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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1971)
-Iliilil i College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 9, 1971 THE BATTALION 2 retiring professors given emeritus status by board Professor emeritus designation has been bestowed upon Drs. Ed mund C. Klipple and Donald F. Weekes, retiring faculty mem bers of the College of Science. Klipple, whose emeritus ap pointment is effective July 16, has been a member of the Mathe matics Department 36 years. He was department head from 1952 until 1966, when he relinquished the position to return to full-time teaching. He received an Asso ciation of Former Students award for distinguished achievement in teaching in 1968. Weekes has taught physics at Texas A&M 34 years, including service as acting department head in 1959-60. He also has served as a part-time professor and consultant of physics at Prairie View A&M College. His emeritus appointment is effective Sept. 1. The retiring physics professor helped obtain the Atomic Energy Commission grant for Texas A&M’s nuclear reactor and was instrumental in developing the university’s nuclear program, said Dr. J. M. Prescott, dean of science. Prescott initiated the profes sor designations, approved by the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors. Texas A&M College of Agricul ture and acting director of the Experiment Station, said the grant covers a three-year period. He said the research project is titled “The Prevalence, Sig nificance and Control of Asper gillus Flavus in Peanut Soils.” The investigation is under direc tion of Dr. Robert E. Pettit of the A&M Plant Sciences Depart ment. The Aspergillus flavus fungus, Kunkel said, causes mold damage to the peanut, usually during cur ing and handling. The mold low ers peanut quality and can make the product unsuited for human or livestock use. Pettit will study factors which effect the fungus, such as soil type, soil alkalinity and acidity, crop residues, moisture, and com petition from other soil micro flora. Studies also will emphasize biological control instead of chemical control of the fungus. Randall elected ANS treasurer Dr. John D. Randall, director of the Nuclear Science Center, has been elected treasurer of the American Nuclear Society. Randall, who has served three years as a member of the ANS executive committee, will assume his new office at the society’s annual convention this month in Boston. A member of the Texas A&M faculty since 1958, Randall has been director of the nuclear re actor facility since 1965. Faculty Advisory Committee named Members of the nine-man Fac ulty Advisory Committee at Tex as A&M University have been announced by Dr. Horace R. Byers, academic vice president. Each member is named by a college advisory committee or is equivalent. Dr. Byers said proposals for termination of tenured faculty are first presented to the Faculty Advisory Committee. If mutual agreement is not reached with the committee, the faculty mem bers involved may request a hear ing before the Committee on Aca demic Freedom and Tenure. Named to the Faculty Advisor;' Committee are J. W. Sorenson Jr., agriculture; Richard E. Vroo- man, architecture; Norman 1 Stewart, business administration; Dr. Donald G. Barker, education; Dr. Leslie M. Bagnall, engineer ing; Dr. Clarissa T. Kimber, geo sciences; Dr. Bardin H. Nelson, liberal arts; Dr. Minoru Tsutsni, science, and Dr. Tommy L, Bul lard, veterinary medicine, Vet College plans August seminars The College of Veterinary Med icine at Texas A&M University will conduct a four-day “Seminar for Veterinarians” here Aug. 25- 26, announced Dean A. A. Price. Fourteen courses will be of fered, with most having a limited enrollment. Subjects include orthopedic sur gery, cardiology, equine joint sur gery, small animal joint surgery, feline medicine, equine anesthesia, swine diseases, opthalmology, bo vine surgery of the male repro ductive tract and female bovine reproductive tract surgery. Also, clinical pathology lab, bo vine central nervous system dis turbances, bovine digestive dis turbances and small animal diag nostic radiology. Libby’s Tomaioj. JUICE ^ rtLMONTt Tc*APTP JUICE PEflS ^ 89c TOQUES S2" 4QPKI & PeuGnT ^ cajroop4^ g7 C cqMP*Sii£ TOMftTD SOUP USDA employe receives award Dr. E. C. Bashaw, USDA plant geneticist in the Soil and Crop Sciences Department, has received the USDA’s Superior Service Award. Presentation was made during the 25th annual awards ceremony in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes Bashaw’s research on plant apomixis, or seed production without fertiliza tion. A silver medal and a large certificate signed by Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin were presented to the scientist. The certificate cited the genet icist’s “successful manipulation of apomixis in a plant breeding pro gram leading to development of the first artifically produced apomictic crop variety.” A major advantage of apomixis is faster plant breeding and pro duction of pure, or true-breeding, first-cross hybrids. Without this process, getting a plan to breed true for certain traits might take five years or longer. Apomixis permits the same work to be done in only one or two years. The award is Bashaw’s second from the USDA. In 1964, he re ceived the outstanding Service Award for his forage grass re search. Grade ‘A’ Large EGGS Doz. 39 SMOKED SUXDBUMI ^ 49 i \MKMffYER9 SFfPVBS-eJS! WSDfl , , qiznoe’n P0TPIES ss©4&80! 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