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Kathy Heldman Selected 1967-68 Aggie Sweetheart JBRARY lAHPUS 14 COPIES A FIRST-DOWN GAINER . LED TO A LONGER PASS . THAT PRODUCED A TOUCHDOWN “Gig ) $5.00 Tailback Larry Stegent takes a second-quarter Charlie Riggs pass Edd Hargett took the suggestion and hit Stegent wide-open two Stegent crosses the goal, bringing the Aggies’ lead to 9-0 in the against Florida State and goes 11 yards for a first down. FSU’s minutes later. Here he has out-distanced the defenders and is cross­ second quarter. Florida State came back in the second half to post Mike Blatt halts the action. Stegent made a suggestion. ing the Florida State 20-yard line en route to a touchdown. a 19-18 victory. See story, page 4. (Photos by Dave Davis) £: Wednesday — Clear to partly cloudy, §: winds easterly 10-15 m.p.h. High 74, low 47. :i\ Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy, £: winds easterly 5-10 m.p.h. High 76, j-:: low 44. :::• •:% Lubbock — 74° 407c humidity, winds £: southwesterly 10-15 m.p.h. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1967 Number 482 ^11 Peterson Elected nball Kathy Heldman Selected VS Board President til Fort Worth oilman L. F. Peter­ past two years has headed the son was elected president of the university’s Agency for Inter­ Texas A&M University System national Development (AID) con­ 1967-68 Aggie Sweetheart Board of Directors Saturday. tract work in the Dominican Re­ S. B. Whittenburg, publisher of public. t’s) the Amarillo News and Globe- Turning to construction mat­ Times and Lubbock Avalanche- ters, the board confirmed award Journal, was elected vice presi­ of two contracts totaling $101,498 dent. for electrical modifications in a feTWt/ Sophomore 12-dormitory renovation project Peterson succeeds H. C. Hel- at Texas A&M and air-condition­ denfels, a Corpus Christi con­ ing a Prairie View A&M dining tractor who has served two years hall. The Texas A&M job went as president and was recently Is Music Major to Mabry Inc. of Bryan on the appointed to his second six-year IS basis of its $73,502 low bid. B. board term. Petite Kathy Heldman of Cald­ eluding drenching at the A&M- Schwarz & Sons of Hempstead well, a sophomore music major at Florida State game Saturday WHITTENBURG, who resides won the Prairie View project with Texas Woman’s University, is the night. in Amarillo, takes over the posi­ a low bid of $27,996. 1967-68 Aggie Sweetheart. Following the Aggie Sweet­ tion held the past two years by The board also appropriated heart selection, the finalists The 19-year-old brunette, one of Clyde Wells, a Granbury rancher. $96,000 for planning and other 14 TWU finalists vying for the named Student Senate Vice Presi­ Wells also was recently reap­ preliminary expense for four honor of representing Texas dent Bill Carter “Mr. Congenial­ pointed for another six-year term. proposed Texas A&M projects. A&M’s 12,000 students, was ity.” The junior from Decatur Peterson graduated from Texas One of the projects, tying in named Sunday and will be formal­ was one of the escorts for the A&M as a distinguished student with the new library addition, ly presented to the student body girls. in 1936 with a B.S. degree in calls for development of a central at the A&M-TCU football game Kathy, a music-voice major, has petroleum engineering. He is a campus mall. Another involves Ik at Fort Worth Oct. 21. dark brown hair and brown eyes. l i a major addition to the Chemistry Kathy, who stands 5-4, is prob­ Her over-all grade point ratio is past president of the university’s Building. The remaining two ably more closely associated with 1.5. Association of Former Students projects provide for renovating A&M than any other Aggie Her activities at TWU include and was appointed to the board and air-conditioning the YMCA Sweetheart in history. Both of Freshman Talent Assembly as­ in 1963. and Agricultural Engineering her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. sistant music director, Modern Whittenburg, a board member Heldman, are employed at the Choir counselor, Freshman Class since 1959, attended the Univer­ Buildings. II ' Hv " AN ADDITIONAL $73,300 ap­ university. They commute daily Stunt and the Lass-0 Choraliers. ^ ^ ts i ■' sity of Texas. He is a former from Caldwell, a small town 23 IN HER contest application, V t member and chairman of the propriation was made to meet planning and construction ex­ miles west of College Station. Kathy said her “most important *»»***■ Board of Regents for Texas penses to improve the university’s THE 14 finalist were weekend experience” of the past months Woman’s University at Denton. ' ml guests of the A&M Student