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Kirkham defined a “Shipwreck Party” as “a dance where anyone comes dressed like they thought they were when the ship went down.” Efe said that prizes would go to the couple dressed in the fashion, ■w 1 r v Square dance instruction in the Grove this sum mer is being handled by Professor and Mrs, C. M. Lyman (left) and Professoii and Mrs. Robert ■ I ■ Vi ."p'"■'■■ ■ -■■■•I. I II ] ' j j'j ' ‘ . ' Feels Like Old Scrooge • • R. Lyle. During working hours, Prcjfessor Lyman is with the Biochemistry and Nuitiition Depart ment and Profcssofr Lyle teaches Carle and Orch Appearanc ff i ; math. 1 , j. br>' x Howard and Biking Fail To Cli^b Fdtnous Matterk^ m -By ART HOWARD Battaliqn European Correspondent 1 ' ' • Geneva, Aug. 1—About a year ago a travelogue movie feature on “Climbing the Matterhorn” came to the Campus Theatre. When I saw it, I never thought 11; would have a chance to do the same. But this morning came within ?30 of making a. good try at it. The A&M Architecture tour is firmly settled at a report tqwn, \ Lugano, in a first^clM* hotel for $ tyro day rent. They have a wond erful view overlooking a deep blue lake bordered by the Alps, with a . nwinuning poul at their doorstep. Switzerland Tour Trimmed .1 Our -tour of Switzerland was trimmed because! df the high coat of living, and Hern and Geneva 1 Were scratched from the schedule, k \ Bill Bilsing and L decided to Visit the Matferhorri ajhvl t^e Chat- ' 1 eau of Chllldn - Insplmtlon for Byrpn’s poem “Tho Prisoner' of ChUlon," We left the group yes- blow. It took two days to climb pie climb the Mjatterhorn every day, so it is safe (enough. But the jguides’ fee, plus the cost of hotels, renting c|othes t i and the ride to Paris would have been about $30 extra.. ' j'J j ‘ Bilsing went to bed last night thinking we were going to do it, but I had to back down because my funds are running low. Feels Miserly As I write this article I feel like Scrooge, the miser, Even a hundred dollars would not : balance against the thrill I would have had. Now I wiih that I had gone ahead. , “I climbed the Matterhorn” is mi^ch mdrb impressive than “.I al most climbed the, Matterhorn." it! Not two days of actual climb ing, but it was necessary to spend the night at a hotel on the foot of the Matterhorn. The actual trip up from there was only a matter of three or four hours, but it was almost impossible to make it from Zemott. __j—!— We were scheduled to rejoin our group in Zurich in two days, and if we. missed them there it would mean a train fane to Paris, their next stop. <' ' ; ‘ | But thp attraction of climbihg the famed, Matterhorn was itlU pulling us qn. We told the guide to drop arounjd in the morning for our-answer. Twenty to thirty peo- T terday morning and arrived- at Gotton Hcl«<nUHts from n states ^ expected to attend gonc.-nl dis cussions herd Thursday!* Friday tip to this jpfiflt, cool, nnd high village was well worth the trip. '. Our r funicular,; 1 or cog, train seemed to go up n 45 degree anglil constantly curving around the odg^ es of the Alps. A latge river fed n. by the melting glaciers provided I." extra scenery. ' j, Get Climbing Itch j' Bill and I located a hotel at Zer- nott, tneh started walking through ttfcvn toward the Matterhorn for a bitter look. Actually climbing it was far from our thoughts until we stopped to admire a. statue over a fountain. Then two guides Started up^a casual, conversation. It wasn’ti long before We had’ , the-^itch” to climb the mountain. Their fee was $15 per person—npt high for ; such 1ml icxperience. We told them that we would talk to them later after We had gotten a better look at the famed peak. And the more we looked, the greater was our deklre. y A Cruel BW After supper we went to hire a guide. Then we l receive\f a cruel y7 Dallas Rotarians To Hear Trottor ; Dr. Ide P. .Trbtter, deah Of the grachiate school, A&M College, will address the Dallas Rotary Club Wednesday.^ , j Dr.