THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 26, 1967
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
“We like your opinion, Mr. Slouch! We think we have one
of th’ biggest football signs!”
Yell Practices Lack
Civilian Support
Monday night marked the second Aggie yell practice
of this still-young football season. The turnout was as dis
appointing as the outcome of the first two football games.
When a yell practice is scheduled, the yell leaders can
always plan on looking up and seeing nothing but uniforms.
Civilians at yell practice are scarce. The Corps is there be
cause they have to be. But they want to be in Kyle Field,
too. Aggie spirit is ingrained in Corps members from the
moment they arrive at College Station.
— Sound Off
Editor, The Battalion.:
I would like to advise you that
the A&M Club of Baton Rouge
has completed arrangements for
our hospitality room at the Belle-
mont Motor Hotel, located on the
Airline Highway in Baton Rouge
for Saturday, September 30, 1967.
We would like to extend an in
vitation to all students and facul
ty who plan to be in Baton Rouge
for the A&M-LSU game, to come
by and visit with us and take
advantage of our hospitality
room.
An announcement of the above
information in “The Battalion”
would be appreciated.
Yours truly,
Hugh O. West ’55
President
Editor, The Battalion:
Open Letter to All Freshmen
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to welcome you to Texas
A&M University and also to tell
you a little about Phi Eta Sigma.
Phi Eta Sigma was founded at
the University of Illinois in 1923
to encourage scholarship among
first year college men and to
honor those who make outstand
ing records. The requirements for
membership are high; a grade
point average of 2.5 or better
during the first semester in col
lege or an average of 2.5 or better
during the first full year. Every
one who attains this average is
eligible regardless of academic
major.
I hope all of you do well during
your time at Texas A&M and
I alos hope many of you will be
eligible to become members of
Phi Eta Sigma at the end of this
semester or this year.
Michael J. Welch
President, Phi Eta Sigma
Editor, The Battalion:
In an attempt to bring more
outstanding major cultural events
to this community and to raise
money for charitable and civic
projects, the Bryan Rotary Club
in January, 1967, brought a na
tional theater company produc
tion of “Porgy and Bess” to the
Bryan Civic Auditorium. The play
was presented to a capacity audi
ence and produced $1,200.00 for
Stage Center, Inc., the Carnegie
Library, and the Junior Museum.
Our club decided to continue
the presentation of nationally-
known artists in order to make
more cultural events available to
our community and to raise
money for various civic projects.
We were very pleased when
the Town Hall Committee Chair
man, Robert Gonzales, and mem
bers of his Selection Committee
(which included A&M students,
faculty, faculty wives, and citi
zens of the Bryan-College Station
community) contacted us to ask
if we would be interested in spon
soring and underwriting a new
concert series. This seemed to be
exactly the type of project that
we had been thinking of. It offer
ed us advantages of having Uni
versity staff with concert manag
ing experience available for our
programs—it offered us the op
portunity to work jointly with
the University’s Town Hall Com
mittee—and the numbers and the
concerts offered us seemed to be
of the high type that we had
hoped to present. We decided to
underwrite and finance new
series, called the Bryan Rotary
Community Series. The ticket
sales have been most pleasing.
To date, ticket sales amount to
$11,400. Over 800 season tickets
have been sold. To break even on
this project we must sell approx
imately 300 more season tickets.
In order to have a small “balance
forward” to begin the 1968-69
series, we need to sell 400-plus
tickets.
We have been very happy to
receive many favorable comments
from A&M faculty and adminis
trators telling us that the addition
of this new series, which offers
the community more recreation
and cultural events than ever
before, makes it easier for them
to retain and bring in outstanding
faculty. Many of them have told
us that they feel that the state
ment made in years past that this
community was a “cultural void”
is no longer true.
In order for this series to con
tinue, we must at least break
even. This is our appeal to the
citizenry of this University com
munity to purchase tickets for the
Rotary Community Series and
help us keep this fine program.
All seats are reserved. Season
tickets costing $13.50 each will
enable you to see five major pre
sentations, which include the fol
lowing: (1) The Houston Sym
phony Orchestra with Andre
Previn conducting, September 29;
(2) Carlos Montoya, October 30;
(3) “The Roar of the Greaspaint,
The Smell of the Crowd,” Febru
ary 13, 1968; (4) Mary Costa,
March 8, 1968; and (5) Lorin
Hollander, April 9, 1968. In ad
dition, all season ticket holders
will be the guests of the Town
Hall Series with general admis
sion seats to two major events:
(1) Mantovani, November 8; and
(2) Fred Waring, December 6.
We believe that this is an out
standing bargain. Most of these
numbers will be available in
Houston where each presentation
would cost $3 to $7, plus the cost
of driving to Houston, hiring
babysitters, buying meals, etc.
For tickets and additional in
formation, call the Student Pro
gram Office at Texas A&M Uni
versity (846-8722); or any of the
following Rotarians — Tom
Sweeney (846-7225), John W. Hill
(846-8773), H. G. Kenagy (846-
6330).
Our big date is September 29.
Be there with your season ticket
to hear and to see the world-
famous conductor, Andre Previn,
conducting one of the nation’s
outstanding symphonies, the
Houston Symphony.
Sincerely,
A. Cecil Wamble
President, Bryan Rotary Club;
Research Engineer, Texas
Experiment Station, Texas
A&M University
John W. Hill
Chairman, Rotary Community
Series Committee; Personnel,
Insurance and Safety Depart
ment, Texas A&M University
U. S. Skydiving Has Claimed
The non-regs have a special way of getting the spirit
about an hour before a game and losing it after the game is
over. Yet they want the best seats and all the glory, but
they can’t seem to find time during the week to come to
yell practice. ■ o. i
The Corps marched in at the SMU game and received
good exposure and good publicity for the university. And
bad seats. When Corps members reached the sections roped
off for them, they found the area densely populated with
civilians.
