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11FaII Enrollment Highest Since 1949 ;hi v « J th *^ ^'rallj 21 Ken Ijffi ‘deling I ' infoj I (185)1 225) e » (II- ell {Z -15) | 1 (220) ’ 195) (190) 14) y Hi' »h (20 Fall semester enrollment this year is the highest since 1949, according to figures released Monday by Registrar H. L. Heaton. With a total of 7,694 students registered through noon Saturday, the 1961 figure represents an increase of nearly seven per cent over the 1960 fall enrollment, which was 7,221. The increase came despite recent toughening of admis sion policies at the College. Only those students who are in the upper three-fourths of their high school graduating class are admitted without entrance examinations. Those high school students in the lower fourth of their class are admitted only upon demonstration of their ability to do college work by a series of tests. “This indicates that as we move toward programs of excellence at A&M we need not fear losses in enrollment,” President Earl Rudder said. Preliminary reports from the registrar’s office reveal that over 66 per cent of last year’s freshman class has re turned for the sophomore year this fall. This is up from a low of 48 per cent in September of 1957, and up from 60 per cent returnees in September of last year. “Credit for the increased enrollment and the higher rate of returnees should go to all of the faculty of the Col Here is how enrollment has varied since year. the 1946-47 school Year Fall Spring Total 1945-46 2718 4428 5783 1946-47 8651 7760 9727 1947-48 8418 7755 9103 1948-49 8536 7528 9104 1949-50 7772 6725 8309 1950-51 6675 5941 7185 1951-52 6583 5852 7021 1952-53 6277 5496 6632 1953-54 6198 5537 6571 1954-55 6257 5896 6703 1955-56 6837 6088 7256 1956-57 7200 6171 7659 1957-58 7474 6403 7967 1958-59 7077 6163 7505 1959-60 7094 6376 7526 1960-61 1 7221 6580 7617 1961-62 7694 lege along with both the military and civilian student leaders, and special praise is due the faculty advisors to the cadet corps units for their work in this effort,” President Rudder said. With the increase of almost 500 students over last year, the housing facilities of the College are strained. All avail able dormitory space is filled to capacity, Student Affairs Director, Bennie A. Zinn, reports. “At this semester, 300 College rooms had more than the usual two students per room,” he said. “This situation has been alleviated since permission was granted' to the students who were living under these crowded conditions to seek housing off campus,” Zinn stated. A&M today is accepting fewer freshmen students who rank in the lower fourth of the high school graduating class. In 1959 the College’s freshman class* was composed of 11 per cent of lower-fourth students. This compares with only five per cent in 1960. In 1959 only 67 per cent of the entering freshmen were in the upper half of their high school class, while a year later this figure had been upped to 73 per cent. “This indicates that more of the better high school stu dents are enrolling at A&M today,” Rudder explained. I Aggie Sweetheart #ie1d Reduced To —81 At Tessieland Volume 60 The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1961 Number 7 SeWti^ 11 1S now underway on the Texas Woman’s Uni- 1 "••shy •• mP us determine the Aggie Sweetheart for 1961- 59 A fjpjd ,e >T nominees has now been reduced to 31, and oJRhree-rriatf selection team from A&M is due to interview - —the girls even more. ^Commandant 1946 Dies At 75 JBol. Maurice D - w< ‘lty of Bryan f j , lied Sunday i* 1 the Veterans’ Hos- !, , iitil in Waco. Tentative arrange- . . nents have been made for services . ,nd burial in Arlington National lemetery Oct. *2. ^■porn Sept. 6 . tSSG, in Greens- Pa., he graduated from the ed States Military Academy the Class of 1910, and was graduate of the Command and icral Staff College and t Nation- IftV'ar College. ■ol. Welty served ns comman- Inijt and professor of military sci- itujc and tactics at A&M from t 94! until his retirement in 1946. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Irene B. Welty of Bryan; me daughter, Mrs. Charles N. Howard Jr. of Arlington, Va.; one son, Richard C. Welty of Fayette ville, Ark.; five grandchildren and ;wo great-grandchildren. The Tessies are to be inter viewed at an informal coffee in Denton Saturday. Flying to Denton Friday to do the interviewing will be Pete Har desty, Bob Boone and J. Wayne Stark. Hardesty heads the Me morial Student Center student pro gram staff, Boone is MSC music coordinator and Stark is director of the MSC. After this selection is made a team of A&M student leaders headed by Class of ’62 Social Sec retary Johnny Mai'tinez will make the trek to TWU for the ultimate sweetheart selection. Vicing for the title are Ann Ab bott, Dinky Dalton, Pat Dreckman, Edna Figueroa, Janine Hoagland, Nell Kirksey, Theresa Lang, San Scifres, Sandra Stamper, Ginger Taylor and Mamie Willenberg. Kathy Coffey, Jane Webster, Linda Freeman, Beverly Huston, Marilyn Jordan, Barbara Kobarg, Gail Pope, Sally Willis, Virginia Starnes and Kay Woodruff. Judy Amphlett, Ann Edwards, Lynn Gresham, Marsha Langston, Lee