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I Exes’ Records To Be Taped... See Page 4 Volume 60 Cbe Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 Grid Drills Get Started... See Page 6 Number 131 A&M Nuclear Center Names New Official Assistant Professor John D. Randall of the A&M Depart ment of Nuclear Engineering has been appointed associate head of the institution’s Nuclear Science Center. Dr. Robert Cochran, head of the Nuclear Engineering Department and the Nuclear Science Center, said Randall will | assume the duties of Floy W Smith, former chief of reactor 1 operations, who resigned to return | to industry. “Some of Mr. Randall’s respon sibilities will be to help people learn reactor use and to interest more people in using - it,” Cochran said. “He will develop additional services by the Nuclear Science Center. In the near future, we hope to supply short-lived radio isotopes for medical and industrial | uses’ on a routine basis.” RANDALL, A NATIVE Cali fornian, received his BS and MS degree in engineering physics and nuclear engineering in 1955 and 1956 at the University of Califor nia. He taught with that univer sity’s Engineering Extension Serv- JOHN D. RANDALL ice until 1958, when he came to ♦a&m. The scientist recently returned Arrival Of First Students Starts Week Of Orientation Welcome Agenda Starts Wednesday 125 Teachers, Officials Meet Here Saturday About 125 public school teachers ,nd officials from Southeast Texas re expected Saturday on the A&M ampus for a Texas Teachers Association, District I Leadership Vorkshop. The Memorial Student lenter will be the site for the meet- ng opening at 9:30 a. m. and clos ing at 2:15 p. m. Orange Schools Superintendent T. L. Brockette is president of the istrict, the largest in the state ssociation both from the number f members and total counties, 26. The workshop is for district of- icers and these representatives of .ach unit: president, the program, egislative, public relations apd nembership chairmen, secretaries ind treasurers, teacher education nd professional standards chair- nen, and the sponsors of the future Teachers of America. The TSTA local iinits are organ- zed either on the basis of the local ichool district or by county group- ngs. Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of he Department of Education and Psychology, serves as local ar- 'angements chairman for the work- rtop. This is the second year the workshop has been held on the \&M campus. Mrs. Carl W. Landiss, teacher n the Stenhen F. Austin High School of Brvan, is president of the Brazos County Teachers, local TSTA organization. The group plans a hospitality table to serve coffee to visitors as they arrive, Mrs. Landiss said. from a year’s leave of absence on a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship. During this time, he completed all graduate work for his doctorate except the dissertation. His research experience is that of physicist with the Bevatorn ex perimentation group, University of California Radiation Laboratory, 1955-56; nuclear engineer, Aerojet- General Nucleonics, San Ramon, California, 1956-58; and assistant research engineer, Texas Engineer ing Experiment Station, 1958-60. HE WAS DIRECTOR of an AGN-201 reactor at the University of Akron in 1957 while on leave from Aeropet-General Nucleonics. Randall is a member of Sigma Xi and the American Nuclear Society, and is listed in “Who’s Who in Atoms” and “American Men in Science.” He is co-author of eight publications dealing with nuclear science and engineering. Landmark Being Science Hall, built in the 1890s and the site of studies for thousands of Aggies through the years, is being demolished to make room for a new wing on the Biological Sciences Building. The contract for demolition, in- . .vNi.v. Demolished eluding the right to salvage old brick was awarded to Hobbs Demolishing Co. of Aus tin. About 60,000 of the salvaged bricks will be retained by A&M for construction of a new home for President Earl Rudder. $33,750 PRESS ARRIVES SOON Batt Staffers, A&M Printers Prepare For New Machine The Battalion’s new $33,750 printing press arrives' this week at the A&M Press. Employes at the Press and “Batt” stafferes will spend September getting acquaint ed with the machine and its offset process in hopes that it can be put into regular use by Oct. 1. The Goss Community Offset 19- Year- Re search Of all of Allen W. Matthys’ 19 summers, this last one is likely to go down in his memory book as the most unusual and significant. In the brief lull between his freshman and sophomore years at A&M University, the Mart youth has already dug into the world of research. THE DAIRY SCIENCE major, working under supervision of Dr. Carl Vanderzant, professor in the Department of Dairy Science, is investigating certain types of bac teria which can reproduce and grow PREPARING A CULTURE . . . Allen Matthys readies agar for bacteria Old Has Project under refrigeration temperatures. Such organisms pose serious prob lems in the food industry. It is Allen’s job to find accurate methods of enumerating the bac teria. All summer long, he has been growing the bacteria (known as psychrophiles), counting them and peering at them under high- powered microscopes. Serious research by students is usually reserved for graduates in colleges and universities. But A&M has special programs for un dergraduate students, like Allen, who show extra ability and desire to learn. He will also test his talents in mathematics and chemis try courses that are tougher than standard courses offered. THAT “EXTRA ABILITY and desire to learn’ phrase can be traced back to days on the dairy farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Matthys, and to Mart High School. He was secretary and then vice president of his Future Farmers of America Chapter, won the Lone Star Farmer degree in 1961, and was named McLennan County Gold Star 4-H Club Boy the same year. To round things out, he was val edictorian of his graduating class in 1962. Young Matthys hadn’t been at A&M long when a scholarship com mittee of faculty members recogn ized him as an outstanding student. Last fall, he receiver a $300 Sears Foundation Scholarship and the $400 Herman Keep Award. Allen says the valedictorian scholarship will pay his tuition each semester “if I can keep my grades up.” Press was shipped from Rockford, 111. Frank Tucker, general manager of the,A&M Press, said the new press is designed to print 8,000 copies per hour. At its top speed, the machine presently being used to print The Battalion