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— LIBRARY “ rien i AA % ural & Man! H (a) ’ aia mecnanical Collage of a 41 fd . wy : AT Texs ™ "RNA" < postage is guaranteed by publisher. LIBRARY Polar CAMPUS Lofiege Station Taxag. ; Ep | HE | EXAS AGGIE ee called for return 4 POSTAGE GUAR al eS Arar Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. NUMBER 51 YELLOW JAGKET TEAM HONORE HEARS WALTON Pt. Arthur Club Stages Big Annual Banquet for High School Team and Coaches— Dignitaries Present COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 CELEBRITIES AT AGGIE BANQUET VOL. X DALLAS AGGIES] PLANPROGRANS AT CENTENNIAL F. R. Bennett, 27, Heads New Officers as Club Opens Cen- tennial Year - Cunningham, Martin, Waring, Also Elect- ed. No Foolin’ The A..& M. Press has ad- vised that the long and eag- erly awaited HISTORY OF TEXAS A. & M. will be off the press and ready for dis- tribution early in February. Arrangements have been made by the Ex-Student’s Association to send a copy of the book free to every member of the Association whose current dues are paid. Col. Clarence Owsley, for many years connected with the College and one of the best posted men on current and historical affairs of the Southwest, is the author of the history. He was aided by various other members of the college staff. An immense amount of investigation and research into old records was done by the authors of the history and it is certain to contain much previously un- published material about the history of Texas A. & M. The Association office ex- pects to begin mailing copies The eighth annual Aggie-Yellow F. R. Bennett, ’27, was recently Jacket Football Banquet honoring elected president of the Dallas A. & M. Club; F. H. Cunningham, ’10, vice president; J. Woodward, 22, second vice president; W. H. “Bill” Waring, ’26, secretary-treasurer completed the slate. The Board of Directors is composed of F. R. Ben- nett, chairman; E. B. Fason, "22; Lee Cook, 20; M. S. Church, 05; and C. J. Rutland, ’11. These men will serve during the Centennial year. Like all other Dallas organ- * izations, the Dallas A. & M. Club the football squad and coaches of the Port Arthur High School, was held at the Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur last Wednesday night. This party is an annual affair and is one of the high-lights of the pro- gram of the Port Arthur Club. The banquet this year was attended by some 80 A. & M. men, in addition to the many guests who were there. In addition to the coaches and play- Principal speakers who featured the program of the eighth arnual Texas A. & M. Banquet in honor of the Port Arthur Yellow Jackets last week at the Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur. In the above photo, showing the speakers’ table, are the following: Front row, left to right, E. E. McQuillen, 20, executive secretary of the Texas A. & M. Ex-Students’ Association; J. E. Angel, director of Student Publications of Texas A. & M; Dr. T. O. Walton, President of Texas A. & M.; 0. T. Hotchkiss, Jr., 24, president of the Port Arthur Aggie Club; Homer Norton, head football coach and athletic director of Texas A. & M. Back row: G. I. Roberts, assistant superintendent of the Gulf Refinig Company plant here; Tom Dennis, Yellow Jacket coach; G. M. Sims, superintendent of Port Arthur schools, and F. P. Dodge, general superintendent expects to make this Centennial year the most active one in its his- tory and invites all visiting Aggie exes to join the club at its regular Friday noon luncheon, which meets on the mezzanine floor of the Bak- er Hotel. President Bennett previously served the Dallas Club for two years as vice president. He is in the general insurance business operating his own agency with of- fices in the Oak Cliff Medical-Den- tal Building. After graduating from A. & M. in the spring of 1927, | Bennett took a year of graduate work in the School of Commerce of Northwestern University. He spent two years with a Bond House in Chicago and then spent some three years with R. G. Dun and Company and with the Retail Credit Corporation in San Antonio. He set up his own insurance agency in 1933 and has been pleased with its steady growth. Bennett is one of the few mem- bers of the 1927 class still unmar- ried but with the present leap year and the handicap of his added duties as president of the Dallas A. & M. Club, his friends will not be