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* w*-** ’ ,* ‘,1. .■v>75 DR. LUCIAN PYE ':vv DR. FRANK TRACER DR. LEV DORRIANSKY ANAND PANYARACHUN TRACY S. PARK Che Battalion Wednesday — Cloudy with intermit- £: tent rain showers, wind southerly 15- :$ 25. High 68, low 53. | :$ •VXvMvZ’M'X’M’.'X'X'X'X'X'X’XvX’M'X'X'X’X'X'X’XvX'X’X’X'I’r*. Thursday — Cloudy, wind Southwest 15-20. High 71, low 48. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1967 Number 511 SCONA XIII Sessions HP ¥3 • WT Jk 1 1 o Begin w ednesday SE Asia Is Topic Of 4-Day Meeting S£ONA WORKERS SCONA XIII Chairman Pat Rehmet, upper left, supervises final preparations for the con ference as Edward Taylor checks arrangements. Stuffing invitation envelopes are Lowell Hendrix, left, and Bruce Damron. Mrs. Beth Richmond lends a secretarial hand. Conference Speakers Include Diplomats, Profs, Economists 1 Principal speakers for SCONA XIII include a Washington ad ministrator, a political science professor and a former assistant secretary of state. Keynoting the conference with a Wednesday afternoon address the conference topic, “The Price of Peace in Southeast Asia,” will be Roger Hilsman, former assistant secretary of state for Par Eastern Affairs. A professor of government at Col umbia University, Hilsman re cently made national headlines with his statements on the con duct of the war in Vietnam. Considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on foreign af fairs, Hilsman has personal ex perience in dealing with such problems as Vietnam, Cuba and Red China. He was one of Pres ident Kennedy’s closest advisors on Southeast Asia. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adr. WILLIAM J. DRIVER, admin istrator for Veteran’s Affairs in Washington, D. C., is scheduled for a conference address later Wednesday. His topic will be “No Retreat From Tomorrow.” Driver has made two trips to Vietnam in the past 18 months to secure information and advise President Johnson on possible solutions to the conflict- Friday’s speaker is Dr. Frank N. Trager, professor of interna tional affairs in New York Uni versity’s graduate school of pub lic administration. His topic, “Nationalist Independent South east Asia,” reflects his years of study of the region’s problems as a member of the Southeast Asian Development Group, a division of the U. S. Agency for Interna tional Development. A THREE-MAN panel, made up of Dr. Lev. Dobriansky, An- and Panyarachun and Tracy S. Park, will discuss “Stability in Southeast Asia” Thursday eve ning. Dobriansky, professor of economics at Georgetown Uni versity and panel moderator, is also Economics Editor of the American Security Council’s Washington Report. Panyarachun, acting perma nent representative of Thailand to the United Nations, has par ticipated in numerous Southeast Asian peace conferences. Park is director of research for Ten nessee Gas Pipeline Company and has worked with the Ford Found- dation in India. Dr. Lucian Pye, professor of political science at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, will be the conference “round-up” speaker at the final session Sat urday. The author of studies on communism in Malaya and on emerging nations in Asia, Pye will summarize previous speeches and “round-table” discussion ses sions in his address. By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Some 140 students from 50 schools began arriving on campus this afternoon, ready for four days of discussion on “The Price of Peace in Southeast Asia.” The students, delegates to the Thirteenth Student Conference on National Affairs, represent schools from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Conference events will be high lighted by seven speakers, round table discussions and social ac tivities. Authoritative speakers, includ ing Roger Hilsman, William J. Driver and Lucian W. Pye will address the delegates. In the roundtable discussions, the delegates themselves exchange ideas and disect the speaker’s remarks under the guidance of experienced co-chairmen. The conference’s social calendar will feature the Town Hall pres entation of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians at which the dele gates will be the guests of Town Hall. “We want to welcome all the delegates to SCONA XIII and hope that they will enjoy their stay here,” SCONA Chairman Pat Rehmet said. “I also want to remind all A&M students that the conference is open to the public and they are encouraged to attend as many of the roundtables and speeches as they can,” Rehmet added. “Only the meals will be limited to the delegates.” Two speakers, Roger Hilsman and William Driver, will address the delegates before they break into their assigned roundtables University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Wednesday. The 6 p.m. dinner will be followed