Sure As Summer
)ale Swindle demonstrates the finer points of watermelon
onsumption ’a la Huckleberry Finn’, while his parents,
lama in and Mrs. William C. Swindle were content to use
he more sophisticated fork and spoon at the Graduate
Iducation Club watermelon feast held in Hensel Park last
ighrt. Dale enjoyed his melon with approximately 50
thers attending.
Jathtuh Is Finally
found For Dance
3
By T. S. HARROVER
Battalion Managing Editor
Ending a bathtub is not as
y as one might suppose, accord-
to Bill Hite, assistant program
ictor.
Especially when you want it
a ‘bathtub gin party’, he said,
e’d scoured the countryside look-
. and had all but given up hope.”
lite needed a tub for the ‘Roar-
20V dance to be held in the
C Monday night. In keeping
a the theme for the dance, he
ded to have a bathtub full of
k— simulated gin, that is.
The only thing we plan to mix
he tub are soft drinks in bottles
ice,” said Hite. He explained
k the tub would be used as a
tainer for the ice to cool the
iks.
ut the problem was, where to
l an old, used bathtub. He had
•died fruitlessly for a week,
i desperation, Hite telephoned
old college classmate, Bruce
nderson To
iead English
-aept. In Fall
%
r. John Q. Anderson, a mem-
of the A&M faculty since 1953,
been named head of the De
ment of English, Dr. Frank
R. Hubert, Dean of Arts and
nces, has announced,
n English professor noted for
research and writings in the
l of American Folklore, Dr.
erson will assume his new
emic post Sept. 1.
e succeeds Dr. Stewart S. Mor-
English department head
|s 1952, who is retiring to mod-
teaching duties. Dr. Morgan
ibeen on the A&M faculty since
)r. Anderson effectively com-
s the two essential qualities
academic leadership in college
universities circles,” Dean Hu-
said. “His teaching record is
i'ES funding. In 1961 he received
Distingiushed Service Award
Teaching upon the selection
T j|t college-wide faculty commit-
^ T/1
Jljis r contributions to the field
icholarship are already note-
hy and his work stands as an
nation to all of us. He is a
pace setter for scholarship
teaching effectiveness.”
.toa native of Wheeler, Texas, Dr..
| Y$l»rson earned his A.B. degree
* 1 $;|939 at Oklahoma State. He
wived his M.A. degree at Lou-
$|a State University in 1948
tyjhis Ph.D. at the University of
’•'■■!h Carolina in 1952.
joined the Texas A&M facul-
lii&i 1953.
Anderson is author of three
-,,|S. . Published this year was
7*isiana Swamp Doctor: The
and Writings of Hem-y Clay
h .s”; “Brokenburn: The Jour-
of Kate Stone, 1861-68”, and
Texas Surgeon in the C.S.A.”
Holiday, a local disc jockery, Holi
day broadcast a plea for a bath
tub several times on his show
yesterday, and within two hours,
Hite had his tub. Mrs. Thurman
Donaldson, 202 Sulphur Springs
Road, donated the tub for use at
the dance.
Happy with his tub, Hite went
on to tell of the dance. It will be
gin at 8:30 p.m. Monday, in the
MSC Ballroom. Admission will be
75(1: for individuals and $1.25 fox-
couples.
“We have booked the ‘Citations’,
a local recording group, to play,”
he said. The band will play both
slow and fast numbers, with maybe
even an occasional “Charleston’
tune.
“This will be the summer’s last,
and we want it to be the best,”
sair Hite. “Everyone who plans to
attend is encouraged to dress in
keeping with the theme, ‘Roaring
20’s’. We’d like to see chemises,
flappers, that sort of thing.”
Hite said that the boys should
come dressed as their favoxdte
character of the period, citing El
liot Ness, A1 Capone, and Dillinger,
among others.
AFTER ARMY CAREER
Aggie Ex Returns
To B&U Position
Walter H. Parsons, Jr., just re
tired as a colonel in the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, has re
turned to his alma mater to as
sume the post of superintendent
of buildings and college utilities.
He graduated from A&M in
1930 with a Bachelor of Science
degree in architectural (structur
al) engineering.
The Parsons family has moved
to the Bryan-College Station area
from El Paso, where he served as
the Center Engineer of the vast
Army Air Defense Center.
This ai'ea is familiar to the Par
sons family for in 1948-51 he
served as Assistant Professor of
Military Science and Tactics and
was the senior officer of the Corps
of Engineers. Also, three of their
five sons have attended the Col
lege.
“Mr. Parsons brings to us a
wealth of professional talent and
will help to build our program of
excellence in the business opera
tions of the college,” said Mr. Tom
D. Cherry, Director of Business
Affairs.
He added that Parsons will de
vote a considerable part of his
time to planning and development
of expansion programs.
The new staff member assumed
his duties in the Office of Physical
Plant on Wednesday. Mr. and
Mrs. Parsons temporarily are re
siding with an older son at 512
Gilchrist.
