Cbc Battalion
VOLUME 64, Number 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
r- v
A&M’s Economic Impact
Hits $62 Million In B-CS
8
Texas A&M’s economic impact
on the Bryan - College Station
community now exceeds $62 mil
lion annually, with an increase of
approximately $5 million in the
past year, announced President
Earl Rudder.
Rudder said a university survey
indicates the institution’s growth
during the year was equivalent
to a large industry moving into
the area.
A&M ADDED approximately
70 faculty members, 200 staff,
research and support personnel
and increased student enrollment
1,104.
The survey shows a payroll of
almost $38 million for more than
5.000 permanent A&M System
employees living in the Bryan-
College Station area. With the
employes having approximately
8.000 dependents, more than 13,-
000 local residents are directly as
sociated with the university.
Rudder noted these figures do
not include the university’s record
13,081 enrollment.
STATISTICS show the students
contribute more than $19 million
annually to the local economy.
Major expenditures include food
and housing for the rapidly in
creasing number of graduate and
married students, as well as cloth
ing, school supplies, recreation
and miscellaneous expenses for
all students.
Rudder emphasized the contin
ued growth of A&M is dependent
to a great extent upon the ability
of the local communities to pro
vide required support, especially
in the area of housing for faculty,
staff and married students.
More than $3 million was pump
ed into the Bryan-College Station
economy last year by university
visitors attending athletic events,
conferences and short courses, the
survey reveals. Most expenditures
in this category were for food,
housing and entertainment.
New Approach
To Ph.D. Seen
By BA Colleg<
The study also points out A&M
spends almost $2 million locally
each year for utilties, services
and supplies.
Sen. Moore To Talk Wednesday
In Noon Political Forum Series
State Senator William T. (Bill)
Moore of Bryan will be featured
Wednesday here in a Political
Forum Noon Discussion Series
speech.
A state senator 20 years, Moore
will discuss “The Secret of Pass
ing a Bill” at the noon presenta
tion in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom. Sack lunches
will be available, announced Ron
Hinds of Midland, forum chair
man.
The veteran Moore chairs the
Senate committee on education
and serves on standing commit
tees on banking, constitutional
amendments, finance, game and
fish, jurisprudence, legislative,
congressional and judicial dis
tricts, oil and gas, privileges and
elections and state affairs.
and the same year was elected
to the House of Representatives.
Two years later he defeated two
opponents in election to the Sen
ate. His law degree was conferred
two weeks after he took the Sen
ate seat, then as the youngest
member of that body.
Moore has been elected twice
following redistricting, in 1952
and last year.
Senator Moore was born on a
farm near Wheelock in Robertson
County. His education was at a
rural school in Edge and S. F.
Austin High of Bryan. Moore
worked his way through studies
at A&M as a salesman and road
laboier.
He is described as “pressure
proof politically, indestructible and
the enjoyer of a good fight” by
a Capitol correspondent.
A 1940 A&M graduate in eco
nomics, Moore taught at the uni
versity 18 months, entered the
Army and was discharged as a
sergeant in 1946. He entered the
University of Texas Law School
Leading Chemist
Will Speak Here
Next Semester
spokesman for the nation’s chemi
cal industry, will present a Robert
A. Welch Foundation lecture here
announced Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr.,
A&M vice president for research.
Suttle said Dr. Cairns’ April 4
address will include a general dis
cussion of the current and future
scope of the chemical industry.
Cairns is president of the
American Chemical Society and
vice president and board member
of Hercules Incorporated in Wil
mington, Del.
Dr. Cairns served as deputy
assistant secretary of defense (re
search and development) in 1954,
culminating more than a decade
of service as a consultant to the
Department of Defense. He is
currently a member of the De
fense Science Board.
WEATHER
SEN. W. T. MOORE
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&Li
—Adv.
Wednesday — Partly cloudy.
Winds Southerly 10 to 20 mph.
High 66, low 47.
Thursday — Cloudy, light rain.
Winds Southerly 10 to 15 mph.
High 64, low 51.
EARLY RETURNS
Student Senate President Bill Carter, right, looks on as other Southwest Conference
representatives tally votes in Dallas for the 1968 SWC Sportsmanship Award won by
Baylor University. Martha Smiley, left, Baylor student body president, later accepted
the trophy at Cotton Bowl halftime ceremonies. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Heaton Appointed First Dean
Of A&M Admissions, Records
A different type doctor of phil
osophy program has been initiat
ed by the College of Business
Administration.
Its purpose is to provide in
dustry with Ph.D.’s who fit into
a business’ here-and-now profit
less situation.
“As a ground floor manage
ment expert, the doctoral degree
recipient will be equipped to con
tribute functionally in business
operations,” commented Dr. John
E. Pearson, business administra
tion dean.
The recipient will be systems
oriented, combining capabilities
in computer applications, infor
mation systems, organization
theory, data analysis, behavioral
science and business policy and
game simulation.
BUILDING ON undergraduate
study in business administration
or any other field and master’s
work in business administration,
the program will enable a gradu
ate to bring together knowledge
from various fields in analyzing
and solving industrial manage
ment problems, Pearson added.
