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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1968
Number 598
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Corps Leaders
Arrive Early
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Texas A&M’s campus will start
taking on a khaki tinge again
Sept. 7 with the arrival of Cadet
Corps representatives to kick off
the 1968-69 school year.
Corps staff members headed
by Cadet Col. of the Corps Hector
Gutierrez Jr. of Laredo and unit
executive and supply officers and
first sergeants report at noon.
Squadron and company command
ers check in Saturday evening
and Sunday morning.
Orientation, briefings, supply
and housing of new students will
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Reservists Set
Seminar Here
Navy and Army reservists
from throughout the nation re
ported Sunday for a seminar on
electronic computers Aug. 26 to
Sept. 6 at Texas A&M.
Seminar sponsors are the Of
fice of Naval Research, Naval
Reserve Research Company 8-3
of Bryan-College Station and the
university.
Computer programming and ap
plications will be discussed by
85 participants during the 12-
day seminar. Sessions will be held
at the Ramada Inn and Memorial
Student Center.
Dr. Arnold Shostak (captain,
USNR), head of the electronics
branch, Office of Naval Research,
Washington, D. C., made a Mon
day luncheon address following
the welcomme by President Earl
Rudder.
Cmdr. Robert W. Keniston
(USNR), special assistant to the
chief, Naval Reserve (reserve af
fairs), ONR, will be a featured
speaker during the second week
of the seminar.
Seminar administrator is Capt.
Walter H. Thames Jr., USNR,
associate professor of plant phy
siology and pathology at A&M.
He also will be commandant’s
representative.
Lt. Cmdr. Robert M. Olson,
USNR, seminar chairman, will
instruct along with Army Capt.
Robert Bower Jr., USAR, acting
head, Data Processing Center,
and five other A&M personnel.
Olson is associate research en
gineer, Texas Transportation In
stitute.
Captain Thammes noted Air
Force Capt. Frank D. Ceruti, com
puter science graduate student
at A&M, also will instruct.
Participants will include 14
members of reserve components
in the Bryan-College Station ar
ea. Represented will be Company
8-3, the 837th Military Intelli
gence Detachment (strategic)
commanded by Col. James R.
Bradley, Industrial Economics Re
search Division head, and the
4004th Research and Development
Detachment, Col. Sidney L. Love
less, commander.
be accomplished before upper
classmen check in Thursday and
Friday, noted Col. Jim H. McCoy,
commandant.
At a Monday morning com
manders conference in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom,
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan will address corps officers,
Colonel McCoy will give policy
guidelines for corps operations
and Major George E. Strebeck,
assistant commandant, will swear
in cadet officers.
The commandant’s reception
for cadet officers will be held
at the MSC at 7 p.m. Monday.
Freshmen who did not attend
a summer conference will be
briefed, draw uniforms and meet
with deans Monday and Tuesday.
New students who attended
summer conferences arrive Tues
day evening and Wednesday
morning to complete registration.
President Earl Rudder’s wel
coming address will be at 7 p.m.
Wednesday in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. He will speak to cadet
officers at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Returning upperclassmen be
gin registration at 1 p.m. Thurs
day, Sept. 12 and complete en
rollment at 5 p.m. Friday.
MSC open house will be at
6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, and ori
entation and organization of the
corps will be completed Saturday
morning, Sept. 14.
Fall semester classes begin at
8 a.m. Sept 16.
State Extension Confab
In Full Swing This Week
Programs Center
Around Education
EXTENSION HONOREE
TAES Director John E. Hutchson presents Mrs. Wilmer Smith, president of the National
Extension Homemakers Council, with the Knapp-Porter Award for her contributions to
Texas agriculture and family living. The award was handed Mrs. Smith in a Tuesday
morning ceremony which opened the state conference to conclude Friday.
Czech Visitor From A&M
Sensed Russian Invasion
Czechoslovakia has exposed
world communism for its untrust
worthiness and put the Soviet
Union on the spot, declares a
Texas A&M professor who visited
the country in June.
Dr. William R. Smith, head of
the university’s Psychology De
partment, chaired an 11-day sem
inar in Prague in mid-June.
