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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1941)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941 ls Siu maa aN -_ - Be THE TEXAS AGGIE AMONG A&M MEN Pioneers | Deceased—DANIEL E. NEATH- ERY, 93. PRICE P. MILLS, ’95. DR. F. E. GIESECKE, ’86, pro- fessor emeritus, heating and ven- til ption, A. & M. College of Texas, and also president of the American Society of Heating and Ventilat- ing Engineers addressed the an- nual meeting of the Louisiana En- gineering Society at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, on January 11. His subject was “Radiant Heat- ing and Cooling.” J. M. ADAMS, ’99, of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, gets his mail at Box 1120, San Antonio. This is a permanent address as Mr. Adams is often sent on assignments to other sections of the Southwest. ELMER L. “RED” MARTIN, 99, is in the general contracting and building business, headquarters in Dallas. His firm is just starting a huge Defense Housing Project in San Antonio that will involve the erection of some 200 residences. His Dallas Address is Box 654. 1900 R. B. BOETTCHER is president of the Union Sate Bank at East Bernard, Texas, and was a Dallas visitor for the Cotton Bowl game. 1901 CHARLES A. THANHEISER is still confined to his home with ill- ness, although showing some im- provement. He is able to have company and enjoys seeing his friends at his home, 4814 Caroline. A son, Charles A. Thanheiser, Jr., is making a fine record this year as a freshman in the Coast Artil- lery Corps. 1903 S. A. RAWLINS is in the hard- ware business at Ardmore, Okla- homa. Otis Elevator Company, Richmond, Virginia. COLONEL GEORGE F. MOORE, former commandant at A. & M.,, has been made a Brigadier Gen- eral. He is still located in Manila, in the Philippine Islands. General Moore was one of the most popular commandants ever to serve at A. & M. 1909 COLONEL BEN F. DELAMA- TER, JR., is in command of the 14th Infantry at Fort Davis, Pan- ama Canal Zone. A number of years ago, Colonel Delamater was stationed for four years at College Station and he and his family have many friends on the campus. Herbert R. Voelcker, architect of Wichita Falls, is a member of the State Board of Architectural Examiners. He was on the campus recently when the board held a four-day examination for candi- dates for licenses. 1910 Victor H. Braunig, superintend- ent of the Electrical Department of the San Antonio Public Service Company, was recently elected a director of the San Antonio Cono- pas Club. 1912 SAM H. BURCHARD, owner of the Burchard Abstract Company, is a member of the Board of Di- rectors of the Farm Credit Admin- istration of Houston. J. VERNON BUTLER is with Gibbs Bros. and Company, Hunts- ville, Texas. AL H. COLLINS is president of the Crazy Water Company, Min- eral Wells, Texas. He is also one of the best known radio figures in Texas. Many people listen to his daily broadcasts. Army. Club and before becoming asso- ciated with the Company, was in the general real estate business himself. 1914 CAPTAIN LUCIEN G. RICH is company commander of Company D, 142nd Infantry, Texas National Guard, which has been ordered in- to active duty for a year’s train- ing at Camp Bowie, Brownwood. Rich has been given a leave-of-ab- sence by John Tarleton Junior Agricultural College where he is professor of agriculture. The com- pany was organized in 1921 and has been under the command of Rich since 1929. B. N. WADLEY is owner and proprietor of the Dallas Music Co., 1203 Elm Street, Dallas. He is a past president of the Dallas A. & M. Club. ED. L. AYERS is county agent for the Extension Service of the State of Florida and located at Bradenton, Florida. He has been living in that state for many years. 1916 Lt. Col. Edwin E. Aldridge, Mrs. Aldridge and two children are sta- tioned at Fort Wm. McKinley, Phil- ippine Islands and find life there most interesting. Their oldest son, Earle, will receive his degree from A. & M. this spring. The Ald- ridges were stationed in San An- tonio before their transfer. Col. Aldridge also put in a tour of duty at A. & M. a number of years back. He has been in the army since the World War. MILTON S. BERINGER, super- intendent of petroleum refining for the British American Qil Com- During the past World War, Ol- torf was a Major in the U. S. MEREDITH H. JAMES, man- ager of the Real Estate Depart- ment of the Guardian Trust Com- pany at Houston, was one of the feature speakers at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Board, held in New Orleans Jan- vary 29-31. James is one of the best known real estate experts in the city of Houston. He is a past president of the Houston A. & M. Guardian Trust enridge and also County. 