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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1961
Number 16
(i heard School Superintendent said, “but our relations with the | of concern in the district today
ad Dads’ Club met and toured the
ncious 10-classroom building,
wting teachers and seeing work
imc by sons and daughters since
if plant’s opening, Sept. 5.
Appearing on the program with
Mel were School Board President
B. Hervey; Principal Mrs. C. K.
fighton, and Miss Ann Hurley,
fth grade class president repre-
fflting the student body.
Riedel outlined the growth of the
wsolidated School District from
In New Classroom
These members of Mrs. Pearle Tanzer’s night. Left to right are Jim Isbell, Donnie
fifth grade class at the new College Hills Rogers, Dana Van Pool, Annie Niles, Dean
Elementary School were showing off their Patton and Sharon Moore. (Photo by Benny
|t!assroom at dedication ceremonies last Gillis)
\ew EI e in e 111 a rySc 11 oo 1
Dedicated Tuesday
By BOB SLOAN | District was charted in 1909, but More recently, a new science and
Battalion Editor it wasn’t until 1920 that the first! homemaking wing were added to
College Hills Elementary School, j school was built. In 1928 the dis-j the high school.
fiest member of A&M Consoli-j trict consolidated with several | This fall over 1,400 students
ited School District’s growing other school districts forming the registered in the district’s four
mily of new school plants, was j present A&M Consolidated School white schools, 260 of them in
anally dedicated Tuesday night ^ District.
students, their parents and
iftids inspected the new building
grades one through five at College
The school moved from the A&M, Hills Elementary,
campus m 1939, the superintendent Kiedel said the four main areas
iylor Riedel hint at “another
arcise of this sort in the future.”
Following the formal dedication
college have been excellent through were atttracting and holding highly
our association.” j qualified teachers, devoting enough
In 1948 there were 506 white time to students, adequate financ-
^ram, the Consolidated Mothers’i children enrolled in the district’s | infT and providing for individual
Related pictures on page 3
if first school—located on the
HM Campus in 1920—to its pres-
£t size.
Today the district covers a 65-
imre-mile area, with S'/z square
files on A&M College land, he
the group. There are presently
teschools in the district.
“IVe are growing much faster
bn we predicted a few years ago,”
tsaid. “So fast, in fact, we may
(having another exercise of this
in the future.”
Riedel said the A&M School
went up. The following year, 1949,
n gymnasium and Lincoln School
for colored children were built.
The present modern high school
and gymnasium were built in 1953.
Pan American Club
To Present 0AS,
Discovery Fete
A celebration honoring the dis
covery of America and the Or
ganization of American States will
be held by the Pan American Club
tomorrow night.
The main feature of the cele
bration is a replica of a regular
meeting of the OAS to be held in
the Assembly Room of the Memo
rial Student Center at 8 p.m. Stu
dent delegates from the respective
member nations of the OAS will
represent their countries in the
mock assembly.
By JOHNNY HERRIN
Battalion Staff Writer
Enrollment in the ROTC pro-
Ham has increased this year at
liM and most other universities
‘id colleges throughout Texasi,
bt officials don’t agree as to the
uiise.
At A&M the cadet enrollment
!i se 133 over last year. This year
Sere are 4,214 in the Corps as
Spared to last year’s figure of
AWl. These figures include 377
indents in the Corps who are not
tolled in military science. This
dse can probably be attributed
Hainly to the increase in over-all
tollment because of freshmen
md sophomores being required to
bke basic military science.
In the Army' ROTC program
We there are 2,438 cadets en
vied; 1,729 are in the basic sec
tions and 536 in advanced sections.
school. TTiat year the building that | differences in a student’s ability
now houses the junior high school and desire to learn.
Hervey said he was “speaking
for the board of trustees in thank
ing the College Station City Coun
cil and all those who worked so
hard” in getting the new school.
He said the school was con
structed “east of the highway” so
it would be near the homes of the
students who would attend. He
indicated the total cost of the
school was around $180,000, all
money coming from three bond
issues. The bond sales provided
$140,000 for construction costs,
$30,000 for acquiring the land and
$10,000 for furnishing the build
ing and grounds.
Mrs. Leighton, the school’s prin
cipal, said the school was dedicated
to “establish a solid foundation
and good study habits” for later
schooling.
She said she was especially
proud of the faculty. One of the
10 full-time teachers on her staff,
four have been nominated for out
standing teacher in the district.
Mrs. Robert L. Anderson, third
grade teacher, is also president of
the Bi-azos County Teachers Asso
ciation.
