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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 10, 1969
Connally Tech
Comes Of Age,
Leaves System
James Connally Technical In
stitute officially blossomed into
the Texas State Technical Insti
tute Monday with a warm fare
well from Texas A&M officials
who organized the vocational-
technical school in 1965.
“We at Texas A&M University
are pleased to witness this excit
ing day in our state’s education
development,” A&M President
Early Rudder said at an August
luncheon celebrating the occasion.
“Future generations of Texans
will recall it as the start of a new
era in educational and economic
opportunities.”
The Legislature, which gave
A&M responsibility for organiz
ing and governing Connally Tech
four years ago, decided last
spring that Connally Tech should
be a separate institution with its
own governing board.
“As we take our first steps for
ward alone,” noted Dr. Roy Dug
ger, “we will continue to look to
ward our mother institution for
guidance and counsel.”
Dugger, now TSTI president,
has served as director of Connally
Tech since its formation. He also
has served during the same peri
od as a vice president of Texas
A&M.
“We at Connally Tech wish to
express our deep gratitude to
Texas A&M University for the
enthusiastic support and cooper
ation given by President Rudder
and the Board of Directors, and
the faculty and staff,” Dugger
added.
Throughout the process of es
tablishing Connally Tech, A&M
has recognized the great value of
technical - vocational training to
the future development of Texas,
Rudder pointed out.
“We at A&M, along with the
administration of other state
schools, elected officials, educa
tors, business and industry lead
ers, recognized that not all young
people today want, can afford or
wish to invest the time required
for a four-year degree program.”
“In the interest of improved
working and earning opportuni-
ties for these Texans, a sound
economic system for the state
and nation and an indestructible
free system for all men,” Rudder
added, “A&M wishes James Con
nally Technical Institute and its
embryonic sister campuses con
tinued success and growth."
The institute now has 500 stu
dents enrolled at its Rio Grande
campus at Harlingen. It is nego-
tiating with the federal govern
ment to purchase parts of the
old Amarillo Air Force Base for
a Mid-Continent campus. Dugger
noted the Harlingen facility has
a waiting list of 1,100 applicants,
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Liberal Arts Sets
’70 Course Revamp
An undergraduate curriculum
concept designed to broaden Tex
as A&M’s liberal arts students’
education will be initiated in
1970.
The new concept for the Col
lege of Liberal Arts was ap
proved during the summer by the
Academic Council.
Installation will begin in 1970,
with the transition to cover four
years. Freshmen entering A&M
in September, 1970, will follow
the entire program, according to
Dr. Charles McCandless, assist
ant dean of liberal arts.
“Liberal arts seniors in 1970-71
will use the fourth-year part of
the program, juniors the last two
years and sophomores the last
three,” McCandless explained.
“Our students of the clas|S of
1973 will be the last to take
courses under the present degree
program structure.”
The concept, which moves away
from a lock - step curriculum,
embraces majors in and De
partments of Economics, English,
History, Journalism, Modern
Languages, Philosophy and Hu
manities, Political Science and
Psychology. Education received
recent approval for college status
this fall.
McCandless said Dr. Manuel
Davenport, philosophy head, and
C. J. (Skip) Leabo, journalism
head, led development of the pro
gram.
Its principal features are flex
ibility for arrangement of cours
es, strengthened language re
quirement and limitation on the
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number of semester hours (24 to
33) a student may take in his
major.
“We are quite pleased with the
program,” McCandless said. “It
will prepare liberal arts students
with a broad cultural education
and assures familiarity with the
various areas of knowledge.”
“What is most pleasing,” he
observed, “is that it is for the
whole college. The pattern is
quite flexible, allowing each de
partment to tailor the curriculum
for its majors. This is despite
a considerable variety of liberal
arts degree programs.”
From the student’s standpoint,
more courses in which the indi
vidual is interested can be taken.
Besides state-required history
and government, liberal arts ma
jors will meet the following gen
eral requirement^:
English — second freshman se
mester composition and rhetoric
plus six hours of literature;
• Modern language—13 hours
beyond the first course, inserted
as an equalizer for students with
fewer high school language
credits;
• Mathematics — advanced al
gebra plus options for a second
course from math, philosophy of
logic or statistics.
• Physical Education;
• Economics, psychology and
sociology — at least nine hours
in no fewer than two of the
areas;
• Science — 10 hours, with at
least six in biological of physical
sciences including a laboratory
course.
The remaining 61 hours of the
124-hour degree program include
electives and the 24 to 33 hours
in a major. A second field
(minor) calls for 12 hours credit,
with at lea<st six in junior and
senior courses.
A community-wide educational
television station (ETV) owned
and operated by Texas A&M
should be in operation by the end
of 1969 if everything goes as
scheduled.
According to Mel Chastain,
ETV director, all that now needs
to be done is to construct an an
tenna tower and install the trans
mitter.
A&M was granted a license to
broadcast on channel 15 (UHF)
and given permission to construct
an antenna tower by the Federal
Communications Commission in
August, Chastain said.
Chastain also said that the sta
tion received federal funds total
ing $66,193 from the Educational
Broadcasting Facilities program
of the Department of Health, Ed-
cation and Welfare.
Station facilities will be locat
ed in Bagley Hall, present head
quarters for ETV’s current
closed-circuit operations.
When it begins operation, the
station will provide local inter
est and educational programs for
both the university and the com
munity. It will also carry Na
tional Education Television
(NET) programs.
During July ETV purchased a
33%-foot mobile unit from
KTRK-TV (Channel 13) in Hous
ton. Used as a black-and-white
unit by KTRK, the unit has been
converted to color use by A&M
engineers. It is one of only four
or five university-owned color
mobile units in the United States,
Chastain noted.
The unit will serve as the pro
duction center for both studio
and remote tapings and broad
casts, Chastain said. He added
that the unit will give A&M the
capability of recording any type
of activity on campus or in the
community in full color. All
three of the university’s color
cameras can be used for either
live or taped programs, he said,
noting that the new van, larger
than the trailer now in use,
makes it possible.
Col. K.C. Hanna
Selected Head
Of Air ROTC
Air Force Col. K. C. Hanna has
been appointed professor of aero
space studies and commanding
officer of the Air Force ROTC
detachment at Texas A&M, Presi
dent Rudder announced in August.
The 26-year military veteran
succeeds Col. Vernon L. Head as
the ranking Air Force officer at
A&M.
Colonel Hanna, 44, previously
was assigned to Air Force Head
quarters in the Pentagon as oper
ations staff officer and division
chief.
He graduated last June from
the National War College, senior
Department of Defense school for
military officers.
The Indiana native whose home
of record is Greenville, Tex., holds
an undergraduate degree from
the University of Nebraska. He
completed requirements for a
master’s degree to be awarded in
September by George Washing
ton University.
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