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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1965)
Teacher Training Courses At A&M Noted For Variety Auto mechanics, cosmetologists, printers, welders, appliance re pairmen and photographers were among 164 persons enrolled in teacher training courses this summer at Texas A&M. They were 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- A&M Awarded $190,000 For Freeway Study Some hazards of entering free ways may be eliminated by a $190,000 study by Texas A&M highway researchers. The U.S. Department of Com merce, Bureau of Public Roads, will finance the endeavor. Time-lapse photography from helicopters and airplanes hover ing over major freeways will provide data for analysis, ac cording to Dr. Charles Pinnell, head of the Texas Transporta tion Institute’s Highway Design and Traffic Engineering Depart ment. This work on freeway merging will require eighteen months, Dr. Pinnell indicated. TTI research crews under the supervision of Dr. Donald R. Drew and Dr. Joseph A. Wattle- worth will study freeway en trance ramps to determine fac tors affecting drivers’ decisions. Films will be reviewed at TTI offices in College Station and Houston. Frame by frame analy sis of the pictures will reveal lo cation of vehicles, speed and ac celeration. A battery of programs for A&M’s IBM 7094 digital com puter will compile the data. “We see three major applica tions from the project,” Dr. Pin nell said. “These are improved design for ramps, improved me- •• tering of traffic and more useful ramp signals.” 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- making development and use of tion and management, course visual aids, and aims and ob jectives of vocational education. “Vocational industrial educa tion is booming. Educators are beginning to realize the need for it, and we are getting more financial assistance from federal and state sources,” explained B. M. Hackney, teacher trainer for the A&M Engineering Extension Service and school director. Hackney noted skilled teachers are needed to train more than a quarter-million new skilled per sonnel during the next 10 years. “If we grow, we have to train people whose jobs are disappear ing due to automation, or chang ing for other reasons, to be economically productive,” he com mented. “Our job,” Hackney interpre ted, “is to convert skilled crafts men and industrial people into competent teachers. This includes six courses totaling 12 semester hours of college work.” Sixty-five per cent of the stu dents already have at least one college degree, he said. “Our students are occupational ly qualified, each having five or more years successful work ex perience,” Hackney continued. “Their summer work in teacher training will prepare them to teach effectively the skills and related technical knowledge of the trade or occupation they have mastered.” About half the enrollees will complete certification this sum mer. Most will be teaching in high school or junior college for the first time this Fall. Teachers who complete only half the certification require ments are given emergency per mits by the TEA, with the sti pulation they complete three ad ditional courses the following summer. SPORTING EQUIPMENT COMPLETE LINE FOOTBALLS- BASKETBALLS- CONVERSE TENNIS SHOES Student Co-Op Store Ed Gamer ’38 North Gate 846-6715 SEAFRONT COED Phyllis Johnson, finalist in the Miss USA pageant this summer, studied at A&M’s Marine Laboratory in Galves ton. She returns to the University of Texas this fall, where she is university sweetheart and a cheerleader. Miss U.S.A. Finalist Found Little Opposition From Ags DuringSummerStudentStint Even the saltiest opponent to coeds at Texas A&M had diffi culty objecting to the addition of a Miss U. S. A. finalist to the Marine Laboratory classes at Galveston this summer. Phyllis Johnson, 35-23-37, was chosen Miss Texas in 1965 and represented the state in the na tional contest at Miami, Fla. A senior liberal arts student at the University of Texas, the Galveston lass studied marine biology under Dr. Sewell Hop kins, called one of the top men in the field in the nation by laboratory director Dr. Sammy Ray. “It’s an interesting course,” Miss Johnson commented, “I have to do a lot of studying be cause there is so much to cover in such a short time.” The popular coed took a lot of kidding from Aggies attending classes on the island campus, especially since she’s current sweetheart of the University of Texas. Most of the ribbing was about football, she said. “They keep saying, “Wait until next year’,” she grinned. Being a celebrity was no prob lem in the classroom for the hazel-eyed beauty during her six- week A&M course. “We have a lot of ‘pop’ tests which Dr. Hopkins refers to as popular quizzes,” she said. “And we have made a lot of field trips —a shell collection last weekend, a tour of a marine laboratory at Seabrook, trips around the island and bay area.” Dr. Hopkins confided that Miss Johnson “does pretty well” in class. She participated in a lib eral arts honors program at UT with emphasis on general science. Her teaching certificate will be in biology, but she’s unsure about teaching as a career. “I’m thinking of trying teach ing for a year or two, then may be do graduate work in marine biology,” she commented. Being in school cut down on personal appearances and tours for Miss Johnson. “I’ve been asked to be hostess for some conventions, but have had to ask them to get someone else because of school,” she ex plained. The 21-year old Longhorn cheerleader was having trouble deciding whether to go to summer school in Austin the second se mester or to have her wisdom teeth pulled. “My dentist says they need to be pulled,” she explained. “It’s okay. My teeth are too big any way.” None of her Aggie classmates seemed to notice. A&M Loan Service Exceeds 92 Per Cent Of U. S. Banks Loan operations larger than those of 92 per cent of the banks in the United States are taking place on the third floor of the YCMA Building. According to R. M. Logan, di rector of student aid, loans be tween $5 and $5,000 are made to more than 5,000 qualified stu dents yearly. The four types of student loans available are: the little loan fund: the student aid fund: the United Student Aid Fund, Inc. Loan; and the National Defense Education Act Loan. Other types of student loans are also available. The Silas Ragsdale Loan Fund allows jour nalism students to borrow money with no interest. The Bertha Pratt fund makes it possible for a graduating senior to borrow up to $100 two weeks before he graduates for one year with a $5 charge. In order to qualify for a loan the applicant must be an enrolled student cannot be on academic or conduct probation. The feel ing of Frank C. Litterst, assist ant director of student aid, is that if a person is not responsi ble in his school work and per sonal behavior, he is not re sponsible in other fields. THE BATTALION Thursday, September 16, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 3 Chemistry By Telephone To Be Offered This Fall 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 is 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 or the instructor.” Classes begin Sept. 20. REDMOND TERRACE BARBER SHOP Where the Only Acceptable Standard Is THE FINEST IN PERSONALIZED SERVICE You’ll appreciate the difference that a hearcut here will make in your appearance. Our barbers are experts in whatever style cut you prefer. Drop in today— —or any time. Redmond Terrace Center, Hwy. 6, So. Open Tuesday Thru Saturday 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Excellent Shines While You’re Waiting. REDMOND TERRACE SHOPPING CENTER, HIGHWAY 6, SOUTH PHONE 846-4096 Quality Paper Backs The largest selection of QUALITY PAPER BACKS to be found in East Texas is attractively displayed in our store. Every sub ject from Anthropology to Zoology is covered. Many best selling books of fiction are also to be found. 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