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Outstanding ROTO Cadet
Maj. Gen. Lewis S. Griffing, Fort Sill Commander, deco
rates Aggie senior Craig Abbott of San Antonio as top
Army ROTC summer camp cadet in the Fourth Army area.
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Aggies won a major share of top honors at the Army
Reserve Officer Training Corps summer program just ended
at Fort Sill, Okla., a spokesman for the Army ROTC staff
here announced Tuesday.
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Meat Selling
Institute Begins
Today In MSC
O Large Progress and problems in a fast-
L 24-Oz Cai'"' changing industry will be discussed
Thursday and Friday during' the
Livestock and Meat Marketing In
stitute in the A&M Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The program features talks by
A&M specialists and men in the
business of buying and selling live
stock and their products.
Subjects and speakers are “The
Dynamically Changing Industry”
by Ed Uvacek, livestock market
ing specialist with the Texas Agri-
cultural Extension Service; “Mar
keting Texas Livestock,” Dm John
McNeely, A&M professor of mar
keting; “The Role of Federal
Grading- in the Industry,” Dr. Ger
ald Engelman, deputy director of
the USDA’s Packers and Stock-
yards Division, Washington, D.G.;
and “Texas Beef and Interregional
Competition,” Dr. W. F. Williams,
professor of livestock marketing at
Oklahoma State University.
Others are “Ten Years from To
day in the Meat Business,” Dr.
Robert Branson, A&M professor of
consumer marketing; “Meat Mar
ket Demands of the Present Day
Industry,” Larry Van Meir, head,
gri> Livestock Section, Economic and
^ |! 'Statistical Analysis Division,
J II USDA, Washington, D.C.; “What’s
^ the Livestock Outlook?” John Mc-
Haney, Extension Service econo
mist; and “Special Marketing
Problems of Lambs and Slaughter
Calves,” Dr. 0. D. Butler, head of
jjie A&M Department of Animal
Husbandry.
Panel discussions will be con
ducted by industry members. Sub
jects are livestock marketing, meat
jfrading and g-rades, current meat
market demands, and lamb and calf
industry problems.
Craig S. Abbott, a senior Eng
lish major from San Antonio, was
chosen as the outstanding cadet
among more than 1,800 cadets at
tending the six-week camp. The
ROTC cadets represented colleges
and universities m seven states.
Aggdes also were chosen as the
outstanding cadet in four of the
five battalions. Half of the 20 out
standing cadets at company level
were Aggies.
MORE THAN 63 percent of the
231 Aggies completing the training
program were ranked among the
top third of the cadets.
The Army’s summer training
program for advanced, voluntary
ROTC cadets is planned to provide
the students with an onportunity
to apply classroom theories to tac
tical situations in the field.
Summer training follows com
pletion of the junior year of aca
demic studies.
Serving- as camp commander was
Maj. Gen. Lewis S. Griffing, com
manding general of Fort Sill and
tlje U. S. Army Artillery and Mis
sile Center.
Lt. Col. Albert E. Vernon, Jr.,
headed the A&M ROTC staff at
the camp.
Abbott, who was chosen as the
outstanding- cadet at summer camp,
as well as outstanding cadet in his
battalion, lists 423 Klaus Rd., San
Antonio as his home address. He
attended Thomas Jefferson High
School there. At A&M he has won
Distinguished Student honors for
academic achievement and is presi
dent of the campus chapter of Sig
ma Tau Delta, national English
honorary fraternity.
OTHER AGGIES who were chos
en as outstanding cadets in their
battalions include:
Thomas A. McAdams, W-l-K
Hensel Apartments. He is a busi
ness administration student.
Charles Seagraves III of A-9-Z
College View Apartments. His
major field of study is listed as
mathematics.
John R. Dickson of San Antonio.
He is a meteorology major.
Names of Aggies named out
standing cadets at the company
level are not yet available here.
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
Number 125
Baker Named Corps Head
STARTS WORK MONDAY
Associate Director
Of Library Named
Rupert C. Woodward who has | emala City, Rio de Janiero and
been chief acquisitions librai’ian at
Louisiana State University Mon
day will assume the duties of as
sociate library director at A&M.
He entered the library service
profession following army service
during World War II.
“We feel most fortunate in ob
taining a man of his stature to
head this important position,”
Library Director Robei-t A. Houze
said.
“For the first time this library
has been able to employ as an as
sociate librarian a man who has
come up through technical ser
vices.”
