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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.
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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.
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“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
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