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The Battalion
Volume 69
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960
Number 131
Dreyer Quits
MSC Position
For TFAA Job
Wallace Dreyer has resigned his |
position as art director and ad- |
viser to the Creative Arts Com- I
mittee in the Memorial Student
Center to accept a new position,
MSC Director J. Wayne Stark
announced Wednesday.
Dreyer will become executive
director of the Texas Fine Arts
Assn, in Austin, Stark said. Pur
pose of the association is to de
velop art and artists in Texas.
Named in October 1959 to re
place Mrs. Emalita Terry in the
MSC, Dreyer is a recognized Tex
as artist. Last November Ford
Times used several of his paint
ings in an issue of their publica
tion.
“We will certainly miss Mr.
Dreyer in our student program.
He is rapidly becoming a widely
recognized artist in Texas and I
feel that in not too many years
we will be able to point with pride
at having had his services for a
year,” Stark said.
Dreyer has studied art with San
Mieguel de Allende in Aspen,
Colo., Fletcher Martin at the San
Antonio Art Institution; Alice
Naylor in San Antonio; and Mrs.
Terry.
An architecture student at the
University of Texas in 1942 and
again in 194G-47, Dreyer served
In the 3rd Army in Europe during
iVorld War IT.
The former MSC art director
has \von prizes and awards for
his work at the annual Festival of
Texas Fine Arts at Austin, River
Art Competition in San Antonio
and the Waco Art Forum An
nual.
No replacement has been named
for Dreyer, Stark said.
Ag. Eeo., Sociology
Gets New Professor
Charles W. Brown has joined
the Department of Agi’icultural
Economics and Sociology as an
assistant professor.
The new faculty member will
tonduct research in the field of
grain marketing.
Brown, who was reared in Heb-
bronville, received his B.S. degree
in agricultural economics in 1957
and his M.S. degree in the same
subject in 1958 at A&M. During
the past two years, he has com
pleted course work and other ma
jor requirements for a doctorate
degree from Oklahoma State Uni
versity.
He is a member of Alpha Zeta,
Phi Kappa Phi and the American
Farm Economics Assn.
Brown and his wife live at 2602
Morris Lane in Bryan.
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Remodeling in MSC
Remodeling of the Memorial Student Center Dining Room
and conversion'of the Coffee Shop into a cafeteria began
last week. A workman is shown here installing new
ceiling tiles in the Dining Room. The cafeteria is ex
pected to be completed by the opening of the fall semes
ter, according to J. Wayne Stark, MSC director.
MSC Remodeling
For Cafeteria
The Coffee Shop of the Memorial Student Center is
being replaced by a cafeteria and the MSC Dining Room
is being completely refurnished, according to' MSC Director
J. Wayne Stark.
Work on the remodeling and^ —
convei’sion began last week and
is expected to be completed by the
opening of the fall semester.
“We have thought for a long
time that the cafeteria was need
ed and wanted by persons on the
campus and feel that it will in
crease our service,” Stark said in
explaining the conversion of the
Coffee Shop into a cafeteria.
Ralph Mulhouser, kitchen engi
neer from Houston, is adviser and
consultant on the cafeteria con
struction. Work on the project
is being done by MSC mainte
nance personnel at a cost of be
tween $8,000 and $9,000, Stark
said.
Entrance to the new cafeteria
will be located- near the MSC Gj/t
Shop. When completed, the cafe
teria will seat approximately 75
people.
The Dining Room will continue
to be operated aS in the past,
Stark said, and overflow from the
cafeteria will be seated in the
Dining Room when space is avail
able.
Student groups will'also be able
to use the food facilities of the
cafeteria and the seating area at
the back of the Dining Room for
evening and some noon meetings,
Stark said.
oying some of the 1
;k during the book drive for
idated Elementary School
the College Station Kiwanis
, S. Creswell, principal of the
hool, said anyone who still
s for the elementary age stu-
Books
dents and would like to donate them should
bring them by the Superintendent’s Office
in the A&M* Consolidated Junior High
School Building. “We are shooting at a
goal of five to ten books for each elemen
tary age child. This would give us an ade
quate library for them,” Mrs. Creswell said.
Square, Round Dancers
Meeting in MSC for School
Manning Smith
Directs Institute
By COLLYAR McILHERAN
Battalion Staff Writer
Almost 100 persons from all parts of the United States
and Canada are here this week for the 10th annual Square
and Round Dancers Institute being held through Saturday in
the Memorial Student Center.
Under the direction of College Station Dance Instructor
Manning Smith, the institute has registrants from 15 states
and one from Richmond Hill, Canada.
