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■ Volume 6
The Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1962
Number 128
Summer ‘Aggie’ Hits Books
\ jlanet Darrow, who is just a summer Aggie, being a regular
• :udent at the University of Texas, hits the books this week
—■> prep for the finals coming up tomorrow. Janet’s father,
r. Robert Darrow, is a full-time Aggie, a professor in the
epartment of Range and Forestry.
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Firemen
For School
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.pproximately 1,700 firemen
expected to register for the
1 Annual Texas Firemen’s
ining School to begin here July
Chief Henry D. Smith of the
men training program has an-
nced. The training school will
held through July 27.
Imith indicated that there will
thi’ee highlights for this year’s
ining school. The basic fire-
iting course which includes the
ning and extinguishing of a
i-room furnished house, train-
in . sprinkler systems opera-
s, and training in all types of
extinguishers; the advanced
fighting course which empha-
s petroleum fires; and the in-
;rial firefighting course to con-
irate on actual fire fighting of
istrial fires.
he delegate firemen are en-
ed in fire prevention, control
safety for municipalities, in-
ries, and armed services,
mtyi states and 425 cities will
represented. Smith indicated,
he training school is conducted
260 experienced instructors
e available by municipalities, |
istries, manufacturers, state
federal agencies, and armed
services. Equipment and supplies
will be loaned or donated.
Thirteen separate 30-hour train
ing courses will be offered, Smith
announce^!. Completion of the
course with a grade of 70 or bet
ter will result in a certificate for
the department and the fireman,
he added.
Key rate insurance credit is
given to Texas cities and towns
for attendance and successful
completion of the required course
by respective firemen. Credits
range from three to five per cent
depending upon the number of
firemen in attendance.
The 1,700 firemen will be housed
in the cadet dormitories located
in the north section of the campus.
Feeding facilities will be provided
by Sbisa Dining Hall.
The training school, under the
auspices of the State Firemen’s
and Fire Marshals’ Association of
Texas, is conducted by the Engi
neering Extension Service coop
erating with the Industrial Edu
cation Division of the Texas Edu
cation Agency.
Gigantic Grant Received
To Form. Research Chair
FOURTH ANNUAL
H.S. Workshop
Begins Sunday
Registration for over 300 high
school students and teachers will
begin Sunday, July 15 at 3 p.m.
for the fourth anuual A&M High
School Journalism Workshop, Del
bert McGuire, workshop director
and head of the Department of
Journalism, announced yesterday.
Through Wednesday the regis
tration had reached 303.
The Workshop, largest single
week conference of its kind in the
nation, is designed to aid both
students and advisors of high
school newspapers and yearbooks
in basic rudiments and advanced
techniques of publication w 7 ork.
During the 5-day program, stu
dents will gather, edit and write
news for the Sweatshopper, a
mimeograph newspaper. They
will use color for the first time
in the mimeograph paper.
At the same time another group
of students will put out a letter-
press newspaper called the Work-
shopper. The A&M Press will
print the paper. The students vcill
write, edit and layout the news.
Since sorpe high schools have
mimeograph and lettei'press news
papers, these two papers have
been devised. The students will
work on the type of newspaper
they have at home.
Still another group of students
will work on and produce the
Summertime ’62, a complete year
book of the 5-day Workshop. The
staff will layout the book, take
pictures and write the cutlines.
Their goal ;'is to finish the year
book before the program is over
Friday morning.
The newspaper students 'will
practice writing all types of stor
ies—general news, features, sports
and club and organizational news.
They will also be taught about
advertising and editing plus pro
duce the newspapers.
Photographers will be set into
two classes-—beginners and ad
vanced—and will take pictures for
the two newspapers and the year
book.
President Earl Rudder will wel
come the delegates to the Work
shop on Monday morning at the
first general session held in the
Chemistry Building.
A dance will be held at the
Memorial Student Center Monday
night. Nominations will be made
for Miss Summertime ’62 Monday
at the dance and she will be
crowned at another dance Thurs
day night.
