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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1968
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MANNERS DISCUSSION
Texas Woman’s University students answer questions on boy-girl etiquette following
Tuesday’s “Man Your Manners’’ program. They are (from left) Susan Shattuck, Kada
Rule, Karen Burk and Patsy Rivero. (Photo by Mike Wright)
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Battalion Staff Writer
Aggie: What if my blind date
turns out to be a moose ?
Tessie: Grin and bear it—or
find a friend you don’t mind
losing.
Aggie: How should I say good
night to my date if she’s staying
in a motel ?
Tessie: Say ‘Goodnight’ and
leave five minutes after you get
there.
Tessie: Do you mean to say
that you believe in kissing a girl
on your first date ?
Aggies in unison: Yeah!
Such was the lively exchange
between a “Man Your Manners”
panel of four Texas Woman’s
University students and an audi
ence of more than 300 Aggies
Tuesday night in the YMCA.
THE PANEL, composed of
Susan Shattuck, Kada Rule, Kar
en Burk and Patsy Rivero, gave
the standing-room-only audience
helpful tips on writing letters,
making introductions, giving
flowers, using the telephone and
other hints that help “break the
ice” with the opposite sex.
Karen Burk advised A&M stu
dents to be sure to write “at least
a week” early to invite their
dates to big football weekends.
“If you write love letters, don’t
write anything that you wouldn’t
want someone else to read,” she
warned.
In an introduction, the boy is
always presented to the girl,
never vice versa, according to
Susan Shattuck.
“A GUY never extends his
hand to a girl when first meeting
her unless she first extends hers,”
she added.
Kada Rule said that flowers
are always an appropriate gift:
“A lady’s best friend is dia
monds; her second best, however,
is flowers.”
“If you’re buying her a cor
sage,” she said, “it’s a good idea
to drop her a hint that you are.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
That way, you can be sure the
color of the flowers will go with
her dress.”
SHE SUGGESTED that mums
as corsages are appropriate for
football games; roses, carnations
and orchids are more suited for
formal or semi-formal affairs.
Michael E. Casey of Houston
heads Fish Drill Team upper
classman advisor appointments
for the 1968-69 school year.
Malon Southerland of the com
mandant’s office, faculty sponsor,
said Casey will be senior advisor.
Band To Lead
Fiesta Parade
Lead band in the annual Battle
of Flowers parade Friday in San
Antonio will be the Texas Aggie
Band.
A&M’s 243-cadet military or
ganization, directed by Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, will be the feature
band of the parade’s second sec
tion, which will include 1968
Fiesta King Antonio.
City officials and dignitaries
will lead the three-mile parade
on Broadway, Houston, Santa
Rosa and Commerce streets.
Drum majors Richard C. West
brook of Beaumont; Marc A.
Sheiness, Alice, and James W.
Criswell, Brady, will direct the
band in the appearance.
Henry G. Cisneros of San An
tonio, senior English major, is
band commander.
The organization will be mak
ing its first off-campus appear
ance of the spring semester, fol
lowing busy fall performances
at football games.
Members will be guests of the
San Antonio A&M Club for a
barbecue supper Friday evening
at Aggie Park.
“When you telephone a girl
for a date,” Patsy Rivero said,
“have definite plans for the eve
ning already in mind.”
“And don’t put a girl on the
spot by asking, ‘What are you
doing Saturday night?’ She may
not want to tell you.”
Steven T. Nichols of Crystal
Lake, 111., and Richard G. Gon
zales of San Antonio will be jun
ior advisors.
Sophomore advisors will be
named on Mother’s Day, Souther
land added.
A junior finance major, Casey
is a cadet technical sergeant in
Company F-l of the Corps. He
marched with the Fish Drill Team
and served as sophomore and jun
ior advisor of teams that won tho
1967 runnerup post and 1968
championship of the National In
tercollegiate ROTC Drill compe
tition at Washington.
The son of Congressman and
Mrs. Rob R. Casey, 5406 Albina
Road, Washington, D. C., attended
St. John’s College, a military high
school in Washington, and worked
on Capitol Hill.
