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College Station, Texas
MRS. EARL RUDDER HOLDS the Dominican Republic ice, honors the late A&M President Earl Rudder’s dedi-
Order of Heraldry of Christopher Columbus medal pre- cation to Dominican agricultural programs. Represent-
sented Tuesday by two Dominican students attending Tex- ing the country are Jose Paiewonsky (right) and Carlos
as A&M. The medal, highest honor for international serv- Rodriguez.
11 to spend summer in Europe
Wednesday, May 26, 1971
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Wells named
distinguished
Tarleton grad
STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Clyde
H. Wells, Granbury rancher and
president of the Texas A&M
Board of Directors, has been nam
ed Tarleton State College Dis
tinguished Alumnus for 1971 by
the Tarleton Ex-Students Asso
ciation.
W. Doyle Graves, retired pro
fessor, has been selected Distin
guished Faculty Member. The ac
tion was taken at the spring meet
ing of the Association’s board
held on thes Tarleton campus
May 15.
The two men will be honored at
the Association’s annual Distin
guished Alumni Banquet to be
held at Tarleton homecoming
night, Nov. 6.
Wells, a native of Stephenville,
is in his 10th year as a member
of the A&M board of directors.
He is also serving his second con
secutive term as president of the
board.
years of study at Tarleton in
1936. He received the B. S. degree
from Texas A&M in 1938.
Wells has been a member of
the faculty at both Tarleton State
College and Texas Christian Uni
versity. He was with the United
States Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service prior
to becoming associated with the
J. R. Black Estate and Black
Trust, Hood, Parker and Dallas
counties.
In Granbury, he has been pres
ident of the Chamber of Com
merce, president of the Board of
Education, and a member of the
Board of Trustees for the First
United Methodist Church. He
served as Past Master of the
Stephenville Masonic Lodge, and
is past president of the Tarleton
Ex-Students Association.
In 1967, Wells was named Man
of the Year in Texas Agriculture
by the Texas County Agricultural
Agents Association.
Wells most recently served as
chairman of the committee to
nominate Dr. Jack K. Williams
as new president of Texas A&M
and The Texas A&M University
System.
Graves, selected as Distinguish
ed Faculty Member, taught at
Tarleton 25 years before retiring
in 1966. Following his retirement
he was appointed Executive Sec
retary of the Tarleton Ex-Stu
dents Association, a position he
held until he resigned March 31,
1970.
Last year the former Tarleton
professor was appointed by the
USDA as Technical Leader of a
Poultry Processing and Market
ing Training Course arranged by
the Agency of International De
velopment for a Brazilian study
group. Graves served in this ca
pacity for six weeks traveling
with the representatives from
Brazil on a training trip through
six states.
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Eleven Texas A&M students
including seven in the Experiment
in International Living (EIL) will
travel in Europe and England
this summer through the Memo
rial Student Center Travel Com
mittee.
Independent travel and foreign
study travel arrangements also
were made by the committee.
The Experiment, which enhances
intercultural understanding by
placing students as members of
families for from four to six
weeks, this year will have A&M
students in Austria, Czechoslo
vakia, Germany, Greece, the US
SR and Yugoslavia. Some A&M
Experimenters are recent gradu
ates.
Mary L. Hanak, senior market
ing major of Ennis, will be in
Czechoslovakia. She has been ac
tive in the MSC Host and Fashion
Committee.
Brian E. Quinlan of Brazoria
will be in Austria. He received the
bachelor degree in wildlife science
at spring commencement.
Visiting in Greece will be Benja
min H. Thurman of Dallas and
Davis G. Mayes Jr. of Fairborn,
Ohio. Thurman, who will chair the
17th Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs in 1971-72, is a
senior political science major.
501 will go to summer camp
Texas A&M will send 501 Army
and Air Force ROTC cadets to
summer training this year.
They will be at Fort Riley,
Kan.; Eglin AFB, Fla., and Tyn
dall AFB, Fla., for five or six
weeks training, announced Col.
Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
Army cadets will entrain pri
marily at Fort Riley during two
six-week sessions, thpugh several
will attend Airborne or Ranger
Schools. A&M will have 148 ca
dets at Riley from June 6 to July
16. A June 13 to July 23 Riley
section will involve 123 Aggies.
Texas A&M’s Air Force pro
gram will have 220 future officers
in summer training, with 151 at
Eglin. The Air Force training for
Modification being made in the
A&M utilities distribution sys
tems accounted for the largest
planned power outage — lasting
twelve hours last weekend—ever
to be scheduled by the A&M Phy
sical Plant.
