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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 31, 19.62
Number 122
Buses Set Up
or Florida
i/iF ootfoall
I
Trip
fASA Gives 1
&M Research
84,000 Job
Arrangements have been made
aj;f]eet of busses to transport
feM “students to Gainesville, Fla.,
xt October for the Aggie-Uni-
bsity of Florida football game,
Ion? was disclosed Wednesday by
f Gcad ^Yell Leader Bill Brashears.
ii rhe, group of busses will leave
al/Auston the morning of Oct. 12
«ar the 2,000-mile trip, and is due
the Sunshine State early the
nanylowing morning. The ball game
^scheduled Oct. 13.
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PliiTational Aeronautics and. Space
mimstration officials last week
—•n , med an $84,800 contract to
—“ A&M Research Foundation.
i announcement was released by
| u Ralph W. Yarborough (D-
L)
| >fficials said the contract will
used for laboratory research on
lote automatic neutron' activa-
i analysis.
1ASA also selected A&M to
e part in a $2 million grant
increase the supply of space
ntists and engineers,
he program will furnish 10
M pre-doctoral graduate shu
ts with grants of $2,400 per
r plus $1,000 per in expense
iwances. The school will be re-
mrsed for tuition, fees and
"er expenses involved.
•ther schools selected along
yjryland, Georgia
lihnology, University of Michi-
* , University of Minnesota,
S-te University of Iowa, Univer-
p ■ of California at Los Angeles,
f isselaer Polytechnic Institute,
versity of Chicago and Rice
versity.
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Jib | A&M were University of
[pyland, Georgia Institute of
Wire
y 1 ieview
By the Associated Press
, WORLD NEWS
/OSCOW — Premier Khrush-
^ r unveiled a plan Wednesday
^ /a -U.N.-sponsored trade organ-
I'loii “to resist the international
' 1 nfl V
' >n of capitalist monopolies,
n as the European Common
^Jket.
0Z ’ The Soviet Union,” the pre-
‘said, “considers that the
—^;ed Nations cannot stand aloof
i this. It must call an inter-
onal conference on interna-
^al trade which would discuss
^formation of an international
Ionization that would deal with
J® trade of all regions of the
d on a basis of no discrimina-
U. S. NEWS
)ENVER — Colorado gave
own astronaut, Malcolm Scott
rpenter, one of the biggest
uites in its history today as
jk wound up a three-day visit
la his home state just six days
i;«er a three-orbit space flight.
J&J'apt. Leonard Johnson of the
vljiver police, estimated 300,-
persons saw Carpenter as he
through the Denver busi
es district at the head of the
l;.y’s Memorial Day parade.
TEXAS NEWS
RLIN, Tex. — A ground and
■search got under way today
large ranch five miles south-
of Marlin for an 18-year-old
I who failed to return home
day night fi’om rounding up
e.
let youth is Larry Ray Green,
■ftf Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
n. The boy’s father is mana-
of the Champ Farrell Ranch,
eS^of the laigest in Falls County
^center of the search.
According to Brashears, who
has coordinated the trip with a
Houston firm, costs per person
will be $28, plus individual ex
penses. Students may be accom
panied by dates, wives or other
guests at the same per-person
rate.
The busses will leave Gaines
ville Saturday night following the
game, and should arrive back in
Houston Sunday afternoon.
Persons wishing to make the
trip may pay their $28 between
now and October 2, the official
deadline. Money can be sent to
Gene Anderson, 702 - A Cross
Street, College Station, at any
time. Checks should be made pay
able to “Aggie Florida Trip.”
The college executive committee
has made three provisions for stu
dents making the trip. Their ab
sence will not be a college-excused
absence, no students may attend if
they are on academic or conduct
probation and no freshmen will be
excused to attend.
Ambulance,
Car Crash
Kills Woman
Mrs. J. J. Skrabanek of Cald
well was fatally injured Wed
nesday when the car she was
driving was involved in a colli
sion with an ambulance near the
Townshire Shopping Center. The
ambulance was answering an
other traffic accident call at the
time of the collision.
Riding in the car with Mrs.
Skrabanek at the time of the
crash were her husband, J. J.
Skrabanek, and their son. Mil-
ton. Both Skrabanek and his
son were taken to St. Joseph
Hospital where they were re
ported in fair condition Wednes
day night.
The driver and assistant driv
er of the Calloway-James am
bulance were both injured in the
accident. However, only one of
the drivers remained in the hos
pital after initial treatment.
The ambulance team was go
ing to an accident involving an
overturned car near Travis Ele
mentary School. Both siren and
red lights were in operation on
the ambulance at the time of
the accident.
878 Given Degrees
As School Year Ends
Retirement Ends
Gregory’s Career
Col. Charles E. Gregory, profes
sor of air science at A&M since
1958, is retiring at the end. of
June after 24 years active mili
tary service in the Army and Air
Force.
