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AUGUST 28
Number 133: Volume 58
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959
Price Five Cents
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William Heye Named
Corps Cadet Colonel
Rudder Presents Award
A&M President Earl Rudder, right, awards record 236 persons attend^! the event and
John Dodgen of Llano for the second place heard a battery of 25 autnorities in their
steer at the 9th Annual Reef Cattle Short respective fields.
Course held on the campus last week. A
‘Everyone
Says New
With 30 years of service in the
TJ. S. Army rising to the rank of
brigadier general, James (Jim) P.
Hannigan has assumed the posi
tion as dean of students at A&M.
He was appointed dean May 1,
effective Aug. 7.
“I like it here—everyone is most
hospitable,” Dean Hannigan says.
“We are happy to be connected
With A&M and hope to contribute
In some small measure to the fine
objectives of the College.”
Dean Hannigan says he first
became acquainted with A&M
through association with some of
the College’s graduates. “I like
them and found them to be very
capable men.”
He named some of the Aggies
with whom he had been associa
ted, including Jack Jumper, class
of ’54, Lufkin, an oil man; Col.
Jack Walker, class of ’35; Col. L.
Sommers, class of ’34 and Capt
Harry Burkhalter, class of ’50.
Activities under the direction of
Col. Joe Davis, commandant,
School of Military' Sciences and
general activities of student
personnel services, will be under
the direction of Dean Hannigan.
A graduate of West Point and
Most
Dean
Hospitable’
of Students
retired brigadier general, XT. S.
Army, the new A&M dean of stu
dents has served as an instructor
in the Department of Languages
at West Point and attended the
University of Paris.
During his military career he
was constantly called upon to
handle administrative duties di
rectly concerned with civilian en
terprise. In this connection Gen-
G. H. Decker, now vice chief of
staff, U. S. Army, says Hannigan
displayed a high degree of admin
istrative skill, resourcefulness, in
telligence, good judgment and
common sense—and “in my judg
ment he has all the basic qualities
which would enable him to be suc
cessful in a civilian enterprise.”
As Chief of Budget, Control and
Management Branch of Occupied
Areas Division, Office of the Sec
retary of the Army, he established
an enviable administration repu
tation for getting things done.
The appointment of Hannigan
as dean of students has brought
messages of congratulations to
the College from throughout the
state and nation.
“He comes to us with the rec
ommendation of Hugh Milton, for-
Wainerdi Becomes
Assistant to Dean
Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, head
of the Nuclear Science Center of
the Texas Engineering' Experiment
Station, has accepted a change in
assignment to become assistant to
the dean of engineering.
Dean of Engineering Fred J.
Benson said that Dr. Wainerdi will
be engaged principally as a coun
selor for students in the School of
Engineering but will continue jus
research studies in the field of
nuclear engineering.
Wainerdi came to College Sta
tion in 1957 as associate professor
of nuclear engineering, arid head
of the Nuclear Science Center.
A native of New York City, he
graduated from the University of
Oklahoma with distinction in 1952,
receiving a B. S. degree in petrol-
erim engineering. He received his
M. S. degree in nuclear enginer
ing from Pennsylvania State Uni
versity in 1958.
In 1954, he was one of a few
students chosen from throughout
the United States to attend the
radioisotopes handling course at
the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Studies. The following year he was
selected to attend the Oak Ridge
School of Reactor Technology. His
attendance was sponsored by the
Atomic Energy Commission.
Since coming to A&M from a po
sition as coordinator of nuclear
activities for Dresser Industries,
Inc., Dallas, Wainerdi has served
as supervisor of the college’s AGN-
201 nuclear training reactor facili
ty and has been chairman of the
Radiological Safety Committee for
the A&M System.
He is a member of numerous
honorary and professional socie
ties, including Sigma Xi, Tau Beta
Pi, Sigma Tau, Pi Epsilon Tau,
Phi Eta Sigma, American Nuclear
Society^ Society of Nuclear Medi
cine, American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical and'Petroleum Engi
neering and the Southwestern So
ciety of Nuclear Medicine. He is a
registered professional engineer.
CORRECTION
The Greyhound Bus Lines Office
at 109 Walton Drive is open from
8 a.m. until 1 a.m.
