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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968
NUMBER 548
1,000Prospective Students
Expected For Career Day
Activities To Begin
Saturday Morning
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BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS
An unsuspecting Mary Costa fills her plate with—yecchhh
—Aggie chow during a pre-concert visit to Duncan Dining
Hall Thursday. At right is Tony Groves, Town Hall host
for her performance, and standing is Town Hall Chairman
Bobby Gonzales. Freshman Patrick Irwin of Squadron 10
is at her left. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Costa Show Begins
At 8 p.m. Tonight
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An operatic singer described by
one critic as “unreasonably beau
tiful and ... a voice like sunlight
made audible” will perform here
tonight.
Mary Costa of the San Fran
cisco Opera will appear at 8 p.m.
in G. Rollie White Coliseum un
der the auspices of the Bryan
Rotary Club in conjunction with
the Memorial Student Center
Town Hall.
Some reserve seat tickets re
main and $3 general admission,
$2 public school student and $1.50
date and student wife tickets are
available.
As one of today’s reigning
operatic queens, Miss Costa has
had rave notices on the East and
West Coasts, in “Time,” ‘Life”
and “Newsweek.”
LOS ANGELES Herald-Exam
iner critic Patterson Greene turn
ed the most apt phrase. “Why
does one girl have to have every
thing?” he wrote. “Miss Costa
is unreasonably beautiful and she
Arts Group Seeks
Student Leaders
The Contemporary Arts Com
mittee of the MSC is looking for
student leaders interested in
bringing a diversity of art to
Texas A&M.
Students may contact Tom
Ellis, Box 5191 or submit an ap
plication describing their inter
ests, address and scholastic stand
ing to the Contemporary Arts
Box in the Student Programs Of
fice of the MSC.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
has a voice like sunlight made
audible.”
The soprano’s skills and talent
drew ovations and praise in suc
ceeding Metropolitan Opera sea
sons in “La Traviata,” Massenet’s
“Manon,” Gounod’s “Faust” and
Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa.”
Miss Costa continues to appear
with the San Francisco Opera.
She annually undertakes an ex
tensive North American concert
tour under the management of
S. Hurok, with whom she signed
a $250,000 contract in 1959.
A KNOXVILLE, Tenn. native,
of Italian and Irish ancestry,
Miss Costa first sang publicly
in her church choir. On a family
trip to California, she sang at a
party for Mrs. Leland Atherton
Irish, one of Southern Califor
nia’s music patrons.
Mrs. Irish planted the seed
that led to the operatic queen’s
development. She urged the Cos
tas to move to Los Angeles where
Mary might have first-class mu
sical training.
Overcoming problems of a rich
Southern accent, Miss Costa won
a contest for the best voice of a
Southern California high school
senior. While studying at UCLA,
she was signed by the late Walt
Disney for “Sleeping Beauty,”
received notice from Jack Benny
and got her first important
chance to sing.
It launched a story-book rise
to success and a whirlwind of ac
tivity in 1958 and 1959. Appear
ances in the Vancouver Festival
and San Francisco Opera in the
summer and fall of 1959 led to
her contract and subsequent per
formances on TV, across the na
tion and around the world.
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
A day-long look at a four-year A&M career awaits the
1,000 prospective students from all over Texas who will
participate Saturday in the university’s annual Career Day.
During the open house, students from high schools
and junior colleges, along with their parents, teachers and
counselors have been invited to become acquainted with
the A&M campus, faculty and students, according to Edward
M. Miller, chairman of the sponsoring University Student
Inter-Council.
An estimated forty-six depart- —
ments in agriculture, business
administration, geosciences, lib
eral arts, science, engineering,
architecture, veterinary medicine
and the Texas Maritime Acad
emy will have exhibits near de
partment offices.
AFTER REGISTERING in G.
Rollie White Coliseum Saturday
morning. Career Day guests will
watch the Corps of Cadets pass
in review at 9:30 a.m. on the
parade grounds across from the
Memorial Student Center.
At 10:30 a.m., the students will
be greeted by Miller, senior in
dustrial engineering major from
College Station, in a general as
sembly in the coliseum.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, vice-presi
dent of Texas A&M, will then
officially welcome the visitors.