surprised should his marital condition change. Vice president Cunningham is manager of the Dallas District Of- fice of the Otis Elevator Company. Before moving to Dallas last year, he spent several years in San An- tonio, where he was active in the San Antonio A. & M. Club. Second vice president J. W. Martin is head of the Star Gas Division of the Lone Star Gas Company at Dallas and secretary-treasurer Bill War- ing is one of the veteran engineers in the Water Works. The Dallas A. & M. Club is fea- turing a series of entertaining and worth while programs. As an ex- ample of the type of programs the club expects in the near future to enjoy, a lecture by “Doc” M. B. Starnes, 27, along with a film prepared by the Pasteur Institute of Texas. This film and lecture will discuss rabies, their import- ance, symptoms, and methods of prevention and treatment. A num- ber of special occasions are being planned by the club during the Centennial year. Announcements of which will be made later. H. F. “Dutch” Granau, ’07, has been elected president of the First National Bank of Bellville. The bank building was recently re- modeled making it one of the hand- somest structures in the city of Bellville. F. W. Heldenfels, ’09, has been elected president of the First Nat- ional Bank of Rockport. He is also head of one of the best known con- tracting firms in the state. Claude Brown, ’11, district man- ager of the Texas Power and Light Company at Crockett, has been elected president of the Crockett Chamber of Commerce for the com- ing year. of the history out to paid-up Association members not lat- er than February 10th. LAKE CHARLES PARTY RESULTS NEW A. & M. CLUB Reorganization of the Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana A. & M. Club was the result of an enthusiastic meeting held at the Majestic Hotel in Lake Charles on the night of January 28. EH. E. Mec- Quillen, ’20, Ex-Student Associa- tion Secretary, was present at the meeting, together with several vis- itors from the Beaumont Club. Ar- rangements for the party were led by Louis Lenz, 07, of Lake Char- les; and A. S. “Ben” King, ’26. Following the dinner and an hour of pleasant discussion, it was de- cided that the club should be re- organized. Louis Lenz, ’07, dis- trict engineer of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, of Lake Charles, was named president. Graves Castle, 21, was elected vice-president, and A. S. “Ben” King, 26, secretary treasurer. One of the aims of the Lake Charles Club is to stimulate inter- est in that city and its surrounding territory in Texas A. & M., and to influence high school graduates of Lake Charles to attend Texas A. & M. The club hopes to meet sev- eral times each year and officers of the club have asked that all the A. & M. men in that section get in touch with them and join the club in its activities. Among those pres- ent at the banquet were the fol- lowing: Neill G. Carpenter, ’26; W. G. Castle, 21; Geo. H. Moore, ’29; Louis Lenz, ’07; A. S. King, 26; R. D. Hardcastle, ’31; J. A. Bonham, ’14; Roger Wilson, ’30; J. E. Poole, ’33; R. M. Craig, ’28; all of Lake Charles; C. L. Babcock, ’18; C. L. Bradley, 21; Hugh Gle- zen, 20 of Beaumont; and Lewis Howard, ’33, of Hackberry, Loui- siana. Sam K. Seymour, Jr. ’17, J. D. Seymour, ’12, and Sam K. Sey- mour, Sr., 79, are the owners and proprietors of the S. K. Seymour Lumber and Hardware Company at Columbus. They are also agents for the Texas Company. Across the street from their establishment is located a beautiful new Humble Station, owned by Walter G. Dick, ’18, Humble Company Agent. They are friendly business rivals but are united in enthusiastic support of the Columbus High School 1935 Bi-District Championship Football team. T. M. Maxwell, ’32, who is with the Stanolind Oil and Gas Com- pany, was recently transferred from Refugio to Alvin, where his address is Drawer A. ling, Burnet County, General Mos- of the Texas Company plant here. IND. INFANTRY WIN FOOTER CHAMPIONGHIF Both Teams Scoreless; Winner Determined By First Down Margin At the expense of a fighting Coast Artillery team the Second Battalion Infantry gridiron eleven annexed the 1936 College champion- ship Sunday afternoon on Kyle Field by the margin of six first downs. With both teams scoring one twenty-yard penetration each the choice of winner fell back on the total number of first downs, of which the Infantrymen