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37 Ags Selected
For ‘Who’s Who ’
Thirty-seven A&M students have been accepted by
‘Who’s Who Among Students In American Colleges And
Universities,” according to Dean of Students James P. Han-
tiigan.
Selected to appear in the national publication honoring
outstanding collegians are:
Gary Leroy Balser, William Thomas Barnhart Jr., Shel
don Joseph Best, Fred Kirkland Blackard, Charles Louis
Rlaschke,, Gene Frank Brossman, James David Carnes, James
ward Carter and Robert Bedford Carter.
Also honored were: Warren Marcus Dillard, Victor Lee
Donnell, James Alfa Dotson, James William Fadal, Ben Earl
Johnston, Claude Randol Jones, James Lewis Keller, John
Phillip Krebs, John Lloyd Kuykendall, Jerry Bryan Lincecum,
Russell James Martin, Joe T. McKnight, John Henry Meyer
Jr., William Dale Nix Jr. and Harry Alan Payne.
Others chosen were: John Lewis Penrod, Bobby Ray
Quisenberry, James Edwin Ray, Arthur Reginald Richardson,
James Edward Sartain, Dan Murray Scarborough, Thomas
Euclid Smith, Charles Bryan Stuckey, Frank Marion Town
send, Carlos Vela Jr., George Arnold Wiederaenders, John
David Winningham and Melvin Chester Young.
These students were chosen by the “Who’s Who Commit
tee from nominations received from faculty, student body and
the committee.
Serving on the committee were:
Dean W. J. Graff, chairman; Dean Frank W. Hubert
of the school of Arts and Sciences; Joe E. Davis, comman
dant; Bennie A. Zinn, director of the student affairs depart
ment; Corps Commander William Nix; Sheldon Best, pres
ident of the student body; Richard Moore, vice president of
the Civilian Student Council, Jeff Harp, president of the
Civilian Student Council; and James Ray, president, Memor
ial Student Center Council.
While the criteria for this distinction includes many
factors such as leadership, contribution to the school, and
activities, by far the most important is scholastic standing.
“A student must be in the top bracket gradepoint-wise
|to even be looked at,” said Hannigan.
Hannigan reported that seniors and juniors were eligible
hit juniors usually waited in order to build qualifications.
He also thanked the entire committee for their effort in
coming up with the final selections.
“It’s a tremendous job to decide on just 37 students with
a student body as large as we have,” he said.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
LONDON — An authoritative
British naval journal reported
Tuesday the Soviet Union has 30
tnissi 1 e-launching- submarines—-
twice as many as the United
States.
But the figures given by Jane’s
Fighting Ships indicate the U.S.
missile-launching submarines pack
5 more powerful punch with nine
of the 14 in operation capable of
firing Polaris missiles while sub
merged at targets 1,725 miles
away.
The publication said the Soviet
Union will start trials of a nuclear
submarine armed with Polaris-
type missiles probably before the
end of 1963. It also said the nu
clear icebreaker Lenin is “actu
ally a parent ship for the nuclear-
powered submarine flotilla.”
★ ★ ★
THE HAGUE—Former Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
died at her Apeldoorn Palace
early Wednesday. She was 82.
The former queen had suf
fered from diabetes and a heart
condition and had been in retire
ment for years. A week ago a
government spokesman said the
state of her health was causing
concern.
She reigned for 50 years, re
linquishing the throne to her
daughter, Juliana, in 1949 when
the old queen was 68.
During her 50-year reign, Wil
helmina saw the golden era of
Dutch empire, bitter exile during
the Nazi occupation and the loss
of the rich Dutch East Indies.
U.S. NEWS
, OXFORD, Miss. — A fresttman
s tudent whose room was ransacked
offer eating supper with Negro
'femes H. Meredith has withdrawn
from the University of Mississippi,
°fficials disclosed Tuesday.
John Craig Knobles III of Mer
man left the campus more than
fern weeks ago under the advice
°f university officials and decided
^ to return. Along with seven
°ther students—including one girl
■"he ate supper with Meredith
-V. 12.
Shortly afterwards, the dormi-
room of Knobles and Bill
temple of Washington, D.C., was
fefisacked. University police in
stigated but made no arrests.
Oceanographer
Will Join
Russian Study
Dr. Guy A. Franceschini, associ
ate professor of the Department
of Oceanography and Meteorology,
will join Russian oceanographers
aboard the U.S.S.R. research ves
sel “R.V. Orb” next year to con
duct i-esearch in the Antarctic.
