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VOL. X
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS,
JANUARY 25, 1937
NUMBER 69
Promotion 1911 Class-Mates
Shows Success A & M Men In
S.P. Lines Motive Power Dept.
Climaxing 25 years of steady
service in services of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Lines, Ben M.
,Brown, ’11, has been made assist-
ant general superintendent of mo-
tive power for the Southern Pacific
Company at San Francisco. An-
nouncement of the promotion was
made by George McCormick, 91,
superintendent of motive power
for the Southern Pacific Lines at
San Francisco. Brown started with
the Southern Pacific a few months
after receiving his degree in
mechanical engineering with the
class of 1911.
By peculiar coincidence, Brown's
successor at Houston as chief as-
sistant superintendent of motive
power and equipment in the South-
ern Pacific Lines in Texas and
Louisiana, will be a classmate, J.
S. “Little Pike” Netherwood, ’11.
Both Brown and Netherwood start-
ed with the Southern Pacific on
the same day in 1911. Prior to this
present promotion, Netherwood has
been assistant superintendent of
motive power and equipment on the
Southern Pacific Louisiana Lines,
with headquarters at Algiers,
Louisiana. His new home will be
in Houston.
The promotion of B. M. Brown
to the Southern Pacific's official
staff in Frisco, brings back to
“close association two old friends.
Brown began his employment in
the Southern Pacific General
Shops at Houston under George
McCormick, who was then mechani-
cal engineer.
After serving a few years as a
draftsman, Brown was sent to San
Antonio as a special apprentice in
the mechanical department. Round-
house foreman at Beaumont, gen-
eral foreman of the Southern Pa-
cific Shops at El Paso, general
foreman of the company’s huge
Houston shops, and chief assistant
to J. A. Power, superintendent of
motive power and equipment at
Houston, were further stepping-
stones in Brown’s career.
Both Brown and Netherwood re-
ceived their degrees in mechanical
engineering in 1911. Brown was
captain of the cadet band and
known as “Bismarck” and “Lisa”
to his classmates. Netherwood was
a member of the Ross Volunteers
and bore the nickname ‘Little
Pike,” to distinguish him from an
older brother, D. B. “Pike” Neth-
erwood, ’08, at present stationed
(Continued on page 2)
WAR DEPARTMENT
STUDIES UNIFORM
CHANGE FOR ROTC
During the past few weeks Col-
onel C. R. Lewis, P.M.S.&T., has
been receiving recommendations
from Military Instructors and Sen-
iors of the school on the change in
the uniform contempled for ROTC
units. This is pursuant to a study
being made by the War Depart-
ment for a change in the uniform
of all ROTC units all over the
Country.
From a general consensus of
these recommendations here at A
and M, there is of course a differ-
ence of opinion on all sides, but
the two most general trends seem
to be for a distinct ROTC uniform,
like something similar to the uni-
form of the Flying Cadets, and to
have the ROTC uniform similar to
that of the Army, which ‘means to
leave it as it is with a few minor
changes. These opinions have been
expressed and Colonel Lewis has
sent in his recommendation to the
Corps Area Commander.
KANSAS CITY LS
SCENE MEETING
MID-WEST MEN
“Heart-of-America” Club Re-
organized With A. B. Col-
lins, Pres.—Next Meeting
Feb. 12 at K. C. Athletic
Club.
Reorganization of the “Heart of
America” A. & M. Club was af-
fected at a recent meeting in Kan-
sas City at the Kansas City Ath-
letic Club. Another meeting has
been announced at the same place
and at 6:30 p. m. on February 12
and all men in the vicinity of
Kansas City are urged to attend.
A. B. Collins, ’12, president, A.
B. Collins Investment Company,
400 National Fidelity Life Build-
ing, Kansas City, was named presi-
dent of the club. Carl Mattern,
25, Hempy-Cooper Rebabbitting
Company, 1925 McGee Street, Kan-
sas City, was named vice president;
and J. Edwin Moeller, ’33, Engine-
ering Department, Sheffield Steel
Corporation, Kansas City, was
secretary-treasurer.
At its next meeting on Febru-
ary 12, the club hopes to have a
full attendance of all A. & M.
men in Kansas City, as well as
delegations from: Topeka, Law-
rence, Fort Riley, Fort Leaven-
worth, and other nearby localities.
