The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, March 20, 1942, Image 3

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    FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942
Page 3
THE TEXAS AGGIE
Ninet
Streamlined
Moves Blaze
Historic Trail
Administrative
Heads Foresaw
World Events
By G. B. Winstead
Ninety days after Pearl Harbor
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas—the Lone Star
State’s 66-year-old land-grant
school—is operating under a sys-
tem of significant streamlined re-
forms in college education.
Process of clearing decks for
war action began in May 1939
when administrative heads foresaw
the import of world events.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
found the college already at a high
peak of national defense coopera-
tive efficiency—but the quarter-
year that has elapsed since out-
break of total war has been the
beginning of a new era in collegi-
ate preparation of young men for
leadership in civil or military life
—whatever demand the future
makes upon them.
Today, with the distinction of
being the trail-blazer among ma-
jor American colleges and univer-
sities in speeding up educational
machinery in order to produce, ut
the request of the Government,
more trained technicians for in-
dustry, more agricultural leaders
for production of livestock and
farm commodities, and more com-
missioned officers for the armed
forces, A. & M. presents a unified
front—its collegiate instructional
facilities on a 12-month basis, its
shops and laboratories on a 24-
hour-a-day basis, its famed mili-
tary science and tactics depart-
ment producing more army offi-
cers than West Point or Annapolis
through senior Reserve Officers
Training Corps Units in Infantry,
Field Artillery, Coast Artillery,
Cavalry, Ordnance Chemical War-
fare, Signal Corps, Engineers and
Quartermaster Corps.
Brig. Gen. Frank E. Lowe, ex-
ecutive officer for Reserve and
R.O.T.C. Affairs, is authority for
the statement that Texas A. & M.
College is the only school in the
United States having all nine
branches of the service represent-
ed in its Reserve Officer program.
Directing administrator since
1925 of the Lone Star State’s old-
est institution of higher education
is 58-year-old Texas-born Thomas
Otto Walton, educator in the rural
schools of deep East Texas at the
age of 16. A free thinker on mat-
ters educational throughout a life-
time devoted to increasing helpful
knowledge of fellow Texans this
determined philosopher still takes
his place in the classroom despite
pressure of manifold duties. Dr.
Walton’s class in Administration
for seniors is one of the most pop-
ular of Texas A. & M.’s courses.
Up from the ranks of rural
school teaching, through vocation-
al agriculture work, a pioneer ex-
tension disciple of Dr. Seaman J.
Knapp, President Walton has serv-
ed as State Extension Agent, Di-
rector of Extension Service and
for the past 17 years has been
guiding the destinies of the Col-
lege through a period of tremend-
ous growth and ever-widening
scope of educational service.
Accorded unstinted cooperation
by a Board of Directors in ex-
panding the services of A. & M.
to students and to the Government
in critical times, surrounded by
able deans and faculty, Dr. Wal-
ton’s leadership has kept the col-
lege at a high peak of efficiency
and flexibility for utmost coopera-
tion throughout the National De-
fense emergency period. Through-
out the years of his stewardship,
Dr. Walton’s progressive attitude
has enabled the College to become
one of the Nation’s leading insti-
tutions in adapting its teaching
program to the needs of the stu-
dent.
Final examinations, useless as
indicators of a student’s mastery
of a course in Dr. Walton’s opin-
ion should be a thing of the past.
“Any instructor who cannot judge
the degree of a student’s mastery
of the subject in 16 weeks of ob-
servation, recitation and review
quizzing should quit teaching,” Dr.
Walton observes.
“The Government needs officers,
industry needs technicians and ag-
riculture needs farm and livestock
experts. It is our duty to provide
wartime.
3. September,
4.
5.
6.
present time.
7. September,
shortest time).
1. January,
army mess officers.
civilian morale.
War Time Log of A&M
1. May, 1939—Board of Directors authorize President T.
0. Walton to offer entire college personnel and facilities to the
Government in any needed capacity.
2. June, 1939—Campaign launched urging Texas high school
boys to enter institution where military training and high scholas-
tic standards would better equip them for civil life in peace or
1939—Civilian
launched for A. & M. students with overflow enrollment.
June, 1940—Second campaign urging Texas boys to enter
college resulted in record-breaking enrollment in September, 1940.
July, 1940—Facilities for National Defense Cooperation
of A. & M. and its branch colleges set forth in brochure and pre-
sented to Government and State officials and libraries.
