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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1968
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Informality To Be Keynote
Of Boot Dance May 25
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By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Early Davis, next year’s senior
president, Wednesday reported
preparations for the Boot Dance
May 25 “are proceeding excep
tionally well.”
“If things continue along their
present line, this should be one
of the best Boot Dances ever,”
Davis said. “We are expecting at
least 250 couples and hopefully
more.”
The dance is scheduled to be
held on the patio of the Memorial
Student Center—just outside of
the main ballroom, where the
dance will be moved in case of
inclement weather.
Davis explained that the dance
is to be informal with the main
goal for the new seniors to “just
relax and enjoy themselves.”
IN FACT, we want the affair
to be so relaxed, we are asking
people not to buy corsages for
their dates,” Davis continued.
The Ghost Coach, formally the
Aggie Follies’ Three-Night Run
Begins Tonight At 8 In Guion
The “Bird of Paradise” will be
presented here Thursday, Friday
and Saturday at Guion Hall.
Curtain is at 8 p.m. nightly,
announced Director Kirk Stewart
of Axtell. Tickets, $1 each, will
be available at the door.
The 70-minute melodrama, sub
titled “Anouanoa of the South
Seas,” is filled with trials and
tribulations of Anouanoa, the
beautiful, dainty princess and heir
A&M Teachers
To Aid At TU
Four teacher trainers from
Texas A&M’s Engineering Ex
tension Service will help out this
summer at the University of Tex
as at Austin.
Starting June 5, Eugene C.
Fisher, Bill J. Rutledge, Robert
W. Wagner and Dewey Cowling
will assist in teaching a joint
six-week summer school for an
expected 282 students from the
Southwest.
A&M and TU alternate in host
ing the school in cooperation with
the Texas Education Agency.
This is the 22nd such school.
The Texas Education Agency
and other states require voca
tional-industrial teachers to com
plete 12 collegiate hours of in
dustrial education, Cowling ex
plained. Students earn six hours
credit each summer.
Anticipated enrollment in
cludes 186 first year teachers and
96 in their second year, Cowling
added.
apparent to the island kingdom
of Doit Doit, Stewart explained.
“Francis Starr, our hero, drifts
to the island with his band' of
mutineers on the USS Trojan,”
Stewart added, “and finds true
love with Anouanoa at first
sight.”
Villain of the play, Filthy Fang,
the witch doctor, causes volcano
Mt. Bang Bang to erupt and then
blames the event on Anouanoa
who is then to be sacrificed to
the volcano. Other events trans
pire as the play drifts to Paris,
San Francisco, Alcatraz and, fin
ally, to an unnamed uninhabited
island.
Bryan residents in the cast and
crew are Walter Weaver, Mike
McGuyer, Susan McGuyer, Lynda
Armstrong, Thelma McGill, Susan
Lucas, Chick Rose and Sandra
Rose. Kathleen Heaton and Nancy
Wick represent College Station.
Others include Mike Mueller
of Beatrice, Neb., Gregen Rey
nolds of Princeton, N. J., Lucy
Bishop of Dickinson, Tommy Mc
Alister of Abilene, Rick Reese
of Beaumont, Mike Link o f
Spring, T. J. Leeds of Nashville,
Tenn., Claude Speed and Melanie
Haldas of Houston, Bill Taylor
of Washington, D. C., Jody Woods
of Olney, Dale Gravett of Corpus
Christi, J i m Weyhenmeyer of
Livingston, N. J., and Ken Green
of Water Valley.
Rob Robertson of Huntsville is
stage manager and C. K. Esten,
director of the Aggie Players, is
producer.
The production is billed as the
Aggie Follies.
Natural Gas Company, will supply
the music for the dance. They
feature a variety of numbers of
both fast and slow music.
“I have heard them play,” Davis
said, “and I thought they were
really good.”
The group consists of Aggies
and has been gaining in popularity
throughout the area.
