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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1966
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By GERALD GARCIA
Battalion Managing Editor
A 22- member committee, com
posed of students, faculty and
staff, was appointed Monday
night by Memorial Student Cen
ter Council President John Rod
gers to study the expansion of
the MSC.
The committee will start stu
dying the facilities of the MSC
at the beginning of the spring
semester and report its finding
to the council during May.
“This committee will inform
the council what has already
been planned in past years and
what is expected to be done,”
Rodgers said.
The Building Study Committee
is composed of two groups, one
of regular council members and
one of ex-officio members. These
groups will work separately dur
ing the study phase.
Named to the regular council
committee were Rodgers, Steve
Gummer, Roy May, Gerald Gar
cia, Ken Vanek, Joe Buser, for
mer students representative and
Dr. Carl E. Shafer, professor in
the Depatment of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology. Rod
gers will serve as committee
chairman.
Composing the ex officio com
mittee are Dave Graham, two
MSC Directorate assistants to be
named later, two from the MSC
Directorate as a whole to be
named later, Robert Wimbish,
former honorary vice president
of the architecture students;
Charles Wallace, special council
consultant; J. Wayne Stark, MSC
director; William B. Lancaster,
assistant director of the MSC;
Harold Gaines, student group
supervisor; Dr. Harrison Hierth,
professor in the Department of
English; Dr. John B. Orr, pro
fessor in the Department of
Philosophy; Col. Fred Dollar,
head of Food Service; and Mrs.
Betsy Fisher, MSC public rela
tions director.
The committees will study the
addition of a new wing to the
MSC which will add new meeting
MSC Hot Spot
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Bormann Selected
As Loan Officer
Alvin Bormann Jr. has been
named student loan officer for
the Student Aid Office.
A native of Brenham, Bormann
has been an employe of Universi
ty National Bank in College Sta
tion since 1962. He was a teller
at First National Bank in Bren
ham in 1960-61 while attending
Blinn Junior College.
Bormann will assume the post
Jan. 24 following graduation
from Texas A&M with a finance
degree.
“Mr. Bormann’s previous bank
ing experience and knowledge of
commercial loan operations will
add to the strength and efficien
cy of our organization,” said
Robert M. Logan, Student Aid
director.
The new employe is president
of the Brethren Student Fellow
ship group and parliamentarian
of the Finance Society at A&M.
By DANI PRESSWOOD
Battalion Staff Writer
The present Memorial Student
Center was completed in Septem
ber of 1950 after four turmoiled
years of planning and scheming.
The students and the former
students of the time had oppos
ing views as to the purpose of
such a building, with both groups
settling for several compromises
in the final analysis. They were
forced to use it as both a stu
dent union building and as a
continuing education center.
A committee composed of staff,
student and former student mem
bers began study on the proposal
in 1946 and submitted its rec
ommendation to President Gibb
Gilchrest in June, 1947.
Originally allotted $1 million
for the project, the planners de
signed a $3.5 million building
but were forced to cut back to
the final cost of $2 million.
Director J. Wayne Stark was
hired three years before its com
pletion, in October of 1947.
Additions to the MSC and con
struction of an adult education
building have been proposed off
and on since that time.
In 1956 Chancellor M. T. Har
rington formed a committee to
study the possibility of building
a continuing education center
separated from the MSC.
The A&M Board of Directors
set aside $10,000 to map out the
blueprints of the project and to
observe similar buildings at oth
er colleges in the United States.
When the plan was presented
to the Jones Foundation in Hous
ton, the Board announced that
it would allocate $1.25 million if
someone else would match the
figure.
A similar multi-million dollar
proposal was made soon after
ward with $65,000 spent on re
search. It too, was turned down.
When Harrington took over as
both president and chancellor of
the college a former student an
nounced he would contribute
$50,000 to the addition of a west
wing to the MSC.
