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A&M Consolidated To Conduct
Public Opinion Survey Poll
Taylor Riedel, superintendent
of the A&M Consolidated Schools,
has announced that a community
survey pertaining to the public
schools will be conducted in the
College Station area on July 7,
g, and 9.
The survey will be conducted
by the Institute for Beginning
Administrators of Texas A&M
under the supervision of Dr. Ro
bert Randall, professor of edu
cational administration of Texas
A&M.
The community survey is de
signed to determine what the peo
ple of College Station think of
their schools.
A door-to-door canvass will be
conducted by a survey team made
up of graduate students attending
the Institute for Beginning Ad-
H ministrators program of Texas
A&M. Each of the team mem
bers is presently a teacher or
administrator in the public
schools, and the group as a whole,
represents a cross section of com
munities and school systems in
Texas.
★ ★ ★
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of the
Graduate College will serve as
general chairman of the Confer
ence on Basic Biochemistry of
Cotton July 12-15 in Ashville,
N. C.
^ Three other A&M representa-
I tives will appear on the program.
They include Dr. Page W. Mor-
gan, assistant professor of plant
M p sciences; Dr. Joseph Hacskaylo,
J& / lecturer in plant sciences, and Dr.
V Robert D. Powell, associate pro-
S pA fessor of plant sciences.
■ M Another participant, Dr. E.
Mark Engleman, a plant anato-
mist for the United States De
partment of Agriculture in New
Orleans, is scheduled to join the
A&M faculty in July as an as
sociate professor of plant sci
ences. Approximately 75 invited
conferees are expected to partici
pate.
★ ★ ★
A $13,732 research grant to
Dr. Joe S. Ham, professor of phy
sics was announced Thursday by
President Earl Rudder.
The grant for one year is from
the Public Health Service, a divi
sion of the United States Depart
ment of Health, Education, and
Welfare. Support also was rec
ommended for two additional
years.
“Thermodynamics of Swollen
Gels” is the title of the research
project. It involves a study of
the manner in which liquids in
teract with some types of poly
meric materials.
Ham said since many biological
materials are polymeric, the study
will have many potential applica
tions. Emphasis will be on achi
eving an understanding of the
physical phenomena rather than
possible applications. The work
will include experimental and
theoretical studies.
Two research assistants will
aid Ham in the project.
★ ★ ★
The need for laboratory devices
for testing asphaltic concrete un
der actual road conditions was
stressed by John L. McRae in an
address here Wednesday.
McRae, president of Engineer
ing Development Co. of Vicks
burg, Miss., presented “The De
sign of Asphaltic Concrete Mix
tures” to engineers and college
teachers attending a six-week
graduate program in asphalt pav
ing technology and construction.
McRae felt testing devices
should simulate compaction under
traffic, cracking caused by de
flection, plasticity caused by den-
sification under traffic and fail
ure caused by weathering.
The graduate program, spon
sored by A&M’s Department of
Civil Engineering and Texas
Transportation Institute in co
operation with the Asphalt Insti
tute, includes lectures by A&M
faculty, seminars and field trips.
Class members are from all parts
of the U. S. and from several
foreign countries.
★ ★ ★
Texas A&M’s $850,000 co
operative research program
conducted by the Texas Trans
portation. Institute with the
Texas Highway Department
and the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads is described in the cur
rent issue of “Public Works”
magazine.
Under the title, “Highly
Operational, Durable Highways
are Texas Research Goal,” the
story was written by Louis J.
Horn. It outlines TTI’s work
in freeway safety and effici
ency, materials, pavement de
sign, vegetation control, asphalt
technology, economic aspects of
transportation and concrete
structures.
★ ★ ★
Dr. William H. Graves of the
education faculty will head the
Texas Small Schools Association
evaluation committee at their an
nual conference in Austin the
week of July 12.
Graves is an assistant professor
in the Department of Education
and Psychology.
★ ★ ★
Funeral services for the father
of R. C. Woodward of the Texas
A&M Library are to be held Sat
urday at Savannah, Ga.
Guy David Woodward died
Thursday after being in ill health
for sometime. He was a retired
postal employe. The Fox and
Weeks Funeral Home in Savan
nah has charge of arrangements.
The acting librarian is expected
to return early next week.
