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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1937)
Horace K. Fawcett, 24, is still ranching in the Del Rio country and gets his mail at Del Rio. He and Mrs. Fawcett have three fine children. J. D. Craven, ’37, gets his mail at Box 566, Taft, Texas. _R. S. Williams, ’15, is living at Mertzon, Texas. Albert C. Giesecke, '09, is an of- ficial of the Minnesota Power and Light Company at Duluth, Minn., where he lives at 111 Snively Road. He has been with this comp- any for a number of years. Herbert W. Hartung, ’37, last year’s yell leader, is living at the down town Y. M. C. A., 16th and Locust, St. Louis, Mo. He is with the Goodrich Tire Company. H. H. Bryan, ’28, recently com- pleted his eighth year as superin- tendent of one of the largest vege- table growing farms in the South at Darien, Georgia. He reports that he will have a youngster ready to enter A. & M. in September 1949. Thos. C. Bain, 27, is with the Texas Cities Gas Company at Waco, Texas. John W. Shepperson, ’37, is in partnership with his father in the furniture business in San Angelo. He reports that J. J. “Stubby” | Chatmas, Jr., ’37, and J. M. Hol- _ lingsworth, ’37, as being traveling auditors for the Oliver Farm Equipment Sales Company. Joe L. “Dody” Brown, ’37, is with the San Antonio Light and lives at 213 East Huisache, San Antonio. Bailey G. Carnahan, 37, is tak- ing graduate work at Harvard. W. A. “Doc” Ruhmann, ’37, is teaching vocational agriculture at Johnson City, Texas. Edwin D. Martin, ’27, is princi- pal of the Alexander Hamilton Junior High School at Houston. While in school at A. & M., he served as principal of the Consoli- Thomas H. Wallace, ’26, who has been with the Gulf Oil Corporation for several years, has been trans- ferred to England, where he will be in charge of field operations and drilling in the southern part of that nation. His new assignment will be with the Gulf Exploration Company. Wallace is. said to be one of the youngest men in the history of the Gulf to be entrusted with as important a job as the above. Although his address in England is unknown, mail will be forwarded to him if sent to the Gulf Exploration Company, 17 Battery Place, New York City, NEY, 1. :D. ‘Brown, Jr.,;’34, for .the past two and a half years super- intendent of the malarial control project at Hillsboro, has been as- signed to the United States engi- neer’s office at Natchez, Mississip- pi. He and Mrs. Brown are making their home in that city. T. C. Forrest, Jr., ’18, recently returned from several weeks in New York City, where he was en- gaged by the New York World Ex- position of 1939 as a consultant. He is serving in an advisory ca- pacity on utilities construction be- ing planned for the 1,200 acre Empire State Exposition. Forrest is a member of the engineering firm of Myers, Noyes & Forrest of Dallas, and this firm played one of the leading roles in the engi- neering construction of the Pan- American Exposition at Dallas. Rooming together at A. & M. this fall are Mitchell Langdon, Jr., son of Young M. Langdon, ’13, Dallas, and Joe Windrow, son of the late Rollin J. Windrow, 06. Colonel G. Wash Hardy, ’79, is still practicing law at Shreveport, Louisiana. Associated with Colonel Hardy is his son, G. W. Hardy, Jr. Colonel Hardy writes that in his estimation, the only place A. & M. | men have fallen down is in taking their proper position of influence and leadership in the political life of today. . = ‘} M. Hollingsworth, ’37, is an dated School on the Campus. yr BL pad oad AJ el : i Lr “© Hints : 1206 | Building, | Mr. nd _ ‘Moon live at 1913 ] Kipling Street. Grace Oil Company is J. Collier Hurley, ’22. 