Texas
A&M
University
SPECIAL FRESHMAN EDITION
Che Battalion
SECTION
ONE
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964
Number 6|
Cushing Library Director
Initiates Improved Service
PRESIDENT EARL RUDDER
... ‘T bid you welcome to A&M University.”
President Rudder
Greets Freshmen
“To the students enrolled here for the first time we
pledge our efforts toward providing you the faculty, the
facilities and the atmosphere for learning necessary for
attainment of higher educational goals. These are ex
citing times at A&M and we want each student to become
a part of our movement toward greatness. I extend you
this challenge and bid you welcome to A&M.”
With these words President Rudder, in reflecting on.
A&M’s progress, stressed that incoming freshmen will bene
fit from the many advances made by the University in
recent months.
“1963 proved to be a year of exciting accomplishments.
There was solid advancement in areas specifically delineated
in The Blueprint for Progress.” The Blueprint, issued by
the Board of Directors in 1962, charts the future of A&M
and lays emphasis on excellence in every phase of the
institution’s activities.
President Rudder said that recent major accomplish
ments included various grants awarded to the institution
totaling more than six million dollars, approval of the new
College of Geosciences, realization of the Cyclotron Insti
tute and the addition of several distinguished faculty mem
bers. “These accomplishments are part of our effort to
provide at A&M University an atmosphere for learning un
excelled anywhere,” Rudder said.
Of particular interest to students are the new dormi
tories and the renovation, including air conditioning, of
some existing dormitories. There will be air conditioned
space for over 2000 students upon completion of this con
struction program. Classroom buildings also are being
air conditioned on a programmed basis to further improve
the comfort level for students and staff.
“It is our hope,” Rudder stated, “that members of
this year’s freshman class will have access to the new library
and Learning Center long before their graduation.” This
sping the Board of Directors approved the preliminary plans
for the proposed our-story library. Cushing Library will
become the new Learning Center. “A University is often
judged by the size and quality of its library and we will
soon have one of the finest,” Rudder said.
VIEW OF THE ACADEMIC BUILDING
. . . probably students have attended more classes in this famous Aggieland landmark than in any other building
on campus.
Inside The Battalion
This annual freshman edition of The Battalion is de
signed to give the new student and his parents some in
sight into the background, size, traditions, facilities and
academic quality of A&M University.
The new student might find it helpful to keep this
issue of the “Batt” and bring it with him in September to
help him in the big job of getting acquainted with the
University .
The first section includes current campus news and
some feature stories on the institution.
The second section includes information on educational
facilities, history and administrative officials.
The third section centers around extra-curricular activi
ties and the fourth and final section deals with spirit and
sports.
Doctoral Candidate Appointed
To Department Of Philosophy
The appointment of John B. Orr
to the A&M University faculty
as an assistant professor of philo
sophy was announced Wednesday
by Dean of Arts and Sciences
Prank Hubert.
Orr is meeting: requirements for
the Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Yale University Divinity School.
His completed dissertation is en
titled “Justice and National In
come Security—A Study in Christ
ian Social Ethics.”
A&M’s Board of Directors re
cently authorized steps toward
establishment of a Department of
Philosophy.
Orr received a B.A. degree in
psychology with distinction at the
University of New Mexico in 1955,
the B.D. degree with high honors
from San Francisco Theological
Seminary in 1958 and the M.A.
from Yale in 1963.
He held assistantsh'ips at the Uni
versity of New Mexico and at the
seminary.
Orr has traveled in Europe and
the Middle East.
He was an assistant pastor of
Westwood Presbyterian Church,
Los Angeles, in 1958-61 and served
as pastor of the Cos Cob Com
munity Church in Connecticut.
Dean Hubert said the new facul
ty member will teach introductory
courses in philosophy and the
philosophy of religion.