overshad- owed the Artillery team 7-1. Neith- er eleven was able to tally a touchdown, field goal, or safety. PALATABLE AND PRACTICAL FLOUR FROM COTTONSEED IS TRIUMPH 0. W. McMATH, "29, AND HIS BACKER Bread, cakes, pastries, and a variety of similar foods derived from Texas’ chief agricultural pro- duct, cotton, may soon become a commonplace on the tables of households throughout the nation, as a result of research work done iby C. W. McMath, ’29, who is with the Traders Oil Mill at Fort Worth. His work resulted from the inter- ests of Mr. T. J. Harrell, President of this company, who for many years had thought of the possibil- ity of making flour and food products from cottonseed. In 1929, Mr. Harrell went to the Chemistry Department of A. & M. College, selected McMath, told him the job would be waiting for him after graduation if he would specialize in cottonseed research and experi- mentation. With the problem be- fore him, McMath wove his college course about the subject of chem- | FORMER A. & M. COMMANDANT GETS PRIZED HAWAIIAN POST (The following story, appearing in a recent issue of the Washington, D. C. TIMES, will be of interest to many A. & M. men. Major-General ‘“Andy’” Moses, then a Captain, served as Commandant of Cadets at Texas A. & M. from the fall of 1907 through the school year of 1911. He was one of the best loved men ever to serve as Commandant at A. & M. He is a member of a pioneer Texas family and an uncle of “Bull” and ‘‘Bullet’” Moses ’16, famous Aggie track stars of their day, and of Dayton ‘Tad’ Moses Jr., ’20. Another nephew, Lieutenant Martin Moses, U. S. A., is at present on duty with the R;O.07T. C. unitiat' A. &i M.) When you can become known in the U. S. Army as “Andy” and in addition become a Major-General, and when, on top of that, you can pick off the premier post of com- mand in the whole U. S. military organization next to the Chief of Staff, you're good. That’s what they'll tell you around the War Department— as if it were not obvious enough — when Major-General Andrew Moses is discussed. They're glad and they're sorry over his promotion announced last month, and his impending de- parture for Honolulu to take over the command of the Hawaiian De- partment. For the last four years General Moses, as a Brigadier, has been Chief of G-1, the personnel branch of the General Staff, with the rating of Assistant Chief of Staff. His tenure there, Army as- sociates say, simply served to con- firm an impression the Army had been forming of him since his graduation from West Point in 1897. A Texan by birth, born in Strick- es came up through the Coast Ar- tillery and will remain an artil- leryman until his death. He prob- ably believes with Napoleon, that “God is on the side of the heaviest artillery.” And some of the heaviest turn- ed out by American workmen for the national defense are scattered around the hills of the Hawaiian Islands, ready to repel any invader. It isn’t only his contemporaries who think well of the new com- manding officer of the Hawaiian Department. Junior officers will tell you that more than once he has “Taken the Rap” for subordi- nates. He never lets “his boys” down. More than once in the past four years, too, the offices and corridors around his headquarters have rung with the laughter of serious-minded army men whose risibilities were touched by the general’s most excellent stories. It is said that not more than two officers around the War Depart- ment in recent years could rival General Moses as a model of what the army officer should wear to be in the height of military fash- ion and to look his best. General Moses has been awarded many honors, among them the Dis- tinguished Service Medal, and has seen military service in many parts of the World. During the World War he commanded the Three Hun- dred and Sixteenth Field Artillery. He was made a Brigadier-General in 1929, and now achieves the rank in which he will serve until he re- tires. ical engineering as applied to cot- ton oil mill operations. After com- pleting work on his undergrad- uate degree, he continued his re- search work for two years as a graduate student. When he finish- ed his studies in 1932, McMath moved his operations to the Trad- ers Oil Miil at Fort Worth, where Mr. Harrell had already fitted up for him a well equipped labora- tory. For years cottonseed has been known as a valuable feed rich in protein