THE BATTALION
Pag* 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 15, 1963
Texas Reservists
Plan Ceremonies
On 46th Birthday
AUSTIN, Tex. — Today’s skill
ed specialist-soldier, armed with
technical know-how and space-age
weaponry, is a sharp contrast to
the 1917 doughboy that carried the
90th Infantry Division’s colors
“over the top” in three major
World War I campaigns. But the
modern “Tough ’Ombre” reservist
still exhibits that same determina
tion to defend American hertiage.
Texas’ 90th Division, completely
reorganized last spring in accord
ance with the new “ROAD” con
cept celebrates its 46th anniver
sary Aug. 25. Units in 40 Texas
cities will mark the occasion with
special ceremonies, according to
Maj. Gen. Earl Rudder, division
commander and president of A&M
University.
Born Aug. 25, 1917, at Camp
Travis, Tex., the 90th played a
key role in the St. Mihiel, Meuse-
Argonhe, and Lorraine campaigns
during World War I. Gen. John J.
Pershing called the 90th “one of
the very best divisions sent over
here.”
Deactivated in 1919, the 90th
saw light of day again in 1942
during World War II. Elements
of‘ the division landed in Europe
on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Within
four days the rest of the 90th
had landed and partcipated in
bloody fighting- in Noimandy,
France.
Another highlight in 90th Divi
sion history came in April, 1945,
when some military policemen of
the division discovered the last
of the g-old reserves of Nazi Ger
many. Not counting the value of
art treasures discovered at the
same time, the gold bullion was
worth more than $100 million.
By the end of the war, the 90th
had pushed into Czecholoslovakia.
Late in 1945, the division was de
activated once again, but in 1947
was made a permanent part of the
Army reesrve.
As a reserve unit, Texas’ own
90th Division also has earned an
impressive record and repeatedly
has received top training and in
spection ratings. It was the first
Army division to train under the
pentagonal New Infantry Division
concept in 1959, and again in 1963
the 90th was the first reserve
division in the nation to conduct
summer camp training under the
Army’s new “ROAD” concept.
Emphasizing flexibility, mobility
and technical skill, the new con
cept eventually will embrace all
reserve and national guard divi
sions, as well as the active Army.
This will allow reserve units to
mesh smoothly with the active
Army in event of activation. The
active Army will be completely re
organized by late 1964.
As reorganized, the 90th now
has units in 40 Texas cities with
a total strength of approximately
6,000 men.
These men, many of whom are
not obligated to serve, nevertheless
spend one night a week and an
average of one Sunday every two
months at their local armories
keeping up their military skills.
In addition, the units spend two
weeks at camp each summer, as
well as standing ready for activa
tion in event of a national emer
gency — “brush-fire” or full-
scale, nuclear or conventional.
Underscoring the sacrifices made
by 90th citizen-soldiers and by
their wives, families and employ
ers, Rudder stated in his 46-th anni-
versai-y message, “Although not en
gaged in a conflict today, the 90th
must stand combat-ready. It must
Stand united with American fight
ing men in the active service, Na
tional Guard and Army Reserve
to preserve our freedom, our herti
age of privileges and traditions and
our loved ones.”
U. S. Army Burn Specialist
Gives Warning To Parents
SAN ANTONIO <A>) _ A recent
spurt in the number of children
seriously burned has prompted an
Army burn expert to issue a warn
ing to parents.
Lt. Col. Walter E. Switzer ex
pressed concern that parents are
not using extreme caution in stor
age of gasoline and 'other flam
mable materials.
Aggie Senior Killed
In Sunday Wreck
An A&M physics major, Richard
Jeffrey III of Dallas, and his com
panion, Betena Gray of Longview,
were killed Sunday in a Longview
auto accident.
Their car hit a concrete embank
ment at an underpass in south
Longview.
The 20-year-old Jeffrey was a
member of Company F-2 in the
Corps of Cadets. He was to have
been a senior during the next
school year.
Jeffrey’s father is promotion
manager for the Dallas Morning-
News.
Switzer is chief of the clinical
division of the surgical research
unit at Brooke Army Medical Cen
ter.
