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%«4 ) I BOX 45496 B Battalion fCONTESl VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1968 Number 594 Record V et Graduation In Friday Ceremonies ft Dr. Fred C. Davison, who was • practicing veterinarian in i»i>7 and president of the University of Georgia in will be the featured speaker for veterinary medkine graduation reremoniea at Texas AAM Friday. Dr. Alvin A. I‘rice, dean of AAM’s College of Veterinary Medkine. said Dr. Davison will address the record 101-member class at 8 p.m. in Bryan Civk Auditorium. At St, Dr. Davison is one of the youngest men evei' to serve as president of a major U. S. university. . - After receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medkine degree from the University of Georgia in 1052, he returned to his home town of Marietta and was en gaged in private practice until 1058. br. Davison joined the Depart- ~ ment of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology at Iowa State University as research associate. Two years later he was appoint ed assistant professor and an'as sociate of the Institute for Atom- k Kesearch. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State in 1083, when he be- “Mis* Workshopper" (center) Mary Woodrow Wilson High in Dallas reigns over her court in the Memorial Student Center. She was crowned last night preceeding the annual dance for the High School Publica tions Workshop hosted by AAM’s Journalism Department. Members of her court included: Laurie Nipper, David W. MISS WORKSHOPPER AND COURT Ann Murphy from Carter High, Dallas; ScoUie Worden. Ross Sterling High. Baytown; Margaret McClain, Cleveland High, Cleveland, Tex., and Dorinda Deroven, White Oak High, White Oak. The workshop concludes tomorrow morning with an awards program for the 207 participants. ‘This Atomic World’ On Campus Monday An atomic energy demonstra tion presented by Texas A4M in almost 350 high schools across Texas in the last two yaars will be staged on campus Monday. C. M. Loyd of AAM’s NSF Programs Office said the 7 p.m. presentation in the biologkal sciences lecture room will enabk university personnel and the gen eral publk to see the “This Atomk World” program. August Big Month For Wedding Vows August may be displacing June as the month of veils, bridal bou quets and flying rice The All Faiths Chapel at Texas AAM. recent scene of its 400th wedding, is requested almost as much in August and January as the former month of weddings, according to J. Gordon Gay. A minister supported the YMCA general secretary, noting hi* nuptial services are evenly spread the year around. But while the date may change, some aspects of repeating the marriage vows never alter due to people being people. And, un- predkteble. One chapel wedding lost a member of the bridal party, but it wasn’t the bride or groom get ting cold feet at the last minute. The bast man grabbed his stom ach during the service and dashed for an exit. Explanations afterward re vealed he had been driving all night to make the wedding, con suming copious quantities of No- Dose and coffee to stay awake. It’s usually accepted that the bride and groom are the two moot nervous people at the altar, but casual obaarvation by wed ding-goers often proves other, wise- ^; For exampk, when the minis ter asked the beat man for the ring, the groom’s representative handed over the band, box and all. • « A thunderstorm flickered throughout one chapel wedding. Electricity failed in the Associa tion of Former StudenU-donated structure as well aa several near by buildings just aa the wedding party assumed its position be fore the alter. Candelabra provided a ro mantic sotting for the vows, and just as the organist waa- to play the recessional, the lights cams on and everything went as plaiwisd. With vows completed, one ar dent groom turned to hia bride and turning back her vail for the traditional kiss, flipped it off her head. Another couple completed the “annlo-over" routine. At the time of the kiss, the groom peer bed for the veil and the en tire arrangement came off in bis hands. The “Bridal March” swept through the 212-seat structure as a wedding ended to set the stage for another ceremonial slip. The bride's mother didn’t want to leava first and motioned the ush er to the groom’s mother. After a brief hesitation, she graciously accepted the change. At least she did until she and the usher were almost all the way up the aisle. Then, in not so sotto voice, she remarked: “Oh, I could choke that woman." One bride’s mother glanced over in surprise at the end of a ceremony to see her husband tak ing the groom's other arm to leave the chapel. Finally heeding her imperious gestures toward his proper posi tion behind the bride’s mother and usher, the confuted dad re turned to his seat. Donald v V. Jensen, TAW ex hibit manager, toured the dem onstration program through North and West Texas during the 1967-68 school year. He will conduct the program again in 1968-69, in West and Southwest Texas school, “This Atoaak World" was de signed by the Atomk Energy