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A 40-year-old tradition will
continue at Texas A&M Satur
day, May 27, when cadets adopt
uniform privileges of the 1967-
68 school year.
The distinctive A&M apparel—
senior boots—will be worn the
first time by next fall’s first
classmen on the second drill field
circuit by the Corps of Cadets at
Final Review.
New seniors will have further
opportunity to show off the foot
gear of the horse cavalry at their
Boot Dance that night. Com
mencement and commissioning
precede Final Review.
Senior boots are patterned
after the European style, and
were probably adopted by early
U. S. military officers and caval
ry from the English. The knee-
length, snug-fitting gear was
first worn at A&M about 1925,
according to University Archiv
ist Ernest Langford.
“Highly polished leggings were
worn in 1924,” the 1913 A&M
graduate and former College Sta
tion mayor said.
Designed for wear during long
hours in the saddle, the boots
require special breeches, or boot
pants. A prospective A&M sen
ior equips himself with three or
more pair, in khaki, serge, Army
“pink” and green.
His equipment outlay doesn’t
end there. Other essentials are
pull-on hooks, spur traps, snub
bed chrome or silver spurs, cloth
boot covers and, optionally, a
boot jack.
The new senior may buy his
boots second hand or purchase
them new. Many shops custom-
make the low-heel boot. Several
specialize in them. Among Col
lege Station shops with the spe
cialty is Holick’s, a store estab
lished by the first A&M band
master, Joseph Holick. He came
to the U. S. in 1885 and was the
college cobbler several years.
Amusing sights are plentiful
adjacent to the drill field be
tween Final Review circuits, as
the promoted junior struggles
into boots the first time. An au
tomobile back seat is the usual
“dressing room.”
If his boots are purchased
from a graduating senior, the
principals complete the transac
tion without a boot touching
ground.
Taking the boots off often re
quires assistance. Underclassmen
learn to straddle the ankle and
apply proper leverage at the heel
to remove the long leather sheath
off the closely-fit calf of a leg.
Some grads keep their boots
for nostalgic reasons, but most
sell to an upcoming senior. A
given pair of boots may trace a
long history. Because of infre
quent wear, the oft-polished and
critically-cared for boots can
have numerous owners. One pair
was worn by seniors from San
Antonio, Harlingen, Combes, Pet-
tus and Goliad. The last pur
chaser had prospective buyers
from San Benito and Houston.
A new senior in boots is easy
to spot. It takes practice to
learn to move around in boots
without hooking spur attach
ments — and tripping.
But seniors learn quickly. And
they are eager for the Cadet
Colonel of the Corps’ second
“pass in review” at Final Re
view.
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THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR SENIORS
Aggie Sweetheart Kathi Austin slips into a pair of senior
boots as many of the Class of ’68 will do next Saturday
when cadets begin to assume next year’s class priviliges.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1967
Number 451
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Ring Dance TopsjOil Official Is Speaker
Weekend Action
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Texas Aggie Seniors dress up
for the last social event of the
school year Saturday night, the
Senior Ring Banquet and Dance.
Tickets for the banquet went
off sale Thursday, but the dance
tickets will be available until 5
p.m. today in the Memorial Stu
dent Center’s Student Program
Office.
The banquet begins at 6 p.m.
and the dance at 8:30.
Senate Proposes
Plan To Revive
Religious Week
By BILL ALDRICH
Battalion Reporter
The Student Senate, in its regu
lar monthly session Thursday
served as an orientation meeting
for most members and committee
heads but also adopted a motion
calling for the resumption of Re
ligious Emphasis Week.
Issues Committee Chairman
Clarence Daugherty pushed
through a motion to start the Re
ligious Week and to go to the
Academic Council with a proposal
to let classes out one hour a day
for each of the five days in order
that more people would be able
to attend the services.
The hotly-contested motion was
passed after being turned down
once. The section on letting out
classes received the most debate.
Most of the senators felt the
council would not allow the classes
to be dismissed, even though
Daugherty stressed that the times
would be set up so that no more
than one meeting would be missed
in any class.
The Week would be held the
third week in February. Daugh-
(See Religious Week, Page 2)
Identity of guest speaker for
the banquet is being kept a se
cret.
“Because of the special nature
of his act and of his being widely
known, we feel it would be bet
ter not to release the speaker’s
name,” Terrell Mullins, senior
class president, said.
Music at the dance will be pro
vided by Claude Gordon and his
orchestra. The orchestra was
elected the top new group in the
nation by the American Associ
ation of Musicians.
Pictures of seniors and their
dates will be taken at the dance.
Times will be allotted according
to the ticket numbers when each
couple may have its picture
taken.
