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ag LIBRARY CAMPUS BAL & M 0 & MEOHANTOa + LILEn 2, Or IEY AQ T+ “XAS T17R py If this paper is not RETURN called for return : POSTAGE postage is guaranteed GUARANTEED by publisher. ; i WCPORRLI ; 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, OCTOBER 1, 1936 NUMBER 62 4075 ENROLLMENT SETS RECORD Better Team-Work Needed To Aid Stars If Championship Drive Is To Be Successtul In spite of the sensational work of several individuals that brought “All-American” recognition in the A. & M. Ex-Student Association’s Championship Drive, Head Coach Ass'n. President C. A. Thanheiser was far from pleased with the team-work of the rank and file of his big squad, composed of every member of the organization. “The fine work of the members who have earned ‘All-American’, ‘All- Conference’ and ‘Regular’ has car- ried us so far,” declared Mr. Than- heiser,” But if we are really going to make our Association the Cham- pion of its kind in the Southwest we must have the cooperation and team-play of EVERY member of our squad”. - “We are delighted to have ‘All- Conference’ and ‘All-Americans’ on our squad”, continued President Thanheiser,” BUT WE SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THOU- SAND ‘REGULARS’— There are |. easily that many present Associa- tion members who, without any great difficulty, could enlist the membership of at least one A. & M. man who at present is not an active association member. It. will take team-work of that kind before we can lay claim to being a better Ex-Student organization than that of the University, Rice, S.M.U, T.C.U. or Baylor”. All Association members are on the A. & M. Exes SQUAD. One new member makes the squad- man a “Regular”, two new mem- bers makes him “All-Conference”, and four new members bring “All- American’ recognition. The aim of the “Championship Drive” is to make the A. & M. Ex-Students As- sociation the largest and best or- ganization of its kind in the South- west. CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVE STARTS “All-American” Dr. J. Allen Kyle, ’90, Houston F. K. Buckner, ’23, Dallas Jas. R. Atkins, ’34, Mt. Pleasant Col. 0. A. Seward, ’07, Groesbeck E. C. McFadden, 24, Dallas J. B. “Fox” Crockett, 09, Dallas C. L. Babcock, 18, Beaumont P. L. Downs, Jr., 06, Temple “All-Conference” V. G. Forrester, 25, Greenville W. E. “Bill Langlotz, ’27, Dallas Johnie Crump, ’27, Houston J. D. Seymour, 13, Columbus “Regulars” D. A. Adams, ’26, Graham L. E. Bailey, ’25, Ft. Stockton Luke L. Ballard, ’05, Breckenridge A. F. Buchanan, 14, Dryden W. J. Hancock, 24, Beaumont M. L. Malone, ’22, Marlin Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16, San An- gelo T. P. Metcalfe, 11, Franklin. Clyde L. Murph, ’18, Wichita Falls W. S. Nicholson, ’24, San Angelo T. B. Powers, '28, Corpus Christi Joe C. Strieber, ’25, Bryan Grady W. Turner, *20, Sherman T. B. Warden, ’03, Austin J. Lloyd Wright, ’25, Little Rock, Ark. A. K. Hawes, ’31, has changed his address to 6724 Maple Avenue Road, Dallas. “Ab” is married and has a six month’s old son and is connected with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, where a gang of old Aggies work. McSwain Advanced To Superintendent G. C. McSwain, ’20, has been pro- moted from assistant superinten- dent to superintendent of the Tex- as Company Refinery at Amarillo. He is a member of the Amarillo- Panhandle Club and last Septem- ber was host at a huge meeting of the club held on the beautiful lawn of the refinery. He has been with the Texas Company for a number of years and for several years has been assistant superin- tendent of the Amarillo Refinery. FRIENDS HONOR FRED HALE FOR RESEARCH WORK 22, Chief of the Husbandry, Fred Hale, Division of Swine Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, recently presented with the Bryan Lion’s Club award for the most outstanding public service during 1936. The award was made at a dinner in his honor held at the Bryan County Club and sponsored by the Bryan Lion’s Club and the Men’s Bible Class of the First Baptist Church of Bryan. Mr. Hale is a member of both organizations. The was attended by over 200 friends and co-workers. Hale’s research in demonstrating the importance of vitamin A in