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Commitees Named By Brazos Club Standing committees to serve the Brazos County A. & M. Club have been appointed by President P. IL. Downs, Jr., 706. One hundred and seventy Texas Aggies living in Brazos County, who either graduated or attended classes at A. & M. as student, have joined the association, Presi- dent Downs said. The membership committee whose chairman is James E. “Jocko” Roberts, have the names of 454 eligible member- ship prospects. A goal of 400 members has been set for the club in the next few months, Chair- man Roberts announced. At the last meeting of the offi- cers and Board of Directors the president was instructed to name the standing committee chairman and confer with them on member- ship of their respective commit- tees. The executive committee of the club is composed of the offi- cers of the club who are empower- ed to transact emergency business of the club, subject to later con- firmation. The following are the commit- tee chairmen and members: Exe- cutive P. L. Downs, ’06, president; Martell Dansby, ’37, first vice- president; W. T. McDonald, ’33, second vice-president; C. H. Me- Dowell, ’12, third vice-president; H. L. Heaton, ’36, secretary-treas- urer; and C. Hohn, ’12, sergeant- at-arms. Membership and attendance: James E. Roberts, ’33, chairman; Sidney Loveless, ’38; John M. Lawrence Jr., 19; Fred Hale ,’22; and A. M. Waldrop Jr. 28. Finance: Noah Dansby, ’19, chairman; W. C. Mitchell, ’22; E. N. Holmgreen, 22; and George McCullough, ’38. Entertainment: George A. Long, ’17, chairman; E. E. McQuillen, 20; .T. A, Munson, 10; W. W. Scott, ’29; and Ivan Langford, ’17. Legislative: W. R. McCullough, 25, chairman; W. T. McDonald, 33; E. H. Astin, ’99; J. Knox, ’13; and H. H. Williamson, 11. Athletics: S. A. “Doc” Lipscomb, ’07, chairman; Roland Dansby, ’31; C. R. Leighton, ’33; Sankey Park, ’21; and Paul G. Haines, ’17. Program: H. E. Burgess, ’29, chairman; J. W. “Dough” Rollins, "17; P. C. Colgin, 29; Lucian Mor- gan, ’35; and Lloyd Halbrook, ’37. Benevolence: F. W. Hensel, ’07, chairman; Charles A. Roeber, ’36; C. Hohn, ’12; W. R. Horsley, 41; and Elo J. Urbanovsky, ’31. Public Cooperation: P. H. Walser, ’23, chairman; J. D. Mar- tin, Jr., 26; Hendricks Conway, Jr., ’31; C. H. McDowell, ’12; and George M. Garrett, 24. Publicity: G. B. Winstead, ’22, chairman; H. B. McElroy, ’38; H.: C..Dillingham, - ’°22; ‘Louis J. Franke, 27; and Dr. Henry Har- rison,20. 1937 SELMER M. KIRBY, former Ag- gie tackle who has been coaching at Borger, has been named head coach at Hull-Daisetta High School. JOSEPH MARION GLOVER, JR. has been appointed assistant county agricultural agent for East- land County, with headquarters at Eastland, Texas. BEN J. LEDNICKY is with the State Highway Department at Paris, Texas, where he is in charge of all the landscape work in that district. As a student, Ben was a member of the Intramural speed- ball, softball, and touch football championship teams. CLAUDE C. CARPENTER has THE TEXAS AGGIE 1941 been with the Farm Security Ad ministration since finishing ati A. & M. He is located at Silver- ton, Texas; is married and has a little girl. Claude’s past-time and hobby is tennis and registered Jer- sey cows. WALTER M. DAGGETT has re- turned to Texas after spending sev- eral years out of the state. He is connected with the Soil Conserva- tion Service and is located at Stanton, Texas, where he is doing range work on the Martin Howard Soil Conservation District, JOE M. GLOVER, JR. has been made assistant county agent at Eastland. Joe is married and has one son. Prior to going to the post at Eastland, Joe was with the AAA at Johnson City. LIEUTENANT THOMAS B. GRIMES was graduated on Sept- | ember 30 from the Signal Corps School, Fort Monmouth, New Jer- sey. LLOYD V. HALBROOKS, who has been teaching vocational agri- culture at Bryan, is now assistant professor in the Department of Ag- ricultural Education at A. & M. JOHNNIE O. JOHANSEN is proprietor of the Western Nursery Company, 1104 East Third Street, Big Spring, Texas. This company does landscaping, shearing and pruning and sells fruit and shade trees and ornamental plants. MOYLAN E. LAAS was a recent campus visitor and stopped by the Association Office to say “hello”. Moylan is employed by the Atlan- tic Refining Company and his home address is Box 83, Bellville. The many friends of MR. AND MRS. J. G. McHANEY, JR., Cole- man, will regret to learn of the