A&M’s New Look
Girls,
Girls...
SUMMER SCHOOL BRINGS OUT NEW LOOK AT AGGIELAND
...girls captured at Cain Swimming Pool are, from left, Suzann Ranson, Evelyn Logan, Melinda Burleson and Karen Thompson. (Photo by Battalion Photographer Herky Killingsworth. More Photos on page 4).
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1966
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Number 324
Schools
Get OK
In TOP
Texas Opportunity Plan loans
for students in area public and
private colleges and universities
will be available for the 1966 fall
semester.
Coordinating board officials met
with student aid officers at Texas
A&M University Thursday to im
plement the $85 million program
authorized by Constitutional a-
mendment in November.
A&M, Allen Military Academy,
Prairie View A&JM, Mary Allen
Junior College at Crockett and
Blinn Junior College loan person
nel met with C. R. Gahagan and
Walter Guttman of the board in
a day-long workshop to learn
TOP loan procedures.
To qualify for loans, students
must be Texas residents, enrolled
or accepted for enrollment with at
least one-half course load, show
need, be recommended by specifi
ed persons of his home commun
ity and comply with other estab
lished board requirements.
Financial need must show the
applicant has insufficient resourc
es to pay for his college educa
tion. Recommendations must be
furnished by two reputable per
sons, including the student’s high
school principal or counselor.
Undergraduate loans may not
exceed $1,000 per nine month
semester, nor an aggregate
amount of $5,000. Graduate stu
dent limits are $1,500 and $7,500.
Student loan officers will deter
mine actual amounts.
The board has set a six per cent
interest rate on repayment, begin
ning four months after the student
is last enrolled. Repayment will
be made monthly directly to the
board. Final recommendation is
by loan officers. The board com
missioner will authorize all loans.
Inquiries should be made to
the student loan officer of the col
lege the student plans to attend.
Application forms will be avail
able in early July.
“A list of participating schools
will be published as soon as all
agreements are filed,” Gahagan
said. “We expect to have almost
100 per cent participation.” The
board f o r S e e s 15,000 loans
amounting to $4 million this year.
Accident Claims
A&M Student’s Life
Texas A&M student W. W.
Compton was killed Sunday in an
automobile accident near Llano,
Texas.
Compton was a freshman elec
trical engineering student the
past school year and a member
of the Maroon Band.
Compton’s parents reside in
Sheridan, Texas, and he was re
ported to have been working for
Shell Oil Co. in Llano at the time
of the accident.
Carpenter Foreman Frank Smith of Texas A&M’s Build
ings and Utilities Department inspect two desk tops.
One illustrates the creative art of students, the other a
revamped top of laminated plastic. Almost $100,000 will
be spent by A&M this summer to put facilities in order
for fall enrollment.
Clean-Up Project
Starts On Campus
Painters, carpenters, plasterers
and janitors are swarming over
the Texas A&M campus this sum
mer.
They are principals in a $94,-
000 renovation program to put
campus facilities in top condition
for the expected 11,000 fall stu
dents.
Walter H. Parsons Jr., A&M’s
Physical Plant director, projected
the expenditures and outlined
work to be completed by mid-
September.
Dormitory renovations heads
the list of work for crews of
building maintenance superin
tendent Melvin Hartsfield and
operations superintendent O. O.
Haugen.
Parsons said $67,000 of paint
ing, plastering and repairs is
scheduled for Aggieland dormi
tories. Milner, Law, Puryear,
Leggett and Mitchell halls are
due minor plastering and paint
ing. Walton Hall will undergo
repair for a floor crack.
Dormitory 21 is to have its
outside wall resealed in addition
to interior painting.
Carpenters also will build a
number of hog houses and pens
for research projects of the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine.
Parsons noted $25,000 is
budgeted for new faculty-staff
officers. Rooms 110, 114, 302
and 312 of Nagle Hall will be
rebuilt for offices, as will Room
405 of the Academic Building,
and Rooms 107 and 303 of Fran
cis Hall.
Temporary classrooms are be
ing constructed in Building “K”.
Rooms 206 and 405 of the Engi
neering Building, 103 of Agricul
tural Engineering, and 101, 104
and 106 of Plant Sciences are be
ing converted to classrooms, Par
sons added.
Other Building and Utilities’
employes are repairing 1,000 tab
let-arm chairs. Parsons revealed
many of the tablet arms have
been severely damaged through
the years by students who pre
ferred “creative” art, whittling or
doodling to taking notes. For
mica laminated tops are replac
ing old-style wooden tops.
The project will cost about
$2,000, Parsons estimated. He
announced plans for reworking
approximately 1,000 tablet-arm
desks during the next three
years.
One hundred and thirty cus
todial employes comprise a task
force for cleaning dormitories
and general purpose buildings.
Parsons said each dormitory is
getting a thorough cleaning.
General purpose buildings are
getting similar treatment, he
said, with cleaning of pipe vents,
transoms and ducts included.
Other employes are assigned
to moving and exchanging furni
ture for offices and classrooms
being relocated.