The then-free Czech economic
reform leaders and U. S. cor
porate vice presidents met in a
person-to-person educational ex
change.
The State Department-ap
proved program involved 13 U.S.
citizens in the Center for Inter
national Management Studies
sponsored by International
YMCA and the Czechoslovak
Committee for Scientific Manage
ment. .
Their discussion of manage
ment problems and Czechoslo
vakia’s transition toward a free
economy came during six months
of Czech freedom.
“Our purpose was not to evalu
ate the political situation, but it
was inevitable,” Smith said.
“These were friendly, courte
ous, free people who were going
to church, talking and exchanging
ideas on topics they had been
denied. They were so proud of
their communism surveillance it
was pathetic,” he continued.
“A SECRET ballot-type elec
tion was to be held within a
month, which is one reason the
Russians moved in. Communism
isn’t based on a secret ballot,”
Smith added.
The former A&M management
professor said the Czechs were
“very apprensive” of the War
saw Pact nations’ movement of
soldiers and equipment into the
country while the U.S. delegation
was there.
“But they believed the Russian
statement that it was just a test,”
the CIMS director added. “I had
the feeling something was amiss.
In that sort of maneuver, the
military doesn’t normally map
city streets and check bridge
weight capacities.”
“The pact nation officers were
very aloof, arrogant, business
like. They know what they were
there for,” Smith went on.
Three weeks after the seminar,
Pact troops pulled out, sharpened
their weapons, added more troops
and invaded. In Smith’s words,
the invasion blocked a true ex
posure of what was happening
behind a rusting iron curtain.
TODAY’S killings in Czechos
lovakia are taking place on the
square in front of the Jalta Hotel
in which Smith, his wife Betty Jo
and other U.S. delegates stayed.
“Czech people want freedom.
They got it and are not about to
give it up. They plan to achieve
it or die in the process,” reported
Smith.
“The warning to the rest of the
world is obvious. World com
munism cannot tolerate inde
pendence of any sort,” he went
on.
“Here is a country that made a
bold move toward individual and
collective freedom. Then the cen
ter of world communism made its
policies and long term intentions
clear to all by crushing freedom
with overpowering military
force,” he said. “The Czechs very
clearly exposed the dangers of
communism.” Other satellite
countries are frightened and will
always distrust communist sys
tems, Smith thinks.
He said there are two possibili
ties, with Russia losing either
way.
“IF THE CZECHS win their
freedom back, it will be the end
of world communism. If Dubcek
and Svoboda live, the country will
have modified freedom and ap
pear to conform to communist
doctrine until it can again strive
for full freedom. If Ducek and
Svoboda die, there will be an
uprising and Russia will have to
occupy the country to control it,”
he pointed out. Smith said a
reform leader pinpointed the
problem on his seminary-arrang
ing trip to Czechoslovakia a year
ago.
“He gave us two dolls. One
for my daughter was a costumed
Czech peasant. The other is a
uniformed secret policeman,” he
said.
“You people in the U.S. will
never understand us Czechs until
you understand him,” the reform
leader told Smith, pointing to the
doll representing the secret po
lice.
Youth organizations of the na
tion need to begin serving young
people at an earlier age, and pro
viding guidelines and guideposts
for them to become more effec
tive citizens.
So says Dr. Hester Turner, na
tional executive director for
Campfire Girls, Inc., of New
York City.
Addressing the State Exten
sion Staff Conference at Texas
A&M Wednesday morning Dr.
Hester told the group that every
yoiith organization is concerned
with reaching more young peo
ple—and should move to offering
programs for younger boys and
girls, since children are ready for
meaningful programs at a much
earlier age than comparable
youngsters were several decades
ago.
The San Antonio native told
the approximately 900 profes
sional Extension staff members
that “all youth groups have a
common goal: That of develop
ing boys and girls. Each organi
zation has its special unique fea
tures, and this is as it should be
to allow choices.”
