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FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE
Classes meeting at 1 p.m. will be tested at 7 p.m.
tonight.
7 a.m. classes— 7 a.m. Friday
9 a.m. classes—10 a.m. Friday
11 a.m. classes— 2 p.m. Friday
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1966
Number 333
Aggies Open Grid Practice Sept. 1
Sophs
To Form
Nucleus
WILL TEXAS A&M’S . ..
It could be Harry Ledbetter, top, or . .
‘Penny’ To Retire
From A&M Aug. 31
Walter L. “Penny” Penberthy,
professor of health and physical
education at Texas A&M 40
years, will retire Aug. 31.
“Mr. Penny,” as he is known
by students, was hired immedi
ately after graduation in 1926
from Ohio State University by
D. X. Bible as instructor of phy
sical education and director of
intramurals.
Penberthy was named head of
the department in 1941 and dean
of men in 1947. Later he became
Student Activities Department
head, where he served until that
department was absorbed by the
Memorial Student Center. He
Graduates Get
DMG Honors
Six Distinguished Military Grad
uates are among 14 Texas A&M
graduates to be commissioned in
the U. S. Army Friday.
Three of the new officers have
applied for Regular Army commis
sions, announced Lt. Col. Rayford
Brooks. He will administer the oath
and present commissions in the
Military Science Department at
10 a.m.
One of the largest groups com
missioned during the summer at
A&M, the 14 officers fulfilled
ROTC training earlier and com
pleted academic work this summer
to qualify for commissions. DMG
status enables the new officer to
apply for a Regular Army com
mission. Other commissions will be
in the Reserve.
Distinguished Military Graduates
include Jerry L. Jones of White-
wright, Rumaldo Z. Juarez of Robs-
town, Larry B. Kirk and Benny R.
Smith of Dallas, Eddie F. Scheer
of Henrietta and Jack B. Ramsey
Jr. of Greenville. Jones, Kirk and
Scheer applied for RA commissions.
Others to be commissioned are
Thomas M. Blackwell, Weslaco;
Barry J. C. Brummett, Waco;
Robert H. Cole, El Paso; David H.
Dodson, Decatur; Joseph T. Ely Jr.,
Oklahoma City; Edgar J. Harvey,
Temple; George W. Keester, Ne-
ierland and Charles O. McAdams,
then returned to teaching.
Carl Tishler, Department of
Health and Physical Education
head, said Penberthy developed
the intramural program at A&M
to a level that made it the finest
voluntary program in the nation.
“This was due to Penny’s abil
ity to organize and communicate
with students,” Tishler ex
plained. “Penny has the reputa
tion of knowing more students
by name than any person on
campus. His philosophy is ‘serv
ice to students,’ so it is under
standable that his intramural
program was superior and that
he became a master teacher.”
The owner of a small ranch
near Carlos, Penberthy plans to
spend considerable time looking
after his cattle, hunting and fish
ing.
“His associates at A&M will
miss Penny, his cheerfulness, his
willingness to help others and
the counseling and guidance he
gave graduate assistants and
new staff members,” Tishler re
marked. “He was considered a
moral builder by his colleagues.
We know that his retirement is
in name only—that he will con
tinue to contribute to the profes
sion and Texas A&M students.”
A&M To Award
445 Degrees
Names of 445 degree candi
dates for Friday commencement
exercises at Texas A&M have
been announced by Registrar H.
L. Heaton.
Included in the list are 51 doc
toral candidates. Masters degrees
are being sought by 250 persons.
Baccalaureate degree candi
dates total 144.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
NSF Students
Finish Friday
Seventy high school seniors at
Texas A&M the past six weeks
check out of secondary science
training programs in mathe
matics and geology Friday.
The high ability students will
be addressed by President Earl
Rudder in a final meeting at 10
a.m. Friday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom.
The president will present cer
tificates to participants and an
nounce scholarship winners.
