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.