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Texas
A&M
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1964
Number 65
Early Arriving Aggies
Scheduled To Attend
Preliminary Meetings
Monday will see the first students arriving- back**-*
on campus to prepare for the fall term. By Sept. 14 all en-
rollees, new and old, should be registered.
The first students back will be those arriving up to a
week early in order to attend prelipiinary conferences.
Approximately 125 cadet officers will commence Mon
day a busy week of final planning for cadet units and the
new academic year. The traditional commandant’s reception
with a long list of campus officials invited is set Monday
night.
On Wednesday freshman students will arrive to attend
New Student Conferences. These conferences are for those
incoming freshman who were un-4
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A.&M University Scientists
Developing Weather Buoys
A&M University researchers are
Parts of a national team aimed at
ending the paradox of man routine-
y receiving detailed reports from
satellites far in space while little
18 reported daily on weather and
eea conditions across vast reaches
ef the ocean.
There are many reasons for
wanting to end the paradox.
Research Scientist Roy D. Gaul
are and four other men across
e nat ion form the guidance com
mittee for an Office of Naval Re-
8e arch sponsored project to develop
wig-range telemetering buoys ca-
P ab le of automatic operation while
cored far at sea. The other re
presentatives are from the Scripps
r.rr Uti ° n Oceanography in
* ornia, the Marine Laboratory,
University of Miami, Ocean En-
eering Corporation and the U.
■ Navy Oceanographic Office.
a ^ en< ^ e 4 the recent launch-
firlf Jacksonv ille, Fla., of the
prototype buoy and a second
the WestV 681 ! ^ thiS year ° ff
west Coast.
l!o ?se buoys will have 100 chan
nels
sendi
for gathering, storing and
knew °^ eanogTa Phic information
£ rom wind velocities at
the surface to water temperatures
thousands of feet below the sur
face/’ Gaul said. “It is planned
to query the buoy every six hours
and collect all the information ac
cumulated, but the buoys are to be
operational for a year.”
The 40-foot, discus-shaped buoys
were designed by the Convair Di
vision of General Dynamics. De
sign requirements include the abili
ty to weather 60-foot waves, 10-
knot currents and 150 - knots
winds—-all while floating on the
surface where depths exceed
20,000 feet.
Gaul has worked extensively in
the field of telemetering oceano
graphic data as part of a A&M
project at Panama City, Fla. The
Office of Naval Research heavily
sponsors this project involving the
use of two Navy-built platforms
in the Gulf of Mexico. Biological
and other studies are made in ad
dition to the physical oceano
graphic.
Among the Panama City projects
of special application to the long-
range telemetering buoy program,
Gaul said, is study of the bio
logical fouling of instrument sen
sors through the natural growth
of algae, barnacles and such.
Gaul and Norman G. Vick, anoth
er A&M researcher, have studied
for 18 months the growth of these
organisms on plastic test floats
at various depths in offshore wa
ters of the gulf. Dr. Willis E.
Pequegnat joined the project re
cently to handle laboratory ana
lysis.
‘Nothing of this kind has been
done before so far as we know,”
Gaul said. “We’re finding that
between the various stations (posi
tions) the biological regime is quite
different. There also is vertical
segmentation meaning that the wa
ter varies considerably at different
depths.”
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Tuma noted. “And, the Labor
Day holiday is especially hazard
ous in the areas of recreational
safety.”
He said special precautions
should be taken to prevent swim
ming and boating accidents.
TU Graduate
In Psychology
Joins Faculty
Dr. Carole Golightly who re
ceived the doctorate in psychology
this summer from the University
of Texas has joined the A&M Uni
versity faculty as an assistant
professor of psychology. The ap
pointment was announced by Dr.
Paul R. Hensarling, head of the
Department of Education and Psy
chology.
Golightly served as an instructor
at the University of Texas while
studying for the doctorate. She
attended San Antonio College and
then completed undergraduate stu
dies with honors at the University
of Texas in 1961.
Her doctoral dissertation was en
titled “The Reinforcement Proper
ties of Attitude Similarity: Dis
similarity.”
able to attend the special summer
sessions. The welcoming program
begins that evening with a barbe
cue supper.
