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ition helps sponsor line up con-
erences for groups of far-rang-
ig size — from seven for an
rc-welding seminar to more than
for an annual 4-H Round-
Popularity of continuing edu-
ation has grown through the
ears, Upwards to 71) confer-
nces now attract as many as
persons annually. These
pres do not include more than
conferences conducted off
ampus for as many as h.OOO per
ms.
Earliest records show A&M
osted 21 short courses in 1939
ith 6,939 persons attending. But
lore than half that number at-
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James W. Hammond, industrial
Fgiene director for Humble Oil
nd Refining Company, Houston,
ill address an industrial weed
ontrol conference here Oct. 23-2-1.
Hammond’s topic, “Herbicides
afety and Toxicology,” was an-
ounced by Dr. Wayne G. Mc-
lully, associate professor of
ange science at A&M.
A registered professional engi-
eer, Hammond is a past presi-
ent of the Gulf Coast Section of
American Industrial Hygiene
Issociation. He is a member of
Air Pollution Control Associa-
ion, American Water Works As-
ttiation and a former mayor of
Fast University Place.
HAMMOND ‘ HAS a master’s
agree from Mississippi State
diversity. He also is a diplo-
»ate of the American Academy
iEnvironmental Engineer's.
Dr. McCully said the confer
ee will emphasize practical as-
tets of industrial weed control,
anels are scheduled for selective
eed control, soil sterilization and
giiatic weeds and drainage
itches.
Another featured speaker will
*Dr. F. Leonard Timmons, weeds
ivestigation leader in aquatic
ad noncrop areas for the Agri-
iltural Research Service, USDA,
lant Science Division, University
[Wyoming. He will discuss the
issibility of pollution of water
ith applied herbicides.
REPRESENTATIVES of chem-
al companies and formulators
ill describe industrial weed con-
ol products. Displays of prod-
its and equipment will be ex
ited throughout the conference.
Texas Farmers Short Course, a
forerunner of today’s 4-H Round
up.
PRIOR TO that time a number
of short courses were staged,
many of them no longer in exist
ence. The Ice Manufacturers As
sociation is one of the sessions
which went the way of the wild
goose.
Meetings today vary from the
Texas Tennis School to supervis
ory courses, justices of the peace
seminars and air pollution control
workshops.
Actually, the Office of Contin
uing Education is only four years
old, having been established in
1963 to fill a need cited by A&M’s
Century Study of 1962. That
study called for a quality con-
inuing education program which
offers a service to a community
or an individual to give convinc
ing evidence of A&M’s partner
ship in the welfare of Texans.
Philosophy of the program is
to encourage meetings of educa
tional and professional societies
at Aggieland.
A BOON to regional meetings
at A&M has been the installation
of air-conditioning in dormitories,
says Bill Hensel, coordinator of
continuing education facilities.
But air-conditioned dormitories
also have helped push summer
school enrollment up, creating a
scheduling problem.
Hensel hires part-time help to
aid conferences with registration,
receipts, typing of name tags and
selling luncheon tickets.
‘Our aim,” Hensel pointed out,
“is to relieve the sponsor of the
details and mechanics of a con
ference, allowing him to give full
concentration to the program.”
“The hair-pulling time comes
when you try to estimate how
many people will attend a meal,”
he added. “And weather is al
ways a factor. Expected enroll
ment dwindles on the day a hur
ricane is predicted to hit the Tex
as Coast. Ice storms put crimps
in conference plans.”
AMONG THE oldest confer
ences staged at A&M are the
Texas Water and Sewage Works
Association course, which held its
49th annual meeting this year,
and the Highway Engineers Short
Course which recently met for the
40th time.
Ninety per cent of all confer
ences booked by the Office of
Continuing Education are staged
in A&M’s Memorial Student Cen
ter. It has 64 hotel rooms and
can house a maximum of 150
if rollaway beds are pressed into
service.
“Dealing with all sorts of peo
ple is the most interesting part
of this job,” Hensel commented.
“We have all sorts of emergen
cies arise such as the need for
projectors or sound equipment,
but these problems are usually
quickly solved by our personnel.”
A&M Scientists Don’t Fit p ™ b . le , ms i ook .
Generally-Accepted Image
The picture of the lonely scien
tist clutching a test tube in an
obscure garret should be retired
to the album. It was never very
accurate, anyway.
The new view in research is
the “interdisciplinary” approach.
It’s the teaming-up of scientists
from different fields of study to
solve a particular problem.
This approach is becoming more
evident at universities throughout
the United States, including Tex
as A&M, where it’s being used on
problems ranging from space cap
sules to statistics.
“Exhaustive studies have been
made on what the federal govern
ment gets for its research dollar
and they show it gets relatively
little from individuals,” says Har
ry Whitmore, director of Texas
A&M’s Space Technology Divi
sion which is heavily engaged in
interdisciplinary projects.
