The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, August 01, 1937, Image 1

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DR. THOMAS MAYO,
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Culiege Station, Texas,
THE TEXAS AGGIE
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NO. 79 |
VOL. X
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, AUGUST 1, 1937.
Annual Short
Course Junto
To Draw Many
Short Talks and Local Actors
On Program for Aggie
Party at Hensel Park On
August 17.
The second annual “JUNTO”,
celebration of former students and
their friends at the annual Farm-
ers’ Short Course, will be a fea-
ture of that big week on the cam-
pus this year. Several hundred
men will be present for the party
which will be held at Hensel Park
near the campus from 5:30 until
8 on the evening of August 17.
The Short Course, drawing
some 5,000 visitors to the campus
each year, is one of the largest
concentrations of A. & M. men of
the year. Members of the Exten-
sion Service and of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station and oth-
er agricultural workers make the
week something of a reunion for
A. & M. Ex-Students.
Featuring the program for this
year’s JUNTO will be short talks
by Association officers, a review
of athletic prospects and news hy
head coach Homer Norton, and the
presentation of a short play,
“Double Exposure,” by a group of
local actors including Fred Hale,
’22, E. R. Eudaly, ’10, George
Long, '17, and E. E. McQuillen,
’20. A barbecue supper, with all
the trimmings, will be served bui-
fet style. -
- GREGG C0. MEN
PLAN WHOPPER
AT GLADEWATER
The biggest A. & M: meeting in
the history of East Texas is plan-
ned by the Gregg County A. & M.
Club for its next meeting at Glade-
water on August 19. Guests on
this occasion will be Homer Nor-
ton, Aggie Athletic Director, Asso-
ciation Secretary E. E. McQuillen,
and it is also hoped that Association
~ President F. D. Perkins and other
notables will be present. A feature
of the entertainment for the oc-
casion will be the showing of mov-
ing pictures of several of last fall’s
Aggie football games. The big
party will be held at Gladewater
at the country club and will start
at seven p. m.
Final plans for this occasion
were made at a meeting of the
Gregg County Club held at the
City Park in Kilgore on July 15
with 50 club members present. Ap-
pointed as an Arrangements Com-
mittee for the August meeting
was J. C. Garrison, ’34, and Char-;
lie Fritch, ’26.
Honored at the meeting at Kil-
gore as being the oldest A. & M.
men present were: O. L. Forsgard,
’05; C. M. McKay, ’10; and W. T.
Bryant, ’11.
All A. & M. men in East Texas
Oil Belt Area are invited to at-
tend the meeting at Gladewater
on August 19 and are asked to
make reservations through Austin
C. Bray, 29, Box 358, Gladewater,
Secretary of the Gregg County
Club. Other officers of the club in-
clude: J. H. Blackaller, 28 Long-
view, president; and P. D. Long,
’25, Kilgore, vice-president.
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Briggs’ Chats
J. Harvey Briggs, ’04, 511 Build-
ers Exchange Building, San An-
tonio, is again editing his famous
“Chats.” According to Harvey, the
publication comes out “semi-oc-
casionally when the editor has a
coupl’a dollars.” Briggs is sales
agent for Limestone and Rock As-
phalt, handles quotations on Trap
~ Rock and is Texas agent for the
Lewis Traffic Line Marker. He has
been in the highway building ma-
terial business for many years and
is widely known in that field in
Texas.
B. & L. Leader
Charles H. Fleming, 17, is Sec-
retary of the Equitable Building
and Loan Association, 803 Lamar
St., Ft. Worth, and is also secre-
tary-Treasurer of the Texas Build-
ing and Loan League. In a recent
interview in the Ft. Worth Star-
Telegram Fleming said “The past
six months have shown the best
and most satisfactory business in
the entire history of our Associa-
tion.” Fleming was on hand for
the Commencement reunion of his
1917 Class at College, and invites
his A. & M. friends to drop by to
see him when in Ft. Worth.
——
FLASH ! !
