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- New Peace Corps Recruiting | Localized For More Unity By MIKE WRIGHT Battalion Staff Writer Peace Corps as of old is no more. The new has worn off of this organization and the prob lem of getting new volunteers has increased. The administra tion of Peace Corps has realized this and re-evaluated its recruit ing program. Peace Corps recruiters Miss Barbara Hunter and Miss Joanne Phillips will be on campus the rest of the week to establish a more personal contact with the students who wish to apply. In the past, an applicant lost touch with the organization while his application was being processed. This sometimes caused the stu dent to pursue other courses of service and forget the Peace Corps. The PEACE CORPS has not regionalized its offices in an at tempt to maintain a more per sonal contact with the people who apply. It plans to provide a service where a person can call to check on the status of his ap plication, by providing a speakers bureau for campus officials to engage on Peace Corps subjects and other means of which to fol low through after the initial contact. fied that his application is being processed and that it is under consideration. This is the last that he hears until he is invited to attend a training project. Most projects are held on college cam puses throughout the nation. In some fields, after a training session in the states, additional training is required in the coun try the person will work. Some universities have set de gree plans where students may attend academic classes for two years, go overseas with the Peace Corps for two years and return to finish their college education with a degree in their particular field and a Peace Corps Diploma. At this time Texas A&M Univer sity does not have such a pro gram. THE STUDENTS are required to finance their academic work, but the Peace Corps pays for the training and provides a salary while the person is overseas. Dr. Curtis Godfrey of A&M’s Peace Corps Advisory Council said, “I had hoped that the Peace Corps could provide some schol arships and fellowships for our students to help with academic expenses, but evidently they do not exist at this time.” be able to explain the offered programs, issue applications and administer the modern language aptitude survey. The survey will be given in Room 3D of the MSC Wednesday and Thursday until 5 p.m. and Friday until 3 p.m. For those people who are ac cepted to go overseas, it is prob able that a two-year occupational deferment can be obtained from the armed services. Bulletin Board TODAY The American Marketing So ciety will hear a guest speaker, Roger Lakamp, special assistant to the president of J. C. Penney Co., at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2C-D of the Memorial Student Center. The American Chemistry So ciety will hear UT President Dr. Norman Hackerman speak on fuel cells at 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. The Student AVMA Auxiliary will hear national officers of the AVMA Auxiliary at 8 p.m. in the Texas Room of the Bryan Build ing and Loan. Page 4 , THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 6,19S8 Hobby Turns Books To Gold For Aggie BOOKS ARE PROFITABLE Fred S. White Jr. a senior at A&M turns his books into money as he sells rare items to collectors across the state. White claims that not all rare books are old as many can be valuable before they are ancient. A&M Student Named State The procedure for volunteering: an application is filled out and a modern language survey is tak en to show ability to learn a for eign language. This is sent to Washington for pre-screening. Reference forms are then sent to the people listed on the ap plication and a certain waiting period is started for the forms to be returned. THE APPLICANT is then noti- Junior, Senior, and graduate students who can be available within 15 months are the most sought after. At the present time agricultural majors are the most in need. However, there is room for all majors as community development, agriculture, health, and education problems are worked on by the Peace Corps. Misses Hunter and Phillips will establish a booth in the Post Of fice area of the MSC. They will WEDNESDAY The Amarillo Hometown Club will have pictures made for the Aggieland at 8 p.m. on the steps of the Memorial Student Center. The Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Me morial Student Center. The Student AVMA Auxiliary will have a salad luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA to honor national officers of the AVMA Auxiliary. Junior Engineering Officer Don Chapman of Houston, an industrial engineering graduate student at Texas A&M, has been named assistant state coordinator for the Junior Engineering Tech nical Society. A&M Assistant Engineering Dean J. G. McGuire is state co ordinator for the 109 JETS chap ters in Texas high schools. The organization provides grassroots guidance for high TRW is success by association school and junior college students interested in engineering careers. Members compete in annual state academic contests at A&M. Chapman, 23, is a fall term graduate of Lamar State College in Beaumont, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial en gineering. At Lamar, Chapman was student president of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, president of the Alpha Pi Mu honor fraternity, and vice in the fast moving Computer Sciences, from Los Angeles to Houston to Washington, young people are making things happen at TRW. If you look around at any TRW location, you’ll see far more young faces than old. This is particularly true in the com puter sciences. Why? Because we depend on new ideas and fresh view points to apply fast changing computer techniques to a fast changing industry. That’s why we need people like you. What kind of a place is TRW? Ask around. Talk to your professors and faculty advisors, or to your friends who are already working with TRW. Most of our professional employees applied to TRW on the recommendation of friends. At TRW Systems