‘Bring A Friend, Guitar And A Song’
One Of Hootenanimy Acts
Zim Zimmerman, fest in the Memorial Student Center Ball-
Jim Wilson comprised one room.
of 10 acts performing in Sunday’s folk-song
Che Battalion
By VAN CONNER
Battalion Editor
“Bring: a friend, a guitar and
a song.” That’s the theme of
the latest musical craze oh the
A&M campus. The hootenanny,
or folk-song fest, has recently
become a familiar occurrence in
student center and dorms.
What does this magic word,
hootenanny, mean ? According to
Dr. John Q. Anderson, head of
the Department of English, the
term came from the eastern
United States and originally was
something like thing-a-ma-jig or
what-you-may-call-it, used when
groping for words.
In the fast few years, however,
hootenanny has come to refer to
a folk-singing gathering. Al
though it did not originate there,
Anderson said the weekly tele
vision program “Hootenanny”
probably did much to popularize
the term.
Anderson, who has taught an
introductory course in folklore
for two years, said the first
hootenanny held at A&M was
in May. The Memorial Student
Center affair was presented by
his sprung folklore class.
Since then three planned
hootenannies have been held in
the MSC. A fourth and final one
for the summer is scheduled for
8 p.m. in the Grove Saturday.
Ted Gentry, publicity chairman
for the MSC Summer Directorate
said there will be no admission
to Saturday’s hootenanny. He
emphasized that the audience
should come in casual dress be
cause most will sit on the con
crete floor.
As with all MSC-sponsored
hootenannies, anyone who can
play a guitar or similar instru
ment or sing is urged to partici
pate. About 10 acts are planned
for Saturday, including a per
formance by Anderson.
In addition to the three
planned song fests there have
been a number of impromptu
hootenannies in the MSC this
summer. According to Glyn
Barrows, regular performer' at
the planned and most spontane
ous affairs, “somebody goes to
get his guitar and before
know it we all have ours.”
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“In a short while,” he added,
“it seems the whole student
center is filled with singing from
howling alley to browsing li
brary.”
Anderson said the current fad
at A&M is “part of the general
interest in folk music that’s been
increasing since ”55 or ’56.” He
said that many college teachers
have been interested in folk
music and folklore for years
from a purely academic stand
point.
According to Anderson, groups
like the Kingston Trio who began
while in college and then turned
professional have probably done
most to stimulate interest among
yopng people.
“We have a lot of talent here,”
said Anderson. He pointed out
that most of the hootenanny per
formers here style their singing
after the recordings of profes
sional groups. But he added that
he has had some success in en
couraging the young singers to
develop their own methods.
The professor said he thought
folk music was appealing to
people because it is “more genu
ine.”
“It somehow seems nearer to
human problems,” he added.
Anderson said there is also a
do-it-yourself idea involved that
appeals to many.
Barrows said he enjoyed the
performances because he likes to
sing and “folk music is authen
tic.” He explained that folk
songs and ballads tell stories.
“Many of the songs throw a new
light on history for me,” he
added.
Anderson said he prefers to
use the “traditional approach” in
his singing. The song itself is
the important thing, he empha
sized—not the accompaniment or
the singer’s voice. “I always
give the background on a ballad
before singing because I feel it
is important for the listener to
understand this aspect.”
The department head returned
this week from the American
Studies Seminar on the campus
of Mississippi College. There he
sang and discussed many types
of folk songs in one of two
lectures.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963
Number 126
16-YEAR-OLD AIDS STUDY
Bass-Aging Is Difficult
What’s the life span of large
mouthed black bass ?
That’s what a Pasadena youth—
and some A&M wildlife manage
ment people—would like to know.
There is no way to mark freshly
hatched bass—biologists call them
fry—for later study.
The only solution research sci
entists have found is expose hatch
ing bass eggs to exacting- temper
ature changes. Water temperatures
will affect the number of bones
produced in a fish.
MIKE GLOVER, a 16-year-old
Pasadena student participating in
a National Science Foundation pro
gram, is one of several persons in
volved in the long-range bass
study.
Knowing how long bass live will
mean far more effective manage
ment practices for persons who
stock more than a million Texas
ponds and lakes. More efficient
fish management means better
fishing.
Glover woi-ks for Dr. Richard
J. Baldauf, associate professor of
wildlife management, who has been
working on the project since 1960.
“Before now,” Baldauf comment
ed, “there has never been a succuss-
ful and practical method of mark
ing small fish for later identifica
tion. But now we can raise thous
ands of fiy in closely regulated
temperatures and later identify
them by the number of bones or
fin rays.”
FISHERY BIOLOGISTS have
never before known what the
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Smallest Catch
High-schooler Mike Glover of Pasadena, a National Science
Foundation special biology student, is helping with a study
in the Department of Wildlife Management. His job is to
detect temperature effects on tiny bass, like the one he is
holding with forceps.