Dean Hubert
Set To Move
To New Office
A&M University Dean of Arts
and Sciences Frank Hubert and
staff will occupy remodeled quar
ters in the Academic Buildifxg
Sept. 1 and the dean’s present
offices in Nagle Hall will be turned
over to the Department of History
and Government.
The new quarters allow a re
alignment of functional areas for
more efficient handling of work
loads and the reception of visitors.
Academic Building Room 102
will house Dean Hubert, Associate
Dean Charles F. Squire, Donald
F. Simons, asistant to the dean,
and secretaries. A small confer
ence room will adjoin the offices.
Arts and sciences students visit
ing the dean’s office will meet
Associate Dean George W. Schles-
selman in Room 101.
The Department of History and
Government will move to the pre
sent dean’s quarters early in Sept
ember. Department offices will
be remodeled to provide office
space for faculty members now
housed in the Academic Building.
Graduate Student
Graduate student Lynn Braswell
of Angleton has devised a new
compiler language dubbed “Aggie”
to instruct sophisticated electronic
computers at A&M University’s
Data Processing Center.
The compiler which would cost
$25,000 to $40,000 commercially,
was developed by Braswell as his
thesis project for the Master of
Science in computer science degrree.
NSF Students
To Give Show
High school students on the
A&M University campus for two
National Science Foundation Sum
mer Institutes will present a talent
show at 7 p.m. Saturday in Guion
Hall. The public has been invited
to the free variety show.
Serving as master of ceremonies
will be John R. Adams of Houston.
He is here for the six-week pro
gram in mathematics directed by
Dr. William S. McCulley. Professor
Fred Smith directs the program in
geology.
Instrumental music, a skit en
titled “There Is No Truth,” and
folk singers are on the program
announced by Mary Edna Dorsey,
social director for the high school
student program.
Em inent Lecturers
Scheduled ’64- ’65
The A&M University Lectures
for 1964-65 will be given by six
persons eminent in as many fields,
Dr. R. W. Barzak announced as
lectures committee chairman.
“The University Lectures now in
their second year are planned to
give the faculty, students and gen
eral public the opportunity to hear
renowned authorities speak on sub
jects of broad social, political and
intellectual interest,” Barzak said.
He is assistant dean of the Grad
uate College.
The 1964-65 lectures will begin
Nov. 3 with a lecture by Victor
Christ-Janer, award-winning archi
tect and an adjunct professor of
Columbia University. He is a Dan-
forth Visiting Lecturer.
Lecturing Dec. 3 will be Dr. Jo-
tham Johnson, classical archaeolo
gist on the New York University
faculty. He also is a Danforth Vis
iting Lecturer.
Dr. Talcott Parsons, Harvard
University sociologist, will lecture
Jan. 12.
Scheduled to visit the A&M cam
pus March 2 is Dr. Melvin Kranz-
Col. Denzil Baker
Has ‘Mild Attack’
Col. Denzil L. Baker of A&M
University’s faculty is recovering
in the U. S. Naval Hospital at
Memphis, Tenn., from a “mild
heart attack,” University officials
learned Tuesday.
The military science professor
and commandant of cadets suf
fered the seizure July 31 while
on a vacation trip with his wife.
She told A&M authorities that
Colonel Baker likely will remain in
Memphis until about September 1,
then be removed to Brooke Army
General Hospital in San Antonio.
Three Year Grant
For Sense Study
A three-year grant totaling ap
proximately $118,000 for a study
of sensory perception as affected
by gamma irradiation has been
made to University Professor Sid
ney O. Brown as principal in
vestigator. The U. S. Public Health
Service grant was annuonced by
A&M President Earl Rudder.
Dr. Brown is a professor of bio
logy and head of the Radiation
Biology Laboratory of the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station.
Making the study with Dr.
Brown will be Dr. Albert L. Casey,
psychologist.
berg, historian of science and tech
nology. He is a faculty member of
the Case Institute of Technology.
Dr. Gustave Arlt will lecture
April 7. He is president of the
Council of Graduate Schools in the
United States.
