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The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960
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Miss Sharon Fleming of Pasadena High
School, left, and Miss Kay Holcomb of Paris
High School were named most beautiful
girls at the second annual High School Pub
lications Workshop held here last week by
the Department of Journalism. Miss Hol
comb was named most beautiful girl for the
Workshop Beauty Winners
yearbook section of the workshop and Miss
Fleming was named most beautiful girl in
the newspaper section. Baseball Coach Tom
Chandler, Aggieland Studio’s Gene Sutphen
and the A&M Photo Shop’s Bob Butler
judged the contest. Beverly Braley’s fur
nished fashions for the contest.
Student Testing Old Game
At A&M, Ransdell Says
A&M was one of the first
Bchools in the state to start col-
'ege testing programs for new
•students, according to C. H. Rans-
flell, associate director of the Ba
sic Division.
Aptitude examinations, using
Brown University Tests, were be
gun in the 1920’s, he said.
The American Council on Edu
cation Psychological Examination
was administered to all students
at the college as early as 1931.
In 1942, the college established a
student pex-sonnel office under the
direction of George Wilcox, pro
fessor of education. At that time,
a full battery of tests was given
Paul Woods Quits
History Position
Dr. Paul J. Woods, a member of the faculty since 1946
and active in Memorial Student Center activities, resigned
his associate professorship in the Department of History and
Government Monday to take a similar post at Texas Tech in
Lubbock.
A native of Champaign, 111.,
Woods joined the faculty of the
Department of History and Gov
ernment in 1946 after' his release
from active duty with the U. S.
Army.
Woods was a round table chair
man for Student Conference on
National Affairs (SCONA) in
1958 and 1959. He was a member
of the Memorial Student Center
Council for two years and has
been an adviser to the MSC Great
Issues Committee for the past four
years,
In 1959-60 he was a member of
the YMCA advisory board and was
faculty adviser to the Maroon
Band in 1959-60. He had also
served as adviser to the A&M
.Newman Club.
He received his B.A. degree from
the University of Illinois in 1938
and his M.A. in 1940 and his Ph.D.
in 1941, both also from the Uni
versity of Illinois.
Woods is a member of the Am
erican Historical Assn., the Amer
ican Political Science Assn., the
Southwestern Social Science Assn,
and the A&M chapter of Phi Kap
pa Phi.
In 1958 and in 1960 Woods re
ceived the MSC Distinguished
Service Award and the Distin
guished Teacher Award from the
Arts and Sciences Council in 1955.
Woods is a lieutenant colonel in
the U. S. Army Reserve, 4250
Paul J. Woods
. .. takes Tech post
Corps Artillery Headquarters, and
Sunday will begin teaching at the
4th Army Military Intelligence
School at Ft. Sam Houston in San
Antonio for two weeks.
Woods is married and has two
children, a boy 8 and a girl 13,
and he and his family live at 718
Edgewood in Bryan. He is a
member of the St. Mary’s Cath
olic Church and his wife and chil
dren are members of the A&M
Methodist Church.
He will assume his new duties
as associate professor at Texas
Tech Sept. 1.
to all new, students. These tests
included student aptitude for col
lege, and achievements tests in
mathematics, English, social stud
ies and science.
This arrangement, Ransdell said,
was continued until 1950, when
the college set up the Basic Divi
sion.
S. A. Kerley, associate profes
sor and director of group work
and counseling with the Basic Di
vision, said the department has
for a 10-year period administered
a full battery of tests, including
aptitude, achievement and interest,
to all students. Results of these
activities have been used as a
basis for counseling guidance and
placement of students in accord
ance with their aptitude, interests
and achievements.
Tests in the Basic Division have
comprised the College ability test
and achievement tests in algebra,
chemistry, English and reading.
The college requires this bat
tery of tests of all entering stu
dents.
The Basic Division will be dis
continued with the 1960-61 school
year. In its place will be the
Counseling and Testing -Center,
whose operations become effective
Sept. 1.
Kerley said the Basic Division
used the results of tests, in con
junction with high school records,
to help each student toward place
ment in first semester courses in
line with his indicated ability and
achievements.
“These tests are not only to
assist the student somewhat lack
ing in certain academic areas but
to help discover those students
who indicate exceptionable ability
and to assist them toward chal
lenging academic opportunities
and goals,” Kerley said.
“The exceptional student is giv
en the opportunity, either through
college administered tests or Col
lege Entrance Examination Board
Tests of Advanced Standing, to
demonstrate competency in cer
tain freshman level courses and to
receive college credit for these
courses,” he added.
A&M has developed a process
of reporting by which tests can
(See TESTING on Page 4)
A&M Gives Budget Needs;
Academy School Discussed
“We’ll Run It,”
President Says
From the Associated Press
AUSTIN—The Legislative Budget Board queried Chan
cellor M. T. Harrington and President Earl Rudder on the
proposed establishment of a branch of the U. S. Merchant
Marine Academy at College Station and the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology branch at Galveston.
