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Che Battalion VOLUME 64 Number 132 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 A&M Hosts 75 Of Texas’ Best TEXAS’ BEST The top 75 scholars among Texas’ high school seniors of ally proficient students were briefed here on various seg- 1969-70 were at Texas A&M Thursday and Friday for the ments of A&M’s student life and colleges. President’s Scholar Candidates Congress. The scholastic- Dorm Students Get Last Chance Students who expect to live in a residence hall for the fall se mester and have not yet made reservations should report to the Housing Office at once and fill out room reservation cards. The following residence hall assignments will be in effect for fall, 1969: CIVILIAN — Hart (part), Law, Puryear, Mitchell, Legett, Milner, Walton, Hotard (13), Hughes (14), Fowler (15— part), Keathley (16), Moses (17), Davis-Gary (18), Mclnnis (19), Moore (20), Crocker (21), and Schuhmacher (22). CADET CORPS — Spence (1), Kiest (2), Hart (part), Briggs (3), Fountain (4), Gainer (5), Lacy (6), Leonard (7), Harrell (8), Whiteley (9), White (10), Harrington (11), Utay (12), and ATHLETIC — Fowler (15, part), Henderson. Liccioni New Purchaser George Dewey Liccioni Jr. has been promoted to purchasing agent for Texas A&M effective Sept. 1, announced purchasing director Wesley Donaldson. Liccioni, 37, has been technical buyer for the university since Feb. 1, 1968. He replaces George W. Litton, who retired. Liccioni and his wife, Beverly, live at 405 Dogwood St., College Station. A former district superintend ent for an oil company, Liccioni decided he wanted a college edu cation. He sold his Sweeny, Tex., home and moved to Texas A&M in 1961. He was 28 at the time. He worked as a student labor super visor in the Agricultural Exten sion Service mail room between classes. In May, 1965, he gradu ated with a B.A. in history. He worked as a purchasing agent for A&M’s Agency for In ternational Development p r o- gram for the Dominican Repub lic in 1967, a one year program where over $1 million was spent for agriculture equipment and supplies. The first floor of Hughes Hall will not be available for students to transfer belongings thereto at the end of the summer session. Students who will live there in the fall may either take their belongings home with them be tween the summer term and the fall semester or they may make arrangements with the Agrono my Society to store them in the basement of Walton Hall, (845- 3043). Students who will live in Fowl er Hall (15) and the first floor of Gainer (5) will obtain specific clearance from the Housing Of fice before moving belongings into their fall rooms. Students must vacate their summer rooms of all belongings unless they will be occupying the same room in Direct Dialing Comes To Cities In Area GEORGE D. LICCIONI BB&L, Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. Completion of a $3.5 million project makes it possible now for customers in Bryan-College Sta tion and five other towns served by General Telephone Company in this area to dial their own long distance calls, announces B. A. Erwin, division manager for General Telephone Company of the Southwest. Towns in the network are Bryan, College Station, Kurten, Caldwell, Somerville, Deanville, and Tunis. More than 30,000 telephones and 17,000 customers are in the network, which permits custom ers to dial direct to millions of telephones throughout the United States and Canada. All customers received an in struction booklet which tells pre cisely how to use the new serv ice. Persons who have not re ceived an instruction booklet or anyone needing additional copies may obtain them by calling the business office during regular office hours, Erwin stated. The equipment making this new service available last Sun day is located in Bryan, Erwin said. Plans for modification of and changes in local equipment wexe begun more than four years ago. Additional long distance cir cuits have been added between Bryan-College Station and area towns so customers in the net work can have access to the equipment. In addition to install ing the intricate EDDD facilities in Bryan and surrounding towns, the overall project involved con struction of a new central office building in Bryan and additions to existing buildings in College Station and Caldwell. Erwin pointed out that General Telephone customers will have a more advanced type of long dis tance dialing service than most. Auto Permits Are Available Parking permits for the coming fall semester and the ensuing year are now avail able at the Campus Security office in the YMCA Building, according to security chief Ed Powell. The cost of permits are $10 per year for both faculty and students. For students the other prices are $5 per semes ter and $9 for two semesters. “All customei’s having DDD service can dial station-to-station long distance calls; however, the equipment we have also permits customers to dial their own per son-to-person, collect or credit card calls,” he said. “Long distance calls dialed by customers are automatically timed and all information about the call is recorded on punched