JAME W. WILLIAMS ,18
James W. “Skinny” Williams,
’18, President of the Dallas A. &
M. Club, is Safety Director for
the Austin Bridge Co., and its sub-
sidiaries. These include the Ser-
vice Equipment Co., the Austin
Road Co., and the Austin Con-
struction Company. Williams has
been with the Austin Bridge Co.
for 19 years. He and Mrs. Wil-
liams have two daughters, one a
senior in high school, and reside at
610 Newell, Dallas.
As a student at A. & M. Wil-
liams was Editor in Chief of the
Battalion, a member of the Ross
Volunteers and active in other
student affairs. He received his
degree in civil engineering.
The Dallas Club is featuring
this winter a series of business
programs, with club members tell-
ing and demonstrating their work.
Another winter feature will be set-
ting aside certain meetings for
men of certain classes. A recent
meeting featured the attendance of
men of the years 1915 to 1920
and drew an excellent attendance.
The Club meets regularly each
Friday noon at the Adolphus Hotel.
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HOMER NORTON AND THE
Sugar Bowl Movies attracted a
large crowd at Big Spring on Tues-
day night, January 23. The oceca-
sion was a high school football
banquet. Many A. & M. men from
that section were present. E. V.
Spence, ’11, City Manager of Big
Spring, was the leading spirit in
making ‘arrangements for the oc-
casion.
Dr. F. E. Giesecke, '86, Director
Engineering Sxperiment Station,
Texas A. & M., was elected Pres-
ident of the American Society of
Heating and Ventilating Engineers
at their 46th annual meeting re-
cently held in Cleveland, Ohio. He
served the organization last year
as its vice president. Dr. Giesecke
returned to A. & M. in 1927 as
Experiment Station Director.
William L. “Bill” Kennedy, ’28,
was recently promoted to the grade
of Captain in the U. S. Air Corps.
He is stationed at Kelley Field,
San Antonio, Texas. He holds aer-
onautics rating of pilot and com-
bat observer and has been in the
Air Corps since his graduation
from the Flying School in October
1929.
JOHN V. LYLE. ’13, IS JUDGE
Lyle now, as he is County Judge
of Clay County and lives at Henri-
etta, Texas. He was a recent cam-
pus visitor to see about the en-
trance of his son at A. & M. Lyle
graduated in civil engineering and
was a member of the Aggie foot-
ball squad.
Walter T. Garbade, ’01, owner
of Garbade’s Pharmacy in Galves-
ton, is one of the relatively few
druggists in the nation today who
stick entirely to drugs and pres-
criptions and sell none of the
many other lines now common to
most drug store. He has been in
Galveston since 1904 and taught
in the Texas School of Pharmacy
until that school was moved to
Austin. In the 20 years he has
been operating his own drug bus-
iness he has filled some 400,000
prescriptions. As a student at A.
& M. he was a cadet captain and
the winner of a “Best Drilled”
medal. He attended the Texas Uni-
versity School of Pharmacy after |.
his A. & M. days and has been
teaching and practicing that pro-
fession since that time.
Mr. Flay F. Downs, age 83, fath-
er of Fort Downs, ’99, and P. L.
“Pink” Downs, Jr., ’06, and pio-
neer citizen and business leader of
Temple, died on January 29 in Tem-
ple. He was a brother of the late
Col. P. L. Downs, ’78, of Temple.
His funeral services were attend-
ed by many outstanding Texas cit-
izens. Mr. Downs founded Temple's
first bank in 1881 and before com-
ing to Temple he owned the first
street railway line in Waco.
John O’Callaghan, ’24, hopes to
be permanently located now at
Bonner Springs, Kansas, where he
is with the Lone Star Cement Corp.
During the past several years he
has been with the same company
in South America, New Orleans,
Norfolk, Va., Nazareth, Pa., and
perhaps several other places he
has not disclosed. He’s still moaning
over being transferred from New
Orleans during the year preceding
the Aggies appearance in the
Sugar Bowl.
Herbert M. Mills, ’39, is assistant
County Agent at El Paso and has
his office at room 593 U. S. Court
House, El Paso.
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Scotty Scott, left, son of Dr.
Verne Scott, ’14, and Dudley Ev-
erett, Jr., son of G. Dudley Everett,
’15 are preparing to follow in
their fathers’ footsteps at A. & M.
Scotty is 14 and Dudley 15 years
of age and both are in the 10th
grade in the Stephenville High
School. Both were on the scrub
team of the high school last fall.
According to Father Dudley Ev-
erett, both boys are like their fath-
ers; Scotty making up any lack
of size by smartness, and young
Dudley bidding fair to growing to
a much larger man than his fath-
er.
Dr. Scott is head of the Depart-
ment of Veterinary Medicine at
John Tarleton Junior Agricultural
College, Stephenville. Dudley Ev-
erett is county agent of Erath
County. Both were backfield stars
for the Aggies during their school
days.
Young Scott is already an ac-
complished punter under the tutor-
age of his father. Young Everett
stands six feet two inches and
weighs 170 pounds.
