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Accountants
T. W. Mohle, ’19, Houston, was
elected President of the Texas So-
ciety of Certified Public Account-
ants at that organization’s recent
annual meeting in Ft. Worth. He
is manager of the Houston office of
the nationally known firm of Ly-.
brand, Ross Brothers and Mont-
gomery, one of the largest account-
ing and auditing firms in the
. world. His office is located in the
Shell Bldg., in Houston. Out of
this office he and his staff do ac-
counting work all over South
Texas and Southern Louisiana.
After leaving A. & M. in 1919,
Mohle studied accounting at Tu-
lane and Columbia Universities. He
has been with his present firm
since Jan. 1, 1923, serving succes-
sively in the firm's New York,
Dallas and Houston offices. For
the past several years his firm
has made the annual audit of the
books of the Association of Form-
er Students.
An active member of the Hous-
“ton A. & M. Club and of the As-
sociation, he has played a leading
part in A. & M. affairs for the
past several years. He served last
year as a Director of the Associa-
tion, and was a member of the ar-
rangements committee staging the
big Houston Club Gridiron Dinner
in honor of the football team last
fall.
Mohle was raised in Lockhart.
MARINE CORPS’
[. M. BETHEL T0
STUDY TEXTILES
Captain Ion M. Bethel, ’25, of
the United States Marine Corps,
ization for training at Lowell Tex-
tile Institute, Lowell, Massachus-
etts, where he will take a two-year
course. He will become a textile
expert in the Marine Corps and
upon completion of his work and
his duties, he will be assigned to
ment of the Marine Corps.
Few Marine Corps officers have
had a greater variety of experien-
ces or a more interesting career
than Captain Bethel, who in recent
years has been on duty with the
Marines at Shanghai, China, the
Philippines and elsewhere, in ad-
dition to two years of service at
sea aboard the battleship Nevada.
Born in Hext, Texas, he later
made his home with his father in
Menard. He first entered the ser-
vice during the World War, but
returned to Texas to complete his
education at Texas A. & M. Follow-
ing his graduation, he became a
second lieutenant of Marines and
in subsequent years has been given
a variety of assignments.
True to Texas traditions, Cap-
tain Bethel also won distinction
as a marksman, and is considered
one of the best rifle shots in the
Corps. In 1935, while taking part
in the New England Rifle Tourna-
ment at Wakefield, Mass., he won
the Lombard Match for snipers by
making a perfect score while shoot-
most difficult of all rifle competi-
tions.
J. G. Schlather, ’34, is with the
Austin Bridge Company. At the
present time Schlather is located
in Galveston, where he is working
on the big Galveston Causeway
Project.
Kermit E. Voelkel, 30, is still
with the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture, Division of Cotton Mar-
keting, with headquarters in Aus-
tin, Texas. Voelkel travels a terri-
tory of 44 cotton producing coun-
ties in Central and South Texas.
ENSSS"e is an avid football fan and
manages to attend most of the
Cadet’s games each year. Mr. and
Mrs. Mohle and their two children |
make their home in Houston.
Holland Heads
Monroe C. of C.
‘ George D. Holland, ’24, for the
past three years manager of the
Chamber of Commerce at Camden,
Arkansas, resigned recently to be-
come general manager of the
Chamber of Commerce at Monroe
and West Monroe, Louisiana. He
assumes his new duties on Novem-
ber 1.
" Born in Brazos County, Holland
graduated from A. & M. in 1924. He
taught school a year or so and then
entered chamber of commerce work
as secretary of the organization at
Atlanta, Texas. For two years he
was on the staff of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce at Long-
view, resigning three years ago to
accept the Camden job. His pro-
motion to Monroe, a city of 50,000
people, was considered as a fine
~~ tribute to his good work. Mr. and
Mrs. Holland have two sons.
Colonel E. A. Eversberg, ’13, re-
cently opened a new Minimax store
in Houston, which makes his fourth
store of that kind in Houston.
Prior to moving to Houston a num-
ber of years ago, Eversberg oper-
ated several stores in Brenham. He
was a major in France during the
World War and is now a colonel
and an active figure in the Texas
National Guard.
W. E. Thomason, ’31, who is
with Dairyland, Inc., has been
transferred to Houston where he
is in the Sales Department. Thoma-
son likes his work very much. His
mailing address is 1937 West Mec-
Kinney, Houston.
Clyde L. Jones, ’37, who has
been secretary f othe Chamber of
Commerce at Trinity, Texas, since
graduation, has recently resigned
to accept a similar position with
the Terrell Chamber of Commerce.
