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Professor Honored At Dinner
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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 10, 1967
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Dr. A1 B. Nelson, history and
government professor at Texas
A&M, has received a silver bowl
from fellow faculty members for
30 years service.
Dr. Nelson plans to retire this
summer.
The faculty also presented an
orchid corsage to Mrs. Nelson for
contributions and services to the
department and faculty wives.
AMONG THOSE present at a
dinner in the Memorial Student
Center honoring Professor Nelson
were three department heads with
whom he has worked: Dr. S. R.
Gammon, 1925-54; Dr. R. W.
Steen, 1954-58; and Dr. J. M.
Nance, since 1958.
Nelson earned his doctorate in
Latin American History at the
University of California at
Berkeley in 1937 and joined the
A&M faculty that fall. He earlier
received M.A. and B.A. degrees
from Texas Christian University.
DR. NELSON has seen the De
partment of History and Govern
ment grow from less than 10
majors in history to more than
212 majors in history and 125 in
Government. The faculty num
bers 27 full-time members com
pared to the original five.
The department now offers a
full-fledged program through the
Masters of Arts and looks for
ward to a division into separate
history and government depart
ments. The division has been ap
proved by the Texas A&M Board
of Directors and awaits approval
of the Texas Coordinating Board.
Society Schedules
Dinner May 18
Texas A&M meteorologists’
work in the recent Line Islands
Experiment will be described at
the annual dinner meeting of the
College Station chapter of the
American Meteorological Society
May 18.
The 6:30 p.m. banquet will be
in Room 2C of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, announced Dr. Dale
Leipper, chapter president.
“Problems and Experiences of
the Line Island Experiment” will
be covered with slides and discus
sion by Dr. Aylmer Thompson and
Capt. Donald Frazee of the
Meteorology Department.
Dr. Thompson said the program
will be “semi-popular”, with re
search trip information of interest
to wives and scientific results for
professors.
Aggies Produce
Top P.R. Turn*
PR GRADUATION
Edwin Cooper (left), assistant to A&M President Earl Rud
der, presented diplomas to 119 Bryan-College Station busi
nessmen and employes participating in a recent public rela
tions course sponsored by the B-CS Chamber of Commerce.
He is shown with Chamber President J. B. (Dick) Hervey
(center) and Frank A. Driskill, course instructor.
It took the Aggies to pw
the state’s top turnout for
public relations course prese
by the University of Texas'!
sion of Extension Distrito
Education.
A record 119 Bryan-Col
Station businessmen and
ployes participate in the f
evening course sponsored by
B-CS Chamber of Commerce.
The president and exec:
vice president of the cha:
are Texas A&M graduates,^
the division chairman and at
all the committee members
sponsible for arranging
course.
When it came to set
graduation speaker, the horn
fell Edwin H. Cooper, asi
to A&M President Earl Ri
The course instructor,
A. Driskill of Austin, was
whelmed by the attendance,
ing it was the largest for ai
the some 75 cities he has
Driskill shouldn’t have
surprised. He, too, is a f(
A&M student and taught mi
ing and advertising here 30
ago.
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Continued from page one
a member of the following honor
societies: Chi Epsilon, Sigma
Gamma Tau, Tau Beta Pi, Phi
Kappa Phi and the Society of Sig
ma Xi.
Dr. Samson is chairman of the
official board of the A&M Meth
odist Church and a board member
of the Wesley Foundation of
Texas A&M.
Dr. Maurer, a past president of
the American College of Veteri
nary Pathologists, came to Texas
A&M in 1964 after 20 years of
active duty with the U.S. Army.
UPON RETIREMENT, Colonel
Maurer was presented the na
tion’s second highest peacetime
decoration, the Legion of Merit,
for his outstanding accomplish
ments and service to his country
and the world of veterinary medi
cine.
Maurer earned his Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine Degree from
Washington State College in 1937
and his Ph.D. from Cornell. He
entered the Army in 1941 and
CHARLES H. SAMSON
FRED D. MAURER
worked with the War Disease
Control Station in Crosse Isle,
Canada.
After the war he was sent to
Africa to conduct research on ani
mal diseases which could inflict
disastrous losses among the live
stock population. He was com
mended by the government of
Kenya for his contributions to
knowledge about such diseases as
African Swine Fever, Rindei
Rift-Valley Fever and others
IN 1955 the colonel was
signed to the Armed Forces
stitute of Pathology as chis
the Veterinary Virology Set
He spent three years in the
die East studying a disease#
caused the death of 300,1
es, earning the Commend! tars.
Medal for his research.
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