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Texas A. & M. College
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Russ Morgan and
His Orchestra to
Play Tonight, Sat.
Plans Completed for Biggest
Social Event on Campus
Since Days Before War
Volume 45
College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, February 22, 1946
Number 26
Religious Emphasis Week
Will End on Sunday Night
Rotary to Present
Forum-Institute
On World Problems
An Institute of International Un
derstanding will be held in the
Bryan-College Statioh area in Fe
bruary and March under the spon
sorship of the Bryan Rotary Club.
Consisting of a series of four meet
ings, The Institue will present out
standing authorities on various
phases of 'international affairs.
Following each formal address,
there will be forum periods in
which members of the audience
may ask questions of the speaker.
According to Rotary President
R. B. Sweet, this program is being
presented by the Bryan-College
Station Club to give the people of
the two communities an opportuni
ty to learn from informed'speakers
about the problems which must be
met in planning for a lasting peace
now that victory has been won.
General theme for the four In
stitute programs is “Steps Toward
World Stability,” discussed under
the following titles: “Making Inter
national Organization Effective,”
“International Security in the Paci
fic,” “Maintaining World Trade and
a High Standard of Living,” and
“The Constructive Use of Air
Transport.” Taking part in the In
stitute program will be, respective
ly: Morris H. Goers, traveler and
lecturer; W. Leon Godshall, travel
er, educator and lecturer; Chester
M. Tobin, private investment coun
selor and student of world economic
problems, and Geoffrey F. Morgan,
writer, educator and lecturer.
Morris H. Goers will open the
series of four Rotary Institute pro-
grams on Feb. 27. The other three
programs are scheduled for March
13, 20 and 27. Both the evening
programs, and an afternoon pro
gram for Bryan and A. & M. Con
solidated high school students will
be held in the auditorium of Ste
phen F. Austin High School.
EGG GRADING SCHOOL
BET FOR NET WEEK
An egg grading school has been
scheduled at Texas A. & M. Col
lege February 26 and 27. Purpose
of the school is to train personnel
to grade eggs in accordance with
U. S. grades.
This training will be especially
useful since the government’s egg
purchase program is based on
grades, F. Z. Beanblossom, poultry
marketing specialist for the A. &
M. College Extension Service, said
in announcing the school. Those
successfully passing examinations
will be given USD A egg grading
licenses.
ATTENTION
All students who have signed
for Freshman Orientation 101,
are to meet with your deans at
11 a.m., February 26, at the
following places:
Agriculture, room 203, Ag
Building.
Arts and Sciences, assembly
room, Y.M.C.A.
Engineering, Y.M.C.A. Chapel.
Vet. Med., Amphitheater, Vet.
Hospital
G B. WILCOX.
After a week of services, at
tended by a major part of the A.
& M. student body, Religious Em
phasis Week will come to a close
Sunday morning, when Rev. Joe
Boyd, former all-American A. &
M. tackle, will preach the last ser
mon in his series at the First Bap
tist Church of College Station. He
will be assisted by Joe Trussell,
song leader both at the Baptist
services and at the daily services
held in Guion Hall during the week.
The last of the G*uion Hall meet
ings was held this morning. Dr. B.
Frank Hall of St. Louis was the
speaker at all five of the official
services held there on successive
mornings. He also addressed the
A. & M. Presbyterian church each
evening. Dr. M. Nowell Young con
ducted a series of meetings at the
Church of Christ; Rt. Rev. John
W. E. Wright Named
Asst. Professor
In I. A. Education
Welcome E. Wright has been
appointed assistant professor of
industrial arts education in the
school of engineering at A. & M.
Mr. Wright, a graduate of the
East Texas State Teachers Col
lege at Commerce in 1939, has
been in instructor at Whiteoak and
director of industrial arts in the
Longview High School. During the
war he served in several positions
at the Consolidated Vultee aircraft
plant in Fort Worth, and was a
testing engineer in the aeronautical
research department there before
coming to A. & M.
TINA STEWART, ALICE
WHEATLEY APPOINTED
The appointment of Tina Stew
art as assistant district agent and
Alice A. Wheatley for the A. and
M. Extension Service as assistant
4-H Club specialist was announced
recently by Director Ide P. Trotter.
