NEW OFFICERS HOUSTON A. & M. CLUB
Judging from their grim expres-
sions, the three recently elected
new officers of the Houston A. &
M. Club mean business. From left
to right, the group includes C. D.
“Babe” Watts, 26, president; Jake
P. Hamblen, 27, vice president;
and Melvin A. Smith, ’28, secretary-
treasurer. The new officers were
formally inducted at the big Hous-
ton A. & M. Club Gridiron Dinner
‘honoring the Aggie football team
on December 18. Not present for
the picture was Sergeant-at-Arms
Charles R. Haile, "12.
Retiring officers of the Houston
Club include: V. A. Barraco, ’15,
president; M. E. Dealy, 25, vice
president; Jake Hamblen, ’27, sec-
retary; and Charles R. Haile, 12,
sergeant-at-arms.
Newly elected President “Babe”
Watts was an all-conference center
on the championship Aggie team
of 1925. After leaving A. & M,,
he served with the State Banking
Department at Austin, the Ford
Motor Company at Dallas, and
Victory Wilson Clothing Company
at Dallas, before making his pres-
ent connection with the Texas Em-
ployers Insurance Association. He
has been with this concern for the
past five years as safety engineer.
Mr. and Mrs. Watts have a fine
eight-year old son and a daughter
born last November. “Babe’s” of-
fice is at 904 Sterling Building,
Houston.
Vice president Hamblen is a
member of the firm and general
manager of the Southern Electric
Supply Company, 1605 Preston,
Houston.
Secretary-treasurer Melvin A.
Smith is sales engineer for W. H.
Curtin and Company, 2019 Frank-
lin, Houston.
The Houston A. & M. Club con-
tinues to meet each Monday noon
on the mezzanine floor of the Rice
Hotel and extends a cordial invi-
tation to visitors to be present.
Thomas K. Hughes, ’38, is a sec-
ond lieutenant with the U. S. Army
and is stationed at Fort McClellan,
Anniston, Alabama.
Andy P. Rollins, Jr., 39, is with
the International Boundary Com-
mission at San Benito, Texas.
Edwin M. Eads, ’36, paid the As-
sociation a visit during the holi-
days. For the past three months
Ed has been located at Palacios
but is now living at 1036 East
Broadway, Fort Worth, Texas.
R. S. “Bob” Sherwood, ’36, spent
the holidays with his parents on
the campus. “Bob” is an instruc-
tor in the Mechanical Engineering
Department at Iowa State College,
Ames, Iowa.
John B. McCluskey, Jr., ’36, is
with the Soil Conservation Service
and at present is located at
Yoakum, Texas.
Lawrence D. Hanson, ’40, is with
the Standard Oil Company of Tex-
as and is located at El Paso, Tex-
as, where he is living at 25-3 San
Jose St. of that city.
ms,
Walter H. “Cotton” Davidson,
24, was on hand for the Sugar
Bowl Game in New Orleans, the
first A. & M. game “Cotton” had
seen in many years. He makes his
home in Chicago and made a let-
ter in track during his student
days.
Tad Moses, 20, editor of The
Cattleman, official publication of
the Texas and Southwest Cattle
Raisers Association and the Texas
Hereford Association, Coliseum
Building, Fort Worth, goes into
print in the Fort Worth Press,
when he declared that the Aggie
football team this fall and its
championship was the top news
story of 1939. He was one of the
number of Fort Worth citizens ask-
ed to pick the top story by the
Fort Worth Press.
Judson E. Loupot, ’32, has open-
ed Loupot’s Trading Post at the
North Gate business area at Col-
lege Station. He deals in new and
used military clothing, books, and
other school supplies. Loupot fi-
nanced his way through A. & M.
running a similar business and has
returned to make his home at Col-
lege Station after spending sever-
al years in Dallas.
Olin G. Rivoire, 39, is a student
engineer with the Dallas Power and
Light Company and gets his mail
at 5535 Richards Street, Dallas.
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J. Walter Davis, ’37, recentiy
was appointed Assistant County
Agent at Athens, Texas and has
assumed his new duties. Davis
spent the past summer in Vene-
zuela and did graduate work at A.
& M. this past semester. He is a
brother of Roy B. Davis, ’27, Sec-
retary of the Bank for Coopera-
tives, Farm Credit Administration,
Houston, and a former member of
the Board of Directors of the A.
& M. College.
A. D. Pratt, ’29, who has been
assistant manager of the J. C.
Penney store in Bryan, has been
promoted to manager of the Pen-
ney store at Navasota and has
already assumed his new duties.
B. P. Greenwade, 28, has moved
from Port Arthur to Brenham,
Texas.
R. B. Tatum, ’27, is in the engi-
neering department of the Basen
Steel Works, Houston.
0. M. Ralph, ’37, sends his dues
from Barcelona, Venezuela, S. A.
where he is with the Mae Grande
Oil Company. He remarks that
several Aggies in his section have
gotten together each Saturday to
enjoy football reports.
Harry Cohn, ’39, has moved back
to Dallas where he is working for
the Pines-Natkin Company, agents
for Westinghouse Air Condition-
ing. Cohn’s address is 2115 South
Harwood, Dallas. Cohn states
that he has a nice job and it is
really nice to be back home.
Theo Daniel, III, ’39, is with
the Henderson Nursery Company
of Athens, Texas. His residence
address is 411 East College,
Athens, Texas.
