Che Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1966
Number 310
1966-67
Commanders
The following have been appointed to command
positions in the Corps of Cadets by Col. D. L. Baker,
Corps Commandant:
Corps Commander Eddie Joe Davis
Deputy Corps Commander Robert A. Beene
ARMY UNITS
First Brigade ...Harold C. Schade
First Battalion John L. Willingham
Company A-l Robert H. Lackland
Company B-l Victor H. Schmidt
Company C-l Robert D. Batte
Company D-l John P. Sullivan
Second Battalion Melvin W. Cockrell
Company E-l Olen V. Harvey
Company F-l Dwight L. Recht
Company G-l Douglas V. Marshall Jr.
Company H-l John P. Ellis
Second Brigade Robert M. Miller
Third Battalion Charles M. Berry Jr.
Company A-2 Joseph D. Rehmet
Company B-2 Terry C. Aglietti
Company C-2 Charles T. Jones
Company D-2 Ernest M. Hudgens
Fourth Battalion Forbes L. Wallace
Company E-2 Michael R. Walker
Company F-2 Jim B. Mitchell
Company G-2 William R. Hindman
Company H-2 To be announced
AIR FORCE UNITS
Air Division Arturo Esquivel
First Wing Michael M. Tower
Squadron 1 Donald E. Woods
Squadron 2 Dennis R. McElroy
Squadron 3 Cyril M. Statum Jr.
Squadron 4 Charles W. Hoffman
Squadron 14 Tommy W. Casey
Second Wing William C. Haseloff
Squadron 5 Troy H. Myers
Squadron 6 David J. Cruz
Squadron 7 Gregory S. Carter
Squadron 8 Richard Kardys
Third Wing Gene N. Patton
Squadron 9 Gerald A. Teel
Squadron 10 Sammy W. Pearson
Squadron 11 John P. Tyson
Squadron 12 Louis K. Obdyke
Squadron 13 Gary W. Foster
BAND
Combined Band Jim R. Davidson
Maroon Band To be announced
White Band To be announced
Parents Day Program
To Highlight Weekend
Mother Of Year
Honored Sunday
By ROBERT SOLOVEY
Battalion Staff Writer
Outstanding Corps of Cadets units, individuals and all
Aggie mothers and fathers will be honored at traditional
Parents Day ceremonies Sunday.
The outstanding Corps unit will be awarded the highly
prized General George F. Moore Award, and Mrs. Gene Over-
ton of Haskell will be honored as Aggie Mother of the Year.
The traditional flower pinning ceremony at 8 a. m. in
the cadet dormitory area, along with awards to the best
drilled sophomore and freshman and appreciation gifts to
unit commanders, will start
the day-long activities.
The Student Senate pro
gram at 9 a. m. will honor
parents, and announce in-
Seniors To Give
Library Sculpture
The Senior Class Gift Commit
tee has approved plans to donate
a sculptured figure to the new
library building on behalf of the
Class of ’66.
Norris Cano, class president,
said Thursday the committee has
contacted Heri Bert Bartscht, in
ternationally-recognized Hungar
ian sculptor who presently heads
the Department of Art, Music,
Speech and Drama at the Uni
versity of Dallas.
Bartscht has agreed to pre
liminary plans for a sculptured
figure to stand in a prominent
place in the library. The six-foot
sculpture will be of a young man
in “some pose suggesting study,
thought or aspiration,” Cano said.
A class representative will ex
amine Bartscht’s clay model this
summer and make final accept
ance for the class by Jan. 1, 1968.
Burn Victim
Tribute Set
Texarkana’s A&M Mothers
Club will unveil a new painting
in memory of Joe Biggs Wilson
Saturday in the Memorial Student
Center lounge.
The announcement was made
by the club’s president, Mrs.
Arthur L. Jennings.
Noted Texas artist E. M.
(Buck) Schiwetz painted the 14-
by-18 inch watercolor, entitled
“View of Old Morgan Point.” An
accompanying plaque will read
“Dedicated to the memory of Joe
Biggs Wilson ’69 by Texarkana
Area Mothers Club.”
Wilson died Oct. 24, 1965, from
burns suffered in a car wreck
October 15 while he was in Fort
Worth for a corps trip. Another
occupant of the car, Wayne Wer-
dung, of O’Fallon, 111., died one
day later as a result of the acci
dent.
Wilson was a member of Squad
ron 7.
