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Rudder Assumes New Duties
As President Of A&M System
A&M BUILDING PROGRAM
GETS $2,861,871 BOOST
Texas A&M Tuesday received $2,861,871 in building funds
from the Commission on Higher Education.
Meeting in Austin, the commission approved $1,218,993
for the Texas A&M library; $1,247,953 for the College of
Veterinary Medicine; and $394,925 for the Biological Sciences
Building.
“These funds represent a big boost in our program to
expand facilities to meet the challenge for excellence in
higher education,” A&M President Earl Rudder said. He and
other university officials attended the commission session.
More than $3,000,000 will be spent to enlarge and mod
ernize Cushing Library. The $2,500,000 addition to the
Biological Sciences Building has been stated to house addi
tional graduate classrooms and laboratories.
Expanded veterinary medicine facilities will permit en
rollment of more students.
Value of A&M’s physical plant now exceeds $80,000,000.
Konecny Appointed
To Institute Post
F. J. Konecny, assistant direc
tor of the Texas A&M Engineer
ing Extension Service since 1963,
has been appointed assistant di
rector of the James Connally
Technical Institute at Waco.
Announcement of Konecny’s
Industrial
Development
Conclave Set
Two hundred and seventy-five
Texas industrial leaders are ex
pected to attend the 15th annual
Texas Industrial Development
Conference September 16-17 at
Texas A&M.
Conference Director James R.
Bradley, head of A&M’s Indus
trial Economics Research Divi
sion, said top men from utility
companies, hanks, railroads,
chambers of commerce and realty
companies have been invited.
The conference, “Challenge of
Change”, is sopnsored by A&M
and the Texas Industrial Develop
ment Council.
A&M President Earl Rudder
will welcome the delegates.
Program Chairman Robert B.
Seal, assistant vice president of
Republic National Bank in Dal
las, announced speakers includ
ing Dr. Stephen Sutherland of
the University of Oklahoma; F.
J. Spencer of Houston Research
Institute Inc.; W. Randolph Bur
gess, chairman emeritus of the
executive committee of National
City Bank of New York; R. A.
Goodson, president of the Mis-
souri-Kansas-Texas Railroad; and
Ray Sydansk, (cq) general man
ager for real estate, Armstrong
Cork, Lancaster, Pa.
Harry W. Clark, executive di
rector of the Texas Industrial
Commission, will report on com
mission programs in advertising,
export expansion and community
development.
appointment was made Wednes
day by Dr. Roy Dugger, director
of the institute.
Konecny will work on the ad
ministrative and planning staff
in making a survey of Texas
businesses and industry to deter
mine most needed technical pro
grams.
First class of 50 to 100 stu
dents is slated to begin in the
Spring of 1966 at James Connal
ly Air Force Base, scheduled to
be deactivated by Jan. 1.
Konecny earned a master of
education degree at Texas A&M
in 1940. He also holds a bachelor
of science degree in mechanical
engineering from A&M.
A native of Bryan, Konecny
joined the Engineering Extension
Service in 1955 as executive as
sistant and head of the Voca
tional Industrial Teacher Train
ing Program. He was assistant
state supervisor and chief con
sultant for the Trade and Indus
trial Education Division of the
Texas Education Agency during
the previous ten years.
During World War II Konecny
was a lieutenant colonel in the
Air Force. He served as plans
and training officer for the
Eighth Air Force in the Euro
pean Theater and Brookley Field
Air Depot, Mobile, Ala., and as
training officer for the Air Force
Personnel Distribution Command.
Texas A&M President Earl Rudder assumed duties as
chief administrative officer for the state-wide A&M System
Wednesday.
The joint position of university and system president
was created by the Board of Directors last spring. Rudder
replaces Dr. M. T. Harrington, who served as chancellor
since 1953.
“Texas A&M is greatly indebted to Dr. Harrington for
his contributions over 41 years of service,” Rudder com
mented. “I am pleased to follow
in the steps of this great man.”
In addition to A&M’s main
College Station campus, the new
system president will direct edu
cational efforts of Tarleton State
College, Prairie View A&M Col
lege, the Texas Agricultural Re
search Station, the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service, the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, the Texas Engineering
Extension Service, the Texas
Forestry Service, the Texas Mari
time Academy and the Texas
Transportation Instiute.