July and August, 1940—College Directors appropriate
$10,000 for improvement of Easterwood Airport, and in Febru-
ary, 1941, appropriate $14,000 more. In the meantime Civil
Aeronautics Administration contributed $150,000 in grants of
December, 1940, and August, 1941. Coupled with Works Progress
Administration grant of $131,000 in January, 1941, the College
now has a $305,000 airport nearing completion and in use at
1940—School of Aeronautical Engineering
inaugurated under direction of Dr. Howard W. Barlow. (Schoel
instantly popular and equipment, enrollment and accomplish-
ments to date place it among the finest in the United States in
8. May, 1941—At request of War Department graduation
of seniors holding Reserve Officers Training Corps contracts
moved up two weeks, and 535 commissioned officers went into
active service. (This brought the total number of commissioned
officers graduated from Texas A. & M. to more than 5000 since
establishment of the Officers Reserve Corps in 1920.)
9. February, 1941—To remedy acute shortage of trained
men in National Lefense Industries, special courses in camp san-
itation, civil engineering, materials testing and inspection and
engineering drawing were launched at the College, cooperating
with U. S. Office of Education. To date 3000 men have been
trained in 65 courses, all over state.
10. March, 1941—Continued demand of industry for trained
men puts A. & M. shops and laboratories on a 24-hour-a-day
basis for training machinists, welders, tool and die workers and
specialty engineers. Twenty-five new courses soon will start for
an estimated enrollment of 1000 additional specially trained in-
dustrial experts in several Texas cities. :
1942—College goes on year-round basis of
three 16-week semesters, cutting to two years and eight months
elapsed time necessary to complete four-year course for degree,
without lowaring academic standards.
12. January, 1942—Special courses added to college curricu-
lum to fill war needs.—Examples—Chemistry of powder and ex-
plosives, camouflage, and subsistence management for prospective
13. Chemical Warfare Service school inaugurated by War
Department at A. & M. to train selected OCD leaders in handling
all phases of civilian defense in emergencies. (A. & M. school
one of several which will serve entire United States.)
14. February, 1942—A. & M. designated as Key Center of
Information and Training for wartime duty of keeping one mil-
lion Texas inhabitants informed on war policies and to promote
15. February, 1942—A. & M. requested by War Department
to install senior R.O.T.C. Quartermaster Corps and Ordnance
Units to train minimum of 200 officers for army service in addi-
tion to the 1064 already holding R.O.T.C. contracts in Infantry,
Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Cavalry, Signal Corps, Chemical
Warfare and Corps of Engineers. (A. & M. only college having
all eight branches of armed forces in officer-training program.)
16. February, 1942—A. & M. Association of Former Stu-
dents pledge aid in establishing major aeronautical engineering
research center at College Station comparable to facilities at
Langley Field, Va., and Sunnyvale, Calif. Movement launched to
provide initial funds before State and Federal appropriations are
sought to expand facilities for aeronautical research.
Pilot Training program
them. A. & M. is at war, and will | ble enough to meet the demands
remain so until final victory is
ours.
“This war has changed our ideas
about many of the so-called ‘basic
theories’. A battleship cannot sur-
vive without aerial protection. In-
fantry troops cannot stand against
tanks.
“It is my belief that peace will
not bring a resumption of the ‘old
order’. We never again shall oper-
ate under the rules of the game
as we knew them before this war.
I doubt whether education ever
will be the same. Educational pro-
grams will have to be kept flexi-
of the future, and it is a blessing.
Some ideas and practices needed
a thorough stream-lining. This
modernization is being brought
about by the war. Higher educa-
tional institutions in the peace to
come, must prove their value or
perish. The changes we have made
only indicate the progress to come.”
The chronological list of events
marking A, & M.'s active support
of the Government in the present
crisis reveals what long-distance
planning and a clear-cut under-
standing of the problems at hand
have accomplished.
A & Mto Act as Key Center of War
Information and Training for Million
A. & M. has been asked by the Federal Security Agency, U. S.
Office of Education, Washington, to act as one of the key Centers of
Information and Training in Texas, President T. O. Walton announced
today.
Dr. Walton has appointed the Center of Information and Training
Committee headed by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, which will function under the
general supervision of Dean F. C.
Bolton. Other committee members
are Dr. T. F. Mayo, C. O. Spriggs,
G. B. Wilcox, Dr. F. W. Jensen,
Prof. V. M. Faires, Cadets Ransom
D. Kenny, Stephen C. Kaffer and
Walter W. Cardwell; and G. Byron
Winstead.
Organization meeting of the
committee was held Tuesday in
Dr. Mayo’s office and subcommit-
tee assignments were issued.
