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— and LIBRARY CAMPUS RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED THE TEXAS AGGIE If this paper is not called for return postage is guaranteed by publisher. Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College VOL. XI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 1, 1939. NO. 24 Egger Elected Pres. New Club At Shreveport Reorganization of the Shreveport A. & M. Club was effected at a big banquet held at the Washing- ton-Youree Hotel in that city on the night of March 14 with nearly 100 men present. Herman W. “Slim” Egger, ’21, was elected president of the club; A. H. Wey- land, ’19, vice president; R. A. Woodall, ’31, secretary; and Frank W. Grant, ’32, treasurer. Principal speakers at the meet- ing were Aggie Athletic Director Homer Norton and Association Sec- retary E. E. McQuillen, ’20. The Arrangements Committee for the occasion was composed of Egger, John B. Struwe, 24, Woodall, L. G. Park, ’25, and H. W. Dugan, ’34. It was brought out at the meet- ing that more A. & M. men live in Shreveport than any city out- side of Texas. Other honor guests present included: Curtis Parker of Centenary, and several Shreveport High School coaches. Visitors were also present from Marshall and Carthage, Texas, and various near- by cities in Louisiana. Following an invitation by an A. & M. Senior, Cadet Wm. C. Mor- ris, Jr., the club voted to join the Shreveport Student A. & M. Club in putting on a party in Shreveport on the night of April 7. The gen- eral enthusiasm shown by Shreve- port men on this occasion promises well for future activities of the club. Among those present were the following: W. D. Snelling, 27; J. F. Snel- ling, ’34; Abe Wizig, ’32; R. D. Hus- sey, '32; F. W. Grant, ’32; John E. Fontaine, ’28; L. G. Park, ’2b; J. A. Ford, '37; Fred G. Grote, "28; R. K. Lothrop, ’26; Alton C. Thomp- son, '26; J. P. Douglas, Jr. ’30; John B. Struwe, 24; John S. Shef- field, 24; A. H. Weyland, ’19; Frank S. Kelly, Jr., 26; E. M. Free- man, ’22; Clayton Cornest, 31; D. D. Murphree, "21; J. L. White, Jr., ’34; C. S. Carleton, ’34; Bob Zumwalt, ’35; J. H. Echterhoff, ’36; A. R. Kroulik, ’29; C. R. Cloudt, ’38; H. W. Dugan, 34; J. W. Segers, "29; H. Zim Hunt, 25; R. A. Wood- all, 31; W. G. Free, 30; L. M. Cook, 32; L. G. Morgan, ’33; E. P. Krumbholtz, ’32; P. D. Long; W. L: Gershovitz, ’33; Sam B. Grisson, ’25; all of Shreveport; W. B. Powers, 31, Rodessa; T. B. Powers, ’31, Longview; T. A. Mar- shall, ’34, Carthage; W. C. Mor- ris, Jr., ’39, College Station; F. E. Roberts, ’31, Carthage; Ben T. Sanders, 11, Knox Lee, ’08, Mar- shall; and J. L. New, ’34, Rodessa, La. Houston Club Goes “Swing”’ The Houston A. & M. Club’s first annual Golf Tournament held re- cently, proved so successful that it will become an annual affair. L. F. Fuqua, took first prize for low gross score, closely followed by George D. Comnas, ’35, and Ritchie The Houston A. & M. Club will stage its annual “SPRING CLEANING WHINGDILLEY” at Dokey Hall in Houston on Friday night, April 14. Carle- ton Speed, 26, is general chair- man in charge of ticket sales and will be assisted by Jack Pink, ’27, Sam Camp, ’27, and Jake P. Hamblen, ’27. All A. & M. men in South Texas are cordially invited to be present. Newton, ’27. Jimmy Nagle, ’11, took first prize for the “best dress- ed golfer” and M. S. McDougal, ’26, was honored for his sizzling score of 130; Graham Hall, ’13, honored for “most balls in water”; Claude Everett, ’20, for “most right field hits”; Ed Wilson, ’26, for winning the blind hole. Many other awards were made. Vice President LEM ADAMS Lem Adams, ’08, has been elect- ed vice president of the Oxweld Railroad Service Company of Chi- cago. He has been in railway ser- vices since 1909 when he went into the engineering department of the Union Pacific. In 1916 he was pro- moted to assistant division en- gineer for this railroad and later | became roadway assistant for the entire Union Pacific System in 1920. In 1931, he became engineer of maintenance of way for the en- tire system and in 1933 was pro- moted to chief engineer of the Union Pacific and of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railways. In that same year, however, he resigned to become chief engineer of the Oxweld Railroad Service Company. He was formerly a mem- ber of the board of directors of the American Railway Engineering Association and is now president of the Track