tape, thus making the record of the call complete and accurate,” he continued. The tape is later fed into a computer so the call is properly charged. the fall. Students who will live in any hall other than Hughes Hall must move their belongings to their new rooms by 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 22. Halls which are not being used for summer school will be unlocked from 1 p.m. un til 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 21, and Friday, Aug. 22, to accom modate students who must move. In order to protect student pxoperty, all halls expect Crock er (21) and Schuhmacher (22) will be locked at 7 p.m. Friday. Aug. 22. Schuhmacher (22) will be available between terms only to students who have been as signed there for the fall semes ter. Such students may make ar rangements at the Housing Of fice to live in their fall rooms. All other students requiring ac commodations between terms should report to the Housing Of fice for an assignment in Crocker Hall (21). All arrangements for the between-term period must be completed by 5 p.m. Friday. Any students found living in one of the halls to be left open who have not registered with the Housing Office on the between- term roster will be subject to legal and disciplinary action. High school students who ap pear likely to be Texas A&M Class of 1974 pacesetters were the university’s guests Thursday and Friday as President’s Schol ar candidates. The 75 high school seniors and 25 to 30 principals were at A&M for the President’s Scholar Can didates Congress. All 75 ranked at the close of 1968-69 among the top one per cent of the nation’s high school seniors of 1969-70. Fifteen to 20 of the visiting students received President’s Scholar awards, the top scholar ship given by Texas A&M. Desig nation as a President’s Scholar at the beginning of a recipient’s senior high school year includes a scholarship of $1,000 each for four or five years study at A&M. “These young men have been selected out of over 600 nomina tions submitted by high school principals throughout T e x a s,” noted Robert M. Logan, financial aid director who conducts the program for President Earl Rud der. “They are outstanding schol astically,” Logan added. “They also are student leaders — class presidents, athletic team captains, drum majors and active in extra curricular activities, church and social life.” “They are No. 1 students, selected at the end of their jun ior years for President’s Scholar nominations,” injected Bobby Johnson, financial aid super visor. The candidates come from Tex as schools with senior classes ranging in size from 15 to more than 1,000 students, Logan said. “We believe the entire group can obtain at least a tuition award scholarship from A&M through Opportunity Awards, Science Honor Awards or other similar scholarships,” he com mented. Logan said A&M’s first 10 President’s Scholars, who will be A&M sophomores this year, were all Distinguished Students both semesters of 1968-69. They had 2.4 or better grade point ratios of a possible 3.0. “Of the 20 President’s Schol ars who will start classes at A&M next month, 19 have other scholarships recognizing their outstanding achievements,” he remarked. “The other hasn’t checked in yet but it’s probable he does too.” Friday morning, Congress par ticipants had a special orienta tion. Each President’s Scholar candidate was then interviewed by a university staff member. Principals, meanwhile, will be in a program presented by the Liberal Arts College and Edu cation Department on innovative education techniques. During an hour seminar early Friday afternoon, candidates, their counselors and parents were briefed by representatives of A&M’s various colleges. De partment tours of the candidate’s interest were made afterwards. A dinner at Sbisa Hall honor ing the young men and princi pals concluded the congress,” Lo gan announced. President’s Scholar awards will be made the first week of the 1969-70 high school term, probably between Sept. 1 and 15. 5 Aggies Receive Co-Op Awards Five students in Texas A&M University’s Cooperative Educa tion Program received certifi cates in recognition of outstand ing accomplishment in ceremon ies this month. Dean Fred J. Benson of the College of Engineering present ed awards to four Aggies tied for first place in the employer evaluation competition. David Edward Hairston, sophomore aerospace engineering major from Arlington; James Russel Finley, Jr., junior in civil engi neering from lola; Chai-Man Chow, electrical engineering sophomore from Hong Kong; and Clark Alan Benson, junior chemical engineering major from Bryan, won the honors. Hairston’s employer is General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Finley works for the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Chow is with Atlantic-Richfield of Dallas, and Benson is employed by Sig nal Oil in Houston. Employers made their evaluations on the basis of relations with others, attitude, application, judgment, dependability, ability to learn, and quality of work. Winner of the research paper competition was Robert Kenneth Gish, sophomore in electrical en gineering from