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Volume 59 The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961 Number 112 Doherty Building Dedicated Today Structure Looms Campus Highlight With almost unlimited facilities, the W. T. Doherty Pe troleum Engineering Building stands as the most modern construction now completed on the A&M Campus. The Building was conceived and designed to provide a modern physical plant for use principally by those pursuing study in the science of petroleum engineering. It accomo dates the Department of Petroleum Engineering and the Texas Petroleum Research Committee and to provide facili ties to permit the fulfillment of the college’s responsibility for undergraduate and graduate instruction, graduate re search and adult continuation of education in this specialized field. Dr. Lindsay Named To Award Group Dr. J. D. Lindsay of the De partment of Chemical Engineering lias been named a member of the Committee of Award which will select the 1961 winner of the Kirkpatrick Award for national Chemical Engineering Achieve ment. The award is presented every other year by Chemical Engineer ing, a McGraw-Hill publication, to the chemical processing company making the most meritorious con tribution to the advance of the industry and the profession. The award recognizes the contribution of group effort rather than indi vidual achievement. The Committee of Award, made op of the heads of the 99 chem ical engineering departments in US accredited colleges and univer sities, will vote for the five best nominees without establishing any order of rank among them. Pre sentations by the five finalists will be put before a board of judges in July for final selection of the winner. / The winning company will re ceive a bronze plaque at a formal dinner in the Hotel Astor in New York Nov. 28. This selection of Lindsay to the Committee of Award was reported yesterday. Lindsay is noted for bis achievements in the field of Chemical Engineering, and he will sid in the selection of the winner 3f the 1961 Kirkpatrick Award. + Located on the corner of Ross and Spence Streets ad jacent to the former Petro leum Engineering Geology Building, it faces east on Spence Street. The design is con temporary, with the outer portion constructer of buff colored bricks with blue porcelain enameled alum inum panels. The building cocnsists of a three- floored main structure with a one- quarter basement and an adjoin ing single flooder wing. Adequate facilities are pixrvided for simul taneous use by a total of 200 junior and senior petroleum engineering undergraduate students, 60 grad uate students and a total of 20 registrants in adult education cour ses. The State of Texas’ cost of the building is approximately $662,000 for the general contract, $82,000 for laboratory desks and $32,000 for office, classroom and labora tory furniture. Much of the laboratory special equipment, office and classroom furniture and visual aids equip ment was obtained as gifts from the petroleum industry or purchas ed from funds derived drom spec ial petroleum industry course of ferings by the Faculty of the De partment of Petroleum Engineer ing. Architectural firm for the build ing was Ingram and Harris, Beau mont, and the general contractor was R. B. Butler, Inc., Bryan. The main building is 200 feet x 60 feet, the adjoining wing 51 feet 56 feet, and the basement 2,610 square feet, making a total of 42, 251 square feet enclosed. The entire building is planned to permit a maximum flexibility in the utiliation of space and economy (See DEDICATION on Page 3) ‘Thousands’ Due For Parents’ Day Final plans have been made in preparation for the thousands of Parents and friends from through out Texas who will be on campus for Parents’ Day Sunday. Honor guest for the activities frill be Mrs. Hilma S. Huitt of Bay City, “Aggie Mother of the Year.” Mrs. Huitt, who is the mother of Urry Huitt, senior architectural construction and civil engineering ftajor, was notified of her nomina tion early last week. In the letter Huitt wrote nomin- oting his mother for the honor he told of the achievements made by Ms mother in sending himself and Lis three brothers to college after tLe accidental death of his father i» 1946. Huitt also wrote “I feel that I have one of the most dedi cated mothers a man could have.” The Sunday activities will get under way with the annual flower Stamp Enthusiasts To Meet Monday A meeting for all individuals in terested in organizing a stamp dub in the Bryan-College Station area will be held at 7:10 p.m. Monday night at the College Sta tion City Hall. The meeting is being sponsored by Jimmy James and D. A. Anderson. pinning ceremony. The pinning of the flowers will be handled by the mothers of the outfit commanding officers who will pin a flower on the lapel of each cadet. Awards to the best drilled fresh men and sophomore students will be presented at 8:25, followed by the corps units presentations to the commanding officers at 8:30. A review by the Corps of Ca dets honoring the mothers will be gin at 9. a. m. on the main drill field in front of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Other Mothers’ Day awards will be presented at this time. Following the review will be drill demonstration by the fresh man drill team. The Student Senate will present a Parent’s Day program at 11 a. m. in Guion Hall. The Mothers’ Day dinner for parents will be held at 12:30 p. m. in Sbisa and Duncan Dining Halls. Dormitories will hold an “open house” from 12 noon to 4 p. m. and at 2 p. m. the Ross Volunteers will give a special drill on the main drill field. Activities prior to Sunday’s pro gram will includei a meeting of the State Federation of Mothers’ Clubs at 9 a. m. Saturday. The meeting will be proceeded by a coffee to be held at 8:40 a. m. in the MSC. W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engineering Building . . . center of dedication ceremonies this afternoon VOTING TURN- OUT LIGHT Senate Members Wentworth Wins Student Senate and Election Commission seats were decided yesterday as students pushed and pulled levers of voting machines in the corridor of the Memorial Student Center. From the School of Arts and Sciences the new senators are Joel Ridout, George Wiederaenders and Ken Stanton. Representatives to the senate from the School of Engineering are Lawrence Christian, Bill Barnhart and Willy Zaeske. Senators from the School of Ag riculture are Zay Gilbreath, Dennis McIntosh and Howard Head. Senators from the School of Vet erinary Medicine are Joe Dawson, a write-in candidate, Joe Lindley and Gabby Nacar. In the runoff for MSC Council representative from the Class of ’62, Jeff Wentworth won over David Halm. Wentworth pulled 110 votes to Halm’s 92. In the election commission race five juniors (seniors next year) five sophomores (juniors next Hunts Win At Dairy Day Two A&M Consolidated youths, John and Mary Hunt, son and daughter of R. L. Hunt, Jr., of College Station, were winners of awards in the annual Brazos County Dairy Day events Tues day. The competition was the first for either of the two youths. W. N. Dowell of College Station as sisted them in the care and train ing of their animals. John, 9, took top Blue Ribbon honors in the under-one-yeaf-old heifer competition, Junior Divi sion, with his 8-month-old Hol stein Dana. Mary won the same event in the Red Ribbon circle with 7-month-old Princess, also a Hol stein. John again was in the Blue Ribbon Division with a pink rib bon for fitting and showing ability; Mary took a pink ribbon in the same event. Participants in this year’s Braz os County Dairy Day came from a 50-mile radius. Brown Swiss, Jersey, Holstein and Guernsey en tries were featured. Tom Sistrunk, County Agent, reports the show to have been one of the best held in the county over the years. year) and five freshmen (sopho mores next year) were chosen. From the Class of ’62 are Larry Wallace, Zay Gilbreath, Jeff Went worth, Harry Ohlendorf and Char les Moreland. From the Class of ’63 are A1 Reservations Schedule Set For Summer Housing reservations for sum mer school students may be made beginning May 22, it was announc ed yesterday by Harry L. Boyer, housing manager. Students now living in Ramps A-D of Hart Hall, Mitchell Hall, Legett Hall, Milner Hall and Wal ton Hall will be able to pay fees and reserve their current rooms at this date. “Students who wish to reserve a room other than the one they now occupy, including students changing dormitories, may also re serve rooms May 22,” Boyer add ed. The deadline for these reserva tions will be May 25. Students who do not register by May 25 may do so on a first-come, first-serve basis from May 26- June 3. Students who reserve their cur rent rooms need only to pay their fees and make reservations, Boyer said, but students changing dorm itories must present a room-change slip from the housemaster of the concerned dorm before they may make reservations. “Students now living in the dormitories which will be used for summer school will have priority on rooms in those dormitories for the fall semester prowided they sigh up with housemaster on his fall roster by June 3 and send in a room reservation with a $6 deposit by July 31,” Boyer said. All students, including those liv ing in college apartments, who do not plan to live in dormitories dur ing the summer session, must se cure day student permits from the housing office before paying fees, the housing manager reminded. Registration for summer school will begin June 5. Named; Run - Off Weaver, Tim Smith, Joel Terrill, A1 Wheeler and Dale Sinor. Elected from the Class of ’64 were Frank Summers, James Jen kins, Avery Smith, Dick Stengel and Shelly Veselka. In the Student Senate race in the School of Veteidnary Medicine, Dawson receivved 19 write-in’s to David Ellison’s three regular votes. Ellison was the only candidate ap pearing on the official voting machine ballot. Pete Hardesty, director of stu dent affairs, is holding the write- in’s in the event of any challenge. A total of 716 students voted in the election. The School of Arts and Sciences accounted for 384 voters; the School of Veterinary Medicine, 58; the School of Agriculture, 142 and the School of Engineering, 132. A total of 65 names appeared on the voting machines. Only 27 posts were available for the job-seekers. This election is the last balloting of the year. The newly elected senators and commissioners will take their places in the student government next year. 3 Awarded Fellowships The Southern Fellowships Fund, an agency of the Council of Southern Universities Inc., through its executive director, Robert M. Lester, has announced the list of recipients awarded Dissertation Year Fellowships for 1961-62. Of the 36 fellowship awards, ranging in amounts from $2,500 to $3,600 three faculty members or graduate students of A&M re ceived awards. They are: Robert S. Glover from Austin Peay State College working to ward the PhD in agricultural eco nomics; Mei'ton P. King, an in structor in English working to ward the PhD in English at the University of Texas, and Joseph E. Redden, assistant professor of journalism working toward the Doctor of Education at North Tex as State College. Announcements as to fellow ships for 1962-63 will be made on or before July 1, according to Dean Wayne C. Hall, co-ordinator of the Southern Fellowship Fund at A&M. Dedication Heads Conference Slate The Texas