THE TEXAS AGGIE
THE TEXAS AGGIE | AMONG
Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M.
Press, College Station, Texas, except dur-
ing the summer months when issued
monthly, by the Association of Fs:rmer
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College of Texas, College Station,
Texa.s
William J. Lawson, ’24............... President
Jd.”P. Hamblen, 227...c.....cceis Vice President
E. E. McQuillen, ’20..... Executive Secretary
L.. B. locke,.’18........... Assistant Secretary
Lucian M. Morgan, 35. Assistant Secretary
(On leave, U. S. Army).
Subscription Price $5.00
Entered as Second Class Matter at
College Station, Texas.
Directors
W. B. Richards, ’22 Paris
Richard Carey, Jr., ’11.............. Beaumont
H. K. Deason, ’16.....................> Port Arthur
Roy. D.. Golston, 208......ccoiciecssiomsas Tyler
A. G. Pfaff, ’26 Tyler
John P. MeCullough, "24... ......._. McKinney
James W. Williams, "18........................ Dallas
0. A. Seward, Jr., 107.....00.00 Groesbeck
John M. Lawrence, ’19.................... Bryan
George H. Richards, ’35................ Huntsville
J. P. Hamblen, ’27 Houston
Dr. Thomas P. Kennerly, ’34............ Houston
Warren N. Moore, ’31 Alvin
William J. Lawson, 24 Austin
W. E. Wade, ’30 Temple
S.: J. Baker," 227......::5crssaemssiizeceda Fort Worth
George C. Moffett, '16................... Chillicothe
AE. Hinman, 25.............oeeeu Corpus Christi
Arthur T.. Petts, '07........2.000 Harlingen
E. C. Donohue, ’13 El Paso
Dr. J. N.. Burditt, 2. Abilene
Alec’ Batoman, 215....00 ant, Fw nts Hereford
Robert E. Hooper, ’25.................... Plainview
GC. M. Gaines, ’12............n0t San Antonio
H. Dick Winters, ’16 Brady
Wm. J. Ray, ’18 ..St. Louis, Mo.
Ben. B. Banks, ’25....................... Fort Worth
Tyree L. Bell, ’13 Dallas
H. W. Egger, 21................... Shreveport, La.
Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16............ San Angelo
C. P. Dodson, ll Decatur
B. B.- Homann, 27... ce Junction
T. W. Mohle, ‘19 Houston
T. C. Bain, 27 Waco
Rufus R. Peeples. 28... Tehuacana
J. A. Reynolds, ’30 Dallas
Capt. Richard N. Conolly, ’37........ Houston
Brig. Gen. A. D. Bruce, ’16
E. N. Holmgreen, ’ College Station
Caesar Hohn, ’12........ ....College Station
C. H. McDowell, ’12............. College Station
Dick Hervey, ’42 Greenville
Scott Moore, ‘11 Yoakum
Executive Committee
William J. Lawsen, ’24 ................ Austin
J.P: Hamblen, 27 ............... Houston
R. R. Peeples, ’28.........coooeeeee... Tehuacana
C.oM."'Gaines, ’12. .............. 55. San Antonio
Tyree L. Bell, ’13 Dallas
Student Loan Fund Trustees
4 Austin
William J. Lawson, ’2
A F. Mitchell,
E. E. McQuillen, ’
Representatives on the Athletic Council
T. Ben Warden, Austin
iC. C. Krueger, 22.......ammssiy San Antonio
Development Fund —
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of Directors of the College, the
Faculty, and the Ex-Students’ As-
sociation. The committee at this
time is composed of College Di-
rector R. W. (Bob) Briggs, ‘17,
A. & M. president Dr. T. O. Wal-
ton, and Tyree L. Bell, ‘13, im-
mediate past president of the As-
sociation. It will be the aim of the
Development Fund to give to A.
& M. some of the things she
needs that cannot be provided
through State funds.
War Dictates Objective
War demands and conditions diec-
tated the fund’s first objective.
