The Night Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 3, 1967 Page: 1 of 4
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Profile of Typical Night Student
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Tuesday, January 3, 1967
Vol. XXXI — No. 1
San Antonio, Texas
Mr. McClenney
fond of sports, he enjoys both ten-
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Eleven Technical Courses
Move Into New Building
Freshman Griffin
Enrolls for Swim
Class Third Year
Soft lights add a touch of beauty to the Technic:! Education Building as dusk settles over the cam-
pus. The new building houses the college’s rapidly-expanding technical programs.
of academic and technical educa-
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Night Director
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Solve Problems
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Regisfralion Procedures Outlined
For Spring Semester Students
i Registration in the Evening Di-
vision of San Antonio College will
be controlled on the basis of reg-
i istration time permits for the
Spring Term beginning January
30, 1967.
This is necessary because of the
large number of persons who de-
sire to register on the first night
of registration and who often have
to wait excessive period of time
before completing registration.
Permits on a controlled flow
basis, which will alleviate the long
periods of waiting, will be issued
for specific registration dates and
time. The issuance of date and
time permits will be on a first
come first served basis. Prospec-
tive- registrants must secure their
own time permits.
The permits will be issued for
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday, January 24,
25, 26, 27, and 28.
Registration time permits will be
available each evening during Jan-
uary from 2 to 9 p.m. daily and
on Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m.
Day school students who plan
to take part of their work in the
Evening Division must obtain reg-
istration permits for the Evening
Division if they plan to register
on January 24 or 25. If they plan
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Of the three possible ways to
be admitted to SAC, transfer from
another college seems to be the
most common. About half of the
Evening Division students entered
this way. Others were high school
graduates or entered by taking the
General Education Development
Test. These students either had not
graduated from high school or had
taken insufficient or incorrect
courses for college entrance.
“Heretofore, we had about 90
per cent academic and 10 per cent
technical participation. Although
the change will not take place im-
mediately, I look one day for San
Antonio College to have a 60-40
ratio of the two programs; 60
per cent of the students enrolled in
academic courses and 40 per cent
of them developing technical
skills,’’
Almost as overwhelming a pro-
portion are the married students
who comprise over three-fourths
of the Evening Division enrollment.
Two-thirds of the class mem-
bers are men, probably due in
part to the fact that almost one-
third of the 5,200 people enrolled
at night are military personnel.
Of these, more than 1,200 are re-
ceiving tuition aid through the
Information and Education Plan
of the Federal Government which
pays up to three-fourths of tuition
costs.
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I supporter of technical education.
! programs.
Dr. Nail said, “This building
makes it possible for us to han-
dle 1640 students each hour in the
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Although one of the things about San Antonio Col-
lege which usually impresses a newcomer is the variety
of backgrounds of the students, there are a number of
ways in which many Evening Division students are alike.
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“Stolen autos, marriage counsel-
ing, and no study time, are just a
few of the problems students want
to talk about,” says Mr. Byron N.
McClenney, assistant director of
the Evening Division.
Mr. McClenney, sympathetic and
understanding in his approach, finds
working with students interesting
and challenging. In charge of reg-
istration and clearing of entrance
records since June 1966, his big-
gest problems are in helping stu-
dents straighten out their school
records.
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San Antonio College’s new struc-
ture contains 19 classrooms, 23
laboratories, 25 offices, and a stu-
dent lunch area. A unique feature
of the building is the arrangement
of classrooms near the windows
for natural brightness with the
laboratories located in the center.
Teachers of technical education
courses are pleased with the
building design which places their
offices close to the classrooms and
the students.
Courses on the first floor will
be drafting, lapidary arts and basic
design, and air conditioning and
refrigeration. The second floor will
house data processing, medical and
dental assisting, mortuary science,
and professional nursing. Third
floor courses will consist of busi-
ness technology, electronics,
strumentation and control,
production management.
Construction of the building that
will house the present and future
technical courses is an important
milestone in technology education
for the city of San Antonio and
the college, and a source of much
satisfaction for Dr. Nail, a strong
Want to meet the “most ma-
ture freshman at SAC”? You’ll
probably find him swimming in
the college pool; he does so
about three times a week.
Who is he? He’s Mr. David
Griffin, registered this semester
in P. E. 113.80, who has been
taking swimming here at SAC
for three years. Mr. Griffin
says “I try to come five times
a week but don’t always find
the time.”
What makes Mr. Griffin so
special? He is eighty-two years
old. Swimming is one of the
things he feels keeps him young.
In discussing the significance of
this building to San Antonio, Dr.
Nail pointed out that having more
technically trained people located
in San Antonio will be a strong
attraction for new industry.
Courses such as instrumentation
and control will produce many
skilled technicians for the city. He
cautioned that industry must be
willing to pay good salaries to
these technically qualified work-
ers or they will look to other
cities for employment.
“A greater outside the city trade-
area will also be realized with
the increased enrollment in the
technical courses,” said Dr. Nail.
