The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 20, 1957
Ag Experiment Station
Gets $14,000 In Aid
Two grants-in-aid, four exten
sions of grants and one supple
ment and loan totaling $14,050
have recently been made to the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station to support research stud
ies in several different fields.
According to Station Director
R. D. Lewis, Proctor & Gamble
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, has
made available a grant for $4,000
to support studies on the feeding
value of hydrolyzed vegetable and
animal fats for laying hens and
growing chickens and turkeys. Dr.
J. R. Couch, Department of Poul
try Science, is directing the stud
ies.
Monsanto Chemical Company of
St. Louis, Missouri, has made a
grant of $500 to support reasearch
on the control of rust of cereal
crops with fungicides. Dr. M. C.
Futrell, Department of Plant Phys
iology & Pathology, is supervising
the studies.
Internationa] Minerals & Chem
ical Corporation of Stokie, Illinois,
has extended their grant of $2,500
which supports a research assist-
anfship in the Department of
Agronomy. Research on the nutri
tional requirements of sesame is
supported by the grant.
The Shell Chemical Corporation
of New York has extended their
grant for $2,300 for supporting
studies on the effectiveness of var
ious toxicants against insects at
tacking cotton and vegetables. The
studies are being carried on in the
Department of Entomology under
the direction of Dr. J. C. Gaines
and at the Weslaco substation un
der the direction of W. R. Cowley.
Dow Chemical Company, Mid
land, Michigan, has made available
through an extension of their
grant-in-aid $1,000 for support of
research on chemical fallow. The
work is being carried on at the
Amarillo Experiment Station.
The fourth grant extension was
made by the Upjohn Company of
Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their ex
tended grant of $1,000 supports
research on control of rust of cer
eal crops with fungicides. The
studies are being conducted in the
Department of Plant Physiology
and Pathology under the supervis
ion of Dr. Futrell.
The Rio Grande Valley Ginners
Association and the Valley Co-op
Oil Mill of Harlingen have rpade
available supplements of $500 and
$250 to their grant of $2,000 to
support cotton improvement re
search being conducted at the Wes
laco substation under the direction
of Station Superintendent W. R.
Cowley.
Distaff Side of Faculty Now
Increased to Four Members
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The Battalion
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By JIM NEIGHBORS
Far too little has been said of a
small minority group who play an
important role on the campus at
A&M. We are speaking, believe it
or not, about the female instructors.
Probably most students don’t
even know there are four in
structors of the opposite sex on the
faculty. However, one of the female
instructors has been teaching Eng
lish at A&M for 10 years.
Miss Mettie Rodgers came to
A&M in 1947 when there were
seven women in the English De
partment besides “many more in
other departments.” She started
teaching English at A&M after
teaching at Baylor University for
21 years.
She enjoys teaching English to
the Aggies, but is “glad to teach
girls in summer school each year”.
Miss Rodgers is quite pleased
to have more women instructors
and even shares her office with one
of the new female members of the
faculty.
Miss Barbara Joan McKinney,
also an instructor in the English
Department, blushingly admits that
when she accepted a position in
the English Department she had
“no idea that A&M was an all
male school.”
After making the long Hip from
Madison, Wise, last fall where she
Miss Barbara McKinney
Industry Teachers
To Convene Here
The ninth annual Industrial
Teacher Conference will be held
here Friday and Saturday, in the
Memorial Student Center.
Over 400 persons are expected to
attend the conference, sponsored
by Leslie V. Hawkins of the In
dustrial Education Dept.
Dr. Burl Osburn will give the
principal address. Osburn is the
head of the Industrial Ai'ts Dept.,
Millersville State Teachers College,
Pennsylvania.
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received her M.A. degree in 1956,
Miss McKinney is finding the Ag
gies “well-behaved in class” and
is presently teaching freshman and
sophomore classes.
Third member of the feminine
trio in arts and sciences is Miss
Judith Ann Bell, who joined the
faculty at mid-term as the Spanish-
teaching instructor in the Modem
Languages Department.
Even though she only traveled
90 miles from the University of
Texas to join the staff, Miss Bell
claims Alabama as her home state.
She has been working on her Ph.
D. at U.T. for about a year,
Although Miss Bell had been at
“Teasip Land,” she says when she
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Fish Sweetheart Pics
Freshman who wish to enter
girls in the Freshman Sweetheart
Contest must turn in pictures to
the Office of Student Activities on
the second floor of the YMCA be
fore Tuesday, Don Gilbert, class
reporter said yesterday.
The sweetheart of th^ Class of
’60 will be picked at the annual
Freshman Ball which will be held
Saturday, March 2 at 9 p.m. in
Sbisa Hall, he said.
Freshmen and their dates will
dance to the music of the Aggie-
land Orchestra, Gilbert said. The
sweetheart -and runners-up will be
honored at the dance. *
Tickets are being sold at $1
each in Corps dormitories and ci
vilian freshmen may purchase them
at the same price in the Office of
Student Activities. Price at the
door will be $2.
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Miss Judith Bell
Mrs. K. D. Reel
came to A&M she didn’t know that
“there weren’t any girls.” Un
fortunately, Miss Bell is only here
for one year filling in for Dr.
Jack Dabbs, who has taken a year’s
leave of absence.
Fourth and final instructor of
the feminine species is Mrs. K. D.
Reel. She has the distinction of
being probably the first woman
electric engineering instructor in
Texas, if not in the United States.
Mrs. Reel is the wife of one of
the army officers stationed here
on the campus in the Military
Department and has two sons.
This is the first time she has ever
taught any courses in college and
began teaching this semester.
HOLIDAY
Friday, February 22, 1957 being a Holiday, in
observance of George Washington’s Birthday,
the undersigned will observe that date as a
Holiday and not be open for business.
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