ICC Ellery Queen Not So Urbane
indicate tk GAINESVILLE, Fla. OP) —
key point t' Christopher Rebecca Lee, a 30-
Europe,” Qk year-old university freshman,
pays that her father, a detective
•t the UniinStory writer, Ellery Queen, was
re is only : not as urbane as his books would
1 coexistent! indicate.
an and Ctil “Here’s Ellery — tall, dark,”
Hiss Lee said of her father's fic-
||i>nal sleuth. “Here’s dad —
T T short, fat. It’s hard to make the
flegl transition.”
i “My father was a fairly domi-
• |»nt personality in his own home
If 1 !Ape ... A great premium was placed
^ on intellectual competence in our
■rom the P house. Consequently I think that
the Canad w * thout mean i n £ to he scared the
hell out of us.”
_ j , iMiss Lee said that her father,
1 in the ^ an ^ re< i ^ jee > died in 1971,
r .^Irould not have approved of her
Several ^M C ' s ’ on to res i^ n f rom a New
York public relations job to en-
ln ' roll at the University of Florida
lectures felthis fall as a zoology major,
its on basi(Bi<jj e wen t off on a gamble to
emphasis K- wr jte,” she said in an interview.
1 dition tiple felt that for his kids that
,ns arcli! wasn’t the way to do it; that a
Jfbod job and a decent income was
trip to Alt still the most important thing.”
and his wiM Manfred Lee and his cousin,
summer-loci Frederic Dannay, teamed to write
e Thompson 33 mysteries under the pseudo-
lonths on i;jiym Ellery Queen. They rare-
ng micro»|ly saw each other, but regularly
ements. produced one book a year. Lee
> getting Ae did most of the writing while
’ Thompsc: Dannay concocted plot, did re-
d everythiifisearch and edited,
jping up it Miss Lee and seven other Lee
ises,” children grew up on an estate
jin Roxbury, Conn. Her mother,
Kaye, is still alive.
S K “My fifth grade English teach-
Ejr was such an Ellery Queen fan
and had this image of my father
as this gorgeous WASP (white
Anglo-Saxon Protestant),” Miss
Lee said. When he visited the
school one day, she suddenly
realized that Ellery Queen was a
short, fat man in overalls and
red socks, Miss Lee said. “She
was really destroyed.”
Miss Lee said, “Ellery Queen’s
appeal has basically been that
most of his detective work was
done through his brain. He
wasn’t a James Bond, a knock-
em-up, shoot-em-down. He wasn’t
a Mickey Spillane.”
“My father felt very strongly
that there was something special
about writing,” she said. “He
often said writing was a torture.
He had this big thing for suffer
ing, the Jewish disease.”
Miss Lee said she did not en
joy reading her father’s books
because he drew too frequently
on family friends.
“My mother would use pet
words and mannerisms that
would frequently appear in his
books,” she said “When I was a
teen-ager it would wreck it for
me. I’d be reading about this
glamorous woman and then out
would come one of my mother's
phrases.”
Spacecraft Center Loans
Meteor Analysis Equipment
Equipment for meteor analysis
has been placed on long-term loan
with Texas A&M University
by the Johnson Spacecraft Center.
The meteor radiation analyzer
(MRA) will be used under the
direction of Dr. Ronald Schorn,
Dr. George Kattawar and Dr.
Edward Fry of TAMU’s Physics
Department. They and Dr. Gil
bert Plass, department head, con
duct a variety of astronomical
research.
Graduate student Bob Johnson
of Plano will employ the MRA in
his master’s degree research.
A one-of-a-kind system, the unit
was constructed for Nasa under
Lockheed Electronics Co. con
tract. NASA budget cutbacks
prevented planned JSC observa
tional programs. The equipment
is valued at more than $200,000.
JSC scientist Burton Cour-
Palais and engineer Robert Ma-
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i MSC
Interviews for membership on the 19th Stu
dent Conference on National Affairs Commit
tee of the Memorial Student Center will be
held October 8-12. Interested students with
a minimum GPR of 2.5 overall should apply at
the SCON A Desk in the Student Programs
Office of the MSC before Wednesday, October
10.
riah designed the system. They
will visit TAMU in mid-October
to consult in equipment setup.
