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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1968
Number 609
Election Commission Named;
First Voting Slated Oct. 17
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(Gets Revamping By Senate| Is5p.m.Friday
WELCOME HOME
Mrs. Gene Stallings smiles at the crowd of students greeting the returning football
team at Easterwood Airport late Saturday as Stallings emerges from the team’s charter
plane at left. A stewardess returns the “gig ’em” sign at right. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Gay Reviews Four Decades
As YMCA Secretary Here
The A&M student body has
more than quadrupled since J.
Gordon Gay first met with stu
dents 40 years ago, but his open-
door policy towards students has
never changed.
Gay, nearing 68 and his hair
thinning, recently passed into
“semi-retirement” as YMCA gen
eral secretary here.
I “You never really can retire
T holeheartedly when you have
worked at something you like as
many years as I have,” com
mented Gay.
Gay said that the biggest
change in four decades has been
the religious services available to
the student. When he came to
A&M in 1928, compulsory chapel
was required of all students.
“AS A&M grew, more services
were offered off the campus and
the chapel was not needed,” he
I said.
| Gay feels his office has devel-
; oped a program in the religious
life of A&M students “equal to
; that of campuses with a lot more
people on their staffs.”
Gay has served the university
[ and College Station in many
ways over the years.
Some of the positions he has
I held are first chairman of the
Recreation Council (two 3-year
terms), secretary of the College
1 Station Pastor’s Association (10
I years), Sunday School superin-
\ tendent (22 years), and as the
| first coordinator of religious
i activities here.
GAY HAS ACTED as chef for
more than 1,500 steak fries for
Aggies and others.
Gay was honored 12 years ago
with the university’s Distin
guished Faculty Award, and in
1 1957 the A&M Methodist Church
honored him by naming its educa
tional building after him.
“There is not a whole lot of
difference between the deep
yearnings of youth today and
those of yesterday,” Gay re
flected. “They still want some
thing to hold on to.”
A native of Ashland, Alabama,
Gay received his bachelor’s de
gree from the University of Ala
bama and his master’s from Van
derbilt.
IN 1926, he started what was
to become his life work. Named
director of religious activities for
Southern Methodist University,
he held the post until his ap
pointment at A&M two years
later as YMCA associate secre
tary.
“My goal was to get our stu
dents involved in some kind of
religious activities,” Gay pointed
out. He later developed Religious
Emphasis Week programs, which
continued 20 years.
He said this year’s Religious
Week will be Feb. 18-22. The
reason for the week, he noted, is
that it enables churches to show
students the relationship between
religion and all phases of educa
tion and life.
GAY WAS named YMCA gen
eral secretary in 1952 and two
years later he founded Fish
Camp, a four-day orientation ses
sion for freshmen at Lakeview
Methodist Assembly near Pales
tine. The first camp attracted 36
students, a maid, and a janitor.
This year’s camp had 356 fresh
men, 110 counselors, and 58 staff
members.
Gay comments that the upper
classmen volunteer as counselors
giving up a week of work to have
the opportunity of helping the
freshmen learn about college life.
He plans, since retirement, to
work in the Chapel in assisting
in Aggie weddings, and to try to
solve the various problems stu
dents bring him.
By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff Writer
Students will be able to pick
up a maximum of six tickets for
each home football game Phil
Callahan, student life chairman
of the Student Senate, announced
Monday.
Callahan said by working with
Wally Groff, athletic business
manager, the Senate has ar
ranged for one student to pick up
as many as three student tickets
and purchase three date tickets
by presenting three identifica
tion and activity cards.
Callahan and Senate President
Bill Carter worked out the new
system on the suggestion of Sen
ators who opposed the prelimin
ary ticket plans announced at last
Thursday’s Senate meeting.
ACCORDING TO those plans,
students who wanted reserved-
seat tickets near each other
would have to stand in line to
gether when picking up tickets.
Callahan said the new plan
would alleviate the problems
caused last year when students
tried to stand together.
Graduate Enrollment Rises
Despite New Draft Laws
Graduate enrollment here this
fall is up a surprising 8.7 per
cent, reports Graduate Dean
George W. Kunze.
A&M’s Graduate College regis
tration stands at 2,653, an in
crease of 213 from the fall 1967
figures, with a few graduate
students still enrolling.
Dean Kunze points out the
large increase is surprising be
cause a survey here last spring
indicated a possible 40 per cent
reduction in view of new draft
laws.
On a national basis, graduate
enrollment is running about six
per cent ahead, the dean adds.
“This tremendous reduction in
graduate enrollment predicted for
this fall simply didn’t material
ize,” Dr. Kunze observes. He
warns, however, the blow may
have just been postponed.
Draft calls have been low, he
explains, a situation many edu
cators feel will change after the
November elections.
The new Selective Service law,
which went into effect July 1, is
designed to draw older men into
the armed forces before the
younger ones, thereby allowing
Vet Construction
Gets Underway
Construction is moving rapidly
on the multi-million dollar com
plex which will house the South
west Veterinary Toxicology and
Livestock Insect Research Labor
atory and the Cotton Diseases
Research Laboratory when com
pleted at Texas A&M.