Supply Association. He visited the campus last com- mencement at the reunion of the 1908 Class. FT. WORTH CLUB HONORS GUESTS FAT STOCK SHOW Fort Worth Fat Stock Show visitors were honor guests at a stag dinner staged by the Fort Worth A. & M. Club at the Swift and Company dining room on Tues- day, March 14. The party was well attended with many visitors present who were in Fort Worth for the Fat Stock Show. The Fort Worth party on the evening of April 20 will be held in the Lone Star Gas Company auditorium and will be a ladies’ night. The occasion will start at eight p. m. and the Fort Worth Club extends a cordial invitation to ladies of A. & M. men to join them on this occasion. The Fort Worth Club will cele- brate San Jacinto Day with a meeting on the evening of April 20. Roy T. Falkenberg, ’27, is general chairman of arrangements and additional details will be an- nounced later. Officers of the Fort Worth Club include: J. B. Thomas, 11, president; N. H. Riveire, ’26, J. . Allen, ’27, Len Sweatman, ’25, vice presidents; and Robert Nelson, ’34, secretary. JOE W. EDWARDS, ’25, WELL known in Southwestern advertising circles, has joined the Ratcliffe Agency of Dallas in an executive capacity. Until his resignation to accept this position, he was sales manager of the Texas State Net- ’|work, Fort Worth, and for five years prior to that connection, was with the Tracy-Locke-Dawson, Dal- las advertising agency. He is im- mediate past president of the Southwestern Association of Ad- vertising Agencies, director of the Dallas A. & M. Club, a member of the Dallas Sales Managers Club, and the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce. Thanksgiving A.esM. Men Warmly Approve Placement - Personnel Work Home Folks - The establishment of a Placement and Personnel Bureau and the Thanksgiving Home Folks’ Program have received wide approval and commendation from A. & M. men, following the announcement that these projects were under consideration by the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Stu- dents. Decision has already been made by the board to initiate the Thanksgiving Home Folks’ tion is the proposal for the e and Personnel Bureau, as part organization. program, and under considera- stablishment of the Placement of the work of the ex-students’ The placement and personnel matter is now under con- sideration by a faculty-former student committee appointed by Association President C. L. Babcock. If plans can be worked out by this committee that offer a practicable and worth while program along these lines, the matter will receive definite action by directors of the Association. The Thanksgiving Home Folks’ program seeks to ease football ticket troubles when Thanksgiving Games are played at Kyle Field. Under the plan volunteers are being asked to follow the lead of the Board of Directors of the Association and of the College in voluntari ly requesting that their tickets for this game be placed in the Thanksgiving Home Folks’ section at the end of the field. Other groups who will be asked to volunteer will be the faculty, student body, Bryan and Col- lege citizens, and A. & M. men. Officers of the Association have set as a goal 200 volunteers from the ranks of A. & M. ex-students. No proposals or projects of the Association in recent years have brought forth wider discussion and, so far as the AGGIE is advised, more general approval. Below are quoted letters or excerpts from letters from A. & M. men in connec- tion with these items. LIKES PLACEMENT A BUREAT] “I noticed, while reading the last edition of the AGGIE, that there is a movement toward the estab- lishment of a placement bureau for A. & M. graduates. “To my notion, a placement bu- reau organized and run by the Ex-Students Association would be one of the most worth while and useful organizations yet to be set up at A. & M. College.” . . . —Jack Roach, ’35, Gatesville. . .. “It is a pleasure to accept this appointment because I am heartily in favor of the establish- ment of a Placement and Person- nel Bureau at the College. Many other colleges have established placement bureaus and secured very favorable results in placement work . . . ”—T. W. Leland, Head, Department of Accounting and Sta- tistics. . . . “I believe your plan to es- tablish a placement and personnel bureau is a definite step in better organization of our former stu- dents and graduates ... ”—L. G. Jones, ’21, Professor of Agronomy. “I am liking my work fine here. I like the article in the last AG- GIE about the Placement Bureau. It is a good thing, I think. In my opinion, it is the smartest thing that the ex-student body could do. If I can help, just let me know what I can do.”