★ ★ ★
Robert Smith of the Fiscal De
partment has been accepted as a
student in a one-week profession
al program at the University of
Omaha. The program commences
July 25.
Smith is manager of sales and
receivables for the Fiscal De
partment.
He will attend the sixteenth an
nual Short Course in College Bus
iness Management. A one-week
program for two successive sum
mers, the course is planned espe
cially for business officers of in
stitutions of higher education.
★ ★ ★
The benefits from school faci
lity use during the summer are in
educational advantages rather
than dollars, a professional arti
cle written by Texas A&M doc
toral student John R. Hoyle and
Dean Frank W. R. Hubert con
cludes.
The article appears in the June
issue of “Texas School Business.”
It is entitled “The Year ’Round
School, Pros, Cons and a Pro
posal.”
Hoyle studied year-round oper
ations of schools in an education
seminar conducted by Dean Hu
bert.
Hoyle seeks the Doctor of Philo
sophy degree in educational ad
ministration.
Among the suggestions offered
school districts wishing to make
“a serious effort” at experiment
ing with the year-round calendar
are these:
Air Condition buildings to be
used during the summer.
Continue to use the present
academic year of nine months and
two semesters as the operational
base.
Consider programs for adults
for the summer session.
★ ★ ★
An article by Dr. E. EL
Stokes, professor of English,
is featured in the current is
sue of the “Shaw Review.”
“Bernard Shaw’s Debt to
John Bunyan” is the title of the
article.
Stokes, bibliographer for the
publication, also compiled a
check list of books and articles
about Shaw for the magazine.
★ ★ ★
S. J. Mackin of College Station
has been named to a non-teaching
assistantship in the Department
of English for 1965-66.
Mackin, the son of Dr. J. G.
Mackin, head of the Department
of Biology at A&M, is working
on a master’s degree in English.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts
Degree in English at A&M in
1963.
★ ★ ★
Dr. Richard M. Hedges, associ
ate professor of chemistry has
been awarded a $13,788 research
grant by the Public Health
Service.
Announcement of the one-year
grant was made last Monday by
President Earl Rudder.
Title of Hedges’ research is
“Carcinogen Luminescense and
Electronic Structure,” a study of
a compound which induces car
cinoma or cancer.
“This research covers some as
pects of photo-chemical induced
reactions,” Hedges commented.
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SPECIAL?
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You have to be more than just good in the
National Guard. You have to be...special! That's
because today’s Guard is meeting the toughest
challenge in its 300-year history.
It takes a special kind of man.
In his spare time he studies and trains so that he
is ready should the nation’s security be threat
ened. When you see him on the street, in church,
at a PTA meeting, you only see a neighbor, or
friend or employee. Look again, and you see the
face of a man who has voluntarily taken on a
tough, demanding assignment. Military skills
mean very little unless they are kept up-to-date
and that’s where the challenge of the National
Guard comes into the picture.
Make no mistake. He’s meeting the challenge
when he’s in the Guard. Get behind the Guard in
your town or city.
YOUR NATIONAL GUARD
THE BATTALION
Thursday, Junly 1, 1965 College Station, Texas
Page 3
2 Future A&M Freshmen
Detect SateUites As Hobby
Part of the summer vacation of
two 17-year-old high school stu
dents is being spent working with
Dr. J. P. German of the Depart
ment of Electrical Engineering.
Their assignment is tracking
satellites.
Jess Rhoden from Tivy High
School in Kerville and Coleman
Callaway from Corpus Christi
Ray High School are two of the
63 National Science Foundation
students attending A&M the first
summer session. They are also
part of the 33 who are enrolled in
the engineering science class; the
other 30 are enrolled in biology.
Coleman and Jess are assisting
German in his research of track
ing (copying) satellites. They
record data given by the satel
lites, transpose data from ink re
cordings made automatically by
computers, and assist German in
other research.
According to Jess and Cole
man, they are truly grateful for
the opportunity to work with
such a man as German and to
be able to attend Texas A&M.
They say they are thoroughly
enjoying their work as well as
the course in engineering science.
MARRIES MILLIONAIRE
The former Miss Roslyne
Rothchild, 16 of suburban
Philadelphia is the new
bride of Englishman
Charles Dormer who is in
charge of Shell Oil Co.
transports on the continent.
The bridegroom’s estimated
wealth totals, “about $60
million in cold cash.” (AP
Wirephoto)
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