Born in Eden, Rudder began
his college education at Tarleton
and received his bachelor’s de
gree and commission from Texas
A&M. He returned to Tarleton
as football coach in 1938. Called
to active duty in 1941, Rudder
led the Ranger assault on the
cliffs of Pointe du Hoe in the
D-Day invasion of Normandy and
received the nation’s second high
est decoration for valor. As a
citizen soldier, Maj. Gen. Rudder
commanded Texas’ own 90th Re
serve Infantry Division until
1963 when he became assistant
deputy commanding general.
Continental Army Command.
Rudder was appointed vice
president of A&M on Feb. 1,
1958, coming over from his post
as Texas Land Commissioner. On
July 1, 1959, he was named presi
dent as Harrington moved up to
full duties as chancellor of the
system.
He is listed in Who’s Who in
America and Who’s Who in South
and Southwest, holds an honor
ary Doctor of Laws degree from
Baylor University and many mili
tary decorations. He was named
to Sports Illustrated Magazine’s
Silver Anniversary All American
football team in 1956.
Dr. Harrington, the first A&M
graduate to be president of the
institution, also held the joint
position of president of the uni
versity and president of the
system from 1957-59. He be
comes coordinator of interna
tional programs for A&M. Har
rington graduated from A&M in
1922 and has been a staff member
since 1924.
Lindsey Named
Central Chief
Of Information
Information programs at Texas
A&M are being reorganized with
Jim Lindsey, director of Univer
sity Information, named chief of
the state-wide program.
A&M President Earl Rudder,
who also became president of the
A&M System Wednesday an
nounced the changes. He said
reorganization would provide
“better flow of information about
A&M and its activities to the
people of Texas” and eliminate
duplications.
Lindsey, a 21-
year newspaper
veteran, came to
A&M in 1962
from Midland
where he was
managing editor
of the Reporter-
j Telegram for 10
years. He spent
a decade on the
San Angelo
LINDSEY Standard Times,
after graduation from Texas
Tech, holding every editorial
position there from reporter to
managing editor. He was assist
ant managing editor for the San
Antonio Express-News for two
years.
Activities brought under his
supervision include the Agricul
tural Information Office which
disseminates releases and publi
cations on agricultural research
and educational programs; the
sports information program, and
Texas Forestry Service activities.
The System Information Office,
a staff section for the chancellor,
will be consolidated with univer
sity information and publications,
Rudder noted.
Rudder called Lindsey “one of
Texas’ outstanding newsmen.”
“Mr. Lindsey is known as a
man who gets the job done,”
Rudder commented.
Chemistry By Telephone
To Be Offered In Fall
Head Yell Leader
Junior Sweetheart
Married In Temple
Joseph Kerr Bush Jr., head
yell leader at Texas A&M for
1965-66, was married Saturday
night in Temple to Miss Carol
Vickie Mikulas.
The couple left for a wedding
trip to Mexico and South Texas.
After the honeymoon, they will
live in College Station where
Bush will be a senior accounting
major.
Martin Hefley of Port Arthur
was best man. Groomsmen were
Jimmy Jones of Lovelandy, Jerry
Mikulas Jr., brother of the bride,
and Jimmy Coufal of Temple.
The bride was Junior Class
Sweetheart at A&M last year.
Texas A&M will offer two
graduate-level chemistry courses
this fall by telephone.
In a joint venture with South
western States Telephone Com
pany, A&M will conduct courses
for industrial chemists at Corpus
Christi and Freeport.
Lectures will be transmitted
complete with handwritten equa
tions, formulas and diagrams.
A 90-minute course in in
organic chemistry will be trans
mitted twice a week via telephone
to chemists at Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Company in Corpus Christi.
Physical chemistry will be taught
in the same manner twice each
week to Dow Chemical Company
employes in Freeport.
Simultaneously, each course
will be transmitted to a classroom
of graduate students at A&M.
Southwestern States Telephone
installed a communications sys
tem at A&M which transmits
written data through conventional
telephone circuits for visual dis
play before an audience.
