THE TEXAS AGGIE
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monthly, by the Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
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Texas.
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E. E. McQuillen, ’20... Executive Secretary
L..B. locke, ’18........ Assistant Secretary
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Directors
Dr. R. L. Lewis, ’05 Paris
HH. 2X. Denson, L055 vouaismmsimsicses Port Arthur
M. H. Bivins, 07 Longview
Add G. Wilson, ’12 McKinney
Dr. M, B./Starnes, "227....a0 ii seeereameess Dallas
Colonel O. A. Seward, Jr., ’07...Groesbeck
John R. Saunders, ’27.-........-o.. Huntsville
Victor A. Barraco, 15... ..cccrmzesee Houston
G. Graham Hall, ’13 Houston
TT, 'M,. Smith, ’0L......z...... 2. East Columbia
A. C. Love, '99 Austin
J. B. Snider, ’14 Waco
Polk. Bowns, Jr., ’00. ... cee esed Temple
Louis P. Merrill, ’26.................... Fort Worth
E. W. Harrison, ’13........-......... South Bend
AE. Hinman, ’25.........un Corpus Christi
Charles E. Richter, Jr., ’30......... -....Laredo
E. V. Spence, ’11 Big Spring
R. T. Shiels, ’10 Dallas
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Major E. E. Aldridge, ’16........ San Antonio
Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16............ San Angelo
F. Dudley Perkins, '97 McKinney
Paul G. Haines, "17................ College Station
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lication is always welcome news
to its editor. A recent suggestion
has been made that the AGGIE run
in each issue the complete roster
of A. & M. men living in various
states, or in various towns. It
would, of course, be impractical
to run lists containing too many
names but it would not be difficult
to compile lists of the states, with
the exception of Texas, and run
them by states in succeeding issues.
It would also be impossible to run
a complete roster of a class.
The AGGIE would like to pro-
mote some discussion on this pro-
posal and will welcome correspond-
ence from any of its readers. Per-
haps there are other criticisms or
suggestions that might be advane-
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THE LEGION GIFT
Members of the Houston A. &
M. Club and other A. & M. men
who have been following closely
the plan of the American Legion
to build a dormitory at A. & M.,
are jubilant that the program will
become a reality. They point out
that the generous action of the
Legion should be the beginning of
a close friendship between that
powerful organization and the A.
& M. College. So far as the AGGIE
knows, the Legion's gift will mark
the first time that outside funds
have provided a permanent build-
ing on the A. & M. Campus.
The action of the Legion will
make possible the attendance at
A. & M. of many boys who could
not otherwise secure an education.
To the Legion and its members,
the AGGIE extends the thanks and
appreciation of A. & M. men, and
the hope that a permanent friend-
ship will be cemented by the gift.
W. L. Stangel, ’15, head of the
Department of Animal Husbandry
at Texas Tech, presided as pres-
ident at the annual convention
meeting of the national Block &
Bridle Club held at the Stock Yard
Inn, Chicago, on November 28. The
meeting was attended by student
delegates from 15 states and the
organization is composed of live-
stock clubs at the various agricul-
tural colleges and state universi-
ties of this country. Since his in-
auguration as national president
two years ago, Mr. Stangel has
created unprecedented interest both
locally and nationally in the Block
and Bridle Club organization.
Also present at the annual meet-
ing in Chicago and serving as
secretary-treasurer of the national
organization, was M. G. Snell, "21.
Snell is associate professor of ani-
mal industry of the Louisiana
State University at Baton Rouge.
V. D. Want, ’32, is with the
Rural Electrification Engineer, 912
Professional Building, Waco. He
completed last summer a year’s
tour of active duty in the United
States Army.
| his many A. & M. friends.
In Memoriam
Frank Richie Ross, ’94
Dr. Frank R. Ross, age
62, Houston psychiatrist and
son of former Governor
Lawrence Sul Ross, died in
Houston recently. He receiv-
ed his degree from Texas A.
& M. in 1894 at the age of
16, later attending the Uni-
versity of Virginia and Tu-
lane. He had been a resident
of Houston for 33 years and
resided at 517 McGowen. He
attended A. & M. while his
father was president of the
the institution.
Burial was at Houston. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mary S. Ross, two daugh-
ters, a sister, and a brother.
Edwin P. Arneson, ’10
Edwin P. Arneson, age 50,
widely known San Antonio
civil engineer and civic lead-
ed, died recently in San An-
tonio, following an illness of
several months.
