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Number 125: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959
Price Five Cents
New A&M Director Named by Daniel
On School Situation
Citizen’s Group
To Meet Tonite
For the past several months the
A&M Consolidated School Citizen’s
Advisory Committee has been mak
ing a detailed study of the Consoli
dated school system.
Now the committee is ready to
recommend a school program to the
boai’d of trustees and to the citi
zens which is designed to adequate
ly prepare the system for future
years.
The committee will hold an open
meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Jun
ior High Cafetei'ia to discuss these
recommendations and their presen- 1
tation to the public. Citizens are
urged to attend the meeting.
The committee made its study by
dividing into subcommittees to stu
dy such specific things as the cur
riculum, grounds and buildings, etc.
Its main purpose is to try to evalu
ate the present school system.
Main topic of the meeting to
night will be the financial situa
tion. The system is already bonded
to an indebtedness of over $540,000.
A major problem is where can
money be had for the recommended
improvements.
Rosenthal Attends
Camp at Selfridge
Air Force ROTC Cadet Paul H.
Rosenthal, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Rosenthal of San Antonio, is
attending the summer training en
campment at Selfridge Air Force
Base, Mich.
A business administration major
at A&M, Rosenthal is attending the
encampment as part of his regular
college schedule.
While at Selfridge AFB for the
four week course, he will be thor
oughly familiarized with the Air
Defense mission in the Southern
Michigan area as well ,as policies
and procedures of the Air Force.
Along with his bachelor’s degree
and the successful completion of
his college courses, Rosenthal will
receive the gold bars of an Air
Force second lieutenant. He is one
of 150 cadets from numerous col
leges and universities in the tri
state area taking part in the train
ing program, now the primary
method used to prepare future Air
Force officers.
The committee is primarily con
cerned with the changes that will
have to be made by 1960. A list of
long range changes has also been
prepared, but it will not be under
immediate scrutiny.
A report has been compiled by
the committee which includes sev
eral tables and charts of predicted
enrollments as well as a number of
other statistics.
Copies of this report will be
available to the public tonight and
at other places of distribution to be
1 announced later.
All citizens are urged to get a
copy of this report, study it close
ly, and help decide what actions
should be taken.
Odell M. Conoley
Given Promotion
Col. Odell M. Conoley, ’35, was
recently promoted to brigadier
general at ceremonies in the office
of Lt. Gen. Merill B. Twining.
Commandant of Marine Corps
Base, Quantico, Va.
Conoley entered the Marine
Corps in the summer of 1935. Af
ter finishing basic school, he serv
ed with the 6th Marines in Shan
ghai, China. While serving with
the 1st Marine Division in the Pa
cific during World War II, he re
ceived two of the nation’s highest
awards. He received the Navy
Cross,,the nation’s second highest
award, for displaying extraordi
nary heroism at Guadalcanal and
the Silver Star for heroic action
during the Cape Gloucester cam
paign.
Conoley’s first duties as a gen
eral will be those of Assistant Di
vision Commander, 2nd Marine Di
vision, Camp Lejeune, N. C.
Graduation Notice
Ordering Date Set
Graduation announcements
may be ordered from July 1 to
July 31 in the Office of Student
Activities, Room 210, YMCA,
W. L. Penberthy, director of
Student Activities, announced
this week.
Dances, Film Top
MSC Gala Events
Three dances and a film will be
on the agenda within the next
week, as the Memorial Student
Center Summer Directorate con
tinue its campaign to provide am
ple leisure-time activity for A&M
summer school students and the
Bryan - College Station community
at large.
Tonight will see the opening of
the second “Den Dance” at 8:30 in
the Fountain Room, providing an
atmospheric spot to dance to juke
box music. The Fountain Room is
History Prof Here
Publishes Article
Dr. J. C. Roberts, assistant pro
fessor of history here, has been
notified that his article on “The
Austrian Reaction to the Treaty of
St. Germain,” one of the treaties
at the end of World War I, will
appear in a special June supple
ment to the Southwestern Social
Science Quarterly.
This supplement will include
those papers which have been judg
ed by a special editorial committee
to be the best given at the last
meeting of the Southwestern Social
Science Assn, in Galveston.
also the setting for the “Couples’
Cache”, featuring facilities for
dancing, bridge and oilier activities
at 7 Friday.