Services for which Woodward
will be responsible include library
acquisitions, cataloguing, bindery
preparations and repairs.
WOODWARD WILL have other
administrative responsibilities and
also will teach Liberal Arts 311,
“Use of Library Resources.” The
course is offered to upperclassmen
and graduate students as a one-
hour elective.
Woodward’s responsibilities in
library acquisitions will include
chairing the book selection com
mittee and working with the facul
ty in selecting library materials.
The new associate director is a
native of Georgia and completed
high school studies at Savannah.
He received the B.S. degree from
George Peabody College in 1940
and taught English at Cayey,
Puerto Rico in 1940-41.
Following World War II service
Woodwai’d returned to George Pea
body College and in 1947 received
the Bachelor of Science in Library
Science degree.
HE SERVED on the staff of the
University of Alabama Library be
fore becoming a U. S. Information
Service librarian in 1950. Wood
ward served as librarian at Guat-
Stores Head Cites
Ordering Process
Wesley E. Donaldson, director
of purchasing, and stores, an
nounced earlier this week that
all interdepartmental orders
against 1963-64 funds for either
the Supply Center or Stores items
should be made out to Account
21160 and sent to the Fiscal Of
fice for approval and transmittal
to the Stores Department.
Donaldson explained that the
Supply Center will no longer
have a separate account number
because its operations will be
combined with the Stores Depart
ment Sept. 1.
He added that the location of
the Supply Center merchandise
will be moved from the Exchange
Store to the B&CU Building.
San Jose before going to the LSU
Library in 1954. He became chief
acquisitions library of the library
in 1955.
Woodward served as U. S. dele
gate to the Conference on the
Development of Public Services
Services in Latin America, a con
ference held at Sao Paulo in 1951.
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COL. I). L. BAKER
New PMS Will
Have Dual Role
Col. Denzil L. Baker, new professor of military science
at A&M, was named Thursday as commandant of cadets.
President Earl Rudder made the appointment which will
be in addition to his duties as head of the Army ROTC de
tachment.
“Colonel Baker’s record is among the most distinguished
of our graduates,” Rudder said. “His leadership will give
strength to the Corps program.”
Baker, a native of Mathis, was graduated and com
missioned at A&M in 1933. A highly-decorated veteran of
World War II and the Korean Conflict, he came to A&M in
July from the Pentagon where he was chief of the Special
7th
To
Feed
Begin
A&M will hold its seventh annual
Feed Microscopy Short Course
Monday through Aug. 10 in the
Memorial Student Center.
E. E. Brown, research scientist
with A&M’s Agricultural Analyt
ical Services Department, said the
Annex Students
To Have Own
Dining Setup
A&M students who will reside in
dormitories at the Research and
Development Annex will have their
own dining facilities.
A&M Food Service Director
Frank Nugent Wednesday an
nounced plans for the food service
in the student residential area at
the Annex, formerly Bryan Air
Foi'ce Base.
The dining room portion of the
old Cadet Club adjacent to the
dormitories will be used. It will
seat approximately 160 persons.
“While it will be cafeteria style
service, it’s going to be a friendly,
homey type of eating place respon
sive to the students’ wants,” Nu
gent said.
“The food will be prepared in
the Sbisa Hall kitchen, transported
in special food containers and
served out there.”
Special equipment, described by
Nugent as “the best available,”
will be used in transporting the
food. The stainless steel equip
ment will hold the food at proper
temperature, warm or cold, and
can be used as an integral part of
the serving line. The units have
electrical heating elements to as
sure hot food.
“We also will have limited kitch
en facilities for preparing those
food items which are not readily
adaptable to transportation,” Nu
gent said.
The dining facilities will be
equipped to serve 250 to 300 per-
Course
Monday
course is designed to teach the
science of use of the microscope
in quality feed control.
Although most of the course
will be workshop sessions, time
has been reserved for talks by au
thorities in the microscopy field,
Brown said.
Subjects and speakers are “Nu
tritional Value of Mouldy Feeds”
by Dr. L. R. Richardson, head of
the Agricultural Analytical Serv
ices Department; “Value of Micro
scopic Analysis to the Feed Control
Official,” I. J. Shenkir; Texas Feed
and Fertilizer Control Seiwice; and
“Feed Microscopy—What Is It?”
G. M. Barnhart, chief chemist for
the Missouri Department of Agri
culture.