Last week the board directed its staff to study a pro
posal for a branch of the academy to be operated at A&M’s
home camnus and at Galveston.
Both Harrington and Rudder said it was a matter for the
Legislature to decide. Rudder said A&M is “not carry the
torch” for the marine industry, but he pointed out that the
only marine schools now in existence are on the east and
1 ♦'west coasts, despite the grow-
Science Fair
Talk Planned
Monday Night
Lorenzo Lisonbee of Phoenix,
Ariz., science consultant for Ariz
ona Public Schools, will lecture on
“Science Fairs and Superior Stu
dents” here Monday night.
Sponsored by the National Sci
ence Foundation, his talk will be
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the
Biological Sciences Building. The
public is invited to attend.
Lisonbee^ has been instrumental
in getting science fairs started in
Arizona.
At present, he is a member of
the Committee of Biology Exam
iners, National Conference on Se
lected Problems of Secondary
School Science, sponsored by the
National Science Teachers Assn.,
College Entrance Examination
Board.
He has contributed to the 1960
Yearbook, National Society for the
Study of Education, entitled “Re
thinking Science Education.” He
also is a consultant in secondary
school science to the American
Geological Institute and American
Institute of Biological Sciences for
the Secondary School Film Series.
Lisonbee received his B.A. and
M.A. degrees from Arizona State
University. He has taught three
years ' in elementary school, 18
years in high school and one sum
mer session in college.
The educator has had numerous
articles published. Some of them
have appeared in Arizona High
ways, The Science Teacher, The
American Biology Teacher, School
Review, The Clearing House and
the NEA Journal.
He also is co-author of a biology
text, “Your Biology.”
College Gets
$25,000 Grant
FromlLS. Array
The college has been granted a
$25,000 chemical research con
tract by the U. S. Army Chemical
Research and Development Labor
atories.
Dr. A. F. Isbell, associate pro
fessor in the Department of Chem
istry, said the purpose of the con
tract is to work on the synthesis
and the study of properties of or
ganic compounds containing the
element phosphorus.
Isbell will supervise the project.
He said a portion of the money
also is available for one post-doc
toral fellowship and two pre-doc-
toral fellowships.
He said this is the first time
for A&M to receive a contract
from this branch of the U. S.
Army.
The contract was handled
through the A&M Research Foun
dation.
ing importance of the Gulf
area in shipping circles.
. . we’ll run it.”
“If you give it to us, we’ll
run it,” Rudder told the board.
If A&M gets the branch, stu
dents would take freshman work
at A&M and would spend the re
maining "three years at Galveston,
where a wing of one of the build
ings of the Department of Ocean
ography and Meteorology facilities
there would house the school and
its cadets.
Cadets would be required to take
a training cruise each summer.
State Senator-Elect A. B.
Schwartz of Galveston and State
Rep. Peter La Valle of Texas City
appeared in behalf of the school.
Admiral Appears
Admiral Sherman B. Wetmore
also appeared before the board.
Adm. Wetmore said the project
would provide education for 200
would-be Merchant Marine offi
cers and the state cost would be
$600 per cadet annually.
He said the school could become
the “maritime academy of the
South” and pointed out that four
schools on the East Coast and one
on the West Coast are operating
similar branches. The U. S. Mer
chant Marine Academy, located at
Kings Point, N. Y., is entirely de
voted to such students.
Schwartz said A&M is not op
posed to the idea although the
state’s college presidents have al
ready agreed not to bring up any-
(See ACADEMY on Page 3)
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Dennis Julian
. . . member of Co. E-l
Collision Kills
Houston Aggie
Last Friday
HOUSTON—Dennis Julian, 19-
year old junior mechanical engi
neering major at A&M, was killed
Friday at 1:08 p. m. in a collision
between a Sears, Roebuck & Co.
van and a Rock Island Lines
freight engine on West Little York
Road.
Julian, who lived at 1011 Clax-
ton St. in Houston was a member
of Cadet Company E-l, was thrown
132 feet from the Sears truck when
the train hit it.
He was working as a summer
helper at Sears.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at the St. Andrew’s
Methodist Church in Houston. Pall
bearers included Jack Jennings,
junior engineering major from
Sherman; Bobby Gilpin, junior
electrical engineering major from
Fairfield; and Brad Dolbey, junior
chemical engineering major from
Houston; all members of Cadet
Company E-l.
Julian is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Julian; three
sisters, Jean, Sandra and Judy;
and one brother, Gordon, all of
Houston; and his materal grand
mother, Mrs. W. H. IJunstman of
Lovelady, Tex.
