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1 FE New Dean of Students Named by Rudder Today James B. Hannigan . . . new dean of students t James B. (Jim) Hannigan has been named dean of students at A&M, Vice President Ear] Rudder annuonced today. He will assume duties on Aug. 7. A West Point graduate, Brig. Gen. Hannigan is currently serv ing as Deputy Commanding Gen eral, U. S. Army Training Center (Artillery), Fort Chaffee, Ark. He will retire from, active duty in July with the grade of major gen eral, U. S. Army Reserve. Activities under the direction of Col. Joe E. Davis, Commandant and Bennit Zinn, director of Stu dent Activities, will be coordinated under Hannigan. Col. Davis and Zinn will con tinue in their present positions, Vice President Rudder said in making the announcement. Hannigan comes to A&M with the highest of recommendations from those who have served with him and know him best, said Vice President Rudder. Hugh M. Milton, under secretary of the Army, said of him: “I be lieve that General Hannigan pos sesses those professional and per sonal characteristics which are requisite to a successful teacher and are fundamental to the aca demic community.” From Gen. G. H. Decker, Head quarters, U. S. Eighth Army, San Francisco, comes the following statement: “Jim Hannigan con stantly displayed a high degree of administrative skill, resourceful ness, intelligence, good judgement and common sense, his action and recommendations were consistent ly sound and practical, and in my judgment, he has all ofthe basic qualities which would enable him to be successful in a civilian enter prise.” Hannigan holds a diploma in French civilization from the Uni versity of Paris (Surbonne), at tended the British Imperial De fense College ip London, and stu died international stretegy at the National War College in Washing ton, D. C. He has also attended the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va., the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the Artillery and Missile School at Fort Sill, Okla., and the U. S. Constabulary in Germany. He participated in the Armed Forces Special Weapons Course at Sandia Base, New Mexico. During World War II, Hanni gan was battalion commander, 380- th Field Artillery Battalion, from activation, through maneuvers to combat in Europe and occupational dutits at the close of the war. Hannigan served a tour of duty as a language instructor at the U. S. Military Academy. He has also served as command ing general of the First Armored Division Artillery, and as chief of budget, Control and Manage ment Brance of Occupitd Areas Di vision, Office of the Secretary of the Army, with offices in the Pen tagon, Washington, D. C. Among his military awards, in addition to campaign and service awards, are the Bronze Star Medal (three separate awards), the Army Commendation Ribbon with Pendant, the French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star and tht Korean Distinguished Service Medal. He and his wife are the parents of two sons, ages 17 and 10. « BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 111: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959 Price Five Cents Future Farmers Due Here Spills & Chills Head Opening Of Aggie Rodeo Daniel Opens Rodeo Bill Daniel, brother and ambassador for wide the gate for the first competitive Texas Governor Price Daniel, opened the rider. Daniel arrived Thursday morning at annual Aggie Rodeo last night by throwing Easterwood Airport for the rodeo. Ag Players Open ‘Tempest’ Produc lion Wedn esday Nite By BOB ROBERTS Battalion Staff Writer Spills, chills and darkness high lighted the opening night of the 10th annual Texas A&M Intercol legiate Rodeo held last night in the A&M Rodeo arena. Before the grand entry began, an overanxious cowboy backed his truck into the guy-wire of a power pole and shrouded the arena in darkness. A cowboy was heard to remark, “This should make the stock real nervous.” This proved to be a good fore cast, because when the lights were fixed and the show started, the confusion and darkness combined made the rodeo animals more than enough for the contestants. Kenneth Beasley of A&M won the bareback bronc riding event, capturing the initial event of the evening. R.onny Love of Oklahoma State won the tie down calf roping with a time of 11.3 seconds. This was one second better than the second place 12.3 seconds of Anthony Salinas of Southwest Texas State College. Leo Anderson of McNeese State of Louisiana won the saddle bronc riding. Dean Flenniken of McNeese State won two events—girl’s bar rel racing- in 18.0 and goat tying in 29.2. Love also won the ribbon roping contest with a fast time of 9.9. Beasley was winner of the steer wi-estling event as he three his steer in 8.8. Jim Miller of McNeese State Won the bull riding contest after staying on a bull the required time. Nine offices were filled as 698 votes were cast in the General Election held yesterday between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. in the Me morial Student Center. Seventeen candidates were in the election. In the race for president of the Student Senate, Joseph (Jake) S6kerka won with 544 votes. Se- kerka