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Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
Number
Caring for The New Equipment
—Battalion Staff Photo
L. J. Jones, porter of the Memorial Student
Center Lanes, is shown dragging the newly-
finished alleys. Other improvements in the
lanes are the newly-painted pinsetter
masks shown in the background and the
wall panel separating the lanes from the
mechanisms. The latter addition is intended
to aid in better air conditioning of the
building and to lessen the noise from the
machines.
Numerous Changes Improve !? etl c red / r ® fessor
° J Un study Program
Of Board Meeting
MSC Bowling Convenience
Several additions have been
made to the Memoriaf Student Cen-
v ter Bowling Lanes to enhance its
beauty and to add to the conven
ience of the crowds attending the
match games of the MSC Bowling
• Committee.
The Tel-a-Score, a device for dis
playing the scores in each lane
onto a screen over the heads of
the bowlers, have been put on all
lanes. The four units serve two
lanes each, and cost $675 per unit.
They will be used for the Aggie
Bowling Team's league play and
for match competition according
to John Gieger, manager.of the
MSC Bowling and Games Depart
ment.
Better control of the air condi
tioning, both summer and winter,
has been made possible by the in
sulation of all overhead area with
the spray type rockwool insulation
and enclosing of the area behind
the pinsetters into a separate com
partment. Geiger said the alley
stayed from 68 to 70 1 degrees all
the time. The enclosing of the
mechanical area also improved the
acoustics of the building, cutting
down the noise of the pinsetters.
For the convenience of the bowl
ers, the lanes have been complete
ly resurfaced, including the run
ways and the alleys. The surface
is sanded down to the- wood and
smoothed. Then it is resurfaced
with one base coat and four fin
ishing coats, making them smooth
er and faster.
The bowling area has been re
painted throughout, including the
gutters and the pinsetter masking
units. The Seats are ‘ bule- white
and orange and the ball racks are
white and gray, spreading into
gray gutters. The pinsetter masks
are a steel blue and white.
New shoes also add to the com
Enjoying The Music
Anita Mouery of College Station plays a piano number dur
ing the foreign student recepttion held last night in Me
morial Student Center. Enjoying the music are M. Haq,
left, from Pakistan and M. H. Heu from Korea.
fort of the bowlers and keglers
will be bowling at new pins.
The MSC lanes recorded over
112,000 lines bowled the past year,
of which better than 85 per cent
were bowled by students either in
league play, physical education
classes or in open bowling. The
largest single day was the first
anniversary of the installation of
the automatic pinsetters in early
February when 901 lines were
bowled in the period from 5 a.m.
until 1 p.m. the next morning.
Geiger also announced a meet
ing of the MSC Bowling Commit
tee in the MSC Monday. He ask
ed that members contact him for
the time and place of the meeting.
Three Ags Aided
BySEG F oundation
Scholarships
Three A&M students are enter
ing the 1959-60 school year with
a scholarship from the Society of
Exploration Geophysics Founda
tion, according to Howard L. Cobb,
chairman of scholarship adminis
tration for the foundation.
The students, freshman James
Earl Johnson, junior Glenn Allen
Jones, and graduate student Char
les H. Andrews, are pursuing
courses of study leading to grad
uate or undergraduate degrees in
geophysics.
Awards from the SEG Founda
tion are made as scholarships to
outstanding students majoring in
fields of interest to petroleum ex
ploration, and as grants-in-aid for
teaching and research. The foun
dation’s trust fund is made up of
contributions from organizations
and individuals interested in the
earth sciences.
Dorm 3 Baggage
Room Opens Friday
All baggage whicfh was stored
for the summer with the Agron
omy Society has now been con
solidated in the basement of Dorm
3. The storage room in Dorm 3
will be open Friday afternoon
from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.
It is imperative that all belong
ings be picked up on this date.
Privileges, Talks Top
Commanders’ Meet
A&M Graduate Is
Business Manager
At Student Center
New business manager and as
sistant director of the Memorial
Student Center is Charles E. Gos
per, who assumed his duties in
August.
He succeeded Charles G. Haas,
now business manager of Stephen
F. Austin State College in Nacog
doches.
A June, 1953, graduate of
A&M, the new MSC employe re
ceived a B.B.A. degree, special
izing in accounting. Following
graduation, he was employed for
a year as assistant auditor in the
Office of the Comptroller of the
A&M College System.
From June, 1954, to March,
1956, Cosper served with the
United States Army, stationed
at Fort Devens, Mass. He then
returned to employment in the
Office of the Comptroller until
June, 1956, when he became ad
ministrative assistant in the Tex
as Engineering Experiment Sta
tion and the Texas Transporta
tion Institute.
George Wilcox, recently retired
A&M professor and president of
the Brazos County Board of Edu
cation, will appear on the program
of the 133th annual nieeting of the
Texas Assn, of School Boards
which will be held at the Driskill
Hotel in Austin, Oct. 11-12.
Wilcox will join local school
board members from across Texas
in studying the attitudes and ac
tivities of various citizen groups
as they work for better public
schools. How school boards and
school administrators can benefit
from the current crest of public
interest in public schools will also
be studied.
“Improving Education—A Free
People’s Responsibility” is the
theme of the two-day conference
which will feature addresses by
Dr. James H. Jauncey, El Paso
First Christian Church, minister
and engineer with the National Se
curity Scientific Project, White
Sands, N.M., and Dr. Daniel R.
Davies, professor of Education at
Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity. Business and industry,
parents, educators,, school boards,
the State and “the public” will be
represented in panels and study
groups exploring the conference
theme.
The Texas Assn, of School
Boards is a statewide voluntary
organization of local boards of ed
ucation which provides confer
ences, publications and research
and information services for local
school authorities.
