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*«> *«!•••«■% > !»*>!. W „ . . -A- 'A-v-: - - Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 45 of thisc a lot of 0 bumper ■ “Of t01 1 beat is | added College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 3, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Nigerian, Professor ead SCONA List A Nigerian businessman and an (expert on Africa will play key oles in the 15th Student Con ference on National Affairs at Texas A&M. Mosudi K.O. Abiola now is (comptroller for International Tel ephone and Telegraph Nigeria pnd has had experience in bank- ng, government finance, college Recounting and agricultural prod- (icts finance. Dr. Gwendolen M. Carter, director of Northwestern Uni versity’s Program of African Studies, is noted for her writings on Africa such as “Independence for Africa,” “African One-Party States,” “Politics in Africa” and “Transition in Africa.” Dr. Carter will speak on “Build ing African Independence” at 8 p.m. Dec. 10 in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Dr. Carter’s address, presenta tions by leading African business- \Nowlin To Open \ldea Conference ini ■ner >y the l ‘ill SCOIl nen ^’ Youth, and Responsibility” Thlir>' 8 P- m - Thursday in the MSC l ^ e |p|, Assembly Room Nowlin is a lifetime resident of San Antonio and is currently en- ;aged there in the private prac tice of law with the firm of Kelso, Locke and King. He re- leived BA and MA degrees in history and political science from Trinity University and a Bache lor of Law degree from the Uni versity of Texas. He has also served on the teaching staff of San Antonio Junior College as an instructor in American history. In his political career, Nowlin I has served as the Democratic | campaign manager in Bexar y Hayden Whitsett lattalion Staff Writer State Representative James R. owlin will be the keynote speak- r in the Texas A&M Idea Ex- hange Conference Thursday, Fri- y and Saturday in the Memori- 1 Student Center. The exchange was planned to ive student government leaders Southwest Conference schools chance to exchange ideas and iewpoints, and to discuss im provements needed in student overnments. Nowlin will speak on “Govern- County and has spent a year as a legal counsel to the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Veter ans Affairs. In November of 1966, Nowlin was elected as representative from Bexar County, and in 1968 he was reelected without oppo sition. Since being elected, he has served on eight different House committees, among them labor, education, judiciary, and youth. He now serves as the vice-chair man of the newly-created Com mittee on Youth. During the past two regular sessions, Nowlin has authored 12 pieces of legislation and co authored numerous others. In 1968 he was chosen as one of the five outstanding graduates of Trinity and that same year was chosen as one of the “Out standing Young Men of Ameri ca.” Nowlin is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association and holds the rank of captain in the Army Re serves. Giving a 30-minute speech Sat urday at 1 p.m. will be Dr. Man uel Davenport, head of the Philos ophy Department at A&M. His topic will be “Students and Re sponsibilities in the Academic Community.” mne and government officials and round-table discussions headed by outstanding international figures will enable SCONA XV partici pants to examine potential and problems of emerging nations. Among student participants will be 130 to 140 students from throughout the U. S., 90 screened A&M delegates, 10 students from Mexico and three from Africa. Abioia's experinece will be tapped for a SCONA XV panel on capital investments in Black Africa. Topic of the Dec. 10-13 conference is “Black Africa—The Challenge of Development.” Abiola, who studied finance, law, political economy and man agement accounting at Scotland’s Glasgow University, has been in various Nigerian businesses and enterprises since 1955. After three years with the Barclays Bank, the Lagos resi dent went with the Western Ni gerian Government Finance Corp. in industrial promotions. He en tered the professional accounting SCONA XV committee mem bers will meet at 7:30 p. m. tonight in Room 3B-C in the Memorial Students Center. According to committeeman Dave Mayfield, this will be the committee’s last general meet ing before the conference be gins next week. course at Glasgow in 1961 and in 1966 became chief accountant and financial adviser to the College of Medicine and Teaching Hos pital of the University of Lagos. Abiola also was comptroller for Pfizer Products, West Africa ag ricultural business, two years before taking the ITT Nigeria post last April. With the com munications company, Abiola has responsibility for reporting, ac counting and control functions, financial negotiations with gov ernments and major commercial institutions. Sitting with Abiola on the pan el will be moderator E. Jefferson Murphy, African-American Insti tute executive vice president; Paul S. Slawson of London, ITT Africa and Middle East investment pro gram director; Arthur Wina, Zambia businessman and former finance minister, and Ikon E. Ekwo, director of Oklahoma State University’s “Campus Experi mental Project in International Living.” Dr. Carter, a State Department Africa bureau advisory committee member, has worked in practi cally all the African nations, In dia, Pakistan, Ceylon, New Zea land, Jordan, Israel, Australia, Turkey and Hong Kong. Her writings have also delved into African states domestic colonial ism, diversification, national uni ty and regionalism and national ism movements. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Oxford, Radcliffe and Harvard. The Melville J. Herskovits Pro fessor of African Affairs and Northwestern political science professor is past president of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Her com mittee work with the organization has been on languages and lin- (See SCONA, page 7) , . V". wBBUMwm MOMENT OF BEAUTY A misty morning in the early dawn on Boya Lake, near Loveland, Colo., is the setting for this artistic landscape. The birds are Blue Herons. (AP Wirephoto) Prescott Named Dean Of College of Science 4 Grad Courses in Spanish To Be Offered for Spring $9Million Given in Aid To Students Last Year A&M students received $8,926,241 in financial aid from Sept. 1, 1968, to Aug. 31, 1969, A&M President Earl Rudder reports. Students received the aid through the Student Financial Aid office in the form of scholarships, grants, fellowships, loans, part-time jobs and veterans programs, office director R. M. Logan noted. Scholarships, grants and fellowships aided 1,707 Aggies with $1,691,631. It includes 419 Opportunity Award Scholarships, 309 Educational Opportunity Grants, 387 graduate fellowships and 592 other scholarships and grants. Part-time jobs helped 3,149 students for $3,645,532 in aid. Included were 1,074 graduate assistants and researchers, 225 under the work-study plan and 1,850 other part-time employees. Federal, state and university loan programs aided 11,239 students for $2,117,948. Fifteen disabled veterans, 102 war orphans, 550 GI Bill veterans, 188 Hazlewood Act veterans and 315 deceased and disabled veterans’ children received $1,411,130. Courses for the recently- approved A&M masters degree program in Spanish will be initiated with the spring semes ter, announced Dr. Jack A. Dabbs. The Modem Languages De partment head said two of seven approved graduate program courses will be offered beginning Feb. 2, along with the thesis and problems courses. Spanish literary movements in the Caribbean area (Spanish 625) will be instructed by Dr. James H. Ward III, assistant professor and specialist on the Caribbean. Twentieth-century Spanish lit erature (626) will be taught by Major C. Quinn, instructor in the department. Approved by the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System last year, the program will be supported by the addition of other 600-level courses in the near future, Dabbs said. The program is a one-year postgraduate plan for the master of arts degree in Spanish or, later, another modern foreign language. It calls for a minimum of 30 credit hours of which 21 must be in the language or liter ature of the major language, Dabbs indicated. Nine hours will be in a minor in a related field, with the most common combination probably to be English or history. A thesis counting six credit hours is re quired. Dabbs said frequent requests have been received in recent years from local public-school teachers of Spanish for such a program. Projected enrollment indicates about 20 graduate students will be in the program next year with the figure probably to double in five years. “There is an increasing demand for teachers of Spanish in public schools,” the department head explained. “Legislation envisions foreign language being taught in all pub lic high schools in Texas. This increase in demand for qualified teachers will necessitate expand ed programs in all state univer sities,” he added. Dabbs noted that A&M under graduates in modem languages are already inquiring about the masters program in Spanish. “We will eventually structure the program to include night and Saturday courses for teachers in nearby counties and communities who wish to commute for ad vanced degree work in modem languages at A&M,” he said. Dr. John M. Prescott, a bio chemist widely noted for research in the chemistry and metabolism of amino acids and proteins, has been named Dean of the College of Science here, announced A&M President Earl Rudder. The appointment is effective Jan. 1. Prescott is currently head of the Biochemistry and Bio physics Department at A&M. Rudder noted that Prescott has served as a faculty member at A&M for more than 18 years and has been a full professor for 10 years. Dr. Horace R. Byers, A&M academic vice president, has served as acting head of the col lege since the resignation of Dr. Clarence Zener in June, 1968. Prescott, a native of San Mar cos, graduated from Southwest Texas State in 1941 with a B.S. in chemistry. He received the M.S. in biochemistry and nutri tion from A&M in 1949 and the Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1952. The 48-year-old scientist was a production laboratory assistant or Dow Chemical Co. from 1942- 43, was a graduate student and instructor at A&M and Wisconsin from 1946-52 and served as re search assistant at the University of Texas Biochemical Institute from 1951-52. Prescott joined A&M’s Bio chemistry and Nutrition Depart ment in 1952 as assistant pro fessor. He was named associate professor in 1956, professor in 1959 and department head in May, 1969. He has been elected to the American Society of Biological Chemists and American Institute of Nutrition. Prescott is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiology, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for Gen eral Microbiology, Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi. Prescott and his wife, the former Kathryn Ann Kelly of McAllen, have two sons, Stephen Michael and Donald Wyatt. K ‘Taste-In’ Planned