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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1961
Number 122
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Aid Will Help Schools
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500 Attend Public
School Conference
School Conference
. . . Enjoyed a smorgasbord
National Science Foundation
Awards Research To A&M
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The National Science Foundation
hds granted $50,785 to the Texas
A&M Research Foundation to sup
port research sturies of ocean cur
rents off the southern tip of South
America.
The project is entitled “Surface
arid Deep Current Measurement in
the Drake Passage.” It will be
under the direction of Dale F.
Leipper, head of the A&M Depart
ment of Oceanography and Me
teorology, and Luis Caepurro, re
search scientist in the department.
Leipper said that the Drake Pas
sage is directly south of South
America’s famed Cape Horn. The
area is often turbulent, from the
effects of both weather and cur-
tents from the Pacific and At
lantic Oceans.
The research is for’ a period of
approximately two years, Leipper
said, and should provide valuable
information to oceanographers.
Data obtained from the project
are expected to provide factual
information on the field of motion
in the Drake Passage region; shed
more light on the deep water cir
culation of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Oceans, and drainage of Ant-
artic water along the South Amer
ican coasts; give information for
typical study of the western boun
dary currents. The Brazil Current
(counterpart of the Gulf Stream)
and antarctic cold water create a
strong oceanic front in the South
Atlantic.
Results of the study will be pre
pared for publication in one of
the recognized journals of marine
Science.
Leipper described Capurro as an
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outstanding scientist in the field fessor, School for Postgraduate
Naval Officers in Argentina, 1954-
56; chief of the staff of the Ar
gentine Antai’ctic Task Group,
1958.
Capurro is a member of the
American Geophysical Union, In
ternational Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics, International Council
of Scientific Unions, Advisory
Committee on Marine Sciences for
UNESCO, Pan American Institute
of Geography and History, and
Sociedad Cientifica Argentina.
of oceanography. He has been
with A&M since early 1959 and is
associate director of the World
Data Center in Oceanography.
Capurro, a captain in the Ar
gentine Navy, will leave the Col
lege in September to start the
project in the Drake Passage. Work
will be conducted on an Argentine
naval vessel.
Leipper emphasized that the
project is a co-operative venture
with another country and is an
example of A&M Oceanography
Department research reaching to
distant regions of the world.
Capurro was 'born at Buenos
Aires and was graduated from the
Argentine Naval School in 1940.
He attended a school for post
graduate naval officers in 1945,
majoring in ordnance and subma
rine weapons. He received his
master of science degree from the
Scripps Institution of Oceanog
raphy in California in 1949 and
attended the Argentine Naval War
College in 1951.
His experience includes the fol
lowing: Regular officer in naval
warships, 1940-46; commanding
officer of oceanographic vessel,
1949; executive officer and chief
of operations of hydrographic ves
sel, 1950; commanding officer of
hydrographic and oceanographic
vessel, 1952-53; chief of the De
partment of Oceanography of the
Argentine Hydrographic Service,
1954-57.
Also, commanding officer of an
icebreaker, 1957-58; oceanographer
professor, University of Buenos is Mrs. H. C. Delano of 1931
Aires, 1953-55; oceanography pro- Eighth Ave., Keai’ney.
D. H. Kimberling
Accepts Position
At Univ. of Ceylon
D. H. Kimberling of the Depart
ment of Physics, Texas A&M, has
accepted an appointment as a
technical advisor to the University
of Ceylon. He will leave about
June 20.
He is a 1937 graduate of Ne
braska State Teachers College at
Kearney. He taught in the public
schools at Pleasanton and Minden
City and later wm*ked as consult
ing engineer for Allmond Brs.
Mfg. Co., at Holdredge.
Kimberling is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Kimberling of
Huntley, Neb.
He will be accompanied to Cey
lon by his wife and two young
sons. Mrs. Kimberling’s mother
A fair distribution of educational
opportunity cannot be achieved ex
cept through federal support, some
500 school men and women from
through out Texas, were told Tues
day at Texas A&M.
“Every major study of school
support in the last 20 years has
developed support” for this, Wil
liam J. Ellena, the speaker said.
Ellena is assistant executive sec
retary, American Association of
School Administrators, National
Education Association, Washing
ton, D. C. He spoke at the gen
eral assembly of the Texas Public
School Conferences, held at A&M
June 12-14.
“Federal control is not only not
dangerous but some of it would
be eminently desirable,” Ellena
said.