Dr. Mayo will be in charge of
the War Information Center which
will be located in the rear of the
main entrance foyer of the Cush-
ing Memorial Library. The War
Information Center will be divided
into several categories with fac-
ulty-student committees volunteer-
ing time to work in arranging dis-
play of materials, counseling speak-
ers, writers, teachers and others
in use of the available materials,
in organizing mobile displays for
conferences and meetings and lead-
ership training institutes within
the area and in assisting producers
of radio programs on national de-
fense subjects.
Faires, Kenny, Kaffer and Card-
well constitute the sub-committee
on volunteer faculty and student
assistance. The first assignment
given this group was to furnish
forty-two volunteer workers in the
War Information Center, which will
be set up immediately on receipt
of materials from the U. S. Office
of Education. The materials will
come from Government and private
agencies, from civic organizations
and from publishers.
There will be approximately 140
key centers of information and
training distributed according to
population by States. The key cen-
ter at A. & M. is expected to
serve approximately one mil-
lion people.
+
Days After Pearl Harbor A&M Marches
On
Ben F. Norman Heads
Brazoria A. & M. Club
Ben F. Norman, Jr., 29, was
elected President of the Brazoria
County A. & M. Club at a recent
meeting in Freeport. Other new
officers include Oliver Osborn, ’38,
vice president, R. W. Loomis, ’40,
secretary-treasurer, J. H. Griffin,
’38, reporter. All other officers
live at Freeport.
Norman is with the Freeport
Sulphur Company and has been
with that concern for over 10
years. He has been a member of
the Civic Commission of Freeport
for the past five years. He and
Mrs. Norman have two children.
Retiring officers of the Brazoria
County Club include R. H. Stan-
sel, ’26, president, B. F, Norman,
’29, vice-president, and W. S. Mill-
ington, ’30, secretary-treasurer.
Colonel Snyder
Transfers Hundred
To Army Air Corps
Applications for transfer of
commission to the Air Corps,
which were made to Lt. Col. W.
M. Snyder the first part of this
week by seniors desiring the
change, reached a total of 140, it
has been announced by the Adjut-
ant’s office.
Selection of 70 men will be made
from these applications, who will
be allowed to transfer their com-
missions upon graduation at the
end of the present semester to the
non-flying department of the Air
Corps. Those selected, together
with the 30 seniors who have al-
ready been accepted for transfer,
will make up the quota of 100
men from A. & M. No list of men
applying is available.
Lieutenant Strother
Transferred to Hulen
First Lieut. Tom B. Strother,
Coast Artillery, has been transfer-
red to Camp Hulen, at Palacios,
and left the campus Wednesday
to take up his new assignment.
Lieut. Strother is an ex-Aggie,
having graduated in 1938. Upon
graduation he entered the U. S.
Army and was assigned to Fort
Crockett. On Sept. 10, 1940, Lieut.
Strother assumed his duties as
instructor in the Coast Artillery
at A. & M., and has served here
until the present time. His duties
at Camp Hulen have not been des-
ignated. A replacement officer has
not been named.
Thedford and Kirk
Receive Army Wings
Delong Made Ensign
Two more ex-Aggies are to re-
ceive their silver wings and gold
bars from the Army Air Corps
advanced flying schools.
Marshall F. Thedford, ’41, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Thedford
of Tyler, is a member of a class
of aviation cadets to be graduated
soon from the Air Corps Advanced
Flying School at Stockton, Cali-
fornia. Cadet Thedford received
his primary and basic training at
Cal-Aero Academy, Ontario, Cali-
fornia, having graduated from A.
& M. in 1941, majoring in Agri-
culture.
One of the two student officers
in the Texas contingent of the
class to graduate at Ellington
Field in a few weeks is Second
Lieutenant Paul A. Kirk, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kirk, San An-
tonio. Lieutenant Kirk graduated
in 1940, receiving a BS degree in
engineering.
Aggie Holstein
Produces Above
100,000 Ibs. Milk
Nudine Princess De Kol, a Hol-
stein cow owned by A. & M,, is
the 535th Holstein to produce more
than 100,000 pounds of milk.
In eight lactations this cow pro-
duced a total of 104,919 pounds
of milk containing 3,334 pounds of
butterfat. Her highest single lac-
tation record was 16,748 pounds of
milk made on three milkings daily
beginning at the age of 8 years.
Nudine produced enough milk
to fill 4,850 10-quart pails to over-
flowing, In addition to her out-
standing production achievements,
this cow has been officially classi-
fied “Good” in type.
Her records were made under
the supervision of the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America,
Brattleboro, Vermont.