Pai’sons will carry the immedi
ate responsibility of superintend
ing the buildings and college utili
ties aspects of the physical plant
program.
Parsons’ background in the oil
industry was put to use in 1943-
44 in one of his more interesting
Harrington Named
To Nuclear Board
A&M System Chancellor Tom
Harrington was named recently
as one of Texas’ 15 advisoi-y boai’d
members to assist the Southern
Interstate Nuclear Board.
Fi’ank Norton of Dallas, who is
Texas’ representative on the 15-
state board and chairman of the
Texas Committee on Atomic En
ergy was made chaii-man of the
atomic energy advisory gi’oup.
assignments. He organized and
directed construction of an oil re
finery and approximately 1,000
miles of pipe lines and pump sta
tions in the Yukon Territory, Can
ada, and then organized and di
rected the operation of an even
larger oil operation in the North
west Territory of Canada.
He seiwed with the Seventh U.S.+
Army in Germany in 1951-54, fol
lowing his assignment with the
Military Science Department at
Texas A&M.
Additional seiwice in essentially
military education was given by
Pax-sons in 1956-58 at Fort Leon
ard Wood, Missouri, and then he
became • Director of the Depai't-
ment of Army Snow, Ice and Per
mafrost Reseai’ch Establishment.
The program included reseai’ch
contracts with 12 colleges and uni
versities.
Parsons is a graduate of the
Command and Genex-al Staff Col
lege and the Command Manage
ment School.
Edge LeavingA&M,
To Registrar Post
At Concord College
Milton Edge, who has served in
the Registrar’s Office since 1951,
has accepted the position of Re
gistrar and Director of Institution
al Research for Concord College
in Athens, West Virginia.
Edge plans to leave his post hei’e
Aug. 15 and to leave shortly after-
waxd for Concoi'd.
“Mr. Edge has been a tremend
ous asset to the Registrar’s Of
fice, and I regret to lose him from
this office and the College,” H.
Lloyd Heaton, A&M’s Director of
Admissions and Registrar, said.
“With him goes our very best wish
es in his new assignment at Con-
coi'd College.”
The appointment of Edge was
announced at Athens by President
Joseph F. Marsh of Concord Col
lege.
The West Virginia educational
institution is a state-supported
college with an enrollment of ap
proximately 1,600 students. Its
special emphasis is in the field of
teacher training.
WALTER H. PARSONS
... new B&U chief
VPI Prof To
Head Graduate
State Institute
The appointment of the Associ
ate Dii’ector of the New Gi’adu-
ate Institute of Statistics has been
announced.
Dr. Rudolf J. Freund of the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute faculty
will assume his new duties Sept.
1. He will serve as Associate Pim-
fessor of Statistics, as well as as
sociate director of the Gi'aduate
Institute.
It is planned to appoint the di
rector during the academic year
1962-63, Dean of Graduate Studies
Wayne C. Hall said. Administi'a-
tively the Graduate Institute will
report to President Earl Rudder
through the Dean of Graduate
Studies.
The new px-ogram will have, a-
mong its several objectives, the
consolidation of existing courses
in statistics and the establishment
of a sequence of courses which will
enable students to either major or
minor in statistics at the Master’s
and Ph.D. degree levels.
Statistics is an applied mathe
matical science necessary in many
undergraduate programs and is es
sential to the development of quali
ty graduate programs in the en
gineering, agricultural, biological,
physical and the social sciences.
The concept of statistics is also
needed in the planning, designing,
execution and valuation of ex
periments. Statistics as such im
pinges upon all contemporary re
search and plays an increasingly
important role in the field of space
sciencing and engineering.
The Graduate Institute of Sta
tistics will be the first of its type
in Texas.
TO HEAD TEXANA ’ COLLECTION
DuBeau Named System Information
Head As Shuffler Leaves For UT
Normand DuBeau has been ap
pointed Director of Information
and Publications for the A&M Col
lege System, effective Sept. 1,
1962.
DuBeau, a veteran newspaper
man and magazine writer who has
been with the A&M System for a
year, will fill the position vacated
by R. Hendei’son Shuffler, who has
x’esigned to accept a position with
the University of Texas as head
of the new Texana Program which
deals with the history and culture
of the State.
A native of Connecticut, Du
Beau did his undergraduate woi’k
in bacteidology and chemistry at
the University of Connecticut and
also received his Bachelor of Jour
nalism and Master of Ai-ts degi’ees
from the Univei'sity of Missouri.
He has been an editor in the
Institutional Publicity Department
of the General Electric Co., Sche
nectady, N.Y., and a reporter and
columnist for both the Richmond
(Va.) News Leader and The New
York Times.
During World War II, he served
in the Office of War Information,
Overseas Division, as editor of-the
Moscow Desk and was assigned to
HENDERSON SHUFFLER
... to UT position
NORMAND DUBEAU
... takes System post
the information staff of Ambassa
dor W. Averell Harriman.