Both will report to College Sta
tion in the near future.
A symphony orchestra has been
recently organized by musicians of
Bryan and College Station. There
are many men and women of this
area who have long desired to have
a symphony orchestra on a civic
basis. This would serve as an op
portunity for those who play or
chestral instruments to have an
organization in which to partici
pate and also to serve as a means
of cultural enjoyment to the citi
zens of Bryan and College Station.
Though the orchestra hopes that
at a future date it will be under
civic sponsorship, and this will be
necessary if it is to continue on a
permanent basis, it has taken the
first step of organization and is
already rehearsing for its first ap
pearance. This performance will be
with the Stephen F. Austin High
School A Cappella Choir in its
presentation of Brahms “Requiem”
to be given as a dedicatory service
in the high school auditorium oh
Hines, bishop coadjutor of the
Episcopal Diocese of Texas, con
ducted a preaching mission at St.
Thomas’ chapel.
Hillel Foundation services were
conducted by Rabbi Alan S. Green;
Rev. John Donaho preached at the
A. & M. Methodist church, while
Rev. Fred Mgebroff spoke at the
American Lutheran Church.
The Guion Hall services were
opened Monday by President Gibb
Gilchrist, who introduced Dr. Hall,
pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church in St. Louis. The religious
leaders who were scheduled to ad
dress the various denominational
meetings were also present on the
platform and were introduced.
Special musical numbers were
given at Guion Hall services by
the Singing Cadets and by a quar
tet from Bryan High School.
DOES YOUR BATT LOOK
DIFFERENT LATELY?
With this issue, the Battalion
is changing its format slightly
in order to squeeze more news
into its limited space. Even
though the war is over, the
paper crisis continues. Both
news stories and advertise
ments have had to be rationed,
but the staff is trying to get the
“mostest” news into the “least-
est” space.
RUSSELL NAMED TO
CHILDREN’S COMMITTEE
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Daniel
Russell, Dean, Department of Ru
ral Sociology, Texas A. & M. Col
lege, College Station, was reelect
ed to the national committee of
Save the Children Federation at
the annual meeting here, it was
announced today by Dr. Guy Emery
Shipler, chairman of the Board of
Directors.
The Federation reported large
shipments of clothing, school sup
plies, and supplementary food to
pupils of 371 war-damaged schools.
March 10 at 3 p.m. The service
will be for those boys from Brazos
county who lost their lives in this
war.
The initiative in this movement
was taken by Claude Guthrie, direc
tor of music for the Bryan public
schools, assisted by Edward Holick,
band director, also from the Bryan
public schools, and other leading
musicians of Bryan and College
Station.
The organization of the orches
tra is as follows: Claude Guthrie,
conductor; Edward Holick, assist
ant conductor; and Mrs. C. H.
Groneman, concertmaster. A board
of directors has not yet been elect
ed pending an increase in the per
sonnel of the orchestra.
In the event that there are other
musicians in this area who play
orchestral instruments and would
be interested in joining this or
ganization they are asked to con-
Red hot rhythm king Russ Mor
gan who will bring his “Music
in the Morgan Manner” to the
campus on February 22-23, play
ing for the Ex-Servicemen’s Ball
and a Corps Dance the following
night.
College Installs
New Generator;
Power Tripled
Completion and installation of
a new boiler and generator unit
for the college has been announc
ed by Guy H. Hines, chief engi
neer. The machinery, costing about
$220,000 and which nearly triples
the power resources of the col
lege, went into operation Feb. 15.
It was installed by employees of
the power plant.
For the benefit of engineering
students, the following statistics
are cited: the boiler, completely
surrounded by water walls, pro
duces 100,000 pounds of steam per
hour. It is fired by gas, consum
ing 1000 BTU’s per cubic foot.
The generator, of the latest type,
includes condenser and auxiliary.
The turbine, a complete unit, is
of the extraction and condensing
type.
tact the conductor or report to one
of the rehearsals which are held
each Monday and Thursday at 7:00
p.m. in the music room of Stephen
F. Austin High School. Instruments
particularly needed are strings,
oboe, and bassoon.