3 Donald C. Glass, 33, is in the Petroleum Engineering Depart- ment of the Humble Oil and Refin- ing Company and at last reports was at Freer, Texas. He reports that Frank Owens, ’34, is in the same department and was recent- ly married. He also reports that D. B. Robertson, ’35, and L. H. Thompson, 37, are also with the Humble Company. E. A. “Ikie” Schattenberg, 26, is still with the United States De- partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- tine. His official headquarters are at 315 Citizens State Bank Build- ing, Houston, but his duties keep him traveling most of the time. For many years he was in the Rio Grande Valley and was active in the A. & M. Club down there. John W. “Co-sine” Wallis, ’09, major U. S. Army retired, is own- er and president of the Rain Storm Manufacturing Company, 953 North Edinburgh Avenue, Hollywood, Cal- ifornia. His company manufac- tures rain storm, portable, irriga- tion equipment. He is one of the leaders in this field in the Western States. Major Wallis was awarded a. commission in the United States Army in competitive examination after graduation from A. & M. in 1909, and was in the Coast Artil- lery Corps. Because of deafness, he was retired in 1919. Study and research has made Major Wallis one of the outstand- ing irrigation experts on the Pa- cific Coast. He is the inventor and manufacturer of pipe couplings that play a large part in the con- struction of his portable sprink- lers. He is an active member of the Southern California A. & M. Club. He sends his best regards to all his friends. L. J. Starr, ’36, is vocational ag- riculture teacher in the Highland consolidated school district, five miles South of Roscoe, Nolan County. This is the largest con- solidated school district in Texas. E. B. Keng, ’37, is teaching vo- | auditor with the ‘Sales Company, 1616 | Owner “of “the Oliver Farm- J lias 5 HE is A x M. frionds, A fon M. Fo, ’34, who is with Arthur Anderson & Company, ac- | countants and auditors, has been transferred to Houston, Texas, where his company has recently opened an office. Allen has been with Arthur Anderson & Com- pany, New York City, N. Y., since his graduation and is happy to be located in Texas once more. The new company is located in the Shell Building. C. W. Underwood, ’38, is work- ing for the Sun Oil Company and at the present time is located at Arp, Texas. J. O. Stephens, ’35, is in the En- gineering Department of the Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Springfield, Illinois. The plant at Springfield consists of machining and assembling the transmission and tracks for their line of craw- ler tractors. C. D. Whitsitt, ’33, is with the Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, and gets his mail at Box 263, Alice, Texas. He has been transferred from Shawnee, Oklahoma. J. W. Cravens, ’33, has changed his address from Anna, Texas to P. O. Box 435, Sherman, Texas. Robert O. Travis, ’32, is connect- ed with the J. K. Hughes Oil Com- pany, Mexia, Texas. Travis was formerly with the Shell Petroleum Company, Houston. Milton. S. Beringer, ’16, who is with the British American Oil Company Limited, has been trans- ferred from Calgary, Alberta, Can- ada, to Montreal East, Quebec, Canada. Richard “Dick” Furman, ’20, represented Texas at an Aviation Conference held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on November 5 and 6 and called by Governor George H. Earle of that state. Furman was appointed by Governor James V. Allred to represent Texas at the conference. Furman is with the Corpus Christi Chamber of Com- merce. J. B. Crozier, ’32, is with the cational agriculture at Lawn, Tex- as. State and Office, Santa Fe, New Mexico. K. W. Tottenham, ’31, is assist- ant county agricultural agent at Houston. He took that position November 1 after transferring rom similar work at Wharton. N. J. Mainer, 28, was transfer- red last fall to Huntsville, where he is engineer on a lake park pro- ject. At the time he was transfer- red, he was serving in the place of engineer in charge of the Fort Parker state park project between Mexia and Groesbeck. This project called for the construction of a 740-acre lake by means of con- crete dam in the Navasota River. Mainer has had wide experience in park construction work. Jos. L. Hurff, ’27, is a radio en- gineer for the Hazeltine Corpora- tion. He is married and lives at 3614-165th St., Flushing, New York. Lieutenant Robert F. Worden, 32, of the U. S. Air Corps, has been transferred from Barksdale Field, Louisiana, to Randolph Field, near San Antonio, where he will serve as a flying instructor. He is married and has a daughter not quite a year old. F. W. Martin, ’36, is teaching vocational agriculture at Dowell, near Rotan, in Fisher County. Milton B. Templeton, ’35, is teaching