Cocktail dress will be appropri
ate for the banquet, but the
dance will be formal.
For 1967 Commencement
a
Troops Call Fire
On Own Position
5% per year paid on all
savings at Bryan Build-
Bb&L, ing & Loan Assn. Adv.
SAIGON <A>) — Cut off in
close-quarter battle, a platoon
of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division
called in artillery fire on its own
position Thursday. Whether any
of the 40 or so men survived this
action in the central highlands
was a question hours later.
The platoon’s radio evidently
was silent. American officers
said they had no word of the re
sults of the shelling, reminiscent
of the air and artillery strikes
that Capt. William S. Carpenter
called in on his paratrooper com
pany when it was being overrun
by Communist troops in the same
region last June.
Farther north, U.S. armed
forces blasted at enemy positions
in the area of the demilitarized
zone to blunt any dramatic show
of force the Communists might
plan for Ho Chi Minh’s birthday.
The North Vietnamese president
turns 77 Friday.
Ceremony Set For May 2 7,
In G. Rollie White Coliseum
Del Brockett, board chairman
of the Gulf Oil Corporation,
Pittsburgh, Pa., will be the fea
tured speaker for Texas A&M
Commencement Exercises May
27.
The program is set for 9 a.m.
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
MORE GRADUATION INVITATIONS
Jo Scanlin opens a box of graduation invitations which
unexpectedly arrived Thursday. Approximately 500 imita
tion leather and regular invitations are now available in the
Cashiers Office of the MSC for those who need more.
Brockett, a 1934 petroleum
production engineering graduate
of Texas A&M, has been board
chairman of Gulf for two years
after serving eight years as
president of the corporation.
As a student at A&M, Brock
ett was a member of “A” and
“B” Company Engineers, the
Scholarship Honor Society and
the Petroleum Engineers Club..
Shortly after graduation,
Brockett toiled for Gulf as a
roustabout to learn the oil busi
ness from the drilling platform
up.
A native of Itasca, Brockett
became a highly decorated offi
cer in World War II, emerging
from the conflict as a colonel.
He won the Legion of Merit, Sil
ver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster,
Bronze Star with Cluster, Air
Medal and Purple Heart, in ad
dition to the Distinguished Serv
ice Order from the British gov
ernment.
Brockett participated in mili
tary engagements in Lae, Lins-
chhafen, Hollandia, Leyte, Visa-
yan and Mindoro and was one of
the first Americans to arrive in
the Japanese homeland.
Brockett returned to Gulf in
1945 as assistant chief engineer
at Fort Worth and in 1952 moved
to Venezuela as assistant to the
president of Mene Grande Oil
Company.
He was elected a vice presi
dent of Gulf in 1955 and headed
the Houston Production Division.
In 1957, he returned to Gulf
headquarters as administrative
vice president.
Brockett will be introduced by
A&M President Earl Rudder.
I.E. Profs In Houston Today
Members of the Industrial en
gineering faculty at A&M will
present two of the five technical
papers at the spring meeting of
the Southwest Chapter of the In
stitute of Management Science
today in Houston.
Dr. Albert W. Wortham, de
partment head, will speak on
“Probabilistic Long-Range Plan
ning.” M. J. Fox, an assistant
professor in the department, will
present “Variable Probability
Models—Long-Range Planning.”
Theme of the conference, at
the Hotel America, will be “Man
agement Psychology — Planning
for the Future.” ,
Dr. Wortham said both papers
are “invited addresses,” based on
research done at A&M.
Rules Governing
Student Vehicles
the outside world
VIETNAM
Cut off in close-quarter battle, a platoon of the U. S.
4th Infantry Division called in artillery fire on its own
Position Thursday. Whether any of the 40 or so men sur
vived this action in the central highlands was a question
hours later.
WASHINGTON
Senator Thomas J. Dodd appealed to the Senate Thurs
day for more time to prepare his defense against misco-
duct charges and a censure recommendation.
Under senatorial pressure, Johnson administration of
ficials are debating whether to make a new bid for United
Nations intervention in seeking peace in Vietnam.
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NATIONAL
The nation’s first gas turbine passenger train, de
signed to revolutionize intercity high-speed travel, has been
constructed and now is quietly undergoing a series of fea
sibility tests.
Former heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, who faces
a . possible five-year prison term if convicted of draft eva
sion, cooled his heels in the Dade County Jail for an hour
Thursday on a traffic charge.
Changed In Fall
No student vehicles will be
allowed in parking lots around
Kyle Field when football games
are played there this fall, accord
ing to 1967-68 traffic-parking
regulations recently released.
