The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, August 01, 1936, Image 4

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    John R. Strange, ’22, recently
completed a two month’s visit to the
States, accompanied by Mrs.
Strange. He is superintendent for
the United Fruit Company at San-
ta Marta, Colombia, South Amer-
ica. He visited his home in Okla-
homa and also visited his brother,
W. T. “Tanlac” Strange in Big
Spring. Johnnie has been with the
United Fruit in South America for
a good many years.
F. N. Palmer, ’24, is with the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
and gets his mail at 7814 Spruce
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
R. H. “Bill” Rogers, ’26, is on
active duty as camp commander,
Company 1813 CCC, at Ardmore,
Oklahoma. He plans to return to
Del Rio when his tour of active
duty is up.
H. L. Williams, ’27, was recent-
ly named cotton control assistant
of Wichita Falls in the office of
County Agent G. D. Everett, ’15.
Among the new army officers
who have moved to the campus is
Major Ralph E. Hill, ’17, who was
formerly stationed at Fort Monroe,
Virginia. Mrs. Hill was formerly
Miss Majorie Bittle, of Bryan. Ma-
jor Hill is looking forward with
a great deal of pleasure to the op-
portunity of seeing many of his
old A. & M. friends when they
visit the campus during the next
few years.
R. M. Dixon, ’28, whose marriage
the AGGIE erroneously reported
some months back, writes that all
is forgiven and that as a matter
of fact, he appreciated the honor.
Dixon is sanitary engineer for the
Resettlement Administration,
whose headquarters are in Dallas,
but his work carries him all over
both Texas and Oklahoma.
E. O. Staffel, Jr., '82, is with
the Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany at Overton, Texas.
Alex Bateman, ’13, county agent
at Hereford, Texas writes that
Mike Balenti, ’10, lives at Lone
Wolf, Oklahoma, where he is an
accountant. He also works in a
large number of football games
each fall and is a very popular of-
ficial. Bateman also says that
James M. “Sig” Flinchum, ’10, is
Federal Land Bank Inspector for
the Federal Land Bank of Wichita,
Kansas and that his address is
515% N. W. 19th St., Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. All three of these
men played football together at A.
& M.
0. H. Eichblatt, 02, of Houston,
has attended many A. & M. meet-
ings and gatherings on the campus
but he probably got a greater
thrill out of his visit this past
year than ever before. The reason
was the graduation this past spring
of Owen Hugh Eichblatt.
Clyde C. Crane, "22, who lives at
9837 Damen Avenue, Chicago, is
with the Republic Steel Corpora-
tion as a metallurgist in the Wire
Division, Grand Crossing Works.
Landon V. Davis, ’10, of Sulphur
Springs, Texas, is a candidate for
the office of district clerk of Hop-
kins County. Since his return from
the World War, he has been in the
compress and warehouse business
at Sulphur Springs.
Dean E. J. Kyle, 99, is erecting
a brick building at the North Gate
of the campus and opposite the
Aggieland Pharmacy. The build-
ing will house a drug store, cafe,
and offices. It will be across the
street from the new federal post-
office building on which bids were
recently asked. This location just
north of the campus has become the
business center for the College Sta-
tion community.
C. E. Johnson, ’33, is with the
Gulf States Utilities and lives at
1539 Sullivan Street, Beaumont,
Texas.
Edward F. Kipling, ’30, is with
the U. S. D. A. Bureau of Ento-
mology, at Valdosta, Georgia. He
is assistant entomologist and at
present is working on a screw
worm research project. He reports
that Dr. L. O. Ellisor, ’32, is doing
the same type of work but is lo-
cated at Uvalde, Texas.
Dr. Daniel C. Peavy, 23, of
Cuero, was recently elected presi-
dent of the Guadalupe Valley Den-
tal Society.
ANODET0 AN A. & I. EX'ES WIFE
By Mrs. H. E. ‘Hubie” Braunig, '14
FR, W—
She may be a hustling young mother
Or maybe a blushing newly wed,
A matron whose hair is greying
With tendencies toward the middle age spread:
You can find them in various stages
These A. & M. Ex’es wives,
Who thrill at an Aggie uniform
And enter definitely into their lives.
She makes a date with the neighbor
An evening of cards they will try,
But Papa Ex comes marching home
With a twinkle in his eye,
She knows there is something brewing
She can tell by the way he explains
A pretty nice story he tells her—
Of the Directors’ meeting that was changed.
She cancels her bridge engagement,
She lays out the young man’s clothes
She silently wonder to herself—
Does the sap think I really don’t know?
“In case we get through early, honey,
and our business, we won’t prolong,
I wish you’d hunt my poker chips,
Charley asked me to bring
’em along.”
She just gets caught up from the Meeting
and hours of lost sleep,
When the phone rings on a busy morn
And Papa Ex’es voice she greets—
“Honey, would you mind baking a ham or two,
Ten pounds of salad and be sure of the brew,
The Engineers are coming to town,
And the old Exes, wanta show ’em around.