“Within the short space of five
days,” Dr. Switzer said, “ We ad
mitted three children—one each
from Austin, Abilene and Waco.”
The doctor places the flammable
materials in the same category
with deadly poisins and declares,
“Parents wouldn’t put these poi
sons in reach of their children.”
He would like to see a nation
wide campaign begun to educate
parents about the evils of storing
flammable materials where child
ren can reach them, overturn them
or break their containers.
He knows fire frequently bursts
out with devastating swiftness as
the fumes reach pilot lights.
He cited two child patients at
the time who were hopelessly
burned.
“The parents of these children
are still numb,” Col. Switzer said.
“Parents can more readily accept
a child being hit by an automobile.
This business of deadly fires is
beyond them.”
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Foreign Students
Work On English
Thirty-nine A&M students new
ly-arrived from nations around the
world are completing the reward
ing, although sometimes frustrat
ing, experience of an intensive
study of the English language.
The students who come from 14
colonies or nations are regularly-
enrolled students and in September
will begin studies in varied agri
cultural, engineering and scientific
fields. Most of the men are
graduate students.
Purpose of their studies in three
courses this six weeks is to help
them improve their English lan
guage abilities as the groundwork
for success in future courses.
Visit Professor J. J. Woolket’s
Modern Language 100 classroom
some morning and you gain a
sharper appreciation of what the
students face in learning oral Eng
lish. Consider the varying pro
nunciations given “ed” at the end
of a word.
“IT’S POSSIBLE now to under
stand the majority of the students.
At first their ability to communi
cate in English was nil,” Woolket
said. He is language teacher who
heads the Department of Modern
Languages.
“They know what they want to
say and think that they are saying
it,” Woolket said of the plight of
some of the students when the
course began.
The students study writing and
reading- English in other courses.
Among the students are men who
teach various subjects in their
homelands. Here they first must
improve their English before be
ginning advanced studies in their
subject field.
THE STUDENTS come from
many nations. Countries repre
sented in the classroom include
Free China, Egypt, Israel, Bel-
g-ium, Pakistan, India, Korea, Iraq
and half a dozen Latin Amex-ican
nations.
“We have quite a number whose
fathers have been students here,”
Woolket said. “Most of the stu
dents have fxdends who are en
rolled now or have attended A&M.”
Perhaps three-fourths of the stu
dents hold scholax-ships from go
vernments or major corporations.
Among the students is one coed,
Ana Max-ia Minicucci. Her step
father is here to study for a mas
ter’s degree. She thinks she may
return to Argentina within the
next few weeks, but she wanted to
improve her knowledge of Eng
lish.
THE MODERN languages lab
oratory, with machines for play
ing tape, x-ecordings of any lang
uage and for piactice in speaking,
is put to good use by the students.
While other Aggies study such
languages as Spanish and Russian,
the newly-arrived students hear
tapes of spoken English.
The English language has more
than 50 sounds, Woolket said. Vax-i-
ous of these sounds prove ti-ouble-
some to people from diffei’ent areas
of the world.
In the classroom a student asks
for an explanation of the meanings
of “few” and “quite a few.”
“I’m sorry, but that’s our langu
age. We use a wox-d in a contra
dictory manner,” Woolket explain
ed.
Learning English will be a long
term proposition for the students.
But then it is for native-boxm
speakers of the language.
Church News
Dr. James R. Allen will be guest
supply px-eacher at the College Sta
tion First Baptist Church this Sun
day in the absence of the pastor,
Dr. Guy F. Greenfield, who is a-
way on vacation.
Allen is Director of the Chi-istian
Life Commission for the Baptist
Genei-al Convention of Texas with
offices in Dallas. In this position,
Allen heads a program of applied
Chi-istianity designed to help Texas
Baptists to carx-y into every area
of life the whole Gospel of Christ.
The Chi-istian Life Commission
emphasizes five ai-eas of applied
Christianity: family life, race re
lations, Christian citizenship, daily
work, and moral issues.
Sound Off —
Editor,
The Battalion:
Although I have a very heavy
schedule this semester I must
take the time to make a com
ment on the letter written by
Mr. Rowland as the representa
tive of the “Committee for an
All-Male Military Texas A&M.”
