nrijFhe Battalion # # fnewspaper.library.tamu.edu/lccn/sn86088544/1954-10-28/ed...nrijFhe Battalion#...
1
nrij # # f # Fhe Battalion Number 7: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1954 Price 5 Cents Doctor Committee Completes Study OfHealth Program . m n 4' ,WM , , ^ mm f A committee of doctors brought in to study the present student health program completed the study Wednesday afternoon, Ur. David H. Morgan, president, said last night. Composed of Dr. Paul White, chairman, director of student health service at the University of Texas; Dr. Sam Fuenning, direc- |Ltor of the university health ser- vices at the University of Nebraska and Col. Joe A. Bain, MD, deputy surgeon of the Fourth Army, the committee was called to make ex- p a n s i o n recommendations to achieve a complete modern health program in this area. “This is a continuation of our self-analysis of last year in oi’der to develop a greater A&M college,” Morgan said. Morgan Appoints On Aug. 6, Morgan appointed a committee to study the student health services and to make recom- mendations to him. Members of that committee ai’e W. L. Pen- ■: Great Issues New To Some Col leges in West The MSC Great Issues, result of many years of hard work is new to colleges in the West. John Samuels, president of the MSC last year-, was attending a Meeting of the National Student Union and it occui’red to him a program of this type could help A&M. He made several attempts to bring distinguished, men from all over the world to our campus. Lack of funds was actually the biggest draw-back. Now through the combined efforts of both stu- dents and administration a fund of $3,200 has been set up. Everyone who paid his student activities fee will be admitted to all programs. This cost the stu- dent only one dollar. Additional season tickets may be purchased in the MSC for $3. This includes oth the Great. Issues and Recital eries. The theme this year is “Free '’Minds—Free Men”. Each speaker on the program will speak along this line. The first speaker will be Dr. William G. Pollard, Director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. He will speak Nov. 10 on “Secrecy, Science, Security”. Be- sides his work at Oak Ridge he is an ordained Episcopal Minister. Harold Stasson, Director, of the Foreign Overseas Administration will speak Nov. 17 on “The East— Far, Middle, Near — Which Way Now?” He will explain how, why and what our money was spent for the East. , \ Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, former ancellor of the University of Chicago and now with, the Ford Foundation, will speak on “The Task of Education of Living in a Free Society” Dec. 5. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Continued cloudiness and occas- ional light rains throughout the day. Yesterday’s high was 77, low 48. The temperatui'e at 10:30 this morning was 53. berthy, chairman; Col. Joe Davis; Bennie A Zinn and Charles A. Roe- ber. About a month ago the commit- tee, after a preliminary study, recommended that a committee of experts be brought in for a-com- plete study, Morgan said, and the committee of doctors arrived on the campus Monday. The commit- tee will report later to Penberthy on the results of the study. Part of Program Included in the study were en- vironmental # health, preventative medical services, the clinic, mental hygiene program, corrective physi- cal education, health education and recreation. The study just completed by the committee of doctors is part of the long range program designed to expand the student health pro- gram in order to*bring maximum health benefits to this area in the form of an improved health pro- gram, Morgan said. Branch General Considered Army ROTC Program Consolidated Begins P^f £Zt£ZL Folio Immunization A&M Consolidated elementary school children began receiving po- lio immunization shots yesterday, the first mass polio inoculation in Brazos county. Superintendent L. S. Richardson said the inoculations were ahead of schedule, but they were not quite finished. ‘We had planned to use two full school days,” Richardson explained, “but we have received so much help from local doctors that we will finish sooner than expected.” He said almost every doctor in HOLD ’ER—George Vincent gets real determined with a steer as a preview of the All-Aggie rodeo Friday and Sat- urday. Vincent, who is from Sulphur, La., is secretary of the Rodeo club when he’s not steer wrestling. Air Force Ball To Be Held Guion Hall Will Present Tomorrow Ames Brothers Tuesday The singing Ames Brothers will present a show in Guion hall Tues- day night. Tickets for the show, which will start at 8 p.m.