The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, July 15, 1926, Image 1
Charles Rogan, 701-3 Littlefield Blag.. Austin, Texas. 4 hi, bh ae 5 . rN TO POSTMASTER: } If this paper is not RETURN called for return POSTAGE postage is guaran- teed by publisher. GUARANTEED # ) Pp. Published Semi-Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOLUME IV. BRYAN, TEXAS JULY 15, 1926. NUMBER 17 Plans Laid For A. & M.’s 50th Anniversary Celebration WEST TEXAS ELECTS A. P. DUGGAN PRESIDENT CHAMBER COMMER =. NEW PRESIDENT OUTSTANDING IN W.TEXAS AFFAIRS Graduated at A. and M. in ’95 and Now Leading Citizen of Little- field and West Texas—Still for A. and M. . Announcement of the election of Arthur Pope Duggan, ’95, as presi- dent of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, brought joy to the hearts of all A. and M. men everywhere who delight in honors bestowed upon Ag- gies. President Duggan assumes the rather arduous and responsible tasks of the West Texas Chamber of Com- merce presidency at a time when won- derful possibilities are in evidence for a fine performance by that organi- sation. Retiring President R. Q. Lee set him a fine pattern of leadership which to follow after. The incoming president by his pronouncements, committee appointments, and state- ment of policies has shown the breadth of his vision already. His election climaxed an enthusi- astic meeting of the West Texas body, attended by thousands upon thousands of virle, vigorous West Texans. Many notables from that section were pro- jected into the presidential race but Duggan brought home the bacon. Arthur Duggan was a cadet at A. and M. in 1892, 93, 94, and 95. He studied civil engineering and as only three years were required in that day received the degree of B. S. in C. E. After his graduation he attended the University of Texas and took a degree in law but like every other Aggie his primary allegiance always has been to A. and M. “A. P.” as he was known at A. and M., while not professing to be much of a military genius was a corporal, then a line sergeant and then first lieutenant. In those days there were but few companies and a greatly res- tricted number of commissioned of- ficers. After leaving the University of Tex- as he became an employee of the Lit- tlefield interests and is now sales manager for the Littlefield ranch lands. He has been the moving figure back of the establishment of Little- field, Texas, and is widely known and respected throughout West Texas. He has been honored with practical- ly every office within the gift of his people out there. President of the school board, president of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and various other honors like those have been heaped upon him. Duggan was born September 21, 1876. He is married and has two children. Duggan was born near San Marcos. “Bones” Irwin Stages Thriller Captures Bold Bad Bandit Barlow “Bones” Irwin, who for the past three seasons has been a main- «tey of the Rible-Rothgeb line at tackle, set San Antonio agog with ex- citement Sunday night, June 27th, when he gave chase to a housebreaker and defying a knife in the hands of the burglar executed a perfect flying tackle and landed the burglar in jail. “Bones” sustained some severe cuts before he got one onto the thief’s jaw sending him down for the count. Then bones bundled his prisoner into an automobile carrying him to police headquarters. At the hospital his in- juries from the knife in the hands of the intruder were pronounced as pain- ful but not serious. Bones returned home with his mother, 2001 Main Avenue, Sunday night and heard someone in the rear of the house. The intruder ran out the back door and Barlow gave chase. A little overweight from much indoor work Bones could not catch the flying runaway, but overhauled a car and climbing into that finally located his quarry in some bushes. The man held a long knife in his hands and warned the Aggie tackle to “keep his dis- tance.” Bones left his feet and downed his man. put him to sleep with a smash in the jaw he had been slashed several times with a knife. Advices are that his in- juries will not incapacitate him for any length of time. “Bones” is with a San Antonio sporting goods house on Avenue “C”. JOHN H. KIRBY MADE A MEMBER HOUSTON CLUB John Henry Kirby, prominent Hous- ‘ton capitalist, was recently made an honorary member of the Houston A. and M. Club. He was brought to the meeting by Rufus Bowen, 1, of “Par is, who related to the club the story of the effort of Mr. Kirby when a boy to attend A. and M. College. We take the following from the col- umns of the “Houston Aggie:” “You see it’s like this: Mr. Bowen and Mr. Kirby knew each other back in the Piney’ Woods and when Mr. Bowen got back from A. and M. he was so