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Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students
VOL. XI
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 15, 1938.
of the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
No. 6
JOHN G. TURNEY
NEW GHIEF ENG.
TEXAS R. R. GOM.
John G. Turney, 27, of Wharton,
has been appointed chief engineer
of the Railroad Division of the
State Railroad Commission. He has
already taken over his new duties
at Austin. He and Mrs. Turney
have two children and will make
their home in Austin.
Turney has had extensive engi-
neering experience serving in al-
most every engineering capacity
from instrument man to county en-
gineer during the period 1928 to
1934 on Wharton County’s huge
highway and bridge program. He
has also engaged in paving, sewer,
and water works construction; has
served as engineer for the City of
Wharton and in general private en-
gineering practice.
Turney is an active member of
the Association and served the or-
ganization last year as a director.
Sam McMillan, ’09,
Goes With Farm
Security Admin.
S. A. “Sammie” McMillan, ’09,
has recently resigned as farm man-
agement specialist of the A. & M.
Extension Service, to become re-
gional advisor for the Farm Se-
curity Administration with head-
quarters at Dallas.
family have been living on the
campus for a number of years.
After graduation from A. & M.
in 1909, Mr. McMillan took grad-
vate work at the University of
Missouri, Iowa State College, and
has studied at the University of
"Illinois and "Cornell. He was a
‘member of the Agronomy Depart-
M. and taught
agronomy and farm management
here from 1912 to 1919, when he
resigned to become a county agent.
He later returned to the College
as professor of farm management,
again resigning to become farm
management specialist for the A.
& M. Extension Service.
Known to his students as “Sam-
mie” McMillan, he is a well re-
membered figure to the cadets who
studied under him during his years
as a teached at A. & M. In the
farm management field he is rec-
ognized as an outstanding author-
ity in the Southwest. Regional Di-
rector of the Farm Security Ad-
ministration is C. M. “Cy” Evans,
"08.
Alumni Workers
Meet at College
Alumni workers and representa-
tives of alumni organizations of
various institutions of Texas, held
an all-day meeting on the campus
of A. & M. on March 12. Twelve
Texas institutions were represent-
ed. The state makes up District
X of the American Alumni Council.
E. E. McQuillen, 20, Secretary
of the A. & M. Association, was
re-elected chairman of District X
for the coming two years. Next
year’s meeting will be held at the
University of Texas.
The institutions represented at
the council meeting included: Har-
din-Simmons University, Abilene;
Southwestern University, George-
town; Southern Methodist Univer-
sity, Dallas; St. Mary’s Univer-
sity, San Antonio; Trinity Univer-
sity, Waxahachie; University of
Texas, Austin; Texas Technological
College, Lubbock; Rice Institute,
Houston; Mary Hardin-Baylor Col-
lege, Belton; North Texas State
Teachers College, Denton; and A.
& M. College.
Dr. Potthast Honored
Pr. Otto ‘J. Potthast, '11, well
known surgeon and physician of
San Antonio, was recently honored
with a degree of Fellow American
College of Surgery. He is one of
San Antonio’s best known physi-
cians and surgeons with offices in
the Medical Arts Building of that
city.
Seven-league-boot strides taken
by the Texas A. & M. College and
its collateral agencies during the
period from 1925 through 1937 are
described in a “Progress Report
for 12 years,” published recently
covers the administration of Pres-
ident T. O. Walton.
by Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive
clared upon his return to the Col-
lege, “Although vitally interested
in the A. & M. College, and I
I have been away, since my return
I have been amazed at the insti-
tution’s tremendous growth and de-
velopment. A full knowledge and
understanding of this wonderful
| of the institution”.
| Texas A. & M., the report notes,
has grown to be the largest agri-
cultural school; the largest vet-
by the College. This period of time
The 78-page pamphlet was edited
assistant to the president, who de-
though well posted upon its growth
and development during the years
growth, I believe, will bring a glow
of pride to every former student
|
Progress Report Discloses Greates
Development A&M College 132-1331
and laboratory facilities almost be-
yond capacity despite a $2,000,000
building program completed during
the 12-year period and financed by
the college’s share of the University
of Texas oil land income. ormitory
facilities are far from adequate
but the gollege plans to double the
number of its dormitory rooms
with a $2,000,000 loan from the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion.