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High t-o/- Way Meet
Has 250 Guests
INCLUDING BASEBALL
Caribbean Cruise
Has Odd Sidelights
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A baseball game with natives on
& Carribbean island, a visit to an
island where houses are built on
stilts over water and “brushes”
Mth sharks and barracudas were
among the sidelights of a month
long trip A&M oceanographers re
g£§{jli cently completed.
Dr. Louis S. Kornicker, whose
svieeialty is geological oceanogra
phy, and Milton P. Looney, a
search technician, spent a month
aboard a research vessel of the
Scripps Institution of Geography.
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Additional Housing
Off Campus Needed
Additional housing is needed
in the Bryan-College Station area
to meet an expected enrollment
increase at A&M in September,
the Housing Office announced.
Housing officials said applica
tions for apartments, both fur
nished and unfurnished, exceed
the number of college-owned
apartments available.
They asked that persons with
facilities available for rent list
their places with the Housing
Office. The phone number is
VI 6-5713.
Ian and Honduran shores to gather
100 samples from depths up to 18,-
000 feet for analysis in A&M lab
oratories.
Kornicker said the cruise filled
a gap in his study of shore and
bottom geology of the Caribbean.
The findings of the A&M facul
ty member may also have indirect j
application for the petroleum in
dustry.
Kornicker explained that about
70 per cent of the petfoleum re
serves are found in “carbonate
rocks in the vicinity of coral reefs”
and his findings in the Caribbean
area are of value to petroleum geo
logists.
“We also work on the biology of
this area toi provide information
for fisheries biologists,” Kornicker
said.
He and Looney took most of their
samples from one of the deeper
parts of the seas, Cayman Trough,
using a coring device lowered by
cable.
The Caribbean baseball game was
played on Roatan, one of the Islas
de la Bahia off the coast of Hon
duras. Natives of the island chal
lenged the Americans aboard the
vessel.
The American team, with Korn
icker as shortstop, lost 16-9.
About 250 persons from a five-
state area are attending the first
annual Right of Way Educational
Refresher Seminar through Friday
at A&M.
The seminar, sponsored by the
Texas Transportation Institute and
Region 2 American Right of Way
Association, features latest in
formation on right of way prob
lems.
Among the speakers are Dan
Williamson of Houston, national
vice-chairman of the American
Right of Way Association; A. H.
Christian of Austin of the South
Texas Chanter, and William F. Ho
ward of El Paso, Region 2 chair
man.
C. V. Wootan of the Texas Trans
portation Institute is director of
the seminar.
Region 2 includes Texas, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Louisiana.
Wootan said the purpose of the
conference is to upgrade the abil
ities and operations of American
Right of Way business.
Talks on the program agenda
range from public relations and
communications to basic land laws
and property damages. Speakers
include land officials throughout
the region.
The conference got underway
Wednesday and continues through
5 p.m. Friday.
original group of fry had done
during the years they had been in
a pond.
Glover’s job is tedious. He notes
the skeletal changes made as a
result of temperature exposures.
Checking bones in thousands of
bass about an inch long is a chore.
In order to see the bones, he
treats the fleshy parts of the fish
with a substance that makes the
tiny bass transparent. With the
aid of a magnifying glass, Glover
is able to make an accurate count
of fin rays, vertebrae and other
skeletal parts.
A BASS WITH an odd number
of bones, for example, could be
permanently marked. And, Bald
auf believes that the number of
bones can be predetermined by
proper temperature treatment.
In northern waters, fish add only
one growth ring on scales per year,
and the age can be determined by
counting these growth rings.
For years biologists in the south
followed the same system of de
termining age of fisE—and often
their results were confusing. Now
they know that bass in Texas will
add two or three growth rings per
year.
The perplexing problem in fi
guring the age of fish in south
ern waters* is tied with weather
conditions. During a prolonged
warm spell, bass may start to
grow, thus adding another growth
ring.
Pakistani Agriculturists Study
Teaching, Research, Extension
Planning ToLiveln
Dorms 1, 3,10, 12?
All students presently in school
who plan to live in dorms 1, 3,
10 or 12 in the fall, and who wish
to move their personal effects to
their fall rooms at the end of sum
mer school, must notify the Hous
ing Office before 5 p.m. Aug. 16.
The four dormitories are to he
used for the swimming meet sche
duled for Aug. 22-24 and the Hous
ing Office must know which rooms
ax-e not available for use.
The following cadet units ai’e
scheduled to live in these dorms:
B-l, D-l, E-l, F-l, G-l, Sqds. 5, 6.
7, 13, and 14, 1st Brigade Staff,
2d Battalion Staff, 2d Wing Staff
and 4th Group Staff.
