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Physics, Music
Lecture Subject
A university professor from
Norway, interested in populariz-
ig physics will lecture on the
"Physics of Music” Thursday.
I Dr. Helmut Ormestad from the
^University of Oslo speaks at 8 p.m.
in the Biological Science Lecture
Author of such articles as “Sau-
Jsages, Physics and Potato Salad,”
Jhmestad’s research interests in-
iclude acoustics of building's, musi-
instruments, speech and hear-
Ormestad also will present a
echnical lecture on “Sound,” in-
fjcluding descriptions of what man
Blears and what animals hear. The
alk will be at 1 p.m. Thursday
in Room 146 of the Physics Build-
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FRIDAY
The Data Processing Center is
presenting a series of lectures on
^applications of digital computers
jn conjunction with the National
Science Foundation Institute.
Dr. H. 0. Hartley, director of
the graduate Institute of Statistics
at A&M will speak Friday at 2
p.m. on the “Design of Experi
ments” in room 231 of the Chem
istry Building.
SATURDAY
Dr. Vivian Stannett of the Ca
mille Dreyfus Laboratory, Durham,
N. C., will present a Graduate Col
lege Lecture at 10 a.m. Saturday
in Room 231, Chemistry Building.
He will speak on some aspects of
his current research on polymers.
MONDAY
Dr. Mark Zemansky, professor
of Physics at The City College of
New York in New York City, will
speak at 1:15 Monday in room 146
of the Physics Building on “In
troduction Courses in Physics.” He
will speak on “Thermondynamics
at Negative Kelvin Temperatures”
at 8 p.m. in room 113 of the Bio
logical Science Building.
TUESDAY
Professor Takehiko Shimanouchi,
outstanding chemist in Japan, will
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A lot of physics has been taught
by Mrs. Josephine Samuel of Irving
since she attended the first sum
mer institute for high school phys
ics teachers at A&M University
seven years ago.
She had begun teaching science
courses at Irving High School in
1956 after devoting years to her
family.
Now Mrs. Samuel is something
of a veteran teacher of the “new”
or PSSC (Physical Science Study
Committee) physics and serves as
laboratory instructor for the nine-
week summer institute. Associate
Professor Nelson M. Duller directs
the program in which 30 teachers
from four states are participating
through July. The National Science
Foundation sponsors the institute.
“Mrs. Samuel with her enthusi
asm for PSSC physics and experi
ence has made an invaluable con
tribution,” Dr. Duller said.
present a Graduate College Lecture
at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 231,
Chemistry Building.
“Force Constants of Small Mole
cules” is his subject for the public
lecture.
Shimanouchi, who is on the Uni
versity of Tokyo faculty won the
1964 Prize of the Chemical Society
of Japan. He has an international
reputation based upon 150 journal
articles.
CLEARWATER, Fla. UP) —
John Rowe, 14, won a $20 bet by
completing a 50-mile hike. Asked
what he would do with the money,
he said he would save it—“I’d
like to get a motor scooter.”
A modest person, Mrs. Duller
quickly grows enthusiastic as she
discusses the PSSC physics.
“We attempt to teach,” she said,
“from the standpoint of an ob
served phenomenon, frequently an
experiment, and then go into
theory. This gives students a real
insight into how the minds of phy
sicists work. Also, the PSSC ap
proach has a continuity lacking in
conventional physics.”
The PSSC physics textbook pub
lished four years ago and being
used in more and more high schools
is an outgrowth of discussions be
gun in 1956 as Americans reacted
to the Soviet’s Sputnik. Hundreds
of physicists and teachers partici
pated in creation of the new ap
proach to teaching high school
physics.
“We aren’t teaching the physics
to the teachers. We give them a
chance to go over the textbooks
and the experiments,” Mrs. Sam
uel said of the summer institute.
Mrs. Samuel attended a conven
tional physics institute at A&M in
1957. She majored in bacteriology
at the University of Kansas and
was not especially knowledgable in
physics. She claims n o special
knowledge, just “some” knowledge
and a great liking for physics and
teaching it to high school students.
Simple things such as a brick
to represent mass, a small car
made of a piece of lumber, roller
skate wheels and a doorbell buzzer
are used in experiments.
“I think students get a better
understanding of physics through
the PSSC physics than through the
conventional approach,” Mrs. Sam
uel said.
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Photo Featured
An article by Assistant Profes
sor of English Sidney S. Cox and
a photo of A&M University Presi
dent Earl Rudder presenting a na
tional award to Exchange Store
Manager Carl Birdwell appear in
the latest issue of “The College
Store Journal.” The National As
sociation of College Stores publish
es the magazine.
Cox, a veteran English teacher,
is author of an article entitled
“Professor . . . Give Your Students
A Guided Tour of the Bookstore.”
“Today a first class bookstore,”
Cox writes, “is an educational fa
cility that is almost as important
as teachers, classrooms, labora
tories, libraries and a University
Press, for in conjunction with the
paperback book industry the cam
pus bookstore is providing univer
sity students an educational advan
tage they never have had before.”
Birdwell won a $25 award in a
contest sponsored by “The College
Store Journal.” He is a past presi
dent of the National Association of
College Stores.
★★★
Dr. C. F. Meinecke, assistant
professor in the Department of
Veterinary Microbiology, will at
tend the annual American Poultry
and Hatchery Federation Conven
tion July 21-24 in Dallas.
The veterinarian will participate
in open discussions on poultry dis
eases and control. He also will
consult with Dr. James Williams
of the Federal Disease Laboratory
at Athens, Ga., on control of Sal-
monellas in poultry.
★★★
Dr. John Q. Anderson, head of
the Department of English, is au
thor of “Scholarship in Southwest
ern Humor—Past and Present,”
the lead article in the new issue
of “Mississippi Quarterly.”
The article is based upon Ander
son’s paper delivered last October
as the main address of the Ameri
can Studies Association of the
Lower Mississippi, southern reg
ional branch of the American
Studies Association. He is presi
dent of the Texas branch.
The new issue of “Mississippi
Quarterly” is devoted to papers
presented at the annual meeting.
★★★
A&M University will have two
speakers at the 40th annual Inter
national Shade Tree Conference
Aug. 16-21 in Houston.
Professor A. F. DeWerth, head
of the Floriculture Section, will
talk on planting of trees to suit
landscape and environment.
Dr. Robert S. Halliwell, assist
ant professor in the Department of
Plant Sciences, will discuss a wide
spread tree disease condition
known as liveoak decline.
O. J. Anderson of Houston, gen
eral chairman, said the conference
also will have exhibits of fertiliz
ers, spray materials and equip
ment.
The meetings will be held in the
Shamrock Hilton Hotel.
★★★
Dr. T. R. Timm, head of the De
partment of Agricultural Econom
ics and Sociology, will be a pro
gram leader during Southwestern
Graduate School of Banking to be
held in Dallas.
The school is set for the week of
July 27 and is sponsored by South
ern Methodist University.
Timm will organize farm credit
discussions and supervise farm
credit phases of the overall pro
gram.
The department head also will
consult with bankers, county
agents, farm magazine editors and
farm radio directors who are in
terested in Extension Service pro
grams in agricultural economics.
Dr. Ernest E. Angino of the De
partment of Metorology and
Oceanography has been selected as
one of 40 persons to attend a
month-long summer institute in
isotope technology at Oak Ridge,
Tenn.
Angino is an assistant professor
of oceanography who has worked
in the Antarctic.
Melvin Johnson ’64
Charles Johnson ’62
Charles Thomas ’64
College Master
Specialist
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