THE BATTALION
Thursday, September 1, 1966
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Campus Briefs
Federal Tests
Set For Jan. 18
Federal service management
internship tests will be given
Jan. 18, announced Placement
Director Wendell R. Horsley.
Leading to junior executive
positions in the federal govern
ment, internship examination
passage qualifies candidates for
special training. Most manage
ment intern positions are in the
Washington, D. C., area with
some opportunities available in
other parts of the country.
A general test of verbal abili
ties and quantitative reasoning
requiring 2% hours will be ad
ministered in the Placement Of
fice, followed by a two-hour in
tern exam on administrative
problems and public affairs. Test
prerequisites require completion
or expected completion within
nine months of a four-year course
leading to a bachelor degree.
Candidates passing written
tests in January will be inter
viewed during the week of April
10, 1967, Horsley noted.
Applications and further in
formation may be obtained at the
Placement Office on the third
floor of the YMCA.
Study Of Parasite
Continues With Grant
Study of a parasite causing
heavy loss of oysters from Mexico
to Delaware will be continued by
Dr. John G. Mackin under a
$13,344 Department of Health,
Education and Welfare grant.
The third-year grant is for
‘Studies on the Development of
Dermocystidium Marinum,” a
parasite first described by
Mackin in 1960.
Dermosystidium marinum
causes 50 to 60 per cent mortal
ity of marketable oysters in the
Gulf of Mexico area, Mackin said.
The parasite is unusual “from
the viewpoint of its relationship
in the scheme of things,” he said.
Primary investigation is labora
tory study of understanding the
relationship.
Mackin and Dr. Sammy M.
Ray, director of A&M’s Marine
Laboratory in Galveston, are co
principal investigators. Two
graduate student assistants are
involved in the studies.
Engineering College
To Receive ETV
Educational television will
spread to the College of Engi
neering this fall.
Four Department of Engineer
ing Graphics classrooms are
being equipped this week with
television units.
“We can seat 170 students in
engineering graphics classrooms,”
said Dr. James Earle, associate
professor of enginering graphics.
“The installation of educational
television permits us to bring
new material into the classroom.
Experiments and shop processes
can be shown without the neces
sity of field trips,” he pointed
out.
Earle emphasized the addition
of television is not to replace
teachers, but to strengthen their
capabilities. Tapes, films and live
coverage will be used in class
rooms.
Some of the programs will
originate in the Engineering
Building, others at the Educa
tional TV Center, headed by Dr.
Lee J. Martin.
Geyer To Help
With Symposium
Dr. Richard A. Geyer helps
stage a first Marine Geodesy
Symposium at Columbus, Ohio,
Sept. 28-30.
The Department of Oceanog
raphy head chairs one of six
sessions for the Battelle Memo
rial Institute and U. S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey sponsored con
ference.
About 500 scientists from the
U. S., Finland Austria and
Hawaii will cover a broad cross
section of topics on legal, scien
tific and technical aspects of
marine geodesy.
Papers on continental shelf
activities and developments, map
ping, geological environment and
economic motivation for oil and
mineral exploration will be pre
sented in the Geyer-chaired sixth
session.
Closing address of the three-
day symposium will be given by
Dr. G. P. Woollard, director of
the Hawaii Institute of Geophys
ics with whom Geyer worked at
the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute during World War II.
Meetings will be held in the
Battelle Institute of Columbus
Laboratories.
Library Official
To Serve In Peru
Rupert C. Woodward, associate
library director, will consult with
library officials of the National
Engineering University in Lima,
Peru, this fall.
Under a Ford Foundation con-
sultantship, he will advise the
Peruvian university on strength
ening its library and assist in
identifying promising staff mem
bers for library science training
abroad. Woodward will be in
Peru from Sept. 19 to Oct. 31.
The consultantship is part of
an NEU assistance program
sponsored by the Mid-American
States Universities Association.
The program includes another
visit of similar duration before
Sept. 1, 1967.
Woodward, of Statesboro, Ga.,
served as a librarian in Guate
mala, Brazil and Costa Rica in
a U. S. State Department pro
gram in the 1950s and has special
interest in Latin American bibli
ography.
Yao Joins
Chemistry Staff
Dr. Shang-Jeong Yao has
joined the Department of Chem
istry as a Robert A. Welch Foun
dation Postdoctoral Research Fel
low.
