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LIBRARY CAMPUS . | RETURN If this paper is net called for returnm POSTAGE postage is guaranteed 4JUARANTEED 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, MARCH 15, 1940. NUMBER 5 Dramatic Goal Beats Texas In Dope Upset “Hub” McQuillan’s Aggie basket- ball team finished their current season and celebrated Texas Inde- pendence Day with a stirring and mighty upset of the dope bucket in trouncing the highly favored Tex- as University Longhorns at Col- lege 53-52. A mid-field basket by Sophomore Charlie Stephen- son, in the last four seconds of play, provided the winning margin. The Aggies led the Longhorns through the entire game but found themselves trailing by one point as the final seconds ticked away after a great rally by the Steers. Hen- derson of the Aggies led scores of both teams with 20 points, with some efficient help from Big-Dog Dawson with 12 points. Hull and Moers paced the Longhorns. The victory made the Aggies the surprise team of the year in con- ference basketball circles with five victories against seven defeats. (Continued on Page 3) Dairy Men Hear O’Daniel - Kraft At Big Meeting Six hundred members of the Texas Dairy Association were pres- ent on the campus last week for a one day meeting featured by the attendance of Governor Lee O’Daniel, and Mr. J. L. Kraft, of Chicago, president of the Kraft- Phenix Cheese Corporation and one of the foremost leaders of the dairy industry in the entire Unit- ed States. The meeting was held under the sponsorship of the Dairy Husband- ry Department of the College, Chas. N. Shepardson, head of that department. Visitors spent a busy day hear- ing addresses by outstanding men in the dairy field, looking over extensive exhibits, and inspect- ing the A. & M. College and its dairy facilities. KYLE YIELDS AND CONTINUES HEAD ATHLETIC COUNGIL Dean E. J. Kyle, ’99, chairman of the A. & M. College Athletic Council, has withdrawn his resig- nation as Council Chairman and will continue to serve in that ca- pacity. He has been a familiar figure in the Aggie athletic pic- ture for more than 30 years. Joe Utay, ’08, chairman of the Athletic Committee of the Board of Directors of the College, had requested Dean Kyle's resignation withdrawal, saying, “After much thought I am firmly convinced that your services as chairman of the Athletic Council are needed be- cause you are thoroughly acquaint- ed with all athletic problems of the college and your experience is needed to guide the department in its policies during the year. Many important matters must be decided which will affect the de- partment for the next few years.” Dean Kyle and Coach Homer Norton will go to work immediately preparing the 1941-42 schedules. The 1940 schedule is already com- plete. Dean Kyle had submitted his resignation as chairman to the Athletic Council following the Sugar Bowl Game but it had not been acted upon and he was final- ly prevailed upon to withdraw the resignation. The remainder of the council includes faculty members E. J. Howell, 22, registrar, and C. W. Crawford, ’19, head of the Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment; former student representa- tives, Joe A. Wessendorff, ’07, Richmond, and Melvin J. Miller, 11, Fort Worth; and student rep- resentative, Walemon Price, ’40. Farley ‘Banquet Feature Visit Postmaster - Gen. JAMES A FARLEY Postmaster General James A. Farley will pay his first visit to the A. & M. College when he comes as a guest of the institution on April 4. He will be escorted to the campus by a delegation of North Texas citizens headed by Burris Jackson, 27, of Hillsboro. While on the campus General Farley will be honored with a re- view of the cadet corps at 4:30 p. m., and with a dinner in Shisa Hall at 7:30 p. m. He will leave the campus that night. College Station will be one of the few stops made by Mr. Farley on his Texas visit, non-political nature. Texas citizens are invited to at- tend the Farley Dinner at Sbisa Hall with their ladies. Tickets may be secured by writing Col. Ike Ash- burn, chairman Farley Dinner, Col- lege Station, and sending check to cover the tickets at one dollar each. Mr. Farley will speak. The dinner will be informal. New School For Campus Young ’uns Grammar school and high school students of the campus, College Station, and the surrounding area, moved last week in to a new school building located just south of the campus. They moved from the old campus school made untenantable by the construction of the new dormitory area. Nearly 600 boys and girls will attend the new school, divided al- most equally between grammar and high school. Included in the school district is an area of nearly 50 square miles mostly south of Col- lege Station. Built at an approximate cost of $80,000, the school unit contains a total of six buildings, all one story structures and suitably spac- ed to prevent fire hazards. Ernest Langford, 13, head of the Depart- ment of Architecture, designed the school buildings and supervised their construction. MR. AND MRS. R. D. “DICK” Winters, ’16, prominent ranchers of Brady, are justifiably proud of their son, Richard Wall Winters, who is a Freshman at A. & M. this year. The boy has been presented a life-saving gold medal by the National Court of Honor, Boy Scouts, in recognition of his sav- ing H. A. Simmons, Jr. from drown- ing in a lake near Daingerfield, Texas last June. Winters is an ac- tive member of the Triple-M. A. & M. Club and one of the leading ranchers of his area. John E. Drinkard, ’38, has been ordered to active duty with the U. S. Army and is assigned to Battery F, 12th Field Artillery, 198 Stanley Road, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He is the son of John M. Drinkard, and his visit to A,~& M.