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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1962
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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.