A&M Staffs Experience Changes, Additions, Promotions
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1966
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HOWARD GOLDSMITH
WILLIAM TIDBALL
Civil Defense
Adds Tidball,
Goldsmith
Howard F. Goldsmith of Bryan
and William C. Tidball of For-
dyce, Ark., are new Civil De
fense Training: instructors for
Texas A&M’s Enginering Exten
sion Service.
Dr. Willis R. Bodine, chief in
structor of Civil Defense Train
ing, announced the additions to
his staff.
Goldsmith retired from the
U. S. Army last months as a
lieutenant colonel. He earned the
Silver Star with Oak Leaf
Cluster, Purple Heart with Oak
Leaf Cluster, Army Commenda
tion Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
and other citations. His last
assignment was Army Reserve
advisor in Bryan.
A member of the Bryan Lions
Club, Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce and St.
Thomas Episcopal Church.
Tidball recently completed two
years’ service as a first lieutenant
in the Army Air Defense Artil
lery at Fort Bliss, where he was
assigned to the Visitors Bureau.
He earned the Army Commenda
tion Medal.
Math Dept.
Names First
Lady Prof
Appointment of two professors
in the Mathematics Department
at Texas A&M has been an
nounced by Dr. Morris Ostrofsky,
department head.
Drs. Ruth E. Goodman and
Arthur C. Segal have been named
professor and assistant professor,
respectively.
Dr. Goodman came to A&M
with the department head from
Westinghouse in Baltimore, Md.
The “first lady mathematics pro
fessor” at A&M taught at several
colleges after taking degrees at
Ball State, Indiana and Pennsyl
vania Universities. Dr. Goodman
joined Westinghouse in 1953,
serving as advisory mathemati
cian and section manager of
digital computing techniques.
The 28-year-old Dr. Segal was
awarded the Ph.D. at Texas
Christian this summer, coming to
A&M from Arlington State Uni
versity. The new A&M assistant
professor received bachelor and
master degrees at the University
of Florida.
Russian-born Dr. Ostrofsky, 67,
became a U. S. citizen in 1934.
He held several managerial execu
tive positions in industry after
graduating from the University
of Pittsburgh. He acquired the
Ph.D. at Wisconsin University in
1937.
Dr. Ostrofsky chaired math
departments at Duquesne and
Rose Polytechnic Institute, going
with Westinghouse at Pittsburgh
in 1952. He installed Westing-
house’s math department and be
came director of math sciences in
the firm’s Defense and Space
Center at Baltimore in 1963.
More Spaces Due Within Year
Parking Fee Increase
Mounting parking problems at
Texas A&M are being countered
with new parking accommoda
tions.
The administration hopes to
have 1,100 additional paved park
ing spaces available within a
year, and 900 more spaces within
two years.
A&M now has 6,495 paved
parking places and approximate
ly 7,200 cars.
University officials are gently
discouraging campus parking by
increasing parking fees. Stu
dents and faculty-staff members
will pay higher rates this fall.
Students rates are $10 for 12
months, $9 for nine months, $5
for fall and spring semesters,
and $4 for summer school.
Faculty-staff car owners face
a one-third increase in parking
rates, from $7.50 to $10. Re
reserved parking fees rose from
$8 to $11. Duplicate auto stickers
increased 100 per cent, from 50
cents to $1.
The story is sadder for man-
wife combinations working on
campus. Use of two cars will
require payment of two fees. In
the past duplicate stickers were
permissable.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan said some additional
parking will be available on cam
pus in time for the home foot
ball season opener Oct. 1 against
Texas Tech.
“We expect to have paved
spaces this fall for 500 cars
southeast of Kyle Field,” he ex
plained. “However, the other
third of the area will be used
for parking heavy equipment for
use on the stadium expansion.”
Hannigan said fee collections
will be used to help pay for new
parking areas, adding that the
university by law cannot use
state funds for parking areas.
Other parking spaces soon will
be added in the area near the
old College Station Railroad De
pot. A&M has worked out a
property exchange agreement
with Brazos County officials
whereby the county will construct
a four-lane highway near the re
maining railroad track. In turn,
A&M will use the current strip
of Wellborn Road and adjacent
property for paved parking areas.
Just how soon that project will
be completed, Hannigan would
not predict. Construction crews
are grading in the new highway
area this week.
Other expansion plans call for
enlargement of Hempstead and
Navasota parking lots. Thus
labeled by freshmen student re
quired to park near the south
eastern edge of the campus, the
paved parking areas are due en
largement within two years.