for cattle. McMath’s prob- lem was to produce a palatable human food from the kernel of the cottonseed. After almost two years of further research and study in his laboratory at the Traders Oil Mill at Fort Worth, he produced a flour from the cottonseed, light tan in color and rich and smooth in texture. Chemical tests indicated it was richer and more nutritious than any flour previously produc- ed. It next became necessary for Mec- Math to turn his attention to the problem of machinery for manu- facturing the new product. Turn- ing mechanical draftsman, he final- ly designed machinery to do the job. Mr. Harrell again showed his faith in the work by investing ap- proximately $150,000 in building and installing this machinery. It proved successful and the company is now producing cottonseed flour. It has received the approval of the Committee on Foods from the American Medical Association. The new cottonseed flour contains ap- proximately 50 per cent of proteins, which make it closely equivalent in food value to meat. It has 25 per cent less starch than wheat flour and yields both vitamin B and G. It is difficult to estimate the eventual possibilities that may ar- rive from the successful work done by McMath through the support and backing of Mr. Harrell and the Traders Oil Mill Company. The flour is offered as a supplement, rather than as a substitute, for wheat flour. Those who have tasted bread, cakes, and other prod- ucts made from the cottonseed flour, are high in their praise of its goodness. Robert H. “Honk” Crawford, ’26, writes the Dallas News from La- haina, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, that he will be listening to the Rose Bowl game via radio and will be pulling for the Ponies as repre- senting the Southwest. Crawford is an Aggie letter-man playing second base on the Aggie baseball | teams of his days at A. & M. ers, many prominent citizens of Port Arthur were guests of the club. The principal address of the ev- ening was delivered by Dr. T. O. Walton, President of the A. & M. College, who drew a vivid picture of how a man of tomorrow might be benefited by lessons learned today on the athletic field. Owing to a severe attack of ton- silitis, Coach Homer Norton spoke only briefly. Tom Dennis, Port Ar- thur high school coach, introduced his squad and assistant coaches and paid tribute to their good work during the past season. Secretary McQuillen spoke briefly. The visitors and guests of the banquet were extended a warm welcome by M. R. Kunitz, 28, who then introduced the toastmaster of the evening, O. T. Hotchkiss, Jr., '24, president of the Port Arthur A. & M. Club. Both Kunitz and Hotchkiss and their assistants ran the splendid program off in good style. A series of entertaining fea- tures including singing, dancing, and a ventriloquist specialist, was enjoyed. J. E. Pittenger, ’35, of Beaumont sang several numbers. An arrangement committee for the Port Arthur Club, which so successfully staged the big party, was composed of M. R. Kunitz, B. P. Brown, D. V. Krumholtz, Pat M. Douglas, L. L. Laster, Ned A. Scardino, M. L. Rosenburg and Major J. C. Fleming. Officers of the club include: O. T. Hotchkiss, President; M. R. Kunitz, vice-pres- ident; N. A. Scardino, secretary- treasurer; J. C. Fleming, sergeant- at-arms; and Rayond L. Kerr, pub- licity director. A. S. C. E. DIRECTOR Edwin P. Arneson, ’10, W. P. A. administrator for District 10 of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio, also associated with the San Antonio Chamber of Commer- ce, has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers at that organization’s 23rd annual meeting held in New York City recently. One of the best known highway engineers in the Southwest, Arneson has been inti- mately connected with the high- way development of Texas for many years. Shortly after grad- uation, he became an engineer for the Medina Irrigation Company and from 1916 to 1930 was a mem- ber of the civil engineer firm of Walton and Arneson of San An- tonio. E. P. Arneson Jr., a son, is a sophomore in Civil Engineering at Texas A. & M. this year. George Wren, ’29, son of Mrs. F. L. Thomas of the campus, visit- ed his mother for the Christmas Holidays. He has returned to his home in Washington, D. C. Milton J. Block, ’32, is merchan- dise manager of the Wilkins Trunk Mfg. Co., at Dallas, and lives at 411 Argyle Apts., that city.