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THE BATTALION
Thursday, January 14, 1960
CADET SLOUCH
Worth Mentioning
By Johnny Johnson • '
With finals approaching much faster than most of us
prefer, the activity calendar grows smaller as the remaining
number of days on this semester’s calendar do^ but still com
ing up this semester are several top events.
The talk tonight by Ernest K. Lindley, chief of News
week’s Washington Bureau, will be the second presentation
•for the Great Issues Committee of the Memorial Student
Center. Earlier this year they presented Robert Kennedy,
former chief counsel to the Select Senate Committee on Im
proper Activities in the field of Labor and Management and
brother of one of the announced Democratic Presidential
. nomination candidates, John Kennedy.
Brooks Hays, former U. S."*
‘Congressman from Arkansas
and now a member of the
Tennessee Valley Authority
Board of Directors will be
presented during February by
the committee.
The Great Issues Committee
has presented this year possibly
£f;jthe most impressive list of speak-
»iS : ers that it has has in recent
years.
(53* Much of the credit goes to
Chairman Mike McGuire, Vice
Chairman Wally Cannon and
three faculty advisers, Dr. David
A. Fitch, professor in the Divi
sion of Business Administration;
Dr. P. J. (Jock) Woods, associ-
by Jim Ear If*
Worthy of respect and notice by
the Men of Aggieland.
Officers this year are Don Rey
nolds, president; Ray Simmons,
vice president; Dorothy Ash
worth, secretary; and Ed Herider
and Ray Simmons, representa
tives to |the Arts’*, and Sciences
Council.
• Under the#'direction of Esten
since 1950, thd Players have been
in existence for many years, ac
cording to Esten. No,exact esti
mate is available as to how long
Texas A&M, all too often thought
of as a strictly technical school,
has had an organized drama club.
A check of the microfilm files
of The Battalion last night con
tained mention of a production
planned in January, 1890, by a
dramatic society. The story in
The College Journal, the fore
runner of The Battalion, indi
cated the production would be
the initial performance by the
group. Dramatics may be rela
tively unknown at Texas A&M,
but they are by no means new.
ate professor in the Department
of History and Government; and
joJ’Earl, H. Knebel, associate profes-
SB sor in the Department of Agri-
cultural Education.
★ ★ ★
While on the subject of events
for the Men of Aggieland, next
<• ..semester will bring on the sec-
'A'ond presentation of the A&M
Fine Arts Festival. One of the
organizations taking part in this
festival is probably the most-un
derrated and little mentioned
student group on the campus—
The Aggie Players.
During the festival, the Aggie
Players, will not only be present
ing a Shakespearean comedy,
‘‘The Twelfth Night,” but will
be doing it in a new style—in
the round, the same method used
in producing “Bus Stop” earlier
P. in the semester.
A According to C. K. Esten, di
rector of the Players and an as-
sistant professor in the Depart- PROOVES HIS POINT
v .ment of English, the Players’pro- SAN DIEGO, Calif. UP)—Bob
duction of the ^hakeSpe^re play Steele, a technical writer at con-
in the round will' be* a'historical vair Astronautics, promised a wo-
event. Esten said ds far as he man writer that she’d meet lots
knows a Shakespeare play has of bachelors if she joined fhe staff,
never been successfully presented She did just that and married one
in the round. of them. Now, both have left the
So, the Players are certainly plant.
w Si
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O is the best time to get your
season ticket for Great Issues — Recital Series
•‘j
* January
* February
* February
* February
14,
12,
28,
Washington Editor of NEWSWEEK
Earnest K. Lindley
Violin & Piano Artists
Grishman — Ryce Duo
Pianist
David Bar - Ilian
Former Congressman from
Arkansas — Brooks Hays
* April 8, Soprano
Betty Bjoerling
On your way to the Ballroom to hear Earnest K.
Lindley get your ticket at the MSC main desk.
SEASON TICKETS — 5.00
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS — 1.50
THE BATTALION
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re L. A. Duewall, director
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, School of Kqgineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture;
s ; Dr.
nd Dr.
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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Bob Weeklfty Sports Editor
Robbie Godwin t News Editor
Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor
Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors
Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein,
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“Okay, okay
again!”
come back in and I’ll check your grades
What’s Cooking
Poll Tax Payable
In MSC This Week
People in the College Station
area may again pay their poll
tax in the Memorial Student
Center this year.
The Social and Educational
Department of the MSC will
open the polls Jan. 11-29, from
8 a. to 5 p. m. Mondays through
Fridays.
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet tonight:
7:30
Marshall Hometown Club will
niieet in the lobby of the YMCA.
Wee Aggies
We Agglee like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
tor. . .
A future Corps Commander
was born at 8:23 a.m. Jan. 5 to
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald T. Smith,
’(>0, C-3-D College View. Ronald
Tyler Smith Jr. arrived at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan
weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz.
A future Corps Commander
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard P. Jones, ’61, 167 Mobil Dr.