Earl Rudder, then vice-presi
dent, began working with an
architect to study the feasibility
of rebuilding Guion Hall and
extending the eastern end of the
MSC until the two buildings met.
Presently the idea of construct
ing a continuing education center
has all but been abandoned, but
the concept of an expanded MSC
is soon to be a realization.
J
MEDALS FOR DAD
Jeff Allen, 5, and brother Chuck, 6, study Purple Heart and
Air Medal presented posthumously Monday to their father,
Air Force Capt. Charles F. Allen II. He was killed in South
Viet Nam in October. Col. Raymond C. Lee, left professor
of aerospace studies, made the presentations. Also present
at the ceremonies were Mrs. Allen, her mother, Mrs. W. V.
Stewart, and sister, Mrs. Lynn Stuart, all of Bryan. Capt.
Allen was also awarded the Commendation Medal two
weeks before his death.
Hubert Named
To Governor’s
School Group
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean
of the college of liberal arts,
has been appointed by Gov. John
Connally to the Committee on
Public School Education.
Hubert, one of 15 Texans to
be named to the committee, said
the committee “is evidence that
Gov. Connally has a serious in
tention to bring education in Tex
as to a place of quality perform
ance in all areas.”
Authorized by the state legis
lature, the group will study a
wide range of topics such as dull
classes, slow learners and school
dropouts.
Hubert feels the committee at
tempt to secure better teaching
methods in order to solve the
problems which exist in the pub
lic schools of Texas.
“The governor is looking at
the years ahead, to 1970 and
1980, and is asking this commit
tee to make recommendations
which will assure Texas of hav
ing a quality program to meet
the requirements of the big years
of the future,” he said.
Chairman of the committee is
former State Bar president Leon
Jaworski of Houston. He prose
cuted some of the most notorious
of Hitler’s military leaders fol
lowing World War II.
Members of the committee in
clude Dick West, editorial di
rector and editorial editor of the
Dallas Morning News since 1930;
Dr. Harold Hitt, superintendent
of Midland schools for 11 years;
Dr. James McCrocklin, president
of Southwest Texas College in
San Marcos, and Lloyd Turner,
president of the Fort Worth
Board of Education.
rooms, lecture rooms, guest
rooms and other recreational
facilities. Another study to be
conducted by the committees will
be continuing educational needs.
The new proposed wing will
extend either to the south or the /
east. If the wing is placed to the
east, it will absorb Guion Hall
and include a new auditorium.
In other business, the council:
Heard a report from Gummer
on the Lost and Found Auction
held Nov. 24. The auction made
$253.98 which will be placed in
the council cash account.
Approved an addition of $220
to the Contemporary Arts Com
mittee budget to be used for
payment of newspaper subscrip
tion bought for the Browsing
Library.
Approved a $1,650 budget for
the Dancing Committee to be
used in the spring term.
Approved $150 for the Travel
Committee for scholarship use.
The funds will be divided into
two $75 scholarships to be given
to students for travel in Mexico
in the summer.
Allowed the travel committee
to start planning and promoting
the charter flight to Europe.
The committee each year spon
sors a charter flight from Hous
ton to London for students who
plan to participate in the Experi
ment in International Living.
Accepted a silver service tray
which included a coffee pot, tea
pot, sugar bowl with cover,
creamer and a tea strainer with
caddy from Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Gee, Balboa, Canal Zone, given
in memory of their son Jan Da
vid who died in 1955.
Accepted five books, donated
by Akramuz Zammon, Texas
A&M student, to be sold by the
council and the funds raised to
be used as the council wishes.
Approved a Great Issues Com
mittee prospective speaker list
for Hydro-Space Fiesta ’66, set
for Feb. 6-11 in the MSC. Speak
ers listed include Lyndon Baines
Johnson, Sen. Warren G. Magnu-
son, from Washington, Cmdr.
