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ft** CAMPUS CONFERENCE (Continued From Page 1) their demands on higher education service. The land-grant institutions,” the speaker declared, ‘have become val ued public instruments of a three fold function—academic and pro fessional instruction, fundamentals and applied research and direct public service. The normal schools evolved first into teachers’ colleges and now, in many cases, into four- year liberal arts colleges. ‘While it is the basic purpose of higher education to serve soci ety, it cannot really serve effec tively if it is swayed by the short- run pulls and tugs of the day, or if it is allowed to drift with the shifting winds of partisan politics. This has always been true but never so true as at present. For today, as we all know, higher edu cation faces unprecedented pres sures which educators must meet through careful planning — plan ning which must be characterized by patience and persistence, coop eration and even compromise. Faculty Problem Dr. Alfred R. Neumann, Dean of the College of Arts and Sci ences, University of Houston, in an opening session address, stated that ‘the most important problem facing college administrators in the next few years is tne problem of faculty staffing.' The indrease in enrollment that the rising birth rate is producing will cause many dislocations, all of which can be solved with patience and funds. The expected shortage of teaching- faculty will require more than these two attributes. “Up to this moment,” Dr Neu mann declared, most colleges are solving their staffing problem by two very simple means: They are appointing to their faculties in dividuals of less than adequate preparation, or they lure away each other’s faculty. “Now there will always be, I hope, a flow of faculty members from institution to institution as special opportunities arise, as needs change, and as personalities require change. However, there is growing evidence of serious raid ing of faculties whenever it be comes apparent on the market place that one institution or the other has had to fall behind in the granting of salary increases.” History Increase A history professor at Tulane University said yesterday the number of colleges and universities conferring the bachelor’s degree with a major in history has in creased from 790 in 1957 to 845 in 1959. Dr. John L. Snell, speaking at the opening session of the confer ence, pointed out that “the his tory majors graduating in 1959 numbered 13,742, per cent more than the majors of 1957.” The speaker, who also is director of the American Historical Assn. Study of Graduate Education in History, said that “equally as im portant, vast numbers of non majors each year acquire through history courses a measure of per spective in time and space. ‘There are few surprises in a survey of the history of courses that are being taught in American colleges,” Dr. Snell said. “Those most commonly reported as grad uation requiroments are Western Civilization, modern European his tory or world history 54% Require “Fifty-four per cent of the four- year colleges in our samples re port one of these courses ad a re quirement. “The increased emphasis upon American history represents one of the major changes in the col lege curriculum since World War II. “Today United States history or American Civilization is a require ment in 39 per cent of the col leges.” Dr. Snell suggested that ‘it will be fruitful to consider during this conference the types of history courses that colleges and junior colleges should be teaching and the levels at which they should be taught.” Dr. J. M. Nance, Head of the A&M Department of History pre sided at the session, which was de voted to history. A panel discus sion followed with William An thony, president, Howard County Junior College and Billy Jones San Angelo College, leading the discussions. Reveille II Interviewed For Broadcast The Aggie mascot, Reveille II, was interviewed last Friday after noon for a five-minute radio broad cast before the A&M-TCU game in Kyle Field. Doing the interviewing was Alec Chesser, a well-known sports- caster across the state, who worked the game for the Humble Oil Co. Cadet Col. of the Corps Syd Heaton and Van Conner, a sopho more who keeps Reveille, partici pated along with Chesser in the session. Heaton told the radio listeners the history of the coming of Rev eille I to Aggieland and brought the story up to the present time. Conner, a zoology major from San Antonio, told of the methods used today in keeping the mascot, now approaching nine years of age, the equivalent of 63 human years. Reveille, herself, was given a chance to speak, as her barks were recorded to close the interview. Reveille Interviewed Reveille II, the Aggie mascot, and her keeper, Van Conner, a sophomore zoology major from San Antonio, along with Cadet Col. of the Corps Syd Heaton, are interviewed for a pre-game show broadcast before the Aggie-TCU clash. Doing the honors is Alec Chesser, a well-known radio personality among Texas football fans. ■J’jVl BATFALIjOW- Tuesday, October 18, 1960 College Station, Texas Page 3 Russell Addresses First Meet Of United Nations Club BY CHAIRMAN Christmas Seal Committees Named The first meeting of the United Nations Club for the current year, held last Friday, was addressed by Daniel Russell, chairman of the sociology