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ioriie rshott hen li| a ndtl 'atioft 1 inte ;ive Campus Beckons Former Staffer Walter Lee Porter, whose 58 years as a teacher begun in an Alabama school built of cedar logs, has returned to the class room as a student. Porter comes to the A&M cam pus—where he taught for 31 years—to attend Education 632, “Educational and Occupational In formation.” In 1963 he started taking courses to meet require ments for teaching in a high HERE IS >|£i the! Ai MAN TO CALL FOR THE BEST BUY ON YOUR INSURANCE U. M. ALEXANDER ’40 221 S. Main TA 3-3616 (=~1STATE FARM I I Insurance Companies offices: Bloomington, Illinois St. Thomas’ Episcopal Chapel 906 Jersey St. South Side of Campus Invites anyone interested in The Episcopal Church to to an INQUIRERS’ CLASS Monday Evening 8:00 p. m. First Class March 15, 1965 Regular Service of the Episcopal Church Sundays 8:00 a. m. 9:15 a. m. 11:00 a. m.; 7:00 p. m. Wednesdays 6:45 a. m. 7:15 p. m. Canterbury Association - Supper 6:30 p. m. Wednesdays. school accredited by the Southern Association of Secondary Schools. “Also, I enjoy taking courses,” Porter said. “I feel that when people stop studying on some thing, they begin to dry up.” The Alabama native joined the staff of Allen Academy in Bryan upon retiring from A&M in 1959 as professor emeritus of math ematics. For 21 years he served as department head. “It’s a pleasure and an honor to have Professor Porter in the class,” associate professor S. A. Kerley said. Learning and teaching as ways of life began for Porter while he was growing up near Scottsboro, Ala. “I was third in a family of nine children, seven of whom taught school,” the veteran professor said. He completed studies at a one- room school in his home communi ty and then enrolled in the Scotts boro Baptist Institute, a high school. Later he went to Birm ingham to attend Howard College. Even while a college student he gained his first teaching ex perience by teaching summers in a one-room, cedar log school on a mountainside in Northern Ala bama. School met only during the summers, Porter explained, because roads were impassable at other times. That was back before they had compulsory attendance laws, and some 12 and 13-year olds in my class never had been in school be fore,” Porter recalled. Conditions were primitive in that southern tip of Appalachia. “At recess the children played marbles, using marbles which they had make themselves from pieces of limestone.” Porter earned $31.44 a month those summers. Upon graduating from Howard College in 1911 he became super intendent of schools at Tuskegee. Booker T. Washington was presi dent of Tuskegee Institute and scientist George Carver was a faculty member. Porter recalls Washington’s love of fine horses and the scientist’s “friendly, hum-, ble personality.” In 1917-18 Porter was princi pal of the Munroe County, Ala., High School. Secretary of the school board was A. C. Lee whose daughter, Harper, won a Pulitzer Prize with the novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird.” STUDENT LIFE RETURNS FOR PROF . . . at Aggieland again after long absence. THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 10, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 3 CAMPUS BRIEFS Mrs. Texas A&M Contest To Be Climaxed By Dance The winner of the Mrs. Texas A&M Contest will be presented at an semi-formal dance March 20 in the Memorial Student Center. The dance is sponsored by the Aggie wive’s clubs and is set for 8 p.m. Music will be fur nished by Dr. Richard J. Bald- auf’s Aggieland Orchestra. A limited number of tickets will be sold at $2.50 per couple. They can be purchased from any Aggie Wives Council member or by calling 846-5232 or 846-5326. A $25 gift certificate is one of several door prizes to be given away at the dance. ★ ★ ★ Debaters In Tourney A&M University entries parti cipated with debaters from 35 other schools in four states in New Bengali Text Book Authored By Dr. Dabbs Dr. Jack A. Dabbs is the author of a newly-published book, anoth er in a series of materials he has prepared on Bengali. The lan guage of East Pakistan and East ern India, Bengali is spoken by as many people as speak French around the world. The new book is “Spoken Ben gali: Dialects of East Bengal.” Concerned with fundamentals of eight dialects spoken in varied regions of East Pakistan, the book is designed to accompany a text book of the standard language. Dabbs assembled most of the materials for his newest book while on a field trip to East Pakistan in 1960 but he has used materials gained through inter views with East Pakistanis here as students. “Texas A&M has a continuing interest in Bengali because of the number of faculty and staff members sent to East Pakistan under the U. S. aid program,” Dabbs said. Also, 60 students from the Asian nation attend A&M. Dabbs has taught here since 1950 and became head of the De partment of Modern Languages this year. He visited East Pakis tan under a grant from the A&M System Office of International Programs and its orientation pro gram sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The new book presents the same expressions and ideas but CS United Chest Elects Officers Five new members were elected Monday night to serve three-year terms on the board of directors at the annual College Station United Chest, Inc., membership meeting in the A&M Consolidated Schools cafeteria. Elected to terms which will be gin June 1, 1965 and run until May 31, 1968 were, Clark Munroe, director of personnel at A&M; Dr. Daniel C. Pfannstiel, assistant director of the Agriculture Ex tension Services; Walter H. Par sons, Jr., superintendent of Build ings and Utilities; Jack Bradshaw, ASCS; and John E. Oliver, as sistant professor, School of Busi ness Administration. