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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1968
Number 566
Davenport Hopes To Wr/S(]()\ / Y To Consider
Philosophy Major By Fall
By DAVE MAYES
One of the youngest depart
ment heads at Texas A&M, Dr.
Manuel M. Davenport, 38, took
the reins of the fledgling Depart
ment of Philosophy and Humani
ties last summer with the hopes
of conferring doctoral degrees by
1976.
Tucked away in a small office
Youngkin Chosen
Head Yell Leader
Bill Youngkin of Gilmer, a
junior agricultural education ma
jor, will be head yell leader next
school year, Dean of Students
Janies P. Hannigan announced.
A 6-foot-l cadet, Youngkin is
expected to apply a high degree
of enthusiasm and ability in the
responsible position, according to
Malon Southerland of the com
mandant’s office.
Southerland chaired a commit
tee Hannigan appointed to screen
applications and select the head
yell leader. Youngkin was one of
three yell leaders elected by the
junior class. The committee in
cluded Bill Lancaster, assistant
director of the Memorial Student
Center; Neal Adams of Tyler,
this year’s head yell leader;
Patrick G. Rehmet of Alice, dep
uty corps commander, and Reese
Brown of Tyler, Corps battalion
commander.
YOUNGKIN was the commit
tee’s unanimous choice,” Souther
land noted. “He was also the top
vote-getter among his class
mates.”
A 1965 Gilmer High graduate
who worked on his grandparents’
chicken farm, Bill is operations
sergeant on Second Brigade Staff
and active in other student areas.
As head yell leader, he will
work with juniors Robert Segner
of San Antonio and Barney Daw
son of Wichita Falls and sopho
mores David A. Hoelscher of
Alice and Gary Mauro of Dallas
in leading yells at athletic events,
have charge of two yell practices
a week during football season
and head the Tranksgiving Bon
fire construction.
“Youngkin’s bearing, obvious
high standards, moral character,
ability to express himself, his
view points and his ideas im
pressed the committee,” Souther
land added.
Y* lYAilte
BILL YOUNGKIN
AS HEAD YELL leader, the
son of Mrs. Frances Taylor of
Gilmer will be at the center of
the “esprit de corps” for which
A&M is well known.
“Mauro and I will work very
closely to help new civilian stu
dents become a part of the 12th
Man,” Youngkin said. “The new
student tends to be closer to his
high school than A&M. We have
several ideas that should help
him feel he’s a part of the Aggie
spirit.”
The Distinguished Student
pointed out that the Corps is
smaller in relation to student
body size.
“I don’t think the 12th Man
should get smaller,” he declared.
The outstanding sophomore of
Company B-2, Youngkin is a
member of the Ross Volunteers,
Town Hall, election commission,
junior class secretary-treasurer,
Collegiate FFA secretary and a
former YMCA Fish Camper.
Air University Chief Predicts
‘More ( dibas, V ietnams’ F or U. S.
economic, psychosocial and scien
tific-technological factors that
have an impact on the recom
mendations or the decisions- he
will be making.”
Carpenter, who made the com
missioning address here last
spring, indicated international af
fairs are more complex with for
mer tenets of foreign policy no
longer applying.
Regulations Will
Be Enforced At
Thursday Election
Air Force ROTC cadets in New
York for the Arnold Air Society
conclave where A&M’s Corps
Commander was honored heard
that service preparation must
cover various social-technological
fields in order to handle future
assignments.
Air Force Lt. Gen. John W.
Carpenter III, Air University
commander, predicted probable
“Cubas and Vietnams” for some
time to come in greater or lesser
scales.
The Maxwell AFB-based Air
University official keynoted the
20th national meeting of the so
ciety.
A&M Cadet Col. Lonnie C.
Minze of Houston was one of the
nation’s top nine AFROTC cadets
honored by the Air Force Associ
ation. He received the W. Ran
dolph Lovelace Memorial Award
as the outstanding cadet in Re
gion 6.
Other recipients were from
Boston, Mississippi State, Ohio
State, Michigan Tech, Michigan,
Southern Cal and Colorado State
Universities and Virginia Military
Institute.