So poor little wifie calls the girls,
Cooks and stews and goes out and serves
They kid her along and say she’s swell
She grins and takes it, and feels like—
Oh well—
So on and on her life goes
With tales of barbecue and suds that flow
Mac and Homer are here on a trip,
Won’t be home, must give ’em a tip—
She wonders when her time will come
To celebrate with barbecue and buns
Some day the Aggies will be sure and extend
An invitation to wives, families and friends,
And then she’ll get at least a taste,
And nary a bite will she waste.
News goes out the time has come
When Aggie Ex’es want some fun.
The Mama Ex’es and the kids
Are asked to help kick off the lid.
No supper to cook, no dishes to wash—
That good old barbecue too, by gosh—
Then a card the postman brings
Ex’es secretary also rings
¥
She wonders if she’s in a daze,
Her eyesight bad, her ears too,
Did she understand, no barbecue—
Oh, she can read alright—at least
It’s going to be a watermelon feast.
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Isn’t it strange, but mighty true
What these old Ex’es can do to you
When the stork has passed
And left a boy—
And Papa Ex kneels by your bed,
Clasps your hand and strokes your head
You cuddle close this bunch of joy
And thank the Lord it was a boy
For won’t he be the bestest yet
On Aggie soil with pig skin wet—
The captain of the team he’ll be
A cadet-colonel too, we’ll see—
A mama Ex some day he’ll find
Then she realizes all this time
That her life will be a repetition
And this new Papa Ex will phone the
Same old petition
For barbecue and poker chips
And directors’ meeting with plenty of zip—
And won’t his Mama Ex be a smarty
If she rates more than a watermelon party.
(The above poem was written by Mrs. Braunig and de-
livered as a feature of the recent Ladies Night Watermelon
Feast of the Beaumont A.
& M. Club. The AGGIE is of the
opinion Mrs. Braunig’s Ode will be of interest to other “Aggie
Wives”, and reproduces it especially for the ladies).
E. 0. Oglesby, '19, is a member
of the firm of Hills and Oglesby
Company, 263 Summer Street,
Boston, Mass. The firm is engaged
in the wool business and is one of
the most extensive buyers in the
United States. Oglesby was reared
on a ranch at Murchison, Texas
and has been in the wool business
since 1920.
Texas representative for the
firm is Farris Baker, ’24, formerly
of Fort Stockton and formerly with
the National Wool Marketing Cor-
poration.
Walter S. Higgins, 07, was a
member of the committee at Vie-
toria which raised the necessary
funds to finance that city’s Texas
Centennial Celebration recently.
He is superintendent of the Viec-
toria division of the S. P. Lines
with headquarters at Victoria and
has been following his railroad
career since his graduation at Tex-
as A. & M.
Several A. & M. men are con-
nected with the Financial Depart-
ment of the Union Central Life
| Insurance Company in Texas. Roy
Brewer, ’19, who has been with
the Union Central for several years,
was recently transferred from Bel-
ton to Dallas, where he has been
named appraiser of new loans for
the state of Texas. His headquar-
ters are in the Republic Bank
Building. ;
B. F. “Reveille Brown, ’23, is
with the same company with head-
quarters at Waco and 5. F. Clark,
’15, occupies a similar position
with headquarters at Greenville.
W. E. Jones, 28, is also located at
the Dallas office with the com-
pany, which is in the Republic
Bank Building. These men are all
engaged in the handling and sale
of farm lands owned by the com-
pany and in making new loans on
Texas property for the Union Cen-
tral.
Eddie Dreiss, ’13, San Antonio
druggist and captain of A. & M.'s
first basketball team, will have a
son entering A. & M. in Septem-
ber. Young Dreiss is a very prom-
ising hurdler and basketball play-
er. He will be following in the foot-
steps of his father when he comes
to A. & M.
Edwin R. Caveness, '26, who is
an auditor with the Texas Com-
pany, sends in his dues from Syd-
ney, Australia. Caveness’ work in |
the past several years has taken
him to every continent in the world
and almost every country.
Lem Adams, 08, chief engineer
of the Oxweld Railroad Service
Company, Carbide and Carbon
Building, 230 North Michigan Ave-
nue, Chicago, was a visitor to Tex-
as during the spring but at the
last moment was unable to come
by the campus as he had planned.
He will be back sometime during
the year, however, and at that
time will stop for a visit.
W. J. Douglas, Jr., ’35, recently -
purchased the J. M..Ferguson In-
surance Agency in Bryan and is
operating that business.
E. K. “Lefty” Martin, ’30, who is
teaching in the public schools at
Palestine, Texas will play baseball
in the East Texas League after
June 1. He has been one of that
league’s leading first basemen for
the past several years.