The college has continued its
program of short courses, which
run from two days to a full week.
The farmers’ short course has
grown until its attendance totals
between 5,000 and 10,000 annually.
New short courses added during
the 12-year period include those
for firemen, laundry operators,
per student in 1937. That the A.
& M. College, more than any other
$509 per student in 1929 to $165 |
He and his |
erinary medicine school; and the
second largest engineering school
in the United States.
institutions, is serving the youth
of the entire state is evidenced by
High-Lights of Period
Outstanding developments in the
12 years covered by this report in-
clude the working out of a division
of the income from landed endow-
ment of the University of Texas,
| whereby the College, for the first
[time in two decades, enjoys a por-
tion (33 1-3 per cent) of that in-
come. This division was followed
by an impressive building program
of two million dollars, greatly in-
creasing and beautifying the phy-
sical plant of the institution.
Additional outstanding develop-
ments of the 12-year period in-
clude: An increase of 106 per cent
in student enrollment; the develop-
ment of the graduate school, which
now offers work dealing to the
doctor’s degree; and the steady im-
provement of curriculum and faec-
ulty, so that scholastic work
taken at the institution is accepted
for credit in any other institution
in America.
One of the most surprising
facts put out in the report, and
indicative of the tremendous
growth of the institution dur-
ing this time, is that three-
| fourths of the 7,565 degrees
awarded by the College in its
61 years, have been granted
during the past 12 years.
5,729 degrees were conferred
by the College during this 12-
year period, as compared with
1,836 degrees conferred dur-
ing the first 49 years of its
existence.
Of interest to tax payers and
economists is the fact that the per
capita cost has been reduced from
the fact that 68 per cent of its
students live more than 100 miles
distance from the campus.
What System Includes
The Texas A. & M. College sys-
tension Service, Agricultural Ex- |
periment Station, Engineering Ex-
periment Station, and Forest Ser-
vice at College Station; John Tar-
leton Agricultural
junior college branches, at Stephen-
ville and Arlington, respectively;
and Prairie View State Normal
and Industrial College for Negroes,
at Prairie View.
The report points out that en-
vollment at the main iieollege in-
College at College Station), under
Item
No. permanent buildings
Value permanent bldgs.
Landed holdings (acres)
Total inventory
Enrollment (Main College)
Enrollment (Main College
and two Junior Colleges)
Total degrees conferred
through
No. graduate students
Cost per student to
State of Texas
Teacher turnover
| Average years teaching
experience of teachers
% Faculty members having de-
gree higher than BS or BA
x For year 1926.
(Gilmore President
Gainesville Circus |
Leon M. Gilmore,
Light Company at Gainesville, is
president and equestrian director
of the famous Gainesville Commu-
nity Circus. In addition, two of his
sons, Leon and Clarence, provide
one of the show’s features on the |
aerial bars.
cus is one of the most famous com-
munity enterprises in the United
States. It is composed entirely of
amateur performers and has been
featured in many cities in the
Southwest.
As a student at A. & M., Gilmore
was a member of the football team,
playing center along with George
Anderson, ’18, on the undefeated
Aggie champions of 1917.
FAMED TACKLE, SAM
’18, district |
manager of the Texas Power and |
tany of his
tem includes the main college, Ex.
The growth of Texas A. & M.
RISES HIGH IN ELECTRICAL FIELD
President T. O. Walton at His Desk.
creased from 2379 in 1925 to 4,915
'in 1937; the number of permanent
| buildings jumped from 69 to 109
of the state’s higher educational | during the period; and that valua-
(tion of the physical plant was
raised from 5,097,739.29 in 1925
‘to $10,336,590.08 the past year.
| Education attainments of the
teaching staff has been increased
‘and their teaching conditions bet- |
tered. Curricula have been revised
‘and improved, but the per capita
student instructional cost to the
(State of Texas has been reduced
from $509 in 1926 to $165 in 1937.
