Page 4 College Station, Texas Thdrsday, March 21, 1963
THE BATTALION
Programs Aid Nations In Technology
“Final examinations” taken halfway around the world
are among the features of a program conducted on campus
under a Ford Foundation grant.
The “examinations” take the form of day-to-day service
and effectiveness as graduates of* :
the program serve in the A&M
System groups assisting developing
nations. The overseas service is
at the request of the U.S. govern
ment, which finances the work.
Wives are included in many of
the orientation sessions, as fami
lies customarily accompany the pro
fessors going overseas under two-
year contracts.
Helping people to make an easier
and thus more effective transition
to a new culture and to new roles
is the basic goal of the program
here.
“Training does not stop when
the man arrives overseas, but con
tinues through the use of the
mails,” Dr. Jack D. Gray said.
He is a veteran of overseas ser
vice and heads the A&M System
Office of Foreign Programs.
THE ORIENTATION center,
now in its third year, offers cours
es as the need arises. Some 30
persons have completed the pro
gram. The $100,000 grant from the
Ford Foundation also is used to
develop programs for A&M stu
dents especially interested in the
problems of developing nations.
Faculty members with special
backgrounds in overseas service
teach orientation center courses in
addition to their normal duties.
“At least two-thirds of the
world is ci'ying for technological
change,” Gray said. He points to
A&M’s record of experience of
training men to help bring changes
in Texas agriculture, industry and
transportation.
“I feel A&M will continue to be
called upon to make a contribution
in international problems,” Gray
said.
“THE QUESTION is whether or
not our American experience in
technological change can be trans
ferred to another country,” he con
tinued. “If a land-grant college
such as A&M can develop the
answer to this problem, it will be
a big gain for the free world.
Some 20 of America’s land-grant
colleges and universities including
A&M now are conducting programs
overseas at the request of and
with financial support from the
U. S. government.
But the orientation center here
is the only one of its type. Michi
gan State University has the near
est thing to it.
A&M party members study the
appropiate language, cultural ad
justment and acceptance, the econo
mics of developing areas and im
plementing technological change.
Teaching the courses are faculty
members with specialized back
grounds including much travel and
seiwice overseas.
DR. RANDALL Stelly, who
heads the A&M party due to ar
rive in Tunisia March 28 to inaugu
rate that program, compared the
six weeks of training here with his
experience before going to Indo-
China in 1951. He spent only a
few days in Washington before
leaving for the Far East, and Mrs.
Stelly was in Washington only
overnight.
“We of course, had to learn the
customs after we arrived... we
were at a disadvantage compared
with these folks here,” Stelly said
and pointed to other members of
the class.
Mrs Arlan B. McSwain said the
course began here Feb. 1 and com
pleted March 15 “relieved her fears
and anxieties.” She knows some-
Poison Tuna Kills
Two; A&P Asks
Patrons Beware
NEW YORK h? 5 )—The A&P food
chain cleared the shelves in its
4,400 supermarkets Wednesday of
all canned tuna bearing its own
label. A tin of the fish was
blamed in the suspected poisoning
death of two Detroit housewives.
The women were believed to
have died of botulism, caused by
Japanese tuna contaminated dur
ing canning on the West Coast.
IT WAS not known whether a
single small tin might have gone
wrong in the canning process, or
whether others in a shipment of
more than 5,000 cans might be
tainted.
Federal authorities were check
ing samples across the nation, on
the chance that illness or death
lurked beneath the sealed lids of
other cans. In Washington, Com
missioner George P. Larrick of the
Food and Drug Administration said
tests thus far had proven negative.
THE CANNING firm involved
said it was not sure the tuna
actually was the cause of the
Detroit deaths. And at least one
Washington official found it diffi
cult to believe that botulism, a
rarity in this day and age, killed
the victims.
Nevertheless, housewives were
urged to check their pantries for
A&P brand tuna, and in New York
the health authorities suggested
all such tins be returned to A&P
markets for refunds. The food
chain pledged its full cooperation.