With the exception of one, all
of College Hills’ teachers have been
with the Consolidated School Dis
trict for some time—longest tenure
being 22 years. The one new teach
er is Mrs. Jean Ball, fourth grade,
who has been teaching in Missis
sippi.
In addition to the full-time staff,
Iwo A&M physical education ma
jors are practice teaching at the
school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Representing the school's 260
students, fifth grade class president
Miss Ann Hurley told the visitors
“It is a great honor to go ‘to such
a nice, new and wonderful school.”
At the opening of the program
the Pledge of Allegiance to the
Flag was led by Janet Clark and
Jay Mills of the third grade; David
Hoffman and Marian Skrabanek of
the fourth grade and Bobby Ben-
bow of the fifth grade.
The Rev. Byron Lovelady of the
College Station Baptist Church
gave the invocation and benedic
tion.
ROTC Enrollment
Increase Noted
The Department of Air Science
has 1,766 students enrolled; of
these, 1,357 are in basic classes
and 215 have advanced contracts.
Other colleges are also unde
cided as to the cause of the in
crease in ROTC enrollment. Some
believe that the Berlin crisis is
the main contributing factor,
others think the increased atten
tion to military preparedness “may
be a factor,” and there are many
other theories on the subject.
The Corps increased 3.3 per cent
at A&M while the University of
Texas had an increase of 21.3
per cent. TCU noted an unusually
large increase in its Army ROTC
program. This year the school
has 289, an increase of 20.9 per
cent over last year’s 239. St.
Mary’s University and Arlington
State College both showed an in
crease of better than 10 per cent.
‘Who’s Who’ Opens
’61 - 62 Nominations
Grant Given
Grass Research
A $12,000 National Science
Foundation grant to finance basic
research on grama grasses has
been awarded the Texas Agricul
tural Experment Station.
The grant is the second awarded
the experiment station by the NSF
for similar studies. These fix-st
studies have been completed.
In making the announcement, Dr.
Charles L. Leinweber, head of the
Department of Range and Foresti’y,
said Dr. Fxank W. Gould will con
tinue as principal investigator.
Gould will be assisted by Dr.
Zarir J. Kapadia of Bombay, India,
and Dwain Lilies of San Antonio,
both of whom ai'e doing graduate
Moms To Sell
Game Mums
The Fort Worth A&M Mothers
Club will sell mums and* opei^ate an
information booth for Aggies dur
ing the TCU Corps Trip weekend,
it was announced today by Publicity
Chairman Mrs. B, L. Lester of
Keller, Tex.
Mums for Aggie dates will be
sold on the comer of 8th and Main
streets in downtown Fox*t Worth
Saturday moiming and at Amon
Carter Stadium between noon and
game time.
The information booth will be
located in the lobby of Hotel Texas
for A&M students needing a place
to stay Saturday night.
YR’s Start Year
With Busy Session
Thirty-four students were pres
ent last night as the A&M Young
Republican Club formed for the
school year.
Officers wex-e elected, one reso
lution was passed and plans were
discussed for future months at the
Memorial Student Center meeting.
Luther H. Soules, ’61 from
Dallas, was elected club chairman.
Other officers are W. O. Richards,
vice chairman; Bill Kiesch, seex-e-
tary, and Milburn Taylor, treas
urer.
Four committees were also
formed—Constitution and By-Laws,
Platform and , Resolutions, Pub
licity and Membership.
The group passed the following
resolution:
“Resolved, the A&M Young Re
publicans Club will affiliate with
the Texas Young Republican Fed
eration.”
Actions considered for future
months were the adoption of a
constitution and platform, appoint
ment of committee members, a
Young Republican Weekend with a
dinner-dance, a poll tax drive and
several speakers.
The club will meet the first Mon
day of classes each month.
Dr. J. E. Hall Joins
Vet Medicine Staff
Dr. James E. Hall, a recent
graduate of the A&M School of
Veterinary Medicine, has been ap
pointed as an instructor in the
school’s Department of Veterinary
Pathology.
The new faculty member re
ceived a BS degree in Animal Hus
bandry from Texas Technological
College in 1952. He enrolled in
A&M’s School of Veterinary Med
icine in 1956 and was gx’aduated
in May of this year.
study in the Department of Range
and Forestry.
The one-year grant enables
Gould to continue his studies on
sideoats grama and to expand the
reseai’ch to include blue grama,
hairy gi'ama, slender grama and
other species of the grama group.
The current project is primarily
conceimed with taxonomic and evo
lutionary relationship of the sev
eral species in the sideoats-slender
subspecies. Infoi-mation derived
from this research will be the basis
for better classification of these
grasses and for future pi’ograms of
gi'ama grass improvement through
selection and crossing.
