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GALVESTON — The “Texas
Clipper” steamed out of Galves
ton Bay Saturday carrying 181
students on an eight-week Euro
pean voyage of learning, fun and
goodwill.
Galveston’s weathered Pier 19
was crowded with families,
friends and fiancees seeing the
students off and shedding a few
tears.
for European voyage
Che Battalion
Spirits were lifted when a
Texas Maritime Academy band
aboard ship swung into the
“Aggie War Hymn” as the 15,000-
ton converted oceanliner pulled
away from the dock.
The cruise is part of the re
quired training for students en
rolled in the academy, a division
of Texas A&M. The TMA cadets
operated the ship under the super
vision of the academy staff per
sonnel.
Joining the 103 TMA cadets
were 78 spring high school gradu
ates enrolled in Texas A&M’s
“Summer School at Sea,” which
offers basic freshman courses.
While visiting four foreign
ports, the students have been in
vited to participate in two special
American-related events. They
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will help observe American In
dependence Day at Denmark’s
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and join in observance of the
350th anniversary of the sailing
of the “Mayflower” July 9 at
Plymouth, England.
Other European ports of call
include Cobh, Ireland, and Ham
burg, Germany.
Thursday — Hazy, possibility
of scattered light rainshowers.
Winds South to Southwesterly
at 12 m.p.h.
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The Research Foundation has
keen awarded a $45,815 supple
mental grant to support pollution
research in the Houston Ship
Channel.
Dr. Roy Hann Jr., associate
professor of environmental engi
neering, noted the supplement
brings the total Water Quality
Administration grant to $356,428
for the four-year study.
Dr. Hann said the increase was
needed for expanded projects in
cluding an enlargement of the
field program and an analytical
study of the results.
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Texas A&M’s two-day summer
Freshman Orientation Confer
ences began this week on campus,
with 13 scheduled between now
and the first week in August.
Auston Kerley, director of the
sponsoring Counseling and Test
ing Center, reports approximately
freshmen and about 150 par
ents will attend each session. June
eonferences start each Monday
md Thursday with July and Au
gust conferences held Thursday
and Friday only.
All the new “fish” have been
accepted for fall admittance.
A&M’s Registrar, Counseling
and Testing Center, Housing Of
fice, Deans, Student Life and
ilOTC offices., are involved in the
Program that smoothes the way
fnr the fall freshmen.
When the new students report
f« Aug. 31 start of classes, they
only have to pick up room keys
to be bonafide students.
During the conferences, the stu
dents receive placement tests,
Mentation, dormitory assign
ments, are measured for ROTC
•niforms, confer with deans and
Pre-register for classes.
Fees are paid later but books
may be purchased or reserved,
Wley noted.
Advanced placement tests and
( redit by examination are given
tligible freshmen each Wednes
day during the orientation period
V the student’s major depart
ment.
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Housing is available in univer
sity dormitories for $3.50 a night.
Kerley said the first four June
conferences are full.
During the first day, the stu
dents and parents meet together
at 7:30 a.m. Aptitude, achieve
ment and personal interest tests
are given at 8:30 and the parents
have an orientation program from
10-11:15.
Civilian and Corps of Cadets
meetings are held the first after
noon. At 7:30 p.m., the students
meet with the parents for regis
tration orientation and receive
reports on the morning tests.
Record 6,427
enrollment
Texas A&M enrolled a record
6,427 students for its first semes
ter of summer school, for an in
crease of more than eight per
cent over the same period last
year.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
registration on the campus totals
6,015.
An additional 182 students en
rolled at Galveston for the Euro
pean summer cruise of the Texas
Maritime Academy. The Marine
Laboratory, also at Galveston, has
registered 57 students.
The Texas A&M Adjunct at
Junction has an enrollment of 173,
including 110 freshmen and 63
geology and civil engineering
students conducting field work.
A research boat, the R. V. Ex
cellence, is used in the study
entitled “Management of Indus
trial Waste Discharge in Complex
Esturine Systems.”
Seventy per cent of the funds
for the project is coming from
the Research and Development
Program, Water Quality Admin
istration, and Texas A&M’s Texas
Engineering Experiment Station
is funding 30 per cent of the
total $510,000 study.
Dr. Hann noted the research is
at the halfway point with two
years remaining.
The university has also been
awarded two federal grants total
ing $117,424 for research in con
trol of both air and water pol
lution.
A $16,221 award from the Na
tional Air Pollution Control Ad
ministration will support a new
basic study entitled “Structure
and Reactivity of Absorbed Ox
ides of Sulphur.”
Sulphur dioxide, on a tonnage
basis, is one of the greatest con
tributors to air pollution, noted
Dr. Jack H. Lunsford, Texas
A&M chemistry professor head
ing the new study.
Lunsford said sulphur dioxide
results from the burning of coal
and hydrocarbons. He pointed out
it also is a by-product of the
mining industry.
