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Dallas Oilman Heads Former Students Dallas oilman Jack Crichton Students Saturday, was elected president of Texas The 1937 graduate accepted A&M’s Association of Former leadership of the 44,000-member STANDARD OIL SCHOLARSHIPS Texas A&M President Earl Rudder (right) receives a $600 check for 4-H scholarships to be awarded this spring in Far West Texas. Presenting the check is Byron Bellinger of the Standard Oil Company of Texas. The presentation is part of the company’s $1.5 million aid-to-education pro gram. 700 Expected To Attend Technical State Confab More than 700 persons are ex pected to participate in the Jun ior Engineering Technical Society state conference here March 10. Assistant Engineering Dean J. G. McGuire, JETS’ state coordi nator, said 500 high school stu dents will take competitive tests in chemistry, engineering gra phics, mathematics, physics and slide rule. Computers in A&M’s Data Processing Center will be used in grading tests in order that win ners may receive awards the same day. Plaques will go to individ ual winners and their respective schools. JETS’ national president, M. F. X. Gigliotti of St. Louis, Mo., will address the conference’s opening session. His topic is “The Im portance of JETS to the Student and His School.” A&M President Earl Rudder and Engineering Dean Fred J. Benson also will speak. W. J. Butler and E. A. Rose, officials of the Diamond Alkali Co., Deer Park, will discuss “The Importance of Engineering Plan ning.” A seminar is planned for high school sponsors, advisors, teach ers and counselors. Presentations are set by Miss Harriet Griffin of the Fort Worth Public Schools, Mrs. Katherine Mays of Need- ville, and Dan Massingill of Cal houn. Another seminar will probe questions regarding suggested preparation for students planning engineering or physical science careers. association from retiring presi dent Royce E. Wisenbaker of Ty ler. The exes’ governing council also named Jeff Montgomery of Houston vice president. Crich ton was a “Distinguished Stu dent” at A&M and earned letters in basketball, cross-country and tennis. After graduation in petroleum engineering and com missioning in the Field Artillery, he received a master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A Fellow of the Texas Acad emy of Science, he is past direc tor of the Young President’s Club, past president of the Engineers’ Club of Dallas and has published technical articles and a book on oil and gas production. He heads his own petroleum consulting firm. Nobel Prize Winner Keynotes March Engineers’ Conference Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner who confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, will be key note speaker for an “Engineering for the 1970’s” convocation here March 21-22. Texas A&M Engineering Dean ROTC Program Is Available To J C Transfers A two-year Air Force ROTC program at Texas A&M will fit into academic plans of junior col lege transfers. Due to Department of Defense directives limiting officer com missions, students are selected on a competitive basis for the ad vance AFROTC program, re vealed Col. Vernon L. Head, pro fessor of aerospace studeis at A&M. “The new two-year program provides greater flexibility in meeting the needs of students in terested in obtaining Air Force • Commissions,” the department head said. Students who wish to enter the two-year program must have no more than five semesters remain ing before graduation. Entrance to the advanced (junior and sen ior) two-year program requires passing the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test and standard medical examination. Junior col lege students may arrange the AFOQT and physical through the A&M Records Division or an Air Force Recruiting Office. Applicants must have a mini mum “C” average and appear be fore a special interview board. All POC students receive $40 per month subsistence pay. Fred Benson said approximately 700 leading industrial, academic and governmental engineers and students are expected to attend the two-day conference. “Engineering for the 1970’s” will focus on the Southwest and explore new areas of anticipated growth and opportunities in such fields as materials, energy con version and urban engineering, Dean Benson noted. Sir John Cockcroft has served as master of Cambridge Uni- verstiy’s Churchill College since 1959. He and a colleague were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics for thier work in build ing the world’s first high-energy particle accelerator which was used to confirm Einstein’s theory about convertibility of matter into energy, the basis of the Atomic Age. The knighted scientist was di rector of England’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment from 1946 to 1958 and is cur rently a scientific research mem ber of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. He is past president of the Institute on Physics and Physical Society and a member of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Institute of Mechan ical Engineers and the Institute of Civil Engineers. Other convocation participants include Dr. R. R. Gilruth of Houston, director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center; State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer of Austin; H. R. Drew of Fort Worth, executive vice president, Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation, and Dr. William B. Heroy of Dallas, president of the Geotech Division of Teledyne In dustries. JACK CRICHTON Spring Interviews With Graduates Now In Full Swing Spring recruiting by employers opened Monday, with job oppor tunities more plentiful than ever for future graduates. W. R. Horsley, A&M Place ment Services Department Direc tor, said recruiter interview schedules are set up through April 15. “Eight to ten companies a day will be on campus this spring to interview prospective employes,” Horsley noted. “It’s hard to esti mate the number of students who will interview, because they regis ter from ten days in advance to the day the company representa tive is on campus.” Horsley said 570 companies, a gain of 145 over the 1965-66 aca demic year, will conduct inter views at