\Trotter will talk on “Ameri- tth’s SfcakriTTthe Orient.” He tour ed the Orient last year and made a detailed study of the cotton sit- qation. Cotton Scientists From Nine States to Meet Here Thursday cotton genetics are to develop fun damental lnform«illoti*oh the biol ogy of cotton, particularly on the most original shipwreck I^i announcing the party, Kirk ham told the crowd at the Grove last Saturday evening, “Wear whatever you think you had ou when the ship got wrecked. If you were formally dressed, wear formal clothes; if you were sun ning, wear sun clothes; if you were taking a shower, wear a towel! If you’ve always wanted to come to a dance in a bathing suit, come on. Let your inhibi tions be your guide.” The “Shipwreck Party” will be the next-to-the-last Saturday eve ning free dance at the Grove this summer. These dances have been part of the summer recreation program planned by a joint Student Senate and Student Activities com- mittee. The program was financed by summer recreation fees paid by each student upon registration for thle summer term. Each Saturday evening’s dance is given by a member of the sum mer recreation committee. This committeeman decides upon what entertainment and prizes will offered. j. Dances prior to the “ShljfT wreck Party” have been conven tional dances with rhumba, waits and square dance contests and door prises given to lucky persons holding tickets presented as they entered the Grove. Kirkham said that he plana to give prises to the moat originally dreasetf couple and several prises to Individuals for answering ques tion! he will aak. Grove dance! begin at eight and last until eleven. a nidi Saturday oh basic problems confronting the Cotton Belt.: The cotton section of A&M's Ag ronomy Department will be host on these dates to the technical committee of the regional cotton genetics project \Vhich is operating under the Federal Research and Marketing Act. . On-the-spot discussions in the laboratories, greenhouses and field plots will occupy the morning ses sions. Afternoon programs will be devoted to reports of research progress, future plans and admin istrative matters. s | K These cotton scientists are enter ing upoq their third year of opera tion as a technical committee on a regional basis. The broad objec tives of the regional research in Wesley and Walker Added to EE Staff E. R. Wesley and C. S. Walker have been appointed instructors in the Electrical Engineering De partment, a C c o r d i n g to M. C., Hughes, head of the department. E. R. Wesley received his BS degree electrical engineering from the University of. | Delaware in 1949. He is a member of the Pi and the American Electrical Engineerings, his class instructions } ™ and tenp of summer This summertime Aggie coed waves frantically for help on tem pestuous Btyan Country Chib Lake. This Is the way she was 1 when the ship went down, an appropriate costume for iy evening’s Shipwreck Party at the Grove. I ACS Announces A&M Is Approved Pres." F. C. Bolton has received a letter from E. M. Billings, secretary of the Committee on Professional Train ing of the American Chemical Society, informing him that A&M is included in the list of schools approved by the Society for undergraduate training in chemistry. . ^ t ; —-*♦ < The American Chemical Society has not made an evaluation of schools with reference to graduate training. This officially recognizes genetic, cytogene(|c and taxonomic phases; and tp devise new meth ods and techniques that may be useful in cotton itnppovement. Representatives] are expected to be-present from Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana,: Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina and Tennessee, in addition to Texas. Dr. T. R. Richmond, head of the A&M cotton section, is chairman Experiment Group Given $300 Grant A grant-fh-nid of $300 from the Sharpies Chemicals, *Inc., Wyan dotte, Wis*» has been made to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. R. D.. Lewis, director, has announced. The fund will be used in, further studies of cotton defoliation at the Lower Rio Grande Valley Experi ment Station at Weslaco. ? Mik Matthews At A&M High / 1 -• €/ Mrs. Velma Matthews of College Station is the new homemaking teacher at A&M Consolidated High School, SuptJ L. S. Richardson said yesterday. : She