— Special Freshmen Edition —
Che Battalion
Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966 Number 330
69 Candidates For DVM
Graduation
Set Friday
The Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine will gradu
ate one of its largest classes in
recent years when DVM degrees
are awarded to 69 seniors at 8
p.m. Friday in the Bryan Civic
Auditorium.
PRESIDENT EARL RUDDER
MAIN GATE ENTRANCE TO TEXAS A&M CAMPUS
. . . spreading over 5,200 acres, the campus is valued in excess of $70,000,000.
Zinn Named
To New Post
Bennie A. Zinn, director of stu
dent affairs at Texas A&M, has
been named associate dean of stu
dents.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan said Zinn will retain
his present title in addition to the
new responsibility. The appoint
ment is effective Sept. 1.
Zinn joined the A&M staff in
1945 after five years in the U. S.
Army. As associate dean, he
will coordinate dormitory coun
seling programs and assist Han
nigan in administrative work in
volving the University Hospital,
Corps of Cadets, Placement and
Student Aid, Memorial Student
Center, YMCA, Housing and
Campus Security.
A native of Temple, Zinn earn
ed a BS degree in education at
A&M in 1926 and added an MS
degree two years later. He did
special graduate work at North
Texas State.
Zinn is a member of the Texas
Association of Student Per
sonnel Administrators, South
western Association of Student
Personnel Administrators and the
Texas State Teachers Associa
tion.
Index For
The Battalion
This is the annual Freshman Edition of The
Battalion. This edition is designed to give the
incoming freshman and his parents a better in
sight into the history, traditions, scope, facilities
and academic quality of Texas A&M.
Many new students find it helpful to keep
this issue of “The Batt” and bring it with them
in September to help with the big job of getting
acquainted with the campus.
The first section includes current campus
and local news plus two stories on Silver Taps
which is considered the most solemn of all
Aggie traditions and a column which tells fresh
men some of the Do’s and Don’t’s of campus
traditions, majors and courses.
The second section is devoted to sports, in
cluding Aggie intercollegiate teams and the Kyle
Field expansion drive.
The third section deals with extra-curricular
life at A&M and discusses some of the school’s
many well-know traditions.
The final section is devoted to the admini
stration, facilities, services and history of A&M.
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Tessie Dance
Features Girls
Attention: Freshmen, Sopho
mores, Juniors, Seniors, and those
remaining Aggies. There’s go
ing to be a dance, with girls —
lots of girls — an entire college
of girls.
Aggies of all classes are invited
to an informal picnic and dance
at Texas Womans University in
Denton on Sept. 24 following the
opening of the fall semester. The
picnic will be held at 5 p.m. in
Lowry Woods and the dance,
starting at 8 p.m., will feature a
live band and will honor the fresh
men classes of both TWU and
Texas A&M.
The Sept. 24 informal dance
will last until midnight. The pic
nic features fried chicken and
lots of girls while the dance only
has lots of girls to offer.
Later in the year, there will be
a pre-corps trip dance before the
Nov. 4 SMU football game. By
attending the Sept. 24 dance, you
can have your date ready for the
SMU weekend.
Hunt Services
Set Saturday
Funeral services for Dr. Robert
L. Hunt, Sr., 69, professor emer
itus at Texas A&M who died
Tuesday night in Atlanta, Ga.,
will be held at 10:30 a.m. Satur
day in Hillier Funeral Chapel in
Bryan.
Dr. Hunt retired in 1962 after
34 years’ service in the Agricul
tural Economics and Sociology
Department. He started teaching
at Texas A&M in 1927. Hunt
earned a master’s degree at North
Carolina State College and a doc
torate at the University of Wis
consin after receiving a bache
lor’s degree at Texas A&M.
Dr. Hunt was the author of
several books, including “Farm
Management in the South.”
A&M President Earl Rudder
noted when Hunt was named pro
fessor emeritus that most of the
doctorates awarded in agricultur
al economics and sociology in the
past decade at A&M had been
under Dr. Hunt.
Mrs. Hunt is hospitalized at
Atlanta. Robert L. Hunt, Jr.,
assistant Texas 4-H Club leader,
is with his mother.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
One of those seniors will be
the college’s first woman gradu
ate — Mrs. Sonja Oliphant Lee,
of Poteet.
Commencement speaker is
Charles G. Scruggs of Dallas,
vice president and editor of “The
Progressive Farmer” magazine.
Dr. A. A. Price, dean of the
College of Veterinary Medicine,
said the graduating class is the
largest since the days when the
university was still crowded with
World War II veterans about 15
years ago.
