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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, FEBRUARY 15, 1937 NUMBER 70
GRID MATES T0
BUCK BUSINESS
WORLD TOGETHER
Tom W. “Tommy” Mills, ’30,
who has been with the C. & S.
Sporting Goods Company at Aus-
tin for the past several years, has
resigned to accept a position with
The General Electric Air Condi-
tioning Company, 4304 N. Main
Street, Houston, Texas. “Tommy”
will cover 14 counties in the Hous-
ton District, for his company, which
is owned and managed by Hollis
U. Bible, ’30.
Hollis and “Tommy” played foot-
ball together at A. & M. in 1928
and ’29. Mills compiled a great
athletic record at A. & M., having
participated in football in ’27, ’28,
and ’29 and served as captain in
1929. He also played baseball and
track the last three years he at-
tended A. & M. and was a valuable
basketball player in ’30. “Tommy”
is married and will make his head-
quarters in Houston. He has a
younger brother, Kenneth, in A.
& M. this year. :
Bible has been with the General
Electric Co. for several years and
his company handles all G. E. air
conditioning for the Houston ter-
ritory.
Harvey Oakes, ’32
In Charge Waco
Watershed Survey
Harvey Oaks, ’32, who is now
with the government soil conser-
vation service, and a group of en-
gineers are in Waco taking prelim-
inary steps in the government sur-
vey of the Bosque and Leon River
watersheds. The group will make
its headquarters in Waco at the
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Oakes is Assistant Chief of the
survey party.
City Water - Superintendent
George Rohan considers Waco very
fortunate in securing such a sur-
vey with the government in charge.
Reports last year showed Lake
Waco to be filling at a rate of
2.47 per cent yearly, and Rohan
believes that the increase is pro-
gressive. Mr. Rohan points out
the fact that rich top soil washing
into Lake Waco, lowers its value
as a reservoir, and does untold
damage to the farm lands in this
area. The survey, which will prob-
ably employ airplane mapping and
a variety of topographical inves-
tigation, will last about eight
months and will extend over 2600
square miles. At the completion
of the survey, the plan is to have
the area made into a legal dis-
trict on which permanent conser-
vation measures will be sought with
government aid.
Lt. Kidwell Heads
Tyler R. O. Ass'n.
Lieutenant Graber Kidwell, ’32,
of the 411th field artillery, who is
stationed at Tyler, was recently
elected president of the Tyler Re-
serve Officers’ Association at a
farewell banquet given for the local
CCC officers who are being trans-
ferred elsewhere,
Kidwell succeeds Captain Van
Houston, who will be transferred
in the very near future. Kidwell is
an engineer with the Department
of Interior, National Park Service
and gets his mail at Box 2034,
Tyler, Texas. ;
John W. “Jack” Wilder, 24, has
been named the new superintend-
ent of construction at the Kerrville
State Park. Wilder, whose home is
in San Antonio, was transferred
to Kerrville from a State Park
Project at Mathis. He succeeds N.
H. Lee.
“Jack” received his degree in
architectural engineering from A.
& M. in 1924. For several years,
he has been connected with the
National Park Service.
Ellis O. Wurzbach, Jr., ’33, has
changed his address in Shreveport,
Louisiana to 2619 Williams Street.
Co ie an A on bil
Pioneer Aggie
Likes Baseball
Reverend Malcolm Black, 79
one of the oldest living graduates
of Texas A. & M. College, attend-
ed the Centennial in Dallas this
fall and chose to see the Dallas-
Tulsa baseball game instead of
visiting out at the Centennial. Mr.
Black makes his home at Sterling
City, Texas, and was one of the
17 members of the first graduating
class at Texas A. & M. in 1879.
There are only six living members.
After leaving A. & M., he grad-
uated from the Theological Sem-
inary of the Presbyterian Church,
U. S., at Columbia, S. C. Although
quite active and healthy, Mr. Black
has retired from active ministerial
work.