“is of a 03, of Mart. APPROVAL WORK LOAN AWARDS FEATURE HEAVY BUSINESS OF WELL ATTENDED SESSIONS Approval and inauguration % the Work-Loan Award plan for as- sisting worthy and outstanding students, refusal to approve sug- gested by-law changes relative to the election of directors and a de- cision to hold the organization of an Aggie Field Force in abeyance, were features of a two day meet- ing of the Board of Directors and Student Loan Fund Trustees of the Association of Former Students, held on the campus March 2-3. The meeting was one of the most suc- cessful and best attended business parleys in the history of the or- ganization. Twenty-one directors, all of- ficers and all lean fund trus- tees were present for the meet- ing, called by President C. P. Dodson, ’11, Decatur. Social features of the week-end in- cluded a football practice ses- sion, the hair-raising Aggie basketball victory over Texas University and a breakfast at which 45 members of the A. & M. Faculty, depart- ment heads, deans, student pastors and others were guests of the Association. Work-Loan Idea When the Board of Directors approved the recommendations of the Student Loan Fund Trustees that the Work-Loan Plan be tried by the student loan funds, a new chapter was added to such activi- ties of the Association, and so far as is known to the entire student loan field. Under the plan which has been under trial and considera- tion for over a year, as many as 25 outstanding Texas boys may be entered into A. & M. this fall, with a combination student job and student loan program that will finance them through their en- tire college career. Details of the program, particu- larly in connection with the selec- tion and appointment of boys to receive the wards, will be worked out in detail by the Loan Fund Trustees and announced in the near future. The program will be launch- ed in cooperation with the College, with A. & M. Clubs and Associa- tion Directors playing important parts. The Work-Loan Program seeks to make possible the attendance at A. & M. of boys who have made outstanding high school records, yet do not possess the means to continue their Education in College. Both the Loan Fund Trustees and the Directors were enthusiastic in their belief that the new program will open a completely new and highly important phase of activity pfor the Association’s loan funds. Additional announcements and a complete outline of the plan will be made in a subsequent issue of the TEXAS AGGIE. By-Laws Unchanged Proposed changes in the by-laws, covering the election of Associa- length. The Board’s decision was to take no action and to leave the matter for further study. Board ap- proval is necessary before by-law changes can be presented to the membership at an annual meeting. The proposed changes suggested the election of Directors upon a staggered basis, for two year terms, with directors ineligible for re-eiection except as Directors- at- large. Each of the State’s Congres- sional Districts would have been asked to nominate a director as at present, except for a two year term; directors-at-large would have remained as at present, and representatives of junior and sen- ior classes at A. & M. would have been added. In considering the matter it was the judgment of the board that the Association was progressing nice- ly under its present organization, and that such changes would not be made unless with a more unani- mous approval than was evident at the meeting. Field Force Delayed Similar action, but for another reason, was taken in connection with the proposed AGGIE FIELD FORCE. With the tremendous vol- ume of work arising from the in- auguration of the Placement Ser- vice already taxing the office staff of the Association, it was the de- cision of the Directors to wait for another year before proceeding with the field force organization. In discussing the field force idea, both officers and directors continued enthusiastic in their be- lief in the great possibilities of this program. President Dodson re- flected the Board’s sentiment when he proposed, “Let’s assimilate the work we have already undertaken, before entering into another major project.” Among the more or less routine business of the meeting was the selection of the firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery to make the annual audit of the fi- nancial affairs of the Association for the fiscal year closed on Feb- ruary 29. May 31-June 1 were selected as dates for the annual membership meeting of the Association, with Class Reunions and other activities (Continued on Page 4) Not All Work For Directors That all of their time was not devoted strictly to business is evi- denced by the above flashlight photograph of several members of the Board of Directors of the Association, taken at a corps dance at the mess hall on Saturday night, March 2. In the group left to right are: N. H. “Paul” Riveire, '26, Fort Worth; Captain Victor A. Barraco, ’15, Houston; Association President C. P. Dodson, 11, Decatur; George G. Smith, ’30, Waco, and G. Graham Hall, ’13, Houston. The group dropped in at the student dance following a meeting of the Student Loan Fund Trustees held Saturday following Sunday morning. The night before the board meeting the picture was taken by the staff | photographer of the student BATTALION. tion Directors, were considered at |} ASSN. DIRECTORS - TRUSTEES MEET Ass’n Director Ed. Dreiss, ’13 And Aggie Sons BILL, ED AND YOUNG ED Edward