“The federal government could
well establish minimum standards
for teacher education, school build
ing construction, length of the
school term and many other phys
ical aspects of the school program,
at the same time recognizing that
control of what children study and
how they are taught must rest
in the thousands of local school
boards of education throughout
the country.”
The speaker held that “equiliza-
tion tof opportunity will not be
achieved by treating all jndividu-
als alike. Education can be the
vericle for achieving equal oppor
tunity only when it provides the
special services through which
teachers may be assisted in diag
nosing individual differences, needs
and talents.”
Dr. Ralps Steen, also a speaker
at the general assembly, told the
school men and women that “it
is sometimes assumed that the
whole structure of American so
ciety was brought to America by
the colonists and that Americans
have done little more than guard
the heritage which they received
from Europe.
“Such an assumption,” Dr. Steen
president of Stephen F. Austin
College of Nacogdoches, said, “is
most unfair to American leaders
who have infact created a new tra-
Faculty, Staff Evaluate A&M
More than 4,000 Texas A&M fac
ulty and staff members are being
a sked this week to evaluate the
school’s four basic educational pro-
ffam area in connection with the
tew Century Study program.
Questionnaires have been sent to
^ch member of the faculty and
staff inviting constructive sugges-
“°ns and personal participation in
'he A&M Century Study long
^nge planning effort. Faculty
J!1 <1 staff members are being asked
evaluate the College’s programs
^ resident instruction, research,
^tension and services.
A&M’s Century Study project
k a long range planning effort
tor the institution. Bob Hunt", Jr.,
tonnerly with the Texas Agricul-
tofal Extension Service, is director.
Goal of the study is to evolve
teeommendations for the board of
Sectors’ consideration in guiding
toe College through the next 15
fears of its first century of service
to Texas, the nation and the world.
The over-all objective of the Col-
*8® Board of Director’s is the de-
telopment of A&M to the 'fullest
® line with needs of the state
tetween now (its 85th year) and
’to 100th anniversary in 1976.
About two years will be devoted
developing long range plans.
The Century Study will initially
to
proceed along two approaches. A
lay citizen 100-member Century
Council will spearhead the plan
ning effort, supported by the Fac
ulty-staff Study Committee on As
pirations, which begins an internal
evaluation of College programs
this week. Wayne C. Hall, Dean
of the Graduate School, chairmans
the faculty-staff study.
The questionnaire sent to faculty
and staff members will provide
general information on which the
later scheduled study groups will
base their studies and recommenda
tions.
Three basic questions are being
asked the faculty:
“In your opinion, what policies,
characteristics, traditions and other
features which presently prevail at
A&M are beneficial to Texas and
the College and should be contin
ued during the next 15 years of
A&M’s operation?
“In your opinion what specific
policies, programs, or other fea
tures of the College might be
strengthened or changed to better
assist Texans in meeting world
and domestic challenges expected
to arise during the next 15 years?
“What specific steps should the
College take to strengthen or im
prove any of its program areas?”
The three questions are asked
relative to four basic College pro
gram areas—resident instruction,
research, extension, and services.
A chairman and a nucleus com
mittee, drawn from faculty, staff
and students, have been appointed
by Chairman Hall to each of the
four College program study areas.
Every faculty and staff member
is being invited to sit as a confer
ee on at least one of the four study
groups. Faculty and staff mem
bers also - are being asked to indi
cate the study group on which they
would prefer to serve.
Study groups will hold several
meetings over a nine-month period,
looking at present A&M programs
in the light of world challenges.
Out of the faculty and staff study
will arise suggestions relative to
long range College planning.
“The questionnaire will serve as
a platform from which four fac
ulty-staff study groups will launch
a nine months exploration of what
A&M’s faculty and staff aspires
to do in higher education during
the next fifteen years,” Chairman
Hall explains.
Questionnaire reply deadline is
Aug. 1, Hall said.
UN Club Prexy Attending Leadership
Institute in Bronxville, New York
Chandra K. Parekh, president of
the United Nations Club on the
campus of Texas A&M, left Tues
day for Bi’onxville, N. Y. to attend
the Intercollegiate Leadership In
stitute on the United Nations. He
will represent the UN club of
A&M.
Students from throughout the
United States will attend the In
stitute to be held in Bronxville,
June 14-22. It will mark the 16th
annual meeting of the Collegiate
Council for the United Nations In
tercollegiate Leadership Institute
on the United Nations.
