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THE TEXAS AGGLE E. EF. MeQuillen................ Publisher | Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M. Press, College Station. Texas, except dur- | ing the summer months when issued | monthly, by the Association of Former | Students of the Agricultural and Mechan- ical College of Texas, College Station, Texas. FD. Perkins, :’97.. oi cicx-sosrsusossesss President s*Babeock,” *18«.............. Vice President | . McQuillen, ’20.. Executive Secretary | siiliocke, ’18............ Assistant Secretary | Subscription Price $5.00 FEo jell ~ Entered as Second Class Matter at | PAT Ta } E. E. McQuillen, College Station, Texas Directors BK. ‘Deason, ’16.........cccciuunin- Charles L. Babcock, *18.................. A. G. Pfaff, Eat) Perking, i297. ...o0ii hii di csnsoinas JB. ‘Crockett, 209......x. os baci bun 0 OQ. A. Seward, Jr., ’07............ 8 J» NL A Butler; 212... ...L. Graham G. Hall, ’ T.°M.. Smith, Sr.,"’ Charles K. 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Corsicana 220, oo dit College Station REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC COUNCIL Tyree L. Bell, "13. iene Dallas A OG: PLaff, 227... .ccoroeoiprsasmsinsurrasesas Tyler WOULD YOU LIKE CLASS ROSTERS? On page 4 of this issue is a ros- ter of the Class of 1908, as com- plete as present Association records will disclose. Doubtless that ros- ter will prove intensely interesting to members of the 1908 class, and to a lesser degree members of the 1907 and the 1909 classes, and to others who knew the 1908’ers. The AGGIE would like to know if its readers would be interested in seeing complete rosters of other classes. As a member of any given class, would YOU. like to see a complete roster of the lads you marched with in that Final Review of the long ago. Make your wishes known by a post card or letter to the TEXAS AGGIE. ANONYMOUS, BUT IS HE RIGHT? Anonymous communications to the AGGIE usually go into the wastebasket, but one recently was too sincere to be ignored. Its author may have something that A. & M. mcn should consider, as well as present day A. & M. stu- dents. On one side of a card our anonimity neatly pastes a report from TIME telling of the shock of Newton D. Baker at the general manners of so many college grad- uadtes, and of the inauguration at Cleveland’s Western Reserve Uni- versity of a class in “The Tech- nique of Social and Business Inter- course.” The course’s laboratory; teas and dinners. On the reverse of his card our correspondent neatly “From a loyal graduate of Texas A. & M., who thinks this applies to our school. Social Technique is what most A. & M. men lack. I learned what little I have AFTER graduation, but it comes hard then. Every College man needs this training and its lack is a definite handicap to him”. Any suggestion from an A. & M. graduate that would improve the quality of the men turned out from our institution is worthy of consideration. This particular sug- gestion, although anonymous, was undoubtedly sincere. Perhaps A. & M. students, along with those of other institutions should receive some training in Social Technique. There is little argument that such technique is a decided asset in business or professional life. FLOWERS FOR THE LIVING Two A. & M. men, John W. New- ton, ’12, and Arthur B. Conner, 04, were highly honored at testi- monial banquets in Beaumont and Dallas, respectively, during the past month. Both men were honor- ed for their splendid success and achievements in their chosen fields. The AGGIE congratulates the Beaumont A. & M. Club and the Dallas Agricultural Club for act- ing as hosts at these splendid oc- casions. It is just and it is fitting that a man’s worthwhile achieve- ments be recognized while he is / DID YOU KNOW: That in 1919, the freshmen of A and M, alternating by companies on Saturday afternoons, did a con- siderable part of the work on the stands for the baseball field. Upon completion, the stands were ranked among the best in the Southwest. That during the World War, there was a branch of the naval service formed at A and M as a part of the Student Army Training Corps. That Major Ralph E. Hill, Coast Artillery officer, graduated from A and M in 1917. Listed under his picture was the following: “If only he were ambitious. For his stu- diousness is appalling.” That the War Department tele- graphed President Bizzell January 25th, 1919, that a Field Artillery Unite of the R. O. T. C. had been ‘ordered