Dr. Turner, who served as dean
of students at Lewis and Clark
College, Portland, Oregon, before
accepting her current leadership
role with Campfire Girls, said
that the best ideas and programs
of each group could be shared—
for most youth programs comple
ment each other.
Emphasizing that “I don’t pre
tend to be an authority on any
thing, but have been a student
most of my life and find learn
ing a tremendous challenge,” the
vivacious mother of four children
said that each organization
should capitalize on its great as
sets, as well as adapt overall pro
gramming to better meet the
needs of today’s youth. She em
phasized that all youth organiza
tions are reaching only about 20
percent of the nation’s youth—
and are conducting research on
how to go about involving the
other 80 percent.
“One of the best—yet hardest
techniques—would be to get
adults to really listen to youth,”
Dr. Turner, a member of the Ore
gon and Arizona State Bar As
sociations, declared. “We often
use highly judgmental, rather
than factual information when
we deal with youth,” she added.
Sharing platform honors dur
ing the Wednesday morning pro
gram was Dr. W. M. Bost, direc
tor of the Mississippi State Ex
tension Service, who emphasized
that “problems confronting so
ciety today are much more com
plex than those of 65 years ago,
when the Extension Service was
born.”
“Efforts of Extension educa
tors are now reaching both up
ward and downward, for the col
lege graduate as well as the il
literate both need Extension pro
grams—yet they have vastly dif
ferent needs.” Dr. Bost, who
gives leadership to the dynamic
Mississippi Extension education
programs, emphasized in his ad
dress entitled, “Tomorrow is Al
ready Here.”
Dr. Bost challenged the educa
tors to keep their programs flex
ible enough to adapt to necessary
changes. “A high standard of
thinking may be better than a
high standard of living,” he said.
An inspirational address by
Gustave A. Ferre, chairman of
the philosophy department of
Texas C h,r i s t i a n University
opened the morning session.
Work group sessions were high
lights of the Wednesday after
noon program.
MSC Chairmen
Named By Ellis
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Mark Schumann of College
Station, Clint Machann of Cald
well and Don Prycer of Edinburg
have been designated series and
special activities chairmen of the
Memorial Student Center’s Con
temporary Arts Committee at
Texas A&M.
The 1968-69 fall film series,
literary arts and MSC exhibits
committee chairmen were named
by Tommy Ellis of LaPorte, Con
temporary Arts Committee chair
man.
Ellis noted the committees pro
vide cultural activities for A&M
students, faculty-staff members
and the community.
Schumann, a fifth year archi
tecture major, is selecting top
quality foreign and domestic
films for showing in the MSC
series.
Arrangements for campus
speaking engagements by the
world’s foremost literary critics
are being made by Machann,
senior English major.
As exhibits committee chair
man, Prycer will be responsible
for art shows and special artist
guests throughout the fall semes
ter.
City Youth See Outdoors As Never Before
Wide, brown eyes stared from
a chocolate face at towering pines
of an East Texas glade.
“Man,” the early teenage Ne
gro exclaimed. “It sure is quiet.
I can’t hear a siren.”
His and 800 other youths’ first
non-city experience, has been the
NATURE LORE
Disadvantaged youth of Harris and Jefferson Counties get
a close-up look at nature in a youth camp near Huntsville.
The youngsters, 10 to 13 years of age, have been city-bound
all their lives. The one-week camp will provide opportunity
for 800 to develop self-confidence, worth, social and manual
skills. Part of the program is a nature hike conducted by
Wade Simmons (center) of College Station.
result of a camp near Huntsville.
In the idyllic setting 10 to 13-
year-old Negro, Mexican and
white children discover a sense
of self-worth, a feeling of self-
confidence, self-discipline, social
and manual skills.
Many have never been outside
their ghetto neighborhoods, none
have ever known the tranquil
freedom of forest or meadow
through a summer camp. All are
from low income, disadvantaged
families where problems of pov
erty, too many children and city
crowding are daily fixtures.
They aren’t selected for the
week-long camp for scholastic
abilities or other attributes so
ciety tends to reward. The young
sters’ qualifications are from the
other end of the spectrum.
