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LIBRARY CAMPUS 10 COPIES B A&M Student Paul Gundersen Proposes Vast Cultural Program Heritage Hall Highlights Plan Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1966 Number 294 1967 AIBS Convention A&M Chosen To Host National Biology Meet COTTON KING, QUEEN Miss Diane Elizabeth Wehner was chosen queen of the 32nd annual Cotton Pageant Saturday night. She is shown with Roland Smith, King Cotton for the annual Cotton Pageant and Ball. Miss Wehner, representative of the Houston A&M Mother’s Club, was selected from 140 duchesses. Drill Team Wins LSU Tournament By DAN I PRESS WOOD Battalion News Editor The Fish Drill Team walked away with top honors Saturday in the Southern Invitational Drill Meet at Louisiana State Univer sity. giving- the Aggies their sec ond first place trophy in as many weeks. In the 13-team competition the freshmen placed first in platoon basic drill, individual fancy drill and overall competition and sec ond in the platoon fancy drill. “This team gets better and better day by day and this was the best performance to date,” said junior advisor Richard Gros- senbacher. “They represented A&M well.” The fish defeated teams from LSU, Tulane, Oklahoma Military Academy, Florida A&M Univer sity, Sam Houston State, North west Louisiana State, the Univer sity of Southwestern Louisiana, the University of Southern Miss issippi, Southeastern Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State College and Springhill (Alaba ma). Guidon bearer Richard Calvert won a first place in individual, fancy drill in the meet. He out performed 25 competitors for the award. Fish Drill Team sponsor M'aj. Calvin Reese praised the student advisors for their effort in pre paring the group. “The seven advisors are the best I have ever worked with,” he noted. “They should rceive all the credit for the outstanding Filing Closes April 13 For Student Offices Deadline for filing for student body president and 11 other posts is 5 p.m. April 13, according to Election Commission Chairman Pappas. Applications may be filed in the Student Programs Office of the Memorial Student Center. j Offices open for filing include student body vice president, re cording secretary and parliamen tarian; chairmanships of the Stu dent Senate Issues, Public Rela tions, Student Life and Welfare Committees; president, vice pres ident and treasurer of the Civilian Student Council and class agent for the Class of 1966. achievements of the Fish Drill Team this year.” One of the top rated drill teams in the United States, the A&M representatives have defeated teams from Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Miss issippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Flor ida, Lousiana, Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico. Sophomore advisor Bob Boldt expressed gratitude and praise for the welcome received by the Aggies in Baton Rouge. “The advisors and team wish to express their appreciation for the tremendous welcome given us by the Baton Rouge Former Students and for the celebration party Saturday night,” he said. “Special thanks should go to the family of freshman Billy Ed wards for the meals they provid ed for the team,” he added. Performances at the University of Texas, the Battle of Roses Parade of the Fiesta Flambeau in San Antonio and Parents’ Day here May 7 round out the season. Texas A&M will be the bio logical science capitol of the world for a week when the Amer ican Institute of Biological Sci ences holds its convention next year. Attendance is expected to ex ceed 6,000 persons, including par ticipants from several foreign Aero Prof Says Degree Initials Should Be Tools Initials—B.S., M.S., Ph.D.— after a person’s name are not true indicators of whether a man is educated. How he uses them as tools determines if he is. “They don’t seem to mean very much,” Dr. Richard Thomas, as sociate profesor in the Depart ment of Aerospace Engineering, said in an Educated Man lecture Monday in the YMCA. Thomas explained if he can use the tools for advancing society, the person is really worth the initials, after his name. He said that an educated man in engineering differs from edu cated men in other fields by pos sessing a great proficiency in mathematics, a basic understand ing of chemistry and physics and obviously a strong capability in his own field as a specialist. “Man has progressed to the point where he can’t know all about aerospace engineering or aerodynamics. Areas around him are becoming narrower and nar rower.” This^the speaker added—puts great burden on the educated man. With areas narrowing, he has to know “enough” about those areas. Besides the basic three points Thomas mentioned, he comment ed that the engineer needs to be educated in communication, where he has much trouble. Additionally, economics is im portant. The speaker told the audience the engineer is out to make mon ey, so he has to consider how to sell his product. Engineers, Thomas said, have trouble here because they tend to keep them selves mainly in technical field. countries, at the mid-August meeting in 1967. Announcement of A&M’s selec tion as host was made by A&M President Earl Rudder and Dean of Agriculture R. E. Patterson. Rudder said the convention will