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Thursday, November 5, 1959
THE BATTALION
I\ow in Fifth Year at A&M
SCON A Promotes Leaders
By JACK HARTSFrELD
Battalion Staff Writer
What are the students of A&M
doing to prepare themselves as
future leaders in America?
The answer can be found in the
1958 Congressional Record where
Sen. Hubert Humphrey addressed
the Senate of the United States
on the outstanding work of SCO-
NA — the student-sponsored con
ference held at A&M each Decem
ber to promote a generation of
responsible leaders in internation
al affairs.
The fact is well worth nothing
that SCONA is the only confer
ence of its kind to be recorded in
United States Congressional Re
cords.
For the last four years A&M
has held a Student Conference on
National Affairs. SCONA, as it
is commonly called, began in the
winter of 1954 as a student’s
dream. This dream originated in
the mind of Herbert W. Whitney,
then a student here. Whitney at
tended a conference on Foreign
Affairs held by the United States
Military Academy at West Point.
N. Y., in the fall of 1954. Primari
ly held for students in eastern
colleges, Whitney saw the need
of such a progi'am for students
in the South and Southwest.
SCONA Is Born
When he returned, Whitney be
gan selling his fellow students
on the idea of having' a similar
conference primarily for those
colleges in our area of the, coun
try. A student body, headed by
the inspired Whitney, requested
the Memorial Student Center
Council to establish a new com
mittee called Student Conference
on National Affairs.
The request was approved and
SCONA became a reality.
Inspired, planned and carried
through by students, with the en
couragement of faculty advisors
and the financial backing of pub
lic-spirited sponsors, SCONA has
acquired a national reputation in
its four short years of existence.
Expansion
Since SCONA I, in 1955, the
conference has expanded in all
directions. The number of con-
ferences has increased, more col
leges and universities are repre
sented at the Round Tables, and
more sponsors have signified then-
endorsement with contributions.
It has grown from a represen
tation of 48 schools of two dele
gates from each into a con
ference of 75 schools with 176
students representing them. The
delegates are selected by the pres
ident of the respective schools.
SCONA’s only requirement being
that they be school leaders. These
delegates come from all over the
South and Southwest, including
Canada and Mexico, with most ex
penses paid by SCONA.
SCONA’s success is compounded
of many ingredients; the keynote
speakers, Round Table chairmen,
observers, recorders, and nine
working committees for whom the
three-and-a-half day conference cli
maxes a year of fund raising and
planning.
1959 Conference
The Fifth Student Conference
on National Affairs is moving at
a swift pace toward this year’s
program scheduled to be held in
the Memorial Student Center Dec.
9-12. The theme will be “The Unit
ed States: Problems of World
Leadership.”
Principal speakers who have
been named at the presept time
are Howard R. Bowen, president
of Grinnell College in Iowa; Am
bassador from Ceylon R. S. S.
Gunewardene; and Gen. John B.
Medaris, head of Redstone Arse
nal.
Two other major speakers will
be named at a later date.
A&M will be represented at the
three-day conference by Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan and
Dr. Paul J. Woods, associate pro
fessor of history. These two men
will serve as Round Table co-
chairmen.
Student delegates from A&M
will also be selected soon.
“We are planning for a bigger
and better SCONA V. The effects
of the first four conferences have
already been felt. Other schools
such as North Carolina State and
the United States Air Force Acad-
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emy are sponsoring conferences
rpodeled after SCONA,” comment
ed Jarrel Gibbs, SCONA V chair
man.
“All of us working on this year’s
preparation for SCONA V feel
we are well on our way to ac
complishing SCONA’s purposes
of informing future leaders in
America,” Gibbs added.
Governing Body
The SCONA V executive com
mittee, which is responsible for
co-ordinating the nine groups that
make up the SCONA working
roster, is composed of Gibbs,
SCONA V chairman; Syd Heaton,
vice-chairman; Kenneth Keller,
vice-chairman for finance; Gus
tavo Barrera, secretary; John
Vaughan, conference manager;
Herbert Whalen, arx-angements
chairman; Percy Mims, housing
chairman; Frank Buchanan, plan
ning chairman; Bruce Keith, pro
gram chairman; Jack Hartsfield,
publicity chairman; Charles Bell,
secretariat; Mike Reid, transpor
tation chairman; Ronald Buford,
MSC Council and Directorate pres
ident; and Mike McGuire, Great
Issues chairman.
The nation’s eyes are on SCONA
V.
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The test, which covers business
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Upon passing the test, each in
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