Six hundred new parking spaces
will soon become available near
the $6 million Cyclotron Institute
on the north side of the main
campus. Actually, the parking
area is not completely new. It
was a graveled parking lot until
1964, but has been out of service
for the past year while being
used as a storage area for Cyclo
tron construction equipment and
supplies.
Other parking eventually will
be added near the railroad tracks
in the new dormitory area on the
northwestern edge of the campus.
“Our aim is to promote the
campus more and more as a
pedestrian center, with large
parking lots on the perimeter,”
Hannigan noted. “We prefer to
add new parking areas in this
manner rather than by tearing
up islands of grass in the middle
of the campus.”
Parking predicaments brought
on by football fans will not be
ended this year. Hannigan said
TO PRESENT CONCERT ON AUG. 19
The “Lickin’ River Singers”, a popular folk-singing group, left, Donna Files, Nancy Hewitt, Marcia Mallard, Jerry
will present a concert at the Memorial Student Center Ball- Holbert, Randy Wilson, Rick Landman, David Landman
room at 8 p. m. Aug. 19. The group is composed of, from and Gordon Hill. Tickets are $1.
NSF Lecture
Set Monday
A National Science Foundation
Summer Institute lecture by Dr.
Guy A Franceschini is slated
Monday at Texas A&M.
“The Antarctica — A Chal
lenge to the Earth Sciences” is
set for 8 p.m. in Room 113 of the
Biological Sciences Building.
Franceschini, associate profes
sor of oceanography at A&M, has
made studies of the hydrologic
balance of the Gulf of Mexico and
participated in trajectory studies
of the atmosphere.
Ward To
At 8-Day
Dr. R. P. Ward of Houston
will preach during the eight-day
revival opening Sunday at the
First Baptist Church.
Ward is pastor of Braes Bap
tist Church, a post he has filled
for four years. Previously, he
was pastor of Houston’s Wood
ridge Baptist Church for 14 years
and at Fort Stockton’s First Bap
tist Church for five years.
“The Abundant Life” is the
revival theme announced by the
Rev. Lloyd Elder, pastor of the
College Station church. Services
are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
nightly.
“One purpose for the revival
is to involve the church mem
bers in experiencing ‘The Abund
ant Life’ offered by Christ,”
Elder said. “The public is invit
ed because many of us share a
common interest in spiritual val
ues and church loyalty.”
Ward, who earned a Doctor of
Divinity Degree at Howard
Payne College, Brownwood, in
1959, is a member of Howard
Payne’s Board of Trustees. He
served six years on the Baptist
General Convention’s Executive
Board and two years as Union
Baptist Association moderator.
C. Allen Collier, program direc-
Preach
Revival
DR. R. P. WARD
tor of Houston’s First Baptist
Church, will lead revival singing.
A former minister, Collier has
served churches as minister of
education and music since 1950,
including five years at Huffman
Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Ala.
Collier has been a conference
and clinic leader in Sunday School
and Training Union leadership.
He has written programs and
articles for the “Sunday School
Builder.”
Child Behavior
Due To Parents
Fort Worth (AP)—If a child has a high TO, it’s
probably because of his parents’ background.
But if he gets along well with others of his age
group, is free of health worries and has a good “self-
concept,” it’s probably because there is love in the
home, regardless of whether his parents are particu
larly intelligent or well off.
These are some findings of Samuel H. Cox, a
research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Re
search at Texas Christian University.
Cox, a psychologist, recently completed an in-depth
study of 100 school children and their parents in the
Castleberry School District of Fort Worth, an average
middle-income area.
Through tests and interviews over a three-year
period, Cox concentrated on family background, child-
rearing attitudes, child personalities and how well the
chlid is accepted by his fellows.
His study is perhaps the first to try to link all
four variables together.
To find child backgrounds, he sought such items
as the educational, economic and social level of the
parents. He also tried to pin-point “potential sources
of family tension” such as illness, separation or divorce,
and indications of an unhappy marriage.
Cox came up with these results:
1. Family background had had 21/2 times as
much influence on a child’s IQ as did family attitudes.
2. Attitudes had 314 times the influence as did
background on the child’s self-concept—how well he
thought of himself.
3. A child’s health was influenced 21/2 times as
much by family attitudes as by background.
4. Attitudes were three times as important as
background in predicting peer acceptance or rejection
—how w’ell a child gets along with persons his own
age.
Cox found that disagreement between parents
on how to raise children was one of the largest factors
in parents’ attitudes. He was led to suspect that the
very fact that parents agree may be more important
in the child’s life than what they agree upon.
Cox also found that “psychosematic disorders may
be associated with parental rejecting” of the child.
Again, this would be more of a factor of the parents’
attitudes than their background.
