.
Jerry M. Reed, Madisonville busi-
nessman, is vice president of the
Lions Club, president of the Quar-
terback Club and chairman of the
Board of the First Methodist Church.
Capt. Phillip B. Chesher, on duty
in Germany, has been awarded the
Army Commendation Medal.
James G. Kimrey, San Angelo,
works for the highway department.
Bob C. Drummond, Certain-Teed
Frod. Corporation employe, lives at
Fairhope, Ala.
clude Eastern Shore Alabama Jaycees,
North Alabama Home Builders Asso-
ciation and the National Roofers As-
sociation.
Capt. Edward R. Gear, holder of
the Army Commendation Medal, is
stationed at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Jon L. Hagler, Kansas City invest-
ment analyst, reports the arrival of
Karin Jill Oct. 1, 1965.
Douglas L. Campbell, Corpus Chris-
ti, is engineer for Employers Casualty
Co. He is a member of the Ameri-
can Society of Safety Engineers.
Sonny Flores, Houston, was 1965
Consular Ball chairman. His mem-
berships include the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers and the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Arthur I. Davidson lives at Com-
anche.
The fourth child for Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Burkhard, Stuttgart, Ark.,
was born Dec. 1, 1965.
Grady Ash lives at 6009 Felipe,
Houston.
Donald B. Kirby, Denver, Colo., is
president of DAKIROE Corp. and
Estes, Kirby & Jones Development
Co. He is also a partner in the real
32
Terry M. Wadsworth, Aus-
His memberships in-
estate firm of Jones & Kirby.
John R. Culver lives in Amarillo
and works for Masonite Corp. The
two future Texas Aggies in the fam-
ily are Michael and Brady.
Capt. Milton R. Robert was pre-
sented the Air Medal with three oak
leaf clusters in Viet Nam.
Dr. Rayford G. Anthony has joined
A&M's chemical engineering depart-
ment faculty. He is a member of
the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, American Society of Engi-
neering Education and the American
Chemical Society.
Capt. Dan Davis, who was awarded
the Silver Star in Viet Nam, is teach-
ing ROTC at the Texas College of
Arts and Industries, Kingsville. The
captain also holds the Bronze Star,
Air Medal and two Vietnamese
Medals.
Bren Dehn is Union Oil Compa-
ny’s manager of Producing Property
Acquisitions, Houston.
Elmer T. Kolle is assistant sales
manager for the Rath Packing Co.,
Chicago.
Charles W. Nichols is extension
animal breeding specialist at Oklaho-
ma State University, Stillwater.
Bobby Nichols won the Minnesota
Golf Classic by one stroke.
Capt. Rollings E. Bilby has gradu-
ated from the Air University’s squad-
ron Officer School, Maxwell AFB,
Ala. He is currently assigned to
Carswell AFB.
’ Gayle McNutt has joined
59 the public relations staff of
Texas Mid-Continent Oil
and Gas Association in Dallas. The
winner of several awards for out-
standing news reporting, McNutt was
a member of the capitol news bureau
of the “Houston Post” and former
president of the Texas Association of
Sigma Delta Chi.
Bill Myers was graduated from the
School of Urban Planning at Okla-
homa State in May. He now serves
as director of the Department of
Urban Development for the City of
Stillwater and teaches in OSU’s
School of Business.
Tommy Flood is teaching and
coaching at Waco High School. A
former Aggie footballer, Tommy
coached the fish team in 1958.
Capt. Johnny Lyon was awarded
the Air Medal at Mather AFB, Calif.
His other awards include the Viet
Nam Service Medal and the National
Defense Service Medal.
M. J. Nevill is manager of Shell
Pipe Line Corporation’s Four Corners
Division, with headquarters in
Compton, Calif.
Marcus Rex Hudgins, exploitation
engineer for Shell Oil, lives in Mid-
land.
Richard G. Watts Jr. is chief
structural engineer for a
consulting engineering firm
in Stamford, Conn.
J. C. and Laurelei Burton and
their sons Jeffery Clarke and Stuart
Todd, live in Midland, where J. C. is
a petroleum engineer for the Pan
American Petroleum Corp.
After being on a U. S. Information
Agency grant in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
for two years and in El Salvador for
one year, Ernesto Uribe was awarded
a field appointment to the U. S. For-
eign Service as a staff officer.
Jay Gatlin is chief supply advisor
for the Royal Saudi Air Force, Dhah-
ram, Saudi Arabia.
Capt. Don C. Bott has returned to
his station in Savannah, Ga., follow-
ing a tour in Germany.
Gordon LeBoeuf, medical service
representative for J. B. Roerig and
Co. for two years, is now a member
of the all-volunteer national speakers
bureau of Chas. Pfizer & Co.
Kenneth Duggan works for Michel-
in Tire Corp. in Atlanta, Ga.
Larry L. Reeves has been ap-
pointed supervisor at the Geo. R.
Bienfang General Agency of Aetna
Life & Casualty in Lubbock.
Henry Gill is senior flight test
engineer for Lockheed, Hollywood,
Calif.
Joe Flood, relay track team letter-
man at A&M, is teaching and coach-
ing at Waco High School.
Dennis E. Chandler is district man-
ager for Yawman-Erbe, St. Ann, Mo.
’ Michael Lenzen has moved
61 from Memphis, Tenn., to
Dallas, where he is sales
engineer for Carrier Air Conditioning
Co.
Dr. Paul M. Beckham has been
appointed branch manager of the
mechanical engineering research
branch at Texas Instruments in Dal-
las.
