1,000th DOCTORATE
John Edward Motocha leaves the G. Rollie White Coliseum
stage after receiving his doctorate degree in Saturday’s
ceremonies. Motocha, who took a Ph.D. in soil chemistry,
was the 1,000th A&M student to earn a doctorate here.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
NEW LIEUTENANT
Steve Melzer receives congratulations from Col. Vernon L.
Head, professor of aerospace studies, after being comis
sioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. Melzer was
one of 195 cadets receiving commissions Saturday after
noon. (Photo by Mike Wright)
BOOT DANCER
An unidentified new senior braves the pain of fast-dancing
in senior boots during the annual Boot Dance Saturday
night. The dance closed out the weekend’s activities. (Photo
by Mike Wright)
VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1968 Number 586
’68-’69 Editors Announced
For Student Publications
Fuller To Head Fall Operation Set
F#r ’68-’69 Students To Get Telephones
John W. Fuller of San Angelo
will be the 1968-69 editor of The
Battalion, announced Student
Publications Director Jim Lindsey.
Other editors at A&M next year
are James A. Creel of Fort Worth,
Aggieland; Penny Scalone of
Hearner, The Review; John Mc-
Carroll of Odessa, Agriculturist;
Bobby L. Ulich of Lubbock, Engi
neer; and Clem E. Malone of
Waco, The Southwestern Veteri
narian.
Fuller, junior journalism major,
has worked on The Battlion three
years and is currently managing
editor. He is designated scholas
tic officer of the Second Wing in
the Corps and active in numerous
campus organizations and proj
ects.
Creel, a junior majoring in ac
counting, is class section editor
of the 1968 Aggieland and has
served on the publication’s staff
since his freshman year. He also
is a member of the Corps and
participates in several extra-cur
ricular activities.
Miss Scalone, junior journalism
student, transferred to A&M last
fall from Stephens College in
Missouri and worked this year
on The Review, a quarterly pub
lication.
An agricultural journalism ma
jor, McCarroll is a junior and
also worked part-time in the uni
versity’s Agricultural Information
Department.
Malone, second-year veterinary
medicine student, is currently an
editorial assistant on The South
western Veterinarian staff.
Ulich, junior electrical engi
neering student, now serves as a
department representative for The
Engineer.
Weather
Friday & Saturday—Cloudy, scat
tered ra'in showers or thunder
showers. Winds Southerly 10-20
m.p.h. High 88, low 73.
The long-awaited individual
student telephone system will be
come a reality this fall, accord
ing to A&M officials.
The Centrex system will pro
vide a separate campus exchange
with prefix numbers 845, central
ization of phone equipment in the
new library basement and an ex
pansion capability to 12,000
phones.
“The 5,000-phone system will
be cut in Aug. 18 if our schedule
holds,” announced Howard L.
Vestal, management service de
partment director.
“Success of the system will de
pend on students holding room
changes to an extreme mini
mum,” he declared.
The dean, commandant’s office,
student affairs, civilian student
affairs and housing office offi
cials are considering ways of
minimizing room changes.
MORE THAN 1,400 room
changes were made by civilian
students this year and shifts in
Corps housing were probably
equal or greater. Under the
new phone system, a usable di
rectory of student phone num
bers will depend on a stabilized
housing situation.
Col. Jim H. McCoy and Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan
plan to organize the Corps be
fore the fall semester and dis
courage reasons for cadet moves.
“We are always interested in
student room changes being held
to a minimum,” noted Allan
Madeley, housing office man
ager. “In any event, it will be
imperative that students follow
the proper procedm-e in moving.”
THE NEW switchboard will
have three operators and can be
swamped with information calls
if we are unsuccessful in efforts
to stabilize room and phone as
signments,” Vestal said.
He said the system will not
provide inter-departmental phone
equipment improvements.
