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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1937)
Eo ties F xt oY x # 4 ! Re £ DALLAS CLUB ACTIVE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP R. T. “Bob” Shiels, ’10, typifies the statement, “The busy man is the one who can be counted upon for yeoman service in civic, bene- volent, or fraternal fields.” Re- cently elected president of the Dallas A. & M. Club of which he has been an active member for many, many years, Mr. Shiels has inspired that club to one of its most active summers. At a recent meeting of the club at which Dean F. C. Bolton, newly elected vice president of the A. '& M. College, was the principal speaker, over 50 men were pres- Darrell B. Lancaster, ’36, is rural service representative for the Texas Power and Light Com- pany, Taylor, Texas. His residence address is 1119 Davis Street of that city. Ross H. Corbett, ’11, for the past 19 years has been a civil engineer in Wichita Falls with offices at 202 City National Bank Building, of that city. His residence address is 2012 Huff Avenue. Austin A. Crownover, '36, is an assistant in soil conservation for the A. & M. Extension Service, with headquarters in Archer City, Texas. Roy Driver, ’30, is field superin- tendent for the Standard Paving Company and his permanent ad- dress is Box 515, Decatur, Texas. At the present time he is on a paving job at Seymour, Texas. “ Stanton M. Field, ’26, is city engineer for Weatherford, Texas. He has been in this capacity for the past 11 years. His residence address is 514 North Wall Street. . Jesse E. Fox, ’36, is superinten- dent of school and teacher of vo- cational agricultural for the Thorn- dale Independent School District. John L. Gerloff, ’385, is with the Belton Independent School Dis- trict, where he is teaching voca- tional agriculture. His residence is 514 North Wall Street. For the past 15 years, Harry B. Gibson, ’17, has been with the Santa Fe Railroad. At the present time he is a coach builder and finds his work most interesting. His home address is 801 Prairie Ave- nue, Cleburne, Texas. A. H. Grantham, 31, is with the Texas Power and Light Company, Temple, Texas. He has been with this company for the past six years and at the present time is a sales- man of rural industrial power. His residence address is 313 North 11th Street, Temple. G. L. Boykin, ’22, has recently accepted a position with the New Mexico Extension Service as dis- trict agent. He will be located at State College, New Mexico. During Boykin’s cadet days, he was cap- tain of the band and active in many student affairs. Vernon Martin, ’385, has recently been made assistant county agent in agricultural conservation and is located at the Court House, Hous- ton, Texas. J. L.. Saunders, 23, is with the U. S. Geological Survey and his address is P. O. Box 130, Harris- burg, Pennsylvania. Saunders says he wishes it were possible to drop in and see the many changes that have been made since he left A. & M. in 1923. : OF BOB SHIELS, 10 ent. Dr. Bolton told the club about plans of the College for the com- ing year and predicted a record- breaking enrollment of some 5,000 students. Although his work as head of the Industrial Division of the Gen- eral Electric Company in the Southwest carries enough work to exhaust the average man, Shiels finds time to take an active part in the civic affairs of the city of Dallas and in A. & M. affairs. He recently completed a two-year term as a member of the Park Board of the city of Dallas, serv- ing in this capacity during the pre- paration for and through the first year of the huge Texas Centennial Celebration. From time to time he has taken part in various other civic enterprises in Dallas, has long been an active member of the Dallas A. & M. Club, and has al- ready served that club as its presi- dent during one previous term. Mr. and Mrs. Shiels have a son attend- ing A. & M. at the present time and are frequent campus visitors. His office is in the General Elec- tric Building, 1801 N. Lamar, Dal-]| las, and the Shiels family lives at 602 Brookside Drive. Other officers of the Dallas Club include: G. M. Hatch Jr. ’35, first vice president; F. K. Buckner, 23, second vice president; and J. E. Loupot, ’33, secretary-treasurer. The