Others are “Qualitative Tests for
Certain Additives and Minor In
gredients Found in Feedstuffs,”
W. E. McCasland, A&M Agricul
tural Analytical Services; “Micro
scopes,” Albert Heydemann of Dal
las, technical representative, Balti
more Instrument Company; and
“Mineral and Spot Tests,” G. D.
Miller of Kansas State University,
pi’esident of the American Associ
ation of Feed Microscopist.
The course starts with registra
tion at 8 a.m. Monday.
Review Division of the Office
of Army Personnel.
The Aggie officer replaced
Col. Frank Elder as professor
of military science. Elder,
assigned in 1958, has retired.
Colonel Baker is the fii’st regu
lar officer to be named command
ant since 1951. During the past
12 years, a civilian college employe
has held the post.
IN JUNE, A&M’s Board of Di
rectors adopted a recommendation
by Pi’esident Rudder, to consolidate
the duties of commandant with
those of a regular officer and
eliminate the staff of civilian tacti
cal officers. The consolidation will
save $60,000 annually and provide
more realistic leadei’ship training,
Rudder told the Board.
Baker entered active duty in
1941 and in February, 1943, joined
the Third Army Headquax’ters. He
served as a staff officer with
that command in the Eux’opean
Theater until the end of World
War II.
In 1949 he assued command of
the 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry
Regiment, and held that post
through 1951, the unit’s first year
of combat in Korea.
The colonel has attended several
Army command schools including
the Advanced Infantry Officers’
Coux-se, Command and General
Staff School and the Army Wax-
College.
HIS DECORATIONS include the
Combat Infantryman’s Bad.ge, the
Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster,
and the Bronze Star with V device
and two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Twenty-Nine Grad Fellowships
Announced By NSF For A&M
The National Science Foundation
has announced that A&M will x-e-
ceive 29 cooperative graduate fel
lowships for the 1964-65 acadexxxic
year.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of Gx-ad-
uate School, said the fellowships
will mean an eventual value of
$200,000 or more for students pur
suing advanced degx-ees in fields of
science.
The coopex-ative awax-ds will be
made on basis of ability for three
x-equirements. The stipend is $2,400
for the first year, $2,600 the second
and $2,800 the final year, in addi
tion to a $500 allowance for each
dependent.
Awards will be made in mathe
matical, physical, medical, biolo
gical or engineexdng sciences as
well as anthropology, economics,
geography, history and philosophy
of science, psychology or sociology.
Teaching assistants will be ap
proved in the same fields. Stipends
years of study, provided the indi- ] will range from $50 to $85 per week
vidual continues to meet eligibility
Students Get Introduction To Biology
for graduate students during the
1964 summer sessions.
Dean Benson
To Join Tour
Of Arctic Posts
A&M Dean of Engineering Fx-ed
J. Benson soon will leave Texas
hebt behind to join four other dis
tinguished edxxcators on a tour of
Air Force facilities in the Arctic.
The Air Force sponsors the 11,-
000-mile tour scheduled to start at
Washington Sunday and calls the
trip “Cool School VI.” The tour
ends Aug-. 15.
A VISIT TO Caxxxp Tuto, housed
in a tunnel caxved into the Gx’een-
land icecap, and a flight over the
Magnetic Nox-th Pole to Fairbanks,
Alaska, ax-e on the tentative itine
rary.
Educators to make the trip are
the px-esidents of the Universities
of Chicago and Washington and
Indiana University, the dean of
engineering at the University of
Wisconsin, and Benson.
A sixth civilian making the tour
will be Louis Frederick Polk, a
director of the Bendix Corp. and
an authority on international me-
tx-ology and xxxeasurement stand-
ax*ds.
“The Ax-ctic’s strategic impor
tance grows with each step fox--
wax-d iix weapon technology,” an
Air Force official wrote in invit
ing Benson to make the toui\
Maj. Gen. Cecil E. Combs, com
mandant of the Air Force Institute
of Technology, and Brig. Gen. Rob
ert H. Curtin, director of civil en-
gineexnng for the Air Force, will
be the ranking officers on the
tour. Two civilian officials in the
office of the Secx-etary of the Air
Force also are among the eight
Air Force people scheduled to make
the tour.
“OPERATION COOL School” is
an outgx-owth of the routine in
spection trips x-equired of the di
rector of civil engineering of the
Air Fox-ce. Joint participation of
civilian and military engineers and
educators is descx-ibed as enabling
maximum opportunities for profes
sional enlightenment and collabo
ration.
