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Short Courses
Keep Staff Busy
The holding of short courses
has become an important and
active function in the past 20
years at A&M.
Courses offered for the 1961-62
dcHool year range from a clinic’for
commercial egg growers to an
atomic energy conference. There
are courses offered in horse
management, plant protection, in
sect control, and a municipal police
school among others.
Attendance at the sessions last
year varied from 1,657 for the
iiremen’s training course to seven
for a short course on turkeys,
F. W. Hensel, assistant director
of placement and special services,
said.
The short course office was
created in 1944 as part of the
placement office to handle arrange
ments necessary for such events.
However, several currently held
conferences go back to the early
1920s. Records indicate that pro
bably the first organized short
course held on the A&M campus
was the Farmers Short Course,
which started in the early 1900s.
Not all the courses are handled
by the short course office, Hensel
said. The Engineering Extension
Service conducts its own confer
ences, and the Agricultural Ex
tension Service handles many of
its own. A majority of courses are
organized by the schools within
the college, however, and are staff
ed by regular faculty members.
The office performs many ser
vices in connection with the handl
ing bf these courses. It conducts
the registration, which consists of
making name tags, collecting fees,
writing receipts, selling tickets
to dinners, providing schedules of
events, and helping with housing
accommodations.
In addition, the short course
office handles all the bookkeeping,
including receipts and expenditure
Incurred by the group attending
the event. After the course is
lompleted, the office sends out' a
statement of financial balance to
the sponsoring group. For many
groups which hold annual courses,
money not used the preceding year
is applied to expenses of the next
year.
The procedure for holding a
short course is relatively simple,
Hensel said. If an A&M professor
or staff member suggests the idfea
for the course, the approval of his
department head and the dean or
director must be secured.
Once it is decided to hold a
course, either suggested by a facul
ty member or a representative of
the interested group, anrangements
must be made through the short
course office and the Memorial
Student Center for a time, date
and place. This often is difficult,
Hensel said, because of the large
number of courses being offered
annually.
When the date is put on the
calendar, the MSC sends a notiqe
to the short course office, which
in turn sends confirmation of the
event to the chairman of the group.
The chairman then requests the
services he will need for the
course. The short course office
provides the visitors with a cam
pus guide, as well as scratch
pads and folders for scheduled
functions.
In addition to courses held on
the campus, several teaching de
partments, as well as the Engi
neering Extension Service and the
Agricultural Extension Service,
hold many courses off-campus in
cities and towns throughout Texas,
Hensel said.
A new course beginning this
year ig one dealing with the
development of personnel involv
ed in design, construction and
maintenance of county roads. The
course is offered by the Engineer
ing Extension Service and will pro
vide instruction in operation and
maintenance of road construction
equipment. It also will provide
training in the design and con
struction of bridges and structures
used on county roads.
Whenever a course is discon
tinued, there is always another
ready to take its place, Hensel
said. l With the increased desire
of Texas citizens to continually im
prove their education, the short
courses offered by A&M show no
indication of declining. And the
short course office will be kept
busy administering the needs of
this program.
Texan Of The Year
Pianist Van Cliburn, left, receives the Texas Press Asso
ciation plaque as “Texan of the Year” from Charles Devall,
editor of the Kilgore News Herald. Cliburn, 27, a native of
Kilgore, rocketed to world wide fame in winning the
Tehiakovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. (AP Wire-
photo)
THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 1, 1962
College Station, Texas
Page 5
6 Home On The Mange’ Author
Challenges Kansas Solon
SAN ANGELO, Tex (AP) —- Kan
sas has a Texan pretty angry. He’s
angry enough to stake his claim to
being a Texas native on the out
come
It began some time ago when
Perry Como, himself a Lone Star
State product, sang “Home On
The Range” and credited it to
a Texas author.
Dr. I. E. Nickell, a former Kan
sas state legislator from Topeka,
challenged Como, declaring the
song was written by a Kansan in
1870.
Nickell said he himself introduc
ed a bill in the Kansas legislature
commemorating the Kansas origin
of the song.
This brought a letter to the
San Angelo Standard-Times from
the man credited with writing the
composition, David W. Guion now
of Lehighton, Pa.
“I have written to Dr. Nickell
and asked him to produce the mel
ody he claims was written in
Kansas .. Wrote Guion.
“If he can dig up such a melody,
in manuscript from or printed in
an old newspaper or from the
Copyright Office . . . bearing the
name of a Kansan and dated, 1870
I will then admit neither my song
nor I exist.
“And I will then ask the state
of Kansas to pas another state
law making me a Kansan.
“Just for the record, I was born
Dec. 15, 1892, in Ballinger, Tex.
. . . My first piano lessons were
from my mother ... At the age of
16 I wrote by song. ‘Home on the
Range’. It was not my first com
position by any means. Years later
I rewrote ‘Home on the Range’
and it* was then accepted for
publication by G. Schirmer, Inc.,
New York.
The bird-voiced tree frog
whistles like a pileated wood
pecker. *
IS FINLAND
RUSSIA’S NEXT
mcnM
f| For years, Finland has
f been under Russia’s
■ thumb. But it may soon be
under Russia’s boot, as well. In
this week's Saturday Evening
Post, you’ll learn how Khru
shchev has put the squeeze on
Finnish leaders. How he’s even
hand-picked their next presi
dent. And what it will mean to
us if K. takes over completely.
^ S The Saturday Evening
jPOSTT
IfEBHUARY 3 ISSUE NOW ON SALE
18,625 Visit
Since Last Fall
A total of 18,625 visitors were
on the campus of Texas A&M
College during the months og June,
July, August, September, October,
November, December, 1961 and
January, 1962, P. L. Downs Jr.,
official greeter of the college an
nounced today.
The visitors attended short
courses, conferences, class reunions,
and other scheduled meetings.
Downs said the college had 735,-
141 visitors on the campus for
scheduled meetings and activities
during the twelve year period and
eight months from Jun 1, 1949 to
February 1, 1962.
Twenty-two groups were on the
campus for the month of January,
representing a total of 4,948
visitors.
If all the world’s winds should
die down, starting them again
would require more power than
all the United States’ electrical
plants could generate in a hundred
years.
Construction of the Linoln Me
morial began in 1915.
tv ■. > - ;
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