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VOL. XI COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JUNE 10, 1939. NO. 27
Reunion Class
Attendance
Proves Feature Ex-Students’
Big Commencement Meeting
Well attended class
featured the Annual Meeting of
the Association of Former Stu-
dents, held on the Campus at Com-
mencement, June 2-3. Better at-
tendance was enjoyed by the re-
union classes than ever before.
Each class held its own meetings,
as well as participating in the
general activities of the week-end.
Pictures of reunion classes
will be carried in the July 15
issue of the TEXAS AGGIE.
An unusual feature of this year’s
class reunions was the presence of
many men from distant points. The
Class of 1929 led in this respect,
through the attendance of W. D.
Armstrong from Kentucky, Donald |
Anderson from Tennessee, I. H.
Fooshee from Pennsylvania, Ches-
ter Schweers from New Orleans,
Bill Singleton from Tennessee, Bob |
Tucker and Swede Bostick from]
California, A. A. Fischback, Jr.|
from Arizona, and others.
Ed Ayers, Florida, and Roy]
Green Colorado, topped the distance
travelers for the Class of 1914.
The Class of 1929 staged the
most successful first reunion of
any class in recent years. Preced- |
ing them by thirty years, the Class
of 1899 had a ninety per cent at-
tendance of living men.
The
successful and splendid class re-
unions, maintained their
The Class of 1909 likewise staged
a fine reunion.
Celebrating its 25th, or Silver,
Anniversary, thirty-one members
of the Class of 1914 were present.
Rosters of the reunion classes
showing those present for the re-
unions follow:
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Capitol City Club
Honors Deceased
On Memorial Day
Instituting what it expects to
make an annual custom, the Capitol
City A. & M. Club of Austin on
Memorial Day placed flowers on
the grave of Jack Puckett, who died |
while in school at A. & M. last
winter and who was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Puckett, 04,
of Pharr. He was buried at Austin.
A. C. Love, 99, speaking for the
Capitol City Club, paid a beautiful
tribute to young Puckett and his
parents. The club has a similar
ceremony each year on Memorial
Day at the grave of some A. & M.
man.
Wichita Falls
Club Banquets
With Aggie Coach H. R. “Hub”
McQuillan and A. & M. movies as
feature attractions fifty members
of the Wichita Falls A. & M. Club
were present at a banquet in that
city on the night of May 26. The
party was held at the Holt Hotel.
In charge of the program was
Wichita Falls Club President, J. U.
“Two Gun” Parker, ’32. In addition
to showing movies, Coach McQuil-
lan spoke briefly about athletic
prospects and plans at A. & M. for
the coming year.
W. E. “Bill” Morgan, ’30, econo-
mist in agricultural planning for
the Texas A. & M. Extension Ser-
vice, has been granted a year’s
leave of absence to accept the Gen-
eral Educational Board's fellow-
ship for advanced study in eco-
nomics at Harvard. He and his fam-
ily will leave on September 15. He
has been serving as project leader
of the land use planning work now
under way in all Texas counties.
reunions
Class of 1904, famed for |
record. |
DIRECTORS HOLD
BRIEF MEETING
RLECT OFFICERS
The newly elected Directors of
the Association retired during the
annual meeting for a brief session.
As has become customary, the ses-
sion was devoted only to the elec-
| tion of officers and the transaction
of one matter of an emergency
nature. Further items of business
were deferred until the summer
meeting of the board.
New officers elected have been
mentioned elsewhere in this issue.
Members of the Executive Commit-
tee and Student Loan Fund Trus-
tees will be chosen at the summer
meeting.
The emergency item of business
transacted by the board was author-
ization for the return to the Port
Arthur A. & M. Club of its $300
Student Loan Fund, which has been
administered by the Association
office for the past several years.
Officers of the Port Arthur Club
requested this action in order that
the fund may be used in the estab-
lishment of the Port Arthur Club’s
A. & M. Scholarship. The summer
meeting of the board will be held
on July 18-19 at the summer home
of Director Roy Golston, ’03, near
Lake City, Colorado.
Heads Hospital
Service T. & N. O.
Dr. Judson L. Taylor, ’00, widely
known Houston surgeon, has been
appointed chief surgeon of the Hos-
pital Association of the Southern
Pacific Lines in Texas and Loui-
i siana. He is one of the best known
surgeons in the Southwest and a
surgery.
the University School of Medicine
at Galveston, served his internship
that service in 1912 to engage in
private practice in Houston. He
attended numerous additional
schools and holds membership in
many medical societies. He will
continue to make his headquarters
in Houston and will direct the Hos-
pital Association, the membership
of which is composed of all em-
ployees in the six thousand miles
of Southern Pacific Lines in Texas
and Louisiana.