enthusiastic that he talked John Kirby into the notion that he should go, so Kirby and a friend of his formed a partnership whereby they were to work and pool their funds and one go one term and then he would come home and the other would go a term. It worked the first term and Kirby's friend attended A. and M. and came home preparatory to Kirby's attending in the fall, but during the summer his friend died and he could not carry out his plans for he did not have enough money to carry him thru. For this reason he never attended the best school in the coun- try though his heart has always been with it. We believe that he has the school’s welfare at heart and for this reason we have elected him to hon- orary membership in our club. We welcome you Mr. Kirby and want you to be with us as often as you can. ee Z— — Leon Gilmore, ’17, and Dudley “Wrinkles” Moore, 20, are handling the business of the Texas Power and Light Company at Lampasas. [MCALLEN GETS “FATS” DYKES ASH. S. COACH Stephenville High Loses Man Who Put Them on Athletic Map—Dykes One of Best in State. J. C. “Fats” Dykes, ’21, who has achieved so much success as a coach of Stephenville High teams, has resigned his place there and will be at McAllen, Texas, next year in the same capacity. They thought a lot of “Fats” at Stephenville, of this old Aggie, and | McAllen had to go high to get him. “Fats” has kept up with his athletic work with summer courses under | Zupke and Rockne, and he has an un- derlying strata of Bible tactics. He is | one of the best posted high school coaches in the state. The basketball teams of Stephen- ville have always been contenders in the state meets at Austin and twice in the past four years have gone to the finals. Besides his athletic triumphs Dykes has been unusually successful in his work. His boys annually win many prizes at the contests held at College for agricultural work. Me- Allen has made no mistake on him. to fall a victim to the call of the Texas Power and Light Company. He has taken the managers place at Clarksville and will make his home there. * % * R. F. Royal, '25, is spending the summer at Coleman in the interests of the Baptist Young People’s Union. Royal was a track star while in A. and M. and during the past year has been at Seminary Hill near Ft. Worth. C..P. Dodson, ’11, is the latest one, Before he could | Teer Goofosfoefoeelodfonfoofoofoocdectonfoniyofofoecionfosfooforfocfodonionfoofore A. P. DUGGAN. PRESIDENT “ANDY” ASSOCIATION AIMS FOR YEAR To the Members of the Association of Former Students: The continued success of our Asso- ciation depends upon the active whole- hearted co-oeration of every member in working for the interest of our Association and our school. In order’ that we may continue successful we. must continue to grow; to stand still means to become indifferent and in- difference means neglect. I still believe we can increase our membership and each of us should strive to secure new members for the Association. I am sure there are former students who would be glad to contribute to our student loan fund if they knew of the good that is now be- ing accomplished with our limited fund and of the greater good that could be accomplished if additional funds were available. To put over a drive for an increase in membership and for contributions to our loan fund means personal work, in no other way can we accomplish what we desire. It should be a pleas- ure for every one of us to talk A. and M. and let us try to do our talking where it will accomplish some good for our Association. I believe we should urge every Ex- Student to return to College during the year and spend at least one day on the campus. Such a visit would renew their interest in the College and re- vive their love for “Aggieland.” Let me suggest that wherever and when- ever you meet a former student, you insist on his visiting the old school. The Board of Directors have auth- orized the celebration of the 50th an- niversary of the Agricultural and Me- | chanical College of Texas on October 15, 16, and 17, 1926. Let us strive to attend the anniversary and meet the men who have made the school what! it is. You will note by referring to | the football schedule for the coming season, that we have a game with New Mexico scheduled for October 16 to be played on Kyle Field. With this | added attraction, a trip to College at! this time will certainly be worth ils to all of us, and we hope it will be a great event in the life of the College. OUTLINES When we leave school and start. out into the world we have usually tried to leave all thoughts of class room work behind us. After being out a number of years, we begin to re- ! alize how much our class room train-' ing has helped us in our every day | 13 nape 1 y o 3 - 3 a ” « . pe» gi