death of their infant son in Cole- man recently. J. H. McNAMARA is superin- tendent of the Buildings and Grounds of the Orange Independ- mail at P. O. Box 841 of that city. WOODROW W. MUNN gets his mail at Box 29, Pecos, Texas, where he is with the Farm Security Ad- ministration as rural supervisor in charge of seven counties. AUBREY L. PORTER is living at 1229 Hazel, Beaumont, Texas. He is connected with the Magnolia Petroleum Company. VENDOR H., REEDER gets his mail at P. O. Box 282, South Hous- ton. Reeder is in the Air Corps Ad- vanced Flying School, Office of the Commanding Officer at Ellington Field, Texas. WILLIAM C. SMITH gets his mail at Box 392, Lyons, Kansas. Smith is superintendent of the Cit- ies Service Gas Company’s Gas Treating Plant one and a half miles East of Lyons. He invites any Ag- gies passing through to look him up. : 1938 DAN W. AMSLER is on active duty with the 35th Infantry, Schofield Barracks, T. H. Amsler reports that there are a large number of A. & M. men at Scho- field Barracks. MARTIN BUROW has accepted the position as principal of the schools at Leon Springs, Texas. Martin and his family will reside in San Antonio, 1718 Fresno Street, as his work will be near enough for him to drive back and forth. Burow has just completed the re- quirements for his master’s degree in biology this August. WILLIAM GIBBS CAMPBELL has been appointed acting county agricultural agent for Starr Coun- ty, with headquarters at Rio Grande City, Texas. For the past years, Campbell has been with the AAA. PETE DOWLING, Assistant Football Coach and head baseball coach at John H. Reagan High School, Houston, had a lucky es- cape from death when lightning struck an oil derrick under con- struction on which Dowling was at work this summer. One other man was killed, but Dowling was only slightly injured.- Pete was a base- ball and basketball star at A. & M. and played professional base- ball for several years before en- tering the coaching field at Hous- ton. WILLIAM A. “BILL” FRENCH, JR. has been called to active duty and assigned to Battery B, 12th Battalion, 2nd Division at Fort Sam Houston as a first lieutenant. He is in Louisiana on maneuvers now. Before being called to ser- vice, Bill was a member of the engineering firm of French & Pruit Company, Abilene. W. A. “BILL” FRENCH, ’13, is also a member of the firm. EDWIN C. GARNER is now a member of the Fiscal Department force at A. & M. and is making his home at 211 East Dexter Drive in College Park. WARREN A. GRASSO writes to send his TEXAS AGGIE to his new address 1727 Taylor Street, N. W., Old Line SOUTHWEST RESERVE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY SOUTHWEST RESERVE LIFE BLDG. Longview, Texas “Texas Best for Best Texans” D. D. Budd, Pres. — E. F. H. W. M. Sparks, Chairman of the Board Legal Reserve Roberts, V. Pres. and Actuary ent School District. He gets his |P Washington, D. C. He was formerly located at Beaumont, Texas. LT. J. B. GUERRA has been called on active duty and asks us to send his TEXAS AGGIE in care of Biggs Field, Ft. Bliss, Texas. As a student Joe took part in many school activities and won a place in the Intramural Cross County race in 1934. R. P. “BOB” HUMBERT is As- sistant Gauge Inspector, Tool and Gauge Department, Remington Army Company, Bridgeport, Con- necticut. Frank L. Weatherbee Frank L. Weatherbee, of Gal- veston, graduated from U. S. Air Corps School at Randolph Field on August 16. He is now taking ad- vanced work preparatory to re- ceiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve and going on active duty. ALBERT F. LAY is living at 2230 Herman Drive, Houston, where he is technical Service engineer for the Humble Oil and Refining Com- any. ROBERT R. NELSON gets his mail at Box 852, Stephenville, Texas, where he has been trans- ferred from Raymondville as rural supervisor for the Farm Security Administration. LIEUTENANT A. B. NORTON has been called to active duty and at the present time is located in San Antonio where he is living at 825 E. Ashby Place. His home address is Grandview, Texas. WILL RODDY has been attend- ing the University School of Law, Austin, the past three years and will receive his LLB degree at the close of the summer semester. Will took his B. S. degree in Agri- cultural Administration and is from Troup, Texas. LIEUTENANT BELL SAMPLE is with the 53rd Signal Battalion, Camp Bowie, Texas. FIRST LIEUTENANT JACK SKAGGS, Plano, has been order- ed to active duty with