THE BATTALION
Thursday, August 25, 1966
College Station, Texas
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BROTHERS TEAM UP ON GLASS
Jerry, left, and Jack Shannon put finishing- touches on a
flow reactor vessel for research equipment in Texas A&M’s
environmental engineering department. The glass-blowing
shop of the chemistry department produces and repairs
equipment for research projects across the campus.
Ag Brothers Man
Glass-Blowing Shop
Jack and Jerry Shannon work
with temperatures from 2,200 to
2,700 degrees Fahrenheit at Tex
as A&M.
Artists in glass, the brothers
produce and repair condensers,
special retorts, complex tubing
and various containers in pyrex
and quartz for research equip
ment all over the campus.
“There must be lots of research
going on at A&M,” remarked the
older Shannon, Jack. “We’ve
been swamped the last year.”
The glass-blowing shop of the
Department of Chemistry handles
an average of 80 work orders a
month.
Production will be just about
halved Sept. 1, estimates 39-year-
old Jack.
Jerry will join the University
of Texas Department of Chemis
try.
Lungpower, centrifugal force,
variations of the two and special
tools plus methane or hydrogen
^ oxygen flame are ingredients
of objects produced in the skop.
Raw material is pyrex or quartz
tubing in two to 178 millimeter
sizes.
“Glass-blowing is just a series
of basic steps,” remarked Jack.
BA School
Announces
Additions
Two new faculty members for
Texas A&M’s School of Business
Administration have been an
nounced by Dr. John E. Pearson,
director.
A retired U. S. Air Force col
onel, Dr. Jack W. Coleman now
heads the Department of Ac
counting. The professor held
high assignments in teaching, fis
cal control and financial manage
ment during 22 years of Air
Force service. His speciality is
cost accounting.
Coleman earned his bachelor of
science degree at Kansas Univer
sity in 1947. He received his
M.B.A. degree at Michigan Uni
versity in 1953 and Indiana Uni
versity awarded the doctorate to
him in 1958.
Paul T. Gross Jr. joins the De
partment of Business Analysis
and Research as assistant profes
sor. He has been director of the
Computer Center at Pace Col
lege in New York City. His spe
ciality is finance and operations
research.
Holder of a Bachelor of Science
degree from Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Gross will
complete his Ph.D. dissertation at
Columbia University this year.
His M.B.A. degree in industrial
management was earned at the
University of Pennsylvania in
1958.
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“Building things requires putting
them together.”
Heating and cooling tempera
mental glass are the most critical
aspects of the art, chimed in
Jerry.
Pyrex works at 1,200 degrees
Centigrade, quartz 1,500. Both
have low coefficients of expan
sion.
The most complex object in
sight was a shell design liquid
divider. Thirteen pieces of glass
went into the 12-inch divider’s
construction.
The older Shannon, a one-time
school teacher, said nasel olives
are the most unusual glass fabri
cation he’s built. The gadget is
used to teach persons with cleft
palates to breath properly.
Microsprayers, tiny vials used
for testing cotton defoliants, are
among jobs requested by A&M
researchers. The shop turns out
work for biology, physics, chemi
cal engineering, petroleum engi
neering and numerous other de
partments.
“We make things for all the life
sciences, besides chemistry,” Jack
noted. “Ninety-nine per cent of
our work is for research people.”
Equipment valued at $30,000 is
required in the process. A hand-
built glass lathe, serial numbered
34, occupies a central spot in the
30 by 60 foot shop. Lathes, an
electric furnace, oven, sanders,
grinders, wet saw, bottles of oxy
gen, hydrogen and methane and
stacks of glass are also used.
Normangee natives, the broth
ers worked into glass-blowing
from other fields. After gradu
ating from Sam Houston State
in 1950, Jack taught at Moulton
a year before going to Dow
Chemical where he learned glass-
blowing. The father of five went
to Oklahoma State after eight
years at Dow and came to A&M
in 1961.
Single, 26-year-old Jerry stud
ied at Tulsa’s Spartan School of
Aviation. A licensed aircraft
and engine mechanic, he worked
at Russell Field in Fort Worth
before joining Jack at A&M.
“There’s a lot of knuckle-bust
ing in aircraft work,” he com
mented. The private pilot still
does it though, while building a
Smith Miniplane from the ground
up.
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History, Government Adds To Staff
Increase in student majors has
necessitated the addition of fac
ulty members in Texas A&M’s
Department of History and Gov
ernment department, Dr. J. M.
Nance, department head, an
nounced.
Dr. Michael Malone, who holds
a bachelor of arts degree from
Gonzaga, joins the faculty as an
assistant professor. He earned a
Ph.D. degree from Washington
State.
From 1962-65, Malone was a
NDEA Fellow at Washington
State. He served as a research
assistant there last year. He is
a member of Phi Alpha Theta,
history honor society. His spe
ciality is 20th Century U. S. his
tory.
Malone is author of an article
on “Salmon P. Chase: The Chief
Justice as Politician” in Wash
ington State Research Studies,
December 1964.
Robert D. Craig and Orval G.
Clanton have been named in
structors in history by Nance.
Craig, a specialist in European
history, is working toward his
Ph.D. at the University of Utah.
A native of Ohio, he holds bache
lor and master’s degrees from
the University of Cincinnati.
During the summers of 1964 and
1965, he served as campus co
ordinator at the University of
Innsbruck, Austria, and at Ma
con, France. Craig is a member
of Phi Alpha Theta and several
historical associations.
Clanton received degrees in
bachelor of science in education
and master of science in history
from Kansas State College at
Pittsburg. He has completed
Ph.D. degree requirements in his
tory at the University of Kan
sas except fd>r the dissertation.
His areas of specialization are
late 19th and early 20th Century
U. S. History and the Far East
in recent times.
John T. Duncan, associate his
tory professor, has retired after
20 years of teaching at A&M.
Dr. Kwang H. Ro, Edward D.
Wilson, Maynard A. Jordan and
Mickey R. Cline were also ap
pointed for the 1966-67 school
year.
Specialist in international re
lations and Far East govern
ments, Ro will teach in interna
tional politics and organization
as an assistant professor. The
Korea native has four years col
lege teaching- experience in Okla
homa.
Instructor in comparative gov
ernment and political theory,
Wilson also studied for advance
degrees at OU. The Purcell,
Okla., native studied at the Uni
versity of Houston for his bache
lor of political science. He has
all requirements for a doctorate
in government complete at Okla
homa, except the dissertation.
Wilson served in the Army and
Air Force during 1946-51.
Jordon, of Akron, Ohio, and
Cline, of Concord, N. C., are gov
ernment instructors.
Jordan studied at Kent State
for bachelor and master degrees
and specializes in American na
tional, state and local govern
ment.
Cline is working on his doctor
ate at the University of South
Carolina, where he received the
masters degree this summer. He
completed his B.A. in 1961 and
taught in the College of General
Studies at USC, where he was
graduate research assistant in
the bureau of governmental re
search.
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