Concluding the series will be a
lecture May 11 by Dr. Bell I. Wil
ey, Charles Howard Candler Pro
fessor of History, Emory Univer
sity.
The University Lectures are
planned to complement the Gradu
ate Lecture Series, jointly spon
sored by the Graduate College and
departments of the university. The
Graduate Lecture series topics are
on more specialized, technical sub
jects.
Planning the University Lectures
is a committee composed of Pro
fessors Haskell M. Monroe, Jr.,
history; Bruno J. Zwolinski, chem
istry; J. N. Weaver, entomology;
R. D. Turk, veterinary medicine;
and Barzak. One committee vacan
cy is to be filled.
Greenfield Resigns
For Teaching Post
Dr. Guy Greenfield, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of College
Station since June 1962, announced
his resignation this week to be ef
fective Aug. 24.
Greenfield has accepted the chair
of sociology at Judson Baptist Col
lege in Marion, Alabama, begin
ning Sept. 1. Judson College, a
four year liberal arts college owned
by the Alabama Baptist General
Convention was founded in 1838 by
Dr. Milam P. Judd, and has a long
impressive history in the tradition
al deep south.
Greenfield came to College Sta
tion from the pastorage of the
First Baptist Church, Branfield,
Okla. He is a graduate of Okla
homa Baptist University with a
B. A. degree.
Heaton Announces
A&M University Registrar H. L.
Heaton announced that 535 stu
dents have applied for degrees to
be conferred Aug. 21 when the
summer term ends.
The total includes 323 seeking
a bachelor’s degree.
Stacks Open
To All Users
Cushing Memorial Library stacks
are open permanently to all users
and the circulation desk has bee*
moved to the main floor lobby
as part of a comprehensive plan
to better serve the patrons, A&M
University Library Director Rob
ert A. Houze announced.
Library users now may fully
utilize all library materials and
then check out materials from th«
circulation desk beside the main
entrance. This centralizes several
functions and frees staff members
to work in the stacks and assist
students, Houze said.
“The experimental opening of
the stacks has worked so satis
factorily that we plan to keep
them open permanently,” Houz«
said. The stacks or shelves of
books gained improved lighting
sometime ago in preparation for
the opening of the area to all
users.
The improvements aimed at pro
viding “the most efficient service
possible” involves a series of moves
and changes. Most have been com
pleted, others are planned for the
near future and a research study
underway may point to other
changes early in 1965.
The card catalog cabinets and
as many basic bibliographic aids
as space allows have been moved
to the main floor lobby. The
newspapers formerly found in that
area have been moved to the sec
ond floor alcove vacated by the
circulation staff.
Houze said “a large section of
the Reserve and Required Reading
Room will be remodeled into a
handsome browsing room.”
Both the government documents
division and the reference room
may expand into the second floor
lobby in coming months. Some
steel shelving for government doc
uments has been ordered and the
reference room “also may find it
necessary to expand into the lob
by.”
Establishment of an “informa
tion and assistance desk” in the
first floor lobby is another im
provement.
“This station has been estab
lished for the express purpose of
helping the library patron,” Houze
said.
Cushing Library., is open 99
hours weekly during the regular
semester and almost as many hour*
during the summer. The record
number of hours results from in
creasing demands upon the library
by students and the faculty with
new circulation peaks established
almost monthly, Houze said.
MILITARY HONORS
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award ribbons
for services before they came to A&M Uni
versity on student assignments were pre
sented three officers in ceremonies con
ducted by Col. Raymond C. Lee, right, pro
fessor of air science. Honored were, left to
right, Capt. Tommy D. Guest of Crane,
Capt. Sidney O. Benard, of Okmulgee, Okla.,
and Chief Warrant Officer Billy G. Hance
of Baytown. All three were assigned to the
Third Weather Wing when that Air Force
unit devised “the first automated, central
ized military weather forecasting service in
the United States.” (See story Page 5.)