As the AGGIE goes to press
announcement comes from the
Dallas A. & M. Club of a huge
banquet and dance celebrating
the 35th anniversary of that
club, the oldest weekly meet-
ing luncheon club in Dallas.
The big party will be held on
Friday night, Sept. 10. Re-
cently appointed and promoted
high officials of the College
will be honor guests, as well
as the College Board of Di-
rectors, high state officials and
Association President F. D.
Perkins. Tickets should be se-
cured early from Dr. M. B.
Starnes, ’27, City Health Dept.,
City Hall, Dallas. Pres. R. T.
Shiels, ’10, of the Dallas Club,
extends an invitation for this
party to every A. & M. man
and to all friends of the in-
stitution. Further details may
be found in the next issue of
the Aggie, but with a definite
limit upon the number who
can be accommodated for the
party tickets should be secur-
ed without delay. The tax will
be $2 per person.
Bexar Co. Engineer
Takes Up New Duties
Russell G. White, ’26, has been
appointed County Engineer for
Bexar County, with offices in the
Bexar County Courthouse. He has
been assistant engineer for the
past several years to County En-
gineer W. S. Goodman, who re-
cently resigned.
Will A. Collins, ’16, is agent for
the Humble Oil and Refining Com-
pany at Crockett, Texas. As a ca-
det at A. & M., Collins was a let-
terman in football and track, a
member of the Ross Volunteers,
and a member of the rifle team. At
the present time, he is a member
of the Board of Education at
Crockett.
Vice President Babcock Opens
Unofficial
Drive For
“All the Way” Support
July 16, 1937
TO THE FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A. & M.
My re-election as Vice-President of the Association of
Former Students is deeply gratifying to me. All last year I
wondered how we could give the Vice-President a definite job
to do. I believe that the Vice-President should also be Chair-
man of a Membership Committee which committee would
spread throughout the country having key men in every club
who would contact the Vice-President as to the success of the
gaining of members in his locality. This would give the Vice-
President a job to do and at the same time stimulate activity
throughout the country in bringing into the Association MORE
MEMBERS. Therefore, I am appointing myself unofficial
membership chairman.
There are many men who have attended A. & M. who
have not graduated. Some have been in school a year or
less; others two or three
years. Because these men
have not .graduated there
is some hesitancy in their
minds as to their eligi-
bility for membership in
the Association. There-
fore, it is up to the active
“go-getters” in each local-
ity to invite these fel-
lows to club meetings and
occasional big parties;
that this group of men
will not misunderstand and
will realize we want them,
as well as graduates, in
the Association.
Too much cannot be
said about membership in
the Association. I have
found men who have told
me that they are running
over with A. & M. spirit,
who always like to lead the band on parades in visiting cities,
or who probably talk the loudest at A. & M. banquets or par- .
ties, but who cannot produce a membership card in the Asso-
ciation. In the past I believe we have kept “membership” too
far in the background for fear we might hurt someone’s
feelings in asking him to PAY HIS DUES. This, I believe, is
wrong and the man who does not have his membership card
should hang his head in shame (if he can afford to pay and
does not).
A certain radio advertiser on Sunday’s program urges
you to use his products ALL THE WAY. Don’t you think it is
time that the A. & M. spirit should also go ALL THE WAY?
Why should we have a great deal “of enthusiasm about the
football team and nothing else;
or why should we bubble over
with enthusiasm about Southwest Conference Baseball Cham-
pionships, and nothing else. Let’s go A. & M. ALL THE WAY
even to the point of paying our own dues and getting some
other Former Student to pay his. There could be no greater
accomplishment during the administration of President Per-
kins than to double our membership this year. Why don’t
you appoint yourself a committee of one to get a new member
in 1937? A. & M. men everywhere will be happy to join if
our present members decide to ask them.
I shall be greatly interested in having the reaction of
other interested A. & M. men to the foregoing program. 1]
believe that there are, scattered over the world, some former
students who will volunteer in this program in my “unofficial”
membership campaign. At any rate, you asked for a message.
Here it is. Duck before the shooting starts.