Scott Carpenter, Mercury astro
naut and Sealab II aquanaut;
Dr. John Lilly, who does work
on the language and habits of
porpoises; Rep. Emilio Q. Dad-
bario, from Connecticut; Robert
Moorse, assistant secretary of
the Navy for research and devel
opment; Rear Admiral O. D.
Waters, commander of Navy of
fice of oceanographic research;
and Dr. Sam Ridgway, veterinar
ian for Tuffy, porpoise with Sea-
lab II.
Carpenter, Waters and Ridg
way have accepted invitations to
participate at the Fiesta.
HYDRO-SPACE FIESTA ’66 EXHIBIT
A model of the Star II, christened the
“Asherah” after the Phoenician goddess of
the deep, will be one of the exhibits during
Hydro-Space Fiesta ’66, set for Feb. 6-11
in the Memorial Student Center. The Na
tional Geographic Society is currently using
the vehicle for underwater archeological
exploration in the Aegean Sea off the Turk
ish coast.
2 Doctoral Candidates Win
$5,500 NATO Fellowships
Two doctoral candidates have
been awarded $5,500 North At
lantic Treaty Organization Post
doctoral Fellowships in Science
for a year of study abroad.
They are Wayne A. Dunlay of
208 Popular, College Station, and
Donald G. Naugle, 503-A Culpep
per, College Station.
Announcement of the grants
was made by Graduate Dean
Wayne C. Hall. He said A&M
was the only Texas university
listing award winners among 66
announced nationwide.
Dunlap, assistant research en
gineer in the Pavement Design
Department of the Texas Trans
portation Institute and assistant
professor of civil engineering,
will study soil mechanics and
foundation engineering at the
University of London’s Imperial
College of Technology.
On completing the study, Dun
lap plans to return to A&M. He
will be accompanied to England
by his wife, the former Jill Kava-
nagh, a native of London; a
daughter, Donna Jean, 7, and a
son, Andrew 5.
Dunlap met his wife in London
while working there as a con
sulting engineer in 1955-56. He
earned masters and bachelor’s
degrees in civil engineering at
A&M.
He is scheduled to receive his
doctorate in June. He plans to
enter the University of London
about Sept. 1.
Naugle expects to receive a
doctorate in physics in August.
He hopes to begin his postdoctor
al studies in low temperature
physics at the University of Got-
Harrington Wins
Fulbright Grant
Dr. Edwin L. Harrington of
Texas A&M has been awarded a
9Vi-month Fulbright-Hays lec
tureship in Ecuador.
The civil engineering professor
begins the foreign assignment in
June, following retirement from
the A&M faculty. He will lecture
on hydraulics at the National
University of Guayaquil, Ecuador.
A member of A&M’s faculty
since 1939, Harrington received
his bachelor’s degree from Wyom
ing University in 1927 and two
degrees from A&M: M.S. in 1943
and Ph.D. in 1952. His A&M
teaching career was interrupted
only by 2 Vi years of duty with
the U. S. Navy during World
War II.
tingen in Germany this June.
Naugle teaches physics part-time
on a Welsh Foundation Post
doctoral grant.
The award winner earned a
B.A. degree in physics at Rice
University and hopes to add a
doctorate from A&M in August.
He will be accompanied to Ger
many by his wife, Elizabeth, and
their one-year-old daughter,
Kristine. Mrs. Naugle taught at
A&M Consolidated Elementary
School in 1963-64.
When he completes his post
doctoral study Naugle plans to
return to the United States, but
has not decided whether to teach
or work in industry.
The NATO postdoctoral fel
lowships are administered by the
National Science Foundation for
the State Department.
Applications Open
For MSC Chairmen
Applications are now being
accepted for Memorial Student
Center Council and Directorate
chairmen.
Students interested should ap
ply in the Student Programs
office in the lower level of the
MSC by 5 p.m. Friday.