Termed “blackboard-by-wire,”
the system utilizes an electronic
writing unit. Handwriting pro
duced on the master unit is trans
mitted over telephone circuits in
the form of voice-frequency elec
trical tones to a receiving unit
within the remote classroom,
where it is projected on a display
screen.
Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski, head
of the Department of Chemistry,
said the system “makes it possible
for graduate students to obtain
advanced training while actively
employed within industry—with
out the need for prolonged travel
on the part of either the students
Russell To Study
State Aging Policy
Dr. Dan Russell of Texas A&M
has been named to a nine-member
state committee on aging.
Gov. John Connally said the
committee will draft policy in all
activities for the aging not al
ready administered by a separate
state agency.
The committee, created as a
permanent agency by the 59th
Legislature, will be the sole
agency for receiving federal
funds for new aging perograms.
Russell retired from the De
partment of Agriculture Econo
mics and Sociology last year.
or the instructor.”
Dr. Ralph A. Zingaro, professor
of chemistry, will teach inorganic
chemistry and Dr. Alfred Danti,
associate professor of chemistry,
will teach physical chemistry.
Classes begin Sept. 20.
Lecturers will use two tele
phone circuits to address classes
at Corpus Christi and Freeport
from a special studio at A&M.
One circuit is for the voice
transmission via a conventional
speakerphone, while the other
transmits the written material.
The electronic writing unit
used in the A&M program is an
Electrowriter device manufac
tured by Victor Comptometer
Corporation. Written transmis-
mission is received by units
within Corpus Christi and Free
port conference rooms and pro
jected onto display screens.
Loudspeaker systems amplify
the lecturer’s voice within the
conference rooms as industrial
chemists view “blackboard” ma
terial. When questions arise, two-
way conversations can be con
ducted with the lecturer through
the voice circuit by means of
microphones.
MAKING SOMETHING HAPPEN
Halfback Jim Stabler takes a handoff from quarterback
Eddie McKaug-han as Texas A&M opened fall football prac
tice Wednesday. Stabler and McKaughan are being counted
on to help restore A&M’s football fortunes. (See story on
Page 5).
Registration
Is Tomorrow
At High School
Vacation ends Tuesday for
about 2,200 local students, as the
A&M Consolidated schools begin
the 1965-66 school year.
School will convene at 8 a.m.,
with first graders to be dismiss
ed at 1:30 p.m., grades two
through four at 2:30 p.m., fifth
grade at 3 p.m., and junior high
and senior high, 3:11 p.m.
Registration for Lincoln and
A&M Consolidated High School
will be conducted Friday. Lin
coln students may register any
time Friday, according to Super
intendent W. T. Riedel. Con
solidated seniors enroll at 8:30
a.m., juniors at 10:30 a.m., sopho
mores at 1:30 p.m. and freshmen
at 2:30 p.m.
The local district will be oper
ating on a record $905,220 budget
approved by trustees Monday
night, with $364,230 coming from
College Station taxpayers.
Tax rate has been set at $1.15
per $100 evaluation in order to
raise the local portion.
Board president John Longley
said Monday night that the dis
trict will have to borrow $100,-
000 within the next two weeks
to meet upcoming expenses.
The new budget is an increase
of $236,710 over last year’s $768,-
510.
Budget expenditures for 1965-
66 include:
—Administration, $47,064; last
year, $30,000.
Graduate College
Gives 110 Degrees,
Sets New
Texas A&M reached a mile
stone this week in its drive to
achieve educational excellence.
For the first time in its 89-
year history A&M awarded more
than 100 doctoral degrees in a
12-month period.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of
the Graduate College, revealed
that A&M conferred 110 doctors
of philosophy degrees and five
doctors of education degrees with
in the past year.
Previous record for doctorates
in 12 months was 69 in 1964.
“Texas A&M is emerging as a
graduate school,” Hall noted.
“This 100 milestone is not just a
flash in the pan. Our goal is
to produce 200 doctorates annual
ly by 1975.”
He announced a short range
goal of 2,500 graduate students
by 1970.
Record
“A good check is the type lea
dership positions graduates take,”
he explained. “Many students re
ceive attractive employment of
fers months before graduation.”
