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VE LIBRARY CAMPUS : RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED THE TEXAS AGGIE eatin If this paper is not called for return postage is guaranteed by publisher. A II IININININININONININE Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College 3. VOL. XI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 15, 1938 NO. 4 CAPITOL CLUB HONORS ROUTT WITH BANQUET Honoring all-American Joe Routt, the Capitol City A. & M. Club entertained with a banquet at the Driskill Hotel on the night of February 5. A joint honoree with Routt was his father, E. O. “Chip” Routt, of Chapel Hill. Following the dinner, Charles Leighton, ’'32, president of the Capitol City Club, welcomed those present and introduced Toastmas- ter A. C. Love, ’99. Tickets to Routt and his parents were paid for by Nat Turner, 24, and John E. Shelton, 17. Short talks were also made by Marty Karow and Bill James, of the A. & M. Coach- ing staff, Secretary E. E. Mec- Quillen, and Caesar “Dutch” Hohn, ’12. On behalf of the New York Sun, Don Lee presented to Routt a -beautiful gold watch given by the Sun to its all-American football choice. In a few brief words, Routt ex- pressed his appreciation for the honors given him and paid high tributes to his coaches and to his father. The principal address of the evening was made by Aggie Ath- letic Director Homer Norton. Fol- lowing his remarks, movies of last fall’s football games were shown. The Capitol City Club is meet- ing atthe Driskill Hotel each Mon- day noon. HONORED Colonel Thomas H. Barton, ’99, president of the Lion Oil Refining Company, El Dorado, Arkansas, one of the South’s outstanding business figures, has been appoint- ed to the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas A. & M. College at Monticello, Arkansas. He also re- cently received the 1937 Distin- guished Community Service Award presented annually to the Young Men’s Division of the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce. Colonel Barton has for many years been a member of the A. & M. Association of Former Students and is deeply interested in the Col- lege and its affairs. Want Young E. E. For S. A. Service A major oil company has an opening for a young electrical en- gineering graduate for service in South America, under a two year contract. Salary $156 per month and board, lodging and laundry. Transportation furnished. Any one interested should forward a full transcript of his service record and other information about him- self to the Association, for trans- mission to the injuiring party. Hinto to those interested; make your application in such form as to neatness, legibility and com- pleteness that it can be forwarded to this company with pleasure and pride by the Association office). Walton Honored For Outstanding Extension Work For continued contributions to extension work both in Texas and in the nation during 1937, President T. O. Walton, of Texas A. & M. College, was recently presented with a certificate of recognition by Epsilon Sigma Phi, national frater- nity of agricultural extension workers. The certificate was pre- sented by G. W. Orms, veteran dis- trict agent, during a meeting of the Alpho Zeta chapter, which in- cludes Texas A. & M. extension workers. Dr. Walton was the only one nominated by the fraternity’s na- tional executive committee to re- ceive a certificate for 1937. The executive committee, ternity rules, is permitted to award three extra certificates annually in addition to certificates awarded yearly upon nominations throughout the twelve from chapters country. “Dr. Walton also is the seventh person of record and the second Texas to receive the executive committee’s nomination. Mrs. Mag- gie W. Barry, for years sociologist in rural women’s organizations for the Texas Extension Service, re- ceived a certificate in 1935. Dr. Walton was director of the extension division of the college for seven years before assuming the presidency in 1925. He first joined the Texas Extension Ser- vice in 1908. He is a charter mem- ber of the Alpha Beta chapter, which was organized 10 years] ago. 1913 Class Looking For “Lost” Men Only 11 members of the class of 1913 continue “LOST” to that class’ Reunion Attendance Com- mittee, headed by Lloyd D. Royer, 911-912 Smith-Young Tower, San Antonio. The names of these