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Volume 61
Sky Diving Is Not
For Weak-Hearted
By PATRICIA HILL
I’ll say one thing for those
high-flying sky-divers at A&M:
they really know how to take a
girl for a ride!
And a RIDE is exactly what
they took me on Saturday morn
ing. Dave Burrus, president of
the Sky-Divers Club, said that if
I would come to the Hearne Air
port, they’d show me all the tricks
of falling out of an airplane . . .
gracefully.
Now this all sounded pretty ex
citing, so I arose early Saturday
morning (with a lump in my
throat . . . after all, it isn’t every
day that I watch somebody jump
out into the wild blue yonder
from 7,000 feet) and drove out
there to see exactly what they did.
When I arrived at the airport,
the men were just getting ready
to go up for the first time, so
they decided that it would be
nice if I went up with them, just
to get the feel of the situation.
Since these jumpers are all super
safe, they harnessed me up in this
contraption which weighs more
than I do, and lifted me up in
the plane.
“Now if for any reason you
feel like you’re going to be suck
ed out of the plane ... or if you
have to jump for any reason, just
pull this little cord here,” said
Terry Garrett, one of the more
experienced jumpers.
I’m not one to panic over small
details, but I nearly chickened
out when he said “get sucked out
of the plane.” But it didn’t take
me long to understand why he
made such a point of that. The
plane didn’t have a door!
I must have turned pretty lily
white because Tom Glaser quickly
explained that there really wasn’t
much danger of my falling out
of the plane.
Soon all the guys who were
going to jump during this trip
were piled into the plane and
Skip Heard, the pilot, was revving
Photo Salon Gets
National Entries
Texas A&M’s 1967 Intercollegi
ate Photo Salon will go national
in scope.
Amateur photographers of 500
colleges and universities all over
the U. S. are invited to participate
announced Ken Reese, president
of the sponsoring Memorial Stu
dent Center Camera Committee.
“Salon ’67 is open to members
of photographic associations in all
U. S. universities and colleges,”
Reese explained. “Students, grad
uate students and faculty may en
ter.”
First, second and third place
ribbons will be awarded in each
of eight categories, pictorial, still
life, nature, portraiture, news,
sports, human interest and fash
ion-modeling.
“Fashion and modeling is a new
category for the ninth salon,”
Reese said.
Judges will select the top Salon
’67 print and outstanding photo
grapher.
Salon chairman Louis Hodges of
Houston indicated more than 500
prints are expected by the May
10 deadline. Judging will be open
to the public May 13 in the MSC.
Award winning photos and ac
cepted pictures will be displayed
in the MSC for a week.
up the engine.
When I said piled in, I wasn’t
kidding. There were seven of us
in one Cessna.
Oh boy, I could tell right off
this was going to be a first in
my short life. I might add, when
they had all jumped, I glanced
over at this tiny sign on the side
of the plane, and it said, “maxi
mum baggage 220 pounds.”
On this trip, the guys jumped
on a 5-second delay. I learned
that they usually jumped on a 30-
second delay, from 7,200 feet, but
because the cloud coverage was
so thick they could only jump
from 3,000 feet. The only thing
that kept going through my mind
was, “man, how brave can you
get.”
When just the pilot and I were
left in the plane we went soaring
up into the clouds where it gets
cold. If you’ve never gone through
a cloud, you’ve missed getting
pretty soggy.
I was pretty impressed by all
this, and after all, without a door
on the plane, it’s just like going
through the clouds on a surfboard
or something.
A&M Graduate
Is Elected Rep
From Tennessee
It’s not exactly a novelty for a
Texas A&M graduate to be elect
ed to Congress.
But it is when he’s a Repub
lican elected in Tennessee.
Such is the case of Dan Kuy
kendall, who was sworn in last
month as the first Republican
Congressman from Tennessee in
97 years.
Congressmen Kuykendall, a na
tive of Cherokee, San Saba Coun
ty, Texas, graduated from A&M
in 1947 with a degree in industrial
education.