Present at the initial meeting of
the club were the following: A. B.
Collins, ’12; Reverend Goodrich R.
Fenner, ’13; W. A. Knapp, ’28;
Charles H. Koinm, ’13; T. P. Lack-
ey, '20; Frank M. Lyle, '17; Carl
G. Mattern, ’25; J. Dixon Mitchell,
’12; J. Edwin Moeller, 33; Hollis
Oliver, ’20; Samuel H. Ray, ’11;
and C. C. Yates, ’17.
ELAM GOES TO
WASHINGTON IN
FEDERAL POST
W. M. Elam, ’17, was recently
appointed as a specialist in agri-
cultural education to serve with
the Federal Board for Vocational
Education. He will take charge of
all vocational agriculture training
for negroes in the United States
and will make his headquarters in
Washington. He succeeds the late
Dr. H. O. Sargent.
A veteran teacher of vocational
agriculture in Texas, Elam has
been in this field of work since re-
ceiving his degree in animal hus-
bandry with the class of 1917. He
has taught at Austin, Granger, and
for the past 13 years at Taylor. He
was twice selected as the Master
Vocational Agriculture Teacher of
Texas.
A student at A. & M., Elam was
a senior private, a distinguished
student, and took part in debating
activities. In addition to his teach-
ing, he has found time to do grad-
uate work and holds a Master’s
Degree from Colorado State Col-
lege. He has also done consider-
able work on his Doctor’s Degree
at the University of Texas.
He registered from Ireland, Tex-
as. Mr. and Mrs. Elam have two
sons. His appointment to the Wash-
ington position comes as a well
deserved recognition of the very
fine work he has done in the field
of vocational teaching during the
past 20 years.
Murray R. “Hoop” Hooper, 24,
is an electrician for the Texas
Power & Light Company at Waco,
Texas. Hooper has been with this
company for the past 12 years.
His residence address is 2615 Bos-
que Boulevard.
VENISON DINNER HONORS FALL
SPORTS PARTICIPANTS -ROUTT
CUMMINGS-DE WARE GET AWARDS
Featuring venison steaks fur-
nished through the courtesy of the
Brady-Mason-Menard A. & M,
Club, Dean E. J. Kyle, Jack Wil-
liams of Carrizo Springs and the
Martin brothers of Mason and Me-
nard, some 200 Aggie varsity and
freshman football players, cross-
country runners, coaches and
guests were present at the annual
football banquet given the team
each year by Mr. Duncan and the
A. & M. mess hall. This year’s
party was one of the most success-
ful ever held, and the venison steak
feature was greatly enjoyed by
those present. J. W. “Dough” Rol-
lins, ’17, Assistant Athletic Direc-
tor, served as Toast-master and
held speech-making to a minimum.
A feature of the program was
the introduction of Charley De-
Ware and Les Cummings, elected
co-captains of last fall’s Aggie
team by their mates at the con-
clusion of the season. Also pre-
sented was All-American Joe Routt,
winner of the annual Aggieland
Pharmacy award as the team’s
“Most Valuable” player.
Dean T. D. Brooks, Chairman
of the Athletic Council, presented
varsity letters, freshman numerals
and other awards to members of
the teams honored. President T.
0. Walton expressed appreciation
for the fine work turned in by
members of the teams present.
Homer Norton ended the meeting
with a note of enthusiasm over
next year’s prospects, and with a
stirring reminder to the boys that
“Your results will be what you
WANT them to be.”
NORTON TO BE
HONOR GUEST AT
AUSTIN PARTY
Ladies’ night, with Homer Nor-
ton, Aggie athletic director and
football coach, as their guest, is
expected to draw the largest at-
tendance of any A. & M. meeting
ever held in Austin and will be
staged by the Capitol City A. &
M. Club at the Driskill Hotel on
the night of February 8. Officers
and members of the Capitol City
Club have been at work on the pro-
gram for some time and anticipate
a big turnout, not only of Austin
A. & M. men and their ladies, but
of visitors from other cities and
surrounding territory.
A big feature of the entertain-
ment will be a movie depicting A.
& M. campus activities and re-
viewing some of last fall’s football
games. The principal address of
the evening will be given by Mr.
Norton.
