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12 COPIES F8 WELCOME TEXAS AGGIES me BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 134: Volume 58 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959 Price Five Cents FRESHMAN EDITION SECTION I Freshmen to Arrive September 15 Board Approves Jump In Teaching Salaries An increase of $297,501 in funds for teaching salaries was the most significant phase of the $17,632,235 budget approved for A&M for the fiscal year beginning September 1, Former Student Named Cashier Of Houston Bank A. Harrel Blackshear was named cashier of Houston Bank & Trust Company in an action by the board of directors on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Bleackshear joined the bank staff as vice president and loan officer in October, 1956. A native of Galveston, he is a graduate of A&M and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University. He served as commissioned officer in the U. S. Navy during World War II. From 1948 through 1951, he was on the staff of Chase National Bank (New York) and during the two years following was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He came to Hous ton Bank & Trust after two years as officer of the United States National Bank in Galveston. by the College System board of di rectors, meeting here Tuesday. The increase went for selective salary raises on a merit scale, many of a substantial nature. Funds for the salary increases came from an increase in appropri ations from the General Revenue of $118,316, plus savings made through the elimination of a num ber of teaching positions and sup plemented by an appropriation from the University Available Fund. Other significant increases in cluded $42,374 additional for the college library, continuing the ma jor library improvement program started a number of years ago. Organized research funds were in creased by $28,824 and the college’s extension and public services by $46,515. In accordance with an act of the last Legislature, the board author ized establishment of laboratory fees in all courses in which con sumable laboratory supplies and materials are used. A&M will have over 579 separate laboratory fees, ranging from $2 to $8 per semes- ter. A complete list of these is being made up and will be pub lished by the office of the registrar before the opening of the fall se mester. Also in compliance with action of the last Legislature, the present Student Activity, Student Health and Student Center fees of the col lege were cancelled. In their place a compulsory matriculation and student service fee were substitut ed. The three cancelled fees have totalled $45.90 for the entire long session, of which $21.90 was for Student Activities, $20 for Student Health and $4 for the Student Center. The new compulsory fee will to tal $35.35 for the next long session and $36 for long sessions there after. Of this, $22 is for medical fees, $12 for the Student Center and $2 for intramural activities. In addition, the board authorized establishment of voluntary fees at A&M of $9.70 for athletics, $10.30 for student publications, $3 for Town Hall and $.80 for the Great Issues and Recital Series, a total of $23.80 for the long session. Those students not choosing to pay the voluntary fee will not partici pate in these activities. Car registration and parking fees, also provided for by action of the Legislature, will be $3 for the Fall semester, $3 for the Spring semester and $3 for either or both terms of summer school, for stu dents. System employees will pay $7.50 per year parking fees plus $1 per year registration permit. President Greets Class of 1963 TO THE CLASS OF 1963: The faculty and staff join me in extending to you a warm wel come to the Agricultural and Me chanical College of Texas. You have chosen a college which has made an enviable record in educa tional achievement for over 83 years. All of us are dedicated to the job of developing each student to the maximum of his capabilities— mentally, physically and spiritu ally. We seek to accomplish this by providing outstanding profes sors, who want you to grow acad emically. We offer you fine fa cilities, including well-eqipped lab oratories, stimulating programs and healthful living conditions. You face a real challenge as you begin your college career at A&M. The amount of hard work you can do here in preparation for life’s opportunities is practically unlim ited. As you adjust to college life, you may wonder at times whether the effort is worthwhile. No doubt many of the outstanding graduates of A&M have had these same thoughts when they were fresh men here—men like Bernard A. Schi'iever, the son of immigrant parents, who graduated from A&M, Class 'of 1931. Today he heads the U.S. Air Missiles pro gram. James Foley, Class of 1932, today is president of one of the major petroleum companies of the world. Dr. William E. Mor- Earl Rudder gan, Class of 1930, is president of Colorado State University. This mentions only three of the thou sands of graduates who have had the determination and persever ance to complete their college edu cation here at Aggieland and go on to assume their places of lead ership. We trust and hope this will be your experience also. May your years at A&M be pro ductive and happy, and may they be ones which contribute to a rich er, fuller life for you in the years ahead. Earl Rudder President Blackshear has been active in the fund drives of the Houston Symphony Society and is a life member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. Extension Service Assigns Instructor In a move to assist industrial organizations too small to develop an adequate training staff, the Supervisory Development