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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
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BI-WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1944
NUMBER 51
Seniors Will Be Graduated Formally Feb. 2
Famed Pianist Casadesus To Appear On Second Town Hall Tonigh
Program To Begin At
8 p.m. On Guion Stage
Robert Casadesus, the French
pianist who is one of the renowned
musicians in the country at the
present time, will be presented
here tonight, Tuesday, December
12 at 8:00, by Town Hall, which is
sponsored by the Student Activi
ties Committee. The prices for a
reserved seat are $1.50, service
men’s tickets, 50^. General admis
sion will be 800, including federal
tax. Inevitably Casadesus has been
the conductor’s choice for soloist
and he has the rare record of eight
seasons as soloist with the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Or
chestra as well as re-engagements
with the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and
Kansas City orchestras. He has
also appeared with the Ford Sun
day Evening Hour and Telephone
Hour broadcasts, and has also ap
peared with the major orchestras
of Boston, San Francisco, Roches
ter, Montreal, Minneapolis and
Mexico City.
Casadesus will open the program
with “Gavotte” a lively but digni
fied dance of the minuet class by
J. Ramear. This is to be followed
by three Sonatas written by Dome
nico Scarlotte.
Part two will be the Sonata in
F. Minor, Opus (Appassionata) by
Beethoven, and will include Allegro
Assai, Andante Con Moto, and Al
legro mon troppo.
After the intermission, Casade
sus will open with a series of
works by Chopin including: Bal
lade in A Flat, Opus 47; Etude,
Opus 25; Mazurka, Opus 56, Num
ber 2; Berceuse, Opus 57, and last,
Tarantelle, Opus 43. He will then
end the fourth part of his program
with Scherzo-Valse by Chabrier;
La Cathedrals Engloutie by De
bussy, and finally Laccata, by Ra-
Born of a distinguished French
musical family, he won highest
honors at the Paris Conservatory
and, after a triumphant series of
European tours, made his Ameri
can debut in January 1935.
Composer as well as pianist,
Robert Casadesus has written
many works including a double
concerto for two pianos and or
chestra which, with himself and
his wife as soloists, both the Cin
cinnati and the Rochester Phil
harmonic have performed.
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^Speakers For Services
To Be Announced Soon
War Bond Officers
Discuss Plans to
Get Local Support
W. L. Penberthy’s War Bond
Committee met Tuesday at 5:00
p.m. in the Y.M.C.A. The officers
made progress reports and plans
for the future. Penberthy says
that he is not too optimistic about
results so far, but wants to keep
the drive before the students in
order to insure success in the fu
ture.
At the meeting Penberthy said
he wants to find out just how
much has been accomplished and
hopes to help the committee re
move any obstacles in the way of
the drive. Penberthy declared that
this is something that should re
ceive full Aggie support and he
wants everyone to get behind the
campaign.
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To Show March Of
Time Films Wed. Nite
Dr. S. R. Gammon of the Depart
ment of History announces that the
Department will show four reels
of March of Time’s Forum Edition
sound films in the Physics Lecture
Room, Wednesday, Deceber 13, at
7:30 p. m. These reels are each of
about fifteen minutes duration and
deal with various aspects of Tex
as, Canada, Brazil, and Portugal.
Interested students and faculty
members are invited.
♦Will Be First Formal
Exercises Since May
When 84 Participated
Dr. G. W. Adriance, chairman
of the Committee on the Com
mencement Exercises, announced
today that February 2nd has been
set as graduation day, and that
formal Commencement Exercises
will be held for those students
graduating at the end of this se
mester. He also stated that the
Baccalaureate Sermon Convoca
tion would probably be held on the
morning of the 2nd, and the com
mencement exercises would take
place that night. No final arrange
ments have been made as to the
program or its speakers, but Dr.
Adriance said that these will be
made shortly. Guion Hall has been
named the most probable place for
the exercise to take place, but it
is still uncertain as to where they
will be held. The registrar’s office
announced that more than fifty
students have made applications
for degrees.
H. L. Heaton, registrar of the
College, C. W. Crawford, head of
the Mechanical Engineering De
partment, and Col. M. D. Welty,
Commandant of the school, are all
members. of the Commencement
Exercise Committee.