Shreveport Club
Sees Grid Movies
The Shreveport A. & M. Club
held a stag dinner at the Caddo
Hotel on the evening of March
14 with Athletic Director Homer
H. Norton and Association Secre-
tary E. E. McQuillen as honor
guests. Shreveport coaches and
sportswriters and fathers of pres-
ent A. & M. students were also
invited and many were present.
R. K. Lothrop, ’26, new president
of the Shreveport Club presided.
Other officers of the club recently
elected included the following:
Louis Lenz, ’07, vice-president; N.
N. Burlingham, ’26, secretary; E.
H. Sullivan, ’39, treasurer; and
the advisory board consists of M.
A. Abernathy, ’16; R. A. Woodall,
31; W. J. Howard, ’31; Francis
W. Grant, ’32; E. M. Freeman, 22;
H. W. Egger, 21; Walter G. Free,
31; W. C. Morris, ’39; and A. H.
Weyland, ’19. E. M. “Jiggs” Free-
man, ’22, is the retiring presi-
dent.
The evening’s program consisted
of talks by the visitors and foot-
ball movies by Coach Norton.
Short talks also were made by
former A. & M. faculty member,
Mr. McKnight, and by guest Mr.
N. C. McGowan, president of the
United Gas Corp., Shreveport.
Ashton Writes
Hereford Journal
Article for January
Dr. John Ashton of the A. &
M. Rural Sociology Department
submitted a feature article to the
American Hereford Journal which
was printed in the January issue.
Dr. Ashton gained information
for his article in a recent visit
he paid to the headquarters of
the Matador Land and Cattle Com-
pany in Cottle and Motley coun-
ties. Dr. Ashton also unearthed
interesting historical facts on the
financial operations of the Mata-
dor empire at the State Library
at Austin.
The article tells of the writer’s
reception at the ranch headquar-
ters and of the advanced methods
employed by this organization.
The article is illustrated by photo-
graphs taken by the author, whose
articles on Texas Cattle industry
have been printed far and wide
during the past decade.
1917
SILVER ANNIVERSARY
April 11-12.
HAL F. CORRY lives at 3522
Gillon, Dallas, and will be on the
campus for the reunion April 11-
12. He is a manufacturers’ repre-
sentative in the Southwest for sev-
eral large concerns.
The A. & M. participants in this
year’s annual Laredo Border
Olympics Track Meet swelled with
pride when BRIGADIER-GENER-
AL HARRY JOHNSON delivered
the feature address before the
track meet finals began. General
Johnson is in command of the 56th
Cavalry Brigade stationed at Fort
McIntosh. He was an official with
the Gulf Refining Corporation in
Houston before going on active
duty.
1918
HENRY A. ARMSTRONG is
owner of H. A. Armstrong & Co.,
Building Contractors, 1895 Vir-
ginia Road, San Marino, Califor-
nia. He expects to have a son in
A. & M. next year.
1920
LIEUTENANT BREWER F.
WITMER is on active duty at Fort
Leonard Wood, Missouri. He is at-
tached to Headquarters E. R. T.
Prior to going on active duty last
fall, he was with the International
Boundary Commission and Mrs.
Witmer still maintains their home
at McAllen. They have a son who
is a student at A. & M.
1921
ARCH C. BAKER is now lo-
cated at 2607 Pine Street, Tex-
arkana, where he is working with
the Lone Star Ordnance Plant
assisting in design. He was a re-
cent campus visitor to see his son
who is in A. & M.
C. C. B. WARREN has been
promoted from major to lieuten-
ant-colonel. He has been in the
Army since his graduation and
served in World War I before
entering A. & M. He makes his
home at 820 Aspen Street, NW,
Washington, D. C., and is in the
Machine Records Division, Adju-
tant General’s Office. He sends
regards to his A. & M. friends.
1922
20th ANNIVERSARY REUNION
April 11-12.
W. B. BARNETT writes from
Carmi, Illinois that he will be on
hand for the reunion if at all pos-
sible. He is temporarily located
up there but lives at 121 Myrtle
Avenue, Longview, Texas.
G. L. BOYKIN, of the Extension
Service, State College, New Mex-
ico, is uncertain of his attendance
at the class reunion because of
the military situation. He holds a
reserve commission and expects to
be called at any time.
JOE C. BROWN, who is teach-
ing at Texas A. and I., Kingsville,
hopes to be on hand for the Class
of 1922 reunion, although he has
been recently ill.
JOHN T. CARLISLE recently
moved from Palestine to Opelous-
as, Louisiana, where he bought
half interest in the Farm Service,
Inc., extensive dealers in fertil-
izers, feed, and seed. He also re-
ports a physical examination com-
ing up soon to see if Uncle Sam
can use him against the Japs. He
sends regards to all his A. & M.
friends and invites them to stop
by and see him in Opelousas.