Fish 7 Lesson Plan
Covered Yesterday
Standardization of privileges and talks by President
Earl Rudder and Commandant of the School of Military
Sciences Col. Joe E. Davis highlighted the commanders’
meeting held yesterday afternoon.
Also discussed at the meeting was the lesson plan to
be used for the freshmen indoctrination Saturday morning.
Names of unit faculty advisors were collected from com
manding officers.
Heading the discussion of privileges was the reserving
for senior cadets of a portion of the Memorial Student Cen
ter Fountain Roome. Effective immediately, the center por
tion of the Fountain Room will be reserved for senior cadets.
"♦"Corps underclassmen will be
required to use the remaining
Seating Plan Heads
First CSC Meeting
Members of the Civilian Student
Council will hold their first meet
ing of the new school year tonight
at 7:30 in the Senate Chamber of
the Memorial Student Center.
Old business will consist of a
report from the treasurer and a
Kyle Field seating plan report.
New business will include the
replacement of a Senior Class rep
resentative, a Hart Hall represent
ative and a representative from
College View to the council. Also
the registration problem will be
discussed by the member's.
Officers for this year’s council
are Charles W. Graham, president;
Arthur Roland Dommert, vice pres
ident; Mike Cario, secretary; Jas.
Hall, parlimentarian; and Ben
Havard, treasurer.
Foreign Aggies
Honored Here
With Reception
Approximately 175 A&M foreign
and exchange students were hon-
red with a reception last night in
the Assembly Room of the Me
morial Student Center.
The reception was sponsored by
the Campus Study Club, the Amer
ican Association of University Wo
men and the Pan American Round
table.
Chancellor and Mrs. M. T. Har
rington and President and Mrs.
'Earl Rudder were present to greet
the students. Hostesses included
Mrs. Don Young, president of the
Campus Study Club; Mrs. Horace
Blank, president of the American
Association of University Women;
Mrs. Frank W. Gould, president of
the Pan American Roundtable; and
Mrs. F. L. Thomas.
Robert L. Melcher, foreign stu
dent advisor, acted as a guide at
the event. Melcher said this was
the biggest turnout at a foreign
student reception to date. The
reception is held annually.
Mrs. Robert B. Bossier of Col
lege Station was in charge of pin
ning identification cards on the
students and other people present.
Anita Mouery of College Station
played the piano.
Guests at the reception included
various members of the Executive
Committee of the college, unit fac
ulty advisors and other college of
ficials.
The students were served pine
apple punch and cookies.
table and booths.
No cadet will wear fatigues
in the MSC Main Lounge it
was decided by the unit command
ers.
President Rudder extended his
thanks-to the commanders for the
work they have done in retaining
freshmen and also brought up
another suggestion.
He urged the commanders to in
struct their men to use weekends
wisely.
The president asked the com
manders to recommend to their
men that they use the weekends
for study or leisure activities.
Col. Davis told the commanders
it was the duty of the cadet offi
cers to police the Corps.
He commended the men for the
fine job they had been doing and
added that it Was better for them
to do the job than to have tactical
officers be responsible for discip
line within the Corps.
The freshmen orientation from
7 to 8 Saturday morning will be
concerned with general conduct.
The lesson plan handed com
manders covers basic points that
all freshmen should know regard
ing dormitory and campus regu
lations for cadets'.
Also covered on the plan are
regulations regarding conduct at
Yell Practice, football games and
in the dining halls.
MSC Room Bids
Accepted Friday
The Memoria] Student Center
Social and Educational Office will
begin accepting .applications, for
meeting rooms for student organ
izations and clubs beginning at 8
a.m. tomorrow morning, accord
ing to Mrs. Ann Keel, MSC Social
and Educational director.
NS A Urges
Secretary
Applications
The Bryan-College Station Chap
ter of the National Secretaries
Assn, is again urging all. local sec
retaries interested in the Certified
Professional Secretaries Examina
tion to submit their applications
before the deadline of Dec. 1. Ap
plications can be obtained from
the Institute for Certifying Sec
retaries at 1103 Grand Ave., Kan
sas City 6. Mo.
Texas ranks second in the na
tion—^California is first—with 150
CPS certificates issued. In 1959
19 secretaries were awarded cer
tificates in Texas and 27 in Cali
fornia.
The NSA has announced the ap
pointment of new members to the
CPS Institute. Professor George
Wagoner of the University of Ten
nessee is Dean of the Institute and
this year indicates appointment of
a Texan, L. J. Hallmark with Shell
Oil Co. in Houston, on the exam
ining Board.
Mrs.Orlena Newton is Chairman
of the CPS Study Committee.
Easterwood to Host
Annual Texas Tour
Early Next Month
Easterwood Airport will Wel
come the eleventh annual All-Tex
as Air Tour on Oct. 3 at 1:45 p.m.,
Leland S. Paine, president of the
Bryan Chamber of Commerce*
said today.
Paine stated that numerous of
ficials from A&M, College Station
and Bryan have been invited to
attend the informal greeting.
Paine also mentioned that refresh
ments will be served to the flyers
who will be representing more
than 18 states as well as Mexico.
The group will arrive fi'o'm
Temple, stopping at Easterwood
for approximately 30 minutes be
fore leaving for their final vant
age point of Galveston over a
3,000 mile week-long tour.
Refreshment Time
Two A&M foreign students are served punch 175 foreign
by Mrs. Jack Gray of College Station at
last night’s foreign student reception held
in the Memorial Student Center. Some
—Battalion Staff Photo
students attended and m' f
Chancellor and Mrs. M. T. Harrington a
President and Mrs. Earl Rudder.