Finalists Named For Aggie Sweetheart
BEVERLY BELEW
By JANIE WALLACE
A new Aggie Sweetheart will
be chosen from 14 finalists Sun
day following the TCU football
game weekend.
The Texas Woman’s Univer
sity students will be escorted to
the John Davidson Show at Town
Hall, on a tour of the campus,
and to the TCU game by the
Sweetheart Selection Committee.
Candidates have been screened
in a photo elimination and by
interview committees before be
coming finalists. All candidates
must be at least sophomores and
must have a minimum overall
grade point ratio of 1.2.
THE ESCORTS are able to
judge the candidates in circum
stances ranging from a morning
breakfast to midnight yell prac
tice.
“To make sure all the boys
know each girl, they will change
partners every 15 to 20 minutes,”
explained Robert Boone, adviser
to the committee and director of
the Singing Cadets.
Boone said judging is based on
looks, intelligence, personality,
friendliness and poise. The final
decision will be made Sunday
afternoon.
The schedule is crammed with
various activities. On Friday, the
group will go to chow at Duncan
Dining Hall, to Town Hall at
G. Rollie White Coliseum, and to
midnight yell practice. Saturday
they will tour the campus on a
hayride, tour Sbisa Dining Hall,
attend a steak fry, have a for
mal dinner, go to the game and
attend a formal dance afterward.
They will attend special services
Sunday morning in the All-Faiths
Chapel.
“IN ALL my years as adviser
of the selection committee,” Boone
said, “I do not know of one girl
who came down just for the
weekend. They all want to be the
Aggie Sweetheart.”
A brown-eyed brunette, Leana
Allen, is a senior nursing major
from Carmichael, California.
Beverly Belew, a sophomore
nursing major, is from Roswell,
N. M. She has long black hair
and brown eyes.
A home economics education
major, Karen Burk, is a junior
from Rochelle. She has hazel eyes
and brown hair.
A junior from Dallas, Cindy
Crozier, has green eyes and dark
brown hair. She is majoring in
art education.
Janice Davis, a brown - eyed
blonde from Nocona, is a senior
speech-drama education major.
A GREEN-EYED blonde, Geor-
giann Fort, is a junior occupa
tional therapy major from Okla
homa City, Okla.
A sophomore from Beatrice,
Neb., Jackie Graves, has hazel
eyes and brown hair. She is a
health, physical education, and
recreation major.
A senior elementary education
major from Denton, Susan Hen-
nen, is a hazel-eyed blonde.
Cathy Muirhead, a sophomore
liberal arts major, is from Den
ton. She has hazel eyes and brown
hair.
A green-eyed blonde, Gladys
Petty, is a senior art education
major from Mineral Wells.
A sophomore from Altus AFB,
Okla., Barbara Shoniers, has blue-
green eyes and brown hair. She
is a physical therapy major.
A SENIOR sociology - biology
major from Orange, Ramona
Stark, is a brown-eyed blonde.
Margaret Trussell, a junior
speech-drama education major, is
from Garland. She has brown
eyes and brown hair.
A blue-eyed brunette, Annella
Wright, is a sophomore special
education major from Mexia.
Escorts for the weekend are
Hector Gutierrez, Corps Com
mander; David Maddox, Student
Senate vice-president; Early Da
vis, Senior Class president; Da
vid Wilks, Civilian Student Coun
cil president; Larry Schilhab, ci
vilian chaplain; Fred Blumberg,
First Brigade commander; Jim
Brunjes, Civilian Student Coun
cil treasurer; Pat Rhodes, First
Wing commander; Ernest Godsey,
Hughes Hall president; John Gin
grich, Junior Class president;
Jack McGillis, Civilian Student
Council representative; Garland
Clark, deputy Corps commander;
Bruce Baxter, Senior Class so
cial secretary, and Ross Coble,
Squadron 3 commander.
Che Battalion
ANNELLA WRIGHT
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VOLUME 64
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1968
Number 18
Houston Editor, Officials
Head MSC Seminar Series
JACKIE GRAVES
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Houston Post editor William P.
