THE TEXAS AGGIE
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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,
President
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E. McQuillen, ’20...Executive Secretary
8nd Assistant Secretary
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Entered as Second Class Matter at
College Station, Texas
Directors
Dr. R. L. Lewis, ’05
H. EK. Deasont, ’16.......iccimmininarnzes Port Arthur
Paris
M. H. Bivins, 07 Longview
Add G. Wilson, ’12 McKinney
Br. - M. TB. Starnes, > 27. c..c.c.autimmsrsstnspnn Dallas
Colonel O. A. Seward, Jr., ’07...Groesbeck
John R. Saunders, 27.................... Huntsville
Victor A. Barraco, ’15........... Pity Houston
G. Graham Hall, ’13 Houston
T.  M. Smithy a’02.c ee East Columbia
A. C. Love, ’99 Austin
J. B. Snider, ’14 Waco
P. Li: Downe, Jr:,27006.. 5 cimnnsendgemsins Temple
Louis P. Merrill, ’26.................... Fort Worth
Be W. Harrison, 2182......ovirrpeeis South Bend
A, BB. Hinman, :225......c0...c00 Corpus Christi
Charles E. Richter, Jr., ’30................ Laredo
E. V. Spence, 11 Big Spring
R. T. Shiels, ’10 Dallas
Guy C. McSwain, ’20 Amarillo
Joe W. Jennings, ’11............... Plainview
Major E. E. Aldridge, ’16.......San Antonio
Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16............ San Angelo
F. Dudley Perkins, *9T....cccconnnnnn.... McKinney
Paul G. Haines, "17................ College Station
Roy D. Golston, ’03 Tyler
Charles L. Babcock, ’18.............. Beaumont
STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES
C. L. Babcock, ’18 Beaumont
F. D. Perkins, 97 McKinney
B. E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station
REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC
COUNCIL
A. G. Pfaff, ’27
Joe A. Wessendorff,
Tyler
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STILL GROWING
Full use of the new dormitory
facilities, now rapidly taking shape
on the A. & M. campus, will be
made next fall, if advance esti-
mates of enrollment compiled by
Registrar E. J. Howell, ’22, prove
correct. Mr. Howell estimates a
total enrollment next year of 6,600
students. His unusual accuracy in
such estimates in the past gives
every reason to believe that the
A. & M. enrollment next fall will
reach his figure.
If 6,600 students do throng the
campus next year, the new dormi-
tories will prove more of a relief
than a full solution of the housing
problem. Completion of the new
dormitories will bring campus room
facilities to a total of 4,400 men.
It should be remembered that in
this total enrollment will be in-
cluded several hundred graduate
students, many of whom will not
normally live in the dormitories,
as well as various other special
students of one kind or another.
But unless the unforseen occurs
there will be another attendance
record next year.
AWAKENING SPIRIT
The hottest political races in the
history of the campus are being
decided as the AGGIE goes to
press, following a two week period
of intense activity by candidates
for various student elective offices.
Charges ranging from the state-
ment of one bold youngster who de-
clared, “The BULL has run this
Institution long enough”, to ma-
chine politics and chicanery, have
spiced and enlivened the proceed-
ings. A record vote is predicted.
For the first time in the memory of
oldsters political rallies have been
held, dodgers and pamphlets dis-
tributed daily and all the other
activities of political campaigns
used.
The AGGIE congratulates the
student body and the cadets who
are campaigning. For many years
there has been little or no interest
in such elections to student of-
fices. This year’s excitement is
good for the student body, benefi-]
cial to the campaigning students
both winners and losers, and stu-
dent publications and other activi-
ties will be all the better man-
aged by reason of awakening gen-
eral interest.
A. & M. men, both as students
and as Ex-Students, have in the
main eschewed political activities;
and have failed to be as interested
in public questions and decisions
as good citizenship requires. Per-
haps from the student body is com-
ing the awakening spi-it.
PORT ARTHUR STEPS OUT
The announcement, carried else-
where in this issue, of the estab-
lishment of the Port Arthur A. &
M. Club Scholarship, is another
long step in the program by which
A. & M. Clubs are making them-
selves more and more valuable to
their College and more and more
worthwhile in their operation and
organization. This
SER Vice President
scholarship, ]
Dubuisson-Fitts
Miss Maxine Fitts, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fitts of Bryan,
was recently married to Mr. E. B.
Dubuisson, ’38, of Sugarland, in
an early morning ceremony at the
home of the bride’s parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Dubuisson will make
their home in Sugarland, where he
is employed by the Texas prison
system as entomologist.
Glass-Crozier
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Allen Cro-
zier of Waelder announce the mar-
riage of their daughter, Sarah
Elizabeth, to Mr. Donald Campbell
Glass, ’33, on April 8. Donald is
with the Humble Oil and Refining
Company, Luling.
