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., i C305I* CENTER, INC. 0. BOX 4543b B XLAS, TEX- 75235 Battalion Cloudy and warm VoL 67 No. 136 College Station, Texas Wednesday, August 9, 1972 THURSDAY—Partly eMjr to ctoady. Wtod ■•■ttorty ft to It. ■i.pJi. Hi(h %t, tow 79. FRIDAY ~ Partly ctoady. Af- teraaaa Uiaadarsbawara. Wlad ■oatharly It to 15 ai^k. Hick 94. tow 7S. 845-2226 Yet grads facing challenging future AAM'a 1971 voterhwry medi cine graduates are starting their professional careers “et a time when the chaUengee and the eco nomic oattooh have never been better, 1 * the executive vice presi dent of the American Veterinary Medical Association said Friday night Dr. Donald A. Price of Chicago . told Itt students receiving Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees that even though moot will start in private practice positions, many will change to important non practitioner careers in a few short pears. Other related veterinary fields offer attractive opportunities, he reported in the commencement address, and the opportunities outnumber the graduates. * Dr. Price noted a recent Na tional Academy of Sciences report Williams tells club showed a probable shortage of ijOOO veterinarians by 1980 unless M extraordinary action is taken.'* AVMA 1972 statistics revealed OBJ per cent of the veterinarians are in private practices and trends indicate in a few mors years more than half will be non-practition ers working in research, teach ing, public health, sooa, industry and other related fields. * Addressing his remarks to par ents and relatives of the gradu ates, Dr. Price contended profes sionalism makes veterinarians different from many other college graduates. "Public confidence in the pro fession is due in large part to the veterinarian’s acceptance and ad herence to the principles,’’ Dr. Price said in reference to the veterinary medical ethics code. The AVMA chief, who Was ex tension veterinarian at Sonora for the TAMU Agricultural Ex tension Service from 1960-56, told the graduates continuing educa tion is their responsibility, includ ing reading the professional jour nals and contacts with other veterinarians. "Graduation can be said to be a ceremony that marks the end of college study and a beginning of education,” he emphasised. Dr. Price was Introduced by TAMU President Jock K. Wil liams. Dean Alvin A. Price, no relation to the speaker, greeted each degree recipient after the diploma eras presented by Dr. Williams. Clyde H. Wells of Gran bury, president of the TAMU System Board of Directors, said the stat ure of the veterinary college "is a source of immsnss pride to all | of us on the beard, as I’m sure H is to all Texans who are aware of its growth and current scope.’* He noted resent agreements with Baylor College of Medicine sad the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute are good examples of a progressive veter inary program cooperating with human medicine for mutual bane- flto. "You can ha justly proud of your achievement,’* Wells told the new veterinarians, "because you have proven yourself in a most chsllsnging course of study at a facility which rinks at the top in its ftold.** The TAMU College of Veter inary Medicine is the largest in the nation, graduating this year one-tenth of the new veterinar ians in the United States. Students speak before legislature ARM President Jack K. Wil liams said ARM did something at recent appropriations hearings of tbs Texas Legislature that few universities would attempt "Members of the student gov ernment spoke before the com mittee in behalf of Texas ARM University," he explained Wednes day night. They represented TAMU well before the legislature and one made a strong presentation "which I nor anyone else could have done any better," the pres ident informed Brazos County ARM Club members at their in augural 1972-73 meeting. ‘This was the second appear ance of TAMU students before the appropriation committee,” Dr. Williams noted. Student Senate vice president Randy Ross of San Antonio, Wade F. Seidel, deputy corps comman der of Branham, and Barbara Sean of Columbia, Mo., Senate external affaire committee chair man, made praaentationa. President Williams used the incident to emphasise the univer sity’s need to remain student- oriented and have "love for, pa tience with and dedication to the undergraduate student body." "One thing we have st Texas ARM University that no one else has is the affection alumni have for their school. It fits in with student love for ARM," he noted. TAMU’s graduate to under graduate ratio, the highest in the state, leads to better teaching and opportunities for the under graduate, Williams said. Research necessary to graduate programs attracts top professors, 'whose contributions enrich the under graduate degree offerings. Research end extension