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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1938)
AGGIES-STEERS JOIN HANDS AT SAN TONE RALLY Ex-Students from Texas A. & M. and Texas University held their annual joint pre-game rally in San Antonio at the Chef Cafe at noon, November 22. An attendance of well over 150 men, with a few ladies, was present, the crowd be- ing slightly A. & M. by a small majority. The Texas University Exes were hosts for the occasion as the game was played at Austin this year. The party has been held annually in San Antonio for the past several years. Chris Stromberger, ’26, Presi- dent of the San Antonio A. & M. Club, served as master of cere- monies for the Aggie part of the program. Fred Silvey, '37, proved a big hit with his yell-leading, with both young and old Aggies cutting loose with a vim on “Farmers Fight.” Short talks were made for the Aggies by Victor H. Braunig, ’10, and Association Secretary E. E. McQuillen, ’20. The Alamo A. & M. Club, with an average attendance during the past year of over 30 members, has been one of the most active of all A. & M. Clubs. Under its present organization the club has a group of members who pay dues each quarter. Any and all other A. & M. men are warmly welcome to all meetings and parties of the club which holds its regular meetings every other Thursday noon at the Blue Bonnett Hotel. Lewis Dodson, ’25, recently spent several days upon the campus and in Bryan, conducting a school for operators and handlers of food pur- veying establishments. He is with the State Department of Educa- tion, conducting an educational pro- gram in cooperation with the State Dept. of Health. He makes his headquarters in Austin but is on the road much of the time. F. J. Zak, ’27, has been made Superintendent of Distribution for the Fredericksburg District of the Virginia Electric and Power Co. He was previously System En- gineer in the Richmond, Va., offi- ces of the same company. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. “Bill” Heller, ’08, will regret to learn of the death of their daughter, Mrs. Q. J. Aaberg, age 25, after a long illness. Heller is owner and manager of the Alvin Cape Jessamine & Floral Company, the largest Cape Jessamine farm in the United States. W, L. Heller, Jr. is a student at Texas A. & M. this year. Louis H. Shearer, ’32, is employ- ed by the Core Laboratories, Inc. of Dallas and makes his home at 1410 Fourth Street in Corpus Chris- ti. CLAUDE EVERETT (17) INC. 522 Barziza St., Houston, Texas GENERAL CONTRACTOR specializing in SEWERS — DIRT WORK WATERWORKS With our new scientific root treatment we tan now trans- plant bearing papershell pe- can trees from our orchard to your home. Write for free catalog, pe- cans, fruits, berries, grapes, 0. S. GRAY (’17) Pecan Nursery Arlington, Texas | The Aggieland Inn ON THE CAMPUS Ofrers You Comfortable Rooms Dining Room and Lunch Room & Make It Your Headquarters Fitzhugh Coaches National Winners Henry A. Fitzhugh, ’33, is receiv- of his friends on coaching the team that ing the congratulations won the non-collegiate livestack judging contest at the Internation- al Live Stock Show at Chicago, last week. Although Fitzhugh is now County Agent of Bexar Coun- ty, headquarters San Antonio, he was formerly County Agent at Me- nard, and returned there to take the Menard County judging team to the Chicago Show. He had coach- ed the Menard team before being transferred recently to San An- tonio. The triumph of the Fitzhugh coached team calls attention to the Fitzhugh family, a group that bids fair to give the Rollins, Roberts, Pendle- ton, Knolle, Rothe, and other famed A. & M. families a lot of competition in A. & M. his- tory. Three Fitzhugh brothers have already finished A. & M. and three more are in school. The three students are made up of one senior and two fresh- men. The family home is at Tolar. In addition to the above members of the family, V. F. Fitzhugh, ’28, the old man of the group, is Assistant man- ager and agricultural direc- tor of the Tyler and Smith County Chamber of Commer- ce. H. M. Fitzhugh, ’38, is teaching Vocational Agricul- ture at Garden City. GEORGE WILCOX NEW PRESIDENT TEAGHER GROUP George B. Wilcox, 23, professor of Agricultural Education at Texas A. & M., was elected President of the Texas State Teachers Associa- tion at that organization’s annual meeting held recently in Dallas. The honor is one of the highest that can come to a man or woman in the teaching profession. Mr. Wilcox is regarded as one of the outstanding men in the field of education in the Southwest. In ad- dition to his teaching he is the author of several widely used text books in the field of Education. Wilcox