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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
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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.
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