O. Henry’s famous short story
“Last Leaf”, filmed with an intro
duction by Novelist John Steinbeck,
will be the main feature of “Oper
ation Flick”, the free film to be
shown Sunday at 3 p.m. in Rooms
2A-B. Short subjects will be “The
Monza Challenge”, showing the
thrills of European auto racing in
the famed 500 mile Monza classic,
and a science-fiction cartoon on the
development of the automobile into
the year 2000.
The third “Hideaway” dance of
the summer is scheduled for Mon
day night at 8 in the Ballroom.
Music will be from the jukebox.
Rakoff Awarded
Dr. Henry Rakoff, associate
professor of chemistry here, has
been awarded a National Science
Foundation grant to attend the
“Conference for College Teachers
on Recent Developments in Chem
ical Bonding.”
The conference will be held at
Tafts University, Medford, Mass.,
July 6-18.
A marilloPu blisher
Chosen Wednesday
Austin (AP)—S. B. Whittenburg, publisher of the
Amarillo Globe-Times, yesterday was named by Governor
Price Daniel to the A&M Board of Directors.
The A&M Board of Directors will meet in regular ses
sion here Saturday.
“The state is fortunate that S. B. Whittenburg has ac
cepted this appointment to the A&M Board. He has been
keenly interested in higher education, agriculture, and ranch
ing, and is a member of one of the state’s most prominent
ranching families,” Daniel said.
Whittenburg, an active man who attended the Univer
sity of Texas from 1932-35 and who is a native of Plemons,
—♦■Texas, was named to a
Rural Minister of the Year
The Rev. Clifton J. Freudenberg, right, of
Orange Grove, Texas, is awarded the title
of Rural Minister of the Year by Eugene
Butler, editor of the Progressive Farmer
Magazine. The presentation was made Tues
day at a luncheon in the MSC during the
Rural Church Conference held here this
week.
MSC Music Series Offers
Kern Favorite Here Sunday
Jerome Kern’s popular musical
“Show Boat”, will be presented in
concert form, starring Mrs. R. W.
Sutler, Mrs. Dick Harrison and Jim
\ustin, in the Memorial Student
Center Main Lounge Sunday at 4
o.m.
Narrator for the program, the
third of the MSC 'Summer Music
Series, will be Mrs. Jack Ashworth.
Mrs. C. E. Gray will play piano
accompaniment. Tom W i t h e y ,
chairman of the MSC Summer Di
rectorate, will be host for the after
noon.
Weaving the story of romance
between a riverboat gambler and
the showboat captain’s daughter,
the principals will sing such
“Showboat” favorites as “Make Be
lieve”, “Old Man River”, “Can’t
Help Lovin’ That Man,” “You Are
Love” and “Why Do I Love You?”.
The three featured vocalists are
known in the Bryan-College Station
area through numerous local ap
pearances. Mrs. Butler, who studied
voice at Texas Woman’s Univer
sity, has presented solos at a num
ber of A&M. presentations, includ
ing appearances as vocalist with
the Aggieland Orchestra.
Final Rites Given
E. W. Hooker Here
Funeral services for Egbert W.
Hooker were held today at the Hil-
lier Funeral Home.
Mr. Hooker, chief clerk of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, died yesterday at the fam
ily residence 107 N. Avenue, Bryan.
He was 63-years-old.
Mr. Hooker was a native of Shi-
ro, Grimes county, where he was
born Jan. 21, 1896. He graduated
from Trinity University Academy,
Waxahachie, in 1913 and attended
Trinity University for one year.
He was first employed by A&M
in 1927 in the Fiscal Department.
Pallbearers will be W. L. Pen
berthy, O. W. Kelley, Roy Hagler,
V. E. Schember, Marcus Holleman
and Gibb Gilchrist.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Adele Hooker and a brother, Sam,
of Shiro.
Mrs. Harrison studied music in
the Kansas City Conservatory of
Music at Kansas City, Mo., and
holds a Bachelor of Music degree
from Louisiana Tech. Her local ap
pearances include roles in the A&M
Summer Operettas and Cotton Pa
geant performances.