the Eighth Engineers, Fort Bliss. M. WILSON SIMS, accompanied by Mrs. Sims, were campus visi- tors in August, while Sims was on a vacation from his work with the Geenral Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. ROY E. SMITH is an account-) ant for the Nueces Refinery at Clarkwood, Texas. EDWIN A. STAPLES has been transferred from El Campo, Texas to Liberty, Texas, where he gets his mail at Box 261. He is still with the Texas Company. GEORGE O. THOMAS, JR. has been called to active duty at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, where he is with the 69th G. M. Company (Re- frigeration). Thomas was a grad- uate in veterinary medicine. CLYDE H. WELLS has been appointed by the A. & M. Exten- sion Service as assistant county agricultural agent for Taylor Coun- ty, with headquarters at Abilene, Texas. For the past several years, Wells has been with the Black and Black Ranch at Granbury, Texas. JOHNNY L. ALDRICH, formerly of Temple, is an accountant with Sam E. Wilson, Jr., oil operator and producer, 219 Hendrick Build- ing, Corpus Christi, Texas. He and Mrs. Aldrich and their daughter live at 916 Morgan in that city. A LESTER BETTS has accept- ed a position as instructor of elec- trical engineering at the Oklahoma A. & M. College and is living at 135 North Knoblock, Stillwater, Oklahoma. R. B. BOETTCHER, JR. is in the Army now and is a first lieutenant at Ellington Field serving as Ad- jutant of the 73rd School Squadron. His address is 7824 Detroit street, Houston. Boettcher is a son of Mr. R. B. Boettcher, Sr., ’00, president of the Union State Bank at East Bernard. Joe R. Campbell, of Hillsboro, has been awarded a fellowship for graduate study of agricultural eco- nomics at Cornell University. He did graduate work at Louisiana State University last year, re- ceiving his master’s degree. LIEUTENANT JAMES D. CAR- TER is stationed at the Recruit Reception Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. NUGENT F. CHAMBERLAIN is living at 117 Nebraska, Baytown. He is still a research chemist for the Humble Oil and Refining Com- pany. ROBERT E. FIX is traveling for the Texas State Department of Health, and his address is in care of that department, Austin, Tex- as. CHARLES B. FOSTER, JR. is a first lieutenant in the army and assigned to 134th Field Artillery of the 37th Division and stationed at Camp Shelby, Missouri. He is now on maneuvers in Louisiana with the 3rd Army. BURTON R. FRAZIER is with the International Petroleum Com- pany of Canada and is now sta- tioned in Guayaquil, Ecuador, S.A. LIEUTENANT DANIEL P. GREEN was graduated on Septem- ber 30 from the Signal Corps School, Fort Monmouth, New Jer- sey. MALCOLM M. LONG is on ac- tive duty with the C.Q.M. at the Hoosier Ordnance Plant in Charles- town, Indiana. His address is 1310 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Ken- tucky. LIEUTENANT HERBERT L. | ter PEAVY, Intelligence Officer of the 29th Field Artillery Battalion, Fort Benning, Georgia, writes that he is just back from maneuvers in Louis- iana. LYNDSAY G. PHILLIPS is with the Gulf Oil Corporation, Ross and Boll, Dallas, Texas. LIEUTENANT JERRY REG- MUND is on duty with the 20th Coast Artillery, which is a part of the Harbor Defenses at Galveston. He is in command of Battery “A”, 20th C.A., Fort Crockett, Texas. Jerry is from Corpus Christi, Tex- as. LIEUTENANT CHAS. L. RICH was called to active duty in July and after the Louisiana maneuvers are over he expects to be assigned to the 36th Division, Camp Bowie, Texas. NILEY J. SMITH is associated with his father, A. J. Smith, ’08, in farming, ranching, and the Smith & Sons store business at Cameron. He and Mrs. Smith reside at 701 E. 23rd Street of that city. LIEUTENANT CYRIL M. STA- |TUM has been assigned to the headquarters squadron of the Air Corps Replacement Training Cen- at Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls. His home is at Comanche, and he was with the Farm Secur- ity Administration before being called to active duty. : LESTER G. WARREN is prin cipal of the elementary school of the Warren Public Schools, War- ren, Texas. L .G. WILMETH is with Com- pany K, 144th Infantry, Camp Bowie, Texas. He has been on maneuvers in Louisiana and re- ports that it has been pretty rough but that he can take it. 1939 DOLMAN A. BLANKINSHIP’S address is Route 1, Stephenville, Texas. ENSIGN KENNETH D. BRAD- SHAW is assigned to Squadron 11-B, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas. TOM