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THE TEXAS AGGIE Ball. McQuillen.................. 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. Corl. si Babeock, 18. vali nt President E. E. McQuillen, ’20...Executive Secretary LL.B. Locke, ’18.......x... Assistant Secretary Subscription Price $5.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at College Station, Texas Directors Dr. R. L. Lewis, ’05 Paris HSK. Deason, 16........0 5 ..contes Port Arthur MBH BIVINS, 207.000 cin dodanie tus Longview Add G. Wilson, ’12 McKinney Dy SMB. Staries, 227. ..oc the la Dallas Colonel O. A. Seward, Jr., ’07...Groesbeck John R. Saunders, ...Huntsville Victor A. Barraco, ’ G. Graham Hall, ’13 PM Smith, 200: 2... A. C. Love, ’99 Austin J. B. Snider, ’'14 Waco IP. Downs r, 206... et Temple Louis P. Merrill, ’26..... ...Fort Worth E. W. Harrison, ’13.... ...South Bend ALE. “Hinman, ’25-.............. Corpus Christi Charles E. Richter, Jr., ’80................ aredo E. V. Spence, ’11 Big Spring R. T. Shiels, ’10 Dallas Guy C. McSwain, ’20 Amarillo JoetxW. . Jennings, 211... Plainview Major E. E. Aldridge, ’16........ San Antonio Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16............ San Angelo BAiDudley Perking, 07... icici McKinney Paul .G. Haines, ’17........-..::--: College Station Roy D. Golston, ’03 Tyler Charles L. Babcock, ’18.... WEL Beaumont STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES . C12. Babeock, 18... 0 inne Beaumont F. D. Perkins, ’97 McKinney E. E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC COUNCIL A. CG. Piaff, 27 Joe A. Wessendorff, Tyler JOM Richmond THE COLLEGE IN PICTURES Many compliments have been re- ceived on the pictorial brochure sent out recently by the Associa- tion to each active member. Author and originator of the pictorial was Colonel Ike Ashburn. Most of the splendid. pictures in the book came from last year’s Longhorn. The splendid composition and print- ing was done by the A. & M. Press. To all those who piayed a part in the publication of the pictorial, the AGGIE extends its thanks and the appreciation of its readers. Every active member of the Association should by this time have received a copy of the pic- torial. A limited number of addi- tional copies are available for those who have not received their copy, or those who wish to pass a copy on to some one else. From the many letters of commendation re- ceived, this little publication is the most popular thing of this kind ever received by A. & M. men. TWELVE MONTHS’ SERVICE The past summer has provided an excellent example of the perfor- mance of the A. & M. College and its physical plant as a year-round service institution to the South- west. In addition to the usual sum- mer school academic activities, the College has been host to various, well attended short courses and conferences that have brought over 20,000 visitors to College Station. The Farmers’ Short Course of the A. & M. Extension Service, the Fireman’s School, the Farm Se- curity Administration meeting, County and City School Superin- tendents’ meeting, the Short Course for Athletic Coaches, and the Vo- cational Agriculture Teachers’ conference, are examples of the type of activities that have gone on at Aggieland during the sum- mer months. The AGGIE congratulates those in charge of these meetings and those officials of the College who have made these meetings possible. The citizenship of Texas has profit- ed from these activities. They are equally as beneficial to the College and to its staff. THE FIELD SHOULD NOT BE NARROWED The AGGIE hopes that Lutcher Stark, chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and widely known alumnus of that institution, was misquoted by the press in a recent interview with the governor elect, Honorable W. Lee O’Daniel. Mr. Stark was quoted as having told Texas’ next | governor that Texas University would not need increased appropria- | tions, but that the students of the University should be charged an increased tuition in order that they might bear a greater share of the costs of that institution. This idea is not new. It has been proposed from time to time by various people and has been kept alive and pushed selfishly by rep- resentatives of some of the denomi- 1] BIRTHS § Mr. and Mrs. D. H. “Doc” Hand- ley, Jr., ’33, are the proud parents of a fine son, David Hinton, born on August 27. They make their home at Freer, Texas, where “Doc” is with the Magnolia Pipe Line Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Grimes, "29, are rejoicing over the arrival of another future Aggie, Charles Bowman, who was born on August 2. