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PATRICIA SAENZ
.. . Ray Meade
KAY OLSEN
. . Vann Phillips
BETTE HOOVER
. . . Horace Spiller Jr.
CARLA BUSH
. . . Mitt A. Bush
LINDA SALM
. . . Herbert Rabel
PUDDIN HERMANN SANDY HUGHES
. . . Ben Boyd
. . . Bill Nix
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LYNN BUCICINGHAM
... James Ray
LYNDA ASHCRAFT
. . . Jack Connor
JUDIE THURBER
. . . Clifford Roberts
SUSAN NEWKIRK
. . . Donald T. Hunter
GENEVA BILLINGS
. . . John H. Hopkin III
The selection of six Vanity Fair winners from 12 finalists
will highlight the annual Student Publications Banquet Fri
day night at 7 p. m. in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student
Center.
During the banquet program the audience will vote by
secret ballot for the six choices; the other ladies will be run
ners-up.
The winners are to be announced at the Senior Ring
Dance Saturday night.
Finalists for the ’63 Aggieland Vanity Fair positions
and their escorts are:
Bette Jane (Betsy) Hoover, escorted by Horace Spiller
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1963
Number 114
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ooper Safe After Flight
Brock’s Orchestra To Play
At Saturday’s Ring Dance
Buddy Brock’s Continental Or-
sstra, the largest orchestra ever
play for an A&M dance, will
on hand for the Senior Ring
nice in Sbisa Dining Hall, Sat-
day night, at 8:30.
Brock’s orchestra is a twenty-
tee piece group that has had
tasion to feature portions of the
orchestra at previous University
functions.
The baby-blue clad group will
provide continuous continental
style music from 8:30 until 11:30
p.m. Songstress Betty Cole will
add variation to the evenings en
tertainment.
THE RING Dance, a 20-year-old,
fOR NEXT YEAR
CSC Proposes
Election Change
Civilian Student Council
W Thursday night to send a
®Posal to the Election Commit-
* which would allow the CSC to
^duet a campus wide civilian
^•on for its president. At pre-
’’h the Council elects the presi-
The proposal by Dale Atkins, if
fader Stresses
filer Conditions
r Spanish Group
Jy ANTONIO _ The
^ish-speaking part of Texas’
Wation has not been given the
^dunity to prove itself, the
J t ® er president of the League
ignited Latin American Citizens
JUC) said Thursday.
is Dr. George Garza of San
S, now a staff member of
Alliance for Progress. He
at a meeting of the San
^"io Area LULAC Council.
ow many persons with Span-
tomes does the United States
e in ambassador posts in the
Ltin American countries to
^south?” he asked.
"Only one, and the other 18 am
ors can hardly say “good
bg’ in Spanish,” he added
accepted, would become effective
next year. Atkins said such an
election would create more stu
dent interest among the civilian
students and also create more in
terest in student government.
Jeff Harp, outgoing president
for the council, asked the council-
men to complete and turn in the
ballots distributed on co-education.
Harp said the results will be an-
tabulated.
nounced as soon as they are
Also during the meeting, offic
ers for next year were elected.
Richard Moore was elected presi
dent, Harp named vice president,
Don Bell recording secretary,
Royce Knox corresponding secre
tary, Charles Shook treasurer and
David Johnson parliamentarian.
Moore ran on the platform to
create more government interest
among the civilian students and in
the Civilian Student Council. He
advocated a larger publicity pro
gram and more progress in the
coming year. He also said stu
dent communications among civil
ian student and administration
should be improved.
Moore’s main policy was to en
courage the council members to
work for the council and to plan
and carry out more programs for
civilian students.
tradition on the A&M campus, is
held annually to celebrate the
turning of a senior’s ring, which
represents his change from an un
dergraduate to a graduate.
Tickets for the dance will be
available at the door for those who
failed to purchase them at the
Memorial Student Center earlier.
The dance will follow the ban
quet and after-dinner speech in
Duncan Dining Hall.
The guest speaker at the ban
quet, Walter “Zaney” Blaney, of
ficially titled Texas’ Goodwill Am
bassador by glubernatorial pro
clamation, is known for his “wild
antics” during after-dinner talks.
BLANEY RECEIVED the title
of “goodwill” ambassador for the
state from Gov. Price Daniel last
Gets Red Carpet
Treatment On Ship
year.
The menu for the banquet will
feature filet mignon with baked
alaska for dessert, according to
Charles Blashke, senior class presi-
dent.
Tickets for the dance are six
dollars per couple. The price of
the tickets will include two photo
graphs of each couple made in a
replica of the senior ring.
Profs Leave Posts
At Mississippi U.
OXFORD, Miss. UP' — Chancel
lor J. D. Williams said Thursday
16 professors have resigned from
the University of Mississippi facul
ty. That’s four more than the av
erage year-end turnover, Williams
said.
A survey by The Associated
Press indicates, however, that 35
professors either have quit or
have their resignations pending.
The State College Board meets
later this month to transact regu
lar business including the consid
eration of resignations.
Three of the resignations already
recorded came from department
chairmen.
By The Associated Press
Gordon Cooper brilliantly overcame an electrical failure
Thursday and brought his trusty Faith 7 in after 22 orbits
for the most perfect space shot yet.
Cooper was only 114 minutes off schedule when he hit
the water at 6:2414 p.m. EST. By 7:11 p.m. he was on
the rescue ship and, despite his long ordeal, walked briskly
across the deck on his own power.
Sailors had nailed down a red canvas so that Cooper
would have the next best thing to the red carpet treatment.
“Gordon is in fine shape,” his medical expert said.
President Kennedy was one of the first to get in his
congratulations.
“That was a great flight,” the President telephoned
Cooper.
And Kennedy told the U. S. public in a special television
talk: “Peace has her victories as well as war, and this
was one of the victories for the human spirit today.”
The President also called Trudy Cooper, the astronaut’s
wife, in Houston, Tex., and invited the Coopers to the White
House Monday.
It was a great night in Tecumseh, Okla. • The astro
naut’s mother, Hattie Cooper, had a perfect present for her
63rd birthday.
And a wonderful day, too, for an astronaut’s grand
mother, Orena Herd, 82, in whose little frame house a long
vigil was kept.
“I’ve got to take care of you,” Mrs. Cooper told her
mother when it was announced the landing was a fine one
and Cooper was safe.
She got up, went to the kitchen, and brought a glass
of water to her mother, who had sat in front of the television,
rocking slowly.
The two women were calmer earlier Thursday than they
had been when Cooper went into orbit.
But the tension built during the final, climactic phase
of re-entry.
The only sound came from the cage of a parakeet. The
little bird kept chattering and pecking on a tiny bell, causing
a tinkling noise that broke loudly into silent thoughts.
Neither woman spoke for more than an hour as they
waited through the reports of the re-entry into the earth’s
atmosphere and until Cooper’s capsule was safely aboard
the pickup ship.
The U. S. Senate, finally finding something it could
agree on, quickly passed a resolution congratulating Cooper.
“We are a very proud family tonight.” That was the
way Mrs. Gordon Cooper summarized her family’s reaction
Thursday to the historic space flight by her astronaut
husband.
Judie Thurber, escorted by
Clifford R. Roberts,
Linda Salm, escorted by
Herbert Rabel,
Puddin Hermann, escorted by
Bill Nix,
Geneva Ann Billings, escorted by
John H. Hopkin III,
Susan Newkirk, escorted by
Donald T. Hunter,
Lynn Buckingham, escorted by
James Ray,
Carla Bush, escorted by Mitt
A. Bush,
Patricia Saenz, escorted by Ray
Meade,
Sandy Hughs, escorted by Ben
Boyd,
Lynda Ashcraft, escorted by
Jack Connor, and
Kay Olsen, escorted by Vann
Phillips.
TWO SPECIAL awards will also
highlight the dinner. The Bat
talion will present its second an
nual service award to the person
contributing most to its publication
during the year.
Ben E. Johnson, editor of the
Southwestern Veterinarian, will re
cognize that magazine’s faculty
award winner.
Six outgoing editors of student
publications will' be given watches
for service during the 1962 - 63
school year, and keys will be pre
sented by the individual editors to
staff members of the various pub
lications.
THE OUTGOING editors are:
Alan Payne, The Battalion; Wel
don Nash, The Aggieland ’63; Jack
Graeme, The Texas A&M Review;
James Dodson, The Texas A&M
Agriculturist; John Imle, The Tex
as A&M Engineer; and Johnson,
The Southwestern Veterinarian.
Voting Cards
May Be Used
For Elections
The Student Senate discussed a
suggestion for a revision of voting
registration procedures at its re
gular meeting Thursday night.
Provided for in the proposed
change was voter registration
cards, which would supposedly
speed up voting in student elec
tions.
Senate parlimentarian, James
Carter, in suggesting- the idea, said,
“Elections, I think, would go 30
per cent faster.”
The proposed measure, which will
be acted upon by next year’s
Senate, would include voting cards
which would be issued during class
registration. The cards would have
six spaces — one for each of the
year’s elections. This provision
would allow each person one vote
in each election.
Larry Garrett, next year’s stu
dent issues committee chairman,
reported on the success of the
Twelfth Man Bowl basketball
game. He said the game netted
over $400. The amount will be
applied toward an opportunity
awards scholarship.
In other Senate business, the
group’s accomplishments for the
year were reviewed. Included in
the summary was the placing of
new benches in front of 10 dorms.
Jerry Vion and his student life
committee were in charge of the
project.
Mrs. Cooper and her daughters—Camala, 14, and Janita,
13—were smiling as they walked out the front door of their
brick and stone home where they had remained in seclusion
throughout the 34-hour, 2014-minute, 22-orbit flight.
“I felt very calm and confident,” Mrs. Cooper said when
asked how she had reacted to news that a malfunction
aboard the Faith 7 had forced her husband to use hand
controls while preparing for the space ship’s splash into
the Pacific.
Gig’em A&M University
Mary Nelson, clerk at Shaffer’s Book Store, tries on a
sample sweat shirt in A. M. Waldrop’s clothing store.
Waldrop store manager, Will K. Gibbs, said that he
asked a company to make up the sample some time ago
just in case the name-change bill passed. Mary is the
sister of yell leader Tom Nelson.