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Prairie View A&M University Digital Commons @PVAMU PV Standard Newspapers Publications 6-1963 The Prairie View Standard - June 1963 - Vol. LIII No. 9 Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-newspapers Recommended Citation Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. (1963). The Prairie View Standard - June 1963 - Vol. LIII No. 9., Vol. LIII No. 9 Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-newspapers/283 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at Digital Commons @PVAMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in PV Standard Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @PVAMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Pn&OUe Staudatd VOLUME 53 Prairie View A. & M. College, Prairie View Branch, Hempstead, Texasjune, 1963 NUMBER NINE Cheerleading and Dr. Evans Baton Twirlers Clinic Scheduled Talks With A clinic for cheerleaders, baton twirlers, majorettes and school President sponsors of these activities is President John F. Kennedy in scheduled at Prairie View A. and vited Dr. E. B. Evans to meet M. College on July 14-19. with him at the White House on Nearly a thousand elementary Wednesday, June 19. and high school students usual ly attend the annual clinic which Dr. Evans attended the top- is now in its seventh year. An level conference which is report outstanding staff of visiting in ed to have concerned itself with structors will include Roland civil rights problems and educa Brinkley, director, Bob Wasson, tion on all levels. Windy Roaches, Linda Robert son, Jane Hamilton, Ilene Slates, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING — Students are shown at work in reading Caren Oiolli, Judy Barnes, and room of Public Health Center. The Public Health Nursing program Enrollment in cheerleader instructors from the at the college provides practical experience for students in a worthwhile National Cheerleader Associa and urgently needed community service. tion. Summer Session Instruction of baton twirlers will consist of all phases of twir Ten States Represented at 14th Annual Continues Upward ling, including solo and group Summer session enrollment at routines, rolls and slides, aerials Regional School for Extension Agents and finger work, fancy and mili Prairie View A. and M. College A total of 65 county and home tary struts, dance twirl routines ington, D. C.; O. B. Clifton, pro is up a little over 2 percent, Dr. and lighted fire baton. Cheer- demonstration agents from 10 gram specialist, College Station; E. B. Evans, prsident of the col leading instruction includes yells, states and agricultural leaders Dr. Ben D. Cook, specialist in lege, announced. tumbling and other specialities. from four foreign countries are Extension Studies and Training, Total enrollment for the first College Station; Dr. Kate Adele six weeks session is 2325, as com Drum majors will be drilled on enrolled in the Regional School marching fundamentals, whistle Hill, Reports analyst, College pared with 2278 for the same for Extension Workers being signals verbal commands and Station; and Dr. Curtis A. Wood, period last year. precision maneuvers. held at Prairie View A. and M. professor of Health Education, College. Prairie View's student popula Students 10 years of age or Prairie View. tion has increased steadily over over may register for the six- The special three-week school States having representatives the past several years. Regular day course. The total cost for is sponsored by Prairie View in in the extension courses are Ar session enrollment in 1962-63 the clinic is SIS.50 which in cooperation with the Texas Ex kansas, Florida, Georgia, Louis was 3547, a 14 percent increase cludes registration, room, board tension Service at College Sta iana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, over the 1961-62 figure. Simi and insurance. Interested stu tion, and the U. S. Department South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir lar increases are expected for dents and sponsors may write of Agriculture. Now in its 14th ginia and Texas. Foreign stu the college's 87th year beginning to Dr J. L. Brown, director of summer term, the school has dents are from Sierra Leone, Su on September 12. Extramural Services, at the col been offered to provide special dan, Nigeria, West Indies, and The 1963 Summer Session lege lor further information. training needed by agents in ex Tanganyika. features several workshops, The d, uc is sponsored by the tension service and community The school is operated under conferences and short courses departments ;»i Extramural Ser programs. the direction of Dr. Cook, and which are designed to meet the vices ?