1918 A. B. FORD was a recent cam- pus visitor. Ford is county agri- cultural agent for the A. & M. Nacogdoches, Texas. JOE W. GRACE, for the past several years construction engineer for the Austin Bridge Company in Dallas, is now associated with Elmer L. Martin, ’99, contractor and builder, of Dallas. Grace is to be in charge for his firm of a De- fense Housing Project started in San Antonio, which calls for the erection of some 200 residences. Big jobs are nothing new to Grace, who has handled many of them. One of his largest, was superin- tendent of construction for the Austin Bridge Company, of the new causeway connecting Galveston Island with the mainland. Grace received his degree in civil engi- neering and was president of the 1918 class. JOHN LL." “JACK" HUDGINS, who has been living in Memphis, Tennessee, since the World War, has returned to his home town, Houston, where he is co-manager of Fenner and Beane, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Since 1937 he has been assistant manager of the Memphis office with the same firm. Mr. and Mrs. Hudgins and Jack, Jr. are happy to be back in Texas and in Hous- ton. ati CELEDONIO M. GARZA was a recent Texas visitor. His address is Calle de Artesanos 200 N, Apartado No. F. 9, Tampico, Tamps, Mexico. Mr. Garza is a civil en-]| gineering graduate. MR. AND MRS. TOM B. SAM- MONS, of Mission in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, spent the Christmas holidays in Bryan. Mr. Sammons is in the hardware, imple- ment, insecticide business in the Valley and has extensive other business interests in that area. 1906 JOHN ASHTON, on leave of ab- sence from his place as professor of journalism of A. & M. as an ex- change professor at the University of Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua, C. A., writes an interesting letter telling of the visit to Managua of a fleet of 12 big Douglas Bombers of the U. S. Air Corps. The bomb- | ers flew to Managua from Panama | on a good will visit and were com- manded by Brigadier General D. B. “Pike” Neatherwood, 08. Waiting with Dr. Asherton to greet Neath- erwood was Lieutenant Alvin R. Luedecke, ’32, Assistant U. S. Mil- itary Attache, American Legation, San Jose, Costa Rica. Dr. Ashton described the arrival of the big bombers accompanied by fast pur- suit planes as one of the most thrilling sights of his life. 1907 Maurice H. Bivens has been elect- ed as a director of the Chamber of Commerce at Longview. He is a member of the firm of the Skipper- Bivens Oil Company and has ex- tensive other business interests at 1908 Colonel J. A. Warden has been transferred from Atlanta, Georgia to First Avenue and 58th Street Brooklyn, N. Y. He is in the War Department, Quartermaster Supply Office, Brooklyn, N. Y. While a student at A. & M., Colonel Warden was Captain of Company B, active in tennis and football, a member of the Ross Volunteers, and the Swas- tika Dancing Club. Colonel Warden is a brother of T. B. Warden, 03, Austin; and the father of J. A. J. C. “Pat” Patterson J.C “PAT? PATTERSON, county agent of McLennan County, Waco, veteran member of the Tex- as A. & M. Extension Service, was one of 57 county agricultural ag- ents of the entire United States honored with distinguished service awards diplomas, at a recent meet. ing of the National Association of County Agents held in Chicago. Patterson also received his mas- ter’s degree from A. & M. in 1922. He is a past president of the Mec- Lennan County A. & M. Club. 1913 COLONEL EUGENE A. EVERS- BERG has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in com- mand of the 71st Infantry Brigade of the 36th Division, Texas Nation- al Guard. He has been active in that organization for the past 15 years and last fall was ordered to active duty. The new general saw active ser- vice in the World War. He makes his home at Houston and was for- merly president of the Minimax Stores in Houston. He has been a member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Com- mittee for the past 8 years. The new brigade commanded by General Eversberg will be station- ed at Fort Bowie, Brownwood, when that camp is completed. Until the Brigade moves there, General Ev- ersberg will be located at Fort Sam Houston. J. V. LYLES is County Judge at Henrietta, Texas. While at A. & M., Lyles took Civil Engineer- ing and registered from Blue Grove, Texas. JOHN G. OLTORF is general a- gent for the Republic National Life Insurance Company, 1224 Fair Building, Fort Worth, Texas. Ol- torf resides at 2603 Waits Street, Warden, Jr., ’35, who is with the is married, and has two children. is ain 3 SNC TO a TT 0 TO | Pally, Lil. TryveSav ouv Ul FLV ons aire co way, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known to his classmates as “Fritz”, Beringer received his degree in chemical engineering. He was a captain in the cadet corps and a letterman in baseball. Prior to his connection with the above company, he was with the Arthur G. McKee Company, contractors, of Cleveland Ohio. An interesting