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes for the past several years have been in Juneau, Alaska, where “Tubby” has been a sanitary engineer with the Ter- ritorial Department of Health with headquarters at Juneau, but has recently accepted a position with the Oregon State Board of Health, 816 Oregon Building, Portland, Oregon, and his many friends are delighted over the news that he is returning to the States. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Thigpin, ’34, are delighted over the arrival of Robert Loren Thigpin, Jr., born on August 1. Mr. and Mrs. Thig- pin make their home at Vernon, where Thigpin is with the Soil Conservation Service. Mr. and Mrs. H. Matt Haswell, ’30, are the happy parents of a fine son, Henry Matthew, Jr., born August 6. Mr. and Mrs. Haswell "lare living at Wellington, Texas, where Matt is an assistant in ag- ricultural conservation. They al- ready have one little girl. Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. Giesecke, 29, are receiving congratulations from their many friends over the birth of a little girl, born on Aug- ust 14 and named Carol Anne. Dr. and Mrs. Giesecke reside at 105 West Rosewood, San Antonio, and Dr. Giesecke offices at 902 Nix Professional Building of that city. This makes their second little girl. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon F. Appelt, ’36, are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine son, Don Lee, on August 16. Mr. and Mrs. Appelt make their home at Baytown, Texas, where Weldon is with the Humble Oil and Refining Company. Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. McCarthy, 28, are the proud parents of a son born on August 14. The Me- Carthys already have four little girls and make their home in Hous- ton, where Glenn is a prominent independent oil operator with of- fices in the Sterling Building of that city. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mayfield, ’23, are the proud parents of a fine son, Richard Moler, born at the Hermann Hospital in Houston on August 22. Mr. and Mrs. Mayfield make their home in Houston, where John is with the Long Reach Ship- side Terminal and gets his mail at P. 0. Box 2691. Dick is their sec- ond child. Odell M. Conoley, ’35, sends in his dues from Peiping, China, where he is stationed with a U. S. Marine Detachment. Conoley writes |’ that everything is quiet at Pei- ping and that they are enjoying a very pleasant tour of duty. Conoley is a former football player, as well as popular campus figure. national institutions of Texas. If it were possible for students able to pay a larger proportion of the costs of their education at state supported schools to do so, the AGGIE would have no com- plaint at Mr. Stark’s proposal. Since it is impossible to do this, any raising of tuitions charged at state schools simply narrows the field of those who can continue their education after their high school days. To such a policy the AGGIE is opposed. To such a policy the AGGIE believes a great ma- jority of its readers are opposed. To such a policy the AGGIE be- lieves a great majority of the ex- students of the University are op- posed. The tremendous increase in at- | tendance of colleges and universi- ties of Texas during the past sev- eral years, has largely come from families in the lower income brack- ets. Any raising of fees would eliminate certain numbers of this | group. Widespread educational op- portunity is a basic necessity of the democratic form of govern- ment. It will be a sad day if only the rich, or the comparatively well- to-do, have the opportunity of a college or university education. The AGGIE hopes Mr. Stark was mis- quoted. | WEDDINGS | Wilson-Beason Miss Margaret Beason, daughter of Mr. C. L. Beason of Bryan, be- came the bride of John M. Wilson, ’35, of Conroe, on September 3 at the home of her father in Bryan. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will make their home in Conroe, where John- ny is district engineer for the Texas Company. Rutledge-Wages Miss Wilmojean Wages, daught- er of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wages of Dallas, became the bride of Robert M. Rutledge, Jr., ’35, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rutledge also of Dallas, on August 31. The wed- ding took place at the home of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Rut- ledge will make their home in Odessa, Texas. Chadwick-Clark News comes to us of the mar- riage of Miss Evelyn Clark, daugh- ter of Mrs. M. L. Clark of Jack- son, Mississippi, to Dr. Charles