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Thursday, August 21,1958
Thp Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Tera*
A&M System Covers State
Engineering Dean
Greets Newcomers
Tho freshman entering 1 A&M this
fall is enrolling in one of the nine
major parts of one of the greatest
educational, research and extension
organizations in the South.
The A&M College System, es
tablished in 1948, is a state-wide
organization, charged, with the
responsibility for educational, re
search and extension services in
the broad fields of agriculture and
engineering and in such other areas
as the Legislature of the State of
Texas may assign it from time to
time.
The System’s four colleges are
A&M College of Texas, oldest pub
licly-supported institution of high
er learning in the state; Prairie
View A&M College, at Prairie
View; Arlington State College, at
Arlington, the largest and fast
est growing junior college in Tex
as; and Tarleton State College, at
Stephenville.
The five service organizations
are the Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station, Texas En
gineering Extension Service and
the Texas Forest Service.
^ 6,400 Employes
In terms of size—the System
has over 6,400 full-time employes;
its work is conducted in every one
of the state’s 254 counties; its
staff works on problems ranging
from control of insects in the
Piney Woods to control of evapora
tion on open reservoirs to develop
ment of better row crops for Texas
farmers.
During the long term of the
3957-58 school year, the four col
leges of the System provided edu
cational programs for more than
14.000 Texas men and women.
Training For Adults
The service organizations, and
the colleges, provided adult educa
tion training programs for some
35.000 adult Texans, with courses
ranging from those for Civil De
fense crews concerned with radia
tion fall-out to plumber appren
tices, firemen, vocational teachers,
bankers, egg-graders and ranchers.
During the same year, System
personnel inspected livestock feeds,
conducted rodent and predatory
animal control programs, made
some 40,000,000 pine seedlings
available for plantings on East
Texas timber lands, pioneered con-
struction of prefabricated highway
bridges, developed information on
how food reacts when sterilized by
atomic waste products, made signi
ficant contributions to plant regu
lation by light waves and gibber-
rellic acid, found out more about
anaplasmosis and leptospirosis in
cattle, set up the state’s first col-
leg'e nuclear training reactor, de
veloped new grain sorghums for
Texas farms—to mention a few of
the year’s achievements.
Board of Directors
The System is headed by a board
of directors, consisting of nine
members, appointed by the Gov
ernor with the consent of the Sen
ate. These board members hold of
fice for terms of six years, with
appointments stag-gered so that
each two years three members re
tire and three new members begin
their terms of service.
The chief executive officer of the
System is President M. T. Harring
ton, who is directly responsible to
the board. In charge of each part
of the system is another executive
officer—for colleges, presidents;
for service organizations, directors.
These men are responsible to the
president for the efficient opera
tion of their particular schools or
service groups.
Affects Texans
The System’s work affects Tex
ans in three major ways—through
education, research or extension
work. For example, colleges of the
System each year enroll several
thousands of young men and wom
en, graduate other thousands and
furnish facilities and staff mem
bers to aid in special courses in
adult education.
The Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station engages in research
ranging from developing better
range grasses to eliminating insect
pests; from improving beef cattle
production through sire and pro
geny-testing programs to develop
ing better types of grains, fruits
and vegetables for Texas produc
tion.
Extension Service
The Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service through its county
agricultural agents and home dem
onstration agents working in .252
of the state’s 254 counties brings
information on the latest agri
cultural research to the farmei's of
the state.
The Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station engages in research
ranging from finding better pro
cessing methods for cottonseed pro
ducts to highway design and con
struction work.
The Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service provides training at
short courses on the campus and
through courses held in Texas
towns and cities by itinerant teach
ers in fields which include the
natural gasoline plant industry,
police and firemen’s training, sup-
ervisory training and instruction
for municipal water and sewage
plant operators.
Wide Scope of Work
It is impossible to briefly out
line the work of the System as it
affects the people of Texas. It is
best to show the scope of this
work by an illustration:
The Texas Forest Seivice, for ex
ample, engages in forest fire pre
vention and suppression, breeding
of better pines, finding new uses
for forest products and education
of the people of this state in the
best uses of the great natural for
est resources.
To do its work it may call on men
from the Engineering Extension
Service—to train its crew leaders;
it may use facilities of one of the
Agricultural Experiment Station's
greenhouses for special work; it
may ask agents of the Texas Ag
ricultural Extension Service to car
ry special news on forestry to the
people of East Texas counties. It
may also need help from the Sys
tem’s colleges in persuading more
young men of the state to become
interested in career's in forestry and
in offering pre-forestry courses.
Vast Effect
This, the work of the System
may affect vast numbers of people
and may call for cooperation of all
or part of the colleges and services
in the completion of one particular
piece of work.
The System is, then, a group of
four colleges and five service
groups, W’orking together to help
solve the problems of Texans in
agriculture and industry.
To do this it requires facilities for
education, research and extension
work—on a statewide basis—which
was stated in our original defini
tion of the A&M College System.
By Dr. G. M. WATKINS
Dean of the School of Agriculture
It is a pleasure to me to join
the others at A&M in expressing
a hearty welcome to the new stu
dents.
To those who will enter the
study of agriculture I extend the
greetings of the staffs of the 15
departments in the School of Ag
riculture. In a short time these
men will commence the process of
guiding each of you as an indi
vidual through one of the several
curricula in agriculture.
Agriculture these days bears
little resemblance to the. cartoon
ist’s conception of the farmer, his
farm, his job and his outlook on
life. Just in the time most of
you have been alive the average
size of the individual farm in Tex-
By FRED J. BENSON
Dean of the School of Engineering
The School of Engineering ex
tends a cordial welcome to each of
you.
The academic year 1958-59 will
probably be a momentous one to
you and we hope that the results
will be just what you now hope
that they will be.^
You are entering a completely
new phase of your life and for the
as has neai-ly doubled and the
number of actual farmers has
dropped by about half.
At the same time the number
of people who make a living from
agriculture has increased to about
40 per cent of the total population.
Most of those 40 per cent have
little direct contact with the farm,
yet they work at processing, hand
ling, storing or distributing farm
products or they manufacture and
deliver to the farm some com
modity peculiarly necessary to the
farmer’s operations. Viewed in
this larger, total sense agriculture
is one of the nation’s big busi
nesses.
We are glad you are here. We
want you to make good in every
phase of your college life. Let us
help you.
first time you must budget your
time to take care of all of your
responsibilities. You came to A&M
to get an education and you hope
to become outstanding in some par
ticular field. This is an under
taking that is worth your best ef
forts, but do not underestimate it.
The results of this “educational
adventure” are going to affect
your entire future and you must
not lose sight of your primary
purpose in coming here.
Life in the dormitories will offer
new experiences. You will make
new acquaintances and some of
these will become lifelong friends.
You will learn how to get along
with men and win their respect and
cooperation. There will be the
great temptation to spend too much
time in group and personal activ
ities associated with campus life
and if you ai’e not careful your
academic achievements will suffer.
Learn to utilize your time properly
so that ihere will be “no regrets”.
To those of you who plan to en
ter engineering we want to add
a few words of counsel. Mathe
matics and the physical sciences
are becoming more and more im
portant. In the past the art of en
gineering was strongly emphasized,
and laboratories and practice cour
ses held a strong place in engi
neering curricula. Now the art is
being left largely to industry.
We hope that this year will be
both pleasant and profitable to
you and we believe it will be if you
include a great deal of that abso
lutely essential ingredient, WORK.
Agriculture Dean
Extends Welcome
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