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net a ' pecan gu Mills Corntid ★ * '• Halliwell,s! >e A&M Depr ices, is attes ‘ks Virus Sn: of Marylani pecial field oi ?y. One of is projects is lii unidentified is many Taj ★ i int professor! leave Jolt ird Congmi Society of s ranee. He»il ned with iasifl read two pa Pau Prance, a faculty a ment of Oca orology. Hin »st is applied i, Griffithesl research ii he British he joined th eptember. hs plan to England tea tte this sum*! Shirt Sleeve Opera Called 6 Terrific 9 ‘Terrific — really terrific” was the comment most often heard as crowds departed Guion Hall Sunday, Monday and Tues day nights. They had just wit nessed performances of “South Pacific” put on by local resi dents, musicians and actors. The production was this year’s “Shirt Sleeve Opera” sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Summer Directorate. “South Pacific” was directed by Mrs. Billy Jean Barron and Bob Boone. High on the directors’ list of compliments were those going to Charles Hearn, fifth year archi- tecure student who was responsi ble for the sets. Hearn, Dave Woodard, Jeff Brainerd and others backstage were cited for their dexterity in making fast changes of scenery. Ann Harrison of Bryan, who played the leading role of nurse Nellie Forbush, was praised for her “warm and sincere” portray al. A statement from Boone add ed, “Her singing and dancing, aided by her very mobile and lovely face, were of professional calibre in every way.” The French planter, Emile de Becque, was played by Bryan’s Charles Mitchell. “His resonant voice along with a beautifully prepared French accent made de Becque quite believable,” the statement said. Luther Billis, the sailor with a deal and a liker of “projects” was played by William Andrew Jr. of Bryan; Boone said An drew gave Billis a very effec tive and constant characteriza tion. The highlight of the show came when Mrs. Harrison and Andrew combined to do an eye-filling rendition of “Honeybun.” Boone said the special credit should be given to Mrs. Angie Harrison of Bryan, costumer for the show. He described all the costuming as “colorful and x - eal- istic. Barbara Carson of Bryan por trayed Bloody Mary, a Tonkau- nese vendor who could always outdo Billis. Boone praised her control to voice and singing of “Bali Hai.” Mrs. Carson’s make up took 45 minutes to apply. The second love story involved Lt. Cable, played by Bill Dans- by and Liat, portrayed by La- I Vada Barbee. Boone praised Dansby and described Mrs. Bar bee as a “lovely and diminutive Liat.” Boone emphasized that those with smaller parts made them real and important to the overall show. “Heading this list,” he said, “should be Harry Gooding of College Station, who played Capt. Brackett.” With Gooding during much of the production was John Montgomery of Bryan, who played Commander Harbi- son. Other supporting players men tioned by Boone were Ron Man- lone, Tommy Taylor, Bill Mat thews, Ken Fisher, Alex Quisen- berry, Bob Medlin, George Bam berg, Herb Moeller, Henry Van- der Crpyssen, Elaine Meinecke, Joe Piermattei, Sally Wynn, Carla Vaughn, Jeannie Smith, Fanell Edwin, Janet Gould, Mary Margaret Gibbs, Judy Mills, Marcia Chalk, Suzanne Medlin, David Reisinger, Bill Semmelrogge, and Dana Wortham. Boone, the MSC music coordi nator, directed the orchestra. He pointed out that all musicians, as well as the actors, donated their time for the production. Members of the orchestra were Margaret Adams, Mary Leland, John Holick, Bob Alexander, Ste- wai’t Jernigan, Mary Margaret Hierth, John Williamson, Willard Johnson, Micky Ste vens, Sonny BroWri, Jack Briggs, George Stuart, John Upchurch, Furman Isbel, Fern Hamman, Louvenia Bateson, Roy Allison, Lewis King, and Melanie Clark. Betty Moore directed the danc ing chorus, which Boone said “gave the show a brightness and spirit typical of Broadway mus icals.” Dancers were Margaret Brown, Mary Beth Calhoun, Ruth Ellen Calhoun, Donna Dale, Chris Gooding, Linda Isbel, Clapzelle Poe, Angie Harrison and Suzanne Medlin. Che Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 Number 123 Ready For Remodeling Vacated only a short time ago by design students in archi tecture, this is one of the fourth-floor rooms of the Aca demic Building to get a “new dress.” Fourth Floor Of Ac Building Being Readied The fourth floor of the Academic Building on the A&M campus is getting a ‘‘new dress” for an old role this fall— bousing classes and faculty. The Division of Architecture has moved from the top loor of the domed, 50-year-old* Wding to occupy the new Archi tecture Building. For the first time iince early 1914 student architects >re not meeting classes in the Aca- fenic Building. The floor with approximately 000 square feet of floor suace ^ being readied to house other students and faculty members. The B-W Construction Co. of hyan is renovating the floor with the $60,047 contract calling for tompletion by Sept. 1. THE