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Volume 61
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I Sessions Begin |
Summer conferences that square
new Texas A&M students on their
college careers and inform par
ents of student requirements be
gin Monday at the university.
The two-day conferences of 125
new students each will continue
twice a week through mid-August,
noted S. A. Kerley, Counseling
and Testing Center director.
The streamlined counseling,
testing and registration program
lightens the new student’s regis
tration problems in the fall.
“Conference groups are kept
small so that individual attention
can be given to housing, Cadet
Corps placement, registration, stu
dent affairs and scholastic sche
dules,” Kerley said.
During the conference, new stu
dents take aptitude, achievement
and personal interest tests, get
course credit through College En
trance Examination Board ad
vanced placement tests, measure
for Army or Air Force ROTC uni
forms, receive dormitory assign
ments, confer with deans and de
partment heads and register for
fall semester classes.
Computer-programmed schedul
ing of classes for new students is
being carried out for the first
time this year, by A&M’s Data
Processing Center. The confer
ences are closely coordinated
through deans, housing, military
science, registrar and counseling
and testing.
During his conference, the stu
dent may pay registration fees or
arrange for later payment. Books
may be purchased or reserved.
The student’s parents play an
important role in the conference,
Kerley added. The two-day sche
dule includes an orientation pro
gram for parents, who are also
invited to a group tests interpre
tation the first night.
Summer Session
Sets New Record
A record 5,035 students have
enrolled for Texas A&M’s first
session of summer school, Regis
trar H. L. Heaton /announced
Wednesday.
Heaton said he expects approx
imately 250 more students, in
cluding about 175 at the Texas
Maritime Academy, before regis
tration closes Thursday.
The present total represents
an increase of 10 per cent over
the first summer session last
year, he noted.
Heaton said the current figures
include 277 students at the Tex
as A&M Adjunct at Junction.
Among the Adjunct students are
190 entering freshmen and 37
upperclassmen participating in
field training.
The 4-H Roundup registered
2,000 participants Tuesday, for a
two-day meeting.
The activity level will continue.
More than 600 educators register
Sunday for the three-day Texas
School Administrators and Super
visors Conference at the Mem
orial Student Center.
“We have had an increase in
the number of parents attending
every summer,” the center direc
tor said. “More than 300 were
at adjunct registration at Junc
tion last weekend. I think this
is an indication of what we can
expect this summer.”
He said parents are interested
in their sons’ education. Orient
ation includes a description of
student body organization and
operation, what is expected of
new students and explanation of
university phraseology.
Volcano Birth
Lecture Is Set
Dr. Fred M. Bullard’s “Birth of
a Volcano” presentation will be
repeated here Monday.
The lecture on the birth, growth
and development of Paricuti.n
Volcano in Mexico will be at 8
p.m. in Room 113 of the Biologi
cal Sciences Building, announced
C. M. Loyd, NSF programs co
ordinator.
The popular presentation has
drawn large audiences twice be
fore at A&M.
The lecture for National Sci
ence Foundation summer insti
tute participants is open to the
A&M faculty, staff, graduate stu
dents and public, Loyd added.
Unusual photographs of the
Mexican volcano in movies and
colored slides are included in Dr.
Bullard’s lecture. He was teach
ing at the University of Mexico
in 1943 when Paricutin first
erupted.
Bullard visited the site at once
and used the volcano as a lab
for the next seven years, re
cording events on film.
The University of Texas facul
ty member since 1924 has re
searched volcanoes in Italy, Iraq,
Alaska, Hawaii, Central Turkey,
and the Greek and Canary Is
lands, Africa, Madeira and the
Azores. Other investigations
were made in the South Pacific
region of the Philippines, New
Guinea and New Britain.
Newspaper Chain
Buys Bryan Eagle
The Bryan Daily Eagle began
new ownership operation this
week.
The Harte-Hanks Newspapers
purchased controlling interest in
the Eagle. Price was not dis
closed.
A spokesman for the Double H
organization emphasized that
each newspaper in the group is
incorporated separately and has
its own offices and publishers.
Harte-Hanks publishes daily
newspapers in 13 other Texas
cities including Huntsville and
Corsicana.
Each newspaper, the spokes
man stressed, determines its own
policies and enjoys full autonomy.
COVERING LINES
Workmen are shown covering a system of electrical lines
being installed underground behind the Grove Theater.
The work across Main Street is expected to be completed
this week.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1967
Number
454 ’
MSC Directorate Names
Five Committee Chairmen
COOLING OFF
Delores Edwards, (Right) and Wynn Holley, both of Bryan, are among the hundreds of
people who have attempted to beat the recent heat by taking a dip in A&M’s Wofford
Cain Pool. For pool hours, the story below.
State Legislature Passes Bills
Aiding University Faculty
Never before has the state leg
islature passed so many bills
benefiting university faculty and
staff personnel as in the session
just completed, notes A&M Pres
ident Earl Rudder.
Rudder said five “fringe bene
fit” bills were passed affecting
retirement, group insurance, sab
batical leave and mileage and per
diem rates.
Three of the bills, however, re
quire additional action before
they can go into effect, Rudder
observes.
