THE
Tuesday, December 6, 1966
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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Highway Short Course To Honor Greer
AIR FORCE SWEETHEART
etty Bruce, majoring in home economics at Southwest
tate College, was chosen as A&M’s Air Force ROTC
weetheart at the annual Air Force Ball. Miss Bruce was
■rowned by Air Division Commander Arturo Esquivel,
yw liss Jane Restivo of Bryan, a junior at A&M with a spec-
>wof ilization in accounting, was first runner-up for the title,
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t and
The 40th Annual Texas High
way Short Course, scheduled
Dec. 13-15 at Texas A&M Uni
versity, will be dedicated to State
Highway Engineer Dewitt C.
Greer, announced A&M Engineer-
Big Thank-You
Board Displayed
For Footballers
Texas A&M students are pre
paring a mammoth “thank you”
for the 1966 football team.
“Thank you notes” 10 feet tall
and four feet wide will be pre
sented the team when rulled-off
spaces for 4,500 signatures are
filled, explained Bill Faulkner of
Bryan, Alpha Phi Omega presi
dent.
“Anyone may sign the boards,”
he said. “We can turn them over
and sign the other side too, if
necessary.” The large “thank
you” cards are displayed near the
post office in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, alongside a football
team photo display.
The notes, headed “Thanks
Team for a great season,” will be
presented Dec. 0.
The Aggies won four games,
tied one and lost five this fall
for A&M’s best season since 1957.
ing Dean Fred J. Benson, general
program chairman.
Benson said the dedication is
in recognition of Greer’s 40 years
of Texas Highway Department
service, the past 26 as its top
administrative official.
Greer will be honored at the
opening session with personal
tributes by top representatives
from public and private groups
connected with state and national
highway programs.
The three-day program will be
conducted under the direction of
A&M’s Texas Transportation In
stitute and will include six dif
ferent conferences running simul
taneously.
Conference topics are highway
design and traffic operation, man
agement, right-of-way, structure
and hydraulics, pavement and
construction and maintenance.
Donald R. Drew, TTI associate
research engineer, will be co
ordinator for the conference on
highway design and traffic oper
ation. This will include a work
shop on design and operation
from the standpoint of safety and
sessions on the role of. automa
tion in highway operation and
new concepts of design and op
eration of controlled-access high
ways.
The management conference,
coordinated by TTI Associate Ex
ecutive Officer C. V. Wootan, will
consist of sessions on develop
ment of sueprvisory training pro
grams, human relations, imple
mentation-financial management
and utilization of manpower,
technology and experience.
William G. Adkins, TTI re
search economist, will coordinate
the right-of-way conference. This
will include a panel discussion of
right-of-way problems and re
ports on federal inspections and
new federal regulations for utility
adjustments.
The conference on structure
and hydraulics will be highlighted
by panel discussions on problems
with bridge construction, pre
stressed concrete beams and pil
ings. Conference coordinator is
Teddy J. Hirsch, head of TTI’s
Structural Research Department.
The pavement and construction
operations conference will be
jointly coordinated by Bob M.
Gallaway, head of TTI’s Highway
Materials Department, and Frank
H. Scrivner, head of the Pave
ment Design Department. Includ
ed in this conference will be a
panel discussion on design, con
struction and service experience
of pavements and reports on skip
resistant pavements, recent find
ings in flexible base research and
system for synthetic aggregates.
W. G. McCully, head of TTFs
Vegetation Management Depart
ment, and M. D. Shelby, TTI re
search engineer, are joint coordi
nators for the maintenance oper
ations conference. Sessions in
clude a report on equipment prob
lems and a panel discussion on
modification and maintenance of
signs.
alhoun Is Named Recipient
Of Mineral Industry Award
n
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., Texas
l&M University vice president
pr programs, has been named
■fecipient of the 1967 Mineral
ndustry Education Award of the
merican Institute of Mining,
etallurgical and Petroleum En-
ineers.
He was officially notified by
he 1966 Mineral Industry Edu-
:ation Award Committee. The
station reads:
“Eminent petroleum engineer,
:ducator, author and administra-
ior whose unusual insight and
irive sparked a revolution in
etroleum engineering education
Jhrough the application of science
8nd continuation study.”
A plaque will be presented at
the dinner of the AIME Council
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of Education next Feb. 19 in the
Biltmore Hotel at Los Angeles.
Dr. Calhoun also will be an
honored guest at the head table
at the national AIME Annual
Banquet February 22 in Los
Angeles. A page devoted to his
accomplishments will be included
in the Institute’s Honor Booklet
to be distributed at the banquet.
Dr. Calhoun came to Texas
A&M from Pennsylvania State
Universtiy, where he had been
head of the Department of
Petroleum and Natural Gas, to
become Dean of Engineering,
Director of the Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station and of
the Texas Engineering Extension
Service in 1955.
He was named vice president
for engineering in 1957 and vice
chancellor for engineering in
1959. In 1960, he was named vice
chancellor for development.
From 1963-65, Dr. Calhoun was
on leave from Texas A&M to
serve as Assistant and Science
Adviser to Secretary of the In
terior Stewart Udall, during
which time he traveled over many
parts of the world. He also
served during that time as acting
director of the Office of Water
Resources Research of the De
partment of Interior.
Dr. Calhoun returned to A&M
in 1965 as vice prsident for pro
grams. He has published 79 tech
nical and general articles and a
book of reservoir engineering. He
is a member of several profes
sional and honorary societies.
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