The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, January 15, 1938, Image 4

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Oklahoma. ;
Joseph P. Lidiak,
campus visitor during the holi-
days, making his first trip since
1920. He found the changes all
for the better. He has been in the
East since before the War, and
has made his home in Philadel-
phia or its suburbs since 1920. He
is with the Westinghouse Electric
Company, has a son 14 years old
and lives at 74 Berkley Ave., Lans-
downe, Pa.
’13, was a
Hiram C. Webb, ’30, is with the
Phillips Petroleum Co., Oklahoma
City, and recently delivered a lec-
ture and address before the Pe-
troleum Engineering Club at the
University of Oklahoma at Nor-
man. Among his listeners were
Homer Hagius, 31, who will com-
plete a year of graduate work in
Petroleum Engineering at Okla-
homa U. in February, and Paul
Callahan, ’36, who will receive his
degree in Petroleum Engineering
from Oklahoma next spring. Hag-
ius spent a year and a half with
the Gulf at Port Arthur, and two
years on active CCC duty, before
taking up his year of graduate
work at Oklahoma.
R. L. Allen, ’31, has returned to.
Texas and now gets his mail at
1816 Highland Avenue, Fort
Worth. He has been with the In-
ternational Petroleum Company,
Ltd. at Talara, Peru.
W. F. Fry, ’32, is living at Dal-
hart, Texas.
R. Eban Price, 22, is assistant
secretary and treasurer of the Ser-
vice Mutual Insurance Company of
Texas, with its home office at
Waco, where Price makes his
headquarters. The company has
shown a remarkable growth during
the past few years.
Claude M. “Cy” Evans, '08, who
for several months has been serv-
ing as active regional director of
the Farm Security Administration
in the Southwest, was recently ap-
pointed head of that organization
by President Roosevelt. He makes
his headquarters in Dallas, and his
district includes both Texas and
n S. Gardner, Jr., '24, re-
mpleted two and one-half
ty with the CGO |
: : rmanently located
he Southwestern Public Ser-
vice Company at Amarillo.
Lieutenant Aubrey L. Moore, "23,
U. S. Air Corps, was a member of
the big twin-motor transport
plane that was recently forced
down in San Francisco Bay. He
and his five companions were res-
cued, uninjured. Moore is station-
ed at Hamilton Field, California.
Joe H. Burrus, Jr. 37, is with
the Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co., and
lives at 6025 West National, West
Allis, Wis. He writes that he is
enjoying his work a great deal
and is getting a real thrill out of
a Wisconsin winter.
B. D. Reynolds, ’26, is camp
superintendent at the Soil Con-
servation Service Camp at Gates-
ville, Texas. Other A. & M. men
located in this camp are Coleman
L. Hasie, ’17, company command-
er; E. E. McAlister, ’33, techni-
cian; F. P. Mika, ’35, agricultural
aide.
Ernest C. Zinke, ’37, is doing
geological work for the Fohs Oil
Company and gets his mail at Box
168, Houma, La.
Willis E. Collins, ’31, who is
with the Texas State Health De-
partment, is district engineer of
Public Health District No. 5, with
headquarters at Kingsville, Texas.
Robert Richey, 36, is assisting Col-
lins.
John H. Robinson, ’37, is in the
Inspection Department of Sears,
Roebuck and Company, Dallas, and
gets his mail at 2925 Gould Street
of that city.
August A. Neuner, ’36, was re-
cently promoted to building inspec-
tor for the City of El Paso, where
he had been serving as assistant
building inspector for the past
year. Neuner lives at 2401 Gold,
El Paso, Texas.
Roy Huffaker, ’36, who has been
with the General Electric Company
since graduation, has been sent to
the Chicago Branch in the En-
eincering Department. Huffaker
states that starting on a new job
liks this one makes you feel like
a iteshman all over again. He is
living at 5051 N. Damen Avenue,
Chieago.
George W. Dunn, ’34, is living
at Sherman, Texas, where he gets
his mail at P. O. Box 14.
Scott S. Hill, ’14, is owner and
manager of the Hallettsville Hard-
ware Company, Hallettsville, Tex-
as.
James T. Elrod, ’36, sends in
his dues from 400 West Grand
Avenue, Springfield, Illinois. El-
rod is with the Allis-Chalmers
Manufacturing Company and is
rooming with J. O. Stephens, ’35,
who is working for the same comp-
any.