section of the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics and Sociology. The talk, captioned “Around the World,” was illustrated by slides on sights and scenes from fifteen different countries of Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. While introducing Russell to the audience K. Rahman, president of the club, said, “Russell is one of those rare persons who has the profoundest respect for other per sons’ views, beliefs, customs, tra ditions, religions, hopes and aspira tions. For the last several years Rus sell spent his summer months traveling over the world working with various US Foreign-Aid agen cies. His reports on some of the Latin-American and Far-Eastern countries have received high ap preciation from all quarters. Outside Interesting In the course of his talk Russell pointed out most Americans do not know how interesting the world outside America is and how fine and friendly the people living across the border and overseas are. He said the world needs Ameri can cooperation and assistance. Some of the slides shown depicted scenes of humanity in need of im mediate relief. Pointing at a pic ture from China he said it was foolish that some Americans say they do not see any hungry people. The talk was followed by a break for coffee and registration of new members of the club. Then the club formed a nominating commit tee and elected two members—Mrs. H. H. Williamson of Bryan and Mrs. Monohar Selot of India—to the committee. Special Mention The opening and closing songs for this first meeting of the club were organized by Mr. and Mrs. David Yolton and Mrs. Guthrie of Bryan. The president made special mention of Mr. R. L. Melcher and Mr. J. Gordon Gay for their serv ices to the club and thanked all concerned for their cooperation. At the end he announced the election of the office-bearers for Touch system or hunt-and-peck— Results are perfect with •EATON’S CORRASABLE BOND Typewriter Paper Whatever your typing talents, you can turn out neat, clean-looking work the first time, with Eaton’s Corrasable Bond Paper. Reason why: Corrasable has a special surface—it erases without a trace. Just the flick of an ordinary pencil eraser and typographical errors disappear. No smears, no smudges. Saves time, temper and money! Corrasable is available in several weights-from onion skin to heavy bond. In handy 100-sheet packets and 500- sheet ream boxes. A fine quality paper for all your typed assignments. Only Eaton makes erasable Corrasable. EATON’S CORRASABLE BOND A Berkshire Typewriter Paper EATON PAPER CORPORATION 03,: PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Purchase Your EATON’S CORRASABLE BOND Typewriter Paper from The Exchange store “Serving Texas Aggies” Rev. Bulgerin Leads Faculty Meditation The Rev. Melvin Bulgerin, pas tor of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in College Station, will lead the group meditation at the Faculty Christian Fellowship at the All Faiths Chapel tomorrow morning at 7. Dr. Murray Brown of the De partment of Dairy Science will provide organ music for individual meditation from 6:50-7 a.m. Coffee and doughnuts will be served in the South Solarium of the YMCA Building from 7:25- 7:45 a.m., Gordon Gay, co-ordinat or of Religious Life and. General Secretary of the YMCA, an nounces. Mrs. Charles N. Smith, county chairman of the 1960 Christmas Seal Campaign, announced her committee chairmen for the drive this week at a coffee given for the voluntary workers at her home, 303 Crescent Drive. She discussed plans with the group for coordinatinng the work of the many committees for the campaign which opens Nov. 14, and is sponsored locally by the Brazos County Tuberculosis Assn. Mrs. Otis Miller, executive di rector of the TB Assn., met with the volunteers and explained how the money raised during the cam paign was spent. She said that out of every dollar contributed 82 cents remained in Brazos County’ for TB control work. Stressing the need for funds she pointed out that 69 Brazos County residents are presently known to have active tuberculosis. Twenty-four new cases were reported the past year, and one victim died while awaiting approval of his application to en ter the State TB hospital. Committe chairmen named were Mmes, K. A. Manning, R. M. Sear cy, Ran Boswell, A. V. Moore, Bookman Peters, R. P. Marsteller, Archie Kahan, J. M. Fountain, Jack CoVan and Miss Mae Belle Smith. Chairmen for rural communities include Mrs. Guy Neelley, Well born; Mrs. Jesse Heine, Kurten; Mrs. M. T. Crenshaw, Peach Creek; Mrs. D. C. Cowan, Millican, and Mrs. C. J. Cooper, Tabor. . Organizations that will help are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Bry- an-College Station Chapter Na tional Secretaries Assn., Inter national; Quota Club, Boy’s Club, Bryan Jaycees, Kemp Student Council, SFA Future Nurses, Kemp Band, SFA Band, and Stu dent Wives Clubs at A&M. First Game Day Slated Tomorrow For Newcomers Lt. Col. Gruber, A&M Instructor, Presented Award Lt. Col. Kenneth W. Gruber, Education and Plans Officer for the Department of Air Science, was recently awarded the Military Air Transport Service 5,000 Hour Acci dent-Free pin by Lt. Gen. Joe W. Kelly, Commander of MATS. The award was made in appreci ation of Colonel Gruber’s achieve ments in the realm of Flying Safety and his very real and sig nificant contribution to the stra tegic