Computation and Data Reduction Center—incidentally, one of the world’s most advanced com puter centers—we provide scientific and business programming support for many technical disciplines. If you’ll be receiving your degree (Ph.D., MS or BS) in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry this year, consider joining a group of com puter professionals who are developing computer applications in the following disciplines: Interested ? Check with your Placement Director and talk with us while we’re on campus. If you can’t make it then and would like to be considered for open ings in the Los Angeles area, Houston or Washington, send your resume to: W. D. Mclvers, College Relations, TRW, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, Cali fornia 90278. Mission Analysis / Trajectory Analy sis/Guidance Analysis/Re-entry Analysis / Control Systems Analysis / Information Systems Analysis / Civil Systems Analysis / Signal Analysis / Computer Systems Analysis / An Equal Opportunity Employer TRW TRW (formerly Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is 60,000 people at 200 operations around the world who are applying advanced technology to space, defense, automotive, aircraft, electronics and industrial markets. ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS TRW CAMPUS INTERVIEWS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1968 SEE YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE president of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers’ campus chapter. A Houston Reagan High School graduate, Chapman will edit a quarterly newsletter distributed to 1,500 Texas high schools, ar range speeches to high school groups by A&M engineering fac ulty members, and aid in aligning JETS testing centers for high school students participating in national engineering aptitude ex aminations. Chapman’s duties include help ing arrange for the annual JETS conference March 8 at A&M. Also, he works with senior chapters of the TSPE to recruit professional engineers as advisors to JETS chapters. A Texas A&M senior who has no reading time except for studies in finance is building a profitable business as a rare book dealer. He’s Fred S. White Jr., a 21- year old Bryan resident who landed into the part-time business as a hobby until he realized there is gold in books. “Money is important, all right,” White grinned, “but the best thing about it is getting to meet a lot of wonderful clients. My customers include an ambassador, four senators, five governors and about 50 doctors and lawyers.” White’s sale stock is valued at $5,000 and includes about 750 titles, but he has a closet full of books valued even higher in a private collection. “Rare books don’t necessarily have to be old,” the personable Air Force ROTC student con fided. “Some of mine range from brand new to more than 100 years old.” Not all rare books are costly. White’s price tags range from $1 for a copy of Carl Hertzog’s Cotton Memorial Papers to $1,500 for James Cox’s “History of the Texas Cattle Industry.” The lat ter book became a rarity when a publishing company fire in St. Louis destroyed most of the copies about 1895. Among White’s most treasured books is a log of a Union gun boat, the “Granite City,’’ which contains an account of the shelling of Sabine Pass during the Civil War. “That was the battle in which fewer than 100 Confederate sol diers held off several thousand Yankees,” he noted. “A former owner of the log said the captain was the first to go over the side when the boat was attacked.” White values the log at $1,500. “Dad started collecting books about four years ago,” the two- year A&M bowling letterman pointed out. “He’s worn out about four cars looking for books since then, but he has a fabulous col lection.” The elder White, associate re search librarian for A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute, owns the only known copy of the “His tory of Colorado County,” valued at up to $10,000. Altogether, his safety-deposited tomes near the $35,000 mark. White sends a list of available books to about 700 persons foil: times a year. Response is bes: in the late fall, worst in January and February. “People are broke about tbi; time of the year,” he chuckled. Much of White’s stock include; productions of Hertzog, consider ed by many as the finest book de. signer in the country. J. Evetli Haley, his favorite author, alsoi; well represented. “Because of my interest is Hertzog, I became acquaints] with Price Daniel Jr., son of tti; former Texas governor,” Wbh commented. “He had a great Heft zog collection while a student n Baylor. When he graduated arc went into law practice, I bougfc his stock of about 400 books.” White’s financial backgroutj allows him to speak with author ity on books. “In 1966, the Wall Street Jour, nal listed rare books second only to land as best investments,” It said. “Rare books dipped to thirf in 1967, but their prices jumped 55 per cent. Markup on the* books is about 100 per cent, Latest addition to his stocks a slim volume on J. Frank Dokii by Sen. Ralph Yarborough. “They were close friends,' White pointed out. Not all of White’s stock ir comprised of books. He has a col lection of letters, among themi pencil-written epistle from F. P, Lubbock, governor of Texas din ing the Civil War. Written it 1903, the letter tells about kii capture and 18 months imprison ment after the war. It’s said to be a bargain at $50. The books vary widely in bind ing, shape and condition, butwu of the most unique is “Bob Cm by. World’s Champion Cowboy,' bound appropriately in blue dec im. Eventually, the energetic Whiti wants to become a stock broke: but he will maintain close tab on the rare book market. “I’ll keep dealing in books *! a hobby,” he emphasized, “an: I hope to branch out into publist ing. I’ve edited some materii but I know my talent is not i writing.” 1967 - 68 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY of Offices — Staff — Students Price $1.00 Now On SALE At The Student Publications Office YMCA Bldg. 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