‘, are $1 a person. This show is not a Town Hall presentation, said Bill Johnson, student entertainment manager, so Town Hall season tickets wil not be good for this performance. Cinerama Tickets Now Being Sold Tickets for the special A&M showing of Cinerama in Dallas the corps trip weekend went on sale today at the athletic office ticket booth. The tickets are for a showing at 11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6. The A&M band is sponsoring the show- ing and gets a 20 percent commis- sion on the sales. The money will go into the band fund. Cost will be $1.75 for the bal- cony and $2.70 for the lower floor. These prices are a special reduc- tion for this showing. Cinerama is a moving picture technique using a wide curved screen and three cameras. The Melba theater in Dallas, where the showing will be held, is the only theater in the Southwest, and one of 14 in the 'nation, equipped to show it. The four Ames Brothers—Ed, Vic, Gene and Joe—have been vot- ed the “best vocal combo” by both Cashbox. and Billboard magazines. Although they have spent most of their professional careers on the nightclub circuit, the general pub- lic knows, them best as recording artists. Among their records have been “Sentimental Me” and “Rag Mop.” The first professional engage- ment for the Ames Brothers was at the Foxes and Hounds in Bos- ton, their home town. Booked for a one week trial, they remained for three months. From here it was on to the Latin Quarter in the same city for a six,month stint. This was then followed by a USO tour. The four boys from Boston made .their initial New York bow at the Hotel Lincoln. They remained there five months and then landed a spot at the Roxy theatre in New Corps; Will Form ‘ U During Half The “T” will be formed at half- time during the A&M-Arkansas football game, said Howard F. Childers, head yell'leader. Practice for forming the “T” will be at 6:Q5 p.m. today in Kyle field. The evening meal will be served at 5;30 p.m. York, for their first ‘presentation house’ appearance. The Roxy engagement marked the first time the group sang as an act of their own and not as a unit of a band. They were at the Roxy' for eight weeks. Other night club engagements included Giro’s in Hollywood, the world famous Chez Paree in Chi- cago, and the showplace of Ameri- ca, Bill Miller’s Riviera, where they have a contract for a return date annually for the next ten years, a precedent never before set in the history of the club. The Ames Brothers have not ne- glected television. They have been seen on the Milton Berle show, Ed Sullivan show, Cavalcade of Stars, Star of the Family and the Perry Como show. GO, MAN—Bill Coker, his trumpet, and his orchestra prac- time for their stint at the Air Force ball Friday night. The 15-piece orchestra will play for the dance in Sbisa hall from 9 p.m. until midnight yell practice. Spare Tournament In MSC Friday A spare bowling tournament, sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Bowling committee, will be held tomorrow from 2 until 6 p.m. in the MSC. The entry fee is $1.50. The tourn- ament is open to A&M students only. Fees will be divided as fol- lows: bowling expenses, 50 cents; prize funs, 50 cents; and state tommament fund, 50 cents. State tournament funds will be used to send a group of top average bowl- ers to represent MSC bowling club in the Texas State Bowling tourn- ament. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners. First prize will be 50 percent of the prize fund; sec- ond, 30 percent; and thix-d, 20 per- cent. Students may submit as many entires as they like provided en- ti’y blanks are registered before 6 p.m. at the desk of the MSC bowling lanes. A&M’s air force ROTC cadets will have their night tomorrow, when the annual Air Force ball will be held in Sbisa Hall. This is first time the ball has been held in the fall; it is usually held during the spring semester. Bill Coker and his 15-piece or- chestra will play for the dance, which will be fi’om 9 p.m. until mid-night yell practice. The air force fund, to which all air ROTC students have contribu- ted, is paying for the dance. Army and civilian student sen- iors with dates who wish to attend the dance can do so by contribu- ting $1 to the fund. Paul Breen, dormitory 8, room 201, and Gordon Tate, dormitory 1, room 317, will take the dona- tions. An Air Force Sweetheart will be picked fi'om four finalists during the intermission. Finalists and their escorts are Miss Lucy Stalkworth of Baylor, Jimmy Swan; Miss Nancy Boyd of SMU, Allen Gi-eer; Miss Majorie Ci’anford of Mineral Wells, Dan Gi’een; and Miss Glenda Sue Matthews of Houston, Allen Pier. Finalists were chosen from pic- tures submitted by the students. this area had volunteered to help with the inoculation. A corps of volunteer nui'ses is also aiding with administrating the gamma