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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1971)
BATTALION Pentagon assigns Trigon new ROTC commanders Parsons PMS 9 Army head Pumm will arrhr* la late J«ly far transfer of dutlas from CoL- oasl McCoy, who Is rotlrinc. Van ocmssUr orroniutlon of the Army CoL ThoaMi has. boon saolcaoB Texas AAM rosSns iny yrotrom, AAM 1 Jock K Willlans Poraono, a 1MB Uw^4th* liUantry 1 Dhrislon Artil- mi l* Corps of Csdate <aad lory ot Port Carooa. Colo., will start of etosoos will occur (tartar Mccood Cot JtaB H McCoy as tho lost wook of Aayost commandant of cadota and pro- A tt-yoar Army ootoroa, Par- fsaoor of military sclsocs. sons was commissloaod at Tsxaa April announcement of Col. AAM. An educotioo major, ho Billy M Vauyhn as commaadaat was s lot Battalion staff member was nullified when he was after- of the Bad Reyimeut fn the Corps TMA moves all . . # offices to Galveston t The Texas Maritime Academy's (^Office on the main Texas A AM University campus dosed durtay x * the summer as part of a program to shift all TMA activities to the university's new Mitchell Cam pus at Galveston. TMA cadets in the poet have spent their freshman year on the CoOeye Station campus before tranoferriny to Galveston for their final three years. At one time, the cadets studied here throuyh their sophomore year. Adm. James D. Craik, TMA superintendent, explained the consolidation will enable the academy to spread professional requirements for the students over four years rather than bunching them in the final pe riods of study. . ' Under the current system, the students emphasise general col lege courses while studying et College Stotion and than reeetae the bulk ef their marittms retotod curriculum while enrolled at Gal veston. The total shift to Gataseton coincides with the scksdulid oc cupancy this fall of tho first two buildings for the lOOmere Mitch ell Campus on Pelican Island. The two structures include a class room • administration build ing and a technical laboratory. Craik said the transfer of all TMA aettaittoo to t^dvoston in no way changes the academy's relationship to Texas A AM. It is part of the Texas AAM's Moody Marine Institute, which also in cludes the Marine Laboratory and other oceanographic’and marine- related activities conducted by tho university in Galveston. Since Ha establishment in 1M2, the academy has maintained an office in Texas AAM's YMCA Building. ' ef Cadets and n member ef -A" Battery Field Artfflovy. fpre—,<*, tatorsd active duty at Camp Mopd with the tad Ar mored Division in 1MB. Thl father ef three has Macs served with the 7th, 18th and Bth Infantry Divisions and trd Ar- xserad Division ia Karan and Ger many. After attending sad in structing at the Commend sad General Staff College at Feet Leavenworth, Kan., during 1B6S- 66, the Louisiana native was a training diractorato staff mem ber with the MittUry Assistance Command, Vietnam. He commanded howitser sad Honest John rocket battalions at Fort Lewis, Wash.; attended the U. S. Army War Collage and served on the Pacific Command commander's staff in Hawaii. Ha went to Port Carson last August to comntand the 46th Ptold Artillery Group end became 4th Division Artillery commander when the 46th was deactivated in decorations include tRe Grassland PAS Bronx# Star with valor dgyWo tho first Oak Leaf Cluster, Meri torious Service Medal, sad Ko rean President Unit Citation. Ho is married to the former Barbara Jo Jordan of Beeville. A daughter Linda. 17, will be a high school senior this fall and Steven M., 16, will be a sopho more. Philip R., BO, attended UT- E1 Paso end plans to join the Army this summer. Cat Robert P. Croaetand of Dallas baa bean named professor of oorospoes studies. His assignment as ranking of ficer of AAM’s Air Force ROTC program becomes effective July 16. A Southern Methodist Univer sity graduate, Croasland will suc ceed Col. Keith C. Hanna and acting PAS LC Col. Thomas W. Comstock as commander of the Air Force detachment that in structs the AFROTC cadet pro gram leading to reserve and regu lar officers commissions. Croasland. as PAS. and Army CoL Thomas R. Pafrsons, newly assigned commandant and pro fessor of military science, will be responsible to tho military serv- taee and university for tho respec tive officer training programs Parsons is a 1B4B AAM graduate. Croasland earlier this year com pleted two yean on the National War College faculty. A command pitot, he whs a tactical airlift division chief, 7th Air Force, in Vietnam during IB67-68. Prior to the Southeast Asia tour, he was director of personnel assignment* at ^Tactical Airlift Command headquarters. I^inyiey APB. Va. He wean the Bronte Star. Air Medal wtih three Oak Leaf Clus ters and Commendation Medal. A 23-year veteran, he was com missioned through the aviation cadet program. CoL Robert Cron land Local education center .. established through grant Austin man admissions director Dr. Billy Gene LayVf Austin has boAThamed adfhiaaions direc tor hare, announced Dean H. Loyd Has too. Lay succeeds Edwin H. Cooper