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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1968
Number 603
Field Day Set Saturday
For Air Force Freshmen
SULLY SPARKLES AGAIN
Lawrence Sullivan Ross gets a face-lifting as well as a new
suit of clothes as freshmen from Squadron 4 complete a
spit ’n polish rubdown on the statue of the former A&M
president. One of the more popular A&M traditions, the
statue has already been polished a half dozen times by
energetic groups of civilians and Corps members since the
start of school.
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Special Writer
In another first for A&M,
which disspelled the Aggie joke
last year with more than one
“first” gained on the turf, First
and Second Wings will hold an
Air Force Field Day for fresh
men Saturday from 8-10 a.m. be
hind Duncan Dining Hall.
Actually, the entire event is
serious, in that it will assist
freshmen in adjusting to their
new environment and in meeting
new friends within the Corps of
Cadets.
“This is the first time such an
event has been held at A&M,”
notes Larry Graviss, Corps Op
erations Officer. “It is patterned
after a program held at Air
Force summer camp in which
camp participants get to know
each other better.”
BILL SHIELD ES, Second
Wing operations officer, adds
that besides just offering fun and
games, the event will help to
build team spirit and get the
freshmen to act as a unit.
“We hope that this spirit will
carry over into other Corps ac
tivities, and if successful, that
Field Day will be tried in future
years,” he continues. “Also later
this year, the winners of the in
dividual events could challenge
each other as members of their
respective Wings.”
Individual field events will in
clude the medicine ball throw,
football throw, and standing
broad jump. In these each per
son will be allowed two throws
for distance, the longest count
ing.
TWO-MAN team events will be
the wheel barrow race, egg
throw, and three-legged race.
Each unit will field two two-man
teams. For the individual events,
four freshmen from each unit
are entered.
Events involving four-man re
lay teams, one from each squad
ron, will be the potato race, 50-
yard shuttle, dizzy race, and 50-
yard leap-frog race.
In each event scoring will be
by first, second, and third places
with the first-place winner re
ceiving three points; second-
place, two; and third, one. Point
totals will be kept to determine
the winning unit.
The Field Day Event will be
an official ROTC activity with
participants receiving credit for
corps training. Air Force offi
cers will be present as they
would have at the regularly
scheduled drill to have been held
this weekend.
Upperclassmen will supervise
the First and Second Wing spon
sored events as well as provide
moral support for their respec
tive units.
Editor Of ‘Reader’s Digest’
To Speak At TJCPA Meet
Band Preparation Continues
For Oct. 12 Marching Debut
Texas Aggie Band preparation
for its first 1968-69 public ap
pearance gradually will pick up
speed during the next two weeks
and reach its crescendo Oct. 12.
At its largest since 1960, the
famous marching military or
ganization will debut this fall
at the A&M-Texas Tech football
game.
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, director,
said the band includes 156 re
turning cadets and 122 freshmen
plus drum majors Michael B.
Benton of Dallas, Lawrence A.
Lippke of Yorktown and James
J. Hall III of Corpus Christi.
After the band marched out
side for the first time Wednes
day, Combined Band Commander
Bill Howell said, “Things went
much better for the band the
first day on the field than in
any of the four years I have
been here.
“THE FRESHMEN fit right
in and are learning what is ex
pected of them. We made no ma
jor errors; the minor ones, of
Fish Drill Team
Tryouts Tuesday
Freshmen interested in trying
out for the 1972 Fish Drill Team
are requested by Senior Adviser
Mike Casey to report at 5 p.m.
Tuesday to the drill field behind
Duncan Dining Hall.
Casey said no special qualifi
cations are needed to join the all
freshman team.
“Most of the members of last
year’s national champion drill
team had little or no marching
experience before they joined the
team,” he noted.
The unit’s first performance
will be during the halftime of the
A&M Fish-University of Texas
Shorthorn game at Austin in
November. Other drill meets
scheduled for the fall and spring
include competitions at Houston,
Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Ind.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
course, can be ironed out with
more marching practice.”
He said that overall the band,
which plays at all conference
games this year, was ahead of
schedule in its marching prac
tice.
“We plan to march 264 in 22
ranks of 12 men each,” announced
“The Colonel,” as he i® known to
bandsmen.
Adams, starting his 23rd year
as director, noted the 1968-69
band is the first since 1960 that
has had the personnel for two
additional ranks. The organiza
tion normally marches 12 by 20.
He said 14 alternates will work
into succeeding drills.
THE DIRECTOR said the band
will work outdoors without in
struments only briefly this week.
Dorm 11 practice field sessions
will add music the first time
next week. Indoor practice will be
on almost a completely new re
pertoire.
“Timing has got to be just
right,” the dean of Southwest
Conference band directors stated.
