Che Battalion
Texas
A&M
University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1964
Number 42
Donald Pusch
New President
Singing Cadets
Donald E. Pusch of Houston has
been elected president of the Sing
ing Cadets at A&M University.
A junior mathematics major,
Pusch will be responsible for the
chorus’ public appearances next
year which include a nationwide
television show in November and
several concerts. The 21-year-old
Aggie is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward L. Pusch of 3310 Chaffin.
James Craig Riggs of College
Station, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
K. Riggs of 307 Lee St., will be
vice-president. A junior zoology
major, he is also active in the
Corps of Cadets.
Business manager is Larry
Alwyn Keese, another Houston
resident, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. I. Keese of 1725 Wood-
crest Drive. He is a sophomore
pre-veterinary medicine student.
Donald R. Warren of Richard
son will serve as publicity manager.
A junior electrical engineering
major, he is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert M. Warren of 713
Terryland Drive.
Kurt Alan Schember of College
Station, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. E.
Schember of 511 Ayrshire, will be
come librarian.
The Singing Cadets are the of
ficial glee club for the Miss Teen
Age of America Pageant, held an
nually in Dallas. They conduct a
series of concerts throughout Texas
each year, in addition to local
appearances.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
TAN HIEP, South Viet Nam —
Smoke streamed from the port
engine of a U. S. Army Caribou
transport on a takeoff Tuesday
with 15 men, 9 of them Ameri
cans, and seconds later the plane
crashed, plunging all aboard to
death in flames.
★ ★ ★
THUMAIR, South Arabia Fed
eration — A 120-man British
paratroop company was pinned
down in a little mudhut village
near here today while sharp
shooting Bedouin warriors fired
at them from rocky vantage
points in the surrounding hills.
US NEWS
WASHINGTON — The long-
fought battle between Fort Worth
and Dallas over the designation
of a regional airport may be re
viewed by the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
A CAB examiner, Ross I. New-
mann, ruled April 7 that it would
not be in the public interest to
designate either Fort Worth’s
Greater Southwest International
Airport or Dallas’ Love Field as a
regional airport.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — The Smith
sonian Institution today present
ed its rarely awarded Langley
Medal to the first American
astronaut. Navy Cmdr. Alan B.
Shepard Jr.
In Memory of Patrick L. Crouch
A&M students purchased a painting by ber. Presenting the painting to President of
E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz in memory of Pat- the Memorial Student Center Council Terry
rick L. Crouch, Arlington student who was Oddson, far left, are, left to right, Rick
killed in an automobile accident last Novem- Tessada, Bud Weldon and Bill Campbell.
49 Students Register
For Senate Elections
Forty-nine students registered
for the 27 positions to be decided
in the Student Senate elections
May 14 before filing for the elec
tion closed Tuesday afternoon.
Twelve Student Senate chairs
and 15 members of the election
commission will be decided in the
Thursday election. Election com
mission candidates will be elected
by members of their respective
classes. The candidates for the
Student Senate will also be elected
by the class system but only by
class members in the college that
they are seeking to represent.
Juniors filing for Arts and
Sciences senate seats are Jerome
Rektorik, Donald Atwell and Don
ald Warren. Sophomores filing
were David Graham, Ronald Pate,
Lani Presswood, Terry Norman
and Michael O. Beck. The five
freshmen filing for Arts and
Sciences were Louis Obdyke, Dan
Rice President
Explains Why
U of H Vetoed
HOUSTON <A>)_The president
of Rice University, explaining the
school’s blocking the University of
Houston’s bid to enter the South
west Conference, said Tuesday the
league is as large as it can be.
Dr. Kenneth Pitzer said: “The
Rice position is that the present
conference is as large as it can be
to permit a complete round robin
schedule.” The conference has
eight members.
ROUND-ROBIN play means
each school plays all other mem
ber schools.
He said the addition of another
school “would almost certainly
mean discarding the round robin
schedule.”
“And the impression we have
is that member schools want the
round robin and want enough flex
ibility of scheduling to permit
three non-conference games.”