Division of the Engineering Extension Serv ice, A&M System, has assigned an instructor to the Houston and Gujf Coast areas on a full-time basis. W. B. Mansfield, who has moved to Houston, will work with these plants in determining training needs, establishing. training sched ules, training instructors and in upgrading their supervisory per sonnel through the supervisory development program offered by the Engineering Extension Service. In keeping with its motto, “TTraining Texans to Build a Better Texas,” the Engineering Extension Service provides several short unit courses to improve supervis ion. They include fundamentals of supervision, personnel relations, methods improvement, effective employe training, the supervisor and accident prevention, and in dustrial communication. Additional information concern ing these courses is available from Engineering Extension Service headquarters in College Station. Secretary Group Presents Barbecue Members of the Bryan-College Station Chapter of the National Secretaries Assn, entertained their husbands with a barbecue at the home of Mrs. Mary Beth Gandy, 806 Newton, College Station on Saturday evening. The next scheduled meeting will be Sept. 8 when Mrs. Alice Powell from Austin, who is the Division Secretary and Board contact for the Chapter, will be present. Foreign Students Must Get Forms If Planning to Leave All foreign students who plan to visit in countries other than the United States between Aug. 28 and the fall semester must secure a Form 1-20, Bennie A. Zinn, foreign student advisor, said. The forms can be picked in Room 209 of the YMCA prior to departure from the campus. The forms should be secured as early as possible to avoid last minute rushes, Zinn said. Campus Archives Office Moved to Cushing Library The College Archives of'hce has been moved from the Memorial Student Center to the Cushing Me morial Library. The College Archives Office was inaugurated August, 1950, under the joint sponsorship of the Col lege and the Association of Former Students for the purpose of gather ing and preserving the history of Scientist Takes Wife Miss Doreen May Folley of Australia Tuesday became the wife of Dr. Brian Warren Logan, a research scientist in the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology. The bride arrived from Australia Tuesday and the couple were married in the A&M Inter Faith Chapel. Mont Whitson, minister of the A&M Church of Christ, conducted the serv ices. .The couple will live in College Station at 300 Cooner. the College. It is administered by a commit tee composed of faculty members and former students, chaired by R. A. Houze, director of the Cush ing Memorial Library. “We are proud to have the Ar chives office located in the Li brary,” Houze says. “We think it will have many advantages in its new location and the public is in vited to visit and take advantage of its facilities.” Prof. D. B. Gofer, retired mem ber of the Department of English, was the first archivist and under his administration many items and documents of historical interest and information were collected. Gofer also published five bulletins dealing with the early history and administration of the college. Up on Gofer’s retirement Aug. 31, 1957, Ernest Langford, former head of the Division of Architecture, ■was appointed archivist on a part- time arrangement. “Since Sept 1, 1957, a concerted program of Writing the histories of the various departments and di visions of the college has been un der way,” Langford says. “A his tory of the first 50 years of archi tectural education has been com pleted and is being distributed. “The late Dr. Hubert Schmidt finished just prior to his death a history of the School of Veterinary Medicine. This history has been published.” Since the establishment of the Archives office hundreds of items of historical material, such as pic tures, papers, letters, clippings, minute books, scrapbooks, annuals, catalogs and textbooks, have been collected, indexed and filed. Besides records and documents of this kind, several uniforms showing the various periods in the military history of the institution, have been collected. Top Ag Students To Tour Mexico Progress being made in Mexico in the field of agriculture will be observed in September by a group of outstanding agricultural stu dents of A&M who will tour Mex ico under the sponsorship of the Sears Roebuck Foundation. The students, all of whom are visualized as future agricultural leaders, were selected for the tour by the Faculty Scholarships Com mittee of A&M’s School of Agri culture. Dr. G. M. Watkins, dean of agri culture at A&M, and Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant dean of agricul- tui-e, will accompany the students. Starting on Sept. 4 and ending on Sept. 13, the tour has a two fold purpose—to acquaint the agri cultural students and staff mem bers with agricultural practices and problems in Mexico, and to im prove the understanding between the people of the two countries. Representatives of the Sears Roebuck Foundation of Mexico and members of the staff of the Na tional School of Agriculture at Chapingo, Mexico, will lead the 10- day tour to such places as coffee, rubber and banana plantations, ex perimental farms, ranches, sites of irrigation and water conservation projects and agricultural class rooms. In addition to field trips, one or more formal programs will be held in honor of the visiting Amer ican students and administrators. New Student Week Filled With Events A program of orientation and other activities for new students entering A&M this fall will be held Sept. 15-19 under direction of the college’s Basic Division. Classes for all students will begin on Monday, Sept. 21. The New Student Orientation Program is held to give all new students and transfer students having less than 30 semester hours credit an opportunity to become acquainted with student activity programs, to meet departmental ad visors and other staff members, to select courses and to register for the 1959-60 academic year. