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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1957)
18,440 READERS THE BATTALION Drive Carefully THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 3957 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUSA 22, 1957 Price Five Cents ctors Rename arrington Presi Dr. M. T. Harrington President of A&M and A&M System Famous Talent Lined Up For ’57 Town Hall Eight top shows are lined up for the 1957-58 season of Town Hall, according to C. G. (Spike) White of the Depart ment of Student Activities. Included in the list of perform ers and programs are The Four Freshmen, scheduled for Oct. 8; Dorothy Collins with Shep Fields and his orchestra, Oct. 24; The Angelaires Quintet, 2!) Oct.; the San Antonio Symphony Orches tra, Feb. (i; “No Time for Ser geants” with the original New York Company, March 3; the Na tional Ballet of Canada, March 12 and Jose Greco and his Spanish Dancers, March 24. The Four Freshmen have ap peared on the Town Hall stage at A&M in two other performances during the last three years. Also a repeat performance is that of Jose Greco and his group, who were here last year. Ticket prices are the same as last year. Non-student season tickets are plus $2 for reserve seats. Student season tickets are $4 phis $2 for reserve seats. Head Man In System, College Dr. M. T. Harrington was renamed as president of the college and his title as chancellor of the system was changed to that of president at a Board of Directors meeting held Friday, Aug. 23. Harrington, president of the college from June 3, 1950 to September 1, 1953, and chancellor of the System since the latter date, will assume the new title September 1. The Board, at the same meeting, named Dr. A. A. Price Dean of the school of Veterinary Medicine and John E. Hutchison as Director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. “With this change we expect to strengthen our entire ♦ organ i zatio n, ” II a r r i n g t o n said in announcing the action. “The System will continue to function, bringing the work of the various parts together to render the most effective serv ice to the people of Texas within our fields of responsibility. We will simply establish a closer work ing relationship' and clarify lines Texas Water Conference Here Sept. 16 Reactor Arrives Saturday Board tChooses Price Veterinary Medicine Dean Dr. Alvin A. Price, a 39-year- old assistant professor of Veteri nary Anatomy, was named Friday js the new Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. 1 His election by the System Board of Directors was upon rec ommendation of the President of A&M, with approval of Chancellor M. T. Harrington. The promising young scientist and administrator who was chosen from the ranks to head one of the 19 accredited schools of veterinary medicine in the nation, made a slow start in his chosen field. He first attended Tarleton State College at Stephenville, where he graduated in 1938, then A&M, where he took his B.S. degree in 1940 in the field of Dairy Hus bandry. He worked in this field at a Lockhart (Texas) creamery from graduation until he entered the Army in 1942. After serving as an Infantry Company commander in the Afri can, European and Middle Eastern areas, where he earned six cita tions and was promoted to battal ion commander, Price returned to A&M as a veteran student in 1944 and enrolled in the school of Vet erinary Medicine. He took his D.V.M. degree in 1949 and stayed on here as an instructor in Veter inary Anatpmy, working mean while on his M. S. degree in Vet erinary Physiology, which he re ceived in 1956. Price has crowded an amazing amount of professional activity into the eight years since he re ceived his veterinary degree. He served as acting head of the Vet erinary Anatomy department here in 1950, was a delegate to the House of Representatives of the American Veterinary Medicine As sociation in 1952-53, while serving also as executive secretary and editor for the Texas Veterinary Medical Association. He was president of the Texas association in 1956 and president of the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists in 1957-58. He has also served during this time as president of the Phi Zeta and Phi Kappa Phi honorary fra ternities at A&M. In 1956 Price was one of five A&M faculty members selected for $1000 awards by the Associa tion of Former Students for dis tinguished seiwice in teaching at the college. FS Board, Council Meet Here Sept. 14 The fall meeting of the Asso ciation Council and Board of the Association of Former Students will he held Sept. 14-15, at College Station. E. M. Freeman, ’22, of Shreveport, La., is president of the Association. Business matters on the agenda include the selection of Develop ment Fund objectives for 1958. The Executive Boai'd will meet Saturday, 14, after lunch, prior to the Council meeting set for Sat urday evening, J. B. (Dick) Her- vey, executive secretary of the As sociation, announced recently. Dean Moves Office Office of the dean of Agi-icul- ture has been moved from the Ag Building to the Biochemistry and Nutrition Building, room 216. A&M’s nuclear reactor is scheduled to arrive at the col lege Saturday morning and will be installed the same day. Under the direction of Ed An drews, the 18,000 pound machine will be placed in the fifth wing of the Mechanical Engineering shops. The core of the reactor will he put in the machine after it is set up and the reactor will be come active. Training courses will begin as soon as the reactor is set up. A&M received its license to operate the reactor this week from the Atomic Energy Com mission. A&M Plays Part In ICY Program The International Geophysical Year, which runs from July 1, 1957, through December, 1958, in volves participation by 61 coun tries to make simultaneous obser vations of the physics of the up per-atmosphere, including solar ac tivity; the heat and water budget of the earth, and the study of the solid earth itself. That is the general overall pro gram, but the preparation details represent a mountainous volume of special tools and observers for the 18-month data collecting coop erative program. At A&M, selected as the World Data Center in Oceanography for the Western hemisphere, collection of' oceanographic material has al ready begun. Director