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Tuesday, April 2, 1957 The fkittalion -.v- finlleee RtntimM fftrnzo* (bounty), T&xun
Friday Meeting Of A&M Garden Club
To Be Devoted To Spring Flower Show
The spring- flower show will
ag-ain furnish the theme when the
A&M Garden Club meets at 2:30
CATERING for
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TA 2-5069
p.m. Friday in the social room Flower Show Schedule.” Mem-
of the Memorial Student Center.
Mrs. Tom Taylor, program
chairman, has prepared a humor
ous skit entitled “Setting the
Stage for Our Flower Show” to
present to the club.
The chairman of the show, Mrs.
Carl Williams, will talk on “Our
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bers are urged to bring their cop
ies of the schedule so that they
may note suggestions and correc
tions which Mrs. Williams will
make.
Reservations Open
Members are reminded that
Mrs. Ed Baker will take reserva
tions for the pilgrimage planned
for Saturday, April 13. The trip
will include a visit to the all-iris
show of the American Iris Society,
which is being held in Temple on
that date.
During the coffee hour Mrs.
Taylor will show a color film on
“Tulip Time in Boston.”
Mrs. Williams and the co-chair
man of the flower show, Mrs. Guy
Franceschini, have announced the
committees which are now at work
pn the 18th annual event. The
show, which has been named
“Flower Arrangements Through
the Ages,” will be presented on
Friday, April 12, in the Memorial
Student Center.
Committees Announced
The committees:
Schedule—the Mesdames R. R.
Lyle, Franceschini, C. C. Doak;
staging—Mrs. J. W. Mogford,
chairman, and the Mesdames John
Perry, R. E. Callender, D. P. And
erson, W. W. Armistead, D. W.
Williams, C. D. Holland, Fred Far
rar, K. D. Loeffler, Robert H.
Gibbs.
Classification — horti
culture, Mrs. J. E. Roberts, and
arrangements, Mrs. Stanley Da
vis; entries—horticulture, Mrs. P,
W. Burns, chairman, and the Mes
dames G. E. Wilcox, E. B. Middle-
ton, George Draper, Richard
Downward, and arrangements,
Mrs. R. E. Schiller, chairman, and
the Mesdames Baidow Irvin, Wil
liam Potts, W. H. Burns, J. J.
Woolket.
More Committees
Placements—horticulture, Mrs.
E. L. Angell, and arrangements,
Mrs. Robert H. Gibbs; clerks in
horticulture, the Mesdames C. C.
Doak, R. E. Patterson, Ran Bos
well; clerks in arrangements)—
the Mesdames T. R. Timm and
Carl Williams.
Chairman of judges—the Mes
dames C. B. Campbell and A1 B.
Nelson; hospitality and donations
—Mrs. Fred Smith, chairman, and
the Mesdames R. D. Lewis, D. W.
Williams, C. W. Crawford, R. L.
Brown, Gibb Gilchrist.
Properties—the Mesdames W.
L. Penbeithy, E. D. Parnell, W. E.
Briles; publicity—Mrs. A1 B. Nel
son, chairman, and Mrs. L. S.
O’Bannon; music and program—
Mrs. T. W. Leland; clean up—
Mrs. Ralph Lee.
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ANOTHER ROOM FURNISH
ED—Mrs. A. A. Vance, treasurer
of the Brazos A&M Mothers
Club, hands a check for $327 to
Dr. C. R. Lyons, superintendent
of the College Hospital, while
Mrs. Don Young, club president,
and Mrs. A. C. Magee, chairman
of the club hospital committee,
look on. The check represents
the amount necessary to furnish
a hospital room and was contrib
uted from the Texas Federation
of A&M Mothers Clubs through
the Brazos County Club.
Social Whirl
Civil Engineering Wives Club
will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday
in the south solarium of the
YMCA. Everyone should bring
clothes, shoes, jewelry and hangers
for the rummage sale Saturday.
A demonstration on making
Easter baskets and chocolate eggs
will be given by Betty Huffman
A business meeting and work on
the rummage sale ai’ticles will fol
low.
Hostesses are Trixie Schnellen
back and Lavonne Droemer. All
officers are urged to attend the
important business meeting at
7:30.
* * #
W. R. Horsley will speak be
fore the meeting of Aero Wives
Club at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the
Aero Lounge.
Chocolate sauce, to be served
over ice cream, usually stores well
a tightly covered container in
the refrigerator. Nice to keep on
hand.
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FOR SALE
Baby bed and mattress, $15
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Eight foot Firestone refrigerator
$30. Must sell immediately. Can
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Custom Tudor Sedans
Turn Indicators Spare Tire
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Surplus equipment, such as ta
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fice equipment, drawing tables, arm
chairs, and other items. Can be
seen by calling VI 6-5122. Sealed
bids will be received in the Office
of the Business Manager, College
Administration Building, until 10:3o
a.m., April 15, 1957. The right is
reserved to reject any and all bids
and to waive any and all techni
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Screen porch and garage,
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Official notices must be brought, mailed,
telephoned so as to arrive In the
Student PubUcatlons (Ground Floor
YMCA, VI 6-6415, hours 8-12, 1-5, dailj
Monday through Friday) at or before tlx
publication
tions.
Director of Stndent PubUca-
on Thursday, ApFil 4, from 8 to 10 a.m.
for the Federal Inspection.
