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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1965
Number 159
Teaching By Wire
On Graduate Level
Pioneering Here
A&M has become the first university in the nation to
make use of the “blackboard by wire” system for instructing
graduate level classes.
The chemistry department has been using the system on
an experimental basis since Feb. 15. Equipment for the
system has been installed by The Southwestern States Tele
phone Company, a subsidiary of General Telephone & Elec
tronics Corp.
Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski, head of the department, said
first tests of the system have 4-
proven quite successful, and
that new uses of the system
are being explored.
Consisting of three recent
innovations in electronics, the
“blackboard by wire” makes use of
two regular telephone circuits.
E. H. Danner, president of South
western States, said the complete
system uses two data sets, an
Electrowriter and a Tele-lecture
unit, along with a regular tele
phone instrument.
A&M has been using the system
in its chemistry department for
two graduate level courses, Ad
vanced Quantum Mechanics and
Statistical Thermodynamics.
Dr. Richard M. Hedges, associate
professor of chemistry, in lectur
ing to the quantum class, works
from his office or another location
on the Chemistry Building. A data
set, the transmitter for the Electro
writer and a telephone equipped
with a headset are located there.
Hedges first activates the data
set by pressing the “talk” switch
and dialing the telephone number
of a second data set located in the
lecture hall. A student answers
the lecture hall data set. Hedges
and the student check out the cir
cuit, and when the lecture is ready
to begin, “write” switches are
pressed on both data sets.
The Electrowriter transmits
through the first data set, and the
data set in the lecture hall acti
vates a receiving Electrowriter
which writes the message on a
transparent film which is projected
on a large wall-mounted screen by
an opaque projector mounted above
the receiving unit.
When the Electrowriter is ready
for operation, Hedges uses the
regular telephone to dial a number
which has been assigned to a Tele
lecture unit in the lecture hall.
This unit provides the audio por
tion of the system. Students in
the lecture hall may communicate
with Hedges by use of a micro
phone attached to the Tele-lecture.
Using a special pen connected to
the transmitting Electrowriter,
Hedges writes various symbols and
fomulas on the transmitter’s paper
tape, explaining his actions by
means of the headset attached to
the regular telephone. The symbols
are transmitted to the receiving
Electrowriter and are projected on
the viewing screen.
Both telephone circuits used in
the operation operate through the
College Station exchange of South
western States.
Dr. C. Randolph Wilhoit, associ
ate professor of chemistry, con
ducts the statistical thermo
dynamics course in the same
fashion.
Dr. Edward A. Meyers, chairman
of the university’s Tele-Audio
Visual Systems Committee, said
that by use of the “blackboard by
wire” system “we can get informa
tion across to the class with no
great loss of information.”
Although the system has been
used on an experimental basis,
Meyers explained that the graduate
students participating in the pro
gram are being held responsible
for all material that is being pre
sented to them by this method.
Indicative of the potential of
such a system, Meyers also said
that at least four industrial firms
located at Corpus Christi, some 250
miles from College Station, have
expressed interest in having the
university present special lecture
courses to professional chemists by
means of the system.
“We feel that the system offers
excellent possibilities,” Meyers
said.
He indicated that the experi
mental program will continue, and
shortly a test will be made in
transmitting information over a
greater distance by use of the
system.
FIRST PLACE AWARD
. . . President Rudder presents trophy to Fish Drill Team.
Fish Capture
Top Awards
At Drill Meet
The Fish Drill Team continued its winning ways Satur
day by taking top honors at the first annual Texas A&M
Invitational Drill Meet. Marines judged the Aggie freshmen
the best of eight teams from Texas colleges and universities.
The Lowman Rifles of Sam Houston State Teachers
College placed second in total points with Texas A&I’s Kings
Rifles ranked third. The Marines judged the approximately
200 cadets in three phases: inspection and basic and fancy
drills. Carrying the greatest value pointwise was fancy drill.
The Fish Team a wppk+-
earlier won top honors in re
gional competition at Baton
ELECTRO WRITER
. .. device will allow professors to lecture classes in distant cities.
OVERHEAD SCREEN
students may communicate with professor by telephone link.
Rouge. That was the South
ern Invitational Drill Meet
with 12 colleges and universities
in five states represented.
A&M President Earl Rudder with
Marine Maj. W. W. Barton and
university sweetheart Johanna
Leister of Orange standing beside
him, presented the master trophy.
Accepting it was team commander
Donald M. Savage, an aerospace
engineering student from Fort
Worth.
Competing here Saturday were
drill teams from Arlington State
College, Hardin-Simmons Univers
ity, Sam Houston State, Texas
A&I, Texas A&M, University of
Houston, University of Texas and
West Texas State University.
Maj. Barton served as chief
judge, assisted by Capt. J. H. Gary
and Gunnery Sgts. J. L. Lastovica
and N. N. Picou. All are from the
recruiting office in Houston.
For the inspection phase the
judges placed Sam Houston first,
Arlington State second and Texas
A&I third.
Arlington State led in basic drill
competition with A&M second and
Sam Houston State third.
The Fish Drill Team swept the
fancy or precision drill competition
wtih 470 of a possible 500 points.
The Kings Rifles of A&I placed
second and Sam Houston State’s
Lowman Rifles ranked third in this
phase.
The Association of Former Fish
Drill Team Members of A&M spon
sored the meet with the Schools of
Military Science and Aerospace
Studies as co-sponsors.
