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Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 16, 1965 THE BATTALION Ph. D. Candidate Returns From Jungle Hunt 7 • fcL MX,- '■ AN AGOUTIS? SO’S YER OLD MAN! Jerry Mankins holds a pet Agoutis for his son Dick to in spect. A Texas A&M Ph.D. candi date earned the title “doctor” in the jungles of Honduras by giv ing emergency care to natives. Jerry Mankins of Susanville, Calif., recently returned from eight months in South Africa where wildlife research was in terrupted to deliver babies, su ture wounds and set broken bones. Mankins became the “doctor” after he helped deliver a baby in the bush. “The first time I helped de liver a baby was pretty much an emergency,” Mankins explained. “I went to see a man to locate some deer. He said his wife was in severe pain, so I took a look and found she was ready to give birth. Her sister was supposed to come to help, but she didn’t ar rive, so I delivered the baby. After that the word got around that I was a doctor as well as a batman,” Mankins continued. Mankins had previous experi ence as a hospital laboratory tech nician in California, but had little knowledge of obstetrics. The language problem gave Mankins little trouble since he speaks Spanish, the accepted language in Honduras. Finding suitable transportation proved to be a mapor problem since roads were almost non-existant. With the help of his 15-year old son, Dick, Mankins collected spec imens of agoutis, grison, prehen sile-tailed porcupines, gophers, o’possums, margay, squirrel, ant- eaters and a specimen new to the A&M collection, a 7-banded arma dillo. “We obtained what is probably the largest collection of one spec ies of agoutis (rabbit-like ani mals) from Roatan,” Mankins re ported. The researchers were bitten and scratched by bats and margay, The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You.. CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 9 :30 A.M.—Sunday School 11 :00 A.M.—Sunday Service 11:00 A.M.-2 P.M.—Tues. Reading Rm. 7 :00-8 :00 P.M.—Wed., Reading Room 8:00 P.M.—Wed. Evening Worship FIRST BAPTIST 9 :30 AM—Sunday School 10:45 AM Morning Worship 6:10 PM—Training Union 7 :20 PM—Evening Worship 6:30 PM—Choir Practice & Teachers’ meetings (Wednesday) 7 :30 P.M.—Midweek Services (Wed.) A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST 8:00 & 10:00 A.M. Worship 9 :00 A.M.—Bible Study 5:15 P.M.—Young People’s Class 6 :00 P.M.—Worship 7 :15 P.M.—Aggie Class 9:30 A.M.—Tues. - Ladies Bible Class 7:16 P.M.—Wednesday - Bible Study A&M PRESBYTERIAN 7-9 A.M.—Sun. Breakfast - Stu. Ctr. 9 :45 A.M.—Church School 11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship 6 :00 P.M.—Sun. Single Stu. Fellowship 7 :15 P.M.—Wed. Student Fellowship 6:45 A.M.—Fri. Communion Service Wesley Foundation CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School 10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship 6 :30 P.M.—Young People’s Service 7 :00 P.M.—Preaching Service ST. 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SECOND BAPTIST 710 Eisenhower School 9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School 11 :00 A.M.—Church Service 6:30 P.M.—Training Union 7:30 P.M.- T'raining Union Church Service OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN 8:15 & 10:45 A.M.—The Church at me Chu Worship 9 :30 A.M.—Bible Classes For All Holy Communion—1st Sun. Ea. Mo. A&M METHODIST 9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School 10 :55 A.M.—Morning Worship 5 :30 P.M.—Campus & Career Class 5 :30 & 6 :00 P.M.—MYF Meetings 7 :00 P.M.—Evening Worship CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS 26th East and Coulter, Bryan 8 :30 A.M.—Priesthood meeting 10 :00 A.M.—Sunday School 6:30 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Homestead & Ennis 9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School 10:50 A.M.—Morning Worship 5 :30 P.M.—Young People \ it***#* i'f. J4tl(ier funeral J4o BRYAN, TEXAS 502 West 26th St, PHONE TA 2-1572 H M M m » :i:;S This takes nerve! Imagine dropping into space with nothing but a “silk umbrella” between you and eternity! 