Michael Paul Jones,- 8 lbs. 2 oz.,
was born at 11:05 p.m. Jan. 5.
Mr. and Mrs. David I. Miller,
’60, of 4405 College Main, are the
proud parents of a future Aggie
date. She is Marjanna Lynn Mil
ler, born Jan. 6 in St. Joseph’s
Hospital. Marjanna weighed 7
pounds, 3 ounces.
Another future Aggie date,
Beverly Jane Martin, was born
Jan. 12 at 11:46 p.m. in St.
Joseph’s Hospital. She weighed
7 pounds, 14 ounces. The proud
parents are. Mr. and Mrs. M. P.
Martin, ’61, of D-3-Z College
View. ■
History Prof
Writes Article
Haskell Monroe of the Depart
ment of History and Government
has an article appearing in the
latest issue of the North Carolina
Historical Review titled, “ ‘The
Road to Gettysburg’—The Diary
and Letters of Leonidas Torrence
of the Gaston Guards.”
LAST DAY
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DOUBLE FEATURE
“Web of Evidence’
&
“Wichita”
Midland Hometown Club will
meet in the YMCA to choose the
club sweetheart.
Abilene Hometown Club will
meet on the second floor of the
Academic Building.
Angelina County Hometown
Club will meet in the Fountain
Room of th6 Memorial Student
Center.
Shreveport Hometown Club will
meet in the Gay Room of the
YMCA.
Waco Hometown Club meets in
the Reading Room of the YMCA
to make plans for a party be
tween semesters.
San Antonio Hometown Club
will meet in Room 128 of the Ac
ademic Building.
El Paso Hometown Club meets
in Room 126 of the Academic
Building.
THROUGH FRIDAY
“TEMPEST”
With Van Heflin
Plus
THE MAN IN THE NET’
With Alan Ladd
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
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Show Opens 6 p. m.
Civilian Student
Portrait Dates Set
Civilian Students will have
their portrait made for The Ag
gieland ’60 at the Aggieland
Studio between the hours of 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the
following schedule.
Coats and ties should be
worn.
Civilian Senior and Graduates
(Including Jr. and Sr. Vet Med.,
5th Year Architects)
Jan.
11-12
E-K
Jan.
13-14
L-R
Jan.
18-19
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Whiting Has Had 29 Years'
Experience, 14 Years Here
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Staff Writer
Robert L. Whiting, head of the
Department of Petroleum Engi
neering, is a man with eight years
of industrial experience and 21
years teaching experience, the last
14 of which have been spent at
A&M.
Whiting received his B.S. from
the University of Texas in 1939,
and his M.S. from the University
in 1942. His teaching experience
includes serving as a graduate as
sistant in the Department of Pe
troleum Engineering at the Uni
versity of Texas from 1939 to
1943, and he was an associate pro
fessor at the Missouri School of
Mines and Metallurgy until 1946,
when he came to A&M.
Besides his teaching experience,
Whiting has had a great deal of
full-time industrial experience in
is field. He worked for the Sin
clair Oil and Refining Co. as
roustabout, roughneck, and on a
connection gang for 15 months
from 1937 to 1940. He served four
months as gas engineer for the
Railroad Commission of Texas at
Pampa during 1940.
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co. hired
him for 24 months of service from
1941 to 1945. During this time, mittee at Austin and College Sta-
he worked in Texas, Louisiana, and tion for 13 months from 1951 to
Oklahoma as apprentice engineer, 1953.
mud engineer, petroleum engineer, Whiting’s part-time industrial
research engineer, reservoir engi- experience includes serving vari-
neer, and in consulting and re- ous clients, particularly in the
search departments. • field of reservoir engineering,
Whiting has worked for the drilling, production, and oil and
Magnet Cove Barium Corp. of gas valuation from 1940 to 1957.
Houston as mud engineer and con- whiting was born in San An-
sultant from 1947 to 1953. He has tonio> Tex<j on Feb- 2 5, 1918, and
also served the Texas Engineering since that time he has lived in
Experiment Station at College San Antonio, Houston, Austin,
Station as an associate research p ampa) JenningS) La-j TuIsaj 0 kla.,
engineer with 12 months of serv- Rolla> Mo-j and College Station,
ice during 1947 through 1951. He He and b i s family, which includes
served as acting director of the his wi f e> Nina) and their three
Texas Petroleum Research Com- children, Robert Louis, Sharon Ca
rol, and John Vance, reside at 1031
i. Ed. Wives’ Clul) Walton Drive in College Station.
Slates Luncheon
The Industrial Education
Wives’ Club will hold their PhT
Luncheon at Clayton’s Saturday
at 1 p.m.
Tickets for the luncheon are
$1.75, and reservations must be j It takes two to fill the bill
made with Maxine Griffith, at
VI 6-7429, by Saturday. TWO BY TWO CLASS
For
Aggies and Aggie Wives
First Baptist Church
College Station
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