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Its Way After
Rough Sailing
By GERRY BROWN
Battalion Associate Editor
The Texas Maritime Academy is well on its way after
jeriod of rough sailing on legislative waters earlier this
TMA took another step towards becoming the South’s
y maritime academy with the A&M Board of Director’s
iroval of a $131,000 for modernization work to be done
the academy’s campus in Galveston.
Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent of the TMA,
orted that the State has given the academy $120,000 for
modernization program and these funds have been supple-
ited with about $55,000 in federal funds.
Work to be done on the TMA headquarters, formerly
♦'known as Fort Crockett,, in-
Id A&M Club
olds Reunion
is Weekend
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1963
Number 106
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lie Sul Ross Group is presently
ling it’s annual reunion in the
3 norial Student Center this
kend.
he Sul Ross Group is composed
'ormer Students who were jrrad-
td from A&M 50 years a^o or
r
t. L. Smith, ’98, Houston, is
iident of the group. Smith and
late Earl Rawlins, ’98, are the
iders of the unique group.
T AN ANNUAL reunion of
class of ’98, 25 or 80 years
only the two were present,
Ith said. Rawlins told Smith
I it was not much fun to come
k to a reunion where there are
f two people present,
awlins suggested that they take
j 10 year group, including all
boys from 1892 to 1902 who
;ht have known Governor Ross,
mith agreed that it was a
dplan and they decided to start
i. Rawlins nominated Smith
the office of president, Smith
Bided the nomination and was
:ted with an unaminous vote.
WITH SAID that a few years
it, when the ranks were grow-
I slim, they decided to invite
50th anniversary to merge
h the group.
'Now while many of the older
s die each year, some two or
ee times as many of the younger
i the ranks, Smith said.
‘For instance, the class of 1911
ne 39 strong and last year 34
the small class were here.”
Including relatives and guests,
ire were 205 at last years ban-
ft and they expect 50 or more
is year, Smith commented.
The group is unique because of
fact that all of the members
170 years of age or older. The
Mp is endowed so that the in-
®e is sufficient to take care
the banquet, Smith said. The
Ross Group is the only one
its kind in the U.S. to Smith’s
Pledge.
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Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
TOKYO—A Japanese Socialist
Thursday night demanded
'immediate government investi-
J lion into the sinking of a prized
*i Chinese freighter on an in-
•fttal trade run to Japan.
Tomomi Narita, secretary-gen-
“lof the Japan Socialist party,
^ a Cabinet aide of Prime Min-
Hayato Ikeda that his party
^concerned by the Red Chinese
' eT men’s assertion that their ship
^ been sunk by an unidentified
^marine about 300 miles south-
^ of Japan’s southern island
Kyushu.
U. S. NEWS
Washington — The Air
T° r ce said Thursday the 100
Weman missiles now in fir-
position in Montana can hurl
^ite the nuclear destruction
finally planned for them.
This was disclosed to reporters
15 U. Gen. Thomas P. Gerrity
"id he wanted to clear the air
Questions which he said have
raised about the Minute-
*hi’s range, warhead, costs and
test and production sched-
•k
“IVe never known a program
Vs been more successful than
^one,” said Gerrity, Air Force
Soty chief of staff for systems
**1 logistics.
eludes the renovation and con
struction of classrooms, of
fices, student dormitory-
rooms, lounges and the paint
ing - of everything which doesn’t
move.
The modernization program is
part of the maritime academy plan
ning which has been continuous
from the time that the idea of the
academy was first originated,
State Senator A. R. Schwartz of
Galveston told The Battalion
Thursday nigdit.
SCHWARTZ indicated that the
work being done would be complet
ed in time for September.
On June 3, TMA students will
travel to New York by commercial
jet where they will board the New
York Maritime College training
ship for a 12-week summer cruise
to Europe, Dodson revealed Thurs
day.
