Blinn College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Brenham, TX)

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, a , m z- VOKVVW, 7x N xAVm Sewhw tzww x t x 0R w w Staff members have discussion with speaker. w AWN . x V $ A 0 WW .t e wwww Members speak With guest speaker, Mr. Werner. Club officers serve refreshments, On Monday night, December 12, 1966, the Mathematics Club held its first initiation inthe Student Center. The guest speaker was Werner Keidel who was born in East Germany. Presently he resides in Bellville. His topic for the evening pertained to the different phases in the work of computers. On April 7, 1967, the Club initiated two new members into the Club and four associate members became members. The two new members are James Ephraim and James Reinhardt. 157

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XT George Schaefer Elleene Roesler s Xm, President Vice President Sandra Grieve ........... Secretary-Treasurer Rita Hartfield Reporter Bruce Bayless .............. Student Council Herman Schoenemann Members Ruby Beckendorf Ronald Braun James Charles Ephraim Gay Gardiner Mary Ann Guelker William Kutzschbach Yvette Murray Pete Raif James Reinhardt Michael Saunders Melvin Schoenemann Rosemary Stegemueller Patsy Surovik Daniel Vasicek Repres entative Sponsor Mu Alpha Theta, the national high school and junior college mathematics club, was organized in 1954 under the sponsorship of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Collegiate Honor Society in Mathematics. The first chapter for Mu Alpha Theta was issued in 195 7. Currently there are over one thousand chapters. Blinn received its charter in the Fall of 1966. The Club has nineteen members. The purpose of the Mu Alpha Theta is to engender keener interest in mathematics, to de- velop sound scholarship in the a subject, and to promote enjoy- , ment and appreciation of math- ematics among high school and junior college students. vghh' .e

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PHI THETA KAPPA is the national scholastic honor society for junior colleges. Beta Alpha Chapter was granted President Marian Janda 1ts Charter on May 2 1 93 1' Vice President ........................................ Thomas Whitener TO be eligible for membership, at Student must make Secretary Elleene RoeSIer a grade point average of 2.4 in all courses taken, and must ' ' . ................................... R P t r , . ?;dsgzrcounal Rep Magi; go: be 1n the h1ghest ten percent of the regular enrolled stu- Sponsors ............................... Clara Hamblen 8: Joe Davis dent body. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis Pres. 8: Mrs. Atkinson, Miss Janda Miss Stolz, Miss Hamblen