The attendants, most of who are actively engaged in
teaching dancing as a hobby, are gathered to learn new tech
niques and steps in teaching the various dances.
Included in the dances being instructed are square,
round, ballroom, contra and folk, as well as folk singing.
“We have people here from’*
alii walks of life to vacation,
dance and learn,” Smith said.
Opened Monday
The institute opened Mon
day and will conclude with a final
Grand Ball Saturday night in the
MSC Ballroom. The Saturday
night ball will also be open to
square dancers from the surround
ing area, Smith said. Members
of the teaching staff at the insti
tute will give special perform
ances at the Saturday night af
fair.
Instructors
Instructors include Smith and
his wife, Don and Marie Arm
strong of Tampa, Fla., Ben High-
burger of Dallas and Frankie and
Leland Lawson of Houston.
“The institute is a short course
on recreational dancing. Our pur
pose is to elevate American folk
dancing to a higher level than
that which it now occupies,” Mrs.
Smith said in explaining the in
stitute.
Dance Each Night
Climaxing each day’s activities
is a dance from 8 to 10:30 p.m.
and a coffee social following the
dance. The group is also provid
ing at least one portion of the
KBTX-TV program “Town Talk”
each morning this week. Instruc
tion begins each morning at 9 and
lasts until 5 p.m.
States represented include Ala
bama, Arizona, California, Flori
da, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missis
sippi, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin
and Texas.
Prof Predicts
Texas Cheese
To Equal Swiss
By FRED PASS
Farm Editor
Dallas Morning News
Written for The AP
Texas cheese one day will match
that of Wisconsin and Switzerland.
That’s the prediction of a Rus
sian-born scientist at A&M, and
he’s doing his part to make the
prediction come true.
For 10 years, I. I. Peters, an
associate professor in the Depart
ment of Dairy Science, has been
making cheese from Texas-pro
duced milk.
An economic problem has been
keeping Texas out of a prominent
place in the cheese-making busi
ness. In Wisconsin, there’s an
abundance of fresh milk through
out the year. Cheese factories
stay busy all the time.
In Texas, dairy farmers produce
a surplus of milk when pastures
are lush. But other times there’s
a shortage of fresh milk. This
means that Texas’ six cheese fac
tories cannot operate at full capa
city the year round. Texas eats
80 million pounds of cheese a year
but makes only 5 million pounds.
Chicago School
Evaluated By
TEES Group
The Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station has recently eval
uated Chicago’s Richard E. Byrd
Elementary School in terms of its
quality of natural lighting, natur
al ventilation, and sound control
at the request of the Board of
Education.
The Chicago Board of Education
is conducting a study under a
grant from the Educational Facil
ities Laboratories to determine the
value received per school building
dollar since World War II.
The school is of an ultra-modern
design by prominent architects.
Equipment was flown to Chicago
and a survey was conducted by
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station researchers Ben H. Evans
and William G. Wagner.
Studies were made also at the
Station’s architectural research
laboratory with a model of the
school.
The research at the school and
with the model indicated that the
contemporary school is much im
proved over the “red schoolhouse.”
The Memorial Student
filled this week with the strains of square
dancing music and the voice of the square
dancing callers as the 10th annual Square
and Round Dancers Institute opened Mon-
Practicing Square Dancing
Center has been day to run through Saturday. Held here
each year under the direction of College
Station Dance Instructor Manning, Smith,
the institute attracts dancers from through
out the United States and Canada.
Calhoun Finishes Tour
Of Far North Facilities
Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice chan
cellor for development for the
A&M College System, has just
completed an 11,000-mile, nine-day
orientation flight of the Air
Force’s construction activity and
defense line in the Far North.
Calhoun was accompanied by
Maj. Gen. A. M..Minton, the U. S.
Air Force’s director of civil engi
neering. Also in the group were
five other leading engineering edu
cators and the renowned arctic
Former Prof Plans
To Lecture Here
Dr. Samuel P. Johnson, formerly a faculty member of the
Department of Plant Physiology and now with the Space
Medicine Section, Aero-Space Division, Boeing Airplane Co.,
Seattle, Wash.,, will give a lecture next Thursday night at 8
+in the Memorial Student Center
Assembly Room.
Auto Permits
Go on Sale
Monday A.M.
Fall student automobile reg
istration permits will go on
sale Monday morning in the
Office of Campus Security in
the YMCA Basement, Campus
Security Chief Fred Hickman
announced Wednesday.
