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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1957)
With 2,135 Students Female Ags This Year ) c REGISTRATION for summer school is different from Die regular term in only one re spect. It did not rain while the 2,135 men, women and girls were braving the line. Veterinary Meds Organize Local Student Aid Fund A&M students have a reputation , their blood was worth $20 a pint, for speedy assistance to fellow stu- They turned to Dr. C. R. Lyons, dents in need of help. Now, with | superintendent of the college hos- •t 10c rt 10c 29c 59c .... 25c C an eye to future emergencies, they : have established an incorporated association. It began last March * when a freshman veterinary medicine stu dent was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Complications made a second oper- lt ion necessary and the hospital bill began to soar far beyond the student’s limited means. Other members of the freshman veterinary students figured $5 or $10 contributions wouldn’t add up to the amount their classmate needed, but while mulling over money-raising schemes, discovered . 23c 19c . 25c . 29c CS Army Man Gets Oak Ouster Major Truman Allen, Chief of * Personal Affairs Division, USAFE, 1014 Francis Drive, College Sta ■Sion, was presented the Oak Leaf Ouster to the Commendation Rib bon for exceptionally meritorious service recently. Col. Charles Sonnkalb, who pre sented, the award to the local man, who is stationed in Wiesbaden, Ger many, said the award was made for Allen’s broad experience, good judgement, and unusual insight in to command personnel problems. Allen, a veteran of 24 years service, went to Wiesbaden in November, 1955. His wife, Bessie, and two children, Truitt and Anita, are* also in Germany. pit’al, and he helped the students make arrangements for sale of the blood in Houston. In almost no time at all, they raised enough money to take care of the hospital expenses and had about $700 left over. Then they got the idea of es tablishing an emergency fund for any student majoring in veterinary medicine who, might require finan cial aid in a hurry. Thus Veteri nary Students Emergency Fund Association, Inc., was founded. Chairman of the organization committee which founded the as sociation is James D. McCrady, senior veterinary medicine, student from College Station. He also will be chairman of the Emergency Fund Association committee next year. The association includes students of all four veterinary medicine classes and blood donations ai’e strictly on a voluntary basis. First goal is to build up a $2,000 non loan fund, to be used in extreme hardship cases where repayment isn’t considered likely. The re maining money will be kept in the emergency loan fund. An all-student committee will vote on the merits of each case of emergency, with two non voting faculty members sitting in as ad visors. With the volunteer blood donors giving blood approximately twice a year, the fund could grow into a sizeable emergency reserve. If each class has 50 volunteers to give a pint of blood twice a year, the fund could grow at the rate of about $8,000 a year. Use of the money will not be limited to hospital emergency fi nancial aid cases, but will be made available to veterinary medicine students needing money because of unexpected emergencies. Later, if the reserve funds continue to grow, the association may put the money to uses other than immediate fi nancial need cases. Creative Art Group activ ities planned for this summer are numerous and include an art program never before of fered during the summer. Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry, Me morial Student Center art sponsor has set up a course that is open to students and College Station resi dents both. The class which starts June 18 is a concentrated course which will teach many different techniques in as many forms as possible. Before this summer, a course had been taught, but it was never open to students because of the high cost for instruction. However, this summer the course is open to stu dents for just the cost of member ship in the Creative Arts Group— $1.50. Tuition for residents interested in enrolling in the class is $80. As a special added attraction and for people who are interested in art appreciation, Mrs. Terry has made it possible for persons to sit in on the classes, but not do any of the actual classroom and outside work in painting. The cost for this will be $15. Crafts will also be offered this summer if enough people are in terested in joining the group. Enrollment for the first summer session at A&M rose over the mark set last year and totaled 2,135 with 142 wo men students included in that figure. In addition there are 180 students enrolled at Junction Adjunct. Freshmen make up 118 of this figure and the other 62 are geology and civil engineering students taking field work. Figures show that this year’s enrollment is one of the largest number of students in summer school for several years. In 1956, 1,802 students attended the first session, and in 1955—1,651. No breakdown of the figures is available at the present time to show the number inf- each department. Many stu dents here for summer school are teachers doing graduate work towards masters and doctors degrees. Students are living in Hart, Biz zell, Law, Puryear and Leggett Halls. Several couples and two women teachers are living in one of the ramps in Walton Hall. Later this summer several girls are ex pected to live in Walton also. Some classes are meeting in the Memorial Student Center, but most are holding forth in their regu- arly assigned buildings. Present ly, some history classes are meet ing in Bagley Hall, but when re modeling is completed in Nagle Hall, the departments of history, education; and journalism will move to the new quarters. News Tips Increase Coverage While operating this summer as a weekly newspaper with a limited staff, The Battalion invites everyone to call or bring in any information which is considered newsworthy. All news tips and stories will be cordially accepted. Als<^ anyone interested in writing for the paper is welcome to drop by the office 071 the ground floor of the YMCA. The telephone number to call for news or information is VI 6-6618 or VI 6-491.0. Basic Division Offers Tests Here Saturday Entering freshman s t u - dents who have not already taken part in the Basic Divis ion placement testing pro gram may take these tests this Saturday or June 22 and July 6 during the first summer term. The complete battery of tests will be administered in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building and will start at 9 