W. Chadwick, ’38, son of Dr. and Mrs. Hudson Chadwick, also of Jack- son. The wedding took place on June 14 in a quiet ceremony at the Galloway Memorial Methodist Church of Jackson. Dr. and Mrs. Chadwick are at home to their friends at Baton Rouge, La., where Chadwick is a junior veterinarian with the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry located at 326 Post Office Building. Sorenson-Price The marriage of Miss Mary Mae Price, of Stephenville, to J. W. Sor- enson, Jr., ’35, was solemnized on August 18. Mr. and Mrs. Sorenson are at home to their many friends at Stephenville, Texas, where Sor- enson teaches agricultural en- gineering at J. T. A. C. News comes to this office that C. C. Valle, ’30, recently got mar- ried. Valle is in charge of the Soil Conservation Camp at Floresville, Texas. Bednarek-McLeaish Miss Irene McLeaish, of Wei- mar, became the bride of Frank Bednarek, ’35, on August 6. The wedding took place at Weimar. Mr. and Mrs. Bednarek will make their | home at Schulenburg, where Frank is junior technologist at the Soil Conservation Camp there. R. H. Goodnight, ’33, served as best man. During his cadet days, Bednarek was one of the lucky boys who got to make the cotton tour to Europe sponsored each year by the Agron- omy Department of the A. & M. College. Stiles-Jernigan The marriage of Miss Thelma Eloise Jernigan, of Woodson, daughter of Mrs. E. L. Jernigan, and Marshall F. Stiles, Jr., ’36, of Kenedy, was solemnized on June 18, at Breckenridge. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles are making their home at Kenedy, where Stiles is with the Luling Oil and Gas Company. Edmonds-Cahill Miss Lottie Mae Cahill, dau- ghter of Mrs. J. A. Cahill of Bryan, recently became the bride of W. S. Edmonds, ’38, of College Sta- tion. Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds will make their home in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Edmonds has ac- cepted a position with the Ameri- can Cotton Cooperative Associa- tion. Moore-Edge Mr. and Mrs. George P. Edge, of Bryan, have announced the mar-- riage of their daughter, Dorothy, to Mr. William J. Moore, ’38, of Mount Vernon, on July 4 at San Marcos. Mr. and Mrs. Moore will make their home at Emory, Texas, where Moore has recently been ap- pointed assistant county agricul- tural agent of Rains County, with headquarters at Emory. Dooley-Holland The marriage of Miss Beatrice M. Holland and Robert H. “Bob” Dooley, 19, was solemnized in the chapel of the Second Congregation- al Church in Waterbury, Conn. After a wedding trip to Montreal, Quebec, the Gaspe Peninsula, and Noca Scotia, Mr. and Mrs. Dooley will make their home at 3500 Gra- nada, Dallas. MecMahan-Cook The engagement and approach- ing marriage of Miss Helen Cecile Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cook of Seguin, Texas, to Mr. | Roy B. Davis, 27, New Secretary Bank for Co-Ops Roy B. Davis, ’27, for the past of the Cooperative at Plainview, several Years manager Plains and a member of the Board of Di- rectors of the A. & M. College, has been named Secretary of the Hous- ton Bank for Cooperatives and will make his home in the city of Hous- ton. The Bank for Cooperatives is a division of the National Farm Credit Administration and the Houston bank is headed by Sterling C. Evans, ’21, president. As manager of the Plains Co- operative, with headquarters at Plainview, Davis has made an out- standing record and is one of the best known men in his field in the Southwest. He is also a past presi- dent of the South Plains A. & M. Club and is one of the plains area’s most useful and well known -citi- zens. Derrick Will Judge At Dallas Fair W. W. “Bill” Derrick, 20, state extension agent in animal husband- ry for the Extension Service of the State of Nebraska, will be in Texas at the Dallas Fair this fall to judge the hog show on the 17, 18, and 19th of October. He has been connected with the University of Nebraska for a good many years and is one of the outstanding ani- mal husbandry experts in the mid- dle West. The Dallas Fair is ex- pected to draw one of the greatest livestock exhibits ever held in the Southwest and Derrick’s selection to judge hogs, is a splendid compli- ment. As a student at A. & M., he was a member of the livestock judging team that won the inter- national contest at Chicago in the fall of 1919. Derrick has been out of Texas so long that he declared on a re- cent visit to the campus that he had lost track of many of his old A. & M. friends but that he hoped to see them at Dallas. M. S. Beringer, ’16, is with the British American Oil