The last formal graduation Ex
ercises were held on May 26, 1944,
and there were eighty-four stu
dents who received degrees. The
various sermons and announce
ments were made by members of
the faculty and the different pas
tors of the various churches locat
ed in and around College Station.
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Freshmen’s Efforts Realized As Flames Leap Skyward
Speaks at Waco
President Gilchrist, together
with Mrs. Gilchrist and Mr. Mc-
Quillen, will leave here Wednesday
afternoon for Waco, where Gil
christ will address the Waco A. &
M. Club at 7:30 p.m. in the Roose
velt Hotel.
He will give an impromptu
speech concerning the affairs of
the college. President Gilchrist, his
wife, and Mr. McQuillen will re
turn to College Station that eve
ning.
Manning Smith, Basketball Coach,
Is A Confirmed Aggie By Heritage
By Eli Barker
As head coach for the basket
ball team, Manning Farr Smith
will guide the Aggie hopes for a
championship in that sport. Part
of the team is now working out,
and the remainder will begin prac
tice as soon as the football team
arrives here from Florida.
Smith’s sport career is quite in
teresting as it began when he was
less than ten years of age. This
was when his older brother of the
class of 1923 was a star athlete
here at A. & M. and Smith came
here to see him.
Having been born and reared in
Belton, Texas, which is only ninety
miles from here, Smith early ac
quired an interest in Aggies. His
parents, however, moved to Shreve
port, La., in 1925, and that is
where he went to high school and
college. While he was in C. E. Byrd
High School, he played basketball,
football, and baseball and was
elected president of his junior and
senior classes and also president
of the Hi-Y Club.
Upon his graduation from high
school, Smith entered Centenary
College. An older brother had just
completed four years as quarter
back under the coaching of H. H.
Norton, and now he did the same
thing. Again in college, he lettered
in football, basketball, and base
ball. In football he was a quarter
back, in basketball he was a guard,
Mexican Agriculturalists Visit College Over Weekend
Four officials of the Escuela
Nacional de Agricultura at Cha-
pingo, Mexico, near the city of
Mexico, spent three days on the
Texas A. & M. College campus
and left yesterday to return to
their homes.
While on the campus they were
guests of the college and Prof A.
V. Moore, of the dairy husbandry
department, who taught in their
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and in baseball he was second base
man and captain of the team.
In Smith’s junior and senior
years Centenary was undefeated in
football and won the conference
championship in basketball. Also
during his senior year, Centenary
played Arkansas in the Dixie Bowl
at Dallas. The Dixie Bowl later be
came known as the Cotton Bowl.
The game finally ended in a 7-7
tie. His last year of college foot
ball saw him on the Associated
Press and the United Press All-
American second team. In that
year he was on the All Players’
(See COACH, Page 3)
Davis Resumes
Asst. Comm. Duties
Having just returned to the col
lege after a three month’s leave
of absence, Major Joe E. Davis
has again taken up his duties as
assistant commandant here.
Davis left the campus last June
to attend the Command and Gen
eral Staff School at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas. After spending ten
weeks there, he was sent to North
Camp Hood near Gatesville. In
charge of a detachment of about
eight hundred men, Davis’ duties
were mainly adminisrative. He
served in this capacity until he
left to take up his old post here
at the college recently.
A former student of A. & M.,
Davis was a member of the class
of 1929, receiving his degree in
Agriculture Administration in
1930. While a student there he
was a member of C Company
Infantry.
Upon 'graduation he was em
ployed by the college as property
custodian of the commandant. He
served in this position until 1932
when he was appointed assistant
commandant. He has been em
ployed by the college in this posi
tion since.
The father of one son, four
years old, Major and Mrs. Davis
now reside on the campus.
schools on leave last year. Moore
acted as their host and took them
on a complete tour of the campus.
Of especial interest was the Ani
mal Industries department.
A dinner was given for the
group which included Director
Lazos, Purchasing Agent Montijo,
Soil Chemistry Professor Villegas
and Physics Professor Mimbrera
at noon Sunday by Dean Emeritus
E. J. Kyle of the School of Agri
culture, in charge of Latin-Amer-
ican affairs for the college. Others
in attendance were Dean C. N.
Shepardson of the School of Agri
culture, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Dr.
John Ashton, J. J. Woolket, Sam
Hopper and G. B. Winstead.
The group made a special trip
to the United States to visit at
Cornell University and Texas A.