By MSC Committee Students and faculty members will have the opportunity to sample new and different foods Dec. 14. The Host and Fashion Com mittee of the Memorial Student Center will sponsor an open house taste-in from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Birch Room of the MSC, accord ing to Mrs. Dale Torgerson, chairman. Two prominent local chefs, Robert Tapley, owner of the Texan restaurant, and Fred Dol lar, director of food services, will prepare some of their special ties, she said. A display of wines and a speak er to answer questions about which wine to serve with what dish will also be featured, she noted. “Samples of dishes from cheeses to beef teriyaki will be served,” said Tyson Clemons, vice chairman. “We hope to stimulate a cul tural interest in gourmet foods,” he said. “This is a great oppor tunity to try foods that you wouldn’t taste otherwise.” “The foods will be served in a candlelight-wine atmosphere,” Torgerson said, “and since this is the Christmas season, everyone should be eager to socialize for a few minutes with other students.” She stressed that the taste-in will be informal and that students can “come as they are.” PRESCOTT WEATHER Thursday—Partly cloudy, wind Easterly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 72, low 44. Friday—Partly cloudy to cloudy wind Southerly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 74, low 47. Fayettville — (Texas - Ark.) rainshowers, wind Southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. 66°. Through B-CS Junior Flag Football League Inc. Concerned Ags Help Youngsters Learn About Sports By Bob Robinson Battalion Staff Writer In early September, a grad uate student in political science talked to some friends in the cof fee shop of the Memorial Student Center. The result of this con versation was the Bryan-College Station Junior Flag Football League, Incorporated, a non profit organization devoted to teaching organized sports and competition to 6-12 year-olds. It all started last July when Lawrence Stelley, of College Sta tion, was given the idjea by Father Bernard Mahoney, Chap lain at the St. Mary’s Student University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. Center at North Gate. Both felt that the community needed a pro gram in which boys too young for junior high or high school athletics could take part in or ganized sports. The idea lay dormant through the rest of the summer, then Stelley talked to four friends, David Nava, junior English ma jor from San Antonio; Greg Schwei, junior nuclear engineer ing major from Oceanside, Calif.; Dave Lechelt, junior physics ma jor from Cedar Falls, Iowa, and James Neal, senior physical edu cation major from San Antonio. Soon, 6 to 12 year-olds were playing football at five different fields in the Bryan-College Sta tion area. Over 400 boys from different elementary schools in the com munity play football four nights a week under the supervision of more than 50 Aggies acting as coaches and referees. The boys learn the rules of football, ac tual plays, good sporstmanship, and how to play as a team. Arthur L. Dunn, superintendent of Parks and Recreation in Col lege Station, also a junior in so ciology at Texas A&M, said this is the best thing to happen to College Station and Bryan in a long time. “The whole purpose is to give kids who weren’t involved in oth er things something to do,” he said. “A list was passed around in all the elementary schools with an excellent response. These kids were idle. There was no organ ized play of any kind set up.” The high schools have been very cooperative in allowing the use of playing fields and equip ment, Dunn added. The fields presently being used by the league are the Lincoln Recreation Center and Thomas Park in College Station, and Kemp High School, Henderson Park and Thomas Park in Bryan. “The league is chartered by the state so it can accept contribu tions for non-proft purposes,” said Nava. “When we first start ed, Larry (Stelley) paid for the footballs the kids are usign out of his own pocket. The only way he can be reimbursed is by do nations to the league.” Dunn, who was in charge of the recreation center of the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos before he came to College Station in April, said that he cooperates with the students whenever he can on requests for information or equipment. “They need money badly to buy lime, more footballs and oth er flag football equipment,” he said. “So far, only a few citi zens have made any donations.” Citizens of this community need to take more interest, he said. They think that the pro gram will go on indefinitely with out any participation, he added. “I want to prove that if a group of A&M students, not ac tually involved in the communi ty, can start something like this, then people living here could and should become involved,” he said. “So far, we’ve gotten no op position, but also very little help from the residents,” Nava said. “We’re teaching Negroes, Span ish Americans and whites to play the game of football together. They’re learning rules and team work that will be valuable to them if they take part in the athletic events offered to them in junior high or high school.” Stelley said they plan to start a basketball league as well, next February. “We’re going to need a lot of help from Aggies who are will ing to give some time to these kids,” he said. Stelley said anyone wishing to help out can contact Dunn through the department of Parks and Recreation. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. BB&L —Adv.