globulin shots. There are about 535 children who will receive the shots, Rich- ardson said. This includes chil- dren in gi'ades one through four. Thi’ee children who dropped out of Consolidated this week have been diagnosed as having polio. Two other children who conti’acted polio this year had older brothers or sisters in school, Richardson ex- plained. Last year, one child drop- ped out of school because of polio. There have been 25 cases of polio in Brazos county this year, according to Dr. E. S. Freeman, county health officer. After conferences with Freeman, Dr. R. M. Searcy, president of the Brazos County Medical society, and other doctors, Richardson decided that inoculation of students in the first through the fourth grades was advisable. The decision to have the students inoculated was spurred on by the three polio cases in Consolidated this week. Richardson said parents wexte taking the situation calmly and he did not know of any children who had been withdrawn from school. Texas A&M officials are considering changing army R£)TC instruction here to the general curriculum plan, in- stead of the present specific branch instruction. The proposed change has not been presented to the Academic council yet. It must approve the change before it can go into effect. If the change is decided on, it will not go into effect un- til next September, said President David H. Morgan. Under the general curriculum plan, all army ROTC students would be given the same general instruction during the four years of ROTC, instead of the specialized instruction in a particular branch, as is done now. The change would not ef- fect air force ROTC, which, is now teaching a general cur- riculum. Henderson Wins Election Unopposed John C. Henderson, senior day student, was chosen day student repi-esentative to the Civilian Student Council in a special election yesterday. Henderson, the only student who filed for the position, re- ceived three votes. There were no write-in votes in the elec- tion. According to Bennie Zinn, head of the student affairs de- partment, there are 947 day students who were eligible to vote in the election. Recreation Council Boasts Success New Bagley Lot Completed Soon The 150-car faculty and em- ployee’s pax-king lot adjacent to Bagley hall and the Academic building is scheduled for completion in approximately 30 days, Howard Badget, physical plant manager, announced yestei'day. ‘It is one of the many planned steps in the extensive program designed to relieve the parking problem hei’e on the campus,” Badgett said. Due to poor di'ainage and con- gestion, it was necessary to lay down cui'bs, level the ground, and mai'k individual spaces to prevent pax-king that will cause conges- tion, he said. More than 8,800 persons partici- pated in the 1954 College Station Recreation council, according to H. G. Thompson, president of the council. In the colored programs, three little league baseball teams with 36 players each, a gild’s softball team and a teen age boys softball team competed for championships with other teams in the area. Seniors Now Doing Practice Teaching Fifty-four seniors in the agri- cultural education department are currently doing two weeks of prac- tice teaching in selected high schools of the state. Dr. M. N. Abiams of the depart- ment said that schools for the prac- tice teaching are those in which regular vocational agricultural teachei’S have outstanding pi’o- grams, based on classwork, Future Farmer of America activity, super- vised farming programs and edu- cational work with adult farmers. “This teaching is a test not only of the student’s knowledge acquir- ed in technical courses of agricul- ture, but also of techniques and methods of imparting knowledge acquired in agricultural education,” Abrams said. Students and supervisors will re- turn to the campus Nov. 1. About 60 children under the age of 10, attended the supervised play periods. There wex-e 75 adults in the square dance classes and 43 students in the art and crafts class. Included in the white program were 450 swimmers, divided into 16 classes. The swimmers com- peted in seven meets. About 22 boys and girls between four and six years old attended the pre-school classes, while 33 persons attended the 12 week tum- bling class and 41 persons partici- pated in a 12 week tennis course. The tennis team entered four tour- naments. There were four little league baseball teams and four minor league baseball teams consisting of a total of 150 boys. There were 50 men on four soft- ball teams which played 16 games. Total receipts for the entire pro- gram were $5,263. Total expenses ■were $5,338. Men’s volleyball and a Chi’istmas party still remain on the program for this school year. Activities will