After the general assembly, at
11:00 a.m., the prospective stu
dents will be grouped according
to their academic fields of inter
est and will meet their guides for
tours of the departments sched
uled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
GROUPS WILL meet in the
following assigned locations:
Agriculture—Room 146, Phys
ics Building.
Former Prof’s
Services Held
Funeral services for Thomas
Robert Nelson, 80, retired mathe
matics professor here, were to be
held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Cen
tral Baptist Church of Bryan. He
died Wednesday in a Bryan hos
pital after an extended illness.
Nelson retired in 1957 after 32
years with Texas A&M. He was
a native of Bowie County.
The Rev. Andrew Heskett, Cen
tral Baptist pastor, was to offi
ciate at the funeral.
Survivors include the wife of
2105 Cavitt Drive in Bryan; two
sons, Robert C. Nelson of Fort
Worth and Travis E. Nelson of
Bryan, and two daughters, Mrs.
H. David Butler and Mrs. Wil
lard E. Williams, both of Bryan.
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Business Administration —
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Geosciences — Room 105, Geol
ogy Building.
Liberal Arts — Biological Sci
ences Lecture Room.
Science — Lecture Room,
Chemistry Building.
Texas Maritime Academy —
Room 210, YMCA.
Veterinary Medicine — Room
145, Physics Building.
At noon, students will be taken
to lunch in Sbisa Dining Hall by
members of the college or school
councils. Meal tickets will be
sold at registration.
ALONG WITH the students,
parents and visitors are invited
to participate in the afternoon
tours and should feel free to raise
any questions concerning the
academic life at A&M, Miller
said.
Miller added that after a stu
dent completes his own tour, he
is free to tour other exhibits from
other departments as well. He
suggested that Aggies thinking
of changing their majors should
also view the exhibits.
After the tours are completed,
the Athletic Department will be
open from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. for
visitors to tour the gym facili
ties in the coliseum and the Let-
termen’s Lounge.
TO PUBLICIZE Career Day,
Miller said, printed announce
ments were mailed to all Texas
high schools, all A&M mothers’
clubs, and all A&M clubs. Press
releases were also sent to all
Texas newspapers.
Approximately 700 student
delegates attending the state con
vention of the Junior Engineer
ing Technical Society Friday in
A&M’s Guion Hall were also in
vited to participate in Career
Day, Miller said.
The science fair usually held
on the campus in conjunction to
Career Day will not be held at
A&M this year, cutting the week
end attendance from the usual
3,000 to 1,000 visiting students.
“I hope that the A&M students
will go out of their way to make
these future Aggies feel at
home,” Miller said.
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THE ASSOCIATION
A highlight of the Junior Ball weekend will be a Town Hall performance March 16 by
The Association. The group has made big hits with such records as “Along Comes Mary,”
“Cherish” and “Never My Love.”
Sweetheart Finalists Chosen
For Junior Ball March 16
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
The Junior Council Thursday
chose eight finalists in the Junior
Sweetheart contest.
The Sweetheart will be
crowned at the Junior Ball March
16 in Sbisa Dining Hall. The
Ball will be semi-formal and will
follow the theme of “San Fran
ciscan Night.”
Sweetheart finalists include
Patricia Moore, Eleanor Zubcik,
Nancy Jane Nilson, Paula Bailey,
Cindy Lou Well, Barbara Weckle,
Brenda Jeane Prine and Sally
Ann Roberts.
The finalists will be honored at
a reception in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Saturday afternoon
and at the ball that night.
JUNIOR Class President Dan
ny Ruiz expressed optimism
about the Junior Ball.
“Everything looks real good,”
Ruiz said. “We had 32 candi
dates for Junior Sweetheart and
the choosing of the finalists was
a difficult decision.”
Ticket sales are picking up,
according to Ruiz, and he expects
a large turnout for the Ball.
Tickets, costing $3 per couple,
may be bought from any Junior
Council representative or at the
Student Program Office in the
MSC.
Music for the Ball will be
provided by The Countdown 5, a
group of University of Houston
students who have been hits on
campuses all over the Southwest
Conference.
THE 5 HAVE won numer
ous awards and have appeared
with George Jessel in “Search for
the Stars.” They have played at
Louisiana State, Arkansas and
Texas Christian, and in 1966
played at the Aggie dance at the
Dallas Corps Trip.