had no opponent on the original ballot or as write-in can didates. Travis Wegenhoft was elected vice president of the Senate with 204 votes. Walter R. Frazier was second with 191 and Richard (Jan) Vanderstucken with 177 votes was third. For the office of recording sec Bill Daniels, ambassador-at-large for Texas and brother of Governor Price Daniel, led the grand entry and officially opened the tenth an nual rodeo. Last night’s performance was the first of four shows that will be presented this weekend. The next performances will be Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. with a matinee Saturday afternoon at 2. The A&M Rodeo Club, which sponsors the rodeo every year, will have as their special guests this weekend the disabled veterans from Temple and crippled children from the surrounding area. Saturday has been designated “Prof’s Day” by the rodeo club and all college professors will be given a free pass. Last night’s show had only a few of the contestants and col leges that are expected to be here before the weekend is over. Journalists Set Banquet Tonight The Department of Journalism will hold its 3rd annual Journalism Awards Banquet tonight at 6:15 in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Guest speaker at the banquet, which is held to honor outstanding students in the journalism field, will be James A. Byron, national president of Sigma Delta Chi, jour nalistic fraternity. Byron, who is also news director of the WBAP television and radio station in Fort Worth, will speak on “Jour nalism: A Proud Profession.” retary of the Senate, Lee G. May- field with 282 votes won out over Norris R. Gilbreth who had 270 votes. Wayne P. Schneider was elected Senate parliamentarian, receiving 522 votes; Larry D. White, with 496 votes, was elected to head the student life committee; and W. (Ben) Cook, with 462 votes, was elected to head the issues commit tee. All three candidates had no opponents in the election. In the race for election to chairmanship of the public rela tions committee, Tom R. Hamil ton, with 345 votes, won out over Jerry H. Hatfield, who received 212 votes. Marvin J. Schneider received The Aggie Players, under the direction of C. K. Esten, associate professor in the Department of English, will go on stage in Guion Hall Wednesday at 8 p.m. with their presentation of Shakes peare’s “The Tempest” for a four- night stand. The players have recently ac quired new sound equipment, and as Esten said, “Anyone sitting in Guion Hall will be able to hear what is happening at any time.” He added that with the new amplifiers and microphones, they were able to get complete high fidelity reproduction of the sound. Fred Golding is sound director. Esten said the costuming 359 votes to win over Hubert Ox ford who received 211 votes in the race for election to chairmanship of the student welfare committee. Civilian yell leader for 1960 is K. (M,ouse) Cox, who received 86 votes in yesterday’s election. Cox’s opponent, William Paul Treude, received 43 votes. John G. Thomas, with 86 votes, was elected the class agent for the Class of ’59. Joe Buser receiv ed 30 votes for the office. Only members of the Class of ’59 were allowed to vote in this race. Freshmen, sophomores and jun iors elected Student Senate offic ers and committees. Civilian stu dents and those Corps students who will be civilian students next should be good, as the group has had new costumes made for the production. Mrs. Gertrude Fol- weiler made the costumes for the play. Costume mistress for the show is Janet Routt. The play will be presented in 12 scenes instead of the original five acts, with one intermission according to Esten. “I haven’t vio lated any of Shakespeare’s orig inal poetry, however,” he added. Original music, by Allen Schrad er, recorded on the new equipment, will provide a background for the play. Schrader and Esten decided on the musical score, and Schrad er composed it for the production. Seventeen musicians made up the year elected the Civilian Yell Lead er. Seven automatic voting ma chines were used in the election. Student Senate officers and com mittee elections were controlled by five of the machines, one machine was used by civilian stu dents and another was used by the Class of ’59. Senate School Elections will be held May 14. An academically clas sified senior, junior and sopho more for the school year of 1959- 60 will be elected by their respec tive classes in the schools of Agri culture, Arts and Sciences, En ginering and Veterinary Medi cine. One student will be selected by the Dean of the Graduate School to serve on the Senate group. Tickets are now on sale at the main desk of the Memorial Stu dent Center at $1 each. Any stu dent enrolled in an English course at A&M may get slip from his professor, which when presented at the ticket office, will entitle him to see the play for 75 cents. The cast of characters include: Alonso—Paul Curda; Sebastian —Bill Stough; Prospero—Bill Routt and Jim Best; Antonio— Ed Herider; Fredinand—Frank Myers and Howard Hayes; Gon- zalo—Don Reynolds; Caliban — Raymond Simmons; Trinculo—To by Mattox; Stephano—A1 Risien; Master—a voice; Boatswain—Mar- cial Knapp and Perry