The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 14, 1962, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 14, 1962, Image 1

Newspaper Page Textn 'j rete ! K Wor, f- Di. le Dt; inetri; Paul \ )lds! vas a Volume 60 inia^— 'he* The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1962 Number 12$ 1 jMlKg TICKET-SELLERS FOR SPECTACLE •girls sell ducats for Kyle Field observance Rightly Centennial Event si To Be Staged On Kyle Field Enrollment Increase Continues Upswing Summer Up 228 Total Students Registration for the first term of the Summer Session at A&M continued the College’s trend of increased enroll ment compared with the previous year. Enrollment for the first term of the Summer Session was reported recently by the Registrar as totaling 2,722 students, an increase of 228 students over the comparable period a year ago. Summer term classes began Tuesday, June 5, but regis tration continued until Thursday, June 7. The total figure includes 168 students enrolled in the Adjunct program at Junction, and 203 women students on the main campus. ^ The sessions at the Adjunct run concurrently with the terms on the main campus and the figure given is for the first session only. Bryan-Hood’s Brigade Centen- al Week, June 23-30, will bring merous visitors to the A&M mpus to witness The spectacle be staged in Kyle Field on the st five days of that week. The spectacle, under the direc- an of Monte Fiore, of Centennial sadquarters, will include in its ogram the presentation and owning of the Centennial Queen, . Historical Pageant and a re- actment of the Hood’s Brigade counter with Union forces own as the Battle of Gaines’ 11. The Queen and her court will the winners of the contest of ectacle ticket sales. The girl lling the greatest number of fleets will be crowned “Queen of —"i Centennial” nightly, June 25- jf-irhe Historical Pageant will de- ^•t various stages of develop- .Jrnt from the “Indians to pres- Wt,” said Fiore. “We will at- s|f npt to recreate scenes as they " re when Indians roamed the Ja, during the Civil War, the I hip Will Be famed After i. V. Alaminos 00 |Vn early-day explorer of the j„ s hv World will be honored when :M’s new oceanography vessel ;s Ito sea next year. - /he 180-foot oceanographic re- f Trch vessel will be known as the T V. Alaminos” in honor of An- . de Alaminos who accompanied lurnbus, and later Cordova and rtez on expeditions to New lin between 1499 and 1519. Suggesting the name “Alami- . s” was Miss Ester Sell, research jL istant at the A&M Marine Lab- fa.tory at Fort Crockett near Gal- ;j;;«ton. She submitted the name 3™a contest conducted by the De- Wrtment of Oceanography and !$teorology. ;Jfhe freight-type vessel is being Inverted and refitted as an planographic research ship under $$875,000 National Science Foun- ;*$ion grant to the A&M Kesearch ndation. t is expected to be ready for re- ^/jrch voyages in mid-1963. hen renovation and refitting the former Army freight ship completed, the vessel will be of the best scientifically tipped ships available for edu- ional research. It will replace smaller R.V. Hidalgo currently ^/iig used by A&M oceanograph- Indian Campaigns, the turn of the century, the first World War, the ‘roaring twenties,” the second World War, right up to the twist,” he said. The mock battle will recreate the most notable skirmish in the history of Hood’s Brigade, the famed ‘Texas Volunteer’ unit. Ap proximately 30 ‘soldiers’ will par ticipate in the event, according to Fiore. Hood’s Brigade was composed of Texans who volunteered for serv ice and went to Virginia for train ing. At the time they arrived in Virginia, Col. Hood, a friend of Jeff Davis, was given command, thus giving the unit its name. After the war, the unit was dis banded, but a headquarters was set up and maintained in Bryan for the purpose of maintaining the unit recoi’ds and holding re unions, Fiore said. “We would like for thirty Ag gies to volunteer to help stage this battle,” said Fiore. “We need men who know a little about drill and tactics, and who can handle a rifle with blank ammunition. We don’t plan to have any conjplex maneu vers, but some knowledge of this type will prove helpful,” he said. Uniforms, both Union and Con federate, will be furnished by the Centennial Headquarters, said Fiore. Two one-hour practice pe riods will be held prior to the first performance, he added. It was stressed by Fiore that only students who can spare the necessary time should apply. “In addition to the five nightly battles, there are practice periods, and we don’t want to interfere with students’ study time,” he said. Aggies interested in fighting the Civil War over again may get more information by contacting Centennial Headquarters at TA 2- 1862 or Alton Bowen, Superintend ent of schools, TA 2-2225, or VI 6-8676 evenings. Weekly Dancing Series Underway Monday night saw the first of the weekly dances scheduled by the MSC Summer Dance Commit tee. The dance, held in the MSC Ball room, lasted from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Music was provided by a group called “Pruitt’s Quartet.” They played everything from slow music, to ‘twist,’ to Charleston, ac cording to Bill Hite of MSC Stu dent Programs. “We have two musical groups which will play at our dances,” Hite said. “There’s Pruitt’s group and we also have Dick Baldauf’s Combo.” Hite said that the two bands will alternate weekly appearances. Pruitt’s band played last Monday and Baldauf’s Combo will play next Monday. They will alternate this way until the 20th of August, the night of the last scheduled dance of the series, according to Hite. “Most of our dances will be held in the MSC Ballroom, but occasionally, we will be moved to the Assembly room, when another group has reserved the Ballroom,” said Hite. “But,” he continued, “no matter where it is, we plan to' hold a dance every Monday night through August 20, even on July 16, the day of registration for the second semester.” Each dance is scheduled to be gin at 8:30 and last until 11:30 p.m., according to Hite. Admis sion to the dances is fifty cents per person and refreshments are available, he said. The coeds attend classes as any students, but with the exception of those married to Aggies, are not housed in college dorms or apart ments. Last year coeds desiring to live in a college dormitory were housed in Henderson Hall, the air-condi tioned, carpeted athletic dorm; however, no coeds reside on cam pus this year. The enrollment trend has been one of increase in recent years and A&M ehrollment for the fall and spring semesters of the 1961-62 year was higher than it has been since the initial influx of World War II veterans attending under the GI Bill immediately