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Dr. Mark Francis, Campus. I RETURN If this paper Is met { called for return post- POSTAGE age is guaranteed by COARANTESD publisher. : 3 y Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. VOL. X COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 15, 1933. No. § CHICAGO GROUP MAKING PLANS FOR BIG YEAR George M. Lewis, New Presi- dent, Is Young Executive In Big Chicago Re- search Organi- zation. A. & M. activities in Chicago are taking an enthusiastic increase un- der the leadership of George M. Lewis, 24, recently elected presi- dent of the Chicago Club. Commit- tees have been named to handle and develop various angles of the club’s activities ‘and are already at work. One of the next events to be staged will be a golf tour- nament. It is planned to hold quar- terly meetings, with weekly lun- cheons being enjoyed by those members of the club working in The Loop. ] President Lewis for the past three years has been associated with the Institute of American Meat Packers as Assistant Direc- tor of the Marketing and Statis- tical Department. After gradua- tion from A. & M. in 1924 he spent a year with the U. S. Dept. of Ag- riculture, then entered the Grad- uate School of Business Adminis- tration of Harvard University. He received his degree of Master of Business Administration in 1927 and spent the next two years with the Bureau of Business Research of the University of Texas. In 1930 he spent a year doing gra- duate work at Chicago University under a Research Fellowship. He is single and lives at the Park Dear- born Hotel in Chicago. Chairmen of the committees ap- pointed by President Lewis are, General Arrangements, D. GC. “Spike” Arnold, ’27, past presi- dent; Weekly Luncheon, DP. “Deeper” Tunstall, 30; Golf Com- mittee, T. Henry Ragsdale, 25, Club Secretary; Publicity, Paul Huey, 25; Membership, C.-M. “Monk” Underwood, ’25; World's Fair Welcoming Committee, L. H. “Luckie Louie” Powell, ’14. These committee chairmen and the officers of the club expect to make the coming year the most active in the history of the Chicago A. & M. Club. They extend to visiting A. & M. men a hearty welcome to their city. APRIL 24 SEES BARBECUE - DANCE AT MT. PLEASANT April 21st was celebrated by the Mt. Pleasant A. & M. Club with a barbecue and stag party, fol- lowed by a dance. The evening opened with local and visiting A. & M. men gathering for the bar- becue at a local club lake. After the barbecue the dance was held at the American Legion Hall in Mt. Pleasant. The attendance was swelled by A. & M. men and other visitors from near-by cities. It was decided to hold another meeting on July sixth, with final details to be arranged and announced. Among those present from Mt. Pleasant at the April 21st party were, O. C. Lilienstern, Sr., 96, W. E. McKin- non, ’93, S. H. Spurger, '24, Joe Black, ’27, O. C. Lilienstern, Jr., 26, Bill Dickson, 27, Roger Mer- ritt, ’26, Roy Anderson, 82, D. R. Davis, ’32, Carl Croxton, 32, T. B. Caldwell, 26, J. B. Davis, ’33, Jack Pope, ’33, James Costello, ’32, M. K. Taylor, 33, Leonard Traylor, ’34, and Percy Redfearn, ’28. Sam W. T. Lanham, ’26, was recently elected President of the Texas Beach and Pool Association at that body’s annual convention held at San Marcos. Sam is in the swimming pool business at Waco. San "Tone Men Say Party Will End Depression George Altgelt’s Ranch at Leon Springs will be the scene and June 10th the date of the annual San Antonio A. & M. Club Chicken Bar- becue and Stag Party. “It will end the depression” de- clare the officers of the San Antonio Club, who, with their various committees, are working hard to perfect plans for the big affair. Del- egations of visiting Aggies are expected from all near- by cities and it is expected the attendance will exceed three hundred men. 1933 graduates and men in Army and around San camps in Antonio at the time are warmly invited. Among honor guests for the occasion will be T. B. Warden, ’03, of Dallas, Pres- ident of the Association of Former Students, and Matty Bell, Athletic Department head, of College Station. All A. & M. men are invited to attend the party, whether re- siding in San Antonio or elsewhere. Any San Antonio