ore ex citing, President Williams went on, but "the moat exciting, the most promising st Texas ARM is the undergraduate and his de velopment We will remain dedi cated to them.” „ , One saying guides this empha-. sis, he reported: "If you don’t like young people, you don't be long et Texas ARM." Dr. Williams said work on TAMU’s centennial celebration is underway. The planning group for the 1976 event has been or ganised Into a "full-fledged com mittee working full-time to plan on outstanding celebration in 1976. It involves students, faculty-staff and alumni, and we would like to have your ideas. One project is the effort to have a commemorative stamp is sued for ARM’s 100th year. The Association of Former Students and its executive director. Buck Weirus, are cooperating. • Dr. Williams’ talk was high lighted by excerpts from a list of justifications for the stamp compiled by Weirus. Among them were TAMU’s rank as the oldest public institu tion of higher learning in the state, saa grant designation, the largest uniformed Corps of Ca dets in the nation outside of service academies, and the only institution providing commissions in oil five branches <Anny, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard. the latter through the Texas Maritime Academy). The list included the point that ARM has the only ROTC pro grams growing numerically, pro duction of more than 100 flag rank officers, the top high school scholar in the nation in Steve Eberhard of Naur Braunfels, des ignated a Richard M. Nixon Presidential SchdUr by the Pres ident, and the largest agricultural and engineering colleges in this part of the country. , Aprgie basketball great Mike Heitmann receives his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine de gree from ARM President Jack K. Williams during commencement exercises in G. Rollie White Coliseum Friday night. The Academic All-American will be practicing vet med icine in Colorado. (Photo by John Curylo) After two-month cruise tat ■ fa. _ « ~~ > " ^ s—'f »«-■ . - . , ((‘W?*--* T * j *'■ • - .V- . - ‘Texas Clipper’ arrives home Sunday Heaton appreciation dinner will be Aug. 31 at Ramada GALVESTON —ARM’s mari time training ship "Texas Clip per” arrived st its home port here Sunday afternoon to com plete a two-month, 13,400-mile Mediterranean cruise. Texas Maritime Academy cadets brought the 15,000-ton vessel into the Mitchell Campus docks at 4 (SO p.m., the final leg of a seven-hour trip from Free port where 187 guests and news men boarded the ship. The Clipper had sailed from Galveston June 7 with 60 TMA cadets, 60 high school graduates taking freshman courses for the “summer school at sea,” a crew- staff of 41 and a part German Shepherd-greyhound female dog. The dog, also called “Clipper,” represented one-half of the female population on board. The other was Miss Diane Denman, TMA academic counselor who joined the staff in May. Miss Denman, the first woman to said on the TMA ship, said her presence on board was no where cloee to the classical movie-book approach of the only woman with s ship full of men. She admitted there was reluct ance to her presence, stemming from the old sea superstition that s woman brings bad luck. In fact, the cruise was “per fect,” cadets said. The ship crossed the Atlantic both times on almost a glass-top saa, the port stops all coincided with national holidays and the cad els-freshman students report ed it was the best cruise in the academy’s nine-year history. Ports of call included Valencia, Spain; Split, Yugoslavia; Palma, Balearic Islands; Las Palmas, Canary Islands; New Orleans and Freeport. The Clipper’s Yugoslavia visit represented the first American maritime academy training ship to visit an Iron Curtain country Split was on July 4, U. S. Inde pendence Day, and Yugoslavia’s Patriots Day. Cadets said they were impressed with the friendly end personal treatment the Yugo slavs gave them. Sophomore Jay Martin of Nassau Bay said he was sur prised to find more English- speaking people in Yugoslavia than any other cruise port. Two of the freshmen students, John Black of Conroe and Guy Kingsley of San Antonio, hap pened to be in the right place at the right time in Las Palmas and managed a tour of the 2,000-crew Soviet Union spacecraft tracking ship "Yuri Gagarin." Soviet crewmen told the pair they were the first Americans to see the whole ship. (See related story. Page 8.) J Russian officers refused re quests by severs! cadets to visit cptfe, established s friendship and were invited on board. They even managed to sse the radar and electronics control room. The trip from Freeport Sunday was coordinated by the university through the Brazos port Chamber of Commerce, Brazos port College and the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District. Clear skies and a very calm Gulf of Mexico provided smooth