THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 1, 1967
Veterinary College Professor
Gets Legion Of Merit Award
actor to critical load status, and
Dr. Dan Hightower of the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine has
been awarded the Legion of Merit,
the U. S. Army’s highest award
for non-combat service.
Hightower, a retired lieutenant
colonel, received the award recent
ly in ceremonies at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, D. C.
Colonel Hightower was cited for
his innovations in fuel loading,
bringing the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research nuclear re-
for anticipation of research re
quirements while serving as nu
clear reactor section chief in the
institute’s biophysics division
from July 1961 to October 1966.
The DVM has been associate
professor of veterinary physio
logy and pharmacology in Texas
A&M’s College of Veterinary
Medicine since October. His DVM
is from Texas A&M.
FRANK H. CHEANEY
1952 Graduate
Now Lt. Col.
With ALCOM
Frank H. Cheaney Jr., 36, of
Killeen, has been promoted to the
grade of lieutenant colonel in the
United States Army.
Colonel Cheaney is serving with
the Alaskan Command as assist
ant chief of the Joint Petroleum
Office. His office is responsible
for supplying petroleum products
to all military units in Alaska.
The son of Major (USA Ret.)
and Mrs. F. H. Cleaney of 1104
Nolan Avenue in Killeen, Colonel
Cheaney graduated from Bolton
High School, Alexandria, Louisi
ana in 1947. He was given a reg
ular commission in the United
States Army in June 1952 through
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps program at Texas A&M,
upon being selected as a distin
guished graduate.
He is married to the former
Miss Ruby L. Hart, daughter of
Mrs. R. R. Hart of Collinsville,
Texas. The Cheaneys have a
daughter, Carol, 7, who resides
with them on Elmendorf Air Force
Base, Alaska.
Bockholt Named
Conference Head
Dr. Anton Bockholt of the Soil
and Crop Sciences Department has
been named chairman of the
Southern Corn Improvement Con
ference.
He was appointed during this
year’s recent meeting at Little
Rock, Ark.
As chairman, Bockholt will or
ganize the 1968 conference set
for Feb. 13-14 at A&M Univer
sity.
The annual conference brings
together corn improvement re
searchers in 13 southern states.
S COLOR
loupots
North Gate
Examining produce in an open-air marketplace in Lisbon is one way to broaden one’s knowl
edge of the ways of the Portuguese people. These girls found exploring the markets of cities around
the world a relaxing change from studies undertaken during a semester at sea on Chapman College’s
floating campus—now called World Campus Afloat.
Alzada Knickerbocker of Knoxville,Tennessee,—in the plaid dress —returned from the study-
travel semester to complete her senior year in English at Radcliffe College.
Jan Knippers of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, and a
former Peace Corps Volunteer, first pursued graduate studies in International Relations and re
turned a second semester as a teaching assistant in Spanish on the world-circling campus.
Students live and attend regular classes aboard the s.s. RYNDAM, owned by the ECL Shipping
Co. of Bremen for which the Holland-America Line acts as general passenger agent. In-port activi
ties are arranged to supplement courses taught aboard ship.
As you read this, the spring semester voyage of discovery is carrying 450 undergraduate and
graduate students through the Panama Canal to call at ports in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria,
Senegal, Morocco, Spain. Portugal, The Netherlands, Denmark and Great Britain, returning to New
York May 25.
Next fall World Campus Afloat —Chapman College will take another 500 students around the
world from New York to Los Angeles and in the spring, a new student body will journey from
Los Angeles to ports on both west and east coasts of South America, in western and northern
Europe and as far east as Leningrad before returning to New York.
For a catalog describing how you can include a semester aboard the RYNDAM in your educa
tional plans, fill in the information below and mail.
Ag Ed Major Has
Hollywood Hopes
SIGN OF SPRING |A|
Shoeless coed takes advantage of warm weather
to spend time studying- on grass in front of Acadmi^j
Building. M
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A&M To Receive Fellowship^
From HEW Education Office*
Sandy-haired Paul Bleau is a
senior agricultural education ma
jor, but his first love is the
theater.
The aspiring actor wants to be
in the movies. He hopes to land
a tryout in Hollywood, possibly
this summer or fall.
Bleau, whose home is in Lynn,
Mass., has been busier than a one-
armed paper hanger this spring
term acting in two plays, casting
for two more, and preparing a
brochure to forward to Hollywood
film companies.
If versatility is a major con
sideration of the movie colony,
Bleau should be inked to a con
tract in short order. He has been
leading a triple life in recent
weeks, and couldn’t be happier.
FIRST OF ALL, Bleau signed
on to portray Jerry, a down and
out character who could not form
relationships with human beings
or animals in “The Zoo Story,” by
Edward Albee. He memorized
30 pages of lines for the two-
character one-act play.
While winding up four per
formances of “Zoo Story”, Bleau
decided he had enough spare time
to shoot for a part in “The Night
of January 16”, a three-act play
by Ann Rand.
LANDING THE part of Larry
Reagan, a gangster-lover-murder
defendant in the Stage Center
production, Bleau soaked up 1.1
pages of lines for six perform
ances in the district courtroom
of the Brazos County Court
House in Bryan.
For the next two weeks Bleau
spent at least six hours a day
either rehearsing for one play or
acting for keeps in another.
Classes posed no problem for
Bleau since he is enrolled in three
theater-related courses.
His only other subject this term
is fencing, a one-hour physical
education course. It could come
in handy if he wants to try out
for the swashbuckling role of an
Errol Flynn.
THE 26-YEAR old Texas trans
plant claims the feat of playing
different roles in two plays at the
same time calls for no special
drum beating.
“It’s not a difficult problem at
all,” Bleau confided. “You learn
the lines and the characters. I
didn’t get my lines confused at
all.”
“Being able to play several
roles at one time is something
that becomes easier with experi
ence,” he continued. “I once por
trayed three characters in a sin
gle play. And I had a lot of fun
with the challenge.”
THE STOCKY thespian wasted
little time between rehearsals and
actual presentations. In his spare
time, Bleau turned director to
handle casting for two plays to
be staged in Guion Hall’s Fallout
Theater in the spring.
“It took me about an hour to
take care of casting for ‘A Sleep
of Prisoners’ by Christopher Fry
and ‘Fam and Yam’ by Edward
Albee,” Bleau explained. “I
knew just what I wanted.”
Before he can pursue his role
of director full-time, Bleau has
to go to court three more times,
on March 2-3-4, to complete “The
Night of January 16.”
Idaho Magazine
Has A&M Article
Dr. Michael P. Malone, assist
ant professor of history, is au
thor of the lead article in an Ida
ho Historical Society journal.
The article, “C. Ben Ross: Ida
ho’s Cowboy Governor,” is fea
tured in the Winter, 1966-67 issue
of “Idaho Yesterdays,” a quarter
ly journal of IHS. It is a study
of the political career of the first
native Idahoan to be elected gov
ernor.
Texas A&M is the recipient of
ten prospective teacher fellow
ships from the Health, Education
and Welfare Department of the
United States Office of Educa
tion.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, A&M’s aca
demic vice president, said students
seeking master’s degrees in sci
ence or history are eligible for
fellowships.
Fellowships are awarded for a
minimum of one year and a max
imum of two years, Hall revealed.
Stipends are $2,000 for the:
year and $2,200 for the
year. Allowances are avtMT.
for dependents. IF*"
The awards are designetiBil
strengthen graduate teacheri.
paration programs and toM'
persons planning careers
mentary and secondary edueffi
Application forms soon wi
available at the Graduate Col
Hall noted. No filing deal
has been announced.
The fellowships begin witt 1
1967 fall term.
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