feature of his career is that in 1929 he installed equipment at Ploesti, Rumania, for the distillation and refining of Rumanian crude. This installation was done by the Arthur G. McKee and Company for an English firm. Ploesti, Rumania, is now a well known spot to people studying the present World War since it is the principal headquarters of the Ru- manian Oil Fields. JOE S. MOGFORD, of the A. & M. Department of Agronomy, “got his deer” during the Thanks- giving Holidays and was quite puffed up. JAMES V. CURNUTTE has been appointed county engineer of Nu- eces County and is making his home in Corpus Christi. His home town is Jourdanton near San Antonio and he is one of Southwest Texas’ best known engineers. LIEUTENANT COLONEL STEWART D. HERVEY is in the Quartermaster Corps at Fort Sam Houston and pretty busy these days with the tremendous expan- sion of the defense program. LT. COL. DAVID C. KELLY has received orders to report to Wil- mington, Delaware to Headquar- ters II Army Corps. He is being transferred from II Army Corps, Ft. Mead, Maryland. 1917 COLONEL L. L. KOTZEBUE is stationed at Camp Ord, California. He has been in the army since the World War but has never enjoyed an assignment in Texas. He recent- ly attracted attention of army of- ficials with some unusual and high- ly successful camouflage work with troops at Camp Ord. He was cap- tain of Company B, 2nd, back in 1916-17 and during those days got a splendid start on his military career. ERNEST R. MAXWELL, bus- iness man and rancher at Brecken- the Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce and will assume his new ridge, has been elected manager of duties on February 1. Maxwell for many years was engaged in the electrical supply business in Breck- C. C. JOBSON, county agent of Lubbock, Texas, was one of 57 county agricultural agents of the entire United States honored with distinguished service award diplo- mas, at a recent meeting of the National Association of County Agents held in Chicago. SAM K. “SHORTY” SEYMOUR, JR. is president of the Colorado County Federated Savings & Loan Association, Columbus, Texas. He and other officers of the Associa- tion are proud of the rapid growth of their home owned and home managed financial organization. LOUIS T. TIGHE is drilling superintendent, Gulf Coast Divis- ion, The Texas Company, Houston, and he and his family make their home at 2117 University Boule- vard, Houston. He has been with the above company for the past 23 years. Tighe has a son who is plan- ning on entering A. & M. next fall as a Freshman. Papa Tighe was a letterman in basketball, a member of the Ross Volunteers, and a cadet major. In the World War he serv- ed as an officer in the U. S. Air Corps. 1920 LEE E. COOK has just returned to New York after an eight months’ business trip spent in the North- west. He and Mrs. Cook enjoyed the trip very much and Lee reports that the people, the scenery, and the fishing, of Washington and Oregon, are unexcelled. Cook is with the Ebasco Services, Inc.,, No. 2 Rector Street, New York City, going there several years ago from the Texas Power and Light Company in Dallas. He also advises that his fourth nephew started school this past fall. An- other nephew will receive his de- gree this spring. 1921 E. B. Hill is with Gifford-Hill & Co., Inc., contractors, and gets his mail at Box 83, Henderson, Texas. He has been with the above concern for the past 14 years. While a student at A. & M., Hill took agriculture. He is married and has three children. ARCH B. BAKER is living at 3745 Purdue Street, Dallas, where he is connected with Baker and Reed, Architects, of that city. They managed his ranching enterprises in Stephens Extension Service and is located at have offices at 1116 Gulf States Building. DR. LUTHER G. JONES, pro- fessor in the A. & M. Agronomy | Department, spends much of his time this year assisting Dean E. J. Kyle in his many administrative duties as Dean of the School of Agriculture. CHARLES W. SHERRILL was on hand for the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas. He has been located in New York City for the past year on business. New papa—DR. LUTHER G. JONES. Deceased—J. A. HENDRICKS. 1922 W .G. McMILLAN, one of West Texas’s best known building con- tractors, was a Cotton Bowl visi- tor. “Bill’ lives at Lubbock and gets his mail at P. O. Box 1447. THOMAS O. FOSTER is junior resident engineer for the Texas Highway Department, Abilene, Texas. Foster also received his master’s degree from A. & M. in 1927. Known to his friends as “On- ion”, Foster took civil engineering while a student at A. & M.; was a member of the Ross Volunteers, and active in many other student affairs. M. TOM HARRINGTON is on a year’s leave of absence from the A. & M. Chemistry Department while he is working on his doctor’s degree at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. He and Mrs. Harring- ton and their son are living at 2826 West Street, Ames. Tom also re- ceived his master’s degree from A. & M. in 1927 and is one of the most popular profs on the campus. W. W. “BILL” LYNCH, vice president, Texas Power and Light Company, Dallas, was recently elected as vice president of the Dallas Electric Club. 1923 Deceased—JOHN H. ADAMS. 