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» JPORT FODDER (Editor's Note: Guest writers will be asked to write this column for the spring issues of the TEXAS AGGIE. First on the list and in this issue is Byron “Curley” Win- stead, Publicity Director of the College and rabid athletic fan. Subsequent columns will be written by surprise editors. Watch for them.) The Great McQuillen has sniffed the aroma of dog-wood and in ad- dition to entering upon a strenu- ous regime of walking to and from his oftice twice daily, he is snatch- ing more time to commute with nature in the great outdoors by re- luctantly (Oh yeah!) turning over his pet column to ‘guest artists’ (the dopes) so here goes with a few of the “now it can be told” tid-bits from our well-worn note- book of the 1939-40 athletic year here at A. & M. About the first Aggie footballer to put in his appearance around Labor Day last September was Jim Thomason of Brownwood. He ar- rived in fine spirits, and in excel- lent physical condition. Asked about prospect for a winning team, Jim hit us right between the eyes with these words: “Everything is going to come out all right. When we were Freshmen we promised Coach Norton we'd win the Conference in ’40 as se- niors; but we've decided to sur- prise him and deliver it to old A. & M. in ’39.” Words of wisdom from the heart of a great lad if one ever lived! (Triple confidential, Tommy says the promise for ’40 still holds good.) You’ve all read what Thomason said before the Villanova game about “those damyankees shooting my grand-pappy in the nose with a minnie-ball”; but all records for transmission of news was broken on the day of that game and you should know how it came about. We drove the Missus up to Tyler on the day of the game and got hung up behind the Rose Festival parade. When we finally arrived at the Pressroom in the Black- stone hotel it was getting pretty close to game-time; but we loiter- ed a moment to sample Max Gil- fillan’s hospitality, and thereby hangs a tale. It seems that the terrific heat at Tyler caused Coach Clipper Smith to decide to change his squad to lightweight jerseys at the last minute. It may have been the heat | but the players got the lighter jer- seys mixed up something awful. Backs were wearing linemen’s numbers, and vice-versa. A Villanova assistant manager hastened to the Pressroom to give the Boston sports writers the dope on the number changes. We always were convinced that we look nothing like a “gentleman of the press”, so the Boston lad was completely fooled into thinking we were the maitre d’hotel or some- thing, and he spilled the story of the number switch out in meeting. Hasty copies were made for Bos- ton scribes of the number list, so we nudged the good wife a gen- tle nudge, grabbed a napkin on our arm and sidled over to pick up some empties near the typewriter. We accidentally picked up three carbon copies of the numbers and eased out of the room. Outside was Jeep Oates, demon Battalion sports scribe and mayoralty candidate, and Bobby Nesrsta. We gave them a copy and told them to get to Coach Norton quick. “We then ran all the way to the ball park with the third copy and panted up to Coach Norton: “Here’s a copy of the numbers”, we almost shouted. “I’ve had that list for twenty minutes, and all the boys know that list by heart”, was the coach’s reply. Jeep and Bobby must have had wings, because I'm not so slow! Out on the Pacific Coast we had to compete with the traditional ri- valry game between University of California and St. Mary’s, so our game with Santa Clara was moved up to Friday night. Our job was to get the crowd to come out and see us play, so we told the Frisco sports writers about the tremen- dous power of the Aggies. “We're two touchdowns better than any team on our schedule”, I reluc- tantly admitted for publication. The night of the game we were having a hard time making one tally, to say nothing of a pair of markers. Dough Rollins, who had scouted Santa Clara the week be- fore at Salt Lake City, was perch- ed up in a make-shift scout-box right in the middle of the Santa Clara rooting section; which, by the way, was right behind our bench. Rr “Where’s your two touchdowns, fatty”, the Santa Clarans yelled at Dough all through the game. I’m not a-sayin’ what Dough said to me all the way home from Cali- fornia; but I didn’t make any more two-touchdown predictions. 4 - THANKS—ANOTHER MILLION The active support and unswerving faith of our associates throughout Texas have resulted in this Company’s phenomenal growth during 1939. 