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Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 19G0
Number 66
First In a Series
Three RE Week
Speakers Named
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Staff Writer
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This
is the first in a series of six
articles telling about the
speakers and discussion lead
ers who will take part in the
Religious Emphasis Week ac
tivities, Feb. 22-26.)
The Rev. Dr. R. M. Nelson, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Greenville, S. C., will be the con
vocation speaker for Religious
Emphasis Week, scheduled for
Feb. 21 through Feb. 28.
The Rev. Dr. Nelson will speak
each morning during the week in
Guion Hall, and classes wall be
dismissed during this hour, en
abling all persons on the campus
to attend the services.
Discussion groups will he held
in the different dormitories during
the week, with 14 men available
to lead the discussions apd hold
counseling. Topics for these dis
cussions will be selected from in
terest locators passed out among
Whiting Named
Petroleum
Research Head
Robert L. Whiting, head of the
Department of Petroleum Engi
neering, has been named acting
director of the Texas Petroleum
Research Committee, succeeding
Dr. George Fancher, who resigned
recently to become vice president
for production research of Sin
clair Research Laboratories.
Whiting’s appointment, effect
ive immediately, has been con
firmed by the steering committee
of the statewide Texas Petroleum
Research Committee, which con
sists of Ernest O. Thompson, of
the Railroad Commission, Dr. Lo
gan Wilson, president of the Uni
versity of Texas, and Chancellor
M. T. Harrington.
The Petroleum Research Com-
’tfiittee is an organization operated
cooperatively by the Railroad
Commission, A&M and the Uni-
vei’sity of Texas, to do research on
improved methods of primary and
secondary recovery of oil from
Texas fields. It was established
in 1947 to serve Texas and the
Texas petroleum industry by doing
research on improved methods of
recovery, and since its establish
ment the TPRC’s staff members
have published major findings in
more than 80 papers, and have
sponsored annual recovery confer
ences for petroleum engineers
that have attracted international
attention. As acting director of
TPRC, Whiting will maintain of
fices both at Austin, where the
University of Texas division head
quarters are located, and at Col
lege Station, where A&M’s divi
sional research is carried out.
the students prior to the Christ
mas holidays.
'The Rev. James Wray will be
dorm counselor for Dorms 1 and
3. The Rev. Mr. Wray is a Baptist
student at Lamar State College
of Technology, located in Beau
mont, Tex.
The Rev. James W. Adams, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
at Dayton, Tex., will be dorm
counselor for Dorms 2 and 4.
The Rev. Aithur E. Rode will
be dorm counselor for Dorms 5 and
7 during the week. The Rev. Mr.
Rode is pastor of the First English
Lutheran Church in Victoria, Tex.
Forums and discussion groups
for the faculty and staff will also
be held during the week. The top
ics for these discussions are to be
taken from intei-est locators passed
out among the faculty and staff.
Religious Emphasis Week has
been held at A&M since 1942. In
that year, two different sessions
were held because so many men
were entering the service. No
more were held until 1945, and it
has been an annual occasion since
that time, making the Religious
Emphasis Week for 1960 the 18th
annual one.
Each year Religious Emphasis
Week has had a great participa
tion on the part of students at
A&M, and each year it has brought
more top leadership, according to
J. Gordon Gay, co-ordinator of re
ligious life and general secretai’y
of the YMCA.
Band Dance Slated
For MSC Saturday
The Rev. James Wray
. . . dorms 1 and 3
The Rev. Arthur E. Rode
. . . dorms 5 and 7
CSC Talks Plans
For Civilian Ball
By BOB SATLE
Battalion Staff Writer
Discussion of plans for the Ci
vilian Student Weekend activities,
to be held March 19, highlighted
business at a meeting of the Civil
ian Student Council Thursday
night.
The council met in the Senate
Chamber of the Memorial Student
Center and discussed plans for the
Civilian Student Weekend dance
and sweetheart contest.
Vice President Roland Dommert,
standing in for President Charles
Graham, gave the floor to Secre
tary Mike Carlo, who proposed a
change in the method of selection
of the sweetheart at the dance.
Carlo pointed out that in the
past the sweetheart judges have
been faculty or staff members.
He then outlined pour proposals
for a change in this method of
judging.
He proposed that the judging be
done by popular vote of everyone
at the dance, by certain judges
picked at random, by the civilian
dorm presidents, or by the Civilian
Student Council.