Among the A&M officials who
will attend the ceremonies are
President Earl Rudder; Clyde H.
Wells of Granbury, vice president
of the A&M System Board of
Directors; Dr. Wayne C. Hall,
academic vice president and dean
of the Graduate College; and H.
L. Heaton, director of Admissions
and Registrar.
Price said Scruggs is widely
known in the agricultural indus
try and as a journalist. He was
born in 1923 at McGregor, and
as a high school student was
elected state president of the Tex
as Association of Future Farmers
of America and received the high
est degree of the national organi
zation, the American Farmer De
gree.
Scruggs was graduated from
A&M in 1947 with an agricultural
economics degree. He served as
an infantry officer in Europe dur
ing World War II and is now a
lieutenant colonel in the active
Army Reserve.
He was one of the founders and
seiyed as the first president of
the Southwest Animal Health Re
search Foundation, the organiza
tion that led the successful South
west Screwworm Eradication
Program. As a result, he re
ceived the Outstanding Service
Award of the Texas and South
western Cattle Raisers Associa
tion, the Spur Award by the
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers
Association, and was named Man
of the Year in Texas Agriculture
by the Texas County Agents As
sociation.
His other recent major awards:
ASTA Award as the outstand
ing U. S. agricultural writer,
1963, American Seed Trade Asso
ciation; Award of Honor for Dis
tinguished Service to Journalism,
American Agricultural Editors’
Association, 1963; Reuben Brig
ham Award, American Associa
tion of Agricultural College Edi
tors, 1965; and the Distinguished
Service Award, Young Farmers
of Texas, 1964.
President Rudder
Greets Freshmen
It is a sincere pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M University,
the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning. This in
stitution will play an increasingly important role in the advancement
of higher education in Texas.
You will be impressed with the environment for learning which
exists on this campus. Such an environment has been created by an
outstanding faculty and staff, by an inspired student body, by fine
teaching and research facilities, and by educational programs of the
highest calibre. Your acceptance into A&M indicates that you have
the capability to contribute in a meaningful way to this environment
for learning. Your attitude, your diligent effort and your every
action can be of lasting benefit to your self and will contribute
also to the enhancement of the University.
The difference in outstanding success, mediocrity or failure for
the student is determined largely by the student. The scholastic
record you achieve will be the basic standard by which success is
measured. This record will begin your FIRST DAY on campus and
will follow you throughout life. We hope that you will accept scho
lastic achievement as your primary mission while at Texas A&M.
We place great confidence in the A&M Class of 1970. You
have our best wishes for success and for an exceptionally challeng
ing educational career at Texas A&M University. We commend you
for selecting Texas A&M for the attainment of your educational
objectives.
New Insurance
Program Adopted
Texas A&M students may
acquire accident insurance under
a new Student Health Service and
Insurance Program.
Underwritten by Mutual of
Omaha Insurance, the plan aug
ments A&M health services and
covers fulltime students and de
pendents during regular semes
ters and during summer vacation.
The comprehensive accident
and health insurance plan is en
dorsed by the Student Senate,
according to President Wayne B.
Fudge.
Benefits include $1,000 accident
coverage, hospital room and
board, miscellaneous expense to
$200, outpatient expense, surgi
cal treatment, physician visits on
nonsurgical cases and ambu
lance. Maternity benefits are
optionally available.
“Coverage under this program
is excellent,” appraised A&M
Personnel Director Clark C. Mun-
roe. “It provides benefits for
sickness causing loss while stu
dent coverage is in force, includ
ing pre-existing conditions.
“Coverage remains in effect
for the period during which the
student enrolls, even though he
leaves school,” Munroe added.
Eligible dependents must reside
with the insured student, being
either the wife or husband and
children over the age of 30 days
and under 19 years.
Claims and payments will be
processed through the R. M.
Jackson Agency of Bryan.
Information will be sent in
enrollment mailings or may be
obtained by writing the Regis
trar’s Office.
Fall Reservations
Open For Rooms
Students now in school who ex
pect to live in a dormitory in the
fall terms should fill out fall
room reservation cards at the
Housing Office if they have not
already made a reservation.
A reservation made for sum
mer school was for the summer
only and does not apply to the
fall semester in any way.
Students who entered in June
or July as freshmen should fill
out blue cards and upperclassmen
should fill out buff cards.
COLLEGE STATION FIREMEN EXTINGUISH FIRE
. . . grass fire Wednesday afternoon burns several acres behind L. B. Hicks’ home.