The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, May 05, 1942, Image 3

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    TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942
Page 3
THE TEXAS AGGIE
AMONG
A. and M.
1922
JOE T. MARTIN reccntly pur-
chased a 240-acre farm at Roan-
oke, Texas, and reports that so
far this year he has raised the
largest and fattest crops of green
bugs ever seen in his community.
He also reports that Classmate
FRED W. ALBRECHT is in the
chicken business near Keller, Tex-
as.
T. J. McCARTY’S address has
changed from West Texas Utilities
Company, Childress, to West Tex-
as Utilities Company, Cisco, Tex-
as.
MAJOR W. M. MENKE is with
the 23rd Infantry, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas. He was quite dis-
appointed at not being able to re-
turn to the campus with the 1922
Class during the week-end of April
11-12.
EDMUND NOTESTINE was a
recent campus visitor. He recently
accepted a job with the State WPA
organization and makes his head-
quarters at the state office in the
Smith-Young Tower, San Antonio.
JOE A. ORR, College Station,
was recently elected a Councilman
for the City of College Station.
Orr is a member of the staff of
the Civil Engineering Department.
W. BOONE RICHARDS is Dis-
trict Manager, Texas Cities Gas
Company, at Paris,
1923
DR. P. W. BURNS and George
B. Wilcox, College Station, were
recently elected members of the
Councilmen for the City of College
‘Station. Burns is a member of the
School of Veterinary Medicine and
Wilcox is with the Education De-
partment.
JAMES HADLEY EDGAR,
Cuero, was recently promoted to
captain. Edgar is with the VIII
Army Corps Headquarters, Camp
Bowie, Texas.
AUBREY L. MOORE, of Hub-
bard, who has been in the Army
Air Corps for the past 16 years,
has been promoted recently from
lieutenant colonel to colonel, and
is in charge of the personnel and
plans department of the Army Air
Corps in Washington. He began
his service in the Air Corps as a
second lieutenant.
1924
HERBERT A. BUROW is man-
ager of the Bonham Cotton Mills
at Bonham, Texas.
W. H. HARRELL is an instruct-
or of vocational agriculture at the
Ponce de Leon High School in
Florida,
CAPTAIN LEE A. SMITH is
on active duty in San Antonio,
Texas. Before receiving his call
to active duty, Captain Smith was
connected with the El Paso Elec-
tric Company. He received his de-
gree in Electrical Engineering
from A. & M.
1925
MAJOR G. C. BUCHANAN’S
new assignment is at Fort Mon-
mouth, N. J., where he is on duty
with the Staff and Faculty of the
Signal School. Major Buchanan
lives at 343 Norwood, Long Beach,
N
.
CECIL C. WILSON, who is at-
tending the command and general
staff school at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, has been promoted from
captain to major in the Air Corps.
1926
C. VICTOR BROCK, a member
of the architectural firm, Brock,
Roberts, and Anderson, Corpus
Christi, was recently commissioned
for the erection of a three-story
one million dollar city-county hos-
pital in Corpus Christi. Another
member of the firm is EDWARD
E. ROBERTS, JR.
JOHN B. JONES is back with
the Farm Credit Administration
again with the title of Cooperative
Bank Coordinator and that sounds
sort of impressive. Any how, Jones
is very happy over the change. He
is living at 807 Crescent Drive,
Beverly Hills, Alexandria, Va., but
will be in Kansas City after June
CAPTAIN THOMAS H. ROY-
DER, Austin, has been promoted
to the rank of major at Randolph
Field. He is commanding officer of
the 53rd School Squadron, Ran-
dolph Field, Texas. Prior to going
on active duty, Royder was county
agricultural agent for the A. &
M. Extension Service, with head-
quarters at Austin, Texas.
WILLIAM A. STEPHENS,
formerly of Littleton, Colorado,
has been advanced from major to
lieutenant colonel at the Army
Flying School, Enid, Oklahoma.
Colonel Stephens has attended the
Adjutant General’s School in
Washington and has served as as-
sistant administrative inspector at
Randolph Field.
1927
J. J. DURHAM has moved to
South Dakota where he is in
charge of 19,800 acres belonging
to the Department of the Interior.
His new address is Cheyenne Ag-
ency, South Dakota, and he in-
vites any Aggie in or passing
through his section to look him up.
FIRST LIEUT. WAYNE E.
LONG has been called to active
duty in the Signal Corps, Fort
Monmouth, N. J. Before he was
called to active duty, he was a
professor in the Mechanical Engi-
neering Dept.
