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Page 6 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, August 23, 1962 ■PROMOTE UNITY' Civilian. Students Have Own Connell Civilian students at A&M are not without representation in the management of affairs of stu dents. The Civilian Student Coun cil, elected annually by students not in the Corps, is a potent force in a growing A&M. The Council was established to promote unity of the civilian stu dents, encourage greater partici pation, and to encourage closer cooperation between the civilian and military student groups. Its objectives, listed in the coun cil constitution, are: 1) Promote student pride and morals 2) Improve unity among civil ian students 3) Improve communications 4) Encourage civilian strident participation in intramurals 5) Increase mutual aid 6) Plan social functions and recreation i 7) Place pictures in the Aggie- land 8) Better representation in stu dent government 9) Entertain guests 10) Improve coordination be tween civilian students and the Corps of Cadets. The council consists of 22 mem bers. One member is selected from each of the nine civilian dormitories, two from College View apartments, one from the Project House area, two represen tatives of Day Students, one from from each of the four undergrad uate classes, one representative from fifth year or above and grad uate students, Civilian Chaplain, a reported from The Battalion, and one representative of the Corps of Cadets. Each member of the council, ex cepting the class of ’66 represen tative, was elected at the close of the last school year. Officers of the council for this year are Jeff Harp, president; Richard Moore, vice president; corresponding secretary, Bryan Ralph; recording secretary, David Johnson; treasurer, Don Packer; parliamentarian, Don Bell. Among its projects for the com ing yeax-, the CSC plans to pro mote adoption of an official blazer to distinguish the civilian student of A&M. According to treasurer Don Packer, the idea of a jacket of this type is not new at A&M, but the difficulty of finding an accept able design has previously hind ered the project. “Suitable maroon material has also been a problem,” he said. JOSEPH BUSER . . . joins College Information Former Battalion Editor Gets Collegie Information Post Former Battalion Editor Joseph J. Buser has joined the staff of the Department of Information and Publications here. Buser was graduated from A&M in 1959 with a BA in Liberal Aids. For the past three years he has served as an information officer with the U. S. Air Force in New foundland. A native of Arp, Texas, Buser has written for several Texas news papers including the Hondo Anvil .Herald, the Liberty Vindicator, the Seguin Enterprise, the Wichita Falls Record-News and the Beau mont Enterprise. In the Air Force, he was officer- in-charge of an Armed Forces I'adio and television station in ad dition to public relations duties. He also served as a part-time instx-uc- tor in public relations for the United States Armed Forces In stitute. While at A&M, he was editor of The Battalion in 1958-59, a Cadet Lt. Colonel on the Corps Staff and elected to Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges. JEFF HARP . CSC president WILLARD STRODE . . new in Architecture Former Kansas Professor Accepts Architecture Post Appointment of Willai’d Sti’ode, of Architecture, among other pi'o- architeptural engineei% as profes- fessional organizations, sor of architecture, as been an nounced by Theo Holleman, head of the Division of Ax-chitectux-e. Strode, who is chairman of the architectural engineering division of the American Society for Engi neering Education, is coming to A&M from the University of Kansas. An expex-ienced architectural en gineer who has done considerable research in she 1 ! structures and plywood hyperbo la paraboloid lat tice structures, Strode will teach and conduct graduate research in structures, Holleman said. Masters Degree Strode holds’a master of archi-. tectural engineering degree fx-om Iowa State University and a bach elor of architecture degree from A&M. A native of McKinney, Tex., Stx-ode has been involved in some phase of the building industry since 1936. He spent seven years doing overseas construction in Aruba, Netherlands East Indies, and in the Republic of Panama. He was associated with a Bryan ax’chitectural fii'm before joining the Kansas faculty in 1955. He is co-author of several pub lications on design, construction and testing of plywood hyperbolic paraboloid lattice structure and single layer plywood monkey sad dle bell construction, in addition to authoring magazine articles on similar subjects. Strode is a member of the Tau Sigma Delta and Scarab architec tural honorax-y societies, Tau Beta Pi, engineering honorary, and Phi Kappa Phi, acadmic honorary. He holds memberships in the National Society of Professional Engineers, Association of Collegiate Schools Aggie-Ex To Head AF Flight Safety Agent] A Texas Aggie of the Class of 1940 and World War II cice fighter pilot, Jay T. Robbins, has been named director of flight safety for the Air Force and promoted to brigadier general. Robbins has reported to Norton Air Force Base, San Bernai’dino, Calif., to assume the Pentagon- level assignment. He began his new duties following a year at the National War College. Robbins became one of Amex 1 - ica’s all-time great fighter pilots while flying 181 missions in the Pacific Theatre duidng 1942-1944. His exploits won for him the Dis tinguished Service Cross with one oak leaf cluster and other honors. Service in the Tactical, Conti nental, Air Defense, and Head quarters Commands of the Ah- Force has been completed by Rob bins since 1944. He commanded + the 10th Tactical Fighter Wing, an Air Force unit under NATO, be fore going to the National War College. SHOP OUR COM] NEW STOCK BACK -TO-SCHOOL JOY CEt 608 S. College U m K u: SHAFFERS Advertisemeij section re: Page One : : Shaffer’s will be opes / CHURCH SUNDAY Si (Not 15) Rudder To Chair Amarillo Seminar President Eaxd Rudder will be chairman of a session at the Nu clear-Space Seminar slated Aug. 27-'28 at Amarillo. Also on the program for A&M will be Dr. A. D. Suttle, vice-presi dent fox" research, and Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice-chancellor for de- velopxxient, A&M System. Rudder will chair the space sex- begins at 9 a.m. jnicipal Auditorium, scene of the-conference that is be ing held in connection with Amaril lo’s 75th anniversary observance. Suttle will speak at a luncheon held during the nuclear science seminar Aug. 27. 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