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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY JULY 14, 1966
Number 327
At Fallout Theater
Debut Set For 3 Shows
“LEAVE OF ABSENCE”
. . . cast members are, from left, Ann Ballinger and Kipp
Blair.
Road Show ’66 productions
will debut three plays at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the Fall
out Theater located in the
rear of Guion Hall.
Even though the three
shows have been presented in
the past, they will be making
their summer debut.
Scheduled for production
are “Leave of Absence” by
A&M student Frances Flynn,
“Sharon” by Kipp Blair and
“Who’s Hubie?”, written by
Sul Ross College Department
of English head Elton Miles.
Kirk Stewart will direct
two of the plays and Tim
Lane will direct “Sharon.”
Ten Aggie Players have
multiple castings and pro
duction jobs in Road Show
’66. Men participating include
Leon Green, Roger Williams,
Stewart, Lane and Blair. Fe
male parts are portrayed by
Cynthia Smith, Jan Ganna
way, Margaret Curtis, Ann
Ballinger and Carol Williams.
Lane said several other
bookings for Road Show ’66
are in the mill and perform
ances may be scheduled
throughout the summer.
“WHO’S HUBIE?”
. . . cast members are, from left, Kipp Blair, Leon Greene, Kirk Stewart. Mrs.
Margaret Curtis, Roger Williams and Cindy Smith.
“SHARON”
. cast member are, from left, Leon Greene and Jan Gannaway.
Firemen s
To Start
School
Sunday
Hospital Heads
Resign Posts
The director and associate director of Texas A&M’s
Student Health Service have resigned to accept similar
posts at Wisconsin State University.
Dr. Charles R. Lyons came to A&M in March,
1956 as superintendent of the hospital. He was pres
ident of the Southwestern Division of the American
College Health Association in 1961. He was cited in
1959 by The Battalion, A&M’s student newspaper, for
leadership in improvement of the university hospital.
Dr. Meredith Keller, a 37-year old native of Del
Rio, became associate director at the university hospi
tal last year after three years as a staff physician.
He is a graduate >of the University of Texas Medical
School.
Resignations of Lyons and Keller become effec
tive Aug. 31.
Dr. Kenneth Nelson, 59, a staff physician at A&M’s
hospital for nine years, has been named acting director.
Nelson came to A&M from Warroad, Minn., where he
was a general practioner. He earned his degree at
the University of Minnesota in 1937.
Announcement of the changes were made by A&M
President Earl Rudder.
At Wisconsin, the 50-year old Lyons will direct
health services for 9,000 students. The university
uses Mercy Hospital at Oshkosh for bed patients, but
provide clinic facilities on campus.
At Aggieland, Lyons emphasized clinical facili
ties, reducing hospital beds from 100 to 60.
“We have averaged 230 patients a day,” Lyons
commented. “It’s the job of our 30-employe staff
to keep boys in class, not in bed. Except for an Asian
Flu epidemic in 1957, we have never filled all beds.”
“That was our roughest time,” he recalled. “We
had no deaths, but there was some mighty sick boys.
We had 125 patients in bed for 10 days with tempera
tures averaging 104 degrees. To reduce fever, we
used ice packs. Our ice capacity was low, but we
used 1,000 pounds a day. Now, we have two auto
matic ice makers which can produce 500 pounds a day.
Lyons has been active in YMCA and civic affairs
in Bryan and College Station. He is a member of the
Brazos-Robertson County Medical Association and the
Texas and American Medical Associations.
Captive Pilot
Friends Defend Ray
The world’s largest firemen’s
training school comes ablaze Sun
day at Texas A&M.
Firefighters from virtually
every corner of the world are
expected to set a record enroll
ment of 2,200 for the 13-day
school. Registrants will include
representatives from 30 states
and seven foreign countries.
Texas, as usual, will provide
the largest number of students.
Henry D. Smith, chief of A&M’s
Firemen’s Training Division, said
467 Texas cities will send fire
men.
The two-pronged school is con
ducted by A&M’s Engineering
Extension Service under sponsor
ship of the State Firemen’s and
Fire Marshals’ Association in co
operation with the Texas Educa
tion Agency.
Firemen’s training will be
emphasized during the first week.
Industrial fire protection is on
tap July 24-29.
Registration begins at 9 a.m.
Sunday in the A&M Memorial
Student Center.
Eligible cities sending firemen
to the school earn key rate credits
totaling $250,000 annually.
Classes will be taught six hours
a day at Brayton Training Field
and on the main campus.
Instructors include 260 volun
teers and paid fire chiefs from
larger Texas cities and qualified
technical people from manufac
turing and industry.
The school utilizes more than
$300,000 in equipment and sup
plies provided by manufacturers,
distributors, industries, federal
and state agencies, and numer
ous Texas cities.
Twelve separate courses for
firefighters, fire marshals, train
ing instructors and officers,
pump maintenance and operations
specialists, armed services fire
protection, specialized protection,
and supervisory development are
taught simultaneously the first
week.
The school is no picnic for fire
men. All participants need boots,
helmets and bunker clothing for
strenuous sessions on the practice
field. Exercises are scheduled
daily in battling all types of fires,
including homes, gasoline and oil
storage facilities, airplanes and
motor vehicles.
Visitors’ day Wednesday will
give the public an opportunity to
watch firemen in action. State,
county and local government offi
cials will be guests of honor.
More than 3,000 persons wit
nessed firefighting demonstra
tions last year. A new record in
attendance is anticipated this
year. Demonstrations begin at
7:30 p.m. at Brayton Field near
A&M’s Easterwood Airport.