Dreiss, Jr., 13, has a double interest in A. & M., spring- ing from both his own attendance and from the attendance of two fine sons in school at the present time. In the picture above he is flanked by son Bill Dreiss, fresh- man petroleum engineering stu- dent, and on the right by son Ed- ward Dreiss, who will receive his degree this spring in petroleum en- gineering and who is rated as one of the best hurdlers in the South- west Conference. Dreiss Sr. was recently elected a director of the Association by the San Antonio A. & M./Club te fill a vacancy caused by the transfer of Major E. E. Aldridge from San Antonio to the Philippines. Ed Dreiss was a member of the Ross Volunteers while a student at A. & M., and won letters in both base- ball and track. He was captain and one of the organizers of the first baseball team at A. & M. He is a past president of the San Antonio A. & M. Club and for many years has been an active and loyal son of the College. He is a brother of Franz Dreiss, '11, of San Antonio, who also has a son at A. & M. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Dreiss live at 519 Adams Street in San Antonio. Soil Erosion Authority To Speak at A. & M. One of the world’s foremost au- thorities on man’s age-old strug- gle with soil erosion, Dr. W. C. Lowdermilk, of Washington, as- sistant chief of the Soil Conserva- tion Service, will present an il- lustrated discussion of “Soil Ero- sion and Civilization” at A. & M. College March 29. Dr. Lowdermilk’s address, open to the public, will be held in Guion Hall at 7:30 p. m. and will be under the auspices of the A. & M. College School of Agriculture, Dean E. J. Kyle announced. CAPTAIN C. C. MASON, °’23, head of the Education Department of the North Texas Junior Agri- cultural College at Arlington, has been awarded the U. S. War De- partment’s Purple Heart Medal for wounds received in action at Saint Mihiel, France on September 12, 1918. He was commanding Com- pany G of the 359th Infantry of the 90th Division. Te award was presented before a large crowd and a parade of the N. T. A. C. cadet corps. Ned A. Scardino, ’29, absentee president for the Port Arthur A. & M. Club, has finished his assign- ment in the Rocky Mountain and at Rockport, Illinois area, and re- turned to his old job at Port Ar- thur, where his address will be 3901-5th street. He is a chemical engineer with the Texas Company. McDonald Asks Re-election As Representative W. T. McDonald, ’33, Bryan, member of the Texas House of Representatives for the past two terms, has announced his candi- dacy for re-election. His district includes Brazos and Grimes Coun- ties. When the Legislature is not in session, he is a practicing at- torney at Bryan. Representative McDonald has been a member of the Appropria- tions Committee during his pre- vious two terms in offece and is also Vice Chairman of the Con- servation and Reclamation Com- mittee and a member of the Edu- cation and Livestock and Stock Raising Committees. As repre- sentative of the A. & M. College District, he has been a strong friend of the institution and has capably handled its problems and program in the lower House. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald make their home in Bryan and are the parents of a son born in February. Roommates Share Judging Honors Henry Kothman, ’32, and H. A. Fitzhugh, ’33, roommates at A. & M., both majored in animal hus- bandry and both were members of the International Livestock Judging Team in their Senior years coach- ed by R. M. Milhollin, ’23, now with the Soil Conservation Service, with headquarters at San Angelo. Both Kothman and Fitzhugh entered ag- ricultural work as county agents with the A. & M. Extension Ser- vice. In 1938, Fitzhugh, then serving as county agent of Menard County, brought his 4-H livestock judging team to College Station for the an- nual Farmer’s Short Course Con- tests. The team took state honors and went on to win the national 4-H Club Contests at the Interna- tional Livestock Show at Chicago. Fitzhugh is now county agent of Bexar County. In 1939, Kothman duplicated this performance with his Reagan County Livestock 4-H Judging Team that took state honors and then national honors at Chicago. AB T. WEBBER, ’22, WAS A recent campus visitor. He is man- ager of the Houston Branch of the Standard Supply and Hardware Company of New Orleans, with of- fices in the Second National Bank Building, Houston. Prior to this connection, which was made several years ago, Webber was purchasing agent for the Freeport Sulphur Con:pany. $0. GAL, GLUB HOT FOR AGGIE GAME REPORTS “COSINE” John W. “Cosine” Wallis, ’09, was a recent campus visitor en route to his home at Hollywood, California, from Detroit, Michigan and other sections of the United States. Since retiring from the army several years ago, Mr. Wallis has engaged in the manufacturing of portable sprinkler and irrigation systems and is owner of the Rain Storm Manufacturing Company, 1035 North Mansfield, Hollywood, California. He reports that the Southern California A. & M. Club, under the leadership of its pres- ident, Victor M. “Choc” Kelley, ’08, is busy preparing for the first appearance of the Texas Aggie football team in Los Angeles when they meet U. C. L. A. there on October 12 this fall. Southern Cal- ifornia Aggies, says Mr. Wallis are highly enthusiastic over the team’s appearance in Los Angeles. While on the campus, Mr. Wallis enjoyed a visit with Colonel George F. Moore, 08, Commandant, with whom he served in the Coast Artil- lery before Mr. Wallis’ retirement. Mr. Wallis is an older brother of the late T. T. “Cosine” Wallis, "12.