Il versities.
North Texas Agricultural College, |
Rapid Recent Growth
Three-fourths of the 7565 de-
‘grees awarded by the college in its
|61 years have been granted during
{the past 13 years.
The tremendous growth of the
student hody, has taxed classioom
the presidency of Dr. T. O. Walton,
% Increase
1937 1925 %Decrease® |
109 69 58
$ 8,034,115.94 $3,5652,778.86 125
18,732.82 12.20/.52 52
$10,336,590.08 $5,097,739.29 102.7
4,915 2,379 106.6
7,395 3,873 65.5
7,565 1,836 312
127 61 108.3
$165 $509x 67.6%
6% 20% 14%
12 7.7 55.9
81 Less than 50
high school coaches, dairy herds-
men and cow testers, creamery
(operators, beef cattle breeders,
poulrymen, and horse, jack and
mule breeders.
Enrollment has increased 127 |
per cent at North Texas Agricul-
KYLE T0 SPEAK
AT BIG ANNUAL
PLAINS PARTY
The annual meeting of the Cen-
tral Plains A. & M. Club held
each year as a big feature of the
Panhandle-Plains Dairy Show at
Plainview, will have as its principal
speaker and honor guest, Dean E.
J. Kyle, of Texas A. & M,, at a
huge Aggie gathering on April
19. . P. 'C.. “Happy” Colgin,. *29,
county agent at Tulia, is president
of the club and extends an invita-
tion for all men in that area to be
present for the meéting on the
night of April 19. The affair us-
ually draws several hundred A. &
M. men and this year will also
prove to be an observance of the
April 21, San Jacinto Day, Aggie
meeting date.
Schedule Headliners
Highway Engineers
Course, April 13-15
The 14th annual short course in
Highway Engineering held under
the direction of the Department of
Civil Engineering of the College
and in cooperation with the State
Highway Department, has been
' scheduled for April 13, 14, and 15.
J. T. L. MeNew, '18, professor of
tural college and 39 per cent at highway engineering at A. & M.,
John Tarleton during the period. is director and general chairman
Both colleges also have more than of the short course. An attendance
The college has been accredited by |
‘the American Association of Uni- |
College and |
College from 1925 to 1937, (Main |
doubled their physical plant valu- |
ation.
Prairie View has seen the make- |
up of its student body change to
a point where 93 per cent of its
1,441 students in 1937 were of
college rank instead of only 50
per cents as was the case in 1925.
Extension Service
‘has borne the brunt of adminis- |
‘tering the Federal government’s
agricultural program in the state,
‘but also has widened the scope of |
lits general work to the
where every Texas county has the
services of a county agricultural
‘agent and 173 of the 254 counties
i ‘have the services of a county home
‘demonstration agent,
The Agricultural Experiment
‘Station within the past 12 years
‘has developed 22 new crop varie-
ties and has added much to general |
knowledge of livestock and plant |
‘diseases, insect control, soil con-
‘ditions, and rural home economics.
‘One of its scientists, Fred Hale,
discovered that a deficiency of |
Vitamin A can cause blindness in
pigs.
Established in 1928, the Engi-
neering Experiment Station al-
ready has accomplished notable
work in engineering research.
ed the scope of its educational |
‘work, helped reduce East Texas’
annual timberland fire loss from
50 per cent to two per cent, and |
has taken over fire protection su-
pervision of more than 10,000 ,000 |
lacres of $s, State's forest area.
BOWLER, 13,
If there have ever been greater |Electric Co. is a part. That promo-
football tackles in the Southwest
than Sam Bowler,
contemporaries of
around 1913 to admit the fact.
{Carrying his more than 200 |
pounds with astonishing speed and |
‘agility he was one of the main |
The Gainesville Community Cir- | cogs in the great cadet eleven of ent Dallas, Texas, City Manager.
1912 that achieved national recog- |
nition in a day when the north and |
| east hardly knew football was play-
ed in the Southwest.