Be held a’gain next summer if funds and facilities are available, Thompson said. A Field Wins A field artillery had the winning sign for the A&M-Arkansas foot- ball game. Second was A anti- aircraft artillei’y and squadron 6 was third. If the change went into ef- fect, army ROTC students would all wear the same ROTC insi-gnkU instead of branch insignia as they do now. Morgan said that “the present world conditions” made gpneral curriculum seem better. He said during times of World peace, A&M trained officers for, the reserves, and the specific branch instmction was best for this type of training. But now, since almost all of A&M’s graduates go directly to active duty after graduation, the school is in effect training activs duty officers, and the branch gen- eral method is better for this type of training, he said. "We would still place the em- phasis on leadership training,* Morgan said. Graduates from the general cur- riculum army ROTC are subject, to assignment in any branch/ The army says its policy is to assign a man to the branch that fits in best with his major study. The army asks the graduating1 senior to list his choice of branch and several alternates, and a re- viewing board assigns Mm to a branch, considering his profession- al training and the needs of the army. The army, which advocates the genei'al curriculum plan, says that the plan takes care of th« problem of over producing in cer- tain branches and under producing in others. In the last few yealfs here, graduates in the sendee branches have been transferred to combat branches on graduation because of this. Morgan listed the following ad- vantages of the general curricu- lum plan: • All army units could be of a standard size. • Class scheduling would be easier, because class schedules would not have to be built ax-ound the advanced specialized ROTC course. • The problem of keeping the various branches at the neces- sary Level of enrollment would removed. O Fewer classrooms and stor- age space would be needed. • There would be no classified materials and equipment requiring special handling. • ROTC coui’ses at Arlington and Tarleton could better be inte- grated into A&M’s courses. (See MILITARY, Page 2) Fellowship Program Science Foundation Announces Awards The National Science Foundation has announced its program of fel- lowship awai’ds for advanced study and training in the natural and ap- plied sciences for the acedamic year 1955-56. These fellowships are authorized by the National Science Foundation act of 1950. NSF fellowships are awarded in the mathematical, phy- sical, medical, biological and engi- neering sciences including anthro- pology, psychology (excluding clin- ical psychology) and geography. Fellowships ax-e available to any citizen of the United States who has demonstrated ability and apti- tude for advanced training in the sciences and who meets the re- quii’ements of one of the following categories of awai’ds: • First Year fellowships—an- nual stipend, $1,400; awarded to students entering graduate school for the first time or those who have completed less than one normal year of graduate study as of the beginning of the tenure of their fellowships. Seniors in college who will receive the baccalaureate degree dui’ing the 1954-55 academic year are eligible to apply for these awards. • Intermediate fellowships — annual stipend, $1,600; awarded to students who will have completed, as of the beginning of their fel- lowships, an amount of graduate training considered by the institu- tion at which they are in attendance to be a normal year of graduate study, but who will require more than one additional year to com- plete the requirements for a doc- toral degree. • Terminal Year fellowship— annual stipend, $1,800; awarded to students who expect to complete the requix-ements for a doctoral de- gree within one calendar year from the date on which they enter on the tenure of their fellowships. • Postdoctoral fellowships — annual stipend, $3,400; awarded to individuals who, at the time they enter on the tenure of their fel- lowships, will have received a doc- toral degree in science. The fellowships will also provide the payment of tuition and fees, dependency allowances for married Fellows and limited travel allow- ances. Fellows electing to study for nine rather than 12 months will receive three-fourths of the annual stipend. Individuals now in college or Graduate School can get applica- tion materials through the office of President David H, Morgan, their dean or department head. Applications for graduate fellow- ships must be received in the Fel- lowship, office of the National Re- search council by Jan. 8, 1955. Aps plications for postdectoral fellow- ship must be there by Dec. 20, 1954.
