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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
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SEMI-WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OTOCBER 24, 1944
NUMBER 38
Texas Junior College Executives To Meet Here Nov. 24
Barlow and Dean Brooks to Preside
Sophomore Ball To Be Held In Annex Of Sbisa Hall Friday Night At 3 Day Post-war Planning Session
Aggieland Orchestra
To Play for Dances
Friday night from nine till one
o’clock the Sophomore Ball will be
held in the anex of Sbisa Hall.
Plans are well under way and the
Aggieland Orchestra has been se
cured for that night and also for
the Corps Ball which will be held
the next evening. Tickets are
being sold by Jack Ward, presi
dent of the class. Script will be
$1.80, including tax, for the Ball,
while $1.20 including tax will be
charged for the Corps Ball on the
following evening.
Dorms 5 and 7 are to be used
to house the dates, and reserva
tions will be taken beginning
Thursday morning. Ward and Wal
ter Powell, secretary and treas
urer of the class are coordinating
the efforts of the following com
mittees: program, finance, decora
tions, and orchestra. Burton Barnes
and Allen Ater comprise the pro
gram committee, Herschel Lipp-
man, Alfred C. Jefferson, Jere
Lewis and Ernest Khoury make up
the finance committee. Eli Bar
ker and R. C. Prater compose the
Decorations committee while Jim
(See DANCE, Page 3)
BEAT N. T. A. C.
Quin Appointed
Assistant in Forest
Service’s Division
Was Forestry Editor
Of Marshall Paper
A new assistant in the Texas
Forest Service’s division of infor
mation of A. & M. College has
been added to the staff, W. E.
White, forest service director, an
nounced today, as Harry C. Quin,
Jr., former newspaper man, join
ed the service.
Quin had been forestry editor of
the Marshall News Messenger for
a year before coming to the college
division. Prior to that time he was
a lieutenant in the air transport
command of the Army Air Forces.
He was in the public relations de
partment of the Texas Company
at Houston before entering the
army.
The new information assistant
was employed on newspapers at
Austin ana McAllen after being
graduated in journalism from the
University of Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Quin, also an ex
student of the University, reside
on Fidelity St., in West Park ad
dition.
"Footlight Favorites" Opens Town Hall Season Here November 7
Adelaide Abbot
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By Teddy Bernsteen
Town Hall will begin its season
this year with Footlight Favorites
here on November 7, at Guion Hall.
This group of noted entertainers
includes Adeliade Abbot, Marjory
Hess, Edward Kane, John Brown
lee, and Kurt Adler.
Adeliade Abbott, coloratura-lyr-
Marjory Hess
ic soprano, is well known to music
festivals and the recital stages
of the country. She made her most
recent appearance in “Lady in the
Dark”, and has been heard in
opera frequently.
Marjory Hess, soprano, is a dark,
vivacious and attractive young lady
that will certainly make the even-
Edward Kane
★
ing complete. She received her vocal
training in Italy and has been
heard with notable success <nn opera
and light opera.
Edward Kane, tenor, came up
the contest route, winning the At
water Kent National Finals. Since
that time he has been much in de
mand—both for voice and appear-
John Brownlee
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ance—-for light opera and concert
engagements.
John Brownlee, Metropolitan
Opera baritone, is famous for Gil
bert and Sullivan and Lehar as
well as he is for Mpzart.
These four offer the unforgetta
ble music of light opera and musi
cal comedy—from Johann Strauss
Kurt Adler
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to Richard Rodgers, from “Die
Fledermaus” (Rosalinda) to Okla
homa, with Gilbert and Sullivan,
Lehar, Victor Herbert, Romberg,
Kern between the two. Footlight
Favorites is under the direction of
Kui-t Adler of the Metropolitan
Opera. Town Hall is sponsored by
the Student Activities Committee.
College Is Host To 1944-45 Longhorn To Be Divided Into
Texas Committee of 9 Sections; Comes Off Press In Mag
Marine Resources
The Texas Postwar Planning
Commission and proper agencies of
the Federal government will be call
ed upon by the Texas Committee
to Marine Resources to survey
economic benefits of expanded in
dustries to utilize the potential
sources of food, feed and fertilizer
that abound in Gulf of Mexico
waters.
This action was taken at the
meeting of the Texas Committee
on Marine Resources held Friday
in the Animal Industries Building
of the Texas A. & M. College.
A great storehouse of utility
and wealth lies practically un
touched at our very doorsteps, said
Dr. Walter P. Taylor, head of the
Texas A. & M. Wildlife Research
Unit, who is chairman of this com
mittee. Its development ties in with
aspirations of many Gulf Coast
communities and greater balanced
economic growth of Texas as a
whole.