attended the Sam Hous- ton State Teachers College and was principal of schools at Groes- beck and Wharton before the World War. After the war he came to A. & M. as head of the campus school, taking his degree from the college in 1923. He also has his Master’s degree from Columbia. He and Mrs. Wilcox and their daughter make their home in Oak- wood Heights, south of the campus. Growing beautiful flowers and making fine fishing rods are hob- bies of George Wilcox, and he is as successful along these lines as he has been in his professional career. : Jack “Oscar” Singleton, ’38, is with the firm of Wyecliffe Hill Bu- reau of Advertising, 409 Republic Building, Houston, and very enthu- siastic over his work and the growth and prospects of his com- pany. He was a campus visitor several times during the fall and thoroughly enjoyed meeting old friends and visiting familiar scenes. Col. John H. Pirie, ’07, U. S. Air Corps, recently transferred from March Field, California to Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, has become acting head of the Air Corps Tactical School at that field. Col. Pirie is one of the U. S. Army Air Corps’ higher authorities on aeronautical tactics and develop- ment. He is also director of the Air Corps Board, designed to study new developments in aeronautics and to promote and instigate re- search work in that field. Head- quarters for the board are at Max- well Field, following its reorgani- zation by the War Department in December, 1934. George K. Fell, ’36, recently mov- ed to Brenham, where he became supervisor for the National Youth Administration. The area under his supervision includes Waller, Wash- ington, Grimes, and Austin Coun- ties. Since graduation, Fell has been on active duty with the 8th Cavalry at Fort Bliss and more recently with the Efficiency De- partment of Sear, Roebuck and | Company, Dallas. THE AGGIES TAKE THE OWLS Top picture shows that Odell Herman, sophomore back, makes a strange face as he crosses goal-lines. His score in the Rice fray was his first for the varsity. He shook of Nobles of Rice in order to cross the line. Husbands, Parker and Stevens of Rice are in the background, along with Aggie Rankin Britt, who smiles his satisfaction. Below is Dick Todd as he made his last run on Kyle Field. Vestal, Haner and Husbands are after him. Britt of the Aggies and Hancock of Rice are at the extreme right. Todd had shaken off one Rice player. Insert in top picture shows how Head Coach Homer Norton and Line Coach Bill James looked together on the Aggie bench. When this was taken they were worrying over a mere 13-point lead. THE FAMILY ALBUM They had a few substitutes back in those rough and ready days of football, but they didn’t play much nor get into the pictures of the team. The 1907 Aggie team is pic- tured above, the picture being now the possession of Rudolph Martin, ’08, rancher, Mason, and one of the subs on the squad. In the picture from left to right, standing, are L. N. Huff, manag- er, now dead; Jess Dale, who lives at Chillicothe; H. Schmidt, now Chief of the Veterinary Research Division of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Sta- tion; George F. Moore, Colonel, U. S. Army, now Commandant of Cadets at A. & M.; Jim Ross, ad- dress unknown; Charley DeWare, deceased; Sig Flinchum, address unknown; and Coach Larson. Sit- ting, left to right are, an uniden- tified lad; Louie Hamilton, now living in New York; A. L. Cornell, Denison; Joe Utay, Captain,, Dal- las lawyer and a member of the College Board of Directors; Choe Kelly, now Athletic Director and head coach, Hollywood, Cal., High School; Clarence Symes, Abilene; Dan Rugel, El Paso; Roger Hook- er, Franklin; Shorty Leggett, and George W. Barnes, College Station. 1907 was Coach Larson’s first year and the Aggies upset the dope to enjoy a fine season. Beaten were Ft. Worth University, L. S. U., Haskell Indians, T. C. U., Tu- lane, and Oklahoma University. Two games were played against the University of Texas, the first a scoreless tie in Dallas, the second a victory for Texas, 11-6, at Aus- tin. be A recent Bryan visitor was R. C. Black, ’17, City Engineer, Beau- mont, accompanied by Mrs. Black. They came to Bryan to attend the Ladies Night party of the Bryan Lions Club. Black is Governor of District 2S, Lions International. T. B. “Tony” Ketterson, ’31, for- mer member of the Texas A. & M. Publicity Department and who re- signed last year to move to New York City, is now connected with the United Press Association radio départment. Ralph H. Young, ’29, lives at 2724 N. W. 16th St, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Boehne, ’26, recently moved into their own home at 4508 Cedar