Tickets, priced at $3 per couple,
may be bought at the Student
Program Office in the MSC,
Davis said. Tickets may also be
purchased the night of the dance
at the door.
THE TICKET price will also
cover the cost of refreshments
inside the dance, which will in
clude cold drinks.
The Aggieland Studio will take
color pictures at the dance, which
will cost $3.50 for two 5x7 pho
tos and four wallet size pictures.
Uniform for the evening will
be Class B, long or short sleeve,
with ascots. Dress for dates is
to be casual to semi-formal.
Davis has been calling on help
from fellow juniors for one part
of the decorations.
“On each of the tables in the
ballroom we are going to have
a Michelob bottle with a lighted
candle in it,” Davis remarked.
“So if anyone has any empty
Michelob bottles they may bring
them by my room, Dorm 1-309.”
Cooper To Speak
At Last Program
Of Great Issues
Edwin H. Cooper, director of
civilian student activities, will be
the final Great Issues speaker
May 16 at the Memorial Student
Center.
The talk, “Civilian Student
Changes at A&M,” is set for 8
p.m. in the MSC Ballroom, an
nounced Great Issues Chairman
Gerald Moore.
Director since October, 1967,
Cooper aids in development of
leadership among civilian stu
dents and assists in expansion of
programs affecting their campus
life.
Cooper also analyzes problems
and opportunities facing more
than 9,000 civilian students en
rolled at the university.
Student Senate ‘Adopts 9
Six-Year-Old Indian Girl
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
A six-year-old Cherokee Indian
girl who likes to “feed the chick
ens” at home was “adopted” re
cently by Texas A&M’s 11,000-
member student body.
The Student Senate, at the re
quest of Welfare Chairman Leon
E. Travis, resolved April 3 to
send $144 in financial support to
brown-eyed Carla Remer of Vian,
Okla.
The imoney, sent to the Chris
tian Children’s Fund, Inc., based
in Richmond, Va., will sponsor
the young lady for a full year.
In a letter to Travis thanking
the A&M students for their gen
erosity, Verbon E. Kemp, execu
tive director of CCF, explained
that Carla was only one of 5,000
such youngsters attending 60
schools in northeast Oklahoma.
“MOST OF these people,” he
wrote, “are vigorously proud and
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have accepted their miserable fate
without complaint. Often children
would drop out of school because
of ridicule of a more fortunate
classmate, poor clothing or bare
feet.
“Now,” he continued, “thanks
to the help of these people such
as yourself, these youngsters are
being given a chance to break
the poverty cycle that their par
ents and grandparents had no way
to escape.”
McKeithen Says
HHH To Receive
Demo Nomination
HOUSTON (A?)—Louisiana Gov.
John McKeithen said Wednesday
he believes Vice President Hubert
Humphrey will receive the Demo
cratic noimnation for president.
McKeithen said he would favor
either Texas Gov. John Connally
or former North Carolina Gov.
Terry Sanford as Humphrey’s
running mate.
The Louisiana governor said
in an interview he did not go
along with the belief of some
people in the South that by sup
porting Alabama George Wallace
the presidential election could be
thrown into the House of Repre
sentatives.
“They hope that if the election
went to the House of Representa
tives some kind of deal could be
made on civil rights,” McKeithen
said. “I don’t think anybody
should make deals with civil
rights.”
McKeithen was in Houston to
address representatives of the
natural gas industry.
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Mrs. Fisher Named
A&M Mother Of Year
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RV DRILLS
Members of the Ross Volunteers’ Second Platoon run through a ripple movement and
Queen Anne salute as they prepare for their traditional Mother’s Day performance Sun
day. The drill, which will follow the Mother’s Day review on the main drill field, will mark
the end of the honor company’s activities for this year. (Photo by Mike Wright)
‘Honorable Peace Could Come’
From Paris Talks, LBJ Says
Kemp explained that in Carla’s
particular case, she was not able
to attend school and have the
necessary food and clothing even
though both parentis worked “long
hard hours ... in an effort to
keep their home going.”