Total facilities are valued near
$3.5 million and are expected to
employ upwards of 200 persons,
according to Dr. R. D. Radeleff,
complex director designate.
Nine of its 11 buildings will
house facilities for four research
divisions, Radeleff added. They
are crops, animal diseases and
parasites, entomology and agri
cultural engineering.
M.S., Ph.D. Degrees Approved
For Recreation And Parks
Approval to award the Master
of Science and Doctor of Philoso
phy degrees in the Department
of Recreation and Parks here
with a major in recreation and
resources development has been
granted, President Earl Rudder
has announced.
Approval was granted earlier
by the Coordinating Board of the
Texas University and College
System, he said.
Effective immediately the ac
tion will permit four graduate
students currently enrolled to re
ceive their master’s degrees next
year.
Approval of the new degrees
is “a feather in the cap” for the
Recreation and Parks Department
program in the College of Agri
culture’s School of Natural Bio-
ociences. The department is less
than three years old.
In noting the approval, Rudder
said, “The approval of graduate
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
degrees in recreation and re
source development formally
recognizes the value of these
programs to Texas.”
Dr. Leslie M. Reid, professor
and department head, pointed out
that there is “no other doctoral
level studies in the South or
Southwest that approaches this
program.”
Reid, head of the department
since its inception, is a native of
New York. Prior to joining A&M,
he served nine years at Michigan
State.
“Although the Southwest is an
area of rapid population and eco
nomic growth, there has until
now been no doctoral level edu
cation and research in recreation
and related resource develop
ment,” added Reid.
Agriculture Dean Dr. H. O.
Kunkel, praised the graduate
recreation faculty, saying, “The
reputation of this team of pro
fessors has already resulted in
a flood of requests from out
standing applicants for admission
to the department.”
GUESS WHO’S GETTING MARRIED
Co-workers of Evelyn Wellmann of Brenham, key-punch
operator at the Data Processing- Center, wanted to make
sure everyone knew she was g-etting married last weekend.
Miss Wellmann was the bride of Burke Bauerschlag of
Thorndale, an A&M senior. In addition to the tissue-paper
veil and other trimmings, she was presented a maroon and
white Aggie garter.
Tickets will be printed for all
student sections, and will include
the section and seat numbers.
Distribution of tickets for home
games will start one week prior
to the game. Sales for the Texas
Tech game go on sale tomorrow.
GRADUATES WILL pick up
tickets on Wednesday, seniors on
Thursday, juniors on Friday,
sophomores on Monday, and
freshmen on Tuesday.
All students who have not
picked up tickets on the desig
nated day may do so on the Wed
nesday immediately before the
game, Callahan noted. Ticket
sales will be from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Callahan said tickets not
bought in one section will be
made available the following day
to the remaining students.
“Married women students will
sit in the sections that pertain to
their husbands’ classifications,”
he added.
fewer deferments for graduate
study.
With its high percentage of
male enrollment, Texas A&M
stands to be hit harder than most
other institutions, Kunze notes.
He also points out A&M has the
state’s highest graduate ratio in
proportion to total enrollment.
T.R.Holleman,
Architect Prof,
Dead At 52
Funeral services were held
Sunday for T. R. (Nikkie) Holle-
man, A&M architecture profes
sor and member of the College
Station City Council, who died
Friday night at his home of an
apparent heart attack.
Prof. Holleman, 52, joined the
A&M faculty in 1946 after serv
ing as a submarine officer during
World War II. He was promoted
to professor in 1957 and a year
later named head of the then
Division of Architecture. He re
quested return to full-time teach
ing duties in 1963 but later as
sumed additional responsibilities
as director of the School of Arch
itecture’s student records and
counseling section.
He was elected to his current
term as city councilman in April.
He had previously served on the
council and was a candidate for
mayor in 1965.
A registered architect, Prof.
Holleman was a 1939 graduate of
A&M, where he also received a
Master of Architecture degree in
1951.
He was a member of numerous
professional organizations and
was past director of the Texas
Society of Architects. In the
late 1950’s he was appointed by
the governor to serve on an advis
ory committee to the Texas State
Building Commission.
A native of Wealthy, Prof.
Holleman resided at 1110 Lang
ford and was a member of A&M
Methodist Church. He also was
a member of the Rotary Club.
Survivors include his widow;
two sons, John and Mike; par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holle
man of Sandia; five sisters and
three brothers.
In lieu of flowers for the serv
ices, the family requested that
friends wishing to honor Prof.
Holleman contribute to a mem
orial fund at A&M’s School of
Architecture.
Burial was in Masonic Cem
etery at Caldwell.
Testimony Ends
In Gibbs Hearing
After Five Days
The Texas A&M faculty com
mittee reviewing dismissal char
ges against Dr. Leon W. Gibbs
concluded its hearing Friday af
ternoon after five days of testi
mony.