Sincerely,
C. L. BABCOCK,
P. O. Box 1964,
Beaumont, Texas
A. & M. Belt Buckle
Sweetest Sight To
Aggie and Bride
“That A. & M. belt buckle was
the sweetest looking piece of jew-
elry I ever saw,” declared Howard
Mitchell, 27, assistant manager of
the A. & M. Exchange Store, in
telling of a recent experience suf-
fered by himself and Mrs. Mitchell
while on an overland honeymoon
drive to Mexico City.
" On one of the most desolate
places on this highway, the Mit-
chells suffered an automobile acci-
‘dent. With their car disabled, night
coming on, and the few passing
motorists refusing to stop, it look-
ed as if the Mitchells were in for
a bad experience. Finally, just at
dusk, a car stopped, a young fel-
low alighted and approached—and
Mitchell reports that both he and
his bride almost wept for joy when
the first thing they saw about the
newcomer was an A. & M. belt
buckle. The lad was a present day
student whose home is in Mexico
City and with his aid the Mitchell’s
honeymoon was soon resumed.
Bennie A. Zinn, ’26, is an instrue-
tor in Temple High School and is
living at 909 North 5th Street,
Temple, Texas.
Burleson Earns
Nice Promotion
By Ohio Brass
W. H. Burleson, "13, recently has
been promoted to the post as man-
ager of the Power Utilities De-
partment of the Ohio Brass Com-
pany of Mansfield, Ohio. He was
formerly assistant manager of the
department and has been with the
Ohio Brass Company for the past
15 years. He is a member of the
A. I. E. E.; has contributed num-
erous technical articles to the in-
dustrial literature; and is widely
known in the utility field.
Mr. Burleson has been in the
utility field since his graduation
from A. & M. in electrical en-
gineering in 1913. His first job
was with the Texas Power and
Light Company and he was with
this firm for several years before
going with the Ohio Brass Com-
pany. For the past several years
he has spent most of his time
assisting utility engineers solve
their problems. As a student at
A. & M., “Burly” was a cadet cap-
tain; a member of the Ross Volun-
teers; and a member of both track
and football squads.
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TRIPLE M EXES
INVADE MENARD
FOR BIG PARTY
Sixty members of the 3-M A. &
M. Ex-Students Association, rep-
resenting Menard, Mason and Mc-
Culloch Counties, gathered at the
Toepperwein Pecan grove in Me-
nard, Tuesday night, July 20 for
their annual barbecue and stag
party. Frank Newsom, ’27, pres-
ident of the club presided over a
lengthy but entertaining session,
after the barbecue supper which
was prepared by R. Q. Landers, 18
of Menard and included tasty “gen-
tleman-from Ft. McKavett”’, Mex-
jcan beans, ete. The meat was fur-
nished by John Treadwell, and the
barbecue committee was composed
of H. A. Fitzhugh and Ed L. Mears.
Penrose Metcalfe, ’16, District
Representative to the Former Stu-
dents Association, and State Leg-
islator from San Angelo was the
guest of the club and principal
speaker. After being introduced
by H. W. Toepperwein, ’29, of Me-
nard, he gave a report from the
‘Association and provided some de-
tailed information in regard to a
housing project in which the 3-M
club is interested for prospective
students from ‘the three counties
concerned.
Following Mr. Metcalfe were a
number of other speakers includ-
ing Dick Winters, 17, former pres-
ident of the 3-M Club, supplying
plenty of fun and humor; the Ses-
sion terminating with the R. Q.
Landers Trophy (an annual award)
going to Earle Rudder, ’32, Brady
High School Coach.
The next meeting will be held
in Mason County in September,
the president advised.
Signing the roster were: E. M.
Pritchard, ’36; Tommie Vaugh, 41;
Bill Miller, ’41; J. B. Crotchfield,
'32, Ed Campbell, ’39; Geo. Jo-
hanson, ’33; W. E. Haby, ’30; A.
Helbing, Jr., '37; G. Broad, ’35;
B. A. Hallum, Jr, '40; H.'D. Win-
ters, '4; Ira Q. Mayhew, ’40; R.