And since his graduation in elec- |
trical engineering in 1913, Sam
Bowler has been as successful in
his profession as he was on the
gridiron in those school-boy days. |
At the present time he iy Elec-.
trical Production Managergof the
Long Island Lighting Sysiem, of
which the Queens Borough «zas and
‘tion came early this year.
you'll never get |
‘tending
‘after a year or so work with the
les at that time, finished working
‘him over he was completely sold
Bowler came to Texas after at-
college in Colorado, and
Stone and Webster Corporation. He
‘was influenced in coming to Texas
‘A. & M. by Hal Moseley, ’00, pres-
‘According to Bowler, when Charley
Moran and Joe Utay, Aggie coach-
upon the A. & M. College. He re-
ceived his degree in electrical
engineering in 1913, attending A.
'& M. only two years.
After two years with the Fort
| Worth Power and Light Co. he re-
‘turned to Stone and Webster and
:
for many years was engaged in
Moffett Aiiates
For State Senate
George C. Moffett, ’16, Chilli-
cothe, veteran member of the Tex-
as House of Representatives, has
announced his candidacy for the |
State Senate in the 23rd senatorial
district. He has served eight years
in the House of Representatives.
During the past session, he was
chairman of the House Committee
on Conservation and Reclamation.
He is regarded as one of the most
influential and ablest men in the
house.
A. F. Sayers, ’13, asks that his
address be changed to 118 E.
Hollywood Street, San Antonio,
Texas. Sayers is with the Republic
Portland Cement Company and a
member of the 1913 class, which is
scheduled for a reunion on the cam-
(Continued on page 4)
pus at commencement.
The Extension Service not only |
stage |
The Forest Service has increas-
of several hundred engineers is ex-
pected.
Among those on the program are
lJ. J. Richey, Civil Engineering De-
‘partment Head, Texas A. & M.;
‘Frank H. Newnam, 31, soils en-
| gineer, State Highway Laboratory,
| Austin; Leo Ehlinger, 07, division
engineer, State Highway Depart-
‘ment, Brownwood; A. & M. Dean
‘of Engineering Gibb Gilchrist; Sol
|R. Wright, 22, A. & M. Civil En-
gineering Department; Spencer J.
| Buchanan, ’26, associate engineer,
|U. S. Waterways Experiment Sta-
Vicksburg, Mississippi, and
‘others.
Among other high lights of the:
program will be an address by
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chair-
man, Texas Railroad Commission,
on the subject “Oil, Texas’ Great-
est Resource.”
| Reservations for the short course
' should be mailed direct to Mr. Mc-
| New.
[ tion,
 0.K. In China
| A letter from Lieutenant Ray L.
| Murray, ’35, who is with the Marine
Guard, American Embassy, Pei-
ping, China, brings news that the
‘group of A. & M. officers of the
. S. Marine Corps in China, are
| all safe, sound, and happy. Murray
rand Odell Conoley, ’35, have been
‘at Peiping since the first of the
year. Murray reports that the
| weather is bitterly cold but that
| they have found their assignment
| very interesting.
Lieutenant Joe McHaney, ’85,
and Lieutenant Bruno Hockmuth,
’35, are both in Shanghai, where
there are on a regular tour of
duty. Lieutenant Woody B. Kyle,
|’86, has returned to Honolulu,
her he is with the 6th Marines.
‘All the boys send regards to their
‘many A. & M. frieds.
|
New York Club
The New York City A. & M. Club
held its regular monthly luncheon
on March 1, with the following in
attendance at the club meeting
place, the New Bedford Hotel, 118
East 40th Street: J. B. Ketterson,
24; George Armistead, Jr., ’23;
Guy C. Hutcheson, ’33; H. A. Ed-
dins, ’31; L. E. Priester, ’18; Edgar
C. Rack, "15; Fred J. Bechert, ’11;
W. R. Forsyth, ’16; J. R. Garrett,
30; Richard A. Kent, 20; S. H.
Simpson, Jr., 28; T. D. Owens, ’33;
Bryce O. Templeton, 12; R. B.
Simon, ’13; and H. H. McDaniel,
28; D. C. Lawrence, Rice, 24; C.
R. Hocker, Lehigh, ’34; and Clem
Connell.