Ag Information Wins Awards A&M Gets $5,500 In Grants
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Thursday, July 25, 1968
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Two blue and four red ribbons
have been won by the Texas
A&M Agricultural Information
Department in the 1968 American
Association of Agricultural Col
lege Editors Communications Con
test.
The honors came during the
AAACE’s 52nd annual meeting
just ended in Knoxville, Tenn.
Hal R. Taylor, editor and head
of the A&M Agricultural Infor
mation Department, said the blue
ribbons were won in classes for
popular Extension Service or ex
periment station bulletin or cir
cular, and technical research bull
etin or circular.
Red ribbons were awarded in
classes for information training
letter, weekly press service, daily
press service, and periodicals.
Taylor said a blue ribbon
means an excellent rating, while
a red is considered good.
He said entries totaled 408
from college and university agri
cultural information departments
throughout the nation.
The people of the Netherlands
are raising the largest and most
complex system of flood-control
dams and sluices in their history.
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
has awarded Texas A&M Univer
sity five grants totaling $5,500
for support of programs in engi
neering, geosciences and business
administration.
F. W. Turner of Houston,
manager of Atlantic Richfield’s
Southeast Texas-Offshore Dis
trict, presented the awards dur
ing informal ceremonies in the
office of A&M President Earl
Rudder.
“We feel we have a great debt
to institutions of higher learn
ing,” noted the oil company
representative, “because in their
hands rest the future of the na
tion.”
Turner said Texas A&M is one
of 80 institutions across the na
tion receiving financial support
from the Atlantic Richfield Foun
dation this year.
He explained $2,000 of the A&M
award is eai’marked for continu
ation of the Atlantic Richfield
honors scholarship program in the
Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment.
The Electrical Engineering, Me
chanical Engineering and Geo
physics Departments are each
allotted $1,000 grants and the
College of Business Administra
tion, $500.
University officials pointed out
Atlantic Richfield has provided
financial support to A&M for sev
eral years.
Belies Attend SMU Workshop
GAL EXCELS
SEATTLE, Wash. (AP)—The
fair set is moving into another
formerly male - dominated field.
The top scholar in the well-known
College of Fisheries at the Uni
versity of Washington is a pretty
19-year-old co-ed, Mimi Schmidth
of Seattle.
The A&M Consolidated High
School drill team, the Bengal
Belles, will attend Pep Squad and
Drill Team School at Southern
Methodist University campus in
Dallas July 28-August 2.
The week’s activities will in
clude learning five routines, per
fecting dancing and marching
techniques, and attending classes
on poise and projection.
Friday, along with other drill
teams, the Belles will be judged
on performance of a high kick
routine. The girls return to Col
lege Station late Friday.
The 16 Belles attending the
school will be the captain, Doro
thy McMurry; lieutenants, Kristen
Gardner and June Sanders, and
Annie Niles, Sue Tauzel, Judy
Brown, Carolyn Hugo, Penny
Ryan, Carol Nowak, Becky Up-
ham, Liz Cannon, Shelley Reid,
Gail Cooley, Teresa Murphy, Bar
bara Crow and Deborah Schlaudt.
The girls will be accompanied
by their sponsor.
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