after the war. The increase continues in spite of recent toughening of admission policies at the College. Only those students who are in the upper three-fourths of their graduating class may be admitted without en trance exams. Those high school graduates who are in the lowest quarter of their class are admitted only upon demonstration of their ability to do college work by a bat tery of tests. Of the enrollment trend, presi dent Earl Rudder said, “This indi cates that as we move toward pro grams of excellence at A&M, we need not fear losses in enrollment.” The increase indicates that en rollment for next fall will also rise over the previous year. The fall of 1961 saw an enrollment of 7,694. At that time, all available rooms were filled to capacity and 300 I'ooms had more than the usual 2 students per room. Stat Degree Program Set For Grads A&M will offer graduate degree programs in statistics, beginning- in September, to meet growing- educational, research and indus trial needs in Texas. Approval of the new degree programs has been given by the Texas Commission on Higher Education. The Master of Science and Doc tor of Philosophy degrees in sta tistics will be offered, Dean Wayne C. Hall of Graduate School said. A Graduate Institute of Statis tics—the first of its type in Texas —will be established with all course work in statstics to be or ganized within the institute. Se lection of a director is expected to be announced shortly. ‘A&M long has offered both un dergraduate and graduate work in statistics, which is an applied mathematical science. The new degree programs and related plans will bring together all such work. Six departments presently offer courses in statistics. The new institute will provide consultation with other depart ments on teaching and research problems involving the design of experiments and the interpreta tion of data. Research programs in the field of applied statistics also will be initiated by the new institute. The working relationship be tween the institute and the Data Processing Center, which is one of the outstanding such center-s on an American campus, is expected to be close. The Texas Commis sion on Higher Education had pre viously authorized the Master of Science degree program in Com puter Science at A&M. The two programs will be mutually bene ficial and complementary. PLAY AUDITIONS UNDERWAY These are only several of the many students who partici pated in the initial rehearsal for “Anything Goes,” the summer presentation of the A&M summer entertainment committee. The operetta will be staged in Guion Hall July 12-13. (Photo by Ronnie Fann) Data Adds Processing Tape System STUDENTS ENJOY FIRST DANCE .weekly series to continue through summer Installation of an additional computer tape system in the Data Processing Center has quadrupled the speed of mag-netic tape com puting capabilities here. Addition of the IBM 1401 — a tape oriented, completely transis torized computer with 4,000 digit storage capacity — permits the Data Processing Center to increase capabilities of its IBM 709, said Robert L. Smith Jr., head of the multi-million dollar computer cen ter. “It speeds up our input and out put of magnetic tapes by a factor of four to one,” he commented, adding that satellite equipment for the 1401 vastly increases the efficiency of the 709’s capabilities. Since its establishment in 1958, the Data Processing Center, oper ated by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, has become a focal-point of activity for both education and research. It is packed with high speed computers and related equipment that is valued at more than $4 million. Only three other schools have comparable facilities — Mas sachusetts Institute of Technolo gy, the University of California and the University of Washing ton. In addition to the IBM 709 and the newly-installed IBM 1401, the center also has a $250,000 DYS- TAC analog computer that is highly important to meteorological research on campus. While it does work for virtually every research department at A&M, the center is also kept busy with computing projects contract ed through the Texas Engineering Experiment Station by public util ities, the petroleum industry and the federal government. Some 40 full-time employees are required for operation of the Cen tex-—key punch operators who pex-- forate the cards used in program ming the woi*k of computers, pro- gx-ammers, tabulating equipment, operators, computer specialists and supervisory personnel. Star performer of the Center is the 709 that consists of 21 units capable of x-eading and writing at a rate of 15,000 chax-acters per second. Simultaneously it com putes information at the rate of 40,000 ax-ithmetical operations per second. The IBM 1401 will be used ex tensively in industrial engineering courses in data processing, espe cially for the xxew graduate pro gram in Computer Sciences just established here. Along with the addition of the 1401 data processing system is the 1402 Cax-d Reader and Punch. It can punch cards at a x-ate of 250 cards per minute or two and a half times any previous machine here. It reads information more than three times faster than what was used px-eviously, Smith said. The 1403 Printer will -make in formation available four times faster, planting 600 lines per min ute with 132 characters per line, he added. NSF Grant Will Develop Math Models A National Science Foundation grant to develop mathematical models that desex-ibe the opera tion of actual distillation columns in petx-o-chemical plants has been made to Di\ C. D. Holland, pro fessor of chemical engineexang. Made thx-ough the A&M Re search Foundation, the $14,000 NSF grant is for x-esearch on “Convergence Methods for Distil lation Calculations.” The project is a continuation of research supported by the Humble Oil & Refining Co. and Esso Re search and Engineering Co. to seek the best mathematical models pos sible using the best data available. Long range applications of this type of reseaxxh include making of more exotic x-ocket fuels, gaso line and other chemicals through out the petx-oleum and chemical industries. Other NSF px-ojects directed by Holland include development of convergence methods for distilla tion units containing recycling streams (under a $6,300 gx-ant), and studying the fundamentals in volved in rate of transfer of ma terials between vapor and liquid gases (under a $27,700 grant). Gx-aduate studexxts working on these research projects include D. L. Taylor, R. C. Waggoner, Park Davis II, J. M. Srygley, G. B. Stiles and B. W. Hardy, all of College Station.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 14, 1962, Image 1

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