This sale will be only for
those students who know their
dormitory or day student ad
dress for the fall semester,
Hickman said. Cost of the per
mits is $3 per semester.
Faculty and staff parking
permits will also go on sale at
the same time for $7.50 per
school year.
Hickman noted that later this
month or early in September
Campus Security representa
tives will register vehicles at
offices of the various zone ad
ministrators on the campus.
“If car owners will register
their vehicles as early as pos
sible, this will help both us and
them in avoiding the registra
tion rush,” Hickman explained.
“The Support of Man in Space
Flight” will be the title of John
son’s talk.
The lecture will be sponsored
by Sigma Xi and will be of special
interest to members of Sigma Xi,
faculty members and graduate
students, Joe Sorrels, professor in
the Department of Civil Engineer
ing and a Sigma Xi member, said
today.
A special invitation for the pub
lic to attend the lecture was also
issued by Sorrels.
Presently senior plant physiol
ogist in the space medicine sec
tion, Johnson joined Boeing after
leaving here in 1959.
Receiving his public school edu
cation in California, Johnson at-
before receiving his B.S. degree
from East Texas State College in
1950.
He joined the faculty of the
Department of Plant Physiology
in 1953 and resigned in 1959. He
received his M.S. and Ph.D here in
1954.
Johnson is a member of the Bot
anical Society of Amercia, the
American Society for Horticultural
Science, the Agronomy Society,
the American Society of Plant
Physiologists and Sigma Xi.
explorer, Col. Bernt Balchen
(USAF Ret.).
Leaving from Bolling Air Force
Base, Washington, D. C., July 30,
the group’s top-of-the-world flight
took thenl to Frobisher Air Base
on Baffin Island; Sond'restrom
and Thule Air Bases, Greenland;
Cape Perry on the Arctic Ocean;
and several Air Force bases in
Alaska.
From Sondrestorm AB, a visit
was made to one of the Air Force’s
Distant Early Warning (DEW
Line) eastward extension sites on
the Greenland Icecap. At Thule
AB, the group saw the Air Force’s
mammoth Ballistic Missile Early
Warning System (BMEWS) in
stallation with its football-field-
size antennae. Remote stations
on the Arctic Distant Early Warn
ing radar net were visited on the
flight to Alaska.
Arctic Sites
This group of distinguished en
gineers were invited on the tour
of arctic construction sites as
guests of the Air Force for orien
tation in engineering problems and
construction techniques on perma
frost and glacial ice deposits. The
current progress in opening the
arctic for commercial oil and min
eral production and defense estab
lishments will generate require
ments for scientific and engineer
ing research by educational insti
tutions and influence current ac
tions to modify undergraduate and
graduate engineering curricula.
Others On Trip
Also on the trip with Calhoun
(See CALHOUN on Page 2)
Room Reservations
Open Monday at 8
Room reservation policies for the fall semester and the
date for the closing of all dormitories for the summer ses
sion were announced Wednesday by Harry L. Boyer, housing
manager.
After paying either the entire"*
semester fee, the first installment
or the $6 room reservation fee for
the fall semester, all students ex
cept veterans should report to the
Housing Office in the YMCA
basement to reserve their rooms
beginning Monday at 8, Boyer
said
Veterans must first report to
the Veteran’s Adviser’s Office in
the YMCA.
Both Corpp and civilian students
tended the University of California w i]j able to reserve any rooms
not previously reserved or as
signed, explained Boyer. As civ
ilian students were able to re
serve their rooms last spring,
Boyer said it is necessary for any
civilian students who are now in
school to confirm any reservations
made last spring.
Hart Hall ramps A through D
(C and D for graduate students);
ramps 1 through 6 of Law; Pur-
year; Mitchell; Legett; Milner;
and Walton will be used to house
civilian students.
Dorms 1-12 and 14-17 will again
be used for Corps students.
Law Hall ramps 7-9, Henderson
Hall and Hart Hall ramps E-J
will be used for athletes.
All dormitories with the excep
tion of Hart Hall ramp C and
Milner Hall will be locked at G
p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, Boyer said.
Students who wish to live on
the campus between terms may
register to live in one of these
two halls by paying $10 rent at
the Housing Office by 5 p.m. Fri
day, Aug. 26.
All college dormitories will be
open between 1 and 6 p.m. Thurs
day and Friday, Aug. 25-26, in
order that students may move
their propertry into rooms they
will occupy for the fall semester,
Boyer said.
Students not returning in the
fall and Corps students attending
summer school must turn in their
mattress covers at the end of the
summer term, Boyer pointed out.