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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1962)
Pnfte 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 10, 10(12 THE BATTALION tiig'-pi ■•../•I;' • ..' ' ... . ■: £ Mi* ” r ‘STRENGTHENING’ CALLED GOAL Rudder, Seniors Eye Corps Problems ^ m • v; fe ; 'I' PRESIDENT RUDDER . . . “trying to improve” “Our goal is to strengthen the Corps of Cadets,” President Earl Rudder said before a general meet ing of Corps seniors Tuesday night in Guion Hall. But what started out to be an expression of goals and objectives of the school turned into, a forum for the cadets. Rudder launched the meeting by attempting to provide answers to a list of questions that had been previously prepared by a group of cadet leaders. “Some of us have different ideas on how to build a grfeat Corps and Aggie spirit,” he said. “Neither should be at the expense of scho lastic proficiency,” Rudder went on to say* IN' ANSWER to the question of students obtaining medical excuses to get out of the Corps of Cadets, Rudder stated: “We take a young man at face value. If a doctor at home says that he is- fit for military train ing, we accept it. If at a later date his doctor decides that he isn’t in as good a shape as he thought he was, that is accepted also.” When a cadet pointed out that the primary doctors involved were not the students’ family doctors but doctors in Bryan and the col lege hospital, Rudder responded, “I ’63 ENTRIES BEING TAKEN Extension, Utility Visitors View Community Program Representatives of 10 Texas 'electric utility companies and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service outlined ways of improving the Texas Community Improve ment Program sponsored by the two groups during an all-day meet ing here Tuesday. Texas communities participating in the 1963 contest can share in cash prizes totaling- $6,800 award ed by the electric utility companies, Reagan Brown, extension service sociologist and program moderator, said. Entries may be made up to Jan. 31. “There are now 231 community entries in the contest, and there should be at least 300 by the con test deadline,” Brown said, stress ing that it is becoming increasingly important to plan effectively for the community effort. IN JUDGING the annual pro gram—now in its 15th year of operation—credit is given for indi vidual family and group effort within the communities to improve homes, farms, ranches and the total community, officials said. Each community chooses its own goals, Animal Husbandry Laboratory Nears Completion Stage The Department of Animal Hus bandry’s new Physiology of Repro duction Laboratory is nearing com pletion/ The laboratory was built by re modeling the dairy test barn near the college’s old creamery. Funds were provided by a National Sci ence Foundation grant of $30,000, which was matched by A&M for a $60,000 total. Laboratory activities are ex pected to start about Jan. 1. Dr. A. M. Sorensen said that student participation at first will be re stricted to graduates. Later, undergraduates also will receive instruction at the facility. Major projects of the laboratory include capacitation of semen, in vitro fertilization of ova and ova storage, and breeding difficulties of Santa Gertrudis cattle. In addition to inside laboratory equipment, the facility also will have animal holding pens. and responsibility for organizing is within the community. Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of agriculture and director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, who is serving as chair man of the Texas Community Improvement Program, discussed “Working Together in the Texas Community Improvement Pro gram.” He stressed the need for developing in depth the community improvement program. “ORGANIZED communities can serve as effective means for en couraging new business and in dustry to locate here, and through broadly representative county Pro- "gram; Building Committees, the people themselves can help make decisions for reaching their goals and improving income and living levels,” he said. Director John E. Hutchison of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service told of the responsibility of extension in the program, one of 30 different broad subject mat ter areas served by extension. County extension agents and specialists assist community lead ers and resource people in the planning of the program, and work to help develop education and action programs within counties. Lay citizens who make up program building committees coordinate the activities. SOME INGREDIENTS for effec tive community organizations were outlined by Mrs. George Ives, secretary of the Woodlawn Com munity in Harrison County, which placed second in the district last Dinner, Service Bring ’62 Year To Close Tonight Christmas services and the annual Christmas dinner in col lege dining halls Wednesday night will unofficially 'bring another school calendar year to an end. The Christmas service, in the All-Faiths Chapel, will begin at 8 p.m., with the Rev. Guy Greenfield, pastor of the College Station First Baptist Church, speaking. Christmas dinner in the dining halls is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. year; and by Mrs. Sue Farris, Harrison County home demonstra tion agent. “There has to be a need for the community organization, an or ganization of key leaders, coopera tion of sponsors and specialists, high goals and lots of enthusiasm,” the two community spokesmen said. Community improvement work in the Gafford Chapel community of Hopkins County was described by Billy Anderson, chairman; and Paul Herschler, county agricul tural agent, and Miss Adell Hale, county home demonstration agent. Among - improvements listed by Anderson were all-weather roads throughout the community, a dial telephone system, home improve ments and new homes, a neat com munity center fashioned from a school building which citizens bought, and church, school and economic improvements. “Our community is growing, prospering and stabilizing,” Ander son told the group, stressing that similar interests of the citizens have helped bring this about. i don’t think that we can do any.j more than ask these doctors to be sincere.” WITH RESPECT to a question of the future of the Corps of Ca dets, Rudder answered generally, “I think that it is going to be more proficient, more dedicated . . .” At the conclusion of the formal question-answer session, Rudder asked for questions from the meet ing floor. One of the cadets then got up to say that he believed that cadet commanders have not been able to adequately perform their duties, maintain the morale of their units or provide the necessary discipline due to limitations im posed by the administration. When asked for an example he stated the recent “suggestions” by the ad ministration that cadet command ers go easy on the standards of dress for the freshman. RUDDER RESPONDED by stat ing: “I think that we get in a hurry to make good Aggies out of these fellows.” He continued by saying that the process could not be ac complished in one week, one month or a year and would not end until the student crossed the stage at graduation. Many cadets considered a -state- 20 Delegates Plan To Attend Holiday YMCA Assembly * Don Willis, president of the YMCA, will head a group of 20 delegates who will attend the Na tional Student Assembly of YMCA and YWCA at the University of Illinois, Dec. 27-Jan. 2. J. Gordon Gay, general secretary of the YMCA and coordinator of religious life, will also attend the conference. Others attending will be Lannie D. Jackson, Joe V. Chapman Jeffrey Geye, Ken W. Stanton, Jack W. Collier, James M. Gay, Eddie H. Carpenter, Richard L. Ratliff, James Riggs and D. R Hall. Also, Don Warren, Sang U. Kim, David Amad, Jud Rogers, I. M. Dietz, Thomas Crais, Charles Young, Pao-Shan Weng and Nabil I. Barakat. Keynote speeches, panel discus sions, group conferences and ques- tion-and-answer sessions will high light the assembly. ment made by Chuck Nichols to be a summary of the questions discussed at the meeting. Nichols sta ted: “In our attempts to modernize by relaxing conditions in the mili tary section of A&M, I believe" that vve have taken away some of the pressures that have taught past Aggies to react quickly in tight situations.” Cadet commanders dominated the discussion during 1 flip ]j| part of the overtime meetin; they pointed out examples cf:j “the challenge has been taken of the Corps.” SENIORS There were no winners to r; letter contest as there were a letters received. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE AT A. AND I BERNIE LEMMONS’52 Holiday Slack Sale Dress and Casual Slacks Keg. $4.95 to $19.95 Value NOW AS A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 15% Off AH Wool, With The “Crease That Will Not Cease”, by Hamjiton Heath A&M Men's Shop “Home of Distinctive Men’s Wear” North Gate College Stalion HAPPY HOLIDAY from w W E KEEP PRICES DO' wnmttwm Prices Good December 20, 21, 22 and 24th Thurs - Fri . Sat - Mon. We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities. 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