Emphasizing A&M’s interna
tional reputation as a Graduate
College, Dean Hall said, “We
have a high percentage of stu
dents from other states and for
eign countries working toward
advanced degrees. A&M offers
more than 90 masters and 50 doc
toral programs.”
For those who plan to pursue
post baccalaureate programs Hall
offers these tips: Get a good lib
eral arts background, particularly
in languages and social fields;
make superior grades; and be
come involved in creative pro
cesses . . . thinking, writing,
speaking and research.
—Instruction, $606,808; last
year, $536,217.
—Health service, $200, same as
last year.
—Pupil transportation, $25,-
275; last year, $21,560.
—Plant operation, $50,200; last
year, $41,680.
—Plant maintenance, $23,428;
last year, $18,028.
—Student activities, $6,000, the
same as last year.
—Fixed charges, $8,200; last
year, $4,600.
—Capital outlay, $27,445; last
year, $11,385.
—Debt service, $110,600; last
year, $79,500.
The district lowered its tax
rate from $1.95 to $1.15 per $100
valuation, but raised evaluation
from 40 to 80 per cent of market
value.
School trustees Monday night
also hired five new teachers:
Mrs. Erma Jo Welch, second
grade; Mrs. Angelyn Bassinger,
fifth grade; Mrs. Patricia Hueb-
ner, third grade; Ernest Sebesta,
eighth grade, and Norvelle North-
cutt, parttime high school alge
bra.
Estimated enrollment in Bryan-
College Station schools is expect
ed to reach 20,600. Bryan schools
got underway today, with about
8,000 students expected.
Educational TV Program
Is Only Seven Months Old,
Already Has Growing Pains
“Enrollment in the Graduate
College will increase strikingly
in the next five years,” Hall pre
dicted. “A&M’s enrollment is
based on quality students. Our
graduate students fare better
than the national average on ad
mission examinations.
More than 4,000 applications
for admission to the Graduate
College were processed for the
fall term at A&M, the dean said.
“Our percentage of growth in
graduate programs has been
equal to any university in Texas
in the past five years,” Hall con
tinued.
Twenty years ago, in the Fall
of 1945, only 63 persons regis
tered for work toward masters
and doctors degrees.
Rapid gains in graduate enroll
ment followed World War II and
by Sept. 20 A&M’s post bac
calaureate registration will ap
proach 2,000.
“There is a nationwide aware
ness that industry builds around
the brain centers of the country,”
he continued, citing as examples
the MIT-Harvard complex in the
East and the Stanford-Califomia-
California Tech complex in the
West.
Dean Hall said A&M’s claim
of a strong graduate school is
well founded.
Texas A&M’s seven-month-old
educational television (ETV) fa
cilities are already planning
major expansion.
Ready for use in September
are 36 TV classrooms in three
buildings and the central facility.
Fifty more sets are on order
to expand the closet-circuit sys
tem, George H. Shearer Jr., said.
In February he was named engi
neer for the campus TV system.
“Everything we have is the
finest equipment money can buy,”
Shearer said. “Classroom pic
ture quality is better than re
ception from a regular TV sta
tion.”
An ultra high frequency TV
station may be operational “with
in possibly three years,” he
stated. This station would serve
area schools as well as the uni
versity community, he observed.
A proposal to retransmit pro
grams of the ETV station operat
ed by the University of Houston,
is pending before the FCC.
Shearer said the retransmission
signals would have a range of
about 20 miles from College Sta
tion. Units for the retrans
mission system have been donated
to A&M by the Continental Elec
tronics Division of Ling-Temco-
Vaught.
This fall courses in accounting,
biology, English and psychology
will be televised.
Classroom sets can tune into
four channels: 5, 8, 10 and 12.
Channel 5, as an example, will
be used for psychology course
programs.
“We can run all four channels
at the same time if needed,”
Shearer pointed out.
The new system links class
room sets in three buildings to
the ETV facility in Bagley Hall.
Videotaped or live telecasts will
originate there. A portable
camera will be used as required.
Assisting Shearer is Donald
Kent, a full-time technician.
Shearer plans to employ several
Aggies part-time.