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TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1945
NUMBER 59
Leonard Warren Featured
On Town Hall Here Friday
Outstanding Young Baritone Has Appeared
With Met. Opera; Program Begins at 8 p. m.
Leonard Warren, the brilliant young American baritone
of the Metropolitan Opera will be heard in Guion Hall at
8:00 p.m., Friday, January 26. He will appear here in recital
under the auspices of the committee on Student Activities.
Warren, who is easily one of the greatest baritone “finds”
of recent years has the tremendous range and power of voice
which comes as a gift to few singers of any generation. His
appearances this season in leading roles in the Metropolitan
Opera climax a career which is +
notable for the fact that, virtually
unknown a few years ago, he is
now regarded as outstanding.
Mr. Warren's success in his chos
en profession is unlike his contem
poraries. Born in New York and
educated at Columbia University
he originally had no intention of
making singing his career. But his
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Trainees Must Accept
War Work Upon
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rich, “natural” voice decided it for
him. The rough-and-ready school
of singing was Warren’s only prep
aration for a glee club engagement
at Radio City Music Hall, which
lasted three years and served to
awaken his interest in the more
serious aspects of music. He there
upon took his first formal voice
training under a well-known New
York vocal teacher, Sidney Dietch;
won the 1938 Metropolitan Audi
tions of the Air; was given a Met
ropolitan contract and sent to Italy
to learn seven operatic roles in six
months. He made his debut at the
Met in a minor role in “Simon
Boccanegra” on Friday, the 13th
of January, 1939, and the rest is
musical history!
Mr. Warren’s extensive concert
repertoire includes arias from
“The Masked Ball,” Verdi; ‘Faust’,
Gounod; and “Barber of Seville”,
Rossini. He will be assisted by
Mildred Snell at the piano.
Following is the complete pro
gram for his recital Friday night.
Part I includes: Thanks Be to
Thee, Handel; 0 Ruddier than the
Cherry, from “Acis and Galatea,”
Handel; Tu lo sai, Torelli; and
L’esperto hocchiero, Buononcini.
Part II follows with: Oh That I
Might Retrace the Way, Brahms;
The Drummer, Hugo Wolf and Se
crecy by the same composer; and
The Hidalgo, Schumann. The third
part consists of Aria—Eri tu, from
“The Masked Ball,” by Verdi.
After the intermission, Impromp
tu, Faure; Prelude in E flat, Rach
maninoff; and Etude en forme de
valse, Saint-Saens, will be heard.
Warren will sing Arias from
“Faust” by Gounod and “Barber
of Seville” by Rossini, in the fifth
part. Early One Morning, 17th
Century arr. by Tarrasch; An Old
Song Resung, Charles T. Griffes;
Thalatta (The Sea), Harry R.
Spier; and When Lights Go Roll
ing John Ireland will conclude the
program.
Abilene Club Meets
Wd. In Acdem. Bldg.
Frank Gerlach, president, has
called a meeting of the Abilene
Club for Wednesday night at 7:00
p. m., in room 108 of the Academic
Building. Plans will be made as
to when the club picture is to be
made.
At this time the club will also
make new plans for the coming
semester.
The engineering drawing depart
ment of Texas A. & M. College, in
cooperation with the U. S. Office
of Education, is planning an eight-
week intensive course in Engineer
ing Drawing. This course is an
intergal part of the national En
gineering, Science and Management
War Training program and is pre
sented at this time to train urgent
ly needed draftsmen for war in
dustries. The course will be held
on the A. & M. campus, beginning
February 5 and running for a
period of 8 weeks.
The minimum entrance require
ment is graduation from high
school and at least two years of
mathematics; or its equivalent as
gained through industrial experi
ence. Students will be permitted
to enroll providing, they are en
gaged in war work or will accept
such employment upon completion
of the course.
The course includes 21 hours
drafting; 3 hours of sketching; 9
hours practical descriptive geo
metry; 3 hours of shop mathema
tics; and 4 hours of shop processes
per week.