He immediately went to work
for the Proctor and Gamble Com
pany in Houston and, after serv
ing in several managerial posi
tions in Texas, was promoted to
general manager for the firm’s
food division in the mid-South in
1955 and moved to Memphis.
The former A&M student be
came actively interested in Ten
nessee politics in 1960 and four
years later threw his hat in the
ring. He picked a tough oppon
ent for his first race: Senator Al
bert Gore. He lost, but by only
70,000 ballots in a vote of more
than one million.
Encouraged by this backing of
nearly a half-million Tennes
seans, Kuykendall entered the
House of Representatives race in
Memphis last year against Demo-
cractic incumbent George Grider.
This time he won.
Congressman Kuykendall says
he has not found his Texas “up
bringing” to be a liability in Ten
nessee “since all Tennesseans
claim they founded Texas any
way.”
Kuykendall is the fourth Texas
A&M graduate currently serving
in the House of Representatives.
He is joined by Congressmen Olin
E. (Tiger) Teague of College Sta
tion, Graham Purcell of Wichita
Falls and Earle Cabell of Dallas.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1967
Number 401
Harkness Ballet Slated
As Town Hall Attraction
FOUR BALLETS
Bryan’s Municipal Auditorium will host the is sponsored by the Town Hall Committee.
Harkness Ballet Thursday night. The ballet
YMCA ‘Marriage Forums’ Start Tonight
Stage Is Set At
Bryan Auditorium
Dr. Robert Ledbetter, marriage
counselor and visiting sociology
lecturer from Texas University,
will begin the first of five con
secutive marriage forums at 7:30
tonight in the YMCA.
Dr. Ledbetter will discuss sev
eral topics under the central idea
of “Making Marriage Meaning
ful.” He will ask questions con
cerning significant emotional
College Station
Report Mailed
To Residents
A report to the citizens of Col
lege Station on the operation of
their city government is being
mailed this week, Mayor D. A.
Anderson said today.
It is the first of what might
become an annual report. “It
depends on the response of the
public to this issue,” the mayor
reported.
Its purpose is to more fully ac
quaint the citizens with its local
government and its many activi
ties, including its operation and
financing.
“I deem it important that the
city council report to the people
who elected us on our steward
ship,” the mayor continued. “This
report is the principal means of
accomplishing this.”
The report was prepared as a
senior journalism class project
under the direction of Dr. Delbert
McGuire, head, Journalism De
partment, Texas A&M Univer
sity. Participating in its produc
tion were the journalism faculty
and the students.
“We owe them a debt of grati
tude, Mayor Anderson concluded.
problems which develop in the
earlier periods of marriage; com
mon marital problems and their
possible solutions; making adjust
ments to one’s mate; how to
handle tensions; immaturity —
how it can break a marriage
apart; the things that hold mar
riages together and the signifi
cance of the recent “boom” in
high school and college marriages.
The marriage forums are spon
sored by the YMCA. Topics in
the forums were selected from
“write-ins” on student interest
locater cards completed during
registration.
The former TU Methodist Stu
dent Center director received his
B.A. and M.A. from the Austin
school. He attended SMU for ad-
Flash Fire
Demolishes
Frame House
Another in a recent rash of
fires in the College Station area
completely destroyed a frame
house Monday night on the road
to the College Station city dump.
The frame house, owned by Os
car Peterson, burned to the
ground in a matter of a few min
utes. Peterson lived alone in the
house and was next door visiting
with his son when the fire broke
out.
The fire department received
the call at 9:45 p.m. but when
they arrived 15 minutes later, the
house was beyond saving and fire
men could only control the spread
of the fire to other buildings.
Cause of the fire could not be
immediately determined and fire
men were unable to make any
estimates of damage.
ditional graduate work, then com
pleted his B.D. and Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago. He went
back to school in 1961 and com
pleted his M.S. in social work,
and has been a marriage coun
selor at the TU Health Center
and a visiting sociology lecturer
since that time.