Ten East and West Pakistani
agriculturists are visiting the A&M
campus to study how the institu
tion joins hands with state farmers
thx-ough teaching, research and ex
tension.
The vistors are seeing agri-
cultui’al points of interest in the
United States on a tour which
began June 28 and will end Axxg.
29.
THEIR TRIP is sponsored by
Fanners and World Affairs, Inc.,
in cooperation with the American
Farm Bureau Federation, National
Grange, and the National Faimiers
Union.
Fanners and World Affairs is a
non-profit educational organiza
tion. Funds for its visitor ex
change pi'ogram come from the
THE GATEWAY TRIO
. . . performs Wednesday at the Grove
Gateway Trio
Performs Here
On Wednesday
The Gateway Trio, new recording group for Capital
Records, will perform Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the Grove,
according to Bob Boone, Memorial Student Center music
director.
Boone said admission is one dollar for adults and 50 cents
for children. Students ipay use their summer activity cards.
Jerry Walter plays the banjo and leads the newlv-formed
threesome. Blond Betty Mann plays the guitar. Bass man
Milt Chapman rounds out the trio.
The Gateway Trio’s first album was released in March.
It specializes in folk-oriented music.
The groun boasts experience in jazz (Chapman), folk
(Walter) and countrv and 4
Aref, fanner; Feroz Fakii’jee Gol-
walla, fanner; Malik Sardar Hus
sain, fartnei* and tribal chieftain;
Khurshed Ahmed Khan, crop farm
er and dairyman; Raja Ahmed
Khan, fruit grower; Tarifuddin
Khan, farmer and irrigation co-op
erative manager; Quazi Abdul La-
tif, farmer and college official; and
Mofizur Rahaman, farmer and
social welfarist.
ACCOMPANYING the group as
guide and counselor is Miss Ruby
Yeutter, FWA field representative.
Jack Gx-by, co-oi'dinator of the
A&M Foreign Programs Office,
said the Pakistanis an-ived here
last Sunday and have visited many
of its agi’icultui'al facilities.
Thursday, they will see the
Poultry Science Center and then at-
he plays bass and x-ounds out the
vocal chores.
Chapman’s prior expex-ience was
quite vaxned and included singing
and dancing in the choxnxs with
such stars as Theresa Brewer and
Tony Martin. He also sang as a
member of the jazz-oriented Axi-
dentals.
organization itself, Department of | tend Summary discussions.
State gx*ants-in-aid of local cur- j fessor Henry Ross of the
rencies (from PL-480 funds) and
pai'tly fi’om dollar contributions
from individuals, oi'ganizations,
foundations and companies.
Members of the Pakistani group
are Diamuddin Ahxxxed, fanner; Di\
I Jalal Ahmed, MD; Gharibullah M.
Pro-
A&M
Agricultural Education Department
will be discussion leader.
The Pakistanis will leave A&M
Fi'iday morning for the Rice-Pas
ture Experiment Station near Beau
mont. Next is a ti'ip to El Campo
to see fai-ms in that ax-ea.
western singing (Miss Mann).
Walter was one of the orig
inal members and leader of
the former Gatewav Singers,
a group from which have gx - own
other well known stai’s — Lou
Gottleib of the Limelighters and
Travis Edmondson of Bud and
Tx-avis.
The Gateway Singers under Wal
ter’s leadei’ship played in all areas
of the countx’y including diversi
fied engagements such as the Dem-
ocx*atic National convention, con-
cex't tours, nierht clubs, colleges
and Carnegie Hall. The group re-
J cently evolved into the Jeri-y Wal
ter—Betty Mann Duo.
MISS MANN, who is from Mon
tana. migrated to California where
I she enx-olled in Yuba College and
then the University at Berkeley to
study music and dxama. She met
Walter while attending the Uni-
vex'sity.
Having done a lot of pexToiming
in the field of counti*y and western
music. Miss Mann still enjoys it
and has managed to integrate some
into the Gateway Tx-io.
While pexTonning as a duo, Wal
ter and Miss Mann received a call
from Chapman voicing an intei'est ing for Temple. Downs said, “I’m
to join them and make it a trio. ; putting my trust in my doctors
After numei’ous discussions. Chap- j and the Good Lord. With that corn-
man joined them in the summer of j bination. I’m sux-e to come out
1962. The anchoiman of the group, just fine.”
P. L. Downs Enters
Hospital In Temple
To Have Operation
P. L. (Pinkie) Downs, official
greeter for A&M, was admitted
to Scott and White Hospital in
Temple Thux-sday for minor sur
gery.
Downs, a member of the Aggie
Class of 1906, joined the college
staff in 1940 after 27 years in the
banking business. He sexwed on
A&M’s Boax-d of Directox-s for 10
years, from 1923-33.
The 78-year-old gentleman attri
butes his long life to “helping
people who need help.”
Joking with fxiends befoi’e leav-