A banquet is scheduled in Sbisa
Hall at 5:30 p.m. on Visitors’
Day for firemen and special
guests.
Prof Says U. S.
Top In Radiation
The United States is doing
more radiation research than any
other major power, surmised
Texas A&M biologist Dr. Sidney
O. Brown after returning from
the third International Congress
of Radiation Research.
The Radiation Biology Lab
head was among four A&M rep
resentatives attending the six-
day congress at Cortina D’Ampez
zo in Italy. A&M presented five
papers — more than any other
university lab — at the 1,400-
scientist conclave.
All major countries including
several behind the Iron Curtain
were represented, Brown noted.
The U. S. sent 400 delegates.
Attending from A&M were
Drs. Brown and W. C. Banks, pro
fessor of veterinary medicine and
surgery. Former A&M radiation
biologists Drs. Jerry Hunter,
now at Texas Western, and E. W.
Hupp, Texas Woman’s Universi
ty, were present.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5 r /f per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
HENRY D. SMITH
PROFS
TO SEE
TRIPLE?
Professors at Texas A&M will
be seeing triple this fall.
The reason for the multiple
view is three Houston freshmen.
They are 18-year-old triplet sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Gur-
asich Sr., 1 1740 Duart Drive.
All three are winners of 4-
year Opportunity Award scholar
ships to Aggieland. Each will
receive $250 yearly.
Stephen William Jr. and Wil
liam George will study business
administration. John Francis
plans to pursue industrial engi
neering.
Awards were announced by
Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff,
faculty scholarship committee
chairman.
Stephen played basketball and
baseball at Strake Memorial
Jesuit College Preparatory
School. John was on the golf
team and William edited the
school newspaper.
This summer the trio is work
ing for Howard Johnson Motor
Lodge on Katy Road in Houston.
Friends of a former Texas A&M
student now imprisoned in North
Viet Nam jumped to his defense
Tuesday concerning a statement
attributed to him by Hanoi’s Viet
Nam News Agency.
Air Force 1st Lt. James E. Ray
of Conroe, a prisoner of the Viet
Cong since his F-105 aii'craft was
shot down in Lang Son Province
May 8, in a broadcast monitored
in Tokyo was quoted as saying:
“It is my hope that the struggle
of the valiant Vietnamese people
against these criminal and illegal
attacks over North Viet Nam in
the aggressive war carried on in
South Viet Nam by the U. S. will
prevail.”
One of the first to dispell the
quote was A&M President Earl
Rudder:
“As we know James at Texas
A&M, we do not think he would
make a statement like that. Mili
tary tx-aining is not compulsory at
A&M. James chose the Air Force
ROTC program to pxepare himself
to defend his country.”
Another A&M official who
knows Jamfes well is J. Wayne
Stark, director of the Memorial
Student Center.
“I don’t believe he confessed
to anything like that,” Stark said.
“James has a lot of intestinal for
titude. He thinks of others. In
1963, he went to Uganda via the
Operations Crossroads Africa Pro
gram, and helped build an out
patient clinic with students from
other countries.
"Axi anonymous fxdend loaned
James $500 without intexest,”
Staxk continued. He paid it back
shortly after entering the Air
Force. This year, shoi'tly before
he left for Viet Nam, James visit
ed on campus. I had been auth
orized to ask former MSC Coun
cil membexs for scholax-ship dona
tions for ovei'seas ti'ips — such as
Esten To Offer
Children Theater
Creative Dx-amatics, a course
in children theater being offered
this semester, will be repeated
during the second summer term,
C. K. Esten, director of the Aggie
Players, has announced.
The course, to include children
ages seven thx-ough nine, will be
gin Wednesday. Maxie Crook,
who has an M.F.A. in theater arts
from the University of Texas, is
the instructor for the course.
Classes during the second term
will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wed
nesdays and at 9 p.m. Saturdays.
Class are held at the Fallout
Theater in the rear of Guion
Hall.
The course is open both to chil
dren, who ax-e now taking the
first course, and others who have
not.
Pre-registration will continue
until classes begin. A small reg
istration fee is required.
Intei*ested pex-sons may contact
Esten at his office, 846-7404.
his to Uganda — for newly elected
MSC leaders. I asked for $5
or $10, but he gave $100.”
A fellow student, Bob Wimbish
of Wilfoxd, commexited: “James
was completely helpful. I woxked
with him on the MSC Great Is
sues Committee. He’s a serious-
minded person.”
Bob Boone, dix*ector of A&M’s
Singing Cadets, commented:
“James was always in a good
huxnor. He was never pushy. As
president of the council and di-
x’ectoi-ate, he never asked others
to do what he would not do him
self.”
Ray was graduated from A&M
in January, 1964, with a liberal
ai’ts degxee. His brother, Frank,
who is to gx-aduate from A&M
in 1967, is in the Air Fox-ce ROTC.
Frank x-eceived a letter from
his brother the day he leaxmed of
James’ captux-e. He took the
letter for Wayne Stark to read.
Stai'k had been given the missioxx
of telling Frank of James’ being
shot down.
James quipped in the letter:
“Thex-e is always a possibility I
can be shot down, but I under
stand they axe treating pxdsoners
faix-ly well at the Hanoi Hiltoxx.”
A&M Dean of Student James P.
Hannigan spoke about the cap
tured pilot:
“Jim always strived to pro
mote maximum participation. He
was energetic, active and had
high personal ideals. He helped
encourage others to their maxi
mum capabilities by example.”