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the battalion Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 123: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1959 Price Five Cents ers Draw Curtains To Another Roundup Here Hideaway Dance Summer fun opened in a bright way Tuesday night as the Memorial Student Center held a hideaway dance, the first of seven such dances to be held by the MSC during the sum mer. Students dressed casually and danced to jukebox music. Flashy, Gay Provided by Events MSC Summer activities provided by the Memorial Student Center be gan in a dazzling fashion Tuesday night with a hideaway dance in the Ballroom of the MSC. Six more hideaway dances are scheduled this summer plus spe cial dances and numerous other events. Hideaway dances, from 8 to 11 p.m., will continue this Monday night and June 29, July 13, July 27, August 10 and August 17. Dress for the hideaway dances is informal and music is by jukebox. Four special dances will be held from 8:30 to 11 p.m. June 22, July, 6, August 3 and August 24. The A-ggieland Combo will provide mu sic at these dances. Other events include special in strumental and vocal recitals, Sundays at 4 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the MSC and art and sculpture classes in all media open to children and adults. Instruc tion will be free for college stu dents and interested persons are requested to inquire Mrs. Ralph Terry, art studio, first floor of the MSC. A couples’ cache will be held in the MSC Fountain Room from 7 to 11 p.m., Fridays beginning June 19. Dancing, bridge, dominoes and other activities will be provided. On Thursdays beginning June 18, “The Den” dances, informal dances in a closed area of the Fountain Room, will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. Students may also attend free movies on Sundays at 3 p.m. in Rooms 2A-B of the MSC, and the bowling and table tennis areas will be available every day, with junior bowling classes every Wed nesday in June and July, at 1:30 p.m. Engineering Heads at A&M To Attend Meet The School (pf Engineering, A&M, will be well represented at the annual meeting of the Ameri can Society for Engineering Edu cation to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday through Friday next week. Attending from A&M will be Fred J. Benson, dean of engineer ing who, in addition to the regu lar sessions, will attend the Ad ministrative Council and the En gineering Research Council meet ings, and Associate Dean C. W. Crawford. Dr. W. E. Street, head, engi- neering drawing, will attend the Drawing Division as a member of the Nominating Committee, the Industrial Relations Committee and the American Assn. Sub-Com mittee on Abbreviations. A. R. Burgess., head, Industrial Engi neering; Dr. S. R. Wright, head, civil engineering; Dr. G. D. Hall mark, head, electrical engineer ing; Dr. C. M. Simmang, head, mechanical engineering; and John C. Calhoun, vice president for en gineering- will attend also. The engineering educators will be guests of industry for a day in the greater Pittsburgh areas to observe operations and problems. 2,000 Take Pari In Special Event Some 2,000 4-H Club members, their adult leaders and county extension agents drew the curtains this morning to another State 4-H Roundup held this week at A&M. “4-H Leads the Way” was the theme of this year’s meet ing which saw the club members take part in two busy days of education, recreation and friendly competition. Donors and sponsors of the various subject-matter con tests, representatives of the press, radio and television and other friends of the 4-H Club program were on the campus for the colorful event. • The roundup officially opened Tuesday night in Guion Hall, where contestants, leaders and agents registered and Today Is Deadline For First Session School Enrollment First term of the 1959 sum mer session at A&M is now well underway and today is desig nated as the last day for en rolling in the college for the first term. Tomorrow is the final day for making changes in registration. Students are urged to make nec essary changes ndw. Registration for the second semester of the summer session at A&M will be held from 8 a.m. until 12 noon on Monday, July 20. Classes for the second term will begin on Tuesday, July 21. Science Foundation to Offer 550 Summer Fellowships The National Science Founda tion announced Monday that ap proximately 550 Summer Fellow ships for Graduate Teaching As- sitants will be offered for the summer of 1960. Designed to enable graduate teaching assistants to devote their full summer to study and research, the fellowships will be offered in the sciences, mathematics and en gineering. In this, the second year of opera tion of the program, teaching as sistants at 150 institutions includ ing A&M, which are authorized to confer the doctoal degree