Lane, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. They have two fine children, E. W. Boehne, Jr., born February, 1937, and Elizabeth Anne Boehne, born May, 1938. Boehne is with the Pittsburgh plant of the General Electric Company and is one of the firm’s outstanding younger engineers. Preston D. McNeely, ’34, is with the New Iberia Auto Co., at New Iberia, La. Edgar R. Neath, 725, is an oil scout with the Humble Pipe Line Co., Box 351, Longview. M. A. Mosesman, ’36, is taking work leading to the Ph.D. in Chem- istry at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkley . . . William N. Stockton, ’37, is trouble shooting and setting up new machinery for the Oil Well Supply Co. at Kil- gore in the heart of the East Texas oil field, and invites his old friends to pay him a visit when in those parts . . . Paul M. Wiley, ’38, is engineering for The Texas Co., 433 River St., Seguin . Barton Adams, ’38, is with the Texas Highway Dept. Seguin « =... J. 0. McMahan, ’37, lives at 506 Kings Court, San Antonio . . . LAREDO AGGIES HOLD BANQUET The Laredo A. & M. Club held one of the most successful banquets in its long history on Saturday evening, November 19, at the Plaza Hotel. The annual pre-Thanksgiv- ing Day banquet is a regular event of the club. Nearly fifty A. & M. men and their guests were pres- ent. Honor guests for the occasion in- cluded Bill Galligan, superintendent of the Laredo High School; W. J. Lemoine, principal, and the entire coaching staff of the school. W. Byron Johnson, ’12, president of the Laredo Club, acted as toast- master for the evening. High lights of the occasion in- cluded talks by President Johnson. He told the group of recent de- velopments and growth at Texas A. & M. Mr. Galligan explained the intramural plan for the develop- ment of football material in Laredo schools, and Dr. E. H. Sauvignet, '88, reported on his visit to the campus last spring for his class reunion. Short talks were also made by L. A. Pierce, ’22, Charles Rich- ter, Jr., ’29, and others. Although they hold only a half dozen or so meetings every year, the Laredo Club always has an ex- cellent and enthusiastic attendance. JOHN JONES, "26 DIRECTOR FARM CREDIT BOARD John B. Jones, ’26, of Weslaco, was recently elected a director on the Farm Credit Board of the Houston district. He is General Manager of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange and was elected to the board by farmers’ coopera- tive associations. As a director on the seven member Farm Credit Board, he will also serve as a direc- tor ex officio of the Federal Land Bank of Houston, the Federal In- termediate Credit Bank of Hous- ton, the Production Credit Corpora- tion of Houston, and the Houston Bank for Cooperatives. For the past ten years Jones has been identified with farmers co- operative work in Texas. He was connected with the Southwestern Irrigated Cotton Growers Associa- tion, El Paso, served as Secretary of the El Paso Alfalfa Growers Association, and prior to becoming associated with the Citrus Ex- change was Vice President of the Houston Bank for Cooperatives. LONGHORN WANTED A. L. “Todda” Forbes, ’21, the old basketball star and cavalryman, wants a copy of the 1921 Long- horn, his having been lost. He is Vice President of the El Paso Na- tural Gas Co., El Paso. Forbes is entirely willing to pay, swap or rassle anyone for a copy of the ’21 book. According to R. B. “Cat” Goodman, ’20, also of El Paso, still rated as one of A. & M.'s greatest Yell-Leaders and founder of the cavalry unit at A. & M., Forbes wants the book in order that he can show his 9-year-old son, “Lit- tle Todda,” what a dashing figure “Pappy” was back in the early twenties before his hair turned gray and his joints became stiff. Walter N. Dashiell, ’27, of Wash- ington, D. C., Sanitary Engineer with the U. S. Public Health Ser- vice, has been detailed for some special sanitary work in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He will spend sev- eral months in the larger cities of those Central American countries, inspecting milk pasteurizing plants and making reports and sugges- tions. He is a specialist along milk supervision and pasteurization lines. Dick Bernhard, ’28, former Ag- gie baseball player, recently moved from Houston to San Antonio where he is living at 1410 W. Wood- lawn, Apt. 2. He is still with the Universal Credit Co., and would like to hear from and see any of his old A. & M. friends in his new location. Roderick R. “Red” Allen, ’15, is a lieutenant colonel, cavalry, U. S. Army and at present is assigned to the Washington General Staff, Washington, D. C. As a student at A. & M., he was president of the Y. M. C. A. council in 1915, and business manager of the ’'15 Longhorn.
