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I9{i Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1966 Number 363 Aggies Named To Who’s Who Thirty-eight Texas A&M Uni versity seniors have been named to “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges” for 1966-67. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan revealed that most stu dents selected for the national honor have earned distinguished student status for one or more semesters. All the honorees have grade averages of 80 or above at Aggie- land. Hannigan said a faculty-stu dent selection committee chose “Who’s Who” representatives on the basis of scholastic records and leadership in campus affairs. Rob J. Griffin Appointed To School Board Bob J. Griffin has been ap pointed to complete the unex pired term of Dr. A. F. Isabel! on the A&M Consolidated High School Board. This was announced by W. T. Riedel, superintendent of Con solidated schools. Dr. Isabell is moving to Cali fornia where he will attend Stan ford University, studying im proved teaching techniques in chemistry. Griffin, vice-president in charge of sales of Hy-Lay Hatch eries, Inc., was graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in ag ricultural information; he also has studied for his master’s de gree in poultry at A&M. Griffin will fill the position until April 1, 1967, the expira tion date of Dr. Isabell’s term. SCONA Delegate Applications Open Robert Heaton, chairman of the twelfth annual Student Confer ence on National Affairs, has an nounced application procedures for students wishing to be official delegates to this year’s session, Dec. 7-10. Twenty-four conferees will be chosen, and of these 16 must be United States citizens and eight may be foreign students. Heaton said prospective dele gates must be juniors, seniors, or graduate seniors, with a grade point ratio for the past regular semester of at least 1.5. A regis tration fee of $5 will be charged to delegates to the conference. Applications are available at the Corps commandant’s office, the Student Affairs office in the YMCA, the main desk of the MSC, and in the MSC director’s office. They must be completed and returned to the director’s office by Nov. 15, Heaton said. A&M students named for the honor include: William Ward, Austin; Daniel Miller, Dallas; Charles Berry, Robert Holcomb, and Johnny MacFarlane, Fort Worth; Frank Lopez, Houston; Steven Gummer and Dennis Hoh- man, San Antonio; Thomas De- Frank, Arlington; Also Robert Beene, Big Spring; Harry Ledbetter, Breckenridge; Wayne Fudge, Burkburnett; Sammy Pearson, Calvert; Frank Berngen, Chillicothe; Neal Ward, College Station; Daniel Fischer, Cuero; James Bassham, Dike; Thomas Stone, Donna; Arturo Esquivel, Eagle Pass; Gilbert Smith, El Campo; James Oliver, Grapeland; Eddie Davis, Henrietta; Richard Franklin, Kenedy; Thomas Edgar, Lake Jackson; Frederick Karle, Mer cedes; Joe Weiss, Pflugerville; Stephen Holtz, Seguin; Pedro Garza, Santa Rosa; M a n z e 11 Shafer, Trent; Cyrus Heaton, Ty ler; Danny Clifton, Valley View; William Haseloff, Vernon; James McFarland, Wills Point; Cecil Windsor, Yoakum; Michael Tower, Rapid City, South Dakota; Jack Holt, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Robert Miller, Anchorage, Alaska; Stephen Thurman, Nashville, Indiana. Bonfire Plans Set The Executive Committee of the Academic Council has ap proved the same general ar rangements for students to build the Thanksgiving Bonfire that were in effect last year, an nounced Academic Vice President Wayne C. Hall. Undergraduate students will be permitted to work on the bonfire on three days only. These days are Nov. 19-21. All undergradu ate classes will be dismissed on Monday, Nov. 21. Graduate classes will not be dismissed. This can not be considered a holiday for University employees, Hall said. In addition to the above days, those juniors and seniors who do not have classes on the after noons of Nov. 16-18 may go to the wooded area to perform prepara tory work, including some pre liminary wood cutting. Fresh men and sophomores are not per mitted to work on these three afternoons. At President Rudder’s request, the Office of the Commandant, the Accident and Fire Prevention Committee, and the Firemen’s Training School of the Engineer ing Extension Service will co operate in the safety aspects of the bonfire. Texas Has Half-Holiday AUSTIN UP) — Gov. John Connally Wednesday officially declared next Tuesday a half holiday in Texas. He said all state offices would be closed at noon in order to give employees ample time to vote in the general election. “I appeal to all other public and private employers to also make arrangements for their employees to be given time off to vote during regular working hours,” Connally said. Lecture Series Presents Selye Friday In MSC Dr. Hans Selye, internationally renowned physician, will be the speaker for the second University Lecture series Friday, in the Memorial Student Center. His subject is “Stress and the Concept of Pluricausal Diseases.” Dr. Selye, director of the Insti tute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Universite de Mon treal, has long been interested in the effects of stress upon the human body. As a result, his findings have contributed greatly to the advance of life sciences. A native of Austria, Dr. Selye earned his medical degree and Ph.D. at Prague. He has served as a member of the faculties of German University, Prague, Johns Hopkins, and McGill. Honors received for his work include the Gordon Wilson Medal for 1948, Medal of the Accademia Medico Fisica