Rodney Hebert lives in Pitts-
burgh, Penn., and works for West-
inghouse.
Michael Wagner is a real estate
broker for Harold Collum Co., Dal-
las.
For the past three years, David S.
Gibbs has done farm management,
appraisals and consultation work for
Doane Agricultural Service in Crow-
ley.
J. R. Weems is a civil engineer for
Texaco in Nigeria, Africa.
Albert Charles Thielemann, project
engineer for Dow Chemical Co., lives
in Houston.
Frank McFarland has been jointly
appointed to the Economics Depart-
ment and Texas Transportation In-
stitute at A&M.
Jerry Johnson and his family are
living in San Angelo, where he is
manager of the Stockyards Ranch
Mart of the V. A. Snell & Co., San
Antonio.
Dr. Ira Syler is practicing veter-
inary medicine in Schulenburg.
Lt. Walter R. Anderson is meteor-
plogis for Weather Warnings, Dal-
as.
Rodney Spencer, San Antonio, is
plant superintendent for Gebhardts
Mexican Food Co.
James D. Giles lives in Atlanta,
Ga., where he is retail marketing
supervisor for Tenneco Oil Co.
Don L. Adams owns and operates
the Adams Engineering & Manu-
facturing Co., Tulia.
Morris Straughan is county agri-
cultural agent at Conroe.
Reverend Sam W. Fort Jr. is pas-
tor of a Baptist Church in Spokane,
Wash.
’62 fighter pilot stationed at
Lakenheath AFB, England.
While serving in Viet Nam, George
E. Fort was promoted to captain in
the Marines’ First Military Police
Battalion.
Randall Hood works for Francis
Construction Co. in Beaumont.
Lt. David D. Gibson has been
transferred from Fairbanks, Alaska,
to Tyndall AFB, Fla.
Lt. Carl W. List is undergoing
plot training at Laughlin AFB, Del
io.
Gene Anderson, who is working on
his PhD in biochemistry at A&M, re-
ceived a McGee Award from the
American Oil Chemists’ Society that
entitled him to a trip to Philadel-
phia to attend the society's conven-
tion.
James E. Fraser, mechanical en-
gineer for United Aircraft, lives in
Hartford, Conn.
Ken Coppage was recently named
department head of the J. C. Penny
Co. in Tulsa. Ken reports his de-
partment (photographic supplies)
Lt. Joseph W. Ashy is a
should double its volume this year.
His new address is 1456 E. 52nd
Place.
Flin C. McGhee is teaching chem-
istry at Metropolitan Junior College,
Kansas City, Mo.
Ligon White is on a Sears Roebuck
management training program in
Austin. He and his wife and their
children, David and Carolyn, live
at 1701 Forest Hill Dr.
’ Willi Wills has been ap-
63 pointed superintendent in
the field controllers depart-
ment at Aetna Life & Casualty’s Bos-
ton casualty and surety division. For
the past year he has served as super-
visor at Des Moines.
Charles A. Tingle has been pro-
moted to manager of the Camera &
Office Equipment Department of
Sears-Roebuck’s southside store in
San Antonio.
Adolfo Ramirez Jr. has been trans-
ferred from Ft. Worth to New Or-
leans by the Army Corps of Engi-
neers.
Lt. Jerry Vion is
Mather AFB, Calif.
Burton R. Hermann is teaching at
Tyler Junior College.
Dr. Alden P. Scott, veterinarian at
Metairie Small Animal Hospital, lives
at 6804 Ithaca.
George Johnston is economics an-
alyst for Gulf Oil, Coral Gables, Fla.
Robert L. Thiele Jr. works for E.
I. DuPont in Beaumont.
Robert L. Degner is associate agri-
cultural agent for Dallas County.
John E. Blackburn is supervising
accountant for the City of Garland.
Lt. Herbert K. Johns is working in
the resident auditor's office in
Goose Bay AFB, Labrador.
James E. Johnson is a graduate
student at NTSU, Denton.
’ Lt. William A. Brantley
64 joined an engineer combat
battalion at Fort Lewis,
Wash., after serving as adjutant in an
engineer group in Germany. The
lieutenant is scheduled for Viet Nam
duty in the near future.
William M. Barnes, who is work-
ing toward a PhD degree at A&M,
is teaching manufacturing processes,
production and inventory control
in the Industrial Engineering De-
partment.
While Lt. Ben McCulloch is on
duty in Viet Nam, his wife and their
daughter are living in San Angelo.
Oren W. Beal Jr. is purchasing
agent for Mclver & Smith Fabricators
in Houston.
Lt. and Mrs. Joe Dean and their
daughter are living in Bangor, Me.,
where Joe is flying B-52s at Dow
AFB.
Jimmie Burney Jr. is traffic repre-
sentative for J. I Hailey, Inc., Cor-
pus Christi.
Lt. Armin E. Henneberger Jr. has
been with the USAF Auditor Gen-
eral, Perrin AFB, since graduating.
He recently received his master of
business administration degree from
East Texas State.
Donald and Sherry Richardson
have moved into their new home at
1507 Turtle Creek in Lufkin. Don-
ald works for Lufkin Trailers.
James Belote is process engineer
for Nidak, Ing., Kerens.
Anderson is track coach at
Haskell High School.
Albert D. Grant works for an ac-
counting firm in Longview and lives
at 404 Graham Dr.
) Bill Powers, former assist-
65 ant editor of the Madison-
ville “Meteor” has
employed as editor of “Texas Agri-
culture” and will reside in Waco.
He is recipient of the Agricultural
Promotion Award given by the Gulf
itexas aggie
stationed at