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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 10, 1967 Davenport Named Tektite Belt Located In Texas Countie T Department Head Dr. Manuel M. Davenport of Fort Collins, Colo., has been ap pointed Philosophy and Humani ties Department head ^at Texas A&M Liberal Arts Dean Frank Hubert announced. Dr. Davenport succeeds Dr. John Orr, who went to Southern California. The department’s three-member faculty includes Dr. Ed Harris from Southwest Texas State and Dr. Richard Stadelman of Louisiana State University, New Orleans, also newly appointed. “The department started only two years ago with just one fac ulty member,” Hubert noted. Davenport, 38, taught 19 years at Colorado State. The CSU fac ulty voted him a Distinguished Service Award for excellence in teaching and students elected him “Top Prof.” The new department head vis ited Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s hos pital at Lambarene, Gabon, in 1959. He toured several African nations under Rockefeller Foun dation grant for study of Schweitzer’s political philosophy and conducted a Peace Corps Feasibility Survey in several African nations. A 1950 graduate of Bethany Nazarene College, Bethany, Okla., Davenport received ad vanced degrees at Colorado Col lege in 1954 and the University of Illinois in 1957. He taught in a Colorado elementary school two years and at Colorado College before going to CSU. The 10-day Gabon visit was the result of winning a Schweitz er Education Foundation nation- ad essay contest. The professor is member of Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Del ta Kappa honor societies. Davenport, his wife Maxine and three children reside at 3715 Stillmeadow Drive, Bryan, and are Presbyterians. Texans located along a geo logic belt extending through Gonzales and Walker Counties are living in one of the few areas of the world in which tektites are found. Tektites, generally small glas sy objects of unknown origin, are one of nature’s unexplained mys teries, according to a Texas A&M lecturer, _Dr. Virgil E. Barnes. The University of Texas geolo gist described tektite character istics, discussed areas of the world in which they are found, showed color slides and passed around tektite samples in a Na tional Science Foundation insti tutes lecture at A&M Monday. He said Texas tektites, deter mined to be the oldest found in the world, have been located by him in Gonzales, Fayette, Wash ington, Lee, Burleson, Brazos, Walker and Montgomery Coun ties. “Through a potassium argon aging process, it has been possi ble to date Texas tektites as 35 million years old,” the Bureau of Economic Geology official said. Australites (tektites found in Australia) are 700,000 years old, mcldavites (Czechoslovakia) 15 million and bediasites of Texas are at the far end of the age scale. Bediasites (named for the Grimes County community near which they were first found) oc cur along the Jackson group geo logic formation of the Eocene epoch. Its outcrop slices general ly through Texas along the Gon- zales-Walker Counties line. “Tektites most likely will be found by the casual hunter along the cuts of arroyos and washes. They may be located mixed with gravel in the bottom of washes,” Barnes commented. Of dark brown or black color, bediasites in unweathered condi tion have a rough, fractured tex ture resembling the structure of cauliflower. Others may be rounded and pebble-like due to the influence of water and abra sion. “My definition of tektites is a structures;. naturally-occurring glass, unknown,” he remarked. In reviewing said Australite buttons to have plunged through til mosphere. Glass from the* ward-facing edge melted r atmospheric friction and blnl the sides to form a flange.K “A theory gaining adhe| is that tektites were soirl formed on earth and splaskl the surface,” he went on. || composition of many tektilfl quite similar to that of sif Cotte*ieflla*W detuejjLU DR. MANUEL DAVENPORT AggieEnrolls At Harvard Neil L. Keltner, corps com mander at Texas A&M in 1964- 65, wdll enroll in graduate busi ness school at Harvard next month after a touch-and-go sum mer with Army doctors. The first lieutenant from Lan sing, Mich., was wounded twice in Viet Cong ambushes during an eight-month Vietnam stint. He underwent four operations and checked into Valley Forge Hos pital again in July for X-rays. Keltner is at the Lansing home of his mother, Mrs. N. B. Kelt- nes, before moving to Boston. He recently visited in Wash ington, D. C., and reminisced with Capt. Paul Dresser, Army assist ant to President Johnson’s mili tary aide, and Jack Nelson, spe cial assistant to the assistant postmaster general. Dresser, the 1963-64 cadet colonel of the corps, was also wounded in Viet nam. Nelson, a 1948 A&M graduate, will be roundtable chairman for the 13th Student Conference on National Affairs in December. He chaired SCONA III. Keltner’s visit included a White House tour with Dresser, stops at the Senate and House cham bers. "THE CLIMATE FOR EDUCATION IS PROGRESS . . . the technique is innovation” Florida HAS A PLACE FOR ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY TEACHERS Want more facts? SEND FOR FREE COPY 16 PAGE BOOK IN COLOR! GET THE COMPLETE STORYI "where the action is!" J. W. BURT, Teacher Recruitment Knott Bldg. State Dept, of Educatic State Dept, ot tducation Tallahassee, Florida 32304 Wives Group Picks ‘Flame’ The College Station Firemen’s Wives Auxiliary has set into mo tion plans for a “Miss Flame Contest” in College Station. 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