C. C. “Compound Cathartic” Wil-
son, ’25, since 1931 has been en-
gaged in the farm mortgage busi-
ness for the First Trust Joint
Stock Land Bank of Chicago. He
lives at 907 W. Fischer Avenue,
Sherman, Texas, and is doing ap-
praisal, collection, sales and farm
supervision work in North Texas
and Southern Oklahoma. Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson have two children, a
girl of nine and a boy of six years
of age. Dallas Manager for the
Farm Mortgage Department of the
First Trust Joint Stock Stock Land
Bank of Chicago is Marvin D.
Sanders, '13; and assistant manag-
er is Arthur C. Bayless, 26. Two
other A. & M. men, John Slay, '19,
of Frost, Texas, and C. E. “Ted”
Hudson, 24, San Benito, are field
men for the same company.
Ralph J. Delaney, 31, is in Green
Bay, Wisconsin, with the Green
Bay Western Railway. He reports
that A. B. Smith, ’31, is also in
that city with the Kraft-Phoenix
Cheese Company and that Mr. and
Mrs. Smith have a fine year old
son. Delaney lives at 203 Allard.
He writes that he got a real kick
last fall out of listening to football
broadcasts from Texas.
Richard Roderick, ’35, who has
been with the Texas Power and
Light Company of Brenham, has
changed his address to Box 213,
New Orleans, La.
R. N. Weir, ’37, is teaching vo-
cational education at El Campo.
R. L. “Bob” Patton, ’33, has been
transferred from the Port Arthur
Refinerv of the Gulf Company to
| the Process Department, Gulf Oil
Corporation, Gulf Building, Pitts- |
burg, Pennsylvania.
E. C. Durham, ’99, vice president
and general manager of the Texas
South-Eastern Railroad Company
and the Lufkin Hemphill and Gulf
Railway Company, has changed his
address from Diboll to Lufkin.
E. A. McClendon, ’33, and Mrs.
McClendon are living at Crane,
Texas, where he is with the Phil-
lips Petroleum Company.
A. A. Gensberg, ’33, C. B. Hus-
sey, '34, and J. B. Smith, ’31, are
all living at Crane, Texas, and are
with the Gulf Oil Company.
J. M. Orman, ’32, is with the
Cardinal Oil Company at Iraan,
Texas.
Chas. C. Rollins, Jr., ’33, is with
the Pecos Valley Power and Light
Company and is living at Girvin,
Texas. He was married last Oc-
tober to Miss Betty Steadmon of
Taylor and McCamey, Texas.
R. E. Hass, 37, is taking a Jun-
ior Engineering Course with the
Cities Service Oil Company and
gets his mail in care of the En-
gineering Division, Cities Service
Oil Company, Bartlesville, Okla-
homa. He will be moved around
to different divisions of the comp-
any frequently. He reports that in
Bartlesville he recently saw Bill
Sloan, 37, and Hale Barfoot, ’37,
both of whom are with the Cities
Service, and Frank Schliecher, ’36,
who is with the Phillips Petroleum
Company.
Herbert L. Weinberg, ’23, re-
cently moved from New ork City
and his position with the New York
Central Lines, to Omaha, Nebras-
ka, where he is with the Union
Pacific as engineer of electrical
equipment. The move was in the
nature of a splendid promotion. At
the present time, Weinberg is get-
ting his mail at the Conant Hotel,
Omaha, Nebraska.
R. D. McCalman, ’31, has been
transferred from Temple to Cam-
eron by the Texas Power and Light
Company and says that he hopes
to see some of the basketball
games this fall.
W. J. Moser, ’32, has moved from
McKinney to Dallas.
Lawrence F. Wanja, ’32, has
been transferred from McKinney to
Dallas by the Texas Power and
Light Company.
Maurice B. Cramer, ’37, is a
student engineer with the Gulf Oil
Company at Hobbs, New Mexico.
'34, is a chemist at
Natural Gasoline
New Mexico.
Abe Cohn,
the El Paso
Plant at Jal,
R. W. “Bill” ‘Pace, ’'19,5isk Life
Underwriter with Bruce Patterson,
agent John Hancock Life Insur-
ance Company, Shell Building,
Houston.
Beryl L. Light, ’37, gets his
mail at Box 1506, Big Spring.
George EK. Schultis, ’35, has
changed his address to Box 326
Haynesville, Louisiana.
