The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 11, 1979, Image 3

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1979
Mining program
gets under way
Texas A&M student worker Phillip Coker gets into his work as
he treats a wound on one of the many trees around the campus.
Battalion photo by Sam Stroder
By LAURA CORTEZ
Battalion Reporter
The petroleum engineering de
partment at Texas A&M University
is offering a new degree, in mining
engineering, as a result of the in
creasing demand for graduates in
that field.
Dr. Douglas Von Gonten, head of
the department, said that the min
ing engineering program, which
began this fall, comes at a time
when Texas is looking to its vast de
posits of lignite and uranium to help
meet energy demands.
“We have an emerging mining
industry within the state and we
have no school turning out mining
engineers,” he said. Texas A&M is
the only university in the state to
offer a degree in the field.
The program will provide stu
dents with training in surface and
underground mining, Von Gonten
said.
Major emphasis will be placed on
surface mining, however, because
Von Gonten said he feels that the
majority of the students will be
going into this type of operation. He
said that graduates with the new de-
ocal music adds director, pianist in one
\mcv S. Theeman of College
'ark. Md., has joined Texas A&M
Iniversity’s vocal music program as
i lirector of Century Singers, a 65-
oice mixed chorus that performs
icpular and classical music.
Theeman will also be pianist-
1 ecompanist of the Singing Cadets,
170-voice all-male vocal group, and
rill work full-time with Singing
kidets Director Robert L. Boone.
While a doctoral student at the
diversity of Maryland, Theeman
was assistant director of public rela
tions for the music department and
had teaching, coaching and direct
ing duties.
Her musical abilities include
strings, vocal and piano skills. She
studied at the University of Roches
ter Eastman School of Music, the
University of Manchester in En
gland and Colorado College. She
also sang in the National Cathedral
Choir in Washington, D.C. and
with vocal groups at Eastman and
Manchester.
A member of Phi Kappa Phi, she
was a Scholarship Fellow at the
Foundation Camargo in France for
11 years and a recitalist under au
spices of the American embassy at
Marseille.
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Dr. James Russell, one of the two
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a degree in mining engineering will
increase as oil and gas reserves are
depleted. He said lignite and
uranium will be developed as
sources of power.
There are currently 20 students
involved in the program, and Von
Gonten, who is the program admin
istrator, estimated that within four
years about 100 students will be
seeking degrees in this area.
He said the program, which the
petroleum engineering department
began planning four years ago, has
already cost approximately $20,000,
and added that within the next five
years, about $100,000 worth of
equipment will be purchased.
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