The Battalion earlier said that
the office hours were from 8 a.m.
until 1 p.m. which was incorrect.
Guide Posts
“A man that hath friends must
shew himself friendly: and there is
a friend that sticketh closer than
a brother.”—Proverbs 18:24
mer professor of mechanical en
gineering of Texas A&M College
and now undersecretary of the
Army and will add to the student
life program of the College,”
President Earl Rudder of the Col
lege says. “The new organization
with Dean Hannigan as head unites
all the students of the College un
der one student life program,” the
president points out.
Dean and Mrs. Hannigan are
the parents of two sons, James R.,
17 and Thomas U,, 10. They live
at 3600 Old College Rd., Bryan.
He has his office on the second
floor of the YMCA building.
Record Total
Attends Beef
Short Course
The 9th Annual Beef Cattle
Short Course sponsored by the De
partment of Animal Husbandry
was held at A&M Aug. 10-12.
A battery of 25 authorities in
their respective fields was assem
bled to present the program. Vis
iting speakers who appeared on the
program in addition to members
of the A&M staff included Dr. H.
H. Stonaker, noted beef cattle
breeding specialist and head of the
animal husbandry work at Colo
rado State University; Norman
Moser, president of the Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Assn.; R. J. Stouffer of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department, Coi’-
nell University; Kenneth R. Fulk,
executive secretary, American
Shorthorn Assn, and Clayton Strib-
ling, rancher from Llano, Texas.
Two hundred, thirty-six persons
attended the short course, the larg
est attendance record set thus far.
Participants came fro Arizona,
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louis
iana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York
and Oklahoma. Foreign countries
represented wei-e East and South
Africa, Cuba, Mexico, Rhodesia and
Venezuela.
One of the features of the short
course was the steer carcass con
test, begun three years ago, in
which 16 steers were entered by
12 ranchmen from across the state.
The contest involves detailed
slaughter and carcass cutting tests
plus tenderness evaluations for
the loin and prime rib cuts.
MSC Aloha Dance
Sch edu led Monday
Free orchid corsages, Hawaiian
entertainment and Hawaiian dec
orations will provide the atmos
phere for the Memorial Student
Center Summer Directorate’s final
dance of the season, the traditional
“Aloha Dance” to be staged on
the entire second floor of the MSC
beginning at 8:30 p.m. Monday.
The orchid corsages, to be flown
from Hawaii especially for this
dance, will be given to ladies at
tending the dance, and two or
chid leis will be awarded as door
prizes. Special Hawaiian dancing
is planned for floor show enter
tainment.
Highlighting the decorations will
be the lifesize figure of a Hawaiian
dancer, sculptured in ice and sur
rounded by Bird of Paradise
flowers, reports Chuck Dahl, Sum
mer Directorate chairman. The
figure will be placed on a table
from which punch, included in the
price of the admission ticket, will
be served.
Other decorations will include
palm trees, a pond and other Ha
waiian scenery. Music for the dance
will be provided by Bill Turnei’’s
Aggieland Combo in the Ballroom,
and the jukebox in Rooms 2A-B-
C-D.
Persons attending the dance
should use the stairs by the Gift
Shop, Dahl added. Dress for the
affair is semi-formal, and admis
sion will be $1, couple or stag.
Other Assignments
Made This Week
William Bernard Heye Jr. has been appointed cadet
colonel of the Corps, Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, has an
nounced.
A senior electrical engineering major, he is the son of
Mrs. William B. Heye Sr. of 227 Montana, San Antonio.
Other cadet appointments and assignments to the Corps
staff for the 1959-60 school year include Wiley Wade Dover
of 120 S. Milton, San Angelo, cadet deputy Corps commander
with the rank of cadet colonel; Cadet Lieutenant Colonels
Byron Curtis Blaschke of 3516 Idaho, Houston, J-l (adju
tant) ; Russell Warren Neisig of 1804 Linda Lane, Pasadena,
J-2 (intelligence) ; Hillry Leon Ranson of Levelland, J-3
^ (operations) ; William Law
rence Whitney of 3223 Rose-
College Will Have
Twelve National
Science Fellows
A&M will have 12 National
Science Foundation Graduate Fel
lows in the School of Engineering
and the School of Arts and Scienc
es beginning in September.