“A general misconception is
that Centrex will make changes
at the department level, which it
will not. The only immediate
effect will be change of all uni
versity numbers on the cut-over
date, elimination of switchboards
at all points except the MSC and
hospital, lower basic telephone
costs and increased student com
munications,” Vestal added.
“If a department is consider
ing a new rotary or key phone
system, now is the time to have
it installed,” he pointed out.
ADVANTAGES OF Centrex
include student phones without
excessive rate increases, simpli
fied billing, transfer of calls from
one party or department to an
other, a 10-phone conference cap
ability and A&M operators to
assist in locating called parties.
Vestal said basic costs will be
reduced by a minimum of $3 a
month and WATS lines will re
duce long distant charges. A
student’s phone will be $3 per
month.
Problems will be maintaining
up-to-date listings of student num
bers and making new numbers
known.
On June 1, new administrative
phone numbers will be available.
A temporary administrative
phone book will be published July
15. Each department will be
furnished special cards for re
minding frequent callers of new
numbers.
All students who reserve dorm
rooms will be listed Aug. 15 for
printing and distribution at the
first of the fall term.
A permanent directory will be
published around Nov. 1, after
student housing assignments
have been adjusted and settled.
Summer Camp Training Set
For 407 Army, AF Cadets
Texas A&M will send 407 Army
and Air Force ROTC cadets to
summer camp in the next three
months.
Due summer training are 296
Army ROTC and 111 AFROTC
cadets, announced Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant. The train
ing is required of ROTC contract
students who will be commis
sioned upon graduation.
The first group of cadets re
port June 12. Others start camp
in July.
Sophomore, junior and senior
cadets will repoi’t at 11 Air Force
bases throughout the U. S. for
four-weeks duty, noted Col.
Vernon L. Head, professor of
aerospace studies. The future Air
Force officers include 10 sopho
mores on financial assistance
grants.
“MOST CADETS are juniors,”
Head said, pointing out that sum
mer training is normally sched
uled between the junior and senior
years of academic work. As in
the Army program, some cadets
are allowed to postpone camp
until after the senior year.
Head indicated 75 of 111 Aggies
will train at March AFB, Calif.,
or the Air Force Academy. Other
bases hosting AFROTC cadets are
Gunter, Ala; Pease, N. H.; Fair-
child, Wash.; Charleston, S. C.;
Dover, Del.; Forbes, Kan., and
Otis, Mass.
Five two-year cadets will be in
six-weeks field training at Kees-
ler AFB, Miss., and Amarillo
AFB.
THE AGGIES will be among
6,200 cadets from across the
nation training at 16 Air Force
installations.
Fort Sill, Okla., will be the
training site of 291 Army cadets,
McCoy said. Three will be at
Indian Town Gap Military Res
ervation, Pa., and two at Fort
Lewis, Wash. Thirty of the 296
are seniors. Several who received
‘Live Dangerously,’ Grads Advised
Live dangerously.
That personal philosophy was
passed along to Texas A&M’s
1,003-member spring graduating
class Saturday by H. B. Zachry
of San Antonio, founder of a
world-wide construction firm and
head of HemisFair.
“I want always to turn my
back on security in search of
opportunity, to be certain my
place will never be with those
cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat,” re
marked the 1922 graduate and
former board president of Texas
HE SAID the “things that we
are for, to be truly worthy, usual
ly amount to ideals—visions.”
“We must never forget that
to realize the ideal, or to reach
a lofty objective, we must start
from where we are,” Johnson
reasoned.
The West Point graduate said
all the benefits that this country
and its citizens enjoy exist be
hind the rampart which is man
ned by members of the armed
forces.
“Because this is so, no greater
privilege can come to any man
than the opportunity to serve in
the defense of freedom,” he em
phasized. “No duty of the citizen
is more imperative than bearing
arms in defense of his nation.”
The new officers included 119
entering the Army, 72 Air Force
and four Marine Corps.
