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£ b BATTALION )f IS Thursday, February 7, 1963 College Station, Texas Page 5 Twenty Aggies To Get Paid For Voyage f Arts fra ster of Edi uiston laritlme Academy Cadets To Take Summer Cruise •At Etiglisl 'tsville to A&M, ' ‘Preparai Reproductm shed by Research a« luthor of “f K'hinp; Hand ty of Hoe the officis oniversii •and is ‘ Sam Hons lucation a» am she tiii and prodnti S for puifAPT B. M. DOBSON roughout tt| By JACK GRAEME Would you like to take a free summer ocean cruise to foreign ports such as Dublin, Antwerp, Hamburg, Naples and Palma? Sound like a travel agency advertisement? Well, it’s not. Twenty Aggies will be taking such a trip this summer, and they will be getting paid for it at the same time. In addition, they will also be earning college credits. They are the 17 Fish and three sophomores who chose to enter the fledging Texas Maritime Academy, a part of the A&M College System. After this school year, the 20 will transfer to the academy’s new home at Fort Crocket in Galveston, only a few yards from the sea on which they hope to make their living. They are in a sense the pilot crew for the new academy, and they will be its first graduates. .In order for them to successfully complete their goals, they must pass a total of 160 credits, including three summer cruises to Europe, South America or the Caribbean. her husba# pcemen May Get \adiation Alarm 39< BAN ANTONIO (A 5 ) _ An •ally warning” system for Ith-orbiting astronauts—to al- w them to scoot earthward Id of sudden radiation storms e«ed by the sun — was envi- d Wednesday by an A i r expert. Muj. Osmond Ritland, one of 3 Q |top officials of the service’s \ aimed spaceflight program, Id about, the possibilities in drjssing a symposium on medicine at Brooks Air |e base. Rclaring radioactive protons space bullets—spewed out aillions of miles by sudden es” on the sun constitute a ' A issible formidable problem for y C Be men ! Ritland said such m are generated by sun- ots. And he added: “h; has been learned that there an interval of about an hour ween observation from earth ■tered sunspot activity and «arrival near earth of the itial high-energy particles. “Thus, a space vehicle on a ^ioo l>1oo rtoo — Hi 00 El 00 PS chase of PS chase of PS chase of Mm low earth-orbit mission might have time to re-enter the protec tive atmosphere of the earth.” He said the solar - projectile threat is in addition to that con stantly posed by the Van Allen radiation belts, which mainly ex tend from about 600 to 4000 miles above the earth and “ap pear to be highly dangebous for stays of more than, say, half an hour.” “Progress is being made in forecasting solar flare activity with sufficient accuracy to per mit the scheduling of missions in periods of low solar activity,” he said. Saying the evidence points to rises and drops in sunspot ac tivity within 11-year cycles, he declared: “If this cyclic pattern holds true and if this radiation in fact proves serious, manned space missions of long duration beyond the Van Allen belts can perhaps be attempted in the four-year low-activity period beginning in 1963.” The students will have two separate curriculum to choose from, either marine engineering or marine transportation. On graduation they will enter a field in which the beginning pay is about $8,000 a year and career opportunities are abundant for ei ther sea or land employment. In addition, they will have no active military obligation to ful fill unless they volunteer for ac tive Navy duty. They will receive a commission in the inactive Naval reserve as long as they are plan ning to serve on a ship. AT PRESENT, there is a huge demand for well trained, well edu cated men in the maritime busi ness, especially in Texas,” said Capt. Bennett Dodson, superin tendent of the academy. “As a matter of fact, the other five maritime academies only graduate a total of about 500 men a year, while the demand is about 1,000 new men each year. I fear that there is going to be a serious shortage of officers within a short time.” Dodson, a smiling, friendly man, topped with a swatch of silvery hair, is well qualified to head the new academy. He has had a great deal of previous experience in teaching young men about the sea and her many moods, as head of the Department of Nautical Science at the U. S. Merchant Ma rine Academy at Kings Point, executive officer of the California Maritime Academy and superin tendent of the Pennsylvania Mari time Academy. In addition, he has commanded three maritime acad emy training ships. HIS PRACTICAL experience is just as impressive. He has com manded a battleship, a destroyer, a fleet oiler, a service squadron of 50 ships and was head of the Mili tary Sea Transportation Service in the Far East. The total number of students to be allowed to enter the academy for the foreseeable future will be about 1200, Dodson said. “In a few years, when we reach TMA’s New Home Nears Completion At Galveston Site Construction work on the old Ft. Crockett at Galveston is near ing completion, Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy, said. Ft. Crockett will be the home of the TMA when classes begin next September. The final three years of instruction will be completed there