by the Fred Waring Town Hall Show in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Thursday’s activities include a 4:30 p.m. review of the Corps of Cadets, lunch in Duncan Dining Hall, a smorgasbord for dinner and a panel discussion of South east Asian stability that evening to be followed by a Singing Cadet concert. Frank N. Trager’s address on the nationalist independent will finalize Friday’s activities which include several roundtable discus sions and a Texas Barbecue. On the final day of the confer ence, the roundtables will sum marize their findings and Lucian W. Pye will wrap-up the confer ence at lunch. Attending the conference as delegates from A&M are Mrs. Jean Marie Anderson, Thomas C. Gruber, John R. Hensley, Hugh Robert James, Arthur W. Jen nings, David T. Maddox, John M. Menger and Wayne H. Prescott. Robert B. Stiles Jr., James T. Taylor, Elizabeth Marie Tynan, Jack M. Whiteside, Sam H. Cole man Jr., Ronald D. Hinds, Wil liam M. Jacqmeir, Donaldson D. McGinty, Steve Meaux, Clinton J. Mochann and Gary L. Moon. John H. Moores, Randall R. Myers, Robert K. Nordhaus, Paschal E. Redding, William A. Seeker, Charles R. Stephan III, and Beatrice Lorrain Wehrly. BULLETIN Students who have not yet bought Cotton Bowl student and date tickets may buy them at the Athletic Business Office Wednesday beginning at 8 a.m., according to Wally Groff, athletic business director. SCONA XIII Highlights Here are the major speech events on the SCONA XIII schedule: 1:15 p. m. Wednesday “The Price of Peace in Southeast Asia” (Keynote Address)—Dr. Roger Hilsman 3 p. m. Wednesday :“No Retreat From Tomorrow”—William J. Driver_ 8 p. m. Thursday .-“Stability in Southeast Asia”—Panel Presentation Dr. Lev Dobriansky, Anand Panyarachun, Tracy S. Park 8 p. m. Friday “Nationalist Independent Southeast Asia”—Dr. Frank N. Trager 12 Noon Saturday “Conference Round-Up”—Dr. Lucian W. Pye Fred Waring, Pennsylvanians To Perform Here Wednesday Fred Waring and the Pennsyl vanians will revisit Texas A&M for an 8 p.m. Wednesday Town Hall performance at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Last year, the group was so well received by a capacity audi ence that the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Committee moved quickly to schedule another performance this year. Town Hall Chairman Robert Gonzales observed the current tour marks the beginning of the second half-century in show busi ness for Waring. Featured in the company are bassos Leonardy Kranendonk and Ralph Isbell, the youthful Cordo- vox virtuoso Donna Dee Ander son, banjo-comedian Bobby Day, sopranos Janice Zoch, Deborah Truxal and Cleo Conklin, and the droll drummer Poley McClintock. McClintock and Waring com prised half of the original four- man band that started the Penn sylvanians’ career more than 50 years ago in their home town of Tyrone, Pa. “From the beginning of the Pennsylvanians,” Waring com ments, “We have tried to give the public what they wanted. We kept a finger on the popular pulse —the taste and rhythms of the times.” Throughout his 50-year career, Waring has set versatility as a hallmark of his musical shows. He is a maestro who has defied being typed as a conductor of a single kind of music—classics, chorales, patriotic, jazz, Broad way hits, folk songs or the latest novelty tunes, Waring presents them all, updating the old favor ites in the popular rhythms of the times. Waring’s entourage includes a company of 50, including a con cert orchestra and choral group in solos, skits and special num bers. Tickets for the show are avail able at the MSC Student Program Office. Visiting delegates to SCONA XIII will be Town Hall’s guests at the performance. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L For Committee Members Planning For SCONA Is Year-Round Student Project By JOHN W. FULLER Battalion Managing Editor For delegates to Texas A&M’s Thirteenth Student Conference on National Affairs, Wednesday will mark the beginning of four days of lively discussion and debate. For the A&M students who make up the SCONA XIII Committee, it will mean that 10 months of planning and hard work are draw ing to a close. And for students who will be on next year’s committee, pre liminary planning for SCONA XIV will be just around the cor ner. The fact is, a meeting of 140 or more students from more than 50 colleges in the South and Southwest, Mexico and Canada, to discuss topics ranging from the Common Market to the Viet nam war, and featuring speeches by top-ranking government of ficials and their top-ranknig cri tics, doesn’t just happen. It takes a year-round schedule, including fund drives during holiday per iods, to insure a well-organized meeting of the minds. “THE RESPONSIBILITY of students in SCONA is an almost frightening one,” says J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center