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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.
After completing undergradu
ate work for a degree in English,
Cisneros remained at Texas AM
for the master’s in urban plan
ning, through which he workei
in San Antonio and Bryan. He
was named earlier this year to
Outstanding Young Men
America listing.
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