See editorial page 2
Dr. Philip Hoffman, president
of the University of Houston, said
Monday Rice would not sponsor his
school’s bid for membership. Rice
had been expected to back Hous
ton, which now must wait until the
conference December meeting to
renew its bid to join the league,
Dr. Hoffman said.
AT THE request of certain Rice
officials, said Hoffman, Houston
had asked other conference schools
not to sponsor the Cougars until
Rice could consider doing it.
The conference has a rule mem
bers will be accepted only by invi
tation and a present member must
submit the application. The con
ference will meet this weekend at
Lubbock.
There were certain signs lately
of an accord between the two
Houston universities, but the feel
ing apparently didn’t extend to a
majority on Rice’s governing board
at this time.
U. S. - Common Market Cut
Tariffs After Negotiations
GENEVA <A>) — The United
States and the European Common
Market agreed late Tuesday night
to make a 50 per cent across-the-
board tariff cut the working basis
of the Kennedy round talks on
freeing world trade.
The decision came at the end
of a long day of backstage argu
ment between officials of the two
giants of world trade.
They also agreed to set Sept. 1
as the deadline for submitting a
list of items to be considered as
exception to the general negotiat
ing plan. The submission of these
lists will mark the beginning of
down-to-earth bargaining on tariff
cuts.
BRITAIN went along with Tues
day night’s agreement, which is
virtually certain to be approved
Wednesday at a plenary session of
the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade—GATT.
A last-minute hitch developed at
the formal opening of the Kennedy
round Monday when French Fi
nance Minister Valery Giscard
d’Estaing objected to wording
which would have made a 50 per
cent cut the unchangeable target
of the negotiations.
Under Tuesday’s compromise of
fers will be made on the assump-
Article By Prof’s Daughter
In May Issue Of Magazine
The literary work of Kristine house
Anderson, the 17-year-old daugh
ter of an A&M University profes
sor, is featured in the May issue
of Seventeen Magazine.
The high school senior wrote
“The Pill Bug Affair,” which ap
pears in the “You the Reader” sec
tion of the teen publication. Her
humorous essay describes a teen
ager’s efforts to compete in the
space-science race with the Rus
sians.
Kristine amusingly tells how she
tried — unsuccessfully — to train
10 hyperactive pill bugs to walk
through a maze. This, she says,
was the result of “hearing about
Ivan for years, ever since you-
know-who launched that first sat
ellite . . . Ivan ate all his buttered
carrots ... made his bed before
he watched Mighty Mouse Play-
Today’s Thought
This is a great country, but you
can’t live in it for nothing.
Will Rogers
did his homework with
the radio turned off . . . knew an
adverb when he saw one . . . (and)
did not let his teacher, school and
country down by not entering the
science fair.”
Daughter of former mission
aries, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Ander
son, Kristine was raised in the
Near and Middle East until she
was seven. She is now a senior at
A&M Consolidated High School
and plans to enter A&M Univer
sity, where her father is an in
structor in the Department of His
tory and Government, next fall.
Aptitude Test
Set Saturday
The Army Aviation Flight Apti
tude Test will be administered at
0830 hours, Saturday, 9 May 1964,
in Room 205, the Annex to the
Military Science Building. All in
terested cadets who are eligible for
the Army ROTC Flight Training
Program will report to Room 205
not later than 0815 hours.
FORMER STUDENTS
Builders And Leaders Needed
BY GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
In 1932 a petroleum engineer
ing student stepped out of Guion
Hall with a college diploma in
his hand. Twenty-four years
later he was elected president of
one of the nation’s major oil com
panies.
James W. Foley today is vice-
chairman of the board of direc
tors of the Texas Company, only
one step away from the highest
position with the corporation.
His career with Texaco began
immediately after his graduation
from A&M; he started as a ro
tary rig helper.
On May 23, 1959, Foley re
turned to A&M to speak to that
year’s graduates. The advice he
offered to graduates that day
still holds true now, five years
later.