vocational agriculture at Hamlin. He previously taught at Sylvester and was on both the junior and international stock judging team as a student at A. & M. Wm. P. “Bill’ McIntosh, ’37, who is with the General Electric Com- pany, has recently been transfer- red from Schenectady, New York to that same company at Phila- delphia, Pa. His address is 2340 South 72nd Street. Ben H. Lemberg, ’37, was a re- cent campus visitor. Lemberg is an is an assistant in agricultural con- servation with headquarters at Sweetwater, Texas. John Warden, ’08 was recently Pea to the rank of - full Hoher “Doc™ Pitner, ’37, who has been with the Firestone Tire Company at Beaumont, was re- cently transferred to the Person- nel. Division of that company at Akron, Ohio. Jno. B. Howell, 21, is one of the managers of Howell Theatres at Coleman, Texas. Roland C. Madeley, ’35, is still with the Soil Conservation Service and is located at Jacksonville, Tex- as. Madeley reports that he is en- joying his work very much and that there are two other Aggies on the camp staff at Jacksonville, Allen P. Goforth, ’33, who is tech- nician-in-charge; and Robert E. “Bob” Lewis, ’34, who is camp superintendent. Charles T. Schwab, ’25, is located at 10504 South Bell Avenue, Chi- cago, Illinois. J. H. Beene, 37, is an assistant in agricultural conservation in Llano County, with headquarters in Llano. John T. Mogford, ’37, is an assist- ant in agricultural conservation for the A. & M. Extension Service and is located at Colorado, Texas, where he gets his mail at Box 951. Mogford was a popular member of last year’s graduating class. George S. Dowell, ’98, is still practicing law in Austin, where he ' maintains an office at 107 East Sixth Street. Lee Solovey, 35, is in the smelter division of the Phelps-Dodge Min- ing Corporation in Clifton, Arizona, and he gets his mail at Box $92. John N. Simpson, 14, is ag bls tural and livestock agent forf the Texas and Pacific Railway (Jpm- pany, and offices at 215 Live Stock Exchange Building, Fort Worth. A new member of the Associa- tion is O. O. Lumpkin, 26, whose address is Box 865, Kingsville, Texas. C. S. Jackson, ’31, is with the Humble Oil & Refining Company and his address is. 1708 Travis Street, Houston, Texas. Jackson re- ports that he is rooming with John Wilikins, ’37. Harry S. Turner, Jr., ’36, is with the Dallas Power and Light Com- pany and gets his mail at 1001 Dallas Power and Light Building, Dallas. J. B. Heinen, ’34, is president of the McGuire Cleaning, Dyeing and Laundry Co., Inc., 2100 South Ervay Street, Dallas, Texas. K. H. “Dutch” Heinrich, ’34, is senior landscape foreman for the National Park Service, and gets his mail at Box 16, Norris, Ten- nessee. Afton B. Johnson, '30, has been transferred from Lockhart to San Antonio, where he offices at 1914- 15. Alamo National Building. John- son’s home address in San Antonio is 414 West Lullwood. R. C. Halter, ’36, gets his mail at Box 923, Baytown, Texas. Hal- ter reports that there are many other Aggies working for the Hum- ble Company at Baytown. L. D. Steffens, 24, is with’ the Ralston Purina Company and mak- es his headquarters at 1804. West 6th Street, Austin, Texas. John H. Cates, ’28, is proprietor of the Park Theatre, Iowa Park, Texas. R. C. “Army” Armstrong, ’25, is living at 3439 Wichita, Houston. “Army” is with the Western Metal Manufacturing Company of that city. John A. Pranglin, ’32, gets his mail at 2011 Esperson Building, Houston. For the past year, Prang- line has been doing seismograph work in Wyoming and Montana and he is mighty glad to get back to Texas, where he will at least occasionally see some of his old friends. M. S. Rugenstein, '36, makes his home in Brenham, where he gets his mail at P. O. Box 480. Warren W. Bates, ’18, is living at 2329 Commerce, Houston. Bates has been in business for himself since 1932. He handles asbestos and Tagua beats insulatives in ||| 1 Ar | rp | stock on os He also engages § | Bea in the insulation of homes and commercial buildings. Bates has had 8 years of experience in the insulation business, and operates under the namer of the Warren W. Bates Asbestos Products Company. M. E. Thompson, ’32, gets his mail at Box 67, Farwell, Texas. Vernon Ayres, ’27, makes his home at 