~iii Physical Education. The staff of five instructors Dr. J. L. Brown, director of Ex needs of school administrators Local directors nclude Dr. Nor include Dr. Joseph Bradford, in tramural services at Prairie and teachers. man Johnson, physical education formation specialist, Federal Ex View, and with the cooperation An increasing number of un professor, and Mrs. Bettye Win tension Service, Washington D. of agricultural extension and ex dergraduate students, including ston and William Hill of the de C.; Dr. Harlan Copland, staff periment station officials at many recent high school gradu partment of Extramural Servic development specialist, U. S. De Prairie View and throughout the ates, contributes to the increase es. partment of Agriculture, Wash Texas A. and M. College System. in student population. FACULTY AND PARTICIPANTS — in the Regional Extension School persons attended the 3-week program, including several foreign stu- are pictured in front of the Animal Industries Building. Sixty-five dents. JUNE, 1963 Two The Prairie View Standard Administrators ALUMNI NEWS WACO, TEXAS — Captain Attend Institute Jafus P. Cavil of 536 Calument Street, Waco, has been recently A two-day institute for school promoted to major. administrators was held on FORT LEWIS, WASH. June 17-18 at Prairie View A. First Lieutenant George E. and M. College. Brown has received a letter of The theme for the 7th annual commendation from Officers of institute was "Curriculum, Dis the 41st Signal Battalion (com cipline, and Societal Influences bat area) at Fort Lewis, Wash as Vital Facets of the Emerging ington. Lt. Brown held many School-Community Complex". positions of leadership during Visiting speakers for the oc his assignment from September casion were Dr. Paul R. Hen- 1961 to June 1963. sarling of Texas A. and M. Col ORLEANS, FRANCE — Ser lege and Dr. John W. McFar- geant First Class Anthony A. land, superintendent of Houston Mitchell received the Army Public Schools. Dr. Hensarling Commendation Medal during delivered a luncheon address on ceremonies held in May at the Monday, June 17, and Dr. Mc- U. S. Army Communications Farland spoke during the lun Zone, Europe. Sgt. Mitchell is cheon session on Tuesday, June ALUMNI PLANNING — The general Alumni Association president A. G. Hilliard of Tyler (left) outlined big plans for the Association during new stationed with the XU 18. group's May meeting. One of the projects was the sale of recordings by Corps in Sacramento, Califor The opening general session nia. featured a symposium on the the A Cappella Concert Choir and the 100-piece band. James O. Sulli van, student activities director, holds one of the records. Mrs. Emma AUSTIN — Dr. J. A. Chat- theme presented by department man '? Lubbock has been named of education professors J. W. Harrell, outgoing president and Dr. E. B. Evans were a part of the cere monies. by Governor John Connally to Echols, H. T. Jones, R. J. Rous- the Beard of Directors of Texas seve and C. C. Weems. Dr. G. Southern University. He will R. Ragland, head of the Sociolo Supervision of Student Teaching serve ,t six-year term. gy department at the college, DALLAS — A. Maceo John delivered a keynote address on son 'oar. a candidate for place the topic for Tuesdays discus Is Discussed in 3-Weeks Workshop six oi. the Richardson Indepen sion: "Factors that Influence A three-week workshop deal principals and college supervis dent School district's boarc of the Holding Power of the ing with the problems of super ors to improve their services to trustees. A Prairie View grad Schools." vision of student teaching is student teachers and serve as uate, Mr. Johnson is manager Sectional meetings were held scheduled for June 24 through critical agents for controlled ad- of Colonial Terrace, a private on the afternoon of the first July 13 at Prairie View A. and miss on of new personnel to the housing development in Dallas. day's session and at 10:30 a.m. M. College. teaching profession. WACO — Funeral services on the closing day. The special program is spon Consultants will include Dr. were held in May for V/. D. The Institute is sponsored an sored by the department of edu Barksaale, well known Califor Horace E. Tate, executive secre nually by the graduate school at cation at Prairie View in cooper nia orchestra leader who was Prairie View to highlight new ation with the Southern Educa tary of the Georgia Teachers fatally injured in an automobile developments in the area of ed tion Foundation and the Texas and Education Association; Dr. accident at Riverdale, California ucation and to emphasize the Principal's Association. The Estella H. Doty, Dallas school where he resided with his fam important role of the school ad purpose of the workshop is to ily. ministrator in community life. principal who will represent help public school teachers, Bishop College; and Dr. Marion Curry of Huston-Tillotson Col MATHEMATICS PROF Princeton Professor lege, Austin. Dr. John B. Mur STC-OVING AT CORNELL Spacemobile phy, professor education, is serv Ur»i Wilson of the depart Gives Science Lecture ing as director of the workshop.