NEW classrooms will be Signed from the registrar’s office hke other general purpose class- tooms, Dean of Instruction William Graff said. “We expect that the people who ar e housed in the Academic Build- arranged. Plans call for 32 offices on the floor. There also will be seven classrooms or laboratories. THE ACADEMIC building occu pies the site of the “Old Main,” which burned in 1912. Construction began almost immediately on the new building and it was occupied in 1914. The cost was $225,000. Modernization of the building’s interior continued through the years and only the fourth floor has been renovated extensively in re cent years. The building measures approxi mately 260 by 75-feet and was the first erected on the A&M campus with a structural frame of rein- School Law Workshop Given Close Attention By Students the Departments of Education j force <* concrete, College Archivist told Psychology, English, Mathe- Ernest Langford said. He is a pro xies and Modern Languages, will lessor emeritus of architecture. I" 6 those who will need these class- Nis the most,” the dean said. The department office for edu ction and psychology will be r ov ed into new quarters on the fourth floor. This department and Wish will have nine offices each to'd mathematics will utilize 14 5 Vices on the floor. The Academic Building elevator Jo will be modernized under a ™i.000 contract awarded Westing- Electric Corporation’s Ele ctor Division of Dallas, Howard Jdtrett, college manager of the office of Physical Plant, said. ^flE CONTRACTOR requires Wroximately six months to secure P® machinery and parts. Actual building of the elevator will be 'O’topleted within eight or 10 weeks work begins. Padgett said the new elevator have the latest automatic se- *^*Ve controls and other features. Contracts for both projects were a rded at the June meeting of the Board of Directors. The work on the fourth floor in- totoucs rearranging the space which ^consisted mostly of large draft- rooms. Partitions, lighting and *** conditioning ducts must be re- Fireman’s School To Offer Something For Everybody A&M’s 34th Firemen’s Training School will offer something for everybody — rookies and veterans. Even the public will watch dem onstrations with latest fire fighting g - ear on two nig-hts of the school, Henry D. Smith, chief of the En- 5th Journalism Workshop Will Begin Monday Two newspaper executives and an industrial publications editor are among the speakers announced for the fifth annua] Hig-h School Journalism Workshop at A&M next week. More than 300 high school jour nalism students have registered for the five-day meeting, Delbert Mc Guire, head of the Department of Journalism here and workshop di-‘ rector, reported. He expects the number to reach 350 before the conference begins. Among the speakers will be Thomas C. Turner of Waco, Dal las Morning News Central Texas News Bureau chief; John H. John son Jr., of Houston, Trunkline Gas Company publications editor, and Robert W. Akers, Beaumont Enter prise-Journal editor and chief. They are among 30 persons from industry, Texas high schools, and colleges named speakers and ad visers for the workshop. Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas will send four representatives to work with the students. In addition to the talks, the stu dents will edit a daily mimeograph newspaper, a 64-page yearbook with color and a letterpress news paper during the workshop. Assisting - with publication •wall be Miss Ernestine Farr of Arling ton and Mrs: Lela Edwards of Bryan, both .newspaper advisers, and Mrs. Betty Stanley of Lubbock, yearbook director. Doyle Keeling of Odessa will be in charge of photography. Twenty-eight students, mostly schoolmen, are giving close atten tion to an A&M workshop course in school law. They must. The three - week concentrated workshop requires the same work as a longer course. The workshops—first of their type held on the A&M campus—are planned especially for school ad ministrators who cannot be away from their posts longer than thi - ee weeks. “The response has surpassed our expectations for a first offering,” Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, head of the Department of Education and Psy chology said. Each of the workshops has at tracted 30 students, schoolmen plus some A&M graduate students in education. Teaching the current workshop, second of the three, is Dr. Dwight L. Kirk, superintendent of schools, Odessa, and a prominent Texas ed ucator. Kirk’s major field of study is educational administration. “I like this workshop, I think most of all, because it concentrates a person’s attention on the subject in a continuous program,” he said “the fact that school superinten dents and other administrators are in the class lends a practical appli cation.” “The graduate students gain greater appreciation for problems faced by the schoolmen,” Hensar ling said. The current workshop ends Fri day. Class members meet