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The average student can: Read 7 to 12 times faster with better comprehension Read at 1,000 to 3,000 words a minute instead of 300 Read the average novel in 45 minutes and understand it Really enjoy reading more than he ever thought possible Increase his comprehension and learn to concentrate Learn how to study better and how to prepare for tests Reduce eye strain, fatigue in reading, and boredom. Prepare for the ever-increasing reading load in school. If you would like to learn more about this course, or want to enroll, then come to one of the FREE orientation lectures that we have scheduled. A person may attend one of these free orientations without any obligation to enroll in the course. At these meetings the course will be explained in detail including the class schedules, and the special introductory tuition that will be offered, THIS TIME ONLY, to the residents of this area. This course WILL NOT interfere with summer activities. All meetings are open to the public, and will be conducted as follows: Lone Star Gas Co. 201 East 27th Date: Tuesday, July 20 Time: 6:30 and 8:00 P.M. s»df .'u.v.ft oil jii » rtrw e%^‘\ A *'*<«> ' i GIANT RA^URGER IS FIRST IN THE NATION WITHsANBIG AND JUICY PIECE OF MEAT WEIGHLNbvONE-HALF POUND, PLUS A TREMENDOU§WpPY-SEED BUN, PLUS LETTUCE, TOMATOX ONION AND PICKLE, PLUS A THERMAENBAQ TO HOLD IN THE HEAT AND FRESHNESS. REMEM BER, THIS ONE" CARTWHEEL OF ALONE IS ONI AT THE GOLF CLUB AND MSC SNACKBARS QUALITY FIRST’ Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 14, 1971 THE BATTAUtt! Campus briefs Remedial writing clinic signup ends Monday Registrations will be taken un til Monday for the 10th Remedial Writing Clinic conducted through the Continuing Education Office. The clinic improves correctness and effectiveness of participants’ writing through use of special self-improvement methods. Clinic sessions will meet Mon days and Wednesdays for 2% hours July 19 to Aug. 4. Registration at the Continuing Education Office in the Memorial Student Center is limited to indi viduals 16 years of age or older whose first-learned language was English. Participants can but need not be attending school, college or university. ★ ★ ★ Meeting set for fall freshmen here Students attending Texas A&M University’s second summer ses sion classes who will be freshmen here this fall will meet in a spe cial conference July 27-30. The conference will be in lieu of regular summer conferences attended by students from off- campus who will be freshmen this fall. Second session freshmen should register for the July conference at the Counseling and Testing Center before July 26, announced S. Auston Kerley, center director. The conferences enable new students to complete fall semester registration and other matters related to fall classes. ★ ★ ★ Bryan Kiwanis officers elected H. Ray Smith was chosen Fri day to head the Bryan Kiwanis Club for 1971-72 year. Other new officers elected in clude: Dr. Gerald Bratton, first vice president; Dr. James H. Johnson, second vice president; Eddie McSwain, secretary, and John Bishop, treasurer. Three new board members, Robei’t H. Place, Henry A. Rob erts, and Sol Klein will join exist ing board members Dr. Attilio Giarola, Rollie Burr, Alton Rising- er, and immediate past president Keith Langford to complete the club’s official family for the new year. The new officers will be in stalled in September. ★ ★ ★ UT-Dallas dean A&M graduate The first dean of faculties at the newly created University of Texas at Dallas is a Texas A&M graduate. Dr. Lee H. Smith, who was selected for the UT-D position over the weekend, holds two de grees from Texas A&M. He earn ed a B.S. in mathematics here in 1957 and Ph.D. in statistics in 1961. Smith currently heads the De partment of Quantitative Man agement at the University of Houston. ★ ★ ★ ’34 A&M grad dies in Houston Archie W. Baucum, 1934 A&M graduate who was executive vice president of Texaco Inc., died recently in Houston. Baucum died of a heart attack a week following announcement of his resignation from Texaco due to ill health. The resignation was to be effective Aug. 1. A pertoleum production engi neering major and cadet officer in Company C Engineers at Texas A&M, Baucum joined Texaco as a roustabout after graduation and worked his way up to produc tion and managerial positions in Texas, Oklahoma and New York. ★ ★ ★ Yale historian to lecture Sunday Yale University historian Dr. Archibald Hanna Jr. will give a public lecture Sunday at the uni versity library. Hanna will speak on “The Building of a Research Collection: Adventures with Collectors and BONUS mm PHOTO <8>REGISTERED TRADEMARK Of 3RtMSON RESEARCH, INC. BONUS PHOTO processing gives you an extra wallet print with every regular print on your roll. CONr I DENCE BRAND NAMES . SATISFACTION LEAVE 126, 127, 120, or 620 KODACOLOR FILM AT Film N Photos, Inc. Manor East Shopping Mall Front of Kroger's Booksellers.” The public-free lec ture will be at 3 p.m. in the li brary conference suite, announced John B. Smith, director of Texas A&M Libraries. Curator of the Western Ameri cana Collection in the Beinecl^e Rare Book and Manuscript Li brary, Dr. Hanna has spent his entire professional career at Yale. He holds degrees in English, library science and history from Clark, Columbia and Yale Univer sities, respectively. His studies were interrupted for World War II service as a Marine Corps officer. ★ ★ ★ Polygraph school gets guest teachers Nine Texas A&M faculty mem bers and Brazos County District Attorney D. Brooks Gofer Jr. are serving as guest instructors for a six-week polygraph examiners school conducted by the Engineer ing Extension Service’s Police Training Division. Chief Instructor Ira E. Scott said the 18 students will receive extensive training in medical physiology, anatomy, psychology and use of polygraph instrument. ★ ★ ★ Sophomore gets architecture funds Darryl C. Baker of Port Ar thur, sophomore architecture stu dent at Texas A&M, has been named recipient of an Arthur W. Licht scholarship for the 1971- 72 academic year. The $400 scholarship, establish ed through Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and Environmen tal Design, honors the memory of an El Paso architecture stu dent killed in a 1970 automobile accident. Baker, a graduate of Port Ar thur High School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit W. Baker of 333 West 9th Street. The Licht scholarship is sup ported by income from a $25,000 permanent endowment establish ed by memorial contributions from Licht’s family and friends and his estate. ★ ★ ★ St. Mary’s prof here for summer Dr. Donald L. Parker, assistant professor and head of the Depart ment of Physics at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, is at Texas A&M University this sum mer to participate in research with the Department of Electrical Engineering, reports Dr. W. B. Jones, department head. Parker will spend alternate weeks gathering data here and doing X-ray topographical exam inations at St. Mary’s of damage done to silicon wafer samples using a method commonly called the Lang technique. Parker will work with Dr. W. A. Porter, assistant professor and principal investigator of a study on the techniques for con trolling dislocations which occur at random during the fabrication of large scale integrated circuits. ★ ★ ★ Local firm receives construction grant The U.S. Department of Agri culture has awarded a $151,275 contract to Century Construction Co. of Bryan to build additional research facilities for the Na tional Cotton Pathology Labora tory here. The laboratory is west of the Texas A&M main campus and south of the F&B Road. Dr. A. A. Bell, laboratory di rector, said construction will start this month on a head house and two greenhouses. He said the structures will be used in cotton disease research. Agriculture grants totaling more than $200,000, Rep. Olin Teague of College Station has announced. The Research Foundation award is for $180,049 and covers a three and a half-year period. Its pur pose is to find an economic use for cottonseed whey, a by-prod uct of cottonseed protein food products. Whey is a waste prod uct and a possible pollutant. The other grant is $37,213 to be applied toward construction of a Forestry Field Laboratory, now in the planning stage. Matching funds are available from state and Training Committee of liK International Association of ' son Investigators. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Professor’s book translated in Japan A two-volume translation of a book by Dr. M. L. Greenhut, dis tinguished profesor of economics, is being published by the Taime- do Publishing House of Tokyo. Professor Hisao Nishioka of the Aoyama Gakuin University Economics Department in Tokyo translated the book. It contains Greenhut’s original book in location economics, “Plant Location in Theory and in Prac tice,” first published in 1956, and related academic papers. The Japanese edition is expect ed to be distributed later this Remote Sensing enlarges staff Expanded research by the if] mote Sensing Center has led I two new additions to the teachii) and research faculty. Dr. William T. Mayo Jr,, opfc specialist, and Dr. Wesley f James, remote sensing and vironmental engineering specii ist, will join the university Sept! and work with the Remote S« sing Center approximately one, third of their time, center directed Dr. John W. Rouse Jr. has it. nounced. Mayo will be assistant profs sor of civil engineering and Jama assistant professor of electria engineering. Both are recent Ph.D. prat; ates with experiences in indostn and government organizations. ★ ★ ★ A&M to conduct % summer. ★ ★ ★ Ag Experiment gets $200,000 The Texas A&M Research Foundation and the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station have received two U.S. Department of ★ ★ ★ Firemen Training staffer on committees John R. Rauch, staff instructor for the Firemen Training School, has been appointed to committees on two international fire service organizations. Matthew Jimenez, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, announced Friday Rauch’s appointment to the as sociation’s Arson Committee. Rauch also has been re-ap pointed to the Technical Advisory I' i . IMio nuclear power meeting on p An institute entitled “Nuclei! 0ffi< Power Reactors and their Fnr.— ronmontal Effects” will bt cftB-—. ducted July 13-August 20 I? i®' Texas A&M University’s Depir, ment of Nuclear Engineeringihi funding from the Atomic Enerp Commission, Dr. R. G. Codiml institute director, has announce; : J Cochran said the objectmdtt the six-week program is topi vide qualified science and eng neering college teachers with at quate background in fundamental; T of nuclear power to enable th>: ■. to play a role in its developmeitB He indicated that since nuti^ has been said both for and agiiail nuclear power the planned pre;| gram will present facts cterijjj so that each teacher can reach kill own conclusions. Texaco promotes former student Texaco Inc. has announced the appointment of Merrill Smith as assistant general manager (De velopment) of the newly, formed Producing Department — South east, located in New Orleans. Mr. Smith graduated from Tex as A&M in 1940 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical en gineering. He joined Texaco De velopment Corporation in 1941 and came to Texaco’s Producing Department in 1946. He served in various geologi cal positions in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana until 1965, when he was appointed Division Geo physicist at New Orleans. He was appointed Assistant to the Divi sion Manager there in 1968 and in 1970 was named Assistant Di vision Manager. Later in 1970 he was appointed Assistant Regional Manager. MRS. WILLIAM R. COX presents oil painting of Jedgar Ruler, Thoroughbred race horse, to Wofford Cain of Dallas, former Texas A&M board member whose wife joined with two other women to donate the valuable horse to the university in 1968. Mrs. Cain jointly owned the horse with Mrs. Clint W. Murchison Sr. of Dallas and Mrs. B. G. Byars of Tyler. Mrs. Cox is the wife of a Texas A&M veterinary medicine student. THE NEW BAND ALBUM IS HERE! “Big! Brassy! 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