The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 16, 1966, Image 5

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Campus Briefs
Shafer, Hicks
Win Scholarships
Leroy Shafer of Trent and
Howard Davis Hicks of Bandera,
agricultural students at Texas
A&M, have been named recipients
of Danforth Leadership Training
Scholarships.
Shafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.
Shafer, is a senior in agricultural
journalism. Hick is a freshman
in agricultural economics and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Hicks.
The award goes annually to the
university’s outstanding fresh
man and senior in the College of
Agriculture.
The scholarship involves sev
eral weeks at the American
Youth Foundation Leadership
Training Camp at Stony Lake,
Mich. Shafer will attend from
July 31 to Aug. 28, and Hicks
from Aug 15-28. Ralston Purina
Company of Saint Louis, Mo., is
the sponsor.
Hocking Presents
Paper At Workshop
Dr. Ronald R. Hocking of Texas
A&M’s Institute of Statistics pre
sented a paper at an IBM Re
search Center workshop Tuesday
in Yorktown Heights, N. Y. His
paper, “Convex Programming,”
was heard by a special interest
group of the Computing Machin
ery Association.
Today and Friday Hocking is
lecturing at a University of Con
necticut short course on optimiza
tion techniques.
Vet School Adds
Three To Staff
Three new faculty members
have joined the Texas A&M Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine.
They are Dr. W. A. Wolff,
assistant professor, who received
his DVM and MS degrees from
Colorado State University; Dr.
D. R. Howard, instructor, DVM
from Michigan State University;
and Dr. K, W. Knauer, instructor,
with a DVM from Purdue Uni
versity.
The veterinarians will teach in
the Department of Veterinary
Medicine and Surgery.
House Attending
Confab In Virginia
Dr. William C. House of Texas
A&M is attending a Conference
on Management Information Sys
tems in Arlington, Va.
Sponsored by C-E-I-R, Inc., the
conference covers soft and hard
ware requirements for informa
tion systems, systems analysis
and design, data organization, in
formation storage and retrieval
and real time processing. C-E-I-R
is a private organization per
forming economic and develop
ment research primarily for the
government.
House, assistant professor in
the School of Business Manage
ment Department, will attend
with data processing managers
and educators from throughout
the country.
Two Staff Members
Teach In Colorado
Two Texas A&M staff members
are teaching in the National
Summer School for Extension
Workers at Colorado State Uni
versity.
Robert G. Cherry, assistant to
A&M President Earl Rudder, is
instructing “Principles in the
Development of Agricultural
Policy,”
Extension Sociologist Reagan
V. Brown teaches a course on
"Principles of Human Behavior,”
Extension workers from the
U. S., Canada and foreign coun
tries attend the school supported
ky land grant colleges and private
organizations.
Personnel Meet
For TOP Workshop
Area student assistance per
sonnel meet at Texas A&M today
for a Texas Opportunity Plan
Workshop.
Personnel from Blinn Junior
College, Sam Houston State,
Allen Military Academy and
others will closet with the Texas
College and University Systems’
toordinating board, according to
Hobert M. Logan, A&M director
of student aid.
The meeting started at 9 a.m.
in the Faculty Room of the Coke
Building. C. R. Gahagan, student
financial aids, and coordinator
Bay Fowler of the board are
Principal speakers.
$1,500 Grant
Given To A&M
A $1,500 Fisher Governor Com
pany grant has been presented
Texas A&M for scholarships in
the chemical and mechanical en
gineering departments.
Scholarships for the 1966-67
school year of $500 each will be
given a junior or senior in the
upper third of his class. Addi
tional money will be divided to
the departments for equipment
or to assist other deserving stu
dents.
“The Foundation wants to
support universities which have
educated new engineers in our
company,” said company presi
dent J. W. Fisher. “A&M alumni
who are now employees of Fisher
Governor are of the highest
quality, and we are grateful to
the faculty for educating these
young men.”
Stokes Surveys
Morris Letters
Dr. E. E. Stokes, assistant
professor of English at Texas
A&M, is surveying Morris letters
in the University of Texas manu
script collection.
Stokes is doing the study for
the William Morris Society of
England.
The June issue of “The Shaw
Review” includes an article by
Stokes: “Continuing Checklist of
Shaviana.”
English Head Named
To Editorial Board
Dr. John Q. Anderson, Depart
ment of English head at Texas
A&M, has been named to the
edtorial board of an international
publication.
“Computer Studies in Verbal
Behavior and the Humanities” is
the title of the new quarterly to
be published by the Mouton Com
pany, The Hague, Netherlands,
in January, 1967.
Anderson will represent folk
lore on the board. Other areas
include arts, bibliography, class
ics, linguistics, literature, music,
philosophy, speech, sociology and
theater.
Sponsors are the Universities
of Kansas, Colorado and North
Carolina.
Ag Industry Leaders
To Meet Here June 27
More than 175 agricultural in
dustry leaders will meet at Texas
A&M June 27-28'to begin a com
prehensive study of the state’s
agriculture.
University President Earl Rud
der said the A&M Board of Direc
tors requested the study, sched
uled for completion late this year.
He said the Board believes the
project is necessary because of the
continuing importance of agri
culture to the Texas economy, its
increasing complexity, and the
state-wide responsibility of Texas
A&M to the industry.
“Staff members of the College
of Agriculture will assist in the
study in any way they are re
quested,” Dr. R. E. Patterson,
dean of the College, said. “A self-
study of our own program is
almost completed so that we can
provide the best possible assist
ance.”
Designed as an “agricultural
convocation,” the activities will
begin at 10 a.m. June 27. On
June 28, the leaders will organize
themselves into study committees.
Members of the project’s steer
ing committee are Robert Cooper
of Marlin; Roy B. Davis, Lub
bock; O. D. Dawson, Houston;
David G. Gault, Austin; B. J.
Gist, Abilene; and O. P. Leonard
of Fort Worth.
Othes are John Mathews, Abi
lene; Robert L. Melbern, Gates-
ville; Ralph Petersen, Danevang;
Frank Schuster, San Juan; John
Wells, Plano; Leo Witkowski,
Hereford; Fred Wulff, Jr.,
Brady; O, R. Crawford, Jasper;
and David Winterman of Eagle
Lake.
A&M Awarded
Water Grant
Texas A&M has been awarded
a $28,165 matching grant for
water resources and irrigation.
A&M Presdent Earl Rudder
announced the U. S. Office of
Water Resources Research award.
Dr. Ernest T. Smerdon, direc
tor of A&M’s Water Resources
Institute, said the grant is to
study resource use and economic
effects of irrigation water avail
able in Texas.
Smerdon said the two-year
project will begin July 1 under
principal investigators Fred
Schuier and Warren L. Trock.
Schn\er is an agricultural engi
neer in the Water Resources
Institute. Trock is an assistant
professor of agricultural eco
nomics and sociology.
Other personnel include two
professional people and two grad
uate assistants.
The project will be adminis
tered by the Water Resources
Institute.
Thursday, June 16, 1966
College Station, Texas
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