Next Thursday Night
$17-Million Plea
Made for 1962-63;
By KENNETH TOWERY
The Austin American Statesman
Special to The Battalion
AUSTIN—Is. the state of Texas perpetuating mediocrity
in higher education while attempting to develop a few “out
standing educational institutions?
Vernon McGee, executive director of the powerful Legis
lative Budget Board, posed the question Tuesday during
budget hearings with officials of A&M. He was exploring
a “new approach” to the biennial problem of confronting the
legislature with the never-ending increase in the cost of
education.
A&M asked the legislature Tuesday, through the legis
lature’s budget board, for $17,905,760 to operate the college
during 1962 and 1963. This
would include $13,802.877
from the state’s General Rev
enue Fund. It compares with
an operating appropriation of
$13,624,203 for the current bien
nium, including $9,600,523 from
General Revenue.
Within the overall budget there
is a request for enough money to
provide an average salary increase
at A&M of five per cent for fac
ulty members. But not all mem
bers of the faculty will receive the
salary boost. The money would
be used to provide selective merit
raises for outstanding teachers.
It .was at this point that McGee
posed his question. Was there not
a better way to approach the sub
ject of merit raises for faculty
members, he asked, than to ask
the legislature for enough money
to provide an “average” increase.
The net effect of this approach,
McGee reasoned, is. to insure
matching budgetary requests from
other schools. Thus if a five or
ten per cent increase is granted
the University of Texas, or A&M,
the legislature is apt to grant a
similar increase to all other col
leges and universities in the state.
With the state’s colleges and
universities now numbering 19, and
with more institutions knocking
on the door for state support, the
tax dollar is in danger of being
spread so thin that the proposition
of “quality education” in Texas
may die aborning.
“I’m afraid I see the same thing
happening in education that has
(See BUDGET on Page 4)
Auctioneers
To Meet Here
Over Weekend
The fourth annual Livestock Op
erators Short Course, the only one
of its kind in the nation, will be
held here Saturday and Sunday in
the Memorial Student Center.
The central theme of the meet
ing will be “Modern Livestock
Auction Market Management and
Facilities,” according to Lloyd
Bergsma, livestock marketing spe
cialist with the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service and program
chairman.
Talks get under way at 1:30
p.m. the first day following a di
rector’s meeting of the Texas Live
stock Auction Assn.
A&M speakers include Dr. R. E.
Patterson, dean of the School of
Agriculture; Dr. John McNeely
and Dr. Jarvis Miller, professor
and associate professor, respect
ively, Department of. Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology;
Dr. Jarrell Gray, professor, De
partment of Agricultural Educa
tion; Dr. W. N. Williamson, assist
ant director of the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service, and Dr.
O. D. Butler, head of the Depart
ment of Animal Husbandry.
Explorer’s Films,
Talk Set in MSC
An explorer-adventurer and ex
pert photographer whose expedi
tions have taken him from ex
ploding volcanoes to the top of
the Alps, Neil Douglas, will con
clude the Memorial Student Cen
ter’s Special Summer Entertain
ment program next Thursday, at 8
p. m. in the MSC Ballroom.
A dance on the terrace with
music by the Aggieland Combo
Monday night and another “After
noon of Free Films” Sunday are
other features of the week’s pro
gram of MSC Summer Entertain
ment.
Douglas will present a film lect
ure, “Russia, The New Face”, a
full-length unrestricted color mo
tion picture on Soviet life.
A former All-American football
player at Lafayette College and
the producer and narrator of the
film, Douglas is also a noted writer
and glacialist. He is a contributor
to the Encyclopedia Americana and
is listed in “The Who’s Who of
Science”.
To get his pictures of “Russia,
The New Face”, Douglas reports he
had to refuse films offered three
times by Khrushchev. He fought
to get every phase of “Life in the
Soviet Union” in this picture
though Russian police tried to pre
vent his doing so.
The color film shows such famous
landmarks as the Kremlin and Red
Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral with
its candy-striped towers, and Mos
cow University. The everyday lives
of the Soviet people—their work
and their recreation—are depicted
in shots of factories, cooperative
farms, markets, resorts, schools, 30
movie theaters, fashion and vaude
ville shows with American Jazz,
circuses and ballet productions.
Douglas will present the film
with personal narration and will
answer questions from the audience
after the showing of the film.
A “Backwards” theme will set
the atmosphere for persons attend
ing Monday night’s dance on the
terrace, beginning at 8:30 p. m.
Music will be played by the Aggie
land Combo and special entertain
ment will feature John Williams
and his organ.
“Enter With Caution: The Atom
ic Age,” an hour-long documentary
film from “The Twentieth Cen
tury” heads the list of films to be
shown Sunday at 2 p. m. in the
Ballroom. Mr. Magoo will star in
a cartoon, “Pink and Blue Blues”,
and a condensed version of “The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
will be shown to complete the after
noon’s showing.
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