At a recent conference of soil
experts from Soil Conservation
Service Projects held in Fort
Worth, several A. & M. men were
present. Among them were: Har-
vey Oakes, ’32, Temple; W. T.
Moon, ’35, Garland; C. A. Rechen-
thin, ’35, San Angelo; and T. C.
Reiteh, ’35, Dublin.
Ralph Dodson, ’35, has moved
around almost every month re-
cently but advises that he has set-
tled down again in Schenectady
where he is living at 2154 Fair-
view Avenue. He is with the GE,
of course, and is the son of C. P.
Dodson, ’11, district manager of
the Texas Power and Light Com-
pany, Decatur, Texas.
Louis H. “Preacher” Durst, ’28,
is with the Brown & Root, Inc.
Contractors, and is living in
Shreveport, Louisiana at the last
report. His work keeps him on the
move quite often as his company
has many big highway paving jobs
in the Southwest.
James E. Booth, ’28, designed
and is supervising the installation
of a lighting system for the Great
Longhorn Cavern located near Bur-
net, Texas. He is with the U. S.
Department of Interior, National
Park Service.
Major T. R. Shearer, ’12, recent-
ly visited the campus. He is trans-
ferring from Quantico, Virginia to
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mit Dansby, ’24, was recently
made a director in the First State
Bank of Bryan. Together with
his brother, Norman Dansby, ’26,
he is a member of the firm of Mec-
Culloch-Dansby Furniture Com-
pany, Bryan, Texas.
Wilmer R. McCullough, ’25, is
a party of the firm of Sanders-
McCullough Mortuary, Bryan, Tex-
as.
A new member of the Associa-
tion is W. C. Connor, ’88, Pacific
Coast Agent for the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railway Company,
whose office is at 481 Monadnock
Building, San Francisco, Califor-
nia.
Dr. E. W. Ramsey, 35%, is as-|
sistant state veterinarian at Brady,
Texas.
Joe B. Gershovitz, ’35, is with
the Parade Gasoline Company at
Henderson.
D. B. “Dusty” Schultz, ’27, is
with the Burroughs Adding Ma-
chine Company and working a ter-
ritory from Corpus Christi to Mon-
terrey, Mexico. His headquarters
are in Laredo, 1819 Piedro China
Street and when in Monterrey he
stays at the Hotel Monterrey. He
delights in showing his friends the
sights down there if he runs
across them. Schultz made a great
record in 1935 with his company,
being the 18th highest producer in
the Service Department over some
1,250 men.
I. M. Bethel, ’25, is an officer in
the U. S. Marine Corps and is now
on duty in China. He was a mem-
ber of the U. S. Marine Corps’
Rifle Team that fired at the na-
tional matches at Camp Perry,
Oklahoma, last year.
E. A. McClendon, ’35, is with
Phillips Petroleum Company at
Kaw, Oklahoma.
George Schear, ’32, is research
engineer for Phillips Petroleum
Company at Shideler, Oklahoma.
C. C. Young, ’85, is practicing
veterinary medicine at Nacogdoch-
es.
James S. Copeland, 16, who is
president and owner of the J. S.
Copeland Electric Company of
Houston, was recently low bidder
on a contract for replacing the
power line at the naval radio sta-
tion at Galveston.
Jack Finks, '25, believe it or not,
has caught the Texas Aggie in a
mistake. He reports that he is only
Vice President and Cashier of the
Citizens Industrial Bank at Beau-
mont and that Wade F. Guion, ’25,
of Port Arthur, is the bank’s Pres-
ident. Since Finks and Guion were
roommates at A. & M., they should
get along nicely in their new bus-
liness venture. Guion is still with
the Texas Company at Port Arth-
ur—Finks being in active charge
of the bank.
The many friends of Horace E.
Wilson, ’25, will be glad to know
that he is improving nicely follow-
ing a long illness. He is at the pres-
ent time located at 229 West Ave-
nue C, San Antonio, Texas.
C. W. Boren. 19, is manager of
Winston and Clements, Snyder,
Texas.
Marshall F. Stiles, Jr. 386, is
in the Production Department of
the Shell Petroleum Corporation,
Hobbs, New Mexico.
H. A. Fitzhugh, ’33, has been
named county agent at Menard,
succeeding Frank Newsom, 27,
who was transferred to Mason
where he succeeded R. B. Tate,
27, who was transferred to Sweet-
water as county agent. Fitzhugh
has been teaching vocational agri-
culture at Bronte.
Lieutenant Cris O. Steinman, 29,
is president of the Dallas Chapter
Reserve Officers Association.
John T. Massingale, ’32, is an
engineer on the Red River Dam
Survey at Denison, Texas. Prior
to that connection, Massingale
completed a nine month’s active
army duty with the CCC in East
Texas. He was married June 15,
1935 to Miss Hazel Welch, of Sher-
man.
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