in at least one of the sciences, will be eligible to apply for summer fel lowships. First-year participation in the program had been limited to First of Three Lectures Kuiper to Speak Here Tonight at 3 Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper, direc tor of Yerkes Observatory, Uni versity of Chicago and McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, will present the first of three lect ures tonight at 8 in Room 113 of the Biological Sciences building. Kuiper will lecture tonight on “Space Age Astronomy.” Tomorrow at 9 a. m. in Room 320 of the Physics Building, he will deliver his second lecture on “Planetary Atmosphere.” At 11 a. m. tomorrow he will talk on “Biol ogy in the Space Age” in the Bi ological Sciences Lecture Room. Born in Harencarspel, Nether lands, Dec. 7, 1905, Kuiper was naturalized an American citizen in 1937. He received his B.S. degree in 1927 and his Doctor of Phil osophy degree in Astronomy in 1933 from Leiden. He was an assistant observer at Leiden from 1928-33; a fellow at Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Calif, .from 1933-35; research as sociate in 1935; lecturer in astrono my at Harvard from 1935-36; as sistant professor of practical as tronomy at Yerkes Observatory from 1936-37; associate professor from 1937-43; and professor in 1943. He first seiwed as director of Yerkes and McDonald Observa tories from 1947-49. Kuiper is a member of the Na tional Academy of Sciences; the American Astronomy Society; a fellow in the American Academy of Sciences; a member of the Astro nomical Society of the Pacific; an associate member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London; member of the Societe de Sciences Neerlandaise; a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Ams terdam; and of the International Astronomical Union. He specializes in double stars, white dwarf stars, planets and satellites, stellar statistics and the origin of the solar system. The public is cordially invited to attend the lecture. 115 institutions which had awarded a specified minimum number of science doctorates. Teaching assistants at the par ticipating institutions will apply through their own institutions and will be screened and evaluated initially by their faculties. They will be judged solely on the basis of ability, as indicated by acade mic records, reference reports and other evidences of attainment. The applications will be forwarded—to gether with the institution’s recom mendations—to the National Science Foundation. Applicants will then be evaluated for the Foundation by panels of scientists especially chosen for this task by the National Academy of Seiences-National Research Coun cil. At both levels of review and evaluation, as well as in the final selection of Fellows by the Na tional Science Foundation, ability will constitute the sole basis for judgment. Summer tenures from eight to twelve weeks may be selected by the Fellow. The weekly stipend will range from a minimum $50 up to a maximum of $75 per week, the exact amount to be determined by the Fellow’s institution accord ing to local conditions. Payment of stipends will be made by the participating institutions from funds provided them for that pur pose by the Foundation. In addi tion, the Foundation will pay to each institution the tuition and fees of its Fellows. Summer Fellowships for Grad uate Teaching Assistants will be | offered for study in the mathemati cal, physical, medical, biological and engineering sciences, as well as in anthrophology, psychology (excluding clinical areas) and cer tain selected social sciences. The social sciences included are geo graphy, mathematical economics, econometrics, demography, infor mation and communication theory, experimental and quantitative so ciology, and the history and phil osophy and science, where they conform to accepted standards of scientific inquiry by fulfilling the requirements of the basic scientific method as to objectivity, verifia bility and generality. Application materials may be ob tained from the Graduate Dean of a participating institution, or from the Fellowships Section, Division of Scientific Personnel and Educa tion, National Science Foundation, Washington 25, D. C. Teaching as sistants in participating institu tions must submit their applica tions to their Graduate Deans by December 11, 1959. Shortly after March 15, 1960, all applicants will be notified, by the schools through which they ap plied, of the disposition of their applications. prepared for the various con tests. Mackey Ivy, vice chair man of the Texas 4-H Council, presided at the opening meet ing. John E. Hutchison, director of the Agricultural Extension Serv ice, welcomed the group and pres ent officials of the A&M System. Joan Gardner, member of the roundup committee of the council, gave the response to the