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THE TEXAS AGGIE
E. E. McQuillen................ Publishe!
Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M.
Press, College Station, Texas, except dur-
ing the summer months, when issued
monthly by the Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College of Texas, College Station,
Texas.
C. A: "Thanheiser, %0l...........h.. cuts Houston
iC. I. Babcock, 18... Vice President
E. E. McQuillen, ’20... Executive Secretary
YL. B.’Locke, *18......... Assistant Secretary
Subscription Price $5.00
College Station, Texas
Entered as Second Class Matter at
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Directors
H. RK:¢Deason, 10.3.0. ii Port Arthur
C. L. Babcock. ....Beaumont
A." G. ‘Pfaff, ’ Tyler
FE. DB. Perkins, 300... 1. ..cccsccitinissh McKinney
W. ‘Bebb. Francis,  715.......... 00 ips. Dallas
J: "BA Crockeatt, "09... .~..cciiili visi Dallas«
Oscar A. Seward, Jr., "07... Groesbeck
H. S. Davenport, ’
T. W. Mohle,
C. A. Thanheiser, ’
John G. Turney, ’
T. B. Warden,
E.R. Porn,
A. A. Wright, ’
C. P. Dodson,
Marvin N. Butler,
Decatur
NA Xm Karnes City
Frank: E. Bortle, ’32................ Brownsville
W. Byron Johnson, ’11 Laredo
Verne’ A. Scott; ’14.................... Stephenville
C. M. Henderson, Amarillo
Louis A. Hartung, ’2¢ S
Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16........... San Angelo
Herman H. Uechert
Herman H. Uechert, 97, super-
visor of structures for the South-
ern Pacific Lines in Houston, who
died on September 29. A member
of the first football team at A. &
M., Mr. Nechert spent practicall his
entire professional career with the
Southern Pacific Lines. He was an
active member of the Houston
A. & M. Club and of the Associa-
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
C. A. Thanheiser, ‘01
C.. 'L.."Babeoek,” 218 i...
F. D. Perkins, ’97 ..
G. P.-Dodson, 11. ...
Louis A. Hartung, 2
STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES
C. A. Thanheiser, ’01 Houston
A. F. Mitchell, ’09
E. E. McQuillen, ’20
REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC
COUNCIL
Dallas
Tyree L. Bell, ’15
Ife Tyler
Albert G. Pfaf, ’27
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
The offering of work at Texas
A. & M. leading to the Ph.D. De-
gree is one of the most far-reach-
ing steps taken by the institution
in its long life-time. There is a
definite need in Texas for a great
graduate school in the fields of
Agriculture, Engineering and their
kindred sciences. That graduate
work should be done at Texas A.
& M., where for so many years
the undergraduate work in these
fields has been so widely recog-
nized and approved.
Work leading to the Doctorate
means more than simply granting
degrees to those who have met
these strict requirements. It means
the presence upon our campus of
a body of scholars who have been
picked as leaders thru the process
of elimination in the undergraduate
and the Master’s work. It means a
group of first-rate scholars are do-
ing wide-spread work in research
along many lines, with results that
may be felt long after the com-
pletion of any one man’s doctorate
requirements.
Not the least important angle to
the establishment of a real grad-
duate school is the fact that its
presence will tend to improve the
scholarly attainments of the Fac-
ulty at large. A first-class Grad-
uate School is needed to place
Texas A. & M. on an even plane
with other leading institutions of
the country specializing in simi-
lar fields.
Before the small beginnings
along this line that have been made
at A. & M. can reach their desired
growth, additional financial sup-
port must be forthcoming from
legislative appropriations. A lump
sum should be set aside for the
A. & M. Graduate School, enabling
that school to be properly nourish-
ed and provided with the character
of teachers required for the high-
est type of graduate work. When
that is done, the Nation’s greatest
agricultural state and the Nation’s
most fertile ground for engineer-
ing development, can be given at
Texas A. & M. a graduate school
of quality and importance commen-
surate with Texas’ greatness.
Tom I. Jones, ’28, gets his mail
at Box 1389, Longview, Texas.
Jones writes that he lost his A. &
M. ring this summer and is anxious
to obtain another one.
Jd. G. Glenny, ’'35, ‘is living at
at Maud, Oklahoma.