“The world is in great need of
the ‘builders’ and ‘leaders’—the
men of initiative and judgment
who, rather than shrinking from
responsibility, reach out for it as
a means of making their contri
bution to the good of society,”
Foley told that group.
“If a business organization is
to adapt quickly to everchanging
conditions, and to meet success
fully competition in the market
place, it must have a reservoir
of manpower with ever-new
ideas.
“This does not mean that a
man must always be an objector
or attempt to do things differ
ently merely for the sake of be
ing different. On the other hand,
it does not mean that he must be
a conformist. There is ample
room and time for being a con
formist on the one hand, and for
the exercise of creative and re
sourceful ideas on the other.”
Foley emphasized the need for
a well-rounded education: “One
regret I have as to my own edu
cation is that in the avid pursuit
of an engineering degree, I ne
glected to pay as much attention
as I now wish I had to the liberal
arts.”
However, the most important
subject a student can master is
one on how to live his daily life.
“Mastery of this subject is
necessary if all the other knowl
edge one has acquired is to be
properly applied,” Foley said.
Speaking to graduates, but ap
plicable to all students, Foley ad
vised, “Liberty and freedom are
the keystone of your future.
They are things of the spirit.
They cannot be bought. They re
side not in well-furnished houses,
but in hearts that are brave and
courageous.
“As you go forth to attain your
goals in life, keep sight of this
larger objective. Rather than be
ing dismayed, you should look
upon the challenges confronting
you as opportunities.”
On his way up the Texaco lad
der, Foley’s first promotion was
to the position of petroleum en
gineer with the corporation. He
was then called to serve in the
Bahrain oil fields in the Persian
Gulf.
Returning to the U. S., he held
various posts in Louisiana before
being named assistant to the
manager of the producing depart
ment in Houston.
In 1949 Foley went to New
York at the company’s national
headquarters, and after serving
in several capacities was elected
a vice president of the oil com
pany.
His ladder-climbing gained mo
mentum, as he was elected a di
rector in 1954, executive vice
president in 1955 and president
in 1956.
The late Burt E. Hull, '04, said
of Foley, “I doubt whether any
other institution can boast of any
record that will compare with
Foley’s remarkable achievement.”
tion of a 50 per cent cut, but no
country is formally committed to
it.
THE FINAL average cut may
be considerably lower.
A 50 per cent cut is the maxi
mum authorized by the U. S. Trade
Expansion Act of 1962 which be
came law mainly due to the per
sonal initiative of the late Presi
dent John F. Kennedy.
The agreement declared that the
50 per cent cut would be the
“working hypothesis” of the Ken
nedy round.
The main negotiators of the
compromise were W. Michael
Blumenthal of the United States
and Robert Marjolin, vice presi
dent of the Common Market com
mission.
Galveston Officials
Debate Splash Day
GALVESTON <A>) — Three Gal
veston officials say they want to
abolish the annual Splash Days
celebration which officially opens
this resort city’s summer tourist
season.
The advisability of discontin
uing the yearly festivities will be
debated here this week, City Coun
cilman M. J. Gaido said.
Chief of Police W. J. Burns said,
“I’m definitely against Splash
Days and wish it could be stopped
for good.”
Fischer, Mike Walker, Edward Mo
reau and Gilbert Mayeux.
Six filed for seats in the senate
representing the College of Agri
culture. Those filing for the agri
culture were juniors Billy Jarvis
and Ruby Wuensche, sophomores
Ronald Smith and Leonard Holder,
and freshman Eddie Davis and Eu
gene Riser.
Only two students filed for the
College of Ehgineering. They are
junior David Clifton and sopho
more Michael Raybourne.
Juniors Jim Kelly and Keith
Clark and sophomore Stacy Lack
ey were the only three that filed
for seats representing the College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Twenty-five filed for positions
on the election commission. Jun
iors filing were Jim Kneisler,
James Gunter, Michael Wier, Lov
ell Aldrich, Charles Wallace, Ar
nold Ghormley and Donald War
ren.