mark the first time a Texas in stitution has been host to the 70,000-member organization. AIBS has 43 participating na tional societies. Its directors choose annual meeting sites on campuses excelling in education and research, Rudder noted. Dr. Ruble Langston, professor of plant sciences, is general chair man for the sessions. President Rudder said that the selection of Texas A&M rep resents nearly three years of ef fort on the part of University staff members and the Bryan-Col- lege Station Chamber of Com merce. The chamber estimates that this meeting will mean an infu sion of about $1,500,000 into both communities during the week of the meetings. For the past three days, Dr. John R. Olive, executive director, and Mrs. Ann F. Kulback, con vention manager for AIBS, head quartered in Washington, D. C., and a prominent New York dec orator held a series of sessions with local heads of the convention committees. In addition to the many con current scientific sessions, there are planned several luncheons, West Point Cadet Wins Grad Grant A Dallas cadet at the U. S. Military Academy has been awarded a graduate fellowship in nuclear engineering at Texas A&M from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Lee James Hughland Jr. will enroll in September to begin a Master of Science program. One of 200 AEC fellowship re cipients, Hughland was chosen from 600 applicants. Each student chose the uni versity where he would complete the advanced study from 67 par ticipating on the Oak Ridge Association of the commission. ??r A mi i a mam * , iB ; • \ *r* First Bank & Trust now pays per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. smokers, reunions and banquets. More than 100 individual exhibits by scientific, educational and in dustrial firms are scheduled. 2 Offices Filled In School Board Election Saturday A&M Consolidated School Board positions went to John Longley and Charles Pinnell in a College Station election Satur day. V o t i n g was comparatively heavy as the two posts were de cided by a margin of around 100 votes. Longley, an incumbent, re ceived 490 votes, and Pinnell 470. Other candidates included R. L. Hunt, Jr., 363; Roy W. Kelley, 333; and Don Dillon, 194. A record 931 votes were cast in the election, 30 of which were absentee. Campaigning ended in a flurry Friday and Saturday as the “A&M Consolidated Property Owners Committee of 1,000” spoke out backing Hunt and Kelley. The two claimed that three choices exist for the future of College Station citizens. These are, they said, a 100 per cent tax increase, school district bank ruptcy or a merger with Bryan schools. A local insurance executive, Longley will enter his seventh year as a school board member. Pinnell, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engi neering here and head of traffic design for the Texas Transporta tion Institute, will be in his first term. By TOMMY DeFRANK Battalion Managing Editor A Texas A&M student will submit to the A&M Board of Directors at its April meeting a proposed multimillion dollar program designed to initiate the most extensive cultural development in the history of the University. Paul H. Gundersen, a junior journalism major from Chicago, will outline before the Board plans for The Heritage Hall Foundation, a projected $9 million endeavor that will bring to the campus valuable collections of American history and art for permanent display. Nucleus of the program will be The Heritage Hall, a three- story, library-archives-museum-theater complex that will house one of the nation’s largest collections of documents, memorabilia and works of art pertaining to American history. Also proposed in the venture are a scholarship program for members of the Corps of Cadets enrolled in liberal arts curricula, an endowment program to help underwrite salaries of name profes sors attracted to A&M and a program whereby works of art and sculpture will be erected at various campus locations to beautify and upgrade the University’s cultural environment. “We are going to try to create an entirely new environment for the A&M campus — one that will stimulate a scholarly attitude,” Gundersen explained. “The school has been focusing all of its energies in the fields of science and engineering at the expense of the liberal arts,” he continued, “and The Heritage Hall Foundation will be an attempt to remedy this situation. “In the past we have brought prominent professors here only in science and engineering. Through this project we want to make A&M a place which renowned scholars in the liberal arts will seek out, instead of us having to seek them out.” The A&M Board will decide at its April meeting whether or not to sanction the undertaking. If the Board gives approval Gundersen will have the foundation recognized by the State of Texas and actively begin work on the venture. A gala dance April 11 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom will honor Gundersen’s mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Gundersen, who is spearheading the project along with her son. The Gundersens have traveled more than 20,000 miles in the past 18 months, enlisting support of prominent Americans and purchasing various collections to supplement their personal collections to be placed in Heritage