“Industry is often not sure how
to use the Ph.D., except in basic
research,” the dean pointed out.
The recently approved pro
gram, supervised by Dr. Earl D.
Bennett, is unique in the South
west. It is offered by few U. S.
universities, as evidenced by
widespread interest.
THREE A&M graduate stu
dents have been admitted and six
are pending, noted Bennett, asso
ciate dean and doctoral advisor.
Letters of inquiry have come
from from Cincinnati, Ohio; Tul
sa, Okla.; Bellville, 111., and Fre
mont, Neb.
Coursework is structured flex
ibly to take advantage of candi
dates’ diverse backgrounds. Un
dergraduate study in mathe
matics, for example, can be used
as one of three quantitative fields
of study required.
A program of pre-professional
work in business administration
and economics specially designed
for advanced students will be re
quired in cases where undergrad
uate work is not in business.
“This breadth of exposure
leaves specialization to the candi
date’s dissertation,” Bennett went
on. “It tie into the industry ap
proach where specialization is ac
quired during on-the-job assign
ment.”
In the doctoral program here,
he noted, expertise is acquired
through the dissertation, which
“will show the candidate’s ability
to perform independent, logically
formulated and theoretically
sound research.”
OLD FACES, NEW PLACES
Everything is topsy-turvy at Texas A&M’s old YMCA building with workmen scurrying
about the first floor ripping out walls and adding new ones. All that remains of the
YMCA student cabinet office is a university calendar at the feet of Col. Logan Weston
(right), YMCA general secretary, and C. M. Loyd, National Science Foundation program
coordinator. Their offices, along with others were relocated in the building’s basement.
55-Year-Old YMCA Begins
First Of 3-Phase Renovation
Students returning to Texas
A&M after the holidays have
found “old faces in new places,”
said Civilian Student Activities
Director Ed Cooper.
A mass exodus by first floor
occupants of the YMCA building
made wi.y for the first uf three
renovation phases on the 55-year-
old structure.
ERECTED IN 1914 at a cost of
$120,000, it is the ninth oldest
building on campus.
Cooper, who doubles as project
coordinator for the renovation
program, said four offices were
moved this week from the first
floor to temporary quarters in
the YMCA building basement.
Relocated were the offices of
Col. Logan Weston, YMCA gen
eral secretary; C. M. Loyd, No
tional Science Foundation pro
grams coordinator; Howard S.
Perry, Resident Hall adviser, and
Cooper.
COOPER pointed out the three
phases will help “keep everybody
AF Academy Prof To Discuss
Red Military Policy Wednesday
Air Force Capt. Edward L.
Warner, Air Force Academy po
litical science instructor, will
speak here Wednesday on Soviet
military policy.
He received the master’s de
gree with specialization in Soviet
politics last year at Princeton
and has been in intelligence most
of his military career.
Capt. Warner’s talk, the second
of the Great Issues “Issues
Series” presentations, will be at
8 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, announced
Series Chairman Ron Tefteller of
Midland.
“Public concern over possible
Soviet development of an anti
missile missile and underwater
delivery system is evidenced in
U. S. actions in Berlin, Korea,
Hungary, Cuba, the Middle East
and Vietnam,” noted Tefteller, a
senior agricultural economics ma
jor and an Air Force ROTC cadet.
“Capt. Warner is well qualified
to provide an insight into the
real state of affairs, as it exists
in the Soviet military today.”
Program host Joe Green of
Livingston said the topic is es
pecially relevant in view of the
current situation in Vietnam and
the Middle East.
in the building by moving them
about” during the renovation. He
expects the first phase to last
“two or three months.”
Cooper added that when work
on the first floor is completed, it
will house offices of Weston, Per
ry and Cooper and provide new
quarters for Robert L. Melcher,
Foreign Student advisor.
Also Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan and Associate Dean
Bennie A. Zinn will occupy the
present North Solarium.
HOUSING manager Allan M.
Madeley will have offices in the
South Solarium.
When renovations are complet
ed in October, Loyd will maintain
permanent offices in the base
ment area along with campus
security and a division of the
registrar’s office.
The second floor has been de
signated for offices of the College
of Liberal Arts with the third
floor keeping present occupants,
placement, student aid and de
velopment.
THE RENOVATION program
includes central air conditioning
and heating, new ceilings and
lighting, plus the addition of the
new offices.
Degree Candidates
Warned On Cuts
Undergraduate candidates for
degrees have been reminded by
H. R. Byers, academic vice pres
ident, that they are required to
attend all scheduled classes dur
ing the period Jan. 13-17.
Any unauthorized absence dur
ing this period could result in
withholding the degree at com
mencement exercises Jan. 18.
Students are responsible to see
that their instructor receives
proper notice of authorized ab
sences, Byers noted.
Recognition accorded distin
guished students during dead
week will be the same as that
during the rest of the semester.