Commission and is sponsored by A AM and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. It acquaints high school students with bask prin ciples of nuclear energy. sources and role in industry, ag- Special Edition Out Next Week \ ( ’ Next week's issae of The Hattalioe will be the “Fresh- ■aa Edit tea.” This special editiea will caa- tela two extra eectieae. Included is these twa extra sect teas will he a fresh ms a ori oats tips aectiaa. explaiaiag same of the traditions of Tex as AAM. Ala# to he la the “fish" psper will he aa Aggie fall football preview. Pictures of key players sad season forecasts along with other in formation will ha found in this second section. The “Frtahnaa Edition" la published aanaally. A copy is sent to each freahmaa iadkst lag that he will attend AAM thla fall. riculture and medkine. Jensen also speaks to science classes at each school. He said the Monday presenta tion will be exactly as it has ap peared to high school audiences, including those at S. F. Austin and Snook. “Vary faw pc spin on our own campus have had tha privilege of seeing this presentation.” noted Loyd, campus program coordina tor. “The general public is also invited.” Chariaa C. McLamore, now as sistant to the registrar, was ex hibit manager ia 1966-67. Jensen Is a Youngstown Uni versity graduate, earned a mas ter’s degree at AAM as an Aca demic Year Institute participant and takas summer training at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nu clear Studies. Voting, Dance Set At MSC An opportunity to vote for the President of the United States and to attend a free dance is scheduled for all Aggies Tuesday, according to Harry Snowdy, presi dent of the Student Directorate. Voting booths will be set up in the basement of the Memorial Student Center on Tuesday morning and every one with an AAM identification card will be allowed to vote for their presidential preference, Jack Abbott, chair man of the Action Committee of the MSC-sponaored Directorate, said. “This is a presidential preference vote only, and each student is to select the candidate he wishes to represent his party in the November election,” Abbott continued. The booths will be open until 5 p. m. to allow every one a chance to vote in the election. Results will be published in The Battalion as soon as they are available the chairman said. ’ A free dance is also set for Tuesday at 8 p. m. in the MSC ballroom. The dance is open to all Aggies and dates, Snowdy said. Featured at the dance will be tu|p local bands, “The Cornerstone Blue” and the “Dandelion Wine.” Aug. 15 ia the date set for the next dance, which will also be the last of the summer dances scheduled by the MSC Student Directorate. “The Countdown Five” will entertain at the last session in the ballroom. ram* assistant director of the Department of Scientifk Activi ties of the American Veterinary Medkal Aaaociation in Chkago, a position h« held until being named dean of the University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medkine in 1964. Dr. Davison served two years as dean before being appointed vice chancellor of the University System of Georgia and was ■worn in as the 17th president of the nation’s oldest chartered state university July 1, 1967. , The University of Georgia president has served as consult ant to site visitation teams of the National Institutes of Health and ia a member of the National Commission on Pharmacy and Veterinary Medkine. > Other professional organisa tions in whkh Dr. Davison holds membe^^ps include the Georgia and American Veterinary Medi cal Associations, the Council on B i o k> g i c a I and Therapeutic Agents of the AVMA and the Professional Education Commit tee and Advisory Coundl of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources of the National Acad emy of Science’s-National Re search Council. He also is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Sigma Al pha Epsilon, Omega Tau Sigma. Alpha Zeta, Phi ZeU and Gam ma Sigma Delta. I ■ Nuclear Switch M • ♦ * 'V J About Finished Modifkation work and testing of Texas AAM’s nuclear reactor for installation of new fuel ek- menu ia about compkte, accord ing to Nuclear Science Center offkiala. Triga-type fuel elements will increase reactor power tenfold, to one megawatt, at steady-state t « I A&M Will Direct HUD Conference Uaivarsity National Bask “On the side of Texas AAM. —Adv. Texas AAM has been selected by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to direct a Sept. 5-6 Denver conference to define the univarsHy role in solv ing urban problems. Dr. Charles H. Samson Jr., head of AAM’s Civil Engineering Department, whkh will have re sponsibility for the program, said Texas AAM is one of nine uni- veraitks awarded urban studies summer research contracts by HUD. I The two-day session. Dr. Sam son explained, will bring togeth er senior faculty members from several of the nation’s universi ties whkh offer programs of ■tudy in urhanology and urban engineering. Individual participants, he add ed, will include professors and researchers specialising In urban planning, urban