The present personnel of the or
chestra follows: Violins, Mrs. C. H.
Groneman, Mrs. Bill Libby, Mr.
Earnest Nitch, Mrs. John A. Duns-
moor, Mrs. Fred Sloop, Miss Jeanne
Weybright; violas, Mr. A. C. White,
Dr. Louis Haur; cellos, Dr. George
Summey, Jr., Miss Betty Butler;
string bass, Mr. Charles Mitchell;
flutes, Mr. John Holick, Miss Shir
ley Holmgreen; clarinets, Mr. Joe
Holick, Miss Nancy Warwick; horn,
Mr. Van Lawrence; trumpets, Mr.
Bill Turner, Mr. Tom Sweeney, Mr.
Billy Tanner; trombones, Mr. Louis
Nedbalek, Mr. A. C. Upright, Mr.
Dick Tumlinson; tuba, Mr. Johnny
Mitchell; tympani, Mr. Sam Knox;
piano, Mr. Jimmy Rosborough.
Bryan-College Symphony Is Planned
This is the week-end that sol
diers dreamed about when trying
to catch a wink in a fox-hole; that
sailors sighed about when cruis
ing three thousand miles from no
where; that marines wondered
about when they sat on top of Mt.
Suribachi and wished they were
home. It is the week-end that war
time Aggies had in mind when
they said wistfully, “They tell us
that in the old days things were
different.”.
For tonight and tomorrow will
be the biggest social event on the
A. & M. campus since war put a
dampening hand on normal college
gaiety. Russ Morgan and his or
chestra, featuring' the lovely Mar
jorie Lee, will be playing at Sbisa
Hall two nights in succession; for
the ex-servicemen tonight, and for
the cadet corps Saturday night.
Tickets for the veterans’ dance
are being sold in the mess halls
on the campus. There is no advance
sale for the corps ball.
Russ Morgan’s orchestra will be
the first name band to appear in
College Station for several years,
and there is no doubt about its re
ception this week-end. The corps
balls and class proms before the
war were an important part of
Aggie life, and many of the great
est dance bands in the country
were heard in Sbisa. Russ Morgan
will pick up where the others left
off.
One of the best known and best-
liked leaders of the day, Russ Mor
gan and his orchestra have been
featured at almost every famous
dance and entertainment center in
the country. Among the great ho
tels from which “Music in the Mor
gan Manner” has been wafted over
the airwaves, are the Hotels Bilt-
more and Commodore in New York;
the Roosevelt in New Orleans, Rice
Hotel in Houston; Chase Hotel, St.
Louis; Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas
City; Palace Hotel, San Francisco;
Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chi
cago; and the Hotel Claremont in
(See DANCE, Page 2)
Gal Driver Pins
Batt’s Ears Back
The Battalion:
In your story on “Week-end
Hitch-Hiking . . . etc.,” you say,
“When getting into the car, the
first thing the Aggie does is to
meet the driver, if he is a man,
and all the other men in the car.”
What about if the driver is a
woman? Is he just supposed to get
in*and sit there until the woman
introduces herself? If so, I think
that’s rather dumb. You know,
there are quite a number of women
who pick up Aggies, either because
they’ve had relatives who were
Aggies, or because they work for
the College.
Another thing, if you have two
Aggies already in the car, you stop
and pick up another one, (the
woman is still the driver, mind
you), and the Aggie introduces
himself to both other Aggies and
just sort of ignores the woman . . .
how would you feel if you were
the driver?
I, for one, don’t like it. It would
seem just common courtesy to me
to introduce yourself to the one
giving you the ride first, then to
the rest.
Believe it or not, women shake
hands with people* all the time.
(signed) A GAL
who always gives Aggies a lift,
but doesn’t exactly approve of all
the things that go on.
NOTICE TO ALL
GRADUATING SENIORS
Will all Engineering Seniors
who are interested in the GEO
PHYSICAL INDUSTRY please
report to the Placement Office
before Monday, 5:00 p.m.