will turn out only 3,000 per hour. THE NEW PRESS is equipped with “units” for printing four, six or eight pages. Tucker said Henry Kindt, the man responsible for operating the new press, will leave by plane Sept. 15 for Rochester, N. Y., where he will receive special training in the use of the machine from Goss instructors. Kindt is to return Sept. 21. “I don’t know of another col lege newspaper in the Southwest that has its own offset press,” Street Crew Busy Preparing Curbs, Lots For Parking Add 185 gallons of paint to the long list of materials needed in preparing the A&M campus for the arrival of students. Busily applying the paint in ap propriate places to aid both the campus visitor and those parking regularly on the campus is the roads and paving section crew in the Grounds Maintenance De partment. The 82 acres of parking lots are receiving their annual striping job to facilitate parking. Appropri ate markings are being painted on the 23 miles of curbing. Fees paid by the approximate ly 4,500 students expected to ar rive this September with autos and the faculty-staff parking fees finance improvements of parking lots including the striping job. Assistant Superintendent James E. Hurt and a five-man crew work thi-oughout the year to keep parking and traffic signs and campus streets in good condition. Hui - t, who has been with the grounds department 28 years, supervises a crew presently com posed of Ruben Guerrero, Paul Saldiva, Gary Overmyer, Lester Heath and John Pensinger. said Tucker. He explained that there are probably a number of school papers which are printed by the process but it is done by hire through independent printing houses. The new machine’s priority job will be to print The Battalion. Tucker said,, however, t h a t attempts will be made to find additional uses for the new press. THE OFFSET printing process works on the basic principle that water and grease do not mix. It grew out of a process known as lithography discovered in 1796. Old lithographers placed the image they wished to print in greasy ink on slabs of stone. High speeds were developed when the “offset” principle was added around the beginning of this centm - y. On new presses, such as the one coming to A&M, the images are carried by thin metal plates stretched around revolving cylinders. Tucker said a new, better-quality paper may now be used for print ing The Battalion. The arrival of the first students Sunday starts the week- long process of registration and other procedures before classes begin Sept. 16. A&M’s program of New Student Summer Conferences has already resulted in the pre-registration of about 1,100 freshmen. The new academic year is notable as the first since A&M became a university in name as well as fact and first in several decades in which coeds register for longterm studies. Due to arrive Sunday are the new students who could not attend the 15 two-day conferences this summer, plus cer tain officers of the Corps of Cadets. The new students will take various tests and other wise prepare to register while the cadet officers will be briefed on assignments. “We have enjoyed a very successful pre-registration pro gram,” Dr. C. H. Ransdell, assist ant to the dean of engineering and chairman of the New Student Com mittee, said of the summer confer ences. “New students already registered wull report to the campus Wednes day, Sept. 11, to pick up keys to their rooms and get copies of the schedule of classes,” Ransdell said. THE FIRST OFFICIAL meeting of all new students is set Wed nesday evening, when a general assembly will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum. President Earl Rudder will -wel come the new students. Student Senate President Harlan Roberts will also speak at the general as sembly. The new students not yet regis tered will sigm on the afternoon of Sept. 12 with a general as sembly set that evening. Local ministers will be introduced and their churches will hold open hous es for the students. New students will complete registration on the morning of Sept. 13. A SPECIAL ASSEMBLY for all transfer students will be held on the morning of Sept. 13 in the Memorial Student Center. Two special days were set aside during the summer for conferences similar to those attended by the freshmen. Returning students begin regis tering at 1 p.m. Sept. 13 while the new students will be attending as semblies. The MSC will hold an open house for all new students at 7 p.m. Sept. 13. NEW STUDENTS WILL attend their first cadet unit meetings Sept. 14, while returning students register throughout the day. Returning students will register on an announced schedule based on the first letter of a student’s surname. Last day for Fall Semester en rollment is Sept. 21. Most New Fish Have Already Pre-Registered Most freshmen planning to enter A&M this fall have already done everything except stai’t classes at 15 two-day conferences during the summer. The first of the conferences was held early in June. The students chose convenient conference per iods. Two special dates were also scheduled for transfer students. A make-up period for those un able to attend the summer eetings will start Monday morning. THE CONFERENCES were a cooperative program involving var ious A&M offices. Helping stu dents make the transition to the campus was the basic goal. Dr. C. H. Ransdell, assistant to the Dean of Engineering and head of the New Student Week Commit tee, said persons involved with the conferences had worked “beyond the call of duty.” He said the conferences were helped by an extensive publicity program. Attendance .at each conference was limited to 120 students to assure personal attention. STUDENTS WHO attended the conferences were able to take placement tests, x - eceive counsel on course work and schedules, be as signed to a cadet unit, be fitted for uniforms which will be altered and ready when they arrive, and pay certain fees. The freshmen also could secure a laundry mark and purchase books and other supplies while attending the meetings. Planning of the program was ac complished by Ransdell’s New Stu dent Week Committee and the Counseling and Testing Center headed by S. A. Kerley. Bi£ Job Striping the 82 acres of parking lots and perintendent James E. Hurt of the roads appropriately marking the 23 miles of curb- and paving section of the Grounds Main- ing at A&M is part of readying the campus tenance Department are among the em- for the next week’s arrival of students, ployes extra busy at this time of the year. Gary Overmyer, left, and Assistant Su- *,