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Coach Norton has another charm, and it’s a necktie too; and Mrs. Coach always carries an old rain- coat that is good for nothing but ‘sitting’. Woodrow “Butch” Bando, wiry little Beaumonter who hurls pas- ses from the port-side came in for a lot of riding from Coach Nor- ton during spring practice. The left-hander who proudly boasts that he has “16 hours in the bag” come June final exams, took a lot of punishment on the field one day and limped into Trainer Lil Dimmitt’s sanctorium for first aid. “What’s the matter wrong-hand- er, are they too tough for you?” Lil asked. “Naw, Mr. Dimmitt,” Bando re- plied, “that first string runs over you even when you're on their side! “And Coach Norton expects us to stop them out there when no- body in the nation could do it last season’, he added. Can’t end this without a little bit about one John Alec Kim- brough. Ever hear of him? Well, you can take it from one who prob- ably has been forced to worry the big boy more than anybody else; what with special pictures, trips to various banquets and the like. The hat he wore when he came to A. & M. still fits! Thank you for readin’. George W. Staples, ’39, is with the U. S. Engineers as a student engineer, and gets his mail at the Y.M.C.A., 1105 Elm Street, Cincin- nati, Ohio. At present Staples’ work has to to do with the repair and maintenance of the floting plant of the Cincinnati District, and would be glad to correspond with any of his classmates. Virgil B. Harris, ’38, is with the Core Laboratories, Inc., 225 New Fowler Building, Centralia, Illi- nois. Harris was formerly located at Evansville, Indiana. George W. McCauley, ’25, is pres- ident of the Aeronautical Radio Company, Roosevelt Field, Mineola, New York. Edward S. Hyman, ’37, asks that his address be changed from Snyder, Texas, to Box 1470, San Angelo, Texas, where he is coun- ty administrative assistant for the AAA. Emmett L. Tiner, ’39, makes his home at 900 East Elm Street, Breckenridge, Texas, where is is teaching vocational agriculture. John M. Johnston, ’37, is city chemist for the City of Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he has been em- ployed for the past nine months. His home address is 712 C. St., N. W. of that city. A. J. Barthelow, ’39, has been’ with the Baroid Sales Division of the National Lead Company, 502 Tulsa Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma as a technician in the laboratory since graduation. On the first of February Barthelow was trans- ferred from Houston to Tulsa. Paul W. Edge, Jr. ’34, was re- elected superintendent of the A. & M. Consolidated School at a re- cent meeting of the board. Paul is mighty proud of the new school building located south of the cam- pus. James N. Brown, ’37, veterin- arinan, is associated with Dr. Ri- chard A. Self, 27, 802 North Oak Cliff Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. Doyle W. Hennessee, ’38, is with the Bureau of Animal Industry, 326 Post Office Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Doyle was grad- vated from A. & M. in veterinary medicine. Personnel Leaflet The outline below is a reprint of one of the Personnel Leaflets prepared by the Placement office for members of the 1940 graduating class. Similar forms were prepared for over 400 members of the class. The leaflets are printed upon heavy book stock paper and an ample supply is printed. They are used in a variety of ways. Booklets containing leatlets of an entire department’s graduating seniors are prepared and sent to prospective employers. Copies of the leaflet are given each department and school upon its graduates for departmental records. Individuals use the leaflets as brief outlines of their personnel records, and to accompany letters of application for jobs or interviews. Personnel representatives of large employing companies who have visited the campus this spring have been highly complimentary regarding the value and convenience of the leaflets. Information on the leaflet is condensed from the more detailed data contained upon each senior’s personnel record. Students pay a fee of $4 each to cover the actual cost of the leaflet, with the Placement orfice of the Association bearing the expense of such items as typing, proof-reading and supervision. Eventually, it is the plan of the Placement office to seek similar personnel information upon A. & M. men now out of school. THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS PLACEMENT AND PERSONNEL DIVISION AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS CLYDE HOLT EMMONS Degree: B. S. in Agricultural Engineering, 1940. College Address: Box 