LT. L. H. (HOWDY) RIDOUT,
JR., has been stationed back in
Dallas as Officer-in-Charge of the
Dallas Navy Recruiting District.
R. STEVEN ROSS has accepted
a job as Production Superintendent
of the Jayhawk Ordnance Works,
Pittsburgh, Kansas. The plant will
produce ammonium nitrate for the
MEN
government. Ross was formerly
with the Cities Service Oil Com-
pany at Ponca City, Oklahoma.
1928
CLARENCE C, ASHMORE gets
his mail at Box 842, Corpus Chris-
ti, Texas.
1929
FIRST LIEUT. GEORGE D.
BURCH, member of Denison Dis-
trict United States Army Engi-
neers has been promoted to the
rank of captain temporary. Cap-
tain Burch is in charge of all CAA
airport construction work for the
Denison District. His home is in
Sherman and he has been on active
duty for the past six months.
JOE E. DAVIS assistant com-
mandant of Texas A. & M. was
recently promoted to captain. Mr.
and Mrs. Davis and son Steadman,
live on the campus.
CAPTAIN HARRY O. FIS-
CHER, who is on duty in the Phil-
ippines, has been promoted to
major. Prior to going on active
duty Fischer was connected with
the CCC of Texas.
CAPTAIN HILMER B, HAEG-
ELIN, who is on active duty at
Fort Benning, Georgia, has moved
his residence to 2204 Heard Street,
Columbus, Georgia. Haegelin was
formerly county agricultural agent
at San Diego, Texas.
CAPTAIN JACK KELLY is
somewhere in the Pacific and re-
cently reported as being still well.
~His home is at Longview and he
is the only brother of FRANK 8S.
KELLY, JR., ’26, of Shreveport.
A. D. MARTIN, JR., son of the
late Professor A. D. Martin and
Mrs. Martin of the Math Depart-
ment at A. & M. College, is with
the War Department in Washing-
ton, D. C. His residence address
is 136 35th N. E.,, Washington,
D.C.
"EDWARD B. RICE, office en-
gineer and assistant engineer of
the U. S. Geological Survey, water
resources branch, U. S. Depart-
ment of Interior, at Montgomery,
Alabama, has been returned to
Montgomery as acting district en-
gineer for Alabama, Louisiana, and
Mississippi. He succeeds Colonel
D. H. Barber, now on active mili-
tary duty.
Since leaving Montgomery in
August, 1938, Mr. Rice has been on
duty as associate hydraulic engi-
neer at Jackson, Miss.,, and had
direct charge of the Geological
Survey activities in Mississippi.
A native of Troup, Texas, Rice
graduated in civil engineering; and
has been employed by the Geologi-
cal Survey since his graduation.
He is regarded as an authority on
many phases of engineering and
especially on matters pertaining to
stream-flow. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil En-
gineers.
LIEUTENANT JOE L. SOW-
ELL has been called to active duty
and is reporting to Fort Knox,
Kentucky on the 22nd of April
Sowell has been assistant state
supervisor in Agricultural Edu-
cation with headquarters at Col-
lege Station.
1930
BERRY L. MARSHALL has re-
ceived his orders to report for
service in the U. S. Army as a
lieutenant at Fort Benning, Geor-
gia. For the past several years
Marshall has been with the U. S.
Soil Conservation Service located
at College Station.
JOSEPH W. MATTHEWS,
formerly of Kaufman, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Air Corps. He was a tech-
nical sergeant in the Air Corps
and had been in the service 12
years. He studied two years at
A. & M. before enlisting.
LOUIS E. NEDBALEK, of the
First State Bank and Trust Com-
pany, Bryan, was recently pro-
moted to assistant cashier. Ned-
balek has been connected with this
bank for the past several years,
and is a twin brother of BEN W.
NEDBALEK, of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
P. L. (TWO-GUN) TRACY has
just finished work on Camp Chaffe
at Fort Smith, Ark. and is work-
ing on a similar project at Edin-
burg, Ind. When the camp is fin-
ished it will be known as Camp
Atterbury Cantonment and will be
occupied by the Triangular Divis-
ion. Tracy gets his mail at P. O.
Box 296, Edinburg, Ind.
1931
MARION H. BADGER has been
given a leave of absence by the
A. & M. Extension Service for
military duty. He was formerly
county agent for Concho County.
ALVIS B. DUKE, formerly of
Pasadena, has been promoted to
the rank of major in the United
States Army, Major Duke is an
expert in tank warfare and at this
time is thought to be in Libya.
Major Duke is only 33 years of
age.