management, publk works, transportation, en vironmental science, architecture, economics, sociology and psy chology, as well as other perti nent physical, political and social scientists. "At the present time,” Sam son continued, “the well-known problems of the urban areas — ton asportation, environmental pollution, problems of ghetto groups—are growing at a higher rate than solutions to the prob lems are being generated.” He said the urgency of those problems requires an immediate and concerted attack be launched to provide answers and solutions. “The most highly qualified peopk available should bo placed in the forefront in the attack on these problems,” the educator emphasised. “Universities repre sent a source of manpower re sources which should be pressed into this service.” Samson noted, however, the immediate task ia defining the proper role of the nation’s uni- versities and utilisation of their personnel in fighting urban prob- core ONE MORE CHECK Lethal, high-level radiation will emanate from the of Texas AAM’a nuclear reactor—part of which is being inspected by Tom Godsey—when the Nuclear Science Cen ter facility returns to operation. The heart of the reactor is exposed for mechanical changes preliminary to installa tion of new Triga-type fuel elements that will raise reactor power tenfold. Twenty-three more fuel rods like the one seen vertically on the left will be installed in the “swimming pool” reactor when mechanical and electronic modifications are completed. Godsey is the reactor supervisor. operation. A pulsing capability being added will enabk the re actor to produce bursts of radi ation at 1.5 megawatts. Dr. John D. Randall, center director, noted several exepri mer tal innovations will also be installed and checked before the reactor returns to regular oper ation. AT THE NEW POW ER level, experiments that formerly re quired 40 hours irradiation can be exposed in four hours. “This improvement plus entire ly new experimental eapabilitks will provide additional service to our experimenters,” Randall said. “We exepect several new experi ments to be initiated.” Actual physkal changes to the reactor and its control systems— both mechankal and elsctronk— went according to scheduk. “We tested and checked each component as it was installed,” he said. “Actually, through our teats were were relatively sure of modifkation acceptance before the inspection was made.” Principal visible changes made by the center’s regular 14-man crew are rod drives and pulse rods on the reactor “bridge” over the “swimming pool.” An Atomk Energy Commission offkial inspected the reactor and its control mechanisms aariy this week. He approved an AEC- issued operation license whkh was verified through commission headquarters by telephone. The license enabled center per sonnel to begin the “critical ex periment"—loading of 24 fuel elements into the reactor core— on Thursday. Each element con sists of four stainless steal rods containing a uranium-sirconium alloy. “Gulf Atomk's representative may stay with us several days more for consultation purposes," Felts noted. Randall said the center’s re actor power source changeover went smoothly as could be ex pected. The NSC crew made all modifications and center shops fabricated moat of the parts and components required. “There were problems," Ran dall added. “It got to the point that when a finished piece was installed end fit, the men got shook up.” DR. FRED C. DAVISON BrooksRetires, ReceivesAward Army Lt. Col. Rayford L. Brooks, compkting 22 yaars mili tary service, Wednesday received the Legion of Merit in retirement ceremonies at Texas AAM. Colonel Brooks, 45, was pre- ‘ sented the decoration, the retire ment papers and a certificate of appreciation signed by Gen. W. C. Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff. Col. Jim H. McCoy, com mandant, made the presentation. • i The artillery officer will be come deputy commandant to Col. Taylor Wilkins at Allen Military Academy in Bryan. The family will continue to reside hi College Station. Colonel Brooks was executive officer in the AAM comman dant’s office and offker-in- charge of the bask section dur ing three years with the univer sity. The citation accompanying the Legion of Merit recognised his service in maintaining Ca dets Corps strength at the time when corps memberxhip became optional. Through orienting new stu dents and encouraging corps membership, he provided signifi cant effort “In maintaining the enrollment level in ROTC at ap proximately tha same kvel when membership waa compulsory,” the citation read. The officer, who also wears the Air Medal and Commendation Medal, served in Air Force en listed ranks two year* and re ceived a direct Army cem mi salon in 1949. He flew with the 8th Air Force in Europe. A B-17 on whkh Brooks served as radio operator was shot down March IS, 1944, and ha was a German priaoasr-of-war in Stalagluft I until mid-April. 1945, tha day after President Roosevelt died. BB AoL. Bryan BaiMtag A Less Aasaclatlaa, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. j —Adv.