The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 28, 1963, Image 5

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Wives Clubs
Hitrical Engineering club
■neet at 7:30 p.m. at the
jl bowling lanes.
‘ ihimal Husbandry club will
1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Trophy
, oceano. om of the Animal Industries
f the
non on OckK'
zation vntlB Hometown Clubs
>me 40 nat; Jp r i”& Branch club will meet
A&M facil\7:3 ' p.m. in Room 204 of the-
ademic Building.
d. Cameroi
azoria County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108 of the
Academic Building-.
South Plains club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the Brooks Room of
the YMCA Building. A football
film of the Texas Tech game
will be shown.
Grayson County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the
YMCA Building. Aggieland pic
ture plans will be made.
Lavaca County club will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 127 of the
Academic Building.
^Gaimtelur Graduate Students Will Present
:he D uep!r jchniea! Papers At Science Conclave
ntist is here I
nd Meteort iSi g^adute students will pre-
? Bchnical papers at the first
on the r ual joint meeting of the A&M
lent branch and North Texas
ich of the American Nuclear
ety Friday and Saturday in the
nei ui wit student Center,
undation, L L Reuscher, Lloyd E. Fite,
acilitiesat r gl Day an( j Jack V. Walk-
centers o: ||| present their projects at
d. Other; conclave, which will begin with
in Novenm jgtuation at 5 p.m. Friday.
will present “Activation
Analysis Moon Probe,” and Day’s
topic is “Effect of Fuel Distribu
tion on Thermal Flux Peaking in
Heterogeneous Fuel Elements.”
Walker’s paper is entitled “Ef
fect of Neutron Angular Distribu
tion on Thermal Flux Perturba
tions.”
Reuscher’s work is on “A Liq
uid Densitometer with Improved
Sensitivity Employing X-Ray
Transmission Techniques.”
ead Battalion Classifieds Daily
Coed To Dance Here
Lynn Borochoff of Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans
will do her modern jazz dance interpretation in the 12th
annual Intercollegiate Talent Show. A total of eleven acts
are included in the March 8 show.
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A&M, S.H.S.T.C.
Pr esby terianY outh
Groups Set Retreat
The A&M and S a m Houston
State Teachers College' Presby
terian groups will hold a joint re
treat this weekend at the Lake-
view Methodist Camp near Pales
tine.
Dr. Prescott Williams, professor
of Old Testament Languages and
Archaeology at Austin Theologi
cal Seminary, will be the featured
speaker for the two-day meeting.
Arlan Fowler, director of the
A&M youth group, said the pur
pose of the retreat is to compare
religious activities and experiences
of the two groups, as well as to
enjoy a period of fellowship.
About 40 students will attend
the retreat, which is being held
for the third consecutive year.
Interested students can contact
the Presbyterian Student Center
for further information.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 28, 1963
College Station, Texas
Page 5
AMONG THE PROFS
A&M Agriculture Experts
To Serve In Argentina
Six A&M experts will leave to
day to serve for two weeks in an
agricultural advisory capacity to
the Argentinian government.
They are Dr. R. E. Patterson,
dean of agriculture; Dr. T. R.
Timm, head of the Department of
Agricultural Economics and Soci
ology; Dr. J. G. McNeely, profes
sor of agricultural economics; Dr.
John D. Williams, Ijata Processing
Center; J. C. Smith, superintend
ent of the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Substation near Angle-
ton; and Dr. T. C. Cartwright, pro
fessor of genetics in the Depart
ment of Animal Husbandry.
Their trip fills a request from
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion Extension Service branch of
the government in Argentina.
Tlie group will aid in developing
a university contract to aid in a
program of research and. extension
in Northeast Argentina. Soils and
climate in this region are similar
to those in Texas.
★★★
R. H. Fletcher of the Depart
ment of Mechanical Engineering
has been selected for a panel at
the annual meeting o^ the Ameri
can Society for Engineering in
Philadelphia, June 17-21. The
panel will present a program for
effective teaching of engineering.
Fletcher’s selection to the six-
member panel was based on the
quality of teacher training confer
ences he has directed here.
★★★
Three members of the Depart
ment of Range and Forestry were
recently appointed to posts in a
national organization meeting at
Rapid City, S. D.
Dr. D. L. Huss, assistant profes
sor of range and forestry, and B.
J. Ragsdale and G. O. Hoffman,
extension range specialists, were
named committee heads in the
American Society of Range Man
agement.
Huss’ committee will compile a
glossary of standardized range and
forestry terms, while Ragsdale’s
group will be the steering com
mittee for next year’s National
Intercollegiate Range Plant Iden
tification Contest at Wichita, Kan.
Hoffman was named chairman
of the National Youth Committee,
which is attempting to get range
science taught in vocational agreri-
culture courses in high school.
★★★
An A&M math professor was
awarded a grant by the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration to study the numerical so
lutions to the Hartree-Fock equa
tions.
Earnest R. Keown, professor of
mathematics, said this particular
study will deal with the applica
tion of the unrestricted Hartree-
Fock equations to lithium and
beryllium.
After the development of the
basic equations and mechanical
procedure, extensive programming
will be required on the IBM 709.
Two students, George Abdo and
Charles Conatser, will assist in
the research, which started Feb. 1.
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LIVING THROUGH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE”
HERBERT E. RIEKE, C. S. B.
of Indianapolis, Indiana
Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, in
Boston, Massachusetts and a former United States
Army Chaplain
at the
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