A. A. Neuner, ’36 is working
for the City of El Paso as an
assistant building inspector and
gets his mail at 2401 Gold Street,
El Paso, Texas.
Rupert W. Green, ’33, is another
man trying his ability as a side
line coach. Mr. and Mrs. Green
reside at 126 Pineview Drive, A-
| Episcopal Church at Houston. Bur-
Houston
partment 6, Houston, Texas.
tion of Former Students, various
masonic bodies, and the Christ
ial was in San Antonio. The South-
ern Pacific Bulletin, published by
the Southern Pacific Lines, recent-
ly eulogized Mr. Uechert in a
story using the above photograph.
He was one of the best loved men
connected with the big Southern
Pacific organization.
CikB: i ‘Doggie’ Ward, 211, “is
president of the Texas Ice Com-
pany of Beaumont and gets his
mail at Box 1552, of that city.
“Doggie” was one of the greatest
ends ever to play on an A. & M.
football team. Charlie Moran was
coaching at A. & M. at that time
Homer E. Womack, 24, sends
his side line coaches entry with
high hopes of taking the prize a-
gain. Womack expects to see A.
& M:. play T.: C. UU: this" year,
which will be the first time he
has seen a game at A. &. M. in
several years. He gets his mail at
Box 584, Sinton, Texas.
Mr. George K. McLendon, ’83,
sends in his dues. Mr. McLendon
is president of the McLendon
Hardware Company of Waco, lo-
cated at Third and Mary Streets.
+ W. LL. Barrett, Jr., 235, gets his
mail at P. O. Box 509, Uvalde,
Texas.
Walter H. “Butch” Moore, ’36,
writes that all the Aggies in Illin-
ois are really pulling for the old
Aggie ball club this year and ex-
pecting great things. He is living
at 425 S. Tth Street, Springfield,
Illinois.
C. S. Carleton, Jr., ’35, is. with |:
the T. L. James & Company,
Ruston, Louisiana, and likes his
work fine. He gets his mail at
Box- 531, Ruston, Louisiana.
J. Kenneth Williams, ’30, is
on a leave of absence from the
University of Idaho this year do-
ing some graduate work at Iowa
State College with the Poultry
Department at Ames, Iowa.
Ralph Howe, ’30, is county a-
gent at Crosbyton, Texas. W. R.
“Bill” Kimbrough, ’35, is assis-
tant county agent at Crosbyton,
and Ralph reports that they both
are enjoying their work very much.
J. J.. Durham, 27, has left vo-
cational agricultural work in Texas
to accept a position with the Chi-
locco Agricultural College of
Oklahoma. Durham’s new address
will be Route 2, Arkansas City,
Kansas.
Among the A. & M. men con-
nected with the soil conservation
service at Mount Pleasant, Texas
are: Tom P..Porter, ’31,; A.”B.
Kyle, ’34; W. G. Ralph, 27; Oscar
Billimek, ’34; and Carlton Crown-
over, ’25.
J. Woodrow Wilson, ’35, has
recently changed his address from
Irving, Texas to P. O. Box 367,
San Antonio, Texas.
Looe Miller, ’22, is an assistant
in agricultural conservation in
Briscoe County with headquarters
at Silverton, Texas.
Lewis Ashford, ’24, is living at
1302 Gustav Street, Houston,
Texas. Ashford is with the Temple
Lumber Company of that city.
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| WEDDINGS
Sudheimer — Utecht
Miss Pauline Utecht, of Austin,
became the bride of Dr. R. L. Sud-
heimer, ’36, on October 25. Dr. and
Mrs. Sudheimer will make their
home in Fort Worth for the pres-
ent, where Sudheimer is with the
Livestock Sanitary Commission of
Fort Worth.
Stewart — Pennington
Announcement has been made of
the engagement and approaching
marriage of Miss Mary Kent Pen-
nington, of Houston, to Mr. Mor-
timer H. Stewart, ’31. The wedding
will be solemnized on the evening
of November 17 at the Palmer
Memorial Chapel of Houston. Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart will make their
home in Houston.
Wurzbach — Rihn
Miss Bernice Rihn and Mr. E.
O. Wurzbach, ’33, of Shreveport,
Louisiana, were married on October
20, according to] news received
from Wurzbach’s brother. The
young couple will make their home
in Shreveport.