and foremost SCONA advisor. “The job is so big that it takes a part-time, pro fessional stenographer 12 months a year to support the correspon dence and paperwork.” Of the five such conferences sponsored by American colleges, Stark noted, SCONA is the only one in which students raise the entire amount of operating funds, which this year totals $18,000. A&M students also secure speak ers, panelists and chairmen for “Round-Table” discussion groups, with help from Congressman Olin E. Teague of the Bryan-College Station district. TEAGUE, WHOM Stark has called “the godfather of SCONA,” suggests names of possible speak ers on conference topics and en courages Washington authorities to accept SCONA invitations. For several conferences, he has com piled research from the Library of Congress as guides to confer ence discussion. For this year’s topic, “The Price of Peace in Southeast Asia,” he had a 65-page background paper drawn up by an Asian affairs anaylst at the li brary. A&M students began planning for this year’s conference in Feb ruary, when the SCONA Commit tee met to evaluate SCONA XII and offer suggestions for im provement. At that point, SCONA XIII Chairman-Elect Pat Rehmet of Alice took over leadership of the committee, organizing a new membership drive and calling for suggested themes and topics for SCONA XIII. This planning con tinued through March, when the Easter Finance Drive was organ ized. “THE EASTER Drive is a ma jor operation in itself,” Rehmet noted. “Students have to be trained in proper interviewing procedures, and of course they must be thoroughly familiar with the topics to be covered in the conference.” The SCONA Finance Commit tee sends out letters early in March to past sponsors and pros pective sponsors in Texas met ropolitan areas, requesting ap pointments for the SCONA work ers. Training sessiotis begin soon after for the students, who will give up Easter holidays to con tact the potential donors in their area, armed with packets of SCONA information. The drive is organized by cities, with temporary headquarters in each city to keep the interviews running smoothly. Each two-man SCONA team files a complete re port form on its contacts for future reference. Once the pledge contributions are totaled up, the SCONA Finance Chairman is able to report a tentative budget for the conference. BUT AS complex an operation as the drive is, it isn’t the only activity for SCONA leaders dur ing March. Interviews for new SCONA members are conducted, and a list of new committee mem bers is announced before the drive starts. Executive positions are filled by late March, and orientation sessions for new mem bers begin almost immediately. Basic planning for the confer ence itself begins at this point. Meeting rooms in the Memorial Student Center must be reserved for the discussion and lecture sessions, dates must be placed on the official University calendar, and a list of schools to be invited must be drawn up. Letters are then sent to the chief adminis trators of each school, explaining the conference and asking that a given number of delegates be selected. NEXT BEGINS the big job of inviting speakers. The Program chairman contacts experts on the conference topic by mail, tele grams and sometimes direct long distance telephone calls, asking some to speak to the assembled delegates and others to lead the smaller “Round-Table” groups. This year’s list of Round-Table co-chairmen is typically varied, including embassy representa tives from five Southeast Asian nations, a leading American econ omist, and representatives of the U. S. State Department, the Agency for International Devel opment and the Post Office De partment. The second major step toward financing the conference begins as soon as the spring semester ends. SCONA volunteers give up a week of summer vacation to make calls on potential sponsors who were not contacted during the Easter drive. In recent years, these included American and Mexican businessmen in Monter rey and other major cities in Mexico, where Mexican college students who had been SCONA delegates in past years returned with enthusiastic reports on the conference. “I THINK the summer finance drive is one of the best indica tions of students’ dedication to SCONA,” Rehmet noted. “Many of /the workers have to get special permission to start summer jobs a week late because of this ac tivity, and of course they give up a week’s salary to help with the drive.” For students who attend sum mer sessions at A&M, work con tinues through July and August as correspondents with prospec tive speakers increases and plan ning for pre-conference publica tions begins. For the remainder of the 80 to 100 committee mem bers, back-to-school becomes back- to-SCONA. Planning of every de tail, from menus for meal events (See SCONA, Page 2)