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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 8, 1966 English Department Adds 9 New Profs Nine additions to the English faculty have been announced by Dr. Lee J. Martin, department head. Dr. Garland Cannon, formerly at Queens College, City Universi ty of New York, will be an asso ciate professor. The Texas na- We offer streamlined courses that will speed you toward your goal. Practical training in need ed skills, without frills. Friend ly inst.uctors. Co - educational. We have many more calls for our graduates than we can fill. ASK FOR FREE BULLETIN PHONE 823-6655 Day and Night Classes Start Sept. 15 "It is easier to study your way up than work your way up" McKenzie - Baldwin BUSINESS COLLEGE 702 South Washington % OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT NOW! 5 faJm Per Annum Paid Quarterly on INSURED SAVINGS FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 2913 Texas Ave. tive has a Ph.D. and B.S. in En glish from the University of Tex as, plus the M.A. from Stanford University. Named as instructors are: Michael C. Hairgrove, reading supervisor for Spur Public Schools. Hairgrove formerly taught at Texas Technological College and in the Roaring Springs Public Schools. He has an M.A. degree from Texas Tech and the B.A. from the University of Texas. John L. Mclnnis, assistant pro fessor at San Angelo State Col lege. Mclnnis taught at Southern Illinois University in 1964-65. He has the A.M. degree from Wash ington University, and M.A. and B.A. degrees from Ohio Univer sity. E. Cleve Want Jr., a 1966 divin ity graduate from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He has taught at Hendrix College, Ark., and the University of Ark ansas. Other degrees include the M.A. from George Peabody Col lege and the B.A. from Hendrix College. Listed as instructors for the fall term are: Robert Wenck, with M.A. and B.A. degrees in English at A&M. Mrs. Roberta Hursey, with an M.A. in English from A&M and the B.A. from the University of Arizona. Mrs. Gloria Morton, a former A&M faculty member, with the M.A. from A&M and the B.A. from Idaho University. Mrs. Zida Stewart, with the M.A. from Michigan University and the B.A. from the University of Brazil. Mrs. Stewart will teach English to foreign students, plus subjects for the Modern Lan guage Department. Aggie Projectionist Campus Movieman ELECTRONICS WIZARD A1 Thielemann, building superintendent at Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center, checks the power control panel for the MSC. Thieleman, a salf-taught electrician, keeps abreast of new developments by reading manuals and publications. Engineering Profs Named Dr. Nicholas Gothard and Don ald E. Todd are new faculty mem bers of the Department of Elec trical Engineering. Gothard is an assistant profes sor and Todd an instructor. A native of Hungary, Gothard earned his doctorate at Cornell University. His master’s degree is from MIT and the bachelor’s from Budapest Technical Univer sity. All three degrees are in electrical engineering. Gothard has industrial experi ence in Canada and the United States. He moved to A&M from Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of publications on electromagnetic wave genera tion and guidance. He will con tinue research efforts in this area for the Engineering Experiment Station. Todd is working toward a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and a bachelor’s de gree in electrical engineering from A&M. A. R. (Al) Thielemann has watched hundreds of movies for 10 years at Texas A&M, but he can’t tell you much about their content. The reason is simple: He does not give a hoot about the con tent. He’s a projectionist — the man who operates the movie pro jector. Thielemann’s responsibilities are wider than a projectionist, though. He has been building superintendent of the Memorial Student Center for eight years. He has charge of all electrical equipment and general mainten ance. A self-taught electronics wiz ard, Thielemann maintains all five television sets in the MSC. “I was interested in electronics, so I took a course by correspond ence,” Thielemann explained. “I haven’t had much coaching.” Movies at A&M are better than ever in more ways than one, the native . of Welcome, near Bren- ham, contends. “The selection is better,’ he re marked. “Films are not the new est, but we get some good movies. Aggies like westerns best. They go for lots of action with a little love. “The most popular film ever shown here is ‘We’ve Never Been Licked’, a movie about life at Texas A&M in earlier days. It’s a real thrill for the boys. We show it about once a year and always get a big crowd. “The boys like comedy, too, if it’s not too corny,” Thielemann chuckled. “On TV, they like ‘Batman’. I’ve checked all five sets on Thursdays. They are on the same Bat Channel.” Thielemann doesn’t watch TV except for operational informa tion. He’s interested in picture quality, signals — things like NOTICE TIRES TIRES TIRES NIGHT DAY r •v./ FRI. 8 a. m. - 9 p. m . _ SAT. 8 a. m. - 6 p. m. mill I I IIIIIIIH I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii We have just completed our Tire Inventory and found we are OVER STOCKED on NEW REG ULAR TREAD tires and also found odds and ends of discontinued tread designs, low-mileage take-offs, retreads and plenty of good used tires. WE WANT TO CLEAR THEM OUT NOW! We will have them all out on display in stacks and priced for easy selection. First come, first served! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimmiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ALL TIRES MOUNTED FREE f \ STORE COLLEGE AVE. and 33rd 822-0139 that. Sports events give him no special charge. He can walk away to other tasks at the flicker of a light. “In my workshop at home, I have three sets going at the same time,” he remarked. “All are on different channels, but the noise doesn’t bother me.” The first electronic device Thielemann built was a crude ra dio when he was 14. He wrapped wire around an oatmeal box, af fixed a chunk of charcoal from a stove to serve as a crystal, and • added “cat whiskers’ with pieces of thin wire. Two years later, using scrap parts, the budding Ben Franklin built a power plant for the fam ily’s farm. He wound his own coils, handmade contacts, mount ed a four-cylinder gas engine on a rebuilt automobile block he sawed in half, and found a scrap genera tor. To nobody’s surprise, the device worked beautifully grind ing corn and meat. Later in Bryan, he constructj a one-wheel garden tractor will a handmade transmission, stotj gears and a gas engine. Thielemann has no idle timJ His hobby is working on elej tronic equipment and gadgets, “Electronics is fascinating jl me,” he said. “I feel that ill man enjoys doing something, ttij is what he ought to do.” The enterprising Thielemanni| a designer and building contra'.l tor of sorts. His new brick houl in Bryan is in reality two olJ houses converted to one. HejJ signed it, sublet jobs and suptJ vised construction while the fail ily continued to live in the honstI Thielemann praises his wiiJ Emily, for understanding his coj stant hunger for more knowled{| of electronics. “Without her cooperation, I would not have been able J achieve as much as I have,” y said. “Ours is a great partntr.| ship.” Pakistani School Solves Problems Throngs of problems were met during installation of an archi tecture and planning faculty at East Pakistan University in Dac ca. One barometer of the endeavor is Pakistan treatment of U. S. news. Pakistan newspapers ban ner headline Cassius Clay’s ex ploits: “Christians Try to Put Down Mohammed Ali Clay” The architecture and planning faculty program in its sixth year through Texas A&M and U. S. Agency for International Devel opment contract is unique, de clared Richard E. Vrooman. All other U. S. foreign development aid is in agriculture and engineer ing. The A&M architecture profes sor is on a month’s leave of ab sence after five years in the Southwest Asian country. He re turns Sept. 17 for two more years. “This program will give Pak istan its only native architects in a population of 60 million,” Vrooman said. “Their practice potential is excellent. Some of our students are already work ing.” Previous structures were designed by engineers or foreign architects. The faculty, rapidly being turn ed over to the Pakistani, expects to graduate its first class of five architects in December. Study is on a five-year basis, with 91 students currently in the pro gram. A 110 enrollment is ex pected this fall, when a graduate program in city and regional planning will be initiated. “Our next job is to train these young architects to teach ani take over our jobs,” Vroomat said. He and six A&M studenli started the program in 1961, de signing four buildings in addition to teaching. A&M men designed a cafeteria-auditorium, faculty apartments, an auditorium n« yet under construction and i classroom building for the arcki tccture faculty, due completionii 1967. Only Vrooman, at A&M ski 1949, and Jack Yardley of Bryan A&M graduate of 1959, of 4 foreign staff remain. Yardlej departs in January. Vrooman, now chief advisor, was the first architecture faculty dean, but was replaced by a 2n year-old native. A&M personal are replaced as native teacher! become available. Nine Pakistar: are studying architecture and city planning in the U.S., preparatoij to teaching. “Pakistan architects face may limitations,” said the designer^ A&M’s All-Faith Chapel. “Then are 60 million Pakistani livingii an area half the size of Texas half of which is water. Landii quite expensive.’ The four-month monsoon sea son floods much of the low-lying, subtropical country at the foot of the Himalayas. Building materials is another limitation. “They have no stone,” Vrooman went on. “Clay for brick and concrete are their primary ma terials. Aggregate for concrete is made by breaking up brick Steel must be imported and they have no stock 2-by-4s. All their lumber is cut to specifications,” Please don't zlupf Sprite. It makes plenty of noise all by itself. Sprite, you recall, is the soft drink that's so tart and tingling, we just couldn't keep it quiet. Flip its lid and it really flips. Bubbling, fizzing, gurgling, hissing and carrying on all over the place. An almost exces sively lively drink. Hence, to zlupf is to err. What is zlupfing? RCGISTFRCD TRADE I Zlupfing is to drinking what smacking one's lips is to eating. It's the staccato buzz you make when draining the last few deliciously tangy drops of Sprite from the bottle with a straw. Zzzzzlllupf! It's completely uncalled for. Frowned upon in polite society. And not appreciated on campus either. But. If zlupfing Sprite is absolutely essential to your enjoyment; if a good healthy zlupf is your idea of heaven, well...all right. But have a heart. With a drink as noisy as Sprite, a little zlupf goes a long, long way. SPRITE. SO TART AND TINGLING. WE JUST COULDN'T KEEP IT QUIET.