ave a few weeks this summer?
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1978
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Freshman peer advisers wanted
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liipflf you plan on staying at Texas
\&M University this summer, why
n not volunteer some time as a peer
adviser for a few freshman orienta
tion programs?
v- The peer adviser program has
a,students already attending A&M
welcome incoming freshmen during
their orientation session,
rnffirhe program’s objective is to let
m incoming freshmen have immediate
contact with students who are ap
proximately their own age.
jj-KThe program was started a few
et years ago by Karen Switzer of stu
dent affairs. This year it is being or
ganized by Ron Hilton, a graduate
student with student affairs.
fivjpTliis year we’ve tried to expand
( e the program,’’ Hilton said. In recent
,, years the peer advisers would spend
one afternoon with the freshmen.
This year hilton is asking volunteers
to try to spend the first evening of
the orientation program with the
[ freshmen, who spend the week at
the Krueger-Dunn dormitory.
,| About 10 freshmen are assigned to
v [ ; .each peer adviser.
jV Hilton hopes that the peer advis-
Sl crs will have a question and answer
period with the new students the
first night, and then get together
| with them again the next afternoon.
“We don’t want students to an
swer questions with opinions about
the University or professors,” Hil
ton said. “We just want them to be
able to answer questions directly or
be able to refer the students to a
source where their questions can be
answered. ”
Students who wish to volunteer as
peer advisers will attend a training
session. There the program will be
explained to the volunteers, and
pamphlets that will be given to the
freshmen will also be given to the
volunteers to familiarize them with
the material. Housing, organiza
tions and other general topics will
be discussed at the session.
To qualify to be a volunteer stu
dents must have a 2.5 GPR and be
involved in at least one extracurricu
lar activity. The student must also
be able to attend the training ses
sion and at least two of the summer
orientation programs, which run
from June 6 and 7 through Aug. 9
and 10.
Laurie Begam, senior sociology
major, volunteered as a peer adviser
last summer.
“We showed the freshmen
around campus and answered the
questions they had. It’s time con
suming, but really worthwhile,”
Begam said.
“It s kind of like fish camp. The
freshmen get to meet students their
own age right away,” Begam said.
“It was an enjoyable experience for
me, too.”
Applications for peer advisers are
now being taken in room 108 of the
YMCA building. Deadline for appli
cations is April 17.
Band members to perform
Musical groups drawn from the
membership of the Texas Aggie
Band perform in concert Thursday
at Texas A&M University.
The two-hour show, benefitting
the Brazos County A&M Mothers
Club scholarship fund, will feature
music ranging from Wagner and
Mozart to Glen Miller and Henry
Mancini.
The Aggie Concert Band, di
rected by Maj. Joe McMullen, and
the Aggieland Dance Orchestra, led
by Lt. Col. Joe Haney, will per
form. The latter group was formerly
the Aggie Stage Band. The 8 p.m.
concert will be in Rudder Au
ditorium.
The concert band plans to feature
excerpts from Wagner’s “Die Mies-
tersinger,” “Victory at Sea” and “O-
liver.” Senior French horn player
Jeff Clark will solo on “Rondo” from
Mozart’s third concerto. The
Spanish “Amparito Roca’ tops sev
eral marches to be played.
Campus Names
Page retires
eremonies Thursday will honor
etired faculty member Dr. John
O. Page for 50 years member-
. jhhip in the American Chemical
Society.
Page, who retired in 1971, had
been a member of the Texas
&M University faculty since
1948. He had served as associate
rofessor and research analyst.
A 50-year certificate will be
resented in a special meeting of
the local section of ACS at 5 p.m.
in Chemistry Building Room
228. At the meeting, Dr. George
Bass, Texas A&M professor and
president of the Institute of
Nautical Archaeology now head
quartered here, will speak.
A reception will follow at the
Ramada Inn.
Rod O’Connor
awarded
Dr. Rod O’Connor of Texas
A&M University has won a na
tional teaching award from the
jOTi Manufacturing Chemists Associ
ation. One of six honorees,
O’Connor is the only person
from the South or Southwest so
honored.
; As part of the award, the Texas
A&M chemist and author will re
ceive a medal, citation and
$1,000 cash.
O’Connor has won recognition
for his talents in teaching large
numbers of first-year chemistry
students at Texas A&M. He
joined the faculty in 1973 as pro
fessor and first-year program di
rector.
