armRoadProgram
Plans Announced
The Texas Highway Commis-
ion has announced plans for de-
elopment of the 1968 Texas
f arm to Market Road Program.
District Engineer, Joe G. Han-
iver of the Texas Highway De
partment, Bryan, said the esti
mated cost of the work for Dis-
trict 17 is $824,100.00.
The work is part of 826 miles
of Farm to Market road develop
ment included in the program.
The 1968 Farm to Market Road
Program includes the addition of
545 new miles, bringing the desig
nated mileage of the Texas FM-
itM system to almost 39.5 thous
and miles.
The Texas Farm to Market
Road system is one of the most
highly developed networks of
rural highway facilities in the
nation, exceeding the total mile
age of the entire highway sys
tems of most other states.
The program includes advance
stage construction on some roads
already begun in addition to new
mileage. Total cost of the work
is $23.8 million. Included in the
program are construction projects
in 142 Texas counties. It covers
advance stage construction on
Duke Liberal Curriculum
Stirs Educators’ Interest
some roads already begun as well
as new routes.
Of the new mileage 377 miles
or 69% are school bus routes and
344 miles or 62% are rural mail
routes. i
Each day during the school
year, almost half a million Texas
youngsters are transported to
school and back home by an esti
mated 8,000 school buses. Trips
to school and back daily amount
to more than half a million miles
of travel, much of it over FM
roads.
Rural mail carriers drive an
estimated 50 thousand miles a
day over the FM-RM system.
Impetus for the modern Farm
to Market system was afforded
by legislation passed in 1949 to
“get the farmer out of the mud”
— to enable farmers and ranchers
to get their produce and livestock
to market and to provide ade
quate, safe highways for school
buses and mail routes.
In recent years, many FM and
RM routes have taken on addi
tional roles, providing access to
recreational areas, daily trips be
tween urban homes and rural
farms or suburban homes and
urban employment.
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Thursday, August 29, 1968
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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McIntyre And Northcliffe
Named Visiting Physicists
Drs. John A. McIntyre and Lee
C. Northcliffe of Texas A&M
have been named visiting physi
cists in a nation-wide lecture pro
gram for the 1968-69 school year.
Lectures at various campuses
under auspices of the American
Association of Physics Teachers
and the American Institute of
Physics are part of a broad pro
gram to stimulate interest in
physics.
The program, in its 12th year,
is supported by the National Sci
ence Foundation.
McIntyre, associate director for
research, Cyclotron Institute, and
Northcliffe, institute physicist,
have served as visiting lecturers
previously.
They will lecture, meet with
students and consult faculty
members about courses and ap
paratus.
An A&M physics professor
since 1963, Dr. McIntyre studied
at Washington and Princeton, re
ceiving his Ph.D. in 1950. The
distinguished professor taught
and conducted research at Stan
ford and Yale.
Dr. Northcliffe joined the fac
ulty in 1965. The associate pro
fessor of physics acquired degrees
at Wisconsin, with the Ph.D. con
ferred in 1957. Since 1960, he
has been a member of the Na
tional Academy of Science’s Na
tional Research Council subcom
mittee on penetration of charged
particles in matter.
The world’s first passive com
munications satellite — Echo I —
has circled the earth more than
35,600 times since it was hurled
aloft in August 1960. The battered
plastic globe is expected to tum
ble out of orbit sometime in 1968.
ISRAELI VISITOR
Uri M. Peiper, senior research engineer with the Institute for Engineering and Produc
tivity in Agriculture in Israel, learns about Texas peanut production during his visit
here this week. Malcolm Thomas of the A&M Biochemistry and Biophysics department
shows Peiper samples of treated peanuts.
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An extremely liberalized cur
riculum concept planned at Duke
University has stirred interest in
educational circles.
Varied opinions expressed by
leading educators here range
across the spectrum.
Protagonists are largely found
in disciplines approximating the
areas in which Duke officials
plan to divide the curriculum.
Adherents are among younger
[acuity members.
Opposition to the bold concept
is voiced primarily by the sea
soned, experienced professor.
The Durham, N. C., institution
curriculum to be installed in 1969
fives the student voice in design
of his study program.
DUKE’S ATTEMPT to “tailor
a university education to the in
dividual” will do away with re
quired courses, semester hours
progress measurement and earlier
course loads. Three broad areas
of study will be humanities, social
sciences and sciences.
One program for the average
student requires 32 courses for a
degree, of which 26 will represent
the major. Eighteen of the 26
will be chosen by the student
with department approval.
Program II, in which 10 per
cent will qualify, will allow the
student to plan his curriculum
free of requirements with help
of faculty in the selected area.
“A&M GRADUATE student in
urban and regional planning have
been operating under a similar
situation since 1965,” notes Joseph
J. McGraw, director of the School
of Architecture department.
