Tuesday Declared
Dewitt Greer Day
Ca |IGHWAY MAN HONORED
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Tuesday has been proclaimed
“Dewitt C. Greer Day” by offici
als of the Bryan-College Station
community and Texas A&M Uni
versity in recognition of the state
highway engineer’s 40 years of
Texas Highway Department serv
ice.
The special tribute to Greer co
incides with the opening of the
40th Annual Texas Highway Short
Course which will be conducted at
A&M Dec. 13-15. The entire
meeting will be dedicated to the
veteran highway leader.
Greer joined the Highway De
partment in 1927, four years after
receiving his civil engineering de
gree from A&M, and for the past
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Contract Given For Course
n Maintainability Engineering
A contract to develop and con- Maintainability Engineering Di-
luct an accredited graduate-level
tourse in maintainability engi-
teering for the Red River Army
)epot at Texarkana has been a-
warded Texas A&M University,
Th„'J[ tnnounced President Earl Rudder.
The unique agreement calls for
i&M to instruct graduate engi-
teers and physicists, in coopera-
lion with Army officials, in a two-
year government training pro
gram for the Logistics Intern
Training Center of the depot.
The special course will be de
veloped and presented through
A&M’s Industrial Engineering De-
lartment, headed by Dr. Albert
ff, Wortham. About 96 scient
ists will study at A&M and Tex
arkana in the first four classes.
Department Professors R. L.
Street and Dr. Robert J. Mc-
Nichols will instruct the program,
induding eight months training at
the depot and four months at
A&M.
Under the contract, A&M will
provide the second year of instruc
tion, with the top-ranked engi
neers’ and physicists’ first year
of work under direction of the
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vision staff. The program sche
dules 18 months of classroom work
and six months on-the-job par
ticipation.
Herchel E. Lynch, acting chief
for the maintainability engineer
ing training program, was at
A&M this week finalizing pro
gram details, working out sche
dules and course curriculum.
Lynch graduated from A&M in
1956 with a bachelor degree in
civil engineering.
The program objective is to
train engineers in research, de
velopment and design of new wea
pons systems in order to mini
mize maintenance burden costs.
The new discipline in engineer
ing will include 75 college semes
ter hours in maintainability engi
neering, reliability engineering,
quality assurance and control, me
trology, operations research, dyn
amic instrumentation, computer
science, statistical analysis and
prerequisite courses in proba
bility, statistics, applied mathe
matics, management and logistics.
The first class of 19 began grad
uate study in February, 1966. The
second class started last July. The
third class — presently being re
cruited from the nation’s colleges
and universities — begins instruc
tion in July, 1967.
“This program will cover ma
terial from the cradle to the
grave,” Dr. Wortham explained.
“Maintenance costs, acceptance
criteria and early-stage design are
a few of the areas to be studied.”
Aggie Ex Is
Recipient Of
Army Citation
Army Maj. Joe V. Wagstaff of
Henderson, former A&M student,
was presented the Bronze Medal
at Nha Trang in Vietnam.
Member of the Class of 1955,
Maj. Wagstaff was decorated at
Field Force Headquarters for
meritorious service in combat
operations against hostile Viet
nam forces.
The intelligence officer has
since returned to the United
States with assignment at Fort
Lewis, Wash. Wagstaff’s wife
Judith and two children reside at
Spanaway, Wash.
The son of Mrs. Alma McCor
mack, Route 4, Box 8, Henderson
is a graduate of Henderson High
School.
26 years has served as state high
way engineer, the department’s
top administrative post.
The proclamation officially de
signating “Dewitt C. Greer Day”
states in part:
“The Texas Highway Depart
ment, under his (Greer’s) admini
stration, has enjoyed the full con
fidence and respect of the citizen
ry while more than doubling the
state’s mileage of highways and
expanding almost five billion dol
lars of public funds.”
Also noted in the document is
th efact that Greer administers
the largest highway department
in the world and directs an em
ployment force of more than 17,-
000 persons.
The proclamation was announc
ed Wednesday by Brazos County
Judge W. C. Davis, Bryan-College
Station Chamber of Commerce
President James D. Ingram, Bry
an Mayor Jack Conlee and College
Station Mayor David A. Ander
son.
A resolution passed by A&M’s
Board of Directors states that
Greer “through his devotion to
duty, his dedication to service,
his engineering acumen, and his
outstanding ability as an admini
strator, has made a major con
tribution to highway development
in Texas and this nation ....
and is today universally recogniz
ed by other highway officials in
this nation as the dean of high
way administrators . . . .”
Earlier this year, Greer was
named a distinguished alumnus
of A&M.
Opening session of the short
course will be devoted to personal
tributes to Greer. Speakers in
clude A&M President Earl Rud
der; Herbert C. Petry, Jr., of
Carrizo Springs, chairman of the
Texas Highway Commission; J.
H. Kultgen of Waco, commission
member; State Sen. William T.
Moore of Bryan, representing Gov.
John Connally; E. M. Johnson of
Jackson, Miss., president of the
American Association of State
Highway Officials; and A. C.
Taylor of Fort Worth, regional
engineer for the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads.
Also S. J. Matthews of Austin,
executive director of the Texas
Municipal League; Nueces Coun
ty (Corpus Christi) Judge Noah
Kennedy, representing the coun
ties of Texas; H. C. Heldenfels
of Heldenfels Brothers Contrac
tors, Corpus Christi, representing
the highway industry; and Wel
don Hart of Austin, executive
vice president of the Texas Good
Roads Association.
Greer is past president of the
American Association of State
Highway Officials and has receiv
ed the organization’s coveted
Thomas H. McDonald and George
S. Bartlett awards. The latter
award is presented annually in
association with the American
Road Builders Association and the
Highway Research Board.
He also has represented the
highway interests of the nation in
three international conferences a-
broad and was instrumental in
establishing A&M’s internation
ally recognized Texas Transport
ation Institute to conduct research
for effective and enduring high
ways.
Kiwanis International and the
American Public Works Associa
tion selected Greer as one of
“Ten Top Public Works Men-of-
the Year” in 1962.
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Attend AY A Meet
Three members of the Teacher
Training Division of Texas
A&M’s Engineering Extension
Service are participating in the
American Vocational Association
Convention this week in Denver,
Colo.
They include head teacher
trainer B. M. Hackney and in
structors Louis R. Maneely and
Eugene C. Fisher. Hackney is a
delegate to the Iota Lambda Sig
ma section. ILS is a professional
fraternity for vocational people.
The 60th annual AVA conven
tion ends Friday.
Wednesday, December 7, 1966
College Station, Texas
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