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WELCOME TO AGGIEL
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Freshmen
Edition
The Battalion
Volume 55: Number 154
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956
Price Five Cents
Class of
Arrives September 7
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Orien ta tion Week
To Begin at 8 a.m.
Arrival of the Class of 1960, 2,200 strong, heralds the
official opening of New Student Week at A&M Friday morn
ing at 8, Sept. 7.
Arriving with the incoming freshmen will be leaders of
the Corps of Cadets and civilian students who will help guide
and counsel the new students during the week and show them
which lines to get in and which ones to stay out.
Until registration for new students on Friday, a week
later, the “fish” will be put through a week of getting ac
quainted with the campus, taking aptitude and achievement
tests and standing in more lines.
Following is a schedule of the week’s activities:
Friday, Sept. 7
Freshmen will pav fees, se
cure keys and housing assign
ments. receive uniform auth
orizations and secure New
Student acceptance cards in the
Ball Room of the MSC from 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m.
Noon and evening meals will be
eaten in Duncan Mess Hall and at
7 p.m. a general assembly will be
tield in The Grove with C. H. Rans-
iell, associate Dean of the Basic
Division in charge.
Cadet Lt. Col. Dwayne S. Bail
ey, Corps Chaplain will give the in
vocation, Dr. David H. Morgan,
president of A&M will welcome the
students and W. M. (Pop) Turner
will lead the group in singing.
Saturday, Sept. 8
Testing will begin as announced
in Sbisa Hall at 7:45 and will last
until 12 noon. Those students al
ready completed testing will as
semble in Guion Hall at 7:45 a.m.
Noon meal will be served in Dun
can and testing will begin at the
same location at 1:45 p.m. and last
until 5 p.m.
General Assembly will be held in
The Grove at 7:30 p.m. with J.
Gordon Gay, secretary of the YM-
CA presiding. Invocation will be
given by Robert N. Bacher, Civil
ian Student Chaplain and “The
Place of Religion on the Life of the
A&M Student” will be the topic of
a talk given by Cadet Lt. Col. Bail
ey. Following this talk, local min
isters will be introduced to the
students and Richard McGlaun,
president of the YMCA, will give
the benediction.
Sunday, Sept. 9
Sunday morning breakfast will
be served at 7:30 a.m. and all
Freshmen are fi'ee to attend serv
ices at the church of their choice.
Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. an
informal reception sponsoi’ed by
the Directorate of the Memorial
Student Center will be held in the
Ball Room honoring the Class of
1960. President and Mrs. Morgan,
Dean and Mrs. Robert B. Kamm,
members of the staff and faculty
of the college will be presented to
the new students and their parents.
Special music will be played and
booths will be set up in the Ball
Room to exhibit and explain all
the groups and various committees
of the MSC to the freshmen.
Monday, Sept. 10
All students will meet in Guion
Hall at 8 a.m. for a series of talks
on the ROTC program at A&M.
Dean Ransdell will preside at the
meeting where Col. Joe Davis,
Commandant at A&M and Col.
Henry Dittman, professor of mili
tary science and tactics will speak
on the Air Force ROTC and Col.
(See FRESHMEN, Page 8)
Three Honors
Op en For
Freshmen
Three academic honors are open
to A&M freshmen, including an
honor society of their own.
The honor society is Phi Eta
Sigma, national honor society for
freshmen. Its purpose is to “en
courage and reward scholarship
among freshmen.”
A grade point ratio of 2.5 in
either the first semester or the
first year of college work is re
quired. (This means a B plus av
erage.)
Although membership in the so
ciety is for life, the active Phi Eta
Sigma chapter is composed of
sophomore members only.
At the present, total membership
in school is more than 200 persons.
To qualify as a distinguished
student, a person must have no
grade below C at the end of the
semester, have completed at least
16 semester hours, and have a
grade point ratio of not less than
2.25.
The distinguished student list is
made up at the end of each semes
ter and a person named on the list
receives a card entitling him to
miss any class in which an an
nounced test has not been sched
uled.
The distinguished student list
covers all four classes.
Alpha Zeta, national honorary
agricultural fraternity, recognizes
annually the five highest freshmen
agricultural students with their
Alpha Zeta Freshman Award.
A special award is presented at
the School of Agriculture’s Spring
Banquet to the student who is con
sidered the outstanding freshman
in the School of Agriculture.