Elmquist Named
Editor Of English
Teachers’ Paper
Texas A&M’s Karl E. Elmquist
has been named 1967 associate
editor of the Texas Council of
Teachers of English Newsletter.
The “TCTE Newsletter” is dis
tributed to primary, secondary,
college and university English
teachers in the state.
The Harkness Ballet of New
York City will perform four
ballets from its vast repertoire
Thursday night at Bryan’s Mu
nicipal Auditorium.
Forty dancers in the company
will open the 8 p.m. ballet with
“Sarabande,” and follow with
“Youth,” “Capers” and “Ari
adne.”
The ballet is a Town Hall
presentation.
A 26-member orchestra is a
feature of the two-year old ballet
company which made its Wash
ington debut two weeks ago.
The ballet “Sarabande” adapts
its title from major clavichord
pieces written by 17th century
composer Francois Couperin. It
was recreated in the formality of
the age of Louis XIV and yet uses
contemporary ballet technique.
“Sarabande” was created in honor
of the late President Kennedy’s
visit to France in 1961.
“Youth” is described simply as
“Young innocence . . . the first
emotion of boy meeting girl.”
The third ballet, “Capers” is
billed as a series of divertisse
ments with a carnival air.
“Ariadne” concerns the legend
ary myth of Ariadne, Theseus,
and the Minotaur. In this per
formance, American modern bal
let is merged with classical ballet.
Stars of the Harkness Ballet
include Brunilda Ruiz, Lone Isak-
sen, Elisabeth Carroll, Margaret
Mercier, Ranchita Deperi, Law
rence Rhodes, Helgi Thomasson
and Finis Jhung.
Choreographers Alvin Ailey,
John Butler, Stuart Hodes, Brian
MacDonald, Donald McKayle,
Donald Saddler and George Ski-
bine are reprehented in the reper
toire.
Notable among the composers
are the names of Arnold, Ballard,
Barber, Chavez, Couperin, Cres-
ton, Harkness, Hoiby, Ibert, Joli-
vet, Menotti, Richter, Rieti and
Surinach.
Critics throughout the world
sound the highest praise for the
Harkness Ballet. An example
comes from Ann Holmes of the
Houston Chronicle — “Harkness
Ballet has the ingredients of the
company everyone has been look
ing for . . . young, vigorous, color
ful and inventive.”
Noted Librarian
To Present Next
University Talk
A leader among academic libra
rians in the United States, Dr.
William S. Dix, will present a
University Lecture tonight.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, A&M’s
academic vice president, said Dr.
Dix’s address, “New Challenges
to University Libraries”, is set
for 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom.
“Since becoming director of the
University Library at Princeton
in 1953, Dr. Dix has brought that
collection to a position of emin
ence among the outstanding aca
demic libraries in the world,” Dr.
Hall remarked. “He is particu
larly familiar with the problems
of growth facing university libra
rians who attempt to serve the
needs of an ever-increasing num
ber of faculty and student re
searchers.”
At Princeton, Dr. Dix has chair
ed the Faculty Committee on the
Library, and has served on trus
tee committees on the library and
curriculum.
He is a former chairman of the
Committee on Intellectural Free
dom of the American Library As
sociation and its International
Relations Board. He is a mem
ber of the executive board of the
Association of College and Refer
ence libraries, executive board of
the New Jersey Library Associr.
tion, Academic Freedom Commit
tee of the American Civil Liber
ties Union, Modem Language As
sociation and PV Beta Kappa.
Before moving to Princeton,
Dr. Dix was librarian at Rice for
eight years. His experience in
cludes teaching posts at Harvard
University, Williams College,
Western Reserve University, and
Darlington School for Boys.
Dix earned A.B. and A.M. de
grees from the University of Vir
ginia and added the Ph.D. in
American Literature at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
In 1960, President Eisenhower
appointed Dr. Dix to the U. S.
delegation to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cul
tural Organization.
PETERSON HOUSE BURNS
The Oscar Peterson home in College Station is shown as
firemen battle the blaze that completely destroyed the
building. It was one of a number of recent fires in this area.