CAPTAIN HENRY A. EDDINS
is an instructor at the Engineer
Replacement Training Center at
Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Among his
students is Francis Warren “Jack”
Pershing, son of Commanding
General John J. Pershing of the
first war, doing sentry duty just
like other privates.
BERT E. NOWOTNY has been
promoted to the rank of major.
He is Post Adjutant at Foster
Field, Victoria, Texas, and has
been on active duty for a year.
During the winter he completed
the Adjutant General’s School in
Arlington, Virginia.
T. ROLLIN RICHMOND is on
a year’s leave of absence from the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
College Station, working on his
doctorate at the University of
Minnesota. He and his family are
living at Apartment E-31, 2024
Commonwealth Avenue, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
EDWARD E. ROBERTS, JR, a
member of the architectural firm,
Brock, Roberts, and Anderson,
Corpus Christi, was recently com-
missioned for the erection of a
three-story one million dollar city-
county hospital in Corpus Christi.
Another member of the firm is C.
VICTOR BROCK, ’26.
DAVID W. SHERRILL has
been granted a leave of absence
for the duration of war for mili-
tary service by the Texas A. & M.
Extension Service. Sherrill has
been county agent for Hockley
County, with headquarters at
Levelland, Texas.
1932
C. W. BRUNS is in Australia.
He was formerly in Sumatra with
the Carter Oil Company.
RUFUS C. CARHART of Green-
ville has been promoted to the
rank of captain in the U. S. Army,
Engineering Corps. Capt. Carhart
gets his mail at 145 Harrigan
Court, Apt. 8, San Antonio, Texas.
FIRST LIEUTENANT ELMER
A. MAIER has been assigned to
permanent duty at the Fort Worth
Quartermaster Depot. Maier grad-
uated from A. & M. in veterinary
medicine.
T. HARRY McDOWELL has
been called to active duty as a
captain and ordered to a post in
California. He was superintendent
Bonham, Texas.
HARVIE D. POOL has been
transferred as assistant county
agricultural agent from Lubbock
County to Hockley County as act-
ing county agricultural agent. His
headquarters will be at Levelland,
Texas.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM N. REES
has sold his home in Dallas and
his family is with him on the West
Coast. Rees received his captaincy
on February 1st and is stationed
with the 69th C. A. (AA) in San
Diego, Calif.
LT. E. B. LAUGHLIN is with
the 2nd District Army Air Force,
Technical Training Command, 455
Lake Street, St. Louis, Mo.
The many friends of AL O.
SAENGER, formerly of Beaumont
and Goose Creek, will be happy to
learn of his promotion to captain.
Saenger is located with the Air
Corps Supply, Davis-Monthan
Field, Tucson, Arizona.
LIEUTENANT JOHN M. WIN-
SLOW is on duty at the Cavalry
Replacement Training Center at
Fort Riley, Kansas. He resides at
440 West 6th Street, Junction City,
Kansas. He reports having seen
quite a number of his classmates.
1933
It’s MAJOR JAMES W. “JIM-
MIE” ASTON now instead of the
first lieutenant who left his job
as city manager of Dallas almost
a year ago to go on active military
duty. Several months ago Aston
was promoted to captain, after he
had been on duty in Washington
for some time and more recently
he has been given even more im-
portant assignments helping plan
rapid expansion of the Air Corps.
He and his family reside at 2300
N. Washington Boulevard, Arling-
ton, Virginia.
LT. H. “PREACHER” DURST
II's new assignment is Head-
quarters, Holabird Quartermaster
Motor Base, Baltimore.
LT. WILLIE K. PALMER of
Corsicana is stationed at Hammer
Field, Calif.
ROBERT F. JACKSON has re-
cently accepted a position as As-
sistant Engineer in the Engineer
of Manufacture Organization,
Western Electric Company, Balti-
more, Maryland. He makes his
home at 2900 Dunran Road, Dun-
dalk, Maryland.
OTIS BYROM MAGRILL has
been granted a leave of absence
hf
of the Bonham Cotton Mills at
are shown above following the
Part of the 1902 class on the campus for its reunion April 11-12 +4
Faculty-Former Students-Senior
Luncheon. In the group, left to right are: W. H. McDonald, Neches;
R. L. Myers, College Station; Mrs. Jack M. Lewis, Waco; E. L.
Markham, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; V. H. Foy, Dallas; C. A.
Strieber, Yorktown; Ray Ridenhower, Junction; and Jack M. Lewis,
Waco.
Oldest Student Activity Was
Formed as Crack Drill Group
The history of the Ross Volun-
teer Company dates back to 1887
when it was organized as the Scott
Volunteers in honor of Colonel T.