director’s* welcome. Kenneth McFarland, educational consultant and lecturer of General Motors Corp. from Topeka, Kan., was the featured speaker at the opening program. McFarland, considered one of the nation’s best known and top rated public speak ers, emphasized the theme for the roundup. The big day as far as the boys and girls were concerned was yes terday. Twenty-five different subject-matter contests were held throughout the day. Also a Friends of 4-H Luncheon and a Chuckwagon Barbecue was held yesterday in the park area south of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Both activities were sponsored by the Texas 4-H recognition committee. The special appreciation pro gram yesterday was planned for all friends of the 4-H Club. Se lected acts from the “Share-the- Fun” program were presented. A meeting of the Texas 4-H Council Roundup committee was held this morning, and directors of the Texas 4-H Club recognition committee combined business with breakfast in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center. Clark Kimberling . . . pianist Beatrice Luther . . . cellist MSC Music Fete To Begin Sunday The Memorial Student Center Summer Music Series will open Sunday, presenting Beatrice Luth er, cellist, and Clark Kimberling, pianist, at 4 p.m. in the Main Lounge. Host and hostess for the occa sion will be Ward Boyce and Caro lyn Kyle, members of the Memor ial Student Senter Summer Direc torate. Mrs. Herbert A. Luther will provide piano accompaniment for her daughter. Included in the program will be Vivaldi’s “Sonata No. 3” and the Allegro from “Concertino No. 1” by Klengel, selected by Miss Luth er. Kimberling’s program will fea- tui’e the Bach-Pirani “Ai’ioso”, Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata, Opus 27”, “Prelude No. 9” and “Prelude No. 11” by Chopin, “Clair de Lune” by Debussy, and Ibert’s “Little White Donkey”. The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Luther, 614 Welch, Miss Luther was graduated from A&M Consol idated this spring, and will attend the University of Texas on a scho larship, majoring in music and languages, in the fall. Winner of a first in the 1957 regional cello contest, the young ai’tist was a member of the Junior Philharmon ic Orchestra in Erie, Penn, in 1958 and of the Texas All State High School Orchestra in 1958 and in 1959. Miss Luther studied locally with Col. Richard J. Dunn, in Erie with Dmitri Erderly and is currently studying with Merle Clayton in Houston. A junior in Stephen F. Austin High School, Kimberling is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kimberling, 1016 Walton Drive. His Summer Music Series presentation shortly precedes his departure for Camp Tenake of the Crystal Lake Camp in Pennsylvania, where he will spend the summer as a music counseloi*. Kimberling has received a su perior rating in piano from Dx*. Henry Meyer, head of Southwest ern University’s music depart ment, and has been sponsoi’ed by the Music Teachers Assn, of Bx-y- an-College Station. The versatile musician has played violin with the Jxinior Symphony Orchestra of Drake University and at present plays French hoim with the Steph en F. Austin High School band. This year Kimberling composed a piece of music for four horns which won a superior rating for its composer and the Stephen F. Austin French horn qxxartet in which he played at the annual Spring band contest. He is a piano student of Mrs. Luther. The MSC Summer Music Series will continue its Sunday aftex-noon programs through August 10, px-e- senting classical and semi-classi cal programs to the public without charge. Dow Grants Given To Three Students Funds from the Dow Company for research fellowships in chemis try have been distributed as sum mer research gi’ants to three grad uate students at A&M. Recipients of the grants are James B. Beal Ji\ of 2001 Neu mann, Galveston; Jack C. Scott of 1104 Cooler Dr., Boi’ger, and W. B. Witmer of 200 S. Delaware, Clai’ksville. Beal is working toward his Ph. D. degi’ee with Dr. A. W. Jache, associate professor of chemistry, on fluorine chemistry. Scott is working toward an M.S. degree with Dr. R. D. Whealy, professor of chemistry, on inorganic complex compounds. Witmer is working to ward a Ph.D. with Dr. R. A. Zin- garo, assistant professor of chemis try, on a study of positive halogen compounds. Familiar Scene Joe Zund, a junior engineering and English opened at A&M Monday. Classes began major from Fort Worth, is shown “hitting Tuesday and this was a familiar scene across the books” in an attempt to get a jump on the campus, the first session of summer school which Dr. Turk Speaks At Veterinary Meet Di\ R. D. Turk, head of the De partment of Vetei'inary Parasito logy, A&M, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Dis trict of Columbia Academy of Vet- erinary Medicine in Washington, D. C. today.