Co., Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. During his school days at A. & M., Ber- inger was a member of the Ross Volunteers, a member of the Ath- letic Council and the T-Associa- tion, and participated in various other campus activities. J. 0. McMahan, ’37, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McMahan of Spur, has been announced. The marriage will take place on October 20. Mr. and Mrs. McMahan, elect, will make their home in San Antonio, where McMahan is with the Mar- tin-Dale Manufacturing Company, Suite 2001, Alamo National Bank Building. Sherrill-McGilvray At the home of her parents on August 6, Miss Joyce MecGilvray became the bride of Mr. Word B. Sherrill, ’36. After a wedding trip to Carlsbad Cavern, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill are at home to their many friends at 2309 Freeland, San An- gelo. Sherrill is assistant county agent for Tom Green County with headquarters at San Angelo. Bloodworth-Branch In a quiet ceremony, solemnized at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. George R. Branch, of Bryan, Miss Frances Jane Branch became the bride of William Allen Blood- worth, ’37, of Houston. Mr. and Mrs. Bloodworth are making their home in Houston, where Allen is with the Rogers Wholesale Grain Company, 1802 Center Street, of that city. Morgan-Hollub Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Hollub an- nounce the marriage of their daughter, Edith Martha, to Mr. John C. Morgan, ’29, on August 29, 1938 at Hallettsville. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan will make their home in Sinco, Texas, where Morgan is a chemical engineer with the Sin- clair Refining Company. Golasinski-Canter Miss Evelyn Canter, of Lake Charles, La., became the bride of Joe A. Golasinski, ’34, on Septem- ber 1. Mr. and Mrs. Golasinski will make their home at 320 Miller Ave- nue, Lake Charles. Joe is with the Shell Petroleum Company. As a student at A. & M., Golasinski was a member of the varsity football team. John B. Jones, ’26, was recently elected general manager of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange, with headquarters at Weslaco. John resigned several months ago his position as secretary of the Bank for Cooperatives at Houston to ac- cept this position. Roger J. Morris, Jr., ’32, is in the Engineering Department of the Sun Oil Company, and gets his mail at 1700 Lakeview Drive, Dallas. L. W. “Stormy” Johnston, ’30, received his degree this spring from Baylor University School of Medi- cine in Dallas and is doing his in- terne work in Dallas in the Charity Hospital, Shreveport, Louisiana. John R. Guion, ’01, lives at 5526 Monticello Avenue, Dallas. Guion McCaleb, 28, is with the Dallas Power & Light Company, Dallas. He reports that Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Holekamp, ’24, have a Doberman pup weighing almost 100 pounds at seven months of age and that “Hole” is trying to || design a 16 foot fence that will hold the dog when he reaches ma- turity. Thos. R. Batte, '02, is general superintendent of production and drilling for the Continental Oil Company and its Gulf District. Following his graduation at A. & M., he took graduate work at Cor- nell and went into the oil business in 1909 as chief engineer with the Rio Brava Oil Company in Houston. From 1913 to 1933 he was in the oil business in various capacities in Tampico, Mexico. He returned to the States and joined the Conti- nental Oil Company in 1933 and makes his headquarters in Hous- ton. W. D. Armstrong, 29, who has been Assistant Oklahoma A. & M.’s Extension Service Horticulturist, recently resigned that position to become horticulturist with the Uni- versity of Kentucky Experiment Station at Princeton, Kentucky. John W. Mayo, ’22, is owner and manager of the Mayo Realty Com- pany of Texarkana, Texas. He is at the present time president of the Arkansas Real Estate Association. He is also a Captain and Battery Commander in the Arkansas Na- tional Guard. He received his de- gree from A. & M. in mechanical engineering; then took his mas- ters’ degree at Cornell University. He is married and has two children. W. F. Walker, ’35, writes that he greatly enjoys his TEXAS AGGIE, although it reaches him at least one month late. He would like to see any A. & M. men who might be in his neighborhood. He is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and is with the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., at Cairo, Egypt. Rev. Glenn L. Sneed, ’98, is pas- tor of the Westminister Presbyter- ian Church, New Orlean, La. A. Kelly Morris, ’36, this