all after noon Monday through Friday. Li brary work and other preparation keeps them busy at other hours. Dr. Emmitt Smith of West Texas State taught the first workshop, June 3 through 21. The session was devoted to supervision and was designed to help supervisors and principals of schools. gineering Extension Service fire men training program, announced. More than 1,700 persons engaged in fire prevention, control and safety will attend the July 21-26 training program, Smith added. OLD TIMERS as well as novice volunteers will get training in driv ing emergency vehicles, fire fight ing - , rescue, pumping operations, forcible entry and other problems confronting firemen. The fire fighters will learn about chemicals, liquid oxygen and hy- drog - en, multi-story rescues with or without stretchers and 1 ultra-mod em equipment. Fire marshals will hear talks ranging from recently adopted laws and laws of arson to inspec tion practices and courtroom pro cedures. Some firemen will be come teachers. Of the record 1,700 anticipated enrollment, 290 will be veteran firemen and manufacturers who will serve as instructors. One of the teachers will be Palmer West of Eldorado, president of Texas Firemen’s and Fire Marshal’s As sociation. “AGAIN THIS YEAR, industry will loan more than $200,000 worth of equipment to the campus for our use,” Smith added. “The school will use 70,000 gallons of petro leum in fire fighting courses.” Health Physics Fellowships To Be Offered A&M has been designated one of the few universities where Atomic Energy Commission Special Fellow ships in Health Physics may be held. Health Physics is a growing pro fession concerned with the study, evaluation and control of radiation hazards. Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall Wednesday announced approval of the fellowship program with the AEC. He said it is anticipated the program will be in full operation here in September of next year. Ultimately the program may in volve a number of students here. “The program is to train people badly needed in health physics,” Dean Hall said. “Texas A&M’s en trance into this program is espec ially significant in view of the AEC’s decision to turn over to the states the responsibility of policing the use of radioactivg materials,” he continued. Only eight other universities, by latest count, cooperate in the pro gram. The nearest are Vanderbilt University and the University of Kansas. The University of Puerto Rico is the only land-grant school listed. Dean Hall said the health physics fellowship holders will study here for two semesters and then have a practical assignment for the sum mer. Assignments are at major facilities such as Oak Ridge Na tional Laboratory. Completion of the academic study and the summer assignment will qualify the student for a certificate in health physics. Studies are in mathematics, nuclear engineering, radiation biology and physics. The public demonstrations on Wednesday and Thursday nights will feature: 1. Portable foam maker, capa ble of producing 5,000 cubic feet of chemical foam per minute. 2. A special saw, capable of cut ting - through a brick wall or easily removing doors from automobiles. 3. The strength of liquid oxy gen. 4. New fire resistant plastic that will withstand heat from a butane torch. 5. Underwater rescue techniques. 6. Chemicals that disperse flam- able materials. 3 MORE FELLOW Plan Approved For Promotion Opportunities A program to encourage and facilitate interdepartmental promotions for classified college employees has been approved by A&M’s Academic Council Executive Committee. C. C. Munroe Director of Personnel at A&Ms said the new program, to be started Aug. 1, will expand opportunities for all employees and should increase levels of experience in high-rated classifications. The plan at first will be confined to positions on-campus. Basic to workable program by interdepartmental promo tion is compus-wide advertisement of all position vacancies, the director said. “The medium to be used for this .advertisement is a ‘Job "^Opportunities Bulletin’ which will be issued periodically by NSF High School Course Nears End As it draws near its close at the end of this week, the fourth annual A&M physics program for selected high school students has been de scribed as a success by both stu dents and adult supervisors. The A&M program is one of many similar sessions now in prog ress at colleges across the nation. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the courses deal with all the major fields of sciences. OTHERS WILL begin later in the summer. A&M is to have three more—in geology, mathematics and biology—during the next summer session. Directing this summer’s physics program was Dr. Dayle O. Sittler, assistant professor of physics. The 32 students, including one girl, came mostly from Texas. Five were from out of state. “I don’t know if they’re having fun,” said Sittler, “but I sure am.” He said the six-week program was designed mainly to “preserve” promising high school students who might be induced to take up careers in physical sciences. THE COURSE, he explained, is primarily an introduction to the many aspects of physics—so the students would be exposed to posi- bilities they ordinarily would miss until entering college. The students, most of them high school juniors who have not had physics yet, were selected by Sit tler. Part of the application pro cedure involved a battery of tests. Sittler said the programs differ widely from school to school. The A&M group hears a lecture by Sittler daily at 7 a.m. A labora tory is held from 8:30 to 10:30. The students hear a second lecture by Ronald E. Smith at 11. ACCORDING TO SITTLER, the coursework deals mainly with the main divisions of physics. He said his own sessions covei’s “classical” physics, primarily heat and me- modern aspects of the science. In the afternoons the students are “farmed out” as assistants on Aggie Exes Receive First Place Award A&M’s Former Students Associa tion received a first place award last week in Atlantic City, N.. J., by the American Alumni Council “for outstanding service rendered its alma mater and the cause of education.” The Aggies shared the coveted various research projects over the alumni service award with the Uni- campus. A few work in the Depart- versity of Alabama, whose former I ment of Physics while others are students were cited for “respon- j working in such places as wildlife sible stewardship” during the inte- management, nuclear science, agri- gration crisis. cultural engineering, biochemistry, The award was one of two given i electrical engineering and veteri- ithe Aggies. The other was a $150 | nary medicine. honorable mention prize for “out- | Week nights are consumed by standing sustained performance in “homework” problems and prepara- alumni support.” | tion of “term papers.” Sittler said Both citations were presented at the students were allowed to choose the AAC’s 50th anniversary con- ; a topic from a list prepared by him ference. Attending the national | and were expected to use the li- meeting are J. B. (Dick) Hervey, brary in compiling a report, former student secretary; Richard j The students are given a quiz Weirus, alumni development fund ; each Saturday morning, director, and E. E. McQuillen, Col- j Don Reddick( dormitory coun- lege development fund director. | selor for the boys living in Hart Specifically, the AAC mentioned | Hall, said the students participate A&M’s Century Study, which pro- | in a variety of weekend activity, jected the needs of the college over Dances, swimming parties and simi- a 15-year period. The Aggies con- j lar recreation have provided wel- tributed more than $50,000 to fi- ! come breaks in the accelerated pro- nance the project. I gram. the College Personnel Office,’ Munroe explained. “This bul letin will list all classified vacancies by title, indicate the pay range, and give a brief description of requirements. Each vacancy will also be given a code number.” HE EMPHASIZES the following three requirements for interdepart mental promotion applicants: 1. The position for which appli cation is made must carry a high er classification than the em ployee’s present position. 2. Regular budget employees should have been on their present jobs for at least six months. An hourly employee may apply i - egard- less of length of service. 3. Unless otherwise specified, applications will be accepted only from persons who will be resident in the area for at least two years. Other requirements are these: Applications must be submitted on the standai'd “Application for Em ployment” form available from the College Personnel Office. Appli cations will be accepted from pres ent employees only for specific va cancies as advertised in the Job Opportunities Bulletin. Each application must have at tached to it a letter of concurrence or recommendation from the em ployee’s current supervisor. These can be sent direct from the depart ment to the College Personnel Of fice. Munroe said the bases for selec tion are the following: 1. Applicants will be considered according to their qualifications chanics. Smith discusses the more for the advertised position and their record of past, performance, including attendance. 2. Other factors being equal, preference for all vacancies will be given to college employees. 3. The responsibility for final selection of applicants rests with the department in which the va cancy exists. Calhoun Receives Engineering Award For Leadership Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., vice chancellor for development of the A&M College System who is now on leave to serve as science ad visor to the Secretary of the In terior, has received the 1963 Char les W. Crawford Award. Dean Fred J. Benson of the School of Enginering announced the presentation of the award for distinguished service to the School of Engineexnng.