established at A and M, ‘and that an officer of the Field | Artillery would be detailed at A ‘and M immeditely. trees around the drill field are liv- ing monuments to the sons of A ‘and M College who died in the ser- | vice of their country in the World | War. Their trees were planted with ' simple, but impressive ceremonies ‘on February 23, 1920. A squad of | four cadets planted a tree for each of the heroes. Motion victures were | taken of the planting of the trees that same day in memory of A. B. | Davidson, who had formerly serv- ‘ed as Vice-President of the Board | of Directors. That A and M was paid a total ‘of $550,310.70 by the War Depart- | | ment for the training of soldiers | lettered. | the World War. That Dana :X..' Bible, season as coach of the A and M to their opponents’ 0, Bible joined the air serve. He received his ground work at Austin, his wings at Ft. Worth, and from there he was shipped to France. H. E. Hampton, ’26, is connected with the John Hancock Mutual Life company’s Insurance Company. investments in four counties will be handled from the office recently established at Tem- ple. Hampton will get his mail at P. 0. Box 396, Temple, Texas. | There are quite a few A. & M. men connected with this company. W. E. Maxwell, ’31, is superin- the National Lumber and Creosot- ing Co. and. H. Powell, 235, ‘is Supt. of the Treating operations of the plant. That the fifthy-three live oak living. Both of these honorees rich- ly deserve the fine tribute paid to them. The AGGIE heartily ap- proves this “flowers for the living” policy where bouquets are so richly deserved as they are in the case of John W. Newton and A. B. Conner. A. L. Ward, ’iv, presents Dallas Agricultural Club plaque to A. B. Conner. (Photo Courtesy Dallas iC DALLAS DINNER HONORS CONNOR FOR FINE WORK Arthur B. Conner, ’04, director of the Texas Agricultural Experi- ment Station, a part of the A. & M. College system, was honored at a banquet at the Jefferson Hotel ‘in Dallas on the night of February ' 21 by the Dallas Agricultural Club. present | coach of the University of Texas, | was in the air service during the | World War. In 1917, immediately | ‘after finishing a very successful try. football team, scoring 270 points This | High tribute was paid to Director Conner for his great contribution to Texas agriculture during his more than 30 years of work in agricultural research. “I know of no other man who has contributed as much to the stability of agriculture in Texas than Mr. Conner,” keynoted Victor H. Schoffelmayer, agricultural ed- itor of the Dallas News. Schoffel- mayer traced Conner’s experiments in the field of grain sorghums, | which resulted in the growth of | the high plains of Northwest Texas. This and other splendid work of Myr. Conner and of the Experiment | Station were cited by Mr. Schoffel- mayer in his address. The banquet was attended by more than 150 men and women— many of whom came for the party from distant sections of the state. | Arthur C. Bayless, 26, president of the Dallas Agricultural Club, welcomed the big crowd before turning the meeting over to A. L. Ward, ’10, who served as toast- master. One of the feature speeches of on the A and M campus during the evening was delivered by Dr. C. T. Dowell, Baton Rouge, director of the Louisiana Experiment Sta- tion, who declared that the Texas station had pioneered in many re- search problems that had proved of great value to the entire coun- Ray E. Dickson, ’12, superintend- ent of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Spur, paid high tribute to Director Conner from the men of the Experiment Station staff who work under his direction. Short talks were made by various other dignitaries present and many were introduced to the crowd. At the conclusion of the pro- ‘gram ‘and in behalf of the Dallas ‘Agricultural Club, Mr. Ward pre- ‘sented to Director Conner a beau- ‘tiful silver plaque. Engraved on ‘the back was a wonderful expres- ‘sion of recognition and tribute to ‘Mr. Conner for his contributions to Texas agriculture, both as a personal research worker and as ‘director of the big Agricultural tendent of the Houston Plant of | Experiment Station. Hugh T. Magers, ’37, is a junior ‘agronomist for the Soil Conserva- ‘tion Service at Jacksonville, Texas. J. L. Saunders, 23, gets his mail at P. O. Box 130, Harrisburg, Pa. Jefferson 1. Horn, ’37, is a graduate student at A. & M. and assistant Y. M. C. A. secretary. Horn is a new member of the As- sociation. General