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i THE BATTALION Thursday, March 25, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 5 Renaissance Era To Be Discussed The culture of the Renaissance period will be discussed when humanities scholars from six states gather at A&M Friday and Saturday. In session will be the fourteenth annual South-Central Renaissance Conference. About 100 persons are expected to attend. Registration begins at 8 a. m. Friday. President Earl Rudder will welcome the scholars at 9 a. m. Then the pre sentation of lectures begins and continues through the day.I Delegates will hear the Rev. Dr. Walter J. Ong, S. J.,; professor of English at St.* Louis University, as banquet speaker at 6 p. m. Friday. He is an internationally known scholar of medieval and Re naissance culture and a commenta tor on modern life. The sessions will continue Satur day from 9 a.m. until noon. This meeting will be in the Architecture Auditorium, the other sessions being at the Ramada Inn. Presenting the 13 scholarly papers will be professors from as many colleges and universities. The organizational area includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Missis sippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma and a portion of Tennessee. Frank G. Galstead of the Uni versity of Mississippi is conference president. Other officers include Robert A. Paschal of Louisiana State University, vice president, and Helen S. Thomas of the Uni versity of Houston, secretary. On the program committee are T. J. Mattem of the A&M English faculty; Frederick E. Gaupp, his tory, Southwestern University; and Melvin M. Rotsch, architecture, A&M. Sharon Curry Miss Curry has been select ed sweetheart of the A&M Entomology Club. She will represent the club at the Cotton Pageant and Ball April 3. the outstand' ended by Col L. Selph. H« leading to i wxsmzmxm AMONG THE PR OFS wxxxtxxxxxz | Lectures Slated By Math Expert Dr. Frank Proschan, discribed as a leading expert in the mathe matical theory of reliability, is on campus this week as a dis tinguished visiting professor in the Institute of Statistics. The visiting lectureship is sponsored by the National Sci ence Foundation, Dr. H. O. Hart ley, institute director, said. Proschan’s lectures are held in conjunction with the three-day symposium or reliability which opened Wednesday. He comes here from the Uni versity of California, Berkeley, where he is a professor of in dustrial engineering. He is also a consultant to Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories. Proschan will lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday on “Theoretical Ex planation of Observed Decreasing Heads Rotary Club Dr. Dale F. Leipper is the newly elected president of the Bryan-College Station Rotary Club. He will assume office July 1. Failure Rate.” This lecture and three lectures Friday will be giv en in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center where the symposium is being held. At 8:30 a.m. Friday Proschan’s topic is “Special Problems” and at 1 p.m. he will lecture on “Op timum Allocation of Redundan cy.” Proschan will speak ait 4:15 p.m. on “Research Outlook in Analytical Reliability.” Scheduled from 9 a.m. uptil 12 noon Saturday are two lec tures to be heard in the Ani mal Industries Building Lecture Room. Proschan will speak first on “Maximum Liklihood Estima tion for Distributions with Mono tone Failure Rate.” His second topic is “Exponential Life Test Procedures When the Distribu tion Has Increasing Failure Rate.” Summer Venture Set By Profs Two faculty members have roles in the Southern Regional Graduate Summer Session in Sta tistics, a cooperative venture to be held this summer of the Okla homa State University campus. Dr. H. O. 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