MAJOR JOHN P. CRUICK-
SHANK is on active duty in the
Plant Division of the Office of the
Chief Signal Officer in Washing-
ton, D. C. His Washington ad- |.
dress is 2103 “O” Street, N. W.|{
He was brought up in the Field |!
Artillery but has landed a place in
the Signal Corps. Prior to being
called on active duty, Cruickshank
was superintendent of sub-stations
for the Appalachian Electric
Power Company in West Virginia.
WILLET FOSTER is county ag-
ricultural agent at El Paso.
CLINT L. TAYLOR is a Major
in the Quartermaster Corps and
stationed at the Air Corps Gun-
nery School, Las Vegas, Nevada.
JOHNNIE MARCH, listed in
the recent class roster with an in-
correct address, is living at 625
Wellesly Road, El Paso, Texas.
1923
MR. AND MRS. JOHN C. MAY-
FIELD have purchased a charm-
ing two-story brick veneer resi-
dence at 2515 Pelham Drive, in
River Oaks, Houston. John is an
officer of the Long Reach Ship-
side Terminal of Houston. As a
cadet at A. & M. he was cadet
colonel, editor of the Longhorn,
president of the “Y” Cabinet, a dis-
tinguished student, and partici-
pated in many other student or-
ganizations.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
GERALD B. OGLE is in Washing-
ton, D. C. with the Navy Depart-
ment. After completing his fresh-
man year at A. & M. he was
graduated from Annapolis, Mary-
land in 1924. In 1932 he received
his master of science degree from
Columbia University in New York
City, "N.Y.
1924
DR. E. KING GILL is now
Major General in charge of the
eye, ear, nose, and throat section
of the Station Hospital at Good-
fellow Field, San Angelo. As a
student at A. & M., Gill was a
letterman in football and basket-
ball, a member of the Ross Vol-
unteers, a member of the “T”
Club, and all-conference guard.
GREER B. NELSON has been
promoted to the rank of Major
and is stationed at Fort Bliss. He
has seen extensive active duty,
serving with the CCC Camp from
1935 to 1941.
MAJOR CHESTER W. TERRY
is executive officer in the office
of the District Engineer, San An-
tonio, Texas, District, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas.
1925
A. Y. GUNTER is president of
the New York City A. & M.
Club. He is with Alco Products,
with offices at 30 Church Street,
New York City, N. Y.
VICTOR LEMAY is a member
of the firm of Evans & LeMay, |’
Advertising Agency, 909 Dan
Waggoner Building, Fort Worth.
1926
JACOB R. HILDEBRAND gets
his mail at Box 31, Mineral Wells,
Texas, where he is employed by
the State Department of Public
Welfare in the capacity of Field
Worker or Investigator.
CAPTAIN AND MRS. D. G.
“PINKY” TALBOT, of Fort Knox,
Kentucky, had a 10 day leave to
take in the Southwestern Exposi-
tion and Fat Stock Show in Fort
Worth. Prior to being called to
active military duty, Talbot was
assistant manager of the Stock
Show for many years.
JACK TURNER, manager of
the Silver Creek Farms at Fort
Worth, and a well known Pan-
handle Hereford breeder, judged
the 12th annual Amarillo Stock
Show which opened on the 16th of
March.
THOMAS H. WALLACE is
General Superintendent, Western
Gulf Oil Company, Bakersfield,
California. A few years back he
was located in London, England.
JOHN L. WILSON is a First
Lieutenant in the U. S. Engineers
Office, San Antonio, Texas, Dis-
trict, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
He has been assigned to the Archi-
tectural Branch.
1927
15th ANNIVERSARY REUNION
April 11-12.
W. T. CLARK
WILL T. CLARK has been
named Secretary of the Electrical
League of Cleveland, Ohio. He has
been with the League since 1936,
handling exhibits, displays, spe-
cial promotions and lecture work.
Prior to that time, he was in
charge of lighting sales for the
Pennsylvania Power and Light
Company, and prior to that, was
associated with the Nela Park
Sales Promotion Department. He
received his degree in electrical
engineering, was a member of the
Ross Volunteers, Fortnightly Club,
and a captain in the Cadet Signal
Corps.
MAJOR H. E. BELSHER is in
the U. S. Engineer Office, San
Antonio, Texas, District, Fort
Sam Houston, Texas. Belsher is
head of the Agricultural Branch
and he and his family reside at
927 Cambridge Oval, San Antonio,
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