TWO WEEKS AGO, Mrs. Glyn-
dle Remer, Carla’s mother, sent
Travis and the Senate a note
thanking them for sponsoring her
daughter and for sending her an
Aggie sweatshirt the week before.
“I happen to know about Texas
A&M and I think its great,” she
said in the letter.
“Its truly a blessing to have
such thoughtful and wonderful
boys to sponsor Carla. Words
can’t express how happy you have
made her.”
Next year’s Senate Welfare
Committee chairman, David Ho
ward, is making plans to invite
Carla and her mother down for
one of the football weekends as
guests of the student body.
“Although final plans must still
be approved,” he said, ‘Sve hope
to give them the grand tour of
the campus including a place on
the reviewing stand for the pre
game pass-by of the Cadet Corps.”
Only a first-grader, Carla last
week sent a neatly-printed note
thanking the A&M students for
sending money which she said
she used to buy an Easter outfit.
According to CCF, Carla, in
addition to her daily chicken-feed
ing chores, finds time for coloring
and playing with, dolls. She is
making good progress in school;
her favorite subjects are music
and art.
By LEWIS GULICK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON <A>) — Shortly
before the U. S. delegation’s take
off for its meeting with North
Vietnamese envoys, President
Johnson voiced cautious hope
Wednesday that the Paris talks
will lead to an honorable peace.
Speaking to Thailand’s visiting
prime minister about his cam
paign to—as the President put it
—“begin the work of healing” the
bitter Southeast Asian conflict
with the Reds, Johnson said:
“There is hope now, finally,
some hope that that offer will
bear fruit and that an honorable
peace could come.”
A SIX-MAN U. S. delegation
headed by veteran diplomat W.
Averell Harriman was slated to
leave Washington at 7:30 a.m.,
EDT, Thursday aboard a U. S. Air
Force plane arriving in Paris
about 8 p.m. French time. The
Vietnam talks are scheduled to
start Friday.
The Thai prime minister, Tha-
nom Kittikachorn, arrived at the
White Housce for a two-day offi
cial visit which is one of the series
of meetings that Johnson has
been holding with leaders of na
tions allied in the Vietnam war.
LIKE THE other Asian allies,
Thanom reportedly was anxious
that his country be fully con
sulted on any U. S. dealings with
the Reds. And he had previously
made known his doubts that the
Communists really want peace.
However, Thanom declared on
his arrival that Thailand joins the
United States in seeking “a genu
ine peace which is hot a facade
covering a surrender—but a peace
which guarantees freedom and the
Pictures Arriving
For Salon ’68
Salon ’68 co-chairmen Louis
Hodges of Houston and Ed Stas-
ney of Ballinger are categorizing
photographs for the Memorial
Student Center Camera Commit
tee’s intercollegiate competition
Saturday.
Between 300 and 400 prints are
expected for the 10th contest
sponsored by the Texas A&M
photography club.
Hodges, a range science gradu
ate student who headed Salon ’67,
and Stasney are supervising
placement of nine categories of
entries from across the state and
as far away as Kansas.
Winners and accepted prints
will be exhibited in the MSC next
week.
right for small nations to exist
with dignity and independence.”
Johnson reaffirmed to the
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion military ally that the United
States “remains involved in and
concerned with the future of
human freedom throughout the
world.”
THE U. S. aim in Vietnam, the
President said, is “to help a na
tion in its struggle to determine
its own destiny.” And he pledged
again that U. S. troops will pull
out of that country when this
objective “becomes secure.”
U. S. officials expressed some
interest in a remark attributed
to French foreign minister Mau
rice Couve de Murville by a
French government spokesman.
The French foreign affairs leader
was quoted as saying that the
United States and North Viet
nam will hold broad talks in Paris
on ending the war, not limiting
their discussions merely to the
question of halting U. S. bomb
ing of the North.
