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MSC Council Okays SCONA Speaker List
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By GERALD GARCIA Managing Editor
A list of 39 prospective speakers for the eleventh Student Conference On National Affairs and Great Issues Series was approved by the Memorial Student Center Council Tuesday night.
The council accepted the recommendations of the SCONA and Great Issues committees and passed the list to the university Executive Council for final approval.
If the Executive Council approves the list, the SCONA and Great Issues committee will fill five vacancies on next fall’s program.
The topic for SCONA XI will be “The Far East: Focus OnSoutheast Asia” (The Challenges To A Dynamic Region).
The possible speakers are Stuart L. Hannon, 1962-63 communications director of aid in Saigon, South Viet Nam; William J. Jorden, special assistant to W. Averell Harriman, ambass- ador-at-large; Edward Crank- shaw, noted journalist on Far East matters; Walter Lippman, noted columnist and critic of U.S. foreign policy; Maj. Gen. N. Khan, special ambassador from South Viet Nam to the United Nations; Oregon Senator Wayne Morse; Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening; Idaho Senator Frank Church; Arkansas Senator J. W. Fulbright; Texas Senator John Tower;
William Y. Elliott, head of the Harvard Institute of International Affairs; Fredrick Nolte; President Lyndon B. Johnson; Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; Secretary of State Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president; William P. Bundy, undersecretary of state for Far Eastern affairs; George
W. Ball, undersecretary of state; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara;
Henry Cabot Lodge, former ambassador to South Viet Nam; Dean Acheson, former secretary of state; Tran Van Chuong, former ambassador of South Viet Nam; Kenneth T. Young Jr., former U. S. ambassador to Thailand; Joseph W. Ballantine, special assistant to the secretary of state; Hans J. Morgantheau, State Department Advisor; James Robinson, NBC Far Eastern
'CSS Slows DownBecause staffers need a rest and
time to study for finals, The Bat- :alion will publish only on Tuesday and Thursday this week and will have only one issue during Final Week — May 27.
The first issue of the summer term will be published on June 3.
Cargill To Take Exchange Store Manager’s Post
Charles R. Cargill will succeed Carl Birdwell Sept. 1 as manager of the Texas A&M Exchange Store, Tom Cherry, director of business affairs, has announced. Cargill, now in charge of the market research section, Industrial Economics Research Division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, will join the Exchange Store staff June 1.
Birdwell’s retirement will end more than 20 years service as manager of the Exchange Store and nearly 40 years in the trade. He is a past president of the National Association of College Stores.
Also announced was the resignation of David R. Cooper as manager of the Exchange Store book department. Cooper assumes the post of manager of the campus store at Colorado State College June 1.
Cargill is a native of Eddy and graduate of Waco High School who entered A&M in 1949. He received the Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1953 and has completed course work for the Master’s degree. As an undergraduate he worked at the Memorial Student Center and also was a cadet captain in the Air Force ROTC.
Cargill returned to the campus in 1962 as a tactical officer and in 1963 became a research economist with the Industrial Economics Research Division.
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correspondent; Roger Hilsman, Southeast Asia expert; Benard Fall, Yale professor; John Gange, University of Oregon professor;
William J. Ledered, noted journalist; Thomas R. Conlon, Earl J. Young, Lt. Col. Thomas M. Wait, Lt. Col. Rolfe L. Hillman Jr. and Norman T. Ness, representatives of the State Department; Alexxander DeConde, University of California professor; Gen. Maxwell Taylor, present ambassador to Viet Nam; Denis Warner, noted journalist, and Zbigniw Brzezinski, Columbia University professor.
In other business the Council:1. Approved operating budgets
for SCONA XI, Leadership Conference 1965, Great Issues and Contemporary Arts committee. The budgets totalled $27,285.
2. Heard a report from Wesley Leftwich, chairman of the Leadership Conference 1965. Leftwich told the council that the conference, to be held in Palestine in Sept. 10-12, would attract about 150 participants.
3. Gave final approval for an improvement of the present Music Room. The MSC will spend $6,- 600 during the next four years and add 15 listening stations where four turntables, one tape deck and one FM stereo radio station will be hooked up.
4. Set the date for Freshman Open House as Sept. 17.
Juniors, Seniors Elected To Posts
The 10 vacant seats for senior and junior representatives on the Election Commission were filled Monday.
Seniors elected were Roy L. May, James A. Smith, David E. Graham, James G. Hooton and Michael Nabors.
Juniors selected were James Halpin, Jack E. Myers, Robert J. Myers, Dennis B. Biles and Charles Brown.
Charles Wallace, Election Commission chairman, announced a meeting for all newly-elected members and class officers at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Room 3-C of the Memorial Student Center.