life. I believe we should more readily | yy (46 American Rio Grande Land and appreciate what our training means’ and should show our appreciation by | keeping in close touch with our depart- ment at college. To this end I would like to see the successful men from the College return to the school more often, for the purpose of conferring with the heads of the departments there. Through the generosity of Sears, Roebuck & Co., our Association now has a loan fund for agricultural stu- dents. We are grateful to these peo- ple for creating a loan fund for ag- ricultural students, for much good is being accomplished with this fund. We have many worthy students taking courses in engineering at College, who | cannot be reached by the above fund and I hope we will be able to soon have a loan fund for engineering stu- dents sufficient to care for our needs. We have at College agricultural and | engineering experiment stations cre- ated for the purpose of serving the people of our state; these experiment stations are doing much good in co- operation with the farming and indus- trial interests of this state. If the former students will keep posted re- garding this work, they will be able to assist in bringing about a closer co-operation between the stations and: those in need of service. It occurs to me that the above mat-' ters are of vital interest to our Asso- ciation and should not only be noted but should be carefully considered by every former student of the A. and M. College. I want to again urge the necessity of an increased membership in our Association; membership in our Association means interest in our school and with a revived interest in our school, we can accomplish a last- ing good for our state. Sincerely yours, A. P. ROLLINS. ofocfoefocfacfocfoctacfocfocfacfocfoctociacfocfocfrofecfocfeciocfocforfociede | IT’S DR. WALTON NOW It’s Dr. Thomas Otto Walton now. Baylor University recog- nizing his fine accomplishments in the realm of agricultural ed- ucation and leadership, confer- red the honorary Doctors de- gree upon the A. and M. presi- dent in early June at their an- nual commencement exercises. Highly appreciative of the honor and especially so coming from the oldest educational in- stituticn in Texas, President Walton says that nevertheless “Mister Walton” has a fine ap- peal to him. ofocfecloefocfoceefocirofoctrofoctooforoofoeoofoutsofoetoefuctocfoctonfocforfosfordrofoeooe : tiored in Dallas. i BONNY YOUNGBLOOD, ’07, SCORES UNUSALLY HIGH IN CIVIL SERVICE EXAM Dr. B. Youngblood, ’07, Director of | the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, who is on a year’s leave of absence, recently scored the astonish- ing mark of 95 in an examination. ' “Bonry” will he with the U. S. Bu-' reau of Agricultural Economies dur-. ing his year's leave and will head the | work ‘they are doing along Cotton | Ecoromic Kesearch. His absence is’ the recult of am earnest request by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. ———— ee ee lee R. M. Kennedy, 26, is with the S. W. Bell Telephone Company and sta- J. F. GERMANY, 26, AWARDED PRIZE IN RIO VALLEY 28 Acres Rich, Black, Irrigated Land Near Mercedes Goes to Pick of A. and M. Agricultural Gradu- ates of This Year. PRES. SEAY MAKES AWARD American Rio Grande Land and Irri- gation Company Believes in A. and M. Men and in the Magic Val- ley—Mr. Seay Made Mem- ber Former Students. HARRY L. SEAY, President American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Comany. J. F. Germany, of Ft. Worth, Hor- ticultural graduate of this spring, and winner of the 1926 land prize offered Irrigation Company through its presi- dent, Harry L. Seay, will leave short- ly to tenant his plot of valley land. Germany hails from Ft. Worth and was one of the outstanding men in the corps last year. The award is granted yearly to the best qualified member of the gradu- ating class capable of employing sci- entific methods of farming to show what the land can and will do. The award last year was won by Charles Whitman, 21, ‘who is now living at Mercedes. This year’s award consist- ed of 28 acres which becomes the property of the winner after he spends five years upon it. The land is choice black land, under irrigation and very valuable. Mr. Harry L. Seay, of Dallas, pres- ident of the American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Company person- ally made the award during the grad- uating exercises. Mr. Seay also spoke briefly before the business meeting of the Association of Former Students and was unanimously elected an hon- orary member of that body. The words of Mr. Seay in presenting the award to Germany are significant of his regard for our institution and we give them here: We believe with one of the earliest and greatest of economists that