Sen­ was her United Service Organiza­ ^ primary electrical distribution IN OTHER BOARD business, ate and participated in a full tion tour with the Choraliers this system. '18 Rear Admiral James D. Craik, In another item pertaining to round of campus activities, in- summer. The group sang for commander of the Eighth Coast American armed forces in service : ... electricity, the board authorized Cf Guard District at New Orleans clubs in southern Germany. university officials to sign a six- until his retirement in June, was Diver To Address “To see so many smiling Amer­ year contract with the City of named superintendent of the Tex­ ican soldiers was great,” she Bryan for an interchange of elec­ OceanographyClub AGGIE SWEETHEART as Maritime Academy at Gal­ wrote. “The people we met and trical power. The agreement Lt. Cmdr. Don Walsh, who has Kathy Heldman, Texas Woman’s University sophomore who was named the 1967-68 Ag­ veston, effective Nov. 1. would assure A&M an adequate the scenery we saw made this a gie Sweetheart Sunday, gets a kiss on the cheek from Jerry Campbell of Center, Texas made the world’s deepest sea dive, memorable and educational sum­ Admiral Craik, 56, succeeds source of stand-by power. 35,000 feet, in the Trieste Bathy- A&M student body president. Miss Heldman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Heldman Captain Bennett M. Dodson who University official also received mer.” of Caldwell, is studying music at TWU. scope, will speak to the Ocean­ Kathy says she has been established the academy five authorization to enter into an ography Club at 7:30 tonight in “around A&M a long time.” Her years ago and is now retiring. agreement with the City of Col­ lege Station regarding use of room 2B of the Memorial Student father is employed at the A&M The board also increased the sewage lines. The agreement al­ Center. Press and her mother is an Ex­ membership for the academy’s lows the city to connect on to His topic will be “The Ocean change Store employee. Mimms Recalls Background Board of Visitors from 15 to 18. tivity From Space.” university sewage lines on the “I’ll do my best to represent Selected to fill the three new 'esen- Commander Walsh received his west side of the campus and al­ both TWU and A&M,” she said advisory positions were Robert master’s degree from A&M in lows the University to tie into after the announcement, “and I M. Calder of New Orleans, south­ January and is now serving in the city lines on the east side. know I can. I’d like to see the Of ‘Spirit Of Aggieland’ ern division manager,for United ) United States Navy. Additionally, the board author­ relationship between TWU and Fruit Company; Robert Paul ized advertisement of bid for furn­ University National Bank A&M even closer.” The author o f Texas A&M’s best describes why A&M is great. special TABA guest Saturday. Walker of Port Arthur, manager 9 “. .There’s a Spirit can ne’er iture for Prairie View’s new li­ “On the side of Texas A&M” Last year’s Aggie Sweetheart school song believes the second A bass horn player who gradu­ of Texaco’s U. S. fleet, and Syd­ brary addition and air-condition­ ) —Adv. was Kathi Austin of Dallas. line of “The Spirit of Aggieland” be told. .” ated in 1933, C. N. (Newt) Hiel- ney Wire of Houston, assistant Marvin Mimms, 62, declared he ing a portion of the Texas A&M- scher of Shreveport, was master general manager for the Marine owned U. S. Department of Agri­ has never heard anyone satisfac­ o f ceremonies. H e instructed Department, Humble Oil Com­ culture Building. torily describe the spirit of Ag­ bandsmen whose hair is depart­ pany. The board also formally ac­ gieland. ing how to solve the problem. Other key personnel appoint­ cepted gifts, grants and scholar­ Coast Guard Admiral Named Background of the alma mater “WIPE THE bald spot with a ments included naming James ships totaling $495,000 from more sung 41 years by Aggies was ex­ mixture of persimmon juice and Harold Allen dean of men at than 100 donors. plained Saturday at a Texas Ag­ alum. It doesn’t grow hair,” Heil- Tarleton State College and Dr. gie Band Association meeting. scher remarked. “It shrinks the Jarvis E. Miller assistant direc­ Maritime Academy Director Mimms, of Banquete, was honored bald spot and pulls the fringes tor for the Texas Agricultural Fish Wear Spurs at the conclave and presented a together.” Rear Admiral James D. Craik, During World War II, he served ADMIRAL CRAIK is a native plaque by Tom Murrah of San Experiment Station. A 1953 senior trombone player, commander of the Eighth Coast as commanding officer of the cut­ of Andover, Mass.
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