Casey will succeed Jim Yogas
of Galveston as senior advisor.
The six-cadet FDT cadre develops
and installs manuals and team
movements, supervising extensive
practice.
The advisors also arrange and
supervise travel, quarters and
dining accommodations on FDT
trips.
Nichols, a petroleum engineer
ing major, and Gonzales, electri
cal engineering, marched with
last year’s national runnerup.
Gonzales was right guide and
executive officer. The Company
G-2 cadet corporal commanded a
Central Catholic High team.
Nichols, guidon bearer last
year, is also in Company G-2. He
attended high school in Farming-
ton, N. M.
Casey Named Senior Advisor
For ’68-’69 Fish Drill Team
Wadley Blood Drive
Underway In MSC
‘WHEN DID YOU KISS YOUR LAST COW?’
Ralph Roister Doister, played by Ron Smith, tries to kiss young maid Tibet (Lynda Arm
strong) but encounters old maid Madge (Kathleen Heaton) instead, during rehearsals
for the Fallout Theater’s “Ralph Roister Doister.” The Aggie Players production is sched
uled for 8 p. m. Thursday. (Photo by Mike Wright)
National Academy Of Sciences
Elects Dr. Grant, A&M Prof
Donations Set
Through 5 p.m.
In Basement
Aggies will donate blood today
and Thursday to help fight leu
kemia.
The Wadley Blood Bank of Dal
las, in cooperation with Alpha
Phi Omega, national service fra
ternity, will be taking blood in
the basement of the Memorial
Student Center until 5 p.m. today
and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thurs
day.
The blood will act as both in
surance for the donor and a con
tribution for research, John Clark,
first vice-president of APO, said.
“The donated blood is put into
an account of the Student Senate
Welfare Committee. Any donor
or his immediate family may
draw on this account for the next
year, with the remainder of the
account turned over to leukemia
research,” he noted.
CLARK ALSO pointed out that
students who have not registered
to donate may still do.
“They will be welcome at any
time during the day through
Thursday,” he noted.
“This year we hope to collect
more than 550 pints of blood,”
Clark continued.
Last year Aggies donated 519
pints, more than the rest of the
Southwest Conference schools
combined, according to John Cun
ningham, APO publicity chief.
“The Aggies are the Wadley
Foundation’s largest single don
or,” Cunningham added.
Blood drive chairman Tommy
Thomas characterized the sign
up results as “excellent” and pre
dicted a good turnout.
THOMAS STRESSED that
Corps members do not need par
ental consent, even if they are
under 21.
The donation station in the
basement will be on the right,
while on Wednesday the voting
machines for the Student Senate
election will be in the passage
way on the left.
The blood drive is a joint ef
fort of the Student Senate, which
sanctions the operation, and APO,
whose members do the majority
of the work.
The A&M chapter of APO,
headed by President Bill Faulk
ner, is active in many campus
affairs, ranging from Bonfire to
“thank you” cards to the football
team.
The fraternity is also involved
in work with the Boy Scouts and
supplying guides for Career Day.
Dr. Verne E. Grant, professor
of biology in the Institute of Life
Science here, was elected Tuesday
to the National Academy of
Sciences.
Dr. Grant, a member of the
A&M faculty since early 1967,
was one of 50 persons elected to
the elite group in recognition of
distinguished and continuing
achievements in original research.
His selection was announced by
NAS president Dr. Frederick
Seitz following the organization’s
105th annual meeting in Wash-
Third F-lll Crash
Halts Use In VN
SAIGON hP>—A U. S. military
spokesman said Wednesday that
no combat missions had been
flown by Fill jets since the loss
of a third $6 million, swing-wing
fighter bomber Monday night.
The spokesman would not, how
ever, confirm that the revolution
ary Fill had been grounded for
a second time in a month of
bombing missions against North
Vietnam.
The U. S. Command said the
plane was believed to have
crashed in Thailand, but it had
no further information on the
plane or the fate of its two-man
crew.
ington, D. C.
“This is another milestone for
Texas A&M University,” re
marked A&M President Earl
Rudder. “Dr. Grant is the first
man from our faculty to be ad
mitted to the National Academy
of Sciences. I warmly congratu
late him on this significant
achievement.”