Crozier — Jones
Miss Virginia Lee Jones, of Fort
Worth, and J. B. Crozier, '26, were
married on October 4 at Kingston,
New Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Crozier
will make their home at Socorro,
New Mexico, where Crozier is with
the U. S. Bureau of Public Health.
Womble — Toler
Announcement has been made of
the engagement and approaching |
marriage of John Frank Womble,
x’32, formerly of Bryan, to Miss
Mary Louise Toler, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Toler of Long-
view. The marriage will take place
on November 8 at the First Chris-
tian Church of Longview. Mr. and
Mrs. Womble, elect, will make their
home in Tyler, Texas, where John
Frank is with the Tyler Chamber
of Commerce and Secretary of the
Tyler Rose Festival.
Boots — Dannelly
Announcement has been made of
the approaching marriage of Miss
Geraldine ~Dannelly; of Dallas, to
James Earl Boots, Jr., ’36, cf
Bloomfield, N. J., son of Mrs. J.
M. Mizzell, of Dallas. The wedding
date has been set for November
7 and the ceremony will take plac.
at the Little Church Around the
Corner in New York City. .
Coltrin — McGrath
News comes to us of the ap
proaching marriage of Miss Mary
Lucy McGrath to Mr. Robert B
Coltrin, ’33, of Galveston. The date
of the wedding has been set for
November 7.
Ford - Smith
Announcement has been made
of the coming marriage of Miss
Alice Smith, of Crockett, to Lieu-
tenant O. Edwin Ford, ’33,, also
of Crockett. The wedding will take
place at the home of the bride's
parents on November 14. Ford, up
to the present time, has been sta-
{ioned at Barksdale Field, Shre-
veport, Louisiana, but he now has
orders to report for duty at Ran-
dolph Field, San Antonio, where
he will be an instructor. For this
position Ford stood an examina-
tion with 600 other flyers from
all over the United States, and he
was one of ‘the three from Barks-
dale Field who passed the exami-
nation.
Rogers — Winn
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Winn an-
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Philetus, to Dr. Warren
B. Rogers, 34, on October 28, at
Dallas, Texas. Dr. and Mrs. Rog-
ers will make their home in Dal-
las, where Rogers is a veterinarian
with the Department of Health
of Dallas.
McElroy - Russell
Mrs. A. S. Russell announces the
marriage of her daughter, Opal
Ann, to Mr. Walter D. McElroy,
27, at the Exposition Park Pres-
byterian Church of Dallas on Sep-
tember 13. Mr. and Mrs. McElroy
will make their home in Weather-
ford, Texas, where McElroy is
teaching vocational agriculture.
Travis — McAlpine
Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Sayers,
’13, announce the engagement and
approaching marriage of their
niece, Miss Elaine Harris Mec-
Alpine, to Robert O. Travis, 32.
The wedding will be solemnized at
the First Presbyterian Church in
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| BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac C. Corns, ’32,
are receiving congratulations from
their many friends over the ar-
rival of a son, Robert Isaac, born
October 10. Mr. and Mrs. Corns
reside at 412 West Polk Street,
Houston, Texas.
While on the campus for the T.
C. U. game recently, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene C. Buie, ’33, visited the
Association with their fine young
son, Eugene C. Buie, Jr., who was
born on March 15, 1936. Buie is
with the Soil Conservation Service
in the Regional Office at Amarillo.
He and Mrs. Buie make their home
at 1020 W. 11th St., Amarillo,
Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. “Bill” Mil-
ler, ’36, are delighted over the
arrival of a little son, Claude Ab-
ner Searcy, on October 25. At the
present time Mrs. Miller and son
are in Bryan visiting her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Moser,
32, are the proud parents of a
little daughter, Janet Catherine,
born - September 2. Mr. and Mrs.
Moser make their home at 613
North Cleveland Street, Sherman,
Texas, where Moser is with the
Chicago Stores, a dry goods com-
pany.
Andy Brings In
Shooting Proof
Walter E. Anderson, 27, shown
above with a nice bag of doves, is
in the insurance business with of-
fices at 714 Medical-Dental Build-
ing, Dallas. He lives at 913 South
Brighton, Dallas. Accompanied by
3» RA Self, ’27, Anderson and
his party got their limit of doves
on the opening day of the season.