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES One day 3c per word each addition) Minimum charge—50c . . . 4c per word h additional day arge DEADLINE 4 p.m. day day before publicati Classified Display 90c P e r column inch each insertion CHILD CARE Equipped and experienced in large home with big back yard fenced, 846-8608. 147tfn HUMPTY DUMPTY NURSERY, 3404 South College, State Licensed. TA 2-4803, Virginia D. Jones, R. N. 99tfn Child care, experienced, VI 6-7960. 80tfn FOR SALE NOTICE OF BID SALE For sale approximately 725 picture of all sizes in frames. 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Dabbs noted there is “more difference among the dia lects than between the English spoken in New York and in Cali fornia.” The dialects include Chittagong, Khustia, Mymen- singh, Noakhali, Rangpur, Shul- pur and Sylhet. “The school or standard lan guage is of the Calcutta type in regard to spelling and structure,” Dabbs said. The eight dialects recorded in his new book and other dialects probably will fade away eventually as more people become educated. At least this has been the experience in other parts of the world as education helped to standardize the lan guage. Bengali is an old language. Its beginnings are traced back 2,000 years but through the cen turies it has changed, as have English and other languages. Final proofing and publication of the new book on the dialects was made possible by a research grant of the Engineering Experi ment Station. the Southeastern State College Debate Tournament recently in Durant, Okla. Two of the Aggies reached the semifinals in individual events in the Friday-Saturday competi tion. Simeon T. Lake reached the semifinals in men’s ex temporaneous speaking and James W. Seabolt competed at that level in men’s poetry reading. The team composed of Lake and Tom O. Batson Jr., won one and lost four debates. The other A&M team formed by Seabolt and David Gay won two and lost three. Carl Kell, an instructor in speech and English, is debate coach. ★ ★ ★ Poetry Reading Scheduled A poetry-lecture reading fea turing Dr. Robert Lewis Weeks, a professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State College, is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday in the as sembly room of the Memorial Student Center. Sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Committee of the MSC, the presentation is open to the public, announces Jack Slimp, chairman of the committee. Weeks is a widely published poet, critic, short story writer, and reviewer. His book, “To the Maker of Globes and Other Poems,” was published last year. More than 150 of his poems have been published in journals. He is a regular reviewer for the “Prairie Schooner” and “Bitter root.’ Weeks, with degrees from In diana University and West Vir ginia University, has 16 years’ experience as a college teacher and lecturer. ★ ★ ★ JETS Announce Winners Winners in contests held during the annual state conference of the Junior Engineering Technical So- iety have been announced by J. G. McGuire, state coordinator for JETS. Prizes of slide rules, drawing sets, etc., were presented in chem istry and physics, engineering graphics, mathematics, slide rule, and technical writing. Mathematics drew the most at tention from the estimated 550 who participated in the confer ence. McGuire said 218 students took the one hour math test. Only seven entered the technical writing category. Forty-two high schools, mostly from Central, East, South and North Texas, attended the con ference which ended Saturday. Needville High School won an award as the outstanding JETS Chapter for 1964-65. Mrs. Kath erine Mays is the chapter sponsor. Cushing Adds British Papers Of Researcher A nearly complete file of a British publication newly added to the A&M library has turned out to have its own human interest story. The library’s file of “The Mari ners’ Mirror” proved to be that of the late Sir Alan Moore, a founder the Society for Nautical Research. Associate professor Edwin Doran Jr., of the geography faculty had asked the library to acquire a file of the Birtish journal for use in scholarly research. “As I worked through the file,” Doran said, “I began to find some marginal notes. After several weeks, I began to check Volume One and then I found a manuscript note in Moore’s own handwriting.” Sir Alan, who was bom in 1882 and died in 1959, wrote his account of the beginning of the society. “The society was founded June 14, 1910 at the KVS in the after noon about 40 present. See diary 1910,” he wrote in conclusion. Sir Alan was a British physician who had an apparently lifelong love for the sea. He attended Eton and Cambridge and then completed medical training. During World War I he served in the Royal Navy as a medical officer. In addition to his medical practice he served in varied civic organizations and also wrote extensively in the field of naval history. PROTECT YOUR AGGIELAND! PLASTIC COVERS ARE NOW ON SALE IN THE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS OFFICE LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT OF THE YMCA.