Ports of Call for the cruise will
includes stons in Dublin. Ireland:
Hamburg, Germany; Naples. Italy;
and Palma De Mallorca, a Mediter
ranean island port off the coast
of Spain.
FIVE VACANCIES are omm to
A&M students who would like to
participate in this summer pro
gram, stated Dodson.
The vacancies are open to stu
dents who have completed their
freshman or sophomore year and
have a good academic record, as
well as being physically fit, Dod
son said.
Students need not be major
ing in a maritime curriculum to
take part in the summer cruise
program. Credit for one hour of
English and four hours of mai’ine
engineering or marine transporta
tion will be given to students com
pleting the cruise prog'ram.
TOTAL COST of the 12-week
cruise is $1,015. This fee includes
transportation by air to and from
New York, tuition, board and room,
ship expense and uniforms, re
ported Dodson.
Evans, Peterson Tell Group
Co-eds Won’t Affect Corps
Board Presented
Protest Petitions
By DAN LOUIS JR.
Battalion Editor
Approximately 400 student leaders, civilian and military,
were told two-fold Thursday night that the Board of Direc
tors recent decision to admit co-eds on a limited basis should
not indicate any danger to the Corps of Cadets.
‘T think it is unfortunate that the opinion has gotton
around that co-eds will affect the Corps,” Sterling Evans,
Board president said.
L. F. (Pete) Peterson, Board member and president of
the Association of Former Students, stated, “As far as I’m
concerned I’ve got six years to be on this Board, and let me
tell you the Corps has a friend in me.”
“I THINK this Corps has got to stay here,” he added.
Peterson went on to tell the 4 —■
Opinions Of 1,875 Students Presented
Harlan Roberts, president-elect of the stu- President Sterling Evans an anti-co-ed peti-
dent body, hands A&M Board of Directors tion circulated through the Corps last week.
Eighty-Six Have Registered
At Close Of Election Filing
At the close of filing for class
positions Wednesday 86 prospec
tive candidates had registered for
the May 8 class officer election.
According to election commis
sion advisor Wayne Smith, the
registration began slowly but end
ed with someone filing for all of
fices.
Only one position, freshman Me
morial Student Center council rep
resentative, had a candidate run
ning unopposed.
LONGEST TRIP EVER
Architects Leave
For Miami Meet
The fifth wear design class of
the Division of Architecture was
scheduled to leave Friday morn
ing at 8 by car to Miami, Fla.
to the annual national convention
of the American Institute of Archi
tects.
The group of 18 persons plan to
take four or five automobiles and
visit New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
Mobile, Tallahassee and Saint Pe
tersburg in order to study the
architecture of the South.
The architects will return May
13.
THEY PLAN to return on a
more nothern route, along the east
ern coast of Florida, so they will
get a more complete tour of the
antebellum South.
This is the longest trip a fifth
year class has ever taken.
In May of 1962, the national
convention was held in Dallas.
The convention consisted of semi
nars, student design exhibits, talks
and lectures by architectural fig
ures Charles Colbert, O’Neil Ford,
Felix Candela and Jane Jacobs.
The fifth year design students
attended the convention and were
student hosts to the associated
student chapters of the A.I.A.
THE PURPOSE of attending
the convention is to come in per
sonal contact with some of the
leaders in architecture as a cli
max to formal academic education,
Fadal said.
Those students making the trip
are Fadal Donald McMasters, Bil
ly J. Leftwich, Jos Middleton, John
V. Moore, Edward Kemp, Bill Mar
tin, Hem - y Ortega, Bryan Ralph,
Don Vahrenkamp and Tom Hook
er.
Faculty advisors will be Melvin
M. Rotsh, professor of architectu
ral history, and Guillermo Vidaud,
assistant professor of design.
Funds to finance the trip were
solicited by students who worked
throughout the past year gaining
contributions from architects, con
tractors.
ELIGIBILITY of the candidates
was to be reported by the Regis
trar Friday. Some of the candi
dates who filed are expected to be
declared ineligible on the basis of
the registrar’s report, Smith said.