1924 ROBERT T. “TED” ALEXAND.- ER, JR., former county agent at Amarillo, is associated with his father in the ranching business near Canadian, Texas. i, GS a no; 1925 ROBERT O. BARTHOLOMEW, plant engineer, Trinity Portland Cement Company, Dallas, has been made plant superintendent of the Trinity Portland Cement Company of Houston, succeeding Steve Cole, ’26, who was transferred to Chi- cago. mg = eg ea is chief engineer for the Refinery Supply Company, manufacturers, jobbers, and importers of scientific laboratory and power plant equip- ment, 621 East 4th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma. His residence address is 2223 East 20th of that city. CLAUDE A. MAST, who took his degree in textile engineering, is following his profession, and at this time is with the Brenham Cot- ton Mills, Ine., at Brenham, Texas. In his senior year, Claude was cir- culation manager of the Longhorn. 1925 GORDON R. THOMASON was a Texas visitor from Chicago during the Holidays. He stopped for a short visit on the campus and also J HERBERT F. GOODENOUGH recent campus visitor. He is with the Mosher Steel Company of Dal- las and has been with that com- pany in Dallas and Houston since receiving his degree in architec- ture in 1926. JOHN 8S. “Steve” COLE, for the past several years superintendent of the Houston plant, Trinity Port- land Cement Company, has been transferred to Chicago. At the time of his transfer he was serving as secretary-treasurer of the Houston A. & M. Club. As plant superintend- ent, he is succeeded by R. O. Bar- tholomew, ’25. STEVE H. GULLEDGE, former- ly with the State Highway Depart- ment, is now with Cage and Reeves, construction firm, at Mineral Wells. I. A. MUELLER is still located at Kenedy, Texas, where he is man- ager of a general merchandise es- tablishment operating under the firm name of Peoples Supply Com- pany. Since his graduation from A. and M. in 1926, he has had two brothers to take degrees here, and another will receive his degree in June, V. P. “SENATOR” PHARR, of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, has been called to active duty and has been named signal officer of Fort Crockett. R. M. PRIESMEYER is consig- nee and agent for the Texas Com- pany at Brady. He is also pres- ident of the Triple-M A. and M. Club, composed of A. & M. men in McCulloch, Menard, and Mason Counties. JOHN M. ROLLINS has recently changed his address in Dallas from 4701 Drexel Drive to 4136 Emer- son Avenue. He is with the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation and is a son of H. M. Rollins, ’97, and Sophia Hutson Rollins, ’03, of Gulfport, Mississippi. ROBERT F. “BOBBY” ROS- borough was recently reelected president of the Marshall Country Club. “Bobby” is in the insurance business in Marshall in the firm of Rosborough and Byrne. 1927 OGDEN L. BASS, division man- ager of the Houston Lighting and Power Company at Freeport, has been elected treasurer of the Free- port-Velasco Chamber of Com- es A. & M. College. and federal government, will give students an opportunity to work in a local business establishment half a day and attend school the other half. DR. M. B. STARNES, of the City of Dallas Health Department, was elected corresponding secre- ciation at that group’s annual meet. ing in San Angelo recently. Starn- is an active member of the Dallas A. & M. Club and a past president of that organization. DR. BRUNO WINKLER is chief geophysicist for the N. K. P. M,, the Standard Vacuum Oil Company in Dutch East Indies. He is the son of Dr. C. H. Winkler, ’01, head of the Department of Psychology at Texas A. & M. Recently Mrs. Bruno Winkler and their two chil- dren returned to the United States from the Dutch East Indies for the duration of the War. The Wink- lers had made their home at Palem- bang. Their young son, Bruno, age three, was born in Houston but left for Sumatra when only six weeks old. He learned to speak Malay before he learned English. Barbara, the nine year old Wink- ler daughter, was born in South America, where she learned to speak Spanish. She remembers still that language and has added the Malay and Dutch language to her English, becoming quite a lin- guist in her own right. 3 At Palembang, Dutch East Indies, there are some 40 ex-students of Texas A. & M. and University of Texas, and other schools in this section. Mrs. Winkler reported that they lived a very peaceful and quiet life in the Dutch East Indies and she had heard more about the war after her return to the States than she did while in the far East. KARL H. WORD, district traffic chief, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Fort Worth, is recover- ing nicely from a serious illness last fall. He suffered an attack of undulant fever and was in a hospital for almost two months. 