Hobby Jr., officials of Houston
Mayor Louis Welch’s office, law
yers and businessmen will discuss
problems of American cities and
Black America in a new Great
Issues series this year at Texas
A&M.
The Great Issues Seminar Series
of the Memorial Student Center
will delve into major problems
confronting contemporary Amer
ican society in three inter-related
seminars.
First of the Urban Crisis sem
inars, “The People and the City,”
will be at 8 p. m. Wednesday in
the MSC Assembly Room, an
nounced Tom Fitzhugh of Waco,
seminar series chairman.
Panel members for the premiere
program will represent govern
ment, community action groups
and business. They will include
Alvin Henry, Negro administra
tive assistant to the Houston
Mayor; Joe H. Foy, Houston Area
Poverty Program chairman, and
P. H. Robinson, president, Hous
ton Lighting and Power, and
Opening Of ‘Coffee House 9
To Be Weekend Highlight
GEORGIANN FORT
LEANA ALLEN
JANICE DAVIS
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Opening of the new “Coffee
House” in the Memorial Student
Center basement will highlight
this weekend on campus, reported
MSC Directorate “Basement”
Committee Chairman John Ben-
dele to the MSC Council Monday
night.
Bendele told the Council the
project will “provide an intimate
coffee-house atmosphere for coup
les only” and will be open only
on weekends, after Town Hall on
Friday nights and from 2-5 p.m.
on Saturday and Sunday.
The “Coffee House” will pro
vide an opportunity for dancing
for between 30 and 50 couples
with a juke box, cokes and pop
corn available. Entertainment will
consist of local talent with an
Amateur Hour featured on Sun
day. A cover charge of 75 cents
will be collected for each couple.
IN OTHER business of the
Council, Great Issues Chairman
David Maddox reported that a
limited number of season tickets
are being printed to be sold to
faculty, A&M students, and local
residents for the Great Issues
Series.
Top students have been sent
lists concerning Great Issues pro
grams and a bi-monthly calendar
is being printed. Of 476 freshman
applications received this year
for participation on the commit
tee, 47 were accepted for active
membership.
Public Relations Organization
Chairman Mac Spears explained
the purpose and function of his
recently-created group. Composed
of representatives from each Di
rectorate committee, the new
WEATHER
Wednesday—Partly cloudy, after
noon rainshowers. Winds Souther
ly 10 to 15 mph. High 87, low 71.
Thursday—Partly cloudy to cloudy.
Afternoon thundershower. Winds
Southerly 10 to 20 mph. High 86,
low 73.
Saturday—Cloudy, thunderstorms
in afternoon, ending by kickoff at
7:30. Winds Westerly 10 to 20
mph. 68°. Humidity 75%.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
composite committee was formed
to coordinate, facilitate, and pro
mote good public relations for
and among the Directorate com
mittees.
ACTIVITIES coordinated by
the organization include a weekly
MSC news column written by
Chris Carlson and an event cal
endar “This Week in the MSC,”
a poster series, announcements
on the Aggie Hour hosted by Ron
Hinds on radio station KORA,
and news on “Town Talk” on
KBTX-TV.
Action on a Leadership Convo
cation Dinner, recognizing Who’s
Who nominees, was referred to
the Student Senate for approval
of sponsorship this Thursday.
Council Vice President Jim
Finane was elected as chairman
of the evaluation committee which
was formed so that the Council
can better serve the student body.
Made up of faculty, students, and
former students, the committee
will take opinion surveys of stu
dents to better know campus
feeling.
Executive Vice President for
Programs Wayne Prescott an
nounced that interviews will be
every Wednesday for individual
committee chairmen to confer
with the Directorate Executive
Committee to eliminate commit
tee stagnation.
CHESS COMMITTEE Chair
man David Line reported on his
group’s progress and said that
they would have new equipment.
Trophies have been distributed
for the committee’s last tourna
ment in which 12 people entered.
A rating tournament will be held
in December.
COUNCIL Secretary-Treasurer
J. Wayne Stark reported that
the Town Hall Series is running
$3,000 “in the red” after two
presentations.