Corps juniors sat from about the ten-yard-line to about
five yeards deep in the end zone. As if this wasn’t bad
enough, civilian juniors decided they would stand on the
senior “wood” and obstructed other juniors’ view.
The same thing happened to the seniors. Some Corps
seniors were sitting as close to the end zone as the 15-yard-
line. The prospect of the same fate doesn’t leave much to
look forward to in the three remaining home games.
With the expansion of Kyle Field, this problem could be
remedied. It seems a poor solution to segregate civilians
from the Corps, but it may be the only one unless someone
can come up with a way to control the civilians and get them
to honor the location reserved for the Corps.
When the upper deck on the east side of Kyle Field is
completed, it would be possible to have separate sections
for each group.
It’s something for everyone to think about, and some
thing for whoever makes seating plans to do something
about.
It’s too bad that so few have to ruin things for so many.
—C. H. R.
Bulletin Board
So Far This Year
TODAY
The Scuba Diving Club will
meet in Room 305 of Goodwin
Hall at 8 p.m.
Entomology Wives Club will
have their first meeting at 8 p.m.
at 602 Woodson Dr. in Bryan.
THURSDAY
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in room 2A of the MSC at
7:30 p.m.
Beaumont Hometown Club will
meet in the Fountain Room of
the YMCA at 7:30 p.m.
Port Arthur Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 in the Lounge
of the YMCA.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in room 108 of the Acadmeic
Building.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet after yell practice in
Room 205 of the Academic Build
ing.
Aeorspace Engineering Wives
Club will have a reception for all
new members and faculty wives
at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Richard C. Thomas, 914 Stanfield
Circle, Bryan.
41 Lives
By AL SCHAY
Skydiving, a sport developed
developed from an aerial emer
gency escape technique, has taken
41 lives in the United States this
year.
The death count, including 16
in a record single disaster last
month, already exceeds by seven
the previous one-year high, 34 in
1963.
The 41st death was a bizzare
suicide by a jumper whose wife
had died in a skydiving accident.
John Wasik, 27, deliberately
plunged 3,200 feet to earth from
a plane over Florida Sunday with
out opening either of his two
parachutes.
The first design for a para
chute was produced in 1495 by
Leonard! da Vinci, who called it
a “tent roof.” But the first jump
on record was not made until
1783, when Louis Sebastian Len-
ormand of France descended safe
ly by parachute from a high
tower.
Capt. Albert Berry made the
first successful parachute jump
from an airplane, in 1912 at St.
Louis, Mo.
Today, parachuting has become
a sport for thousands. They leap
from planes, guide their fall with
body movements, go through
gymnastic maneuvers and delay
opening their chutes until the
last possible moment in an effort
to land on a target.
The sport’s development has
been a boon to some industries
and a joy to thrill-seekers. It
also has been a headache to some
government agencies, and a trage
dy to some participants.
One of the most tragic episodes
in the sport’s history involved
the Florida couple, John and
Rickie Wasik.
On Sunday, Aug. 22, Rickie,
22 and making her first jump,
plunged to her death near Rock-
ledge, Fla., airport. On Sunday,
jumping from the same plane
at the same hour, John leaped
to his death with hands held
in attitude of prayer rather than
pulling the ripcord.
Friends said Wasik, an aero
space writer at Cape Kennedy,
Fla., had blamed himself for his
wife’s death.
U. S. sports parachuting had
its worst disaster last Aug. 27,
when 18 skydivers plummeted in
to Lake Erie and 16 of them
drowned.
On Monday, the National
Transportation Safety Board
blamed the pilot, and instructions
by a Federation Aviation Agency
traffic controller. It said the pilot
should have ended the mission
because of cloud cover, and that
the controller’s ei’roneous radar
idientification of the jump craft
resulted in its being off position.
The parachutists themselves,
“all of whom were experienced
and aware of the hazards of
jumping under the prevailing
conditions, were not without
fault,” the board added.
Retired Brig. Gen. William T.
Ryder, America’s first command
er of paratroopers, observed af
ter the accident that skydivers
leaping from planes above clouds
are like motorists driving at
night without lights.
And Jacques Andre Istel, foun
der of the U.S. Parachute As
sociation and lifetime president
of the association and the Inter
national Parachuting Commis
sion, said that if a parachutist
jumps through clouds, he violates
federal regulations, association
regulations and “principles of
both common sense and morality.”
With regulations and improve
ments in parachute technology
and jumping techniques, why the
deaths ?
Gen. Ryder thinks it’s a mat
ter of two basics: Man overesti
mating his capacity, and a lack
of adequate training.
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Professor Receives $2,000 Grant
For Studies From Ford Foundation
L. C. Wood of Waco, a Paul
Quinn College professor who is
working on a Ph.D. in education
at Texas A&M University, has
received a $2,000 Ford Foundation
grant in support of his disserta
tion research.
The grant is part of a Ford
Foundation program for upgrad
ing faculties of small colleges.
Wood, 1115 Lewis Avenue, will
write his dissertation on “The
Role of the Visiting Teacher in
Public Schools.” He is in his
third year of doctoral work in
curriculum and instruction.
Dr. Donald G. Barker, chair
man of doctoral programs in
A&M’s Education Department,
said Wood has completed his resi
dence work and is teaching at
Paul Quinn this fall.
Wood is an associate professor
in the Waco college’s teacher
education program. He was a
visiting teacher in Waco schools,
The Holland High School gradu
ate received bachelor and masters
degrees at Baylor.
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