Franceschini will make an in
tensive study of the Antarctic
Convergence, a region of sharp
temperature discontinuity where
the cold waters of the Antarctic
meet the warm waters of other
oceans.
The first American selected to
work with Russian scientists
aboard the “R.V. Orb” as part
of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. scientist ex
change program, Franceschini will
conduct research under a $28,400
grant from the National Science
Foundation in cooperation with the
Texas A&M Research Foundation.
Major Changes Announced
By Cushing Library Head
Journals Moved
To Increase Use
All current scientific and technical journals received by
Cushing Library are now being placed in special periodical
reading rooms according to Robert A. Houze, library director.
Also included in the special reading rooms are unbound
issues of every scientific and technical journals. These have
been taken from the general and popular magazines and the
bins
HOUZE POINTED OUT that journals in the humanities
and social sciences have been placed in the Periodical Room
on the first floor. He said an exception to this would be those
of education and psychology, which will be placed in the
education section of the Required Reading Room.
Periodicals in the pure and
applied sciences have been
placed in the large reading
room on the third floor. Houze
said these journals are
arranged by subject discipline, and
then alphabetically.
“The general and more popular
types of magazines such as Life,
Business Week, Field and Stream,
Hobbies, etc., are now located in
the main lobby in racks alongside
the newspapers,” Houze said.
THE DOCUMENTS Division is
now in the room adjacent to the
General Reference Department on
the second floor. “In order to ac
complish this move, several hun
dred volumes had to be shifted to
free standing racks in the General
Reference Room,” Houze said.
The College Archives has been
moved to the room occupied by the
Bindery Preparations Section
which was moved into the Cata
loging Room, all on the third floor.
THE ENTIRE PROJECT re
quired a period of six weeks.
“This was accomplished only
through the devoted and untiring
efforts of many library staff
members and the wholehearted
support of the college administra
tion,” Houze said.
The change provides an open
stack arrangement for current pe
riodical files and constitutes the
beginning of major improvements
within the library system, Houze
pointed out.
Air Force Exams
Slated For Dec. 1
Air Force Officers’ Qualifica
tion Exams, part one, will be ad
ministered in Room 231 of the
Chemistry Annex at 8 a.m. Sat
urday.
The exams are scheduled for all
Air Science sophomores who have
not previously taken the tests.
A&M Papers
To Go Before
Science Bodies
Seven papers will be presented
by research scientists at A&M at
the National Academy of Sciences
meeting Thursday through Satur
day in Austin. Some 30 papers
from A&M researchers will be
presented to the Texas Academy of
Sciences also meeting - at the same
time in Austin.
Aggie scientists will join the re
searchers from the University of
Texas, Rice University, Louisiana
State University and others from
throughout the nation to hear re
ports on all aspects of scientific
research. Only 54 reports in all
will be given to the National body,
while 200 are to be heard by the
State group.
A research paper on “Cosmic
Ray Muons at High Energies” will
be presented by Dr. Nelson M.
Duller, associate professor of phy
sics here.
Other papers to be presented
to the National Academy are by:
Frank R. H. Katterman, David
R. Ergle, Dr. Erma S. Vander-
zant, Dr. Meta S. Brown, Nevin
Weaver, Dr. Carl M. Lyman, A. S.
El-Noekrashy, J. W. Dollahite, Dr.
R. C. Fanguy and B. B. Bailey.
Papers on research in mathe
matics and the physical, earth, bio
logical, social and environmental
sciences will be given during the
three-day meeting on the Uni
versity of Texas campus.
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To Be Ready Soon
The Plant Science Building will be ready for of its kind in the world,” was to have opened
occupation in early January. The modern the first of this month but delays in building
structure, described as “one of the finest equipment caused the postponement.
A New Home
Linda Payne and Connie Lennox, secretaries for the De
partment of Range and Forestry, pause during a tour of
the new Plant Science Building. The $2.3 million building
will house the Departments of Range and Forestry, Plant
Sciences, Soil and Crop Sciences and Botany plus other
system offices.
$2.3 MILLION COMPLEX
Paul Harvey
To Speak Here
At Banquet
Paul Harvey, nationally prom
inent radio commentator, will be
guest speaker at the Bryan-Col-
lege Station Chamber of Commerce
annual banquet here Jan. 28.
The banquet will be held in
Sbisa Dining Hall and is expected
to attract 1,600 persons from the
Brazos Valley area.