The tour route outlines travel by
specially outfitted aircxaft from
Andrews Air Fox-ce Base, Wash
ington, to Labrador and Cx-eenland
and then acx-oss the Arctic to Alas
ka.
een
_ Cut *
By VAN CONNER
Battalion Editor
When 27 high school sopho
mores and juniors leave A&M
Aug. 23 for their homes acx-oss
; Texas and in seven other states
i they will have had a thox-ough in
troduction to the field of biology.
That is the aim of A&M’s an-
mial Research Participation Sum
mer Science Training Program
sponsored by the National Science
foundation, according to dii'ector
Dr. John J. Spen-y.
Sperry, a botanist and profes
sor in the Department of Biology
hore, is in his foux-th year as head
°P the high school biology pro
gram. A similar pi'ogi’am spon
sored by NSF and other agencies
w as offered from 1957 through
1959 and headed by Dr. C. C.
Doak, former head of biology at
A&M.
During the first summer ses
sion 32 “high-ability secondary
school students” pax-ticipated in
a NSF program in physics hei - e,
under the dix-ection of Dr. Dayle
O. Sittler. At px-esent programs
in mathematics and geology are
also being held, under the direc
tion of Dr. William S. McCulley
and Fx-ed E. Smith, respectively.
The 27 biology students, all
boys, hear a lecture each morning
spend two hours in laboratox-y,
and then either hear a guest lec
turer or take a tour of an A&M
reseax’ch facility. Walter V. Rob
ertson, instructor in the Depax*t-
ment of Biology, px*esents the
eaidy morning lectures and di
rects the laboratory.
Each afternoon the youngsters
are “fanned out” as assistants
on various research projects i'e-
lated to biological sciences. The
boys have been assigned to the
departments of biology; biochem-
istxy and nutx-ition; dairy science;
entoixiology; flox-iculture; horti
culture; oceanogx-aphy and mete
orology.
Photographic and visual aids;
plant science; poultxy science;
range and Forestry; soil and
crop sciences; veterinary pax-a-
sitology; and wildlife manage
ment.
Sperry said the boys’ parti
cipation in formal x’eseax'ch pro
jects allows them a fii'st-hand
introduction to science and ex
poses them to insti-uments and
facilities they would not nox-mally
encounter befox*e reaching col
lege.
Robertson said his lectux-es are
designed to cover as many of the
various fields in biological sci
ences as possible. He and Speriy
added that impoi'tant goals of the
session ax-e to instill an aw-ai-e-
ness of opportunities as well as
interest.
In the laboratory the students
are allowed to work on projects
of their own selection. Robertson
said he felt this was more effect
ive than having required exer
cises and demonstrations because
thex-e would later be repetition
when the men entered college.
James Bryant, who has just
completed four years of study in
zoology here, aids Robertson in
the lab and seiwes as a counselor
for the students.
The students live in a ramp of
Hart Hall adjacent to the pax*ti-
cipants in the math and geology
programs.
Sperry said the boys will be
x-equired to write a short report
about their reseax-ch pax-ticipation
dux-ing the program. These ax-e
bound and sent to NSF and each
student’s sponsoring high school.
The pi-ogram is not all work.
Speriy said there ax-e a few plan
ned extra-cunncular activities
such as swimming parties, sports
and infonnal get-togethex*s.
He added that he felt it a mark
of good chax-acter for the young
sters to find their own use of
fi’ee time and said the boys are
encouraged to plan their own
outside activities.
Early in the six-week session
the students elected officei's to
represent them. The five young
men chosen were Caxy Windier
of Sweeney, president; Harvey
Meyerson of Malverne, N. Y.,
vice-president; Nathan Isgur of
South Houston, secretary-treas-
ui'er; Bob Montgomery of Bar
tlesville, Okla., publicity chaix--
man; and Walter Demond of
Austin, social chairman.
At the end of the progx-am,
said Sperry, there will be a din
ner and the students will receive
certificates of participation.
The students, most of whom
have two moi-e years of high
school, will be expected to pass
on much of what they will learn
about the field of biology to
other youngsters in their home
towns.
Their Favorite Program
Members of the annual NSF-sponsored biolojjy program
for high-ability high school students watch microscopic
pond life on the monitor of the Department of Biology’s
new television camera.