Willard F. White, ’39, gets his
mail at Box 1472, Abilene, where
he is connected with the State
Highway Department at Abilene.
Charles H. Hudson, ’39, is a
petroleum engineer for the Mag-
nolia Petroleum Company and is
located at Alice, Texas. Known
as “Chick” to his classmates and
friends, Hudson was a member of
the Scholarship Honor Society,
Student Welfare Committee, Long-
horn staff, and participated in
many other student activities,
while at A. & M.
James E. Day, ’39, began work
December 1 as assistant super-
visor for the Farm Security Admin-
istration at Memphis, Texas. Day
reports that he likes his work fine.
J. W. Dodson, ’32, is with the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
and is living at 1278 California
Street, San Francisco, California.
I. G. Moore, 17, owner of the
Crystal Ice Company at Ennis, is
president of the Ennis Chamber
of Commerce.
Russell F. Balthis, Jr., 36, was
a recent campus visitor. Russell
is in charge of the industrial shop
at the University High School,
Oxford, Mississippi, and has been
spending the holidays with his
parents at Kirbyville.
Lake Charles
Club Holds
Victory Party
The Southwest-Louisiana A. &
M. Club held a “Victory” meeting
on January 4 at the Majestic Hotel
in Lake Charles with 30 men pres-
ent. Chief topic of conversation
was the Sugar Bowl Game, which
was replayed several times.
At the meeting it was revealed
that Louis Lenz, ’07, had not
missed an A. & M.-Texas Univer-
sity football game since 1903.
Lake Charles A. & M. Club con-
siders that record a championship
one, and challenges any other club
to match it.
The Lake Charles Club has been
meeting regularly each month
during the fall and will continue
during the winter months. Offi-
cers of the club include: A. S.
King, ’26, president; Joe A.
Golasinski, ’34, vice president; W.
G. Castle, ’21, second vice president;
A. R. Turbeville, ’30, secretary-
treasurer; and Lamoyne Goodwin,
27, sergeant-at-arms.
Gabe F. Cazell, Jr., ’37, is mak-
ing his home at 608 6th Avenue, S.
E., Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gabe
is attending the University of
Minnesota, where he is working on
his PhD degree. He received his
B.S. from A. & M. in 1937; his
M.S. in 1939 and is now working
on his doctorate.
Winston K. Young, ’29, gets his
mail at 107 U. S. Court House, St.
Louis, Missouri.
A happy acquaintance resulting
from the New Orleans Sugar Bowl
trip was Mrs. Charles H. Pescay,
2317 Coliseum Street, New Orleans,
widow of Charles H. Pescay, ’85.
Mrs. Pescay was the daughter of
C. C. Wiggin, a director of the
College from 1883-86. She accom-
panied her father to the campus
in 1883 for commencement and
there met Cadet Charles H.
Pescay, ’'85, whom she later mar-
ried. In December of 1884, Miss
Katie Wiggin was elected an hon-
orary member of Company B for
the season of 1884-85. Signing the
Certificate for Miss Wiggin were
the officers of the company: Cap-
tain T. D. Rowell, First Lieuten-
ant C. H. Pescay, Second Lieuten-
ant F. Caruthers; and Third Lieu-
tenant Sam Hough. Mrs. Pescay
is still very much interested in
Texas A. & M. and the Aggies
have no stronger follower in New
Orleans than she.
Eugene Kell, ’94, is construc-
tion engineer for the American
Sugar Refining Company at New
Orleans, Louisiana, and lives at
8432 Sycamore Street of that
city. He erected the American
Sugar Refining Company at New
Orleans, Louisiana, and is an out-|
standing authority on sugar refin-
ery construction.
Norman J. Dansby, ’26, Bryan
business man and former Aggie
star footballer, broken a small bone
in his left leg while on a Christ-
mas hunting trip near Aransas
Pass. A motor board engine ex-
ploded injuring both Dansby and
the pilot.
A recent campus visitor “just
passing through,” was S. C. “Sol”
Bartlett, ’24, assistant manager,
Sales Department, the Texas Com-
pany, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
J. C. Dollahite, one of the lost
members of the Class of ’29, is
ranching near Johnson City, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Dollahite have two
children, a boy and a girl.
R. E. “Bud” Nolan, ’34, has
been appointed Assistant County
Agent for Tarrant County with
headquarters at the U. S. Court
House, Fort Forth, Texas. Nolan
is a former Aggie gridster and a
younger brother of Willis Nolan,
’33, who is with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service at Mesquite, Texas.
Emmett L. Tiner, ’39, is assist-
ant teacher of vocational agricul-
ture at Breckenridge.
E. F. Sebesta, ’39, is teaching
vocational agriculture at Crosby.
He replaced Dan G. Wilson, ’39,
who resigned to accept an appoint-
ment with the Farm Security Ad-
ministration at Eastland, Texas.
William D. Scoates, ’35, son of
the late Professor Dan Scoates and
Mrs. Scoates, of College Station, is
an agricultural engineer with the
Rural Electrification Administra-
tion, Washington, D. C. He and
Mrs. Scoates are residing at 403
Garland Avenue, Takoma Park,
Maryland.
C. D. McEver, ’35, is administra-
tive assistant for the AAA and is
located at Lockhart, Texas.
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