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An Aggie Abroad
Copenhagen Is A Paradise After Initial Adjustment
I By HERKY KILLINGS WORTH
| COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
lasts tee:;-. Aggies, life is great here in
ngles toe Copenhagen, GREAT,
ier way, I haven’t lost my passport or
piirline ticket yet. I have a love-
Ky 6’ x 10’ apartment. I have a
of Bold L little book allowing me to travel
and ^jjl on the town trolley whenever and
In 19SS w ^ erever I wish. The batteries
in my radio haven’t gone dead
°ney mr - yet. I have a wonderful job
Ifrom six ‘till two every day.
All of my clothes are clean*.
Highbred: I’ve just discovered a cheap laun-
dng days J dr y> baker y» and grocery — all
■Complete with beautiful clerks.
I can say “I Love You” in five
’ield, wild different languages. I just had
’• Meltla warm bath (that means it was-
artsfie n’t ice cold).
u *j® 3, Brjl And to top them all off, I have
Jingcoursj a date toni & ht with a beautiful,
-Kenzie-ljr'
blue-eyed, long-blonde-hair
ed Swedish girl. I couldn’t be
happier if I was the President of
Texas A&M. No one could ask
for more.
It really hurts me to be living
in a paradise while all of you
Aggies are roasting under the
Texas sun, meeting seven o’clock
classes and thinking futilely of
beautiful girls. I feel that may
be next summer you too might
like to undertake a European
paradise trip and would be in
terested in the occupation odds
over here. Then you could know
a little of what to expect.
When I began thinking of tra
veling in Europe I realized it was
necessary to find a job. The
author of “Europe on $5 a Day”
must have lived in a tent, manag
ed to get by without eating, and
must have skipped all the large
cities. Expenses in Europe add
up fast, but settling in one town
is fairly cheap and offers you a
chance to really know the Euro
pean people while also watching
the pay roll in. An added bene
fit of settling is that you feel
at home and can laugh with ease
at the funny American tourist.
movie ($1.50), providing of course
that you can force your date to
let you pay for her way. Scan-
dinavin girls are very inexpen
sive on dates; they also have
many other qualities . . . but
that’s another story.
win when it concerns local Euro
pean politics.
However, you must realize that
you can’t work in Europe and
make money, or even break even.
My job pays approximately $30 a
week plus breakfast, lunch, and
a coffee break which I find suffi
cient to carry me over until the
next breakfast. My apartment
costs almost $10 a week, trans
portation $1.25.
A date usually costs the price
of a coke unless you go to a
I found a job through ISTC
(International Student Travel
Committee) who for a fee found
me a job in the city of my choice,
found me a place to stay, and
gave me some contacts for my
arrival in Copenhagen. The main
service ISTC provided was the
securing of a work permit for
me, which is necessary before
you can work in Europe. The
work permit is HARD to get.
You must have a job before you
can obtain one, and you can’t get
a job without one. You can’t
ISTC got me a job as “extra
help” at the Grand Hotel in
Copenhagen. The hotel has treat
ed me like the King of Denmark
himself, although I do have to
work occasionally. I work from
six until two, which leaves me
the rest of the afternoon to find
a date for the night. (Picking
up a girl here is the rule rather
than the exception). Most of
the time I vacuum, or Hoover as
they call it.
walk down a hall they sing “The
Yellow Rose of Texas” and some
times dance a jig, providing of
course the management is not
around. (I tried to teach them
the “War Hymn” but they no
speaka Englishe, only Dansk).
Actually, I feel that I am one
of the few people in the world
today who is completely happy
with his cleanup work. Easy
hours, three excellent meals a
day, and a hotel full of pretty
girls and friendly people.
and Artie (female) is a chamber
maid at the hotel.
I don’t know how hard it would
be to simply come over and find
a job, but I do know there is
a large turnover of employees
in the hotel where I work. Many
Europeans also travel from town
to town working two weeks here
and three weeks there.
The employees of the Hotel
are overly friendly and go out of
their way to be helpful. Be
cause my name is difficult to
say in Danish, I am called
“Texas” which seems to be a
real novelty over here. As I
I know several other Americans
working through ISTC here and
they all feel the only way to see
Europe is through work. There’s
Pete, 29 years old, and washing
dishes to see Europe; Jeff is
picking cigarette stubs off the
floor of Grand Central Station,
I hope that I’ve given you
enough information to arouse
your interest in European travel
and work. When I get back, (if
I come back) I will be more than
happy to answer any questions
you might have . . . well nearly
any. There’s a tremendous world
over here, not all fun and games,
but one that is definitely worth
seeing if at all possible.
Now for that Swedish blonde ...
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Volume 61
Number 190—-
Stop
The
Presses
Teacher TraL
Courses At A
Noted For Va
uual High School
■i
rnalism Workshop
By LANI PRESSWOOD
The Fourth of July is over
laldwin a for an °ther year. Or did you
I
i notice?