Transcript of nrijFhe Battalion # # fnewspaper.library.tamu.edu/lccn/sn86088544/1954-10-28/ed...nrijFhe Battalion#...
nrij # # f #Fhe BattalionNumber 7: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1954 Price 5 Cents
Doctor Committee Completes Study Of Health Program
. m n4' ,WM , , ^ mmf
A committee of doctors brought in to study the present student health program completed the study Wednesday afternoon, Ur. David H. Morgan, president, said last night.
Composed of Dr. Paul White, chairman, director of student health service at the University of Texas; Dr. Sam Fuenning, direc-
|Ltor of the university health services at the University of Nebraska and Col. Joe A. Bain, MD, deputy surgeon of the Fourth Army, the committee was called to make ex- p a n s i o n recommendations to achieve a complete modern health program in this area.
“This is a continuation of our self-analysis of last year in oi’der to develop a greater A&M college,” Morgan said.
Morgan Appoints
On Aug. 6, Morgan appointed a committee to study the student health services and to make recommendations to him. Members of that committee ai’e W. L. Pen-
■:Great Issues New To Some Col leg es in West
The MSC Great Issues, result of many years of hard work is new to colleges in the West.
John Samuels, president of the MSC last year-, was attending a Meeting of the National Student Union and it occui’red to him a program of this type could help A&M. He made several attempts to bring distinguished, men from all over the world to our campus.
Lack of funds was actually the biggest draw-back. Now through the combined efforts of both students and administration a fund of $3,200 has been set up.
Everyone who paid his student activities fee will be admitted to all programs. This cost the student only one dollar. Additional season tickets may be purchased in the MSC for $3. This includes
oth the Great. Issues and Recital eries.The theme this year is “Free
'’Minds—Free Men”. Each speaker on the program will speak along this line.
The first speaker will be Dr. William G. Pollard, Director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. He will speak Nov. 10 on “Secrecy, Science, Security”. Besides his work at Oak Ridge he is an ordained Episcopal Minister.
Harold Stasson, Director, of the Foreign Overseas Administration will speak Nov. 17 on “The East— Far, Middle, Near — Which Way Now?” He will explain how, why and what our money was spent for
the East., \ Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, former
ancellor of the University of Chicago and now with, the Ford Foundation, will speak on “The Task of Education of Living in a Free Society” Dec. 5.
Weather Today
PARTLY CLOUDYContinued cloudiness and occas
ional light rains throughout the day. Yesterday’s high was 77, low 48. The temperatui'e at 10:30 this morning was 53.
berthy, chairman; Col. Joe Davis; Bennie A Zinn and Charles A. Roe- ber.
About a month ago the committee, after a preliminary study, recommended that a committee of experts be brought in for a-complete study, Morgan said, and the committee of doctors arrived on the campus Monday. The committee will report later to Penberthy on the results of the study.
Part of Program
Included in the study were environmental # health, preventative medical services, the clinic, mental hygiene program, corrective physical education, health education and recreation.
The study just completed by the committee of doctors is part of the long range program designed to expand the student health program in order to*bring maximum health benefits to this area in the form of an improved health program, Morgan said.
Branch General Considered Army ROTC Program
Consolidated Begins P^f £Zt£ZL Folio Immunization
A&M Consolidated elementary school children began receiving polio immunization shots yesterday, the first mass polio inoculation in Brazos county.
Superintendent L. S. Richardson said the inoculations were ahead of schedule, but they were not quite finished.
‘We had planned to use two full school days,” Richardson explained, “but we have received so much help from local doctors that we will finish sooner than expected.”
He said almost every doctor in
HOLD ’ER—George Vincent gets real determined with a steer as a preview of the All-Aggie rodeo Friday and Saturday. Vincent, who is from Sulphur, La., is secretary of the Rodeo club when he’s not steer wrestling.
