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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas
Tuesday, April 1, 1947
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Vocational Teachers to Attend
Fort Worth Parley April 3-5
Approximately 1,500 vocational—
Adamson Elected
Head of College
Swimming Coaches
Seattle, Wash. April 1st — Art
Adamson, head Swimming Coach
at Texas A&M College was on his
way back south today with a new
title tacked on his name. Adam
son, whose Aggie Swimming team
finished second in the Southwest
Conference this year, was elected
President of the National Swim
ming Coaches Association here
Saturday.
Adamson will serve as presiding
officer of the Coaches Association
for a term of one year. The meet
ing of the nation’s leading coaches
of the acquatic sport was held in
conjunction with the National Col
legiate Athletic Association Swim
ming Meet held in Seattle over the
weekend.
Danny Green, ace Aggie record
breaker and one of the finest free
style artists ever to come out of
the Southwest Conference, was un
able to compete in the Nationals
as expected.
—TRIAL—
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and Cadet Lt. Col. Jack Nelson,
commander of the first composite
regiment. Brandt and Nelson
tendered their resignations to Col.
Meloy, who took no action.
The following night, Col. Meloy
appeared before a meeting of the
class, and ordered all seniors to
report to Ross Hall for inter
views. Seniors were called upon
to state whether they attended the
meeting, and to repudiate their
vote if so.
After Col. Meloy’s departure,
the class voted not to be inter
viewed. The vote was upheld af
ter a written order was issued
ordering the interviews. Tactical
officers subsequently conducted
the interviews in the dormitories.
A statement issued by the class
Friday claimed their right to vote
"no confidence” in any cadet offi
cer, and disputed the power of
Col. Meloy to require anyone to
tell how they voted.
Only forty-three cadet officers,
most of them from the veterans
companies, reported for interviews
conducted to discover their con-
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teachers from all over Texas are
expected to attend the Sixth An
nual Texas Vocational Teachers
Association Convention at Fort
Worth on April 3-5, according to
President C. H. Groneman, acting
head of A.&M.’s Industrial Edu
cation Department.
The speakers for the opening
session Thursday night at 8 p.m.
in the Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Tex
as, include: D. W. Williams, vice-
president for Agriculture of A.&
M., who will discuss ‘Newer Con
cepts in Agriculture”; J. P. Moore,
superintendent of the Fort Worth
Public Schools, speaking on “Vo
cational Education for Society”;
Dr. B. E. Jackson, TSCW, who will
be the principle speaker for the
banquet. The main program for
Saturday morning will include W.
W. Finlay, vice-president and gen
eral manager of Guiberson Cor
poration, and W. E. Lowry, ex
ecutive director, State Board for
Vocational Education.
The Texas Vocational Teachers
Association consists of directors,
coordinators, teacher trainers, and
teachers in the fields of agricul
ture, homemaking, trade and in
dustrial education, industrial arts,
business and distributive educa
tion, vocational rehabilitation, and
guidance. Each division will have
sectional meetings throughout Fri
day and Saturday. Friday night
wil be the occasion of the annual
banquet and dance in the Crystal
Ballroom.
One of the features for the con
vention will be exhibits by 42 firms
of industrial products, equipment,
and machinery which will be of in
terest to teachers and general peo
ple. Many post war conveniences
will be on display.
duct in the senior meeting which
returned a “no confidence” vote
in Cadet Col. Brandt and Lt. Col.
Nelson.
Brandt and Nelson subsequently
resigned their commissions. Col.
Meloy has taken no action on their
resignations as yet.
DR. N. B. McNUTT
DENTIST
Office in Parker Building
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
A&M-Houston EE
Groups to Meet
Jointly April 8
A joint meeting of the in
dustrial applications techni-
cial group, Houston section of
the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, with student
AIEE chapters from A&M and
Rice Institute, will be held on
the campus April 8.
An inspection of the A&M Col
lege mass spectrometer installa
tion will be the program’s high
light.
The conferees will attend the
Rice-A & M baseball game in the
afternoon, have dinner together,
inspect the mass spectrometer and
then hear a paper on “A Vacuum
Leak Detector,” prepared by As
sociate Professor H. A. Thomas,
mass spectrometer expert, for his
Ph. D. thesis.
Cotton Course For
Summer Announced
The 38th Summer Cotton Short
course to be conducted at A.&M.