parental feeding, has been given world wide recognition. These ex- periments, carried out with swine, point strongly to a deficiency of Vitamin A in the ration of the mother animal, previous to and during the early stages of gesta- tion, as a certain cause of blind- ness or defective eyes in the pro- geny. The possible relations of these experiments to cause of weak or undeveloped eyes in human children has aroused wide interest among medical men and research workers of the United States. Hale has been a member of the A. & M. Experiment Station for several years and has contributed splendid research in addition to this most recent and sensational de- velopment. wag dinner A. A. Kuehn, ’29, is a new mem- ber of the Association and gets his mail at P. O. Box 654, Taylor, Texas. John M. Wilson, ’35, is with the Texas Company and is stationed at Conroe at the present time. Gordon Langston, ’35, is secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce at Conroe, Texas. Joe E. Evans, 35, is assistant county agricultural agent for Mont- gomery County with headquarters at Conroe, Texas. C. C. Cox, ’17, gets his mail at 619 Oliver Eakle Building, Ama- rillo, Texas. Wm. T. Coleman, Jr., '29, has moved from Galveston to 701 N. 12th St., Waco, Texas. Louis H. “Preacher” Durst, 27, has moved to Houston and gets his mail at P. O. Box 3. LANCASTER WINS CHICAGO CLUB'S GOLF MEETING The Chicago A. & M. Club held its annual fall golf tournament | on Sunday, September 20, with an even dozen members and guests present. A. Pope Lancaster, ’22, took low scoring honors. The next meeting of the Chicago Club will be held on the evening of October 3 at which time new of- ficers for the coming year will be elected. Present officers of the club include: D. P. Tunstall, ’30, president; vice president for Illi- nois, C. C. Neighbors, ’29; Michi- gan, W. P. McOsker, 19; Indiana, L. E. Taylor, ’27; Wisconsin, G. A. Forsythe, ’17; and secretary, Gordon R. Thomason, ’25. Those present at the golf tour- nament were: A. Y. Gunter, ’27; S. R. McMurray, '26; L. E. Taylor, 27: R. BE. Bauer, 29; C. C. Neigh- bors, ’29; D. P. Tunstall, ’30; R. L. Garrett, 24; O. A. Brauer, 25; A. P. Lancaster, ’22; G. R. Thoma- son, ’25; Joe Baum, and H. C. Barrick, guests. Any A. & M. men moving to Chicago, or its vicinity, are in- vited to get in touch with members of the club and to become affiliated with the activities of the Chicago | A. & M. group. : . Forrest Park To Aid Canal Ass'n. Forrest L. Park, ’21, Fort Worth Engineer, has been employed by the Trinity River Canal Associa- tion to assist County Commis- sioners’ Courts in the Trinity Val- ley, in preparing flood damage and control data. A civil engineer grad- nate, Park was formerly City Plan- ning Engineer for Dallas; served Dallas County in its highway loca- tion work; was with the Federal District Engineer at Galveston for two years; and the last year has worked for the Texas Highway De- sartment. At the present time he is on a leave of absence from the Jighway Dept. - Pl ~ a James Cravens, ’82 The recent death in San Fran- cisco of James “Jim” Cravens, "82, removed from the ranks of A. & M. men one of the veterans who played so large a part in the build- ing and the development of the in- stitution in its earlier and difficult days. Mr. Cravens once served as a member of the Board of Direc- tors of the College. During the days of student strikes at A. & M., with the very existence of the institu- tion threatened, he was among the leaders in Ex-Student ranks who played so large a part in helping the College thru those troublesome and dangerous days. Mr. Cravens was one of the in- surance leaders of the country, and one of Texas’ leading business and | civic leaders. Directors Move Stangel Prefers Tech To Russia W. L. “Runt” Stangel, '15, who has served during the past year as Director of the Livestock Ex- hibit at the Texas Centennial Ex- position at Dallas, recently declin- ed an offer to aid in the Russian livestock replenishment program. He will return to Texas Tech at the close of the Centennial in Dal- las. He is Head of the Animal Hus- bandry Department at Tech. The offer from the Russian Govern- ment is a very complimentary one but Mr. Stangel felt that he should continue