It was voted by the marine re
sources committee to hold future
meetings quarterly and rotate the
site between the Texas A. & M.
College and the cities along the
Gulf Coast. At the next meeting,
to be held in Corpus Christi some
time in January, members were
asked to survey specific aspects of
the situation, make reports, and
(See COLLEGE, Page 4)
Marc Smith, Editor of the Long
horn, announced yesterday that the
1944-45 edition would be divided
into nine sections and would con
tain about 332 pages.
As the plans have been outlined,
the publication will be made up of
a section each on Campus Views,
Administration, Classes, Activities,
Favorites, Military Life, Athletics,
Organizations, and Aggieland. All
of the sections will not be made
up of the same number of pages,
explained Smith, depending upon
the importance of the subject to
the students. Smith also added that
this year’s edition would be very
similar to past Longhorn’s.
Explaining that there was still
a great amount of work to be
done, Smith urged all students
having one or two afternoons off
during the week to come down to
the Longhorn office in room 5 of
the Administration Building and
help with the publication. Smith
hoped that Sophomores and Jun
iors especially would answer this
call for more workers.
As present plans call for, the
Longhorn is scheduled to be avail
able to the students during the
second week of May, said Smith.
The remainder of the seniors
will have their pictures taken this
week with those living in Law,
Puryear, and Bizzell Halls to have
their picture taken from October
23-25, and those residing in Hart
Hall and all of the Day students,
(Seniors), to have their picture
taken from October 26-28.
Freshmen Name
Bob Lane Class
Pres, for 1944-45
Saturday morning in the Fresh
man Orientation class officers were
’elected for the current year. From
the fish class, Robert Edward Lane
was elected president and John
Mac vice president, Vvhile Harry
Hopkins and Richard Dennis of
the frog class were elected secre-
(See FRESHMEN. Page 3)
Dr. H. W. Barlow, New Engineering Dean, Made
A.&M. College Aero Dept. One of Finest In Nation
A Batt Feature
Early in June, when Gibb Gil
christ left the School of Engineer
ing, where he had been dean for
seven years, and moved into the
quarters of the president of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Texas, he appointed as act
ing dean Dr. Howax-d W. Barlow
who had been brought to the col
lege from the University of Min
nesota in 1940 to head its newly
created Department of Aeronau
tical Engineering. A. & M.’s Board
of Directors on October 14 made
Dr. Barlow dean of the Engineer
ing School.
Under Dean Barlow, the De
partment of Aeronautical Engi
neering had enjoyed outstanding
growth in the number of students
enrolled and stature among other
schools of like activities and cali
ber. It had gained the respect of
the aviation industry of the coun-
tr-y, including the armed, services.
Unable to purchase a wind tun
nel, students in this department
constructed one. The sum of
$60,000 was appropriated by the
Texas Legislature for the first
stages of a new high-pressure,
high-speed modern tunnel, con
struction of which has begun at
Easterwood Field. This new tun
nel will have a high speed of 600
miles per hour and can be used for
high pressure as well as high alti
tude testing.
Other equipment in the areonau-
tical laboratory had been selected
by Dean Barlow and his assistants
with the object of making it avail
able for research as well as for
teaching. Equipment and appara
tus are provided for navigation,
meterology and instrument courses
and the school has been given the
highest possible rating by the ci
vilian pilot training service for
teaching these subjects.
As a necessai’y part of the Col
leges’ aeronautical training plans,
the million dollar Easterwood Field
Airport was built on a plot of 800
acres just west of the main cam
pus. It has over 400 aci’es in the
airport pi’oper, with the balance in
reserve for approaches and expan
sion of facilities. This airport is
the lai’gest and finest owned by any
educational institution in the
country, and it can handle the
largest bombers produced today.
With the outbreak of the war,
Dean Barlow established special
training courses in Fort Worth
and Dallas to aid aircraft com
panies in North Texas with their
training problems. For several
months Dean Barlow has been the
A. & M. College institutional rep
resentative for the Engineering,
Science, Management War Train
ing program, through which several
thousand men and women have
been and axe being tx-ained to bet
ter perform their jobs in wax-
industries.
In close connection with these ac
tivities, Dean Barlow inaugurated
at Texas A. & M. College in 1942
an annual Wartime Aviation Plan
ning Conference which has grown
to be the largest aviation confer
ence in the country. A coverage of
this field has been an airport man
agement and planning conference
staged at the College in June,
which is expected to be made an
annual affair.
