With 2,135 Students
Female Ags
This Year
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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-
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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
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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.