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The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 13,1960 Number 114 Picturesque Senior Ring . . . one of two at Saturday dance MGJl BROCK ENTERTAIN Ring Dance, Banquet Climax Senior Socials Saturday By ROBBIE GODWIN Battalion Managing Editor An outstanding banquet speaker and smooth music will be featured this weekend at the annual Sen ior Ring Dance and Banquet. George Nigh, lieutenant govern or of Oklahoma, will be the fea ture speaker at the banquet, scheduled for 6 p.m. in Duncan Dining Hall. At .the age of 32, Nigh is the youngest lieutenant governor serving at present jn the nation. He has received many top awards, among which is the McAlester, Okla., Jaycees Distin guished Service Award, which he has won three times. Brock Featured The dance,,slated for 8 p.m. in ilbisa Dining Hall, will feature Buddy Brock and his orchestra with vocals by Betty Cole. The 15-piece orchestra plays the out standing music of the 1920’s and ’30’s, but is also known to pace its music to whatever tempo the dancers desire. A jazz combo, known as the “South Rampart Seven” plays Dixieland selections, and the group also features some glee club num bers. Brock is a former drummer of some renown, but directs all his talents to conducting the or chestra at present. Beginning at 8:30 p.m., seniors pictures will be taken in two giant replicas of the Senior Ring. Ac cording to Ray Murski, chairman of the Ring Ceremony, the pictures will be unposed because of time limitations. He said the senior should have his date or wife take his ring off well before entering the ring. As they step into the ring, the girl should put the ring on his hand, with the ’60’ away from the wrist. The photograph ers will take an unposed shot as the girl puts the ring on her date’s finger. Number, Color The number and color of the ticket will determine the time and place the picture will be taken. Those with the green tickets will go to Ring A and those with the white will be taken in Ring B. Ring A starts at number 1 and goes through 500, Ring B starts with 501. Two juniors will be on hand to answer any last-minute questions. Pictures may be picked up in the Student Activities Office in the Lower Level of the Memorial Student Center Thursday or Fri day after the dance. According to W. D. (Pete) Har desty, Student Organizations Ad viser, both picture and dance tick ets can be bought at the door. Burns to Emcee Class President Allen Burns will serve as master of ceremonies at the banquet, and Sam Langley will introduce honored guests. The class history will be read by Mur ski, who is also class historian. Wayne Schneider, social secretary, will introduce Nigh. Decorations for the Ring Dance were handled by Stan Wied, Paul Kinison and John Brown. Murski said anyone wishing to have a picture taken while em bracing should wait until the an nouncement is made after all the first pictures are taken. Tickets for this picture will be sold at the dance. Hardesty has asked the coopera tion of all seniors in the ring cere mony. He said the pictures should be taken much faster if numerical order is observed in the lines. The schedule for picture taking will be printed on the back of each ticket, and by looking for his num ber and corresponding time, the senior will know exactly when to get in line. The complete schedule follows on page three. Denison Receives Convair Award A $1,200 award in recognition of outstanding teaching in the field of engineering has been made by Convair of Fort Worth to John Scott Denison, associate professor of electrical engineering. Dr. Andrew Kalitinsky, Convair’s'* nuclear program manager who made the presentation, prefaced the award by talking briefly to the engineering faculty about the air craft industry in the space age and about the challenge to engi neering educators in our technical world. continue giving broad engineering training to your students.” “We, in the industry, like young men versed in many fields, ones who can grasp the many facets of engineering and can put their knowledge down on paper. That is where all good creative genius is He said, “Convair leans heavily displayed, you know, on the draft- upon the supply of young men i n £ board. Keep up the good trained in the engineering sciences ' v 0 ’ a dded. . Denison, the recipient of the here at your college. We are third such award by Convairj has especially appreciative of the out- b e en with the Department of Elec standing job you are doing in I trical Engineering since June, 1949. training new engineering talent.” ble holds the BS in electrical engi neering from New Mexico A&M Kalitinsky told the engineering and the MS in electrical engineer- faculty that “we encourage you to ing from Texas A&M. Annual Publications Fete To Choose Vanity Fair Carlo Elected CouncilPrexy By BOB SLOAN Battalion News Editor Mike Carlo, senior science major from Alamo, was elected president of the 1960-’61 Civilian Student Council at the final meeting of the ’59-’60 council in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial Student Center last night. Serving with Carlo on the new-f council will be Lee Griggs, senior architecture major from San An tonio, vice president; Jim Beal, seventh year chemistry major liv ing in College Station, secretary; John Garner, junior civil engineer ing major from Livingston, treas urer, and Philip Johnson, junior engineering major, parliamen tarian. Thanks From Carlo Carlo thanked the members of the new council for their confi dence in electing him to the office and asked their cooperation in the coming school year. “I believe that with your help and cooperation we will be able to continue the outstanding work of the ’59-’60 council and serve Pyle, Cox Take First In Math Meet Jay C. Pyle, sophomore civil engineering major from Little Rock, Ark., and Jerry R. Cox, freshman aeronautical engineering major from Saratoga, Calif., cap tured first place spots in the an nual Mathematics Contests con ducted last week by the Depart ment of Mathematics. Both first place winners were awarded gold wrist watches, appropriately en graved. Second place in the sophomore contest, with an award of $15, went to Thomas C. Pauh a mechan ical engineering major from Albu querque, N. M. Thomas, J. Blank enship, electrical engineering major from Temple, won the third sopho more prize of $10. Winner of second place and $15 in the freshman contest was Luis A. Estrada, an agricultural engi neering major from Tuxtla, Mexico; while the third freshman prize of $10 went to Victor Donnell, physics major from Dallas. the civilian student body better than ever before,” he