Three major speakers will be
at the Workshop, according to Mc
Guire.
Paul Swensson, director of the
Newspaper Fund, Inc., of New
York City, will speak on a career
in journalism. Walter Humphrey,
editor of the Fort Worth Press,
will talk on a “Newspaperman’s
Love Affair.” Dr. Max Haddick,
director of the Interscholastic
League Press Association of Aus
tin. will speak on high school
newspapers.
Humphrey will close out the
Workshop by presenting awards
after his speech on Friday morn
ing.
ROBERT L. BOONE
. . . play co-director
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BILLIE JEAN BARRON
.. . assists Boone
‘Anything Goes’
Sta rts Ton igh t
The summer presentation of the
MSC Entertainment Committee
will be staged Thursday and Fri
day nights at 8 in Guion Hall.
Co-directors Robert L. Boone
and Billie Jean Barron are pre
senting “Anything Goes,” an adap-
tattress
overs Due
regis-
the
Students who will not
for a dormitory room
ond six weeks of summer
ool, including graduating sen-
3, must turn in their mattress
ers before the end of the
st summer term, Harry L.
yer, housing manager, an-
inced today.
Covers will be turned in to
B&LT warehouse beginning
once. Turn-in should be com-
ted by July 13.
All students who will not at-
Jd the second term of summer
ool should turn in their room
ns before leaving the campus,
they fail to do this, they will
e their $1 refund.
inul Exam
Schedule
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fyyinal exam schedule for the
;$>t six weeks of summer school
$jl be as follows:
$j)n Thursday, July 12, at 7
l S;i;]i. will be the time for classes
feting from 1-2:30 p.m.
Friday, July 13, at 7 a.m.
be exam time for classes
/Jeting from 7-8:30 a.m. At
a.m. will be exam time for
sses meeting from 9-10:30
t. At 2 p.m. will be exam
e for classes meeting from
12:30 p.m.
tation of the play written by Cole
Porter.
A cast of 60, including an 18-
piece orchestra, has been rehears
ing for the presentation since the
beginning of summer school.
The story sees a New York
stockbroker, Bill Crocker, meet an
old sweetheart while seeing his
boss off on a boat to Europe.
Crocker accompanies his sweet
heart on the boat—as a stowaway
—and ends up ip Reno, the U.S.
divorce center.
Playing lead roles in the pre
sentation are Jim Austin, as
Crocker; Angie Harrison, Reno
Sweeny; Moonface Martin, Bill
Hite; Hope Harcort, Sally Wynn;
and Evelyn Oakleigh, Bill Dansby.
Admission prices are 75 cents
for adults, 25 cents for children
and no charge for holders of stu
dent activity cards.
Aggies At Summer Camp
A group of Army ROTC cadets are receiv- camp. These Aggies are a part of the 1,500
ing instruction on the 106 Recoiless Rifle, men attending the training camp at Ft. Sill,
while attending the QMS ROTC summer Okla. (U. S. Army Photo)
Commission
Defers Study
Of A&M Coeds
The latest plea for admission of
women to A&M was deferred until
October by the State Commission
on Higher Education in a regular
quarterly meeting in Austin Mon
day.
Members of the commission are
considering the coed question after
a woman member of the group
asked for the consideration at a
soring meeting.
The commission deferred Mon
day’s study to “have further time
to study the question.”
A&M also received approval for
graduate degrees in general engi
neering at the masters and doc
toral level at the Monday meeting.
The programs will go into ef
fect this September with the be
ginning of the fall semester.
Work Scheduled
In Chemistry
A $650,000 grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation
has been accepted by the Board of Directors to establish a
chair for research.
President Earl Rudder said income from the grant will
be used to endow a professorship known as the “Robert A.
Welch Chair of Chemistry.”
“It is with great pride that we at A&M accept this
generous gift from the Robert A. Welch Foundation,” Rud
der said. “This endowment will enable A&M to enhance its
programs of excellence in science.”