There is no tuition charge but
students will he expected to pay
for room, board, books and sup
plies. They may live in the college
dormitories and eat in the dining
hall. The estimated cost is $100.00
to $150.00.
Registration will be held at 9
(See SHORT COURSE, Page 3)
Radar-Radio Tech.
Tests Given Here
Recently Cancelled
All tests for qualifying men for
radar-radio technician training
which were given on the campus
recently have been cancelled. The
Naval Recruiting office in Hous
ton which gave the tests has been
notified by Captain W. C. Eddy,
USN (Ret), Commanding Officer,
Naval Training Schools (Radio
Chicago), 190 North State Street,
Chicago, Illinois, that all these
tests which were previously used
are now cancelled. After thirty
days from the last examination,
men who took the present tests
may make a request to Captain
Eddy to' take the present revised
test (which will be given from Jan.
18, on) and possibly qualify him
self for the training.
Recruiting officers stated that
results of the last examination
were gratifying. Between 350 and
500 students were interviewed by
Navy personnel in the Assembly
Hall, and 83 Eddy tests were
given; however, a great majority
of the students were not prepared
for the examination, stated J. F.
Beebe, Lt. Comdr., USNR Officer-
in Charge of the Naval Recruiting
Station. He added that some were
17 years of age and could remain
in school and obtain another se
mester of college physics and this
he urged them to do. Those who
were not prepared were given sug
gested material to study and were
invited to call at the nearest Navy
Recruiting Station at some later
date for the test.
Press Club Banquet To Be Held In
Aggieland Inn Wednesday Evening
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Dean Bolton to Give
Out Awards
Dean F. C. Bolton will give out
the special awards to be issued to
members of the Battalion staff at
the Press Club Banquet Wednes
day night. Bolton has served in a
similar capacity at several ban
quets of the club in the past.
Scheduled to receive certificates
commending service rendered on
the Battalion staff for one semes
ter are S. K. Adler, L. H. Calahan,
R. L. Bynes, Intramural writer, and
B. J. -Blankenship. Receiving
Bronze Keys for two semesters
service on the staff will be Eli
Barker. Feature writer, and Teddy
Bernstein, Amusements editor.
Dick Goad and Alfred Jefferson,
both managing editors on the pa
per, will receive written certificates
commemorating three semesters of
work on the student publication.
The highest award on the program
will go to Calvin Brumley, editor
of the paper for the past two se
mesters, who will receive a silver
key given for six semesters of
service rendered to the staff.
Three special awards will be
given to Jefferson, Goad, and
Brumley as they are the managing
editors and editor of the paper re
spectively.
The United States is the world’s
largest producer of naval stores
with about 65.3 percent of the
total; France is second with about
21 percent; Spain third with about
6 1-3 percent.
Colonel McNew Is
Principal Speaker
Colonel J. T. L. McNew, newly
appointed Vice President for En
gineering, will be the principal
speaker at the Press Club Banquet
to be held Wednesday night in the
Aggieland Inrr, it was announced
today. McNew, here on terminal
Lt. Col. J. T. L. McNew
leave, is scheduled to take up his
administrative duties with the col
lege on February first.
Opening the festivities at 6:45
p.m., G. B. Wilcox, director of stu
dent personnel, will give the invo
cation. Dinner will follow, after
which Calvin Brumley, editor of
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Press Club Begins
Thirtieth Year
Wednesday night’s banquet will
mark the beginning of the thirti
eth year of existence for the A. &
M. Press Club. Back in 1915, the
club was. organized to “promote
the social and intellectual welfare
of all student publications.” S. B.
Haynes was elected the initial
president of the club. The club has
carried on through the years and
its objective has remained un
changed during that time.
Only recently did the club sur
vive a crisis, that being the end of
the 1943 spring semester when the
entire Junior class left the campus
for the army after the Seniors had
been called only a few weeks
earlier. A group of sophomores
managed to hold the club together
and today it is as strong as ever,
with the enrollment in the club
increasing.
Calvin Brumley, graduating sen
ior, has filled the editor’s position
for the past two semesters, having
been preceded by H. Sylvester
Boone, now serving as assistant
county agent.