Sophomores filing were James
G. Hooton, David V. Gibson, Jim
my Ray Barlow, Roland D. Smith,
Ronald Pate, Paul Studley, An
drew Salge, Leonard Holder, Mi
chael Raybourne, Lani Presswood,
William Parry, Louis Piboin and
Michael O. Beck.
Five freshmen filing were Cam
Fannin, Jack Myers, John Choate,
Tommy Godwin and George
Moench.
Wayne Smith, election commis
sion adviser, said that the dean of
the graduate college will appoint
the graduate representative.
Deadline Set
For Housing
All students wishing to live in
civilian dormitories in the fall
semester, 1964, must sign up for
their rooms before Friday in the
housing office.
Harry L. Boyer, housing man
ager, added that both corps and
civilian students must return their
room reservation cards by July
31 to insure being assigned the
room they are reserving.
Those appearing on the fall 1964
cadet roster must return their res
ervations in order to be assured
of being assigned to their correct
outfit.
All students will receive their
room reservation cards with their
spring grade reports. Students who
have a $20 room deposit on file
will not be required to make an
additional deposit.
University Of Houston Dean
To Talk At A&M Banquet
The dean of the University of taught at Tulane University, Har-
Houston College of Arts and Sci
ences, Dr. Alfred R. Neumann,
will speak at A&M University’s
Phi Kappa Phi initiation banquet
Tuesday.
Neumann, who came to the
United States from Germany in
1937, will talk on “The Search for
a Full Life.”
Dr. A. B. Wooten, secretary of
the honor scholastic society and
associate professor in the Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology
Department, said 113 new members
will be initiated at the 6:30 meet
ing in the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Twelve of the initiates are
faculty members, the balance are
students.
Neumann received his AB degree
from Marshall College and MA de
grees from the University of Ken
tucky and Harvard University. His
doctorate in German literature
came in 1951 from the University
of Michigan.
After three years in the U. S.
Army during World War II, he
vard University and the University
of Michigan. In 1953, he joined
the University of Houston faculty.
He became assistant to the presi
dent in 1956 and was appointed
dean of arts and sciences in 1959.
Neumann’s publications are con
cerned mainly with literature and
music. He is program annotator
for the Houston Symphony Or
chestra and the Houston Grand
Opera.
Dean Neumann is chairman-elect
of the Stillwater Conference of
Academic Deans and is vice presi
dent of the South Central Modern
Language Association.
He is a member of the executive
committee of the American Con
ference of Academic Deans, the
boards of the Houston Grand Opera
Association, the Houston Jewish
Family Service, the Houston
Friends of Music, the Executive
Committee for German of the Col
lege Entrance Examination Board,
and is bibliographer for the Modern
Language Association.
Former Hungarian Refugee
Gets Citizenship, Contract
Andras Csagoly (pronounced
Chog-lee) says his life has been
exciting but nothing compares to
his most recent experience.
Andy was a Budapest resident
until the Hungarian Revolt of 1956,
entered the Wichita Falls High
School without a knowledge of
English and as an Opportunity
Award Scholarship holder has
compiled an outstanding record at
A&M University.
His newest experience was tak
ing the oath of a U. S. citizen in
ceremonies Friday. Later he sign
ed a contract as an officer candi
date in the Army Reserve Officer
Training Corps.
The A&M junior is a distinguish
ed student with an average grade
point of 2.4 an a scale of 3 serv
ing as sergeant major of the Sixth
Battalion. He is a former cap
tain of A&M’s pistol team and
works as a dining hall waiter.
The Csagoly family moved to
Wichita Falls from a refugee
camp in Austria under sponsorship
of the Rotary Club. The elder
Csagoly now is director of the
Boys’ Club there and the family
resides at 3310 Kemp.
Aggies in the Wichita Rotary
Club helped steer Andy toward
A&M.
Two years ago he won half of
the 64 awards given at an invita
tional meet in Austin attended by
marksmen from law enforcement
agencies and the military.
COL. D. L. BAKER AND CADET ANDRAS CSAGOLY
.. . new citizen and officer candidate.