“Thirty students have grad
uated through this program,” he
said, “and no two have had the
same curriculum. It was struc
tured by the student and depart
ment to fit his need,s. The only
admission requirement is to have
a bachelor degree. Period.”
Engineering Dean Fred J. Ben
son said “engineering schools just
can’t do this. We are limited by
accreditation groups that recog
nize the need of certain basic
fundamental training.”
“DO YOU want a doctor operat
ing on you who only knows Beet
hoven and Brahms?” he ejsked.
Carter Elected New
Editor For Journal
Dr. Dilford C. Carter, assist
ant professor of wildlife science
at Texas A&M, has been elected
an editor of the “Journal of
Mammalogy,” official publication
of the American Society of Mam-
malogists.
The A&M professor will edit
the feature articles section of
the quarterly publication. The
publication totals 800 pages per
year and is distributed to ASM
members throughout the United
States and in nearly 50 foreign
countries.
Carter, whose election was an
nounced by the ASM board of
Ag Course Set
For Tarleton
The Texas A&M Agricultural
Education Department will con
duct an off-campus resident
graduate course during the com
ing fall semester at Tarleton
State College in Stephenville.
Agricultural Education 601,
“Advanced Methods in Agricul
tural Education,” will be taught
by Dr. O. M. Holt of A&M. Holt
is a member of the graduate
faculty.
A meeting to register and or
ganize the class has been set for
5 p.m. Sept. 10 in Tarleton’s Ag
riculture Building. The course
"ill be taught from 5 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday nights for 12 sessions.
Holt said the course is de
signed to accommodate profes
sional workers with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service,
public school administrators and
teachers, supervisors, counselors,
professional workers with gov
ernmental agencies and industry,
and other interested individuals.
directors, has had two articles
published in the “Journal of
Mammalogy.”
He is the second A&M profes
sor named to an ASM editorial
position. Dr. William B. Davis,
professor emeritus of wildlife
science, was editor from 1940 to
1947. He later served as vice
president and president and is
currently trustee chairman for
the 3,150-member organization.
ASM, oldest of the world’s
three societies of mammalogists,
will hold its 1970 convention at
Texas A&M. Its new president
is Randolph L. Peterson, a 1941
A&M graduate who serves as di
rector of the Royal Ontario Mu
seum in Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Carter has been a member
of the A&M faculty since 1961.
He received his Ph.D. here the
following year.
Five flags — those of France,
Greart Britain, Spain, the Confed
eracy and the United State,s —
have flown over Mobile, Ala.,
sinct its founding in 1702.
A&M Officer
Gets Promotion
Army officer Edmond S. Soly-
mosy, assistant commandant at
Texas A&M, has been promoted
to major.
Major Solymosy’s new rank
was pinned on by his wife Ellen
and Col. Jim H. McCoy, com
mandant.
A 1961 A&M graduate, Soly-
mosy has been at the university
a year and instructed advance
military science in 1967-68.
The artillery officer, 30, previ
ously commanded a Nike Her
cules air defense battery; in
structed in the Army air defense
school. Fort Bliss, and was . a
howitzer battery commander and
battalion operations officer in
Vietnam.
Major Solymosy wears the
Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Clus
ter and Army Commendation
medals, awarded for combat val
or, and the Air Medal.
He and his wife, of 1105 Fran
cis Drive, College Station, have
two sons.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, Education
Department head, indicated learn
ing requires interaction and de
cision-making by the student and
teacher.
“What we are prone to do in
education is to go to the far ex
tremes,” Hensarling added. “Ex
tent of the extremes must be
narrowed to conserve the students’
and professors’ time.”
College of Sciences Dean Hor
ace R. Byers, with 40 years teach
ing experience, said the same
thing occurred in the 1920’s.
“It led to ridiculous situations
in which a student worked half a
day and went to class when it
could be fit into the schedule.
Universities eventually said ‘This
is wrong’ and went the other
way,” he described.
TEACHING IS experimenta
tion, he pointed out, and such pro
grams will be watched with in
terest.
Dr. Lee J. Martin, English head,
and Dr. Manuel M. Davenport of
the Philosophy and Humanities
Department observed that stu
dents in Liberal arts are getting
a great many more course choices
than in the past.
“Even in mathematics, most
universities are becoming more
liberal in that exact coursework
for each semester is not spec
ified,” Martin commented. “The
disadvantage in liberal arts is
that a student might specialize
too much in one area where he
-should liberalize more.”
“Liberalization is the general
trend now. It will become more
and more evident in liberal arts.
Engineering and sciences will
probably never come to it,” he
continued.
BOTH DAVENPORT, also a de
partment head, and Martin agreed
that Duke’s approach is very ex
treme and not likely to be adopted
on a widespread basis in the near
future.
Davenport said the primary dis
advantage, at first, will be em
ployers’ unwillingness to hire col
lege graduates without traditional
transcripts.
“Knowledge is increasing so
fast, the only way a university
can keep up with students is to
become flexible,” he went on.