Martin, Elaine Meeks, Janette Noll, Carol Wardlaw, Martha Vaughan and Jo Carol Williams. jTSTA MEET SET jh MSC Tomorrow HV workshop for local leaders, District I, Texas State Teachers Bifcoriation, will begin at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Memorial Student Center. Ilpr. John W. McFarland, District I president, will preside. Fred W. : Bti n t e r, membership chairman from Beaumont, will bring greet ings from the National Education Association and Dr. R. Richard Bowles of Austin, president of the PBxas State Teachers Association, will give the keynote address. Rfhere will be a banquet at 6:30, followed by discussion group meet ings from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. Mrs. H&ydon Sypert of Pasadena will be in charge of the local presi dent’s section. RMrs. Floy Hewitt of Bryan will lead the program chairman sec tion; J. C. Rogers of West Colum bia will chair the legislative and public relations group, and the membership chairmen will be counseled by Mrs. W. S. Welch of Navasota, Dr. Henry A. Jahnke of Houston, Fred Hunter of Beau mont and W. C. Cunningham of Galena Park. The TEPS chairmen and FTA sponsor’s section will be directed by Mrs. Christine Higgin botham, Houston. ■ Closing general session is sched uled for 8:30 p.m. Adjournment is set at 9 p.m. II Consultants for the workshop are D. Richard Bowles, president, TSTA, Austin; Mary Alexander, past president, TSTA, Houston; E. L. Galyean, director of research, TSTA, Austin; John H. Lovelady, assistant director of field service, TSTA, Austin; R. F. Loyd, assist ant director of research and rec ords, TSTA, Austin; A. H. Hooser, ' , ' m> field representative, TSTA, Austin, and Charles B. Hamilton, field representative, TSTA, Austin. Rev. Becker’s Installation Set Tomorrow A special service will be held in the All-Faiths Chapel tomor row at 7:30 p.m., in which the Rev. E. George Becker will be installed as campus pastor for the Lutheran Chui’ch, Missouri Synod. Officiating in the installation ceremony will be the Rev. Albert F. Jesse, Austin, president of the Texas District of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. The Rev. Charles E. Born, Aus tin, coordinator of the Lutheran campus ministry for the state of Texas, will deliver the installation sermon, while the Rev. William Petersen, pastor of Bethel Luther an Church, Bryan, will serve as liturgist. Gary Anderson, deputy Corps commander, and Donald Vahren- kamp, president of Gamma Delta, international association of Lu theran students, will direct the ushering staff. Special music will be furnished by the Bethel Lu theran Church choir, while Mrs. S. C. Ylvisaker will serve as or ganist. The Rev. Mr. Becker, who holds degrees from Concordia Teachers College, Chicago, and Concordia Seminary, Springfield, 111., is con ducting Sunday morning services in the YMCA and teaches courses in the Department of Religious Education. He has done graduate work at the University of Chicago and Ok lahoma State University, where he served as campus pastor and instructor in the Department of Religion from 1953 to 1957. Mr. Becker comes to A&M from Rockford, 111., where he served as pastor of Mt. Olive Lutheran First Aggie Touchdown, 1961 That old Aggie tradition of celebrating touchdowns re mains the same after all the years. Here a member of the Class of ’62 and his date mark the occasion after the first Cadet touchdown of the year Saturday night against the University of Houston. (Photo by Johnny Herrin) Stiles Foundation Awarded College Directors of the A&M College System Saturday accepted trustee ship of the Stiles Farm Founda tion, a trust valued in excess of $600,000. Property of the trust includes 3,124 acres of far m land near Thrall, Williamson County, Texas, all tractors and equipment used in operation of the farm and $25,000 in cash. The Stiles Farm Foundation was established by bequest from the late J. V. and H. A. Stiles for the benefit of the rural population of Texas. Its funds may be used for demonstrations, salary allocations, scholarships, fellowships, research and other purposes, The Stiles brothers designated the members of the board of directors of the College System as trustees. One tract of 513.5 acres may not be sold or mortgaged, but must be operated as a model or demonstration farm near Thrall. In the meeting, the boai’d also accepted a permanent fund of $18,- 400 established by L. D. and Mar tin Royer of San Antonio, in mem ory of Mrs. Annie D. Royer; a be quest of $25,368.72 from the es tate of Mrs. Augusta Barthold, in memory of her father, the late Dr. D. Port Smythe, college phy sician from 1878 to 1882, and a fund of $10,000 to provide scholar ships in accounting, contributed by friends in honor of Professor Thomas W. Leland, who retired September 1, 1961, after 40 years as a member and head of the Di vision of Business Administration. Gifts, grants and scholarship funds accepted by the board at this meeting, for various parts of the A&M System, totalled $354,- 689.26. Of this total, $92,632 was in grants-in-aid for research of the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, $8,586.90 in gifts and $730 in