“Each new student from outside
the city means an additional $40®
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All students enrolled in 11 tech-;
nical education courses will be at- j
tending classes in the new Tech-
nical Education Building by the
start of the second semester ac- technical education courses—an.
cording to SAC Vice President! increase of five times the pres-
Clyde R. Nail, the man responsi- ent number of students enrolled
ble for much of the planning and in these courses. We are finally
development of the building. Some moving toward a better balance
of the courses are already being
conducted there.
Reflects Interests, Similarities
Students arive, especially mili-
tary dependents, sometimes with
as many as 60 credit hours for
various subjects taken in colleges
and universities throughout the
country, yet they have never been
officially admitted to a college.
“It’s a big job,” stated McClenney
“to help these students pull all
their credits together and get them
admitted to SAC.”
Experienced and well-trained for
the job, he received his Bachelor
and Master of Arts degrees from
The University of Texas. Much of
his college work was in counsel-
ing and educational psychology.
Last year, as a doctoral candidate,
he worked in Guidance and Coun-
seling at The University of Texas.
From 1963-1965 he was ■ a San
Antonio instructor in physical edu-
cation, assisting in basketball and
coaching the tennis team. Prior to
this he was the physical educa-
tion consultant for two years in
the Spring Branch Independent
School District, Houston.
Mr. McClenney is married and
I the father of two small boys. Still i
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Nurse Tours Germany
Specialist-Six Ruby Washington,
in her third semester at SAC, is
taking psychology and sociology.
An advanced medical specialist
(military equivalent of a ‘licensed
vocational nurse), she is presently
stationed at Ft. Sam Houston. One
of the most interesting experiences
of her life, says Ruby, was a tour
of duty in Germany in 1962-64.
While there she took many sight-
- - - - seeing trips' to noted places and
to some unnoted points of local
color. She is yet undecided wheth-
reading the er to continue in her Army ca-
a reer or attend college as a
; time student.
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Lackland and Kelly Air Force
Bases are best represented: Lack-
land with 350 I & E students and
Kelly with 300. Randolph Air Force
Base and Ft. Sam Houston each
send about 200 students; Brooks
Air Force Base has 95 I & E stu-
dents at SAC, and the Marine
Corps sends four students. Two
hundred veterans are also at-
tending.
For instance, according to Dr.
Edwin Keasler, director, “ninety-
nine and nine-tenths per cent” of
those enrolled in the night classes
are either employed full time or
are armed forces. Only six stu-
dents are carrying full loads at
night; these are housewives who
must care for their children dur-
ing the day. Full-time students from
the Day Division who also take
courses in the evening number
490.
Electronics Engineer
Finds Work Rewarding
“Space exploration can be both
exciting and rewarding,” says Mr.
Wesley Prather, an electronics en-
gineer at the Aerospace School of
Medicine and an Anthropology stu-
dent at SAC.
Even before NASA was ever
conceived, these pioneers of the
space age were working on the
experimentation techniques for
Project Mercury. Through various
experiments, they were able to
record electrocardiographs via
transmitters in order to prepare
astronauts for future space flights.
These techniques enabled them to
either go ahead or “scrap” the
mission.
Aside from his engineering work,
Mr. Prather has written several
pamphlets on his observations on
Galvanic skin responses through
transmitters and the measure of
brain waves.
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to register for Evening Division
courses at the same time they reg-
ister for day courses, no Evening
Division registration permit is nec-
essary.
Concurrent enrollees can regis-
ter for day and evening classes
while registering for day classes.
Eight new courses will be added'
to the Evening Division schedule
for the spring semester and nine
new teachers will join the faculty.
Seven of the courses are com-
munity service courses that will be
offered for the first time. The
eighth, advanced calculus, has been
taught in the day division. Addi-
tional courses will be Interior De-
sign, Administration of Safety
Programs, Investment Planning,
Industrial Purchasing, Birds and
their Identification, Conversation-
al Norwegian and Practical Super-
vison.
New instructors will be Mrs.
Stella Ashley, English; Mr. Rus-
sell H. Bronstein, government; Mr.
Don Couser, radio announcing; Dr.
David V. Gilbert, medical assist-
ing; Mr. Ron S. Munguia, English;
Mr. Gilbert Murillo, sociology; Mr.
Raymond G. Sanchez, government;
Mrs. Alice C. Thornton, interior
design and Dr. Gene B. Walker,
engineering.
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Reasons for entering the SAC
Evening Division are usually one
of four. Two-thirds of the stu-
dents are taking courses which
will lead directly to a college de-
gree. Other students are taking
classes simply for the information
to be gained.
Many students already have de-
grees, some of them doctorates,
and have returned for classes they
were unable to take while in
school or which were not offered
at the college they attended. Busi-
nessmen often take language
courses in order to better converse
with customers.
Spanish is the most popular
language course with French and
German about even in second
place. Aside from the general
academic courses which most stu-
dents are required to take, art
courses are the most popular.
Swimming courses, the only active
physical education classes taught ;
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■ nis and golf.
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Monday through Thursday.
Few students seem anxious to sign
up for courses offered on Friday
night or Saturday morning.
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