After the war, he was with the
Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimitar
for five years, as copy editor and
later as financial editor.
Prior to joining the staff of the
A&M System in 1961, he served
for 6% years as Southwest Editor
for Business Week Magazine,
headquartered in Houston, and
covered stories tanging over much
of North America.
Chancellor Harrington has stat
ed: “The System is fortunate to
have a person of Mr. DuBeau’s
qualifications for this position. His
broad experience, particularly as a
writer of technical stories about
science and engineering, and his
familiarity with the significance
of developments in these fields to
business and industry will be of
great benefit to the A&M System
in meeting its responsibility to the
State.”
At the University of Texas,
Shuffler will be assigned to broad
en the scope and use of the
school’s numerous collections re
lated to Texas.
University Chancellor Harry
Ransom said:
“The Texana Program in the
University of Texas System will
encompass the history of Texas
business, education, medicine, re
ligion and publications. It will in
clude scientific materials as well
as the records of economic re-
(See DUBEAU on Page 4)
Wainerdi New
Associate Dean
Of Engineering
Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi has
been named associate dean of en
gineering, Fred J. Benson, dean of
engineering, has announced.
Wainerdi, who has been assist
ant to the engineering dean since
1959, succeeds Prof. Charles Craw
ford who will retire as associate
dean Aug. 31, to devote his efforts
teaching mechanical engineering.
Crawford has been on the A&M
faculty since 1919.
Benson said Wainerdi will also
continue as head of the Activation
Analysis Research Laboratory, a
facility of the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station.
Wainerdi came to A&M in 1957
as an associate professor of nu
clear and petroleum engineering.
Previously he was co-ordinator of
nuclear activities for Dresser In-
Sabin Polio
Vaccine To Be
Given Sunday
Bryan and College Station will
try to match the records of other
Texas cities this Sunday as it
passes out the Sabin Oral polio
vaccine to residents of the area.
A&M personnel and students will
probably want to use the station
loated in the A&M Consolidated
School Cafeteria. It, like the others,
will be open from 1 to 6.
The vaccine drives are designat
ed to “KO Polio” in three steps.
The first used in most places and
planned for use here will defend
against Type 1 polio, the most
serious type because of the result
ing paralysis.
Dates for the second and third
drives in this area have not been
announced.
Local members of the American
Medical Association, as well as
other civic groups are sponsoring
the campaign in the Bryan-Col
lege Station area. The vaccine will
be available at all elementary
schools in Brazos County.
Friday night, civic club volun
teers will make a house-to-house
campaign with registration forms
on which information about the
family must be written in order
to receive the vaccine. Persons
who do not have the form at the
time of the canvass will be re
quired to complete it on the day
of the drive.
dustries, Dallas. Last year he was
named professor of Engineering
Science.
A native of New York City, he
was graduated in 1952 from the
University of Oklahoma, with dis
tinction, receiving a B.S. degree
in petroleum engineering.
He earned his M.S. degree in
engineering from Pennsylvania
State University in 1955 and his
Ph.D. from Penn State in 1958.
He was one of a few graduate
students selected in 1954 to attend
the radioisotope handling course at
the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Studies. The following year he
attended the Oak Ridge School of
Reactor Technology, sponsored by
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Last year he was co-director of
the International Conference on
Activation Analysis, which at
tracted scientists from 16 nations
to the A&M campus.
A Registered Professional Engi
neer, Wainerdi is a member of the
American Nuclear Society, the So
ciety of Nuclear Medicine, and a
member of honor societies.
After graduation from Okla
homa University, he was a petro
leum engineer with Shell Oil Co.
before going on active duty with
the Air Force as an armament
systems officer.
Aero Department
Gets A New Title
Beginning In Fall
A&M’s Department of Aero
nautical Engineering will officially
become the Department of Aero
space Engineering on Sept. 1, Fred
J. Benson, dean of engineering, has
announced.
The new designation, which re
cognizes the broader scope of this
aspect of engineering in the space
age, has been formally approved
by the Texas Commission on High
er Education, Dean Benson said.
Alfred E. Cronk, professor and
head of the department, said there
are now approximately 240 stu
dents majoring in this field of en
gineering at A&M.
Aeronautical engineering has
been a part of the engineering cur
riculum at A&M since 1940. In re
cent years, more emphasis has
been placed on the aerodynamics,
structures and propulsion of mis-
and space craft as well as aircraft
as industry moved in this direction.
Tyler Beauty, Tyler Roses
Miss Cindy Lu Price of Tyler is shown helping- herself to
an armful of roses in one of the numerous fields that sur
round that East Texas city. In honor of its huge rose
industry, Tyler will conduct its 25th Texas Rose Festival,
Oct. 19-21. The rose field shown is located just west of
Tyler and rests almost in the shadow of a brand new oil
well. (AP Photo)