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Friday, January 16, 1959
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SOCIAL WHIRL —
Argentinian Joins Staff
Luig Capurro right, research scientist from Above, the internationally known scientist
Buenos Aires, Argentina, has joined the De
partment of Oceanography and Meteorology
to analyze oceanographic data collected dur
ing the International Geophysical year.
checks an oceanographic chart with Dr.
Hugh McLellan, Canadian research scien
tist at A&M.
To Make IGY Study
Argentinan Scientist Joins
A&M Oceanography Staff
An internationally-known scien
tist from Argentina has joined the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology, Dr. Dale Leipper,
head of the department, said yes
terday.
Luis Capurro of Buenos Aires
Will analyze the oceanographic
data collected during the Interna
tional Geophysical Year and will
coordinate this work with research
programs being caried out by the
department for the Office of Naval
Research through the A&M Re
search Foundation.
A regular Naval officer and a
veteran of numerous scientific ex
peditions, Capurro was one of the
small group of scientists who gath
ered in Rome in 1954 and initiated
plans for the International Geo
physical Year, a tremendous,
worldwide scientific study involv
ing more than 8,000 scientists from
65 countries.
The new research scientist is a
39-year old native of Buenos Aires
who is on leave of absence from
the Argentine Navy. He has been
in the Navy for 23 years and holds
the rank of commander.
Capurro graduated from the Ar
gentine Naval School in 1940 and
the Postgraduate Naval School in
1945. He spent three years in the
United States and received a Mas
ter of Science degree in ocean
ography from Scripps Institution
in California in 1949.
Since 1949, Capurro has been
active in research and teaching.
He has commanded a number of
oceanographic vessels, served three
years as chief of the Depai'tment
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Dr. W. B. Davis
. . finds rare bird
Davis Does Mexican
Study Over Holidays
Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the
Department of Wildlife Manage
ment, spent the last nine days of
December in the Sierra Madre del
Sur of the Mexican state of Guer
rero continuing a study of the
birds and mammals of that area
which was begun in 1951.
Among the more than 100 speci
mens he brought back for deposit
in the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Collection is a large swallow-tailed
ewift which was previously known
from Mexico only in the area bor
dering on Guatemala.
The collection contained several
species of fruit eating bats.
He and other members of the
Departnient of Wildlife Manage
ment have published several ar
ticles on the birds, mammals, rep
tiles and amphibians of Mexico.
During his years of research in
Mexico, Davis, who works with
close cooperation of the Mexican
Department of Forestry and Game,
has discovered about a dozen new
species or sub-species of vertebrate
animals.
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of Oceanography of the Argentine
Hydrographic Service, and was a
professor of oceanogi-aphy at the
University of Buenos Aires and the
School for Postgraduate Naval Of
ficers.
In 1957-58, Capurro was the
commanding officer of the Argen
tine icebreaker, San Martin, on a
scientific expedition to the Antarc
tica. He was chief of the staff at
the Argentine Antarctic Task
Group. Among the scientists on the
vessel San Martin was Guy Fran-
ceschini, A&M assistant professor
of oceanography and meteorology.
Capurro is active in several in
ternational organizations. He is a
member of the Special Committee
on Oceanic Research for the In
ternational Council of Scientific
Unions and is on the advisory
committee on marine sciences of
the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organiza
tion. He is also a ihember of the
American Geophysical Union, the
International Union of Geodesy
and Geophysics and the Pan Amer
ican Institute of Geography and
History.
Capurro, who represented Ar
gentina at last summer’s meeting
of scientists in Moscow, is the
author of several scientific publi
cations and is the author of a text
book entitled “Chemistry of Sea
Water.”
He and his wife and their 10-
year-old son, Luis, and his wife’s
mother are now making their
home in Bryan, at 2217 Truman.
American Veterinary Medicine
Assn. Wives Society held a meeting
Wednesday night in the Social
Room of the Memorial Student
Center and elected new officers.
New officers are Sammie How
ard, president; Helen Fear, vice
president; Lourez Royall, parlia
mentarian; Marlene Oliver, secre
tary; Doris Schroeder, correspond
ing secretary; Joan Ford, reporter;
and Joan Still, representative to
the Aggie Wives’ Council.
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Electrical Engineering Wives
Club will meet Monday night at 8
in the Brooks Room, YMCA.
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Plant Physiology and Pathology
Wives Club will meet Monday night
at 7:30 in the Brooks Room,
YMCA.
* * *
Business Administration Wives
Club will meet Monday night at
7:30 in the Cushion Room, YMCA.
* * *
Aero Wives Club met last Sat
urday night and installed their
new officers for 1959.
The new officer’s are Ann Reu
ter, president; Beverly Niss, first
vice president; Jane Tidell, second
vice president; Johnnie Jordon,
secretary; Peggy Jordon, corres
ponding secretary; Gene Mount,
treasurer; Shirley Johnson, report
er; and Marilyn Herbert, council
reporter.
Agricultural Economics and Ru
ral Sociology Wives Club will meet
Monday night at 7:30 in the So
cial Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. W. R. Carmichael
will speak on “Child Psychology.”
♦ *
Handicraft and rug Group of
the A&M Social Club will meet
Tuesday morning at 9:30 in the
home of Mrs. P. W. Burns, 1009
Walton Drive with Mrs. J. D. Pre
witt as co-hostess.
* * *
Brazos County A&M Mothers
Club will meet Thursday afternoon
at 1 in the Recreation Room of
the A&M Presbyterian Church for
a covered dish luncheon.
Alaskans Given
Texas-Made Flag
WASHINGTON UP) — Alaskans
Tuesday were given a hand cro
cheted 49-star flag—the handi
work of a Texas women living
on the U. S.-Mexican border.
It was presented to Sen. E. L.
Bartlett D-Alaska by Rep. Joe
Kilgore D-Tex. on behalf of the
Harlingen, Tex., Chamber of Com
merce. The flag was crocheted by
Mrs. Elizabeth Biddison Strong of
Harlingen’s neighboring town of
Lozano, its 34,846 stitches repre
senting 70 hours of work.
The flag was made weeks ago
in the pattern that since has been
chosen for placement of the stars.
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