Stricken on September 1,
Arneson was taken to the
Barnes Hospital in St. Louis,
Missouri, where an operation
was performed. He later re-
turned to San Antonio, where
his death occurred. He is the
father of E. P. Arneson, Jr.,
38. Mrs. Arneson was the
former Miss Anita Park of
Bryan.
One of the best known en-
gineers of the Southwest, Ar-
neson designed the master
highway system for San An-
tonio, Waco, Fort Worth and
Dallas. For two years he was
regional director of the WPA
and at the time of his death
was preparing engineering
data on the San Antonio
Rive Beautification Program.
Arneson had been district
governor of the Rotary Club
and a past president of the
San Antonio Rotary Club. He
was also a past president of
the Technical Club and the
Texas Section of the Amer-
ican Society of Civil Engi-
neering. A native of Fort
Worth, he received his de-
gree from A. & M. in 1910
and as a student was editor
of the Longhorn and active
in other student affairs. In
1929 he was awarded a pro-
fessional degree at A. & M.
for distinguished research in
paving materials. Burial was
at San Antonio. He is sur-
vived by his widow, three
children, Edwin, Jr., Anita,
and Richard, his father, one
brother, and one sister.
John W. Puckett, Jr., age 19
of Pharr, Texas, a Junior of
Texas A. & M. and the son of
John W. Puckett, 04, Division
Engineer State Highway De-
partment, died in a College
hospital last week of infantile
paralysis. It was the first case
of this dread disease ever to
appear on the campus. In an-
nouncing the death of young
Puckett, Dr. J. E. Marsh, Col-
lege Surgeon, and other phy-
sicians called in consultation,
stated there was no fear of
other cases at the College.
Burial services were held in
Austin with 10 cadet class-
mates at pallbearers and an
honor guard of 25 classmates.
The many friends of John W.
Puckett will join the AGGIE
in extending deepest sympathy
to him on the loss of his only
son.
Jd. 8. Porcher, ’32, resigned
his position with the Soil Con-
servation Service last fall to take
up irrigated farming for himself.
He is located at Hatch, New Mex-
ico and gets his mail at Box 56.
He was married last February to
Miss Aubrey L. Stiles, of Lubbock,
and reports that they are having
a busy fall developing a tract of
land.
James K. Ross, ’10, whose pic-
ture was included in the cut in the
last issue of the AGGIE of the
1908 football team, writes that he
is very much alive and kicking and
is manager of the Fort Worth
agency of the Farm and Home
Savings and Loan Association of
Missouri. He offices at 203 Burk-
burnett Building, Fort Worth,
from where he sends regards to
HONORED AT BANQUET
Marvin Smith, member of the
testimonial dinner December 8 by the college. The dinner follows
a plan inaugurated last year which is for the purpose of honoring
successful exstudents of the college.
class of 1915, was honored at a
Eleven | Prophets of Modernity
Dr. Mayo’s Column
(This is one of a series of sketches of
yost-war American writers who have con-
ributed conspicuously to the formation of
he ‘“‘modern’ personality.) .
V. Charles Beard: Realist in His-
tory.
Most of wus, I imagine, have
grown up believing that American
history was made by spotless old
fellows who founded colonies, wrote
constitutions, fought wars, and
built a nation from the most exalt-
ed and unpractical motives. Charles
and Mary Beard ended this illusion
for thousands of Americans when
they wrote “The Rise of American
Civilization.” They depicted history
as a practical workaday process
kept in motion largely by millions
of ordinary men and women just
trying to get along. The big shots,
the full-dress boys, the generals
and presidents and such, have been
mostly like chips that got carried
places on top of the vast and ir-
esistible current of nameless hu-
man beings rushing more or less
blindly toward where they thought
che good things of life were to be
found in greater abundance.
This, I take it, is roughly what
is meant by ‘the economic inter-
pretation of history”. Does such an
‘nterpretation, you think, make our
respected ancestors seem like a lot
of soulless pigs? Does it “debase”
American history in our eyes and
make us love our country less?
Speaking personally, I must say
that it certainly does not. It simply
means, to me at any rate, that the
economic motive, the desire, that
is, for a satisfactory amount of
shelter, comfort, and leisure, is the
one motive that we all have in
common all the time. It may not be
the dominant motive in any one of
us at any given moment. But the
“economic goods” you will want
always, and so will everybody else.
So, say the “economic interpreters
of history” like Charles Beard, in
the long run it is the economic mo-
tive that shapes history, because
it’s universal and “so durned
reg’lar”.