Aggie Tells Of Montgomery Rights March
By RICHARD ALVAREZ
Special To The Battalion
Editor’s Note: Richard Alva
rez, an A&M freshman from
San Antonio, participated in
the march on Montgomery,
Ala., last week. Here is his
story.
We arrived in Montgomery at
about 10 a.m. Thursday. The
events that followed were truly
amazing.
There were thousands of peo
ple there, including many college
students. People came from all
over the United States and even
from Canada. They came from
as far away as California and
Boston and Ohio.
The march started at about
10:30 and I entered it at about
its beginning. We first passed
through the Negro section of
town. I have never seen any
thing like what I saw there.
You don’t have to go to Ala
bama to see poverty, but you
cannot begin to understand the
utter agony of the Negro unless
you see the conditions that exist
in the deep South.
I saw old people on the side
walk who couldn’t make the
march crying because they were
finally getting their freedom.
We passed little children group
ed together yelling, “FREEDOM!
FREEDOM!” I heard the com
ment made — “They didn’t teach
us that when we were little.”
We passed next into the white
section of town. There peoples
were considerably much better
off. Most of the whites looked
on, unable to believe that the
Negro was being allowed to make
such a protest. But it wasn't un
til the march reached downtown
that the true white feeling in
Montgomery was displayed. I
have never seen such deep, ugly
hatred in my life.
It was truly horrible to see
white boys yelling filthy obscen
ities at the marchers, waving the
confederate flag and threaten
ing to beat us up.
From town we marched to the
Mixed Marriages
Final Forum Topic
Dr. John P. Davidson will dis
cuss “Marrying Outside Your
Faith” at the last presentation of
the Marriage Forum at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the YMCA.
Davidson will discuss the effects
of interfaith or interdominational
marriage, wholesome religious and
marital stability, the prevalence
of mixed marriages and solutions
to problems arising from them.
The Professor of Religion at
Baylor University received his
Ph.D. from the University of
Texas in 1955. Before joining the
Baylor faculty in 1957 he served
as pastor of several leading Texas
churches.
capitol which is laid out in three
white, colonial-type buildings.
Before the official program
started, the marchers were led
in songs like “We Shall Over
come” and “Freedom” by Peter,
Paul and Mary, Frank Bela-
fonte and Joan Baez.
The speakers present were both
local and national leaders. The
main one, of course, was Dr.
Martin Luther King.
Before the speeches, the march
ers sang “The Star-Spangled
Banner” amid a sea of Ameri
can flags. This was both a
tremendous and tragic spectacle.
It was tremendous in that it
was an impressively patriotic and
colorful sight.
It was tragic in that the whole
march, including this scene,
would not have been possible had
it not been for armed national
guardsmen. In this respect
Montgomery seemed like some
thing you’d expect to find behind
the Iron Curtain. It is hard
to imagine steel helmeted guards
men with rifles, pistols, gas
masks and bayonets lining Amer
ican streets, protecting Ameri
cans from Americans.
Overhead flew helicopters,
spotter planes and even jets.
Just by looking in the sky, you
would have thought there was a
battle going on in Montgomery.
When we left the capitol and
went back through town, the
whites standing around began to
threaten us again — yelling at
us that they hoped tie Klan
“got” us on our way back.
Well, they didn't get the
group that I was with but some
one did “get” Mrs. Viola Gregg
Liuzzo.
I would like to think that
Mrs. Liuzzo’s death, and the many
other civil rights workers that
have been killed in the Negroes’
fight for freedom, was not in
vain.
Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Gallo
Mrs. Katherine McKinney Gallo,
29, a graduate student majoring in
biology at A&M, died early Sunday
following several months illness.
Mass was held Monday in the
Nacogdoches Catholic Church.
Burial was in the Nacogdoches
Cemetery.
Mrs. Gallo came to the campus
last summer as a Biology research
assistant and to do work on her
master’s degree.
She is survived by three children.
“Mrs. Gallo was a very sincere
and capable person,” Dr. Sidney
Brown, head of Radiation Biology
Laboratory, said.
A fund has been established to
purchase books in Mrs. Gallo’s
name for the library.
Tyree Announces
Chairmen, Staff
For Great Issues
Thomas N. Tyree of Odessa re
cently named chairman of the
Great Issues Committee, for 1965-
66 has named his staff for next
year.
The Great Issues Committee di
rects three major programs each
year—the World Around Us Series,
featuring speakers and films of
the United States and foreign coun
tries; the speaker series, headlin
ing outstanding speakers concern
ing subjects of major student in
terest; and the Space Fiesta, in
which noted speakers and exhibits
of the space age are spotlighted.
Vice-chairmen include Jerry Don
Stevens of Happy, “The World
Around Us”; Ted F. Schiwetz of
Houston, speaker series; and Paul
Studley of San Antonio, Space
Fiesta.
Other officials of the committee
include James W. Howard of Al-
leyton, coordinator for the 11th
Student Conference on National
Affairs; William S. Gross of Dal
las, secretary; and Andrews S.
Kovich of Dallas, treasurer.
Sub-committee chairmen include
Richard J. Adams of Houston, pro
grams; Jay S. Wellman of Bryan,
publicity; and Oscar E. Pena of
Brownsville, selections.
Eddie Bullock of Houston and
Tony Hart of San Francisco, Calif.,
will serve as student advisors.
Faculty advisors will be J.
Wayne Stark, director of the
MSC; Dr. James Storey, associate
professor of soil and crop sciences;
William E. Eckles, associate pro
fessor of business administration;
and Dr. H. M. Barnard, associate
professor of electrical engineering.