Anderson has been in the insur-
ance business in Dallas for the
past four years and is doing nicely.
He extends a warm invitation for
all his old friends to drop by and
see him or drop him a line.
J. D. Williams, ’35, is practic-
‘no veterinary medicine at Colo-
rado, Texas and gets his mail at
Box 339 of that city. In addition
to doing private practice, Williams
is city veterinarian.
P. T. Riherd, ’36, is living at
335 Smith Street, Gainesville,
Florida, where he is attending the
University of Florida at Gaines-
ville, where he has a scholarship.
Frank J. Konecny, ’27, has re-
cently moved from Austin, Texas,
to 2400 Logan street, Bryan, Texas.
Theodore T. Carte, ’33, with J. B.
Blevins, ’36, and Alvin Morgan,
'38, are operating a State High-
way Information Office at Mar-
shall. Carter invites any Aggies
passing this way to drop in and
see them. They get their mail at
Box 482, Marshall, Texas.
L. S. Pawkett, 34 makes his
home at 131 North Drive, San
Antonio, Texas. Pawkett sells
power transmission equipment and
engineering and complete lines of
hoses. He say that San Antonio
Aggies are ‘behind A. & M. 100
per cent.
Curtis L. Arthur, ’30, has moved
from 1786 Cartwright, Beaumont,
Texas to Lake Charles, Louisiana,
where he is connected with The
Fair Store.
Arthur J. Irwin, 24, sends his
dues in for another year from
Box 548, El Paso, Texas.
Navasota, Texas on the evening of
November 14. Mr. and Mrs. Travis,
elect, will make their home in
Houston, where Bob is with the
Shell Petroleum Company.
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suggestions of A. and M. men.
serv earing house for the opinions, the ideas and the
yy An sanmenications mnst be signed and the address of
the writer given. Thev must be free from libel, personal abuse or critical personalities,
“Reveille” Brown
“Editor of the Aggie,
“College Station, Texas.
“Dear Sir: —
“Here is something more about
‘Reveille’ Brown, All that has been
told before is true but they have
failed to do justice to such a col-
lege character as ‘Reveille’.
“He graduated in my class, 01,
in the Civil Engineering Depart-
ment. He was a cog in Hal Mose-
ley’s and Boettcher’s famous foot-
ball team (Boettcher played cen-
ter on the team for five years)
and I think ‘Reveille’ played right
end. The most famous run that
was ever made by a cadet was
made by ‘Reveille’, and it wasn’t
made on the football field. ‘Rev-
eille’ had one night gone to Bryan
without leave to fill a social date.
The grapevine line from the Com-
mandant’s Office was working good
that night, and ‘Reveille’s’ room-
mate was told that the Comman-
dant proposed to make a midnight
inspection of the barracks. ‘Rev-
eille’ was told over the phone what
was goin to happen. In those days,
there was just a dirt road to Bry-
an, no automobiles or taxis. ‘Rev-
eille’ had to use the good old foot
express for fast transportation,
and he really made the run in fast
time. He was our best track runner
and high jumper in field athletics.
“He made one of what I claim
was the best answers ever given in
a quiz on sewers and drainage un-
der J. C. (Jimmie) Nagle. It was
in October when this occurred and
‘Reveille’s’ mind at that time was
on some skull practice problem of
Murray’s, the coach. The follow-
ing conversation occurred: '
“Nagle, ‘Mr. Brown, (Brown
hopped up looking very alert men-
tally he hoped). Mr. Brown, if you
were given a commission to lay
out a sanitary sewer system for
the City of Waco, what would you
do?’
“ ‘Reveille’ scratched his head
and said, ‘Professor, I would re-
sign the commission’, and then
sat down.
“Nagle: ‘Mr. Brown, the cities
of this country would be a whole
lot better off from a health stand-
point, as well as financially, if
more engineers would resign their
commissions.” ‘Reveille’ got a goose
egg for his grade and Thanheiser
or Tom Fountain got a 10 if they
got a whack at the question.
