The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 06, 1979, Image 5

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1980 Sears Congressional Intern
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1979
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Wesley E. Peel, new director
of planning, design and construc-
! tion for the Texas A&M Univer
sity System, has been awarded
' the professional degree in civil
1 engineering.
It was given at the University
of Missouri at Rolla during the
106th commencement. The de
gree recognizes outstanding con
tributions to the engineering
profession.
Army Maj. Gen. Peel received
a bachelor’s degree in civil engi
neering at the Missouri institu
tion in 1958. He was awarded a
bachelor’s degree in agricultural
education at Texas A&M in 1946.
The Texas A&M official until
recently was commanding gen
eral of the U.S. Army Engineer
[Training center at Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo. The military veteran
held the post almost a year, until
assuming the Texas A&M post
May 15.
A registered professional en
gineer in Texas, Gen. Peel dur
ing 30 years military service
commanded an engineer group
and battalion and was operations
chief of a brigade in Vietnam. He
also served in Korea and the
Pacific.
Galloway to fill
term on hoard
Retired oil executive James H.
Galloway of Houston has been
| named to fill the unexpired term
of DeKalb businessman Norman
N. Moser on the board of con
sultants for Texas A&M Univer
sity’s free enterprise center.
Galloway, already a board
member, agreed to fill out
Moser’s term so that new appoin
tee Thomas R. “Bob” Frymire of
Dallas could have a full five-year
term. Frymire was initially seen
as filling Moser’s time on the
consultant board consisting of
five businessmen, five Texas
A&M deans and the president of
the Former Students Associa
tion.
Moser, originally named for a
two-year term on the board of
consultants to the Center for
Education and Free Enterprise
— a non-profit, privately-funded
effort headquartered on the
exas A&M campus — relin
quished his post earlier this year
to accept a post with the Texas
A&M University System Board
of Regents.
In other business, the consult- I
ants, meeting for the first time
with newly named center direc- ,
tor Gene C. Uselton, heard re
ports on the organizations’s past ,
activities and future plans for
pros and fundraising.
Also discussed was the prop-
soed 1979-80 free enterprise cen
ter budget of $555,678, a 60 per
cent higher request than the cur
rent budget. Largest increase,
more than double, would be in
$314,800 earmarked for educa
tion, research and publication
programs.
The board voted to meet Aug.
29 at Texas A&M.
Two department
heads named
New department heads have
been named for the geology and
biology programs at Texas A&M
University.
Dr. Robert Stanton Jr. was
named to head geology, succeed
ing Dr. David Stearns, depart
ment head since 1972. Stearns is
returning to fulltime teaching
and research.
Dr. William Klemm has been
appointed interim head of biol
ogy, succeeding Dr. John Seed
who had held the position since
1974 and now seeks to return to
fulltime teaching and research.
Klemm, a full professor with
degrees from Auburn and Notre
Dame, has been a faculty
member since 1966.
Stanton, a faculty member
since 1967, earned degrees from
California Institute of Technol
ogy and Harvard.
A&M graduate to
chair Rice hoard
Texas A&M University
graduate Robert R. Herring is
the new chairman of the Rice
University Board of Governors.
Herring, chairman and chief
executive officer of Houston
Natural Gas Corp., was
graduated from Texas A&M in
1941 with a degree in economics.
He also is a recipient of Texas
A&M’s Distinguished Alumni
Award, the highest honor bes
towed by the university.
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Sears Congressional Intern.
She was among 15 college and
university student chosen for the
prestigious internships sponsored
by Sears, Roebeck and Co.
The internship will include ap
pointment to the staff of a member
of the United states Senate or
House of Representatives from Feb.
1 — April 30, 1980, and participa
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program while working in Washing
ton, D.C.
Newlin, a communications major,
will be editor of The Battalion dur
ing the fall semester. She has pre
viously held newspaper internships
with the Tyler Courier Times and
The Eagle, Bryan-College Station.
This summer, she is working for the
Associated Press wire service in
Houston.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Borah P. Newlin of Tyler, Newlin is
also the recipient of Texas A&M’s
outstanding junior award.
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