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MR. W. A. BROWN, R » F * D . 7 ’ B 0 X 6 1 y DALLAS, TEXAS. i a Ea | H E | E X S A G G | E be called for return POSTAGE postage is guaranteed GUARANTEED by publisher. 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, JUNE 15, 1937 NUMBER 77 Dormitory Rooms For 5,200 To Be Ready In 1938 If Plans College Heads Are Successful Application to the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation for a loan of $2,000,000 for the erection of much needed student dormitories at Texas A. & M. College is to be made right away, President T. O. Walton of the college has announc- ed following recent authorization of such step by the college board of directors. President Walton, Joe Utay, ’08, of Dallas, R. W. Briggs, ’17, and Elliott Roosevelt of Fort Worth, the latter members of the board, conferred recently in Washington with Jesse Jones, RFC chairman, regarding the loan, approval of which is expected to encounter no hitch. The application is to speci- fy a straight loan with amortization in semi-annual payments over a period of twenty years. In order to do this it will be necessary to make a slight increase in all col- lege dormitory room rent from which the loan will be repaid. The $2,000,000 will make possible 1,250 additional dormitory rooms accomodating 2,500 boys and doub- ling the present dormitory facilities of 1,100 rooms accomodating 2,200 students. In addition fourteen frame project houses with accom- modations for about 500 boys are now under construction on the campus. The latter will be ready by Sept. 1. The permanent dormitories from the RFC loan are not expected to be ready for occupancy until Sep- tember of 1938. With their comple- tion the college will have dormi- tory facilities for 5,200 boys, two “to a room. Estimate by the college registrar, however, forecasts a stu- dent enrollment for the coming col- lege year, 1937-38, of 5,000, so that even with the new dormitories the student housing situation at the college will be slightly if any ahead of requirements. During the past year, it has been necessary for overflow from the dormitories to find accommodations in approved lodging houses off the campus. Locations for the new dormitor- ies have not yet been announced. Rumored is the use of the present drill field for dormitories, and the moving of the drill field to the Veterinary department pasture adjoining new highway Six on the East side of the campus. Also rumored is the possibility of lo- cating the new dormitories away from those now in use in order to avoid congestion and to provide for sufficient play and recreation space. A recent campus visitor was Major Manly B. Gibson, 17, who is stationed at Fort Scott, San Francisco, California. He recently returned from a tour of duty in the Phillippines and stressed deep regret that his leave of absence could not be arranged so that he could attend the commencement reunion of the 1917 class. Edward E. Roberts, ’31, is a part- ner in the architectural firm, Brock and Roberts, 307 Sherman Build- ing, Corpus Christi, Texas. His res- idence address is 711 Water Street of that city. As a student at A. & M., Roberts was a participant in many campus activities; was a Ross Volunteer; and was voted the best drilled man in 1929. The other member of the firm is C. V. Brock, 726. New J ob-Proves N ice Promotion recon ae. -~ 25, .for the past several years assistant san- itary engineer with the New Jer- J. Bernard Baty, sey Department of Health, re- signed on April 1 to accept a posi- tion with the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. His new address is 1000 Widener Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Baty will be assistant head of the Tech- nical Service Department of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. The mo = is in the na- ture of a splendid promotion and comes as a fine recognition of the excellent work Baty has done with the New Jersey Department of Health. po a After graduation from A. & M. a. and serving two ys in the Tex- as State Health Department, Baty took up graduate work at Cornell University and received the degree of Master of Civil Engineering, specializing in water and sewerage and health courses. He joined the New Jersey Department of Health in 1929. Baty hopes to visit his home at Taylor, Texas sometime this summer. Grey Downs Named No. 1 Sweetheart Of Frontier Fiesta Miss Grey Downs, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Downs, Jr., ’06, of Temple, was chosen last week from hundreds of Texas girls, as Texas Number One Sweetheart of the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta Celebration. She will play a lead- ing part in the great Fiesta Cel- ebration at Fort Worth during the summer. Pink Downs, Jr., her father, is with the Soil Conserva- tion Service at Temple; is a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the Association; and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the College. For many, many years he has been active in A. & M. affairs. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Downs and of Miss Grey, will join the AGGIE in ex- tending congratulations for this high honor. Cotton Contest Winners Leave On Study Tour Winners of the sixth annual cotton contest at Texas A. & M., accompanied by Dr. Luther G. Jones, ’21, of the Agronomy De- partment, left immediately after commencement for a two month’s tour of cotton research and man- ufacturing centers in the United States and Europe. Winners of the contest include: H. E. Hampton, who left A. & M. in 1926 but who returned and received his degree this spring; R. N. Conolly, Corpus Christi; and Bailey G. Carnahan, San Antonio. Professor J. S. Mog- ford, ’16, of the Agronomy De- partment, originated the cotton contest six years ago and has had charge of the project ever since. Funds for the trip were received through the Annual Cotton Style Show and Pageant at College and from donations from members of the cotton trade. > The 1937 group,..after visiting experiment stations and mills in the Uhite@ Staies, will visit Bng- land, Belgium, Germany, Switzer- land, and France, studying the cot- ton business in those countries. Fred C. Groos, ’03, is still in the insurance business in San Antonio. He is with the Union Central Life Insurance Company with offices at 1420 Alamo National Bank Build- ing. An Open Letter To “Life” June 8, 1937 Mr. Otis Peabody Swift, Executive Offices, LIFE, 135 East 42nd Street, New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: This will reply to your letter of June 2, 1937 inviting the reactions of the editor of the TEXAS AGGIE to the June 7 issue of LIFE magazine, which was devoted entirely to a series of studies of life at American universities and colleges. Carried in this issue, and naturally of special interest to our institution and its friends, was a photograph of our administration building captioned, “In College Station, Texas these equally impressive columns are on main building of NATIONALLY-UNKNOWN Texas Agricultural and Mech- anical College, whose plant is worth ten million dollars”. This photograph and caption is in contrast to an adjoining scene from Technology”. “NATIONALLY-FAMED Massachusetts Institute of The editors of LIFE are in better position than those of us who live in Texas to say whether or not our institution is nationally known. If Texas A. & M. is not nationally known at this time, such recognition will be eventually accorded and well earned by the school’s remarkable record. Texas’ oldest state school, an enrollment during the past school year of 4,500 men, the the United States, the second largest agricultural school in largest engineering school in the United States, the largest Petroleum Production Engi- neering Department in the United States, the largest strictly military school in the United States, are a few features of our institution not as widely known as we would like. Nationally-known is Texas A. & M. among industries employing engineering graduates and in fields where agricul- ture and other technical leadership is desired. This is evidenced by the fact that 98 per cent of this year’s graduating class of 470 men were signed up for employment six weeks before the close of school. Perhaps we have been too busy at Texas A. & M. in our efforts to build a great and worth while institution in the Southwest, to seek national recognition but we feel confident that such recognition will eventually come to Texas A. & M. and that it will be well deserved and well earned by the splendid work our institution has done. May I express to you my compliments upon the educational issue of your interesting magazine. Sincerely yours, E. E. McQUILLEN, Executive Secretary, Association of Former Students. '| program DIRECTORS HOLD JOINT MEETING COMMENCEMENT fl The Board of Directors of the Association held a ‘oint discussion with the Board of Directors of the College during Commencement week-end, in the ferm of a lunch- eon at which the Ex-Student Direc- tors were guests of the College Board. Various problems of the college were discussed with per- fect frankness on each side. Particularly pressing at this time is the need of additional dor- mitory accomodations for the pre- sent record-breaking student en- rollment. Plans for the construc- tion of these dormitories and their financing were discussed. A large part of the discussion of the meeting centered around the military situation of the college, in connection with the lack of suf- ficient advanced R.O.T.C. contracts. Efforts of College authorities to secure additional contracts from the War Department have failed. President Walton in speaking to the group, cited various factors affecting the military set-up of the college, among them the lack of sufficient advanced contracts, the hugh enrollment with one third of the student body living off the campus, the great increase of junior college graduates among the new students each year, and other items. Several Ex-Student directors present stated the great majority of former students were heartily in favor of military discipline at A. & M., and felt this feature should be strengthened rather than weakened. No vote or for- mal statement on the matter was made by the Former Student Board. President Thanheiser and others called attention to the need of the college for a beques. program, and several members o‘gthe College Board stated they ¥¥hought this program suowd” verundertaken by the