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ROR THE CHURCH The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the building of charac ter and good citizenship. It is a store house of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regu larly and support the Church. They are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children’s sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support. Plan to go to church regu larly and read your Bible daily. Campus and Circle Theatres College Station College Station’s Own Banking Service University National Bank NORTH GATE Sure Sign of Flavor SANITARY Farm Dairies Central Texas Hardware Co. BRYAN • HARDWARE • CHINA WARE • CRYSTAL • GIFTS Bryan Building & Loan Association B RYAN MELLORINE SHERBET ICE CREAM but didn’t bother to take shots, he said. “A dab of iodine here and there and we were ready to continue,” Mankins commented. The Mankins learned to live off the land. Agoutis were the main meat dish and mangoes, bananas, zapotes, and squash were plenti ful. Sugar and coffee shortages were apparent, they felt. Heavy rains caused them to spend a lot of time digging the station wagon out of mudholes. Storms blew their camps down. All Texans From A&M Benefit System Education, Service Students entering A&M this fall are enrolling in the major part of one of the largest educational, research and extension organizations in the south. The A&.M University System, established in 1948, is a statewide organization, charged with the responsibility for education, research and extension services in the broad fields of agriculture and engineering and in such other areas as the Legislature of the State of Texas may assign it from time to time. Honors Program Termed Success, To Be Continued A “successful, beneficial” first academic year has set the stage for growth of the Honors Pro gram at Texas A&M University. Academically superior freshmen in the College of Arts and Sci ences participated. Reporting the bright outlook and reviewing student accom plishments for the first year was Dr. Richard H. Ballinger, chair man of the Honors Program com mittee. “The program,” Dr. Ballinger said, “has proved stimulating and beneficial to the students and has been favorably received by them. In addition to honors courses, these first-year students have at tended graduate lectures and have been stimulated to an enriched reading program.” More than three-fourths of the students continuing in the pro gram had a grade point ratio of 2.25 or higher. And 89 percent had a grade point ratio of 2.0 or higher. Purpose of the Honors Pro gram is to offer the superior stu dent special opportunities for academic work of a range and depth appropriate to his capa bilities and greater intellectual interests. Admission is by invitation. Dr. Ballinger began interviewing prospects as they visited the A&M campus for New Student Summer Conferences. Providing important stimulus for the students is the Honors Colloquium, weekly discussions with outstanding A&M faculty members and other scholars. The topics covered during the fresh man year range the various disci plines of human knowledge. Honors Program students as freshmen also attended Honors Sections in various basic courses as their individual schedules al lowed. The work done by stu dents in the Honors Sections is graded the same as the quality of work would merit if done in regular sections, Dr. Ballinger emphasized. “The ability and interests of the individual students are the guiding considerations of the Honors Program,” he said. The students upon completing the freshman year may find spe cial opportunities as provided by the participating departments. Also, there will be special sec tions for three basic courses at the sophomore level. The System’s three schools are Texas A&M University, oldest public-supported institution of higher learning in the state; Prairie View A&M College, at Prairie View; and Tarleton State College, at Stephenville. The five service organizations are the Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, Texas Engineer ing Experiment Station, Texas Engineering Extension Service and the Texas Forest Service. During the long terms, the three colleges provide educational programs for more than 15,000 Texas men and women. The service organizations, and the colleges, provide adult educa tion training programs for about 35,000 persons annually. Courses range from those for Civil De fense crews concerned with radi ation to firemen, vocational teachers, bankers, egg-graders, beef producers and schoolmen. The System is headed by a board of directors, consisting of nine members, appointed by the Governor with consent of the Senate. Chief executive officer for the System is President Earl Rudder, who is directly responsible to the Board. In charge of each part of the System is another executive officer — for the schools, presidents; for service organizations, directors. 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