Rudder Assures Prominent Corps
Cadets Requested To Accept Change
TEACHING AWARD WINNERSamuel M. Cleland is awarded the 1965 General Dynamics Excellence in Teaching Award from Roy H. Schwarz, director of management and technical services for the Fort Worth plant. Cleland is professor of Engineering Graphics.
Teaching Award Goes To Cleland
Samuel M. Cleland, professor of Engineering Graphics at Texas A&M, has been awarded the 1965 General Dynamics Excellence in Teaching award.
Cleland, described by his fellow professors as a “master teacher,” received a plaque and a check for $1,000 from Roy H. Schwarz, director of management and technical services in engineering for General Dynamics at Fort Worth.
The 55-year-old professor, who has taught at A&M since 1941,
Statistics Prof, Family Become Naturalized American Citizens
Dr. and Mrs. H. O. Hartley of Texas A&M and their daughter, Jennifer, became United States citizens Monday, giving up their British allegiance.
Hartley heads A&M’s Institute of Statistics and has an international reputation in Statistics. He holds three doctorates.
The Hartley family, which also includes a son, Michael, a gradu
ate student in Philadephia, first came to this country in 1953. Earlier, Hartley had been invited to come as a visiting scholar to Princeton University in the summer of 1949. In 1953 he accepted a visiting professorship at Iowa State where he was asked to join the faculty in 1954.
Jennifer now is 19 years of age and Michael is 22. She at
tends the University of Texas as a freshman and he is a graduate student in econometrics at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael was born during an air raid in London, Mrs. Hartley recalled. She also reflected on experiences during World War II, including teaching the doctor how to grow a wartime victory garden.
We have immensely enjoyed
HARTLEY BECOMES U. S. CITIZENDr. and Mrs. H. 0. Hartley and their daugh- ceremonies Monday, ter Jennifer chat with District Judge John M. Barron, left, following naturalization
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being in this country and feel privileged to enjoy the hospitality,” Hartley said. “We should share the responsibilities as well as enjoying the privileges.”
Hartley helped in America’s war effort more than two decades ago.
He had charge of large scale computational work for Scientific Computering Service Ltd., a London consulting firm. He did varied war work, including preparation of “bombing tables” for the use of American Army Air Forces flying missions against Nazi Germany and occupied Europe.
“In the first 10 days of the war, we made a million computations for ‘Antiaircraft Tables’ for British antiaircraft gunners,” Hartley explained. He also served as an air raid warden most of World War II.
He always has been English, although his mother was German and he first spoke that language. In 1934, while barely in his twenties, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree magna cum laude in mathematics at Berlin University.
Then he went to England and did postgraduate work in statistics. He also served as statistician at the Harper Adams Agricultural College at Newport, Shropshire, England.
In 1940 he received a doctorate in mathematical statictics from Cambridge.
Hartley taught at the University of London and also did consulting work following World War II and in 1953 he received the Doctor of Science degree from the University of London.
was accorded the honor on his work with students and classroom teaching.
“In addition to being a superior teacher, Professor Cleland is known throughout the United States and Canada for his mastery of the fundamental of graphics and his excellent lettering and drawing work. He is considered one of the top 10 people in America in the field of graphics arts,” said W. E. Street, head of the Department of Engineering Graphics.
“Te has an excellent voice, clear enunciation and prepares his lectures in such a manner that the students are always eager to listen to anything he says or watch as he draws on the blackboard,” Street continued.
Cleland, a native of Gates- ville, graduated from West Texas State University in 1931 with a degree in Industrial Education. He taught vocational industrial arts and drawing in Lefors for 10 years before coming to Texas A&M, where he received his Master of Education Degree.
While Cleland has been molding the minds of his students, he hasn’t neglected his own education. Since coming to A&M he has completed more than 100 semester hours of work in the fields of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
By TOMMY DeFRANK News Editor
Texas A&M President Earl Rudder emphatically denied Monday that the Corps of Cadets is headed for extinction.
In an impromptu address to freshman, sophomore and junior members of the Corps, Rudder made it clear that he will strive to assure an elite voluntary Corps.
“Without hesitation I am for the Corps of Cadets and I will do all in my power to see it strengthened and preserved,” Rudder said.
“I can assure that most, if not all of the members of the Board of Directors share this philosophy with me,” he continued.
The meeting was Rudder’s first with the Corps since the Board made Corps membership voluntary April 24.
Rudder praised the Corps for accepting changing trends and stressed that it must remain willing to accept future changes deemed necessary.