—A. R. Cheek, ’38, SCS, Brownwood, Texas. “Read about the ‘Placement and Personnel’ plan you are to adopt in the AGGIE and am very enthus- iastic about it. “Of course, thousands of A. & M. men have received help from the Association, department heads, deans, and professors, and I am sure they appreciate it like I have in the past. A centralized office for all different phases of work will be a big thing for A. & M. and A. & M. men . . . ”—J. H. Flood, ’32, Muenster, Texas. a 0. K. BY THEM . . . “The Board of Directors of the College unanimously authorized me to write you and say that we will be glad to join your Associa- tion in this move. This means that each and every member of the Board has agreed to take tickets in the end zone for these particu- lar games.”—F .M. Law, ’95. . . . “TI want to assure you and through you our Association of Former Students that I shall es- teem it an honor to have the priv- ilege of joining the ‘home folk’ in taking seats at the end of the stadium for the Thanksgiving game each alternate year.”—T. O. Wal- ton. ...%“ am 100 per cent in favor of this movement and I pledge now the Kyle family to sit in this section. I shall also urge each member of the Athletic Council to do likewise.”—E. J. Kyle, ’99. . “I have the copy of your letter of recent date with reference to the action of the Board of Di- rectors of the Former Students Association concerning the organ- ization of the ‘Thanksgiving Home Folks’. I think this is a very fine gesture and I want you and your association to know that the Ath- letic Department appreciates this move and I hope the Board of Di- rectors of the College, the faculty, the student body, and also the citizens of Bryan will join you fel- lows in this movement. You can count on the members of this de- partment coming in also.”—H. H. Norton, Head, Athletic Dept. ... “At last THE TEXAS AGGIE has come forward with a sensible plan. I, herewith, submit my appli- cation for seating reservations in the ‘Thanksgiving Home Folks’ section BACK OF THE GOAL POSTS this next Turkey Day. Two seats, please!” —John F. Schultz, 23, Dallas. (Continued on Page 4) Steele Promoted Chief Engineer Mi dt 4 R. B. Steele, ’22, has been ap- pointed chief engineer of Canadian National Telegraphs with head- quarters at Toronto, Canada. Fol- lowing his graduation in 1922, Steele went with the Bell Tele- phone Company as an experimental engineer and served that organiza- tion until 1929 when he went to work for the Canadian National Railways. He was one of the de- > end in San Francisco of the first telephoto pictures of a presiden- tial inauguration—that of Presi- dent Harding. The pictures were sent from Washington to San Fran- cisco. He is also responsible for the development of the technique making it possible to talk over a telephone from a moving train. As a student at A. & M. he was a captain on the Signal Corps Staff, a member of the Longhorn velopers and was on the receiving staff, an da distinguished student. Promoted H. J. McKENZIE Harold J. McKenzie, ’27, has been promoted to the office of Assistant to the Chief Engineer, R. W. Barnes, of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Hous- ton, according to a recent an- nouncement by H. M. Lull, execu- tive vice president. At 35 years of age, McKenzie is one of the young- est executives in the railway in- dustry. He has been with the Southern Pacific since receiving his degree from A. & M. in 1927. He was made chief draftsman in 1936. He is a member of the Hous- ton A. & M. Club. As a student at A. & M., he was a member of the track team, starring in the shot- put. Dallas Plans Stag Party to Honor Apr. 21 A giant A. & M. rally celebrating April 21 has been announced by the Dallas A. & M. Club to be held at 6:30 p. m. on the evening of April 21 at the Morriss Buick Com- pany, Cedar Springs and Pearl Street, Dallas. The party will fea- ture a dutch supper, A. & M. Head Coach Homer Norton, and foot- ball pictures from the past season. All A. & M. men within a radius of 100 miles of Dallas are being extended a special invitation. An attendance of over 500 men is ex- pected. The party will be a stag affair. F. R. Bennett, ’27, has been named general chairman