1928 JOHN E. MITCHELL is with the AR a BER JOHN G. TURNEY, who has been serving as first assistant to the city engineer of Houston, has been named acting director of the Public Works Department of Hous- ton under newly elected Mayor Neal Pickett. Turney has been in the City of Houston for several years, re- signing as chief engineer of the Texas Railroad Commission to ac- cept that position. He replaces M. “Jimmie” Nagle, veteran public works director of Houston, who resigned to assume charge of the new Harris County Drainage Program. New Papa—HUGH H. McDAN- IEL. BLAKE M. CALDWELL has ac- cepted a position as head of the Engineering Department of the D. & B. Division of the Emsco Der- rick and Equipment Company, Los Angeles, California, with head quarters in Los Angeles, Califor- nia. He expects to spend four months out of the year in the Mid-Continent Area (Dallas). Blake was formerly with Walter O’Banion Company, of Tulsa, Ok- lahoma. Before going to Oklahoma, he was connected with the A. & M. Chemistry Department. saw the Cotton Bowl Game in Dal- las. His office is in the Tribune Tower in Chicago. LIEUTENANT COLONEL RIC- hard J. Werner, who has been or- dered to active duty as a member of the Texas National Guard, has been assigned as plans and train- ing officer for Camp Bowie, Brown- wood. 1926 J. D. MORRIS is with the Com- munity Natural Gas Company, Vernon, Texas, and gets his mail at Box 326. DAVE WILLIAMSON is sup- erintendent of the Eldorado Pub- lic Schools, Eldorado, Texas. JOHN V. FRANKLIN is a geo- physicist for the National Geo- physical Company, Dallas, but at the present time is getting his mail at P. O. Box 36, Clinton, Okla- homa. Due to the fact that Frank- lin is transferred frequently, his permanent address is 4114 Stone- wall Street, Greenville, Texas. Any mail addressed to him there will be forwarded. HERBERT W. BEUTEL, better known to his classmates as “Beef” and an all-conference football end Elmo V. Cook ELMO V. COOK, county agent of Eastland, Texas, was one of the 57 county agricultural agents of the entire United States honored with distinguished service award diplomas, at a recent meeting of the National Association of County Agents held in Chicago. SESSIONS S. JAMES, who is teaching industrial education in Waco, has been elected co-ordina- tor for the diversified occupations course to be offered advanced stu- dents of Waco High School next while a student at A. & M.,, was a year. James will leave Waco at Hartford Accident & Indemnity transferred to the home office of this company from Dallas some- time ago. Mitchell served as as- sistant commandant and command- ant at A. & M. for several years after his graduation. He resigned as commandant to accept a place with the Hartford organization and has been steadily promoted since going with them. EDWARD J. MOSHER, Mosher Steel Company, Houston, is pres- ident of the Houston Junior Cham- ber of Commerce. EDWARD NUNEZ is with the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company and gets his mail at Route 1, Long- view, Texas. DR. WILLIAM S. SILER is prac- ticing general medicine and sur- gery at Ida, Louisiana, where he gets his’ mail‘ at’ P.a 0. Box ~42. “Silo” took his medical work at Tulane. He is married and has two daughters, and is getting along fine. MELVIN A. SMITH, known these days as Lieut. Smith, is now in the U. S. Marine Corps and is stationed at the Marine Corps base, San Diego, California. Melvin man- aged to get a few days leave for Christmas and spent two days in Houston. Melvin was with W. H. Curtin and Co. before being called to active duty. PERCY G. FARRIS flew down to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl Game and visited after the game for a day or so with Rufus R. Peeples, 28, at the Peeples’ ranch home at Tehuacana. Percy is with the Na- tional Gas and Oil Sales Co., 2429- 47 West 25th Street, Chicago, Ill- inois. HAROLD M. JINKS is with the U. S. D. A, Soil Conservation Service and is located at Piggott, Arkansas. Jinks was a Dallas visitor New Year’s and enjoyed the Cotton Bowl Game. 1929 New Papa—C. R. ROBERTS. HARRY O. FISCHER is with the South Texas District CCC Headquarters, 120 Jones Avenue, San Antonio, Texas, and is getting along splendidly. TUG S. PFEUFFER has been appointed acting postmaster at New Braunfels. Tuggie is the son of the late U. S. Pfeuffer, ’91, of New Braunfels. B. G. TAYLOR gets his mail at 209 Ashburn, Houston. Page 3 mid-term in February for special study at San Angelo and later at This course, offered jointly by the city board tary of the Texas Veterinary Asso- GOIN PAD 3; =n ct Sata: (3 eer An pp ———al Ha¥lord, Connecticut. He was