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3 Top Educators
Talk To Faculty
Texas A&M College’s Century Study was launched Tues-
lay with the faculty and staff being told by three prominent
ducators that impending problems facing higher education
an only be solved by critical examination and evaluation.
Dr. Paul A. Miller, provost of Michigan State University,
old the group that the new American purpose is interna-
onalism.
To contribute significantly to this purpose, Dr. Miller
aid the “land-grant colleges and universities must intellec-
aally encircle themselves with national and international
eeds and relate these to the counties and states which are
heir historic responsibilities.”
Dr. Eric A. Walker, pres-f:
lent of Pennsylvania State
diversity, speaking specif-
peTo Speak
Beef Cattle
Short Course
One of the top speakers during
■611th annual Beef Cattle Short
oarse July 31-Aug. 2 at Texas
4M will be Dr. Leon S. (Bill)
'ope.
The scientist, a young professor
the Oklahoma State University
Apartment of Animal Husbandry,
ill make two talks: “Effect of
lane of Nutrition on Growth and
foductivity of Beef Females” and
Influence of Pelleting and of
oughage-Concentrate Rations on
erformance of Growing and Fat-
fling Cattle.”
Supplementary feeding practices
ill be emphasized at the short
Wrse, John Riggs, professor in
ie A&M Animal Husbandry/ De-
artment and program chairman,
old.
Dr. Pope was a farm boy in
lichigan. He finished high school
Sere and was graduated from
lichigan State University in 1947
ith a BS degree in animal hus-
ondry. He joined the OSU animal
Ubandry staff in 1949 after
iorking' for two years as a gradu-
1® assistant while completing his
IS degree in animal husbandry.
I® received his doctorate from
iSU in 1952.
At OSU, he has been in charge
f work with college sheep flocks
od beef cattle research. His ac
uities have primarily been in the
eld of nutrition, with studies on
dtamin A, effects of age on calv-
% winter level feeding and sup-
Wntal feeding of steers.
E Department
Sponsor
wort Courses
The Department of Electrical
flgineering, Texas A&M, will
ponsor short courses on Theory
pd Application of Symmetrical
^■Tiponents, to be held at A&M
% 31, August 1-4 and August
: U8.
Lewis M. Haupt, Jr., is in charge
! Dhe courses. He is professor of
‘Metrical engineering and super
ior of A-C Network Calculator,
'^as A&M Research Foundation.
The attendance for each course
^ limited to 20 and sessions will
*• held in Bolton Hall of the EE
ilding.
The courses are designed for en-
ft&eers who have basic training in
^ circuits and machinery and in
use of pashors (vectors).
ically about the advantages
and pitfalls of long range
planning, said anticipated growth
in enrollment, facilities, and facul
ties are necessarily the crux of any
long range planning effort.
Arriving at some realistic
figures and policies in these areas,
he said, can be easily accomplished,
but others are a matter for decision
based on hopes as well as facts.
He emphasized that elaborate plans
are worthless unless- adequate
money is provided by the state.
“Any plan for a rapidly growing
and developing institution must be
drawn with the understanding that
it is always subject to review and
revision in the light of changing
conditions,” Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich,
dean of agriculture-statewide of
the University of California, said.
He added that it is unrealistic to
assume that future trends and
needs can be seen with precision,
and it is unwise to seek to establish
a rigid pattern for the future de
velopment of any institution. “A
useful plan must be flexible,” he
said, “to provide for developments
that cannot be anticipated.”
Addressing the Faculty-Staff
Conference on Aspirations a meet
ing to stimulate the Texas A&M
faculty and staff to think of the
contributions they can make to the
Century Study through self-evalua
tion, the three speakers repeatedly
urged that the planning effort be
broad-based and flexible, pointing
to the necessity of cooperation
from the state for financial assis
tance, and to other institutions of
higher education where areas of
specialization are critical.
The afternoon session was broken
into three interests groups with
the three educators serving as dis
cussion leaders for two hours of
intensive questions and answers.
The Century Study, spearheaded
by a Century Council of 100 Texans
to be named by the College’s Board
of Directors on August 1, is a long-
range study effort to determine
the College’s role and scope and
to chart a path of progress during
the next 15 years.
Degree Filing
Deadline Set
For Aug. 1
The Registrar’s Office has an
nounced that Aug. 1 is the dead
line for filing degree applications.
Any students who expects to
complete the requirement for a
degree at the end of the second
summer session should call by the
Registrar’s Office immediately
and make a formal application.
This deadline applies to both
graduate and undergraduate stu
dents.