Warner teaches international
relations, defense policy and com
munist politics at Colorado
Springs. The 1962 Naval Acade
my graduate has completed Ph.D.
course work and is currently re
searching his dissertation, “The
Reactions of Soviet and American
Military Doctrines to the Nuclear
Age.”
A $367,200 contract was award
ed to Farley Construction, Inc.,
of Shreveport by the A&M Board
of Directors in November.
Architects are Matthews and
Associates of Bryan.
Vet College Draws
380 For Trimester
A Warner article, “The De
velopment of Soviet Military Doc
trine and Capabilities in the
1960s,” will be published in the
forthcoming “American Defense
Policy” of Johns Hopkins Press.
Tefteller said A&M students
with activity cards and season
ticket holders will be admitted
to Captain Warner’s presentation
at no further charge. Faculty-
staff and community patron ad
mittance will be 1.50 per person.
920 File For Graduation;
Mid - Term Record Seen
A record 920 A&M students
have applied for mid-term grad
uation, announced Registrar H. L.
Heaton.
Graduation exercises are sched
uled for 10 a. m. Jan. 18, in G.
Rollie White Coliseum, followed
by military commissioning cere
monies at 1:30 p. m.
Dr. John C. Stevens, assistant
FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home
of the Super CD- 5 p /r interest
compounded daily.
president of Abilene Christian
College, will be commencement
speaker. Commissioning speaker
will be Air Force Lt. Gen. Arthur
C. Agan, commander of the Aero
space Defense Command at Ent
AFB, Colo.
Heaton said the January candi
dates for graduation include 520
students who have filed for bac
calaureate degrees, 291 for mas
ter’s degrees and 109 for docto
rates.
Lacey, Kerley
Move Up To
New Positions
The College of Veterinary Med
icine enrolled 380 students in its
professional program Monday.
Dean A. A. Price said 128 reg
istered for first year classes, 128
for second and 124 for third year
work.
The Aggie veterinarians got
the jump on other students who
are winding up their fall semes
ter this month. Spring classes
start Feb. 3.
Vet classes began at 10 a.m.
Monday, two hours after regis
tration.
The early registration results
from the veterinary college’s tri
mester basis, Price noted. The
college is the university’s only
division with such a program,
initiated in September, 1964.
Registration was held in the
college’s new Veterinary Medical
Administration Building.
Price said students will attend
“some of their classes in the new
building” which has not been com
pleted. A combined laboratory
and classroom on the second floor
“will be utilized immediately,” he
pointed out.
Price added other facilities will
become available in the building
when construction work ends this
spring.
H. L. Heaton, A&M registrar
since 1941, has been named dean
of admissions and records, A&M
President Earl Rudder announced
Monday.
Rudder said Heaton’s selection
for the newly created position is
part of an overall expansion of
the university’s admissions and
registration office in view of in
creased enrollment and introduc
tion of a new automated registra
tion system.
THE EXPANSION also includ
ed selection of Auston S. Kerley
as associate dean for admissions
and Robert A. Lacey as registrar.
Kerley has served since 1960
as director of A&M’s Counseling
and Testing Center, a post he
will retain and bring into closer
association with the admissions
program. Lacey was named co
ordinator of automated data proc
essing in the admissions office
in 1967.
Rudder said the decision to
reorganize and expand the office
at this time was largely based
on development of an automated
registration system which has
proved highly successful.
THE A&M President also noted
the university’s enrollment has
increased at least 1,000 students
per year since 1965. With a cur
rent total of 13,081, he added it
is quite likely A&M will be ap
proaching 20,000 students by its
centennial in 1976, as predicted
in its master plan.
“We find that as the university
grows, we need to keep closer
tabs on not only admissions and
registration, but also class sched
uling and assignment of space
for classes and laboratories,”
Rudder observed.
HE ALSO pointed out the ad
missions office will have an in
creasingly greater work-load as a
result of the trend to more trans
fer students, particularly from
junior colleges.
Heaton, a native of Panola
County, came to A&M in 1933
as a graduate student, after earn
ing a B.S. degree at Stephen F.
Austin in 1929. He accepted the
position of assistant registrar in
1934 and was named registrar
in 1941. He received his master’s
degree in education in 1936.
As A&M’s registrar the past
27 years, Heaton has signed ap
proximately 80 per cent of the
more than 50,000 diplomas grant
ed by the 92-year-old university.
KERLEY, a native of Bonham,
joined the A&M faculty in 1952
as associate professor of guid
ance. He previously held similar
positions at high schools in Sher
man and Denton. He received a
B.A. degree in economics from
A&M in 1939 and a master’s de
gree in education from North
Texas State in 1950.
In conjunction with his appoint
ment as director of counseling
and testing, Kerley was appointed
associate professor of education,
a position he also will retain.
Lacey joined the A&M faculty
in 1964 as a mathematics instruc
tor and was named assistant
registrar a year later. He pre
viously taught in the Cypress-
Fairbanks Independent School
District near Houston.
A native of Centerville, Lacey
received his B.A. degree from
A&M in 1960 and master’s degree
in education here in 1963.
H. L. HEATON
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
a