The 12 students are among 997
graduate students from colleges
and universities throughout the na
tion who have been awarded Grad
uate Fellowships under terms of
Title IV of the National Defense
Education Act, designed to in
crease the number of college and
university,teachers.
Each Fellow will receive $2,000
in the first year, $2,200 in the sec
ond year and $2,400 in the third
year, together with an allowance
of $400 per year for each depend
ent. A&M will I’eceive up to $2,-
500 per year for eich Fellow.
Names of the 12 Graduate Fel
lows who will study at A&M and
their courses of study are as fol
lows:
Jack D. Bryant of College Sta
tion, Fred S. Jaap of Granado, Lo
renzo Manzavera of San Antonio,
James M. Nash of Bryan, and Wil
liam B. Smith of Port Arthur, ap
plied mathematics; Allen Eugene
Kelly of Houston, Joseph E. Minor
of Corpus Christi, Miguel Santi-
ago-Melendez of Mayaguez, Puerto
Rico, and Robert P. Shubinski of
Dallas, structural enginering and
mechanics, and Ernest S. Alvarez
of Las Cruces, N. M., Charles L.
Bates of Sabinal, and George W.
Kattawar of Beaumont, physics.
Second Term Ends
\
Friday, August 28
The program for the first se
mester of the regular session of
1959-60, A&M, gets under way
Sept. 15, with entering freshmen
reporting to the campus.
The new student program is
Sept. 16-17 and entering fresh
men will register Sept. 18, from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All other stu
dents will register Sept. 19 from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Classes will commence Monday,
Sept. 21.
The second term of the summer
session this year will end Aug.
28 with final examinations.
The Best Beatniks
Ann Lawrence, a student at Stephen F. Austin High School
in Bryan, and Walter Dahlberg, sophomore architecture
student at A&M, were awarded prizes for the being the
best dressed “Beatniks” at the “Beatnik Dance” held at
the Memorial Student Center Monday night. The tradition
al “Aloha Dance” is set for this Monday.
dale, Dallas, J-4 (supply)
Lester Doyle Nichols of Rt. 2,
Quitman, inspector general;
Phillip Gary Robberson of 4610
Trailwood Dr., San Antonio, chap
lain; Homer Jarrell Gibbs of 511
Coolair Dr., Dallas, public informa
tion officer; Gale Oliver III of Re
fugio, athletic officer; Joe Mar’vin
Deeper of Dickinson, liaison offi
cer; Frank Tver Dahlberg of 760
S. Rosemary Dr., Bryan, day stu
dent liaison officer; Kenneth Ray
McGee of Rt. 1, Montalba, scho
lastic officer, and Ralph Eugene
Petersen of Danevang, commander,
consolidated band.
Also appointed to the Corps
staff were David Holley Arnold of
813 13th, Galveston, major assign
ed as head drum major, and Mas
ter Sergeants Harvey Dwaine Bar
ber of Alvin, operations sergeant;
John Victor Kitowski of 940 W.
Mulberry, San Antonio, supply ser
geant; Paul Jenkins Phillips of
Conroe, scholastic sei’geant; John
Norris Harrington of 423 Throck
morton, College Station, athletic
sergeant; John Haskell Johnson
Jr. of Bogata, public information
sergeant; Sidney Norman Heaton
of 2726 Chilton, Tyler, intelligence
sergeant, and Guyron Brantley
Laycock of White Deer, communi
cations sergeant.
Appointments to other positions
in the Corps of Cadets included
Virgil Edward Mulanax of Rt. 1,
Big Sandy, major and executive
officer, Headquarters Consolidated
Band; Robert Bain Me Johnson of
1903 W. Magnolia, San Antonio,
captain and commanding officer,
White Band; Olin Wheeler Brown
of 4307 Woodcrest Lane, Dallas,
captain and drum major, White
Band; Billy Brister Eitel of Rt. 2,
Big Sandy, captain and command
ing officer, Maroon Band; Weldon
Clifford Franklin of Paris, colonel
and commanding officer, H e a d-
quarters First Brigade, and Lawr
ence Frank Guseman of Burton,
lieutenant colonel and commander,
Headquarters First Battle Group.