The National Science Founda
tion-supported programs compet
itively selected students, primari
ly on the basis of scholarship, to
participate.
NSF coordinator Coleman
Loyd expects a large number of
parents to attend the final ses
sion.
Lectures, labs and field trips
comprised the six-week course of
study. Math students were in
structed in the Data Processing
Center’s IBM 7094 computer and
toured the nuclear reactor and
network analyzer. They wrote
programs for the 7094.
Geology students visited an
NASA research laboratory, maj
or oil company in the Houston-
Galveston area, studied and col
lected specimens in Texas and
Oklahoma, inspected a salt mine
and tourned A&M’s Data Proc
essing Center, Electron Micro
scopy Lab and Nuclear Science
Center.
Texas A&M will start fall foot
ball practice Sept. 1 as head
coach Gene Stallings goes into
his second season with a “sopho-
morish outlook.”
Stallings, whose now famous
slogan “Make Something Hap
pen” will prevail again this year,
will greet 24 returning lettermen
who will form the nucleus for
this fall’s squad.
“We’re gonna sell ’em on the
idea that you can win with soph
omores,” Stallings said. “They’re
gonna have to play like juniors,
and win like juniors.”
The idea he will sell to his
team, and to all Aggie support
ers, is a necessity for the upcom
ing grid season. From Sept. 1,
when the first workouts take
place until the final gun sounds
in Austin on Thanksgiving day,
sophomores are going to carry a
large part of the load.
Stallings will stress defense
and punting this year. He will
likely start seven sophomores on
defense, and his punter will be
sophomore Steve O’Neal. But
sophomores can be assets and
split end Tommy Maxwell, half
back Wendell Housley and quar
terbacks Edd Hargett and Char
lie Riggs hope to prove second-
year men can win.
Also strong from last year’s
fish squad will be tackle Rolf
Krueger and Harvey Aschen-
beck, rover Joe Wood and de
fensive backs Tom Sooy, Jack
Whitmore, Javier Vela and Vance
Brack.
These sophomores and the rest
of the 1966 squad will report for
the evening meal Tuesday. They
will receive physicals and draw
equipment the next day, with the
first workout scheduled for 9
a.m. Sept. 1.
“I haven’t made any decisions
on players and positions. We’ll
start out about the way we ended
last year, with the exception of a
little shifting around in the de
fensive secondary. I’ll be chang
ing that a little. It’s really too
early to decide, though,” Stal
lings said.
“We’ll be a little better overall.
The Aggies can’t stand another
3-7 season—I know I can’t.”
“We’ll have 16 practice days
before we open with Georgia
Tech. That’ll be enough time.
They have the same amount of
time as we do. The staff and I
are looking forward to the begin-
jning of workouts, and to having
all the players back for another
season,” he concluded.
The top prospect for the Ag
gies is Maurice “Mo” Moorman,
the 6-5 250-pound tackle transfer
from Kentucky. He hasn’t played
a varsity game, yet is already
mentioned by some as all-Ameri
ca material.
Back from the first “Make
Something Happen” squad will
be offensive guards Don Koehn
and Gary Kovar, strongside end
Ed Breding, center Jim Single-
ton, defensive guard Ken Lam-
kin, defensive end Grady Allen
and lihebacker Robert Cortez.
Other returnees who will car
ry a large load will be Jack Py-
burn, Harry Ledbetter, Bill Sal
lee, Lloyd Curington, Dan Sch
neider, Ronnie Lindsey, Dan
Westerfield .and Larry Lee.
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sophomores Edd Hargett, left, or Charlie Riggs. These three will fight it out for the starting berth.
Food Service Getting
Facelifting, Repairs
Food Service Department alter
ations are under way at Texas
A&M to take care of increased
enrollment for the 1966-67 school
year.
Addition of $47,000 equipment
and alterations will touch Sbisa
and Duncan Dining Halls and the
Memorial Student Center, an
nounced department d i r ec t o r
Fred Dollar.