O’Connor, whose research
rea is the chemistry of insect
victims, has written 12 books,
produced 35 instructional mov
ies, developed a series of
slide/tape programs for the
American Chemistry Society and
a complete color television
course, which received the 1972
Best of West award for instruc
tional programming.
Frank Wardlaw
named fellow
Frank H. Wardlaw, director
of the Texas A&M University
Press, has been named a fellow
of the Texas Institute of Letters
— one of only eight persons to be
so honored in the organization’s
40-year history.
Wardlaw was joined in receiv
ing the fellow designation by
John Graves, author of “Goodby
to a River,” “Hard Scrabble” and
numerous other works, and a
past president of the institute.
The title of fellow is bestowed
on writers whose lifelong careers
have brought distinction to liter
ature in Texas and others who
have rendered important service
to the cause of letters, noted a
spokesman for the institute.
The only other persons to have
been named fellows are J. Frank
Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb,
Karle Wilson Baker, Fred Gip
son, Joseph M. Dawson and Lon
Tinkle.
Tinkle, Wardlaw and Graves
are the only living fellows.
Wardlaw, who founded the
Texas A&M University Press in
1974 after serving as director of
the University of Texas Press for
24 years, also has served as pres
ident of the institute.
Additionally, he is a former pres
ident of the Association of
American University Presses and
was instrumental in preserving
Dobie’s ranch, Paisano, and in
establishing the Dobie-Paisano
Fellowship program for writers
and artists.
Robert Stewart
honored
A Texas A&M University sci
entist has been honored with the
highest award an engineer can
receive.
Dr. Robert E. Stewart, dis
tinguished professor of agricul
tural engineering at Texas A&M,
was elected to the membership
of the National Academy of En
gineers (NAE). Stewart is only
the fourth agricultural engineer
honored by NAE.
Election to the academy is the
highest professional distinction
conferred on an engineer. It
honors those who have made im
portant contributions to engi
neering theory and practice, or
who have demonstrated unusual
accomplishments in pioneering
new or developing fields of
technology.
Stewart was honored for his
research in environmental
physiology and agricultural engi
neering for the benefit of the ag
ricultural community worldwide.
Stewart came to Texas A&M in
1968. Prior to that he was at Ohio
State University.
Stewart, along with Dr. E. N.
Bailey of the Texas A&M College
of Veterinary Medicine, is cur
rently teamed in a project to de
termine how animals regulate
body temperature.
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Like the orchestra, the concert
band performed for a nearly full
house of3,000 at the Houston Music
Hall earlier this month. The group
will also play a Parents’ Day concert
in the auditorium April 16.
The widely heard and approved
Aggieland Dance Orchestra will
apply its “big band sound” to Mil
ler’s “In The Mood,” Chicago’s
“Make Me Smile,” “Feelings,” “The
Way We Were,” and Mancini’s
“Pink Panther,” Woody Herman’s
“Woodchoppers Ball” and other fa
vorites.
The musicians have performed in
Mexia and Baytown in addition to
their Houston apprearance. They
also plan to appear in a Shriner ben
efit. The orchestra has played
numerous dances around the state,
and will set the tempo for the Cot
ton Pageant Ball and Sports Media
Banquet on campus.
Admission to Thursday’s concert
will be $3 for a family, $1.50 for
adults and $1 for students. Mothers
Club president Mrs. Charles Briggs
said tickets can be obtained at many
area banks and lending institutions.
Honor students given globe
A $250 lighted globe was pre
sented Texas A&M University’s
Medical Sciences Library Tuesday
as a memorial to two veterinary
medical students who died.
Veterinary student Jeff Kunde of
Bryan collected donations from Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine faculty
and fellow students of the late Steve
Cornforth and Philip McGuire, both
members of the Class of 1979.
The money, most of which came
from second-year students,
used to purchase the globe.
Acceptance ceremonies, sched
uled during National Library Week,
included student Don Goodman of
Plantersville, president of the
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Undergraduate
Senator
second-year class; Dr. Irene Hoad-
ley, libraries director, and Dr.
George Shelton, dean of the college
of veterinary medicine.
McGuire died Jan. 4, 1978, and
Cornforth died Nov. 23, 1976.
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