I Yes, you noticed, because peo
ple like me shot off Black Cats
and roman candles and bottle
i rockets.
We set off fireworks, and had
picnics and ate watermelon and
Events waterskiing and watched
the ball game on TV.
1 We didn’t put the American
flag on display . . . Come to
Ihink of it I’m not even sure
that many of us have got an
American flag.
And of course we didn’t go
l back and read the Declaration of
Independence again. Why, there’s
no percentage in that ... I used
to think that there were some
pretty fine passages in that
pdocument but now I’ve learned
better.
Yes, I’ve been enlightened now.
That wasn’t really a Declara-
ion of Independence you see,
with genuine ideals and fellings
expressed. No. it was really a
clever piece o f propaganda
dreamed up by some Colonial
sharpies who needed to convince
France of their sincerity in op
posing King George.
By showing France how fired
up they were, they got Lafayette
and his friends to make a definite
commitment to help them out.
That’s really what it was all
about.
Auto mechanics, cosmetologists,
printers, welders, appliance re
pairmen and photographers are
among 164 persons enrolled in
teacher training courses this
summer at Texas A&M.
They are only a part of 26
occupations represented by cur
rent and future vocational indus
trial education teachers in 90
high schools and junior colleges
in Texas.
Texas A&M alternates with
the University of Texas in host
ing six-week sessions each sum
mer. After two summer terms,
students will be certified by the
Texas Education Agency.
It is the only designated teach
er training institute for vocation
al industrial education in Texas.
The curriculum includes meth
ods of teaching, shop organiza
tion and management, course
making development and use of
visual aids, and aims and ob
jectives of vocational education.
“Vocational industrial educa
tion is boomin; .
beginning to res
it, and we ar
financial as sis tv?
and state so > 'S
M. Hackney,
the A&M Em
Service and
gins Here Sunday
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■ '.v .
Hackney n
are needed to
quarter-millioi
sonnel dci ing
“If we grow
people w ' j
ing due ■
ing for
economic
mented.
“Our job,
ted, “is to com
men and indv
competent tee f
six course ? t;
hours of coll •
Sixty-five ;i
dents already
college degre
• dred and thirty high
>ts and sponsors had
ednesday for the
V'l High School Pub-
shop conducted by
ent of Journalism.
,u will begin Sun-
ion and end Friday at
Edith King of San Antonio the
news section and Doyle Keeling
of Houston the photography sec
tion. Assisting them will be high
school sponsors, professional
journalists and college editors
including those of the Battalion
and Aggieland.
journalism education at the high
school level.
Room Signing
Next Week
For 2nd Term
“Our student
ly qualified, eu
more years sue
perience,” Had
“Their summer
training will pr;
teach effectively
related technical
the trade or occup
mastered.”
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I had it figured a little dif
ferently up through high school
but then a college history prof
who had looked into the matter
thoroughly, I’m sure, let me in
on what it really meant.
It’s not quite as romantic
now to think back on the Declara
tion or the Revelution now that I
really know what happened.
Somehow, the idea of a handful
of men pledging themselves to
an ideal never before realized on
earth was a nice one.
It’s not real easy to take when
you find out that our boys were
really selfish and rash and had
something besides high ideals on
their mind when they were at
Brandywine and Saratoga and
Yorktown.
But you learn to accept it be
cause after all, the men had spent
years studying history and
there’s no reason for him to make
a mistake on this, or on the other
wars the United States has
fought since then.
So I didn’t re-read the Declara
tion of Independence or display
the American flag, or give thanks
for being born in this country
out of all the countries in the
world. And I didn’t ask any
body why they didn’t do any of
these things either because then
they might have called me a radi
cal or a superpatriot or even a
square.
No, instead I went waterskiing
and ate watermelon and shot off
bottle rockets. And nobody called
me a radical or a superpatriot or
a square.
All A&M students now in
school who will attend the second
sessions of summer school should
report to the Housing Office next
week to sign up for their rooms
according to the following sched
ule:
Students who wish to reserve
the room they now occupy report
Monday through Wednesday.
Students who wish to reserve
a room other than the one they
now occupy may sign for rooms
on a first come, first served basis
beginning Thursday and lasting
through 10 a.m. Saturday.
Those students who have a $20
room deposit on file will not have
to pay any additional fees to re
serve their rooms, but those who
have no deposit on file must pay
it in order to reserve a room.
Students who reserve rooms
for the second session but later
cancel or fail to register will for
feit their $20 room deposit.
Also those who wish to cancel
room reservations for the fall
term must do so by August 15
(instead of the August 31 date
reported in last Thursday’s Bat
talion in order to get their $20
back.
Single undergraduate students
are required to live on campus
unless they live with close rela
tions. Students who have reasons
which are an exception to this
policy must file a request for day
student permit with the Student
Affairs Office, unless they have
already been cleared for the first
summer session.
