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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1963
Meeks Tells
Tales.,.
See Page 4
Number 102
rade A
it decision On Rings
^ The ring committee decided president. Harlan Roberts, recent-
al. Sq.i
k Gallic
loaves i
iursday to give the Classes of
K and ’66 a choice of rings in
sse of a college name-change.
“This was a request made by
he sophomore class and a petition
y the freshman class, indicating
heir desires,” J. B. Hervey, chair-
nan of the committee, said.
FOUR STUDENTS and five
taff members composed the nine-
letnber group, whose earlier de-
ision would have allowed this
rear’s freshmen and sophomores to
Urchase only the new ring with
University inscribed on it.
Serving on the committee with
lervey, Executive Secretary of
he Former Students Association,
*as H. L. Heaton, Director of Ad-
aissions; D. E. McCrorey, Assist-
int to President Rudder; Benny
Zinn, Director of Student Affairs,
Wd E. E. McQuillen, Executive
Director of the Development Fund.
Also, Charles Blaschke, president
the senior class; Paul Di’esser,
fcor class president: James Love,
Wing president for the sophomore
dass, and Bill Milliken, freshman
'wmwm.
After AH That Work!
James Love (right), vice president and acting president of
the sophomore class, and David Slaughter discuss a resolu
tion written by the latter to the ring committee. The
opposition note was to have been approved at the Thursday
night soph meeting, but became unnecessary after the ring
committee altered its decision.
Committee Alters
ly elected student body president,
substituted for Dresser in Thurs
day’s session.
PREVIOUS to Thursday’s de
cision, the sophomore class had de
cided to submit a resolution, sub
ject to approval by the sophomore
class, to the responsible officials,
informing them of the objections
of the class.
In light of the new decision, the
sophomores publicily announced
their support of the college admini
stration .in reference to the name
change bill at a class meeting in
Guion Hall Thursday night.
Opposition to the ring change
stemmed fi’om the decision by the
ring committee that all rings or
dered after Sept. 1, 1963, would
bear the new name in the event
that name-change bill is passed.
OBJECTIONS on the part of
the sophomore class were submit
ted in petition form to Love.
The class meeting at Guion Hall
was short due to the ring commit
tee’s new decision. The sophomore
class was well represented, said
Love.
filing For Fonr CSC Offices
Begins Today; Ends May 3
Students interested in holding
Me of four class positions on the
Senior Fete
Will Feature
HpelineHead
V. C. McGee Jr., president of
Die Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.,
be the principal speaker at
annual Association of Former
Students Banquet held for all mem-
kfs of the Class of ’63 graduating
May, August or February.
The banquet will be held at 6:30
kto., Monday, in Sbisa Dining Hall
Annex. This is the third year the
•ssoeiation has treated seniors to
| Dree steak dinner.
L. F. Peterson, Fort Worth oil
•ton and president of the associa-
ton, will also speak at the supper.
“It is hoped that each member
^ the graduating class will attend
special dinner to be given for
in order that they can be
’fticially welcomed as members of,
Bnd better informed about, our as-
’nciation,” Hervey said.
All seniors will be required to
•W their complimentary tickets.
Civilian Student Council for 1963-
64 may begin filing Friday in.
their counselor’s office.
The Council voted in its Thurs
day meeting to open the filing.
POSITIONS AVAILABLE on
next year’s council are represent
atives for the sophomore class,
junior class, senior class and four
th and fifth-year and graduate
students.
Prospective candidates may file
in Room 203 Counseling and Test
ing Center, Room 1-H Puryear Hall
or Room 28 Milner Hall between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. before May 3.
The CSC also made a recom
mendation Thursday to the elec
tion committee of the Dormitory
Presidents Council that names of
candidates be placed on dormitory
ballots. Dormitory elections are
scheduled for May 6.
COLLEGE regulations specify
that candidates for the positions
must have and maintain a 1.25
grade point ratio and must not be
on probation.
Candidates who are elected and
CSC area representatives, appoint
ed or elected by the housing units,
will attend the remaining two meet
ings of the CSC. A freshman class
representative will be elected next
fall.