“In today’s Air Force, we are
looking ahead to see that our of
ficers are prepared to serve in
tomorrow’s Air Force. These are
the men who must be able to plan,
acquire and operate the tools of
aerospace warfare,” General Car
penter said.
“The officer must not only be
a highly qualified, professional
military technologist, but he must
also understand the complicated
world in which we live,” he con
tinued. “Along with the military
element, he must understand the
interplay of the other aspects of
national power . . . the political,
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Sophomores will elect a class
president tomorrow, with voting
booths in the Memorial Student
Center open from 8 a.m. until
7:30 p^m.
Election Commission Chairman
Tony Benedetto said that the elec
tion will be conducted in accord
ance with current University Reg
ulations. Anyone wishing to vote
must wear shoes and socks.
“No literature containing any
candidate’s name will be allowed
to be circulated in the MSC or
within 50 yards of the MSC on
Thursday. This will be interpreted
to mean the passing of any num
ber (one or more) between per
sons,” Benedetto explained.
Violation of this regulation will
result in forfeiture of voting
privileges and possible removal of
a candidate’s name from the bal
lot.
Candidates names on the ballot
are John MacGillis, Robert L.
Bowling, John Gingrich, Albert J.
Reinert, John G. Otto, John P.
Maline, Allen D. Janacek, and Col
lier R. Watson.
Benedetto said both activity and
identification cards would be re
quired to vote.
on the first floor of the Academic
Building, Davenport has been
working closely with administra
tion officials to establish an un
dergraduate major in philosophy
by next fall and a master’s degree
program within four years.
“A&M is perhaps the only
school of its size that offers no
degrees in philosophy at all,” the
slim, soft-spoken Colorado native
pointed out.
“I WANTED this job for the
challenge of building a new de
partment. Things were just go
ing too smoothly for me to stay
on as associate professor of phi
losophy at Colorado State Univer
sity,” he explained.
When he became head of phi
losophy and humanities, Daven
port actually inherited a “ghost
department.” Only books and of
fice records were left; the last
professor had already gone.
Now he has two new profes
sors to share the teaching load
and has had time to make some
observations of the A&M student
body.
“I’VE FOUND that students
here are very similar to those I
left at CSU in their backgrounds
and attitudes, and just as enjoy
able to teach,” he said.
“The student body also seems
to be more interested in philoso
phy than I expected, which
strengthens my belief that the
department has a tremendous
growth potential.”
Davenport leaned back in his
chair and gazed thoughtfully at
the line of bookshelves which
double as his office wall, trying
to recall his boyhood days in east
ern Colorado.
“I suppose I really became in
terested in philosophy,” he said,
“when I began reading Nietzsche
at 15. One book followed another
and I haven’t finished reading
yet.”
HE RAN his fingers through
his dark hair and laughed:
“I really went to college just
for fun.
“You see,” he continued, “I
knew I could earn a living doing
a number of things that didn’t
require a college degree.
“I held several jobs while earn
ing my way through school and
became pretty good at some of
them. I worked as a stonemason,
motel clerk, ranch hand and beer
truck driver, to name a few,” he
said.
After he had graduated from
Bethany Nazarene College in
1950 with a philosophy degree,
Davenport said he continued driv
ing his beer truck until one day
a friend suggested he take a
teaching job at a nearby one-room
country schoolhouse.
“EVEN THOUGH I enjoyed my
experience there as an elementary
school teacher, I soon decided I’d
rather teach on a higher level. I
was afraid I’d start thinking like
a fifth grader even when I wasn’t
teaching class,” he quipped.
While completing his master’s
degree at Colorado College in
1953, Davenport became interest
ed in the life and work of the
philosopher - physician, Albert
Schweitzer.
“I had always wondered,” he
said, “why Schweitzer, an avowed
agnostic, would spend his life
healing the sick in a remote hos
pital.”
Seven years later, when a Peace
Corps research grant gave him
the opportunity, Davenport called
on Dr. Schweitzer at his hospital
in Lambarene.
