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,1 > t H M ' tTbi rkwift 1 Pagre 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 19, 1971 THE BATTALION Educators to gather ‘Accountability’ talk topic ’67-’68 band C.O. White House fellow Consideration of change and accountability in public school education at the 1971 School Ad ministrators and Supervisors Con ference will feature the view point of an educator whose work has centered on the student. Speaking on “Accountability: The Student in the Process” at the three-day June conference at Texas A&M University will be Dr. David Aspy, education pro fessor at Northeast Louisiana State in Monroe, La. Aspy will address the second general assembly of more than 700 administrators and supervis ors expected for the June 7-9 conference. Accountability, a new educa tional term, will be covered from the literacy angle in the first as sembly keynote speech by Dr. Jo M. Stanchfield, California educa tor and reading consultant. Accountability is the simplest terms means accounting for pub lic funds spent on education. Conference chairman Dr. Paul Hensarling said “it means that school systems are being required to prove that public funds are spent wisely and with maximum benefit to the public.” Today’s parents, businessmen, students and society in general— the public school “owners” — are wanting to know whether educa tion is doing the job to lead stu dents to an enriched life, a bet ter job, a new perspective, he added. Aspy, a widely-sought special ist who has consulted in 38 states, the Virgin Islands, England and Israel, has done considerable study of interpersonal conditions in teaching and teacher training. Conducted from Williamsburgh, Mass., to Dade County and Day tona Beach, Fla., and Louisville, Ky., Aspy investigations have been into teacher-student rela tionship effects on student out come, teacher training, counsel ing and psychotherapy. Aspy also has written for nu merous publications on educators getting “hard-nosed,” child-cen tered education, creativity, inter personal functioning and student growth, humanizing classrooms and teaching efficiency. The June conference is a joint effort of Texas A&M’s Educa tional Administration Depart ment, the Texas Association of County Superintendents, Texas Association of Instructional Su pervisors and the Texas School Administrators Association. Henry G. Cisneros, 1968 Texas A&M graduate, was named a White House Fellow in Monday ceremonies in Washington, D. C. A former administrative assist ant to the mayors of San An tonio and Bryan through urban planning graduate studies at Tex as A&M, Cisneros was one of 17 fellows announced at a White House reception. The fellows met Tuesday with President Nixon. Selected from 1,600 candidates, they will start a year of fed erally-supported study Sept. 1. NSF continues rock studies Study of how coral sands and muds become rocks will continue here during 1971-72 through a $14,800 National Science Founda tion grant. Dr. Richard Rezak heads the investigation which was renewed May 1. He began work in 1969 under a $25,000 NSF grant and has received supplemental funds for the project. The investigation involving two graduate students is aimed at learning how sands and muds, sediments made up primarily of calcium carbonate, are trans formed into rocks. “There is no real understanding of how the process works, and it may be that more than one proc ess is involved,” explained Rezak, marine geologist formerly with the U. S. Geological Survey in Colorado and Shell Development Corp. of Houston. Rezak said mollusks and other organisms that secrete a skeleton are being studied for the influ encing molecule. Oceanography graduate student Michael D. Mc Kenzie of Dallas works in the marine algae calcification study. “We are trying to identify or ganic compounds associated with skeletal material. These com pounds are run through lab ex periments aimed at producing cement in a carbonate sand,” Rezak added. This work is carried out by graduate student David L. Kan of Taipei, Taiwan. Since oil forms in voids of car bonate rocks, understanding the cementation process could lead to extension of existing oil fields and improved oil exploration, Rezak said. Agriculture extension employe gets award WASHINGTON—Dempsey H. Seastrunk; farm and home de velopment specialist for the Tex as Agricultural Extension Serv ice, received the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture’s Superior Service Award Tuesday. He was one of only nine Cooperative Ex tension Service employes in the nation to be so honored. The award, one of the highest the USD A can bestow upon an employe, was presented in cere monies held Tuesday morning in the Sylvan Theatre on the Wash- ington Monument Grounds. Nine ty-one employes of the USD A and nine units were presented awards in the 25th Annual Hon or Awards Program. Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Har din made the presentations. Seastrunk’s citation reads: “In recognition for creative and dynamic leadership and personal dedication to planning and im plementing educational programs resulting in a better way of life for hundreds of low income fam ilies.” The Texas Intensified Farm Planning Program, which oper ates under the leadership of the award winner, is credited with producing unprecedented results. Seastrunk was instrumental in developing a plan directed toward the hard-to-reach low income audience. Ten counties were selected, on a pilot basis, to put the Extension sponsored program into operation. Some 285 farmer participants were given help in raising their income and standard of living through their introduction to im proved farming practices. This year’s group did studies in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Russia as official delegates of the Department of State. Cisneros, working on his Ph.D. at George Washington Univer sity, competed with lawyers, Rhodes Scholars and other top individuals. Also considered were blacks, Indians and other Mexi- can-Americans, including two who attended UT-Austin and St. Mary’s University. At 23, Cisneros is one of the youngest of the 17 fellows. They have been in retreat at Washing ton’s Airlie House, recently com pleting four days of intensive interviews. While studying in Washington, Cisneros has been a graduate assistant to Pat Healey, execu tive vice president of the Na tional League of Cities. He ex pects to complete his course work this summer. An army ROTC cadet and com missioned in the Army at Texas A&M, Cisneros has been de ferred for graduate studies. It will continue for the year of work as a White House Fellow. Aggie Band commander as a More at A&M than any other More 1970 Society of Explora tion Geophysicists scholarship re cipients chose to enroll at Texas A&M than any other school in the country. The 1971 “SEG Yearbook” re ported that nine Texas A&M stu dents received scholarships. Fol lowing A&M were Colorado School of Mines and Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology with six scholarship winners each. The SEG Foundation granted 50 scholarships totaling $33,250 for the 1970-71 academic year. senior, Cisneros chaired the Me morial Student Center Leader ship Committee, was vice chair man of SCONA XII planning and finance chairman of the 13th Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs. 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