Midland, who pre pared his paper based on work done at Mobil Oil in Midland. Title of the winning paper was “Fundamentals of Logic.” Approximately 275 students are enrolled in the Cooperative Education Program in which pe riods of employment in industry are alternated with periods of campus study, according to As sistant Engineering Dean John G. McGuire, coordinator. “Texas A&M has had a for malized program since 1963, and each year has seen an increase in interest and participation,” McGuire said. “Enrollment has doubled in the last two years.” McGuire indicated that the pro gram appeals to many students because it offers practical experi ence directly associated with the course of study and provides a salary from which they can save for their education. The University’s goal is to pro duce a more mature and better educated graduate, McGuire con tinued. A flow of ideas between the University and the cooperat ing industries also results. The program is open to students from all engineering and science de partments, including transfers from junior colleges and other universities. The student spends at least three Work periods in industry or with campus research organiza tions and usually graduates with his class in four years. “Industi’y cooperation is excel lent, and employment opportuni ties for our graduates are very good,” McGuire concluded. Principal speaker at the cere monies was Dr. C. Floyd George, administrative associate at At lantic-Richfield. Dean Benson made welcoming remarks. A steak fry for the students, ad ministrators, department heads, and guests followed at Hensel Park. Open Heart Surgery Here Successful Two Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine professors have successfully performed the first open heart surgery on an animal at the university. Dr. Kenneth Knauer and Dr. H. P. Hobson performed the sur gery on a 35-pound chow-chow owned by Mrs. E. L. Keyser of 2907 Sunset, Houston. Open heart operations on ani mals have been performed in other parts of the nation, Dr. Knauer said, but the A&M pro cedure has much value in terms of research and instruction. The procedure used by the A&M surgical team was describ ed in a recent publication by a veterinarian, Dr. James Ross of the Baylor Medical Center, Hous ton. Dr. Knauer performed the sur gery and reports the dog is re covering successfully from the operation. The surgery appar ently eliminated the “pulmonic stenosis” condition. The dog was referred to the A&M Small Animal Clinic by Dr. Clyed Slay of Houston. Dr. Knauer, assistant professor of medicine (cardiology), said the animal had a heart murmur and since he was a young dog they suspected it was congenital. Extensive examinations show ed the pulmonary valve separat ing the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle of the heart was defective. Dr. Knauer felt the dog was born with a small valve and it had grown together leaving a very small opening from which blood was being pumped under high pressure to the lungs. The heart was enlarged and the blood’s high pressure through the small opening had caused a ballooning effect on one side of the pulmonary artery. “This condition,” Dr. Knauer explained, “is one of the two most common congenital defects of the heart found in dogs.” The veterinarian has three choices: Do nothing and the dog will live a few months; treat ment with “digitalis” medications and the dog will receive help but will have a shorter life span, or treat with medications and cor- FIRST OPEN HEART PATIENT Dr. Kenneth Knauer, right, examines the eight-month-old chow-chow he performed open heart surgery on at Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine. It was the first at tempted open heart surgery on an animal in Texas. Assisting Dr. Knauer is Dr. H. P. Hobson, head of the Small Animal Clinic general surgery team. Dr. Knauer is a cardiology specialist. rect the condition with surgery. He received assistance from Dr. Hobson, associate professor of surgery and chief of the gen eral surgery team at the Small Animal Clinic. Several A&M veterinary med icine seniors who graduated last week observed and assisted with the operation. Dr. Knauer said the operation involved placing an instrument with retractable blades into the beating heart. The instrument is pushed through the pulmon ary valve and the blades are ex truded. Bringing the instrument back through the valve cuts an open ing and a probe is used to stretch the opening. The surgery took 90 .minutes, Dr. Knauer reported. The cost of the surgery would be similar to that involved in open heart surgery to a human, Dr. Knauer related. However, A&M charges according to a per son’s ability to pay and a great part of the open heart surgery was charged off to research and instruction. A sales representative for a television video-tape company was visiting the college the day of the surgery and the complete operation was recorded for future instructional use, Dr. Knauer re lated. “The College of Veterinary Medicine is quite dependent on the practicing veterinarians for referred cases,” Dr. Knauer said. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.