Withheld as a surprise, that ob-
jective will be divulged in the
opening gun of the Development
Fund campaign to be fired Sept-
ember 1 through letters to 15,000
A. & M. men.
Success of the fund plan de-
pends as much upon the number
of men participating as upon the
amount of their gifts. Every do-
nor, regardless of the amount, will
receive THE TEXAS AGGIE and
will be listed in the annual re-
port. The class with the highest
percentage of its members mak-
ing gifts will be designated as the
honor class of the year.
It has been pointed out that the
Development Fund will comprise
a living endowment for Texas A.
& M. College. Based upon cur-
rent returns on investments
(215%) on an annual gift of $50,-
000 will be equivalent to an endow-
ment for the college of two mil-
lion dollars.
A. & M. Men Like It
A. & M. men have been uniform-
ly enthusiastic over the new pro-
gram as it has been presented to
them individually and at meetings.
The most popular response has fol-
lowed the elimination of the dues.
“It is not the money involved”, de-
clared one man, “but the fact that
we had to join something of which,
in a broader sense, we were al-
ready members. It will be easier
and more pleasant for me to give,
than it was for me to join some-
thing I already belonged to”.
Older A. & M. men whose efforts
through the years have built the
Association of Former Students to
its present standing hail the new
program as a major advance. They
recall that 50% of all of A. & M.
men attended college since 1930.
“We are ready now for bigger
things, both today and in the fu-
ture. With increased numbers,
with the tremendous growth and
development of A. & M. men are
playing in World War II, there
is no limit to what we can do”, de-
clared one old-timer who has been
a wheel-horse in Aggie affairs for
nearly 50 years.
Watch your mail for the open-
ing gun of the first Development
Fund campaign. There will be a
thrill in its slogan and objective, A
GOLDEN DREAM NAILED
DOWN WITH STEEL BULLETS.
A. and M.
Pioneers
Silver Taps: EUGENE KELL, ’94
STANSELL T. BROGDON, ’98, is back
in school taking courses in Education in
order to renew his certificate to teach in
the public schools, He served in France
during World War I and after the whr
spent some time abroad, traveling through
Palestine. During his senior year at A.
& M. he served as one of the honor
guards at funeral of President Lawrence
S. Ross.
To My Fellow Members of
The Class of 1895:
The A. and M. Develop-
ment Fund, as proposed by
the Former Students Asso-
ciation, is perhaps the most
important forward step
which the Association has
ever taken. I hope every sur-
viving member of our class
will make a contribution to
this fund. Some may want to
remember the College in their
wills through this medium.
A. and M. College is coming
to be recognized more and
more as one of the great tech-
nological schools of the coun-
try. The boys of ’95 helped to
lay the foundations and they
should make it a point to visit
the campus as often as possi-
ble so as to derive pleasure
and satisfaction out of wit-
nessing the development that
has been and is taking place.
F.M. LAW, ’95.
F. A. LOWRY, ’95, of Magnolia was a
recent campus visitor. He was a horticul-
ture major when in college.
Wm. E. Giesecke. ’94
WM. E. GIESECKE, ’94, known both
in North and South America as a con-
sulting engineer, lives at the Wellington
Hotel in New York City. He has done
consulting engineering work in practically
every nation in both Central and South
America, as well as in various parts of
the United States,
Sidney J. Hernstadt, ’90
SIDNEY J. HERNSTADT, ’90, is presi-
dent and general manager of the Gilmer
Oil Company, 551 5th Avenue, New York
City, N.Y. He organized the company in
1914.
George McCormick, ’91
GEORGE McCORMICK, ’91, who start-
ed his railroad career immediately fol-
lowing graduation, has retired as gen-
eral superintendent of motive power for
the Southern Pacific Lines. His head-
quarters have been in San Francisco and
he was one of the outstanding railway
motive power leaders of the nation. He
was awarded an honorary Doe. of Eng.
MEN
degree by the A. & M. College in May
1941 for his renown and accomplishments
in his field. He will be succeeded by BEN
M. BROWN, ’11, who has been serving
as his assistant in San Francisco.