The MRA detects light-emitting
meteor trails through nine pho
tometers that permit study of the
meteor’s chemical composition. A
rotating shutter chops the trail
into segments, allowing a meas
ure of the meteor’s velocity and
mass. The system also indicates
the direction the meteor is travel
ing, according to Schorn, a profes
sional astronomer.
Schorn believes the system will
detect second - magnitude and
brighter meteors, an atmospheric
phenomenon caused by grain of
sand to marble-sized material
colliding at very high speeds with
the earth’s air covering.
He said the MRA will be set
up at the TAMU Research Annex.
Later use at McDonald Observa
tories in West Texas is possible.
Schorn does planetary research
there.
The system consists of an
equatorially mounted package
containing the light-sensitive de
vices and associated electronics.
The detected light of a meteor
trail is converted to an electrical
signal and, through a logic urtit,
digitized and stored on magnetic
tape. The system includes a
power supply.
Schorn said taped data can be
programmed directly into the de
partment’s computer for analysis.
The detector unit contains
photometers of different sensi
tivities and filter capabilities in
a 22 by 16 by 10-inch package.
The unit’s effective collecting
aperture is five centimeters per
photomultiplier tube.
“The system is designed to
operate automatically once it is
in operation,” Schorn said. “The
optics cover a field of view of 23
degrees. The motor-driven equa
torial mounting keeps the detec
tor unit pointed at a particular
part of the sky.”
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Thursday, October 4, 1973
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
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Stock Ups Bogin
For Fuel Crisis
FALL SEMESTER is clearly underway at A&M, as stu
dents across campus spend studying hours outdoors during
an unusually sunny day. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
A year ago, A&M, along with
other institutions and municipali
ties, was caught in the midst of
a nationwide energy crisis. De
termined to avoid a repeat of
last year’s energy equeeze,
TAMU’s Physical Plant person
nel, like the proverbial squirrel,
are stocking up for a long, cold
winter.
Two new one-million-gallon
fuel oil storage tanks have been
completed since last fall and are
now receiving fuel oil shipments
to fill their capacity.
“Last year TAMU had a fuel
oil storage capacity of only 150,-
000 gallons,” noted Wayne Ter
rell, information manager of
physical plant. “When the unex
pected natural gas curtailment
hit us, our underground storage
represented only a four day sup
ply of fuel to keep our steam
generators running. It seems we
had tank trucks constantly lined
Biology Institute to Serve
Life Sciences Problems
The Institute of Developmental
Biology has been formed at
TAMU to serve as a base for
studying fundamental problems in
the life sciences.
TAMU President Jack K.
Williams said the new institute
in the College of Science will be
directed by Dr. Herbert A. Roller.
Roller and a colleague, Dr. Karl
H. Dahm, also of TAMU and who
will head one of the institute’s
units, are credited with the first
isolation and chemical synthesis
of the juvenile hormone, one of
two hormones in insects which
regulate developmental processes.
“The institute will be a driving
force to enlarge TAMU’s contri
bution in the international effort
to investigate basic problems in
biology,” Dr. Williams noted. “In
addition to its research activities,
the institute will provide chal
lenging academic programs for
undergraduate and graduate stu
dents, post-doctoral fellows and
technical personnel.”
Besides support provided by
the university, the program has
outside funding which totals
nearly $1 million over the next
five years. The bulk of the fund
ing was provided by a National
Science Foundation grant to
Roller and Dahm for studies con
cerning the role of hormones in
development.
“Our efforts in developmental
biology over the last five years
have proved successful with re
spect both to scientific achieve
ment and funding,” pointed out
Science Dean J. M. Prescott. “It
is evident that this area is one
of the most productive ones in
biology, and it is now highly
appropriate that our research and
instruction efforts in develop
mental biology be placed in an
organizational context.”