Air Force Ball To Be Held
Guion Hall Will Present Tomorrow Ames Brothers Tuesday
The singing Ames Brothers will present a show in Guion hall Tuesday night.
Tickets for the show, which will start at 8 p.m.‘, are $1 a person. This show is not a Town Hall presentation, said Bill Johnson, student entertainment manager, so Town Hall season tickets wil not be good for this performance.
Cinerama Tickets Now Being Sold
Tickets for the special A&M showing of Cinerama in Dallas the corps trip weekend went on sale today at the athletic office ticket booth.
The tickets are for a showing at 11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6. The A&M band is sponsoring the showing and gets a 20 percent commission on the sales. The money will go into the band fund.
Cost will be $1.75 for the balcony and $2.70 for the lower floor. These prices are a special reduction for this showing.
Cinerama is a moving picture technique using a wide curved screen and three cameras. The Melba theater in Dallas, where the showing will be held, is the only theater in the Southwest, and one of 14 in the 'nation, equipped to show it.
The four Ames Brothers—Ed, Vic, Gene and Joe—have been voted the “best vocal combo” by both Cashbox. and Billboard magazines.
Although they have spent most of their professional careers on the nightclub circuit, the general public knows, them best as recording artists. Among their records have been “Sentimental Me” and “Rag Mop.”
The first professional engagement for the Ames Brothers was at the Foxes and Hounds in Boston, their home town. Booked for a one week trial, they remained for three months. From here it was on to the Latin Quarter in the same city for a six,month stint. This was then followed by a USO tour.
The four boys from Boston made .their initial New York bow at the Hotel Lincoln. They remained there five months and then landed a spot at the Roxy theatre in New
Corps; Will Form ‘ U During Half
The “T” will be formed at halftime during the A&M-Arkansas football game, said Howard F. Childers, head yell'leader.
Practice for forming the “T” will be at 6:Q5 p.m. today in Kyle field. The evening meal will be served at 5;30 p.m.
York, for their first ‘presentation house’ appearance.
The Roxy engagement marked the first time the group sang as an act of their own and not as a unit of a band. They were at the Roxy' for eight weeks.
Other night club engagements included Giro’s in Hollywood, the world famous Chez Paree in Chicago, and the showplace of America, Bill Miller’s Riviera, where they have a contract for a return date annually for the next ten years, a precedent never before set in the history of the club.
The Ames Brothers have not neglected television. They have been seen on the Milton Berle show, Ed Sullivan show, Cavalcade of Stars, Star of the Family and the Perry Como show.
GO, MAN—Bill Coker, his trumpet, and his orchestra prac- time for their stint at the Air Force ball Friday night. The 15-piece orchestra will play for the dance in Sbisa hall from 9 p.m. until midnight yell practice.
Spare Tournament In MSC Friday
A spare bowling tournament, sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Bowling committee, will be held tomorrow from 2 until 6 p.m. in the MSC.
The entry fee is $1.50. The tournament is open to A&M students only. Fees will be divided as follows: bowling expenses, 50 cents; prize funs, 50 cents; and state tommament fund, 50 cents. State tournament funds will be used to send a group of top average bowlers to represent MSC bowling club in the Texas State Bowling tournament.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners. First prize will be 50 percent of the prize fund; second, 30 percent; and thix-d, 20 percent.
Students may submit as many entires as they like provided en- ti’y blanks are registered before 6 p.m. at the desk of the MSC bowling lanes.
A&M’s air force ROTC cadets will have their night tomorrow, when the annual Air Force ball will be held in Sbisa Hall.
This is first time the ball has been held in the fall; it is usually held during the spring semester.
Bill Coker and his 15-piece orchestra will play for the dance, which will be fi’om 9 p.m. until mid-night yell practice.
The air force fund, to which all air ROTC students have contributed, is paying for the dance.
Army and civilian student seniors with dates who wish to attend the dance can do so by contributing $1 to the fund.
Paul Breen, dormitory 8, room 201, and Gordon Tate, dormitory 1, room 317, will take the donations.