Petroleum Research Committee’s 13th annual recovery conference began this morning and is scheduled to continue through tomorrow at the Memorial Student Center. Highlight of the conference was the dedication of the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engineering Building this after noon at 4:30 p. m. The new petroleum engineering facility will be named in honor of W. T. Doherty, a prominent Texas engineer and oilman from Houston. General chairman of the conference is W. J. Murray, Jr., chairman of the Petroleum Research Committee of the Tex as Railroad Commission. Co-chairman is Robert L. Whiting, a member of the committee and Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering. + The conference will fea ture talks concerned with var ious segments of the oil in dustry by prominent oil men from throughout the nation. Dedication ceremonies of the new petroleum engineering facility will be climaxed by a banquet tonight at 7:30. The million dollar structure was completed and outfitted with lab oratory and research equipment in January. The new building houses the Department of Petroleum En gineering, The Texas Petroleum Research Committee, the Depart ment of Nuclear Eng-ineering and the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory. The first session of the con ference was this morning with four topics of discussion. They were “Future Growth of The Do mestic Petroleum Industry,” by E. W. T. Doherty’s outstanding career in the oil industry is outlined on Page 3. E. Monteith and K. L. Boren of the Republic National Bank in Dal las; “What Does It Take to Pro duce Oil ? — Monel,” by Harold Vance, Bank of the Southwest in Houston; “Engineering and Educa tion— Essentials to Oil Recovery,” by John C. Calhoun, A&M College System, and “Secondary Recovery and Pressure Maintenance Survey to 1960,” by Arthur H. Barbeck, Texas Railroad Commission. Tomorrow sessions will run from 9-11:30 a. m. and 1:30-4:30 p. m. NSF Meeting Accepts Moyer As Participant Dr. Vance Edwards Moyer, pro fessor in the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, has been accepted to participate in the National Science Founda tion-National Aeronautics and Space Administration-V i r g i n i a Polytechnic Institute sponsored Conference on Solar Physics and Reentry Dynamics. The two- week conference is to be held on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute campus July 31-Aug. 11. The purpose of the conference is to present the results of vitally important current research and thus to provide ' training on an advanced level for about 100 in vited physicists and engineers en gaged in teaching and research in space physics and re-entry dy namics as well as a number from industry. Conference participants were selected primarily on the basis of their responsibility in teaching and research, in fields covered by the Conference. Moyer has been with A&M since September, 1958. He received his PhD degree from Pennsylvania State University in June 1954, ma joring in meteorology. He is the author or co-author of numerous meteorological reports on the sub jects of radio propagation fore casting, atmospheric refractive in dex climatology, physical climatol ogy of Texas, cloud modification, rainfall augmentation, hail sup pression and others. Grant Awarded To Plant Sciences A&M has received from the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare a grant of $45,000 to supplement the fixed equipment and construction costs of plant pathology and plant physiology research laboratories. The laboratories and equipment will be installed in the $2.3 million Plant Sciences Building now un der construction on Campus. President Earl Rudder received official announcement yesterday of the grant. The announcemenl came from Dale R. Lindsay, chief of the Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of of Health, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the Graduate School, said the grant will be directed toward lab oratories covering four main re search areas—air pollution, chem ical residue and metabolism, ce real diseases and virus and vege table diseases. Hall, a professor of plant phys iology and pathology, said the air pollution lab will initially be used to study the effects of hydrocarbon gases on crop growth and produc tion. It has been designed so that other air pollutants also can be studied. Rigid plant growth con trol is a feature. Dr. Walter' W. Heck, associate professor of plant physiology, will be in charge of the air pollution studies. The chemical residue and metab olism lab is designed for studies of the effects of fumigants and other chemicals on plants to be used for human and domestic ani mal consumption, Hall said. The facility will be equipped for the extraction of large quantities of plant materials and is under the supervision of Dr. Charles S. Mil ler, associate professor of plant physiology. The cereal disease and virus and vegetable disease laboratories, Hall said, will be used by plant pathol ogists in the study of various plant pathogens. Dr. David W. Rosberg and Dr. Lee J. Ashworth, professor and assistant professor of plant pathology, respectively, will be in charge of the laboratories. “Many areas of plant pathology have a direct or indirect effect on food and food products,” Hall said. “The direct effect of plant pathogens on human health has received more and more attention in recent years.” Two Profs Slate Graduation Talks Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, associ ate professor of education, will deliver the commencement ad dresses at lola High School, May 23, and Crockett High School, May 30. Dr. Dwain Estes will address the Thorndale High School graduating class.