Fiorentina, and the Heberden Medal. Dr. Selye is also a member of the Royal So ciety of Canada and the New York Academy of Science. Listed in Robinson’s “The Hun dred Most Important People To day”, Dr. Selye has won numer ous honors, including the Gordon Wilson Medal for 1948, the Her- berden Medal, membership in the Royal Society of Canada and the New York Academy of Science. His best-know books are “From Dream to Discovery”, “Symbolic Shorthand System for Physiology and Medicine”, “The Stress of Life”, “The Pluricausal Cardio pathies”, “The Chemical Preven tion of Cardiac Necroses” and “Calicphylaxis”. In a 3 p.m. Friday session in the College of Veterinary Medi cine Auditorium, Dr. Selye will discuss his research. University Lectures, sponsored by the Graduate College, presents authorities in the broad social, political, and intellectual fields. Wayne C. Hall, dean of the Graduate College, said the lec tures are open to the faculty, students, and the general public. No admission is charged. The lecture will be in the MSC ballroom and begins at 8 p.m. LEGISLATORS VISIT CAMPUS Four Texas A&M graduates now serving in the state legislature recently visited the A&M campus and were given a tour of the university’s new scientific and research fa cilities. Dr. Dan Drew (left), associate di rector of A&M’s Data Processing Center, explains a new computer system to (from left) Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston, Rep. Bill W. Clayton of Springlake, Bryan-Col- lege Station, Rep. David Haines and Rep. C. L. Ray of Marshall. Assisting in the demonstration is Mrs. Laura Melton, com puter science graduate student. Johnson Returns From Asian Trip MOMENT OF RELAXATION President Lyndon Johnson turns in chair, tucks chin in left hand, thrusts right hand in his pants pocket and stretches out his right leg as he relaxes during a visit to Suwon, South Korea, 30 miles south of Seoul. ANCHORAGE, Alaska </P) — President Johnson headed for Washington Wednesday with a buoyant report on his Asian tra vels and plans to swing quickly into a political stumping tour across the United States. After an overnight stop at An chorage, blending a homecoming welcome with a presidential boost for Democrats, Johnson took off at 8:36 a.m. Alaska Standard Time on the final 3,500 miles of his 31,500-mile Far East trip. A nationally televised recep tion awaited the chief execu tive's scheduled touchdown at 8 p.m. EST, at Washington’s Dulles International Airport. And in the offing was another whirlwind Johnson tour, this time domestic compaigning for Demo cratic candidates in next Tues day’s election. While the White House withheld official announce ment, it was understood Johnson planned tentatively to take off Friday on a four-day swing through a dozen or more states. As for his 17-day visit to seven Asian and Pacific lands, John son reported to a breakfast ga thering Wednesday: “It has been the most reward ing, the most thrilling, the most encouraging journey of my life. “I believe it might also have been the most important and the most historic.” The one negative item in the presidential report dealt with prospects for a peaceful settle ment in Viet Nam. Nothing but “the voice of re newed hostility” from Hanoi greeted the peace offers from the allied leaders he met with at Manila, he said. “Until that voice changes— until the Communists realize they cannot win this war — there will A&M Semper Fidelis Society To Observe Marine Birthday Baird Takes A T&T Duties Jack A. Baird, a 1943 electri cal engineering graduate of Tex as A&M University, has been elected engineering vice presi dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The native of Omaha, Texas joined Bell Laboratories in 1946 after three years service in the U. S. Navy. He worked in devel opment of military radar and communications systems for sev eral years. During this time he earned an MS degree at Stevens Institute of Technology. He then returned to A&M, where he earned the Ph.D. in electrical en gineering in 1952. The Texas A&M Chapter of the Semper Fidelis Society will celebrates the Marine Corps’ 191st anniversary with a Birthday Ball at Wehrman’s Restaurant at 7 p.m. next Thursday. Dick Carey, president of the local Semper Fidelis chapter, said the Nov. 10 program will include a dinner, a brief address by Ma rine Maj. W. H. Barnard of Aus tin and a traditional cake-cutting ceremony. Carey said anyone interested in Marine Corps activities is invited to attend the ball. Tickets are $2.50 per person and may be obtained by contact ing any of the following repre sentatives: Carey, Dorm 9-317; Dick Partridge, Dorm 7-318 or Bob Handley, Dorm 17-302. The Semper Fidelis Society is composed of college and univer sity students throughout the country who plan to serve in the Marine Corps or else have a definite interest in the activities of that branch of the service. Most members of the organiza tion are seeking commissions in the Marines and participating in its PLC officer selection program. Kyle Field Introduces Boy To All New Environment BY PATRICIA HILL Remember when you were 7 and dear old Dad, who was the class of (ask mother, she can tell you), took you to your first Ag gie football game ? Such was the case of Junior, we’ll call him, who sat next to me at the last meeting of the gridders at Kyle Field. His fa ther had obviously told him all the fantasies that the Corps, or the school in general, held and being 7 and full of expectations, when they became realities to him everything was even bright er. “Now son,” his father began, “if you’ll