An Air Force Sweetheart will be picked fi'om four finalists during the intermission.
Finalists and their escorts are Miss Lucy Stalkworth of Baylor, Jimmy Swan; Miss Nancy Boyd of SMU, Allen Gi-eer; Miss Majorie Ci’anford of Mineral Wells, Dan Gi’een; and Miss Glenda Sue Matthews of Houston, Allen Pier.
Finalists were chosen from pictures submitted by the students.
this area had volunteered to help with the inoculation. A corps of volunteer nui'ses is also aiding with administrating the gamma globulin shots.
There are about 535 children who will receive the shots, Richardson said. This includes chil- dren in gi'ades one through four.
Thi’ee children who dropped out of Consolidated this week have been diagnosed as having polio. Two other children who conti’acted polio this year had older brothers or sisters in school, Richardson explained. Last year, one child dropped out of school because of polio.
There have been 25 cases of polio in Brazos county this year, according to Dr. E. S. Freeman, county health officer.
After conferences with Freeman, Dr. R. M. Searcy, president of the Brazos County Medical society, and other doctors, Richardson decided that inoculation of students in the first through the fourth grades was advisable. The decision to have the students inoculated was spurred on by the three polio cases in Consolidated this week.
Richardson said parents wexte taking the situation calmly and he did not know of any children who had been withdrawn from school.
Texas A&M officials are considering changing army R£)TC instruction here to the general curriculum plan, instead of the present specific branch instruction.
The proposed change has not been presented to the Academic council yet. It must approve the change before it can go into effect.
If the change is decided on, it will not go into effect until next September, said President David H. Morgan.
Under the general curriculum plan, all army ROTC students would be given the same general instruction during the four years of ROTC, instead of the specialized instruction in a particular branch, as is done now.
The change would not effect air force ROTC, which, is now teaching a general curriculum.
Henderson Wins Election Unopposed
John C. Henderson, senior day student, was chosen day student repi-esentative to the Civilian Student Council in a special election yesterday.
Henderson, the only student who filed for the position, received three votes. There were no write-in votes in the election.
According to Bennie Zinn, head of the student affairs department, there are 947 day students who were eligible to vote in the election.
Recreation Council Boasts Success
New Bagley Lot Completed Soon
The 150-car faculty and employee’s pax-king lot adjacent to Bagley hall and the Academic building is scheduled for completion in approximately 30 days, Howard Badget, physical plant manager, announced yestei'day.
‘It is one of the many planned steps in the extensive program designed to relieve the parking problem hei’e on the campus,” Badgett said.
Due to poor di'ainage and congestion, it was necessary to lay down cui'bs, level the ground, and mai'k individual spaces to prevent pax-king that will cause congestion, he said.
More than 8,800 persons participated in the 1954 College Station Recreation council, according to H. G. Thompson, president of the council.
In the colored programs, three little league baseball teams with 36 players each, a gild’s softball team and a teen age boys softball team competed for championships with other teams in the area.
Seniors Now Doing Practice Teaching
Fifty-four seniors in the agricultural education department are currently doing two weeks of practice teaching in selected high schools of the state.
Dr. M. N. Abiams of the department said that schools for the practice teaching are those in which regular vocational agricultural teachei’S have outstanding pi’o- grams, based on classwork, Future Farmer of America activity, supervised farming programs and educational work with adult farmers.
“This teaching is a test not only of the student’s knowledge acquired in technical courses of agriculture, but also of techniques and methods of imparting knowledge acquired in agricultural education,” Abrams said.
Students and supervisors will return to the campus Nov. 1.
About 60 children under the age of 10, attended the supervised play periods. There wex-e 75 adults in the square dance classes and 43 students in the art and crafts class.
Included in the white program were 450 swimmers, divided into 16 classes. The swimmers com- peted in seven meets.
About 22 boys and girls between four and six years old attended the pre-school classes, while 33 persons attended the 12 week tumbling class and 41 persons participated in a 12 week tennis course. The tennis team entered four tournaments.