Aggie can give directions for reaching the ranch, or the way can be secured at Leon Springs. The time will be from six P. M. on. Ivan Langford, 07, of Bryan, was recently appointed finance chairman representing the Demo- cratic National organization in Rrazos County. He will have charge of raising funds for the national party in that county. John Ashton’s Fe Tribute To Loving - Haltom-Woodman Will Bring Back Fond "06 Memories (By John Ashton, 06) J. W. (“Bill”) Loving, ’06, Crosses the Big Divide I just could not let Bill Loving leave us without paying a small tribute to his memory and, inci- dentally, letting the present stu- dent body know what manner of man he was. It so happened that among the many papers and magazines which come to my desk, not all of which are opened and read, for lack of time, I came across the following notice in the April number of the Cattleman, published in Ft. Worth: J. W. LOVING “Pneumonia caused the death of J. W. (Bill) Loving, 46, at Dallas on March 25. He is survived by his widow, one daughter and one son. “Mr. Loving was born and rais- Ted in Jack county. After his gra- duation from Texas A. & M. Col- lege in 1906 he returned to the Oliver Loving and Sons’ ranch and assisted in building up the largest herd of commercial Shorthorn cat- tle in the Southwest. His grand- father, J. C. Loving, helped orga- nize the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and was its secretary for many years. His great-grandfather, Oliver Loving, was wounded by Indians on the Pecos in 1867 while with a trail herd and died shortly thereafter at Fort Sumner, N. M. J. W. Loving had been a member of the Asso- ciation’s executive committee since 1922.” Most of the older members of the faculty of Texas A. & M. Col- lege will remember kindly the au- burn-haired, big-boned, shy and awkward freshman who registered from Jacksboro nearly a genera- tion ago, and the sad news of his passing in the height of his useful- ness will recall those good old days when the campus was not so crowded with buildings as it is now, when everybody knew each other rather intimately, and when the College spirit was just as keen as it is today. Loving was a classmate of the writer, but we never saw each oth- er again after the Commencement Exercises of 1906, although we have corresponded at times. It seems only like yesterday to me the time Loving, M.S. (“Parson”) Church, Hal Yaker, C. M. (“Cy”) Evans, and the writer left College Station in December, 1905, to take part in the International Students’ Judging Contest at Chicago. Ned Van Zandt, now a banker at Fort Worth, was also with us as an al- ternate; and Professor F. R. Mar- shall, now secretary of the Nation- al Wool Growers’ Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, and who had coached us for this event, was in charge of the party. This was the first team ever to represent Texas in this event. Loving, Yakey, and myself were of the ’06 class, Church was graduated in 1905, and Evans and Van Zandt were, 1 (Continued on Page 4) [GE MEETING MAKES Hak Of MEMBER Dick Miller Heads New Offi- cers Gulf Bend Club— Next Meeting At Kingsville. Memories of freshman days at A. & M. were revived in Alice re- cently when former students of the Gulf Bend A. & M. Club cele- brated April 21st with their an- nual barbecue and meeting. The affair was held at the home of L. A. Pierce, '23, in Alice, and some 20 men from that section of the state were present. All members present were made to take their “Fish” names, and everyone was put upon an equal “Slime” rating. Upon arrival at the meeting each A. & M. man was taken to a room that represented a typical dormi- tory den of early days. There he was given the “Fish” third degree and called upon to relate some of his freshman day experiences. The interesting and novel form of the party was a delight to those pres- ent. A barbecue supper, accompanied with all the necessary trimmings was served all Freshmen before they were called before the bar of judgment, of their upper class “Friends.” Members of the club present ranged from men of 1906 to graduates of 1932, but they were all “Fish” together for one more few hours. Following the evening’s play, (Continued on Page 4) 08 Reunion Features Former Faculty Members Cs 1st Row: Left to Right—General Geo. T. Bartlett, San Antonio; Dr. Mark Francis, College Station; Dr. J. G. Kerr, Beaumont; Dr. C. W. Hutson, New Orleans, La.; Dean Chas. Puryear, College Station; Dr. F. E. Giesecke, Col- lege Station. ond Row: T. L. Smith, Jr., Houston ; Terrell Bartlett, Sa Ueckert, Houston; H. H. Tracy, Tulia; G. F. Foutrell, San Antonio; W. T. Carter, College Station. 