As a cadet at A. & M., Jones was
a letterman in basketball and a
popular figure on the campus.
Houston E. Smith, 31, is county
agricultural agent for Coke Coun-
ty, with headquarters at Robert
Lee, Texas.
la modern up-to-date,
Park Avenue, Austin, Texas.
C. C. Kuhne, ’19, has changed
his address to 2202 Ong, Ainarillo.
W. W. “Bill” Derrick, ’20, has
completely recovered after a very
serious automobile wreck last May.
He is state extension agent in Ani-
mal Husbandry for the Extension
Service of the University of Ne-
braska at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Last summer Derrick was honor-
ed by being asked to judge the
swine classes at the Oregon State
Fair. While on the trip to this oc-
casion, he took in most of the Pa-
cific Coast studying the farming
and livestock practices of that
area.
Wm. A. Taylor, ’29, graduated
from the Medical Branch of the
University of Texas, Galveston, in
1934. He and his father own and
operate a hospital at Mt. Pleasant,
Texas. He reports that he is get-
ting along splendidly.
T. A. Ward, ’28, is associated
with his father in the operation of
and well
equipped Dog and Cat Hospital in
Houston.
T. B. Powers, ’31, has been
transferred to Austin, Texas, where
he is deputy boiler inspector for
the Austin district. He is with the
Boiler Inspection Division, Nalle
Building Annex, Austin, Texas.
C. P. Sweeny, 30, has recently
purchased a new home at 16 Jack-
son Avenue, Chatham, New Jersey.
Sweeny has been transferred from
the general Development Labora-
tory of the NBC to the Television
Development Group and is located
in Room 8501 in the Empire State
Building, New York City.
G. R. Zachry, ’33, is a district
engineer for the Humble Oil and
Refining Company and gets his
mail at Box Z, Hobbs, New Mex-
ico.
W. N. Marshall, ’30, has recent-
ly opened up an automobile agency
for himself, Neill Marshall Motor
Company, at Gladewater, Texas.
D. W. Buie, ’37, is credit man for
Marshall and both cordially invite
any A. & M. men passing through
Gladewater to stop in and visit
| with them.
has been selected by that organ-
duty in the Quartermaster Depart-
ing at bobbing targets, one of the ||
He gets his mail at © 207 Harris
Architect
It was hot weather last summer
when Fred S. “Freddie” Buford,
31, was a campus visitor. The
former Aggie yell-leader is prac-
ticing architecture in Abilene and
is associated with J. H. Hughes.
Their office is in the Citizens Bank
Building of that city.
Buford reports business being |
fairly good. He and his partner
have built many residences and
are architects on the new state
hospital building at Abilene, which
was started last winter. Although
he took his degree in architecture,
Buford was in the road contracting
business for several years before
starting his present work.
Big John T. Stovall, ’21, veteran
county agricultural agent now lo-
cated at Dimmit-Castro Counties,
is mighty proud of his three fine
children shown above. Apples of
his eye are those twin daughters,
Marydell and Ruedell. The husky
fellow in the middle looks like he
is going to be bigger than John
himself in two more years. His
name is Thomas. Stovall has been
associated with the Texas Agri-
cultural Extension Service for sev-
eral years.
R. W. Rowley, ’32, is with Cliffs
Dow Chemical Company and is
making his home at 450 E. Ridge,
Marquette, Michigan. He is doing
technical sales work for this comp-
any. Rowley invites any Aggies
who might be up in his direction,
to give him a ring.
Dr. A. M. Dashiell, ’27, is in
charge of the District Health Of-
fice No. 4, located in Bryan, Texas.
E. F. Reading, ’36, who has been
assistant county agent for Hart-
ley County, has resigned his posi-
tion to go to the Extension Service
at New Mexico State College, State
College, New Mexico. Reading will
be agricultural engineer for the
Extension Service.
W. C. Regmund, ’37, is a drafts-
man for the Central Texas Iron
Works and gets his mail at 1500
Austin Avenue, Waco, Texas. Reg-
mund says he recently joined the
reorganized Waco A. & M. Club
and it promises to become one of
the best A. & M. Clubs in the
state.
Lee Mayfield, ’24, is assistant
engineer for the Missouri Pacific
Lines and is located at Houston.
Mayfield has been with the same
company since his graduation, and
during his many travels sees quite
a few A. & M. exes. He gets his
mail at 2502 Arbor, Houston.