E. D. BUTLER, ’38, PURSUING
graduate work in agricultural en-
gineering at Iowa State College,
made the frontispiece and the fea-
ture story of the IOWA AGRICUL-
TURIST with his Rotary Two-Way
Cultivator. The strange, new ma-
chine is designed to cultivate corn
in two directions by traveling over
the field once. Members of Iowa
State College are very deeply in-
terested in the research project
which they believe has extensive
practical application.
| retiring from this field in Janu-
lary, 1938. At the time of his re-
| | and Loan Association. |
High Wide and Handsome
recognized authority on orthopedic
Following attendance at Texas
A. & M., Dr. Taylor graduated from
in the Santa Fe Hospital at Temple,
then entered the medical corps of
the United States Navy. He left
New Officers
Newly elected President of the
Association, Calvin P. Dodson, 11,
left, of Decatur, and Athletic Coun-
cil Representative Melvin J. Miller,
11, Ft. Worth, were in a happy
mood when caught talking things
over after the annual meeting on
the campus, June 3. New Vice Pres-
ident A. G. “Bert” Pfaff, ’25, Tyler,
was not present. Miller was elected
to a two year term on the Athletic
Council, where he will serve with
Joe Wessendorff, 07, of Richmond.
President Dodson served the As-
sociation as its Vice President last
year and succeeds C. L. Babcock,
’18, Beaumont. A letterman in base-
ball, he received his degree in Elec-
trical Engineering in 1911. Follow-
ing his graduation he spent 26
years in the utility business until
tirement he was District Manager
for the Texas Power and Light Co.
at Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Dodson
have three children; a son, Ralph,
receiving his B.S. degree from
Texas A. & M. in 1935 and his Mas-
ter’s degree this spring.
Mr. Dodson is now engaged in
handling his own personal invest-
ments. He is an active member of
the Lions International, serving in
the past as a District Governor of
that organization. He is active in
many other civic affairs, having
served as President of the Decatur
Chamber of Commerce and as an
officer in the Decatur Building
In his brief speech of accept-
ance of the office of President
of the Association, Mr. Dod-
son declared, “I have no prom-
ises to make you; but I will do
my best to carry on the good
work and live up to the fine
accomplishments of my prede-
cessors. I greatly appreciate
the honor you have conferred
upon me. I make one request
of you; give me the benefit of
your thoughts, criticisms and
suggestions concerning the
work and program of our or-
ganization.”
Vice President A. G. Pfaff, ’25,
is Secretary-Treasurer of the Fed-
eral Tank Co. operating mainly
in the East Texas Oil area, and
lives at 1410 S. Clinton, Tyler. He
has been serving as Ex-Student
Representative on the Athletic
Council for the past four years,
being drafted for an extra two
year term, two years ago. He is
onevof the most active and loyal
football fans in the Southwest, and
has been of great assistance to the
Aggie athletic program thru his
interest.
New Athletic Council member
| Miller is a member of the firm of
Dubose, Rutledge and Miller, 16th
floor, Ft. Worth National Bank
Bldg. The firm is one of North
Texas’ largest general insurance
agencies. He was known as “Grand-
ma” Miller to his classmates, re-
ceived his degree in Civil Engineer-
ing and was a member of the foot-
school.
Both S. A. Newman, ’23, center,
and Harold Johnson, ’24, right,
seem well pleased with Newman's
new plane. Looking on, and like-
wise pleased, is Mr. Lynn Murray.
Newman is assistant division man-
ager, Pittsburgh Sales Division, of
the Gulf Oil Corporation, and trav-
els regularly in his own plane.
Johnson is chief chemist for the
Gulf Corporation’s Neville Island
Refinery at Pittsburgh. Newman
expects to fly to Texas sometime
during the summer and has prom-
ised to pay the campus a visit when
he does.
James O. “Bob” Nesrsta, ’38,
has been made principal of the high
school at Bastrop. He is also serv-
ing as head football coach in that
hiner Honors
D. W. Williams
D. W. Williams, head of the Ani-
mal Husbandry department of
A. & M. since 1922, was honored
with an appreciation dinner by the
home folks of College Station,
Bryan, and Brazos County last
Tuesday evening. The affair was
also in the nature of a going away
party, as Mr. Williams leaves on
June 15 for an extended tour of
Europe. On this trip he will study
animal production in European
countries and will attend the In-
ternational Congress of Animal
Breeders in Zurich, Switzerland.
T. Gilmore Harris, ’27, is living
city.
at 4357 Normandy, Dallas.
ball squads during his years in
Election Dodson President
And Address by Martin Dies
Climax Ex-Student Meeting
JULY FLASH
Pictures of reunion classes
present on the campus at Com-
mencement will be carried in
the July 15 issue of the AG-
GIE. See them to discover how
your old. A. & M. friends have
mastered (more or less) old
Father Time.
400 PRESENT AT
SAN TONE CLUB'S
SPRING BARBECUE
Four hundred men were present
for the San Antonio Club’s annual
| spring chicken barbecue held on the
evening of May 20 at the club’s
permanent outdoor meeting grounds
on the ranch of Henry Weir, ’13,
near San Antonio. In the big crowd
were many guests of A. & M. men,
as well as visitors from various
cities of the state.