mem- bers of the class whose location is unknown are listed below: Anderson, R. O. Bower, L. J. Connellee, E. T. Cowart, Ira E. Gentsch, Horace E. Gonzales, J. de la M., Jr. Kelly, Chas. Patrick McDonald, J. M. Ragsdale, T. M. Spencer, T. C. Thomson, J. M. Anyone knowing of their loca- tion, or the location of any mem- ber of their families through whom their addresses might be secured, is asked to- communicate that in- formation either to Mr. Royer, or to the Association of Former Stu- dents, College Station, Texas. The 1913 class is already mak- ing plans for the celebration of its 25th anniversary in the form of a great reunion, which will be held on the campus at commence- ment this spring. James A. “Beef” Scofield is president of the class and “Dad” Royer is chairman of he Reunion Attendance Committee. Stanford Editor Farm Publication J. E. Stanford, formerly a mem- ber of the A. & M. Extension Ser- vice staff and more recently on the editorial staff of the Southern Agriculturist of Nashville, Tenn. has been made Editor of that pub- lication. It is one of the outstand- ing farm publications of the coun- try. Mr. Stanford is an active mem- ber of the Tennessee A. & M. Club and of the Ex-Student’s Associa- tion. He is also a former secretary of the Bryan Chamber of Com- merce. under fra-. 350 A&M Men And Guests Pay Tribute To Newton At Outstanding Civic Event John W. Newton, ’'12, recently promoted to the position of gen- eral manager of the Magnolia Pe- troleum Company’s refinery opera- tions, was honoree at a huge ban- quet staged in Beaumont last Thursday night under the auspices of the Beaumont A. & M. Club. At- tendance at the big party was cosmopolitan—guests being pres- ent from most of the major cities of Texas and from as far away as New York and Detroit. The party was the most suc- cuessful affair ever staged by the Beaumont A. & M. Club and proved to be an outstanding event in the history of the City of Beau- mont. At 11 o'clock the crowd that completely packed Hotel Beau- mont’s Rose Room was there to a man, at least 350 of them, taking in the finishing touches to a pro- gram that had twice the punch, twice the wit and three times the trimmings of any such usual af- fair. “DON’T DIE ON THIRD” IS ADDRESS TOPIC They were beaming and glowing with the speaker of the evening, Attorney Marion Church, ’05, of Dallas, who had them with him from the moment he announced his subject would be: “Don’t Die on Third Base.” Hitting a serious vein as he closed, Mr. Church hammered home the thought that “we spend a lot of time cussing the government but when we know something’s wrong we don’t have the nerve to come out and say so.” He took a solid verbal smash at an increasing ten- dency to ‘let Uncle Sam do it.” HONOR GUEST IS BRIEFEST SPEAKER In its attempt to extend to the new general manager of Magnolia Petroleum company refineries a sendoff extraordinaire, the club of- fered a program that had to be good to. get where it did. In it was a great deal of entertainment, cameraderie, true fellowship, ad- miration for a job well done and auld lang syne. The honor guest, making the shortest speech of the evening, said it was “the most remarkable thing that ever has or ever will happen to me.” He took the flowers and the cush- ioned brickbats in the same spirit given and in the end gravely thanked the extraordinary gath- ering “from the bottom of my heart.” C. R. (Chick) Dollinger, ’26, presented to him in the name of Beaumont A. & M. Club a “Salute to John. Newton, Aggie” in the form of a framed scroll. Will Graham introduced Mr. Newton and from the viewpoint of a friend of 24 years said, “I concur in every nice thing that has been said.” Because of Col. Ike Ashburn’s in- ability to serve, the board of strat- egy decided to use two toastmasters to fill the big man’s shoes. They were Frank Bertschler, ’21, and Charles Babcock, ’18. Invocation by Judge Combs Judge J. M. Combs offered invo- cation. While the Red Bird orches- tra of Lamar college played, under direction of C. P. Wiedemann, the crowd put away a dinner whose appointments were neat and whose viands were filling. Maroon and white of A. & M. college, in flow- ers, ribbons, candles, made it a strictly Aggie setting. W. J. Hancock, ’24, club presi- dent, introduced about 40 out-of- town guests. jie £ Mayor P. D. Renfro of Beau- mont welcomed