Texas
A&M
University
Cbe Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1963
Number 149
CS State Bank
Now University
National Bank
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Battalion Staff Writer
The College Station State Bank
officially became the University
National Bank of College Station
Tuesday morning, in a move
planned to add prestige to the bank
and aid its customers in the trans
actions of financial affairs, said
Robert Ayres, cashier of the bank.
The bank will provide new
checks to its customers, at no extra
cost, by mail, if the holders of the
Kingston Trio Sets
Local Performance
OnCampusMonday
The Kingston Trio will be on
campus Monday for a special per
formance at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
The show, although sponsored by
the Town Hall committee, is billed
as an extra, and separate tickets
will be sold, Robert L. Boone, mbsic
coordinator at A&M University
announced. Tickets cost $1.50 for
students and $2.50 for adults and
are on sale in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
John Steward, the youngest of
the three at 24, joined the group in
1961 after another member, Dave
Guard, decided to solo.
The other two are Nick Reynolds
and Bob Shane. All are graduates
of California colleges. As a group
they have had six “gold records.”
This is the second group of col
legiate-type singers to appear here
this fall. The Brothers Four at
tracted more than 8,000 persons
to its performance last Friday
night.
personalized checks will notify the
bank. However, there has been no
change in the routing numbers used
in the new checks, and a check
written after Tuesday on the old
blanks will continue to be honored,
added Ayres.
THE CHANGE was contem
plated months ago when the bank’s
Board of Directors voted on the
change. Balance sheets were then
submitted to the National Banking
Department, accompanied by an
application to do business Under
the new name. The next step
toward the new name was taken
when two thirds of the stockholders
voted to approve the change. All
that then remained to make the
name change official was the
matter of formality of being recog
nized by the National Banking De
partment.
Nanette Gabriel Becomes
Pinned To 8,000 Aggies
Nominations Open
For Who,s Who
Nominations for 36 A&M Uni
versity students for listing in
“Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col
leges” is underway and will con
tinue until noon Thursday, Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan
announced Tuesday. , "
“Members of the Who’s Who
Selection Committee or a student
on his own behalf, may submit
nominations,” Hannigan said.
“The committee may consider
names for which no nominations
have been received in cases
where they feel that a meri
torious person has been over
looked.”
A&M Researcher
Named To Attend
Luxemburg Meet
Lt. Col. James R. Bradley of
A&M University is one of two
Army Reserve officers in the
United States named to attend an
international meeting at Luxem
burg.
Bradley, head of the Industrial
Economics Research Division at
A&M, will represent the United
States at the annual congress of
International Reserve Officers
Association Oct. 17-21.
Active in the Reserve for more
than 21 years, Bradley left Sunday
for Washington, D. C., for a brief
ing. He will be in Paris Tuesday
and Luxemburg Wednesday.
B&U Participates
In Safety Program
All Buildings and Utilities per
sonnel will participate in weekly
safety meetings beginning this
week to insure a more accident-
free program for workers in
skilled crafts, Virgil Clark, assist
ant superintendent, said Monday.
Ninety-four safety topics have
been given each shop foreman to
be used as a guide.
Workers in each shop will al
ternate in leading these meetings,
which are expected to last about
fifteen minutes. Each shop fore
man is responsible for carrying
out the safety schedule within
his shop, said Clark.
Clark also said, “Included in the
safety meetings will be first aid.
Our goal is to have at least one
qualified Red Cross Certified First
Aid man per shop. We will use
this man to teach first aid princi
pies to other men within the shop.’
Last Rites Observed Sunday
For A&M Business Manager
Funeral services for Charles
Arthur Roeber, 58, business mana
ger at A&M University/ were held
at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Hillier
Funeral Home Chapel.
Roeber died Friday afternoon
after suffering an apparent heart
seizure. He had been hospitalized
locally since Wednesday. Last
rites were officiated by the Rev.
Byron L. Lovelady of the A&M
Methodist Church, followed by
burial in Bryan City Cemetery.
His widow, son, Charles Jr.,
and two brothers, Victor and Her
bert Roeber of Halletsville are
the only survivors.