Chandra Parekh, one of the most
active foreign students on the A&M
campus, was president of the In
dian Student Association, 1958-61;
secretary of the U. N. club, 1959-
60 and a representative to the
Student Conference on National Af
fairs held in 1960.
At the CCUN meeting Parekh
will take an active part in the dis
cussion on “Human Rights.”
dition to go with the ideas brought
from Europe.
“Few countries have contributed
more than America to the prin
ciples of political sciences—and no
country has been so successful in
operating a government dedicated
to personal freedoms and the rights
of the individual.
“The right of revolution was
boldly proclaimed in the Declara
tion of Independence — the prin
ciples of federalism were given
to the world by Americans; the
Constitution does not provide for
either a monarchy or a nobility, it
provides that the chief executive
and all members of the legislative
body shall be elected; freedom of
worship is an American contribu
tion; public free school is Ameri
can contribution; Americans have
always displayed great technolog
ical skill; changes in our govern
ment and in our way of life have
been the result of evolution rather
than revolution.”
Tom Sealy of Midland, chair
man of the Citizens for a Sales
Tax Committee, urged the school
men and women to make known
their views on the state’s tax struc
ture, to the governor and legis
lature. He spoke at a group meet
ing of the Texas School Adminis
trators Association.
Dr. Grady Parker, head of the
College’s Department of Educa
tion and Psychology and general
chairman for the conferences, was
given high praise by the assembly
for his “untiring efforts in guid
ing the conferences” to progress
each year for many years. Some
450 attendants gave him a stand
ing ovation.
The conferences included the an
nual meetings of the Texas As
sociation of County Superintend
ents, Texas School Adiministrators
Association and the Texas Assoc
iation for Instructional Supervis-
Dr. Grady Parker
. . . Given high praise
CHS Student
Selected To Attend
Program at SFA
An A&M Consolidated School
student, C. Ruth McNiel, has been
selected as one of 25 outstanding
high school science students to at
tend the Third Summer Biology
Training Program at Stephen F.
Austin State College, July 17-Aug.
25.-
Miss McNiel was chosen along
with 24 others from wide sections
of Texas, and one from Arizona,
to attend the six-weeks program.
Students will spend much of their
time in laboratory and field work
exercises under the direction of
competent instructors.
Dr. E. L. Miller, head of the
Biology Department at SFA, will
serve as director. He will be as
sisted by two member’s of the,de
partment, Dr. J. H. Burr, associate
professor, and A. F. Shinn, assist
ant professor.
The biology program is spon
sored by Stephen F. Austin State
College and supported by the Na
tional Science Foundation through
a grant of $8,000.
NSF Lecture
To Be Given
Monday Night
Dr. Richard M. Sutton will give
a National Science Foundation
Lecture at Texas A&M Monday,
at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be
in the Lecture Room of the Bio
logical Sciences Building, to which
the public is invited.
The lecturer, Dr. Sutton, is pro
fessor of physics, California Insti
tute of Technology. He received
a BS degree from Haverford Col
lege in 1922 and the Ph.D. degree
in physics from California Insti
tute of Technology in 1931.
Dr. Sutton’s talk is titled, “Dem
onstration in Physics.”
He joined the saff of Haverford
College in 1931, rising through the
ranks and becoming head of the
Department of Physics in 1944.
Dr. Sutton left Haverford College
to join California Institute of
Technology in 1958.
Dr. Sutton has served as' travel
ing lecturer at the University of
Denver, University of Minnesota,
University of Delaware, Columbia
University and served at lecturer
at Case Institute of Technology in
the pioneer Institutes for Science
Teachers, sponsored by General
Electric.
He was the leader of a European
Physics Tour in 1948. He is a
fellow of the American Physical
Society; past president of the
American Association of Physics
Teachers and recipient of that or
ganization's-Oersted Medal for dis
tinguished teafchihg in 1953. Dr.
Sutton- is best known for his w r ork
on lecture demonstration; experi
ments iti physifcs and is author of
the book, “Demonstrations-.of Ex
periments in Physics.”
Dr. Sutton’s lecture Monday
evening will ;tye a demonstration
of experiments, that can be used
in both the high school and"coHe£e
classrooms.
MSC Dance
The first Memorial Student Center spon- ing than dancing. There
sored dance was held last Monday night in every Monday night until
the lower level. From the looks of this pic- over,
ture, conversation seemed to be more invit-
will be a dance
summer school is