Director of the Bryan Junior
High School choirs and the Stephen
F. Austin High School A Cappella
choir, Austin received a Bachelor
of Music degree from Sam Hous
ton State College. While in college
he was selected a member of Who’s
Who in American Colleges and Uni
versities.
Mrs. Ashworth and Mrs. Gray
are also well-known locally, Mrs.
Ashworth for her KORA radio
show and Mrs. Gray for her piano
accompaniments.
Presentations by the Summer
Music Series will continue to be
presented to A&M College students
and the Bryan-College Station com
munity without charge throughout
the summer.
Army Reserve
To Show Films
Tomorrow at 7
Sound films on the atom and
the isotopes, in their various
stages, will be shown here tomor
row night at 7 in the Biological
Sciences Building.
The showing of the films is open
to the public.
The two educational films, made
under the direction of the Atomic
Energy Commission for the armed
services are being shown as a
public service by the United States
Army Reserve.
One of the sound films will
show the study of the structures
of the atom with respect to radio
activity. It will depict the changes
taking place in the formation of
isotopes, concerned primarily with
the production of isotopes and the
use of the atomic reactor.
The other film is designed to
give the background of the under
standing of isotopes that are wide
ly used in engineering, chemical
and biological studies. It is ideal
ly suited for students who want
an accurate understanding of the
use of isotopes as well as staff
members using isotopes in re
search, Dr. r S. O. Brown, Depart
ment of Biology, said today. 1
The coming showing of these
films has attracted wide attention
ahd a large crowd is expected to
bfe on hand for the approximately
two-hour showing.
“They will answer many ques
tions now uppermost in the minds
of the lay citizen, students, and
staff members”, Browri said; ;
Getting Ready
Practicing for the Memorial Student Center Mrs. R. W. Butler, Jim Austin and Mrs.
Summer Music Series presentation Sunday Dick Harrison. The group will present a
at 4 p.m. are left to right (seated) Mrs. concert version of Jerome Kern’s popular
Jack Ashworth, Mrs. C. E. Gray, (standing) musical, “Showboat.”
six
year term which expires Jan.
10, 1965.
He is a former chairman
of the Board of Regents of
Texas Woman’s University and a
past president of the Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce.
Whittenburg has also held such
positions as director of the Texas
Children’s Home and Aid Society,
director of the Texas Daily News
paper Assn, and vice president of
Sigma Delta Chi, National Jour
nalism Fraternity.
Active participation has also
been paid by him in the governor’s
statewide water committee and the
soil conservation program.
Chemistry Movie
To Be Presented
Tonight at 7:30
“Chemistry,” an introductory
course taught on film by Dr. John
F. Baxter, University of Florida,
will be shown here tonight at 7:30
in Room 113 of the Biological Sci
ences Building.
The public is invited.
The program will be under the
direction of J. A. Shaw of the En
cyclopedia Britannica Films.
Shaw will show 90 minutes of
selected reels from the chemistry
course taught by Baxter. This
course was prepared by Encyclo
pedia Britannica under a grant
from the fund for the Advance
ment of Education and was super
vised by a committe of the Amer
ican Chemical Society.
The course is a full year high
school cheimstry course consisting
of 160 lectures and laboratory
demonstrations. The course is
planned to fit the daily class
schedule and qualify students for
full academic credit.
Shaw will explain how these
films can be made available for
secondary school use.
“This program should be of
particular interest to all those con
cerned with higher quality teach
ing of science,” Dr. J. B. Page,
dean of the College and Graduate
School, said today.
Observatory Trip
Needs Volunteers
C. S. Loyd, director, of the
Science Teachers Institute, is
planning a trip for interested
teachers to the McDonald Ob
servatory in the Davis Moun
tains.
Loyd said he would like to
have a bus load of at least 35
teachers. The bus will leave on
July 11 and will return the next
day.
The trip will include a tour
through the observatory with
special emphasis on the radio
and telescope installations.
“This trip should prove both
interesting as well as informa
tive,” said Loyd.
Those teachers interested in
making the trip should contact
Loyd in Room 204 of the Physics
Building tomorrow at 5 p.m.
Guide Posts
The purest affection the heart
can hold is the honest love of a
nine-year-old — Holman Francis
Day