tudents Filing For General Election
The iAimooM
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1962
Number 106
IUSTER ADDRESS
Whiteley Sees
A&M Changes
Last Saturday saw more than
500 Afrgie musters being held in
33 states and 15 foreign coun
tries. And because Apr. 21 fell
during the Easter recess, stu
dents mustered with A&M exes in
their hometowns.
For students remaining on cam
pus and members of the Brazos
County A&M Club, muster was
held in the Memorial Student
Center with the principal address
given by Eli Whiteley, Class of
’41 and Congressional Medal of
Honor winner.
The Muster ti'adition was start
ed in 190.3 when the entire A&M
student body decided there should
be some observance of Apr. 21,
San Jacinto Day, in recogni
tion of the men who won Texas
independence, and in tribute of
Aggies who died during the pre
vious year.
College Greeter P. L. (Pinkie)
Downs Jr., a member of the
Class of ’06, was a member of
the student body when it march
ed on President David F. Hous
ton’s home and requested the
commemorative holiday.
Houston granted the request
and the tradition was begun the
afternoon of Apr. 21, 1903.
Whiteley won his medal of hon
or during the Battle of the Bulge
in December of 1944. As a lieu
tenant in charge of a company
of 96 men, he was ordered to
take a small but key town de
fended by some 300 Germans.
During fighting which reduc
ed company strength to seven men
in fighting condition, Whiteley
was injured seriously on two diff
erent occasions. When the fierce
battle was over and the city
taken, Whiteley had to be forci
bly evacuated.
His heroism in leading his
troops to victory won him this
nation’s highest award for valor.
Whiteley returned to A&M in
1946 and is now an associate
professor in the Department of
Agronomy.
Here is the talk he made at
the 59th annual muster last Sat
urday :
Celebrate Great Tradition
Today we have gathered here
to carry on one of the great
traditions of A&M. The event
that we are commemorating be
gan many years ago with a small
group of men who gathered at
Washington - on - the - Brazos to
draft the Declaration of Inde
pendence of Texas.
This group of men had dreams
of freedom fro m oppression,
dreams of self government and
a desire for independence. They
were men with strong wills. So
they declai’ed their . independence
from Mexico on March 2, 1836.
This act led to the Texas war
for independence. It also led to
the Alamo, Golid and finally to
San Jacinto. On April 21, 1836
Texas won her independence from
Mexico.
This was not the final battle
for the independence of Texas.
After Texas was admitted to the
Union in 1845, another war was
fought. The Mexican War final
ly established Texas’ freedom
from Mexico. The years follow
ing the Mexican War were years
of great expansion and progress;
they led, however, to some of the
darkest years in the history of
our state and nation — the Civil
War.
These dark years were not
fruitless, however, because out of
them came the greatest experi
ment in education that the world
has ever known. The Morrill Act
of 1862, establishing the land
grant colleges and universities
was, I think, exclusive of the Con
stitution, the greatest single act
that the Congress of the Unit
ed States has ever passed.
More people have received
greater benefits fi'om this law
than any other single law. What
courage it must have taken to
embank on such a program in
those dark days of the Civil War.
It was a program that would de
velop into the greatest educa
tional program ever established
in this or any other nation. Our
own college is a part of this pro
gram.
The Texas legislature passed
the act making A&M a land grant
college in 1871. A&M opened its
doors to six students on October
4, 1876, and since that time has
grown to be one of the great
educational institutions of the
state and nation. This year we
are joining with the other land
grant colleges and universities
to celebrate the act that led to
their establishment.
Not Yet At Century Mark
A&M is 85 years old so we
have not reached the century
mark, but we are approaching it
with anticipation. What changes
will the next 15 years bring to
our institution? What changes
should we make so that we can
better serve the people of our
state ?
This college belongs to the
people of Texas and its primai’y
function is to serve the people
of Texas. With this in tiiind,
the administration of A&M em
barked on a study to determine
our place in the future educa
tional system of Texas. One
hundred outstanding citizen^ of
Texas were asked to serve on a
committee to chart the course of
A&M through the next few years
so that when we reach the cen
tury mark we will be in the best
possible position to serve the
people of Texas.