Association. Various other matters of interest were discussed before the meeting was concluded. After expressing the apprecia- tion of his Directors for the hospi- tality of the College Board, Presi- dent Thanheiser assured the Col- lege Directors that they had the full support of the Former Stu- dents in carrying forward any for the benefit of the A. & M. College. TO EUROPE Fi a 2 EY Dressed like nobody’s business was J. F. Casey, one of the most popular figures on the campus, just before boarding a train for a trip that will take him, with Walter 1 “Hip? Coulter, ’95, ‘of "Bryan, to Europe. They sailed upon the Rex from New York City on May 29, and after making the International Rotary Convention at Nice, France, they will tour over most of Europe. Casey has been a popular and deeply loved campus resident for many years. He came to A. & M. with Leigh’s confectionery, later was in business with Mr. Lavinder, and for the past 17 years has been in business with Bill Sparks, ’19. As proprietor of the campus con- fectionery in the basement of the Y.M.C.A., Casey and Sparks are A. & M. institutions. They also own the Aggieland Drug Store at the North gate of the campus. Casey’s travelling companion, Walter Coulter, 95, is one of Bryan’s leading business men. He has traveled extensively. He and Casey will see France, England, the Scandinavian countries, Ger- many and Russia before returning to the United States. Haile Resigns Zapp Promoted Harris Co. Eng. Chas. R. Haile, ’12, county engi- neer of Harris County for the past eight years, retired from that po- sition on June 1 and was succeeded by Hugo W. H. Zapp, ’12, who has been serving as Mr. Haile’s chief assistant. Haile plans to form a private consulting engineering firm. He is an active member of the Houston A. & M. Club; also active in general Association af- fairs. During his term of office as county engineer of Harris County, he has supervised over ten million dollars in county road construction, giving Harris County one of the finest systems of highways in the United States. The county engi- 1eer’s office is in the Harris County Courthouse. Walton Guest As Piney Woods Club Plans Cadet Home With President T. O. Walton and Dr. Dan Russell of the A. & M. College as honor guests the Piney Woods Club held a record-breaking meeting at the Nacogdoches Coun- try Club, Nacogdoches, last week. A. & M. men from Lufkin and Nacogdoches contributed the ma- jority of the crowd of nearly a hundred Aggies, with many pres- ent also from other communities in that section of East Texas. R. L. “Bob” Herbert, ’31, Nacog- doches, president of the Piney Woods Club opened the meeting by introducing Phil Sanders, ’03, who served as master of ceremo- nies for the informal program. The principal address of the evening was delivered by President Walton, and other remarks were made by Dr. Russell and various members of the Club. Chief discussion centered around the ‘proposal of the Club to build | at A. & M. a project house for students from Angelina and Nac- ogdoches counties. Plans were made to go further into the matter and from the enthusiasm shown it is likely the club will build such a house. Among its most enthusias- tic sponsors were Dr. George Bar- ham, ’02, of Nacogdoches and oth- . ers. r——— “Smiles” Heads Amarillo Club J. C. “Smiles” Richardson, ’19, president of the Amarillo-Pan- handle A. & M. Club, is with the Gulf Oil Corporation, Land Leasing Department. He has been with the Gulf since his A. & M. days and is onc of the }*'it posted men in his field in the state. He is married and he and Mrs. Rich- ardson have two children, a boy nine and a girl five. He gets his mail at Amarillo at Box 1428. “Smiles”, oro. *Rich? . to his friends, has long been an active member of the A-narillo Club. He is a red-hot footl({il "an and man- ages to see manypju.ames, both high school and college, each fall. and a Ee eee: The many friends oh H., ’17, and John B. Kiber, 27, will regret to know of the death on May 17 of their mother, Mrs. Belle Kiber. Burial was at Corsicana. Dan is head of the Agricultural Department at North Texas Agri- cultural College, Arlington; and John is with Swift and Company at Fort Worth. TENNESSEE AGGIES PLAN PARTY REELFOOT LAKE JUNE 26-ELECT BREWSTER-STANFORD CLUB HEADS Wm. G. Carnahan, ’31, Knoxville; The University Club of Nash- ville, Tennessee was the scene of a banquet and dance on the even- ing of April 24, attended by most of the A. & M. men in Tennessee. The occasion was in celebration of San Jacinto Day, traditional Ag- gie meeting date, and also saw the organization of the Tennessee A & M. Club. Sam F. Brewster, ’27, commis- sioner of the State of Tennessee Department of Conservation, was elected president of the new club and John E. Stanford, editor of the Southern Agriculturist, Nash- ville, was elected secretary-trea- surer. The next meeting of the club will be held on June 26 at famous Reelfoot Lake, noted hunting, fish- ing and recreationai center on the Mississippi, about 120 miles north of St. Louis. Federal Highway 51, from Memphis to Dyersburg and State Highway 78 from Dyersburg to Tiptonville, furnish easy access to Reelfoot Lake and all A. & M. men in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis- sissippi, and in the entire Midwest are invited to be present. Addi- tional information can be secured by writing to Dr. Sam H. Sanders, ’22, 300 Medical Arts Building, Memphis. Reelfoot Lake is an ideal spot for such an outing. Many of those who attend the party will spend Saturday and Sunday—others go- ing up on Friday to enjoy some of the fine fishing. According to Dr. Sanders, former Aggie athle- tic star, Reelfoot Lake is a won- derful place for an outing, with excellent fishing, good meals, dan- cing, but no place for fine clothes. Present at the meeting in Nash- ville on April 24 were the follow- ing: Robert L. Mosty, ’34, Knox- ville; C. Allen Smith, ’28, Mem- phis; C. E. Gatlin, ’26, Martin; Robert D. Maxwell, ’30, Norris; rincluding the L. S. U.