Mrs. Jennings said Wilson’s
parents will be present at the
ceremony, which is scheduled for
9:30 a.m. A representative of
the MSC Council and Directorate
will accept the painting.
Senate Needs
3rd Year Vet
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
The search for a third-year vet
student goes on.
Election Commission Chairman
Harris Pappas said Thursday the
Student Senate College Election
ballot is still without a candidate
for third-year veterinary medi
cine representative.
“The filing for this office will
remain open until we have a can
didate,” Pappas said.
Fifty-four students had previ
ously filed for 16 Senate seats.
They included the following:
Agriculture senior — Chester
Shmoldas. Juniors — Weldon
Bollinger, James Sanders, Ken
neth M. Robison, Edgar L. Ohlen-
dorff. Sophomores — Bill Carter,
Gary Scheer.
Liberal Arts seniors — Pete
Garza, Larry Heitman, George W.
Long, Jim Lane. Juniors — Wil
liam L. Goode, Joseph P. Webber,
Art Vandaven, Michael Noonan.
Sophomores — Michael E. Carey,
James H. Willbanks, Willard R.
Bryant, Richard C. Eads.
Science Seniors — Richard H.
Franklin, James L. Lyle, Edward
L. Moreau, Samuel M. Scott III,
Robert L. McLeroy. Juniors —
Kenneth D. Kennerly, Sanford T.
Ward, Wayne J. Baird. Sopho
mores — James A. Mobley, Mi
chael R. Long, Ralph Rayburn.
Geosciences seniors — Randy
T. Andes. Juniors — John C.
Thomas.
Engineering seniors — Philip
Newton, David Woodard, Mike
Tower, Gerald Teel, Fred J.
Wright, Darrell Campbell. Jun
iors — Brian Wolfe, Don Smith,
John Corcoran, Joseph Norman,
Eldon Tipping, Richard Adams,
Leon E. Travis III, Frank W. Til
ley. Sophomores — Arthur Lane,
William Howell Jr., Donald Swof-
ford, Lawrence C. Schilhab Jr.,
John Rowan, Steve Bourne.
Veterinary Medicine, second
year — Doug Matthews. First
year — Kenneth D. Cantrell.
Elections are scheduled for
Thursday.
dividual and unit awards at that
time.
Visitors will hear the Texas
Aggie Band and be welcomed and
honored by A&M President Earl
Rudder, the Student Senate and
the Civilian Student Council.
The Aggie Mother Award will
be awarded to ^rs. Overton,
whose name was placed in nomi
nation by her son, Michael Over-
ton, First Battalion staff senior.
Mrs. Overton has worked as a
substitute teacher, chairman for
the March of Dimes Tuberculosis
Drive, newswriter for her home
town paper, Sunday school teach
er, president of a hospital auxili
ary group and a long-time fan of
the Texas Aggies.
The Moore Awards to the out
standing cadet unit is based upon
military proficiency, scholastics,
intramural activity, extracurricu
lar participation and retention of
freshmen.
The award is named after
George F. Moore, who in 1945,
four years before his death, was
honored for “distinguished serv
ice in the U. S. Army, for dis
tinguished service as the com
mandant of cadets and professor
of military science, for heroic
service in the defense of Corregi-
dor, and for loyalty and devotion
to duty in peace as in war.”
Awards will also be presented
to the outfits which have the
highest scholastic average, the
best record in intramurals and
the top marching ratings.
After time out for religious
services and lunch for parents at
Duncan Dining Hall, there will
be a Corps review at 2 p.m. on
the main drill field, a freshman
drill team performance at 2:30
p.m., open house in cadet dormi
tories until 4:30 and Ross Volun
teer special drill on the main drill
field at 3:30.
Ring Dance Tickets
Go On Sale Monday
Tickets for the Senior Banquet
and Ring Dance go on sale Mon
day at the Student Programs Of
fice in the lower level of the
Memorial Student Center.
The May 21 affair will feature
humorist Newt Hielscher as ban
quet guest speaker, with the Bud
dy Brock Orchestra providing
music for the formal ball.
Banquet tickets are $4 a cou
ple; dance ducats are $5. One
picture costs $1.50, with an ad
ditional $1 for a second print.
The banquet is scheduled for
6:30 p.m. in Duncan Hall. The
dance is set for 8:30 p.m. in Sbisa
Hall.
