Phursday, August 6, 1964
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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Lack Of Animals
Pleases Graduate
A&M University graduate stu-
lent Robert W. Wenck of Midland
happy that the Aggie Players
eldom use animals in theatrical
iroductions.
Wenck enjoyed two years as
tage manager of Val Balfour’s
Oberammergau Passion Play,, on
lational tour but animals some-
imes gave him headaches. He
ecalled the time a racing camel
scaped during a publicity stunt
n Flagstaff, Ariz., and a hour
ater was found being led by a
Irunken Indian.
Wenck attended A&M in the
950s and served as president of
he Aggie Players before joining
he road company. Later he com-
ileted a three-year duty tour in
he Army.
Now the Midlander plans to
nake a career of theatrical arts,
n September he assumes a grad
ate assistantship while studying
or the Master of Arts degree in
English. He completed undergrad-
late studies in May.
Wenck 'yvill serve as teachnical
upervisor for the Aggie Players,
working under the direction of
Lssistant Professor C. K. Esten,
Students Find
leasing Side
)f Computers
High school scholars attending
ollege courses at A&M University
jre finding fun in operating a
ligital computer as well as more
ypical activities.
The students from five states
re here for summer programs in
aathematics and geoglogy spon-
ored by the National Science
foundation.
The serious aspects of the pro-
ram involves four hours of class-
rork daily and assignments in
A.&M’s $4% million Data Proces
sing Center with its electronic com-
uters. But the students also have
heir lighter moments.
A number are plannings a talent
iW Aug. 8.
“We study pretty hard but can
Iways scrape up two tables of
ridge,” David Stevens of 531 E.
iynwood, Phoenix, Ariz., said.
David arrived here with a data
recessing program to compute if
he planets Pluto and Neptune will
lollied within the next million
'ears. He and a friend have spent
tight months on the project. Thus
Bar they have gotten only enough
[ime on an electronic computer to
Perify the planets will not collide
vithin the next 5,000 years.
[ Perhaps half of the students plan
p study mathematics or physics in
[ollege. Some hope to attend A&M,
thers plan to attend other col-
eges.
“I hope this program will help
pe to get in West Point,” Tommy
lannigan said. He finds the pro-
gam “new, different, challenging.”
lis father is A&M Dean of Stu-
lents James P. Hannigan.
Kathy West, also of Bryan and
Stephen F. Austin High School, is
phe only girl in the class. Her
arents are Maj. and Mrs. Alfred
West, 2111 Elmwood. Kathy
[escribes herself as an “English
lug.”
producer for the campus theater.
The graduate student already is
preparing the lights and other
essentials for the Players’ coming
season which opens with a modern
comedy and closes with a Shake
spearian production.
“It was lot of hard work mainly,”
Wenck said of his experiences with
the passion play company. As stage
manager he had control backstage
over the actors including as many
as 200 extras and the professional
stage hands.
“We played Mobile to Schenec
tady to Walla Walla to San Diego
and points in between,” Wenck said.
The show was on the road 40
weeks a year and had a 10-week
summer stand.
“In Walla Walla we played on
a stage about the size of a pigeon
hole and then went straight to
Spokane and played a 9500-seat
coliseum,” Wenck recalled. And
they usually arrived in a city a
few hours before curtain time.
The experience provided plenty
of technical know-how to supple
ment what Wenck had learned with
the Aggie Players. He prefers the
technical side of the theater such
as lighting and sets to acting al
though he has appeared in some
productions of the Aggie Players.
He was president of the Aggie
Players and met Val Balfour when
the passion play company appeared
here and the following summer
went to work for the road com
pany.
The Texas Aggie whose initial
goal was an electrical engineering
degree switched to an English ma
jor when his real interest became
the theater arts.
“They had two courses in theater
arts when I was here earlier,”
Wenck said.
This fall the Department of Eng
lish begins offering enough courses
for a student to minor in theater
arts.
Mohole Director
Tells Of Problems
In Project Work
Gordon G. Lill, director of the
Mohole Project, told a A&M Uni
versity audience Monday night of
the problems involved in drilling
a hole 7 miles deep.
The National Science Foundation
project will be the deepest penetra
tion ever made into the earth, the
lecturer said.
Approximately 200 persons heard
the geologist outline the goals
of drilling from a platform in
18,000 feet of water to pierce 17,-
000 feet into the earth.
Mohole drilling is expected to be
gin in 1967 and will require two
or three years of continuous
operation he said. A site south east
of Puerto Rica or in the Hawaiian
Islands will be announced later this
year.
“Before we reach the mantle or
give up something in the order of
$70,000,000 will be expended,” Dr.
Lill predicted.
The mantle, the portion of the
earth immediately below the crust,
is nearer the surface out at sea,
he explained.
“First we want to sample the
earth’s mantle,” Lill said of the
goals for Mohole. “We also seek
a history of the ocean basins.”
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