Sbisa will be equipped with its
fifth cafeteria line, a cash cafe
teria line of completely portable
equipment to be located in the
large dining room on the east side
of the building.
The installation will allow cafe
terias facing on Houston Street
to handle board-paying students,
Dollar explained.
The 67-foot long cash line can
be disassembled in 30 minutes to
make way for dances and other
events in the main hall, food man
ager Harold Thearl said. The
$16,000 facility will parallel the
kitchen wall on the east end of
the main room, partitions sep
arating the cash customer area
from Corps of Cadets family style
service on the south end.
“The cash line will be complete
ly self-service,” Thearl noted.
Features of the arrangement in
clude an ice dispensing machine
and meter-flow coffee, tea and
milk along with regular food dis
plays. The line will become dou
ble at coffee and checkout count
ers, to handle about 500 custom
ers, he added.
No civilian student family style
meals will be served.
New equipment valued at $31,-
000 includes new 80-quart mixers
for the bake shop and Sbisa kitch
en, ice maker, automatic roll ma
chine capable of turning out 250
rolls a minute and an automatic
pot washer for Duncan.
A $4,000 alteration to upstairs
Houston street cafeteria entrance
will provide smaller doors. Oth
er work includes painting and
plastering Sbisa’s exterior and
entrances.
Thearl said food service em
ployment figures will remain the
same though Sbisa expects to
serve 6,000—an increase of 15
per cent over September, 1965—
and Duncan 2,000. The depart
ment employs 260 fulltime and
225 students in the MSC and din
ing halls.
MSC fountain room and cafe
teria will be closed for staggered
periods Monday through Septem
ber 12, he went on.
Orientation Set,
For Teachers
Academic Year Institute par
ticipants meet for general orien
tation on the 1966-67 school year
at Texas A&M Monday.
National Science Foundation
programs coordinator C. M. Loyd
said 33 junior high science teach
ers will meet at 9 a.m. in Room
146 of the Physics Building.
A 6:30 p.m. barbecue at the
Bryan Municipal swimming pool
Monday will welcome the science
teachers here for advanced stud
ies. As graduate students under
the AYI program, participants’
course work will be applicable on
master of science degrees in edu
cation.
Reveille II Dead
Fall Services Slated
New Christy Minstrels Open
Town Hall Series Sept. 30
The 1966-67 Town Hall Series of Texas A&M’s Me
morial Student Center has been announced by Chairman
Sammy Pearson.
The New Christy Minstrels will open the series Sept.
30 at G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M hosts Texas Tech
in Southwest Conference football the next night.
Next come “The Four Freshmen” on Oct. 28. The
Aggies tangle with Arkansas the following night.
On Dec. 7, “Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians”
will hold the spotlight.
Johnny Mathis comes to Aggieland Feb. 13, followed
by the University of Texas Concert Choir and the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra March 19.
Billed as Town Hall Extras are Doc Severinsen on
Oct. 4 and the Harlem Globetrotters Feb. 6. Another extra
is to be arranged for the week of March 20-25.
“Music for Sunday Afternoon” programs will feature
James Dick on Nov. 13, Sam Hinton Dec. 4, and Sergiu
Luca Feb. 19.
Burial of Texas A&M mascot
Reveille II at the main entrance
of Kyle Field will be deferred un
til the student body returns to the
campus in September.
The 15-year-old tan and white
Shetland Shepherd dog was put to
sleep Tuesday. Kidney failure and
arthritis made the mascot’s last
few months painful.
“Burial services will be strictly
by student decision,” Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan said.
“The Student Senate, yell leaders
and cadet officers of Company E-2
will have responsibility for ar
rangements.”
A plot next to the grave of
Reveille I at the concourse on the
north end of Kyle Field has been
reserved for the second mascot.
Rev had been in critical health
since late April, when she had a
brush with death due to kidney
failure and arthritis. Dr. E. W.