Moses Returns Home For Retirement Major General Andrew Moses, former Commandant at A. & M., who has been commanding the De- partment of Hawaii, was recently ordered to return to the United States in March. He will be retired from the services effective June 30, having reached the statutory age of 64. General Moses, then a captain, was Commandant at A. & M. dur- ing the famous student strike in 1908. To the A. & M. men in school during his Commandant days, 1907- 1911, he is a heroic and deeply loved figure. He is a native Texan, was born in Burnet County, Texas, and is a relative of the various Moses’ men, who have attended A & M. John W. “Cosine” Wallis, ’09, is engineer and general manager of the Rain Storm Manufacturing Company, 953 N. Edinburgh Ave- nue, Los Angelcs, California. The company manufactures the rain storm portable sprinkler of over- head irrigation. First Lieutenant Howell Nolte, ’30, of Denison, has been advanced to captain of the 36th Signal Corps, Texas National Guard. Lieutenant Louis Kaczmarek, '35, is on active CCC duty and is lo- cated at Bartlett, Texas. He was a recent campus visitor. “Kaz” par- ticipated in both football and base- ball at A. & M., making his letter ‘n the latter sport. Dr. J. D. Jones, ’26, was a recent campus visitor from Bastrop, Loui- siana, where he is practicing veteri- nary medicine. Harry B. Gerbens, ’27, is teach- ing in the Industrial Arts Depart- ments of the Port Arthur Junior 1 High School. Don F. Sweeten, ’26, is teaching and coaching at Crockett, Texas High School. He assisted in football last fall and has full charge of track this spring. The football coach is Walter “Phoebe” Phy- thian, ’37. Captain Robert B. Williams, ’23, whose home is in Albany, Texas, of the U. S. Air Corps, is serving on the flagship of Colonel Robert Ohls in command of the six army planes that recently made a flight to Argentina, South America, to attend that nation’s presidential inauguration ceremonies. Captain Williams has been in the air corps for many years. Major George A. Woody, 17, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, stationed at San Antonio, was the principal speaker at the National Defense Banquet held at the Col- lege Mess Hall February 15. R. O. T. C. Seniors and Reserve Officers of the local chapter sponsored the dinner. Andrew M. Gruy, ’37, is a jun- ior engineer for the Humble Oil Company and gets his mail at Box 1600, Midland, Texas. [agent for CIRTHS WEDDINGS Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Bortle, '32, are receiving congratulations from their many A. & M. friends over the birth of a little daughter, Ethel, on February 11 in Browns- ville, where they make their home. Frank is with the Brownsville Jun- ior College. Mrs. Bortle is remem- bered as the former Miss Lillie Mae Walton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Walton of College Sta- tion. Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Brown, 22, are delighted over the arrival of a fine boy on January 16. He has been named Kyle Edwin Brown after Dean E. J. Kyle, of College Station. Mr. and Mrs. Brown make their home at Kingsville, Texas. Joe was a veteran member of the A. E. F. and was wounded in ac- tion during the World War. He was a member of the A. & M. football squad. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin B. McLeroy, ’35, are the proud parents of a Texas on January 16. Mr. and Mrs. McLeroy make their home at Gail, where Ervin is county agricultural Borden County. Mrs. McLeroy is the former Miss Mollie Hendricks, who was employed on the A. & M. campus for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Batot, ’25, announce the arrival of a little daughter, Barbara Ann, on Febru- ary 8. Batot is located at Baytown, Texas, at the present time but his company moves him around quite often. Livestock Expert R. Beal Pumphrey, ’14, has re- cently become connected with the Union Stock Yards of San An- | tonio and is also acting as secre- tary and assistant manager of the Southwest Texas Boys’ Fat Stock Show, which was held in San An- tonio February 24, 25, and 26. Prior to his present connection, Mr. Pumphrey was for several years with the Federal Intermediate Bank of Houston in its Livestock Loan Division. A member of a pioneer ranching family, Pumphrey has been con- nected with the livestock and live- stock loan industry since his earl- iest days. He was for a while as- sociated with his father, the late stock and loan field. Later