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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1968
Number 526
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FIRST 100-MILERS
Joan and Ernest Uken made their running' in the Texas
A&M 100-Mile Club a family project. The nuclear physicist
and former “Miss South Africa” received a certificate for
jogging 100 miles. Physical conditioning is the club’s
purpose.
Researcher, Wife
First 4 100-Miters’
A nuclear physicist and a 1966
“Miss World” finalist were the
first 100-Mile Club members at
Texas A&M to run 100 miles.
The husband-wife team, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest A. Uken of Jo
hannesburg, South Africa,
"raced” about 90 other 100-mile
aspirants to reach the 1’unning
goal.
Dr. Carl W. Landiss, head of
the Health and Physical Educa
tion Department which sponsors
the club, presented the Ukens
100-mile certificates.
“We ran about three miles a
day and 15 to 20 miles a week,”
explained Uken, head of a neu
tron activation lab at the South
Africa National Institute for
Metallurgy. He is on leave of
absence from the branch of South
Africa’s Atomic Energy Board to
participate in research with Dr.
Radar Installation
To Aid City Police
College Station police have in
stalled radar to cope with poten
tial speeders.
The radar will have a range of
1500 feet on cars and 4,000 feet
on trucks and buses, and will be
operated on all major streets in
side the city limits.
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Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Richard E. Wainerdi in A&M’s
Activation Analysis Research
Laboratory.
His wife is the former Miss
Joan Carter, “Miss South Africa”
of 1966. The striking blond beau
ty was one of 15 finalists in the
Miss World contest at London in
November, 1966.
They ran the 100 miles on
country roads near their South
College Station apartment,
sprinting to the club goal in
about three months.
“We didn’t run every week,”
Uken remarked. “Last week, we
missed the ice and cold while
making a trip to California.”
The slender scientist, a South
African Army captain, and his
wife plan to keep on running,
even when they return to Johan
nesburg in late February.
“The idea is that a club mem
ber should have established a
physical conditioning routine of
running by the time he has com
pleted 100 miles,” explained Dr.
John M. Chevrette, assistant pro
fessor of health and physical edu
cation.
“We hope he’ll still be running
some each day when the club is
forgotten,” Dr. Chevrette added.
Tie said persons interested in
becoming 100-Mile Club members
should contact him at Room 221,
G. R. White Coliseum, to have
their name placed on mileage
charts.
There are , no dues, meetings or
obligations. Just running.
A record 817 students are
scheduled to receive degrees dur
ing graduation ceremonies at 10
a.m. Saturday in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Commissioning exercises at
1:S0 p.m. Saturday will feature
Gen. James K. Woolnough, com
manding officer of the U. S.
Continental Army Command at
Fort Monroe, Va., as major
speaker.
Eighty-eight cadets are sched
uled to be commissioned second
lieutenants, with 61 going into
the Army, 21 Air Force and six
Marine Corps.
The commissioner of the Texas
College and University Board,
Dr. Jack K. Williams, will be com
mencement speaker.
Dr. Williams, top administrative
officer for the coordinating board
since August, 1966, is a former
president of the Council of Aca
demic Vice Presidents of South
ern Universities and served two
terms as a member of the execu
tive council for the Southern As
sociation of Colleges and School’s
Commission on Colleges.
BEFORE MOVING to Texas,
Dr. Williams served Clemson Uni
versity for almost 20 years, first
as a history professor, then as
graduate dean and dean of the
university until he was named
vice president in 1963.
The Galax, Va., native earned
the Ph.D. and two additional de
grees in political science from
Emory University. He also did
graduate study at the University
of Virginia and the University
of Kentucky.
The former Marine Corps of
ficer is the author of several
magazine and journal articles on
historical subjects. He is a mem
ber of the Methodist Church, Phi
Kappa Phi National Scholarship
Society and various historical as
sociations.
In 1965, Williams was secretary
of the Governor’s Committee to
recommend a system of junior
colleges for South Carolina. He
organized junior colleges in Sum
ter and Greenville, S. C.
GENERAL WOOLNOUGH, a
1932 graduate of the U. S. Mili
tary Academy at West Point, is
a former deputy chief of staff
for personnel for the Department
of the Army.
The general also commanded
the 1st Cavalry Division in Ko-
BATT SCHEDULE
This is the last issue of the
Battalion during Dead Week.
Next Thursday’s edition will
be the only issue during Finals
Week.
rea. During World War II, Wool
nough was executive officer of
the 1st Infantry Division shortly
after the D-Day Normandy Beach
landing in 1944 and assumed com
mand of the 393rd Infantry Regi
ment, 99th Infantry Division,
near the end of the Battle of the
Bulge in 1945.
Among General Woolnough’s
citations are the Distinguished
Service Medal with Oak Leaf
Cluster, the Silver and Bronze
Stars, and commendations from
Belgium, France and the Republic
of Korea.
A&M BOARD President L. F.
Peterson of Fort Worth will ex
tend greetings to the graduates,
as will A&M President Earl Rud
der who also will introduce Dr.
Williams and preside over con
ferring of degrees.
Clarence Daugherty, Corps
chaplain, will deliver the invo
cation and David Wilks, civilian
chaplain, the benediction.
Special stage guests include
board member Peyton McKnight
of Tyler, two former A&M chan
cellors, Dr. M. T. Harrington and
Gibb Gilchrist, and a former act
ing president, D. W. Williams.
Robert L. Boone, director of the
Singing Cadets, will lead the
graduates and audience in singing
the “Spirit of Aggieland.” R. L.