was home demonstration agent with the Extension Service in Gaines am! Young counties and has had four years teaching ex perience with the Aspcrmont nnd Marfa public schools. ^ Her husband, Joe L. Matthews, Is administrative assistant to G. G. Gibson, director of the Texas Extension Service. They have lived in College Station for five years while Matthews has been with the Extension Service. She begins her duties today, Richardson said, attending the State Conference for Homemaking Teachers in Fort Worth. uulyreoogmze: A&M as fullj sting the requirements as set by the American Chemical So- of the regional technical committee mT o • \t -n and in general charge of the com- [NOW oWlDg lOUF FartHCr • . • • ing meeting. 7 ; l J C7 H7 I instruction a meeting Hie up ‘ ciety for the preparation of pro fessional chemists. One o( the often dijscussed sub jects during the statje legislative investigation of The; College in 1947 was the failure oif the Ameri can Chemical Society to accredit instruction In chemistry here. It was one of the questions brought up by veteran student*. Student* who complete the re quired curriculum and receive the bachelor’s degree from instltUtlunM on the American Chemical Soci ety's -list of'approved school* for the professional training of chem ists are eligible for membership, senior grade, In the Society, fol lowing graduation and two years of experience in the field of chem istry or chemical engineering of in' postgraduate study. The American Chemical Society’s complete list of approved schools is published in the August 1, 1949 issue of the Chemical and Engine ering News. , '! - Tau Beta Institute of He started here the m ! ! I. 1 T WEATHER West Texas: Considerable cloud- i / iness this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday with scattered afternoon j ■ and evening thundershowers; not much change in temperature. "ftast Tex. Con siderable clou diness with a c 4Ui red thunder show- era this after noon, tonight and Tuesday; not much change in tem perature. Mod erate most ly southeast winds oh the cost. '4 . /I IOWERS semester. C. S. Walker received his BS degree from Texas Technological Institute iii 1939 and received his MS degree from Ohio State | Uni versity in 1948. He has worked for the Tennessee i Valley Authority, Texas and! New 1‘ . , ,, ’- y II. m L mm ^ ' !■ — -I . • . i I Profs Help Square Dancers Learn ‘Dosey Do’at Grove E. v T* Guerrero has been award ed a $1750 fellowship by the Stsnohnd Oil and Gas Company for graduate study in the pet roleum field here this Fall. Co.,, and liras assistant professor at the University of Alabama 4 J., ; I In ,4- .11 7.111 Mexico Utilities GROVE SCHEDCljE J Not Grad* There 'rof Monday, August d- Bingo. Tuesday. -August f^-Free Of Wrath,” with Henry movie, be a sufflcU luates in agrioul- ' fill the vacancies id of the sumi August if Friday, Saturday, August 13—Dance Aggld Combo. Sunday. August A a , : i 11 ill ! It,; f r t ,, , l!l v WlU l number of gri turul education existing j at the Prof. E, y. Walton, Agriculti Education Department, said All Ag. Ed. majors who gradua ted in jure an<ji July haye found Under the Oilmer-Alken Law, several new departments will be opened In high schools. The 1 ‘ 1 * by these departnv plenty of openings tes, Walton said. I i m J: Kin III. ! By W. K. COLVILLE Honor your partner podner! Right’n left through as you usqd to do—right’n left back in. the same old track, there ain’t nothin’ square about a square-dance, Jack! Square dancing at A&M was started just before the war, and has been flourishing spasmodically until this summer when it became a regular Friday night attraction at the Grove. Perhaps it’s not quite fair to say spasmodically, for there have been regular groups of square dancers on the campus for years, such as the Promenaders, an all faculty organization, and the Ag gie Squares, made up of students’ wives and sweethearts. The art of dosey dpi* taught from 7:30 ’til 8:30 under the able guidance of Dr. and Mrs. Carl Lyman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lyls. Both Lyman and Lyle are members of the A&M faculty. Lyman does the calling, while Mrs. Lyman and the Lyles the newcomers. From 8:80 on 'they mix it up with such cavor- tions as The Texas Star, Birdy in the Cake, Swing ’01 Adam and Swing ’Or Eve, and Sally Gooden. The Texas Star seems to be num ber one on thd\{olk-danee hit pa rade. X Credit should be given the Ly mans and Lyles for thrir time and patience in teaching tnfe\Aggies hoW to square dance. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle are the f! w r . i . i T y ■ i I :l ' it ',w parents of the dance at A&M, and Thft’s getting a little up in the are responsible for organizing the Promenaders, while Dr. and Mrs. Lyman have gratefully shared their knowledge of! American and European Folk dancing. Dr. Lyman has been calling square dances for about three years. Mrs. Lyman says that there are two principles envolved in learn ing to square dance. “First,” she said, “you have to learn to listen to the caller, and ’second, you have to have a work ing knowledge of which is your left and which is your right” ! " Perhaps a new course, Right and Left 101, should be offered at A&M, I wouldn’t know who would be qualified to teach it. “Students seem to learn much faster than others,” paid Mrs. Ly man. “My theory is that they can listen to the caller better because of note-taking practice in class.” The Grove has had as many as 20 squares of dancers on some of the better Friday nights, and the Lymans wish that the Aggie turn out would-be that good every Fri day night. Before the novices get the hang of the thing, they resemble some what a writhing page opt of “The Snake Pit,” with everyone attempt ing simultaneously to get behind one another, but after they catch on, the dance assumes a great deal of grace and rhythm. From a bird’s eye view the dance might I patch-work q air’ though. Sd if you have a hankerin’ ito unhinge a rustied limb, or pat a stiffened foot, swing that gal with the red'dress on down to the Grove this) Friday night. for myself, I’m goin’ to tha wagon boys, these shoeS are killin’ me? ities, announced today, the date of the concert. )WN Friday/ October % T. Guerrero Awarded $1750 Oil Fellowship rasmO T. Guerrero, son of Mr. and Mrs. Agustiri' GuerrOro of Rosenberg, has been awarded the Stanolind Oil and C&s Company Grad- date Fellowship of $1750 here. He is a married veteran, Mrs. Guerrero, being tHt/former Miss Isabelle Arredondo,\laughter of $Ir. and Mrs. Carlos Arredondo of Rosenberg. X | Guerrero, a graduate orUtosenj-" berg high school, served 39 months in the U. S. Air Corps as a imy- igator with a rank of First Lt. saw 17 months service in the Ptf cific. I He entered A&M in 1942, drop ped out to enter the Air Corps and returned in 1946. He was grad uated in June, with a degree in petroleum-mechanical engineering and achieved a brilliant scholastic record. : His -graduate’ work will start with the opening of School iq Sep tember. In addition to graduate studies, hej will pursue a research Iproject in jthe field of oil andlgapj engineering. Johnson, Tatum Receive Award Nicholas Colar trouper at the nd wjll ap)-j< all semester dent Activ* been set ar*v r Carlb learned toj plaiy the piano under the instruction of hi» unclf, Colange age PHH isitift* actsa theatre in hist hojteetojwri off idence, Rhode! ijsland.j, 7 Three years'la£er Carle realii that vaudeville Was dead, and joined Ed McEpelly’s band, theft, . one of the mq.'iti popular!bands New England. 1 After that Ca ri worked with M^l Hallett and plaf^i I!* ed with such outstanding sld as Gene Kriip«, Jack Jenny an<j 1]CK>ts Mon Formal Carle’s decision to farm his bwni band came as'no surprise to peo ple in show business. His five yem-s with Horace Heidt’s orchestra, and icries of &fto albums made for umbia had created a following f for hi$ new venture, t' jorie Hughes, Carle’s daugh ter and star vocalist, is scheduled to appear in the Town Hall con cert with thd baftd. Marjorie has recently recovered from a, serious reed her to leavft y ! mol * rflel. l.