The new students will have com
pleted registration Wednesday and
other students will start registra
tion at 1 p. m. Thursday. Registra
tion will end at 5 p. m. Friday.
Saturday the cadet units are to
complete their organization and
classes begin Monday (Sept. 14) at
8 a. m.
The first general assembly for
all new students is scheduled at 7
p. m. Wednesday in G. Rollie White
Coliseum with A&M President Earl
Rudder to give the welcoming
address. The freshmen also will
be welcomed by the Student Senate
president and a former student,
Searcy Bracewell, Class of 1938.
Brace well is a Houston attorney
and a former state senator.
A hootenanny led by Robert
Boone of the Memorial Center staff
will complete the program planned
by the New Student Committee
headed by Assistant Dean of En
gineering C. H. Ransdell.
The freshmen meet with their
respective academic colleges Thurs
day morning, hear Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan that
afternoon and observe “church
night” Thursday night. Campus
area churches plan open houses fol
lowing the general assembly
scheduled at 7 p. m.
The freshmen attend their first
cadet unit meetings Friday with an
open house that night at the Memo
rial Student Center.
Researchers Plan To Take
Ocean’s Skin Temperature
A&M University researchers
plan to take the temperature of
the ocean’s skin, as scientists call
the top four-thousandths of an
inch layer of seawater, in the area
from Surinam in Northeastern
South America to Bermuda and
then into the Gulf of Mexico.
While Dr. Guy A. Franceschini
checks the skin temperature and
takes other meteorological obser
vations, Dr. S. Z. El-Sayed will
collect small biological organisms.
The biological work is both to
study correlations between solar
energy and marine life and to
extend A&M’s already far-ranging
studies ob biological productivity.
“The thin top layer of the sea
is a sort of gateway through which
all energy has to pass,” Frances
chini explained. The exchange of
energy through air-sea interac
tion is vastly important to the
world climate and other factors of
life.
“Right now we don’t know too
much about it and probably won’t
for a number of years,” the A&M
professor said.
Franceschini has checked the
ocean skin’s temperature in An-
tarctia aboard a Russian research
vessel under a U.S.-USSR scient
ist exchange program and in other
areas of the world ocean. The Of
fice of Naval Research sponsors
his continuing study.
Often the temperature of the
thin top layer of water is almost
a degree different from that of
water a foot beneath the surface.
But Dr. Franceschini found in
Antarctica during a rainy period
Library Hires Specialist
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other
The A&M University library
system Tuesday joined the limited
ranks of academic libraries with
a full-time data processing special
ist. The appointment of Bruce W.
Stewart, an A&M graduate, to the
newly-created post was announced
by Library Director Robert A.
Houze.
Stewart is believed to be the
first data processing specialist
working full-time on the staff of
an academic library in the South
west. He is a Seguin High School
graduate whose parents now reside
in Del Rio.
“The basic goal is to perform
by machine as many mechanical
operations as possible, so that our
personnel can be released for
other professional functions,”
Houze said.
Stewart as a graduate student
has spent almost six months study
ing the problems of applying elec
tronic computers to A&M library
procedures involving the serials,
the more than 6,000 different titles
of magazines and other periodicals
catalogued in the library system.
Houze hopes data processing
techniques may be applied later
to the circulation of books, then
to the acquisitions procedures and
finally to preparing a catalogue
of all the holdings in the A&M
libraries.
The project involves close co
operation between staff members
of the library system and those
of the Data Processing Center
headed by Robert L. Smith, Jr.
A&M’s nationally-known electronic
computer facility already has been
used for such varied research as
space, medical and engineering
projects.
“There are a few academic lib
raries in the country which have
the services of a full-time com
puter specialist,” Houze said.
Among them are the University
of Illinois branch at Chicago, Uni
versity of Southern California at
San Diego and Colorado State Uni
versity.
The application of data process
ing techniques in an effort to
relieve librarians of menial tasks
and at the same time provide
improved services is a fast de
veloping field, he pointed out.
“Most of the work that has been
done in this field up to now has
been done in small, special librar
ies such as those at medical
schools,” Houze conitnued.