“Throughout the history of the Corps there have been changes in uniforms, policies and traditions, and the Corps has always survived and been improved for the most part. Change is normal and the Corps must be flexible enough to take change in stride. We must be ready to adapt with the needs of the hour,” he continued.
He explained that changing military policies of the Defense Department, the absence of increased freshmen enrollment annually and concern of the faculty and former students contributed to the Board’s decision to abolish compulsory military training.
The Air Force will begin limiting the number of first-year students allowed to enroll in Air Force ROTC this fall, and the Army will follow suit in the fall of 1966.
The World War II combat hero cited benefits he received from Corps membership while a student at A&M, and he emphasized that the Corps provided an excellent opportunity for men to serve their country.
“The training I received here has been invaluable to me all my life. I have been thankful that I had the backing of such leadership training,. which has often made the difference in success and failure, and in some cases, life and death for me.
“Every young man should serve his country in someway or prepare to serve it, and life in the Texas A&M Cadet Corps is one
of the finest ways of meeting one’s duty to his country,” he claimed.
Rudder took a jab at Cadet behavior at last fall’s SMU game and asked the Corps to guard against such unfavorable incidents in the future.
“Hank Foldberg hardly got a scratch on the sports pages for winning because you took all the headlines by cutting off Peruna’s tail . . . our yell leaders still get letters saying we killed Peru- na and we ought to be done away with, he recalled.
“The future of this Cadet Corps rests in your hands. The Corps must stand on its own record and eliminate its own soft spots . . . I want to see the Corps generate so much esprit de corps that incoming fish are struggling to get in instead to get out,” Rudder appealed.
He noted that freshman resignations from the Corps at the end of the first semester had decreased more than 52 per cent from the same period a year ago.
Rudder also touched briefly on his war experiences as commander of a Ranger battalion, composed solely of volunteers, who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc during the Normandy landings. He told of one soldier who volunteered for a dangerous mission and stepped on a land mine. The soldier wept at the field hospital because he had not carried out his mission.
“This is the kind of dedication that I want to see in our Cadet Corps. With such pride there is no barrier that our Corps cannot surpass,” Rudder concluded.
Plea Answered: Terrier Gets Ride
The female charmer in need of a ride to Denison made it home safely with a Texas Aggie over the weekend.
Penny, the white toy terrier found by mathematics professor Jack T. Kent, was transported home Friday by Mike Terry, a junior pre-med major from Denison.
The dog was found stranded in a roadside park near Schu- lenberg two weeks ago by Kent. Her owners, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wright, wanted her back but couldn’t afford to have her shipped to Denison so Kent contacted The Battalion for help last week.
He received calls from five Aggies willing to take the dog home, the first of which was from Terry. He delivered the dog to the Wrights Friday.
The World at a GlanceBy The Associated Press
InternationalSAIGON, South Viet Nam—Explosions touched
off Monday by American experts helped to cut the danger of further blast hazards at the Bien Hoa Air Base, scene of the U. S. armed forces’ greatest single setback of the Vietnamese war.
U. S. Army demolition specialists blew up four 500-pound bombs which, fitted with delayed action fuses, had emerged intact from the chain of flight line explosions Sunday that left 27 Americans dead or missing and 40 aircraft destroyed or damaged.
★ ★ ★LA PAZ, Bolivia—The ruling military junta
declared a state of siege Monday night to cope with bloody rioting in La Paz and tin miners’ seizures of hostages and a mine south of La Paz.
★ ★ ★TONYPANDY, Wales—A gas explosion ripped
through the depths of a coal mine today and officials said at least 28 miners were killed. The mine had been destined for closing soon.
★ ★ ★RAWALPINDI, Pakistan—The government said
Tuesday the official death toll from the cyclone and tidal wave that smashed into East Pakistan last midweek has reached 5,531.
Unofficial estimates put the deaths caused by the storm at more than 10,000.
NationalWASHINGTON—The FBI spent more than
$750,000 investigating the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi last summer—and worked under persistent local opposition.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, reporting this to a House appropriations subcommittee, said as many as 258 agents were involved in the case, at cost of $768,250.
TexasAUSTIN—Gov. John Connally swiftly won a
compromise with backers of the powerful teachers’ organization Monday and the bill began an apparent easy trip through the Legislature with Senate passage.
The compromise talks began early Monday and ended with an afternoon announcement by Connally. Unanimous Senate passage came less than an hour later.
★ ★ ★DALLAS—The most elaborate security pre
cautions in memory were put into effect in Dallas Monday for the visit of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Although police officials don’t acknowledge it publicly, it was apparent that the force wanted no incidents in this large north Texas city where President Kennedy was assassinated and also where United Nations Ambassador Adlai E. Steveson was spat upon in 1963.
