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