and will be assisted by Dr. M. B. Starnes, 27, in charge of food; David Snell, 37, in charge of ticket sales; and J. . “Hop” Reynolds, ’30, and Henry Wendler, ’34, in charge of prizes. Goal of the Dallas Club for this occasion is the largest attendance ever enjoyed at an A. & M. meet- ing in the state of Texas. ALAMO MEETING DATES CHANGED; PLAN BARBECUE The Alamo A. & M. Club of San Antonio will hold its annual and tra- ditional spring barbecue on the evening of Saturday, May 20. Col- onel Ike Ashburn and Homer Nor- ton have been invited as honor guests. The San Antonio Club is now holding its regular luncheons on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Milam Cateteria. The club meets in a private sound- proof dining room. At the p-esent time the organization has 40 active paid-up members and average at- tendance at the bi-monthly lunch- eons during the winter has been in excess of this figure. Members of the club held a barn dance last Thursday night at the Oak Grove Dance Hall, about five miles north of San Antonio. Of- ficers of the club include: J. B. Martin, 27, president; W. B. Par- sons, ’33, vice president; A. E. Voelkel, ’37, secretary; William A. Howerton, ’28, Treasurer. Plans Develop For Reunions On June 2-3 Class reunions for this spring’s commencement, June 2-3, got off to a fine start last week with announcements from class officers and reunion com- mittees. The first class to get its plans under way was the class of 1909, followed by 1929, 1914, 1904, and 1899. These reunions will be a fea- ture of the commencement week-end at which time the annual meeting of the Asso- ciation of Former Students will also be held on the campus. Additional details of the pro- gram and other plans will be announced from time to time. 1899 Dean E. J. Kyle, of the class of 99, is taking the lead in that group’s plans and has issued an invitation to all members of the class to be present to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary. 1904 James E. “Baldy” Pirie, 1904 class president of Paris, Texas, has issued a call to all members of his class to return to the campus for the class’s 35th birthday. Famed for splendid reunions this class is expected to turn out in full force. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Conner have planned to entertain the class at an informal gathering at their home on the campus during the re- union dates. 1909 Leading the reunion parade is the class of 1909. With Class President David M. Shearer living in Seattle, Washington, the re- union plans are being handled by a committee including Dave Har- ris, Houston; W. H. Furneaux, Dal- las; Tom Van Amburgh, Dallas; and C. C. Schley, George West, Texas. Shearer, now a major in the U. S. Army, hopes to fly to the reunion. Additional plans for the group’s program will be announc- ed at another time. One certain topic of conversation and reminisc- ing will be the grim and hectic |days of the 1908 student strike. 1914 The silver anniversary reunion class this spring will be the class of 1914, headed by Class President J. Forrest Runge, Ranches at Christoval, Texas. The class will have an entry in the race for the man who comes the longest dis- tance to commencement in the per- son of Ed L. Ayers, from Braden- ton, Florida, who expects to be present. 1929 Baby reunion class of the year will be the 1929, holding its first reunion since graduation and dis- playing a lot of drive that threat- ens to take the spotlight away from the older classes. Initial call for the class gathering has already been issued by Class President |W. D. “Army” Armstrong, from Princeton, Kentucky, who will be present himself. Assisting in plans for this gathering are all local members of the 1929 class. This group has been appointed by President Armstrong as a general committee on arrangements and entertainment. “We feel,” declared one member of the class “That the campus needs our presence. Since our departure the secret of winning football championships seems to have been forgotten.” E. PAUL HUBBARD, ’17, assistant superintendent of produc- tion with the Gulf Oil Corporation, Houston, was elected chairman of the Southwest District, Division of Production, of the American Petrol- eum Institute, at that organiza- tion’s recent spring meeting. Among other oficers chosen were R.. 1. “Bob”. Carrothers;:’22 of Beaumont, vice chairman of the Gulf Coast. He is production super- intendent of the Sun Oil Company.