V. T. Tracy, 35, is with the
Houston: Oil Company at Corpus
Christi and is living at 1314 Stap-
les Street of that city. Tracy
works for G. H. “Floppy” Har-
tung, 22, and likes his work very
much.
Not Fun For Him
“It may be funny to you but it
wasn’t to me”, writes Eli O. Wotip-
ka, ’33, when he sent the above
photograph. A sudden rise in a
dry stream in the interior of Mex-
ico, caught Wotipka and he is
shown above trying to salvage some
of his clothes. He was fortunate in
recovering both his belongings and
his car but writes that it was an
exciting few hours.
Wotipka is with the Madereria
“Rio Grande’, Apartado 122, Chi-
huahua, Chih., Mexico. This firm
handles lumber and building ma-
terials. Wotipka’s work carries him
to various sections of Mexico and
he and his wife find life there most
interesting. “Look out for those
dry streams though”, warns Eli,
“They’ll fool you”.
A recent visitor in the Associa-
tion office was W. Harper Rawl-
ings, ’35, who is vocational agri-
cultural teacher at Kerrville,
Texas. Rawlings is quite proud of
his stock judging team as they
won the state livestock judging
contest last year and are getting
ready now to go to Kansas City.
This will be a free trip for this
stock judging team and is quite
an honor. Mr. Rawlings is a new
member of the Association. He re-
ceived his degree in 1928 from Sam
Houston State Teachers College at
Huntsville, and expects to receive
his masters degree from A. & M.
this June.
Fred R. Carpenter, 28, is budget
officer for the North Texas Dis-
trict CCC with headquarters in
Fort Worth. He has been on duty
with the CCC for the past three
and a half years.
R. D. McCalman, ’31, is with the
Texas Power and Light Company
at Temple, Texas. McCalman has
been out of Texas for the past
few years and reports that he is
really enjoying helping the Aggies
win some games this year.
Joe S. Taylor, ’37, is doing grad-
uate work in Cornell University.
He is majoring in animal nutri-
tion and minoring in animal breed-
ing. Taylor plans to-go straight
through and take his Doctor of
Philosophy Degree. His address is
122 Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, N.
Y. As a student at A. & M., Taylor
was a member of the National
Dairy Judging Team.
J. M. Kenderdine, ’34, gets his
mail at 2178, Houston, Texas. John
is sales engineer for the Norvell-
Wilder Supply Co., Houston. Ken-
L. M. Ligon, ’31, has changed
his address to 3209 Liberty Street,
Austin, Texas.
J. E. Gaston, ’33, is assistant
resident engineer for the Texas
State Highway Department and
gets his mail at Box 1714, Amaril-
lo, Texas.
James T. Terry, '36, has chang-
ed his address from Fort Crock-
ett, Texas, to Box 209, Cameron,
Texas.
Nunnally P. Stephenson, ’30, is
Regional Personnel Training Of-
ficer for the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice with headquarters in the Neil
P. Anderson Building, Fort Worth.
He is associated with many A. &
M. men in this work and sees many
others in connection with his work
in Arkansas, and Louisiana.
CG." E. Carter, '220,%is living at
818 East Palestine Street, Mexia,
Texas.
W. R. Richardson, ’29, is living
at 1138 Wilbur Street, Dallas and
recently sent in his Association
dues and says he is mighty proud
of being an Aggie.
derdine is a former Aggie athlete. |
KATE SMITH ASKS
NORTON T0 AID IN
PICKING HER TEAM
Coach Homer Norton again has
accepted an invitation of Kate
Smith, popular radio star, to be
a member of her All-Collegiate
Football Committee which will se-
lect a nationwide all-star grid
team.
Other members of Miss Smith’s
committee of coaches include Jam-
es Crowley, Fordham; Frank Mur-
ry, Virginia; O. E. Hollingsberry,
Washington State; Noble Kizer,
Purdue, and Wallace Wade, Duke.
The committee of six will study
nominations from more than 500
other coaches over the country be-
fore making its recommendations
to Miss Smith.
Last year Miss Smith gave Joe
Routt, All-American guard, a gold
watch although she did not place
him on her first All-American
team.
J. M. Bird, ’28, is with the Soil
Conservation Service at' Vernon,
Texas.
C. W. Terry, 25, is a: civil‘en-
gineer in the Drafting Depart-
ment of the Texas Power & Light
Company, 507 Interurban Building,
Dallas, His residence ad-
dress is 5511 Richmond Avenue,
Dallas.
Texas.
H. C. Knickerbocker, ’17, is
with the Lone Star Construction
Company, Inc., 423 Seguin Road,
San Antonio, Texas.
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