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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 8, 1966
Aggie Advisors, Trainers
Cover All Corners Of Globe
E4n.ce oee.ca.
“I understand he has a major quiz Friday before th’ Christ
mas Holidays!”
Schools Accepting
Federal Programs
Federal education guidelines
are being accepted and implement
ed in a large majority of state
public schools, a Texas Education
Agency official declared here.
Dr. Leon Graham, TEA’S assist
ant commissioner for administra
tion, said only four Texas school
districts have not filed compli
ance programs for school desegre
gation with the U. S. Office of
Education.
He spoke this week at a school
public relations seminar at Texas
A&M for the Texas East Central
Cooperative School Association
and area members of the Texas
Association of School Administra
tors.
“Communities that have best
accepted criteria for federal sup
port of education were convinced
by school administrators that de
segregation is the law of the land
and the moral thing to do,”
i - > Graham said.
I'**’ In discussing federal programs,
the state official cited communi
cations and effective public rela
tions as the key to acceptance.
“School administrators must
keep the community and school
board informed and explain how a
more comprehensive program can
be offered with dual systems com
bined into one,” Graham explain
ed. “Many districts began de
segregation under their own ini
tiative, before civil rights legis
lation came along.”
Graham believes citizens must
understand the philosophy of
Title I (federal aid to disadvant
aged children.)
“It provides assistance for
children who need to learn re
medial reading. They can’t learn
if they need glasses or they are
hungry and cold,” he said.
“School administrators have a
personal challenge to evaluate
changes in federal support to edu
cation,” Graham continued. ‘They
should be willing to analyze
changes, to see if there are ways
of improving their educational
system to help the younngsters.”
Attending the one-day confer
ence at A&M’s Memorial Student
Center were administrators from
an East Central Texas area in
cluding Huntsville, Navasota, Gid-
dings, Brenham and Somerville.
Texas A&M’s International
Programs Office is in the busi
ness of institution-building in far-
flung corners of the world.
Currently, A&M has 71 rep
resentatives working full-time in
overseas development programs in
East Pakistan, the Dominican Re
public, Tunisia, Argentina and
Mexico. Thirty-one others are on
temporary assignments.
“Our work has three main as
pects,” explained Dr. Jack Gray,
International Programs director.
“We provide advisory service and
in-service training to faculty and
staff of the host institutions and
assist in developing physical faci
lities.”
“These projects are a coopera
tive advisory relationship with
host governments,” Gray continu
ed, “Although we are supported
by the Agency for International
Development and the Ford Foun
dation, most resources are fur
nished by the host countries.”
Agriculture, veterinary science,
engineering, architecture, busi
ness, education and home eco
nomics are the disciplines involv
ed.
Dr. Gray estimated that more
than 220 man years of faculty
and staff time and $5.5 million
have been spent in A&M’s over
seas programs since 1954.
In addition, Gray pointed out,
more than 150 faculty and staff
members of host institutions have
been trained in degree-oriented
programs and returned to their
home campuses.
The largest contingent of A&M
staff members is in the Dominican
Republic. Thirty-nine persons
work in two programs coordinat
ed by Dr. G. M. Watkins. Of that
total, eight are affiliated with
Ford Foundation Agricultural Ed
ucation and Research Program at
Santiago. Thirty-one others are
involved in general agricultural
development programs supported
by AID. Dr. Jarvis Miller is
party chief.
Most assignments for overseas
duty by A&M personnel are for
two years. Several “short term”
assignments range from one to
three months.
“This is a small agricultural
education and research advisory
program supported by the Ford
Foundation,” Dr. Gray comment
ed. “We have exchanged person
nel on an informal basis. The re
lationship is one of friendship
and mutual respect. They have a
topnotch staff.”
Six plant scientists from A&M
spent two weeks at the University
of Coahuila in September, assist
ing in planning and research. John
Holcomb is program chief for
Mexico operations.
Four specialists for agricultural
economics research projects in Ar
gentina are continuing work in
building research capabilities of
that country. Four more are to
join them next year in Buenos
Aires and other areas of the coun
try.
Begun in 1964, the project is
projected for four more years.
Dr. Vance Edmondson is party
chief.
Each project has a coordinator
on campus. They include Pakis
tan, Dr. Gray; Dominican Repub
lic, William Beach; Tunisia, E. P.
Creech; Argentina, Clifford Ba
tes; Dominican Republic for the
Ford Foundation, Dr. Watkins,
and Mexico, John Holcomb.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
Congratulations, Sir:
For what you said in your “A
Student Strike Against Viet
Nam?” editorial (Dec. 2nd) we
thank and congratulate you.
We are concerned over the ap
parently wide-spread incapacity
or unwillingness of many intel
ligent, capable, well meaning A-
mericans to recognize the respon
sibilities which make the free
doms we enjoy a matter of fact
rather than a matter of theory.
We suggest that Mr. Hubert’s
worries (as expressed in SOUND
OFF, Dec. 6) about our failure
to support free speech by re
fusing to participate in a con
ference which advocates, in your
words, a “letdown of this nation
by its students and educators,” are
ill-founded. By refusing to take
part in this conference we are
certainly exercising our freedom
of speech; and, although this
action will not receive the publi
city that participation would have,
it deserves a saluate as a deci
sion responsibly made.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mallory Davis
(Animal Science senior)
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