Dress for the evening will be
Phone System Being Installed
CENTREX SYSTEM
Larry Peterson, left, installation foreman for A&M’s new
Centrex Communications system, explain the workings of
the power control panel to employee Gene Moore. (Photo
by Mike Plake)
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Feature Writer
Texas A&M students will re
ceive a twofold benefit from the
$3.6 million addition to Cushing
Memorial Library now entering
the completion stages.
Books are not the only things
stored inside the vault-like walls.
The basement contains several
million feet of wire that form
the Centrex communications sys
tem.
It is this system that will en
large A&M’s communications sys
tem to include room telephones
in all but four dormitories. Ex
cluded from the list are: Milner,
Leggett, Mitchell, and Dorm 13.
THE CENTREX system will
enable students to make local calls
(on and off campus), and, for
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&L
-Adv.
those who request it, will provide
long-distance calling.
Billing for the long distance
calls will be done by the General
Telephone Co. of the Southwest
and will not be connected to the
university.
The system now being installed
has a capacity for 6,600 tele
phone lines.
“And with the present space
available, the capacity can be en
larged to about 12,000,” Larry
Anderson, installation foreman,
said.
The Centrex system has several
advantages over a normal tele
phone exchange.
UNIQUE feature of the system
is the Automatic Conference Ser
vice. If a professor or student
want to arrange a conference of
up to 10 people on the line at
the same time, the party calls
a central attendant who dials the
other people and completes the
circuit for the conference.
The Centrex system also has
a “transfer” feature. It works as
a paging service: if a long-dis
tance call reaches a student’s
room, and the student is elsewhere
on the campus, he can be reached
by simply dialing another digit.
THUS, THE long-distance call
er would not be forced to make
the call over again to another
number on campus.
“Another improvement will come
in August of 1969,” Anderson
noted.
“At that time Direct Distance
Dialing will be in effect for any
place in the United States,” he
explained. “A student will be able
to dial direct station-to-station
without placing the call through
the operator.”
An average long-distance call
made through the operator usual
ly takes at least 50 seconds. The
direct dialing feature will put
the call through in a minimum
of about 14 seconds.
THE RATES on long-distance
calls will remain the same. How
ever, since the direct dialing calls
are facilitated through additional
electrical connections, an operator
will spend less time placing the
cull and will be more efficient in
cutting off the call.
Thus, if the operator is able to
cut off the call exactly within a
certain time limit, such as three
minutes instead of waiting until
she gets a free hand to cut off
the call, she will be able to control
the time more effectively.
The caller will therefore know
that he has talked exactly the
minimum of three minutes and
does not have to go over the limit
without knowing it. This could
save him money.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
midnights with battle scarves for
Corps members. Civilians will
wear coats and ties and dates
should come semi-formal.
As part of the Junior Week
end, Town Hall will present The
Association March 16 in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
A Town Hall “regular,” where
student activity card and season
ticket holders are admitted free,
The Association covers the entire
spectrum of showmanship.
THE GROUP has a large va
riety of songs in its “musical
bag,” in addition to its slapstick
comedy. The Association is made
up of Brian Cole, Terry Kirkman,
Jim Yester, Russ Giguere, Ted
Bluechel and Larry Ramos.
“They have kept their individ
uality by avoiding the long hair,
beards or other cliches of many
of the modem musical groups,”
Robert Gonzales, Town Hall
chairman, commented.
“They are deeply concerned
with what their lyrics say,” he
continued. “They have passed
up many good songs because the
lyrics did not communicate ideas,
because they feel good entertain
ers should say something to their
audiences.”
Cameramen Set
Photo Contest
A print contest will highlight
a camera committee meeting
Monday in the Memorial Student
Center.
Committee chairman Frank
Tilley of Jacksonville said the
7:30 p.m. meeting will be in
rooms 3B and 3C.
Photographs will be judged for
a committee winner and entry
Gulf States Camera Club Coun
cil competition. Tilley noted that
MSC cameramen may acquire
photo criticism through the
monthly contests that will help
their entries in the upcoming in
tercollegiate photo salon.
The committee’s Salon ’68 will
be held in early May.