The expansion of the utility
systems required a partial shut
down of power to all campus
buildings, Assistant Director of
Maintenance and Utilities William
E. Holland Jr. said.
Total power outage to the Col
lege View and Hensel Apartments
and the university rent cottages
Dr. Billy Gene Lay of Austin
has been named admissions direc
tor here, announced Dean H. Loyd
Heaton.
Lay succeeds Edwin H. Cooper
who recently became assistant to
A&M President Dr. Jack K. Wil
liams.
The new admissions director
served the past year as dean of
boys at Austin’s Crockett High
School while completing require
ments for his Ph.D. in education
administration at the University
of Texas.
the second year will involve ca
dets of military schools—A&M,
VPI, VMI, the Citadel and Nor
wich University—in special “third
lieutenant” programs, which in
cludes more military-oriented in
struction.
Eglin camps will be from June
13 to July 10 and July 18 to Aug.
14. The Tyndall encampment will
run from July 22 to Aug. 18, noted
Lt. Col. Thomas Comstock, acting
professor of aerospace studies.
The AFROTC program in addition
will have 20 two-year program
applicants at six-week camps
throughout the nation.
Three weeks Airborne training
at Fort Benning will be voluntary
for 33 Army ROTC cadets, who
occurred as a result of the shut
down of substations to allow the
transfer of electrical switch gear
by the construction contractor,
Holland explained.
All campus residents and A&M
personnel involved were notified
of the precise time of the power
outage, which lasted only twelve
hours instead of the planned 48.
Efforts made to keep the shut
down to minimum time resulted
in almost no complaints or com
plications to those residing on
campus during the semester
break, Holland said.
Lay, 40, is a 1954 graduate of
Texas A&M. He earned his mas
ter’s degree at the University of
Texas in 1966.
Before joining the Crockett
staff, he was principal at Baker
Junior High School, also in Aus
tin. He previously taught math
ematics in Pasadena.
“Dr. Lay’s academic and pro
fessional background has been
such that he is particularly suited
for admissions work at Texas
A&M,” Heaton said.
will then attend regular camp at
Fort Riley. By becoming jump-
qualified before graduation and
commissioning as second lieuten
ants, the cadets will be in a more
competitive position for assign
ment upon entering active duty,
explained Maj. James G. Mc-
Knight of the Military Science
Department.
Another four cadets are headed
for the 10-week Ranger School,
which will be in leiu of regular
Army ROTC camp at Fort Riley.
Among the Ranger and jump
school-bound cadets are Thomas
M. Stanley, next year’s corps com
mander of Mt. Pleasant, and other
corps staff members.
McKnight said the Ranger
school “will be a tremendous lead
ership-confidence building thing”
for the cadets. Other Army cadets
may attend jump school following
regular summer camp.
J. C. Culpepper
gives $1,000
to new center
Bryan-College Station Realtor
J. C. Culpepper Sr. has presented
the first gift to the new Real
Estate Research Center at Texas
A&M.
Culpepper handed a $1,000 per
sonal check to A&M President Dr.
Jack K. Williams last Thursday.
“Texas A&M has been very
good to me,” Culpepper told Wil
liams during the informal presen
tation in the president’s office.
Gov. Preston Smith signed the
Senate bill May 18 authorizing
the development of the center at
A&M.
The Real Estate Research Cen
ter will become a part of the Col
lege of Agriculture. It will con
duct studies in real estate, urban
and rural economics and subjects
related to real property.
Sponsor of the Senate Bill was
the Texas Association of Realtors.
Funding is expected to be be
tween $375-400,000 the first year,
assessed through real estate li
cense fees.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Power outage last Saturday
largest planned one at A&M
Austin man named
admissions director
New head named
for Ag Information
Mayes is a graduate student in
urban planning and Brazos Valley
editor of the Daily Eagle. He
completed undergraduate study in
journalism last year and was edi
tor of The Battalion.
Don A. Webb of Arlington will
be an Experimenter to Germany.
A sophomore accounting major,
he was a directorate assistant in
the MSC during 1970-71.
Calvin S. (Sam) Walser of
Chillicothe has been furnished ar
rangements in Russia. The junior
history major will be operations
vice president on the MSC Coun
cil next year. He worked in the
Basement committee in 1970-71.
Experience in Yugoslavia will
be gained by Kirk Hawkins, senior
political science major of San
Angelo. Next year’s Town Hall
chairman, he will command the
1st Brigade in the Cadet Corps.
The Travel Committee assisted
graduate student Todd F. Beeler
of Grand Terrace, Calif., toward
study at the University of Man
chester in England. He is in urban
planning.
Independent travel will involve
David K. Line, spring graduate
of Monahans, and Mr. and Mrs.