He attended A&M and was grad
uated in 1938 at 20 years of age,
receiving a Bachelor of Science
degree and a certificate for ap
pointment as a lieutenant in the
Cavalry Reserve. He immediately
enlisted as a Flying Cadet and
entered pilot training- at Randolph
Field. He completed flight train
ing at Kelly Field in May 1939,
and was assigned as a pursuit pi
lot in Hawaii.
He was a combat pilot flying
B-17’s in the Pacific theatre during
the early part of World War II
and flew B-24’s in Italy during
the latter part of the war. His
decorations include the Silver Star,
the Air Medal and the Commenda
tion Medal. Gregory is a com
mand pilot and, as a navigator, is
rated as an aircraft observer.
In 1948 he received his Master’s
degree in business administration
from the Graduate School of Busi
ness, Stanford University. He was
promoted to the rank of colonel
at 34 years of age.
His active career has included
assignments in Headquarters,
Strategic Air Command, Head
quarters, U.S. Air Force, and as
Chief of the U.S. Air Force Mis
sion in El Salvador, Central Amer
ica. Prior to his assignment to
A&M, he was Deputy Chief of
Staff for Personnel for the Air
Force Cambridg’e Research Center
in Boston, Mass.
Col. and Mrs. Gregory and their
three daughters, Virginia, 15, Dor
othy, 14, and Carolyn, 6, plan to
continue their residence at 1201
Haines Drive in College Station.
Summer Permits
Are Now Available
Day Student Permits and stu
dent parking permits are now
available in the Housing Office
and the Campus Security Office.
“In order to save time in the
registration line, students who
want to live off campus or in col
lege apartments are encouraged
to get their permits early,” Hous
ing Director Harry Boyer an
nounced.
Top Aggie Graduate
Robert K. Wright Jr. of Houston, an aeronautical engineer
ing major, receives congratulations as the top honor
graduate of the spring graduation class from President
Earl Rudder. He is married to the former Virginia Lynn
Schilling of Houston. The Wrights have a 16-month-old
.daughter. Wright, incidentally, will be the last Aggie
graduate to hold the valedictorian title. Future plans call
for several individuals to be cited as high honor graduates
under a new honor system.
GOLD WATCHES, TOO
$1,000 Award
Given Personnel
Eight A&M personnel have been
honored with $1,000 awards and
gold watches for distinguished
achievement.
The awards were made during
the recent eighth annual Facultjr
and Staff Recognition and Awards
Program. Categories included
achievement in teaching, student
relations, research and extension
work.
Awards went to John Paul Ab
bott, professor of English; Thomas
C. Cartwright, professor of gen
etics in the Department of Animal
Husbandry; Gene M. Gowing, as-
(See Picture on Page 3)
sistant professor of veterinary
medicine and surgery; and Charles
A. Rodenberger, associate profes
sor of aeronautical engineering,
Sure Sign That School’s Out
Parking lot activity is a sure sign that the day afternoon, with summer school registra-
end can’t be too far away. Here a student is tion scheduled Monday. (Photo by Ben
assisted in loading his car after that long- Wolfe)
anticipated last final. Exams will end Satur-
all for achievement in teaching.
The student relations category
award went to Robert O. Murray
Jr., civilian counselor in the De
partment of Student Affairs.
Research awards were won by
Sylvia Cover, professor of foods
and nutrition research with the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, and by Richard E. Wai-
nerdi, assistant to the dean of en
gineering and head of the activa
tion analysis laboratory.
Velda Stout, Victoria County
home demonstration agent, was
given the extension service
achievement award.
Making the presentations was
W. C. McGee Jr. of Houston, pres
ident of Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Company and a past president of
the A&M Association of Former
Students. The association pro
vides funds for the gifts.
Program speaker was Lee Lock-
wood, chairman of the Texas Com
mission on Higher Education and
a prominent business man.
The presentation of watches was
a new program feature. In addi
tion, watches were given to all
past distinguished achievement
award winners who are still liv
ing, according to J. B. Hervey,
executive secretary to the Associ
ation of Former Students.
Abbott came to A&M in 1926
after receiving his BA degree from
Vanderbilt University. His doc
torate came in 1939 at the Uni
versity of Iowa, and he was made
a full professor in 1940 at A&M.
Cartwright completed his BS de
gree in 1948 at Clemson College
and his MS and PhD in 1949 and
1952 at A&M. The geneticist, ac
cording to his nominators’, is an
outstanding research scientist and
is chairman of the graduate com
mittee of a large number of grad
uate students.
Gowing was bom in Iowa and
educated at Northwest* Missouri
State Teachers College, the Uni
versity of Houston and A&M. Fr'fem
the beginning of his teaching ca
reer here he has demonstrated un
usual ability. He is noted for his
calm but deliberate manner of
presentation of classroom material,
organized logically and delivered
with clai-ity.
Class Of 1963
Takes Command
Almost 900 Aggies were awarded degrees last Saturday
as the 1961-62 school year came to an end. Records show
878 degrees conferred.