Board May Give Answers
To Coeds This Weekend
Directors Conduct
Closed Meetings
COEDS DEFENDED
Moore Answers Houston Ex
On ‘Selfish Interest’ Charge
(Editor’s Note: The Battalion
received the following telegram
a^ a reply to the form letter
opposing coeducation that has
been distributed by T. L. Smith
Jr., ’98, from Houston.)
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am in receipt of your form
letter concerning the future of
Texas A&M College and wish to
commend you for your continued
interest in A&M, however mis
guided your interest may he.
A&M long and well has serv
ed as the most outstanding of our
state-supported collesres and uni
versities. I am confident of its
future so long as it strives to ful
fill the fundamental purpose of
our state-supported educational
system — to give our youth, re
gardless of sex, the best educ
ational opportunities possible. Le
gend, tradition and selfish pride
cannot be served where such
would impair fulfillment of that
purpose.
I also am acutely aware of the
rising cost of quality educational
facilities and faculty. Time and
again I have voiced opposition
to addition of more schools to
the state system. These addi
tions, I feel, serve to dilute ra
ther than maintain and upgrade
the quality of existing institu
tions, including A&M. Our edu
cational system costs are borne
solely by the taxpayers, who de
serve that our youth get the most
for the family tax dollar.
Hunderds of families who do
not have the means to send their
daughters off to school have
asked why their children should
be deprived of educational oppor
tunity at nearby A&M. I feel
these young women, as well as
young men, are deserving. If
seeking educational opportunity
for them is to have me accused
as an “agitator,” then I humbly
enter a plea of guilty. The great
ness and complexities of our time
require that each girl as well as
boy be afforded the opportunity
for a quality education to ade
quately prepare them for the
challenges of tomorrow. If the
youth of Texas — not the Class
of ’98 or my Class of ’40 — who
must meet the demands of the
space era.
It is regrettable that the
thoughts of any graduate of
Texas A&M should become so
twisted that he could selfishly at
tempt to draw a parallel between
coeducation at A&M and the rac
ial difficulty experienced in Miss
issippi and Alabama. It is be
neath true dignity to infer that
the citizens of Bryan have any
thing less than the best interest
of A&M at heart. I submit that
Bryan citizens long have been
the staunchest supporters of
A&M. They readily have made
sacrifices for its advancement
and, I am confident, will continue
to give A&M . . . and its students
a responsive and responsible en
vironment.
Aggie Blood Drive
Hits Record High
Seven hundi'ed sixty-five A&M A&M is sponsored by the Student
students queued up here Wednes- (See Blood, Page 3)
day and Thursday and produced
a school record of 605 pints of
blood for the Wadley Research
Institute and Blood Bank of Dal
las. For various reasons, 162 Ag
gies were rejected by the Wadley
bank.
The new mark betters the Ag
gies’ old record of 392 pints in
1960. It also sets a one-stop re
cord for the institute.
LAST YEAR the students came
up with 212 pints, and when the
institute began its annual visit to
A&M in 1959, they gave 200 pints.
Mrs. Ella May Coleman, blood
reserve account chairman for Wad
ley, said the institute’s bloodmo-
bile averages 38 trips per year to
various collection locations in Tex
as.
“A&M is frequently our top
volume stop,” she said. “The hoys
seem so eager to give, and we get
such splendid co-operation from
everyone here.”
Wadley meant to spend just one
day at A&M this trip, but the
students turned out in such large
numbers that the bloodmobile crew
had to call for more supplies from
Dallas. Dr. David E. Soules, as
sistant director of the institute’s
blood bank, arrived at the college
at 1:30 Thursday morning with
the supplies.
THE WADLEY INSTITUTE col
lects blood for transfusion sup
plies, blood disease studies, plasma
making and for training blood re
search' personnel. About 25,000
pints a year are handled by the
agency.
Mrs. Coleman said Wadley focus
es its research on leukemia, hemo
philia and other important blood
ailments.
