The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 30, 1968, Image 1
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.