while the freshman year will continue to be spent on this cam pus. According to Capt. Dodson, a new roof has been placed on the fort and painting of the structure Will begin next month. In March, air - conditioning and insulation processes and construction of dor mitory rooms will begin. Aggie Juniors and Seniors Start composing your letters for my Semi-Annual letter writing contest. Subject: “Why I. Think Every Aggie Should Own Some Life Insurance.” CASH PRIZES. Judges will /-be Bryan-College Station Jaycees. Deadline: March 2, 1963. Bernie Lemmons, ’52 VI 6-5800 - VI 6-6758 t ResuSt: “Cushion Recoil” provides a dramatically smoother ride in 1963 Ford-huiit cars The challenge given Ford engineers was to design suspensions | that would permit wheels virtually to roll with the punches—not I only in a vertical plane but fore-and-aft as well. Conventional suspension systems provide only a partial solution to road shocks by limiting wheel recoil to an up-and-down motion. The solution? Exclusive Cushion Recoil suspension design in all Ford-built cars for '63! Cushion Recoil, with cushioning action in a fore-and-aft plane as well as vertical, smothers the jars and jolts of rough roads, adds to your comfort, safety, and driving pleasure. Even the thump of freeway tar strips Is reduced, and on deeply rutted roads you experience better control of the car. Furthermore, your Ford-built car is spared the wear and tear of road-induced vibration. Another assignment completed-one more example of engineer ing excellence at Ford and new ideas for the American Road. SOAKS UP ROAD SHOCK. Exclusive Ford Motor Company Cushion Recoil action moves back as well as up for a smoother ride. MOTOR COMPANY The American Road, Dearborn, Michigan WHERE ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP BRINGS YOU BETTER-BUILT CARS that number of students, then I’ll sort of step back and take a sec ond look at everything, to see where we .go from there,” he added. Freshmen in the Maritime Acad emy will continue taking their first year of college on the Col lege Station campus, in order to take full advantage of the already- existing 'facilities here. Then they will take their first ocean cruise and finish their remaining three years at the Maritime Academy in Galveston. THE CURRICULUM for mari time freshmen at A&M consists mainly of general engineering courses with a few maritime cours es to whet the student’s appetite for his first summer cruise. These courses include marine engineer ing, ship organization and opera tions and basic naval science. . The 20 students who have chos en the Maritime Acftdemy at first glance seem to have nothing in common. But if you talk with them for just a few minutes, one thing does become outstandingly apparent: all share a tremendous eagerness, an attitude of absolute certainty that they have .chosen exactly what they want, and that they can’t wait to get to it. Another interesting similarity is that many of their families have a seagoing background, or have had some experience with shipping. Jack Smith, ’65 from Galveston, was one of the 20 who had to change his degree aims to enter the aqademy, but he declares that he is definitely not sorry about it. “I WAS IN CHEMICAL engi neering previously, but I was dis satisfied, with it,” he said. “I’ve lived on the sea during the sum mers as a commercial fisherman and running boats, and I’ve also done shipyard work. I guess I’ve always liked the sea, and when this thing came along, I knew it was for me.” A freshman, Richard Dix, of Houston, and formerly of London, England, said that ultimately he wants to get into the field of mari time ‘law. Even when he first en tered A&M, he was interested in oceanography, and so he went into geophysics. • “I got my feeling for the sea honestly,” he said. “My uncle was in the British Merchant Marine and my father was in the Royal Navy.” Don Bilancich, ’65 from Kemah, was in aeronautical engineering before transferring- to the mari time course. “I also came from a seagoing family,” he commented. “My grandfather owned a ship building yard in Yugoslavia before the Communists took ovdr.” ALL OF THEM are enthused over this summer’s training cruise, which they will take on the Em pire State IV, training ship of New York Maritime College, with 450 New York cadets. Not one of the students seems to have given a thought to sea sickness, which can put a damper on any sailor’s spirits for a while. Dodson commented that he had often heard of some who never get seasick at all, but get aVfully sick of the sea. From all appearances, he won’t have to worry about that with his new cadets. Cadets To Visit ‘Home Port’ Texas Maritime Academy cadets will be in Galveston Saturday for an introduction to their future “home port.” The cadets will make a special tour of the NS Savan nah, the world’s first nuclear- powered merchant ship, and then be guests of the Port of Galveston for a luncheon and tour of the port. The NS Savannah will be docked at the nuclear ship service facility at Galveston, the only such facility on the Gulf of Mexico coastline. The vessel is making its first call nt the facility and to any Gulf port and one of her first calls into any port. 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