—Rice Game Louis Miller, ’33, Norris; Naoma Dickerson, Nashville; O. F. Hasl- bauer, 27, Norris; Mary Ellen Brewster, Nashville; W. E. Kee- 27, Memphis; K. H. Hem- Norris; Pauline Keeton, Memphis; Sam F. Brewster, ’27, Nashville; Kathleen Caldwell, Memphis; Dr. Sammy Sanders, ’22, Memphis; J. R. White, ’36, Nash- ville; Margaret Smith, Nashville; James W. Vaughan, 28 Nashville; W. J. Smith, ’20, Nashville; Mary Frances Vaughan, Nashville; J. E. Stanford, Nashville; Mrs. J. E. Stanford, Nashville; Evelyn Out- law, Nashville; Wm. D. Singleton, ’29, Memphis; Virginia Gulledge, Dallas; Alia Stanford Nashville; Lee Merrell White, Nashville; Vir- ginia G. Maxwell, Norris; and Evelyn Cruickshank, Dallas; Mary Sanders, Memphis. ton, rich, Dr. Sam H. Sanders, ’22, 300 Medical Arts Building, Memphis, Tennessee, in addition to being one of that city’s leading surgeons and physicians finds time to officiate in some of the big-time football of the South each fall. He is work- ing several games this year in which Southwest Conference play, in Houston; and the S. M. U.— Vanderbilt Game in Dallas. He sends regards to all old friends and hopes to see many of them while 'n Dallas to officiate in the above two games. At A. & M. he was a star in both football and track. He is taking an active part in the newly organized Tennessee A. & M. Club and is one of the men in charge of the June 26 meeting of that club, which will be held at Reelfoot Lake and to which all A. & M. men and their families in the Midwest are in- Record Crowd- Feature Graduation Meeting .F. D. Perkins, ‘97, New Pres. Class Reunions well-attended Class Reunions and a record break- Featuring three ing attendance, the Annual Meet- ing of the Association was held during Commencement, June 3-4-5. F. D. Perkins, ’97, well known bu- siness leader of McKiney Texas, and a former star of the pioneer days of A. & M. football was elected president of the Associa- tion, succeeding C. A. Thanheiser, 01, Houston Other officers elected included C. L. Babcock, ’19, Beaumont, Vice President, E. E. MecQuillen, ’20, Secretary-Treasurer, A. F. Mit- chell, ’09, Corsicana, Student Loan Fund Trustee, and A. G. Pfaff, ’27, Tyler, Athletic Council member. All of the above, with the exception of Mr. Perkins, were re-elections. The entire list of new officers and new Directors of the organization will be found on the AGGIE mast-head, editorial page. The annual business meeting of the Association was held in the form of a luncheon at noon fol- lowing the final review on Satur- day. Some 500 A. & M. men and their guests and ladies were pres- ent for the luncheon, with around 400 Association members remain- ing for the business session fol- lowing the entertainment part of the luncheon program. President C. A. Thanseiser presided. : Visitors began arriving Wednes- day and Thursday and by Satur- day morning the campus was thronged with returning ex-stu- dents. Various commencement ac- tivities, graduation exercises, de- partmental inspections, visits with faculty friends, the final review of amuserhent for all visitors. Full reports and pictures of} Class Reunions in the next issue of The AGGIE—look for it about July 10. Despite fine reunions of the 1912 and the 1927 classes, one of the big features of the week-end | was the unusual and highly suc- cessful reunion of the War Class of 1917. As guests of the Class of 1937 these men were accorded special honors at the graduation exercises and at the final review. Rain falling in torrents on Fri- day failed to dampen the enthusi- asm of visiting Exes, although it doubtless held down attendance. (Continued on Last Page) Arthur L. Smith, ’17, who for the past two years was head of the agricultural Administratior act at College Station, has returned to his regular post as animal hus- bandry specialist in the Extension Service. Included in his work will be particular attention to the ad- ministration of the range conserva- tion part of the Agricultural Con- servation Program. His place as administrative officer of the AAA was taken by E. N. “Skinnie” Holmgreen, ’22. A star pitcher and captain of the Aggie baseball team in 1917, “Whiskey”, as Mr. Smith was known to his classmates, enjoyed this spring seeing a younger broth- er, “Blanco” Smith, ’37, perform as a star outfielder and hitter on the Championship Aggie Nine. Hal H. Collins, 12, is president of the Crazy Water Company at vited. Mineral Wells, Texas. ” 4 Br EBS SEI MA ec h ZR a Sar CTL EP pie i ow