Confidential reports from Ste-
phenville are to the effect that
the boys have already learned
enough about football so that their
fathers decline to do any secrim-
maging with them.
Allen M. Early, ’34, is with the
Federal Power Commission as an
office
Bank
examiner of accounts. His
is. at 800 Central Savings
Building, Denver, Colorado.
John R. Jefferson, ’29, has gone
to work for the Gulf Refining Co.,
at Port Arthur and gets his mail
at 2800 Thomas Blvd., that city.
Harry M. Smith, ’36, recently
moved to Colorado City, Texas,
where he is scout for the Magnolia
Petroleum Company’s Land and
Lease office.
J. Sayers Farmer, 12, Junction
rancher, was elected as a director
of the Texas Production Credit As-
sociation at San Angelo recently.
That organization is the largest
area agricultural finance unit of
its kind in the Southwest.
Cameron Siddall, ’31, entomolo-
gist of the A. & M. Extension Ser-
vice, was honored with a testimo-
nial dinner at Anderson, Texas, re-
cently. He was born and reared
near Anderson in Grimes County.
He was with the Stauffer Chemical
Co. of Texas, before coming back
to A. & M. to become Assistant
entomologist of the Extension Ser-
vice. Siddall received his Master’s
Degree from A. & M. in 1936. He
and Mrs. Siddall make their home
in North Oakwood, adjacent to the
campus. :
Chas. van de Putte, ’34, sailed
on January 26, with Mrs. van de
Putte, for Buenos Aires, Argentina,
where he will represent the Saco-
Lowell Textile Machine Manufac-
tuers. He has been with this com-
pany for the past two year and
has been training for export work.
He expects to be in the Argentine
for two years and his address
there will be in care of Roberto
Zander, 345 Juan Juares 347,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
writes that he will have a young-
er brother in school next year from
the old home town, Brownsville.
His A. & M. friends will remem-
ber him as a member of both the
Battalion and Longhorn art staffs
while in school.
R. T. Alexander, Jr., ’34, recent-
ly resigned as county agricultural
agent for Potter County, Amarilio.
W. L. “RUNT” STANGEL, ’15.
head of the department of Animal
Husbandry at Texas Tech, is the
retiring president of the National
Block and Bridal Club, a student
organization composed of animal
husbandry student organizations in
the leading agricultural institu-
tions of the United States. Cur-
rent Secretary-Treasurer of the
national organization is Maynard
G. Snell, "21, professor of Animal
Husbandry at Louisiana State Uni-
versity.
Stangel has headed the Animal
Husbandry Dept.,, at Tech since
1925, resigning as a member of
the A. & M. faculty to accept that
post. He is Chairman of the Tech
Athletic Council. In his profession
he is one of the best known live-
stock men in the Southwest and
since 1937 has served as superin-
tendent of the Aberdeen-Angus
Division of the Fort Worth Fat
Stock Show.
Clyde C. Frazier, ’33, is with the
Petty Geo-Physical Engineering
Company and at the present time
is located at Jackson, Mississippi,
where he gets his mail at Box 1076.
0. A. Krompas, ’04, is with the
Clipping Company, 54 E. Mason
Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Raymond F. Bean, ’38, gets his
mail at P. O. Box 227, Gladewater,
Texas. Bean is with the Glade-
water Nursery & Floral Company.
J. A..Pranz, '36,. gets his mail
at 306 Kew Bolmer Apt.,, 9 Kew
Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, Long
Island, New York.
A recent campus visitor was
James G. Gibson, 27, who is with
Anderson-Clayton Company at
Barranqueras, Chaco, Argentina,
South America.
Frank M. Stubbs, Jr., ’25, has
been transferred as county agent
of the A. & M. Extension Service
from Dallam County to Potter
County, where his headquarters
will be Amarillo, Texas.
Earnest Goule, ’34, has been
transferred as county agent of the
A. & M. Extension Service from
Lipscomb County to Sherman
County, where he will be located
at Stratford, Texas.
Cliff Benton Marshall, ’29, has
been transferred as assistant
county agricultural agent from
Childress County to Lipscomb
County as county agent. His head-
quarters will be at Lipscomb, Tex-
as.
W. Ford Munnerlyn, ’26, and his
College Station District Agency,
of the Seaboard Life Insurance
Company of Houston, led that com-
pany’s field force for the past year
in new insurance sold. In addition
to District Agent Munnerlyn, H.
E. Burgess, "29, Sid Loveless, 38,
0. B. Donaho, and Paul Martin,
’39, turned in fine records.
R. F. “Little Pat” Olsen, ’27,
and R. B. “Bob” Tatum, ’27, have
joined hands at the Basen Steel
Works, 3118 Harrisburg, Houston.
Olsen is president of the company
and has been with the concern for
several years.
Tatum recently resigned his po-
sition with the Panhandle Steel
Products Company, to become as-
sociated with the Basen Steel
Works. The company handles
structural reinforcings and other
steel products.
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