During the thi’ee years of in
tensive study of sideoats and re
lated species, many plants fxom
Mexico and the southwestern U. S.
have been collected in the depart
ment’s garden and gx-eenhouse.
For the recent production study,
progeny tests ai'e being conducted
here and at the Big Spring sub
station.
BA Group
Hears Dallas
Businessman
The A&M Marketing Society
was host to J. T. Peterson, general
manager of Dallas’ Paul Blackwell
Co., this area’s distributor for the
Armstrong Cox-k Co., last night
at their bi-monthly meeting.
Petei'son spoke to the society on
the Wholesaling Methods of the
Armstrong Cork Co. and on
“Marketing’s Mania — Saleman-
ship.” After his talk he conducted
a general question and answer
period.
Mike Lott ’62, programs com
mittee chairman, said that Peter
son was the first of many top bus
inessmen in the southwest that
will speak to the society during
the coming year.
This morning Peterson attended
a Marketing research class with
the officei’s of the .Society before
returning to Dallas.
Vo r. 1 Deadline
For Applicants
Nominations are now open for the “Who’s Who Among
Students In American Universities and Colleges.” Deadline
for nominations for the nation wide honor is Nov. 1.
The Who’s Who Selection Committee has been appointed
for the 1961-62 school year by Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan.
Serving on the committee this year are J. Wayne Stark,
director of the Memorial Student Center; W. L. Penberthy,
director of Student Activities; Robert L. Melchei^, civilian
student counselor, and Lt. Col. Frank S. Vaden, assistant to
the Commandant.
Jeff Wentworth ’62, and Don L. Dodgen ’62, have been
appointed by Vaden to rep- 4 "
resent the Corps of Cadets on
the selection committee.
Students appointed by Mel-
cher to represent the civilian
student body are Kenneth D. Dor
ris and Hank Farrow.
The committee will select up to
35 Aggies to repi’esent A&M in
the “Who’s Who Among Students
in American Colleges and Univei’-
sities.”
The students to be selected by
the committee will be chosen from
those nominated.
Nominations may be made by
any student or staff member of
the college. Qualified students
may nominate themselves. Deans
of the degi'ee granting schools and
the dean of students will be in
vited to nominate students.
Nomination forms may bo filled
out at the post office area of the
Memorial Student Centex 1 , the Com
mandant’s Office, or the Depart^
ment of Student Affairs office in
the YMCA Building.
The completed forms must be
turned in to the MSC Directorate
Office by 5 p. m. Nov. 1.
Students nominated will be sent
information forms which they will
be asked to fill out, describing
their achievements at A&M. They
must also declare if they are will
ing to be considered for the honor.
These forms must be completed by
Nov. 10.
Two selection sub-committees,
the civilian student screening com
mittee and the cadet student
screening committee, will then go
over the applications and select
the students to be pi'esented to the
selection committee.
The two sub-committees will
meet with the parent committee
Nov. 28 to actually select the 35
students to represent A&M.
Before the A&M students can
(See WHO’S WHO on Page 3)
Satellites Give
A&M Professor
Weather Data
Weather information from offi
cial weather satellites is the subject
of current x-esearch now being con
ducted by Dr. A. H. Thompson,
associate px^ofessor of meteorology,
and sevei'al of his gx-aduate stu
dents.
The infoi-mation being received
is essentially in the foim of photo
graphs of cloud formations and the
earth’s surface taken fi-om satel
lites approximately 450 miles into
space.
“We have a real problem,”
Thompson said, “in detexmining
what poinjts on the earth we are
looking at. If you put a globe
within an inch or two of your eyes
and tx-y to identify that point, you
will understand the distortion
which we face.”
In order to speed up the de
termination of these points through
spherical trigonometry, IBM com
puters from the Data Pi - ocessing
Center are being used and have
proved to be extremely valuable to
the Department of Oceanogx-aphy
and Meteorology.
Ag-TCU Ducats
On Sale Thursday
Date and student tickets for
the A&M-TCU football game will
go on sale at 8 a. m. Thursday
at the Athletic Office Ticket
Booth.
The tickets will be available
through Oct. 18.
m-•■■■■■■ • •
ill
fill;
Saw Varsity’s
At Texas Woman’s University, Aggies and
Tessies linked and sang the War Hymn after
the A&M-Texas Tech clash Saturday night.
From left to right, Miss Edna Figueroa,
Horns Off
Johnny Anthis, Miss Marilyn Jordan, Homer
Denning and Miss Pat Dreckman. (Photo
by Bob Sloan)