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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 21, 1971 THE BATTALION l Sea Grant Japanese to talk h Leaders in Japan’s ocean ex ploitation will be in Houston Thursday to present an overview of technical achievements in Jap anese offshore technology. Sponsored by A&M’s Sea Grant Program in cooperation with the United States-Japan Panel on Ma rine Facilities and Structures, the seminar is open to persons work ing in marine-related fields. Highlights of the one-day pre sentation at Astroworld Hotel in clude a review of key goals with in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, an overview of ship research, innovations in port con struction, description of the com puter-controlled super-automated ship and anti-collision system and Law dedicates garden to grad’s memory CLEAN, CLEAR water is disappearing-, that will be the message of this picture at an exhibit “The Vanishing Wil derness,” in the Memorial Student Center this week in con junction with SCOPE’S Earth Week activities. All pho tographs in the exhibit are by Assistant Professor Howard F. Eilers of the Department of Journalism. Campus briefs Mothers’ clubs president Houston mom Mrs. S. T. Sikes of Houston Saturday was elected president of the Federation of Texas A&M University Mothers’ Clubs at the state-wide organization’s annual meeting here. The program included an ad dress by Texas A&M President Jack K. Williams, inaugurated as president Friday. Mrs. Carter Dibrell of Bren- ham, federation president during 1970-71, was elected vice presi dent at-large. Other vice presi dents are Mrs. Henry G. Creel Jr., Fort Worth; Mrs. Fred L. May Jr., San Antonio; Mrs. James C. Brown, Alamo; Mrs. Maurice Methary Jr., Junction; Mrs. L. R. Ffrench, Baytown, and Mrs. Guy C. Waller, Pasadena. Also, Mrs. Frances Kimbrough, Bryan, treasurer; Mrs. R. V. Thomas Jr., Liberty, recording secretary; Mrs. J. O. Hurley, Houston, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Don Cottrell, Austin, parlia mentarian, and Mrs. Charles O. Chesnutt, Beeville, historian. The federation includes 51 clubs located throughout the state. ★ ★ ★ Special Olympics set for early Saturday A Special Olympics for mental ly retarded children will be run Saturday on Kyle Field. Part of a national program initiated by the Kennedy Founda tion, the 8:30 a. m. track and field meet will provide competion op portunity for special education students within 100 miles of Col lege Station. About 200 boys and girls ages eight to 19 are expected for the half-day meet sponsored by the Health and Physical Education Club. Dr. John M. Chevrette said youngsters will come from Mexia State School and Livingston, among others. They will compete in the 50- yard dash, 300-yard run, 440-yard relay, standing broad jump, high jump and softball throw for dis tance. Members of Teenagers for the Retarded will assist in run ning the Special Olympics. “Special education students are not eligible to participate in Tex as Interscholastic League activi ties,” Chevrette said. “Many of these kids have a lot of physical ability. The Special Olympics gives them a chance to demon strate it.” ★ ★ ★ High school counseling workshop Saturday Legal implications in school counseling will be examined Sat urday in a regional workshop here. School administrators and coun selors of the area includingHunts- ville, Conroe, Brenham and Tem ple are expected to participate, said Dr. Charles E. McCandless, president of the Brazos Valley Counselors Association and work shop co-sponsor with the Region VI Education Service Center at Huntsville. Keynote speaker of the 9 a. m. to noon workshop will be Dr. Richard T. Robinson, counseling education director at SMU. The Honorable Charles J. Sebesta Jr., Burleson County judge, Caldwell, and W. C. McClain, Conroe at torney, will lead discussion fol lowing Robinson’s address. Workshop sessions will be in the Architecture Auditorium at Texas A&M. McCandless is as sociate dean of A&M’s College of Liberal Arts and associate profes sor of educational psychology. ★ ★ ★ Physics lecture Thursday at 4 p. m. Dr. I. lelson of the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, will give a physics colloquium lecture on “The Quest for Superheavy Ele ments” at 4 p. m. Thursday. The Physics Room 146 lecture is preceded by a coffee at 3:30 p. m. ★ ★ ★ Doctoral candidate awarded fellowship An A&M doctoral candidate has been awarded the prestigeous Na tional Institutes of Health Post- Doctoral Fellowship to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N. Y. Richard Stockert, Ph.D. genetics student who expects to graduate in August, will join Dr. Salome G. Waelsch in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Genetics De partment Sept. 1. He is the first A&M graduate accepted at the medical center. Dr. Waelsch is department chairman and she also is one of the world’s leading developmental geneticists. Stockert will be assigned to Dr. Waelsch’s staff, where the em phasis is on genetic control of mammalian differentiation and cancer research. The Einstein college is one of the leading cancer research and tissue culture centers in the world. Dedication ceremonies were held 1 Sunday for the Samuel J. Reeve’s Memorial Garden of Law Hall. A memorial monument was unveiled, and Terry Van Dyck, Law Hall president, gave a short dedication speech. Reeve, a 1969 graduate of Tex as A&M and a former resident advisor for Law Hall, was on a canoe with two Boy Scouts in North Carolina last summer when the canoe overturned in mid stream. Successful in rescuing one of the Scouts, Reeve’s second at tempt was futile and cost him his life. The monument and memorial gardens are the result of the ini tiative of hall officers and Rob ert Rucker, university landscape architect. It is the first such mon ument on campus, and was ap proved by the board of directors at its February meeting. a review of the Japanes Man-in the-Sea Program. “Presentation of the Mitsui jack-up work platform system for deep water construction will be of special interest,” according to Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., Sea Grant Program director. “This system is part of the growing field of civil engineering tools for Japan’s expansion into the sea,” Calhoun added. Additional attention will be giv en to offshore terminal develop ment, acquisition of environmen tal data, submersible safety and pollution and clean-up. “Participants will have an op portunity to be involved in a round-table discussion of the technical interface between ocean engineering in the two countries,” Calhoun said. Chairing the seminar are Hi- roo Kido, director of the Ship Re- search Institute of Japan; Charles i^ 1 C. Bates, science advisor to tie ( Commandant, U. S. 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