BEN C. LOVE, ’95, president of the
Love Abstract Company at Franklin, has
been elected chairman of the Robertson
County Democratic Executive Committee.
He is from a well known A. & M. family,
which includes brothers, Cavitt Love, ’99,
Austin; and J. T. Love, ’06, Hammond,
and numerous sons and nephews.
WALTER G. LACY, ’96, president of
the Citizens National Bank, Waco, and
former member of the Board of Directors
of the College, has three sons all serving
in the Navy.
1900
To the Surviving Members
of the Class of 1900:
The Association of Former
Students is sponsoring a most
worth-while project in creat-
ing the A. & M. College De-
velopment Fund, and we who
still retain that old affection
| for our Alma Mater cannot,
nor should not, be found
wanting now in contributing
whatever we are able to give
towards this end.
It is quite unnecessary to
say to those of our group who
have been more fortunate,
that they should be glad, and
welcome the opportunity to
repay, tn a way, for the
knowledge and training ac-
quired while at A. & M., while
those whose station in life
will not permit any consider-
able annual outlay (or lump
sum contribution) should
meet this obligation in due
proportion; and to those who
have heretofore been able to
send only the yearly $5.00 as
association dues let me ask
that you still continue to send
that amount, your annual con-
tribution.
It is hoped that every mem-
ber of the Class of 1900 will
uphold the College tradition,
especially that of their own
Class.
JOS. E. ABRAHAMS, ’00.
JOS. E. ABRAHAMS, of New Braun-
fels, is serving as Chaiirman of the Co-
mal County War Price and Rationing
Board and reports that it is really keep-
ing him busy.
1901
F. W. Charske, 01
F. W. CHARSKE is chairman of the
Board of the Union and Pacific Rail-
road with offices in New York City.
W. M. STAFFORD makes his home at
Eagle Pass and is engaged in extensive
ranching operations in the Republic cof
Mexico.
ANDY H. WHITE, Auditor of the Aus-
tin Tribune lives at Austin,
T. M. SMITH is in the real estate and
insurance business at East Columbia.
To the Class of 1901:
The plan of the Develop-
ment Fund gives all Ex-stu-
dents an opportunity to do
something for the college that
has done so much for them.
It is hard for us to realize that
we do owe something to this
great institution, but we do
and so very much.
Take my own case, and it
fits, I have observed in the
vast majority of other A. & M.
men. I was a boy with little
money—a typical greenhorn
—and was given an education
and a degree. A. & M. has
made possible friendships and
contacts that have endured
for nearly half a century.
Upon leaving college I was
helped into a job by a former
student. I have had considera-
ble experience with fraterni-
ties and have found that only
A. & M. is that in the truest
sense.
As I understand the plan,
any annual donation however
small will be gratefuily ac-
cepted, so there is no reason
why every Ex-student should
not participate.
C. A. THANHFEISER, 01
Houston.
1902
Class of 02:
Say fellows, did you know
that everyone who has ever
attended Texas A. & M. has
been made a member of “The
Association of Former Stu-
dents?”
Now I want to suggest, en-
treat, and urge every one of
you to contribute something
to the “Development Fund.”
This Fund is to be used for
the provision of various items
for which the State does not
furnish the money but which
are badly needed by the Col-
lege for its improvement and
the improvement of the Stu-
dent Body. Read all about the
Fund in the “Aggie.” Talk to
other Aggies about this and
stir them up so that they will
swamp the Association Staff
with contributions.
By the way, do not let Mr.
Procrast I Nation get you
down. He is a mean fellow to
deal with but I believe you
can lick him.
YV. H.FOY, '02,
Dallas, Texas
JEROME G. HARRISON is with the
Ballinger Company, 105 So. 12th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
S. A. RAWLINS is in the hardware busi-
ness in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
A. R. VIDAURRI lives in Brownsville
and is associated with the Brownsville
Printing Company.
1903
J. M. DAVIS, JR. is a banker at For-
ney.
W. H. ENDERS lives at 3415 Cedar
Street, Austin.