M. Scott who was business man-
ager of A. & M. at that time. The
R. V. Company is the oldest or-
ganized student activity on the
campus with its purpose being to
band together the most proficient
military men in school into a crack
drill company.
In 1891 when ex-Governor Law-
rence Sullivan Ross became presi-
dent of the college, the name of
the company was changed to Ross
Volunteers in his honor. Follow-
ing the death of President Ross
in 1898, the name of the organiza-
tion was changed to Foster Guards,
again honoring the new president
of the college, L. L. Foster, who
had succeeded President Ross.
Houston Rifles was the name se-
lected during President Houston's
administration. In 1902, H. H.
Tarrington, son-in-law of Govern-
or Ross became president, and a
movement was started to name the
company the Harrington Rifles.
However, at the request of Presi-
dent Harrington, the company
again assumed the name of Ross
Volunteers.
Originally the plan of the or-
ganization was to change its name
in honor of each succeeding presi-
dent of the college. During Presi-
dent Harrington’s administration
this idea was dropped, and the
name Ross Volunteers retained as
permanent.
At the time of organization the
membership was restricted to for-
ty cadets chosen from the Junior
and Senior classes. New members
were accepted into the company
by an election held early each
scholastic year. The basis of ac-
ceptance was military ability and
popularity. After the war some
non-military students were elect-
ed, but in 1923 the company de-
cided to make non-military stu-
dents and those not making a “B”
in military science ineligible for
membership. The number of mem-
bers at the present time has been
limited to one hundred and fifty.
As stated before, membership in
the company was limited to Jun-
iors and Seniors, but an exception
to this custom had to be made in
1918 on account of the small num-
ber of Juniors and Seniors enroll-
ed. Several freshmen and sopho-
mores were enrolled as members.
The first uniform for the com-
pany was of white with gold orna-
ments. The headgear was a tin
helmet which has long since been
discarded in favor of the lighter
white military.caps. For the most
part the uniform has always been
of white.
for the duration of war for mili-
tary service by the A. & M. Ex-
tension Service. He has been coun-
ty agricultural agent for Real
County. As a student at A. & M,,
Magrill was a member of the Var-
sity football team and active in
other student affairs.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT L.
PATTON is on active military
duty at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where
he gets his mail at B. O. C. No.
47. Patton, for the past several
years, has been with the Gulf Oil
Corporation at Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania.
LIEUTENANT L. W. STORMS,
JR., who has been with the Hum-
ble Oil & Refining Company since
graduation, is on active military
duty. For the past several months
he has been located at Fort Riley,
Kansas but is being transferred
to Camp Blanding, Florida. Mrs.
Storms and their daughter, Sally,
are with her mother in Bryan.
1934
DAN ALANIS has been promot-
ed to a captain in the U, S. Army
and is located at Pine Camp, New
Work. Alanis was reared at Ennis,
Texas, and this is welcome news
to his many friends.
The first news since January
has been received from CAPTAIN
CARY M. ABNEY, JR., of Mar-
shall. He is somewhere in the Pa-
cific and when last heard from
was stationed at Clark Field near
Manila. The report recently re-
ceived said he was well. He is the
son of C. M. ABNEY, SR, ’00, a
Marshall lawyer.
CHARLIE CUMMINGS is doing
engineering work for the Humble
Oil Company and is located at
Franklin, Louisiana.
PAUL W. EDGE, JR., has been
promoted to the rank of Captain
and is on active duty at Ellington
Field. He was formerly superin-
tendent of the Consolidated School
at College Station.
PHILLIP P. GILBERT, San An-
tonio District, U. S. Engineers,
Fort Sam Houston, has been pro-
moted from a first lieutenant to
a captain. Gilbert was a drafts-
man with the Texas Company at
Port Arthur, prior to being called
to active military duty.
MR. AND MRS. MYLES A.
KELLY have recently moved into
their new home at Dimmitt. He is
with the Soil Conservation Service.
HARRY G. SEELIGSON, form-
erly of Dallas, has been promoted
to captain in the Army Air Force
and is stationed at Goodfellow
Field as post exchange officer.
Prior to being called to active duty,
Seeligson was manager of a furn-
iture company in San Angelo. He
is married and has one son, age
three and a half.
LIEUTENANT CARTER WIM-
BERLY, formerly with the Gulf
Oil Corporation, Houston, has
been promoted to the rank of cap-
tain. Captain Wimberly is sta-
tioned at Foster Field, Victoria.