Feature sight of the evening was
250 broiling chickens over the
club’s big, concrete barbecue pit.
Flanked with various other items
of food and drink, they made an
interesting picture. Barbecue King
Hugh Wharton, with his able staff
of assistants was in charge.
Following a long standing tra-
dition, no formal program was at-
tempted. Various games were play-
ed under the direction of the com-
mittee headed by Julius Stein, 26,
Club President J. Burris Martin,
27, and other officers were in gen-
eral charge. The party was pro-
nounced one of the most success-
ful in a long line of similar affairs
held by the San Antonio A. & M.
Club.
President Texas
Reserve Officers
C. M. FLORER, 27
C. M. “Bud” Florer, 27, head of
the Distribution Accounting Divis-
ion of the Dallas Power and Light
Company, is president of the Texas
Department Reserve Officers Asso-
ciation. He has been active in Re-
serve Officers Association work in
Dallas for several years and is also
an active member of the Dallas
A. & M. Club. He is Captain of the
411th Field Artillery Reserve. He
succeeded Reserve Major E. J
Howell, ’22, A. & M. College Regis:
‘rar, as head of the Texas Depart-
ment, which is the largest in the
United States. Mr. and Mrs. Florer
have a three year old son, headed
for A. & M. about 1955.
Other officers of the Texas De-
partment include: Captain W. How-
ard Badgett, ’29, College Sation;
and Captain Russell G. White, ’26,
San Antonio, vice presidents; and
Lieutenant Graber Kidwell, ’32,
Tyler, historian.
James D. Mclver, ’16, is owner
of the Meclver Feed and Milling
Company, 400 Blue Star, San An-
tonio.
+ The election of new officers of
the Association of Former Stu-
dents, a stirring address by Con-
gressman Martin Dies at the an-
nual Faculty-Former Student Lun-
cheon, class reunions, and various
other activities, featured the com-
mencement week-end, June 2-3.
Over 500 former students of the
College were present for the occas-
ion.
Highly successful class reunions,
as reported elsewhere in this issue,
were one of the big features of the
week-end.
At the annual business member-
ship meeting of the Former Stu-
dents Association held on the after-
noon of June 3 in the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel, C. P. Dodson, ’11 Decatur,
was named president of the organi-
zation for the coming year, suc-
ceeding C. L. Babcock, ’18, of
Beaumont. A. G. “Bert” Pfaff, ’25,
was elected vice president. E. E.
McQuillen, ’20, was re-elected sec-
retary-treasurer; and Melvin J.
Miller, ’11, Fort Worth, succeeded
Pfaff as Ex-Student Representative
on the Athletic Council for a two-
year term.
President Babcock produced
a sensational surprise with the
appearance of Congressman
Martin Dies as guest speaker
at the Faculty-Former Student
Luncheon held at noon Satur-
day. Congressman Dies, na-
tionally known for his work as
chairman of the Congressional
Committee investigating un-
American activities, delivered
a stirring address. He paid
high tribute to the fine pro-
gram of citizenship building of
the A. & M. College.
Other high spots of the annual
meeting of the Association of For-
mer Students were: The election
of directors for the coming year,
approval of the Auditing Commit-
tee’s report, passage of a number
of resolutions, the annual Pres-
ident’s Report delivered by Mr.
Babcock, and short addresses by
various men present.
Resolutions
The Resolutions Committee,
headed by Sam K. Seymour, ’18,
Columbus, and composed of L. E.
Bumgarner, ’33, Freeport; Robert
H. Blake, ’30, Hearne; Tyree L.
Bell, ’13, Dallas; and C. A. Than-
heiser, 00, Houston, submitted the
following resolutions, which were
approved by the meeting.
Expressing appreciation to the
Texas Department of the American
Legion for the construction of a
dormitory on the campus.
Complimenting the cadet pistol
and water polo teams and their
coaches for winning national cham-
pionships in their respective fields.
Expressing approval of the es-
tablishment of a placement and
personnel division as part of the
program of work of the Associa-
tion.
Expressing again appreciation to
the Dallas A. & M. Club and to the
Board of Directors of the College
for their assistance in making pos-
sible the publication of the Direc-
tory of Former Students.
A resolution paying tribute to
A. & M. men who died during the
previous year, carried in full else-
where in this issue.
A framed resolution presented
to President C. L. Babcock express-
ing appreciation and thanks for
his splendid work as president of
the Association.
A recognition and appreciation
of the services rendered during the
year by Association Secretary E.
E. McQuillen.
Expressing gratitude and appre-
ciation for the splendid work in
behalf of the A. & M. College on
the part of ex-students of the in-
stitution and other friends of the
college serving as members of the
Texas Legislature.
Presented from the floor and
adcpted were resolutions of accep-
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