Conference on Aspirations
The picture on the left was taken in the Chemistry Lecture room Tues- Eug-ene B. Darby, member of the Texas A&M College System Board of
day as the Century Study Program was officially launched. The visitors Directors; Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich, speaker from the University of Cali-
were made up mostly of faculty and staff members, along with visitors. fornia; Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the College; Dr. Eric A.
The other picture shows some of the dignitaries present. From left to Walker, speaker from Pennsylvania State University; and President Earl
right is Dr. Wayne C. Hall, chairman of the Committee on Aspirations; Rudder.
Dr. Paul A. Miller, a guest speaker from Michigan State University;
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961
Number 128
Two Courses Added
To Firemen’s School
An advanced course for fire mar
shals and a special course for liq
uefied petroleum gas dealers and
handlers are new courses of in
struction scheduled for the 32nd
annual Texas Firemen’s Training
School being held this week at
Texas A&M, according to H. D.
Smith, chief of the Firemen’s
Training Program of the Engi
neering Extension Service, Texas
A&M System.
The Fire Marshal-Unit III course
will be for fire marshals who have
completed two or more years of
training in previous Firemen’s
Stevenson To Head
Division of BA
Dr. Robert M. Stevenson, pro
fessor in the Texas A&M Division
of Business Administration, has
been named acting head of that di
vision.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences,
announced that Stevenson’s ap
pointment will become effective
Sept. 1 when the present division
head, Thomas W. Leland, will re
tire after 37 years of distinguished
service to A&M.
“We are pleased that Dr. Steven
son has accepted this interim ap
pointment to succeed Professor Le
land,” Hubert said. “Although his
primary interests are in the fields
of finance and management in
struction, he is eminently quali
fied for this assignment. In addi
tion to his administrative respon
sibilities for the forthcoming year,
he will assist this office and the
college administration in our
search for the Business Adminis
tration head.”
Stevenson has had wide exper
ience both in teaching and as a
Certified Public Accountant and
Chartered Life Underwriter.
The educator came to Texas
A&M as a professor in 1947. He
was born in Pennsylvania in 1914
and received his Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1937 from Duke Univer
sity, his Master of Arts degree in
1947 from Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, and his Doctor of Business
Administration degree in 1955
from Indiana University. During
the World War II years, he was
a captain in disbursing and sta
tistics.
The professor has written many
research publications. Among them
are “A Synopsis of Statistics” and
I “The Financial Management Sys
tem,” Manual for Ordnance Man-
! agement Engineering Training
! School; “The Insurance Curriculum
| in College Education” and “Re-
1 search on Mathematical Program-
! ming Problems in the Insurance
j Industry,” Journal of Insurance
Education.
Stevenson is a member of the
American Finance Association,
American Association of Univer
sity Teachers of Insurance, Amer
ican Accounting Association, Amer
ican Association of Chartered Life
Underwriters, Southwest Manage
ment Association, Southwest So
cial Science Association, Southern
Economics Association, Betta
Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi,
and is past president of the local
chapter of the American Associa
tion of University Professors.
Leland, who was born and edu
cated in Wisconsin, came to A&M
in 1922. Except for two years, he
has been with the institution ever
since. He has been head of bus
iness administration activities since
1926.
Dean Hubert said that under this
veteran educator’s guidance the
A&M Division of Business Admin
istration has become one of the
most rapidly growing administra
tive units in the college.
Training Schools. Also fire mai’-
shals from larger cities with ad
vanced training within their de
partments may enroll for this
course, Smith said.
Liquefied petroleum gas dealers
and handlers will enroll in the
other new course which will fea
ture specialized training in hand
ling LPG products and fire con
trol in LPG fires.
In the new fire marshals course,
highly trained specialists in the
field of fire engineering will in
struct in such topics as burning
characteristics of materials, eval
uating performance of construction
materials, atomic weapons and
fire, human relations for supervis
ion and many Other subjects re
lated to fire prevention and con
trol. More than 230 guest instruc
tors and speakers will take part
in the 12 separate training courses
during the school.
Top LPG officials will handle
specialized training in supervisory
developments, driving emergency
vehicles, LPG licensing regula
tions, and technical discussions of
recent LPG fires and accidents.
Registration of the more than
1,700 firemen from 20 states rep
resenting municipalities, indus
tries and armed services in some
425 cities will begin at noon Sun
day in the Memorial Student Cen
ter. It will mark the first time
that any short course or confer
ence on the campus has been hand
led on IBM cards. Registration,
rosters and group listings will be
processed through the college’s
Data Processing Center.
Ag Education Dept.
Names Knebel Head
Dr. Earl H. Knebel, superin- Watkins said. “From this back-
tendent of schools at Cameron,
will become professor and head of
the Texas A&M Department of Ag
ricultural Education Sept. 1, Dr.
