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Aggie Players Producer C. K. Esten ex- night in the Music Hall. Approximately 35
pounds on stage design lor the organiza- persons interested in theater work for next
tion’s Spring production, “Tiger At The semester were in attendance at the meeting.
Gates” in an orientation meeting held last
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46 poii “We have some good things on
has nil ehedule for the spring semester,
field gi at we need more interested people
re of J dio are willing to work in the
rebound Iggie Players starting tonight,”
iccording to C. K. Esten, produc-
er on tl irfor the campus drama organiza-
Curley i ion -
,g e 0 ff Esten was speaking to an esti-
points to nate( l group 0 f 35 persons gather-
s smooth' 11 the Music Hall last night in
j^g 8 |jin organization meeting prior to
lasting for the thespian’s spring
ive p. iroduction, “Tiger At The Gates.”
foes tki P r °d ucer outlined an agenda
if events for the spring semester.
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jiunday Celebrity Series.
Major production of the semest-
lore
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tries od
Presented in Guion Hall during the
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reek of April 1G-22. The play was
jVritten by Jean Giraudoux and
ig es > lirst performed in France before
German audience during the Nazi
cupation in World War II.
“Basically, the play is a farce
| war. It is clever satire, in fact
iveragijl clever that its first audience
their 0 ff Nazi Germans fully enjoyed it,
ot realizing they were being ridi-
T, Coatfoled in the play,
ill tra'I “It deals with the natural ten-
leir firfoncy of ‘old’ men— philosophers,
orthonfoetS) and statesmen— to glorify
3limin3f ar > an d the feeling against it by
clash.
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he younger men who must actual
ly fight,” Esten said.
The play has an ancient Grecian
letting, and has Homer and Helen
Troy as main characters, al-
lough the cast will include ap-
ioxipiattely 25 roles. The cos
tumes will be Greek dress, simpli
fied, with large use of color for
rent actors.
Following casting Feb. 5 and 6,
r o and a half weeks of training in
itage speaking will be given the
Wire cast by Vic Wiening, Play
ers director. Actual rehearsals will
kegin Feb. 19.
“The play has many subtle com-
teits said in undertones, and must
kedone right,” Wiening said.
A third production on tab for
Hie spring semester will be the
Aggie Follies, performed every
?ear on the Friday and Saturday
lights before Mother’s Day. This
fear, these nights will fall on
kfay 11 and 12. In years past, the
tollies has been a show including
tit.odrama, talent acts and other
tntertainment blended into one pro
duction.
This Friday, two members of the
flayers, Bob Hipp and Sharon
frisk, will present a scene from
Shakespeare’s “The Taming Of The
Shrew” in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom before the Aggie
Wives Council. The scene will be
Presented twice, showing two in
terpretations.
WOJtK SET IN 4 AREAS
Chemical Grants
Total $141,000
A&M will receive chemical re-
search grants-in-aid totaling
$141,000 from the Robert A. Welch
Foundation of Houston, Dr. Frank
$1,800 Received
A&M is one of 161 universities
and colleges receiving grants in
the Du Pont Company’s $1,690,-
000 aid-to-education program.
The A&M Department of
Chemical Engineering was
granted $1,800 for summer re
search by a staff member. Dr.
J. D. Lindsay, head of the de
partment, said.
Purpose of the Du Pont
Award is to give a young staff
member an opportunity to do
research and advance scholarly
development. A&M is one of
23 institutions receiving this
type of grant.
W. R. Hubert, dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences, has an
nounced.
Hubert said the funds will be
directed to four research areas.
Individuals supervising the re
search and the amount to be re
ceived by each are the following:
Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski, director
of the Chemical Thermodynamics
Properties Center, Department of
Chemistry, $45,000; Dr. Alfred
Danti, assistant director of the
Chemical Thermodynamics Proper
ties Center, $45,000; Dr. Edward
A. Meyers, associate professor,
Department of Chemistry, $15,-
000; and Dr. Raymond Reiser, pro
fessor, Department of Biochem
istry and Nutrition, $36,000.
