VOLUME 64 Number 124
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
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$8 Million Awarded
A&M Directors
New Engineering
Complex Included
PROPOSED OCEANOGRAPHY-METEOROLOGY BUILDING
This is an artist’s conception of the proposed 12-story Oceanography-Meteorology Build
ing planned for the southwest comer of Bizzell and Hubbard Streets, across from the
System Building. The board of directors approved a $225,000 appropriation for detailed
design of the structure, expected to cost approximately $7 million, including equipment
and furnishings.
Female Is First Graduate
In A&M Public Relations
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Mrs. Carolyn Adair became the
first Texas A&M University
graduate in the new master of
education program in public
relations.
The personable A&M profes
sor’s wife completed course work
last semester and the oral exam
ination last week, according to
Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, educa
tion professor. The degree will
be awarded in August.
“Mrs. Adair communicates I’eal
well,” cited Hensarling. The
graduate s t u de n t' s committee
chairman noted she not only
knows the techniques of public
relations but has “other vital
qualities such as an excellent
personality which enhances her
association with people.”
A certified elementary teacher,
Mrs. Adair utilized five of seven
areas of course work in the re
cently revised interdisciplinary
PR program. Her studies en
compassed education, psychology,
journalism, business and sociol
ogy.
The widely known Mrs. Adair
who was employment interviewer
in the A&M 1 personnel office five
years said the program’s diver
sification is ideal and the main
reason she entered it.
Wife of Dr. Thomas W. Adair
III, assistant professor of phys
ics, the first PR program gradu
ate plans to soon initiate educa
tional administration studies for
the Ph.D.
The program’s interdisciplinary
nature makes it adaptable for
business or industry though em
phasizing education. It adds to
sociological and psychological
backgrounding for problem-solv
ing communication tools drawn
from English and journalism and
specific skills acquirable through
study and experience in business,
philosophy and education, Hen
sarling said.
He noted that though the pro
gram pre-dates the National
School Public Relations Associa
tion’s adoption of degree stand
ards, it meets or exceeds re
quirements set by the organiza
tion.
Mrs. Adair indicated its value
lies in selectivity of meaningful
courses, such as the Sociology
Department’s course in demog
raphy, the study of populations.
She is a 1962 Texas Tech
graduate and attended Houston’s
Lamar High. Mrs. Adair is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Maniha, 10035 Briar Forest,
Houston. Her husband is a 1957
A&M graduate.
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NEW CLUBHOUSE
Here workman are busy clearing up the area around the foundation for the new 4,000
square foot clubhouse at the 18-hole A&M golf course. It should be completed by late
August. (Photo by Monty Stanley)
Contracts totaling $8,143,384
have been awarded by the Texas
A&M University System Board
of Directors for a new engineer
ing complex and first project for
a marine campus at Galveston.
The board, which met Friday
for the first time in Galveston,
also approved establishment of an
Institute of Food Science and
Engineering at Texas A&M.
W. S. Bellows Construction
Corp. of Houston received a
$7,546,000 contract to build the
317,575 - square - foot engineering
complex at A&M. The facility will
include accommodations for both
undergraduate and graduate in
struction and research.
A $597,384 contract for con
struction of docking facilities at
A&M’s new Mitchell Campus on
Pelican Island was awarded to
Brown & Root, Inc., also of Hous
ton.
The 100-acre campus, for which
the Moody Foundation of Galves
ton provided $1 million and
George P. Mitchell of Houston
donated land, will eventually
house A&M’s Texas Maritime
Academy, Marine Laboratory and
other oceanographic installations.
A&M, the state’s only institution
with sea-going capabilities, oper
ates a 15,000-ton training ship for
TMA and a 180-foot research
vesel for its Oceanography De
partment.
Other Texas A&M contract
awards were $358,630 to Erie City
Iron Works, Erie, Pa., heat re
covery boiler for central utilities
plant; $27,783, Vance & Thur
mond, Bryan, remodeling portion
of Agronomy Field Laboratory;
$23,126, Mabry, Inc., Bryan, park
ing facilities lighting; $18,105,
Golf Course Gets
New Face Lifting
Construction has started on a
new 4,000-square-foot clubhouse
at the 18-hole Texas A&M Golf
Course.
Luther A. Harrison, course man
ager, reports the clubhouse should
be completed by late August.
The one-story metal building is
being constructed directly behind
the old wood clubhouse. When
the new building is completed the
old building will be demolished
and a parking lot will be built,
Harrison said.
The exterior of the building
will be treated pine and brick.
Harrison said the pine will mellow
with age and give the building
a natural look.
Buddy Sledge Contractors of
Bryan is the contractor for the
Mex-Tex building.
Sidewalks will surround the
building and a covered patio will
face the golf course, Harrison
said.
The interior includes a golf
sales display area, a snack bar,
large lounge, meeting room, of
fice, bag and cart storage, electric
cart storage and lockers and
shower space for both men and
women.
The old clubhouse had only a
sales area and storage for a small
number of carts and clubs.
The snack bar will be under
the direction of A&M’s Depart
ment of Food Services and will
include short orders.
“We’ll have 15 tons of central
air-conditoning cooling the entire
clubhouse,” Harrison pointed out.
The A&M course is owned by
the university but is open to the
public.
Harrison said a new 18th green
will be rebuilt in front of the
present 18th hole, which will be
come a practice putting green.
Texas A&M uses the course for
its golf team and hosts several
tournaments. Approximately 300
students use the course facilities
each semester for physical edu
cation courses.
FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home
of the Super C D - 5% interest
compounded daily.
Ickes-Braun Glasshouses, Deer
field, 111., grounds maintenance
greenhouse, and $11,843, Taylor
Manufacturing Co., Taylor, Tex.,
conversion of a Plant Sciences
Building room into a laboratory.