“‘Reveille’s’ father was opposed
to ‘Reveille’ playing football in his
Senior year, and told him if he
played he would stop his allowance
for tuition, and so forth. His Dad
lived in Austin, and ‘Reveille’
played on the team under another
name. I always heard that when
the team went to Austin in ’01 to
play, his Dad met the train look-
ing for ‘Reveille’ but he couldn’t
locate him as he acted as flunky
to the team and he made a pretty
good negro with the use of burnt
cork. -
“In March of the year after we
graduated, I found him one day
on the back of my plantation work-
ing for the Texas and Pacific Rail-
road on a new line they were
building in the Red River Bottom
to Shreveport, Louisiana. He had
just been promoted to Resident En-
gineer on 10 miles of construction,
but he couldn’t stand prosperity.
The last I heard of him, he was in
South America, and I expect he has
answered to his last ‘Reveille’. I
am truly glad to see that the name
is still carried by some cadet at
College, as the original was truly
a college character, and was every-
body’s friend.”
Told by—R. W. “Bill” Yarbrough,
Class 01.
Maxcey Wickes, 04, who is with
the Remington Manufacting
Company, is one of the Southwest’s
leading trap shooting stars. He
makes his home in Houston and
gets his mail at Box 985.
Lawrence D. Smith, ’35, is teach-
ing vocational agriculture in the
El Campo High School and gets
his mail at Box 303, El Campo,
Texas.
WHAT A PLACE
FOR NITE OWLS
Dear Mac:
I am inclosing a check for $5
for payment of Association Dues
for 1937.
I have been intending to drop
you a line for a long time to tell
you something of this part of the
country. This is the first place I
have ever been that I have not
run into some one who has been to
school at A. & M. I have not been
to every place in Alaska so 1
might find an Aggie yet.
Alaska is not the ice and snow-
bound country that a lot of people
think it is. At times there is a
lot of snow, ice, and glaciers in
the mountains the year round, but
not over the entire territory. In
the interior this summer, the tem-
perature got up to 90 degrees and
never below 70 degrees in June
and July. I saw the most beautiful
gardens and flowers in the in-
terior this summer that I have
ever seen. At the Mataweska Col-
ony at Palmer, I saw a lot of fine
farms and gardens. Really I think
this colony, which the government
started at Palmer, is a good pro-
ject and should help the progress
of Alaska a great deal.
One thing I couldn’t get used to
this summer, was that it never got
dark during the entire 24 hours in
June and July. I was in Anchorage
on June 21 and you could read a
newspaper outside the hotel with-
out the aid of a light at midnight.
At the hotel you had to pull down
all the window shades at night so
as to make the room dark enough
to get any sleep.
This winter it will be a little
different story. It will get daylight
between eight and nine in the
morning and dark about four P. M.
The temperature will get down to
50 and 60 below zero. Yesterday
the temperature in Fairbanks was
20 degrees above zero; Anchorage
28 degrees, but here in Juneau it
was only 40 degrees above zero.
Most of my travel over the ter-
ritory has been by plane. Planes
are the best means of transporta-
tion up here as the distances be-
tween places are so great.
The last part of August I was
in Nome for a few days and that
is a very interesting part of the
country. The temperature there at
that time was 38 degrees above
zero, which made you realize that
winter was not far off. The last
boat to call at Nome until next
June, left about two weeks ago.
The ice is moving in and soon Nome
will be ice-bound, as far as boats
are concerned. The only means of
transportation which they will have
now is by plane and dog-teams. In
the winter-time, the planes are
equipped with skis. While I was
in Nome, two tribes of Eskimoes
were in for the summer selling
their furs and ivory. Much to my
surprise, I have not seen any
igloos and they tell me I won't
see any unless I go up around
Point Barrow.
Really Alaska is a very interest-
ing place to travel and not a bad
place to live. Almost any place
you go up here you see mining
operations being carried on. This
summer I visited the big salmon
canneries in Bristol Bay Region
where they put up millions of cans
of salmon each year even though
the fishing season only lasts one
month.
Mac, I could write many pages
more on Alaska but had better
save that until some other time.
Here’s hoping we have a good
football season this year. Sure wish
I could see some of the games but
the distance between here and Tex-
as is pretty great. Will have to be
content reading about them in the
papers which are over a week
old when they get up here.
Best regards to you and come
up to see me next summer and I
will show you many interesting
places.
Ben L. “Tubby” Grimes, 29
Box 983,
Juneau, Alaska.
A new member of the Associa-
tion is W. M. Wheeles, ’13, Drawer
2100, Houston, Texas.
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