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Vol. 65 No. 31
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, November 5, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Meditation Garden
Dedication Saturday
A meditation garden and rfie-
iorial honoring more than 300
exas Aggies who have died in
S. military service since World
Far II will be dedicated here Sat-
rday.
The concrete pylon memorial
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W the war dead will be unveiled
^idiring dedication ceremonies be-
. mining at 9:30 a.m.
;6|, Styled along lines of the famed
Iggie Muster, the ceremony will
s be tfcp conducted at the meditation
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ice is about 6,500.
Dedication speaker will be re-
red Air Force Gen. Bernard A.
Schriever, 1931 A&M graduate,
World War II bomber pilot and
former commander of the Air
Force Systems Command.
Carroll said the ceremony will
include the invocation by Corps
Chaplain Harry Snowdy of Port
Lavaca, the National Anthem, in
troduction of the speaker by Dep
uty Commander George I. (Bud
dy) Mason III of San Antonio,
General Schriever’s address, “The
Spirit of Aggieland” and Silver
Taps.
The Aggie Band, singing Ca
dets and Ross Volunteers firing
squad will participate.
Among distinguished guests
who have accepted invitations to
the ceremony is Congressman
Olin E. Teague of College Sta
tion.
Carroll indicated a roll call of
the deceased will not be made due
to the large number of names.
Five bronze plaques bearing the
names will be in place Wednes
day, noted corps information of
ficer James St. John of Dallas.
The list will include A&M men
who died in the Korean and Viet
nam conflicts and in military
service after WW II. Space to
add names will be available.
Also on Wednesday and for the
remainder of the week, 58 Amer
ican flags will be flown around
the meditation garden.
“These will be raised whenever
the ‘avenue of flags’ goes up at
the east entrance, on all formal
occasions,” St. John said.
Financed by A&M classes of
1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972, the
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■riptions from members of the
( Bculty and the local community
to help support the costs of
ringing speakers onto the cam-
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M. (Mac) Spears, presi-
mt of the MSC Council and
irectorate, said Tuesday that a
ajor problem in the past with
e Great Issues Committee, the
litical Forum Committee, and
ie Contemporary Arts Commit-
e has been whether or not to
charge members of the faculty
nd community who attend
Speeches that the committees
have sponsored.
Students contribute to the cost
of bringing speakers on campus
when they paid their activity fees
at the beginning of the year, he
said. This amount is not suf
ficient, though, to cover the com
plete cost, he continued, so each
committee has a minimum
amount needed from ticket sales
to meet their budget.
“Sometimes, when a speaker
was willing to talk without pay
ment, we didn’t charge any ad
mission,” Spears said, “but the
cost for food, lodging and trans
portation still has to be covered
with committee funds.”
The committees decided this
year to offer Patron Subscrip
tions to the faculty and commun-
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E00 Former Students Expected
For Board,Council Meetings
The Association of Former Stu-
ents of Texas A&M University
nil hold a board of directors
leeting and its annual fall coun-
il meeting Friday and Saturday,
nnounced Executive Director
lichard (Buck) Weirus.
Approximately 200 former stu-
ents are expected for the meet-
ngs.
Association President Ford D.
Vlbritton of Bryan will preside
it the 16-member board meeting
vhich starts with a luncheon at
he Memorial Student Center.
Ihe luncheon is followed by the
Lard of Directors Meeting from
1-4 p.m., a social hour at 7 p.m.
Briarcrest Country Club and
mffet dinner at 8 p.m.
Albritton also will preside at
the Association Council Meeting
Saturday morning. Registration
starts at 9. The meeting will be
held from 10-11:30 and a dinner
is scheduled from 11:30-12:30
p.m.
The group will attend the A&M-
SMU football game Saturday
afternoon.
The council includes all past
association presidents, 10 na
tional councilmen, 31 councilmen
from the state senatorial dis
tricts, class agents, chartered
A&M club representatives, 12
councilmen-at-large, five interna
tional councilmen, all senior class
officers and the president of the
junior class.
Weirus noted the board meets
five or six times a year and the
council meets twice a year. The
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it,y, he said. The idea, he con
tinued, is to be able to open the
speeches to the general public
and still cover the expenses with
donations.
“The donations are normally
$5,” he said, “but any amount
would be appreciated.”
Persons who make contribu
tions will receive a certificate of
appreciation and their names will
also appear on the committee’s
programs, unless otherwise re
quested, he said.
“The only exception to the free
admission,” he continued, “is the
Contemporary Arts Classic Film
Series. This is due to the ex
treme cost of bringing one of
these films to the campus and
the fact that they normally ap
peal to a select audience.”
This idea is approved by the
faculty advisers for these com
mittees, Spears said.
Barbara Davis of the Market
ing Department, adviser for the
Great Issues Committee; Dr.
Clinton Phillips of the Finance
Department, adviser for the Po
litical Forum Committee; and Dr.
