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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963
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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- *,