308 E. Morris Street, Yoa- kum, Texas. Dr. Fred M. Burkey, ’31, sends in his Association dues with the following statement, nothing like a green back to cover a red face. I hope this hides my confusion.” Dr. Burkey resides at 2507 Bissonet, Houston, Texas. Tom G. Banks, Jr., '31, is living at 743 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Banks is chief engineer for station KFXR in Okla- homa City. He has been married five years and has two fine boys. A. H. “Salty” Grantham, ’31, has been transferred from Temple to Dallas, where he is still with the Texas Poyer and Light Company. John H. Zich, ’37, is an appren- tice in the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Works and is located at 2818 W. Highland Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis- consin. John says he likes his work very much. Jim Carroll, ’37, is connected with the Sales Department of the Dallas Power and Light Company, Dallas. His residence address is 4944 East Side Avenue, Dallas. Carroll re- ports that there are a large num- ber of A. & M. men in the employ of the Dallas Power and Light Company. Jack Lee Grayson, ’37, attending the University of Ten- nessee Medical School. His address is 1857 Kendale, Memphis, Tennes- see. Grayson says he is enjoying his work very much and has seen quite a few A. & M. men. Tom B. Darst, ’11, is living at Richmond, Texas. Darst is in the farming and cattle business. G. R. Darby, ’06, is resident en- gineer for the State Highway De- partment and is located ot Lufkin, Texas. “Theres sis x is now" Grady W. ‘Harris, ’22, is post- master for the United States Post Office at Mobeetie, Texas. Tom A. Van Amburgh, '09, gets his mail at Box 1766, El Paso, Tex- as. He is superintendent on a big job near El Paso and is with the Austin Road Company of Dallas. Edward D. “Sis” Hopkins, "19, of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Washington, D. C., has been de- tailed to Chile to aid the Chilean government in the organization of ‘a Department of Sanitary Engi- neering. Hopkins will assist in giv- ing lectures on sanitary engineer- ing in the University of Chile. These lectures will all be given in Spanish. Hopkins’ new address is Hotel Crillon, Santiago, Chile, S. A. Dan H. Poole, Jr., '37, is a stu- dent engineer with the Oil Well Supply Company. Dan is living at the Y. M. C. A., Oil City, Pennsyl- vania. J. E. Dyer, ’29, is with the Safety and Personnel Department of the Sun Oil Company at Tulsa, Okla- homa. He gets his mail at Box 1348. Earl H. Yarbrorough, who was a student at A. & M. in 1897, when L. S. Ross was president, is now serving his first term as County Clerk of Grimes County. Dr. W. W. Greenwood, ’96, who was also a student when Governor Ross was president of the College, is practicing medicine at Navasota. Gerald C. Fahey, ’22, is county judge of Grimes County and makes C. D. McEver, in agricultural Lockhart, Texas. ’36, is assistant conservation at F. R. DePasquale, ’30, is a new member of the Association. He is head of the Industrial Arts De- partment in the New Braunfels Schools. N. H. Hunt, ’12, is county agent at Pearsall, Texas. Ben J. Lednicky, ’37, is with the State Highway Department, Paris. He reports that W. W. Barnes, ’37, and Joe: C. Gilbreath, 37, are also with the Highway Department. J. D. “Wiggle” Smith, ’37, re- ports that he is learning the prac- tical side of oil production with the South Salvage Company, West Columbia, Texas. Harris Under- wood, ’36, is with the J. S. Aber- crombie Company of Houston. Pr 1he Aggieland Inn ON THE CA MPUS Ofyers You Comfortable Rooms Dining Room and Lunch Room 6 Make It Your Headquarters his home at Navasota, Texas. = Styses KOHLER PLUMBING FIXTURES COMPLETE STOCKS AT BRANCHES N . rei Waco - Austin - Chrys Christi - Harlingen San Antonio * We have built homes Material. Wn. CAMERON & Co. (INCORPORATED) LET US REMODEL YOUR HOME Payments Monthly Under N. H. A. No Red Tape—Deal Direct With Us half a century with Cameron’s Quality Building i EN ya in the Southwest for over Ninety Lumber Stores to Serve You USE CEMENT From A Company Conceived, Built Owned and Operated By Native TEXANS ‘REPUBLIC PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY" SMITH-YOUNG TOWER SAN ANTONIO