Perhaps not surprisingly, he also said, it is very
difficult to separate the total family influence into
such headings as background and attitudes.
Dr. Saul B. Sells of TCU said of Cox’s work:
“It shows that delinquency and some other prob
lems of behavior could best be solved by changing
family influences, by bringing more enlightenment
into attitudes of some parents. And that implies more
education.”
the overflow of cars will be
parked on the grassy areas near
Kyle Field and Cain Swimming
Pool.
The dirt lot east of G. Rollie
White Coliseum, likely will be
unavailable this season. Contrac
tors for the Biological Science
Building addition and White Coli
seum air conditioning are using
the area to store dirt and equip
ment.
Fallout Sets
Three ‘Fun’
Productions
Three “pure fun” shows are
scheduled in the Fallout Theater-
Workshop Monday and Tuesday,
and two more will follow Aug. 19-
20.
Jan Gannaway will direct “If
Women Worked As Men Do,” by
Ellen Goodfellow, and “If Men
Played Cards As Women Do,” by
George S. Kaufman.
Roger Williams will present
“The Great Western Melodrama,”
by Florence Huntington Morris.
The cast of “If Women . . .”
includes Cyndy Smith as Mrs.
Carew, Jean Reyna as Mrs. Dowl
ing, Nancy Hill as Miss Arnold,
and Jody Worsham as Miss
Smith.
Appearing in “If Men . . .” will
be Bill Hamilton as John, Herky
Killingsworth as Bob, Scott Man-
.ning as Marc, and Charles McGin
nis as George.
Marie Crook is in charge of
lighting.
Williams’ cast is made up of
teenagers from Briarcrest Coun
try Club’s Teen Canteen.
The Aug. 19-20 shows are “The
Bed,” by Jack Adlex, and “The
Spineless Drudge,” by Richard
Harris, directed by Robert W.
Wenck, with a cast made up of
members of the Premiere Players
and the Aggie Players.
DR. LEE J. MARTIN
Dr. Martin
Selected As
English Head
Texas A&M Professor Dr. Lee
J. Martin has been named head
of the Department of English,
effective Sept. 1.
Appointment was announced
by Liberal Arts Dean Frank
Hubert.
Professor of English since 1963,
Martin was appointed associate
dean of the Liberal Arts College
in 1965. He also directs the
Educational Television Center, a
post the 50-year-old professor
will retain as department head.
Martin came to A&M in 1946
as English instructor. He earned
bachelor and master’s degrees at
the University of Texas in 1941
and 1948, acquiring doctoral sta
tus study of dramatic literature
and English at Stanford in 1956.
“The Department of English
head is one of the most important
administrative duties on the cam
pus from the standpoint of the
essential nature of the discipline
and its importance in the growth
of A&M,” Hubert said. “Dr.
Martin’s proven leadership as a
scholar and administrator make
him a natural selection for this
post.”
Author of several articles in
theatrical, language and educa
tional publications, he wrote the
Freshman English Bulletin used
in A&M courses.
Martin is a member of numer
ous professional and scholarly
sicieties, including the National
Conference of Teachers of Eng
lish, Texas Joint English Com
mittee of Schools and Colleges,
American Society for Theatre
Research, American Educational
Theatre Association and Ameri
can Association of University
Professors, of which he is former
secretary-treasurer. „
Dallas Company
Awards Grant
Magnolia Pipe Line Company
of Dallas has established a $500
scholarship at Texas A&M in
honor of W. W. Lynch, president
of Texas Power and Light Com
pany.
Lynch, a 1922 electrical engi
neering graduate of A&M, was
cited by Magnolia for outstand
ing service to Dallas and the
Magnolia Company.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
DR. ARTHUR ROACH
Roach Gets
New Position
Dr. Arthur J. Roach, a New
York education counselor coordi
nator, has been named assistant
professor of education and psy
chology at Texas A&M.
Roach, coordinator of counselor
training in the Education Depait-
ment of Canisius College’s Gradu
ate Division at Buffalo, joins
A&M Sept. 1.
Announcement of Roach’s em
ployment was made by Dr. Paul
R. Hensarling, Department of
Education and Psychology head.
He said Roach will teach educa
tional psychology and work in the
counselor certification program.
Roach received his Ph.D. in
educational psychology and coun
seling at Notre Dame in June. He
also has a master’s degree in that
area from Notre Dame and an
A.B. degree in English from St.
Michael’s College, Santa Fe, N.M.
Roach’s additional t^nohing,
counseling and research back
ground includes posts at Notre
Dame, Santa Clara University
and St. Michael’s.