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Society Inducts Apollo Manager THE BATTALION Wednesday, December 14, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 3 Dr. Joseph F. Shea of Hous ton, manager of NASA’s Apollo Spacecraft Program and visiting professor of aerospace engineer ing at Texas A&M University, has been inducted into the A&M Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering society. Tau Beta Pi is the engineering profession’s equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Shea was initiated in cam pus ceremonies Monday evening and later participated in the or ganization’s annual banquet at Clayton’s Restaurant in Bryan. Also inducted into the society were Joe Hanover of Bryan, dis trict engineer for the Texas Highway Department, and 36 A&M engineering students. As manager of the up-coming series of Apollo spaceshots, Dr. Shea is responsible for manage ment of the overall program to put the first U. S. astronauts on the moon. Dr. Shea was appointed a vis iting professor at A&M last De cember. He received his B.S. degree in mathematics in 1949, his M. S. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in engi neering mechanics in 1955, all at the University of Michigan. TAU BETA PI INDUCTION Dr. Joseph (center), of NASA and District Hig-hway En gineer Joe Hanover (right) of Bryan are shown being in ducted in the A&M Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, honorary en gineering society, by A&M engineering student Jess Childs, chapter president. m mm $1,500 IN SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED Quinton Johnson of Dallas, left, immediate view, $250; Mike Ingram, past president of the Texas Turfgrass Asso ciation, presented TTA scholarships to these agronomy students during the recent Turf grass Conference at A&M. From the left, recipients are Gary McElvaney of Channel- Corpus Christi, $100; Ronnie Coleman, Huntsville, $300; Jim McAfee, College Station, $300; and Thomas Lee of De Leon, $150. McAfee also received a $400 scholarship from the Golf Course Superintendent Association. Suitcase, Vehicles, Extinguishers Turn Up By MARK McNEEL Whoever lost a large suitcase containing everything from a lady’s fur collar to various un mentionables may retrieve it at the Campus Security Office. The suitcase was found in front of Sbisa Dining Hall two weeks ago, and a thorough examination of the numerous items by au thorities produced no clue to the owner’s identity. Other recent cases in the se curity office have had more fav orable results. After last week’s basketball game in G. Rollie White Coli seum, a student reported his motor scooter missing. He had left it in the Coliseum parking lot and said it was equipped with a device which would lock the front wheel in position if it were Society Awards Petroleum Grant A $5,000 American Chemical Society grant has been awarded )r. K. G. Hampton of A&M for imdamental petroleum research. The grant, awarded by the Petroleum Research Fund admin- stered by ACS, covers a two-year icriod, Dr. Hampton said. The assistant professor of hemistry will utilize the support or research on dianions of beta- liketones, their synthetic uses nd ionization constants. Reac- ions of dianions with certain hemicals will be studied. Tributes (Continued From Page 1) ridges as examples of the safety ork the THD is accomplishing nder Greer’s leadership. H. C. HELDENFELS of Cor- us Christi, speaking for the ighway industry, noted that Ireer’s vision enabled Texas to et the jump on the rest of the ation in the Interstate Highway rogram. “When the Interstate Highway rogram came along in 1956, Tex as ready with rights-of-way nd plans,” Heldenfels comment- “Greer’s talented forces did ot wait for the Interstate pro ram to begin building urban ex- ressways. In the mid-1940's lese revolutionary traffic-ways ere already becoming reality in alias, Fort Worth, San Antonio nd Austin.” Keynoting the ceremonies, &M President Earl Rudder faced Greer’s rise through the inks of the THD and cited his ng-range vision. RUDDER NOTED that as far ick as World War II, Greer rec- ;nized that the destiny of Texas ould be city-centered, industry- dented, increasingly metropoli- in and less and less agricultural. “All these things said about ie personally are symbolic of the eople of the Highway Depart- wnt,” Greer observed at the con- lusion of the tributes. “It’s the fganization that makes i reaks a man.” “Texas owes me nothing for hatever I may have contributed, owe Texas,” he added. Greer administers the largest ighway department in the world nd directs an employment force f more than 17,000 persons. Greer joined the Highway De- wtment in 1927, four years after eceiving his civil engineering egree from A&M, and was pro- loted to state highway engineer n 1940. Earlier this year, he was named,, [distinguished alumnus of A&M. turned to the right. A SEARCH of the immediate area showed that someone had driven the motor scooter from the parking lot and made the mistake of turning to the right. The motor scooter was found abandoned in the street. Another anxious student came into the security office last week to say that he could not find his car and feared that it had been stolen. When questioned the student added that he could not remem ber where he had parked his au tomobile, but that he had looked closely and was sure that it was not in the student parking lot. HIS CAR was found parked il legally in the Academic parking lot along with two bright yellow slips to remind him. Saturday morning four porta ble fire extinguishers which should have been in the College View apartments at Texas A&M University were found in a field one mile south of College Station. C. I. Miller, who owns the land, discovered them and brought the instruments to the Campus Se curity Office. The exact date of “removal” has not yet been determined, but tags on the extinguishers indi cate that they were serviced Nov. 14. Vbdg favorite, A*e AVAU-A0LE. 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