Pope. Mariners—Roy Simmons, Trav is Madole and Gary Lilly; Miranda —Dorothy Ashworth and Marlene Rushing; Ariel—Sophia Boett cher and Mary Coslett; Nymphs — Selma Cluck, Diane Todd, Gloria Smith, Sophia Boettcher and Mary Coslett. The production saff is Marcial Knapp—stage manager; Harry Gooding—set design; Knapp, Cole Hines and Gooding—set crew; Don Reynolds, Bob Huffaker’ and Jay Hirsch—lights; Vic Wiening — diction; Gooding and Ed Herider— assistants to the director. The orchestra is made up of Gordon Reynolds on the flue, Ro bert Alexander, John Leavitt, Mike Hyde and David Blue on clarinets; Clark Kimberling, Dav id King, Jimmie Crook, and Kathy, Gould on french horns; Jerry Don Smith on trombone; Fred Birson on tuba; Olin Brown on tympani, David Woodard on bongo drums; and Mrs. Jesse B. Coon and Schrad er on piano and harpsichord. 698 Votes Cast Yesterday Nine Offices Filled in Elections Over 1,700 Arrive For One-Day Event By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer Blue jean clad Future Farmers of America began mov ing into Aggieland in full force today for the annual State FFA Judging Contests to be held tomorrow. Over 1,200 high school students and 50 vocational agri culture teachers are slated to attend the one-day event which will be concluded in Guion Hall with the presentation of awards to the winning teams and outstanding individuals. The group of young future farmers, hailing from all parts of the state, are the cream of the crop in high school vocational agriculture. They compose approximately the top 10 per cent of all judging teams from area contests through out the state. The boys will be divided in-V to groups for judging the five major contest divisions—live stock, dairy cattle, dairy pro ducts, poultry and meats. Chaplain Position Open to Civilians The events are being sponsored by the Department of Agricultural Education and are being conducted and supervised by members of the departments of animal husbandry, dairy science and poultry science. Judging events, which will begin at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, include the following: Dairy cattle judging will be held at the dairy farm, conducted by Dr. R. E. Leighton and Dr. Murray Brown of the Department of Dairy Science. Livestock judging will be held in the beef center and conducted by W. T. Berry and Dr. O. D. But ler of the Department of Animal Husbandry. Dairy pi’oducts is set in the Ag- See FUTURE on Page 4 Applications for Civilian Stu dent Chaplain are now being ac cepted in the office of J. Gordon Gay, first floor of the YMCA, Robert O. Murray Jr., director of Student Affairs, said yesterday. All names should be turned in to Gay’s office by 5 p.m. Wednes day, May 6. Anyone may submit an application who has the follow ing qualifications: • He must be a professjng Christian. • He must be sensitive and re ceptive to the needs of his fellow students. • He must be well liked by his fellow students. • He must have the ability to get along with people. • He must have an academic standing of at least a 1.0 GPR. Civilian Government Leaders To Launch Leadership Retreat Civilian student government leaders left the campus today for Bastrop State Park to participate in the first annual Civilian gov ernment leadership retreat. Old and new dormitory presi dents and vice presidents, Civilian Student Councilmen, dormitory council members and invited guests will attend the retreat. They will discuss ways to improve the Civilian government program at A&M. The retreat is principally de signed to discuss Civilian student government problems and to dis cuss ways to improve dormitory programs, Dennis Ryan, chair man of the Leadership Retreat Committee, said. Registration will be held to night from 7 to 7:30 p.m. at the park, folowed by a general meet ing in which Ryan will deliver an orientation and W. L. Pen- berthy, director of Student Ac tivities, will deliver the keynote address. Work will begin tomorrow morning at 8:15 with Workshop I, “How to Motivate The Civilian Student To Take Part In Campus Activities.” Discussion group A will discuss the subject as it regards dormi tory council projects, discussion group B will discuss it as it re gards student organizations and discussion group C will discuss the subject as it regards student gov ernment and positions of leader ship on the campus. After lunch Workshop II, “The Scope And Purpose of The Dorm itory Council,” will be held. Dis cussion group A will discuss var ious ways to improve the dorm itory council’s prestige and rela tions with the housemaster, counselor and student. Discussion group B will discuss dormitory ac tivities, parties, ideas and projects. Student government financing will be discussed by group C. Tomorrow from 5 to 6 p.m., a panel discussion will take place with panel members consisting of Bennie A. Zinn, director of Stu dent Personel Services; Robert O. Murray Jr., director of Student Affairs; and Robert L. Melcher, civilian student counselor. Workshop III, “Civilian-Corps Relations”, will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Two questions “Where do the Problems Lie” and “How Can Relations Be Improved,” will be brought up.