June 2 to July 12 has been an
nounced by Dr. J. E. Adams, head
of the A. & M. agronomy depart
ment. The short course has been
an annual affair and has attracted
students from all parts of the
United States and abroad.
This year’s short course will be
under the supervision of Dr. Lu
ther G. Jones of the Agronomy
department. Two staff members
of the college, J. M. Ward and J.
B. Bagley, will conduct the classes.
Approximately 60 students attend
ed the classes last year.
Foreign countries represented
in last year’s session were Sweden,
Mexico, Egypt, and India.
Records and Players, Paints,
Varnishes, Wall Paper.
CHAPMAN’S
Next to P. O. Bryan
June Conferences
Schedule ‘Child
Welfare’ Subject
Plans for the Texas School
Administration Confer-
ence, both sponsored by A. &
M., to be held here June 17-19,
are nearing completion,
George B. Wilcox, head of the
department of education-psy
chology, has announced.
Dr. Merle Prunty, director
of student personnel at Stephens
College, Columbia, Missouri, will
deliver the main address each
morning at joint sessions of the
two groups.
Three phases of study will char
acterize the 11th annual confer
ence of school administrators.
These discussions will cover “A
Resurvey of School Finance in the
Light of Present Economic Con
ditions”, Economies to be Effect
ed”, and “School Buildings — a
New Approach to Planning.”
“Child Welfare” will be the top
ic of the 22nd annual conference of
county superintendents and super
visors. Speakers, in addition to
Dr. Prunty, include L. A. Woods,
state school superintendent, speak
ing on “Educational Welfare of
Texas School Children”; Dr. H.
D. Manuel, head of the Guidance
Bureau at the University of Tex
as, on “Child Guidance”; W. D.
Bunting, superintendent of Brazos
County, on the “Functioning of the
Brazos County Health Unit; and
L. H. Griffin, superintendent of
Bowie County, speaking on the
“All-Year School as a Child Wel
fare Movement”.
Shreveportans Meet
At ‘Pelican’ April 3
The Shreveport A. & M. Club
will have its monthly meeting
Thursday night—not at its reg
ular meeting place—but at the
holiday stomping grounds, Club
Pelican. “We’ll be raring to go
about 8:30, so latch on to a lass,
and we’ll see you there”, stated
J. M. Huddleston.
At the last meeting Miss Ann
Martin was chosen duchess of
the club for the Cotton Ball.
She will be escorted by Feedo
Greer.
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SAM Receives First
Southwest Charter
At TuesdayBanquet
The Texas A&M College branch
of the Society for Advancement
of Management, a national engin
eering organization, is officially
in business now, after receiving
the first student branch charter
in the Southwest at ceremonies
held Tuesday evening at Sbisa
Hall.
Highlight of the ceremonies was
the presentation of the framed
charter to Austin Burch of Big
Springs, student section president,
by Mitchell I. Keppel, president
of the Houston section of the SAM.
The presentation followed a ban
quet attended by seventy members
and their friends, and featured
an address by W. W. Finlay of
Dallas, vice-president and gene
ral manager of the Guiberson cor
poration and a member of the na
tional SAM board of directors.
The SAM is a comparatively new
professional society for manage
ment engineers, and there are only
three senior chapters in Texas—
Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston.
A&M was one of the first to
establish a separate department
of management engineering, and
has for several years been turning
out engineers trained to cope with
problems of production, personnel,
and administration, as well as with
technical details.
B&A Majors Plan
Inspection Trip
To Houston Firms
One hundred and twenty-five
Business and Accounting majors
are touring seven Houston firms
March 31-April 2, T. W. Leland,
head of the department, has an
nounced.
Students making the trip are
those who will graduate by Jan
uary, 1948.
Arrangements had been made
to visit Sears, Roebuck and Com
pany and International Business
Machines Corporation on Monday
morning, March 31; Sheffield Steel
Corporation on Monday afternoon;
Foley Brothers and Hughes Tool
Company Tuesday; and Anderson
Clayton Company and Pan Ameri
can Pipe Line Company Wednes
day morning. The three-day trip
will end at noon on Wednesday,
April 2,
Representatives of the various
firms will conduct the tours, fol
lowed with tplks and discussions
on the particular company organi
zation and company activities.
Among the representatives will be
specialists such as sales managers,
credit managers, buyers, advertis
ers, and accountants, Leland said.
Mr. Leland, Dr. James D. Neal,
and R. L. Elkins of the Business
and Accounting Department will
accompany the students on the
tour.
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