Homeyer-Avary
Miss Grace Avary, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Avary of Snyder,
recently became the bride of Mr.
Paul G. Homeyer, ’34, of Ames,
Iowa at the First Lutheran Church
in Fort Worth. Only relatives and
intimate friends were present. Mrs.
Homeyer has been employed by the
Community Gas Company in Bryan
for the past three and one-half
years. Homeyer also received his
masters degree from Texas A. & M.
lin 1936, and is now working on his
thesis for his doctorate at the
Iowa State College in Ames.
Beard-Henderson
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Henderson of
Bryan announce the recent mar-
riage of their daughter, Katherine,
to Mr. Charles B. Beard, ’32. Char-
lie is field man in the Rio Grande
Valley for the A. A. A., and dur-
ing his cadet days was a basket-
ball star.
Charske-Tomlin
News comes from Singapore of
the marriage of Miss O’'Rene Tom-
lin, daughter of Mrs. D. Tomlin of
Dallas, to Charles Johnson Charske,
Jr., ’34, at the Raffles Hotel. Mr.
and Mrs. Charske will visit in
India, Egypt, and the European
countries before returning to New
York in June. They will make their
home in Texas. Charske has been
party chief of a geophysical crew
for the Humble Oil and Refining
Company in Borneo and Sumatra
for the last three years.
Jude J. Adams, ’32, who is with
the State Helath Department as a
sanitary engineer, has recently
been transferred from Waco to
Marshall, Texas, where he is liv-
ing at 208 N. Houston Street, of
that city. At the time Adams was
moved from Waco, he was pres-
ident of the Waco A. & M. Club.
carrying four years attendance at
A. & M., will prove of tremendous
benefit to the Port Arthur Club
and to the College, as well as to
its recipient.
With the saturation point reached
in the aid that can be given worthy
students thru the Loan Funds, the
scholarship idea is the next nat-
ural step. An outstanding boy from
Poit Arthur, ranking high in
scholarship, character and perso-
nality, will be given the opportu-
nity of a life time by that splendid
club. The scholarship has been
warmly endorsed and praised by
school and civil leaders of Port
the eligible students of that city to
better school work.
A. & M. Clubs have long been
powerful factors in representing
the College in their cities and
areas, in stimulating enrollment,
in providing an immediate and
active organization for special
works and enterprises, in main-
taining the fine A. & M. spirit of
friendliness and mutual assistance,
and in performing other services
too numerous to detail. Their next
step is the assumption of some
more definite and detailed under-
taking. The Brazoria Club stepped
out with its gifts to the A. & M.
* “ibrary, the Dallas Club with the
Directory project, and now the
Port Arthur Club with its scholar-
ship.
The AGGIE congratulates the
membership and the leaders of the
Port Arthur Club. Work will be re-
quired of the Club to make the
scholarship possible, but the work
will prove an inspiration to every
member of the organization. The
FIRST four year scholarship at
Texas A. & M. has been established
and A. & M. men are proud of the
step that has been taken by the
group at Port Arthur. That Club
has Stepped Out, and has stepped
vigorously in the right direction.
Arthur and is certain to stimulated
Mr, and Mrs. R. M. Craig, ’28,
announce the arrival of a son, Rob-
ert Elliott, on March 18. Craig is
with the Gulf States Utilities
Company, Lake Charles, Louisiana,
and resides at 805 - 6th Street, that
city. This is their second son.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Eugene Over-
ton, ’33, are the proud parents of
twin sons, Wallar Head and Wil-
liam Ted, born April 1 in Abilene.
The Overtons make their home in
Haskell. Attending physician was
Dr. Ernest Kimbrough, ’32, of Has-
kell.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Swengel,
30, are receiving congratulations
from their friends over the arrival
of Ann Martha on March 14. Mr.
and Mrs. Swengel reside at 2113
E. Alabama Street, Houston, where
George is with the York Ice
Machinery Corporation. Ann Mar-
tha is their second daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Kirby Jones, ’33,
612 Fay Street, Beaumont, are de-
lighted over the birth of a daugh-
ter, Lucile Katherine. Kirby is
Power Sales Engineer for the Gulf
States Utilities Company.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Batjer, Jr.,
’32, announce the arrival of Wil-
liam Elliott on March 29, his fath-
er’s birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Bat-
jer are living at Monahans, where
he is connected with the Comanche
Pipe Line Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted A. Fuller, ’33,
are happy over the arrival of a
son, Kay. Ted is with the Inter-
national Boundary Commission,
San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Johnson,
’34, announce the birth of a
daughter, Barbara Rae, February
18. They live in Scotia, New York,
R. F. D. 2, and Maynard is em-
ployed by the General Electric
Company, Schenectady.