“This is true not only in ( science
but in politics and philosophy,
where we have the new morality,
or situation ethics.”
The philosophy progessor noted
an advantage of Duke’s concept.
With 18 free electives, a student
who takes his eight major courses
and decides to change majors can
switch and complete his new ma
jor in four years.
McGraw and Davenport agreed
on another point.
“Students want to participate
in their own lives more fully,”
they said. “Education is a vital
part of that life.”
Ag Takes Command
Of Viet Battalion
Army Lt. Col. Bernard W.
Bruns, a 1953 Texas A&M grad
uate, has taken command of the
212th Combat Support Aviation
Battalion in Vietnam.
The officer from Kerrville stud
ied agricultural engineering at
A&M and received a master’s de
gree at Iowa State College. Colo
nel Bruns was commissioned at
A&M.
The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You..
Frightened, its wing broken, the bird was
clinging to a rail when Tod found it. He brought
it home, and “Racky” became its name.
Days passed and the bird mended quickly.
“Racky’s getting well,” the six-year old in
formed me one day. “Will he fly away?” I nodded.
“But I want him to stay here! I’ll feed him,
and let him sleep in his box-house, and take care
of him—an’ everything !”
“But he might want to be with his friends,”
I said. There was silence as the boy pondered the
idea.
“All right,” he finally said. “I’ll let him go.
But I bet he’d be happier here with me!”
We, too, would be happier if we knew where
we belong in the complex pattern of life. God
helps us discover ourselves and our place in His
universe through His Church.
The child didn’t know any better.
,Do you?
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CALENDAR OF
CHURCH SERVICES
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL
906 Jersey Street, So. Side of Campus
Rector: William R. Oxley
Asst.—Rev. Wesley Seeliger
8:00 A.M. & 9:15 A.M. Sunday
Services
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
8:00 & 10:00 A.M. Worship
9 :00 A.M.—Bible Study
5:15 P.M.—Young People’s Class
6 :00 P.M.—Worship
7 :15 P.M.—Aggie Class
9:30 A.M.—Tues. - Ladies Bible Class
7 :15 P.M.—Wednesday - Bible Study
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN
(Missouri Synod)
8 :45 A.M.—Morning Worship
10:00 A.M.—Bible Class
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
305 Old Highway 6, South
No Meetings Until Late September
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
7-9 A.M.—Sun. Breakfast - Stu. Ctr.
Chu
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Sunday School
9:45 A.M.
10:45 A.M.-
6:30 P.M.—Youn
7:00 P.M
Morning Worship
Young People’s Ser
Preaching Service
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
Sunday Masses—7 :30, 9 :00 and 11 :00
FAITH CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Rm.
9 :30 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Sunday Service
11:00 A.M.-2 P.M.—Tues. Reading F
7:00-8:00 P.M.—Wed., Reading Room
8 :00 P.M.—Wed. Evening Worship
FIRST BAPTIST
9 :30 AM—Sunday School
9 :15 A.M.—Sunday
10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship
7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service
9 :3U AM—Sunday School
10:45 AM Morning Worship
6:10 PM—Training Union
7 :20 PM—Eveni
6:30 PM-
lon
Worshij:
ractice
.—Evening
'M—Choir Practice &
meetings (Wednesday)
’.M.—Midweek Service
Services (Wed.)
SECOND BAPTIST
710 Eisenhower
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Church Service
6:30 P.M.- r "-~ ;
7:30 P.M.-
service
Training Union
hurch Service
OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN
8:30 & 10:45 A.M.—The Church at
Worship
9 :30 A.M.—Bible Classes For All
Holy Communion—1st Sun. Ea. Mo.
lurch School
-Morning Worshir
9:45 A.M.-
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:00 P.M.—Sun. Single Stu. Fellowship
7 :15 P.M.—Wed. Student Fellowship
6 :45 A.M.—Fri. Communion Service
Wesley Foundation
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
3205 Lakeview
9:45 A.M.-
10:45 A.M.-
6 :00 P.M.—Youth Hour
7 :00 P.M.—Evening Worship
-Bible School
-Morning Worship
Ho
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6 :30 P.M.—Young People’s Service
7 :30 P.M.—Evening Worship
A&M METHODIST
8 :30 A.M.—Morning Worship
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10 :55 A.M.—Morning Worship
5 :30 P.M.—Campus & Career Class
5 :30 & 6 :00 P.M.—MYF Meetings
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
26th East and Coulter, Bryan
8:30 A.M.—Priesthood meeting
10:00 A.M.—Sunday School
5 :00 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Homestead & Ennis
9 :45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:50 A.M.—Morning Worship
5:30 P.M.—Young People
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
2505 S. College Ave., Bryan
An Independent Bible Church
9:15 A.M.—Sunday School
11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship
7 :30 P.M.-—Evening Worship
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