“If we start drills too soon, the
men bum out. If we don’t start
soon enough, the three weeks we
have to get the first performance
ready will go out the window.”
The 1968-69 schedule allows
the band more practice time for
its first appearance than any in
the Colonel’s memory.
Last fall, the band reported
early and had a week to prepare
for national TV camera coverage.
WIDELY KNOWN for its pre
cision, grandiose marching style,
the Aggie Band has made flaw
less halftime drills its normal
standard.
“I won’t make any predictions
until I see them on the ground
in public,” cautioned Adams. A
classicist at the art of under
statement, he describes a win
ning drill as “one in which we
start together and finish toget-
her.”
The organization has its usual
national and international mem
bership, with 11 per cent from
out-of-state. The roster includes
more than its usual number from
the Eastern United States, how
ever, and lists members from Bal
boa, Canal Zone, and Mexico.
“The only thing I can attri
bute this to is our two national
TV appearances last season,” Ad
ams said. “I haven’t done any
out-of-state ‘recruiting’.”
Almost 20 per cent is from
West and Far West Texas which
is unusual, he added.
Adams says the band would
have to close shop if members
from major state cities were lost.
The marching diagram shows 26
musicians from Houston, 24 from
San Antonio and 21 from Dallas.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% jer annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Charles Ferguson, editor-at-
large of “The Reader’s Digest,”
will make ene of the feature talks
during the annual Texas Junior
College Press Association confer
ence here Oct. 14-15.
More than 200 junior college
members are expected for the two-
day meet, announced Director Dr.
David R. Bowers, journalism pro
fessor.
He noted 28 of 32 member
junior colleges were represented
last year.
Joining Ferguson, banquet
speaker, will be Dr. James Rogers,
vice president of North Texas
State University. The conference
keynote speaker will deal with
“Responsibility and Freedom of
the College Press.”
A faculty-sponsor session will
feature Dr. Norris Davis, Uni
versity of Texas, Austin, journal
ism head, explaining the report
on journalism education that went
to the State Coordinating Board
earlier this year.
Also scheduled for faculty dis
cussion is Mrs. Branche Prejean
of Tyler Junior College, speaking
on programmed teaching, and Bill
Stone of McLennan County Col
lege, reporting on junior college
sessions at the recent Association
for Education in Journalism con
vention.
Professionals to speak to stu
dents include Ron Calhoun, Dallas
Times - Herald political writer;
Miriam Kass, Houston Post med
ical writer; Nick Bournias, Vic
toria JC graduate writing Post
sports, and Glenn Dromgoole,
Fort Worth Star Telegram edu
cation writer and former A&M
Battalion editor.
Yearbook staff sessions will be
under D-Eon Priest of Taylor
Publishing and Mrs. Kathleen
Leabo, former supervisor of the
National Scholastic Press Associ
ation. She is the wife of A&M’s
Journalism Department head, C. J.
(Skip) Leabo.
Senior Council
Meets Tonight
Senior Council President Bev
erly Davis announced the Student
Council will organize at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday in Room 3C of the
Memorial Student Center.
Davis asked that at least one
representative from each Corps
unit and each civilian dormitory
attend. Davis especially urged
that civilians attend “so they
don’t feel left out of any major
decisions later on.”
NEW ID CARDS
John Bebout, Company A-2 sophomore, looks over the new-style student identification card
handed him by Sondra Adams, who is helping distribute the cards in the Sbisa newsstand.
The cards may be picked up through Friday afternoon. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Top Economist,
Chief Of Staff
Head Program
Three nationally prominent fig
ures have already accepted invi
tations to speak at the Student
Conference on National Affairs,
Don McCrory, conference chair
man, announced Wednesday.
Scheduled to speak at the Dec.
4-7 Forum are James Buchanan
of the University of Virginia, one
of the top six economists in the
nation; Gen. Harold K. Johnson,
retired chief of staff of the U.S.
Army; and Edward S. Marcus of
Dallas, president of the National
Association for the Partners of
the Alliance.
In addition, roundtable co-
chairmen will include John T.
Barton, representative of Dow
Chemical Co., and Gutierre Tibon
of the University of Mexico.
Other chairmen scheduled to
lead roundtable discussion groups
will be representatives from the
embassies of Israel, Nigeria and
Czechoslovakia and from the U.S.
Military Academy, the Air Force
Academy and the Department of
State.
PERSONAL invitation to
SCONA delegates from President
Earl Rudder have been sent to
124 colleges and universities in
the United States, Mexico and
Canada.
Some 250 persons are expected
to attend, McCrory said. Com
puters will be used for the first
time to speed up registration.
“Limits and Responsibilities of
U.S. Power” is the topic for the
SCONA XIV conference, head
quartered in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
“The delegates chose this topic
because the United States is at a
point of decision,” McCrory said.