“For a class election, I would
say that filing was light,” Smith
added. “Eighty-six filing for po
sitions sounds like a large number,
but it’s really a small amount when
you break it down into classes and
the individual positions.
“The senior class had 38 candi
dates, but the sophomore and
freshmen classes didn’t get too
many people out to register.”
The number of candidates for
each position pending the regis
trar’s eligibility report is as fol
lows:
IN THE CLASS of ’64, six filed
for president, four for vice presi
dent, six for secretary treasurer,
four for social secretary, four for
historian, three for student enter
tainment manager, three for MSC
Council representative and eight
for yell leader;
In the Class of ’65, two filed for
president, four for vice president,
two for secretary treasurer, two
for social secretary, three for MSC
Council representative and 15 for
yell leader;
In the Class of ’66, five regis
tered for president, six for vice
president, four for secretary treas
urer, three for social secretary and
one for MSC Council representa
tive.
TOTALS WERE: 19 members
of the Class of ’66 for five posi
tions, 28 members of the Class of
’65 for six positions and 38 mem
bers of the Class of .’64 for eight
positions.
“We’re waiting now to hear from
the registrar so we can get the
ballots typed up and the machines
ready, but after we find out the
candidates’ eligibility, we’ll be
ready to go ahead with the elec
tion,” Smith said.
Apparently most of the candi
dates waited until the deadline
Wednesday to file. On Tuesday,
the day before the deadline, Smith
reported that filing was heavy in
the president and vice president
slots but there were few or no
candidates in the other positions.
BY TUESDAY afternoon only
five freshmen had filed, but after
filing closed Wednesday, 19 fresh
men were unofficial candidates.
Registration requirements were
a 1.0 grade point ratio and aca
demic classification with the class
es filed for at election time and at
the beginning of the year of office.
students that he had gone to
school with women and that
“they didn’t give us any
trouble.”
“I don’t think all this furor is
worth all the trouble it has brought
about. I think we must concern
ourselves with getting the best
professors down here to teach yon
boys.” Peterson told the group.
AT ONE POINT in the meet
ing Harlan Roberts, president-elect
of the Student Body for the 1963-
64 school year, presented a peti
tion in protest to co-education to
Evans.
Roberts pointed out that 2,462
cadets had been approached with
the petition and the 1,875 had sign
ed it. He urged civilians to do
something of a similiar nature to
let the Board know “how civilians
feel about the issue.”
Evans told the students that the
Board did not think that co-eds in
a class would necessarily raise the
standai'ds of the school, “But the
Board feels it is .handicapped in
hiring professors,” he said. “Be
cause, many of the better pro
fessors want a place for their wives
and daughters to go to school,”
he explained.
WHEN ASKED if a student ref
erendum disapproving co-educa
tion would make any difference in
the Board’s decision, Evans
promptly replied, “No!”
He later added, “You cannot
run an institution such as A&M on
the basis of student polls.”
Communist Goals
Is Weir us ’ Topic
Richard Weirus will speak on
“What We Should Know About
Communism” at the A&M Meth
odist Church Sunday at 6 p.m.
Weirus, director of the develop
ment fund of the Association of
Former Students, is a lieutenant
colonel in the U. S. Army Re
serve. He has attended several
Army schools on Communist
techniques for world conquest.
Aggie Mother
Will Be Named
Next Thursday
The Aggie Mother of the Year
will be chosen today by the student
life committee and Dean Hanni-
gan.
The committee’s decision is
scheduled to be announced Thurs
day; according* to a report given
by the committee at Thursday’s
Student Senate meeting.
Jerry Vion, committee chairman,
said the winning mother will be
honored at the review on Mother’s
Day, May 12, and also will be giv
en special recognition at 11 a.m.
that day.
IN OTHER Senate business, vice
president Gregory Laughlin an
nounced that Harlan Roberts, next
year’s student body president, will
represent A&M at the Southwest
Conference sportsmanship commit
tee spring meeting.
The meeting - will be held on the
University of Arkansas campus
May 11, preceding - the conference
track meet.
Tim Hinkle, executive secretary
of the group, said in a letter to
Sheldon Best, student body presi
dent, “The purpose of this meeting
will be to go over the new consti
tution and i - ules, orientate new
members of the committee, make
plans for our fall meeting, and dis
cuss new business that needs to
be brought before the committee.”
DOUG HOTCHKISS, chairman
of the student issues committee,
x’eported on the progress made in
preparation for the Twelfth Man
Bowl basketball game.
He named six subcommittees to
have charge of specific phases of
the bowl game: tickets, conces
sions, public address system and
scoring, programs, publicity and
band. Chairmen of these subcom
mittees will be chosen by Monday,
Hotchkiss said.
WHAT DO THEY SAY?
Women Discuss Board’s Co-ed Rule
By VAN CONNER
Battalion News Editor
And, what have the ladies to
say?
The Battalion feels that wo
men, at least those who will be
affected by the limited co-edu
cation decision of the Board of
Directors, should have a chance
to express opinion.
“I think it’s terrible,” said
June Roco, whose husband is
a senior mechanical engineering
major, “there are plenty of other
schools in the state whei - e gilds
can go.”
Vickie Jones, wife of a junior
business administration major
added, “I hate to see the tradi
tion broken. I don’t think there
are that many girls who just
have to go to school here, al
though I realize that it would be
more convenient for some.”
Barbara Seagraves, secretary
for the department of Wildlife
Management and wife of a sen
ior math major, said that she
thought that women would be
good for A&M as far as the
graduate school is concerned.
“But I don’t see how they will
help at the undergraduate
level. Besides, I like the tradi
tion too much to see girls come.”
Sandra Cahill, unmarried typist
for the Department of Plant Sci
ences, said, “I think it’s a shame
to have girls come here after so
many years.”
“I don’t mind one way or the
other,” said Mae Dene Zajicek,
wife of junior civil engineering
major. “I do think it will hurt
the military though.”
The wife of a senior business
major, Donna Nafe, plans to take
some courses this summer and
would probably take more if the
couple were not leaving in Au
gust. She felt that in ten years
co-education would improve the
school.
“Besides,” she added, “I think
girls in the classrooms might
help the boys.” She explained
that she thought it would pro-
vide more initiative.
Mrs. Doris B. Watson, depart
ment secretary for plant sciences,
said she thought the decision was
a shame after all the years of
tradition. She pointed out, how
ever that she thought a better
faculty could be attracted to the
school and maintained if their
daughters could go to school here.
Carolyn Adair, who works for
the college personnel office and
whose husband is a graduate stu
dent in physics, plans to take
graduate courses in education.
She added, however, “I side
with the boys — I hate to see a
lot of tradition ruined. But as
long as it has been passed I’m
going to take advantage of it.”
Another graduate student’s
wife, Judy Clark, said she would
take advantage of the ruling if
she were able. She added that
she thought the school will show
cultural improvement and that
the standards will be i - aised.
She added that she thought it
would be very good for the
school and Bryan-College Sta
tion.
Mrs. Charles L. Leinweber,
wife of the head of the Depart
ment of Range and Forestry,
said, “I’m for it.” She had a
word for those who question the
decision:
“The only thing you can count
on is change. And, while change
doesn’t necessarily mean pro
gress, progress always brings
about change.”
Mrs. Richard J. Baldauf, whose
husband is an associate profes
sor of wildlife management, said
she thought the ruling was a
“fine thing” and added, “Except
for the fact that I have a very
small child, I would probably
enroll myself.”
“I think it will be a good
thing for the Aggies. I think
there is a lot of room for im
provement all the way around
and girls might help that. I
don’t mean it is bad now, but
I think it can improve.”