R. BROOKS, JR. is plant superintendent of the Brooks Dairy, Inc., at Denton, Texas. Tom was married on August 17, 1941. JOE M. BROOKS, also ’39, is the secretary-treasurer of the dairy. ROY W. BURCHFIELD is em- ployed by the E. R. Johnson Lum- ber Company in Fort Worth, and resides at 2017 Lee Avenue of that city. RIHARD C. ELWELL is a naval aviator instructor at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi. Elwell finds his work most interesting. A recent campus visitor was JAMES L. FITZGERALD, who is with the Soil Conservation Service at Winnsboro, Texas. JOHN W. HALL, JR. lives at Route 3 (Wildwood Lakes), Lee’s Summit, Missouri. John is with the Remmington Arms, Production Division and is a production engi- neer at their factory at Lake City, Missouri. He and Mrs. Hall like their location very much. CHARLES FRANKLIN LEWIS, College Station, Texas, has enter- ed the United States Naval Air Service. He will receive primary training at Dallas and from there will be sent to either Penascola or Corpus Christi for completion of his course. RALPH S. MOSER is teaching vocational agriculture in the Evant High School, Evant, Texas. For the past year he has been at Co- manche, Texas. LIEUTENANT DON H. ROSE, of Amarillo, is serving a tour of active duty and is located at Camp Roberts, California, where he is assigned to the 40th Field Artil- lery. BRUNO SCHROEDER, former Aggie end, has been named as- sistant coach at Van High School. He formerly coached at Rosen- burg. JAMES H. SIMMONS is living at 517 So. Daugherty Street, East- land, Texas, where he is a student engineer with the Texas Electric Service Company. W. R. TAYLOR is living at Carthage, Texas, and receives his mail at Box 93. LIEUTENANT A. H. ALLEN is stationed at the Naval Ammunition Depot, at Hawthorne, Nevada, with the U. S. Marines. GEORGE B. BLAIR is Research Assistant in the University of Mis- souri Experiment Station, where he is working on his doctorate. His address is 231 Mumford Hall, Un- iversity of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. CHARLES H. BERGMAN, JR. is working for the construction quartermaster at Camp Bowie and is living at 1807-6th Street, Brown- wood, Texas. LIEUTENANT H. F. “BOCK” BOCKHORN has been ordered to active duty at March Field, Cali- fornia, Air Corps—non flying sta- KEN W. HOOE (29) & CO. Writing All Lines GENERAL INSURANCE BONDS 806 Medical Arts Bldg. Waco, Texas Telephone 7555 AUSTIN BRIDGE COMPANY MANUFACTURERS CONTRACTORS - BUILDERS DALLAS, TEXAS Roao. - Bridges - Road Machinery CLAUDE EVERETT (17) INC. 522 Barziza St., Houston, Texas GENERAL CONTRACTOR EXCAVATORS FOR ALL TYPES OF BUILDINGS tus. “Bock” has been with the Tex- as Company as a radio operator at Houma, Louisiana. His perman- ent address is Route 1, Brenham, Texas. LIEUTENANT R. C. COLLIER is on active duty with the Mar- ine Corps at the Marine Base, Quantico, Virginia. JOHN W. CORBY gets his mail at Box 32, Axtell, Texas, where he has been teaching vocational agriculture for the past two years. J. L. DEAVENPORT gets his mail at Box 1656, Big Spring, Tex- as. DONALD L. DOPSLAUF gets his mail at Route 9, Box 890, Hous- ton. He is still operating a dairy which has increased to twice its size this year. PAUL L. FERGUSON, who ac- cepted employment with the Farm Security Administration, recently resigned that position to accept a place on the teaching staff of the Agricultural Economics Depart- ment. W. E. LAWSON is still in Roby, Texas, with the Farm Security Administration. JAMES LINDSEY is living at 212 First Street, S. E., Washington, D. C., and writes that he likes Washington fine. LIEUTENANT FABRIAN L. MAGEE is on active army duty with section III, Brooks Field, Texas. TED MARTIN is assistant coun- ty agent of Hidalgo County, locat- ed at Edinburg, Texas, Martin says he has a little daughter seven months old that he would like for any Aggie to see any time they come down his way. LIEUTENANT HERBERT M. MILLS is stationed at the Recep- tion Center at Fort Bliss, Texas. BEN J. PECENA is junior agri- cultural engineer with the Soil Conservation Service with head- quarters at Coleman, Texas. He gets his mail at Box 308, Coleman. JOHN C. RICE is with the Farm Security Administration at Sey- mour, Texas. He is still unmarried and expecting a call to the army. TOLBERT C. ROBESON gets his mail at Box 212, Fort Valley, Georgia, where he is still with the Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. LIEUTENANT