The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 16, 1957
Aii Editorial
Cadet Slouch
by Jim Earle SPUTNIK OVER A&M
The Rough Road
Freshmen, whether Corps or Civilian, have by this
time begun to realize just how much education is available
at A&M outside the classroom.
At the beginning- of New Student Week, if freshmen
this year are like those of the past, A&M offered a pretty
gloomy picture in contrast with the sheltered, secure life
of high school and its accompanying pleasures-—mainly
girls.
It remained that way for some time and many couldn’t
stand it and left—both Civilian students and Corps mem
bers.
It’s still gloomy to some but even those have matured
rapidly into manhood and the responsibilities accompanying
it.
One Aggie once said. “They tell me life after college
is pretty rough. But it should be a bed of roses after the
trials of A&M.’’
Those “trials” are with us definitely, but they are all
parts of training which make A&M men better able to
compete in the outside world.
An A&M graduate, whether Civilian or Corps, has had
his training in some of the toughest problems he will face
during the remainder of his lifetime. He has entered as a
boy and emerged as a man.
Campus Personalities
Chief of Housing
A t A &M 25 Yea rs
The past 25 years have seen a
multitude of changes at Aggie-
land and Harry L. Boyer, Chief
of housing has been around to
see them all take place.
In 1929, Boyer came here as a
student in entomology, getting
his B.S. degree in entomology in
1931. He had previously attended
John Tarleton State College three
years. From 1926 to 1929 he
worked in the Exchange Store
and post office at Tarleton.
Boyer was born, reared and at
tended high school in Brownwood,
but has made College Station his
home since coming here in 1929.
After receiving his B. S. degree
in 1931, Boyer worked in the com
mandant’s office, which then
handled all details now taken care
of at the Housing Office. Bo^er
remained with the Commandant’s
office, in charge of housing, until
1946, when he was named Chief of
Housing. This title was later
changed to Housing Manager.
As housing manager, Boyer is
responsible for the supervision of
all aspects in housing the 7,000
A&M students.
The Housing Office stays open
24 hoiirs a day. Every year the
office fills out, addresses and dis
patches about 25,000 student call
slips, said Boyer.
He has been married for 10
years, and has no children. The
Boyers live at 1206 Milner.
All tSie Newest
Styl es and Colors
Plaids, Ivy
stripes, win-
d o w - panes,
checks . . . you
name it, we
have it, in
sport shirts for
fall. Plenty of
solid colors,
too. Come see!
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A&M MEN'S SHOP
(Continued from Page 1)
cope observers, a radioman, a
timekeeper, a vice director and
Kent the director of the teams.
Volunteers make up all the teams
and more men are required to suc
cessfully opex-ate the teams.
Operation moonwatch wafe origin-
i| ally set up to observe the U. S.
satellite Vanguard after its launch
ing in December. In the meantime,
Sputnik offers the moonwatchexs
the opportunity and the job of
observing the Russian- launched
apparatus.
Vanguard, according to Kent,
will contain instruments to record
collisions with meteors, obseive
cloud cover effects, check space
tempei-atures, measuring cosmic
i-ays and investigate amounts of
hydi-ogen in the atmosphex-e.
He continued by saying the
American satellite would be pro
103 North Main
YOUR IVY LEAGUE CENTER
Dick Rubin, ! ’59
North Gate
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JOE TINDEL Editor
Jim Neighbors : Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports Editor
Joy Roper —— ..Society Editor
Gayle McNutt, Val Polk ; City Editors
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'•MO'hT WAVE GOTTEN THE It?
QOIXXE/b BACK !“
Job Interviews
The following interviews will
be held in the Placement Office:
THURSDAY
THE MARTIN COMPANY in-
teiwiews electiical engineering
majors.
PURE OIL COMPANY inter
views chemical, electrical, mech
anical and petroleum engineering-
majors for positions in transport
ation and production. Also inter
viewed will be geology, geological
engineering and geophysics ma
jors for positions in the Explor
ation Department.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
WESTERN COMPANY inter
views civil, industrial, electrical-
mechanical, geological, mechani
cal and petroleum engineering,
industrial education, geology,
chemistry, physics and business
majors.
pelled into space using a three-
stage rocket arrangement. The
first stage would push the satellite
up about 35 miles with 60 per cent
lift and 13 per cent speed being
utilized.
Following the release of the
first stage the second would move
the rocket upwai'd at a 35 degree
angle away from the earth to a
height of 200 to 250 miles. At that
point the second stage would be
ejected and the rocket would coast
until reaching a pre-arranged
height.
In the thix-d stage of the ascent,
the nose cone protecting the satel
lite would be knocked off, the thii'd
stage rocket would put the sphex^e
into a spin and with a final push,
the satellite would be thrust into
its final oxbit.
Sputnik was probably not sent
up exactly the same way, but the
methods would have been similar.
American scientists either do not
know or are not revealing what
instruments the Russian satellite
contains.
No matter what is in Sputnik, the
A&M teams of operation moon-
watch are ready to track and
observe the satellite as it swings
into view early Friday morning,
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