Commissions in the Army, Air Force and Marines were
also given in ceremonies that day.
Degrees, presented in G. Rollie White Coliseum, included
those of doctor of philosophy, doctor of veterinary medicine,
various masters degrees and the baccalaureate.
Valedictorian was Robert Kincaid Wright of Houston.
Dr. K. S. Pitzer, president of Rice University at Houston
was the commencement speaker. Commissioning speaker was
Lt. Gen. Carl H. Jark, Fourth Army commanding general.
L. T. Peterson, vice pres
ident of the association of
former students, made a sym
bolic presentation of a Devl-
opment Fund gift of more
than $304,500 to President Earl
Rudder.
Pitzer’s topic was “Opportunity
and Responsibility.” Jark told the
fledgling officers that as ROTC
graduates they were “the cohesive
force that gives form and strength
to the military instrument.”
Brig. Gen. Bruno A. Hochmuth
of the Marine Corps presented 13
A&M graduates with commissions.
Other graduates accounted for 221
Army and Air Force commissions
presented.
High point for members of the
Corps of Cadets was the final re
view, held Saturday afternoon.
The review symbolized the
“change of command” from the
graduating seniors to the class be
hind them.
After one time around the pa
rade field, seniors left their old
units to take the salute from their
old units a second time around.
Graduating with high honors
David Collins, Arthur Moore,
Bobby Joe Able, Lynn Bellamy
and Robert Kincaid Wright Jr.
Graduating with honors were:
Homer L. Denning, Richard S.
Runge, Joe Egai'd Dawson, Sam
Ed Spence, James N. Crouch, Har
ry Max Ohlendorf, John Howard
Strlegler, A r 1 a n d Schneider,
Thomas Paul, John Stough, Mari
on Walton, Leonard Underwood,
Melvin F. Chubb, Thomas E.
Fields, Fehrlin E. Tutt, Johnny
Lockhart, Robert Hawkins, Joe
Randolph, John Sullivan, James
Lea Beaty, James Knox, Thomas
J. Blankenship, Jay Pyle and Rich
ard Jack Hildalgo.
CSC Selects
New Officers
For ’62-63
New members of the ’62-’63 Ci
vilian Student Council met last
Thursday evening in the Memorial
Student Center to elect officers for
the coming year.
Elected to lead next year’s coun
cil were Jeff Harp, president;
Richard Moore, vice president;
Bryan Ralph, corresponding- secre
tary; David Johnson, recording
secretary; Don Packer, treasurer;
and Don Bell, parliamentarian.
At the first meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the new coun
cil, held Wednesday, the new offi
cers discussed policies for creating
a more unified and better informed
civilian student body.
“Proposals for school blazer
jacket and a campus civilian car
wash rack were mentioned at the
meeting,” said Harp, president of
the new council.
Room Keys Must
Be Returned Soon
To Get Refund
The new college policy on room
reservations requires that all room
keys must be turned in by Sept.
1, according to an announcement
from the Housing Office.
In order to receive the key de
posit refund, students who will
not be in summer school must re
turn their key to the Housing Of
fice before leaving school.
The office also announced that
all dormitories not in use for sum
mer school will be locked at 6 p.m.
Saturday.
Code Of
Planned
Organizational plans have be
gun for a Cadet Code of Conduct,
effective for the first time next
year. Cadet Col. of the Corps Bill
Nix announced Wednesday.
The code, to be completed and
printed in August, will be used
as a supplement to the Aggie
Honor Code and Articles of the
Cadet Corps. Its main purpose
will be to standardize Corps of
Cadets practices and policies.
John H. Meyer, ’63 from Hondo,
has been named chairman of the
code committee. He will be assist
ed by seven other chairmen for
various activities, as well as over
30 new seniors who attended the
first organizational meeting of the
group.
According to Nix, the code will
primarily involve privileges and
responsibilities as they apply to
the overall operation of the Corps.
It is hoped that other students,
Conduct
By Corps
especially seniors, will make sug
gestions to the code chairmen and
members before Aug. 1 for the
original drafting of the code. Fol
lowing is a list of code chairmen,
their fields of conduct and their
summer addresses for suggestions
and other correspondence:
Meyer, code chairman. Box 477,
Hondo, Tex.; George A. Wieder-
aenders, mess hall conduct, 2310
Marfa Ave., Dallas; Ed Sartain,
campus conduct, 7019 Eudora
Drive, Dallas;
Kirk Blackard, conduct at public
gatherings and off campus, Route
5, Mt. Pleasant, Tex.; Bill Dun
can, wearing of uniform and civi
lian clothes, 1511 Fulton Ave.,
San Antonio;
Burt Terrill, dorm conduct, 3616
Grape Creek Rd., San Angelo;
George Stokes, recording secre
tary, Route 2, Box 472, Conroe,
Tex.; and Nix, Box 566, Canadian,
Tex.