Graham Horsely of the Archi
tecture Department, adviser for
the Contemporary Arts Commit
tee, said in a letter of support,
“We believe the work these
three committees are doing and
the type of people they are bring
ing to the campus is greatly
broadening to the academic en
vironment of Texas A&M Uni
versity and we ask your whole
hearted support for them and
their projects.”
Anyone who is interested in a
Patron Subscription should call
the Student Program Office of
the MSC for additional informa
tion.
ON THE WRONG TRACK
A. railroad caboose, recently purchased from the Chicago Northwestern Railroad by the
City of Cedar Falls, Iowa, seems out of place as it is moved through the city to a tempo
rary storage site near the city pool. Bought with a $400 donation by Cedar Falls realtor
Wayne Mark, the caboose will later be placed on permanent display. (AP Wirephoto)
memorial and meditation garden
was designed by Joe T. Verdoom,
senior landscape architecture ma
jor of Tyler.
Idea for the memorial and gar
den originated with him and Lan
dis S. Cervenka of San Antonio,
a May graduate. The project was
coordinated with university offi
cials and constructed under su
pervision of A&M landscape ar
chitect Robert Rucker by the
Physical Plant Department. It
is the first A&M memorial to the
war dead erected in 20 years.
General Schriever, who will ar
rive Thursday for a Great Issues
presentation on “National De
fense Policies and Priorities,” will
be briefed by the corps staff at
5 p.m. He will dine with the
corps at a white gloves formal
dinner in Duncan Hall Thursday
evening.
His Great Issues address will
be at 8 p.m. in the Architecture
Auditorium.
Schriever will attend ia distin
guished students breakfast Fri
day, tour the campus and have
dinner with the Memorial Student
Center Council and Directorate.
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FIRST IN 20 YEARS
This combination war memorial and meditation garden, honoring the more than 300 Ag
gies who have died since World War II, will be dedicated Saturday morning by Air Force
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever (ret.). It is the first A&M memorial to the war dead erected
in 20 years.
Ray
For
Price
Town
To Perform
Hall Friday
He and Army Maj. Gen. Francis
J. Murdoch Jr., Fourth Army
deputy commander general for re
serve forces, will be reviewing of
ficers for the 12:20 p.m. Satur
day march-in to the A&M-SMU
football game at Kyle Field.
A country music super-star
whose style defies country or
pop labels, Ray Price sets Texas
A&M’s second football weekend
into motion Friday.
Price’s 8 p.m. performance in
G. Rollie White Coliseum will be
the last Town Hall presentation
of the fall seemster except for a
bonfire special, announced chair
man Rex Stewart.
Undergraduate Males Urged
To Check Registrar’s List
Every male undergraduate stu
dent is urged to check the list of
names posted in the Registrar’s
Office in the Richard Coke build
ing to see if his draft board has
been sent a letter informing it
that he is enrolled in school
for the fall semester, Robert A.
Lacey, registrar, announced Tues
day.
Lacey said letters were sent
to the draft boards of those stu
dents who are enrolled for 12
hours or more for the fall semes
ter.
He added that all students
should check the list to be sure
an error didn’t prevent a letter
from being sent.
Errors could have occurred spring, Lacey said.
during the processing of the reg
istration cards or from a mistake
by the student when filling them
out, Lacey explained.
The letter is necessary if a
student is to retain or obtain
his II-S classification, which pro
vides for exemption from the
draft for educational purposes,
Lacey said.
If an error has been made the
student should fill out a form in
the Registrar’s Office, Lacey
said, which the office will forward
to the local draft board.
The university is required by
law to send local boards the
names of students who withdraw
from school during the semester
or do not return to school next
“Easy Listening” in the new
Ray Price style uses a polished,
more sophisticated stage act
proven on the night club circuit
and sweeping arrangements of a
21-piece orchestra.
Winner of Columbia’s first
Gold Guitar award for his million
seller “Crazy Arms,” Price sings
a wide range of songs, from his
own compositions to traditional
ballads. His latest LP, “She
Wears My Ring,” contains the
Price touch on “Welcome To My
World” and “By The Time I Get
to Phoenix,” among others.
The Cherokee cowboy, born on
a farm near Perryville in North
east Texas, has had 29 Top 10
singles, three of which reached
the top of the charts, during his
country music career. Front-run
ners with “Crazy Arms” included
“Burning Memories,” “Talk To
Your Heart” and “City Lights.”
The warmth and melancholy of
“Danny Boy,” backed by lush
orchestral strains, led to Price’s
acceptance in wider areas of
music. Eddy Arnold won new
acceptance in this way and Nash
ville music specialists agreed that
Ray Price was to follow the same
path.
Price is personally managed by
Dub Albritten, Nashville’s highly
successful talent-booking agent
who guided Brenda Lee to inter
national stardom.
Showcasing the entertainer who
performed last year for President
Johnson at the LBJ ranch also
involves one of America’s leading
choreographers and stage pro
duction specialists, Richard Bar-
stow.