After considerable discussion, a
vote was taken on the four pro
posals and it was decided by ma
jority vote that judging would be
conducted by popular vote by
means of voting cards passed out
to those students attending the
dance.
Carlo reminded the council that
there will be 14 finalists in the
contest, representative of all the
dorms and apartment areas. An
entry fee of $5 and a picture of
the entrant must be turned into
council sponsor Arthur O. Murray
by March 9, said Carlo.
Plans for the civilian barbecue
will be worked out in the next few
weeks, it was decided at the meet
ing.
Several musical groups were
mentioned by vice president Dom
mert as possibilities for entertain
ment at the dance. Among groups
mentioned were the Aggieland
Combo, The Starlighters of Hous
ton and the Ed Sullivan Band of
Houston.
The council members voted to
leave the selection of a band to
the Dance Committee.
Carlo said that the Student Sen
ate, in a meeting held Jan. 21,
reported the allocations of the re
cent Campus Chest fund. It was
i-eported that 70 per cent of all
funds were to. be allocated to the
campus.
‘The Briny Deep 9
Named As Theme
By BOB SLOAN
Assistant Sports Editor
“The Briny Deep,” with boats and sails, fishing nets and
crashing waves will set the stage when members of the famed
Aggie Band gather tomorrow night in the Ballroom of the
MSC from 9:00 to 12:00 p. m. for the annual Band Dance.
Highlight of the dance will be the selection of the Band
Sweetheart. The winner will be picked from the field of five
lovely finalists by a vote of those attending the dance. Bal
lots will be placed in a minnow box provided for the purpose
and the winner will be presented to the Band during the inter
mission.
Finalists Named
The five finalists are:
• Glenda Corwelius, beauty from Grapevine, escorted by
“♦'Billy B. Eitel, senior from Big
Op
Safety Meet
ens Here
Wednesday
Representatives of approximate
ly 50 colleges and universities
will attend a two-day meeting on
safety practices here Wednesday
and Thursday.
The occasion is the third Con
ference on College and University
Safety for Texas.
Presiding at Wednesday ses
sions of the conference will be
John W. Hill, personnel insurance
and safety director, A&M College
System, and Dr. C. H. Groneman,
head of the Department of Indus
trial education. Delegates to the
conference will be welcomed to
the campus Wednesday morning
by President Earl Rudder.
J. O. Musick, general manager
of the Texas Safety Assn., will
preside at a special evening ses
sion, Wednesday, and Lewis
Spears, consultant in health, Safe
ty and physical education, of the
Texas Education Agency, will
chair the Thursday meetings.
Speakers for the conference in
clude Dr. Lee Wilborn, assistant
commissioner for instruction, Tex
as Education Agency; Dan Web
ster, representative of the Nation
al Safety Council; John Moi-ris,
safety co-ordinator at the Univer
sity of Illinois; R. C. Gullion, sup
erintendent of buildings and
grounds, University of Texas;
Sterling Bakei’, traffic and secur
ity director, University of Hous
ton; C. J. Keese, professor in the
A&M Department of Civil Engi
neering.
Sandy.
• Linda Kirkland, blonde
from Navasota, escorted by
Butch Cockrell, freshman
from Beaumont.
9 Jerrie Jane Braswell, blonde
from Fort Worth, escorted by Sid
ney F. Stephenson Jr., freshman
from/ Ft. Worth.
© Carole Sullivan, blonde from
San Antonio, escorted by John Al
derman, senior from San Antonio.
© Linda Jean Johnson, brunette
from Austin, escorted by Kenneth
Henneberger, junior from Dallas.
Committes
Walter E. Johnston, senior from
Mercedes, is chairman of the
Sweetheart Committee. Members
of his committee include Rodney S.
Griffith,, sophomore from Lock
hart; Aubrey S. Elkins Jr., junior
from Premont; Edwin F. Latta,
sophomore from Beaumont; Har
vey K. Bradley, freshman from
Temple; and Roland Stephens.
Honored Guests
Several honored guests have been
asked to attend- the thi-ee-hour
formal dance by the Band. They
include Chancellor and Mrs. M. T.
Harrington, President and Mrs.
Earl Rudder, Col. and Mrs. Joe E.
Davis, Col. and Mrs. Frank L. El
der, Col. and Mrs. Charles E. Gre
gory, Col. and Mrs. Frank S. Va-
den„ Lt. Col. and Mrs. Edward V.
Adams, the deans of the various
schools and their wives, Fred E.
