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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
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