Prof. A. R. Burgess, chairman
of the faculty-elected committee
which reviewed the university’s
nine counts of misconduct against
the veterinary professor, said the
group will return explicit find
ings on each count and make re
commendations to the A&M pres
ident.
In accordance with rules of the
Coordinating Board, Texas Col
lege and University System, find
ings of the committee will be
transmitted to the A&M Board
of Directors for final action.
T. R. (Nikkie) Holleman
Krebs Speaks
On Censorship
Hans-Dieter Krebs, senior edi
tor of Germany’s “Sport-Informa-
tions-Dienst,” will speak on social
control Thursday at Texas A&M
University.
The 8 p.m. Graduate College
Lecture will be given in the sec
ond floor auditorium of the uni
versity library, announced Dr.
George W. Kunze, dean.
Krebs’ talk is titled “Censor
ship Reconsidered—Aspect of Ac
tive Social Control.”
An assistant lecturer in sports
journalism at the German Insti
tute of Physical Education at
Cologne, he is doing research on
sports in the mass communica
tion media.
A Krebs publication deals with
reaction of German newspapers
to an important sports event and
he is also interested in the ideo
logical aspect of the interdepen
dence of mass communication
media and the State, which will
be treated in his lecture.
SID is the leading internation
al news agency specializing in
sports. Krebs handles matters
pertaining to basketball and vol
leyball and questions related to
sports and society.
The A&M speaker studied mass
communications, sociology and
modem history in Munich, Berlin
and Louvain, Belgium. His de
gree in political and social sci
ences is from the Catholic Uni
versity of Louvain. Krebs re
cently completed his dissertation
on “State Doctrine and Press
Theory,” working under a Volks
wagen Foundation grant.
He contributes regularly to
leading German magazines and
newspapers on problems in the
relation of sports to science and
society. One of his articles ap
peared as a chapter in a mass
communications handbook.
Deadline for filing for four re
maining Student Senate posts is
5 p.m. Friday with the Memorial
Student Center Student Programs
Office, according to Jerry Geist-
weidt, newly elected president of
the Election Commission.
At stake in the Oct. 17 elections
are the offices of sophomore,
junior and senior representatives
of the College of Business Admin
istration and sophomore repre
sentative of the College of Veteri
nary Medicine.
ELECTION Commission offi
cers making arrangements for
the election, who, along with
Geistweidt, were chosen Monday,
are Rusty Chandler, junior elec
trical engineering major from
Beaumont, executive vice presi
dent, and Frank Gallant, senior
economics major from El Paso,
vice president-personnel.
Also elected were Tommy Hen
derson, sophomore pre-vet major
from Kerrville, vice president-
publicity, and Robby Dean, junior
management major from Carrizo
Springs, secretary. Geistweidt is
a junior pre-law major from Ma
son.
Geistweidt noted that, as in
other Senate elections, a student
running for office must have at
least a 1.25 grade point ratio and
be a member of the college he is
seeking to represent.
HE ADDED that only a student
in one of the two colleges involved
in the election may vote—and
then only for a representative for
his respective class. Thus, only a
sophomore pre-vet major may
vote for a student running for
sophomore representative of the
College of Veterinary Medicine.
“Candidates should check with
the election rules in the Univer
sity Regulations for campaign
procedures,” Geistweidt noted.
The Oct. 17 elections will be
conducted in the MSC basement
from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Run-off
elections, if necessary, will be on
Oct. 24, Geistweidt said.
“The commission will be glad
to answer any questions candi
dates might have,” he added.
WEATHER
Wednesday—Partly Cloudy. Wind
South at 10 m.pJi. High 87. Low
67.
Thursday — Partly Cloudy to
Cloudy. Scattered Afternoon Rain
Showers. High 86. Low 71.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
APO Pledges 23
New Members
Alpha Phi Omega pledged 23
new members here Sunday night
and made plans to host a leader
ship laboratory for the East Tex
as chapters of the social service
fraternity.
“More than 100 council mem
bers are expected to attend the
lab, Friday through Sunday,”
President John Clark said. “We
hope to start the lab with a
reception at the Research Annex,
10 miles west of Bryan.”
The main objectives for the,
year were outlined to the new
members by Clark, the most
prominent being the support of
Scout Troop 555 in Bryan. The
fraternity has supplied the Boy
Scouts with equipment and fi
nancial support in the past.
Funds for club projects will be
gathered by selling stationery
and calendars and by hosting
dances in the Grove on football
weekends after Town Hall and
before Midnight Yell Practice.
Bill Faulkner, Ronnie Smith,
and Bob Meister, past presidents,
were named as members of the
Awards Committee to pick the
outstanding pledge of the year.
New officers for the coming
year are Admissions Vice-presi
dent Wes Perkins, Projects Vice-
president Jim Amyx, Member
ship Vice-president Woody Rus
sell, and Pledge Trainer Warren
Faulkner.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L.