A new member of the Associa-
tion is R. H. “Robby” Rea, ’37, who
is working for the Texas Electric
Service Company, Fort Worth. Rea
is on the road most of the time
so asks that his AGGIE be sent
to his home address at Box 36,
Weatherford, Texas."
Noble J. Taylor, ’36, is with the
Humble Oil & Refining Company
and gets his mail at Box 1600, Mid-
land, Texas.
W. S. “Little” Turner, 322, Sis
with C. A. McKinley & Sons
Building Materials Company, Beau-
mont, Texas.
W: B. Mowlam, ’21, Corsicana,
was supervising engineer on a re-
cently completed improvement pro-
gram of the Ketens Municipal
water system. The work was car-
ried on as a PWA project on fed-
eral funds.
Gordon G. Langston, Jr., 34, is
with the W. C. Nabors Company,
of Mansfield, Louisiana, manufac-
turers of Nabors Trailers. His
headquarters are in Houston at
4201 Harrisburg Boulevard.
John M. Craddock, ’36, has been
transferred from the i
Department to the Building { ol
struction Department ¢f the
ble Oil Company and g pts hig: -
at 2627 ‘Oakdale, ad
a. Exo Sone
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Mr. and Mrs. HY Du” Yad
Thompson, 32, recently move n-
to their new home, Route 1,{’-
8 F, Corpus Christi. He is |
Walley’s Nursery of that city."
Louis Lenz, '07, of Lake Charles,
Louisiana, kept his record clear
by attending last fall's Thanks-
giving football game at Kyle
Field. He has seen every A. & M.-
University Game since 1903. There
may be some others who can match
that record but certainly none can
beat it. Lenz is with the Magnolia
Petroleum Company at Lake
Charles and gets his mail at Box
872 of that city.
W. T. Burns, the old 1920 cadet
colonel, at present with Anderson-
Clayton Company and in charge of
that organization’s cotton business
in the Republic of Mexico, is mak-
ing his headquarters in Browns-
ville. On a hunting trip in Decem-
ber, Burns, Wilfred “Music” Do-
hertx, 23, A. L. $Todda’’ ‘Forbes,
’21, of El Paso, each managed to
kill a “buck” —or at least that is
their story and they are sticking
‘to it.
M. M. Moseley, Jr., ’26, was
transferred last fall to Kansas
City, Missouri, where he is with
the Braniff Airways and Munici-
pal Airport. In addition to doing
radio service work, he is standing
an eight hour watch as radio oper-
ator. He would like to hear from
any of his friends up that way.
W. Jack Moser, ’32, is with the
A. C. Moser & Company, Agents,
United States Fidelity and Guar-
anty Company, 905 Main Street,
Dallas.
U. S. Allison, ’24, has been
placed in charge of all soil con-
servation work on the island of
Puerto Rico and he and his family
have moved to Adjuntas, Puerto
Rico. He has been with the Soil
Conservation Service in Texas for
several years and prior to that
connection taught in the Agriciul-
tural Engineering Department at
A. & M.
Don Lee, 11, is with the new
Talco Asphalt and Refining Comp-
any, Mt. Pleasant, Texas, but still
maintains his home in Austin.
A recent campus visitor was Ty
Timm, ’34, who was returning to
work at the New Mexico State Col-
lege, State College, New Mexico,
following a serious operation.
Timm narrowly pulled through but
was well on the way to complete
recovery. He is in the Agricultural
Economics Department at the New
Mexico State College.
Roderiick D. Thomas, ’22, city
enginieer of the municipality of
Highland Park, Dallas, Texas. is
busy these days on a $360,000
water works iimprovement pro-
gram for his municipality. T. Carr
Forrest, Jr., '17, of the engiineer-
ing firm, Myers, Noyes and For-
rest at Dallas, is consulting en-
ginieer on the program.
Mount Taylor, ’11, who is sec-
retary of the National Association
of Ice Industriies wiith -headquar-
ters at Chicago, was one of the
principal speakers at last fall's
| meeting of the Southwestern Ice
Manufacturing Association, held
in San Antonio.
Carl Eckhardt, 18, Houston, was
named as a member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Southwest-
ern Ice Manufacturers Association
at that organization’s annual con-
vention held in San Antonio last
month.
Jewel D. Daughtrey, 37, is as-
sistant county agent with the A.
& M. Extension Service at Sul-
phur Springs, Texas. On Novem-
ber 6, 1937, he was married to
Miss Hazel Kostris of Bedias.