1935
CAPTAIN KAY HALSELL II,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hal-
sell of Bryan, has been transferred
1902 Celebrates 40th Anniversary
from Camp Roberts, California to
March Field, California. Mrs. Hal-
sell is living at Riverside, Cali-
fornia, which is only eight miles
from March Field.
LIEUTENANT SIDNEY T.
MARTIN GILMER has been pro-
moted to a captain. Martin is sta-
tioned at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Martin has been an officer in the
Army since graduation at the
United States Military Academy
at West Point several years ago.
1ST LT. E. W. RAMSEY’S ad-
dress is V. C., M. A. F. S., Mid-
land, Texas.
GUY W. SNIVELY, formerly
with the Soil Conservation Service
at Coleman, has been promoted
from first lieutenant to captain at
Goodfellow Field, San Angelo
where he is in the Air Corps.
WALTER M. YOUNG has been
granted a leave of absence for
the duration of war for military
service by the Texas A. & M. Ex-
tension Service. Young was coun-
ty agricultural agent for Smith
County, with headquarters at Ty-
ler, Texas,
1936
LIEUTENANT GEORGE EL-
DON CALLOWAY, formerly of
College Station, is on active Army
duty at Duncan Field, San An-
tonio. Calloway writes he has met
many other former classmates
since being in the Army. Calloway
was formerly manager of the Tex-
as State Employment Service in
Bryan.
LIEUTENANT ROY HUFFAK-
ER is living at 5541 South Ever-
ett Street, Chicago, Illinois. Huff-
aker is in the Signal Corps.
WILLIAM R. LARGE, JR. of
Dallas, has been promoted to the
rank of captain in the Army at
the Lake Charles Flying School,
Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is
commandant of cadets. Large at-
tended Carnegie Institute of Tech-
nology in 1938 and 1939. He re-
ceived his wings at Kelly Field in
1940, and served more than a year
as flying instructor at Randolph
Field.
FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE
NICKERSON has been promoted
to the rank of captain. He is sta-
tioned at the Savannah, Georgia,
Army Air Base. Before going on
active duty in October 1940, he
was engaged in seismograph ex-
poration work for the Texas Com-
pany and the Texas Petroleum
Company.
LIEUTENANT HARRY J.
STREIBER, Galveston, has been
cited for distinguished service over
A&M's Engineering
Training Program
Is Largest in UN
Functions With Aimost 200
Instructors Teaching 3,270
At Points All Over State
A. & Ms expanding Engineer-
ing, Science and Management De-
fense Training program is among
the largest in America.
With almost 200 instructors
teaching 3,270 off-the-campus Tex-
ans in 19 different cities, A. & M.’s
program has grown in less than a
year from a handful of courses on
the campus to 72 courses through-
out the state.
Instructors are men with class-
room experience drawn directly
from industry. They are men of
extensive practical background in
whatever field of technical train-
ing they are called to teach.
Depending on subject matter
courses are given two nights a
week over periods of from six to
16 weeks. Each class lasts two or
three hours and the trainees re-
ceive certificates indicating com-
pletion.
Evidence of the vast growth of
the cooperative work of the U. S.
Office of Education and A. & M.
College lies in comparing the 428
enrollment for the 1940-41 fiscal
year and the current 3270. During
the current year 843 certificates
have been issued.
“Our off-the-campus student
body of men and women is grow-
ing by leaps and bounds,” J. T. L.
‘IcNew, A. && M.s institutional
representative, said, “and ours is
only a part of a coordinated pro-
gram offered by other Texas col-
leges.”
The 72 courses are offered in
Houston, Dallas, Bryan, Tyler,
Beaumont, Prairie View, College
Station, Fort Worth, Kilgore, Wa-
co, Galveston, Lufkin, Port Arthur,
Texas City, Grand Prairie, Mar-
shall, Denton, Freeport, and Min-
eral Wells,
in the Philippines and received
the order of purple heart. Streiber
is in the U. S. Air Corps. As a
student at A. & M., he took ag-
ricultural engineering.
CAPT. AUGUST A. NEUNER’S
new address is 715 N. 16th Street,
Albuquerque, N. M.
NASH O. THOMPSON has been
given a leave of absence for mili-
tary service for the duration of
war. Thompson has been serving
as county agricultural agent at
Vega, Texas, for the past several
years. As a student at A. & M,,
he was a member of the varsity
football team, worked at the Ath-
letic Department, and active in
other student affairs.
JOHN FRANK WOMBLE, man-
ager of the Texas Rose Festival
Association and public relations
director of the Tyler Chamber of
Commerce, has resigned to become
assistant manager of the Abilene
Chamber of Commerce,
(Continued on page 4)
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