sailing. A large school of por poise played around the ship just off the mouth of the Freeport jetties, creating a festive atmos phere on the vessel. The ship was greeted in Gal veston by a number of pleasure craft and several hundred rela tives and friends et the Mitchell docks. since before World War II. the ship, but Black and Kingsley Cadets reported their visit to met five crew members in e Split Dean H. Loyd Heston of ARM will be honored at on apprecis tton dinner Aug. 21 at the Ra mada Inn, announced Dr. Haskell M. Monroe, TAMU assistant vies president for academic affairs, who is heading the committee organising the diiflter. The dinner date coincides with the day Doan Heaton closes out s 18-year career at ARM. "The informal dinner will sim ply provide everyone in the Bryan-College Station communi ty an opportunity to join ht ex pressing appreciation to this man who has provided tong and dedicated service to the univer sity," Dr. Monro# noted. “Ws will, soon be sending out invitations and will attempt to include all of Doan Heaton’s many frionda," he added, "but if we overlook anyone, we hope they will still join os for this occa sion." Tickets, priced at $5 per per son, will be available at the As- soctotien of Former Students of fice and at local banka, bagin- ninc Aug. 7. Ilea ton bees ms the universi ty's fleet dssn of admissions and University Motional Bank "On the aids of Texas ARM." —Adv. records when the position created in 1969. He was ap pointed registrar in 1941, with his title changed to director of admissions and registrar in 1956. Aa registrar and dean of ad- misaions, he has signed more than 50,000 diplomas —. nearly 90 percent of the total conferred during TAMU'a 96-year history. After receiving his undergrad uate dagree at Stephen F. Austin in 1929, Heaton earned his mas ter’s st TAMU in 1986, two yean after he was named assistant registrar. Historic stars Butler ■ &»• u: .,r. L-% J.-fe '-tol vrfrJa ■.Jo Hannigan may return to home next Friday. ARM Dean of itudents James P. Hznmgzn may be released from Brooke Army Medical Center Friday to return home for continued convalescence. Hannigan was hospitalized in Florida in late June after a serious heart attack. The dean was moved to San Antonio last month. • Dean and Mrs. Hannigan had been on a Caribbean endae. His release from Brooke will be followed by a month of convalescence at home, according to Associate Dean of Students Howard Perry. Afterward, he may gradually increase outside activities. His current progress is termed satisfactory. “Dean Hannigan is in very high spirits right now," commented Malon Southerland. "He has been active in his room, reading and so forth." "The main thing he must do is buld back his strength," the assistant to the dean added. Mrs. Hannigan reports the dean is mentally ready to return to work. The South Broward, Fla., Community Hospital at which he was located is a new facility planned around all modern Though still not improved enough at the time for transfer to San Antonio, Dean Hannigan requested to review the hospital plans and equipment lists for planning TAMU’s new Student Health Center now under construction. given Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Animal Science Department at ARM, now wean a pair of his toric stars. He commends the 420th Engi neer Brigade headquartered in Bryan and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in Sun day ceremonies. Stars pinned on General Bat- tor’s collar were worn by the late General Earl Rudder. The in signia wars given Butler by Mrs. Rudder. Student government is looking for day care center manager EM WATERING THE DRILL FIELD is a continuing task during the summer months. To supplement rainfall, the sprinkler system is utilized almost daily, perplexing students who try to take a abort cut on a sunny day and find themselves in a very muddy area. (Photo by John Curylo) The ARM Student Government is looking for a person to serve aa coordinator of the proposed day care center, according to Randy Ross, vice president. The non-profit, student-oriented project is almost a reality, but qualified leadership is the only obstacle, Rom said. "The support and need have been determined," he explained. "The faculty and the community are behind it, and we have the place and the people to work. We just lock the qualified individual who is experienced end willing to put a tot of time into the job." Rom added that the coordinator would be working without a sal ary in helping set 4p end operate the center, which would care for the children of ARM students during the day. "This person could be the wife of a faculty member or on admin istrator," he continued. "All we oak for is the ability to work with children." Any individual interested in this position should call the Student Government Office, 845-8061.