First Bank & Trust now pays
4%% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
GREAT ISSUES SPEAKER
Undersea photographer Harry Pederson narrates his color
film on the Bahama Island during the Great Issues presen
tation Thursday night.
DOMINICAN AGRICULTURALISTS ARRIVE
. . . President Rudder greets Minister of Agriculture Silvestre Alba de Moya.
Dominican Ag Officials
To Study Farm Programs
Diplomat Team
To Present
Career Panel
Four senior officials from the
U. S. State Department will
answer questions on foreign prob
lems, policy and programs in a
Great Issues career panel pres
entation at 8 p.m. in the Assembly
Room of the Memorial Student
Center.
Speakers include David H.
McKillop, director of the office
of Western European Affairs and
Josiah Bennett, deputy director in
the Office of East Asian affairs.
Other officials will be Edward
W. Holmes, watch officer in the
operations center of the Depart
ment qf State; Jack B. Kubisch,
director of the office of Brazilian
affairs, and Miss Mary Manches
ter from the Office of Public
Services.
Earlier in the day the officers
met with A&M military science
classes, high school assemblies
and civic groups, as well as an
appearance on KBTX television
in Bryan.
Bennett was in Nanking, China
at the time it fell to the Chinese
Communists, and McKillip was in
Hamburg, Germany as consul at
the end of World War II.
Twenty-six Dominican Republic
agricultural leaders, including
Minister of Agriculture Silves
tre Alba de Moya, arrived at
Easterwood Airport Thursday to
begin a three week study and
tour of Texas A&M-sponsored
farm programs.
The group will spend most of
its time looking at A&M’s two
largest efforts in agricultural de
velopment programs: The Black-
land Income Growth (BIG) and
Build East Texas (BET) proj
ects. Goal of the programs is
area income improvement on a
self-help basis.
Dr. Jack Gray, director of in
ternational programs, said the
Dominicans will observe BIG and
BET in action to determine if
some of the features can be
adapted to agricultural improve
ment plans in their home coun
try.
Other high agricultural offi-
fials in Moya’s party include
Miguel A. Cestero, vice minister
of agricultural production and
marketing; Joaquin Azar Garcia,
supervisor of agricultural ex
tension, and Sirio Jenssen, Bara-
hona Branch manager, Agricul
tural Bank.
Several of the Dominicans will
have family members along,
bringing the total number of
visitors to 29.
The Dominicans will meet Sat
urday morning with Dr. R. E.
Patterson, dean of agriculture,
who will explain BIG and BET
organization. Friday and Mon
day they will meet with faculty
members and tour the Plant Sci
ences Building, Foundation Seed
Laboratory, Soil Testing Center,
Dairy Center and the Agricul
tural Experiment Station. J. E.
Roberts, A&M farms manager,
is tour leader.
The visitors will split into
three groups and leave Tuesday
for the BIG and BET areas. Each
group will visit eight countries.
Tour leaders are John Box of
College Station, BIG coordinator,
and Jim Mallett of Mt. Pleasant,
BET coordinator, both of the Tex
as Agricultural Extension Serv
ice.
Gray said the Dominicans will
return to A&M May 20 for furth
er studies before visiting sub
units of the Agricultural Experi
ment Station. They will leave
for the Dominican Republic May
27.
12 Semifinalists Chosen
In Vanity Fair Contest
Twelve girls have been selected semifinalists for the 1966
Vanity Fair, Aggieland Editor Bob Heger has announced.
Semifinalists include Whitney Vickers, Carol Cater, Donna
LeBlanc, Beverly Brown, Rosemary Mauk, Janna Durard, Kay
Arnold, Sharon Lane, Patti Dye, Nancy Rhodes, Norene Dalton and
Jane Ramsey.
The six finalists will be chosen at the Student Publications Ban
quet May 20 and will be announced at the Ring Dance the following
night.
The purpose of the Aggieland-sponsored contest is to choose
the six most beautiful sweethearts or wives nominated by members
of the senior class. The senior class selects no single sweetheart.
According to Heger, the 12 semifinalists were selected by a
team of unprejudiced individuals.
Showing more than
Franks as the 12th Fairy in this scene from
the Aggie Follies. And with little wonder.
For being manhandled by the Baddies are
damsels Jan Gannaway, left, and Frances
CAPED CRUSADER CAVORTS
mild shock is Bud Flynn. The Aggie
Players presentation
runs tonight and tomorrow in Guion Hall.
Curtain time is 8 p. m. and admission price
is $1.