3rd Row: Mrs. Mark Francis, College Station; Mrs. F. E. Giesecke, College Station; Mrs. T. L. Smith, Jr., Houston; H. H. Ueckert, Houston; H. E. Rawlins, Lancaster; C. A. Thanheiser, Houston; H. M. Rollins, Gulf Port, Miss.; C. B. Donalson, Kyle; H. T. Abbott, Dallas. The presense as honor guests of General George T. Bartlett and Dr. Charles Hutson proved a fea- ture of the thirty-fifth anniversary reunion of the class of 1898, held on the campus April 14-15-16, dur- ing the annual Former Students meeting. General Bartlett was Commandant at A. & M. during the cadet days of the class, and Dr. Hutson was head of the His- tory Department of the college at n Antonio; Mrs. H. M. Rollins, Gulf Port, Miss.; Mrs. H. H. the same time and for many years. | Chcrles Puryear, veteran faculty General Bartlett came from San Antonio, while Dr. Hutson came from New Orleans for the week- end. In the above picture, also, are Dr. Mark Francis members who have been with the century, and who joined the class and Dean | for the above picture. A. & M. College for almost a half ORGANIZE GLUB TER MEETING AT DAIRY SHOW Plainview Men Elect Bate- man - Jennings - Nesbit Following Big Annual Banquet A. & M. Men Attending Show. Formation of another new A. & M. Club was completed when the Plainview A. & M. men chose of- ficers at a meeting following a big Aggie banquet held during the South Plains Dairy Show on April 10th. Seventy-five men gathered at the banquet at the Hilton Hotel, with visitors present from all over the Plains and from other sections of the state. Following this ban- quet the Plainview men held a bus- iness meeting to organize their club. Alex Bateman, ’13, was named President, Joe Jennings, ’11, Vice President and Alex Nesbit, Secre- tary-Treasurer. These officers will arrange for the annual banquet of A. & M. men which has become a feature of each year’s Dairy Show and the club also plans other meet- ings during the year. Four mem- bers of the club attended the April 21st meeting of the Lubbock Club, and later attended in a body the spring football game between Tech and West Texas State Teachers’ College. At the banquet held during the Dairy Show talks were made by Prof. Charles Shepardson of A. & M., Geo. W. Barnes, 11, and S. C. Evans, ’21, both of the A. & M. Extension Service staff. These men were representing A. & M. at the Dairy Show, and all spoke upon topics of interest to all former students. W. L. Stangel, ’15, head of the Animal Husbandry Dept. of Texas Tech and an official of the Dairy Show, spoke, as did others of those present. “DAD” SHORT REGOVERING Following a major and very se- rious operation of some two weeks- past, reports indicate that A. K. “Dad” Short, 00, is recovering nicely at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Houston. Just prior and just following the operation Mr. Short’s life hung in the bal- ance, and his multitude of A. & M. friends will be glad to hear that he is recovering. He is Conserva- tion Manager for the Federal Land Bank at Houston, is past president of the Association of Former Stu- dents, and is, perhaps, the best known agricultural worker in the state of Texas. ELLIS 00. MEN ORGANIZE NEW CLUB ON 2151. A new A. & M. Club was organ- ized on April 21st, when A, & M. men of Ellis county met at Waxa- hachie. M. D. Lewis, ’25, of Italy, was elected President of the Club with George W. Scott, 26, of Wax- ahachie, Secretary-Treasurer. Fif- teen men were present at the or- ganization meeting. It was decided to hold another meeting on the 19th. of May and those present were enthusiastic in their plans for meetings to be held through the coming year. All A. & M. men of Ellis county are urged to be pres- ent at all meetings. _—=> A'S. “Slew” ‘Johnson, ’22,"'is with the Sun Oil Co., at Beaumont.