When, then, should anybody be
shocked to learn that our glorious-
ly fought Civil War (and I do
mean gloriously) was not funda-
mentally an affair of plumed and
knightly ‘“southrons” defending a
lifty principle, or of big hearted
Yankees freeing slaves? What if
Beard does show it as a collision
between two crowds of Toms,
Dicks, and Harrys like you and
me, one crowd rushing hopefully
toward food, etc., by the business
and manufacturing road, and the
others by the plantation path. It’s
perfectly true that a lot of the
individual Toms, Dicks, and Har-
rys were led to war and kept
courageously at it by a variety of
other less material motives. But in
these other motives they differed
endlessly among themselves. The
economic motive was common to
enough people on each side to get
the two crowds in motion on con-
verging lines. So they collided, and
the collision struck out flaming
sparks of heroism and unselfish
devotion and plain human decency
and steadfastness under strain.
And of these sparks we have every
right to be proud.
Realism applied to history, then,
is what “The Rise of American
Civilization” has contributed to the
“modern” attitude. And in this
connection it is well to remember
that to be a realist does not mean
to be a cynic.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell,
’33, above, changed roles complete-
ly. They are shown boarding a
plane as passengers following their
recent marriage. “Mitch” is a pilot
on the American Airlines and Mrs.
Mitchell, formerly Miss Nellie F.
Mitcham, of Dallas, was a stew-
ardess on the same line and they
often flew together.
Mrs. Mitchell has been on the
Fort Worth-Memphis airline sched-
ule for the past three years, while
“Mitch” has been flying out of
Fort Worth during the past year.
He became a pilot in 1936 after
receiving training at Randolph
and Kelly Fields.
As a student at A. & M., “Mitch”
was a star player on the baseball
team and received his degree in
agriculture.
Fred Hale, 22, swine husband-
man of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, judged the
Duroc Jersey Hog Classes in the
International Livestock Show in
Chicago last month.
James R. Jackson, ’36, recently
returned to Texas after a tour of
duty in Venezuela and is living at
704 West 24th, Austin, Texas.
Wm. M. Wolf, ’32, is with the
State Highway Department and
gets his mail at 918 10th, Corpus
Christi.
Marshall A. “Mike” Langley, ’36,
former Aggie baseball captain, is
in the Accounting Department of
the Union Producing Company,
Beeville, Texas. He is also a lieu-
tenant in the National Guard Com-
pany in Beeville.
Ross Volunteers To
Form Honor Guard
~~ The Ross Volunteers will
form the honor guard at the
inauguration of W. Lee O’-
Daniel as Governor, it was an-
nounced Thursday.
Selection of this company,
made by the inauguration com-
mittee at Austin, was approv-
ed by Governor-elect O’Daniel
in a conference with Adj. Gen.
Carl Nesbitt and his assistant,
Maj. Gaston Howard.
WEDDINGS
Chenault — Evans
News comes to us of the mar-
riage of H. L. Chenault, ’32, to
Miss Hazel Evans, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Evans of
Teague, in September. The wed-
ding was solemnized in Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Chenault make their
home at 3212 A. U. 16th Okla-
homa City, Oklahoma. Harvey is
still a member of the Engineering
Department of Black, Swalls, and
Bryson, Inc.
Matthes — Grove
Mrs. Ann Grove, of Beaumont,
daughter of Judge and Mrs. B.
O’Quinn of Beaumont, became the
bride of Louis H. Matthes, '21, on
November 12. Mr. and Mrs. Mat-
thes are at home to their many
friends at 2405 South, Beaumont.
Louis is with the General Electric
Company.
Glover — Hyatt
Miss Doris Hyatt, of Johnson
City, became the bride of Joseph
M. Glover, Jr., ’37, on November
11. Mr. and Mrs. Glover are mak-
ing their home at Johnson City,
where Glover is administrative as-
sistant for the AAA.
Mitchell — Mitcham
Miss Nellie F. Mitcham, of Dal-
las, Stewardess for the American
Airlines, and Willis W. “Mitch”
Mitchell, ’33, of Fort Worth, pilot
for the American Airlines, were
recently married at the Broadway
Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth.
“Mitch” for the past year has
made his headquarters in Fort
Worth and makes the Fort Worth-
Chicago run for the American Air-
lines.