Dean Baxiow assumed the direc
torate of the School of Engineer
ing with a bachelor of science de
gree in Aex'onautical Engineering
from Purdue University, a master’s
degree from the University of Min
nesota. An engineering science
doctorate degree was conferred on
him in 1941 by New York Univer
sity.
Educational Policies
Meeting Attended by
Dean Bolton, Heaton
Dean Bolton and H. L. Heaton,
College Registrar, have just re
turned from a meeting of the Ed
ucational Policies Commission held
at the Rice Hotel in Houston on
October 20 and 21.
The commission was appointed
by the National Education Associ
ation of the United States and the
American Association of School
Administi-ators. The general theme
of the meeting was education for
all American youth.
At the first meeting on the 20th
it was pointed out that too few of
the American youth really had the
opportunity for a true education.
The theme for Saturday’s meet
ing was education and the people’s
peace. The committee concluded
that the peace should not be made
by a selected few individuals, but
that the people themselves should
have a fair chance at expressing
their beliefs in what would consti
tute a permanent peace.
BEAT NT. T. A. C.
W. A. Hall Appointed
To Vice Consular
Dr. George Summey, Jx\,,head of
the College English Department,
has announced tnat W. A. Hall,
fox-mer English instx’uctor here,
has been appointed to the United
States Consular Sex-vice in Paris,
France.
Hall, who visited Dr. Summey
here on the campus recently, is
scheduled to sail for Paris around
November 1, leaving the college
Wednesday, October 25. He has
served with the English Depart
ment since 1939 and since May
of this year he has been attending
lectures given by the State De
partment to best himself for the
position.
Hall received his B. A. from T.
U. in 1934 and was granted his
M. A. at the University of Mis
souri in 1939 prior to his coming to
A. & M.
Dr.TurkNamedVet.
Parasitology Head
Dr. Richard Duncan Turk has
been appointed head of the depart
ment and Professor of Veterinary
Parasitology, it was announced to
day by Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean
of the A. & M. College school of
veterinax-y medicine. Dr. Turk suc
ceeds the late Dr. H. L. Van Vol-
kenburg, who died suddenly recent
ly-
Dr. Turk was graduated with
high honors from the Kansas State
School of Veterinary Medicine in
1933. He earned his master of sci
ence degree in Biology (parasitol
ogy) at Texas A. & M. College in
1939. Since 1936 he has been vet
erinarian for the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station. He prac
ticed veterinary medicine in Kan
sas and Oklahoma and from 1934
to 1936 Dr. Turk was with the Bu
reau of Animal Industry, U.S.D.A.,
in chax-ge of Bang’s disease work
in Oklahoma.
Since coming to Texas A. & M.
College, Dr. Turk has done exten
sion veterinary work, has taught
classes in veterinary parasitology
in emergency cases, and his addi
tion to the faculty of the School of
Veterinary Medicine brings wide
experience, desirable versatility
and x-ecognized dependability, Dr.
Marsteller declared.
BEAT N. T. A. C.
Sick Call at Hospital
For Colds Increases
During Past 2 Weeks
Dr. Marsh, head physician at
the hospital said today that the x-e-
cent cold epidemic is not unusual
for this time of the year. He stat-
(See SICK CALL, Page 3)
College Stage Show
To Be Held in Guion
Hall Saturday Nite
Initial Program To
Feature Singing
Cadets, Orchestra
Plans are being made by the
Committee of Student Activities
to have a college stage show this
Satux-day night in Guion Hall at
7:00 p.m., with the provision that
if there is enough interest shown
that they will be continued. As
far as possible, talent will be
taken from the Corps, but occa
sionally a visiting artist will be
featured.
This Saturday, songs by the
Singing Cadets and music by the
Aggieland Orchestra with Natalie
Lane handling the vocalist chox-es
will be the main items on the
program. Natalie will be remem
bered for her excellent prefor-
mances with the Aggieland Orches
tra this past weekend at the Jun
ior Prom and the Cox*ps Ball.
These stage shows have been ar
ranged by the Committee of Stu
dent Activities and should prove
very intex-esting. Thex-e is to be no
advance in price, and one will be
able to enter at 7:00 p.m. and see
the stage show along with the reg
ular feature for the customary
px-ice of twenty cents. These shows
are being initiated in order to
provide some interesting enter
tainment on Satux-day night to
make for more enjoyable weekends
on the campus.
BEAT N. T. A. C.
Fix-st classes at North Texas
State Teachers College, Denton,
were held on the second floor of
a hardware store.
-f Texas junior college execu
tives will devote three days
to a study of post war obliga
tions in session at the Texas
A. & M. College November
2-4, according to announce
ment by Dr. T. D. Brooks,
Dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences and the Graduate
School.