The blood collection program at
In hope that after some soul
searching that all graduates of
A&M will give unselfish support
to that fine institution and sub
scribe themselves to the funda
mental objective of giving our
youth the best educational oppor
tunities possible, I am, sincerely:
William T. Moore ’44
State Senator, Bryan
Coed A&M Grad
Not Concerned
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
An Aggie who graduated in 1925
just can’t get upset about reports
that the Board of Directors is plan
ning to approve coeducation on a
day-student basis at its official
meeting Saturday.
“It just really doesn’t matter to
me personally,” she said.
That’s right — SHE said.
MRS. L. B. LOCKE of 1103
Edgewood in Bryan is probably the
only woman in A&M’s 86-year his
tory to have been granted a diplo
ma, according to the college
archives.
Mrs. Locke is not listed in the
directories of the association of
former students, and she prefers
it that way. She explained.
“I guess I’m just shy. I didn’t
do anything special, it was just
that I needed to go to school and
my mother couldn’t afford to send
me anywhere else.”
MRS. LOCKE, the former Mary
Evelyn Crawford, a Bryan girl, is
now married to L. B. Locke, a
staff employee of the Association
of Former Students, who oddly
enough, never completed require
ments for an A&M degree himself.
Mrs. Locke remembers that she
wasn’t awarded her diploma in
The A&M System Board of Directors is expected to
announce a stand on coeducation at its regular quarterly
meeting Saturday morning on campus.
All nine members of the Board are presently on campus
and conducted closed meetings Friday, both on coeducation
and other agenda items.
The Board’s official agenda does not provide for dis
cussion on admitting women to the college, but Board Pres
ident Sterling C. Evans has told the press that “since the
matter has received such wide publicity, we definitely will
discuss it.”
A subject does not have to be on the agenda to provide
for discussion. At its last
meeting, The Board approved
a college name-change even
though the matter was not on
the agenda.
NEWS OF A possible coeduca
tion decision has been circulating
throughout the state since mid-
March and has caused System
officials to provide for a large
press delegation at Saturday’s
meeting.
According to most reports, the
proposal before the Board will he
to admit women to the graduate
school next September and to
undergraduate classes on a day-
student basis soon afterward.
All nine members of the Board
told The Battalion in March that
no vote on coeducation was being
planned for Saturday’s meeting.
They also denied that the coedu
cation question was discussed at
the January meeting, but usually
reliable sources said such a discus
sion did take place.
OPPOSITION to a possible
Board decision .has been led by
T. L. Smith, ’98, from Houston,
president of the Association of
Former Students’ Sul Ross Group.
Smith has been conducting an
extensive letter-writing campaign
to former students’ club presidents
and was due to personally appear
before the Board in closed session
Friday afternoon.
He also planned meetings with
cadet officers Friday morning.
IN ADDITION, juniors in the
Corps of Cadets have circulated a
questionnaire on the coed question
and will be prepared to present the
document to the Board if it is
asked for.
formal commencement exercises
back in August of 1925. She said:
“I got a call one day from the
registrar’s secretary. She told me
to come over to her apartment and
get my diploma. Until then I
didn’t care anything about the
formal exercises. I was so glad
to hear that I did get a diploma
that I would have crawled over to
that apartment.”
MRS. LOCKE attended school for
one year at what is now Texas
Woman’s University and one year
at the University of Texas. Then
she finished her college work at
A&M.
She is a solid Aggie booster who
“never did care much for the Tea-
sips.”
Her academic work was in Eng
lish with a minor in French. She
attended A&M for one regular ses
sion and, she thinks, two summer
sessions, under a rule that allowed
the relatives of professors to go to
school here.
Mrs. Locke, whose brother C. W.
Crawfords still teaches engineering
at A&M, said there were about
15 or 20 other girls going to school
here at that time.
Under present regulations wo
men are allowed to attend only
summer school here.
Top 10 Stories For 62-63
Just a year ago, the present
staff of The Battalion took over
the papers reins for what turned
out to be an enjoyable, but often
hectic nine months. That staff
will step aside Monday for a new
regime, but only after a year of
many big stories, some of which
will have a lasting impression on
the college’s future.