DR. A. D. Suttle Jr., A&M vice
president for research, also ex
tended his congratulations to Dr.
Grant.
Three other A&M faculty mem
bers are fellows of the academy,
but were elected before coming
to the university. They are Dr.
Horace R. Byers, dean of the Col
lege of Geosciences; Dr. Clarence
Zener, dean of the College of
Science, and Dr. Paul Weiss, vis
iting professor of biology.
Election to the academy is con
sidered one of the highest honors
accorded to an American scientist
or engineer. The NAS is a pri
vate organization dedicated to
furtherance of science and its use
for the general welfare. It acts
in an advisory capacity to the
federal government on request.
DR. GRANT is noted for con
tributions in the effects of polli
nating animals on evolution of
flowers, speciation in plants, and
evolutionary theory.
The award winner earned the
Ph.D. in botany and genetics at
the University of California at
Berkeley in 1949. Prior to coming
to A&M, he was affiliated with
the Claremont Graduate School,
Claremont, Calif.
The 50-year old San Francisco
native won the Phi Beta Kappa
Award in science in 1964 for his
book, “The Origin of Adapta
tions.” He has written four other
books and is the author of 59
technical papers.
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On B-CS Business
The business relationship be
tween Bryan, College Station and
Texas A&M will be described at
a Brazos County A&M Club meet
ing today.
Club president Joe Buser said
the 7 p.m. dinner meeting will be
in Ramada Inn.
Bookman Peters, president of
the Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce, will discuss
university - community relation
ships, institutional and personal.
Buser invited all former stu
dents residing here to join the
250-member club.
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ENLARGED LABS
Photography students use two of the 20 print enlargers
in the new journalism lab facilities. Student at right
rinses a print in one of the two print washers. The new
lab is considered among the best-equipped in the nation.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
New Photo Labs Considered
Among Best In U. S. Colleges
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
A slim, tanned, sensuous young
thing picks a bluebonnet from a
field full of blue.
Click.
She smiles radiantly, lifting
the flower to her face, enjoying
the lovely scent of it and her
beautiful surroundings.
Click, click.
The “clicking” comes from an
intricate twin-lens portrait
camera. The skill to operate the
camera, the knowledge with which
the picture is selected, is not
inherited. It is learned and prac
ticed in photography courses
much like one course offered
by Texas A&M’s Department of
Journalism.
HOWEVER, photography can
not be taught strictly from a
textbook, or from lectures orated
by outstanding speakers.
It must be learned through the
viewfinder of a camera, and un
der the safelight of an enlarger
in a photographic darkroom.
At this point, Texas A&M has
reached a new high; Assistant
Professor Jack Boggan will open
A&M’s new photography dark
room facilities at 1 p.m. today.
“We know of only one other
college photography laboratory
in the United States with better
facilities,” he said.
Boggan said A&M’s new labor
atory-darkroom has several in
novations.
“WE HAVE a larger black and
white print room, for one thing,”
he noted. “There, we have 20
enlarger stations and two prints
washers. We will have a much
larger capacity here than in our
old facilities in Nagle Hall.”
A color photography lab is
another new addition.
“We have two Kodak Rapid
Color Processors, which will de
velop up to 11x14 inch color
prints,” he said.
The new photography facilities
also include a portrait studio,
eight film developing rooms with
thermostatically-controlled water
supply, and a separate room for
mixing chemicals.
In comparison to engineering
and scientific laboratories, where
expensive computers, technical
instruments and complex measur
ing devices are commonplace, the
new darkroom equipment cost is
small.
As another comparison, the
College of Liberal Arts, in which
the photography and journalism
courses are taught, finds the cost
of the photography equipment
among the highest.
“I could name $4,000 worth of
equipment that I need right now,
just to achieve full utilization,”
Boggan said.
DISPLAY BOARDS
Photography professor Jack Boggan (left) looks over the
new display boards for mounted photographs with John
James. The boards are several times the size of those in
the department’s Nagle Hall location. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
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