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V«lwne 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1966
Number 350
Student
Senate
By BARNEY FUDGE
The last Student Senate meet
ing was a rather exciting one.
For those who haven’t heard,
President Rudder was kind
enough to attend the meeting and
discuss the student publications
problem. It was one of the most
interesting meetings that has
been held in the past three years.
Thebe were numerous guests
present who added to the tension
and excitement of the situation.
The closest communication that
to my knowledge has ever oc
curred between the Senate and
the highest official of our admin
istration occurred this night.
Many questions were hurled
from the students to the Presi
dent and there was bom a direct
communication from him to the
students.
No matter what the results of
our meeting, this close contact
ean’t help but lead to a better
line of communication from the
administration to us. Surely, a
lot of our problems could be les
sened by better communication.
Coming to the forefront of our
student body’s present problems
is an old and a hallowed tradi
tion, the tradition of midnight
yell practice.
It has been a source of fun and
the very essence of the “Spirit of
Aggieland” for many years. Yet,
due to a seeming disregard for
common sense, we are in great
danger of losing this great tra
dition.
Our school is large now. It is
large enough so that we can no
longer conduct midnight yell
practice as we have in the past.
There have got to be some
changes made, and we, the stu
dents, are the ones who have to
do it.
You ask yourself, “What can
I do to help midnight yell prac
tice?” It should be obvious. If
everyone would ask themselves
the same problem, and think
about it, the whole problem
would disappear.
Think about it. See you at mid
night yell practice.
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Large Turn-Out For
Faculty - Staff Social
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Approximately 800 persons at-
ten< ^ e< ^ annua l University fac-
reception Tuesday
‘ night in the Memorial Student
^ Center ballroom.
The two-hour reception, honor-
|1||'$\ ing new faculty and staff mem-
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bers, was hosted by A&M Presi
dent and Mrs. Earl Rudder.
President and Mrs. Rudder
were joined in the reception’s re
ceiving line by the following new
deans and department heads who
have assumed their present posi-
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lf| : Doctor Isaac I. Peters,
Dairy Science Professor,
Dies In Galveston Hospital
President and Mrs.
staff reception.
Earl Rudder (center) greet Dean and Mrs. Wayne Hall at faculty-
100 6 Old Army’ Aggies Gather
For 40th Anniversary Reunion
Dean Hall Cited
Dean Wayne C. Hall, academic
affairs vice president of Texas
A&M University, has been elected
to the board of directors of the
Southern Association of Land
Grant and State Universities.
Dean Hall received the honor
during the 13-state association’s
anual meeting last week at Lex
ington, Ky.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
By JOHN FULLER
About 100 Aggie exes from a
truly “Old Army” era will gather
here this weekend as the Class
of 1926 holds its 40th anniver
sary reunion.
Mrs. Willie Mae Shepperd,
class secretary for the Associa
tion of Former Students, said
registration for the group will
begin Friday afternoon at the
Ramada Inn, followed by a din
ner party at Briarcrest Country
Club Friday evening.
A Saturday noon luncheon at
the Ramada Inn, at which “sev
eral special guests” will be intro
duced, according to Mrs. Shep
perd, will close the main sessions.
Special buses will take delegates
to and from Kyle Field for the
TCU game as an unofficial part
of the gathering.
Among those expected to at
tend the meeting is Class Agent
Jack Williams of San Marcos, a
1926 graduate.
The “Golden Anniversary”
class, which graduated 50 years
after the school’s founding in
1876, was distinguished among
other things by championships in
football and cross-country, by the
writing of “The Spirit of Aggie-
land,” and by the addition of sev
eral new buildings to the campus.
Among the leaders of the class
were Williams, who served as
president of the senior class,
president of the “T” Association,
and editor of the Battalion; Wil
liam M. Pinson, who commanded
the Corps of Cadets, played var
sity football two years, and was
junior class president; and Frank
S. Kelly, a lieutenant colonel of
a composite regiment, a second
lieutenant in the Ross Volunteers,
secretary-treasurer of the junior
class and a yearbook staff mem
ber.
An article entitled “History
and Traditions of the Cadet
Corps” in the annual gives a pic
ture of “Old Army” that tran
scends the usual legends.
“About fifteen years ago,” the
report notes, “the entire corps
slung equipment and started on
the annual hike to the Brazos.
