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SAFE AS COFFEE PALACE NOW SHOWING Features 1:36 - 4:08 - 6:40 - 9:12 “THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINE ,, LAST DAY Dean Martin In “SILENCERS” STARTS TOMORROW James Garner In “H MAN COULD GET KILLED” , '.,111 QUIN UfcDm? YfABS fRft 2 Peter Seller’s Hits “SHOT IN THE DARK” & “PINK PANTHER” CIRCLE TONIGHT 7:15 P. M. “SHANE” & “DISORDERLY ORDERLY” 1 Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 11, 1966 THE BATTALI^DN Aggies Learn To Snorkel In SCUBA Driving School Oceanic subjects don’t necessar ily have to be taught in the ocean. Neither do marine students need webb feet. “Landlubbers” of varying di mensions are being taught snor kel ing and diving techniques at Texas A&M, at least a 100-mile crow’s flight from the briney deep. Among the flatlanders enrolled is Ernest Knowles of Ogden, Utah, an arid city nearly 1,500 miles from the Pacific. Knowles actually is more of a “Sea Dog” than many people who A&M System Receives Grants Two schools in the Texas A&M University System have been awarded grants from the Robert A. Welch Foundation in Houston to purchase $78,300 in research equipment. The 10 projects were announced Monday by foundation trustees. Texas A&M received $59,300 for eight chemical research inves tigations. Prairie View A&M was given $19,000 for two projects. Principal researchers at A&M include Dr. J. M. Prescott, Dr. Ralph A. Zingaro, Dr. Alfred Danti, Dr. Richard M. Hedges, Dr. Carl M. Lyman, Dr. John A. Mc Intyre, Dr. Dwight C. Conway and Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr. Prairie View’s researchers are Dr. C. T. Stubblefield and Dr. Charles E. Urdy. All funds will be used to pur chase new test equipment. Prof Presents Science Paper Dr. Ronald Darby of the De partment of Chemical Engineer ing presented a paper at a na tional meeting of the Electro chemical Society. The assistant professor’s paper, titled “Bubble Dynamics,” con cerned principles of bubble nu- cleation, growth in nucleate boil ing and at gas-evolving electrodes and systems comparisons. Range Club Elects Officers Billy M. Hood, a range science major from Tyler, has been elect ed president of the Range and Forestry Club for the 1966-1967 school year. Dan Henard, Jr. of Wellington was elected vice president and grew up near the wharfs. He spent five years in the U. S. Navy, three as a gunnery officer on a destroyer. Students in the 10-week course range from fish-like to brick-like swimmers, chief instructor Don Walsh notes. SCUBA diving is application of self controlled breathing apparatus in the water. “Those who complete the course are not to be compared with Lloyd Bridges (of TV “Sea Hunt” fame),” Walsh grinned. “They learn basic safety, potential dan gers of diving and limits of Dwight Harkey of San Saba, sec retary-treasurer. Other officers are Dennis Keil- ers of Austin, reporter; Jim Mil ler of NoCona, social chairman, and Steve Holtz of Seguin, Agri cultural Council representative. Prof To Teach In Pakistan School Architecture professor Robert F. White will teach landscape architecture this summer at the East Pakistan University of En gineering and Technology. School of Architecture Chair man Edward J. Romieniec will visit the university for three weeks in July to study possible short-term assistance by A&M in the architectural program. Alpha Pi Mu Chooses Officers Alpha Pi Mu, the national hon or society of the Department of Industrial Engineering, began preparation for next year with the election of officers. The new officers are Mike Barnes, president; Jim Talley, vice-president; Stan Suigita, cor responding secretary; Gary Car ey, Treasurer; and Sidney Brown, recording secretary. Bulletin Board Laredo Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks Room of the YMCA. Deep East Texas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Room of the Memorial Stu dent Center. El Paso Hometown Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Wehrman’s Cafe. v SCUBA equipment. The sea is darker and temperatures vary more than in a heated pool. The 30-hour non-credit diving school is designed for oceanogra phy and biology students who need the training in their profes sion. Except for knowledge which could someday save their lives, students receive only a wallet sized certificate as basic SCUBA divers. The serious work often pro duces humor. An instructor gave a hand slash across the throat signal underwater to his “buddy,” indicating an empty air tank. Usually, the “buddy” pulls a re serve valve on the tank to provide extra air. This time, the student quickly squelched the air com pletely. “Everything worked out all right,” Walsh chortled, “but it would have been embarrassing in 130 feet of water.” Students find “ditch and don” training most difficult. In the exercise, swimmers remove their equipment underwater, then put it on again. Twenty-eight persons in the course include two husband-wife teams: Rick and Shary Brown, Fred and Molly Boles, and a solo fern, Paula Forst, wife of ocean ography student Ron Forst. “All the women are doing well,” Walsh commented. “They are not strong swimmers, but they learn fast and work hard. Fifty to 60 pounds of equipment gets heavy.” Walsh, a Navy lieutenant com mander on active duty to study physical oceanography, is cohold er of the world record for deepest ocean dive in the Bathsycaph Trieste. Students use their own flippers, divers masks and snorkeling gear. Oxygen tanks are provided. Walsh promotes enrollment with this blurb: “All the water you can drink for $15.” Ag Professor Joins Faculty Dr. Edward A. Hiler, formerly of Ohio State University, has joined the Department of Agri cultural Engineering as an assist ant professor. Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of agriculture, said the new staff member will research and teach primarily in water management control. Hiler received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Ohio State. Research for his doctoral pro gram, under National Science Foundation sponsorship, was on “Electrokinetic Removal of Col loids from Suspension.” Part of the engineer’s research in Ohio was with the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Cen ter in Cincinnati and involved problems in measuring organic contaminants in river water. He later worked at Wooster with Dr. Ross Brazee at the Pioneering Research Laboratory on Physics of Fine Particles. Collegians Enter 17th Aggie Rodeo Around 150 contestants will compete in the 17th annual Texas A&M Rodeo at 8 p.m. Thursday through Friday in the Aggie Ro deo Arena. The collegiate rodeo will pre sent competition in bareback bronc riding, bull riding, girls barrel racing, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, ribbon roping, girls goat tying and steer wrestling. Tickets may be purchased for $1.25 for adults, $1 for students, and 50 cents for children. They are on sale at the MSC, the Dun can dining hall, North Gate and in front of the post office. HERE’S HOW . . . Donald L. Durham gets a tip on clearing water-clogged ears from instructor Martin Every. Campus Briefs MinlctArt Supplj 'pidUiAe, ptoMof J13 So. Col l«g« Av«-Bry«A ( Tt*< Authorized Dealer for VOLKSWAGEN Graduating Senior’s New 1966 Volkswagen’s Bank Rates 100% Financing Hickman Garrett Motors 1701 S. College 822-0146 Th< ed si patie the ^ Fr( younj ward: ister try 6 sister Boi daugl Wells ted ] Lee I ting Jessie from Bark: )n« da: If I Supervision Seminar Slated May 23-27 A general supervision seminar May 23-27 is expected to attract 25 persons. Chief Instructor W. B. Mans field of the Engineering Exten sion Service said his staff will teach principles, working with people, effective communication, methods improvement and em ploye training. 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