FOLLOWING GRADUATION
from the University of Texas in
1929 Roeber joined the A&M staff
as a cashier. He became a book
keeper at the Bryan’ First Na
tional Bank for one year and then
returned to A&M as assistant ac
countant in 1935.
Roeber was on the board of Ste
wards at A&M Methodist Church,
a member of the Sportsman’s
Clubs of Texas, tht Dad’s Associ
ation of the University of Texas
and was treasurer of the Sam
Houston Area Council of Boy
Scouts.
The Charles A. Roeber Memor
ial Scholarship Fund has been ini
tiated at A&M in honor of Roeber.
TWU Soph Feels
Like ‘Snow White’
At the conclusion of a weekend filled with excitement
over the season’s first win, Town Hall, dances and a tri
umphant after-game yell practice, an Aggie Sweetheart Selec
tion Committee named Miss Nanette Gabriel, sophomore
fashion merchandising major from El Paso, as the 1963-64
Aggie Sweetheart.
The twelve finalists arrived on campus Friday afternoon,
had dinner at Duncan Hall, attended Town Hall to hear the
Brothers Four and participated in the midnight yell practice.
Saturday they were treated to a picnic at Hensel Park
and later to a formal dinner preceding the football game with
the University of Houston.
After the game the girls'* -
MISS NANETTE GABRIEL
A&M’s number one “sweet young thing.’
Request For Doctorate In Philosophy,
Education Turned Down By State Board
AUSTIN <A>) _ Texas A&M Uni
versity was turned down Monday
in their second request to offer
Doctor of Philosophy degrees in
education and Doctor of Education
Ross Volunteer Banquet To Be Held
In MSC Ballroom Tuesday Evening
The initiation banquet for the
Ross Volunteers will be held in the
Ball room of the Memorial Student
Center Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The speaker for the affair will be
Dorsey E. McCrory, director of
the A&M University Development
Fund.
Besides McCrory, honor guests
for the banquet will be Chancellor
M. T. Harrington, President Earl
Rudder, Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan, Col. D. L. Baker,
Commandant and Professor^ of Mili
tary Science, Colonel James F.
Starkey, Professor of Air Science.
Captain Charles F. Hornstein,
Sponsor; P. L. “Pinky” Downs, Jr.,
R. V. ’04, Official Greeter; J. B.
Faculty Services
Begin Wednesday
The faculty Interfaith Fellow
ship will hold the first of a series
of meetings at 7 a.m. Wednesday
in the All Faiths Chapel. All
faculty and staff members and
personnel of religious organiza
tions have been invited to attend.
Speakers will explain the view
point of Islam, Judiasm and
Christianity on the topic “Source
of Ultimate Authority.”
Each speaker will talk about
five minutes, and will then con
duct cross examinations and ans
wer questions.
These meetings have been sche
duled for every Wednesday morn
ing through Nov. 20.
Hervey, Executive Secretary, For
mer Students Association; Col. and
Mrs Joe E. Davis, Mrs. Irene
Claghorn, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Cook,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Conway, friends
and supporters of the Ross Volun
teers.
degrees in agriculture extension.
The Texas Commission on Higher
Education said the A&M Board,
and not the university, should
have made the request.
The commission also said it
wants a closer look at course of
ferings planned for two colleges
scheduled to come under the state
system in 1964.
THE COMMISSION ordered its
staff to give further study to
proposed courses at San Angelo
State College and Pan American
College, located at San Angelo
and Edinburg, respectively.
The staff was asked to consoli-
Two Aggies, One UH Student
Injured In Weekend Mishap
As the result of a weekend one-
car accident, an Aggie will be
hospitalized at least six months
while two of his companions will
be released from hispitals this
week.
Francis Bonvillian II,. a fresh
man from La Porte, will be hospi
talized for at least six months,
said David F. Lyons, company
commander of D-l. Lyons added
that Bonvillian received a head
concussion, an injured back, a
broken arm, a broken ankle, and
foot injuries and that he is in
Houston’s Hermann Hospital.
Wayne Huebinger, a freshman
from San Antonio, dislocated his
shoulder and was bruised. He is
in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan.