Mr. and Mrs. Cody Lentz, ’30,
of Austwell, Texas, are happy to
announce the arrival of Ann Cole
on March 8.
0. O. Mimms, ’33, is associate
agricultural economist for the U.
S. Department of Agriculture and
at the present time is on the de-
partment’s Flood Control Problem
in Boise, Idaho. He is officing at
438 Yates Building, of that city.
Mimms reports that he find the
work most interesting and stimu-
lating.
D. D. Varnell, ’35, asks that his
mail be sent to P. O. Box 1082,
Casper, Wyoming. Varnell is re-
siding at the Henning Hotel in
Casper and is still with the Baroid
Sales Department.
M. G. English, ’09, is an area en-
gineer for the Works Progress
Administration and at the present
time is located "at the Goff Hotel,
Kenedy, Texas.
John M. Landrum, ’32, who is
with the TU. S. Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine, at the pres-
ent time is located at 724 Amarillo
Building, Amarillo, Texas. Landrum
reports that it looks as if there
is going to be a big fight up
around Amarillo with the grass-
hoppers this year and they are
working hard in advance in an ef-
fort to compete with them.
G. H. Pletcher, ’36, is in the
landscape and floral business at
Harlingen, Texas.
J. W. Westbrook, ’32, is landscape
architect for the City Recreational
Park System of Beaumont, Texas.
Robert L. Melcher, ’32, is with
the Soil Conservation Service, at
the headquarters office in the Neil
P. Anderson Building, Fort Worth.
His residence address 623 South
Henderson, of that city. Bob also
received his masters degree from
Texas A. & M. Prior to accepting
a position with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service, Bob was assistant pro-
fessor in the Department of Agri-
cultural Economics in New Mexico
State College, Las Cruces, New
Mexico.
Clarence H. Martin, ’38, is em-
ployed by the U. E. Engineering
Corps as Core Bore Inspector on
the Denison, Texas-Okla. Dam Site
Project and is living at 604 W.
Owing St., Denison.
“Like Father”
“Like father, like son” holds good in the case of Mofford Duncan, i
of Henrietta, and his son Bill, for
bination of Texas Aggie lettermen
In the picture above, Dad is showing son how he used to get the
zip on a baseball, the sport in which he won his letter back in 1914.
Son Bill won his letter this past fa
team.
Dad is employed by the College Extension Service as county agri-
cultural agent with headquarters in Henrietta. Bill is now a junior.
they are the only
father-son com-
now alive. ;
Il as an end on the Aggie football
With Younger Alumni
From The
H. Blevins McKenzie, 38, is lo-
cated at Palma, New Mexico. . ..
E. B. Hawkins, ’38, is managing the
Kelly Ranch, Route 2, Anton, Tex-
as and sends regards to all his
friends. . . . Roy Young, ’38, for-
mer footballer, was accepted in
Tulane Medical School and will
start his studies there next fall. . ..
Ken Smith, ’38, is teaching and
coaching at Gilmer, Texas. . .
Edgar H. Whorton, ’39, recently
accepted a position with the Wes-
son Oil and Snowdrift Sales Com-
pany, New Orleans, Louisiana. . .
Arthur H. Courtade, ’38, Harold
Hart, ’38, and Edwin Zabcik, ’38,
are all with the Soil Conservation
Service at Corsicana, Texas. . .
R. B. Steele, 22, was recently ap-
pointed chief engineer of the Cana-
dian National Telegraphs with
headquarters at Toronto, Canada.
. . . . Charlie O. James, ’39, died
at Houma, Louisiana on March 20.
He was employed by the National
Supply Company. . . . Milton S.
Malone, ’37, has been employed by
the General Chemical Company of
New York. After a training period,
he expects to do sales and advisory
work on insecticides from his com-
pany’s Houston office. . . . Joe A.
Ford, ’37, is with the Arkansas
Natural Gas Corporation and is a
member of the recently re-organiz-
ed Shreveport A. & M. Club. . ..
More A. & M. men live in Shreve-
port, than in any city out of the
State of Texas.
Lieutenant Kyle Riddle now, the
former baseball pitcher of 1937 be-
ing on active duty with the U. S.
Air Corps and stationed at Lang-
ley Field, Va. . . . J. Harry Bry-
ant, ’38, is with the Farm Securi-
ty Administration at Bonham .
John L. Mogford, ’37, is county
agent of Ward Co., with head-
quarters at Monahans. . . John T.
Wilkins, ’37, is R.O.T.C. instruct-
in the El Paso High Schools
Brother Taylor Wilkins is
coaching at Bowie High in El Paso
. . . James F. Crump, ’38, is with
the Farm Security Adm., at Dub-
lin. .5 WW. 1. Beberi 38, iz with
the Soil Conservation Service at
Winnsboro, Texas. . . Joe K. Brad-
shaw, ’38, is teaching vocational
agriculture at Springtown, Tex. . .
