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Thursday, August 20, 1959
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)] Texas
Enjoying Old West
Enjoying the “old west” at the Old Tucson movie set on one
of the side trips of the Kennerly Finishing Ranch at
Amado, Ariz. are, left to right, Ruth McGill, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. McGill Jr., Bryan; Lorelei Brown,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Sidney 0. Brown, College Station;
and Gaye Lester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Lester,
Bryan.
Aggie Grad Named
Director at Pope
Col. Daniel B. Orr, former A&M
student from Graham, Texas, re
cently became director of opera-
tions for the 464th Troop Carrier
Wing (Assault) at Pope Air Force
Base, North Carolina.
He succeeded Col. Joseph F. Mis-
trot who is scheduled to leave in
August for duties as assistant
chi'ef of the Psychological Opera
tions Branch.
Orr, 39, came to Pope from
Twelfth Air Force Headquarters,
Waco, Texas, where he has been
acting director of inspections.
Born at Olney, Texas, he was
graduated from A&M in 1941 and
was commissioned in June of that
year. He completed flight train
ing in 1943 and from June, 1943
to June 1944 was an operations
officer and B-24 pilot in Italy, fly
ing 51 combat missions totaling
325 combat hours.
His post war assignments in
cluded tours as professor of air
science and tactics at the Citadel
and at North Texas State College.
Orr went to Korea in December,
1953 and the next July became
commander of the 6127th -Air
Transport Group at Ashiya Air
Base, Japan. He later commanded
the 7th Aerial Port Division at
Eighteenth Air Force Headquar
ters, then at Donaldson AFB,
South Carolina, he was assistant
director of operations and then
executive officer of DCS opera
tions. In January, 1958 he was
named executive officer of DCS
operations at Twelfth Air Force
Headquarters at Waco, and served
in that post until last Spring.
Orr is a command pilot and his
awards include the Distinguished
Flying Cross, Air Medal with five
oak clusters, and the Commenda
tion medal.
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Joe Steen, Dean Hord, Ernesto Uribe, John Wayne Clark....Staff Writers
Francis Nivers Photographer
Russell Brown Sports Correspondent
A&M’s Stuart G. Bigler
To Head Weather Program
Research Scientist Stuart G.
Bigler has been named head of
the Radar and Sferics programs
of .the U. S. Weather Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
For the past four years he has
been on the teaching and research
staff of A&M’s Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology.
Bigler received national recogni
tion in the spring of 1956 for out
standing work in detecting and
tracking a tornado and sending
out a warning in time for children
to be kept in the schools as the
storm tore a damaging path
through Bryan, For this work he
received a special award from the
American Meteorological Society.
In his new position, which he
will assume on Oct. 1, Bigler will
coordinate activities of the Weath
er Bureau’s 100 or more radar sta
tions scattered across the country.
These activities include hurricane
tracking, tornado and severe
weather tracking and routine ob
servations.
He will also be involved in re
search with the possible applica
tion of new types of radar ob
servations to the forecast pro
gram, and will be responsible for
establishing and maintaining new
and existing radar and sferics pro
grams with cooperating foreign
governments and private agencies.
A native of Pennsylvania, Big
ler received his B. S. degree in
meteorology from Pennsylvania
State College in 1952 and his M.S.
degree in meteorology from A&M
in 1957.
He joined the A&M Department
of Oceanography and Meteorology
in February, 1955, as a research
associate.
Since coming to A&M he has
served as a consultant to the Ben-
dix Systems Division on aerial re
connaissance aircraft, to televis
ion stations in Pittsburg, Kansas
and in Dallas and Waco on use of
radar in TV weather shows, and
to the University of Chicago on
research dealing with severe local
storms.
He is currently serving as a
guest lecturer for a radar meteor
ology training course at the Uni
versity of Miami in Florida.
Bigler is a member of several
honorary and professional socie
ties and has been author and co
author of many scientific publi-
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