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The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960
Number 120
Alcoa Scholarship
R. R. Sugg (left), Rockdale Works Manager vide two scholarships of $625 each to junior
of Alcoa, is shown presenting a $1250 check students of engineering at A&M.
to President Earl Rudder, to be used to pro-
State 4-H Club Roundup
Slated On Campus Tuesday
Approximately 1,500 youths from
over the state of Texas will arrive
at A&M Tuesday, the date of the
annual State 4-H Club Roundup.
The high point of the year for
Texas 4-H’ers, the three day con
test will have in attendance 1,500
boys and girls, along with nearly
W0 county agents, club leaders,
parents and friends of 4-H.
According to Marshall Crouch,
assistant state 4-H Club leader,
the boys and girls will stay in
the new area corps dormitories
and eat in Sbisa Dining Hall.
District Winners
The club members are the win
ners of the 12 district contests in
the state, and will compete against
one another in 25 judging, demon
stration and skills contests. Out
standing events will include live
stock judging, poultry judging,
public speaking, soil evaluation,
rifle shooting and entomology.
Tuesday the club members will
arrive on the campus, register in
the MSC, attend district meetings
and at noon hear Director of the
Texas Agricultural Extension Serv
ice John E. Hutchison welcome
them to A&M.
Pick of Entertainment
That nigh tthey will have their
pick of entertainment, and can
either go square dancing in the
Grove, play softball, bowl in the,
MSC, participate in folk games,
watch A&M football game films
in Guion Hall or attend a variety
show on Kyle Field.
Eliminations
On June 8 the contest elimina
tions will be held, beginning at 7
a.m. and running through the day.
For those who are not taking part
in any contest the college will pre
sent four programs, “Build a Bet
ter Mousetrap,” “Goodbye Mam
ma, Hello A&M,” “The Wonderful
World of Mr. Wizard,” and “Our
Own Homemade Television Show.”
At 3:30 the contest results will
be announced, with awards given
to the high point teams and out
standing individual members. The
top teams in livestock judging
events will go on to the national
contest, Crough said.
SUE TIMMONS CHOSEN STATE
MISS UNIVERSE FINALIST
Miss Sue Timmons, 20, of Bryan has been chosen one of
ten state finalists in the sixth annual Texas Miss Universe
beauty pageant to be held June 11 at Lake Whitney.
Two more regional eliminations are slated in the Dallas
and Houston areas respectively
this weekend before the Whitney
finals.
Others entered in the finals will
Foreigners
Need To See
11. L. Melcher
Foreign students and exchange
visitors whose summer plans in
clude leaving the continental limits
of the United States, transferring
their academic program to another
college or working must report to
the foreign student advisor, Room
27, Milner Hall, as soon as possible
before June 4, according to Robert
L. Melcher, Foreign Student Ad
visor.
Foreign students and exchange
visitors who are completing their
academic program this senjester
also must see the foreign student
advisor prior to departing from
College Station.
be Miss Abilene, Miss Arlington
Lake, Miss Belton Lake, Miss Buc
caneer Days, Miss Colorado City,
Miss Highland Lakes, Miss Tex-
oma Lake, Miss Waco and Miss
Whitney Lake.
Host for the state finals is
Beachland Cabin Camp, two miles
west of Whitney Dam. The pub
lic pageant begins at 8 p.m. Sat
urday, June 11, followed by a
dance honoring the new Miss Tex
as. Ed Burnet and his Dixieland
Band from Dallas will play for
the dance.
Lake Whitney Assn., the state
sponsor, sends the winner to Mi-;
ami Beach, Fla., July 2 to repre
sent the Lone Star State in the
world’s biggest beauty competi
tion. Miss Texas also gets a
trophy, evening gown, cowgirl out
fit, course at Dallas’ John Robert
Powers School and other prizes.
The runner-up and friendliest
girl also get trophies. Texas-map
plaques and Caterina swim suits
will be given all state finalists.