Wolfe Speaks
At Seminar
Dr. Arthur Wolfe, associate
professor of management at
TAMU, will be the featured
speaker at this week’s senior en
gineering seminar session Thurs
day in the Zachry Engineering
Center.
Dr. Wolfe will address senior
engineering students on aspects
of being a professional manager,
according to course instructor
James H. Caddess.
Dr. Wolfe’s talk is one of a
series of presentations to mem
bers of the required engineering
course participants which expose
the students to professional engi
neers and management person
nel.
Caddess noted that although
student attendance is required,
he and the class welcome visitors
interested in topics for the se
mester-long course. The course
is a part of the Mechanical Engi
neer Department’s curriculum.
Meetings are held each Thurs
day in Room 203 of the Zachry
Center at 10 a.m.
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“Most of the fundamental prob
lems in life sciences are in the
field of developmental biology or
associated with this field,” ob
served Dr. Roller, professor of
biology who joined the TAMU
faculty in 1968. “The study
of development is by far the
most derived, and, therefore uni
fying concepts will emerge only
where questions of biological sig
nificance are extended from one
level of complexity to the next
by scholars from different discip
lines, broadly trained to bridge
the fields.”
Dr. Roller said the institute
will consist of units, headed by
senior scientists, dealing with
endocrinology, natural products
chemistry and biochemistry, phys
iology, and organ and tissue cul
ture. Staff members hold profes
sorial appointments in the Bi
ology, Chemistry and Biochem
istry and Biophysics Depart
ments.
Initially, scientists in the Insti
tute of Developmental Biology
will focus on the study of the
biochemistry and role of the juve
nile hormone in cell differenti
ation, morphogenesis and cellular
organization.
Dr. Roller, who received his
formal education in Germany, is
active in several biological en
deavors on both the national and
international levels. He has been
a member of the National Science
Foundation’s Panel on Regulatory
Biology for three years and serves
as director of research for the
International Centre of Insect
Physiology and Ecology head
quartered in Nairobi, Kenya. He
also collaborates with scientists
in several European programs.
Last year he was elected a mem
ber of the world’s oldest inter
national academy of science, the
Leopoldina.
Since 1967 Dr. Roller served as
a scientific advisor to industry
where he has been actively in
volved in the development of
various new types of insect
growth regulators, compounds
which are the basis for a new
approach to insect control.
up on Asbury Street to keep that
one storage tank supplied.”
Terrell explained fuel oil is the
back-up fuel to natural gas in
the production of campus elec
trical energy and environmental
conditioning for buildings. But
with natural gas curtailment be
coming almost a fact of life,
TAMU must be prepared to sup-
(plement the demand with the
more expensive fuel oil.
In view of the federal govern
ment’s recent mandatory con
trols on propane and fuel, Ter
rell believes that TAMU made
a wise move in expanding its
storage capacity as early as pos
sible.
The new federal guidelines call
for priority of propane to resi
dential users followed in descend
ing order by: agricultural pro
ducers, food processors, mass
transit companies, hospitals and
nursing homes, industrial ve
hicles and equipment used in
doors, fire and police depart
ments, oil and gas drillers, small
businesses and gas utility com
panies that use propane to beef
up their output of natural gas
during peak consumption periods.
Energy experts expect roughly
the same priority system will ap
ply to fuel oil when those new
regulations are posted later this
month.
Even with indications that nat
ural gas curtailments will again
be severe this winter, Terrell
feels better about TAMU’s situ
ation. “We have expanded our
fuel storage tremendously. In
addition to the two one-million-
gallon above ground tanks locat
ed above ground tanks located
away from campus, we have add
ed another 150,000-gallon under
ground storage tank on main
campus. This gives us a total of
2.3 million gallons of storage
representing a full month’s sup
ply.”
Terrell emphasized the contin
ued need for conservation of en
ergy during the winter months.
“Although we have additional ca
pacity this year, we will not know
the adequacy of our system until
we actually see how severe the
energy crunch will be this year.”
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