“America, though a leader of the
free world, is facing a crisis at
home, and has cumbersome mili
tary, economic, and political com
mitments overseas.
“We will try to look at how we
got where we are, where we are
now, and whether we should be
there,” he added. “The final ques
tion is what course should the
United States take now.”
McCRORY SAID that the pur
pose of SCONA is to give student
leaders a broad view of the com
plexities .of American foreign re
lations. There are five confer
ences of this type and A&M has
the largest.”
“A&M’s is the only one where
the students raise the funds for
the conference,” he noted. “This
year’s budget is $21,000.”
McCrory said more than $18,000
has been collected from fund
drives and that the remainder is
to be collected from delegate reg
istration fees.
“THIS IS THE most a SCONA
committee has ever raised. We
have also attracted more con
tributing sponsors,” he noted.
“The finance committee plans to
raise $1,000 more than the budget
for SCONA XV.”
Fund drives were conducted in
each major Texas city at Easter,
during June and September.
Garland Clark, chairman of the
conference host committee, is now
choosing outstanding junior and
senior students to host speakers,
co-chairmen, and roundtable mem
bers.
A general meeting to familiar
ize SCONA staff members with
this year’s topic is planned for
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in rooms
2C and 2D of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, Harry Lesser, vice
chairman, said.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
Mauro Urges
Good Support
From Civilians
The season’s first regular yell
practice is scheduled for 10:30
tonight in front of Henderson
Hall, the athletic dormitory.
Headed by the yell leaders and
accompanied by the Aggie Band,
the yell practice will be a pre
lude to the opening game Satur
day night against the Louisiana
State University Tigers at Baton
Rouge.
Head yell leader this year is
Bill Youngkin of Gilmer. Other
senior yell leaders are Barney
Dawson of Wichita Falls and
Bob Segner of San Antonio. Jun
iors are David Hoelscher of Alice
and Garry Mauro of Dallas.
The Aggies leave for Louisiana
about noon Friday and are ex
pected to return to College Sta
tion soon after the game Satur
day night.
Dawson said he hopes that the
Aggies who do not go to Baton
Rouge will meet the team plane
when it arrives here sometime
Sunday morning.
MAURO, a civilian, reminded
students that this yell practice
will be in the civilian dormitory
area and said all civilians should
attend.
“A lot of civilians have indi
cated a desire to take part.
We’ve given a lot of lip service
to the idea of how we want to
support the team. Now it’s time
we show that support,” Mauro
Said.
He suggested that civilian dor
mitory students go en masse to
the yell practice. Mauro is the
first civilian yell leader since the
1965-66 school year.
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Rainy Conditions
Seen For Drive
To Baton Rouge
Wet driving conditions are ex
pected for traffic from Bryan
and College Station to Baton
Rouge Friday evening and Satur
day morning.
Nevertheless, a dry cold front
moving through Baton Rouge late
Friday afternoon or Friday night
will provide near ideal weather
for Texas A&M’s 1968 football
opener with LSU, according to
A&M’s Meteorology Department
weather station.
Station meteorologist Jim Light-
foot said Weather Bureau charts
indicate it will be partly cloudy,
near 70 degrees with northerly
winds 10 to 20 mph at the 7:30
p.m. kickoff.
“The front will be noticed
mostly by a wind phift,” he pre
dicted. “There will be very little
temperature change and it should
not bring any precipitation.”
Lightfoot indicated those driv
ing or flying to Louisiana for the
game will find slightly different
conditions late Friday. He said
thundershowers and rainshowers
are predicted on the coast along
the most favorable route. Satur
day morning should prove partly
cloudy and dry to the east.
A&M Cyclotron
Gets Bids From
Research Firms
Several top space and medical
research institutions are express
ing interest in utilizing Texas
A&M’s new cyclotron as the nu
clear device nears full operation.
W. A. McFarlin, associate di
rector of A&M’s Cyclotron Insti
tute, said the university is dis
cussing possible arrangements
with the Aerospace Medical Di
vision of Brooks Air Force Base
at San Antonio, M. D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute at
Houston and National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NA
SA).
McFarlin noted a University of
Pennsylvania scientific team en
gaged in cancer research just
completed a “highly successful”
experiment at the A&M installa
tion and plans to return next
month.
A&M welcomes inquiries re
garding use of the cyclotron by
off-campus organizations, the
associate director added.
While the machine is developed
to its maximum capabilities, it is
being used for numerous “in-
house” experiments and other pro
jects initiated by the university’s
Activation Analysis Research
Laboratory.
McFarlin said the multi-million-
dollar, third-generation cyclotron
—largest in the Southwest — is
now operating 24 hours a day,
Monday through Friday.
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