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APRIL MEETING-- (Continued from Page 1) arillo Club is meeting each week for luncheon at the Capitol Hotel, the meetings recently being chang- ed from Monday noon to Wednes- day noon. A. & M. men from var- ious cities of the Pandhandle are expected to be present at the meet- ing on the night of April 18th, and officers of the Amarillo Club anticipate one of the greatest A. & M. rallies ever staged in their section. Thad Ansley, Amarillo Laundry, is in charge of the gen- eral arrangements for the big meeting honoring Norton and War- den. APRIL 21ST. The Amarillo-Pandhandle Club will celebrate April 21st. with a separate party to which the ladies of the club members will be enter- tained. Reservations for both or either of the parties can be made thru Thad Ansley, Box 253, Am- arillo. WICHITA FALLS Another combined April 21st. meeting and Athletic Rally, with Homer Norton and Ben Warden as honor guests, will be staged by the Wichita Falls A. & M. Club on the night of April 19th., at six P. M. The affair will be in the form of a barbecue with all the trimmings, and A. & M. men and their families and friends will make up the crowd. Games are being provided for the children. A small band made up of Ex-band members from A. &. M. will perform under the direction of Mr. Carl Goetze, ’94, of Iowa Park. The party will be held in Weeks Park, adjacent to the Municipal golf course in Wichita Falls, and shelter is avail- able in case of inclement weather. V. R. Smitham, ’15, City Manager, and Wilson Reedy, 25, 307 City National Bank Bldg., Wichita Falls, are in charge of party. OC. H. McDowell, ’12, and G. C. McGown, ’14, are in charge of refreshments. A large turn-out of A. & M. men and their families is expected. FORT WORTH Homer Norton and Ben Warden will end their tour of West Texas as honor guests at the April 20th. meeting of the Ft. Worth A. & M. Club. The party will be held at the University Club in the Panther City. It will start at 7:30 P. M,, and ladies are invited and expected. Tickets will” sell for one dollar. Delegations from Decatur, Mineral Wells, Cleburne, Dallas, Denton and Weatherford have already signified their intention of being present and the meeting promises to be the largest held in Ft. Worth since the farewell party to D. X. Bible six years ago. Tickets can be secured from P. M. Geren, 12, Bewley Bldg., Ft. Worth, President of the Ft. Worth Club, or from any other officers of the club. It has been announced that speeches of the evening would ve short and snappy, with most of the time being spent in informal gathering. BEAUMONT An old fashioned picnic and bar- becue, with the families of A. & M. men as especial guests, will be staged by the Beaumont Club in celebration of San Jacinto Day. The affair will be given at the Lions Club on Villiage Creek near Silsbee. Games for everyone will be provided during the afternoon and early evening while Chef Hubie Braunig, ’14, and C. A. Muncey, ’23, barbecue the steaks and pre- pare the rest of the food. John Dollinger, 3rd., ’31, and E. I. Bor- dages, ’30, are in charge of Atten- dance. A short program, chiefly for the purpose of getting everyone ac- quainted, has been prepared. A peanut hunt for the children is planned with prizes for the lucky ones. The party is designed as an outing for the whole family. A. & M. men from other cities are in- vited to bring their families and enjoy the occasion. QUANAH O. F. Washam, ’15, and Otto Lazenby, 24, are arranging for an April 21st. meeting at Quanah and have invited A. & M. men to attend from Chillicothe, Childress, Cro- well, Vernon and other localities in that section. Additional details may be secured from either of the men mentioned above. CHICAGO The Chicago A. & M. Club will hold its annual Stag Dinner on April 21st., with Miss San Jacinto as Honor Guest of the occasion. Details have not yet been worked out but may be secured from Presi- dent George M. Lewis, 24, at his office, 2600 Buckingham Bldg., 59 East Van Buren St., telephone, Harrison 8045; or at his residence, the Park Dearborn Hotel, 1260 North Dearborn Parkway. Infor- mation may also be secured from Secretary T. Henry Ragsdale, Suite 1101, Civie Opera Bldg., Chicago. Visiting A. & M. men, and all Ag- “gies in that section of the Country are urged to attend the meeting. NEW BRAUNFELS The New Braunfels A. & M. Club will entertain in honor of April 21st. with a big dance in New Braunfels. Exes of San Marcos and other near-by cities are taking an active interest and will join with the New Braunfels group. John Langston, ’21, New Braunfels, has charge of the program. E. P. “Pete” Nowotny, 26, is president of the New Braunfels Club. There will be an election of club officers held that night. WAGO Details of the April 21st party to be held at Waco have not been definitely settled, according to Bob Sherman, ’24, President of the Mec- Lennan and Waco Club, but a ban- quet with ladies attending will be held. The meal will be served by the A. & M. Mothers Club of Waco, with the time, place and date to be announced later. In charge of arrangements is a committee com- posed of R. S. “Dick” Miller, 13, Ray Wilson, "25, John Strange, 22, Lee Clayton, 21, Sol Wright, 28, L. H. Wood, 23, and