a.m., according to F. E. McFarland, di rector of testing and research for the Basic Division. Reservations must be made in order to take the tests and these may be made with Mrs. Mary Barnhill, Room 204 of the Basic Division Building. All entering students who are assigned to the Basic Division and all transfer students who have less than 80 semester hours are re quired by the college to take these tests. Special summer school stu dents are not required to partici pate in these tests if they do not plan to receive a degree from A&M. Dillingham Gets $1,200 As Outstanding Prof Doctors Discuss Health Problems Leading public health doctors told more than 50 veterinarians yesterday in the Memorial Student Center about contemporary health problems and rabies in Texas and the U. S. at the Rabies Seminar. Dr. Kenneth Quist, epidemic in- JOHN E. HILDEBRAND, formerly of College Station, and a student at the Medical Branch of the University of Tex as in Galveston, was recently recognized as one of the out standing students in the junior class of 1957 at that school. telligence service officer, Public Health Service, assigned to Texas State Health Department, said con trol measures in Texas are having their effects in reducing the inci dence of rabies to the degree that Texas should soon become one of the states with one of the lower incidences of rabies rather than the state with one of the highest num ber a rabies cases repoi’ted. Dr. Ernest S. Tierkel, chief of the rabies control unit, Communi cable Disease Center, Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga., pointed out that the incidence in rabies in wild life is becoming a problem of im portance. Rabies has been found in relatively large numbers of the fox population throughout the south and southeast, he said. The skunks in the midwestern areas are often found infected with rabies. The number of raccoons infected with rabies is not large, but they cover a wide area of the United States. Since 1953 when the first isola tion of rabies was made from the bat, a concentrated study showed that rabies occurs in 14 different species of bats found in 15 widely scattered states, Dr. Tierkel point ed out. Twenty per cent of deaths of humans from rabies during the last five years, has been attribu ted to bites of wild animals, he declared. Dr. J. C. Strong of the Dallas Public Health Department, told the seminar that since the control program of having a leash law in Dallas and an intensified vaccina tion program, the rabies problem of Dallas is under control. Harley C. (Dutch) Dillingham, of A&M’s Department of Electri cal Engineering, was named winner of the first annual Convair, Fort Worth, award. The $1,200 cash award, to be presented annually to an outstand ing A&M professor of engineering, was made by Frank Davis, chief engineer, Convair, Fort Wolth. H. A. Bodley, administrative super visor, Engineering Department, Convair, Fort Worth, also repre sented the aircraft company at the presentation luncheon Wednesday in the Memorial Student Center. About 35 members of the A&M engineering’ faculty were on hand for the ceremonies. John C. Cal houn Jr., dean of engineering, was master of ceremonies for the luncheon. Dillingham was born in Com merce, Texas, and received his B. S. in electrical engineering at A&M in 1922. He received his M.A. in physics from Columbia University, New York, in 1930. He first joined the A&M eletrial en gineering staff as an instructor in 1922, served for two years, then took leave to continue his studies in the East. He returned here in 1928 and has been a member of the Department of Electrical Engi neering from that date. For a period of nine years, 1922 through 1924 and 1928 through 1935, Dillingham served as coach of the football team reserves known at that time as the “Blue Boys.” As a student he helped in the development of the earliest broadcast of a football game and for a period of more than 25 years was not only responsible for pro viding the arrangement of physical equipment for broadcasting of all athletic events from Station WTAW, but in addition served as sportsaster for football, baseball and other events. He served as a member of the committee which provided the pat tern of organization for the opei’a- tion of the Memorial Student Cen ter; he served on the Athletic Council; he organized and for a period of more than 20 years acted as student counselor for the Ama teur Radio Relay League on the campus; he was responsible for the organization of a chapter of the American Institute of Radio Engineers on the campus and has served continuously as its faculty advisor; he also has found time on a number of occasions to take his turn in serving as counselor for the Student Chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engi neers and he has volunteered his services when needed to counsel freshmen students during Fresh man Week. For the past 10 years he has vol untarily accepted the responsibility of counseling all students trans ferring here in electrical engineer ing. Vacancies Open In Small Arms Hal Delaplane, President of the Twin City Junior Rifle Club, has announced that there are vacancies for addi tional members in the Ninth Basic Small Arms Training School, conducted under the auspices of the National Rifle Association. This rifle training is the basic step in the use of firearms and is offered as a recreational and in structional benefit for the youth of the Bryan-College Station area. The course is offered at 11 a.m. each Saturday during June and July at the Club range at Pleasant Acres on the F&B road between Bryan and College Station. Weather Today SHOWER S Partly cloudy skies with occa sional thunderstorms and light rain showers are forecast for the vicinity this afternoon. At 10:30 this morning the temperature was 82 degrees. Yesterday’s high and low readings were 83 and 65 de grees. Loan Fund Total Rises to $11,000 Funds totaling $927.45 have been set up as the Jitterbug Henderson Loan Fund. This brings the entire loan fund up to $11,000, according to E. J. Sauer, of the Student Loan Office. Henderson was a well known football player for the Aggies while he was in school. He died of multiple sclerosis in Houston last fall. The fund was made up of gifts from the class of 1940 and many of Henderson’s friends. AWARD WINNER—Frank Davis, chief engineer, Convair of Fort Worth, left, presents a $1,200 check to Harley C. (Dutch) Dillingham, of the A&M Department of Electrical Engineering, for being named outstanding A&M professor of engineering. The award, made for excellence in engineering teaching, was made yesterday at an informal lunch eon in the MSC.