NAPOLEON LOCKETT continues his
engineering operations in South America
and is good about sending news items of
other A. & M. men. His address is Casil-
la 565, Lima, Pero.
J. WM. OLIPHINT is with Gibbs
Brothers and Company, Huntsville. He is
one of the leading spirits in the Huntsville
A. & M. Club.
1904
J. WORTH MAXWELL is with the
Metals Company, LaFayette Building,
Washington, D. C. For many years he
was in the mining and smeltering busi-
ness in Mexico.
J. HARVEY BRIGGS is doing engineer-
ing work in the big U. S. Army installa-
tion at Hondo.
1905
J. BURNETT ROSS is an attorney in
Houston. He lives at 2528 Blue Bonnet.
DR. R. L. LEWIS is one of the leading
physicians in Paris, Texas
J. ROGERS RAINEY LIVES at Jef-
ferson, Texas.
1906
Dear Classmates:
In this issue of the Texas
Aggie there is presented an
explanation of the Texas A.
& M. College Development
Fund which has been approv-
ed and recommended by the
present officers and directors
of the Association of Former
Students.
It was my pleasure to be
serving as a member of this
Board when the matter was
discussed, and without any
reservations I intend to give
it my support, both financial-
ly and morally.
This is an excellent oppor-
tunity for every loyal Aggie
to unite on this progressive
plan as outlined, giving the
present officers and directors
a vote of confidence and show-
mg appreciation for services
rendered.
Gwe this matter serious
thought and consideration
when this fund campaign is
announced, showing your loy-
alty by responding to the best
of your ability.
P. L. DOWNS, JR., ’06
College Station
JOE S. WELBOAN, a Freeport Sulphur
Company officer, is president of the
Freeport-Velasco Chamber of Commerce.
That organization has played an important
part in recent tremendous industrial de-
velopments that have been put into opera-
tion in the Freeport-Velasco area.
J. L. COBOLINI lives in Brownsville,
Texas.
W. R. ORR is in the wholesale gro-
cery business at Llano.
ROBERT E. SCHILLER is resident en-
gineer, State Highway Department, Co-
lumbus, Texas.
Friends of W. MAXEY WICKES will
regret that he has been in ill health. His
address is 2902 Ella Lee Lane, Houston.
1907
A. W. CURRIE gets his mail at 2849 -
5th Street, Port Arthur, Texas.
WAYNE MILLIGAN is living at Street-
man in Central Texas.
GEORGE W. REESE is working for the
U. S. Engineer Corps and now assigned
to the Sunflower Ordance Works. He
makes his home at the Aladdin Hotel,
Kansas City, and will be glad to see his
friends. Prior to this assignment he was
engaged in the construction of Camp
Crowder near Joplin, Missiouri.
1908
J. B. CROCKETT is engaged on the big
construction job at Camp Hood and is liv-
ing in Temple. His permanent headquart-
ers are 510 Magnolia Building, Dallas. He
was formerly with WPB in Dallas and
started that big government office out
in that city,
Despite rumors to the contrary, no in-
formation has been secured about
MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE F. MOORE,
who commanded Corregidor Island and the
Manilla Harbor Defenses, He is presum-
ed to be a captive.
The oldest son of GEORGE T. BRUN-
DRETT, 311 North Windomere St. Dallas
has not been heard from since the fall of
the Philippines. oung George was a cap-
tain. Mr. and Mrs. Brundrett have two
other sons in the service and their young-
est is a Freshman at A. & M.
1909
To All Members of the
Class of ’09:
As a Student Loan Fund
Trustee during the past four
years, I have attended all
Board meetings.
During these years I have
studied all details of the Tex-
as A. and M. College Develop-
ment Fund plan; it is and has
worked at many of our larger
colleges and been the means
of building large Endowment
Funds for these colleges.
The plan makes possible
annual gifts or outright En-
dowments, and gives the don-
or the right to designate the
cause he wishes to sponsor.
The donor will also receive
the Texas Aggie.