Hostetler will be organist.
The “swearing in” ceremonies
for Saturday afternoon’s commis
sioning program will be directed
by Maj. George Strebeck of the
A&M commandant’s office.
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SPHERE DEDICATION SET
Diann Beene, a secretary in the Olin E. Teague Research Center, looks over the eight-
foot-high sculptured sphere in front of the center. The sphere, presented by Albritton
Engineering Corp. and Reynolds Metals Co., will be dedicated Wednesday. See story,
page 4.
$100,000 Grant From NASA
To Aid A&M Space Research
Night Watchman,
61, Dies On Duty
At Sbisa Docks
Henry S. Holleman, night
watchman for Texas A&M’s Food
Service Department, died about
6 a.m. Thursday of an apparent
heart attack while on duty on
the loading docks at Sbisa Dining
Hall.
Mr. Holleman, 61, has been as
sociated with the university more
than 21 years. He resided on cam
pus.
The World War II veteran was
a native of Normangee but resided
in Fort Worth immediately be
fore coming to College Station.
Services are pending at Calla
way-Jones Funeral Home.
Survivors include three brothers
and a sister.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Texas A&M has received a
$100,000 grant from the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration for continuing its pro
gram of space-related research.
The program, begun in 1962,
has produced a wide range of in
vestigations and findings which
have contributed to this nation’s
space effort, points out Harry
Whitmore, director of A&M’s
Space Technology Division.
NASA funds have been used to
form research project teams com
posed of scientists of different
disciplines so that problems could
be attacked from a number of
angles. The funding has acted as
a “pump primer” in that the proj
ects, once begun, have attracted
quite a bit of additional support.
“ACTUALLY, we’re running
between $400,000 and $500,000 a
year in things associated with the
grant and with the Teague Re
search Center,” says Whitmore.
The grant aided in establishing
the center.
The original grant of $100,000
for three years in 1962 was large
ly a result of the work Dr. John
Calhoun, vice president for pro
grams. It was raised in 1964 to
$100,000 a year. The total, to
date, is $681,000 notes Whitmore.
The payoffs have been in terms
of new knowledge and devices.
Currently, a new method of
computerized mathematical
analysis worked out by A&M’s
space scientists is being used to
study the new design of the Apol
lo Program’s command module.
In fact, a broad effort in struc
tural analysis which can be ap
plied not only to spacecraft, but
also to a variety of things, is
underway at A&M.
SPACECRAFT cost studies at
A&M have continued to NASA’s
program of estimating costs at
the Manned Spacecraft Center at
Houston.
This week, A&M’s Activation
Analysis Laboratory in the
Teague Center began work on
analyzing titanium, a strong,
light metal used in spacecraft
design.
Work at the center continues
on methods of accelerating small
particles to very high speeds so
that the effect of meteroid im
pact on spacecraft can be deter
mined.
An investigation of the me
chanical properties of solid rock
et propellants occupies another
interdisciplinary team.
One payoff has been A&M’s
production of realistic air gust
effects on a prototype scale. This,
says Whitmore, applies both to
aircraft and to missiles resting
on launch pads. Full-scale tests
in the university’s large wind tun
nel may be in the offing.
INTERESTING data has come
from a program of analyzing pro
pellers. This applies directly to
the intense government and in
dustry developmental work in
vertical take-off and landing air
craft.
The grant has contributed to
the carrying out of some other
projects in basic science.
Texas A&M and the Southwest
Center for Advanced Studies near
Dallas are collaborating in the
fabrication of huge “rocking
chair” detector telescopes which
will help study cosmic ray parti
cle products called muons. A de
tector similar to one on the A&M
campus is to be placed in a tun
nel in the Alps.
Also being studied at A&M are
the possibilities of using extreme
ly low temperatures to orient the
nuclei, or cores, of atoms.
Research with plasmas, ex
tremely hot gases, continues un
der the program.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
CoUegian Comment
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Council Nixes Clothing Regulations: What’s Your Opinion?
Tomnvy Uoosier,
Freshman from Bryan: “1 don’t
believe in the school being able
to tell a student what to wear. . .
It has to come from the person
himself at this late date.”
mms .
Tom Curl
Sophomore journalism major: “1
don’t like extremes in appear
ance, but 1 also don’t like rules
that tell me how I have to dress.
College students should be ma
ture enough to dress properly
without being ordered to.”
Jane Mills,
Freshman journalism major from
Bryan: “It is my opinion that
it is each individual person’s
business what he wears. But
I agree that there should be
basic rules.”
Jerry Gentry
Freshman arctitecture major
from San Antonio: “I am against
the clothing regulation and sup
port the council’s action. A uni
versity is a place to express
yourself and your clothing is
one form of that expression.”
Bob Hal«
Junior chemical engineering ma
jor: “The action was at least
good in that it should bring the
issue of clothing regulations to
a head ... I do think that stu
dents should give the administra
tion some idea of the views of
the majority through an elec
tion.”
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Richard Simpson
Sophomore civil engineering
major from Bastrop: “There
should be no clothing regula
tions unless the clothing worn
by many becomes obnoxious to
the majority. No one should
tell another what to wear un
less the wearing of shabby
clothing gets out of hand.”
Don Winkler
Junior mechanical engineering
major from Houston: “I feel
that dressing habits on campus
are definitely related to A&M’s
image and if students do not
take it upon themselves to dress
neatly, some regulation is
needed.”