Zwolinski’s research has two
phases. Experimentally, it is the
high precision determination heat
formation of organic compounds
of importance to science and tech
nology. The theory phase has to
do with studies of the equilibrium
assumption in general theory of
rate processes.
Danti’s studies are on far in
frared spectroscopy, nuclear mag
netic resonance spectroscopy, mo
lecular structure and thermody
namic properties of chemical com
pounds.
Meyers will concentrate on.
structure investigations of certain
complex compounds, and Reiser’s
(See CHEMICAL on Page 3)
Commencement Exercises
For 379 Set Saturday
A total of 379 undergraduate
and graduate students have ap
plied for degrees to be granted
Saturday during mid-year com
mencement exercises.
Ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Of the 379 degree applicants,
276 are undergraduates, 75 are at
the master’s degree level and 28
are candidates for doctoral de
grees.
The 276 undergraduates are
comprised of 65 students in the
School of Agriculture, 95 in the
School of Arts and Sciences and
116 in the School of Engineering.
Commencement speaker will be
Dr. Carlyle Marney, minister of
the Myers Park Baptist Church
at Charlotte, N.C.
A widely known minister, au
thor and traveler, Mr. Marney has
lectured at more than 50 colleges
and universities. He was with the
First Baptist Church in Austin for
10 years and served as professor
of homiletics and Christian ethics
at the Austin Presbyterian Sem
inary.
The speaker has served on the
Study Committees of the World
Council of Churches, the Theolog
ical Commission of the Baptist
World Alliance, and is presently
serving on the Board of Trustees
for the Christian Century Founda
tion and Mars Hill College.
The Corps of Cadets commis
sioning exercises are set for 1:30
p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Forty-six ROTC cadets have ap
plied for commissions as second
lieutenants in the Army, Air Force
and Marine Corps.
Candidates for commissions in
the Army total 34; Air Force,
seven; and the Marines, five.
Maj. Gen. Ralph Morris Os
borne, deputy commander of the
4th Army, will address the cadets
during the commissioning cere
monies.
The general has a long and dis
tinguished military career. He
served in Korea as the army mem
ber of the United Nations’ armis
tice delegation. At the conclusion
of the armistice, he directed Op
eration Big Switch, the prisoner
of war exchange program.
Gen. Osborne assumed duties as
deputy commander of the 4th U.S.
Army in June, 1961.
President Earl Rudder will give
an informal luncheon in honor of
the commencement and ROTC
commissioning speakers immedi
ately after the graduation cere
monies. The luncheon will be held
in the Memorial Student Center.
A number of outstanding Texas
and national business leaders are
scheduled to appear on the pro
gram of a three-week Executive
Development Course beginning
Sunday.
Sponsored by the college’s Di
vision of Business Administration,
the course is attended by business
executives from across the nation.
They come to share their business
experiences and to hear lectures
by national management experts.
In the ten years that A&M has
conducted the short course, some
75 American business firms have
enrolled executives in it. Enroll
ment is limited so that those at
tending may have maximum op
portunity to participate in class
discussions and to exchange ideas
on management problems.
Members of the A&M faculty
who will address the group in
clude:
Dr. J. P. Abbott, professor of
English, “Group Creative Think
ing Through the Staff Confer
ence;” Dr. D. F. Parry, director
of remedial services, counseling
and testing services, and profes
sor of education and psychology,
“Increasing Your Reading Speed
and Rate of Comprehension.”
Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, professor
of sociology, “Creating an Image;”
R. L. Smith, head of Data Proc
essing Center, “Uses of the Elec
tronic Computer as an Aid to De
cision Making and Introduction to
the Automatic Data Processing
Center.”
Dr. Robert G. Cochran, profes
sor and head of Department of
Nuclear Engineering, “The Appli
cation of Nuclear Science to Mod
ern Business;” Floy W. Smith,
Chief of Reactor Operation, “In
troduction to the Nuclear Science
Center,” and R. M. Stevenson, pro
fessor and acting head of the Di
vision of Business Administration,
“Financial Reports.”