The awards are based on grades
and other activities indicating lead
ership ability.
Library Hours
Cushing Memorial Library
will go on its’ regular between-
semester schedule beginning
tomorrow, announced Robert
Houze, librarian, today.
Scheduled for the library un
til Sept. 17 will be: Monday
through Friday open at 8 a.m.
close 5 p.m. Saturday, open
at 8 a.m. close at 12 noon. Sun
days, closed.
WELCOMING TWO FISH TO CAMPUS — Dr. David H. Morgan, right, welcomes two
members of the Class of ’60 to the campus as he answers questions of Larry McCarty,
g-eneral curriculum major from Conroe (left) and Richard Garrett, civil engineering major
from Hearne on the steps of the Administration Building.
Sponsored by MSC
Open House Sunday at 2
President’s Welcome
. I appreciate this opportunity provided by THE BAT
TALION to extend greetings to both our returning students
and our new students. We are glad to have you with us.
Those of you who are returning students indicate that
your choice of A. and M. was the right one. We hope that
this year will be even more beneficial than was the last.
Those of you who are new students will soon be able to
evaluate your choice by observing the courses, faculty, staff,
facilities, and student activities of the College that each year
you spend on the A. and M. Campus will bring you closer to an
understanding of the loyalty and devotion which our former
students feel toward the College, and will develop within you
those personality traits which characterize the “Aggie.” A.
and M. has a national reputation as a friendly campus. We
believe you will find here a spirit which you will wish both
to share and further.
At A. and M. you have many opportunities that should
not be overlooked. In addition to a wide variety of curricula,
A. and M. offers 15 bachelor’s, 19 master’s, and 18 Ph.D. de
grees not offered elsewhere in the State. All entering fresh
men should investigate thoroughly the leadership training
found in the Corps of Cadets in the School of Military Science,
likewise an opportunity available nowhere else in Texas. Dur
ing the next few weeks you should become better acquainted
with A. and M. and with yourself so that you can make valid
decisions on points which will affect your future.
Any college’s success as an educational institution de
pends to a large extent on its student body. We are known
by the graduates we produce. Opportunities for self-im
provement and development are everywhere about you on the
.campus. We hope that you will avail yourselves of them. We
also hope that you will grow physically, mentally, morally,
and spiritually while you are with us. And finally, we hope
that during your stay you will help us to create new oppor
tunities for growth, both for yourselves and for those who
will follow you. A. and M. can only provide the opportunities.
Their value to you depends upon your use and efforts*,
David H. Morgan
A&M Just Part
Of Large System
The Memorial Student Center
will sponsor an Open House for new
students from 2 p. m. until 4 p. m.
Sunday afternoon, Sept. 9, to ac-
All Dorms Close
Except Bizzell Hall
All dormitories except Biz
zell will be closed and locked at
6 p.m. Friday, announced Har
ry L. Boyer, Chief of Housing-.
Students who wish to remain
on the campus between terms
may register for Bizzell during
this period by paying room
rent of $8.35 at the Fiscal Of
fice and presenting the receipt
at the Housing Office, Room
16, YMCA. This includes stu
dents now living in Bizzell
Hall. This registration must
be completed by 5 p.m. tomor
row.
Students who will not live
in Bizzell this fall but who will
live there between terms should
move the bulk of their belong
ings to the room they will
occupy in the fall and take
only what will be required for
a few weeks to Bizzell.
Scott Receives
$1,000 Award
Edson Duane Scott, graduate
electrical engineering student from
Kerrville, was recently awarded
the Atlantic Refining Company
scholarship of $1,000.
The scholarship, to be used dur
ing the 1956-57 school year, is
the fourth Atlantic has awat’ded
to students attending colleges in
the Southwest and is designed to
encourage and assist promising
students in furthering their stud
ies in the fields of science, engi
neering and research related to
the petroleum industry.
quaint freshmen with the MSC and
college officials.
Heading the receiving line in the
Ball Room at the informal affair
will be Dr. and Mi-s. David H.
Morgan, president of the college
and Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Kamm,
Dean of Basic Division and Stu
dent Personnel Services.
In addition to President Morgan
and Dean Kamm many college of
ficials will be on hand to meet new
students and their parents.