THROUGHOUT his unforget
table two-week visit, Davenport
was impressed by Schweitzer’s
relatively simple yet satisfying
(See Davenport, Page 2)
U. S. Power Limits
BEFORE.. .
Workmen remove parts of prefabricated library carrels from a van outside the new addi
tion to Cushing Memorial Library. After sliding down the ramp, the heavy parts are
moved to the already-completed section of the $3.8 million addition. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
$3.8 Million Library Addition
Said 95 Per Cent Completed
The $3.8 million addition to
Cushing Memorial Library is 95
Y&r e e n't complete, reports
Charles E. Brunt, assistant man-
j iy:er of system physical plants.
jThe addition, complete with
hundreds of mahogany-paneled
bookstacks and gleaming marble
walls will furnish Cushing Li
brary with 200,000 square feet of
new floor space.
It will raise the stack capacity
to more than one million volumes
in the Cushing Building.
Problems caused by weather
and fixture and furniture sup
plies have delayed completion of
the building several times.
The completion date was once
set for last December. Because
of bad weather, conditions which
slowed the concrete and other
exterior work, an extension date
was set for March, 1968.
Now, according to one of the
construction inspectors, May 1 is
the target date to begin filling
the shelves with books.
“This building will be a show
case on campus,” Brunt said.
The new addition also will
house a separate room with fa
cilities for electronic learning
carrels. The carrels were re
cently demonstrated by the Edu
cational Television Department
here at an open house in the ETV
studio.
$ll,000Netted
In Fund Drive,
Reparts Show
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Topic for the 14th Student
Conference on National Affairs
will be “The Limits and Respon
sibilities of American Power,”
SCON A Chairman Don McCrory
revealed Tuesday.
“The topic is aimed at the two
major questions facing the Amer
ican public,” McCrory said. “It
deals with both the international
aspect — what are the limits of
our power — and the national
one — can we afford it?”
The Dec. 4-7 conference is al
ready off on a sound economical
footing as a result of the Easter
fund drive, McCrory said.
Finance Committee Chairman
Bill Howell estimated the drive
netted more than $11,000, more
than any previous Easter drive.
THE FINAL results are still
being tabulated from the drive,
but both Howell and McCrory
said the drive went “extremely
well.”
The total budget for SCON A
XIV is $18,500. Howell was opti
mistic about collecting the bal
ance in the June fund drive.
Howell listed as the major
causes for the success of the fund
drive the “organization of
SCONA XIII” and the enthu
siasm of new contact.
Howell also indicated that the
topic for the coming SCONA also
generated interest.
“We want to explore the right
ness or wrongness of U. S. in
volvement on its present large
scale,” McCrory said.
“CAN WE BE policemen to
the world?” McCrory asked.
The chairman also said that
the conference will explore how
the country managed to get to its
present position from its isola
tionism of the pre-World War II
MIIIm
... AND AFTER
Once the parts are inside, they are installed in place.
Electronic learning aids, recently demonstrated at the
Educational Television Department here, are to be added
later. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Morgenstern To Speak Tonight
On ‘Decisions, Social Welfare’
Fish To Compete
In TU Drill Meet
The national champion Fish
Drill Team shoulders rifles Sat
urday for its first competition
since winning the National Inter
collegiate ROTC Drill title at
Washington, D. C.
The freshmen, commanded by
Sammy Garcia of San Antonio,
will compete against 10 teams in
the University of Texas meet at
Austin.
Malon Southerland of the com
mandant’s office, faculty advisor,
said the fish expect to meet
about the same units that march
ed in the annual A&M Invita
tional in March. A&M won the
meet.
Dr. Oskar Morgenstern, a noted
political scientist, will lecture to
night at the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
The former adviser at the
White House during President
Eisenhower’s administration is to
speak at 8 p.m. under sponsorship
of the Graduate Lecture Series
and the MSC Great Issues Com
mittee.
“Individual Decisions and So
cial Welfare” is the topic of the
public-free lecture.