There were four little league baseball teams and four minor league baseball teams consisting of a total of 150 boys.
There were 50 men on four soft- ball teams which played 16 games.
Total receipts for the entire program were $5,263. Total expenses ■were $5,338.
Men’s volleyball and a Chi’istmas party still remain on the program for this school year.
Activities will Be held a’gain next summer if funds and facilities are available, Thompson said.
A Field WinsA field artillery had the winning
sign for the A&M-Arkansas football game. Second was A antiaircraft artillei’y and squadron 6 was third.
If the change went into effect, army ROTC students would all wear the same ROTC insi-gnkU instead of branch insignia as they do now.
Morgan said that “the present world conditions” made gpneral curriculum seem better.
He said during times of World peace, A&M trained officers for, the reserves, and the specific branch instmction was best for this type of training.
But now, since almost all of A&M’s graduates go directly to active duty after graduation, the school is in effect training activs duty officers, and the branch general method is better for this type of training, he said.
"We would still place the emphasis on leadership training,* Morgan said.
Graduates from the general curriculum army ROTC are subject, to assignment in any branch/ The army says its policy is to assign a man to the branch that fits in best with his major study.
The army asks the graduating1 senior to list his choice of branch and several alternates, and a reviewing board assigns Mm to a branch, considering his professional training and the needs of the army.
The army, which advocates the genei'al curriculum plan, says that the plan takes care of th« problem of over producing in certain branches and under producing in others.
In the last few yealfs here, graduates in the sendee branches have been transferred to combat branches on graduation because of this.
Morgan listed the following advantages of the general curriculum plan:• All army units could be of a
standard size.• Class scheduling would be
easier, because class schedules would not have to be built ax-ound the advanced specialized ROTC course.• The problem of keeping the
various branches at the necessary Level of enrollment would removed.
O Fewer classrooms and storage space would be needed.• There would be no classified
materials and equipment requiring special handling.• ROTC coui’ses at Arlington
and Tarleton could better be integrated into A&M’s courses.
(See MILITARY, Page 2)
Fellowship Program
Science Foundation Announces AwardsThe National Science Foundation
has announced its program of fellowship awai’ds for advanced study and training in the natural and applied sciences for the acedamic year 1955-56.
These fellowships are authorized by the National Science Foundation act of 1950. NSF fellowships are awarded in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological and engi- neering sciences including anthropology, psychology (excluding clinical psychology) and geography.
Fellowships ax-e available to any citizen of the United States who
has demonstrated ability and aptitude for advanced training in the sciences and who meets the re- quii’ements of one of the following categories of awai’ds:• First Year fellowships—an
nual stipend, $1,400; awarded to students entering graduate school for the first time or those who have completed less than one normal year of graduate study as of the beginning of the tenure of their fellowships. Seniors in college who will receive the baccalaureate degree dui’ing the 1954-55 academic
year are eligible to apply for these awards.• Intermediate fellowships —
annual stipend, $1,600; awarded to students who will have completed, as of the beginning of their fellowships, an amount of graduate training considered by the institution at which they are in attendance to be a normal year of graduate study, but who will require more than one additional year to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree.
• Terminal Year fellowship— annual stipend, $1,800; awarded to
students who expect to complete the requix-ements for a doctoral degree within one calendar year from the date on which they enter on the tenure of their fellowships.• Postdoctoral fellowships —
annual stipend, $3,400; awarded to individuals who, at the time they enter on the tenure of their fellowships, will have received a doctoral degree in science.
The fellowships will also provide the payment of tuition and fees, dependency allowances for married Fellows and limited travel allowances. Fellows electing to study
for nine rather than 12 months will receive three-fourths of the annual stipend.
Individuals now in college or Graduate School can get application materials through the office of President David H, Morgan, their dean or department head. Applications for graduate fellowships must be received in the Fellowship, office of the National Research council by Jan. 8, 1955. Aps plications for postdectoral fellowship must be there by Dec. 20, 1954.