Student Dropouts Down
Almost Half From 1959
STARTS MONDAY
Summer Session
Program Revealed
The first term of the summer school session at A&M, will
get under way June 6 and will last through July 15.
The second term will commence July 18 and last through
August 26. More than 2500 students are due to attend the
4
summer sessions.
The summer session program fol
low:
June 6, Monday, 8 a. m. to 12
noon, registration for the first
term.
June 7, Tuesday, 7 a. m., begin
ning of classes.
June 9, Thursday, last day for
enrolling in the College for the
first term.
June 10, Friday, last day for
making changes in registration.
July 4, Monday, a holiday .
July 15, Friday, first term final
examinations.
July 18, Monday, 8 a. m. to 12
noon, registration for the second
term.
John Holcomb
Named To Join
Ag Department
John Holcomb, executive secre
tary of the Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Assn, of Texas in Austin,
will join A&M’s Department of
Agricultural Education Sept. 1 as
an associate professor.
Dr. E. V. Walton, head of the
department, said Holcomb will re
place Dr. E. H. Knebel, who has
resigned to accept the superin
tendency of schools at Cameron.
Figure Released
By Bennie Zinn
July 19, Tuesday, 7 a. m., be
ginning of classes.
July 21, Thursday, last day for
enrolling in the College for the
second term.
July 22, Friday, last day for
making changes in registration.
August 26, Friday, second term
final examinations.
Morgan Wins
Scholarship
Jerry Don Morgan, a freshman
student at A&M College, has been
awarded the Eldridge A. Stuart,
(Los Angeles, Cal.,) scholastic
scholarship given by the Carna
tion Milk Company.
The $850 scholarship is for his
sophomore year. His course of
study is mechanical engineering.
Morgan, an outstanding student,
has 56 grade points for his first
and 51 for his second semester,
and in his first semester he was
made a member of Phi Eta Sigma.
He is a distinguished student for
both semesters and a member of
the cadet corps.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. O. Hollingsworth' of 10927
Royal Pine Dr., Houston and a
graduate of Sam Houston high
school.
He was born in 1917 and reared
on a farm in Bosque County. Af
ter attending Tarleton State Col
lege from 1934 to 1937, Holcomb
came to A&M in 1938 and was
graduated in 1940 with a BS de
gree in agricultural education. In
1953, he received his Master of
Education degree here and did
study beyond the master’s level
in educational administration at
the University of Texas.
Holcomb’s occupational record
includes more than year’s work
with the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration from 1938 to 1939;
teacher of vocational agriculture
in the Pioneer Independent School
District, 1939-41, and Brady Inde
pendent School District, 1941-55,
and supervisor of vocational agri
culture of Area 3, Texas Educa
tion Agency, Austin, 1955-58.
Registration
Of Cars Set
To avoid the rush after regis
tration, students who plan to at
tend summer school and who plan
to have cars on the campus are
urged to register their cars as
soon as possible.
The only information required
to register cars is dormitory
room numbers and license num
bers.
Dorms To Be
Closed At 5
Saturday
All dormitories except those to
be used during summer school
will be closed and locked at 5
p. m. Saturday and all students
living in these dormitories are
reminded that they have until
then to move out.
Students who are planning to
attend summer school must be
moved into their new rooms by
5 p. m. Saturday.
Students who must change
rooms but wish to leave the cam
pus before the present semester
is completed may make arrange
ments with the present occupants
of their new rooms about stor
age of possessions until they re
turn.
Military students who move
early are reminded that they still
must clear with their dormitory
Tactical Officer before checking
out of their old rooms.
Room keys are also being ac
cepted with key deposits in the
Housing Office on the Ground
Floor of the YMCA Building.
Three Students
Named As Top
Agriculture Grads
Carroll Osbourn of Valley
Spring, Furney Hill of Fairfield
and Joseph Joyce of San Marcos
have received certificate awards
as outstanding seniors in the
School of Agriculture.
The awards, known as Faculty
Achievement Awards To Graduat
ing Seniors, were made during
graduation ceremonies May 28. Dr.
