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College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 10, 1969
THE BATTALION
Merrifield Named
Forest Dept. Head
Search On
For Bryan
Bank Robber
Dr. Robert G. Merrifield is the
head of the new Department of
Forest Science.
DR. MERRIFIELD
The announcement was made
by Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the
A&M College of Agriculture,
after budgetary plans for estab
lishing the new department were
approved during a meeting of the
A&M System Board of Directors
here Wednesday.
Forest Science Department op
erations will start at the begin
ning of the fall semester and will
offer bachelor and master de
grees in addition to the existing
PhD program, Kunkel said. The
degree plans were approved last
month by the Texas Coordinating
Board for Colleges and Universi
ties.
The dean said the new depart
ment is in the School of Natural
Biosciences along with the De
partments of Range Science,
Wildlife Science and Recreation
and Parks.
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Merrifield came to A&M in
1967 from the Louisiana State
University Agricultural Experi
ment Station, where his research
focused on forest stand establish
ment in old fields and stand re
generation in existing forests.
His primary research interests
deal with intensive culture of
hardwoods and growth and yield
of pine plantations.
Police are still searching for
clues as to the whereabouts of
the bank robber who made off
with $11,805 Tuesday afternoon
by threatening to explode a bomb
at an outdoor teller’s window of
the First Bank & Trust of
Bryan.
Shortly after the robbery, po
lice discovered the bandit’s car
abandoned two miles away. It
had been reported stolen.
Beverly Speakman, the teller
at the drive-in window of the
bank, told police the robber cov
ered his fingers and face with
adhesive tape.
Henry B. Clay, president of the
bank, said “The man drove up to
the window, and when she slid
out the tray, he put a satchel on
it. It had a note on it that said
the package was a bomb and he
would set it off if she didn’t put
money in the bag.
EASY DOES IT
Workmen gently position a concrete section of the grandstand while paving continues in
the background at the $8 million Texas International Speedway, six miles southeast of
College Station. Raceway officials say the track and the stands will be ready by the
first race day, Nov. 9, when the TIS Can-Am is scheduled to be run.
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Runkles Appointed Director ®
Of A&M’s Water Resources
Dr. Jack R. Runkles, a profes
sor of soil physics, has been nam
ed director of the Texas A&M
Water Resources Institute, Dr.
H. O. Kunkel, dean of the A&M
College of Agriculture, announced
Wednesday.
The Water Resources Institue
coordinates the total research ac
tivities in water science at the
university. Studies are made on
water use, conservation and pol
lution problems.
Kunkel said Runkles was made
acting director of the Water Re
sources Institute almost a year
ago.
The professor joined the A&M
Soil and Crop Sciences Depart
ment in 1964, coming here from
South Dakota State College. He
received his doctoral degree in
1956 from Iowa State University.
Runkles’ special research field
has been soil and plant water re
lationships.
He is a former student of Texas
A&M and received his BS degrtt
in agronomy in 1950 and his MS
degree in 1952.
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On Sale at G. Rollie White
Children’s Dramatics
Registration Sept. 22
Athletic Business Manager
Wally Groff has announced that
A&M students can start buying
tickets for A&M’s first three
football games next Monday
merely by showing their I.D.
cards.
Groff added that student ac
tivity cards, which will be need
ed to obtain tickets for the last
seven games, will be issued on
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18
and 19.
Tickets for the LSU, Nebraska
and Army games will be sold on
a first-come, first-served basis,
starting next Monday. They’ll be
on sale at ticket window No. 8
in G. Rollie White Coliseum. I.D.
cards will be necessary to make
purchases and a student will be
limited to one ticket for himself
and one for his date.
Then, on Thursday and Friday,
Sept. 18 and 19, student activity
cards will be issued at windows
5 and 6 at the coliseum. The cards
will be issued on a first-come,
first-served basis but will denote
scholastic classification for fu
ture issuance of football tickets.
Registration for fail semesUt
children’s creative dramatics at
Texas A&M will be conducted
Sept. 20, announced C. K. Esten.
The A&M theater arts section
director said any child age six to
12 years is eligible to participate
in the program, which will run
concurrent with the semester.
Children in the program select
their own plays, decide dramatic
possibilities of each, plan and act
them with spontaneous dialogue
and action, Esten said.
Sessions will be on Saturday
mornings in the Fallout Theater
of Guion Hall.
Esten said 8 a.m. to 12 noon
registration also will be in the
Fallout Theater. The program will
be conducted by two age groups,
six to nine and 10 to 12 years.
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