Hall. Persons who have indicated enthusiastic support of the founda tion include Sens. Robert Kennedy and Everett Dirksen, Gen Frank Besson, commanding officer of the U. S. Army Materiel Command, as well as other civic, military and cultural leaders. Gundersen explained that when the project is sanctioned by the Board and accredited by the State, the directors will begin actively soliciting funds to assist in the endeavor. He added that several well-known philanthropic foundations have already promised financial support. The foundation will be administered by five board members: Gundersen, Jack B. Slimp Jr., a 1965 A&M graduate now study ing at the University of Indiana; Clifton A. Emerson, another 1965 A&M graduate; Woodson Taliaferro Besson, a student at Prince ton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Interna tional Affairs, and an as yet unnamed member. This board will be supported by an advisory group of 100 prominent Americans from the industrial, government, science, military and educational professions. The entire project is expected to be completed by 1976, in time for the University’s centennial. But Gundersen emphasized that the venture will never be finish ed but instead will be a continuous project in cultural development for the school. “We want Heritage Hall to be a magnet — a calling card for scholars in the fields pf history and all the liberal arts to come to Texas A&M,” he said. Aggie Recovering BATTALION RECEIVES COLLEGE In Austin Hospital A&M senior Douglas B. Otten is listed in “fair” condition in Austin’s Brackenridge Hospital following a one-car accident Sat urday which resulted in the death of one passenger. The mishap, on Farm Road 1826 near Oak Hill, killed Caro lyn L. McKenna of Austin. Otten, a petroleum engineer-- ing major from San Antonio, re ceived back and internal injuries. ALL-AMERICAN RECOGNITION The Battalion has received All-American recognition from the Associated Collegiate Press for the fall semester, editor Glenn Dromgoole learned Monday. The award, highest in the ACP Newspaper Critical Service for college newspapers, represents a “superior rating and is reserved for the top publications,” according to Fred L. Kildow, ACP director. Top areas of Battalion coverage praised by the judges were news and feature coverage, editorials and columns, sports cover age and photography. About 10 per cent of the association members are given All- American honors. „ *>- 18th Century Literature Works Prof Collects Documents PROF WITH ENGLISH COLLECTIONS ... Kroitor collects 18th Century literature works. By JOHN FULLER An A&M English professor, prompted by what he calls a “basic interest” in the relation ship between literature and natu ral science, has compiled an out- of-the-ordinary collection of docu ments. He is Dr. Harry P. Kroitor, who for the past 12 years has made trips to England, scanned book catalogs and done research at the Library of Congress in order to find materials dealing with 18th- century British literature. Many of his souvenirs were on display recently as a feature of the third annual Literary Festi val. They included 18th-century books and facsimiles of maga zines and newspapers from the period. “The prints of William Ho garth’s engravings and paintings were produced by photographing pages of bound collections and then greatly enlarging the photo graphs,” Kroitor explained, refer ring to the other portions of the displays. He said the past month had been devoted to the photo graphing operation, which cost around $50, in preparation for the festival. The photostats of periodicals were made at the Library of Con gress during one of Kroitor’s trips to Washington. He ex plained that he wanted the copies for his collection because they deal with scientific developments of the 1700’s, such as the discov ery of the planet Uranus in 1782. “Many of the papers contain notices of so-called ‘philosophical lectures’ of the period, which might be classified into three categories—quack, popular and technical.” He mentioned a no tice for a “quack” lecture which charged money for the showing of “insects as big as oxen”—with the aid of a primitive microscope. Among the “finds” in Kroitor’s collection—which, he stresses, is “one of ideas, not things”—is a 1715 first-edition copy of “Astro- theology” by Thomas Durham. He also has 18th-century copies of works by Samuel Johnson, James Thomson, Mark Akenside and James Beattie. “In addition, I have a whole wallfull of books written by later authors about the 18th Century,” he notes. “In fact, I spend over $600 a year for such books, much to the horror of the Internal Rev enue Service—they just can’t be lieve it.” He explained they are research expenditures and as such are deductible from his income tax. Kroitor says he can’t place a monetary value on his collection. “I was able to pick up the Dur ham book for a few pounds at a London auction, and I’m sure it would be very valuable to a book collector. I wouldn’t sell it, though, no matter what I was offered,” he said. “As for the rest of the materials, the actual cost of having the facsimiles made is only a fraction of the travel expense and time it took to get them. I probably wouldn’t sell the collection for $2000, be cause it’s worth more than that to