Alfred H. Payne, ’37, is with
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company and is now located at
Graham, Texas. He started in at
Akron, Ohio, and, of course, he
likes his job fine.
Melvin Herzik, ’37, former Aggie
track star, is with the State High-
way Department at Aspermont,
Texas.
Murrell K. Taylor, ’36, is with
the Texas Petroleum Company, La
Darada, Caldos, Colombia, South
America. When last heard from he
was stationed at Puerto Boyaco,
{ Boyaco, Colombia, S. A. with a
_ | seismograph crew. He reports that
in the same crew is S. K. Van
Steenbergh, ’29, who is party chief.
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‘W. N. “Bill” Roper, 22. sends in
iis annual Christmas card from
614-C Street, Lemoore, California.
He’s in the oil business.
Henry E. Dunlavy, ’27, was re-
cently confirmed by the U. S. Sen-
ate as postmaster of Temple,
Texas.
James A. Carpenter, ’31, was a
recent campus visitor. He is with
the Freeport Sulphur Company in
that firm’s Accounting Depart-
ment, American Bank Building,
New Orleans. He and Mrs. Carpen-
ter have three fine children. Car-
penter was very much pleased with
the recent campus changes and
sends regards to all his old A. & M.
friends.
C." B. Cox, ’37, :is" teaching vo-
cational agriculture at Roscoe,
Texas.
Joe C. Wessendorff, '37, is at-
tending the University of Texas
law school at Austin. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe A. Wes-
sendorff, ’07, of Richmond, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Tomlinson,
’08, moved last fall into a beauti-
ful new home at 2187 Troon Road,
River Oaks, Houston. Mr. Tomlin-
son is a member of the Tomlin-
son Mills and Lumber Company at
Houston.
Earl T. Duke, ’37, is an instruc-
tor of agronomy in the Department
of Plant Industries at Texas Tech,
Lubbock.
J. Weldon Young, ’37, is teach-
ing vocational agriculture at Rule,
Texas.
J. D. Franklin, Jr., ’36, is teach-
ing his second year as vocational
agriculture instructor at Black-
well high school.
G. L. Richardson, ’36, is teach-
ing vocational agriculture at Tal-
pa, Coleman County.
One of the finest county pro-
grams along agricultural lines, is
under way in Eastland County
under the direction of County
Agent Elmo V. Cook, "27, and As-
sistant County Agent Hugh F.
Barnhart, '34. Eastland County is
one of the few counties of its popu-
lation to have assistants for both
its county agent and its home de-
monstration agent.
Mac C. Graham, ’18, is safety
engineer for the Texas Employers
Insurance Association, Employers
Casualty Company, with head-
quarters at 904 Sterling Building,
Houston.
Major Darnce B. Burns, ’17, is
personnel director of the Texas
Unemployment Insurance Bureau
in Austin.
George B. Wilcox, ’23, professor
in the Department of Rural Edu-
cation at Texas A. & M. College,
was chosen as vice president of
the Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion at that organization’s annual
meeting last fall.
0. K. Johnson, ’17, was recently
awarded a contract for the exten-
sion of the water works filtration
plant. The O. K. Johnson Construc-
tion Company of Waco during re-
cent years has been building all
over Texas.
Ivan Watson, ’28, Court House,
Pueblo, Colorado, writes that a
Texas Aggie ring was found last
summer by a farmer living at
Pueblo. There was no identification
on the ring other than the year
and the owner will have to identify
the place or an estimated place
close to where the ring was found,
together with the year of the ring.
Anyone interested should write to
folks from Colorado who attended
the Cotton Bowl Game at Dallas.
Marion Crow, ’36, is an agri-
cultural representative of the Cat-
erpillar Tractor Company, and
makes his headquarters at 2223
Vail Avenue, Charlotte, North
Carolina. Both the Carolinas are
included in his territory. He will
enjoy getting in touch with any
other A. & M. men in that section.
Watson. He was one of the many |
J. G. Kerr, 08, recen
a new, modern veterina
at 695 South 4th Street,
The hospital is kno
Beaumont Veterinary Ho!
is one of the most up-to-
pitals of its kind in the S
Kerr has been practicing |
mont for many years.
L. W. Wallace, ’03, recen
signed as Director of Engin
Research of the Associati
American Railroads to beco
rector of a Division of Engi
ing and Research of the
Company, 836 South Mich)
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
D. B. Grayson, '35, is teaching
Marquez, Texas.
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