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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
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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.
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NOTICE OF BID SALE
For sale approximately 725 picture of all
sizes in frames. Bid form will be avail
able and sealed bid will be received in the
office of the Director of Purchasing and
Stores, B&U building, Asbury Street, until
10 A. M. MONDAY 22nd of March 1965.
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mailed so as to arrive in the Office
of Student Publications (Ground Floor
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Monday through Friday) at or before the
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NATIONAL DEFENSE STUDENT LOANS
Application forms for National Defense
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expressed in each of the eight
dialects. 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.
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