One of the bills authorizes the
state to participate in payment
of premiums for group insurance.
Although the bill passed, the leg
islature did not appropriate
funds for it during the past ses
sion.
If the university were to par
ticipate in premium payments
prior to the next legislative ses
sion, funds would have to be gen
erated locally. Rudder said the
administration is studying the
matter.
Another bill provides for re
moval of the present $8,400 ceil
ing on salary withholdings for
teacher retirement. This item in
volves a constitutional amend
ment and therefore requires pass
age in the general elections next
year.
If approved, it would allow the
state to withhold six per cent of
total earnings for retirement and
the state would match those
funds, thus increasing retirement
Path Being Made
To Aid Offices
Student aid officials at Texas
A&M have discovered the
straightest line on the campus
lies between the fiscal and aid
offices.
Students are pounding the path
in increasing numbers. The stu
dent aid office expects to hit the
$1 million mark in loans during
1967.
The activity peak will be this
summer, as applications for Texas
Opportunity Plan, United Student
Aid, National Defense Education
Act and Former Students Associ
ation loans are processed,
applications and loan requests a
day,” estimated Alvin P. Bor-
mann, student loan supervisor.
“This is likely to continue
through the summer.”
“The office has $18,000 in the
‘Little Loan ($20) Fund’,” he
added. “This generates about
$100,000 in loans a year.” The
little loan operates on a $20 for
30 days and no interest basis.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
benefits. The program applies to
both faculty and non-classified
staff personnel.
A second bill affecting retire
ment permits faculty members to
choose between the State Teach
er Retirement System and any
private retirement system of
their choice, effective Sept. 1.
Another bill which passed al
lows as much as six per cent of
the faculty to be on development
(sabbatical) leave at one time at
full salary for six months or half
salary for a complete year. As in
the case of the group insurance,
Capt. Bennett M. Dodson will
retire as superintendent of Texas
A&M’s Texas Maritime Academy
at Galveston, effective Nov. 15,
announced A&M President Earl
Rudder.
Rudder said Dodson has asked
to be relieved of his TMA duties
to be free to consider one of a
number of development projects
he has in mind.
Dodson joined Texas A&M in
February, 1962, to establish the
maritime academy authorized by
the 57th Texas Legislature.
During his five years as super
intendent, TMA has progressed
to its current status as one of the
nation’s six major accredited
maritime academies.
In announcing his retirement,
Dodson said his association with
Texas A&M “has been one of the
most pleasant of relations.”
“I am very grateful for the
splendid support received from
President Rudder and other mem
bers of the university staff,” he
added.
Rudder said Capt. Dodson’s
successor has not been selected.
Immediately before joining
Texas A&M, Capt. Dodson retired
from the U. S. Navy after 25
years of service. At the time of
his retirement, he was chief of
staff of the Service Force with
U. S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl
Harbor.
He had previously served as
executive officer of the California
Maritime Academy and as head
of the U. S. Merchant Marine
Academy’s Department of Nau
tical Science. He also held similar
positions at the Merchant Marine
Cadet School and Pennsylvania
Maritime Academy.
During World War II, he
supervised more than 1,000 cadets
serving on ships throughout the
Pacific and Indian Oceans while
no appropriations were made
during the past session to fi
nance such a program.
Additional funds would be
necessary for such a program,
Rudder explains, because it would
in essence require employment of
additional faculty to carry out
the work of members on leave.
Effective Sept. 1, both mile
age and per diem rates will be
increased. Mileage rates will be
raised from eight to 10 cents per
mile and per diem from $12 to
$14 for in-state travel and from
$15 to $17 for out-of-state.
serving on the staff of the
Seventh Fleet Service Force. '
In combat, Captain Dodson
commanded a destroyer and was
executive officer of the battle
ship Iowa, which he later com
manded during deactivation. He
commanded a fleet oiler during
the Korean War.
Dodson is co-author of “Mathe
matics for Navigators” and the
mathematics supplement to the
U. S. Naval Academy’s text,
“Dutton’s Navigation.”
Cain Pool Hours
For Summer Set
The summer schedule for the
Wofford Cain Swimming Pool
has been announced.
Carl Tishler, A&M Health and
Physical Education Department
head, said Swimming Coach Art
Adamson is in charge of the
pool.
Daily hours except Sunday,
call for sessions from 9:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., 2 to 6 p.m., and
7:30 to 9 p.m. through August.
The pool is open from 2 to 6 p.m.
on Sundays.
Tishler said the pool is avail
able to students, faculty-staff
members, their children, addi
tional children 12 years old and
under, and Memorial Student
Center guests. The pool also is
open to former students and
their families.
Children’s tickets cost 25 cents
per session. Adult admission is
50 cents per session. Season tick
ets . are available to students,
faculty-staff and their immediate
families for $15 through July 15.
Former students’ season tickets
are $20.
The same rates are in effect
from July 16 through Oct. 14.
Dodson To Retire
From TMA Post
Wilks Announces
Summer Program
Five chairmen were announced
recently to head four of the Mem
orial Student Center’s Summer Di
rectorate committees.