his work in Texas rather than accept. AL SAENGER, '32, NEW PRESIDENT BEAUMONT GLUB At a meeting held in the Fehr Baking Company and attended by some 200 men, the Beaumont A. & M. Club named Alfred Saenger, '32, prusidend, Hugh A. Glezen, ’20. President Saenger is with the Humble Oil and Refining Company of Beaumont and has been an active member of the Beau- mont Club for some time. Other officers elected include: J. Kirby Jones, ’33, vice president; L. R. Pietzsch, ’34, second vice president; Jake D. Langford, Jr. 27, secretary; H. W. Hillis, ’30, treasurer; and T. L. Parish, 23, sergeant-at-arms. Directors elect- ed were: H. N. Glezen, '20, as re- tiring president; C. L. Babcock, ’18; C. R. “Chick” Dollinger, ’26; W. H. Caswell, ’26; and W. J. Han- cock, ’24. Other retiring officers, in addi- tion to President Glezen, include: C. L. Bradley, 21, vice president; J. Kirby Jones, ’34, secretary; L. R. Pietzsch, ’34, treasurer; Ben Irby, ’17, sergeant-at-arms. A re- cent meeting of the new officers Sv rai tar beg Succeeding Tand directors outline plans for the coming year. The election meeting was at- tended by A. & M. men of all ages, from students of the present day to L. J. Kopke, 80, one of the earl- jest graduates of the institution. The election meeting was a wise- cracking, jovial affair. The club members were guests of the Fehr Baking Company for a chicken bar- becue - and various reports were made by club officers. C. A. Francis, ’35, is recuperat- ing from a very serious operation. Charles is living at 817 Holman Street, Houston, and his many friends will be glad to know that he will soon be back on the job. S. F. Clark, ’15, is land apprais- er for the Union Central Life In- surance Company and offices at 201 Greenville National Bank Building, Greenville, Texas. Wayne M. Harris, ’35, is with the Magnolia Pipe Line Company and gets his mail in care of General Delivery, Kilgore, Texas. George P. Bennett, ’33, is work- ing for the Tennessee Valley Au- thority in the Coast Engineering Department and resides at 419 N. Walnut, Florence, Alabama. Roy Driver, ’30, is with the Standard Paving Company and is getting his mail in P. O. Box 806, Seymour, Texas. To Commencement - Name Field Secretary At Called Session Reunion Date Changing the annual reunion date of the Association of Former Students to commencement and the employment of a field secretary for the Association, were import- ant decisions made by the board of directors of the organization at a called meeting held on the cam- pus on September 26. Fourteen directors were present when the meeting was called by President C. A. Thanheiser. This was consid- ered an excellent attendance in view of the inclement weather existing on this day all over Tex- as. A decision to hold the annual reunion at commencement was made after considerable discussion among the directors and the change will be in the nature of an experi- ment. Until some half-dozen years ago, the annual ex-students’ meet- ings were always held at com- mencement. Due to crowded condi- tions, however, the past half-dozen years this annual meeting has been held earlier in the spring. Further details of the meeting to be held next commencement will be work- ed out by the officers of the or- J ganization and announced later. The directors adopted the com- mittee report as presented by Chairman T. B. Warden recom- mending that Mr. Chester A. Big- gers, '14, be employed by the As- sociation as a field representative. This committee, as directed by a previous meeting of the board, had been studying the matter for sev- eral months. In addition to Chair- man Warden, the committee was composed of Messrs. T. W. Mohle, Houston; C. L. Babcock, Beaumont; President C. A. Thanheiser, Hous- ton; and Secretary E. E. McQuil- len. Mr. Biggers, as field represent- ative of the Association, will work under the direction of the officers of the Association and Executive Secretary E. E. McQuillen. He will be on the road almost entirely and will endeavor to contact as many A. & M. men as possible. One of his primary objects will be an increase in the active members of the Association. In addition to these two unusual items of business, the directors heard a general report on the ac- tivities of the