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THE BATTALION Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 7, 1966 Pettit To Join Plant Sciences Staff Dr. Robert E. Pettit, formerly of the University of Missouri, has joined the Texas A&M De partment of Plant Sciences as an assistant professor. Dr. R. E. Patterson, A&M dean of agriculture, said the new staff member’s special research field is peanut diseases. He also will teach two graduate courses in dis eases of fruits, vegetables and ornamentals, and bacterial plant diseases. He received his BS degree in education in 1955, MA in plant physiology in 1960 and his doctor ate in plant pathology this spring, all from the University of Mis souri. Stage Center Continues Membership Drive The charter membership drive of StageCenter, Inc., community theater organization foi' this area, has been extended through the last performances of the melodrama “Dirty Work at the Crossroads,” which will be presented at 8 p.m. starting tonight and running un til Saturday at the Triangle Ball room. The membership booth, staffed by people on the membership com mittee, is at the entrance near the ticket counter at the Triangle. For more information, contact Mrs. Littian Dupuy or Mrs. Melvin Rotsch at either 822-7314 or 846- 7175. Tickets are still available for the melodrama at Shaffers’ Uni versity Book Store. Ofcarcik Wins Scholarship Ralph Ofcarcik of South Hadley Falls, Mass., horticulture student at Texas A&M, has been named winner of a 1966 Burpee Award of $100. The honor is based on under graduate scholarship and leader ship and is provided by the Burpee • Seed Company of Chicago, 111. • Dr. M. E. Bloodworth, head of the A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences presented the award to Ofcarcik. Mixon Moves To Tech School W. A. Mixon, instructor in water and seweage works opera tion for the Texas A&M Engi neering Extension Service for 13 years, will join Connally Techni cal Institute in August. Mixon will teach in the insti tute’s water utility operations program. He came to A&M in 1953 from the city engineer’s of fice in Denton. Transfers Receive Merit Award Aid Ten Merit Award Scholarships have been awarded junior college transfers to Texas A&M for the next two years. Recipients were among the top 10 per cent of their class. The $300-a-year stipends were award ed on scholastic record basis and renewable yearly on a 2.0 grade point ratio condition. The annual award is financed through Development Fund gifts. A&M’s Faculty Scholarship Com mittee selected recipients. Named for merit awards by Student Aid Director Robert M. Logan were Blinn Junior College graduates Tom Doerr of Carmine and Gary Maruska of Taylor; Texas Southmost graduates Terry Hatchett, San Benito, and Ger ald Clark, Brownsville; Tyler Jun ior College, Dale Caffey and Doyle Starnes, Mineola. Also Wharton County Junior College, Larry Ermis, Louise; Schreiner Institute, Edward Marrs, Kerrville; Hill Junior Col lege, Walter Williams, Rio Vista, and Temple Junior College, Rich ard Machalek, Temple. Bates Returns From Argentina C. H. Bates of Texas A&M has returned to the campus after more than two years of advisory work in Argentina. McIntyre To Show Slides Of Russia Dr. John A. McIntyre of Texas A&M will show slides of his trip to Soviet Russia Monday in a National Science Foundation sum mer institute lecture. The physics professor has made several addresses concerning his 1965 invited lecture tour of U.S. S.R. The upcoming presentation, at 8 p.m. in Room 146 of the Phy sics Building, will include for the first time numerous photographs he made. “These pictures are the best I’ve seen of life in Russia,” com mented NSF coordinator C. M. Lloyd. McIntyre, associate director of research for A&M’s Cyclotron In stitute, made four addresses in Dubna laboratories, which house the world’s largest cyclotron, a 120-inch facility. Photos to be shown include street scenes, shots inside a state-owned department store, and other representations of Russian life. “Dr. McIntyre was given the VIP treatment,” Lloyd noted. “Usually they take cameras away from people or object to many pictures, but such was not the case with his visit.” Bates was formerly Extension Service farm-ranch management specialist in the A&M Depart ment of Agricultural Economics and Sociology. In Argentina, he served as agricultural Extension advisor to the National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Min istry of Agriculture, under the Texas A&M- U. S. Agency for International Development project in that country. Bates was accompanied by his wife, Corrine, on his tour of duty. A. C. McGee, also of the A&M Department of Agricultural Eco nomics and Sociology, went to Ar gentina on the same project with Bates and will return to the cam pus in August. 9 Pakistan Farmers To Study Here Nine Pakistan farmers and agricultural leaders arrived here Tuesday night as part of a United States tour to study American farming systems and land-grant university organization. Their trip is sponsored through the Farm Leader Exchange Pro gram of Farmers and World Af fairs, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. Participants from East and West Pakistan are tMumtazuddin Ahmed, Mian Mumtaz Ali, Karim- dad Junejo, Abdul Satar Kham Mahmand, Mohammad Khan Kha- kwani, S. Golam Mohiuddin, Syed Mohiuddin Ahmed, Syed Salim Shah, and Dr. Nawsher Alit Ta- lukder. Poultry Science Profs To Tour In Europe Dr. J. H. Quisenberry and Dr. J. R. Couch of the Texas A&M Department of Poultry Science will participate in conference and tours this summer that will take them to England, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Aus tria and Russia. A trip highlight is the World Poultry Congress Aug. 15-20 at Kiev, Russia, where both men will present papers. Quisenberry will talk on “Feed-To-Food Pro tein Conversion” and Couch’s topic is “Guar Meal in Chick and Laying Hen Diets.” Couch also will give a paper titled “The Hypocholesterolemic Activity of Guar Gum in Chicks” during the Seventh International Congress of Nutrition Aug. 3-10 in Hamburg, Germany. Quisenberry, accompanied by his wife, will leave Aug. 4 to par ticipate in poultry tours near such cities as Brussels, Stockholm, Co penhagen, Moscow, Vienna and Paris before returning on Aug. 26. Couch will talk with poultry researchers and present seminars in England, Germany, Spain and Belgium. He will return to Col lege Station in Aug. 24. Top Instructors To Teach Here Four visiting professors and Texas A&M vice president for programs John C. Calhoun will instruct second summer session courses in the Department of Education and Psychology. Calhoun, petroleum engineering professor, performed work for de grees through the Ph.D. at Penn sylvania State College. He will instruct a new course, administra tion of higher education, for doc toral students. Visiting professors include Dr. Linus J. Dowell of Arkansas State College; Dr. B. L. William son, Southwest Texas State; Dr. Oliver Mionk, Port Neches-Groves High School, and Mrs. Sue Loew, Bryan (S. F. Austin). Dowell will instruct a course in statistics and educational re search. He will join the A&M faculty fulltime Sept. 1, taking a post in the Department of Health and Physical Education. Williamson, SWTSC assistant professor and former principal at Pease Elementary in Odessa, will teach elementary education. 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