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59 Years Apart In
Age But Together
In A. & M. Spirit
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A group of today’s students en-
joyed a real thrill recently when
they visited at the home of George
W. Baylor, ’78, near Carrizo
Springs. The students were Horti-
cultural Department Seniors and
were making an inspection trip
through the Winter Garden Dis-
trict. In" the picture above, Mr.
Baylor is surrounded by the group.
Kneeling in front, left to right,
are Dr. Guy Adriance, ’15, head of
the Horticultural Department at
A. & M.; and A. L. “Dutch” Se-
besta, ’30, .county agent, Carrizo
Springs. One of A. & M.s first
students, Mr. Baylor is still hale
and hearty and extended the group
a warm welcome.
Capitol City Club
Holds Meeting
With Governor Allred, Lieuten-
ant Governor and Mrs. Woodul,
Speaker of the House and Mrs.
Bob Calvert, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Norton, and other dignitaries, pres-
ent, the Capitol City A. & M. Club
enjoyed a big party at the Driskill
Hotel on the night of February 8.
Ralph Soape, ’11, served as toast-
master. A musical program ren-
dered by Mrs. Homer Norton and
by a niece of Mr. Soape, was
thoroughly enjoyed.
In addition to the above men-
tioned dignitaries, many members
of the legislature were present, as
well as officials of the University
of Texas. Governor Allred spoke,
| as did others of those present, with
the principal address being de-
livered by Aggie Athletic Director
Homer Norton. A pleasant feature
of the evening was the showing of
movie scenes of the campus and
of last year’s fall football games
by Walter Penberthy, director of
intramural athletics at A. & M.
In his remarks, Governor Allred
crowned Evelyn Norton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Norton and a
student at the University, as queen
of the occasion.
The Capitol City Club is meet-
ing regularly each Monday at noon
at the Driskill Hotel and has ex-
tended a standing invitation to all
visiting A. & M. men to attend
these meetings. Present officers
of the club include: W. C. Torbett,
Jr., ’23, president; A. H. Christain,
’32, vice president; Herman G.
Heard, ’23, second vice president;
and C. K. Leighton, ’33, secretary-
treasurer.
A new member of the Associa-
tion is R. O. Alford, 28. Alford is
a partner of the Alford-Gatty In-
surance Company, 118 No. Mar-
shall, Henderson, Texas.
“Inners Happier Than Outers”
Observation Pres. Thanheiser
In Message To Recent Grads
TO THE CLASS OF 1936:
classes.
help out as their abilities and
let slip away.
the spirit.
Be an “Inner’”!—The cost
“QOuters” can’t know or buy.
In the 36 years since I left A. & M., I have observed
that A. & M. men can be roughly divided into two general
FIRST: The “Outers”’—those who lose contact with their
school and their school friends—who have or show no interest
in their school, its faculty, its student body, its growth, or its
deterioration—who allow the memories and the associations
of one very important period of their lives to slip away and
become lost—who through carelessness throw away some-
thing that many less fortunate men would be happy to pos-
sess. They are the “OUTERS”!
SECOND: The “Inners”’—those who retain their interest
and their contacts with A. & M. and A. & M. friends—who
A. & M. activities—who are glad to cooperate with other A.
& M. men to have an Ex-Student Association for their own
benefit and pleasure, and to aid their school, its faculty, and
its students. They are the “INNERS”!
It seems to me the “Inners” are the happiest,—that they
do better in life—that they have something the “Outers” have
Neither geographical location nor finances have much
to do with the matter—it’s mostly an affair of the heart and
warm and friendly feeling that words can’t describe and that
Sincerely yours, -
C. A. Thanheiser, 01, President,
The Association of Former Students
opportunities allow in various
is little and the return is a
Hardware Men
Honor Martin
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J. D. MARTIN, JR. ’25
At the annual convention of the
Texas Hardware and Implement
Association, held late in January
at Dallas, J. D. Martin, Jr., ’25, of
the Parker-Astin Hardware Com- 4
pany, Bryan, Texas, was honored
by being named a director of that
organization. His father, J. D.
Martin, Sr., '94, was president of
this association for several years.
Professor Dan Scoates, Head of
the Agricultural Engineering De-
partment of A. & M., was re-
elected secretary for the 13th year.