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the new students will report to the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center at any time ♦■between 8 a. m. and 5 n. m. CS Chamber To Resolve Budget, Plan The College Station Chamber of Commerce work program and budget will be resolved at a pub lic meeting of College Station citi zens Tuesday, Sept. 1, Mrs. Robert Knapp, secretary, announced. The open meeting will be held in the A&M Consolidated school cafe teria beginning at 8 p.m. The Chamber Board of Directors has prepared a suggested ten-point program which will be presented. The program, which is flexible in nature, will be up for considera tion and discussion. The Board also will present a budget, pre pared by the budget committee, to finance the suggested program, Mrs. Knapp stated. “The Chamber of Commerce Di rectors have given many hours of deliberation to all aspects of Col lege Station needs for such an or ganization. They desire to dis cuss, improve, and adopt a work able program in keeping with the desires of all of our citizens. This is the purpose of this meeting,” added Mrs. Knapp. Earlier this week the Directors met with A&M President Earl Rudder. The results of this meet ing regarding mutual areas of in terest and cooperation between the College and the Chamber, will be announced Tuesday, Mrs. Knapp reported. “The public meeting at Consoli dated on Sept. 1, is open to every one. . . .business men and women, civic club members, city officials, college personnel. . . .everyone in terested in the improvement of College Station. The directors are expecting a good crowd,” Mrs. Knapp stated. Retiring Faculty Members Honored Four retiring faculty members of the School of Arts and Sciences at A&M were honored at an in formal coffee in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Cen ter Tuesday morning. The retiring faculty members, whose combined service to A&M totals more than 150 years, are W. L. Porter, professor of mathe matics; E. L. Harter, associate professor of chemistry; Dr. F. W. Jensen, distinguished professor of chemistry, and George B. Wilcox, professor of education and psy chology. Of the four, Porter had the long est tenure of service at A&M. He joined the A&M faculty in 1918, two years before Wilcox and three years before Harter. Jensen joined the staff in 1925. The event honoring the group was arranged by Dr. Frank Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Among those attending were college administrative offi cials and teaching colleagues of the honorees. to pay fees and secure hous ing assignments. After se curing housing assignments, they will set up their rooms for living on the campus. ROTC students will secure authorization for uniforms. Earl Rudder, president of the college, will welcome the new students at a general assembly tq be held on the night of Sept. 15 at the G. Rollie White Coliseum. Dr. G. H. Ransdell, associate di rector of the Basic Division, will preside, members of the college executive committee will be intro duced, and a talk will be made by the president of the Student Sen ate, Joseph Sekerka of Rt. 1, Weimar. The second day, Sept. 16, will be devoted to an exchange of informa tion between the new student, his major department and departmen tal education advisor. That night, the second general assembly will be held at the coli seum with J. Gordon Gay, coordi nator of religious life at A&M and general secretary of the YMCA, presiding. The president of the YMCA Cabinet, William G. Shen- kir of 502 Dwight Ave., San An tonio, will speak on “The Place of Religion at Aggieland.” The new students will be intro duced to local ministers and will be invited to attend open house at local churches. Dr. Frank Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and director of the Basic Division, will preside at a general assembly at the coliseum on the morning of Sept. 17. Following the assembly, most of the day will be devoted to group and individual placement conferences with staff members of the Basic Division. Students who will major in agriculture will hold conferences with the dean of agri culture. Friday morning, Sept. 18, the students will meet with James B. Hannigan, dean of students; Ben nie A. Zinn, director of student personnel services; Dr. C. R. Lyons, director of student health services; Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant of the School of Military Sciences, and other staff members for informa tion on student activities and mili tary activities. On the evening of Sept. 18, the Memorial Student Center Direct orate will hold an informal recep tion in the MSC ball room in honor of the new students. Officials of the college will be introduced. All new Basic Division students will register on Thursday night, Sept. 17, and on Friday, Sept. 18. All other students, including trans fers with more than 15 semester hours of credit, will register on the afternoon of Sept. 18 and on the following day. Activities of the New Student Orientation Program will be con cluded on the morning of Sept. 19 with unit meetings for cadets and civilian students. Library Schedule Beginning tomorrow and continu ing through Sunday, Sept. 20, Cushing Library will observe the following between semester sched ule: Weekdays—8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays—8 a.m. to noon. Sunday—Closed