all with the asser- tion “friendship is one of the strongest if not the strongest tie man knows anything about.” L. S. Sinclair of Dallas, Magnolia vice president, made one of the briefer addresses also. His response to the mayor was that “I have known of the Beaumont friendship for 30 years or more.” Alfred Saenger, '32, of Baytown, former president of the local club, arose in a “rebuttal” having to do with certain Aggie customs that was received with understanding and much applause. Solo on Bass Horn “Sailor, Beware,” as zoomed out of a bass horn by Boyd Kittell of Lamar college, was one of the most finished performances of the eve- ning. He was accompanied by Billy Owens. Meredith H. James, ’13, of Hous- ton opened up the bombardment of the guest of honor, his portion be- ing “John Newton, the Boy.” He recalled that in those days back in Bryan boys wore dresses up to the age of seven or eight and then put on short pants. His recollection of John was by way of picturing a kildee. But he choked up in the end and said “Bryan’s proud of him— I know you’re all proud of him— his co-workers are proud of him— and he’s probably proud of him- self.” Moving pictures, in color, of the college, its many fine buildings, broad campus and the cadet corps commencement exercises were im- pressive even to Texas university grads in the audience. Some foot- ball games and polo were included. Louis H. Matthes, ’21, provided the films and explanatory comments. San Antonian Speaks C. C. (Polly) Krueger, ’12, of San Antonio, who himself was the tar- get for several of the speakers and Newton, himself, later on, gave a faithful account of the honor guest as a student interspersing his talk with some humor. “John Newton is one of those who has followed the profession he studied in school,” he said. “He was a sophomore-fish—doing four years of work in three. Facetiously he concluded that “he is in the class of real executives— lets others do the work and takes the credit for it.” James H. (Jimmy) Howard of Port Arthur, supported by Walter Wright at the piano literally brought the house down with his xydophone performance which con- cluded with a medley of favorite songs. ‘Everybody, including the stuffed shirts at the head of the table was singing and whistling lustily at the end. Telegrams Received Some of the telegrams of con- gratulations from friends unable to attend were signed by Fred Drihs, W. M. Stanley, Seth Hensley, W. W. Gary, Col. Ike Ashburn, J. H. Pheland, S. J. Dickey, Bill Linton. A polished succinct address on Newton as a business man was de- livered by M. J. Norrell, Dallas, Magnolia director of industrial re- lations, who represented the presi- dent, D. A. Little. The latter had a business appointment in New York which kept him away from the dinner. W. O. Alexander, ’32, of Houston, who once taught in Bryan at Allen Academy, presented a ventroliquist number which had the crowd rear- ing at such intimate figures and Continued on page 3) Beaumont Club Honors John W. Newton Dean Kyle On Program At Nat'l. Farm Meeting Dean E. J. Kyle, ’99, veteran head of the School of Agriculture at A. & M., which incidentally is the largest in the world, will be one of the feature speakers at the National Farm Institute held in Des Moines, Iowa, February 18 and 19. Other speakers will include: Cordell Hull; Sir Wilmott Lewis, famajus English economist; and Charles E. Friley, 19, president of Iowa State College. The National Farm Institute is one of the out- standing gatherings of agricultural leaders in the United States. “The Farmer and our American Tariff,” an address delivered by Dean Kyle at the December meet- ing of the Dallas Agricultural As- sociation, has been printed as a bulletin by the College with the institution being swamped for cop- ies of the address. It is estimated that some 50,000 copies have been printed and distributed at the de- mand of people of the Southwest interested in the farm problems. The address proved one of the high lights of the Agricultural As- sociation meeting. TOMMY BLACK NEW PRESIDENT BL PASO CLUB T. R. “Tommie” Black, 26, was elected president of the El Paso A. & M. Club at the January meet- ing of that club held at the new Mint Cafe, Juarez. At the same meeting, W. J. Myres, 24, was named secretary-treasurer. An Ex. ecutive Committee composed of R. B. Goodman, ’21, R. W. Stafford, ’11, and