At the same time the Century
Council is making its study, our
own faculty, staff and students
are conducting an internal study.
It is hoped that these studies will
offer a blueprint for the future
of A&M during the next 15 years.
We cannot predict the future,
but we can look at the past and
make some estimate.
How has the college changed
to meet the needs of the people
of Texas? We need to go back
only to the post World War II
period to find excellent examples
of the flexibility of our school:
in that period with the influx
or large number of ex-service
men, A&M changed to meet the
needs of the people of Texas.
Bryan Air Force Base was uti
lized to house freshmen students.
Classes were taught in barracks
and office buildings. Housing for
married students was developed.
Classes were taught at early and
late hours. During this time A&M
launched a multi-million dollar
building program. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars were spent
for new equipment for our class
rooms and laboratories; new fa
culty and staff members were
added; new courses Avere added
to the curriculum; old courses
were updated or dropped.
The need for more highly train
ed graduates was recognized —
new graduate courses were offer
ed; the enrollment in our Gradu
ate School in 1946 was 313, in
1955 it Avas 512, and in 1961 it
was 725. The number of students
in the Graduate School more than
doubled in 15 years. The Data
Processing Center was establish
ed to meet the pressing needs in
(See WHITELEY On Page 5)
Run-Off Decides
Officer Voting
Filing opened Wednesday and will close next Monday for
next Thursday’ general election to fill eight posts on the
Student Senate and elect a civilian yell leader.
The filing for a second spring campus election comes
on the heels of last week’s run-off of the class officer election.
The run-off saw the following students named to class officer
positions:
Class of ’63
Charles Lee Nichols, vice president.
James Bryant Scott, secretary-treasurer.
Arthur R. Richardson, social secretary.
Matthew B. Bader, historian.
William H. Brashears, head^
yell leader.
‘‘Pursuing An Argument”
In violent disagreement about the virtues production of “Tiger At The Gates.” From
and evils of war, Hector the Tiger and De- left to right, Dave Jones as Priam; David
makos the poet make verbal battle on the Lee as Demakos; Regie Lundergan as He-
stage of Guion Hall, in the Aggie Players cuba; and Bob Hipp as Hector.
* Tiger At Gates’ On Stage
In Gnion Through Saturday
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
“Tiger At The Gates,” major
spring production of the Aggie
Players, will be presented on the
stage of Guion Hall tonight at 8
for its third performance of the
week. The play will run through
Saturday night.
In their traditional standard of
Council Fete
Features Head
Of Iowa Union
One of the most distinguished
men in the college union field, Earl
E. Harper, director of the Iowa
Memorial Union at the State Uni
versity of Iowa, will be the prin
cipal speaker tonight at the 12th
annual meeting and banquet of the
Memorial Student Center Council
and Directorate.
Awards in appreciation of serv
ices will be presented, and the in
coming officers and chairmen will
be recognized during the banquet
scheduled at 6:30 p.m. in the M.S.C.
Ballroom. Between 150 and 175
persons, including guests repre
senting organizations of the col
lege community, are expected to
attend.
Harper is Director of the School
of Fine Arts, as well as the Iowa
Memorial Union. He is a minister
of the Methodist Church who has
rendered special service in the field
of religious music and is an edu
cator and former college president,
as well as a leader in the inter
national college union organiza
tion.
Harper has served as Director
and Professor, School of Fine Arts
and Iowa Memorial Union, since
1938. Earlier, he served as presi
dent of Evansville College, Indiana,
and then as pi-esident of Simpson
College in Iowa.
Mother Of Year
Deadline Nearing
Application for Aggie Mother
of the Year, to be announced
prior to Mother’s Day, are now
being accepted by the Student
Senate public relations com
mittee.
Requirements are that a stu
dent must be enrolled and that
his mother must be able to be
present Mother’s Day. The
mother must also have made a
* sacrifice.
Applications may be mailed to
Box 5746 or submitted to Stu
dent Programs Advisor W. D.
Hardesty by May 7.
proficiency, the Players blend bril
liant costuming, massive sets and
excellent acting to produce a
play with impact and beauty.
The stage sets .include realistic
walls, columns, and in the far
background, the massive gates of
the city of Troy.