Officers of the Austin Club, to-
gether with Ralph Soape, ’11, and
T. B. Warden, ’03, extend a hearty
invitation to all A. & M. men to
attend with their ladies and re-
quest that reservations be ‘made
through any officer or member of
the Capitol City Club. The present
staff of officers of the club in-
cludes: W. C. Torbett, Jr., 23,
president; A. H. Christian, ’32,
first vice president; Herman G.
Heard, ’23, second vice president;
and C. K. Leighton, ’33, secretary
and treasurer.
Henry L. Phillips, ’28, is Texas
representative of the Mine Safety
Appliances Company at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. He makes his head-
quarters in Dallas, where his ad-
dress is 5114 Bradford Drive.
Warm Welcome, Some Dismay And
Challenge Are Mixed Emotions
Greeting Bible’s Texas Return
There’ll be strange feelings in
the hearts of A. & M. men next
Thanksgiving when a Texas Uni-
versity football squad, coached by
Dana Bible, trots on historic Kyle
field with full intent to humble the
Aggies. There will be a feeling of
warm welcome to
a man who for § =
many years guided
the destinies of
our own cadet
teams. There will
be some dismay =
with the recollec-
tion of the wonder-
ful success enjoyed
by Aggie teams
under Bible's lead-
ership. There will
be a feeling of
challenge as well;
a feeling that, for
the afternoon, here 5%
is an enemy who
commands every
respect but who must be repelled
at all costs.
Such are some of the reactions
to the news that D. X. Bible has
been signed as head coach and
athletic director of Texas Univer-
sity. While formal announcement
has not been made it is wunder-
stood that Bible goes to Texas un-
der a ten year contract calling for
$15,000 annually. He is expected
to take ‘charge at Austin this
spring, severing connections with
the University of Nebraska where
he has coached with great success
since leaving A. & M. after the
1928 football season.
No man who has coached in the
Southwest is more highly regarded
in that section, both as a coach
and as a gentleman, than D. X.
Bible. These qualities endeared
him to A. & M. men during his
long stay from 1916 to 1928. Dur-
ing those years he produced five
conference championships for A. &
M., and coached many of the ath-
letic immortals of the institution.
Dana X. Bible
At Nebraska Bible has been
equally successful, winning six
Big-Six football titles during his
eight years with the Cornhuskers,
and coaching several All-Ameri-
cans. :
The signing of Bible ends the
search of the Uni-
versity of Texas
for a “Big Time”
coach who carried
national recogni-
tion. His salary,
. the highest ever
paid to any school
man in the South-
west, and his long-
time: contract,
would indicate that
the University was
entering into an
athletic  rennais-
ance that bodes ill
for other confer-
ence members. And
therein lies a chal-
lenge that must be accepted by
other conference teams, and will be
accepted by A. & M..
There can be no question but
that Bible and his coaching
genius and fine leadership, work-
ing with the tremendous athletic
assets possessed by the University,
will make the Longhorns far more
powerful than they have been in
the past. Those charged with the
selection of a man to lead the
Longhorns from their present in-
volved situation could have done
no better.
And so THE AGGIE extends to
Mr. Bible, and to Mrs. Bible and
their two fine children a warm and
sincere welcome back to the South-
west. Congratulations, too, are due
the University of Texas and its
friends and Ex-Students who will
-come to love and honor the Bibles
as do their A. & M. friends. But
next Thanksgiving, Bible, look out:
it’s war to the hilt that afternoon.
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E. W. Boehne, '26, Honored As
One Of Nations Outstanding
Leaders In Electrical Field
E. W. Boehne
BLUE BONNET [5
MEETING PLACE
SAN TONE CLUB
Night Meeting Soon to Honor
Aggie Coaches and See
Movie of Football Season.
Changing its meeting place to
the Blue Bonnet Hotel, and an-
nouncing regular meetings on the
first and third Thursday of each
month at 12:15 noon; the San An-
tonio A. & M. Club is launching an
active and entertaining program
of affairs for the coming months.
The club is headed by Major Ed-
win E. Aldridge, ’16, president. In-
cluded in his official staff are: E.
C. “Steve” Werner, 30, 1st vice
president; C. J. Stromberger, ’24,
2nd vice president; Alfred E.
Stein, ’30, editor of the Chili-Spit-
ter; and W. A. Howerton, ’28, sec-
retary-treasurer.