Next semester, beginning Febru
ary 6, will begin the thirtieth year
for the Press Club, and plans are
being made to make it and the
Battalion more successful than in
preceding years.
Although written in 1776, the
original copy of our Declaration
of Independence is still in good,
readable condition.
Majority Df Graduating Veterinarians To
Practice In Texas After Their Graduation
By Henry Ash
At the graduation exercises on
the second of February, thirty
students of Veterinary Medicine
will receive their degrees of Doc
tor of Veterinary Medicine. These
thirty doctors will leave A. & M.
for the last time. They will go to
many sections of the country to
practice their profession. Some
shall head west to California,
some will go east to Tennessee and
North Carolina, some will go north,
but the greater number will stay
here in their home state. The
Army will commission several of
the doctors as First Lieutenants,
and some will go in the army as
privates. The Navy will get its
share, and the Merchant Marines
will also receive some volunteers.
One doctor may remain here at
A. & M. College to teach at the
Veterinary Hospital.
John Colvin will sail for the
Hawaiian Islands where he will go
into general practice. Jimmy Nash
will go to Dallas where he will
be in small animal practice at Dr.
Ruthez-ford’s Hospital. “Duroc”
Coscia will go into general prac
tice in Tennessee. Claude Richey
and possibly Bill Bumstead will
soon be sailing the seas on Uncle
Sam’s Merchant Ships. Charles Kel
sey will practice in Sherman, while
Raymond Ivie and Kid McCoy will
go to Oklahoma. Jimmy Pulliam
will return to Arkansas and James
Reed will be in North Carolina.
Tom Melius will be teaching in
Louisiana. The others will go into
the armed forces or will establish
a practice somewhere in the state.
These thirty men have a mighty
job on their hands when they leave
A. & M. They Will be charged with
a great task—that of protecting
the health of the people of the
United States through their source
of food supply. These veterinarians
will help the farmer and rancher
to produce plenty of wholesome
meat. They will see to it, through
their duty as city, state, or federal
meat inspectors, that only good
meats and other foods are placed
on the market for our consump
tion.
We feel certain that the great
responsibility placed upon the
shoulders of these men is justly
placed. They have undergone five
years of training in the countries
largest veterinary school—one of
the best veterinary schools of the
world.
Graduating Seniors Elect
Tom Melius Valedictorian
Bernard Levy Has Highest
Grade Point Average of 2.8
The ten highest students in the graduating class of
1945 were announced by the registrar’s office today. Bernard
Levy had the highest grade point average, which was 2.8299.
Levy, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Mechanical Engineering, is from Dallas.
At a meeting held Thursday night by the Graduating
Class, Tom Melius was elected Valedictorian. The Valedic
torian is elected from the ten highest men in the class by
Three Weeks Soft
Drink Short Course
To Be Given Here
Major phases of soft drink plant
operation and beverage manufac
ture will be stressed in a three-
weeks short course to be conducted
by the Texas A. & M. College in
cooperation with the national as
sociation of American Bottlers of
Carbonated Beverages, Jan. 29-
Feb. 16.
Basic principles of the soft
drink industry and their practical
application will be conducted at
three of the leading technical
schools of the country to help
meet the industry’s growing need
for trained technicians and produc
tion , personnel after the war. The
other schools are the Drexel Insti
tute of Technology in Philadelphia
and the Illinois Institute of Tech
nology in Chicago.
This initial course is open to
selected industry employees hav
ing complete high school educa
tion or its equivalent in plant ex
perience. Instruction which deals
with specialized feaures of bever
ages manufacture and plant opera
tion will be given by experts from
the industry, while the regular
Texas A. & M. College faculty
will lecture on more general sub
jects, W. R. Horsley, director of
Texas A. & M. short courses, has
announced.
Registration at the short course
is limited but already applications
have been received from over 50
persons from 19 states, including
Texas. These registrants will be
housed in . College dormitories at
nominal charge, and meals may be
secured at restaurants on or ad
jacent to the College campus.
Professor Hughes
Leaves for A. I. E. E.