All the committees of the MSC
will have booths and displays in
the Ball Room with leaders they
to welcome students and explain the
committees. Those students who
wish to sign up to work with these
various groups may do so at this
time.
A&M Consolidated
Opens Sept. 5
All schools in the A&M Consol
idated System will open their doors
for students at 8:15 a.m. Sept. 5,
according to Dr. L. S. Richardson,
superintendent.
The System will observe the
same holday schedule as Texas
A&M College, at Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter, Dr. Richard
son added.
Teachers will be at their jobs
on Tuesday,* one day before the
students.
Newcomers can help their child
ren by registering them in school
before Sept. 5. All principals will
be on duty from 8 a.m. until 5
p.m. on weekdays. New children
will be required to show smallpox
immunization certificates and re
port cards, or transcripts from
their last school attended.
While not compulsory, the School
Board went on record recently as
favoi-ing Salk vaccine for all school-
age children Dr. Richardson added.
About 150 girls from Bryan and
College Station will serve as hos
tesses for the occasion. They will
meet students and show them
around the building, introduce
them to faculty members and dii’ect
them to booths of the MSC Com
mittees which interest them.
Irving Ramsower, junior student
from Mathis, will be in charge of
arrangements for the Open House
He will be assisted by Mrs., Fred
Smith, Mrs. Ide P. Trotter and Mrs.
Paul Bi’yant. Thirteen local girls
will act as senior hostesses, they
are: Binnie Anne Bansby, Pat
Stewart, Margaret Berry, Ann
Morgan, Jo Anne Walker, Claire
Kogei’s, Eve Porter, Mae Martin
Bryant, Martha Chisholm, Puddin
Seale, Ann Hickerson, Rita Hughes
and Texann Esten.
The Bowling Committee of the
MSC will sponsor a tournament for
those who would like to participate.
Special music wil be played on
the organ in the Main Lounge dur
ing the Open House.
A&M College comprises the
largest member (^f a complex edu
cational institutions called the Tex
as A&M System.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington
heads the overall system which in
cludes Texas A&M, Prairie View
A&M, Tarleton Junior College,
Arlington State College, Agricul
tural Extension Service, Agricul
tural Experiment Station, Engi
neering Extension Service, Engi
neering Experiment Station and
Texas Forest Service.
Each of the colleges or depart
ments in the system has a president
or chief that in turn answers to
Chancellor Harrington.
Over every organization is the
Board of Directors of the System
who are chosen by the Governor of
Texas. Present board members in
clude: W. T. Doherty, chairman;
Harold Dunn, R. H. Finney, Jr.,
A. E. Cudlipp, J. W. Witherspoon,
Bob Allen, H. B. Zachry, Price
Campbell and L. H. Ridout, Ji\
Texas A&M is composed of four
schools, each with a dean in charge.
They are the School of Arts and
Sciences under W. H. Delaplane;
Agriculture, J. E. Adams; Engi
neering, John C. Calhoun, Jr. and
Veterinary Medicine, W. W. Armi-
stead.
This fall, enrollment is expected
to reach 15,000 total for the four
schools in the System. Texas A&M
is the largest with an expected
September enrollment somewhere
in the neighborhood of 7,400. Arl
ington State College at Arlington
is next with 4,000 students expect
ed. Prairie View A&M expects 3.000
students to enroll there and Tar
leton State College at Stephenville
expects 900 to enroll.
Last years’ total for the four
schools was 13,264.
Groneman Returns
From Canada
Chris H. Groneman, head of the
Industrial Education Department
has, recently returned from having
conducted a workshop for Indus
trial teachers at the New Bruns
wick Technical Institute in Monc
ton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Teachers attending this short
course were Industrial Arts and
Vocational Industrial teachers from
the province of New Brunswick.
Howdy!
We, the members of The Battalion Staff take this
opportunity to welcome you, the Class of 1960, to the
campus of Texas A&M. This issue is for you and we
hope that here you will find some of the answers to
questions about our school that you might have wondered
about in the past.
This issue contains what we hope a short summary
of what you will find here when you arrive two weeks
from now.
This edition contains four sections, the first section
contains general information about the college, section
two and three contain information concerning extra
curricular activities ad the non-academic programs and
section four is devoted to sports.
Again—Welcome to A&M! We hope you will find
your next four years happy ones, and get as much from
them as those who have gone before you.
The Battalion Staff
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