G. M. Watkins, Dean of the School
of Agriculture, made the presenta
tion.
Selection of recipients-was based
on high academic records and lead
ership in the School of Agricul
ture.
Osbourn, Hill and Joyce, all ani
mal husbandry majors, also will
have their names placed on bronze
plaques in the Herman Keep
Building, along with past winners
of the awards.
Parents of the students are Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence F. Osbourn of
Valley Spring, Mr.' and Mrs. F. R.
Hill of Fairfield, and Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Joyce of San Marcos.
Dropouts in the Corps of Cadets
for the spring semester were
called “a trickle as compared to
last year’s epidemic” by Dean of
Students James P. Hannigan yes
terday.
Hannigan said he wanted to
express his thanks to the Corps
and members of the civilian stu
dent body for the work they have
done to encourage potential drop-
Mike McGuire
Named ’60
Valedictorian
Michael Linden McGuire of 1113
Langford in College Station has
been named valedictorian of the
1960 graduating class.
A chemical engineering student,
McGuire posted a grade point ratio
of 2.98 to win the honor. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mc
Guire. His father is assistant to
the dean of engineering at A&M.
Only two weeks prior to being
named valedictorian, McGuire was
named as one of six recipients of
the annual Engineering Faculty
Achievement Awards to students
of engineering.
This award was based not only
on his scholastic achievements but
also on his participation in cam
pus activities and demonstrated
ability of leadership.
Among , McGuire’s honor soci
eties are memberships in Phi Kap
pa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sig
ma and Phi Lamba Upsilon.
Other awards he has won in the
past include the American Oil
Co. Scholarship, Union Carbide
Scholarship, Phi Lambda Upsilon
Award as outstanding sophomore,
American Institute of Chemical
Engineering Award as the top
junior, and the Welch Foundation
Undergraduate Fellowship. He
was outstanding freshman in his
battalion in the Corps of Cadets.
Among his offices and activities
are memberships on the Engineers
Council, on the executive commit
tee of SCONA V, chairman of
Engineers County Career Day
Committee, chairman of the Great
Issues Committee, MSC Director
ate and Directorate and Director
ate Assistant of the MSC Council.
outs to change their minds and
stay.
Figures released by Bennie A.
Zinn, director of Student Affairs,
showed dropouts to be down al
most 50 per cent from the same
time last year. Civilian dropouts
remained about the same.
The figures showed that the
dropouts were almost one-fifth of
what they were at the end of the
fall semester.
Freshman dropouts in the Corps
showed a marked improvement
over the same time last year, with
over 50 per cent fewer freshmen
leaving school before the semester
was over. In the Corps, only 21
freshmen, or 1.5 per cent, dropped
out of school as compared with
41, or 3.3 per cent last year.
Other dropouts by classes for
the spring semester of 1958-’59
and the spring seipester of 1959-
’60 show civilian freshman drop
outs down from 3 per cent to 2.7
per cent.
Both during the spring semes
ters of 1959 and 1960, Corps
sophomores lost 0.8 per cent of
their number. Corps juniors lost
0.2 per cent of their class for each
the same two semesters.
Last year, 0.6 per cent of the
senior class dropped out before
the end of the year, but this year
the seniors didn’t lose a man.
On the whole civilian upper
classmen dropouts remained about
the same for both last year and
this year. Sophomore dropouts
rose, however, from 3.5 per cent
last year to 3.9 per cent this year.
Civilian junior dropouts were
down from 2.8 per cent to 1.4
per cent. Seniors dropped from
0.6 per cent to 0.5 per cent.
More graduate students
dropped out before finishing this
semester than during the spring
semester of last year. Last year
only 1 per cent quit as compared
with 1.8 per cent this semester.
The largest percentage of
civilian dropouts were among the
special students. Special stu
dents are those students who are
taking one or two courses but are
not trying to earn an academic
degree.
Last year 3.6 per cent of the
special students quit before fi
nishing. This year 4.2 per cent
dropped out.