G. M. Watkins, director of agri
cultural instruction, has announ
ced.
The educator, a former agricul
tural education teacher at A&M,
will succed E. Y. Walton, who is
entering private business.
Knebel left A&M in 1960 to be
come superintendent of schools at
Cameron. He has had wide ex
perience in the education field.
“In Dr. Knebel we find an ideal
combination of experience as vo
cational agriculture teacher, col
lege teacher and research man, and
a public school administrator,”
Traffic Simulation
Lecture Slated
For Tomorrow
“Some Problems in Traffic Simu
lation” will be the subject of a
lecture at 2 p.m. tomorrow at
T^xas A&M.
The speaker, D. E. Cleveland,
assistant research engineer for the
Texas Ti-ansportation Institute, will
be heard at 2 p.m. in Room 211 of
the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engi
neering Building.
The session is a National Science
Foundation seminar on applications
of digital computers to problems
in research, engineering and in
dustry.
Members of the college faculty,
staff, student body and the public
are invited to attend the lecture.
ground we expect excellent lead
ership in our agricultural educa
tion activities.”
The new department head was
raised on a wheat and cattle ranch
in Montana. He was graduated
with a BS degree in agriculture in
1946 at Montana State College.
His master of education degree
came in 1951 at Texas A&M, and
his doctorate concerned “An Analy-
State University.
He taught vocational agricul
ture one year in Montana and six
years in Hamilton, Texas.
The teacher’s dissertation for
his dectorate concerned “An Analy
sis of Factors Contributing To Ef
fective Programs of Vocational
Agriculture.”
Knebel’s teaching experience at
A&M began in 1955 as an assist
ant professor. He rose to associate
professor before going to Camer
on.
His military experience includes
three years in the Air Force as a
bomber pilot during World War II,
a service for which he was award
ed the Distinguished Flying Cross
and the Air Medal with three Oak
Leaf Clusters. He is now a cap
tain in the Air Force Reserves.
Knebel is married, has one
daughter, and is a member of the
Methodist Church.
Walton, whose resignation be
comes effective Sept. 1, has been
head of the A&M Department of
Agricultural Education since 1953.
The professor will conduct private
consulting service in counseling
and guidance for public schools in
Texas. He will operate out of Col
lege Station.
\Y orkshopW inners Announced
Contest winners have been an
nounced in the third annual Texas
High School Publications Work
shop which ended July 21 at Texas
A&M.
The outstanding winning student
of the 350 youngsters and spon
sors attending the six-day event
was Arthur Ramirez of Jeff Davis
High School in Houston.
Ramirez won first place in two
categories—student interview and
feature stories—the first time this
has been accomplished in the work
shop’s history.
Purpose of the conference was
to give high school publications
sponsors and students a refresher
course in publications procedures.
Donald D. Burchard, A&M Jour
nalism Department professor and
workshop director, said the dele
gates studied layouts and working
dummies for school yearbooks.
Handing out the awards at the
1 final session was Hal Lewis, man-
j aging editor of the Dallas Times
Herald.
Other winners in the contests
were the following:
Student interview—Second place,
Leigh Curry, Newman High School,
Sweetwater; third, David Murphy,
Highlands High School, San An
tonio.
Faculty interview’—First, Caryl
Nelson, Hillcrest High School Dal
las, antf Ceryl Chatagnier, Thomas
j Jefferson High School, Port Ar
thur; second, Judy Brown, Poly
technic High School, Fort Worth;
third, Paul Wehrle, Thomas Jef
ferson High School, Dallas.
Features—Second, Fred Harmon,
Longview High School; third, Da
vid Murphy, Highlands High
School, San Antonio.
News Story—First, Bitsy Barr,
French High School, Beaumont;
second, Franklin Holcomb and
King Solomon, Marshall High
School; third, Gay Drake and Anna
Jenkins, Grand Prairie High
School, tied with Paula Partridge,
Garland High School.
Outstanding student photograph
er—Pat Cochran, Denton High
School.
Cover for 1961 summertime an
nual—First, Charles Batte, Uni
versity High School, Waco; sec
ond, Kathryn Haisler, Pasadena
High School; third, Sharon Elliott,
South Houston High School.
Yearbook layout — First, Doro
thy Saunders, Robert E. Lee High
School, San Antonio; second, San
dra Cox and Karron Davis, Poly
technic High School, Fort Worth;
third Beverly Amass, Jeff Davis
High School, Houston.
Dr. William H. Taft, well known
yearbook consultant at the Univer
sity of Missouri School of Journal
ism, served as co-ordinator of the
w’orkshop’s yearbook section. News
paper section co-ordinator w r as Mrs.
Edith King, Journalism Depart
ment head at San Antonio College.