Those who can will make
worthwhile annual gifts or
outright Endowments, and
deduct the gift from his in-
come taxes.
We shall all wish to provide
a Living Endowment for our
College.
A. F. MITCHELL, ’09
Corsicana.
COLONEL B. F. DELAMATER, of the
regular Army, is at Fort Davis in the
Canal Zone.
D. B. GIESECKE and HENRY W. MUN-
SON live at Angleton, Texas.
F. H. KOHFELELDT gets his mail at
P. O. Box 305, Denison, Texas.
JUDGE ALLEN B. HANNAY has
been appointed by President Roosevelt as
Federal District Judge at Houston.
1910
COLONEL WM. C. CRANE is Deputy
Chief of Staff, Southern Defense Com-
mand, San Antonio. His address is 217
Artillery Post, Fort Sam Houston.
J. E. Elliott, ’10
J. E. ELLIOTT is in the Engineering
Department of the Texas Company at
205 East 42nd Street, New York City,
N.Y. During his career he has seen ex-
tensive service as an assistant to BURT
E. HULL, ’04, now president of the Texas
Pipe Line Company, Houston; and C. S.
ATWELL, ’12, who brought a pipe line
across the mountains of Colombia, S.A.
in 1938-39. Mr. Elliott is the father of
R. E. ELLIOTT, ’41, and has another son
who will graduate from A. & M. in 1945.
“To my Classmates of 1910 in
particular and all Aggies in
general :
The Texas A. & M. College
Development Fund offers an
opportunity for a unified al-
legiance of every former Ag-
gie to Aggieland and is syn-
onymous with our allegiance
to the Stars and Stripes—Old
Glory.
There is, at present, a grow-
ing sense of partnership of
all groups within the nation
wm all their different spheres
of activity and responsibility.
This new program initiates a
100% partnership of ex-stu-
dents, faculty and Board of
Directors. Unified action on
the part of all of us is a stern
necessity.
There are mo people any-
where in the world more loyal
to their country and its flag
than we, in the United States
of America. We love our coun-
try—we love what it stands
for—the liberty and freedom
tt has given us. Likewise, we
ex-students love Aggieland—
we are proud of her past, we
honor her many War Hero
Sons and we are wholly uni-
fied in developing her future
program.
I hope that some time, in
Stop! Look! Listen! The New Development Fund Objective Will Be Announced Soon
the mear future, Aggieland
will have its own flag to un-
furl to the Educational and
Military World.”
R. T. SHIELS, ’10
Dallas.
W. W. McCLENDON is a member of
the firm of Haile and McClendon, con-
sulting engineers of Houston, and has
been active in development of a water
supply for war industries along the
Houston Ship Channel by the San Jacinto
River Conservation District, MecClendon
and his partner, Charlie R. Haile, ’12,
have been retained by the district as con-
sulting engineers for several years. They
have also served as engineers on several
of the big army construction projects in
Texas,
1911
Fred J. Bechert, ’11
FRED J. BECHERT is a well known
patent lawyer in New York City. His
office is in the Graybar Building, 420
Lexington Avenue. He received his degree
in mechanical engineering in 1911 and
additional degrees from A. & M. in 1912
and 1913, during which time he taught
as a student assistant. He later received
his law degree and a graduate degree
from Georgetown University in Washing-
ton, D.C.
To Members of the 1911
Class:
An outstanding class, such
as ours, should welcome the
new Texas A. & M. College
Development Fund. It is a
most convenient vehicle for
any friend of the College, be
die a former student or not,
to make gifts or bequests, of
any character, to this great
institution.
A joint Faculty-Former
Student Committee will des-
tgnate some worthy project
which is needed by the Col-
lege. It could be anything
from refrigerated drinking
fountains to a Union Building
as a memorial to our heroes
of the present war.
There are, in the lives of
most men, times when they
will give liberally to any dig-
nified cause of the College,
Other long established Col-
leges have used this plan suc-
cessfully for years. I heartily
commend it to you.
C. P. DODSON, ’11
Decatur.
