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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, April 21, 1971
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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. Coast Guard; jMay
Tamio Ashino, manager of Ja-
pan’s Ship Machinery Develop
ment and Dr. Calhoun.
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