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THE BATTALION Thursday, January 21, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 3 Campus briefs Geosciences leads in ecology movement Appointments of two faculty members to ecology commissions has placed A&M’s College of Geo sciences in a lead position in the ecology movement. Dr. Earl Cook of the Geography Department has been appointed to the Commission on Human Ecology of the International As sociation for Ecology. A&M also has been invited by the president of the Ecological Society of America to be one of the founding institutions of the National Institute of Ecology. Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., A&M’s geosciences dean, was named del egate to the founding commission, which would conduct ecological research and promote social ac tion in the ecology movement. ★ ★ ★ A.&M hosts symposium on process industries A&M will host 550 engineers, plant managers and manufactur ing representatives for the 26th annual Symposium on Instrumen tation for the Process Industries through Friday. Symposium director Dr. Ray ford G. Anthony noted the meet ing is the nation’s oldest for con tinuous fluid flow process indus- Eleven technical reports will be read during the symposium. ★ ★ ★ Clayton named advisor at atmosphere lab Dr. William H. Clayton, asso ciate dean of A&M’s College of Geosciences, has been appointed to the advisory panel of the facili ties laboratory for the National Center of Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colo. The three-year appointment was announced by Daniel F. Rex, director of facilities for NCAR. ★ ★ ★ Honor group takes nine A&M grads Nine December graduates of Texas A&M University have been initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in recognition of outstanding academic accom plishments. The new members are Julian Garcia, aerospace engineering Hillsboro; Larry G. Morse, elec trical engineering, Bedias; James C. Mulder, zoology, Houston. Also, David E. Ondrias, recrea tion and parks, Wharton; Paul L. Parker, curriculum and instruc tion, Murchison; Ronald D. Perry, finance, Spring; William D. Reed, management, San Antonio, and Morris M. Stroman, aerospace engineering, Texarkana. Each had 3.5 or higher grade point ratios on a maximum 4.0 system. The purpose of Phi Kappa Phi is to recognize scholarship in all fields of study and to invite to membership the highest ranking students from any branch of learning. ★ ★ ★ Camera committee plans field trip Arrangements for a Jan. 29 tour of Animal World near Mes quite will be made Monday by the Memorial Student Center Camera Committee. Members also will sign up for the spring semester and draw locker space at the 7:30 p.m. meeting in Rooms 3B and C of the MSC, announced chairman Greg Gray of Houston. He said 20 members accompa nied by advisor C. M. Sykes, Ger trude Adams and Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, wildlife science profes sor, will make the three-hour vis it to Animal World. The photo graphers will have picture-mak ing opportunities on an auto drive-through and a special walk ing tour. The committee, which signed 70 members last semester, has facilities for color and black-and- white film and print processing available to members. ★ ★ ★ Library staff changes told New duties will be assumed Feb. 1 by Richard L. Puckett and Mrs. Jane B. Davis of the Texas A&M University library faculty, Director John B. Smith an nounced. Puckett, circulation librarian five years, has been appointed to the newly-created position of Smith said Puckett will coordi nate the library’s several public service departments and the Col lege of Veterinary Medicine Li brary. Mrs. Davis will become circula tion librarian, moving from re serve room librarian where she has served since September, 1969. The important circulation libra rian deals closely with visitors and persons from across the campus. Mrs. Davis also will have responsibility for staffing the Interlibrary Loan Office and reserve reading room. Smith said Mrs. Bernice Eth eridge, now a junior librarian, will be in charge of the reserve room. ★ ★ ★ Hourly wage of $1.60 begins on Feb. 1 A new minimum hourly wage of $1.60 becomes effective Feb. 1 under provisions of the 1966 amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The minimum wage increase applies to most A&M System em ployees, reminded H. Ray Smith, acting director of personnel. Ag ricultural employees who are par tially exempt from the act are not affected. He pointed out that the rate change applies to part-time stu dent employees as well as those employees not exempt from pro visions of the act. Texas A&M employees not exempt from over time provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act will continue to receive one and a half times the regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 hours during the work week, Thursday through Wednesday, Smith added. ★ ★ ★ B-CS chamber banquet becomes sellout The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce Banquet is a sellout, chamber executive vice president Pat Mann announced Tuesday afternoon. The banquet is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ramada Inn. should contact the chamber office in the event there are cancella tions, he added. Dr. Jack K. Williams, president of the Texas A&M University System, will be the featured speaker. ★ ★ ★ Astronaut Peterson to speak in Bryan Astronaut Donald H. Peterson has accepted an invitation to speak in the Civic Auditorium on the evening of Jan. 29. Astronaut Peterson’s appearance is being sponsored by the Bryan Library Board and details about the pro gram will be announced later, according to Mrs. John McIntyre, program chairman. ★ ★ ★ Secretaries group to hold seminar The Bryan - College Station Chapter of The National Secre taries Association will conduct its 13th annual seminar Feb. 13. Mrs. Bettye J. Kahan, chapter president, announced the pro- Memorial Student Center on the Meforial Student Center on the campus. Theme of the seminar is “How Open Is the Door?” Dean Fred J. Benson of the College of En gineering is keynote speaker. The registration fee is $7 and includes a luncheon. Full-time students pay $3.50 to register, Mrs. Kahan noted. Registration must be completed by Friday, Feb. 5. ★ ★ ★ Night bill depository begun by College Station A night depository for payment of bills after working hours and on weekends has been placed in the College Station City Hall, ac cording to an announcement by Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson. The depository is located near the drive-in pay window. ★ ★ ★ Twenty-one papers being presented Twenty-one technical papers from many facets of research for safe, effective, and enduring high ways are being presented by Tex as A&M University researchers at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board in Washington, D. C., January 18- 22. The presentations cover re search of the Texas Transporta tion Institute. Denmark on summer school cruise route Texas A&M University’s 1971 “Summer School at Sea” will in clude visits to Denmark, The Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal and the Canary and Virgin Islands. The June 5-Aug. 12 program is open to spring high school graduates and is conducted in conjunction with the training cruise for the Texas Maritime Academy. Adm. James D. Craik, TMA superintendent, said the cruise will be aboard the “Texas Clip per,” a 15,000-ton converted oceanliner. The cruise originates in Galves ton and includes a stop enroute at Philadelphia. In addition to visiting foreign ports and getting a taste of life at sea, Craik said students have the opportunity to earn six hours of college credit. Texas A&M’s College of Liberal Arts coordinates academic in struction, which this year will include a choice of freshman courses in English, American his tory and algebra. Credit for the courses can be applied to degree requirements at TMA, Texas A&M or any other college or uni versity, the admiral said. Costs for “Summer School at Sea” participants total $625 for Texas residents and $775 for out- of-state students. The costs in clude room, board, laundry and tuition. Additional information or ap plications may be obtained by contacting Enrolling Officer, Tex as Maritime Academy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843. now*"': , woty with JOHNNY BISAGNO” FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd — 7:30 P. M. 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