A&M during 1966-67. Student interviews may roar as high as 7,000 this year at Ag- gieland, Horsley pointed out. He said A&M will come close to the College Placement Council’s pre diction of 42 per cent more job opportunities for graduates. The CPC report indicates the average offer to bachelor’s de gree candidates with technical backgrounds is $706 per month, with the average offer to non technical students being $596 monthly. Read Classified When I was still in COLLEGE I HEARD THAT WHEN YOU WENT TO WORK IN A LARGE CORPORATION... THEY PUT YOU IN A TRAINING PROGRAM AND ALL YOU DID WAS PAPER WORK AND WENT TO SOME LECTURES AND WATCHED OTHER PEOPLE WORK. AND THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF ONLY THEY ASKED YOU TO DO SOMETHING. THAT WAS LAST JUNE- \ BEFORE I WENT TO WORK AT GT&E GENERALTELEPHONE& ELECTRONICS IS DIFFERENT. G0TANY IDEAS WE CAN USE? / GEE '' GENERAL TELEPHONE & ELECTRONICS 730 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 Read Battalion Classified! TOWN HALL COMMITTEE Presents Music For A Sunday Afternoon 3:00 P. M. February 19, 1967 Bryan Civic Auditoriun SERGIU LUCA VIOLINIST • When Issac Stern performed in Lucerne in 1D60, i young man walks up to him and requested an audition. After much hesitation, this was granted. This important decision marked the beginning of Sergiu Luca’s career in the United States, for Mr. Stern brought him to this country the following year. In less than six years, the young Israeli violinist has been eagerly engaged, by leading American orchestras including the Detroit, Duluth, Oklahoma City and San Diego Symphonies as well as the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. • In February, 1965, he played with the New York Phil harmonic under Leonard Bernstein in a Young People’s Concert presented on the CBS-TY Network and entitled “a Tribute to Sibelius.” • “Mr. Luca’s playing is full of temperamental fire, and his technical equipment is impeccable: He" should be headed to wards a brilliant career.” —NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE destined • “VIOLINIST REVEALS GREATNESS to be one of the selected few.” —DAILY OKLAHOMAN • “LUCA’S VIOLIN VIRTUOSITY SHINES WITH SYM- PHONY ... a stricking performance.” —SAN DIEGO UNION ‘SERGIU LUCA WINS STANDING OVATION” —SAN ANGELO STANDARD-TIMES Violinist shows • “LACA DAZZLES AUDIENCE . superb technique.” —DULUTH NEWS-TRIBUNE • Program includes Luca’s playing BEETHOVEN, Sonata in G. Major, Opus 3U, No. 3; BACH, Partita No. 3 in E Major for violin solo. • BELA SZILAGY, Accompanist (Former Leventritt Artist) Texas A&M University is most grateful to The Edgar M. Leven tritt Foundation, Inc. for the assistance they have given in making this appearance possible. No Reserved Seats Tickets available at MSC Student Program Office Admission Prices Adult $1.50 Students .75 A&M students admitted on Activity Cards Season Tickets for Town Hall Valid Special transportation provided to Bryan Civic-Auditorium from MSC Lounge. No charge for A&M students. Departure times: 2:00 and 2:30 Sunday — February 19, 1967 TOWN HALL COMMITTEE Presents THE HARKNESS BALLET OF NEW YORK February 16, 1967 — 8:00 p. m. BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM The Harkness Ballet, new and exciting, began on January 31 a seven weeks’ tour of the Nation. While on this tour the Ballet will present special benefit performances for the Center of Arts of American Indian at Santa Fe, New Mexico. This week the first of these special benefits will be in Washington, D. C. at a command performance for the President of the United States A special performance Will be done at the Jones Hall of Perform' ing Arts in Houston the night aftter the performance for Town Hall Committee, Texas A&M University. In 1964 the Company gave a performance in the White House for President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished audience assembled to honor Philippine President and Mrs. Diosda- do Macapagal. The Company did performances in Cannes and in Paris early in 1965, where, under the artistic direction of George Skibine, a leading figure in the dance world, that created an Inter national sensation. Many authorities in dance rate this Company among the top three of the United Statse. Ann Holmes of the Houston Chronicle said, “Harkness Ballet has the ingredients of the Company everyone has been looking for . . . Young, vigorous, colorful and inventive.” The Town Hall Committee, Texas A&M University, is very proud to present this outstanding Ballet Company—a large Company of 41 dancers and orchestra of 26. We hope that the students, faculty, and people of the local and nearby communities will take advantage of this outstanding Ballet. “At long last, a truly outstanding new ballet company! Both the choreography and the dancing of the New York company was far ahead of anything we have seen blossom on the West Coast.. You have to see them to believe them.” —Oakland Tribune “This is superb ballet. Los Angeles should welcome the chance to discover it.” —Los Angeles Herald-Examiner “ . . . excellent dancing has become the hallmark of the Harkness Ballet. Principal dancer, Larry Rhodes is now one of the most expressive male dancers not just in American ballet but in the world.” —The New York Times “The Harkness Ballet, directed by George Skibine whose reputa tion does not need to be restated, 'is most certainly the best ballet group of the U. S. A. and one of the best in the world. . | —Le Provencal, Marseille TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT CARNEGIE LIBRARY, JARROTT’S TOWNSHIRE, MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER OR ORDER BY CALLING 846-8721, EXT. 36 s: F I’ll high- they girl f An they ing. the S I woi port, of fa grace No citing mom throa day t out from there WI the n to gc they nice to g< Since safe, contr than the p “N feel 1 ed oi have pull Terr; expel I’n detai out \ of th me 1 made plam I i whit exph mucl of tl So goin; were Skip PI Te ate in si A: colle the ' ann< of t dent “l of p U. Reei uate ter.’ F ribb of e life, spoi ion- Special transportation provided from M,SC Lounge for A&M students — Departure time: 7:00 p. m. & 7:30 p. m. cate Ree J ’67 gra S Ho\ prii 10 i to 1 A cep in 1