TUSHA Buildings Inc. of Lub
bock was awarded a $96,950 con
tract for construction of a Boll
Weevil Research Laboratory at
Luboek. A&M agricultural Dean
H. O. Kunkel said the facility is
the beginning of a “crash pro
gram” by Texas A&M and the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
to eradicate the cotton-infesting
insect.
An $8,700 contract was pre
sented Dobbs and Wedegartner
Construction, Inc., San Benito,
for installation of a sanitary
sewer collection line at the Agri
cultural Research & Extension
Center at Weslaco. Moore-Climatic
Inc. of Galveston received a
$7,317.30 contract for extension
of an air-conditoning system at
A&M’s Marine Laboratory in
Galveston.
The board also appropriated
$648,750 for nine other projects.
Appropriations for Texas A&M
included $225,000 for detailed de
sign of an oceanography-meteor
ology building, $237,000 for addi
tional equipment for the central
utilities plant, $50,000 for detailed
design of a sanitary sewage col
lection and treatment system and
$42,000 to remodel a hangar for
use as a flight mechanics labora
tory.
Other appropriations were
$55,000 for dormitory rehabilita
tion and $7,000 for improvement
of parking facilities at Prairie
View A&M College, $29,750 for
instalation of fire-stopping de
vices for four Tarleton State
Colege dormitories and $3,000 for
preliminary planning for an agri
cultural research station at Mun-
day.
University officials said the
new Institute of Food Science and
Engineering will coordinate aca
demic activity in food science and
be a point of contact for inter
ested individuals and commercial
and governmental agencies. The
(See Engineering, Page 2)
Romieniec Named
Architecture Dean
Prof. Edward J. Romieniec has
been formally named dean of
Texas A&M University’s new
College of Architecture and En
vironmental Design by the A&M
board of directors.
The Coordinating Board, Texas
College and University System,
approved establishment of the
new college earlier this year.
Texas A&M previously operated
a School of Architecture as part
of its College of Engineering.
Romieniec joined Texas A&M
as professor and chairman in
1963. He was an associate pro
fessor at the university for four
years before leaving in 1960 to
accept a similar position at
Columbia.
He received B.S. and M.S. de
grees in architecture from the
University of Illinois. He also
earned an M.S. degree from Har
vard.
Romieniec is a registered archi
tect in four states, as well as
with the National Council of
Architectural Regi&tratilon
Boards. He has traveled widely,
including visiting lectureships at
universities in England, Ger
many and Pakistan.
Under Romieniec’s leadership,
architecture enrollment at Texas
A&M has increased approximate
ly 30 percent within the past four
years.
He also has been instrumental
in development of a Ph.D. pro
gram which has been approved
by the Coordinating Board.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Crime Conference
Opens Here Sunday
Approximately 15 0 officials
from six states will attend a five-
day Criminal Justice Council
Planning Conference at Texas
A&M University next week.
The June 29-July 3 conference
will be hosted by the Texas Crimi
nal Justice Council and the Law
Enforcement Assistance Admin
istration, U. S. Department of
Justice.
The officials attending are all
engaged in planning and imple
menting the Omnibus Crime Con
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968,
called the most extensive anti
crime effort in the state or na
tion’s history.
Martin Dies, Jr., Texas Secre
tary of State, will replace Gov
ernor Preston Smith as the Mon
day luncheon speaker. Dies will
speak on “The Significance of
Upgrading the Criminal Justice
System.”
The conference will deal with
criminal justice planning prob
lems, including police, courts, cor
rections and rehabilitation, ac
cording to Frank Allen of the
Criminal Justice office.
Registration will start at 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Memorial Student.
Center. A reception will be held
at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Ramada
Inn.
Donald Alexander of the Na
tional League of Cities will be
the first conference speaker.
Alexander will discuss “The
Planning Challenge,” the first
of a full day of talks on “The
Philosophy of Planning.”
Hugo Leipziger-Pearce of the
University of Texas Department
of Architecture will speak at 9
a.m. on planning problems, ap
proaches, goals and priorities.
Keith Cruse of the Division of
Planning, Texas Education Agen
cy, will talk at 10:30 on planning.
Nandy M. Sharda of the North
Central Texas Council of Gov
ernments gives “An Approach to
Planning” at 11:30 to end the
morning session.
Local, regional and state plan
ning problems will be discussed
at the afternoon and evening
sessions.
Pat Lykos of the City of Hous
ton will speak on “Local Planning
Considerations.” Gerald Coleman
of the Houston-Galveston Area
Council and Lon Stark of the
Coastal Bend Regional Planning
Commission team up for a 2:30
presentation on “Regional Plan
ning Considerations.”
Dan Petty of the Division of
Planning Coordination will speak
at 4 p.m. on “Planning Cordina-
tion.”
A 7 p.m. evening program will
include directors from several
states discussing “State Planning
Considerations.” The panel in
cludes John Hickey, director of
the Arkansas Commission on
Crime and Law Enforcement;
Neil Lament, executive director,
Louisiana Commission on Law
Enforcement and Administration
on Criminal Justice; James Grant,
director of the New Mexico Crime
Commission; Hugh H. Collum, di
rector, Oklahoma Crime Commis
sion; Rod Gardiner, director, Ore
gon Crime Control Coordination
Council, and Leonard Blaylock,
executive director, Texas Crimi
nal Justice Council.
Tuesday’s sessions will be on
the “Mechanics of Planning.”
Wednesday the conference will
hear presentations on “Continu-
(See Crime, Page 2)
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WORLD CHAMP
Lanky sophomore Curtis Mills looks pretty winded after
he broke the existing- world’s record in the 440-yard dash
in 44.7 in the NCAA meet Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
See story, page six.