M. Preismeyer, 26; Earle Rudder,
'32; Chas. Trickey, ’17; all of Mec-
Culloch County; Geo. C. Stengel;
Lamar Wilkinson, '11; V. W. Craw-
ford, ’16; E. Toepperwein; James
Callan, Jr., ’25; Ray Treadwell,
’40; J. M. Treadwell; B. F. Gain-
er, ’39; B. B. Burk; Charles Wil-
kinson, ’40; Seth McGarty; E. F.
Knipling, ’30; Dr. Melvin; C. A.
Martin, ’11; Paul Martin, ’14; F.
Luckenback, Jr., 27; N. H. Glimp,
’16; Chal Wilkinson, ’08; Tiliman
B. Landers, '30; Pete W. Jacoby,
40; - R. Q. Landers, ’18; H. A.
Fitzhugh, ’33; H. E. Parish, 28;
H. W. Toepperwein, 29; Ed L.
Mears, 35; all of Menard County;
and W. R. Lemberg, 40; Billy Dick
Grosse, ’40; Sam Hoerster, Jr., 39;
Henry Keller, Jr., 29; B. C. Broad,
29; L. S. R. Clarke, 21; Kurt
Zesch, ’23; Pinkie Willman, ’30; F.
W. Brundrett, ’37; R. E. Martin,
07; C. L. Chumley, ’08; Frank
Newsom, ’27, all of Mason County;
and Penrose Metcalfe,
|an faculty members at A. & M.
Jing business.
The election of Dr. F. C. Bol-
ton as vice president of Texas A.
& M., the naming of Dr. R. P. .
Marsteller as dean of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, and the
election of Gibb Gilchrist, state
highway engineer, as dean of the 2
School of Engineering, have been
announced by F. M. Imaw, ’95, ie
chairman of the Board of directors : vi
of the College. H
Bolton and Marsteller are veter- |
In addition to being vice president,
Dr. Bolton will continue as dean
of the College but will relinquish
his post as dean of engineering.
Dean Bolton graduated in elec-
trical engineering at Mississippi
State in 1905; took his Master’s
degree at Ohio State; and came
to A. & M. in 1909 as head of the
Engineering Depart-
hal i a leh 3 lea
Electrical
ment. He holds a commission as 3
Major in the Signal Corps Reserve i
and since 1932 has been dean of
the College, as well as dean of
the Engineering School.
Dr. R. P. Marsteller came to
A. & M. after graduating in veteri- i
nary medicine from Ohio State in :
1905 and is one of the best known pi
men in his field in the United 4
States. Since the death of Dr. Mark
Francis last summer, he has been
acting dean of the Veterinary i
School. h
Gibb Gilchrist graduated in civil “aes
engineering at the University of ~~
Texas in 1909. He was with the
Santa Fe as engineer and assist-
ant to the chief engineer for sev-
eral years, and served as an offi-
cer in the corps of engineers,
United States Army, during the
World War. In 1919 he became di- "4
vision state engineer at San An-
tonio and in 1924 state highway
engineer. Resigning the latter post
after a year, he entered the en- ;
gineering firm of Nagle, Witt, Rol- H
lins, and Gilchrist at Dallas. In ot
1928 he again became state high-
way engineer which post’ he
has held since.
Under Mr. Gilchrist’s, leadership,
the State Highway Department of
Texas has become widely known
for its fine organization and per-
formance and Mr. Gilchrist is one
of the best known men in the high-
way field in the United States. He
and his family will move to the E:
campus in August. A
Heads Cotton Group
Bob Schaer, 21, was recently iy
elected president of the Brazos
Valley Cotton Cooperative Asso- :
ciation. He lives at Chapel Hill,
Texas; is president of the Farm-
ers State Bank of that city; and
is one of the largest and inost
successful farmers in the Brazos
before returning to Chapel Hil: to
engage in the farming and bank-
Valley Area. After receiving his ple
degree at A. & M. in chemical en- io
gineering, he taught for several i;
years in the Chemistry Department 3
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