the land is the basis of all wealth. We be- lieve that only by scientific methods of agriculture can the soil be made to yield its heaviest returns. We believe that the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas teaches better than any other institu- tion the correct methods of deserving from land its greatest yield. We be- lieve their efforts should be aided, and we believe that the student who best fits himself to make a useful cit- izen, an example to his fellow farm- ers, ought to receive a reward n ad- dition to the honor conferred by his diploma. - We believe that the Rio Grande Val- ley of Texas is the most beautiful spot on earth, that its lands are most fertile and its climate most agreeable. We find it is a place that practically knows no seasons; that there every month is a sowing month and every month a harvest month; that all farm- ers raise two crops per year and the best raise three; that there we rare- ly have a crop failure, because irri- gation comes to Nature’s aid and des- troys completely the hazard of érouth. We know, too, that its marvel- ous semi-tropical climate, combined with the ability to furnish water when needed, makes it possible to replant a lost crop or substitute a new one at (Continued on Page 4) COLLEGE PLANS HUGE PARTY ON 50TH BIRTHDAY World-Wide Representation From Other Institutions to be Present and Famous Speakers Will Fea- ture Various Programs. AMUSEMENTS BOUNTIFUL Historical Pageant to Show Growth and Changes in College History— Aggies Meet New Mexico on Kyle Field—Many Exes to Be Here. Invitations have been mailed out to all leading educational institutions, not alone in the United States, but in every nation, for the Fiftieth birth- day party of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, October 15-16-17. The Board of Directors of the College have given their approv- al to these dates and have set aside the needed funds to insure the suc- cess of the semi-centennial celebra- tion. It will be an occasion with a fine, dignified, scholarly background with hundreds of delegates from the oldest and most prominent educational in- stitutions of the world. World fig- ures will address the various assem- blies and nothing will be left undone to make the whole ceremony, spec- tacular, impressive and historical. A sort of recapitulation of the accom- plishments of the College and the services it has rendered to the spirit- ual and material welfare of Texas will ‘be featured. A pageant depicting the high spots of each year of the exis- tence of the College also will be fea- tured. An effort is being made now to col- lect old protographs, ‘old yearbooks and ocher publications, every article which will be of interest from a historical point. Reuben Bowen, P. L. Downs, Sr., and others of the original cadets of the College are rendering invaluable aid in the col- lection of such articles and informa- tion which will be used to build up a volume dealing with the intimate de- tails of the growth and developmen of the College. | ‘ There will be amusements, too. The athletic department is bringing to Kyle Field the fast moving New Mex- ico University football team on Oec- tober 16, for an early season struggle with the Aggies. Two or three years ago, A. and M. met the University of Arizona football team and found them worthy foes. Preparations will be made to ac- commodate a vast number of old Aggies and it is hoped that there will be a big return of A. and M. men. President Andy Rollins of the Asso- ciation, is giving considerable thought to the holding of a rally and meeting of A. and M. men at that time. AGGIE STARS TO LEAD ALLENIN ATHLETIC DRIVE Famous Boys’ School Secures Old Ag- gie stars and Athletic Situation Brightens as Football Nears. Allen Academy of Bryan announces that their athletic work next year will be in the hands of two old Aggie lu- minaries. “Puny” Wilson, 23, will be ‘head coach, assisted by Norman Dans- by, ’26. Both are too well known to need introduction. Puny coached Bryan High last year with marked success, and was one of the greatest ends in the Southwest in his day. It was the mighty Puny who led the Farmers to their memorable victory over Centre College on New Year’s Day of 1923. Normay Dansby, star of Bryan High when that little squad won the state high school championship, and All-Conference guard last year, will be there to help and the chubby lad from Bryan is one of the craftiest men in the state along football lines. The two will make an ideal pair for Al- len Academy, not only in their ath- letic success, but also in the whole- some influence they will have on those young boys over there. ————e——— fi — eee T. C. Burkhart, '25, is with the Tex- as Portland Cement Co., and likewise living in Dallas. old wuniforms,-