Paul R. Young Jr., who eariler
worked in Central America in the
Peace Corps. Young expects to
complete work for the DVM in
August. Mrs. Young received a
master’s degree at A&M.
The TSC Distinguished Alum
nus graduated from Stephenville
High School and completed two
Summer term
registration to
begin Monday
Texas A&M’s tempo picks up
Monday with registration for first
summer session.
Classes begin Tuesday and con
tinue through session exams July
9. Registrar Robert A. Lacey ex
pects 6,000 students to enroll for
summer work.
Classes meet daily, usually for
an hour and a half each, during
A&M’s two six-week summer ses
sions. Course offerings are select
ed by departments to meet needs
of regular students.
Several departments also have
special three-week courses in
which students meet class four
hours a day.
Lacey said Monday registration
will be in three groups, at 8 and
9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Registration
forms will be secured by surname
initial at the newsstand in front
of Sbisa Hall.
Dr. William E. Tedrick, for
merly 4-H Youth Program Leader
at Michigan State University, has
been named head of the Texas
A&M University Agricultural In
formation Department.
The department coordinates in
formation programs for the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
and the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
Dr. John E. Hutchison, director
of the Extension Service, said the
new staff member’s appointment
was effective May 17.
“He comes to us with a rich
background of experience and ed
ucation from two land-grant in
stitutions—Ohio State University
and Michigan State University,”
Hutchison said. “With Dr. Ted-
rick’s help, we want to develop
one of the most outstanding de
partments of agricultural infor
mation in the nation. Areas to
be strengthened include research
activities, the in-service training
program, and use of new tech
niques for electronic communica
tions systems.”
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the
College of Agriculture, said Ted
rick is “well qualified for the
post through his extensive knowl
edge of the communications field
which is so essential to modem
agriculture.”
The information department
head grew up at Londonderry,
Ohio, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Tedrick. He graduated in
1952 from Ohio State University
with a B.S. degree in agricultural
education. In 1960, he received a
master’s degree in adult education
from the University of Mary
land.
His doctorate in communica
tions came in 1968 from Michigan
State University. Material for
his dissertation covered methods
of predicting the various mean
ings that people are likely to as
sign to word combinations.
Tedrick and his wife have six
children: Maresa, 18; Melinda, 16;
Charles, 12; Bentley, 10; David,
8; and Eric, 3.
The family will live at 3814
Holly in Bryan.
Grade reports getting home quicker
Texas A&M students don’t have
to wait long these days for the
good — or bad — news.
Semester grade reports now
zip .through the works in less
than three days, where it once
took a week or more.
Improved delivery is the result
of computerized records handling,
according to Registrar Robert A.
Lacey. The records section of his
office received professors’ grade
sheets at 8 a.m. May 17. A com
puter-printed mailer reporting a
student’s grades for spring course
work was in post office sorting
by 3 p.m. last Wednesday.
“Under the old system, it would
take three days to ‘stuff’ the re
ports in envelopes and run them
through a postage meter,” said
Joel L. Franke, assistant regis
trar who oversees the record sec
tion operation.
Not only is the new system—
now in its fifth term of use—
much faster, but expense of four
or five extra people for stuffing,
cost of envelopes and postage me
tering is saved, Franke said.
“We can do it with the normal
staff and, at the same time, post
the individual student’s semester
grades on his permanent record,”
the assistant registrar added.
The computer and machine-
readable course grade sheet are
key elements. Each course instruc
tor turns in by early Monday
following exam week a special
roster marked with absences and
grades for students in his course.
Readers at the Data Processing
Center automatically put the in
formation into the IBM 360/65
computer, which has in its mem
ory banks courses for which a
student was registered.
The student’s grades and ab
sences are collated onto a single
form and printed in six copies.
One, on a carded mailing form,
for each of Texas A&M’s 13,403
spring semester students is de
livered back to the records section
a day later.
“They were in by 8 a.m. Wed
nesday and we had them out by
3 p.m.,” Franke said. The only
handling by four section clerks
is separating the mailers into lo
cal, state and national, foreign
and unmailable bundles.
“Most of the unmailables are
that way for lack of a complete
address, which is most often caus
ed by failure of a student to write
it in on registration forms,”
Franke explained.
One copy each of a student’s
grade report goes to his dean,
advisor and the housing office.
The records section gets an addi
tional two, besides the mail copy.
The 55-hour grade reporting
system works better each time,
Franke commented.
Except that the spring, 1971,
grades were four days too late to
mail for six cents instead of eight.
Jimmie Bess and Penny Mask of the registrar’s office
records section sort computer-printed grade mailers for the
post office.