Walker — Lavy
On November 23, Miss Margaret
Lavy, of Fort Worth, became the
bride of Paul K. Walker, ’37. Mr.
and Mrs. Walker are at home to
their many friends in Bryan. Paul
is with the College Architect’s Of-
fice at A. & M.
McLeroy — Levy
Miss Better Lou Levy, daughter
of Mrs. Oma Levy, of Belton, and
Robert L “Bob” McElroy, ’38, son
of Chief of Police Sam McElroy,
were married recently at the home
of Mrs. Levy. Mr. and Mrs. Mec-
Elroy will make their home in Tem-
ple, where “Bob” is with the Texas
Power and Light Company.
Buie — Crosby
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Crosby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G. M. Crosby, and D. W. Buie, ’37,
of Gladewater, was solemnized re-
cently at the First Baptist Church
of Gilmer. Mr. and Mrs. Buie are
at home to their friends at Glade-
water, Texas, where Buie is with
the Neill Marshall Motor Co.
F. P. Mika, ’33, is located in the
Brownwood Soil Conservation Ser-
vice.
S. I. Stratton, 27, president of
the 1927 class, sends in his dues
from 2205 Park, Houston.
Manford F. Noster, ’34, is wire
chief in charge of the Alice Ex-
change, the Mathis Exchange, and
some 40 miles of toll lines for the
Bell Telephone Company. He makes
his headquarters at Alice, Texas.
R. O. Montrief, ’30, and his fath-
er, have formed the J. O. Montrief
Company, mechanical engineers
and contractors, 806% Taylor
Street, Fort Worth. Richard re-
turned this fall after several years
in California. He and his father
and specializing in heating, venti-
lating, and air conditioning.
W. H. Meyers, ’27, formerly sup-
erintendent of schools at Sour
Lake, became superintendent of
the West Columbia Public Schools
in September.
Arthur G. Harding, ’31, is divis-
ion plant superintendent for the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany in Little Rock, Arkansas.
J. Howard, ’30, is a chemist with
the Traders Cotton Oil Company,
Fort Worth.
John O’Callaghan, ’24, sends
Christmas greetings to all his
friends from Casilla de Correz 838,
Parana, Entre Rios, Argentina,
South America.
James A. Muncey, "24, is regional
engineer, Soil Conservation Ser-
vice, with headquarters at Ama-
rillo.
Walter Swank, ’31, is with the
Atlas Supply Company, 110° Hunt
Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Tom C. Morris, ’33, is with the
Soil Conservation Service at Flor-
esville; and also J. B. Woiton, ’28,
and M. D. Stanford, ’25.
L. B. Howard, Jr., ’35, is with
the Republic Production Company,
Box 606, DeQuincy, Louisiana.
Harvey B. Martin, ’30, is as-
sistant agricultural economist with
the Division of Cotton Marketing,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
P. O. Box 1366, Dallas. In the
same office are J. Russell Kennedy,
'28; F. C. McClendon, 28; R. C.
Soxman, ’26; D. T. Montfort, 27;
and. W. K. Palmer, ’33.
W. L. Dosterschill, ’30, lives at
2305 Bennett, Dallas.
Leon Oliver, Jr. ’x24, gets his
mail at 2021 Windsor Place, Fort
Worth, and reports that he expects
to have two nephews at A. & M.
next fall.
E. C. “Steve” Werner, ’30, who
left San Antonio some months ago
to accept a position in the Revenue
Department, is working out of
Washington, D. C. and when last
heard from, was working in a
district including the states of
Georgia, South Carolina, and Flor-
ida. He is a past president of the
San Antonio A. & M. Club.
Carter S. Speed, ’36, who is
with the Perkins Cement Company
in California, was married out
there last July to Miss Lillian
Freitas. They get their mail at
Box 453, Avenal, California.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Walker, ’36,
are the proud parents of a little
daughter, Jo Anne, born at the
Masonic Hospital in El Paso on
November 28. Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ker make their home at Van Horn,
where Walker is county agricul-
tural agent for the A. & M. Exten-
sion Service.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Crase, ’37,
are receiving congratulations from
their friends over the birth of a
little girl, Elizabeth Arnold, who
was born on October 5. Mr. and
Mrs. Crase reside at 45241% Rusk
Avenue, Houston, where Jim is
with the Halliburton Oil Well Ce-
menting Company.
Dr. and Mrs. J. Y. Henderson,
37, are the happy parents of a
baby girl born recently in Dallas.
Arthur G. Harral, ’03, is ranch-
ing at Fort Stockton, Texas.
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