\ recently recoiere illness which j fo ‘ e band several . orn in Springfield, Massachu setts, Marjo -ie took musical in structions frjom fter father before she wa.. though Mujorie had a fine sing ing voice, Edrle did ftot want he to sing professionally, and refusi to let her sirig\dth his band. Made G^cret Recording Marjoriei Kvithouk her fathers knowledge, made a recording and ,' :l ii 4 ) i ii! ,1 it wqs played at an 1 , aiidkion held by : Carle. Cirle ordered’His agers to hjrft the singer ami Allen F. Johnson, '49, and F. A. Tatum,. ’48, have been awarded Wetrt inghouse Fel lowships, according to Dr. M* & Hughes, head of the Elect rical Engineering Depart ment. Johmon tho Wait Fellowship, unto work is tho first reclpiimt of nghouso Power Sjfstcnn He will do his yrsd- In trsasiont analysis In conjunction with the A-0 Network Calculator laboratory. A veteran of Tim i Honor student, hie Is a member Beta PI and the Scholarship Society ami was winner of tfte Freshman Slide Rule Contest. Tatum’s 1. He will spectrometry. Tatum, a veteran student, is a member of the AIEE, Tau Beta Pi and was a member of the Scholarship Hohor Society when he was an undergraduate., Arlington to Offer Graduate Courses Classes!for graduate engineering students Will be available at Ar lington state College this year. ^ Courses in aeronautical, mechanjj ical, electjrical, and civil engineer: Ing will be offered if there is suf ficient deftiand, E. E. Brush, head of the Aeronautical Engineering! Department here, said today. Requirements for Masters of En-i gineeringl can be completed in two and a half years or less by taking one course each regular semester at Arlington and attending twtt summer Sessions at A&M, he said. Engineers in Dallas and Fortj Worth have shown considerable inj-j tereat in the plan, he said. s man- Mar- jorie joined the bind theNnext night. ! \ After joining the bland, Marjorr met an$i married Hughey Hughes,' who .played the piano wh lad the bqnli ome of Marjories’ more pop- r Columhfi records 1 include “Oh! Ji ulai Whi ,., at It Sec ned To Be,” “Roses In The Rain” aid ’/Rumors Are Fly- ing,” , 1 I' flarle’s new, show Is titled “Carle Copies Calling.” Alexander Back 1 lexantlor, Hoad of the Agrlcbltuml BducAtion Department, ban JM :return ed from this annual vocational agricultur e teacherH Confer* ■ ence at Dallas. J | ^ ( Aicompaniring Alexander to the conference Were Henry Rjss, E. V. Walton* andjAY. W. Mcllroy of the Agricultural Education Depart ment. ; LF " "• •[li ; i One result of the conference was an unprecedented demand for in- • service trair irig' courses far, voca tional agrici Iturc teacher*, Walton said.1 ^Increased bipPhasis on adftlt and part-time work for the agriculture; ' teachers was among the’foiftjnv topics discussed;at the oonfere: Area supc rvisors Tor vocatf agriculture ( emanded better tr ing for men in radio, newspape,, and visual a ds. “The Agricultural Education Department anticipated this move several years agq and: has been tri lifting prospective vo cational agriculture teachers in this directioiWaltoh coneluded. If! changing eye vie look like a living t quilt, with ever patterns and colors. Guenther and Le: On Oil Field Tri R. S. Guer ther and H. E. are oni a field.’ ^rip to Throckmor ton County to work on the oil leas- Jac' i ~ es.of Jack B.[Robert Company, ac cording to B. B. Trant, secretary of the A&M Division Texas Petroleum Research Committee. . . j & tleap and (Guenther are Uklhg electrical resi itivky readings to de termine the v ater front in sejeond- ary watef flo< d operations. Results gal led from this project will be used by Guenther In hi* the sis which wil be submitted cu| part Of his requirements for a Mas :eir of Science degre *1 in Petroleuni En gineering. Guenther aid Leap will return t. l. r F y : 4 «• LM — I-' ■ - i'!K : J, T. Dotson standing cadet In Preston 1; Moore, American Legion, ■I Si ’mJG’.'. i! - v' : Ji ^ ^ II I I'lr award for the out- camp at Ft. S1U. it of Oklahoma of the during graduation exercises 'Ll A&M Future Farmers Postpone Meeting The regOlai scheduled nuicUng of the A&M < ollegiate Chapter of Future Farmers of Amerifcft has been postponed until Aug at 7:30 p.m.. according Wdlker, vice president of thejl iWa. will meeting of th mer session a id all urged to be pi esent, Wi 4,1 ■ K ■