J. B. Snider, ’14. The Waco Club expects to make this party one of the largest held in their city in several years. ALABAMA The Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, at noon on the 21st. will be the gathering place of A. & M. men in Alabama, according to a letter from J. B. Fitzpatrick, ’31. Fitzpatrick and Gus Schattenburg, 27, will meet with Hunter Randolph, ’30, and Howard Locke, ’32, to form the nucleus of the party. All four of the boys are with the Alabama State Park Service, Fitzpatrick and Schattenburg being located at Alabama State Park No. 3, Uriah, Ala. They will be glad to see any other A. & M. men who can be present around noon at the Jeffer- son Davis Hotel. PORT ARTHUR The Port Arthur A. & M. Club will celebrate April 21st. with a dinner and bridge party, held at the Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur. The ladies of the club members are to be honored at this party. Jas. C. “Major” Fleming, 27, 2247 Fourth St., is President of the Port Arthur Club. DR. LAMAR JONES Dentist X-Ray Second Floor City Nat'l. Bank Bldg. Bryan, Texas 7 The latest - - - Joel English bf aes NEW SPRING SAMPLE PATTERNS Made by M. BORN OR INTERNATIONAL TAILORS Guaranteed Fit In the Latest Styles THE CAMPUS CLEANERS N Shorty Halbrooks —17 nN ATHLETIC HEADS HONORED AT BIG CAMPUS DINNER Brazos County Club Intro- duces New A. & M. Coaches Te Home Folks and Honors Bryan School Leaders. Homer Norton and Cal Hubbard, new A. & M. athletic coaches, were introduced to the people of Bryan and College at a banquet given on March 21st., at Sbisa Hall by the Brazos County A. & M. Club. One hundred and sixty were present when the program was opened by Toastmaster E. R. Alexander, ’23, President of the Brazos County A. & M. Club. Other honor guests included Pres. T. O. Walton, Professor Nat "Allen from Allen Academy, S. M. Brown, Superintendent of the Bryan School system, the entire athletic staffs of Allen Academy and the Bryan High school, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Duncan, Mrs. Cal Hubbard and others. In opening the program Mr. «Alexander explained the purpose | of the banquet, welcomed the guests and extended an especial welcome to the ladies present. He called upon Pres. Walton for the first address and Dr. Walton spoke upon the place of Athletics in the A. & M. program. N. B. Allen and S. M. Brown were also called upon to speak and outlined their thoughts upon the importance and the place of athletics and physical training in a school program. Dean Kyle was called upon and after paying a short tribute to the new A. & M. Coaches he introduced Homer Norton. Norton told of his satisfaction at coming to A. & M., asked for the cooperation of every part of the institution and pledged his best efforts to the physical de- velopment of the A. & M. student body. Charles Crawford, ’19, in- troduced Cal Hubbard, new line coach, and he spoke briefly. Ervin H. Astin, ’99, an early football star at A. & M., ended the program with a short but inspiring address in which he pledged the hearty support of the people of Brazos County and of all A. & M. men to the new coaches and their staff. Hollis U. Bible, ’30, recently re- turned to Texas from New York where he has been since gradua- tion. He is still with the General Electric Co., and returns as Dis- trict Sales Engineer for the Air Conditioning Dept., of the G. E. Company. He thinks his head- quarters will be at Dallas. He was accompanied on a visit to the Campus by Mrs. Bible. At A. & M. he was a letter-man in football, was known as “Hod”, and doesn’t need his older brother, D. X., to get him by. Joe McReynolds, 22, was recent- ly elected as a City Commissioner at Mineola, Texas, in the hottest city election ever held in that city. He is in the hardware business there. It is to be hoped his political duties will not keep him from at- | tending his usual quota of football games as he is one of the warmest grid fans in the country. Stanford Named New Director of Rural Relief Program J. E. Stanford, veteran Texas Agricultural worker and recently secretary of the Bryan Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed State Director of the new Rural Rehabilitation Program of the Texas Relief Commission. He has assumed his new duties and his headquarters will be in Austin. Al- though not a former student of A. & M. Stanford has for many years been a loyal and enthusiastic friend and worker for A. & M. He was for many years with the Ex- tension Service, later Agricultural Manager of the East Texas Cham- ber of Commerce, Agricultural writer and editor and more re- cently chamber of Commerce exec- utive. A frequent campus visitor these days is J. A. Wessendorf, Richmond lumber-man and business man. He has a son who is a fresh- man and who is on the football squad. Wessendorf senior was a star baseball catcher upon A. & M. teams during his four years at A. & M. and is still fond of all kinds of outdoor sports. Young Wessen- dorf is only 17 years of age but already several inches taller than his father and bids fair to become a big man in another year or so. G. R. Addicks, ’33, former track star, is with the Texas Co. and lives at 3415 Fifth Ave., Port Ar- thur. J. R. 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