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SPEED
READING
The American Speed Reading Academy’s famous speed reading
course will be taught in Bryan this summer.
Tliis widely acclaimed course guarantees its graduates will
read at least three times faster with a definite increase in
comprehension.
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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’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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A&M to conduct
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summer.
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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
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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.
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