This was a time for many to
feign sickness, but the doctor was
wise and no one was able to play
any April Fool tricks on him.
The purpose of this march was
to relieve the monotony of school
life and to put into practice prin
ciples taught in the classroom.”
The article concludes that “ev
eryone had fun and was reluctant
to return to the drollery of
school life.”
Even so, some Aggie traditions
have remained remarkably intact
throughout the years since the
graduation of the alumni who
will gather here Friday. Al
though uniforms of the Cadet
Corps have changed drastically,
those of today’s Ross Volunteers
look pretty much like those in
the pictures from 40 years ago.
The Elephant Walk still looks the
same, and the Corps still marches
down the main streets of Hous
ton and Dallas. Throughout the
1926 Longhorn, a fascinating
amount of similarity to the 1946
Aggieland is evident.
And, from the looks of several
miscellaneous and candid shots
in that annual, the method of
celebrating Aggie touchdowns
has varied imperceptibly, if at
all, since the 1926 exes first
passed this way.
Dr. Isaac Peters, dairy science
professor at Texas A&M Univer
sity since 1950, died in a Galves
ton hospital Monday.
The 56-year-old Russian - bom
scientist had been hospitalized
seven weeks. Cause of death was
a heart attack.
The body was given to the Uni
versity of Texas Medical Center
at Galveston in accordance with
Dr. Peter’s wishes.
Memorial services will be an
nounced later. In lieu of flow
ers, the family requests remem
brances go to a teaching im
provement fund through A&M’s
Development Office.
A recognized authority in
cheese making. Dr. Peters came
to A&M from Iowa State, where
he developed a new method for
making Swiss cheese. He ac
quired his Ph.D. in dairy bacteri
ology at the Ames University in
1947.
“Dr. Peters is recognized
world - wide for cheese - making
technology,” declared Dr. R. E.
Leighton, acting head of dairy
science in the Animal Science
Department.
The Texas Academy of Sciences
Fellow received the B.S.A. de
gree at Manitoba in 1942 and the
M.S. at Michigan State in 1944.
He served in the Manitoba
Health and Welfare Department
before joining the Iowa State
faculty. Dr. Peters came to
A&M in 1950 as associate pro
fessor and was appointed full
professor in 1963.
The Mennonite church member
was active in Boy Scouting and
past president of the College
Station Kiwanis Club. Dr. Peters
was a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science and member of the
American Dairy Science Associ
ation, American Society of Mi
crobiology, Institute of Food
Technologists, International As
sociation of Milk and Food Sani
tarians, Phi Kappa Phi and Sig
ma Xi. He was past president of
ASM and IFT Texas sections.
Dr. Peters was bom July 19,
1910, in Beigthal, Russian, and
was a naturalized U. S. citizen.
He is survived by his wife
Maurine and three children, Mar
ion, Manley and Patricia who at
tend A&M Consolidated schools,
a brother and three sisters. Rev.
Gerhard Peters is of Fordice,
B.C.; Mrs. Gerhard Harder, Ot
tawa, Ont.; Mrs. Elisabeth War-
kentin, Steinbach, Man.; and Miss
Katharaina Peters, Winnipeg,
Man.
tion since last fall:
During the first hour — Dr.
and Mrs. Horace Byers, dean,
College of Geosciences; Dr. and
Mrs. Arthur Martell, head, De
partment of Chemistry; Dr. Mor-
ros Ostrofsky, head, Department
of Mathematics; Dr. and Mrs.
Richard A. Geyer, head, Depart
ment of Oceanography; Dr. and
Mrs. M. L. Greenhut, head, De
partment of Economics.
During the second hour—Dr.
and Mrs. Clarence Zener, dean,
College of Sciences; Dr. and Mrs.
Jack W. Coleman, head, Depart
ment of Accounting; Dr. and
Mrs. T. W. Spencer, head, De
partment of Geophysics; Dr. and
Mrs. Lee J. Martin, head, Depart
ment of English; Dr. and Mrs.
J. D. McCrady, head, Depart
ment of Venterinary Physiology;
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Squire,
head. Department of Physics.
In addition to current faculty
and staff members and theijj
wives and husbands, invitations
were extended to retired faculty
faculty and staff members and
their wives and husbands and to
widows of faculty and staff mem
bers.
