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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1970)
Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 1, 1970 Five new professors join staff THE BATTALION Former newsman Q ra d Students joins department Five additions to the College of Business Administration faculty at Texas A&M have been an nounced by Dean John E. Pear son. Named assistant professors are Frank P. Buffa, Business Anal ysis Department; Gary L. Schu- gart, Finance Department, and Carl D. Parker, Management De partment. Dr. Paul W. Lindloff Jr. was named visiting professor of accounting and Clyde E. New- miller Jr. will be instructor in management. Dr. Lindloff 48, received bache lor’s and master’s degrees from Baylor University. He was award ed the Ph.D. in accounting, man agement and finance from the University of Texas Austin, in 1965. A certified public accountant, Dr. Lindloff comes to Texas A&M from the University of South Alabama. He also has teaching experience at Texas, Duke and the University of Houston. Dr. Lindloff holds memberships in the American Accounting As sociation, Planning Executive In stitute and National Association of Accountants. He completed doctoral work under Humble Oil and General Electric Fellowships. Buffa 26, has a B.S. degree in physics from Loyola University, New Orleans, and the M.B.A. from LSU. He will receive the Ph.D. in business statistics from LSU this summer. Buffa has five years graduate asst, teaching experience at LSU. Schugart, 34, will complete Ph.D. requirements in August at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is currently assistant profes sor of finance at Wichita State. A former Associated Press newsman and freelance science writer joins the Journalism De partment this fall, announced De partment Head C. J. Leabo. dive for treasure William C. Harrison, 51, is a nationally recognized science writer, Leabo pointed out. Harrison will fill an assistant professor position vacated by Bob Rogers, who is joining the jour nalism faculty at the University of Wyoming. A Speciat Invitation To Try — — Oakridge Smokehouse Restaurant BREAKFAST - DINNER - SUPPER Rest and Relax In Our Pleasant Country Atmosphere We Will Lean, Sag, and Bend To Please You SMOKED TURKEY • HAMS • BACON • SAUSAGE GOODIES • BAKED DAILY • HOME MADE BREAD KOLACHES • GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKES • COUNTRY PIES • HOME CANNED GOODS • JELLIES • PICKLES, ETC. • BROWSE AROUND UP FRONT o CANDIES • GIFTS • CARDS • SOUVENIERS For A Tasty Treat Eat KOUNTRY KITCHEN KOOKIN Oakridge Smokehouse Restaurant 807 Texas Ave. College Station Ben E. Youngblood, Jr. Mgr. Hiway 6 - Texas A&M 200 yd. N. of East Gate A 1948 Phi Beta Kappa gradu ate of the University of Missouri, Harrison holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Journalism de grees. He also was awarded the Certificate in Advanced Science Writing from Columbia Univer sity in 1966. Harrison was a bomber pilot in Europe during World War II, serving from 1942 until 1945. He was managing editor of twin weekly newspapers in Hamp ton, Iowa, from 1951 until 1953. Harrison joined The Associated Press in April, 1954, and resigned in 1968 to spend full-time work ing on books, promotion and free lance wi’iting. Smith appointed libraries director Oceanography graduate stu dents dove for sunken Spanish treasure in the Gulf of Mexico during August. Involved in the SCUBA diving work were William W. Schroeder of San Diego, Calif.; G. S. Ed wards of Houston and Schroeder’s wife. Phyllis. Schroeder and Ed wards are working on doctorates in oceanography. All three are veteran divers. The project involving scientists of Southern Methodist Univer sity, A&M and Texas Tech is conducted through the Institute for Underwater Research Inc., a newly-formed agency license by the Texas Antiquities Committee for geophysical and SCUBA sur veys of the suspected location where a Spanish treasure fleet sank more than 400 years ago. Recovered artifacts will be turned over to the committee, but the project’s primary purpose was to mark located wreckage to prevent plundering and illegal recovery. Schroeder, who instructs SCU BA diving, recently returned from a research project with Dr. Thom as J. Bright in the Virgin Islaii They remained underwater days in the Tektite II reseat program, living in a specialy tat and investigating marine I sounds. The graduate student saiJi Texas coast work employed ali mounted equipment, shore stm crews and divers to pinpoint! cations of sunken vessels, a temporary or ancient. Shipboard magnetometer rti ings indicating metallic orn interruptions of the Gulf boil were investigated by divers, the diver locates wreckage,sli crews take compass fixes onl ship to record the exact local! Schroeder pointed out thati cations of both modern andi cient wreckage were determin “Rock was used as ballast Spanish galleons,” he noted,! magnetometer should show I rock as an anomaly, provi it is not ‘shadowed’ by near wreckage of later origin." Directing the research n Prof. Tom Hays, SMU anthrtiji ogist. SMU graduate studa also participated in the project Texas Vets given John B. Smith has been ap pointed director of libraries. Smith, a 1960 Texas A&M graduate, has served as acting director the past year. view of new field Announcement of the appoint ment was made at the Tuesday meeting of the board of directors. After receiving his undergradu ate degree in English, he earned a master’s degree in library sci ence at Columbia University in 1963. Prior to joining the staff in 1966 as assistant librarian, Smith was assistant law librarian at Columbia. Texas veterinarians were given a brief glimpse at a new field — aquatic veterinary medicine — during the 23rd annual veteri narian conference in June. Dr. George W. Klontz, one of five aquatic veterinarians in the United States and the only one in college teaching, pointed out a South Carolina catfish farmer harvested 340,000 pounds of dressed catfish per acre foot last year. The associate professor said it was an indication of what cat done in fish farming, noting cents out of every dollar in fan ing fish is spent on prevent medicine. bank (bangk,) n. An estab lishment for the custody money — C-J */ 7 for the extension of credit, j # ri “Fish farming isn’t a sin; matter of having fish in waif: Dr. Klontz declared. “You k the right kind of fish and a right kind of water.” He estimated the average! fish farmer could gross beta !j!500 to $1,000 an acre, wl grain farmers average about): “The trouble with fish farm: is farmers are getting into! he related. “A rice farmer can raise lions of fish in ponds, but hem not know what to do with I fish or how to prevent diseas Dr. Klontz said the sameisti of other types of fish, inclui trout and even salt water fish. He told the veterinarians! tending the two-day programtl fish farming is a whole industry in its infant stage# A&M offering the only aqM veterinary medicine program the U. S. An example of one problem galvanized zinc water systei Dr. Klontz disclosed. He saidti metal is lethal to fish, yetis® in many fish farm water systet He disclosed a new metal b bucket used by sports fisherm has a killing effect on the bait and for facilitating the FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED transmission drafts or bills of exchange, Bank of A&M Highway Six South, Col lege Station, 713-846-5721. Member, FDIC CASH REFUND FOR TWO WEEKS /