And R. I. Worthington, ’38, is do-
ing the same at El Campo. . . and
Orval Lee Burk, ’38, the same at
Priddy, Texas.
or
J. A. Griffin, ’38, is with the Soil
Conservation Service, Brenham.
Raymond C. Reed, ’33, who is
with the Soil Conservation Service,
was recently transferred to Abi-
lene, Texas, where he is in charge
of the new Water Facility Project
covering a watershed of 850,000
acres and part of five counties.
Reed is officing on the third floor
of the court house and welcomes
any of his A. & M. friends.
Poage is connected with Liquors
"| Division of the Association of For-
Battalion
Clarence M. Elwell, ’23, is Texas
representative for the Silver Bur-
dett Company, Publishers, of Chi-
cago. Elwell makes his headquar-
ters at Austin. His residence ad-
dress is 804 West 19th Street of
that city.
Conger Poage, 24, is residing at
2411 Indian Trail, Austin, Texas.
Incorporated, 107 East 6th Street,
Austin, Texas.
Luther E. Johnson, ’35, observer
for the Texas Company, is now
located at Wasco, California and
gets his mail at Box 565.
T."CorrPorrest, Jr., ’17, is now
engaged in Consulting Engineering
practice as an individual and his
office is 817 Praetorian Building,
Dallas. Until recently Carr was a
member of the consulting engineer-
ing firm of Myers, Noyes, and For-
rest, of Dallas. Forrest’s residence
address is 4501 Mockingbird Lane,
Dallas.
A. A. Ward, ’25, is a new member
of the Association and makes his
home at 3 Overlook Road, Chatham,
New Jersey.
David O. Davis, 26, is still with
the Soil Conservation Service with
headquarters at Fort Worth, and
maintains bachelor quarters at 3721
Ave. M, that city.
Claude C. Carpenter, ’37 is with
the Farm Security Administration
at Floydada, likes his work fine,
and sends his approval of the sug-
gested Placement and Personnel
mer Students.
E. J. “Hoss-Fly” Berryhill, 31,
the former Yell-leader, is Lieuten-
ant Berryhill these days. He is still
on active duty and at present as-
signed to the CCC camp at Lubbock
out on the high plains.
Frank L. Bryan, ’33, is a tech-
nologist with the Gulf Oil Co, at
Port Arthur, and an officer in the
Port Arthur A. & M. Club. He lives
at 3300 Tenth St., that city.
Eddie Hogan, ’38, is with the
Farm Security Administration as
Asst. County Supervisor of Cass
County, with headquarters at Lin-
den.
R. L. “Bob” Herbert, ’31, dis-
trict administrator of the Texas
Relief Commission at Nacogdoches
has been elected president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce of
that city. He has been a leader in
Jaycee activities for a number of
years and is now serving as vice
president of the Texas Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
A. Paul Callahan, ’36, who played
football at A. & M. while studying
Petroleum engineering is still with
the Sinclair-Prairie Oil Co., box
333, Nowata, Okla. He attended
Oklahoma University after his A.
& M. days. He would like to hear
from any of his old A. & M. friends.
Sam S. Rutledge, ’37, is with the
United Gas Public Service Co., at
Houston.
In Memoriam
Will S. McCraw, ’14
Will S. McCraw, XEE ’14, &
age 44, died of a throat in- §
fection at Oklahoma City in
March. Burial was in Dallas. |
Mr. McCraw was born at
Waelder, Texas but had made
his home in Oklahoma City
since his return from the
World War in 1919. He was a
brother of Miller McCraw,
’11, of Dallas, and he had
planned to attend the 1914
Class Reunion on the campus
this spring. He was a manu-
facturers representative.
In addition to his brother,
Miller McCraw, he is surviv-
ed by his wife and daughter.
Dr. Donald M. Grupe, ’34
Dr. Donald M. Grupe, xChE
34, age 26, died at the Meth-
odist Hospital in Dallas re-
cently from burns received
in an explosion in the labora-
tory of his office in the Re-
public Life Building, Oak
Cliff. He was saved from in-
stant death by his presence
of mind when he ran from
his laboratory in a mass of
flames and bundled himself
in a rug.
Dr. and Mrs. Grupe would
have celebrated their first
wedding anniversary on April
25. He is also survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H.
Grupae, of Paris.
Born in Arkansas, he
studied chemical engineering
in A. & M. and took his
dental degree at the Baylor
School ¢f Dentistry. He had
maintained his own office
during the past two years.
Burial was at Paris, Texas.
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