Dean F. /. Benson
Represents School
Three men have been named to map plans for a convoca
tion here next fall to mark the centennial observance of the
passage of the Morrill Act.
Dean of Engineering Fred J. Benson will head the com
mittee and represent the A&.M faculty and staff. Co-chair
man is T. Carr Forrest of Forrest and Cotton Consulting En
gineers of Dallas, representing former students. Russell
Hillier, president of the Bryan Industrial Foundation, will
represent the Bryan-College Station area.
Also scheduled during the convocation is a report from
the System Board of Directors concerning Century Study
findings. The board report will be swiftly placed into action
to gain maximum use before*
1976, the 100th anniversary
of the founding of A&M.
The convocation will bring
to the campus former students
and friends who will attend semi
nars and forums conducted by out
standing leaders in their respective
fields.
Since 1962 is the centennial year
of the land-grant colleges of Amer
ica, the convocation will be part
of this observance. A&M College
is the state’s land-grant College
and Texas’ oldest state-supported
institution of higher learning, hav
ing first opened its doors in 1876.
The college, too, will honor distin
guished former students, recogniz
ing A&M graduates for truly out
standing achievement, as part of
the special convocation program.
35 Enter
Chi Epsilon
Fraternity
Chi Epsilon, national honor
ary civil engineering fraternity,
was officially installed at A&M
Saturday when 35 present and
former students of the Depart
ment of Civil Engineering were
initiated as charter members.
Heading the installation com
mittee was Dean John Focht of
the University of Texas, the
fraternity’s national secretary.
Initiated as alumni members
were Dean of Engineering Fred
J. Benson and Dr. Samuel R.
Wright, head of the Department
of Civil Engineeering. Both
men are former students of the
department.
Cyril Durrenberger
. . seeks West Point entry
Aggie In Finals
For West Point
Cyril Durrenberger, ‘64, soph
omore liberal arts major from
Bellaire, is one of eight candi
dates for two appointments to the
United States Military Academy
in 1962.
Out of more than 75 applicants
for admission, Durrenberger and
seven others received between 83
and 89 on the Civil Service Com
petitive Examination administered
last November.
The admissions board at West
Point will contact the applicants
and they will be required to take
further written and physical tests
before the final selection is made.
In a letter from Sen. John Tow
er, Durrenberger and the other
candidates were wished luck in
the coming examinations. The
senator said he felt that any of
the eight would make excellent
cadets.
Girl Scoots’
Council Named
To U.S. Group
The Bryan-College Station Girl
Scout Council has been chosen as
one of the 465 Girl Scout councils
invited to select Senior Girl Scout
groups to participate in the na
tion-wide discussion of our na
tional purpose in April.
This nation-wide discussion is
the result of the enthusiastic pub
lic response to the series of 12
essays on the national purpose
written by outstanding Americans
and published in a 1960 Life Mag
azine.
Senior scouts of the local coun
cil have secured the services of
Dr. C. Harold Brown, assistant
professor in the Department of
Agricultural Economics and So
ciology, and Dr. Haskell Monroe,
instructor in the Department of
History and Government, to direct
and lead them in their forum,
which is scheduled Saturday. The
forum will be held from 1:30-4:00
p.m. in Room 2-A of the Memorial
Student Center.
An estimated 250,000 Americans
will have the opportunity to dis
cuss the national purpose in
groups to which they already be
long. These conclusions will then
be recorded and their ideas will
be shared in a summary report to
be prepared by the National Rec
reation Association.
No Cancer In
Today’s Foods,
Speaker Says
The subjects to be discussed are
the national purpose and the po
litical system, the national pur
pose and the economic system, the
national purpose and human rela
tions and the national purpose and
world responsibility.
Girls Brighten
Vet Laboratories
“It was fun — my first teaching
experiences with girls,” remarked
Dr. R. H. Davis, Jr., associate
profesor of veterinary physiology
and pharmacology, with regard to
the activities held Saturday at
the School of Veternary Medicine.
