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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
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‘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
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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
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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.