Tickets for the banquet will go
on sale in the near future at $4 per
plate.
Harvey, whose “Hello Ameri
cans” is a daily trademark on the
American Broadcasting Co. net
work, will make his daily broad
casts from. Radio Station KORA
on Monday, Jan. 28.
Earlier in the day he is expected
to visit the A&M campus.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Har
vey began his broadcasting career
at station KVOO while a high
school and college student in the
1930s.
After gaining more radio ex
perience in Kansas and Missouri,
he launched his radio news com
mentary career in Chicago in 1944.
He has won six Freedoms Foun
dation medals and a number of his
radio commentaries have been en
tered in the Congressional Record.
He has also been honored by the
three national veterans organiza
tions.
New Plant Science Building
To House Four Departments
The new $2.3 million plant sci
ences building will be ready for
its occupants in early January
according to Dr. Charles L. Lein-
weber, head of the Department of
Range and Forestry.
Leinweber said the Departments
of Range and Forestry will share
the new structure with the De
partments of Plant Sciences, Soil
and Crop Sciences and Botany plus
other related offices.
Dr. Ruble Langston of the De
partment of Plant Sciences said
that the move was first scheduled
for the middle of November, but
unforeseen delays in the construc
tion and equipping of the build
ing have caused postponement.
The exact date for the move is not
known.
LEINWEBER pointed out that
when the building is ready it will
take quite some time for the
actual transfer to take place. “You
don’t just pick up a department
and move it one lump,” he said.
Langston said that the new stru-
ture will be one of the finest of
its kind in the world. Its facilities
will provide much-needed space and
equipment for teaching and re
search.
At present most of the labora
tory equipment has not been moved
into the building. The office furni
ture is being moved in this week.
Leinweber said that most of the
important equipment will not
installed until the departments I
start to move in.
In addition to its many class- j
rooms and offices the four-story j
structure will have more than i
20 research laboratories.
THE BASEMENT will have an
infra-red radiation laboratory and
four controlled environment grow
th labs. Dr. D. W. Rosberg and
Dr. H. W. Schroeder will use the
infra-red laboratory for studies of
the effects of this type of radiation
on plants. The environment cham
bers will be used by various mem
bers of the staff to study the ef
fects of light, heat and chemicals
on plants.
Among the laboratories on the
upper floors of the building ai ; e
facilities for the study of nema
todes (a group of worms that are
often injurious to plants and soil),
nucleic acids (acids found in the
nuclei of cells which are important
in heredity), and plant enzymes.
Others are: a mineral nuitri-
tion laboratory, an air pollution
laboratory, a plant virus lab, ra
diochemical laboratories, and a
plant growth regulation labora
tory.
Christmas Is Near;
NeedyKidsA bound
By WILLIAM BRADEN
Plans to help some of the needy
and underprivileged children of
College Station and Bryan need to
be formulated as Christmas is
drawing near, warns J. Gordon
Gay, general secretary of the
YMCA and coordinator of religi
ous life.
Reps To Academy
Conference Named
Two Aggies have been chosen
to attend the 14th annual Student
Conference On United States Af
fairs to be held at the U.S. Mili-
be j tary Academy at West Point, N.Y.
Dec. 5-8.
Selected for the trip were: Don
McGown, junior economics major
from Dallas, and Russell Huddles
ton, junior chemical engineering
major from San Antonio.
Topic of the conference, run
much like A&M’s own Student
Conference On National Affairs,
is “National Security Policies of
the United States.”
McGown and Huddleston are
SCONA committeemen.
Units and dormitories should
make efforts to take needy fami
lies and provide useful, lasting
gifts rather than candy and fruit,
Gay suggested.
He said it could be profitable for
the organization, after selecting a
family or families, to visit the
home, talk to the parents, and
determine what kind of gifts are
really needed and will do the most
good.
Articles suggested as most need
ed include blue jeans, tennis shoes,
dresses, skirts, blouses, shirts,
sweaters, underwear, socks, soap,
toothbrushes, and toothpaste.
“The names of approximately
50 families have been turned in as
people who are in need of assist
ance,” Gay said. He added: “We
have the number of children, ages,
and sex in each of the families.”
According to Gay, a unit or dorm
representative should obtain the
necessary information concerning a
needy family or families at the
All Faiths Chapel prior to 5 p.m.,
Dec. 12.
“Your Christmas will be more
profitable and enjoyable when you
know that you have helped some
child have a more joyous Christmas
j season,” Gay said.