Ellett, associate professor of vet
erinary medicine and surgery, said
the course of action was decided
because of her condition.
A&M student leaders and offi
cials concurred in the decision to
allow Reveille II rest from her
painful last years.
“Reveille had arthritis of the
hips and coudn’t get up,” Ellett
said. “We couldn’t see putting her
through a long course of treat
ment and felt this would be the
best and most humane thing to
do.”
The tan and white mascot has
been on a low protein diet several
years to reduce stress on her kid
neys. Anti-inflammatory agents
and other medications to control
pain have been standard for her
the last four months.
Both of the mascot’s ailments
were largely due to old age. The
aging dog lived through 100 equiv
alent years for a man.
Reveille II was presented to the
A&M student body in 1952 by
Arthur Weinert of Seguin, member
of the class of 1900. She quartered
with Company E-2 in the Corps of
Cadets, slept in whose bed she
pleased and commanded the grid
iron at football game halftimes.
She added doggish excitement to
yell practices, basketball games
and other campus events.
The Shetland Shepherd replaced
a mongrel pup adopted by the
Aggies in 1931. Part collie and
part spitz, Rev I had free run of
the campus until her death in 1944.
Successor to the Aggies’ second
mascot is Reveille III, an Alaskan-
born collie pup that was gift of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Husa, Fair
banks, last spring. The Husa’s
twin sons, Randy and Steve Andes,
made arrangements for the suc
cessor concurrent with Rev IPs
retirement announcement.
$19,000 Gift Starts A&M’s
Opportunity Awards Plan
Cornelia Cooke Smith’s $19,000
led to a million dollar education
support venture at Texas A&M.
Mrs. Smith left the money to
A&M in 1964, the first gift of
its type in an Opportunity
Awards program allowing needy
students to get a college educa
tion.
Through other gifts, federal
and state loan programs, the Stu
dent Aid Office expects to assist
Aggies with more than $1 mil
lion in 1966-67.
“We expect to have 750 stu
dents getting $300,000 in schol
arships beginning this fall,” an
nounced Student Aid director
Robert M. Logan. “Loan pro
grams are expected to hit $450,-
000. Student labor provides an
average work force of 1,450 a
day, at an annual expenditure of
$775,000.”
Scholarship and loan funds are
provided by numerous agencies
and individuals. Long-term loans
are available through the Texas
Opportunity Plan, United Stu
dent Air Fund Inc. and a federal
ly guaranteed program to be an
nounced. Yearly loans may be
acquired through a Student Aid
Fund set up by A&M’s Former
Students Association.
Student Aid made 6,000 loans
of $20 each during 1965-66 from
its “small loan fund.”
“The unique thing about our
$20 for 30 days loan program is
that there are only four or five
overdue,” Logan remarked.
Scholarships averaging $300 a
year and paying tuition, required
fees and books are funded by
Former Students, individuals and
organizations.
Mrs. Smith’s bequest was un
usual in that she never worked
at or visited A&M. Typical sup
port that enables many Texas
youths to study at A&M is given
by the Effie and Wofford Cain
Foundation, Houston Endow
ments Inc., Former Students As
sociation, Albert D. Banta Foun
dation, Col. T. H. Barton, A&M’s
national championship football
team and mothers and A&M
clubs across the state.
“Scholarships are limited and
in most cases earmarked for out
standing scholastic achievement,”
Logan said.
Through scholarship or grants-
in-aid for students showing aca
demic promise, student employ
ment and loan systems, almost
any youth in the state, regard
less of financial background, can
get an education.
Student employment pays an
average $450, “enough to pay
room and board,” Logan said.
Average summer earnings for
A&M students is $350.
“If he can’t work summers,
loans are available to fill the
gap,” the student aid director
went on.
Interested students making
satisfactory grades should con
tact the Student Aid Office, 303
YMCA, for application informa
tion.