Lyons said that Huebinger should
be released from the hospital
Wednesday of this week.
Kim Baker, a University of
Houston student and driver of the
car, was only bruised and should
released from a Houston hospital
in three to four days, Lyons said.
The accident occurred late Fri
day night in the 2700 block of
Texas Avenue when the sports
car Baker was driving went out
of control. Bonvillian and Hue
binger were thrown from the car.
Country Ministers
Attend Conference
About 200-300 rural and small
town ministers are expected to at
tend the 18th Annual Town and
Country Church Conference Wed
nesday through Friday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Included in the conference will
be talks on the role of the church
in developing the spiritual, men
tal, social and physical aspects of
man. The theme for the meeting
is “The Church Meeting Human
Needs.”
Speakers for the conference are
some of the nation’s outstanding
authorities in the religious, social
and medical fields,” said Larry L.
Burleson, organization specialist of
the Agricultural Extension Service.
date some Pan American depart
ments.
Pan American was a four-year
college before the last legisla
ture agreed to take it into the
state system. San Angelo had been
a junior college.
The commission’s proposed role
and scope for Pan American said
thought should be devoted to teach
er-training for the Valley area.
SAN ANGELO’S COLLEGE
should devote itself to building
a sound undergraduate program,
the report said.
The commission also approved
graduate school programs for the
University of Texas graduate
school of biomedical sciences at
Houston.
attended a formal dance at
the Memorial Student Center,
where members of the selec
tion committee had the op
portunity to dance and converse
with the girls.
Following the dance the selection
committee held a caucus to narrow
down the field for the final selec
tion.
At another caucus early Sunday
morning, which lasted about 30
minutes, the selection committee
made its final choice.
AT A BRIEF CEREMONY fol
lowing breakfast, the decision was
announced and Nanette Gabriel be
came the new Aggie Sweetheart.
Following the announcement, Miss
Gabriel named Bill Monier “Mr.
Congeniality.”
Harlan Roberts, president of the
student body, said the decision was
hard to make. “Any one of the
girls would have made a wonderful
sweetheart; it was not easy.”
MISS GABRIEL, a brown haired
5 foot 5 inch beauty, wrote an
especially appealing passage in her
application for sweetheart. “To be
Aggie Sweetheart would be like a
modern day Snow White, but in
stead of having seven dwarfs you
have eight thousand young men.”
It was the first time that an
Aggie Sweetheart had been chosen
on the A&M campus. Before this
year, all final selections had been
made at Texas Woman’s Uni
versity.
According to Roberts, “The
whole program went off very well,
and the girls enjoyed themselves
tremendously.”
At the Texas Christian Uni
versity football game Saturday in
Fort Worth, Miss Gabriel will be
formally presented to the Aggies
at half time. The Aggie band will
form her name; Richard Moore,
president of the Civilian Student
Council will present her with a
bouquet and Paul Dresser, Corps
Commander, will kiss her. Roberts
will escort her to and from the
ceremony.
United Chest
Nears Final
Collection Day
In the face of gifts from Col
lege Station citizens who had not
been contacted, Dr. Chris H. Grone-*
man Tuesday urged volunteer
workers to speed up soliciations
in the United Chest campaign.
“Several persons called my of
fice asking where to send checks,”
the campaign director reported.
“They had been waiting for work
ers to come around.”
Groneman urged that checks be
made out to College Station Uni
ted Chest and mailed to Faculty
Exchange Box 218, A&M Univer
sity.
“Or dial VI 6-5773 and we will
pick up the gifts,” he continued.
Groneman estimated that more
than half of the $18,000 goal had
been raised Tuesday morning. The
next report is due Tuesday night.
“With only three days left in
the campaign, we must put forth
extra effort to see all prospects
if we are to achieve the goal,”
Groneman appealed.
Fifteen worthwhile agencies
which answer vital community
needs throughout the year desire
the support of every citizen, he
emphasized.
Man, This Is Just The Beginning
A old tradition comes alive for the first ers the heave-ho into the fish pond follow-
time this season as freshman give yell lead- ing the University of Houston Game.