look way over yonder, pretty soon you’ll see the Corps of Cadets march in. Now watch closely, because . . . oh, hear that big drum sounding son ? Here comes the world’s largest march ing band.” “The world’s largest band?” said Junior. “I thought Texas had the world’s largest band.” “Texas?! No, son, all Texas cares about is having those twist ing girls and all those cockeyed flags going in all different di rections. No, son. THIS band is a real band! Can you see those big bass horns, son?” “Ye-a! Gosh they’re big! How come they’re so many of ’em Dad ? ” “Well, because it just takes that many horns to balance out all that noise. That’s a lot of in struments out there son, how’d you like to be out there in the middle of all that?” “To tell ya the truth I think it’d be awfully loud. Gosh, I bet that guy out in the middle has to plug in his ear plugs to keep from—hey Dad, they’re all goin’ in different directions out there!” “Sure they are, son. Why, when I was in school that used to be the biggest thing about goin’ to a football game. Now all those cadets care about is get ting their girls down here, and doin’ a lot of smoochin’ and car- ryin’ on, and . . . why son, when I was in school, girls goin’ to school here just wasn’t even thought of, much less talked about!” At this point I didn’t know whether to stand up and defend my position, or sit there quietly, and soak it all in. I chose to do the latter. About this time they brought the quarterbacks and a few linemen out to start the pre game workout, and Junior’s eyes got bigger than saucers! “Boy, Dad, they sure don’t have much of a team, do they?” “Son, you don’t actually be lieve that that is the whole team, do you? For . - - . sake son, they’ve got real depth this year —real depth.” As the rest of the team came out and the War Hymnn was sung and all was set for the kick off, Junior became wider eyed and more snowed by every move. “Look at that kick, son!, Now that's a real kick! Why, I have n’t seen a kick like that si^ice— well, it’s been a long time, son!” And I’m sorry to say, that this statement was the last thing old Dad had to say for a long time. About the only comment he made that I could possibly repeat, was something he kept saying to his son about how the Aggies didn’t always play this way, and how somebody must’ve had his head . . . well, you’re Ag gies, and you know the expres sion ... to have brought down two officials (only he really did n’t have that much respect for them, and by this time, I have to admit, neither did I) from SMU. But nevertheless, Junior went home with a gleam in his eye. A gleam cast by all those shiny Senior boots; just like the ones he’ll no doubt have on as the Class of 1981 marches in, to the sound of that big bass drum. be no miracle of peace in Viet Nam.” In three countries he visited and which had been the target of Red assaults in past years — the Philippines, Malaysia and South Korea — he said: “Men are working to build a society of free and happy people and they are on the high road to success.” He said the Manila summit conference of the seven Viet Nam war allies could not produce a peace miracle in the face of Communist intransigience, but even so the parley “may yet have the greatest significance for all the nations of Asia and the Paci fic.” This was because of an emerg ing spirit of a new Pacific com munity dedicated to the Manila conference goals of building peace, security, freedom and rising liv ing standards in Asia, he said. Shortly before his takeoff Tues day from Seoul, the President was told about the North Korean Am bush killing of six GIs along the Korean truce line. Johnson, who had visited U. S. troops below the armistice line only the after noon before, immediately ordered an inquiry. In his arrival remarks here Tuesday night he said about his trip: “We found people who are dedicated and determined to stand on their feet. Now the United States of America has taken its stand in Asia and the Pacific. We are fighting tonight in Viet Nam to make that stand true and we are going to be suc cessful." “And you can put it in your pipe and smoke it that it is going to come true,” he said. Although it was near midnight and slush-snowing when the President’s Air Force jetliner landed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, five miles from Anchor age, several thousand Alaskans braved the time and the climate to cheer Johnson. Gov. William A. Egan, U. S. Sens. E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening and U. S. Rep. Ralph J. Rivers, all Democrats from Alaska, led the welcome and were rewarded with public pres idential praise at the airport and again in Anchorage. Johnson halted his motorcade to chat with spectators and touch outstretched hands along the way, and again in the city where a big bonfire had been lit in celebration. It was well past midnight before he turned in. CHARLES J. KOERTH SR. Memorial Fund Established By Physician’s Estate The Charles John Koerth Sr. Memorial Scholarship Fund las been set up at Texas A&M ni- versity through a $115,085.84 >e- quest from the late Junction physician’s estate. A 1917 A&M graduate, Dr. Koerth was a physician and med ical director of the Woodman of the World War Memorial Hos pital in San Antonio several years before it closed in 1956. Koerth scholarships will be a spring award to students in vet erinary medicine and agriculture, according to Student Aid Director Robert M. Logan. Dr. koerth stipulated the scholarships be awarded on the basis of scholastic ability and financial need. He died at Junction last year.