Trying to rank these stories
according to importance is prac
tically impossible, but we feel the
top ten would look something
like this
THE YEAR’S TOP TEN
1. Name-Change
2. 'Coeducation
3. Publicity
4. Maritime Academy
5. Financial Problems
6. Expansion and Building
7. Landmarks Gone
8- Campus Gatherings
9. Student Referendum
10. Dining Hall Changes
Final action on the name-
change and coeducation questions
hasn’t been rendered, but these
two stories seem to stand out
as the year’s top two.
A bill asking for a college
name-change to Texas A&M
University lacks only the third
and final reading to pass the
House and then go to the state
Senate. The bill was requested
at this year’s first meeting of
the A&M System Board of Di
rectors, where three new direc
tors—Dr. A. P. Beutel, L. F.
Peterson and Gardiner Symonds
—assumed posts on the nine-
man board.
These new directors are also
playing a big part in the co
education decision expected from
the board this Saturday. Rumors
have covered the state that the
directors may make a decision
on coeducation, but all nine
members have denied that a ver
dict is upcoming. The answer to
that question will be delivered at
the board meeting Saturday
morning.
As is always the case, the
college received more than its
share of publicity—mostly bad.
The year was hardly underway
when Time Magazine published
its infamous article. This was
followed by riots after the Uni
versity of Texas basketball game
in Austin, then the resignation
of basketball coach Bob Rogers.
Only solace was a lengthy story
published just two w r eeks ago by
The Associated Press.
Another story not yet decided
is the fate of A&M’s new Texas
Maritime Academy. The House
cut all state funds asked for the
young branch, but the Senate put
the TMA back on its appropria
tions measure. A conference
committee will decide the acad
emy’s final status with the 58th
legislature, with the committee’s
verdict expected in the very near
future.
The legislature also holds the
key to A&M’s financial status
for the next two fiscal years.
All budgets proposed in Austin
have called for increased college
funds, but none have provided as
much as the college asked. Stu
dents have also felt the cost
squeeze—the Board of Directors
has already improved an increase
in room rent, while chances are
good that state tuition will also
be raised.
Every year offers new build
ing and expansion, and this
year was certainly been no ex
ception. New dormitories and a
library expansion have been
approved to start within the next
year, the college has decided to
house civilians at the Research
and Development Annex, a new
post office and the Plant Sciences
Building have been opened and
the new Architecture Building is
rapidly nearing completion.
Despite this expansion, two old
landmarks have been eliminated.
First, the college museum was
closed when the Plant Sciences
Building opened; then President
Earl Rudder’s pre-1900 home
was destroyed by fire in late
January. Future plans for the
old museum building have not
been disclosed, but the Board of
Directors has approved the con
struction of a new home for Rud
der.
Gatherings of some sort are
held almost every weekend, but
two stood out above all others
this year—the Century Study
Convocation and SCONA VIII.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
and NASA chief James Webb
headed a top-flight list of speak
ers for the conferences, both of
which attracted around 10,000
people. At the Convocation, the
Board of Directors also pre
sented its ‘Blueprint for Pro
gress,’ designed to guide the col
lege for the next 15 years.
Almost forgotten, but cer
tainly in the spotlight this week
end, is the student referendum
held last May on coeducation,
a name-change and the reten
tion of a compulsory Corp of
Cadets. In the poll, requested
by the administration, students
approved coeducation and a
name-change, and were in favor
of abolishing the compulsory
Corps.
Ranking tenth in our list is the
collection of steps taken to im
prove college dining hall condi
tions. During the winter, plans
were completed to offer civilians
cafeteria-style meals next year;
while the Student Senate
launched a series of menu-plan
ning sessions to improve dining
hall service for the Corps. Like
many of the stories, much more
is to be heard from these steps.
Not making our list, but rank
ing as big stories were the re
quirement of the Graduate
Record Exams, a series of thefts
in Law and Puryear halls and
proposed ROTC changes that col
lege officials have predicted
will not affect A&M.