“All student vehicles must be
moved from parking lots No. 48,
No. 49, No. 31, No. 30, and No.
39 to parking areas North of
Ross Street, by 10:00 a.m. on
home football game days,” the
regulations state.
Lots 31 and 48 are behind the
Coliseum. Lot 30 is behind Guion
Hall. Lot 49 will designate the
lot under construction along the
closed section of FM 2154 from
the baseball field tot he USD A
building. Lot 9 is behind Law
Hall. Ross street runs in front of
the Exchange Store.
“We had 90 per cent voluntary
cooperation from students using
Lot 9 last football season,” Ben
nie Zinn, director of student
affairs, commented. “We feel that
the regulation will greatly aid
campus visitors who come to the
games this fall.”
Seven Science Seniors Cited
Batt Publication
Slows For Finals
INTERNATIONAL
Red China told the British Thursday it would not toler
ate “Fascist suppression of Chinese compatriots in Hong
Kong.”
TEXAS
Using maps of the Texas Southern University campus
a hd hundreds of statements taken from arrested students,
uuuureas oi statements Lawtui xium cuxoiaucu
Police Thursday said they had clues to the sniper who
killed a policeman during rioting at the school early Wednes
day
A 10-man conference committee started working out
differences between House and Senate spending plans Thurs
day by asking the state comptroller for a new revenue
estimate.
The presses will slow down
next week as the Battalion comes
out only two times.
Giving staff members an op
portunity to rest and study for
finals, papers will be published
Tuesday and Thursday of Dead
Week.
During Final Week the Bat
talion will come out only on June
1 and the first summer issue will
roll out June 8.
University National Bank
‘On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Seven seniors have been
awarded faculty achievement cer
tificates in the College of Science.
Assistant Dean John Beckham
made the presentations in behalf
of Dean C. M. Zener. Beckham
said the awards were for scho
lastic achievement and partici
pation in student activities.
Five awards were made in
mathematics, and one each in
zoology and physics.
Attending the ceremonies were
Dr. Charles Squire, Physics De
partment head, Dr. William P.
Fife, Biology Department head,
and Dr. Morris Ostrofsky, rep
resenting the Mathematics De
partment.
Mathematics winners included
Kurt A. Schember of College
Station, Charles W. Marslett of
Fort Worth, William R. Matkin
of Killeen, Frederick J. Rich of
McAllen and Curtis G. Ohlendorf
of Lockhart.
Richard H. Franklin of Ken
nedy won in zoology, as did
Charles E. Scherbel of Bryan in
physics.
Schember has been a distin
guished student seven semesters
and has a 2.9 grade point ratio
on a 3.0 scale. He is president of
the Singing Cadets, a member of
the Math Club, Phi Eta Sigma
and Phi Kappa Phi.
Marslett, with a 2.6 GPR, has
been a distinguished student four
semesters. He is corresponding
secretary for the Political Forum
and a member of the Great Is
sues Committee of the Memorial
Student Center Council.
A member of the Math Club,
Marslett also is a member of the
Association of Lunar and Plane
tary Observers and MENS A, an
international social organization
with interests in psychological
and intelligence testing.
Matkin, a distinguished stu
dent four semesters, has a GPR
of 2.8. He is a member of Phi
Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and
the Baptist Student Union.
Rich has a 2.6 GPR and has
been a distingiushed student
three semesters. He is a member
of Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Phi
Omega, the Aggie Players and
the Memorial Student Center
Bowling Committee.
Ohlendorf, a distinguished stu
dent five semesters, has a 2.6
GPR, is a member of Phi Kappa
Phi, the Civilian Student Coun
cil and the Civilian Honor Coun
cil.
Franklin, listed in Who’s Who
in American Universities and
Colleges, has a 2.5 GPR and has
been a distingiushed student five
semesters. He is president of the
Pre-Medical, Pre-Dental Society,
a member of the Student Senate
and Memorial Student Center Di
rectorate, and a major in the
Army ROTC of the Corps of Ca
dets.
Scherbel, president of the
Physics Club, has a 2.5 GPR and
has been a distinguished student
five semesters. He is president
of Sigma Pi Sigma and a mem
ber of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta
Sigma and the student section of
the American Institute of Phys
ics.
SCIENCE AWARD WINNERS
Winners of Faculty Achievement Awards in the College of Science for 1966-67 include
(front row, from left) Charles W. Marslett of Fort Worth, Frederick J. Rich of McAllen,
and William R. Matkin of Killeen, and (back row) Kurt A. Schember of College Station,
Richard H. Franklin of Kenedy, Charles E. Scherbel of Bryan, and Curtis G. Ohlendorf o
f Lockhart.
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