Fourteen hundred interested hard-
ware men registered at the con-
vention.
The Texas division of the South-
west Water Works Association will
hold a water works short course
at Texas A. & M. College Febru-
ary 15 to 20.
E. W. Steel, professor of muni-
cipal and sanitary engineering, will
direct the short course arranged
for water superintendents and lab-
oratory workers. There will be
lectures and demonstrations and
round table discussions.
W. B. Hooser, ’36, of Seymour,
Texas, is now . helping farmers
save their soil. Hooser is assistant
county agent in soil conservation
work in Lipscomb County, Lip-
scomb, Texas. C. M. Gay, 28, who
has been county agent at Lipscomb
since 1934, is Hooser’s superior.
Pt. Arthur A. & M.
Club Holds Banquet
The Port Arthur A. & M. Club
held its annual banquet honoring
the Port Arthur High School Yel-
low Jacket Football Squad and its
coaches on the night of January 30.
The principal speaker of the oc-
casion was Homer Norton, Aggie
Athletic Director. Some 125 club
members and guests were present.
In addition to his speech, Mr.
Norton showed movies of several
of the Aggies’ games last fall and
since the honor guests were foot-
ball players themselves, the mov-
ies were highly
Young, all-conference Aggie tackle
and a Port Arthur High graduate,
was also present and appeared on
the program.
Owing to illness, several men
scheduled to participate in the ev-
ening’s program, were unable to
be present. The party, however,
proved as successful as these an-
nual occasions have been in the
past. The Port Arthur Club each
year for many years has honored
the Yellow Jacket grid squad and
its coaches with a banquet. Offi-
cers of the Port Arthur Club in-
clude: M. R. Kunitz, ’28, president;
L. L. Laster, ’30, vice president;
B. P. Brown, 28, secretary-treasur-
er; W. A. Steinman, ’33, publicity
director; and M. L. Rosenberg, 22,
sergeant-at-arms.
enjoyed. Roy
Hospital Addition
Nears Completion
Announcement has been made
that the addition to the College
hospital will be completed soon
and may be finished during ‘the
early part of March. The new addi-
tion originally was scheduled to
be completed by December 15, but
due to many difficulties work was
delayed. Work was begun on this
building during the middle of the
summer.
This addition will approximately
double the present capacity of the
hospital and will fulfill a very
definite need of this institution.
Due to increasing enrollments ad-
ditional accommodations were nec-
essary. The hospital staff feels
confident that with the completion
of the new addition, the problem
of overcrowding during epidemics
will be solved.
Sam Brewster On
National Detail
Sam F. “Pee-wee’” Brewster, ’27,
601 Arnstein Building, Knoxville,
Tennessee, has been granted a leave
of absence from TVA to the Na-
tional Park Service for an indefi-
nite period of time. Brewster's
work will be in connection with the
National Recreation Survey which
the Park Service is making in co-
operation with other government
departments and the various states.
He will serve in the capacity of
field contact man, and will be
traveling a great deal of the time.
During Brewster's stay in Wash-
ington, he and his family will be
domiciled at the Miramar Apart-
ments, Apartment 326, 15th and
Rhode Island Avenue, Washington,
D. C. He is at present on a trip
that will take him on a swing al-
most around the U. S. :
As a cadet at A. & M., Brewster
was a popular campus figure in
addition to being a distinguished
student. He claims Belton, Texas
as his home town.
Highway Short
Course To Be
March 25-27
Plans are being formulated for
the Thirteenth Annual Highway
Short Course which is to be held
at A. and M. March 25, 26, and 27.
The Civil Engineering Department,
in cooperation with the Texas State
Highway Department, will sponsor
the course. ;
The course this year will feature
discussions of timely topics by men
who are recognized authorities in
their respective fields. Among those
expected to speak are Judge Robert
Lee Bobbitt, Court of Civil Appeals,
San Antonio; Colonel Ike Ashburn,
Houston; C. G. Beckenbach, Dallas
Traffic Engineer; Henry C. Por-
ter and W. H. Wood of the Texas
State Highway Department; and
Carl R. Reid, Engineer of Materials
for the Oklahoma State Highway
Commission.