ANDREW P. ROLLINS, JR., son of ANDY ROL- LINS, ’06, Dallas, was a recent campus visitor while on a two weeks’ leave from his station at Fort Ord, California. He is in the U. S. Engineers and holds a regular commission under the Thomason Act, His leave followed extensive maneuvers in the State of Wash- ington. LIEUTENANT ROY L. SHER- RILL, JR., of the U. S. Marine Corps, has been transferred from Quantico, Virginia, to Paris Is- land, South Carolina, to attend the new Balloon Barrage School. His home is at Temple. DR. EDWARD W. SWARTH- OUT is practising veterinary med- icine at Terrell, Texas, where he and Mrs. Swarthout and their young son make their home. JOSEPH F. TABOR is living at 1243 E. Arlington Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas. Tabor is with Swift and Company in their Standard’s Department, LIEUTENANT TROY P. WAKEFIELD is on active duty as a personnel officer for the United States Army Air Corps at Kelly Field and is residing a 1606 West Woodlawn, San Antonio, Texas. Troy also received his master’s de- gree from A. & M. LOYAN H. WALKER, JR. is teaching vocational agriculture at Swenson, Texas, but anticipates a call to the army before long. MARL A. WESTERMAN is a second lieutenant with the Armor ed Force at Fort Bliss, Texas. LIEUTENANT EUGENE M. WHITE, JR., gets his mail at Box 2821, College Station, Texas, where he is on active duty as an instruec- tor in military science at Texas A. & M. JAMES E. RAGSDALE gets his mail at Box 291, McAllen, Texas, where he is now working as assis- tant supervisor for the Farm Se- curity Administration at Edinburg. R. E. WISENBAKER, who also received his master’s degree in 1940, is regional engineer for the State Health Department, Tyler, Texas. ; WALTER R. YEARY, JR. is lo- cated at 411 Richmond Street, Houston. 1940-’41 VERMON E. MILLS writes a letter of appreciation to the Place- ment Office. He gets his mail at 1007 Terminal, Houston, Texas. PAUL J. MOORE an engineer in the Inspection Department of the Humble Oil & Refining Company at Ingleside, Texas and his ad- dress is Box 591. WARD B. PILLOW is living at 14 North Seminold Drive, Chatta- nooga, Tennessee. He is a June civil engineering graduate. JAMES G. MURRAY is located at the Blacker House, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. THOMAS L. POWER is also in the Army and is stationed at Ft. Bliss in Headquarters Troop of the 12th Cavalry. He is attending the Motor Transport School at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mich., for 30 days Page 3 As a student at A. & M. Powel was a captain in the Cavalry, a member of the Ross Volunteers, editor of the Agriculturist, and par- ticipated in other student affairs. JAMES A. PRIDMORE is a sec- ond lieutenant in the Coast Artil- lery Reserve an dis now attending the C. A. School at Fort Monroe, Vo. He reports that he is getting along fine. WILL A. RANSOM, JR. gets his mail at 641 E. 27th Street, Pater- son, New Jeersey. WILLIAM M. ROUNTREE re- cently accepted employment with the Soil Conservation Service and after a short training period at Suartanburg, South Carolina, will be located at Rome, Georgia. As a student, William was employed at the Aggieland Inn. JAMES C. SAWYER is now em- ployed by the South Texas Feed Company, P. O. Box 236, Houston, Texas. SECOND LIEUTENANT JAM- ES W. SKINNER and I. T. HOUS- TON, both of Dallas have been ordered to the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for special training. LT. ELDON Y. STEWART is stationed at Camp Wolters, Texas, 55th Inf. Tng. Bn. VOLNEY STUBBS writes that he is enjoying working very much at the Hormel Plant in Austin, Minnesota. His address is 703 South Main. He says the plant is so large that he got lost in it the first time he went through it. Volney is a younger brother of S. M. “STON- EY” STUBBS, ’34, a member of the Jecounting Department of A. RALPH F. THOMPSON was re- cently called to active duty and after taking his physical at Fort Crockett, will report to the Chem- ical Warfare Service Replacement Oerien Edgewood Arsenal, Mary- and. WILLIAM M. WEDDELL is with the Dow Chemical Company at Freeport and receives his mail in Box 216. Weddell took his master’s degree in chemistry this past June. JOHN L. WALKER is working for the Lockheed Aircraft Corpora- tion and lives at 1850 Vista Del Mar, Hollywood, California. While a student at A. & M., John was President of the A. S. M. E. 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