The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, May 05, 1942, Image 3
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) LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Now offers a new service to ex-students. Begin- ning Jan. 1, they began to buy Regulation Uni- forms and Books that are being used. If any Ex has any articles that might be of value to the student, describe it in de- tail as to what it is. If clothing, size, condition, tailor if possible, and year purchased, if bought new or used. Drop this information in the mail and convert the uniform, book, or drawing instru- ment into cash. 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