“We need to get involved with
Town Hall and how to get people
out to see their programs,” Stark
commented. “Many people miss
out on some very good presenta
tions.”
The Bridge Committee was
abolished because of lack of lead
ership, and its funds were added
to the Directorate budget.
chairman of the city’s National
Alliance of Business.
They will discuss mutual re
sponsibility of government, com
munity and business sectors in
facing problems encountered by
minorities in urban centers.
“The seminar series was con
ceived to provide a forum for
open discussion of the most vital
and pressing problems of our
times,” Fitzhugh said.
“Our society’s problems are
complex and solutions to complex
problems are not simple. They
deserve more than a brief dis
cussion and perfunctory glance.”
“The seminar series will bring
our academic community into
closer contact with the puzzling
dilemmas of our times, dilemmas
which may ultimately determine
survival of our society and way
of life,” the sophomore geophysics
major added.
“It’s an opportunity to grapple
with reality,” he said.
The second seminar, on police-
community relations Oct. 31, will
feature Houston lawyer Gail
Whitcomb.
Future programs include Jack-
son Hinds, head of the Houston
mayor’s task force on housing,
on minority housing; Hobby on
media responsibility and unrest
factors by Dr. Blair Justice, May
or Welch’s research assistant.
“The Black America Seminar”
in December and April “Urban
Crisis Seminar” will be co-spon
sored with the College of Engi
neering in a system approach to
urban American problems.
Head Fish Yell Leader Krell,
6 Others Named For 1968-69
Head Fish Yell Leader for the
1968-69 school year is William L.
Krell Jr., a freshman pre-dental
major from Houston.
Along with Krell, selected Mon
day by the Yell Leader Commit
tee, were six other freshman yell
leaders: Gary Jones, Richard Su-
garek, Bruce Clay, Scott Kelley
and a set of identical twins, Pat
and Mike Buckley.
Because Jones and Sugarek are
civilians, possibly the first ever
selected, the seven new yell lead
ers will be looking for a common
uniform.
“The plan is now to wear
khakis at Thursday’s game with
Baylor, and then switch to a
white uniform,” Krell said. “Final
plans have not yet been made,
however.”
The seven Yell Leaders were
chosen from ten finalists picked
by junior Yell Leaders Gary
Mauro and John Holscher.
The ten were chosen from a
field of 36 who tried out for Yell
Leaders Friday and Monday in
The Grove.
The duties of Fish Yell Leaders
are to attend all freshman foot
ball and basketball games and to
encourage the freshmen class to
support the fish team, according
to Mauro.
The ten finalists were judged
on proficiency in yells, and their
feelings about the A&M Spirit.
HERE’S TO YOU, MR. MATSON
Bob Burford, center, Student Senate Public Relations Chairman, and committee members
Larry Carreker, left, and Robert Stanzel, look at a list of 1851 names wired Friday to
Olympic Gold Medalist Randy Matson in Mexico City. Members of the student body
signed the telegram list at a cost of ten cents per person. The text in part read “Howdy
Randy. The 12th man everywhere puts the shot with you.” See story, page 4. (Photo
by W. R. Wright)
Six A&M Students
Apprehended In
Weekend Thefts
Six Texas A&M students were
apprehended in connection with
gasoline and sign thefts last
weekend by Campus Security of
ficials.
Three separate arrests were
made Friday and Saturday nights,
Security Chief Ed Powell said.
Charges of petty theft were
filed with Peace Justice Alton
Boyett against Michael D. Con
ger and Charles A. Yaffie in con
nection with the theft of several
gallons of gasoline.
Paul C. Potter was charged
with petty theft in College Sta
tion City Court in connection with
the theft of a bank parking lot
exit sign.
Charges have not yet been filed
against the three others.
All six were apprehended on
campus by Sgt. W. O. Walker
and Patrolmen Ray Hawthorne,
Mike Lacy and J. B. Miller of
the security office.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
GLADYS PETTY
MARGARET TRUSSELL
CATHY MUIRHEAD
SUSAN HENNEN
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