loan value for the same organi zation. The college received scholarship and fellowship funds of $101,- 244.60, research grants of $36,905, capital gifts of $54,623.83 and spe cial gifts of $5,405. Arlington State College received $900 in scholarship funds; Prairie View A&M $3,637.90 for scholar ships and $48,233.25 in grants, and Tarleton State College re ceived $1,790.78 for scholarships. DinnerClub Ducats Off Sale Tomorrow Last call for season tickets for the four 1961-62 dinner-dances of the Faculty-Staff Dinner Club is 2 p.m. tomorrow, according to Dr. Joseph M. Nance, chairman. Season tickets may be obtained by mail from Dr. A. G. Caldwell, Department of Agronomy, for $9 a person. The first dinner-dance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Student Center Ball room. Other events will be Nov 16, Feb. 8 and Aprjl 12. Contracts Awarded For Four Campus Projects Entered In Contest A recent talk by B. L. (Boh) Hunt, director of development planning, has been nominated for a 1961 Freedoms Foundation Award. The announcement was made yesterday by W. C. (Tom) Saw yer, awards vice-president of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, in a letter to Hunt. Hunt’s talk, entitled “Search of the Century,” deals with the citizen’s national responsibilities, particularly his role in the fu ture of education. It also out lines the aim of the Century Council, a group of 100 Texans studying the future needs of A&M. His talk, along with other nominations, will be judged in national competition in Novem ber. Electric Lines Routed Across College Lands Right-of-way for electric trans mission lines across A&M lands in Brazos and Burleson counties was granted to the city of Bryan by the board of directors of the A&M College System here Satur day. The grants were made on lands assigned to the Department of Dairy Science in Brazos County and across the college plantation in Burleson County. The easements were sought in order to allow the city of Bryan to better serve the electric power needs of the agricultural area in eastern Burleson County. Cost of the easement was $740. College Construction Totals $1.5 Million Contracts for $1,506,833 of new construction on the cam pus were awarded by the board of directors of the A&M Col- lege System here Saturday. Work is due to start within a month on a new building for the Division of Architecture, an Olympic-style outdoor swimming pool for physical education, a central chilled water plant for cooling major campus buildings and the remodeling of Bizzell Hall for the Department -of Oceanography and Meteorology. William Matera, Inc., San Antonio, was awarded the contract for the architectre building on a bid of $828,225. The 47,000-square-foot building, a two-story main building with partial basement and a^ two-story laboratory building, will be located between the museum and the civil engi neering building, on the east end of the campus. R. B. Butler, Inc., Bryan, will construct the outdoor swimming pool on a bid of $196,080. The Olympic-type, L-shaped pool, 165 feet long by ,60 feet wide in the main area, with a projection 75 feet wide and 45 feet long at the end, will be located just west of the indoor pool, the P. L. Downs, Jr. Natatoriuni. This will place it at the corner of Joe Routt Blvd. and Old High way 6. The long leg of the pool will have eight 165-foot lanes and the short leg will have six 75-foot lanes. Depth of the main area will be four to four and one-half feet; the short area will be nine to 15 feet deep. The divinfc area will have two one-meter boards, two three-meter boards, a five-meter platform and a ten-meter platform. Construc tion is due to begin late in Octo ber and the pool is to be ready for use by June, 1962. Part of the cost of the pool was covered by a gift of $75,000 from the Association of Former Stu dents. The central chilled water plant will be constructed by A. P. Kasch & Sons, Big Spring, who were (See CONTRACTS on Page 3) MSC Council OK’s $6,354 In 5 Budgets Approval of some of the Me morial Student Center activities' budgets, administrative changes in the by-laws of the MSC Council and the appointment of a Constitu tion and By-Laws Committee highlighted the monthly meeting of the council last night. Five budgets, totalling $6,354, wei’e approved in council action under President Mike Schneider’s gavel. The council merely gave its approval to the MSC commit tees to spend the money. Funds for the expenditures in many cas es will be earned by the commit tee or donated directly to the group by interested firms or indi viduals. Okayed were the budgets of the camera committee, flying Kadets, music committee, talent commit tee and bowling committee. The changes in the by-laws merely clarified obscure points. No major changes were noted. Appointed to a Constitution and By-Laws Committee were Ronny Hampton, Sheldon Best, Claude Bitner, Jeffery Wentworth and Dr. .Lee Martin. Midnight Yell Practice , Yell-leaders lead students to Kyle Field on Houston grid tussle. Details of the 7-7 tie the way to the year’s first midnight yell- are on page 4. (Photo by Johnny Herrin) practice Friday night for the University of