Those announced by Directorate
President David Wilks, a junior
mechanical engineering student,
were: Bill Howell and Robert
Harrison, Special Programs;
Francis Kimbrough, Speaker
Series; Betty Franklin, Public Re
lations; and Denny Kiniery, Dance
Camera Group
Holds Contest
A slide photograph contest
will highlight the first summer
camera committee meeting Mon
day.
The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be
in Room 2B of the Memorial
Student Center, announced Steve
McGregor of Amarillo, summer
chairman. The organizational
meeting will include orientation
on darkroom operation and issu
ance of summer membership
cards.
Winning contest slides will be
entered in Gulf States Camera
Clubs Council competition, noted
Porgram Chairman Dale Boly-
ard of LaMarque.
Committee.
Wilks emphasized that the sum
mer program is going to be dif
ferent from programs in the past.
A much more active directorate
will sponsor “better and different
functions, such as Brazos Bottom
Beach Parties and psychedelic
dances.
“We’re even going to rope off
one of the streets and throw a
street dance,” he said.
Because of a more generous
budget for the summer programs,
the directorate will be able to of
fer more to the whole community.
“We hope that this summer we
will be able to perpetuate a 12-
month directorate instead of a
nine-month directorate,” he con
tinued.
Wilks said he hoped to retain
some of the members of the win
ter directorate because their ex
perience with the program would
be valuable.
He stressed that although it
would be limited, the directorate
hoped to have a summer speaker
series and a small scaled Town
Hall series.
New additions to the summer
program include activities for
married couples, such as bowling
leagues and game parties.
Wilks said the Directorate’s
next meeting will be a Monday
luncheon at 1 p.m. in the MSC.
Air ROTC Offers
Freshmen Grants
Air Force ROTC will begin
taking applications for its col
lege financial assistance grants
from 1967-68 high school seniors
beginning next fall, announced
Col. Vernon L. Head, professor
of aerospace studies at Texas
A&M.
“This is the first time that the
grants will be offered to high
school graduates who will enter
college as freshmen,” the rank
ing A&M Air Force officer said.
“The first of these grants will
become effective in Sept., 1968.”
The freshman grants are simi
lar to 1,559 scholarships award
ed upperclassmen for the 1967-68
school year. Air University offi
cials at Maxwell AFB, Ala., an
nounced that 600 sophomore re
cipients will be selected in June.
Grants to first-year students
will be awarded on a limited
MSC Exhibit
Features Art
“Contemporary Trio” is the
title of an exhibit of paintings
being displayed at the Memorial
Student Center.
The exhibit, which will be dis
played along the promenade of
the MSC through June 26, con
sists of the work of three artists,
Bea Begman, Harriet Scherer
and Blanche Strax.
Each artist is represented by
six paintings, announced Mrs.
Ann Keel, MSC Social Director.
Mrs. Keel said the paintings
from the Old Bergen Art Guild
of Bayonne, N. J., are valued at
$4,000.
Telephone Official
Announces Plans
Plans to provide direct distance
dialing to Bryan-College Station
at a cost of $3.5 million have
been announced by R. Rex Bailey,
division manager for Southwest
ern States Telephone Company.
Bailey showed architectural
drawings of additions to central
offices in both Bryan and College
Station at a meeting of civic
leaders over the weekend.
Bailey said the historic move
in area telephone developments
represented another significant
step by Southwestern States to
provide the best service possible
in this growing section of Texas.
basis. The award provides pay
ment of full tuition, incidental
fees, textbooks allowance and a
$50 per month stipend during the
school year.
Applicants must meet rigid
academic and physical standards
required for commissioning as
Air Force flying officers. They
must almost agree to enter a
flying officer program upon com
missioning.
Eligibility prerequisites require
class standing in the upper 10
per cent of the student’s high
school class or scores of 600 on
math and 550 on verbal portions
of the scholastic aptitude test
phase of College Entrance Exam
Board tests.
The student must be accepted
for enrollment at one of 140 col
leges and universities with the
AFROTC four-year program.
Final selections from grant ap
plications due at AFROTC Head
quarters by Jan. 15, 1968, will be
made at Maxwell.
Further information may be
obtained from high school guid
ance counselors or principals, or
by writing to Air Force ROTC,
Maxwell AFB, Ala., 36112.
Lawmen To Aid
Defense Program
For B-CS Area
Bryan, College Station and
Brazos County police and sheriff
auxiliaries will cooperate with
the county Civil Defense office
June 17 to inform area citizens
about protective measures in the
event of hostile attack or tor
nadoes.
The auxiliary lawmen will dis
tribute 16,000 pamphlets to homes
and businesses in the two cities,
adjoining communities and the
county, announced Jake Cange-
lose, Brazos County CD director.
The materials, “Tornado Warn
ing Signals and Safety Rules”
and “Fallout Shelter Instruc
tions,” will be carried door-to-
door by 105 auxiliary members.
Regular police will contact busi
nesses.
Distribution will be made the
afternoon of June 17, Cangelose
said. He noted that the pamph
lets will also be available at
Bryan and College Station post
offices.