D. W. Williams
Acting President
A social meeting of Wildlife
Management Wives will be held at
7:30 tonight in the YMCA. Mrs.
Richard Baldauf and Merle Knight
will be hostesses.
Geology. Wives Club will meet
Wednesday night at the YMCA.
A representative from Millie’s
Beauty Salon will present a talk
on reducing.
Minister Gives
Sermon Topics
Sermon topics for the meeting
which began last night at t he
A&M Church of Christ have been
announced by Mont Whitson, min
ister.
Preaching at the five-night
meeting is Eldred Stevens, minis
ter of the Southside Church of
Christ in Fort Worth. Services
will begin at 7:15 each evening.
Titles for the remaining ser
mons are: Tuesday, “Married to
the Lord”; Wednesday, “The Hon
est Gentile”; Thursday, “Catholic
ism, Protestantism or Christiani
ty”; Friday, “Saved by the Blood
of Christ.”
IT’S FOR REAL!
SPRING
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But would you give me one small kiss?”
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Because there’s romance in the air
Because you are so very fair!”
“There’s a lot in what you’ve said.
Okay, kiss me ... go ahead.”
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“What’s it like to be
A RESEARCH ENGINEER
AT IBM?”
Two years ago, college senior Robert Thorpe asked himself this question
as he worked toward his E.E. at the University of Toledo. Today, an
Associate Engineer in the Applied Logic Group of IBM Research, Bob
reviews his experiences and gives some pointers that may be helpful to
you in taking the first, most important step in your career.
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“I joined IBM for two clear-cut rea
sons,” recalls Bob. “First, the tre
mendous company growth obviously
offered every chance for advance
ment. Second, the work area was
exactly what I was looking for—
transistors and their application to
computer systems.”
Bob entered IBM’s voluntary
training program in June, 1955, where
he studied the entire organization,
its divisions and diversified products.
He received technical training in com
puter logic, programming, and com
ponents such as transistors, cores and
tapes. By September, half his day was
being devoted to an actual project;
by the following March, he was on
this project full time. “Our job was
ment of a system containing both
analog and digital components. Bob
still works on this project—toward a
completion date of April, 1957.
Shortly after this program started,
Bob joined the Applied Logic Group.
Plotting transistor characteristics
Here, he was concerned with research
in new areas of computer technology
—for example, cryogenics and high
speed memories. Bob studies systems
which operate on “real time,” and
his immediate problem is to analyze
and synthesize closed-loop sample
data systems for the control of com
plex data processing.
Asked what his most interesting
assignment was, Bob replied, “My
the administrative side, or to Staff
Engineer, the technical side of Re
search. “Either way, I’m sure I’ll get
ahead,” Bob feels. “Electronics re
search is really on the move at IBM.
We have about 600 people at Pough
keepsie now, as against 56 in 1950.
We’ll need some 1,700 before 1960 to
help staff a new research laboratory
at Yorktown Heights, Westchester
County, N. Y.”
What does he like best about IBM?
Probably the fact that he’s so much
“on his own.” “There’s no ‘over-the-
shoulder’ supervision,” he says. “You
schedule your own program and cre
ate your own ‘pressure.’ And, if you
The "small-group” approach to research
to transistorize six servo-amplifiers
for the MA-2 bombing-navigational
system,” he recalls, “and we com
pleted the project in April.”
In IBM Research (as in all IBM)
Bob works in a small group. “Our
team consists of three E.E.’s and a
technician. We start with analysis
and synthesis work involving math
and systems logic. Then we use the
‘black box’ approach.” His group
splits up occasionally to research
special phases of a project but re
unites in frequent sessions to coordi
nate activities.
Promoted to Associate Engineer
In August, 1956, Bob was made an
Associate Engineer. From April of
the same year, he had been working
on a new Government project. This
was “to design and develop a tran
sistorized radar data presentation
system for the MA-2 systeip.” Basi
cally, this was a research program in
sample data theory and the develop-
New areas of computer technology
work on a digital-to-analog converter
with a high degree of sensitivity and
accuracy. This strictly electronic con
verter, with transistors, combines
both digital and analog circuitry. It
was a tough problem, and a fasci
nating one.”
What does the future hold?
At the present time, after two years
in IBM Research, Bob is more than
enthusiastic about his future. He
plans to continue in systems study
and to develop “a more sophisticated
approach.” Two lines of advancement
are open to him: to Project Engineer,
Promoted in fourteen months
feel the need for more education,
IBM provides every facility for con
tinued study. Besides the voluntary
training programs, there are excellent
afterhours courses offered by the IBM
Department of Education. And you
have a chance to work toward ad
vanced degrees—at IBM expense.”
* * *
IBM hopes this message will give you
some idea of what it’s like to be an E.E.
in Research at IBM. There are equal
opportunities for E.E.’s, I.E.’s, M.E.’s,
physicists, mathematicians. Liberal Arts
majors, and Business Administration
graduates in IBM’s many divisions—
Product Development, Manufacturing
Engineering, Sales and Sales Assistance.
Why not drop in and discuss IBM with
your Placement Director? He can supply
our brochure and tell you when IBM will
next interview on your campus. Mean
while, our Manager of Engineering Re
cruitment, R. A. Whitehorne, will be
happy to answer your questions. Just
write him at IBM Corp., Room 11804,
590 Madison Ave., New York 22, N. Y.
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