spring completed his third year’s work at the University of Tennessee’s Med- ical School as an honor student and will graduate next year. He intends to serve his internship and then return to Texas. A. M. Schmidt, Jr., ’38, is with the South American Gulf Oil Com- ‘| pany, at Bananquilla, Columbia, S. A. George J. Kempen, Jr. ’21, is resident engineer for the State Highway Department at Abilene, Texas. He gets his mail at Box 150. His residence address is 1034 High- land, Abilene, Texas. “Smiles” is married and has one child. The Max Starcke State Park at Luling was named in honor of Max H. Starcke, ’01, perennial and widely known Seguin mayor. He has been mayor of the thriving city of Seguin since 1928 and is also serving his second term as pres- ident of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce. He is vice president of the Seguin Bank and Trust Company and one of the most active citizens of Texas along civic lines. Paul E. Love, ’36, is with the Lago Petroleum Corporation, Apar- tado 172, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Frank writes that he has had many interesting experiences since his arrival at Maracaibo. At the pres- ent time he is in charge of con- struction of 26 houses for foreign staff employees and has 75 natives working with him who can’t speak a word of English. -B achieved prominence in the In Memoriam Roger A. Rogers, ’79 Roger A. Rogers died un- @ expectedly on August 1 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born at Old Wash- d ington on the Brazos in 1858 and graduated at Texas A. & M. in 1879. He took his law degree at the University of Virginia, practicing law at Fort Worth, Pauls Valley and Oklahoma City, Okla- homa, but retired from active practice 15 years ago and since that time has resided in Atlanta, Georgia. Among his survivors are John D. Rogers, well known cotton breeder of Navasota, and several other sons and daughters, in addition to his wife. Neville P. Ross, 98 Neville P. Ross, age 56, son of the late Governor Wil- liam Sullivan Ross, and vet- eran employee of the Texas Power and Light Company of Dallas, died in that city recently. Burial was at Waco, his former home. He attend- ed the A. & M. College while his father was president and for the past 23 years has been connected with the Tex- as Power and Light Com- pany. Thomas R. Day, ’02 Thomas R. Day died in August at his home at Cen- ter, Texas, at the age of 76. He was the first student from Shelby County to receive a degree from Texas A. & M. College, and at one time was president of the Panhandle Christian College at Here- ford, also known as Add-Ran College, and subsequently a member of the state board of: examiners in the State De- partment of Education. In 1914, Day went to Bra- zil as agricultural agent for the Leopold-Ina Railroad Company and later was con- nected with the Department of Agriculture of Brazil. Be- fore returning to the United States in 1927, he wrote sev- eral text books on agricul- | ture, which were used in Brazilian schools, and also development of a variety of cotton by crossing Egyptian and Brazilian types. In addition to his activi- ties in agriculture, he found time to write and publish during the later years of his life a widely circulated volume of poems. Dr. George Childs Bauer Dr. George C. Bauer, pro- fessor of analytical chemis- try at Texas A. & M. College, died at his home in Bryan following a heart attack re- cently. Burial was in the H Bryan City Cemetery. He was 41 years of age. Grad- : uating from the University of Kentucky in 1920, he re- ceived his masters degree in 1927, and his doctors degree in 1937, both from Iowa State College. He came to Texas A. & M. as an instructor in the Chemistry Department in 1922 and is well remembered and widely known among A. & M. men. Reed Montgomery, Jr. ’37 | Reed Montgomery, Jr. died following an automobile ac- cident on August 3 near his home, Pandora, Texas. At the time of his death, he was an electrical engineer for the Magnolia Petroleum Com- pany at the Kermit gasoline plant. He was on his way home for his vacation at the time of the accident and was instantly killed, together with Miss Joyce Coleman, also of Pandora. He is the son of Mrs. Reed Montgom- ery, of Pandora. Burial was in that city. He took his de- gree at A. & M. in electrical engineering and attended Schreiner Institute before coming to A. & M., and has been with the Magnolia Pe- troleum Company since his graduation. H. C. McDonald, 28, is general manager of the Southwestern Sew- er Company, 311 Burt Building, Dallas a —— — a tS ———_§’"«®