Humble President Visits A&M
“The most valuable fuel,”
states Dr. Charles F. Jones, pres
ident of Humble Oil and Refin
ing Co., “is the psychic fuel that
fires the minds of bright, ener
getic innovative people and leads
them to higher levels of pro
ductivity and performance.”
Speaking Tuesday afternoon be
fore faculty members and grad
uate students of Texas A&M Uni
versity’s College of Engineering,
the Humble president said that
like any real fuel, such as gaso
line, the fuel that burns in the
minds of men is not made up of
any one substance but is created
from a combination of things.
“Like gasoline,” Jones observed,
“it is composed of carefully blend- ■
ed components and additives, each
put there for a specific purpose
to achieve the right kind of cere
bral combustion. Men whose
minds are powered with this kind
of fuel are truly ‘high octane’
performers who don’t ‘knock’
when the going is uphill.”
Dr. Jones, who holds a physi
cal chemistry doctors degree from
The University of Texas, said
he is concerned—but not unduly
alarmed—about pockets of anti
business attitudes on the college
campus today.
“Business, some students are
saying, is for the birds,” he not
ed. “With little or no experience
in business themselves, they
seem to regard it as a rather
dull and routine way to spend
their working lives. They see
business as crassly materialistic,
where the freedom to criticize
and dissent is discouraged.”
It is true, Dr. Jones said, that
one of the primary purposes of
business is to make a profit and
felt there was no reason to apol
ogize for that. “Most of the oth
er criticisms made of business I
reject out of hand,” he added.
Turning to technical matters,
Dr. Jones said the petroleum in
dustry has made remarkable
breakthroughs in production tech
nology during the past 30 years.
“Our greatest achievement in
production and recovery was de
velopment of understanding of
behavior of oil, gas and water in
the porous rock of the reser-
vior,” he stated.
He added that technological
changes are affecting everything
in the oil business, from explora
tion to marketing. He said
Humble, for example, is using
data processing equipment to
computerize statistics used in its
search for oil and gas.
Fire Prevention Week
Exhibition Sponsored By Firemen
Powers, and sixth, Barbara Ger
man.
Consolidated winners were:
Second grade, Martha Lam
bert; third, T. J. Wainerdi;
fourth, Sharon Cullen, and fifth,
Kerry Hyde Kuttler.
William Beall, junior meteorology major,
demonstrates mouth to mask resuscitation.
Firement make final check after demonstrating fire-fight
ing techniques.
Barbara German, 6th grade student at Col
lege Hill Elementary, receives a first-place
award in poster contest.
In a special fire-control demon
stration, a small house was
burned on the drill field south of
Duncan Dining Hall Tuesday
night. It was part of an exhibi
tion sponsored by Texas A&M
and College Station firemen in
connection with National Fire
Prevention Week.
Along with the house burning,
fire prevention posters made by
area elementary students were
exhibited. Twenty-five College
Hills and A&M Consolidated stu
dents were awarded prizes for
their posters.
Firemen demonstrated the
proper use of fire extinguishers
on various types of blazes and
reviewed several life-saving tech
niques, including mouth-to-mask
resuscitation.
The highlight of the evening
was the burning of a small frame
house for the purpose of demon
strating fire-fighting techniques.
The house was set afire and fire
men simulated a real situation
where speed and proper fire
fighting methods are necessary to
extinguish the blaze with least
possible damage to the structure.
Fire Prevention Poster winners
at Collegfe Hills were:
Second grade, Sandra Suther
land; third, Ross Hines; fourth,
Lorena Thomas; fifths'.lS«»fcstaai#‘«*hrough individual contacts.
Students Plan
Trip To Big D
Approximately 30 Texas A&M
international students will have
the opportunity to visit the State
Fair of Texas and John F. Ken
nedy Memorial at Dallas Oct.
22-23.
A&M’s People-to-People chap
ter, now in its third year, has
chartered a bus for the trip.
The Dallas A&M Club and Dal
las Council on World Affairs are
assisting in the two-day trip.
The A&M Club will locate stu
dents in homes for the overnight
stay and the Council has arranged
for fair passes.
The bus leaves College Station
at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22.
People-to-People is an organiza
tion devoted to promoting better
tion devoted to promoting bet
ter international understanding