Association from President Thanheiser. A consider- able discussion regarding legisla- tive problems of the institution was led by Director Penrose B. Metcalfe, of San Angelo, and WwW. T. McDonald, ’33, of Bryan, both members of the House of Repre- sentatives, and President T. 0. Walton. Joining the directors at lunch, in addition to President Wal- ton and Mr. McDonald, were past president, General W. W. Sterling, ’07, and Julius C. Harrison, ’14, Bryan. A resolution was passed by the board urging the approval by P. W. A. authorities of the A. & M. College request for dormitory building funds. Another resolution sought the aid of the Texas dele- gation in the United States Con- gress in removing the discrimina- tion against United States Army Officers who were graduates of A. & M. These officers include: Myron J. Conway, Frank W. Hal- sey, John A. Otto, Leon A. Kotze- bue, Samuel L. Metcalfe, and George A. Woody, all of the 1917 class. A third resolution sought also the aid of the Texas delega- tion of the United States Congress in securing sufficient advanced R. O. T. C. contracts to fill the (Continued on page 4) Enrollment in the A. & M. Col- lege of Texas has reached a new record for the of the school, according to figures is- sued by E. J. Howell, registrar. The enrollment of regular students history reveals that an increase of twenty per-cent over that of last year has been reached. At the time of this publication the number of students totals 4075. This number will probably increase about 100 by October 2, at which time registrations will be officially closed. Mr. Howell stated that, with the February addition, the total matriculation will be in the neigh- borhood of 4400. Seventeen hundred first year stu- dents, which is an increase of three hundred over last year, are now attending classes and make this the largest freshman class ever to en- roll here. The increase this year is credit- ed to the returning of students who have one or more years behind them and the fact that junior col- lege transfers are not regarded as freshmen. This is true for the present year, although the greatest number of freshmen have enrolled, it is only a two per-cent increase over the freshmen class of the 1935-36 session. Regarding the regular student body, it is necessary to refer to last years enrollment of 3400. The registration, handled gen- erally with ease and system was not without usual instances of panic and confusion. Although 1700 freshmen registered, over 2500 en- trance cards were distributed to first year students. Evidently a. great number were either disap- pointed in not being able to enter the dormitories or forgot their cards in the clamor. SAN TONE CLUB 10 HEAR GANE AT BIG SHOKER The San Antonio A. & M. Club will hold a big smoker on the af- ternoon of October 17th., with ar- rangements made for receiving the play-by-play broadcast of the Tex- as Aggie- T. C. U. football game which will be played that after- noon on Kyle Field. The party will be held at the plant of the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio and is expected to draw one of the larg- .| est turn-outs of the year for the San Antonio Club. The San Antonio Club is meet- ing each Thursday noon at the Y. M. C. A. and is planning an in- teresting series of programs for the fall season. At a recent regu- lar luncheon the club enjoyed a football talk from Mr. Harold Win- ters, well known grid official of the Southwestern Conference. George “Dody” Smith, ’30, is pres- ident of the Club. J. U. “Two Gun” Parker, ’32, has moved from Wichita Falls to Tyler, Texas and his address is Box 2025. While a cadet at A. & M. “Two Gun” was chief yell leader for the years 1931 and 1932. Elmore R. “Tony” Torn, ’28, has recently moved from Taylor to Austin where he is still with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Cotton Marketing Division. He and his family are living at 2409 Sabine St. A. V. Pearson, ’31, is a sales- man with the Morgan Brothers, Inc, and lives at 98 Michigan Avenue, West Ashville, North Carolina. Pearson is married and has one little daughter. William Page, ’28, is a Junior Agricultural Economist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and lives at 632 Peeples St, | Atlanta, Georgia.
