Tourist Queen
It came as no surprise to the friends of Gayle Southerland,
of Harlingen, when she was chosen Rio Grande Valley
Turista Fiesta Queen for the year of 1962, from a field of
19 contestants. This the latest of many honors received by
this pretty high school miss, whose personality is as attrac
tive as she is. (AP Photo)
Industrial Arts
Have Real Value
Industi'ial arts have a value for
all in the total education program
of secondary school, more that 500
industrial teachers were told here.
Dr. G. Wesley Ketcham, state
consultant for industrial arts in
Connecticut, said the industrial arts
role in education is development of
a practical understanding and ap
preciation of today’s industrial and
technical society.
He spoke at the 14th annual In
dustrial Teacher Conference spon
sored by the Texas Industi'ial
Arts Association and the Depart
ment of Industrial Education.
Dr. John P. Walsh, director of
the U. S. Office of Education’s
Trade and Industrial Branch, dis
cussed the role of trade and in
dustrial education in meeting to
day’s needs for manpower training
and utilization with vocational
trade teachers.
Ketcham reminded the teachers
that industrial arts provide the
basic orientation to students about
occupations that require techni
cal skills.
He noted that for every 100
skilled workers that the nation
had in 1955, it will need 122 in
1965 and 145 in 1975. But the na
tion’s spotty training programs are
not even turning out enough new
craftsmen to replace those who
retire.
“As technological unemployment
mounts and the shortage of skilled
workers and technicians continues,
pressures on school administrators
will bring more problems to the
shops and drafting rooms through
out the country,” he predicted.
That’s What You
Get Showing Off
FORT WORTH — A pretty
21-year-old blonde, with a smile
on her lips and silverware in her
tummy, told Wednesday how she
“lost control” of a fork and swal
lowed it.
“It Was easy,” Athaleene La-
Rae Peterson, an accountant, said
from her hospital bed.
Miss Peterson said she and a
friend were in a downtown coffee
shop Tuesday night when the In
cident occurred. She said she was
discussing her tonsils at the time.
“I was holding my tongue down
No Fancy Offers Available
From Campus Interviewers
With the crop of college grad
uates small and the competition
among employers more intense
than ever, it would seem a rea
sonable assumption that some
fancy wheeling and dealing might
be going on as more recruiters
descend upon the campus. Not so,
says the College Placement Coun
cil’s continuing national survey of
fers in which the A&M Placement
Office is participating.
Of course it’s only mid-season
in the man-hunt that is concentrat
ed largely at about one thousand
colleges and universities but the re
cruiting process thus far, while
the keenest in years, has been re
markably free of inflated offers.
In the mid-season report, re
leased to some two thousand ma
jor employers and over a thousand
college placement officers, the
Council found aircraft manufac
turers in the lead both in terms of
the dollar average of their offers
($567 per month) and in the
volume of their offers.
Electronic firms were close be
hind at $564 but ranked third in
volume of offers. The new chal
lenger which moved, since the
Council’s January report, from
seventh place to second in volume
13th Annual
Mechanical
Meet Nears
The 13th annual A&M Depart
ment of Journalism Texas Press
Association Mechanical Conference
and Photo Workshop will begin
here Friday at 1 p.m. with the
photo workshop in the Ballroom
of the Memorial Student Center.
Photography and printing speci
alists from throughout the United
States will attend the two-day ses
sion. Printing will be discussed in
sessions all day Saturday in the
MSC Assembly Room.
Photographic door prizes and
samples will be given paid regist
rants at the conference. Students
and college employees may attend
free.
Specialists Who will conduct
photo sessions Friday are Duval
F. Moss Jr., Plasselblad; Isabel
H. Shirley, Caprod Ltd., New York;
Dr. Otha C. Spencer, Deparment
of Communications, East Texas
State College; Frank M. Parks,
Sylvania; John Farnham, ANSCO;
Gordon Craig, Polaroid; and re
presentatives of Fotorite Inc. and
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
A darkroom practice session will
be held Friday, at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 5 of Nagle Hall.
with the fork handle,” she ex
plained. “I got to laughing and it
just went down.”
“When I got up this morning, I
felt it stick me but it didn’t hurt...
no one will ever believe it,” she
said blushing.
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DRAWING AT 4 P. M.
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The Exchange Store
“Serving Texas Aggies”
of offers and to third in salary
value ($555) was the chemical,
drug, and allied products field.
In the face of the hue and cry
for engineering graduates, how
ever, the Council’s copyrighted
survey revealed that the average
of beginning salary offers to tech
nical graduates has held steady
at exactly $562 from the initial
report two months ago, to the
present. Non-technical graduates
during the same period were at
tracting an average of $16 a month
more. Most dramatic increase was
one of $33 per month in offerings
to liberal arts graduates and of
$23 per month to students major
ing in accounting.
The survey, based on data com
puted each week from actual be
ginning salary offers reported by
82 selected colleges from coast to
coast, is now in its third year and
has earned a reputation for reli
ability in a field where previously
salary determination was largely
a matter of speculation.
Statistics just released include
the average dollar value of 5,155
offers made thus far by employ
ers to students attending these
selected colleges and are indicative
of offers being made to some quar
ter of a million male graduates of
1962.
In spite of increasing competi
tion for graduates, the average
dollar value of offers to techni
cally trained graduates has increas
ed only 2.9% since the close of
the last recruiting season while the
non-technical graduates are being
offered 4.6% more, according to
Wendell R. Horsley of A&M, chair
man of the Salary Survey Com
mittee. These percentages reflect
an increase over the past year
from $546 to $562 per month for
technical graduates and from $452
to $473 for non-technicals.
The curriculum attracting both
the greatest volume of offers and
the highest salaries is electrical
engineering, at $573 per month,
followed by mechanical engineer
ing which ranked second in volume
but fourth in dollar value of offers
at $557.
The salary survey is conducted
by the non-profit College Place
ment Council of Bethlehem, Pa.,
national headquarters of the eight
regfbnal placement associations of
the United States and Canada. It
reports beginning salary offers
currently being made to male stu
dents in 11 key curricula by 16 of
the most active employer groups in
the recruiting field. The next and
final report for the year will be
compiled in June.
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