of the pro ject, one of three at A&M to be Dr. Alvin A. Price Dean of Veterinary Medicine Weather Today SCATTERED SHOWERS Partly cloudy skies with possible widely scattered thundershowers are forecast for the area. At 10:30 a.m. the temperature was 85 de grees. Yestei’day’s hign and low readings were 98 and 71 degrees carried out as part of the IGY program, is Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the Oceanography and Meteorology Department. The other two projects are the Deep Current Oceanography Pro gram, which will gather data on a world wide basis concerning fluc tuation of water level; and Radio activity and Carbon Dioxide Analy sis of Sea Water, which will de termine distribution of radioactive materials in the sen and manner in which concentrations are chang ing. Oceanography and Meteorology Department members taking active part in the three projects include Dr. Hugh J. McLellan, associate director of the World Data Center, and Dr. Donald W. Hood and Dr. Basil W. Wilson, consultants; Mc Lellan, associate director of the Deep Current Oceanography Pro gram, and Hood and Dr. Richard G. Bader, consultants. Associate director of the Radio activity and Carbon Dioxide Analy sis of Sea Water project is Dr Hood, assisted by Edward R Ibert, William H. Smith Jr., Rich ard M. Robinson and Lela M. Jeff rey. Oceanography Short Course Scheduled Here Some 35 engineers and sci entists involved with coastal structures or offshore opera tions will have an opportunity to supplement their knowl edge of basic coastal engineering during the Physical Oceanography and Coastal Engineering short course to he held Sept. 3-13 here on the campus. Topics to be discussed include characteristics of waves in deep and shallow water, ocean wave generation by wind, wave forecast ing and hindcasting, hurricane waves and storm tides, and wave forces on breakwaters. Prerequisite for the course is a B. S. degree in engineering, physical sciences, or mathematics. Engineers from oil, sulphur and cement companies have registered for the 10-day course and will represent companies in Texas, Cal ifornia, Mississippi, Alabama and New York, plus United States Ar my Engineers representatives from the Los Angeles district, and Bureau of Yards and Docks, Wash ington, D. C. Department of Oceanography and Meteorology faculty members who will instruct during the short course are Walter J. Saucier, Wen dell H. Nedderman, Robert O. Reid and Basil W. Wilson, with V/ilson serving as director for the of authority and responsibility. “No change has been made in the titles, responsibilities or rela tionships with the System of the presidents or directors of any of the other parts,” he continued. The man chosen by the Board to assume the combined responsi bilities of chief executive of the System and of the College from which it has developed, has been a member of the A&M staff since 1924. A native Texan, horn at Plano, September 8, 1901, he graduated from Plano High School in 1918 and enrolled here, where he took his B. S. degree in chemical en gineering in 1922. Harrington holds his M. S. degree from A&M and 1 ’h, D. from Iowa State Col lege. At the college he has risen through the ranks from his orig inal position as instructor to as sistant professoi', associate pro lessor, and professor. In 1946 he was named assistant to the dean of the college, in 1947 dean of Arts and Sciences, in 1949 dean of Arts and Sciences and acting dean of the College. On June 3, 1950, he became the first graduate of the college to be named to its presi dency. In September of 1953 he was named chancellor of the Sys tern. He has seiwed in numerous im portant positions with the national and regional educational organiza tions and is at present serving as president of the American As sociation of Land Grant Colleges and Universities. Specialists in all phases of the state’s number one prob lem will meet at A&M, Sep tember 16-18, to discuss what to do about Texas water. The occasion is the third annual Water for Texas Conference, a meeting - that is expected to draw about 150 of the state’s top scion-r tists and others concerned with water problems to the campus. R. L..Whiting, head of the De partment of Petroleum Engineer ing, and general chairman for the conference, has characterized this year’s meeting as one of extreme importance to the state’s welfare. “It will be a most important meeting,” he says, “for already we’ are confronted with the spectacle of downright indifference in many areas on this water problem. We’ve seen good rains this year. We see full reservoir's. So, we just don’t worry any more. “We must remember,” says Whiting, “that a year ago Lake Waco was a mud flat, that many Dallas residents were buying bot tled water, and that towns and cities all over Texas had bans on car-washing and lawn-watering. Twelve months ago farmers and ranchers were selling livestock left and right; their animals were gaunt; the pastures were burned up.” “We have to remember that the Texas water problem is a long- range affair. One year of good rains won’t solve it. Just talking about water won’t solve it. We’re up against the fact that the fu ture of Texas agriculture and the future industrial growth of this state are tied to our ability to find, store and properly use our state’s water.” This year’s Water for Texas Conference will include discus sions on surface reservoirs, stream flow problems, losses by evapora tion, re-use of municipal waste water, mechanics of rain-making, artificial recharge of underground reservoirs, legislation affecting water use, and organization for forming water districts. At a banquet for delegates on the evening of September 17, H. T. Tellepsen, president of the Tel- lepsen Construction Co., Houston, will speak on the role of water supply as it affects the industrial growth of Texas. CS Kiwanians First In District College Station’s Kiwanis Club was named first in the Kiwanis district competition for the month of July, according to an announce ment made by John Longiey, first vice president at a meeting Tues day. At the weekly gathering, which was held this week in the Memor ial Student Center Fountain Room, no regular program was planned. However, K. A. (Cubby) Manning led the group in several songs. A SIGN OF PROGRESS? or perhaps a sign of progress.