who recently became assistant to AAM President Dr. Jack K. Wtl- 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 nt the University of Texas. Lay, 40, is a 1964 graduate of Texas AAM. He eprned his mas ter’s degree at the 'University of Texas in 1966. Before joining the Crockett stafl, ha was principal at Baker Junior High School, also in Aus tin. He previously taught math ematics in Pasadena. "Dr. Lay's academic and pro fess tonal background has been such that he is particularly suited far admissions work et Texas AAM,” Heaton said. If you’re a student at Texas A&M you’re going a long way. We can help you get there, A 676,782 Mott Foundation grant has been made to Texas AAM for establishment of a com munity education center here, AAM President Dr. Jack K. Wil liams has announced. The foundation selected Texes AAM as the location for the com munity education center in the Southwest. it serves Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisi ana. The center is one of 12 through out the nation and one of three created this year by the Mott Foundation. Mott community education cen ters develop through faculty and area school district involvement programs for maximising educa tional resources for ell members of e esmmunity. Philanthropist Charles S. Mott envisioned the operation and set up the foundation to support such programs. Education Dean Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert said the AAM cantor will be attached to the Depart ment of Educational Administra tion headed by Dr. Harold L. Hawkins. The center began operation July 1 with Dr. Robert I. Ber- ridge as director. Staffing ini tially includes a secretary. Hubert said the grant provides assistance in establishing the center and its first year opera tion. Year-to-year renewals on a cost-sharing basis are expected to match university and area school district input. Total an nual budget would be about 6220,000 in line with the original proposal. Hubert said. llte education dean said the center "is an extremely fine pro gram for the university.” Berridge has been assistant di rector df a Mott center at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., since 1968. It is the Midwest cen ter for dissemination, consulta tion, research and training in community education improve ment. He has degrees from Seton Hall. Taxas AA1 and Michigan State Universities, with the doc tor of educatk-. awarded at East Lansing in 1969. Berridge also has done advanced work at the University of Taxas at Austin and Teacher* College, Columbia University. Berridge taught and was prin cipal and federal programs direc tor of Corpus Christ! schools. Be fore going to East Lansing for doctoral studies under Mott in ternship, he was interim director of the Community Action Pro gram for Nueces County. , A&M now CLEP center A^tBBS n aiisrp ts aca demic credit earned Through the College Level Examination Pro gram, announced Dr. Horace R. Byers, academic vice president. CLEP testa, an activity of the College Entrance Examination Board, are designed to measure knowledge gained through gen eral experience .or independent study rather than formal class room work. Texas AAM join 1 more than S00 other colleges and universities \>illhsg to consider CLEP test re» suits for academic credit. The testing program includes general examinations in six areas coverning the content of general education courses ordinarily in cluded in the first two years of college and 21 subject examina tions for specific college courses. Byers said CLEP examinations will be administered at Texas AAM in selected subjects. He added the university also will accept transfer credit for CLI?P tests at other institutions. Subjects for which testa will be offered here include American government, English, mathemat ics, chemistry and physics. Coordination of CLEP testing will be the responsibility of the university's Counseling and Test ing Center. Texas AAM also participates in CEEB’s Advanced Placement Pro gram and offers its own credit by examination through depart mental tests. 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Located in Building D, behind the AAM Press Building, the copy, center has three full-tiirA employees, three part-time stu dent helpers and over 640,000 in new equipment. Heart of the operation are two AM2650 automatic presses, one AM2000 electrostatic master ma chine snd one AM805 electro static master which can reduce down to 45 per cent or enlarge up to 160 per cent of the original sise, Lowry said. The presses are fully auto matic, including self-cleaning. J "The average coat per copy is less than one cent,” Lowry em phasised. A limited number of copies can be made while the customer waits snd there is same day service for major jobs. One advantage of the new printing center, Lowry said, is there is no need to cut stencils. Electrostatic masters are made from original typing in a matter of seconds. Any type of line reproduction is possible, including paste-ups end graphic art. Photographs cannot be reproduced. 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