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. ' • : ~ . • P ... ’ - - ' - * ' ' • ■ • , . . . • . . * - . ;v ..\r. • ...... ... • ■ • - -- ...... ...... . ..... .- Placement Office Reports Iva Starnes Builds CS Men’s Store Increase In New Grads 9 Pay Starting salaries for new graduates of Texas A&M Uni versity are continuing to climb, a Placement Office report indi cates. A&M’s non-technical spring graduates likely will draw initial paychecks averaging $648 a month. That’s $34 a month higher partment has charge of that.” Evans said the highest 1968 offer to a bachelor’s degree can didate was $891 monthly to an electrical engineering student. Best cash offer to a master’s de gree candidate was $1,100 in elec trical engineering, with the top bid for a doctoral candidate be- than the national average for spring 1967 graduates. Students in technical areas with brand new sheepskins in the undergraduate school apparently will fare even better, Robert O. Evans, placement and corporate support director at A&M, pointed out. “Average beginning salary of fers are $771 a month, or $51 a month higher than the national average a year ago,” he noted. “Our master’s degree candidates received offers averaging $791 monthly in non-technical fields, $889 in technical areas, reflecting healthy gains over 1967.” Evans said doctoral candidates in the technical field were offered an average of $1,197 a month this spring. “There were insufficient num bers of non-technical doctoral offers to indicate any trend,” Evans explained. “We no longer handle teacher placement,” the placement direc tor divulged. “The Education Be ing $1,250 in chemical engineer ing. “Our highest average monthly dollar offers were in engineering areas,” Evans observed. “Highest average for bachelors’ earners earners was $830 in petroleum engineering, and for a master’s winner—$1,030 in chemical engi neering. We didn’t compute an average for doctorates.” Evans said 1,055 gx-aduating students registered with his office this year, compared to 1,18© a year ago. Of 396 employment question naires returned by gx-aduating students, Evans pointed out, 24 per cent plan to go into military sex-vice, 19 per cent ax-e bound for gx-aduate college, 44 per cent Bryan Lieutenant Receives Award Two Appointed To P.E. Department Dr. Homer Tolson and Pat Pattei'son have been appointed to the Health and Physical Edu cation Department faculty, an nounced Di\ Caxl W. Landiss, head. Tolson, who is completing his doctorate at Purdue University, will be an assistant professor and will work primarily in exercise physiology. His appointment is effective Sept. 1. Patterson will begin woxk June 1 as an instructor and associate swimming coach to Ait Adamson. Tolson, 27, has been instructor of advanced tests and measure ments at Pux-due, whex-e he re ceived the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1963 and 1964. The Starke County, Ind., native’s dis sertation on physical fitness and heax-ing sensitivity will be com pleted this summer. A member of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Tolson coordinated youth and adult fit ness progx-ams at West Lafayette and was graduate assistant to Dr. A. H. Ismail, research direc* tor of Purdue’s health and physi cal education and recreation de partment. The professor is married and has one daughter. Navy Lt. (jg.) Richard A. Powell of Bryan has been pre sented the Britannia Award as the outstanding weapons student in flight training. The scroll and trophy were awarded by Rear Admiral L.E.S.H. LeBailly, British naval attache and staff commander, at Lemoore, Calif. Lieutenant Powell, son of Mr. and Mi-s. Allen T. Powell, Rt. 4, Bryan, and a former Texas A&M student, is assigned with Attack Squadron 27 at Lemoore naval air station. The Britannia award was es tablished in 1956 by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty of the United Kingdom in appx-eci- ation of U. S. Navy assistance in tx-aining British naval pilots during 1952-56. It is annually presented to a Navy flight stu dent. While in training at Kingsville, Powell qualified with a weapons scoxe of 17-foot error in bombing and 10 per cent hits in gunnery, flying the F9J “Cougax-.” A 75- fOot bombing average and 10 per cent in gunnery are rated excel lent. Powell studied aerospace en gineering at A&M two years be fore enlisting in the Navy in January, 1965. He entered flight training in late 1965 and was com missioned as a naval aviator in 1967. The Britannia award recipient was a Squadron 15 cadet at A&M and marched with the Freshman Drill Team. THE FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY Now Holding Interviews for SALES MANAGEMENT TRAINEES Due to rapid expansion there are unlimited opportunities in sales management with a corporation doing almost 2 billion dollars sales volume annually National Brand merchandise sold — Firestone, Philco, Delco, and many others. REQUIREMENTS 1— College graduate 2— Prefer applicant with completed military obligation 3— Good appearance and speaking voice, and have de sire to excell in sales management as a career. BENEFITS 1— Rapid Advancement 2— $625 Base Salary plus attractive Bonus Plan • 3— Liberal Insurance Program for employee and de pendent 4— Excellent Retirement Program 5— Annual paid vacation are employed, and 13 per cent unemployed. Evans said 658 companies were on campus for 757 interview “days” in 1967-68. A new men’s clothing store— Iva Starnes’ University Men’s Wear—is set for a September 1 opening in College Station. The store in the Northgate area is under construction at 327 Uni versity Drive. “Future growth plans of Texas A&M University,” Starnes said, “as well as its academic offerings and the nature of the Texas Aggie offered encouragement to our establishment of this store.” The store will feature tradi tional architecture, with quarry tile flooring extending over the sidewalk, plus divided glass dis play windows. Plans call for merchandise fixtures of antique heavy wood furniture. THE BATTALION Thursday, May 30, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 7 Read Battalion Classifieds S Ki M . A For all your insurance needs, See U. M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main, Bryan 823-3616 kit mi INSURANCE State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Officas Bloomington, Til, Write or Call Mr. J. H. Bowman or Mr. L. S. Scope! 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