Price’s easy-going Texas charm
and elusive, fast changing musi
cal moods that show up in “In
The Autmun of My Life,” “Span
ish Eyes” and “Bom To Lose”
are enhanced by the group’s long
hours of serious consideration
given to material selection, light
ing effects, stage movements and
musical arrangements.
Besides recording for Colum
bia, Price last year made several
extensive national concert tours
and guest shots on NBC-TV’s
“Tonight” show with Johnny Car-
son. Tours, club engagements,
one nighters and television are
on his busy schedule this year.
WEATHER
Thursday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind Southerly 10 to
15 m.p.h. High 68, low 47.
Friday—Cloudy scattered rain-
showers, thundershowers. Wind
Southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High
68, low 58.
Kyle Field — Mostly cloudy.
Wind Northerly 10 to 20 m.p.h.
53°.
TV’s
‘Teenage America
To Host A&M’s Singing
Pageant’
Cadets
A&M’s Singing Cadets will per
form in Fort Worth Nov. 12-15,
during the Aggie glee club’s sev
enth appearance on CBS-TV’s
“Miss Teenage America” pag
eant.
Director Bob Boone said the 9
p.m. Nov. 15 television special
will include the Singing Cadets
in all production numbers except
the candidates’ dance routine with
Bobby Vann and the talent seg
ment of the program.
“We’re going to be very busy,”
the director observed. “We won’t
have any dance routines this
time, thank goodness, but the
Singing Cadets will be on camera
a. lot. We’ll sing lead-ins, impro
visations to the girls’ routines
and have other parts.”
Special numbers to be per
formed by the Aggie group in
clude “Anyone Can Move A
Mountain” and “A Time for Us,”
theme from the Broadway pro
duction of “Romeo and Juliet.”
Boone added that the Cadets
and pianist - accompanist Mrs.
June Biering will depart Nov. 12,
begin rehearsals that evening and
rehearse all day Thursday and
Friday and most of Saturday.
There will be a Singing Cadet
escort for each of the 45 Miss
Teenage America contestants.
Also starring in the 1969 pro
duction are Oliver, the new sing
ing sensation; dancer Bobby
Vann; Dick Clark, master of cere
monies, and former Miss America
Marilyn Van Derbur, hostess.
The Singing Cadets’ basic rep
ertoire will fit the patriotic theme
TV special. An opening medley
will consist of “I’m A Yankee
Doodle Dandy,” “Yankee Doodle”
and “This Is My Country,” among
others.
Teenage America Associates
president Charles Meeker Jr. of
Dallas said the Singing Cadets
are one of the great assets of
the pageant.
“The A&M group has become
one of the great traditions on the
program,” he said. “The develop
ment of this tradition becomes
more important each year. Add
ing up all the Singing Cadets’
previous performances, they’ve
performed before better than 100
million viewers, including 33 mil
lion last year.”
“The devotion and willingness
to work and take on new things
has caused Bob Boone’s group to
far outstrip other university glee
clubs in capability,” Meeker add
ed. “It’s a unique opportunity for
us as well as A&M.”
Key personnel of the produc
tion with Meeker, whom the Ca
dets refer to as “Daddy War-
bucks,” are CBS producer Paul
Levitan, director Vern Diamond
and choreographer Judy Hough
ton. Levitan has been with the
show since its inception. He orig
inated the Miss America Pageant
and was its producer 15 years.
The A&M group will give its
traditional concert for the con
testants at the first rehearsal
night dinner party. A second-
night pizza party, third-night ice
cream smorgasbord and after-
the-show coronation badl will so
cially offset the long hours re
hearsal.
Boone said the Singing Cadets
will stay at the Sheraton-Fort
Worth Hotel, across the street
from the Fort Worth Convention
Center where the telecast will be
made. They will return to the
campus Sunday afternoon, Nov.
16.
“We regret having to miss the
Rice game corps trip,” the direc
tor added, “but we’ll be there in
spirit.”
Cool, Cloudy, But No Rain
Is Prediction for Weekend
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Activity at A&M this weekend will be brisk, partly from efforts
to stay warm.
But the weekend weather isn’t expected to dampen a Friday
night Town Hall crowd, dedication of the post-World War II memorial
Saturday morning or the A&M-SMU football game at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday in Kyle Field.
The forecast by the Meteorology Department weather station
manager, Jim Lightfoot, calls for increasing cloudiness beginning
Thursday, rain or thundershowers Friday afternoon just before a cold
front passes through College Station and continued cloudy Saturday.
“There probably won’t be much clearing right behind the front,”
Lightfoot surmised, “but there shouldn’t be any Saturday rain.”
He indicated kickoff conditions will include cloudy skies with a
few breaks, northerly winds at 15 to 20 mph, 56 degrees and low
humidity.
“It should begin clearing sometime Saturday night and be cool
and crisp Sunday,” the meteorologist added.
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