A&M’s planned use of electronic
computers to solve many of the
librarians’ problems involving ser
ials will make no difference to
library patrons for sometime.
an almost 10-degree difference in
temperatures between the surface
and water a foot below the surface.
A key instrument in measuring
the skin temperature is a radia
tion thermometer mounted on the
bow of the ship. The optical de
vice never tuches the water but
gives a continuous reading of the
temperature.
Latest Budget
Seeks Raise
For Profs
Hearings are presently being
conducted in Austin on a A&M
University budget request that
would, if approved, raise a
full professor’s salary from $10,506
to $13,931 by the end of fiscal
year 1967.
The State Appropiations Com
mittee is hearing the proposed
1965-67 budget request that totals
$14,795,205 the first year and
$15,383,481 the second. A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder, and Tom Cherry,
director of business affairs, are
among university officials attend
ing the hearings.
To date the average full time
A&M faculty salary is $8,052 ac
cording to the Commission on
Higher Education. The 1962-64
average faculty salary for all ranks
in the U. S. was $9,646 for a 10
month tenure compared to $7,740
over-all in Texas.
Other requests in the proposed
budget include $582,077 for or
ganized research in 1965 and $132,-
000 for annual reactor research.
The budget request for the two
year period is also intended to pro
vide for the establishment of a
college of geosciences composed
of the departments of oceano
graphy, meteorology, geology, geo
graphy, and geophysics.
Also proposed are doctoral pro
grams in education and agricul
tural education and a school for
natural bio-sciences in the college
of agriculture.
The new programs are yet to be
approved by the Texas Commission
on Higher Education.
Earlier in the year the governor’s
Committee on Higher Education
made recommendations as follows:
Establish 18-man coordinating
board to guide junior and senior
colleges, replacing the Texas Com
mission on Higher Education and
assuming some functions of Texas
Education Agency Powers include:
Recommend, approve and initiate
policy.
Rule on school’s requests to
modify role and scope.
Services Held
For Counselor
Robert Murray
Funeral services for Robert O.
(Bob) Murray, Jr., 49, longtime
student counselor at A&M Uni
versity, were held Monday after
noon with burial in the College
Station Cemetery. He died Sat
urday afternoon after a heart at
tack at the family residence, 824
North Rosemary in Bryan.
Services were held from the
Memorial Funeral Chapel with the
Rev. Walter McPhearson, pastor
of the A&M Methodist Church, of
ficiating.
Murray was an A&M graduate
and decorated veteran of World
War II who joined the staff 18
years ago. Through the years he
had counseled thousands of stu
dents. He also served as advisor
to the Civilian Student and Mar
ried Student Councils.
Murray was a past president of
the Texas Association of Student
Personnel Administrations, served
currently as vice president of the
Brazos County A&M Club, was
a member of the official Board of
the A&M Methodist Church and a
Mason.
He was a recipient of the Facul
ty Achievement Award given by
the Former Students Association
for outstanding service.
Survivors include his wife; two
sons, Clark Scott and Robert O.
Murray III; two daughters, Cyn
thia Anne and Marilyn Jane; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert O.
Murray, Sr., of Pineland; and four
sisters.
Honorary pallbearers included'
Chancellor M. T. Harrington, and
A&M President Earl Rudder.
Active pallbearers were W. L.
Penberthy, James T. Chapman,
Herbert Shaffer, Ray Oden, R. E.
Leighton and Lelve Gayle.
Murray graduated from Pine-
land High School and held the
B.S. and M.S. degrees from A&M.
He received the bachelor’s degree
in 1943 before going on active
duty as an infantry lieutenant.
YMCA Camp
A&M University students from
Corpus Christi and Richardson are
participating this week in the
YMCA National Student Council
meeting at the YMCA College
Camp near Williams Bay, Wis.
The weeklong sessions end Satur
day.
A&M “Y” President Donald R.
Warren is attending special ses
sions for incoming presidents of
collegiate YMCAs.
Water Fountain Bathed In Light
Another gift of Dallas residents was the out- scape illuminator, and Mrs. Watson provided
door lighting of the water fountain triangle the lighting improvements for the fountain
across from All Faiths Chapel. John Wat- and triangle,
son, a A&M graduate and outstanding land-