The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 16, 1956, Image 5

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    Friday, March 16, 1956
THE BATTALION
Page 5
Movies And Dancing,
Border Week Style
South of the Border Week con
tinues tonight in full swing as the
Film Society presents “Cheaper by
the Dozen” in rooms 2A, 2B, 2C
and 2D of the Memorial Student
Center.
Tommy Short’s High Five Combo
presented an hour of Latin Ameri
can music today in the main lounge
of the MSC in connection with the
Week.
The Dance Group is sponsoring
a special dance tonight in the Ball
room of the MSC. Admission will
be $1 per person. The Capers Com
bo will provide the music. A floor
show featuring 28 girls from the
University of Texas doing Latin
American dances will be presented.
^Tomorrow after the Corps Re
view, Charles Burleson of Hunts
ville will play Latin American mu
sic on the organ in the main
lounge.
The Food Department, headed by
Mrs. Gladys Black, food director,
is featuring Latin American foods.
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QUALIFIED GRADUATES IN
ELECTRONICS
MECHANICAL, AERONAUTICAL,
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
METALLURGY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS
Graduates are urged to attend
“On Campus” Interviews
AT
Placement Office
March 20, 1956
Social Whirl
GEOLOGY WIVES Club will
meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Geol
ogy Building. Mildred Hummel
will present a demonstration in cor
rect table decorations, manners and
centerpieces carrying out the
theme of Easter. All geology
wives ai^e invited to this meeting.
Anyone needing a ride may call
Nancy McCarty at VI 6-5604.
★
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Monday in the YMCA for a talk by
Mrs. Fred Smith on “Points of
Etiquette”. Plans for the grarua-
tion social will be discussed. Mem
bers are urged to attend and bring
a new member if possible, accord
ing to Evelyn Brady, president.
★
BUSINESS WIVES CLUB will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Lone
Star Gas Co., 201 E. 27th, Bryan.
Miss Ann Winters will present a
cooking demonstration.
★
AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS
AND SOCIOLOGY Wives Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in
the Ag. Eco. and Soc. Building,
room 312. W. R. Horsley, direc
tor of the placement office, will
speak on “How to help you help
your husband.”
★
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
Wives Club will meet at 7:45 p.m.
Monday at the Bryan Sewing Ma
chine Co., in Ridgecrest shopping
center for a demonstration of the
Necchi. Refreshments will be ser
ved at the home of D. D. Picker
ing, C-9-Z College View. Mem
bers are asked to bring their Eas
ter baskets for underprivileged
children.
★
AGRICULTURE ENGINEER
ING Wives Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the Ag. Eng.
Building, room 200, then go in a
group to Millie’s Beauty Salon in
Bryan for a demonstration o f
Louzier’s Cosmetics.
★
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION &
TECHNOLOGY Wives Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the
YMCA. Mrs. R. M. Stevenson will
speak on “In your home what is it
called? Hospitality”.
★
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m.
Monday in room 3D of the Memor
ial Student Center. A representa
tive of Redmond Real Estate will
speak on “Things to Look for
when buying a house.” Plans for
the spring picnic and graduation
exfircises will be discussed.
★
AGGIE WIVES BOWLING Club
will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in
the Memorial Student Center
Bowling alley for a short meeting
preceeding the bowling.
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Science Fair
Winners Go
To Galveston
Five A«&;M Consolidated stu
dents, winners of local “Sci
ence Fair” competition, will
enter their exhibitions in the
district Science Fair today in
Galveston.
From the high school, junior
Mike Luther will enter a radio
telephone transmitter which he
built. Freshman Bill Jones will
enter an astronomy project. Bill
Armistead, sophomore, is entering
an insect collection. A herpetology
exhibit of snakes found in Brazos
and Burleson counties will be en
tered by Ernest Tanzer.
Junior high school student Vir-
den Smith will also enter an insect
collection.
The two most outstanding senior
high school exhibitors in the Gal
veston fair will receive an expen-
ses-paid trip to participate in the
national Science Fair in Oklahoma
City.
The purpose of the program is to
encourage interest and participa
tion in science by more and better
students. It provides an oppor
tunity for students to express their
interest and be properly recognized
for their achievements.
The fair was sponsored locally
by K. C. Morgan, A&M Consolida
ted science instructor. Mr. Morgan
will accompany the students to
Galveston.
Announcement
Deadline Thursday
Graduating seniors are reminded
that the deadline for ordering
graduation announcements in on
Thursday, at 5 p.m.
Samples of announcements may
be seen in the Student Activities
Office, and students are requested
to have in mind what they want,
in order to speed ordering.
Prices of the announcements are
leatherbound, 75c; cardboard, 40c;
and Frenchfold 10c.
Printed personal cards are $1.50
per hundred, and engraved person
al cards are $2.50 per hundred.
Center News
TODAY
7:30 p.m., MSC Film Society pre
sents “Cheaper by the Dozen” star
ring Clifton Webb, Assembly
Room.
8:00 p.m., MSC Bridge Commit
tee, social room.
8:30 p.m., South of the Border
Dance with music by the Capers
Combo, ballroom.
7:30 p.m., A&M Speechmasters
Club, executive meeting, director
ate office.
MONDAY
7-10 p.m., Dance class, assembly
room.
7:30 p.m., public relations group,
Birch room.
7:30 p.m., Film Society, 2B.
7:30 p.m., Music Group, 2C.
7:30 p.m., Dance Group, 2D.
7:30 p.m. Radio Committee, 3B.
7:30 p.m., MSC Directorate
Meeting, Senate chamber. Rue
Pinalle will not be held March 16
as scheduled because of a conflict
with the South of the Border
Dance.
Astronomy Club
Seeking Members
Students interested in astronomy
have organized a new club on the
campus and invite any interested
students that would like to join
to contact them, said Dan Purring-
ton, president of the new organi
zation.
The new organization has taken
the name of the Texas A&M
Astronomical Society. “Our first
goal is affiliation with the Ameri
can Association of Variable Star
Obseiwers,” Purrington added..
The club will hold regular month
ly meetings and will set up a regu
lar observation program. The club
is sponsored by the Physics De
partment and the faculty sponsor
is J. T. (Cube Root) Kent of the
Mathematics Department.
Students interested can contact
Purrington in dormitory 7, room
204 or Bob Wimberly, secretary, at
C-8-X, in College View.
Astronomers of three observa
tories in California have reported a
new age for the expanding universe
—5.4 billion years, give or take a
billion.
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Saddle And Sirloin
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D. W. Williams, Vice-Che ncellor
of Agriculture for the A&M Sys
tem will speak to the Saddle and
Sirloin Club Tuesday li ght on his
recent trip to Russia.
Williams is former head of the
Animal Husbandry Department
and will show slides that he took
while in Russia on a recent visit.
The meeting will be in- the A&I
lecture room at 7:30 p.m. Re
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are graduate engineers conducting research on an experimental diesel
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When the representatives
from IH are on your cam
pus, contact your Placement
Director for personal inter
view.
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representative at that time,
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Education and Personnel
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