Smith, professor in the Department
of Geology and Geophysics, and
Dr. Paul J. Woods, associate pro
fessor in the Department of His
tory and Government, and their
wives. Smith and Woods are facul
ty advisors for the band.
Ralph E. Peterson, senior from
Danevang, is the Committee Co
ordinator for the dance. Robert B.
McJohnson, senior fi-om San An
tonio, is chairman of the Program
and Imtitations Committee; David
H. Arnold, senior from Galveston,
is chairman of the dance and Deco
rations Committee and Billy B.
Eitel is chairman of the Finance
Committee.
Commissioners,
Judges Meet
Starts Sunday
Participants in the second Coun
ty Judges’ and Commissioners’
Conference scheduled for A&M’s
Memorial Student Center, Sunday
through Tuesday, are expected to
number about 300.
Registration will get underway
for the visitors at 2 p.m. on Sun
day and guided tours, which will
include the A&M campus and the
Brazos County Courthouse, will
leave the MSC at 3, 3:30 and 4
p.m. An informal get-together is
planned for the evening program.
The formal program will begin
at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, with C.
Y. Johnson, Randall County com
missioner and president of the
County Judges’ and Commissioners’
Assn, of Texas, serving as the pre
siding officer for the first session.
President Earl Rudder will wel
come the group to the campus.
Dui’ing the following two-days
such practical topics as recent
laws affecting county officials,
road machinery maintenance and
shop records, use of herbicides in
brush and grass control, systems
of reevaluation of real property,
county bonds, public relations, land
condemnation trials and others
will be discussed.
The county officials from every
section of the state will have lunch
with the Corps of Cadets Monday,
and that evening’ will hear the
Singing Cadets.
The conference is sponsored by
the Judges’ and Commissioners’
Assn, and the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
Eddie Duchin Story
Scheduled Tonight
The Memorial Student Center
Film Society will present “The
Eddie Duchin Story” tonight at
7:30 in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
The film showing is being
viewed in correlation with the
A&M Fine Arts Festival now
under way at the college.
The film of the life story of
Eddie Duchin, one of Ameri
ca’s most popular late pianists,
will be folowed by the life story
of Pablo Casals on film.
Bar-Illian To Give
Piano Concert at 8
Israeli pianist David Bar-Illan,
whose 1959-60 season included four
performances with the New York
Philharmonic under the baton of
Dimitri Mitropoulos, will be pre
sented tonight by the Memorial
Student Center Recital Series Com
mittee in conjunction with the
A&M Fine Arts Festival now un
der way at the college.
Bar-Illan, who is scheduled to
concertize at 8 p.m. in the MSC
Ballroom, was acclaimed by the
press as “one of the most brilliant
pianists of his generation” at the
time of his Carnegie Hall debut in
1954. He has also been called the
“poet of the keyboard” after his
first appearance in Wigmore Hall
in London and as “one of today’s
most notable pianists” in Buenos
Aires.
The young pianist has been tour
ing regularly on the three contin
ents. Included in these tours were
the United States, Canada, Isreal,
Eui’ope and South America.
Selections to be played by Bar-
Illan tonight include Schubert’s
“Sonata Opus 120 in A,” “Sonata
Opus 53,” “Waldstein” in C by
Beethoven, four preludes by De
bussy, and Schumann’s “‘Sonata
Opus 22” in G minor.
Last season, Bar-Illan appeai’ed
with Mitropoulos in Israel, with
the Israel Philharmonic as soloist
in concertos by Schumann and
Robert Starer. He also introduced
the Starer Concerto which was
written for him. Bar-Illan also
played the Starer Concerto on a
TV network program with the CBS
Orchestra conducted by Alfredo
Antonini.
Bar-Illan’s current American
tour was preceded by major en
gagements in South America and
Europe, where he performed for a
third time with the Liverpool Phil
harmonic and made a debut ap
pearance with the Birmingham
Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult con
ducting.
In addition to the Philhai’monic
concerts, his present tour included
the opening recital of the Master
piece Series in Minneapolis and
numerous concerts throughout the
United States and Canada.
Admission will be $1.50 or by
Great Issues-Recital Series sea
son ticket.
Seniors Will Meet
Saturday Morning
All seniors, both Corps and
Civilian, will meet with Presi
dent Earl Rudder in Guion Hall
Saturday morning at 8.
Band Sweetheart Finalists Announced
Carole Sullivan Glenda Cornelius - . Jerri Jane Braswell Linda Jean Johnson Linda Kirkland