As an example of the type of
programs being scheduled for club
meetings, the club recently enjoy-
ed a discussion by Major Hurley
E. Fuller on the present situation
in Spain.
The club is also planning a meet-
ing sometime within the next 60
days at which Homer Norton and
members of the A. & M. coaching
staff will be present and at which
time, a motion picture review of
A. & M. student activities and the
past football season will be featur-
ed. This affair will be held at
night and is expected to attract one
of the largest crowds ever to at-
tend an A. & M. meeting in San
Antonio. Full details will be an-
nounced later.
President Aldridge, of the San
Antonio Club, extends a personal
invitation to visitors to attend the
club’s meeting at the Blue Bonnet
Hotel on the first and third Thurs-
days of each month at noon.
A. AND M. SECOND
INSIZEINT. §.
ENGINEER SCHOOLS
Texas A and M has the second
highest enrollment of engineering
students in the nation, it was re-
vealed in a recent poll conducted
by the Journal of Engineering Edu-
cation.
The Journal, official publication
of the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education, conducted
a poll of 119 of the nation’s leading
engineering schools and tabulated
the results in a recent issue. Pur-
due University ranked first with
3030 students in its engineering
school; A and M was second with
1933 enrolled; the University of
Illinois was third with 1792. These
figures are exclusive of night
school attendance.
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Eugene W. Boehne, '26, was re-
cently named as one of the five
outstanding young electrical en-
gineers for 1936. The honor was
awarded by Eta Kappa Nu, hono-
rary electrical engineering associa-
tion. The five men honored were
selected from a group of 47 candi-
dates less than 35 years of age,
nominated by leading industrial-
ists and educators of the United
States.
Highest award went to Frank
M. Starr, a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Colorado. The four oth-
er men, including Boehne, being
cited for honorable mention. The
selection was made by a commit-
tee of judges consisting of E. B.
Meyer, junior past-president of
the American Institute of Electri-
cal Engineers; L. W. W. Morrow,
former editor of Electrical World;
the late General R. I. Rees, of the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company; C. A. Butcher,
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company; Everett
S. Lee, of the General Electric
Company, and Roger I. Wilkinson,
of the Bell Telephone Labora-
tories.
Although born in Laramie, Wy-
oming, Boehne was raised in Tex-
as and registered at A. & M. from
Galveston. After receiving his de-
gree in electrical engineering in
1926, he started with the General
Electric Company with their Lynn,
Massachusetts plant. He was one
of two men selected to take the
advanced course in engineering at
the General Electric Plant in Sche-
nectady. He later took graduate
work in Massachusetts Tech, re-
ceiving his M. S. degree from that
institution in 1929 and in 1933, he
entered his present position in
Philadelphia Switchgear Plant of
the General Electric Company.
Boehne has specialized in the
theory of traveling waves and in
circuit breaker design. He was |
closely associated with the design
of the 287-KV circuit breakers for
the Boulder Dam in Los Angeles
transmission lines. He is a member
of the Franklin Institute in Phila-
delphia and is interested in the ac-
tivities of the Roerich Society
whose aim is “World Peace
Through the Arts.” His home is
225 Wayne Avenue, Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania. :
Carleton Speed, 26
In Big Oil Deal
Carleton D. Speed, Jr., 26, was
the principal in a recent deal in-
volving nearly a million dollars
worth of oil properties in the La -
Blanca oil field in Hidalgo County.
Speed represented the Pantano
Petroleum Company, of which he
is vice president and general man-
ager. Ross Sterling, oil man and
former governor, made the pur-
chase. Speed’s headquarters are in
the Second National Bank Build-
ing, Houston. He is a former Ag-
gie football star and an active
member of the Houston A. & M.
Club.
F. A. MOTOR PARK
EXPECTED TO BE
OCCUPIED FEB. 15
A new building is now in the
process of construction which will
house the equipment of the newly
motorized Field Artillery Unit. The
building, which should be ready for
occupancy on or about February
15th, is 200 feet long and 60 feet
wide and will include a complete
installation for the servicing of the
motor vehicles. There will be in-
cluded a gasoline station with
greasing and washing facilities, a
paint room, guard room, dispatch-
er’s office, and a complete sanitary:
| installation.
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