R. B. PEARCE has been ordered to re-
port to the U. S. Engineer Corps with
the rank of major. He is a veteran of
World War I and has been in the En-
gineering Department for many years. Lt.
R. B. “TOPPY” PEARCE, ’42, his son,
is stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
CAPTAIN BEN T. SANDERS is post
engineer at the U. S, Air Corps Basic Fly-
ing School at Greenville.
Dear Gang:
As one of your Directors,
it was my privilege to attend
the Abilene meeting at which
the Development Fund was
launched. I believe it is a
great step forward. It will
bring into the fold thousands
of former students who have
not heretofore been active.
Every man who has attend-
ed A. & M. has had a part in
carrying on the traditions of
a great school. A past-presi-
dent of the ex-Students Asso-
ciation, (and a dyed-in-the-
wool Aggie if there ever was
one) only attended A. & M.
three days!
Let every ex-student carry
the torch.
SCOTT MOORE, ’11
Yoakum.
BRUCE FRAZIER, who has been asso-
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942
ciated with the Howard County selective
service board since its operation, has re-
signed to be a civilian employee attached
to the Big Spring Army Flying School.
BEN M. BROWN, assistant general
superintendent of motive power for the
Southern Pacific Railway, with head-
quarters at San Francisco, has been pro«
moted to general superintendent of mo-
tive power for the entire Southern Pa-
cific Lines following the retirement of
GEORGE McMCIRMICK, ’91. The new
general superintendent received his de-
gree from A. & M. in mechanical en-
gineering and started his career with the
Southern Pacific Lines shortly after his
graduation.
1912
To the Members of the
1912 Class:
Ever since that memorable
day in June, 1912, when we
received our Sheep-Skins in
that iron-clad frame Mess
Hall—some of us have and
some have not done something
really constructive for our be-
loved A. & M. College.
The opportunity to join in
a planned constructive move
of a material nature is before
us 1 the A. & M. College De-
velopment Fund—rthat some-
thing which will carry A. &
M. to greater heights.
First of all, make an an-
nual contribution yourself—-
whatever you are able to con-
tribute—but contribute some-
thing so that every Ex-stu-
dent ts on the Honor Roll.
Next, seek people of means
who will contribute to our
cause. Could they contribute
to a more worthy cause than
that of the A. & M. College?
An annual contribution—a
remembrance in their will—a
gift in memory of a loved one
—any number of reasons!
Take stock in your community
and work on your prospects.
I am going to tackle the job
because it gives me a real op-
portunity to do something for
A. & M. I will convince my
prospects that it is an honor
and a privilege to contribute
to the welfare of the greatest
Men’s College in the world—
the College with the largest
number of Ex-students serv-
mg in the U. S. Armed Forces.
The opportunity is here—it
ts up to us to answer the call.
Let us make a record for oth-
er classes to “shoot” at. First:
send wn your own contribu-
tion; Second: secure an in-
vestment in future Texas
manhood from at least one
non-ex-student before 1942
has gone into history.
C.C. (Polly) KRUEGER, '12
San Antonio.
To the Class of 1912:
In this issue of the Aggie,
you will see a full explanation
of the new plan under which
our FEx-students’ Association
will operate. Inasmuch as we
both happen to be members
of the board and have heard
the plan explained and dis-
cussed, we cannot help but
feel that every Ex-Aggie, who
understands it, will see in it
a long wished for dream come
true.
It not only makes it possi-
ble for every old Aggie to feel
that he is a real part of the
school, but makes it possible
for his old school to render a
greater service in fields of
specific or special benefits to
mankind.
If you will study the plan,
you cannot help but be en-
thusiastic about it. Every
time a member of our class
looks at the old flag pole he
remembers that the Class of
1912 put it there. After this
plan gets going and worth-
while donations for certain
purposes have been made by
our association, it will be the
privilege of the small donator:
as well as the large to feel
that he has helped to make
this possible.
We hope all Aggies will
take advantage of this oppor-
tunity.
C.H. “Mac” McDOWELL, ’12
C. “Dutch” HOHN, ’12
College Station.
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