But Others Hate Their Tour
Some Soldiers Like Viet Nam
SAIGON (A*) — For some
American GIs, Viet Nam duty
is “the best in the Army.”
For others, it means long
stretches of boredom, sitting in
foxholes by the hour waiting for
an enemy that never seems to
show, taking long, weary walks
through rice paddies and jungle
that sometimes erupt in a blast
fire from hidden machine guns.
The American GI in Viet Nam
is not quite like the GI of Korea
and World War II. His officers
are likely to think that he’s
smarter, better trained and
tougher than men of the earlier
wars.
A search for a typical GI is
futile because all are individuals,
although molded into a military
pattern with its discipline and
anonymity.
Most complain about the food,
weather, military life in general
and about the enemy. They call
him Victor Charley or Charley
Brown and respect him as a
soldier.
Thus far, all large U .S. units
in Viet Nam except the 1st
Army Division has a preponder
ance of regulars, men who joined
up for three years. This will
change in some outfits, like the
1st Cavalry, Airmobile, Division
as stateside replacements pour in.
But units like the paratroopers
and Marines will probably re
tain a majority of volunteers.
Most of the noncommissioned
officers boast that they are “RA
—regular Army all the way and
in to stay.”
Even draftees are likely to ad
mit they would rather be here
than “running up and down hills
at Ft. Benning to no purpose,”
as a 1st Division private re
marked.
“They’re the finest kids —and
the best troops—in the world,”
said Capt. Henry Thorpe, a na
tive North Carolinian who com
manded a company of the 2nd
Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the la
Drang Valley.
He ought to know. Thirty-one
of his men died in that battle.
How does the U. S. soldier live
on base and in the field ? What
does he do for entertainment in
those rare hours off duty? Let’s
take a look at a few of them:
Spec. 5 Martin Torres of Guam
is an aircraft maintenance man
of the 545th Aircraft Battalion
stationed at Camp Holloway, an
Army air base just outside Pleiku
in the central highlands.
He’s been in the Army six
years and plans to stay in for 20.
“In a way, it’s the best duty
I’ve ever had,” he said. “I have
to work hard and I don’t mind
because I’d rather drop dead
from exhaustion than let down
one of those guys flying our air
craft.
“We do our work and aren’t
bothered by spit and polish in
spections.”
Torres is an enterprising young
man. He bought a motor scoot
er for $350 and put-putts around
the Pleiku area. In town there
is little to do except break the
monotony of Army food with a
meal at the only Pleiku Chinese
restaurant. This costs 150 pias
ters, about $2 in the official rate
of exchange.
Torres walks around the little
Vietnamese city and drinks an
occasional bottle of the local “33
export” beer that cost 40 piasters.
This is better than the life of
most of the troopers of the 1st
Cavalry Division at An Khe, 55
miles east of Peiku.
Prior to the CAV’s arrival, An
Khe had only one bar for its
population of perhaps 1,000. Now
An Khe is a garish soldier town
with 91 bars, many of which serve
what the troops call “boom boom
parlors.”
Inflation has come with a ven
geance. Prices in many instances
are double those of Saigon. A
beer or a soft drink costs 50
piasters, a package of cigarettes
60.
Most of the troopers don’t get
much time in town. When Spec.
4 Clarence Wayne of Columbus,
Ga., got a few hours he said:
“I’m just going to sit and rest
and drink a couple of beers.
“Last time I was in town I
bought silk jackets for my four-
year-old boy and seven-year-old
daughter.”
Pvt. Rene Coutrure of Fitch
burg, Mass., is an infantryman
in the 1st Battalion of the 12th
Cavalry. His outfit has been al
most constantly in the field or
on camp perimeters guard since
it arrived in September.
His comments on his presence
here reflect those made by many
soldiers and Marines:
“Some people back home seem
to think this is a civil war.
They ought to have seen those
dead PAVN People’s Army of
North Viet Nam. This is no
civil war. This is an invasion
and we’re here to stop it.”