“We will be basically trying to
understand how the molecules are
absorbed and their properties in
the absorbed state,” the Texas
A&M chemist explained.
He said the study also will
explore ways to react the oxides
to make useful products, such as
sulphuric acid.
The $16,221 grant provides
first-year support for a three-
year study.
Dr. William B. Davis, head of
the Environmental Engineering
Division of Texas A&M’s Civil
Engineering Department, said the
$101,263 grant from the Depart
ment of Interior continues sup
port of the university’s graduate
student training in water quality
research.
He said 18 students will share
in the funds while assisting in
university projects at Houston
and Dallas, as well as on the
Texas A&M campus.
DR GORDON I. SWANSON
World traveler
key speaker
at conference
Concepts of successful business
management can be applied in
making education more relevant,
the keynote speaker suggested
at the School Administrators and
Supervisors Conference.
“In towns of 1,000 or more
population, the most successful
business can be accurately pre
dicted as banks, insurance com
panies, chain drug stores and
franchise businesses,” Dr. Gordon
I. Swanson claimed Monday.
The University of Minnesota
international programs coordina
tor said in a less successful cate
gory are hardware, produce and
implement firms, bakeries, laun
dries and dry-cleaners.
“Something consistent about
the first category is that these
businesses use management data
systems,” Swanson informed 500
county and district superintend
ents and instructional super
visors.
“Where is the school, toward
the first or second category?” the
conference lead-off speaker asked.
“How are schools using their
community resources? Can these
local forces be mobilized for edu
cation ? ”
“How can management organ
ization and entrapreneurial meth
ods be used by schools? Can
schools survive on the basis of
these kinds of management?” he
continued.
Swanson suggested planning,
goal rather than strategy orien
tation, and community involve
ment are necessary in education.
“Planning was not a respect
able concept in education 10 years
ago,” he claimed. But its respect
ability is improving. Reasons are
that planning is the best way to
educate officials and associates,
it is part of the competitive en
terprise system, leads to goal
setting activities and can recon
cile one part of a system with
the whole or another system, the
speaker said.
Window-rattling sonic booms
are a fixture of the modern world
about which very little can be
done directly.
“The effect can be minimized,”
Texas A&M graduate Dexter C.
Collier of San Angelo said, “but
it will have to be done by operat
ing planes flying at supersonic
speeds within prescribed guide
lines.”
The guidelines will consist, the
May aerospace engineering grad
uate believes, in restricting super
sonic craft to designated maneu
ver areas outside populated
areas, very high cruising alti
tudes and strictly - controlled
climb and descent phases of
flights.
A sonic boom is a simple phys
ical phenomenon naturally asso
ciated with an object moving
through the atmosphere at sonic
or supersonic speed, Collier de
scribed.
If the object is large enough—
such as an airplane — and low
enough, a shock wave that trails
like an arrowhead from its lead
ing point intersects the ground.
Pressures in front of and be
hind the shock wave differ. The
ear of an observer, windows and
other fragile structures interpret
passage of the pressure wave as
an explosion.
At one time an interesting phe
nomenon experienced only around
air shows or military bases, sonic
booms are increasing in number
and distribution due to larger
numbers of military planes flying
at sustained supersonic speeds,
the aero student added.
Proposed supersonic transports
(the SST) will result in almost
everyone hearing sonic booms oc
casionally.
Indications are that some peo
ple are hearing too many already.
Reacting to sonic boom fears, the
Senate Appropriations Commit-
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Oceanographers
beginning project
Oceanographers Dr. Thomas J.
Bright and doctoral candidate
William W. Schroeder started an
unusual project this week, a sur
vey of bio-acoustical sound fluc
tuations of underwater marine
life.
They will remain 50 feet under
water throughout the 21-day re
search period, sleeping, eating
and working from a Tektite habi
tat planted on a coral reef be
neath the surface of Great Lame-
shur Bay in the U. S. Virgin
Islands.
The scientists entered the wa
ter at 1 p.m. June 1. They are
scheduled to come up at 10:30
a.m. Sunday, June 21.
A 20-hour decompression peri
od will follow.
Bright and Schroeder are on
the fourth mission of the ambi
tious underwater science program
known as Tektite II. The program
started in April and will continue
to Nov. 1, 1970.
Site of the study is the Carib
bean, off the south shore of St.
John in the U. S. Virgin Islands.
Tektite II was designed and
programmed by more than a doz
en government bodies, educational
institutions including Texas A&M
and private industry. The U. S.
Department of the Interior is the
lead participant.
General Electric designed and
built the underwater lab and liv
ing quarters.
Soft Crash—This test vehicle at Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute
received only moderate front-end damage when rammed at 63 mph into a collapsible con
crete device designed to “cushion” bridges and other rigid obstacles along the roadside.
Instruments indicated the wreck would have been survived by passengers wearing seat
belts.