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.
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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
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