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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1960)
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 15, 1960 THE BATTALION Former Plant Head Succeeds Page As Head of the Graduate School Dr. Wayne C. Hall, head of the Department of Plant Physiology and Pathology, was named Dean of the Graduate School June 30. Hall came to A&M in 1949 from the University of Kentucky, where he was assistant professor and ac ting head of the Department of Botany. He came to A&M as an assistant professor and was pro moted to associate professor in 1951 and was made professor in 1954, and in 1958 became profes sor and head of the Department of Plant Physiology and Pathol ogy. He succeeds Dr. J. B. Page as graduate school dean. The position of dean of the college, which was also held by Page, has not been filled. Page will join Iowa State University as dean of the Grad uate College. ^ Committee Worker Since coming to A&M, Hall has served as a member of the Com mittee on Graduate Instruction, School of Agriculture; member of the Graduate Council; a research project leader for the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station; a collaborator with the Cotton and Cordage Fibers Research Branch and with the Southern Utilization Research Branch of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, and in 1955 was recipient of the first Faculty Achievement Award for the Outstanding Teacher doing re search. Hall is 41 years of age. He was born in Montana and was educa- WELCOME - AGGIES - TO- YO UNGBLOOD'S GOOD FOOD AX MODERATE PRICES ENTIRELY REMODELED FOR YOUR COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE Rock Building Hiway 6 PHONE TA 2-4557 Midway Between Bryan and College ted in Iowa. He received his B.S. degree from the State University of Iowa in 1941, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1942. However, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of Iowa in 1946 and 1948 respectively, with hon ors., From 1942 to 1946 he served with the U. S. Navy, and was dis charged to inactive reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Senior Grade (Line). He saw active serv ice in the Atlantic, European-Afri- can and Pacific Theaters of Ac tion and received theater ribbons with six battle stars, the Purple Heart and unit citations. Two Grants Hall has a five-year grant with the National Institutes of Health and a three-year Atomic Energy Commission research contract. He is author or co-author of 75 scientific papers, reviews and lab oratory manuals in the field of plant physiology or plant biochem istry and consultant to the Divis ion of Experiment Stations, USDA. 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A native of Champaign, III., 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. SCONA Chairman Woods was a rqund 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. High Awards 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 Corps Artillery Headquarters, and taught at the 4th Army Military Intelligence School at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio for two weeks this summer. 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 will assume his new duties as associate professor at Texas Tech Sept. 1. Center Loses Two Staffers Two well-known Memorial Stu dent Center staff members re signed during July. They were John M. Geiger, man ager of the Bowling and Games Department, and Mrs. Rosalie Johnson, student program adviser. Geiger, whose resignation was effective the middle of August, joined the Texas Union in the new and renovated Student Union Building at the University of Texas. He was made manager .of the A&M bowling games area after his graduation from A&M in 1952. His hometown is Branford, Fla. Mrs. Johnson, wife of Battalion Editor Johnny Johnson, joined the MSC staff in 1957 after gradu ating from Southern Methodist University with a degree in jour nalism. She worked with the entire MSC program, including the MSC Coun cil. At SMU, she was president of the Mortar Board, a national honor society for college women, and was a student leader in other fields. Stark said no replacements have yet been selected for Geiger or Mrs. Johnson. Dr. William Turner, music co ordinator of the MSC, had an nounced his resignation earlier to accept a position at Stephen F. Austin College. Frank A. Bowman -- Humble Service Humble Products - North Gate MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY “If You Give It to Us, We’ll Run It,” Rudder By The Associated Press emy to be operated at A&M’s home AUSTIN—The L e g i s 1 a t i v ecampus and at 'Galveston. Budget Board queried Chancellor Both Harrington and Rudder said M. T. Harrington and President it was a matter for the Legislature Earl Rudder in July on the pro-to decide. Rudder said A&M was posed establishment of a branch of “not carrying the torch” for the the U. S. Merchant Marine Acad- marine industry, but he pointed out emy at College Station and the that the only marine schools now Department of Oceanography and in existence are on the east and Meteorology branch at Galveston, west coasts, despite the growing During the last week of July the importance of the Gulf area in board directed its staff to study a shipping circles, proposal for a branch of the acad- “If you give it to us, we’ll run Workshop Beauty Winners 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 Publica tions Workshop held here July 24-29 by the Department of Journalism. Miss Holcomb was named most beautiful girl for the yearbook section and Miss Fleming was most beauti ful girl in the newspaper section of the workshop. Baseball Coach Tom Chandler, Aggieland Studio’s Gene Sutphen and A&M Photo Shop’s Bob Butler were judges for the con test. it,” Rudder told the board at thg time. If A&M gets the branch, star 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, Adrn. Wetmore said the project would provide education for 200 would-be Merchant Marine officers 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 was not op- : posed to the idea although the state’s college presidents had al ready agreed not to bring up any thing new in view of the state’s present financial situation. The Galveston senator-elect said $75,000 in matching federal funds are available for such a school and that cadets in the program would receive $600 annually from the government. The board July 28 dirfected its staff to study the proposal and to make a budget recommendation . in time for the January session of the Legislature. 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