he was with Clay-Robinson Livestock Com- mission Company of Fort Worth, the Kansas City Stock Yards Com- pany, Kansas City, Missouri, and the San Antonio Joint Stock Land Bank. General office of the Union Stock Yards in San Antonio are located in the Livestock Exchange Building and Pumphrey would be glad to have a visit from any of his ranching friends of the South- west. Barney M. Crow, ’33, who has been in Venezuela for the past two years, has returned to the States once more. He is with the Humble Oil and Refining Company as a geophysicist and for the time being his address is Box 207, Crowley, Louisiana. Sol M. Gilbert, ’37, who is an electrical engineer with Westing- house Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is at the present time at his home at 2211 Fairmount Avenue, Fort Worth, recuperating from a recent illness. Jno O. Silvey, 37, has recently changed his address to 455 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. ‘little daughter born at Snyder, | R. B. Pumphrey, Sr. in the live- | Mosley — Stolle The marriage of Miss Clara Stolle, of Gilmer, and James H. Mosley, ’34, of El Dorado, Arkan- sas, was solemnized recently at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Stolle. Only the im- mediate family was present. Mr. and Mrs. Mosley will make their home at El Dorado, Arkansas, where Mosley is employed as a chemist with the Lion Refining Company. Quisenberry — Eggleston Miss Pauline Eggleston, daugh- ter of Mr. G. B. Eggleston of Go- ree, recently became the bride of Mr. John Carl Quisenberry, ’28, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Quisen- berry, of Seymour. After a wed- ding trip to the Rio Grande Valley and intervening points, Mr. and Mrs. Quisenberry will make their home at Seymour, where is asso- ciated with his father in the op- erating of a filling station and oil agency. Durst — Edwards The wedding of Miss Kitty Ed- wards, of Dallas, and Roy T. Durst, ’36, of Tyler, was solemniz- ed at the home of the bride's parents in Dallas on February 19. After an extended wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Durst will make their home at Tyler. Lewis DM. “Jocko” Roberts, ’36, of College Station, served as best man and Lee James, ’36, also of College Station, served as usher. Seaman — Cooke Miss Fay Cook, of Alvin, Texas, became the bride of Charles K. Seaman, Jr., ’33, on November 24, 1937 in Houston. Mr. and Mrs. Seaman are making their home at Alvin, Texas, where ‘Charles is with the Humble Oil and Refining Company. Buford — Kincaid Announcement has been made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Pauline Millis Kincaid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kincaid of Bonham, to Wil- liam R. Buford, ’36, of Terrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Z. Buford. The marriage - will take place at the home of the bride-elect’s parents on March 17. Buford is with the ‘Humble Oil and Refining Company and at the present time is located at Snyder, Texas. Schriever — Brett Miss Dora Brett, daughter of General and Mrs. George H. Brett, of Panama, recently became the bride of Lieutenant B. A. Schriev- er, 31, of San Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. Schriever are making their home at 316 East Harrison Avenue, Seattle, Washington. Schriever is now with the Northwestern Air- lines. As a student at A. & M. he is still remembered as the best golfer of his day. Mixon — McManus Mrs. Patrick J. McManus an- nounces the marriage of her daugh- ter, Margaret, to Mr. Frances K. Mixon, ’27, on January 15 at Gal- veston. Mr. and Mrs. Mixon are making their home at 1124 Avenue G, Galveston, and Mixon is with the U. S. Engineers. Charles L. Coleman, ’36, writes to send his TEXAS AGGIE to 532 East Haley Street, Santa Barbara, California, where he is in business. He is a graduate in veterinary med- icine. H. Bischoff, 37, is living at 1906 San Gabriel, Austin, Texas. Roland C. Madeley, ’35, who is with the Soil Conservation Service, has been transferred from Jack- sonville to Dublin, where he gets his mail at Box 11. Madeley is working as technician of the Soil Conservation Service Maintenance CCC Camp Area. He likes his work very much. A sl =. } In Memoriam Ulrich Langhammer, ’27 Ulrich Langhammer, age 31, died in February at his home, 5931 Monticello, Dal- las. He is survived by his wife and his mother. Burial was at Restland Memorial Park. Langhammer received his degree at A. & M. in electrical engineering.