Serving as co-host to the visiting
educators with Dean Brooks will be
Dean Howard W. Barlow of the
A. & M. School of Engineering.
Cooperating in the discussion of
post war pi*oblems of the junior
colleges will be the deans of A.
& M.’s branch colleges, E. E. Davis
of North Texas Agricultural Col
lege, Ax-lington and J. Thomas
Davis of John Tarleton Agricultur
al College, Stephenville.
The meeting is being held, Dean
Bx-ooks, said, primarily for service
to municipal junior colleges, but
othex-s have been invited and will
participate in the discussion. The
executive committee of the State
Association of Junior Colleges re
quested that the meeting be sched
uled and advance reservations indi
cate widespread participation in
the discussions of the three-day
meeting.
Visiting educators will be quar
tered in a special short course
dormitory recently redecorated for
use of visiting groups, and at
gieland Inn. Meals will be served
on the campus for the visitors.
L. W. Hartsfield, president of
Hillsboro College, will preside at
the opening session on Thursday,
November 2 at 7:30 p.m. The
subject for discussion will be the
px-obable post-war conditions that
will affect the junior college pro-
gx-am. Various phases of this topic
will be discussed by H. E. Jenkins
of Tyler; B. E. Masters, Kilgore;
and the A. & M. staff members to
speak include L. P. Gabbard, J.
W. Bax-ger, Daniel Russell and C.
G. Kirkbride.
Friday morning’s session will be
the junior college’s responsibility
to college youth, with Dean E. E.
Davis, Arlington, presiding. Speak
ers will include H. A. Hodges, Edin-
buxg; J. J. Delaney, Schreiner In
stitute, Kerx-ville; Ernest C. Shear-
ex-, Amarillo; H. O. McCain, Gaines
ville; E. L. Harvin, Corpus Christi
and Roy Bux-dett, Arlington.
The aftenoon session November
3 will be presided over by Dean J.
Thomas Davis of Stephenville, and
the subject will be a continuation of
the morning’s topic. Speakers will
include C. C. Mason, Arlington; G.
B. Wilcox and W. A. Varvel of A.
& M.; J. R. McLemore, Paris; G.
C. Boswell, Ranger; W. P. Akin,
Texarkana.
The junior college’s responsibil
ity to out of school youth and
adults will be the subject for dis
cussion Friday evening with Dean
Emory E. Anderson of Lee Junior
College, presiding. Speakers will be
E. E. Davis, Arlington; John W.
(See EXECUTIVES, Page 4)
Executive Committee Is Composed Of Six Deans
And President Of School; Was Organized In 1912
By Robert S. Gold
In 1912 the Executive Committee
of the College was formed, and
from that date it has performed
many important functions pertain
ing to the activities of the college.
Of all the various committees on
the campus it has more to do with
the students themselves than any
other.
It is composed of the President
of the College, the Dean of the
College, Dean of the School of
Engineering, Dean of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, Dean of
the School of Agriculture, and
Dean of the School of Arts and
Science. These six men meet sever
al times a week to decide on the
issues brought before them.
The duties of the Executive Com
mittee as put down in the by-laws
of the college are: to submit nom
inations for membership in the
! minor faculties, to administer the
rules regarding deficient students,
and to administer such general col
lege duties as may be assigned to
it by the president. The last of
these has been taken very literally
and the committee now has many
duties.
The faculty is too large to per
mit it to meet however necessary,
and if it could meet whenever the
occasion ax-ose it would be too large
to accomplish anything. The Exe
cutive Committee acts for the fac
ulty of the college in almost all
instances.
All curriculum changes are
recommended by the commit
tee* to the Academic Council,, which
is made up of various membex*s of
the faculty. The Academic Council
then either passes on the changes
recommended or vetoes them.
As for administering the rules
regarding deficient students, the
procedure is simple. First the defi
cient student’s record is considered
by the dean of his respective school.
If he feels the student can bx-ing
his work up within the next se
mester, the student may re-regis
ter. If there is any doubt in his
mind, he sends the case to the com
mittee. Thex-e the final decision is
made and the deficient student is
told the good, or bad, news.
The committee has many other
jobs and duties. It acts on peti
tions that are submitted to it by
the students. A good example of
this is a petition for exemption
from taking M. S., or P. E. These
are rarely given to students.
The committee also sets the
school calendar, such as when the
semester starts and ends, and it
recommends to the Academic
Council what days should be de
clared holidays for the students.
All salary changes and promotions
are also recommended by the Exe
cutive Coxiimittee