Students who are eligible for
a day student permit are urged
to secure them before registra
tion. Permits will be available in
the Housing office until noon
July 19. After this time they
must be acquired in the process
of registration.
About half the e?
complete certificate
mer. Most will bt
high school or junio
the first time this >
Teachers who con
half the certificati
ments are given emc
mits by the TEA, w
pulation they complete
ditional courses the
summer.
> the st?
three
follow «
July 16,
July 16,
July 16,
* I7.it.,
1 a.m 7-8:30
10 a.m 9-10:30
2 p.m. 11-12:30
s will attend from 67
3 n the Southwest for
r e training course in
. newspaper produc-
. ography techniques.
' three sections will
i^. es for advanced and
students.
• Knight of the jour-
ty is director of this
,?hop.
will include Paul
.ector of the News-
i Inc. of New York
Medlin of the De-
Journalism at the
vansas. Swensson
careers in journal-
••ti :n, who has pub-
■< > textbooks in his
are on the place of
He in journalism.
ive-day Workshop
tes will produce a
i '•ok featuring color,
e printed for distri-
1 e Taylor Publishing
s. Also to be pro-
a letterpress news-
Workshopper, and a
id newspaper, the
r. Newspaper dele-
ke a planned layout
fall edition back to
■ • ■ r ols and yearbook stu-
s a complete dummy of next
year’s edition.
Charles Dolan of Dallas will
direct the yearbook section, Mrs.
A seminar will be offered for
credit for inexperienced high
school sponsors, many of whom
will attend with grants from the
Newspaper Fund. The fund was
established by the Wall Street
Journal in its efforts to assist
Entertainment for the dele
gates will include a dance on
Monday evening, a “stunt night”
on Tuesday, a career session with
professional journalists from
Houston on Wednesday evening
and the crowning of Mr. and
Miss Workshopper on Thursday.
Contests will be held in the
three areas of instruction. Two
$25 scholarships will be awarded
to a boy and girl by J. E. Loupot,
College Station merchant.
Martin Appointed
New Dean’s Aide
Dr. Lee M. Martin will become
an associate dean Sept. 1, Dean
Frank Hubert of Texas A&M’s
College of Arts and Sciences, an
nounced Thursday. Dr. Martin
will continue as head of the edu
cational television program.
Martin succeeds Dr. George W.
Schlesselman, who is returning
to fulltime teaching as professor
of geography.
“We look forward to this new
association with Dr. Martin,”
Dean Hubert said. “Dr. Schles
selman has served with distinc
tion in this position and Dr. Mar
tin will be an outstanding suc
cessor to him.”
Dr. Martin has done an excep
tional job in getting our educa
tional television program started,
the dean noted. Dr. Martin joined
the A&M faculty in 1946. In 1963
he was advanced to professor of
English. He holds degrees from
the University of Texas and
Stanford University.
Dr. Schlesselman joined the
A&M faculty in 1934 and in 1945
was named head of the geogra
phy department. He has been in
his present position since 1959.
Dr. Schlesselman holds degrees
from Iowa State College, Clark
University and the University of
Nebraska.
MSC To Buy
New Music
Equipment
REGISTRATION FOR SPECTACULAR
Part of the swarm of teenage athletes and
their coaches who arrived yesterday to com
pete for in the Jaycee Sports Spectacular is
shown here at registration in the MSC. The
entrants come from 90 Texas cities and will
compete for state Jaycee championships in
track, tennis, and golf and for berths in the
national meet later this summer. Competi
tors are being housed and fed on campus for
the tourney, which ends Saturday.
The Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate will soon
add $6,500 of music listening
equipment to its facilities.
The additions are to include a
new tape deck, four new turn
tables, and over a dozen stereo
ear sets.
A special committee under the
chairmanship of Dave Graham
has been organized to select the
new tapes and record album to
be placed in the MSC Browsing
Library. There will be over 120
new albums and tapes selected.
The committee has requested
that any student having a sug
gestion about what albums or
tapes should be procured, leave
this suggestion at the Student
Program Office in the MSC.
This suggestion should contain
the name of the selection, the
label under which it is recorded,
and the group that has recorded
it.
It is the hope of the committee
that everything will be ready by
the faU semester.
A meeting of the committee is
to be held Tuesday in the MSC.
Any student or faculty member
is invited to contact the Student
Program Office if he wishes to
serve on the committee.
LEE MARTIN
Pinky Says
Visitors on the Texas A&M
campus numbered 3,984 in June,
according to P. L. Downs, Jr.,
official greeter for the univer
sity.
Downs said the visitors were
attending short courses, confer
ences, class reunions and other
scheduled meetings. Eighteen
different groups were represent
ed.
A&M had 995,997 visitors dur
ing the past 16 years and one
month prior to July 1, 1965,
Downs reported. He estimated
they spent $20,915,937 while in
the community.