He recently received his Ph.D.
in theoretical spectroscopy at the
University of Minnesota. The
physical chemist will collaborate
with Prof. Bruno Zwolinski in
theoretical studies of a non
equilibrium hypothesis for adia
batic and non-adiabatic chemical
rate processes.
New Book Out
For EG Students
The Department of Engineer
ing Graphics has published a new
book for beginning engineering
graphics students.
The 80-page book is published
by Addison, Wesley Publishing
Company of Reading, Mass. It
includes problems to be solved
individually, comprehensive de
sign problems for team projects,
and written reports.
Staff contributors include
James Earle, Sam Cleland, John
Oliver, Lawrence Stark, Paul
Mason, North Bardell Jr. and
Michael Guerard.
Earle said the staff will pre
pare a new book annually for each
course in order to remain current
with all engineering applications
Emphasis is on design in engi
neering creativity, he noted.
Humanistic Research
Confab Slated Here
The first Computer Humanistic
Research Conference in the
Southwest will be held here Nov
17-18.
The IBM-financed session will
be sponsored by the College of
Liberal Arts and A&M’s Center
for Computer Research in the
Humanities.
Similar previous conferences
have been held only at Yale,
Boston, Washington, UCLA and
Purdue.
About 300 participants are ex
(See Briefs, page 6)
Oysters Make Marine Biologist Sammy Run
Oysters make Sammy run.
Sammy is Dr. Sammy Ray,
director of the Texas A&M
Marine Laboratory at Galveston.
He’s kept on the run by the
myriad of activities evolving
from diseases of oysters and fish.
Dermocystidium marinum, cy-
cloheximide, Chloromycetin and
penicillin are common words to
Ray, who searches daily for keys
to diseases which cause millions
of dollars damage annually to
oyster and fish industries.
The first tongue-twister men
tioned is a fungus organism
which ranks among major ene
mies of oysters. Two years of
research has produced some suc
cess in prolonging the life of
infected oysters in a laboratory
environment.
Ray plans to publish three tech
nical papers about his research
progress in the near future.
“We hoped to find a chemical
to completely wipe out the organ
ism in the laboratory,” Ray ex
plained. “But this is yet to be
done. By using cycloheximide, we
have been able to inhibit growth
of the organism. It appears, how
ever, that the treatment would
have to be continuous.
“Seeking disease-free oysters,
we imported some from Virginia
and South Carolina only to find
that they have other diseases,” he
continued. “The cycloheximide
solution does not affect their
diseases.”
Ray said costs of the drug
would be prohibitive even if dos
age was as small as one part per
million. He noted, however, that
cycloheximide is available in
technical grades.
Other research interests of Ray
include Red Tide organisms. The
toxic dinoflagellates, small plant
like animals, produce poisons
which kill many fish off the West
Coast of Florida.
Since the Gulf of Mexico does
not suffer the Red Tide problem,
Ray feels the Gulf holds some
answers to the problem.
Assisting Ray in the research
is Dr. Bill Wilson, formerly on
the Florida State University
staff. Wilson is credited with de
velopment of numerous delicate
cultures used as research media
in the laboratory.
Wilson recently joined the staff
and Dr. David Aldrich of Texas
A&M this fall will become a co
principal investigator in probing
mysteries of the prenomenon.
In the first two years of the
Red Tide study, Ray determined
that the toxic dinoflagellates are
poisonous to baby chickens.
With Wilson and Aldrich, Ray
also will study another Red Tide
organism, gonyaulax monilata.
The organism closely resembles
two other Red Tide organisms
which cause shellfish poisoning
on the West Coast and Northeast
Coast of North America.
“People become sick after eat
ing oysters, clams and scollops
that have fed on these organ
isms,” Ray pointed out. “The
oysters, clams and scollops are
not damaged by the organisms.
There is some interest in the Red
Tide organism at this laboratory,
but early evidence indicates it is
not a public health hazard.
Research at the A&M Marine
Laboratory is largely financed by
the U. S. Public Health Service.
Oystem studies by Ray and Dr.
John B. Mackin, Department of
Biology head, at A&M, received
about $30,000 PHC support each
year. Red Tide studies also draw
approximately $30,000 annually.
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