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Pap"4 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 11, 1963 THE BATTALION m lii Wm liiiilw JMi No Mail Bee-Cause Carmen Rovn, 16, of near Ring-sted, Iowa, because of a large swarm of honey bees holds mail the postman delivered to her which set up housekeeping. (AP Wirephoto) farm door instead of placing in the mailbox Language Prof Announces Tape-Recorded Dictionary What may be the world’s first tape-recorded edition of an Eng lish-foreign language dictionary wasj announced here Friday by A&M Professor Jack A. Dabbs. The dictionary consists of 35 reels of magnetic tape. It is the spoken version of “A Short Ben- gali-English, English-Bengali Dic tionary” printed here in March, 1962. The printed version also is notable as the first to show the Bengali words in a phonetic tran scription, using the English as well as the Bengali alphabet. BENGALI IS spoken by approxi mately 60 million persons, about the same number of people as speak French. It is the language of Eastern India and of East Pakistan. The 173-page printed dictionary has worldwide distribution. The new magnetic tape edition is the work of Dabbs, who pro nounces the English words, and Mrs. Sumitra Banerjee, who pro nounces the Bengali. She is a native of Calcutta and the wife of an A&M graduate student. The taped dictionary was de monstrated Friday afternoon to a group of interested A&M faculty "nembers and others. Demand for the printed dic tionary has surprised Dabbs. Ap proximately 50 copies remain of 450 copies prepared in 1962. Lib raries, book-stores, governmental agencies, religious organizations, Peace Corpsmen and others have secured copies. A&M’s INTEREST in Bengali stems from the cooperative educa tional program underway in East Pakistan with the support of the U. S. ^government. The taped dictionary was pro duced in the A&M Modern Langu ages Laboratory with assistance from the Ford Foundation. “The taped dictionary does not replace the printed dictionary, but is a supplement to it,” Dabbs said. “It has the disadvantage that it is bulky or requires a tape record er and an electrical supply. There fore, I visualize that its use will, for sometime, be restricted to edu cational organizations and insti tutions . . . primarily in the class room and study booth or study table.” The tape-recorded dictionary gains added importance in that the supply of Bengali speakers as instructors is extremely limited. “THIS MEANS that a taped dic tionary like this is a valuable sup plement to an ordinary dictionary. Its advantage lies in its ability to bring the spoken word to the stu dent,” the professor of modern languages said. Special efforts have been made to minimize difficulty in finding the desired word on the tape. Development of the taped dic tionary is another step in the “phe nomenal growth in the last ten years” of the use of tape record ers as a teaching aid in language instruction. Most of this usage has been at the lower level of in struction or for literary works, Dabbs said. Five pages of the printed dic tionary are recorded on each reel of about 600 feet of tape at a speed of .375 inches per second. THE DICTIONARY consists of Bengali words and their English meanings. In many cases there are phrases or sentences in which a word is used in context or with an idiomatic meaning. “With this dictionary it is possi ble to hear a native speaker pro nounce each word, phrase, and sen tence ,and then to imitate the speaker before the next word is spoken,” Dabbs said. “This form of the dictionary will be useful for anyone who is, interested in studying the langu age and who wants to hear a word or phrase properly spoken.” AMONG THE PROFS Two Staff Members Join Oak Midge Nuclear Studies Two A&M staff members are among the visiting university per sonnel at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies this summer. At the Tennessee research center are Thomas M. Ferguson, associ ate professor of poultry science, and Jack M. Inglis, wildlife man agement instructor. Earl Logan Jr., formerly a mem ber of the Department of Mechani cal Engineering at A&M, also is associated with the Oak Ridge In stitute. Ferguson is a member of the agricultural research group, and Inglis is assigned to the health phy sics division. Both will return to A&M this fall. ★ ★ ★ Dr. W. F. Krueger, Dr. C. B. Ryan and Dr. J. H. Quisenberry of the A&M Department of Poultry Science participated in the recent National Broiler Council meeting in Houston. The Council’s 1963-64 program was reviewed, discussed and criti cized. ★ ★ ★ Dr. William A. Luker, associate registrar at North Texas State, will join the A&M Division of Business Administration Sept. 1 as an assistant professor, Dr. John E. Pearson, division head, announc ed Tuesday. Luker received a B.B.A. from A&M in 1952. He was a distin guished military student and a member of the Ross Volunteers. The new faculty member served as an officer in the U. S. Army from 1952 to 1955. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate Navy Requests Info On Former Fliers The colleges and universities of America, which supplied Naval Aviators of World War I, are now requested to furnish contact with the families of these men in order that they may be included in a commemorative register now being compiled by cooperation of Depart ment of the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard. Many descendants of these form er Naval Aviators are students or recent graduates of our colleges and may render a service by writ ing to Naval Aviator Register, 2500 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Wash ington 7, D. C. Ah Say, Folks... Ah’M be here ycdfytS v\ \\ I, / FORMAL OPENING SATURDAY TEMPORARY QUARTERS — 9AM-5PM Free Cokes end Coffee //y/jiL in vv\\\\ Be a CHARTER DEPOSITOR and receive n) FREE PERSONALIZED CHECKS OFFICIAL CHARTER DEPOSITOR CERTIFICATE 3j AN OPPORTUNITY TO WIN TWO DELUXE RESERVED SEATS TO EVERY A« & M„ HOME FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL GAME g>NK \ OMMERCE F. D. I. C. -I Across from main gate of A&M (Col. B. C, says: "Gig Aggies' 1 ) from North Texas. Before appointment as associate registrar, Luker taught mathema tics and statistics at the Denton school from 1958 to 1961. He had charge of statistical research and public relations as a member of the registrar’s staff. ★ ★ ★ Two members of the A&M De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology are attending profes sional meetings in Colorado. Dr. Vance Moyer is participating- in the Universities Council on Hy drology conference July 10-12 in Denver, and Dr. William Clayton is participating in the American Meteorology Society meeting July 10-13 at Fort Collins. Moyer is accompanied by Dr. Ernest Smerdon, professor in the A&M Department of Agricultural Engineering. ★ ★ ★ Dr. F. A. Gardner of the A&M Department of Poultry Science re cently visited the Ozona, El Paso, Clint and San Angelo areas collect ing final data for Project 1260 from egg wholesaling plants. Project 1260 is a hatch market ing project. ★ ★ ★ Associate Professor Lee J. Mar tin of the A&M English faculty will attend a. seminar in the use of the overhead projector for teach ing English scheduled July 15-25 at Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Martin is chairman of the freshman English committee at A&M. A grant from the Fund for Im provement of Teaching of the A&M Former Students’ Excellence Fund has been made for Dr. Martin’s attendance at the seminar. ★ ★ ★ Dr. R. L. Atkinson of the A&M Department of Poultry Science participated in a recent meeting of a group of poultry industry per sonnel in Fort Worth. Atkinson discussed various prob lems relating to turkey production in the interest of up-to-date in formation about the industry in Texas. ★ ★ ★ A&M’s George Draper, super- viser of the National Turkey Im provement Plan, and J. N. Wake field, supervisor of the National Poultry Improvement Plan in Tex as, participated in the recent Re gional Plan Conference in New Or leans, La. Adoption of uniform poultry dis ease control regulations through out the United States was studied. Results of the study will lie pre sented next year at the biennial meeting of National Turkey Im provement Plan and National Poul try Improvement Plan delegates. s duck, h traction to The m( :ched in a Ik,a malla: io normal li Miss Tall America Carol Dettman, 19, a secre tary from Milwaukee, poses after being chosen Miss Tall America in San Francisco, Calif. She was selected over 15 other contenders as part of the 17th annual conven tion of the American Affili ation of Tall Clubs. Miss Dettman stands 6 ft. 1-incli with measurements 36-26- 39. (AP Wirephoto) mltr e itemi La# yi> - iresfone . J. H. Qui Department and memt cipated in nof a concei ilant at Mori ie new plant and feed coi ifacturers ai he Monterr iof Mexico, her A&M ig in the ded symposium hand Dr. C irtment of P< C. F. 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