Other commanding officers in
clude Weldon Kennerly Curry of
1310 Ridgeley Dr., Houston, cap
tain, Company “A” First Brigade;
Robert William Whelan of Kerr-
ville, captain, Company “B” First
Brigade; Arnold Dallas Leunes of
16th Ave. N., Texas City, captain.
Company “C” First Brigade; Ter
ry Lee Blackburn of 1906 Sullivan,
Pasadena, captain, Company “D”
First Brigade; William Lawrence
McCarty Jr. of Eldorado, lieuten
ant colonel, headquarters Second
Battle Group; Ronald Lee Harrod
of 3502 Glenhaven, Houston, cap
tain, Company “E“ First Brigade;
Robert Joe Province of Paris, cap
tain, Comany “F” First Brigade;
Charles Stuart Chamberlain Jr. of
Paris, captain, Company “G” First
Brigade; Edwin David Davis of
1104 Barlow, Waco, captain, Com
pany “H” First Brigade.
Frank Blair Buchanan of 415
Center Dr., Corpus Christi, colonel,
Headquarters Second Brigade; Tho
mas Robert Hamilton of Woodville,
lieutenant colonel, Headquarters
Third Battle Group; Don Robert
Alexander of Port Neches, captain,
Company “A” Second Brigade; Ad
rian Grover Huggins of 2718 Santa
(See Heye Page 3)
Dorm Assignments
For Fall Semester
Outlined by Boyer
Harry. L Boyer, manager
of the Housing Office, an
nounced yesterday that the
following dormitory assign
ments will be in effect for the
Fall Semester, 1959:
“A” ramp of Hart Hall will be
used by graduate students only.
Ramps 1-5 of Law, Puryear, Leg
gett, Mitchell, Milner and Walton
will be used for housing civilian
students.
Dormitories 14 through 17 and
dormitories 1 through 12 will be
used by the Corps of Cadets.
Ramps 6 through 9 of Law and
Henderson Halls will be used by
football and basketball athletes.
Ramps “E” through “J” of Hart
Hall will be used by baseball,
track, swimming, golf and tennis
athletes.
All students pay fees and re
serve rooms according to the fol
lowing procedure:
Veterans report to the Veterans
Advisory Office, ground floor
YMCA.
Pay the $6.00 reservation fee
at the Fiscal Office.
Reserve rooms at the Housing
Office according to the following
schedule:
Students who will be in the
Corps of Cadets in the Fall may
reserve rooms beginning 8 a. m.
Monday, Aug. 24.
Civilian 1’ooms which have not
been reserved by paying the $6
room reservation fee for the Fall
ance with the procedui’e establish
ed at the end of the Spring se
mester may be reserved by stu
dents now in school on a first
come, first sei’ved basis beginning
at 8 a.m. Monday.
Civilian students now in school
who have already sent in the $6
room eservation fee for the Fall
should come by the Housing Of
fice and verify their reservations
before 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28.
All students with their belong
ings must be moved to their new
rooms by 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28.
Dormitories now closed will be un
locked from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on
Aug. 27 and 28 to accommodate
students who must move.
In order to protect student
property, all dormitories except
ramp “A” of Hart Hall and ramps
“A” through “F” of Walton Hall
will be locked at 6 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 28.
Students who wish to remain on
the campus between terms may
register for “A” ramp of Hart
Hall or ramps “A” through “F”
of Walton Hall by paying $9.75
room rent at the Fiscal Office and
presenting the receipt to the Hous
ing Office in the YMCA. This
includes students now living in
ramps “A” thrugh “F” of Wal
ton Hall. This registration must
be completed by 5 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 28.
All day students, including those
living in College Apartments, are
strongly urged to secure Day Stu
dent Permits and pay their fees
early in order to save time.
Birdwell Serves
As Seminar Prof
Carl Birdwell, manager. Ex
change Store, A&M, served as a
professor at the recent seminar of
the National Association of College
Stores, held in Obprlin, Ohio.
The seminar is held each year
for new and old store managers.
He is a past president of the
Association, 1954-55, and served as
chairman of the Committee on Re
lations with Publishers. They
serve as a liaison group with the
textbook publishers.