club meets every Friday noon at the Dallas Athletic Club. V. G. Young, ’34, who has been an assistant in agricultural con- servation and located at El Paso, Texas, has been appointed county agricultural agent for Glasscock County and is now living at Gar- ‘den City, his new headquarters. John W. Burgess, 29, who has been serving an active tour of duty with the CCC in Oklahoma since September of 1934, reports that he has had the pleasure of working with a number of Aggies who have made good with the CCC in Oklahoma. With him have been Captain A. B. Welsch, "27; Captain L. D. Stephenson, 25, and Lieu- tenant Ralph Young, ’29. Burgess lives with his family in Ponca City at 408 S. 10th St., Ponca City, Oklahoma. Grady W. Harris, "21, is post-’ master at Mobeetie, Texas and is also selling the International Line of hardware. He is getting along nicely. J. L. Tarter is county agricul- tural agent for the A. & M. Ex- tension Service, with headquarters at Wheeler, Texas, and is a new Ass'n member. Marshall F. Stiles Jr., 36, is with the Red Bank Oil Company and at the present time ‘is located at Woodson, Texas. Stiles recently visited the Dallas A. & M. Club and was quite complimentary a- bout this club. Herman F. Schlemmer, ’28, who has been assistant county agent of Bexar County, has been made county agricultural agent of Ban- dera County with headquarters at Bandera, Texas. William R. “Bill” Kimbrough, ’35, has been transferred as assis- tant county agent from Deaf Smith County to Hudspeth County as county agricultural agent. He will make his headquarters at Sierra Blanca, Texas. As a stu- dent at A. & M., Bill was a popular member of the varsity football team. He has a brother at A. & M. at the present time. g Joseph M. Hatton, ’35, who has been assistant county agent in soil conservation work in Dallam County, has recently been appoint- ed county agricultural agent for Hansford County with headquar- ters at Spearman, Texas. Leslie Ehlers, ’30, has recently been appointed county agricultural agent for Comal County with head- quarters at New Braunfels. He was formerly assistant county | agricultural agent at Fort Bend County. Herbert Voelcker, ’09, is a part- ner of Voelcker and Dixon, Archi- tects, 913% Indiana, Wichita Falls. Voelcher has been in the architec- tural business for the past 20 years. His residence address is W. L. David, ’30, has been made county agricultural agent of Bra- zoria County. His headquarters are at Angleton, Texas. He was trans- ferred as county agent from Liber- ty County. Olin M. Geer, 29, sends in his Association dues from 3030 Elm Lane, Racine, Wisconsin. Geer has been with the J. I. Case Company, Engineering Department, since his graduation from A. & M. He works on the development of new ma- chines and on getting them into production. His work is done most- ly on a board but has to run a- bout the factory quite a bit. He often goes into the field to test new machines and finds his work very interesting. Lee T. “Red Taylor, '12, has been with the Santa Fe Railroad for the past 22 years. His home is 420 North Tth Street, Temple, Texas, and his big hobby is hunt- ing and fishing. Joe C. Tinney, 30, is an assistant in soil conservation with the AAA and his address is 304 Federal Building, Wichita Falls, Texas. For the past five years, Emil E. Umlang, '27, has been with the Texas Power and Light Company. He recently was transferred from the Dallas office to Taylor, Texas. Fred Vinther, '97, is owner of the Vinther Electric Company lo- cated at Georgetown, Texas. He has been in this business for the past 15 years. For the past two years, Marvin E. Wallace Jr., 25, has been an assistant in soil conservation, lo- cated at Weatherford, Texas. Ray M. Wilhite, ’17, is making his home at 2167 Avenue J, Wic- hita Falls, Texas. Wilhite has been with the City National Bank of Wichita Falls for the past 18 years and at present is manager of the Loan and Discount Department. Wilhite is secretary of the Wichita Falls A. & M. Club. Alexander N. Yater, ’15, is farm- ing at Cleburne, Texas. Bennie A. Zinn, ’26, is an in- structor of the Temple Independent School District and is living at 909 North 5th Street, Temple. R. J. Fugate, ’85, is a scout in the Land Department of the