Henry W. Eitt, ’26, was named. This club plans an aggressive program of acivities for the com- ing year. On the night of Febru- ary 18, the regular monthly meet- ing of the club will be held at the Fort Bliss CCC Camp. All A. & M. men in the El Paso area are invited to attend the club’s meet- ings. President Black is owner of the Beacon Oil Company, Overland Street, El Paso, distrib- utor in the EI Paso area for Quaker State oils and greases. He was business manager of the A. & M. LONGHORN during his Senior year and active in other student affairs. Economics Dept. Inaugurates New Employment Plan An Employment Bureau spon- sored by the Department of Eco- nomics at A. & M., has recently been established under the direc- tion of Mr. R. L. Elkins, ’33, of that department. The bureau has the support and cooperation of Dr. F. B. Clark, head of the De- partment of Economics and Dean T. D. Brooks, of the School of Arts and Science. The purpose of the bureau is to assist A. & M. to secure advantageous employ- ment and its services are open to any ex-student of A. & M. Mr. “R.. L. Elkins, who!" is% in charge of the bureau, asks for the support and cooperation of all ex- students: “As the success of this organization depe: ds largely upon the number of men it is able to place, it needs the whole support of the ex-student body. We are hoping for your full cooperation.” Edward M. Neal, ’35, is with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in the capacity of animal husbandman at their substation at Beeville. Neal reports that he is very interested in his work and would like for any exes to stop in whenever they are down in his section. 1020 East |! RACK BACK AS N.Y. CLUB HAS FEB. LUNGHEON The first of the New York City Club’s regular monthly luncheon meetings was held on February 1 - at 12:30 p. m. at the New Bedford Hotel, 118 East 40th Street. Under its new plan, the New York Club - will hold a luncheon meeting at this same place on the first Tues- day of each month. All A. & M. men in the East and all visitors . in New York City are cordially in- vited to join the New York City Club at these luncheon meetings. The club held an impromptu cele- bration at its last meeting over the return of Ed C. Rack, ’15, who has been seriously, ill for the past year or more. The club also welcomed to New York A. Y. Gunter, '25, who recently moved to their city from Chicago. Present at the luncheon were the following: Richard A. Kent, 20; W. M. Curtis, 32; R. Q. Jennings, ’17; W. R. Forsyth, ’16; A. Y. Gun- ter, ’25; Fred J. Bechert, ’11; Ed- gar C. Rack, ’15;- H. A. Eddins, 81;,°d.2B. Ketterson, ’24; George Armistead, Jr., 23; R. W. Hutson, ’35; William W. Orrison, '34; Guy C. Hutcheson, ’33; T. D. Owens, ’33; Hugh H. McDaniel, 28; and G. E. Schultz, University of Texas visitor. COMES HOME Thomas Reese Spence, ’13, “came home” in more ways‘ than one when on February 1 he joined the staff of the School of Engineer- ing of the Texas A. & M. College. He not only received his education at A. & M., but was born on the campus and spent his boyhood days on the campus as the son of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Spence. His father was at one time dean of the School of Engineering at A. & M. Reese was born on the site of the present College dining hall. After graduating from A. & M. in civil engineering in 1913, Spence took graduate work at Cornell, graduating there in 1917 with a degree of Civil Engineering. Since that time he has been engaged in various engineering . work in the Southwest. He has built highways, wharves, dry docks, and buildings. He at one time was with the State Board of Water Engineers; has served as division engineer for the State Highway Department; and resigned his position with the W. R. Briggs Construction Company to accept his present position. Working directly under Engi- neering Dean Gibb Gilchrist, Pro- fessor Spence will be teacher, re- search specialist, and contact man for the A. & M. engineering divige ion. His will be the task of ferret- ing out knotty research probléms Texas industries want solved. From them he will suggest projects for the Texas Engineering Experiment Station at the college. Professor Spence also will assist Dean Gilchrist in correlating pro- jects undertaken by teaching de- partments in the School of Engi- neering. y