CONSUMERS WERE warned to
be especially alert for 6%-ounce
cans bearing the A&P label and
the coded lid markings “WY3Y2”
and “118X.” This type of can, re
trieved empty from a garbage can,
was believed involved in the De
troit deaths.
Margaret McCarthy, 39, died in
Detroit on Tuesday; three days
after her neighbor, Collette Brown,
37. The women shared a snack of
canned tuna late last week, then
developed symptoms resembling
type E botulism.
Botulism is described in medical
dictionaries as food poisoning due
to the production of toxins in im
properly canned food, character
ized by the abrupt onset of violent
symptoms, often fatal. Type E
designates a poison originating in
fish products that attacks the
nervous system.
TEXAS A&M
STUDENT TOUR
departing
JUNE 12, 1963 from New York
SPECIAL GROUP AIR FARE
exclusively for Students, Faculty and their immediate families.
$336.40 JET TO EUROPE & RETURN
NEW YORK - LONDON June 12
PARIS - NEW YORK July 13
Group must have 25 persons and they must depart together June
12 and return together July 13. But they can travel independently
in Europe for 30 days!
All inclusive 4-week European Tour
Air Fare $336.40
Tour Cost 386.00
Total $722.40
*Four Weeks *Sightseeing *Trans Atlantic Jet
*A11 Hotels *Meals *Pi’ivate motor coach in Europe
ENGLAND. HOLLAND, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, ITALY,
MONACO, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
For additional information contact:
MSC STUDENT PROGRAM OFFICE
Travel Committee
Texas A&M College
College Station, Texas
thing now of the housing, family
health, foods and other problems
uppermost in any homemaker’s
mind as she prepares to go over
seas. The McSwains lived in Pecos
before accepting the overseas as
signment and have three children.
The importance of wives in over
seas service was stressed by Gray
and others. In most countries an
American family with strong ties
gains respect, while the experience
places special strains upon the
homemaker.
GOING FROM our culture to
one with a different religion, his
tory and values causes real ten
sions. What is learned on campus
does much to ease these tensions.
“The program also is an at-
United Nations Club Slates Program
Filled With Variety Of Dances, Plays
Folk songs, dances and other
entertainment will be presented in
a United Nations Club program
set for 7:30 p.m. Friday in the
Memorial Student Center. The
public has been invited and a social
hour will follow the program, club
president Sang-U Kim said.
Representing the United States
will be a play, “The Potboiler,”
presented by students of Class 7-E
of the A&M Consolidated Junior
High School. Mrs. Dorothy Rush
will direct the play.
Students from Tunisia, India,.
Pakistan, Free China, the Philip
pines, Indonesia and Latin America
will px-esent folk songs and dances
from their countries.
tempt to help the professor learn
to fit in and perform in his new
role,” Gray said.
“Overseas, he is going to be
an institution builder.” This calls
for different attitudes than those
called for by classroom and re
search experience.
Gray compares the improper
development of a program in a
foreign nation to those attractive
flowers made from paper. They
are pretty but have no roots.
Similarily, an improperly devel
oped assistance program overseas
fades away once the Americans
depart and no real benefit accrues
to the developing nation.
The orientation center has pro
vided programs of up to six weeks
in length for some 30 persons going
overseas.
Much remains to be learned,
but much has been accomplished,
Gray said.
Noted Broadcaster
To Speak Friday
Murray Cox of Dallas, known as “the dean of Southwest
farm broadcasters,” will discuss European agriculture at 7:31)
p. m. Friday in Room 122 of the Plant Sciences Building.
The radio announcer will be heard during a joint meeting
of the student chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation
Society of America and the Heart of Texas Chapter, compose!
of professional conservation .workers in Central Texas.
Cox toured Europe last summer and made a film which
will be shown at the meeting.
J. C. Mills, assistant professor of agronomy, said the
public has been invited to hear Cox.
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