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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 18, 1971 THE BATTALION Summer activity helped Year-end placement upswing seen here BUSIER - JONES AGENCl j REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Lcsu College placement dipped dur ing 1970-71, a Texas A&M place ment review shows, but a slight year-end upswing appears to be continuing on the basis of summer activity. A&M Placement and Corporate Support director Robert C. Reese made the evaluation upon release of his office’s annual review. Employing companies inter viewed 1,016 graduating students, a decrease of 22 per cent from the previous year. Companies in terviewing fell from 242 to 164 last fall and from 263 to 184 during the spring, the report shows. “Uulike 1969-70 when the situa tion worsened as the year pro gressed, activity this year seemed to pick up in the closing months,” Reese said in the report. The placement director said in quiries from companies needing college graduates have continued during the last two months. These figures are not reflected in the report, which coincides with the 1970-71 school year. “Everybody was a little hes itant and sat on their budgets,” he commented. “Things appear to be loosening up a bit. “We feel pretty comfortable with what’s coming,” Reese added. He said more companies already have been scheduled for fall job interviews than the office had last year. Part of the increase is from summer contacts with companies that have not recruited at Texas A&M recently. The office report includes an employer section listing the in dividual companies, recruiters’ names and their degree prefer ences. Distribution of the place ment report to various A&M de partments enables professors to contact recruiters directly. “We’re not back up to pre- 1970 standards,” Reese admitted, “but at least it’s an improvement over last year.” Reese said the employer section also has been made available to alumni and graduating students who did not interview last spring. A placement manual for grad uating students will be available for the first time this year. It will include alphabetical listings of recruiting compahies and dates they will be on campus. In addition, placement meetings will be held Sept. 7, 8 and 9. Graduating students will be given an explanation of what the re cruiting process involves, tips on interviewing and other informa tion. The 4 to 6 p. m. meetings will be in Rooms 2C and D of the Memorial Student Center on Sept. 7 and 8. The Sept. 9 meet ing will be in Rooms 2A and B, Reese said. ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3I08 akk f dayi Den. Pos brand -A(?S McCoy ends 31-year Army career Army Col. Jim H. McCoy, who postponed retirement to assist in transition to a new commandant at Texas A&M, will close out 31 years military service this month. Retirement ceremonies will be conducted Aug. 30 at Fort Sam Houston by 4th U. S. Army of ficials. An award will be made to Mc Coy during the observance. McCoy, 55, was to have retired early this year. He extended to complete the 1970-71 school year and acquaint the new comman dant, Col. Thomas F. Parsons, with the ins and outs of the post. The commandant heads the two-department School of Mili tary Science and is responsible for the operation of the Corps of Cadets through its student leaders. A 1940 Texas A&M graduate, McCoy returned to the university in 1967 as commandant and pro fessor of military science. During his A&M assignment, the Corps of Cadets had only a slight decline in size and insti gated numerous programs and concepts to remain in step with regular service policies. ROTC participation here this fall is expected to about equal 1970-71, when 2,500 wore the TAMU uniform patch. During the 1970-71 school year, almost 400 cadets were commis sioned officers in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps. The first WAC officer commissioned at A&M received her lieutenant’s bars last summer. In McCoy’s four years, the corps initiated freshman retention and cadet replacement programs, began new study emphasis and was featured in a nation-wide news telecast about ROTC. It also received Department of De fense recognition and was award ed a 4th Army trophy for cadets’ End-of-month rainfall gives July above-average total July-ending rains in the Bry- an-College Station area boosted the month to above-average wet ness. LBJ Award recipient here Norman Alexander of San Marcos, recipient of the Lyndon B. Johnson Award Saturday at Southwest Texas State Univer sity, plans to enter graduate study here this fall. Former President Johnson pre sented the $2,500 cash award during graduation ceremonies at SWTSU. Alexander said he will begin graduate work in physics at A&M. “I am gratified that you will be using this award to further your education,” Johnson told Alexander. “I am happy to present this check for more money than I ever saw in four years of college and it’s about what some teachers were making for teaching a whole year then,” Johnson added. The Carter’s Creek drainage area averaged 2.78 inches in July, which normally has 2.6 inches. But the July wetness was lim ited to the last six days of the month and was preceded by a 27-day dry spell from late June. Exceptional rainfall in late July and early August may serve as the pattern for the next 30 days, according to the National Weather Service outlook for Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. Rainfall is expected to be near to above normal, or between three and four inches. At the same time, the outlook calls for below to much below normal tem peratures. Average for the 30 days is 81.9 degrees. The out look is for a near 80 degree mean. July temperatures averaged 84.8, 1.3 degrees above normal. July precipitation figures col lected from 32 points in the Car ter’s Creek catchment area re versed the pattern of previous months, according to Dr. Robert A. Clark of Texas A&M Univer sity’s Meteorology Department. The southern half of the area under Texas A&M rainfall-runoff study received the most rain for the last few months. July rains were heaviest in the northern segment, with four to 4.5 inch gaugings normal north of Villa Maria Rd. An observer in the 1400 block of Hoppess recorded 4.52 inches for July. Precipitation southward ranged generally from 1.5 to 2.5 inches, with a 1.53 low taken in the 300 block of University Drive. An observer in Kurten meas ured 5.63 inches. Millican had .96, the Farm Service recorded 1.87 and Easterwood Airport, of ficial gauge of the NWS, tabu lated 2.83 inches. The Federal Aviation Administration meas ured rain on four days. The drought - relieving nature of the rain was spotty over the East Central Texas region, how ever. Meteorology research in the East Yegua Creek basin west of Caldwell revealed only .73 inches of rain there in July. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. 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Main Bryan Phone: 823-0742 STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office: Bloomington, Illinois ITALIAN FOOD For the best SPAGHETTI and carefully- prepared MEAT BALLS in tangy and zestful sauce, we recommend the RISTORANTE SANS SOUCI, ROME, ITALY and the MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY each Thursday evening ‘QUALITY FIRST’’ summer camp accomplishments. The period also was accentuated by four straight national cham pionships by the Freshman Drill Team. McCoy, an Eddy native, served in Europe, Japan, the Far East, Puerto Rico and Korea during his 31 years service. He com manded an infantry company and 28th Division battalion in World War II, Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico and a 4th Division battle group at Fort Lewis, Wash. The colonel earned diplomas from the Command and General Staff College, Armed Forces Staff College and Armed Forces Indus trial College. He was PMS at Bangor, Maine, High -School. 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