First Bank & Trust now pays
4%% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
Registration Starts
For Blood Program
FIRST TO REGISTER
. . . Virginia Patterson, left, registers for the special blood
drive as Don Allen, drive chairman, looks on.
Phillips Petroleum Fund Gives
$4,000 Grant For Development
De Ware
Picked
As Site
By GERALD GARCIA
Battalion Editor
Registration started at 1
p. m. today and will continue
until Tuesday for the special
summer blood drive spon
sored by the Student Sen
ate’s Welfare committee.
Don Allen, committee chair
man, said persons interested in
giving a pint of blood June 29-30
should call the Student Programs
Office in the Memorial Student
Center from 1-9 p.m. until Tues
day.
“We are conducting this drive
because there is a critical short
age of blood,” Allen said. “We
want donations not only from the
students but from the communi
ty.”
The drive will be conducted by
the Wadley Research Foundation
of Dallas, which directs spring
blood campaigns at Aggieland.
“We want to emphasize that
the people will be giving not only
to help the Aggies, but to help
themselves,” Allen emphasized.
“Each contributor will establish
a blood account for his family.
“All community donors will re
ceive the same protection as Ag
gies through the foundation.
Should the blood not be used by
the donor or his family within a
year, it will be given to help save
the lives of children suffering
from leukemia.
Site for the blood collection is
DeWare Field House and collect
ing will start at 7:30 p.m. daily.
Alpha Phi Omega National
Service Fraternity, which has co
sponsored the annual spring blood
drive, will assist with the special
drive.
Gene Pollard, APO member,
urges all members of the fra
ternity to sign in the MSC Senate
office for times they will be
available to work, and to leave
their summer addresses on the
APO board in the YMCA.
The regular spring program
has been in effect here for nine
of the past 10 years. More than
3,500 units of blood have been
collected.
The Wadley Research Institute
and Blood Bank was established
as a non-profit organization by
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wadley in
memory of their grandson, who
died of leukemia. It exists solely
from gifts and research grants.
A $4,000 grant by the Phillips
Petroleum Company Professional
Development Fund has been
awarded to Texas A&)M, Presi
dent Earl Rudder announced.
The Phillips fund supports pro
fessional growth and development
of students and faculty in engi
neering, physical sciences mathe
matics, statistics and business ad
ministration.
A&M’s chemical, mechanical,
electrical,^ petroleum, civil, indus
trial and chemistry departments,
Colleges of Geoscience and Busi
ness Administration and Place
ment Office will benefit from the
grant, indicated Phillips officials
M. R. Hayes and James P. Jones
of Bartlesville, Okla.
“It is our desire that funds be
used to reward outstanding stu
dent leaders and deserving young
faculty members,” said Hayes,
general services department man
ager.
Stipends will be administered
by deans and department heads
for student and faculty awards,
fees for off-campus professional
societies meetings, “visiting speak
ers expenses, on-campus high
school counselors and teachers
programs and purchase of refer
ence, technical or professional
publications for departmental use.
A&M was selected as one of
the first fund participants for
1966-67. Amounts awarded are
related to number of graduates
employed by Phillips and future
recruitment potential.
Room reservation cards for the
fall semester are now available
in the Housing Office, reports
Allan M. Madeley, Housing Man
ager.
This procedure only applies to
students who expect to live in a
dormitory and have not yet sign
ed up for a room.
Students who entered as fresh-
Architect
Unit Gets
4 Profs
Four new assistant professors
in Texas A&M’s School of Archi
tecture have been announced by
Chairman Edwax-d J. Romieniec.
Appointments are effective Sept.
1.
They include:
Michael Schneider of Minnea
polis, Minn., now working in de
velopment of a building complex
for alcoholics in that city. He
eaxmed a bachelor of fine arts de
gree at the University of Minnea-
sota, a bachelor of architecture at
Harvard University, and a mas
ters of architecture at Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
A practicing ai'chitect, Schneid
er has done extensive research in
rehabilitation programs for alco
holics.
Robert Nichols of Boston, now
doing research work for Buck
minster Fuller, an internationally-
known architect in structural com
ponents for buildings. Nichols has
a bachelors degree in industrial
design from Illinois Institute of
Technology and a bachelor of
architecture degree from Har
vard.
Nichols has extensive research
experience in the Chicago and
Boston areas.
John Exley of La Grande, Ore.,
currently a practicing architect
in La Grande. Exley earned a
B.S. in landscape architecture at
the University of Oregon and an
M.S. in landscape architecture
from Harvard. He has varied
experience with nationally known
architects.
George Mann of New York, N.
Y., now a research architect spe
cializing in hospital design. Ho
has a bachelors degi’ee in archi
tecture and a masters in architec
ture and public health facilities
from Columbia. Mann has expei’-
ience with major firms in the
East. At A&M, he will work in
hospital research at the Graduate
Research Center.
men in June should fill out blue
cards and upperclassmen should
fill out buff cards. Students who
have a $20 deposit on file will not
have to pay any additional fees
to reserve rooms for the fall.
Students who have already
made reservations are reminded
that Aug. 15 is the deadline for
cancellation.
Room Reservation Cards Available