Established by the will of Robert Alonzo Welch, a Hous
ton philanthropist, in 1952, the foundation has now approved
a total of more than $8.6 mil-'* 1
lion to foster and encourage
fundamental research in
chemistry in Texas.
“The Robert A. Welch
Chair in Chemistry” for which this
endowment is made will be per
petual and actively maintained by
A&M permanently, according to
foundation trustees.
The trustees are Daniel R. Bul
lard, chairman of board of direc
tors of the Mound Company^ Wil
fred T. Doherty, Mound Company
president; Lester Settegast, gen
eral counsel for the company; and
Rogert J. Wolfe, president of
Wolfe Oil and Gas Company.
The A&M Department of Chem
istry has long been in integral part
of scientific education at the col
lege, oldest state-supported insti
tution of higher learning in Texas.
It currently has 21 full-time
faculty members who haveYeceived
their formal education in 34 dif
ferent academic institutions. They
are assisted by 38 graduate stu
dents and post-doctoral fellows.
Also within the department is the
Chemical Thermodynamic Proper
ties Center, sponsored by the Ame-
ican Petroleum Institute and the
Manufactui’ing Chemist Associa
tion. The center is devoted to re
search studies leading to best or
critical data on “key” compounds.
Arlington
Classrooms
Integrated
The A&M System announced
plans late Tuesday to integrate
classrooms at Arlington State
College, beginning with the open
ing of the fall semester next Sep
tember.
Under the plan Arlington will
become the first school in the vast
A&M System to integrate.
Dr. J. R. Wolf, president of the
college, said the action came after
the school asked the System Board
of Directors to specifically con
sider integration at the school.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor
of the System, said the ruling for
Arlington had no effect on A&M
or any otlrer schools in the Sys
tem.-
Harrington added that any other
school in the System desiring in
tegration would first have to ask
for consideration from the direc
tors as Arlington did.
The Arlington school, which only
recently became a four-year col
lege, is located between Dallas and
Fort Worth
Whitmore Named
NASA Coordinator
Dr. Frank C. Whitmore has been
named Coordinator for • National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration Affairs and Programs at
A&M, President Earl Rudder has
announced.
Whitmore, a research physicist,
has returned to A&M from Pasa
dena, Calif., where he was as
sociated with the physics division
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology.
He formerly was on the physics
faculty.
Chief purpose of the new post
is to assist in setting up academic
and research programs helpful to
the needs of NASA, Rudder said.
The NASA Coordinator’s Office
will be administered under the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station.
“We are very pleased to have
Dr. Whitmore back on the staff
so that we may benefit from his
experience in space-related re
search programs,” Rudder said.
“His duties will include assist
ing members of the faculty and
staff in any way possible to ex
plore areas of interest to NASA
leading to research proposals and
projects,” he added. All»faculty
and research staff members in
terested in developing possible
NASA projects should see Whit
more.
A native of Baltimore, Md.,
Whitmore has an A.B. degree from
Gettysburg College and an M.S.
degree in physics at the Univer-
1 sity of Delaware. He came to
A&M in 1951 and received his doc
torate in physics here in 1960.
During World War II he served
with the Marine Corps on Guam,
Okinawa and in China.
Marshall Plan Scholarships
Now Available For 1963-65
Details concerning the Marshall
Scholarships program for 1963-
65 now are available at the office
of the Dean of the Graduate School
The program provides for two
years of study for degrees at Bri
tish universities.
Applications for scholarships
for tenure commencing in October
of 1963 must be received not later
than Oct. 22, 1962.
The British Government estab
lished the Marshall Scholarships in
1953, as a gesture of thanks for
Marshall Plan Aid.
The program enables 24 Ameri
can graduates to study in a wide
range of subjects including the sci
ences and the humanities. Each
award has a basic value of 550
British pounds a year*, plus fares
and tuition fees.
Further details may be obtained
at the office of the Graduate
School dean.