said. In other business at last night’s meeting, the counml voted to make new civilian yell leader a full vot ing member of the Civilian Student Council. Up until this time the civilian yell leader has been an ex-officio member of the council, able to sit in on all council meetings and speak for or against any measure, but unable to vote. The move was made before the election of officers tonight, en abling next year’s civilian yell leader, John Garner, to be elected treasurer of the new council. It was announced that selection of the new civilian chaplain for the coming school year would be postponed until more names were submitted to the committee for consideration. “Our chief source of names for prospective candidates, the various church denominations in Col lege Station, turned out to be ex tremely lacking,” said Committee Chairman Jim Manley. “Only two church groups submitted any names at all, and one of the : churches submitted only one name,” he went on. Manley then asked the council members to submit the name of any qualified person for civilian chaplain either to him, Robert O. Murray, civilian counselor, or J. Gordan Gay, coordinator of Re ligious Life. Outgoing President Tommy Beckett congratulated the old council for the work done this year and admonished Carlo and the new council to do an even better job in the future. The council then adjourned until next year. Senior Grad Cards Are Ready Now The contests, each consisting of two-hour examinations, were held Tuesday with 34 freshmen and 12 sophomores participating. All awards in the freshman contest and the second and third sopho more awards are provided by the Robert F. Smith Memorial Fund, while the first place sophomore award is obtained through the Halperin Award Fund. Smith and Halperin were for many years members of the mathemtics staff of the college. Seniors who have ordered their graduation announcements are re quested to pick them up immed iately in the Student Activity Office in the Lower Level of the Memorial Student Center, ac cording to W. D. (Pete) Har desty, student organizations ad viser. Beginning Monday, extra an nouncements will go on sale on a first-come, first-served basis, said Hardesty. Voelter Voted Drum Major For Ag Band The Texas Aggie Band will be led by David Lee Voelter of Mar lin during the 1960-61 school year, it was announced today by Col. E. V. Adams, director. Voel ter has been selected Head Drum Major of the famous band by a special selection committee com posed of 11 persons. In addition to Voleter, also se lected were Fred Lee Buckner of Lockhart, drum major for the Maroon Band; and Robert Scott Harris of San Antonio, drum ma jor of the White Band. These men have been selected ' and will be recommended to President Earl Rudder for ap pointment, with the approval of Col. Joe Davis, commandant of the Corps of Cadets. The selection committee was composed of Col. Adams, the present three band commanders, three ranking junior^ and two each of the sophomore and jun ior class members of the band. The committee judged each con testant on his appearance, baton dexterity, leadership ability and his general effectiveness with the band. Being elected a drum major of the 255-piece Aggie Band is one of the highest honors to come to a cadet, Col. Adams pointed out in making the announcement. Arts Exhibit Closes Sunday In Promenade The paintings, crafts and sculp tures executed by students and associate members of the Creative Arts Committee of the Memorial Student Center are scheduled to go off display Sunday in the MSC Promenade. Approximately 150 items are on display, according to Wallace Dreyer, art director. The show will be juried by Walter McGown, director of the Waco Art Museum. Awards have been given' for the most outstanding exhibits in the paintings, crafts and sculptures. These awards were given in both the student and associate member divisions. -The exhibits also in clude the best works from the chil dren's classes, although no awards wepe given in this category. The MSC’s creative arts pro grams also include drawing, cer amics, lapidary, mosaic, clay mod eling and wood carving. Dreyer came to the college last fall to direct the MSC creative arts program, while Floy Gleason is in charge of crafts instruction and Josef Tompa teaches sculpture. The new chairman of the Creat ive Arts Committee is John Hamp ton. Essay Winner To Be Presented The selection of six attractive young ladies as Vanity Fair winners will highlight the annual Student Publications Banquet Friday at 7 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The six winners, to be selected from an array of 12 finalists, will each be honored with a full-page picture in The Aggieland ’60. Popular Vote The girls will be selected by a popular vote of the esti mated 225 guests at the banquet. Guests at the dinner will include the members of the staffs of each of the six student publications; recipients of awards and invited guests. Ten A&M students who . submitted outstanding manu scripts in the C. L. Babcock Essay Contest will be honored. Contestants wrote essays of 250 to 1,000 words on “The Ad vantages I Find at Texas A&M.” The top man will receive a $250 scholarship while the remaining nine will receive certificates. Last year’s Battalion editor, Johnny Johnson, will present Bat talion awards to outstanding per sonalities on the A&M campus, including faculty members, staff members and students. The Battalion, under Johnson, was awarded Honorable Mention in the National College Newspaper Contest on Safe Driving, spon sored by the Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co. The Battalion, also received a Second Place Honor Rating by the Associated Colleg iate Press. Jimmy L. Howard, editor of The Southwestern Veterinarian, will present awards for outstanding service to two staff members of the publication. Student Publication’s six out going editors will receive wrist or pocket watches in recognition of their services. The watches are appropriately engraved with the editor’s name, his publication and the period he served. Receiving watches will be John ny Johnson of Bogata; The Bat talion; Tucker Sutherland of Mathis; The Texas A&M Review; Alenl McCree of Midland; The Aggieland; George Ohlendorf: of Lockhart; The Agriculturist; Ho mer Hershey of Hereford: The (See BANQUET on Page 3) Carolyn Kelly . . . Joe Jackson Carole Sullivan Diane Savage Bettye Aleo Sandra Madere Marlene Rushing Barbara Layton Gay Chandler Gerry North .. . John H. Alderman ... Francis Savage Jr. ... Carlo Cangelosi . •. Gerald Lowder ... Paul D. Rushing • . . Pat Craddock •.. Gale Oliver III ... Bob North