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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