& M. to obtain ideas for new
buildings to house their biological
science work and chemistry. Mon
day they were to visit the Luling
Foundation on the way to San
Antonio.
Deans Kyle and Shepardson as
sured the visitors that A. & M.
College would be glad to help them
in any way possible in the future
by lending professors or according
them privileges of minute inspec
tion of the college facilities.
A. H. Head Returns
From Meeting
Dr. J. C. Miller, acting head of
the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment returned from Chicago Thurs
day, where he attended the 37th
annual meeting of the American
Society of Animal Production, and
also the International Livestock
Show. Dr. Miller contacted some
Angus cattle breeders for the pur
pose of locating a herd bull for
this college.
Three papers from Texas were
presented at the meeting of the
American Society of Animal Pro
duction, there Dr. P. B. Pearson
of Texas A. & M. presented an
article called Evidence for the
Non-Essentiality of Nicotinic Acid
in the Diet of the Horse. F. Ac-
come, who received his master’s
degree from this college, submit
ted an article, Effect of Reduced
Burometric Pressure on Ram Se
men. Dr. Miller read an article,
Body Temperature and Respiration
Rate and Their Relation to Adapt
ability in Sheep.
Dr. Gustav Egloff
To Speak at Amer.
Chem. Society Meet
The thirty-eighth meeting of the
Texas A. & M. Section of the
American Chemical Society will be
held in the Lecture Room of the
Chemistry Building Wednesday
evening, December 13, 1944 at
8:00 p.m.
Dr. Gustav Egloff, Director of
Research for the Universal Oil
Products Company of Chicago, Illi
nois will address the Section on
the opic, “Petroleum as a Chemi
cal Industry.” Visitors are wel
come to hear this talk.
The usual dinner for Section
members in honor of the speaker
will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Ag-
gieland Inn. Members who are
planning to attend the dinner are
requested to inform Dr. W. M.
Potts, Dr. P. B. Pearson, or Dr.
J. D. Lindsay of the Program
Committee.
Baby Girl Born to Mr.
And Mrs. Pfrimmer
A baby girl, Margaret June, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo H.
Pfrimmer, at the St. Joseph Hos
pital in Bryan Monday morning at
2 o’clock.
Pfrimmer, a student here, is
studying veterinary medicine and
lives with his family at 307 Park
Place. He reported that both moth
er and daughter are doing fine.
SHELTON APOLOGIZES
December 9, 1944
Editor The News,
Dallas, Texas.
It is apparent to me that my letter regarding the
a. & M. parade in Austin, Thanksgiving Day, has been
interpreted to appear that I questioned the loyalty
and patriotism of the student body at that great Texas
educational institution.
The communication was not so intended. To these,
who have so regarded it, permit mie to say that I re
gret it exceedingly.
Having been a citizen of Texas for my entire 67
years, I knew the glorious record the A. & M. Cadets,
both officers and men, have made in all wars, especial-,
ly World War I and II. I served with many of them in
World War I.
Probably I did not convey my real meaning. I
simply thought that a cadet parade on Congress avenue
in war time was out of place and brought sorrow to
many mothers, whose sons are at the front.
Certainly I do not believe, nor does any other
Texan, that there are slackers and draft evaders at
A. & M.
To the fine body of students, the teachers and
those in charge of the military training I offer apologies
and withdraw the remarks.
I am sending a copy of this letter to the com
mandant of the cadets and asking that it be publicly
read and published in the College paper.
Horace H. Shelton.
Aggie of the Week . . .
Bill Griffin, Vice-President Senior
Class, Remembers Soph-Fish Sessions
By Dick Goad
An outstanding member of the
present senior class is William B.
“Bill” Griffin, senior veterinary
student from Nixon, Texas. Vice-
president of his class and com
mander of B Battery, Field Artil
lery, Bill has made an outstand
ing record during his stay on the
campus.
Although Nixon is his present
home, his birthplace is San Mar
cos, born to Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Griffin there on August 14, 1925.
His parents moved to Nixon when
Bill was five years old and dur
ing his school days there was an
outstanding student. A three year
football letterman, Bill was named
all district center his senior year
while also serving as president of
his senior class. He was a member
of the F.F.A. his senior year.
Upon his graduation from Nixon
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High he journeyed to Aggieland
where he enrolled in June, 1942,
(See AGGIE, Page 4)