Set in ancient Troy, the play
was written as a farce on war by
Jean. Giradoux, French playwright,
and was first performed before a
Nazi-German audience during the
occupation of Paris in 1945. After
being translated ' into English by
Christopher Fry, it had a success
ful run on Broadway in 1956.
Theme of the play revolves a-
round Hector, played by Bob Hipp,
who is a young Trojan military
leader who is sick of war, and his
conflict with the older men of the
country who glorify war for its
own sake.
Cause of the approaching war
with Greece is Helen, played by
Time Staffer
Gives Views
On Soviet Acts
The Berlin crisis developed as a
Soviet response to the growing
economic integration and strength
of Western Europe. This view was
expressed by John Scott, veteran
observer of Soviet affairs and a
longtime member of the Time mag
azine staff, in a speech in the
Memorial Student Center Tuesday.
Scott was a visitor on campus
and was presented as a speaker in
the Great Issues Series. He is
presently a special assistant to the
publisher of Time.
The economic aspects of Soviet
foreign relations were emphasized
by Scott in his hour-long speech
to a crowd of approximately 300
persons.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev developed the theme of peace
ful coexistence after Communist
efforts were repulsed or stale
mated in various spots around the
globe, Scott said. Early in the
period of announced coexistence,
Khi'ushchev made his famous state
ment about “we will bury you.”
But the Communist economic of
fensive, it was clear by 1960, was
only a “paper tiger,” and all that
Khrushchev has been able to bury
is Stalin, Scott quipped.
The approach then taken by the
Communists, who had gained im
portant strength in nuclear weap
ons and delivery systems, was an
attempt to use military power to
intimidate.
Berlin was the best spot, from
the Communist viewpoint to begin
this new policy, Scott said.
Mai'y Holbein, who has been stolen
from the Greeks by the frolicing
prince, Paris, played by David
White.
Others in the cast include . Hec
tor’s wife, Andromache, played by
Dotty Ashworth; Cassandrea, Es
ter Hord; Priam the king, Dave
Jones; Demakos the poet, DaA r e
Lee; and Hecuba, Priam’s wife,
Regie Lundergan.
The mathematician is played by
Mike Gay; messenger, Jan Jones;
Troilus, Dan Malcolm; Abneos,
Larry Waggoner; Busiris, George
Lovett; Ajax, John McGoavu; Ulys
ses, Richard Metz; old men, saier
and Olpides, Niki Hagler and
Mike Lutich.
Pan Am Group
Accepted By
MSC Council
The Pan American Week Com
mittee was officially made a stand
ing Memorial Student Center
Directorate Committee at a meet
ing of the MSC Council Wednesday
morning.
The Pan American group has
been a special committee for the
past seven years. The new status
will allow year-round work on the
annual event, A chairman and
other details are to be decided on
at the next council meeting, in
May.
Also the councilmen elected Gil
bert Forehand, ’64, to fill the re
maining council post for next year.
James Ray, president-elect of the
council and head of the nominating
committee, presented a slate of
four students to fill directorate
committee chairmanships for next
year.
Named chairmen were: Jack
Cline, music committee; Arthur
Kyle, table tennis; Jimmie Guy,
bowling; and Richard B. Willman,
browsing library.
Details Announced
For Junior Events
The Junior Banquet and Dance
will be held Saturday night.
The banquet will be in the annex
of Sbisa Hall, beginning at 6:30
p.m. The Dance will be in the
main room of Sbisa at 9:00 p. m.
Tickets to the affair may be
purchased at the cashier’s window
of the Memorial Student Center
and at the door of the dance.
Banquet tickets are 1.50 each
and dance • tickets are $3 per
couple. Playing for the dance will
be a 10-piece orchestra from Hous
ton, the “Debonaires.”
Class of ’64
James A. Noake, vice pres
ident.
Gordon E. Davis, secretary-trea
surer.
Winton Boyd Zimmerman, social
secretary.
Franklin D. Summers and Mike
C. Dodge, yell leaders.
Class of ’65
William K. Altman, president.
James Love, vice president.
James M. Burns, secretary-trea
surer.
Ernest Holloway, social secre
tary.