Morgenstern, a Princeton Uni
versity professor, has served on
numerous committees assisting
the United Nations and the
League of Nations.
A native of Goerlitz, Silesia, in
a Polish province, Morgenstern
earned a doctor’s degree in politi
cal science in 1925 at the Univer
sity of Vienna. He also has hon
orary doctorates from Mannheim
and Basel.
After nine years on the Vienna
University faculty, Morgenstern
joined Princeton. He became a
naturalized American citizen in
1944.
The 66-year old political scien
tist is co-editor of a national eco
nomics publication in Vienna.
Before coming to the United
States, he served 10 years as the
publication’s managing editor.
Dr. Morgenstern is board chair
man of Mathematics in Princeton,
N. J., and a trustee of the Insti
tute of Advanced Studies in
Vienna.
Silver Taps Held
For Stockhoff
Silver Taps ceremonies were
held Tuesday for John Alvin
Stockhoff, freshman pre-medi
cal student from Greenville,
whose body was found in his
Dormitory 20 room last Tues
day.
The 19-year-old freshman
had last been seen April 4.
He was a Distinguished Student
during his first semester here.
Justice of the Peace Alton
P. Boyett, Jr. returned a ver
dict of suicide last week follow
ing an autopsy.
AF Unit Sets
One-Day Tour
Of Bergstrom
Squadron 2 of the Cadet Corps
will tour Bergstrom AFB Friday,
announced Col. Vernon L. Head,
professor of aerospace studies.
About 60 Air Force ROTC ca
dets will make the one-day tour.
Squadron 2’s visit was arranged
by Air Force Maj. Duane E. Van-
denberg, a 1952 A&M graduate
who was stationed at Bergstrom
before reassignment to Southeast
Asia.
Major Vandenberg presented
the unit a saber worn by a 1935
A&M graduate. The squadron,
commanded by Cadet Maj. Brian
E. Heckman of Humble, installed
the saber as the James Randolph
Oppenheim Memorial.
Oppenheim, who died in a
World War II prison camp, and
two Aggie flight commanders
have worn the saber, which will
be carried by the Squadron 2 com
mander each year at Final Re
view.
Air Force Capt. Samuel J.
Boles of the Aerospace Studies
Department said cadets and other
guests will view radar, weather,
photo and base operations facili
ties at Bergstrom. The cadets
will receive a mission briefing,
observe a static display of F4Cs
and other aircraft, watch a fly-by
of F4s and have lunch at an offi
cers club.
Boles, the unit advisor, will be
escort officer. He said the tour
will depart A&M at 6 a.m. and
leave Austin on the return trip
around 3 p.m.
“We also want to examine our
military programs around the
world, our alliances and the cost
of our military commitment ver
sus American interests at home.”
The conference will look into
the country’s stake in the world’s
economy and the limits on the
power of the dollar.
McCrory said the question
“How much can we spend in both
money and men’s lives?” will be
put to the conference. The ques
tion of cost of our commitments
to the country will be one of the
main issues of the meeting.
“In the end we hope to come
up with some sort of projection
of America’s foreign diplomacy
in the coming decade,” McCrory
said.
Ross Volunteers
To Be Featured
In Fiesta Parade
The Ross Volunteers will serve
as honor guard for San Antonio’s
“Battle of Flowers” queen in the
Fiesta Flambeau parade April 27.
The night-time parade is one
of the most popular events of the
annual San Antonio celebration.
Francis J. Bourgeois, RV com
mander, of New Braunfels, said
the entire 105-cadet company will
march.
“The RVs will be split into pla
toons and the staff to precede
each of four floats carrying the
queen and her court,” Bourgeois
said. The long, downtown San
Antonio parade usually concludes
after midnight.
Ross Volunteer platoon leaders
are James R. Thompson of Alice;
Carl V. Feducia, Shreveport, and
John R. Baldridge, Bossier City,
La.
The Alamo City appearance
will be the RV’s second of the
school year. The company’s dis
tinctive white uniforms also were
seen in the King Rex parade in
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Cofttef, since 1919.
—Adv.
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