SOMEWHERE between the
concepts of “two heads are better
than one” and “too many cooks
spoil the soup,” lies the payoff.
The Manhattan Project, the team
effort which built the first atomic
bomb, is one example.
“Oddly,” says Whitmore, “most
universities are incapable of tak
ing on these jobs because they
aren’t structured to do it.”
In many cases—and this was
once true at A&M—one scientific
subject may be under research
at a number of places on a cam
pus with little communication
among the separate researchers.
“Although it may jump tradi
tional boundaries within universi
ties, the process of unifying re
search is mandatory today,” says
Whitmore.
ONE EXAMPLE of interdisci
plinary unification at A&M is
work on “Project Themis,” a pro
gram funded by the Department
of Defense to discover better ways
of design and management of
processes and projects. “Optimi-
BA Conference
Begins Oct. 22
A management seminar spon
sored by the School of Business
Administration is set here Oct.
22-28, announced W. E. Eckles,
executive development programs
director.
Eckles said the seminar is ex
pected to attract approximately
30 executives from throughout
the Southwest.
Guest speakers include William
Oncken Jr., president, William
Oncken Associates, New York
City; Edward J. Green, president,
Planning Dynamics Inc., Pitts
burgh, Ja.; J. W. Miller, vice
president, Employers Casualty
Insurance Company, Dallas; and
L. D. Collins, operations vice
president, Central Power and
Light Company, Corpus Christi.
Other speakers are Dr. Robert
J. Potts, regional medical direc
tor, Mobil Oil company, Dallas;
D. B. Campbell, former manager,
Plastics Department, Sabine Riv
er Works, DuPont Inc., Orange;
and Dr. J. P. Abbott, distin
guished professor of English,
Texas A&M.
Among topics are goal-oriented
management, communications, or
ganization, planning, decentrali
zation and performance evalua
tion, decision making and estab
lishment of effective controls.
Knebel, Holcomb
Attend Seminar
Dr. Earl Knebel and John Hol
comb of the Agricultural Educa
tion Department are in Chicago
this week attending the National
Seminar on Vocational-Technical
Teacher Education.
The session will explore fresh
approaches in the education of
vocational-technical teachers who
will be preparing students for
new and changing occupations.
Knebel said seminar partici
pants will analyze results of re
cent research, experimental pro
grams, and new developments in
teacher education.
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transaction.
2. Checks drawn on local banks are more readily
cashed.
3. University National Bank is within walking-
distance of the campus.
zation” is the work and both
theoretical and “practical” disci
plines are involved. Another part
of “Project Themis” is a program
of subjective weather forecast
ing for localized areas and here
meteorologists team with statisti
cians and computer technologists
to arrive at the answers.
If “optimization” sounds a little
stuffy, consider a case in point
where a research team picked an
existing design of the tail of a
well known airplane, reworked it
using the figures for some new
materials, and came up with a
design which showed it could be
made stronger or lighter.
NOT ONLY in the physical sci
ences does the interdisciplinary
team approach seem to work well,
but it appears the biological sci
ences are headed toward some
form of unification.
This year, Texas A&M estab
lished a new Institute of Life
Sciences which aims to bring to
gether the various splintered dis
ciplines of biology.
The institute’s director, Dr. J.
van Overbeek, declares: “Modern
biology differs a great deal from
the old biology, which was frag
mented. Now, through molecular
and cell biology, all disciplines
come together.”
For instance, hormones in both
plants and animals are being
studied side by side with the old
distinctions between zoologist and
botanist fading.
In one sense, the history of sci
ence shows that few great dis
coveries were truly individual.
Einstein used the physical obser
vations of Michelson and some of
the mathematics of Lorenz in his
theories.
“You can’t take 15 professors
and say ‘Go do research’,” notes
Whitmore. It requires the serv
ices of a person who may not be
a specialist in any of the par
ticular fields but who knows
enough about each to act as a
catalyst, or mediator to keep the
effort from being splintered in 15
different directions.
Whitmore says it all adds up to
this: It is probable that more
knowledge has been gained in the
past decade than in all the ages
past. In the succeeding decades,
the important discoveries are like
ly to be made by multi-specialist
groups.
A basic problems book prepar
ed by Texas A&M’s Engineering
Graphics Department has been
published by the Addison Wesley
Company of Reading, Mass.
Contributors include James H.
Earle, Samuel H. Cleland, John
P. Oliver, Lawrence E. Stark,
Paul M. Mason, North B. Bardell
and Michael P. Guerard.
Dr. Earle, associate professor
in charge of engineering graph
ics, said the content is structed
t o serve as an introductory
course in the general field of en
gineering. He noted emphasis is
placed on utilization of graphics
as a vital part of the creative
process rather than merely as a
communication medium.
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