In the April 11 primary election
for class officers, the following
won positions without Hhe bene
fit of a run-off:
Jim T. Davis Jr., ’62 class a-
gent; Charles L. Blaschke, ’63
president; Charles Randel Jones,
’63 student entertainment mana
ger; Jerry Don Morgan, ’63 on
MSC Council; Tom K. Nelson, ’63
yell leader; Paul A. Dresser, ’64
president; Jimmie Moseley, ’64 on
MSC Council; and M. E. (Mickey)
Durbin, ’65 on MSC Council.
Filing for the general election is
based on academic qualifications
and next year’s academic classifi
cation. Positions open, and the
respective qualifications for the
posts, are:
Student Body President, senior
undergimduate with 1.5 grade point
ratio; Student Senate vice presi
dent, junior with 1.5 g.p.r.; Stu
dent Senate parliamentarian, sen
ior jjundergraduate with 1.5 g.p.r.;
Student Senate recording secre
tary; sophomore with 1.5 g.p.r.
Issues Committee chairman, jun
ior or senior with 1.25 g.p.r.; Pub
lic Relations Committee chairman,
Student Life Committee chairman
and Student Welfare Committee
chairman, same qualifications as
for the Issues Committee chairman.
And civilian yell leader, a junior
or a senior with a 1.25 g.p.r.
Applicants may secure forms at
the Cashier’s Cage in the lower
level of the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Isle Mayor’s
Letter States
City’s Position
Mayor Edward Schreiber of Gal
veston has written to the College
administration to disclose the
city’s position conceming possible
visits by students from all colleges
who might plan to attend Splash
Day activities this weekend.
Mayor Schreiber’s letter states
that they “are pleased to note,
through the advance registrations
being received by our hotels, that
numerous college students are
planning to attend. . .”
“In light of the unfortunate in
cidents that occurred during last
year’s celebration,” the letter con
tinues, “being aware that but a
fraction of the attending students
were involved, we are hopeful that
you will assist us in avoiding a
repetition of the disturbances.
“It will be appreciated if you
will advise your students, through
campus media, to avoid any un
pleasant situation they may en
counter while in Galveston.
“You may be sure that we are
fully aware that an undesirable
element follows these activities,
whether it be Galveston Splash
Days, New Orleans Mardi Gras,
Las Vegas Heldorado Days, etc.,”
the mayor continued.
“Please be assured that we are
delighted to have the collegians
visit with us—we are looking for
ward to a most successful 1962
Splash Days festival,” the mayor
wrote in, closing.
Many students from Texas col
leges were jailed after a riot de
veloped during the 1961 Splash
Days. Some of the students were
released only after paying fines,
others were held longer and finally
released without paying fines.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
GENEVA — The Soviet Union charged Wednesday
that the U. S. government’s final decision to resume atmos
pheric explosions was proof that the United States and
Britain never wanted an agreement to ban nuclear weapons
tests.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin told
the 17-nation disarmament conference the two Western
powers were insincere in insisting on effective international
test ban controls.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW—Soviet Premier Khrushchev has called for a
new constitution to write into the Soviet Union’s basic law
the fundamental principles of its foreign relations, including
peaceful coexistence. He also asked for the inclusion of more
freedoms for the people but these may turn out to be theories.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON—The United States fired the first ex
plosion in its new nuclear test series in the atmosphere near
remote Christmas Island in the Pacific at dawn Wednesday.
It was a middle-range weapon dropped from an airplane.
The brief Atomic Energy Commission announcement
gave no details. Other sources said word from Nuclear Task
Force 8 on the scene was that this first of about three dozen
shots expected to be touched off in the next two months was
successful.
'A' At 'A r
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNa
mara gave out the good news Wednesday—thousands of serv
icemen in Europe will be reunited with their families after
months of separation.
McNamara ordered an immediate end to a nearly seven-
month ban on government-paid travel of military wives and
children to Europe.
Texas News
HOUSTON — Fumes escaping from a 150,000 barrel
gasoline storage tank spread across a busy street Tuesday
night and exploded into a spectacular 12-hour fire.
Theree of the four persons critically injured were motor
ists. Investigators said the fumes apparently were ignited by
a passing automobile.