At the State Negro 4-H Com
mittee camp site, they learn a
skill, are taught the value of
physical and mental cleanliness,
touch true nature, discover there
are thousands of stars hidden by
city lights and pollution and the
University National Bank
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smell of air without auto ex
haust fumes.
Their new experience is made
possible by local, state and fed
eral agencies. The 50-acre wooded
site southwest of Huntsville was
initially pressed into additional
service by efforts of the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service at
Texas A&M. The idea originated
with Mrs. Louise Kilpatrick, form
er TAES 4-H leader.
Office of Economic Opportunity
aid grew out of U. S. Agricul
ture Secretary Orville Freeman’s
visit at the one-week pilot camp.
Aspects of the program is now
drawing aid of individuals, civic
organizations, home demonstra
tion clubs, Walker County schools,
Job Corps at New Waverly and
many others.
The Houston Mayor’s Commit
tee on Youth Opportunity, Hous-
ton-Harris County Youth Oppor
tunity Center and Neighborhood
Youth Corps are deeply involved.
“We’re interested in making
beter citizens,” explained Camp
Director Wilson Richardson, a
Houston school counselor.
From indications, the 1968 camp
is the first of many.
“There is no better place to
put our money,” observed Walter
Richter, former state senator and
region OEO office idrector in
Austin.
TAES received a $40,000 OEO
grant for eight weeks of camp
through Freeman’s efforts. Over
all training, programming and
operation is the responsibility of
John Pelham, extension service
4-H assistant leader. Agent R. A.
Saunders of Overton is at the
camp fulltime and numerous
TAES specialists contribute.
Houston and Beaumont organi
zations select 100 youngsters a
week. Physicals, shots, a tooth
brush and, sometimes, clothes are
provided before buses take the
youngsters to camp.
Girls and boys live in separate
cinder block cabins, 10 to an
age group under a 16 to 22-year-
old counselor. A 250-seat dining
hall, roofed pavilion and four
dorms comprise the layout.
Girls learn to use a sewing ma
chine. They make a blouse to
take home along with a sewing
kit. Boys become familiar with
hand tools, construct and paint
a wooden chest that is filled with
tools for him to take home.
“These things are the first that
many of these kids have to call
their own,” noted Jack T. Sloan,
TAES resource development spe
cialist.
“We expect and have prob
lems,” inserted Saunders. “An
tagonism is often worked out by
the kids themselves, but we all
talk and work with them. Home
sickness wears off and the kids
want to stay. Sometimes we have
to deal with stomach aches.”
The dining hall is the camp
centerpiece, from the youngsters’
viewpoint. In a brief paragraph
on camp experiences, few fail to
mention good food and singing.
“For the first few meals, coun
selors have to convince the kids
they don’t have to stuff them
selves or try to sneak food out
of the hall,” Sloan said.
“They have to be assured
they’ll get three good meals a
day. At home, they aren’t sure
when their next meal will be.”
John Thomas of Houston, 18-
year-old counselor who attends
Prairie View A&M, said youngs
ters arrive Mondays tense and
unsure.
“They loosen up after the first
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day and then run and yell the
way kids should,” he remarked.
Glenna Prentice of Channel-
view, a Furr High senior this
year, and Ernestina Mendoza of
Arcadia, S. F. Austin College
junior, are two other counselors
who meet a new challenge every
Monday.
“It’s inspiring to see attitudes
of the kids change through the
week,” Miss Prentice commented.
“I get so attached to them I
hate to see Friday come,” Miss
Mendoza added. What the youngs
ters need most is love and kind
ness, they concur.
Jerry Jurischk of Houston,
A&M junior agricultural educa
tion major, noted counselors take
as much pride in projects as the
kids themselves.
Games, singing, nature hikes
conducted by retired extension
specialist Wade Simmons of Col
lege Station each Wednesday and
tours of the Huntsville prison
walls, Sam Houston museum and
Sam Houston State College round
out the week.
Simmons, who also works with
Bryan Boys' Club members, vol
unteers his service and aptly
describes the camp.
“It beats a trip to the doctor,”
he vows.
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