1130, College Station, Texas. Home Address: Route One, Plainview, Texas. Personal Data: Date of birth, September 29, 1918. Place of birth, Wichita Falls, Texas. Height 5 ft., 9 in. Weight, 147 lbs. Health, good. Single. Ancestry: Father, American; Mother, American. Father’s occupation: Farming. High School Information: Plainview Senior High School, Plainview, Texas. Activities: Football; Grain Judging Team; F.F.A. Member; Member of Champion Grain Judging Team, South Plains District. College Information: Major work: Agricultural Engineering. Minor work: Agronomy. Activities: American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Junior Member, Reserve Officers Association; Intramural Athletics Manager; 1st Lt., R.O.T.C. College expenses earned: 95 per cent. Business and Industrial Experience: County Agent, Hale County, C. B. Martin, Plainview, Texas, 1 summer, A.A.A. Map Supervisor; plotted fields on aerial maps. Texas A. & M. College Dining Hail, J. C. Hotard, 4 school years, waiter in dining hall. References: Fred R. Jones, Head, Agricultural Engineering Dept., A. & M. College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Donald Christy, Agricultural Engineering Dept., A. & M. College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Dr. T. O. Walton, President, A. & M. College of Texas, College Station, Texas. J. C. Hotard, Head, Subsistence Dept., A. & M. College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Sn ee Available for Employment: July 17, 1940. = TOY SOI Ea. Faculty Ratings and Scholastic Records will be furnished upon request by the Placement and Personnel Division, Association of Former Students, College Station, Texas. fraternities are permitted at this institution. No honorary, (The only recognition of the kind permitted is the Dis- professional or social tinguished Student rating of the College and the Scholarship Honor Society, a local institution.) A. H. Barkeck, ’36, is living at 1011 West Gray, Houston, Texas. Barbeck is a petroleum engineer wtih the Railroad Commission of Texas in the Oil and Gas Division. H. A. Mueller, ’35, has been elected president of the Goliad Ju- nior Chamber of Commerce. He is active in the civie affairs of that city. He is administrative assistant for the AAA. Leroy W. Crouch, who reecived his degree at mid-term, has gone to Vernon with the Farm Security Administration, and gets his mail at Box 1362, Vernon, Texas. Crouch is rooming with Bill N. Rector, '38, who is assistant county agent for the A. & M. Extension Service for Wilbarger County. J. 0. McMahan, ’37, has been associated with the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, in the Mortgage Depuartment, and is located at San Antonio. His business address is 300 Alamo National Building of that city. Thomas J. Moon, ’31, agronomist for the Standard Oil Company of Venezuela, has been located for the past six months at Caripito, Vene- zuela, S. A. Thomas reports that he does extensive travel by mule and airplane over the entire state of Venezuela and Trinidad, and likes his work fine. H. Morris Williamson, ’36, has been transferred to Marlin, Texas, where he is Rural Supervisor of the Farm Security Administration for Falls County. Morris was Rural Supervisor for Baylor, Knox and Throckmorton Counties with headquarters in Seymour, Texas, until he was transferred. A. B. “Abe” Norton, ’38, was a recent campus visitor. Abe is with the Halliburton Oil Well Cement- ing Company, and is located at the present time in Flora, Illinois. He has requested, however, that all mail be addressed to Grandview, Texas, inasmuch as he is contin- uously shifting over the country. Henry “Pelly” Dittman, ’39, is in the Air Corps Advanced Fly- ing School at Kelly Field. to go. While at A. & M., Dittman was a member of the varsity foot- ball and track teams and partici- pated in many other campus activ- ities. Joe M. Boyd, ’40, who received his degree at mid-term, has gone to work for the Galveston-Todd Dry Docks Company as a clerk in the Payroll Department. Joe re- sides at 1712 Church Street, Gal- veston. A former A. & M. All- American tackle, Joe was one of the most likeable, all-around boys ever to graduate from A. & M. “Pelly” | says that he still has two months CLAUDE EVERETT (17) INC. 522 Barziza St., Houston, Texas GENERAL CONTRACTOR EXCAVATORS FOR ALL TYPES OF BUILDINGS COLLEGE COURTS The New Tourist Camp Opposite College on Highway 6 Tile Baths - Simmons Beds | P. O. Box 118, College Station Phone College 451 ! ga . KEN W. HOOE (29) & CO. Writing All Lines GENERAL INSURANCE BONDS 806 Medical Arts Bldg. : Waco, Texas Telephone 7555