Co-education for A&M flickered
briefly and then died as nine Army
nurses left the campus late Satur
day after spending all morning- and
most of the afternoon studying
in the veterinary physiology lab
under the direction of Davis and
junior vet students.
According to Davis, the group
included student officers and all
Second Lts. (female) in the Army
Physiotherapy Corps, along with
Lt. John LaValley, their instruct-
The girls made the trip to A&M
mainly to have an opportunity to
work with the electronic equipment
available in the department of
physiology and pharmacology at
the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Arrangements were made through
John D. Denman, president of the
veterinary junior class, and Ed
ward B. Stephenson, vice-president.
The nine WACs are currently
taking a course in physiotherapy at
the Army Medical Field Service
School, Ft. Sam Houston, San An
tonio. Davis explained that their
particular interest was in neuro
muscular physiology, the function
of nerves and muscles.
Joe G. Peeples, junior veteri
nary student, was the “official
greeter” for the girls when they
arrived late Friday night to stay
in the Memorial Student Center.
The coeds spent Saturday morn
ing in the physiology laboratory
watching demonstrations, particu
larly in the use of the physio-
graph. That afternoon, under the
direction of members of the junior
class of the vet school, the girls
did experiments with the physio-
graphs on the measurement of
various physiological responses.
Dr. George L. Huebner of the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology assisted in the techni
cal aspects of the electronic in
struments.
Cancer in our foods is a fallacy,
according to Dr. Oliver H. Peter
son, of Charles City, Iowa.
The Dr. Salsbury’s Laboratories
vice president told a graduate
audience Friday that our food
stuffs are safer today than ever
known before in the history of
mankind.
Discussing “Cancer in Our Foods
—Fact or Fallacy” before biologi
cal science faculty and graduate
students, Peterson noted that the
food industry is reducing the dis
ease potential in foods by con
tinuing research in sanitation and
food preservation.
“This is made possible by physi
cal processes of refrigeration and
through use of well-tested chemi
cal additives,” he said.
“We know certain chemicals in
the laboratories can produce can
cers in animals and that some can
produce cancers in men. But, with
one exception — benzapyrene —
none of these compounds can enter
our food supply,” the speaker as
serted.
Benzapyrene may enter foods
through burning of hydrocarbons—
more usually produced by auto
mobile exhausts. But researchers
do not believe this is a contribut
ing factor so far as cancer in man
is concerned, Peterson stated.
“Unfortunately, sensational re
porting of partial facts has in
stilled fear in the public,” he said,
adding that many foods can be
manipulated in certain laboratory
tests to produce tumors in animals.
It is possible to do this with
sugai-, tannic acid (tea) or even
egg yolks.
However, very few researchers
believe at all that these sub
stances have any bearing on can
cers in man, he said.
“The food and chemical industry
carries out intensive testing to
determine and assure that sub
stances added to our foods are
safe,” Peterson said. “Each chemi
cal that is tested for acceptance by
Federal agencies require an ex
penditure of a minimum of $50,000
up to $2 million before testing is
conipleted. If it produces cancers
in animals, it is not used.
Club Formed
For Grads
In Education
A new club is being formed on
campus for graduate students
majoring in education.
The Graduate Education Club
will be a professional organization
for self-improvement and broaden
ing the knowledge of members.
The club will study current trends
and practices in school teaching,
administration, supervision and
counseling.
The first meeting of the club
was held just prior to the Christ
mas holidays.
William C. Swindle was elected
president; William H. Hood, vice-
president, and John D. Lucas, sec
retary-treasurer.
Pete Hardesty of the Memorial
Student Center staff met with the
group and outlined the procedures
for registration of the club as a
college activity.
The group is sponsored by the
Department of Education and Psy
chology. Advisor is Dr. Paul Hen-
sarling, head of the department.
Hensarling said that member
ship is expected to be 50 by fall
of 1962. There are 13 charter
members.