Sun Oil Company and gets his mail at Box 295, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Percy A. Tardy Jr., 36, is a chemist for the Magnolia Petro- leum Company and is located at 1930 Sabine Pass Avenue, Beau- mont. Earl Tardy, ’36, has just recently completed an active tour of duty with the U. S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and is at pre- sent at his home in Bryan, Texas. J. H. Sandlin, ’29, is with the El Campo Rice Milling Company at El Campo and gets his mail at Box 265. Sandlin was formerly county agricultural agent at Angle- ton, Texas. Wayne E. Thomas, ’31, is an of- ficial of Dairyland, Inc., at Shreve- port, La. He has been with this big organization for the past six years. W. W “Pete” Hewitt, ’33, is tak- ing summer work at A. & M. For the past several years he has coached and taught in the high school at Groesbeck, which is his home town. H. L. “Lefty” Rogers, ’25, form- er Aggie baseball captain and star pitcher, has returned to Texas after spending most of the past 10 years in the East and in Canada. He is locating in Dallas where he plans to enter the oil business, in which he has been engaged since leaving Texas. He is an older brother of Owens Rogers, Mart, Texas, who plays in the backfield on the Aggie football team this fall. Edward J. Novosad, ’26, has been transferred as assistant in agricul- tural conservation to Karnes Coun- ty with headquarters at Karnes City. Pat Coon, ’37, who received his degree in horticulture, was a visit- or to the campus recently. He has left for Tela, Honduras, C. A. where he will work for the United WICHITA FALLS CLUB PRESIDENT Ralph A. Birk, ’13, recently elected president of the Wichita Falls A. & M. Club, is with the Bridwell Oil Company, one of the ¥ leading independent oil firms, and handles the land and state’s geological end of the company’s extensive operations. He and Mrs. Birk make their home in Wichita Falls and have one son who will be ready for college in 1938. Birk’s office is at 811-14 City National Bank Bldg. After receiving his degree in Civil Engineering Birk took three “Post Graduate Work” the Canal Zone where he was con- years in struction engineer with the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Panama Canal. During the War he served with the 472nd. Engineers and was sent to the Canal Zone to make a military map of Panama. He came out of the war as a Master Engineer, Senior Grade, and is now a Cap- tain in the Engineers Reserve, 315th. Engineers. In 1916 Birk started his geolo- gical career with The Texas Co., and in the past 20 years followed petroleum geology in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and old Mexico. He was with the Texas Co. and the Amerada before becoming affiliat- ed with the Bridwell Oil Co. Birk is a Past President of the North Texas Geological Society and of the Wichita Falls Chapter, Reserve Officers Association. He is a member of the American As- sociation of Petroleum Geologists and of the American Society of Military Engineers. He is a Past High Priest of the Duncan, Okla., Chapter Royal Arch Masons, and is active in various other fraternal and civic affairs. For many years he has been an active member of the Wichita Falls A. & M. Club. At the last annual meeting of the Association of Former Students he was elected a Director of the Asso- ciation. Jack H. Jameson, ’18, has been with the A. & M. Extension Ser- vice for the past 17 years. At the present time he is county agri- cultural agent at Mineral Wells, Texas. Paul B. Jones, ’24, is living at Jacksboro, Texas, where he is county agricultural agent for the A. & M. Extension Service. Fred Reichert, 30, is a member cf the County Engineer's staff, Bexar County Courthouse, San Antonio. r AUSTIN BRIDGE COMPANY DALLAS, TEXAS CONTRACTORS - BUILDERS MANUFACTURERS Roads - Bridges - Road Machinery PRON The Aggieland [nn ON THE CAMPUS Ofyers You Comfortable Rooms Dining Room and Lunch Room @ Make It Your 2711 Taft, of that city. As a stu-| Fruit Company. Pat was one of Head . dent at A. & M., Voelcker was |the announcers over WTAW at eaaquariers art editor of the Longhorn. College Station. JO Fi id # a .-& RR ha J PB “ r £ I 4 3 & H a ¥ 1 {Bin . 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