airlift capability of our country. The Newcomers’ Club will have their first game day of the year tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center. There will be bridge for reg ulars and beginners, as well as canasta, dominoes, forty-two and scrabble. Teachers will be on hand to help beginners in bridge, and there will be an opportunty for beginners to sign up for a series of six evening lessons, to be held once each week./ Those who wish may bring their sewing. Others may prefer to visit and become better acquainted with fellow- members. Hostesses will be Mrs. Robert Crookshank, Mrs. Dennis Stipe and Mrs. Walter Heck. Nursery accommodations are available at A&M Methodist Church. the next executive committee of the club would be held Friday, Oct. 28, at which time the club will also celebrate the birthday of the United Nations. Plans Drawn In Waco TTI Recent Meeting Activities, accomplishments and aims of the A&M Transportation Institute were outlined at a meet ing recently of the Waco branch r ' f the American Society of Engi neers, by Bob Gallaway, research engineer with the TTI. Gallaway also showed slides on the project “Earth for Homes,” which is currently under study in conjunction with the International Cooperative Administration by the TTI. The research was initiated in June, 1959, and will continue until Sept., 1961. The initial portion of this project consisted of library research on all phases of earth, housing with em phasis on rammed earth, adobe and compressed earth blocks. Labora tory research was then directed towards filling the voids that ex isted in engineering knowledge on these subjects. Included in this research was the development of efficient hand tampers and sturdy forms for rammed earth con struction. Characteristics of compressed earth blocks produced by a man ually-powered machine have been determined. Future work will in clude construction of several earth test-walls and determination ol soil characteristics required fot various types of earth houses. The final objective of the project is to produce a printed manual on earth house construction for use by the International Cooperation Administration in their aided self- help program in undeveloped coun tries. Faculty, Staff Health Program Meeting Slated An organizational meeting to morrow afternoon will begin pro ceedings for the offering of a faculty health and recreation pro gram through the sponsorship of the Department of Health and Physical Education. The meeting is slated at 5:15 in Room 262 of the new addition to G. Rollie White Coliseum. All interested persons have been invited to attend the organization al meeting for the one-semester course. The offering of the course, a relatively new idea at A&M, was tried during the spring semester last year and proved to be a big success. SHOOTING (Continued from Page 1) eral dorm counselors and a cam pus security officer began conduct ing a search and investigation of Walton Hall. One suspect in the shooting was a student who had just returned from throwing a smoke bomb in front of Franklin’s, a night club on the road to Easterwood Airport west-of the College. The individual was questioned, and smoke bombs were confiscated from his car, but no weapon which could cause Gilliland’s wound was found on his person or in his room. A student living in Walton Hall reported seeing a mysterious per son come up to the top of the dor mitory and observe the area from the top to the quadrangle, about 5 p.m. yesterday, then disappear. The student said he could not make any positive identification of the person. A FUN CONCERTS am E r.cas m SONGS, MUSIC and HUMOR starring Y AMERICA'S FAVORITE HUMORIST « Herb ShriSf POPS AMeNCW Folk Balladeer GEORGE ALEXANDER Conductor-Composer GUSTAVE HAENSCHEN Name of Your Symphony Orchestra TOWN HALL PRESENTATION OCTOBER 20 STU’S EXPLAINING HOW MACHINES WILL SOME DAY "OUTTALK” PEOPLE “Stu” Smith graduated from Southern Cal with a powerful yen for excitement. His kind of excitement—Engineering. He got what he bargained for (and a little more) when he joined Pacific Telephone. One of Stu’s early assignments was to find out how existing Long Distance networks could be used to pipeline high speed “conversations” between computers in distant cities. The fact that he did a fine job did not go unnoticed. Today, four years after starting his tele phone career, Senior Engineer Stuart Smith heads a staff of people responsible for telegraph and data transmission engineering in the huge Los Angeles area. As a pioneer in this new data transmission field Stu predicts data processing machines will some day do more Long Distance “talking” than people. Stu/contacted 12 other companies before join ing Pacific Telephone. “I don’t think there’s any limit to where a man can go in the telephone business today. Of course, this isn’t the place for a guy looking for a soft touch. A man gets all the opportunity he can handle right from the start. He’s limited only by how well and how fast he can cut it.” If Stu’s talking about the kind of opportunity you’re looking for, just visit your Placement Office for literature and additional information. ! to’ ^have in all most vital, inlclli* gent^jyoktive and imaginative men we can possioly find” Frederick R. Kappel, President American Telephone & Telegraph Co, BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES