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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963
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Architects Enter New
$900,000 Building
OCCUPIED OVER THE WEEKEND
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\T SCHOOLMEN’S CONFERENCE
Carr Calls On Educators
To Stress 4 Americanism’
Students of today are a “gener
ation of ddstiny” and educators
face great and urgent responsibli-
ties in teaching the Communistic
threat and awakening “in our
children an old-fashioned regard
for Americanism.”
This was the message of Texas
Attorney General Waggqner Carr
as he spoke Wednesday at the
final assembly of the 1963 con
ferences of school administrators
and supervisors.
The annual conference involving
four state organizations began
Monday in the Memorial Student
Center and attracted approximately
500 persons.
CARR SAID history showed
great nations last “about 150 years
â– withered away morally, socially,
culturally, economically and simul
taneously. About 150 years, that’s
jn^t about the time that the United
States of America has been a na
tion . . .
“And now,” Carr continued, “we
find the seeds of complacent de
generation spreading rapidly a-
cross this great nation of ours.”
wst Is Selected
For MSC Opera
The cast for “South Pacific,”
this summer’s Shirt Sleeve Opera
sponsored by the Memorial Student
Center was announced earlier this
Keek.
Named to the leading role made
famous by actress-singer Mary
Martin was a well-known per
former of the area, Ann Harrison.
Also heading the cast are Char
les Mitchell as Emile de Becque,
Barbara Carson as Bloody Mary,
Bill Dansby as Lt. Joseph Cable,
Carol Courtney as Liat, and Bill
Andrews as Billis.
CO-DIRECTORS Billie Jean Bar-
ion and Bob Boone, and choreo
grapher Betty Moore, reported that
this year’s auditions attracted more
People than any prior year. Mrs.
Barron and Boone said they felt
the large turnout made for one of
the strongest supporting casts
ever organized for the summer
affair.
“South Pacific” will be present-
din Guion Hall July 7, 8, and 9.
The supporting cast and their
bles:
Vivian Barron and Bud Hamman
as Ngana and Jerome (de Becque’s
children); John Montgomery as
Henry; Janet Could as Bloody
Mary’s assistant; Rou Malone as
Abner; Bill Matthews as the pro
fessor;
HARRY GOODING as Capt.
Brackett; Bob Dansby as Quale;
Alex Quisenberry as Johnson; Bob
by Medlin as West; George Bam
berg as Wise; Tim Megarity as
Steeves; Amon Bailey as Hassing-
er; Ken Fisher as Jerome; Mike
Parsons as Larson;
Tom Maxwell as Waters; Elaine
Meinecke as Lt. Genevieve Mar
shall; Joe Piermatti as Lisa; Sally
Wynn as Connie; Carla Vaughan
as Janet; Fennell Edwin as Pame
la; Mary Margaret Gibbs as Sue;
Judy Mills as Betty; Marcia Chalk
as Cora;
Lovalie Barbee as Dinah; David
Reisinger as Marcel; Bill Semmel-
rogge as Lt. Buzz Adams; John
Long - and Tom Maxwell as the mus
clemen; Dana Wortham and Mary
Arms as the nuns; and a singing
chorus and dancers.
In the absence of an overall
plan to teach Americanism, “it
must fall to you and me individu
ally to handle this problem,” the
attorney general said.
“If Americanism is properly
taught by teachers who love Ameri
ca, and who desire to cling to those
cherished principles which made
her great, the result can only be
at their zenith and then each has
a stronger and a more vibrant
America” Carr said.
He assailed what he described
as “a sudden trend among our
young people” to be more interested
in what extras they can get out
of a job than in what they can put
into the job.
THE ELECTION of officers by
the four participating’ organiza
tions and a speech by Natt B. Bur
bank, president of the Amencan
Association of School Administra
tors, highlighted Tuesday sessions
of the conference.
Burbank cited financial prob
lems, the employment of teachers
the year around “at truly pro
fessional salaries,” the expansion
of adult education problems and
utilizing electronic principles in
school record keeping as “deep
seated issues which must be faced
by us and the American people in
the coming’ years and decades.”
Dr. Paul V. Petty of the College
of Education, University of New
Mexifco addressed the opening ses
sion of the conference Monday
morning.
HE TOLD the Texas educators
that school curriculum development
with its costlv reouirements and
demands for the most enlightened
leadership available will go by de
fault to the national level unless
more is accomplished at the local
and state levels.
Petty also touched briefly on
the outspoken and often unjust
criticism of public education and
methods and content of our pre
sent curriculum.”
A&M Registrar
Escapes Gunman
A&M Registrar H. L. Heaton
was kidnapped and robbed of $250
shortly before noon Wednesday but
managed to escape his abductor un
harmed a few hours later.
Police arrested a gunman, identi
fied as Geradus F. Hauwert, 35,
a former student here, about 3:30
p.m. at a roadblock near La
Grange.
Heaton told Lee County Sheriff
Vernon A. Goodson at Giddings
that the man confronted him in the
A&M parking lot just as he was
getting out of his car.
HE WAS ORDERED to get back
in the car and “drive to the bank
where you have your money.”
Heaton said he was forced to with
draw $250 from the drive-in win
dow at College Station State Bank.
The A&M official was then or
dered to drive out of town on
highway 21. When they got to
the junction of 21 and U. S. High
way 77 near Lincoln, the man
offered to buy Heaton a soft drink
at the Blue Moon Drive-In Res
taurant.
Heaton told police that he “took
a chance” and grabbed the gun
man when they got out, telling
standers-by that the man was try
ing to kidnap him. But the man
broke free an calmly drove off
in his victim’s car, leaving Heaton
behind.
The Registrar called the Lee
County Sheriff, who radioed ahead
to La Grange where a roadblock
forced Hauwert to stop. Deputies
said Hauwert had to be threatened
with a shotgun before peacefully
submitting.
They removed a .38 caliber re
volver from Hauwert’s pocket.
There were five live shells in the
chamber and one spent shell, De
puty Vastine Koopma said.
The gunman was taken to Fay
ette County Jail in La Grange
where investigators said he freely
admitted the holdup and abduction
but would say little else except
that he was in financial trouble
and needed money.
MSC Announces
Attack On Boredom
The Summer Directorate of the
Memorial Student Center has an
nounced a varied program of acti
vities to “help stamp out summer
boredom.”
Poteet Woman Will
Join September
Vet School Class
When the School of Veterinary
Medicine begins the fall semester
in September, the first-year class
will have 63 young men and one
woman.
The woman — Sonja Faye Oli-
phant of Poteet — will be the vet
erinary school’s first female stu
dent.
Dr. Alvin Price, dean of the A&M
School of Veterinary Medicine, said
four women applied for entrance
this fall, but Miss Oliphant was the
only one who competed success
fully for admission.
The school accepts 64 new. stu
dents per year. Miss Oliphant’s
acceptance at A&M was made pos
sible through recent action by the
Board of Directors, which ruled
that the graduate school and veter
inary school be opened to women.
fOR A&M ROTC CADETS
In addition to the nightly movies
at the Grove the Directorate is
sponsoring weekly dances and will
present two special musical during
the summer. The committee has
also arranged for some Sunday af
ternoon jam sessions, hootenannies
and movies.
Dances will be held every Mon
day night from 8-11 in the MSC
ballroom and a live band will be
feature every third Monday. Ho
ward Head, summer committee
chairman said that dress will be
informal (no jeans or shorts).
The cost is 75 cents stag, $1.25 a
couple for the live hand nights and
50 cents across the board for juke
box dances.
Head issued an invitation to
anyone who would like to be a
member of the committee present
ing the weekly dances and the Sun
day afternoon activities. An or
ganizational meeting will be held at
7:30 tonight in Room 2C-2D .of
the MSC.
1st Classes Held
Monday Morning
The Division of Architecture set up housekeeping in its
new $900,000 home last weekend.
According- to Theo R. Holleman, head of architecture,
office supplies, equipment and furniture were moved to the
new location over the weekend and classes were held in the
structure for the first time Monday morning.
The three-story building contains 47,000 square feet of
enclosed space, which provides approximately 30,000 square
feet more space than the division had in its old home on the
top floor of the Academic Building.
Holleman said that there is actually only one more
classroom in the new facility but that there is now much more
space for design laboratories.
A 200-seat auditorium for
lectures and special programs
is located on the first floor of
the new building. Across the
hall is a 12,000-volume library.
An adjoining facility to the
classroom building is the research
center, a silo shaped structure
capped with a dome to provide a
“simulated sky” effect,
WITH THE additional floor
space, Holleman mentioned spe
cially designed movable partitions
that will enable the division to
vary floor area to accomodate dif
ferent sized classes.
Another of the unique features
of the structure is the use of “gray
glass” that stretches almost the
entire length of the building. Hole-
man explained that the tinted
glass, separated from the windows,
allows natural lighting and pre
vents glare.
Two large courtyards will be
a new aid to landscape architecture
students. Holleman said they are
slated for use as “experimental
labs” for the landscape students,
as well as for displays.
HOLLEMAN pointed out that a
steadily increasing enrollment in
the Division of Architecture was
one of the major reasons for con
struction of the new home. Three-
hundred-seventy students were en
rolled in ai’chitecture last Septem
ber and the total is expected to
reach 400 by the beginning of the
next regular term.
Unpacking has not been com
pleted. Holleman said that only
a few pieces of furniture were
moved from the old facilities and
that new furniture for the building
will arrive during the summer.
‘Summer Camp’ Begins Soon
Pour hundred Aggies in ad-
v anced sections of the Air Force
‘id Army Reserve Officers
Training Corps will soon begin
six-week summer training ses-
sions across the nation.
Most of the cadets will enter
fte "summer camp” phase of
'heir ROTC program this week-
tr id or at the beginning of next
ffe ek. A few are scheduled to
sta rt later in the summer.
Plans call for 150 Air Force
^dets who have completed their
i'lnior year of study to train at
T bases across the country.
training will be taken at a
Bl * e near the student’s home, so
®°st of the Aggies will in Texas.
Aggies, mostly juniors, enroll-
^ 'n the advanced Army ROTC
B r °gram will be among more
® an 2,000 cadets scheduled to
report to Fort Sill, Okla., Friday
or Saturday. The 251 A&M stu
dents will join ROTC cadets from
colleges and universities in seven
states for field training in gen-
ei’al military science.
The summer training program
of the Air Force ROTC is de
signed to develop a better un
derstanding of the Air Force
mission as exemplified in the
operation of a typical base and
to provide a concentrated period
of junior officer training and
leadership development, oficers
here said.
The Army’s summer training
program is designed to provide
ROTC students with an oppor
tunity to apply classroom theo
ries to tactical situations in the
field. Emphasis is placed on
leadership, discipline and other
attributes necessary for officers.
Nineteen staff members of the
Army ROTC detachment at A&M
will serve at Fort Sill during
the training period that ends
July 26. The senior officer from
here is Lt. Col. Albert A. Vernon.
Serving as camp commander
will be Maj. Gen. Lewis S. Grif-
fing, commanding general of
Fort Sill and the U. S. Army
Artillery and Missils Center.
The Army’s program is an in
tensive, concentrated period of
training encompassing basic
training given to all men enter
ing the Army, plus other factors
for the prospective second lieu
tenants.
Eleven members of the Air
Force ROTC staff here will serve
with summer training units at
James Connally Air Force Base
or Webb Air Force Base .
The Air Force cadets partici
pate in a program that includes
flying, aircraft control and oper
ations, aircraft maintenance, sur
vival training, physical train
ing, small arms familiarization
and leadership problem exercises.
The summer Air Force cadets
will serve under various com
mands such as Air Defense,
Training and the Strategic Air
Command.
Air Force bases at which the
Aggies will train this summer
include, in addition to James
Connally and Webb in Texas, Mc
Coy, Elgin and McDill in Florida;
England AFB, La.; Williams
AFB, Ariz.; Hamilton AFB,
Calif.; Otis AFB, Mass.; Platts
burgh AFB, N.Y.; Schilling AFB,
Kan.; and Shaw and Myrtle
Beach AFB, S. C.
City Zip-Codes
For New Mail
Service Listed
The new, five-digit Zip-Codes
to be used by residents of College
Station were announced Thursday
by Postmaster Ernest Gregg, with
instructions for proper use of the
improved system to speed mail de
liveries.
The three-digit prefix to be used
by all mailers in College Station —
whether they are post office box
holders or receive home or office
delivery — is 778, Greeg said.
“To this prefix should be added
the two-digit numeral 40 if you
receive mail delivery service. Thus,
your Zip-Code would be 77840.”
“IF YOU RENT a post office box
at the main post office, you should
add to the prefix the two-digit
numeral 41, which would mean the
Zip-Code serving you is 77841.”
“If you get mail at the South
Station boxes, your Zip-Code is
77842,” Gregg added.
“If you get your mail addressed
to Texas A&M College, your Zip-
Code is 77843.” It is most im
portant that box holders not use
Texas A&M as part of their ad-
di’esses, Gregg emphasized.
He stressed that the Zip-Code
goes into effect nationally as of
July 1, and urged all residents to
learn the code that serves them
now, and use it in their return
address on all correspondence. In
answering mail, he said, Zip-Codes
taken from return addresses on in
coming mail should be used.
“The Zip-Code is literally the
last word in mail addressing.”
Gregg said. “It should follow the
city and state in addresses.”
HE CITED this example for cor
rect use of the Zip-Code:
Ernest Gregrg
706 Inlow Blvd.
College Station. Texas 77840.
“When the national Zip-Code is
fully operational,” Gregg pointed
out, “it will provide the United
States with the most modern sys
tem of mail distribution and dis
patch ever devised.”
“The possibility of miss-sent mail
will be cut to a minimum and the
time between denosit and delivery
will be sliced, in many cases, by
as much as 24 hours.” he added.
“But in order to assure this
vastly improved mail service,” he
cautioned, “it is vital that all of
us learn and use the Zip-Code for
our service areas.”
NASA Demonstration
Navy Commander R. V. McCurty, a representative of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, explains models at a demon
stration given Tuesday night in the Memorial Student Center.
3,358 Enrollment
Is Summer Record
A record enrollment of 3,358,
more than any year since the
1947 pbst-war boom, was posted
Friday for the first summer
term.
A&M Registrar H. L. Heaton
said registration was up 24 per
cent over last summer’s 2,711
students.
Enrolles included 270 coeds,
compared to 203 admitted last
summer. It also included three
Negro men^ first of their race to
attend A&M.