Meeting in New York
Professor M. C. Hughes leaves
today to attend the mid-winter
meeting of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers in New
York City. He goes as the mem
ber of the National AIEE Nomi
nating Committee from the 7th
Geographical District.
He will stop in Cleveland for a
conference with General Electric
Company officials and in Pitts
burgh for a conference with the
Westinghouse Elec, and Mfg.
Company officials.
Mr. A. E. Salis has gone to Chi
cago to attend a meeting on High
Frequency Electronics—Induction
and Dielectric Heating.
Professor H. C. Dillingham has
returned from Tyler where he dis
cussed with the officials of the
Gulf States Telephone Company
and the Tyler Business College
ESMWT courses in wire commun
ications and industrial electronics
to be sponsored by the A. & M.
College.
Mr. L. M. Haupt will go to Ft.
Worth Friday to attend a meet
ing of the Ft. Worth Electronics
Club and also to inspect the servo
mechanism equipment at Consoli
dated Vultee Aircraft Company.
Wendell C. Fowler, Sales En
gineer for the Sangamo Electric
Co., Ft. Worth, Texas, will speak
to the student Branch AIEE on
“The Significance of Measure
ments”, Tuesday night, January
23.
♦the other graduating students.
E. D. Dillon, who is graduating
in the school of Veterinary Medi
cine, was second highest in the
class with an average of 2.2558.
Dillion’s home town is Marble
Falls.
J. A. Pulliam, another Veterinary
student from Truman, Arkansas,
was third highest with a grade
point average of 2.2324.
The six next highest in the
group were named in the follow
ing order: T. W. Melius, Graduating
in Veterinary Medicine, with an
average of 2.2312, is from Met
airie in northern Louisiana. R. C.
Johnson, who is now in the armed
forces, is graduating with a Bach
elor of Science Degree in Electri
cal Engineering. Johnson is from
Galveston. Calvin Brumley, grad
uating with a degree in Agricul
tural Administration, and a grade
point average of 2.1904, is from
Hereford, Texas. Harlan Bullock,
another Agricultural Administra
tion graduate from Bryan, has an
average of 2.0800. C. L. Boyd,
graduating in Veterinary Medicine
with a grade point average of
1.9738, is from Grandview, Texas.
Paul Olschner, Graduating with a
Degree in Electrical Engineering
with an average of 1.9545, is from
Shreveport, La. Charles Kelsey,
who is the tenth man of the grad
uating class, is graduating with a
degree in Veterinary Medicine
and has an average of 1.8920. Kel
sey is from Denison, Texas.
Sixty students are to get degrees
at the exercises. Thirty of which
are to be awarded to members of
the School of Veterinary Medi
cine, and eight are to receive de
grees in Bachelor of Science.
There are nine students graduat
ing in Agriculture, three in Agri
cultural Administration, and two
in Bachelor of Arts. There is one
student graduating in Landscape
Art, Agricultural Education, and
Agricultural Engineering. Four
students are to get degrees for
graduate work. Three Master of
Science Degrees, and one Master
of Education Degree will be award
ed.
College Professor
Named to Descriptive
Geom. Study Board
A five man committee to study
nomenclature for descriptive geom
etry authorized by the drawing di
vision of S. P. E. E. in Cincinnati,
includes W. E. Street, head of the
engineering drawing department
of Texas A. & M. College.
Many textbooks have been writ
ten on this subject, but there is no
agreement on terms used as each
author has used a different set of
nomenclature. This committee has
been asked to prepare a simplified
set of nomenclature that can be
adopted as American standard
practice for use by authors of de
scriptive geometry texts.
Other members of the commit
tee are: F. M. Porter, University
of Illinois, chairman; H. C. T. Eg-
gers, University of Minnesota; F.
M. Warner, University of Washing
ton; J. H. Porsch, Purdue Univer
sity.
San Antonio Aggies
To Meet Wednesday
Dick Smith, President of the San
Antonio A. & M. Club announced
today that there will be a meeting
Wednesday night at 7:00 in Room
212 Academic Building. Smith said
that it was important that all Ag
gies attend as plans for the Club’s
picture will be announced.