It is only natural that Mr.
Rowland sees things in a rather
slanted way. What I find pre
posterous is the idea that the
people of Texas should follow
suit.
Texas A&M is a state-suppoi't-
ed school. Women as well as
men pay the taxes to this end.
It strikes me very funny that
the exes make so much ado a-
bout what they do for their
alma mater — it is not less,
and certainly not more than that
which any alumnus does for his
alma mater, if he can. If the
exes really think that they made
A&M, then they should make
it a private school, call it EX-
Ag College, support the whole
thing and see what they can do.
It is easy to ci-iticize the action
of the Board of Directors. I
am sure that none of the exes
has ever had much headache
about keeping good faculty mem
bers, which have been blessed
with an over-abundance of fe
male offspi’ing and were unable
to send them to a far-away col
lege. These men usually have to
leave in order to assure the col
lege education of their girls —
or do the naive exes, think a
college professor can afford to
pay for it from his salary ?
And how about promising grad
uate students whose wives want
also to advance their education?
And about staff members who
further themselves if they had
the chance ? The reasons for
the Board’s decision are endless,
and I am sux^e anyone with a
little reason in his thinking
knows them anyway.
I never knew, during nine years
of work at A&M, that it was a
“military” college. Certainly
thei’e is a ROTC program, and
the Corps is there, but to call it
a military college is rather silly
if one compares the material go
ing to West Point, the USAF
Academy and Annapolis with
what enrolls in the fi*eshman
classes of A&M. The fact that
A&M accepts civilian students
contradicts' This concept also.
After integration has been ac
complished at A&M — where
does this then leave women, ill
discrimination is to be exer
cised ? This is another point to
consider.
Any girls who comes to A&M
will have in mind to study i—
to take the curriculum it offers.
There ax*e plenty of “cookschool
colleges” in the state where those
interested in home economics
can be happy. But nobody should
deny a women the right to fol
low a course of study at a school
which fits her interests... There
are some good female physicists,
ai’chitects, veterinarians, chepx-
ists, mathematicians and elec
trical engineers around — why
in the world should they not be
able to be graduated from A&M ?
As to the danger to the Corps
— the Corps is its own danger.
Female influence could not do
anything detrimental to it, I
am sui’e. Discipline is discip
line, whether girls ai'e looking or
not. Of course some of the foul
language would have to subside,
but that would only be for the
Bulletin Board
Fi'iday, Aug. 16 — Film show to
be px’esented by the Pakistan Stu
dents’ Association at 7:30 p.m. in
Rooms 2A and 2B of the Memorial
Student Center. In commemora
tion of the 16th anniversary of the
independence of Pakistan.
Two documentary films, “Chitta
gong Hill Tracts” and “Haxwest
-of the Sea,” are to be shown. Pub
lic is invited.
Fx-iday, Aug. 16 — Brazos Coun
ty Democratic Women’s Club will
meet at 7:30 p.xn. in the Brazos
County Courthouse.
Principal speaker will be Dick
Cherry, state representative of Mc
Lennan County and assistant pro
fessor of political scieixce at Baylor.
He will speak on “Touring the
Ruins of Harmony House,” an ana
lysis of the 58th Legislature.
A report on the Austin meeting
of the League of Women Voters on
poll tax X’epeal, will be given by
Mrs. Lillian Collier, member of the
advisory committee as a represent
ative of the Texas Democratic Wo
men’s Committee.
Saturday, Aug. 24—Peace Corps
Placexxxent Test at 8:30 a.m. at the
post office in Bryan. Application
forms are available at the post
office, county agent’s office, A&M
Placement Office, or from Daniel
Russel, A&M Liaison Officer
Room 316-17 of the Agricultux’e
Building.
better of the English - a
there improvement is reet
mended anyway.
If this country relied out
dition in as heavy a manner
the exes do, one would s
cross the prairie in coveredi
gons and build forts aroundi
towns against the Indians, i
people would die young and:
main stupid. If tradition ta
feres with progress it httt:
obsolete.
Gertrude (TrudiejAd
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