Outstanding will be the program
dealing with highway safety and
the prevention of accidents.
Through the discussion of the
various problems concerning safe-
ty it is hoped that a workable
plan may be formulated which will
offer a reasonable scheme for re-
ducing the toll of accidents due to
highway traffic.
Further discussions will deal with
soil foundation science, stabiliza-
tion of fills and subgrades by
material selection, admixtures of
chemicals, cement, and emulsions.
Among the topics tentatively sche-
duled for discussion are: ‘“Founda-
tion Design for Bridges”, “Status
of the Highway Planning Survey”,
“Sub-oiling Treatments”, and
“Weathering Tests on Asphalts”.
The Annual Highway Short
Course is the only annual meeting
of the entire Highway Industry in
Texas. It is expected that over two
hundred engineers, contractors,
and materials men will be in at-
tendance at the meeting this spring.
Ross N. Reid, ’34, has recently
changed his address in Houston and
is now living at 1106 Bremond;
Apartment 8.
Wm. D. Graves, ’36, is teaching
vocational agriculture at Comyn,
Texas. Comyn is in Comanche
County.
T. Louie Miller, ’25, is field sup-
ervisor for the Emergency Crop
Loan Corporation and is located
at 3206 Harrison Street, Amarillo,
Texas. During his cadet days, Mil-
ler was captain of the A. & M.
football team in 1924 and ’25 and
also a letterman in track. Louie
was one of the best punters and
passers in the Southwest Confer-
ence during the year he was cap-
tain of the A. & M. varsity squad.
TORN TO HEAD
AGRIC PROGRAM
E. TEX. C. OF C.
Elmore R. “Tony” Torn, ’28, has
been named Agricultural Director
for the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce and will make his head-
quarters with that organization at
Longview. He and his family will
move to Longview from Austin
where Torn has been tield repre-
sentative for the U.S.D.A., Divis-
ion of Cotton Marketing, Bureau
of Agricultural Economics. Until
a few months back Torn had made
his home at Taylor. He was born
and reared in Williamson County.
A member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Ex-Students Associa-
tion and a past president of the
Williamson County Club, Torn has
for several years been active in
A. & M. circles in Central Texas.
His new work will include super-
vision of the general agricultural
program of the East Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce, with particular
emphasis on a new campaign for
the improvement of Kast Texas
Cotton grade and staple. This type
of work will not be new to Torn
as he has had both practical and
special training in agricultural eco-
nomics, cotton marketing and prac-
tices, agronomy and fielld crops,
statistics and farm management.
CADETS CLING
T0 2ND PLAGE
IN COURT RACE
“Hub” McQuillan’s Aggie bas-
keteers clung to their precarious
second place in the conference
standing by beating T. C. U. and
losing to S. M. U. on their North
Texas road trip last week. They
meet the towering Arkansas Razor-
backs at Fayetteville in a pair of
games Friday and Saturday nights.
The T. C. U. victory was won
only after two extra over time
periods. Against the league lead-
ing Mustangs at Dallas, the Ag-
gies staged a last half rally that
came close to bringing victory.
Captain Ed Lee playing guard has
continued to be the big gun in the
Aggie offense. He is among the
first three high point scorers of
the conference to date.
College Engineers
Attend | Convention
Dr. F. E. “Pal” Giesecke, ’86,
director, and W. Howard Badgett,
’29, research assistant, of the Tex-
as Engineering Experiment Sta-
tion division of Texas A. & M.
College, recently returned from St.
Louis where they attended the an-
nual convention of the American
Society of Heating and Ventilat-
ing Engineers. More than 500 en-
gineers from all over the country
attended this convention.
The Texas section of the Amer-
ican Society of Heating and Venti-
lating Engineers, was only recently
organized and was the 22nd chap-
ter of the national organization to
be organized.
In addition to being director of
the Texas Engineering Experiment
station of Texas A. & M. College,
Dr. Giesecke is college architect.
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