The U. S. officials said they
did not know whether Hanoi had
asked the French government to
survey this view of the talks, or
whether it might have been mere
ly a statement volunteered amid
French exuberance over the selec
tion of Paris as the meeting site.
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ROOFTOP DEATH IN SAIGON
A South Vietnamese soldier lifts the body of a Viet Cong terrorist atop a roof in the
northeastern section of Saigon. Hard fighting continued on the fringes of the capital
as the enemy show of strength continued for the third day. (AP Wirephoto via radio
from Saigon)
Mother Of 10
To Be Guest
Here Sunday
It’s a bit crowded when every
one’s home for Christmas at the
home of A&M’s Mother of The
Year, Mrs. John C. Fisher of Mid
land.
Mrs. Fisher has .an 11-year-
old daughter and nine sons, in
cluding six Aggies.
Her selection as 1968 Mother
of The Year was announced
Wednesday by John Donald Mc
Leroy of the Student Life Com
mittee. She was nominated for
the honor in letters from three of
her sons; John C., ’63, Thomas E.,
’65, and Eugene T., ’71.
| Mrs. Fisher will be presented
to the student body Sunday, high
lighting the ceremonies of Parent
Appreciation Day.
The Aggies’ number one mother
is married to an electrician, and
she bakes pastries for a Midland
delicatessen. Mrs. Fisher is a
baseball and football rooter for
the Saint Ann’s Catholic Church
teams. She is active in the
church, PTA and Mother’s Club.
How does the Mother of The
Year feel about A&M ?
“She thinks of A&M almost as
a home, now that there are as
many of us here as at home in
Midland,” Jerry, a sophomore
industrial technology major, said.
“She has always had a desire for
all of us to graduate from A&M.”
Mrs. Fisher wants to organise
an A&M Mother’s Club in Mid
land as there isn’t one today. She
has a stronger than average at
tachment to A&M, because there
has been at least one member
of the Fisher family enrolled at
A&M every year since 1958.
Gene T. Fisher, freshman
mechanical engineering student
and sixth Fisher at Aggieland,
was one of the three brothers who
submitted a letter. He listed the
family as consisting of mom and
dad; John C., ’63, who works for
Westinghouse Airbrake in Minne
apolis; Thomas E., ’65, of Union
Oil in Louisiana; and three other
brothers at A&M, as well as three
younger brothers and a sister at
home. Joseph H., junior M.E.
major, is married and has a three-
year-old daughter named Tina,
who can say “Gig ‘Em!” James
R. is also a junior. He is studying
architectural construction and
plans to be married this summer.
Jerry L. lives across the hall
from Gene in Hart Hall. Jerry is
a sophomore in industrial tech
nology, and head waiter at Sbisa
dining hall.
Of the Fishers living at home,
Mike, 16, is a high school sopho
more, while brothers Pat and
Frank are in the eighth and
seventh grades, respectively.
(See Mothers, Page 2)
Ag Generals Get
New AF Duties
Two Texas Aggie generals
have been assigned new duties
in the U. S. Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Guy H. Goddard, a
1947 graduate, is thel new Air
Force director of civil engineering
for the deputy chief of staff, pro
grams and resources, at the Pen
tagon.
General Goddard succeeds the
retiring Maj. Gen. Robert H. Cur
tin, whom he previously served
as deputy director for construc
tion. General Goddard received a
master’s degree in civil engineer
ing at A&M.
Brig. Gen. Kyle L. Riddle has
been assigned chief of staff of
the 12th Air Force, Bergstrom
AFB, effective Sept. 2, from chief
of the Military Assistance Ad
visory Group in Tokyo. The 1937
graduate studied agricultural ad
ministration and was a cadet
first lieutenant in the Corps, serv
ing as plans and training officer
on the Second Battalion Infantry
staff.
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