A&M REACHED a milestone
during the graduation ceremonies
with the award of its 1,000th
doctorate to John Edward
Matocha of Beeville. Matocha,
who received his Ph.D. in soil
chemistry, was one of 53 doctoral
students receiving degrees, along
their degrees last weekend will be
commissioned at camp.
As in 1967, A&M will probably
have the largest contingent from
a 4th Army area school at Sill.
Officers and non-coms assigned
to A&M’s Army and Air Force
ROTC detachments will serve as
camp cadre at the various mili
tary establishments.
with 185 master’s and 765 bac
calaureate recipients.
Distinguished alumni awards
went to Lt. Gen. A. D. Bruce
and Michel T. Halbouty of Hous
ton, Roy B. Davis of Lubbock
and Carl C. Krueger of San An
tonio. The awards were jointly
presented by the university and
its Association of Former Stu
dents.
The day’s activities concluded
with Final Review, in which cadet
underclassmen saluted the gradu
ating seniors, and the Boot Dance
honoring next year’s seniors.
Traffic Accident
On Campus Kills
Band Sophomore
Richard L. Black, 19-year-old
Texas A&M student from Fort
Worth, was fatally injured early
Monday morning when struck by
a pick-up on campus.
Black, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs.
Oscar L. Black of 5732 Wharton
in Fort Worth, died en route to a
Houston hospital after being
initially treated at a Bryan hos
pital.
Assistant Campus Security
Chief M. A. Maddox said Black,
a sophomore mathematics major,
was struck shortly after midnight
as he crossed a street while re
turning to his dormitory from an
off-campus drive-in. He was
carrying a soft-drink paper cup.
Maddox said the driver of the
vehicle, another student, stated he
was blinded by the lights of an
oncoming car. The driver and
another occupant of the second
car confirmed the student’s state
ment, the officer added.
Black, a member of the Aggie
Band, is believed to be the first
campus traffic fatality in the
history of A&M.
A&M.
“Yes, I want to live dangerous
ly,” the board chairman of the
H. B. Zachry Co. continued, “to
plan my procedure on the basis
of calculated risks, to resolve
the complications of everyday life
into a degree of peace of mind.”
ZACHARY, WHO received the
university’s distinguished alumni
award in 1964, asked the Aggie
graduates to search their souls
and perhaps adopt a similar
philosophy.
Later in the day, Gen. Harold
K. Johnson, U. S. Army chief of
staff, discussed responsibility at
commissioning exercises for 195
A&M graduating seniors.
“Responsibility begins when
ever you find it,” Gen. Johnson
noted, “and you will find it when
ever you look for it.”
The general urged the new
second lieutenants to think more
about what they are for, rather
than what they are against.
“We hear a great deal today
about what people are against,”
Johnson observed, “but few pro
testers ever stand up and tell us
what they are for.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
SENIOR LINE
Corps seniors link arms for the traditional walk across the drill field just before the
next year’s Corps passes in review in their honor. The walk followed the singing- of
‘Auld Lang Syne” with their units. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Five Profs Elected
For Gibbs Hearing
Five professors have been
elected by the faculty here to
form a Committee on Academic
Freedom and Tenure and hear the
case of Dr. Leon W. Gibbs, veteri
nary anatomy professor.
Committee members are Dr.
R. W. Barzak, associate professor,
English Department; Dr. A. R.
Burgess, professor, Industrial
Engineering; Dr. Dale F. Leipper,
professor, Oceanography; Dr.
John H. Quisenberry, professor
and department head, Poultry Sci
ence, and Dr. R. L. Skrabanek,
professor, Agricultural Economics
and Sociology.
The committee will set a date
for the hearing.
Members of the committee were
elected by ballot at the univer
sity’s annual recognition and
achievement awards program.
Election results were certified by
four faculty representatives, Drs.
A. F. Isbell, George W. Kunze,
Haskell Monroe and Charles
Pinnell.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.